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Heidi 2011 Fansub Project is Here!
Yes, at long last, a new Heidi fansub project is underway!
Heidi, Girl of the Alps is arguably the crowning achievements in the careers of Isao Takahata, Hayao Miyazaki and Yoichi Kotabe. It's certainly the archetype for the Studio Ghibli films, and it did as much to bring Japanese anime to the outside world as anything. Indeed, Americans are only now catching up to what the rest of the world has known about for the last 35 years. Every major region of the world has broadcast Heidi on television...every region except the United States.
Now, at long last, I hope we can resolve this problem, at least among the faithful. The perfect news would be Heidi on American TV, with an official release on Blu-Ray and DVD. Unfortunately, that is most likely never going to happen. It's just too expensive to import a 52 episode series, then translate and dub the scripts into English. You would need the backing of a major Hollywood studio like Disney, and they're not about to invest money in an anime from 1974. So, once again, we turn to the fansub community to bring one of the greatest anime masterpieces to a receptive audience.
As for specifics on the 2011 Heidi Fansub Project, I'm afraid I have little news to report. I can tell you that all 52 episodes have been translated into English, and this was completed late last year. The translator handed the scripts to a fansub group, which has made Heidi their top priority. As to what this means for dates, and when we can expect the series to be finished, this is still a mystery. I will investigate and follow up on this, and hopefully we will have more good news to report.
I've been spending much of my weekend trying to chop up and upload the first episode of Heidi to Youtube. I have copies of episodes 1-4 from a 2007 fansub project. That project has since stalled and it appears to have disappeared completely. The same fate befell another fansub group who was working to translate 3000 Leagues in Search of Mother (aka Marco); they quit after a half-dozen episodes. I'm pointing this out as a reminder and a caution: this is very long and hard work. And this is the work of dedicated volunteers.
I think 2011 will be different. We have the English-language scripts, and this is always the biggest hurdle in any fansub project. The rest is just coding. Because of this, I am confident that we will finally see Heidi this year. This will be the final major work from the Takahata/Miyazaki canon to be translated into English. All of their directorial work dating back to Horus, Prince of the Sun (1968) to today will be available to an English-speaking audience. That is an achievement! I can't wait.
13 comments:
- Cory Gross said...
An additional option, for official release, is to pettition Crunchyroll or another online anime provider to try and work with Fuji TV to have World Masterpiece Theatre on their site. So far, Crunchyroll has not been bad with older material they've been allowed to show (it's how I watched all 113 episodes of Galaxy Express 999).
- February 07, 2011 8:50 AM
- dodger bullet said...
hooo. i'm always yearning for this fansub, can't wait man.
- February 07, 2011 9:10 AM
- dodger bullet said...
can't wait for this. been yearning for this since i've known takahata.
keep us up to date yo.
- February 07, 2011 9:11 AM
- Tanuki said...
Not shown in the UK either. All we got was a live action version from Germany.
- February 07, 2011 11:05 AM
- greentea said...
Sounds good. Let's hope it won't take too long...
- February 09, 2011 8:48 AM
- Heidi Fan said...
Every word is true. Thanks for sharing on the blog.
- February 10, 2011 2:40 PM
- Miles said...
Does this project have a website?
- February 28, 2011 10:45 AM
- Chaitanya said...
If all the translations are made , then we could all help in the subing process !!! What can we do to help ??
- March 11, 2011 8:03 PM
- Daniel Thomas MacInnes said...
Actually, I just sent an email last night asking the very same question. If the scripts are finished, then it should be easy to work on the videos. As soon as I have any information, I'll pass it along.
- March 11, 2011 8:58 PM
- Alejandro said...
Perhaps you'd be interested to know that the whole series can be easily purchased in Mexico City for less than ten dollars. It's an unofficial set of DVDs that assembles all the episodes as transmitted on TV 20 years ago. This could be easily translated by the fan community over here.
- March 14, 2011 11:57 AM
Do they need new raws? Is that why the project isn't appearing on the net yet?
I would be prepared to buy the new remastered DVD-box and send copies of the DVDs to them if that would get things moving a little faster. Of course, I'd also want the scripts in exchange so I could make my own DVD fansub. I don't know if they will release the episodes with optional sutitles or have them hardcoded. Most of the groups working with WMT seem to use hardcoding (Licca, for example).
Thanks for giving us hope that we will see this series with english subtitles soon.
- April 15, 2011 12:20 AM
- Daniel Thomas MacInnes said...
Patience, my friend. We are working on the Heidi fansub project. But remember that this is a labor of love, and it's taken a few twists and turns along the way. I don't want to say much right now, but some different people will be in charge of putting the videos together. Estimated time: No Man Can Say.
Sorry, was thinking of Citizen Kane there.
- April 15, 2011 8:22 AM
- kiran said...
Hi, i am from india. i am a huge fan of heidi, i remembered here in india we have seen the heidi series in english which was aired by cartoon network.... so i am hoping that there is still an english version of this series in cartoon network records.............
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Outspoken Oklahoma Representative Sally Kern has caused outrage by making both racist and sexist remarks during a state House debate on Wednesday night.Kern also said that women do not work as hard as men, because they want to spend more time with their families and to have more leisure time. Of course, a day later, Kern apologized, obviously in an effort to save face (and her job) :
The House met to discuss a proposed constitutional amendment to eliminate affirmative action from state government.
During the debate, Republican Kern said minorities earn less money than white people because they are not willing to work as hard.....
Speaking about black people she said: 'Is this just because they are black that they are in prison, or could it be because they didn't want to work hard in school.
'I taught school for 20 years and I saw a lot of people of colour that didn't want to work as hard. They wanted it given to them.
'Matter of fact, I had one student who said to me I don't need to study. You want to know why? The government's going to take care of me. That's kind of revealing there.'
She said: 'I want to humbly apologize for my statements last night about African Americans and women. I believe that our government should not provide preference based on race or gender.
'I misspoke while trying to convey this point last night during debate. Women are some of the hardest workers in the world. My husband is a pastor of a diverse inner-city church and the way that my words came out last night is certainly not my true spirit.'By now this should be pretty familiar to everyone. A law maker makes some outrageous racist statement, showing their true colors, the quickly tries to put out the firestorm they created with their bigoted remarks. Ironically, though, this time Kern possibly provided the best evidence possible in favor of affirmative action. I mean, really, what better than a blatantly racist statement to prove that hatred is alive and well, and that affirmative action is needed now more than ever??
The Oklahoma Democratic Party took the opportunity to retaliate and use her comment against Republicans as a whole by saying: ''Rep Sally Kern's comments on the House Floor this evening in regards to SJR15 shows that discrimination is far from dead and affirmative action is still necessary in our great state.Unfortunately, while Kern actually came out and stated her feeling regarding Black people, apparently many other Oklahoma legislators silently agree with her sentiments. The proposed ban on affirmative action passed in the house 59 - 14, and has already been approved by the Senate.
'It saddens and angers me that the women and minorities of Oklahoma are represented by such bigotry and outright ignorance.
'This rhetoric will drive new businesses and new jobs from our state. All no votes on this bill will stand on the right side of history.'
Of course, while Oklahoma lawmakers are passing laws against affirmative action, they are totally neglecting the fact that most of them have benefited throughout their lives from being part of the group that receives the most widespread race and gender based preferences: white males.
Representative Kern needs to look at her own statement. While she is complaining about a single Black student saying that he didn't need to study because the government would take care of him, how many white students run around every day firm in the belief that they do not have to work hard or study because they have "the right connections" needed for success and that "Mommy and Daddy will take care of me"?


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Hannity's Obsessive Shiavo Crusade Continues
Reported by Deborah - March 23, 2005
Hannity, still in Florida, sat in front of a crowd of protesters tonight determined to do anything in his power to satisfy his extreme right support base.He opened the show with an interview with the understandably stricken Schindler family using their pain to fuel his message and continue his circus. 3/23/05
Hannity,was so intent on controlling his message, that he cut off Alan at the start of the show and took his turn for himself interviewing Terri Schiavo's parents,Robert and Mary Schindler. This behavior is unthinkable on H&C but Hannity is so obsessed that he couldn't allow Alan to speak to the Schindlers butting in and urging the family to talk about how it feels to watch Terri being starved to death.It was impossible not to be emotionally influenced by their anguish which set the tone for the rest of the show.
Pat Robertson joined Hannity's chorus claiming,"This judge is brutal. We have to do something with this out of control judiciary." A thinly veiled support of using the Schiavo case to load the courts with extreme conservatives.
Jim Moran. D. voted against the Schiavo law in Congress and joined Colmes in New York to discuss his position.He and Colmes agreed that it was wrong to reach into personal family business. Colmes mentioned
the irony of cutting Medicaid which helps people needing nursing care like Terri. Moran brought up a poll showing that two thirds of the conservatives polled were against the congressional involvement. Then Hannity pounced. "I don't want to talk about health care.Do you care if she dies? Does it bother you at all? You could have stepped up..."
Moran tried to explain that he cared about the thousands of people who have been abandoned because of medicare cuts.
The cheers broke out from the crowd behind Hannity and they started to chant, "Why Why Why..."Hannity continued his raving while they chanted.
"You want to talk about medicare. Why don't you give her a chance. I care about all human life. You wouldn't give her a chance."
Then another nurse appeared, Heidi Law, claiming that Terri would follow her around the room with her eyes and she liked to eat Jello. Law, of coursed, was critical of Michael Schiavo claiming he neglected his wife.
comment: Tonight's show was a travesty and bordering on obscene. Hannity has lost all professional dignity and has thought nothing of bringing on dubious witnesses who were later discredited. He has taken no responsibility for the distortions and lies. All he cares about is proving his point and being a hero.
Colmes, however, has handled this issue with dignity and compassion.
It can't be easy making points while Hannity is acting like a frantic wild man.


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Q. Your account of the murder of Hypatia lays the blame squarely on the shoulders of Cyril, the Archbishop of Alexandria. Where does that come from?
A. It is not my account. It is an accurate historical account that is confirmed by various sources, not the least of which is Bishop John of Nikiu. Bishop John was a Roman Catholic historian (a Coptic Egyptian cleric) who lived in the late Seventh and early Eight Centuries and wrote a work called the Chronicles. In it, he recounts, with obvious glee, Hypatia's murder and gloats that Cyril rid Alexandria of idolaters. By the way, his Chronicle addresses the Muslim conquest of Alexandria. If it were Muslims who destroyed the library, you can bet it would have been mentioned in the Chronicles, but it does not. Bishop John was the Glenn Beck of his day. He wouldn't have spared the Muslim conquerors such bad publicity if they had destroyed anything as significant as a great library. Just reading John's Chronicles, you get a sense that the Muslim conquest must have been a welcome relief from the dour religious repression of the Church. At that time, they were so much more tolerant of other religions and ideas, you can't help rooting for them.
Q. Your book includes a subplot involving the Jews of Alexandria. Why did you feel that this topic should be included in the story?
A. At the time of the story, Jews made up approximately one-quarter of the population of Alexandria. They were an integral part of the political and cultural fabric of the city. And the Roman Catholic Church was quite concerned about their influence on society, particularly arts and letters. It was here in Alexandria that the Church's vilification first took on proportions that led to one of the earliest pogroms against the Jews —certainly the largest after the diaspora. It happened close in time to the murder of Hypatia and the persecution of the Nestorian Christian sect. I fudged the chronology a bit because the pogrom in fact preceded the murder but I didn't find that author's license to be historically significant. The fact was that the Roman Catholic Church, by this time, was using the Roman army to consolidate its power, demanding that its version of Christianity was the only permissible theology. Anyone, whether Christian, pagan or Jew, who dissented was marked for destruction. I think the book faithfully recounts the equal opportunity repression of differing points of view and its ultimate consequences to civilization and human progress.


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I sympathize with them. They have in mind treacherous pitfalls, and they are right to warn younger generations.
When they bristle, they say that they have seen it all before. They have certainly seen gross errors and dismal failures, but I'm not sure that what they saw then is equivalent to what they are seeing now. Reading George Marsden's Reforming Fundamentalism: Fuller Seminary and the New Evangelicalism gave me a fuller (pun intended) understanding and appreciation for why red flags immediately fly high at the first intimation of perceived compromise.
For my part, I find nothing whatsoever to endear me to the objectives of the original New Evangelicals. I agree with some of their specific critiques of the fundamentalist movement, but I think they proposed solutions that were thoroughly wrongheaded and more damaging than the problems they intended to resolve. Although I possessed these opinions before I read Marsden, they were powerfully reinforced by his perspective of the history of Fuller, and, more specifically, the motivations and attitudes of the original new evangelicals—Ockenga, Henry, Fuller, Carnell, and others.
On the other hand, I sensed several substantial differences between the original new evangelicals (hereafter NE) and today's questioning fundamentalists (hereafter QF) that could encourage traditional fundamentalists (hereafter TF) to reconsider drawing such direct correlations.
1. NE's wanted to "redeem culture." Their observation that American culture was increasingly secular and hostile to Christianity was accurate. Their hope to revitalize authentic spirituality in American culture was noble. Nevertheless, the NT does not impose such a cultural mandate on the Church. The NT mission of evangelism and discipleship is targeted towards individuals and ecclesiastical communities, not cultures. Invariably, making disciples of all the nations will impact national culture. That does not change the fact that nations are not disciples; people are. My sense of the QF's is that they are interested in personal evangelism and discipleship (at least in word if not in deed), not cultural revitalization.These observations are simply my opinions. My understanding of the NE's is based on my reading of what both fundamentalists and evangelicals have to say about them, particularly in the context of the history of NE's and Fuller as told by Marsden. My understanding of QF's is based on my exposure to them through those that I know, those that I've read, and what I've observed through others' observations. My estimation of neither group is scientific, and I could be way off base; I offer this perspective merely as food for thought. Well, let me take that "merely" back. I also offer these thoughts as a warning to QF's that they take extreme care to avoid the motivations and attitudes of the NE's that led to devastating results.
2. NE's possessed a flawed theology. I do not know enough to say whether it was a flawed ecclesiology, anthropology, or theology proper. Perhaps it was all three to varying degrees in different individuals. The essence of their strategy was that American culture and the apostate mainline denominations could be won if only fundamentalist-evangelicals would engage in a scholarly academic dialogue. They were convinced that the force of their arguments would carry the day.
This strategy reveals a faulty ecclesiology in that the vehicles of their strategy were para-church educational institutions (Fuller, Christianity Today, etc.), not the Church itself. Carl Henry deplored the direction Fuller took, but even very late in his life, he said that his great regret was that evangelicals failed to establish a first-rate university in the New York/New Jersey area at the height of Graham Crusades. To him, this was a turning point. Interestingly, not at all unlike Henry's perspective is the pervasive fundamentalist opinion that "As go the schools, so goes the movement" (scan about 35:00 in to the interview at the link above and listen for the next few minutes). Christ's promise, wholly to the contrary, is that the gates of hell would not prevail against His Church.
Their anthropology was also likely faulty in that they believed that unregenerate minds would respond to superior intellectual arguments. This tendency seems incongruous with their professed Calvinistic inclinations. This high view of man that minimized the effects of the fall and exaggerates his innate capacity to respond to the gospel may well point to a corresponding low view of God Himself. YF's certainly do not have everything figured out in their theology, but my sense is that they are far more pessimistic about institutions and human nature and far more interested in the priority of church health than the NE's and perhaps than their fundamentalist forbears as well.
3. NE's unabashedly pursued academic prestige. This objective of recognition and respect was necessitated by their belief that superior intellectual arguments would redeem American culture and recover mainline denominations. They believed that they first needed prestige in order to gain a hearing. The vociferous nature of their rejection of dispensationalism seems to have been motivated more by the intellectual elites' scorn for the system than by actual exegetical argumentation.
Fundamentalists occasionally allude to the trend among QF's towards attending seminaries such as SBTS, TMS, or RTS as evidence of a similar quest for prestige. (Several people have told me that more RTS Charlotte students are alumni of BJU than of any other institution.) I simply do not sense this motivation at all among QF's. QF's do seem to be attending these particular schools in increasing numbers, but it seems to me that they are going to these schools because they like the theological distinctives and ministry training these institutions will provide, not any elevated academic prestige that they offer. I do not sense a similar trend towards institutions such as TEDS, DTS, Westminster, or others that are as prestigious if not more so. Quite to the contrary, my prediction for the future is that more QF's will attend infant institutions with little or no academic stature, such as Bethlehem Institute or Sovereign Grace Pastors' College. The motivation for this trend will certainly be theological affinity, not intellectual prestige.
4. NE's wanted to make the gospel attractive to the world in order to make it more likely to be accepted. Ironically, the easy believeism/free grace theology common in traditional fundamentalism demonstrated similar tendencies. QF's seem much more likely to hold a "hard to believe" lordship salvation view. They demonstrate little desire to package the gospel in slick marketing in hopes that its attractiveness will be enhanced.
5. NE's pursued evangelistic success through institutions and succumbed to movement politics to sustain those institutions. QF's seem more likely to pursue unity around doctrines that are central to the gospel without regard for institutional loyalties. Concerning doctrinal differences, they seem more affected by the proximity of those doctrines to the heart of the gospel than by the pattern of toleration of those differences in fundamentalist history.
6. NE's elevated social action to a priority near or equal to evangelism. Although it is not altogether clear to me whether they were attempting to appeal to the social concern of the mainline denominations or simply trying to obey their understanding of biblical imperatives to care for the poor, I've seen precious little evidence that the NE's social concern was specifically connected to evangelistic strategy in any coherent fashion. QF's demonstrate a similar interest in social concern, but I sense no interest in a social concern that is divorced from evangelism. To the contrary, the demonstrations of social concern that have been most evident among QF's are specifically tied to evangelism. It is rather difficult for me to understand how this approach is inconsistent with the singular stipulation that James, Peter, and John placed on their endorsement of Paul's ministry of the gospel—"to remember the poor" (Gal. 2:10).
7. NE's repudiated separation from apostate mainline denominations as an essential part of their strategy. They wanted to dialogue with apostasy in order to win it. A common misconception about NE's is tied closely to this observation. It seems that many fundamentalists believe that NE's practiced separation from unbelievers and apostates but refused to practice secondary separation (from those who refused to separate from those who refused to separate, etc.) The simple fact is that NE's always wanted to maintain the closest possible ties with the mainline denominations regardless of how far they deviated from orthodox doctrine. Although it is true that the NE's wanted to foster some autonomy by creating institutions that were organically independent of the denominations, when the denominations counterattacked with power plays of their own, the NE's consistently folded in a pattern of compromise and repudiation of their separatist heritage. Despite the affinity of QF's for some conservative evangelical leaders (who do not fit the historical distinctives of the NE's), they demonstrate little evidence of a desire to cooperate with actual apostates.
If I am right, that doesn't make the tendencies of the QF's acceptable; it simply exposes some flaws in the analogy between the QF's and the NE's. The discussion of the merits of the perspectives and opinions will continue, and it should. The essence of my argument is that similarities between some of the ideas of the QF's and the NE's do not necessitate similarities in their motivations, strategies, methods, and outcomes. A key step will be taken towards dealing with the central issues when more TF's engage those theological issues rather than relying on argumentation that poisons the well.


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Something magical happened. Spring has come in all of its glory. After a few days of rain the blossoms on the trees sprang to life, covering them in a soft spring snow. The petals drifted from the flowers down to the ground, covering in a blanket of white. It was beautiful! If the thousands of petals practically floating, arranged on each tree forming delicate flowers is not a testament to the greater life and breath of the universe, then I am baffled.
(All the trees alight with blooms along the walk ways near my house.)
The most awe inspiring reality of these flowers is their immaculate beauty that vanishes within days; simply a moment not meant to last. The petals drawn of by rushing April Winds, fell to the ground like snow, the tree left stalky and plain, only the small green buds as a reminder its not the same tree as during winter.
Again magic happened and almost over night every bud on all the trees opened in to tiny adorable leaves. Their brilliant green color glistening in the warm sun, the trees seemed to sing, the petals just a prelude to the greater symphony of spring. Each day something new has arrived, some new flower or bird. I even saw a different cat fighting with our Alley Cat in Resident Dimitri. (He's the orange one with a squashed face and missing his tail)
Like the thousands of petals spring seems to be made up of thousands of moments, delicately shaped together to create the vision of spring; each moment only lasting for a breath. Inhale into the the moment and exhale as it drifts by.
That is the case with my YAV year. It is simply moments followed by moments to compose a reality. Moments that drift on the wind to fall into memory.
There have been some beautiful moments here in Korea, and there have been some ugly ones. A real rawness. Like holding up a mirror and really looking at yourself, blemishes and all. Realizing how you contribute to any given moment. There have been moments composed of feelings, wanted and unwanted. They drift by like clouds. I am learning to let them come and go. Moments of words, soft and encouraging, harsh and hurtful. Sometimes these moments lead to other moments, moments of restoration, forgiveness and more words, sometimes they don't. (My friends and I took a trip to photograph the flowers…we were very silly about it)
And moments with friends. The most invigorating and simultaneously hardest part is building friendships and knowing that within a few months I will be separated by thousands of miles and waters. And yet, that can not take away from the beauty of right now and the moments I can share. Knowing that something doesn't last doesn't make the cherry tree any less worthy or beautiful. I am not less inclined to enjoy my time with them knowing that in a few days they will be but a feint memory. I am eager to share our moment together. (These three ladies have made my time in Korea beautiful)
As I write this, it is Easter Sunday. I can hear the birds chirp, the view outside my window is alive with the colors of life. I always forget how green it becomes when living in Winter. Easter always reminds me that whatever is happening that knowing that "this too shall pass." Nothing lasts forever. Moments of hardship give way to joy. Moments of joy can be followed by despair. Always changing. Always moving. I am learning to observe the moment.
Breath, Trust and Be.


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I visited San Diego last weekend, staying at the Omni in downtown, right by Petco Park. Based on the board's suggestion, my partner and I went to Cafe Chloe (awesome cheese plate and mussels), Cheese Shop (one of the best corned beef hash I've had), Pokez (good carne asada burrito - not the best but satisfied my cravings for a Californian burrito and I did enjoy the ambiance), Taka (treat to have such fresh hamachi and ama ebi and melt in your mouth toro) but the piece de resistance was the Better Half.
When my partner was making reservations for my birthday dinner at the Better Half, he found out that we could do a 5-course chef's menu. He told the restaurant that he was bringing a full-bodied 2004 Hermitage. We were quite impressed with the selection of wines -- I never knew so many wineries had half bottles available. For the first course, we were served pate drizzled with drops of pesto. We then had a soup that was an amazing blend of flavors and texture. A soup bowl with jasmine rice, raisins, toasted almond, cilantro and chili oil was placed on the table. From a small tea pot, a creamy pumpkin soup (with coconut milk I think) was poured over the dry mixture. I've never had anything quite like it. For the first courses, we had a half bottle of Champalou Vouvray 2004 which paired quite nicely with the pate and soup.
Then, we opened the Hermitage which was quite the treat (Chapoutier Monier de La Sizeranne 2004). The main entrees seemed to have been created specifically for the wine. We had braised sweetbread served on top of mashed cauliflower, surrounded by a very rich Madeira reduction sauce with capers. This was the first time both of us had sweetbreads (in fact we weren't sure exactly what they were until we looked it up in Wikipedia). The dish and the wine were a perfect match. We then had a 2nd entree which were veal cheeks served with French lentils with a similar Madeira sauce as the sweetbreads along with Hawaiian rock salt. Frankly, I couldn't really tell what the Hawaiian rock salt tasted like but it sounds interesting. The veal cheek went quite nicely with the wine but the sweetbread clearly stole the show in that the dish seemed to have been created specifically for the wine.
Unfortunately, as with all good things, the end came with bread pudding that had an obligatory candle (fortunately, I was spared the birthday singing that you hear in some restaurants). I'm not really a dessert person and I was quite satiated by the time dessert was served, nonetheless I enjoyed every bite that I could squeeze into my stomach.
This birthday dinner was one of those memories that you tuck away to come back to and savor over the years. Wishing you good eats and wonderful memories!


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It's that sense of helplessness and suffering unproductively at the hands of others that gives a feeling of anger and resentment.
When you feel like all you are doing is for naught.
That nothing will come from all of your labor.
That others are hurting you and bringing chaos into your life and not caring or doing anything about it every time you come to them.
Feeling like you can't resolve a problem no matter how good you try opens up the path for bad thinking.
I think that knowing God will help no matter what and nothing you do for God is for naught helps tremendously.
Knowing that your suffering is or a good purpose and productive helps a lot.
People push others to the edge often and wonder why bad events happens that are 10 times worse then what set it off. And I think people need to be aware of how their bad persistent choices will just destroy their own lives and those around them.
Take care, With Love
Feb 19, 2016
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Feb 7, 2016
0 Thank you Note to God for our Blessings.
Posted By Anthony Souls
I want to thank God and Jesus and The Holy Ghost for everything that God does for me. I was having problems with my neighbors being noisy and banging around too much and it was getting out of control and pot use going through the connected vents I believe. And I was really scared to go over and confront them about it so many times in a row because every time you go over there through repetition escalates the matter a lot of times. But by going over there and confronting them about problems might of been hard, but God told me it was the right thing to do in my Holy Ghost and heart. And Jesus told me as well. And all Three are One. And I did what God wanted and God helped calm down a lot of the noise and take away the pot smell except for a few flare ups here and there and the continuous toilet flushing next door that we here is going to be fixed Tuesday. So everything is getting resolved. On top of that, I needed to call out and was worried I wouldn't get the doctors note and God communicated with me through a Raven/Crow and told me everything will work out and I got the note and everything worked out and got the days off I needed. And God continuously shows me He is there for me and my wife. Talks with us. And always helps us when we need help. He helped a friend of my wife's get enough money to prevent her water from being disconnected. I'm thankful to God for helping us (My wife and I) with all of our problems. There is still things we have to do and overcome which is hard, but God helps us and uses it to build us and it doesn't mean that we don't have to face things still when God is taking over. And I Love God and Jesus and The Holy Ghost for everything with more than all of my Heart and Mind and Soul. For the new phone I got when my other one broke. The New computer I'll get later this week when this one is falling apart. And I know things will work out always with God in control and with me. And I love you God and Jesus and The Holy Ghost with more than all of Heart and Mind and Soul; for You God are my God, my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and my Holy Ghost and Spirit and Friend. With Love Anthony
Feb 5, 2016
0 Fear and Rainbows Haiku Poem
Posted By Anthony Souls
Flowers and fear grows
Hope glimmers in the shadows
Waiting for Rainbows
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Slish Fondine was a male Human who owned a blob corral on Umgul.
In 11 ABY he learned through Lando Calrissian that the consort of the Duchess of Dargul had been using one of his blobs to cheat and earn credits to obtain transport away from Umgul. Slish had wanted to have Dack executed, since cheating in blob racing was a capital crime on that world, but refrained when Calrissian said that such an act could start an inter-system war between Umgul and Dargul. He was later rewarded with a track that was, ironically, named the Dack Track by the Duchess Mistal.[1]
- Blob Racing Cheater Killed—HoloNet News Vol. 531 48 (content now obsolete; backup link on Archive.org)
- Jedi Search (First appearance)
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- My hips felt tight as of mile 1.5.
- Forced to prairie dog it for six miles until I could find a toilet. (You were just dying to know this, weren't you?)
- Twits kept stopping me to ask for directions.
- My sunglasses are worthless and made me almost completely blind when the sun shined directly on me. Not good for foot placement on crappy, uneven pavement.
- Dropped one of my gummy bears on the street. In my head, I thought, "Gummy bear is down. Repeat, gummy bear is down!" Sad it will not get to experience the journey that is my g.i. tract and have the chance to rocket out my pooper like his buddies. R.I.P., little guy.
- My knees felt the need to remind me why running on stone paving is not to their liking.
- The inside of my left foot ached on and off throughout the run.
- Two bathroom stops again. I have the bladder of a senior citizen. :(
- Unbelievable amounts of bird poop along the river for the last 2.5 miles. There was so much of it, I could taste it. It was disgusting. I'm sure I've contracted something horrible from it too. F*cking pigeons.
- The damn run took me 4:10:15 to complete. That's an average pace of 12:31. F*cking ex-boyfriend WILL NOT leave me alone.
- F*cking hill I had to climb and then descend after my run to get home.
- F*cking stairs in the Nerditorium. Why did they have to put me on the fourth floor?
- Post-run headache to end all headaches. This happened after my last 20-miler too. What am I doing wrong?
In the last post, a lot of you assumed that this was my last long run. Well, it's not. According to my Smart Coach schedule, I have another 20 miler next weekend (my third one. god help me), then an 8-miler the weekend after and then the race. Is this all right, do you think? I've taken a look at other marathon training plans and they all seem to start tapering three weeks rather than two weeks ahead of race day. Should I follow the flock and do the same or stick to my two-week taper?
This week is going to be a busy one for me, so I won't be around much. I'll try to post again by Friday, but no promises. Try not to feel too neglected. Things should be back to normal (whatever that is) by next week.
To entertain you while I'm otherwise engaged, here's some fun stuff for you to watch/stare at.
This video is a highlights reel of Ironman Kona 2008. I have no desire to pursue triathlons, mostly because I can't swim my way out of a paper bag (what?), but I have a lot of admiration for those who do. Watching this video is really motivating and also puts my training into perspective. Hell, if these people can survive swimming, biking and running for the better part of a day, I sure as hell can run a measly marathon. I found this video on Paul's blog. Paul completed this year's Ironman and lived to tell the tale. A much belated congrats to you, Paul. And thanks for not minding (I hope) that I hijacked the video for my own post.
And for the ladies, here's a photo from a forward one of my cousins emailed me. I'm not overly fond of the amount of forwards I get every day from people, but I didn't mind one bit about getting this in my inbox (not a euphemism). Enjoy.
Okay, folks, that's it for me. Have a great week. I'll catch up with you all when I can.


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While you are updating your windows you will be getting new updated systems files. It is the most important for windows and you also, but sometime after updating windows sometime you may loose your windows product key or serial key, activation key. Because, while updating windows you will get new versions system files, which can only redirected with new serial keys and product keys or new activation files. So oldest key is automatically removed from system and you will be facing problems. To resolve this problem you have to turn off your windows updating system. or You can use any other methods. This is the simple trick so i posted this.


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I assisted a talented chef, Becky Selengut, at a recent PCC event, Taste of PCC in Issaquah, where she prepared summer scallops with corn soup. It was a beautiful Saturday with the sun shining brightly with no clouds in the sky. A perfect day before the rainy season begins in Seattle. I wanted to share this recipe and remind us how simple, whole foods can be so delicious.
As the event highlighted fresh, local, seasonal foods in abundance, corn was on the menu. The soup was simple and easy to prepare; only 3 to 4 ingredients were needed. Fresh corn was cut straight from the cob and a spoon was used to remove any remaining milk and corn…holding the cob in your hand over a bowl, use a spoon to scrape down any remaining corn from top to bottom. I learned from Becky that this is known as milking the cob, which releases the natural cornstarch. I was amazed at how much corn and milk were retrieved when normally I would just throw the cob in compost after cutting off the corn. Next, the corn was put into a blender with a bit of water (about a half a cup), about a tablespoon of butter, and some salt. Whirl away and allow the soup to blend for a minute or two to come together. The soup was a beautiful yellow color but a bit thin. As corn has natural cornstarch in it, it was heated on the stove for several minutes to thicken (stirring constantly). The soup came together; it was creamy, velvety, smooth, and rich. That was just by looking at it. I tasted a spoonful of the soup; it was amazing. Sweet, creamy, flavorful…I couldn't believe how something as simple as corn could be so sweet and delicious. Of course I couldn't wait to buy more corn and make this soup for myself.
This soup reminded me how whole foods can be amazing whether prepared with a few other ingredients to create an amazing combination or simply just eaten as is. What are some of your favorite whole foods? Do you enjoy them fresh or with a few key elements added to make them even tastier? I'd love to hear your thoughts.
Here is a link to the recipe; however, clam juice was not used at the event (it was out of stock) but would provide a different element to the soup. In addition, as I avoid dairy, I made the recipe without butter, and it came out great!


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I was at the recital this evening where Lim Yan played Rachmaninov's twenty four preludes. I enjoyed myself.
Minor points to note:
- The ushers had their walkie talkies on. The squelch function could be heard loud and clear in the recital studio. Unprofessional.
- There were many kids. Many of the kids were fat. And the fat people stunk. One could smell them in the studio. I sat beside one.
- The kids brought their backpacks and somehow, they had to zip up or zip open. Loud.
I don't play the piano or any instrument, I am not trained but I was familiar with Rachmaninov's preludes as I have heard it numerous times over the years. I can't judge it on its technical merits but I enjoyed tonight's performance. While Lim Yan is not Ashkenazy, but his fingers were deft.
Lim Yan played all twenty-four preludes from memory. IMPRESSIVE!


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Est. 2005- News, reviews, stories, gear, and gadgets for fly fishers and those who have to live with them. We endeavor to make "The quiet sport" substantially louder.
Sunday, December 03, 2006
And now for something not so different
In order to raise funds for The Stroke Association UK, Ben Filmore is making a trek to the Mount Everest base camp. In addition he also used eBay to auction off the right to slap him with a fish. The auction was won by Lucy Berry who paid 210 pounds for the pleasure of slapping Ben with two rainbow trout in the same fashion as the Monty Python sketch.
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China-based handset manufacturer, Oppo has launched its latest Neo 7 smartphone in the Indian market as expected. As per the company, this device comes with 13 layers of coating refined through a series of 40 processes to increase strength, giving the surface an impressive thinness of only 0.56 mm.
Moving on, to the specifications of the device, the Neo 7 comes with 5-inch qHD IPS display with 5-inch 960 x 540 pixels. It is powered by a 1.2 GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 (MSM8916) processor with Adreno 306 GPU besides 1GB RAM under the hood.
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Further, the Oppo Neo 7 is equipped with 16GB of inbuilt memory, with an expansion option of up to 128GB via microSD card slot. Talking about the software, it is shipped with Android 5.1 Lollipop on top of ColorOS 2.1. The camera department is taken care by an 8MP rear camera with LED flash, 5MP front camera on board.
Moreover, the connectivity options supports, 4G LTE / 3G, WiFi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0, GPS. The above hardware is powered by a 2420mAh battery. The Oppo Neo 7 comes in Black, White color variants at a price of Rs. 9,990.
Commenting on the launch Mr Mike Wang, CEO, OPPO Mobiles India said, "OPPO is known worldwide for pioneering technologies and designs and our newest addition in Neo family, Neo 7 is perfect interpretation of it. Neo series has generated positive response in the past and we are confident that with the classic mirror like design and innovative features, it will cater to target consumer who look for latest features at an attractive price."


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Working in an elementary school is not all about recess rules and reading rugs. Just because the students are smaller doesn't mean the school is easier to run. On the administration side, there are just as many rules and regulations, budgetary concerns, staff conflicts, and parent complaints as in any other type of school.
Of course, the kids are cute, but as an Elementary School Principal, you mostly work with other adults. You guide Teachers through issues of classroom management, meeting curriculum standards, and engaging students at all skill levels. As an Elementary School Principal, you work with administrative staff to shuffle schedules and make school-wide announcements. You support custodial and technology staff in maintaining the spaces and equipment of the school. You field calls from concerned parents and mingle with families at talent shows and book fairs.
Another aspect of your job as Elementary School Principal is student discipline. Pushing another kid on the playground may not seem as serious as the issues that older students get in trouble for. But since the students are so young and impressionable, what you say may stick with them for the rest of their lives. They already think you're the scary Principal pretty much a given at that age-so now it's your chance to use your wisdom and understanding to make a difference in their lives.


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text: BENTON HARBOR -- Smart hustle and innovation. These are key elements of success that David Brandon lists when he discusses his seven years as chairman and chief executive officer of Domino's Pizza. And they're traits that the organizers of Junior Achievement of Michiana hope their young participants soak up when Brandon comes to Berrien County to headline the group's first "Success in Entrepreneurship" dinner. In addition to Brandon, the dinner -- which will be at 6 p.m. May 8 at Lake Michigan College's Mendel Center -- will also include U.S. Congressmen Fred Upton, R-Mich., and Chris Chocola, R-Ind., and Michigan state Rep. John Proos, R-St. Joseph. JA president Kelly Matti said Brandon, who rolls up his sleeves and dons a red apron to greet customers personally from time to time, was sought after, in part, because of his "upbeat approach to leadership and strong commitment to children and education." Brandon is a member of the board of regents at his alma mater, the University of Michigan, where he played football for coach Bo Schembechler. He is also a national advisory board member of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., and serves on a number of southeastern Michigan civic and charitable boards. The event, which is being hosted in cooperation with Whirlpool Corp., will focus on "celebrating the leaders of today and inspiring the leaders of tomorrow." Matti said area school children will act as announcers, ushers and in other important roles throughout the evening. She said this school year alone, JA volunteers in this region reached 8,109 K-12 students in 342 classrooms. "Preparing them to become part of tomorrow's workforce," Matti said. Founded in 1919, JA is the world's largest non-profit economic education organization, reaching 4 million students in more than 10 countries. JA of Michiana is funded locally by area businesses, foundations, service clubs and individuals and serves Berrien and Cass counties in Michigan, and LaPorte, St. Joseph, and Marshall counties in Indiana, with the exception of Michigan City. JA partners include Intermediate School Districts, Michigan Works!, organizations, schools and businesses. The cost to attend the Success in Entrepreneurship dinner ranges from $100 for individual tickets to $1,000, $2,500 or $5,000 for various sponsorship packages.Staff writer Jeff Romig: email@example.com (269) 687-7001


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Life has been, interesting to say the least. I'm not even sure where to begin. I guess I'll start with the least interesting.
Work. I'm now working a grand total of 3 nights a week, Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights. Don't get me wrong, I am so grateful for it, but I feel like I get the crap hours, with too much to do, not enough experience to do it. I thought I was *GREAT* at mulit-tasking, but when I'm there, I really SUCK at it.
Take last night for example. BUSY Saturday night. The 2 "kids" that worked the front did great! There was pretty much a constant line, and they never once asked me to come help. I stayed in the back and tried to get stuff accomplished. Up and down ladders, making ice cream, trying to wash dishes, and yet, I was still behind all night. I couldn't seem to catch up.
It didn't help that there was a cake to be decorated, and so the other asst. manager came in to do it on her day off. I don't do decorating, and it really really intimidates me. Anyway, instead of showing me the techniques and letting me try, she kept showing me, then saying, "you know how to do it, you'll remember". I need to do and do and do, and then maybe I'll get it. So, she was leaving me to do the border, which, yeah, I can do, but for some reason I got really really intimidated and started crying about it. Yup, Gwen had a breakdown at work. BAD NIGHT! Got the border done, added a few sprinkles, and it looks ok, but maybe Cakewrecks worthy. UGGG. So, I asked the kids to let me work in the back, and I started to work on ice cream. I froze up 2 batches of ice cream last night. NOT GOOD. I was able to salvage most of it, but the night just really sucked. But, it didn't kill me, and now I know that I can handle some crisis at work.
Allie… what can I say? She is growing like a weed. I think I'm the luckiest grandma in the world. Perhaps I'm biased? She's just amazing! I get to wake up to her squeals daily, watch her wiggle and giggle and squirm all the time, and see her grow. Yup, I'm lucky! Danielle sent me a text while I was at work last night and said she rolled over from her back to her tummy. Yay, Allie!
Isn't she the cute-ist??
Men? Let's see. I've met a very interestingly nice man. His name is Robert, he grew up in Pittsburg, is Italian, works in the restaurant industry. We keep saying we'll take it slow and not see each other for a day or something, and what do you know, we end up seeing each other. We made it "Facebook official" the other day. Cause you know it's not "official until it's Facebook Official".
He has met Danielle and Allie, and thinks they are pretty awesome. And, I think he's got their seal of approval. We (me & Robert, Danielle and Allie) took a drive on the Blue Ridge Parkway to see the leaves one day this past week, and he handled Allie not liking her carseat at the end of the day rather well. That's a good thing. He actually had his first picnic that day…. Can you imagine? That blows my mind, actually!
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I can't believe I will soon have FOUR quilt tops waiting to be quilted! That's what happens when everyone decides to get married and have babies at once :o) Good thing I enjoy this. Here is the lovely newest fabric drying on the line...look familiar, Big G?
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I can't decide what to do for my 21st birthday--ON the 21st no less. I've had offers by my favorite JERSEY GIRL to fly to THE boardwalk in NJ with her and hit up Karma... as in THE Karma from Jersey Shore. So far that's the winner. Baby would come too of course tucked in my little bag. He's roughly the size of a shihtzu (pronounced SHEET-ZOO. Not shit-zoo for those of you who say it like that to get away with swearing) so he would fit in my bag. Naturally, I will be just as happy staying home, eating my birthday Sprinkle's and watching my second favorite show we've been DVRing as of late (the first being Jersey Shore). I suppose I just solved my own problem! That sounds like a very formidable plan to ring in what will be an epic year of not having to stand on the 'other side' of the railing at the Matt Nathanson concert with my 23-year-old babysitter of a husband because his wife is 19. **Said true evnts transpired two Octobers ago.**
Speaking of shihtzus, I can't wait to get Beckett one some Christmas down the road. For now he loves his Spot dog.
Now, speaking of Spot dogs (we've entered a downward spiral of digression) this is Elliott's Spot. Cutest thing ever, right?
Nana is to thank for both Spots that are loved by both boys who are loved by... ME.


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THE ISSUE: Once on the rise, local farmers markets have reached a plateau.
THE IMPACT: With so many area markets, it can be tough finding vendors to participate. And with the increase in CSAs, shoppers are not making as many purchases at local farmers markets.
Farmers Markets have become a ubiquitous part of summer in Massachusetts. From Chelmsford to Maynard to Wilmington to Lexington and just about everywhere in between, stalls of vendors hawking local vegetables, meat and fruit crop up week to week from June to October. It's a startling cornucopia, a huge boon to consumers and lifesaver to some farmers.
But have the markets become victim to their own success? As organic food has become more popular, more options exist and more places appear where shoppers can acquire cucumbers or tomatoes or what have you.
According to Jeff Cole, executive director of Federation of Massachusetts Farmers Markets the number of farmers markets across the state, which had increased annually since 2005, appears to have plateaued. Cole expects the number to hold between 249 and 255 this year.
In Cole's opinion, the plateau can be attributed to myriad factors, including the rise of Community Supported Agriculture programs and mobile produce services. A CSA program periodically delivers local produce to consumers who have purchased a share or membership, and the food comes directly from nearby farms or groups of farms.
"Mobile produce routes and delivery services have also impacted [farmers markets'] success," Cole said. There are many companies that work directly with local farms to give customers door-to-door delivery. Even Uber has offered local food delivery, he said.
Too many choices
Managers and founders of farmers markets attribute the plateau to other factors.
Gloria Tu Gilbert, founding director of the Westford market, blames it on an over-saturation.
Carol O'Leary, manager of the Maynard Farmers Market, agrees.
The Maynard Farmers Market was established 22 years ago, and O'Leary said it has become more difficult to find new vendors because of the large number of markets in the area.
"Early on," O'Leary said, "the tents were almost exclusively staffed by the producers or workers who had been with them for years. With so many markets now, vendors are often trying to do multiple markets on the same day and often can not find enough people to staff them. With so many choices, they also aren't willing to put in the time and effort to build up a customer base and if they don't have quick success they try somewhere else."
The Westford market was founded 11 years ago. Soon, other markets sprang up in surrounding towns, Gilbert said.
"[Markets] weren't introduced slowly and steadily [...] instead it was just a huge, overzealous boom," Gilbert said.
Gilbert is happy people have easier access to local food, but she believes one, robust regional market would be more beneficial than numerous small ones. One big market is more cost efficient and time efficient, she said.
It's difficult because everyone wants a farmers market in their town, Gilbert said, but when there are too many, they tend to get watered down.
Gilbert and Chelmsford farmers market manager Kathy O'Brien both said they have also noticed a decline in vendors willing to participate, because there are so many markets to choose from. Some vendors prefer to participate in markets near their homes while others prefer to travel because their local area is so saturated. They want to go somewhere they are not as well known and can appeal to more people, O'Brien said.
"We have organic meat from Middleton, [...] pizza ladies from West Roxbury," O'Brien said.
O'Leary said they still receive a significant number of inquiries from people who want to start a new business – most often involving baked goods – and want to know about selling at the Farmers Market.
Unhealthy competition
Not only do farmers markets compete with other farmers markets, they must also compete with superstores, which have begun offering food labeled organic.
However, what people new to the organic food world may not understand is shopping at farmers markets supports sustainable agriculture, Gilbert said.
For example, the Chelmsford farmers market sells hydroponic lettuce and kale as well as organic meat which is hard to come by, said O'Brien.
Community and convenience
Amanda Munsie, founder of the Wilmington farmers market, attributed the plateau to poor marketing.
"If people aren't aware, they're not there," said Munsie who updates her market's Twitter and Facebook pages daily.
Munsie aims to make her markets more than just a place to buy food. She incorporates crafts and music to attract customers and make the market a destination.
"I strive to make it a community event," she said.
Attendance at the Maynard Farmers Market has been good, primarily, O'Leary said, because they are a "community gathering space." The Maynard Farmers Market also has weekly musicians, artisans, children's activities and a community table.
Another issue farmers market managers have run into is consumers who would rather go to a supermarket and finish all their shopping in one place, rather than make a second stop at a farmers market.
O'Leary's casual observations bear this out. To her, it appears that the average consumer is purchasing less now then when the market first opened, although she admits she has no concrete evidence of this.
"I think the growth of CSAs may impact the market sales," she said. "People still may want to visit and buy a few add-ons, but are receiving primary supply of weekly produce and/or meat from their CSA."
The Maynard Farmers Market is open from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturdays until Sept. 30, in the Mill Pond parking lot at the corner of Main and Sudbury streets in Maynard. For the latest schedule updates, visit Facebook.com/MaynardFarmersMarket.
Multimedia journalist Holly Camero contributed to this story.


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MCSO rescues neglected horses from North Scottsdale boarding ranchPosted: Updated:
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Maricopa County sheriff's deputies swooped in to a boarding ranch near 144th Street and Dixeleta Drive to save several malnourished horses Thursday night.
Badly dehydrated, two of the worst-off horses couldn't even stand on their own. A vet on scene estimated some of the horses could have 30 to 40 pounds of dust in their systems.
The county plans to take seven to eight horses into its custody due to malnutrition.
Deputies say the animals belong to a Michelle Salazar, who also owns the company on the property called La Caballeriza.
Neighbors have called the county, complaining that these horses have been suffering for sometime. MCSO says the owner was warned to provide the right care, but she has not.
Sheriff Joe Arpaio says they know that Salazar has been gone for weeks, and at this point, they don't know where she is. He says when they find her, she'll face several charges of animal cruelty.
"These horses have not been treated properly," he said. "No medical attention, not fed properly, just a whole list of problems that we call cruelty."
Under Arizona law, the circumstances surrounding the alleged cruelty determine whether a person can be charged with a misdemeanor or a felony.
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By Bob Barr
Two months before the November 1994 off-year elections, I and several dozen other Republican candidates were scrambling to raise funds necessary to have a chance of unseating our Democratic incumbent opponents. Although we hoped to prevail, few if any of us really grasped what was about to happen. The gathering tsunami that would sweep the GOP to a majority in the House of Representatives for the first time in four decades on November 8th of that year, was a secret known only by then-Minority Leader Newt Gingrich and a tight-knit fraternity of associates and consultants.
President Clinton's unpopularity in the fall of 1994 was palpable; but few prognosticators or media pundits understood the depth of the disdain with which large segments of the voting population viewed the chief executive. The economy was in far better shape than now, and although Clinton's embrace of gun control that year, and of a large tax increase the year before, clearly had sapped his popularity, neither he nor most analysts expected he would wake up on November 9th facing a hostile House and Senate.
It was, more than anything, a tribute to the hard work and vision of Newt Gingrich that caused a seismic shift in American politics 16 years ago. It was not simply that he worked his fingers to the bone in the months leading to the election; but his untiring efforts over the decade before, that provided the horsepower that undercut 40 years of Democratic control.
In 1994, the Republican Party nationally had vision, an articulated agenda, and well-known leadership. The Democratic Party had control of a Congress that was a mile wide and an inch deep; led by a president blinded by his own hubris. It turned out to be a toxic recipe for the incumbent party.
Here we are, eight election cycles later, and the respected Cook Political Report is predicting another major political shift similar to that of '94. In his latest crystal ball gaze, Charlie Cook foresees a 40-seat shift in the House (enough for a GOP majority) and a possible nine-seat dislocation in the Senate (which would change the majority there, too). Yet, few politically-knowledgeable Americans could articulate anything resembling a Republican agenda, vision or leadership; they couldn't, because there simply is no national GOP vision, agenda or leadership.
This time, it is the party in power that is doing it all on its own; the master of its own looming demise. Fair or not, the Democratic Party nationally is being tarred with the broad brush that is the continuing bad economy. The sour mood infecting the electorate is made bitterer still by the health care legislation championed by a hubris-infected president pushing against a citizenry clearly not on the same page.
And while the Tea Party movement has failed thus far to realize the potential attributed to it a year ago, it clearly reflects very broad-based voter dissatisfaction. Already, several Republican candidates who would not likely on their own be poised to win against Democratic incumbents, have successfully tapped into that sense of general unease to boost their poll numbers. Just ask Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada.
Unlike 1994, when the Democrats were caught napping, this time they see it coming already. Speaker Nancy Pelosi reportedly is strong-arming her colleagues in safe districts to dig deep into their war chests to help more vulnerable members. Attack ads are appearing early and often. In another obvious effort to stanch the growing hemorrhage, the weakest and most vulnerable Democratic incumbents already are being cut loose.
Whether all this will enable Pelosi and Reid to cling to small majorities in their respective bodies remains an open question; there are, after all, eight weeks remaining before Election Day. But right now, despite themselves, the Republicans may reap what the Democrats have sown; and with very little effort.
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
GOP may win big despite itself
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Bromfieldii's color is more even now compared to January.
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Bromfieldii's color is more even now compared to January.
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Hello! I really like your blog! So much good information here! I'm sort of a newbie to Lithops too, I have a couple of plants that I got recently that still have a lot of 'meat' to work though (they seem a bit behind all of yours), and then some that I started from seed in February that are doing really well. When can I expect those to change for the first time? And what size is big enough to transplant? Thanks, and keep up with the good work!ReplyDeleteReplies
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Thank you very much, I'm glad you like it.
Congratulations on your first lithops success. If the seedlings hatched in February my guess would be that they will get their first leaves around May, 4 months later. But it varies so you should not worry if it happens later. If you need to transplant them quickly right after the change would be a good time. Transplanting is easy in pumice stones so it's okay doing it early. If you use a soil mix you should probably wait until the seedlings are bigger and stronger. Lately I just keep them in one pot until it gets too small for them. Check my seedlings posts to compare: I think I write sometimes how old they are and when I transplant them.


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These operations:
- Opening Evolution
- Browsing through the calendar (going back about 30 months)
- Closing Evolution
generated more than 180 live queries:
and caused that heap of EDS process grew by more 2,5 MB on my testing calendar:
- Going back by month in Evolution generated 5 live queries (for day, week, work week, month and list view)
- One can notice, that not all queries were freed, when I closed Evolution. However, I verified, that only live queries generated by evolution-alarm-notify process were not freed. This process stays alive even when Evolution is closed.
- The first increment of heap size (from 506K to 8180K) is caused by opening Evolution (opening calendar).
- The next smaller increments of heap size are due to live queries.
- The last decrement is caused by closing Evolution.
EDS live queries leak
August 6, 2008
I wanted to take closer look on the memory consumption of "browsing-through-the-calendar" operation. As I have probably found a bug, I will post about this later.
The bug: when one clicks on the clock applet, live query, that watches the actual month is generated (and calendar window appears). Another click on the clock applet (to hide the calendar window) – live query IS NOT destroyed (ECalViewListener object is destroyed, but EDataCalView object is not destroyed). Next click on the calendar window – the same live query is generated again (new calendar client was created).
Here is the picture documenting the error : As I was clicking on the clock applet (almost every second), the number of live queries was increasing and they were not destroyed.
To reproduce the bug:
- export ORBIT2_DEBUG_STRMAX=1000
- export ORBIT2_DEBUG=traces
- Click on the clock applet a few times. Watch, that the same live queries are generated.
- Open Evolution and create some event in actual month.
- Watch CORBA communication – every live queries will be informed, that new object was created by notifyObjectsAdded method
As it seems to me, we are destroying live queries only when orbit connection is disconnected. However, there are so many listeners and views, that I am little bit confused, still.
Where are these files from ?
July 31, 2008
In my last post, I found out that my parsed calendar.ics file consumes more than 7MB in memory. I decided to look on eds with massif. As I have only this one calendar in Evolution, I expected to get similar results. Here is the massif graph I got:
It's about 13.8 MB. Looking closer on massif logs, I found out, that almost all allocations were done in method e_cal_backend_file_open. Next investigations 🙂 led to the finding, that files $HOME/.evolution/calendar/local/system/tasks.ics and $HOME/.evolution/memos/local/system/journal.ics should be blamed for that.
Now, the most interesting thing is the content of those files. Both files contain only time zones. A lot of copies of the same time zone. Is that a feature or a bug ? 🙂
slusny@turret:~/.evolution$ grep BEGIN:VTIMEZONE ~/.evolution/tasks/local/system/tasks.ics | wc -l
slusny@turret:~/.evolution$ grep "TZID:/softwarestudio.org/Olson_20011030_5/Africa/Algiers" ~/.evolution/tasks/local/system/tasks.ics | wc -l
slusny@turret:~/.evolution$ grep BEGIN:VTIMEZONE /home/slusny/.evolution/memos/local/system/journal.ics | wc -l
Here is the massif graph, when I removed these two files:
Note 1.8.2008: Files journal.ics and tasks.ics are growing only when eds is restarted (either it was killed or segfaulted…).
To reproduce the bug, it is enough to re-run the evolution and activate the calendar view.
Memory consumption of big calendar
July 29, 2008
How much memory is consumed by the calendar ? I hope, that this post helps to answer the question.
I will use my favourite big calendar.ics file. Some basic facts about calendar:
slusny@turret:~/gsoc/massif logs$ ls -lh calendar.ics
-rw-r--r-- 1 slusny slusny 813K 2008-07-28 14:15 calendar.ics
slusny@turret:~/gsoc/massif logs$ grep VEVENT calendar.ics | wc -l
Saying this, I consider the calendar as a big one. I prepared simple program, that just opens the calendar and parses the ICS file, similarly to file backend. Valgrind's massif gave me this graph
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| . @@: : @ @#:: ::
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0 +----------------------------------------------------------------------->Mi
0 287.6
So, the calendar consumes more thatn 7 MB. I ran the program again without valgrind and looked at process
with smem.pl script. This script parses /proc/$pid/smaps into something more useful
VMSIZE: 18136 kb
RSS: 10784 kb total
2864 kb shared
168 kb private clean
7752 kb private dirty
vmsize rss clean rss dirty file
7148 kb 0 kb 7148 kb [heap]
40 kb 0 kb 40 kb /usr/local/lib/libORBit-2.so.0.1.0
44 kb 0 kb 40 kb /home/slusny/gsoc/evolution-data-server/calendar/libecal/.lib
88 kb 0 kb 36 kb [stack]
The heap is shown as smaller here (who knows why ?). However, the calendar is quite big, I think. Perhaps iwe should not hold all events (event prehistoric ones) and all event fields in memory all the time 🙂
First results of optimization
July 17, 2008
In this post I will describe impact of new more efficient data structure on calendar part of EDS. The new data structure is our famous interval tree. Imagine, that we are maintainers of calendar data and enemy is asking us expensive questions about our data, mostly "give me events in some time range". In the past, we took naive approach to answer questions. Now, we are doing more wisely.
On the attached picture is shown, how many events need to be scanned to evaluate query. Red color are queries BEFORE optimization – either 1271 or 346 items were scanned (I have two calendars with 1271 and 346 items and before optimization, all events are scanned to answer question). The green line shows, how many items need to be scanned after optimization.
One can notice, that there is green (optimized) query on the beginning that was doing scan through all events. This is query, in which no subexpression of from *occur-in-range* was
found – it was not question of form "give me all events in some time range". Therefore, interval tree did not help us.
More results:
- More numbers – how many took to evaluate query ?
- How many items was tested (sum of 423 queries) ? For every tested event we had to generate recurrences.
Testing interval trees
July 17, 2008
After implementing interval trees, I have started to think about testing them. It would be great to have some test script. To do this, I would need to think about different scenarios, that can happen – different ways of inserting and removing data can lead to different rotations, for example. Of course, I did not want to spend too much time on testing.
Therefore I have written small test program, that inserts random events into interval tree and list, does several searches, deletes some events and does some searches again. I have found several bugs this way.
But how can I be sure, that all interesting situations were tested ? I have used great gcov and lcov tools. Almost 90% of code was covered by tests, and although the remaining code is not so important, I would like to add more tests in the future. The valgrind did not show me any memory leaks. This is my tip for your better sleep: test your code.
Interval trees in EDS
July 17, 2008
Finally, I have finished implementation of inteval trees. Less or more, I have followed the book Introduction to Algorithms, 2nd edition. My implementation is based on red-black trees, too. EDS is often asked for events in some time range (interval). In times before interval trees, we had to go through all events, generate recurrences and test, if the event is in this range. With interval tree, we can do it much faster.
The data in the tree (events in our case) are accessed by interval queries. Underlaying data structure is a red black tree with the low endpoint chosen as a key. To do efficient interval search, each node needs to maintain some additional data – maximum (max) and minimum (min) value of any interval endpoint stored in the subtree rooted at x. It is needed to update min and max fields when performing rotations, inserting and deleting new data.
Basic operations, like insert, delete and search, are simple, as we already know about red-black trees. They can be done in logarithmic time. The interesting operation is "search all", which should return all events in given interval. To search for events, we start in the root of the tree and check if we should go left or right – the min and max fields of the left and right son help us to make correct decision. Sometimes it is needed to go in both directions. Therefore, time can be O( min(n, k lg n) ), where k is the number of events in output list and n is the total number of events.
If someone is interested in implementation, here are some differences between my implementation and book:
- The code in the book is keeping only min field, not max (max field help us to make more effective decisions)
- We need to store different events with the same interval and search by UID of the event
- We need to work with open-ended intervals (special value -1)
Evolution Data Server Under Sysprof
June 4, 2008
My gsoc task is to speed up calendar part of e-d-s. These days I have been using evo calendar extensively. My aim was to identify the most serious bottlenecks by sysprof.
Here are the results of my 5 minute session. The tests were carried out on big calendars, which I received from Federico.
Several things should be noticed:
- Almost all system time is divided between Evo and Firefox
- About 30% of system time was spent in Evolution, 15% in e-d-s.
- I was using only file backend (e-d-s time was spent in e_cal_backend_file_start_query – 14%)
- Almost all e-d-s time was spent in e_cal_backend_start_query – 14%. This method is called by e-d-s clients (Evolution, clocks…) and does complete sweep through the calendar. Clients want to get back calendar objects filtered by some expression (sexp).
- For every calendar object, test against the expression is carried out (e_cal_backend_sexp_match_comp – 11%), generating all recurrences. Usually, the evaluation of expression leads to test, if event occurs in some time range (func_occur_in_time_range – 6%). The second very often used function seems to be e_cal_backend_sexp_func_make_time – 3.9%. Both these functions sooner or later call function icaltime_as_timet_with_zone, in which is spent 3.60% and 3.13% – summing up to about 6.7% of system time. In fact, these functions are usually called together, because the typical test is "occur-in-time-range? (make-time \"ISO_DATE_STR\") (make-time \"ISO_DATE_STR\")". The expression make-time "ISO_DATE_STR" leads to calling e_cal_backend_sexp_func_make_time, which converts date from iso string to time_t value. Expression occur-in-time-range leads to calling func_occur_in_time_range.
- When constructing expression "occur-in-time-range? (make-time \"ISO_DATE_STR\") (make-time \"ISO_DATE_STR\")", time_t value is converted to the string. Later, when evaluating expression, string is converted to time_t (by make-time).
- In e-d-s we spent about 15% of system time, and almost 7% was spent in icaltime_as_timet_with_zone. The function is called to find out, if calendar event occurs in some time range. There is a lot of time conversion from time_t to string and back. The rest was spent by sweeping through the calendar objects and generating recurrences.
EDS and it's cache – analyze this
May 22, 2008
The story
Evolution data server is process living (unnoticed if you are lucky 🙂 ) in your Desktop. Besides other things, it takes care of calendar data. Clients (programs, that need calendar data – Evolution, clock applet…) send questions (called queries) to e-d-s. Typical query looks like "give me all events in some time range".
At some point during Evolution's development, developers informally determined that calendar queries to e-d-s were slow. Nobody took the trouble of actually figuring out why they were slow, so someone added a simple cache instead. Now it's time to do more optimization.
The task
The task is to find out, if the cache is useful ( taking into account, that it consumes some memory). That is, we have to answer these questions:
- Which queries get performed, and how often ?
- What is the lifetime of the cached queries?
- How long do queries take to be performed?
- Is the cache useful ?
Our approach
Together with my great mentor Federico, I have added some logging subsystem to to e-d-s. It logs each calendar query. I have implemented Python script, that can analyze this log and sort queries to various criteria and produce some gnuplot graphs. Following graphs were generated by the script in one of my typical workdays.
1. Which queries get performed and how often ?
First graph shows how the cache size is changing (green line) during the day. The cache size is the number of different queries stored in cache. Query gets into cache, when some client wants e-d-s to execute (answer) it, and the query is not found in the cache yet. The peaks correspond to massive usage of Evolution (I was browsing through the calendar). After 13:00 I opened the Evolution and closed it before 14:00. The next two peaks correspond again to opening/closing Evolution. The red bar shows, how many queries e-d-s answered without executing it – results were already cached. Obviously, this number can be greater than cache size, because some queries are re-executed several times.
Ok, so we would like to know how many times were individual queries used. Are the queries used uniformly or small part of queries are used again and again ?
There were almost 370 different queries, from which 180 was not reused while sitting in cache. The mostly used query was reused 9 times.
2. What is the lifetime of the cached queries ?
The ambition of the following graph is to gain insight into queries lifetime. As can be seen from the picture, there were about 320 different queries. Six queries lived more than 10000 secs, majority of them lived about 4000 secs and more than 100 queries lived just for several seconds. As can be noticed from the picture (if it is not too small), about 30 queries (at the rear of the graph) have negative lifetime values – these queries were not destroyed at all. The queries coming from alarm daemon fall into this category.
3. How long do queries take to be performed ?
This is great opportunity to present another graph.
As can be seen from the graph, it depends on backend that we are using. In case of file backend (first two columns) the execution of query is really fast. In the last two columns there are values for google calendar backend. It takes 0.01 secs to execute the query in average and 0.1 sec in worst case.
4. Is the cache useful ?
So what do you think ? In my opinion the cache is useful, mainly when we expect to work with remote calendars. Perhaps we should ask, if it is worth the memory, that it consumes ( I'm not trying to say that it consumes too much memory, I do not know, but some developers have this opinion ).
GSoC 2008: Optimizing EDS calendar
May 6, 2008
Hello friends,
so I've been accepted onto the Google Summer of Code 2008 program to work on optimizing calendar part of EDS. The main goal of this blog is to discuss my work (and life) with you. So, feel free to leave any comments.
Interesting thoughts about EDS, that directly apply to my work can be found at blogs of Ross, Philip and Federico.
You can see my commits at my github repository.
My first task is to analyze performance of calendar queries cache. These days I am preparing patches to log every calendar query. If you use calendar with Evolution, I would appreciate, if you could provide me e-d-s logs to analyze. Please, contact me, if you are interested.
As I live in Prague, I am looking forward to meeting at least some of you at Ubuntu Developer Summit next week.


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One of the Moxie Fab Challenges happening at the moment is the Asymmetry Challenge. Cath wrote a great post explaining what it is and then challenged us to create a card that had a sense of 'visually balanced, asymmetrical randomness' ...
Random I may be sometimes - but it doesn't seem to translate into my card designs very well! But I wanted to play along and jumped in ...
So what can I say? It's all on one side of the card - and it isn't a mirror image :0) So far so good. Ha, ha!
I added little dots in the flourish to try and give that 'magical sparkles' feeling, like they do in the movies. (Disney does it better than I do). The paint on the brushes and the dots on the flourish all have a little spica pen glitter on them - so there is some animation to the card in reality. These balance the little gem on the pocket quite nicely.
So there it is. Not quite WONKY, wonky...but asymmetrical all the same :0)
Thank you so much for stopping in!
Have a glorious day!
P.S. If you love Waltzingmouse Stamps - please consider linking up a card for Claire ... thank you :0)!
P.S. If you love Waltzingmouse Stamps - please consider linking up a card for Claire ... thank you :0)!


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Author and book news for children's author and poet, Victoria Zigler, as well as general news from the life of the Zigler family; furry and otherwise!
Sunday, March 30, 2014
UK Mother's Day 2014
Today is Mother's Day in the UK, so I thought I'd take the time to say "Happy Mother's Day" to my Mam. So... Happy Mother's Day, Mam! And, happy Mother's day to all the Mothers out there... Whether you're in the UK or not.
Posted by Victoria Zigler @ 11:29 am
2 comments:
- Intense Guy said...
Happy Mom's Day to your Mam! I hope she enjoyed her day!
- Monday, March 31, 2014 3:28:00 pm
- Victoria Zigler said...
Thanks; will pass on your message! :)
- Monday, March 31, 2014 4:01:00 pm
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|A diagram of the basic fossil fuel life-cycle (Wikipedia)
A group of Swarthmore College students is asking the school administration to take a seemingly simple step to combat pollution and climate change: sell off the endowment's holdings in large fossil fuel companies. For months, they have been getting a simple answer: no.
As they consider how to ratchet up their campaign, the students suddenly find themselves at the vanguard of a national movement.
In recent weeks, college students on dozens of campuses have demanded that university endowment funds rid themselves of coal, oil and gas stocks. The students see it as a tactic that could force climate change, barely discussed in the presidential campaign, back onto the national political agenda.
"We've reached this point of intense urgency that we need to act on climate change now, but the situation is bleaker than it's ever been from a political perspective," said William Lawrence, a Swarthmore senior from East Lansing, Mich.
Students who have signed on see it as a conscious imitation of the successful effort in the 1980s to pressure colleges and other institutions to divest themselves of the stocks of companies doing business in South Africa under apartheid.
A small institution in Maine, Unity College, has already voted to get out of fossil fuels. Another, Hampshire College in Massachusetts, has adopted a broad investment policy that is ridding its portfolio of fossil fuel stocks.
"In the near future, the political tide will turn and the public will demand action on climate change," Stephen Mulkey, the Unity College president, wrote in a letter to other college administrators. "Our students are already demanding action, and we must not ignore them."
But at colleges with large endowments, many administrators are viewing the demand skeptically, saying it would undermine their goal of maximum returns in support of education.
Fossil fuel companies represent a significant portion of the stock market, comprising nearly 10 percent of the value of the Russell 3000, a broad index of 3,000 American companies. No school with an endowment exceeding $1 billion has agreed to divest itself of fossil fuel stocks.
At Harvard, which holds the largest endowment in the country at $31 billion, the student body recently voted to ask the school to do so. With roughly half the undergraduates voting, 72 percent of them supported the demand.
"We always appreciate hearing from students about their viewpoints, but Harvard is not considering divesting from companies related to fossil fuels," Kevin Galvin, a university spokesman, said by e-mail.
To read further, go to: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/05/business/energy-environment/to-fight-climate-change-college-students-take-aim-at-the-endowment-portfolio.html?src=me&ref=general&_r=0&pagewanted=all


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News for the Hospitality Executive
January 23, 2013 - Melisa "Missy" Marvin, Front Desk Agent, from the Navy Lodge Corpus Christi, Texas, has been named the Navy Lodge Program's Associate of the 3rd Quarter 2012.
"Missy is one of the friendliest faces you will see upon check-in," said Mary E. Mecsics, General Manager, Navy Lodge Corpus Christi. "She goes above and beyond the expectations of the basic front desk agent requirements. She gives 110 percent every day, even when she's under the weather."
Marvin trains all new front desk agents for the Lodge and her Front Desk Supervisor and Manager know they can depend on her to get the job done. She comes up with ideas on teamwork, how to improve over all front desk guest service and how to have better communication through all the departments. "Missy sets the standards for her fellow front desk associates and is well respected by every team member," said Mecsics.
Navy Lodge guests know they can count on her as well. Marvin gets to know the guests on a personal level and is able to assist them with their every need. Having grown up in Corpus Christi, Marvin is very knowledgeable about the area and is happy to share her wealth of information on restaurants, neighborhoods and school districts. Repeat guests ask for her by name in hopes that she will be working a shift during their stay. In addition, when she works 3rd shift, Marvin is also able to assist guests with their housekeeping and maintenance needs.
Since arriving at the Navy Lodge five years ago, Marvin has used very little of her sick leave, volunteers to work through weekends and holidays and will cover for an employee last minute if needed. "She is extremely dependable and a couple times has been a lifesaver," said Mecsics.
Marvin completed all her courses on-line for Educational Institute and has received her Reservationist Certification. She is currently working on completing her PBX Operator and Front Desk Representative certifications.
The newly renovated 52-room Navy Lodge Corpus Christi offers breathtaking water views of Corpus Christi Bay. The Navy Lodge offers guests daily complimentary Breakfast To Go bag, Wi-Fi in all the rooms, playground and picnic area.
About NEXCOM
The Navy Exchange Service Command (NEXCOM) oversees 100 Navy Exchange (NEX) facilities and nearly 300 stores worldwide, 40 Navy Lodges, Ship's Stores, the Uniform Program Management Office, the Navy Clothing Textile and Research Facility and the Telecommunications Program Office. NEXCOM's parent command is the Naval Supply Systems Command. NEXCOM's mission is to provide authorized customers quality goods and services at a savings and to support quality of life programs for active duty military, retirees, reservists and their families. NEXs and Navy Lodges operate primarily as a non-appropriated fund (NAF) business instrumentality. NEX revenues generated are used to support Morale, Welfare, and Recreation (MWR) programs. In FY11, $2.7 billion in sales were generated with $42.8 million in dividends provided to Navy MWR programs.
Kristine M. Sturkie
|Also See:
Lodge Little Creek – Fort Story in Virginia Breaks Ground on 26-room
Expansion / November 2012
Lodge Gulfport in Mississippi Opens 50-Room Expansion / August 2012
Patrovic, Front Desk Clerk for the Navy Lodge Key West in Florida Named
the Navy Lodge Program's Associate of the 1st Quarter 2012 / July
Lodge Program Names its 2011 Award Winners Highlighting Outstanding
Guest Service / April 2012
(Nini) Thomas, Room Attendant at Navy Lodge Corpus Christi, Texas,
Named by the Navy Lodge Program as its Associate of the 4th Quarter 2011
/ March 2012
Island Navy Lodge in San Diego, California Holds Ground Breaking for
205-room Addition / April 2010
|Navy Exchange Service Command Recognizes Navy Lodges, Managers For Outstanding Guest Service; Navy Lodge Hawaii Named 2008 Carlson Award Winner in the Large Lodging Category / May 2009


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Thursday, August 30, 2007
- scaryice said ... (1:09 AM, August 31, 2007) :
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Stupidest Galaxy trade: Getting rid of Shavar Thomas for a draft pick. It was a steal to get him, then they gave him right back. I know they had to make room for Xavier, but they should've gotten rid of Jazic instead. He's a Yallop boy, though.
I think the most telling comment in this piece is right here.
"But it's hard for me, as an Earthquakes fan, to stomach this argument..."
Granted, some of the trades made to find cap space didn't pan out, but I think you'll find most Galaxy fans would rather keep Yallop around and let the dust settle a bit.
Well a lot of people have argued that LA is a talented but underperforming team, but it's not. It's a barely talented team that is flat out bad, but can hang with good teams when it wants to. Outside of Landon, Beckham, and maybe Xavier and Cannon, there ain't much talent on this squad. Gordon? Martino? Buddle? Vagenas? Are you kidding? Add some inexperienced defenders to your back and you've got the stew for a crap squad.
The problem is really a fundamental conflict between Yallop and Lalas. The team is, I think, the result of a compromise between the two. That is, Yallop wanted to build his club his way (like he did in San Jose), but he had to compromise with Alexi on player personnel moves and selection. The result is what you see out there. And that result ain't pretty.
I find it interesting that people are talking about Yallop not being able to handle the pressure. I was just looking at my "fouls in MLS" post, and Yallop was consistently near the top in the category of fewest fouls committed and suffered combined.
So maybe he shied away from contact or wasn't a real physical player, and that's translated into his coaching style?


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By the CNN Wire Staff
May 7, 2012 -- Updated 1347 GMT (2147 HKT) CNN.com
(CNN) -- Violence raged in Afghanistan over the last 24 hours, with reports of civilian deaths in an airstrike and soldier deaths in a bombing.
At least 14 civilians were killed and six others were injured Sunday in a coalition airstrike in Badghis province in the northwest, a senior Afghan police source said. NATO's International Security Assistance Force said an airstrike in the province killed three insurgents.
"We are aware of and are looking into the reports of civilian casualties," said Lt Col Jimmie Cummings, a spokesman for the NATO-led force.
The strike occurred in the province's Bala Murghab district, said Sharafuddin Majidi, a spokesman for the governor of Badghis province, and the police source.
In eastern Afghanistan, attackers killed three U.S. soldiers Monday, a Western official said.
The deaths occurred just south of a base in Ghazni province when an explosion hit the vehicle the soldiers were traveling in, said the official who asked to remain anonymous because he is not authorized to discuss the incident with media outlets.
Two Americans were wounded as well, the official said.
The NATO-led force reported that three service members died in the bombing.
More than 1,900 Americans and another 1,000-plus allied troops have died in the 10-year-old conflict.
On Sunday, a NATO service member was shot to death by a gunman in an Afghan army uniform in southern Afghanistan, the allied command in Kabul reported.
The attacker was killed by coalition forces who returned fire, the NATO-led force reported. An investigation was under way, it said, and no further details were immediately released.
The year has seen a number of attacks on coalition forces by Afghan forces or by insurgents who have disguised themselves as Afghan troops, fueling distrust at a critical period of the conflict.
In another attack Sunday, a roadside bomb struck a vehicle carrying U.S. troops in eastern Afghanistan, killing one American and wounding two, a Western official said. The bombing happened about 10 kilometers (6 miles) south of an outpost in Paktia province, near the Pakistani border, the official said.
CNN's Masoud Popalzai and Nick Paton Walsh in Kabul and Joe Sterling in Atlanta contributed to this report
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