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Bloody Mary Morning
By Chris Jay 07/03/2014
A little history lesson
When the book about the Ventura music scene is written, there should be a chapter on Bloody Mary Morning. BMM was part of group of bands that in the mid- to late-'90s, kept clubs such as the long-since-gone Garfield's, Nicholby's and Bermuda Triangle packed to the rafters weekend after weekend. Back when seeing a live rock band was at the top of the list for entertainment options, Bloody Mary Morning seemed destined for bigger and better things, and the straight-up rock band was a front-runner to help break the happening Ventura scene to a national audience. For a host of reasons the band threw in the towel too soon with only one full-length to keep the memory alive. Lucky for us, though, Bloody Mary Morning has not only returned, but it's just released a stellar new record that hopefully will cement its reputation as one of Ventura's more popular and important bands — then and now.
Fanning the flame
Bloody Mary Morning may have been on a decade or so hiatus, but several members kept active in the local music scene, most notably Kelly Turner, who formed Big Dictator. While Bloody Mary Morning fans supported Big Dictator, a band that is admittedly heavier on the punk and hard rock influence than BMM, Turner was still faced with questions about a Bloody Mary Morning reunion following nearly every Big Dictator show. One persistent fan and friend kept the vigil up for so long in person and online that, in many ways, he was the inspiration for getting the band back together for a one-night-only reunion show at Bombay. Once the band got back into the practice space, that show snowballed into another appearance at an anniversary for the band's old watering hole Cronie's, and also a set at the first SRO benefit. After those shows, the calls for gigs kept coming in, and just like that Bloody Mary Morning was once again a fully functioning band with a few new songs to boot.
Studio Vacation
Times, trends and technology be damned, the men of Bloody Mary Morning decided to keep it real and record a proper full-length record. Day jobs and families didn't afford the band the ability to block off a few weeks to hunker down in a studio, so with time spent recording here and there over the course of a few months, Turner made a bold decision and took a two-week vacation from work to finish the record. Working in his barn-studio, he spent mornings and afternoons tracking and mixing as other members stopped by to track. The result is the tremendous effort That Girl, a record that harks back to the '90s when being a rock band that could sing and play with no gimmicks wasn't such a crime. Best of all, though, the band members have grown as songwriters, and energetic sing-along tracks such as "I'm Running," "Here's to Honor" and the title track, "That Girl," are hands-down the best songs the band has ever penned. The record is reminiscent of a time when a host of melodic rock bands like The Refreshments, Fastball, Big Head Todd and the Monsters, the Gin Blossoms, Everclear, Toad the Wet Sprocket and Cracker were all welcomed on the radio. Bloody Mary Morning has put together a collection of songs that are meant to be rocked out to at a bar, listened to on a road trip or just played as you zone out on a summer's day, reminiscing about a simpler, more rocking time in American music.
Still Bloody After All These Years
The current incarnation of Bloody Mary Morning consists of Turner on bass, his brother Chad on lead vocals, Ryan Denger on guitars and Ray Stoyanoff on drums. That Girl released just two weeks ago and the band is already working on new material and eyeing another release in the near future. While it's still far too early to see what new doors might be opened by the latest record, whether it will bring new fans to the table via the Internet (a tool that barely existed during BMM's first incarnation) or just keep the old ones happy, Turner, who has seen the best and worst of what the local scene has had to offer, remains positive and almost Zen-like about the future. "After all these years, I think it boils down to the fact that we're all musicians," he says. "I'm a music fanatic. I go to a ton of shows, buy records and read liner notes, pay attention to see who produced it and what studio was used — all that crazy stuff that some people could care less about. I could be building cars, riding motorcycles, playing sports. I have other interests of course, but music — that's my thing. It's what we've been doing for a long time. I love it, the other guys in the band love it and, hey, you gotta do what you love."
Bloody Mary Morning will appear at Bombay Bar for the venue's pre-fourth of July party on Thursday, July 3. That Girl is available on iTunes and every online music retailer. For more information, visit www.bloodymarymorning.com.
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Maternal Advantages of Breastfeeding
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Suppresses periods; makes feeding cost-effective; nurtures the baby; lets mom relax
Women who breastfeed fully, without supplementing their baby with formula, may go months or a year or more without menstruating. Not only does amenorrhea (lack of periods) provide limited birth control as discussed below, but it conserves iron stores and helps the body replenish the iron lost during fetal development, childbirth, and postpartum bleeding.
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The Boston Conservatory Presents Piano Masters: the Boston Debut of Jorge Luis Prats
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(BOSTON) The Boston Conservatory presents the Boston debut of Jorge Luis Prats as part of its popular Piano Masters series, a unique offering of internationally renowned pianists in solo engagements, performed under the artistic direction of Michael Lewin. The performance takes place Tuesday, April 10 at 8 p.m. at The Boston Conservatory's Seully Hall at 8 The Fenway. General admission tickets are $15, $10 for seniors and FREE for students with valid ID. Tickets are available by phone at 617-912-9222 or at http://bostonconservatory.ticketforce.com/.
Cuban-born virtuoso Prats makes his Boston debut with a program of Chopin: 24 Preludes op.28 and the Andante Spianato & Grand Polonaise, Scriabin: 24 Preludes op.11, and Stravinsky: 3 Scenes from Petrouchka.
Hailed as a long-lost virtuoso in the grand tradition, Cuban pianist Jorge Luis Prats just released a stunning Decca Records debut with a live recital in Zaragoza, Spain. This is but the first of a number of exciting new Decca discs soon to be released, growing the sensational story of this unique artist and his return to the international stage. His 2007 concert at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts under the auspices of the Miami International Piano Festival was recorded on the VAI label. It was the release of this live performance that reawakened great interest in his career and resulted in invitations to perform at the Verbier Festival, in Amsterdam's Concertgebouw for four consecutive years to overwhelming response, at Le Roque D'Antheron, and with Pavo Jarvi and l'Orchestre de Paris.
At the age of 21 Prats won the Grand Prix at the prestigious "Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud" piano competition in Paris (1977), also receiving special prizes for the best interpretation of Maurice Ravel and André Jolivet. He began performing widely, and even made a recital LP for Deutsche Gramophon. However, visa restrictions meant that big opportunities in the West were limited and the young Cuban chose to stay with his family over a career abroad. For more than 30 years, Prats effectively disappeared from the international piano scene. His recent relocation to the U.S. has allowed that career to once again flourish.
Prats was born in Camagüey, Cuba. His teach¬ers in Cuba included such illustrious figures as Cesar Perez Sentenar, Barbara Dìaz Alea, Margot Rojas and Alfredo Diez. Upon graduation from the National Arts College he was awarded a scholarship to the Tchaikovsky Conserva¬tory in Moscow where he studied under Rudolf Kerer. He continued his higher piano education at the Paris Conserva¬tory and at the Hochschule für Musik und Künstler in Vienna with Paul Badura Skoda and later with Magda Tagliaferro in Paris, also receiving master classes from Witold Malcuzcynski in Warsaw.
A consummate performer, Prats' concert tours have taken him throughout Europe, North, South and Central America, China, Japan and Korea. He has performed as a soloist with the Royal Philharmonic in London, the BBC Orchestra, EOS Orchestra of New York and the Dallas Symphony. In Mexico he has per¬formed with the Mexico City Orchestra, Ofunam Orchestra, and the Jalapa Orches¬tra. In South America he appeared with the Colombia Philharmonic and Venezuela's "Símon Bolivar" Orchestra.
His extensive repertoire includes most major works for piano and orchestra and his diverse recital repertoire features works such as Bach's Well Tempered Clavier, Suites and Partitas, all the Mozart Sonatas and many Beethoven Sonatas; nearly the en¬tirety of Chopin's works and all of Franz Liszt's Sonatas, Etudes and the Hungarian Rhapsodies. It also includes Ravel, Debussy, and Hector Villa-Lobos. He is the master of the Cuban classical music repertoire from the XVIII and XIX centuries, as well as the most important compositions by contemporary Cuban composers such as Carlos Fariñas and Harold Gramatges.
He has recorded for a number of major labels: Pathé Marconi (EMI France), Deutsche Grammophon, ASV, IMP, and Musical Heritage. His discography includes the first-ever recording of the 24 Preludes and The Satanic Poem by A. Scriabin for EMI France, works by Beethoven, the Grieg Piano Concerto, the complete works for piano and orchestra by Rachmaninov, the Chopin Concertos and a wide variety of Cuban and Spanish music.
In the last few weeks Prats opened the 2012 Miami International Piano Festival Season with two different marathon recital programs in one day on March 4th and performed his fourth consecutive recital at the Concertgebouw. He has been featured in the Miami International Piano Festival regularly since his debut in 2007. The Piano Masters Series is proud to present this unique and compelling artist in his Boston debut.
Prats has been the grateful recipient of support from Patrons of Excep¬tional Artists since 2006, whose assistance also made this concert possible.
About The Boston Conservatory
The Boston Conservatory trains exceptional young performing artists for careers that enrich and transform the human experience. Known for its intimate and supportive multi-disciplinary environment, The Boston Conservatory offers fully accredited graduate and undergraduate programs in music, dance and theater, and presents more than 200 performances each year by students, faculty and guest artists. Since its founding in 1867, The Boston Conservatory has shared its talent and creativity with the city of Boston, the region and the nation, and continues to grow today as a vibrant community of artists and educators. For more information, visit www.bostonconservatory.edu.
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The Lucky One (April 20) In this romantic drama based on a Nicholas Sparks' novel, Zac Efron plays a Marine who finds a photograph of a woman named Beth (Taylor Schilling) while doing his tour in Iraq, and travels to North Carolina to find here. Blythe Danner also stars. (credit: Alan Markfield/Warner Bros. Pictures)
Lockout (April 20) Guy Pearce stars in this sci-fi/action movie as a falsely convicted ex-government agent who is sent to rescue the president's daughter from an outer space maximum security prison. The film also stars Maggie Grace and Peter Stormare. (credit: Open Road Films)
Chimpanzee (April 20) In theaters in time for Earth Day, Chimpanzee takes moviegoers deep into the forests of Arica to tell the true-life story of a curious and lively chimp named Oscar. For every moviegoer who sees Chimpanzee during the film's opening week (April 20-26, 2012), Disneynature will make a donation to Jane Goodall Institute through the Disney Worldwide Conservation Fund in order to protect chimpanzees and their habitats. (credit: Disneynature)
The Raven (April 27) In this dark, gritty thriller, John Cusack is Edgar Allan Poe, who joins forces with a young Baltimore detective (Luke Evans) to hunt down a serial killer who's using Poe's own works as the basis in a series of brutal murders. (credit: Relativity Media)
The Pirates! Band of Misfits (April 27) Hugh Grant stars in his first animated role as the luxuriantly bearded Pirate Captain – a boundlessly enthusiastic, if somewhat less-than-successful, terror of the High Seas. This animated adventure also features the voices of Jeremy Piven, Salma Hayek, Imelda Staunton and David Tennant. (credit: Aardman Animation for Sony Pictures Animation)
The Five-Year Engagement (April 27) The director and writer/star of Forgetting Sarah Marshall reteam for the comedy The Five-Year Engagement. The new film from director Nicholas Stoller looks at what happens when an engaged couple, Jason Segel and Emily Blunt, keeps getting tripped up on the long walk down the aisle. (credit: Universal Pictures)
The Avengers (May 4) Based on the Marvel Comics superhero team, The Avengers features an ensemble cast, which includes Robert Downey, Jr., Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner and Samuel L. Jackson. In this Joss Whedon-directed film, Nik Fury and the agency S.H.I.E.L.D bring together a team of super humans to help save the Earth from destruction. (credit: Marvel Studios/Walt Disney Pictures)
Dark Shadows (May 11) Based on the cult TV series, this gothic-horror tale directed by Tim Burton features a star-studded cast that includes Johnny Depp (who plays the vampire Barnabas Collins), Michelle Pfeiffer, Helena Bonham Carter, Eva Green, Jonny Lee Miller and Chloe Grace Moretz. (credit: Leah Gallo/Warner Bros. Pictures)
Men in Black 3 (May 25) In Men in Black 3, Agents J (Will Smith) and K (Tommy Lee Jones) are back... in time. J discovers that there are secrets to the universe that K never told him -- secrets that will reveal themselves as he teams up with the young Agent K (Josh Brolin) to save his partner, the agency, and the future of humankind. (credit: Wilson Webb/Columbia Pictures)
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I'm trying to change the password that get's asked when doing sudo. I'm in Ubuntu. Doing 'sudo passwd' or 'sudo passwd root' does give me the two new password questions, and it successfully changes passwords. But then I can still use my old password when doing sudo again for something else. I do have a user with the exact same password, don't know if that makes a difference. I enabled root user, and I can see the new password does work with the root user.
So root password is changed but not the password for sudo.
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More than one combinator(ial?)ist has asked me to recommend a good book to learn probability from, and I never know what to say; the probability theory that I use in my research up was mostly learned piecemeal. (The stuff I learned in grad school from reading Chung and Feller hasn't been as useful, and I didn't especially enjoy those books.) Any suggestions?
The Probabilistic Method by Noga Alon and Joel Spencer!
Not a probability textbook per se ---Feller or whatever for that--- but sufficiently self-contained that one can learn the tools as one sees them applied -- to combinatorics!


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LLR - Zaragoza looks like a solid keeper. I think it is wise for you to keep the team intact for the new season. You have quality across the board and with less games and a more gelled team you can certainly expect better performances.
aldojags - it is the same as LLR for me when it comes to goalkeepers, not an attribute I look much into as I haven't had a keeper do something crazy so far. Seeing as Ceyhun Demircan's highest goalkeeping attribute is Eccentricty along with Kicking I will keep an eye open though now you have mentioned it.
Rlipscombe & LLR - the homegrown rule in Europe was something I struggled with at Real, I could never bring in quality youngsters with the money I had, so always had to go a little bit older, and with no restrictions at domestic level I just left it as a problem to solve once I was in Europe. In Turkey the restrictions are a lot larger, with only 6 out of the first 11 allowed to be foreign, so automatically I will have to look a lot more at young Turkish talent. I may be well ahead of myself but this summer I have already brought in three Turkish 18 year olds with potential to at least play in the second tier. This and the fact that my first youth product got a U19 call-up already makes me feel like I have started the challenge a lot better in this aspect this time around.


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I have a pretty large music library in FLAC, and I need to import it to my iTunes library somehow. I want to use the ALAC format to keep everything lossless so I can transcode to different lossy formats later if I need to.
Have a look at Max. Freeware and Open source. Has a GUI.
I'm a fan of XLD and since the original question was posed it gained the drag-and-drop folder capabilities that the person asking the question as after. No need to install Growl to get it to work. It also handles embedded images in FLAC files when doing the conversion and will keep them in the ALAC output files.
You could also use ffmpeg:
It preserves common tags, but it doesn't currently preserve artwork.
Many people recommend installing "Fluke" to play FLAC in iTunes. I haven't tried it and not sure if this way works.
When i encountered this issue, i just followed a step by step guide to convert FLAC to iTunes supported formats like AIFF, MP3, etc


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Maxine E. Lackey, 93, of Springfield, Mo., and formerly of Augusta, passed away, Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012.
Graveside service 2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 8, 2012, at Elmwood Cemetery, Augusta.
Maxine was born Nov. 28, 1919 in Arma, Kan. to the late Jane Marie (Webb) and Charles Bixler Dearing. Maxine married Raymond George Lackey on Nov. 19, 1939 in El Dorado. Together with her husband, she was a farmer and they also had a custom cutting business for 15 years. Maxine was a member of the Nazarene Church in Augusta. Raymond preceded her in death on March 8, 1984. A brother, Robert Dearing, and two sisters, Anna Charlene Thompson and Patricia Jane Morris also preceded her.
She is survived by: daughters, Joyce Roberts and husband Harold of Wichita, and Judith Wearne of Springfield, Mo.; grandchildren, Natalie and Bradley Barr; great-grandchildren, Derek Barr, Sara Samuelson and Nathan Lackey.
Memorials may be made to the Alzheimer's Association.
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6 Movies That Predicted Disasters With Eerie Accuracy
#3. Wag the Dog Predicts a Sex Scandal and a Convenient Bombing
There should be a name for that very specific genre of movie that accidentally satirizes a news story before it even happens. People tend to think The China Syndrome was playing off of the fears of nuclear power in the wake of the Three Mile Island incident, but the movie actually came out two weeks before. We previous pointed out how Starship Troopers plays like a parody of the War on Terror, even though it came out four years before 9/11. Which brings us to Wag the Dog.
Which came out three weeks before Dustin Hoffman was invented.
In Wag the Dog, the president of the United States gets caught trying to sleep with a Girl Scout, so in order to distract the public and the media from the scandal, a political publicist (Robert De Niro) hires a Hollywood producer to stage a fake war with Albania. Thus the term "wag the dog" -- instead of a dog wagging its tail, the tail wags the dog (or, instead of the news media covering politicians, politicians tell the news media what to say).
If that phrase sounds familiar, it's probably because it quickly became a catchphrase splashed across the front of newspapers in the late '90s, usually with an unflattering picture of this guy:
You might remember him from several episodes of Saturday Night Live.
See, the film was released in December of 1997, right smack in the middle of Bill Clinton's two-term presidency, and already you know exactly where this is headed. Just a month after the film came out, Bill Clinton tripped and spilled some of his ejaculate on an intern's dress, inciting a massive sex scandal that would eventually lead to his impeachment. But that's just a sex scandal; politicians are constantly caught humping stuff, that doesn't mean the creators of Wag the Dog were psychic, right? It's not like he started a war just to get it out of the headlines ...
"It's not war, it's a hurried-up peace solution."
Well, it was August 17, 1998 when Clinton admitted to the world what he had done. Then, three days later, he announced the bombings of six terrorist compounds in Afghanistan, along with a factory in Sudan that was believed to be housing chemical weapons. The out-of-nowhere military action pushed the sex scandal out of the news, in the way that only a war can. This is why so many pundits screamed that this was a Wag the Dog action.
Please note that we're going with "coincidence" here rather than the much scarier "He got the idea from the movie."
He saved all his inspiration that year from Deep Impact.
#2. Chinatown Predicts Jack Nicholson's Family Secret
The acclaimed 1974 neo-noir film Chinatown starred Jack Nicholson as a private investigator in Los Angeles who divides his time between getting tangled up in a murder plot with the Department of Water and Power and getting tangled up in some linens with Faye Dunaway.
"Forget it, Jake, it's 'ginatown."
One of the biggest reveals of the story is that Dunaway's character was raped by her father and gave birth to a daughter, and then the child was raised as her sister. Screenwriter Robert Towne originally wanted the film to end with Dunaway killing her father, but the director insisted on a much darker conclusion where Dunaway is killed and then the creepy old child molester takes possession of his inbred offspring. If you're wondering why a studio would intentionally release a film in which a pedophile comes out the victor in the end, remember who directed it ...
"It's me, Roman Nopantski."
Shortly after Chinatown's release, Time magazine was planning to do a cover story on Nicholson, but while researching his family, the reporter made some surprising discoveries. Namely, that the man and woman Nicholson had always called dad and mom were actually his grandparents, and the woman he thought was his older sister was his biological mother (not due to incest in this case, she just got knocked up by a random dude as a teenager).
So, maybe Nicholson was attracted to the Chinatown role because it mirrored his own messed-up family dynamic? Nope -- at the time, he didn't even know. He only found out because, while Time never ran the story, they did call him up just to give him a heads up that his whole life had been a lie.
"Aaaaand our readers want to know what your favorite color is."
To give some context, Nicholson was born in 1937, a time when it was more socially acceptable for an unmarried woman to walk around in public with the plague than with a baby. So when the family's 16-year-old daughter got pregnant with Jack, they covered the whole thing up after he was born by claiming the baby belonged to the girl's mother. They kept this up for the rest of their lives.
Everyone involved in the cover-up passed away before Nicholson ever learned the truth, so even in their dying breaths they didn't feel it necessary to tell him that his sister/mother had gotten pregnant by some guy, and thus his biological dad was probably still out there somewhere, presumably wandering the streets in a purple felt suit and shouting about how this town needs an enema. Still, Nicholson claims to hold no resentment toward his family, saying "I'd like to meet two broads today who knew how to keep a secret to that degree." Because Jack Nicholson is one of the only people who can insult every woman in the world and have it sound endearing.
"Pick up those amazing pins, woman, and get me some Corn Flakes."
#1. The Matrix and Demolition Man Predict Horrific Murders
The 1993 sci-fi action film Demolition Man opens with a cop named John Spartan (Sylvester Stallone) capturing a psychotic criminal named Simon Phoenix (Wesley Snipes). Phoenix is sentenced to a term in "CryoPrison," where criminals are frozen and placed in cryogenic storage. Then Stallone also winds up frozen for some reason and they both wake up in the future so they can have action movie things happen.
But sharp-eyed viewers will catch something when they see the roster of other murderers on ice along with Snipes and Stallone. It appears briefly on a screen early in the movie:
Ha, Scott Peterson. Future names are dumb.
In case you're not familiar with that name (i.e., you managed to do a complete blackout of every form of media in 2003-04), Scott Peterson was the center of a sensational murder trial in which he was eventually convicted of the first-degree murder of his pregnant wife, Laci. A cheesy made-for-TV movie was even made about his life.
The Superman Curse strikes again.
Hell, Demolition Man even has him winding up in the right facility -- the movie's CryoPrison was created to house the worst of the worst in California (the movie takes place in "San Angeles"), and the real Peterson is in San Quentin, California's only death row facility.
All because some unknown crew member picked the name at random to help fill out that computer screen. But that's not the creepiest accidental Easter egg of its kind -- that prize goes to some unknown stranger in The Matrix prop department.
The one who constructed "action Keanu" for the films.
This one is even weirder within the context of the movie. Technically, The Matrix takes place in the future and the present at the same time, sort of like Keanu Reeve's other sci-fi action hit, The Lake House. Inside the Matrix, the year is 1999, and in the real world it's about 2199. That means that the robots already know and have programmed in every event in human history that will take place in that time frame. That includes all the weird, inconsequential stuff like a new puppy shitting on your rug, but also all the floods and fires and other atrocities people have to contend with.
Now, knowing that the machines are already aware of the big events in the future of humanity, watch this scene:
While Agent Smith goes through Neo's file folder, we catch a glimpse of the photocopied picture of his passport. The picture is upside down and only appears on screen for a second, but thanks to the miracle of "freeze-framing," and the technological advancement of "turning our monitor upside-down," we can read it clearly. Check the expiration date:
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- Binding: Paperback & eBook Available
- Era: Cold War
- Number of Pages: 240
- Subject: Espionage
- Date Available: November 2013
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CIRCLE OF TREASON is also Availble in an Audio Edition from Audible via Amazon
Watch SANDY GRIMES presentation at the National Archives, 20 April 2013
"What makes this volume interesting is that it was written by longtime CIA insiders, who saw firsthand how the agency's network inside the Soviet Union crumbled. They write authentic sketches of agents working for the CIA who were betrayed by Ames."—The Washington Post
While there have been other books about Aldrich Ames, Circle of Treason is the first account written by CIA agents who were key members of the CIA team that conducted the intense "Ames Mole Hunt." Sandra Grimes and Jeanne Vertefeuille were two of the five principals of the CIA team tasked with hunting one of their own and were directly responsible for identifying Ames as the mole, leading to his arrest and conviction.
One of the most destructive traitors in American history, CIA officer Aldrich Ames provided information to the Soviet Union that contributed to the deaths of at least ten Soviet intelligence officers who spied for the United States. In this book, the two CIA officers directly responsible for tracking down Ames chronicle their involvement in the hunt for a mole. Considering it their personal mission, Grimes and Vertefeuille dedicated themselves to identifying the traitor responsible for the execution or imprisonment of the Soviet agents with whom they worked. Their efforts eventually led them to a long-time acquaintance and coworker in the CIA's Soviet-East European division and Counterintelligence Center, Aldrich Ames.
Not only is this the first book to be written by the CIA principals involved, but it is also the first to provide details of the operational contact with the agents Ames betrayed. The book covers the political aftermath of Ames's arrest, including the Congressional wrath for not identifying him sooner, the FBI/CIA debriefings following Ames's plea bargain, and a retrospective of Ames the person and Ames the spy. It is also the compelling story of two female agents, who overcame gender barriers and succeeded in bringing Ames to justice in a historically male-oriented organization. Now retired from the CIA, Grimes and Vertefeuille are finally able to tell this inside story of the CIA's most notorious traitor and the men he betrayed.
Sandra V. Grimes was a twenty-six year veteran of CIA's Clandestine Service who spent the majority of her career working against the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. She joined the CIA in July 1967 shortly after graduating from the University of Washington with a degree in Russian. A mother of two grown daughters and four grandchildren, she currently lives in Great Falls, Virginia, with her husband of forty-plus years.
Jeanne Vertefeuille was a CIA officer during the Cold War 1954-1992, specializing in the Soviet target, particularly in the Counterintelligence area. She led the small task force which resulted in the arrest of Soviet mole Aldrich Ames in 1994. Subsequently she served on contract as an analyst 1993-present and died just after the publication of the book in hardcover.
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"Circle of Treason has the advantage of being written by two intelligence professionals, not by academics or journalists, and thus is an authoritative account of the Soviet sources that were providing the U.S. with invaluable information during the Cold War until Ames betrayed them. Because classified material on operational cases was going to be made public, the CIA took over three years to approve the book's publication. T he authors note that 90% of the disputes were resolved in their favor."
"In a brutally frank account of CIA traitor Aldrich Ames's career, Grimes, a 26-year veteran of the CIA's Clandestine Service, and Vertefeuille, a long-time CIA counterintelligence officer, pull back the curtain on the hunt for an American who spent years working for the KGB without being discovered…Well-researched and written in a clear, no-frills style, this fascinating Cold War saga will allow any American without a security clearance to better understand how Aldrich Ames could have become one of the most damaging moles in U.S. intelligence history."
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"Circle of Treason is an enormously important account of a complex, often frustrating, case written by those who did much of the work to break it."
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All in all, Circle of Treason is a disturbing read, but essential for anyone interested in the intricate detail work involved in a counterintelligence investigation—and a tribute to two women who helped push it to conclusion."
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"…[A] fine book which is gripping without any pyrotechnics, a story that could not be told except by the women who brought Ames down."
— The Dispatch (Columbus, MS)
"An enormously important account of a complex, often frustrating case, written by those who did much of the work to solve it."
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I want to fill "ink" (color) into this empty ink bottle using Photoshop?
Please let me know the steps.
I want to fill "ink" (color) into this empty ink bottle using Photoshop?
Please let me know the steps.
Here are some results I got:
The steps for black ink are as follows:
That's it. Enjoy your bottle of ink. Keep in mind you can play with how much you mask the dark shape. I maybe went a bit overboard. There is a sweet-spot there somewhere, I know it. Just use the edges of the soft brush so you're not erasing but just fading slightly.
Update: To create some other color substance inside the bottle, it's pretty much the same process, you can just play with the Levels a bit. The Levels dialog has a "Channels" dropdown option. If you select the individual Red, Green, Blue channels, you can create almost any colors and then go back to the RGB option to adjust the darkness to your linking. If you want a more solid look to the ink, you should use the Clone tool to take out anything seen through the glass, like the little bits in the middle, which I took out in the blue ink version. By the way, you can use Hue controls to change color, but I would leave Saturation alone, since it highlights compression artifacts.


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I have a situation where I'm doing wiring for the dashboard of a vehicle. For whatever reason, the turn signal/headlight switch on this vehicle outputs a 6 volt signal on the high beam wire when the low beam is on and a 12 volt signal when the high beam is on. The headlights work as they're supposed to, but the high beam indicator led is activated when the low beam is on since 6 volts is enough to activate it. Does anyone have a simple solution to make the indicator only turn on when there is a 12 volt signal and not when it's a 6 volt signal?
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I'll expand on one of cinelli's comments - why not fix the cause rather than the symptom? If you've got 6v on the high-beam feed when the switch is set to dip, this suggests to me there is a problem with the switch - and I'd be worried that it might be causing other hidden problems.
For example, if the lamps aren't relayed (as is the case with a lot of older vehicles), you'll have 6v running through the high-beam filaments all the time the lights are on. This won't be enough to light them, but will shorten the life of the bulbs...
Have you tried another switch?
Try putting a 6v2 zener (400mW) diode in series with the indicator LED. The LED takes about 1.5V so nothing under 7.7V should be able to turn it on. The LED current should be small enough to use a low power zener diode. Make sure you get the diode the right way around.
If this is a simple logic chip that is detecting it, then you won't need a lot of current to trigger. In that case, just put something like two 1K resistors in series to ground and divide the voltage in half (the old output will now be in between the two resistors).
The indicator lamp on some vehicles is also illuminated if the resistance in the wiring is not equal to a certain amount. This is usually cause by using an incorrect bulb (even though the bulb will still plug in and work), If one of the connectors is corrodded etc. A little more details on the year make and model of the vehicle would be helpful. Finding and fixing whatever is wrong sounds a lot less of a hassle then soldering a diode in line to "mickey mouse" the fix.


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I had a kinda funny story about the encounter… But then you probably had to me there.
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Subject: Re: [OMPI devel] System V Shared Memory for Open MPI: Request for Community Input and Testing
From: Samuel K. Gutierrez (samuel_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-05-03 10:55:01
Hi all,
Does anyone know of a relatively portable solution for querying a
given system for the shmctl behavior that I am relying on, or is this
going to be a nightmare? Because, if I am reading this thread
correctly, the presence of shmget and Linux is not sufficient for
determining an adequate level of sysv support.
Samuel K. Gutierrez
Los Alamos National Laboratory
On May 2, 2010, at 7:48 AM, N.M. Maclaren wrote:
> On May 2 2010, Ashley Pittman wrote:
>> On 2 May 2010, at 04:03, Samuel K. Gutierrez wrote:
>> As to performance there should be no difference in use between sys-
>> V shared memory and file-backed shared memory, the instructions
>> issued and the MMU flags for the page should both be the same so
>> the performance should be identical.
> Not necessarily, and possibly not so even for far-future Linuces.
> On at least one system I used, the poxious kernel wrote the complete
> file to disk before returning - all right, it did that for System V
> shared memory, too, just to a 'hidden' file! But, if I recall, on
> another it did that only for file-backed shared memory - however, it's
> a decade ago now and I may be misremembering.
> Of course, that's a serious issue mainly for large segments. I was
> using multi-GB ones. I don't know how big the ones you need are.
>> The one area you do need to keep an eye on for performance is on
>> numa machines where it's important which process on a node touches
>> each page first, you can end up using different areas (pages, not
>> regions) for communicating in different directions between the same
>> pair of processes. I don't believe this is any different to mmap
>> backed shared memory though.
> On some systems it may be, but in bizarre, inconsistent, undocumented
> and unpredictable ways :-( Also, there are usually several system
> (and
> sometimes user) configuration options that change the behaviour, so
> you
> have to allow for that. My experience of trying to use those is that
> different uses have incompatible requirements, and most of the
> critical
> configuration parameters apply to ALL uses!
> In my view, the configuration variability is the number one nightmare
> for trying to write portable code that uses any form of shared memory.
> ARMCI seem to agree.
>>> Because of this, sysv support may be limited to Linux systems -
>>> that is,
>>> until we can get a better sense of which systems provide the shmctl
>>> IPC_RMID behavior that I am relying on.
> And, I suggest, whether they have an evil gotcha on one of the areas
> that
> Ashley Pittman noted.
> Regards,
> Nick Maclaren.
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Has anyone noticed a survival food display at your warehouse retail store (Costco or Sam's)?
I was buying stuff for an open house when I ran across an aisle display of survival foods at Costco. It had, on display, bulk (it is Costco) rolled oats, 200 meal buckets, etc.
Is this marketing that is playing on the fears of 2012 or zombie infestation?
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I was at Sam's yesterday, and saw several different emergency food storage kits there. Seems like I've seen some tv ads lately too. Dunno what the deal is. Seems like most people I know are taking the whole 2012 thing as a big joke, but I'm sure there are folks out there who don't. Maybe the earthquake and tsunami in Japan has sparked fears?
As a side note, Mountain House is sold out of the #10 cans and are not taking any additional orders from distributors until they are caught up w/current orders. There are still pouches available though.
I think that the disaster in Japan has really brought this to the top of people's minds. Outside of a very few, I don't think anyone even knows what the 2012 thing is. The movie was stupid, too (and I usually like John Cusack). I admit I'm saying that after only trying to watch parts of it, since I couldn't stick with it (not even for the effects).
On the other hand, if someone had had the foresight to include a geiger counter or radiation badge in these kits, they could have really made some bux. As long as Japan is still dealing with the day to day traumas, these things will sell. When the next big event happens, they'll sell all over again. People's attention spans are short, and they'll forget, the moment it's off the front page.
Some things are useful, and good to have (like the grain grinder you featured in your recent deal). Still, you should be able to buy them separately, for a lower total cost. I already have some of this stuff, where it's generally useful.
Well that stuff has been on their website for at least 3 years. I have never bought any, but I might reconsider if I could see it in person.
I dont think it is 2012, I think has more to do with global unrest. A few dirty bombs and the country might be paralyzed for how ever long.
Food prices are on the rise and there are already shortages of somethings and more if it is not a good summer for the US farmers.....
There is a Billboard on my commute to work advertising a 12-month survival lot that is "Recommended by Glenn Beck!"
I lol'd
Good thing my family has 1000s of acres of farmland!
It's not just you.
@llandar: what's next, environmentally sealed aquatic craft? oh, yeah, those are called submarines...
It's never a bad thing to be prepared.
It's also just about the beginning of hurricane season so a lot of the disaster supply stuff is intended for that.
LDS tend to keep between 1 and 2 years of food on stock at all times. I personally find this to be a good practice. Imagine this...
You work full time, bring in enough to get by, not enough to save, wife is a stay at home mom of 2 kids. Your business goes under or down sizes and you get fired. Having food ON HAND for 2 years is a Major cost reduction. It would allow you to find a new job at a new company at a starting rate, and still be able to somewhat survive with out going bankrupt.
Also, on a practical side. If you store 2 years worth of food, at year 1.5 you start the consumption of the first 6 months of food. Along with normal groceries, this practice drastically cuts down on your total monthly expenses. (this is all assuming you're aware of and understand the value of buying in bulk)
@bogie21: very aware of this, i live in vegas
Slight flaw -- if you have the money to buy survival gear, you have the money to save....
With the Fed monetizing the national debt and cratering the dollar, food prices are rising and we seem to be headed toward a full fledged currency crisis. Strange things happen in currency crises, like empty supermarket shelves. Deep pantry is only common sense.
Yeah costco has a 3 month supply of food and water for 2 people that runs $999... WAIT, $999 for 6 months of food and water for 1 person?!!? HELLLLOOOOO SAVINGS!!
@ozymandias2: Very true. Let's see, using some average Numbers for Boise, Idaho:
Home Loan: $1300
Car Loan: $350
Gas/Electric: $150
Sewer/Garbage: $25
Gas Consumption: Natl. Avg. of 1000 miles/mo , 20 miles to the gallon = 1000/20= 50 gallons/mon * $3.75/gallon of gas = Monthly Gas Cost of: $187.50
So, estimated monthly Required bills to pay = $2012.50 * 3 months out of work = $6037.50 minimum in savings.
The bare minimum you would need to have in savings to survive w/o drastically changing the way you live. Remember, this is excluding food and assuming you canceled every novelty such as Cell phones, internet, home phone, television, Netflix(?), etc.
Bulk foods are stored up over time. Any savvy shopper wouldn't go spend $1,000 at costco for 3 months of food. You buy what you need online or from stores over time.
the problem with all those survival kits is, I don't beleive I saw one kit with a bottle of tequilla. What good would surviving be?
Why are you Americans so afraid of death? Or is it just the pain of starvation that frightens you? If I could create 'survival big macs and big gulps', I'd make a fortune.
I do not fear death. It's the eternal nothingness afterward I can't stand.
@twootwillery: You British?
I'm Amurican, I do whaa I waaant.
As many people have said. It's better to be safe, than sorry.
@iggz: i think he's just trollin'
@bogie21: Of course the people buying it are going to say that, it justifies their paranoia!
@rlapid2112: Damn trolls.
I first saw this at costco about 1 or 2 years ago. It came in a 5-gallon bucket that was meant to be used as a toilet if needed.
I don't think there's any particular hype, it's just a useful little insurance policy. Here in Norcal, we are prone to earthquakes, I was very near the epicenter of the 89 loma prieta quake. My neighborhood had no power for over 48 hours, and we had to drive 1/2 hour to get to a grocery store that had power just to buy some food, our regular supermarket was 1 block away. That quake was relatively minor, had it been a little bit worse, I could easily see a situation where having a few weeks worth of rations makes perfect sense.
I now live near Sacramento, and an earthquake that occurs while the rivers are high like they were about 10 days ago could easily have ruptured levies and resulted in widespread loss of easily available food.
Finally, do you think a few hundred thousand people around new orleans would have found this item useful a few years ago?
You poor thing! 2 whole days without power? In a balmy climate? Whatever did you do? and 30 minutes to the store? OH THE HORROR!
That said, much of the country has 48 hour+ power outages at times -- and even longer. Some of my buddies were without power for 3 weeks, and the average temp for those three weeks was below freezing -- and the nearest grocery store to my home is ~20 minutes away. That doesn't sound like much hardship, really. Any intelligent human knows enough to keep some food on hand for at least a few days. Several weeks of canned goods, and some bottled water are not hard, nor expensive to come by. The only real advantage these kits have is compactness -- grab one or two buckets, rather than a laundry basket of cans.
In my case, since I live in a place with frequent tornadoes and snow-storms, I just keep my camping gear in an easy-to-grab spot, a spare tank for the grill (warm meals, and possibly to consume perishables out of the freezer), a few jugs of bottled water (I rotate this out when canning or brewing), and some extra canned goods in the pantry. Total cost? $0, and I have enough food for my family, for 2 months if we have access to water, and 2 weeks if we need to only rely on the bottles I have.
@ozymandias2: wow, i have found one good reason to live in nevada; the last time we had anything close to 24 hours without power, it was some kind of west coast outage in, like, '98.
it does get hot, but it's a dry heat.
@ozymandias2: 48 hours without power in a major city is really serious.
most parts of the country that experience outages like that on a regular basis are used to it and are prepared, which was the point of my post... being prepared is the smart thing to do. I wasn't complaining how "HORRIBLE" it was, I was pointing out that it was JUST 48 hours, and stating that if it had lasted for several weeks, things would have been far more serious.
Now, stop trolling.
Much has been written on the contents of a survival kit.. but I'd add this: go to the liquor store and buy 2 or 3 cases of the most rot gut vodka (in the plastic bottles) you can get.
When the zombies attack and the economy grinds to a halt, you'll be able to barter liquor for some very high value items. ...and the shelf life = forever!
Any country...and I mean ANY country...no matter how wealthy and civilized they are in good times, is three weeks of empty grocery store shelves away from total anarchy.
It's never wise to take for granted things which make the difference between life and death.


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10 Most Unique Instruments – Part 1
1) Celestial Harp
Built by Robin Armstrong, the Celestial Harp is a 72-string harp based on the circle, square, and spiral. A large instrument, the musician must move around it to play, or multiple musicians must play it. The strings can be played in any manner—plucked, strummed, hammered, played with a slide, etc.
The original idea for the Celestial Harp was to play a person's horoscope musically. The Celestial Harp embodies the dream of expressing the spirituality of the heavens musically. It brings together the Zodiac, the Pyramid, the stars in the sky, the Solar System, and the I Ching. The sound of the instrument varies greatly due to the styles of the people playing it and its vast musical versatility.
2) Didgeridoo
The didgeridoo is a wind instrument created by the Australian Aborigines 1,500 years ago. Authentic didgeridoos are constructed from hardwood, usually eucalyptus or a natural bamboo, naturally hollowed by termites. They remove the bark, trim the ends, and shape the outside. They then apply beeswax to the mouthpiece to provide a seal when played.
Traditionally, only men can play the didgeridoo. Women do play, but only informally, and it is strongly discouraged. In the South East of Australia, the gender prohibition is most strongly adhered to. The Aborigines of the South East consider the playing of a didgeridoo by a non-indigenous woman "cultural theft."
In 2005, a study in the British Medical Journal found that regularly playing the didgeridoo strengthens muscles in the upper airway, and so helps to reduce snoring and obstructive sleep apnea. Only after the player learns the circular breathing technique do the muscles begin to strengthen.
3) Fire Organ
The fire organ uses the laws of thermoacoustics to produce sound. The pyrophone, like traditional pipe organs, has one pipe for each note and is activated by a piano keyboard. The sound that originates from the fire organ is created by the temperature difference across a set of channels in extremely close proximity. Propane flames on one end and liquid nitrogen on the other maintain the temperature of the fire organ.
4) Glass Armonica
Benjamin Franklin built the first glass armonica in 1761 after hearing water-filled wine glasses played in 1758 in England. Franklin stacked 37 bowls horizontally along an iron spindle, which a foot pedal turned. The player's moistened fingers touching the rims of the bowls creates the sound. Franklin recommended using powdered chalk on the fingers to produce a clearer tone. The glass armonica made it possible for ten glasses to be played at once, which is impossible with the standard musical glasses.
5) Kaisatsuko
Invented by Yuichi Onoue of Tokyo, Japan, the Kaisatsuko has two strings with a hand crank that spins a nylon wheel to vibrate the strings. These vibrations produce the constant drone sound of the strings. The wheel operates as mechanical bow. The sound can be altered by different techniques and musical styles. Although there are no frets, slide techniques work well to give the Kaisatsuko the sound of a traditional Asian instrument.
Have you ever heard of any of these? Come back tomorrow to learn about 5 more unique instruments!


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In other business Tuesday, the Leavenworth City Commission:
• Approved a bid from ...
In other business Tuesday, the Leavenworth City Commission:
• Approved a bid from Little Joe's Asphalt Paving, of Bonner Springs, for $284,214 for a 2014 Kansas Connecting Link Program resurfacing project. Public Works Director Mike McDonald said the KLINK program, as it's commonly called, is a Kansas Department of Transportation matching grant program. The program requires the city to pay for half of the cost.
The project will resurface portions of Fourth Street as well as a section of Spruce Street.
• Approved a change order for the Ottawa Street reconstruction project not to exceed $14,235.
• Reached a consensus to advance three ordinances for levying special assessments. The ordinances will be advanced for future votes. One of the ordinances would levy special assessments to pay for demolition costs of properties that were approved for demolition by the commission. Another would levy special assessments to recoup mowing fees associated with code enforcement. The third would levy special assessments for public sewer improvements at 811 Ottawa St.
• Met behind closed doors in executive session for 10 minutes to discuss land acquisition.
When they met Tuesday, Leavenworth city commissioners granted an appeal from a hotel developer seeking a variance from a development regulation.
The developer, Leavenworth Hotel Partners, sought a variance for the Fairfield Inn & Suites, which is being constructed at Fourth Street and Metropolitan Avenue.
At issue was a regulation concerning roof-mounted mechanical equipment. The regulation requires that such equipment be screened by a parapet wall or similar feature.
The new hotel building will have about 20 roof-mounted mechanical units.
"I believe all of those can be fully screened except for one," Leavenworth City Manager Scott Miller said.
John Davis, Jr., a representative of the developer, said the largest roof unit can be seen by people entering the city from the east.
"It's taupe in color," he said, which blends in with the building.
He said any screen that would be put up also would be taupe. He said placing a taupe screen in front of a taupe unit doesn't seem practical. He said the addition of a screen also would be expensive.
As part of the appeal process, commissioners discussed the matter during a public hearing. But, no one from the public commented.
Commissioners approved the appeal with a 4-0 vote. Commissioner Davis Moulden was absent.
After the variance was approved, Leavenworth Mayor Mark Preisinger asked when the hotel will open.
Jeff Sharp, another representative for the developer, said officials are shooting for Sept. 15. He said a ribbon-cutting may be scheduled for Oct. 2.
Also Tuesday, commissioners discussed adding a new parking classification to development regulations.
The issue arises from First United Methodist Church's plans to building a multi-use building on church grounds. The building would be short the required parking under existing regulations by 213 spaces.
Former City Planner Ralph Moore had suggested adding a recreational community center category to parking classifications in the city's development regulations.
"It would lessen the number of parking spaces required," Miller said.
He said the church still would be short by 95 spaces. But, church officials believe they would have a better chance of being granted a variance if the number was reduced to 95.
Miller said commissioners were not being asked to make a ruling on the variance Tuesday. They were being asked to consider amending the text of the development regulations to include the new parking classification.
The issue was placed on the agenda for first consideration. Commissioners agreed there was a consensus to advance the issue for a future vote.
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Thank you, sdj3! It is fantastic! There are hundreds of dance pics -- not only of Ballet Austin, but of dance companies and troupes from all over. I've bookmarked the site. It'll take hours to get through it!
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No problem, I had to pass this gem on to other dance fans!
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I just clicked the link and said to myself: hey, this looks familiar. Then I clicked to Insight Photography's Home Page and found ... our new member amitava. Small world. (And great pictures, too.)
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That site is wonderful. Not only does it have photos of Ballet Austin, but also other companies in Texas including Texas Ballet Theatre and Houston Ballet!
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What Lance Wants From Oprah
I would like to go on Oprah. So would you. Don't lie. Oprah is Oprah. Come on. It's not just that Oprah Winfrey has led a life of extraordinary influence upon public behavior—propelling cultural phenomena, launching best-sellers, mainstreaming philosophies, changing the lives of politicians, authors, doctors, designers, gurus, ordinary joes. It's also that Oprah is Oprah. She is a master of her medium, a friend, a confessional, fully in control, at peace in her own Oprah atmosphere. Oprah time is not harshly-lit, painful awkwardness. Oprah envelops you in Oprah-ness. She asks. You talk, because it's Oprah Winfrey. And Oprah listens. This is comforting. Everyone wants to be listened to, and the fact that it's Oprah doing the listening must be so seductive and affirming. I wouldn't even need to have something important to say to Oprah to want to be on Oprah. I would happily sit on a couch and tell Oprah what I had for breakfast. I would talk to Oprah about my cat. She could elevate my banalities into symphonies. My breakfast would be the greatest breakfast that ever happened. My cat would get his own TV show.
So Lance Armstrong is going to talk to Oprah. Next Thursday, Jan. 17, on Winfrey's channel, OWN. This should not surprise anyone. Armstrong is a public figure amid a consuming scandal and Winfrey offers a chance to reboot. Lance Armstrong wasn't going to sit for "60 Minutes" or "Dateline" or "E! True Hollywood" or "Wheel of Fortune" or any of the many legitimate cycling publications that have covered his career since he was a Speedo-wearing triathlete sprite. Those opportunities were there and plentiful but they could not deliver what Oprah Winfrey delivers, which is Oprah Winfrey herself. Winfrey's camp has said there are no conditions or prohibited questions on the Lance time—and this is very good—but what surely matters most to Armstrong is that he'll be sitting with Oprah, and not just Oprah, but Oprah's audience. It was always going to be Oprah. It just made the most sense.
I wouldn't say that people who follow pro cycling in this country--I don't mean sort of follow, like once a year, I mean really follow, like they know who won Liege-Bastone-Liege last year—are agitated about this. I think they're bemused. People who follow pro cycling reached their own conclusions on this and pretty much gave up a long time ago. I don't think they're expecting Oprah Winfrey to ask about hematocrit levels and the AFLD and the Tour of Switzerland. I don't think they expect to be satisfied. If you care about pro cycling you get used to being swept aside in the cultural mainstream. You're accustomed to cycling being a low priority. When you watch pro cycling on TV, it's always on the funny channels at the end of the dial, next to stations that sell abdominal flexors and pantyhose that also make waffles. You get used to the fact that bike racing in the U.S. is mostly an unglamorous place.
Lance Armstrong didn't want to live in that unglamorous place. To him, that place was for suckers. Armstrong wanted to be bigger, and the way to be bigger was to step outside his small sport, and build a story line that was irresistible and more substantial than any mucky race in Europe. And so he developed a narrative of his life that was very true in some ways and, according to allegations by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, appears not to have been true in other ways. And it worked. People loved the story of Lance Armstrong. He kept winning and became something bigger than who he was, something inspiring, transformative, almost mythic, which was probably the first signal it all could eventually go wrong.
It wasn't just outsiders who could be intoxicated. A few years ago I was at a dinner with a star pro cyclist—a guy who still races, and has won multiple Tour de France stages—and he spoke with slack-jawed awe about Armstrong's life. Not the bike racing part. The private jet part. The audiences with world leaders. The celebrity girlfriends. This bike racer was young and rich and in his prime and yet to him, Armstrong just kicked it on a completely different, interplanetary level. He didn't talk about Lance Armstrong like Lance Armstrong was a cyclist. He talked about Lance Armstrong like Lance Armstrong was Beyoncé.
That superhuman status set Armstrong up for the hardest kind of fall, and he has plummeted back to earth. Even though he rejected the doping allegations brought by USADA, he lost control of his narrative, and now there is only the thinnest of sympathy. Fame is being pushed aside by infamy. He has been humbled and humiliated and sponsors have left and his name has been stripped from his charity foundation. He is still a relatively young man, and it is said that he still wishes to compete, in important triathlons, but now he is banned from the best ones. There's something haunting and almost poetic about that. All that stamina, and nowhere to put it.
Rising and falling and attempting to rise again is the cardiac cycle of modern American life. And here's where Oprah comes in. As the ESPN writer Don Van Natta Jr. posted on Twitter, "You don't go on Oprah to confess. You go on Oprah to be forgiven." There are very real and troubling questions about the life of Lance Armstrong, and the collateral human damage along the way. But that's not what Armstrong's ambition is here. Lance is meeting Oprah. Oprah is meeting Lance. Questions will be asked, questions will be answered, but that's not really the point. It's about trying to clear a road ahead.
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Hi Andy!
Since you told me about the in/outbound relationship, I thought about the following:
Main idea:
If I could set up a ring connection for 3 nxts, then each nxt can be able to communicate with each other directly.
Assume that I have 3 NXTs..
They are named e.g. nxt1 nxt2 nxt3..
First off I use Bluetooth.waitForConnection on all 3 nxts,
then via Bluetooth.connect I create connections for:
nxt1 -> nxt2 & nxt3
nxt2 -> nxt1 & nxt3
nxt3 -> nxt1 & nxt2
Right now I don't have 3 nxts so I can't make any testing, but my professor told me that he had done the ring connection for 3 nxts before, so this should be doable.
I'm just not sure if I'm on the right track of the implementation idea...
So glad if you could give me some hints on this or correct me in case my idea is wrong..


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I used Google to translate "remember" and "remind". Both came out to be
recordar. Why is there no distinction made? You can only remember something by youself, but you have to remind someone else of something. How can recordar represent two different actions?
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I used Google to translate "remember" and "remind". Both came out to be
Recordar (and incidentally acordar) in Spanish works more like recall in English, than like remember or remind. In English, recall can be used in both senses as recordar, and context determines the meaning:
In both cases, the words recordar and recall are more about the act of pulling something from memory (similar to remeber), than the act of communication (as in remind). In the case of recalling to someone, it's the "to someone" part that implies the communication, not the verb itself.
EDIT Remember in English can also work this way, although it's rather rare, archaic or used for artistic purposes. Consider the Simon & Garfunkel lyrics from Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme:
When Spanish people learn English we have the same problem, why do you use two verbs ? For us
Recordar means
Later if you want to share it with someone or no (by yourself) it is up to you, because before remind to somebody to do something you have to remember it ;).