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The stories of Michael Jordan on the practice floor are legendary, so it's only fitting that Bill Wennington has one of his own.
Practice for the Bulls was just underway at the Berto Center in Deerfield during the team's second three-peat. Jordan beat his man in a drill, and he immediately drove to the hoop. Enter Wennington, a well-traveled seven-footer, who rotated over from the weak side and sent the shot attempt from the game's greatest player in the opposite direction.
For the rest of that practice, Wennington said, no matter if they were in a five-man scrimmage or it was two-on-two or three-on-three, every time he shot the ball, he made a point to get past his defender, find Wennington, and shoot over him. And Jordan did plenty of talking along the way.
"That's what he did to challenge himself, and to challenge me as well," Wennington recalled from his Lake Forest home. "He wanted to make sure I was going to compete and not back down."
Wennington didn't and he ultimately earned Jordan's respect and trust. He wasn't alone, as Jordan often did the same with the Bulls' other role players—Steve Kerr, Jud Buechler, Jason Caffey and Dickey Simpkins just to name a few from the group that helped Chicago to its last three world championships.
The concept for Jordan was a simple one.
"He wanted to be the best player on the best team," said Wennington. "In order to do that, he understood that he had to have 11 other guys working hard all the time."
Wennington's first interaction with Jordan came roughly 15 years earlier in 1981, when the two played together in the McDonald's All American Game (photo at the bottom of this page) in Wichita, Kansas.
"I remember rebounding and turning around with the ball, and Michael would be at halfcourt already," said Wennington, who would go on to attend St. John's University. "Not that he was just sitting there waiting, but he was that quick even at that age to be there."
In the game against the country's best high school players, Jordan connected on a pair of free throws with 11 seconds left to give his East team a one-point victory. He scored a then-record 30 points, but co-MVP honors went to Adrian Branch and Aubrey Sherrod. Apparently, it wasn't Michael's time yet.
Wennington is quick to point out his St. John's squad, which also featured Brooklyn's Chris Mullin, bested Jordan's North Carolina team in the 1982-83 season. When he joined the Bulls a decade later, following the team's third world championship, he was eager to share the court with Jordan. But that would have to wait, as days after his signing, Jordan announced his first retirement and was off to play baseball.
When he returned in 1995, Wennington said, it was well worth the wait. While Jordan would make an occasional appearance at the team's practice facility in Deerfield, as the end of the 1994-95 campaign approached, his visits became more frequent. The players sensed something was up and it was clear Jordan was taking his workouts a little more seriously than just a casual drop in, but no one was talking about it. They didn't want to jinx it, said Wennington.
Even though he was still the best player on the floor, "He was a tad bit rusty in a few areas—getting down the floor, his passing, and reading things on the court—because he hadn't been playing," said Wennington.
The best-kept secret in the NBA soon was out, with Jordan's famous "I'm back" declaration on March 18, 1995.
Ten days later, in his fifth game out of retirement, he stepped onto of the NBA's biggest stages, Madison Square Garden. Jordan made his intentions clear when he met the New York media—it wasn't about individual accolades; he was there to win another title.
By the end of the first quarter, Jordan had recorded a quick 20 points. He added another 15 in the second frame and entered the intermission having shot 14-of-19 from the field.
Jordan's final bucket, a jumper to put the Bulls up two with less than thirty seconds remaining in the game, gave him 55 points on the evening. New York tied it up on two John Starks' free throws, and it was Chicago with the final possession. Jordan had the ball, and everyone in the arena expected him to take the shot. As he drove through the lane, Patrick Ewing came over to challenge him, and Jordan simply dropped the ball into Ewing's man, Wennington. Wennington's dunk and only score for the night was all the Bulls needed to hang on for a 113-111 victory.
"Even though he had 55 points, it still came down to winning for him," said Wennington. "He was OK not winning it himself; whoever was open was going to get the ball. That's the type of player he was, and that was what is so unique and special about Michael. All he wanted to do was win. He could score 30 points or more every night, but he understood what it took to win. To win consistently, it had to be a team effort."
Jordan's comeback that season fell short of the ultimate goal with the Orlando Magic defeating the Bulls 4-2 in the Eastern Conference Semifinals.
Wennington believes that the loss to Orlando "really triggered something within him." The first day of training camp that fall, Jordan was clearly on a mission, showing up in mid-season form on the first day.
"You could tell he had something in mind that he wanted to accomplish and that he was going to pull everyone else along with him," Wennington said. "He was ready to prove to the world that even though he wasn't quite ready the year before, he was back then."
Jordan and the Bulls were back on top soon enough with their fourth championship following a 4-2 NBA Finals win over the Seattle Sonics in 1996. Chicago won 72 games that season, an NBA record, and suffered only 10 losses. They were defeated only once in the postseason prior to the Finals.
"That year in itself was unbelievable," recalled Wennington. "Jason Caffey was a rookie, and just before All-Star break, we were cleaning up after practice when he came over. 'Billy, man, this is unbelievable and it's more than I ever dreamed of. Is it always like this?' I had been in the league about eight years by then and just laughed. I said, 'Jason, it's never like this. Enjoy every minute of it because it just doesn't happen.' We'd walk on the floor and we could see other teams just watching us warm up. In over half the games, we knew that we were going to win because we could see that they were afraid."
Wennington had the chance to see Jordan with somewhat regularity a few years ago when Jordan's sons, Jeff and Marcus, attended Loyola Academy at the same time as Wennington's son, Robbie.
"We'd laugh, and talk about how much easier life was with the kids playing instead of us," he said. "Michael was a guy who respected guys he played with, as long as they worked. He expected you to do your job and he'd get frustrated if you took plays off or had mental lapses. Once he does respect you, you're his friend for life. He always makes time for old teammates when he sees them."
While the effects Jordan had on Wennington's career were profound, perhaps none were bigger than a marketing opportunity that came Wennington's way in the late 1990s.
Wennington was filming a commercial for McDonald's double cheeseburgers, talking with everyone involved and having a lot of fun with it. Word about his personality made its way to upper management, and before long, the Beef Wennington was born.
That begs the question: Without Michael, would there have even been a Beef Wennington, that delicious single patty topped with cheese, onions, barbecue sauce and a slice of Canadian bacon?
"Yes," Wennington said with a smile, "But it wouldn't have been marketed by McDonald's… it would have been on the grill at Wennington's humble abode."


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The PSP NobleQ stands out for its warm sound, its boost and attenuation low-shelf filters and its combined peak and shelf high frequency processing. The warm and musical sound in PSP NobleQ is made possible thanks to its finest processing utilizing FAT double sampling for a natural analog-like response. We also added an output valve-like rounding algorithm with adjustable processing depth.
The low shelf filter actually combines two shelving sections: the first one allows you to boost low frequencies while the other one attenuates them but is tuned slightly higher. Together they help to get a rich bottom end without low-midrange muddiness.
The high frequency range consist of two filters – a peaking filter with adjustable band width (usually set to Boost) and a shelf filter (usually set to Attenuate). Both filters interact in such a way that the more attenuation to high frequency is applied the more selective peaking filter becomes while keeping its center frequency similarly boosted.
PSP NobleQex is an extended version of the PSP NobleQ. It offers all the features of PSP NobleQ combined with an extra middle bell filter and an adjustable low-shelf dip frequency shift.
Once again (as is common on many of their plug-ins) PSP takes a theme and re invent for the 21st century – they add features that extend this sonic master into a new direction for example: the tiny little knob next to the VALVE switch – never before has such an un assuming little control yielded to much VIBE try it on bass SUPERRRRB ; the shelf frequency is a must for drum over head mics – im a fan of shelf EQ especially when you need something to GLISSEN and shine in a mix – here you can select the shelf Freq – id imagine this would be VERY costly to implement on hardware. I LOVE IT – that and vintage warmer and you set to go.
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With the release of PSP NobleQ, I now have all the eq I need to mix anything- all within the PSP family. PSP NobleQ is a perfect example of how PSP just gets it. As with most of their products, NobleQ is exactly what a mixer would ask for. Unlike those extremely annoying modeled plug ins which have the same shortcomings and flaws the original hardware has, NobleQ combines the best of both worlds. They focus on nailing the vibe of our favorite gear while in many ways actually improving upon it without getting bogged down with trying to create an exact copy. The result is a range of tools that are uniquely PSP. I'm loving this eq and it will certainly be a major component in my mixes from now on.
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Get this: The U.S. Supreme Court is about to decide whether false accusations and mudslinging during political campaigns are illegal.: As it goes, during the 2010 election in Ohio, an anti-abortion group, the Susan B. Anthony List, sought to launch a billboard campaign that accused then-Rep. Steven Driehaus, a Democrat, of supporting taxpayer-funded abortion – because he backed ObamaCare.:
But an Ohio law that makes it illegal to knowingly or recklessly make false statements about an opponent during an election killed the ad. The billboard owner, worried about getting sued, declined to run it.: After the election, the Susan B. Anthony List challenged the Ohio law as unconstitutional – that it infringed on the group's First Amendment right to free speech. The Supreme Court will decide the case soon, and I surely hope the Ohio law is overturned.: Though a strong argument can be made that ObamaCare will ultimately cause private insurance funds to finance abortion, here's what is also true: False statements and lies are the bread and butter of American politics.: We want our politicians to lie.: The greatest political yarn spinner in my lifetime was President Bill Clinton. He protected us from boring government stuff. So long as the stock market was high and the budget was in surplus, his antics, and frequent whoppers, were sources of great amusement.: There is a line on acceptable political yarn spinning, however, and Clinton finally did cross it ("I did not have sexual relations with that woman."). If only he'd heeded the old motto: You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but sooner or later, Hillary is going to find out and throw a lamp at you.: That brings us to President George W. Bush. People kept "misunderestimating" him, unaware of how clever the fellow really was. Take our war with Iraq. Bush said it was about Saddam Hussein flouting U.N. resolutions. He said it was about Saddam's weapons of mass destruction, which could have ended up in the hands of terrorists who could really do us harm (though we never found those WMDs).: What he didn't tell us was the other stuff he and his team were really up to: They wanted to scare the bejeezus out of the other dictators in the Middle East, who respect only force and action, establishing a strong presence there to give us a chokehold on Syria and other terrorism sponsors by cutting off billions in illegal oil dough, and maybe taking a pass through Iran to shut down its nuclear ambitions.: President Obama has been king of the not-so-true. Billions in stimulus money didn't come close to producing the unemployment reduction he promised. And who can forget his most memorable line of all: "If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan. Period.": Of course our politicians conceal, deceive and mislead. They are responding to our cue. We disdain complexity and conflict and punish any politician (think President Jimmy Carter) who doesn't keep them away from us.: We prefer Santa Claus (Clinton, Obama), not the high school coach who makes us do wind sprints (Mitt Romney). We want more free government goodies and when the rich pay their fair share, we'll be able to pay for them (Obama).: We want bigger Social Security checks and lower withholding taxes. We want bigger tax cuts and a smaller deficit. And anybody who is dumb enough to tell us we can't have everything is never going to get elected in this country.: So I hope and pray the Ohio law is overturned by the Supreme Court. Falsehood in politics is one of the few amusements we have to look forward to these days.:
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Each and every one of your plants is unique and special. We wanted to replicate that one-of-kind feeling in a line of planters so we played around with a triple dip glazing process that ensures no two pots are alike. We made sure that the colour range of Yellow, Greens, Blues and Red looks cohesive so they match together, but still are very individual from each other. While they are made of ceramic, we purposely left portions of some of the pots raw to add texture and to give them that natural vibe. The cement like appearance also pushes the look a little bit into the contemporary realm. We like to think of the Minute pots as a planter shape shifter. Whether you have a boho chic or a modern all white aesthetic going on, the colours and textures of the glazes make sense to your environment. Your houseplants and succulents will feel at home inside the pot, and your planter will feel at home inside your space.
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- Material: Ceramic
- Dimensions: 3" diameter, 3" tall
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- Cleaning: warm soapy water
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- Sit lovely in a window sill, home office, excellent gift idea
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Love it but you've also gotta love the idea of wabi sabi to appreciate it. Was expecting it to be more striped. But really the colors flowed together more. Still an excellent, loved little pot! Customer service is impeccable and everything I've ordered has been wrapped securely w no breakage. Love this company!
Mostly okay but one of the little glazed pots has more than 1 irregularity - black mark where it shouldn't be and big splodge of glaze not where it should be. I appreciate a bit of irregularity but I'm not happy with this pot and would have chosen another one if I'd been buying in a shop. Would you be willing to exchange this pot? Efficient service otherwise though. Thank you.
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(UPDATE on 8/30/2011: NISA still hasn't said a word about conversion, but someone in Japan did the calculation based on the NISA's numbers released on June 6. You can view it at this link or in the image below. In plain language, neptunium-239 will decay into plutonium-239, adding 2×10^7 becquerels (20,000,000 becquerels) to the existing plutonium-239. The calculation was done by Tomohiro Endo, a researcher (nuclear physics) at Nagoya University.)
(UPDATE on 8/29/2011: NISA backtracked in the joint conference (TEPCO/government) in the afternoon, and now says it's not sure about the conversion rate of neptunium-239 into plutonium-239.)
Now this is very curious.
The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA)'s daily press conference is ongoing (August 29). The NISA spokesman Moriyama mentions neptunium-239's conversion ratio to plutonium-239 as 1 to 1.
According to the June 6 estimate by the NISA:
Plutonium-239: 3.2×10^9
Neptunium-239: 7.6×10^13
So, now it is:
Plutonium-239: 7.6 x 10^13, or 76,000,000,000,000 or 76 terabecquerels
The amount of plutonium-239 has increased 23,000-fold, according to NISA.
On August 15 I wrote about neptunium-239, half life of about 2 days, having been detected in large quantity in Iitate-mura, 35 kilometers from Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant. I had to take down the second post on the subject, but the information was correct.
Now, NISA is suddenly mentioning neptunium-239. Admission of wide dispersion of this nuclide and resultant plutonium-239 may be finally forthcoming, after more than 5 months.


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Wall-to-wall carpeting comes in rolls, and these rolls often come in 12-feet widths; however, depending on the carpet manufacturer, you might also find carpet widths of 13'2" and 15'. Carpet manufactured in other countries is typically four meters wide, which translates to 13'2". If you are shopping for commercial carpeting, you can likely find carpet rolls with six-foot widths.
Before installation, professionals will measure the room to determine what carpet width should be ordered and what direction they should lay the carpet rolls. The goals are to create as little waste as possible and to limit the visibility of seams. When a carpet is ordered, 10 to 20 percent is often added to the room measurement to ensure there is not a shortage of materials for the installation.
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veronik came back from sweden yesterday evening, so today we had a nice coffee back in antwerp! on the last picture is veroniks present for mieke, a wonderful pack of musli!
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charlotte koopman
a great artist to watch is our friend charlotte koopman. she makes the most amazing drawings, with funny characters. you can see more of her work on this website. she's working on a book about tomatoes and we can't wait untill it's finished. we have some really nice children's books, but the first one she will publish is going to be our favorite- that's for sure!
charlotte also made our logo!
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Jul 27, 2008
sunday on the fleamarket
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animals in our houses (part 2)
more animals... on the first picture you can see a drawing on the wall from charlotte koopman. we'll tell you more about her work soon!
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Jul 24, 2008
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Jul 21, 2008
sparkle and spin
this is definitly one of our favorite books, sparkle and spin. paul rand did the illustrations, and his wife ann rand wrote the story. it's very hard to make a selection, all pages are nice!!
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Jul 19, 2008
other vintage finds
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Jul 18, 2008
andrea ayala closa
andrea ayala closa is a very nice fashiondesigner from barcelona. we met her when she studied in the academy in antwerp. the picture up was taken from her beautiful website. the 3 last photos are made by mieke with drawings from charlotte koopman.
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Jul 17, 2008
5 trees for veronik
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Jul 14, 2008
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this is veronik, about 3 years ago, photographed by mieke, in a series of portraits from people surrounded by their favorite objects.
Jul 13, 2008
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Jul 9, 2008
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Jul 7, 2008
present for mieke
from lisa jeannin, a very nice and funny swedish artist. check out her website.
she makes videos, drawings and she also makes music with her turtles.
here are some of her drawings:
present for veronik
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Jul 4, 2008
in veroniks working room
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The Legend of Zelda Inspired This Ballantyne Country Club Wedding in North Carolina
Sheila and Will took a hybrid approach when it came to wedding planning—tackling some DIY projects while leaving others to the pros. "We did a mix of DIY and had a day-of coordinator. I pulled a lot of samples from Pinterest and tweaked them to fit our style and timeline. I'm super into organization so I had sharable Google Docs and Excel Sheets ready to go for planning. I consulted The Knot to build a thorough checklist, get ideas, and to find local vendors for floral, alterations, photographer, and videographer!" Sheila shares. Once the couple settled on how they wanted to approach the task of wedding planning, they moved on to thinking about the celebration's actual aesthetic. Their chosen theme was out-of-the-box and perfectly personalized. "The theme of our wedding was The Legend of Zelda. It's my favorite video game and we wanted it to be magical with faeries and such. We played a lot of video games together when we started dating and we still do almost every night!" The couple's stationery was one spot where their video game inspiration was on full display. The wedding invitation envelopes bore "the Legend of Zelda font and rose gold faeries. I stamped the back of the envelopes with a green triforce wax seal to make it more elegant," Sheila explains. For ceremony music, Sheila even chose, "the Legend of Zelda Symphony Medley and Super Smash Bros. Brawl Main Theme. I walked down the aisle to the Great Fairy's Fountain. All of our friends who play video games with us knew EXACTLY what the songs were!" The famed video game also made its way into cocktail hour and the reception, notably through the couple's signature cocktail selections. "We had a cocktail with signature his and hers drinks, both Legend of Zelda themed of course. I had a drink called "The Legend of Sheila" which was vodka, sugar, ginger beer, mint, blueberries, and lime. Will had a drink called 'Will's Rupee Rush' which was bourbon, bitters, honey, and lemon juice. I designed the drink menus with Zelda characters."
Beyond incorporating The Legend of Zelda into their wedding, Sheila and Will added yet another layer of personalization to the day by honoring Sheila's Ghanian heritage. "We incorporated a Ghanaian element with the Kente bowties. Kente cloth is a traditional Ghanaian textile worn for occasions. My Auntie Tina brought the Kente cloth with her from Ghana and I gave it to one of my best friends who owns a bowtie company to make bowties out of the cloth! We also ending up doing a Sunday brunch the day after the wedding with the whole family in full matching Kente attire."
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First Visit to England
I have been twice in England. In 1833, on my return from a short tour in Sicily, Italy, and France, I crossed from Boulogne, and landed in London at the Tower stairs. It was a dark Sunday morning; there were few people in the streets; and I remember the pleasure of that first walk on English ground, with my companion, an American artist, from the Tower up through Cheapside and the Strand, to a house in Russell Square, whither we had been recommended to good chambers. For the first time for many months we were forced to check the saucy habit of travellers' criticism, as we could no longer speak aloud in the streets without being understood. The shop-signs spoke our language; our country names were on the door-plates; and the public and private buildings wore a more native and wonted front.
Like most young men at that time, I was much indebted to the men of Edinburgh, and of the Edinburgh Review, — to Jeffrey, Mackintosh, Hallam, and to Scott, Playfair, and De Quincey; and my narrow and desultory reading had inspired the wish to see the faces of three or four writers, — Coleridge, Wordsworth, Landor, De Quincey, and the latest and strongest contributor to the critical journals, Carlyle; and I suppose if I had sifted the reasons that led me to Europe, when I was ill and was advised to travel, it was mainly the attraction of these persons. If Goethe had been still living, I might have wandered into Germany also. Besides those I have named, (for Scott was dead,) there was not in Britain the man living whom I cared to behold, unless it were the Duke of Wellington, whom I afterwards saw at Westminster Abbey, at the funeral of Wilberforce. The young scholar fancies it happiness enough to live with people who can give an inside to the world; without reflecting that they are prisoners, too, of their own thought, and cannot apply themselves to yours. The conditions of literary success are almost destructive of the best social power, as they do not leave that frolic liberty which only can encounter a companion on the best terms. It is probable you left some obscure comrade at a tavern, or in the farms, with right mother-wit, and equality to life, when you crossed sea and land to play bo-peep with celebrated scribes. I have, however, found writers superior to their books, and I cling to my first belief, that a strong head will dispose fast enough of these impediments, and give one the satisfaction of reality, the sense of having been met, and a larger horizon.
On looking over the diary of my journey in 1833, I find nothing to publish in my memoranda of visits to places. But I have copied the few notes I made of visits to persons, as they respect parties quite too good and too transparent to the whole world to make it needful to affect any prudery of suppression about a few hints of those bright personalities.
At Florence, chief among artists I found Horatio Greenough, the American sculptor. His face was so handsome, and his person so well formed, that he might be pardoned, if, as was alleged, the face of his Medora, and the figure of a colossal Achilles in clay, were idealizations of his own. Greenough was a superior man, ardent and eloquent, and all his opinions had elevation and magnanimity. He believed that the Greeks had wrought in schools or fraternities, — the genius of the master imparting his design to his friends, and inflaming them with it, and when his strength was spent, a new hand, with equal heat, continued the work; and so by relays, until it was finished in every part with equal fire. This was necessary in so refractory a material as stone; and he thought art would never prosper until we left our shy jealous ways, and worked in society as they. All his thoughts breathed the same generosity. He was an accurate and a deep man. He was a votary of the Greeks, and impatient of Gothic art. His paper on Architecture, published in 1843, announced in advance the leading thoughts of Mr. Ruskin on the morality in architecture, notwithstanding the antagonism in their views of the history of art. I have a private letter from him, — later, but respecting the same period, — in which he roughly sketches his own theory. "Here is my theory of structure: A scientific arrangement of spaces and forms to functions and to site; an emphasis of features proportioned to their gradated importance in function; color and ornament to be decided and arranged and varied by strictly organic laws, having a distinct reason for each decision; the entire and immediate banishment of all make-shift and make-believe."
Greenough brought me, through a common friend, an invitation from Mr. Landor, who lived at San Domenica di Fiesole. On the 15th May I dined with Mr. Landor. I found him noble and courteous, living in a cloud of pictures at his Villa Gherardesca, a fine house commanding a beautiful landscape. I had inferred from his books, or magnified from some anecdotes, an impression of Achillean wrath, — an untamable petulance. I do not know whether the imputation were just or not, but certainly on this May day his courtesy veiled that haughty mind, and he was the most patient and gentle of hosts. He praised the beautiful cyclamen which grows all about Florence; he admired Washington; talked of Wordsworth, Byron, Massinger, Beaumont and Fletcher. To be sure, he is decided in his opinions, likes to surprise, and is well content to impress, if possible, his English whim upon the immutable past. No great man ever had a great son, if Philip and Alexander be not an exception; and Philip he calls the greater man. In art, he loves the Greeks, and in sculpture, them only. He prefers the Venus to every thing else, and, after that, the head of Alexander, in the gallery here. He prefers John of Bologna to Michael Angelo; in painting, Raffaelle; and shares the growing taste for Perugino and the early masters. The Greek histories he thought the only good; and after them, Voltaire's. I could not make him praise Mackintosh, nor my more recent friends; Montaigne very cordially, — and Charron also, which seemed undiscriminating. He thought Degerando indebted to "Lucas on Happiness" and "Lucas on Holiness"! He pestered me with Southey; but who is Southey?
He invited me to breakfast on Friday. On Friday I did not fail to go, and this time with Greenough. He entertained us at once with reciting half a dozen hexameter lines of Julius Caesar's! – from Donatus, he said. He glorified Lord Chesterfield more than was necessary, and undervalued Burke, and undervalued Socrates; designated as three of the greatest of men, Washington, Phocion, and Timoleon; much as our pomologists, in their lists, select the three or the six best pears "for a small orchard;" and did not even omit to remark the similar termination of their names. "A great man," he said, "should make great sacrifices, and kill his hundred oxen, without knowing whether they would be consumed by gods and heroes, or whether the flies would eat them." I had visited Professor Amici, who had shown me his microscopes, magnifying (it was said) two thousand diameters; and I spoke of the uses to which they were applied. Landor despised entomology, yet, in the same breath, said, "the sublime was in a grain of dust." I suppose I teased him about recent writers, but he professed never to have heard of Herschel, not even by name. One room was full of pictures, which he likes to show, especially one piece, standing before which, he said "he would give fifty guineas to the man that would swear it was a Domenichino." I was more curious to see his library, but Mr. H————, one of the guests, told me that Mr. Landor gives away his books, and has never more than a dozen at a time in his house.
Mr. Landor carries to its height the love of freak which the English delight to indulge, as if to signalize their commanding freedom. He has a wonderful brain, despotic, violent, and inexhaustible, meant for a soldier, by what chance converted to letters, in which there is not a style nor a tint not known to him,
yet with an English appetite for action and heroes. The thing done avails, and not what is said about it. An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures. Landor is strangely undervalued in England; usually ignored; and sometimes savagely attacked in the Reviews. The criticism may be right, or wrong, and is quickly forgotten; but year after year the scholar must still goback to Landor for a multitude of elegant sentences — for wisdom, wit, and indignation that are unforgetable.
From London, on the 5th August, I went to Highgate, and wrote a note to Mr. Coleridge, requesting leave to pay my respects to him. It was near noon. Mr. Coleridge sent a verbal message, that he was in bed, but if I would call after one o'clock, he would see me. I returned at one, and he appeared, a short, thick old man, with bright blue eyes and fine clear complexion, leaning on his cane. He took snuff freely, which presently soiled his cravat and neat black suit. He asked whether I knew Allston, and spoke warmly of his merits and
doings when he knew him in Rome; what a master of the Titianesque he was, &c., &c. He spoke of Dr. Channing. It was an unspeakable misfortune that he should have turned out a Unitarian after all. On this, he burst into a declamation on the folly and ignorance of Unitarianism, — its high unreasonableness; and taking up Bishop Waterland's book, which lay on the table, he read with vehemence two or three pages written by himself in the fly-leaves, — passages, too, which, I believe, are printed in the "Aids to Reflection." When he stopped to take breath, I interposed, that, "whilst I highly valued all his explanations, I was bound to tell him that I was born and bred a Unitarian." "Yes," he said, "I supposed so;" and continued as before. `It was a wonder, that after so many ages of unquestioning acquiescence in the doctrine of St. Paul, — the doctrine of the Trinity, which was also, according to Philo Judaeus, the doctrine of the Jews before Christ, — this handful of Priestleians should take on themselves to deny it, &c., &c. He was very sorry that Dr. Channing, — a man to whom he looked up, — no, to say that he looked up to him would be to speak falsely; but a man whom he looked at with so much interest, — should embrace such views. When he saw Dr. Channing, he had hinted to him that he was afraid he loved Christianity for what was lovely and excellent, — he loved the good in it, and not the true; and I tell you, sir, that I have known ten persons who loved the good, for one person who loved the true; but it is a far greater virtue to lovethe true for itself alone, than to love the good for itself alone. He (Coleridge) knew all about Unitarianism perfectly well, because he had once been a Unitarian, and knew what quackery it was. He had been called "the rising star of Unitarianism."' He went on defining, or rather refining: `The Trinitarian doctrine was realism; the idea of God was not essential, but superessential;' talked of trinism and tetrakism, and much more, of which I only caught this, `that the will was that by which a person is a person; because, if one should push me in the street, and so I should force the man next me into the kennel, I should at once exclaim, "I did not do it, sir," meaning it was not my will.' And this also, `that if you should insist on your faith here in England, and I on mine, mine would be the hotter side of the fagot.'
I took advantage of a pause to say, that he had many readers of all religious opinions in America, and I proceeded to inquire if the "extract" from the Independent's pamphlet, in the third volume of the Friend, were a veritable quotation. He replied, that it was really taken from a pamphlet in his possession, entitled "A Protest of one of the Independents," or something to that effect. I told him how excellent I thought it, and how much I wished to see the entire work. "Yes," he said, "the man was a chaos of truths, but lacked the knowledge that God was a God of order. Yet the passage would no doubt strike you more in the quotation than in the original, for I have filtered it."
When I rose to go, he said, "I do not know whether you care about poetry, but I will repeat some verses I lately made on my baptismal anniversary," and he recited with strong emphasis, standing, ten or twelve lines, beginning,
"Born unto God in Christ ————"
He inquired where I had been travelling; and on learning that I had been in Malta and Sicily, he compared one island with the other, `repeating what he had said to the Bishop of London when he returned from that country, that Sicily was an excellent school of political economy; for, in any town there, it only needed to ask what the government enacted, and reverse that to know what ought to be done; it was the most felicitously opposite legislation to any thing good and wise. There were only three things which the government had brought into that garden of delights, namely, itch, pox, and famine. Whereas, in Malta, the force of law and mind was seen, in making that barren rock of semi-Saracen inhabitants the seat of population and plenty.' Going out, he showed me in the next apartment a picture of Allston's, and told me `that Montague, a picture-dealer, once came to see him, and, glancing towards this, said, "Well, you have got a picture!" thinking it the work of an old master; afterwards, Montague, still talking with his back to the canvas, put up his hand and touched it, and exclaimed, "By Heaven! this picture is not ten years old:" — so delicate and skilful was that man's touch.'
I was in his company for about an hour, but find it impossible to recall the largest part of his discourse, which was often like so many printed paragraphs in his book, — perhaps the same, — so readily did he fall into certain commonplaces. As I might have foreseen, the visit was rather a spectacle than a conversation, of no use beyond the satisfaction of my curiosity. He was old and preoccupied, and could not bend to a new companion and think with him.
From Edinburgh I went to the Highlands. On my return, I came from Glasgow to Dumfries, and being intent on delivering a letter which I had brought from Rome, inquired for Craigenputtock. It was a farm in Nithsdale, in the parish of Dunscore, sixteen miles distant. No public coach passed near it, so I took a private carriage from the inn. I found the house amid desolate heathery hills, where the lonely scholar nourished his mighty heart. Carlyle was a man from his youth, an author who did not need to hide from his readers, and as absolute a man of the world, unknown and exiled on that hill-farm, as if holding on his own terms what is best in London. He was tall and gaunt, with a cliff-like brow, self-possessed, and holding his extraordinary powers of conversation in easy command; clinging to his northern accent with evident relish; full of lively anecdote, and with a streaming humor, which floated every thing he looked upon. His talk playfully exalting the familiar objects, put the companion at once into an acquaintance with his Lars and Lemurs, and it was very pleasant to learn what was predestined to be a pretty mythology. Few were the objects and lonely the man, "not a person to speak to within sixteen miles except the minister of Dunscore;" so that books inevitably made his topics.
He had names of his own for all the matters familiar to his discourse. "Blackwood's" was the "sand magazine;" "Fraser's" nearer approach to possibility of life was the "mud magazine;" a piece of road near by that marked some failed enterprise was the "grave of the last sixpence." When too much praise of any genius annoyed him, he professed hugely to admire the talent shown by his pig. He had spent much time and contrivance in confining the poor beast to one enclosure in his pen, but pig, by great strokes of judgment, had found out how to let a board down, and had foiled him. For all that, he still thought man the most plastic little fellow in the planet, and he liked Nero's death, "Qualis artifex pereo!" better than most history. He worships a man that will manifest any truth to him. At one time he had inquired and read a good deal about America. Landor's principle was mere rebellion, and that he feared was the American principle. The best thing he knew of that country was, that in it a man can have meat for his labor. He had read in Stewart's book, that when he inquired in a New York hotel for the Boots, he had been shown across the street and had found Mungo in his own house dining on roast turkey.
We talked of books. Plato he does not read, and he disparaged Socrates; and, when pressed, persisted in making Mirabeau a hero. Gibbon he called the splendid bridge from the old world to the new. His own reading had been multifarious. Tristram Shandy was one of his first books after Robinson Crusoe, and Robertson's America an early favorite. Rousseau's Confessions had discovered to him that he was not a dunce; and it was now ten years since he had learned German, by the advice of a man who told him he would find in that language what he wanted.
He took despairing or satirical views of literature at this moment; recounted the incredible sums paid in one year by the great booksellers for puffing. Hence it comes that no newspaper is trusted now, no books are bought, and the booksellers are on the eve of bankruptcy.
He still returned to English pauperism, the crowded country, the selfish abdication by public men of all that public persons should perform. `Government should direct poor men what to do. Poor Irish folk come wandering over these moors. My dame makes it a rule to give to every son of Adam bread to eat, and supplies his wants to the next house. But here are thousands of acres which might give them all meat, and nobody to bid these poor Irish go to the moor and till it. They burned the stacks, and so found a way to force the rich people to attend to them.'
We went out to walk over long hills, and looked at Criffel then without his cap, and down into Wordsworth's country. There we sat down, and talked of the immortality of the soul. It was not Carlyle's fault that we talked on that topic, for he had the natural disinclination of every nimble spirit to bruise itself against walls, and did not like to place himself where no step can be taken. But he was honest and true, and cognizant of the subtile links that bind ages together, and saw how every event affects all the future. `Christ died on the tree: that built Dunscore kirk yonder: that brought you and me together. Time has only a relative existence.'
He was already turning his eyes towards London with a scholar's appreciation. London is the heart of the world, he said, wonderful only from the mass of human beings. He liked the huge machine. Each keeps its own round. The baker's boy brings muffins to the window at a fixed hour every day, and that is all the Londoner knows or wishes to know on the subject. But it turned out good men. He namedcertain individuals, especially one man of letters, his friend, the best mind he knew, whom London had well served.
On the 28th August, I went to Rydal Mount, to pay my respects to Mr. Wordsworth. His daughters called in their father, a plain, elderly, white-haired man, not prepossessing, and disfigured by green goggles. He sat down, and talked with great simplicity. He had just returned from a journey. His health was good, but he had broken a tooth by a fall, when walking with two lawyers, and had said, that he was glad it did not happen forty years ago; whereupon they had praised his philosophy.
He had much to say of America, the more that it gave occasion for his favorite topic, — that society is being enlightened by a superficial tuition, out of all proportion to its being restrained by moral culture. Schools do no good. Tuition is not education. He thinks more of the education of circumstances than of tuition. 'Tis not question whether there are offences of which the law takes cognizance, but whether there are offences of which the law does not take cognizance. Sin is what he fears, and how society is to escape without gravest mischiefs from this source —— ? He has even said, what seemed a paradox, that they needed a civil war in America, to teach the necessity of knitting the social ties stronger. `There may be,' he said, `in America some vulgarity in manner, but that's not important. That comes of the pioneer state of things. But I fear they are too much given to the making of money; and secondly, to politics; that they make political distinction the end, and not the means. And I fear they lack a class of men of leisure, — in short, of gentlemen, — to give a tone of honor to the community. I am told that things are boasted of in the second class of society there, which, in England, — God knows, are done in England every day, — but would never be spoken of. In America I wish to know not how many churches or schools, but what newspapers? My friend, Colonel Hamilton, at the foot of the hill, who was a year in America, assures me that the newspapers are atrocious, and accuse members of Congress of stealing spoons!' He was against taking off the tax on newspapers in England, which the reformers represent as a tax upon knowledge, for this reason, that they would be inundated with base prints. He said, he talked on political aspects, for he wished to impress on me and all good Americans to cultivate the moral, the conservative, &c., &c., and never to call into action the physical strength of the people, as had just now been done in England in the Reform Bill, — a thing prophesied by Delolme. He alluded once or twice to his conversation with Dr. Channing, who had recently visited him, (laying his hand on a particular chair in which the Doctor had sat.)
The conversation turned on books. Lucretius he esteems a far higher poet than Virgil: not in his system, which is nothing, but in his power of illustration. Faith is necessary to explain any thing, and to reconcile the foreknowledge of God with human evil. Of Cousin, (whose lectures we had all been reading in Boston,) he knew only the name.
I inquired if he had read Carlyle's critical articles and translations. He said, he thought him sometimes insane. He proceeded to abuse Goethe's Wilhelm Meister heartily. It was full of all manner of fornication. It was like the crossing of flies in the air. He had never gone farther than the first part; so disgusted was he that he threw the book across the room. I deprecated this wrath, and said what I could for the better parts of the book; and he courteously promised to look at it again. Carlyle, he said, wrote most obscurely. He was clever and deep, but he defied the sympathies of every body. Even Mr. Coleridge wrote more clearly, though he had always wished Coleridge would write more to be understood. He led me out into his garden, and showed me the gravel walk in which thousands of his lines were composed. His eyes are much inflamed. This is no loss, except for reading, because he never writes prose, and of poetry he carries even hundreds of lines in his head before writing them. He had just returned from a visit to Staffa, and within three days had made three sonnets on Fingal's Cave, and was composing a fourth, when he was called in to see me. He said, "If you are interested in my verses, perhaps you will like to hear these lines." I gladly assented; and he recollected himself for a few moments, and then stood forth and repeated, one after the other, the three entire sonnets with great animation. I fancied the second and third more beautiful than his poems are wont to be. The third is addressed to the flowers, which, he said, especially the oxeye daisy, are very abundant on the top of the rock. The second alludes to the name of the cave, which is "Cave of Music;" the first to the circumstance of its being visited by the promiscuous company of the steamboat.
This recitation was so unlooked for and surprising, — he, the old Wordsworth, standing apart, and reciting to me in a garden-walk, like a schoolboy declaiming, — that I at first was near to laugh; but recollecting myself, that I had come thus far to see a poet, and he was chanting poems to me, I saw that he was right and I was wrong, and gladly gave myself up to hear. I told him how much the few printed extracts had quickened the desire to possess his unpublished poems. He replied, he never was in haste to publish; partly, because he corrected a good deal, and every alteration is ungraciously received after printing; but what he had written would be printed, whether he lived or died. I said, "Tintern Abbey" appeared to be the favorite poem with the public, but more contemplative readers preferred the first books of the "Excursion," and the Sonnets. He said, "Yes, they are better." He preferred such of his poems as touched the affections, to any others; for whatever is didactic, — what theories of society, and so on, — might perish quickly; but whatever combined a truth with an affection was [ktema es aei], good to-day and good forever. He cited the sonnet "On the feelings of a high-minded Spaniard," which he preferred to any other, (I so understood him,) and the "Two Voices;" and quoted, with evident pleasure, the verses addressed "To the Skylark." In this connection, he said of the Newtonian theory, that it might yet be superseded and forgotten; and Dalton's atomic theory.
When I prepared to depart, he said he wished to show me what a common person in England could do, and he led me into the enclosure of his clerk, a young man, to whom he had given this slip of ground, which was laid out, or its natural capabilities shown, with much taste. He then said he would show me a better way towards the inn; and he walked a good part of a mile, talking, and ever and anon stopping short to impress the word or the verse, and finally parted from me with great kindness, and returned across the fields.
Wordsworth honored himself by his simple adherence to truth, and was very willing not to shine; but he surprised by the hard limits of his thought. To judge from a single conversation, he made the impression of a narrow and very English mind; of one who paid for his rare elevation by general tameness and conformity. Off his own beat, his opinions were of no value. It is not very rare to find persons loving sympathy and ease, who expiate their departure from the common, in one direction, by their conformity in every other.
Ralph Waldo Emerson left the ministry to pursue a career in writing and public speaking. Emerson became one of America's best known and best-loved 19th-century figures.
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White light is ideal for both decorative and functional lighting in communal areas. In one survey, almost 90% of respondents agreed that white light is more authentic than traditional yellow sodium lights. This natural-feeling ambience makes people feel at home in a city center and more.
Many modern municipalities take illumination seriously, and white light is growing in popularity among them. The President of the Somosaguas Neighbourhood Association in Madrid, Spain said, "The lighting complies with our strict aesthetic requirements. The white light is closer to natural vision, which increases the quality of life for our local residents - as well as increasing property values.
White light is a huge improvement on traditional illumination – but don't just take our word for it. In 2005, an EVALUM* field test was carried out in Lyon, France, investigating respondents' preferences for lighting types. Students living on the INSA campus and residents living in the city's 'Sixth district' were asked to evaluate various light sources.
The results showed that people clearly preferred lamps with warm, white light of 3000 K color temperature. The satisfaction levels associated with these lamps were higher than those of yellow high-pressure sodium lamps and cold white light sources (4000-4200K spectrum).
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Debian Security Advisory
DSA-2864-1 postgresql-8.4 -- several vulnerabilities
- Date Reported:
- 20 Feb 2014
- Affected Packages:
- postgresql-8.4
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2014-0060, CVE-2014-0061, CVE-2014-0062, CVE-2014-0063, CVE-2014-0064, CVE-2014-0065, CVE-2014-0066, CVE-2014-0067.
- More information:
Various vulnerabilities were discovered in PostgreSQL:
Shore up GRANT ... WITH ADMIN OPTION restrictions (Noah Misch)
Granting a role without ADMIN OPTION is supposed to prevent the grantee from adding or removing members from the granted role, but this restriction was easily bypassed by doing SET ROLE first. The security impact is mostly that a role member can revoke the access of others, contrary to the wishes of his grantor. Unapproved role member additions are a lesser concern, since an uncooperative role member could provide most of his rights to others anyway by creating views or SECURITY DEFINER functions.
Prevent privilege escalation via manual calls to PL validator functions
(Andres Freund)
The primary role of PL validator functions is to be called implicitly during CREATE FUNCTION, but they are also normal SQL functions that a user can call explicitly. Calling a validator on a function actually written in some other language was not checked for and could be exploited for privilege-escalation purposes. The fix involves adding a call to a privilege-checking function in each validator function. Non-core procedural languages will also need to make this change to their own validator functions, if any.
Avoid multiple name lookups during table and index DDL
(Robert Haas, Andres Freund)
If the name lookups come to different conclusions due to concurrent activity, we might perform some parts of the DDL on a different table than other parts. At least in the case of CREATE INDEX, this can be used to cause the permissions checks to be performed against a different table than the index creation, allowing for a privilege escalation attack.
Prevent buffer overrun with long datetime strings (Noah Misch)
The MAXDATELEN constant was too small for the longest possible value of type interval, allowing a buffer overrun in interval_out(). Although the datetime input functions were more careful about avoiding buffer overrun, the limit was short enough to cause them to reject some valid inputs, such as input containing a very long timezone name. The ecpg library contained these vulnerabilities along with some of its own.
Prevent buffer overrun due to integer overflow in size calculations
(Noah Misch, Heikki Linnakangas)
Several functions, mostly type input functions, calculated an allocation size without checking for overflow. If overflow did occur, a too-small buffer would be allocated and then written past.
Prevent overruns of fixed-size buffers (Peter Eisentraut, Jozef Mlich)
Use strlcpy() and related functions to provide a clear guarantee that fixed-size buffers are not overrun. Unlike the preceding items, it is unclear whether these cases really represent live issues, since in most cases there appear to be previous constraints on the size of the input string. Nonetheless it seems prudent to silence all Coverity warnings of this type.
Avoid crashing if crypt() returns NULL (Honza Horak, Bruce Momjian)
There are relatively few scenarios in which crypt() could return NULL, but contrib/chkpass would crash if it did. One practical case in which this could be an issue is if libc is configured to refuse to execute unapproved hashing algorithms (e.g.,
FIPS mode).
Document risks of make check in the regression testing instructions
(Noah Misch, Tom Lane)
Since the temporary server started by make check uses
trustauthentication, another user on the same machine could connect to it as database superuser, and then potentially exploit the privileges of the operating-system user who started the tests. A future release will probably incorporate changes in the testing procedure to prevent this risk, but some public discussion is needed first. So for the moment, just warn people against using make check when there are untrusted users on the same machine.
For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 8.4.20-0squeeze1.
For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 9.3.3-1 of the postgresql-9.3 package.
We recommend that you upgrade your postgresql-8.4 packages.
- CVE-2014-0060 Shore up GRANT ... WITH ADMIN OPTION restrictions (Noah Misch)


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Rib Shack Copycat Mashed Potatoes
Idaho is well known for being the potato state—even our license plates say "Famous Potatoes"! This is my version of the scrumptious smashers that are served at a local barbecue joint. Everyone who tries them there begs for the recipe, which the place won't give out—so I made my own copycat version. I think it comes close to the original. These can be made ahead and kept warm in the slow cooker. —Trisha Kruse, Eagle, Idaho


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by Mylynda Nellermoe
First of all…remember Christmas 1999? Remember when we were trying to be all cheerful and spread holiday merriment, but the news and some other crazy people were telling us to stock up on canned goods and excavate bomb shelters? Well, obviously we survived the fabled end of the world and we are now here to tell our tales of the first decade of the 21st Century. So, a big pat on the back to you, me, and everyone. Now enjoy 2011 because I heard something sketchy is going down in 2012…
Anyways, let's talk presents. Let us not kid ourselves – gift giving and getting has become a major motivator during the holiday season. Personally, I try not to get too stuck on the idea that Christmas has become a corporate feast on our souls and etcetra, because I actually really love the act of giving a gift. I love hunting for treasures, whether they be tiny and inexpensive or extravagant and bank-breaking, that will show the family member/friend/significant other in my life that I really care and thought about who they are. In the spirit of what fun it can be to dig out gems for the people on your own gift list, Creative Director James and I wanted to gather up a list of items from independent artists and designers, as well as a few geeky delights to help you think outside of the giftwrapped box (heh..).
Etsy Darlings
Hot dang, I LOVE ETSY. Not only am a I frequent consumer inside this epic indie shopping community, but a seller as well. I think the creators of the site are clear geniuses, and they've created a shopping community unlike any other. It really makes me wonder why no one did this on such a grand and beautifully designed scale before, but there has to be a paragon pioneer in every area (right, Google?). Etsy has tons of great gift guides of their own, plus the ability to create and search Treasuries, which contain cohesive, user-plucked collections using various shops. Below are some hipster- and geek-chic handmade goods and art pieces that we adore from the expansive troves of Etsy.
Photographic Print – Cat in Glasses 2 – 8×10 by Instantt
I'm Not a Hipster I Just Dress Like One Illustration by NanLawson
NanLawson also has some amazing illustrations based on "The Royal Tenenbaums" available.
Wild Man Bearded Hat by Breanna Gunderson
There are lots of these kitschy, awesome crocheted beard-hat combos on Etsy, but this one is my favorite.
Dia De Los Muertos Stainless Steel Flask by DNACreations
Pierre the French Toast Necklace by ClayRunway
"Oops" Pinup Girl Vinyl Wall Decal by beepart
Elsewhere on the Web
Wee Forest Squirrel Pin Brooch on Little Odd Forest
Fingerstache Temporary Tattoos on X-treme Geek
iPlunge Phone Stand on Perpetual Kid
Musical Ruler on Suck UK
Why bang the tambourine when you can stroke the ruler?
Not so Indie…but totally awesome finds perfect for the sophisticated gadget lover in your life
Vestal DIG008 Digichord Watch (thin as a couple of compact discs!) on Watchismo
Korg Monotron Palmsize Synth on ThinkGeek.com
Collector's Edition Slinky on ThinkGeek
There's certain sophistication to a Slinky, right?
We'd love to see what lovelies you bought your nearest and dearest, send us your shop suggestions on the Indie College Facebook page. Happy holidays!


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James Shields (May 10, 1810 – June 1, 1879) was an American politician and United States Army officer who was born in Altmore, County Tyrone, Ireland. Shields, a Democrat, is the only person in United States history to serve as a U.S. Senator for three different states. Shields was a senator from Illinois 1849 to 1855, in the 31st, 32nd, and 33rd congresses, from Minnesota from May 11, 1858 to March 4, 1859, in the 35th congress, and from Missouri from January 27, 1879 to March 4, 1879, in the 45th congress.
A descendant of the Ó Siadhail clan, Shields was the nephew of another James Shields, also born in Ireland, who was a Congressman from Ohio. The younger Shields immigrated to the United States around 1826 and settled in Kaskaskia, Randolph County, Illinois where he studied and later practiced law. He served as a member of the Illinois House of Representatives, beginning to serve in 1836, and then as an Illinois Supreme Court justice and in 1839 as the state auditor. (He was elected when not yet a citizen; Illinois then required only that a legislator have been resident in the state for six months.)
Shields nearly fought a duel with Abraham Lincoln on September 22, 1842. Lincoln had published an inflammatory letter in a Springfield, Illinois, newspaper, the Sagamon Journal that poked fun at Shields, the State Auditor. Lincoln's future wife and her close friend, continued writing letters about Shields without his knowledge. Taking offense to the articles, Shields demanded "satisfaction" and the incident escalated to the two parties meeting on a Missouri island called Sunflower Island, near Alton, Illinois to participate in a duel. Lincoln took responsibility for the articles and accepted the duel. Just prior to engaging in combat, Lincoln made it a point to demonstrate his advantage by easily cutting a branch just above Shields' head, the two participants' seconds intervened and were able to convince the two men to cease hostilities, on the grounds that Lincoln had not written the letters.


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Elbow feeling good, Parker pleased to get going
MESA, Ariz. -- Blake Parker's intrasquad outing didn't go well Friday, but the good news for the Cubs pitcher is his right elbow felt fine.
Parker was limited to seven games with the Cubs and 21 at Triple-A Iowa last season because of a sore elbow. On Friday, he gave up three hits, including a three-run home run to Edwin Maysonet, and struck out two in one inning.
"No matter the results, I felt I threw the ball all right and I felt it was coming out good and I was hitting my spots," Parker said Saturday. "Other than that one pitch [to Maysonet], my breaking ball did better than when I was warming up in the bullpen. It felt good, my arm feels good, and I'm excited to get spring going."
He was just happy to be pitching. Parker was called up to the Cubs from Triple-A Iowa in mid-May and appeared in four games before he was shut down. He did get into three more games in late August and early September, and that was it.
"It's totally different when you've got someone stepping in there and no cage around them and you're working counts and sequences," Parker said. "After the long break, you've got to get back into baseball mode and how you're going to pitch certain guys and setting them up. That's one of my biggest downfalls."
His break was longer than most because of his elbow.
"I'm still getting back into baseball mode, just thinking out there on the mound and knowing what pitches to throw and reading hitters," he said. "As far as physically, my arm felt good."
There's more good news. The intrasquad games are over.
"Good thing that didn't count," Parker said.


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text: While field-testing the Shad Alive family baits, we instantly faced the requirement to add a new model which could maintain a certain depth at any speed of retrieve or any type of jerking animation, as well as to be capable to reach rapidly the necessary depth range and show up its best performance. All of these requirements were implemented in our new Shad Alive Diver bait with a long diving lip. Shad Alive Diver permits you to get trophy predator fish at the necessary depth range and, most importantly, in a fast and most effective way.


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President Bush to Nominate Four Individuals to Serve in his Administration
President George W. Bush today announced his intention to nominate four individuals to serve in his administration.
President George W. Bush today announced his intention to nominate Kevin Joseph McGuire to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of Namibia. A career member of the Senior Foreign Service, he is currently the Director of Senior Assignments in the Bureau of Human Resources. He served as Diplomat-in-Residence at Howard University from 1997 to 1999. From 1994 to 1997, he was Director of Economic, Social and Human Rights Affairs in the Bureau of International Organization Affairs and served as Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Global Affairs. He has served as Economic Officer in Rome and Seoul, as well as Deputy Chief of Mission in Gabon. McGuire earned an undergraduate degree from Holy Cross College, a Masters degree from Indiana University, a Masters in Public Administration from Harvard University and a diploma in national strategy from the National War College.
The President intends to nominate John Marshall to be Assistant Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development for Management. Marshall is currently a Principal with IBM Consulting, and he was Senior Advisor to the Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs from 1995 to 1997. From 1988 to 1990, he served as Chief Executive Officer for the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation and from 1986 to 1988, he was Deputy Administrator for Management, Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service in the Department of Agriculture. Marshall was a member of the Financial Management Staff at the Office of Management and Budget from 1984 to 1986, and he served as Special Assistant to the Deputy Under Secretary for Management at the Department of Education from 1982 to 1984. He received both his undergraduate and business degrees from the University of Virginia.
The President intends to nominate Constance Berry Newman to be Assistant Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development for the Bureau of Africa. She is a co-founder and partner of UpStart Partners, and from 1992 to 2000, she served as Under Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. From 1989 to 1992, Newman was Director of the Office of Personnel Management. She has served in a consulting role to South African Leaders on Affirmative Action and Diversity, to the World Bank in South Africa and to the World Bank for the Government of Lesotho. She has earned numerous awards for her service including the Smithsonian Institutions Joseph Henry Medal, and was named Washingtonian of the Year in 1998. Newman earned an undergraduate degree from Bates College and graduate degree from the University of Minnesota.
The President intends to nominate Arden Bement, Jr. to be Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology at the Department of Commerce. He has served at Purdue University since 1993, first as a Professor of Engineering and Director of the Midwest Superconductivity Consortium and then as a Professor of Nuclear Engineering and head of Purdues School of Nuclear Engineering. From 1980 to 1993, he was with TRW, Inc. as Vice President for Technical Resources from 1980 to 1988, and then as Vice President for Science and Technology from 1988 to 1993. A former member of the U.S. Army and Army Reserves, he is a graduate of the Colorado School of Mines, received a Masters degree from the University of Idaho and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.
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If you read my blog of a few days ago with the snappily short title of – "Spotlight on the longest serving Mayor in Alaska – Stubbs the Cat" you will have heard all about Stubbs the Cat who as the title says is the longest serving Mayor in Alaska and probably the world.
If you enjoyed my blog and there will be questions after if you didn't, then I thought that you might well like to see a video (here Stubbs the Cat Mayor) all about this giant of the American political system.
If you didn't read my blog then here is a very quick link Stubbs – my blog to follow which will enable you, or should that be empower you? I never know! Anyway it will let you read all about Stubbs the Cat who is a better politician than any human will ever be.
Of course as you would expect from a totally 'wired wussy' you can click on the picture below to go to my video page and watch the video now.
About the Author
The Cat is one of the most successful feline authors in the history of Catkind. His sharp elegant wit has produced the bestselling book 'Getting Out – Excerpts from a Cat's Diary' and of course the much plagiarised gag of the same name which appears on all of the funniest joke sites on the internet.
Copies of the Cat's masterpiece of feline literature 'Getting Out – Excerpts from a Cat's Diary' and his latest wonderful book 'The Cat's Travelogue' can be purchased at a bookstore near you or from the internet at Amazon.com and here for the Travelogue The Cat's Travelogue Paperback Edition or at what The Cat calls his www – wickedly wonderful website here www.thecatsdiary.com where you can not only learn more about me the genius Cat but also play my games they are all paw picked by me and have been described as "exactly what free on-line games should be, fun, free and fantastic."
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