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Euphoric Libyan rebels raced into the capital Tripoli on Sunday and moved close to center with little resistance as Moammar Gadhafi's defenses collapsed and his regime appeared to be crumbling fast. Al Jazeera on the rebels' move from the outskirts to capital:
Associated Press reporters with the rebels said they moved easily from the western outskirts into the regime stronghold in a dramatic turning of the tides in the 6-month-old Libyan civil war. A rebel leader said the unit in charge of protecting Gadhafi and Tripoli had surrendered and joined the revolt, allowing the opposition force to move in freely.
"They will enter Green Square tonight, God willing," said Mohammed al-Zawi, a 30-year-old rebel who entered Tripoli. Green Square has been the site of night rallies by Gadhafi supporters throughout the uprising.
Earlier in the day, the rebels overran a major military base defending the capital, carted away truckloads of weapons and raced to Tripoli with virtually no resistance.
Gadhafi's whereabouts were unknown. But he delivered a series of angry and defiant audio messages broadcast on state television. He was not shown in the messages. In the latest one, he acknowledged that the opposition forces were moving into Tripoli and warned the city would be turned into another Baghdad.
"How come you allow Tripoli the capital, to be under occupation once again?" he said. "The traitors are paving the way for the occupation forces to be deployed in Tripoli."
He called on his supporters to march in the streets of the capital and "purify it" from "the rats."
Opposition leaders at one point claimed Gadhafi's son and one-time heir apparent, Seif al-Islam, had been arrested, but they later backtracked and said this was not yet confirmed.
The rebels' surprising and speedy leap forward, after six months of largely deadlocked civil war, was packed into just a few dramatic hours. By nightfall, they had advanced more than 20 miles to Tripoli. Sky News reports on the celebration of among Libyan rebels:
Thousands of jubilant civilians rushed out of their homes to cheer the long convoys of pickup trucks packed with rebel fighters shooting in the air. Some of the fighters were hoarse, shouting: "We are coming for you, frizz-head," a mocking nickname for Gadhafi. In villages along the way that fell to the rebels one after another, mosque loudspeakers blared "Allahu Akbar," or "God is great."
"We are going to sacrifice our lives for freedom," said Nabil al-Ghowail, a 30-year-old dentist holding a rifle in the streets of Janzour, a suburb just six miles west of Tripoli. Heavy gunfire erupted nearby.
As town after town fell and Gadhafi forces disappeared, the mood turned euphoric. Some shouted: "We are getting to Tripoli tonight." Others were shooting in the air, honking horns and yelling "Allahu Akbar."
Once they reached Tripoli, the rebels took control of one neighborhood, Ghot Shaal, on the western edge of the city. They set up checkpoints as a convoy of more than 10 trucks rolled in.
The rebels moved on to the neighborhood of Girgash, about a mile and a half from Green Square. They said they came under fire from a sniper on a rooftop in the neighborhood.
Sidiq al-Kibir, the rebel leadership council's representative for the capital Tripoli, confirmed the arrest of Seif al-Islam to the AP but did not give any further details.
Inside Tripoli, widespread clashes erupted for a second day between rebel "sleeper cells" and Gadhafi loyalists. Rebels fighter who spoke to relatives in Tripoli by phone said hundreds rushed into the streets in anti-regime protests in several neighborhoods.
The day's first breakthrough came when hundreds of rebels fought their way into a major symbol of the Gadhafi regime - the base of the elite 32nd Brigade commanded by Gadhafi's son, Khamis. Fighters said they met with little resistance. They were 16 miles from the big prize, Tripoli.
Hundreds of rebels cheered wildly and danced as they took over the compound filled with eucalyptus trees, raising their tricolor from the front gate and tearing down a large billboard of Gadhafi.
Inside, they cracked open wooden crates labeled "Libyan Armed Forces" and loaded their trucks with huge quantities of munitions. One of the rebels carried off a tube of grenades, while another carted off two mortars.
"This is the wealth of the Libyan people that he was using against us," said Ahmed al-Ajdal, 27, pointing to his haul. "Now we will use it against him and any other dictator who goes against the Libyan people."
One group started up a tank, drove it out of the gate, crushing the median of the main highway and driving off toward Tripoli. Rebels celebrated the capture with deafening amounts of celebratory gunfire, filling the air with smoke.
Across the street, rebels raided a huge warehouse, making off with hundreds of crates of rockets, artillery shells and large-caliber ammunition. The warehouse had once been using to storage packaged foods, and in the back, cans of beans were still stacked toward the ceiling.
They freed several hundred prisoners from a regime lockup. The fighters and the prisoners - many looking weak and dazed and showing scars and bruises from beatings - embraced and wept with joy.
The prisoners had been held in the walled compound and when the rebels rushed in, they freed more than 300 of them.
"We were sitting in our cells when all of a sudden we heard lots of gunfire and people yelling 'Allahu Akbar.' We didn't know what was happening, and then we saw rebels running in and saying 'We're on your side.' And they let us out," said 23-year-old Majid al-Hodeiri from Zawiya. He said he was captured four months ago by Gadhafi's forces and taken to base. He said he was beaten and tortured while under detention.
Many of the prisoners looked disoriented as they stopped at a gathering place for fighters several miles away from the base. Some had signs of severe beatings. Others were dressed in tattered T-shirts or barefoot. Rebels fighters and prisoners embraced.
From the military base, the convoy sped toward the capital.
Mahmoud al-Ghwei, 20 and unarmed, said he had just came along with a friend for the ride .
"It's a great feeling. For all these years, we wanted freedom and Gadhafi kept it from us. Now we're going to get rid of Gadhafi and get our freedom," he said.
At nightfall, the fighters reached Janzour, a Tripoli suburb. Along the way, they were greeted by civilians lining the streets and waving rebel flags. One man grabbed a rebel flag that had been draped over the hood of a slow-moving car and kissed it, overcome with emotion.
"We are not going back," said Issam Wallani, another rebel. "God willing, this evening we will enter Tripoli."
The uprising against Gadhafi broke out in mid-February, and anti-regime protests quickly spread across the vast desert nation with only 6 million people. A brutal regime crackdown quickly transformed the protests into an armed rebellion. Rebels seized Libya's east, setting up an internationally recognized transitional government there, and two pockets in the west, the port city of Misrata and the Nafusa mountain range.
Gadhafi clung to the remaining territory, and his forces failed to subdue the rebellion in Misrata, Libya's third-largest city, and in the Nafusa mountains. Since the start of August, thousands of rebel fighters, including many who fled Gadhafi-held cities, joined an offensive launched from the mountains toward the coast.
The fighters who had set out from the mountains three weeks ago rushed toward Tripoli on Sunday, start out at dawn from a village just east of the coastal city of Zawiya. Only a day earlier had the rebels claimed full control of Zawiya, an anti-regime stronghold with 200,000 people and Libya's last functioning oil refinery.
Rebels said Saturday that they had launched their first attack on Tripoli in coordination with NATO and gunbattles and mortar rounds rocked the city. NATO aircraft also made heavier than usual bombing runs after nightfall, with loud explosions booming across the city.
On Sunday, more heavy machine gun fire and explosions rang out across the capital with more clashes and protests.
Government minders in a hotel where foreign journalists have been staying in Tripoli armed themselves on Sunday in anticipation of a rebel take over. The hotel manager said he had received calls from angry rebels threatening to charge the hotel to capture the government's spokesman, Moussa Ibrahim.
Heavy gun fire was heard in the neighborhood around the Rixos hotel, and smoke was seen rising from a close by building.
"We are scared and staying in our houses, but the younger boys are going out to protect our homes," said a woman who spoke to The Associated Press by telephone from the pro-rebel Tripoli neighborhood of Bin Ashour. She spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal. She said a neighbor's son was shot dead on Saturday night by Gadhafi troops as he tried to protect his street with a group of rebel youth.
Nuri al-Zawi, another resident of Bin Ashour, told the AP by phone that the rebels were using light arms to protect their streets, and in some cases were using only their bodies to fend off the Gadhafi troops riding in pickup trucks.
"We are used to this situation now. We are a city that is cut off from the world now," he said.
The residents reported clashes in neighborhoods all over Tripoli as well as the city's Mitiga military airport. They said they heard loud explosions and exchanges in of gunfire in the Fashloum, Tajoura and Bin Ashour neighborhoods.
Residents and opposition fighters also reported large anti-regime protests in those same neighborhoods. In some of them, thousands braved the bullets of snipers perched atop high buildings.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.


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- 1 bag salad greens, of choice
- 1 avocado, pitted, peeled and sliced
- 1 mango, pitted, peeled and chopped
- 1 can mandarine oranges, drained
- about 1 cup dried cranberries
- about 1 cup roasted walnuts
- 2 seasoned (your choice) and cooked chicken breasts, cooled
- salad dressing (your choice, I used an asian ginger and sesame)
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- Add dressing and serve!
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The best toys for each age
0 to 4 months: discovering a new world
During the first months of life, your baby lies on his back and is not yet able to hold a toy in his hands. He gradually learns by listening, touching and observing his surroundings. You can offer him:
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The Model 52 is intended for all-position, automated welding of pipe, plate or fittings using the Cold or Hot Wire Feed GTAW (TIG) process. It is a rugged, precision tool with minimal radial clearance for welding of all pipe sizes from 8" pipe up to an unlimited size, including flat plate.
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- On-board wire feed mechanics, single or dual wire feed system, up to 30 lbs. spools
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- Water-cooled main housing
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Compatible with many AMI torch assemblies, including video-equipped torches.
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The "P" torch is only one of numerous torches designed for use with AMI's Vision Systems. It incorporates direct-view optics and color video cameras to show both the leading and trailing edges of the weld puddle. These optic assemblies are combined with remote-controlled dual wire manipulators to allow welding in both directions and to remotely observe the weld puddle. AMI's arc light filtration, along with miniature video cameras allows for a very small and compact package with a minimum amount of cabling. It is recommended for any application requiring remote vision, such as high-radiation areas or where direct observation of the weld process by operators is limited. Some torches require the use of a second wire feeder on the weld head and video-related accessories.
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May 17, 1953 - February 20, 2013
Pine Bush, NY
Mary Katherine Regan, a Guidance Counselor for the Pine Bush School District and longtime resident of the area, passed away on Wednesday, February 20, 2013 at the Haven Hospice Specialty Care Unit Center Bellevue Hospital in NYC. She was 59. The daughter of the late Timothy J. Wilson and Genevieve Neary Wilson, she was born on May 17th, 1953 in Brooklyn, New York.
Mary enjoyed working with children and was a graduate of the Foundling Hospital and worked with children at Pine Bush High School, the kids at The Church of the Infant Saviour, and she loved singing in the church choir.
She is survived by her loving son, William; her husband, Billy; beloved sister to Timothy, Joseph, Thomas, Francis, Matthew and James Wilson. Mary was a loving aunt to 42 nieces and nephews and is further survived by and many sisters and brothers-in-law.
Visitation will be held on Saturday, February 23, 2013 from 6 to 9 p.m. and Sunday, February 24, 2013 from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. at the William M. Gagan Funeral Home Inc., 1525 Burlingham Rd., Pine Bush.
Mass of Christian burial will be offered on Monday, February 25, 2013 at 10 a.m. at the Church of the Infant Saviour with Fr. Kevin Gallagher officiating.
Burial will take place in St. Mary's Cemetery, Montgomery, NY.
Arrangements entrusted to the William M. Gagan Funeral Home Inc. www.wmgaganfuneralhome.com


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Thursday, July 05, 2007
Secret Belgian Binding
I learned this in a class with Susan Mills. I believe the binding was unearthed by Hedi Kyle, and it has been dated between the 14th and 16th centuries. Story is, this type of binding had been long lost and forgotten until Hedi came upon it and she figured out how it was done. It is thought that it was a special binding method of a particular binder so it was never widely known. If you have any more authoritative information about this, please let me know. Don't bother sending me the Wikipedia link because I wrote that myself.
Now I remember why it has been so long since I did it. It's too tedious! But, nonetheless, I persevered and completed these two black and whites this week. I cheated a little bit. The covers are covered with self-adhesive papers - so I didn't have to wait for any glue or paste to dry. But they turned out fine, the proportions are nice, at 480 pages thick, and nice to hold. I still don't want to start making them very often, though.
8 comments:
- Clara said...
Rhonda, your Secret Belgian Binding is lovely. I learned to do this binding recently and think it's one of the most elegant out there. But I agree with you that it's time consuming and not the simplest of bindings.
Thanks, too, for including me on your blogroll. You're on mine as well.
- 10:31 pm
- MyHandboundBooks said...
Thanks Clara, it is tedious but worth it! I had found and read your posts about learning this binding when I was looking for more info about its origins. Great blog, thanks for including me too :)
- 4:31 pm
- Rodrigo Ortega said...
Excuse me Clara you have the pattern of sewing to this bookbinding? I am mexican bookbinder and I want make this historic binding. Thanks my email is firstname.lastname@example.com
- 1:29 am
- MyHandboundBooks said...
Ah, the sewing for this book is rather hard to explain. Maybe Clara has some clear instructions...but I haven't been able to write them out clearly yet. If you keep watching my blog here, I do hope to post a tutorial for making this binding - but i may not have it ready for a while...next month perhaps.
- 12:23 pm
Instructions for making secret Belgian Binding can be found in Cherryl Moote's book entitled books with girth. It can be ordered from her at Moote Pointes. com.
- 2:53 pm
Great instructions on-line at http://users.stargate.net/~dearsam/bookarts/
Great work Rhonda, keep it coming!
- 6:02 pm
Secret Belgian Binding is a modern invention - developed in the 1980's by Belgian bookbinfer, Anne Goy.
- 2:24 pm
- MyHandboundBooks said...
Thanks! Yes, I'm well aware of that. I have another post here on my blog, actually, where I have provided that information. (At the time this old post was written, I didn't know about Anne Goy.) And funny that you should link the wikipedia article, since I wrote that myself, lol!
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Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Aeolus Kephas Was (Almost) Banned from Jeff Wells' Rigorous Intuition Forum This Morning
Film at 11.
98 comments:
- Jorge Luis Borges said...
"The hypotheses that transcend reason are much more appealing."
- 6:10 am, May 28, 2009
- Papaji said...
- 6:26 am, May 28, 2009
- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj said...
To me nothing ever happens.
- 6:30 am, May 28, 2009
- Martin Heidegger said...
The only genuine philosophical question is why is there something rather than nothing.
- 6:53 am, May 28, 2009
- Celia Green said...
The perception that existence exists invalidates the normal personality, as does the imminence of death.
I think you may be said to have the relevant perception when you see that it is inconceivable that anything should exist.
Since the inconceivable is 'there', it is impossible to set any limit to the quantity of inconceivableness which may be present in the situation.
Actually the fact that 'the inconceivable exists' sheds a certain doubt on any conceivable association of ideas, because there may be always more facts (of an inconceivable kind) which are, 'in reality', relevant.
Now if you do have a perception that any conceivable consideration may be utterly invalidated by some other consideration which you do not know, and if you are reminded of this perception constantly by the fact that things exist, certain modifications take place in the way you feel about things. These modifications have not taken place in the psychology of most people.
For example, you would not be able to think 'Our happiness is here or not at all' without also thinking 'There may be important and inconceivable facts in relation to which it does not matter at all whether we are happy or not; it may even be the case that for some quite inconceivable reason it is much the best thing that I should be as unhappy as possible.'
I return therefore to my initial statement: The perception that existence exists invalidates the normal personality.
Perhaps you do not think the fact of existence 'is' inconceivable; well, set it against its opposite, nonexistence: no space, no time, no anything at all. Is that conceivable?
Now what makes existence what it is is what distinguishes it from non-existence, and this is inconceivable.
But enough. It cannot, I grant, be demonstrated. In the last resort you 'perceive' it, or you do not.
It is an open secret, as Carlyle - following Goethe - said; but the operative word is 'secret'.
- 7:03 am, May 28, 2009
- A Clever Child said...
I decided at around the age of eleven that the fact of UNCERTAINTY was the last word in all questions. It appeared to me that to adopt any attitude which osbcured one's awareness of this was unrealistic.
- 7:09 am, May 28, 2009
- Alice said...
Nothing happens! What a joyful and liberating message from a nightmare!
- 7:14 am, May 28, 2009
- Alan Watts said...
If you go up to a stone BUDDHA and you hit him hard on the head, NOTHING HAPPENS.
- 7:18 am, May 28, 2009
- Master Shifu said...
"Though nothing happens, we've grown old in our busy lives. We cry and laugh, all in emptiness. There is originally no self, so both life and death can be cast aside."
- 7:22 am, May 28, 2009
- U.G. Krishnamurti said...
Did anything happen?
- 7:27 am, May 28, 2009
- Polish noblemen said...
(i.e., "Nothing new without the consensus of all.")
- 7:54 am, May 28, 2009
- Sir Horace Vere Baron Vere of Tilbury said...
(i.e., "Nothing is more true than the truth.")
- 8:02 am, May 28, 2009
- David Icke said...
something astonishing!
- 8:06 am, May 28, 2009
- Jesus Christ said...
I am the Truth.
- 8:15 am, May 28, 2009
- Pontius Pilate said...
What is Truth?
- 8:16 am, May 28, 2009
- Ingo Swann said...
Order my book:
"Reality Boxes, and Other Black Holes in Human Consciousness"
-- and listen to my talk:
"Human Reality Boxes"
- 8:34 am, May 28, 2009
- Charles McCreery said...
There is no qualitative difference between the content of consciousness in the two processes, hallucination and perception.
- 8:48 am, May 28, 2009
- Remo Roth said...
I began to live the "snychronicty quest" in the early eighties. I had a dream and then, yet half in a sleeping state went out into the town (Zurich, Switzerland). Perhaps it was some sort of a state of "somnambulism". I let me lead by I don't know whatsoever.
The results were incredible! I met the people I just dreamt of some hours ago. I experienced very similar events I dreamt of just before, and so on. I began to believe that the world is synchronized with my dream world. Like this I began to understand that there is a different state of consciousness, in which we are much more in the flow of life than in our usual consciousness.
- 8:53 am, May 28, 2009
- ibn Arabi said...
You are an imagination within an imagination.
- 8:54 am, May 28, 2009
- Rumi said...
O seeker of the mysteries, if you wish to see a dead man living -
Walking on the earth, like living men; yet he is dead and his spirit is gone to heaven;
One whose spirit hath a dwelling-place on high at this moment, so that if he die, his spirit is not translated,
Because it has been translated before death: this mystery is understood only by dying, not by using one's reason.
- 8:58 am, May 28, 2009
- The Emissary said...
Die before you die.
- 9:02 am, May 28, 2009
- Jeff Wells said...
Signal to noise biatch! read about it on my blog.
- 11:04 am, May 28, 2009
- Jasun said...
17 of the above posts appeared in a 2-hour period
are they *all* by the same person???
was it me?!!!
(as someone recently said at the forum: "WHAT IS HAPPENING TO MEEE???"
; 0)
- 12:31 pm, May 28, 2009
- Kafka said...
I am guilty.
- 2:38 pm, May 28, 2009
- soundlessdawn said...
It was the me in you, that's also them.. who if they had any sense would know that they are nobody, and their opinions came from nowhere.. and are worth nothing but what the me/you grants them.
I'm wearing my "No Planes" shirt right now.
- 2:41 pm, May 28, 2009
- Death in June said...
But, What Ends When The Symbols Shatter?
- 2:52 pm, May 28, 2009
C'mon, the guy needs to sell his books.
- 2:56 pm, May 28, 2009
- Werner Goldberg said...
Are you an 'Ideal German Soldier', too?
- 3:02 pm, May 28, 2009
- Charles Bukowski said...
Oh no, I am not even near to being one of them.
- 3:07 pm, May 28, 2009
- Sam Peckinpah said...
"Just living till you die is hard work." - Bukowski
- 3:15 pm, May 28, 2009
- Bengt Ekerot said...
Do you never stop questioning?
- 3:28 pm, May 28, 2009
- Wim Wender said...
When the angel Damien found Marion something happened, something unthinkable.
- 3:38 pm, May 28, 2009
- Arch Stanton said...
All attempts were in vain.
- 3:48 pm, May 28, 2009
- Sting said...
A gentleman will walk but never run.
- 3:55 pm, May 28, 2009
- Charlton Heston said...
And thus the Cid rode out of the gates of history into legend...
- 3:57 pm, May 28, 2009
There are so many wings and so many wongs, you just end up winging the wong number.
- 3:57 pm, May 28, 2009
I made some love stains in the back.
- 3:59 pm, May 28, 2009
- Roy Batty said...
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
- 3:59 pm, May 28, 2009
I'm a Black Guy in prison.
So I can tell tell you it happens.
- 4:01 pm, May 28, 2009
- Rick said...
"Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."
- 4:07 pm, May 28, 2009
- Bhikku Nanamoli said...
I: Do you approve of what is right?
My Conscience: Of course.
I: Do you believe right will triumph at the end?
My Conscience: Yes.
I: So you want to be on the winning side?
- 4:13 pm, May 28, 2009
- Sir William Jones said...
It is a fact which appears incredible, but is too well attested for the admission of a doubt, that Sufis believed themselves to be gods, and adhered to their belief, amid torments until death. This psychological fact may be explained by considering that, according to Sufism, God is nothing else but an idea of the highest perfection.
"He," says Mohsan Fani, "from whose sight both worlds vanished, who in the steps of right faith arrived at the rank of perfect purity, from truth to truth, became God."
That is, he became one with his own idea of perfection, whcih cannot be disputed to him; his divinity is an illusion, but nothing else to him is the world; it is all and nothing, dependent upon his own creation and annihilation.
- 4:22 pm, May 28, 2009
- Sir Laurence Olivier said...
To be, or not to be: that is the question.
- 4:35 pm, May 28, 2009
- skrambo said...
Figures, JW = 10+23 = 33!
Don't you know this is what happens when you replicate out of the view of the all-seeing eye... You stir up trouble. Back to your cage, lab rat.
- 4:38 pm, May 28, 2009
- Max Oppenheimer said...
"Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds."
- 5:06 pm, May 28, 2009
- Sri H.W.L. Poonja said...
Who is happy?
- 5:10 pm, May 28, 2009
I think it's time for Aeolus Kephas to start doing Podcasts again.
- 5:26 pm, May 28, 2009
- Ezra Sandzer-Bell said...
- 9:50 pm, May 28, 2009
- Tom Cruise said...
We have an opportunity to really help, to effectively change people's lives. I am absolutely uncompromisingly dedicated to that. Are you going to look at this and do it or are you too afraid? Period. You are either on board or not on board. We are the authorities. Period. Do it. That's us. Do it. Now is the time. You better know it. Period.
- 10:40 pm, May 28, 2009
- Christian Bale said...
Fuck - what the fuck is it with you? It's fucking distracting.
- 10:47 pm, May 28, 2009
- Osama said...
No planes or tanks or ships. But there's five hundred wooden cubes!
- 2:50 am, May 29, 2009
- Business Aviation said...
No Plane No Gain
- 2:56 am, May 29, 2009
- Georges Metanomski said...
The 50'th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz has been marked by numerous celebrations and manifestations, whose main purpose was to learn from Auschwitz experience in order to make its repetition impossible. Therefore I am asking myself: what have I learnt?
With respect to all I have seen, heard and red, the answer seems clear: nothing.
- 3:18 am, May 29, 2009
- The Amazing Atheist said...
I am the God of the Godless!
- 3:29 am, May 29, 2009
- Niels Henrik David Bohr said...
Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
- 3:47 am, May 29, 2009
- TJ said...
Teaching a child with no identity to solve algebra problems is like giving a man a gun and no training and telling him that he's a soldier.
- 4:13 am, May 29, 2009
- H. L. Mencken said...
The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line...
- 4:18 am, May 29, 2009
- Henry Louis said...
We are here and it is now: further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.
- 4:34 am, May 29, 2009
- Otto Rank said...
So long as psychology is projection - animistic, religious, or scientific - it is therapeutic, a helpfull illusion; with increasing self-consciousness and insight it becomes destructive, until knowing the truth about itself, it dies in the aftermath of its own impotence.
If control over nature through scientific knowledge was our greatest victory, self-knowledge, flowing from self-consciousness, is our greatest defeat.
Nietzsche rightly saw that we could be saved only by revaluing guilt as will, by going back to active affirmation of will.
But this seems to be impossible.
- 4:43 am, May 29, 2009
- Andrew Bard Schmookler said...
Imagine a group of tribes living within reach of one another. If all choose the way of peace, then all may live in peace. But what if all but one choose peace?
- 4:45 am, May 29, 2009
- John F. Schumaker said...
We define cultural reality broadly as the 'constellation of externally delivered suggestions that are normalized on the basis of group endorsement.'
How 'large' and/or cohesive must a group be for it to be capable of normalizing suggestions?
There is no simple answer...
It can only be said that a cultural suggestion becomes an element of the reality of a person when the group is, in fact, sufficiently large and/or cohesive for the person to perceive that suggestion as normal, or normative.
Cultural reality refers to reality that is 'shared', or agreed upon, at the group level, even if that group is only one portion if the total population. Of course, conflicts can arise between the reality of the dominant culture and that of a subculture.
In addition to normalizing errors, culture also transmits a great deal of vital data that is in close accord with primary or empirical reality. This has the obvious advantage of delivering information that is essential for survival; therefore, cultural reality must be viewed as an intentional and necessary blend of information and misinformation.
- 5:00 am, May 29, 2009
- Drew said...
There's new results out that smell is indeed a quantum tunneling event based on frequency -- not structure or amplitude.
My own smell has been out of control lately -- so much that it landed me in the back of a squad car, and has caused fear and panic among many a coworker and passerby on the street, in stores, among my family, etc.
I headed off to campus with the intention of returning to work later to finish my job. I went into full-lotus on a toilet, fell asleep, and someone called the cops thinking I was homeless. As I was just having a slight Out of Body experience from the full-lotus tea tree oil combo, the bathroom door flies open with the proverbial: POLICE! I got a trespass warning and was released. I went back to work and I was sent home after a long crazy performance I gave to my 3 directors.
I literally smelled of death and probably am still recovering from garlic smell (I had a strong bulb a couple days ago). I've ate a lot of parsley but it's not as effective as good cilantro for counteracting the hydrogen sulfide.
I can feel the bacteria in my brain right now -- it's connected through the sinus cavity, goes behind the eyes, and back through to the pineal gland.
- 5:10 am, May 29, 2009
- The Big Picture said...
We have entered the Age of the Conjurer and it is a tricky time. The 911 stunt was a huge magic trick and we all bought it at first. Magicians can be very convincing. You have to look very hard to see the trick and not be fooled. On this occasion slow motion exposes the sleight of hand, but remember how the magician works: he can make almost anything seem real if he can make his audience look in the wrong place at crucial moments.
- 5:28 am, May 29, 2009
- Duke Leto Atreides I said...
Without change something sleeps inside us and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
- 5:39 am, May 29, 2009
- Paul said...
The Sleeper Has Awakened.
- 5:42 am, May 29, 2009
- Paul said...
The Sleeper Has Awakened.
- 5:42 am, May 29, 2009
- New Scientist said...
The science of voodoo: When mind attacks body
The placebo effect has an evil twin: the nocebo effect, in which dummy pills and negative expectations can produce harmful effects. The term "nocebo" means "I will harm".
Despite the growing evidence that the nocebo effect is all too real, it is hard in this rational age to accept that people's beliefs can kill them. After all, most of us would laugh if a strangely attired man leapt about waving a bone and told us we were going to die. But imagine how you would feel if you were told the same thing by a smartly dressed doctor with a wallful of medical degrees and a computerful of your scans and test results. The social and cultural background is crucial, says Enck.
Take Sam Shoeman, who was diagnosed with end-stage liver cancer in the 1970s and given just months to live. Shoeman duly died in the allotted time frame - yet the autopsy revealed that his doctors had got it wrong. The tumour was tiny and had not spread. "He didn't die from cancer, but from believing he was dying of cancer," says Meador. "If everyone treats you as if you are dying, you buy into it. Everything in your whole being becomes about dying."
Meador argues that Shoeman's misdiagnosis and subsequent death shares many of the crucial elements found in hex death. A powerful doctor pronounces a death sentence, which is accepted unquestioningly by the "victim" and his family, who then start to act upon that belief. Shoeman, his family and his doctors all believed he was dying from cancer. It became a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Bad news promotes bad physiology. I think you can persuade people that they're going to die and have it happen," Meador says. "I don't think there's anything mystical about it. We're uncomfortable with the idea that words or symbolic actions can cause death because it challenges our biomolecular model of the world."
- 6:12 am, May 29, 2009
- James Joyce said...
History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
- 7:39 am, May 29, 2009
- 8:12 am, May 29, 2009
- Andrew Bard said...
Why arent't we willing to confront our own weakness?
Because history is a process in which the weak have been victimized, killed.
- 8:13 am, May 29, 2009
- The Master of Irony said...
Life - that is to be long ill.
- 9:37 am, May 29, 2009
- Alfred Korzybski said...
On Symbolism:
The affairs of man are conducted by our own, man-made rules and according to man-made theories. Man's achievements rest upon the use of symbols. For this reason, we must consider ourselves as a symbolic, semantic class of life, and those who rule the symbols, rule us.
- 9:47 am, May 29, 2009
- Alfred said...
When we say 'our rulers', we mean those who are engaged in the manipulation of symbols. There is no escape from the fact that they do, and that they always will, rule mankind, because we constitute a symbolic class of life, and we cannot cease from being so, except by regressing to the animal level.
The hope for the future consists in the understanding of this fact; namely, that we shall always be ruled by those who rule symbols, ...
- 9:53 am, May 29, 2009
- Sam said...
The end of a picture is always an end of a life.
- 10:02 am, May 29, 2009
- Leni Riefenstahl said...
Reality doesn't interest me.
- 10:04 am, May 29, 2009
- Juergen Prochnow said...
They won't catch us this time! Not this time! They haven't spotted us! No, they're all snoring in their bunks! Or, you know what? They're drinking at the bar, celebrating our sinking! Not yet, my friends. Not yet!
- 10:24 am, May 29, 2009
- Jean-Paul Belmondo said...
"Tout est politique maintenant."
- 10:38 am, May 29, 2009
- Jason Horsley said...
But we are all f*cked up, all of us.
- 10:48 am, May 29, 2009
- Ben Stiller said...
Just be who you are. Thats what's REALLY cool.
- 10:54 am, May 29, 2009
- Jake said...
No one knew where I was, or even if I was alive or dead. In poverty, I was free to reinvent myself, with no one to tell me otherwise.
- 11:13 am, May 29, 2009
- Nazim Hikmet said...
Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel, for example - I mean without looking for something beyond and above living, I mean living must be your whole occupation.
I mean, however and wherever we are, we must live as if we will never die.
- 11:18 am, May 29, 2009
- Paul Bowles said...
The difference between something and nothing is nothing.
- 11:25 am, May 29, 2009
Come back to bed, Paul.
- 11:34 am, May 29, 2009
- Buddha said...
This is how he attends unwisely: Was I (not) in the past? … Shall I be (not) in the future? … Am I (not)? Where has this being come from? Where will it go?
When he attends unwisely in this way, one of six views arise in him: The views (1) 'self exists for me' … (2) 'no self exists for me' … (3) 'I perceive self with self' … (4) 'I perceive not self with self' … (5) 'I perceive self with not self' … (6) 'It is this self of mine that speaks and feels and experiences here and there the result of good and bad actions; but this self of mine is permanent, everlasting, eternal, not subject to change, and it will endure as long as eternity.'
- 12:00 pm, May 29, 2009
- Otto said...
All ideas of salvation with eternal duration, from the Buddhist Nirvana to the Christian immortality, strive after a redemption from tormenting self consciousness… For the painful reality from which the individual wants to get free is his own consciousness in the form of self consciousness and release is sought in the overcoming of the temporal form of consciousness… Man felt himself immortal as long as he knew nothing of time, as long as he had no time consciousness. This is the meaning of the myth of the fall [Adam & Eve] … while the Greek myth attaches the transition from the immortal God to mortal man to the breaking in of time consciousness. Uranos, the eternal God of heaven, is emasculated by Kronos, symbol of time and temporal duration which from that point on had dominion over the world and men… The "Kronos complex" is perhaps the most important and powerful complex for modern man.
- 12:05 pm, May 29, 2009
- The Tathagata said...
If there were not this Unborn, Unbecome, Non-Effected, Incomposite, there would be no way to escape from this world of birth, becoming, effection, and composition.
- 12:09 pm, May 29, 2009
- Floyd Anderson said...
Hey guys. Thought I'd stop and see what's shakin'
- 2:26 pm, May 29, 2009
- Terence McKenna said...
I'm a cunning linguist. (laughs)
- 2:28 pm, May 29, 2009
- Jasun said...
hey floyd!
off for some water-boarding?
; )
- 4:07 pm, May 29, 2009
- Floyd Anderson said...
he he he. I don't care for that water sport.
- 6:13 pm, May 29, 2009
- Floyd Anderson said...
Aeoli, you make an appearance in my latest video production, to be released in about 30 minutes. It will be called floydanderson.blogspot.com gone wild.
- 6:49 pm, May 29, 2009
- Tom Waits said...
I'd rather have a bottle in front of me then a frontal lobotomy.
- 9:21 pm, May 29, 2009
- Comment 93 said...
the trip to the Sun begins with a single oar-stroke
- 9:51 pm, May 29, 2009
- Thomas King said...
'Stories are wonderful things... and they are dangerous.'
'The truth about stories is that that's all we are. The Okanagan storyteller Jeannette Armstrong tells us that "through my language I understand that I am being spoken to, I'm not the one speaking.The words are coming from many tongues and mouths of Okanagan people and the land around them. I am a listener to the language's stories, and when my words form I am merely retelling the same stories in different patterns."'
- 9:59 pm, May 29, 2009
- Samuel L. Jackson said...
I have had it with these motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking plane!
- 10:35 pm, May 29, 2009
- Tyler Durden said...
In the world I see - you are stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rockefeller Center. You'll wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life. You'll climb the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Tower. And when you look down, you'll see tiny figures pounding corn, laying strips of venison on the empty car pool lane of some abandoned superhighway.
- 11:04 pm, May 29, 2009
Football's important when you're not dying of cancer
- 12:42 pm, September 21, 2009
- College of Science qassim said...
I'm really enjoying the design and layout of your website.
Qassim & QU
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DAVIE, Fla. (AP) While Miami Dolphins defensive end Cameron Wake accumulates sacks at a rate unprecedented in franchise history, his team keeps getting thrown for losses.
Barring a late-season surge starting Sunday at San Francisco, the Dolphins (5-7) will finish with a losing record for the fourth consecutive year. It so happens Wake, one of the NFL's premier pass rushers, joined Miami four years ago.
``I hate losing,'' he said Wednesday, ``more than I love winning.''
The Dolphins are 25-35 since 2009, but don't blame Wake. During that span he's tied for fourth in the NFL with 38 1/2 sacks, and ranks fourth in this year with 10 1/2.
This season, 7 1/2 of his sacks have come in defeats, including one Sunday against New England. But he keeps trying.
``You've got to be really stubborn to play this game, and probably more so on defense and the position I play,'' Wake said. ``Ninety percent of the time, I don't get the job done. You've got to erase that last play and give the exact same 100 percent effort one more time.
``So whether we're 0-15 or 15-0, I'm going to give that effort. Every game I'm going to give my all. It doesn't grind me down because I feel like every time you go out there, it's an opportunity to win.''
Opponents struggle mightily to take Wake out of the game, so there was cause for head-scratching when the Dolphins took him out of their most recent game in the fourth quarter. He watched from the sidelines for much of a clock-eating, 77-yard scoring drive by the Patriots that sealed their victory.
Dolphins coaches defended the decision, saying Wake was taking his turn on the bench as part of a rotation the team has used all season to keep defensive linemen fresh.
``We did continue with the rotation right up to the very end,'' defensive coordinator Kevin Coyle said. ``We didn't play particularly well in that last drive, but that had nothing to do with who was in the game in terms of the rotation.''
At least one player grumbled about the strategy, but Wake said he understood.
``I would like to be on the field - even on offense,'' he said with a chuckle. ``I'm sure I could play tight end or running back or something. But we've been rotating like that since Week 1.''
There was a time when Wake was a full-time spectator. A four-year letterman at Penn State, he went undrafted and was cut as a rookie by the New York Giants in 2005. The following year he became a mortgage broker.
``I was sitting on the couch watching games and watching guys play,'' he said.
Wake then gave the CFL a try, climbed from fourth string to stardom with the B.C. Lions, and signed as a free agent with the Dolphins. He spent a year coming off the bench in passing situations, won a starting job and made the Pro Bowl in 2010.
His sack total is the highest for any player in his first four seasons with Miami.
``Now he's one of the premier pass rushers in the league,'' said Seattle Seahawks fullback Michael Robinson, a former college teammate who played against Wake last month. ``You can tell he just figured out what his body can do. He started playing football in the 11th grade, so he was a late bloomer. In college we all knew he was loaded with talent. We just wished he had a little bit more dog in him, and he found it.''
At 250 pounds, Wake is small for his position, but he has shaken a reputation as a pass-rush specialist. Run defense is the Dolphins' strength, and opponents show no inclination to pick on him with their ground game.
``He's no weak link,'' defensive tackle Randy Starks said. ``He gets credit for sacks, but it takes all four linemen to be good at run defense, and he's right there.''
Wake and the rest of the run defense will be seriously tested by the 49ers, whose ground attack ranks second in the NFL. The Dolphins need an upset win to keep alive their faint hope of a wild-card berth.
Faint hope is more than enough to keep Wake going.
``At this point in the season,'' he said, ``you never know.''
AP Sports Writer Tim Booth in Seattle contributed to this report.
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Former Strikeforce lightweight champ Gilbert Melendez thought he'd be happy when he signed a UFC contract. But that's not exactly the case.
"I just got a little bit more nervous and a little bit more anxious," Melendez told MMAjunkie.com Radio (www.mmajunkie.com/radio).
After lobbying to fight in the octagon, Melendez had resolved himself to closing out his contract with Strikeforce. But when the promotion announced this past month that it was closing up shop after a Jan. 12 event, he heard he might be signing with the UFC.
A few days before the UFC made it official, he knew it was for real.
Melendez (21-2 MMA, 0-0 UFC) is now set to meet UFC lightweight champ Benson Henderson (18-2 MMA, 6-0 UFC) at UFC on FOX 7, which takes place April 20 at HP Pavilion in San Jose, Calif. The event's main card airs live on FOX following prelims on FX and FUEL TV.
It's familiar ground for "El Nino," who's fought eight times at the arena under the Strikeforce banner. But he is most definitely stepping into the big leagues for his first UFC bout. Henderson is undefeated inside the octagon and recently defended his title with a dominant decision win over Nate Diaz at UFC on FOX 5.
All eyes will be on Melendez to prove he is worthy of leapfrogging other contenders for a shot at the belt. And until he does that, he won't get sentimental about the opportunity.
"I think I'll be fulfilled when I win," he said. "I just know I've got a lot on my plate right now."
Like most fighters, Melendez dreamed about fighting in the UFC. But he instead found traction with Strikeforce, which populated its cards with top-tier talent from the Bay Area. Melendez took the lightweight belt from Clay Guida in the promotion's second event, and after ceding it to Josh Thomson, he became the interim titleholder as Strikeforce made its debut on Showtime. He later unified the belts and was pushed as a rising star.
By the time the UFC expressed interest, though, Melendez was already under contract. His fortunes looked good when UFC parent Zuffa purchased Strikeforce, but after it cherry-picked several champs from the promotion, Showtime blocked crossovers.
Of the many affected by the decision, Melendez was among the most vocal in his disappointment about not being able to fight in the UFC.
"It's been a goal for a long time not to fight for the title, but win the title," he said. "I think it was something that was inevitable for me, and I was planning on being there eventually. But it's definitely a big milestone for me, and I'm happy about it, of course.
"I can't believe it all worked out. Sometimes, I think I deserve it, but it's also about timing, and the timing in the business all adds up. In San Jose, I couldn't ask for anything more."
For more on UFC on FOX 7, stay tuned to the UFC Rumors section of the site.
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Police crack down on Capitol protesters for a second day
The second day of a police crackdown to rein in daily protests in the Wisconsin Capitol instead attracted scores of demonstrators to the building Thursday, leading to another round of arrests in the long-running standoff between protesters and Republican Gov. Scott Walker's administration.
The developments again underscored the stalemate between a loosely organized group of protesters known as the Solidarity Singers and Capitol Police officers.
The group has been meeting in the rotunda to sing songs critical of Walker and GOP policies during the noon hour nearly every day for two years. The Capitol Police, which are under Walker's control, have issued the protesters dozens of tickets, but they refuse to back down, arguing they're free to exercise their free speech rights.
Earlier this month, a federal judge ruled large groups need a permit to gather in the Capitol. Armed with the ruling, police launched a crackdown on the singers on Wednesday. They arrested nearly two dozen of the 50 or so people in the rotunda, handing them $200 tickets for not having a permit.
The arrests only angered the protesters. The state Department of Administration, which oversees the Capitol Police, estimated as many as 100 people filled the rotunda Thursday. One wore a gag. Another held a giant photograph of Walker pointing at the camera. Superimposed over the photograph was the message, "Hey, you ... singer with a sign. You're under arrest."
Just as they did Wednesday, officers used a loudspeaker to warn the group to disperse and posted a dry-erase sandwich board in the rotunda warning them to leave.
Police started moving through the crowd in waves, arresting people and leading them off to their basement station as the crowd bellowed "Shame!" and "Whose house? Our house!" The arrestees returned minutes later, holding their tickets aloft to applause.
"It's ridiculous," Paul Sopko Jr., a 51-year-old Madison handyman, said as he looked at his ticket. "People are just trying to stand up for what they believe is right. Every time they do something, the crowd doubles. Every time they threaten the people, it brings more out of the woodwork."
DOA spokeswoman Stephanie Marquis issued a statement saying police issued 26 citations for not having a permit. One person was cited for disorderly conduct, one person for disorderly conduct and resisting arrest and one person for resisting arrest.
"The question to ask is why they refuse to apply for a permit," Marquis said.
Madison has a long history of public protests, from a famous civil rights march in 1969 to violent clashes with police during the Vietnam War era. Tens of thousands of people converged on the Capitol in 2011 to demonstrate against Walker's contentious law stripping public workers of their union rights.
The singalongs are a remnant of those protests; many of the same demonstrators attend the gatherings. The group has been a point of tension since they began; their songs reverberate off the Capitol's marble walls, creating a din that echoes through the building.
"It's sad when a person feels their life is so empty and meaningless that the highlight of their day is to invade an otherwise peaceful capital every noon hour and raise a raucous in the rotunda," Rep. Joe Sanfelippo, R-West Allis, said in a statement Thursday.
Walker's administration revised its Capitol access policy in December 2011 to require permits for any organized activity. Since then, police have issued the singers dozens upon dozens of citations.
The protesters maintain the Wisconsin Constitution guarantees them the right to assemble and petition their government. The American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit, prompting U.S. District Judge William Conley to issue a preliminary injunction on July 9 stating groups of fewer than 20 people don't need a permit. He didn't rule on the constitutionality of the permit policy as a whole, however, setting a trial for Jan. 13.
Rep. Melissa Sargent, D-Madison, who joined the 2011 protests before she ran for office, was among a group of Democratic lawmakers who watched the arrests Thursday. She said Walker's tactics aren't working.
"Seems to me it's backfiring," she said.
Sapko said the singalongs won't end until Walker is out of office. The protesters vowed to return as they dispersed at the end of the lunch hour, chanting "We'll be back!"


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The two companies have signed a licensing agreement that'll allow AMD to include DivX's video technology with its Xilleon processor range. AMD and DivX are yet to decide which specific Xilleon processors will be included in the deal, but since rather a lot of HDTVs contain Xilleon chips, the potential is huge. Ditto mobile phones and other digital devices.
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Walt Disney Pictures
Directed by Hoyt Yeatman
Produced by Jerry Bruckheimer
Screenplay by Cormac Wibberley and Marianne Wibberley
Based on a story by Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio
When it comes to reviewing a movie like G-FORCE I believe that an adult reviewer is better off watching it with the age appropriate child and once the movie is over, asking them what they thought of it and would he or she recommend it to other kids their age. Let's face it, most of us are now too jaded or think we're too sophisticated to appreciate what a movie like G-FORCE is supposed to be or what it's designed to do. It's like when old fogies rag on Justin Bieber and say they don't understand why he's so popular. Well, that's because you're not supposed to understand. Unless you're a 14 year old girl, you'll never understand. It's kinda the same way with G-FORCE. You have to be of a certain age and sensibility to appreciate a line like; "Poop in his hand!"
G-FORCE is the code name for an elite team of special FBI agents that are animals. Their handler/trainer Ben (Zach Galifianakis) tells them they've been genetically enhanced which accounts for their exceptional intelligence and their ability to communicate with humans. With the aid of customized high-tech gadgets and computers guinea pigs Darwin (Sam Rockwell) Juarez (Penelope Cruz) Blaster (Tracy Morgan) star-nosed mole Speckles (Nicholas Cage) and housefly Mooch (Dee Bradley Baker) are dedicated to protecting the country and the world.
That's if they can pass their budgetary review which is in the hands of Ben's supervisor Kip Killian (Will Arnett) who is…shall we say highly dubious of the effectiveness of guinea pigs as secret agents. To prove their worth, Ben sends the team into the personal residence of home appliance magnate Leonard Saber (Billy Nighy) who is under investigation. Thanks to their various specialties in tactics, martial arts, weapons, surveillance and computer hacking, G-Force learns of a massively sinister scheme of Saber's that is due to go down in 29 hours. Unfortunately, the evidence the team recovered is corrupted and they have no proof. Killian orders the project shut down and the animals destroyed.
G-Force has no choice but to escape and go rogue in order to stop Saber's nefarious plan and save the world. But can they do it without their gadgets, their trainer Ben and with bumbling new recruit Hurley (Jon Favreau) screwing up the mission at every turn?
I watched this movie with my four-year old nephew Alex (actually I watched it twice because he insisted that I do so) and y'know what, it actually wasn't as much of a chore to watch as I thought it was going to be. I enjoyed the voice work of Sam Rockwell and Penelope Cruz, both of who sound like they're having a blast. Tracy Morgan's voice work was actually intrusive as the voice was entirely too recognizable as Tracy Morgan and it's as if he's doing his "30 Rock" persona of Tracy Jordan voicing the character. Much more interesting is the voice work of Jon Favreau and Nicholas Cage who give their characters unique voices totally unlike their own. The first time I watched it I didn't know who was doing the voices until the credits at the end of the movie and was totally surprised to read Favreau's and Cage's names. Their characters sound nothing like them, which I thought was a plus.
Another plus? The human actors, Zach Galifianakis, Will Arnett and Bill Nighy. If I had seen just their parts in clips without the CGI guinea pigs I'd had thought they were in a straight spy movie because that's pretty much how they play it. The comedy is left mostly up to the rodents including Steve Buscemi as a hamster with anger management issues and three dumb mice. And because this is, after all a Jerry Bruckheimer production we've got more than enough explosions and over the top action sequences. Some of 'em are actually quite impressive, given that the stunts are being done by CGI guinea pigs.
When the movie was over, I asked Alex what was his favorite part. He answer; "When they were running away from the bad guys in their ballies." The 'ballies' is a high speed rapid deployment vehicle that consists of three clear spheres the G-Force agents drive that can either hook up together or operate independently. They're fast, computer assisted and naturally come pimped out with a whole bunch of gadgets Q would be proud of. Alex also thought Hurley was the funniest one in the movie. Alex's favorite line in the movie? "Get your face outta my butt!"
I then ask Alex if he thought other kids his age would like it and he nodded enthusiastically, grinning like a maniac. So don't take it from me, take it from my co-reviewer Alex Cabbagestalk III. If you've got kids around his age that haven't seen it yet and you want to Netflix something appropriate for them to watch, give G-FORCE a try. It's clean, it's wholesome, it's fun and it won't kill your brain cells if you're required to watch it as well. Enjoy.
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Download: Download the MIME database package
Many programs and desktops use the MIME system to represent the types of files. Frequently, it is necessary to work out the correct MIME type for a file. This is generally done by examining the file's name or contents, and looking up the correct MIME type in a database.
For interoperability, it is useful for different programs to use the same database so that different programs agree on the type of a file, and new rules for determining the type apply to all programs.
Here you will find:
- A specification which describes how the new system works.
- A package containing a large number of common MIME types, created by converting the existing KDE and GNOME databases to the new format and merging them together, and software for updating the database.
The system allows the following types of operation:
- A single place for applications to register information about MIME types:
- A text/html file should be described as an HTML Page in English.
- A way for applications to extend the rules for guessing the type of a file:
- Files with names matching *.html are text/html files.
- Files with near the start are text/html files.
- The system is extensible, so other specifications can define extra information that can be added to a type:
- This .desktop file provides a way to view text/html files.
The system does not provide a mechanism for storing user preferences (Bob likes to view text/html files in Mozilla). See the ?MIME actions specification for that.
Shared MIME database package
The core database and the update-mime-database program for extending it are available from the software pages.
If you have added types that should go in the common freedesktop.org base list of types, you should create an enhancement request on the MIME bugtracker with your new XML file.
Application authors and users who want to extend the database should read the Adding to the database tutorial. This explains how to add information to the database such as:
- image/png can be edited using the Gimp.
- image/png should be described in English as "Portable Network Graphics file".
- Files whose names end in .png should have the type image/png. If you want to read the database instead (eg, to work out the MIME type of a file, or find a textual description of a type) then you should use one of the various libraries listed in the Current implementors section below, or read the full specification.
Discussion of this specification should occur on xdg.
The Git module for this code is xdg/shared-mime-info.
Current status
The specification is now quite stable and not expected to change in incompatible ways. Integration with icon themes has not been finalised (and is not currently part of the specification).
- ROX has used the system since ROX-Filer 1.3.3 (July 2002).
- GTK has support since version 2.4 (Mar 2004).
- GNOME uses the system since version 2.8 (Sep 2004).
- XFCE uses the system since version 4.2.0 (Jan 2005).
- KDE uses the system since version 4.0 (Jan 2007).
- LXDE has used the system since the initial release of PCManFM (2005).
- EDE uses the system since version 2.0-alpha (Apr 2009, but implemented in May 2007).
Current issues keeping this as 'draft' are:
- The Desktop Base Directory Specification, which this relies on, is still a draft.
Full specification
- Version 0.11 - html (one page) - html (multiple pages) - xml
- Version 0.12 - html (one page) - html (multiple pages) - xml
- Version 0.13 - html (one page) - html (multiple pages) - xml
- Version 0.14 - html (one page) - html (multiple pages) - xml
- Version 0.15 - html (one page) - html (multiple pages) - xml
- Version 0.16 - html (one page) - html (multiple pages) - xml
- Version 0.17 - html (one page) - html (multiple pages) - xml
- Version 0.18 - html (one page) - html (multiple pages) - xml
- History and related systems
Current implementors
- xdgmime: Reference implementation of the spec. It is dual licensed under the GNU-LGPL and AFL v2.0. It has no dependencies and is written in straight C. It is intended to be included by other libraries that want to support the standard.
- libxdg: This is a fork of the xdgmime library with additional implementation of ?MIME actions specification, Desktop entry specification, Icon theme specification and Icon naming specification. It is dual licensed under the GNU-LGPL and AFL v2.0. It has no dependencies and is written in straight C. It is intended to be included by other libraries that want to support the standard.
- libsharedmime: Another shared library to query the database.
- KDE: The KDE libraries implement the MIME spec to provide MIME information to all KDE applications.
- GTK+ file selector: The new file selector in GTK+-2.4 uses the MIME spec to determine icons in it.
- MIME-Editor: Graphical editor with a GTK interface, written in python.
- Perl module File::MimeInfo(CPAN): Provides a simple Perl interface to query the database.
- PHP library: Provides a simple PHP5 interface to query the database.
- ROX-Lib: Provides a Python module to query the database.
- ROX-Filer: Graphical file manager which uses the database to match filenames and provide textual descriptions for each type.
- gnome-vfs: The GNOME VFS library provides mime information to all GNOME applications.
- Ruby library: A Ruby module to query the database.
- jmimeinfo: A Java library to query the database.
- PCManFM: Lightweight graphical file manager with tab-browsing which uses the database for all mime-type handling of files. There is a small GPL'd lib called libmimetype included in the source code of PCManFM.
- EDE: EDE library (edelib) provides mime information to all EDE specific applications.
Links to other specifications
- Base directory specification: This is used to locate the MIME database. It lets the user override the system settings, and the system settings override the distribution settings.
- ?MIME actions specification: This specification describes how applications should be associated with MIME types. This covers both recording that an application is capable of opening files of a particular type, and configuring which application should be the default.
- Desktop entry specification: There needs to be a way to indicate which applications can handle a file of a particular type. In the future, this will probably take the form of a link to a .desktop file, as shown in the tutorial above.
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A Somerset police officer is facing charges for allegedly knocking on doors at an elderly housing complex, asking for personal information, and offering to collect and dispose of expired prescription medication.
Ricardo Pavao was arraigned on Wednesday after turning himself in on drug and larceny charges.
Police say the 33-year-old officer went to the housing complex Sunday without telling a supervisor.
The Herald News reports Pavao allegedly knocked on doors and told them he was checking their emergency information. A 92-year-old man told investigators he handed Pavao three prescription drug bottles after the officer offered to dispose of expired prescription drugs.
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While the user experience now more closely resembles its iOS and Android counterparts, the Windows Phone version of the app still requires a paid subscription. Those other versions of the app require paid subscriptions to access all of the app's features, but a limited version of the app can be used without a subscription, which costs $9.99 a month for most users (a $4.99/month option is available for students).
The radio, browse and discover features were all part of Spotify's other mobile and desktop apps, but had been missing from the Windows Phone release. Spotify radio allows users to listen to genre-based stations or create their own; the browse section helps users find playlists to suit their moods and surfaces collections of new and popular songs: and discover provides personalized recommendations.
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Posted: Wed 03 Aug 2005, 14:55
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Thanks for spacereplace!
GuestToo made
into a dot pup, I believe. And I finally installed it and I must say thanks, thanks, THANKS for this....
I know that this is an incredibly simple program, but I was in the process of renaming over 25gig's worth of mp3's so that I could play them from the commanline... yes, piracy is bad, I know, but my point is that almost every damn one of them had spaces in the name, making it impossible to navigate to them by cd'ing.
So, again, thanks for making this into a dotpup, I never would have thought that it would be so easy...
See what Windows does to people's minds? Linux does the work f o r you, hmmm.....
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You can navigate through trees with spaces in the name quite easily if you use tab filename completion. If you do not know this tremendously useful feature here is how it works:
e.g. if you want to cd to /usr/X11R6/share
type withou
cd /u
without return and press TAB
Your shell will complete it automagically to
cd /usr/
now type X and again TAB
and it expands to
cd /usr/X11R6/
then s and TAB ...
If the prefix is not unique, the shell will expand the filename as much as possible. If you press TAB again it will give you a list of matching filenames.
File Name completion also works for spaces
Assume you have a subdirectory "My Music"
Simply type
cd My
and press TAB.
It expands to
cd My\ Music
\ is the escaping signal, which means treat the space after that literally and not as a seperator of arguments.
Another way would be to type
cd "My Music"
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That� what I am talking about....
usefull, pleasant, wonderfull advice on how to get things done....
Right on, thanks doopdoop!
That� what makes the Puppy forums such a great place - the people who frequent it
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Posted: Wed 03 Aug 2005, 19:31
Post subject: Re: Thanks for spacereplace!
Bancobusto wrote:
GuestToo made
into a dot pup, I believe
actually, it was Bruce B who made the Spacereplace dotpup
i suspect you don't need to be renaming your mp3's
gxine and xmms can use playlists, for example
if you have a desktop icon, you can select the mp3's you want to play/add to the playlist, and drag them to the desktop shortcut ... you can save the playlist if you like
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Sorry Bruce B, let me re-direct my thanks at you...
I find that creating playlist to be quite time-consuming, and without the playlist, Xine doesn't really like files with spaces in their names... About half the time it spits out an error.
Anyhow, I guess that you're right, it's not the most important thing to remame all the files... but it's too late now, as it only took about 3-4 minutes.
Thanks all
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Posted: Wed 03 Aug 2005, 20:58
Post subject: Listening to audio books on mp3 player
We've strayed off the original topic, but that's OK; I have a burning question that fits here.
Is there a way to combine mp3 tracks, from several CDs, into one folder, and have the tracks play in the correct order on my mp3 player? ('Correct' being defined as 'in the order the CDs were added to the folder.')
I convert books-on-CDs into mp3s, to listen to them on my mp3 player. The problem is, I've seen books that fill 25 CDs, each with from 10 to 20 tracks. None of the ripping-and-mp3-converting programs I've tried is designed to handle this situation. They can't combine the tracks from several CDs into one folder without mixing up the tracks, unless I renumber the tracks manually. On the other hand, my mp3 player can only handle folders one layer deep. So, in order for me to listen to a book, each CD has to be a separate folder, as though it were another album. I would rather combine all the tracks from the book into one folder which contains all the mp3 tracks numbered in sequential order. However, renumbering 150 tracks by hand gets pretty tedious.
Is there a simple way?
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If I understand you correctly, I have a solution.
I came across this when I was using Windows and downloading a lot of "stuff" last year.
You can create a " n o n c o m p r e s s e d " archive (either .rar, .tar, doesnt matter as long as it's not compressed at all. ZERO compression.
For example, say the non-compressed archive is called fav_book.tar.
You would rename it to fav_book.tar.mp3.
Then you could play it on just about any media player.
This is assuming that the tracks are ripped as mp3's.
Oh, and I don't know how to set the compression rate of a tar archive through the command line. But I've done it with a program called File-Roller on Debian, there may be the option to create an uncompressed archive in TKZip, I'm not sure.
Hope that help!
So, to get them to play in the right order, say you had 37 folders that you were gonna create into one archive, you would name each folder a number going up, you know?
01, 02, 03 etc.
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if you right click the rox window, click Display, Sort by Date ... then right click and click Select All (or select which ones you want, for example, by holding the ctrl key and clicking mp3's to select them) ... then drag the selected mp3's to the xmms shortcut ... it will add the selected mp3's to the playlist, in date order (last added plays first)
you can edit the playlist (click the PL button to see the playlist) ... and save the playlist to a file
if you want the first added to play first, you can right click the xmms playlist and click Sort, Sort List, By Date (first added to the list plays first)
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Bancobusto wrote:
[snip]So, to get them to play in the right order, say you had 37 folders that you were gonna create into one archive, you would name each folder a number going up, you know?
01, 02, 03 etc.
Thanks, Bancobusto. (I already number the individual CDs: Name_of_Book CD01; Name_of_Book CD02; etc., so I'm halfway there already.)
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by the way, i don't seem to have problems with spaces ... the xmms playlist seems to handle them ok
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CUPERTINO, Calif., Sept. 21 (UPI) -- Apple's new iPhone 5 was flying off store shelves Friday despite complaints about problems with the new Apple Maps service, industry analysts said.
Complaints about the new mapping service include missing roads, wrong locations and a poor search function, The Wall Street Journal reported. A search for the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, for example, puts it roughly 4 miles from where it actually is.
"We launched this new map service knowing that it is a major initiative and we are just getting started with it," Apple spokesman Simon Pope said in an emailed statement, the San Jose (Calif.) Mercury News reported. "We are continuously improving it, and as Maps is a cloud-based solution, the more people use it, the better it will get."
The Journal said Dutch navigation company TomTom tried to distance itself Friday from the widespread criticism.
TomTom, which agreed in June to supply Apple with mapping data for its latest iOS mobile operating system, said Friday its maps data provides only the "foundation" of the Apple's mapping software.
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"The messages I will take away is people are very concerned about a number of things involving our young people, particularly young people that drift away from school," Prime Minister Gillard said.
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On a week that has placed Opposition Leader Tony Abbott ahead as the preferred Prime Minister and the Labor primary vote beginning to turn 'toxic', Ms Gillard said the weekly public opinion polls were not as important as what would be displayed on Election Day.
"I came in to politics with a sense of purpose about what you want to get done, what you believe in, what you think should be changed in our nation ... it's those things that drive me still."
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"I simply don't believe that someone on my income level, for example, should be getting public support for their private health insurance."
PM Gillard said the decision may not have been popular, but she believed it was the best use of funds.
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Amber Rose is protecting her energy and her peace!
The pregnant SlutWalk creator announced on Instagram Tuesday (August 13) that she's canceling her annual Los Angeles walk —which calls for an end to rape culture, including victim blaming and slut shaming of sexual assault victims — to focus on her wellbeing and avoid all toxicity — specifically when it comes to "fake friends."
"So me. I stopped being friends with about 20 ppl last year. I've had friends steal jewelry and money from me, Sleep with my BF's behind my back, Male friends lying and telling people we were sleeping together, Alcoholic drug addict friends, Abusive Friends, Toxic Personality friends and I even had a Friend call Social Services on me twice ( For no f**king reason) only to Sue me for calling her and Cursing her out (When I found out it was her) smh," Amber shared on Instagram. "That Phone call cost me $168,000... Man, the list goes on you have no idea."
"The funny thing is I never snitched publicly on anyone," she added. "Ain't that some sh*t? People may not know this but I'm extremely unproblematic. I don't start fights. I don't do drugs. I'm as sweet as pie and constantly get walked all over. I'm so happy God has blessed me with a New Baby and an Amazing Man to help me through all the turmoil. That's why I've been laying so low during this pregnancy.... no Toxicity will be tolerated over here only Positive vibes."
"F**k fake friends and their weirdo sh*t. I'd rather just have my family and my team," the expecting mom continued, before giving the unexpected update about this year's SlutWalk. "This is also why I'm not having my Slutwalk this year.... Sorry I just have to protect my energy and peace."
As fans know, Amber and her boyfriend Alexander "AE" Edwards are expecting their first child together, Amber's second as the SlutWalk creator shares custody of her six-year-old son, Sebastian Taylor Thomaz, with her ex-husband Wiz Khalifa.
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