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Digging the Weather
Steph Kleckner
Are you "digging" up dirt for winter's grave
And waiting for spring's flower to bring forth life to save?
Is spring finally going to awake from hibernation,
The yawning bears stretching in the cave from anticipation?
Students finally able to go home to their safe haven.
Spring has arrived; the warm temperatures are a surprising rave,
An equivalent to the soft whisper of the ocean's wave.
New adventures we enter together, together we will be brave.
Different roads to turn on, new paths to pave.
Stefanie Trinkl
It boils up from beneath tight lips,
a steaming plume eating its host.
The muscles in my jaw tighten like a wrench.
My teeth grind together like the gears
of an indomitable clock.
Fingers clench to white and nails dig
into the lines of my palms.
Fury rises up in a swell from the belly to the maw.
An explosion of words and sounds and exclamations,
like fire from a barrel, sharp and fast and loud.
Breath heated, hands flailing.
A book hits the floor with the crunch of paper foldings
and a glass flies across the room,
hitting the wall with a clang and erupting onto the floor,
littering pieces and shards like buckshot.
I can feel the sweat quietly seeping from my pores
and my heart pounds in my chest like a battle drum.
Muscles twitch with adrenaline,
but there is only a chair to sit upon
and air to breathe.
Wait for me
Allie Maier
The sun's just coming out from behind the trees
its golden rays stretching out towards the ground
like welcoming arms
telling everyone to wake up
Climbing down from my bunk
I return this embrace and welcome the warmth
as the frigid tile floor numbs my toes
Not even your sweatshirt
can save me from such a frost
I brave this cold morning
I leave the safety of my warm bed
because I know I will see you
No matter how messy my hair is when I wake up
even if I have to brush my teeth an extra time
to get rid of that morning breath or retainer slime
I know you won't care
I know you will see me
I know you'd tease me
You'd say I'm such a dork
You'd blame my alarm clock
or the snooze button
but you won't blame me
You know what it takes to get up this early
I know you know
because you do it too
you brave this morning cold
To think we're getting up this early only for a class
But I'd like to think otherwise
because I know I will see you
I'm leaving the building now
I know I'm later than usual
My backpack hardly stays on my back
my scarf requires my attention instead
but I manage to fumble out the door
Two minutes
I know I will see you
Just two minutes more
I'm almost there
Just wait a bit longer
I know I will see you
I can see our meeting place
I don't see you
You've walked on ahead
I was too late
there's no catching up to you now
You've gone down that snowy path
I need to trudge behind
Your legs are too long and athletic
You're just too tall for me
My short legs work twice the pace
but there's no catching up to you
There's a burning inside my lungs
it's hot and sore and suffocating
my calves ache and this slush and snow slows me down
my scarf tugs at my throat
it's threatening to blow away
You're so far ahead
but I can see you
You shuffle forward
with your hands stuffed in your coat pockets
From way back here
I can see your frozen expression
as you head for the front door
I feel like I should apologize
but you're causing me pain right now
I knew I would see you
I would yell or run to you to catch up
but people are looking
I would draw attention
And it's too early for that
People would think me crazy
But I wish I could walk with you
and let you know I'm here
I didn't leave you
If only you'd turn around
just glance this way on accident
Maybe you'll notice a wandering squirrel
or look in the direction of a songbird
Just catch me in the corner of your eye
But you don't
You move on
I feel my heart throb and lynch
This is a painful walk for the both of us
You don't see me
I see you
I can't reach you
Just let me talk to you
If only you waited for me.
Tales of the Gym: Float Like a Butterfly, Sting Like Alimony
Colin Herzog
bam, bam, bam
huff, huff
Whew, God
I love the salty
stench of a good
work out
This burning
in my
My fist sends
sends the
punching bag
reeling, only
to come back
without a
without flinching
The fight goes on.
bam, bam, bam
Take that
aaannnnnd THAT!
The punch hurts
my taped fists,
but it's just a
faint sting—I'm
more worried that
the blood's begin
ing to seep through
the tape, but
before I can think
about that anymore,
the bag comes
swinging back,
ready to take
more of my time
more of my energy
more of my life
take, take, take
take, take, take
taketake, take
take … take … take
every time she
comes back, she
just takes
takes the money
takes the house
takes the kids
takes the respect
takes the car
takes my mother
-"How could you cheat on a woman like her, Matt?
She is such a nice girl,
she had your children for Christ's sake
how was that not enough for you?"
How many
fucking times
do I
have to say
that I'm SORRY
… how may
times … ?
how may times
must I grovel
must I beg
must I plead
before I'm forgiven?
Even my 5-year-old
daughter can
look at me
with disdain:
she knows.
soon, her
younger brother
will know too—
until then,
he looks happy
when I do get
to see him
huff, huff
The punching bag
swings from the
ceiling like some
forgotten pendulum
I just let it swing
Look at that
fat sonofabitch
sweating his man-boobs
off, his crack
visible to the whole
goddamn world
But at least he's
trying 100 percent.
You can see it
in his eyes:
the desire
for improvement
for a better self
for a body people
don't dismiss
or gag at
I can respect that,
more than Johnny McPervy
over there lifting
weights with
his girlfriend
all you can
see in his eyes
is the map
to his girl's
At least when
the fat guy
has a moment
of weakness,
he's the only
one who pays
but guys like me
and McPervy,
when we get weak,
we make mistakes
mistakes that cost
more than we can
pay, not without
credit, at least—and
even then, it gets so
hard to keep track
I see a fit
with barely any
gray in his hair
and some rough
stubble on his chin
and here I am
envying the fat guy
I will never be
weak again
the burn
the bag
coming back
only for my fist
to send it away
Maybe the less
thing to do
would be just let
it hit me
Good luck with that.
Tales From the Gym: Of Love, Sacrifice, and More Dickish Motivations
Colin Herzog
huff … huff …
C-can you believe
that fat guy
over there?
if he trips over a
damn shoelace,
you know it'll
cause earthquakes—oof
huff … huff …
Who the HELL
thinks that
lifting these
… fucking …
weights is,
by any stretch
of imagination,
What am I doing here?
I had a Warcraft rendezvous
match scheduled
for 10 minutes ago:
what the hell
am I
doing here?
Oh, right,
Sharon. Girlfriend.
Turns out she's
bit of an exercise nut
and that means
I am now too.
She might be a soon-to-be
ex-girlfriend too—
oh my GOD,
I can't feel my fingers
and my feet feel
full of pins and needles—
Dammit Last Semester Me!
you just had
to eat those
Why, WHY did
I stop working out
when I got to college—
oh right,
because it
—she has a nice personality,
Petie; just keep
reminding yourself
of … that …
her nice, bouncing
personalities that
even an exercise
bra can't keep still
… I really
ogled at her on the
mirror on the wall
; she noticed and
she looks pissed
and I don't
think angry
sex is an option
if she didn't want
me staring, she
shouldn't be
stretching ri … ght
in … front … is
that couple
proposing to
each other
in the corner
How redneck
do you have to
be to even think
proposing in a
gym is some sorta
Hey a-holes,
stop raising
the bar and
get a room!
J-just think
happy thoughts
happy thoughts
happy thoughts
happy thoughts
happy thou—oh
God, oh GOD~!
ah, ah, ah, ow …
and I can't put
the weights
down but,
but, it hurts
… maybe
if I just
loosened my
grip a bit—
… . ow
… . my
… . fo
… . ot
… . crack
… . ow … .
Stacie, I
think next
we're gonna
do what
I wan …
. .
Reunion with a Past Lover
Amy Mrotek
And today I awoke with the trepidations of
anticipation, a mind shaken not stirred and brewing
over to the point of no return.
You have returned
The pittering of morning sun on the brink of these lilac walls
means nothing, intangible,
inconceivable, a line of light seeped forth and pointing
back to the place where hands are
clutched and wishes granted and my skin preaching
I am reduced
to the tapping of feet, the pacing of rooms, the nervous
twists of taciturn hair, a breath away from breaking by the mere
musing of that frantic, carnal lace
of your lips, your sculptor hands as they
find and trace my hips.
The stampede of
heartpound and touch and heartpound and whirl and heartpound and heartpound and
There is no net to catch my thoughts as they
bound endless through
mist. Your plane is pathward, your course set
stone straight, your fingers curled soft like ribbons
around our picture we took that one afternoon in
the apple orchards, autumn air leaking,
our glances as full and red as those silly little fruits that dangled
hopelessly off beaming trees. They were not nearly
as delicious as your touch. I haven't forgotten that.
I haven't forgotten the way the sky stroked our footsteps, every turn
a melody, every step ending in a kiss. I haven't forgotten the splendor
of waking up by your side. I haven't forgotten
how your eyes twinkle when
you're about to cry, or the panic that ensued when
you did what they always do –
you left
I still haven't forgotten how much this could mean.
Maybe lt's Maybelline
Fiona Lochtefeld
"I'm, like… soo philosophical today," she said over coffee,
As they sat in the bright June sunshine and searched for The One and Only.
"It's not as if it's witchcraft…
Oh… but it is.
We remember when we were young and some adult man made us uncomfortable or
manipulated us.
Some people are worth melting for, and some
Are ridiculous and wonderful, and some
Are not.
That's just the way the cookie crumbles."
[She paused for effect. (As far as Arthur was concerned
there was already quite enough effect going on.)]
"What are we supposed to do?"
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FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. (AP) - Atlanta's Roddy White has had success like only a handful of wide receivers in NFL history.
So missing three games this season and entering December with just 20 receptions has left the four-time Pro Bowler, "yelling and screaming at myself, trying to get my body to act right."
Last season White became just the fifth NFL receiver to have three consecutive seasons of more than 90 receptions and 1,200 yards, and the sixth to register at least 80 receptions and 1,000 yards six straight times. Heading into December with just 209 yards and one TD hurts White almost as much as the high ankle sprain that's plagued him since the preseason.
Compounding White's misery has been the Falcons(2-9) disappointing season, which he says is "probably the toughest" of his career
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UPDATE: Two suspects accused of a West Coast crime spree that included four murders have been indicted on federal charges.
David Pedersen, 32, and Holly Grigsby, 25 were arrested last October by a California Highway Patrol officer.
They are accused of a 10-day crime spree fueled by their white-supremacist beliefs that spanned from Everett, Wash., to Eureka, Calif.
Investigators said they murdered four people, including Oregon teen Cody Myers.
The suspects are also accused of killing Pedersen's father and stepmother.
The indictment said it was all part of a white-supremacist campaign to kidnap and murder people based on their race, religion and "perceived 'degenerate' conduct."
In a statement, U.S. Attorney Amanda Marshall said the hope is that the federal indictment will help bring justice to the victims' families.
The indictment falls under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO).
The long list of charges against the suspects includes conspiracy, kidnapping, carjacking, identity theft, credit card fraud and being a felon in possession of a firearm.
The indictment alleges they robbed victims in order to finance their plans and murdered victims to eliminate witnesses.
The goal of Grigsby and Pedersen, according to the indictment was to use "acts of violence and other criminal activity to promote a white supremacist movement to 'purify' and 'preserve' the white race."
The U.S. Attorney General will decide whether to seek the death penalty at a later date.
ORIGINAL STORY: The death penalty will not be sought against Holly Ann Grigsby, accused with boyfriend David Joseph "Joey" Pedersen of a West Coast killing spree last year in which Pederson's father and mother were killed, Snohomish County Prosecutor Mark Roe announced Friday.
"There is ample evidence that co-defendant David J. Pedersen's hatred for his father was the primary motivation for these crimes," Roe said in a statement. "This defendant (Grigsby) had no violent criminal history previous to this, is quite young at 24, and appears to have been following the lead of David J. Pedersen."
Pedersen pleaded guilty in March to killing his father and stepmother. Roe decided not to seek the death penalty against Pedersen because, he said, there was credible evidence that Petersen's father had sexually abused him and others.
Pedersen, 31, and Grigsby, 24, fled south after the slayings in Everett and drew national attention as they went on an alleged killing spree along the West Coast. They are accused of killing a 19-year-old man in Oregon and a disabled man in California.
They were captured near Yuba City, Calif., last Oct. 5 and sent to Washington state to stand trial first for the killing of Pedersen's father, David "Red" Pedersen, 56, and stepmother, Leslie "Dee Dee" Pedersen, 69.
The stepmother was found stabbed to death in her Everett home Sept. 29, 2011, and Pedersen was found shot in the head in his vehicle Oct. 8 in Linn County, Ore.
Roe, in announcing his decision not to seek the death penalty against David J. Pedersen, said, "The police investigation revealed that many years ago, when his children were young, the late David Pedersen engaged in child abuse. Significant, credible evidence exists that he engaged in multiple acts of child sexual abuse, victimizing his own children, and others.
"The defendant has repeatedly confessed to killing his father, and cited some of that abuse as a reason why. Whether that was his true, sole or only motivation is less certain, but what is certain is that any jury considering his fate would first hear hours, days, or perhaps weeks of testimony on the subject, some of it from the actual victims of the abuse.
"Neither my senior attorneys, myself, nor members of the investigative team believe that with what a jury would hear, there is any reasonable chance of them unanimously returning with a verdict of death for this defendant," Roe said.
He added that there "doesn't appear there was ever any wrongdoing at all by Leslie Pedersen," the stepmother who was also killed.
Grigsby has pleaded not guilty to charges of aggravated murder.
According to charging documents, after being arrested in California, Grigsby sat down for a five-hour interview with Oregon State Police in which she recounted her and Pedersen's planned killing spree.
Grigsby told investigators that they killed 19-year-old Cody Meyers of Oregon "because his last name made them think he was Jewish," according to charging documents. Grigsby also reportedly commented that when she was arrested she said that the couple were on their way to Sacramento to "kill more Jews."
In an interview with the Appeal-Democrat, Pedersen admitted to killing his father and took responsibility for three other murders."Everything that's been reported I take full responsiblity for," he told the newspaper.


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A man discovered that his ax was missing, and he suspected his neighbor's son. The boy walked like a thief, looked like a thief, and spoke like a thief.
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Stuck in a stereotype? How psychological cues can limit black students' academic learning, success.
Like a gnawing stomach or pesky runny nose, a looming stereotype can make it difficult to focus and perform well in school. Based on existing research, black students, Latinos, and women in math and science are known to perform poorly when a mistake could seem to confirm a negative stereotype about their group.
A new study by Stanford psychologists has found that negative stereotypes can also prevent minority students from learning new academic material. But alleviating concerns about stereotypes dramatically improves black students' learning.
The idea that a person's work might suffer if he or she believes a poor performance will reinforce a negative stereotype about that person's group is known as "stereotype threat." Studies have shown that stereotype threat is a likely cause of educational achievement gaps.
"What hadn't been done was to see whether the same stereotype threat affects how well people learn new academic material," said Greg Walton, an assistant professor of psychology and co-author of a new study published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
When students of color walk into a classroom, "They might be aware of stereotypes that their group lacks intelligence," said the study's lead author, Valerie Jones Taylor, a former Stanford graduate student who is now at Princeton. "These concerns could impact how well they acquire novel information."
As Claude Steele's research on stereotype threat has developed, and as his profile has risen, I am curious (and concerned) about whether or to what extent education reformers have taken this into account in the advancing phalanx of high-stakes tests entering our schools.
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A Guide to Their Selection, Planting & Care. This two hour video is jam-packed with down-to-earth gardening information and advice based on the experience and expertise of Peter Seabrook and presented by him with the help and technical knowledge of Anne Swithinbank. It shows the many different types of plant material that are available and their different uses in modern gardens, including advice on Conifers - Trees - Shrubs - Climbers - Herbaceous Plants - Annual Flowers - Bulbs, Corms and Tubers. A special plan has been devised to help you select the right ones for your garden. Peter and Anne show you the correct techniques for planting, sowing seeds, pruning, feeding and steps for long-term care. You will find advice on recognising and controlling the major pests and how to plant hanging baskets and patio containers. By roaming around a few suburban gardens you'll learn many gardening lessons and pick up plenty of ideas - especially on how to provide colour throughout the year.
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Want colorful cupcakes, but hate to use artificial food coloring? Here are 4 natural ingredients that ensure your baked goods taste as good as they look...
With 1 cup of frosting mix in the below ingredients:
1. Beet juice. It can be added to frosting for a rosy, pink hue.
2. Blueberries. Smash 14 of them, then drain the juice for a deep blue shade.
3. Both of the above: combine the two to create shades of purple.
4. Tumeric powder. A teaspoon of this and you've got the perfect shade of yellow.
4. Avocado. Smash half a small avocado, then combine with the frosting using a fork.
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I forget exactly what tumeric tastes like, but wouldn't it be kinda nasty in frosting?
Same for the Avacado.
I'd be scared to add more than a pinch of turmeric to frosting... it's kind of earthy-tasting. Avocado, however, is frequently used in South Asian ices and smoothies, and I wouldn't be afraid to use that in frosting... and you know, it's got that high-antioxidant fat in it, adding richness that's good for you... my worry is that it would brown.
Bring on the beet juice, though.
Seems like a few drops of lemon juice in the avocado version would be a must to prevent browning... I sampled an avocado gelato the other day and while I didn't love it, it wasn't icky either.
Avocado flavor is very mild and would definitely be overpowered by the sugar in the frosting. In fact, Alton Brown makes an avocado frosting using the avocado as the fat. I saw him do it in a demo and a 6 year old kid from the audience gave it a thumbs up for taste.
The turmeric seems like it would be problematic to me too, though. Has anybody tried this?
i'd use saffron instead of turmeric.
crush a tiny amount of saffron and let it brew in about two tablespoons of hot water.
you'll have bright yellow, almost orange food coloring!
much better tasting than turmeric too!
Thanks for this! I've never tried the blueberries or avocado. I often use tumeric, as it does make a nice yellow shade that deepens as it sits. The trick is to not ice a WHOLE cake with it.
my father-in-law (filipino) eats avocados with sugar. i've never tasted it before, but i think it would be light and tasty in frosting. i do worry about browning, too.
another option for getting green would be to use matcha green tea powder. it's available in most japanese or other asian markets. i've made matcha cupcakes and it's very good!
i haven't tried the other ideas in cupcake frosting, but i've used beet juice to make a pink potato salad. i'm very curious to try them all out! thanks for the ideas! ;)
I've used several of these many times. Turmeric is a great yellow but a teaspoon is a ridiculous amount! I use a few pinches for a whole batch of frosting. It makes it a lovely yellow and it's not noticeable at all. It's the same with beet juice -- add a little and it's completely hidden. I've also used fruit juice concentrates like grape and cherry. You can reduce them on the stove to make them more concentrated or just add less liquid. Obviously, chocolate makes a great brown too.
As for the avocado, I've heard of it being used in ice cream and other sweets a lot and I think it might be really good (and super healthy). I'd try it ahead of time to be sure though. :)
BTW, it can be easier IME to use fruits to add color instead of trying to make a whole lot of colored frosting colors. For instance, use slices of strawberries and kiwis to make patterns, blueberries for dots and so on.
Turmeric is great for yellow, but I find the taste is least noticeable if you flavour the frosting with lemon. I used to use powdered alfalfa for green, but have purchased some awesome natural blue and green food colouring made from spirulina in the UK.
Hey, forget the tumeric - it's what gives American hot dog flavor a different color and flavor than French mustard . Instead, try annato or achiote, you can find the seeds in any store that has a Latin American food section. It's the stuff that colors margarine yellow, and can also be used to make an intense orange. For a deep red, boil down pomegranate juice to a syrup. If you look online, you'll find any natural color, including black from black walnut hulls.


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Apr25-11, 04:30 AM
If the universe itself is a sentient creature, then there is an observer to everything. We are the universe observing itself
Apr25-11, 04:53 PM
reality (ontology) is simply what exists.
if we know it or as we know it or not, is information (epistemic).
Apr30-11, 12:31 PM
The experimental evidence is clear, but not logical. On a quantum scale, until something is observed, it is a probability distribution. It simply does not exist in the definite sense of either being there or not being there. The experimental evidence for this is irrefutable. But on the macro scale, we see no evidence of reality being a probability distribution. The most careful measurements of classical reality, such as GR, show no probability distributions at all on the macro scale. Therefore, there must be a transition from quantum to classical reality at some small scale, call it decoherence or whatever you like, and that transition must be governed by definable physical laws.
Experiments seem to indicate that decoherence is a continuous process rather than a discrete one as one might expect. Something along the lines of quantum states becoming entangled with the classical states of the surrounding environment, essentially drawing the quantum reality into classical reality particle by particle.
Another equally valid way to look at this is the pure quantum states have very low entropy (high information content) and as the decoherence occurs, information is lost to the environment like mixing a few drops of yellow paint into a bucket of blue paint. The problem with this analogy is that even though the bucket of blue paint might seem just as blue to the eye, sophisticated measurements could detect the the slight difference in absorption of different wavelengths of light caused by the addition of just a few drops of yellow to a bucket of blue. Measurements of classical macro objects do not show just a slight probabilistic nature, they show none at all. As someone said, it's either a mixture of states, or it's not. Almost being a mixture isn't an explanation.
But this way of looking at it, with classical reality being of very high entropy and quantum states being of very low entropy and decoherence being the process of information transfer from quantum to classical reality is at least an approach that is subject experiential investigation. Of course, being part of the macro world, any time we observe a quantum object, we must logically be transferring information from the quantum to classical environments, therefore requiring decoherence. This gives the silly impression that a photon knows if we are observing it or not. This thermodynamic interpretation would simply say that that by observing the photon and gathering information about it, or from it, we are forcing decoherence as defined by an information transfer from the quantum states to the classical environment. If that is the case, the special position of the conscious observer can be removed from the process and the Copernican principle remains intact.
Does this answer all our questions? I believe so. If a tree falls in the woods, and no one observes it, does it make a sound? Yes, because the tree and surrounding air are already classical macro objects and behave as such. Does the moon exist if we aren't looking at it? Yes, by the same logic. Does the observation of a distant star by a bug in Copenhagen instantly collapse the waveform of every particle in that star? No, because the bug passes away peacefully in it's sleep one night, never having transfered any information to the environment. But if a human makes the same observation, does the waveform collapse?
If the human acts as a transfer function to transfer information from a quantum reality, say a photon emitted by an excited hydrogen atom, to a classical environment, say a star chart. Then by this definition, yes, at least some decoherence is forced by the information transfer. That decoherence may represent a very tiny percent of the total mass of the star, as someone noted earlier, but the math says some tiny amount of decoherence must occur nonetheless.
I believe this thermodynamic interpretation is the only one that is logically consistent and passes the test of reasonableness. You can look at it as though the human consciousness possess some special power to crystallize quantum probabilities into classical reality if you like. That math works fine, but the concept leads away from the truth as we know it that we really aren't that special in the Universe. You can look at the many worlds interpretation, and believe that every time a leaf falls from a tree face up or face down, the entire universe splits into two separate and complete universes, one with the leaf up and one with the leaf down. The math works just as well, but the concept is silly.
As far as dedoherence appearing to be a continious process, rather than a discrete one, if the smallest amount of information that can be transfered is smaller than our ability to measure it (I leave definition up to the reader, but a very small bit), the transition may appear to be continious to the best of our measurement ability, when in fact it is a discrete process.
I propose we accept the thermodynamic interpretation of QM as the only interpretation that is logically consistent and subject to scientific investigation, and proceed with that investigation with all due haste. This is of course just my opinion. Others may have reasonable differences, and I'd be happy to hear from them.
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Thanks to the hard working researchers for answering these questions for us. Now, we don't have to believe that a whole new universe is formed everytime a leaf falls face up or face down, and we don't have to believe the universe wouldn't be here if we were not here to observe it. There is a third alternative that now agrees with experimental evidence. It's all just simple thermodynamics.
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Ruby 1.9.3 has been out for quite some time now. While Ruby 1.8.7 is being slowly deprecated it's still impossible to install debugger for 1.9.3 just with gem install command under Windows (actually other operating systems are also affected by this problem). In this post i'm going to walk you through how to install ruby-debug19 under Windows.
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First, let's make sure we're on the latest version of Ruby 1.9.3 by installing it from RubyInstaller. As of this writing the latest version is 1.9.3p194 as seen on the command line too:
Let's get straight to the business and try to install ruby-debug19:
Above error is quite straightforward - DevKit is missing and needs to be installed. Just do it, because you will need it in the future for other gems too. Let's try again after DevKit installation:
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This error seems to be a little bit cleaner but still something needs to be done.
Installing Debugger Successfully
Only component missing now is the source code for the Ruby itself. Make sure you download the exact version of source code you're using Ruby, in my case 1.9.3p194. You can get it from the ruby-lang ftp.
When trying to install again we need to specify —with-ruby-include parameter for compilation process to know where to find the necessary header files at. Make sure that you specify a full path since it won't work with relative one.
There you have it - ruby-debug19 is finally successfully installed and you can use it without any problems!
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In conclusion, the following steps are needed to install ruby-debug19 for Ruby 1.9.3 under Windows:
- Install latest Ruby 1.9.3
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- Download latest linecache19 and ruby-debug-base19 gems from Rubyforge
- Download Ruby 1.9.3 source code
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- Start debugging
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As the East Coast braces for Hurricane Sandy aka "Frankenstorm," one is reminded of some of the great disaster movies of all time.
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We know guys love to send dick pics -- but usually not to everyone in the office. At least, you hope not. But one guy did exactly that -- by mistake (soooo he says). Gerard Robson, a security supervisor at JFK International Airport, was reportedly trying to send a picture of a car accident to all of his coworkers. But instead he sent another kind of image you just can't look away from -- his genitalia.
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Realizing his error, Robson probably picked himself up off the floor. Then he emailed a mea culpa:
Earlier this morning, while I was sending out a notification regarding a Motor Vehicle Accident, I had taken several pictures of the vehicle. In error, I accidentally attached a very inappropriate photo and without realizing the mistake, continued to send out the notification with the photograph attachment. Please accept my sincere apology as I am truly sorry for my actions.
I feel really sorry for Robson, who was suspended. Our devices are so much a part of our professional and personal lives now that each has encroached on the other. Which of us doesn't sit there at work also sending out personal emails? Who doesn't go home at night and send out professional emails? It's all muddled up into one big professopersonal life experience. Which can make for some embarrassing email/text mistakes. Emails bitching about a coworker mistakenly sent to that coworker. Sexts sent to your mother.
At least he didn't do it on purpose like so many dudes do these days. But seriously, how embarrassing to have your coworkers and bosses know exactly what your junk looks like -- or maybe not? Maybe he's the Justin Theroux of JFK.
Hopefully Robson gets to keep his job. But he might want to have two BlackBerries from now on -- one for his job, one for his extracurricular activities. In fact, that might be good advice for us all.
Have you ever sent an embarrassing email to someone?
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You should take out the "[sic]." It was in the original article because in the email he misspelled "truly" he wrote "tuly"). (And then after you correct this tiny oversight, you should delete my comment so the [sic] doesn't turn into the main topic of the rest of the comments lol!)
THAT"S why you don't have thoe kind of pics on your phones!
one of my friends sent a full frontal pic to the guy she was seeing but instead of hitting his number she hit the Facebook button and alllllllll of her friends got to see everything! When i jumped online it had already been up there for almost 10 minutes so i called her to let her know it was up; and she started freaking out!! she has over 600 friends so imagine how many comments she had! She was mortified; especially since she has a huge family as well and they are all on her friends list on Facebook! OMG! I FELT SO BAD FOR HER.! and the crazy thing is; she said i was the only person who called her so she could take it down!!
This is what you get for storing nude pictures of anything on your work phone. They have no place with your professional life. He deserves what he gets for this incredible lack of intelligence. What if he had sent it out to someone outside of the agency he was working for.........what a wonderful first impression that would have made to a new business venture.
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( Woah sorry for that little lapse of drama y'all )
there is literally nothing I don't like about Lilo and Stitch and its accompaniments.
Hetalia girls without their bangs or their
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Since a lot of us nations are actually busy, it's usually Prussia's job to talk to that Japanese guy and tell him about us. A side effect is that he lies about everyone, including himself, in ways that he sees fit.
Sometimes he really just deserves a frying pan to the face.
If "Awesome" means "scared of rats, short, runs into walls, and obnoxious", then yes, he is as Awesome as has been said.
I wouldn't say always.
(background painting is by Joan Miró— i feel like spain would have a bunch of abstract paintings u__u;;??)
I fully agree with you that no one HAS to look at this blog; furthermore, people are allowed to characterize the characters however they wish. However, you asked concrit and when someone DOES provide it, you say that we're "ragging" on Carrie and that we should just "make our own blog". (I find it funny, actually, that you're the one getting defensive because I actually love your answers, Eden. Carrie has lovely art and does a good job IMO with some of the ladies, but some seem very off-base.)
Hey, Eden here again!
Hm, I might have sounded a little like I was going back on what I was trying to say! I meant, someone could send us a message anytime politely saying— something along the lines of "Hey, it'd be cool if you tried to play (character) more (shy/anxious/stubborn/etc)!" That, I would take as creative criticism and I'm more than 1000% sure Carrie WOULD respond to (she deals better with creative crit than I do actually lol), but just saying you "don't like" how she answers just seems rude to me and doesn't really HELP anything, you know? And I take that, even if you had no offense meant, as "ragging" on her, because you're just stating your opinion for the sake of stating it and not really even investing a worthwhile objective criticism to add anything to the blog. It's kind of like if someone came up to you and just said, "Wow, I don't like that shirt on you." and then walked away. Like, it just seems very condescending to me, even though they (the anon) probably didn't mean it that way.
No harm, no foul if you feel that way! But OF COURSE I got defensive because, well, there's a reason I wanted to do an ask blog with Carrie— She's one of my best friends and I feel very strongly about someone digging into her work. I'm glad you love my answers, but this blog is really just meant for fun for both of us and honestly it's a little striking that people are taking it as seriously as they are?? I mean, I guess I respect that, what artist DOESN'T want their drawings to be "taken seriously"— but real talk, these are fictional characters, and it's like…
I don't know how to further explain my feelings— but TL;DR if you have helpful critique and can actually phrase it in a polite manner (I know, it's difficult for some people, especially with the anonymous factor) then both of us would be more than happy to listen— but if you're just sending an ask for the sake of being like "wow, I don't like how you answer!" then I just find that childish and, well, that's all I really have to say on the topic.
Thanks for your feedback!
( Woah sorry for that little lapse of drama y'all )
"cutesy" probably wasn't a good word to use— I didn't mean they couldn't be feminine or cute to not be strong, frankly I think Carrie MAKES them feminine and strong all at once so—I don't want to be rude but I'm kinda agree with the anon. To be a "strong" woman you don't have to stop being cute. So, for me some characterizations here are kind of OoC, anyway every person can have different opinions about the female characters.
at the artist carrie; i dont think the hetalia girls would act this way?
Hey anon!
Eden here, I am the other mod of this blog. :-)
Hetalia is a pretty nifty thing in that a majority of the characters have very vague "canon" personalities, namely the female ones— who consequently are snubbed as being "minor" or "side" characters (aside from maybe Hungary, but she's still not a ""MAIN"" character that a ton of people flock to). While this is a tad infuriating for many fans because it seems like Himaruya blames his lack of many female characters on the fact he 'just can't draw them' (pause for incredulous eye roll), it becomes less of an issue when you realize that that ultimately leaves more room for each individual person to add their own opinions, headcanons, emotions, etc. to a character.
While I respect your opinion, I find it a tad— no, I find it very out of line for you to place any sort of judgement on how Carrie characterizes the ladies she answers for. Namely in that you are on anon, so I'm faced with the issue of having to answer this in public instead of getting back to privately, and also because you're not really pointing out any specific things you ""think"" she should work on. Maybe if you ""think"" of some specific things you'd like to see her take a stab at instead, I would take this as being helpful critique instead of just you… well, not really contributing anything with a vague opinion neither of us are getting any feedback from!
Anyway, if you're put off by the fact she plays them as "stronger" characters with more in your face personalities rather than their hoity-toity ""cutesy"" characterizations (not that there's anything wrong with that, either— I wouldn't say someone was particularly wrong for playing them that way) well, then you have the choice of not looking at this blog? Carrie puts a lot of effort into her answers and frankly it just leaves a bad taste in my mouth for you to throw that sort of thing at her just because she doesn't answer the way "you think she should have."
Wow, I really apologize if this sounds snippy, but I get so put off by people going on anon and just ragging on someone who DRAWS OUT NEARLY EVERY SINGLE RESPONSE and takes time and real effort to work on something.
Like I said, I totally respect your thoughts but I'm not a fan of how you articulated it. Try giving us some real feedback next time, thanks!
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Greenpants has collaborated with several local groups, including Johns Hopkins Human Rights Working Group and Baltimore Heritage, to produce projections that shed light on issues such as, respectively, Johns Hopkins University's connection to armed drone warfare and a large scale re-developement's impact on West Baltimore.
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"They asked each other questions like, 'What is your first memory of Baltimore?' or 'What do you love about living in your neighborhood?'" says Wetmore.
"I got to know people I would never have met otherwise," says Mclaurin. "Before we made the film, we had workshops with Greenpants. My partner for one of those was Aida. She came to the U.S. from Colombia, South America, to escape the political and crime problems."
Mclaurin says he asked his partner about what it was like coming to Baltimore from another country, and she asked him what life was like growing up in Baltimore.
Kim Wiggins, who has lived in Baltimore for four years, was interviewed for the film by her neighbor Ashley Watson.
"We talked about why we moved to the Patterson Park area. My first story is growing up in the suburbs. My second story is about urban living. I wanted to leave the suburbs and live in the city. I'm closer to my neighbors here than I ever was in the burbs," Wiggins says.
Watson, who also moved to the city about four years ago, says her first story is that she is employed in the IT field.
"But my second story is that I enjoy unusual, or even weird, creative outlets like swing dancing and Fluid Movement Water Ballet," Watson explains.
Residents were also involved in editing "Our Second Story."
"A few weeks ago, we showed the residents who helped make the movie 'rough cuts.' They sat through about an hour of unedited interviews, and they helped decide what were the most compelling. It was a lively discussion and incredibly useful. It also furthered the interview process," Robinson recalls.
Mclaurin says he learned a lot about what goes into making a film.
"It was also interesting to see how people interpret their lives here in Baltimore," he says.
Wetmore adds: "The process was powerful, what we learned from each other's stories as we were making the film. "I think it took us by surprise—how natural it is to want to tell our stories to other people."
Wiggins says she looks forward to watching the film.
"I am excited to hear what people think, and also about seeing it projected on the wall. A video projection on a wall, that you helped create that's not something you see every day."
"Our Second Story" will be shown Friday, May 17, 8 p.m., at the corner of Lakewood Ave. and Pulaski Highway, with seating in Library Square. Free hotdogs and popcorn. Bring lawn chairs. Visit http://www.cfaabaltimore.org/ for details.
by Danielle Sweeney


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i2construct said...
I really want to second, Kylenne's point. For me, it isn't about giving this issue special treatment and blowing it all out of proportion just because the couple is gay. I think that everything the Drama Mama's mentioned applies to both gay and straight couples equally. For me personally, the ability to disregard the LGBT variable in and of itself is a privilege, which is why I believe that it deserves at the very least acknowledgment and respect for the possibility that there may be subtle differences in this situation, differences that hetero individuals raised in a hetero society don't have the faintest hope of understanding.


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