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descend from (someone or something)
descend from (someone or something)
1. Literally, to move from a higher point to a lower one. The bride looked simply gorgeous as she descended from the balcony in her flowing gown.
2. To originate from a particular ancestor or source. I was shocked to learn that I descended from key figures in the American Revolution.
descend from someone
or some group [for a living creature] to come from a particular set of ancestors. I descend from a large family of Dutch traders. Wally is descended from Daniel Boone.
descend from something
to move down from something. The bird descended from the top of the tree to a lower branch. Take care when you descend from the ladder.


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Hi all,
I am about to embark on a weeks holiday in Carradale. It's going to be fun as I have a two and a half year old and a just turned one year old, both boys. And I'm sure they will love to beach just as I did when I used to go there.
However, a beach does not make a holiday alone. Could you either list or direct me to a site that gives locations for activities and outings aimed at this age range or things at least that might engage the eldest. We'll be quite willing to travel Campbeltown to Oban.


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Complete high-level binding to libFLAC https://github.com/mrkkrp/flac
|Latest on Hackage:
Module documentation for 0.1.2
FLAC for Haskell
- Aims of the project
- Motivation
- Provided functionality
- Limitations
- Quick start
- Related packages
- Contribution
- License
This is a complete high-level Haskell binding to libFLAC—reference FLAC implementation.
As the maintainer of the C FLAC code base, I must say I'm impressed. Quite honestly, I think the C API is horrible.
Aims of the project
Here are several ideas the project follows:
Concentrate only on native FLAC format without messing with other audio formats or their flavors. This library is about FLAC only.
Be a complete interface for FLAC file manipulation in Haskell. "Complete" means that everything supported by the reference implementation should be supported by this package. This is in the hope to prevent fragmentation and proliferation of different libraries to work with FLAC with each of them covering only some 80% of functionality the library author needed and neglecting other 20%.
Be as efficient as the underlying C implementation, avoid adding any sort of overhead (memory/speed/or otherwise).
Provide idiot-proof API using type system to kindly guard against bad things, but not so much to remain beginner-friendly and simple.
Make invalid code and data unrepresentable.
FLAC is awesome and Haskell is awesome, surely there should be a way to achieve an even higher level of awesomeness by coding a safe Haskell API to the fast libFLAC library.
Seriously though, we
htaglib to work with
audio metadata, but it does not support a lot of FLAC-specific things I'd
love to manipulate. We
hsndfile, but I don't
really want to read FLAC data into a buffer or Haskell
Vector. How simple
is it (if possible) to decode a FLAC file using that library? How simple is
it to figure out where to begin with such a task? With
flac it's
decodeFlac def "myfile.flac" "myfile.wav"—done, average song in a fraction
of second.
Provided functionality
Here we go:
Metadata—full support for reading/writing/deleting of all audio parameters, application data, seek tables, vorbis comments of all sorts, CUE sheets, and even pictures.
Stream decoder—simple interface for decoding to vanilla WAVE and RF64 (support for files larger than 4 Gb).
Stream encoder—a lot of options to tweak, everything that libFLAC has, but you can also use
defand just encode vanilla WAVE or RF64 file into native FLAC. Simple and efficient.
Right now there are three main limitations:
No Ogg FLAC support, and I do not plan to add it, but I'll accept a PR adding support for Ogg FLAC.
It's not possible to use custom callbacks for printing decoding/encoding progress in real-time and stuff like that. Not a big issue IMO, given that we get nice and safe API instead.
Only works on little-endian architectures so far, I'll accept a PR lifting this limitation.
Quick start
The best way to start using
flac is to take a look
at the Haddocks. Encoding and
decoding are so simple that even a baby could handle it, and for metadata
there are examples and a lot of details in the docs. Feel free to ask me a
question if you get stuck with something though.
Related packages
The following packages are designed to be used with
flac-picture—add pictures to FLAC metadata easier.
Please kindly direct all issues, bugs, and questions to the GitHub issue tracker for this project.
Pull requests are also welcome and will be reviewed quickly.
Copyright © 2016–2017 Mark Karpov
Distributed under BSD 3 clause license.
- Documentation and metadata improvements.
- Added support for
DiscTotalVorbis comment field.
- Initial release.


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Fruitcake Bars Recipe
Swapped at the 2011 Cookie Swap by SENY Food Artisans columnist Stephanie Klose.
Adapted from David Lebovitz (who adapted it from Alice Medrich)
- Yield:About 16 bars
- 6 tablespoons (50 g) flour
- 1/8 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/8 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 6 tablespoons (90 g) packed, light or dark brown sugar
- 2 cups nuts (200 g), toasted and coarsely ground [I used half walnuts, half hazelnuts]
- 1 1/4 cups (170 g) dates, pitted and cut into eighths
- 1/4 cup dried cherries
- 1 cup (170 g) dried apricot halves, preferably from California, cut into sixths
- 2 large eggs
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/4 teaspoon almond extract
Line an 8-inch (20 cm) square pan across the bottom and up the sides with two sheets of aluminum foil, making a big criss-cross with the sides overhanging.
Preheat the oven to 325°F and position the rack in the center of the oven.
In a large bowl, toss together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Add the brown sugar, nuts, dates, cherries, and apricots. Use your fingers to mix the fruit, separate any pieces sticking together.
Beat the eggs and vanilla in a small bowl, then mix it with the fruit and nut mixture until everything's coated with the batter. Spread the mixture in the baking pan and press gently to even it out.
Bake for 35-40 minutes until the top of the bars are golden brown and has pulled away just-slightly from the sides of the pan. Cool the bars in the pan, then lift out.
To cut the cooled bars, use a heavy sharp knife, such as a bread knife, for best results in getting clean slices. Storage: The bars can be stored in an airtight container at room temperature for up to a week.
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bust (one)(redirected from busted her)
bust (one)
To arrest one for an illegal act. The police busted us for underage drinking.
See also: bust
(one's) ass (to do something) and break one's balls to do something; bust one's butt to do something; bust one's nuts to do something Sl. to work very hard to do something. (The expressions with balls and nuts are said typically, but not necessarily, of a male. Potentially offensive. Use only with discretion.) I've been busting my nuts to get this thing done on time, and now they don't want it! The new boss expects you to bust your nuts every minute you are at work at the warehouse.
(someone's) balls Go to break (someone's) balls.
(someone's) stones Go to break (someone's) balls.
bust someone one
Sl. to punch someone; to give someone a punch, probably in the face. (Bust is a nonstandard form of burst meaning 'hit' here.) You better shut up, or I'll bust you one! You want me to bust you one? I will if you do that again.
See busted
1. n. a failure. The whole project was a bust from the beginning.
2. tv. to reduce someone's rank. (Originally military, now also in civilian use as with the police.) The brass busted her on the spot.
3. n. a riotous drinking party. There was a big bust in the park until two in the morning.
4. n. a raid by the police. I knew it was a bust the minute they broke in the door.
5. tv. [for the police] to raid a place. The bacon busted Bill's bar and put Bill in the slammer.
6. tv. to arrest someone. The feds finally busted Frank on a tax rap.
7. n. an arrest. The bust was carried off without much stress.
8. tv. to inform on someone, leading to an arrest. Tom busted Sam because there's bad blood between them.
9. n. the police. Here comes the bust. Beat it!
10. Go to busted.
bust (one's)ass/balls/butt Vulgar Slang
To make a strenuous effort; work very hard.


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This summer it was announced that the WELL, a revolutionary online community founded nearly 30 years ago, had been put up for sale by its current owner, web magazine Salon. If no buyer emerges, this historic online watering hole will likely have to close up shop. It would mark the end of an era—but no matter what happens, the WELL's legacy will continue to live on all around us, in the rollicking conversations we enjoy every day on social networks and comment threads.
In that regard, the WELL is just one of many world-bending triumphs in the long, strange career of its cofounder, Stewart Brand. A Merry Prankster in the early 1960s, Brand went on to found the Whole Earth Catalog, a bible for both the back-to-the-land movement and the first computer hackers. Indeed, the community that sprang up around the catalog was what formed the seed of the WELL (an acronym of Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link), an early BBS that became an Internet service provider at the dawn of the web.
In addition to his many entrepreneurial ventures, Brand has also been a vocal visionary on technology and its future, famously coining the phrase "Information wants to be free" (though it also wants to be expensive, he immediately added in a far less-quoted caveat). He's written extensively and perceptively about alternative energy, the environment, and bioengineering. Today Brand heads the Long Now Foundation, a group devoted to thinking about what humanity and Earth will look like in 10,000 years.
As part of our 20th-anniversary Icons series, we sent Kevin Kelly—a longtime writer and editor for Wired as well as an early member of the WELL and a former contributor to the Whole Earth Catalog—to chat with Brand about the legacy of his online community and the challenges of trying to peer into the future.
Kevin Kelly: There was an event in San Francisco in 1968 that has come to be called "the mother of all demos"—when Stanford's Doug Engelbart showed off a computer with a mouse and graphical interface. You were there. What significance did that event have for you?
Stewart Brand: It made me perpetually impatient. I saw a bunch of things demonstrated that clearly worked, and I wanted some right now, please! That demo gave a really accurate look at what was coming and made it seem so easy. But decades would go by, and it just kept not coming.
Kelly: Does that give you pause that maybe all kinds of things that look to be around the corner today—drones, magic glasses, self-driving cars—are just premature promises?
Brand: The lesson was that this is exponential technology. I don't mean that just in terms of power or capacity—driven by Moore's law—but also in that it starts out slow as consumers find ways to put it to use.
Kelly: Another harbinger of the digital age is on the ropes right now. In June, Salon announced it was selling the WELL, which you cofounded. How would you describe the WELL?
Brand: My first impulse is to say it was a jumped-up bulletin board, a teleconference system using dialup modems, running on a minicomputer. But no one knows what those are now! Best to say it was an early version of social email, with themed threads of messages you could read whenever. We liked to think of it as a digital pub—a "great good place" you got to by typing.
Kelly: I think of it now as community text messaging. Regardless, it was ahead of its time.
Brand: There is a common feeling that when you're making something new you had better get the structure of it right, because it may wind up being the structure of everything important in the future. Computer scientist Jaron Lanier describes that feeling as "karma vertigo."
Kelly: Did you feel karma vertigo when starting the WELL back in 1985?
Brand: Sure. When email was first developing, all the questions that people deal with today were beginning to come up. Who owns your words? How do you organize these massive email conversations? On the WELL we organized messages into "conferences." Do you need moderation? Is it OK for users to stay anonymous or use pseudonyms? People on the WELL board, like yourself, were aware that they were crafting a whole digital universe.
Kelly: I find that the online voice—the tone, the humor, and many texting acronyms—dates back to the WELL. In fact, if you go into any online forum today, the dynamics from the WELL days are entirely recognizable, including the dark side: the flame wars, the trolls, the stuff that polite people will write that they wouldn't say in person.
Brand: I left the WELL because of being flamed. It was due to the now-usual dynamic that Facebook is encountering. Administrators are surprised to discover that the users who occupy the community believe it is their community and the administrators work for them! Because of the nature of the system, the dissent is intensely personal and flows right into your inbox. I found myself approaching a public WELL conference about administration with hands trembling. That type of confrontation is fatal, and there's no way out except to bail.
Kelly: That was an epiphany for me too. I saw the wisdom of the crowd flip into the stupidity of the mob in a nanosecond. It's the same charge, with the polarity reversed.
Brand: Online behavior can be like chicken-pecking: If anyone shows blood, that bird is down.
Kelly: The dark side of the WELL may have been even more influential than the civil side. We had the True Confessions conference, where you could write anything anonymously, and a whole section called Anonymous. This was a precursor to 4chan, with the same subversive power of anons making trouble. Yet the WELL never thrived like its cohort, AOL, which was born about the same time. What did the WELL miss?
Brand: We didn't go far enough in holding people to their real identity. I was pretty sure that anonymity was toxic, and so at first I didn't want anonymity on the WELL. This became a source of controversy: Others liked online anonymity, because it allowed people to tell the truth. So the compromise was pseudonymity, where anybody who wanted to could have a handle. We knew who everyone was, because every handle was tied to a real name on a credit card. But the other members didn't know.
Kelly: If you had to do it over again, would you do it differently?
Brand: Definitely. Instead of half-fixing the bug, we should have done what Mark Zuckerberg did and turn the bug into a feature. Your Facebook identity is the identity that's confirmed by all the people who friend you—and therefore it's the real you. It's not somebody pretending to be you. Facebook created a largely self-policing model for online identity, and that has proven to be a cashable feature for it. By turning the bug totally upside down, Facebook accomplished something we could have done back then. We just failed to be that bold.
Kelly: Anything else you would have changed?
Brand: I wish we had also figured out a better way to welcome newcomers. We made it painful for anybody to be new.
Kelly: There was no netiquette. It took 20 years for troll management to become common knowledge. Now everyone knows you control trolls by ignoring them.
Brand: When you have a new communications medium, everything will be tried and then new forms of courtesy will emerge.
Kelly: New forms of civics, even. How do you deal with people who don't comply? What are the limits to what's permissible? The thing that has impressed me the most about this digital era in the past two decades is how much more humane this technology is than most technology was before it. Sure, it has costs, but every new technology seems to inspire new Luddites.
Brand: Well, you and I have both made careers out of chuckling at those people. Look at my library here. There are probably 340 books about technology—
Kelly: At least 20 linear feet of books.
Brand: —and a significant portion of them, perhaps 15 percent, tell us why the good times can't last, why there's some profound flaw. But they provide a valuable social service—the intellectual effort to find the problem with something that's booming. And sometimes they're right! Sometimes the thing is bogus. Most of the stuff that my fellow hippies tried turned out not to have legs. Communes didn't. Dope didn't!
Kelly: What do you make of the thesis—from New York Times reporter John Markoff and others—that there was a countercultural strain to the digital revolution? The idea that personal computers were a technological extension of the hippie "me generation" experiments in mind expansion?
Brand: It's certainly a valid sequence to trace out. There are real connections. In 1972 I wrote a piece for Rolling Stone about computers and hackers, in which I referred to drugs in the first sentence. Regretted it ever since.
Kelly: Why do you regret it?
Brand: It's just so dated. I think the first sentences go something like "Ready or not, computers are coming to the people. That's the best news since psychedelics." That was stupid.
Kelly: But computers did come to the people, of course. And I've heard you say that you personally gave up psychedelics because they no longer got better every year, whereas computers did. So what about today? Does technology still have a countercultural slant?
Brand: The counterculture is aging fast and starting to die. The best counterculture now is in biology. As far as I can tell, biohackers are all adventurous young people, incredibly athletic, and they're all traveling the world. I don't know if biohackers are as much fun as the computer hackers were, but they're way more responsible. They monitor their own potential misbehavior in a way that computer hackers never have.
Kelly: Twenty years ago we thought the web was going to be brought to us by big media, but it turned out to be brought to us by us—it was mostly user-generated. Is biotech going to be big business, or will it too be user-generated?
Brand: My current version is that biotech wants to be free, and of course biotech wants to be expensive. Very expensive. [Laughs.] And those two extremes will probably play out against each other.
Kelly: You said that the mother of all demos made you impatient. What are you impatient for today?
I am impatient for environmentalists to stop being fearmongers and to start getting excited by the fantastic news coming along. I see some evidence that this is beginning to happen. I am impatient for genetically modified organisms, and now there is a genetically engineered mosquito to head off dengue fever. My fondest hope is for fusion power and, in the interim, modular nuclear reactors. And you?
Kelly: Cashless society. A national ID card. Mandatory national service. Electric bicycles. Self-driving cars and human clones.
Brand: The main event of the past two decades has been the playing out of Moore's law. Its acceleration has become our constant. This digital acceleration has become the culture—which was the original story of wired, so the magazine's basic hypothesis has turned out to be true.
Kelly: One other trajectory I have noticed about the past 20 years: Excitement about the future has waned. The future is deflating. It is simply not as desirable as it once was.
Brand: That's something I see around biotech these days. There's a lot of anticipatory worry—trying to head off the ignorant worriers by doing intelligent worrying. It's the responsible thing to do, of course. They saw what happened with genetically modified organisms. They saw what happened with nuclear power. So the smart people in biotech are trying to get out in front of the hand-wringing, to frame it. Because you cannot stop the worrying.
Kelly: You want to make it better worrying.
Brand: It can become really helpful worrying! At a conference, I once heard an amazing insight from a bioethicist. "When you surprise a bioethicist with an ethical question," he said, "the answer will be no." The lesson was: Never surprise them. Instead, involve them early on. That way, even if they do see some worrisome consequences to what you're doing, they'll also see how those potential consequences are unlikely and how they can be monitored if they do come up.
Kelly: For the past four decades you've been surfing the wave of digital code, but in the last few years you've shifted to the coming wave of genetic code.
Brand: I take my cue from technology historian George Dyson, who argues that, from the perspective of the real world, the digital universe is accelerating rapidly but, from the view of the digital universe, the biological world is slllllooooowwwwwiiing doooowwwwn. Since we humans are amphibians and live in both universes, we are being torn by acceleration on one side and deceleration on the other. That sounds rough, but it's actually pretty exciting.
Kelly: Your latest project is to resurrect the extinct passenger pigeon, as the first of many de-extinctions. How will you go about that?
Brand: It's becoming possible to take the ancient DNA of specimens now extinct and revive their genome and maybe revive the species and return it to the wild. They almost managed to do this with an extinct ibex in Spain. If we can revive the passenger pigeon, that may be a further reason to fully restore the whole eastern deciduous forest that was its habitat.
Kelly: I imagine that might worry many people.
Brand: I want them to know that de-extinction is coming. And I also want the eventual semi-amateur de-extinctors, as they start doing this out in the barn, to understand that there's a framework of norms about ethics and transparency.
Kelly: What we all need is a manual on how to worry intelligently.
Brand: Right! There are reasons that you and I are technology enthusiasts. We've been rewarded for our enthusiasm. But the world also needs good worriers—people who watch the evidence and know when to stop worrying, to move on to something else. Good enthusiasts do the same.
Senior maverick Kevin Kelly (kk.org) is the author of What Technology Wants.Go Back to Top. Skip To: Start of Article.


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It took Joe Paterno over 40 years to start a true freshman at quarterback to open the season. One report suggests it will take Bill O'Brien just two.
A report published by ESPN.com says Christian Hackenberg, a blue chip quarterback recruit out of Virginia in Penn State's class of 2013, will get the start under center for Penn State on Saturday. Penn State faces off with Syracuse in MetLife Stadium, meaning Hackenberg will make his first start in the NFL stadium.
O'Brien has remained largely silent on the quarterback situation all training camp and in the days leading up to the start of his second season as head coach. The coach said this week that his players knew who the starter would be and that everyone else would have to wait until kickoff for everyone else to find out.
If the report is true and Haceknberg does start for Penn State, it means he would have beaten out junior college quarterback Tyler Ferguson. Ferguson was Penn State's consolation prize among junior college transfers after Jake Waters chose to join Kansas State. Waters will start for the Wildcats on Friday night against FCS power North Dakota State.
The expectations are high for Hackenberg in State College. After seeing what O'Brien was able to make of Matt McGloin, why wouldn't they be? One question that may need to be answered tomorrow is whether or not the start ultimately is a final decision or if an audition is continuing on the field against live opponents. O'Brien had teased the idea of using both quarterbacks , but a two QB system would not be ideal for O'Brien.
Rob Bolden was the last true freshman to start a season opener for Penn State (2010).


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Everything you need to know about what's going on 11/14-11/20.
MOVIES OPENING (Friday; Subject to change)
Being Elmo
Happy Feet 2
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 1
Basketball Wives L.A. (season finale; 8 p.m.; VH1)
Clue (miniseries premiere; 8 p.m.; The Hub)
The Bad Girls Club: Reunion, Part 2 (special; 9 p.m.; Oxygen)
Love & Hip Hop (season premiere; 9 p.m,; VH1)
Diane Sawyer interview with Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (special; 10 p.m.; ABC)
The Headhuntress (special; 10 p.m.; Bravo)
Hardcore Pawn (season premiere; 9 p.m.; truTV)
Knights of Mayhem (series debut; 9 p.m.; NatGeo)
MTV2's Guy Code (series debut; 11 p.m.; MTV2)
The Bengali Detective (special; 8 p.m.; HBO2)
Restaurant: Impossible (season finale; 10 p.m.; Food)
South Park (season finale; 10 p.m.; Comedy Central
Nick Swardson's Pretend Time (season finale; 10:30 p.m.; Comedy Central)
Saint Misbehavin': The Wavy Gravy Movie (special; 7:55 p.m.; Showtime)
Gold Rush Ghost Ships (special; 8 p.m.; NatGeo)
Katie Couric With a Regis Philbin Biography (special; 8 p.m.; ABC)
Clue (miniseries finale; 8:30 p.m.; The Hub)
Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys (season premiere; 9 p.m.; Sundance)
Women Who Rock (special; 9 p.m.; PBS)
All on the Line (season premiere; 10 p.m.; Sundance)
Ask Oprah's All Stars (season finale; 10 p.m.,; OWN)
Kelly Clarkson Unplugged (special; 11 p.m.; VH1)
Jodi Picoult's Salem Falls (special; 8 p.m.; Lifetime)
Donald Glover: Weirdo (special; 11 p.m.; Comedy Central)
2011 American Music Awards (special; 8 p.m.; ABC)
American Masters: Woody Allen (special; 9 p.m.; PBS)
How to Make It in America (season finale; 10:30 p.m.; HBO)
NEW ON DVD/BLU-RAY (Tuesday)
Being Human: The Complete First Season
Larry Crowne
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
Talihina Sky: The Story of Kings of Leon
Turtle: The Incredible Journey
West Side Story: 50th Anniversary Edition
Whitechapel: The Ripper Returns
NEW ALBUMS (Tuesday; subject to change)
Caveman, "Coco Beware"
Childish Gambino, "Camp"
Cynic, "Carbon Based Anatomy"
Drake, "Take Care"
"Glee: The Music, The Christmas Album Volume 2"
Gym Class Heroes, "The Papercut Chronicles II"
Los Campesinos!, "Hello Sadness"
R.E.M., "Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage: 1982-2011"
Tegan and Sara, "Get Along"
The Jigsaw Seen, "Winterland"
The Puppini Sisters, "Hollywood"
"This Warm December, A Brushfire Holiday Vol. 2"
RAMS HEAD LIVE: Hank3 (Wednesday); The Airborne Toxic Event (Thursday); Brett Dennen (Friday); Robert Randolph and the Family Band (Saturday); Smokers Club Tour w/ Curren$y, Method Man, etc (Sunday)
BALTIMORE SOUNDSTAGE: The Chris Robinson Brotherhood (Tuesday); Reckless Kelly (Wednesday); The New Mastersounds (Thursday); Paul Byrom (Saturday)
OTTOBAR: David Bazan/Cotton Jones (Tuesday); Soma, Something Complex (Wednesday); Mustard Plug (Thursday); Stereograph, Adventure (Friday); Agnostic Front, the Mongoloids (Sunday)
TALKING HEAD: Bane (Wednesday); Flight of the Valkyries female-fronted metal festival (Saturday); Life as a Ghost (Sunday)
SONAR: Famous Last Words (Friday)
GOLDEN WEST: Height With Friends (Friday); Joe Lally (Saturday)
METRO GALLERY: Hear Hums, Other Colors (Monday); The Bam Bams, Sal Bando, Bitter American (Thursday); Romania and the Jaabs (Friday)
RECHER: Hero of the Hour, the Scenery (Thursday); Adelitas Way/Art of Dying (Friday); End of an Era, Remnants of Camulos (Sunday)
8x10: Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad (Friday); Old Man Brown (Saturday)
WINDUP SPACE: Strange Fur (Tuesday); Truth Serum (Saturday); Band to Band Combat competition (Sunday)
MEYERHOFF: Straight No Chaser (Saturday)
RAMS HEAD ON STAGE: Devon Allman's Honeytribe (Monday); Acoustic Alchemy (Tuesday); the Rippingtons (Wednesday); Blood, Sweat & Tears (Thursday); Chris Smither (Friday); Ben Sollee (early show; Saturday); Bob Schneider (Saturday); Jessica Lea Mayfield (early show; Sunday); Spyro Gyra (Sunday)
FILLMORE SILVER SPRING: Asking Alexandria (Monday); Ray Davies (Tuesday); Kid Rock (Wednesday); LMFAO (Thursday); Tito El Bambino (Friday); Warren Haynes (Saturday); Team StarKid (Sunday)
9:30 CLUB: Machester Orchestra (Monday); Tinariwen/Architecture in Helsinki (Tuesday); Owl City (early show; Wednesday); Peter Murphy/She Wants Revenge (Wednesday); Mike Doughty and His Band Fantastic (Thursday); Trampled by Turtles (Friday); Super Diamond (Saturday); the Kooks (Sunday)
BLACK CAT: Tandoori Knights (Tuesday); Phantogram (Wednesday); Fu Manchu (Thursday); the Shakedowns (Friday); Los Campesinos! (Saturday); Joe Lally (Sunday)
BIRCHMERE: Acoustic Alchemy (Monday); Meshell Ndegeocello (Tuesday); Dave Alin and the Guilty Ones (Wednesday); the Rippingtons (Thursday); Kelly Willis/Bruce Robison (Friday); the Whispers (Sunday)
ROCK AND ROLL HOTEL: Empresarios (Friday); Woods (Saturday)
6TH AND I: Suzanne Vega (Saturday)
Dr. Sketchy's (Monday; the Windup Space)
Fall Film Series — "The Garden" (Monday; Van Bokkelen Hall Auditorium; Towson University)
Mobbies 2011 Awards Party (Tuesday; Illusions Bar and Theater)
"Candida Hofer: Interior Worlds" (opens Wednesday, on view through Feb. 26; Baltimore Museum of Art)
B'more Dance: An Autumn Mixer (Wednesday; Theatre Project)
Cirque du Soleil Quidam (Wednesday-Sunday; Verizon Center)
Martha Stewart (Thursday; DAR Constitution Hall)
"Joan of Arc at the Stake" (Thursday and Friday; Meyerhoff)
Tony Rock (Thursday-Saturday; Magooby's Joke House)
Russell Brand (Thursday; Patriot Center)
Goucher Repertory Dance Ensemble Concert (Thursday-Saturday; Rosenberg Gallery, Goucher College)
Unibroue beer dinner (Thursday; Vino Rosina)
Hannibal Buress (Thursday-Saturday; Baltimore Comedy Factory)
Kate Clinton: Glee Party (Friday; Creative Alliance)
"Non Sh**ty Paintings and Photographs by Nick Rusko-Berger" (Opens Friday; Charmedlife tattoo and art gallery_
Baltimore Charm vs. Philadelphia Passion (Friday; 1st Mariner Arena)
"The Rakes Progress" musical (Friday and Sunday; Modell Performing Arts Center)
"End to End" exhibit (opens Friday, on view through Dec. 8; Bunting Center's Pinkard Gallery, MICA)
Annual Student Juried Exhibition (opens Friday, on view through Dec. 17; Towson University)
"Being Elmo" Q&A with creator Kevin Clash (Friday; the Charles Theater)
Senior Dance Concert (Friday and Saturday; UMBC)
"The Fantasticks" (Opens Friday, runs through Dec. 18; Spotlighters Theatre)
Make Your Own Blown Glass Holiday ornament (Saturday; Corradetti Glass Studio and Gallery)
Super Art Fight 12 (Saturday; the Ottobar)
Dazzle Dash Weekend (Saturday and Sunday; Symphony Woods, Columbia)
"Heavy Metal Picnic" DVD release party (Saturday; Creative Alliance)
St. David's Episcopal Church Christmas Bazaar (Saturday; St. David's)
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For anyone who was waiting for a free unlock before they purchased an iPhone, yesterday's announcement of iUnlock was great news. Now that the unlock has been released, iPhone hackers are engaging in one of their favorite pursuits: making existing hacks even easier to use. The unlocking process with iUnlock isn't particularly complex, but TUAW's Erica Sadun is working on an even simpler, GUI-based iPhone unlocking tool, which should be released in the next few days.
As it turns out, there's already a GUI unlock application out there, but it's got quite a bit of drama surrounding it. The original iUnlock tool was written by the iPhone Dev Team, with the upcoming graphical additions courtesy of Erica. Unfortunately, that hasn't stopped a UK man from ripping off the code for the GUI unlock and releasing it as his own, as well as trying to take credit for the original free unlock. The whole story is a bit complex, but suffice to say that the current GUI unlock tool is based on some code ripped from other developers, and is being distributed without their consent, making it more than a bit sketchy.
The version of the application that has been released is a pretty crude beta, whereas the product from Erica and the iPhone Dev Team promises to be far more polished. The software will offer a one-click unlock of the iPhone, using the method detailed in the iUnlock instructions. Even if you hate the command line and are desperate for an easier way to unlock your iPhone, I'd highly recommend waiting for the release of the official GUI unlock. It should be available fairly soon, and will even be available through Installer.app to make things even easier. People have put a lot of time and effort into developing cool hacks for the iPhone, so I think it's worth waiting a few days in order to show them some appreciation and support.


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Home Prices Rise at Fastest Pace in Over Six Years
Prices rose by 8.1% in January from a year earlier, the largest such gain in 6½ years, according to figures from the S&P/Case-Shiller index of home prices in 20 major metropolitan cities released Tuesday. All 20 cities posted annual increases.
Prices also defied their usual winter slowdown and rose 0.1% in January from December, a period when prices often fall because sales activity is slow. After adjusting for seasonal factors, prices gained 1% from December.
Housing demand is revving up at a time when the number of homes for sale has fallen to the lowest level in decades. Low mortgage rates also are helping homeowners who can qualify for a mortgage take on more debt without a big increase in their monthly payment.
Supply shortages have developed in a growing number of markets where many homeowners are either unwilling or unable to sell because they have experienced sharp price declines. And home builders, long sidelined by competition from bank-owned foreclosures, have added little new construction. Inventory also has been whittled down as investors convert homes into rental properties. When the year began, many economists and analysts expected prices to rise at a slower pace than in 2012. But the conditions that produced last year's run-up—low inventories, a growing economy, strong investor demand and low mortgage rates—are "stronger than last year, and last year was strong," according to Mike Simonsen, chief executive of Altos Research, a real-estate analytics firm based in Mountain View, Calif.
Economists at Morgan Stanley MS +0.07% now expect prices to gain 6%-8% this year, up from an earlier forecast of 4%-6%. Lawrence Yun, chief economist at the National Association of Realtors, raised his forecast to 7% from 4% because he expects inventory shortages will persist. Mr. Simonsen said those predictions could be too low and is expecting a 10% gain. The market is "crazy hot right now," he said .
Prices began rising a year ago amid strong investor appetite for foreclosed properties and other "distressed" sales. But in recent months, data have shown prices rising for homes that aren't distressed. "That suggests a more sustainable turn, and it suggests more momentum heading into 2013," said Michelle Meyer, an economist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. She's now calling for 8% price gains this year, up from a prior estimate of 4.7%.
Consumers' expectations of future home-price gains have also picked up. Some 48% of respondents to a Fannie Mae FNMA -14.19% survey last month said they expected prices would rise over the next 12 months, while only 10% expected prices to decline—the highest margin since the survey began three years ago.
Another year of strong home prices could have powerful knock-on effects for housing markets digging out of a painful collapse. Another 10% gain in home prices would free around 4 million homeowners from being underwater on their mortgages, when they owe more than their homes are worth.
Many of the markets with the biggest gains have been those that have had strong demand from investors. Phoenix has witnessed the largest home-price gains over the year, at 23.2%. There, around 26% of home sales in December were to investors that bought more than five homes, up from 16% a year earlier, according to a CoreLogic, CLGX +0.04% a real-estate data firm. In Las Vegas, where prices rose 15.3% in January, multi-property investors accounted for 22% of sales, while Atlanta, where prices gained 13.4%, saw 24% of homes sell to multi-property investors in December.
For now, economists see few signs of a bubble because credit standards remain conservative. Even in markets that have seen large gains, prices are still in line with their long-run relationship with rents and incomes. A bigger concern is that price gains and rising rents are outpacing income growth, leaving some families "squeezed on housing costs," says Mr. Yun, of the National Association of Realtors. "It's an unhealthy development for prices to rise this fast compared to people's income growth."
Economists see two main risks to their forecasts: a big rise in mortgage rates, or slumps in job growth or consumer confidence.
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San Miguel - Around Town
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San Miguel Botanical Gardens
This was a great out of the city spot. They even had a small kids park, so we will be here again for sure!
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San Miguel ATV Adventure
Please enjoy of few photos of our ATV adventure!
This was a great way to see not only the city, but also the area beyond the city. Highly recommended!
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Mexico Trip!
We finally made it on our ten year anniversary trip - it happened to be three years late, but it was well worth the wait!
Instead of capturing images and then doing a big "picture dump" when we return, we opted to post via Instagram throughout the trip. Please follow adam_brodd at Instagram to view them!
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Alias55A wrote:Another note, the Cover of the BP is F'ing Awwww! sooooo AWSOME!
Alias55A wrote:Another note, the Cover of the BP is F'ing Awwww! sooooo AWSOME!
Jim Eshelman wrote:Alias55A wrote:Another note, the Cover of the BP is F'ing Awwww! sooooo AWSOME!
There is a different cover on every issue. You have 11 of them there! (But the "coat of arms" inside the cover of each is identical in every issue.)
I am particularly fond of the cover of No. 1, that was mostly my design. I also think No. 6 sizzles. And they're all pretty cool.
I think I made some JPEG scans of the covers when these were first coming out. They may not be very big, though. When I get a chance, I'll dig them out and see if they have any decent resolution.
danica wrote:I have problems with opening the issue No.8 - I'm not sure is the link broken or is it just due to my connection... help needed!
Frater S.R. wrote:Why don't you publish a printed single volume edition of ITC + BP (well-edited)?
It would be awesome.
Each Enocian letter has an astrological attribution. P is Cancer (analogous to Cheth, The Chariot); A to Taurus (analogous to Vav, The Hierophant); Z is Leo (analogous to Teth, Lust). The name of the 4th aethyr, then, is Cancer and Leo (the houses of the Moon and the Sun) standing on either side of a Vav, which literally means "and" or a fastening, so that the 4th Aethyr is a vision of the intimate joining of the Sun and the Moon in the person of the two figures. But each planetary principle has both a positive and a negative expression in the Enochian alphabet, and P is the positive (increasing) aspect of the Moon, while Z is the negative (southern declination) aspect of the Sun, so the vision shows the two figures joined but each infused with the other's essential nature.
Tinman wrote:They make me very excited in anticipation for the new book Jim, as the Aethyr stuff is a wonderful bunch of commentary with, seemingly, a very deep astrological viewpoint expressed throughout.
If the new book included some basics and need to know stuff on astrology (as an introductory chapter, or an appendix), I for one, would find that helpful...
Also, including some stuff on enochian such as the information you just shared regarding the 3rd and 4th aethyrs but in a more tabular format might also be useful for newbies like me. For instance, this paragraph of knowledge is awesome:
These paragraphs show the central image or event of the vision, the ecstatic sexual union of the Sun and Moon. In Qabalistic terms, these are specifically the Yod and Heh-final of the Great Name YHVH, corresponding not to the Father and Mother, but to the Father and Daughter. She is the "soul of innocence" of Malkuth who, by her union with "the Son" – this refers to the Knowledge & Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel, her wedding in Tiphereth – has been "placed upon the throne of her Mother" – borne all the way to Binah in the central event of these visions for Crowley, the crossing of the Abyss and the attainment of the Grade of Magister Templi 8=3. It is, then, her role to reawaken the youth of her father, the original Yod of YHVH who first begot her upon her mother.
It is, unfortunately, necessary to mention that this is allegory and we are not actively preaching father-daughter incest as the key to the redemption of the world. We must see this tale from the point of view of the Daughter. We are each the Qabalistic Princess-Daughter in the beginning of our journey; and it is as her that we finish it as well. The first step is to discover ourselves as we are. The next is the wedding and union with our Prince in the Knowledge & Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel. Following the life-metaphor, this matures us, and turns the girl into a woman. Her Prince-husband places her upon the Throne of the Mother, Binah (and probably upon a pedestal or two along the way!); but it is on her own throne that she finds herself. In her maturity, she is mate no longer of a boy, but of a man. With all of its blessings and curses, this ancient pattern remains prevalent in our society because it is structurally inherent in deep layers of our collective minds.
Beneath this is an allegory of our spiritual growth. In the final analysis, it is in Heh-final, Malkuth, Assiah, the field of our actions and senses, that we create the most perfect conditions for the creative expression of the central Seed-Will, the primal impulse of our inmost being. Persephone, the Daughter of Earth, is truly wed to Hades (= Hadit), the Inmost and Hidden One; and it is by her own will (by voluntarily eating of his seeds) that she remains in Hell, no longer as a captive slave but as its queen.
The enduring copulation of Yod (the Father) with Heh-final (the Daughter) is also the continuous pouring of yourself (your will, your fire: everything you are) into what you have conceived – your Malkuth ("Kingdom"), field of action, or dharma.
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Thadeus Greenson wrote a good piece in last week's North Coast Journal about the skewed panel assembled to vet candidates hoping to replace Kevin Robinson, who retired recently, as County Public Defender. The panel consisted of the County's three top law enforcement officers: District Attorney Maggie Flemming, Under-Sheriff, soon to be Acting Sheriff, William Honsel and Probation Chief, Bill Damiano, as well as two other county bureaucrats. Law enforcement officers clearly dominated the panel. Notably absent from the panel: retired Public Defender Kevin Robinson, or anyone with experience as a defense attorney.
Letting law enforcement officers choose the Public Defender is like letting a boxer decide who he wants to fight for the big-money title fight. Who would you rather fight, Mike Tyson, or Michael Moore?
The Public Defender is a sworn enemy of law enforcement. A good Public Defender knocks down a DA's conviction rate. Maggie Flemming campaigned on her conviction rate, and will likely have to do so again.
A good Public Defender exposes lying cops, police corruption and abuse. Here's an example of how a good defense attorney keeps cops honest. Recently, a murder suspect in a SoHum shooting, hired himself a pretty good lawyer. The lawyer discovered a discrepancy in the Sheriff's Deputy's report. Apparently the Deputy, Deputy Swithenbank, confiscated some pills from the suspect. The Deputy made no mention of the pills in his report, nor did he turn them in as evidence. Instead, the pills ended up in Deputy Swithenbank's private locker.
Whether or not his client is guilty, this attorney's good work uncovered a problem within our Sheriff's department that we deserve to know about. It is the Public Defender's job to make law enforcement look bad, so of course, law enforcement wants the weakest possible Public Defender, which is why they were the wrong people to recommend one.
Several people have now come forward to question, or outright condemn this whole process of allowing County law enforcement to pick the new Public Defender. To placate this controversy, 2nd District Supervisor Estelle Fennell pointed out that, she, along with the rest of the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors, not the skewed panel, made the decision to hire the guy with the sketchy resume, who's little experience in the field seems clouded by poor judgment and laziness. At least that's the impression I get of our new Public Defender, David Marcus, from the dirt Thadeus Greenson was able to dig up on him.
The fact that the Board of Supervisors made the decision to hire Marcus does not make me, nor should it make you, feel any better about it. Clearly, the Board of Supervisors wants a weak Public Defender. The Board of Supervisors have demonstrated their contempt for justice, civil rights and human rights again and again. They've concocted new, unconstitutional, laws to criminalize poverty, and outlaw sleep, and they've made harassing the poor and homeless a top priority.
Our current Board of Supervisors works for the greedy cadre of drug dealers and real estate moguls who financed their campaigns. Those people don't care about justice either. They don't even care about reality. All they care about is money, and in their world, looking poor is crime enough. These puppet-masters want the County to focus on projecting that appearance of bland, harmonious prosperity that investors find so appealing, and they don't really care if cops rape homeless women or if the DA railroads innocent defendants just to enhance her statistics.
This decision is just the latest attack on the civil and human rights of Humboldt County's most vulnerable. We must assume that the Board of Supervisors went looking for a weak Public Defender, since the Board of Supes passed over two experienced, well-qualified candidates from within our current Public Defender's office, and instead opted for an undistinguished, out-of-state candidate with very little experience. This decision will likely demoralize the Public Defender's office.
Becoming a Public Defender is probably the most noble thing an attorney can do with his education. The workload is overwhelming and the pay is low, by attorney's standards. The people who choose to make their career in the Public Defender's office, do it because they believe, passionately, in justice for all. The injustice of this decision will not be lost on them. It would not surprise me if many of the excellent defense attorneys now working in our Public Defender's office, decided to look for other avenues to further their careers.
The Public Defender is the poor defendant's only advocate against the entire law enforcement bureaucracy. A good Public Defender keeps cops honest and makes the DA do their job. A weak Public Defender denies justice to the whole community because they let cops cut corners, and let the DA railroad innocent poor people to pump up their stats. A weak Public Defender weakens civil rights and undermines public trust.
Once again, by intentionally choosing a weak Public Defender, the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors has demonstrated the contempt for justice, human rights and civil rights that has darkened this County's history for so long.


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ADL issues awards at annual dinner
STAMFORD -- At the Anti-Defamation League's annual awards dinner, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said the ADL has taken on issues that are "so important" while reaching across religious and cultural boundaries.
"If you think about progress, there are not many issues that this organization has not been at the forefront of," Malloy said.
Anti-bullying is one of the most important issues the ADL has recently tackled, the governor said. Bullying makes others miserable and causes mental illness, he said.
Malloy said everyone in the room believes community is more important than "any of us as an individual," but individual rights must be protected.
The Daniel R. Ginsberg Humanitarian Award Reception, which took place Thursday night at Temple Beth El on Roxbury Road, honored Rabbi David Israel, Alma Rutgers and Don Snyder. Guests mingled at a cocktail party before heading into the awards ceremony.
Israel, the rabbinic dean at the Bi-Cultural Day School in Stamford, received the Distinguished Community Leadership Award for his partnership with the ADL. His initiative holistically changes school climates by instilling values and positive behavioral changes in children.
As he accepted the award, Israel said he can't help but see all that's happening in the world. Being a person of noble character is part of his school's motto, he said.
"Be a mensch," he said. "Do the right thing."
As Joel Kaye presented Humanitarian Awards to Snyder and Rutgers, he said they are an extraordinary husband-and-wife team who've done a lot for the ADL. He said Snyder wasn't content resting on his laurels after a long, illustrious career with NBC, so he went on to work fighting against bigotry and hate.
Rutgers, who served in Greenwich town government for more than 25 years, is now a Greenwich Time columnist who is working on her memoirs and doing community service.
"They're working on bettering the human condition," Kaye said.
Rutgers took the stage with her husband by her side, saying she was going to speak for both of them. She thanked the ADL for the award and said "it's so meaningful that you should share this moment with us."
The ADL, Rutgers said, "stands for all that Don and I hold dear."
While recently writing a story about anti-Semitism in Europe, Rutgers said her husband interviewed a rabbi who was beaten in front of his 7-year-old child. She read a letter from the man who told Snyder to keep up the good work.
"That's why we're here, to keep up the good work," she said.
Gary Jones, regional director of the ADL, said the awards ceremony was supposed to take place in November, but was postponed because of Superstorm Sandy.
The ADL is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year, Jones said, and has the same goals as when it started -- to stop the defamation of Jewish people and secure justice and fair treatment for all.
"If you're going to worry about any group, you have to worry about everyone," he said.
At the ceremony, three children sat on the stage and read stories about anti-Semitism and how it affects them. A moderator said the stories were not specific to these children, but represented hundreds of youths they've heard about for years.
In one story, a female student discussed how another student carved a swastika into her desktop and the pain it caused. In another, a student talked about how someone told him they're going to put his mother in an oven.
Kim Athan, regional board member, said the ADL was founded 100 years ago when a Jewish man was unjustly prosecuted and hung. She said it is not just history, it's a current event, with anti-Semitism still alive and well around the world.
Daniel Ginsberg, the award's namesake, was committed to the well being of Jewish people and never lost sight that Jews in America are bound to other Americans, according to the ADL. He understood that all Americans share a common heritage and dream -- freedom.
Karyn Ginsberg Greenwald, his wife, said it is the 18th Humanitarian Award to honor her husband since his death. Her husband was a dreamer and an activist who put his dreams into practice, and the award recipients have done the same, she said.
Jones said he is proud to honor the three recipients with the Ginsberg Award, which stands for justice. He said the ADL trains law-enforcement personnel, and 40 officers, including Stamford's Assistant Police Chief James Matheny, have attended a three-day program.
Jones said the ADL offers assistance to anyone being treated unfairly; attends demonstrations; lobbies for laws; educates leaders, teachers, students and communities; and provides education programs that have reached more than 25,000 people in Connecticut.


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If you don't recognize the composer, surely you know the music.
Stephen Sondheim, the composer behind such musicals as "Sweeney Todd" and "West Side Story" will be awarded the Handel Medallion Nov. 1.
The award is the superlative award in the arts community and is given by the city of New York for contributing to the arts, according to The New York Times' ArtsBeat blog.
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The medallion will be presented to Sondheim by Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Alec Baldwin at the famous Lincoln Center, where, most recently, a revival of Sondheim's "Company" was staged, starring Neil Patrick Harris, Stephen Colbert, Christina Hendricks, and Jon Cryer.
Sondheim has also penned musical theater greats like "A Little Night Music," "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum," "Sunday in the Park with George," and "Folies."


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Oscar nominationsThursday, January 22nd, 2009
We're just a few minutes away from the Oscar nominations. As usual, the Academy will announce all the nominees in a no-frills news conference at 5:30 a.m. Los Angeles time–just so they can get on the early news shows. It's such a retro way of doing things.
I was asked to go to Los Angeles to talk about the noms with Julie Chen, but I have commitments here in Chicago–primarily a charity poker tournament, with all proceeds going to Children's Oncology Services. I was not going to take the chance that I wouldn't make it back home in time for the event.


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This is The Last Barfighter. It's a 2D arcade fighting game. It looks pretty awful, but that's OK. The point here isn't to simply enjoy a video game. It's to beat your opponent so you get beer.
The video above explains it all. Players insert their cups, they fight, and the winner's cup is filled with brew. On the down side, this is a promo piece made by an ad agency for a brewery. On the up side, well, now that the idea is out there, hopefully someone can come up with something a little more widely available.
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Forgive the illustrative nature of the headline – but I had to laugh out loud about this whole thing or else I would cry.
This post is a follow up to my previous post about how fragile measuring marketing technology really is based on a real time experience I was having with Technorati regarding the authority ranking of this blog. Unhappily, my initial concerns about marketing measurement were realized so it is worth recapping.
About a week ago, by accident, I learn that according to Technorati this blog, getting a mere 1,000 visitors a month, vaulted 4x in authority rankings to about 400 when previously I ranked about 100. For about a week, I jumped up and down a few times going between 400 and then 600 (see pictures in my previous post).I contacted Technorati and told them I think there is a glitch. I got a very polite answer to tell me they are updating their rankings system and some blogs are radically shifting in position as a result. Sounded rather fuzzy to me, but hey – what do I know?
After that response, over the course of the next 3 days, my blog bounced around some more in the 400 to 600 range and then yesterday I seem to have settled back into my original humble ranking of about 100. OK – I think – that sounds more reasonable – except now I am not even listed in the directory at all!
I went from a blogger superstar to a non entity in just three days and it is still not "unglitched".
To put this into perspective, I get that when you are making improvement to a site, things go weird for a bit. But since Technorati is largely viewed as the authority on blogging ranking (and thus ad value), this whole episode is ample proof of the sorry state of measuring marketing efficacy. You often can't trust the measurement data because of innocent technology glitches and then you have no way to verify the accuracy of the measurement reporting data you're getting.
While it's tempting to brush this aside as some little blimp in the world of marketing measurement – you can't because the financial consequences can be significant. Imagine if my blog was a commerce oriented site or if I am advertiser trying to assess what's the audience reach of all these blogs. Such variations in rankings can mean a lot of money gets spent or not depending on which side of the glitch you happen to fall on. And this type of glitch is just the tip of the iceberg. I have seen measurement issues across the marketing landscape from traffic reporting to ad buys to data you get from PPD or CPL marketing programs.
Bottom line. It's time to get serious about measuring marketing efficacy. Now it is a mess!
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RESCHEDULED: PUBLIC LANDS AND FORESTS SUBCOMMITTEE HEARING: to receive testimony on the following bills: S. 1546, S. 2798, S. 2830, S. 2963 (Hearing Room SD-366).
SD-366 Energy Committee Hearing Room 03:00 PMThe purpose of the hearing is to receive testimony on the following bills: S. 1546, to provide for the conveyance of certain parcels of land to the town of Mantua, Utah; S. 2798, to reduce the risk of catastrophic wildfire through the facilitation of insect and disease infestation treatment of National Forest System and adjacent land, and for other purposes; S. 2830, to amend the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 to clarify that uncertified States and Indian tribes have the authority to use certain payments for certain noncoal reclamation projects; and S. 2963, to designate certain land in the State of Oregon as wilderness, to provide for the exchange of certain Federal land and non-Federal land, and for other purposes (Hearing Room SD-366).
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Not as easy as they look!
I made it my mission to make some Minnie mouse cake pops. However, I didn't anticipate this to be as frustrating as it was. With the overall waiting for the cake to cook, fair enough, but there was soooo much waiting for things to cool, set or cook. I was getting rather tired of doing them.
I followed instructions from another website that sounded like they had it in the bag. I started out with 20 cake pops. After lots of hassle with them staying on the stick I went through several techniques in coating these little babies in chocolate. I knew I couldn't just dunk and pull it out all fresh-as-you-like. Cause the weight of the chocolate would rip the cake ball apart and stay put in your nice bowl of melted chocolate.
In the end the best technique I found was to use a heat proof silicone pastry brush and slowly coat the balls supporting the ball underneath with your hand so it didn't shift down the stick. Place on its head on grease proof paper and don't move it until it's set. You won't need to refrigerate for it to set. Plus it attracts condensation if you do.
Once I had a thin layer on and it had set and could be peeled from the paper. I was able to coat allot easier due to the chocolate acting like glue and it (mostly) stayed put. Your next layer of chocolate should include placing the ears on. I used chocolate buttons. Don't bother trimming the side off like some websites tell you. This only inhibits the attaching part, which frankly is quite important! =D Push the ears in after the second coat of chocolate, as this will soften the previous layer just enough to help with that. Otherwise they just break up! These are then to be stood up on their sticks to set, a block of Styrofoam is useful here. A useful tip I did pick up is to make use of a cocktail stick. Just to pick define areas like the ears and to move the chocolate and to remove any excess. I coated mine until I was happy with them. Or at least, not so disappointed!
You only need to make them around 1 inch diameter at first, as the chocolate layers bulk them out. I was worried I wouldn't get them inside the cellophane bags I had that were 3.5″x5″ I bought from Ebay. I chose 4.5″ lolly sticks or the plastic variety, if they don't come with, you will need some plastic coated wires too to seal them. On my travels around my local town of Cannock, I picked up some lovely ribbon the I thought was just right, at 20p a meter I wasn't complaining!
I just cut the ribbon a few inches long and tied once tightly. You could, with thinner ribbon tie a bow. But at this point in the baking and making process, I was ready to give up altogether. In the end, I managed to salvage 11 decent looking Minnie silhouettes. They didn't taste bad at all either. My 2.5yr old son was happy to eat any disaster pops. Although to be fair they were very rich, so don't worry if you don't make a lot. I probably wouldn't eat more than one at a time.
Overall, I'm happy I gave it a go, but I won't be in a hurry to try this again. Maybe plain round ones with decoration on top to disguise the dodgy coating of chocolate. Let me know if you have tried this and how it worked out.


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Often, confusion exists about the uses and benefits of practice tests, and the role of practice tests in preparing for the GMAT. Let's try and offer some clarity to the situation:
Practice Tests
Practice tests are evaluative tools and should be used as such. They are NOT learning tools. You use tests to assess what you have learned and your ability to apply that learning under conditions as similar to the real exam as you can make them. As such you should only be taking practice tests at most once per week (unless you are not working), and should seek to simulate the conditions of the actual test as much as possible when doing so (especially in the last few weeks before the real exam). In the larger preparation picture, you should take a practice test at the very beginning of your preparations to establish a baseline and determine your areas of strength and weakness. After that, it would be advisable to hold off on doing another practice test until you've had a chance to do some content review and focused, small-scale practice. Once you've gotten a sizable chunk of material and practice behind you, you should start incorporating full-length practice tests into your preparation regiment.
Key points for simulating practice tests:
- Do the practice test at the same time of day as your official test is scheduled for.
- Simulate the erasable notepad or use 10 sheets of yellow grid paper fastened at the top.
- Use tests that are as similar in look and feel to the actual exam as possible, which means use GMATPREP.
- Accurately simulate conditions: the room should be quiet but not silent (libraries are probably better than your house).
- Accurately simulate test rules: no snacks or drinks during the test, take exactly 8 minutes between sections (remember the GMAT just went to 8-minute breaks), complete the essays, and do each section straight through without pause.
Review your practice tests in detail
The only way to improve your next performance is to spend significant time reviewing your last performance. You must analyze what you did well and what you did poorly. More importantly, you must develop a plan to correct and prevent what you did poorly. Because you must give yourself enough time to review the test and potentially find your teacher to answer questions you don't understand, taking a test in the last week before your exam is not a good idea (it often does not allow enough time to act on any problems or issues you find).
Your review should include two essential components:
1) Holistic Concerns – these speak mostly to how well you implemented your pacing strategy (assuming you had one in mind; if you don't you need to develop one). Every test taker will be approaching and working through the test in a slightly different way. While we all have to answer the questions in the order they come, knowing where you're at in the test, and how much time you should be spending on questions in those respective areas is an imperative. You should know approximately how many questions you usually answer (i.e. need to answer) and roughly where in your test your pace should be faster or slower. Reviewing and implementing your approach will allow it to eventually become second nature, so you won't have to think about it anymore.
2) Localized concerns — these speak primarily to individual questions or types of questions. However, localized concerns pertain both to how well you accomplished the question and the time needed to do so. When you review you should go over every question that you didn't get right and any that you had to guess on (whether you guessed correctly or not). Understanding these questions are the key to improvement. You're also looking to review questions that took you an inordinate amount of time to do. If you generally average or are shooting for 2-3 minutes per question and you have several on a test that took you 4+ minutes, you need to find out why, and find a strategy to expedite solving similar questions the next time around.
The bottom line with practice tests is that you're trying to further your own understanding of how you react in a testing situation. This means both locally and holistically, and usually involves identifying testing patterns you exhibit. Without review a practice test is almost worthless.
GMAT Prep
GMATPrep is the practice test software published by GMAC, the people who produce the GMAT. GMATPrep is the best possible diagnostic tool available to you. It utilizes almost the identical scoring algorithm as the real test, and uses questions produced by the same people as those for the real test, so it contains the most consistently reliable practice tests. The only problem? There's only two of them. That's right, only two. What does this mean? A couple things…
1) Use them wisely – while you can retake the two tests in the software, the question pool is limited, which means you'll almost always see many questions you've seen before if you use it more than twice. You'll want to use them at the times when you most need to know precisely how you're doing (or how you would do) on the GMAT.
2) Save one – Generally, you'll want to save one of the GMATPrep tests for nearer to the end of your preparation period. You'll want to take it after you've done the overwhelming majority of your preparation, but while you still have time to review it thoroughly, get your questions answered, learn from it, and practice further what you learned.
3) Take it again…with a grain of salt – if you repeat either of the tests from GMATPrep, know that your scores may be inflated since you would have seen some of the questions before. However, it can still be an effective tool in that case because you'll still see some questions you hadn't seen before, and you can focus on your pacing and question management through the test.
The bottom line is that effective use of practice tests will help you get the most out of your preparation efforts. Don't unduly focus your efforts on practice tests, but rather use them as part of a comprehensive approach to improving your GMAT score.