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I've been smoking a pack and a half fo12 years, and my lungs feel trashed. I quit for 1 1/2 years and felt much better but after starting again my breathing scares me worse then before, anyone do any sort of lung exercises or anything to enhance lung
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Many single Christians all across the globe are wasting their singleness. Are you one of them?
I'm in my twenties and I've been single my entire life. By no means do I have all the answers to singleness, but I am well aware of the struggles and difficulties and blessings that singleness brings. The road can be painful, but it doesn't have to be joyless.
I'm sure many of us who are single want to use this season wisely—but how? How can we enjoy our singleness without wasting it?
Over the years, I've learned that there are 11 things every single Christian should know:
- Fix your eyes on Jesus. Thriving in singleness happens by fixing your eyes on the One who is sinless. Look to Jesus to be your source of joy, hope, purpose, and meaning. Only he can give you what you actually want, and what you really need.
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For my the Art of Photography course and especially my final assignment which looks at social documentary photography. I have chosen to look at the street photography Garry Winogrand, a well respected American photographer who worked looking at America and the people throughout the mid 20th century. Looking at social issues and the people of the nation he built up a large body of work.
He grew up in a largely Jewish area of the Bronx in New York with both of his parents. He studied painting before going on to study photography at Columbia University. He also studied under Alexey Brodovich in photojournalism at the New School for Social Research.
He first broke into the industries eye when he had two photographers included in an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, he would then go onto have his first solo show at the Image Gallery, New York in 1959. In the early 1960's he was often on the streets of New York photographing with the likes of Lee Friedlander and Diane Arbus and in 1963 his first notable inclusion in an exhibition happened when he was included in another exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art called Five Unrelated Photographers.
He continued throughout his career looking at the people of America, receiving three Guggenheim Fellowship Awards and producing a number of books and exhibitions both during his life and posthumously.
It is through looking at his images that I have become inspired, Winogrand once said "I learn from them" this was close to his death at the young age of 56 and shows that as a photographer the learning curve is always changing and evolving and there is always room to develop further. It is with this mindset I like to keep myself and through looking at his work the images that stand out grab the attention by being full of content that is photographed to draw you in to be a part of it.
This beautifully balanced photographer is composed in a such a way that we see two sides of an image separated by the curb leading down into the image. the foreground person stood perfectly on a circular man hole cover acting as if she was on a plinth. This raising her above the rest of the image in symbolism. I love the demeanour of the short gentleman walking into the road, his step highlighted with the foot of the ground and his head turned slightly with his eyes staring up at the women, giving her an almost mystical element coupled with her posture and stance on the circular mark on the ground.
This second image of Garry Winogrand is a perfect example of timing and luck. The beautiful light leading down the street offering the photographer the long shadows coupled with the reflections that give them an abstract impression are perfect planning of positioning and time but the beautiful composition of the three ladies is perfect luck, the strength of the shadows alternating at each layer while the wheelchair bound person is bent over in his chair in the dark shadows really captures the contrast in society perfectly and says a lot about the Los Angles mentality as we can see the walk of fame star in the foreground.


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of evidence, the Jury found in his favour and acquitted him.
I successfully defended XT in his trial at Brighton Magistrates Court on 12 September for speeding and failing to notify driver. He could not read and write and said
that he did not understand the letter that the police sent to him asking who had been driving when speeding. The Clerk asked me why I was there 'for speeding?' Reply - nothing is too unimportant,
and if it matters to an old client and his family, and they can't cope by themselves, then I turn out for them.
I defended TL in Southwark Crown Court over ten weeks - forty days. I led Justin Rivett from Warrens Law & Advocacy, Eastbourne, to whom I give my thanks and
The Police accused TL of defrauding clients in a solicitors firm to the tune of £900k, by draining clients money from client account into his pocket and the
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by Roger Oakland [www.understandthetimes.org]
We know from the Scriptures that Satan's plan is to deceive the whole world. His objective is to blind the minds of the unbelieving and to recruit those who have believed to assist him in his agenda to deceive the world in the name of the Savior. Could this be happening today?
Do you recall what Paul prophesied would happen to the early Christian church? This is what he said:
Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood. For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them. [1]
A brief overview of church history reveals Paul's prophetic warning was fulfilled. He said it would happen and then it happened. Numerous church leaders emerged during the first to the third centuries. The foundational principles of the Scriptures were ignored and many followed the experiential teachings of men who claimed they had discovered new and innovative methods to get in touch with God.
In other words, a church growth movement emerged or should we say diverged. The reason why this happened is simple.
We know that God's Word is light. When we begin to replace the Word of God by the words of man which are considered to bring enlightenment, we have a perfect formula for returning to darkness. The mystics (we often call them the church fathers) added ideas to Christianity that cannot be found in the Bible – a recipe for spiritual disaster.
Jude also warned about the coming apostasy in the early church. He said certain men had already crept in unawares because error was not being corrected.
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Although I mainly ride a touring bike and stick to roads when I ride, I also own a mountain bike. You would be forgiven for thinking that it is like one person owning two cars. Who would do that? But riding off road on a mountain bike is a completely different experience to riding on the road, and while I am an experienced rider on the road, confident in handling riding at speed in traffic on busy roads, as well as in the countryside with tractors and horse riders, I am much less confident riding off road across the South Downs on chalky paths, on grass past herds of cows and groups of walkers. Although on the face of it, it's still riding a bike, the terrain is much more unpredictable than the road. True, there are no pot-holes to have to navigate, but on the South Downs (which is where I can usually be found on my mountain bike), a rider is faced either with grass – which makes riding much more strenuous – or the chalk paths which, when they're dry are covered in stones do not make for cycling in a straight line.
People who suffer from mood disorders like depression or Bi Polar Disorder, are likely to experience mood swings, sometimes quite abrupt and apparently out of the blue. I don't just mean 'ups and downs'. True, that is part of the picture when it comes to mood swings, but I am talking about something that it is both more abrupt, and that also happens within the space of a single day.
In cycling terms this is not the same as cycling in and out of valleys. Everyone has good days and bad days – you don't need to be taking tablets for that to happen. What I'm talking about is more akin to mountain-biking in muddy conditions, the tyres skidding and bouncing on a very uneven surface, stones and gravel being thrown up, along with getting splattered with mud. Not the slick pleasures of riding on tarmac, that's for sure.
Over the past few months, since I was rediagnosed with Bi Polar Disorder, I have been charting my mood on a daily basis using a programme called Moodscope. Everyday I log on to the website and answer a series of twenty questions about how I have been feeling that day. My answers generate a score for that day and it is added to the previous scores. The programme displays the daily scores as a graph, and you can see how your mood varies from day to day, and whether a pattern develops.
Over the past few days I have looked at my graph and the picture that emerges is basically, one long zig-zag. I am up and down, then down some more, and then up, up, up. A minor family disagreement can have the same dip in mood as three gruelling days dealing with a challenging colleague at work.
I was discussing mountain biking with someone in the depression support group I attend ( more about that another time), and we identified that one of the distinctive things about riding a mountain bike is the amount the rider has to concentrate about what is right in front of him (or her) on the path ahead. While that is certainly true fro cycling on road, it's the complexity and unpredictability of the terrain in mountain-biking that requires a greater degree of concentration: looking out for tree roots, stones, sticks, not to mention staying on the bike going through mud.
It's striking how much more physically draining riding off road is than it is in amongst the traffic. Characteristically, I ride much shorter distances off road than on tarmac.
Is Bi Polar Disorder like that, too? Over the past few weeks I have been beginning to recognise, not patterns in my moods and behaviour, but what the terrain is really like, and how hard it is to avoid skidding and sliding, and getting mud everywhere.
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Felt really accomplished yesterday since i'd finished my toothpaste box. I was so inspired by colgate that i went to buy a new tube of toothpaste (since the old one was some random brand my mom bought)! how fun! can't wait to use it soon. i think i am really really eccentric, sometimes. quite a sucky attempt since accuracy is a bit far off since the box sample was not laid out 100% flat.
freaking hate the cutting part.
does it look like teeth to you? i hope so, cause dilon said he wouldn't have thought of that if I didn't mention it to him. i think it's a bit too cutesy to be a toothpaste brand. oh well.
hello! out of random, i wonder why i've never posted this before. and so, today was the last day of my contact lens expiration! and like always, i like to experiment with it. i actually look forward to my contact lenes expiring. okay, so some people might think it's retarded and lame but i'd been (secretly) trying all sorts of things with my contact lens. if your'e wearing contact lenses, you should definitely try what i did. if only i have time, i would illustrate it out pictorial examples so that it will aid your experiments ^^
1) stretch your contact lenses as much as possible without tearing it.
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I've just launched a new add-on to my blog/website. It's a mobile website, built on something called Winksite. I came across this through my elearning daytime job when I was looking into podcasting. Winksite lets you make webpages that can be viewed on mobile phone, and it's something I've wanted to do for a while, but never got around to it. I've only added a few things to it at the moment, some things are copied directly from this blog, but I'd like to have some mobile-only content. At the moment, it's in it's infancy and I haven't tried it out on many phones, so I'm hoping that a few of you who read this blog and who have mobile phones will browse the mobile pages and let me know if there are any problems with it, or if it works ok.
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I'm still plodding along with my remix of Pitch Black's Rude Mechanicals. Should have it finished soon, but it feels like it's missing a melody or pad line, so it's that which is holding me up – plus I only get about 10 or 15 minutes a night to do something with the remix because I've started taking Paul for a drive a lot earlier than usual.
I got a message posted on my blog the other day from the editor of an e-learning magazine in the USA, asking if he could use one of my posts in the forthcoming edition of his mag. It's something I wrote a few months ago on my e-learning blog about getting young children used to the language of the Web as soon as possible. I said yes to them using the article, so it should appear in ELearning! Magazine in a few weeks, in a section entitled "The Last Word". More fame!


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AutoCAD is coming back to the Mac, and this time it will be free. The archetypal computer aided drafting program from Autodesk, which for more than a decade has been available only on Windows operating systems, will ship this fall for Mac OS X, along with mobile editions for Apple's iOS devices--iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch. The new Mac edition will be free for students and teachers through Autodesk's Education Community.
Running natively on Mac OS X, AutoCAD 2011 for Mac will include "many" of the features available in the Windows edition (which, incidentally, can run natively in WIndows on all Intel-based Apple hardware using Boot Camp or through desktop virtualization using products like the open source VirtualBox or Parallels Desktop). It will support Mac-specific interface features, including multi-touch gestures, and will include full native DWG file support (and compatibility with files created in other editions of AutoCAD), according to Autodesk. It will also offer an API, allowing users to generate custom applications, workflows, and interface configurations.
Some of the other features in the Mac edition include:
AutoCAD WS, the mobile edition for Apple iOS devices, will allow users to share and edit AutoCAD files on their iPads, iPods, and iPhones. It will be free for all users.
AutoCAD 2011 for Mac is expected to ship in October. The Mac edition will require recent Intel-based Apple hardware, including Mac Pro, iMac, MacBook Pro, and MacBook systems. The full version, currently available for preorder, runs about $4,000, but students and educators will be able to download the software for free. Further information about the education offer can be found here. AutoCAD WS is expected to be available this fall ("soon") for iOS devices via the App Store.
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By Aimee Thorne-Thomsen
"Don't you like children?"
I can remember the question like it was yesterday, instead of almost 15 years ago. I had met my friend's boyfriend for the first time, and we were just etting to know each other. He didn't understand how I, a young happily married Latina, didn't have children. I guess he couldn't fathom any plausible reasons why I might not have children at the age of 25 except that I must hold them in contempt.
"Yes, I do like children. I especially like them in the morning with a little salt and pepper."
I tried to respond by poking fun at the ridiculousness of the question, but I was offended. Deeply offended. Who was this guy to make assumptions about me, my thoughts about children, and the responsibilities of mamihood*, as if my only value, my only contribution to society and my Latin@ community was to bear and raise children? I was confident enough in myself to know that I had value beyond my reproducing abilities. Yet I was stung not only by the lessening of my value because I was not a mami, but also by the invisibilization of all the other ways I helped to parent.
I don't pretend that the role I've played in the lives of my nieces and nephew, godchildren, and much younger siblings, equals that of their parents. But I know I have been able to provide them with support, guidance, love, and a confidante, much like my tias and tios (aunts and uncles) and prim@s (cousins), not to mention abuel@s (grandparents) did for me. The additional parents in my life supported my mother, helped shape my character, and gave me opportunities I wouldn't have had otherwise .
I can't imagine what my life would look like if I didn't have Titi Nery's house to go to on weekends. Not only did it mean I got to spend time with my cousins, but it also gave me a chance to learn about my family, and not think of my mother as the only person I could depend on. Without my Titi Myrna and Tio Louie, I might never have gone away to boarding school. They not only went with me and my Mom to visit the school I would eventually call home, they also brought her up regularly to visit, cheered me on when I tried my hand at running a race, and never let me forget who I was. I'm sure they also helped with some tuition payments and book bills in there somewhere. There's my Tio Pete, my mother's youngest sibling and only brother. He showed me that being smart and working hard at school were good things, things to be proud of. Then there was my Titi Nin. My father's only sister, Nin's real name was Rosario. She was a prankster and an amazing cook. She was hot-headed, fierce, and unafraid, and she stood up to my father, who could be a little too intense for the younger me.
I could tell you stories about each of my grandparents, my cousins, etc., and the role they played in making me who I am. How they gave my mother the support she needed to raise me and the space she deserved to have a life and identity outside of mamihood. How they stood up for me when I needed it and knocked me down a peg or two when I needed that, too. Those family members didn't replace my mother, but they did parent me. They took the time to guide me into adolescence and then into adulthood, all the while holding tight to our values and our culture. And they are my role models for the all the different ways we can be parents.
It's taken me a long time to understand that while I may never be a Mami, I do parent. My life is rich with children and young people. I take seriously my role as Titi to my brother's kids, Tita to my godson in Oakland, Madrina to my godchildren in New York, and big sister to my 7-year-old sister in New Jersey. I feel a keen responsibility to do for them what my family did for me–provide them with love, direction, fun, and a sense of myself. I feel just as responsible to their parents to support them during the trying moments, give them some relief, and remind them that they are doing a good job. The same applies to my professional life, where for the last ten years my work has focused on making space for young people, lifting up their voices and providing them every chance to thrive. So for the record, yes, I DO like children – other people's children.
*Mamihood: an idea of Latin@ motherhood I first encountered in the work of Maegen La Mala Ortiz's at VivirLatino.


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Panasonic's parent company, Matsushita, today announce they will cease production of GSM handsets. Instead the company will focus solely on 3G (UMTS) handsets. The company is having difficulty competing in the global GSM market, but is doing well with 3G handset sales - especially in Japan. They will shutter a number of plants around the world including a software development facility in the US as the company also intends to shift to a Linux based OS for all their phones.
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Unexpected emergency medical specialists (EMTs) and paramedics look after the sick or injured in unexpected emergency health-related options. Folks's life generally rely upon the short response and proficient treatment furnished by these staff.
Individuals who are assistant nurses follow orders from a registered nurse. They report back towards the licensed nurse about a affected person's affliction. Assistant nurses are always supervised by a licensed registered nurse.
My personal price/perception technique has often been to become compassionate and caring. This was instilled in me from my family members upbringing. During the nursing profession you might want to have an amazing number of compassion and caring in your people and their people. You aren't only caring with the client's Actual physical wellbeing, and also their psychological desires. For instance this semester in clinical we're with a palliative/oncology floor, which can be rather diverse compared to earlier semesters of medical the place we have been carrying out more acute care.
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The purpose of this analyze was to measure Expert and personal values among the nurses, also to determine the factors impacting these values. The individuals have been 323 Israeli nurses, who have been questioned about 36 personal values and twenty Qualified values. The three fundamental Expert nursing values of human dignity, equality amid individuals, and avoidance of struggling, have been rated initially. The very best ten rated values all involved nurses' accountability in the direction of individuals. Altruism and confidentiality were not remarkably rated, and wellness advertising and nursing investigation ended up rated among the very last 3 professional values.
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3. What values are most critical to nursing? Exactly what does it suggest to get "a terrific nurse?" What exactly are the worst mistakes or weaknesses that a nurse mustn't do or have?
Carper's fourth subject, "Aesthetic," is often essentially the most hard to utilize for the nursing area mainly because there are such a lot of aspects at Perform. This principle offers using a nurse's ability to proficiently understand a individual's requirements. Nurses must have the option To guage and evaluate patient desires at any precise stage in time, without having seeking exclusively to url foreseeable future hopes or plans. By way of example, a nurse must be empathetic to the affected individual's agony tolerance level even when she is aware of the individual is just not in almost any instant Risk and will soon Get better.
Nurses also assistance Medical practitioners perform diagnostic checks. Nurses are almost always Operating by themselves or with other nurses. Nurses will assist Health professionals within the unexpected emergency space or in trauma treatment when assist is necessary.[37]
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Part of my load balancer farm was made obsolete when the vendor (Juniper) announced retirement of the DX product line. The product line was acquired from Redline Networks and retired fairly quickly.
I'd like to reload these boxes with a Linux distribution and release them to the security team. There are regular articles about turning an old computer into a useful appliance, but I'm wanting to re-purpose some old appliances as more flexible Linux servers. It's a shame to see these powerful servers going to waste.
I'll be cracking the boxes open this weekend to see if I can identify the system board. Suggestions or links to resources would be appreciated.


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This document contains both the GSF report on Roadmapping of Large Research Infrastructures (2008) and the newly released report on Establishing Large International Research Infrastructures: Issues and Options (2010).
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Intended for scientists and research administrators who are contemplating a major new international project, this report addresses a wide spectrum of practical matters, from the formal aspects of legal agreements to less easily codified "lessons learned and good practices".
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Regardless of what sticky situations you are currently dealing with, realize that there is something easy breezy on the other side.
My point is this:
If you're struggling with something now that feels overwhelming and feel as if you're on the brink of giving up – keep the faith because at the end of the tunnel, you'll find a rainbow of riches. And though another trial may be in your near future, it should be EASIER and BREEZIER for you to get through because you can remember what you just overcame.
With God, nothing is impossible. He is the God of the encore. If you take the time to really focus on Him, He'll lead you right on out whatever storm is currently clouding your visions of hope and happiness. BUT the catch is you have to hold on to the leash of faith – it's what will keep you connected to The Father as He guides your path and helps navigate you out of your dark place. If you never let loose your faith leash, when everyone else around if jumping off bridges and losing their minds — you're sitting on the beach of your cerebellum, chilling in the rays of the [SON], sipping spiritual slushies from a coconut.
Have a great Wednesday!
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Kenya: Floods - Aug 2011
Starting August 2011, heavy rains in northwestern Kenya caused several cases of flash flooding in the Kisumu East, Nyando, and Turkana districts. Around Kakuma, an estimated 60,000 people experienced flooding with water sources, latrines and homes damaged (UNICEF, 17 Aug 2011). As of 12 December ,Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS) estimated at least 25 people had lost their lives in flood-related incidents and approximately 15,045 households (91,692 people) were displaced from their homes (IFRC, 12 Dec 2011).
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UNICEF report: despite recent improvements, outlook for the Horn of Africa increasingly worrisome
More than 8 million people need emergency assistance
NAIROBI, 11 April 2012 – The massive humanitarian response in the Horn of Africa in 2011 reversed the spread of famine and saved tens of thousands of children's lives, but the outlook is increasingly worrisome, threatening the tentative gains achieved to date, according to a new UNICEF report.
In the last six months CARE has reached over 1.8 million affected people throughout the region /Long-term recovery efforts aim at building resilience to food insecurity
On July 20th, 2011, the United Nations declared a state of famine in two areas of southern Somalia: the Bakool agropastoral livelihood zones and all areas of Lower Shabelle. Subsequently, four more Somali areas have been declared as a famine. At that point, the whole region of the Horn of Africa was suffering from the worst drought in more than 60 years, affecting Somalia, Ethiopia, Djibouti and Kenya.
On December 29, unidentified assailants killed a refugee leader of the Community Peace and Security Team (CPST) at the Hagadera camp in the Dadaab refugee camp complex in Kenya. Assailants killed another CPST refugee leader at the Ifo camp in Dadaab on January 1, 2012. Humanitarian operations in Dadaab remain limited to the provision of essential services, according to the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
· Three aid workers on a monitoring mission in Mataban, Hirran Province, Somalia died when a gunman opened fire on 23 December.
· Latest reports from UNICEF and KRCS indicate that flood waters in Kenya are subsiding, with most displaced communities returning to their homes.
· Inter-communal conflict in Moyale leaves 37 people dead, thousands displaced.
· Two grenades thrown at a club in Wajir district in north-eastern Kenya near the Somali border wounded at least seven people on 24 December.
NAIROB I, 30 December 2011 (IRIN) - Severe drought, [ http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=93426 ] exacerbated by poverty and conflict, hit at least four countries in 2011 - Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia - displacing hundreds of thousands of people.
· Tensions remain high in North Eastern Province of Kenya following a series of explosive attacks targeting military and police convoys in the area.
· Aid workers have further reduced operations in the Dadaab refugee camps following heightened insecurity.
· WHO has called on health partners to intensify cholera preventative activities in Mogadishu following an increase in cases.
· Heavy rains have subsided this week in Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia, but humanitarian operations continue to be impeded by the damage to infrastructure caused by the heavy rains in previous weeks, as well as persistent insecurity.
· The World Health Organization has issued an alert over an increased risk of water-borne diseases following the recent heavy rains and flooding in the region.
Due to ongoing insecurity at the Dadaab refugee camp complex and surrounding areas in northeastern Kenya, humanitarian operations at Dadaab remain limited to the provision of essential services, including food distributions and nutrition, health, and water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) activities. On December 6, an explosion at Dadaab's Ifo 2 camp resulted in the death of one Kenyan police officer and injured three others, according to the Kenyan Red Cross Society. The officers were escorting U.N. officials to the camp at the time of the attack.
· More than 80,000 people have been affected by flooding in Kenya. The Kenya Meteorological
Department forecasts heavy rainfall and risk of more flooding for December.
· Heavy rains and insecurity continue to hamper humanitarian operations in Kenya and Somalia.
· The Kenyan parliament this week approved the African Union request for the Kenya Defence Forces to join the African Union Mission in Somalia.
· The Somalia and Kenya 2012 Consolidated Appeals will be launched in Nairobi on 13 and 15 December respectively.
· The security situation in southern Somalia, northeastern Kenya and areas around the Kenya- Somalia border remains highly unstable.
· Access to the drought-affected population in the Juba regions of Somalia and northeastern parts of Kenya continues to be impeded by insecurity and heavy rains.
· 60 cholera cases have been reported in Dadaab refugee camp since August, with ten laboratory confirmed cases as of 4 November. According to UNHCR, despite the limited medical resources at the camp, the situation is currently manageable.
UNICEF is extremely concerned about the impact of escalating conflict in Somalia on children. All parties to the conflict are urged to take all necessary measures to safeguard civilians, including children hundreds of thousands of whom are already at risk due to the ongoing famine. Also of concern are the recruitment and use of children for armed services and sexual violence of children and women.
Deteriorating security levels continues to hamper access to people in need in Southern Somalia and Northeastern Kenya.
Between September 1 and November 4, insecurity and drought displaced approximately 65,000 people from central and southern Somalia, according to the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Of the total population displaced, 17,500 people were displaced from Mogadishu, with 14,000 people moving to other areas within Mogadishu and 3,500 people leaving the city.
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Effects of the rainy season
- The humanitarian access situation in Southern Somalia and Northeastern Kenya remains challenging due to security concerns.
Kenya's military involvement inside Somalia continues, with fighting ongoing in parts of Lower Juba, including bombing raids. The recent kidnapping of two additional aid workers from the Danish Demining Group in Galkayo has further restricted access in the border area between Northern and Southern Somalia.
Increased attacks on civilian and police targets have been reported in Kenya this week, as the Kenya military incursion in southern Somalia continues.
Humanitarian operations at Dadaab refugee camps and drought-affected areas of northeastern Kenya have been increasingly restricted, and in some cases halted, due to insecurity and damaged roads resulting from the ongoing heavy rains.
· Tensions remain high in the region as Kenyan troops advance further in Somalia in pursuit of Al-Shabaab militants.
· Non-essential humanitarian operations in Dadaab refugee camp have been temporarily suspended due to insecurity in the area.
· Heavy rains continue to be received in the region, rendering some roads impassable but positively impacting on water recharging and pasture regeneration in drought-affected areas.
· Humanitarian actors in Djibouti are rolling out more clusters, enhancing coordination in the country.
· Two grenade blasts kill one person in Nairobi and injure more than 20 others, as Kenya fights al-Shabaab in Somalia.
· Humanitarian space continues to decrease with increasing insecurity along the Kenya/Somalia border region.
· Heavy rains in the region hamper delivery of humanitarian assistance and increase the risk of the spread of disease.
· The vulnerable population in Djibouti has increased from 146,000 to 210,000 people, of whom 120,000 are in rural areas, 60,000 in urban areas and 30,000 are refugees.


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From: aditya rana
Date: Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 1:11 PM
Subject: On Buying Unloved Assets; How Much Sleep do we Need?
Global markets posted a long awaited rebound in October, led by Russia (up 17% in dollars – all returns below are in dollars), the Shanghai composite index (up 12%), followed by various emerging markets and rounded up by the developed markets (US up 6%). It is interesting to observe that one of the best performing asset class this year have been 10-year Greek government bonds – up 8% – which might seem surprising given the widespread expectations of an imminent Greek default and Grexit earlier in the year. Within the equity space, Italian equities (another unloved country!) takes the premier spot returning 11% , followed by Russia (up 9% – and even more unloved!). Even China has put in a decent performance with the Shanghai index being up 4% (versus -1% for the US), but the real outliers have been the more speculative Shenzen and Chi-next indices which have posted +41% and + 70% returns for the year. The point to note here is that it is usually the most unloved assets which subsequently provide superior returns to the disciplined and patient investor. So what has been the worst performing asset this year? 10-year Brazilian real government bonds by far, having returned -49% in dollars (out of which -32% is due to the FX impact) making it very likely that they will provide superior returns over the coming years. Expanding further on this theme of buying unloved assets, Chris Brightman, CIO of the reputed research advisory firm Research Affiliates, wrote a note recently on this subject. To summarise:
-There exists today a wide valuation differential between US and EM equity markets, with the US market being priced at a Shiller P/E of 25 versus a historical median of 16 implying expected 10-year real returns of a measly 1.1%. By contrast, EM equities are priced at a Shiller P/E of 11 (a historical low since 1990) versus a historical median of 19 implying an expected 10-year real return of 8% (see table below).
-Investors with the objective of building long-term wealth, should ignore short-term fluctuations in markets and actually welcome price declines as an opportunity to add exposure to markets with cheap valuations. High priced markets like the US are risky while cheap markets like EMs are relatively safer.
-EM equities are widely unloved today, like in the late 1990s, but the environment then was much worse. In 1997 the Thai baht collapsed triggering a collapse in the currencies and stock markets of South-East Asia along with the relatively more developed markets of Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan. Russia was waging a war in Chechnya and the rouble crisis followed a year later with Russia defaulting on its internal debt. Oil prices collapsed to $10 per barrel and EM equities were widely unloved, while US tech stocks were booming.
-The political, economic environment and relative valuations between the US and EM from the period 2008 until 2015 rhymes with the period 1994 (when EMs peaked) until 2002. From 1990 until 1992, and from late 2006 until early 2007, both the US and EMs were valued at roughly the same Shiller P/E ("CAPE") ratios (see graph below)
-However, by early 1994, enthusiasm for Asia-driven growth of EMs boosted their CAPE levels to 30, a 30% premium to the US market. Similarly, in early 2008, enthusiasm for China-driven growth of EMs propelled their CAPE levels to 35, a 25% premium to US CAPE.
-But later in 1994 problems in EMs from Fed tightening (the Tequila crisis) caused EM equities to decline back to a CAPE of 20 over the following year. Similarly, in 2013 fear of Fed tightening (the Taper Tantrum) caused EM equities to decline to a CAPE of 15.
-By contrast, from 1995 until 1999, US markets led by tech stocks soared, while EM equities tanked and the US CAPE was finally priced more than double than that of EM during the period 1997 until early 2003. Today, the US market CAPE is again priced at more than double that of EM. This movie is likely to have a familiar ending.
-Looking at 10-year real returns (see graph below) , the real returns from investing in the US market at peak prices from October 1997 until April 2003 ranged from 5% to -5% with an average of 0%. While the 10-year real returns from investing in EM equities over this period (priced at less than half of US CAPE) ranged from 5% to 15% and averaged 11% (see second graph below).
-The future 10-year lines in the above graph end in 2005 as the returns from 2006 will only be known in 2016. It is clear from the graphs that CAPE provides good guidance for 10-year expected returns, and the current expected 10-year returns for the US of 1.1% versus 8% for EM illustrate the stark divergence in opportunities.
-For long-term investors, short-term price volatility is an opportunity while high prices are a risk. Buying cheap EM assets and reducing exposure to expensive US assets is a prudent risk lowering/return enhancing strategy for patient investors.
-A powerful case for investing in cheaply valued EM equities and reducing exposure to expensive US equities – while this may not work for the next year or so, the outlook over the longer-term (5 years plus) is compelling. Having a core portfolio in EM, and adding to that exposure if EM equities fall further, would be a reasonable strategy. In light of the likelihood of increased market volatility with uncertainty regarding a Fed rate hike, and as noted in my recent newsletters, it might make sense to raise some cash (while maintaining a core holding) if the rally continues into year-end. This would allow one to redeploy the cash if markets suffer a sharp downturn in the coming months (see graph below for a useful signal to monitor). However, staying the course with EM assets and ignoring the short-term market volatility would also make sense for patient investors.
-To hedge equity portfolios against short-term market volatility, investors may also consider 10-year US Treasury bonds, which have shown a strongly negative correlation to the S&P in recent months.
-To the extent that the market volatility during the months of August and September might have unnerved you, please see the following observation made (by Gary Scott) on Warren Buffet's resilience:
"For example, from June 30, 1998 to February 29, 2000, Berkshire lost 44% of its market value while the overall stock market gained 32%. Most fund managers would have trouble surviving a shortfall of 76%. Buffett's reputation and structure as a corporation helped him stay the course and rebound when the internet bubble burst. Having not leveraged too much was a crucial part of his tenacity."
How much sleep do we need?
The ancient Indian medical system, Ayurveda, recommends that an average healthy human needs 6 hours of sleep, with minor variations around this mean based on age, seasons and physiology. So it interesting to note a recent study by UCLA which corroborates this concept:
http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/our-ancestors-probably-didnt-get-8-hours-a-night-either . October 15, 2015.
-A UCLA-led team of researchers found among the Hadza of Tanzania, the San of Namibia ( both hunter-gatherers) and the Tsimane of Bolivia (hunter-horticulturalists ) challenges conventional wisdom about the sleeping habits of pre-industrial humans. The study suggests that the industrialized world's sleep habits do not differ much from those that humans evolved to have.
-"The argument has always been that modern life has reduced our sleep time below the amount our ancestors got, but our data indicates that this is a myth," said Jerome Siegel, leader of the research team, and an international authority on sleep, Siegel is a past president of the Sleep Research Society. For 40 years, he has run a basic sleep research lab in Los Angeles.
-Using special watch-sized devices that measure sleeping and waking times as well as light exposure during the summer and winter, they measured their body temperatures, the temperature in their environment and the amount of light to which they were exposed. The study is the first on the sleep habits of people who maintain foraging and traditional hunting lifestyles in the present day.
-Most of the people studied by the team slept less than seven hours each night, clocking an average of six hours and 25 minutes. The amount is at the low end of sleep averages documented among adults in industrialized societies in Europe and America.
-One myth dispelled by the results is that in earlier eras people went to bed at sundown. The subjects of the study stayed awake an average of 3 hours and 20 minutes after sunset. "The fact that we all stay up hours after sunset is absolutely normal and does not appear to be a new development, although electric lights may have further extended this natural waking period," said Siegel.
-"There's this expectation that we should all be sleeping eight or nine hours a night and that if you took away modern technology people would be sleeping more, But now for the first time we're showing that's not true" said one of the researchers.
-There is no evidence that these sleep patterns took a toll on people's health. In fact, extensive studies have found that these groups have lower levels of obesity, blood pressure and atherosclerosis than people in industrialized societies, and higher levels of physical fitness.
-The amount they slept varied with the seasons, with the study's subjects averaging six hours in the summer and just under seven hours in the winter. Still, they rarely took naps."There's this myth that humans used to take daily naps, but that now — because we're so busy and we can't get back to our homes — we suppress the naps," Siegel said. "In fact, napping, is relatively rare in these groups."
-Insomnia was so rare among those studied that the San and the Tsimane do not have a word for the disorder, which affects more than 20 percent of Americans. The reason may have to do with sleep temperature. The people studied consistently slept during the nightly period of declining ambient temperature. Invariably, they woke up when temperatures, having fallen all night, hit the lowest point in the 24-hour period. This was the case even when the lowest temperature occurred after daybreak. The pattern resulted in roughly the same wake-up time each morning, a habit long recommended for treating sleep disorders.
-"In most modern environments, people are sleeping in a fixed temperature, even if it is reduced from daytime levels," Siegel said. "It may well be that falling environmental temperature is integral to sleep control in humans." The team was surprised to find that all three groups receive their maximal light exposure in the morning. This suggests that morning light may have the most important role in regulating mood and a group of neurons that serve as the brain's clock. Morning light is uniquely effective in treating depression.
"Many of us may be suffering from the disruption of this ancient pattern," Siegel said.
Here's to getting a restful night's sleep by following a regular lifestyle and a healthy diet!
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Outdoor String Lights LED The Modern Implementation for the Landscape
People usually use the string lights during Christmas to make their house (and also property) more beautiful and presentable. But do you know that there are outdoor string lights LED that can be used all year long to decorate the outer area of your property? Yes, these globe lights are considered ideal for outdoor lighting so their usage shouldn't be limited to holiday season only. After all, there are new types of string LED lights that are considered better for the outdoor lighting – even better than the original Christmas string ones!
The Idea of the Decoration
The idea developed when people started to use string lights to decorate parts of the house. Because of the design and shape as the string lights, homeowners are given the freedom to decorate the landscape the way they like it. For instance, they can use the string lights around the porch and around the backyard deck but leave the garage and the other areas left untouched. Or you can focus on certain dark areas, providing better illumination with the string lights. And since then, the idea of using the outdoor string lights LED has started to develop, mostly because homeowners need a solid way to improve better illumination of the house as well as improving the aesthetic factor of the property.
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Keep in mind that installing the outdoor string lights LED isn't easy so you shouldn't underestimate the process. You can always use the regular string type (which is similar to the Christmas lights) but aren't you afraid that it will look cheap and lame? If you seriously want to decorate the exterior part of the house, you can use the real deal with a certain suspension kit, which consist of galvanized steel cables, for sturdier construction. But then again, be sure that you have done this correctly. And make sure that the installation comply to the federal regulation – you don't want to violate any rules, do you?
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Re: Read/Write USB
- Posted by ghaberek (admin) in February
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jimcbrown said...
irv said...
Can anyone suggest a starting point for reading/writing data from Arduino connected via USB (/dev/ttyUSB0, for example) in Euphoria?
I want to eventually graph the data, and control the Arduino via a control panel written in EuGTK.
You'd be in control of the data on both sides, right? Why wouldn't a simple open()/get()/puts() on /dev/tty/USB0 work?
I don't think it's that simple unfortunately. You'd need to set up the port specs and enable raw throughput: https://stackoverflow.com/a/18134892/2300395
You could also try libserialport. It builds easily enough and the API looks pretty straight-forward to wrap.


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Preparation process for Roast Beef :
Ingredients Of Roast Beef
- 3 pounds beef roast
- 3 pounds salt
- 1/4 cup minced onion
- 1/2 cup olive oil
- 1/2 tsp dried marjoram
- 2 tsp garlic salt
- 1 tsp dried basil
- 1 1/4 cups water
- 1/2 tsp dried thyme
- 1/4 tsp ground black pepper
How to Make Roast Beef
1.Combine the oil, onion, garlic salt, basil, marjoram, thyme, and pepper and mix well.
2.Coat the roast well with marinade. Marinate in refrigerator overnight.
3.Preheat an oven to 175 degrees C.
4.Line a roasting pan with an aluminum foil.
5.Combine the salt and water to form a thick paste.
6.Pat a cup of paste to a 1/2-inch thick rectangle in pan.
7.Pat the roast dry with paper towels and insert a meat thermometer.
8.Place the roast on the salt layer and pack the remaining salt paste around the meat to seal well.
9.Bake for an hour or until thermometer registers 140 degrees.
10.Remove it from the oven and let it stand for 10 minutes.
11.Remove and discard salt crust. Serve with an accompaniment.


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During individual interviews with the Boise mayoral candidates Monday, the topics of homelessness and transportation initiatives came up early and often.
Though these subjects were first addressed in questions from the 10-member Boise Mayoral Election Panel the Statesman assembled, all three of the candidates listed homelessness and transportation matters among their top three issues.
The answers provided by Mayor Dave Bieter and challengers Judy Peavey-Derr and Seth Holden provide a measure of contrast we hope will be helpful as voters prepare to make their choices in the Nov. 3 election. Our panel's rating of the candidates will be published Sunday online and in the Depth section in print.
What is the responsibility of the mayor of Boise to the city's homeless population, which, at the moment, is often camped out in unprotected areas?
Bieter: "Probably the toughest issue any city deals with is how to help those who find themselves in that situation. It's always a difficult issue — compounded in Idaho cities of limited authority and limited means. We are not a social service form of government. We simply don't have those resources. Our social services are libraries and parks and public safety — and on top of that, public transportation, which in Idaho has to be paid out of the general fund. But it is all of our responsibility, certainly our city government. Our approach has been and will continue to be, we need a barn raising. We need everybody to help. Our best example is Allumbaugh House, where all the local governments and hospitals, state and federal governments, were able to fashion a good response. We're taking that model and applying it to the homeless situation, and we've got about 40 agencies and individuals working around the table."
Peavey-Derr: "This is a huge issue not easily solved and one that involves collaboration. We know the county controls the indigent fund. Those expenses come to the county ... and they are at this juncture not very friendly toward the city. There is a butting of heads there. The homeless issue has layers like an onion. It has mental health, it has alcoholism, it has a bunch of pieces. When I was county commissioner we worked on alcohol treatment center and got that facilitated. We're going to have to find shelter for these folks — assuming they are willing to take it. I understand there are vacancies ... so, if they are not willing to do it, it's going to be a struggle. But we need to find shelter before the snow flies."
Holden: "The mayor's responsibility to the homeless situation is to not only offer them protection during the colder months as winter approaches, but also to help them reintegrate into society. I have a number of ideas about how to do that, and just offering them a place to sleep and a shelter isn't enough. We need to provide them with ways to get jobs again, reintegrate into society and to become contributing members of society again."
What transportation initiatives would you address during your administration?
Holden: "Better and more consistent transportation via buses and working with the already-in-place Green Bikes with St. Luke's in order to make a system that is more connected and more viable for the people who don't have other modes of transportation. ... I have noticed that the buses come, if you're lucky, once every hour. I will really focus on that."
Peavey-Derr: "I am not in favor of doing a lot of transportation issues because that's an ACHD (Ada County Highway District) situation. I think in cooperation with ACHD any transportation issues can be resolved. I'll tell you what I am not going to do, I'm not going to close off Idaho and Capital Boulevard intersection to bikes and pedestrians only, which has been suggested by the city to ACHD to do, because 34,500 cars a day go through that intersection and only 530 bikes. Although I am bike-friendly, I think there are better ways to resolve it than shutting down that intersection by moving them over a block and circulating bikes in that way. "
Bieter: "We have a separate entity that oversees the rights of way of streets in Boise. We're making some headway there to integrate land use planning and transportation ... The Whitewater Park Boulevard is one of our big successes ... We need a different funding source, and that, to me, is a local option (taxing authority). " Bieter said the biggest challenge is to secure a comprehensive public transportation system not just in Boise, but in "our Valley ... I think you ought to be able to take a train across the Valley ... our existing rail spur from Caldwell to Boise. It goes right through downtown Meridian, it goes right by the College of Western Idaho, Nampa and Caldwell, past the mall to Downtown Boise and even not far from Micron."
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FreeFileSync is an Open-Source folder comparison and synchronization tool.
It is used for fast and easy configurable sync operations between two folders without restricted or overloaded UI interfaces.
Key Features:
- Compare files (bytewise or by date) and synchronize them.
- No limitations: An arbitrary number of files can be synchronized.
- Unicode support.
- Network support.
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- Lean & easily accessible UI: Highly optimized for speed and huge sets
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- Algorithms coded in C++ completely.
- All progress indicators optimized for maximum performance!
- Create Batch Jobs for automated synchronization with or without GUI.
- Focus on usability: Only necessary functionality on UI: no overloaded menus or icon jungle.
- Support for filesizes larger than 4 GB.
- Option to move files to Recycle Bin instead of deleting/overwriting them.
- Ignore directories "\RECYCLER" and "\System Volume Information" with default Filter. (Windows only)
- Localized versions are available for many languages.
- Delete before copy: Avoid disc space shortages for large sync-jobs.
- Filter functionality to include/exclude files from synchronization (without requiring a re-compare!).
- Include/exclude specific files from synchronization temporarily.
- Create sync jobs via GUI to synchronize automatically (can be scheduled or executed via double-click).
- Handle daylight saving time changes on FAT/FAT32 volumes correctly.
- Portable version (.zip) available.
- Native 64-Bit version.
- Support for \\?\ path prefix for unrestricted path length. (Windows only)
- Check for updates from within FreeFileSync automatically.
- Copy locked files using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service. (Windows only)
- Create regular backups with macros %time%, %date% within directory names
- Copy file and folder create/access/mo
- Select all folders via drag & drop.
- Last used configuration and screen settings are saved automatically.
- Maintain and load different configurations by drag & drop, load-button
or commandline.
- Double-click to start external application (e.g. show file in Windows Explorer)
- Copy & paste all grid data as text
- Delete superfluous/temporary files directly on main grid.
- Right-click context menu.
- Status information and error reporting
- Sort file-lists by name, size or date.
OS: Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7
License: Open Source GPL
Homepage: http://sourceforge.net/projects/freefilesync
Download page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/freefilesync/files/freefilesync/
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Today was the perfect day to exercise indoors, as it's cold and rainy out. I popped in my DVD, got my hand weights ready, and proceeded to get my butt seriously kicked. It's only a 20 minute workout, but it is really challenging and by minute 10, I was sweating as if I was on a run. I'm pretty excited, it was awesome. I would definitely recommend it. Because I'm using weights, I'm going to get SO STRONG!
The plan is intended to be done every day for 30 days, but I definitely am not doing that. I still want to run, so I'm planning on running 2-3 days a week and doing the DVD 3-4 other days. Hopefully I won't get bored this way! I know that exercise is important, not just physically, but I'm generally less crazy when I'm getting exercise. It's just not always easy to go on a run every day, though, especially because it's pretty boring in my opinion. So now I'm mixing it up. I'm so smart!!


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No, I've not become Steve Jobs. I just thought I'd post my latest home improvement project - a curved shower rod in the guest bath. While on my latest trip, I noticed that the hotel had one of these and was surprised at how much more comfortable it was. OK, I can't say that it was this particular one but that's the one I bought and just finished installing. It is remarkably easy to install, all the mounting hardware is included. I'll provide a report when I have a guest stay and give it the pH-balanced test. (I'm pretty sure my shower water is not acidic!)
Generally speaking, I have never been a fan of shower curtains. As an Adipose-American, I find shower curtains to end up stuck to me instead of to the side of the tub. As the ad copy at the link says, I am tired of "cling-ons."
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I announced my intention to learn Gàidhlig to Chris tonight, and she seemed happy — but it's hard to tell in a five-minute conversation late in the evening. I feel it's important to learn for my own reasons, but I am awfully curious as to what my families' takes on it will be.


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Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Monday, June 28, 2010
Reasons #458, #459, & #460 That Catpaint Is Awesome
Also? I kinda want to invent TyPaint, so I can replicate that face he's making over Paul's shoulder.
Sunday, June 27, 2010
Saturday, June 26, 2010
My Personal Venn Diagram Exploded: or, There Goes Another Stritchy Clone
It reminds me of the time I saw Stritchy at the Cafe Carlyle, and in the middle of "Send in the Clowns" she sang "We should put some mountains over there. Otherwise what will the characters fall off of?" Or not.
Isn't it? Isn't it just like a performance artist?
Friday, June 25, 2010
What Are They Building In There?
Thursday, June 24, 2010
God's Sacredest Creatures
I thought it was the gayest* unicorn thing ever.**
And then? I found this.
God Bless, America. And Unicorns.
*not necessarily a bad thing
**definitely not necessarily a bad thing.
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Imagine The Heavenly Reunion Happening RIGHT NOW!
Sadly, Shain never really found out who that sailor was. She came forward as the woman in the photo decades after it was snapped, and in 2008 she told the Daily News, "In retrospect, I should have said, 'Hey, wait a minute!' and gotten his name and number."
Why There Is No 'Pal' in 'Principle'
The story in visuals:
As you can see I bought four cans of noms, and because I like to collect points I charged the $2.36. Whatever, it's my right.
However, the lady rang up $2.39. Not a big deal, right? And yet, the principle!
I pointed out the difference and she kept trying to tell me it was the "tax," dismissively and rudely. I stood my ground. I called over a manager and explained my story, stressing it was not about the actual money involved.
She was very nice, and gave me three pennies. Win!
But then? I got back to work and noticed that three of the four cans were $0.65 and one was $0.59, and the cashier accidentally just charged me 4 x $0.59, plus of course the three cent typo.
In the end, a boring tale, except I won a battle against the man even though it was only for three cents and really I ended up ripping them off for $0.18 (originally only $0.15), and Zach got food. Win win!
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
A Bendel Bonnet, A Shakespeare Sonnet
Whenever I'm see a sign advertising a certain thing that may be also be representative of a different certain thing, I take a picture of it.
To wit:
This is the only good thing about the JC Penney on 34th Street, which refuses to carry Size Small undershirts (some of us have small torsos!)
"Oh yeah, whatever, okey doke, I'm a bottom..."
The best part is that Evan took a pic of this too.
While this was NOT the best part of last year's trip to Charleston, it was fun spotting this with David while Elena tried on American dungarees:
I loved the juxtaposition of these two at the T.J. Maxx on the Cape, where Sarah taught me how you can complain about a scratch on sunglasses and get 10% knocked off the price.
Know what? It's not just clothing stores:
My favorite ever is probably this one I took in Sarah's office building. NEVER lock a bottom.
Anyway, on Sunday I got the Holy Grail at the Folsom Street East festival a few blocks away.
Yep, that's right - Tops And Bottoms Wanted Gum. God Bless, America.
Monday, June 21, 2010
This Is What The Baby Does
Her response:
Saturday, June 19, 2010
Live Blogging! I Don't Want Either
Friday, June 18, 2010
Really, Vladimir Vladimirovich Would Have Loved It
Yes Way, José
I really liked Blindness, so much so that I never saw the movie (cf The Hours, Home At The end of the World, and up until last year, Lolita).
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
That's What Hitch Said, Too
Comity. Good Times.
Monday, June 14, 2010
And Once More, In The Papers
2 Things: In The Papers
I kinda expect as much from the Post. I'm glad to have new definitions of "Tie" and "Win" though.
Truly, someone at the Daily Beast was REALLY proud of herself for slipping this one in:
Sunday, June 13, 2010
Shoulder, Angel
Mr. Bynx, 1993-2010
Saturday, June 12, 2010
Friday, June 11, 2010
Kitty Business
and the original:
Thursday, June 10, 2010
That's What Hitch Said
Who knew that even back then this was so big (TWSS).
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Monday, June 7, 2010
Kittens Are A Place On Earth
In honor of this theme, last week we went on an excursion all the way to the UES to see Ms. Bernhard interview Belinda Carlisle at a B&N, in honor of her newly published memoir, Lips Unsealed (great title).
However, not being megafans, we didn't line up at 8am that morning to buy copies of the book to get wristbands so we could sit inside the little theatre and watch the event. Instead, we sat outside on the ground in front of the Sci Fi / Fantasy section and watched it over the shoulder of some really testy queens on closed circuit TV. Whatevs.
Anyway, the real highlight was not Belinda nor Sandra. It was when we got back to my place and helped Zach put on his Sirotan disguise.
He knew it was a game so he pretended to struggle a bit.
He's such a kidder.
In the end, he was extra handsome.
So in conclusion, Friendship is great. It can be interviewing your old pal at a UES B&N about her new memoir and 30 year (THIRTY YEAR!) cocaine addiction, or it can be helping a wee little friend into his dolphin costume. God Bless, Friendship.
Friday, June 4, 2010
Dance Of The Seven Rues
You can click around the interwebs to find Golden Girls highlights. Now for something completely different.
God Bless, B movies. And Doolittle.
Summer of Death, Part 2 - we're ready for you.
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Betty White Victorious
If I Were A Bell
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Death of the Spider-Woman
Also? Here's the full bleed picture Robert Mapplethorple took of her. They cropped it for the MoMA catalog when she had her retrospective there. Wonder why.
And also also? Here's the first Spider-Woman I knew and loved.
The End.