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Computers both reflected and assisted the process of technological development. Prior to World War II, Vannevar Bush, an electrical engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, had built a machine filled with gears and shafts, along with electronic tubes in place of some mechanical parts, to solve differential equations. Wartime advances brought large but workable calculators, such as the Mark I electromechanical computer developed by engineer Howard Aiken and installed by IBM at Harvard in 1944. It was huge55 feet long and 8 feet highand had a million components.
Even more complicated was the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator, called ENIAC, built in 1946 at the University of Pennsylvania. Like the Mark I, it was large, containing 18,000 electronic tubes and requiring tremendous amounts of electricity and special cooling procedures. It also needed to be debugged to remove insects attracted to the heat and light, giving rise to the term still used today by computer scientists for solving software glitches. In a widely publicized test conducted soon after installation, operators set out to multiply 97,367 by itself 5,000 times. A reporter pushed the necessary button, and the task was completed in less than half a second. In the years that followed, new machines with their own internal instructions and memories were developed.
A key breakthrough in making computers faster and more reliable was the development of the transistor by three scientists at Bell Laboratories in 1948. Computers transformed American society as surely as industrialization had changed it a century before. Airlines, hotels, and other businesses computerized their reservation systems. Business accounting and inventory control began to depend on computers. Computer programmers and operators were in increasing demand as computers contributed dramatically to the centralization and interdependence of American life. (Taken from The American People, Nash and Jeffrey, 6th Ed, Volume 2. New York: Pearson, 2004, pgs 901-902)
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Sympathomimetic agents are chemical substances that mimic the sympathetic stress response. Many foods naturally contain these substances. When consumed, they trigger a stress response in the body, the severity of which will depend on how much of the chemical was consumed. The most common of these sympathomimetic stressors in the modern diet is caffeine, a chemical that belongs to the xanthine group of drugs. Xanthines are powerful amphetamine-like stimulants that increase metabolism and create a highly awake and active state. They also trigger release of the stress hormones that, among other actions, are capable of increasing heartrate, blood pressure, and oxygen demands on the heart. Extreme, prolonged stress-hormone secretion can even initiate myocardial necrosisthat is, destruction of the heart tissue.
Coffee (Coffea arabica) is the most frequently consumed source of caffeine. Americans over the age of fourteen consume an average of three cups of coffee a day! The average brewed six-ounce cup of coffee contains about 108 milligrams of caffeine. Caffeine consumption of more than 250 milligrams per day is considered excessive and will have an adverse effect on the human body. A lethal dose of caffeine could be consumed in the form of twenty cups of coffee if drunk all at once! Frequent side effects of excessive coffee drinking are anxiety, irritability, diarrhea, arrhythmia (irregular heartbeat), and inability to concentrate, in addition to a host of symptoms characteristic of the stress response. Coffee may also stimulate the secretion of the digestive enzyme and other biochemical substances necessary for arousal and adaptation responses (Dusek and Girdano 1993).
During stressful times, high levels of certain vitamins (such as vitamin C and B vitamins) are needed to maintain proper function of the nervous and endocrine systems. They are also called on to help carry out carbohydrate metabolism and gluconeogenesis (the process whereby the body forms glucose for more energy). Vitamin C and choline are necessary elements in the production of adrenal hormones, which are secreted during the stress response. Deficiencies of these vitamins lower tolerance to stressors and ability to cope with them. In turn, excessive stress over prolonged periods may deplete the body of these vitamins, making an individual more prone to vitamin deficiency. (Taken from Controlling Stress and Tension, 7th Ed., Girdano, Dusek, Dorothy E., and Everly JR, George S. San Francisco: Pearson/Benjamin Cummings, 2005, pg 183)
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Check out our Malawi hotel reviews from fellow like-minded travellers to find the best local accommodation for your Malawi holiday.
Chelinda CampLocation: Nyika Plateau
Fantastic service, wonderful food. 5 hours up a dirt track and there was a kids play area! our boys loved it (ages 4 and 2). We loved the scenery. It is 5 hours from Rumphi on bad roads. I'd only recommend trying in a 4x4 with high clearance.- 25 Apr 2014, Mrs Ellen A.
It was absolutely lovely, but there really should be a cheaper option. I suspect that this is prohibitively expensive for a lot of people, and if they're traveling from overseas they don't have camping equipment. An in-between option, e.g. simpler rooms or hostel-type rooms would really help.- 13 Aug 2012, Ms Jane H.
Best place we've ever stayed! Incredibly beautiful and well run.- 30 May 2014, Mr Hans D.
No comment- 04 Feb 2014, Mrs Liz A.
No comment- 13 Nov 2013, Mr Jörg T.
At the bathing place, after so many years, wooden parts could be sandpapered and new varnish. Taps were loosely fitted- 01 Aug 2013, Mr Jacob v.
Huntingdon HouseLocation: Tea Estates
One of the Most spectacular place in Malawi, must visit place. Had wonderful time in Hundington house, Chef made special birthday cake for us, was wonderful surprise. Over all experience was awesome.- 09 Apr 2014, Mr Rajeshkumar U.
Wonderful experience. Service was impeccable and the room was lovely. Would definitely stay there again.- 31 May 2013, Ms Antonia H.
Thawale LodgeLocation: Majete Wildlife Reserve
No comment- 13 Nov 2013, Mr Jörg T.
Lovely accommodation with spectacular views over the Lower River Shire. This would make an amazing honeymoon for a young couple or romantic retreat for older weds like ourselves!- 15 Oct 2013, Mr Alistair K.
On our 2nd night there were 16 people staying which I felt was too many for the facilities, otherwise I would have rated it 'great'. The appeal was that it was remote so didn't expect it to be so busy.- 29 Apr 2014, Mrs Maggie J.
No comment- 04 Feb 2014, Mrs Liz A.
Beautiful and great service. We all loved it.- 25 Apr 2014, Mrs Ellen A.
Beach furniture very limited and fairly basic for the standard of accommodation- 27 Apr 2013, Mr Geoffrey M.
Mvuu CampLocation: Liwonde National Park
We had a lovely time and a great stay. My only negative comment would be we had a mouse in our room the night before we left the house keeping answer was to spray doom and I'm not sure that would have been enough for the next guests!- 29 Aug 2014, Mrs Ellen A.
We had a very good time and our wildlife guide was excellent! The river safaris are brilliant.- 30 May 2014, Mr Hans D.
Excellent place in terrific location. Faultless service and great personal attention. We loved the various boat trips.- 30 May 2014, Mr Hans D.
A treat.- 23 Aug 2012, Mrs Hazel A.
Zomba Forest LodgeLocation: Zomba
I thoroughly enjoyed my 3 day stay it delivered everything I needed....a bit of r and r...some exercise, thankyou Petal for the lovely day walk we did, great food, some bird watching.......and no email. Couldn't have been better- 27 Sep 2014, Ms Sara L.
Lovely place. Lovely owners. Beautiful surroundings. Great food! Very helpful in making arrangements for walks and horse riding. Would love to go back.- 30 May 2014, Mr Hans D.

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I have a server from the now defunct Monarch Computers. This is a system with a Tyan S2882 motherboard and a Chenbro RM312 1+1 chassis.
It was cranking along happily until Monday of this week when I got a notice that the site it serves is down. I went into the data center and saw that the system was powered off. I felt lucky and just powered it back on and it booted normally. I thought, at the time, that one of the sudoer's had mistakenly sent a shutdown command instead of a reboot command.
Today, I got another notice the site was down. Now when I try to power it on, it is dead - nothing. Will not power on. I checked up (APC 3000 SmartUPS), it's fine.
This unit has triple redundant PSUs so I pulled all three plugs, then plugged them back in. When plugging in the first one, I head a single high pitched beep. No beeps on plugging in PSUs 2 and 3.
After replugging in, still no luck on powering up. I'm thinking one of the 3 PSUs (or more) is dead. I have an ATX PSU tester but these are obviously slide in hot-swappable PSUs so I'm not sure how to test them.
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Before & After: Boy's Nautical Room Makeover on a Budget
Nellie Bellie
This is a great makeover and a cool story because it involves a mom and son working collaboratively to create a completely new room for a budget of only $150! Take a dip into Levi's newly nautical bedroom (puns = not my strong suit).
I know, wonderful, isn't it? Not only did Levi's mom, Janel (of Nellie Bellie) employ some highly impressive DIY and repurposing skills, she also used some high-level negotiating skills to bring this makeover about in a way that worked for both her spending limit and her son's vision.
Janel proves how far your own imagination can take you, especially when on a tight budget. Case in point: the wall-mounted wood structure above the bed? It's made from the slats of Levi's deconstructed bunk bed! And the hip industrial bins in his shelf cubbie? She collected them from around their house. Those fabulous industrial lights are DIY numbers, costing only $12 each. Finally, my absolute favorite part of Levi's new room has got to be the linen closet turned reading nook-that-looks-like-a-submarine. I mean, talk about the perfect place to curl up with a good book. On top of all the great stuff happening in Levi's new room is the fact that Janel only spent $120 for the whole project, which was $30 under budget and entirely inspiring.
Head on over to Nellie Bellie for more details on this makeover and more great pictures of the final room. Great work Janel and Levi!
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Fun!! Especially love the little ghost in the porthole. :)
the room looks so much bigger too!
pretty sure that's supposed to be an octopus or something. y'know, in keeping with the whole nautical theme...
Oh I love the little reading nook!
Much more "big boy"! I love those pendant lights over the bed!
This is adorable! I want it to be my room. :)
Finally, a realistic boys room!
Wonder transformation. Like the two hanging lights above the bed.
$120. A real life budget. Love it. It's so personalized and totally cute now. The reading nook is for sure a complete win. I'm sure Levi loves it too. Nice job mom. (Janel)
Awesome room!!! I absolutely love the curtains!! And the stenciled wall is amazing!
Great job!
p.s. Levi is adorable!!! :)
Beautiful! ( and what a gorgeous boy Levi is!)
love the curtains.
Levi looks like a kid I'd like to hang out with. Congrats to both of you for realizing a great one-of-a-kind room!
Definitely a real-life makeover! Love the re-use of the slats and the colour on the walls. Well done :)
you are the BEST mom! This is da bomb.
Very clever use of space, Its all about imagination specially when you're on a tight budget
My favorite part is that the boy obviously had a very active role in planning his bedroom. It looks lived in, and real, I love it!


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The Kitchn's Book Club: My Life in France
There were some great suggestions in last week's invitation to join our book club. So, starting as soon as you can get your hands on a copy of My Life in France by Julia Child and Alex Prud'Homme, we'll be delving into one of the world's most beloved food icons, before the dirty term "celebrity chef" had even been uttered. Whoopee!
It's available in hardcover and paperback at Amazon ($10.17). New and used copies are available at Powell's ($13.00 and up) and The Strand ($11.21 and up). We also found it to be available at many New York City Public Library branches, so if you'd rather borrow than buy, check with your local library.
We will remind you to get ready, set, and go next week, and then give you another week to crack it open, followed by a discussion post once a week. And remember, there won't be a quiz. If you plan to participate, sign up below in your best Julia voice. The first five (with a US mailing address - but please do not post it here - we will get it from you later) to sign up get a copy from us, on the house.
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"In department stores, so much kitchen equipment is bought indiscriminately by people who just come in for men's underwear." -JC
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Ooh...nice choice. Over Christmas I watched an episode of American Masters about Julia Child, which was amazing and made me cry....
Now to go down to the bookstore for a copy...
I have always wanted to read this book - this is the impetus that I need! Can't wait to get started!
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I'm in as well! Was just about to start a fiction book, but I just can't resist a book club :)
book club! fun. i'm in...
I've just started reading this book, and will love to comment once this all begins.
I'm in as well!
Ah sweet! My mom gave me this one for Christmas, so that's perfect timing!
I listened to the Audio CD from the library... I highly recommend it .... lovely book... would listen to it again ;)
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Looks like fun. Count me in. I've been reading over her Mastering the Art of French Cooking book lately (hence the cassoulet making last weekend) and love her little intros to classic recipes.
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I bought this book the day it came out in hardcover, devoured it, recommended it to everyone in the nation it seemed, and then lost my copy to a borrower *pout*. Enjoy, enjoy, enjoy--this book is VERY, VERY GOOD.
Heard this was great -- can't wait to read it!
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I'm in. This will be my first attempt at book clubbing, so please bear with me!
Sounds fun. Count me in! I just bought this book for my grandmother for Christmas, so maybe I can get her to read along, too. :-)
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I'm in -- and glad for the extra motivation to finally getting around to reading this!
A funny -- and kind of pathetic! - story. I bought the book last year (with a generous borders' coupon), and put it aside. It's been in a box since we moved last September. I was so excited about the book club and wonderful selection that I ran out and bought a copy last night, only to have my husband remind me -- don't you already have this??
As the saying goes, out of sight -- out of mind. But I'm looking forward to having this on my mind for the next couple of weeks!
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I am very excited to read this book!! Look forward to the discussions.
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I am looking forward to joining the club. Have always wanted to read this book!
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Summary: CADASIL is a type of stroke disorder that can cause young onset dementia. Two web sites have been developed by women whose families are affected by the disease.
Billie Duncan-Smith's husband Steve's first symptom came when he was 38. He woke up with an excruciating headache, and started vomiting because the pain was so bad. Over the next few years, he would suffer many such migraines, some lasting for several weeks. An MRI of his brain showed a high number of white matter lesions, but Steve's doctors weren't sure what was causing his headaches.
Billie and Steve in 2004
While Steve suffered, Billie searched the internet and contacted medical experts all over the world. She sent his records and test results to those who offered to help. Finally, someone at the U.S. National Institutes of Health called her to suggest Steve might have CADASIL (Cerebral Autosomal Dominant Arteriopathy with Sub-cortical Infarcts and Leukoencephalopathy), a type of stroke disorder.
Then a professor in France asked Billie to send Steve's father's medical records (he had died of a stroke) and to find someone to do the skin biopsy needed for diagnosis. Billie arranged all this. Three years after Steve's first migraine, the professor in France, along with a doctor in the Netherlands, confirmed that Steve had CADASIL.
Four years after he was diagnosed, Steve had his first TIA (transient ischemic attack, a stroke lasting a short time). He suffered many more TIAs, and developed short term memory loss, double vision and problems with walking. He had to stop working.
Billie, who continues to research CADASIL, reports that Steve is now doing relatively well. "Steve is functionally better than he was in previous years," she says, "due to all the thirteen daily prevention medicines he is on. He does not live in pain. He still gets very tired, has short-term memory loss, sometimes has a short temper, and is easily fatigued."
Why was it so difficult to get a diagnosis for Steve? "CADASIL is a rare disorder," says Dr. Hugues Chabriat, Professor of Neurology at the University Paris VII in France and a colleague of the professor who originally made the diagnosis. "It is also probably underdiagnosed. The neurologists, and particularly those involved in stroke neurology, should be aware of this disorder. It is more difficult for a general practitioner because of the rarity of CADASIL."
Could someone diagnosed with possible or probable Alzheimer's really have CADASIL? It's not likely, according to Dr. Chabriat. "I do not think that a substantial portion of people diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease really have CADASIL," he says, "because Alzheimer's disease has a frequency much higher than that of CADASIL. In addition, CADASIL appears usually decades before the occurrence of Alzheimer's disease, most frequently diagnosed after 65 years [of age]."
Unlike Billie and Steve, Mary Anne Moisan and her husband Rick knew for years that Rick had inherited the genetic variation that causes CADASIL from his mother (the disease is almost always inherited). He had had some episodes where he "blacked out" when he was young. But other than migraines with auras, he had not had symptoms for years when he suddenly developed severe dementia at age 52.
During a short period of what Mary Anne remembers was "significant and rapid decline," Rick was hospitalized multiple times. He became uncharacteristically combative and aggressive, and when he was not in the hospital, he needed home care services. He spent a long time in a hospital psychiatric unit. Mary Anne tried to stay on top of things – overseeing care for Rick, as well as their children who then were seven and ten - while working full time. When she felt Rick's condition threatened the children, she finally placed him in an assisted living facility, then a dementia care unit of a nursing home.
"What eventually happened," Mary Anne says, "is that Rick had a stroke that affected his brain stem, leaving him unable to move his body at all. He could not voluntarily eat or swallow, so I made the painful decision to allow him to die by not intervening medically."
Scientists are still working to understand CADASIL and to find disease-modifying treatments. "Today, we do not have therapy with proven efficacy for slowing the progression of CADASIL," Dr. Chabriat says. "Additional basic research and analysis of follow-up data are needed to better understand the exact mechanisms underlying the vascular wall alterations and factors influencing the progression of the disorder."
In the meantime, both Billie and Mary Anne spend their spare time trying to help other families in similar situations. Through her web site CADASIL Together We Have Hope, Billie promotes awareness of the disease, and works to educate and support both doctors and patients.
While Billie's site emphasizes information she has learned about the latest CADASIL research, Mary Anne's new site, YoungDementia, is more focused on the emotional needs of families dealing with all kinds of young onset dementia. "What I hope to accomplish with the YoungDementia.org web site is first to build awareness of the unique needs of younger-onset dementia," she says. "Additionally, by collecting personal stories and experiences from individuals, family members, caregivers and professions, we hope to identify multiple solutions to the unique needs of younger people with dementia."
Her work is driven by her knowledge that her whole family suffered. "Rick undoubtedly suffered more than myself or our children," she says. "I cannot even imagine or comprehend what his experiences were like. And the thought that my 'caregiver' decisions contributed to Rick's confusion, anxiety, and most likely real pain as he was dying, continues to haunt me. I have a hard time identifying which decisions I made were helpful for him, as the painful ones were so huge, and seem to grow larger now that I have time to reflect."
Billie and Mary Anne have shown that individuals and families really can make a difference.
Note: in addition to Billie's and Mary Anne's sites, you may want to visit the following sites:
U.S. National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke CADASIL page
CADASIL France (in French)
Information from the University of Washington on genetic testing for CADASIL
CADASIL Trust (set up by a person with CADASIL).


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SSchmidty! I hope that you're doing well. I don't have a lot of time and I've got bad news! The price of gas is going up again! I'd be buying a tankful by Tuesday, maybe Thursday of next week the latest. I'm sure it'll be up by 14 to 22 cents or more. While I'm thinking about it, and while I have a few moments, I thought I'd share this with you. A video I took of a rainbow about three years ago. I never uploaded it until now. Hope you enjoy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJKd8Xq1pMw Feel free to share it to others on Facebook or Twitter or where ever else. Have a great day and weekend. Oh, I'm looking for a job, so wish me well on the job hunt! I really, REALLY need a job badly.
Live your principles and stop using anything petroleum related that comes form a hole in the ground or buying anything that arrives at the store using petroleum, or is manufactured using fossil sourced energy. How will you get that clean drink of water without electricity to run the pump?
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Hidden Empire
by Jill Dawsey
spurse's expanded field:
research, systems, collective activismand participation
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The problem that emerges from an artistic engagement with geopolitics is no longer just that of "naming the enemy,"
or locating the hierarchies of global power. It is also that of revealing the political potential of world society,
the potential to change the reigning hierarchies.
—Brian Holmes1
There is a distributed geography of participation, for example, you who reads this, you have within and across you vast
entanglements: by cell count you are 90% Bacteria, Fungi, and Protocistae which is shaped by a deep history of stellar gases,
the earth cooling, the development of clothing, animal-human kinships, class and gender politics, air travel, transversal gene
swapping and mutation of all kinds, etc. And still this acknowledgment of a geography barely begins the project of tracing our
entangled becomings (participation).
—spurse member2
The nature of tactical activism and the goals of activist collectives have both shifted. Today, activist collectives
operate in an expanded realm, and are just as likely to propose utopian solutions based on consensus building, information
gathering, and paradigm shifts as they are to get arrested. The collective spurse functions in just such a space. The name
spurse is a word fragment, suggesting the manner in which its members are a part of larger and smaller interrelated systems.
Organized approximately ten years ago as a reading group, spurse now includes urbanists, architects, artists, philosophers,
biologists, skateboarders, and software and environmental engineers, thus spanning a range of disciplines and practices.
Its projects are a result of interactions between collective members and collaborators who bring new areas of expertise
to the group. spurse facilitates belonging and involvement by asking people from various disciplines and backgrounds to
work together to develop new ways of seeing and understanding our relationship to our environment. Refuting the Cartesian
notion of individualism, spurse has facilitated projects, exhibitions, performances, lectures, seminars and workshops that
ask participants to rethink current concepts of knowledge and being.
—Brian Holmes1
—spurse member2
Unlike most collectives working today, spurse is interested in producing apparatuses that involve both material and conceptual
transformations. What separates spurse from run-of-the-mill activist collectives is its commitment to aesthetics, which it defines
as the production and distribution of affect, and the beauty inherent in complex systems. These concepts are at work in its elegant
diagrams, cartographies, and installations, which function as provisional laboratories to produce new ways of being in the world.
These maps are ways of searching for new possibilities—pollution from mining, New England fishing legislation, types of wheat grown
on the Kansas prairie—that produce a space of excess and transformation. Their process often involves the drawing of "maps" that
utilize the language of systems theory, beginning with a deceptively simple premise—a stock or resource, and solid lines that
represent the inflow and outflow adding to or depleting the stock. Positive and negative feedback is represented by dotted lines.
The "cartographers"—often participants in a spurse-run workshop—are asked to consider all the possible relationships that might
connect their initial stock with everything else in its environment. The result is a complex, multivalent diagram that charts all
of the resource's possible interactions. Superficially, these radical cartographies appear to have much in common with the maps
drawn by the Situationist International. However, if the Situationists believed that all individuals were alienated under the
system of capitalism, spurse does not begin with notions of lack. Rather, it seeks to experiment with the potentialities of the given.3
For spurse, it is crucial that humans become citizens of a world to which they are inextricably bound. "Life is thus an ethics of
collectivity, institutional production, and spaces of situated sustainability—belonging… belonging in relation to that great
Spinozian question: what can a body do?"4
Many of spurse's projects attempt to articulate and experiment with the emergent potentialities of systems, be they urban spaces,
garbage, human and non-human assemblages, or the ability to listen. For The Public Table, 2006, spurse made use of urban excess
in Boston by finding an empty space, transforming it into a restaurant through donations of tables, chairs, microwave ovens, and
the like, and then feeding the patrons—for free—with food that they gleaned from the urban landscape. For Cosmological Proposition Generator,
their contribution to the 2007 group exhibition From the Fat of the Land: Alchemies, Ecologies, Attractions at Grand Arts in Kansas City,
spurse called on the French Surrealist George Bataille's definition of excess, which entails the idea of a general economy based on the
infinite plentitude of reality.5 The interactive installation Cosmological Proposition Generator relied on people to insert disks into
deep slits. The disks, each inscribed with a text addressing a topic such as cosmology or ecosystems, rotated at different speeds,
thus creating new relationships as different texts became visible. For Eleven Listening Posts for an Entangled Agent: Denver,
a part of Dialog:City, which took place in Denver just before the 2008 Democratic National Convention, spurse made interactive
maps that called for a new politics of listening—that is, to pay attention to human and non-human systems. For example, the
exercise entitled Cougar Deer Tracking instructed participants to follow the path of urban cougars, which survived Denver's
urban sprawl. Lithospheric Bacteria instructed participants to find two stones, observe one for two years, and carry the other
one at all times, thereby becoming aware of their agency within human and non-human assemblages. Maps, which included the
manifesto "11 Points of Listening: A Proposal for Enactions with Entanglements," were distributed at various sites around Denver
to encourage interested parties to listen differently to the city.
Eleven Listening Posts was part of a larger research project showcased at Grand Arts, which resulted in Deep Time Rapid Time in 2009.
That exhibition comprised a series of interactive stations that addressed both its location and the different kinds of time in which it is enmeshed.
Deep time is measured in thousands and millions of years, whereas rapid time, which refers to rapidly changing ecosystems, is measured in years.
For Deep Time Rapid Time, spurse constructed what amounted to a laboratory that challenged the viewer to engage with
different notions of time—quantifiable, which is measurable and consecutive, and qualitative, which is non-linear, emergent time, that is,
the time of change. Deep Time Rapid Time was three years in the making—the result of research projects ranging from a paleontological
investigation into the Western Interior Seaway that covered much of North America—including Kansas—from 145 to 66 million years ago to
conducting ongoing research and investigations for the duration of the exhibition. Members of spurse consulted with the Land Institute in
Salina, KS, a groundbreaking institution that considers the potential futures of the Midwestern prairie, developing agricultural practices
in relationship to future environmental conditions and economies. They explored rapid climate change in the Inuit territory of Nunavut.
They held workshops with the students at the Kansas City Art Institute to develop prototypes for clothing as mobile architecture.
They conducted archival research at the Linda Hall Library in Kansas City on the histories of systems for articulating temporality.
And they included research that they had produced for other projects, such as Crooked River in the First and Third Persons, a piece done
for the 2008 Cleveland Ingenuity festival about the Cuyahoga River. These various research apparatuses invoked different qualities of
temporality: the Arctic meeting rapid climate change, prairie ecologies meeting global future ecologies, geological strata inflecting sensations.
Deep Time Rapid Time was designed to lead visitors through different conditions of temporality as they related to the space in
which they then stood. The installation was made to engender a sense of wonder.
One of spurse's most recent projects, Micromobilia: Machines for the Intensive Research of Interior Bio-Geographies,
is a mobile laboratory consisting of three shipping crates designed for use in institutional settings to research the entanglement
of biology, society, and geography. Are you ready to be involved?
1. Brian Holmes, "Do-It-Yourself Geopolitics: Cartographies of Art in the World," in Collectivism After Modernism: The Art of Social Imagination After 1945, Blake Stimson and Gregory Sholette, eds., Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007, 284.
2. Iain Kerr, catalogue text for Experimental Geography, http://www.spurse.org/spurse/micromobilia.html, accessed July 21, 2009.
3. Beth Hinderliter, "An Interview with spurse," Drain Issue 11: Psychogeography 5:2 (October 2008): http://www.drainmag.com/index_psy.htm, accessed July 21, 2009.
4. spurse, "Three Diagrammatic Researches and Eleven Themes on Hyper-Natural Entanglements," Useful Pictures, Adelheid Mers, ed., Chicago: Whitewalls and University of Chicago Press, 2008, 117.
5. spurse, "Potential," brochure from the exhibition From the Fat of the Land: Alchemies, Ecologies, Attractions, Kansas City, Grand Arts, 2007.
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Well, more like SBall's back yard but that headline was weaker.
Jinotega Ecotourism soon to open a door in the "City of Mists".
The community of Sisle, located 22 kilometers north of Jinotega will premier the Apanás Lake Boardwalk (Malecon). The project will be operational no later than Easter (which starts on March 24), according to Oscar González Casco the local Nicaraguan Institute of Tourism (Intur) Delegate in Jinotega.
Rentas de actividades económicas/Income from economic activity
Operaciones con paraísos fiscales - Pay 17%
I read that as any work/business with income paid to you here by another country that is tax free in that country (paraísos fiscales) is 17% here.
Then there is the "Other economic activities" @15%
We need the Tiffer version of a Tax Lawyer on here.
Nicaragua is 110 of 177 countries, three down from the previous report.
In Latin America, Nicaragua is ranked 21 of 29 countries and its overall score is below the world average.
The Asian telecommunications company Xinwei will have national coverage and will initially invest $ 700 million
Xinwei, telecommunications company from China was authorized to operate in Nicaragua in the field of mobile telephones and the Internet, said Orlando Castillo, president of the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority, Telcor.
According to information provided by official media, a concession was granted to the new Chinese company to operate in the field of telecommunications in the country and begin installing equipment which will take a year.
Pedro Joaquín was a Nicaraguan journalist and Editor of La Prensa, which at the time of his death, provided the only real alternative national news to that which was circulated by the Somoza family.
The 25 Best Cigars of the Year 2012
Flor de las Antillas Toro, by My Father Cigars S.A. factory in Estelí, Nicaragua.
The story of Cigar Aficionado's 2012 Cigar of the Year begins in Cuba, the island home of José "Pepin" Garcia, his son Jaime and daughter, Janny. Pepin began rolling cigars at the age of 11 in his hometown of Baez. He rose to prominence in Cuba as a talented cigarmaker, but yearned for freedom and opportunity. One by one the Garcias left, eventually making their way to Miami where they began producing cigars.
Click on the map graphic to enlarge it.
Private Wildlife Reserves in Nicaragua rose to 62 in this 2012, equaling the number of reserves in state hands, according to the president of the Network of Private Reserves of Nicaragua, Freddy Cruz Cortés, who held that 48 of these territories in nature conservation , are catching 39,000 tons of carbon per year, which represents a major contribution to environmental preservation.
Government and Institutional Offices will be closed from the 24th of December to the 6th of January 2013 inclusive.
They will reopen on the 7th of January 2013.
Statutory Holidays (paid days off) or 'Feriados Nacionales' will be Christmas Day the 25th of December 2012 and the 1st day of January 2013.
Very good story by Tim Rogers...
"It is what it is"... and he describes it very well.
I don't know if the link will work so here is a cut and paste:
New Tax Rules Have Hidden Traps
Do you own a condo or timeshare outside the US? If so, you need to read on.
Here is a post that won't cause any arguments...
How do YOU make it safe to use?
I would say 10 minutes on rolling boil is enough.
More Lewis Black on Milk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8_JxdE8aHE
Opening rates at Mukul will start at $550 per double per night, including breakfast, lunch, domestic premium open bar during the day and private ground transportation to/from Managua International Airport.
I was about ready to split the word into two when our resident Spanish language teacher sent us this weeks tip.
Throughout Latin America this phrase has a variety of meanings in colloquial language. The form nomás is never used in Spain.
¿Dónde está el hospital? –En la esquina nomás. /Where is the hospital? – Right on the corner.
Nomás que venga (en cuanto venga) – As soon as she/he arrives.
Démelo así nomás, sin envolver. – Don't bother wrapping it, I'll take it as it is.
Déjelo aquí nomás. – Just leave it here.
The thirteenth month payment, also known as a bonus, is a right under the Constitution and the Labor Code and must be paid no later than the 10th of December.
Employers must pay a pro rata or proportion of the bonus for employees with less than 1 year of service.
The yellow outline around certain areas of Lake Managua are areas of increased over 2 years adding more than 40 square kilometers.
You can only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power-he's free again.
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The men asked them who they were that were coming over the sea. And Bran said: "I am Bran, son of Febal". And the other said: "We know no such man, though the voyage of Bran is in our very old stories."The Voyage of Bran, Son of Febal is a medieval Irish legendary narrative, relating an Irishman's expedition into the western Otherworld. It may be as old as the 7th century and belongs to the oldest stratum of Irish mythological literature.Prince Bran is alone near his fort when he hears a beautiful music but cannot find out where it is coming from. Eventually it lulls him to sleep, and when wakes he finds besides him a branch of silver. Returned to the fort, the court is admiring the miraculous branch, when a strange, beautiful woman appears and reveals in a song that the branch is only a sample from the land of Emain, the Land of Women. Emain, the mysterious lady says, is a lush, beautiful island in the western sea where there is always summer, there is neither death nor sickness, and life consists of nothing but feasting and entertainment. She calls upon Bran to voyage to Emain, then vanishes into thin air.The very next day, Bran assembles a crew of twenty-seven and embarks to look for the land the woman spoke of. Two days west of Ireland, they are met by Manannan Mac Lir, the god of the sea, riding on the sea in a chariot, revealing they have reached the domains of the immortals.After a wayside adventure with an enchanted island, they reach the Land of Women, which is everything the lady promised. The sea-farers are entertained by the women of Emain, eating from magic dishes that never get empty. After the feast, Bran learns the Queen has already prepared his bed in her bed, and her companions likewise pair off with Bran's twenty-six crewmen.After an entire year spent in this way, Bran's friend Nechtan gets homesick, and persuades Bran to sail back. The Queen is unwilling to let them go, but as she cannot talk them out of it, she only warns them not to step on the soil of Ireland.As the voyagers approach Ireland, they see people on the shore and talk to them. But the people only remember a legend that Bran mac Febail disappeared at sea centuries ago. Nechtan jumps onto the strand, and crumbles into a heap of dust. From aboard the ship, Bran and his comrades tell their story to the people on the land, then turn back to the west, never to be seen again.Can be read online here.
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Southwestern Chicken Salad
Serves 2| Total Time:
- 6 cups sliced romaine lettuce
- 1 cup shredded rotisserie chicken
- 1 sliced red bell pepper
- 1/2 cup canned black beans, rinsed
- 1/3 cup sour cream
- 3 tablespoons lime juice
- 1/4 teaspoon chili powder
- kosher salt
- tortilla chips, for serving
- Divide the lettuce, chicken, bell pepper, and beans between two lunch containers.
- In a small bowl, whisk together the sour cream, lime juice, chili powder, and ¼ teaspoon salt; divide between 2 small containers.
- Serve the salad with the dressing and tortilla chips.
Nutritional Information
- Per Serving
- Calories 314
- Fat 13g
- Sat Fat 6g
- Cholesterol 89mg
- Sodium 483mg
- Protein 28g
- Carbohydrate 23g
- Sugar 7g
- Fiber 8g
- Iron 4mg
- Calcium 121mg
What does this mean? See Nutrition 101 .
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Quick Tip
Refrigerate the salad and dressing, separately, up to one day.
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Wednesday, July 14, 2004
© Copyright 2014 Clayton News Daily
By Greg GelpiUnmarked cars patrol Clayton County as taxicabs and fares aren't clearly marked. That could change as the Clayton County Board of Commissioners considers regulating the taxi industry. Regulations would restrict who does business in the county as well as lay out rules for those who do. A $100,000 minimum for liability insurance, one of the proposals in the resolution, could drive some out of business, said Danny Nation, the owner of City Cab Co. of Forest Park. Already, he pays more than $200 to insure each of his 26 cars in his fleet. That and an increasing number of cab companies are cutting into his earnings. "I used to be the only cab company on the southside of Atlanta," he said. In recent years, everyone who has a four-door vehicle has turned into a taxi driver, Nation said Regulations could cut back on the number of illegal companies, said Carlos Olu, the manager of Payless Cab in Jonesboro, thus helping the legal companies. "It's good because so many people run it illegally," Olu said. "The legal ones aren't making anything any more." The "illegal" ones don't have insurance and operate out of houses, he said. "Some of them don't even have a sign," Olu said. The ordinance would require company names in letters at least four inches tall to be affixed to taxis, along with the company's telephone number and fare rates. Commissioners expressed concern about poorly maintained vehicles. Commissioner Virginia Gray said she took a taxi from Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in November. Despite the weather, the windows had to be rolled down because the defrost didn't work, and the driver had jugs of water for the overheating engine. Nation said that the city of Forest Park already has stringent restrictions on taxis. "It could be 0 degrees outside, but I better have my air-conditioner working," he said. If the commission approves the ordinance, taxi companies and taxi drivers must become licensed to do business in Clayton County. Taxis can drop off in the county, but must be licensed to solicit business inside the county. Annual licensing fees will be $200 for a company and $50 for a driver. The ordinance also details the conditions of the car down to spots on carpets, requires drivers to carry a photo badge and orders background checks for taxi drivers. "There's no question in my mind that we owe it to the public to keep them safe," Commission Chairman Crandle Bray said.
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- Taxi regulations go into effect ( September 2, 2004 )
- Police cracking down on non-compliant taxis ( December 5, 2005 )
- Car thief tells victim to ?walk away or die' ( July 2, 2003 )
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Survey: Do You Disable Your Smoke Alarm When You Cook?
Like many apartment dwellers, we have a flimsy microwave fan above our stovetop. It does nothing to suck away the smoke that comes with browning chicken breasts over high heat. If we roast a chicken in the oven, well, lord help us.
No number of open windows or waves of a broom in front of the smoke alarm keeps it from going off — early and often — while things roast in our oven. So we take the batteries out. And sometimes forget to put them back in.
Yes, yes, we know that's not safe. But disabling it every time we want to cook chicken? Ergh.
We found one alarm that has a promising feature, below the jump.
This First Alert alarm, above, has a mute button you can push when it goes off for reasons other than mortal danger. But we wonder if it would just sound again after a quick, muted pause, keeping you running from kitchen to hallway over and over.
Has anyone used an alarm with a mute button?
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I could've used it in my last apartment. Ours used to be so sensitive, even boiling water in a kettle would set it off.
Hey, you're lucky to even have that microwave fan! I've yet to live in an apartment with a range hood. A window and a fan is all I've got.
But yes, two apartments ago just frying bacon would set off the smoke alarm. And I loves me some bacon.
I had a smoke alarm with a mute button and I was so grateful for it! It stayed off for quite awhile, or at least long enough to finish what I was cooking. Now in my new place the smoke alarm is wired into the ceiling, not powered by batteries, so I can't turn it off but it is not as sensitive.
In one of my old apartments, shortly after we moved in, my roommate and I suddenly got a wild hair and decided to make ourselves a huge breakfast -- eggs, bacon, hash browns, sausage, fried tomato slices, oatmeal, tea...it was a very small kitchen/living room space, and we very quickly overran the smoke alarm.
My roommate, who was 6'2", went up to the alarm, poked it a couple places to try to get it to turn off, and then simply grabbed the entire thing in his hand and yanked it out of the ceiling.
I didn't replace it until I moved out twelve years later.
Sigh, ours goes off when I boil water, like KidMoe's. Don't tell my insurance brokers but it's battery-less on the bookcase right now. I am going to get a kitchen fire extinguisher, though. And maybe one day I'll have a hood?
My roommate and I have found a way to get the better of our hard-wired smoke detector- When we are to cook something potentially smoky, we cover the unit with a gallon-sized zipper bag (may have even discovered the idea here- wish I could remember so I could give adequate credit) Works like a charm, even if it looks ridiculous.
I do turn it off, but this is really a great device. the MUTE is fabulous. in my new apartment, I am definately buying it.
Our is sitting on the kitchen counter. I think it may never get plugged back in.
But, we have two smoke detectors in the basement and one outside our bedrooms, so I feel safe not having the one not on.
high ceilings and the 2 sensitive fire alarms are both near the kitchen. Yes we are battery-less at the moment. I should get a third one in the front room, just in case.
Anytime I turn on the stove or oven my detector goes off. Makes me nuts. I get the stool, climb up and just take it down. So I don't forget to put it back up I put it on my pillow - I can't go to sleep til its back up :) It might help if my range hood actually vented anywhere vs. just running and blowing everything around.... argh, the hell of renting.
At college I have heard of kids that duct tape a plastic bag over the detector to keep it from going off... not very nice looking, but definitely effective.
I don't think my smoke detector ever goes off while I'm cooking -- I wonder if it would go off during a fire... Better check on that!
Ok, so I had the same problem, only whenever I took a shower (the alarm would go off when the steam began to build up). A bit of googling revealed that there are two types of smoke alarms - ionization and photoelectric. You are supposed to have both, or a dual sensor one, in your house. Technically the ionization ones are better for kitchens (and are the cheaper, more common ones anyway), because they detect small particles (like steam, cooking smoke, etc.). But that meas lots of false alarms. Photoelectric ones sense smoldering fires better, and don't go off like crazy when you're cooking or showering. BUT my research assured me that they BOTH detect fires of all kinds.
So - I got a more expensive photoelectric one for the hallway near the bathroom, and solved the false alarms. Then I got a new, cheap, ionization one for my bedroom - to wake me if a fire started while I was sleeping.
Mine are hard-wired the the very high ceilings, and there are sprinklers (hopefully those never malfunction), but when I was growing up my mother burnt everything she ever tried to cook, so fire safety was dispatched forever for the sake of nerves.
I lived in one apartment that had the smoke alarm right above the stove. How terrible is that! It didn't matter what I was cooking, it could have just been boiled water and that thing would go off. It was a small enough apartment and there was another alarm elsewhere that I just took its battery out and never replaced it.
Ours has a mute, but it only lasts for about a minute or so before it goes off again. And our ceilings are so tall that I have to swing with the broom handle just to reach the mute button.
I see your boiling water, and raise you toasting bread in the toaster, which sits 20 feet away from the smoke detector. Mine is also hardwired into the electrical, and the only thing that kept it quiet was breaking the speaker.
Mine's wired in to the ceiling, but it goes off every time I roast anything. I hate it. I've had some luck with closing the sliding doors between the kitchen and living room and waving a dishrag in front of it, but I'll have to try the ziplock bag.
we have a mute button and it stops the beeping for just long enough so i can close the kitchen door (that usually does the trick).
the only bad part is when i have to run out of the kitchen to get a chair and two dictionaries to reach our super-high ceilings. :o(
Mine is hardwired into the wall about four feet from my stove. My kitchen is tiny, so it's really a big problem. My boyfriend found a graceful way to wrap a dishtowel around the alarm for a quick mask, but, even better, a fellow blogger told me that he'd just wrap his in aluminum foil. It works every time! After I'm done cooking, I take the aluminum mask off and leave it nearby so I can just slip it on when I need it.
So many missing options there. I can't disable my smoke alarm on account of its being hard wired. We've devised all kinds of shenanigans (a box fan propped at an angle on a milk crate held up by a step ladder. for example) over the years. It never occurred to me to cover it -- I only just heard a rumor that such a thing could work.
So right now, ours has a plastic bag around it and it is blissfully quiet. I left the stepladder blocking the hallway so that we'll be reminded to take the bag off.
I've witnessed more than one horrible fire (bf's neighbors' Christmas lights, once; arson upstairs from my bf the second time -- different boyfriends, different cities, I'm not a magnet for disaster, promise) so between that and just living in an old building with neighbors downstairs and up, I would never leave my smoke alarm disabled, and I've always (always) installed them myself in apartments that didn't come with one (most, so far, which is not okay. but that is another story.)
My parents always put the disabled smoke alarm right on the kitchen table. By the time you're ready to eat it can go back where it belongs and you aren't going to forget it if it is sitting in the middle of the table.


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English riding is not the dark side.
Western riding is not the dark side.
Western riders do not say "Yee-haw"
English riders are not stuck up and prissy
We all get dirty, sweaty, intense, bratty, and we're all here for the love of the horse.
Thanks so much for clearing my English name <3
And thank you for clearing the western name
at least we've cleared up the true dark side
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Cage & Bale to Electrify in 'Tesla, Ruler of the World'
It looks like things are finally coming together for that rumored Nikola Tesla project. Bleeding Cool reports that the film, Tesla, Ruler of the World, will tentatively have Mike Newell direct. Newell previously directed Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire as well as Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time and could actually be a nice fit for the material. Christian Bale is reportedly talking about the role of Nikola Tesla himself with Nicolas Cage as Tesla's colleague and rival, Thomas Edison. Imagine a science fight between Christian Bale and Nic Cage. How great would that be?
This won't be the first time Bale will have met Tesla on the big screen. He was played by David Bowie in Christopher Nolan's 2006 film, The Prestige. Lolita Davidovich and Rade Serbedzija are also set to star.
This is all timely news considering that the science hero's birthday was just the other day on July 10. Nikola Tesla was a brilliant iconic Serbian-American inventor and scientist during the late 19th and early 20th century. Most people are aware of him through really awesome Tesla coils and his advocacy of AC current as opposed to the DC current supported by Edison.
There are reports that the plot will revolve around some kind of "technological crisis," which should be easy enough for perhaps two of the greatest electrical engineers of all time.


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Barry Schwartz emailed me to take a look at the entertainment section at Google News a little while ago. No, Google's not gone into porn -- but yes, that's Jessica Simpson nude that accidentally got up on the page. You can see there was story about the movie "Employee of the Month," and the thumbnail picture came from this article about the movie. For family-friendly viewing, I've inserted a tactful black box. Here's the uncensored view of what Google News had.
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Being a member of the visiting fan base at Beaver Stadium isn't always easy, and one rowdy Michigan Wolverines fan realized that the hard way over the weekend after a quick run in with police. Not only did the Wolverines fan have to witness his team suffer an upset loss to the Penn State Nittany Lions, but he ended up getting maced by police.
During his team's four-overtime loss to Penn State, the fan must have done something to grab the attention of the police and he wasn't cooperating with whatever that had asked him to do.
Brian Floyd of SB Nation came across an image of the fateful moment and shared it on Twitter.
The most amazing photo you'll see today #GOBLUE (via Getty) pic.twitter.com/LpzYKaoMus
— Brian Floyd (@BrianMFloyd) October 13, 2013
Ouch. That's not a good look for anyone.
That isn't exactly what you would hope for when you go to see your favorite team competing.
Needless to say, for this specific Michigan Wolverines fan, Happy Valley was anything but what the name would suggest.