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Friday December 11, 2009
Sir Terry Wogan was fighting back the tears on Thursday, when his radio colleagues gathered to bid him farewell.
The veteran presenter, who announced his resignation from the show in September, leaves his post next week after 27 years.
"I don't particularly want to go but I think it's the right time," the 71-year-old says.
"It's already emotional – the last two weeks have been a hell of strain emotionally and mentally. I've been feeling tired and I realise it's taking its toll because I realise I am going to have to say goodbye."
"I'm going to have to say goodbye to all the fun of every morning.
"I've never got up without a smile on my face. I'm going to miss it terribly but you've got to change and move on."
BBC Radio colleague John Humphreys was quick to praise Sir Terry's presenting techniques.
"He puts the audience at their ease. "That's why they listen to him. He's made the nation feel at ease with itself – that's a gift and we owe him a lot."
And funnyman Chris Evans, who is filling Terry's shoes on the radio show, called him "bloody brilliant".
"He's a total legend, the best of the best. It's amazing, 27 years and I still don't know what you do on your show!"
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David Levinthal: Photographer creates tableaus with toys
Published 2:19 pm, Wednesday, June 25, 2014
Toys aren't mere playthings to New York City photographer David Levinthal. Instead, they provide the lexicon for storytelling, inspired in one instance by the sultry nighthawks of Edward Hopper or in another by the lone gunslingers of John Ford. "I've always felt the work is very narrative," he says. "It sort of asks you in a way to create a story around the image." In the process, his scenes of model ballplayers and soldiers comment on pop culture while being permeated by a sense of mystery and tangled emotions that reach beyond playtime. We talked to the Palo Alto-bred and Stanford alum Levinthal, 65, from NYC.
Q: What does the exhibition title "Make Believe" mean to you?
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A: All of my works are based on using toys as subject matter. It started when I was in graduate school in 1972, when I first began using toys. Shortly after I graduated in 1973, one of my classmates who was in the design part of the program, Garry Trudeau, who's best known for "Doonesbury," and I were approached by a publisher to do a book. We ended up creating essentially a history of the Eastern Front, the German invasion of the Soviet Union, using toy soldiers ["Hitler Moves East"]. Among the many things that made the book somewhat unique: We used original source material for the text, but the illustrations were all photographs of toys.
When the book came out in 1977, there was no photographic genre to put it in. I remember going to the B. Dalton store and finding the book in the history section. It wasn't until a number of years later that that sort of approach we used started to become more widely popular and influential.
Q: Are your toys off the shelf?
A: Sometimes I'm dealing with more of a vintage object, like the "Blackface" series is essentially of black memorabilia. The work is often done in the photograph itself, in the way the toy is placed or photographed, and in the case of the cowboy series, the use of different backgrounds. I think one of the real keys to the imagery is that when someone looks at the work, they bring their own visual memory to it.
Q: How did the experience at Stanford affect you?
A: Fortunately, when I was a senior, Stanford eliminated many courses required for graduation - otherwise I'd still be trying to pass a language requirement or something.
It was a wonderful time because it was expansive and open, and there was so much going on with the Vietnam War, which is actually a series I've started to work on. Until recently, you just didn't find toys or models of that period.
If you go
David Levinthal: Make Believe: Through Nov. 30. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Sunday and 11 a.m.-8 p.m. the third Thursday of the month. $5-$8. San Jose Museum of Art, 110 S. Market St., San Jose. (408) 271-6840. www.sanjosemuseumofart.org.
Kimberly Chun is Bay Area dreaming. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com Twitter: @kimberlychun

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Cop killed in Bohol drug bust, 3 others injured-A A +A
Friday, August 22, 2014
CEBU CITY (Updated) -- A police party, while verifying a pot session, was attacked by a lone suspect in Tagbilaran City, Bohol Friday morning. One intelligence operative died and three others were wounded.
This was the first setback for the police after arresting more than 300 people and confiscating millions of pesos worth of shabu in Central Visayas since July in their fight against the illegal drug trade, a high-ranking official said.
Chief Inspector George Vale, officer-in-charge of Tagbilaran City Police Station, identified the officer who died as PO1 Michael June Ejoc. He had a gunshot wound in the head.
Ejoc, who graduated with Batch Exodus in 2011, died at 12:48 p.m. in a provincial hospital, less than four hours after the police operation.
PO3 Judito Jasmin, PO1 Carlito Gamalo and PO1 Reynan Tagotongan, who were with Ejoc during the search in Barangay Poblacion I, also suffered injuries.
Jasmin, the team leader, was shot in the neck; Gamalo got hit in the eyebrow; and Tagotongan sustained a gunshot wound in the head. They belong to the Provincial Intelligence Branch (PIB) of Bohol Provincial Police Office (BPPO).
The PIB team, composed of six persons, went to the area after receiving a report of an ongoing pot session inside the house of Belinda Tesorero in Sitio Ubos at 9:30 a.m., Vale said.
They wore civilian clothes but no bulletproof vests.
After they asked Tesorero to open the door, a drug suspect identified as Artemio "Junjun" Tari Jr. who was inside the house and armed with a .45 pistol suddenly fired.
Tari took the 9mm pistol Ejoc owned, when the policeman fell after getting in the head.
Tari then fired on the other operatives with two firearms before leaving the area on a motorcycle.
Vale said that Tari is a known drug personality in Tagbilaran and belonged to the police watch list.
The suspect is classified as a level three drug pusher who can dispose of half a kilo of shabu in his operations.
"Kadaghan na ni siya nadakpan. Niingon kuno ni nga mosukol siya ug dili na magpadakop ug buhi (He has been arrested several times before, but he has reportedly said he would rather die than get caught)," the police chief told Sun.Star Cebu.
Tesorero, who is allegedly Tari's cohort, was taken by police. Recovered inside her house were packs of shabu and drug-sniffing paraphernalia.
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At the crime scene, several empty shells and slugs from a .45 pistol and 9mm pistol were recovered by authorities.
The injured policemen were rushed to the hospital, but Ejoc died despite several attempts to revive him.
The three other policemen were transferred to two private hospitals.
As of 6 p.m., Vale said that Tagotongan was still in a delicate state and needed an operation. Jasmin and Gamalo, on the other hand, were already in stable condition.
"Nagrelax ra daw sila ato kay abi nila ug mga babaye ra sa sulod (They reportedly let their guard down because they thought only women were inside)," he said after interviewing the team about the incident.
Vale said they are interrogating Tesorero and trying to locate Tari, who came from Barangay San Isidro, Tagbilaran City.
Superintendent Pablo Labra II, acting chief of the Police Regional Office (PRO)-Central Visayas' intelligence division, said this is a setback in their string of successful anti-drug operations.
"Posible makaapekto ni sa atong mga operatives sa ilang aggressiveness. Ato sila ingon pirmi nga dili gyud mag relax bisan pa ug gamay na o dako nga operation (It might affect their aggressiveness. They have been repeatedly told not to relax, no matter how small or large the operation is)," he said.
From July to August 15, the PRO-Central Visayas has arrested 313 people and seized some P25 million worth of shabu and 65 firearms in their operations.
This was revealed by Senior Superintendent Conrado Capa, deputy regional director for operations of PRO-Central Visayas, last Monday when asked by reporters for a tally of all their operations.
The drug problem in Bohol has been underscored since June, when a town police chief died in an ambush while six people, including an alleged drug lord, were killed in a gunfight.
Last week, one of Bohol's top drug personalities died in a shootout with police while nine other suspects were arrested in Ubay town. (Sun.Star Cebu)
Published in the Sun.Star Cebu newspaper on August 23, 2014.
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I learn of the relapse at two minutes past midnight. Four months of sobriety over, just like that. My husband's work phone – the one he left behind – rings loudly and I find it at the foot of the bed. I see the time beside the name: Pete. Usually when someone calls so late it's a mistake or an emergency.
This is strange because R is meant to be in Cornwall with Pete – a friend he hasn't seen for years – on a climbing holiday. He left on a train yesterday morning.
I answer in a whisper, careful not to wake the children in the adjoining bedrooms. "Hello, Pete." I don't know him that well and I am conscious that my greeting is stiff: how should I sound? Concerned? Or breezy and upbeat, as though I'm talking over the fence to my neighbour. Under the circumstances, I think it's all right to appear a little bemused.
"Sorry. You've answered, so R's obviously left this phone at home." Pete stops. I presume he is worried that he'll say something that will land his friend in trouble, or cause me to feel troubled, which is touching. I immediately want to put him at ease, so I talk.
"So he's not picking up his other phone, right?"
"Yeah. It's just going straight to voicemail. He went out this morning to get coffee and I haven't heard from him since," says Pete.
R is drunk. I could give him the benefit of the doubt, but when he goes on a binge he often turns off his phone and disappears.
Pete continues. "He arrived on the train yesterday afternoon. He was so pissed he could barely talk, so I took him back to mine and put him to bed."
It transpires that R arrived two days earlier than the climbing holiday was due to start. "I told him I had to work, but he said he wanted to explore the area," Pete says.
I begin to piece together R's cunning plan: he had convinced me that the holiday was a week rather than five days, so that he could have two days spare to get wasted.
I have the urge to apologise to Pete. Immediately I feel as if I'm speaking to one of my daughter's new teachers: they sometimes call to inform me that she is misbehaving in class. They are usually kind, but often reticent about disclosing all the details, for fear that I might be upset. But I am familiar with most of her ways and I don't want to sound ungrateful by informing them that anything they are telling me is stuff I've probably witnessed firsthand before.
But R is an adult. I sometimes forget this and I want to cover up the bad things with a blanket of my own "fix-this-mess" remorse. He often doesn't appear to feel any, though deep down I know this is not the case.
In all our years together, the things R does when he drinks – which at best cause others mild inconvenience and at worst seem dangerous and disrespectful – are the things he is usually too drunk to notice. When he is sober again, he is either too ashamed to conjure up any memory of his behaviour, or was too far gone at the time to have any recollection of what he said or did.
I am a born apologist and have said sorry for R more times than is healthy. "I'm so sorry. R is a nightmare when he drinks." I genuinely feel sympathy for Pete, if only because their climbing holiday probably won't happen.
In this strange, reveal-all conversation, Pete admits that he knew nothing of R's problem. "He drank loads when we worked together, but I thought, with a family, he'd slowed down."
Again, R has failed to communicate anything to anyone.
The frustration with R is bigger than my worry for his safety. Yes, I can visualise a ditch, and him in it, but then I remember that R's usual style is to park himself in the nearest pub and stay there. He is a static drunk, and though he has travelled all the way to Cornwall to take up booze again, I am sure that he is around the corner from Pete's flat, gurning into his pint.
Of course, my anxiety surrounding R's desire to lose himself so completely has not died: I care for him and I want him to be all right. I still feel sick and uneasy every time he retreats from the world – but I have to stay in control.
"He doesn't have keys," says Pete.
"Shut the door and go to bed," I say, without hesitation. I am shocked at how cold I sound.
"Really?" says Pete.
"It's your call, but R doesn't know himself at all when he's drunk."
I apologise some more. And despite my togetherness, when the call ends I burst into tears. R is drinking again after a relatively long period of some hope and there is something so sad and hopeless and desperate about all of this.


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Rs 24 L found at Mahajan home
ACB seizes papers related to property and jewellery jointly worth Rs 1.9 crore
A day after the Anti-Corruption Bureau officials arrested Deputy Collector Dr Kiran Mahajan and clerk Rajesh Randive for taking bribe of Rs 2 lakh, the officials searched Mahajan's residence yesterday and found Rs 24 lakh in cash.
Mahajan and Randive, who were produced in the Shivajinagar court yesterday, are currently out on bail. "A team had gone to search Mahajan's residence in Pashan and recovered Rs 24 lakh in cash.
The officials also seized documents related to a property, some sales deed and jewellery, collectively worth Rs 1.9 crore," ACB Police Inspector Rajendra Galande said.
Galande is the investigating officer in this case. He said a team would soon be sent to Mahajan's hometown in Sangali district where his land and other movable and immovable properties will be scrutinized.
"In this year, 78 traps were laid in which 103 public servants were arrested for accepting or demanding bribes from the complainants," Superintendent of Police (ACB) Sarang Awad said. "Officials from the revenue and the police department were at the helm of bribe-related arrests. A total of 32 public servants, including a Class I officer from the revenue department, were arrested in 27 traps laid by the ACB officials. Whereas 34 police personnel, including four officers, were arrested in 25 traps," said Awad.
He said the city had the highest number of traps (78) laid to arrest public servants accepting bribes in the state. District Collector Vikas Deshmukh refused to comment on the issue and said appropriate action would be taken against the guilty once the report from ACB official was in.


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The Syracuse Crunch defenseman accepted the reverse pass from his parter, Jared Nightingale, and looked to make a pass to Alex Killorn in front of his team's net. Instead of its intended target, the puck appeared to deflect off goaltender Dustin Tokarski's stick, and found its way into the back of the Crunch net.
The fluke goal 1:11 into the final frame proved to be the difference, as Syracuse snapped a three-game winning streak with a 2-1 loss to the Binghamton Senators at the Onondaga County War Memorial Friday.


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Loosehead prop Pauliasi Manu joins the Melbourne Rebels from the Auckland Blues
The Melbourne Rebels have completed the signing of loosehead prop Pauliasi Manu from the Blues.
Last Updated: 18/10/12 10:41am
Manu has agreed a two-year deal at the Rebels and will compete with Nic Henderson and Eddie Aholelei for the No 1 jersey.
Rebels head coach Damien Hill said: "Pauliasi has had strong ITM Cup form with Auckland this season and has had Super Rugby experience.
"In addition to his scrummaging, Pauliasi brings attacking skills and a competitive streak that is going to make the battle for starting loosehead prop very exciting over the next two years. We are all looking forward to Pauliasi becoming a Melbourne Rebel."
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"Look I didn't ask for the Farber Report, I just asked how you think she'll do!"
Maggie and Angie had managed to pry the scheduling details of the Visitor Youth Program event from Daniel and Todd, and the raid was set for Saturday, two days away. On the firing range Tyler and Farber were finishing up the setup of weapons and uniform assignments for the strike teams that would take part in the operation that everyone hoped would mark a turning point in the rebellion, and not just for the L.A. resistance.
As the "tactical coordinators" sorted supplies and checked the weapons Tyler was wrestling with doubts about Angie's stability. Her entirely-too-cool attitude toward the whole thing had raised a red flag. Someone stepping into a shooting war for the first time should be showing at least a few nerves. Someone who might end up facing her first kill should definitely seem a little more uncertain. Angie's ice-cold "no promises" remark in response to the proposal of taking Peterson prisoner (an idea Tyler liked, even if Parrish's "let's be civilized" approach made him gag) had him worried. Personal agendas were natural in a beginner, but letting them play out would get the wrong people killed. In the days that followed the first planning meeting Angie had revealed nothing more than her original expression of disdain, and he hadn't asked for specifics. If anything, she'd seemed more settled, and confident, and horny, than ever before. Many men would happily have welcomed that situation, but for Tyler it was ringing some unsettling bells. Part of Tyler's special ops training was in psychology, and he knew too well that what some would read in normal circumstances as positives should be interpreted in wartime as major negatives.
So finally he'd asked Farber, who after all had a reasonable amount of insight on Angie Harper. And who had answered with predictably annoying logic:
"You're asking the wrong person, bro. Now you know I've been giving you guys some space because I figured you needed it, to get things squared. But I also figured maybe you got past the 'no questions' bullshit you two were always bragging about. You wanna know how she'll do, ask her not me. If she don't wanna answer, you can read what she ain't saying." He paused to check the action on an automatic pistol, then continued casually, "Unless you lost your edge."
"Well if I had I wouldn't be asking, would I?" Tyler snapped back. He finished checking the voice synthesizers and had begun laying each one, just below the visors, on each folded uniform in the row laid out on the table. After neatly placing just two he continued by slamming them down haphazardly.
"Feel like a fucking camp counselor," he muttered then added out loud, "and by the way, fuck you. 'I dunno' would've done just fine." When he turned he saw Farber standing still, grinning broadly at him. "What now Dr. Freud?"
Chris laughed and shook his head, and stepped forward to slap his friend on the shoulder. "Love sure does complicate war, huh?" Then, as if his own words had reminded him of something he should have thought of already, he grabbed Tyler's shoulder a little harder. "She'll be okay, brother. She's going right into the fire with us, eyes wide open and all in charge of her own thing, not waiting behind trusting some paper pushing brass assholes to take care of her."
The hardness left Tyler's face for just a second. "Small favors, huh. But that's not all of it."
"Nope." Chris took a final walk down the line. Everything was in order (of course): uniforms, visors, and voice synthesizers on one table and weapons on the other. Without looking up he advised, "But the rest of it, you gotta ask her. One way or another, she'll let you know." Suddenly he laughed, and faced Tyler with a knowing grin.
"You know that woman can't lie to save her ass unless she's on the clock."
Tyler nodded and managed a laugh of his own. "Another 'small favor'."
"Take 'em where you can get 'em, bro." Then Farber nodded toward the distance. "Head's up, here come the campers."
"Ah shit, don't spread that around," Tyler grumbled. "They still haven't got over being a herd of cats."


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Given the 1-star rating that LNKD has on CAPS, a lot of players took a big loss on Friday. How could so many people be wrong?
Easy - they were fooled (pun intended) by the valuation of the stock. Sadly, many investors just look at P/E - as if its the end-all, be-all of all metrics (and I understand the irony of my handle). That said, some investors just simply thought that LinkedIn couldn't keep the revenue upside, especially for paid-for services. In that case, they just bet on the wrong side of the coin.
For the investors that rated LinkedIn "overvalued", here is what you missed. The "P" in the P/E is very high, so you really need to focus your attention on the "E".
So now take a look at how revenues convert to earnings -- the Balance Sheet. What if LNKD stopped growing R&D and SG&A? I personally believe that their biggest sales force is word of mouth and HR recruiters needing to find talent. With that hypothesis -- they will continue to grow at very high rates EVEN IF THEY SHUT OFF SPENDING. The result is a P/E that plummets faster than a lead weight in water. Do the math... Chopping their growth rate to 20% with no change in spending gets them to a P/E of 30 within just a handful of years.
A big kudos to LNKD for investing hard now and fueling their growth. If you consider the fact that B2B spend is 50% of the economy vs. 50% B2C, you should be using FB as benchmark of where LNKD can potentially go - not to mention the overstated "barrier to entry" argument that FB has continued to expose as down right silly.
That's why I own LNKD and will continue to buy.
-- HPEGuy
Nothing really changed on Friday - nobody was proved wrong or took a loss (unless they decided to sell). Mr. Market is manic depressive and I'm pretty confident he will offer LNKD shares lower than $155 over the next few years.
"decided to sell" -> "decided to cover"
LinkedIn will be a monster growth story.
Until it isn't.
Plan your exit accordingly.
MegaShort - I totally disagree. People throw the term "overvalued" around way too much. My point is not just about their great growth, but the incredible spending spree they are on to fuel that growth. They could fire half of their staff tomorrow, turn in a P/E of 20 and still grow (more modestly). That point is completely missed by the investing community. If you honestly think they can't grow their business, then that's a reason to bet against them. But if someone says they are "overvalued" but also recognize the huge growth potential, they don't get it.
Megashort is a prime example of somebody who did not understand the points you made.
I am sure a lot of margin calls were generated...ever try shorting the tech bubble? I bet it wasn't fun.
I find that people who overuse investment sayings have nothing original of their own to say.
+1 good blog. I personally would not buy LNKD, but would not come close to shorting it
Just because I didn't respond to everything he said, does not mean I don't understand it. I disagree completely that you can subtract SG&A and pretend that number is meaningful.
Ever try buying the late stages of the tech bubble? Not much fun either.
When you short a stock, and it goes up 22% in a day, yeah, you were proven wrong. Even if you were long term right, you were still wrong. If I said "apple will go out of business, I am going to short" am I right if it takes 675 years?
I manage other peoples money....drawdown of 22% does not look good in VaR statistics.
That's part of the beauty of the market. People have different risk tolerances and time horizons.
It's not really about subtracting SG&A or R&D, its about slowing that spending down and asking if growth can continue. Understanding whether a high growth stock is "overvalued" is no easy task - but this simple exercise can put hard math behind the question.
For LNKD, after doing the math, I would say its at "fair value" and nowhere close to being "overvalued".
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We get Gaga, the Sweedes get Fever Ray. It's just not fair.
I, unfortunately, have not had time to whip up a Halloween mix but some great bloggers and musicians are here to save the day. The five following mixtapes should be enough to keep your party going all night. And please tune in to UtahFM.org to hear me keeping it creepy from 9-10:30PM on Oct31. Plenty of horror film themes and other evil tracks to bring the house down.
First up, Fever Ray has put together this exceptionally well crafted and appropriately themed mix of songs for Resident Advisor. Some have always been fairly dark and evil but some only come off that way in the greater context of the mix. It works very well and is highly recommended.
"Walk Me Home" is 17 minutes of new music from Memory Tapes. It was compiled for arawa.fm as a Halloween mix and is a bit darker than most of Memory Tapes' material thus far. Also great.
Gorilla vs. Bear has put together a group of tracks and samples that, while not specifically Halloween related, do come together to form a dark soundtrack that works well. I love the samples and plan to play some similar things on Saturday's show. Also, thanks to Chris for hooking up that Salem track. WEpt is about as dark and strange as I've heard from the band. They're definitely on drugs, right?
Kitsune Noir has taken a similar approach and put together a mix of spooky songs (The Horrors, Fever Ray, NIN) and a group of others that work to make the mix accessible and dark all at once (Girls, Smashing Pumpkins, Grizzly Bear). I love the artwork.
And lastly, one of my favorite new bands (still calling them new until they pick up a little more notoriety), Salem, put together this mix a few months back. It's not exactly a Halloween mix but everything this band does is ultra dark and disturbing and this is no exception. There's even some gabba in there for you techno-heads.


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Hmmm.. Well, I am unexpectedly single and have a nice Junior Suite booked on the RCL Freedom of the Seas Western Caribbean run for this Sunday - 2 days away.
Mid-40's, straight white male. Blonde and Blue. RCL just told me to either go solo, find someone to join me, or waste the money, so here I am. References and pics on request. We just need to get you to Port Canaveral on Sunday. All I'm looking for is someone to have fun with.
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An Egyptian court has sentenced seven Egyptian Copts and one American pastor to death, despite all of the defendants living outside the court's jurisdiction. The team of eight were convicted on charges related to the anti-Islam film, 'Innocence of Muslims', which sparked chaos across the Muslim world.
The convictions were largely symbolic as none of the accused live in Egypt and will not have to face the sentences issued. Among the accused were Mark Basseley Youssef, the man behind the film and Pastor Terry Jones, known for his headline-grabbing criticism of Islam.
According to Egypt's official news agency, the defendants were found guilty of harming national unity, insulting and publicly attacking Islam and spreading false information.
The charges all related to the production of 'Innocence of Muslims', that caused outrage in Egypt. The amateurish film depicts the Prophet Muhammad a homosexual, pedophile and slave owner: all highly offensive to Muslims worldwide.
Armed mobs attacked US embassies in the Middle East in response to the film's release. In Benghazi, US Ambassador, Chris Stevens, was killed and in Cairo there were clashes between protestors and police.
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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">Omitting this information from discussion is classical "not on good faith". Ron, did you forget that Leif had blocked your membership?

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That was years ago, Leif. You're not exactly up on current events at Noisebridge. https://noisebridge.net/wiki/Meeting_Notes_2014_01_28

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I started my day off with a little run to the gym again. And this time I brought along a piece of running gear I've been playing with for the past few weeks – S11-FLEX HD wireless headphones. I got them before Florida and have tested them out on a few shorter runs to get a feel for them.
I have an old ipod shuffle, so I wasn't sure I was going to be able to use them. But – they work with my phone blue tooth style! Since I already had some music on my phone it was super easy to set up and get going!
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On a fly or top water plug they are very willing customers - always hungry.
Around here you will find them during the hot months, and they have a tendency to roam. They are very random.
I have caught them in the Savannah River, the Herb River, the Wilmington River and around Williamson Island.
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The perils of mushroom hunting
It may look harmless, but the farinosa is highly dangerous and damages the liver when ingested
If you want to eat mushrooms, don't pick wild ones - buy them.
That's Poison Information Centre director Dr Rick Lau Fei-lung's warning after the mushroom Amanita farinosa came close to killing a Hong Kong couple and made another man ill two days later.
The farinosa - named for its mealy appearance - is a member of a genus notorious worldwide for its 50 per cent mortality rate. Just one or two pieces could kill, Lau said.
Even so, it is not the most dangerous. That distinction goes to the Amanita phalloides - commonly known as the death cap, and most deadly not only among its genus but of any mushroom.
Lau said while there was no record of phalloides in Hong Kong, it was found in Shenzhen and Guangzhou - along with the related Amanita verna that regularly poisons people in the provincial capital - and its presence in the city was "very likely".
"Most other commonly seen toxic mushrooms only upset the digestive system. But Amanita are hepatotoxic in that they also damage the liver and cause failure [of the organ]," he said.
Lau said it was surprising that Amanita poisoning had never been seen before in the city, and suddenly two cases involving three people came to light in a short span of two days.
Besides the couple - Tony Wu Tung-ping and his wife Wong Ngan-lin - a 74-year-old man was also poisoned by eating wild mushrooms he picked at Tai Mo Shan Country Park.
Toxins from the Amanita genus were found in the elderly man. His liver was damaged, but he was cured by an antidote stocked in Lau's centre.
Of the approximately 400 mushroom species recorded in Hong Kong, about a dozen were toxic, Lau said.
The Macrolepiota neomastoidea, Lepiota cristata and Chlorophyllum molybdites were among the most commonly seen mushrooms with mild toxins that affected only the digestive system.
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Security Theater, Or The White Powder Freak-OutPosted by PsiCop in Fuzzy Thinking, General, Off-Topic
Although I mostly focus on religious issues in this blog, I try to think critically about lots of things, all the time. Human beings are incredibly irrational and overemotional over a lot of things, not just religion. One of the things that doesn't take too much "critical thinking" to realize is a fucking joke, is the absurd "security theater" debacles that crop up all over the country, from time to time. I have blogged about the joke that is TSA, but the full-blown ten-alarm freak-outs that happen go beyond the Homeland Security Dept. or even the federal authorities more generally.
In the last few days, Connecticut has been host to a rash of ridiculous overreactions. A week ago a white powder was reported found at a Meriden courthouse (WebCite cached article). A few days later, a white powder was found at a school in Enfield, and a lockdown ensued (cached). And a white powder arrived at schools in Newington and Madison, today (cached).
I honestly question the official reactions to all of these events. Sure, these things all "might have" turned out to be serious. Those mysterious "white powders" certainly could have been pathogenic or toxic agents that "might" have sickened or killed people.
But in all of these cases — and in many others that I could have listed here, but didn't bother to — they weren't. Officials were right to test the powders to find out if they were dangerous … but it turns out, they were harmless. (Curiously, even after testing, we seem never to be told what these things actually turned out to have been. Hmm.)
I seriously question the wisdom of "locking down" a school where a "white powder" has been found. Is it really that great of an idea to lock children into the very same building in which a substance one initially assumes to be dangerous was found? Really!? Somehow I don't think so. Call me crazy, but I would think you'd want them outside that building, and as far from it as you could get them — if, that is, you truly believed that the mysterious white powder had the potential to kill them.
Also I seriously question the wisdom of closing a courthouse for a day … after it was found that a mysterious white powder was determined not to have been dangerous. What is the point of that? There was never any danger, hence, there's no reason to continue acting as though there had been one. Grown adults are capable of pulling on their "big boy pants" (or "big girl pants," as the case may be) and getting back to fucking work, once they realized they'd been hoaxed.
And that, of course, is what this is about. Officials can't — or won't — admit they've been fooled by things like this. They want us to know they're "protecting" us; the only way to do that is for them to act as though everything weird that happens is an apocalypse-in-the-making. When they end up with egg on their faces, they can't just admit they were swindled; they have to behave as though the danger remained — even though they (and we!) damned well know there never had been one in the first place.
I know the old mantra of the "security theater" perpetrators is, "But when something like this happens, we don't know it's not serious, so we have to act as though it is!" To that I say, bull-fucking-shit. It takes minutes for someone to come in and test a mysterious white powder to see if it's dangerous. If it's inert, the problem is over; vacuum up the shit and let everyone get back to their lives. Why lock down an entire building, over a little bit of white powder inside one room? Why close a building for a full day, after you realize you've been swindled? Why the overreaction? Why the tantrum? Why the absurd dance of bullshit that goes on around these things?
I'll tell you why: Because otherwise, people won't be aware of our "security officials," and they won't have any way to exercise the power they possess. They do this sort of thing, in short, because they can, and because none of us can say boo to them about it while it's going on. Really, it's all very juvenile — but no one in authority will ever admit it.
Update: The rocket scientists in charge of these white powder freak-outs, are still freaking out — even after any danger has been ruled out. Some of the schools affected will remain closed for the rest of the week — even though the powder has proven harmless (cached). Why? I have no idea. I can only assume it's in order to maximize hysteria and inconvenience in those communities.
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Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> RE: Copying ORACLE_HOME?
Cloning ORACLE_HOME can work but Oracle Support claim is valid.
Had the same/similar conversation on this list when someone had the idea of putting Oracle...the whole OFA (ORACLE_HOME, ORACLE_BASE, oradata, etc) on a CD can carting it around to different servers for an "instant" database.
You have to be certain the servers are 100% identical and unless you build them at the same time chances are they are not.
He is my response to that previous thread; Clone Oracle binaries;
---"Not a big deal"
Just days ago I tared up my 9i Oracle Home that contained Software and Database /o01/app/... & /o01/oradata. I simply un-tar'd it to a like ("DEV") server and done!...I have may database and software again.
---"serious pitfalls"
Before I *simply* un-tared my Oracle Home Clone and started using it I spent an hour or more making sure that my *like* server had all the OS patches required for my version of Oracle. So this is not simple at all.
More and more Oracle is requiring OS patches and OS changes BEFORE Oracle will install or run on that OS. You have a 100% chance that a new clean OS install will be missing patches needed for your Mobile Oracle Clone. What about rootpre.sh...that's just one that applies to all...the list of other prerequisites goes on and on.
Also, rootpre.sh and root.sh often add and modify OS scripts and parameters not in Oracle directories. This could make a huge different on how you database runs.
So while pain and maybe not the true the Oracle Support claim is valid...they have no way of knowing the this is a valid install *and* OS configuration.
Chris Marquez
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From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org on behalf of Matthew Zito Sent: Thu 8/4/2005 11:30 AM
To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: Copying ORACLE_HOME?
Hi Folks,
I have a customer that is building new ORACLE_HOMEs by copying over the appropriate trees and modifying all the necessary files. They are having stability problems with 10g, and Oracle is now claiming that the only supported way to make an ORACLE_HOME is through the OUI. Is anyone here currently making new ORACLE_HOMEs by copying from another one, and have you ever had any support issues doing that?
The whole thing smells to me like Oracle has no idea and is grabbing at straws, but I would like to get people's opinions. Feel free to email me off-list if you'd rather not publicize your possibly illicit activities.
Thanks much,
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HAMBURG, N.Y. (WIVB) – Homeland Security was hunting for child pornography at a Hamburg home Thursday afternoon.
A home on Highland Avenue was raided by agents and State Police. They seized several items as part of the investigation. Those items will now go through a forensic analysis.
The home belongs to Dale Neseman, an independent cartoonist. He and his wife have not been charged and were not arrested.
Neighbor Tom Magee said, "This whole thing is just baffling to me. The idea that heavy duty law enforcement was here this morning, I'm just completely baffled by it, I have no idea."
"I've known him and his wife. They're wonderful people; they're just great. I'm very happy to have them as neighbors."
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Some Aspects of the Ecological Crisis in India
THE effort in this paper is two fold. First, to establish the cridcality of the ecological crisis in India, especially in terms of forests and genetic resources, land management, water & air pollution. Secondly, I want to stress the urgency for social scientists, especially political economists, to seriously enter the environmental debate.
As is by now well recognised, forests are essential for the well-being of land and water resources and for climatic regulation. Agricultural activities are critically dependent on the forests which help control, among other things, soil erosion, floods, siltation of reservoirs, desertification and drought. It has been determined that in India the minimum forest cover required is one-third of its land area, with 60% forest cover in hill areas and 20% in the plains. Against this the current forest cover is estimated to be no more than 11%1. (See Table 1.)
History has shown that when the forest cover of an area falls below 10%, there is a serious threat of desertification. Many ancient civilisations have paid the price of desertification. "It is no coincidence that many ruins of great temples and palaces are today found amid sandy wastelands.... Mount Lebanon is referred to in the Epic of Gilgamesh (before 2000 BC) as a vast green mountain will tall cedars. Felling of the cedars of Lebanon had begun as early as 3000 BC, after which they formed the cornerstone of the Phoenicians' international trade".2 In more recent times Ethiopia provides an example of a country where forest cover has shrunk to well below the critical level.
While understanding the issues relating to forestry in India, three aspects ought to be kept in mind: conservation, afforestation and the distribution of forest resources.
Conservation of forests
The current situation of conservation follows from the fact that forest policy, till very recently, stressed on the productive aspects of forests. Very little, if anything, was done to conserve the forests. Though a system of working plans was introduced which involved the planning of timber extraction in
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Astoria Galilee Tiberias is located in the centre of Tiberias, overlooking the Sea of Galilee.
The hotel is situated on one of Tiberias historic main streets, just a short walking distance from the city's center and the Sea of Galilee.
In 2008 the hotel was renovated and its design incorporates the family's history, the city's modern-day development and elements of the special atmosphere of the Galilee
From this lovely area with many restaurants, shops and cafes, it is a 20 minutes walk to the shores of the Sea of Galilee.
The Astoria Galilee Hotel offers modern and comfortable guest rooms, free wireless internet, and good facilities including a seasonal outdoor swimming pool.
Astoria Galilee Tiberias is a good base to discover the northern region of Israel with Safed, Nazareth and the Jordan River just a short drive away.
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If you've read my blog for a while, you'll know just how much I adore flowers! Aren't these flowers absolutely gorgeous? They were a surprise thanks to Fresh Flowers at FreshFlowers.com.au! I ordered the 'Florist Pick' on their website, to be delivered yesterday (they have a same day delivery service), and I was very impressed. A lovely florist creates a unique bouquet inspired by the season's best flowers, which makes up the 'Florist Pick'.
It arrives with an envelope attached, enclosed is the chosen card, and flower food to pour into the water and make your gorgeous bouquet of flowers last longer. Isn't the wrapping pretty?!
Ordering online is pretty easy. I found it was very simple, which makes the transaction straightforward, especially for those who might be in a rush! I used my PayPal, which always makes purchasing online easier. I'm never able to remember my card numbers! Fresh Flowers delivers flowers to Sydney and most areas in Australia – capital cities, territories, metropolitan and regional areas. The delivery guy was very nice on the phone and he called before approaching my place to check I was home. What I think is great, is if the person you buy flowers for is not home, you can elect for them to come back again the next day (with additional cost), or leave the flowers at the door.
Flowers range from $29.95, and there are a variety of types to choose from. I believe it's affordable for someone like me who has a mortgage and needs to keep a budget.
I will definitely order from Fresh Flowers in future, as I was impressed with the service and the quality of flowers.
I was sponsored by Fresh Flowers to share my experience ordering these flowers. As always, the content & opinions expressed here are entirely my own and I bring to you only the best products and experiences.


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Did the title of this post get your attention? Well, if you're the naughty little visitors that I know and love, then it did. And I wouldn't have it any other way.
But now that I have your attention, let me explain what The BJ Show is.
I'm afraid It's not as titillating as going down on Ryan Gosling. But one can certainly hope, right?
The BJ Show is actually just my adorable husband and I playing around with the camera on our computer. No, you filthy little creatures! We weren't doing that! Well, at least not that I can air for public consumption. Some things are meant to remain between husbands, aren't they?
Seriously, though, Bruce and I decided to just turn on the camera, chat, and see what happens. We talk about living in a household with a gay romance author and a gay romance reviewer. We also discuss my really, really, really bad cooking. We'd never had so much fun making a video with so many clothes on. Um, I mean, we've never made a video before, and it was fun. Yeah, that's what I meant!
Maybe we'll do this more often. Who knows? But I thought I'd share the fruits of our labor with all of you.
I hope you enjoyIhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjU6kl38uOA


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Sameera Alshaikh [Sameera]
Biography of Sameera Alshaikh
Sameera Alshaikh Poems
My Friend Of Misery (Prose)
Drifting out of sight, fading into the night. Times of frustration and depression. An uncomfortably disturbing state of mind deriving from the darkness... Thrown into a state of intense stress and desperation, how can I ease the pain in my aching heart?
Master Of Disguise (Prose)
*'master of disguise' is not a poem, i know... it's just something that i wrote & felt like sharing with the world :)
Broken, Beat & Scarred (Prose)
He crawled out from under my bed; I felt the darkness as he pulled me down - as he tried to drag me down! He slashed my neck, but I fought back! O, how I fought back! I fought back with all my might! … However, my body couldn't take it anymore; So, I stood still, defenseless, and watched the strength of my body as it slowly slipped away. I started to decay, to the point where I was so close of giving up. My little heart was on the verge of bursting with rage because I felt so weak and powerless in front of him. I lost my senses! But then, again, I pushed back! I fought against that unrelenting beast!
A Perfect Mess (Prose)
10th of April 2013... She comes in — walking with heavy steps...She walks in with naturally curly hair hiding her face — hiding her eyes. There she sits — First row, third seat on the right, Like always... She sets her black 'the Beatles' backpack down on the floor...
Nothing Else Matters
Life lost its taste. Why did I let it go to waste? I lost everything I've held so dear. My eyes brimming with tears;
Poison Ink
There's nothing to lose! What's there to lose? Painless bruise - forever tattoos. Cold as stone though temperatures soar.
The Unspoken Murmurs
Cry Hard! Tears on your face, a remedy for the drought. Cry Hard! That it seems your body is turning inside out.
Beyond Remedy
Take me with you Lead me to where I belong. Solitude - I've been lost - abandoned for way too long. Talk to me - the deafening voice of silence kills me.
Sour Times
The voice in my head is depleted of strength, it won't talk back. Sadness... the mask starts to crack. These thoughts and unspoken questions never got me anywhere. I want to leave, but I'm not strong enough to escape the cage of despair.
A Prayer
Oh God in the velvet skies guide me to the light Oh God open my eyes Show me what's wrong from right Keep me on Islam, for therein is my delight
A Lost silent moan has traveled far from its bed. There's no switch to turn off my head. Late as always, I can't sleep these days. Feel the pain in my soul as it decays.
Sad But True
There are things about life that I don't understand. The answers are not meant to be found. There are things man was not meant to know. Secrets - hidden high above and deep down below.
Behind The Smiles
This disgusting feeling grows uncontrollably and imperfectly. This repugnant feeling grows arbitrarily! Troubled - I sat down and felt like I'll never get up again. Self-doubt and self-hatred - my eyes filled with rain.
The Lullaby
The lights go out - I'm all alone I spent the night on my own Soaked in tears I sink like a stone Unnamed feelings never let me go
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The retired Anglican Bishop N. T. Wright is highly regarded in educated conservative Christian circles, lauded by Catholics and Protestants alike (such as Tim Keller, whose work I've reviewed previously). Wright's work as a scholar and popularizer of Christianity evokes the legacy of C. S. Lewis, another Anglican who cast a long shadow on the American evangelical community, in particular. His opinions on sexual ethics in the Church (especially the acceptance of homosexuality) has placed him more than once in the middle of cultural conflicts, and he has defended his conservative views with vigor. His writings for the lay Christian audience have sought to make a convincing argument for his conservative beliefs, without sacrificing the theological weight of their implications.
In his book, "Simply Christian," Bishop Wright seeks to create an abstract of sorts, which the unsophisticated but earnest Christian may use as a framework for her beliefs until further details are accessible, and which the curious unbeliever may approach for a rough but comprehensible sketch of the religion which has dominated Western thought and culture for the past two millennia. That being said, Wright readily admits that this work can in no way be taken as a comprehensive assessment of the Christian faith; it is no exercise in systematic theology.
What Wright has clearly not anticipated, however, is the wondering gaze of the Christian apostate. One might similarly experience some level of bemusement at reading the realtor's description of one's former domicile. "Convenient parking, breathtaking views, and new appliances," reads the sales notice. Ah, but not mentioned are the faulty plumbing in the guest bathroom, the pervasive weeds in the ill-tended garden, and the HVAC system one or two seasons away from shutdown. There's a reason the former tenant abandoned the premises, after all, but Wright seems blissfully unaware (or unconcerned) about such readers.
Like C. S. Lewis before him (whose model he clearly emulates), Wright also makes every effort to ecumenize his portrait of Christianity. As he says, "the book isn't 'Anglican,' 'Catholic,' 'Protestant,' or 'Orthodox,' but simply Christian." Though attempting anything else would make the book a complicated mess, I worry that Wright with a wave of his hand brushes aside too many of the differences between the various forms of Christianity. The variances between Protestants and Catholics are not trivial, neither in their experiences of the faith nor in the particulars of their respective theologies. Further, the intense and continuous fracturing of the Christian tradition is an important consideration for anyone interested in exploring the religion, believer and unbeliever alike.
Bishop Wright builds his case for Christianity carefully, progressively, and with the practiced technique of someone who has been enthusiastically engaged in the evangelism of his faith for decades. Yet the bricks he uses are mortared with generous assumptions, not wholly inappropriate given his assumed audience, but taken without proof by the author nonetheless. Assumptions like the objective nature of moral claims, the existence of the immaterial supernatural, and the impossibility of beauty and complexity to exist in a purely materialistic world. Many times also, Wright stops himself from making overt assumptions, but merely raises a question and considers the various responses, before moving forward taking for granted that the explanation which best points the way to God and Christianity should be taken as the assumed conclusion.
For example, Wright attempts an entire chapter outlining the Christian conception of the deity, without actually explaining why Christians are Theists in the first place, nor why they have decided that the ancient semitic god Yahweh is their God the Father. Similarly, later in the book he brushes past the most central and integral doctrine about the nature of the Christian god, Trinitarianism:
"The church's official "doctrine of the Trinity" wasn't fully formulated until three or four centuries after the time of Paul. Yet when the later theologians eventually worked it all through, it turned out to consist, in effect, of detailed footnotes to Paul, John, Hebrews, and the other New Testament books, with explanations designed to help later generations grasp what was already there in principle in the earliest writings."
This is, quite simply, promoting theological poverty among Christians. I can't imagine how Bishop Wright (or his publishers) were able to to pass this off, but he continues:
"Indeed, some have suggested that one way of understanding the Spirit is to see the Spirit as the personal love which the Father has for the Son and the Son for the Father."
Not the Spirit as Person, but the Spirit as "personal love." I'll grant that it's a pretty thought, but the good Bishop travels too close to Binitarianism with this kind of talk. After this, Wright encourages his readers to celebrate the "divine Trinity" doctrine as fact, but one wonders if any reader has any better sense of this core doctrine (or indeed, Wright himself) after completing his book.
Wright's rationale when it comes to his assumptions about sex and gender are similarly opaque. He seems to have no understanding of the sociological relationship between the two concepts, how fluid they have always been throughout human society, and indeed the mixed messages of the Bible with regard to human relationships. Instead, he appears to insist on precisely the kind of inflexible, undeviating, restrictive view of sex and gender that his generation of Christians grew up with, unaware (or uncaring) that this is precisely the kind of attitude that younger Christians are objecting to, and which has already succeeded in alienating many of this generation, if not outright evacuating them.
"At one end of the scale, some people try to pretend that for all practical purposes their gender is irrelevant, as though they were in fact neuter. At the other end, some people are always sizing others up as potential sexual partners, even if only in imagination. And, again, we know in our bones that both of these are distortions of reality."
"Today's parents, however impeccable their idealistic credentials, have discovered that most little boys like playing with guns and cars, and that a remarkable number of little girls like playing with dolls, dressing them up and nursing them."
"The trouble is that the modern world, like much of the ancient one, has come to regard what is sometimes called an active sex life as not only the norm but something nobody in his or her right mind does without."
However, for all these missteps, Wright does do justice to his explanation of the Bible and its composition. His conservative conclusions regarding authorship and historicity are fully on display, but his summary of the "Book God Breathed" is a fair account that is likely to surprise with new information the average "pew potato" Christian who only follows along with her pastor during the Sunday sermon. Likewise, his distinction between inerrancy and infallibility is made with a subtle yet careful assuredness that would likely assuage the most conservative and the most liberal readers, alike.
Where Wright succeeds best is in making plain the contrast between three different forms of god-belief, and how they might lead to different interpretations of Christian history. These are Pantheism, the belief in a god which is unified with the Cosmos throughout the fabric of space-time; Deism, the belief in a god which is separated from the Cosmos (though the Creator of it) and does not operate in space-time; and Theism, the belief in a god which intersects with the Cosmos at various points in space-time. Christianity, as a form of Theism, is put forward by Wright as the most satisfying explanation for various phenomena, such as the complex beauty of nature, as well as the particular themes and implications of Biblical stories.
This is a significant success for Wright because the popularity of Theism is on the wane, even among some Christians. The implications of a personal deity, as well as of the theological, behavioral, and cultural implications of Christianity's truth are dulled significantly if God is not personally present and active in our world. A Pantheistic or Deistic interpretation of Christianity helps avoid some of the most troubling issues with their faith with which many Christians simply don't want to engage. An absentee god cannot condemn, cannot distinguish between believer and heathen, and thus must provide for some kind of universal salvation or risk moral irrelevancy. An impersonal god cannot intervene to save a baby from being drowned in a flash flood, cannot stand between a young child and a diagnosis of terminal cancer. It is important for Wright to make the case that to be a consistent Christian requires a clear acceptance of Theism, and I believe that he manages this task.
Yet for all his promotion of Christianity, Bishop Wright takes an opportunity to criticize the modern church as someplace that for many "carr[ies] the overtones of large, dark buildings, pompous religious pronouncements, false solemnity, and rank hypocrisy." And in his description of the best aspects of church, I feel that we can find some agreement:
"It's a place of welcome and laughter, of healing and hope, of friends and family and justice and new life. It's where the homeless drop in for a bowl of soup and the elderly stop by for a chat. It's where one group is working to help drug addicts and another is campaigning for global justice."
I'll see you in that church on Sunday, Bishop.


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John and I are starting to stock up on books and movies for Kayleigh. I know, I know. It's a little early yet, but we like to be prepared! We're not going overboard right now, just buying some cheap kids movies here and there. I found quite a selection of cheap kids movies on Amazon. These are all $5.00 or under, can you believe that?! What a great deal! Take a look:
Cheap Kids Movies – 40 DVD's, All $5 and Under!
1. Milo and Otis – What kid doesn't love a movie about animals? I haven't seen this one yet, but it looks pretty cute!
A curious kitten named Milo and his inseparable friend, a pug-nosed puppy named Otis, tumble through one exciting escapade after another in The Adventures of Milo and Otis, a heartwarming live action film.
2. Annie – This will be a good movie for when she's a little older.
Annie is the story of a plucky, red-haired girl who dreams of life outside her dreary orphanage.
3. Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory – I remember watching this movie many times as a kid. The image quality in this newly released version is supposedly much better than in the original. I can't wait to see it!
A poor little boy wins a ticket to visit the inside of a mysterious and magical chocolate factory. When he experiences the wonders inside the factory, the boy discovers that the entire visit is a test of his character.
4. The Goonies – I have never actually seen this movie, but John and his cousins rave about it, and he says that Kayleigh must watch it! In fact, every guy I know loves this movie. I guess I'll have to watch it to find out why!
Following a mysterious treasure map into a spectacular underground realm of twisting passages, outrageous booby-traps and a long-lost pirate ship full of golden dubloons, the kids race to stay one step ahead of a family of bumbling bad guys… and a mild-mannered monster with a face only a mother could love.
5. The Princess Bride – This was another one of John's favorite movies, and I had never seen it up until he made me watch it with him a couple of years ago. I have to admit, it was pretty good, and full of laughs!
A Wondrous Tale Of Wit And Whimsey, The Princess Bride Willtransport You To A Magical Land Where Fantasy Reigns Supreme,And Kings And Queens Of All Ages Will Want To Return Again Andagain.
6. The NeverEnding Story/The NeverEnding Story II – I remember watching The NeverEnding Story many times as a very young child. I think I was probably about 3 the first time I watched it, and I was completely enthralled in it. I haven't seen the sequel yet, but I'm curious!
When 10-year-old Bastian opens the mysterious, ornately bound book entitled The NeverEnding Story, he never imagines he will be transported into its amazing world of Fantasia – and become the hero of its even more amazing tale. Now you can go there too in this magical film full of astonishing creatures and directed by Wolfgang Petersen (The Perfect Storm). Bastian, the Luckdragon and the genial Rock Biter return for more adventure in the spellbinding The NeverEnding Story II The Next Chapter from director George Miller (The Man from Snowy River). This time, new forces threaten the world of imagination. But they aren't the only foes Bastian faces. He must also overcome problems at home!
7. Free Willy
8. Where the Red Fern Grows (Bonus Digital Copy Included)
10. Turner & Hooch
11. Beethoven/Beethoven's 2nd/Beethoven's 3rd Triple Feature
12. Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
13. Robbie the Reindeer – Hooves of Fire/Legend of the Lost Tribe
14. Chicken Run
15. An American Tail Double Feature
16. Open Season
17. Happy Feet
18. Robots
20. Handy Manny: Handy Manny's Motorcycle Adventure
22. Flushed Away
24. Rio
25. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
26. Bee Movie
27. The Reef
28. Antz
29. Surf's Up
31. Ferngully – The Last Rainforest
32. Planet 51
33. The Ant Bully
34. Astro Boy
35. The Iron Giant
39. Hans Christian Andersen's Thumbelina
40. Curious George
*Please note – Amazon.com's prices change frequently and without notice. All of the above DVD's are priced at $5.00 or under at the time of writing this post.


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UP to £20m could be invested by two councils to help speed up traffic bottlenecks on the A27.
West Sussex County Council and Chichester District Council have told the government they are willing to consider a contribution of £20m towards bringing about a major improvement scheme for the A27 in Chichester.
Both authorities have written a joint letter to Transport Minister Stephen Hammond.
The letter asks the government to allocate money to develop a Highways Agency scheme which will solve six traffic bottlenecks along the A27 Chichester bypass.
The Chichester scheme, estimated to cost between £71m and £90m, would help stimulate economic growth along the south coast and create 3,000 jobs in Chichester.
Civic leaders say it would make that stretch of the A27 safer and more reliable for local residents and make it easier for businesses to reach customers.
Councillor Louise Goldsmith, leader of West Sussex County Council, said: 'Addressing the congestion issues along the A27 is absolutely vital for the future of West Sussex's economy.
'We hope the Transport Secretary will consider this proposal seriously.'


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Infographic: ONE Word to Describe Your Personal BrandPosted in Blog on June 13th, 2017 by Admin Jones – Be the first to comment
Can you boil your personal brand down to the ONE word that describes your value? I posed a similar question on LinkedIn; What ONE word do you want people to think of when they think of you? I was amazed by the responses with over 68,000 comments. I never imagined how this question would resonate with people. As a result, I created an Infographic to highlight how people position their brand in ONE word. What was somewhat surprising was the responses fit into three overarching categories; Expertise, Character and Drive. When people describe their brand, they typically identify a word that falls into one of these three categories:
Under Expertise, descriptors used include competent, talented, productive and strategic. Additional words include versatile, resourceful and adaptable. You'll notice there is a diverse set of words in this category but they all point to what people can count on when they work with this individual, their expertise. The words in this category focus on skills and abilities, how the individual does his or her job well.
For Character words include honest, reliable, sincere and trustworthy. The responses in this category for the large part had to do with a high level of integrity or character. Character points to strong moral and ethical principles and for those that identified a word in this category, it means above all else this is how they want to be known. Don't get caught up in thinking if you didn't pick a word that falls into a particular category you don't possess these qualities, e.g. high integrity. Instead, this means this is not the singular focus of how you want to be known.
And the third category, Drive highlights words such as determined, trailblazer, intense and game-changer, and yes I know this is two words. If you find you are someone who "gets things done and makes things happen" your one word points to "Drive". Words in this category stress "movement", taking things from one point to another point.
What is your ONE word? For some people the word immediately comes to mind. Other people tend to struggle coming up with just ONE word. I ask a similar question in my personal branding workshops and speaking engagements and with my one-on-one coaching clients. You see, this query is a great way to define your brand. This helps you figure out who you are, what you stand for and where you add value. This represents your point of differentiation. What I mean by this is what people uniquely think of when they think of you. The answer to this question helps us cut through the clutter. Instead of telling people everything you do or everything they will experience when they work with you, you are simplifying this to just ONE word that sends a clear message of your value!
My word is Impact. While this doesn't describe what I do, it describes where I add value. In my coaching, workshops and key note speeches I seek to make an impact. What's most important to me is that my clients gain insights and walk away with an "aha moment", something they learned that makes an impact in their professional lives. This is how I measure success! I recently started with a new coaching client who stated he wanted to gain real-life best practices and achieve tangible results through our coaching. I explained my philosophy in one simple word, my coaching makes an impact. He was thrilled!
The process for identifying your ONE word is just as important as your actual ONE word. To do this, ensure you seek feedback from family, friends, colleagues, mentors, customers and anyone who will give you honest feedback. If you get multiple words or "themes" determine if one word stands out more than the others. In most cases you will find consistency from your feedback providers. But if not, determine what resonates with you the most or ask your feedback providers to rank the list in order of priority of what comes to mind when they think of you.
In the end, it's not the exercise of boiling this down to ONE word, it's about gaining clarity around your point of differentiation; who you are, what you stand for and where you add value. However, as with most things, it's far more effective to keep it simple then to overload people with a lot of information that can take away from where you really add value. This ONE word helps to define YOU!
Happy personal branding and finding your ONE word that communicates your value!
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NHL lockout: Alberta labor board rules in favor of NHL, won't lift lockout in province
The Alberta Labour Relations Board (ALRB) has ruled in favor of the NHL in the NHLPA's attempt to have the lockout lifted in the Canadian province.
The Alberta Labour Relations Board (ALRB) has ruled in favor of the NHL in the NHLPA's attempt to have the lockout lifted in the Canadian province on grounds it violates the Labour Relations Code. As a result, the Calgary Flames and Edmonton Oilers will remain locked out with the other 28 NHL teams.
This is the second time the NHLPA was shut down on such an attempt. You'll recall it first tried it in Quebec under the same principal, saying it violated the labour relations rules in that province. Just like Alberta, that was shot down by the courts.
In the ruling from the ALRB, the decision reads:
The policy rationale outlined by Mr. Adams is the same as that utilized by this Board -- that is, we will apply our labour relations expertise in determining whether to issue declarations involving strikes and lockouts and, if we do, to what extent. We are of the opinion this is a case where it makes labour relations sense to exercise our discretion not to make a declaration of unlawful conduct and not to issue any remedy.
The ruling goes on to cite numerous reasons why that was the conclusion of the court. One of those reasons seems more interesting than others, at least to me.
Finally, for this Board to intervene in this dispute and declare the lockout illegal as it relates to the Alberta teams and their players (or otherwise interfere with the progress of collective bargaining on a league-wide basis) would be detrimental to the ongoing relationship between the parties and the ability of the league to function properly. The result of such an intervention by this Board would be to effectively remove the Calgary Flames and Edmonton Oilers teams and players from the league-wide collective bargaining process that the parties have historically engaged in and has been established and recognized under the NLRA. The Calgary Flames and Edmonton Oilers Clubs could not participate in the league-wide lockout in which the rest of the League is engaged as part of the current collective bargaining process.
Basically, if the court did rule in favor of the NHLPA then those teams would be forced to be out of the loop as the CBA talks go on. Another way this case is different and why the court sided with the NHL was because the union knew this was possible and did have a chance to stop it from happening.
In the end this means very little. It was nothing more than an attempt to try and exert some pressure from the union, at worst a distraction for the NHL to deal with. It was some sabre rattling that did seem to have NHL Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly perturbed when he was the one who was forced to represent the NHL in Quebec and Alberta.
His comments were toned down a bit from the Quebec ruling which he labeled as a pointless gesture. Here was Daly's statement on the ruling.
"We are pleased with the Alberta Labour Board's ruling today that the lockout of Players is effective on a League-wide basis, including in Alberta, and we are extremely appreciative of the decisive manner in which the matter was handled.
"We are hopeful that this ruling will enable both the League and the NHL Players' Association to focus all of our efforts and energies on negotiating a new Collective Bargaining Agreement in order to get our game and our Players back on the ice."
Daly didn't have to say it was pointless, though. The Alberta court said it for him. "This is nothing more than an unhelpful distraction from efforts [to reach a new CBA]." Think about how much better the time to deal with this case could have been used.
The NHLPA, meanwhile, issued its own statement.
"The players are obviously disappointed with today's decision. Unfortunately, the Alberta Labour Relations Board decided not to exercise its discretion to determine whether the owners' lockout violates Alberta law. We will consider our further options with regard to this case.
"In the meantime, the players want to play, the fans want to watch the game, and the many workers and business owners who are dependent on NHL hockey for their livelihood want the season to start. We remain committed to reaching a fair agreement at the earliest possible time and hope that the NHL begins to show a willingness to do so."
Hey, at least they are both saying they're committed to getting a deal done, now hopefully they will show it and actually talk about economic issues.
The good news is there doesn't appear to be any more provinces or states where the NHLPA could make the same case. We're just going to have to wait for everybody to get together and reach a deal for this lockout to be lifted, not by means of a court.
On the negative side, this means we won't have 82 installments of the Battle of Alberta (and then possibly seven more for the Stanley Cup). Canada was dreaming of getting the Cup back north of the border.
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Had an amazing crop from Polka, this is their second year. Also won First prize for them in my local show!
The Trussell Trust has set up food banks in our area. They will deliver to. Rural. Areas. Where transport is an issue. They don't have much storage space , but will accept fresh food on the days they are open. We leave abowl of fruit and veg and a card inviting them to our community allotment .
Used compost is great for mulching the garden to improve the soil, spores from blight don't live in soil, only on living plants, so you can reuse it. It's good for winter salads in the greenhouse or for pots of bulbs, they have their own food store. Carrots will do well too, or use it in the spring to make seedbeds for new plants in the garden.i use old compost in the bottom of. Pots,with new stuff in thetop6 inches.


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I am writing an application to automate most of the steps for posting an AD on backpage. I am running into the problem of capturing the ReCaptcha graph and then being able to display to the end user.
Since the image is not of type gif, jpg, or png, the default Image type.
Can you please suggest what is the best way to implement the solution?
Thanks in advance.