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Imam W. Deen Mohammad -- the son of Elijah Muhammad, who founded the Nation of Islam -- addresses an audience in the auditorium of Wayne Community College Saturday afternoon.
DETROIT -- It isn't often that you see a speaker receive a standing ovation before he addresses an audience, but that's what happened to Imam W. Deen Mohammad in the auditorium of Wayne Community College Saturday afternoon.
Imam Mohammed, the son of Elijah Muhammad who founded the Nation of Islam, addressed the audience on the role of "Islam and Higher Education." While the Imam lightly touched on the subject of formal education, his main theme was on the moral education of mankind.
"Muhammad, the messenger of Allah, told us that 'the ink of the scholar is more precious than the blood of the martyr,'" the Imam told a warm and respectful audience of about 300 people.
"Education teaches us morality; from the simple justice of right and wrong to the higher level of morality, which we call ethics. Our scientists, whether they are political, military or economic, must eventually respect justice and morality."
While the Imam's audience was made up mainly of Muslims and was totally African American, his theme was aimed at people of all races, colors, creeds and religions; a reflection of his break from the Nation of Islam and his embrace of Islam proper.
"This man is the best kept secret in America when it comes to Muslims in America," said Dawud Walid, Executive Director of the Council on American Islamic Relations.
"When he said that the 'ink of the scholar is more precious than the blood of the martyr' he was telling us that armed struggle is not the answer. Education and morality; those two things will propel Muslims out of the condition they are in today."
According to Imam Mohammad, 73, who was born in Hamtramck, the importance of education can be seen from the very beginnings of Islam.
"The first word that God said to Muhammad was not 'God,' but 'read,'" the Imam said, as many in the audience nodded or took notes.
"The word 'Koran' means 'that which must be read.' And the Koran shows both men and women to be thinkers."(MORE)
Saturday, July 28, 2007
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On December 30, 1794, President George Washington submitted a report to Congress requesting immediate consideration for the re-occurring problems on the frontier. He respectfully asked the Congress to make a decision without encroaching upon the Legislative body: "I feel a confidence that Congress will devise such constitutional and efficient measures as shall be equal to the great objects of preserving our treaties with the Indian tribes, and of affording an adequate protection to our frontiers." A clear and distinct separation of powers existed in 1794 where both the President and Congress knew their respective roles and worked according to the powers bestowed upon each branch. Even Washington, the most beloved and respected leader in American history, knew that abuse of power was a terrible thing, sure to lead to chaos and destruction.
In contrast, no such fine lines exist between the three branches of the government today. Indeed, the Executive has no qualms about dictating terms to the Congress. Consider Barack Obama's stance on climate control: ""If Congress won't act soon to protect future generations, I will. I will direct my cabinet to come up with executive actions we can take -- now and in the future." Clearly, Obama has no problems with blurring the lines formed between the three branches of the government since the formation of the nation. His "I will direct" attitude has reared its ugly head on many other occasions be it the fiscal cliff last January or the latest "threat" of his own creation: the impending sequestration.
Yet, the disruption of checks and balances on the government is only partially Obama's fault. Obama's abuse of power is a direct result of the Congress's (and Judiciary's) continuous pandering and surrendering of their respective powers to his outrageous demands. For example, the "fiscal cliff" deal heightened by the ongoing "battle" between Obama and the GOP-more specifically House Speaker, John Boehner was an abject failure. In the end, Boehner and many others, including one time vice presidential hopeful Paul Ryan, agreed to Obama's outrageous terms to make a deal for Americans. Similarly, on the issue of amnesty for the illegal immigrants, Senator John McCain recently joked about how "bananas" would work better than putting up a fence south of the border. Despite their claims to work for Americans, these politicians are only interested in working for themselves. How else can they explain their collapse as jellyfishes in the face of adversity? With such "opposing" leaders in Congress, can anyone blame Americans for mistrusting all politicians? Precisely what is the magical hold that Obama has over the "opposition" that causes these "leaders" to easily hand over their constitutional power?
Bullying tactics. Yes, that is right. Obama has mastered the role of the ultimate bully. To be sure, he insists on a bi-partisan format to work on issues Americans face today but in reality, he is only interested in furthering his own political agenda at the expense of destroying the nation. If you have any confusion about Obama's position, please re-read the above statements. Yet, a bully is only a bully until the "victim" allows him to be a bully. The same principle applies in this case with the opposition leaders. Of course, whether they are truly "victims" or just pretend to be so for the sake of confusing Americans is another matter.
Therefore, with Obama in control and virtually no opposition from Congress, what can Americans expect in the future? Already the so-called middle-class, the one Obama so favors, suffers from lack of jobs; high gas prices and high food cost; poor healthcare options with the advent of Obamacare; competition from illegal immigrants who demand the same benefits available to citizens; and an attack on our liberties that were provided by the United States Constitution. Despite their rhetoric and propaganda, most politicians can barely relate to the "middle class." Indeed, how many "middle class" families are taking two separate million dollars, all expense paid vacations in a span of 30 days? How many "middle class" Americans are able to charge $200,000 to give a speech? How many of the New England fishermen are happy at the thought of losing their jobs at the age of 69 and starting fresh again? How many people in Detroit are proud that their city ranks as the most unsafe place to live in America? How many young men and women are thrilled at the prospect of the growing joblessness in the country? Yes, the politicians are quick to make promises but equally quick to forget them. Indeed, politicians work shamelessly against the liberties of the same Americans they vow to support.
Unfortunately, for the politicians, Americans are resilient and smart people. We will gladly place our trust in those who support our fundamental rights but we will also rise against those who disrupt the same principles. We have a rich history that shows us the difference between a great leader and an insufferable fool. As such, it becomes the duty of every American to observe our leaders carefully and hold them accountable for their actions. For if we continue down the path set by our current leadership, the only legacy we will leave behind for our children is the one that forgets Washington-a true leader and remembers Obama -the incorrigible bully.

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Remember Andrew Shirvell, the former assistant attorney general who was fired for using state resources in his obsessive stalking and harassment of a University of Michigan student leader because he's gay? Well now he's filed a wrongful termination suit against the state.
This is at least the third actions he's taken in response to the firing. He filed a complaint with the Michigan Civil Service Commission claiming the same thing and they pretty much laughed at his arguments:
"Appellant (Shirvell) has stated that he was thrown under the bus by Appellee (Department of the Attorney General) in the interests of political expediency at the altar of political correctness," the ruling stated.
"Appellee countered — accurately — that after Appellee had warned Appellant repeatedly that a bus was coming, he chose to walk out in the middle of the road, lie down and wait for the bus to roll over him."
Then he filed a defamation suit against the attorney of the guy he stalked and harassed, which was dismissed. That attorney had done such a great job that Shirvell was ordered to pay millions of dollars to her client. The lawsuit against the attorney was dismissed. But always the eager beaver, now Shirvell is going to try again (and fail, badly). He's representing himself, triggering the old saw that a lawyer who represents himself has an idiot for a client.
Deadline Detroit has the full legal complaint and it's pretty funny stuff. Like this amusing admission:
On the evening of Wednesday, February 3, 2010, Plaintiff Shirvell hosted a small campaign party at his apartment in Charlotte [ED: Michigan] for Defendant Cox's supporters. The party was one of several that took place throughout the state that night. Supporters were told to watch then-Governor Granholm's annual State-of-the-State address on television, which was to be followed by Defendant Cox doing a webcast criticizing Granholm. Unfortunately, no supporters showed-up to Plaintiff Shirvell's campaign party. When Plaintiff Shirvell informed the campaign that no one showed-up, Plaintiff Shirvell was instructed to "make it look like a party" (e.g. by throwing coats across the couch), take a picture, and then upload the photo to Facebook.
In the fall of 2005, Ave Maria School of Law's chaplain, Fr. Michael Orsi, called Defendant Ondejko into his office. During this meeting, Defendant Ondejko offered to assist Orsi in Orsi's efforts to wipe clean the hardrive
of a computer belonging to a fellow priest accused of possessing child pornography.
He's apparently trying to argue that Mike Cox, the former attorney general who was his boss and eventually fired him. is pro-gay and that's why he was fired. Mind you, Cox is one of the most virulently anti-gay elected officials Michigan has had recently. This is beyond absurd. It should also be noted that Shirvell is a graduate of the Ave Maria School of Law. And he was Cox's deputy campaign manager in 2006.
The complaint goes on and on about how much Shirvell had done for Mike Cox's political campaigns and how loyal he was, apparently unaware that this only undermines his claim that Cox fired him for political reasons rather than actual misconduct. The complaint has an almost endless series of factual claims, virtually none of which have any real relevance to the question of whether his termination was justified or not. I suspect this one will end up being dismissed too.


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Emotional Purity and Broken Heart Syndrome
Betrothal and Emotional Purity: is it Biblical?
The Way of a Man With a Maid
Bill Gothard and ATI
In my reading I frequently come across authors idolizing singleness or promoting it above marriage. Not infrequently, young people are urged to 'be content with singleness' or to take advantage of the 'gift' and 'opportunity' of singleness at precisely that time of life when they ought to be looking for potential spouses. Consider the following comments.
"...unless we are content with the Lord in singleness, we will not be content with another person in marriage." (Bill Gothard, The True Significance of The Wedding Covenant.)
"Having been discontent while single, satisfaction in marriage becomes elusive… She should enjoy the Lord with gladness and contentment. Should God send marriage, it will be a wonderful gift. For now, encourage your daughter to serve her Savior without distraction where God has placed her; that too is a beautiful gift from Him." (Brook Wayne, 'Of Princes and Fairy Tale Dreams', article available at www.biblicalbetrothal.com/)
"Are you unmarried at thirty or forty, filled with that sinking feeling that perhaps you never will find a mate? Don't be dismayed or despair. God's best gifts are never rushed. Perhaps his best for you is to remain single. Perhaps you will marry when you are fifty…. Do not waste your single years pining after what is not. Rejoice for what is. Use these years to do what you could never do if you were married. …give thanks to God for such an opportunity. …He is in control." (Michael and Judy Phillips, Best Friends for Life, Minneapolis, MI: Bethany House Publishers, 1997, p. 107.)
"For a long time I did not consider that my single status was a gift from the Lord. I did not resent it – to be frank, in my earlier idealistic perio
d I thought that because I had chosen singleness I was doing God a favor! But in later years I was severely tested again and again on that choice. Then…it gently dawned on me that God had given me a superb gift!" (Ada Lum, Single and Human, Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1976, p. 22.
"If there are singles who find the waters of singleness dark and deep, who feel, 'I sink in deep waters; the billows go over my head; all his waves go over me,' this is my message to you concerning singleness: 'Be of good cheer, my brother, my sister; I feel the bottom, and it is good.'" (Margaret Clarkson, So You're Single, Wheaton, IL: Harold Shaw, 1978, p. 11.
"…there is some warrant for thinking that the kinds of self-denial involved in singleness could make one a candidate for greater capacities for love in the age to come." John Piper and Wayne Grudem, Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood: A Response to Evangelical Feminism, Wheaton, ILL: Crossway Books, 1991, p. xviii.
While not denying that there may be elements of truth in some of the above statements, they all represent a general tendency to promoting singleness as an end in itself and even, in some cases, a devaluing of marriage by implication. In answer to this chorus of voices, I suggest Debbie Maken's book Getting Serious About Getting Married: Rethinking the Gift of Singleness. She makes a good case for the fact that it is unbiblical to be content with singleness. Also Steve Hayhow has a good article on his blog on the subject of singleness and marriage, answering those who erroneously read 1 Cor. 7:1-40 as a promotion of singleness. Finally, see my earlier post about Why I Am In Favour Of Teen Pregnancy!
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Summary: Previous research on the efficiency of option pricing is mixed. This may be because of poor data (example monthly data) or actual mispricing.
In this paper, Moore and Juh use option data from South African markets (the article contains an interesting history of these gold-dominated markets as well!), and find that while investors sort of "got it" they did misprice some and that this mispricing seems tied to the degree of competition in the market.
Specifically it appears that investors overestimated volatilty somewhat. For instance from the section on option pricing:
"Of the 112 stocks in our data set, 84 had more than half of the options quoted on them overpriced relative to Black-Scholes model prices (including 18 stocks forwhich all options written were overpriced)...."As a percentage, this mispricing seems to be tied to market competitivenes:
"Our results suggest that findings of option mispricing that rely on a broker's quotes are quite sensitive to the competitiveness of the market in which the broker operated. It is possible that differing levels of competition in the option writing market can explain the divergent findings of Boness (1964), Kruizenga (1964), Black and Scholes (1972), and Kairys and Valerio (1997)."Of course in today's market we do not always get things correctly either and the authors compare the pricing errors of today with those of the earlier period. The finding? The errors are quite comparable. In the words of Moore and Juh:
"Comparing these warrants to derivatives trading between 2001 and 2003 on the same exchange and using the same methods to compute volatility, we find that early twentieth century investors mispriced in a comparable way using a historical measure of volatility and outperformed modern JSE investors using a perfect-foresight measure of volatility. Development of the modern theory does not appear to have improved the performance of South African investors."and equally important (maybe more so) after showing that the mispricing was a function of the degree of competitiveness in the market:
"...these results suggest that a competitive market, whether through trading of derivatives on an exchange or competition among rival brokers, has been more important in driving derivativeprices to fair values than the development of a formal derivative pricing model...."Cool paper!
Derivative Pricing 60 Years before Black-Scholes: Evidence
from the Johannesburg Stock Exchange by LYNDON MOORE and STEVE JUH. This review was based on a Northwestern University working paper. The version that is forthcoming in the JF is temporarily available here.


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There is a classic saying that if you make an assumption for others, you make an ass of yourself.
Some people think because they have a certain status or think they do, they like to assume things for others. They think they know you and know you well. So des ne? Is that so? They think they are floating high in clouds by acting this way but actually they are floating in crap; because they make an ass of themselves.
Things change. People change. Some for the worse and some see the light.
Never assume things. If you are not sure then ask. Simple as pie...
If you're the one making an ass of yourself then pull your head out of the bung hole and get a life!


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The other day I was playing outside and a first grade girl came up to me. I hadn't taught first grade so they didn't really know me yet, but they had seen me around. She asked me if I had any sisters (in English) which was pretty unusual. I answered and asked her if she had any.. she said she had one if fourth grade. Then I let her jump up, as so many kids love to do, with me holding her hands so she jumps really high. She jumped a few times and said "I love you!" haha. It was cute.
Today I tried Japanese deodorant again. Bad idea. I was avoiding human contact all day out of embarrassment until I could get home and shower! >_<


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Collections include 5 unpublished manuscript
Linn, Robert M. Weather modification as a
management tool in the Florida Everglades. 1971. A paper presented
at the Second National Biological Congress, Miami Beach, Florida.
October 25, 1971. 8 pp., 27 cm.
Vance, Dale L. and Dennis E. English. Automatic
weather station: development and test. Denver, CO: Office of
Scientific System Development, U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau
of Land Management, 1977. This report is a result of work accomplished
under ARS-171 Remote Automatic Weather Station, and D-54, GOES-DCP.
53 pp., ill., bibliography, 27 cm.
Preliminary evaporation reduction studies.
Lake Hefner, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Report of a committee
of collaborators. Denver: U.S. Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner's
Office, 1957. Water quality studies, Kids Lake, Oklahoma City,
Oklahoma. 18pp. diagrs., tables. 27 cm.
Kauper, Erwin K. Some specific climatologies of the California desert. Final report to the Desert Planning Staff, Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Department of the Interior, Monitoring Services, (1979).
Contract CA-060-CT8-63, 44pp., ill., maps,
bibliography, 28cm.
Franks, James W. Cloud seeding in Alaska: a program to aid in the control and prevention of wildfires. Anchorage Bureau of Land Management, 1973. Meteorological Society, Elmendorf Air Force Base, Anchorage, Alaska, Sept. 26, 1973. 20 pp., ill., maps, bibliography, 27cm.


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Four and a half hours worth of Saturday driving brought me to the little town Jacinda lives in. I left early in the morning hoping to dodge most if not all of the wine country sightseers that plague my county; it usually results in below the speed limit tourist traffic jams. My route out of town took me just North of Calistoga on back roads towards Clear Lake. Passing through the bottom end of Lake County I headed East out of the hills. It was a somber road trip, the sky was a soft gray overcast from horizon to horizon. There wasn't a speck of blue to be seen anywhere. As I dropped down out of the Western foothills to central California flat land the trees gave way to endless farms growing everything from almonds to rice. I had the volume up on my car's stereo and I cruised along single lane roads without seeing another soul for long periods of time. I wondered what Jacinda looked like after thirteen years, all I had was my memory of her when we were both in our early twenties.
Eventually I crossed over I-5 at Williams. Further East my planned route would take me over lonely farm roads named only with a number. Out there the land is a simple grid of interconnecting roads with no real designation of any kind, farmers hauling out their produce or bringing in supplies to the ranch are the only people one would run across. Time passed slowly as the miles came and went. I was looking for an intersection at highway 99 where I would turn North into Jacinda's home town.
Arriving at her address I parked my car and killed the engine. I sat inside for a few minutes thinking of what to say when she opened her apartment door. She was expecting me, but I was ahead of schedule by a couple of hours. Realizing I was somewhat nervous and unsure of how things would unfold I sat in the car watching one of Jacinda's neighbors. She was an old black woman dressed in light blue sweatpants and sweatshirt. The old woman walked about the single story rows of apartment buildings mumbling to herself as a lit cigarette barely hung from her lower lip. Her hair was jet black, cut into a page-boy that reminded me of numerous characters from a 1930's swashbuckling adventure movie. Perhaps she was a Musketeer that escaped from an insane asylum. When I got out of my car and locked the door I decided to steer clear of the old woman and not invite any conversation. Her dialog with an invisible friend would hopefully keep her plenty busy until I was long gone anyway.
Walking between two rows of run-down first floor apartments I began scanning each door for Jacinda's number. Figuring out the ascending order on Jacinda's building I headed straight up until I stopped at her next door neighbor's concrete steps. Piled high on the final step was a large mound of half-burned and visibly wet blankets. There was also a couple shattered glass candle holders with melted wax remains mixed in with all the broken glass. It appeared as if someone had almost burned down their apartment the night before and got very, very lucky that the whole building complex did not go up in a firestorm. I had to wonder if this whole place was filled with fuck ups and meth freaks.
Knocking on Jacinda's front door I backed away and waited. There was no answer. A calico cat sat in the window peering at me silently with light blue eyes. I waited a moment and then knocked again a little more loudly. Still there was no redhead at the door. Was she asleep? Maybe she was in the shower. Maybe someone kidnapped her and tossed her body into the Feather river? I had no idea. I did get there early after all so I decided to drive around town and see what there was to see. Kill some time and then come back later. As I walked back towards the parking lot and my car the old black woman was meandering about near the street mumbling to herself in a loud tone of voice and smoking a fresh cigarette.
Nearby I found a few blocks of gold rush era buildings that housed antique stores, a thrift shop, and a book store. Most of the frontier town buildings appeared to be vacant of any businesses. I spent some time browsing in the shop windows as a slight cold breeze kicked up. The day was much colder than I would have expected, I was not wearing a warm enough coat so the chill was becoming uncomfortable. I stepped inside one of the few antique shops to warm up for a few minutes and see what they had for sale. Walking through congested aisle ways I didn't see anything interesting or worth having. The vast majority of this store's wares were junk if anything else. And severely overpriced at that. I speculated how long they would be able to survive before going out of business.
As I headed back towards the door I spotted a small collection of glass telephone pole insulators. Laughing to myself I remembered that was my vote for one of the all-time dumbest things to collect. On swing shift at work someone came up with the bright idea to hold a contest for the most useless hobby. Each of us had to make a vote before the end of that night's shift. During my lunch break I did some generic web searches for things that people liked to collect, and I stumbled across people who were into glass insulators. Some folks were so obsessed with this particular hobby that they had amassed a large photo collection of each year and manufacturer of the damned things. Other people created web sites posting insulator "sightings" on top of old crumbling wooden poles in the middle of the desert. It seemed so pointless and retarded that I made it my choice for that evening's contest. I could not remember if I won the contest that night or not.
There was a single, battered pay phone on the edge of a nearby parking lot. I pumped a couple of quarters into it and dialed Jacinda's number. Her answering machine kicked in. Guess she really wasn't home. She knew I was making the effort to drive all the way over here to see her. We planned the visit last week. Over the phone she sounded excited about the weekend reunion and told me she couldn't wait to hang out. So what the hell happened? Evidently I had a lot more time on my hands with nothing to do. Getting back in the car I drove around Jacinda's town with no destination in mind. I passed the time driving around neighborhoods getting lost and seeing if I could find my way back again. I had a greasy lunch at an old run down restaurant called The Cornucopia that back in the Seventies was most likely a Denny's. My guts weren't taking kindly to the sandwich and fries I ate. Later on I would experience an unpleasant brown cornucopia atop a toilet thanks to their bad cooking.
Afternoon hours drifted by slowly like the low hanging gray clouds above my head. I was bored out of my fucking mind. Concern for Jacinda faded as I became angry with myself for making the effort to drive all the way out here. I could have been doing anything else with my time off from work. I felt like a chump. There was no one to blame for that except myself of course. Driving back to Jacinda's place for one last try I knocked on the door and got no response. I wrote a quick note to her and placed it under a rock on her apartment steps. I wanted Jacinda to know for certain I showed up as planned. She really screwed this up by pulling a no-show performance. Then I started the four plus hours drive homeward, with luck I could get home before dark. I felt entirely stupid and somewhat depressed.


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WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge – Beginnings
Taken a week or so ago, sunrise in Central Victoria.
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Such atmospheric photos. I do hope that you return to blogging soon. I miss your news and your photos.
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Today I'm participating in There Comes a Prophet Blog Tour which is being hosted by Expresso Book Tour. Scroll down to learn more about this book and read an excerpt.
Publication date: July 9th 2012
by Double Dragon Publishing
Genre: YA Dystopian
Who among us will cast aside a comfortable existence and risk death to follow a dream?
A world kept peaceful for a thousand years by the magic of the ruling vicars. But a threat lurks from a violent past. Wizards from the darkness have hidden their sorcery in a place called the keep and left a trail of clues that have never been solved.
Nathaniel has grown up longing for more but unwilling to challenge the vicars. Until his friend Thomas is taken for a teaching, the mysterious coming-of-age ritual. Thomas returns but with his dreams ripped away. When Orah is taken next, Nathaniel tries to rescue her and ends up in the prisons of Temple City. There he meets the first keeper of the ancient clues. But when he seeks the keep, what he finds is not magic at all.
If he reveals the truth, the words of the book of light might come to pass:
"If there comes among you a prophet saying 'Let us return to the darkness,' you shall stone him, because he has sought to thrust you away from the light."
The urge to write first struck when working on a newsletter at a youth encampment in the woods of northern Maine. It may have been the night when lightning flashed at sunset followed by northern lights rippling after dark. Or maybe it was the newsletter's editor, a girl with eyes the color of the ocean. But he was inspired to write about the blurry line between reality and the fantastic.
Using two fingers and lots of white-out, he religiously typed five pages a day throughout college and well into his twenties. Then life intervened. He paused to raise two sons and pursue a career, in the process becoming a well-known entrepreneur in the software industry, founding several successful companies. When he found time again to daydream, the urge to write returned. There Comes a Prophet is his first novel in this new stage of life.
David and his wife split their time between Cape Cod, Florida and anywhere else that catches their fancy. He no longer limits himself to five pages a day and is thankful every keystroke for the invention of the word processor.
Author Links:
David's Website / Goodreads / Facebook / Twitter
"The street-smart science of LOOPER meets the cold, just-the-facts voice of DOUBLE INDEMNITY in this edgy, future-noir thriller that will have you holding your breath, looking over your shoulder, and begging for more." —Leigh Talbert Moore, author of The Truth About Faking, The Truth About Letting Go, and Rouge
"Do you owe more than your life is worth? No worries. A more deserving person than you can benefit from that excess life—and someone else will get paid with it. Enter the Debt Collector." —Dianne Salerni, author of We Hear the Dead, The Caged Graves, and The Eighth Day (HarperCollins 2014)


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Hello, I'm using Aris Express on Windows 10 creators update and no file dialogs is usable: every dialog (open, save as, export, etc.) causes an exception and the program crashes.
Attached an error log related to this problem.
P.S. this is a link with an explanation: seems a java problem https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8178873 (link is external)
Hi Stefano,
thank you for you message. You are right, thank you for the link.
As far as they write in https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8180765, this is fixed for the next JRE version.
I hope they bring this update soon.
Hi Frank, thanks for your reply.
I think that the problem can't be solved so easily because they (openjdk) will fix it but there are a lot of jdk/jre around and I see that in the latest version 2.4c a custom version is used:
JRE version: Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (7.0_65-b19) (build 1.7.0_65-b19).
May I suggest a solution ?
In my code, to avoid that problem I added this:
UIDefaults defaults = UIManager.getDefaults( );
defaults.put("FileChooser.useSystemExtensionHiding", false);
setting this property allows the filechooser to works as expected
Really hope that this can help
Hi Stefan.
you could do us a favor if you could test something for us...
There is quite a huge amount of Windows 10 users having this problem right now.
But not _all_ users of the Windows 10 creators update. Unfortunately, on our machines, we cannot reproduce this issue.
Nevertheless, we actually did that fix you proposed.
But since we cannot reproduce it, we need you to do so :-)
Since bringing out an update for the windows installable file if more effort, and since it is faster to do this update on the webstart version, we tried to update this version first.
So, could you test this on your machine, please?
That would be great! To do so:
- open the java panel in your system panel.
- in the first page, tab "general", click the setting button and delete _all_ files (including all three options)
- download and start the webstart version with " http://download.ariscommunity.com/express.jnlp"
With that version: is it possible to open the file chooser dialog?
I click 'later' and nothing happens (as for all the other option)
I repeat, I have latest version already installed, and a couple of other versions too, jre and jdk: I'm a java developer.
I hope to have some time tomorrow to check better what happens.
Hi Stefan,
well, anyway, thank you so far. I noticed that you are a developer since you gave us the hint with the settings. This change is actually what we have done in a hotfix for the webstart version (previously to bringing out the 2.4d for Apple users).
At this moment, we did not have any other complains for this issue. But searching the internet, you can find a huge(!) list of Windows users with the creators update complaining.
Howover, thanks for contributing.
Hello Frank,
I finally found some time to make other attempt to run the jnlp and I can confirm that version 2.4d works fine on my system.
File 'open' dialog works as expected, and 'save as' too.
Now i'm waiting for the next executable distribution.


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Winging along at an altitude somewhere between the Bluebird of Happiness and the Chicken of Depression... random esoterica from writer Chad Love celebrating the joys of fishing, hunting, books, guns, gundogs, music, literature, travel, lonely places, wildness, history, art, misanthropy, scotch and the never-ending absurdity of life.
Monday, April 26, 2010
Lonely Roads and Field Trials
The middle of Kansas is a pretty good haul from my house, but on Saturday I decided to forego domestic responsibility, fishing and turkey hunting to go watch the Jayhawk Retriever Club's spring field trial in Kingman, Kansas. I hadn't been to a field trial in a while, but Bill Burks, the breeder of my late male Lewey, would be running Lewey's dam Dinah as well as his littermate, Judy, and I wanted to watch them compete against the black dogs.
I had trained once or twice with Bill when Lewey was younger and had watched both his dogs compete at the American Chesapeake Club field trial specialty in 2007, but hadn't spoken with Bill since, at least until I called to tell him Lewey had died. I originally bought Lewey from Bill with the intention of getting into field trials, and then - as it so often does - life sort of got in the way of those plans. I've always regretted that and have carried around some guilt that whatever potential Lewey may have had as a trial dog was ultimately wasted by my having owned him.
So it was with a degree of ambivalence that I decided to go. I love watching field trials and I really wanted to see Bill's dogs, but going would no doubt also be a little reminder of my personal failings. But, I figured, that was just my cross to bear and it might even do me some good.
So I loaded up and hit the road, heading north on those wonderful and forgotten little plains state highways that never quit receding into the horizon no matter how far or fast you drive. Up into that wild, lonely, starkly beautiful and largely unpeopled border country along the state line. But there are reminders, if you care to notice them, that it wasn't always so lonely, so remote. Right below the Kansas border I stopped, as is my tradition, at a little roadside rest area from another era, back before the primacy of the interstates.
I discovered this little rest area years ago on one of my many random explorations of blank areas on the road atlas. It sits on what must be one of the least-traveled state highways I know of, a windswept ribbon of asphalt that originates in nowhere, transects a helluva lot of nothing, and has its terminus at the junction of empty and lost. My kind of road, and my kind of rest stop. Not much in the way of amenities (I once found a prairie rattler curled up under the picnic table) but it's got a helluva view...
I don't doubt that a few local teenagers have consummated their love on that table, but I'm guessing the last time it hosted an actual picnic was some time prior to the launch of Sputnik 1. If you poked around, you'd notice - mixed in amonst the buffalo grass, soapweed and sage - clumps of iris gone wild. At some point this little roadside stop was a homestead. The home, its occupants and their dreams are long gone. All that's left are the irises, the wind and the occasional - very occasional - traveler. I sat at this rest stop one spring day on a storm chase, waiting for the weather to pop. For the better part of two hours I ate my lunch, read a book, listened to the weather radio, watched the sky, poked around the rocks and waited. In all that time not one car passed by on the road. It's lonely country...
But I had a trial to watch, so I snapped a few pics and hit the road. Eventually I made it to Kingman, met up with Bill and watched some of the trial. I had a good time...
Bill and Dinah waiting to run in the amateur
Bill sending Dinah on a blind in the open...
Judy in the holding blind at the amateur. About 20 pounds lighter, a couple inches shorter, but in every other way the spitting image of Lewey. I might have teared up just a little, but holding a camera to your face helps hide that.
And Bill getting ready to send Judy on a mark in the first series of the amateur.
Unfortunately Judy went out in that series, but Dinah went on to Jam the amateur. Rain forced me to leave early, but I'm glad I went. I didn't know how I'd feel, because I still miss Lewey terribly. But it was nice to see a little bit of him this weekend.
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Sounds like a good Saturday to me. Don't beat yourself up over the lack of field trialing, either. Lewey got to do what he loved and he got to do it with you, and that's pretty much all that matters to a dog. They don't give a crap about ribbons and trophies.ReplyDelete
Love that first photo, by the way. Amazing palette of colors. The bigness of the prairies always makes me stop and stare.
The nearest place like tat to me is probably Mongolia, but there is a picnic table in the park.............ReplyDelete


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Well, it's still a shawl, actually. But it turned out huge, so you can play with it a little. For example, you can turn it into a hood. Pull the hood down, and you get a cowl. Perfect for every hat-hater:)
The yarn I used for this shawl is 60% mohair and 40% acrylic, about one kilometer:) I like it, and I'll definitely knit from it again. It's mohair, but not very hairy. And very delicate, so it shouldn't irritate sensitive skin.
And I like the stripes it forms:)


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There are a lot of local activities going on this week leading into the weekend!
Hello Craft's Summit of Awesome is going on now right here in Portland. The Summit closes its lineup of workshops with a Day of Craft and party. Crafty activities will continue into the weekend with the Show of Awesome at Doug Fir Lounge (Crafty Wonderland, one of the sponsors, used to host monthly craft shows here).
Friday through Sunday is Oregon's Black Sheep Gathering, and annual fiber fest, featuring a livestock and wool show, contests, workshops, and a trade show. You can find Bumblebirch stitch markers at the Kathee Nelson Art Yarn booth. Kathee's a fellow local independent dyer and has the loveliest silk yarn. If you're heading out to Eugene, be sure to stop by her booth!
Saturday is the famous WWKIP Day (that's World Wide Knit in Public Day). You won't be able to avoid seeing knitters walking around with their projects on display in cities all over the world! Many of them will participate in photo scavenger hunts, such as the one organized by Sock Knitters Anonymous, a Ravelry group.
Bumblebirch has a bit of crafty going on in the studio this week...a new colorway is in the works. Check in again soon for a sneak preview!


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1) "It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents--except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness."
2) Attach sts of left front to sts at top of sleeve cap using short rows as follows:
Row 1 [WS]: Work in pattern to 1 st before first marker; p2tog, removing marker and replacing it on left needle after p2tog is worked; turn work.
Row 2 [RS]: Work in pattern to end.
Repeat these 2 rows 3 times more.
Next Row [WS]: Work in pattern to 1 st before first marker; p2tog, removing marker; p to next marker, slip marker. Proceed to Row 1 of next section. 5 sts remain for left sleeve cap.
3) 'With a leap that startled Lucy and almost pulled her off her feet, Penny dashed forward the last few yards and began to bark ferociously. The pile seemed to shiver for a moment – and then something small and brown jumped up. Frozen, it stood hissing at them with small dark eyes that glittered and a mouth almost too full of sharp teeth. Whatever animal it was, it was quite large – Lucy thought it seemed almost Penny's height – and it seemed to clutching the bundle of rags. Almost as if it was gnawing the collection of greasy rags and tattered clothes . . . Penny's barking ratcheted up even louder and she lunged to the end of her leash. In the confines of the alley, the sound echoed off the brick pavement and walls and seemed to sound like two or three large dogs.
For a moment, Lucy stared straight into an oddly bare face full of teeth and hate and then the animal – what was it? – turned and dashed halfway down the alley, jumped the low wall and escaped through the backyards down the block.
"Hey, who's out here?" A voice called from above. "Hello?"'
Okay - the answer is both 2) & 3). Two is a section of the Turn of the Glass cardigan. The section where I went wrong. Yes, I was knitting in church and I got caught up and by the time I got home, I discovered a serious problem. The good thing about this? If you contact the pattern's author, Kathleen Dames, she emails you back with some help!
Three is from my first entry into NaMoWrimo! That's where you write a 50,000 novel in a month. Now, I hit that word count on Sunday but in order to finish my story, I was writing until 1:15 a.m. this morning. It's not the best story - but then, I was only "In it, to Finish It!" Basically, you write, write, write and don't bother to edit because you are forcing yourself to get 50,000 words.
This writing challenge was developed by The Office of Letters and Light and their motto is "Thirty Days and Nights of Literary Abandon." Yes, I am lucky in that Mr. Daisy enjoys cooking the Thanksgiving turkey because I spent most of the holiday weekend writing.
I haven't been writing much since graduate school and it was fun, albeit tiring, month!
Now, it's time to finally catch up with my Christmas movie viewing (I've been saving the ones from the Hallmark Channel since before Thanksgiving!) and my other knitting projects - perhaps a few Christmas presents?
(#1 is, of course, the opening lines of Edward George Bulwer-Lytton's 1830 novel, Paul Clifford. Its distinctive awfulness is what inspired the The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest. Their motto is "Where "WWW" means "Wretched Writers Welcome" and I recommend their site!)


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According to Omnicom's Brodeur, more than 75 percent of American journalists look to blogs for story ideas, to get a new angle on an existing story or to gain a better understanding of a story's context. Just under 70 percent read blogs on a regular basis, with more than 20 percent spending more than an hour each day doing so. Nearly 28 percent have their own blogs.
Micah Sifry is not impressed with the Clinton's campaign boast of a 1 million person mailing list because "the conversation is all one way." In a nod to the Obama campaign, Sifry thinks it is more powerful for a campaign to develop a network that will reach out to their own contacts -- moving away from an "impersonal mass email" to a "personal appeal from a friend."


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The conventional wisdom is that when people have a good time,
they smile.
Well, it's probably a good index,
especially in figuring out kids' reactions to things.
I remember my niece Emeline always used to look very withdrawn in all of her birthday pictures in her young years.
I don't think she was comfortable being the center of attention.
And the niece in these photos likewise is expressing her reactions.
I took her to Lagoon yesterday.
She had been very excited to go,
and she said she liked it.
Except for the shrieks from various rides
and the rattles of the roller coaster.
She regarded most of the rides as "scary"
but did get on the kiddie boats and the little planes.
She SAID she liked them,
but her expressions of liking, if so, are a bit unusual...


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Saturday, June 5, 2010
Series Continued - Patience
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she does indeed look oh so patient - i can see it in her face! How did you capture that so perfectly! She is lovely~~
she's lovely :)ReplyDelete
She's contemplating......"How long must I be patient???" (that said from a girl with very little patience!)ReplyDelete
I love this long series you're doing--really fleshes out the portraits. :)
Miss you!
Ahhh..... she looks patient!! Lovely piece!!ReplyDelete
I hope you're having a great time!!
My goodness, Silke! You were QUITE busy before you left for vacation. I love this piece, too - patience. Something I NEED to remember! LOL Great work! TheresaReplyDelete
I've really enjoyed seeing this series. It's hard to pick just one, but I think my fave is Care. I like the way the little vines grow around her.ReplyDelete
Hope you have thoroughly enjoyed your trip! Look foward to catching up with you after you've returned and had a chance to catch your breath!
I want to be Silke when I grow up. Oh wait, I am much older than you...one can always hold hope.ReplyDelete
♥♥♥ De-Lovely♥♥♥
**kisskiss** Deb
Dear Silke, yes she waits paitently, and so sweet.-Love her,dear.ReplyDelete
Hugs, Dorthe
These are just wonderful Silke!ReplyDelete
So beautiful! The colors bring joy in the patience and the stars are ever light. Blessings.ReplyDelete


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Tuesday, 17 November 2015
Cross Stitch Haul
I was looking for a cross stitch magazine. I rarely buy magazines these days but on the cusp of a new hobby, I thought I'd treat myself. I decided on a Christmas edition of Ultimate Cross Stitch. It was a bit more expensive at £7.99 than the others on sale but I thought it was worth it for the 105 charts it contains. There's some large ones and plenty of small ones so I'm sure there'll be plenty I'll be able to manage even though I'm a novice.
I had a quick flick through the magazine whilst I was in the shop and saw these Scandinavian love hearts designs which can be made in to cards. I thought they were lovely so I decided to buy some aida and some red stranded cotton to give one a go.
I've only even used aida but I'm quite keen to have a go with evenweave fabric, it doesn't seem quite so stiff, so I bought some of that too. I'm not sure how I'll get on with it as it seems harder with this to see where the needle should go than with aida but I'll give it a try. My eyesight is rapidly deteriorating. I was given glasses three years ago but I know they're no longer strong enough so I'll have to book myself an appointment at the opticians. A voucher for a free eye test was pushed through my mum and dad's letterbox yesterday so that will do very nicely.
I also bought a new embroidery hoop as the one I have left marks when I used it. I'd really like a snap frame before I start my next large project so that I don't have to use a hoop at all.
It's quite exciting embarking on a new hobby, I just wish there were more hours in the day so that I had more time to do everything I want to do. One thing's for sure, I'll never be bored.
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That does look a good haul Jo ... and just right for Christmas too!ReplyDelete
I do like the colour in the love hearts ... red is such a wonderfully warm colour.
It is important to look after our eyes so good job on making the decision to get an eye check.
Happy Tuesday Wishes.
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I'm not sure I'll get anything done for this Christmas but I hope to be better prepared for next year. I've been meaning to get my eyes checked for a while so the free eye test voucher will spur me on.Delete
I am hoping to try this out in the new year, there is no chance of trying before then, too busy sewing.ReplyDeleteReplies
There's so many things I want to do but I just don't have time. I could do with a few extra hours in the day.Delete
I stopped doing cross stitch when I couldn't focus without glasses. Normally I can see near too but as I age the focus is starting to go. Perhaps I should put those glasses on and start the hobby up again. As you say there are not enough hours in the day.ReplyDelete
I use glasses now for any close work but I definitely need something stronger, getting old is a drag. I'm loving cross stitch, I'm looking forward to starting a new project.Delete
Good luck, it is addictive, start small, get a couple of projects done then move to bigger stuff. I do't buy kits, I keep in different fabrics and loads (and I mean loads) of colours, they collect up over the years.ReplyDeleteReplies
I don't intend to start anything beyond my capabilities, that's why I thought this magazine a good place to start. I'd like a thread box so that I can start collecting colours, perhaps I'll put that on my Christmas list.Delete
I can't wait until I get some more time to start a hobby. I'm desperate to learn how to patchwork.ReplyDeleteReplies
I love the look of patchwork, that's something else I'd like to learn. If only there were more hours in the day.Delete
I hope that you really enjoy your new cross stitching hobby! It is a lovely thing to do isn't it, the red and white hearts look especially beautiful don't they. xxReplyDeleteReplies
It's always good to learn something new, I think cross stitch is quite relaxing so I'm looking forward to getting stuck in to a new project. I think the red and white design is quite striking.Delete
It's been a few years since I did cross-stitch but I always enjoyed doing it. Maybe I should dig it out and do it again - assuming my new spex are up to it!ReplyDeleteReplies
I think a break is as good as a rest, you'l probably really enjoy giving it a go again. I'm hoping that once I get some new glasses, my eyesight will be much better.Delete
Hope you enjoy your new hobby. I also find that anything other than Aida is too hard to see these days. I think I showed some cross stitch I did and had framed for the local show back in March 2013, so yes have done a little bit and still have a couple of tiny ones DD bought me many years ago, so maybe should pull those out and finish off and also one that needs framing from way back in 2000. I'm not sure if you've a timber hoop which if stained, do sometimes leave a mark. I find the plastic ones don't do that, but just leave an indentation which comes out with a gentle wash and iron. Have fun and take care.ReplyDeleteReplies
I really want to try evenweave as I find aida really stiff, however, I may find that I can't work with it. At least I'll have given it a go though. I think the clip frames look really good as they don't grip across the design, I'll have to see how big my next project is and see what I decide.Delete
Ah the eyes. I have worn glasses for years but not all the time now I have varifocals and find myself nodding my head all the time working out which bit of the lense to look through! That cross stitch magazine looks great, I love the Scandinavian ones I hope you share your projects :)ReplyDeleteReplies
My glasses are just for close work but I can tell that my distance vision is deteriorating too so I'm dreading going to the opticians, I can see me coming out with glasses for both so varifocals might be on my agenda too. There's some lovely charts in the magazine, quite a few I'd like to have a go at so I'll definitely share them when they're done.Delete
I've done some tiny cross stitch buttons for the #stitchingsanta and thoroughly enjoyed it after a break of some twenty odd years! I used fine weave linen which is so tiny that I could hardly see the holes even WITH my glasses:)ReplyDeleteReplies
I bet the buttons are beautiful. I can imagine how hard it would be to see properly with fine weave linen, I think I'd need an industrial strength magnifier to work with that.Delete
They turned out beautifully - I'll share them on the blog soon:)Delete
I look forward to seeing them, they sound really lovely.Delete
Have fun! Flighty xxReplyDeleteReplies
I certainly will. It's always lots of fun embarking on a new hobby.Delete
You'll never get bored with hobbies like this! I like cross stitch too and wish I have more crafting time so I can do more cross stitch projects. I'm interested to see how you're getting on with the even weave fabric. I've only ever used aida before. Enjoy! XReplyDeleteReplies
My list of hobbies keeps growing, I just don't have enough time to keep up with them all now. I haven't had a go with the evenweave fabric yet but I'll do an update once I've tried it.Delete
How exciting, Jo. I love that you're so into a new hobby. The Scandinavian hearts are lovely and will be a pretty addition to your home. Enjoy yourself!ReplyDeleteReplies
There's so many new things I want to try, if only there were more hours in the day. I'm loving cross stitch, I'm just hoping that my eyes will hold out, just one of the drawbacks of aging.Delete
I prefer Aida, only because the squares are easier to stitch on. Having said that, even weave gives a lovely finish. Nearly time for my cross stitch decorations to come out! I love the hearts; they look like beautiful cards already.ReplyDeleteReplies
I may be back to aida if I don't manage to see the holes with evenweave, we'll have to see. I'd like to stitch some Christmas decorations but they won't be ready for this year, perhaps I'll have some to hang next year.Delete
Good luck with your new hobby. I like the patterns which are just worked in one colour, the simplistic patterns can look stunning.ReplyDelete
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I like the one colour patterns too, I think they give a great effect. I'm looking forward to stitching up the Scandinavian designs.Delete
have fun - I tend to do lots of cross stitching over summer. I love the Scandinavian designs too and like the look of the new mag as well.ReplyDeleteReplies
I think the summer light would be better for my eyesight, it's a strain to see in the dreary days we're having just now. I'm really pleased with the magazine, there's lots of things I'd like to have a go at in there so it was well worth the money.Delete
I think the last time I came across cross stitching was high school. I liked it. :)ReplyDeleteReplies
I don't remember doing anything like cross stitch at school, I wish I had though, and I wish I'd taken more notice in my sewing classes, although we didn't actually have very many.Delete
I like those Scandinavian designs too! How exciting to start a new hobby. I used to do a lot of cross stitching before I had children. These days crochet has taken over! If you can, get yourself a little bendy craft light with a daylight bulb, they are invaluable for sorting out very similar colours, I wouldn't be without mine. It has a magnifying glass attachment too, so useful, as my eyes are not what they once were either. xxReplyDeleteReplies
It is exciting starting something new. I've been looking at those magnifying lights, I think they're definitely the way to go, especially during winter when the natural light is really bad.Delete


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|The Graham Hotel Lobby
A few weeks ago, I attended a birthday party on the rooftop of The Graham Hotel, located in Georgetown. It was my first time stopping in, although the hotel celebrated its grand opening in the Spring of 2013. It was previously known as the Monticello Hotel but after an extensive renovation, it has been revamped and renamed after Alexander Graham Bell, who was once a resident of the neighborhood. I was pleasantly surprised by the beautiful decor that greeted me in the lobby, as well as the chic design and styling throughout the rest of the hotel. I was so impressed with The Graham's level of customer service and the hors d'oeuvres served to our group, my date and I left the party early and decided to have dinner in the hotel restaurant, AGB. The menu offered a varied array of American fare, from grilled cheese and tomato soup to braised short rib. We ended up ordering the lobster roll and the steak frites. The food was delicious and being that we sat down right at 5pm, we were lucky to have the space all to ourselves and thus were able to riddle our server with lots of questions about the menu, the restaurant and the hotel. I am totally adding this to my list of "staycation" hotels in the city and I will definitely be a fixture on their rooftop next summer. Check out the photos below.
|The Graham hotel
|The Graham Lobby.
|Sitting area.
|Lounge area in the hotel's restaurant ABG.
Photo my own.
|The Graham Rooftop Bar and Lounge
*All photos courtesy of The Graham Hotel unless otherwise indicated.


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it's weird. don't you think it's weird?
no. we've been preparing for this forever. i don't think it's weird at all.
i don't mean like, weird weird, just weird in the way that it's suddenly really happening.
no... i don't think it's weird.
It is weird, though. it's weird to watch this phase of your life slowly coming to an end. in that sense, he's right. we have been preparing for it for a long time, and it's not coming any faster. but it is coming. i've spent the past five years of my life in the college-girl stage. i've stayed up late, made mistakes, not eaten enough, made big decisions, watched endless tv series, procrastinated papers, made life long friends, recognized real friends from fake ones, had broken hearts, broken peoples hearts, moved into five different places to live, tried new things, got fired, got hired, passed tests, laid in bed for far too long...and suddenly i'm here. about to start the new chapter.
he's right, he is. we're prepared. i'm ready. he's ready. but i still think it's weird. not in the bad weird way. just in the way that something we have known was going to happen for our whole lives - our whole lives - is about to happen in a week. it's a good weird. a fantastic weird. we made it through this part of our paths. we made our mistakes separately, changed separately, learned separately, found happiness separately, and eventually grew together. like our paths were slowly getting closer and closer together until they just - bump! right into each other.
i'm ready for the adventure of it all. for us to collide our paths with other people in the future, to learn and grow together, and just add new things to the mix as we go along. it's quite the ride, this life we have. but i have enough tickets to last forever, and i plan on using them.
p.s. what should i blog about these days? does love get annoying? if you have suggestions i'll take them.


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Naseeruddin Shah
Naseeruddin Shah is a splendid Bollywood and theater actor, director and a prominent figure of Indian parallel cinema. He has appeared in many drama and plays and won numerous awards throughout his acting career. Naseeruddin Shah has made his career debut in 1975 with B-town movie Nishant. From his very first on screen performance, he has proved his potential in acting. Later, he followed in several movies like Manthan, Bhumika, Sparsh, Karma, Chakra, Umrao Jaan, Aakrosh, Aadhaarshila, Ardh Satya and many more.


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Facebook already includes couples in profile pages. The users can learn their status, but the social network goes even further. When a loved one is mentioned, a special page will be created for the couple.
Facebook page offers a Couple. The latter does not correspond to an account. The social network just gather the information on this page for two people. This concept would be available very soon in France according to the company. The information will be different then displayed in a diary. Visitors will be able to view videos, pictures or articles of two people when their names are displayed. Currently, the data are pretty thin on this concept. We can ask ourselves if this page is automatically created when the status informed, will he the agreement of both partners or only one? A concept that can be quite confrontational causing many problems within a couple.
Privacy issue?Currently, users can inform their relationship, but the partner receives a notification. It must be accepted that the word appears. Special page torque may follow the same operation. Another looks much more complex. These data confidentiality, hoping that Facebook takes steps to set the page torque.
Otherwise, the paper brings together lots of information about both partners could be made public, which would be a real problem of confidentiality. Apparently, the company Mark Zuckerberg said it would be possible to control everything that is published. It will require patience to get more details on this new Facebook page which is already available in the United States.
You have read this article with the title Facebook: The couple will have a special page with their news. You can bookmark this page URL http://slowapisanenawodzie.blogspot.com/2012/11/facebook-couple-will-have-special-page.html. Thanks!


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Never forget: "Jism & Self-Splatter."
Never forget: "Bored Kids on Ecstasy."
Jim 11:57 PM
(quoted from Jim Behrle's blog)
Do you remember "Jism and Self-Splatter"? This was a comment made about blogging by some poor, misinformed and misguided list writer.
I don't know if anybody except me, Jim and Laura (and maybe not even Laura) knows what this refers to: the first time I called Laura "Adorable" on -fait accompli-Jim's comment was that it sounded like "a bored kid on ecstacy."


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A Rather Pleasant Site has come a long way since its inception. We've gone from a heavy focus on content generation to a more lax attitude that focuses more on promotion and marketing. We're far from the professionalism of well known web sites focused on music/lit/game promotion, but still trying to achieve something apart from the typical coalition of writers or a single writer blogging away at a whim.
It's not hard to notice a discrepancy in our goals, mission statement, and actual accomplishments. We aim to be something that simply hasn't been fully conceptualized yet, much less actualized. We claim to focus on independent music, games, and literature, yet our focus is spread unevenly throughout and our interpretation of the word independent can be somewhat hazy at times. Our actual accomplishments seem to amount to little more than odd musings, somewhat intriguing ideas, and disorganized rants in the areas of literature, games, and music respectively. Although I have often wondered at the practical direction of aRPS, it's easy to see it fall apart right here, right now.
I have no intention of abandoning A Rather Pleasant Site. However, I can't afford to delude myself into having priorities that I do not actually have. Ever since I took over from Reogan, I've been trying to formalize who and what we are with a bigger emphasis on logistics. I realize now that this has its benefits, but is not entirely within the spirit of A Rather Pleasant Site as stated within its very title. Our imaginations are filled with thoughts that entertain us and engage us. The way we perceive music, games, and literature is a product of who we are. We like to share this with you because it is amusing--it is pleasant. Unfortunately, limited resources, time, and priorities have left us without many pleasant thoughts to share. The self-induced complexities of day to day life overwhelm our desire to unpredictably pioneer our imaginations in a way that is capable of being conveyed to a reader.
Where do we go from here? This is the question that I'm always left asking. I honestly don't know. I'm still set on moving off the blogger format and into something where content generation is no longer the biggest concern. I want to organize our thoughts so that they are best conveyed to you. We've made commitments. We're not going anywhere. Unfortunately, we've taken that too literally. Let's be pleasantly engaging. It's time to start taking our mediocrity seriously.
We're moving at the speed of a snail right now, but stick around and in a year or two we might actually be in a slightly different place. No matter how long it takes, we'll get the job done. Stay pleasant. Thanks for reading.
Thursday, June 27, 2013
A Mediocre Pleasantry
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Breanna and JJ are sooo lucky to have not only their grandparents to spend time with (which they LOVE doing), but they also have 3 great-grandparents (on my side of the family, there are more on Jay's side) that they get to spend time with! Aren't they lucky little kiddos!!
Here is a picture from last weekend of the kids with their "greats".In true Breanna fashion, she has her early moring face on......she IS NOT a morning person!


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Friday, June 19, 2015
2 comments:
- Raz Raxxaffian said...
It may take several shots to make a noticeable difference. Pain relief from steroids is sometimes slow to start and takes repeating for full effect. I have experienced better relief after my second round.
Doc says we'll do another one. If that doesn't put things right then arthroscopy will be next.
I hope you don't have to take it that far and get better with just the injections. Like you, I spent the last years of my working career crawling and cavorting in cable bundles and sub flooring, which can really aggravate the joints.
Best wishes for a full recovery.
P.S. would still like a pic of the penny farthing!
- June 20, 2015 at 11:45 AM
- Will said...
I would suggest checking with a physiatrist(sp?) (sports medicine). These doctors specialize in joint problems of athletes, mostly. Check with the sports teams in your area for possible referrals.
About twenty years ago, a friend had a loose shoulder joint. They used some sort of heat production to shrink the connective tissue, which fixed most of the joint problem for him. May have still been an R&D process at that time, by a big name Sports Medicine group here in the Bay Area.
- June 26, 2015 at 7:52 PM


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The past few days have been a treasure trove of JA-related Twitter animosity. In no particular order, here are some of our favorites:
amykish: @juliaallison who are u
richardtong7: Photo: juliaallison: fergalicious. tumblr.com/xew1nn6ng
tiffanywen: At julia's first time at noch's-@Tiffanywen: you're going to wait in this line?! @juliaallison: oh honey, i don't wait in lines
LinaMariePony: julia allison's a douche with a capital BAG
alanajoy: @juliaallison you have your very own techxpert... ask her. or if you hold down the home button and shove it up your ass that might help? xo
alanajoy: @juliaallison oh STFU: you realize you have something 2 prove and still feel u have something 2 prove? so DEEP. awareness isnt change, kiddo
brianvan: @juliaallison serious answer: usually it's something to address with a therapist. Normal goal-setting in adults follows a different pattern
alanajoy: @juliaallison you're disgusting. yes, i said. some things are OFF LIMITS and someones Cancer treatment is one of those things
urbanredneck: If Julia Allison has an expiration date can it be NOW? That moron literally just admitted she relies solely on her looks. I'm disgusted.
sharemefg: to pull a Julia Allison is to go to a pretend tech conference and pretend its real


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Brazil vs Germany World Cup 2014: Latest news updates, score and result, with our live minute-by-minute match report of the semi-final game at Estádio Mineirão, Belo Horizonte on Tuesday, July 8, 2014, kick-off 21.00 (BST) Joachim Loew expects his Germany side to face a battle against tough-tackling Brazil when football's titans clash in Tuesday's World Cup semi-final with the host nation desperate to win the title for injured superstar Neymar.
Germany want to avenge their 2002 final defeat to Brazil by knocking the hosts out in Belo Horizonte to reach Sunday's final in Rio de Janeiro.
Brazil's quest to win a sixth title on the home soil, meanwhile, has been dealt a huge blow as they will not only be missing top scorer Neymar, but also suspended captain Thiago Silva after his appeal against the booking he received in the quarter-final win over Colombia was rejected on Monday.
Neymar suffered a fractured vertebra towards the end of his side's bruising 2-1 win over the Colombians on Friday.
Brazil paid the price for their rough treatment handed out to James Rodriguez as Colombia met fire-with-fire before Juan Zuniga's challenge on Neymar left the Selecao star in hospital.
The hosts committed a tournament high 31 fouls against their fellow South Americans and Loew is hoping Mexican referee Marco Rodriguez, who missed Luis Suarez's bite on Giorgio Chiellini early in the competition, doesn't allow the game to get out of hand.
"I hope the referee Rodriguez will clamp down, because I have seen in the last few matches that Brazil's physical energy is going beyond of what we see in Europe," said Loew.
"If the games had been played in Europe, none of the 22 players would have finished the matches."
Brazil boss Luiz Felipe Scolari admitted his side's passage to the last four hadn't been in the image of his country's once famed 'Jogo Bonito' style, but insisted winning on home soil was the most important thing.
"We are doing everything step-by-step, not always in the most beautiful way but we are getting closer to playing the final at home and so everything is as scheduled."
And Scolari has urged his squad to use Neymar's absence as an extra motivating factor.
"The way Neymar spoke to the players made them understand that he had done his share and now we need to do our share.
"Myself, the other players, all the Brazilian people. This match is very important, it could take us to the final.
"We are playing for our country, it is everything we imagined and dreamed of, and also for Neymar."
Willian is one of the prime candidates to replace Neymar and the Chelsea midfielder insists Brazil still have the quality to overcome the Germans.
"We know the quality that we have. We are all very sad at losing him but we are now even stronger after what happened and we can continue to pursue our dream."
Remarkably for two World Cup powerhouses with 24 semi-final appearances between them, this will be just their second meeting in the competition after the 2002 final.
"It's an honour and a challenge to play against the hosts, but it have would be better to play Brazil in the final," said German midfielder Bastian Schweinsteiger.
"It doesn't matter how much experience you have, to play the hosts in this football-crazy country is something special."
With Silva suspended, Germany are expected to meet a familiar face in centre-back Dante, which could help both sides, according to his Bayern Munich team-mate Schweinsteiger.
"I hope he starts, we know him very well and know his strengths and weaknesses, but he also knows how we play," said Schweinsteiger.
Germany are desperate to end their 24-year wait for a fourth World Cup title, while Loew's side are determined to avoid a defeat which would mean the third-place play-off – for the third consecutive time.
"I really do not need that, that's something I want to rule out," joked captain Philipp Lahm, who was on losing teams in semi-finals at the 2006 and 2010 World Cup finals.
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Under the Sea – Soft Coral and Sponges in the Gulf of Mexico
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This photograph was taken during a recent dive by a team of scientists on behalf of Greenpeace. They have been exploring ecosystems in the Gulf of Mexico, in an attempt to assess and predict the damages caused by the BP oil disaster. Precious marine life is not only affected by the oil itself, but by toxic chemical dispersants used to clean up the spill.
If you could save just one species of sea creature, what would it be? Can you think of one petrochemical product that you can live without, to help protect that creature?
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Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes' Final Moments... Should This Video Have Been Released?
This video aired on VH1's "Rock Docs" special that featured Left Eye from TLC. Her friend in the passenger's seat caught the accident on camera.
It's kinda eerie. She was the only one wearing a seatbelt (lap belt), yet she was the only one killed; None of her friends really know what caused the crash, yet they all screamed before the car veered off the road; and Lisa seemed extremely calm during the whole thing--not to mention the fact that whoever was shooting the film never put the camera down before impact.
It's very strange.
The bigger question is was it right for this tape to be released to the public? Is it right to broadcast someone's last moments and re-open her family's, friends' and fans' wounds?
Below is a piece written by Neely Tucker of the Washington Post. In it she discusses the VH1 documentary which Lopes had filmed, and also analyzes her mental state during her last days while on her "spiritual retreat" in Honduras.
In life, Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, the "L" in the pop group TLC, was probably best known for burning down the Atlanta mansion of her boyfriend, NFL star Andre Rison.
In death, after she was killed in a car crash in Honduras in 2002, she was again famous for something other than singing, when a picture of her corpse was a morbid Internet sensation briefly before it was taken down.
Tonight at 9, VH1 and VH1 Soul debuts "Last Days of Left Eye," a 90-minute documentary that includes a clip of the fatal wreck, shot from inside the car. Lopes was filming a documentary about herself and a camera operator was sitting in the passenger seat when Lopes lost control of the SUV she was driving. The last sound is Lopes screaming. The last thing filmed is the onrushing ditch where her car would crash.
It has the awful rubbernecking quality of any wreck you see on the highway, and we can only imagine how quickly it's going to be posted on video-sharing Web sites.
But whatever the grotesqueries involved in watching a pretty young woman die, it's fair to say the 30-year-old Lopes would have wanted you to see it. In a career downturn after personal upheavals and alienating her band mates, Lopes had taken a camera crew to Honduras to document a 30-day self-styled spiritual retreat with friends and family. She opened up her mind, body and thought to the camera, sometimes to cringe-inducing effect.
The wreck clip was included with her family's consent, and director Lauren Lazin ("Tupac: Resurrection") says that after viewing more than 200 hours of raw footage she was convinced that Lopes would have wanted it that way.
"She embraced just showing everything," Lazin said in a telephone interview this week. "She talks about death in a very different way. I don't think she was looking forward to it, but she saw it as a transition to another state of being, and I tried to use that in the film."
The show is much too long, but TLC fans will get a recap of the group's career, along with footage of Lopes growing up in Philadelphia, and plenty of her beliefs about numerology, astrology and herbal dieting. Perhaps more of the latter than you want to see. We're thinking of the scene in which she forces members of an aspiring girl group who've come along on the retreat to drink her foul-tasting concoctions, until one of them says, "Sorry," and vomits on camera.
Lopes was at her best onstage, where her mugging and impish personality were framed by the restrictions of a four-minute song. She wrote the rap parts of the group's 1990s string of hits (which were produced by LA Reid and Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds) and provided the group's edginess. On their 1994 disc, "CrazySexyCool," Lopes was the "crazy" one.
It wasn't entirely an act. As she reflects on film, she burned Rison's house amid a series of violent arguments about fidelity. As a means of proclaiming her love for him, she carved "Love" into her forearm with a razor while serving time in alcohol rehab after that incident. When he didn't visit her as often as she wanted -- this just after she burned his house down -- she carved "Hate" over it.
"Look how nice it came out," she says at one point in the retreat, holding up her arm for the camera.
As the show progresses, the degree of her narcissism and turbulent thought patterns becomes achingly clear. She's riding in a car that hits and kills a 10-year-old boy, and her analysis of this tragedy is that a spirit chasing her killed the boy instead. She holds up the dead boy's shoes for the camera and muses that his name was Lopez, like hers. A clip of her on MTV a year or so before her death shows her proudly describing the 40-day fast she's on as part of her "self-cleansing" regimen. What was most clear was how ill she looked.
This was clearly a talented, troubled young woman who needed serious counseling, not to be playing nude in the Honduran rain forest, talking about how she always wanted to be "in the jungle, naked, friends with all the animals."
It's a pity she never found the peace she so clearly sought. Instead, we have her life, loss, fame and early demise all caught on film.
Truly, sadly, the way things are now.
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- JustMeWriting said...
WOW... I didn't even look at the video and I'd STILL SAY NO. Goodness, there's no peace and privacy even in death. People just need to get a life.
- May 23, 2007 at 8:21 AM
I'm not completely convinced that Left Eye didn't want this to be shown. I'm not saying that she is a narcissist like the writer said, but was it every mentioned what she was hoping to do with this footage?
- May 23, 2007 at 10:30 AM
- Andrew The Asshole said...
Hell yeah they can release the video it was good MARKETING... Right before the VH1 special drops. How many more people will tune after see the short clip? Lots
In the day of YouTubing and video blog mobile blogging etc People are interested in this type of thing.
Sure the Croc Hunter's family didn't release the tape, but its their right to release what they see fit (aka profitable)
- May 23, 2007 at 10:47 PM
- MzCoko said...
Well her family wanted it released and somehow I think Lisa did too... she was on another level of thinking..
- May 24, 2007 at 8:25 AM
- Brandon said...
So you guys think she would have wanted her death released? Or a better question would be, did she crash the car on purpose?
I didn't think so at first, but after I saw the tape, it looks like she deliberately turned left and right for the trees. Like usually if you swerve to avoid hitting something, your natural instinct is to go around it and try to overcompensate. She didn't even try to turn away from the ditch... was it a suicide to end her documentary?
- May 24, 2007 at 9:01 AM
Thanks for this bruh. Can't see the video at work, and not sure I want to see the real thing, but it's good to know what goes through people's minds sometime.
- May 24, 2007 at 9:18 AM
Brandon -
I don't know if it was suicide, but I wouldn't be surprised. We really don't know what was going on in her head. She probably doesn't know.
- May 24, 2007 at 12:17 PM
- A Beautiful Life said...
I went back and forth deciding whether to watch it. I watched it, and I don't know what to think. I would hope it's an accident and not suicide.
- May 24, 2007 at 6:54 PM
- Andrew The Asshole said...
She did burn a motherfuckers house down... purposely getting into an accident for PR or just depressed wanting to hurt herself for attention. All possible, I don't think it was suicide
- May 25, 2007 at 1:38 AM
- A Beautiful Life said...
I can see that
- May 25, 2007 at 11:35 AM
- Andrew The Asshole said...
I did some research and they hit a pot hole. The camera man was there filming her charity work in the country as a documentary. The footage is not owned by the family its owned by blu box entertainment which is headquartered in the ATL. In fact the family held up the footage from just now being viewed and VH1 special.
How do I know well I'm on a boat with a partner of Blu Box
- May 26, 2007 at 10:11 AM
- Andrew The Asshole said...
Not just an ass a well connected ASS
- May 26, 2007 at 10:14 AM
this article was fucked up.. to say the least.. theyre judging her so hard on how they think she needed counseling and shit.. uh, obviously she was strong enough to counsel herself.. she was getting away from the hustle and bustle of being famous.. she never had an attitude int hat video like she was ever better than anyone else... and it makes me mad that they say she looked ill when she was talking about her 40 day fast.. Lisa was in DAMN GOOD shape.. and she knew what she was doing... there isnt a "craZy" idea of spirits following.. why is it so crazy??? Because other people refuse to open their minds to thos ekinds of beliefs?? This whole article is made to make her sound ignorant and full of herself, and it's just wrong.. she wasn't like that at all, and if you even WATCHED the documentary you would see that... i can't believe you're all sitting here judging weather or not her crash should have been a part of her video.. leave it the fuck alone and PRAY.
- March 8, 2010 at 11:52 PM
I agree with Caroline! It's just plain ignorance to life. If you actually watch the documentary with an open mind you'll see that Lisa Lopes had demons her whole life. I believe Lisa on the documentary when she said she had a dream and a spiritual feeling that she was going to pass. The earth is an energy field, even scientist believe that and that not everything can be explained. Not everyone is "Crazy" when they talk about spirituality. I believe she was beyond intelligent.
- October 25, 2012 at 9:22 AM
Just watched the documentary. I was a huge TLC fan back in the day. I think Lisa was extremely gifted at many things, but I couldn't agree more about the narcissism. that little boy never had the chance to grow up. It was weird how she made it about her. She rambled a lot and seemed generally lost at many points. She was searching, like the rest of us, and she had a very beautiful side that was funny and engaging. I feel bad for her that she was so desperate to find healing. A lot of times addicts do latch onto something (like the USHA place) and become obsessive about what they believe is THE answer. in the end she had her problems, selfishness - taking off and leaving her friends high and dry so she could "be the star" by not showing up. that's crappy. and she was also so giving with charity and so down to earth - saying "why are we telling her to cheat on him? Just leave" true - she had a great no bs side. she was complicated and multifaceted, just like the rest of us.
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December 28, 2015
Merry Christmas everyone! I hope it was a great one. It definitely did not feel like Christmas at all here, but it was good none the less. We were not able to meet with Bro. Song Gwang Jeong so he was not able to be baptized (he also didn't come out to church, he only has once since I've been here and we have only been able to meet once). But we did have a pretty good week. We started it off with our mission's Christmas devotional thing. It was fun being able to see some old friends again. Sadly it wasn't the whole mission so there are several people that I haven't seen in a super long time.
Our ward mission leader was super nice and took us out to a buffet as a Christmas gift. It was good, but Korean food is starting to all taste the same now. We had our ward Christmas party on the 24th which was pretty fun. We did a skit about trying to get Scrooge out of his house on Christmas which went pretty well. We also had this seemingly golden guy randomly show up who had met the missionaries before, but he got chewed out by a member for having these Buddhism beads, and then this other crazy less active guy would only speak to him in English. So yeah, he ended up just sneaking out and escaping. Hopefully we can meet him again because he could be super golden.
All our other investigators are just at the same spots. No one really cares enough to know if our message is true to the point where they act. It doesn't help that they all just meet because they want to learn English or just like missionaries. But we can still help them! And we'll find some great new investigators soon.
It was great to be able to Skype for Christmas. It's hard to believe that I only have 1 more skype left on my mission. So crazy! And 2016 is just around the corner! Time's going pretty fast and I hope to use the time I have next year well and help some people. And baptize too! Thanks for all your support and caring about what's going on over here, it means a lot. I'm grateful to be here and excited for what's ahead.
Love, Elder Jace Anderson
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