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Month: April 2010
Saw this on the Brooklyn Projects blog … pure genius:
My Dearest Terri:
I know the counselor said we shouldn't contact each other during our "cooling off" period, but I couldn't wait anymore. The day you left, I swore I'd never talk to you again. But that was just the wounded little boy in me talking. Still, I never wanted to be the first one to make contact. In my fantasies, it was always you who would come crawling back to me. I guess my pride needed that. But now I see that my pride's cost me a lot of things. I'm tired of pretending I don't miss you. I don't care about looking bad anymore.
I don't care who makes the first move as long as one of us does. Maybe it's time we let our hearts speak as loudly as our hurt. And this is what my heart says… "There's no one like you, Terri."
I look for you in the eyes and breasts of every woman I see, but they're not you. They're not even close. Two weeks ago, I met this girl at the Rainbow Room and brought her home with me. I don't say this to hurt you, but just to illustrate the depth of my desperation.
She was young, Terri, maybe 19, with one of those perfect bodies that only youth and maybe a childhood spent ice skating can give you. I mean, just a perfect body. Tits you wouldn't believe and an ass like tortoise shell. Every man's dream, right?
But as I sat on the couch being blown by this coed, I thought, look at the stuff we've made important in our lives. It's all so trivial.
What does a perfect body mean? Does it make her better in bed? Well, in this case, yes. But you see what I'm getting at. Does it make her a better person? Does she have a better heart than my moderately attractive Terri? I doubt it. And I'd never really thought of that before. I don't know, maybe I'm just growing up a little.
Later, after I'd tossed her about a quart of throat yogurt, I found myself thinking, "Why do I feel so drained and empty?" It wasn't just her flawless technique or her slutty, shameless hunger, but something else. Some niggling feeling of loss. Why did it feel so incomplete?
And then it hit me. It didn't feel the same because you weren't there, Terri, to watch. Do you know what I mean? Nothing feels the same without you, baby.
Jesus, Terri, I'm just going crazy without you. And everything I do just reminds me of you.
Do you remember Carol, that single mom we met at Mt. Sinai Baptist Church? Well, she drops by last week with a pan of lasagna. She said she figured I wasn't eating right without a woman around. I didn't know what she meant till later, but that's not the real story. Anyway, we have a few glasses of wine and the next thing you know we're fucking in our old bedroom. And this broad's a total monster in the sack. She's giving me everything, you know like a real woman does when she's not hung up about God and her career and whether the kids can hear us. And all of a sudden she spots that tilting mirror on your grandmother's old vanity. So she puts it on the floor and we straddle it, right, so we can watch ourselves. And it's totally hot, but it makes me sad too. 'Cause I can't help thinking, "Why didn't Terri ever put the mirror on the floor? We've had this old vanity for what, 14 years, and we never used it as a sex aid." (Some of this I thought about later.)
You know what I mean? What happened to our spontaneity? You get so caught up in the routine of a marriage and you just lose sight of each other. And then you lose yourself. That's the saddest part of all for me.
But I keep thinking we can get it back. I know we can, because I only want this stuff with you. Saturday, your sister drops by with my copy of the restraining order. I mean, Shannon's just a kid and all, but she's got a pretty good head on her shoulders. She's been a real friend to me during this painful time. She's given me lots of good counsel about you and about women in general. (She's pulling for us to get back together, Terri. She really is.)
So we're drinking in the hot tub and talking about happier times. Here's this hot girl with the same DNA as you (although, let's face it, she got an extra helping of the sexy gene) and all I can do is think of how much she looks like you when you were 18. And that just about makes me cry. And then it turns out Shannon's really into the whole anal thing and that gets me to thinking about how many times I pressured you about trying it and how that probably fueled some of the bitterness between us. But do you see how even then, when I'm thrusting inside the steaming hot Dutch oven of your sister's cinnamon ring, all I can do is think of you? It's true, baby. In your heart you know it.
Don't you think we could start over? Just wipe out all the grievances and start fresh? I think we can. I keep thinking that I think if you'd just try it, I wouldn't have to pressure you so much. Because who needs all that bitterness, Terri? It just tears us apart. And I can't be apart from you.
Because I love you.
Ah ha ha
I've been test driving these DC Pro-Spec 2.0s lately. The first time I wore them was at the gymkhana in Songkhla and they worked like a dream.
I was actually kinda worried at first because they are so radically different from the Pro-Spec 1.0s but once I slipped them on all my worries went away.
The fundamental difference between the Pro-Spec 1.0 and the Pro-Spec 2.0 is that the 2.0 is a much sleeker shoe.
If anything it gives me the feel that it is a slightly more "casual" racing shoe, but maybe because this one is not FIA-certified like the Pro-Spec 1.0.
But just because the shoe is not FIA-certified doesn't mean it's any less performance orientated – every part of the shoe is designed to assist drivers perform to the best of their abilities.
Taking all the research and feedback that they received from the Pro-Spec 1.0, DC has created the perfect "club sports" driving shoe for motoring enthusiasts.
If you are someone who regularly competes in club-level motorsports events like autocrosses, gymkhanas, drift events, rallies and track days then this is the shoe for you.
The shoe is damn comfortable (like a regular sneaker) and if you're hanging out at a meet from morning till night your feet will be well-taken care of for sure.
Racing shoes always have rounded heels – this is to make pedal action with your feet easier/smoother.
The soles have been specially formulated to provide minimum pedal slip during heated driving.
Even with all the padding and cushioning on the insole of the Pro-Spec 2.0, you still get plenty of pedal feel, which is vital for any driver.
I can't decide which one I like better, the Pro-Spec 1.0 or the 2.0. Both are great in their own way and I'm lucky I have both so I can choose whichever one I feel like wearing!
DC continues to manufacture the 1.0 for those who need FIA-certified racing shoes but one thing that I think a lot of people will like about the 2.0 is the price. Due to the fact that the Pro-Spec 2.0 is not FIA-certified, it costs about half of what the 1.0 costs (FIA certification costs A BOMB) so the consumers win!
Trust me, these shit all over the other so-called racing/driving shoes on the market!
This is a follow-up video to our first Songkhla Gymkhana video … with more cars … more drifting … more everything! Haha!
Check-check-check it out …
Watch this interview with Ken Block at the launch of his Gymkhana 3 car in San Francisco.
It's hard to concentrate on what Ken is saying because there's some fucker in the background getting his freak on.
Can you recognize who that is?
*UPDATE* – I was informed by Renee Renee that the man in the background is in fact – international playboy Ricky Dorigo, who strangely enough, bears a STRIKING resemblance to Renee Renee himself. Hmmmmmmmmmm
One type of hawker fare that Penang is most famous for is the ubiquitous wan tan mee.
"Wan tan" means dumpling and "mee" means noodles.
There are typically 2 types of wan tan mee – 1 is classified as "dry" (like the one above) and the other is classified as "soup" which basically means it comes in soup. Duh
Sometimes the wan tan is fried, or sometimes it is boiled.
It also comes with some pickled chillis. I don't know why but Penangites have to eat EVERYTHING with chilli.
Chilli always overpowers other flavours and I suspect a lot of hawkers put a lot of chilli in their dishes so you don't notice that the ingredients that they are using to cook your food are not particularly fresh. *ahem* *ahem*
Every wan tan mee stall has it's own secret blend of sauce for the dry version but of course there are a few better-known stalls – such as the corner kopitiam (coffee shop) opposite the police station in Pulau Tikus on Burma Road in Penang.
I've been a huge fan of this particular stall since I was a kid and I really have been eating his noodles for like 30 years. But the funny thing is, I don't know the name of the kopitiam. There is another kopitiam right opposite it so be careful you don't get the wrong stall!
The best part of this particular stall's wan tan mee is the fried lard.
Ok, it's not the healthiest thing on the planet, but food that is unaturally delicious never is.
Check it out if you have time (they are only open in the morning) and the next time I go I'll remember to get the name of the kopitiam for you, k?


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To its most devoted backers, bitcoin is the code to freeing the world from the shackles of Wall Street and the "fiat" currencies underpinning them. Unsurprisingly, Wall Street isn't too keen on being upended in any sort of revolution anytime soon. But that doesn't mean the powers that be look at bitcoin as the hammer the world will use to smash them into oblivion. They just see another tool to to make money with.
And make no question, that money, at least on their end, will be in USD, thank you very much. Bitcoin's main allure for investors is the ease with which bitcoin facilitates money transfers. And for that, bitcoin isn't a revolution, per se, but a potentially very valuable piece of software.
Transferring funds, especially internationally, can get pricey. Apps like XOOM Corp. (XOOM) and old stalwarts like Western Union (WU) routinely take five percent (or more) off the top to transfer fiat currency, to say nothing of conversion rates once the money gets there. Bitcoin's transfer cost, regardless of physical distance, is by contrast zero. Which is, well, certainly a more attractive option.
Still, accepting bitcoin wallet-to-wallet without an intermediary to convert to fiat means the receiver is accepting a currency whose price can swing unpredictably in a single day. The bitcoin market is pretty volatile, and not all merchants or other BTC receivers like to expose themselves to such wild price movement.
That's where companies like Bitpay come in. Recently valued at $160 million, and counting tech luminaries like Richard Branson and Yahoo (YHOO) co-founder Jerry Yang as major backers, Bitpay puts some buffer between bitcoin sender and bitcoin receiver, giving comfort to more traditonally-minded merchants.
Using Bitpay won't completely fulfill bitcoin's "third-party free" secure transaction promise. But until bitcoin completely replaces USD and the like (and that's not happening anytime soon) Bitpay looks to have found a niche in the tranfer-conversion game, and seems to be the best bet for a bitcoin-related company succeeding in the big leagues of finance.
Here, Melissa Lee of CNBC's Fast Money talks about the rise of Bitpay, and Wall Street's increasing fascination with the digital commodity/currency:
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Ishimwe means 'Give thanks to God' in Kinyarwanda, the language of Rwanda. This adventure was founded in 2003 by Roger & Faith Shaw. Their first rescue home was in Ruhengeri. In 2012, they relocated to Bugesera.
In 2006, the Shaws formed a US non-profit organization called the Ishimwe Center with a goal to provide real and lasting hope for a few of Rwanda's abandoned children by the provision of family homes.
They wanted to adopt orphans into family-style homes where they would feel as loved and secure as if they were natural born sons or daughters. Visitors expecting an orphanage are delighted to discover a large, normal-looking, happy, vibrant family, busy going about their daily business.
As the size of the family increased and as the older children became teenagers, the Shaws felt called to move to Rwanda to care for the children and expand the facility. They made the move in 2010.
The Ishimwe Center is a non-profit and none of the directors receive any payment for their services. Roger, having given up his job in Silicon Valley, formed a for-profit company in Bugesera, Rwanda called Lakeside Fish Farm.
Lakeside's land slopes all the way down towards beautiful Lake Mirayi. The is on its way to being established, but is still in need of further investor funds.
James 1:27 Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.


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The Fen Tiger is on the prowl again, through the local newspapers at any rate. The tiger is actually (or supposedly) a black panther, and has been spotted seemingly on dozens of occasions since the early 1980s.
Panthers have a lifespan of roughly twelve years in the wild and twenty or so in captivity. I do not know whether making your living mauling sheep in the Fens counts as living wild or living captive; either way, however, the extraordinary longevity of the Fen Tiger is testament not to the fatness of the sheep hereabouts but to the general durability both of myth and of mass hysteria (or profound boredom) in isolated communities.
That said, if you were to meet a tiger (sic) on the Fens, what you would want about your person would be a punt gun. The punt is a traditional fenland boat, low bottomed and ideal for the pushing about stealthily in the shallow waters. Ideal, also, to hunt from – not big cats, perhaps, but water fowl. You can drift silently along until you come across some birds dawdling on the water, and then you let off your colossal punt gun.
The punt gun is not a rifle exactly, it is more like artillery. Immensely long and heavy, you would balance it along the length of the punt, its muzzle crammed like a blunderbuss with shot of some sort (old nails perhaps, bolts, bits of crockery, tigers' teeth); and when it went off (once in a generation), it would no doubt slaughter every bird within a five-hundred-yard radius. You would have weeks of work just scooping up the carcasses.
Just the thing, then, for the indiscriminate extermination of myths, tigers, vulnerable aquatic fowl and the odd local reporter. I am in favour of regular patrols.


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No to marijuana
To the Editor:
Faint praise is due for The Union Democrat and the lead article on Jan. 17, as it made citizens aware of the "blind ignorance" shown by the Sonora Council in their opening shot to legalize something that is federally illegal.
Is it possible that they are ignorant of the peril that Calaveras County has put themselves in by legalizing marijuana? With legalization comes crime and that puts our law enforcement in danger. Look at the overleaf page in the UD. A full sheet, with the exception of one article, that reads like the crime blotter in a major big city.
Look again at Calaveras County. The overwhelming and escalating cost of enforcement has caused considerable rethinking on their part.
Moving the grows and the distributors out of the city, is not the answer. The growers will still be contaminating streams and soils. The distribution will still encourage illegal raids and theft and the other criminal activities that accompany drugs.
It is abominable, that which you have done. I pray that you will wake up before you and your loved ones reap the whirlwind of consequence. Evil is repaid by evil. Look to Roman History. Their destruction and fall was due to the Senate (those in office) rejecting law and justice, and embracing greed and lawlessness.
I praise Mayor Connie Williams, though she stands alone in her vote, she knows what she talking about in opposing this ordinance.
Connie Dresbach
'The Post' is relevant today
To the Editor:
Yesterday I saw the film "The Post" here in Sonora and what a wonderful piece of cinematic art it is. The historical significance and relevance to today's political machinations is both profound and astounding, I think.
The central theme of the movie concerns the first Amendment to the US Constitution, e.g. freedom of the press and President Nixon's (aka "Tricky Dicky") attempts to quash the exercise of that guaranteed right in our founding document; specifically the publishing of the Pentagon Papers that was an embarrassment to every administration since and including Eisenhower's up to Nixon's.
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that the N.Y. Times and The Washington Post had/have a fundamental right to publish factual news that may or may not be embarrassing to the government. I highly recommend this film without any reservation.
It's relevance to today's political events is manifest. We now have a president who declaims established and long honored news institutions, such as the Times, Washington Post, etc. as perpetrating "fake news" and being the "enemy of the people" — repeating the claims of one Joseph Stalin many decades ago in the USSR.
The freedom of the press is a bulwark of our republic and the citizens' necessary and just check against authoritarianism and/or totalitarianism in the governing of a free people. Richard M. Nixon attempted to usurp the right of the electorate to know what its governors were covertly doing, to the detriment of the nation, and eventually paid the price of being the only president of these United States to resign his office in ignominy. I hope and pray that the citizens of this country will arise en masse in repudiation of our current POTUS' attempts to discredit his accusers, which are legion and honest.
David A. Fristad
Twain Harte
You and me
To the Editor:
To me, today, there are three types of citizens: The feel goods, the poor mes and you and mes.
So today there is not enough of you and mes to let the feel goods support the poor mes
Think about it.
Mike Hesseltine
Pot vote would be illegal
To the Editor:
Voters in Calaveras County do not have the right to vote on a Federal Law.
Putting the issue of legalization of marijuana out to the voters is illegal.
Leave well enough alone.
Marilynn Meyer
People of varied beliefs attended MLK celebration
To the Editor:
The letter by Richard T. Todd disparaging the celebration on Jan. 14 honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is a tissue of irrelevancies, personal attacks and misstatements of fact. The celebration was put on by the Motherlode Martin Luther King Jr. Committee, not by "Socialist Democrats" or pro-abortionists.
The committee is composed of local community members who have a variety of political beliefs, but who are united in commemorating Dr. King and his devotion to non-violent action to bring about social and political change.
The invocation was given by Imam Ahmad Kayello, a Muslim, not an "Islamist," whatever that means. The closing was given by Rabbi Andra Greenwald. Mr. Todd criticizes the MLK Committee's essay contest as not being "honest." In fact, many students in local schools participated in it, and the winner at the high school level read her essay, which was published by The Union Democrat last September, to great applause.
Over 500 local community members attended the event and were "fine with it," joining in singing and enthusiastic applause for the speaker, Carmen Perez, one of the organizers of the 2017 Women's March. Those protesting the event numbered 20 to 25, and not all were local, the most vocal individual being from Stockton. Protestors were invited into the event and to participate in a discussion afterwards, which some did.
Mr. Todd throws in other accusations that had nothing to do with the event, including references to the Muslim Brotherhood, Hugo Chavez, anti-American Hollywood "elitists," Castro, Bahar al-Assad, etc..
It is interesting that Mr. Todd's letter appeared virtually word for word titled "Freedom Fighting in the Sierra Nevadas" in a conservative blog on Jan. 16 over the signature of Suzanne Cruz, director of the Liberty Institute USA, a conservative nonprofit in the Sierra Nevada region..
Steve Ralston
Motherlode Martin Luther
King Jr. Committee


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Well, the ridiculousness of the music industry has finally caught up with this blog.
This blog is run for the sole purpose to promote music. See the post, listen to the track, go buy the track. At the very least, go see the artist live.
Apparently the recording labels take issue with our attempts to promote music and artists.
In recent weeks, we've had numerous DCMA Take Down Requests sent our way.
Its sad.
We're not giving away music, but apparently despite the fact that we're completely compliant with all rules.. the labels just don't appreciate it.
For now, we're taking a break on posting up new individual tracks. Our radio show posts will continue as we search for a new approach to deliver the music you'll love to you.
Thank you to everyone for your support… keep raving!
The Chair Raver Team


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Thursday, December 20, 2012
Me = Someone
... somewhat coincided with both finishing the lining and my friend calling to say she couldn't make our lunch date tomorrow. I'd been telling anyone who asked that it would take an act of God for me to be finished on time and apparently acts of God come in the shape of being asked to babysit your grandson. We've rescheduled for coffee tonight and - LOL - maybe I'll be done. We'll see.
After researching how to attach leather handles, I opted to sew by machine first and will add hand stitching with pearl cotton over top for a thicker, more finished look.
With the zipper, I reverted to the method most frequently used in my purses which is slicing across the entire length, wrapping each edge with fabric, and then top stitching the wrapped edge to the zipper. It's neat and easy. The only drawback is it creates more bulk in the seams that - depending on how the purse is structured - can be an issue although a few wacks with the hammer usually flattens things out.
Marcy Tilton is the featured artist in the spring 2005 issue of Quilting Arts Magazine. In the article, she notes that it takes four to six months to complete a new pattern design. I'd recently reread the article for another purpose only that line stayed with me. I realized I'm spending too much time on each purse figuring out how to put it together even though they have similar shapes and results. It seems to me that I'd be better off developing some standardized "recipes" so my focus can be on the colors and textures and interactions. When I thought about why this happens, I think it's in part because I predominately work with a quilted surface of some sort. I enjoy creating them - particularly the layering and the threadwork - and even so perhaps it's time for me to step out of that quilted box and look at other options - in the new year - right now the purse and I are through the hating each other stage and moving toward the finish line.
The hand work was red over red stitching around each motif after outlining them in gold thread. Each step gave the motif more presence and energy. Beading would too only these are along the bottom of the bag so I'm not sure beading is necessary. We'll see when all the parts are in place.
The lining is complete and read to insert. The front is done except for the side seams. I've determined how to finish the top edge and add the zipper. This morning's focus is the flap. Once that is complete and stitched in place, I can shape the bag, add the feet and snap, insert the lining, and move to finished. YEAH.
I'm reading The View From The Studio Door by Ted Orland. At one point, he talks about how there are fewer artists in today's world and about how art making is becoming more and more about a (mostly unengaged) audience. I'd quote the actual phrase but it'd take too long to find it right now and - as you know - I'm on a deadline. It intrigued me that in three hours of sitting and stitching in a public waiting room with a large staff of predominately young - under thirty - women, not a single person inquired about what I was doing. I found that both unusual and somewhat sad. There are so many fabulous aspects to being a maker, the least of which is the finished object.
Talk soon - Myrna
Grateful - shifting deadlines
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That is sad, that no one asked about what you were doing with your stitchery... I find that I have a different experience, that often people approach me in public and ask about my everpresent handwork. Not as much in medical settings as elsewhere though. It is true that I do live in Portland, which is a bit more maker-friendly than some places though.ReplyDelete
I think that developing TNT patterns, whether for clothing or other artifacts (like purses) is a way to allow our creative selves to have a ground on which to dance, rather than having to conjure up the ground first each time...Replies
Portland... sigh... I'm coming back in June to shop at Fabric Depot and perhaps a few other places. Can't wait.Delete
The longer I sew the more value I see in the "blank canvas" of TNT patterns.
Can't believe no one had a sticky at what you were up to! Me, seeing someone knitting, sewing, or crafting is an open door to start up a conversation.ReplyDelete
Bag is coming together perfectly, and with that little extra time up your sleeve you will soon have this project 'in-the-bag!'Replies
I'm not programmed to walk by someone working on something interesting. It just doesn't happen. I'm so darn nosey that I just have to know what they're doing Starts all kinds of conversations though.Delete
I'm done. And completely bagged. Details tomorrow.


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Jerry Wainwright Fired As DePaul Head Coach
Jan. 11, 2010
CHICAGO (AP) -DePaul has fired basketball coach Jerry Wainwright and replaced him on an interim basis with assistant Tracy Webster.
The school has scheduled a campus news conference Monday.
DePaul is 7-8 this season and 0-3 in the Big East. The Blue Demons are a 22-game regular-season losing streak in the conference.
Wainwright has a 59-80 overall record at DePaul, including 20-51 in the Big East. He was in his fifth season at the school after stints at UNC Wilmington and Richmond.


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Story so far: Manchester United FC
Wednesday 18 December 2013
Article summary
In their first post-Sir Alex Ferguson campaign it was business as usual in Europe for Manchester United FC – despite undergoing a delicate transition under David Moyes.
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With Manchester United FC entering European competition without Sir Alex Ferguson for the first time since 1984/85, all eyes were on Old Trafford to see if it would be the same Red Devils or a new breed under David Moyes. Though the managerial transition has proved tough in the Premier League, with the side ninth at the end of the UEFA Champions League group stage, Moyes found a way to get results in Europe.
If lacking the fluency and confidence of previous seasons, the experience and talent in the squad ensured United remained a force, topping Group A unbeaten while not conceding a goal in their final four games. There has been talk of vulnerability and a shortage of belief yet few will fancy being drawn against United, especially if Moyes can help them recover a glimpse of their old form.
Story so far
While Old Trafford's impregnability has come into question in the Premier League, with West Bromwich Albion FC, Everton FC and Newcastle United FC all victorious there, it remains a daunting trip for European clubs. United won all three at home and coupled that with a pair of away draws and an emphatic success at Bayer 04 Leverkusen.
The German outfit were first up at Old Trafford, where Wayne Rooney's double helped the Red Devils prevail 4-2, a result followed by a 1-1 draw at FC Shakhtar Donetsk. Four more points came from back-to-back matches against Real Sociedad de Fútbol, meaning progress was assured with the 5-0 stroll in Leverkusen. A matchday six defeat of Shakhtar secured top spot.
Pivotal moment
There were three sides in pursuit of the two qualification slots before United's visit to Leverkusen on matchday five. A fortress for Sami Hyypiä's men, who had dispatched Shakhtar 4-0 there, the BayArena could well have proven a graveyard for United.
However, the Reds' display of the season reaffirmed to continental challengers that they are still a force to be reckoned with when on song. Rooney was an inspiration, setting up four goals in United's biggest-ever group stage away win. "This is probably the best performance of the season," said Moyes. "For us to come away and score five is really special."
Key player: Wayne Rooney
Two goals in five matches may not seem a bumper return for a player considered one of Europe's top strikers, but Rooney excelled in conducting the orchestra. The England forward supplied six assists, more than any other player in the group phase, and invariably produced when it mattered.
After getting United's campaign off the ground on matchday one, his sublime run and shot forced Real Sociedad's Iñigo Martínez to turn the only goal of the game into his own net on matchday three. Rooney then led Leverkusen's defence a merry dance in Germany. With injuries hampering Robin van Persie, the feeling is that if United are to go far much will rest on the shoulders of their No10.
Rising star: Phil Jones
Though his long-term future may be in central defence, Moyes has used Phil Jones as a defensive midfielder. The 21-year-old's energy and enthusiasm has been a major factor for United in defence and attack. If not the deftest of players, the former Blackburn Rovers FC prodigy more than makes up for it in commitment – evidenced by the sight of a physio regularly sprinting on to mop up the blood after Jones has thrown himself into a challenge.
Rewarded for his efforts with a volleyed winner against Shakhtar on 10 December, Jones is still developing, but with this United team finding a new character he should be at the heart of it for years to come.
Number: 145
Over 20 years after his competition debut, Ryan Giggs came off the bench on matchday two to make his 145th UEFA Champions League outing, overtaking Raúl González as the player with the most tournament appearances, qualifying included. The two-time winner joined the coaching staff in the summer but, having turned 40 in November, continues to excel on the pitch. "Giggs showed he is still at the top, top level. What a fantastic player," said Sociedad's Rubén Pardo after encountering the former Welsh international. "For me, he is an absolute star. Look at his age and how he can still perform."
Next challenge: Olympiacos FC
(Away: 25 February, home: 19 March)
United have a perfect record of four wins in four meetings with the Greek champions. They all came in the group stage over 12 months in 2001 and 2002, with Giggs scoring three goals across the fixtures. Seen by some as a favourable draw, the Piraeus side's runaway league form suggests it will be anything but. In Kostas Mitroglou they possess a striker who can trouble the best in Europe, as witnessed by his hat-trick at RSC Anderlecht. Olympiacos have reached the quarter-finals just once, in 1998/99, so history hardly favours Míchel's men – but it would be foolish to take a team who ousted SL Benfica from Group C less than 100% seriously.


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Serena Williams and Body Shaming Women of Color
Serena Williams is without a doubt one of the best athletes of our generation. After securing her 21st grand slam win at Wimbledon, and that defining New York Magazine cover above, Williams is a force to be reckoned with, and is carving out an inspirational legacy that continues on and off the court. Her athletic ability is just one of the elements she should be admired for, alongside her never-ending strength against the constant criticism she faces.
Instead of focusing on her domination on the court, incessant criticism plagues Serena — about her body, hair and general appearance — criticism that often follows women of color. This criticism is often laced with racist connotations, as the criticism on her physical appearance range from labeling her as a "ugly monkey," to stating that she has a body like a man — the Russian Tennis Federation even called Serena and her sister, Venus, "the Williams brothers." This obsession and constant disrespect in relation to Serena's figure alongside many other women of color — from Nicki Minaj to Misty Copeland — have implications linking to society's mistreatment of the black female body.
The black woman's body has always been treated as the "other" in relation to white women. Mainstream beauty standards often don't include the black female body, and Serena is just one of many examples of black women whose bodies have been labeled everything but "ideal."
Misty Copeland was also a victim of body shaming, after being told her body was too muscular and mature when she was rejected from a ballet company at the age of 13. Forget the fact that those muscles are — and continue to be — a testament to Copeland's hard work and dedication to the arduous sport of ballet. To be told at 13 years old that your body isn't ideal would be hard enough as young woman, but unfortunately this form of body criticism doesn't have an age limit for black girls.
Do we all remember the constant critique that followed Blue Ivy Carter for rocking her natural hair? A 2-year-old ridiculed by the media and on social media, as many took to Twitter and Instagram to mock the appearance of a young child. This treatment of black girls and body shaming women of color remains consistent in our society, where their features, style, and music are uplifted but black women themselves are not.
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Car makers around the world are looking with increasing interest at car services with on-demand journey booking or shared tenure schemes in the face of falling ownership among the Uber generation. The fact is that many younger people see little point in buying a car outright when they only need one for a fraction of any day. The same is true of music: faced with falling music sales, record companies are increasingly looking to streaming services that supply albums (or individual songs) on demand.
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HPE's offer is interesting because it sounds very much like a cloud storage deal. You pay for what you use, you can scale up or down (providing storage agility), and there's no CAPEX involved. It sounds so similar to cloud storage that it's worth considering at this point why you might want to make use of the pay-as-you-go model – which, don't forget, still involves you supplying space in your data center and paying for power and cooling and so on. You could do away with all these obligations by using true cloud storage.
There are a number of drawbacks to using enterprise SSD-class storage in the cloud. A key reason to use enterprise SSD storage is to reduce latency and so improve application performance, but using enterprise SSD storage in the cloud necessarily adds latency as data is moved to and from the cloud. (Even if you use cloud compute as well as enterprise SSD resources, there's still likely more latency involved than if you access your enterprise application locally in your own data center.)
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Mr. Brian Cotter (Weston-super-Mare): I rise to support the hon. Member for South Cambridgeshire. As hon. Members have said, we are discussing the possibility of a situation being based on a Minister's opinion. However, Ministers will have to substantiate such opinions in the documents placed before Parliament.
The amendments are key to the Bill because we are concerned to have objective, rather than subjective, tests. Reference has been made to my colleague in the other place, Lord Goodhart. He pointed out that a Minister's opinion would not be the definitive factor in the making of the order. A Minister will have to convince the Deregulation Committee that his opinion is correct. The Committee will be able to take issue with the Minister's opinion if it considers it an incorrect assessment of the situation. The Minister must then either amend the draft order accordingly, or risk the concept being rejected in the Committee's report. As Lord Goodhart said, the Minister's opinion is not the ultimate factor in determining whether an order should be accepted, and that should be reflected in the Bill.
What protection does the clause afford in terms of judicial review? A court of law could only intervene if a Minister's opinion were found to be irrational. That would be a hard concept to prove or disprove. A further fear was put forward. If the Government accepted the Wakeham report in its current form, the ability of the other place to block an order would be removed. A future Executive with a working majority in the Commons would not then be subject to any effective control.
The hon. Member for South Cambridgeshire has raised an important point. A Minister's opinion will not carry something throughhe will have to convince the Committee that it is valid and correct. The Minister, therefore, is going to have to convince us that there is serious reason not to accept the amendments.
Mr. Stringer: The hon. Member for South Cambridgeshire had me flapping during his speech when he said that the Deregulation and Contracting Out Act, which refers to necessary protection, does not take into account the subjective opinion of the Minister of the Crown. In fact, section 1(1) of the Act begins:
I therefore hope that he will accept that, at least in that part of the Bill that is taken from the 1994 Act, we have changed nothing. What has been added to the Bill is the extra protection that the Minister must satisfy himself according to subsections 2(a) and (b). The hon. Gentleman read them out, so I shall not do so.
The hon. Gentleman said that there had not previously been a subjective test, and now there is one. I hope that I have shown that that is not right. He accepted that the new protections were sensible and followed the same principle of the Minister coming to a view, then going through the super-affirmative process. The process as it is applied under the 1994 Act was supported by the Conservative party from the beginning. It was not so supported by the Labour party, but it has since been convinced that the process has not been a problem. We have put in extra safeguards as we have widened the powers that can be used. Essentially, the same arguments apply to the extra safeguards as applied to necessary protection.
If a Minister intended to act in an unreasonable, dictatorial way, the process would be a strange one for him to go through. He has to consult the appropriate representative bodies and people affected by the measure, and that consultationwith certain exceptions that we will come tohas to be placed before the deregulation Committees. If the Minister wanted to remove protection and was being unreasonable in his judgment about necessary protection, or was attempting to remove rights or freedoms that people could reasonably expect to continue, that would be transparently clear to the Committees of both Houses, because the people affected would say, ``We believe our freedoms are being removed; the balance is not right.'' Moreover, the Committees can take evidence from those people. Given the political composition of both Committees, it is most unlikely, in the foreseeable future, that they would say, ``Fine, go ahead with the process.'' They would say, as has happened on several occasions, that the Minister was being unreasonable and that he or she should reconsider the matter.
The final point concerned why the Bill should contain a subjective test as opposed to an objective test. When one takes into account all the nuances and the difficult balances as the regulatory regimes are moved around, it is better for Parliament to decide the issue through a thorough and vigorous consultation involving both Houses. If there were no subjective test, but we relied only on an objective test, we would be passing the decision to the courts. My noble and learned Friend Lord Falconer of Thoroton said:
The super-affirmative process is an extremely thorough and rigorous process of scrutiny of the deregulation orders, which will become regulatory reform orders. The Minister has to provide tests and protections. He must provide extra information, but there is nothing essentially different in this Bill from the 1994 Act. All that we have done is add extra protection against a wider power in clause 1. I hope that the hon. Member for South Cambridgeshire will recognise that and withdraw his amendment.
Mr. Lansley: I am grateful to the Minister as I clearly misdirected myself in my construction of the necessary protection provisions of the Deregulation and Contracting Out Act. It is clear that the fair balance and desirability test must be constructed initially by the parliamentary process. If, as the Minister says, that is necessary to defend the parliamentary process from being converted into a court-led interpretation of fair balance and desirability, I am prepared to accept his argument.
I am still somewhat confused about reasonable expectations, however. It may be because of a lack of awareness on my part, but if the test is of a reasonable expectation and a Minister has to be of the opinion that no reasonable expectations will be frustrated by the order, do we not still run the risk of a court overturning that and saying that there are reasonable expectations? The reasonableness is in the test itself.
Does the fact that a Minister has to have an opinion on the matter mean that reasonable expectations would not be sustained by a court? Would a Minister have to have an unreasonable expectation, perhaps saying that reasonable expectations were not being frustrated when they clearly were, in order for that to be challenged in the court? If reasonable expectations are the test, is not the court exactly the place where such a test should be applied, if an order might be reasonably construed to have frustrated those reasonable expectations?
I am still not wholly persuaded by the Minister's arguments on amendment No.8. Perhaps he will take a moment to offer some further comfort. If he signifies that he will think about the matter and perhaps write to members of the Committee, we might reasonably move on.
Mr. Stringer: I am always happy to save time and I thank the hon. Gentleman for saving me going through even more complicated and technical issues. I shall write to him.
Mr. Lansley: I beg to ask leave to withdraw the amendment.
Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.
Mr. Lansley: I beg to move amendment No. 12, in page 3, line 15, at end insert
We have moved on only to the end of these tests. We have in the course of the discussion understood, rather better on my part anyway, the nature of the tests that are to be applied before an order is made furthering these objectives. On Second Reading, I put a question pretty straightforwardly to the Minister, which those reading our proceedings might feel has not been answered completely. The question is not whether the order has to remove or reduce burdens because clause 3(2)(b) makes that clear. Indeed, the amendment in the other place provided for that. We know that an order will, among other purposes, remove or reduce burdens.
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We know, however, that the order has other potential objectives. It can create burdens and it can re-impose them. It can do so to an extent that, in the view of Ministers, is justified by the benefits that flow from it. Taking all those provisions as a whole, we do not know whether the net effect of such an order would be to reduce the total burdens on persons affected by the changes proposed in the order. Indeed, the Minister might have felt that I was asking a different question on Second Reading, such as whether an order must give rise to a reduction or the removal of burdens? The Minister made it clear that the answer to that is yes.My purpose in asking the question and tabling the amendment is to clarify that the overall effect of an order should not simply be that some burdens are removed or reduced, but that it should reduce the totality of burdens imposed on persons affected by the changes.
The amendment sets out to ensure that there is further limitation on the order-making power. With all the changes and objectives set out in clause 1, the Minister must be of the opinion that there is a net reduction in the total burden on all those affected by the changes. That is the purpose for which the Deregulation and Contracting Out Act was first created. That is why we set out to create an exceptional deregulatory purpose. The Minister described it as a super-affirmative procedure, which has considerable constitutional implications for the way that we conduct business in the House. I will not dwell on that as I raised it on Second Reading. The purpose of the amendment is to press the point.
Notwithstanding that, the Minister has said, quite fairly, that regulation schemes need to be affected by these orders, that they need to be able to apply to enactments more recent than those to which the Deregulation and Contracting Out Act would have applied and that the overall impact should be a deregulatory one. That is why the organisationsprincipally business organisationsto which the Minister was keen to refer on Second Reading welcomed the provisions of the Bill. They believe that they could be more effective overall as a consequence of delivering a lighter regulatory burden. They are also clear that that should not be overlaid by the consequences of the imposition of new burdens, whether outside the scope of the regulatory reform orders or, heaven forfend, by bringing back into the structure of such orders a framework of new regulatory burdens that would frustrate the deregulatory effect. We can deliver the purposes for which the business community, in particular, has sought only by ensuring, through an amendment such as this, that regulatory reform orders are deregulatory in their effect.
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After one year of just watching you I dare to post one of my creation.
I do all of my works just with the editor of POV-Ray and sometimes postwork with photoshop.
I hope you like my picture.
Texture of the planet is a photo from jupiter. The space, backgroud of the stars, is a fractal.
See my pics: Astrobiology, Architecture & landscape, meteors, artefact
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Joep van Putten
near 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands
Hehe... that's funny, I like it. Great sense of atmosphere! If there is something I should crit, I would work on the lighting and texturing. The textures are a bit too simple right now, and the lighting needs some hotspots for instance, something that catches your attention.
Good work .
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Gerhard Hoeberth
Wasserburg am Inn, Germany
Thank you for your post.
I think I know what you mean with the eyecatcher-lightpoint. I'll try to make it.
The texture is more detailed as it appears in this size. here is an datail for you :-)
But you've got right: nature has details in every size.
thaks for your interrest and your critik
(and excuse my english :-( )
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|05 May 2005
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Improving it...
you're render it's nice it's well composed and the concept it's not bad really. about the technical aspects, you could improve it a lot... like Chuppa said the textures could be much better, try some uv's or if don't want, some procedurals would make it speccially on the dirty. The water could have some enhance too. your object (sapceship?) would require some detailed work on the iron, like rust since it is half underground hand it looks like it's been there for a while. The environment it's cool, but is missng some reflection maps and some spot ons like Chuppa said.
Keep it up, imrpove it, show it on whip's and later post it again, when you think it's good enought it could become a nice picture.
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sascha henrichs
3d Graphics
Duisburg, Germany
hello gerhard. your fractal generated work is well done in its nature. (i dont even have a clue how to programm povray pics) but i know the potential of the renderer.
and i think you could do something about your textures.
perhaps you could try extensive use of bump maps on the terrain and objects.
the bumps are only to be seen in the very closeups. (saucer)
the design of fractals and making pics out of it is open to argument.
just my two cents are, that the human brain wants to see something familiar.
fractals are very unnatural (exept of molecual struktures or snowflakes perhaps, but even those are not always regular) so it seems to me thats its difficult to see something attracting for a human being in a fractal object.
to me it appears like what it is: a visualized mathematical formula. not attracting
on the other hand, using fractals for some kind of objectPARTS is very usual. think of reptiles skin or insect eyes or something comparable.
so my tip is to either work different fractal structures together to get irregularity or place fractal accuracy onto organic (life?)forms.
and always try to achieve a stunning real lighting! this could take your work to another level i think.
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This makes sense. I mean, what other U.S. city could they have decided upon? Pittsburg? Phoenix? Orlando? No, the writers of The Office got it right. Jim and Pam are likable characters. We want the best for them. They've paid their dues in the decaying armpit that is Scranton PA, and they are deserving of a bright and optimistic new life. Austin is the only U.S. city for which this "new beginnings" story line would work. Fans can cheer the decision to move to Austin like they can no other city. It requires no explanation. It's, like, "of course". Self-explanatory. And we can feel good about that for them.
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It is late at night and I should be awake in a few hours so I can get back to work. Since I know it will take longer to get to morning if I am awake for it, I have chosen to wait it out.
I have entered the realm of "completing my Masters" panic where I have a paper due soon and I have no idea what I'm doing or how long it will take to do it.
I have often heard my family members (sisters and cousin) and friends complain about the workload of doing a Masters. I heard them bemoan the sleepless nights, looming deadlines, and set-in of panic, but I thought it couldn't be that bad. Tough yes, but not paralyzing.
I would like to apologize.
Now of course I am working full time, heavily involved in my union, working as a consultant a few times a month, and volunteering in my free time. Add to that my social life (occasional wing nights and suppers with my husband) with my copious amounts of recorded TV shows and trashy romance novels I want to read and I am having a bit of time management issues.
I assume everyone else also responds to this by napping and/or playing games on their phone.
Part of my lack of confidence lies in the significant time that has passed since I have been in the world of academia. When I last wrote a term paper, I had to research using card catalogues. I painstakingly jotted quotes and ideas on recipe cards so I could tape them together in as an outline before I wrote. I used a shared computer in a lab where I stood in line for 45 minutes so I could work for 2 hours.
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It's not often that I have the chance to sit down for hours at a stretch to read a good romance novel from cover to cover. In my twenties (that is, before kids) I used to read loads of novels from authors ranging from Jane Austen to Danielle Steel. And while you may think that those two particular authors are worlds apart I actually think they have a lot in common. They lived in different eras but are both romance novelists who write with a measure of lust, eloquence and style and created a genre that is timeless.
Sugar Daddy" by Nicole Andrews Moore. Nicole and I are fellow bloggers. But it is with pure amazement that I see how Nicole has taken her passion for writing to a level far beyond mine at this time and has written several books and has a sweet (uh huh - "sugary") way with words.
To top this all off Nicole was writing while dealing with an incredible year of navigating her way around life as a mother of a premature baby who weighed a mere 9.6 ounces at birth. You can read more about that experience in another book she wrote called "Keeping Up With Kenna."
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The author, Nicole, engages the reader immediately from her first syrupy paragraph to the last satisfying bite. The protagonist of the story is Hannah Matthews. Hannah is a well-educated woman and the mother of twin daughters. She discovers her husband is having an affair and is devastated and nearly paralyzed with shock at how her life has been pulled apart. She tries to shield her daughters from the situation and struggles to make ends meet with her pitiful job for which she is grossly overqualified. So what does she do? She puts out an ad to find a sugar daddy of course!
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