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The South American side will now face the runners-up of Group E, while Slovakia, who stunned world champions Italy 3-2 in the other group game will face the winners of that group - probably the Netherlands.
New Zealand, ranked 77 in the world, also had the chance of reaching the last 16 but never really troubled Paraguay goalkeeper Justo Villar during the match.
Shots on target could be counted one hand and the best of those came in the second half with Manchester City forward Roque Santa Cruz stinging the hands of All Whites keeper Mark Paston with a 25-yard free-kick.
New Zealand finish with three draws from three matches and finishing one place above 2006 tournament winners Italy means the All Whites bow out with pride intact and reputation enhanced.
FIFA World CUP 2010 - Group F standings
Group F W D L F A GD Pts Paraguay 1 2 0 3 1 +2 5 Slovakia 1 1 1 4 5 -1 4 New Zealand 0 3 0 2 2 0 3 Italy 0 2 1 4 5 -1 2


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Welcome to my latest distraction
From my office window I can see a wall of green -- trees, vines, strangler figs, bromeliads, ferns -- all competing for the light, struggling their way up to the canopy. Occasionally flocks of green parrots flash through the foliage, cackling and squawking like kids let out of school. Branches of Hamelia patens, festooned with red blossoms, float in the foreground with a flock of lazy butterflies and zipping purple hummingbirds. The other day my mother asked me what was the most amazing thing about being here in the rainforest. I told her that there's so much life here, all of it competing for the strength to live and flourish and seed the earth with future generations. Everything wants to find its path to the light. And there are so many different ways.
This site is mainly intended for family and friends, though it's open to anyone. Those who know me can skip this paragraph; those who don't may find it useful, or at least, I hope, interesting. I grew up on an island off the coast of Maine, in a house with wood heat and cold running water. After high school I took some time off to work and travel, culminating in a three-week trip to Peru where I discovered my fascination with the rain forest and my passion for conservation. I got my B.A. from Carleton College in Minnesota, with a double major in music and biology. And then I started walking. My older sister and I hiked the Appalachian Trail from Maine to Georgia and back again. Currently I'm a graduate student at the University of Connecticut, studying tropical ecology. At this very moment, I'm in Costa Rica, ensconced in my office at La Selva Biological Station, where (as usual) a terrific thunderstorm is currently building. Six months of research for my doctorate this year; three down and three to go.
Recent events in my life -- including a close relative's diagnosis with a degenerative disease -- have made me think that it's high time to get better at staying in touch with the people I love. Though I'm not terribly keen on the idea of blogs, it seems that this might be a good way to help people keep tabs on where I am and what I'm up to. I'm a terrible correspondent (except to my sweet love, whom I make it a point to email every day). A friend's blogspot site provided the impetus. So, my blog. I guess I've entered the 21st century at last. Still no cell phone, though!
La Selva is at the confluence of two major rivers here in the Sarapiquí region of Costa Rica. Right now the rivers are running reddish-brown with clay sediments from rains upstream. Between them lies a biological reserve, 1600 hectares of lowland rain forest. Tapirs, jaguars, peccaries, toucans; snakes and scorpions; mosquitoes, chiggers, sand flies. And the wall of green, that seemingly impenetrable mass of vegetation. It's been my work, for the past three years, to try to make some sense of it. At last I've learned enough of the plants that they begin to make recognizable patterns. I can tell the plant families from the shape and patterns of the leaves, or from a drop of sap or the scent of a crushed stem. The genera and species are distinguished by more subtle, idiosyncratic characters: fine hairs along a midvein, the hyaline margin of a leaf, or the texture of a surface. I'm thinking of Maripa nicaraguensis, a liana in the Convolvulaceae, with leaves that have the exact fine granular appearance as the skin on the back of a frog.
Most of La Selva is what's called "primary forest:" never logged, never subject to major (human) disturbances. Personally I don't like the term "primary." I stick with "old-growth." It's all been disturbed, one way or another: floods, hurricanes, treefall gaps. Ancient human cultivation-- a student doing palaeoecological research here, some years back, found corn pollen in swamp sediments several thousand years old. To call old-growth forest "primary" implies that it's unchanging, which is patently false, and it also implies a certain hierarchical relation among types of forest. Be that as it may, the vast majority of people who work in the tropical forests work in old-growth. I work in secondary forests, the fringes of young trees that spring up in abandoned pastures, given time, and knit together the fragments of old-growth that are left. Secondary forests are often unpleasant places to work, full of spiny plants, stinging insects, and venomous snakes. But secondary forests are also vital to our understanding of land cover change in the tropics, which feeds back into our understanding of global climate change. In this weirdly hot, dry year with its spate of devastating hurricanes, I can't help but think that this kind of work is pretty important. It gets me through the hard days.
Lunch time at La Selva, and then to town (the bustling metropolis of Puerto Viejo de Sarapiquí, bus stop, bank, two markets, souvenir shops, and a hardware store) for bike tire patches and maybe some rum. And so begins my blog.

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Terrell had his first sleep over on Saturday night. He was at his best friend Isaiah's house for his birthday. T said he had a great time and of course he had no problem sleeping away from home. He is growing up so fast it scares me sometimes.
My HSG is tomorrow morning and I am dreading it. I remember how uncomfortable I was after my first one. This one is sure to be worse because a stranger will be doing it instead of my regular doctor. I am anxious but luckily my BFF Susan is going with me. Thanks Susie Q.
I spent the weekend at work, first I worked Saturday night and Sunday morning but then the weather people had me scared. They kept talking about ice and snow and freezing rain so I thought it best to stay put. I watched the Pats game in the bar with a bunch of our regulars and it was a blast. Then I went to bed nice and early. I slept like a rock and it was awesome. I am up early everyday this week except Thursday. Thursday is the next installment of my gum surgery. Doesn't that sound like fun?


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This past week, I had the privilege to guide groups of high school students in the Pisgah National Forest. Every year, the rising seniors go on a five day backpacking trip in the forest. This year, I was able to be in charge of one of the sites in which they climbed. Over the course of four days, we had groups in the morning and afternoon. Every group that we were able to work with was great. I loved being able to see these kids challenge themselves and do things beyond their comfort levels. Many of them when they would reach the top of climbs would just be in awe of the sheer beauty of the surrounding wilderness. Here are a few pics from the week.
Even though it was a lot of work bringing all the gear in, hiking up there twice a day, and sometimes having to wait for the groups; I loved every minute of it. Nothing beats being able to share something you love with other people so that they can experience it, if only for a few hours.


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From April 24, 2010
If you enter a country without permission from that country you are here illegally and hence an illegal alien. To use the politically correct term, undocumented, makes it sound like people are appliances and you have misplaced the warranty card. The worst that happens in that case is you have to buy a new mix-master. Also don't talk about how we are all immigrants at one point. The reality is that most of our ancestors (except of course the ones brought here in chains) came here and abided by the immigration laws of the time. They either past muster or they didn't. That the laws had been a lot easier to enter the US at times in our history has no baring on what we do today. In fact, there were times that this government sent Jews back to certain death in Nazi Europe because their entrance violated immigration laws, but that too doesn't have any baring on today. Immigration laws are written with many things in mind. Can we honestly say that there have never been racially motivated immigration laws in the history of this country? Of course not, just ask the Chinese. But we still have to look at what is happening today and try to figure out a solution. The reality is that in today's world, there are many issues and many problems and no one seems to be trying to fix them. No one is even looking at the real problem. Illegal immigration today isn't just about skirting the American immigration laws, it's pure and simple human trafficking.
That said, lets really discuss the problem facing this country. It is not a little tiny issue, but one that truly can direct the future of the United States. The question is are we a nation of laws or are we not? Are the laws applied to all or are they not? Are those coming to the United States ones who are law-abiding or are they future members of the penal system? As far as I can see, most Americans are good-hearted people. When a crisis looms we are one of the first countries to be step in to help. (OK Israel beat us to Haiti) We give more foreign aid than any other nation on Earth. We as a people are charitable to a fault. So why then is there this uproar about illegal immigration. It is the rule of law and the respect for the rule of law.
We are a nation of laws. We are judged by society by how we respect and keep those laws. (Of course unless you're a failed politician caught up in a prostitution ring then somehow the left seems to think its ok to rehabilitate you). We teach our children from their birth that there are rights and wrongs in this world and that all are to uphold them. In this country the rich and powerful go to prison as well as the individual in need of a public defender. Is it perfect? No just ask those that have been saved by The Innocence Project. No system is perfect, but that doesn't mean you ignore the legal system. It means you find the problems and you fix them. It is still the best legal system in the world and in the history of human civilization. Here you are innocent until proven guilty. The burden is on the state to prove your guilt, not you your innocence. Such a system is rare, even among western democracies. So when US citizens see illegals flouting the laws of this country it bothers them. But unfortunately that is not the whole story, nothing is ever that simple.
The true answer is that these people are here. At last count there were over 12 million, that the US government could even begin to assume are here. Personally, I bet the number is much higher. Many of them have set up roots and have families here now. Their children are American citizens. (Yes, I know they have what is called an "anchor baby," but the child is still an American citizen) Many of them, people complain, also just work and send back whatever money they can to the families they left behind. Now many Americans resent them sending the money back to their "home" country. But I have news for everyone that is exactly what our ancestors did. I for one know that my great-grandfather used to send money home to his family in Russia.
Many say that the illegals do jobs that Americans won't. The truth of the matter is, especially in this economy, I think there would be many Americans grateful for any kind of work. However, the reality is, that employers because they can pay the illegals under the table, don't' have to hand out as much money. The employers don't have to pay taxes and FICA. The employers can use every IRS loophole to help their bottom line, while quite frankly fleecing the American people. Of course, the illegal doesn't pay taxes either, and can find a way to access our social support systems. Basically leaving the rest of us holding the proverbial taxes bag, look at California. Its social services burden and lack of tax payments to cover it has destroyed an economy that was once the 8th largest economy in the world.
There is also another problem that is happening right her on our border, a terrible drug war being fought in Mexico that has now entered the United States. Drug gangs are entering into America killing people. Coyotes, those that traffic in human misery, lead people across the border through private property, damaging property, threatening lives and endangering American citizens. In fact it has gotten so bad that the Arizona legislature has just passed an immigration bill of its own. Alot has been made of the recent Arizona law. The truth is the courts will decide if it is violative of civil rights or not. The underlying issue here though is why did Arizona feel it needed to act on its own to protect its citizenry? Where is the federal government?
The federal government has done nothing. Homeland security likes to say that the problem is under control. I guess the people who live on the border don't really think so. It is those people who I listen to, not some bureaucrat in Washington who can't figure out how to change, for the better, our color-emergency system. When states feel that the federal government has abandoned them then it is time for Washington to act. Secure the borders. I don't really think that is such a hard thing to ask. The government is training a military unit to go into action in the event of a national catastrophe like Katrina, how hard would it be to lift posse comitatus and allow the troops on our borders to protect American citizens? Finish building the fence along the border. I don't think that is too hard to ask. They have proven that the finished part of the fence deters illegals. But Washington in its own political fashion of not wanting to anger anyone, and adhering to the political system of identity politics does absolutely nothing. So everyone waits and everyone suffers.
Listen as I said earlier, I think in many respects there is even a larger issue here than illegal immigration to this country. Think about it, how bad is their life where these men and women are living that they would risk life and limb to come here. These people cross deserts. Are taken heaven knows where and pay absorbent sums of money to some very bad people (the coyotes) to get them to the US. But then Hispanics are not the only illegals in our country either. The Chinese tongs bring in people every day. These people arrive in shipping crates on our docks. How bad is it that you are willing to travel in a shipping crate? The East European mobs bring in girls in much the same way. These immigrants are chattel to be bartered by their handlers for services of any kind that is asked of them or their children. It is simply modern-day slavery. It is human trafficking.
That is the issue that no one seems to talk about. I don't get it. I don't understand why people hide their heads in the sand and refuse to see what they are doing when they hire an illegal? I don't mean the tax and under the table payments, which is bad enough. These tax cheats cheat the entire country. They take from my children and yours when they don't pay their fare share. I mean the human suffering that they cause. They perpetuate a system that allows people to be used and abused and sold for profit. Oh not here, that is not what the American people are doing? Oh no. Think again.
By not solving the crisis of illegal immigration the government, the people of this country are perpetuating a cycle of evil. We are allowing the poor and the desperate to be preyed upon. We are perpetuating something that was outlawed in this country in the 1860s by the 13th amendment. Do you not think these people are slaves when they are brought here? Do you not think that they are abused or taken advantage of by employers once they are brought here? Do you not think that there are women and children brought here for illicit purposes? It's all connected. Think about it. When someone is not paid a living wage for a job what are they other than slaves? When you eat your meal, think about how relatively cheap it is, and think about the slave that picked it, processed it and packaged it. When you get your grass cut, think about the slave that is cutting your grass. When you have someone watch your children, think about the slave that is teaching them their "a, b, c's." Then when you are done think about the other slaves, the ones you don't see, for there are many many more of those.
Will some kind of immigration reform solve all these problems? No, nothing can solve every problem. But if we secure our borders, help those that are here, clamp down on human traffickers and the drug trade we can begin to make a dent into a very mean world. Listen, unless you are gong to round-up every single person who has no green card, you need to give them the right to live and be respected as human beings. It is who we are. It is what America has always been. America has always been a haven; it should never become hell for anyone.


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- I can't go to work today--the voices said to stay home and clean the guns
- I can't grow up--I'm too old
- I cried for the man who had no hair until I met the man who had no head
- I didn't claw my way to the top of the food chain to eat veggies
- I didn't do it. Nobody saw me do it. You can't prove anything.
- I didn't know it was impossible when I did it
- I died for your sins, and all I got was this lousy button
- I do so have a memory. It's in /usr.
- I do the work of three men--Larry, Moe, and Curly
- I do whatever my rice crispies tell me to
- I don't believe in God or heaven, but I do believe in good coffee--it's as close as I'll get to either
- I don't believe in no-win scenarios
- I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
- I don't brake for incumbents
- I don't care if I'm a lemming, I'm still not going
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On their blog Upper deck released a preview image of the new Young Guns design.
Not too bad.
I am a fan of old fashion RCs, you know no autos or relics. I have mentioned a few times my love of the Young Guns set, one of the top non-auto/relic rookie sets of the modern age.
This year's design is OK but it feels like it needs just a little something more. Maybe some color of embossing I don't know. The simple silver design is fine but just lacks a little pop. Maybes they will look better in person.


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This little baby cat is the one that I rescued from the street the day after my father's funeral. My mom has adopted her and is spoiling her properly. I came into the living room on Saturday to find her nestled in my purse. She's the cutest thing ever. Her name is Spike.
My mom has the theory that my dad sent her as a distraction. Who knows.
Dude - I'm posting about kittens. There must be something seriously wrong with me today.
I had a dream last night that my father was on his death bed again - I had to listen to the labored breaths and incoherent speaking again. I called my mom 1st thing this morning and reminded her that we have a deal that she is to live another 50 years. She agreed.
Adam- it was great to hear from you again, if you don't call me to go out I will think you are a mean, mean boy. I'm just sayin'. I won't even push you to cheat this time (probably not anyway.)


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|Episode Information
|Season 1, Episode 23
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|February 5, 2000
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Oggy and the Giant Roaches is the 23rd episode of the first season Of Oggy and the Cockroaches.
Poor Oggy, when the roaches put binocular lenses in his eyes, he thinks the cockroaches are giants and everything seems big to him. What will Oggy do now?
Oggy eats an ice cream and watching Television A tired Jack then peeps from the door, and both wave hello to each other. Jack then looks around, then tiptoes to the bedroom. He drags some binoculars from a drawer then looks at the window of a house, noticing the silhouette of a woman. Oggy (from behind) "ahems", causing Jack to turn around and see him, and then hide the binoculars. Oggy then peeps at the window. Jack soon takes him but Oggy then hands over the binoculars from him, looking at the window again, seeing an exercising, headless man. The cockroaches, with a sausage on their heads, then wave to Jack (noticing them), walking away, causing Jack to call Oggy and point at them. But Oggy instead follows them (still with the binoculars), laughing. The cockroaches then hear Oggy's laughing. Oggy then stomps his feet and the cockroaches flee from his foot (as it is about to squash them). The cockroaches then run into the bathroom (still with the sausage on their heads). Oggy follows them and then closes the door. He then whistles as he walks. Oggy then looks at the sausage (which gets grabbed inside), then ends up flushing the toilet, thinking the cockroaches are not in the toilet.
Later, Oggy and Jack are sleeping in their beds. Joey is angry and is about to get his ultimate revenge like in Heatwave, House for Rent and That's the Last Straw!, when Marky and Dee Dee notice Oggy's binoculars. Dee Dee attempts to take a bite of it, with no avail, then looks at Marky. He then tries looking at him with the binoculars, in which the result is scary, causing Dee Dee to get shocked and the binocular's lenses to unstick and roll in front of Marky.
Marky picks up a lens and looks at Dee Dee a few times, showing Dee Dee as a dirty monstrous creature. Dee Dee claps at Marky's understanding and Joey snatches it away scolding not to waste time and get into action, and laughs with his unhealthy teeth.... He opens Oggy's eyes and adjusts the lenses into his eyes. Then roach gang attemps to make his wake up, and Joey teases. What Oggy sees, he sees a big monstroach teasing him. He gets mad and questions, what is happening. Dee Dee and Marky appear, and say it is a Ghost party going on. In horror, Oggy escapes his bed and sneaks in a corner. The gang approaches and dances dirty. Oggy is very horrified, but the teeny space under the door seems big enough for him to escape, and he squeezes through and runs away. The gang pokes their head from beneath the door, and laugh and enjoy their success. Carefully Oggy climbs the stairs(which also look gigantic)and think I have to rest and go. The roaches are already upstairs, laughing and admitting that there cannot be "rest" where there are "roaches". Oggy stares in shrill terror. The gang attemps to roll over the staircase's carpet, saying he should do full rest. The carpet comes for Oggy, but Oggy is too frightened to run. The carpet flies away and bangs to a wall. Oggy comes out of the carpet like yogurt. Then the view comes for the kitchen, then it is revealed that Oggy was viewing, hiding his head in a big cheese cube. The monstrous lookin' gang appears, and Dee Dee takes a bite of the cheese. Joey says cheese is regularly good diet. Dee Dee pokes on Oggy's back with a finger, saying "Hey, nut you heard somethin ?". Oggy again gets horrified and pulls the cheese off with a THWOK ! and runs away(while his eyes are outstrecthed due to the cheese)
- When Oggy got the binocular lenses implanted to Jack when they got stuck, Oggy ran away in the middle of the night, and Jack now thinks the cockroaches are really big, he tries to fight them with karate, and the scene is now outside and it is showing Oggy's home but then it turned daytime.
- The speaker Dee Dee brought had a company name : otoK, however it is actually Koto.
- It is revealed that all three roaches have lots of plaque.
- The scene where Jack is looking at a woman with his binoculars.
- Oggy comes in saying "Ahem" The voice he makes might be audio from the show.
- Oggy's Mailbox Is Dark Green No't Light Green.
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I have learnt in Life that there is no perfect human being or a perfect curve to success. After being given computer science at Makerere University years after polio had been kicked out of Uganda, I had it in my mind that I could become the best computer scientist [read Hacker] in Uganda, I started teaching myself code and in the process landed on "Sams Teach Yourself C++ in 21 Days", It was never that easy as the tittle suggested because I went close to 100 days before I could write some meaningful code besides the usual "HELLO WORLD". First forward to months after graduation, Having spent millions paying tuition, I expected to get a job that would pay me money equivalent/greater than the tuition figures that we were paying, that's when reality started kicking in, Jobs were nowhere to be seen and I became comfortable with any job that would pay me something that I could use to put food in my stomach.
The message that was told to us on our graduation day started popping up [Go out and be Job creators, not Job seekers], With Zero capital, the message seemed to be mocking me instead but I decided not to give up. "You can get almost every answer to anything you ask on the internet" that's what one of my lectures used to say. To save on the limited money I had with me, I walked from Natete to Makerere [to access free internet rather than pay in a cafe] and on getting access to CIT Labs, I asked 'Jajja' Google "How do I get rich without capital?", The various articles that Google provided gave me some hope, I read articles of 'How to be a millionaire in 100 days' and I even started talking to my own self about the things I would do after becoming a millionaire in 100 days. I recall it's during this period that I read stories of how Katumwa [of Katumwa Sports Center] became rich from selling stockings in 'Owino'.
With all ideas being gotten from the world wide web of how to become rich in 100 days, the midfielders in my stomach weren't interested and started complaining that besides saliva, I hadn't given them something to eat for a long time [stomach rumblings]. I slowly walked to Wandegeya in search for Kikomando [beans and chapati]. I noticed some wise Ugandans had taken advantage of the OBAMA wave [Yes we can higi haga] and created OBAMA CHAPATI TAKEAWAY [they were spiced fine I must admit], they packed chapatis in paper bags customized with the ''OBAMA SMART TAKEAWAY'' trademark on them and they were making abnormal sales as compared to other chapati sellers. A few minutes after finishing my Kikomando, I got a call from my sister so I had to head to town. In town, I bumped into lads with a mobile craven van selling chapatis in paper bags with ''GADDAFI QUALITY CHAPATI'' inscribed on them, they were also making unusual sales based on the lines of customers I saw.
Obama and Gaddafi Chapati paper bags
This is when the "Become a millionaire in 100 days" tried making sense, like the prior articles had suggested, once you see a ripe business venture, take it up. This was it, I could see myself making money from abnormal sales too, I called upon my buddy Kakeeto and together we ventured into business, we got a simple loan and bought all the things required to make chapatis. Since he already had a customer base, we hired our local Kikomando lad IVAN [told him to channel his clients] and our trademark 'MUSEVENI DELICIOUS CHAPATI' kicked off at exactly 6pm in the simple room with outside sitting space that we had rented. 8pm and IVAN had already baked 100 chapatis with no single sale. All his usual customers seemed to repel him like they had seen the Bachwezi playing hide and seek. "Maybe we should reduce on the price, these people are used to UGX 500 chapatis" Kakeeto tried to console me. We reduced the price from UGX1, 000 to UGX 500 and by 9pm, we still had zero sales.
At around 10pm, a Kato Lubwama look alike came to the stand. We saw IVAN getting him 3 chapatis and before we could thank him for the support, another young man came through and IVAN gave him 5 chapatis, we started smiling because it all looked like our good luck had opened up. With me being the accountant, I asked IVAN for the money and that's when it hit us harder. "abo ba lejjula bange mba'wola ne bansasula eda"[those are my regular customers, I always give them on credit and they pay later], I immediately told IVAN to stop baking and we close the business till the next day, we each got 3 chapatis[supper] and headed home. The next day we tried hawking but the results remained constant. The only option left was to remove the ''MUSEVENI DELICIOUS CHAPATI'' signs and make sales like other regular chapatti lads [which seemed to work for our old stock], we sold a few chapatis but couldn't manage paying IVAN's salary and rent so business had to be closed.
The "Become a millionaire in 100 days" turned into "100 ways to run from your creditors" when the time for paying back the soft loan reached. We varnished from the grid just like how the Bachwezi disappeared in tongues. IVAN called and informed us that someone had done a 'UPDF-KONY' like skit on us [they captured our saucepans, Jerrycans, charcoal stove and plates] and we could only get them back if we cleared our simple loan.
From that day, I learnt a few things;
- To become an entrepreneur, capital is needed and if you don't have it, it can be gotten from being employed [job seeker] for some time.
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on Oct 5, 2007 10:39 AM by Peter Grainge
Oct 5, 2007 10:18 AM
When I generate a printed document layout in RH HTML v6, the TOC is not the same in the printed document as it shows under the TOC tab in robohelp project.
In the RH project by going to TOC composer I moved the books and pages in a way I would like to see them in the Printed Doc layout.
I don't know why although in RH Project I see the updated TOC but not in the Printed layout, rather in the printed layout the TOC is coming the same way the topics are displayed in Project Manger. What's happening? What should I do?
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The print layout takes a copy of the TOC initially but then they are separate entities. You can change one without affecting the other. That is correct.
To align, simply go into the print layout, left click to clear the "TOC" there and then right click to move all topics.
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I told Ed if he needed me to catch a ride home after church I could do that. He said he'd rather go home and get the bigger car during Sunday School, which he did. He also left after church without me. I thought the bigger car meant there was room for everyone. He thought my visiting teaching meant after church meant I'd catch a ride. Fortunately, Mary bailed me out when I realized I was stranded! It just made me realize how imperfect the English language is to communicate our real thoughts and intentions!
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CBS has decided not to renew the freshman vampire drama Moonlight for a second season, Variety reported. Despite confidence among the show's cast and crew and a core audience of dedicated fans, declining ratings and creative upheaval behind the scenes did not impress CBS. The show has had five different show runners during its first year, and budgetary issues have been a source of conflict between the studio and the network.
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Synaptoman is taking a well-earned break to the United Kingdom and Ireland and will return to regular posting from Monday 29th October.
I may well post the occasional entry if I find something that really interests me overseas. I am still patiently waiting for the Queen's reply to my email regarding the important meeting that I wanted to schedule with her, and 10 Downing St. seems to be just as rude. Anyway, I am hoping to see The Police (the band that is) live at Wembley Stadium if I can get tickets. I will definitely post some details and interviews with the band members backstage.
My trip to Ireland is to visit the little village of Gowran in Kilkenny where my family originally comes from, and teach them how to drink real beer. I am also standing by should a rugby ticket for the semi-finals or final fall into my greasy palm and am prepared to resort to some good old South African "wiolens" to get one of these.
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Then if possible to be bought closer to day of departure some koeksisters.
If you read on the news about a tourist arrested at Heathrow with a suspicious, sticky substance dripping out of his suitcase, you'll know it's me and the koeksisters.
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Needed to vent the hurt to someone who knows what it's like to be ex religious
Needed to vent the hurt to someone who knows what it's like to be ex religious
It just doesn't seem fair.
I left religion for good several years ago, the end of a long deconversion process, but I'm still not free of the hurt and damage. Still not free of the fear. Still not free of the inner voices telling me telling me that I might be wrong and go to Hell. Still not free of the major clinical depression and anxiety disorder I've struggled with since late childhood, despite multiple doctors trying every thing in the book, including loads of therapy, loads of different medications and Electroconvulsive Therapy, attempting to help me. I think the religion I grew up with plays a big role in my disease, but good luck finding a therapist that is both willing and able to deal with that and has any idea what it's like to grow up in a very closed religious community and to fight to extract your mind from it. Who knows what wounds and fears and anger comes with a childhood of original sin, Hell, and knowing your parents would sacrifice your life if god told them to (I asked them when I was a child, after we had been reading about Abraham and Isaac and I was a little confused about why God would tell Abraham to kill his child, even if he did stop him from going through with it. My parents said that even though they'd be very sad, they would do it if god told them to.). Of being told when you are just a child that you truly deserve to be tortured in Hell for eternity, because of all your sin, and that you need to be grateful that Jesus became a human and was tortured and brutally killed in a horrible way because of your sin.
It's not fair that I had to grow up in that! It's not fair that I still have to deal every day with the hurt and the anger and the fear and the deep sense of loss. It's not fair that my two younger sisters, both amazing girls, but both hurting a lot, are still deeply stuck in that religion and I can't save them, can't free them.
It's not fair that my young cousins, who are still only little children, are right now growing up learning that they are sinners who deserve eternal torture in Hell and to gratefully appreciate human sacrifice as atonement. And there's nothing I can do, because the parents have the right to teach their children whatever religious dogma they want, the right to send their children to religious private school, the right to bring them to whatever church they want and have them exposed to religion that strongly targets children.
It's not fair that I don't have it in me to argue and be disrespectful, to yell and slam doors and stomp my feet and tell them clearly that I'm hurt and angry and it's that fricking religious upbringings fault. I'm tired of turning the blame at myself and being sweet and understanding and making excuses for religious fundamentalist fanatics, but I don't know how else to act. I don't know how the hell I'm supposed to deal with all this anger. I never learned. I was always taught that anger is bad and I always had a soft disposition and was always a bit apologetic about my own existence. Heck, I'm the one who the nurses, when I was in the hospital recently, had to remind that it was actually their job and not a bother, when I felt bad about taking their time by needing them to hold my hand whenever I had to get an IV put in (I'm dead scared of needles). So this anger thing.... I'm no good at coping with it. I have no idea what I should do with it. How much of it I should express and how. But I need to get through it somehow, because I can't live with this pain forever.
How did you guys heal?
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But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
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I never had that much healing to do. My family wasn't religious except that they went through the motions...or at least had my brother and I go through the motions. I'll never forget the conversation I had with my dad.
My older brother had been driving me to church on Sundays for a couple of years. Then he went in the Navy. My dad asked me if I wanted to keep going or not? I elected to sleep in. I was 13.
By the time I was 20 and in college I had learned that the whole story was a woeful pile of shit that sleazebags were still making money off.
No guilt at all.
You, I suspect, need to find a way to extricate yourself from the whole situation. As the saying goes, 'you can choose your friends but you can't choose your family.' This is true. But you can choose to have nothing to do with them and their shitty little god.
Atheism is NOT a Religion. It's A Personal Relationship With Reality!
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I have lived in that very situation.
Stop blaming yourself. It is not healthy and it will not help either. I have had to cut large portions of my family out for my own well being. At times it sucks, but then something happens and I am reminded why I cut them out in the first place.
As for the little ones, there is nothing you can do except be honest if you are ever asked any questions, kids are curious and inquisitive and will hear others talking about you, and then ask you questions. However, sometimes you have to answer those questions very gently so you don't cause any issues. I have found that my safe, unconventional answers have caused them to ask other questions when they were older.
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Hi guys.
Thanks for listening and caring. It means a lot to get to talk about all these things and be met with understanding and warmth!
You're pretty awesome people! :-)
As it is right now, I don't feel a need or wish to completely cut all ties to my family. Both because there also still is good things and lots of love between us despite the religion and also because I want to be there as an example for my cousins and sisters of how the sky doesn't actually come falling down on people who leave religion. They are very isolated in these christian communities and I wan't to make sure they have at least one example of a thriving, positive, optimistic, friendly, caring, loving, confident atheist in their lives (I'm working hard on being all those things consistently very soon. At least I'm happy to be free of the religion, that is the best thing that's ever happened to me. Now I just need to get the last emotional wounds to heal. And I'm getting steadily better and better!). I want to make sure I'm there to answer questions they might have.
I have cut down a bit on how much contact I have with my family though, and I've made it clear on several occasions that I do not accept them preaching at me or debating me in their bible study group and forming wrong conclusions about my lack of belief rather than asking questions (They concluded, through discussing me with their bible study group, that I actually still believe in God and am just angry at him! Wrong!)
ohio_drg: I'm sorry to hear you also had a hard time with your family when escaping religion. It's really hard to have to cut relationships with your own family to preserve your sanity and happiness! I hope you are okay?
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(30-09-2014 12:45 PM)LadyDay Wrote: Hi guys.No worries on my end. Some members of my family have accepted me for who I am and others have not. Nothing I can do about it really, they are very much set in their ways and nothing is going to change them. When I do bump into them I am always friendly and try to hold a conversation with them because I truly do care about them. However, I know that having them as a part of my regular day to day life would be emotionally and physically draining, perhaps even damaging in the long run.
My younger relatives (nieces and cousins) all look up to me. I am regularly getting phone calls about school projects and college visits. Strangely enough, it is recommended that they contact me by members of my family that have voiced the strongest reaction against my atheism. I guess in spite of it all my opinion on certain matters is still held in a somewhat high regard by some of them.
Some of my family makes many of the same comments about my atheism as yours does. I have just come to accept the fact that thinking this way is how they cope with things they do not like. So I just choose to ignore it.
You are handling yourself very well in dealing with family that does not agree with you and I think you should be commended for that.
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It's nice you still get to have a relationship with your younger relatives! I find that the older I get, the more it means to me to have a relationship with my family, despite the differences. My grandparents are also getting up there in age and there's no knowing how long they're going to stick around to probe me about my relationship with Jesus! Haha (that's fortunately only one of the three. Silly old man gets all misty eyed and ensures me that Jesus still loves me and they're praying for me and blah blah. Had it been my parents I'd have told them off, but because it's my oooooold grand dad, who I don't see very often, I just tell him "I love you too" and give him a hug.
I'm glad your family at least hasn't decided that you have no redeeming qualities at all despite your being a godless heathen. Haha. That they aren't trying to turn your little nieces and cousins against you and solely painting you in a bad light. It kinda sucks to be labelled the black sheep. My family try very hard to not make me feel like a lesser family member or black sheep. So while they do fail and get preachy or see me as a lost lamb (I'm not a sheep dammit!) on occasion, they're usually respectful and trying to make me feel comfortable and loved. So it could have been worse. And I'm happily spared the doctrine and dogma these days. What I'm struggling with nowadays is fortunately by far mostly baggage from when I was still a christian myself, not recent trauma that there's still being added to.
Thanks for the compliment *blush* :-)
"I believe that while not all people are essentially good, most are trying" - Adam Savage
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Hello Lady
Been there and done that. My slow deconversion was filled with every emotion you can imagine, and then some. Anxiety and doubt played a fairly big role for a while.
For me the final phase was 100% accepting there is no afterlife of heaven or hell. That's a tough one to shake! I've talked to several newer atheists who told me they still have moments of "what if I'm wrong"?.
Lots of anger too! Which I think is very healthy as long as you don't allow it to consume you. I've caught myself being really hateful to some christians, particularly in the past year. I'm not proud of that at all. I've come to realize it was misplaced anger (most of the time), and still training myself to "pause and think" before I speak or type.
I've kept both an online and handwritten journal for quite a few years, and write in it all the time. You'd be surprised how much that helps. I also lurked on many atheist sites, which taught me so much, and reinforced my new thought process.
It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled. ~Mark Twain
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Hi there! It's time for another Meljen's digi release day at Whimsy Stamps! Wait until you see the fabulous set Melissa has designed! It's called Santa Claus is Coming to Town and it has twelve new images! There's Santa in his sleigh, all eight reindeer plus Rudolph, a bell with holly, and cookies for Santa! You can get them all at Whimsy Stamps!
I had to use Santa's Sleigh, of course, and I chose four of the reindeer for my project. This is going to be framed as a holiday decoration, so I just matted it to get it ready for the frame. Wanna know which reindeer I used? Well, there is Rudolph at the front in his rightful place and then there's Dancer, Vixen (my favorite) and Prancer! They are all colored with Copics and I added a little bling with some Stickles here and there. I decided not to embellish (yet!) since I am not sure how much room I will have in the frame. Go take a look at the whole collection of new releases...you won't be disappointed!
Cupcake Inspirations #88 - Christmas Holly Cupcake Inspiration Photo
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This is wonderful ... I {heart} how you framed the images for a holiday decor item! I have a similar shaped frame that I made several years ago -- inside are 4 seasonal trees images I stamped with Stampin' Up goodies. I think I can do something like this on the reverse side of the canvas and flip it for the holidays!! Great inspiration :)ReplyDelete
Oh Pattie this is wonderful and how cool that we both had the same idea of putting the sleigh with the reindeer, it looks so effective and will be perfect for a frame I absolutely love it.ReplyDelete
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OH MY!!!! This is such a fun Whimsical Decoration for Christmas! Love it! Thanks for playing along at Cupcake Inspirations this week!ReplyDelete
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Oh my gosh!! This is just too cute girl!! I love how you've printed all those out and used them all!! :) Fabulous coloring!! HUGSReplyDelete
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That is fantastic, Pattie! So adorable! :)ReplyDelete
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Gotta love those fun looking reindeer. Thanks for playing with Stampin' Royalty.ReplyDelete
Thanks so much for including a star on your project and joining in with the fairies this week at FFF!! Don't forget to include the NEW Challenge link http://prairiefairyfridays.blogspot.com/ & get in on the Fairy Queens candy at this link http://prairiefairy.blogspot.com/ ending Dec 24th! Happy Holidays! PS- she has freebie tags for her e-mail subscribers!ReplyDelete
WOW! I love this. The images are beautiful. Your coloring is outstanding. Great card.ReplyDelete
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Those reindeer are too cute! Gorgeous job! Merry Christmas and a Happy New to you and your family! Thanks so much for playing with us at Stampin' Royalty this week!ReplyDelete
gorgeous card Pattie...love the image . so much....nice colouring....thanks for joining Fairy Fun Friday....hope to see you next time again!ReplyDelete
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Oh my this is so perfect!! Don't you just love these images?? Wonderful job on your card! Thanks for playing at Meljen's Design this week!ReplyDelete
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My Candidate for President in 2008
For those of you who would like another choice for President, I have I'm sure...........the best solution:It is probably time we have a woman as President. My choice, and I hope is yours as well I have a very special Lady that has all the answers to our problems.PLEASE give it a thought when you have a moment............MAXINE FOR PRESIDENT.
1. Maxine on "Driver Safety" - "I can't use the cell phone in the car. I have to keep my hands free for making gestures.".......
2. Maxine on "Life" - "Life is like an oven. It burns my a**!"
3. Maxine on "Housework" - "I do my housework in the nude. It gives me an incentive to clean the mirrors as quickly as possible."
4.Maxine on "Lawn Care" - "The key to a nice-looking lawn is a good mower. I recommend one who is muscular and shirtless."
5. Maxine on "The Perfect Man" - 'All I'm looking for is a guy who'll do what I want, when I want, for as long as I want, and then go away. Or wait nearby, like a Dust Buster, charged up and ready when needed."
6. Maxine on "Work" - "My performance at work has really improved over the years. Now I can nail a co-worker with a paper-clip shot from a rubber band at 20 yards."
7. Maxine on "Technology Revolution" - "My idea of rebooting is kicking somebody in the ass twice."
8. Maxine on "Aging" -"Take every birthday with a grain of salt. This works much better if the salt accompanies a large Margarita."
Never read the fine print. There ain't no way you're going to like it.
If you let a smile be your umbrella, then most likely your butt will get soaking wet.
The only two things we do with greater frequency in middle age are urinate and attend funerals.
The trouble with bucket seats is that not everybody has the same size bucket.
To err is human, to forgive - highly unlikely.
Do you realize that in about 40 years, we'll have thousands of old ladies running around with tattoos?
Money can't buy happiness -- but somehow it's more comfortable to cry in a Porsche than in a Kia.
Drinking makes some husbands see double and feel single.
Living in a nudist colony takes all the fun out of Halloween.
After a certain age, if you don't wake up aching in every joint, you are probably dead.
As usual, if you don't forward this to 10 of your friends within the next 5 minutes, your belly button will fall off. Really... it's true! Have I ever lied to you
"So don't forget.........come November 2008 - - - VOTE FOR MAXINE FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. No one better for the job."
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51489722018-07-16T04:17:44.464-03:00Composing"The sovereignty you have over your work will inspire far more people than the actual content ever will." - Gaping Voidphil joneshttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5148972.post-91040577757936856132018-06-30T19:32:00.000-03:002018-06-30T19:32:25.540-03:00
This part of town. My corner of the internet.

It's basically becoming a derelict wasteland. It's falling to pieces. Neglected. The flows of life, of information, of "voice" have moved elsewhere.

I've successfully avoided the clutches of Facebook and Instagram and Whatsapp. Only to be similarly addicted to Quora. And increasingly dependent on Telegram for actual social stuff.

I have online existence. But not "here".

And I'm not only talking about this blog : Composing.

I'm talking about many of my online presences.

I'm talking about ThoughtStorms wiki, which has retreated from an open forum for debate. Via the idea of the Smallest Federated Wiki to a closed, but federal. To now an entirely personal closed thinking space. Perhaps inevitably, given the increasingly hostility to be found online. But is now full of outdated, half-baked, deprecated ideas.

I'm talking about my so called home-page which is now three years out-of-date.

I'm talking about the presentations of my projects which are languishing on public but unvisited static pages. Because, again, these aren't part of the flows of life.

I am no longer living "publicly", putting what I do online. I don't even know if I want to be living "publicly" in such a way today.

Or to put it another way. I fragment over various places online and IRL. And each fragment has freedom to be what it wants. Unconstrained by the other fragments. How much do I want to try to reunite and reintegrate my fragmented personality? Or do I enjoy the small sense of "privacy" that remains when I allow these fragments to have independent lives of their own? Is becoming the "dividual" the only way to avoid being signed, sealed and delivered into the hands of the machine learning mind controllers today?

But how do you even "live" in a world where "existence" is increasingly tied to participating in the right flows?

Don't ask me. I have no fucking idea.

But ... what I do know is that it's a mess around here. So ... it's time to knock down a lot of stuff and build something new.

So ... in the next few months, I'm going to blow up this blog : Composing. I'm going to be blowing up Synaesmedia. And, perhaps most shockingly, I'm going to be blowing up ThoughtStorms Wiki. And a bunch of other sites.

None of that means that everything is going away entirely.

What's still valuable will come back in some form.

But I'm going to make big changes. I'm going to break links. (Who cares about broken links?) I'm going to break names (what do my names even mean? Alchemy Islands? Gbloink? Mind Traffic Control? Why are they stuck with the crumbling signifieds they're currently pointing to?) I'm going to break online libraries. (Is anyone really using the ThoughtStorms libraries? If so, pay close attention to what's happening in the online repos)

I just over a year, I want to have achieved a thorough clearing out of the junk and cruft from my online life. And be focused on fewer, more live and dynamic, channels, better suited to today's internet and my current interests.
phil joneshttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5148972.post-91440599583748831772018-04-26T22:51:00.000-03:002018-04-26T22:51:27.230-03:00
Gary Younge knocks it out of the park :

If ever there was an illustration of how a system of patriarchy demeans and depletes us all, this is it. Unable to take advantage of the male privileges they believe they are owed, they feel inadequate and grow resentful, and a handful become violent. Often awkward, shy and unconfident, they cannot meet the standards of machismo that patriarchy demands. They think feminism will destroy them. But in fact it is their greatest chance of liberation, since the less women are forced to conform to preconceived notions of femininity, the more space there is within masculinity for them to be themselves. As such, they are not only the perpetrators of misogyny but the products and, ultimately, the victims of it.

phil joneshttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5148972.post-75135873710760724502018-03-16T15:54:00.001-03:002018-03-16T15:54:58.583-03:00

 Improvisation using some of my new software for BSBLOrk.
phil joneshttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5148972.post-6980301212191506202018-02-05T00:05:00.000-02:002018-02-05T00:05:50.908-02:00
I stand by this Quora answer on Marx.

But there is something a little bit unnerving about Quora telling me they just sent it to 100,000+ people.
phil joneshttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5148972.post-59107884915980838762017-10-31T07:21:00.001-02:002017-10-31T07:21:07.762-02:00The Erasure of Private Life
Excellent essay by Richard Flanagan in today's Guardian.

phil joneshttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5148972.post-53090138477918044182017-09-16T17:42:00.000-03:002017-09-16T17:42:21.158-03:00What are some of your favorite 60s psychedelic era songs?Read Phil Jones' answer to What are some of your favorite 60s psychedelic-era songs? on Quoraphil joneshttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5148972.post-90219634334605784352017-08-21T11:20:00.000-03:002017-08-21T11:20:52.408-03:00On Academic Administrivia

Guardian nails it :

The first step in cutting back empty administration is eliminating the demand. An important aspect of this is to remove creeping government attempts to micro-manage the sector. Putting an end to the research excellence framework would save the sector £250m. It would also eliminate pressure on faculty to publish obtuse articles which are read by few people. Killing off the new teaching excellence framework will immediately save the sector £20m, plus countless hours of staff time spent complying with the exercise.

The next step is to root out the supply of empty administration in universities. A modest first step would be the elimination of "bullshit jobs" in universities. These are jobs which the people doing them think should not exist. Creeping forms of corporate escapism in universities would also be wound back. This includes everything from fanciful strategy development exercises, managerial vanity projects like opening campuses in exotic locations and overly elaborate leadership retreats. Staff need to be given space to question and even veto any new administrative initiatives. When any new initiative is proposed, faculty need to ask: "Is there any evidence this works? What is the logic behind it? And is it meaningful to staff and students?" Answering these three simple questions is likely to cut back empty administration substantially.

phil joneshttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5148972.post-89212817663033013262017-08-20T13:28:00.000-03:002017-08-20T14:56:56.569-03:00

I'm really enjoying playing with Protoplug for scripting your own VST plugins in Lua.

This sketch uses 3 scripts with the plugin.

 My own Waveflavours synth (playing the ever-evolving drone chords). The default "midi chordify" (that chord isn't programmed, it's being generated automatically from single notes) and another self-written variation that chooses random notes from a chord which is driving the u-he's "Triple Cheese" plugin.

 All these scripts are hosted in FL Studio, which is also providing the drums.

 Protoplug is really exciting to me, because I can finally turn FL Studio into something scriptable, and which I can use more like the way I was using Sonic Pi, to experiment with algorithmic composition.

Update : You can find my scripts for ProtoPlug on GitHub
phil joneshttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5148972.post-43158266243377974702017-06-26T15:58:00.000-03:002017-06-26T15:58:21.781-03:00The Resistance To Corbyn

 Jacobin Magazine has a good overview of how much the media / establishment opposed Corbyn during the last two years.
 It just makes his performance in the election all the more impressive.

phil joneshttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5148972.post-4621878978997842652017-06-07T00:50:00.000-03:002017-06-07T00:50:37.383-03:00
George Monbiot :
Who, in this fissile age, would wish for a prime minister with no discernible convictions, no perceivable moral core? Who, when we need courage in government more than at any time in the recent past, wants a prime minister who rolls over to everyone from the Daily Mail to King Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud? Who, as we face negotiations with the European Union that will determine the future of this nation – negotiations that demand the utmost delicacy and care – wants a government peopled with buffoons, blusterers and bullies?

phil joneshttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5148972.post-43617380402376008772017-05-15T01:43:00.001-03:002017-05-15T01:43:23.971-03:00The MP3 isn't dead
It's just not profitable anymore.

phil joneshttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5148972.post-48832131210321424392017-05-13T03:16:00.000-03:002017-05-13T03:16:14.313-03:00Political Quote of the Day
Shern Ren Tee on Quora.

Threatening a former director of the FBI with secret tapes is like threatening Stephen Hawking with middle school math homework. I have no idea how the FBI would respond, but if they really took Donald Trump at his word, his Tweet as an invitation to spar, the ensuing rout will be more one-sided than a Möbius strip.

*munches popcorn*

phil joneshttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5148972.post-75284622803417461312017-05-03T20:24:00.000-03:002017-05-03T20:24:44.315-03:00Bernie Sanders on Trump's first 100 days

phil joneshttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5148972.post-40524214222452382412017-05-03T18:22:00.001-03:002017-05-03T18:23:05.516-03:00UK Delusion
 Simon Tilford :

Britain's sense of economic invulnerability is even more puzzling. Why does a country that is significantly poorer than Germany, with fewer internationally competitive industries and greater dependence on foreign capital and managerial expertise, believe it can afford to quit the single market? Britain's economic performance is no better than France's and on some important measures – especially productivity – far worse. Yet nobody from France's political mainstream seriously thinks that the French economy would thrive outside the EU.

Much of the British elite know little about how Britain's economy compares. Few realise that three-quarters of the country is poorer than the EU-15 average; that Britain's growth performance has been mediocre at best; or that there are relatively few British-owned and managed businesses with a strong record of growth. There are bright spots in the British economy, but its commanding heights owe much to foreign capital and expertise. Foreign-owned businesses generate more than half the country's exports, and many of these exports are intermediate goods – links in international, predominantly European, supply chains. These companies are especially vulnerable to Britain leaving the single market. If the British economy were more locally owned and managed, it would be easier to understand the British complacency over the economic impact of Brexit. But for a developed country so dependent on foreign capital to do something so damaging to its ability to attract that capital has few precedents.

phil joneshttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5148972.post-6840749020647835172017-03-28T18:58:00.000-03:002017-03-28T18:58:08.767-03:00Everything Just Made Sense
Mike Stock :

Anyway, for Rick Astley's song I didn't want it to sound like Kylie or Bananarama so I looked at the Colonel Abrams track Trapped and recreated that syncopated bassline in a way that suited our song. It gave it the extra dimension that made it successful.

phil joneshttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5148972.post-90477651544436606422017-03-07T16:57:00.000-03:002017-03-07T16:57:13.421-03:00BlockChain as Shipping Container
An interesting news item today. I spell it out on ThoughtStorms:BlockChainAsShippingContainer

phil joneshttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5148972.post-82505018271182639022017-02-07T15:50:00.001-02:002017-02-07T15:50:50.804-02:002017 Q2 : Composing to Focus on Music?
Context : 2017 Questions

I've actually managed to do quite a lot of music-related stuff in 2016. From organizing MusicHacking events in Brasilia, to more music for dance, to technoshamanic remixes to podcasts and more.

This year I want to explore more raw, self-built, "ataripunk" style electronics.

And more free software. How do I produce more, "finished" music using things like Faust and Sonic Pi and Ardour and qtractor etc.

And electronics?

I want to get more of it out there and people listening to it.

Speaking of which, if anyone ever felt the need to own any (or all six) of the official gbloink!tunes albums while making a small contribution to my future works they are now all up on BandCamp :
 The Great Grimpen Mire by gbloink!tunes

Baubles by gbloink!tunes

Jan 21st, 2001 by gbloink!tunes

Dalloway by gbloink!tunes

Eel Pie Island by gbloink!tunes

Tape by gbloink!tunes

One thing that I'm pondering is how to represent my music.

For a while I've depended on SoundCloud as my main music showcase. But actually I want to write more about making music. Particularly with Sonic Pi and Faust and other free-software. Where should I do that?

Well, how about a blog called "Composing"? Even if it has been mainly for political venting in recent years.

So ... here's the question ... should Composing return to being my main music / music-software etc. blog?

One reason my activity declined here a bit (apart from Google doing an appalling job of keeping Blogger a cool and relevant platform while things like Medium and WordPress rolled over it in terms of ease of use and functionality) is that I don't like to be so dependent on Google or give them primary control of my content.
If I do choose to focus on music here in the next year ... I'll need to have a back-up / mirroring strategy. Maybe RSS-grabber but ideally something that creates content I own first, and mirrors it here.
phil joneshttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5148972.post-33690713017335443102017-01-14T17:01:00.000-02:002017-01-14T17:01:33.842-02:002017 Q1: What is the politics of the social media age?
Context: 2017 Questions.

Pretty much everything I've believed in and championed over the last 15 years in terms of blogging, social media, freedom for anyone to speak out without gatekeepers etc. has come true.
And the result is what we've seen in 2016 ... President Trump, Brexit, the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff etc. All driven by massive disinformation campaigns across social media. We are in a "post-truth" society or as I actually predicted many years ago "the end of consensus". Conspiracy theories are the epistemic mode of netocracy.

So what now?

"What now", in the sense of how can we reinvent a politics which "works"? And "what now" as in what are the responsibilities and strategies for people like me who work in software and have championed the spread of technologies of open communication? What can and should we try to build next to "fix" the problems we've caused? Finally "what now" as in what actual policies can be advocated for netocracy where many traditional gatekeeping epistemic strategies are no longer available.

In one sense we are seeing a burst of authoritarianism which is covering the profound weakness of governments to control what's going on. Everyone in power wants to control borders to prevent the movement of people. When their real "problems" are flow of information and capital which remain harder to control than ever. Scapegoating the poor is the standard tactic of an elite in trouble, of course. I now think we're moving to "scapegoating bodies" for the frustrations and failures to constrain information (including finance which is now revealed as a subset of information).

phil joneshttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5148972.post-90387340446032872952017-01-14T16:44:00.000-02:002017-01-14T16:44:09.503-02:00So ... 2017
2016 was a hell of a year. Though, so far, I'm not too personally affected. (For which I am truly grateful.)

I'm not into reviews of last year (most people probably think "thank God that's over ... OMFG what's coming next?") or too many resolutions / promises that I may or may not keep.

But the turn of the year is a good time for some reflection / questioning which may set my agendas for the next 12 months. (Or not, as the case may be)

Some of it is the usual, self-indulgent angst about what I'm meant to be doing, why aren't I more productive and "successful" (for some value of success) etc. I'll spare you all that.

But I'll post a couple of the, perhaps more substantial, even though quite personal, questions over the next few posts.

phil joneshttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5148972.post-83335972009489533522017-01-08T20:23:00.000-02:002017-01-08T20:23:10.244-02:00Policies not Deals
David Weinberger has a good blog-post on why Dealmaker Trump is a bad idea.
phil joneshttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5148972.post-29868488968573167152016-11-18T01:17:00.001-02:002016-11-18T01:17:36.148-02:00Jonathan Pie on Trump
I don't agree 100%, but this is very good.

phil joneshttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5148972.post-53093001150609465492016-11-09T13:17:00.001-02:002016-11-09T13:17:38.414-02:00

Harden your hearts and sacrifice your values - you were made for a nicer world than this, but you are made of food, and god is really busy.
— Vinay Gupta (@leashless) November 9, 2016

phil joneshttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5148972.post-64506352170404668212016-10-22T10:38:00.001-02:002016-10-22T10:49:12.699-02:00Paper written by iOS autocomplete accepted for conference
Nonsense paper written by iOS autocomplete accepted for conference

Some comments I just made in an email about this :

Ouch! "Unreasonable" recurrent neural networks will be doing all our jobs soon. (https://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/)

What happens when we have automatic tools to summarize news items, journal articles, and perhaps provide early filters (routing-queries) in "what's interesting" from the journals. Perhaps lazy reviewers will just run the filter over a paper to see if its worth reading.

And then if we use the same models to generate papers ???

Just like automatic high-speed trading algorithms go off and autonomously create bubbles and crashes in the market, could we see runaway feedback between automated science paper generators and automated science paper accepters create entirely new subfields of science / pseudoscience?

I suppose, given that this is a physics conference, it's a great response to the Sokol Affair.

OTOH, sadly, it seems like this is a junk conference put together by "open access" publishers. The terrible thing here is that the term "open access" which should be a term of approval, is now getting discredited as vanity publishing.

I don't quite suspect a conspiracy by academic publishers ... but ... it is awfully convenient. :-/
phil joneshttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5148972.post-73314781000585204902016-10-10T16:12:00.002-03:002016-10-10T16:12:23.682-03:00Sites back up ...
OK ... sites back up ...

phil joneshttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5148972.post-10051323687283374702016-10-08T16:31:00.001-03:002016-10-08T16:31:15.394-03:00Servers down
It seems all my servers are down ... giving DNS errors. Some problem with the name provider I think ...
 Will keep you all posted.
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Thursday, October 29, 2009
Sculpture, mothering and courteous
- Hearing a friend and mother of two young men tell how much she is enjoying mothering her motherless daughter-in-law. She always wanted a daughter and now has one, and they are good friends, too.
- Blue lights in the rear view mirror of my car, I know exactly what I have done wrong and admit it to the polite officer who comes around to the window. I did not stop at the stop sign long enough. OK - I rolled through it. But because I was polite and admitted what I had done, he gave me a much lesser ticket. A nice man and nice to know that the Atlanta police department has such a courteous officer in its midst.
16 comments:
- LL Cool Joe said...
Only you could be pleased about getting a driving ticket! At least it was a nice officer that gave it to you!
That sculpture made me smile.
- October 29, 2009 at 9:07 AM
- Lynn said...
Joe -
Not pleased exactly, but happy to put police officers in a more positive light than they often get. He told me they aren't out there because of people like me. (Who usually are law-abiding. This is my first ticket in about 15 years. But it will only cost $15.)
- October 29, 2009 at 9:58 AM
- Cathy said...
wow--so glad you got off the hook, sort of. :)
- October 29, 2009 at 10:40 AM
- Talon said...
That sculpture is so life-like it's almost creepy! I wouldn't mind borrowing that for Halloween on Saturday night - lol!
Glad you had a good experience. I don't know about you, but when I get pulled over by the police, I always feel like a little kid again. $15 isn't bad at all.
- October 29, 2009 at 11:15 AM
- Cookie said...
That photo made me laugh! What a funny thing to make into a sculpture :)
And yikes! about the driving ticket. good thing it's a cheap one!
- October 29, 2009 at 11:58 AM
- Lynn said...
Cathy -
Thank you. I did get off the hook sort of.
Talon -
I do feel like a kid when that happens. And I had no excuse, just trying to get back to the office in a hurry to take care of something.
Hey - that might have been a good Halloween photo for sure!
- October 29, 2009 at 11:59 AM
- Lynn said...
Cookie -
It made me laugh after the initial startling sight. :)
- October 29, 2009 at 12:01 PM
- Riot Kitty said...
That is a creepy looking sculpture, I have to say. My friend once got pulled over because the cop thought she was drunk, but she was just trying to peel and eat an orange!
- October 29, 2009 at 12:35 PM
- Lynn said...
Riot Kitty -
It is creepy, but I like it! :)
- October 29, 2009 at 1:33 PM
- Mama Zen said...
That sculpture is creepy!
- October 29, 2009 at 2:07 PM
- Meredith said...
Wow... you got a reduction from APD? Fantastic. My last couple of experiences with them had convinced me they see the world in black & white, with no nuances whatsoever.
For instance, a parking ticket on my car at 5:00 p.m. on the day the sign for our street was installed at 3:00 p.m. We'd always been allowed to park on the street before, and had been doing so for over 3 years. I came out to my car in the evening and was in total shock -- but the city still made me pay $50 for that 2 hours of ignorance.
15 bucks in Atlanta is cheap! You must have done everything right :)
That sculpture is creepy enough for Hallowe'en!
- October 29, 2009 at 2:45 PM
- Lynn said...
Mama Zen -
It is delightfully creepy!
Meredith -
I probably just lucked out this time. Lesson learned. :)
- October 29, 2009 at 3:27 PM
- Snaggle Tooth said...
Wow, what a strange piece to run into! I feel like I entered a bathroom...
It's great to feel an adding onto a family! I have two sons-in-laws who are wonderful people.
With police, honesty n sincerity always help, as long as you're not caught committing a feloney, that is! Lucky you!
- October 29, 2009 at 10:31 PM
- Lynn said...
Snaggle -
That is so great that you are friends with your son-in-laws. It makes a big difference in families when everyone likes each other.
- October 29, 2009 at 10:46 PM
- Jannie Funster said...
Shoot, even a lesser ticket has got to hurt the olde pocket book a bit?
The middle one brought tears to my eyes, we just never know what's in store for us, do we? like, me so sad for so long about not being able to be a mom, and now on the top of the world with our little angel.
And maybe Kelly sad sometimes at being an only child will be able to give her kids the gift of each other.
And all who are sad will be happy.
- October 30, 2009 at 4:31 PM
- Blue Bunny said...
my jannie getted a warning frum a polise last sumer cause she had a bad paper on her car. she laffed after she got no tikkets. and went home and fell asleeps and dreemed bad polise was chasing her.
- October 30, 2009 at 4:33 PM


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I realize that my little baby boy is now just a little boy. I realize we take so many things for granted and something, anything, could change that at any time.
This video really touched my heart today. I feel like I have grown to appreciate the small things in life; however, I know I can do better.
Here is to being a better Mom, wife, and friend each and every day.
Saturday, May 8, 2010
As my Second Mother's Day approaches...
Posted by Julie Barnes at 1:49 PM
1 comment:
- Heidi said...
WOW! That was beautiful! Thanks so much for sharing!!
- May 10, 2010 at 9:42 PM
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What a beautiful day we had in western Washington. All day we were out in our garden getting it ready for planting.
So how excited I was to find an email from one of my favorite blogs Handbook of Nature Study. Barb has changed the format of the nature challenge and has made it a newsletter. I love the new format and find it easier to input the challenge into my lesson plans for the week.


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