text:
It is very likely that I will no longer be posting to my use.perl.org journal.
I have always posted both to my Rubric at http://rjbs.manxome.org/rubric (or
I have added TypePad Connect to my Rubric, which will handle comments for me without needing to cross-post. If you are, for some reason, interested in my noise-making, please follow it at my Rubric.
Maybe this means I'll get back to adding features to Rubric!
I'm playing Mass Effect now. It's pretty good, although I'm starting to find it a bit tedious, mostly because I keep having to repeat the same bits. This is especially frustrating when I have several dialog options that look very similar but end up coming out of my mouth with very different tones of voice.
That's a problem specific to Mass Effect, and it has some others. The thing that annoys me the most, though, is that it suffers particularly badly from a case of Stupid Game Economy. I wrote about the stupid Cyberpunk 2020 economy before, and it's a problem you can find all over the place if you look.
Mass Effect is a space opera. It has laser guns, super armor, space grenades, and holographic healing gauntlets. You start out with some of these, but they're bottom of the barrel and you have to acquire better ones as you play. You acquire these, sometimes, as spoils of war, but a lot of the really good stuff needs to be purchased. For example, some of the best weapons and armor I can get right now sell for six figures.
It not easy for me to acquire that kind of capital. It might be impossible without hours and hours more gameplay to even get close to it.
A minor upgrade to one of my weapons costs maybe 3000 credits. A license to preach on the main space station's promenade costs 150 credits.
So, let's say these are dollars. One hundred fifty dollars for a license from the government is not insane. Three thousand dollars for a pretty nice gun is not insane. One hundred thousand dollars for a really badass shield generator... well, let's say it's sane. Let's say all the prices make sense.
I ran a smuggling job for an alien. I used my status as a Spectre to bring experimental weapons into a tightly-controlled facility for him to resell. For my trouble, he gave me $250. I broke into an office complex and murdered something like twenty (corrupt) law enforcement officers. The guy who hired me to do that gave me about $700. What the hell is going on here?
Oh, so I mentioned I'm a Spectre? A Spectre is a super-elite ultra-secret agent who reports directly to the triumvirate that rules the galaxy. I've been sent to capture a rogue agent. They sent me as an alternative to sending an entire fleet. "Here," they said, "have a starship."
Not pictured, of course, is the conversation where I say, "Wow, thanks, that's a fantastic starship, and I know it's the best one in the whole human fleet. Do you think I could get some better kit for my team, too? Maybe one of those Ripper IV assault rifles and some shield generators?" The Council of Galactic Omnipotence then says, "Sorry, no. We know your mission is going to prevent the destruction of all life int he galaxy, but... we want you to work for it."
This is present in any game where the hero is known by all to be, you know, a hero saving the world from destruction, but he still has to pay for a glass of milk to heal.
"I need an ice hammer."
"Sure thing, Hero of Eternity. That'll be 350 gilootnis."
"Um... I need the hammer to get into the mountains to defeat the dragon that's been attacking your village."
"Yeah, I heard. Thanks!"
"So, really, can't you just give me the hammer? Or loan it to me? I'm trying to save you and, you know, your family. The Great Deity Thrumboat didn't give me a budget or anything when he imbued me with the Master Spirit so I could save you. I guess he figured people would be reasonable and want to contribute to their own salvation."
"Ho! That Thrumboat! Always figuring."
"Yeah, seriously though, tree fiddy."
It's bugged me that iTunes makes it hard to listen to things as albums. Sure, it has shuffle-by-album, but smart playlists are all per-track.
After years of meaning to, this morning I wrote a (very very slow) Mac::Glue script to build a playlist of unrated or highly-rated albums that I haven't listened to lately. When I was nearly done and looked into one little bug, I found some other similar scripts. Oh well!
I'll eventually update this to avoid having it pick all albums by one artist, but for now, it's good. Thanks to it, I am re-listening to Method Man's Tical.
use strict;
use warnings;
use Mac::Glue qw(:glue);
use List::Util qw(sum);
my $itunes = Mac::Glue->new('iTunes');
my $pl = $itunes->obj(
playlist => whose(name => equals => 'Regular Music')
my $albumen = $itunes->obj(
playlist => whose(name => equals => 'Albumen')
die "no albumen" unless $albumen;
my $tracks = $itunes->obj(
'track' => gAll,
playlist => $albumen->prop('index')->get,
for my $t ( $tracks->get ){
print "getting tracks\n";
my @tracks = $pl->obj('tracks')->get;
my %album;
while (my $track = shift @tracks) {
my $trackid = $track->prop('database ID')->get;
my $album = $track->prop('album')->get;
my $artist = $track->prop('compilation')->get
? '-'
: $track->prop('artist')->get;
next unless defined $album and defined $artist;
next unless length $album and length $artist;
my $rec = $album{ $album, $artist } ||= [];
printf "storing record of $trackid ($album/$artist); %s remain\n",
scalar @tracks;
push @$rec, {
id => $trackid,
rating => scalar $track->prop('rating')->get,
played => scalar $track->prop('played date')->get, # epoch sec
size => scalar $track->prop('size')->get, # in bytes
my $DEFAULT_TIME = time - 30 * 86_400;
my %avg_age;
ALBUM: for my $key (keys %album) {
my ($album, $artist) = split $;, $key;
printf "considering (%s/%s)\n", $album, $artist;
my @tracks = @{ $album{ $key } };
unless (@tracks > 4) {
printf "skipping (%s/%s); too few tracks\n", $album, $artist;
delete $album{$key};
next ALBUM;
my @lp_dates = map { undef $_ if $_ eq 'msng'; $_ || $DEFAULT_TIME }
map { $_->{played} }
my $avg_age = time - (sum(@lp_dates) / @lp_dates);
$avg_age{ $key } = $avg_age;
if ($avg_age < 86_400 * 30) {
printf "skipping (%s/%s); too recent\n", $album, $artist;
delete $album{$key};
next ALBUM;
my @ratings = grep { $_ > 0 } map { $_->{rating} } @tracks;
my $avg_rating = sum(@ratings) / @ratings if @ratings;
if ($avg_rating and $avg_rating < 60) {
printf "skipping (%s/%s); too lousy\n", $album, $artist;
delete $album{$key};
next ALBUM;
printf "keeping (%s/%s) @ %s\n", $album, $artist, $avg_rating || '(n/a)';
my $total_size = 0;
ADDITION: for my $key (sort { $avg_age{$b} <=> $avg_age{$a} } keys %album) {
my @tracks = @{ $album{ $key } };
for my $track (@tracks) {
$total_size += $track->{size};
my $t = $itunes->obj(
track => whose('database id' => equals => $track->{id})
$itunes->duplicate($t, to => $albumen);
last ADDITION if $total_size > 500_000_000;
My Xbox 360 came with LEGO Indiana Jones and Kung Fu Panda. I haven't tried Kung Fu Panda, but I finished the story mode of Indiana Jones. It was pretty good, although nearly the entire Last Crusade scenario was incredibly annoying. The LEGO games from Tt have a lot going for them, but they also have a lot of flaws that just don't seem to be getting fixed. They have awful cameras, terrible jumping predictability, horrible partner AI, and the vehicle chapters tend to kind of suck. Despite all that, I'd probably give it a B-. Like I said, the LEGO games have a lot going for them.
I borrowed Assassin's Creed from Bryan and played through a bit of it. It's pretty cool, but I'm not sure it's going to get its hooks into me. I'll give it another hour or so, and then call it "good but not addictive enough." I need to be picky about what games I play, since I don't have lots of gaming time to spend.
I rented Bioshock and Gears of War from Gamefly. Bioshock is pretty great. The setting is a lot of fun. If you aren't familiar with it, it's basically an Ayn-Rand-inspired community that has gone insane and self-destructed. The whole thing is very art deco looking, with slogans hung around the place like, "Altruism is the origin of all degeneracy."
The gameplay is also good, ranging between really innovative and frustratingly familiar. I supposed I should be ashamed of saying this, but I liked FPS better when you couldn't jump. Well, no, that's not true. I get frustrated when it's impossible to tell whether a surface is too high to jump or I just suck at jumping. Further, if I'm a big tough guy who can run and jump, why can't I climb? I mean, that wall is only four feet high. Do I really need to find a way around it? And why must there be constant footfalls even when there's nothing nearby? "Because it's spooky" isn't a good enough reason.
Anyway, that's mostly nitpicking. Since I set the game to Easy (so that I could defeat one of the nasty Big Daddies) I've had little reason to complain. It's really very good.
I was ready to give up on Gears of War after the first mission or so. It looked good and seemed interesting, but I kept getting slaughtered and I had trouble getting my head around how to play. Last night I gave it one last chance and ended up playing for two or three hours. I really got the hang of it, and it's fantastic. I've always liked it when shooters are more tactical than frantic, and Gears of War is very, very tactics-based. It throws in some frenzy, too. In the last bit I played last night before quitting, I was engaged in a shooting match with some aliens who had good cover, while also trying to fend off rushing little bastards who'd swarm me. I'd stand up to shoot the "wretches" only to have a "grub" take pot shots at me from behind cover.
It's very rewarding.
Next up, I'm waiting for Dead Space or Dead Rising. I played the Dead Rising demo and it seemed like it might be fun, but I'm not expecting to feel the need to buy it. I've heard mostly intense praise for Dead Space, so I'm hoping to get that next. I also have Bryan's copy of Mass Effect, and might try to give that a go this weekend if I haven't gotten a new game from Gamefly yet.
A while ago, I did a bit of work applying patches to MIME::Lite. It's the most widely depended upon of the dists I maintain, and one of the oldest, with the most RT tickets. I also don't really like it very much, so it doesn't get as much work as I'd like to give it.
Anyway, I recently applied a patch from one of those tickets, which was marked as being the patch that Debian used. In the changelog, I put a snarky remark about Debian maintainers being jerks and not sending me (the upstream maintainer) their patch.
It was then pointed out to me that they had, in fact, sent me the patch, that it was in a ticket, and that I had marked it resolved.
So, hey, Debian guys who might be reading this and whom I didn't already apologize to: I'm sorry. What was I thinking? Well, clearly I wasn't.
After giving people a hard time about giving people a hard time, I should really know better. I will endeavor to be better about sticking to my own rule: don't be snarky.
I noticed, recently, that I had enough Amex rewards points to get an Xbox 360. I thought about it for a while and then decided to go for it. As is my habit when ordering something, I obsessively checked the status of my order every few hours, and it kept sitting at "submitted." I figured it could take quite a while, since I was buying with points.
Today, though, the Xbox showed up via FedEx around two o'clock. I had it set up before I left for my evening out, but it wasn't online. It turns out that the Xbox 360 doesn't have a built-in wifi connection. You can buy a USB wifi adapter for it, but the only one that seems to still be made that works is Microsoft's, and they want $100 for it. That is completely insane. I bought a USB adapter for my TiVo and it cost $20.
I decided to use my old Airport Extreme as an extension for my Time Capsule's network, but this ended up being a big headache. I had to use WDS, because my Airport predates the simpler "extend wireless network" option. Then I struggled with making WDS work, until I finally found that I had to set both devices to use the same channel. I thought this would be a bad idea, as there would be some kind of conflict. Goes to show what I know, I guess.
I got my Xbox Live account ported over from my old Xbox days, hooked up my Xbox Live account to my Live Messenger account, played the first level of LEGO Indiana Jones (meh) and that's that. I'll probably try renting or borrowing some games over the next few weeks. Given that the thing cost me nothing, I'm in no hurry to recoup the expense.
Some time ago I wrote that I had moved my D&D wiki to TiddlyWiki. This has worked pretty well, although I've mostly given up storing YAML in my TiddlyWiki -- mostly because I didn't end up using the tools that used it all that much. Maybe next time.
Anyway, I'm getting close to starting my next game, and I've been doing much more work on the wiki for that one, and I have been annoyed at all the copying and pasting I've been doing. I want to give some of the content to the players but keep most of it private.
I looked at using two TiddlyWikis, but of course I'd want a single one to edit. I thought maybe I could have the second be for the players, and I'd sync it from mine. It was going to be a pain, though, to edit the list of synced pages. I really wanted to say, "sync everything tagged Public."
Then I realized that I didn't want this, either. I want to be able to put secret data on my wiki pages, and to easily give the page to my players -- sans the internal notes.
My solution is an ugly hack that I think will work just fine. I've set up a shared folder on Dropbox where my players will save their notes, maps, and so on. I made a folder in that share where I'll put articles about house rules, mechanics, and so on. It's all stuff from my wiki, published with a script that iterates over my TiddlyWiki finding and reformatting pages with the Public tag. It strips out private notes, replaces transclusion with cross reference, and does some other stuff.
I thought I'd be able to publish HTML using some CPAN module, but the only TiddlyWiki formatter on the CPAN seems to be vaporware. In the end, I decoded that wiki markup is easy enough for the players to read. I think this will work really well.
Here is the hacky script I'm using:
use strict;
use warnings;
use 5.010;
use HTML::TreeBuilder;
use Text::Autoformat;
use Text::Balanced qw(gen_extract_tagged);
my $extractor = gen_extract_tagged(map quotemeta, qw( [[ ]] ));
my $tree = HTML::TreeBuilder->new->parse_file($ARGV[0]);
my @tiddlers = grep { ($_->attr('tags') || '') =~
/\bPublic\b/ }
$tree->look_down(_tag => 'div');
sub eq_pad {
my ($str) = @_;
my $total = 73 - length $str;
return "$str " . ('=' x $total);
sub filename {
my ($title) = @_;
$title =~ s/\W+/-/g;
return lc "$title.txt";
for my $tiddler (@tiddlers) {
my $title = $tiddler->attr('title');
my $fn = filename($title);
open my $fh, '>', $fn or die "can't open $fn to write: $!";
my $tag_str = $tiddler->attr('tags') || '';
my @tags;
while (length $tag_str) {
my $tag;
($tag, $tag_str) = $extractor->($tag_str);
if ($tag) {
push @tags, $tag;
} else {
push @tags, split
/\s+/, $tag_str;
my $mod_date = $tiddler->attr('modified') || '';
my (@date) = $mod_date =~
say $fh 'Title : ', $title;
say $fh 'Tags : ', join ', ', sort @tags;
say $fh join ' ', 'Modified:',
($mod_date ? (join('-', @date[0,1,2]), join(':', @date[3,4])) : '??'),
'by', $tiddler->attr('modifier') || '?';
say $fh '';
my $text = $tiddler->as_text;
$text =~ s{<part \w+>\n}{}g;
$text =~ s{</part>\n?}{}g;
$text =~ s/^!!(.+)$/"\n\n== " . eq_pad($1) . "\n"/meg;
my @chunks = split
/\n{2,}/, $text;
my @xref;
for my $chunk (@chunks) {
last if $chunk =~
next if $chunk =~
$chunk =~ s/\[\[([^\]|]+)(?:\|[^\]]+)?\]\]/$1/g;
if ($chunk =~
/<<tiddler Template:Summary with: ([\s\w]+)>>/) {
push @xref, $1;
if ($chunk =~
/^== /) {
.= "\n\n";
} else {
$chunk = autoformat $chunk
print $fh $chunk;
say $fh "SEE ALSO: $_" for @xref;
We've been unhappy with the performance of some code, recently. I was pretty sure I knew where the problem was, but I thought I'd run NYTProf just to see how things looked. I'm running an older NYTprof, so it's not 100% clear that my SQL-level optimization is what I need to do -- but it's the right thing to do anyway. Anyway, I figured I might see something sort of interesting, but I never expected this:
Calls InclTime ExclTime Subroutine
27,908 406 406 DBI::st::execute
543,412 79 31 Carp::caller_info
...and let's not go any further. The program took almost exactly 600s to run. Of that, nearly five percent was because the program called Carp, and it called it a half million times! What?!
I won't be coy, because I'm writing this while waiting for a test suite to run and while watching House. It turns out that it was related to this line:
Calls InclTime ExclTime Subroutine
139,340 222 6 SUPER::get_all_parents
That subroutine looks like this:
sub get_all_parents {
my ($invocant, $class) = @_;
my @parents = eval { $invocant->__get_parents() };
unless ( @parents ) {
no strict 'refs';
@parents = @{ $class . '::ISA' };
return 'UNIVERSAL' unless @parents;
return @parents, map { get_all_parents( $_, $_ ) } @parents;
See how it calls
$invocant->__get_parents? Well, that's great, except that
our internal ORM has an AUTOLOAD subroutine that looks like this:
sub AUTOLOAD {
my $self = $_[0];
my $class = (ref $self) || $self;
(my $method = $AUTOLOAD) =~ s/.*:://;
return if $method eq "DESTROY";
unless (blessed($self)) {
confess qq(AUTOLOAD: \$self for ->$method is not a blessed reference: )
. Dumper($self);
Now, to avoid hitting the database too much, we have a mixin that makes it talk
to a memcached. That mixin (like many such modules) uses SUPER.pm.
SUPER then calls
__get_parents on our ORM, but hits the
AUTOLOAD instead,
and since that's only supposed to work on objects, it confesses. It does this
every time we check consider using a cached copy of an object, causing us to
Carp::confess a half million times.
The solution? I added this line to our ORM:
sub __get_parents { return; }
Shaved two minutes off the test case. That's about 20%.
As suggested, I have run the code such that a dist's mere appearance on the CPAN is not counted. In other words: code exists if it is used. If not, it is ignored entirely. It ends up not having much effect.
author | volume | req (old) | req (new)
ZOFFIX | 1 | 145 | (n/a)
JROCKWAY suggested running this in reverse: see who uses the most. I think that doing both would be interesting: who gets used a lot, "despite" also using a lot of prereqs.
For a while, I've been keeping track of the total usage of my code on the CPAN. It helps me see what people have found useful, and lets me decide how scared to be of introducing back-incompat changes. Sometimes people talk about the sort of catastrophe that can occur if a highly-required module is broken. For example, over 11,000 dists require the code in Getopt-Long. If it broke badly and people installed the new code, it would be a nightmare.
So, I applied my "who needs me?" script to the whole CPAN. It produces a list of every author with dists, showing how many other dists (recursively) use that dist. When an author uses his own dist, it is not counted as a prerequisite. The "total cpan-breaking power" score is more accurate that way.
This scoreboard is quite different to Simon Wistow's CPAN Leaderboard. Here's a comparison:
author | volume | requiredness
The program is included below. It's a quick and dirty hack, but it was fun to write and look at.
use strict;
use warnings;
use 5.010;
use DBI;
use JSON::XS;
my $dbh = DBI->connect('dbi:SQLite:dbname=cpants_all.db', undef, undef);
my $authors = $dbh->selectall_arrayref(
"SELECT id, pauseid
FROM author
WHERE pauseid IS NOT NULL
ORDER BY pauseid"
my @results;
for my $author (@$authors) {
my ($author_id, $pauseid) = @$author;
my $dists = $dbh->selectall_arrayref(
"SELECT id, dist FROM dist WHERE author = ? ORDER BY dist",
my %analysis;
analyze_dist(\%analysis, $author_id, $_) for @$dists;
my $sum = 0;
$sum += $_ for values %analysis;
next unless $sum;
warn "$pauseid,$sum\n";
push @results, {
pauseid => $pauseid,
result => $sum,
dists => \%analysis,
my $JSON = JSON::XS->new;
for my $author (sort { $b->{result} <=> $a->{result} } @results) {
say $JSON->encode($author);
sub analyze_dist {
my ($analysis, $author_id, $dist, $seen, $add_to) = @_;
$seen ||= {};
$add_to ||= $dist->[1];
my @queue = $dist;
$analysis->{ $add_to }++;
my $needed_by = $dbh->selectall_arrayref(
"SELECT p.dist, d.dist AS name
FROM prereq p
JOIN dist d ON d.id = p.dist
WHERE p.in_dist = ?
AND author <> ?",
for my $needed (@$needed_by) {
next if $seen->{ $needed->[1] };
$seen->{ $dist->[1] }++;
analyze_dist($analysis, $author_id, $needed, $seen, $add_to);
You can find the results of the results as of last night in my drop box.


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Humour in a big budget action movie, "whodda thunk it?"
I fail to see why people get their collective panties in a twist to be honest. Comedy in a movie like this is all white noise to me, not all of it works, but some of it is hilarious ie: Simmons "One man.." line.
However the stuff I don't like, I just ignore, as its a tiny fraction of a 2 1/2 hr movie. We also have to remember that the source material has always had a goofy side to it in the past. It has never been dark in tone, and IMO never should be.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
100 Years Ago – June 21, 1912 NOXAPATER: We welcome home Mr. Floyd Estes and his new bride. – Mr. Earl Ingram and Miss Ethel Barnes of Plattsburg were visitors in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Claud Mitchell this week.
MARRIAGES: Floyd Estes of Noxapater and Miss Booth Hutchins of Blue Mountain were married this afternoon (June 12) by Rev. W. E. Berry. – Mr. E. R. Haynes and Miss Hellen G. Smith were united in marriage at the circuit clerk's office Monday afternoon.
From WHITE HALL comes the news that Mr. and Mrs. Jim Horton have a new girl in the home, arrived last Saturday, weighing 12 pounds.
LOUISVILLE: Captain H. J. Gully celebrated his 86th birthday on last Sunday by giving a dinner to a number of friends and relatives. He continues to enjoy excellent health. – Dr. Marion Montgomery has moved his office from the Fulton Drug Store building to the rear of the I. J. Cornwell & Co. store.
DEATHS: From Noxapater, Mr. Barney Ingram who had been sick for some time, died at his home a few miles west of town on last Tuesday. – Mr. Charley Farish, Sr., died after a brief illness at the home of Mr. Walker Stevens, on the night of the 13th. – Mrs. John Pickett, 70, died at her home in southeast Winston May 11th.
75 Years Ago – June 18, 1937 The name of the Louisville theatre has been changed to "The Strand," and a new electric sign has been erected.
LOUISVILLE: Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Campbell of Greenwood are here on a visit to Mr. and Mrs. Burgis Hopkins and other relatives. – Mr. and Mrs. Homer Addkison of Winona spent Sunday here with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Addkison. – Little Miss Dorothy Scrivener is visiting her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Scrivener in Maben.
NOXAPATER: Mrs. Frank Glenn, Jr. entertained with a party Wednesday June 8, honoring little Nancy Young. Meanwhile, Mrs. Walter Darby entertained Thursday afternoon complimenting Mrs. J. W. Young, who is leaving this week for New Orleans with her family. Mr. Young has been there for some time. – Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Pollard are spending a while with their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Mann and family in Chicago.
This office received three cotton blooms Wednesday, the first blooms of the season. First was W.H. Fulcher from near Rocky Hill; the second one brought in was from Walter Kemp and the third came from Spear Kinard.
DEATHS: Funeral services for Winston native Mrs. Clara Fox Love (Mrs. James Drennan Love) were held in Starkville Monday afternoon.


text:
Internet daters rejoice! Match.com will now be screening its customers against a national sex offenders database. The decision comes after a Los Angeles woman sued Match.com after being raped by a guy she met on the dating site. However, Match.com's president said that the "decision to use the registry was not in direct response to the lawsuit," according to the Daily News.
So, it was just a normal business decision? Did Match.com just decide that, after all these years, it turns out people don't really want to date sex offenders? Someone should start up SexOffenderDating.com where sex offenders can meet other hot, single sex offenders. The domain is available!
[Image via Shutterstock.com]


text:
Beef Vegetable Soup
2lbs sirloin cut in 1" cubes
1 lg onion. Diced
3T Worcester sauce
3 lg carrots sliced
3 stalks celery diced
16oz bag frozen stew vegetables
12oz canned tomatoes diced
4 beef bullion cubes
5 cups water
1 bay leaf
2T Lawry's Seasoned Salt. (Important)
1/4C barley
Put first three ingredients in 4qt heavy pan. Sauté until beef until browned. In the same pan add carrots, celery, frozen veggies, tomatoes, water, bullion cubes, bay leaf and the "secret" Lawry's seasoned salt. Bring to boil, turn heat down to simmer and cook until meat is tender and feels good. (1 1/2-2hours)
If you like barley, add about 30 mins from done. Be careful with the barley, too much and the soup gets thick.
This one is created for those chilly winter days. But it is one of my favs anytime.


text:
Latest News
AJR Celebrates Annual Tea
We were delighted to welcome almost 400 members to celebrate our Annual Tea on Sunday 9 September at the Watford Hilton hotel.
As well as enjoying a continental Tea, guests were treated to the beautiful arias, duets and ensembles performed by singers from The Royal Opera, Covent Garden and English National Opera.
In his welcoming address, AJR Chairman, Andrew Kaufman, said, "For the third year running we gather in the splendid ballroom of the Watford Hilton and we are delighted to invite you again to enjoy the sounds and tastes from Continental Europe. Occasions like today illustrate the rich legacy of the refugees from across Europe and serve as a timely reminder of the remarkable community of people the AJR represents."
To view Annual Tea photographs click here


text:
Double take: 'Little Wash' meets his inspiration
Rangers manager spends time with 7-year-old look-alike
By Alden Gonzalez / MLB.com
Hours before his Rangers played Game 4 of the World Series against the Giants -- and, fittingly, on Halloween -- Washington came face-to-face with the 7-year-old boy who has become as much of a household name around these parts as the Texas skipper himself.
"There he is," Washington said, as he brought his smaller clone out of the tunnel. "Don't we look alike?"
Strangely, they do.
Liam Roybal recently shaved the top of his head, pasted on a mustache, added some glasses and a Rangers uniform, and now many would say he looks like a miniature version of Washington. On Sunday, just before he finished his trick-or-treating, he was invited to Rangers Ballpark in Arlington to meet the taller, older version of himself.
"He's a little shy," Washington said with a big smile, "but I'm not!"
Washington seemed to look in great admiration at the kid known simply as "Little Wash," a native of Keller, Texas, who is a big Rangers fan and plays Little League (his positions are first base, second base and outfield on a team called "The Dirt Bags," he said).
"His 'stache is a little thick, but other than that, it's perfect," Washington said about Roybal, wearing a red Rangers T-shirt, white baseball pants and spikes, just like in his now-famous picture.
With that, "Little Wash" stood up and turned around to face the crowd behind him and was welcomed with a giant roar, which grew louder as he gave them the "Claw" and "Antlers."
Later, Roybal was on the field to scream "Play ball!" before the biggest game in Rangers history. And shortly after that, he took his seats along with his brother and parents to watch closely, courtesy of the Rangers.
Not a bad Halloween at all.
"He can be any baseball player he wants, he wants to be the manager," "Big Wash" said, fondly. "So it is flattering, that he can look at a ballgame and react to what a manager does, and all of a sudden here comes Halloween and he wants to dress like Ron Washington and be Ron Washington. So, that means a lot."
Alden Gonzalez is a reporter for MLB.com and writes an MLBlog, Gonzo and 'The Show'. Follow him on Twitter @Alden_Gonzalez. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Robert Burko always remembers his days as a camp counsellor.
The successful young entrepreneur says the lessons he learned at Green Acres Day Camp in Markham, Ont., helped him grow his company out of his parents' basement to an award-winning business with staff around the world in less than 10 years.
"A lot of my communications skills, a lot of my leadership skills, I learned in that camp setting," he says. "If you can manage 30 children in a cabin, you can manage 30 adults in a job."
The Toronto–native runs an e-mail marketing company called Elite Email. It helps clients create and target their mailing lists to maximize views.
"We can show you a map of the world and show you where people opened your e-mail," he says, adding that they can even narrow it down to the best times of days and days of the week to send out an e-mail.
Burko recently won the business-of-the-year award in the under-30 category at the Toronto Board of Trade Business Excellence Awards.
"It's great to be recognized in my own city," he says. "All that hard work and all those late nights and early mornings, it validates it in a sense."
Burko says he has always been drawn to technology, and although he was too young to take part in the Internet boom, he watched what succeeded and what failed and used that information to find his niche.
"I have the entrepreneurial spirit in my bones," he says, explaining his father, who started his own business, inspired him. "Ever since I was young, I knew I wanted to pave my own path instead of following someone else's path."
Burko describes himself as a leader and a motivator, explaining that he views his work ethic, drive and passion to succeed as contagious, and credits his parents' advice to always work hard.
Additionally, he says he remembers looking up to many successful people in the Jewish community and hearing that they began with very little, but studied hard and worked until they succeeded. Their stories inspired him to follow suit.
As a self-described workaholic, he says he jumps between two modes: work or fun.
"There's no middle ground," he says.
It hasn't always been easy sailing for the company. Burko recounts spending months and even years building the company, and he remembers feeling that success was far out of his reach.
However, he pressed on, thanks to the positive attitudes of his family and friends, responding to their encouragement by pushing harder.
"They were so supportive around me that I was able to feed off that positivity," he says. "It was the quickest way to get me out of the rut."
He recalls the excitement of, for the first time, signing up a customer who wasn't a family member or friend.
Since then, he's served thousands more, located in more places than he can name on a map, he says. Additionally, he has hired staff in Canada, the United States, China, India and Finland.
He says it is due to the borderless nature of his business that he could expand internationally so successfully.
"All [our staff] needs is an Internet connection," he says. "When I hire for jobs, I can find the best talent possible. It doesn't matter where you're located."
Apart from his business, Burko co-founded Step by Step Africa, a charity aimed to fight HIV and AIDS in African countries. The organization focuses on women who have HIV or AIDS, and it aims to prevent the illness from being passed on to their children.
Burko says he's heard that about 10 children have been protected thanks to the program.
"I feel great about it and I'm so happy to help," he says. "We've changed lives."
He says he enjoys participating in the charity and watching those around him step up the plate to help.
Despite all his success in business, he says his greatest achievement in life is his family. He married his wife, Michelle, three years ago, and they have been together for 13 years in total.
"[The company] could not have been here without her," he says, explaining that she doesn't work at Elite Email anymore, but was actively involved in every part of the business throughout its early stages.
As Burko reached each bit of success, he has aimed higher. He says that each time the company reaches a new milestone or wins another award, he takes a short break to celebrate before quickly moving onto the next target.
"We're at an all-time high, and I think in the future, things will get even bigger," he says, adding that he hopes to put Canada on the map as a leader in e-mail marketing.
For those young entrepreneurs looking to follow in Burko's footsteps, he says the best piece of advice he could give is to always be optimistic.
"You're going to run into problems," he says, "but as long as you stick with it, stay positive and work hard, good things will come."


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Prominence Lists > Washington 2000-ft Prominence Peaks > Chelan Butte > Climber's Log
Chelan Butte Climber's Log
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|Cascade Scrambler
Date Climbed: Aug 6, 2011
|An F load of gnats greeted me at the summit. Great views. Noticed an old trail coming up the side of the hill opposite the road.
|Posted Sep 1, 2012 9:13 pm
|4 Hills Today
Date Climbed: Apr 3, 2012
|Steliko Point, Chelan Butte, Bear Mountain, and Goman Peak. Chelan Butte was the only one which we were able to drive to the top. WA P2k 39/144, but I'm not really a prominence guy.
|Posted Apr 4, 2012 2:33 am
|A Butte of a Drive
Date Climbed: Apr 26, 2009
|I drove up from the south side. Lots of wildflowers blooming. WA P2k 32/144
|Posted Jan 15, 2011 12:05 pm
|Chelan Butte
Date Climbed: Apr 5, 2007
|I've been up here several times including once with Dean. It's a good car camping spot as a short drive from Chelan and with pretty views. I could do without the towers but that's life.
|Posted May 10, 2010 7:52 pm
|Just in time
Date Climbed: Jul 13, 2007
|Did it a few weeks before moving out of the state. Was going to camp at the top but a bunch of punks arrived looking like they were up to no good. Pics and map at http://www.willhiteweb.com/washington_climbing/chelan_butte/lake_chelan_406.htm
|Posted May 10, 2010 11:00 am
|Overnighted near summit
Date Climbed: Apr 5, 2007
|While waiting for fellow SP and NWHkr member Eric to join me, I hiked to the top from near the hang glider area. Then both Eric and I slept in our vehicles so we could get an early start to go chasing some prominence peaks on the Colville Indian reservation the next morning. I walked all around the fenced area and was not able to get to the benchmark and actual highspot within.
|Posted May 10, 2010 9:21 am
|Awesome Views!!!
Date Climbed: May 8, 2010
|I have to admit that I drove up to the summit area, although we met multiple people hiking up most or all of the summit road to the mountaintop. However, once there, I scurried around all over looking for the highest point I could (legally) attain. Great views, and I cannot believe it took me this long to summit this mountain considering how many times I have been to Lake Chelan through the years. Highly recommended summit.
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Does anyone have any experience repairing fiberglass fairing parts? The previous owner of my K75S had a very low speed low-side that put a bit of rash on the right upper fairing and a couple of cracks that go all the way through the side of the belly pan.
I spoke with a friend who owns an autobody shop and he described a laborious and messy process of cutting out the bad parts and filling in the voids with many many alternating layers of glass and epoxy. He said I'd be itching for days if I attempted a home repair of fiberglass.
Has anyone discovered or invented a shortcut? I would think that it would be easier to put some sort of patch on the back to hold the severed pieces together, and then use some sort of filler to fill in and conceal the cracks.
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2010 19.5 million
2011 54.8 million
2012 103.4 million
2013 154.2 million
Tablet Computer Sales to hit 208 million in 2014 according to Gartner
http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1452614" target=blank>Driven by sales of the iPad, worldwide media tablet sales to end users are forecast to reach 19.5 million units in 2010, according to Gartner, Inc. Media tablets are poised for strong growth with worldwide end user sales projected to total 54.8 million units in 2011, up 181 percent from 2010 (see Table 1), and surpass 208 million units in 2014.
Gartner analysts said the impact of media tablets on other devices will vary among segments.
"The all-in-one nature of media tablets will result in the cannibalization of other consumer electronics devices such as e-readers, gaming devices and media players," said Carolina Milanesi, research vice president at Gartner. "Mini notebooks will suffer from the strongest cannibalization threat as media tablet average selling prices (ASPs) drop below $300 over the next 2 years."
Low-end consumer notebooks will only marginally suffer from cannibalization. Gartner analysts expect very limited cannibalization on communication devices based on open OS (smartphones). The majority of the impact will be from 7-inch media tablets on high-end smartphones as it will be hard for a user to justify owning both when the differentiation in usage model is very limited. Users buying a 7-inch tablet might opt for a lower priced smartphone with a smaller form factor.
North America will account for 61 percent of media tablet sales in 2010. As these devices become available in more markets, North America's share of media tablet sales will drop to 43 percent in 2014.
In 2010, celluar/Wi-Fi media tablets will account for 55 percent of sales, and by 2014, celluar/Wi-Fi media tablets will account for 80 percent of sales.
10-inch media tablets to play a role as companion devices in the enterprise marketIn the enterprise space, for the immediate future, the main use of media tablets is as a notebook companion or as a secondary device to take on the road or use for fast access to e-mail, calendaring, interrogating Web applications and information sources, and showing PowerPoint presentations.
The majority of knowledge workers cannot use media tablets to replace their notebooks. Since these workers usually also have smartphones, media tablets become their third device. Most organizations will not buy that third device. Because of the convenience factor for travel and an "instant on" for quick look-up functions, many users are paying for the media tablets with their own money to use both for work and pleasure.
As media tablets move from early adopters to mainstream, media tablets will become a family purchase as well as a personal one. The touch user interface, the applications available on the different operating systems and the simpler set up compared to a full-fledged computer make media tablets ideal for a range of consumers: from power users to techno-phobics. As costs decrease, media tablets will be added to the list of the devices lying around the house that are shared by the family.
"Communication service providers (CSPs) who have so far subsidized mini-notebooks to drive mobile broadband uptake will shift their marketing spend to media tablets. Such subsidies will help drive adoption among those consumers who see the initial hardware cost as a hurdle," Ms. Milanesi said. "For the rest, the freedom of paying for cellular only if and when needed, and not having to add another contract to the one a user might already have on his or her phone, is a great advantage and has so far proved successful for Apple.
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You guess which one I picked.
Here's a little interesting trivia, though:
Breaking Dawn: Part 2 has now grossed nearly $284 million, which puts it ahead of Breaking Dawn Part 1 ($281 million) and Twilight ($193 million), and behind Eclipse ($300.5 million) and New Moon ($297 million).
With the movie still showing in 1,100 theaters across the US, plus countless more across the globe, and a daily intake hovering around half a million, Breaking Dawn: Part 2 stands a good chance of overcoming New Moon to become the second-highest-grossing Twilight Saga movie. It may not overcome Eclipse... but I'm not done seeing it yet :) Anyone else going to do your part to up that total before it goes out of theaters entirely?


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Hi...my name is Lisa and I am new to QCA. I have been thinking about joining for some time...so decided to take the plunge this morning. I have sewed for many years. My Granny quilted and I always wanted to learn this art. She passed before I was able to learn from her. My husband and I retired three years ago and I finally took my first quilting class two years ago..and now I am hooked. Just by looking around this site a little bit today...I think I am hooked on this too. :--) My husband spent 21 years in the Marine Corps, so we have traveled all over the world. We moved back home to PA five years ago. We have a daughter 30, ( a wonderful son-in-law) a son 24 ....a beautiful grandaughter (5)and a handsome grandson (4), a spoiled rotten dog & cat. Hope this finds all happy and quilting.
Lisa ,welcome, You will love it here we are a gabby group ,and love chatting with everyone so jump right in anytime.
Hi, Lisa. Welcome. You ill have a good time with us.
Our neighbor (20) just is going into the Marines. He will go to Nashville to be sworn in. So proud of him. I bet they will knock the "know it all" right out of him really quick, too.
Hi Lisa,
Welcome. So happy you decided to join us. You will love it here. I also have a nephew going into the Navy after the first of the year. Again, welcome.
Georgetown CA I'd Rather Be Quilting
hi lisa, welcome to the group it is always great to meet new quilty friends
gini in north idaho
Hi Lisa, welcome. By the sound of your post, you are going to fit right in here nicely. Enjoy your time here and post often.
Millbury, MA
Welcome to the club, Lisa
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marie, i just noticed your new avatar, i like it
I noticed it, too, Marie, and I hope you'll tell us who you're with and what you're wearing.
On the banks of the Mississippi River in north central Minnesota (Brainerd lakes area)
Welcome to the club, Lisa! Sounds like we took up quilting at about the same time. What a great retirement hobby, though my retirement savings might not last as long as I had anticipated with all the trips to the local quilt shop! LOL My nephew entered the Marines a year ago and is now thinking of making a career of it.
Are you ready to show us a picture of a quilt?
MNnancy:I noticed it, too, Marie, and I hope you'll tell us who you're with and what you're wearing
Thanks Gini and Nancy. The picture is of my DD and me at the Hillbilly Pot Luck night in Florida this past winter, hence the hats and scarves. Some of the members of Golden Acres put on a show and it was the best! One of the residents did a Patsy Cline impersonation and it was Hollywood worthy. Patsy Cline, 1st pic, group 2nd pic.
Welcome to the club. Hope you enjoy your time with us and drop in to chat frequently. We are all addicted to quilting, fabrics, notions, and chatting. Some days it seems like we do more chatting than quilting..LOL
Vinton, Virginia
Hi Lisa, welcome to QCA. Hope you join in often!
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Welcome to the club Lisa.


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CLAY COUNTY, Fla. - It took just 20 minutes Friday afternoon for nine of 12 jurors to recommended death for a Clay County man convicted of killing a veterinary tech in January 2007.
In February, the jury found Michael Jackson guilty of raping and murdering Andrea Boyer as she arrived at work at a Wells Road animal clinic in Orange Park.
Before closing arguments Friday, Jackson took the stand, denying he killed Boyer.
"I may be a lot of different things, but I am no killer," Jackson said. "I am gratefully sorry to the family and friends of Miss Boyer who have lost someone they dearly love and dearly miss."
"I am not a killer and cannot hold myself accountable for something I did not do."
Boyer's father, Tom Cochlin, was emotional as he testified at the sentencing hearing.
"She was my daughter. She was my 'daddy's little girl,'" he said. "She was the best friend for her mother and me, but most of all, she was my funny -- she was the smile on my face every time she was around. I feel so very lucky she was my daughter."
Boyer's husband, Chad Boyer, also told the jury how he felt and how his life changed when his wife was killed.
"People tell me all the time, 'Things will get better. You will get over it,'" he said. "How are you suppose to get over something so harsh? You can't. You don't. You learn to live with it. Some things do get better, but the memory will always be with you of what happened that day."
Prosecutors showed disturbing photographs of Boyer's body after she was beaten to death, asking the same jury that convicted Jackson to recommend death for him.
DNA evidence was presented during the trial that indicated Jackson had sex with Boyer before she was strangled and beaten with a fire extinguisher.
Jackson claimed that he had provided her drugs in exchange for sex, but under cross-examination, he admitted that most of what he told police when he was first arrested was lies.
"It's just appalling that he does not even have the guts to admit," said Amber Cochlin, Boyer's sister. "He is apologizing for (a rape) he did 25 years ago. That's fine and dandy. What about my sister. He still can't admit it. So he deserves to die for what he has done."
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A man works up the courage to ask his wife for a spanking.
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We got to the trails: blue skies, oppressive heat, gnats swarming around our heads even before we hopped out of my car. "It's such a beautiful day. Aren't you glad you're out here?" she said to me, and I can't tell if she was rubbing it in or just oblivious to my pain. She skipped off ahead, waving at me over her shoulder, "Come on! Isn't this so exciting! Our first hike!" She wore khaki...Read On
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Co-workers tryst finally happens
Lisa and I had been coworkers for years. We don't have the same boss, but we often collaborate on various items, and I can never seem to take my eyes off of her. She's stunning. Lisa is a brunette, probably 5'6'', the subtlest freckles, and the cutest dimples. She works out everyday, and she also teaches yoga as a side job. Her green eyes seem to pierce my soul every time I look at her....Read On
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We're a normal married couple with a family. So are our next door neighbors...
Janet and Jim were out next-door neighbors. Like my wife, Kate, and myself, they were in the early forties. Our kids had all grown up together and were now teenagers in college. We all would soon be "empty-nesters" and we looked forward to our next chapter in life as our kids headed off to college. Janet and Kate always shared a Saturday morning coffee together, then they'd head off to the...Read On
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Mrs Delgado taught Tommy Spanish, but Tommy taught Rosa about love!
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First meeting
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The King?
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Jackie and Jill both looked identical when they were naked, only one's pointed tongue was a clue.
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Jamie takes a ride into eternity.
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James discovers that he is very special... and very desired.
In a future world, not that distant from our own, overpopulation is no longer an issue... but the survival of the human race is. Eighteen-year-old James Wiseman reports for his first monthly "deposit" and finds out that he is a very special young man. * * * * * * * * * * * * WHO first announced that sperm counts were declining in Western males in 1990 following a fifty-year...Read On
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Ex-husband said 'frigid' and she needed a man or two) to prove she wasn't.
DAWN REBORN Dawn Carson sat at the neatly laid table at the back of the restaurant feeling worried, yet with some excitement. Why mixed emotions? Partly because she had never done anything like this before. Thirty-four years old, separated from her husband for nine months, and here she was waiting to meet a man she did not know, who could be bedding her by the end of the evening. And she...Read On
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Sam's request is honored in a most unusual way.
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The President of the United States takes pleasure in presenting
the MERITORIOUS UNIT COMMENDATION tothe
563rd SIGNAL AIRCRAFT WARNING BATTALION
for service set forth in the following:
"For outstanding performance and devotion to duty during the period 13 January 1945 to 28 March 1945. This organization, because of its superior knowledge and performance of tactical operations, superb training, technical skill, spirit of cooperation, aggressiveness, and resourcefulness accomplished outstanding achievement relative to Aircraft Warning Service to the XIX Tactical Air Command throughout the continental campaign. The superb efficiency and relentless efforts of all members of this command contributed materially in making possible the brilliant and successful onslaughts by aircraft of the command against the enemy during the Normandy, Northern France, Rhineland, Ardennes and Central Europe campaigns. The accomplishment of this mission was extremely difficult and hazardous during the latter stages of the campaigns because of the rapid advance which necessitated constant leapfrogging of equipment and personnel. That the Battalion was able at all times to furnish early aircraft warning to fighters and the fighter bombers as well as invaluable information on enemy ground targets reflects highly upon the 563rd Signal Aircraft Warning Battalion and is worthy of the highest traditions of the Military service."
General Orders #59, Headquarters, XIX Tactical Air Command, 3 July 1945.
By command of General Sanders


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Theatre 3, which for 50 years has been run by Jac Alder, pictured, begins its 51st season this summer with a schedule that includes a world premiere and the regionally-produced debut of a queer hit.
The unofficial start of the season is Avenue Q in the downstairs Theatre Too space. A sassy puppet show with adult themes and gay characters, it's the first time the show has been mounted locally, although the national tour has been through numerous times. Unlike in recent years, this (and the Valentine staple I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change) are the only shows scheduled for the smaller space. It opens June 29.
The remainder of the seven-show schedule upstairs is as follows:
• Present Laughter (Aug. 2–Sept. 1). Gay bon vivant Noel Coward's witty farce.
• Freud's Last Session (Sept. 20–Oct. 20). An imagined exchange between the atheist father of psychoanalysis and Christian author C.S. Lewis.
• Godspell (Nov. 15–Dec. 15). T3's music director, Terry Dobson, recently met with Stephen Schwartz, who dubbed him one of his "official" arrangers. That will no doubt apply to this revival of the off-Broadway classic musical.
• Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo (Jan. 10–Feb. 9). Rajiv Joseph's recent Broadway hit starring Robin Williams, narrated by a giant cat.
• Idols of the King (Feb. 28–Mar. 30). Longtime T3 collaborator Ronnie Claire Edwards debuts her new play about Elvis Presley.
• Enron (Apr. 25-May 25). A quasi-musical drama about the notorious collapse.
• City of Angels (June 13–July 13). The season closes with the Tony-winning hit about the movie business.