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Sunday, 21 March 2010
Waiting at the bus stop!
As for the poem on "rage" - well, as you will see, I find it hard to get really angry about anything these days:-
Rage through the age.
At thirty I raged
about the bomb;
Hiroshima still raw -
Coventry, Dresden -
horror of warl
I held my protest banner high
and dared to be counted.
At forty, immersed in
Eng. Lit, I raged
at censorship. How dare
"they" limit what I read
or saw?
I marched with fervour for a
change in the law.
At fifty - in Florence -
we saw
a march of workers waving
communist banners and
red flags;
we joined in - for the thrill -
round and round the Duomo-
but the fire had gone, and anyway
we couldn't read their banners!
Is it just me, or does
advancing age
water down the rage?
Now I think
was there any point where
my protest changed anything?
Now I let everything
vanish in thin air;
no more rage
just despair.
39 comments:
- Rachel Fox said...
Oh Weaver! Maybe your best yet.
It could possibly take a tweak or two here or there but that would be minor, tiny things.
I love it! The end is heartbreaking.
- 21 March 2010 at 03:39
- acornmoon said...
A brilliant poem, your last line was a surprise, I didn't expect it to be so bleak. Hope you are feeling better.
- 21 March 2010 at 04:30
Great poem!..I, too, was surprized at the bleak ending.
I'm sorry your back isn't letting up, I have occasional flair-ups, but ice and anti-inflamatories help..plus yoga if you can believe it. And..staying off the computer alittle more.
Feel better soon!
- 21 March 2010 at 04:34
- Elisabeth said...
This is such a powerful poem, Weaver, especially given that you're in pain with your back. The cruelty of the last line's despair makes me want to borrow another's lines: 'Do not go gently into that good night, rage rage against the dying of the light.'
- 21 March 2010 at 04:45
- steven said...
ahhh weaver!! rage is something i didn't feel - despair, frustration yes - now i work to bring goodness into the world rather than crush the bad stuff. it seems a nicer way to spend my energy and has a more positive effect both inside and outside my little world. a clever clever poem weaver. i wish you well soon really i do!!! steven
- 21 March 2010 at 05:05
- Bonnie, Original Art Studio said...
So true!
Sorry to hear your back is still acting up. Not fun. Hope you feel better soon.
Did you ever read John Sarno M.D.'s books on back pain (The Divided Mind, etc.)? He says bad back pain is caused as a diversionary tactic of the mind to prevent repressed rage from bubbling up from our unconscious. He gives a technique for getting rid of the pain which only involves your thinking. Worth a try. Costs nothing, risks nothing and can't hurt. Many (even with diagnoses of slipped or disintegrating discs, etc.) have used it with success, including me.
I have a more complete post on it from July or August, 2009.
Take care dear Pat.
- 21 March 2010 at 05:49
- Totalfeckineejit said...
A real and really fine poem.Wise and true.Believing that the world can change is futile.History shows it never changes Bad may do occasional good (just as good does occasional bad)but intrinsically it will always do bad.Globally we are fecked, but the point of life I suppose is to change ourselves (for the better) and as much of the tiny area around us as we can.Our response (however futile)to the world around us is how we will be measured.
It is a sad ending to your poem, anger is less physically and spiritually draining than disillusion but the correct conclusion.Great poem
Glad you went on a few marches Weavo! Get some poteen rubbed into your poor back and get yer boots on!!
- 21 March 2010 at 06:23
- Crafty Green Poet said...
I enjoyed your poem, I agree with Steven's comments. Hope your back feels better soon
- 21 March 2010 at 07:03
- Elizabeth said...
Like Acornmoon,
I was a little saddened by you final line.
I think one has to become a little zen about the whole thing --care passionately about what we can change
and then understand that both good and bad will always co-exist.
End of sermon
but loved the poem.
Do hope back improves!
weather much better here and even some daffodils.....
- 21 March 2010 at 07:57
- Leenie said...
So glad to see your poetry post. A wonderful, fun and thoughtful piece of writing. Hope things go smoothly with the new bathroom.
- 21 March 2010 at 08:14
- Pondside said...
In truth, I think a lot of us will feel some connection with this poem. I don't think the rage of youth is misspent - and I don't find it unusual to lack the energy to bring up that rage as we get older. There's room for protest and for funnelling energy into bringing goodness intot he world (thanks Steven!).
re the despair - I'm so sorry about your back and hope you'll soon find some relief.
- 21 March 2010 at 08:40
- Bdogs said...
I missed details on what has happened to your back but believe me I truly sympathize. I hope that the poem, which is made truly strong by that last line, overstates your personal feelings but I empathize. Currently, the way people and nations behave in the external world gives much reason to despair of human nature. But for us as individuals, I have found that the extraordinary cycle of seasonal life around us in the country counters much of the despair that world events place before our eyes.
May your pain melt away. May your bathroom fittings go smoothly.
Have you shared with us what you're doing about your back?
- 21 March 2010 at 09:18
- Heather said...
Excellent poem - I know how you feel! When your back allows you'll be able to luxuriate in your new bath. Take good care of yourself.
- 21 March 2010 at 10:09
- lakeviewer said...
This is brilliant! I came in from Cloudia's.
- 21 March 2010 at 13:01
- Studio Sylvia said...
Sorry to hear your back is still causing you distress, Weaver. I am learning to let go of the anger, 'rage' is too strong a word, to describe how I feel at times
- 21 March 2010 at 13:54
- Penny said...
Damn blogger! my comment went into the ether.
What I think I said was that if we dont rage or stand up for our rights the powers that be tend to think they have the right to do whatever they like, so letting them know in some form or other is a good thing.
Hope the back is getting better.
- 21 March 2010 at 14:42
- Lyn said...
Great poem... it's good to let anger finally slip away..not to be substituted by dispair, but acceptance..you sort of have to live a life to know that! Thank you...
- 21 March 2010 at 17:32
- Titus said...
Oh Weaver, I agree with all of the above - truly impressive poem.
The end line is so astonishingly bleak, and that's brave writing.
- 21 March 2010 at 19:00
- ChrisJ said...
Oh the rage is still there, but by now we know it's all just too widespread. This poor old world needs a complete makeover. I share Steven's sentiment, but I think good poetry often has a surprise ending. And that reminds me that what I believe is that the Lord has a surprise ending for it all
- 21 March 2010 at 23:36
- Enchanted Oak said...
Hello, Weaver, I'm dropping by for a first official visit as I take the Poetry Bus tour for the first time as well. I believe your poem and claim it as a true description of my own life experience. Your last line is the only valid statement I think you can make. Anything else would be artifice. Yes our youthful exuberance is reduced to something a little melancholy and realistic. We realize how little change we've actually effected on the world around us. I think that causes us some despair. That is my truth, anyway. I share it with you.
If you care to follow the link, here's my ride on TFE's Poetry Bus.
- 22 March 2010 at 00:21
Sorry to get political but don't give in to the despair. Protest is meaningful and has had real impacts and changed the world. Visit http://www.newint.org/ just the best political magazine, keeps you informed about both the problems and the real solutions going on all over the world, read about people who have protested and achieved something. Ok, it can get depressing to know too much about what a crap state the world is in but it always leaves me hopeful.
Brilliant poem, really captures something vital, partly about getting older and becoming jaded, but also about growing more distant from the need to protest, a sign of our relative affluence and lack of something in our lives that makes us angry. Not a personal comment about your life, just a reflection about living in general.
sorry for the waffle
thanks for sharing
- 22 March 2010 at 01:25
- Peter Goulding said...
Hi Weaver, I wonder if the fact that nothing changed is the important one? The fact that you raged at all is what's important!
- 22 March 2010 at 02:47
- the watercats said...
marvellous stuff... I was angry for about two years when I was in my late teens.. I stomped about a bit and sulked.. then quickly got bored...
This was a great poem and tells it like it is... sadly :-)
- 22 March 2010 at 03:34
- Pure Fiction said...
I really like the way you've tracked the whole trajectory of your protest to non-protest years - and to have stood up and protested against something at all is admirable, whether you did it twenty years ago or yesterday.
I hope your back improves soon - there's nothing worse.
- 22 March 2010 at 03:36
- swiss said...
had that very conversation only yesterday. great ending!
- 22 March 2010 at 06:04
- Niamh B said...
Like alot of people, I found the ending heartbreaking, but honest. An excellent poem.
- 22 March 2010 at 08:03
- BT said...
That's so true Weaver, so true. A lovely poem I can truly relate to. I'm sorry about your back. I've had a bad shoulder and Jim a bad back - another thing that comes with age, not decreases!
- 22 March 2010 at 17:49
- Cloudia said...
We have grown wise in time; but thank God the wisdom of the young is still to fight for all of us.
Sets up my post of tommorrow very nicely, Weaver. Thanks! (And do visit if you can.)
Hope that dear "Sister Back" calms down too.
Aloha from Hawaii my Friend!
Comfort Spiral
- 22 March 2010 at 21:18
- Argent said...
I thought this poem was beautifully crafted, not sure what tweaks are needed. The ending is one I can relate to,definitely.
- 23 March 2010 at 01:00
- Karen said...
Well, I have to say, Weaver, that I don't find the last line so bleak. Maybe it's because I've never been able to muster rage at all - just lived with despair all the way, and I've pitied those who get themselves in a twist over things I know are futile. I often thought I was born old and should at least (in the interest of fairness) be able to age in reverse. Maybe you and I can meet in the middle?
- 23 March 2010 at 18:42
- Midlife Jobhunter said...
"no more rage
just despair."
Most interesting ending. So hope your back gets better - soon!
- 23 March 2010 at 21:36
- NanU said...
wonderful Weaver. The end is heartbreaking, but I think we should not despair. Our protests may have little effect that is direct and visible, but I think they are not ignored; they become part of the fabric of our society and we would be much, much worse off if we just let things go on without a word or a banner or a good march downtown.
- 24 March 2010 at 03:28
- Pilgrim Poet said...
long time no see -great poetry !
- 24 March 2010 at 09:42
- Rinkly Rimes said...
A very telling poem but don't despair!
- 24 March 2010 at 23:38
As a poem I'm with Rachel. As a statement from a spirited...well, post-fifty-ite, I'm a little disappointed. In one form or another, I did all the things you did. Had I not and had you not, the consciousness and the conscience of the world might be in very different shape today. And I remember as a passionate teenager, lost inside a huge duffel coat somewhere near Aldermaston, being mightily impressed by seeing couples every bit as old as my grandparents struggling with banners in the wind. La lotta continua...
PS I hope the back's improving, Pat.
- 25 March 2010 at 09:51
- rallentanda said...
I was always militant.Now I'm positively ferocious.The world should be ruled by post menopausal
medication free women!
- 26 March 2010 at 21:10
- Nishant said...
A brilliant poem, your last line was a surprise, I didn't expect it to be so bleak. Hope you are feeling better
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- 27 March 2010 at 08:56
- the wild magnolia said...
Permission to share this on my blog, please.
- 27 March 2010 at 15:09
- the wild magnolia said...
I was so exicited with the truth and humor of your poem, I forgot to comment on your blog.
BTW beautiful photographs and wow at the words...the poetry and your thoughts.
I'm enjoying my visit.
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Doesn't time slip away too quickly? I last posted here in August and now it's December already. I've been quite busy in the past few months. I was fortunate enough to go on a business trip to Framingham near Boston MA. I work for a huge US retailer and this is where the head office is. It was a really nice area and I had a trip down to New Bedford to see a company. I think I want a transfer to Boston, lol. 2 weeks later and I had a fantastic holiday in Utah in September with my partner and my76 year old Mum. She had a great time and shopped until I dropped, lol. Was back in the UK for a couple of weeks then went to Shanghai and Hong Kong on a work trip and that was a pretty hectic 10 days. Back to reality now and I mnaged to finish 4 dolls and put them on Ebay. "Buy it Now" was my choice this time. I sold one within an hour and thought I was on a roll...heheheh, no such luck. Will wait out the week and see what happens. Meanwhile am open to offers if anyone would like one.
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What. A. Trip. Tijuana slums. Building a house in three days. Dozens of cute CUTE kids. Issues in short term missions. The beach. Dead Sea Scrolls.... What an amazing, amazing trip. That's about all I have energy for right now. More to come over the next... well... week, probably. Stories! And pictures! It's good to be home, but a little overwhelming.
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Friday, August 17, 2007
We can't all do great things, but we can all do small things with great love ~ Mother Theresa
It's true, that short term missions trips are often more impacting on the team than they are on the people the team is going to serve, but we ARE going to be making a HUGE difference to one family. Maybe it sounds cliched, but I'm really honoured to be able to be able to be a part of this team. The quote in the title of this post is really the theme of this week. It's not so much about the house, which really is a small thing for us to do, but about doing what we're doing with great love.
I am SO incredibly excited. I'm looking forward to hanging with the kids, getting to know my team, actually building a house from start to finish in four days, and eating some goooood Mexican food. But more than that, I'm looking forward to getting to see God in a new way. That song I posted a few days ago kinda describes the way I am feeling these days, and I'm looking forward to experiencing God afresh this week. I also think that it will be sooo good (and sobering) to get out of this stinking rich place and get some perspective on the way people live in the rest of the world. We are SO privileged here, and we don't even know it.
It's gonna be an amazing, challenging week. I can't wait.
As I've been mulling this all over today, I got an email telling me that my church was in the news again today. It's different, but there is poverty on the home front, too. This may be a little different than my usual posts, but it's important, and it's something that I'm becoming more and more aware of...
So, some background. My church runs two meals a week for homeless and under-privileged people, serving about 200 people per week, and running a once-a-week shelter for about 25 people. Recently, the City of Vancouver has told us that we may not be able to continue these programs, because they don't fit the city's definition of "what a church does." Basically, the city is classifying these programs as "social service" use and not as "church" use, and so may require permits (which mean beurocracy and large fees), or they may be discontinued altogether because of zoning regulations. It's not even a money issue: it's an issue of the city dictating the functions a church is and is not allowed to fulfill. A major function of the Church - not just mine, but in the global sense - is the care for the "orphans and the widows" - those less fortunate than ourselves. But the city isn't seeing things that way.
We've been in the news a bit recently, but there was a segment aired on CTV this morning about this whole issue. Read the brief article here, then click the link on the right of the article for the TV clip, too. Check it out! If you like more in-depth reading, you can try this.
People from many different faith communities, and many who don't adhere to any particular group, are pretty stupified at the fact that a church is potentially being denied the ability to serve to poor, and have developed an organization called "Faith Communities Called to Solidarity with the Poor" that is working to have City Hall expand the definition of what a church does to include things like social outreach programs. Their fundamental belief states that "solidarity with the poor, the practice of compassion and justice, is fundamental to the vocation, identity and mission of the church / faith communities." (taken from here)
If you agree with the above statement, regardless of your belief system, this organization has started a petition you can sign if you so choose. The petition is open for Vancouver City residents only, but if you live in Vancouver and wouldn't mind taking a minute, go here and download the petition form, fill it with signatures, and drop it off at City Hall! Thank you in advance! It would be your small thing done with great love that really will make a difference! :)
Well, I don't know if we'll have internet access where we're going, so for now, I'll say...
Road Trip 2007: The Final Frontier
After leaving Grand Rapids (now two weeks ago, oh how behind I get!), I set off to visit SarahCool in Cincinnati. That's spelled with two N's, dont'cha know. ;-)
But. BUT! En route, I planned on making a few different stops. I had heard Ann Arbor was a pretty little town, so I wanted to go through there. But should I go east and south or south and east through Michigan? Well, a quick gander at google maps and I had my answer.
KALAMAZOO?!?!?! Really? There's actually a real live Kalamazoo? Dude, I wanna go THERE!!!!! I was rather excited by this fact. It's a neat little town, too. I dropped by a little festival, grabbed lunch and wandered around a bit. And got lost. In Kalamazoo. Now there's a headline I wouldn't have minded: "Lone tourist plucked from the streets of Kalamazo, cold, dehydrated, but with giant grin on face. Can't seem to stop saying 'KALAMAZOO!!!' "
I decided to had to have a souvenir, so what better to pick up than a KAZOO from KALAMAZOO? Good thing I did, too. It provided absolute minutes of entertainment in the car on my driving days. Apparently it also turned me into a pirate.
After Kalamazoo - KALAMAZOO! Go on, say it, it's fun! - I stopped in Ann Arbor and wandered around downtown for a bit. It's a very cute little town. I took some pictures, wandered the campus of Michigan State, and caved to the sweet pull of the Ben and Jerry's shop. Oh sweet Banana Split ice cream, where have you been all my life? Sheeshers, it's sure a good thing I did boot camp last month. Cause road trip = sit on your touckas and eat junk. Mmmm, banana spilt ice creamy goodness type junk.
I knew I wasn't gonna hit Cincinnati on Thursday, so I drove till I got tired and crashed in a roadside motel - notice I didn't say crashed INTO - then drove the final hour to Cinci the next day.
I had a few hours before I met up with Sarah, so I wandered around downtown a bit and took in the sights. I apparently took in some famous Cicnicnnati chili, too, without knowing it was famous. Mmmm, cheese coney. (I'm sorry, arteries!) I met Sarah at her work, recognizing the building from her blog posts. Now if THAT don't make a gal feel like a stalker....
The weekend was totally full but also really relaxing. I met a bunch of her girlfriends on Friday night, then on Saturday, Sarah took on the role of tour guide and showed me all over the city. She told all kinds of stories about the various places she's lived and worked, and I learned all kinds of neat-o information about the city. Like, for example, it used to be called Porkopolis. hehehe! And once I got the story of Skyline Chili, we went there and had a 4-way - spaghetti topped with chili, red beans, and habanero cheese, served with a side of oyster crackers. Yum! From downtown to Eden Park to Findlay Market to the mushroom house to ... many other places (Sarah, help me out with neighbourhood names!), it was a great tour! Sunday we took in the National Underground Railroad Museum, which was really interesting. As the Ohio river is bsically the border between the North and the South, that whole region played a really important role in the escape of slave from the South on their way to Canada. See? Ya come here and ya just might learn something! :-)
Saturday night we headed over to Sarah's aunt and uncle's place for a BBQ, which was SO MUCH FUN! They were funny and hospitable and sweet and welcomed me in right away. Yay!
Highlights would have to include Sarah's haircut:
Sarah: My bangs are crooked! SAM! You should cut them!
Sam (Sarah's 16 year old cousin): I dunno...
Sarah: Yeah! Totally! You just cut your dad's hair! Do it! Do it! Do it!
Sam: ... Ok...
{gets scissors, heads outside}
Sarah: SAM! Be careful!
Sam (who is masterfully pulling out Sarah's bangs and cutting just tiny bits off, doing quite a good job, and had just given his dad a very good haircut 45 mis before): [snip snip]
Sarah: AAAHH!!
Sam: [snip]
Sarah: Oooooooh!
Sam: Well YOU asked me to!...
Sarah: Eeeeeek!
Sam: [snip]
Sarah (fanning her face): OK, I'm hot. Stop! I wanna go inside!
Sam: [snip] There! I'm done.
Sarah: PHEW!
Also, pretty much Sarah's whole family hates her cat, Flora. I was caught in the middle of a Flora fight...
Sarah: Oh Flora! She's so sweeeet!
Sarah's family, eyes glinting, hoping to pull me over to the dark side: So! Do you hate Flora, too?
Hillary: uhhhmm....
Who WOULDN'T love a sweet creature like this?
What you DON'T see in the picture are the lasor beams of hate coming from her eyes. I was clearly in HER territory, and she was mad. BUT, Sarah.... She loves YOU, and that's what's important. And she had kinda sorta almost warmed up to me by the time I left. For example, she let me get close enough to pet her abuot 7 times. Some of those times she even knew it was me.
For the record. I LIKE Flora. She's got definite spunk and she makes her mommy happy. I just won't get too close to her. ;)
So. Cincinnati is cool, and chillin' with Sarah was a blast! It was fun to see a little slice of her world! I really am so grateful for my blog girls: Anne and Jean and Sarah!
Now it's just a matter of plotting to get them HERE for a visit! Muah hah hahaaa!!!!
Monday morning bright and early (5:50am, to be precise!) I started off for Toronto. Nine hours later (!!!) I arrived, took in some of the zoo - lions and tigers and bears, oh my! - and chilled with my friend Ann for the evening before catching an early flight back home.
Windsor, Toronto, Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, Ann Arbor, Cincinnati. Nearly 3000km. Lots of pictures. Good times with friends all along the way...
Makes for a very happy Hillary!
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
by Sheree Plett
Has it been six days already since you
got your Sunday shoes out,
since you grabbed your untouched
Book of Life?
The same old routine
finds you in the sanctuary;
you say your fake hellos and pretend
all is well.
You bow your head before a Father
that you don't really know...
And the bells ring
and you know it's time for you to pray,
chant your amens and halelujahs.
Glued to your wooden pew,
involved in your unconscious praise,
the cliche stained glassed windows
veil your eyes
to see beyond...
Has it really been that long since you
opened your eyes
to see that you're captivated by
old loves and lies?
How much longer will you submit to your illusions
to narrow your path to a Father
that you don't really know?
And the bells ring
and you know it's time for you to pray.
You chant your amens and halelujahs,
glued to your wooden pew,
involved with your unconcious praise;
the stained glass windows veil your eyes
to see beyond...
And bells ring...
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Though of course, saying this, there will be all kinds of changes the last week of August and first week of September, and I'll probably end up moving again, but for now, at least there is a definite plan. Saying that here probably guarantees that it will change, but hey.
As of right now, I'll be teaching a grade 1/2 split in September.
Monday, August 13, 2007
Ah, summer
Some friends and I decided that we were going to go for a hike on Saturday. We decided on heading up to Elfin Lakes just out of Squamish. I had been there before last year, but nobody else had, and I didn't mind doing it again. I mean, with memories of a place like this (picture from last July), who WOULDN'T want to go back?!? The trail was long (22km "A half marathon!") but not too strenuous, and high enough that we would already be hiking in the high alpine (instead of just climbing to it). There are sweeping views of mountain ranges and lakes, and we'd be hiking through meadows filled with red heather and wildflowers. At the top are two pristine little lakes set against a pretty spectacular backdrop. Yippee!
The day was kinda cloudy and unsettled, but we were promised breaks of sun, so we set off, not letting a few little car glitches atop us: Um, why is the temperature needle a-waaaay up past the "I'm about to explode" mark? I just had a coolant leak fixed yesterday! And 2 km into the 16 km gravel road up a mountain into nowhere, Ooooh. Gas. Below the red. Ummm... it's ok, we're on a hill, the gas gauge just LOOKS that empty. Uh huh. {to self: wellll... it's all downhill on the way back, we can just coast to a station if need be. Provided we get UP. PleaseGod pleaseGod pleaseGod} Pshaw. We made it. (ThanksGod ThanksGod Thanks God!) There was a little bit of snow last time we went, but not much, and we WERE pretty high up. I anticipated a little bit more this year, as it's not been a realyl hot summer. No problemo.
Ha! This is SO not gonna help with the stereotype that Canadia is the land of year round ice and snow, but here goes anyway.
We hit the first little patch of snow about 3/4 of the way up. It was just little, no worries. But the last quarter was mostly snow with patches of clear ground. And when we got to the lakes? Well, they say pictures are worth a thousand words, so here's what we saw:
Yeppers. See all that snow? STILL IN THE LAKE??? Ho-LEE!
Last week when I was still in Cincinnati (holy cow, that was only a week ago? That part of the story is still coming...) it was HOT. And HUMID. Like, 35C/ 96F degrees hot. And "my glasses fogged up when I stepped outside" humid. Six days later, I was looking at lakes covered in snow and wandering the wilderness with a wet a$$ from tobogganing down a slushy snowy slope. In August.
Good times. Good times.
Here are some more pictures from our day of hiking. Roll your mouse over them to see the caption, or click on them for a bigger view. Click here to see the whole set.
Thursday, August 09, 2007
Road Trip 2007, part trois
My stay in Grand Rapids with Anne and Jean was awesome, of course! The first day I was there, I headed to Jean's house and hung out with her and her kiddies - seriously about the cutest kids you've ever seen. We had lunch, where I was grilled by Jean's 6 year old son, Sam, about what I was going to eat on my sandwich so he could copy it - I'm THAT cool! - and played all kinds of fun things downstairs. Basketball, colouring with Alina, who's three, jumping rope, tickle fights, lots of spinny rides ("Just one more! Pleeease???")... TOTALLY fun!
I of course had my camera out and so decided to show Sam how to take photos. It turned into a photo shoot extraordinaire, with exclamations of, "AWESOOOOME!" and "YOU LOOK LIKE A MOVIE STAR!" after every photo. The random photo of Anne's ear I think is my favourite.
That afternoon, Anne and I went for a pedicure and a wee shopping spree, and can I just say, she is the best shopper EVER. She finds deals on cute stuff like nobody's business. She is my hero! I got a whole load of stuff for SO CHEAP. Sah-weet!
Wednesday was beach day. What a production! It was the most glorious beach day I've had in quite some time, let me tell you. Anne made a PIE for the day, THAT'S how fantastic it was. Well, I kinda helped to make the pie. And kinda screwed it up. Nothing a sieve full of blueberries, flour, and brown sugar can't fix, I tells ya. Heh. Heh. Oh man, I'm such a dork. It still tasted great... a little extra sugar never hurt anyone!
Anne has friends who have access to a private beach on Lake Michigan, so we pretended to be residents and took our beach umbrellas, chairs, cooler full of yummies, and all things beach related down the stairs to claim our very own piece of heaven. White sand, blue water, a lake so big it reminds you of the ocean, yet without any pesky shells or barnacles to cut your feet or salty water to make you all... er... salty. And the water was WARM! (Yes, Anne and Jean, it was WARM! ;-) ) We sunned, we slept, we swam, all afternoon long. Gloriousness, I tell you. Sheer gloriousness.
We grabbed pizza in town at a little diner and headed home for some more serious hanging out. After a lazy morning Thursday, I was off to tootle my way down to Cincinnati...
Wednesday, August 08, 2007
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Wednesday, August 01, 2007
Never has a justification of blogging been so important
Well can I just say this? Pretty much the worst place ev-ar to arrive at after a three hour drive and a very, very large tea is NIAGARA FALLS. I was hopping around like a maniac, battling THRONGS of people, wanting to scream at the world, "I hafta pee, I hafta pee, GET OUT OF MY WAAAAY!" But really, they wouldn't have heard me over the gush of millions of tons of water hurtling itself off a horseshoe shaped cliff.
It was a potty eeemerrrrgency.
But don't worry. I survived. My pants were only wet from the spray of the falls, I promise.
So. Err... moving right along...
After returning to normal human status once again, I really enjoyed the falls. I was considering skipping them for the sake of time, but I'm glad I didn't. The falls are spectacular. The surrounding crowds/town/hotels/casinos/rides/lookout towers/attractions/shops/midway/and various other money-munching monsters were a complete gong show, but hey, ya don't have to get pictures of that! *grin* I wanted to do a trip on the Maid of the Mist or the walk under the falls, but time was short, so I just enjoyed them from the top. Still pretty awesome.
After Niagara, I began my 9.5 hour trip to Grand Rapids. Just driving, it really should only have taken 6.5 hours, but I probably made about an hour's worth of stops (including one 15 minute detour when I somehow ended up on the wrong highway and had to backtrack - d'oh!) and T-W-O H-O-U-R-S at the border in Sarnia. Shooot.
There's a bridge to the states (as there are in lots of places, but I've never seen that, so it was kinda novel for me. Yes, I'm easily amused.) that was a toll bridge, so there began the ginormous lineup. An hour and a half of me battling sleep - I was there in my 4-6pm energy dip, and had been driving already pretty much all day - being bored out of my mind, and having no clue how far I still had to go, I FINALLY arrived at the booth, passport out and ready to go. But noooooo. This was just the TOLL booth. There's another lineup on the OTHER side of the bridge for customs.
It took two hours to get through altogether. I know that's not a huge deal, but I'd already been on the road since 8:30am, and it was about 7:15 when I finally got through. Raga! It would have gone by slightly faster had I not been the subject of a rather lengthy interrogation at the border:
- Where are you headed today?
Well today I'm going to Grand Rapids, then in a few days I'm headed to Cincinnati, then I come back to Toronto next Monday.
- And what is the purpose of your visit?
I'm visiting friends! :)
-And how do you know these friends
Uhm... well, I know them through my website.
And that, folks, is where things all went wrong.
- Your website? What kind of website?
It's blog.
-What's a blog?
Well, it's kind of an online journal of sorts. I write entries, and people read them, make comments... the people I'm visiting and I have become friends via that...
She continued to drill me... Well what's your common interest? Don't blogs talk about politics?
What kind of entries do you write? Really? You have time for this in your life? And why would they be interested in reading about your life like that? I've never heard of this, explain it again? How did these people find your blog? What would I google to find your blog? And you trust them enough to go to their houses? Etc, etc, etc.
I had to explain about blogging, commenting, and blogrolls, justify once again why I do this, assure her that I HATE writing about politics on my blog, give her to topis of my last three or so posts, tell her what my friends did for jobs ( was sure to mention that they all work or voluneer for CHURCHES), how long I knew them, tell her about my trip to Chicago in March to visit the same friends, exactly what to google to find my site, what it was called, and on and on. It was taking a long time, so a second border guard came into the booth to check in and see if she needed backup. I heard them debriefing as I drove away: "So she's from Canada, and is meeting friends from the inter.... " I'm glad they let me through. She was sooooo skeptical!
Friendly border guard lady, if you're reading this, hello and welcome! Thanks for letting me visit my lovely friends! Feel free to keep reading!
There was still three hours of driving once I got through, which I passed by using my steering wheel for resistance and gave myself a good arm workout as I drove across the state of Michigan. My arms were actually sore the next day! Sweet!
I finally arrived safe and sound at Anne and Andy's, where Jean was also there waiting for me. I knew which house was hers cause I recognized if from photos she'd posted on her blog! So funny! It was like I had been there before.
And so began the Grand Rapids part of my adventure...


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Originally posted by Raulken
To go along with what sylvie said: I've had more bad experiences than good when it comes to contact with disembodied entities(Angels, Demons, etc fill in the blank with whatever you believe).
In the case of experimenting with Ouija boards, it was fun and exciting as a teenager, but quickly turned to fear. This was because, after a certain amount of time, we didn't need the board. We could have the same "movement" when we place our hands on almost any object, on any surface. We could have things move across the table when we weren't even trying. This culminated in an event at Pizza Hut one day, when the sauce cup started moving across the table. By itself. At this point I was like 'that's enough" and had the sense to stop using it altogether and the events ceased.
The point being that you place yourself open to whatever wants to mess with you, and, lets face it, THEY(whatever they are) have the upper hand IF you keep the doorway open.
On the obverse side of things, experiences with benevolent beings have been through no real effort by myself and, even though I was excited during the event, I always felt at peace. I think this is due to the basic rule of Good guys versus Bad guys. Good guys follow the rules. They have a hierarchy that they follow. They follow orders. Bad guys not so much. They do what they want to their own ends.
It seems a good test when it comes to these beings(good or bad) to trust your gut. Bad beings may try to act like they know more than you, and in some cases they might, but are still subject to laws of information just like you(i.e. they are not Omniscient). As always, be careful.
Originally posted by Raulken
Lets talk metaphorically. Lets say that your 'house' is your mind. When you dream normally, you're just walking about your house, protected from most things. Lucid dreaming would be going onto your porch, OOB would be walking down the street, and astral projection would be going across the globe.
Originally posted by lifemonkey
Are you sure that all of this, and I mean flying out of your bed, was all reality? Sometimes people mistake their dreams for reality, especially ones that would be very cool to tell people. Of course they also get exaggerated.
I am not doubting you, but the story seems far fetched. You asked to meet a spirit guide and instead got some weird people in your bedroom trying to pull you through a wall, after having a dream where you asked a child if you could ascend.
It just doesn't seem likely to me, but I will play along.
Did you feel threatened at all by the child in your dream or by the beings in your room? Did you feel as though they were trying to harm you?
If no, then stick with your gut instinct and beliefs at all times for they are more than likely the best feelings and beliefs to go with. We don't know whether or not you can trust them or should, as we hadn't experienced it.
Follow your gut, and hope the best.


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J. Cole has responded to the shooting death of Michael Brown with a new song titled "Be Free."
Over somber piano notes, the rapper wails the refrain, "All we wanna do is take the chains off…all we wanna do is be free."
His tear-stained delivery moves from spoken word to singing. The lyrics plead for peace and equality in light of Brown's death and the protests in Ferguson, Mo.
The eyewitness accounts of Brown's friend Dorian Johnson and others are featured in the song.
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Folks Jailed While Zimmerman Walks Free
Folks Jailed While Zimmerman Walks Free
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2. Michael Vick served time for dog fighting. (Photo: PRPhotos)2 of 9
3. In 2007, Lil Wayne was jailed for smoking marijuana and for possession of a pistol outside his tour bus. (Photo: AP)3 of 9
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6. Singer Ron Isley was jailed for tax evasion. (Photo: AP)6 of 9
7. Lil Kim served time for three counts of perjury and one count of conspiracy related to a shooting outside a Manhattan studio. No one was injured.7 of 9
8. Martin Luther King, Jr. was jailed several times for peacefully protesting during the Civil Rights Movement. (Photo: AP)8 of 9
9. Domestic abuse victim Marissa Alexander was sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2012 for firing two warning shots into a wall. (Photo: Hellobeautiful)9 of 9
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So the Fall 2010 Couture shows just happened in Paris... Givenchy, Armani, Chanel, Elie Saab, and more. But I think hands down the most amaaaaaazing collection was from John Galliano for Christian Dior. Amazing.
The whole collection was floral (as was the set) and you got inspiration of petals and colors and textures. The models had their heads wrapped in cellophane (like a bouquet perhaps?). And their hair was flipped and high and beautifully styled.
I've pasted a couple of my favorite looks below:
Total brilliance!
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The nights are far from long enough... I, along with many other people, am tired as all hell. Well not really, I'm really just lying through my teeth on that one. I just wish that we had longer nights so that I could chill out in my room with friends or something. We should have days like Pluto (sans the whole... cold... factor...)
Here's a picture to make me feel happier... or anyone else out there reading.


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NEWARK — A 33-year-old Newark man was gunned down Saturday evening in the South Ward, becoming the city's 73rd homicide victim of the year, authorities said.
Alwali McKie was shot multiple times and left for dead on the 30 block of Aldine Street, according to a statement from acting Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn Murray and Newark Police Director Samuel DeMaio.
Police responded to a 911 call around 7:30 p.m. reporting shots in the area, the statement said. They found McKie lying on the ground a short time later. He died at 8:15 p.m. after being taken to University Hospital by ambulance.
Murray and DeMaio said detectives had made no arrest and this afternoon were still working to determine a motive for the killing.
The homicide occurred around the same time three people were shot on the 100 block of Avon Avenue, near the border of the city's Central and South wards, in what authorities called a separate incident. Sgt. Ronald Glover of the Newark Police Department said Saturday night that their injuries appeared to be non-life-threatening.
A mother holding a child nearby said she heard five shots ring out from a nearby row of apartment buildings. She declined to give her name. Police had cordoned off the block where the shootings occurred.


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I am about to lose my childhood home due to a reverse mortgage my late mother did.
If you have a will and an heir to your home, do not do one of these reverse mortgages. After you die your heir has one year to pay off the debt or they take the home.
The problem I have is, I did all sorts of repairs and they neglected to tell me the rule until after I had done the work. Then the real estate market went in the toilet.
Don't leave your heirs with heartache as well as a financial headache. Do a home equity loan instead.
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No, this is not the official first day of fall, but it is by my yardstick. We had the windows open all day today! It was a lovely, cooler, windy day. There were clouds this morning, but now the sky is totally AZ clear. The pomegranates are getting very close to pickable!
Some of the juniper berries are turning blue and I'm seeing a lot more birds around. The Phainopeplas are back in force (one of my favs.) Goodbye summer…don't hurry back!


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SmartRE: An Architecture for Coordinated Network-wide Redundancy Elimination, Ashok Anand, Vyas Sekar, Aditya Akella, in Proc. of ACM SIGCOMM'09, August 2009, Barcelona, Spain.
Traffic in network exhibits some redundancy and this paper presents an architecture which attempts to encode packets in order to remove these redundancies. It take into account some specific constraints (encoding and decoding rates) and defines where to cache the packets and how to ensure that an encoded packet based on the information at a router will find a decoder further down the path.
The proposed approach approximates relatively well an omniscient encoder and removes most of the redundancy. It also demonstrates that handling network-wide redundancy removal is preferable to hop-by-hop.
While the approach is promising, it assumes that there is redundancy in the traffic. There are some WAN optimization products and thus a market, but some of the evaluation assumes a 10% redundancy. As such, setting up a complex caching and encoding/decoding infrastructure for such a gain does not seem worth it. I would like to see better characterized the true redundancy gain, before dwelling on how to remove these redundancies.
I attended Sigcomm in BCN, and I don't recall seeing this talk, even though I most likely have. It was in a morning session, and I don't think I missed any morning session. Funny how remembering the talk would have saved me from re-discovering these results.
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
SmartRE: An Architecture for Coordinated Network-wide Redundancy Elimination
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Annie Pott
Write I say, but my pen is dry.
Write I say again, louder, but the
pencil sits dull in front of me.
Write, I scream, but the keyboard
has turned upside down.
There is no outlet for the thoughts
crowding into corners of my mind.
My eyes see the world and flick away
to another place. I taste the world's
offerings but my tongue says bland.
My ears hear the whispers and horns,
bleats and barks, but in my head
all is silent. There is no love no hate
only a shrug of worldly shoulders.
Everything I have, everything I own,
everything I have ever thought or
ever will think, is stowed away in a
bag tossed carelessly over those worldly
shoulders, bumping along as it moves away.
I can't cry.
Author's Comment: My much-loved mother came to live with us in 2011 and stayed for a year and a half before suddenly passing away. When she died, my pen went dry and my heart just couldn't find the way out of my sorrow. This poem reflects the sadness and lack of life that had been devouring me since her death, before I finally realized that I am still here and have some more life to live and words to share.
Bio: Annie Pott was born in Duluth Minnesota, lived in Southern California and Florida, and now South Carolina. She has been involved with the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute for nearly a decade.


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Top court upholds damages for charter breaches
July 23, 2010
CBC News
The Supreme Court of Canada has upheld $5,000 in damages against British Columbia for breaching the charter rights of a Vancouver lawyer strip-searched by police who wrongly thought he was going to throw a pie at Jean Chrétien.
However, in the unanimous landmark ruling Friday, the top court set aside damages of $100 against the City of Vancouver stemming from the seizure of lawyer Alan Cameron Ward's car.
The ruling means that people whose rights have been infringed can seek damages even if they suffered no actual loss and even if the authorities acted in good faith.
Ward was arrested in August 2002, when Vancouver officers thought he was going to throw a pie at Chrétien, then prime minister.
Police placed Ward in handcuffs and escorted him to a police van. A cameraman from a local TV station filmed the arrest, and the footage was later broadcast on the evening news.
Ward was well known within the court system and had built a respected career representing people who have accused police of misconduct, often for free.
He spent several hours in jail and, despite his objections, was strip-searched. He sued both the province and the city.
In an interview with CBC News, Ward said Friday he was relieved that his "eight-year odyssey is finally over" and was pleased with the decision.
'Charter rights really have some meaning'
"It is an important decision that makes it clear that charter rights really have some meaning, and in certain cases when they're violated people can recover a meaningful remedy."
The decision may have application in a variety of contexts, Ward added.
"Recently we've all heard about the G20 arrests, and if people are able to prove that they were wrongly detained or arrested or in some cases perhaps even strip-searched, they may be able to recover monetary compensation, which would also act as a deterrence in certain cases. It may also have application, for example, to people who were wrongly convicted and have faced terms of imprisonment."
Ward recalled the day he was arrested as "very upsetting."
He said he had been willing to settle the whole matter with an acknowledgement by the authorities of a mistake and an apology. Instead the province and city "dug in their heels," Ward said. "They must have spent … hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees and legal time fighting this case over the last eight years."
Ward said he is grateful for the top court decision, and it is sufficient in lieu of an apology now.
Officers said they thought Ward was going to throw a pie at then prime minister Jean Chrétien, pictured above, in 2002. (Sean Kilpatrick/Canadian Press)
In the ruling, Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin wrote that the strip search violated Ward's charter rights, and compensation was required.
Strip searches 'degrading'
"Strip searches are inherently humiliating and degrading and the charter breach significantly impacted on [Ward's] person and rights. The correction officers' conduct which caused the breach was also serious," McLachlin wrote.
"With respect to the seizure of the car … the object of compensation is not engaged as [Ward] did not suffer any injury as a result of the seizure."
In January 2007, B.C. Supreme Court judge ruled Ward's charter rights were infringed for wrongful imprisonment, the strip search and the unreasonable search of his vehicle.
The court ordered the province to pay him $5,000 for the strip search and Vancouver to pay for wrongful imprisonment and the unreasonable seizure of his vehicle.
The B.C. Court of Appeal refused to overturn the award, saying the strip search "amounted to a significant charter breach."
The city and the B.C. government appealed the damages to the Supreme Court of Canada.


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I now have a collection of 19 autobiographical lies on sale at Indyplanet. Hopefully the price trouble gets fixed. It should be $9.99. Please buy it and support me.
Wow! I'm published in English! Insanity!
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Press Comments About Tarkan
With summer officially under way and Turkish artists releasing their seasonal blockbusters, Tarkan Deluxe reports on Tarkan related articles from columnists in the Turkish press discussing the latest musical contributions and other issues over the weekend.
Journalist Hakan Gence writing in his Saturday columns for newspaper Hürriyet has two articles dated 13 June 2009, which mention Tarkan. While he polled some of the Turkish music industry's critics and DJs for their opinion on the summer's latest hits - with two DJs eagerly anticipating a new Tarkan album - Gence writes about a poll published by a large Turkish children's toy store taken from 2,378 young children aged between 2-7 last April, where Tarkan was listed in the top three when the children were asked to name their favourite singer.
In regard to children and their wishes, Nurten Erk Tosuner's article for Hürriyet's financial section this weekend also reveals that the Bir Dilek Tut (Make a Wish) foundation lists Tarkan as one of its "celebrity angels" that aid the foundation in its efforts. The Turkish charity has currently made the dreams of nearly two thousand terminally ill children come true.
|New pop act Emir, Tarkan's latest protégé or just his clone?
He writes: "Emir's album was released by Tarkan's company HITT. Even the first track release is a song by Tarkan. A typical Tarkan track "Ben Sen Olamam" (I Cant Be You)... As if that weren't enough, Tarkan also lends his backing vocals to Emir for the song. Probably to make sure that he'll definitely be known as "Little Tarkan"...
"With his manner, his moves, his unshaven look, his photographs, [Emir is] the copy of Tarkan. It's as though he was specially chosen because of his resemblance to Tarkan.
"But doesn't Tarkan know that a copy only gives life to its original? Or is he being clever and promoting himself on the back of Emir's career? For Emir will only come into his own when he rids himself of Tarkan's image."
Meanwhile, Sabah correspondent Belgin Çoban, in an article dated 14 June 2009, interviewed musicologist and critic Naim Dilmener - who is known for his vitriolic comments when criticising the work of music artists.
After slamming most of the recent products of the well-know stars, when asked about Tarkan's carbon copy Emir, he replied, "Who's that? The real thing isn't anywhere to be seen, who needs a copy? And anyway hasn't there been hundreds of Tarkan imitators these past ten years?"
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MFA graduates from the San Francisco Academy of Art University recently showcased their final collecections at New York's Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week.
This season an edited selection of seven womenswear graduates got the chance to impress fashion industry insiders at New York Fashion Week with their creative graduate collections. With a packed-out front row including Suzy Menkes, Hilary Alexander and Diane von Furstenberg the pressure was on for the soon-to-be graduates.
President of the University, Dr. Elisa Stephens, commented: "These designers have the incredible opportunity of being part of Mercedes-Benz New York Fashion Week. We view this group showing as the University's commitment to help launch the careers of our graduates."
Tapping into her Thai heritage, Sawamya Jomthepmala created origami-esque structured garments replicating the details of Krathong (small boats made from banana leaves). Also taking her cues from Thai religious imagery, Jomthepmala used traditional Buddhist temples as textile inspiration for her abstract repeats.
Jie Pan chose the theme of abstract painting to express her pattern-cutting skills. Working with contrasting fabrics, Pan teamed horsehair with silk chiffon and natural linen with organza. Having already interned at Anna Sui, Pan plans to work as a costume designer for the Hua Yi Performing Group later on this year.
Choosing to look beyond glitz and glitter, Richelle Valenzuela looked at gem-cutting and the many facets of precious stones. Silk and organza complemented Valenzuela's intricate layers and structured pleats. With powerful pattern-cutting remaining a dominant theme throughout his sophisticated collection, an understated palette of gunmetal gray and slate blue demonstrated his mature approach to design.
With an undergraduate degree in graphic design, Amanda Cleary used product packaging as her initial design inspiration. Bonding black silk lurex to calendered cotton twill, Cleary created minimalistic silhouettes which held a modern-day patchwork appeal.
With future plans to launch a career in pattern-making and technical design, Brittney Major flexed her notable technical muscles with a brightly coloured collection of bold plaids. Using 'unconventional preppy' as her inspiration, Major worked mismatched colour plaid over thigh-skimming buttondown dresses and short shorts.
Philanthropist Betty Freeman and painter David Hockney formed the unlikely design inspiration for Kara Sennett's, retro-futuristic collection. Cool colour combinations highlighted precisely cut separates while white panelling showed off Sennett's body-conscious shapes.
Knitwear design graduate Marina Nikolaeva Popska kicked off proceedings with a sumptuously feminine lightweight knit collection. Inspired by nature and the 'chaos' of colour, Popska created softly unstructured silhouettes in an ethereal palette of duck egg blue and plaster pink. Jacquard and intarsia techniques created a marbled and mottled texture, which married well with the delicate colour choice.
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Originally posted by bwat47 View PostThere is so much stupidity in this post I don't even have any words. "Throw them out of the FOSS community and not allow them to use linux"
..seriously? bunch of fucking 10 year olds in this forum that have no clue what they are talking about.
As for apple the billions of profit and millions of iphones speak for themselves.
Canonical IS a company! Take that as a fact and don't rush to conclusions!
Companies contribute at something ''Free'' ONLY when they will gain profit out of it! That's it! So simple and stupid if you like!
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Originally posted by intellivision View PostHowever, the BSD license (3 or 2 clause) is both free (as in freedom) as it permits the source code to be used, modified and distributed by everyone and open source.
The BSD license is permissive, meaning that you don't have to publish your source code under the same license as the original work.
It's surprising how many people in the OSS community don't get this and immediately think BSD == proprietary, even though it's a FOSS license approved by both the FSF and OSI.
i forgot to point out the Key here "unlikely that we would be able to open source the commercial" so its going to be Proprietary if they go down that road
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Originally posted by LinuxGamer View Postthe ulgy one is the 4-clause and it is not Opensource the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_licenses#4-clause
In fact, it even says as such in the link you provided, and I don't know how much of an idiot you are to overlook that detail but I have a pretty good guess.
Originally posted by Mason8DF View PostThere are and there will never be any performance gains when using entire DEs on XWayland/XMir.
Or: Why XMir is slower than X, and how we'll fix it
We've had a bunch of testing of XMir now; plenty of bugs, and plenty of missing functionality.
One of the bugs that people have noticed is a 10-20% performance drop over raw X. This is really several bits of missing functionality - we're doing a lot more work than we need to be. Oddly enough, people have also been mentioning that it feels "smoother" - which might be placebo, or unrelated updates, or might be to do with something in the Mir/XMir stack. It's hard to tell; it's hard to measure "smoother". We're not faster, but faster is not the same as smoother.
Currently we do a lot of work in submitting rendering from an X client to the screen, most of which we can make unnecessary.
The simple bit
The simple part is composite bypass support for Mir - most of the time unity-system-compositor does not need to do any compositing - there's just a single full-screen XMir window, and Mir just needs to flip that to the display. This is in progress. This cuts out an unnecessary fullscreen blit.
The complicated part is in XMir itself
The fundamental problem is the mismatch between rendering models - X wants the contents of buffers to be persistent; Mir has a GLish new-buffer-each-frame. This means each time XMir gets a new buffer from Mir it needs to blit the previous frame on first, and can't simply render straight to Mir's buffer. Now, we can (but don't yet) reduce the size of this blit by tracking what's changed since XMir last saw the buffer - and a lot of the time that's going to be a lot smaller than fullscreen - but there's still some overhead?.
Fortunately, there's an way around this. GLX matches Mir's buffer semantics nicely - each time a client SwapBuffers it gets a shiny new backbuffer to render into. So, rather like Compiz's unredirect-fullscreen-windows option, if we've got a fullscreen? GLX window we can hand the buffer received from Mir directly to the client and avoid the copy.
Even better, this doesn't apply only to fullscreen games - GNOME Shell, KWin, and Unity are all fullscreen GLX applications.
As always, there are interesting complications - applications can draw on their GL window with X calls, and applications can try to be fancy and only update a part of their frontbuffer rather than calling SwapBuffers; in either case we can't bypass. Unity does neither, but Shell and KWin might.
Enter the cursor
In addition to the two unnecessary fullscreen blits - X root window to Mir buffer, Mir buffer to framebuffer - XMir currently uses X's software cursor code. This causes two problems. Firstly, it means we're doing X11 drawing on top of whatever's underneath, so we can't do the SwapBuffers trick. Secondly, it causes a software fallback whenever you move the cursor, making the driver download the root window into CPU accessible memory, do some CPU twiddling, and then upload again to GPU memory. This is bad, but not terrible, for Intel chips where the GPU and CPU share the same memory but with different caches and layouts. It's terrible for cards with discrete memory. Both these problems go away once we support setting the HW cursor image in Mir.
Once those three pieces land there shouldn't be a meaningful performance difference between XMir-on-Mir and X-on-the-hardware.Last edited by bwat47; 08-07-2013, 10:38 PM.
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Originally posted by Delgarde View PostOnly for as long as KWin continues to support X. Once it's up and running on native Wayland, I'd give it a year or two before the X support has either bit-rotted, or been deleted outright.


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Working at Kitchen Boutique the past few years I have had a number of customers come into the shop asking about how to get rid of the rust colour or stains on their flatware. I have a couple of solutions for you but first would like to tell you why your flatware is probably getting stained in the first place.
Stains can be caused by prolonged contact with acidic foods or in geographic areas with a high chlorine or iron content tap water. They can also be caused if you have a dish washer that doesn't dry the flatware completely. You will see a brownish stain appear over time.
Solution: Baking Soda. Very simple. Just rub the baking soda on the flatware and rinse off. Should be like new again.
Solution number two: Clean with "Swiss Cleaner". A product that you can buy in-store at our kitchen shop.
Remember that all flatware is "Stain-less" Steel and not "Stain-proof" Steel. The higher the grade of stainless steel, the less likely it will be to stain.


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Earlier Event: May 20Last General Home and School Meeting and Band Concert
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Saint Francis of Assisi school was opened in 1929. We presently occupy three buildings, with the Pre-School classes held in the building adjacent to Conway Hall. The stone school building contains classrooms for Kindergarten, Grades 1-3, main office, computer lab, nurse's office, Delaware County Intermediate Unit remediation and counseling room. The brick building presently contains classrooms for Grades 4-8, principal's office, faculty room, Honors math classroom and contains a combination auditorium/gymnasium. St. Francis of Assisi School has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools since 1984.


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Just thought that this piece by an Aussie columnist captures some of my thoughts on the management of the Beijing Olympics and how international sporting organisations have no qualms in compromising basic principles of governance in favour of the almighty dollar. Read 'ICC' Cricket World Cup 2006 for IOC Beijing Olympics 2008.
Who lied to whom on press freedom?
Jacquelin Magnay
August 1, 2008
THE cosy deal between two of the world's most powerful bodies — the Chinese Communist Party and the International Olympic Committee — to strip away media freedoms reflects badly on both.
While restrictions on internet access are annoying for 10,000-plus of the world's media gathering for the Games, they signify much more than a simple frustration. Unfettered internet access was held up as a prime reflection of China's commitment to "open up" to the rest of the world. Instead, it has shown the reluctance of China's political masters to allow its citizens exposure to global opinion.
We now know that when Beijing bid for the 2008 Games seven years ago promising a new China, they lied. As I write, more than 150 websites are blocked including BBC China and German public broadcaster Deutsche Welle, journalists are being harassed and areas such as Tiananmen Square are tightly restricted.
The tenor of the Games started to change a couple of months ago. A few reporters considered "undesirable" to the Chinese authorities were refused entry to the country. Then came the riots in Tibet. The Communist Party abruptly imposed a new layer of bureaucracy on Beijing Games organisers soon after the global demonstrations involving the torch relay.
Executives with Beijing businesses were refused visas and the city emptied of non-locals.
It was then that the International Olympic Committee realised it had lost control of the Games. One of its most senior members, Kevan Gosper, became a pawn.
For months, indeed years, Gosper has been saying that the internet would be freely available and there would be no restrictions imposed on the foreign media. And Gosper should know — he heads the IOC's press commission.
But, critically, he is also the vice-chairman of the IOC Co-ordination Commission for the Beijing Olympics. For seven years, Gosper has been the second most senior IOC official in Beijing.
Hein Verbruggen, the Belgian IOC member and former head of the international cycling union, was the co-ordination commission chairman. It is difficult to believe that a move to restrict press freedom was not signed off by another Belgian, IOC president Jacques Rogge.
Gosper is convincing when he insists that he didn't know of the deal and he had not deliberately misled the global press. Other press commission members also swear they have been completely misled on the issue.
Gosper says: "I am disappointed, but we are dealing with a communist country that has censorship." These are the Beijing Games indeed.


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HAHAHA! No, really. Tonight is "Approve Pending Transactions" for my company - it's just part of the job that I have to do. I wait to make sure that the work got done, and I basically approve the work so that the person who did the job can get paid. I always think that this part is so funny because it's like I'm saying "I approve of you". It's really not that at all - it's that I have made sure that the contractor completed the job that they committed to for our client. These nights are fabulous because I get to stay up and find ways to pass the time. I get to look around and figure out what I would do instead of sleeping... all the way until Midnight. So, thank goodness for Blobs, Facebook, and plenty of YouTube videos about how to say the Spanish Alphabet!
Just as a thought though, I often find myself wondering why is it that we care so much about what others think. Especially when we are online expressing ourselves? Half the time I do not know who is responding. I don't know what that person is doing in their daily life of the background that they come from. However, it seems so important that I reach them - or that we connect in some way. Now, this particular entry was meant to be short and sweet. I did not necessarily want to get into all of the ho-hum psychological semantics about human behaviors on this night. But, I hope that all of my readers know that regardless, I approve of you. :)
Have a happy night and keep reading and growing!


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I attended Dartmouth's "Conversation with Jhumpa Lahiri" on Monday, May 16, for which she sat at a table and answered questions, first from moderators, then the audience. The event, which took place in Dartmouth's Filene Auditorium, was standing room only.
Ms. Lahiri talked about her most recent book, In Other Words, about learning to speak and write in Italian and live in Italy. She is so very thoughtful about language, what it means to her, what it means to have a mother tongue and its relation to feeling at home. Lahiri was born in England to parents, speakers of Bengali, who were immigrants from India. They moved to the United States before Lahiri started school, so she grew up here, speaking and learning to read and write in English but speaking Bengali at home.
So which is her mother tongue, Bengali or English? She referred to Bengali as a mother tongue that died (although not completely) and English as a step-mother tongue. Being an avid reader ("I live to read" she said at one point), she feels she could never be nourished by Bengali because she never learned to read and write it. Yet English was not the language of mother love for her. When her son was born, she found she only desired to speak to him in Bengali; for her, English was inappropriate for a young child.
Instead she spoke the language of her own first nurturing.
Lahiri never felt truly at home with either Bengali or English; "home" or "coming home" were concepts she knew but never felt, until she moved to Rome, a city for with whom she fell in love. And speaking and writing in Italian gave her freedom she never felt before. "The thing that's liberating about Italian," she said, "is that I can never be Italian." She is free to make mistakes.
Jhumpa Lahiri has lived astride cultures and languages and struggled, feeling alienated and lonely, as many people have. She took refuge in the books, feeling at home in the library and she never did in her house. Learning Italian has given her another tool with which to work, another perspective from which to gaze. Long may she do so.


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Super-sheer 8 denier hold-ups with a semi-matt leg and sheer toes. The top is a plain band, connected to the rest of the hold-up with a succession of vertical fibres to create a row of square holes all the way around.
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These holdups are gorgeous. Super sheer and soft to the touch. The tops are satiny, shiny, and beautiful. Sheer toe is nice for sandals. However at 8D they are delicate. Not overly so but still you need to be careful with them. Definitely a repeat buy.


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2014 was a great year!
I got a new car.In April, my husband and I went to Paducah to the Quilt Show and I finally got my dream machine, the Baby Lock Elisimo II with a Kola Cabinet.
I became a grandma. (Nana) They live in South Korea, they came to the states to visit.
We also had a five generation picture taken when Auttumn and Riley was here.
I got a big promotion at work!!
I also did a lot of quilting which I have posted on 350-blocks-project-2014 page of my my blog.
I have promise to show the two quilts that I completed for Christmas presents. Here they are, the OU one is a log cabin pattern that I designed in EQ7. Both quilts was designed in EQ7.
There was so much that happened in 2014 that I can't put into one post. Like I said before 2014 was a great year. Hoping 2015 will even be better. I have a lot of plans that I am working on for my quilting too, so stay turn for more details regarding those plans.
For now I am going to get my sewing room organized today so I can start on those plans.
Happy Quilting!!!