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Have you ever read the story of the woman at the well? It is located in John 4:3-15, it tells the story of a woman who is weary in her life. Time after time, she has found herself going around in circles, never moving forward. She is tired of this relentless cycle of life. Over and over again, she has drank from every available well around her, yet she remains as thirsty as ever. This woman is a picture of every person who does not have a personal relationship with Christ. The key to the well is not the water, but the personal relationship to Christ the water brings. Anyone can go to church to worship, but if they lack the Spirit and truth that lays in Christ Jesus, they are missing the mark.
We can relate to this woman, how many times have we went searching for something, looking in all the wells about us, to no avail? The woman finds excuses for her behavior, she even resorts to sarcasm and ridicule. Jesus offers her something that she has never had before, living water, guaranteed to satisfy her thirst. Every person who has not found Christ, is that woman at the well. They are desperate for the something missing from their lives. However, when they find Christ�s well, they realize that their thirst is quenched, because his well offers much more than water. The woman had tried all avenues to find fulfillment, yet it took only one drink of Jesus�s tender gift to fill her soul and change her life forever.
'Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.'" (John 4:13-14)
The moment a person drinks from Christ�s well, they are transformed. The woman at the well, forgot her mission of getting water, instead she makes it her mission to tell others about the living water. You see, Christ offers a fulfillment with each drink given at the well of life. His well offers redemption, the appeal of sin loses its savor. Your entire life will become new and different. When you receive salvation, you have found the keys to the kingdom of heaven.
How do you get to drink from this well? First, you must truly believe that Jesus Christ is the only begotten son of God, who gave his life on the cross for your sins. You must be ready to accept the word of God on the basis of faith. Then come before him, confessing your sins with a heavy heart, and calling on him by faith. Ask him to come into your heart, and quench your thirst forever more. If you do that with a sincere heart, he will save your soul. You will never need to drink from another well again.
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In the fast-flowing river of words that poured forth to mark the death of Sir Henry Cooper, two national newspapers misspelt the name of his most famous opponent, Muhammad Ali, who was for a long time more recognisable than anyone in the world.
Yesterday's ricket was not just a journalistic sin. It reflected how far boxing has tumbled from mainstream consciousness since Cooper and Ali, or Cassius Clay as he was then, first fought each other at Wembley Arena in 1963.
Clay (boxing under that name for the final time before his public embrace of Islam) was coming off a lucky win over Doug Jones as he built loudly on his Olympic heroics in Rome three years earlier. He was considered something of an empty vessel by patriotic critics who wanted to see Our 'Enry knock him out of his stride, and preferably out of boxing.
So the man who would go on to be the most popular fighter of all time traded on his stage villainy to generate a disproportionate amount of interest in a 10-round bout that had no title attached to it, even though it was billed, notionally, as a world title eliminator for the belt held by Sonny Liston, and it might have struggled to excite the interest of Sky executives today as a pay-per-view attraction.
There was a so-so heavyweight bout on the undercard and Cooper's twin, George, boxing as Jim Cooper, beat Don Warner, an American with a strong punch and a weak chin, over eight rounds. With brother Henry, the upright British underdog lacking even a trace of malice, it needed the upstart at his best to sell it. Each day for three weeks before the fight on Waterloo Day, 18 June, he arrived at Pall Mall by limousine at 5am to do his roadwork in front of a gathering audience and, barely sweating, would then don a bowler hat for photographers in front of Buckingham Palace gates.
In public sparring with his brother, Rudolph, and his Louisville friend, Jimmy Ellis, he called the fifth the "magic round" in which he would knock out Cooper, whom he insulted as "a bum and a tramp". The stoic south Londoner was polite, unruffled and determined in a quiet, old-fashioned way, a product of his time and background.
Innocent as these stunts appear from a distance, the Clay of 1963 (and for a good few years after that) made David Haye of 2011 look like a mute virgin.
The rest of that story has been told thousands of times. Cooper came glove-splittingly close to changing the course of boxing with his famed left hook. But Clay/Ali endured and went on to prosper, the saviour of a sport that had begun to creak in the wake of the Mob's cynical rule in the 50s.
What, then, has gone wrong since? Why do callow hacks not know how to spell Ali's first name? Why, as Cooper himself complained only two years ago, do people in the street not even know who the British heavyweight champion is?
What happened was television. It had killed live audiences in the United States in the 50s and, in the 60s, was ruthlessly held in check lest it did the same in the UK. Such a tourniquet could not be held to the pulse of boxing forever and, at first gradually and then in a rush, television bought up boxing.
Live gates dwindled in number and significance, at least for major promotions. There were many highs and some lows but, in the interregnum between Ali's retirement in 1981 and Mike Tyson's reign of terror in the 90s, the feeling grew that boxing was struggling for parity in a crowded sports entertainment universe.
Pay and subscription television narrowed the marketplace; boxing's international governing bodies split like atoms to explode the available stock into anonymous shards. Football, here and in most of the world, gripped the imagination as never before and gobbled up huge chunks of air time and TV money.
But here is a curiosity: British boxing has rarely, if ever, been in better shape. In this splintered world four fighters from these islands lay claim to legitimate world titles – Haye, Carl Froch, Amir Khan and Ricky Burns – while a ravenous queue closes in: the Olympic gold medallist James DeGale and his upcoming opponent George Groves; the gifted but wayward Kell Brook; the rejuvenated wonderkid Ryan Rhodes, who fights for a world title soon; the maths wizard Nathan Cleverly, another world title aspirant; and then a lengthening line of other fine prospects.
It is not inconceivable that Britain could have seven or eight world champions by the end of the year, an unprecedented achievement, and it is likely Great Britain will win another swag of medals at the London Olympics, before those fighters go on to professional glory.
These are children of TV's p-p-v age, of tweets and flickering fame. They do not have Cooper's profile but they have more than a good deal of his earning power. In a shrinking workplace they are dominant because they have the connections that count.

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Isaac Schleifer prefers to be called Jefferson. He is a junior at Christopher Newport University, double majoring in Psychology and Neuroscience with a minor in Leadership Studies.
Jefferson visits Leadership professor, Dr. Harter's house for a private study group (PSG) as he has done since freshman year. At the PSG, students discuss a range of leadership topics, feeding off the conversation, and developing and sharing ideas.
Dr. Harter hopes for his students to leave the PSG feeling inspired, and use the discussion as a starting point for undergraduate research.
Last Spring, Dr. Harter sent out an email requesting a co-author to help write a proposal for the International Leadership Association (ILA). Jefferson immediately replied, stating his desire to participate. The proposal would be based around Schema theory. "It's pretty much how we form ideas," said Jefferson. "We see something and when we recognize it again, there's that 'Aha!' moment." However, it only gets more complicated.
"Basically," he said, "[Harter's] proposal is about dialogue, and how we develop resilience through dialogue, like the leader-follower relationship. I'm applying Schema theory to how leaders and followers can use schema, and know how to manipulate different ways of how we think to develop resilience through dialogue." So, there you have it. The boy is intelligent.
The abstract sent to the ILA was accepted to be presented at the Montreal ILA Global Conference, a prestigious achievement for Jefferson. The conference is this weekend, so he will be flying to Montreal, Canada today. At the conference, Jefferson will present his and Harter's proposal alongside Dr. Kusher and another professor over a 10 to 12 minute period. Afterward, they will answer questions from leadership scholars.
"It's kinda crazy when an undergrad with three professors on a panel, like I don't if I should be here but I'm just gonna go," he said.
Jefferson hopes to continue participating in leadership undergraduate research. He just recently joined a research cognitive lab with Dr. Campolattaro.
Jefferson participates in the hiking club on campus, and is a member of the marching band playing the alto saxophone. Just to add to the list of his accomplishments, I'll mention he also hiked some of the Appalachian trail this summer, and claimed it definitely helped to relieve stress. "It's like a whole different world," he said. "There's no, you know, cell-phones, no laptops. None of that. No commodities. It's interesting." He also recently has become interested in environmentalism. He even joked about making a double minor out of it. I laughed and told him to slow down.
"[Undergraduate research] isn't as time consuming. It's just more like you have to make the time, I guess," he said. "It's actually not that much." He agreed he can't wait for Christmas break, though.
Jefferson would like to one day involve himself in the Peace Core, unless he magically gets money to pay his way through grad school. He also sees himself hiking for the rest of his life, and finishing the entire hike of the Appalachian Trail.
Contrary to his freshman idea of making music therapy his life-long career, now he hopes it to be more environmental. "Anything furthering environmentalism efforts in the United States, because right now I don't think it's where it should be honestly," said Jefferson.
Wherever he ends up, I believe he'll certainly be making a change. "There's just so much to do, and I don't even know where to start, but I'm just gonna have to head on and just go."


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Awesomely trippy!.. But why do my pictures disappear after a couple hours?...
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Really creative use of Maps. Some 3D bending and label removal would be nice!
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Author's note: I spoke WAAAAY too soon about having more frequent updates, as the holidays rolled in and put me behind ALL my projects. Now I'm over here releasing unbeta'd, unfinished chapters to make up for lost time. AAAAAAHHHH! I hate Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) and, ugh, just the general laziness the holiday season instills in me. Hope you guys are having a good one, I'm sure not.
Voices, panicked and loud, undistinguishable and familiar all the same, echoed throughout Allen's head. Whomever was talking stood over his head; arguing with another, as the two of them together seized his limp body by his underarms and hauled him upwards, jostling him around until he was sitting vertically against a cool, hard surface that he couldn't immediately discern.
His body hurt-that was putting it lightly—from having been used as a punching for a Tank. His skull felt like it had been split open by an axe and his brain craved into with a chainsaw, and the migraine could only feel worse as blood pounded in his ears. His slow but steady heart-rate assured him that he was still alive—though, barely conscious.
The dim, but focused light of the setting sun burned the side of his face, making his skin feel hot and itchy. He shifted uncomfortably, and ended up falling down in what he now knew was the flatbed of a truck, as the vehicle made a sharp turn.
His head rung like a bell, as it impacted and bounced off the tarpaulin. The sheeting barely provided any cushioning from the hard flatbed, Allen quavered, as nausea and pain made him too weak to speak. To notify his fellow survivors that he was conscious, though very much still incapacitated. After his vision stopped swimming; Allen wondered vaguely why the tarp had been laid out in the first place—to keep him from getting blood on the supplies surrounding him, perhaps…
Lying painfully contorted in an imitation of a human pretzel, Allen tried to breathe against the wind tunnel swirling around his face and drawing precious air from his lungs. His cheek scrapped against the rough tarp with every bounce of the vehicle, and his shifted across the flatbed, Allen's senses were assaulted with the smells of the city.
Nauseated for a whole other reason, Allen rolled and tumbled all alone in the flatbed in the back of the pickup. As his head knocked against the rearview window thrice too many times, Allen became resentful of the fact that the two piled in the cab didn't once check up on him. He could die back here, and they wouldn't know, 'cause they were too busy dicking around.
His thoughts swam, as he could've sworn they had just been talking over his head not a moment ago. Allen then tried to muster the energy to at least sit back up, his fingernails scratched against the thin sheets of warped wood stacked beside him, and as soon as the sound met his ears, he paused. Allen almost didn't feel the pain of splinters lodging themselves in his skin, but the coarse surface under his palm was enough to make him hesitate. While it didn't hurt now, if he were to injure himself now, later he was in for pain like hellfire.
Flexing his fingers, as already discomfort was shifting to pain; Allen tried to think through the haze in his head. He tried, in vain, to figure out where he was – yeah, he knew he was in the flatbed of a pickup, but WHO'S pickup and where?
Allen was too crippled to sit up, so he couldn't see much more than the evening sky overhead and tall, green trees skimming passed in a blur of color. There weren't any bridges or road-signs tall enough for him to see, so Allen could easily discern, in his right mind, that they were not on a main road. But that left him with just as little information as he had had before.
Allen could only just feel his legs, the pins and needles sensation in them long since replaced by numbness – barely felt like he was in his own body, actually. He knew he had a concussion, that's one thing for sure. How he got it... from one of the infected, no doubt. The pounding ache in the back of his head, though, he was inclined to believe that no infected would've let him get away alive, if they'd had access to that precious, unguarded patch of skin. It somehow hurt more at the notion that another survivor had hit him. Whoever it was, they were on his shit-list.
Trying to wrap his mind fully around his current surroundings, Allen wondered what was happening at that very moment—who was Grayson talking to and what about? Had he been held up? Suddenly – it came back to him, now, the owner of this truck was a man, from the glimpse he got of him, before he'd been cold-clocked, was that of that he was clean-shaven and roughhewn. The stranger and Grayson, they'd been arguing about taking him to get some help, that they were headed ... to a safe house a little ways out in the boonies.
Apparently, the other guy had come from there looking for supplies for those who'd barricaded themselves within, and had stumbled upon them by chance – now, out of the kindness of his heart, or a secret agenda yet to be voiced, would take Allen and Grayson there, so the former could be treated for his injuries.
Allen's head lit up with pain, his processing of thoughts too much at once – like plugging a shitload of plugs all at once in a faulty power outlet —it made him short out. Except, since he wasn't a computer, he didn't shut off at the first signs of danger – he suffered, as more pain was heaped on top of the already engorged pressure in his skull.
He closed his eyes tight, trying to ignore it. A part of him knew that it was not wise in the slightest to sleep with a concussion, but the pain was making it hard not to try and do so. As the feeling of compression in Allen's skull eased up just a bit, he almost drifted off again, when the truck veered to the side and he went sliding across the flatbed for another time.
Exasperation made the pain in his body and head intensify; Allen grunted, as his shoulder collided hard with the window. "Fuck!" He hollered, his voice finally finding him.
Suddenly, the truck skidded to an abrupt halt. He thumped against the window again, momentum hell-bent on flinging him to and fro like a ragdoll. Allen swore, oblivious to the driver's side door – followed by the one passenger's side— being thrown open, as the other survivors jumped out the vehicle. For a moment, Allen overheard Grayson and the other argue, before the former begrudgingly climbed back into the vehicle and slammed the door fussily.
Afterwards, the driver appeared at the side of the flatbed. "Oy, man, you're gonna break my fucking window, if you ain't careful!" He complained; Irish-accent almost too thick to understand, his eyes burning with aggravation, as they peeked out over his dark tinted sunglasses.
Allen cursed at him, nausea rendering his manners completely nonexistent. "Learn to fucking drive." He spat back. With the wind no longer rushing about him, the humidity set upon him, making Allen sweat like a dog. Perspiration and blood made his clothes reeked and cling to his skin like an uncomfortable sheathe. That, along with the noise of nattering birds and insects buzzing in his ears, embedded a deep itch of irritation under his battered skin.
"Oh, like I've never heard that bloody line before." The other man groused, rolling his eyes.
Allen ignored him in favor of roasting in his sweat-drenched clothing. His concussion making him more disorientated than he'd ever been in his life. Allen felt like he was going to vomit, again. Propping himself up on shaky elbows, he tried to keep the world from spinning underneath him. "Where the hell are we?" He asked dazedly, caught between being pissed and confused.
The Irishman pushed his sunglasses up the bridge up his nose, until his tinted spectacles were rested again the sparse hairs on his hairline, regarding Allen fully with his dark brown eyes, before he dug his palm into his brow bone tiredly. After rubbing fatigue form his eyes, he situated his sunglasses back in their original spot on the tip of his nose, and finally gave Allen the answer to his question. "We're just a few miles from Riverview. The safe house is there and so's a doctor—she's gonna get you patched up, so you and your friend can be on your way."
Allen's head swam with a myriad of questions, followed by another jolt of pain that threatened to leave a crack in his skull. Clutching his head, he groaned. The time for questioning would have to wait until the fabled Greek god Hephaestus stopped trying to crack his head open with his mighty axe in search of his Athena-sized headache. Drawing his legs to his chest, he buried his face into his knees and mumbled into the coarse fabric of his jeans. "What're we stopping for, then?"
"—to drag your sorry-ass up to the front, so you don't end up killin' yourself back here." The Irishman answered coolly, hocking a loogie onto the road underneath him, before reaching two capable hands out and motioning for Allen to come over. "You obviously ain't gonna teleport, c'mon, lemme give yah a hand 'fore I change me mind." Allen looked at him skeptically from over the top of his knees, before sighing bitterly after a long moment and crawling towards the edge of the bed.
The Irishman shook his head, as he grappled Allen by the shoulders and roughly yanked the man onto the road. Allen hollered, practically spilling onto the street like he was in a Charlie Chaplin skit. "What the hell!?" He hollered.
"Didn't want'cha getting any ideas. 'm an accepting bloke, but I can't have yah thinking 'm interested in yah." He joked, before helping—more like manhandling—Allen to the passenger's door. As he pulled it open, the Irishman pushed Allen towards the opened door and let Grayson help him inside the cab. As he turned to go around the front and return to the driver's seat, he smiled at the two of them. "The name's Shawshank, by the way." He said, before slamming the door almost on Allen's feet.


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The miners' strike of 1984/85 was one of the most bitter industrial disputes in history.
Families and communities were torn apart by the poverty and division that the year-long dispute caused.
As the 30th anniversary of the dispute approaches we are preparing a commemorative Free Press supplement to mark three decades since the miners took on the Thatcher Government.
As part of that historical document we want you, our readers, to tell us your stories of the miners' strike in Doncaster.
Tell us what it meant to you to be part of that mammoth struggle which shaped the way the country has developed in the years since.
How do you think things would have turned out if all the country's miners had joined the strike?
What if the strike had been avoided? Might we still have something left of the industry that employed 195,500 people in 1984?
Or was the industry doomed to closure for politcal reasons no matter what the miners did?
Ken Frost worked for 15 years for the Coal Board as a fitter and told his story in the book Earning A Living. Ken, who became a miner in 1979, says the 52-week strike was "a very hard time".
He said: "My wife was seriously ill so could not work and we had two young children. We got a bit of help from both our families but the bills mounted up. Our mortgage was frozen and we had just £29 a week to live on.
"We lived in a big old semi- and while I was on strike we all lived in one room because we couldn't afford to heat it properly."
Six months after the strike, Ken's pit at Beighton closed. He said: "The pits began to close down, one by one. You didn't need to be a brain surgeon to know the job was coming to an end.
"When I think of all we suffered I'd like to think that we achieved something but I'm afraid we did not because eight years later our industry was more or less over."
For that year the faces of Arthur Scargill, South Yorkshire's President of the National Union of Mineworkers, and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher were never out of the news. Theirs was the public battle but in families in South Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Kent, Durham, Lancashire, North Nottinghamshire and Scottish coalfields there was a battle to survive as striking miners stood up for their principles and relied on strike pay and collections to pay their bills.
Friends became enemies as they clashed on picket lines and relations with police reached an all-time low.
Some of those divisions will never heal.
But there was also humour and a unity and a common cause among ordinary and extraordinary people involved in the strike that seems to have been lost. Please share with The Free Press your memories of that time. Get in touch via letter to: Doncaster Free Press, Editorial, 39 Printing Office Street, Doncaster, DN1 1TN, email, firstname.lastname@example.com Facebook at DonnyFP and please send us any pictures.


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Neck ties are the staple of men's accessories. They come in all shapes and sizes, colors and patterns and have a long history behind them. Bottom line is that we all like them, wear them and enjoy the feel they bring to an outfit.
There's so much we can say about ties that we could fill up a whole encyclopedia.
Today we want to have a look at neck ties from a different angle. There are a lot of interesting facts about ties you probably did not know, so get ready to be illuminated.
These facts about neck ties can make you look from another perspective at a tie the next time you are wearing one. We're going to break down facts about the most expensive tie, the (probably) most lasting one, the origins of the modern tie and a lot more!
Here are the facts:
1. About 300 years ago, the English developed neckwear that was so thick that it could even stop a sword thrust
2 Usually, the stripes found on American ties run from top right to bottom left, while the stripes of British ties run from top left to bottom right
3. For a silk tie of good quality, there are approximately 110 silkworm cocoons required
4. One of world's main tie producers is the Chinese city of Shengzhou. This city produces about 200 million ties each year
5. A tie collector is called a grabatologist
6. The most expensive tie in the world was designed by Satya Paul Design Studio. The tie contains 271 diamonds and 150 grams of gold and costs around $220,000
7. The bolo tie is the official tie of US state Arizona
8. In the USA, people buy about 100 million ties each year worth $1 billion
9. In Iran, you are not allowed to sell neck ties, as it is seen as a sign of decadence, but you are allowed to wear one
10. The modern tie has it's origins in a piece of silk resembling a scarf that was worn by Croatian soldiers and that was named a cravate. So thank you, Croatia!
11. This being said, the first Chinese emperor, Shih Huang Ti, wore a tie (or some similar neck wear) in 210 B.C
12. You can buy a tie that can stop a 9 mm bullet
So, now you know a lot more about ties and adding this historic and cultural layer to a piece of clothing only makes it more fun to wear and to own!
Fraquoh and Franchomme
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Department of Justice, Equality and Defence
Pension Provisions
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Gerry Adams (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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Question 558: To ask the Minister for Defence, further to Parliamentary Question No. 206 of 12 January 2012, if he has any further information with regard to the number of retired Air Corps officers who qualify for payment of a pension and lump sum immediately on retirement after 12 years' pensionable service, regardless of their age or the associated pension costs. [9731/12]
Alan Shatter (Minister, Department of Justice, Equality and Defence; Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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When Big Girls Are BadThere was never any other way were spanked.It was always on your bare bottom & over the knee.I think i was about 3 the first time i was really spanked,i say really because before that the most i had recieved were a couple of swats on my behind & my hands being slapped now & again.So when the time came for me to take a trip over my dads knee it came as a bit of a shock.I had seen my older siblings get spanked but i did'nt think it was going to happen to me.I can't remember the actual events leading up to that first time but i can definately remember the first time.My dad was & is a big man,very tall half Italian with a temper only rivaled by my grandfather.It was my Dad who was the stickler for discipline he had to be really there were 9 of us,5 boys 4 girls & i was the youngest.So the first time i was spanked came as not only a shock to the system but to my bottom as well.I remember my Dad scooping me up from ouside the front of our house & taking me indoors & standing me on the kitchen table,now the actual conversation that took place between us has got lost in the memories over the years,but the vision of him removing his belt has'nt nor has the words 'Katherine you're a big girl now & when big girls are bad,they get spanked'. He then turned me round,lifted my dress & pulled my pants down,then he lifted me off the table,sat down & upended me over his knee,i can remember laying there with my bare bottom in the air,pants around my knees & my dolly in my hands wondering what was going to happen next.I did'nt have to wait long because the very next second that belt came down on my behind,more times than i care to remember,in all fairness looking back now he did'nt spank me very hard,hard enough for my little bottom to be red,& hard enough for me to be sobbing my heart out,but no where near as hard as he spanked me over the following years.When he had finished he stood me up & with my panties still around my knees took me over to the corner & told me i had to stand there facing the wall,'just like your brothers & sisters do'. I was only made to stand there for 15 minutes or so but that was enough for me to think i never wanted to do it again.Unfortunately i did do it again many,many times over the next 14yyrs.As i got older the spankings got harder & longer & corner time was sometimes extended to 2 hours.But throughout those 14yrs one thing remained constant & that was the way i was spanked,bare bottomed & over the knee.
Come on, you were old enough to please your dad spanking you on a bare butt.
I got it a lot when I was a kid to until I moved out. Now my bf spanks me sometimed
Does he still respect you as an adult after one of your spankings.
All my spanking were bare bottomed and sometimes no bottoms...My dad would say after pulling down my panties, "Just take them off, so nothing gets in the way."
i think we've all been through that. Me but with a wooden spoon. OW
that's so erotic, i wish we could switch places
i like to chat about spankings
Sounds like a very loving father.
If children live under your roof they should be spanked if they cross the line
How big is big? My mom stopped when I was between 11 and 12 - she said I was showing her maturity and responsibility by being the neighborhood babysitter and school playleader and I was too old now for that.
I am a 19 year old girl and I still have many times when I am brought over my dad's lap and get a sometimes over 1 hour spanking with the paddle bar bottom. It always hurts like crazy. Every time I always leave crying my eyes out.
My daughter is 17 but when she misbehaves she is spanked bare fanny over my knee with a paddle.
it is Illegal, I'm 19 myself, never got spanked never misbehaved
I have a 17 year old daughter, and if she misbehaves and deserves a spanking, she is going to be spanked. I was 19 when I got my last spanking, and that was on my wedding day. I thought I could talk to my parents how ever I wanted because I was getting married, boy was I wrong!
You are in the 22-25 age group with a 17 yr. old daughter?????? Hmmmmm???
Actually, of you look at my profile, I'm in the 36 to 40 age group.
Your Dad cares. Praise God for him.
oh my god it must be painfully long time
Everytime I spank my 18 year old daughter it's always a shock and your right the spankings do get longer each time and corner time too
Because the older you get her attitude gets worse including her behavior
Yea I have 2 girls my oldest one is the one that gets spanked more than her sister
Yea that will probably be my daughter too getting spanked at that age
I ask her to do something like help out and she doesn't and I always have to repeat myself too, she skips school, she talks back etc.
That first spanking is always a shock. And while I wouldn't consider it any less of a shock to the system now at least I know what's coming and can prepare for it, at least a little bit. lol
try being older and still receive swats on a bare bottom
Yes I am a woman with grown children and I still get disabled on my bare bottom but by my fiance now
it must be very painfull and also you feel shame
Thanks for sharring
my dad always spanked me over the belt witg belt or rattan canes.it stings a lot.i cant bear the pain.but my dad was so strict .i never escaped if doing wrongs.im the oldest daughter.so i always get more than my other siblings.
Did you always deserve it?
Seem to me that u will be getting spanked for a

longtime.Think u like getting spanked otk.as I'm writing this u r probably getting spanked again: )
Well I thought I'd left my spankings behind in my late teens.

That was until my father-in-law caught me cheating on my husband. And gave me a swift, painful reminder!
Go to Confession roo!
i really kinda of understand how u feel and kind of dont because i have never been spanked by my parents only once as a dare but the worst thing about that dare was i had to be spanked by my friend 10 whacks in front of 5 of my friends really embarrasing

and then after i was wedgied for 1 hour and made to sit naked for the rest of the game naked
I would have liked to try otk but I needed to get hit full on. Bent over and lying flat give the spanker

enough room to get all their weight into it.

I think lying on the bed hurts the most because you cannot buck forward with the blow. If you tense up it stungs even more because the skin is drawn tighter and is more vulnerable.

If you stay very relaxed much of the force goes into the muscle.

Plus, some implements hurt worse when brought straight down from a height rather than across.
So you were spanked bare bottomed to 17? Were they always hand spankings?

my dad rarely smacked us usualy when he did it would be simply a slap across the leg generaly two or three at the most. when ever some would say wait till your mam gets home we knew we where in trouble, and deserved the punishment as we only got smacked when we had done some thing wrong.
This is great story told with love. There were nine kids in our family too. Mom gave to us spankings no matter who was there!


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LIS 650: Library Administration and Management
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Gordon, Judith (2002). Organizational behavior: A diagnostic approach. 7th ed. NJ: Pearson Education., Inc.
Course Description:
This course integrates aspects of all the above approaches in examining the principles of management and learning how to apply them in simulated real life situations. Management, like any other endeavor that involves humans, is messy and sometimes not rational. Some principles work in some situations but not others. Things that should work do not, and things happen for no apparent reason at all. This is true not only for the principles of management, but for jobs themselves. Nothing you learn in a classroom will ever look much like the place you actually end up working.
As a result, the course will use a variety of management sources, texts, and examples from both library and non-library settings. The first half of class will be a lecture and discussion of a specific principle and the second half will utilize exercises, videos, case analyses, etc. to reinforce the material in the lectures. An emphasis on diagnosing management situations which entails describing the facts, diagnosing problems, and prescribing possible resolutions and an developing an action plan for improving the situation. Utilizing situational case studies in this manner allows students to practice managing in the relative safety of the classroom in preparation for real life management situations.
The best situation that you can hope for, and the state of mind this course aims for, is to think like a manager, to have a variety of managerial techniques to draw upon, and above all to be pragmatic. Good management is what works. (3 s.h.)
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Baroka FC fought back to hold Kaizer Chiefs to a 2-2 stalemate in an Absa Premiership game at the Peter Mokaba Stadium in Polokwane on Saturday night.
The draw sees Bakgaga remain 16th on the league table following the entertaining match, while Amakhosi stay fourth on the standings.
The match got off to an exciting start with both sides having chances at either end and it was Amakhosi who broke the deadlock.
Bernard Parker's cross found Erick Mathoho inside the Baroka box and the defender scored with a tap-in to make it 1-0 to Chiefs six minutes into the game.
But Chiefs' lead only last for four minutes as Bakgaga levelled matters through Sepana Letsoalo, who scored with a beautiful finish to make it 1-1.
The home side were looking lively after restoring parity against Amakhosi, who were forced to sit back and launch counter-attacks.
Chiefs did regain control of the match after the half-hour mark with Edmore Chirambadare's forcing Baroka goalkeeper Oscarine Masuluke into a good save with a great cross.
The visitors were awarded a penalty on the stroke of halftime after Tsepo Masilela was fouled inside the Baroka box by Shaku Dineo Olaleng.
Former South Africa international Parker then stepped up and converted from the spot-kick to ensure that the first half ended with Chiefs leading 2-1.
Bakgaga had a promising start to the second half with Maboke Matlakala narrowly missing the target with a good header 11 minutes after the restart.
With their side trailing, the Baroka co-coaches, Milton Dlamini and Kgoloko Thobejane, decided to introduce Mxolisi Kunene on the hour-mark.
Steve Komphela, the Chiefs coach, responded by introducing Italian striker Gustavo Paez for veteran forward Parker eight minutes later.
However, it was Kunene, who proved to be a super substitute with ten minutes left on the clock when he restored parity courtesy of a great individual effort.
Chiefs then pushed forward for the winning goal and Mathoho saw his header being finger-tipped over the crossbar by Masuluke in the Baroka goal.
Both teams launched late attacks in search of a late winner, but, ultimately, Baroka and Chiefs settled for a draw.
Baroka (1) 2 (Letsoalo 10', Kunene 80')
Chiefs (2) 2 (Mathoho 6', Parker 45+3')
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By DAVID NELSON, INSIDE BELLTOWN
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Monday was Constitution Day. Here are some immortal remarks from our president about the Constitution, the same Constution that he took an oath to preserve, protect, and defend at his inauguration (an oath so garbled by Chief Justice Roberts that it was thought advisable to administer it again later in the day; maybe that was an omen):
If you look at the victories and failures of the civil rights movement and its litigation strategy in the court, I think where it succeeded was to invest formal rights in previously dispossessed people, so that now I would have the right to vote. I would now be able to sit at the lunch counter and order and as long as I could pay for it I'd be OK
But, the Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth, and of more basic issues such as political and economic justice in society. To that extent, as radical as I think people try to characterize the Warren Court, it wasn't that radical. It didn't break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution, at least as it's been interpreted, and the Warren Court interpreted in the same way, that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties. Says what the states can't do to you. Says what the federal government can't do to you, but doesn't say what the federal government or state government must do on your behalf.
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NAKIVO Inc., the fastest growing virtualization and cloud backup software company for VMware environments, today announced it has earned recognition on The Channel Company's CRN 100 Coolest Cloud Computing Vendors of 2015. This annual list recognizes some of the most innovative cloud companies supporting the IT channel today.
The 100 Coolest Cloud Computing Vendors honor is presented to companies based on their approach to creating innovative products, services or partner programs that have helped channel partners transform into true solution providers, ultimately helping customers take advantage of the ease of use, flexibility, scalability and savings that cloud computing offers.
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A seven-year-old on a camping trip has been badly hurt by a cougar.
Alberni Valley News - Cougar shot after mauling Alberni boy:
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Prep Time: 1 Hour
Cook Time: 45 Minutes
Servings: 8
A tasty, cheesy lasagna featuring eggplant instead of pasta. While this recipe takes some time to make, the delicious results will disappear quickly! To cut down on prep time, try browning the eggplant on a sheet in the oven instead of in the skillet.
Slice eggplants lengthwise into 1/4-inch thick slices. Sprinkle both sides of each eggplant slices with salt (use about 2 tablespoons total), and layer them in a large baking dish with paper towels between each layer. Place a smaller baking dish on top of the eggplant slices, and weigh it down with several heavy food cans. Let sit for at least an hour or until the paper towels are visibly moist. Rinse eggplant slices with fresh water and pat dry with paper towels.
Heat a large skillet over medium heat and add 2 tablespoons of coconut oil. Working in batches if necessary, cook eggplant slices until they are slightly browned, about 5 minutes per side. Set cooked eggplant aside.
Prepare sauce by combining the crushed tomatoes, tomato paste, oregano, basil, garlic powder, onion powder, olive oil, salt, and pepper in a separate bowl. Set aside.
Heat 1 teaspoon coconut oil in a skillet over medium heat; add diced onion and cook, stirring occasionally, until translucent, about 5 minutes. Add chopped frozen spinach and shredded carrots to onion. Cook until mixture is dry, 5 to 8 minutes. Set aside to cool.
Combine ricotta cheese, eggs, grated hard Italian cheese (I used Romano), garlic powder, onion powder, and salt in a separate bowl. Spoon cooled spinach and carrot mixture into ricotta mixture and combine.
Preheat oven to 350°F.
Begin lasagna assembly by pouring a thin layer of tomato sauce into a 9x13 inch baking dish. Place half the eggplant slices in a layer on top of tomato sauce. Spread half the ricotta cheese mixture on top of eggplant layer. Add another layer of tomato sauce, then layer on the remaining eggplant slices and remaining ricotta mixture. Finish with a final layer of tomato sauce, and spread shredded mozzarella cheese over the top.
Bake in the preheated oven for 45 minutes or until the mozzarella cheese is browned. Let sit for 10 minutes before serving. Enjoy!


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Life is far too fickle, far too slippery, and far too treacherous to be considered 100 percent good. However, God is good. And even though you will never know how things will work out in the midst of crisis, know that God is ultimately in control. God is actively busy as your protector, providing ..
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Worry. Stress. Anxiety. Most likely we've found that our ways of handling troublesome concerns that create these emotions do not bring peace. And so this message turns us to Psalm 27 in which David expresses his confidence that no matter what obstacles he faces or what opposition assails him, he knows ..
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In the one psalm Moses wrote, he prays with confidence of God being from everlasting to everlasting; man, in contrast, has but a brief time on this earth. If we believe as Moses the Lord is our dwelling place throughout all generations and despite knowing our sins he wants to bring us into eternity ..
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When your need is beyond description, only a God beyond description is sufficient. Gene Appel shares about the God Who made a way for Jeremiah through his depression, for Moses and Israel through the Red Sea, and for Gene's own life through the darkest times he's ever known. But this message is not ..
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Kendrick Lamar and Rihanna have released the music video for the collaborative track "Loyalty."
Related: Kendrick Lamar, The Weeknd, Katy Perry Lead VMA Nominees
The special effects-heavy video begins with Lamar sitting in a chair, blindfolded and surrounded by beautiful women then moves to a cool visual effect that features dancers being consumed by city streets. Later in the video, Lamar dangles Rihanna off a high rise and kills his alter ego.
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By Joseph McCain The Winston County Journal
Each year teachers see dozens of students pass through their classrooms while trying to prepare them for the future. During their entire career, that number can reach thousands of lives touched especially when those teachers have 82 years of teaching under their belts.
Gloria Mason, Gail Massey and Charley Rushing all said goodbye to the Winston County Career and Technology Center recently after planning retirement from teaching.
"I have mixed feelings about it," said Mason. "This (working at the career center) has been the most rewarding part of my career. We are like a family here."
Mason is retiring after 28 years teaching with 9 of those at the Winston County Career and Technology Center. Massey also expressed the mixed emotions of excitement to be moving into other life challenges but leaving behind a role that has meant so much to her.
"It is so many mixed emotions," said Massey.
Massey served 31 years in the teaching profession with 11 at the Winston County Career and Technology Center. Rushing who taught all 23 of his years in education at the technical center noted he would miss working with the students and fellow faculty but he was ready to take on something new in life.
The Winston County Career and Technology Center while experiencing several faculty changes will also see a change in several programs including the elimination and addition of some programs.
One such new program offered to all Winston County students is the Teacher Academy. This program will include classroom and hands-on experiences that will prepare students for employment or continuing education in various educational fields. Twice a week, students will job shadow local teachers and coaches employed in all school levels and also in day care facilities.
If students want to make a difference in the world, they should consider a career in education. The Teacher Academy program will help students develop the skills and knowledge to be a part of this rewarding field.
Registration is now open for students to enroll in Teacher Academy. Call 773-6152 for additional information or to register your child for this class.


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I've dissected my Google+ Home screen so that you might have a cheat sheet for the features you see along the top bars no matter where you go in G+.
You will want to go to your Settings and customize your notifications. You also turn on/off Auto Awesome in Settings.


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Genomic Screening to Detect Preventable Rare Diseases in Healthy People? University of North Carolina Study
Published: Mar 08, 2013
Millions of people unknowingly carry rare gene mutations that put them at high risk of developing preventable diseases such as colorectal cancer, breast cancer, and several catastrophic blood vessel disorders. University of North Carolina experts from the School of Medicine and from the Gillings School of Global Public Health propose that screening healthy adults for these and other specific, rare genetic disorders could potentially prevent these diseases. Their commentary in the March 7, 2013 issue of Genetics in Medicine offers a framework for how such screening might be developed.


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WASHINGTON (Mar. 11)
The State Department indicated today that the U.S. Government does not intend to supply Israel with Nike anti-aircraft missiles. A report published in the press here this week-end said that the Joint Chiefs of Staff favor the selling of such missiles to Israel, but that the final decision had been left to the State Department. The Nike missile is a purely defensive weapon sought by Israel in this country to counter the Soviet jet bombers received by Egypt.
Israel Ambassador Abba Eban sought clarification during the week-end from Robert D. Murphy, Deputy Under Secretary of State, on the intent of President Eisenhower's recent statement that arms sales to Israel would not insure Middle East peace because of Arab-Israel population differences. The Ambassador said he drew Mr. Murphy's attention to Mr. Eisenhower's statement of Nov. 9, 1955 in which the President said that the U.S. would consider Israel's arms request. The Ambassador said he inquired if this statement by President Eisenhower still stood or whether the recent statement nullified it.
Asked if the conversation with Mr. Murphy seemed favorable to Israel, Mr. Eban said that his impression was that there is no intention to change the policy of the November 9 statement but that he did not want to comment for Mr. Murphy. He said that the people of Israel have a "deep-rooted faith" in President Eisenhower. He stressed Israel's continual feeling of "deep and profound" concern in the light of U.S. inaction on Israel's arms request.
Mr. Eban engaged in a verbal duel today with Syrian Ambassador Farid Zeineddine on an NBC television program called "Youth Wants to Know" during which four foreign students in this country–two Israelis and two Arabs–questioned the Ambassadors. Mr. Eban appeared in full view of the television audience separated from the Syrian Ambassador by a specially constructed partition demanded by Mr. Zeineddine as a precondition for his appearance on the same program with the Israeli Ambassador. Mr. Eban commented on this "blockade" and its meaning in terms of Arab "hatred" and opposition to peace.


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There's always sex appeal on the ballroom floor, but tonight Gilles Marini and Kelly Monaco took it up a notch when performing their trio dances during tonight's episode.
After giving their respective duets, Marini and Monaco, along with the other five contestants on Dancing With the Stars, came back out for another dance with an additional ballroom professional.
And for Gilles that meant handling two beautiful blondes, while Kelly got lip friends with not one, not two, but three fellas. Get it, girl!
"It's wonderful, you know I've never had a trio dance," Marini told E! News about dancing with partner Peta Murgatroyd and Chelsie Hightower. "A ménage à dance I've never had. A ménage à trois—I would not answer that. I would plead the fifth because that happens many times."
Hey now! Did anyone else just get a flashback of Marini's, um, special appearance in the film Sex and the City? OK, that's enough. Back to backstage scoop. Sorry, but we must.
Anyway, as if things weren't getting hot enough, Monaco and a shirtless Val Chmerkovskiy talked about Kelly's lip-locks throughout her routine.
"I don't know, I wasn't very happy. It's OK," a slightly jealous Val said, but Kelly felt the total opposite. "I liked it," she told us. "I got to kiss Len [Goodman], Louis [van Amstel] and Val tonight. I'm a little whore."
Oh, Kelly.
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On 7/14/08, Timo Jyrinki <email@example.com> wrote:
2008/7/13 BlueStar88 <email@example.com>:
> Feeding assist data to compensate bad hardware based reception is no real
 > solution, since there are some FRs, which seem not to have any problems to
> get a fast fix at all.

My personal current belief is that those FRs are generally no better
than eg. yours or mine. It's simply a matter of software used and
 especially the place used (some countries have also better GPS
coverage than others), plus whether one really has a table or so where
the device can easily be mounted firmly. If you hold it in your hand,
still otherwise, it might not be steady enough to get the fix (or does
 someone know otherwise, eg. what kind of movement might corrupt the
received bits?). Or are there some people who get a fix while moving
Neo around?

Since the software has zero GPS data saving features etc., it's no
 wonder people easily think "it's broken". Especially, like in my case,
if people don't have previous GPS usage experience or don't know how
hard it's actually to "start from scratch" (scanning the whole sky)
 without any eg. estimate on current whereabouts or any other help. And
also it doesn't help that if eg. people use AGPS UI which clears any
received data every time it's started. One reason I believe it's not
 bad hardware reception is that when the fix is gotten, the fix stays
better than on many "real" GPS hardware.

Still, I've yet to experiment more on what would be best ways to get
the initial fix. Even if feeded initial data, it seems relatively
 impossible to get the fix around my place. I'm not sure what could be
improved still for the first fix, since after the fix is gotten it
stays so well one would imagine the fix should also be possible to get
 in an (relatively) open area with a clear sky.

-Timo

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This all are no arguments.

With my TomTom device I can do a full reset so that no GPS data is available at all (also no time and so on) and still get a fix in < 3 minutes at 100 km/h.

Well, I know the freerunner is no specialized gps navigation device, but the fact that the signals are so weak that it's barely possible to get a fix under optimal condition (clear view to the sky, antenna on top, without moving 1 mm) shows, that this is no simple software problem and has to be fixed.


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Sword-wielding poop samurai
So Lil E and I were sitting in the bathroom over the weekend, he half-nakey on his little potty and me teetering on the little stool next to the sink.
This is where we have long conversations, sing songs and ask each other Charlie Rose-like questions about the world these days.
"Mommy," he said seriously, "let's talk about poop."
Grrrreat. More of this, I thought.
I said nothing and he launched in.
"Isn't poop amazing?!"
For a moment, I became a ninja mommy, recalling the stealth conversational-avoidance skills from my days in nonprofit fundraising when I had a boss who could instantly appall me with the flick of a rude, inappropriate or mean-spirited comment right in the middle of a staff meeting. I used a move that was carefully developed and well-used: I just sat there, looking back at him, expressionless.
But like the boss, that didn't stop Lil E. If he'd been holding a sword (oh God), he would have raised it.
"Well, yes! Poop is amazing. And pee is beautiful."
I sat quiet, still, silent. Lil E stared me down with his lips slightly turned up and his eyes full of anticipation. And then, I really did get ninja: I burst into laughter. Loud, obnoxious, trying-too-hard, sarcastic laughter.
And the glory of it all was that it was just enough to throw off that little potty-saboteur. He laughed along with me, then got quiet again, looking down and concentrating on the real business.
I felt a little smug, I admit, halting that conversation before it went any further down the...ummm, tube. That and that the fact he's actually using the potty and not holding it six to eight hours at a time, is making me feel pretty victorious. And winning the battles is what parenting is all about, right?
Right? Well, no matter what, I was stealth as hell. And that counts for lot.


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I just realized. Lusers are the vuvuzelas of the software world.
OMG OMG OMG. In addition to totally fucked window controls, we now have a font!
I'm so excited about this thing because it's going to fix so many problems. It's going to make my 30 inch monitor work, and give me awesome 3d graphics, and all the game companies will port to linux to take advantage of this font, and my wireless problems will go away. And it will make Intel open source their gpu, and Microsoft will roll over and die.
I mean seriously. That's what happened when they release Bitstream Vera, and Liberation. Right? All the free desktop was missing was a fucking font.
Oh btw, will this make other websties that specify the standard web fonts look good? No?
Sunday, July 11, 2010
I just realized. Lusers are the vuvuzelas of the software world.
Monday, May 10, 2010
I was just taking a look at S-man's announcement for Ubuntu Unity and Light versions. Most of it is blah, except for this tidbit:
... The dual-boot, web-focused use case is sufficiently different from general-purpose desktop usage to warrant a fresh look at the way the desktop is configured. We spent quite a bit of time analyzing screenshots of a couple of hundred different desktop configurations from the current Ubuntu and Kubuntu user base, to see what people used most. We also identified the things that are NOT needed in lightweight dual-boot instant-on offerings...
Wut. Ok. Let me learn you something. I've seen lots of Linux screenshots in my time. If you were actually optimizing for the freetard, basically what you'd have is a desktop with two semi-transparent terminals. One tailing a syslog, and another showing an irc session. Oh and like some pager with a bazillion virtual desktops that are totally useless. Oh, and don't forget the scantily-clad, objectified female as the wallpaper image.
As for the rest of the article? OMG, You put a fucking dock on the side. In OSX and Win7, doing the same thing takes like 3 seconds. Do you really need to write a whole giant announcement about it?
Oh and I like the two sections at the end, about "Relationship to Gnome Shell" and "Relationship to KDE". Even the S-man has figured out that you can't just go "innovate" in the OSS community without shouting out to everyone. Because we don't want to piss off the ten people who care about Gnome Shell or KDE. Fuck. Could you imagine an Apple announcement saying something like "Relationship to Windows"?
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
A year later
Woah, Lundude is at it again.
Don't worry, it's mostly the same stuff. Linux Desktop sucks. It still sucks. Even a year later. When it's sucked for the last N years, why do you think N+1 will make it so much better? But I'm sooooo sure that there's just a business plan hiding under there somewhere, and I'm the only person to think this hard about it..
The rest of us know that if there were a business model that made sense and could be presented in a 45 minute slide-deck in some classroom, then someone would have done it already.
But I had some other funny thoughts:
The big players in the linux desktop are the distributions. They distribute stuff. They're somewhat ok at distributing their own stuff. But they're supremely awesome at making it hard for third parties to distribute their stuff. It's the distributions (and more precisely, the fact that there are so many of them) that make the actual distributing hard. Go figure.
Another thing. Why are y'all _still_ focused on random niche desktop thick client apps. Linux's problem is not a lack of thick client apps. Hardly anyone uses them, other than Office. And besides, that problem is solved. Distributing thick client apps to generic PC hardware is MS's turf. You wouldn't try to take on Google's search advertising business with a rag tag group of volunteers would you? So why the fuck would you go after MS's bread and butter? You win by solving the problem in a new better way, not making the problem worse in a shittier way.
Besides, the desktop is dying. Web apps are taking over. And it so happens that Linux is in a pretty good place to be an awesome web terminal. Even Google thinks so. But it still takes a google to herd enough people together to produce something like ChromeOS. Y'all could have probably put something like that together in as much time, if you could only focus and stop chasing after Microsoft's sinking boat.
Y'all bitch an complain that nobody writes apps for Linux. Boo hoo. Hardly anyone writes apps for windows either these days. They all write for the web. You got your fucking level playing field that you've been bitching about for years. But I'm sure it's still going to take some eeeevil corporation with a giant clue stick to show y'all how it's done.
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
A tale of ogg
Oh Ogg. The format that trapped many a user's music files on lowly Linux desktops. I know I've got some oggs somewhere that I can't listen to any more in itunes. Or any device that I care about, for that matter. And I'm too anal to re-encode them into the only format that matters: mp3.
More commonly, the Ogg proponents will respond with hand-waving arguments best summarised as Ogg isn't bad, it's just different. My reply to this assertion is twofold:
- Being too different is bad. We live in a world where multimedia files come in many varieties, and a decent media player will need to handle the majority of them. Fortunately, most multimedia file formats share some basic traits, and they can easily be processed in the same general framework, the specifics being taken care of at the input stage. A format deviating too far from the standard model becomes problematic.
- Ogg is bad. When every angle of examination reveals serious flaws, bad is the only fitting description.
The third reaction bypasses all technical analysis: Ogg is patent-free, a claim I am not qualified to directly discuss. Assuming it is true, it still does not alter the fact that Ogg is a bad format. Being free from patents does not magically make Ogg a good choice as file format. If all the standard formats are indeed covered by patents, the only proper solution is to design a new, good format which is not, this time hopefully avoiding the old mistakes.
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
They took our codes!
Huh. GregKH is complaining. Again. Big suprise.
Short story: Google uses Linux to create Android. Google makes some kernel modifications, in their own tree. Google has no time to deal with kernel community to re-architect their stuff so that it can go mainstream. GregKH whines like a baby.
Dude, get a clue. Seriously.
You can go on and continue to waste keynotes at conferences (yea, I'm sure the the organizers are super happy about that) to complain about people "stealing" your code. Waaa Waaa. Someone took my hippy license and took my code and isn't giving it back. Waaa.
Hello? Did someone not realize that Google is basically all about stealing Linux and "forking" it? Do you think that google server that you're hitting is really running bleeding edge Linux 2.6.35RC62? No, they're probably running some 2 year old kernel with their own patches, because they want to insulate themselves from upstream idiocy. They're not going to give you those patches, and even if they did, they probably couldn't because of upstream churn.
When it comes to Android, Google has done what the license asks. Make all the modifications public. If you and your rag-tag bunch of kernel developers want _their_ HOT new shit, the suck it up and bring the code in. It looks like they've even produced patches and sent you reviews. Don't like what they got? well, they're already doing more than what's required, so stop complaining.
You see, they've got this product to ship. And they've also got this competitor called Apple. You may have heard of them. So, yea, they _could_ sit their rearchitecting their interfaces so that some kernel dev which they don't pay and don't give shit about can feel like he's important... and watch Apple eat their lunch.
Or they could say fuck you guys. We're the one that's actually building something here. We'll get around to it, maybe, after we win.
Seriously, has this guy shipped real software before? And before someone gives the obvious answer, shipping upstream kernel releases does not count as "shipping" or "real". Just go look at the redhat kernel to see why that's the case.
Also, why go after google? There are tons of folks that do the same shit. They're just not as big. By doing so, you just look opportunistic and self-centered. Me me me me me me.
PS. I was thinking, maybe he should change the "staging" tree to the "hostage" tree. I mean, that's basically what it's used for.
Friday, January 29, 2010
Well, it looks like there's at least one business model out there that kinda works for companies shipping open source software: be some search engine's bitch.
Mozilla is Google's bitch. And now Ubuntu is Yahoo's bitch. Maybe Novell will be Bing's bitch?
I gotta better idea for you Ubuntu. Why don't you take your awesome hardware auto detection capabilities, and make it such that every time you install, you hit a server, which in turn causes an instant live auction between bing, google, and yahoo, who will bid money to make their search engine the default for that install.
I'm warning all you freetards. Some day, Ubuntu's installer is going to ask you if you want to install the google/yahoo/bing toolbar. And it will be present on every single window. Even your panel, and your xterm. Every shell command that you mistype will result in a google search. Then canonical can make ass loads of money and give you a crappy desktop system for free. It's going to be awesome. And some search engine will get like a hundred new people visiting their site.
BTW, it's amazing how desparate Yahoo looks at this point. A me-too search engine in bed with a me-too operating system. That's some nice thought leadership there Yahoo. Because you know, Google's all going to be like, we need to find some other distro that we can sponsor. Wait, what? They're building their own distro? It's going to ship on supported hardware and be somewhat usable? And it's based on Linux? ha ha ha. That's bullshit. Everybody knows that open source products won't succeed unless they have the support of the FSF. The FSF knows that the people want. Please. Stop your nonsense.
Some other notes for yahoo:
- These are Linux users. They are too cheap to click on your ads.
- These are freetards. They think it's cool to use adblock and pirate music.
So yea, uh, have fun trying to actually generate revenue from them.


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You should well know by now that the clubhouse whole heartedly supports the efforts of its community, especially indie creators, so when illustrator and SK Anthology contributor Dragan Kovačević asked if I wanted to take a peek at his latest film project I went all in. A week or so later and I found myself prepared to go where no man has gone before… The Place Where the Last Man Died, directed by Ivan Peric. Along with Kovačević, who also appears in the film as The Priest, and several others they have formed a smal production company called Dream Division.
A "retro-futuristic" look into a post-apocalyptic world, The Place Where the Last Man Died manages to play up its biblical parallels without becoming hypocritically pious. As its most obvious religious reference the film finds a man named Cain, an ex-military scientist and presumably the last man alive, resolved to find a place where he can die in peace. Whatever pity you may feel for the man, however, might just be extinguished by the fact that it was Cain who started the apocalypse.
He justifies his actions (to himself) as a way of purifying the Earth, a painless end to a pitiful existence, laying the blame instead on the entirety of the human race for not having taken full advantage of life's gifts. Much to his surprise, though, Cain soon discovers that he's not the last man alive after all and begins a new journey to ensure the utter extinction of mankind. Along the way he encounters several more survivors each of whom make him question the path that he's chosen, none more so than a young woman named Evelin (Eve).
Although I'm not typically a fan of subtitles, I found the thick Croatian accents actually lent sort of a hypnotically ominous tone to the film which reflected the desaturated imagery on screen. Whether this effect was intended or perhaps just enhanced as a byproduct of two different cultures/languages, I'm not sure. Although the majority of the film takes place under the deafening oppression of silence (makes sense there wouldn't be much sound at the end of the world) Kevin MacLeod's score adds just the right touch of drama to the religious grandeur of the movie's premise.
As the first feature length effort by Division, The Place Where the Last Man Died is a slow-paced movie whose somber story benefits from the proficiency of its sets, filmography, and sound design. While it struggles through action sequences, for the most part the cast does manage to convey as much credibility in front of the camera as Peric and Kovačević do behind it. I'll be interested to see what lessons learned from this production will be carried forward to their next project which, as Kovačević tells me, is currently in pre-production.
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Free Geek
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Most classes require prior sign up. Please check in at the front desk when you arrive to let them know you are here for the class. Bags must be checked at the front entrance.
Teacher: Jackson Cafazzo Maximum students: 7
Learn more advanced functions of GIMP like paths and layer masks. Perfect followup to the Gimp 1 class or for those already familiar with Photoshop. If you have never used either of these programs before, please do not sign up for this class. Instead, please take GIMP 1 first.


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Reviews for Clayton's places
Clayton's flat is extremely stylish, very clean and cosy, even better than you can see on the pictures provided. It's situated centrally, but still quite and in a hip district. You wake up with a lovely view on the garden and the birds singing.
You couldn't get a hotel room for this price which would provide you with the same elegant atmosphere.


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AU Press Releases
Alumnus creates Georeader app
Dave Moreau, AU classes 1990, 1992, industrial engineering, has created a free android smartphone app called Georeader.
The Georeader app has been selected as a finalist in the North American regional contest of the 2011 European Satellite Navigation Competition (ESNC) and has been featured in the Chicago Tribune and on NY1.com.
It contains lots of historical information and even some information about Alfred University. Its Web site is www.mygeoreader.com .
Search for Georeader in the Android Market.