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Born on the 16th of October 1956 in Nice, French performer, composer and editor Jean-François Delcamp began studying the guitar at the age of nine. A few years later he became a pupil of the guitar master Berthie Compostel, then of the masters Alberto Ponce and Alexandre Lagoya.
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Over the past two years, I've been seriously thinking about upgrading my workstation for a number of reasons. Despite this, I could never actually make the commitment, as my computing needs are quite high and the investment would be sizeable. With a continual trail of new and better things to come, I kept deferring the upgrade until I succumbed. This post looks at the drivers for the upgrade, as well as the resulting build.
My Recent (2011 – 2017) Workstation History
Around six years ago (2011), my daily workstation was still a Socket 939 based AMD Athlon64 x2 3800+ built on a DFI motherboard, all of which was purchased second hand from various members on OCAU. The motherboard had a rattly chipset fan and was decked out with the maximum 4Gb of DDR1 it could take – two OCZ Platinum sticks I purchased from a friend at a good price because he couldn't get them working reliably, and two GeIL sticks I purchased because I wanted the RAM. At that time, the box was booting from a second-hand WD Raptor 36Gb drive too. While it wasn't leading at the time, I decided I should jump to something greater as the core was about six years old at the time.
I built a newish (at the time) AMD Phenom II x6 1055T based machine around a cheap Asrock 880GM-LE FX mATX motherboard, only establishing a mild overclock. Unfortunately, the choice of board limited the final speed due to its anemic VRM, as did the stock heatsink. The board having just two DDR3 slots was also not ideal. It was quite a lot faster though and didn't break the bank. My desktop machines managed to skip the DDR2 era entirely.
A year later (2012), my friend offered me his (relatively young) AMD Phenom II x6 1090T, complete with a Gigabyte 890FXA-UD7 motherboard and various other parts including two BenQ FP222W monitors for a steal. I couldn't resist the offer, so even though the XL-ATX motherboard made finding and purchasing a compatible case a necessary step, it definitely exceeded my needs at the time. Apparently, he sold it to me because he wasn't happy with the single-threaded performance of the CPU at the time, but it had never been overclocked. He instead opted for a Sandy Bridge-based build.
But before actually buying a case, I tried my best to win one. At the time, that was a real possibility as Bitfenix was establishing its brand reputation, and online competitions were not as widely participated in.
You know what, I actually did win a compatible case, but since there were a few delays in shipping it to me, I bought an Antec Eleven-hundred instead (which proved to be somewhat thin and flimsy, but sufficient). The Bitfenix Shinobi XL instead housed my old 1055T build, retiring a generic sheet-metal case that had been so severely dented as to render it useless.
The next thing I did was to purchase a decent heatsink. Overclocking was on the cards – I wanted to make the best of the motherboard and CPU. As a result, I settled on a Noctua NH-D14, which has been a superb performer throughout. RAM-wise, I started with 8Gb, and soon upgraded to 16Gb which was the maximum officially supported. I also splurged on my first SSD – an OCZ Vertex 3 120Gb unit which still survives. It saw a GTX560ti as the main graphic unit (a carry-over) initially, with a later addition of a second hand GTX560ti working "independently" to drive four monitors.
Ultimately, the AMD Phenom II x6 1090T ended up at 3.9Ghz running 1.45V. Initially, it did reach 4Ghz stable, but the overclock degraded after about a year and a half of running. The reason I couldn't go any faster was likely due to the leakage in the chip combined with the VRM on the motherboard – a stock 1090T runs at 3.2Ghz but at much the same voltage (~1.425-1.475V) and is rated for 125W. Running at 4.0Ghz at 1.45V actually pushes the VRM into overcurrent protection with an estimated 170W power delivery to the CPU. It was very inefficient at that speed, but at least it could now meet the performance of an i5-2500K at stock speeds. Given the system was essentially "a giveaway" to me, I didn't mind the inefficiency so much and lived in a hotbox for years.
The RAM was run at 1333mhz rather than the 1600mhz rating. Unfortunately, the IMC on the CPU was very unstable when running on all-banks-full, so a reduction on speed was necessary. This unfortunately reduced the bandwidth somewhat which may have introduced a bottleneck.
I really liked the motherboard as it finally bought a decent number of SATA3 ports and PCIe slots to allow me to do all the upgrading I wanted. It also provided my first USB 3.0 port in the house, saving a lot of my time when it came to data transfers. This set-up ran very happily up till 28th October 2017 (around 5 years in my ownership), when it was officially retired from its role as my main workstation. It did not fail at all in the time it served, with a power-on-hours estimate of about 27,000 hours in use under my rather rough care.
The 1055T system saw service as a special purpose box to do certain "crunching" tasks, it too being powered down as often as possible to save power.
To Upgrade or Not
Throughout its five year career with me, it was already slated for an upgrade at around three-years in (which is around five years since the CPU was introduced). The main reason revolved around its poor electrical efficiency (Pentium 4, anyone?) and my high utilization factor.
In fact, even testing it at the end of its service, it only achieved 6156 marks on Passmark PerformanceTest's CPU Benchmark. This places it at 55%, or barely above average. Even quite a few 3rd generation Intel laptops with 45W CPUs are faster than this, and I needed 170W to match them. It didn't really make sense anymore, especially when I couldn't software-decode even full-high definition HEVC video at real time, encodes were in the 0.01fps region, and creative software like Lightroom ran like a pig. I was tired of waiting. The i5-2500K at stock claims 6467 marks at 95W, so at 3.9Ghz, it wasn't even quite as fast as the second-generation Intel Core i-series. Even though that was the case, I did get a lot of work done with the system, and it was set up exactly how I liked it.
At the time I began considering Intel's Socket 2011v3 platform to ensure I had all the PCIe connectivity I wanted so I could stuff it full of cards. The boards were expensive, the CPU was expensive, and the DDR4 RAM was also expensive. It was hard to justify, but based on power savings, I could have possibly broken even in the whole lifetime of the machine (mostly based on the fact that the faster CPU means the same energy produces more computational work).
But I never pulled the trigger. I knew AMD had something good on the way as alluded to by their releases, and I really hoped to see competition return to the market. But I was also watching a gradual loss of competitiveness in the PC market, bolstered by declining sales in the desktop PC market as many users focus on mobile and portable devices instead.
My special-purpose box had been retired, and a newer, faster Z97 i7-4770k box was built to replace it. This was fine for its intended purpose, but the mITX board meant no expansion capabilities so it couldn't substitute as my main workstation even in the interim.
However, this year proved to be fruitful. AMD's Zen-architecture made it to the consumer market, branded as Ryzen (and later, ThreadRipper) at a price that was better than we've seen for years. It caught Intel off-guard and led them to scramble a competitive reply. While it wasn't perfect – there were issues with RAM compatibility, optimization for the CCX/Infinity Fabric structure of the CPU and instability with some chips at heavy loading (segfaults under compiling Linux kernels) – we knew this would be ironed out in time.
When something is new, the prices tend to be high. I didn't pull the trigger for Ryzen at launch despite highly anticipating it purely because of the expected mark-up. The other reason was the persistent rumour that an even better 16-core chip would make it to consumers' hands within a few months. That was what we now know to be ThreadRipper. Another factor was the official declaration that only Windows 10 and above will be supported officially as the OS, with older versions exhibiting upgrade blocks and (possibly) sub-optimal performance. Going to Windows 10 was something I wasn't too keen on, because of privacy issues and compatibility problems, although getting UASP support would be nice.
In the end, ThreadRipper arrived, and my budget didn't really extend to it. In fact, critically evaluating my needs, the Ryzen proved to be much more economical. Combine that with a few online sales which reduced the price even further and a little bit of left-over money from holidaying, I had finally sealed the deal. I would be upgrading, after all, and that would make my life a lot better …
The New Build
The new build would be mainly an upgrade of the core of the machine with some parts carried over. While some parts are showing their age, I'm not afraid of an occasional repair, so I don't mind pushing them along a little further. However, to minimise disruption, I had to minimise the overlap between critical parts between machines to avoid taking down my main workstation until the new one was ready to take over.
As a result, I purchased a full set of core components – SSD, motherboard, RAM, CPU and cooler. I chose to grab the retired 1055T box and clean it out. The large Bitfenix Shinobi XL was a perfect case for my main workstation with its large size and good airflow characteristics, although after five years, all the rubber gaskets are starting to decompose. I used the "weaker" OCZ Fatal1ty 550W modular PSU in the system to power the core and allow me to overclock and test the system prior to its final "rebuild". So as not to knacker the M.2 SSD with unexpected shutdowns and power cycles, I did a trial install of Windows 10 to an old 2.5″ 160Gb hard drive I had lying about just to tinker.
The choice of components were rather straightforward – the Asus Prime X370-Pro was chosen due to its complement of on-board I/O, as well as its decent VRM set-up for the price. The AMD Ryzen 7 1700 was chosen because it was the base model of the 8-core models, and shows the biggest potential for improvement. The Corsair Vengeance LED 64Gb 2666mhz kit was chosen due to a DDR4 shortage and a lack of options at the 4x16Gb level. Unfortunately, this was sub-optimal both in a clock-speed and die-type sense for a Ryzen build, but previous experiments with RAM stability showed the Ryzen to have an "all-banks-filled" stable speed of about 2666mhz anyway. It was more economical compared to paying twice as much for a 3200 (or faster) kit. The Noctua NH-D15 SE-AM4 was not strictly necessary, as a new mounting kit from Noctua could be claimed for my NH-D14 which would have been more than adequate, but losing the NH-D14 from the other board would have condemned it to being shut down during the testing process which can take a long time.
The build was straightforward and trouble free, with one exception. It was found that with D.O.C.P. enabled on the board to boot with RAM running at the rated 2666mhz rate resulted in intermittent POST failures, but at the "standard" 2133mhz rate, was perfectly reliable. This was not a major concern at the time, as I was going to get into overclocking anyway, but Ryzen's really do need a bit of love to get things going properly. More on that in the next section. Just for kicks, I did try the stock heatsink, and while it was quiet even with the fan at full tilt, it really didn't seem to have much margin for overclocking. It has a nice RGB LED ring, but it seems the factory may have layered on the thermal paste on a bit thickly. The fact it doesn't use the clip retention system and instead screws into the backplate also makes assembly and removal a little tricky, so if you're not planning to use the stock heatsink, maybe give it a miss entirely.
Overclocking and Proper Commissioning
I wouldn't say the system was a slouch at the stock settings, but buying these parts and not trying out your luck just seems wrong. As a result, I decided to do the overclock and commissioning tests straight away on a fresh test install, so as to not put any data at risk. Assuming the build is physically fine, the process (in my experience) goes something like this.
Step 0: Get the BIOS updated
The first step is usually to get the latest BIOS, which should give you the best compatibility and stability. It's good to flash it right away prior to tweaking any settings which might affect stability and cause the flash to fail. It should also help you get the most overclock as well, but one of the main reasons for me to do it now is simply because the upgrade often will wipe all your BIOS settings, so keep a notebook handy while you try various settings.
Step 0a: Test the RAM
This is an optional step, but you could test the RAM with a self-booting utility such as Memtest-86. While I normally do this on other systems, I tried doing the same on the Ryzen only to find that I could pass Memtest-86 on horribly unstable configurations that would fail to even boot Windows, so passing Memtest-86 is not in itself a useful indication of stability as it once was.
Step 1: Install Windows and Drivers
You should probably install Windows from a disc you have or have made via the Media Creation Tool. This fresh install is likely to be used for testing and trashing so don't bother activating it or putting in any product keys. It's good just to see all the drivers can be installed without conflicts, and you don't get any issues with power control (e.g. sleep).
Step 2: Collect all your test tools
I would recommend Intel Burn Test (or any other variant of Linpack-based stress test, such as OCCT, LinX, etc), Prime95, HCI Memtest, CPU-Z and HWMonitor (or CoreTemp, AIDA64, etc). You might also want to use AMD Ryzen Master, although I'm no big fan of soft-clocking, so I'll still do everything through the UEFI interface.
Step 3: Optimize RAM
By default, the RAM will probably run at 2133mhz, as it is the "standard" speed. AMD does not officially recognize XMP profiles (they're an Intel thing), so instead you may have to enable D.O.C.P. or equivalent on your motherboard to "convert" the XMP profiles into proper controller settings. Unfortunately, such automatic conversion is not always perfect, so look to do some tweaking.
At first, I tried the "rated" speed of the RAM but found it to be intermittently POSTing. The reason appears to be that the Ryzen SOC voltage needs to be increased from its default of about 0.9V – keep this to 1.2V or below. I settled on 1.1625V for SOC voltage which let me reliably POST at the rated speed.
After that, I decided to increase the speed and tighten the RAM timings. To give the maximum chance of working, I pushed the RAM voltage to 1.35V from the stock voltage of 1.2V, as most faster kits operate at the higher voltage. Voltages up to 1.5V are possible but not recommended, but with increased energy consumption/heat production. I could not post at 2933mhz regardless of the latencies, so I stuck to 2800mhz, which was still a decent overclock.
The next step would be to run HCI Memtest with as large of a value on each instance as it would allow, until you cover (practically) all your RAM. Run until at least 300% coverage to be sure it is stable – errors halt the test and pop a dialog. This proved to be both faster and more sensitive than Memtest-86 probably because it heavily loads all cores with multiple threads and puts a lot of stress on the IMC. If you pass, the RAM is probably stable.
While I've already begun to tighten latencies on the RAM, attacking CAS, Trc, Trp and Tras, the automatic setting for tRC (cycle time) is stupidly high, and that will affect performance adversely. As a result, I recommend you double check your tRC value to see if it is near the SPD value or not, and tweak it too.
The final setting does lose one tick on tRC for stability reasons, but is otherwise running at both a frequency that is higher than the one on the package, and with latencies tighter than even their higher tier kits. I'm happy enough, even though this is definitely not Samsung B-die which works best. This is probably either a Micron/Spectek based kit based on Version Number decoding. But the idea that non-Samsung dies won't work is disproven – although having a higher clock rate will benefit the CPU's Infinity Fabric speed, so where possible, maybe a good idea to stick with the Samsung.
Step 4: Optimize CPU – Push the Multiplier, Watch the Power & Temperatures
While there are more sophisticated ways to optimize the CPU clock (i.e. P-state overclocking), I found that the stock BIOS does not seem to do this correctly. Entering in FID/DID values manually resulted in inoperative P0 states, so I decided to do things via fixed-multiplier overclocking instead. To ensure that XFR doesn't interfere with the overclock, it is disabled.
The AMD recommended maximum voltage for the CPU is 1.35V, and other sites report about 1.45V. Regardless, to run at a higher voltage than necessary is a bit of a sin, as it wastes power as heat and shortens the lifetime of the CPU. As a result, it would be nice only to hit those voltages only transiently.
The fastest way is to first find the maximum speed the CPU can handle. I set the CPU voltage offset positive until the CPU voltage reaches something like 1.35V and then crank the multiplier up until it wouldn't boot (for me, it failed to boot at 40x). Then set it to the one below (39x) and test. While you can use half-multipliers, given the BCLK is 100Mhz, there's not that much to be gained.
The next step is to test for stability using the worst case load. For me, this proved to be Intel Burn Test (Linpack) which easily caused the CPU to top 100A from the VRM and 125W TDP. Considering the VRM is a 6-phase x 20A design with a maximum of 120A capacity, it would be unwise to push the voltage any further, as the VRM overcurrent may trip, the power to the CPU could become noisy, the VRM may not be able to maintain phase balance (or worse, the VRM may be damaged). It's best to set the size of the data to be just below your available RAM to ensure maximum RAM stress as well. Unfortunately, at 39x, after a few minutes the machine black-screened (failed BSOD). Then I dialled it back to 38x and it passed just fine. The final step is to tweak the voltage offset back until the system crashes, then step it up two notches to ensure it has some margin.
This resulted in my system stabilizing about 3.8Ghz at 1.30V. Not that lucky, but not unlucky. However, the TDP to achieve this performance was about 125W, so my guess is that the Ryzen dies are binned as follows:
- Best 5% (i.e. low leakage & high frequency) -> Threadripper
- Low leakage & high frequency -> 1800x
- Low leakage & lower frequency -> 1700x
- Higher leakage -> 1700
- Leakage too high to meet TDP -> disable CCXes for R5/R3?
Step 5: Verify Stability
The most important step is to make sure the result holds. As a result, IBT with practically all available memory is run for 10 loops to check it passes.
Then, I check it with Prime95's torture test on blend for a full 24 hours, ensuring all threads pass.
Since I use WinRAR quite a bit, I also decided to use its benchmark feature for 12 hours just to make sure it can pass.
All seems fine, which is great. While IBT reaches about 125W, Prime95 reaches about 85W and WinRAR only pushes about 60W. As a result, some people who claim higher speed overclocks with even higher voltages may not be stable under power-virus loads, but can still manage everyday tasks with sufficient stability for them. But nothing but the best for me :).
Step 6: Commission Storage
Since this new build will have a new M.2 SSD and two new 8Tb hard drives, all of them were tested using the temporary install. Separate reviews will be posted for these items, but needless to say, doing it this way allows for everything to be tested without the interference of booting off a drive that's being tested.
Step 7: Rebuild the System
Once everything's passed, it's time to pull out the temporary drive and move the final equipment into the box. Windows is re-installed in its final configuration and a quick verification of stability is done just to be sure the interchanged parts did not affect the result. Once that's done, we're back to business installing our normal complement of applications and getting ready to get back to work.
The Final (?) Result
The final build looks like this. I've tried to be as neat as I can, but really, I don't give a toss. The system's been working incredibly well – it's snappy, and if anything, I feel that I can't make it break a sweat purely because so many apps are otherwise performance bound by their single-threaded blocking nature, and I can only interact with so many apps at once even with the four monitors I'm using. Unfortunately, my monitors haven't been upgraded in nine years, so even a single 4K monitor has more pixels than all of my monitors combined, but until such time 4K IPS monitors become more affordable, I will retain my current set until they fail.
The specs of my whole setup are as follows:
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 1700 @ 3.8Ghz 1.30v Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 SE AM4 RAM: 4x16Gb Corsair Vengeance LED 2666mhz C16 kit @ 2800mhz 14-15-15-15-32-54-1T M.2: Samsung 960 EVO 1Tb GPU: Palit Jetstream GTX970 (carry-forward) Sound: Asus Xonar Essence STX (carry-forward) SATA1: Samsung 850 EVO 1Tb (carry-forward) SATA2: Western Digital 4Tb Green (carry-forward) SATA3: Seagate Skyhawk 8Tb SATA4: Seagate Skyhawk 8Tb SATA5: Western Digital 6Tb Green (carry-forward) SATA6: Western Digital 6Tb Green (carry-forward) SATA7: LG BH16NS55 16x BDXL BluRay Burner SATA8: LG GGW-H20L 6x BluRay Burner (carry-forward) PCIe: TBS 6925 Professional DVB-S2 Tuner (carry-forward) PCIe: HP NC360T Intel Dual GbE (second-hand) I/O: Serial Header (carry-forward, second-hand) Case: Bitfenix Shinobi XL (carry-forward, prize from 2012) PSU: ThermalTake TR2 Bronze 800w (carry-forward) Rear Fan: Fractal Design 140mm Silent Series R3 Top Fan: Coolermaster 120mm SickleFlow Green x 3 Keyboard: Das Keyboard Model S (carry-forward, second-hand) Mouse: Steelseries Sensei Pro Monitor1: Dell E248WFP (24" 1920x1200, TN) (carry-forward) Monitor2: BenQ FW222W (22" 1680x1050, TN) (carry-forward, second-hand) Monitor3: BenQ G2000W (20" 1680x1050, TN) (carry-forward) Monitor4: Asus VW161D (16" 1366x768, TN) (carry-forward, second-hand) Speakers: TDK XS-iV S80 (carry-forward, second-hand) Headphones: Audio-Technica M50xBL (carry-forward) Webcam: Logitech 9000 Pro (carry-forward)
I didn't mention it, but I did change out my old Mionix NAOS8200 for a Steelseries Sensei Pro purely because the old mouse had a broken scroll-click button. I reallocated it to another button for a while, but I just felt like I should just move on and swap it out.
The upside? It can glow green (my favourite colour) and the LCD can be customized. That's cool … even if it's a bit meaningless.
Another thing that was changed was the home wireless router – I took my cheap TP-Link WR-740N (x2) and WD MyNet N750 (x2) out of service primarily because of occasional radio hang-ups on the N750 that necessitated resets and the coverage of the WR-740Ns being a little sub-par. I've replaced them with a single TP-Link Archer C7 from Hong Kong, that I snapped up at 40% less than the Australian price, and its coverage and speed are superb. Support for IPv6 is also nice, although as usual, we're taking forever to migrate.
But back to the workstation – how does it perform? The numbers now say that it is about 2.75x the speed of the box it replaces. That's a lot more than the ~10% you get with each incremental generation.
The CPU-Z benchmark seems to put my CPU a little quicker than the 1800X top-of-the-line Ryzen 7 CPU, which I can't really complain about.
Based on the quick suite of benchmarks that I've done, the new box is in every way faster, but with IBT, it only ended up 25% faster. With other tasks (e.g. HEVC encoding), it was easily more than 15x faster. I suppose it really depends on the application and how optimized it is to take advantage of the threads available.
|WinRAR x64 v5.50
|Intel Burn Test v2.54 (Linpack)
|CPU-Z v1.81 Single Threaded
|CPU-Z v1.81 Multi Threaded
|7-Zip 16.04 64-bit Total Rating
|Cinebench R15 CPU
|Super PI/mod 1.5 XS 32M
|Passmark PerformanceTest 9 CPU Mark
The parts that I changed cost me about $2300 all up, but in return, I have a far superior system which makes doing work (e.g. analyzing holiday data, doing photo touch-ups, compressing data/video) a lot faster and will likely improve upon the reliability of my main workstation.
The old box did have occasional "microstutters" and crashes which I couldn't pin down, so maybe it was on its way out even if stability test applications couldn't detect it.
But best of all, my room is finally a lot cooler, and the power bill should be a bit less too. Next upgrade? How about another five to seven years … 🙂


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Jan and Maureen were matched in March 2015 and have recently finished working together. Maureen wrote this thank you letter to her Coordinator, a lovely reminder for why we do what we do.
This is an excerpt from a RWN tutor's 12 week Self Evaluation. The tutor was encouraged by her student's progress, we thought it was absolutely wonderful and worth sharing.
Laura's main goals were:
I felt encouraged that Laura went on to join the library and take books out regularly, successfully started to text her family and friends, grew in confidence talking to people she felt were 'above' her, continually used her phone internet to research topics of interest, read 'House and Garden' magazines regularly, tackled different cafes and restaurants, completed a First Aid course-successfully reading the manual and questions, filled in forms with minimal assistance and travelled overseas for a much wanted holiday.
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- Your Composition Book
- Something with which to write
- Study Guide Questions for the play on back table
Do Now: Think and Respond
Entry Title: Quote of the Week
Read the quote of the week (see the agenda below) and paraphase it (put it into your own words).
- Complete the Do Now.
- Rule reminder: Raise your hand to speak!
- Quote of the week: "If you don't know where you're going, you'll end up someplace else!" -Yoggi Berra
- Today's Question: How can you better remember the events that take place in a movie?
- Mini Lesson: Review of active viewing process using closed captioning.
- Practice Time: Actively view Act II of Romeo and Juliet.
- Show what you know:
A. 10 Thoughts recorded in composition book. Graded at end of period before you leave.
B. Ticket out the door questions.
- Homework: None


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Nina defied death. I guess I should say defies because to my knowledge, she's still kicking. She was a reckless, spirited genius, a gorgeous alcoholic.
I had been in Portland for almost two months exactly. My roommate, Stacy and I had driven down the Alcan in August, two days after my twenty-first birthday. We were staying on our friends' couch, a couple from Alaska, 'til we found a place of our own. Two dogs, one cat, six bikes and four people in a single bedroom on Division. Stacy and I didn't know much about the bar scene in Portland so we spent the summer nights biking back and forth between the two closest bars: the one with 75 cent "buckets" of PBR and the lesbian bar, The Egyptian Room. Sometimes on our way home we'd drunkenly circle around and around the roses of Ladd's Addition, losing ourselves in the maze. We thought it was romantic. Its beauty, its novelty, was not lost on us.
We ended our nights at The E Room a lot. They had fairly cheap drinks and "we didn't have to worry about guys". Whatever that means. I was straight then. Not like I identified as straight really, but in my head the thought of touching someone else's vagina kinda grossed me out. I remember we'd sit at the bar and I'd be anxious that all these lesbians could smell it on me that I wasn't one of them, they'd make fun of me, or worse maybe they'd hit on me.
So on Halloween night we had been given tickets to an employee party at The Montage. It was a great party. Free drinks, flame throwers and other performances, lot's of people. But we didn't know anyone and everyone was in masks besides. We decided we wanted to go somewhere more familiar and took a cab to The E Room. After we got our drinks I went to the bathroom. Looking in the mirror I decided I didn't feel comfortable in my costume ("heterosexism"- I was dressed butch with a black eye). I washed the gel out of my hair and the make-up off of my face and then dried my hair with the electric hand dryer. When I came out of the bathroom Stacy was pissed. She was upset that I had taken my costume off because she still had hers on (she was a Greek goddess). I tried to explain to her that my costume didn't match my gender presentation like hers did and that I wasn't being a poor sport I had just been wearing it all day, even at school. It didn't matter, she ended up leaving me at the bar. I was hurt that she left me, but I wasn't going home early, not on Halloween.
By the time last call came I was pretty drunk. I asked someone for a cigarette and went outside. After a few drags I remembered that I didn't smoke anymore and held out the cigarette asking who wanted it. A tall woman with a skate board raised her hand and trotted over to get it. She said her name was Nina. The man she had been talking to followed her over to me. We chatted for a bit until the man said he had to get up early and walked off. He had been covered in blue yarn. When I asked what he was she wrapped her arm around him and proclaimed proudly, "He's Tangled Up In Blue! It's genius right? He didn't have a costume when I picked him up!" It was good, I had to admit.
So Nina and I were standing alone watching the other drunk people stumble out of the closing bar. I can't for the life of me remember how it happened but suddenly we started making out there on the sidewalk. I remember standing with my fingers hooked in her jean pockets, eyes closed thinking: this is weird, this is different, this is what it feels like to kiss a guy. I had made out with girls before, I had even had sex with women. But it wasn't like this. I hadn't felt desire or passion or pleasure, not until this moment. She pulled away from me, her eyes were green like mine. "I gotta go" she said. And she skateboarded off into the night.
I stood there stunned. What the fuck just happened? The bar was closed so I made my way home. I walked down the middle of Clinton St. because I was afraid of the unlit sidewalks. It was like someone had just unlocked some secret part of me. I just kept gasping aloud, "I'm gay…? I'm…gay. Oh my god, I'm gay!?"
Halloween had been on a Wednesday, so that Friday I went back to the E Room hoping I'd run into Nina again. To my surprise she was there playing pool with some people. I was nervous, but I walked over and said hello. She seemed glad to see me. I assumed the people she was with were her friends, but when they weren't paying attention she pulled me into the bathroom and told me that they had followed her there from some sports bar. She asked me pretend we were going home together so the aggressive bull dyke would stop trying to get in her pants. I was happy to play the part. But then as we were plotting, the scary dyke burst into the bathroom angrily and got up in my face "Are you taking Nina home tonight???" she snarled. I was terrified. I didn't know what to do, I had only been a dyke for like two days. Nina grabbed my hand and said "Yeah, she is." The scary dyke huffed out of the bathroom and Nina and I grabbed our things at the table and bolted for the door tripping over our stuff and laughing. We ran to my car and I gave her a ride home. She told me she had a crush on me and we made out again. She said she wanted to take me on a date. I was elated. I was gay. The world suddenly made sense.
Nina was not the kind of woman I would ever date now, but how could I have known my type? She was intensely beautiful. Dark hair in some weird freak haircut I can't even explain because it won't sound hot, and it was. She had piercing green eyes, not just because they were beautiful, but because she had this way of looking at you like she knew the secret of the universe and was just waiting for you to hurry up and realize it too. Her body was tall and medium sized, but she had a good hand full of ass. A very nice ass. She was a poet, a lyricist. She would take me to open mics where she would animatedly rattle off pieces about the cops or peace or fucking or abuse. None of them were about me. Actually, I'm pretty sure I was just a place holder. Someone to get drunk and go on adventures with. She would grab me by the waist and kiss me obviously on the MAX. She would shout at anyone who didn't approve. She was always picking fights, stealing, and dropping her bottle of whiskey out from underneath her jacket at the wrong moments. But the bus drivers, the bartenders, the strangers, no one cared. It was like she was immune to getting in real trouble. I enjoyed being her sidekick. I fought the urge to tell her I loved her.
One night at an open mic at a dive in Northwest we got kicked out. Her for leaving empty liquor bottles under her seat, me for writing "N, YOU ARE THE HOTTEST BITCH EVER! LOVE, J" in a bathroom stall. I didn't tell her it was the first time I had been kicked out of a bar. It was probably just her first time that week.
I also hadn't told her that I had never dated a woman before. She was actually the perfect first woman to go gay for. The sex was like training wheels because she was always so wasted that if I messed up or didn't know what to do she wouldn't remember it in the morning. Still, I don't know how she didn't pick up on it. I remember the first time we had sex. It was the first time I had made a woman come, or seen a woman come for that matter. I remember being breathless. I told her that it was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen. She must have thought it was just flattering pillow talk. We had been sleeping together nearly a month when I confessed that she was my first. She was weirded out and if things hadn't started to fizzle between us, they definitely did after that.
Eventually I got tired of dealing with her drinking. Our dates weren't fun anymore, it was just me babysitting a twenty-eight year old drunk. Trying not to get kicked off the bus before we got home, trying to avoid her puking on my carpet, making sure she didn't sleep through her alarm and get written up at work again. Plus I had developed crushes on two of my classmates who I had more things in common with anyway. I stopped calling her on the weeknights, she stopped calling on the weekends. Our last date was seeing Tori Amos at the Schnitzer. We ran into one of my crushes from school and she could tell I liked them.
After that night she just kind of disappeared. I saw her a year or so later and we exchanged numbers. We talked about getting a drink together sometime. I wanted to sleep with her again out of nostalgia, but we never did end up getting that drink.


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Rabbi David Walk
Every year when we encounter the personality of Noach, I'm again beset with ambivalence. There is probably no character in world literature so unfairly maligned. There is a virtual rabbinic industry concerned with deprecating this Biblical hero. The motivation for disparaging the reputation of Noach is very simple. He's not a member of my team. For example, ask baseball fans who is the best (untainted) position player whose playing days are coming to an end. Most people will say Derek Jeter, but a quick perusal of career stats will show that the retiring Todd Helton has a higher batting average, more home runs, more RBI's, and much higher on base and slugging percentages (Helton's OPS is an astonishing 125 points higher). But Todd Helton's superior numbers are overshadowed by other circumstances, namely Jeter played in New York and won five World Series. All you Yankees fans who want to dispute these facts are similar to the Jews throughout the ages who want to promote Avraham and relegate Noach to the minor leagues. This is a natural tendency. We root, root, root for the home team, and Noach isn't Jewish. So, without in any way diminishing our respect and affection for Avraham, this year let's celebrate the greatness of Noach.
Noach is introduced in last week's parsha. He is first recorded in the genealogy of Adam, and there we're told: And Lamech lived a hundred and eighty two years, and he begot a son. And he named him Noach, saying, "This one will give us rest from our work and from the toil of our hands from the ground, which the Lord has cursed (Genesis 5:28-29)." There was something objectively special about Noach without any mention or comparison to the bad behavior of his generation. He has lessened the impact of God's curse upon Adam because he was an agricultural genius and innovator. There is an opinion that he invented the plow, but in any case there was a diminution of the effects of the curse God placed upon Adam after the sin of the fruit in the Garden of Eden. In a very tangible way Noach gave comfort to the people of his time.
Just a few verses later, we are informed that the denizens of this world have become corrupt and God 'saw that the evil of man was great in the earth, and every imagination of his heart was only evil all the time (6:5).' God has had a change of heart about the decision to create these humans. In this essay I don't want to discuss these descriptions of God's emotions and state of mind. For the purpose of this article we'll just accept the opinion that the Torah is describing God in human terms to help us understand the story. But along comes (not Mary, but) Noach and God seems to be comforted.
Now Noach has had an amazingly positive affect upon both God and human. The term to describe the impact upon mankind is vayinachem, usually translated as 'and he comforted.' However, the description of Noach's affect on God is motzo chein that he found favor. The comfort or consolation idea is that a concrete good has transpired for humanity at the hands of Noach. But the finding favor means that God didn't receive anything from Noach. It's that Noach was extended a boon from our Lord. In any case both sides were, in some way, helped by Noach. When Noach calmed humanity it says that he saved them from itzavon, perhaps pain, suffering or sadness. Remarkably, God also had vayitzav et libo, some suffering of the heart or seat of emotion. So, Noach had a therapeutic affect upon all who encountered him. His very name, Noach, implies this comfort. According to Rabbeinu Bechaye this name is a cross between Nachum (comfort) and Chen (favor).
At this point I must interject that this whole scenario raises a problem. Back in the chapter of Creation the Midrash asserts that the angels approached God with a petition to not create mankind. They claimed that Humanity would sin and the whole enterprise was doomed. Does our scene seem to vindicate the position of the angels against God? Hardly. I believe that the scene we are witnessing unfolded a number of times, because the Midrash also asserts that God created and destroyed a number of worlds before this present iteration of our universe. And, apparently, this realm would have gone the exact same route as those others if God hadn't found something in Noach which at the eleventh hour stayed the Deity's hand before again depressing the reset button.
So, Noach is a hero of mythic proportion. He presents mankind with a great tool to roll back the ill effects of our primordial ancestors' indiscretion. Simultaneously, his outstanding character changes the course of God's intent. To a certain extent these exploits sound more like the account of a Greek hero rather than a Biblical saint. What's missing from this presentation? Interaction with other humans. He has a wife, but we don't even know her name. His three sons don't seem to communicate with him. And we have no record of a single word spoken by him to another human being. Perhaps the picture our Rabbis portray misses the mark. Maybe Noach couldn't be the first Jew because he was too good, not because he wasn't good enough. However, our heroes don't stand on a pedestal aloof and above the rest of mankind; our heroes live, interact and mingle with people who are good and bad, pagan and believer.
Noach isn't anointed the father of God's people. Noach doesn't become God's representative on planet earth. But Noach, at a crucial moment, reaches out a gloved hand and makes an amazing save to win the game and preserve our world. That's pretty good, and I think that in spite of some later backsliding, he deserves our unconditional respect, and maybe even a pat on the back.
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Girl power is not a new concept.
It's name and image might have changed - from the suffragette pioneers to the spice girls - but the force, the drive, remains the same.
Recently it seems to have grown up a bit. The attire is now more trouser suit at the UN than union jack minidress.
Which is about time.
The word 'feminist' was used as an insult, coupled with comments about burning bras, and now it is up in lights with Beyonce standing proudly infront.
I believe the ongoing drive is a result of a feeling that there is still a lot to do.
Especially as some still refuse to believe there is a problem - it's roots of it are just buried so deep they think it is the norm.
It's not a 'women on top' anti-man ideal either, the aim is not to usurp but to be able to stand alongside.
With this in mind the FIFA news of the last couple of weeks has caught my attention.
No, not that FiFA news - the arrests and the 'resignation' - but the announcement that FIFA 2016, the video game, will include women for the first time in its 22 year history.
That was my first reaction.
My second was, geniuinly, that I would love to play rather than just be stuck on the sidelines.
Only, when I looked closer it turns out my partner and I won't be able to see who is victourious out of Notts Forest women vs Pompey men. Ladies can play ladies, men play men.
Then that little niggle of 'why has it taken so long?'
The answer it seems, if the comments on stories about the announcement is anything to go by, is that an awful lot of people think video games, like football, should be a male-only pursuit.
They find it weird, or perhaps even wrong, that women would play either.
But they do and certainly in the real-life football arena they are, arguably, better.
For example England's women get more people watching their friendlies.
When they played Montenegro last year, they racked up double figures scoring ten goals.
As for Montenegro's men, the England lads most memorbably drew 2-2 and Rooney got sent off.
Our women also put 13 away, unlucky for Hungary, in an 2005 away World Cup qualifier.
Our men haven't scored ten goals or more since they beat USA 10-0, in 1964.
And it goes on, the women's FIFA ranking is sixth, the men, 14th.
Their trophy cupboard is even better stocked with two Cyprus Cups, 2009 and 2013, and two Mundialitos (Spanish for "little World Cup") in the 80s.
Meanwhile England's men's 'Tournament of France' silverware from 1997 is a little lonely.
But, to be fair, the men have lifted the biggy, the world cup, and the women are yet to.
But it feels like it is just a matter of time.
I might work on a rewrite of Mr James Brown lyrics just to be ready, 'it is a man's world (cup).'


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But I managed to snag my own prince, and believe it or not, he actually looks quite a bit like William.
It's the hairline, it's the nose... and they have the same smile when they laugh. There are several photos I've seen of William plastered on magazines and book covers that actually made me do a double-take. One thing they definitely don't have in common though... the accent. Handy just canNOT fake an English accent for the life of him. It always comes out a mix between Australian and South African.
His family and I have been talking about the resemblance for years. Besides the question of "When are y'all going to start having kids?" (neither of our sets of parents ask that, thank God--they know better--I'm talking about everyone else), "How do you feel about your husband marrying Kate?" has been something I've heard quite a bit lately.
So, Prince William (the real one), I wish you a lifetime of happiness. It worked out for the best anyway. :::grins:::
Happy Wedding Day! (can it be a holiday here in the states too, or what?! ;)


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Witch hunter / Охотник на ведьм [2017] [Uncen] [ADV] [RUS,ENG] H-Game
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Категория: Эроге и порно игры
Описание: This Game will be a visual novel built on the RenPy engine with a variety of gameplay elements, mini-games and multiple endings.
The main character is Lord Cedrick acts disguised as Rick Hoffman (local librarian).
By order of Phobos' He's trying to find a successor to the throne, and to weaken the cohesion of the witchs.The game will contain a plurality of NSWF images with the ability to fuck each of the witches, as well as many minor characters of the animated series.
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Events for December 28, 2018
Day Navigation
Winter Break Camp will be available December 27 and 28 as well as January 2 – January 4. Daily enrollments are the only registration option. Be sure to stop by the front desk and get your kiddos registered! Our forms are also available on our website at www.mtparkhoa.com/kidzone. For more detailed information, please contact theFind out more


text: After a stressful day at work, I was craving some comfort food upon arriving home. I had been meaning to try Lachesis' Amazing Alfredo Sauce from the PPK forums for awhile, and tonight this seemed like just what I needed. I slightly altered the recipe to sub in what ingredients I had on hand, but the end result was still a dead ringer for the real thing.


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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – The Birmingham-Southern men's and women's golf teams are headed to Maumelle, Ark. this weekend to compete in the 2017 Southern Athletic Association Tournament.
"I'm feeling that we're peaking at the end of the year," said Head Coach Richard Schmidt. "We're going there with a bunch of confidence, so we feel we'll do well there. Really looking for the girls to compete hard and play their best for the last tournament of the season."
The tournament is set for April 20-23 on Maumelle Country Club in Maumelle, Ark. Live results will be available online at the links below.
Men: http://results.golfstat.com/public/leaderboards/gsnav.cfm?pg=participants&tid=10980
Women: http://results.golfstat.com/public/leaderboards/gsnav.cfm?pg=participants&tid=10915


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^ As a sort of follow up to my previous post on music concert DVDs, I wanted to reblog this post from another WordPress blog author to readers. By sharing this I do not wish to create a debate about sign language vs captioning – I think that people should have the choice of either. Just recently reports have suggested that Lady Ga Ga is to learn sign language to perhaps one day use on her live tours for deaf fans. I am assuming that would be ASL. I think it is a great idea, but I'd love if also, if one day in the same way that theatre's are now captioning plays and musicals, why not extent that to music concerts? Has anyone ever been to one?


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facing the winds, eyes closed, eyes open. i can smell the ocean on your hair.
your hands in mine, two mountains, two rivers, two raptors in flight.
the seeds planted, looking forward to the seasons shifting. long languid days, no worries, no bad blood.
you are the shimmer in my seas, the wisps in my twilight, and the lingering heat in my summer nights.
tonight's homework:
sit on top of your roof for an hour at twilight. feel the earth in rotation, daydream into the evening.


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Oil boom to remain for some more time
Many experts were pointing out that the oil boom is temporary phenomena and people shouldn't rely on the cheap prices. But looks like this temporary phenomena is going last for a long period now. The North Dakota's shale oil reserves are concentrated at rig in the Williston Basin. The rig just started yielding crude oil and the company is drilling for more production for the first time in the five months.
The rig is being operated by Baker Huges Inc as a field services contractor at the Permian Basin, the largest oil play in the United States. EOG Resources Inc and Pioneer Natural Resources CO. were among other shale explorers in the region. As the area is yielding more crude oil, both companies are planning to restart their exploration efforts and go deepest. For a long time, the U.S. oil drilling efforts were almost absent due to low oil prices. Due to super low prices, the number of active oil rigs was decreased by 50 percents.
As we all know, the crude oil prices dipped down around 49 percent last year as the countries like the US flooded the oil market with massive shale oil production. The rates remained somewhere around $60 a barrel. The prices are recovering now as production as slowed down but now sudden action in the oil rig is threatening the recovery in the oil prices. The head of Commodity markets, Harry Harry Tchilinguirian from London Based BNP Paribas informed that people are inviting more oil supply in the market. The natural effect of this as per demand supply law is going to be reduction the prices.


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my apologies! I just realized this post didn't go live last week :(
Good Morning!!
Something really exciting is going on over at Avery Elle this week.
If you haven't checked it out please head on over to the blog and see.
It's Authentique and Avery Elle week! This week the Avery Elle design team is playing with Authentique papers, Life Cards and embellishments. After visiting here, be sure to check out the Authentique Blog for even more inspiration! We have a fabulous prize up for grabs so be sure to comment on our blogs throughout to week to be entered to win a fabulous prize!
I used some of Authentiques fabulous items from their "Harmony" and "Radiant" lines to create this fun card.
I also used Avery Elle's Build a Banner and Weather it sets as well.
Please hop on over to the Avery Elle blog today to check out some AMAZING cards from Chunyuan, and the rest of the DT this week.
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Blackwake is now in VG Horizon Division and is currently open for initial staff positions. If anyone is interested in helping this team be a success in TAW, contact the SUL Tcael or any of the Vanguard staff.
For Honor
Mandatory event times
EU Sunday 8 PM GMT
NA Tuesday 8 PM EST
For Honor hits Tier 2:
We in Vanguard are excited to announce that For Honor has reached Tier 2, that means that For Honor now has opened their doors for internal transfers. If you would like to transfer to For Honor or attend events with the team, feel free to join them in their channels in Vanguard.
Ghost Recon Wildlands
NA Sunday 8 PM EST and Wednesday 8 PM EST
EU Sunday 7 PM GMT and Wednesday 7 PM GMT
Ghost Recon Wildlands is open for initial staff positions on the NA side. If anyone is interested in helping this team be a success in TAW, contact FloBurner or any of the Vanguard staff.
Conan Exiles
Joint Sunday at 4 PM EST/ 9PM GMT
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Ghost in the Shell: First Assault
NA Friday 10PM EST
EU Sunday 7PM GMT and Wednesday 7.30PM GMT
Ghost in the Shell is open for initial staff positions on the NA side. If anyone is interested in helping this team be a success in TAW, contact RedRaven or any of the Vanguard staff.
The team has been working to put together their first tournament "First Assault". The tournament will be a risk style 3 by 3 grid with teams defending and attacking to gain territory. The teams have now been drafted and we are testing the balancing in anticipation of the tournament commencing on March 26th.
Any member wanting to check the game out are more than welcome to join the GHS team and even serve as floater once the tournaments starts.
Star Citizen
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The future for inkjet printhead development in terms of technology and business-management trends
By Rick Mandel
Trends in inkjet heads
Where are the trends going with inkjet heads? Talking to insiders, the goal of the digital print or inkjet world is to encroach continuously on the analog markets of litho, flexo, and screen printing.
Ray Work, Ph.D., of Work Associates, Inc., suggests that the ceramic tile industry will eventually be handled by digital printing. Inkjet printing is all but replacing the analog methods for decorating tile, and the return on investment with inkjet can be in just months, not years. The advancement is the relationship of inkjet heads and the inks to create a durable product. In essence, printheads can handle the specialized ink needed for ceramic printing.
Piezo heads can be, categorized as industrial inkjet heads. The cost at present is in the range of $1000 or more for each head. With arrays of heads in the hundreds, you can do the math to prove why some of the most robust presses cost more than hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Visually seeing the dots and noticeable banding are the elements that frustrate the digital print producer. Screen printing has crossed that bridge of resolution vs. production many times. As a solution to this issue, printheads are now able to vary the spot size within the jetting output, which fools the eye to simulate greater resolution, and hide banding. The result is the ability to keep speeds up, to give a continuous tone look, and to reduce banding.
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Horse Riding Tours
Horse riding will gives you an unique adventure journey in Nepal to make your holiday enjoyable. Due to the country's geographical features many places in different regions are not accessible by roads. People living in those areas are using horses to travel from place to place, carry food, clothes, medicines and other goods to far, remote areas. Especially in trans-Himalayan region (behind the tall mountain or southern rim of Tibetan plateau) where people have adopted horse riding as a culture and most important means for daily life.
One can enjoy the Horse riding in any part of the country. No matter whether you want a month long horse riding trek or a few hours of galloping, all are available to suite your needs. The good news is that, those who are unable to walk on foot in the trans - Himalayan region can also make their trekking trip to Nepal and explore their imagination.
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Archive for February 7th, 2007
Steve Jobs and DRM
by admin on Feb.07, 2007, under General
By the time you've read this, it's more than likely you've already read Steve Jobs' post regarding DRM. For more information on how DRM messes with your life read this entry in Wikipedia. If you haven't read either the post or some of the relevant discussions, you can read through some of the news sites responses by doing a Google News search for "Steve Jobs DRM" . I won't rehash a lot of his arguments, nor the arguments of many who've discussed the article. I'll just say a few words on some things that really made me stop and think about the whole situation.
First, F-ing BRILLIANT piece of work if from no other aspect than an amazing public relations move. Also, some major BS too, but that's my opinion of the licensing FairPlay discussion, and despite that I still agree with the majority of his article. Even disagreeing with his viewpoints on FairPlay, I can at least respect his views. What's interesting though is a few points brought up on boingboing.net regarding selling music RIGHT NOW in a non-DRM format . Basically, the argument is that a lot of independent labels already have said they'd be more than willing to have their music sold in a non-DRM format. Now, the question becomes when will it be possible to purchase this music? I know personally, I vowed not to buy anything off of iTunes because of DRM issues (when you replace machines regularly and have had as many issues as I've had transferring music from an old machine to a new one, you'd understand).
SO, how about it? Can I finally buy music through iTunes from independent labels without DRM? If not now, when? If this doesn't become an option after the furor his article has generated, I'd argue that the expose isn't so much about DRM, as it is about Apple trying to avoid litigation issues with the Norwegian Consumer Council .


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The LLRC cleared the Sri Lankan military of allegations that it deliberately attacked civilians and deprived them of food and medicine as a tactic of war.
US Under Secretary General of State Maria Otero, the most senior US official to visit Sri Lanka since 2005, told journalists in Colombo on the 13th of February that the United States will support a resolution in the UN Human Rights Council in March that provides an opportunity for the Government of Sri Lanka to describe what it intends to do to implement the LLRC's recommendations.
While human rights activists were calling for global powers to support a resolution at the 19th session of the UNHRC that convenes on the 27th of February in Geneva for an international investigation against Sri Lanka on war crimes allegations in the war against Tamil Tigers, comments by US Under Secretary General and Assistant Secretary Robert O Blake indicated that US was content with the implementation of the LLRC recommendations.
The full statement follows:
"I am pleased to be here in Colombo for the first time. I've had a series of productive meetings with the government of Sri Lanka, as well as civil society, political leaders, and journalists. President Rajapaksa was kind enough to meet with me and explain his government's vision to advance reconciliation among Sri Lanka's ethnic communities since the end of the conflict. I also had fruitful meetings with the Minister of External Affairs and the Secretary of Defense, among others.
"The United States has long been a friend of Sri Lanka; we were one of the first countries to recognize the LTTE as a Foreign Terrorist Organization in 1997. Since 1956, USAID has provided over $2 billion in assistance in Sri Lanka. This work benefits all Sri Lankans with initiatives on economic growth, agricultural development, environment and natural resources, health, education and training, democracy and governance, community reconciliation and humanitarian assistance. Current assistance is shifting from relief to sustainable development and is focused on two key areas: economic growth for conflict affected regions and strengthened cooperation between the state and an engaged, active civil society.
"Our bilateral relationship with Sri Lanka is multifaceted. While I am the most senior U.S. government official to visit Sri Lanka since Secretary of State Colin Powell in 2005, I know that you have hosted visitors from several U.S. government agencies in recent months. This shows our robust and diverse relationship and strong people-to-people and growing commercial ties.
"During my trip, I had the chance to meet with officials and groups who focus on trafficking in persons, child labor, and human rights. The Government of Sri Lanka has demonstrated improved performance, most notably in the successful prosecution and conviction of traffickers under anti-trafficking legislation, and rejuvenated its interagency task force on this issue. We welcome the opportunity to continue to work with the government to strengthen investigation and prosecution efforts and eradicate the scourge of trafficking in persons.
"Child labor is another area where the Sri Lankan government and NGOs are making a great deal of progress. Today less than two percent of children are engaged in the worst forms of child labor in Sri Lanka. This is a significant achievement, particularly in this region, and we are even more encouraged by the government's plan to entirely eliminate the worst forms of child labor from the country by 2016.
"We also appreciate the work of Sri Lanka's Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) While it has shortcoming on accountability, the Commission addressed a number of crucial areas of concern to Sri Lankans, and makes substantive recommendations on reconciliation, devolution of authority, de-militarization, rule of law, media freedom, disappearances, and human rights violations and abuses that, if implemented, could contribute to genuine reconciliation and strengthening democratic institutions and practices.
"I discussed the recommendations with the President and he assured me that they were looking to implement the LLRC report in a comprehensive manner. I urged the Sri Lankan Government to share the details of their plans and begin fulfilling the recommendations called for in the report, and to credibly address outstanding issues of accountability. I confirmed the United States will support a resolution in the UN Human Rights Council in March that provides an opportunity for the Government of Sri Lanka to describe what it intends to do to implement the LLRC's recommendations and advance reconciliation, as well as address accountability, human rights and democracy concerns.
"Ultimately, the government should address the needs of all communities in Sri Lanka by creating independent mechanisms that support reconciliation, democracy, and accountability for serious human rights abuses. It is critical to ensure the rule of law foster lasting reconciliation. We strongly encourage the Government of Sri Lanka to work with international bodies, including the United Nations, to address these matters. An agreement between the Sri Lankan government and the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) on a lasting political settlement is also critical, and we urge both sides to approach negotiations in the spirit of trust, empathy, and good faith to reach a political solution that is in the best interest of all of Sri Lanka's citizens.
"It is our sincere hope that the Government and people of Sri Lanka will seize this opportunity to build a democratic, tolerant society that will lead to lasting peace and prosperity that leads to a future of hope and dignity for all. We hope that all Sri Lankans see diversity as a strength, not a weakness. Sri Lanka has immense potential. The United States looks forward to continuing to work with you to build on your momentum toward a peaceful, prosperous, and democratic Sri Lanka."


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Sky Movies is to launch a new channel dedicated to James Bond later this year.
Launching in October in both standard and high definition, Sky Movies 007 will make use of Sky's recent deal with MGM to show the entire collection of James Bond movies.
In April, the satellite broadcaster secured rights to all 22 official Bond titles from EON Productions, from Dr No in 1962 to the last Bond film, Quantum of Solace, starring Daniel Craig.
It had poached the rights from ITV, and the deal included to two non-EON produced titles - the 1967 Casino Royale spoof Bond film and Never Say Never Again.
Sky initially indicated that the films would be shown on Sky Movies Showcase, but it has now decided to create a new channel dedicated to the iconic British spy.
All 22 Bond films will be shown on Sky Movies 007, in SD and HD, and without any adverts. This mirrors Sky's recent strategy with Sky Sports F1, the firm's first channel dedicated to just one sport that followed a blockbuster rights deal to Formula One.
Movies: Fifty Years of Bond Style - Designing 007
Sky Movies customers will also be able to access the Bond movies on-demand via the Sky Anytime+ service, along with on the Sky Go multiplatform service and NOW TV, Sky's brand new internet-delivered TV platform.
Ian Lewis, the director of Sky Movies, said: "The Bond movies are a very special franchise and we want to ensure that our customers will be able to experience it in a way they've never been able to before, and so we're going to create a dedicated channel Sky Movies 007 HD devoted entirely to James Bond showing the entire catalogue of films and loads of extra material.
"We're delighted that our customers will have the best Bond movie-watching experience ever with Sky Movies - uninterrupted, in HD, on demand and on the go."
Sky Movies 007 will launch on October 5, timed to coincide with the 50th anniversary celebrations of the release of the first Bond movie, Dr No, on the same day in October 1962.
The 23rd film in the franchise, Skyfall, will be available to rent through the Sky Store and shown on Sky Movies in 2013. Watch the trailer below:


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Josée Vachon, Franco-American Singer/Songwriter to Perform
Josée Vachon, Franco-American singer/songwriter will bring her warm engaging humor and upbeat rhythms to _________________(place)________________ on _____(date)_____.
Well known in communities throughout the Northeast, Josée Vachon has been making a name for herself for over twenty-five years. A Québec native transplanted to central Maine as a child, Vachons traditional and original songs in French are performed with guitar, spoons, clogging, energy and charm. She has performed hundreds of traditional, educational and holiday concerts for audiences of all ages.
Vachons first performances at the University of Maine and at New England Franco-American festivals inspired her to document her Québec roots in original songs as well as in popular and traditional songs from Canada. Her warm vocals, welcoming personality and increasing popularity among Francos led to an 11-year run hosting Bonjour!, the most widely seen French language cable TV show produced in the U.S., airing in markets from New Brunswick, Ontario to Louisiana.
Vachon has recorded 12 solo albums in French, and two with Franco-American folk group Chanterelle. She has appeared on the Parisian television shows Le grand échiquier and Espace francophone, and in Canada on TV Ontario and Radio-Canada.
In 1999, she was awarded the National Culture Through the Arts Award from the NY State Association of Foreign Language Teachers for her work in schools. She was a member of the National Endowment for the Arts American Traditions Training and Touring Project. She has even, proudly been given the key to the city of Woonsocket, R.I.
Vachon was recorded for a special on La Bolduc on Canadas History Channel, has a regional music clip on MicroSofts AutoMap Trip Planner software, made Yankee Magazines Top 40 Music picks (July 2001) and contributed an original song on Smithsonian Folkways CD, Mademoiselle voulez-vous danser: Franco-American Music from the New England Borderlands, a Top Ten Folk Music CD pick from NPR in 1999. She was a member of the Womens Singing Traditions of New England Tour, and was a founding member of the Franco-American group, Chanterelle.
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Mehndi is an imperative festival in eastern and Muslim weddings. On this occasion relatives and friends are invited to have fun. In Mehndi evening they sing songs and apply mehndi. Usually the mehndi dresses are yellow in color.
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Energy Club Movie Night, moderated by Dr. Brian Fleck
Our economic system plays a vital role in the implementation of new technologies and understanding its inner workings helps to identify barriers that renewable energies may face in the open market.
"Money as Debt" is a colourful and fast-paced animation by Canadian artist, Paul Grignon. It explains with simplicity and humour how our modern debt- money system evolved. If you want to know how money is created - if you are puzzled at how debt can just keep on rising - if you wonder how much money exists - and if you suspect this money system must eventually collapse at great cost to all of us - you owe it to yourself to see this highly informative and entertaining video.


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We first reported plans for Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment to release the animated classics The Aristocats andThe Rescuers for the first time on Blu-ray back in May. Today we have learned in conjunction with the films release on August 21, Walt Disney Music will also be releasing rarely heard music from the soundtrack of the films, which never made it to the final production in a series called The Lost Chords.
Arguably the more interesting of the two is the album for The Aristocats which features two titles: How Much You Mean to Me / Court Me Slowly and Le Jazz Hot. While the former is included as a bonus feature for the Blu-ray, the latter seems to be a more intriguing mystery. A cursory search, for example, returns only two mentions of it in context, one of which is in this interview in which Richard Sherman speaks of it fondly. The downloadable album (which also contains a PDF booklet) includes both tracks performed by Richard Sherman as well as seemingly new recordings by Disney Character Voice performer Corey Burton and lead of Vintage Trouble, Ty Taylor.
The album for The Rescuers contains four songs with recordings of Doin What I Really Do Best, I Never Had It So Good and Peopleitis, each recorded separately by Floyd Huddleston and Louis Prima, as well as The Need to be Loved as recorded by both Paul Francis Webster and Jennifer Paz.
Although the recordings wont be available to own until August 21, they are all able to be sampled at this time.


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The history of the identity bracelet of WWI with a photograph example of that worn by Sister Williams of the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service
During the 1914 - 1918 Great War soldiers and those at the frontline were issued with fibrous identity discs which were worn around the neck, often with a good luck charm like a cross, and usually tied by a piece of string.
This example above is on display in the National War Museum at Edinburgh Castle.
Sadly the damp conditions of the trenches often rotted them. Many corpses were difficult to identify, especially those who were shipwrecked. They were nicknamed cold meat tickets. They were stamped with the serviceman's regimental number, initials and surname and religion.
Oddly from 1907 to August 1914 ID discs were made from aluminium with the soldiers' name, rank, serial number, unit details and religion stamped on it. Perhaps the cost to issue these to the vast number of men mobilised necessitated the cheaper ID discs. Prior to 1907 soldiers would carry an identity card in their uniform pocket.
The 1909 Field Service Regulations instructed that the disc be removed from bodies, which made later identification even more difficult. For this reason two discs were introduced in August 1916. They were of two different shapes and colours. A green octagonal one would stay with the body whilst the red round one would be removed from the body for administration purposes (cited from What Tommy Took to War, 1914-1918 which also has a photo of the red and green ID discs).
These are on display at Eden Camp in Yorkshire.
Unknown Warriors: The Letters of Kate Luard, RRC and Bar, Nursing Sister in France 1914-1918 describes these dog tags as being 35mm and of vulcanised asbestos fibre.
Because of their fragile state many soldiers and indeed members of the QAs had their own, often using local coins such as a Franc at the Western Front, made out of metals like silver or copper and worn on their wrists as a bracelet. Some would also add their issued fibrous identity discs. There is an example of this in the lower section of the Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps page.
The fine example of an engraved silver World War One ID Bracelet above belonged to Nursing Sister Williams of the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve. It was given to a reader in the 1970s when he was at Durban, South Africa. He thinks the reverse coin is Islamic. It reads
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Though, thankfully, they're not nearly as rare as the young unicorn, I still found this Edmund White quote to be very apropos:
"For some reason, I never sent off my manuscripts. Maybe I didn't know where to mail them; after all, I'd never met a published writer, nor did such a fabulous creature seem to inhabit our Midwestern world, any more than a unicorn might suddenly gallop past my dorm windows."
[From Rimbaud: The Double Life of a Rebel]
My essay on mentoring just came out in the August '09 issue of VOYA. (I'll be adding a downloadable PDF of the same article shortly.)
The timing's apropos too, as I'm planning to offer mentoring, or apprenticeships, or – we'll figure out what to call it later. Young writers, exceptional young writers, ambitious young writers, I'm looking at you. See you in the fall.


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A couple first-y things:
1. I am so thrilled and honored and humbled that HUSH, HUSH has made NPR's 100 Best-Ever Teen Novels. So many of my favorite childhood books are on the list, including ANNE OF GREEN GABLES, TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, THE OUTSIDERS, LORD OF THE FLIES, and THE LAST UNICORN. It feels incredible to be included with books that meant so much to me then, that mean so much to me now. Here's a link to the full list.
2. Speaking of awesome awards, HUSH, HUSH won the North Carolina Young Adult Book Award! Thank you, thank you to the teens from N.C. who voted for HUSH, HUSH. Awards like this--where teens are the judges!--mean the world to me. It's so cool knowing the book resonates with you.
3. Today my editor shared with me the initial script for the FINALE book trailer. You guys. It is so cool. There are so many juicy clues about the storyline and, in a way, I think the trailer is going to be a mini movie in itself! I can't wait to see it. I can't wait to share it!
4. A little more FINALE news. My ed sent over posters yesterday that I'll be giving away on tour at my events. The posters are so glam! And sexy. And dark. And, yes, those famous black jeans of Patch's are on it...
Okay, now...tour news! U.S. tour news to be exact. I mentioned a while ago that this year's tour would be shorter (I was gone 29 straight days last year!) and I apologize in advance if I'm not visiting your state. If you're close to any of my tour stops, I hope you'll come out and see me. I promise we're going to have lots of fun and I'm so very excited to meet you, answer your questions, and sign your books! One more thing to keep in mind - my publisher decides which cities and stores I visit, NOT me. If I had infinite time, I would visit you all!
The LOVE HAS NO FINALE Tour...
October 29 - Books Inc (San Francisco, CA)


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Seasons -- Mexico has two principal travel seasons. High season begins around December 20 and continues to Easter; in some places it begins as early as mid-November. Low season is from the day after Easter to mid-December; during low season, prices may drop 20% to 50%. In beach destinations popular with Mexican travelers, such as Veracruz and Acapulco, prices will revert to high season during July and August, the traditional national summer vacation period. Prices in inland cities seldom fluctuate from high to low season, but may rise dramatically during the weeks of Easter and Christmas. Taxco and Pȥtzcuaro raise prices during their popular Easter-week celebrations. In Isla Mujeres and Playa del Carmen, on the Yucatȥn Peninsula, high season starts earlier than in the rest of the country and includes the month of August, when many European visitors and Mexican families arrive.
Mexico has two main climate seasons: rainy (May to mid-Oct) and dry (mid-Oct to Apr). The rainy season can be of little consequence in the dry, northern regions of the country. Southern regions typically receive tropical showers, which begin around 4 or 5pm and last a few hours. Though these rains can come on suddenly and be quite strong, they usually end just as quickly and cool off the air for the evening. Hurricane season particularly affects the Yucatȥn Peninsula and the southern Pacific coast, especially June through October. However, if no hurricanes strike, the light, cooling winds, especially September through November, can make it a perfect time to tackle the pre-Hispanic ruins that dot the interior of the peninsula.
Norte (northern) season runs from late November to mid-January, when the jet stream dips far south and creates northerly winds and showers in many resort areas. These showers usually only last for a couple of days.
June, July, and August are unrelentingly hot on the Yucatȥn Peninsula and in most coastal areas, though temperatures rise only into the mid-80s to 90ŶF (mid-20s to 32ŶC). Most of coastal Mexico experiences temperatures in the 80sŶF (20sŶC) in the hottest months. The northern states that border the United States experience very high summer temperatures.
Elevation is another important factor. High-elevation cities such as Mexico City and San CristɃbal de las Casas can be surprisingly cold. Temperatures can drop close to freezing at night in winter even in San Miguel de Allende and Guanajuato, which are at lower elevations.