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Garfield and Odie dress up as pirates and go trick-or-treating on Halloween and later run into ghosts of real pirates.
After Garfield hears from Jon that they as well as Odie are going on vacation, he hopes it will be Hawaii, Acapulco or Venice but when he later finds out it is just going to be a camping trip in the woods, he refuses to go but Jon forces him to come anyway. Later, while they are camping, they are menace by a dangerous black panther which esacped from a zoo. Forest rangers come to the rescue with a tranquilizer gun and then Jon, Garfield and Odie pack up and leave for home.moreless
Garfield escapes from Jon because he does not want to go to the vet and ends back at his birthplace, an old Italian restaurant and reunites with his mother and his whole family.moreless
A musical tale. Jon, Garfield and Odie visit a beach that is in danger from a shark. Garfield's scheme to get pizza delivered from the shore lands the three in peril as the shark starts to eat their boat.
Garfield figures out that the shark was attacking because it was hungry, so they arrange to have the shark fed pizza whenever it's hungry. The episode's ending also reveal that the singing narrator of the story was the shark himself.
Garfield gets Jon a date with a famous woman. But there's more to this woman than meets the eye.
A new man, called Theodore Block, moves to the Garfield's neighbourhood. When Jon and Garfield try to say hello to the new neighbour, he pushes them away by just a simple reason: he hates cats.moreless
The classic Arabian Knights told is retold with Garfield and Jon as the heroes and a sultan who has the personality of Ray Jay Johnson.
A TV's repairer technician returns to his origins and decides to become in a pirate, as one on his ancestors. Then he attacks Jon, Odie and Garfield, who are in a "boat" which Jon boughts.moreless
Floyd's friend, Irwyn, wants to be a cat. So when Garfield honors Irwin honory feline, trouble starts to brew with Irwin the mouse/cat.
Jon is babysitting his preteen valley girl niece who sneaks out of the house. Garfield and Odie follow her into a mall where chaos ensues.
Garfield watches a secret TV Cat channel that explains that cats have to sit on something that humans are interested in and refuse to budge. Hearing this Garfield decides to sit on Jon's Spanish Book that he is studying.moreless
Tired of waiting for Garfield to give him a call, Floyd rents out his mouse hole to a Mouse who loves comedy.
In yet another musical episode, Penelope and Garfield get together for a date and Penelope tires of Garfield only wanting to eat all the time. She wanders off into multiple fantasy sequences in which Garfield is a daring adventure hero in the jungle, the wild west, and in a 1930s mystery. Garfield explains he can't be all these fantasy things she wants him to be, and she shouldn't expect him to because he doesn't expect her to be anything other than what she is.moreless
A supermodel pretends to be interested in Jon so she can have Garfield for herself.
Garfield's version of the tale "Puss-in-Boots"
A man tries to turn Garfield into a reformed cat.
Nermal notices a shooting star in the sky and she wishes that Garfield was like her. But the things don't result like she expected...
A cricket looking for work talks Garfield into letting him be his conscience after showing him the book "Pinocchio". However, Garfield's new-found conscience gets him into more trouble than he himself ever could.moreless
While dining at Mama's Restaurant where Penelope lives, Penelope asks Garfield if they may get married one day. Garfield runs away at the mention of marriage and both he and Penelope imagine what marriage would be like, with terrifying results laid in store for both of them.moreless
In an attempt to appease his girlfriend, Jon tries to get tickets to a sporting event where a huge gorilla called Boulder awaits his next challenger. But his letter gets mixed up with challengers and the producers of the show believe that he wants to fight with Boulder.moreless
In song, Garfield comes to pick Penelope up for a date; but Penelope is bored with Garfield just hanging around the restaurant eating lasagna, and falls for a hip rock and roller cat. Garfield decides he's going to have to liven up his own musical talents to win back Penelope's affection.moreless
After Jon applies yet another collar and tag to Odie, he goes off hiding expecting Garfield to seek him. In the process he gets lost and picked up by a girl whose overworking and often neglectful father won't allow her a puppy, and puts him in her doll carriage passing him off as a toy.moreless
Garfield tells the story of how he used to be famous.


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Skip to comments.Repeal the 17th Amendment! It made the Senate more democratic and thats not good
Posted on 03/01/2013 7:06:15 AM PST by SeekAndFind
In our grubby, unhelpful political lexicon, certain words exist solely to end conversations. The most prominent such word is "racist." Less popular, but by no means less potent, are "democracy" and "rights." When welded together as "democratic rights," the pair becomes all-powerful — strong enough to send grown men spinning for the exits and to render eloquent speakers mute.
For a good example of this principle in motion, witness the orthodox reaction to anyone who calls for the repeal of the 17th Amendment. (Direct election of senators, if you're wondering.) Removing this ugly violation from the Constitution it so corrupts is an idea that has long lingered on the fringe (there's another of those conversation-terminating words) and, until the massive expansion of federal power that marked the past decade and woke up the sleeping libertarians, it seemed destined to remain there in perpetuity. Even now, to declare in public that you think the whole of 1913 was one long, ghastly mistake is to be looked at as if you have just announced that the United States should consider restoring the British monarchy.
Providing what may be the Platonic ideal of such dismissals, Salon's Alex Seitz-Wald reacted to the renewed interest by declaring in 2012 that, because any increase of democracy was "unquestionably positive," any modifications were tantamount to "doing away with rights." America, "we're told from a young age, is all about democracy," Seitz-Wald wrote, "and democracy is all about choosing whom you want to be your representative and holding them accountable." This, he added, "seems like an entirely uncontroversial idea." I cannot account for Mr. Seitz-Wald's grasp of America's history, beyond saying that if he has indeed been told "from a young age" that America is "all about democracy," then he must be forgiven for believing it. Still, whatever his schools might have told him, the United States is not in fact a democracy but a constitutional republic, and her virtues lie as much in her undemocratic institutions as in her ample provisions for self-rule — more, perhaps.
Doubt it? Look around. Despite the violence that the 17th Amendment did to it, the Senate remains a partially anti-democratic institution; the Supreme Court is an entirely undemocratic institution; the Constitution is undemocratic, too, requiring for any changes to its structure the consent of a supermajority and containing the Bill of Rights, which is as elevated and explicitly counter-majoritarian a component of national law as you will find. The strong American protections of free speech, freedom of religion, the right to bear arms, due process, privacy, and the right to a jury trial are triumphs of minority rights. How about the absence of a state church? Not for nothing did Patrick Henry cry ardently for "liberty or death." It is liberty, not democracy, that is America's highest ideal.
Walter Lippmann famously observed that, at some point in their history, "the American people came to believe that their Constitution was a democratic instrument, and treated it as such." The New York Times' David Firestone appears to be one of these American people, arguing as he did in 2010 that "a modern appreciation of democracy" makes the idea of directly electing senators "so obvious" that any proposal of change is "unthinkable." Putting to one side for now the narrow procedural majoritarianism inherent in his definition, Firestone's thesis runs into two problems: America is not "modern" and it is not a "democracy." Perish the thought.
Instead, the American system was deliberately designed to balance power between the various branches of government and to guarantee individual rights against majority rule, thus protecting the people from tyranny whether they liked it or not. The United States government was arranged in this way as a permanent bulwark against federal encroachment. "Changing times" was no more a strong justification for the undoing of this system in 1913 than it is now. And whatever the Wilson-era progressives might have held, the federal government was not intended to be a wholly separated layer of government. Instead, it was to be intertwined with the states to such an extent that it could not ride roughshod over their interests without pushback. As James Madison resolved during the debate over the Bill of Rights:
The state legislatures will jealously and closely watch the operations of this Government, and be able to resist with more effect every assumption of power, than any other power on earth can do; and the greatest opponents to a Federal government admit the State Legislatures to be sure guardians of the people's liberty.
It is exactly here that America's democracy fetishists go wrong. As Madison makes clear in the Federalist Papers, in order to defend the vertical checks and balances that allow America's federal system to function, senators would be "elected absolutely and exclusively by state legislatures." The Senate was not intended to be the people's representative body, but that of the states. Lest the federal government "swallow up the state legislatures," George Mason insisted to his fellow convention delegates in Philadelphia, "let the state legislatures appoint the Senate." The delegates backed him unanimously.
It makes no more sense to argue that to return to this original arrangement would be to "take away" the "rights" of the people than it does to maintain that not being able to vote directly for Supreme Court justices violates their democracy. Everything has its place, and indulging popular sovereignty is simply not what the Senate was designed to do. One could sometimes be forgiven for thinking otherwise, but the states are not regional departments of the federal government. To ensure that they had a working mechanism by which to resist the expansion of federal power, the architects of our Constitution hard-wired the state legislatures into its structure; with the 17th Amendment, progressives pulled out that wiring like punch-drunk Jacobins.
Has there ever been a time when America was more in need of the states' being represented in Washington? "The People" have their representatives in the House. The nation has its leader in the White House. What of the states? Andrew Napolitano has it right: The 17th Amendment, he gripes, "effectively just gave us another house like the House of Representatives . . . and the states lost their place at the federal table." This is problematic because, to their great discredit, The People seem not greatly to care how power is structured. Who then is surprised that the abolition of the Senate as the supporting wall of federalism has led inexorably to, as Jefferson warned just before his death, "all government, domestic and foreign, in little as in great things," being "drawn to Washington as the center of all power"? Returning the selection of senators to state legislatures would help to focus citizens' eyes locally, where they belong.
"Democracy" may be the cry now. But as Alex Seitz-Wald goes on to acknowledge in his dissent, the primary argument in favor of the 17th Amendment was that it might serve to cut out corruption. Money was said to be rife in politics; direct elections would stamp it out. Lobbying by big business was staining the republic; direct elections would cut the buggers off at the knee. The small constituency that a senator served effectively gave him tenure; an amendment would make the body competitive. Bad behavior among senators was rife; the rigors of direct election would make them moral. And how are things now that the scalpel has been taken to Madison's handiwork? There is more money in politics than ever before; direct elections have served only to cut out the middleman between lobbyists and politicians; senators rarely lose their seats; and Ted Kennedy killed a woman and got away with it.
In a brilliant Humanitas essay from 1996, C. H. Hoebeke rendered this judgment:
In retrospect, the amendment failed to accomplish what was expected of it, and in most cases failed dismally. Exorbitant expenditures, alliances with well-financed lobby groups, and electioneering sleights-of-hand have continued to characterize Senate campaigns long after the constitutional nostrum was implemented. In fact, such tendencies have grown increasingly problematic.
Americans purchased this dismal failure at the cost of their federal system's integrity. Like the other two Progressive Era amendments that sit either side, the 17th is a testament to hubris — a parchment admonition of those who would tinker with the permanent in the name of the temporary. Nonetheless, it benefits those who would be required to amend it, which, alas, is a recipe for eternal life in Washington. Repeal is thus almost certainly a dead end; interest in such things is limited. And so the federal titan lumbers on, the states shrinking inexorably in stature. One cheer for democracy, Mr. Wilson.
— Charles C. W. Cooke is an editorial associate at National Review.
Elected Senators...the worst idea that the Founders never had.
This totally worthless part of government should be brought back to its original mandate or it should be abolished.
>>Elected Senators...the worst idea that the Founders never had.<<
It used to be (in Congress):
Executive - Presidency
House - People
Senate - States
A balance as the Founders wanted. When the accursed 17th Amendment was passed (the worst ever) we lost a large part of our freedom and the meaning of the "republic!"
Both bodies should have been combined into an advisory board that met separately from the People's House in the capital.
The Executive should have been chosen directly by the House on an annual basis.
Personally I would prefer electing them but eliminating the statewide popular vote crap. Elect them with an electoral type of system where they get a certain number of votes per district.
The worst effect of the 17th Amendment was removing the ability of the State legislature and/or the constituent Citizens, the People, to remove a Senator from office before the end of the six year term of office. This change and the virtual impossibiity for impeachment or censure of a Senator belonging to the majority party ahs made the senators virtually immune from accountability, especially if and when vote fraud rigs the elections.
The worst effect of the 17th Amendment was removing the ability of the State legislature and/or the constituent Citizens, the People, to remove a Senator from office before the end of the six year term of office. This change and the virtual impossibiity for impeachment or censure of a Senator belonging to the majority party ahs made the senators virtually immune from accountability, especially if and when vote fraud rigs the elections.
There will, of course, be insiders who don't get their piece of the power so they will gravitate to another party that also seeks 50%+1 votes ~ over time this will become THE SYSTEM and as the parties divide up the affiliated factions over minor issues, they will even begin to look like each other.
If you want to change America you create multi-member districts and you will move coalition politics into the Congress and the state legislatures. Within weeks you will have 50 to 1000 political parties.
If you reflect on what you said you are looking back nostalgically to the Federalist point of view ~ they imagined that if only men of property and education selected the officers of government everything would be just peachy ~ for them ~ forever.
Jefferson knocked that idea in the head and the Federalists faded from the political scene!.
Here in Michigan it means that Detroit and Flint elect Levincow for the rest of us.
In a democratic republic it is appropriate for the majoroty to have the right to be represened by someone who represents their interests, but it also appropriate for the minority to have the pwoer to limit their representaton to the constitutional authority and hold those representatives accountable for usurpations o fconstitutional authority. and inalienable rights. The current situation permits democratic representation, whenever vote fraud does no intervene; but what is absent since the 17th Amendment is the power to hold those representatives accountable for usurpations of constitutional authority and inalienable rights of the state government and the People reserved by the constitutions. There is also the lack of accountability and punishment of vote fraud and elections rigging.
The correct republican architecture of our governments would be if county boards of supervisors selected state senators, just as the States were to pick the US Senators. That way, if I had a good idea, I'd have a fairly direct line to the US Senate via my local County supervisor. This way of channeling information IMPROVES access to the highest levels, just as it does by respecting State sovereignty.
The grounds for the case? Article IV, Section. 4:
IMHO, we are at the point where a monarchy would be a definite improvement!
2 years ago I was trying to be open minded and started reading a book Larry Sabado wrote about constitutional reforms he personally thought made sense. When I read his plan for how to "fix" the "shortcomings" of 17A... and his "solution" was to have the senators still elected by popular vote... but expanded it by having more populous states being given more votes in the senate... for a "purer democracy" or whatever this alleged Constitutional Scholar wanted... I stopped reading... too the book to the door, and through it out in the yard. Total garbage. not worth the $3 I paid for it at Big Lots. Not worth anyone's time to read it, unless you want to see exactly how ignorant an "expert" can be... this guy should not be allowed to teach.
As James Madison posited a month before the Constitutional Convention:
"The great desideratum in Government is such a modification of the Sovereignty as will render it sufficiently neutral between the different interests and factions, to control one part of the Society from invading the rights of another, and at the same time sufficiently controlled itself, from setting up an interest adverse to that of the whole Society."
Senators had 6-year terms even before the 17th Amendment. Once the state legislature elected a Senator, they had no power to remove him before his 6-year term was up.
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Slow News Day: Kremlin Edition- Could IK Come Back to NHL?
lilgriffey84 replied to RunninWithTheDevil's topic in Hellwelp...... http://www.tsn.ca/video/insider-trad...e-nhl-1.238697 Pierre LeBrun: "There is a conflicting provision in the CBA, which is decades old, the voluntary retirement provision, which says this: if he goes back to the last team he ever played with, that, perhaps, he doesn't need the other 29 teams to sign off on it, and that would be the New Jersey Devils." 8.4 says: "The Club on whose VRL a player's name has been registered may transfer his name back on its Reserve List at any time after the expiry of one year from the date of registration on the VRL by filing any currently valid contract" 8.5(a) states: A player whose name has been entered on the VRL by a Member Club at his request, or by direction of the Commissioner under Section 8.2 hereof, may not re-enter organized hockey, professional or amateur, as a player for a period of three years from the date of such entry without written consent of the Member Club making such entry.
Kovalchuk Retired Effective Immediately?
lilgriffey84 replied to GoArmySports's topic in HellIts all in the legs, Ovechkin looks like a slob without a shirt on also
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lilgriffey84 replied to msweet's topic in HellPeople fail to realize that LA shares a hockey market with 2 other nhl teams. Where as Chicago has its own market that spreads throught all of Illinois most of Wisconsin,Indianna and Iowa
So Apparently The Rumor Is Kovy Could Be Coming Back
lilgriffey84 replied to TheMazz's topic in HellRealistically He would only have to sit out until march correct? since his last playoff game was around march. He just had knee surgery, Depending on how the knee feels he could simply just continue and rehab the knee until march and come back?
Jagr Signs 1 Year Deal With Devils
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lilgriffey84 replied to Coorslight's topic in HellI think it only applies if someone gets an instigator penalty
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lilgriffey84 replied to SterioDesign's topic in HellTrade deadline is around the first week of april according to lebrun and free agency will start a week later i believe
Lockout 2012-2013 (Hockey's back!)
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To me if the devils play the game the way they have for the last three games there is nothong philly can do about it. It seems by the post game interviews that the flyers really have no answer to what the devils are doing. Look completely lost. This devils is a confident group right now. I do not see a let down in game 5. Just keep doing what they are doing
http://ca.sports.yahoo.com/news/claude-giroux-philadelphias-leading-scorer-suspended-game-5-192731202--nhl.html;_ylt=ApBxxJ7Uq36H_6E0a49OB2l7vLYF dont know how much of it is true. Giroux was heard to have said the team is panicking and lost confidence.......Time for the devils to finish this off
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lilgriffey84 replied to NJCroMag's topic in HellLets go devils......although cant promise how much I will be watching as I am a Titans fan and I am glued to the computer screen waiting for the latest peyton manning info......Its like Kovy all over
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had the worst dream........Had a dream we traded Kovy good thing it was a dream
had the worst dream........Had a dream we traded Kovy good thing it was a dream


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WW II took most of the great players into the service, be it for three years (Joe DiMaggio, Ted Williams) or one (Stan Musial). In their place, some players had great years because of the lack of talent that was left. Nick Etten (led AL in HR 1944, RBI 1945) and George "Snuffy" Stirnweiss were two of the Yankees stars in that time of the mid-1940s when Yankees like DiMaggio, Phil Rizzuto, Tommy Henrich, Charlie Keller and Red Ruffing spent all or most of the season in military service.
Snuffy Stirnweiss was a 2B, SS and 3B who was born in New York and attended high school at Fordham Prep in the Bronx. He was a true homegrown player. The righty-hitting Stirnweiss went to the University of North Carolina, where he was an All-American halfback who was drafted by the Chicago (later St. Louis, now Arizona) Cardinals. Stirnweiss chose baseball, however.
Stirnweiss made it to the majors in 1943, as WWII was raging. He wore #2 in 1943 and 1944 before switching to #1 in 1945. He only hit .219, with 1 HR and 25 RBI for the 1943 World Champion Yankees, playing in 83 games. He stole 11 bases while posting an OPS+ of 82. He went 0 for 1 in the WS.
1944 and 1945 saw a great depletion of talent from the majors as the war raged on. In 1945, the St. Louis Browns had an outfielder named Pete Gray (born Peter Wyshner in the coal mining area of Nanticoke, PA). Gray had only one arm and had to play much like Jim Abbott would years later. 1944 NL MVP Marty Marion, who passed away recently, won that MVP despite hitting just .267. Meanwhile, Stirnweiss flourished in these two war years. Gastric ulcers and hay fever exempted Stirnweiss from military service, along with the fact he supported his mom and sister.
In 1944, Stirnweiss became the Yankees second baseman because Joe Gordon was in the service. Stirnweiss finished 4th in the MVP voting that year. He hit .319, with 8 HR and 43 RBI. He led the majors in plate appearances, runs scored (125), hits (205) and SB (55). His 16 triples led the AL, and he had an excellent OPS+ of 138.
In 1945, Stirnweiss won the batting title, hitting .309. It would be the lowest average for a batting champion until Carl Yastrzemski hit .301 in 1968, the "Year of the Pitcher." Stirnweiss finished 3rd in the MVP voting. He led the AL in plate appearances, at bats, runs scored (107), hits (195), Slugging Average, OPS, OPS+ (144) and total bases. He led the majors in triples (22), SB (33) and CS (17). He had 10 HR and 64 RBI.
Stirnweiss was an All-Star for the only time in his career in 1946 (there was no All-Star game in 1945 due to wartime travel restrictions). The return of Gordon from military service forced Stirnweiss into a utility role, and Stirnweiss' numbers declined now that the competition was better. He hit .251 with no homers and 37 RBI. He stole 18 bases. His OPS+ dropped to an 84.
Stirnweiss got his 2nd WS Championship ring in 1947, as he hit .256-5-41 for the Yankees. Gordon was gone, traded for Allie Reynolds, so "Snuffy" got his second base job back. He stole just 5 bases, and the OPS+ was 96. He was 7 for 27 with a triple and 3 RBI in the Series.
Stirnweiss hit .252-3-32 in 1948. 5 SB and an OPS+ of 86. In 1949, he lost his second base job to Jerry Coleman. As a backup, Stirnweiss won his 3rd and last ring with the Yankees, hitting .261-0-11 with 3 SB. OPS+ 90. He got into one game in the Series but had no at bats.
Stirnweiss went 7 for 28 in three WS, with 3 RBI. He played on three pennant winners and all three won the World Series.
In 1950, Stirnweiss started with the Yanks, but only played in seven games for them. Coleman was still there, and Billy Martin had arrived. This made Stirnweiss expendable. He was traded to the St. Louis Browns. Overall, Stirnweiss hit just .216 with 1 HR and 24 RBI. OPS+ 54, 3 SB.
He finished his career with the Indians. In 1951, Stirnweiss hit .216-1-4, OPS+ 77. He got into just one game in 1952.
Stirnweiss ended his career with a .268 batting average, helped by the two war years. He hit 29 HR and had an OPS+ of 102. He stole 134 bases.
In 1956, Phil Rizzuto was released by the Yankees on Old-Timer's day in a heartless fashion. It was Stirnweiss who advised the shaken "Scooter" to stay quiet and who took him home. Stirnweiss' compassion and consolation enabled the "Scooter" not to say anything rash and burn any bridges. Therefore Rizzuto could return to the organization later as a broadcaster for four decades. Rizzuto later said that following Stirnweiss' advice was the best move he ever made.
Stirnweiss managed in Schenectady and Binghamton after his career ended. He later went into banking and later the foreign freight business.
The Snuffy Stirnweiss story ended tragically, however. In June of 1957, he suffered a heart attack. He was just 38 at the time. On September 15, 1958, Stirnweiss, just 39, was a passenger upon a train that plunged off the CRRNJ Newark Bay Bridge between Elizabethport and Bayonne, NJ.
From Hardball Times:
For reasons never entirely understood—the prevailing theory was that the engineer passed out, probably due to a coronary of his own—the train failed to heed three separate warning signals that the bridge span was raised.
The train then hit a derailing device, designed to knock it off the tracks and stop it, to prevent it from proceeding into the chasm. But this train was traveling at such velocity that despite having been derailed, both of the train's diesel locomotives and its first two coaches plunged headlong into the bay, and immediately sank. A third coach snagged at the edge and hung precariously at an 80-degree angle as emergency crews desperately tried to rescue its passengers. After two hours, when it was apparent that every surviving occupant had either jumped out or climbed out and no one left inside was still alive, the coach was cut loose with blow torches and fell into the murky water 40 feet below.
48 were killed, one of them being Stirnweiss, who was in one of the first two coaches. He left behind his wife and six children, their ages ranging from 17 months to 15 years old. Among those present at his funeral were Rizzuto, Coleman, Joe Collins, and Frank "Specs" Shea.


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Being a vegetarian occasionally presents difficulties and I try to overcome these wherever possible, without making a fuss. The biggest challenge would be a lack of or minimal vegetarian options offered at some dining venues.
One of my expectations when eating out is to not be made to feel different. I want to blend in with the rest of the diners and concentrate on enjoying the meal, with the only distinction being what's on my plate.
With no New Year's Eve plans due to a bicycle drama (that's a story for another day) I jumped at the chance to join a group of friends who were having a degustation dinner at Bishop Sessa, formerly Crown Street Assembly, in Surry Hills.
The restaurant promoted the degustation on social media so after receiving confirmation from them that they could accommodate a vegetarian, I happily joined 11 other food lovers to deliciously ring in the new year over seven courses.
A long table upstairs by the window was reserved for us and we were the first to arrive. The hardwood floors, wooden furniture and high ceilings created a very loud environment – the combination of chattering guests, 80's background music and cutlery clinking on crockery produced so much noise that it was difficult to hear the conversations at the table. This was most noticeable when returning to the dining area after visiting the bathroom. Sitting for a few hours on a hard wooden chair wasn't overly friendly on the b-hind.
There was some initial confusion between the wait staff as to how many courses I would be having. Unfortunately some of my dishes were served at different times so for some courses, I wasn't eating with the rest of the table. It can be a tad embarrassing when your dining pals ask you where your food is.
A couple of my courses were also served as additional sharing plates for the rest of the group. This meant my dining companions had much more than me, yet we were paying the same price.
I don't want to sound like a Debbie Downer as the food was quite good!
- Beetroot salad with smoked goats cheese and caramalised walnuts (my favourite)
- Mushroom and shallot dumplings
- Eggplant and Dutch carrots with chilli jam and orange marmalade (this was too hot for me)
- Pearl barley and sweet potato risotto
- Vegetarian tart with onion and zucchini
- Dessert plate – Italian meringue with strawberries, choc-caramel tart, coffee-choc mousse
Yes, you counted right. I only had six courses – not seven as advertised or nine as received by the rest of the table. I did feel a bit like I had missed out, especially hearing how much everyone else enjoyed their meal. You will be pleased to know that afterwards one of my fellow diners had a chat with the staff and they offered me a rebate on my meal. Thank you!
To be fair, it was New Year's Eve and the restaurant appeared to be fully booked so they were flat out. And perhaps I should have double checked with the restaurant as to how they were going to accommodate to help eliminate any confusion on the night.
As for the noise – I hear they may be installing carpet which I expect would alter the acoustics and absorb some of the sound.
For me it's a lesson to speak up as people can only make improvements when they know what needs to be fixed!


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I've been such a slacker on drawing lately, sorry… I've been working on Foodwhirl (Go check it out..)!
For Illustration Friday today (yeah, I know it's actually Sunday), I decided to work on a logo design for a friend's organic food business. She's a very focused person, and I thought this illo had a very focused look to it! Here's the design, and also, the steps I did to come up with it! … [ KEEP READING ]


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Of all the phones I've owned this is the one I'm the most excited about. Mine shipped on Friday, and the girl in receiving is already sick of me checking to see if it has arrived.
Feeding trolls, one post at a time.
Woot! Finally got one. Looks like the new stocks are arriving.
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Tag: November 22nd
Creative Marketing Posters For "Hunger Games: Catching Fire"
dwedic • August 14, 2013
Lionsgate is getting pretty creative with their marketing campaign for THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE. Featured below are two faux posters for Capitol Couture perfume and eyewear, presumably a plot point in the forthcoming sequel. The Francis Lawrence-directed sequel hits theaters November 22nd. Synopsis: "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire continues the story of Katniss Everdeen and the […]


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When Melanie Hunter goes missing it is completely out of character for the polite, friendly palaeontologist, and the men in her life come under suspicion. And there's plenty to suspect: lies, half-truths, deceptions.… Seems that when you pull one thread, the whole fabric of family life can come apart. It soon becomes clear that there are secrets in Melanie's past, and pain she tried to hide from the world.
Bill Slider and his team investigate, and if they are to succeed then they will need to find the answer to two questions: Who loved Melanie? And who loved her too much?
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PERCEPS is the Perl C++ Surveyor, created by Mark Peskin and currently maintained by Tom Bryan. It is an automatic documentation generator for C++. PERCEPS is a Perl script designed to parse C/C++ header files and automatically generate documentation in a variety of formats based on the class definitions, declarations, and comment information found in those files. Using this tool allows programmers to comment their code and generate useful documentation at the same time with no extra effort. PERCEPS can be useful both as a documentation tool and a simple but effective collaboration tool for both C and C++ projects.
Unlike some other documentation generation systems, PERCEPS does not produce a fixed output format. Instead it uses "template" files, plugin filters, and user-defined variables that can be freely modified to produce an almost unlimited variety of output. The example template files included with the distribution produce html pages, but TeX, RTF, man page, plain text or other formats are also possible.
I'm still getting this site set up. Excuse the mess. Everything should be up and functioning by the end of the week. Here's what I have planned:
I have made PERCEPS version 3.5.0 available. It is the last version that Mark Peskin was about to release when I took over the code. I haven't played with it much, but Mark said that it's as stable as 3.4.1. I thik it includes some bug fixes and improved support for nested classes. You'll have to poke around yourselves. :)
The PERCEPS code has a new maintainer. Mark Peskin, the original creator of PERCEPS, transferred maintenance of the code to Tom Bryan on June 20, 1999. Mark wanted to see PERCEPS improved and actively maintained, but he no longer had enough time to work on it.
Since a few of your have already asked (in the 24 hours since Mark changed his website), Mark forwarded me about 50 e-mail messages that people had sent him. If you sent Mark a message (bug report, feature request, etc.), then I may already have it. Please give me a week or two to sort through the mail before resending me your message.
I plan some major changes to the code. I'm currently restructuring the PERCEPS code to make maintenance easier and to make custom user modifications simpler. As soon as I'm done with that, I'll begin releasing new revisions of the code. The most urgently needed addition (based on user feedback) is support for namespaces, and that will be my priority in the new releases.
I'd also like to collect a larger sample of template file for PERCEPS users. I don't want to overwhelm new users with thousands of template files, but if you have created a template file that produces output in a formatting language not already represented, or if you have a template file that you think has some unique features, please e-mail me at this account. My ID at python.net is tbryan. I will start putting together a collection for others to download if they're stumped about how to create a template. Similarly, if you've implemented any custom filters that you'd like to share, please send them to me. For example, has anyone customized PERCEPS to document C++ code that uses Qt?
I am also working on another program documentation project. This project was inspired by PERCEPS, but it is being written from scratch in Python. We are writing it with the hope of eventually making a general framework for generating documentation for a computer program from text embedded in the program's comments. If we ever realize this goal, you will be able to generate documention for programs written in computer languages other than C/C++ in a manner similar to that provided by PERCEPS. I hope that all PERCEPS users will try this new program when we have a beta ready later this year.


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Artist Call Detail2017 Fog Fest Photography Contest
For SF Bay Area artists
Get ready now to enter your photos in the 2017 Fog Fest Photography Contest, coordinated by Sanchez Art Center in partnership with the Pacifica Chamber of Commerce.
Four divisions provide you the opportunity to select an area that best fits your photographic interest and style. The divisions are: 1) Special Theme: City of Pacifica's 60th Birthday!; 2) Our Natural Environment (land, sea, and air); 3) Flora & Fauna (all creatures, including human!); and 4) Black & White.
Acclaimed Pacifica photographers Alan Grinberg, Edwin Hacking, and Sharron Walker are serving as this year's judges. All have spent years traveling our Bay Area environs and around the world in search of the perfect shot.
Entries will be accepted between Monday, September 4, and Sunday, September 17, at two locations: Sanchez Art Center, 1220 Linda Mar Boulevard, (Sun.–Sat., 1–5pm) or Pacifica Chamber of Commerce office in Rockaway Beach, 225 Rockaway Beach Avenue, Suite 1 (Mon.–Fri., 10am–5pm). Each entrant must submit a Pacific Coast Fog Fest Photo Contest Entry Form and $10 fee (total for up to two entries regardless of division). There are no eligibility restrictions as to residency, geographic content, or contestant age. Photos must be framed and wired according to entry instructions.
All photos will be exhibited at the Pacific Coast Fog Fest Art Corner, a favorite spot to stop and "ooh and ahhh" over what inspires San Francisco Bay Area photographers, Sat.–Sun., Sept. 24–25. Cash awards will be presented to first ($100), second ($50), and third place ($25) winners in each division on Sunday at the Fog Fest, and an award certificate will be presented for Judges' Best of Show. All award winners will be invited to participate in a group show to take place in the East Gallery at Sanchez Art Center, in late spring/early summer 2018.
For additional information contact Sanchez Art Center at 355.1894, Mon.–Fri., 1–5pm, or email email@example.com. Entry forms and contest guidelines can be obtained from Sanchez Art Center (in person, or on the Call for Entries page at www.sanchezartcenter.org), the Chamber of Commerce office, or the Pacific Coast Fog Fest website: www.pacificcoastfogfest.com.
Deadline: 09-17-2017
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Preview Freedom Highway by Rhiannon Giddens.
Freedom Highway by Rhiannon Giddens
Rhiannon Giddens with her second solo release of Freedom Highway may just be about on the brink of popular stardom. Whist coveted and respected in many circles, at the age of 40 she has worked hard for this moment and it is a fitting achievement for a Folk Roots practitioner (and sometime TV actress) who has eventually been rewarded with her talent coming to the attention of a greater audience. She is a Grammy winner, with the Carolina Chocolate Drops, and a Nominee, yet again, for Album of the Year of The Americana Music Association. This time the competition may be looking sideways at her as the favourite.
Reviving, interpreting, and recasting traditional material from a variety of sources has been central to Giddens' career, yet on this release she has written or co-written nine of the 12 tracks.
With "At The Purchaser's Option" we start the album with the simple but insistent drum, bass and banjo rhythm whilst Giddens sings, the defiant but harrowing tale of a young female slave where the option remains for her baby to be taken from her and sold should the buyer prefer. Immediately the voice pure, mellifluous, and hinting at power, grabs you.
"Julie" continues with banjo and fiddle and sings a narrative between a slave and her mistress shortly before Union soldiers come to her plantation – it highlights the conflict a captive can feel for her captor. Changing centuries Giddens takes us to the Civil Rights movement and the murder of four people in a Baptist church in Alabama. On the Richard Fariña composition, made popular by Joan Baez (not a dissimilar voice and delivery), a choir gives "Birmingham Sunday" the sombre emotion it demands.
Still within these depths Giddens switches genres and we have a soulful "Better Get It Right The First Time" with a Justin Harrington rap telling the story of a Black youth who loses his life after falling in with the wrong crowd – a story that suggests that this is the fate of many Black youths.
I swear you can hear her smiling as she sings!
"Hey Bébé" at last releases us from the seriousness of her message and she sways along with a jazz trombone solo on this lilting upbeat love song. I swear you can hear her smiling as she sings! "The Love We Almost Had" has a lyric of unrequited love with a song that may fit into a jazz genre, if anywhere, as we have a trumpet solo throughout driven by a delicious double bass.
Eventually the album comes to rest with the "Pops" Staples' "Freedom Road". It is a duet with Bhi Bhiman, that might elegantly pull together the album's journey of taking you through the history of many African Americans over the centuries and the need not to be deflected on their path to justice.
It is a fine piece of music that amply demonstrates her voice and interpretation of several styles.
In a collection of songs mainly about the vicissitudes African Americans have suffered during their history, you can be slightly blinded by the story and overlook the fact that this album is being talked about not because of its protest dialogue, post Trump, but because it is a fine piece of music that amply demonstrates her voice and interpretation of several styles. This is why people will stream, download or buy it. For me it was the personality and beautiful and interpretive voice that pours out of every song. That heartening warmth draws you in and from here; maybe, Rhiannon imparts the history lesson you've been recruited to hear.


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At 18:36 +0000 2/21/06, Dave Reynolds wrote: >Jim Hendler wrote: > >> At 10:00 +0000 2/21/06, Dave Reynolds wrote: > >> >Now the WG could decide that this desire for a side-effect is in >>conflict with the main goal, that the group should only be about >>rule exchange and have no regard to the possibility of a semantic >>web rule language. That would be just fine and would simplify my >>life considerably. >> > >> I don't understand, the notion of a Sem Web rule language is okay >>with me, but that isn't the same as what you said above > >In that case I'm either not being clear (as usual) or >mis-understanding what you mean by sem web rule language or, >probably, both. > >I'm not sure I see the difference between what I'm asking for and >the first use case in section 1.1 of the WG charter. I read use case 1.1 of the Charter to be primarily concerned with using rules to map between schemas for different DBs (which I assume would be expressed in RDFS or OWL) - I may have read too much into it. > >> I was primarily using "web rule" to mean a syntactic standard for >>representing rules in one of the major Web languages and >>explicitly grounded in URI space - I generally use "Web ?x" to mean >>?x being webized as in [1] > >So a rule language, with an XML serialization, in which all >predicate symbols were URIs, which runs over data expressed in RDF >(so variables get bound to RDF resources) and which can conclude RDF >statements ... would that automatically be classifiable as a "web >rule" language or would there need to be some deeper webization to >qualify? I'd count that (and, in fact, at one point in the pre-history of this WG had argued that it might be better to get something like that out first and worry about these semantic things after). That doesn't mean it would be my first choice at this point, but if the WG decided that the best way to address the charter was by creating something like that I wouldn't see that we had been unresponsive to the charter. That said, you know quite well that I'm a big RDF fan, put a lot of my own skin in the game to make sure OWL lived in the RDF world, and think it would be foolish if we didn't at least have an RDF compatible syntax for the rules (for example, a mapping via GRDDL from an XML schema would be something I'd consider worth exploring if the WG was going in that direction) -- Professor James Hendler Director Joint Institute for Knowledge Discovery 301-405-2696 UMIACS, Univ of Maryland 301-314-9734 (Fax) College Park, MD 20742 http://www.cs.umd.edu/~hendler Web Log: http://www.mindswap.org/blog/author/hendlerReceived on Wednesday, 22 February 2006 16:45:43 UTC
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Embracing Each Other
Size: 18.5″h x 12″w x 6″d
Available in: Bronze, Cold cast bronze, Cold cast marble
Inspired by the following poetic verse: "We are all like angels with only one wing, and the only way we can fly is by embracing each other." Luciano De Crescenzo
This engaging sculpture is a perfect epitome of the verse that inspired Delesprie. Caught in-flight, the loving couple depict a connectedness that goes beyond the corporal. The male has his face turned in the direction of their journey. His attitude and stance reflect understanding that he was created with physical strength to protect his mate, which he demonstrates by a protective arm encircling the waist of his beloved. She, with arms clasped over her heart, nestles her head against her mate secure in his loving embrace, yet respectful of the differences between them.
As in any intimate relationship, it takes two joining together with one mind and purpose. Each brings unique qualities the other desperately needs. Delesprie sculpted each partner's wing proportionate to his or her physical dimension. The male's is larger but he would remain unable to fly were it not for the wing of the female, which is more delicate in appearance and strength. Her assistance is required to ensure forward movement.
"Embracing Each Other" is mounted on a granite base and includes a plaque, cast with the above referenced poem.
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Birdlife of Houston, Galveston, and the Upper Texas Coast
Publication Year: 2006
Published by: Texas A&M University Press
Series: Gulf Coast Books Series
Title Page, Copyright
At the age of eight, when I became interested in birds and nature, I was living near downtown Houston. I soon met consummate naturalists such as Joe Heiser and Armand Yramategui. They became my mentors. Over the next thirty years I spent many happy days in the field on the Upper Texas Coast, and I have ...
Birders have access to many excellent field guides that assist with bird identification. Because of their broad audience and short species accounts, such guides are generally limited to a few illustrations, identification tips, and brief statements concerning the bird's biology and range. As most birders' interests ...
Ted Eubanks would like to thank his parents,Ted and Mary, for providing the spark, and his wife, Virginia, for allowing the spark to glow for so many years. Bob Behrstock is grateful to his parents Jerome and Salli for encouraging his natural history pursuits from early childhood. He also recognizes Ben and...
John James Audubon, the fountainhead from whom so much of America's ornithological knowledge flows, visited the Upper Texas Coast (UTC) in 1837. A fledgling republic but a year old, Texas seduced Audubon not only with its promise of wildlife yet unnamed (he did find a new species of rattlesnake) but ...
Geology, Climate, and Habitats
The Upper Texas Coast exists as a discrete entity only in a geopolitical sense, extending from the Sabine River at the Texas-Louisiana border south to the western edge of Brazoria County. As we define it, the region comprises seven counties: Jefferson, Chambers, Galveston, Harris, Waller, Brazoria, and Fort Bend. The ...
Because of the UTC's geological heritage, it lacks many substrate types and elevational features that are known for their special bird assemblages - there are no talus slopes, mesas, volcanic islands, on- or off-shore nesting cliffs, brushy slopes, or rain-shadow deserts. The UTC's latitude precludes rain forest, tundra, ...
Nesting and Migration
The eradication of bottomland hardwood forests has doubtless diminished the breeding populations of many Neotropical migrants. Deep forest birds such as Wood Thrush, Red-eyed Vireo, Hooded Warbler, and Summer Tanager have declined in numbers proportionate to the loss of mature bottomland forests....
Exotic and Detrimental Species
A factor in the decrease of locally nesting Neotropical birds is the introduction of exotic species. Such birds compete for resources such as food and nest sites and may spread avian diseases. The well-known European Starling has effectively displaced many native cavity-nesting birds. In much of the country, starlings ...
Hazards for Birds
The greatest negative influence upon the UTC's native ecology has been explosive human population growth that began in the mid-1800s. Table 6 dramatically illustrates population change that occurred on the UTC during a single century. ...
Format of the Species Accounts
Common and scientific names and the order of the species accounts conform to the seventh edition of the A.O.U. Check-list of North American Birds (American Ornithologists' Union 1998) and recent supplements (Banks et al.2002,2004). One exception is the White-chinned Petrel, which occurs in the main body ...
Abbreviations Used in the Text [Contains Color Plates]
Species Accounts
Forty-two species of ducks, geese, and swans have occurred on the UTC's many marine and aquatic habitats, ranking these birds as one of the region's best-represented groups. Although waterfowl are diverse and plentiful during much of the year, only a few are permanent residents. The balance visit from the prairie ...
Appendix 1. Birding and Environmental Organizations on the Upper Texas Coast
Appendix 2. Plants Mentioned in the Text
Print-ISBN-13: 9781585445103
Print-ISBN-10: 158544510X
Page Count: 328
Illustrations: 50 color, 1 b&w photos. 3 maps. 16 tables. Bib. Index.
Publication Year: 2006
Series Title: Gulf Coast Books Series
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bill-swift - August 25, 2012
Breaking Bad parodies are the best kind of parodies. And it looks like we have a new king of the pile with this 1990s era Menthos commercial they created with footage from this season. It makes me want to go out and start smoking meth right now, so long as it gives me long lasting, fresh breath.


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I'll be taking this coming week off, spending it with family for our kids' winter break. I plan to stay online, but not post very much. Happy searching.
I'll be taking this coming week off, spending it with family for our kids' winter break. I plan to stay online, but not post very much. Happy searching.
enjoy the week off. We'll be missing you!
Cheers, Alexander
Have a nice week, in the while I'll reading your book
Now that i'm blogging more regularly – I can see where it's good to take a brake from it. Enjoy your time off.
btw, while John is away, Marshall's stuff on web analytics is worth a read (and a feed!) http://www.webmetricsguru.com/
Have a good one!
I think the Accelerating Search in Academic Research program from MSN/Microsoft Live Labs is interesting and has little coverage.
John: Enjoyed very much your presentation at the FAST mtg in Miami. Your comment about all Yellow page sites "look like made by the same company" is right on.
My company is using a new relevancy approach which steers user to the "right answer". Research proves right answer within two or three easy steps. Takes user to the "transaction" quickly. Up March 1.
You and michael arrington going on vacatio?. Come on.
Everyone needs to take a break every now again. What better way to do that than spending time with family?
Enjoy your time off, but don't forget about us. We'll be waiting for your speedy return.
Hi, my name is maria Zuppello and I'm the first Italian reporter getting alone, with a small digital camera, without a crew to Antarctica.
I'm writing from New York where I'm working on a documentary about bioweapons with Danny Schechter. Former CNN and CBS producer Danny won 2 Emmy Awards and he's famous all around the world to be "the news dissector": every day he criticizes the American Media System.
I have been creating a blog about my experience with him
and he has his own blog
You can write in Italian as well as in English and Spanish
Keep in touch!
Hi John,
I get the sense that you and many of your readers may travel internationally, so I wanted to share with you a new online air travel search engine that is offering a different way to find inexpensive international flights. We're in beta right now and would love your feedback.
The company is called cFares, http://www.cfares.com. By using a new continuous search capability called "cAgent," the online site is offering its users huge savings in cost and in search time.
If you're planning a trip soon, either international or domestic, give it a look. And, please don't hesitate to contact me if you have questions. I've also created an account if you or your readers want to try it out. The login name is firstname.lastname@example.com, password is cheapflights.
Sue Ellen
I think the real reason you're taking a break is that you checked the new Google horoscope widget, and realized that it was time to spend more time with loved ones:
(See the widget done by Adam S., of Google, Inc. Not Adam S., on his own free time. But Adam S., of Google. So much for that "no chat, no horoscopes" philosophy…)
But all kidding aside.. enjoy your break.
Enjoy your time off. It is well deserved and I hope you come back with some Deep Thoughts to share.
I hope you and your family are enjoying the vacation. I wanted to forward this link about MSN dropping it's contract with Yahoo! next month. I'll be sure to pass along any updates.
Don't fail to report your take on David and Doug's Mashup Camp in Mountain View. I'm still digesting the experience but I believe it was some sort of web milestone. It was certainly the most energetic and innovative conference I've ever attended.
This would be a perfect time to take advantage of a free Audio Blog service like Odeo.com…
What a better way to demonstate Web 2.0
Imagine, creating an audio blog and linking to it from your Blog, so that you can still "post" even in those hectic periods of your life….
Think abou it…
Will you be at SES NYC?
What do you think about Both Google and Microsoft offering free Hosting in the same week?
vacation? Man…they should close the Net for a week until you return.
Have nice holidays and be recovered back
Anyone know (guess) the fate of TripleHop since its acquisition by ORACLE?


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Vinamo, a wine bar with small plates, to open in Whitefish Bay in August
When Rosemarie Niles opened a frozen yogurt shop with her husband in DeLand, Fla., last year, she soon discovered the tapas place across the street and the wine bar next door. Now she's combining the concept of both in Vinamo, a wine bar and small-plates restaurant at 402 E. Silver Spring Drive in Whitefish Bay.
Vinamo is expected to open in August.
"I love wine, I love small-plate dining, too," Niles said. "It makes the whole dining experience more enjoyable" because it encourages guests to share, linger and talk about food.
The restaurant would serve soups, salads and sandwiches at lunch, small plates at night and brunch on the weekends. Niles said she's planning to offer dishes that would appeal to diners who are health conscious "without scaring away people who aren't." Vinamo would use ingredients such as free-range chicken and grass-fed beef, and incorporate organic ingredients such as greens when possible, she said.
Niles, whose parents owned the former Sardi's Italian restaurant in Mequon, said menu will have European dishes in general, and a number of Italian dishes.
The restaurant will have a full bar, with spirits and craft beers, but the focus will be on wine.
Once the remodeling of the space, a former barbershop, is completed, the restaurant will seat around 60 inside and about another two dozen outside.
Vinamo is one of several new restaurants in Whitefish Bay. The Bay recently opened at 342 E. Silver Spring, and Roman Candle Pizzeria will open its first restaurant outside the Madison area at 133 E. Silver Spring in the fall.
- Chef Jason Tofte to open second restaurant in downtown Waukesha
- Harry's on Brady debuts on Thursday with lunch and dinner
- In the Third Ward, Rustico will close in July to make way for sports bar Rivalry
- Red Light Ramen is getting its own space next door to Ardent
- Colectivo to open a cafe in Chicago
- Lunch starts Monday at Meraki, along with all-day service industry happy hour
- Weissgerber's Gasthaus is closing next weekend
- In happy hour news: late night at Lazy Susan, chefs' burgers at Merriment Social
- Harry's on Brady to open next week
- A full menu is on tap at Good City Brewing, opening Friday
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Coal dust particles fill the air and noise pollution is on the rise.Despite health concerns raised by local residents, coal companies are charging ahead to make annual exports even bigger. The port of Newcastle is already exporting 165 million tonnes of coal per annum, yet the proposed "T4" Kooragang Island coal terminal could see exports skyrocket.With coal mines creeping nearer to rural villages, health impacts are coming closer too.The effects of coal dust are well known to residents of the Hunter Valley, where there are several towns that are bordered on two or three sides by open-cut mines. The NSW Department of Health itself wrote a submission opposing the South East Open Cut because of the effect it was likely to have on the residents of the village of Camberwell.This is why local communities from across the Hunter region are organising and speaking out against T4 and new mine proposals for the health of their children and the future of rural industries.Even if you make just a short visit to Newcastle, you'll see local residents hard at work building support for the movement to stop T4. Local groups have been door-knocking in the affected areas, billboards and newspaper advertisements have been placed, corflutes adorn street light poles, and letters flood local newspapers opposing the new coal terminal and calling for proper Government oversight of the coal industry's plans.Their main concern is that severe health risks have been overlooked in the Government assessment processes. Residents groups, environment organisations and concerned local citizens have pulled together under the banner of the Coal Terminal Action Group to fund and analyse pollution monitoring equipment and analyse the collected data. The results were released last week, and were startling: even without a new coal terminal, levels of dangerous particulate pollution in the suburbs near the coal terminal are higher than the national standard. Particulate pollution is often enough to penetrate deep into the lungs, causing serious health problems, especially for adults with existing heart and lung diseases.
The Hunter region has come a long way since the last time the Rainbow Warrior visited in 2005. When it returns on 26-28 March 2013, it will be greeted by hundreds of people actively defending their communities against the damage inflicted by coal.Ahead of the Warrior's visit, there will be a rally in Newcastle against the coal terminal on 16 March. Join people from Sydney, the Liverpool Plains, the Hunter Valley and the mid-north coast in Newcastle marching against the T4 coal terminal from 10am on 16 March 2013.
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First, a warning. I am going to have a photo or two in this post which probably is Safe For Work, but I don't 100% guarantee it. And I don't know if you are going to like it or not. But damn it, I was there, and I will share with you the sights I have seen, whether you like it or not. "Enjoy."
Tonight was a strange night for Fort Worth hockey for two reasons. First, it was Star Wars Night. We will get to that in a moment. The other reason it was strange was that the game was played at the old home of the Brahmas, the Fort Worth Convention Center.
The Fort Worth Brahmas used to play at the FWCC until the 2006-07 season, when they couldn't work out a lease agreement with the Convention Center. They suspended operations for the next season, and came back in the 2008-09 season as the Texas Brahmas, playing at a rink in the suburbs that isn't much more than a rec rink with more seating.
The first Brahmas game I went to was in the 2005-06 season at the FWCC, and I've seen one at their new home. The Convention Center is a bit big for the Brahmas, but the new location, the NYNEX Sports Center is too small. The Brahmas are popular. They are very popular for a minor league team, in a way that the Dallas Stars probably wish they were. They have fans who have been around for a long time, and will continue to be for a long time. They could use the space the FWCC has to offer, but a lease can make or break a minor league hockey team. So in a small venue they will stay.
Let's go to the game!
Walking up to the FWCC:
I mentioned that it was Star Wars night, and that conjures up images of awful rebel themed jerseys, wacky sound effects, and in-game promotions centered around using the force, right? No, it just means Stormtroopers in the lobby.
Stormtroopers that liked to point their guns at you:
Yeah. Oh, and there was a ZZ Top cover band in the lobby as well, which just goes perfectly with the Star Wars theme, right?
The lobby isn't all that interesting. But the inside of the venue is… not all that interesting either.
There is a certain symmetry to the place, but that weird ceiling makes it feel open and cavernous, like you could yell at the ref all night and it would just bounce around up there. Come to think of it, I didn't hear nearly as much abuse of the officials from the crowd as I usually do. I wonder why? No, really, I wonder why.
Thirty-four seconds into the first period, we had our first fight. The weird part about the fight was it featured a very familiar name, Aaron Boogaard.
It was startling to realize who we were watching, and for the most part, the fight looked like a hugging match. But look a the next picture, even though it's out of focus. Someone was bleeding.
Boogaard had to leave his jersey at the bench to get cleaned up (you can't use a jersey with blood all over it), and when he was released from the box, we got a look at his pads. NHLers have all the latest and greatest gear, all light and fresh. It probably even smells halfway respectable. But not in the minors.
Those are old school.
How about some more game action:
I mentioned in the Odessa Jackalopes post that they throw rubber carrots on the ice after goals, and in Laredo, they throw rubber corn. Here they throw rubber purple Brahmas. That's a bull for the rest of you.
There's another tradition after goals with the Brahmas fans. I don't know when they do it, but tonight, after the third goal, some of the fans take off their shirts and twirl them over their heads. Not a big deal, right? We've seen this happen before at games, it's nothing special. But lets just say that this isn't the demographic that normally does this sort of thing.
Remember that warning I gave at the top? This is why.
You can not unsee that. But if you're going to be a fan, be a fan and don't apologize for anything. I was smiling and laughing the whole time, and so was everyone else. And if you ever go to a Texas Brahmas game and they score a few goals, I hope you do to.
In other news, you can't go to a damn arena without some tool putting on a body suit. We get it, enough already.
I tweeted earlier that with all the Stormtroopers around, this was the most dangerous hockey game ever. It was true for one fan who slipped on the concrete steps and broke her ankle. I'm no doctor, but when the ankle swells up and turns purple that fast, it's broke.
Another fight, leading to some game misconducts. When a guy is down, don't keep beating on him.
It was a bad night for the officials tonight. The ref got tangled up in a check and may have a few bruised ribs. And a linesman took a full slap shot in the back. They don't wear that much padding, and it stung him pretty good. Also, one of the Brahmas took a puck in the Galiardis. He skated it off, but I know it hurt. It was also one of the better called games in the minors I have ever seen.
This game was titled the Fort Worth Faceoff, since it was a special two-nighter with the Brahmas playing in their old stomping grounds. Maybe next time, they can play the crosstown Allen Americans. The Brahmas wore special jerseys that were auctioned off after the game. I did not stick around for that.
Your final, Brahmas 4, RGV Killer Bees 1. You tell who won from the photo alone.
Tomorrow I'm off to Austin and Houston, and then six weeks in New Orleans. Not a hockey-centric existence for a while, but it was nice to see some of the best the other side of hockey has to offer. And there are more venues out there to find, more games to see, and more unusual history to be searched out.


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The Lion and the Lamb lie down together.
Merry Christmas.
Monday, December 24, 2012
A Christmas parable
Posted by Borepatch at 12/24/2012
Labels: holidays
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- Paladin said...
Merry Christmas, Borepatch. Hope you and the whole gang have a wonderful holiday!
- December 24, 2012 at 3:22 PM
- Rev. Paul said...
Merry Christmas, sir. I hope it's the best one yet!
- December 24, 2012 at 4:01 PM
- Brigid said...
Merry Christmas Borepatch. Thank you for all the words, phone chats, and basically listening to and understanding a life that not all do. Bless you.
- December 24, 2012 at 4:13 PM
- Old NFO said...
Merry new Yea, Happy Christmas, and all those other greetings... ;-D
- December 24, 2012 at 6:15 PM
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Merry Christmas Borepatch.
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text: > am i gonna break things badly? Maybe, maybe not, but just changing that #define won't have the effect you want, since there's a bit of machine-dependent code which needs to be whacked, as well. In PR 1891 (see http://www.NetBSD.org/cgi-bin/query-full-pr?1891) I proposed a set of diffs to make having a variable-sied and larger message buffer easier. They don't actually make message buffer size a configurable option on the x86, but it's pretty clear looking at the diffs how to make the message buffer larger. Anyway, it might be an interesting starting point for you. chris


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6 1/2 Years for a Super Mario Blanket
This gorgeous crocheted Super Mario blanket is featured in an album on Imgur. Unfortunately, there's no other information on it, other than it took 6 1/2 years (or 800 hours) to create.
However, as a nerdy crocheter myself (currently working on a red fox scoodie right now), this is what I can tell you about the blanket:
–This was all done in single crochet, which after about 800 hours of work, your dominant hand and elbow are going to be KILLING you. But it is the most basic stitch and with a design like this, it gives the best definition to the design.
–The design was probably a grid based design, just because of all the color changes in it.
–There's probably, at least, 10 different colors of yarn, and this looks like they are all acrylic worsted weight yarn. This is usually the cheapest yarn out there but it's also the best to use because it holds up so well with use and washing.
So, kudos to you, nerdy crocheter, wherever you are!


text: On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Greg A. Woods wrote: # While it is true that careful and complete control of all aspects of # process control in an entire system can circumvent such vulnerabilities, # the the fundamental problem with allowing an unprivileged process to # (re)gain superuser privileges is that it breaks the unix security model # and screws up peoples perceptions and understandings of how privileged # processes are created and protected. This leads to system designers # introducing new features which do not take the appropriate precautions # and can thus be used in conjunction with sete*id() to compromise the # system. As I say, this has happened several times in the past and it # will undoubtably happen again in the future. The correct fix is to obey # the POSIX rules (and thus the fundamental Unix security model) and never # allow a process to (re)gain superuser privileges after it has run as an # ordinary user. But a process can, as super-user, fork(), setuid(non-superuser), do its thing and return as it is, and it can communicate state back and forth with its parent if so written, to the extent that it is performing the exact same function as though it were allowed to revert to setuid(superuser). The only thing that POSIX does is make it more inconvenient to do this, and this is not always a good thing. If the program is certain it's not going to need to return to being super-user, it should be written as such at that point. This is yet another thing that bothered me about SVID/POSIX/SUS2 in the first place. I thought Berkeley, though stepping out on a limb, did The Right Thing. --*greywolf; -- *BSD: Choose Your Own Slogan.


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University professors often raise controversial issues and encourage discussions of those issues in the classroom. This is especially the case in my own field, philosophy. I teach courses mainly in ethics and philosophy of religion, so we discuss issues like abortion, the death penalty, affirmative action, arguments for and against the existence of God, and other controversial topics. Many outside of academia are suspicious of those of us who teach at colleges and universities in the United States because they think we are using our influence or platform as professors in unethical ways to push some agenda.
But is this suspicion warranted? From my own experiences as a student, usually not. I do recall a couple of professors from my undergraduate days who used the classroom as a soapbox. However, most were generally fair and tolerant enough of those who disagreed with them. Back in 2008, an article at insidehighered.com discussed this issue in the context of the charges of David Horowitz and others, who seem to want a form of "affirmative action" for intellectual perspectives.
However, according to the study cited by the article, students believe that other students are more of a problem than professors with respect to tolerance of diverse intellectual views. Less than half of those surveyed said that they believed other students were tolerant of the political views of all students. By contrast,
Asked about what professors do in the classroom, only 13 percent of students said that they believed professors had presented their own political views in an inappropriate way. A larger percentage—23 percent—said they had felt that they had to agree with a professor to get a good grade—although the majority of those students felt this had only happened once in their time in college. Even with these findings, there is evidence that suggests classroom expression isn't necessarily squelched. For example, of those who believed that professors had inappropriately presented their views, 62 percent said that they felt free to argue with the professor. And of those who said they had felt they needed to agree with a professor to get a good grade, only 42 percent said it was because of something the professor said.
I don't think these numbers are good enough; I'd like to see more impartiality and fairness present. Students should never have to agree with the professor to get a good grade, though sometimes this feeling is more of a reflection of the student's psychology than the practices of the professor. Nevertheless, these statistics do show that some of the criticisms in this context are a bit overblown.
Personally, though I don't always share my perspective in class, I like it when students challenge my views in the classroom. It can lead to better discussion and can help us discover something together. The best classes I had as a student were those in which the professor shared his or her views with us. Ideally, professors should seek to foster tolerance by modeling it in the classroom. Then, perhaps over time the virtue of tolerance will become more prevalent in professors as well as in many of our students both during and after college. And that may raise the bar for our political, ethical, and religious discussions, which would be a welcome result indeed.


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Turkish Prime Minister Tansu Ciller's three-day visit to Israel ended in a diplomatic storm Saturday, when she made an unscheduled visit to Orient House, the Palestine Liberation Organization's headquarters in eastern Jerusalem.
Ciller, who met earlier in the day with PLO leader Yasser Arafat in the Gaza Strip, met in Jerusalem with Faisal Husseini, the PLO's top official in Jerusalem, and other Palestinian leaders.
Israeli security personnel accompanying the Turkish leader attempted to go with her into the building, but they were stopped by Palestinian guards who told them they had no jurisdiction to enter.
The security personnel insisted on entering, pointing out that journalists were being let inside. The confrontation threatened to turn violent, but was resolved when the media also were refused entry.
At Sunday's weekly Cabinet meeting, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin referred to the incident, saying that Ciller had "pulled one over on us."
"I'm sorry the Turkish prime minister accepted this terrible suggestion and did what she did," Rabin said.
He added, however, that despite the incident, relations between Israel and Turkey would not be harmed.
Foreign Minister Shimon Peres said he would speak with Faisal Husseini about the incident.
"Anything having to do with the Jericho-Gaza (self-rule) accord has nothing to do with the Orient House, it does not operate in any formal matter," Peres told Israel Radio. "They have no status and cannot say that this is their territory."
Police Minister Shahal suggested at the Cabinet meeting that one way to avoid unplanned visits by foreign dignitaries would be to post Israeli police offices outside the building permanently.
Leaders of the opposition parties called for the immediate closure of Orient House.
"The incident at Orient House shows that in practice, Jerusalem is being divided into two capitals," Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu said. "This cannot be allowed to happen."
Palestinian officials hailed the 15-minute visit as an affirmation of their claims to the eastern half of Jerusalem.
"The visit of the Turkish prime minister to Orient House strengthens the Palestinian position that East Jerusalem is the future capital of the Palestinian state," Faisal Husseini told the daily newspaper Ma'ariv.
With negotiations on the final status of Jerusalem set to being in 1996, both Israeli and Palestinian officials have become acutely sensitive to any move that could be interpreted as a shift in control over the city.
Two weeks ago, President Clinton avoided creating a similar incident when he canceled a visit to the Old City after Palestinian officials opposed Jerusalem Mayor Ehud Olmert's plans to accompany him.
During Ciller's trip to Israel, the first by a Turkish prime minister, the two countries signed agreements to cooperate against crime, drug smuggling and terrorism.
Ciller, who had called her visit "long overdue," said at a news conference before leaving that the two countries were also close to signing a free-trade agreement.
Turkey also pledged aid to the Palestinian autonomous areas. Speaking after her meeting with Arafat, Ciller said Turkey would provide aid for building housing projects, sewage systems and other infrastructure projects.


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A pizza delivery boy's car was attacked by a man in a Burger King uniform in St. Paul's North End, according to police.
The 17-year-old delivery boy for Checkerboard Pizzas had delivered food to an address in the 1500 block of Timberlake Road about 10:30 p.m. Tuesday. He was called back to the address because the customer wanted a refund, according to St. Paul police spokesman Sgt. Paul Paulos.
The delivery boy refused to refund the money because most of the food had been consumed, according to Paulos. The customer then followed the delivery boy to his car and began pounding on the hood and grill of the vehicle, a 1999 BMW 323i , causing less than $500 in damage, according to Paulos.
A police report described the suspect as a "male in his early 20s, wearing a Burger King uniform shirt and hat."
Richard Chin can be reached at 651-228-5560. Follow him at twitter.com/RRChin.


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