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Okay, firstly thank F**k for that, I guess he managed to figure out where the door was after all, now maybe we can see what the other housemates are made of.
Moving swiftly on...I read in the paper today that a teacher in Cardiff claimed that kids are being resourceful by using a high pitched ringtones to get around being caught texting in class. Apparently the tone can't be picked up by the ears of the older generation. How I miss the days before mobile phones in school, we came up with much more resourceful ways to communicate in class, and occasionally we also used the most obvious one...Our voice (doh!)
And finally there's 135 Big Brother 'Golden Tickets' available on eBay. Now I'm no Carol Vorderman, but since there's only 100 actual Golden Tickets in existence somethin' just don't add up. Could it be these poor gullible saps bidding are so desperate for...Ahem... 'fame' that they are in fact bidding for Kit Kat bars (retail price around 40p)....Surely no-one is that dumb (raises eyebrow)


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Reading this sweet read during lunch breaks.
So necessary.
So much sin. So many times I have said "that's just my/girl emotions." "That's just the way I am."
Entitlement breeds selfishness. I complain about having to open the hood and fill my windshield wiper fluid. It takes me all of lunch just to open the hood.. yadda yadda. At least I have a car.
I complain about waking up at 6:30 am on a Saturday after fasting then having the wrong glucose test administered and after usually eating clean being filled with 3 large slurpies worth of sugar. At least I have a job… that has health insurance… that practices what we preach.
Was I not reading in 1 Peter this morning? Is not the whole Bible about laying our life down for each other? I complain about not pumping the iron today because of the blood taken out of my arm. Remember That Man, the man who shed his blood for me on the cross when I was yelling, "Crucify Him."
We are unworthy. We have the cross. My heart yearns for others to know of the gospel. I trust God, but sometimes all I can look at is my "to-do" list. Sometimes, all I can think of is what I don't have that I forget the many , MANY blessings God has bestowed. I can't white knuckle it, but I … honestly don't have all the answers, but I have a God who does.
Psalm 138:8 has been displayed on my viser in my car for a couple of weeks- "The Lord will fulfill His purpose for me. Your steadfast love, O Lord, endures forever."
So much grace.
"He has saved us and called us to a holy life—not because of anything we have done but because of his own purpose and grace. This grace was given us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time."- 2 Timothy 1:9 NIV

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For weeks now we've been living out of boxes in unfinished rooms, using bathrooms that still need to be painted and unable to find half the stuff we're looking for. However, next week my husband's mother and sister will be visiting, which I know will mean cleanup both inside and out, as well as finishing most of what needs to be finished in the coming days.
I suppose this is all a good thing. It will force us to finish the projects we've started and start organizing and decorating. That isn't to say that we are in a complete state of chaos, as the kitchen is mostly put together, but there are some things even in there that require a little more effort to look refined. Not too refined, however, as I don't plan on unpacking most of our books, but perhaps make the house look like people actually live and enjoy the place by putting pictures on the walls and a few decorations. I guess that means we've got our work cut out for us.


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1(A)Pursue love, yet (B)desire earnestly (C)spiritual gifts, but especially that you may (D)prophesy.
2For one who (E)speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God; for no one understands, but in his spirit he speaks (F)mysteries.
3But one who prophesies speaks to men for (G)edification and (H)exhortation and consolation.
4One who (I)speaks in a tongue (J)edifies himself; but one who (K)prophesies (L)edifies the church.
5Now I wish that you all (M)spoke in tongues, but (N)even more that you would prophesy; and greater is one who prophesies than one who (O)speaks in tongues, unless he interprets, so that the church may receive (P)edifying.
I really love this. Growing up in the AG where "tongues was IT" I really love what Paul says in relation that gift. As a 'tongues speaker' myself, I can attest to the way that it edifies me....but also not that for many it's scary and weird. But, Paul does wish people to experience the gifts God has for the, whether tongues or not. Let us all continue to seek the Lord for the gifts He has for us.


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Episode 18, 7 June 2010
Talking of credibility, here's a news story about an almost incredible feat.
But Nine News obviously thought it came from a credible news source...
Wendy Kingston: Well simply learning a new language is a challenge in itself but what if that new language was Icelandic and you had Asperger's syndrome...
— Channel Nine Morning News, 2nd June, 2010
So did the ABC.
Ros Childs had the same story on The Midday Report...
Ros Childs: Daniel Tammet suffers from Asperger's syndrome and he's performed some astonishing feats of memory in his 31 years. Dubbed the 'British Rain Man', his latest accomplishment involves one of the world's most difficult languages.
— ABC Midday Report, 2nd June, 2010
The story came from one of the four giant American free-to-air networks, ABC - that's the American Broadcasting Company.
Its London-based correspondent Nick Watt first reminded us of some of the feats that the so-called 'British Rain Man', Daniel Tammet, has accomplished in the past...
Nick Watt: Scientists have tested Tammet's memory - they had him take a look at Pi. You read through them once?
Daniel Tammet: Yep.
Nick Watt: One time only?
Nick Watt: He memorised the first 22,000 digits of Pi. And then begins reciting the numbers back, in order.
Daniel Tammet:1,4,1,5,9,2,6...
— Channel Nine Morning News, 2nd June, 2010
And here's Daniel Tammet, performing that same feat, in the same room, recorded in the same camera shots, for a British documentary called Brainman, aired in Australia by our ABC's Catalyst program four years ago...
Well, OK, but that's an old story. So what's the news story?
Well, this, according to the American Broadcasting Co's Nick Watt:
Nick Watt: Not only are numbers a gift, but so are words. He knows eight languages, and we watched him pick up one more.
— Channel Nine Morning News, 2nd June, 2010
Now that, as it happens, is a bald-faced lie.
Nick Watt: Off to Reykjavik, Iceland, where Tammet touches down with a final challenge - to learn Icelandic. Remember the name of that Icelandic volcano that was in the news? He'll have just one week...
— Channel Nine Morning News, 2nd June, 2010
Here's a bit more of the documentary Brainman, filmed back in 2004...
Narrator: But we still had one last test for Daniel. He's now flying to Iceland for his ultimate challenge. We've given him a week to learn a totally new language from scratch - and then go live on national television.
— ABC Catalyst, 'Brainman', aired 7th and 14th September, 2006
And here's how the American news story ended...
Daniel Tammet: Ok, tell me when to go on.
Nick Watt: Tammet appeared on Icelandic TV - a live talk show...
Nick Watt: Holy cow! He nailed it!
— Channel Nine Morning News, 2nd June, 2010
Holy cow!
And here's Daniel nailing it in 2004...
Daniel Tammet: Ok, tell me when to go on.
— ABC Catalyst, 'Brainman', aired 7th and 14th September, 2006
American ABC is flogging clips from a five year old doco as if they were news.
When we brought the story to the attention of the British producer of Brainman, he emailed back:
...it is a gross distortion of the facts... To say that "we watched him" is clearly untrue and an abuse of our filmed material.
— Response from Martin Weitz (Producer, 'Brainman'; Founder, Focus Productions) to Media Watch, 3rd June, 2010
Read the response from Martin Weitz of Focus Productions
We asked some pointed questions of ABC News in New York. We received no reply.
Note to Australian news programs: don't assume that America's ABC is a credible news source.
Following Media Watch's story on 'Brainman', the American ABC program 20/20 published a correction, and the American television news industry blog TV Newser detailed our exposé.
09 Jun 2010 3:29:46am
Saw you're segment about the guy in Briton with Asperges,it's one thing to be able to have such a gift with languages and numbers but using them in what most would call a (normal) way is very difficult.
I have a son with Asperges now 23 years of age, speaks half a dozen languages,and an amazing memory, oh by the way one of those languages is Icelandic.
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I absolutely love Christmas! It is by far my favorite holiday because this day is when our Savior came into the world and gave us hope. There is something so special about the feeling of Christmas that no one, whether Christian or not, can deny. People seem noticeably kinder, happier and more generous around this time of the year than any other, and whether they know it or not, they are showing the heart of Jesus. I know there are some who let the busyness of Christmas get to them, and I myself have been guilty of that, but I made it a point this year to reflect on the true meaning of Christmas. While I do love shopping and wrapping presents, I know the gift we received when Jesus was born outweighs anything we will ever open up on Christmas morning.
To fully understand the love God had, and still has, for us to send His Son into this world for you and me is beyond my comprehension. In Philippians 2:6-8 the Bible says, "Who(Jesus), being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped (used to His own advantage), but made Himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to death - even death on a cross!" It's very clear here that Jesus began sacrificing for us before His crucifixion. This to me, is what Christmas is all about - God showing His love to the world by giving us a Savior.
As you continue to enjoy the Christmas season, let's not forget that sharing the good news of Jesus is something we can give to others everyday. Merry Christmas everyone and remember to walk in love and speak in peace.


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God I Love Rural Virginia!Locust Dale, VA on Rt. 15 in Madison County. It has it all--An old boarded up building, a beat-up trailer for a post office and a two door outhouse in the parking lot! Who could ask for more. God's country.
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In the midst of a four-team war to secure the best possible opening round opponent in the upcoming playoffs and another heated race to clinch an Atlantic Division title, the Toronto Raptors couldn't have chosen a better time to catch fire. Entering Friday's action, they had won eight of their past 10 games.
But instead of securing home-court advantage in the first round of the postseason, winning the franchise's second division crown, or equalling a team high with their 47th victory, the Raptors fell flat in front of the home crowd in a frustrating 108-100 loss to the New York Knicks.
Now in fourth and one game back of the Chicago Bulls for third place in the Eastern Conference , the Raptors have made significant improvements on both sides of the ball during their rise to the top of the Atlantic the past few months. But while Toronto has been ranked within the league's top-10 in points allowed nearly all year, recent results show signs that this young squad has been bailed out by their offense far too often.
Prior to Friday's contest at the Air Canada Center, the Raptors had allowed an average of 97.1 points per game this season, good for seventh in the NBA. As promising as that statistic may be, it's become impossible to ignore the fact that including Friday's loss to the Knicks, the Raptors have now allowed their opponents to score at least 100 points in three of their last five games.
While Toronto has managed to come out on top in two of those three games, allowing their opponents to surpass the century mark has been lethal to the Raptors all season, and their most recent loss to the Knicks was a prime example of what can happen when a team becomes too reliant on their collective offensive abilities.
In fact, Toronto hasn't completed a single month of the current campaign with a record over .500 in games in which they've allowed 100 points or more, and on the season, the Atlantic Division leaders have gone a surprisingly dismal 10-25 when their opponent reaches triple digits.
Complacency and lack of focus on either end of the floor are one of the many common denominators for teams this time of year regardless of the situation. But in order to avoid sliding down the standings in the East and an early dismissal from the NBA playoffs, the Raptors need to put forth the same type of defensive efforts that carried them when the offense couldn't lift a finger.


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|Jackie in her iconic sunglasses
Photo thanks to the Traveling Through Decades blog
Of all the style icons that exist, Jackie Onassis has probably been the most influential for me. When I was fourteen years old, after finally getting my very first pair of contacts, my mother took me shopping for a celebratory pair of (non-prescription) sunglasses. After a rather exhaustive search, she helped me decide on a pair by Roxie that were aptly named the "Jackie O." I remember my mother explaining to me that it didn't get more elegant than Jackie, and that big, black sunglasses were definitely the way to go. While I have my mother to thank for bestowing this style savvy sage wisdom upon me, I am also especially thankful for Jackie Onassis and her dark sunglasses.
Since then, I've upgraded from my original pair of Roxie glasses. Several times, in fact. Over the years, I've gone from Roxie to Calvin Klein, to Chanel, to Burberry, and to Chloé--holding on to each pair for years and years until a transition is warranted. With each switch, my sunglasses have gotten a little bit bigger and a little bit darker. After all, it worked for Jackie, so why not me? I purchased my current pair, the Chloé Myrte, during an epic New York shopping excursion at Saks with some of my besties, Annie Rose and India, and four years later, I'm starting to think an upgrade from here might be impossible. It's mostly a question of frame size, as I have to wonder, does something bigger even exist? Perhaps I have found my signature look, and now I need to buy up a lifetime supply of Myrtes so that I'll never have to go without...
|My oversized Chloés hit the streets of Paris with me
Photo my Sarah M. Barton, March 2010
Whatever the case, oversized sunglasses are definitely my thing--a look that I have absolutely and completely borrowed from the original source, Jackie herself--and now I just don't feel like myself without them. A couple of years ago, a dear coworker shared an amazing song with me, called "Jackie Onassis" by the band Human Sexual Response. The opening lines pretty much say it all: I want to be like Jackie Onassis/I want to wear a pair of dark sunglasses. So thank you, Jackie, for representing all that was and is elegant, timeless, and true--and for immortalizing a look that I've taken as my own.


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Cute hair is hard to obtain when the daily temperatures range between 98 and 99 degrees.
My hair doesn't frizz in this heat and humidity, but it does get very very hot to keep down.
I just put my hair in this cute little double braid side pony (I'm loving the side pony recently!) and thought I would share.


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Hi there,
I'm planning the migration of our current HP EVA 4000 to a brand new FAS3140.
On the EVA i have 5 data volumes (on separated VDISK) for +/- 3TB available (+/-2.5TB in use before data cleanup). These volumes are presented to a MSCS acting as file server (1volume/ root share).
From migration point, the file server(s) are going to be replaced by the FAS3140. I'm wondering what is the best option in regards with building the new storage.
My thoughts so far:
Building a single 3 to4 TB volume and create the requested shares on this volume.
Vscan on on all the shares.
My questions:
Is this conform to what would be the best pratices ?
I can't see much negative point for having one single volumes. We'll a dual-head config, volume will be splitted accross multiples shelves, and we'll keep enough spare disks to cover-up any kind of hardware failure.
any tips will be welcome !
On NetApp the aggregate is the base unit of storage which then contains volumes, which are logical items. The more physical disks the aggregate has the better the performance will be.
You have not said if you want to use LUNs or not.
You have said HA is something you are thinking about.
Have a read of this.
Hope this helps
Thansk for your answer.
I'll give some more details:
There will be +/- 380 users, using Office programs + Roaming profile and home dir
I'm planning to build one aggregate with +/-16 to 20 spindles (bases on SATA drives), on this aggregate I'm planning to build one volume that will be then access through CIFS. On this volume I'll then migrate the data currently held by the 5 LUN on the EVA.
I'm going to have LUN (FC in first place, iSCSI when the network will be upgraded and following HW replacement), but not for file services purpose.
SnapMirror is also on the list but that will come a bit after the file server migration.
You can use ROBOCOPY to move the data from the HP system to the NetApp
NAS system via a Windows server and keep the file permissions.
That's what I working on
My question is more:
Am I the right driection migrating everything to one aggregate / one volume ?
Definitely towards fewer aggregates (single if possible generally speaking) as the more disks you have in an aggregate the better performance you get.
For multiple volumes vs. one, the factors out there involve....
Another option for moving data via CIFS...I just read about RichCopy in the April issue of TechNet magazine. There's also a link in the article for Robocopy GUI.
Don't forget VFM! VFM (Virtual File Manager) is a great tool for migrating data around, especially CIFS data (that's what it's best at really!).
Pretty much backing up what the other guys have said, keep the aggregates as big as possible to make full use of the spindle count, but create as many volumes as you need management groups or you need application granularity.Snapshots are taken at the volume level too, so you want to group data in a volume that you want the same retention and replication policies on.
For Exchange for instance you'd need several volumes to allow you to use SnapManager for Exchange. Whereas user home directories you could have one volume, and department shares could also be one volume but could be separated into Qtree's (think of them as management directories) for each department. You can replicate data (if you get that far in the design) based on either volumes or on Qtree's, so it pays to take a little time to plan the layout ahead of tiem.
Lots of options for you really, and the NetApp does a great job of helping you make the most of it.


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Friday, November 21, 2014
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The Long Beach Road
This past weekend I took my 6 year old son on his first camping trip on the beach. Specifically, we went to Padre Island National Seashore, which has been the site of many camping trips with my oldest son over the years. It's frankly not the prettiest, most pristine beach on earth but the solitude is hard to beat.
From the point where the blacktop dumps you on the beach, there are 63 miles of uninterrupted sand on which to camp. The first 5 miles or so are accessible by any vehicle but it's 4×4 only after that point for the most part. That fact eliminates the casual beach trippers and helps keep the number of campers down.
Our normal modus operandi on our beach trips is be very minimalist and not set up a permanent camp. This allows us to be mobile and chase the fish so to speak (often you can drive and spot them silhouetted in the surf as the waves roll over). We might go up and down sections of the beach several times in a day. However, since it was this son's first trip, we just set up a camp and concentrated on spending time together having fun rather than worrying about how good the fishing was. He had a grand time fishing, finding shells, chasing crabs, throwing the football, swimming…he was never bored for a single moment.
The picture above was taken by our campsite as the sun rose Saturday morning. As you can see, there isn't anyone in sight as far as the eye can see. It was the same in the other direction. Those tire tracks represent the long road back to civilization — 28 miles to the blacktop in this case. No cell service available anywhere on that road. It's great to be isolated like that occasionally…we're headed back in a couple weeks.
The image is not an HDR (you know you do HDR a lot if you feel like you have to specify when it's *not* an HDR). I had bracketed the shot with the thought of tonemapping mainly to bring out the texture in the sand. However, I ended up using Topaz Adjust, levels, and curves on a layer then masking the original sky back in.
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Great photos as usual 🙂 I live north of Austin 🙂
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I have over the past months picked up some things for the baby on a very haphazard basis. Dad-to-be has been picking things up also. For the major purchases I have been doing a lot research – reading reviews, talking to other parents, trying out items in the story before committing, asking random strangers in the street – knowing in the back of my mind that with these things you never really can tell how something functions until you're holding a screaming baby or mischievous toddler while trying to operate said item, AND every baby/ household/ family/ situation is different. But there's something about the research that makes me feel like I have things in "control". I have a pretty good strategy for the big baby things.
On the other baby stuff, not so much. And we all know that as much as we think that things are in control, they are never in control.
Just the other day, I wanted to take advantage of the great post-Christmas sales and stock up on the baby's layette. Nothing beats going shopping for cute little baby clothes. This was one area that I hadn't put too much thought into. Apart from some advice from moms on sizes and special items that work well, etc I was hoping to just wing this one.
After a day at the mall I came home tired and frustrated with a lousy couple of items to show for all of my work. The reason – it's freaking hard to find neutrals. EVERYTHING is either completely girlish or completely boyish. Why didn't anyone tell me I was going to have a hard time? I would have planned for this!!
I understand that more and more people are finding out the sex of their baby. That's totally cool. As a result there are more parents than 20, 10 even 5 years ago that are looking for gender specific things. But what about us expectant parents who don't know? There clearly aren't enough yellow jumpers to go around – if they are even designed at all.
To illustrate my point, I pulled a few website screen grabs from the Gap, Old Navy and Roots – very popular retailers. I'd like you to observe the sub-sections that I am highlighting with my mouse in these images. Please note that the headers have some variation of "baby boy" and "baby girl". No general baby category to encompass the "unknown" "TBD" "not yet defined" baby.
Exhibit A
This is not going to be pretty.
Now I know better. Now I know that shopping for neutrals won't be a walk in the green and yellow park.
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I do not use CURL myself separately.
A quick search in the project showed that CURL.H is included in HttpClient.cpp which is in the network/HttpClient folder.
I am using v3.11
I do not use CURL myself separately.
A quick search in the project showed that CURL.H is included in HttpClient.cpp which is in the network/HttpClient folder.
I am using v3.11
@dbest10 in v3.11
HttpClient.cpp doesn't include
curl.h either. You can check
cocos/cocos2d.cpp to check the version.
We using version 3.12 and Apple rejecting our apps and they keep sending us this message
Performance - 2.1
We were unable to review your app as it crashed on launch. We have attached detailed crash logs to help troubleshoot this issue.
Next Steps
Please revise your app and test it on a device while connected to an IPv6 network (all apps must support IPv6) to ensure it will launch without crashing.*
The apps have already updated with 7.50 curl libraries . We use HttpClient to request web services . Any suggestions please?
@bhonzo it seems your app crashed on launch. Does it caused by IPV6? You can test it in IPV6 environments to have a test yourself.
But it still includes in
HttpClient.cpp in v3.12
Yep, sorry for my careless. But it is not used on iOS.
I got around my error using this work around.
ifdef LP64
define CURL_SIZEOF_LONG 8
define CURL_SIZEOF_LONG 4
however when I test it on ipv6 only network, it still doesn't work.
Where do you define this?
@zhangxm - so there is curl.h even though not used.
We should think of a fix soon, as it is impacting most of the iOS apps.
at curlbuild.h
I don't know why it has compiling issues. It passes jenkins building in cocos2d-x.
@x10ng could you share your test case? Now iOS doesn't use CURL.
@zhangxm 我在用cocos2d-js v3.10,昨天更新了补丁v104的curl和websocket覆盖了项目的。
在IPv6环境下测试网络是OK的 提交apple store试试,但是今天发现一个问题,有一个消息偶尔会丢。。
@yaoqiang_cc please use english, then all developers can discuss it. Thanks.
@x10ng i update curl, adding missed .a and handle different header files for 32-bit and 64-bit. Will you please have a try? Thanks.
I'm using cocos2d-js v3.10, my app is a card game, I have updated patch use v3-deps-104, and covers the curl and websocket folder to my project. The good news is the network is OK in the IPv6 environment ,everything is OK, so I submitted to the Apple store, but today a problem is found, a message will occasionally throw (the game over event message)… I checked the server side, no question be found… and I switched the app to last version(the curl and websocket lib is used cocos2d-js v3.10), the message will be arrived 100%, Is the new websocket question?
@yaoqiang_cc good news to hear that the network works. What's the message? Could you please describe it in more detail? Thanks.
Does this mean that we need to update the 3rd party library and reupload?
I covers the curl and websockets library the 3rd party library v107 https://github.com/cocos2d/cocos2d-x-3rd-party-libs-bin/releases/tag/v3-deps-107, and the apple store approved.
But, a new issues did produce, same as https://github.com/cocos2d/cocos2d-x/issues/15742.
maybe the reason is libwebsockets, in v3-deps-107, the libwebsockets did upgrade to version 1.6.0 or later.
the libwebsocket library issue can be found here: https://github.com/warmcat/libwebsockets/issues/593
today, I did change this way:
comment the https://github.com/cocos2d/cocos2d-x/blob/v3/cocos/network/WebSocket.cpp line598
// info.extensions = exts;
the message was recieved OK(100%).
But I don't know is this way will get other issue or the performance hit for comment this extensions?
maybe there be the best way…
@zhangmx, to support IPv6, just need replace the curl library? the websocket library can ignore? means that the websocket library can still use the coocs2d-x v3.10 include?


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As young teachers, we've got a lot of great time on our hands in the summer. Mike and I teach at the same school, and one day in June, we were talking about our summer plans. It was a very, very short discussion. We looked at each other, at our bank accounts, and at our summer plans, and said, "What are we waiting for?" And so began our travels. Now, five years later, we are hooked. Yes, it's convenient that neither of us has yet married. So, for now we are living it up by traveling the globe in our free time - and sharing our experiences with our students and with you. Travel is amazing - but it also takes thought, planning and energy. One of the first things that we found after our first trip was how exhausted we were. Since then, we've both gotten much more into exercise and we have more energy with which to travel these days. We'll share some of these exercise tips with you here. We've also learned how to budget for our adventures, how to plan our itinerary, how to keep from getting robbed on the road and so much more. We're... Continue reading
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The first time we went to the hardware store Bauhaus, we got two 25kg bundles, and put them on our friends new flatbed if you like variety of removal trolley and we take it for a walk home about a 10min walk. I love the relaxed bustle of the local markets at Hermannplatz it's low key compared to the Turkish markets down by the canal and it is the most direct way home, so we push it through the busy Friday afternoon markets, in the dark at 4pm and boy did we get funny looks from all age groups. I was laughing so hard but this didn't help us focus on keeping the two bundles from sliding off the edges, where are we, what are we doing?
You see most people order 1 or 2 tonnes of coal or wood to get them through the winter in September or October we are looking forward to our Landlord clearing out some space in the cellar. We were getting quite good at the art of burning coal in the ovens, we thought and then the neighbor was over and she gave us a demo, oh my you have to burn the bricks down so they are all red, and nearly gone, leave the doors open on the oven to keep the draft charging and windows open to let any fumes out. Hmmmm certainly makes the oven hotter and then this radiates the warmth over the next 8hrs, it is the best lower back warmer!
Then one day the hardware store had these wood briquettes and we got tempted, but resisted until they were on discount now they were only 6¢ more than coal, can't ignore the fact that burning coal seems completely wrong. I remember last using coal in a fire in the country when I was about 8 years old. If you let it burn down first and freshen the room before and whilst starting the fire and control the flu properly then the coal heat really is a nice heat.
The ovens also have a middle compartment which is like a warming rack great for baking your own bread and drying clothes the eco way. So the past two visits we have bought wood briquettes and it feels better to be buying and burning them. Now today we thought better save money and buy coal and the isle again looks completely different, the two types of coal are missing, and a different type of wood is there, and it's more expensive, ok it's time to act like a local and get some wood or coal delivered!


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Fantasy Round 51: Blood of Ambrose
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Merlin is not the hero.
Blood of Ambrose is the first in a series written by James Enge. It's an amusing sword and sorcery tale, which hints at Arthurian legend without being beholden to it. It concerns the defense of Uther's kingdom from a usurper trying to steal it away from his descendant, in an alternate fantasy-world. Merlin's children are at the forefront.
It's a fun romp, and worth reading if you don't want to think too hard about the real world for a little while.
And now, I will think a little too hard about this book. The biggest spoiler is a bit at the end that doesn't have a big impact on the main plot.
Categories: Clement's Game Arthurian, fantasy, Merlin


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Wrestlezone have announced a fourth contest for their October 8th event at the Balmedie Leisure Centre in Balmedie.
It has been confirmed that Jason Reed will take on Andy Wild in singles competition in Balmedie on October 8th.
Photo Credit: Wrestlezone
The announced match card is as follows:
Match Card
Jimbo Bannon vs Chris Archer
Super Executioner vs Johnny Lions
Bryan Tucker vs Mikkey Vago
Jason Reed vs Andy Wild
More Information
Doors Open: 7.00pm. Bell Time: 7.30pm.
Tickets: Available on the door, on the night (dependent on availability).
Source: Wrestlezone


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Java Design: On the Observer Pattern
Java Design: On the Observer Pattern
Dominik Gruntz, University of Applied Sciences, Aargau, email@example.com
We recently developed a small multi-view editor and made strong use of the observer design
pattern. In particular, we tried to implement auto correction input fields, i.e., text fields which
correct their text while typing. We thereby stumbled over two problems of the observer pattern
(revealed with thrown Java exceptions) which are not often discussed in the pattern literature:
cyclic dependencies and update causality. In this article, we discuss these problems and discuss
implementations of the auto correction input field.
The Observer Pattern
The observer design pattern is used to assure consistency between objects. It is a form of a one-to-
many relationship between a publisher of an event and many subscribers that wish to receive event
notifications. The subscriber objects implement an observer interface that is known by the subject and
register it with the subject. The subject notifies all registered subscribers by calling one of the methods
in the observer interface whenever an event occurs. Simple interfaces for both the subject and the
observer are shown in Listing 1. The subject calls its notify operation whenever its state changes. The
notify method calls the update method of all registered observers, which may call back to the subject
and read the subject's state. The observer pattern is used in Swing to implement the communication
between the model and the views of Swing components; and it is also the design pattern underlying
event notifications in JavaBeans.
interface Subject { interface Observer {
void addObserver(Observer observer); void update();
void removeObserver(Observer observer); }
void notify();
Listing 1: Subject and Observer interface
Although this pattern is heavily discussed in many books on software design [Gam95, Gra98], two
aspects are usually not mentioned: cyclic dependencies and causality of event notifications. In a
project with a complicated Swing user interface we stumbled over both problems and run into Java
exceptions. The goal of this paper is to discuss these two problems and to give design hints.
Cyclic Dependencies
With the observer design pattern it is rather easy to introduce hidden cycles into a software system. In
our example we defined a TextField with a corresponding observer implementing the TextListener
interface. Upon an text value changed event, the observer set the value of a model representing a color
in our example. This state change of the model implied that all registered model observers were
notified. One model listener implementing the ColorListener interface was registered to adjust the
content of the text field with the setText method. The invocation of this method implied a call of the
textValueChanged method of the text field listener, which set the value of the color model, and so on.
This cyclic structure is shown in Figure 1, and the calling sequence which lead to an infinite recursion
is shown in the sequence diagram in Figure 2.
Figure 1: A cyclic dependency between two subjects and its observers
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1: setColor
220.127.116.11.220.127.116.11.1: setText
220.127.116.11: setText
188.8.131.52.18.104.22.168: update
18.104.22.168.1.1.1: notify
1.1.1: update
1.1: : notify
18.104.22.168.1.1: setColor
22.214.171.124.184.108.40.206.1.1: textValueChanged
188.8.131.52.1: textValueChanged
Figure 2: Recursive update sequence
This recursion has to be broken at any of the four live lines, i.e., within an observer implementation
(TextListener or ColorListener) when setting the state of its associated model or within the model itself
(TextField or ColorModel) upon notification of its observers.
For the first solution each listener which calls the setState method (setText or setColor in the above
example) has to compare the old state with the new one. If they are equal, the setState method is not
called. With the second solution the latter comparison is performed directly within the subject. The
subject will only notify its observers if a real state change happens. For self-written models this logic
can directly be added to the setState methods, for existing classes the setState methods have to be
overwritten in a subclass.
setState (State newState){ // in a subclass of TextField
if(!currentState.equals(newState)){ public void setText(String text){
currentState = newState; if(!getText().equals(text)){
notify(); super.setText(text);
} }
} }
The second solution is the preferred one as it frees the implementers of the listeners to take care of the
cyclic dependency problem. A model should notify its listeners only if the state has really changed.
Surprisingly, Java's text field component does not behave like this. Within the abstract window toolkit
(AWT) any call to the method setText of a TextField results in the notification of all registered listener
(if the peer has been installed), independent of whether the value has changed or not (the notifications
are executed from within the separate AWT event queue thread).
With Swing, the setText method first performs a remove operation followed by an insert operation on
the corresponding document model. Both of these operations are always notified over all document
listeners. However, with Swing instead of an infinite recursion an IllegalStateException is thrown in
the above situation (with the message "attempt to mutate in notification"). This means, that a call of
setText was detected while another call to setText was still active.
Reentrant State Changes
The latter problem we just have mentioned is a special case of a problem which will appear if the
update method of an observer (directly or indirectly) changes the observed subject's state. New event
notifications are then generated while old notifications have not yet been delivered to all observers. A
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consequence of this situation is that different observers may see the subject in different states when
handling the same update notification. Furthermore, the causality of the update notifications is no
longer guaranteed, i.e., an observer may get an update notification issued by an observer state change
before it receives the original notification that triggered this state change. The problem of such call
backs is discussed in the context of the observer pattern in [Szy02].
In Figure 3, a sequence diagram illustrates the problem. A client calls setState1 on a subject and this
implies a notification of all registered observers. The notification corresponding to setState1 is named
update1. The change of the subject's state from within update1 is called setState2 and is notified with
update2. You see that observer observer1 receives the update notifications in the correct order update1
followed by update2, but observer2 receives the update notifications the other way round.
126.96.36.199: setState2
1: setState1
126.96.36.199.1.2: update2
184.108.40.206.1.1: update2
22.214.171.124.1: notify
1.1.2: update1
1.1.1: update1
1.1: notify
Figure 3: Sequence diagram of a nested notification
As a concrete application consider a text model which delivers model changed events to its registered
observers. Let the first observer observer1 be an auto-correction (or T9 input converter) observer and
let the second observer be a view (e.g. a text field which adjusts its visual representation only based on
the events it receives). The auto-correction observer replaces a text pattern with another one as text is
typed (I am just working with an editor which offers such a feature and which nerves me from time to
time…). For example, if a closing parenthesis is entered and if this leads to the character sequence
"(c)" then this pattern will be replaced with the copyright symbol "©". Assume that we have the text
"(c Sun microsystems Inc." in the text model and let us add the character ")" at position 2. This model
change is notified by an InsertString(2, ")") event. Observer observer1 removes three characters
starting at position 0 (notified with a Remove(0, 3) event) and then inserts a new character at position 0
(notified with an InsertString(0, "©") event). Now consider the notifications which are received by the
second observer which displays the model in the text field. In the following list the update messages
and the resulting text in the field is displayed:
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Text Field Content
"(c Sun microsystems Inc."
Remove(0, 3 ) "Sun microsystems Inc."
InsertString(0, "©") "©Sun microsystems Inc."
InsertString(2, ")") "©S)un microsystems Inc."
Since the update messages arrived in a different order at observer observer2 as they were initiated in
the model, the resulting value in the text field differs from the model.
There exist several possibilities to resolve this problem:
1. One solution is to enumerate the updates. This would allow the observers to recognize whether an
event is pending and they could delay the handling of an update until all preceding events have
arrived. Pending events would have to be stored in a queue. Although the events are handled in the
proper order, different observers may still see the subject in different states when handling a
particular event. Thus some bookkeeping on the observer side would be necessary.
The events could also be stored in a delivery queue on the subject's side and delivered only when
all preceding events have been delivered to all observers, but observers could still observe different
states on the subject when handling a particular event.
2. Instead of keeping the notification events in a queue, the subject could also delay the execution of
state change operations performed during an event notification and keep them in an operation
queue. As a consequence, all observers would see the subject at the same state upon event
notifications, but we would have asynchronous calls for reentrant state change operations. Clients
would have to be prepared for such an asynchronous calling model.
3. The last and simplest solution is to throw an exception whenever the subject's state is changed
during a notification and leave the problem to the user. This is the solution specified as event
model guideline in the JavaBeans specification. The specification demands, that all listeners must
be notified when an event is dispatched, before any further mutations occur to the source of the
event; otherwise, an IllegalStateException is thrown.
In Swing, the document events (DocumentEvent and UndoableEditEvent) follow this specification.
Thus, it is not possible in Swing to change the content of a text field through its API from within a
listener bound to such a field during an event notification. Thus, in order to implement auto correction
fields, a solution has to be found which avoids reentrant state changes.
Auto Correct Fields: Subclassing Solutions
The first attempt was to subclass JTextField and to overwrite setText with a method that applies the
auto correction rules. This solution works as long as all state change operations go through the text
field's setText method. Editing a text field interactively however uses the underlying document class
directly. This document class allows to register a change listener, but from within such a listener the
value of the text model cannot be changed as we have seen above.
In order to control the value of the document model we have to provide our own implementation
which may be derived using subclassing. However, this approach can only be applied if the class
which implements the Document interface is known. Inspecting the Java sources reveals that the
default model is implemented in class javax.swing.text.PlainDocument.
Within an extension class of PlainDocument we could overwrite the notification routines (fireInsert-
Update, fireChangedUpdate, fireRemoveUpdate). If an auto correction would have to be performed,
the model were changed, otherwise the event would be delivered to the listeners using a super call.
Although this solution works for the auto correction fields, it could not be applied in cases where the
old value of the document model would have to be accessible (e.g. for validating input fields where it
must be possible to revoke invalid operations).
The solution proposed in the API documentation of JTextField is to extend the class PlainDocument
and to overwrite the insertString method. This method is called before the model is changed. Based on
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the arguments which describe the edit operation the document can be modified. Such a solution is
shown in Listing 2.
A drawback of this solution is that we restrict the implementation to work with our document
implementation only. Thus the setDocument operation has to be restricted to support only special
document models. As the setDocument method is called during initialization (with a document of type
PlainDocument even if the createDefaultModel method is overwritten) it cannot simply throw an
UnsupportedOperationException. We use a boolean flag which is set to true after the base class has
been initialized to test whether setDocument is called from a base class constructor.
public class JAutoCorrectField extends JTextField {
private boolean initialized = true;
public JAutoCorrectField(){super();}
public JAutoCorrectField(int columns) {super(columns);}
public JAutoCorrectField(String text) {super(text);}
public JAutoCorrectField(String text, int columns) {super(text, columns);}
protected javax.swing.text.Document createDefaultModel() {
return new AutoCorrectDocument();
public void setDocument(javax.swing.text.Document d){
if(!initialized || d instanceof AutoCorrectDocument) // allow calls during initialization of base class
throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
private static class AutoCorrectDocument extends PlainDocument {
public void insertString(int offset, String str, AttributeSet a) throws BadLocationException {
super.insertString(offset, str, a);
if(str.length() == 1){ // autocorrect only if one letter is inserted
String newValue = getText(0, getLength());
String pat = "(c)";
String rep = "©";
int pos = newValue.lastIndexOf(pat, offset+1);
if(offset+1 - pos == pat.length()){
remove(pos, pat.length());
super.insertString(pos, rep, a);
Listing 2: Auto correct field using subclassing
Auto Correct Fields: Forwarding Solution
In order to support arbitrary document implementations, forwarding has to be used, i.e., an
implementation of the Document interface has to forward the methods to a contained document
instance. Since Java does not support forwarding in the language directly, all methods in the Document
interface have to be forwarded to the inner document instance. In order to make the code more
readable we implement the document wrapper in the separate class AbstractDocumentWrapper (see
Listing 3).
abstract class AbstractDocumentWrapper implements javax.swing.text.Document {
private javax.swing.text.Document d; // the inner document instance
public AbstractDocumentWrapper (javax.swing.text.Document d){this.d = d; }
public void addDocumentListener(DocumentListener listener){
public void removeDocumentListener(DocumentListener listener){
public void addUndoableEditListener(UndoableEditListener listener){
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public void removeUndoableEditListener(UndoableEditListener listener){
public int getLength(){return d.getLength();}
public String getText(int offset, int length) throws BadLocationException {
return d.getText(offset, length);}
public void getText(int offset, int length, Segment txt) throws BadLocationException{
d.getText(offset, length, txt);}
public Object getProperty(Object key){return d.getProperty(key);}
public void putProperty(Object key, Object value){d.putProperty(key, value);}
public Position getStartPosition(){return d.getStartPosition();}
public Position getEndPosition(){return d.getEndPosition();}
public Position createPosition(int offs) throws BadLocationException{return d.createPosition(offs);}
public Element[] getRootElements(){return d.getRootElements();}
public Element getDefaultRootElement(){return d.getDefaultRootElement();}
public void render(Runnable r){d.render(r);}
public void remove(int offs, int len) throws BadLocationException {d.remove(offs, len); }
public void insertString(int offset, String str, AttributeSet a) throws BadLocationException {
d.insertString(offset, str, a);
Listing 3: Abstract Document Wrapper
We can now define auto correct text fields which work with arbitrary document models. The method
setDocument and the given document model is wrapped with our own implementation. The extension
of the abstract wrapper class is the place where we add our hook which looks similar to the subclassing
solution. However, supercalls are forwarded to the inner document instance in the wrapper class. The
resulting class is shown in Listing 4.
public class JAutoCorrectField extends JTextField {
public JAutoCorrectField(){super();}
public JAutoCorrectField(int columns) {super(columns);}
public JAutoCorrectField(String text) {super(text);}
public JAutoCorrectField(String text, int columns) {super(text, columns);}
public void setDocument(javax.swing.text.Document d){
if(! (d instanceof Document)) d = new Document(d);
private static class Document extends AbstractDocumentWrapper {
Document(javax.swing.text.Document d){super(d);}
public void insertString(int offset, String str, AttributeSet a) throws BadLocationException {
super.insertString(offset, str, a);
if(str.length() == 1){ // autocorrect if one letter is inserted
String newValue = getText(0, getLength());
String pat = "(c)";
String rep = "©";
int pos = newValue.lastIndexOf(pat, offset+1);
if(offset+1 - pos == pat.length()){
remove(pos, pat.length());
super.insertString(pos, rep, a);
Listing 4: Auto correct field using forwarding
Note, that only changes performed through the document wrapper are validated. If a client has a
reference to the underlying document model, it will be able to change its content without restrictions.
Document Filters in Java 1.4
Sun microsystems has recognized the lack of interaction control of text fields in Swing. Since version
1.4 of the Java 2 platform document filters are available which can be plugged into a document.
Whenever an edit operation is executed on a document, the corresponding method in the document
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filter is invoked. It is the filter's responsibility to mutate the document. Since Sun did not want to
extend the Document interface, the registration of a document filter is provided in the class
AbstractDocument restricting its use to extensions of this class.
interface DocumentFilter {
void insertString(DocumentFilter.FilterBypass bypass, int offset, String string, AttributeSet attr) ;
void replace(DocumentFilter.FilterBypass bypass, int offset, int length, String text, AttributeSet attr) ;
void remove(DocumentFilter.FilterBypass bypass, int offset, int length)
Prior to insertion, removal or replacement of text the corresponding filter method is invoked. The
bypass parameter can be used to perform operations on the document directly, i.e., without going
through the filter again. We can now transform our previous solutions onto this new model. An auto
correction filter implementation for text fields is shown in Listing 5. Although Swing's JTextField
implementation filters all insert operations with the replace method, we should implement the
insertString method.
JTextField tf = new JTextField();
AbstractDocument doc = (AbstractDocument)tf.getDocument();
new DocumentFilter(){
public void replace(DocumentFilter.FilterBypass fb,
int offset, int length, String string, AttributeSet attr) throws BadLocationException {
if(length > 0) fb.remove(offset, length);
insertString(fb, offset, string, attr);
public void insertString(DocumentFilter.FilterBypass fb,
int offset, String string, AttributeSet attr) throws BadLocationException {
fb.insertString(offset, string, attr);
if(str.length() == 1){
Document d = fb.getDocument();
String text = d.getText(0, d.getLength());
String pat = "(c)";
String rep = "©";
int pos = text.lastIndexOf(pat, offset+1);
if(offset+1 - pos == pat.length()){
fb.remove(pos, pat.length());
fb.insertString(pos, rep, attr);
Listing 5: Document filter implementation for integer fields
Formatted Text Fields
For the special case of validating input fields, the Swing class JFormattedTextField is provided since
JDK version 1.4. This class relies on instances of java.text.Format to format the content. The control
of the input is performed using document listeners, and for filtering where the selection and the caret
can be placed class NavigationFilter is used. A validating integer input field could be created with the
statements shown in Listing 6.
NumberFormatter formatter = new NumberFormatter(new DecimalFormat("#"));
JFormattedTextField ftf = new JFormattedTextField(formatter);
Listing 6: Definition of a JFormattedTextField
In this article we have presented two aspects of the observer pattern which are both instances of cyclic-
reference-problems. We have discussed how these problems are handled within the Java framework.
For the particular problem of implementing auto correction input fields we have presented solutions
which implement special documents (using subclassing and forwarding) and one based on document
filters. Although new classes to implement formatted input fields are provided since version 1.4, the
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general problem with state change operations performed from within an observer on the observed
subject remains and designers have to be aware of it.
[Gam95] E. Gamma, R. Helm, R. Johnson, J. Vlissides, Design Patterns, Addison-Wesley, 1995.
[Gra98] Mark Grand, Patterns in Java, Volume 1, Wiley, 1998.
[Szy02] Clemens Szyperski, with Dominik Gruntz and Stefan Murer, Component Software,
Addison Wesley, 2
edition, 2002.
Dominik Gruntz is professor at the University of Applied Sciences
Aargau in Brugg/Switzerland. His focus is on component software and
framework design.
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Web: http://www.cs.fh-aargau.ch/~gruntz
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Wow! Long time, no write. I must apologize. It's been much too long. Not sure where I left off but it may have been my journey to Jr Nationals. Well, Chicago came and went and I was in the last callouts again. No bueno. You know, sometimes you stretch and bend every which way and it still doesn't seem like enough. That's kind of how I felt coming off that show. I was all prepared to go to another but I had a "Come to Jesus" chat with my then trainer. I won't go into all the details but it was decided that I would stop, get back to living, and more importantly get my life back on track.
So, fast forward to now. I'm not prepping for a show. I've been doing, well, other things. I've been doing things that I wouldn't have been able to do if I were prepping. Or, things that I wouldn't have done if I were prepping. Staying up much too late. Seeing musicals. Movies. Dinners with friends. The occasional glass of wine. Eating ice cream. Yup, getting back to living.
But I haven't completely nixed my workouts. I'm still at the gym and still doing cardio. Still weigh/measure food. Still trying to eat clean. Trying. Need to try harder. Scratch that. Just need to do it. Trying out Crossfit Bootcamp and rock climbing this month. I like them both. I climb Mon/Wed and have bootcamp Tue/Thur. I fit the gym in Mon/Wed/Sat/Sun. Yup, I'm busy as ever but loving it.
So, one thing that I knew I needed to work on post-competition was the repair of my ailing metabolism. I'm struggling with keeping my weight down, while also letting my body heal. I miss my tiny and tight old self. But I know I can't live at competition weight. Honestly, I don't want to be THAT tiny. But I honestly feel that 123 is a good liveable weight for me. I'm almost 10 lb over that and it is NOT acceptable. So I'm trying to lose, without really trying because I don't want to stress my body. It's been stressed enough.
Crossfit is really into the paleo diet. Hmmm. I tend to work well on a diet. But I've come to hate the term. "Die-t" is what it may as well be. Maybe. Right now I'm doing well keeping my alcohol to a minimum. Now to get my sweet tooth under control.
I've given myself a prize. At 123 I can finally order cable. If I can do it before my birthday (9-21) then I'll buy a laptop and add internet. That's the goal. I'm putting it out there. I was 132.5 last Friday and I'll weigh again this Friday. The number has slowly been creeping up and I must get a handle on it before it's too late and I'm back at a hefty 152. Oh hell no!
So I'm going to try it my way and if it doesn't work then maybe I'll try Paleo or the zone or some or "Die-t." It doesn't help that I just stated that I want a milkshake. Sigh.....


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- The kids are alright ... at hacking iPhones [Forbes]
- Deep reading is deviant behavior. Best line: "American universities are largely populated by people who don't fit either of these categories—often really smart people for whom the prospect of several hours attending to words on pages (pages of a single text) is not attractive." Yes, absolutely. I like reading a lot less now that I read a lot more. [Chronicle of Higher Ed]
- A reminder: It doesn't help the president to be bipartisan. [The Monkey Cage]
- A reminder: Wall Street was pretty stupid about the debt crisis. [Even The Liberal New Republic]
- How I met your mother discovers advertising newspeak. (Or, rather, the memory hole.) [Entertainment Weekly]
12 August 2011
Number One for 12 August 2011
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Karan Cheema, 13, became seriously ill at his school in Greenford, West London, in the middle of morning lessons.
Staff rushed to help the popular pupil, who was known to have allergies, but he died after being rushed to hospital.
It has been claimed Karan was 'forced to eat' the cheese but others have said it was 'flicked at his face' while his mother claimed the food was 'rubbed against his neck'.
Another boy was later arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.


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Morrissey has been accused of "crude racism" after describing Chinese people as a "subspecies" because of their treatment of animals.
The controversial singer, a well-known vegetarian and animal rights campaigner, said the treatment of Chinese circus animals was "absolutely horrific".
He told poet Simon Armitage in an interview in Guardian Weekend magazine: "Did you see the thing on the news about their treatment of animals and animal welfare? Absolutely horrific. You can't help but feel that the Chinese are a subspecies."
Last year the former Smiths frontman, whose old band released an album entitled Meat Is Murder, quit the Coachella festival in California, complaining about the smell of meat cooking.
In a 2006 interview he said he supported "the efforts of the Animal Rights Militia in England".
A spokesman for campaign group Love Music Hate Racism, which received a donation of £28,000 from the star in 2008, said it would not accept his support again.
Martin Smith said: "It really is just crude racism.
"When you start using language like 'subspecies', you are entering into dark and murky water. I don't think we would, or could, ask him to come back after that."
Armitage said he thought the singer must have known his remark "would make waves". He said: "But he's provocative and theatrical, and it was one of dozens of dramatic pronouncements. I'm not an apologist for that kind of remark, and couldn't ignore it. But clearly, when it comes to animal rights and animal welfare, he's absolutely unshakeable in his beliefs; in his view, if you treat an animal badly, you are less than human. I think that was his point."
:: The full interview can be read in Guardian Weekend magazine tomorrow.


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Sadly, I had a cold for most of our time in Vilcabamba… but it wasn't enough to keep me from appreciating the beautiful countryside on display. A great introduction to Ecuador.
Sadly, I had a cold for most of our time in Vilcabamba… but it wasn't enough to keep me from appreciating the beautiful countryside on display. A great introduction to Ecuador.
Craig has come down with a cold, so I feel I must take up the mantle of blogging in order to make up for his absence. Unlike me, however, Craig is pretty self-sufficient even when he's down for the count. He doesn't wallow or whine, and even wants to help me do the dishes when I'm trying to cook and take care of him. Maybe it's a man-thing. In any case, he's much more useful than I am when I'm sick.
Nonetheless, I don't think it's a good idea to go on a hike, especially since the forecast is usually rain here in Vilcabamba, a small town that reminds me a lot of Ollantaytambo, except with a whole boatload more of ex-pats.
Craig and I have met our share of ex-pats, and have even been asked whether or not we have any desire to become ex-pats ourselves. "Why stop traveling?" seems to be the sentiment behind that question. We're always joking about settling down somewhere (Isle of Skye, in Scotland, is a place we keep circling back to), but I don't think either of us has any desire for the ex-pat life, really.
And as our friend and fellow SAE worker, Bryan, says, ex-pats are kind of weird. There's a certain mindset and character among those that want to settle so far from the familiar… Craig and I could probably never become ex-pats because we have plans for our future; plans that include going back to Seattle and resuming our life in a place that yes, has all the material comforts you could ask for, but is also home.
Becoming an ex-pat is a departure from everything you've ever known, and I think the people who end up living in foreign countries are the wanderers and drifters who eventually stay somewhere because they have nowhere better to go. Most didn't plan on it, but they all ended up, somehow, staying put in a foreign country, perhaps because they never had that feeling of home that Craig and I want to eventually recoup. The pull of the strange and exotic had to have outweighed any other claims on their lives; otherwise, they wouldn't be here.
It's always a bit unsettling to come across a town like Vilcabamba, which our guidebook describes as a popular spot among ex-pats. There are almost as many white people as not, and yes, some are tourists, just like Craig and me, but some are permanent residents. The latter are easy to pick out, because they are, for the most part, old, white, men. They like to wear flannel, plaid shirts, and they usually have beards. Sometimes, they seem a bit aimless, other times, they seem a bit obnoxious. Some only speak a smattering of Spanish, while others are fluent. But there is something unsettled about them still… as if they remain wanderers and drifters at heart; they've just grown tired.
There is generally among them a disdain for the typical, 9-5 workday life that they've left behind in their developed country homeland. It pervades their conversation, and I can feel, sometimes, the condescension, when I tell them that I was a nurse and plan on going back to the grind of eking out an existence among the mindless drones of modern society. It's an intriguing thought–nobody would claim to enjoy the frantic pace of downtown office workers who rush through 30-minute lunch breaks, nobody likes to say they would rather have a 60-inch flat-screen TV as opposed to a 2-week trip to Nicaragua, and nobody would ever say they'd rather spend 8 hours in front of a computer than outside on a sunny day… and yet, this is what the majority of first-world countries choose.
And even though Craig and I are currently spending our way through a large majority of our life savings on this trip, I wouldn't automatically discount ourselves from that majority. When I held a 40-hour/week job, I loved being able to buy things whenever they caught my fancy, I loved being able to eat out at fancy restaurants and go to the movies. I enjoy these little luxuries, just the same as anybody else. But why do I enjoy them?
I just read an article called "Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed," by David Cain, which claims that the reason for the 40-hour workweek, is to both limit our free time and increase our spending power. The first encourages the second, and so it goes on in a vicious cycle. Some interesting quotes:
"Under these working conditions people have to build a life in the evenings and on weekends. This arrangement makes us naturally more inclined to spend heavily on entertainment and conveniences because our free time is so scarce."
"I spent much less per month traveling foreign counties (including countries more expensive than Canada) than I did as a regular working joe back home. I had much more free time, I was visiting some of the most beautiful places in the world, I was meeting new people left and right, I was calm and peaceful and otherwise having an unforgettable time, and somehow it cost me much less than my humble 9-5 lifestyle here in one of Canada's least expensive cities."
"We've been led into a culture that has been engineered to leave us tired, hungry for indulgence, willing to pay a lot for convenience and entertainment, and most importantly, vaguely dissatisfied with our lives so that we continue wanting things we don't have. We buy so much because it always seems like something is still missing."
And yet, this same author has a "Bucket List" on his blog, and some of the goals include "Become a millionaire", "Dine at a ridiculously fancy restaurant", and "Watch a sports game from a luxury box". Is he just a total hypocrite? I don't think so… after all, there's something to be said for having something to work for. Craig often talks about how much he disliked the 9-5 workweek and how antsy it made him… as if he was always straining at the bit for something better. And although working towards this trip didn't alleviate all of his antsiness, he admits it helped.
Certainly, traveling the way we are opens our minds to the terrors of Mr. Cain's stereotype: "…dissatisfied but hopeful, uninterested in serious personal development, highly habituated to the television, working full-time, earning a fair amount, indulging during their free time, and somehow just getting by." We see a very different way of life down here, even in the more metropolitan areas of Lima or Santiago, that is a bit less materialistic, a bit slowed-down, and a little bit… just a little bit… more genuine.
But I don't think that just because you enjoy watching Downton Abbey, like to have a cappuccino every day, or want to "Watch a sports game from a luxury box", doesn't mean that you've been engineered by "Big Business" to become the perfect consuming machine. It might, possibly, mean that, just as I was 6 months ago, you're entrenched in a life that is so crammed with knitting and Netflix and baking the perfect sugar cookie, that anything outside of that comfortable sphere doesn't really register.
So maybe I should cut those gringos a little slack. Perhaps they've found something down here that they couldn't find amid all the noise and bustle of their home countries. Perhaps I'll find something for myself from my brief foray into their lifestyle. That's the idea, after all, isn't it? To take a piece of the wildlife and nature and people that we encounter on our adventure, and bring it home with us.


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Armed men shot dead a former barangay (village) chairman in Cotabato City, Tuesday night, police said.
Antonio Mendoza, a resident and former chairman of Brgy. Poblacion 3, succumbed to a bullet wound to the head, Supt. Marlou Martinez, Cotabato City Police deputy director for operations, said.
The incident occurred around 6:05 p.m. while Mendoza and his wife were riding a motorcycle along Demazenod st. in the barangay.
Two men on another motorcycle tailed Mendoza and one of them opened fire upon reaching reaching his side, Martinez said in a phone interview.
Mendoza, 42, expired while he was being brought to the Notre Dame Hospital. His wife was unhurt.
Martinez, also the city police's spokesman, said investigators have yet to determine the motive for the killing.
It was not yet known if Mendoza has plans to run in next year's elections, the police official said. (John Roson)
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Today's NFf has to be Norman Gunston after I heard the KISS tune that this first clip is based on. An amazing 37 years since this went to air on Countdown.
The 2nd clip is from his interview with Sally Struthers which absolutely had to be included. My favourite from a very impressive collection. The charming Sally has no idea what is coming but handles it with great good humour as opposed to the interview with Keith Moon. Norman does an excellent job staying in character throughout the clip. I wouldn't be able to not fall about laughing.


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Like everyone else, TKB started out in a basement. That was way back in 1995. Over the years, the basement expanded into a bedroom and then from a bedroom into a flat.
We were in that flat for a long time. Van studied for her citizenship exam there. I would yell to her over the boxes "What are the three Branches of government?" or "Who are our Senators?" and she would proudly end up educating me about things I long forgot.
Every year there was also some kind of
"The Great ...fill...in...the...blank" mistake.
There was the The Great Green Disaster of '08. I won't point fingers at who made the decision to over-burden our shelves with liquid dyes. Needless to say the next day we laughed at our foolishness as we mopped up about 50 gallons of green dye.
There was The Great Missing Kisses Disaster of '12. Again, to protect the innocent I won't mention who forgot to order enough sifters to go with our jars. For two months while we waited for production to finish, we scrambled week by week to find quick-ship suppliers to keep us in sifters so we could fill orders. I got so sick of Van coming up and telling me we were out of sifters again, I insisted we start calling them Kisses. "I don't want to hear another damn thing about being out of sifters!" I insisted, "Tell me we are out of kisses and at least I can do something about that!"
We also witnessed the changing of the world on 9/11. That was such a sad day. I had to work but I kept running to the TV to see what was going on. Van continued to work hard as usual, ignoring my restlessness. Finally at the end of the day I asked her, "You realize that this was a hugely important day, don't you?" And she smiled and said "Yes". That smile irked me and I snapped, "What do you think is important about it?" "It's my birthday!" she replied. We laughed through tears that day.
Anyway, I'm rambling. About 10 years of rambling in that flat until we got so crowded we could be standing three feet away from each other and not see the other person. We had to yell just to get our voices over the tops of boxes.
I kept moaning that we needed to move to a bigger place but I didn't have time to look and I didn't think we could find what I wanted. Because I knew exactly what I wanted: I knew the size and the location and the price that I could afford. I just had no idea how it was going to find me.
And then, one day someone knocked on my door. A couple of complete strangers -- brokers as it turned out -- with a flyer in their hand. That flyer was for the exact building I had imagined. Down to every detail.
Maybe it strikes you as anti-climatic that the universe came to me dressed in suits. But actually, no one every knocked on my door except the FedEx driver. And, the building they showed me was in a completely different neighborhood; it wasn't as though they were canvassing the neighbors.
When I asked them why they knocked, they explained that they had just opened their company that week and they were trying to find clients, so they figured they would just start knocking and I was the second door they chose.
So maybe you will now believe me when I say that the "Universe" (with the help of the SBA, a lender, a few brokers, and some contractors, as well as my co-workers and husband) brought a building to TKB.
Moments like these are what have kept me going. I hope you also have many such moments in your lives.


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Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Sunset Row: April 6, 2010
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Hey guys, nice pics. Not sure where I came across your site, but love that there are others out there living the dream on a "classic" boat. My wife and I are on a 1968 Cal 34, although not full time. Just getting ready to mover her down to Florida and cruise the Keys and the Bahamas. Hope you don't mind us tagging along.ReplyDelete
Would love to know how you like living on the hook. That's a dream of mine, but it's a ways off. Look forward to your updates.
Jim and Amy
hi guys... thanks for following along. we are having a lot of fun out here... just learning the ropes and getting the boat outfitted before we take off... someday down the line... we're both originally from the east coast, too! we love to read about others adventures in sailing, so looking forward to following your blog, too!ReplyDelete


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Sept. 8, 2010
Michael Sandel, professor of government at Harvard University, will deliver Luther College's 2010 Farwell Distinguished Lecture on Thursday, Sept. 30, at 7 p.m. in the Center for Faith and Life main hall.
Sandel's presentation, titled "The Lost Art of Democratic Argument: Can We Reason Together about Values without Rancor and Incivility?" is open to the public with no charge for admission.
Sandel is the author of "Justice: What's the Right Thing To Do?," a course that has enrolled over 14,000 students since Harvard began webstreaming and podcasting the class to alumni around the world in 2007. The course aims to help viewers become more critically minded thinkers about the moral decisions we face in our everyday lives.
In the 12-part series, Sandel challenges students and viewers with difficult moral dilemmas. The results are often surprising, revealing that important moral questions are never black and white.
Episodes of the course are available to watch at http://www.justiceharvard.org/.
A member of the Harvard faculty since 1980, Sandel teaches courses titled "Ethics, Biotechnology, and the Future of Human Nature," "Markets, Morals and Law," and "Globalization and Its Critics."
He is the author of several publications, including "Liberalism and the Limits of Justice," "Democracy's Discontent: American in Search of a Public Philosophy," and "The Case against Perfection: Ethics in an Age of Genetic Engineering."
Sandel's writing has appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, the New Republic and the New York Times, and has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Greek, Polish and Korean.
He has lectured to academic and general audiences throughout North America, Europe, Japan, China, India, Korea, Australia and New Zealand.
Sandel has also served as visiting professor at the Sorbonne (Paris), delivered the Tanner Lectures on Human Values at Oxford University, and in 2007 gave a series of eight lectures at universities throughout China.
The recipient of three honorary degrees, Sandel is a Phi Beta Kappa initiate and graduated summa cum laude from Brandeis University in 1975. He holds the doctoral degree from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.
During his career, Sandel has received numerous awards and recognitions, including the Harvard-Radcliffe Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize. He was named a Harvard College Professor in 1999, and in 2008 was recognized by the American Political Science Association for a career of excellence in teaching.
From 2002-05, Sandel served on the President's Council on Bioethics, a national body appointed to examine the ethical implications of new biomedical technologies.
Sandel is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Council on Foreign Relations.


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When Parents Are The Ones Too Distracted By Online Devices
'Catherine Steiner-Adair, a clinical and consulting psychologist at Harvard, recently wrote . For her book, Steiner-Adair interviewed more than 1,000 kids from the ages of 4 to 18. She talked to hundreds of teachers and parents.
'"One of the many things that absolutely knocked my socks off," she says, "was the consistency with which children — whether they were 4 or 8 or 18 or 24 — talked about feeling exhausted and frustrated and sad or mad trying to get their parents' attention, competing with computer screens or iPhone screens or any kind of technology, much like in therapy you hear kids talk about sibling rivalry."…'
Is it Idolatry When You Love a Person More than you Love God?
That's what conservative Christians believe
Couple Who Never Spent a Night Apart Die Together After 70 years of marriage
'When Helen Felumlee passed away at the age of 92 Saturday morning, her family knew her husband Kenneth Felumlee, 91, wouldn't be slow to follow her. The couple couldn't bear to be apart very long, and Kenneth passed away only 15½ hours after his wife of 70 years.
'"We knew when one went, the other was going to go," said daughter Linda Cody. "We wanted them to go together, and they did."
'After Kenneth had his leg amputated 2½ years ago because of circulation problems, Helen became his main caretaker, making sure he got everything he needed. She continued this up until three weeks before their deaths, when she became too frail to care for him…'
Activist Blogger Accidentally Kills Avenging ex-Cop
Arkansas ex-cop killed while trying to set anti-corruption blogger's hot dog cart on fire
'A former police officer died while trying to set ablaze a food cart belonging to a blogger who exposed crooked cops and other corrupt city officials. ArkansasMatters.com reported Friday that former Little Rock Police Officer Todd Payne died when blogger Ean Bordeaux (pictured above) tackled him as Payne tried to flee the scene of the attempted arson.
'Bordeaux is the proprietor of the Corruption Sucks blog, a webpage dedicated to exposing corruption in the Little Rock local government and in the state government of Arkansas. At about 4:30 a.m. on Friday, he awoke to find the hot dog cart he operates for a living in flames…'
The CIA/Mafia/Vatican drug alliance
'"The secrets of Masonry are not that hard to find out…."
The Knights of Malta are very well represented in US intelligence agencies. For the last seven hundred years these two forces have been engaged in non-stop warfare.
'The Knights of Malta are allies of the Vatican and the Mafia. It's a complicated world, isn't it?'
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This is the kind of game that can only be enjoyed with an emulator and save states, as it's an outright terribly game that only the most dedicated people could finish on the original hardware. It's control scheme is obtuse (there's a low and a high jump, but the second is hard to pull of consistently) and to trigger the webstring-swinging seems more based on luck than the key combination mentioned in the manual.
Taking on harm and dishing it out is also widely disproportionate. Spider-Man can be killed in a manner of seconds even by small birds, but his own punches barely make a dent in any of the bosses. Get hit a few times and your life meter will melt away. Overall, the only reason to play this is because you want to see how they adapted Spider-Man and his enemies in low-res pixel art. If you abuse save stats you can get past the worst, but even so it's still pretty awful.


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Today, I am 20 weeks along in my pregnancy with the petit garçon. He likes to kick when I'm resting. Or maybe that's the only time I feel it. My man came with me to an ultrasound appointment last week. While the tech was trying to get some clear pictures, the little guy was wiggling, turning over, grabbing his toes, then stretching all the way out. My man asked me if I could feel all that movement, and I told him I couldn't. It was pretty weird to see the babe moving on the screen, but not feel it inside. He is only the size of a banana, so I guess he has plenty of room to move without my knowledge. You enjoy that now, little man! When you're a teenager trying to sneak out of your room at 1:00 am, I'll know of your movements! Oh yes. I'll know.
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We had sun, lots of it in fact, but we pretty much froze during the first part of Kacy and Brett's e-session. They were so brave though and we captured a few in the snow. We then headed over the Kacy's parents home for a some in the nice warm pool room. These two are so sweet together, a lot of laughs which we love. Enjoy a few from their session:
Thanks so much Kacy and Brett! We are looking forward to your wedding in the much warmer Cayman Islands next month:o)


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Ok so I've been seeing this lady for a few weeks now, we chat every day and things seem to be going great. She is considerabley older than me although doesn't look it at all (10 year age gap)
first date was good, nice little wine bar, second date she bailed then invited me around for dinner at hers, third date i returned the dinner around mine. We had sex on the second and not on the third
Since then she has kind of not really made too much effort to meet me, she's found time this Saturday afternoon for me and said we could do lunch. I suggested we go to the shopping mall, do a bit of shopping and then grab some food at one of the nice places there. Apparently this is "too coupley" for a fourth date - I dont really see it, but its really annoying me that she would say that! Its as if dates 2, 3 and 4 she just doesn't want to be seen out with me. Am I over reacting here or is it a reasonable suggestion for a fourth date?
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Girls, Is it too coupley for a fourth date?
Ok so I've been seeing this lady for a few weeks now, we chat every day and things seem to be going great. She is considerabley older than me although doesn't look it at all (10 year age gap)
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She probably just doesn't feel comfortable in one of those settings. Like I know if I was to date a guy I wouldn't want to go to a fancy restaurant BC I like more of a relaxed and fun setting.
If she is going out in public with you and kissing you in public then I don't think she is embarrassed of you.00|00|0
She wants sex. Nothing more. Move on if you desire something more serious. If not...00|00|0
I don't... consider it too coupley for a fourth date to be honest. But if she doesn't want to, then you can either go to a coffeehouse or to the movies.10|10|0
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