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- "I like to see people reunited, I like to see people run to each other, I like the kissing and the crying, I like the impatience, the stories that the mouth can't tell fast enough, the ears that aren't big enough, the eyes that can't take in all of the change, I like the hugging, the bringing together, the end of missing someone." - Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
- "Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts." - To Kill A Mockingbird
- "Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore." - Fahrenheit 451
- "But still, I find the need to remind myself of the temporariness of a day, to reassure myself that I got through yesterday, I'll get through today." - Where She Went
- "You've got to have pride in your home. You are where you're from. Otherwise, you're always going to be lost." - Amy & Roger's Epic Detour
- "Girl Scouts didn't teach me what to do with emotionally unstable drunk boys" - Anna and the French Kiss
- "Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you've finished, just to stay near it." - The Book Thief
- "No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention." - Invisible Monsters
- "Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can't take their eyes off you." - I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
- "If you look for perfection, you'll never be content." - Anna Karenina
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Jen's Top Ten Favorite Book Quotes
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I love love love quotes! Best TTT topic every! Thank you!! :)ReplyDelete
Here is my TTT.
This is, by far, my favorite TTT topic ever! I adore quotes, and I'm so excited about finding new books based on the quotes people choose.ReplyDelete
That being said, you've got some great ones on your list! I completely forgot about those quotes from The Book Thief & Anna Karenina, but they were perfect picks. I also like the ones you picked from Anna & The French Kiss (lol!) and Amy & Roger's Epic Detour (so true!).
I'm so looking forward to seeing what everyone else chooses :) I couldn't narrow mine down & ended up with sixteen haha!
I completely agree, Michelle. This IS the best topic ever. I can't wait to read them all :)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 8, 2012 at 12:02 AM
Ooh, this was a hard one - I could have gone on and on and on.ReplyDelete
Love the Anna and the French Kiss one - CLEARLY her Girl Scouts leaders didn't do their job properly. No girl is fully equipped for life unless they can deal with an emotionally unstable drunk boy. :-P
This was such a fun topic! At first I wasn't sure if I'd have ten quotes because I didn't think I often wrote them down, saved or remembered them, but in the end I actually had to take a few out!ReplyDelete
I haven't read any of the books you picked from (several I've been meaning to), but I think my favourite is #9 - that really resonates!
My what great quotes you have! Hehe no seriously though, you have a quality list! I love the TKaMB one :) I couldn't think of any so IReplyDelete
did my own top 10 :)
This was RIDICULOUSLY hard! But I wound up reminding myself how much I love some of the old classics. I feel the need now to go re-read some Jane Austen.ReplyDelete
This is going to be a really fun week - I could see not having a lot of repeats, since even if people pick the same books, they could easily pick different quotes.
Thanks for hosting!
I love the quote from Anna and the French Kiss. Great list!ReplyDelete
OMGSH favorite TTT EVER! I absolutely love quotes too! And I have been collecting them for years! And now I'll be able to collect more, so thanks! =)ReplyDelete
Love the quotes. I couldn't manage to keep mine quite as nice and concise as you, though I do have two quotes from Where She Went. Seriously, what an unbelievable, quotable book.ReplyDelete
And the Anna and the French Kiss one definitely gave me a good laugh. I'll have to write that down.
In fact, maybe I'll create a quote book starting today...
Happy TTT!
I love this TTT! It was really hard to pick my favorites though, I have so many saved on my computer. It'll be fun to read everyone else's picks!ReplyDelete
Such a hard TTT! There are so many fantastic quotes and it was so fun going through all my favorites. Your Top Ten has reinforced my need to read Anna and the French Kiss and the Book Thief!ReplyDelete
Oh so many good ones! and a few that confirms that I need to get through my to-read list much faster. Thanks for the fun theme.ReplyDelete
I haven't read any of those books but they have excellent quotes in them. I loved this one b/c I find so many quotes of all types in books I read. ;o)ReplyDelete
My Top Ten
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{New Follower!} Such a great collection of quotes you chose! Some of my favorite books :) (Fahrenheit, To Kill a Mockingbird, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close)ReplyDelete
Check mine out :)!
You have some great quotes, I think my favourite one is the one from Fahrenheit 451. :)ReplyDelete
Wow! This one's a very hard TTT. I have so many favorites. I also love those quotes from Anna and the French Kiss & Where She Went, although I have different quotes for those two books that made my list.ReplyDelete
This really is a great TTT. I get to see many quotes. And I've already seen a lot which I'm sure I''l write on my quote book.
Haha #2! I almost feel like quoting that whole book. #7 too. Love that one :)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 8, 2012 at 3:46 AM
This is one of my favourite memes of all time, I'm sure you guys could get away with having at least two quote-Tuesdays per year!ReplyDelete
I tried doing something different , and did my quotes graphically.
And I also have an Atticus quote!
- AnonymousMay 8, 2012 at 3:57 AM
Aren't we going to have problems for copying quotes to do this blog post this Tuesday?I mean there is possible authors and labels to accuse us for it?ReplyDelete
Great topic, looking forward to seeing everyone's quotes. I love the Atticus Finch from TKAM.The quote from The Book Thief is such a great one, too (and so true!).ReplyDelete
it is my first time joining top 10 tuesday! and i'm glad it's an easy one. i have so many favorite quotes. a few are up: http://aggiepie.wordpress.com/2012/05/08/top-10-tuesday/ReplyDelete
I love the quote from The Book Thief!ReplyDelete
This is one of my favorite TTT topics ever!
I LOOOVE your #4! If I Stay and Where She Went are two of my favorite books... and I love Adam so much, especially in Where She Went. Great list!ReplyDelete
love the quote from anna and the french kiss!ReplyDelete
Love all your quotes. I adore Maya Angelou and number 8 <3ReplyDelete
These are great quotes! Some of my favorite books are represented here, like The Book Thief, To Kill A Mockingbird, Fahrenheit 451. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close has been on my list for a while, now.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 8, 2012 at 8:25 AM
Great quotes! I need to start keeping better track of quotes I enjoy!ReplyDelete
Great quotes! I especially like the one from To Kill A Mockingbird and Anna Karenina. Also, so many people have been quoting Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close! I need to add that to my wishlist!ReplyDelete
These are all very beautiful quotes!ReplyDelete
Great quotes! I was going to skip this onebut decided to challenge myself http://www.deadtreesandsilverscreens.com/2012/05/top-ten-quotes.html?m=1ReplyDelete
I like the one from ANNA KARENINA, even though I have not read it yet. It's on my classic tbr list. =)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 8, 2012 at 9:04 AM
Love #2 and #7ReplyDelete
Thanks for sharing!
Love those quotes from To Kill a Mockingbird, The Book Thief, and Anna Karenina!ReplyDelete
What a fun way to meet new books and remember old ones! I had a good time with this list, too!ReplyDelete
I think this might be my favorite topic yet; I can enjoy all these quotations from books I haven't read. Usually if someone mentions a book I haven't heard of, I can't appreciate their reason for it being on the list.ReplyDelete
I love this meme and I love your first three quotes. This is the first time I've participated. Had some trouble putting it together, disorganized reader that I am, but here's my top tenReplyDelete
There should be a rule. No linking before lots of coffee. I added my quotes to another Top 10... sorry about the duplicate. I loved loved this topic and you've picked SO many good ones. It's funny how you can read the same book sand sort of claim different pieces as meaningful to you. Like I read Amy & Roger/Where She Went, and I don't even remember those two. Awesome job and great great meme!ReplyDelete
Love this topic! It was so hard to choose, but I managed to put together a list! :) I think I need to read The Book Thief, because that quote is awesome!ReplyDelete
Great quotes! I loved Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close so much. Have you seen the movie?ReplyDelete
I love the quotes from To Kill a Mockingbird and Amy and Roger's Epic Detour! It was so hard to choose just 10 this week, haha!ReplyDelete
What a fabulous way to have begun my day! This is the first time I participated, but it's not likely that it will be the last. :) Thanks to your list and a couple of others I've looked at, my own reading list has been enriched.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 8, 2012 at 10:44 AM
This is a great idea for Top Ten Tuesday!! I love your quotes. I actually write all of my favorites in a notebook at home, but alas I'm at work and can't remember any word for word!ReplyDelete
Maybe tonight I'll reblog when I get home :)
- AnonymousMay 8, 2012 at 10:57 AM
Such wonderful choices! I especially love The Book Thief one. You reminded me how simple and powerful his words were.ReplyDelete
First, I have to say that's amazing topic! I loved doing this post though it was really hard to choose only ten.ReplyDelete
Your choices are great, definitely made me want to read the actual books. (especially the last one)
I like all of your quotes but I especially liked the one from The Book Thief and To Kill A Mockingbird. I just loved Scout. I had a lot of fun with this weeks Top Ten.ReplyDelete
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Top Ten Tuesday
I love the quote from To Kill a Mocking Bird and Anna Karenina! Great choices!ReplyDelete
Great qoutes! I love numbers 7 and 10!ReplyDelete
I love "The Book Thief" quote! The "Anna and the French Kiss" one made me giggle. Great list!ReplyDelete
Jennifer @ Feminist Fairy Tale Reviews
I love the To Kill a Mockingbird quote. Atticus is one of my favorite characters! :)ReplyDelete
Awesome Top Ten! I love it!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 8, 2012 at 12:12 PM
I love the quote from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. So fitting for her, and indeed, for anyone.ReplyDelete
I love the quote you chose from Anna and the French Kiss. Reminded me I still need to read that.ReplyDelete
These are awesome/beautiful/inspiring quotes! I'm reading Anna Karenina right now and am loving it... I don't think I've gotten to that quote yet...I'll be on the look out for it.ReplyDelete
I would have loved to do this theme this week but all my favorite quotes are really LONG....more like passages. haha! But it's fun to hop around and see everyones!
Thanks for sharing!
Sierra @ Yearning to Read
This was a fantastic first Top Ten Tuesday! I can't wait to participate in more! :)ReplyDelete
You're quotes are great! It's so hard to pick favorites out of all the awesome ones out there!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 8, 2012 at 1:20 PM
Great choices! It is a tough one to do because there are so many great options! I loved your choice for To Kill a Mockingbird!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 8, 2012 at 2:05 PM
Thank you for this topic. Here's my list - my first Top Ten Tuesday: http://nesnesnes.wordpress.com/2012/05/08/top-ten-tuesday/ReplyDelete
Fab quotes! I particularly love the ones from To Kill A Mockingbird and Amy and Roger. If you'd like to check out mine, they're here.ReplyDelete
Wonderful list! I love To Kill A Mockingbird.ReplyDelete
Here's my list if you'd like to check it out.
Those are all fantastic quotes. I did all of mine from City of Fallen Angels since City of Lost Souls came out today.ReplyDelete
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Wow! This was a harsh one!! ;)ReplyDelete
Fantastic quotes. I love that Anna and the French Kiss one. <3 Palahniuk.ReplyDelete
yes yes yes at that Anna quote.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 8, 2012 at 11:49 PM
The Atticus quote came thisclose to being on my list, but I picked a Scout quote instead.ReplyDelete
"Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts." << one of many good lessons from Atticus. I forgot who said that, Scout or Jem?ReplyDelete
Those are great quotes(:ReplyDelete
I left a link. Good job on your selection. I love the quotes you picked.
Great quotes. Forgot that Book Thief one! i loved it so much when I read it.ReplyDelete
Great quotes!ReplyDelete
This was my favorite one to do and to read! I also did the Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close quote!ReplyDelete
Great quotes! - Especially liked Angelou and Tolstoy.ReplyDelete
GREAT To Kill A Mockingbird quote!!!!! Love it!ReplyDelete
Joining you from Kate's Library who linked to this post. There are some really great quotes here. One of my all time favourite reads I love the quote from The Book Thief but that aside I also love the one from Anna and the French Kiss which I'm told is a great read.ReplyDelete
Nice to have met you, I've enjoyed my visit.
What a great concept (and meme)! Linked through from Meg's blog, "Love, Literature, Art & Reason."ReplyDelete
My favorite quotes from To Kill a Mockingbird are from Atticus:ReplyDelete
I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.
Amy & Roger's Epic Detour are my favourite writer. Excellent compilation about book quotes. I have compiled some quotes from you. Thanks for sharing.ReplyDelete


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New evidence is coming out that Area 51 was a Soviet conspiracy to destabilize the United States with a flight full of fake aliens. But who was really behind this scheme? An excerpt from Annie Jacobsen's Area 51 reveals all.
This excerpt from chapter two of Jacobsen's new book details the hunt for the masterminds behind the faked crash.
After a "flying disc" with Russian writing stamped inside of it crashed near Roswell, New Mexico in July 1947, U.S. authorities began a frantic hunt for the Horten brothers. These were German scientists who they believed had been responsible for developing such radically advanced technology for the Nazis before the end of World War II.
Excerpt from Chapter 2: Imagine a War of the Worlds
The evidence of whatever had crashed at and around Roswell, New Mexico, in the first week of July in 1947 was gathered together by a Joint Chiefs of Staff technical services unit and secreted away in a manner so clandestine, it followed security protocols established for transporting uranium in the early days of the Manhattan Project.
The first order of business was to determine where the technology had come from. The Joint Chiefs of Staff tasked an elite group working under the direct orders of G‑2 Army intelligence to initiate a top secret project called Operation Harass. Based on the testimony of America's Paperclip scientists, Army intelligence officers believed that the flying disc was the brainchild of two former Third Reich airplane engineers, named Walter and Reimar Horten - now working for the Russian military. Orders were drawn up. The manhunt was on.
Walter and Reimar Horten were two aerospace engineers whose importance in seminal aircraft projects had somehow been overlooked when America and the Soviet Union were fighting over scientists at the end of the war. The brothers were the inventors of several of Hitler's flying- wing aircraft, including one called the Horten 229 or Horten IX, a wing- shaped, tailless airplane that had been developed at a secret facility in Baden- Baden during the war. From the Paperclip scientists at Wright Field, the Army intelligence investigators learned that Hitler was rumored to have been developing a faster- flying aircraft that had been designed by the brothers and was shaped like a saucer. Maybe, the Paperclips said, there had been a later- model Horten in the works before Germany surrendered, meaning that even if Stalin didn't have the Horten brothers themselves, he could very likely have gotten control of their blueprints and plans.
The flying disc that crashed at Roswell had technology more advanced than anything the U.S. Army Air Forces had ever seen. Its propulsion techniques were particularly confounding. What made the craft go so fast? How was it so stealthy and how did trick radar? The disc had appeared on Army radar screens briefly and then suddenly disappeared. The incident at Roswell happened just weeks before the National Security Act, which meant there was no true Central Intelligence Agency to handle the investigation. Instead, hundreds of Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC) officers from the U.S. Army's European command were dispatched across Germany in search of anyone who knew anything about Walter and Reimar Horten.
Officers tracked down and interviewed the brothers' relatives, colleagues, professors, and acquaintances with an urgency not seen since Operation Alsos, in which Allied Forces sought information about Hitler's atomic scientists and nuclear programs during the war.
A records group of more than three hundred pages of Army intelligence documents reveals many of the details of Operation Harass. They were declassified in 1994, after a researcher named Timothy Cooper filed a request for documents under the Freedom of Information Act. One memo, called "Air Intelligence Guide for Alleged 'Flying Saucer' Type Aircraft," detailed for CIC officers the parameters of the flying saucer technology the military was looking for, features which were evidenced in the craft that crashed at Roswell.
Extreme maneuverability and apparent ability to almost hover; A plan form approximating that of an oval or disc with dome shape on the surface; The ability to quickly disappear by high speed or by complete disintegration; The ability to group together very quickly in a tight formation when more than one aircraft are together; Evasive motion ability indicating possibility of being manually operated, or possibly, by electronic or remote control.
The Counter Intelligence Corps' official 1947– 1948 manhunt for the Horten brothers reads at times like a spy novel and at times like a wild- goose chase. The first real lead in the hunt came from Dr. Adolf Smekal of Frankfurt, who provided CIC with a list of possible informants' names. Agents were told a dizzying array of alleged facts: Reimar was living in secret in East Prussia; Reimar was living in Göttingen, in what had been the British zone; Reimar had been kidnapped "presumably by the Russians" in the latter part of 1946.
If you want to know where Reimar is, one informant said, you must first locate Hannah Reitsch, the famous aviatrix who was living in Bad Hauheim. As for Walter, he was working as a consultant for the French; he was last seen in Frankfurt trying to find work with a university there; he was in Dessau; actually, he was in Russia; he was in Luxembourg, or maybe it was France. One German scientist turned informant chided CIC agents. If they really wanted to know where the Horten brothers were, he said, and what they were capable of, then go ask the American Paperclip scientists living at Wright Field.
For nine long months, CIC agents typed up memo after memo relating various theories about where the Horten brothers were, what their flying saucers might have been designed for, and what leads should or should not be pursued. And then, six months into the investigation, on March 12, 1948, along came abrupt news. The Horten brothers had been found.
In a memo to the European command of the 970th CIC, Major Earl S. Browning Jr. explained. "The Horten Brothers have been located and interrogated by American Agencies," Browning said. The Russians had likely found the blueprints of the flying wing after all. "It is Walter Horten's opinion that the blueprints of the Horten IX may have been found by Russian troops at the Gotha Railroad Car Factory," the memo read.
But a second memo, entitled "Extracts on Horten, Walter," explained a little more. Former Messerschmitt test pilot Fritz Wendel's information about the Horten brothers' wingless, tailless, saucerlike craft that had room for more than one crew member was confirmed. "Walter Horten's opinion is that sufficient German types of flying wings existed in the developing or designing stages when the Russians occupied Germany, and these types may have enabled the Russians to produce the flying saucer."
There is no mention of Reimar Horten, the second brother, in any of the hundreds of pages of documents released to Timothy Cooper as part of his Freedom of Information Act request - despite the fact that both brothers had been confirmed as located and interrogated. Nor is there any mention of what Reimar Horten did or did not say about the later- model Horten flying discs.
But one memo mentioned "the Horten X" and another referred to "the Horten 13." No further details have been provided, and a 2011 Freedom of Information Act request by the author met a dead end. On May 12, 1948, the headquarters of European command sent the director of intelligence at the United States Forces in Austria a puzzling memo. "Walter Horten has admitted his contacts with the Russians," it said. That was the last mention of the Horten brothers in the Army intelligence's declassified record for Operation Harass.
Reprinted from the book AREA 51 by Annie Jacobsen. Copyright © 2011 by Annie Jacobsen. Reprinted with permission of Little, Brown and Company. All rights reserved.

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2 large red bell peppers
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1 can (2.25 oz.) sliced ripe olives, drained
3 green onions, chopped (white and green parts)
1/4 tsp. Lawry's or McCormick seasoned salt
1/4 tsp. garlic pepper
1 can (14.5 oz.) diced tomatoes, undrained
1/3 cup dry red wine or vegetable broth
1 can (6 oz.) tomato paste
Slice tops off peppers and carefully remove seeds and inner ribs. Remove stems from tops and chop remaining pepper pieces.
Stand the peppers upright in a 5 quart crockpot/slow cooker.
In a medium bowl, combine chopped pepper tops, rice, corn, olives, green onions, seasoned salt, garlic pepper, and 1/4 cup tomatoes. Mix well.
Stuff peppers with corn mixture, dividing evenly, packing lightly.
Mix remaining tomatoes and their liquid with wine/broth and tomato paste until well blended. Pour over and around the peppers.
Cover and cook on LOW heat setting for 6 – 7 hours, or until rice is cooked and peppers are tender, but still hold their shape.
Yield: 4 servings.
Recipe adapted from: Best Slow Cooker Cookbook Ever: Versatility and Inspiration for New Generation Machines


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Cities are asking the B.C. government to negotiate a province-wide requirement for all short-term rentals to display a valid business licence.
Nelson Coun. Anna Purcell brought the resolution to the floor of Wednesday's Union of B.C. Municipalities convention.
"Many of our communities have been impacted by short term rentals. Our rental housing stock has been impacted and neighbourhood livelihood has been impacted," said Purcell.
"We created a short-term rental bylaw but enforcement of it is expensive and onerous."
Thursday's resolution was inspired by Vancouver's business licence requirement for short-term rentals that has cut the number of listings in half.
Tofino Mayor Josie spoke out about her community's struggles in enforcing their short-term rental rules.
"It would be a lot simpler for other local governments that are moving forward in regulation short-term rentals to know that all of the online accommodation platforms need to provide the option to have the business licence listed clearly," said Osborne.
"It's a very valuable enforcement tool."
Mayor @Josie_Osborne talks about how @TofinoCA has handled short-term rentals. It costs up to $750/year for a short-term rental so they can fund a staff member to check it and there are about 230 short-term rentals in Tofinohttps://t.co/uBeXzp612f@BlackPressMedia @UBCM #bcpoli pic.twitter.com/Eun8YBTZ7h— Kat Slepian (@katslepian) September 13, 2018
At a workshop Thursday afternoon, Osborne spoke about Tofino's success in regulating short-term rentals
Tofino requires all short-term rentals to have a business licence. It's handed out about 230 of them.
The licence costs up to $750 a year, with the money funding a full-time inspector to ensure compliance.
"It takes proactive enforcement all of the time," Osborne said.
About one-third of the 82 per cent of Tofino's residential properties that allow short-term rentals currently have them.
In total, about 77 per cent of Tofino's properties are residential
Earlier this year, the province said that Airbnb would now collect eight per cent PST and up-to-3 per cent in municipal and regional district taxes.
In July, the province had announced new authority for strata councils to stop owners from using AirBnB and other services to rent out their suites in violation of building bylaws.
Effective Nov. 30, strata councils can assess fines of up to $1,000 a day on owners, up from the current $200 a day.
The business licence requirement will not apply to regional districts and rural electoral areas that do not have business licence.
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Poet::Import -- Import Poet quick vars and utilities
# In a script...
use Poet::Script qw($conf $poet $log :file);
# In a module...
use Poet qw($conf $poet $log :file);
Poet makes it easy to import certain variables (known as "quick vars") and utility sets into any script or module in your environment.
In a script:
use Poet::Script qw(...);
and in a module:
use Poet qw(...);
where ... contains one or more quick var names (e.g. $conf, $poet) and/or utility tags (e.g. :file, :web).
(Note that use Poet::Script is also necessary for initializing the environment, even if you don't care to import anything, whereas use Poet has no effect other than importing.)
use Poet::Script
use Poet
Here is the built-in list of quick vars you can import. Some of the variables are singletons, and some of them are specific to each package they are imported into.
The global environment object, provided by Poet::Environment. This provides information such as the root directory and paths to subdirectories.
For backward compatibility this is also available as $env.
The global configuration object, provided by Poet::Conf.
The cache for the current package, provided by Poet::Cache.
The logger for the current package, provided by Poet::Log.
The utilities in Poet::Util::Debug are always imported, with no tag necessary.
This tag imports all the utilities in Poet::Util::File.
This tag imports all the utilities in Poet::Util::Web. It is automatically included in all Mason components.
Every Mason component automatically gets this on top:
use Poet qw($conf $poet :web);
$m->cache and $m->log will get you the cache and log objects for a particular Mason component.
To add your own variable, define a method called provide_var_varname in MyApp::Import. For example to add a variable $dbh:
package MyApp::Import;
use Poet::Moose;
extends 'Poet::Import';
method provide_var_dbh ($caller) {
# Generate and return a dbh.
# $caller is the package importing the variable.
# $poet is the current Poet environment.
provide_dbh can return a single global value, or a dynamic value depending on $caller.
Now your scripts and libraries can do
use Poet::Script qw($dbh);
use Poet qw($dbh);
To add your own utility tag, define a class MyApp::Util::Mytagname that exports a set of functions via the ':all' tag. For example:
package MyApp::Util::Hash;
use Hash::Util qw(hash_seed all_keys);
use Hash::MoreUtils qw(slice slice_def slice_exists);
our @EXPORT_OK = qw(hash_seed all_keys slice slice_def slice_exists);
our %EXPORT_TAGS = ( 'all' => \@EXPORT_OK );
use Poet::Script qw(:hash);
use Poet qw(:hash);
To export other general things to the calling class, you can override export_to_class, which takes the calling class as its argument. e.g.
package MyApp::Import;
use Poet::Moose;
extends 'Poet::Import';
before 'export_to_class' => sub {
my ($self, $class) = @_;
no strict 'refs';
%{$class . "::some_name"} = ...;
Jonathan Swartz <email@example.com>
This software is copyright (c) 2012 by Jonathan Swartz.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.
To install Poet, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm Poet
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell
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Hi everyone,
Anyone seen this short movie before? It's in English with Hungarian subtitles, but it should not be any obstacle right? Hope you like it, enjoy!
Hi everyone,
Anyone seen this short movie before? It's in English with Hungarian subtitles, but it should not be any obstacle right? Hope you like it, enjoy!
Hi Enkyo, I've seen some passage here but not the entire movie, I remember the teaching with the orange if I remember well.
Thank you for the link I will see the hole movie
I recommend the film greatly, and its commentatory track includes Jundo's Dharma brother Brad warner.
As for the orange...
Thank you for your practice.
Life is our temple and its all good practice
Blog: http://fugenblog.blogspot.com/
Every so often this film pops up, and every time I try and watch it... I look away .....face in palm. not at the message, but at the filmmaking, and filmmakers choices. ugh.
Sorry. just a dumb comment from the peanut gallery. ....I could no longer remain silent.
Gassho Dazian.
Thanks for the share ... I have seen this little clip.
Oh, I do savor that Orange!
clever film
Diligently attain nothing. Sort of. Best not to over-think it.
I loved Zen Noir, just so deliberately over the top, something the Pythons would do it they were Zen Buddhists. My wife hated it. What does she know? She doesn't appreciate Monty Python either.
Neika / Ian Adams
寧 Nei - Peaceful/Courteous
火 Ka - Fire
Look for Buddha outside your own mind, and Buddha becomes the devil. --Dogen
"...And Saint Attila raised the hand grenade up on high, saying, 'O LORD, bless this Thy hand grenade that with it Thou mayest blow Thine enemies to tiny bits, in Thy mercy.' And the LORD did grin and the people did feast upon the lambs and sloths and carp and anchovies and orangutans and breakfast cereals, and fruit bats and large chu... [At this point, the friar is urged by Brother Maynard to "skip a bit, brother"]... And the LORD spake, saying, 'First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin, then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it.'"
求道芸化 Kyūdō Geika
I am just a priest-in-training, please do not take anything I say as a teaching.
That was the most intense clip about fruit I've ever seen. I'm going to need a moment.
Okay, my first impression is that it makes me feel bad for Thich Nhat Hanh, since the "eating an orange" lesson is so widely associated with him (even if it did not originate with him). My second impression, in keeping with Neika's "over the top" theme is the sheer abundance of the color orange. You see it as a backdrop to virtually every scene: red-orange walls, flaming orange fire, the orange piece of fruit. I guess the entire universe is an orange.
I liked it because I like old Mickey Spillane and Sam Spade stories and noir films ...


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Data Mining Concepts
Applies to: SQL Server 2019 and earlier Analysis Services Azure Analysis Services Power BI Premium
Data mining was deprecated in SQL Server 2017 Analysis Services and now discontinued in SQL Server 2022 Analysis Services. Documentation is not updated for deprecated and discontinued features. To learn more, see Analysis Services backward compatibility.
Data mining is the process of discovering actionable information from large sets of data. Data mining uses mathematical analysis to derive patterns and trends that exist in data. Typically, these patterns cannot be discovered by traditional data exploration because the relationships are too complex or because there is too much data.
These patterns and trends can be collected and defined as a data mining model. Mining models can be applied to specific scenarios, such as:
Forecasting: Estimating sales, predicting server loads or server downtime
Risk and probability: Choosing the best customers for targeted mailings, determining the probable break-even point for risk scenarios, assigning probabilities to diagnoses or other outcomes
Recommendations: Determining which products are likely to be sold together, generating recommendations
Finding sequences: Analyzing customer selections in a shopping cart, predicting next likely events
Grouping: Separating customers or events into cluster of related items, analyzing and predicting affinities
Building a mining model is part of a larger process that includes everything from asking questions about the data and creating a model to answer those questions, to deploying the model into a working environment. This process can be defined by using the following six basic steps:
The following diagram describes the relationships between each step in the process, and the technologies in Microsoft SQL Server that you can use to complete each step.
The process illustrated in the diagram is cyclical, meaning that creating a data mining model is a dynamic and iterative process. After you explore the data, you may find that the data is insufficient to create the appropriate mining models, and that you therefore have to look for more data. Alternatively, you may build several models and then realize that the models do not adequately answer the problem you defined, and that you therefore must redefine the problem. You may have to update the models after they have been deployed because more data has become available. Each step in the process might need to be repeated many times in order to create a good model.
Microsoft SQL Server Data Mining provides an integrated environment for creating and working with data mining models. This environment includes SQL Server Development Studio, which contains data mining algorithms and query tools that make it easy to build a comprehensive solution for a variety of projects, and SQL Server Management Studio, which contains tools for browsing models and managing data mining objects. For more information, see Creating Multidimensional Models Using SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT).
For an example of how the SQL Server tools can be applied to a business scenario, see the Basic Data Mining Tutorial.
Defining the Problem
The first step in the data mining process, as highlighted in the following diagram, is to clearly define the problem, and consider ways that data can be utilized to provide an answer to the problem.
This step includes analyzing business requirements, defining the scope of the problem, defining the metrics by which the model will be evaluated, and defining specific objectives for the data mining project. These tasks translate into questions such as the following:
What are you looking for? What types of relationships are you trying to find?
Does the problem you are trying to solve reflect the policies or processes of the business?
Do you want to make predictions from the data mining model, or just look for interesting patterns and associations?
Which outcome or attribute do you want to try to predict?
What kind of data do you have and what kind of information is in each column? If there are multiple tables, how are the tables related? Do you need to perform any cleansing, aggregation, or processing to make the data usable?
How is the data distributed? Is the data seasonal? Does the data accurately represent the processes of the business?
To answer these questions, you might have to conduct a data availability study, to investigate the needs of the business users with regard to the available data. If the data does not support the needs of the users, you might have to redefine the project.
You also need to consider the ways in which the results of the model can be incorporated in key performance indicators (KPI) that are used to measure business progress.
Preparing Data
The second step in the data mining process, as highlighted in the following diagram, is to consolidate and clean the data that was identified in the Defining the Problem step.
Data can be scattered across a company and stored in different formats, or may contain inconsistencies such as incorrect or missing entries. For example, the data might show that a customer bought a product before the product was offered on the market, or that the customer shops regularly at a store located 2,000 miles from her home.
Data cleaning is not just about removing bad data or interpolating missing values, but about finding hidden correlations in the data, identifying sources of data that are the most accurate, and determining which columns are the most appropriate for use in analysis. For example, should you use the shipping date or the order date? Is the best sales influencer the quantity, total price, or a discounted price? Incomplete data, wrong data, and inputs that appear separate but in fact are strongly correlated all can influence the results of the model in ways you do not expect.
Therefore, before you start to build mining models, you should identify these problems and determine how you will fix them. For data mining typically you are working with a very large dataset and cannot examine every transaction for data quality; therefore, you might need to use some form of data profiling and automated data cleansing and filtering tools, such as those supplied in Integration Services, Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Master Data Services, or SQL Server Data Quality Services to explore the data and find the inconsistencies. For more information, see these resources:
Integration Services in Business Intelligence Development Studio
It is important to note that the data you use for data mining does not need to be stored in an Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) cube, or even in a relational database, although you can use both of these as data sources. You can conduct data mining using any source of data that has been defined as an SQL Server Analysis Services data source. These can include text files, Excel workbooks, or data from other external providers. For more information, see Supported Data Sources (SSAS - Multidimensional).
Exploring Data
The third step in the data mining process, as highlighted in the following diagram, is to explore the prepared data.
You must understand the data in order to make appropriate decisions when you create the mining models. Exploration techniques include calculating the minimum and maximum values, calculating mean and standard deviations, and looking at the distribution of the data. For example, you might determine by reviewing the maximum, minimum, and mean values that the data is not representative of your customers or business processes, and that you therefore must obtain more balanced data or review the assumptions that are the basis for your expectations. Standard deviations and other distribution values can provide useful information about the stability and accuracy of the results. A large standard deviation can indicate that adding more data might help you improve the model. Data that strongly deviates from a standard distribution might be skewed, or might represent an accurate picture of a real-life problem, but make it difficult to fit a model to the data.
By exploring the data in light of your own understanding of the business problem, you can decide if the dataset contains flawed data, and then you can devise a strategy for fixing the problems or gain a deeper understanding of the behaviors that are typical of your business.
You can use tools such as Master Data Services to canvass available sources of data and determine their availability for data mining. You can use tools such as SQL Server Data Quality Services, or the Data Profiler in Integration Services, to analyze the distribution of your data and repair issues such as wrong or missing data.
After you have defined your sources, you combine them in a Data Source view by using the Data Source View Designer in SQL Server Data Tools. For more information, see Data Source Views in Multidimensional Models. This designer also contains some several tools that you can use to explore the data and verify that it will work for creating a model. For more information, see Explore Data in a Data Source View (Analysis Services).
Note that when you create a model, SQL Server Analysis Services automatically creates statistical summaries of the data contained in the model, which you can query to use in reports or further analysis. For more information, see Data Mining Queries.
Building Models
The fourth step in the data mining process, as highlighted in the following diagram, is to build the mining model or models. You will use the knowledge that you gained in the Exploring Data step to help define and create the models.
You define the columns of data that you want to use by creating a mining structure. The mining structure is linked to the source of data, but does not actually contain any data until you process it. When you process the mining structure, SQL Server Analysis Services generates aggregates and other statistical information that can be used for analysis. This information can be used by any mining model that is based on the structure. For more information about how mining structures are related to mining models, see Logical Architecture (Analysis Services - Data Mining).
Before the structure and model is processed, a data mining model too is just a container that specifies the columns used for input, the attribute that you are predicting, and parameters that tell the algorithm how to process the data. Processing a model is often called training. Training refers to the process of applying a specific mathematical algorithm to the data in the structure in order to extract patterns. The patterns that you find in the training process depend on the selection of training data, the algorithm you chose, and how you have configured the algorithm. SQL Server 2017 contains many different algorithms, each suited to a different type of task, and each creating a different type of model. For a list of the algorithms provided in SQL Server 2017, see Data Mining Algorithms (Analysis Services - Data Mining).
You can also use parameters to adjust each algorithm, and you can apply filters to the training data to use just a subset of the data, creating different results. After you pass data through the model, the mining model object contains summaries and patterns that can be queried or used for prediction.
You can define a new model by using the Data Mining Wizard in SQL Server Data Tools, or by using the Data Mining Extensions (DMX) language. For more information about how to use the Data Mining Wizard, see Data Mining Wizard (Analysis Services - Data Mining). For more information about how to use DMX, see Data Mining Extensions (DMX) Reference.
It is important to remember that whenever the data changes, you must update both the mining structure and the mining model. When you update a mining structure by reprocessing it, SQL Server Analysis Services retrieves data from the source, including any new data if the source is dynamically updated, and repopulates the mining structure. If you have models that are based on the structure, you can choose to update the models that are based on the structure, which means they are retrained on the new data, or you can leave the models as is. For more information, see Processing Requirements and Considerations (Data Mining).
Exploring and Validating Models
The fifth step in the data mining process, as highlighted in the following diagram, is to explore the mining models that you have built and test their effectiveness.
Before you deploy a model into a production environment, you will want to test how well the model performs. Also, when you build a model, you typically create multiple models with different configurations and test all models to see which yields the best results for your problem and your data.
SQL Server Analysis Services provides tools that help you separate your data into training and testing datasets so that you can accurately assess the performance of all models on the same data. You use the training dataset to build the model, and the testing dataset to test the accuracy of the model by creating prediction queries. This partitioning can be done automatically while building the mining model. For more information, see Testing and Validation (Data Mining).
You can explore the trends and patterns that the algorithms discover by using the viewers in Data Mining Designer in SQL Server Data Tools. For more information, see Data Mining Model Viewers. You can also test how well the models create predictions by using tools in the designer such as the lift chart and classification matrix. To verify whether the model is specific to your data, or may be used to make inferences on the general population, you can use the statistical technique called cross-validation to automatically create subsets of the data and test the model against each subset. For more information, see Testing and Validation (Data Mining).
If none of the models that you created in the Building Models step perform well, you might have to return to a previous step in the process and redefine the problem or reinvestigate the data in the original dataset.
Deploying and Updating Models
The last step in the data mining process, as highlighted in the following diagram, is to deploy the models that performed the best to a production environment.
After the mining models exist in a production environment, you can perform many tasks, depending on your needs. The following are some of the tasks you can perform:
Use the models to create predictions, which you can then use to make business decisions. SQL Server provides the DMX language that you can use to create prediction queries, and Prediction Query Builder to help you build the queries. For more information, see Data Mining Extensions (DMX) Reference.
Create content queries to retrieve statistics, rules, or formulas from the model. For more information, see Data Mining Queries.
Embed data mining functionality directly into an application. You can include Analysis Management Objects (AMO), which contains a set of objects that your application can use to create, alter, process, and delete mining structures and mining models. Alternatively, you can send XML for Analysis (XMLA) messages directly to an instance of SQL Server Analysis Services. For more information, see Development (Analysis Services - Data Mining).
Use Integration Services to create a package in which a mining model is used to intelligently separate incoming data into multiple tables. For example, if a database is continually updated with potential customers, you could use a mining model together with Integration Services to split the incoming data into customers who are likely to purchase a product and customers who are likely to not purchase a product. For more information, see Typical Uses of Integration Services.
Create a report that lets users directly query against an existing mining model. For more information, see Reporting Services in SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT).
Update the models after review and analysis. Any update requires that you reprocess the models. For more information, see Processing Data Mining Objects.
Update the models dynamically, as more data comes into the organization, and making constant changes to improve the effectiveness of the solution should be part of the deployment strategy. For more information, see Management of Data Mining Solutions and Objects
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If you come to our house for a grown-up dinner party, there's a good chance it'll be just after 8:00, and our two kids will greet you at the door. If all has gone according to plan, they'll be bathed and pajama'd, their teeth will be brushed, and with a little luck they'll be in bed, out of sight, 30 minutes later.
It's not that we worry about the girls being un-presentable or that we fear they'll pillage the crostini plate before our guests have taken their coats off. (OK, maybe we do worry about the crostini thing. It's a problem.) It's that usually the people we have over for dinner are parents, too. Parents who have already spent the waking part of their day doing what parents do – suffering through another Wa Wa Wubbzy marathon, doling out snacks, pretending to lose at Uno – and probably, if they're being honest, don't feel a real powerful need to spend valuable babysitting hours doing the same with someone else's kids.
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This story appears in the current issue of Bon Appetit. Head over to their website for the Short Ribs recipe, which is a simplified version of an old Balthazar favorite. Photo by Christopher Testani for Bon Appetit.


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PASC's operating expenses:
- Publications: Printing copies of the PASC journal, PASC presentation materials, equipment, and campaigns, and production of copies of the PASC documentary.
- Communication: Website, listserv, telephone.
- Training for accompaniment teams: Printing the training workbooks, travel costs for training outside the city.
- Contributions: Reseau Québecois des Groupes Écologistes, Red de Hermandad y Solidaridad con Colombia.
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Akustikologi : Rehearsal
Akustikologi is a music project that provides a collaborative platform for artists, musicians, scientists and hackers to arrange and improvise musical compositions according to each own disciplines. This project challenges the participants to not use any kinds of electronic amplifiers for a collaborative compositions in order to recall our hearing sensitivity —as we are mechanosensitive beings— amidst our noise-polluted environment.
Noise pollution, is the changes of the structure (compositions) of our environment due to excessive noise, affecting the life quality of living beings surround it. Sound pollution can be caused by natural phenomena or human activity. Rapid technology development and the population growth is instantly making noise pollution is generated by human daily activity. Indirectly, sound pollution can affecting physical and psychological health of us humans, such as sleep disturbance, stress, hypertension, and hearing loss. The last symptoms defined as Noise Induced Hearing Loss (NIHL).
NIHL commonly happened due to damaged or death of the hair cells on the basilar membrane (the base for the sensory cells of hearing). Unlike bird and amphibian, damage or death of these hair cells is permanent in mammals (humans included). Until now, there are no technology that can regrow these hair cells. For that, the only way to keep our hearing sensitivity is to recognize the sounds around us and know its power limit.
Schedules, Venues
19 - 21 April 2014, Bumi Pemuda Rahayu
Collaboration, Jamming, Discussions, Studioworks, Chillout, Hangout, Rehearsal, etc..
24 April 2014, 20:00 - 23:00 Padepokan Seni Bagong Kussudiardja (TBA)
Collaboration Performance of the Participants
Jay Afrisando
Jompet (TBA)
Liu Pei Wen
Matt Baker
Rully Shabara (TBA)
Soni Irawan
Tedi Nurmanto
Tony Maryana (TBA)
Wukir Suryadi (TBA)
Yashas Shetty
Suggestions, ideas, or thingys for the future
1. Make DIY version of sound level meter ? (Need a good filter for calibration, display, and battery powered gadget thingy)
2. Make DIY earplug ? (Need to find a fine, flexible, versatile material for customize DIY earplug, so it can fit on everyones ears)
3. Make DIY analog records player ? (Don't know why we need it, but it's cool to have one, or to make one)
4. Make DIY parabolic microphone ? (Cool device to have when we go out to the forest for cricket hunting, cicadas hunting, bird watching, or eavesdropping other peoples conversations)
5. Make DIY hydrophone ? (This is what all CEO's from every mobile phone company ask to their engineer : " can you make it water-proof?")
6. Change our ears into fish ears or amphibian ears ? (at some point, we don't need to worried about damaging our ears)
7. Release records for each collaborations project ? (imagine image)
8. Ask Stelarc opinion about Wukir going to implant the guitar bamboo on his left hand ? (Y U NO HERE?)


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TechRadar Verdict
At this price and in this configuration, the S431 Touch is a winner. It is comfortable to type and work on, with reliable mouse controls and snappy performance. And it has very few of the kinds of recurring annoyances that so many other PC laptops (at all price levels) possess.
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Balanced price for performance
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Excellent touchpad
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Comfortable keyboard
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Solid, sturdy chassis
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Sub-par display
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Average weight
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Disappointing battery life
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Lenovo isn't the number one PC manufacturer on the planet by chance. No, the world's largest PC maker has claimed the top spot because it has consistently and repeatedly cranked out a number of different laptops and tablet devices across all use cases, form-factors, and categories.
ThinkPad is the company's workhorse; when you bring up the brand with road warriors, the conversation you tend to get into is not unlike talking about classic cars and memorable drives with a car enthusiast. Boxy, black, with a simple logo, that ubiquitous red Trackpoint mouse controller (still present here), and an emphasis on security, the ThinkPad will always be a more serious-looking counterpoint to the sleek, silver MacBook Pro and MacBook Air.
Lately, Lenovo has begun to shift the image of the ThinkPad a bit. Last year, the ThinkPad X1 Carbon introduced a sharp-looking, ultra-light form-factor to the ThinkPad line-up. This year, the upcoming ThinkPad Yoga 2 Pro will present business users with tremendous versatility and multiple use modes more common to the consumer space.
So where does the ThinkPad S431 Touch reside on this continuum? Squarely targeting small business owners and more basic use cases, the S431 is a simple machine, but like many Lenovo rigs these days, it packs a solid amount of power and versatility under the hood.
Relatively speaking, $949 for this system is a solid deal, particularly in light of the performance, which blows away the tier immediately below the S431 Touch, and competes favorably with the price tier just above it.
Lenovo calls the S431 an ultrabook, and on a technical level, we'd agree. With a touchscreen, a slim profile, and sensible power/performance ratios, it does qualify for this category. However, after using the system in everyday fashion for a full week and a half, calling this device an ultrabook feels like it is selling it short. We'll call it a premium ultrabook instead.
Basic black kit 2.0
On the surface, there is nothing particularly flashy or striking about the ThinkPad. Stark, black, and serious-looking, the S431 upholds a fine ThinkPad tradition dating all the way back to 1992.
We'll say this much: in a land populated by all kinds of colorful, chromed-out, and flashy systems, it's actually quite refreshing to carry around this sleek, simple-looking system. Other people clearly feel this way too. We received a number of questions and comments from ThinkPad fans asking us what exactly we were carrying. And when people saw the ThinkPad logo, they were excited.
The big difference is the S431's slim profile and its slightly glossy look and feel, which is a departure from the matte-finish ThinkPad of yesteryear. Made of sand-blasted aluminum on a magnesium frame, the chassis itself has a slightly shiny surface, with the ThinkPad logo prominently displayed in the bottom right-hand corner of the system. Like other modern ThinkPad portables, the "I" on the logo lights up when it's operating.
Thanks to the lightweight-but-sturdy magnesium chassis, this laptop feels more substantial and solid than most consumer systems. Measuring 13.11 x 8.8 x .8-inches, it's surprisingly thin, and at 4.1 pounds, it doesn't tip the scales. It's not as light as we hoped, but at the same time, it is certainly not a burden to carry around. At least the sturdy, solid feeling at least justifies the weight.
If you haven't seen a Thinkpad in a while, you may be comforted and/or surprised to see the familiar presence of the red dot thumbstick between the G, H, and B keys. The keyboard itself utilizes modern, Chiclet-style keys. We confess that, initially, the clickpad, which exhibits a surprising amount of travel on downward mouse presses, concerned us. We were worried that over time, it would feel too boggy for rapid-fire, day to day use.
Both feel phenomenal, by the way—but we'll get into that a little later in this review.
Finally, we absolutely love that you can lay the laptop flat at a 180-degree angle. Not that we'd do that very often, but it means that during stand-up meetings, you can push the screen back far enough that everyone can look at it. Given the screen's sub-par viewing angles, this is important.
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4 Ways Your Home Can Provide Retirement Income
Retirement isn't always the leisurely period many of us expect it to be. Countless seniors struggle financially during retirement, and face loads of money-related stress. If you're in a situation where you've left your career behind and need money, you have several options for boosting your retirement income. You could, for example, get a part-time job, and use your wages to help cover the bills.
But here's another idea: Instead of pushing yourself to work during a time in your life when you'd rather be taking it easy, why not use your home as a source of income? Here are several ways your property can serve as a critical cash cow when you need it.
1. Sale proceeds
Though there are always exceptions, home values have a tendency to rise over time, especially in and near thriving cities. Case in point: The median home value in the country was $47,200 back in 1980. By the year 2000, it had climbed to $119,600. If you're sitting on a property whose value has increased substantially, downsizing to a more modest space could put a sizable chunk of cash back in your pocket -- especially if you no longer owe money on your mortgage, which tends to be the case for most retirees.
Say you own your property outright and can sell it for $500,000. If you can find a smaller space that suits your needs for $200,000, you'll get to pocket the difference and use that cash to cover your bills.
2. Full-time tenants
Perhaps you bought a larger home in your 30s or 40s to accommodate your growing family. But if your children have since become adults and moved out, which is common among retirees, then you probably have an excessive amount of space on your hands. If that's the case, but you'd rather not leave your home or community, then rather than sell your property, you could try renting part of it out.
Taking in tenants is especially feasible if you have a finished basement or garage that's separate from the rest of the house. This way, both you and your prospective tenants can get the privacy you need.
Furthermore, you can seek out short-term or long-term tenants, depending on how much income security you're going for. If you're convinced you'll be in a better position a year or two down the line (say, you expect an inheritance to come in), then you might try renting your home out to college students, whose needs tend to change from year to year. On the other hand, if you're looking for a tenant who's less likely to jump ship, you can seek out families who might be drawn to your school district.
3. Seasonal rentals
Maybe you don't want to sell your home, and you're also not thrilled with the idea of having someone else living in it all the time. If so, you might still manage to snag a decent chunk of income by renting your home on a seasonal basis. If you live near a popular ski area, for instance, you can rent out part (or all) of your home during peak winter weekends, and remain tenant-free for the rest of the year. Similarly, if you're right off the beach, you can take in paying guests during the summer and have the place to yourself once September rolls around.
Best of all, if you rent out your property for 14 days or less within the same calendar year, you won't lose a portion of your related income to taxes. So depending on your circumstances, it might actually pay to limit the extent to which you rent out your home, even if the demand is there.
4. A reverse mortgage
Though there are certain drawbacks to going this route, if you're really strapped for cash during retirement, you might consider a reverse mortgage on your home, where a lender pays you a certain amount of money each month in exchange for equity in your property. If you qualify for a reverse mortgage (which may be the case if you're 62, have equity in your home, and consider it your primary residence), you'll get access to the cash you need without having to sell or vacate your property. On the other hand, there are certain pitfalls you might encounter with a reverse mortgage, from high closing costs to not having the option to leave your home to your children, so be sure to weigh the pros and cons carefully.
Owning a home in retirement can be a financial lifeline when money gets tight. If you're retired and low on cash, it pays to explore your options for turning your home into a much-needed income stream.
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Authorities say major flooding in California's San Joaquin Valley is forcing evacuation of 2,000 residents of the farming community of McFarland.
The evacuation was called Monday after days of record-setting rain in California.
Kern County fire spokesman Sean Collins estimates between 400 and 500 homes are in danger of flooding in McFarland.
The source of the flooding is not clear but may be from overflowing irrigation canals that supply water to farms.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A storm pounding California with record rain and heavy snow spawned minor flooding, mudslides, small evacuations and road closures Monday, but forecasters warned that the bad weather's worst impact may be yet to come.
Virtually the entire state was affected, from coastal cities to the Central Valley, Sierra Nevada and southern deserts. Rainfall records fell, numerous traffic accidents snarled roads, trees tumbled and even some horse races had to be canceled.
Some locations in Southern California received more than 12 inches of rain, said meteorologist Jamie Meier of the National Weather Service. It was the most rainfall in one storm event since 2005, he said.
The storm was expected to intensify Tuesday night and Wednesday, with between five and 10 more inches.
"That will make for a pretty good wallop, especially considering how dry things have been for the last two years," Meier said.
In the Sierra, the Sugar Bowl ski resort received as much as 60 inches of snow at upper elevations.
Elsewhere, a 20-mile stretch of scenic Pacific Coast Highway between Malibu and Oxnard was closed to commuters after a rock and mudslide Sunday night. The California Highway Patrol said no one was hurt. PCH also was closed for a time in Orange County by a mudslide at Dana Point.
Eastbound Highway 71 in Pomona was closed because of potholes and flooding, and a number of mountain roads were closed.
The stormy weather began hitting the northern part of the state late Thursday and southern areas on Friday, after a large storm front moving out of the Gulf of Alaska met with subtropical, moist air coming across the Pacific Ocean.
In the southern San Joaquin Valley there was sporadic flooding of single-family homes but no deaths or injuries had been reported, said Kern County Fire Department spokesman Sean Collins. Ten people were evacuated Monday from three homes in Weldon due to flooding from a creek, and extensive flooding of farmland was occurring in the Lamont area, possibly due to a failure of a dike.
The Los Angeles area, including downtown, Hollywood and the San Fernando Valley, received 3 inches to 4 inches of rainfall, while mountain areas got much more. In Monterey County, Three Peaks recorded 13.74 inches between Thursday evening and Sunday night.
Rainfall records weren't just broken, they were obliterated. The weather service said 3.45 inches of rain fell in Pasadena on Sunday, shattering the old mark of 1.5 inches on the same date in 1987. Since the storm began, the city had received more than 5 inches as of early Monday.
On the Central Coast, the Santa Maria River briefly overran its banks Sunday and caused flooding in Guadalupe in Santa Barbara County, forcing an underdetermined number of people to leave their homes.
The Santa Maria Times reported the high waters began receding in the evening. Gibraltar Reservoir on the Santa Ynez River had risen more than 4 feet since the storm began, the county Office of Emergency Services said.
Flash-flood warnings were in effect for some places, particularly mountain areas still scarred by wildfires.
Residents of La Canada Flintridge were among those keeping a wary eye on the rain after a 250-square-mile wildfire last year denuded towering slopes above communities along the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains.
More than 40 homes in the hillside city just north of Los Angeles were damaged or destroyed by a mudslide in February.
"We are holding up," said resident Lien Yang, who added he was warned to be prepared to evacuate. "It's coming down steady but not pouring. Therefore it doesn't cause a mud flow or flooding or anything like that."
Neighbor Tom Smith spent part of Sunday placing sandbags in front of his house.
The rain even made it risky for racehorses to run. Hollywood Park canceled its final seven races Sunday after rain made a section of turf leading to the main track too dangerous to navigate.
In Woodland Hills, north of Los Angeles, a eucalyptus tree crashed onto the roof of a home, while a 40-foot tree fell onto an apartment building in Glendale. No injuries were reported.
Snow levels in Southern California were around 7,000 feet because the storm was so warm, but Tuesday night's anticipated storm could be much colder, meteorologists said, and that should allow snow at elevations as low as 5,500 feet.


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Blog Archives
Monster Blog Wednesday: Exotic Pets
Monster Blog Wednesday is back in full swing. This week? Well, this week we offer up our choices for exotic pets. Simple right? NOPE. Here's the kicker: We are counting extinct animals in our selections. Got yours? No? That's ok, take a look at our picks for inspiration.
Wooly Mammouth
Large, Majestic, and hairy, The Wooly Mammoth is my perfect spirit animal and pet! I really have no idea what these guys were like but I bet they were loyal as hell. Loyalty is one of the main personality traits i look for in a beast-friend. Secondly, this guy is is instant transportation. I will immediately be selling my car after this guy comes to live with me. Yeah, I might be late for everything I ever go to, but are you going to really hold it against me when I show up on a Wooly?
PS- His name is Pete. Human names are hilarious for animals.
I've always had a fascination with Rhinos for no apparent reason, so that's as good a reason as any to pick it as my exotic pet. I also feel like Rhinoceros are discriminated against in pop culture. Would it kill Disney to create a sassy Rhinoceros character? The ultimate slap in the face came during the movie Madagascar; you picked a zebra over a rhino, Disney? Are you high? I'm hoping through my fictional adoption that the perception of Rhinos will go from "oh God I'm going to die" to "man that Rhino is sassy!".


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Like clockwork, Apple has released a new major version of its iOS mobile operating system every summer since 2008, and we expect 2013 to be no different. iOS 7 seems likely to take its bow at the company's annual Worldwide Developers Conference, which will be held June 10 through 14 in San Francisco.
But after five years of improvements to the OS, both major and modest, the outlook for iOS these days is decidedly different. Apple has already filled in a lot of the functionality that its mobile operating system lacked in early releases, and the company's competitors have recently been closing in on Apple's head start in the smartphone market. So, with that in mind, let's run down a few of the features we'd like to see in the next version of iOS.
Control points
Many of us agree that certain frequently used iOS features could stand to be more easily accessible. For example, it would be useful if a Notification Center widget allowed users to easily enable or disable airplane mode, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi without having to tap through several levels of the Settings app. It's certainly possible to make the interface even easier without compromising its existing simplicity and elegance.—Dan Moren
A new home
The iOS home screen is a classic: It works, and it's immediately obvious that you're staring at a collection of apps. But it just doesn't scale well. I'm jealous of the home screen alternatives available to Windows Phone and Android users—and of those phone's richer lock screens, too. iOS 7 should bring more options for organizing apps, and offer widgets or other information-providing modules on the home and lock screens. Our iPhones and iPads could become even more useful, without our even needing to launch specific apps.—Lex Friedman
File under 'file system'
Yes, Apple's trying to kill off the file system the same way it has the floppy disk and the optical drive—but, at the moment, the replacement just isn't cutting it. Anyone who's tried to move a document back and forth between iOS apps has experienced the joy that is having a copy of your file in each app, and no easy way to figure out which one is the most current version. The solution need not be to hearken back to the Open/Save dialog boxes of yesteryear, but iOS badly needs some sort of system for enabling easy data exchange between native apps.—Dan Moren
Fair (photo) share
iOS 6 introduced the concept of Shared Photo Streams. But while they make it easy to share pictures with friends and family, there's room for improvement. Right now, if you and your significant other want to share photos with each other, you need two Shared Photo Streams—one owned by each of you. Likewise, if I want to share pictures from an event with a bunch of my friends, we each need to have our own Photo Streams. Shared Photo Streams should be less about broadcasting your photos, and more about, well, sharing.—Dan Moren
Multiply multitasking
iOS 4 added multitasking, and it was great. But now, nearly three years later, it's feeling a bit underwhelming. The double-tap-to-expose-your-recently-running-apps approach is okay, but there's more that Apple could do here—a lot more. Instead of merely showing app icons, perhaps iOS could display the screenshots from your other running apps, to give you a clearer sense of where you left off. It also seems like Apple needs to do something to make it clearer to customers that they needn't force-quit all their open apps; even a simple indication of which apps are currently consuming background resources could do the trick.—Lex Friedman
Curb notification overload
For years, we asked for better notifications in iOS. But in some ways, the arrival of iOS 5's Notification Center has created more problems than it's solved. While having a central repository of all inbound notifications is handy at times, Notification Center all too often becomes a slush pile of all those notifications that you saw but didn't need to refer back to. So we do the dance: Open up Notification Center, tap the X button for an app, then tap Clear. Rinse. Repeat. Notification Center should be smarter about clearing out old, stale notifications—or at least, let users decide how long to keep those notifications. In addition, there should be better control over what shows up in Notification Center in the first place; for example, you should be able to specify which of your calendars it pulls events from. And, as smartwatches like the Pebble and MetaWatch become more and more common, iOS should make sending notifications to accessories friendlier and more compatible.—Dan Moren
Enhanced text editing
We waited a good long time for Apple to bring copy-and-paste to iOS, and though it works, it still feels fiddly. My mom still struggles with it, and I'd be lying if I said I've never cursed under my breath while trying to get that finicky cursor precisely where I want it on my iPhone. This doesn't feel like an easy problem to solve, but Apple is surely up to the task: Text selection, editing, and even typing remain in their infancy on touchscreen devices. When it first appeared, iOS's onscreen keyboard was among the best of the best; it's time for Apple to make that omnipresent functionality a little more mature.—Lex Friedman
Drop in AirDrop
OS X's AirDrop feature, which lets you exchange files with other Mac users via a peer-to-peer Wi-Fi connection, is often maligned, but iOS is one place where the feature could be genuinely handy. Sure, you can email or iMessage files back and forth, but wouldn't it be cool if you could quickly and easily exchange pictures, videos, and other files with your nearby friends with just a tap or two? And though I'm not suggesting that Apple should steal Samsung's "bump-to-share" feature wholesale, Samsung has already borrowed plenty from Apple, so maybe a little turnabout is fair play.—Dan Moren
Sounder sound options
The iOS options for audio alerts and other sound settings are relatively sparse compared to what's available on many other tablets and phones (both smart and dumb). And on top of that, they're confusing. If you mute your phone or iPad, some sounds are muted, but not all; similarly, if you instead turn the volume all the way down, that setting applies to some apps and some OS sounds and notifications, but not all. The result is that I never really know if my phone is completely muted or only partially muted. People have been complaining about this for years, and I'd like Apple to tidy it up.
On the other hand, when a Bluetooth headset is connected, if that headset supports A2DP, then all audio is directed through the headset. So if you take the headset off of your ear—and trust us, you should take it off of your ear when you're not actively on a call—you don't hear any of your phone's useful audio alerts. I'd like to see an option in the Sounds screen of the Settings app called something like 'Send audio alerts over Bluetooth' that can be toggled on or off.—Dan Frakes
Soup up Siri
Apple's virtual assistant was impressive when it debuted in 2011, but here in 2013, it's in need of some improvement. It's not just a matter of expanding the list of compatible services, to which Apple has added only slowly and irregularly, but also of bucking up Siri's performance. Though Google Search on iOS can't duplicate all of Siri's capabilities, it's impossible to deny that it's blazingly fast—Siri could use a similar dose of celerity. Moreover, it's time to address some of Siri's many shortcomings, like its inability to read you your mail or interact with your settings. We've grown used to having an intelligent assistant at our fingertips; now it's time for Siri to get a little more schooling.—Dan Moren