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Talk @ PyCon AU 2018: Refactoring Code with the Standard Library →
A week ago today, I gave a talk at PyCon Australia in Sydney. I discussed refactoring in Python, and how to build refactoring tools using nothing but the standard library, building up from concepts to syntax trees to how the lib2to3 module works. The talk finished with the announcement of the open source refactoring framework I built at Facebook, Bowler, which I built using those same concepts. I really appreciated the questions from the audience and in the halls afterwards, and we really enjoyed our time in Sydney. Thanks to everyone that made PyCon so great!
Talk @ PyCon US 2018: Thinking Outside the GIL →
This past Friday, I presented a talk at PyCon US 2018 – the first time I've been fortunate enough to attend. The talk was focused on achieving high performance from modern Python services through the use of AsyncIO and the multiprocessing modules. The turnout was better than I could have ever expected, and I was really happy to hear from everyone that stopped by the Facebook booth to ask questions, discuss Facebook engineering practices, or even just say "hello". Thank you to everyone who made my first PyCon amazing!
Interview: PyDev of the Week →
This week, I was interviewed by Mike Driscoll of Mouse vs Python for their "PyDev of the Week" series, focusing on developers in the Python community.
A short quote, and timely announcement:
I'm currently preparing a talk for PyCon 2018 on using asyncio with multiprocessing for highly-parallel monitoring and/or scraping workloads. To go with this talk, I'm working on some simple example code that I hope to publish on Github. This will be my first major conference talk, so I'm both excited and absolutely terrified! 😅
I'm looking forward to giving that talk, and will post a video here afterwards!
Elite Dangerous
It's no secret that I'm a huge fan of space, video games, or video games set in space. I was a very early backer of Star Citizen, and am still eagerly awaiting the release of the persistent universe. But I also backed Elite: Dangerous as well, and although the initial scope was far more limited than Star Citizen's, Elite has already seen a "1.0" release, and I've been playing it an awful lot, all the way up from the first beta.
And damn, it's good!
The discipline and focus of the team at Frontier Development has produced one of the most polished space sim games I've ever played, and while there are plenty of gaps in features compared to the competition, everything that's there is done so well that I continue to be impressed every time I get in that cockpit and launch into the void.
After putting dozens of hours into the final release, I've gathered a few notes here that will hopefully help others in their journies to the stars. I will attempt to keep this up to date for as long as I'm playing the game.
When I was in elementary school, I discovered a series of books in the library that detailed, in glorious full page color, photos of the outer solar system as captured by Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 on their epic journeys to places never before explored by humanity. I was so stunned and enthralled at the thoughts of visiting those distant worlds; it indeed captured my imagination, and continues to inspire me even now, two decades after I first learned of their amazing quests.
I've spent countless hours dreaming of visiting the planets and stars of our universe: in games like Wing Commander, Freespace, Freelancer, Mass Effect, and X3, exploring fictional galaxies, and in Orbiter Sim, recreating my own journeys to the planets and moons of our own solar system. I can't wait for Star Citizen and X Rebirth to give me further ways to escape the confines of Earth and experience worlds that I will never be able to visit otherwise.
And I have NASA to thank for inspiring so many of these wonderful outlets, from the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo projects that took us to the Moon, the Voyager missions for showing us just how beautiful our own back yard really is, to the Mars rovers for exploring our closest neighbor, and to future NASA missions like New Horizons that are leading the way towards understanding our tiny place in this vast universe.
Today, it was finally confirmed that Voyager 1 has indeed crossed the boundary of the heliosphere and forever left our solar system behind.
I simply find it incredible that not only is Voyager still working after four decades of exceptional service, but that it's still capable of aiming its antennas at Earth, sending a coherent signal using only 23W of power, and actually sending useful data back to us. That alone is a hugely amazing achievement, and I think everyone at NASA should be eternally proud of their accomplishment. The fact that we now have even more data points regarding the boundaries of our solar system is just pure icing on top of that cake, and I congratulate everyone involved in the project.
If you asked me what my favorite spacecraft is, fictional or not, it wouldn't be the Enterprise, the Millenium Falcon, the Normandy, or even the Apollo rockets; it would be Voyager. And it will forever hold a special place in my heart.
So thank you, NASA. Thank you.
Android is Better →
Paul Stamatiou, on falling in love with Android:
I set out to write an article about how I feel Android provides unique affordances that create a unique cohesive mobile experience (more on that below) rather than talking openness, features and apps. However, the more time I spent living with Android it became obvious that being able to do anything and suit a variety of needs is a pillar of the Android experience.
I was trying to find out why Android felt so remarkably different to use, beyond aesthetics. I found there are a few pieces that help contribute to this magical user experience: the global back button, intents and Google Now.
Delight. It's what designers strive to produce in the experiences they craft. Google Now has hit the nail on the head. I can't even count the number of times friends have pulled out their phone to show me the smart things Google Now did for them.
Using Android feels like one fluid experience.
And it just keeps getting better and better!
Say "Yes" to JavaScript →
My immediate response to change of removing the switch was: "Thank god, that should have happened ages ago".
If you're really paranoid about your privacy, use Firefox, enable the Do Not Track flag in your options, enable click to play for plugins like Flash or Silverlight, and install the Ghostery and Adblock extensions. Anything else is just going to break the web at your own expense.
What Microsoft Should Have Done →
Soren Johnson, lead designer of Civilization 4:
The answer is to make digital games so attractive that players will abandon physical discs on their own. (One might call this the Steam strategy.) Microsoft could have avoided this whole fiasco by maintaining the old disc-based ecosystem while softly undermining it with three moves that create an alternate digital future.
Combined, these three changes would destroy the traditional retail market. The $40 price would make digital games cheaper at release; the ongoing heavy sales would undercut the used games market; and persistence would make digital games easier to maintain across multiple devices. Microsoft needs to make buying games digitally a better deal for the consumer than buying them physically.
I was extremely disappointed to hear Microsoft cave in to rabid demands to maintain the status quo. I was really looking forward to their plans for combined physical and digital ownership, where I could get all the benefits of buying physical copies, including special and collectors' editions of my favorite titles, while simultaneously retaining all the benefits of a digital copy, like the ability to forego disc-swapping.
How long will we have to wait for consoles to catch up with Steam?
Push Push Push
One of my favorite projects that I've created has to be ZNC Push, a plugin for ZNC that generates push notifications for IRC highlights and private messages. It supports a wide array of push services for all of the major mobile platforms, and gives the user deep flexibility in choosing how and when to trigger these notifications.
However, I have very little insight into usage statistics for the plugin. Pushover is the only service that gives me gross usage data, but considering ZNC Push supports six other networks as well as custom push URLs, this only represents an unknown portion of the total usage. But I will continue to draw baseless conclusions from it regardless! Do note that I can't see anything more than raw volume of notifications; I do not have access to who is sending/receiving these, nor the contents of those messages.
So without further ado, some pretty graphs straight from the Pushover dashboard:
ZNC Push reached a milestone of sending 15,000 push notifications in May through the Pushover service!
Push volume has been growing steadily since Pushover support was added, with a small dip in December and January that is likely attributeable to the holidays for most users. May marked the second occasion that ZNC Push has exceeded the volume "cap", and Pushover has again graciously increased that in support of this open source project. At this sort of grawth rate, I would expect the next volume cap (25,000/mo) will be reached by October at the latest. I'm excited to see such growth for a small side project with such a niche use case.
Sometimes, it's amazing to stop and realize just how far this project has come. What started in January of 2011 as a basic module for the Notifo push service, has blossomed into a mature system supporting multiple push services and far more customization options than I had ever envisioned from the beginning. Knowing that it's being used by so many people, and helping them stay more connected with their online communities, makes me a very happy engineer.
Many thanks to Pushover for granting such a large volume of free notifications to ZNC Push. If you're not already using them for your push service of choice, I highly recommend them. They have apps for both Android and iPhone, and they continue to improve them and add new features over time.
And as always, my eternal appreciation to everyone who has contributed time and energy to helping me improve the module over the past two and a half years! The project wouldn't be where it is today without your support.
Favorite Android Apps of 2012
Eighteen months ago, I wrote an article about my Favorite Android Apps, but a lot has changed with Android and its app ecosystem since then. Developers have started putting more focus on design and usability when creating apps, and of course newer apps have come along that I have come to rely upon. I myself have upgraded to newer devices, with a Nexus 7 replacing my Galaxy Tab 10.1, and a Galaxy Nexus from work has sadly replaced my beloved but aging Nexus S. So what follows are some of my favorite new apps from 2012, and some follow-up on what my previous favorite apps look like in modern attire. All screenshots are taken from devices running Android 4.2.1 (CM 10.1 nightlies).
Why Ralf Prefers Android →
Along a similar vein as my previous post on Why I Prefer Android, Ralf Rottmann, a self-described "Apple fanboy", has described why I prefer Android better than I could in my own words:
The latest version of Android outshines the latest version of iOS in almost every single aspect. I find it to be better in terms of the performance, smoothness of the rendering engine, cross-app and OS level integration, innovation across the board, look & feel customizability and variety of the available apps.
On the topic of app and system integration:
Another great example: Sharing stuff on social networks. On iOS, I have to rely on the developers again. Flipboard, as one of the better examples, gives me the ability to directly share with Google+, Twitter and Facebook. On my Nexus 4, I have 20+ options. That is, because every app I install can register as a sharing provider. It's a core feature of the Android operating system.
All of this is entirely impossible on iOS today. I've stopped counting how often I felt annoyed because I clicked a link to a location in Mobile Safari and would have loved the Google Maps app to launch. Instead, Apple's own Maps app is hardcoded into the system. And there's no way for me to change it.
Regarding possibilities for app developers:
On iOS, many things I always wished to see being developed, simply cannot be done because of the strict sandbox Apple enforces around apps.
I also have apps [on Android] that give me great insight into the use of mobile data across the device and all apps. Or the battery consumption. Or which apps talk home and how frequently.
None of it is available for iOS. And possibly won't be at any time in the near future.
And summing up the way I've felt for a long time when using iOS devices:
… whenever I grab my iPhone for testing purposes, iOS feels pretty old, outdated and less user friendly. For me, there currently is no way of going back. Once you get used to all of these capabilities, it's hard to live without them.
There are many things Apple got right with iOS, like making a consistent user experience, and encouraging users to spend money in the market for quality apps. But when they place so many restrictions and limitations on how you can use your phone, and what your software is allowed to do on your own device, I gladly give up those things that make iOS so great for the freedom to run apps that can do what I want — and expect — from a modern computing device.
Powered by Nib
For the last couple years, this site has been managed and updated using the open source static site generator called Poole. It is an excellent and simple system, comprised of two Python files — the Poole source code and a site-specific macros.py — a simple page template, input documents and static content. This is more than enough for a small static website, but more complicated sites, like blogs, require quite a few macros in order to generate things like archives, tag pages, or even RSS feeds. Over the 18 months that I worked with Poole, my macro file had gotten a bit disorganization, and the limitation of working from only a single template file was starting to strain on what I could do with it.
Now keep in mind, I still like many of the features that drew me to Poole in the
first place, such as the use of a document-centric build process, with YAML
headers for defining page metadata rather than an inline, proprietary format
used by projects like Jekyll. I also enjoy the simplicity of the content
representations, but the lack of an extensible content pipeline is my biggest
complaint. Supporting formats other than Markdown requires adding yet another
hook to the macro file; generating archives and tag pages required hacking in a
multi-phase build using
os.exec(); and inlining another page's content
post-render was just not possible, resulting in Markdown named-link collisions
when rendering multiple posts to a single page.
I wanted something new. So, for the past few months, I've been working on Nib.
The resulting design is based heavily on the concepts of Poole, but built around a primary goal of producing a proper content pipeline that is simultaneously aware of the differentiation between resources and documents, and defines multiple stages where plugins can hook into the process and alter or generate page contents at build time. Indeed, most of the actual functionality of Nib is contained within a handful of plugins, while the main module merely defines a framework for the content pipeline.
In effect, adding support for more content or resource formats should be as simple as adding a new plugin attached to the appropriate file extensions. Advanced content manipulation, generating "virtual pages", and aggregating pages or documents into multiple locations are all possible as well.
The Markdown plugin is 14 lines of code; the LessCSS plugin is 13; even the blog plugin — which generates the archive pages, tag listings, and Atom feed — takes only 86 lines to do a better job than the old Poole macros that required double the effort.
Today, I've thrown the switch. While it looks nearly identical to the old site generated by Poole, the page you are now reading has officially been generated by Nib. The news feed sees the biggest makeover, having changed formats from RSS to Atom, and now offers full content posts. Link-style posts, a format that I've been wanting to experiment with, are also a new option. Both features would have required more effort on Poole than I was interested in expending, but the new architecture has allowed me to indulge myself.
Nib is still in an extremely early, and unstable, phase though. It works for the needs of my site, and does come with some basic documentation and a sample site to start from, but it's far from complete. Near term goals include adding support for an intelligent menu, as well as support for more content and resource formats, like reStructuredText or SASS. Contributions are always welcome though, even at this early stage. Nib is liberally licensed, and I would love to hear feedback from anyone trying to use it. Hopefully it will be useful for someone other than myself.
Why I Prefer Android
What do you prefer about Android?
I prefer Android because it allows apps to do more things for the user, and allows them to better integrate with the system as a whole.
I can replace the on screen keyboard with one that has a full five-row keyboard for times when I SSH into a machine. On a similar vein, when I SSH into a machine, I can actually leave the SSH session running in the background while I switch to another app, without fearing that the OS is about to kill my SSH app while I'm looking something up or responding to a text message. I can also leave my IRC client running in the background without it constantly needing to reconnect when I switch back to it.
Intents in Android, especially in combination with the global Share mechanism, allow any app to receive arbitrary data from any other app, meaning apps don't need to know about specific apps or services in order to integrate with them. Clicking on a URL allows you to choose which browser (or set a default) to open the link in, allowing you to use alternate browsers (or alternate email clients, SMS apps, dialers, etc); tapping Share in the browser allows you to send the current URL to any application that can receive a URL, making apps like Instapaper, Pinboard, and 3rd party Twitter clients have the same capabilities as first party applications.
Sideloading apps means I'm not limited to installing programs from the Android Market/Play Store, and can do things like buy apps directly from the Humble Indie Bundle and install them on my own.
Proper background service support, and allowing apps to affect things outside their sandbox, lets me run programs like Locale that can monitor the phone's status, location, etc, and modify the phone's settings automatically based on a set of conditions that I've pre-arranged. My phone automatically silences itself at night time and while I'm physically at work, turns on my Wifi when I'm at home or work while defaulting it off when I'm out and about, and more.
That's just some of the reasons I like Android better than iOS.
The past two months have been intense. At the beginning of May, I was let go from BioWare and Electronic Arts in a round of budget cuts for my studio. Since then, I've played far too many video games (and beaten multiple titles), slogged through innumerable interviews, redesigned my website from the ground up, and celebrated my seventh wedding anniversary in some of the best summer weather I've ever experienced.
Oh, and I got a job at Facebook.
On May 3rd, BioWare informed me that my position in the studio was being eliminated. My terrible luck had struck again. But this time was different; within a few days, a recruiter from Facebook found this website and my open source work, reached out to me, and encouraged me to apply for an engineering role. Four weeks later, after phone screens and an on-site interview, I was offered a position as a Production Engineer. My luck had not only reversed, it had gone off the scale in the opposite direction.
Alongside Facebook, all my other leads paled in comparison. I wanted to stay in gaming, but here was the opportunity of a lifetime, to join one of the biggest and best engineering companies in the world, and the chance to learn from some of the brightest minds in the industry. The position is similar to the role I had at BioWare: writing and maintaining software to manage and automate the vast array of infrastructure that supports the front-end applications and engineers. It was an offer I couldn't refuse.
Monday was my orientation, and I was immediately impressed by the level of passion, vision and dedication from the entire team. Boz discussed the culture of "hack", and told a story about building a loft in a war room when it couldn't fit everyone in just two dimensions. Chris Cox gave an inspiring talk about where Facebook is heading, and I got a surreal sense of wonder when he mentioned our long term goals or the level of impact we have on global society and the way people communicate. It feels amazing to be part of a company that truly wants to change the world and improve the lives of hundreds of millions of people.
Even the training process embodies those same ideals. The first few weeks, every engineer goes through "bootcamp", attending learning and development sessions, sitting among other bootcamp engineers, and working with veteran teammates on real tasks to get familiar with the infrastructure, tools and codebase. Everyone is given the chance to progress at their own pace, with as much or as little help as needed. I've already learned so much in a few days, and I've also had the chance to share my own knowledge and experience with my fellow newcomers. And yet there's still so much left to cover.
Wednesday was my first day at a desk. Taped to the monitor was a sheet of paper printed with bold, red lettering.
What would you do if you weren't afraid?
I don't have an answer for that yet, but I will soon.
Me, PHP and MantisBT
I've been spending time migrating my server from Ubuntu 10.04 to Arch Linux, and in the process I thought very deeply about every PHP application installed on the old server. Five out of the six PHP apps were only there to support the one that really stood on its own: MantisBT, my long-standing bug tracker of choice.
Now, I've been a core developer, and de facto release manager, for the project for many years — since I was still in university and getting paid by my then-employer to contribute features and plugins that they wanted to use for their engineering team. Those plugins, like Source Integration, wouldn't be free without me fighting to license and release them for the community. And I wouldn't be where I am today without the experience and help I received in turn from the very same community.
I know I haven't been as involved in the project these days as I would like to be; there is an endless list of features and improvements to make to both the core system and the array of plugins I've created for it. Some great community members have stepped up and filled my place at times, while I have at least tried to stay active on the mailing lists and in the IRC channels. I've still guided and cut the last couple releases, but I haven't played a part in shaping the future of the project.
There are multiple competing visions charting new paths for the aging project, with conflicting goals and revision histories, and it really needs a stronger leader to take the reins and guide the project to its next milestones. I'm unfortunately not the person to fill this role, for many reasons. Maybe a few years ago it would have been better timing.
Lately, I've come to the realization that I can no longer bring myself to work with PHP for personal projects. I don't like the syntax, I don't like where the language is heading, I don't like how much memory and CPU it requires to run on a web server, and I just spend the whole time wishing I was writing Python code instead.
This blog hasn't run on PHP or a database for just over a year now, and with my MantisBT install being used mainly for projects I don't have the time or will to work on, it just seems to be dead weight. Github can serve my needs well enough for the few remaining projects I work on, and without needing a complicated setup on my end. Turning off MantisBT means I no longer need MySQL, PHPMyAdmin, APC, or even mod_php at all. The remaining apps can easily be replaced with external services.
So basically, this is me announcing what I've already been practicing for many months now: I will no longer be a developer for Mantis Bug Tracker, but I will remain involved as a mentor for other core developers, or for those seeking some advice on my plugins or creating their own. I won't be maintaining any of my plugins, but I will look at and accept pull requests until someone else wants to step up as maintainer. I will be removing MantisBT from my site, but will keep a database dump in case I ever need to reference it in the future.
This is not me withdrawing from open source; I have many other projects that I've been working on, most of which are written in Python or C++. I find them more enjoyable to deal with, and most importantly, they allow me to break out of the realm of writing web applications. IRC, as old as it is, has been my point of intrigue lately, and is at the core of my current "pet" project.
Regardless of language, you can still find me on Github, where all my toys are available for the public to point and laugh at. And as always, I will answer questions on Freenode as "jreese", or via email, although there may sometimes be a long delay before I can reply.
Thank you to everyone who's contributed to MantisBT or its plugins, and thank you to everyone who helped me on the way to where I'm going.


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dave1959 wrote:REMINDER RE THE ABOVE ANNOUNCMENT re Expansion List
DUE 7PM MAY 15, 2017 EDST - (done on the Expansion TAB on your team spreadsheet)
Penalty - no excuses - YOUR ENTIRE TEAM WILL BE EXPOSED TO EXPANSION DRAFT
Nick wrote:Looking at the TAB, how do you mark as protected?
kyuss wrote:From this season onward the Waiver Draft is scheduled to start on the second last Monday of September.
dave1959 wrote:8 TANKING
8-1: the CC have added a new general rule to prevent unfair tanking, something that not only affects the final draft order, but also alter the rest of the standings as a result of disguised matchups:
Blatant tanking on purpose is not allowed. Not even after reaching gp minimums.
This means when a GM is caught blatantly dressing a worse lineup* than the one available, the league can fix the lineup immediately (this to save the integrity of the matchup and not giving up free pts to the opponent, hence screwing our standings as a result) and apply sanctions to the offending GM.
If the 'irregular' lineup is only detected afterwards, along with applying sanctions, the advantage earned by dressing a bad lineup on purpose will be taken away in the final standings by adding the points of the stats the offending GM lost in the affected matchup.
* the accused GM will have the chance to explain his lineup decisions if he disagrees with the eventual CC intervention, but the CC will obviously have the final word.
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Dinner with Guest Chef Juan Ramon Cardenas
- September 26, 2013 6:00 PM
Dinner with Guest Chef Juan Ramon Cardenas at Cafe Modern
Tour of Mexico Inside Out: Themes in Art Since 1990 begins at 6 pm.
Dinner begins at 6:45 pm
$98 per person (tax and gratuity not included)
Five courses with wine
For reservations, please call Cafe Modern 817.840.2157.
Juan Ramon Cardenas is the executive chef and owner of Don Artemio, the Five Diamond Award winning, upscale Mexican restaurant specializing in innovative Modern Mexican Cuisine as well as the owner of Villa Ferre, a special event venue that hosts up to 13,000 guests for weddings and corporate events. He is the former director of CANIRAC (National Restaurant Association) and pioneer of the Culture of Wine in Saltillo as well as Mexican Gastronomy Programs at the recognized, University of Technologic of Monterrey. Juan Ramon is recognized with the San Pascual Award as Top Chef in Mexico 2012.
Menu Highlights
- Chef Juan's Nopalitos Salad paired with Flowers Chardonnay, Sonoma Coast
- Octopus in Chile Pasilla Mojo with Avocado, Endive, and Roasted Garlic Mayo paired with Ritual Sauvignon Blanc, Casablanca Valley, Chile
- Chile en Nogada with Spheres of Pomegranate, and Pomegranate Foam paired with Faust by "Quintessa" Cabernet Sauvignon, Napa Valley
- Pork Belly Confit, Zucchini and Corn in Salsa Verde with Cotija Cheese Paper paired with Primus Carmanere, Colchagua Valley, Chile
- Arroz con Leche with Foam of Coconut Milk, and Crystallized Framboises paired with Mexican After dinner drink
Featured wines will be presented by Phillip Madden with Quintessa /Huneeus Wines.


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Portsmouth's future to be decided at the High Court
THE future of crisis club Portsmouth will be decided at the High Court at a two-day hearing within the next two months, it emerged today.
A judge agreed to a request for an expedited hearing which the League 1 club's administrators hope will clear the way for a fans' takeover, making Pompey Britain's biggest community-run club.
The 2008 FA Cup winners, who have £61 million debts and are heading towards a third relegation since losing to Chelsea in the 2010 Cup final, have been warned by the Football League that they must exit their year-long administration by the end of the season or they will be liquidated.
Their rapid fall from grace was illustrated last night when two former Pompey players, Kevin-Prince Boateng and Sulley Muntari, scored the goals to give AC Milan a 2-0 victory over Barcelona in a Champions League last-16 tie.
Next season Portsmouth, who are bottom of League 1 and facing a further 10-point deduction when they exit administration, are likely to face League 2 opponents including Fleetwood, Morecambe, and Dagenham & Redbridge.
Adminstrators PKF have agreed a deal with creditors including the Professional Footballers' Association to sell the club to a community buyout led by the Pompey Supporters' Trust.
But the sale has been blocked by former owner Balram Chainrai's company Portpin, which has a charge - like a mortgage - on the club's rickety Fratton Park ground.
Mr Chainrai is seeking anywhere between £7 million and £12 million to set aside the charge but the Trust has agreed a price of £2.65 million with the administrators after obtaining five independent valuations. It has offered Mr Chainrai £3 million to settle out of court. But if the case goes to court and Mr Chainrai wins, the club is likely to be liquidated and Pompey will lose their place in the league.
The Football League has said it will only deal with the Trust bid in the time left to save the club and has rejected a rival bid fronted by financier Keith Harris, who has a history of working with Mr Chainrai.
At the High Court today Mr Justice Sales agreed that the much-delayed hearing should go ahead to decide whether the charge can be set aside and if so, for how much. The dates are expected to be decided by court officials in the next couple of days but it will be heard by April 19 at the latest.
Lawyers had advised that without the judge agreeing to an acclerated hearing it would have been the summer at the earliest before the case could be heard, by which time Portsmouth - founded in 1898 and twice League Champions and twice FA Cup winners - would have gone out of business.
A spokesman for PKF said: "We are pressing ahead with the case that is seeking the court's consent for the disposal of Fratton Park to the PST.
"The court has this morning confirmed that the case will be heard by 19 April at the latest, which will enable us to meet the Football League's deadline for the sale of the club, subject to a favourable ruling. We hope that, in the next few days, the court will be able to set a specific date for this hearing."
The court heard that last night the Football League sent Portpin a letter which suggested that it might soften its stance on only considering a bid from the Trust.
"The court was also made aware that correspondence has been exchanged between the Football League and Portpin which seems to lead to some ambiguity with the League's previous public statements that no other bid would be considered at this late stage. We will be seeking clarification from the League as a matter of urgency," the administrators said.
he Board of The Football League is not considering alternative applications for the transfer of Portsmouth's share in The Football League.
But within hours the Football League published a statement, insisting it had not changed its twice-stated stance.
A League spokesman said: "As stated after its most recent meeting, the Board of The Football League is not considering alternative applications for the transfer of Portsmouth's share in The Football League.
"Instead, it remains focussed on a successful transfer of share to the preferred bidder, the Pompey Supporters Trust."
Colin Farmery, spokesman for the Trust, said: "At the end of the day we are pleased the court case is proceeding.
"It needs to be heard by April 19 to meet the Football League's deadline and we are confident it will be sooner than that as this needs resolving as soon as possible.
"The Football League say we cannot go into another season in administration and the judge realises time is of the essence. We hope we will be in control much sooner that that.
"The PST's bid is the best one for the creditors and for the club, and means Fratton Park will be back under the ownership of Portsmouth Football Club."


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Ramps, pipes and toe stops
Hey all. First time on quads at the skatepark today, felt OK. Recently started aggressive inline but hate the way the skates skate...so trying some Antik Spyders I just got.
What's the take on toe stops? I bottled out of dropping in today as I got it in my head my gumballs would catch on the transition and send me floorwards face first. Any experience of this? I'd rather not have to take them off every time I go to a skatepark.
I did pump up to the coping in two half pipes, and 180 on a quarter pipe OK, so I did ride the transitions facing downwards OK in both cases. I just don't know if the angle/force of dropping in could cause them to catch.
Anyone out there use/have used toe stops? I have seen a couple of YouTube vids with derby girls skating pipes and bowls, they seem to have toe stops, but I am a LOT heavier than they are (over 230lb at the mo!).
Advice appreciated :-)
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The skate park I went to last has closed down. Damn shame. rolled my quads there once and did not use toe stops. Honestly I find them annoying. They do a poor job of stopping and going compared to laterals\hockey stops. I don't trust having toe stops on ramps much the way most derby people wear them.
What's odd is even though I was largely a inline skater growing up going back on quads... I still searched for those blasted toe stops even when the inlines I've been skating for years and years don't have them.
What I had to do to ditch them is find ways to stop/brake without them. When I did use toe stop I keep them threaded up as far as possible and out of the way. When you go to use them this lets you get a harder lean on them in my experience, and stop faster or have more traction for taking off.
I bet they could offer cool stalls though if you had them threaded all the way up. I did a rock and roll on the coping at the park but was scared to damage my plates finish, should have stuck some stoppers in and tried it.
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Never thought of locking on with the toe stops to stall - I've been on inlines too so my mind is set on stalling on the middle wheels.
I reckon I'd be OK - I have my gumballs screwed right up to the plates anyhow. It's probably just a confidence thing. Being new to skateparks, I don't have a huge amount of that ;-)
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|September 6th, 2014, 09:24 AM
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There must be someone out there who has got some knowledge of issues (or not) with ramps, pipes and toe stops! Come on, people! ;-)
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I've just visited the skate park a couple times now, but I am using toe stops. I researched a lot of what people were using and it seems there were a lot more people for them vs. against them. I like having them there for security, and you can do some cool stuff with them. I have not dropped in from anything big yet but I don't think they would get in the way. I have mine screwed in higher than I do for indoor skating/derby just to be sure they don't catch on anything.
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|September 6th, 2014, 11:26 PM
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Cheers Rebecca, nice to have some feedback that reflects experience!
I don't think they will get in the way, but I'm afraid of them catching the transition and sending me face first into the floor. Suppose I will just have to try it...thanks for the reply ;-)
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|September 9th, 2014, 10:17 AM
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No ToeStop for me in verts/ramp/bowl (speed skaing too, but its with other skates). As you said they can catch some curves. More important is that my front trucks are pushed forward, so no place for them.
However, beginners are used to them for accelerating and might need them to go out from some deep bowls . If you are scared to remove your toestop, you can keep used ones (at max height is adjustements are possible). It will protect your plate too, and wood ramps...
But the best is to try not using them, pumping in curves to gain speed.
|April 21st, 2015, 01:59 AM
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Extremely late to the reply here, but in case anyone else is cruising through here for advice...
There have been a few times I've considered taking my toe stops off because when I'm learning a new trick, I always go back to using them as a safety habit and it becomes more of a mind game to NOT use them than to just do the damn trick!
However, there are lots of cool tricks you can do with your toe stops! I love doing toe stop stalls and I use them to pop up on the deck when I don't have enough speed, too.
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Some curvature of the penis is common, but when one has a severely bent penis, it can cause some significant issues for a man. There can be many causes of excessive curvature, and sometimes the medications a man is taking contribute to this condition. In order to ensure proper penis health, men need to know a little about Peyronie's disease, as excessive curvature is often called.
What is Peyronie's disease?
As stated above, many men have a small or modest degree of curvature to their penis when it is erect. This is not something to be concerned about. Many women find a degree of curvature quite aesthetically pleasing or exciting. As long as the curvature does not interfere with a man's sexual pleasure, he usually need not be concerned.
In some cases, however, the bend is so extreme that sexual activity and enjoyment are negatively affected. When the source of this bending is a build-up of plaque or lumps in the penis, it is typically diagnosed as Peyronie's disease.
Type of curve
Peyronie's is not associated with a particular type of curve. It may bend up, down, to the left or to the right; the direction does not matter in terms of diagnosis. Sometimes, plaque builds up on both the top and bottom of the penis; in these cases, it may cause the penis to become somewhat shorter than it would otherwise be when erect.
In some instances there is little or no pain associated with Peyronie's, but in other cases stiffening of the member may cause substantial pain. It is also not uncommon for a man with Peyronie's to experience some pain or discomfort during sexual activities.
Conversely, some men report that the build-up of plaque actually causes a "deadening" or loss of some sensation in the penis. This often interferes with their sexual pleasure.
There are a number of things which can cause Peyronie's. Trauma to the penis is a common cause, occurring when the member experiences rough handling or a sharp blow. There is also an association between Peyronie's and gout, heart disease and diabetes.
Many doctors also believe that some medications and supplements can be contributing factors to this bent penis condition. Among the medications which are considered to be possible contributing factors are:
- Beta blockers. Many people with high blood pressure and/or heart disease are prescribed a class of medicines called beta blockers to help deal with these issues. Beta blockers are associated with fibrotic tissue disorders, which include Peyronie's disease. If a man is using a beta blocker and suspects that there may be a connection with Peyronie's in his case, he should discuss alternative medication options with his doctor.
- Anti-seizure drugs. Some drugs used to control seizures, such as phenytoin, are also on the Peyronie's cause list. Again, discussing possible alternative with a doctor should be considered.
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WARNING: this content deals with the subject of harm and potential harm to children – while not graphic, I just wanted you to be aware.
I worry constantly about my 4yr old twins. They're like small, cute, friendly, chattering squirrels.
And no matter how much I role-play and drill them about "stranger danger" or even potential danger from someone they might know, they still cozy up to every stranger we meet.
This is why I generally don't let them out of my sight outside of school hours, and the list of people I trust their little lives and safety to is a Very. Short. List. And even then, I make sure it's for as short a time as possible.
And I'm sure you've read the recent news reports: a politician molests the sleeping slumber-party guests of his elementary-school age daughter, a Texas father having to repeatedly put the smack-down on the filth molesting his 4-yr-old daugher to rescue her when the piece of garbage just won't stop – resulting in the creep's death,
the recent Dateline report that showed that even a police officer's own child was susceptible to the blandishments of child-luring.
We try and try, and tell them over and over again. We practice scenarios, we role-play, we repeat ad nauseum.
But do I have any faith that that would be enough in the face of someone pretending to be nice and offering candy to my kids in the hopes of luring them off?
Hell no!
Because no matter how well you prepare them, they are still very young, and anything resembling impulse control is practically non-existant.
Let me make this very clear: Small children primarily act on their Lizard Brain instinct.
Desire pops up and they've gone chasing it faster than you can say 'Don't get into cars with strangers offering candy!' or 'Don't go into the street after a ball!'
You cannot depend that if it ever (God forbid!) comes down to crunch time, that your little sweetie will have the emotional and mental wherewithal to remember the lessons you've drilled into their head, let alone the gumption to stand up to whatever emotional pressure some creep is putting on your child to get them to go along with whatever horrible crap they've thought up.
I'm sorry to be so negative about this, to rain on your parade, but let me tell you a little (true) story:
Waaaay back when, Little Lara (me), age 6, gets out of school for the day. Her friend – let's call her 'Sophie' – says "I've got a great idea! How about you come home with me today and we'll play at my house!"
Little Lara thinks this is nifty and follows Sophie home (this was in the dinosaur days when little kids walked to and from school even at such young ages – but it could just as easily have been Lara's own backyard the kids wandered away from).
After a couple of hours playing, Sophie's mom sticks her head out, tells Sophie it's time to come in and that her little friend has to go home.
So off wanders Little Lara obediently, with no idea how to actually get home, and compounding this problem – she's very navigationally challenged on a good day! (I still am, actually!)
By this time, Little Lara's mom has gone beyond insane with worry, and has notified the police and gotten the neighborhood somewhat organized into search parties.
They eventually find the child in an abandoned construction site – luckily alive and unmolested.
Little Lara did not stop and think that her mom should be notified BEFORE she goes home with her friend. She did not think of mentioning to Sophie's mom that A) she did not have her mom's permission to be there, and B) she had no idea of how to get home, and C) It never occured to Sophie's mom that the small child her daughter was playing with WASN'T from their neighborhood and didn't have permission to be there.
Everyone just sorta 'went with the flow'. You can't assume that other 'responsible' adults around will catch things that 'slip thru the cracks'.
Kids just don't think. And not all situations are cut-and-dried, with some obviously sinister stranger practically advertising his/her intentions, menacing your child.
These days perpetrators – whether strangers or someone known to the child – work to make an environment that the child feels comfortable with and lulls the child into complacency.
Here's another true story:
Little Lara (my, she had an exciting childhood!) age 4, gets on the schoolbus after Pre-K. The bus takes off, but doesn't actually stop to let any kids off. Instead, Ernie the bus driver goes off on a joyride with about 10 small children riding shotgun.
He even stops to buy them all candy, which they happily eat – never thinking that it might be poisoned (relax, it wasn't – luckily!), not questioning that they weren't being taken home. Nope, they were all singing "The Wheels On The Bus" and otherwise having a very fun time with their new buddy Ernie.
And when, at last after several hours, he returns the bus to the school – and gets taken away by the police – every one of those children were quite bewildered at their parents' hysterics. (It turned out that Ernie had been mentally ill and later committed homicide.)
Point is: a situation that may give any right-minded parent the heebie-jeebies from hell, may seem to be 'situation normal' to a small child – no matter how informed that child may have been by conscientious parents!
So please don't take it for granted that your child's safety awareness under controlled circumstances may translate to the same level under (God forbid!) actual field conditions.


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This is a convoluted chain, but bear with me: An organization calling itself "Family Security Matters" published an article by Phillip Atkinson which advocated the idea of a "President-for-life" George W. Bush and descried Democracy as a failure. This article was later removed from the FSM site, but is accessible via Google cache (search: "president for life bush site:familysecuritymatters.org"). A provocative argument in the article is that, according to the author, the US should have used nuclear bombing to either beat the Iraqi populace into submission or erase them from the planet, whichever came first. It's hard to believe that any article this far over the top is serious, and yet there's no evidence of satire at all.
Phillip Atkinson is a British high-school drop-out now living in Australia. He has self-published a so-called "theory of civilization" called "A Study of Our Decline." From what I can tell, it is only available on the Internet (http://www.ourcivilisation.com/inspire.htm).
OK, so far, just some nut job on the Internet. Nothing new there.
BUT, who is FSM?
According to this blog post, FSM is a front-organization for the "Center for Security Policy," whose board of advisors is now called the "National Security Advisory Council." Sound familiar? You might recall that an early member of that group was ... Vice President Dick Cheney.
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Pretty typical. We finally take a trip to Florida and a tropical storm shows up. Last year the first named storm didn't happen until August 1.
So John and I are having the Great Debate - do we try to do Disney today, tomorrow, or save our free tickets for another time? They're good through the end of 2006. On the one hand, we could save the tickets for a day when we can spend the entire day, and it's not raining. On the other hand, so what if we don't get a whole day and it rains while we're there? The tickets were free. We welcome any input from the Thinking Minorities.
At least we got to do Universal Studios. The park was closed and only conference members and their guests could enter. All of the food and drinks were free, and the lines were pretty short (I'd say about 15 minutes on average - as opposed to HOURS) - basically, it was how a theme park SHOULD be.
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In the world of consumer electronics, there are two major shows -- CES in Las Vegas in January, and IFA in Berlin every September. How do journalists know that what was previewed in CES will be ready to market at IFA in time for Christmas? Well, the annual IFA Global Press Conference, that's what.
Here's a quick roundup of newfangled features you can expect from upcoming high-definition televisions this year. And it looks like the Smart tellies have gotten just a notch smarter.
As our resident tablet reviewer read through all the promised hardware upgrades for the new iPad, it's undeniable that the thought of ditching his old iPad for the new one is weighing heavily on his mind. But in less than 15 minutes, he decided against it. Here's why.
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"For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great
signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the
very elect." Matthew 24:24
Suggested Further Reading: 1 Peter 2:4-10
What effect does election have on our actions? If this doctrine be fully
received and known, it breathes with all gratitude to God, an earnest desire
to show forth his praise. It leads to all kinds of holy activity, and a hearty
endeavour for the service of God. We are told continually by philosophic
writers, that the idea of necessity—the idea that anything is fixed or
decreed—tends at once to damp activity. Never was there a grosser
misrepresentation. Look abroad, everything that has been great in the spirit
of the age has had a Necessitarian at the bottom of it. When Mohammed preached
predestination, he took a necessitarian view. Did that doctrine of
predestination make his followers idle? Did it not make them dash into the
battle, declaring they must die when the appointed time came, and while they
lived they must fight, and earnestly defend their faith? Or to take an
instance from the history of our own country. Did the Calvinism of Oliver
Cromwell make his Ironsides idle? Did they not keep their powder dry? They
believed that they were chosen men of God, and were they not men of valour?
Did this doctrine mar their energy? So in every good enterprise our churches
are never behind. Are we backward in missionary enterprise? Are we slow to
send forth men of God to preach in foreign lands? Are we deficient in our
efforts? Are we the people who would preach to a select few?—who would erect
buildings for worship that the poor scarcely dare to enter? Are we the people
who would keep our religious services for a privileged circle? The fact is,
the most zealous, the most earnest, and the most successful of men, have been
those who have held this truth.
For meditation: The doctrine of election is not supposed to turn us in upon
ourselves, but to send us out to others (John 15:16; Acts 9:15).
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Beyond Monster LakeApril 25th, 2013
Can TomaGold repeat its success without Quinto Real?
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Will fortune treat this company so favourably a second time? David Grondin thinks it might. As president/CEO of TomaGold Corp TSXV:LOT, he's already seen spectacular success at Quebec's Monster Lake, a repetitive source of high-grade gold assays bankrolled by joint venture partner Quinto Real Capital TSXV:QIT. Now he's planning a simultaneous drill campaign on TomaGold's adjacent, 100%-held Winchester property.
Lying on the same trend, the two properties have similarities, Grondin says. Like the 3,336-hectare Monster, the 1,070-hectare Winchester had originally been drilled at shallow depths. It wasn't until Monster was drilled deeper that the big discovery was found. But Winchester's mineralized corridor, "instead of being five to 15 metres wide like Monster, is 60 to 100 metres wide." Historic results show base metals potential too, he points out. "So we think Winchester can be a big driver for the company too. We'll start drilling the same time as Monster, so it'll be highly cost-effective. It should create a lot of new interest in the company, so we're excited about that."
As if TomaGold really needs new interest. Monster Lake first grabbed the market's attention back in April 2012, with an assay of 237.6 grams per tonne gold over 5.7 metres. But relative calm set in while the company tested other targets at shallow depths. Then, in November, TomaGold met Quinto, a well-heeled company looking for a qualifying transaction. The two companies consummated their JV with a winter campaign focusing on the 325 zone, site of the April 2012 discovery, and going beyond 125 metres' depth for the first time in Monster Lake's drilling history. Another outburst of market enthusiasm greeted assays from three holes announced on February 20:
- 33.6 g/t gold over 5.85 metres, at a vertical depth of 217 metres
- 11.5 g/t over 5.3 metres, at a depth of 187 metres
- 42 g/t over 7.2 metres, at a depth of 278 metres.
Highlights from three more holes released March 8 showed:
- 42 g/t gold over 7.2 metres, at a vertical depth of 278 metres
- 33.6 g/t over 5.85 metres, at a depth of 217 metres
- 32.6 g/t over 6 metres, at a depth of 170 metres.
An April 22 batch included:
- 37.1 g/t gold over 4.8 metres, at a vertical depth of 235 metres
- 8.65 g/t over 11.3 metres, at a depth of 325 metres
- 7.3 g/t over 2.55 metres, at a depth of 330 metres.
True widths were estimated at 70% to 85%. Topcuts weren't applied.
The February 20 assays shot TomaGold from $0.115 to $0.205. By March 8 the stock hit $0.41. Even more dramatic was Quinto. Previously flat at $0.04, its shares soared to $0.25 on February 20 and, on February 28, $0.98.
Grondin now plans another 4,000 metres beginning mid-May. But despite a short pause, the company's capable of year-round drilling thanks to a "really brilliant" crew, he says. He also plans a surface bulk sample, pending permitting. As the maiden resource approaches Grondin expects to calculate a topcut to compensate for the high-grade nugget effect.
Meanwhile the next 4,000 metres will target the zone at depth and its extensions along strike, he says. "Then we'll probably do some infill to classify some of the resource as indicated. If it's still open at depth, we might then do another 2,000 or 3,000 metres. One way or another, the resource is going to be done by year-end."
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Like I said in yesterday's post, I turned 25 this month, and it's strange because I still feel like I'm in high school. It's not like I'm clinging to youth or anything, in fact, I'm excited to turn 30 in the near future. I've found that every six months or so I become a little less of an asshole, so I'm hoping by 30 I'll be a real hip woman in charge of her own destiny, getting her clothes tailored, not eating as much processed foods, the whole thing.
But for now, I can't tell- am I an adult? Let's look at the evidence:
ADULT: I have aged out of eligibility to be on The Real World because apparently 25 is too old to catch syphilis in a hot tub while you experiment with your sexuality. What if I'm a late bloomer, huh, MTV?
NON-ADULT: Still too young to be a Real Housewife. Not a girl, not yet a woman.
ADULT: I pay rent with my own money for a townhouse with a garbage disposal, yes, garbage disposal.
NON-ADULT: I recently cashed in an animal crackers jug full of change at a Coin Star so I would have drinking money.
ADULT: I told a co-worker how old I turned on my birthday and he said, "25! You can get married now!" Isn't that wild? I mean, at this point, if I had a kid in a high school bathroom stall no one would give me a reality show. They might call DCF because what am I doing having a baby in a high school bathroom stall? but 25 is a completely appropriate age to get married and have a child. In the Mid-West.
NON-ADULT: No matter how old I am when I have kids, always exclaiming "this is children raising children!" is a very charming thing I plan to do.
ADULT: Another thing about kids- I'm at least mature enough to know at what time a toddler should be in bed and not at the West Hollywood Halloween Carnival among half a million people. That would be all of the times. When I went this year it was after 11pm and I was very surprised at the toddler to screaming drunk people ratio.
NON-ADULT: At 8pm on a Sunday I locked my keys in my car and waited until 1am to ask AAA to get them because I was late for karaoke. Somebody, quick! Give me a baby to raise! I might accidentally lock them in the back seat, but I promise I'll fish them out after last call!
ADULT: I got my oil changed all by myself this week!
NON-ADULT: I didn't get my oil changed all by myself until I was 25 year old.
Welp, I am no closer to an answer, but at least I have enough self awareness to limit the amount of times I say the phrase "quarter-life crisis." That counts for something, right?


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Last week, I was hit by a sniffling cold midday. I spent the last few hours of the workday back at home, in bed with tea and Bob Dylan's new memoir. By the next morning, I'd bounced back and finished reading the book.
For most of my life, I really had no interest in Dylan until about seven years ago when my friend, Bob Dye, more or less forced me to listen to The Freewheelin' and Highway 61. The music softened my resistance but Pennebaker's movie, "Don't Look Back" triggered the sort of instant conversion usually limited to evangelicals. I haven't paid much attention to the albums from the mid 1970s to the mid 90s but own and play most of the early and late records fairly regularly.
Despite all this enthusiasm, nothing prepared me for Chronicles, Vol. I. I had long assumed that , though I admired the music, the man was arrogant and withdrawn, the sort of person one would never want to spend ten minutes with. Instead, I discovered that Bob Dylan has all the hallmarks of the quintessential creative person (and I'm surprised that this surprised me).
First I was struck by how much he knows about music, all sorts of music, from classical to bebop to rap to doo-wop to the cheesiest sort of pop, and is able to extract something useful and inspiring from all of it. Like Picasso, he believed in borrowing from everywhere … but himself.
Secondly, he has always challenged himself — not to be successful financially and critically — but to constantly grow and branch out in new directions. Except for a period where he admits he was in some sort of creative stupor, he has always been motivated by some flickering notion in the back of his head that slowly grows and blooms as he feeds it. It's not to 'show the world' or provoke the industry, but because he is always feeding himself with new influences that spark fresh ideas and directions.
Thirdly, despite the fact that he is such an important maverick, he has deep roots in those that came before. His love for and appreciation of roots blues and folks music has always been the core of his art. He has solid foundations, ones he forged himself, and he has been layering on top of them for fifty years. Reading about his early record collection had me revisiting mine, pulling out Sleepy John Estes, Dave Van Ronk, and Harry Smith's American Folk Music once again.
Next, I was struck by his enormous generosity. He is lavish in his acknowledgment of all the influences on his art. He talks about what he learned from all sorts of surprising influences, everyone from Frank Sinatra, Jr. to Daniel Lanois.
It was fascinating to hear how he first came to write music, how content he had been to simply play others' compositions, and how hesitant he was to compromise the body of folk music, sort of like if Horowitz began playing his own piano sonatas rather than Ludwig Van's. Slowly Dylan began to introduce his own additional lyrics to folk standards and then eventually to create his own from the staff up.
While he was committed and hard working, Dylan never comes off as terribly ambitious. He wants to keep moving forward, to play for larger audiences so he can have new creative opportunities but he never set out to be a superstar. In fact, in his admiration for pop singers and Tin Pan Alley composers, he acknowledges that playing Woody Guthrie songs hardly seemed the road to fame and fortune, even in the folk-mad days of the early 1960s. Even recently, when he has been touring a lot, it's to stretch himself creatively, to play music publicly that should be played, to shed the nostalgic classic rock trappings and talk to new audiences in new ways. Miles was much the same way. The still-touring members of the Stones, the Beatles, the Who, etc. have no such creative ambitions.
I'd urge you to read the book and see how it strikes you. I believe it has a lot in it for anyone contemplating their own creativity.
A number of people have written to me for a certain kind of advice. Typically, they'll ask how they can become professional illustrators or, even more frequently, how they can get books published. I tend to answer such letters less often than I used to because I realize that I don't have the answers. But I think Bob does. Here are a few landmarks:
1. Figure out what you're about. What do you like to do, what are your media, your subject matter, your style.
2. Explore. Getting to #1 requires flexibility, openness, a willingness to explore and to try on lots of costumes.
3. Focus. Spend less time on success and more on art. The more you work, the better your art, the more likely things are going to happen. And figure out what you really want. At one point, I just wanted my name on a book jacket, any book. Now I have a clearer sense of what I am willing to spend my time on. And consider your work from the point of view of those who you want to want it. Learn about the industry you are trying to break into and the audience you are talking to. Don't just send off stuff to inappropriate and uninterested publishers. Understand the market.
4. Move to New York. You may have to make some sacrifices but if you're not where it's at, you're not where it's at. This applies to those hellbent on commercial success (but, of course, there are many other ways to be successful). But most importantly, when you are in the deep end of the creative pool surrounded by others full of energy and ideas and examples, you learn to swim a lot better.
5. Be generous. Seize every opportunity to thank people and include them in what you're doing. Give your work away then make more.
6. There are no small parts. Play the coffee shops, pass the basket, don't just hold out for the Garden. Be willing to illustrate school play programs or diner menus, publish a zine, start a blog etc. whatever will get your work out into the world.
7. Meet like-minded folks and be actively involved with them. Meet other artists and creative people but don't just talk about the business of art (god, how dull) but share your passion for making things and infect each other.
8. Never complain, never explain. Be yourself and be glad of it. Creativity needs light and nourishment.
9. Above all, do what you love and love what you do. Don't try to figure out what you should to to be successful but how to successfully express what's makes you you. There's nothing more pathetic and boring than those who have done everything they can to mold themselves to the prevailing notions of what is popular. That already exists (it's on Fox and it's called American Idol). You need to blaze new paths, your own paths. No one does what you do. Keep it that way by expressing the true you, the inner you.
Remember, Art's most important job is to light the viewer's fuse, to create new feelings and insights, to create by sharing. By sharing yourself, you make the world a better place. The important goal is not to win gold records or Hummers or groupies. It's the same as the goal of every share cropper who picked up a Sears guitar and wailed the blues. To be authentic, to express yourself. That may lead you to Cleveland and the Hall of Fame or, even better, to an enriched feeling of what it is to be human.


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I've written recently about how Puerto Rico debt is finding favor among hedge funds rather than plain old buy-and-hold muni investors lately, as a way of cautioning retail investors tempted by Puerto Rico's high yields about who else is roaming that marketplace. Today David Kotok, chairman and chief investment officer at Cumberland Advisors, offers an in-depth look at one way hedge funds might use Puerto Rico debt to their advantage:
My colleagues Michael Comes, John Mousseau, and I took apart a hedge fund trade. We reconstructed ways in which hedge funds can buy Puerto Rico and also hedge the other side of the trade for their profit. They can take long positions in Puerto Rico debt. They offset the risk through either a short position or put option on Assured Guarantee stock. Assured Guarantee is the major bond insurer of some Puerto Rico debt. Alternatively, the hedge fund can use a credit default swap on Assured Guarantee. In either case they try to neutralize their Puerto Rico default risk by using Assured as a proxy.
The theory behind this is that Assured Guarantee would be hurt if Puerto Rico defaults. So, the hedge fund's long position would lose from a Puerto Rico debt downgrade or default, but it would have an offsetting gain from the credit default swap position or short position on Assured Guarantee stock. The offsetting neutralized position could result in a profit to the hedge fund. In fact, my colleagues and I calculated that the hedge fund could assume a neutral duration position and thereby create about 350 basis points in an annualized tax-free yield. That yield would also be a tax-free yield to the hedge fund's investors. So the typical hedge fund investor can derive a taxable-equivalent yield of about double the tax-free yield, or about 7% on a maturity structure that can be unwound in only a few days. That is without leverage. My colleague John Mousseau noted that some hedge funds may be able to lever this up to 20 times.
There is still counterparty risk when putting such a trade together. And the position needs continuous rebalancing, since it has three or more moving parts and constantly adjusting weights. But that is exactly what a hedge fund is supposed to do. What we want to show is that there are ways to do it. Furthermore, note that the starting point of the trade is buying Puerto Rico debt, not because you like it but because it offers a hedging opportunity in a distressed market.
Kotok says that Cumberland does not hold any Puerto Rico debt "and we would not buy it today," adding that the same is true for any mutual fund with exposure to Puerto Rico.


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A Guide to the Jim Bones Papers, 1965-1988
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Nature photographer James Clinton Bones was born in 1943 in Monroe, Louisiana. Since 1975, Bones has been a freelance photographer and wilderness guide in New Mexico, where he now lives. Bones has published five books of photography, with work included in several others. He has exhibited frequently and has produced environmental documentaries for Texas public television.
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This collection includes camera equipment, a small portfolio of Bones' early work, color and black and white topographical photographs taken in Texas and New Mexico, page proofs, a poster and flyer advertising his books, and an edition of New Mexico magazine containing his photograph.
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DII Lady Flames open season in ACHA runner-up PSU's arena
September 28, 2013 | State College, Pa.
Liberty University's ACHA Division II women's hockey team traveled to State College, Pa., over the weekend for their official season-opening contests. The Lady Flames challenged Penn State as the first visiting team to play in the Nittany Lions' spectacular new facility, the Pegula Ice Arena, located in University Park.
"We played in the community rink," Lady Flames head coach Sara Niemi said. "The NCAA one will be ready later this month."
Following a ceremonial puck drop, taken by senior defender Rena Leone, Liberty was no match for powerful Penn State, last year's ACHA DII national runner-up.
The Lady Flames gave up nearly 150 shots in 6-0 and 7-0 losses on Friday and Saturday nights, respectively.
"We were shut out, but there were some positive things that came from this weekend," Niemi said. "Some of our new players really stepped up and helped us contain and control the national runners-up from last season."
Senior goalie Leanne Niemi, younger sister of the coach, was peppered with 148 shots in the two games and had a save percentage of 0.92, but still allowed 13 goals (6.50 GAA).
"She was an important player this weekend, but we had several girls also step their play up and challenged themselves to keep up with a well-rounded, fast, skilled team," Sara Niemi said. "On our defensive end, Rena Leone, Kaitlyn Scales, and Nicole Stevens all contributed, helping Leanne out by moving bodies around the net and clearing rebounds."
Liberty's defensive-minded approach was dictated by Penn State's formidable front line.
"Our offense played more defensively this game as they were a lot stronger than our players," Sara Niemi said. "But Jenna Holman, Sonja Nielsen, Kaitlyn Nelson, and Alena Steiger all blocked shots from the point and continued to pressure their offensive systems in our end. Overall, we did very well for our first game against the toughest team in our division."
The Lady Flames return to the ice to host Slippery Rock on Oct. 12 and 13 in the LaHaye Ice Center.
"We are looking forward to playing at home," Niemi said. "Not traveling and having two more weeks of practice will help us work on more fundamentals, systems, and our offensive play."


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