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with you in a 45-foot sloop.
It's 21 days before we sight other
humans on a ship that passes at dusk.
Four hours on watch and four hours off,
you and I share the helm but not the berth.
When you sleep I count the floating containers
shrugged off and left to bob like geometric icebergs,
a Pacific conundrum.
Hit one and we're finished.
My eyes are filled with horizon
and the ghosts of those phantom
crates as you rock in the arms of your mother
when a light
surfaces, advancing upon us.
Panicked, I rouse you, certain it is
some locomotive cruiser, bound to chop
our hull clean through, its light too bright to see us.
you join me
at the helm, gaze
toward our fate silently
and surely underway. You
grin like a cult leader.
Not to worry,
it seems we have
set a bearing toward Jupiter.
You return
to the star-lit folds
of your berth as I alone
await the brazen approach
of the planet and all its moons.

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i agreePosted: Jan 30, 2006 12:00AM PST by rostebeafe2
i wholeheartedly concur. the xbox 360 (which is, in fact, impossible because you cannot have a box, or cube, with only 360 degrees) is very madddddddd cool, or chilly as you youngsters call it nowadays. and i also agree with you when you say that although the xbox 360 is "chilly", the sony playstation (r in a circle) 3 will beat out microsoft's machine in performance, game library, and "chilly" factor.
Who knows?Posted: Jan 31, 2006 12:00AM PST by eperezjr
The 360 is kicking some ass! However, they need to get going with the games! I'm kinda scrounging to be entertained. I beat PDZ, COD2, Condemned, and King Kong. I'm pretty sure PS3 WILL be better. But for know the 360 is king for a day.
I agree, kinda..Posted: Feb 01, 2006 12:00AM PST by D.A.
360 is pretty mediocre, not enough good games, Perfect Dark is pretty disappointing, but hey, I'm having tons of fun with Call of Duty, DOA 4 (boobies! :P), King Kong, Condemned, and all that good stuff.
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Approaching this circa 1850 French Chateau with mansard roof you will notice a placard on the front of the building with the name Charles Hertich and the date 1850. Dr. Charles Hertich, one of Ste. Genevieve's first full time physicians, purchased this property in 1850 for the sum of $1,800.00. At that time, only the northern portion of the structure existed. The southern portion was completed at a later date. The building served both as the Hertich family home and as an office for the physician. The exterior of the building looks much as it did in the 1850s, but the interior was totally and lovingly renovated in 1999. As you raise the latch on the wooden gate at the northeast corner of the property, your eyes are immediately drawn to the door through which members of the Ste. Genevieve community entered for their appointments with Dr. Hertich. Although the door is no longer functional, it bears the etched H that now serves as the logo for Dr. Hertich's House. As you step up and to your left you encounter the long covered front porch. The porch, with a warmth and charm of its own, affords one of the best views of Main Street. Also captured in your gaze from this viewpoint is the elegant and stately Inn St. Gemme Beauvais just across the street.
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This B&B is across the street from the Beauvais Inn St. Gemme and is owned by the same people. The Beauvais Inn had burned last February and they are still rebuilding. This was a nice B & B, but the outside could use a coat of paint and a few repairs. The innkeepers are very nice, but are not ones to spend much time with the patrons. We stayed in the Memories Suite which was a large 3-room suite with a king-size bed, 6' double whirlpool tub, a fireplace, frig, microwave, coffee maker, and robes. They also included a "wind machine", but with the ceiling fan and extra fan in the room, we did not need it to keep out any noise, such as trains. The sheets were polyester, which was unusual, but quite comfy.
Janet served wine, cheese, and crackers at 5 pm, which was quite enjoyable. We also used the huge Jacuzzi, which was very relaxing. Breakfast was served in the room promptly at the time we requested, and it was excellent – juice, bacon, toast, warm poppy seed bread, cantaloupe, and a ham, spinach, and cheese quiche. We made our own coffee. We were not given a choice of where to eat breakfast. We enjoyed our stay here, and would recommend it to other travelers.
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My husband spoiled me for our anniversary and we enjoyed this B&B..TOP notch, from the service to the sinfully delicious food served in our room as well as the dining area! Ahhh, so relaxing and comfortable!
on August 10, 2007
My family has stayed in the Dr.'s house on two occasions during the holidays. Holiday decorations are great, atmosphere is great, rooms are cozy and lovely.
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This three room suite is tastefully decorated with a sage and dark cream color scheme. On the walls are turn of the century photographs of the town of Ste. Genevieve and it¿s inhabitants.
The fireplace is at the foot of the king bed; the double whirlpool tub has over 20 jets, waterfall and aromatherapy.
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$179 - $179
Decorated in shades of berry, sage, and pink, this three room suite honors the ancestral heritage of both owners, Mark and Connie Smith, and the innkeeper, Janet Joggerst. You will find some photographs dating back to the early 1800¿s.
The fireplace is at the foot of the king bed; the double whirlpool tub has over 20 jets, waterfall and aromatherapy.
Tastefully done in hunter green, plaid, and beige. the six foot diameter hunter green double Jacuzzi tub with waterfall and aroma therapy and the fireplace at the foot of your king size bed make this a perfect room.
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Love Notes is tastefully appointed in white lace, burgundy and gold accents. The fireplace is at the foot of the king bed and the circular double whirlpool tub has a 6-foot diameter. Over 20 jets, waterfall and aromatherapy help make this the most romantic and relaxing whirlpool ever made! The suite is decorated with musical instruments, music scores, old 78's, and antique radios.
As the name implies, this room honors Dr. Charles Hertich and a variety of antique medical supplies will be found throughout the room. A 13 inch color cable TV is perched on the wall across from the queen sized sleigh bed.
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St. Louis, MO (STL-Lambert-St. Louis Intl.) 65 miles
From St. Louis (One hour): Take I-55 south to exit 154. Turn left at bottom of the exit ramp and proceed approximately 1/8 mile (dead end) to highway 61. Turn right onto 61 and continue for approximately 8 miles to a yellow flashing light (you will not pass any other traffic lights or signs). Turn left at light onto Market Street. Wind into town (through residential area) to second stop sign (Main Street). Turn left onto Main Street and proceed approximately 1/8 mile to 78 N. Main Street (right side of street). Check-in is conducted at The Inn St. Gemme Beauvais. From Cape Girardeau (One hour): Take I-55 north to exit 150. Turn right onto highway 32 and proceed approximately 8 miles. At 61 (stop light) 32 becomes 4th Street. Proceed on 4th Street to stop sign (Market Street). Turn right onto Market to stop sign (Main Street). Turn left onto Main Street and continue approximately 1/8 mile to 78 N. Main Street. Check-in is conducted at The Inn St. Gemme Beauvais.
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$89 per night
Innkeepers: Janet Joggerst
Guests: 2
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There are times in life when we feel bulletproof. Earlier this spring I ran 32 miles and only took about four sips of water the whole time. I once finished the last eight miles of a double Presidential Traverse with a stick in my quad, which I shook off as a "mere flesh wound" (Monty Python accent and all). A bit of it remained there for four months. No worries. I was tough. Rugged. Last night was not one of those glorious moments.
The sense of being rather "soft" had begun days before. Feeling haggard and off since my abbreviated Long Trail epic ten days before, I had not ventured into the mountains since, despite having chunks of time when I could, both in Vermont and New Hampshire. I was trying to listen to my body, which, sounding oddly like Toby Keith, was telling me: "I ain't as good as I once was." I started feeling a bit bad for myself - this once finely tuned body, that could run for hours and miles, wrecked by a couple days in the mountains, and not one of them longer than twenty miles. And so it was I began a short cruise of the neighborhood yesterday evening, my first night home after three weeks in the mountains. It began beautifully: a perfect temperature, the mid-August light that particular shade of gold, faintly hinting at the end of summer. And beautiful bird song.
Funny, that bird's singing matches exactly when I breath.
I paid a little closer attention. I held my breath. There was no bird song. I exhaled. I inhaled. I sounded like a bird. For the first time in my life, I was wheezing.
I like to think that as I grow older (and, clearly, softer), what I'm losing in "macho-runner" cred, I'm gaining in "intelligent person/father/husband" being. Not enjoying my respiratory system sounding like an aviary, I went to my doctor. He called me soon after to tell me the chest x-ray showed I have pneumonia and no running for at least two weeks.
I thought only really old people get pneumonia? And, as one of my friends noted, "How'd you manage that? It's the middle of the summer!" Yep, I ain't as good as I once was.
Alas, despite the physical shortcomings I feel I'm all too often experiencing now, it's helped me learn that I can't become so attached to those "good" feelings - those times when everything seems to be going right, when, frankly, I feel bulletproof. The reality is I am never bulletproof, but simply am. It is learning to ride the "good" with the "bad," and, ultimately, just embracing the ride, not judging any condition as "good" or "bad" and simply accepting the reality, that will make a life whole, will make a life complete. I'd forgotten that a bit as I was returning to running health. Maybe next time I won't. And maybe next time I won't end up sounding like a bird.
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There it was. That certain, nagging, ineffable, questioning. That sense of frustration because this wasn't going the way I had imagined, the way I wanted. Why am I doing this? This is not running. This is not what I wanted. What if I get hurt?
I was less than a mile from the summit of Hunger Mountain, following the Skyline Trail Waterbury and Stowe, Vermont. For nearly twenty years I have hiked and run this mountain, but only once, years before, had I ventured any distance along the Skyline Trail, following the spine of the Worcester Range. Then it was only about one hundred yards before the thought "this is a bad idea" popped into my head and turned me around.
On this day, many years after that first, tentative foray beyond the standard up/down on Hunger, I had decided to complete a fairly logical (and aesthetic) loop: summit Hunger from the parking lot (~2 miles, ~2,200 feet of gain), run the Skyline Trail to the Stowe Pinnacle via Hogback Mountain, 3.6 miles from Hunger's summit, descend the Pinnacle, and run the ~3 miles of dirt roads back to the car. It seemed like an ideal morning run/adventure, one that I could do and get home quickly enough to take care of my two boys and mother, who just one week before had had a total knee replacement. Responsibility at home was real, but the mountains beckoned. I wanted to be a good father, a good son. But my ego really wanted to feel like a tough mountain runner.
If I slip on these rocks or roots . . . I should be moving so much faster than this . . . Why am I doing this?
Progress on the Skyline Trail began to feel maddeningly slow. While looking down at the trail I could see all the scars on my legs from painful falls on terrain much more benign than this. One step squished through mud up to my knee, coating my left leg and shoe in thick, wet earth. Two images kept alternating through my conscious imagination: catching a toe on a rock and smashing my (beautiful) face on the rocks or slipping on a wet rock and fracturing my arm. I remember thinking, repeatedly, "I'd have a broken wing for the rest of the summer." The idea of pain and suffering further slowed my progress. Fear and doubt. Insidious companions for a mountain run. I looked at nothing except the immediate trail in front of me, obsessively focused on each rock, each root, unconsciously tensing my body against that imminent fall. I was a mere three miles from my car. But that last mile had taken me over twenty minutes. And it was mostly flat. And downhill. I wondered what it would feel like to be run over by a moose . . . or break an ankle.
I've felt it creep into my mind countless times – that sense of anger and frustration with a pace slower than desired. I was mad at myself for moving so slowly. I wasn't that picture of self-reliant wonder-runner I wanted to be this morning. I was disappointed in myself. Now. Here. This. Doubt made me question my abilities. Am I really a "good" runner? What does that even mean? Now. Here. This. Fear made me overly cautious: I walked like Bambi on the ice across rocks and roots at another time I would have floated over. Now. Here. This. Anxiety made me imagine the logistics involved in a rescue from this area. It would be hours before anyone could reach me, and it was unlikely anyone else would be using this trail today. I just wanted to be done. Why was I doing this? All I saw was the trail under my feet. Nothing else.
Now. Here. This.
I came across this mantra courtesy of a good friend and TARCer, Alyssa Adreani. She had pointed me to a Podcast featuring Father Greg Boyle, and among the many insightful philosophies and ideas he spoke of, these three words have stuck with me. I could do nothing to quell my fears other than being present on that trail, in that moment, doing what I was doing. I was scared. That was the reality. And that was okay. I was also moving. In a place I had never been, despite being minutes from my childhood home. And that was okay too. Now. Here. This.
I had never seen the summit of Hunger like this. It was jaw-droppingly beautiful. Early in the morning, it was deserted. Usually I spend less than a minute there, but today, it was closer to ten. I sat, bathing in the beauty. And weighing the prudence of continuing on my selected route.
The valleys below were blanketed in a thick fog, which from below had made the day dark and ominous, but from the summit, looked like a comfortable blanket, wrapping the bucolic scenes I knew lay beneath, in a blissful summer repose. Even as the day's heat built, there were still clear views across to the Greens and Whites. I caught my shadow stretching toward Camel's Hump, the mountain where I grew up, not far away. I snapped a photo and sent it to my mother, hoping the scene would inspire her for another day of PT and recovery. Not much more than a year before I was facing a similar road to recovery that she is now on. Now. Here. This.
The valleys below were blanketed in a thick fog, which from below had made the day dark and ominous, but from the summit, looked like a comfortable blanket, wrapping the bucolic scenes I knew lay beneath, in a blissful summer repose. Even as the day's heat built, there were still clear views across to the Greens and Whites. I caught my shadow stretching toward Camel's Hump, the mountain where I grew up, not far away. I snapped a photo and sent it to my mother, hoping the scene would inspire her for another day of PT and recovery. Not much more than a year before I was facing a similar road to recovery that she is now on. Now. Here. This.
As I began to shift my fear of injury into a focus on fluid movement, on paying attention to each step, on being open to the entire experience I was having, it was impossible to miss the wild beauty of the Skyline Trail. Sinewy single track. At times an achingly beautiful path, that, given it's proximity to town, feels remote, wild. Undulating up and down hills, between short, nearly carpeted stretches and vaguely impassible parts. That sense of isolation, of remoteness fed the fears, but heightened the adventure. My ultimate goal was to return safely to my family, but my primary goal was to be present to each sound, scent, and sight. Now. Here. This. The wisps of fog, rising from the valleys, creating an ethereal robe through the skeletal trees. To the greens that displayed before me with an almost unnatural glow and sharpness, glossy from the previous night's storm and the day's creeping humidity.
Now. HEAR. This. Turning left toward the Stowe Pinnacle, there was a different feeling, a different sound, to the trail. The ridge had been ensconced in the woods, often packed tight on both sides with stout evergreens, but the first steps on the Pinnacle Trail were different. There hadn't seemed to be any sound on the ridge beyond my breathing, but here, the bigger trees seemed to swallow the sounds I had clearly been hearing. The air felt heavier, the light just a shade darker. It was strange, but palpable.
"View on top of Stowe Pinnacle at 8:20. Probably about an hour from now I'll be back. Hope the boys are okay."
It's fascinating that, even while feeling remotely isolated in a wild place, I can text the above message and image to my family, sharing the experience (and, honestly, assuaging some of my fear that my wrecked body would be left, unfound, on the trail). I was heading home. The adventure over. But not without it having left an indelible mark on my spirit and psyche. All from a mere ten miles, practically in the backyard. Now. Here. This.
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I'm trying to create a custom mutex class based on the Allegro mutex (cross-platform). I am not using C++11. I'm trying to do it like this, but it seems to be a bit superfluous:
template <class T>
class Mutex
ALLEGRO_MUTEX *mutex = NULL;
ALLEGRO_THREAD *owner = NULL;
T *data = NULL;
Mutex ();
Mutex (T* data);
~Mutex ();
bool lock (ALLEGRO_THREAD* thread);
bool unlock (ALLEGRO_THREAD* thread);
bool trylock (); //Returns true if you can lock the thread
bool set (T* data, ALLEGRO_THREAD* thread);
bool get (T** data, ALLEGRO_THREAD* thread); //Pass reference of pointer
The constructors will call
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owner is
NULL (indicating the mutex is unlocked and no thread owns it). If it is
NULL, then it will set
owner = thread and lock the mutex. The unlock method unlocks the mutex if
thread == owner and sets
owner = NULL.
The trylock method simply checks to see if
owner == NULL, indicating that the mutex is not locked by any thread.
set and
get methods will set and return the stored pointer, only if the calling thread is the owner of the locked mutex.
I have a feeling that i'm going a bit overboard with the whole passing the thread every time you want to call a method, but i don't see any other way to make this class thread-safe, since Allegro doesn't have a
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I'd go for a 645 SLR with exchangeable magazines (such as Mamiya M645 Pro), or a Mamiya C series twin lens reflex as a first medium format camera to be used primarily for landscapes in the under-$500 range. C220s are probably the best value in the C system. Lenses are cheap and excellent.
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State Sen. Chris McDaniel said Wednesday that his campaign team plans to investigate "irregularities" in the primary race, as it considers whether to pursue some sort of legal challenge after his razor-thin loss to incumbent U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran in a Republican runoff a day earlier.
Mr. McDaniel and his tea party allies also continued to blast establishment Republicans for relying on Democrats to put Mr. Cochran over the line in the open contest.
"If our party and our conservative movement are to coexist, it is paramount that we ensure the sanctity of the election process is upheld," Mr. McDaniel said. "And we will do that. In the case of yesterday's election, we must be absolutely certain that our Republican primary was won by Republican voters.
"In the coming days, our team will look into the irregularities to determine whether a challenge is warranted," Mr. McDaniel said. "After we've examined the data, we will make a decision about whether and how to proceed."
Others said the race was over.
Former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, who fought tenaciously to keep Mr. Cochran in office, said voters made a politically savvy choice in renominating Mr. Cochran, who eked out a victory with the help of black voters, whom he aggressively courted in the final weeks of the campaign.
"I think Cochran's chances of re-election are far greater than his opponent's — far greater," Mr. Barbour, a former head of the Republican National Committee, said on CNBC's "Squawk Box."
Mr. McDaniel topped Mr. Cochran in the initial primary earlier this month, but didn't cross the 50 percent threshold, sending the two men into a runoff. Polls showed Mr. McDaniel with the lead, but Mr. Cochran's forces rallied.
In the wake of the result, Judson Phillips, the head of Tea Party Nation, called on Mr. McDaniel to wage a write-in campaign. He said the race showed that the [Republican in name only] wing of the party will do whatever is in its power — even reach out to Democrats — to stay in power.
"When the Republican Establishment acts like Democrats, what is the point of supporting them?" Mr. Phillips said in an early morning email blast. "The answer is, we don't have to."
But a Republican operative said that under Mississippi law the only way that could happen is if Mr. Cochran died between the time the general election ballots were printed and Election Day.
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Other McDaniel supporters suggested that they accept the results.
Chris Chocola, president of the Club for Growth, whose super PAC spent $3.1 million on the race, congratulated Mr. Cochran but said he hoped senators took a lesson from his near loss.
"We expect that Sen. Cochran and others gained a new appreciation of voter frustration about the threats to economic freedom and national solvency," Mr. Chocola said.