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Cursed dancing shoes. Probably means the faeries are returning, which would be fun, but it could mean just cursed shoes, which would also be fun.
Picspam Reaction, with speculation and randomness for Supernatural 7.16 -
-Debated watching the THEN because it's been a while, but skipped it. So the laughter overtop of the Now is rather unnerving....
-...as is Show starting off with restful music and ballet dancing, because even if I hadn't already heard about the curse, I'd know exactly where this was heading. This is going to get messy.
-Um. Yeah. And the shoes are sitting there perfectly clean. That's not suspicious at allllll.
-YAY, an appearance by actual Lower Mainland snow! \o/
-Title: "Out with the Old". Hmm...
-The Leviathans have and archeological dig, a factory in Saudi Arabia, a fishery in Jakarta. Hmm. And yachts, was it from a prior episode? Hmm. There is a LOT of things that an archeological dig could be after. And that field they're off a number on that Bobby told them about, sort of. It's going to be interesting to see what all this is in aid of in the end.
-"Where the hell is Tromsø?"/"Norway, you moron." Dean's exasperated phone waving, hee. Also Tromsø, among many other things, claims to be the location of the world's northernmost mosque, make of that what you will.
-...hang on. Random. Yachts and fisheries equals lots of boats. Something where there's a specific global grid patter that needs to be established, including over the oceans using boats? Are they going to suck the whole planet into Purgatory? No, that doesn't make sense... Wonder what the Saudi Arabian factory is making? Arg. Anyway.
-"And another thing-" *beep* Frank is an ass, but he's an entertaining ass.
-"Every time I close my eyes, Lucifer is yelling into my head." Excellent reason to drink more coffee! I have similar reasons for doing so at work. *nods*
-"You know he's not actually... *handflop*" I DON'T THINK YOU SHOULD ASSUME SUCH THINGS, DEAN. Stranger things have happened. Particularly to the two of you. Just sayin'
-"I saw Black Swan. Twice." Oh really? I'm going to assume someone has ficced that already. Wonder when he did that without Sam knowing? Sometime when he was with Lisa maybe?
-Oh dear god, the heap of the week is a late seventies Trans Am. *facepalm*
-Written by Robert Singer, very familiar name, and Jenny Klein, not so familiar. Directed by John F. Showalter, seen him before.
-OH CRAP, TIE REPORT. SAM IS STRIPELESS, REPEAT, SAM IS STRIPELESS. BAD THINGS ARE GOING ON HERE YOU GUYS. No wait, there's a very faint texture stripe sloping down to his left, but it's barely there. Sam's in deep deep trouble and barely hanging on. Dean's tie is complex white stripes on blue, sloping to Dean's right. the stripes are sloping towards each other, and Dean's noticing something's not right with Sam, but he's not realizing how screwed up Sam really is. THIS IS SERIOUS, YOU GUYS.
-Of course you all are 5 episodes ahead of me going, "OMG WE KNOW, WAIT FOR IT" I'm sure.
-Portland police, eye-rolling at Feds and allowing children the opportunity to steal cursed evidence.
-...or get ambushed by cursed evidence in the bathroom. *facepalm*
-Shoes that shrink to fit your feet are not a good sign, honey. This kid is adorable though, I mean look at that little doomed face!
-Yes, shoes that make you spontaneously levitate aren't exactly normal either.
-Oh dear, if anyone walks in on them wrestling with a small struggling girl in the ladies room, there is no way in hell it's going to look good, ever.
-However, Dean getting kicked in the face by an apologetic kid who can't help doing it is funny. Her 'sorry!'s are making me giggle. And then there's Dean's face.
-"I'm goin' with cursed object!" And that's why people think Sam's the smart one. *pats him*
-"Didn't we put those in the trunk?" Heeeeee! They're stalking you. Are we going to get Dean in toe-shoes?
-"Do they look like they're your size?"/"Shut up." Heeeeeee!
-"Getting a strong urge to Prince Siegfried myself into oblivion." Sorry, I'm just going to sit here and laugh for a very long while right now. There. Ow. Oh dear. Poor Dean.
-"My mother had them in that box." Sigh. Curse box. With holes in the lid though so who knows how effective in may have been. Regardless, *facepalm*
-I will admit, I am snorting with laughter. Poor Dean.
-"I'm trying to get rid of it all." Oh crap. This is why hunters and keepers of the weird should let their families know about what they do. Or at least which boxes to have buried under ten feet of concrete when they die. XD
-So it's more than just the shoes then. Ah! Then I haven't been as spoiled for this episode as I thought I might be. Cool.
-Oh god, an old kitchen grinder. My mom had one of those when I was a kid. This is going to be very nasty indeed.
-And old scissors... If one person bought all the cursed items it would simplify things, but they are going to have a very messy death. Hey, look, Biggerson's coupons. It's weird, but one reason I'm looking forward to the inevitable thwarting and dispatch of the Leviathans and their plot is so that Biggerson's can get a good house-clearing and go back to being a happy family restaurant that bad things happen at, and not a source of mind-control turducken burgers, or whatever they've moved on to from that.
-Sitting here wincing at the cucumber-cutting, since I still have a bandaged cut from a bit of poor judgement with a kitchen slicer two weeks ago.
-And an old kettle. That is whistling, yet doesn't seem to have a spout designed to whistle. That's nice. If you are living in an episode of Supernatural, DO NOT GO ANTIQUING, IT WILL KILL YOU.
-Um, metal handle, metal kettle, even if it's not cursed you're about to burn the hell out of your hand.
-Scott's Mom's safe is rather nifty.
-Yep, lower mainland snow. Pretty and fluffy one day, dispirited slop the next.
-"My name? Bruce Hornsby." YES! AND THE MUSICIAN NAMES START EDGING BACK IN, AND IT'S A SHORT STEP FROM THERE TO METALLICAR!
-"And a vintage gentleman's magazine sold to Peter Yankit, 27 Johnson Lane." Oh really now. That's either a fake name and address, or they are having fun with synonyms tonight. XD
-Yes child, go right up to the old thing that's whispering your name in a creepy way and stick your face right next to it. GAAAAAAH. NONE OF THESE PEOPLE HAVE ANY SELF-PRESERVATION.
-And again, Supernatural and (temporarily) evil kids making yet another great argument for birth control.
-"Hey, I got the porn." Of course. It's the hunt Dean's been preparing for since he hit puberty. I'm amazed that wasn't a fake address and name, and just some fun with euphemisms. Or a slight riff on Exec Producer Peter Johnson's name?
-Real estate lady, and change of mind, and accidentally dead. Yep, the woman with the overloaded minion is absolutely up to something. Which was obvious.
-"Feelin' guilty ain't gonna bring 'em back. Best you can do is live your life the way that you think would make her proud. Or at least not embarrass the crap out of her." Oh Dean. Yeah. Ooof.
-Taking a personal break here for a minute.
-Okay, sorry, I wasn't expecting that. Carrying on.
-Aside from my personal take on that line, it occurs to me that what might make this guy's mom proud may not be the choice with the least collateral damage, considering how she died.
-"Believe me, I got it." Somehow I doubt that. And it's not just because for some reason this actor looks like a ballet dancer to me and I don't know why.
-Yes, hello plot.
-"Hard to find good help these days." Aw, poor George. I'm kind of thinking these two are Leviathans, but not sure. They seem to have that 'pretending to be human' vibe. Also, George has a conspicuously stripey tie, so maybe he'll turn out all right.
-"It's the future that's the real adventure." Yeaaaah, she's totally a Leviathan.
-When the dedicated flunky looks alarmed, run.
-YEP! CALLED IT! \o/
-"You know that Mr. Roman doesn't like us calling attention to ours-" An intelligent underling needs to also be a smart underling who knows when to stand back and let the boss bury herself rather than get immediately eaten. Poor flunky.
-"Should have quit smoking, it can be hazardous to your health." Yes. It can make you break your neck in your sleep even. They should put that on the warning labels.
-Oh crap, Sam yawning behind the wheel is a bad thing for so many reasons.
-"I don't mean to double-dip in your crazy sauce, no offense-"/"None taken, fudge pop." Do I even want to know what that means? O.o
-GeoThrive, hunh? Hmmm.... Some potential planetary takeover implications in that for sure.
-Okay, Sam? Lucifer or no Lucifer, PULL THE HELL OVER. NOW.
-That could be one of the scariest things I've seen on this show for a while. Visceral reaction. SAM!!!
-Ohgoditsasemi. O.O
-Avoided. Meeeeeeep. PULL OVER, SAM. Hell, let Luci take the wheel for a bit, he's probably in better condition to drive than you are right now.
-"How about make me a new one."/"How about you eat me."/"...Don't tempt me." Hehehe.
-And now George has a legit excuse for giving his boss a messed up coffee. WINCHESTER ALERT!
-"Eating him is pretty much what I was thinking." Can we keep George? Like, off the realtor, promote the flunky to adversary status and have him flail around being adorably threatening for an episode or two?
-"You see a Winchester, you don't eat him. You tell me, and I eat him!" Hahahahahaha.
-Who ever the realtor's Leviathan took over first to learn about the world must have been a big fan of Dr. Evil from Austin Powers.
-Dean and pie. All is right with some tiny part of Dean's world.
-"It's all tied together, Dean." You'd be a lot more reassuring if you said that without the crazy eyes, Frank.
-"Call me if you don't die." Frank is such a ray of sunshine.
-"He's singing Stairway to Heaven." Aw, and we don't get to see.
-"I looked in one of mom's old mirrors and now I want to rip my face off." TRAP. TRAP. OMG TRAP.
-Yep. So, is he a Leviathan too, or in league with them? There's got to be a reason why they didn't just mimic him and do it themselves. (Oooo, I see a sword on the wall!)
-"We will kill him."/"*whimper*" Aw poor Scott. Hunter's kids really get screwed whether they knew they were hunter's kids or not, don't they.
-You know, I suppose they haven't run into Leviathans for a while now, but you'd think it might be wise to start packing flasks of Borax around along with the flasks of holy water and salt.
-"There's a bucket of that stuff that you love throwing at us right there." *GASP* GEORGE! \o/ Well, anything to get you out from under the Boss I suppose!
-"Dunk me before she sees!" Oh George, honey, no. Get your Boss offed, you can hang out in Portland being Scott's cousin or whatever and stop eating people, and work of re-building your self-esteem.
-Aw, I liked George. :-(
-"The sword!" IT WAS ON THE WALL. Now throw the bucket at the head Leviathan and let George live.
-Meanwhile, Dean is getting his ass kicked and thrown into everything ever. It was Friday at one point, so no shock there.
-"You want to eat your Boss?"/"You got a better way to make her stay dead?" Well, they could dissolve her head in that handy bucket of Borax, but what the hell.
-When the bad guys have to explain the plot to you, you really haven't been paying close enough attention.
-"Why would Dick Roman want to cure cancer?"/"Because we're only here to help." Suuuuure. Look at that face.
-So far they've had the Turducken pacification burgers, and now curing cancer. Hm. Finding a way to keep the food herds pacified and healthy when they take over the planet? Not big enough though. GeoThrive. Hm. Helping the world live so they can eat it for longer. Still not big enough.
-AND IT'S PLAYING AT FRANK'S PLACE TOO. OH CRAP. Okay, Frank's totally dead.
-Ooo. Just a bit. But there's no corpse so either he's not actually dead, or the Leviathans ate him.
-"Not good." Dean, king of the understatement.
(PLEASE, NO REFERENCES TO EPISODES PAST 7.16 IN COMMENTS! I'm catching up slowly.)
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JUST as summer's vegetable crop inspires the salad maker, the fruits suit the baker. Fresh ripe peaches, plums, nectarines and berries become tarts, cakes, quickbreads, pies and pancakes. These are seasonal delights that can be enjoyed for at least another month.
Look for ripe, unblemished fruit for baking just as you would for eating out of hand. But if you have the time, you can allow peaches to ripen at home so they can still be quite firm, a day or two from being ready, when you buy them. And some blemishes are acceptable, too, if the fruits are to be peeled and cut up and pureed, mixed with a cake batter or used in a two-crust pie.
Summer fruits are suitable as uncooked toppings for pies and cakes, as in the cheese-tart recipe that follows. But if peaches or nectarines are to be used in this fashion, they must be tossed with lemon juice to prevent browning and the dessert should be served without delay. Otherwise it is advisable to poach the fruit lightly.
After the earliest part of the season the peaches are freestone and simple to pit. Peeling a peach or nectarine is like peeling a tomato - plunge it into boiling water for about 15 seconds, rinse in cold water and the skin will slip off. The best plums to use for baking are the small Italian ''prune'' plums just coming onto the market. Blueberry Cheese Tart 1 3/4 cup granola or other sweetened health-food cereal without raisins or fruit. 6 tablespoons butter, melted 12 ounces cream cheese at room temperature 1/2 cup sugar 2 eggs 1/2 cup heavy cream 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 1/2 cups fresh blueberries 1/2 cup red-current jelly.
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Grind the granola in a blender or a food processor to make crumbs. Mix crumbs with butter and press into the bottom and sides of a nine-inch straight-sided tart pan or springform. The sides should come about one-and-a-fourth-inches high. Refrigerate while preparing the filling.Continue reading the main story
3. Beat cream cheese until smooth. Beat in the sugar, beat eggs one at a time, the cream and vanilla. Pour this mixture into the prepared crumb-lined pan and bake for 30 minutes. Cool to room temperature and refrigerate at least two hours.
4. Before serving spread the blueberries over the top of the cheese filling. Heat the jelly in a saucepan until dissolved, then spoon or brush it evenly over the berries to glaze them. Chill before serving.
Yield: 8 servings. Fresh Peach Tart Pastry for one-crust, 9-inch tart #4 to 5 ripe peaches (about 1Y pounds), peeled and pitted Juice of 1 lemon 1/2 cup finely chopped pecans Y cup brown sugar 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon 1 tablespoon flour 1 tablespoon butter 3/4 cup heavy cream, whipped.
1. Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Roll out pastry and line a nine-inch tart pan. Prick the bottom, line with foil and weight with dry beans or pastry weights. Bake for about six minutes, until the pastry looks dry but has not begun to color. Remove foil and continue baking about six minutes longer, until the pastry is pale gold. Remove from oven and lower to 375 degrees.
2. Slice peaches uniformly about one-half-inch thick and toss in a bowl with lemon juice.
3. Combine pecans, brown sugar and cinnamon. Mix half this mixture with the flour and spread on the bottom of the tart shell. Arrange the peaches slightly overlapping in a pattern over the pecan mixture. Sprinkle with the other half of the pecan mixture and dot with butter.
4. Bake about 30 minutes, until the filling begins to bubble. Allow to cool until barely warm and serve with whipped cream.
Yield: 6 to 8 servings. Open-Face Crumb Cake 10 tablespoons sweet butter, at room temperature 1 cup light-brown sugar 2 eggs 1 cup flour 1/2 teaspoon baking powder 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 1/2 pounds Italian ''prune'' plums, pitted and sliced Confectioners' sugar 3/4 cup heavy cream, whipped.
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter and flour a nine-inch springform pan.
2. Cream eight tablespoons of the butter with three-fourths cup of the sugar until fluffy. Add eggs one at a time and beat well.
3. Sift flour, baking powder and salt together. Add to batter, stirring lightly, and stir in vanilla.
4. Spread batter in prepared pan and arrange sliced plums on top. Sprinkle with remaining sugar and dot with remaining butter.
5. Bake one hour. Cool slightly before removing sides of pan. Dust with confectioners' sugar. Serve warm or cool with whipped cream.
Yield: 6 to 8 servings.
Sunday, Late City Final Edition Because of a transmission error, the name of a recipe appearing in the Aug. 31 Food column should have read Open-Face Plum Cake.

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The person who procrastinates is always struggling with misfortunes. —Hesiod
Having read through this section on resumes and having completed your job sketches, it's time to start writing your resume. This is where you will discover the value of all the blood, sweat, and tears you put into preparing your job sketches. Review your job sketches one more time. You are now ready to start.
Begin with the header: name, address, phone number, and email at the top. Next, write your objective if you have one.
Beneath the "Objective," write the "Qualifications" heading. Then skip 5–10 spaces (they'll be filled in last, after everything else is done). Since the Qualifications section is often the most difficult section to write, we leave it as the last section to write.
Next, pop in your "Experience" or "Professional History" header, and jump over that one too.
This is a good time to add in your Education, Training, Technical Skills, Professional Credentials, or other headings. It's a good way to watch the resume take shape while you get some momentum going for the employment entries to come.
Now you are ready to tackle the job narratives. With each position, carefully select what you think are the most relevant and representative pieces of the job sketches. While this version is not as free-flowing as the original job sketches, it is still too early to be overly concerned with grammatical niceties. Make sure your entries cover the spectrum of experience you are trying to convey. Then reread it. Often it helps to read aloud, so you can actually hear how the descriptions sound. If it is awkward, make adjustments.
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Write your first draft quickly; don't worry about perfection. Concentrate on getting your thoughts on paper; you can polish the phrasing later. Once you write a phrase, read it out loud to get a feel for how it sounds. When reading, most people subvocalize; while they may not move their lips, their minds are actually saying each word almost audibly. In other words, the way a phrase sounds to you when you say it out loud is the same way it sounds when read by an employer. Read every phrase aloud four to ten times and adjust any that seem awkward.
Let the resume sit and percolate overnight. Pick it up the next day and see how you respond to it. Is it crisp? Flat? Boring? Reading with fresh eyes can help you to quickly pick up any deficiencies.
Read it over and ask yourself if all the important points are there. If not, what's missing? Where can additional information go? Decide in which section it would be most effective: Qualifications? Employment? Both? Go through the document sentence by sentence and phrase by phrase, reading and rereading aloud. Cross out extraneous phrases. Ask yourself if you can make the same point with fewer words. Use action words whenever possible. Once you've finished this process, rewrite the resume, incorporating the changes you've made. You have completed your second draft. Set it aside for at least half a day.
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When you pick up the resume again, take care as you go through it; this could be your final draft. As you read it aloud, it should flow. Are there any phrases or words you have used more than twice? If so, look for alternatives. Don't be afraid to use a thesaurus. Word-processing programs such as Microsoft Word have a built-in thesaurus feature accessible by highlighting the word and right clicking. If that is insufficient, free websites such as thesaurus.com can fill the bill. Are all of your sentences very long or all very short? A mixture of short, medium, and long sentences reads best. Too many short sentences make the resume seem choppy and abrupt. An abundance of lengthy sentences can cause the reader to forget the main point. A long, drawn out sentence can often be cut two into shorter ones.
Look for any troublesome phrases that sound awkward, unclear, or confusing. Your goal is to have the resume read completely and thoroughly by the employer. You don't want them to stop at any point and wonder what you meant. Just one awkwardly written, hard-to-understand sentence or phrase can substantially reduce your impact. Don't let that happen.
Of course you know exactly what you meant . . . so unclear sentences may be hard for you to spot. Try asking a friend to read it and watch the reaction. If there is any confusion, fix it.
Avoid big, unfamiliar words. The mark of a good writer is the ability to say exactly what is meant by using the right words.
Prepare the final draft and review it one last time for phrasing, spelling, and punctuation. Spelling must be perfect. It is worth it to make one quick pass through your resume, dictionary in hand, looking up words you "know" are correct. Dictionary.com is another excellent resource. You may be surprised to find that you have been misspelling a word for years. Remember, do not depend solely on your computer's spell-checker. If your misspelling is an actual word in the spell-checker, it will not be detected. Always have someone proof your work.
Putting it all together
Essentially, writing a resume consists of putting all of the pieces together. Most sections, such as Education, Training, Special Projects, and Employment are independent of each other. So, if each section is well written, the entire resume will be effective when you pull them all together.


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Possibility of there being a mini-rally over the next two days means that Litecoin (LTC) holders have reason to remain upbeat. A look at the charts shows that the drop in coin value is evenly spread across the networks. And in layman's interpretation, the recent patterns help buoy the belief that Sunday and Monday could see the prices move up. The same can be said of Litecoin.
However, the cryptocurrency has fared no better than the other coins in the top ten as ranked by Coinmarketcap.com. The coin continued to reverse the gains it posted midweek, slipping into the red on the hour-to-hour chart, before finding support to climb 3.38% against the USD. Its 24h change showed a 3.77% improvement that helps its 7-day change remain in the green. The bears had threatened a pullback, as the earlier gains appeared to be rapidly fading. The overall 3.70% 7-day change is not as appealing as Thursday's 7.9% gain, but it signals a change of sentiment is on hand.
It hasn't been all good news though. The entire top 10 was at one point in the red, the market outlook threatening to turn nasty. Yet again, Litecoin (LTC) bulls put on a rally to keep the price from dropping further.
The LTC/USD pair had dropped into the red earlier today as the confusion in market continued to dictate price movement. The 5th ranked Litecoin had posted an impressive recovery on Friday, ending the day up by 3.17% to close at $164 against the dollar. The reversal this morning saw it erode the 8.7% change for the week. Its 24h change at one point dropped and stood at 1.73%.
That inevitably led to fears that things would turn ugly. It actually begged the question of whether there would be a strong support line to prevent a bearish break below $160. For hours, LTC/USD moved sideways between $160 and $164. It dropped sharply early in the morning to trade at $157, before briefly rising to $169 on hour-to-hour charts.
Though not among the biggest winners, LTC isn't also among the biggest losers of this week either (you can look in the direction of Ethereum with a 7-day change of -8.54%). Nevertheless, the uptrend needs to be maintained to cross the resistance line at $166.
Litecoin could rally to above $180 by end of weekend.
The main concern this week for cryptocurrency has been Binance troubles in Japan. Negative news about a possible ban by the Japanese Financial Services Agency plunged the, market into panic. However, the crypto exchange, the largest by market share, is now reportedly looking to Malta. Whatever the case, it could be just what the market needs to turn bullish.
Dropping prices accord investors with the opportunity to examine the market and establish trends. Litecoin is one of those coins that have the potential to rebound big time. It is expected that should a bull run be initiated, LTC will be one of the coins to watch.
The addition of Litecoin to the Abra app and the revelation that LTC was the anchor coin, only adds to its continuing adoption push. It makes LTC visible to first time investors as well as those looking to buy other coins. With all the recent positives about Litecoin, I have belief that we shall have a run when the market finally picks up.
We know Litecoin (LTC) is primed to make itself the best coin for micro-payments with its upcoming update. If that happens as planned and transaction fees drops to 0.00001 LTC, then I see the coin surging in value as the year progresses. At the moment transactions on the platform cost 0.001 LTC, still way cheaper than the standard bearer Bitcoin. In terms of what you pay in fiat, the current tx fee stands at just $0.2, meaning it will be negligible with the update. Let the weekend roll on, LTC will be trading higher on Monday than today or Sunday.


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A federal lawsuit filed recently in California claims that The Walt Disney Company "secretly collects personal information on some of their youngest customers and shares that data illegally with advertisers without parental consent." Yikes.
The complaint (PDF) alleges that Disney, and the creators of popular 3rd party advertising libraries and (software development kits) SDKs Upsight, Unity, and Kochava, which are embedded into 43 popular Disney apps (full list below), are violating the law by harvesting information about users under the age of 13 for "commercial exploitation". If true, this could mean that the parties involved violated COPPA (Children's Online Privacy Protection Act). Disney denies any wrongdoing, stating that they have a "robust" COPPA compliance program and that they complied with the law's privacy disclosure requirements.
The lawsuit claims the advertising SDKs collect device and user persistent identifiers, which are considered PII (Personally Identifiable Information), to track users across different apps and services, and then share that collected data with advertising services which provide targeted ads. The complaint then argues that the apps fail to properly verify parental consent for these invasive behaviors in apps that are clearly targeting children under 13.
So, other than freaking out those of us in the security industry who have children, what does this news mean to our readers with respect to enterprise mobile security? Here are a few thoughts:
The news highlights how often even large companies rely on 3rd party developers to either outsource the entire development of their apps or provide 3rd party SDKs and libraries to add functionality and advertising or tracking capabilities. The use of 3rd party software often introduces behaviors and risks that even the app developer is not aware of, which could expose large companies to receiving bad press, hurting their brand, or worse, facing legal action related to compliance issues around security and privacy. As Appthority has highlighted before, not all app risk comes from malware or with malicious intent. More often than not, risk is introduced by accident, so it's important for Enterprise Security teams to leverage services like Appthority's app security testing. A MARS (Mobile Application Reputation Service) like Appthority can be used not just to automatically analyze apps on employees devices within our Mobile Threat Protection (MTP) solution, but also to analyze enterprise developed apps (whether developed in-house or through a 3rd party) before they are published to internal enterprise app stores or external app stores for customer distribution.
Another point this news brings home is that even free apps aren't really free. Apps rely on monetizing user data. And, if children's game apps from reputable companies like Disney can exhibit this type of user surveillance, what can we expect from apps that don't have stricht COPPA requirements? Developers have to support their development efforts to create content, make updates, provide support, add new features, etc. However, the app ecosystem has evolved in a way that makes it difficult to sell apps, as most users often choose free apps. In order for users to receive these apps for "free," developers rely on ad networks and tracking solutions to learn everything they can about the users and then sell targeted ads. However, it's also worth noting that smartphones are the perfect spying tool. They are with us 24/7, they are always on, and they have multiple cameras, a microphone, GPS, as well as ALL of our most precious data. It makes sense that it's not just ad networks that are investing in user surveillance, but also governments and bad actors who wish to gain insight into users, or the users employers. Again, another reason to invest in Mobile Threat Protection.
Lastly, employees are consumers too. Do your employees know what risks are found in the apps they use every day, whether for work or for personal use? As a parent, many of us would think twice about allowing our kids to use apps if we knew how the apps behave in the background. As users, we'd think twice about using certain apps if we knew they didn't properly protect our personal data. However, as users, we just don't know the risks. Enterprises can change that by deploying a Mobile Threat Protection solution. The optional employee app in Appthority's solution, for example, gives employees the power to self manage and self remediate mobile risks, but more importantly, the knowledge to confidently manage their own privacy and data risk. Our customer's have had great success in improving their risk profiles by providing the Mobile Threat Protection App as an employee benefit. Some have seen a 90%+ install rate. These employees now have the power to learn about app risks before they even install potentially risky apps on their devices. Obviously this change of behavior (vs just downloading apps from the official app stores without any knowledge of risks) protects user's data, but vicariously, it also protects the enterprise. Win-win.
We'll continue to monitor the Disney case for further development, but Appthority customers can rest assured that their employees, their data, and their kids' data, continue to be protected.
The full list of affected apps named in the complaint includes:
- AvengersNet
- Beauty and the Beast
- Perfect Match
- Cars Lightening League
- Club Penguin Island
- Color by Disney
- Disney Color and Play
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Ballerinas Defined/
The original Italian word "ballerina" just means "female dancer," but it has become encrusted with layers of mysticism — primarily through the idolization accorded in Russia to ballet's divas since the 19th century. But to be American is to be ornery, direct, unaffected. Is it possible to be American and this exotic dance vision of transcendence? Can a ballerina represent local or national characteristics in her dancing?
The questions pile up. Does the 21st century even need ballerinas? America is one of many Western societies where women fight for equality in the workplace and can no longer expect men to stand when they enter a room; same-sex marriages are now institutionalized. Ballet had a beginning; it may have an end. In particular, the practice of dancing on point may one day seem as bizarre as the bygone Chinese practicing of binding women's feet. Do we still need an art form whose stage worlds are almost solely heterosexual and whose principal women are shown not as workers but as divinities?
I ask these questions; I don't rush to answer them. The future of the form is to be determined not by critics but by choreographers, artistic directors and, not least, by dancers, working together. The answers they are currently providing show us a complex situation for ballet and its women.
From the must-read article All-American Goddesses: U.S. Ballerinas Redefine an Art, but What About History? by Alastair Macaulay in The New York Times. Important food for thought as the art form evolves.


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Solid stateJuly 31, 2006
I believe I may have gotten the turntable to work, so now all I need is some records so I can make sure.
What else is there?April 12, 2006
About a year ago I was talking with a friend of mine about my near-obsessive compulsion to download and buy music, when I mentioned that I was glad that I didn't seem to like jazz. After all, just listening to rock and such can take up way too much time to begin with. Checking out new releases can be a full-time job, and that doesn't even start to address the issue of back-catalogs. There are hundreds of albums that I own and hundreds more that I "own", and I still don't even know what Deep Purple sound like. Hell, two years ago I barely knew who David Bowie was.
I'm not an expert on the music I listen to, but I can drop some pretty obscure names if I need to, and I also have a decent sense of my failings as it were and what I really should get around to listening to. Jazz, on the other hand, I felt was a completely foreign and alien world, with such a ridiculously long and thoroughly-catalogued history that I wouldn't know where to begin. I was thankful for my ignorance, shielding me as it did from the need to listen to and explore the world of jazz. (Lite-FM stations, incidentally, were also a big help in this regard.)
Sadly I couldn't leave well enough alone, and for some stupid reason I decided to take a semester course on the history of jazz and the blues. Fuck me in the goat-ass; it turns out there's a lot of this stuff that I really enjoy, and recently I've been purchasing a Horace Silver album a day. (In my defense, he was essentially Xploding Plastix 40 years before they were.)
Am I going to start seriously listening to classical music next? I don't know if I could take that. At least I should have a steady paycheck (i.e. a way to subsidize this insane music habit) soon.
Song of the Moment: «Calcutta Cutie» — Horace Silver
piss stainMarch 2, 2006
Come on and shake away with meFebruary 20, 2006
Yeah, you wish you had this many sound cards in your computer.
Song of the Moment: «It's Easy» — The Ladies and Gentlemen
RevelationFebruary 7, 2006
I can't believe it took me this long to finally realize/notice that Jack Feeny and Mark Prindle are not, in fact, the same person.
Practice, practice, practice…February 5, 2006
It's funny: the last time I was in Carnegie Hall, I was one of the performers.
How the mighty have fallen.
Diabolus in musicaJanuary 19, 2006
I've been a big fan of Love in Reverse for years. They ceased to be a while ago, and I was never quite as fond of Amazing Meet Project, but Ferentino's next project, Transfusion M, looks quite promising. In any case, if you haven't heard any Love in Reverse you owe it to yourself to listen to some, especially if you're fond of post-grunge or neo-prog (whatever those mean), which is how Allmusic has decided to categorize them.
I Was Here is my favorite album of theirs—I was such a big fan of it that a few days after I bought a copy for myself, I went back to the record store and picked up another 5 or 6 copies that I gave out to friends in an evangelistic furore. The reason I was able to do that, incidentally, is also the reason why you can pick up a copy on the cheap as well. While it's depressing to see such a good album sold at "please just take it off our hands" prices, with the entire music distribution apparatus writing it off as a loss, at least it means you have no excuse not to get a copy for yourself. Of course, Words Become Worms (Pitchfork review notwithstanding) and the posthumously-released Another One for You to Hate are good too, but I Was Here just has a special place in my heart, or something.
Anyway, there's this song on I Was Here named "Play For Dawn". I liked the song enough that, after a whole lot of web searching turned up zero tablature for it, I decided to figure out how to play it. It wasn't that hard: Em, modified Em; G, modified G; D, modified D; F… But what the fuck came next? While the little riff on the D they played might have been the most immediately recognizable meme from the song, the chord that came after the F is really what defined the song and held it together. It sounded a bit like the F before it, yet at the same time sounded vastly different. After literally hours of fumbling around and trying every random fingering I could think of, I stumbled over the answer, which, as it turned out, was only different from the F by one fret on one string.
123211, in case you were wondering.
It was around 4 years ago that I figured that out, and it wasn't until today that it occurred to me to find out what that chord might be. As it turns out, it's an Fdim5, and the bizarre interval in it, the one that defines the song and makes the chord sound so unusual, is the "tritone" that was once considered the work of Satan.
So it goes.
2k5, preliminaryDecember 9, 2005
In no particular order, here are some of my favorite tracks from this year.
- «Special»—Mew.
This is a fine example of Mew's penchant for interesting and atypical rhythmic constructions. The song doesn't quite go where you might expect it to, which makes it well worth a listen, particularly in its context on the album. And the Glass Handed Kites flows together so smoothly it's hard to single out a particular song as noteworthy.
- «Godspell»—The Cardigans.
The once-rampant popularity of "Lovefool" belies the fact that the Cardigans have been one of the most consistently good bands over the past 10 years. Nina Persson has a wonderful set of pipes and she's not afraid to use them, as this song indicates. The way the sound keeps flirting with a nice hard-rock feeling doesn't hurt either.
- «Dear Sons and Daughters of Hungry Ghosts»—Wolf Parade
Please forgive Wolf Parade all the hype, and the band name, and the name of the song, and the fact that the first half of their album is entirely unremarkable, and the super-lo-fi sound. Just listen to this song. It's not going to change your life, but it just may brighten your day.
More is coming, but comment if you have suggestions.
Burning down the horseDecember 6, 2005
You know, there was a time when CD liner notes would include messages like this:
http://lindstedt.mech.kth.se/~moch/cardigans/cardi.htlm [sic]
How times have changed — indeed, how times changed by the time they released their next album, when they were the proud owners of their very own domain.
If you follow every dream, you might get lostSeptember 29, 2005
I kept a promise today: I went to
(Did Neil Young just name-drop Chris Rock in "No Wonder"? Shit, I think he did.)
I mean, I'm obviously not some kind of saviour of meeskoor or anything, but everybody seemed legitimately happy to get some fresh blood. They certainly knew their craft, though. Some of them have been coming to practice for over 50 years, and it shows. When you're the newcomer and you haven't read music or sung in a choir since 8th grade, it really helps to be able to sit next to a guy who seems to know every song by heart. I'm not ashamed to admit I was essentially cheating off the guy next to me.
(I'm only 4 tracks into the new Neil Young album at this point, and I have to say that so far it feels every bit as good as Harvest. And I don't say that lightly.)
Anyway, I'd forgotten how good it feels to sing as part of an ensemble. The previous sentence is a complete lie, since I've recently been thrilled to harmonize at such events as people's 70th birthday bashes, or Connecticut suvepäevad, but I had forgotten how good it feels to sing as part of an ensemble where you have four-voice harmony that's actually composed beforehand, as opposed to being ad-libbed on the fly. Not that there's anything wrong with the latter, of course.
- I need to practice reading music again.
- I also need to start learning how to play the harmonica I bought over the weekend.
- I was never
particularly goodeven remotely skilled at playing the violin, so that means it should be trivial to get myself back to my previous level of proficiency, right?
Anyway, I saw the following on a sign in K-Town and decided to put it in my blog:
Of course, I fucked up immediately after keeping that promise. I'm simply thrilled that I left the book I borrowed (the NYEM 30.a. Aastaraamat) on the train. I said I was going to look over it, and instead I called somebody, hung up on her in the middle of the conversation for no reason, and started working on the Sudoku (数独?) and crossword puzzles in the New York Post, which so absorbed me that I left the book on the seat. Splendid.
Song of the Moment: «The Painter» — Neil Young
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But try to get some payback with a ride to the airport or something like that and it'll feel like you asked her for a kidney. She wants to rank herself and figure out what ended those relationships so she can act accordingly.
If the stories of how she got them don't ring true, watch out: She might start telling people you gave them to her. Crazy people like to dominate others, and if she knows you're uncomfortable, she also knows you'll say whatever it takes to get her to calm down. When things are good, you're the king of the world and can accomplish anything you set your mind to. People who compliment themselves in this way are almost never being truthful.But if she considers even one night in front of the TV to be death, this is a girl who will never be content. You can side with her and believe the whole world's against her, or you can choose to be realistic. I'll say this for crazy girls: They know how to have a good time.I once beat an ex-girlfriend in cards and she started crying and locked herself in her room for an hour. Acting like an ass under the influence is something most everyone's been guilty of.Her mood changes more than a remote control held by an 11-year-old with ADD.Confronting you about your communications isn't necessarily crazy, but tampering with them is.


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Plans by Patel Taylor to build close to 3,000 homes on a former Ford car plant in Essex have been called in by London's deputy mayor after the scheme was thrown out by the local council last month.
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Best Loved of the Gods
Odin and Frigga were parents of twin sons as dissimilar in character and physical appearance as it was possible to be; for while Hodur, god of darkness, was somber, taciturn, and blind; Balder, the beautiful, was the pure and radiant god of innocence and light. The snowy brow and golden locks of this Asa seemed to send out beams of sunshine to gladden the hearts of Gods and men, by whom he was equally beloved.
"Of all the twelve round Odin's throne,
Balder, the Beautiful, alone,
The Sun-god, good, and pure, and bright,
Was loved by all, as all love light."
-VALHALLA (J. C. Jones)
Balder, attaining his full growth with marvelous rapidity, was admitted to the council of the Gods, and married Nanna (blossom), the daughter of Nip (bud), a beautiful and charming young goddess, with whom he lived in perfect unity and peace. He took up his abode in the palace of Breidablik, whose silver roof rested upon golden pillars, and whose purity was such that nothing common or unclean was ever allowed within its precincts.
The God of light was well versed in the science of runes which were carved on his tongue; he knew the various virtues of the simples, one of which, the camomile, was always called "Balder's brow," because its flower was just as immaculately pure as his forehead. The only thing hidden from Balder's radiant eyes, at first, was the perception of his own ultimate fate.
"His own house
Breidablik, on whose columns Balder graved
The enchantments that recall the dead to life.
For wise he was, and many curious arts,
Postures of runes, and healing herbs he knew;
Unhappy! but that art he did not know,
To keep his own life safe, and see the sun."
-BALDER DEAD (Matthew Arnold)
As Balder the beautiful was always smiling and happy, the Gods were greatly troubled when they finally saw the light die out of his blue eyes, a careworn look come into his face, and his step grow heavy and slow. Odin and Frigga, seeing their beloved son's evident depression, tenderly implored him to reveal the cause of his silent grief. Balder, yielding at last to their anxious entreaties, confessed that his slumbers, instead of being peaceful and restful as of yore, had been strangely troubled of late by dark and oppressive dreams, which, although he could not clearly remember them when he awoke, constantly haunted him with a vague feeling of fear.
"To that god his slumber
Was most afflicting;
His auspicious dreams
Seemed departed."
-LAY OF VEGTAM (Thorpe's tr.)
When Odin and Frigga heard this, they were troubled indeed, but declared they were quite sure nothing would harm their son, who was so universally beloved. Yet, when the anxious Father and Mother had returned home, they talked the matter over, acknowledged that they also were oppressed by strange forebodings, and having learned from the giants that Balder really was in danger, they proceeded to take measures to avert it.
Frigga, therefore, sent out her servants in every direction, bidding them make all living creatures, all plants, metals, stones — in fact, every animate and inanimate thing — register a solemn vow not to do any harm to Balder. All creation readily took the oath, for all things loved the radiant god, and basked in the light of his smile. So the servants soon returned to Frigga, telling her that all had been duly sworn except the mistletoe, growing upon the oak stem at the gate of Valhalla, which, they added, was such a puny, inoffensive thing that no harm could be feared from it.
"On a course they resolved:
That they would send
To every being,
Assurance to solicit,
Balder not to harm.
All species swore
Oaths to spare him;
Frigg received all
Their vows and compacts."
-SÆMUND'S EDDA (Thorpe's tr.)
The Vala's Prophecy
Frigga now resumed her spinning with her usual content, for she knew no harm could come to the child she loved best of all. Odin, in the mean while, also sorely troubled, and wishing to ascertain whether there was any cause for his unwonted depression, resolved to consult one of the dead Valas or prophetesses. He therefore mounted his eight-footed steed Sleipnir, rode over the tremulous bridges Bifröst and Giallar, came to the entrance of Nifiheim, and passing the Helgate and the dog Garm, penetrated into Hel's dark abode.
"Uprose the king of men with speed,
And saddled straight his coal-black steed;
Down the yawning steep he rode,
That leads to Hela's drear abode."
-DESCENT OF ODIN (Gray)
To his surprise, he noticed that a feast was being spread in this dark realm, and that the couches had all been covered with tapestry and rings of gold, as if some highly honored guest were expected before long. Hastening on, Odin finally reached the grave where the Vala had rested undisturbed for many a year, and solemnly began to chant the magic spell and trace the runes which had the power of raising the dead.
"Thrice pronounc'd, in accents dread,
The thrilling verse that wakes the dead:
Till from out the hollow ground
Slowly breath'd a sullen sound."
-DESCENT OF ODIN (Gray)
Suddenly the grave opened, and the prophetess slowly rose, inquiring who he was and why he thus came to trouble her long rest. Odin, not wishing her to know that he was King of the Gods, replied that he was Vegtam, Valtam's son, and that he had awakened her to inquire for whom Hel was spreading her couches and preparing a festive meal. In hollow tones, the prophetess now confirmed all his fears by telling him that the expected guest was Balder, who would shortly be slain by Hodur, his brother, the blind God of darkness.
"Hodur will hither
His glorious brother send;
He of Balder will
The slayer be,
And Odin's son
Of life bereave.
By compulsion I have spoken;
Now I will be silent."
-SÆMUND'S EDDA (Thorpe's tr.)
But in spite of these sad tidings, and of the Vala's evident reluctance to answer any other questions, Odin was not yet satisfied, and forced her to tell him who would avenge the murdered man by calling his assassin to account — a spirit of revenge and retaliation being considered a sacred duty among the races of the North.
Then the prophetess told him, as Rossthiof had predicted before, that Rinda, the earth-goddess, would bear a son to Odin, and that this divine emissary, Vali, would neither wash his face nor comb his hair until he had avenged Balder and slain Hodur.
"In the caverns of the west,
By Odin's fierce embrace comprest,
A wondrous boy shall Rinda bear,
Who ne'er shall comb his raven hair,
Nor wash his visage in the stream,
Nor see the sun's departing beam,
Till he on Hoder's corse shall smile
Flaming on the fun'ral pile."
-DESCENT OF ODIN (Gray)
Having discovered this from the reluctant Vala, Odin, who, thanks to his visit to the Urdar fountain, already knew much of the future, now incautiously revealed some of his knowledge by inquiring who would refuse to weep at Balder's death. When the prophetess heard this question, she immediately knew that it was Odin who had called her out of her grave, and, refusing to speak another word, she sank back into the silence of the tomb, declaring that none would ever be able to lure her out again until the end of the world had come.
"Hie thee hence, and boast at home,
That never shall inquirer come
To break my iron sleep again,
Till Lok has burst his tenfold chain;
Never, till substantial Night
Has reassum'd her ancient right
Till wrapt in flames, in ruin hurl'd,
Sinks the fabric of the world."
-DESCENT OF ODIN (Gray)
Odin had questioned the greatest prophetess the world had ever known, and had learned Orlog's (fate's) decrees, which he knew could not be set aside. He therefore remounted his steed, and sadly wended his way back to Asgard, thinking of the time, no longer far distant, when his beloved son would no more be seen in the heavenly abodes, and when the light of his presence would have vanished forever.
On entering Glads-heim, however, Odin was somewhat cheered when he heard of the precautions taken by Frigga to insure their darling's safety, and soon, feeling convinced that if nothing would slay Balder he would surely continue to gladden the world with his presence, he cast aside all care and ordered games and a festive meal.
The Gods at Play
The Gods resumed their wonted occupations, and were soon casting their golden disks on the green plain of Ida, which was called Idavold, the playground of the Gods. At last, wearying of this pastime, and knowing that no harm could come to their beloved Balder, they invented a new game and began to use him as a target, throwing all manner of weapons and missiles at him, certain that no matter how cleverly they tried, and how accurately they aimed, the objects, having sworn not to injure him, would either glance aside or fall short. This new amusement was so fascinating that soon all the Gods were assembled around Balder, at whom they threw every available thing, greeting each new failure with prolonged shouts of laughter. These bursts of merriment soon excited the curiosity of Frigga, who sat spinning in Fensalir; and seeing an old woman pass by her dwelling, she bade her pause and tell what the Gods were doing to provoke such great hilarity. The old woman, who was Loki in disguise, immediately stopped at this appeal, and told Frigga that all the gods were throwing stones and blunt and sharp instruments at Balder, who stood smiling and unharmed in their midst, daring them to touch him.
The Goddess smiled, and resumed her work, saying that it was quite natural that nothing should harm Balder, as all things loved the light, of which he was the emblem, and had solemnly sworn not to injure him. Loki, the personification of fire, was greatly disappointed upon hearing this, for he was jealous of Balder, the sun, who so entirely eclipsed him and was generally beloved, while he was feared and avoided as much as possible; but he cleverly concealed his chagrin, and inquired of Frigga whether she were quite sure that all objects had joined the league.
Frigga proudly answered that she had received the solemn oath of all things, except of a harmless little parasite, the mistletoe, which grew on the oak near Valhalla's gate, and was too small and weak to be feared. Having obtained the desired information, Loki toddled off; but as soon as he was safely out of sight, he resumed his wonted form, hastened to Valhalla, found the oak and mistletoe indicated by Frigga, and by magic arts compelled the parasite to assume a growth and hardness hitherto unknown.
The Death of Balder
From the wooden stem thus produced he deftly fashioned a shaft ere he hastened back to Idavold, where the Gods were still hurling missiles at Balder, Hodur alone leaning mournfully against a tree, and taking no part in the new game. Carelessly Loki approached him, inquired the cause of his melancholy, and twitted him with pride and indifference, since he would not condescend to take part in the new game. In answer to these remarks, Hodur pleaded his blindness; but when Loki put the mistletoe in his hand, led him into the midst of the circle, and indicated in what direction the novel target stood, Hodur threw his shaft boldly. Instead of the loud shout of laughter which he expected to hear, a shuddering cry of terror fell upon his ear, for Balder the beautiful had fallen to the ground, slain by the fatal blow.
"So on the floor lay Balder dead; and round
Lay thickly strewn swords, axes, darts, and spears,
Which all the Gods in sport had idly thrown
At Balder, whom no weapon pierced or clove;
But in his breast stood fixed the fatal bough
Of mistletoe, which Lok, the Accuser, gave
To Hoder, and unwitting Hoder threw —
'Gainst that alone had Balder's life no charm."
-BALDER DEAD (Matthew Arnold)
Anxiously the Gods all crowded around him, but alas! life was quite extinct, and all their efforts to revive the fallen Sun-God were vain. Inconsolable at their loss, they turned angrily upon Hodur, whom they would have slain had they not been restrained by the feeling that no willful deed of violence should ever desecrate their peace steads. At the loud sound of lamentation the Goddesses came in hot haste, and when Frigga saw that her darling was dead, she passionately implored the Gods to go to Niflheim and entreat Hel to release her victim, for the earth could not live happy without him.
Hermod's Errand
As the road was rough and painful in the extreme, none of the Gods at first volunteered to go; but when Frigga added that she and Odin would reward the messenger by loving him most of all the Æsir, Hermod signified his readiness to execute the commission. To help him on his way, Odin lent him Sleipnir, and bade him good speed, while he motioned to the other Gods to carry the corpse to Breidablik, and directed them to go to the forest and cut down huge pines to make a worthy pyre for his son.
"But when the Gods were to the forest gone,
Hermod led Sleipnir from Valhalla forth
And saddled him; before that, Sleipnir brook'd
No meaner hand than Odin's on his mane,
On his broad back no lesser rider bore;
Yet docile now he stood at Hermod's side,
Arching his neck, and glad to be bestrode,
Knowing the God they went to seek, how dear.
But Hermod mounted him, and sadly fared
In silence up the dark untravel'd road
Which branches from the north of Heaven, and went
All day; and daylight waned, and night came on.
And all that night he rode, and journey'd so,
Nine days, nine nights, toward the northern ice,
Through valleys deep-engulph'd by roaring streams.
And on the tenth morn he beheld the bridge
Which spans with golden arches Giall's stream,
And on the bridge a damsel watching, arm'd,
In the straight passage, at the further end,
Where the road issues between walling rocks."
-BALDER DEAD (Matthew Arnold)
While Hermod was traveling along the cheerless road to Niflheim, the Gods hewed and carried down to the shore a vast amount of fuel, which they placed upon the deck of Balder's favorite vessel, Ringhorn, constructing an elaborate funeral pyre, which, according to custom, was decorated with tapestry hangings, garlands of flowers, vessels and weapons of all kinds, golden rings, and countless objects of value, ere the immaculate corpse was brought and laid upon it in full attire.
One by one, the Gods now drew near to take a last farewell of their beloved companion, and as Nanna bent over him, her loving heart broke, and she fell lifeless by his side. Seeing this, the Gods reverently laid her beside her husband, that she might accompany him even in death; and after they had slain his horse and hounds and twined the pyre with thorns, the emblems of sleep, Odin, the last of the Gods, drew near.
The Funeral Pyre
In token of affection for the dead and of sorrow for his loss, all laid their most precious possessions upon his pyre, and Odin, bending down, now added to the offerings his magic ring Draupnir. The assembled gods then perceived that he was whispering in his dead son's ear, but none were near enough to hear what word he said.
These preliminaries ended, the Gods now prepared to launch the ship, but found it so heavily laden with fuel and treasures that their combined efforts could not make it stir an inch. The mountain giants, witnessing the sad scene from afar, and noticing their quandary, said that they knew of a giantess called Hyrrokin, who dwelt in Jötunheim, and was strong enough to launch the vessel without any other aid. The Gods therefore bade one of the storm giants hasten off to summon Hyrrokin, who soon appeared, riding a gigantic wolf, which she guided by a bridle made of writhing live snakes. Riding down to the shore, the giantess dismounted and haughtily signified her readiness to give them the required aid, if in the mean while they would but hold her steed. Odin immediately dispatched four of his maddest Berserkers to fulfill this task; but, in spite of their phenomenal strength, they could not hold the monstrous wolf until the giantess had thrown and bound it fast.
Hyrrokin, seeing them now able to manage her refractory steed, marched down the beach, set her shoulder against the stern of Balder's ship Ringhorn, and with one mighty shove sent it out into the water. Such was the weight of the burden she moved, however, and the rapidity with which it shot down into the sea, that all the earth shook as if from an earthquake, and the rollers on which it glided caught fire from the friction. The unexpected shock almost made the Gods lose their balance, and so angered Thor that he raised his hammer and would have slain the giantess had he not been restrained by his fellow Gods. Easily appeased, as usual — for Thor's violence, although quick, was evanescent — he now stepped up on the vessel once more to consecrate the funeral pyre with his sacred hammer. But, as he was performing this ceremony, the dwarf Lit managed to get into his way so provokingly that Thor, still slightly angry, kicked him into the fire, which he had just kindled with a thorn, where the dwarf was burned to ashes with the corpses of the faithful pair.
As the vessel drifted out to sea, the flames rose higher and higher, and when it neared the western horizon it seemed as if sea and sky were all on fire. Sadly the Gods watched the glowing ship and its precious freight, until it suddenly plunged into the waves and disappeared; nor did they turn aside and go back to their own homes until the last spark of light had vanished, and all the world was enveloped in darkness, in token of mourning for Balder the good.
"Soon with a roaring rose the mighty fire,
And the pile crackled; and between the logs
Sharp quivering tongues of flame shot out, and leapt
Curling and darting, higher, until they lick'd
The summit of the pile, the dead, the mast,
And ate the shriveling sails; but still the ship
Drove on, ablaze above her hull with fire.
And the gods stood upon the beach, and gazed;
And while they gazed, the sun went lurid down
Into the smoke-wrapt sea, and night came on.
Then the wind fell with night, and there was calm;
But through the dark they watch'd the burning ship
Still carried o'er the distant waters, on
Farther and farther, like an eye of fire.
So show'd in the far darkness, Balder's pile;
But fainter, as the stars rose high, it flared;
The bodies were consumed, ash choked the pile.
And as, in a decaying winter fire,
A charr'd log, falling, makes a shower of sparks —
So, with a shower of sparks, the pile fell in,
Reddening the sea around; and all was dark."
-BALDER DEAD (Matthew Arnold)
Sadly the Gods entered Asgard, where no sounds of merriment or feasting were heard, but all hearts were filled with despair, for they knew the end was near, and shuddered at the thought of the terrible Fimbul-winter, which was to herald their death.
Frigga alone cherished some hope, and anxiously watched for the return of her messenger, Hermod the swift, who in the mean while had ridden over the tremulous bridge, along the dark Helway, and on the tenth night had crossed the rushing tide of the river Gioll. Here he was challenged by Mödgud, who inquired why the Giallar-bridge trembled more beneath his horse's tread than when a whole army passed, and asked why he, a live man, was attempting to penetrate into the dreaded realm of Hel.
"Who art thou on thy black and fiery horse
Under whose hoofs the bridge o'er Giall's stream
Rumbles and shakes? Tell me thy race and home.
But yestermorn five troops of dead pass'd by,
Bound on their way below to Hela's realm,
Nor shook the bridge so much as thou alone.
And thou hast flesh and color on thy cheeks,
Like men who live, and draw the vital air;
Nor look'st thou pale and wan, like man deceased,
Souls bound below, my daily passers here."
-BALDER DEAD (Matthew Arnold)
Hermod explained to Mödgud the reason of his coming, and, having ascertained that Balder and Nanna had ridden over the bridge before him, he hastened on, until he came to the gate of hell, which rose forbiddingly before him.
Nothing daunted by this barrier, Hermod dismounted on the smooth ice, tightened the girths of his saddle, remounted, and burying his spurs deep into Sleipnir's sleek sides, he made him take a prodigious leap, which landed him safely on the other side of Hel-gate.
"Thence on he journey'd o'er the fields of ice
Still north, until he met a stretching wall
Barring his way, and in the wall a gate.
Then he dismounted, and drew tight the girths,
On the smooth ice, of Sleipnir, Odin's horse,
And made him leap the gate, and came within."
-BALDER DEAD (Matthew Arnold)
Riding onward, Hermod came at last to Hel's banquet hall, where he found Balder, pale and dejected, lying upon a couch, his wife Nanna beside him, gazing fixedly at the mead before him, which he had no heart to drink.
Hermod's Quest
In vain Hermod informed his brother that he had come to redeem him; Balder sadly shook his head, saying that he knew he must remain in this cheerless abode until the last day should come, but imploring him to take Nanna back with him, as the home of the shades was no place for such a bright and beautiful young creature. But when Nanna heard this request she clung more closely still to her husband's side, vowing that nothing would ever induce her to part from him, and that she would stay with him, even in Niflheim, forever.
The whole night was spent in close conversation, ere Hermod sought Hel and implored Balder's release. The churlish Goddess listened silently to his request, and finally declared that she would let her victim go providing all things animate and inanimate should prove their sorrow for his loss by shedding a tear.
"Come then I if Balder was so dear beloved,
And this is true, and such a loss is Heaven's —
Hear, how to Heaven may Balder be restored.
Show me through all the world the signs of grief!
Fails but one thing to grieve, here Balder stops!
Let all that lives and moves upon the earth
Weep him, and all that is without life weep;
Let Gods, men, brutes, beweep him; plants and stones!
So shall I know the lost was dear indeed,
And bend my heart, and give him back to Heaven."
-BALDER DEAD (Matthew Arnold)
Having received this answer, the ring Draupnir, which Balder sent back to Odin, an embroidered carpet from Nanna for Frigga, and a ring for Fulla, Hermod cheerfully made his way out of Hel's dark realm, whence he hoped soon to rescue Balder the good, for well he knew all Nature sincerely mourned his departure and would shed unlimited tears to win him back.
The assembled Gods crowded anxiously around him as soon as he returned, and when he had delivered his messages and gifts, the Æsir sent out heralds to every part of the world to bid all things animate and inanimate weep for Balder.
"Go quickly forth through all the world, and pray
All living and unliving things to weep
Balder, if haply he may thus be won!"
-BALDER DEAD (Matthew Arnold)
These orders were rapidly carried out, and soon tears hung from every plant and tree, the ground was saturated with moisture, and metals and stones, in spite of their hard hearts, wept too.
On their way home the messengers passed a dark cave, in which they saw the crouching form of a giantess named Thok, whom some suppose to have been Loki in disguise; when they asked her also to shed a tear, she mocked them and fled into the dark recesses of her cave, declaring that she would never weep and that Hel might retain her prey forever.
"Thok she weepeth
With dry tears
For Balder's death —
Neither in life, nor yet in death,
Gave he me gladness.
Let Hel keep her prey."
-ELDER EDDA (Howitt's version)
As soon as the returning messengers arrived in Asgard, all the Gods crowded around them to know the result of their mission; but their faces, all alight with the joy of anticipation, soon grew dark with despair when they heard that, as one creature refused the tribute of tears, they should behold Balder on earth no more.
"Balder, the Beautiful, shall ne'er
From Hel return to upper air!
Betrayed by Loki, twice betrayed,
The prisoner of Death is made;
Ne'r shall he 'scape the place of doom
Till fatal Ragnarok be come!"
-VALHALLA (J. C. Jones)
The sole consolation left Odin was to fulfill the decree of fate. He therefore departed and achieved the difficult courtship of Rinda, which we have already described. She bore Vali, the Avenger, who, coming into Asgard on the very day of his birth, slew Hodur with his sharp arrow. Thus he punished the murderer of Balder according to the true Northern creed.
The physical explanation of this tale is either the daily setting of the sun (Balder), which sinks beneath the western waves, driven away by darkness (Hodur), or the end of the short Northern summer and reign of the long winter season. "Balder represents the bright and clear summer, when twilight and daylight kiss each other and go hand in hand in these Northern latitudes."
"Balder's pyre, of the sun a mark,
Holy hearth red staineth;
Yet, soon dies its last faint spark,
Darkly then Hoder reigneth."
-VIKING TALES OF THE NORTH (R. B. Anderson)
"His death by Hodur is the victory of darkness over light, the darkness of winter over the light of summer; and the revenge by Vali is the breaking forth of new light after the wintry darkness."
Loki, the fire, is jealous of the pure light of heaven, Balder, who alone among the Northern Gods never fought, but was always ready with words of conciliation and peace.
"But from thy lips, O Balder, night or day,
Heard no one ever an injurious word
To God or Hero, but thou keptest back
The others, laboring to compose their brawls."
-BALDER DEAD (Matthew Arnold)
The tears shed by all things for the beloved God are symbolical of the spring thaw, setting in after the hardness and cold of winter, when every tree and twig, and even the stones drip with moisture; Thok (coal) alone shows no sign of tenderness, as she is buried deep within the dark earth and needs not the light of the sun.
"And as in winter, when the frost breaks up,
At winter's end, before the spring begins,
And a warm west wind blows, and thaw sets in —
After an hour a dripping sound is heard
In all the forests, and the soft-strewn snow
Under the trees is dibbled thick with holes,
And from the boughs the snow loads shuffle down;
And, in fields sloping to the south, dark plots
Of grass peep out amid surrounding snow,
And widen, and the peasant's heart is glad —
So through the world was heard a dripping noise
Of all things weeping to bring Balder back;
And there fell joy upon the Gods to hear."
-BALDER DEAD (Matthew Arnold)
From the depths of their underground prison, the sun (Balder) and vegetation (Nanna) try to cheer heaven (Odin) and earth (Frigga) by sending them the ring Draupnir, the emblem of fertility, and the flowery tapestry, symbolical of the carpet of verdure which will again deck the earth and enhance her charms with its beauty.
The ethical signification of the tale is no less beautiful, for Balder and Hodur are symbols of the conflicting forces of good and evil, while Loki impersonates the tempter.
"But in each human soul we find
That night's dark Hoder, Balder's brother blind,
Is born and waxeth strong as he;
For blind is ev'ry evil born, as bear cubs be,
Night is the cloak of evil; but all good
Hath ever clad in shining garments stood.
The busy Loke, tempter from of old,
Still forward treads incessant, and doth hold
The blind one's murder hand, whose quick-launch'd spear
Pierceth young Balder's breast, that sun of Valhal's sphere!"
-VIKING TALES OF THE NORTH (R. B. Anderson)
The Worship of Balder
One of the most important festivals was held at the summer solstice, or midsummer's eve, in honor of Balder the good, for it was considered the anniversary of his death and of his descent into the lower world. On that day, the longest in the year, all the people congregated out of doors, made great bonfires, and watched the sun, which in extreme Northern latitudes merely touches the horizon ere it rises upon a new day. From midsummer, the days gradually grow shorter, and the sun's rays less warm, until the winter solstice, which was called the "Mother night," as it was the longest in the year. Midsummer's eve, once celebrated in honor of Balder, was usurped by the alien Christian subjugators and was from then on called St. John's day, that saint used to entirely supplant Balder the Good.


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With a light breeze blowing outside, we enjoyed our morning lounging on the patio of our little cottage, awaiting the end of rush hour traffic.
Then it was time to get dolled up for our first full day in L.A.
We started out the day with some Japanese food at Santouka in the Mitsuwa Marketplace.
Then we headed over to Santa Monica beach.
It was a fun place to people watch, especially when those people were buff guys doing gymnastic stunts on the "Swings, Rings, and Ropes."
And we did A LOT of walking and scoping out the area for our next visit too.
And we ended the day at Santa Monica Place and did some window shopping.


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Welcome to 2018! If you have been reading my blog for any time at all, you probably know that in addition to my creative design work at Vintage Mama's Cottage, I am also the sr. editor of RUBY magazine, an online and print publication featuring inspirational articles, short stories, poetry, book reviews, craft tutorials, recipes, and lots of other family-friendly content.
RUBY magazine was started in late 2009 – early 2010 at a time when I was no longer working away from home (as a result of the financial collapse, the bank where I was working closed its branches in our town), and I was wondering what God had next for me. I was quite happy to be at home with our girls who were 7 and 9 years old at the time, so I wasn't really looking for a "JOB" when I was contacted by the woman who originally started the Ruby Women publication.
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In August 2016 we began offering RUBY magazine as a print publication for our readers who had been requesting this option for quite some time. Every month RUBY magazine is available for purchase on Amazon, and the digital document is always available to read online for free.
As we look forward to 2018, RUBY magazine remains committed to providing resources for families, as well as a platform for Christian women to tell their stories, share their writing, and connect with one another in our online community. If you would like information about RUBY magazine, please visit the RUBY blog at http://www.rubyforwomen.com or email me at firstname.lastname@example.com I would love to hear from you!
As for Vintage Mama's Cottage in 2018 . . . . well, it's been a challenging autumn and winter so far following the flood in our laundry room back in October, but we are finally beginning to get things back to normal. It took a really long time to get all of the mess cleaned up and the repairs completed (final repairs were finished three days before Christmas!), and the really cold weather has not helped this past couple of weeks, but we're making a bit of progress every day. It won't be long and I'll be back in my studio creating fun new designs to share with you!
If you love some of the "old-fashioned" and traditional homemaking arts, then you are in the right place! Both Vintage Mama's Cottage and RUBY magazine will be focused on helping you on your journey as you care for your home and family and rediscover traditional "home arts." Hope to see you often!


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For lots of disabled persons a mobility scooter is a great replacement of a wheel chair.
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Ep. 135 - The Moon
In days gone by there was a land where the nights were always dark, and the sky spread over it like a black cloth, for there the moon never rose, and no star shone in the obscurity. At the creation of the world, the light at night had been sufficient. Three young fellows once went out of this country on a travelling expedition, and arrived in another kingdom, where, in the evening when the sun had disappeared behind the mountains, a shining globe was placed on an oak — tree, which shed a soft light far and wide. By means of this, everything could very well be seen and distinguished, even though it was not so brilliant as the sun. The travellers stopped and asked a countryman who was driving past with his cart, what kind of a light that was. "That is the moon," answered he; our mayor bought it for three thalers, and fastened it to the oak-tree. He has to pour oil into it daily, and to keep it clean, so that it may always burn clearly. He receives a thaler a week from us for doing it."


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She sat in the corner of her latest hotel room in the latest unknown city, crying. It had become a nightly ritual to her by now. Come back from one of their countless shows, curl up in the darkest corner and cry. She thought that by now she would be out of tears, but her eyes always seemed to find more.
This night was slightly different though. For on this night, she could not take the pain anymore.
The death of her best friend, being abandoned by her mother, having an abusive father. All of these things she had been able to cope with one way or another. However, tonight she could not bare the pain and frustration. Tonight her sanity snapped and her common sense was gone. Earlier that day she had confessed her love to him, her brother's best friend, and he refused to return the feeling.
"Can I talk to you for a minute," she asked as she poked her head into his bunk.
He didn't answer in words. He simply sat up and patted the spot next to him. Taking his hint, she sat down. For a minute or so they sat in complete, uncomfortable silence. The entire time, he stared at her staring at her own hands. Finally, he spoke.
"What did you want to talk about, Lauren?"
"I... I have... something I need... to tell you. Something I have needed to for over a year now."
"What is it?"
"I'm just going to tell you straight out, but you have to promise not to get mad."
"Okay," he said.
"All right, I promise." There was a long silence and then he spoke again. "So, wha..." he started, but was interrupted.
"Iloveyou," Lauren blurted out.
"What," he asked, not sure if he had heard her correctly.
"I said..." she took a deep, shuddery breath and started over. "I said... I... I... love you."
"Please, say you love me too. Please!" Tears were forming in the corners of her eyes, but she refused to let him see her cry.
"I can't, Lauren. I don't love you like that. I'm sorry."
"It's okay. Really. I should have known better. I mean, you could have anyone in the world. Why would you want me, right?"
"It's not like that, you're like a sister to me."
"Yeah," she whispered, "a sister." With that, she jumped out of the bunk and ran to the bathroom. There, she opened the dam in her eyes and freed the tears.
~*~End Flashback~*~
That had been seven hours ago. In one way, it seemed like it had been months, in another, minutes.
Now, she sat, thinking that there was only one thing she could do to end the heartache. At that thought, she pulled herself up off the floor and half walked, half dragged herself to the bathroom.
When she got there, she reached into the shower and grabbed her razor. With only a seconds hesitation, she pushed hard on the flesh and veins of her wrist with the cold, sharp metal. Slowly, she moved it from the base of her wrist up three inches.
Switching the razor to the other hand, she shakily repeated the process. She heard a loud banging on her hotel room door and blacked out, landing in the ever-growing pool of blood.
He had drifted off to sleep about an hour ago and now woke with a start. He had had a horrifying nightmare and had to talk to Lauren. He jumped out of bed, not bothering to dress; grabbed his room key; and ran down the hall in only his boxers.
He pounded on her door with everything he had in him, but there was no answer. He tried again, but there was still no answer. He was about to give up when he remembered that he had been given the spare key cards. He ran back to his room, grabbed her key, ran back, and entered after a few failed attempts. He looked around the room and noticed that neither of the beds had been disturbed. He also noticed that the bathroom door was partially closed. With his heart pounding in his ears, he slowly pushed it open. He was not prepared for what he saw.
Oh God. He thought. It's just like the dream.
He knelt down next to her and cradled her cold, lifeless body in his arms. "I lied, Lauren," he whispered through his sobs. "I loveyou."
I have to tell her brother, he thought.
Knowing this, he gently placed her back onto the chilled tile floor. He stood and walked to the phone, located on the night-stand between the two beds. He picked it up, dialed the number, and waited. One ring. Two, and...
"Hello," a groggy voice greeted.
"JC, it's me."
"Justin? What's wrong?"
"She's dea... dea... dead. Lauren is dead." Click. Click.
Justin laid back on the bed and closed his eyes, waiting for his bandmate to get there. "I love you, Lauren," he said in a normal tone of voice. He felt a breeze and distinctively heard, "I love you too, Justin. I love you too." When he opened his eyes, however, no one was there.


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How mysterious
@reinwerle: Ah yes, sorry about that! Mail order isn't available at the moment, but it will be back once I've got the website up and running again! I'm working on it as fast as I can manage.
mysterious mystery of mysteries. I like those two, they seem like idiots, it's great.
Ooo, >~> I wonder what plan B is.
@Nakashi: Explosives, probably.
I've noticed most "Plan B's" involve explosives.
@OtterFox42: Wise one, you are. :3
Just wondering how I can buy the hard copy of your comic? The "BUY" link doesn't seem to be working
@Maaria: Ah! Okay cool! I look forward to buying it. :)
Confused Jon is one of my favorite versions of Jon so far. Instant gold every time. :)


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I work with work with individuals, scientists, and organisations by helping them to bring their vision and ideas to life. I bring to bear a wide array of interests and skills in natural history, art, and education with degrees in biology (BS), illustration (Graduate Certificate in Scientific Illustration), and education (Graduate Diploma in Secondary Ed). Much of my personal work focuses on the interplay between land, humans, and the rest of the living world (aka natural history).
Black & White, Color, Line
Anatomy, Biology, Botany, Natural History, Natural Science / Nature, Zoology