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Bally Technologies
Bally Technologies, Inc. is a diversified, worldwide gaming company that designs, manufactures, distributes, and operates gaming devices and computerized monitoring, accounting and player-tracking systems for gaming devices. In addition to selling gaming... Read full profile.
Bang Zoom Entertainment
Situated in the heart of Burbank, California, Bang Zoom! Entertainment is an award-winning full-service audio post and creative production company. Weve been in business for over 15 years and pride ourselves on producing amazing quality projects in... Read full profile.
Banjax is a web engineering studio based in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
We are experts in web development and work with some of the best designers and agencies in the world making great web applications.
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Bank of Ireland Group is a diversified Financial Services Group with market leading positions in our chosen domestic markets and niche status in other selected markets. With our headquarters in Dublin, profit generation is well distributed between Republic... Read full profile.
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The Barclays name has been in banking since 1736. Our development as a global business began in 1925. By 1981 we had become the first foreign bank to file with the US Securities and Exchange Commission and raise long-term capital on the New York market.... Read full profile.
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Barcrest Group is a leading force in the European amusement industry with a reputation for outstanding creativity and innovation. For over 40 years the Group has used its skills and expertise to provide customers with exceptional gaming products, all... Read full profile.
Barunson Interactive
Publisher of Dragonica.
Basement Creative Studio
Martin Nilsson is a material and intellectual creator of interactive media, mainly web. He works through his website Basement Creative Studio.
Online gaming forum.
Bauer Media Group
Bauer Media Group was founded in 1875 and is one of the largest magazine publishing houses in Europe.
Bauer Media Group publishes 323 magazines in 15 countries.
About 8,000 employees work with Bauer Media Group worldwide.
Bauhaus Entertainment
Bauhaus Entertainment was established in 2006 by DigitalScape, the human resource agency which has 19,000 staff registered and we have been supporting the Japanese game industry since then.
In September 2009, Bauhaus Entertainment merged with DigitalScape... Read full profile.
BCG is a global management consulting firm and the world's leading advisor on business strategy. We partner with clients in all sectors and regions to identify their highest-value opportunities, address their most critical challenges, and transform their... Read full profile.
BDRC Continental
BDRC Continental is the UKs largest independent research consultancy. We have built an unrivalled reputation as a full service consultancy, using the strap line 'providing intelligence' to underscore our commitment to delivering market-leading research... Read full profile.
Beggars Group
Now housing four of the most recognisable independent record labels 4AD, Matador, Rough Trade and XL Recordings The Beggars Group in the last decade has gone from strength to strength, not only confirming their position as one of the largest independent... Read full profile.
Bentley Motors Limited
Bentley Motors was founded by W.O. Bentley in 1919 when the first Bentley engine burst into life at New Street Mews, London.
From these modest beginnings, W.Os company went from strength to strength through the 1920s, with an evolving series of acclaimed... Read full profile.
Bergsala AB has distributed Nintendo products for the Nordic and Baltic regions since 1981.
Currently Bergsala handle the distribution of Nintendo products in Sweden, Norway and Denmark.
Bergstrom LLC is a business development consultancy with global scope focused on the digital distribution of casual games, MOs and MMOs through Social Networks, App Stores and Websites.
Betsson offers a wide range of first-class online gambling products and games in a safe and user-friendly gaming environment. Betsson's product portfolio currently includes: Sportsbook, casino, live casino, poker, games, scratchcards, bingo.
Sportsbook,... Read full profile.
Biart Studio
Biart Studio is one of the leading computer and videogames companies in Russia.
Today Biart Studio has three main priorities:
- development of high technology entertainment and edutainment games
- producing and publishing videogames from independent... Read full profile.
Bicycle Studios
Games producers
Big Download
Video games news, downloads and more: Powered by AOL Games.
Bilbao Chamber of Commerce
The Bibao Chamber of Commerce, Industry, and Shipping offers a range of services to firms.
These services include help in setting up, as well as advising in relation to mercantile matters, fiscal matters, standardization, certification, etc.
Other... Read full profile.
Bill Brown
Bill Brown began his career composing powerful scores for triple-A game titles, including Tom Clancy's 'Rainbow Six' and 'Ghost Recon', Clive Barker's 'Undying', 'Return to Castle Wolfenstein', 'Lineage II: The Chaotic Chronicle' and 'Command & Conquer:... Read full profile.
Binary Worlds
About Descensor Engine:
Descensor is the real-time procedural world generation engine.
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The map you see is this blog's reach since some time in February.
My hope with this blog is to reach Greenland and China (中国).
My blog is connected to Greenland in this one way…
My first cousin Stephen E. Eliasz (whom we always called "Butchy") was stationed in Greenland. I remember my father's comments about the pictures of his from Greenland — which from my dad's comments I pictured as icy. True, enough the Thule Air Base is the US base closest to the North Pole. I hope there is another Polish genealogist in Greenland who searches/finds this blog. I am trying to fill in the above map with as many genealogists from all over the globe.
My only connection to China – who are avid genealogists is my fascination with GEDCOM and family trees. I used to think that if you were related to Genghis Khan (born circa 1162) then you would have the largest family tree, because he had a vast empire and many wives. However, time works its wonder in many ways. The people with the largest family trees are those related to Confucius (551-479 BC, the religous/philosopher founder).
The Confucius Genealogy, originally recorded by hand, was first printed in 1080 AD [80+ years before Genghis Khan's birth]. Now the latest compilation of which there is a Confucius Genealogy Compilation Committee that is responsible for collecting, collating and publishing the 2,500 years worth of genealogical data. According to a web post by Tamura Jones (2/17/2008),
Confucius family tree, last updated in 1930. Back then, the tree already had 560,000 members Today, it has more than 2 million. The longest lines in the tree span 83 generations.
Tamura's article was written just before the last time the Confucius Genealogy published in September 24, 2009 (as a pre-announcement). That 2009 publishing was the first time, the Confucius Genealogy included female descendants. So I guess the extra 1,700 years of Confucius ( 孔子) trumps the extra wives that Genghis Khan had. That is my only connection to Chinese Genealogy (家谱).
Does anyone have more than 83 generations (with citations documenting your lineage)?


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Sunday, July 19, 2009
Here's the schedule, if anyone cares:
Comic Date Name
612 ---- 7/20 ---- Person #1
613 ---- 7/22 ---- Fred
614 ---- 7/24 ---- Jake
615 ---- 7/27 ---- Prof. Dr. Silas RP W. III
617 ---- 7/31 ---- Lompta
618 ---- 8/3 ---- TomR
619 ---- 8/5 ---- Rob <--updated 8/5 ROB HAS ABANDONED ME.
620 ---- 8/7 ---- dragon2041 <--updated 7/20
621 ---- 8/10 ---- Egoraptor
622 ---- 8/12 ---- Hourt Carding
623 ---- 8/14 ---- HateBottles <--updated 7/22
624 ---- 8/17 ---- Asher <--updated 7/22
625 ---- 8/19 ---- John Evans <-- updated 7/28
626 ---- 8/21 ---- Matt <-- updated 7/29
627 ---- 8/24 ---- Thomas \
628 ---- 8/26 ---- Thomas ---> updated 8/18
629 ---- 8/28 ---- Thomas /
All subject, of course, to revision if people are lazy and don't e-mail me posts. If you aren't on the list, it's 'cause you didn't respond to my e-mails.
Is this going to be awesome? Heck yes. It might be a horrible failure. but the one thing we know is...IT WILL BE MADNESS!
PS oh Kate Beaton, i love you so much. That new comic is glorious.
update: looks like the schedule is a little more fluid than I had thought - so I've been moving a few people around. Just so you know.
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I am excited to contributeReplyDelete
carl way to hook me onto kate beatonReplyDelete
if i fall in love with her too i shall have to declare war on you, i hope you know this
- EgoraptorJuly 19, 2009 at 8:52 PM
I like Egoraptor being capitalized. No biggie though.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 19, 2009 at 8:54 PM
Wait is this the same egoraptor who did the awesome series?ReplyDelete
If so thats... well awesome.
what the fuck why is rob in this list WASN'T HE BANNED FROM POSTING ON ACCOUNT OF BEING A TALENTLESS UNFUNNY HACKReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 19, 2009 at 9:01 PM
Ah, no Dr.* Horrible there. Looking forward to quality reviews from people who won't pussy out.ReplyDelete
*I bet his degree is fake, too!
- AnonymousJuly 19, 2009 at 9:03 PM
Well Person #1 looks like you got a bad Windows joke.ReplyDelete
There is more alt text for this one than regular text...
uh also the alt text makes no grammatical senseReplyDelete
or am i reading it incorrectly
I think the alt text is in desperate need of punctuation.ReplyDelete
Once again, this one wasn't so much a comic as it was an observation offered in a strange way. Also, this fits nicely in the category of randall pretending people are machines.ReplyDelete
Which we all decided long ago was pretty stupid.
And still is, if I'm not mistaken.
The important part of the latest xkcd is that it's a simple joke inside one panel. I approve of Randall's method here.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 19, 2009 at 9:17 PM
I found the latest one funny. It's been a long time since I could say that.ReplyDelete
Wow, that Kate Beaton is pretty good! and then I checked xkcd and lost my good mood, but thanks for the new comic Carl.ReplyDelete
Wait, the Egoraptor?ReplyDelete
Oh and ha ha Windows sux, another classic.ReplyDelete
that randy knows his audienceReplyDelete
- FrogwarriorJuly 19, 2009 at 9:57 PM
if you fall in love with Kate Beaton
post pics
I volunteer for FUCK I don't feel like writing this one, the only thing to say about it is "HAR HAR WINDOWS JOKES" and "HAR HAR PEOPLE LIKE MACHINES"ReplyDelete
I'll give credit to Randall in that today's comic is mildly amusing and he keeps the joke short without having to explain it, even though the alt-text is retarded and he could have at least drawn a road to signify that the car is going somewhere.ReplyDelete
IMO six hours would have worked better than six days as well.
I'm sure glad I didn't have to guest post for 612, because Windows jokes are so horribly stale that any criticism of them is also horribly boring.ReplyDelete
Of course, this probably just means that he'll do a comic about how 'love hertz' or something.
Oh man I didn't see Rob's name on the list at first and I was so disappointed, but then I saw it and I stopped being disappointed and started being excited instead.ReplyDelete
Also CAPTCHA: florked. What.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and declare publicly that I think Kate Beaton comics suck. I dislike the art, and the jokes are too weak.ReplyDelete
By the way, I don't see how this latest comic is HUMANS ACT LIKE MACHINES. I assumed he was just looking at the ETA on his in-car navigation thing, and it kept giving wildly different ETA's.
- Person #1July 20, 2009 at 2:08 AM
I can totally do this. Probably. Maybe I should talk to Randall and pussy out. Or maybe I should talk to randall and not pussy out.ReplyDelete
- Person #1July 20, 2009 at 2:12 AM
Fred, that would sort of make sense if it wasn't for the text below the panel.ReplyDelete
Oh hey, you're right. I kind of misread it as "The windows file copy dialog visits some friends," and I had assumed the 'friends' to be other pieces of software, like sat-nav software and such. Which it then.. contaminated or something, I don't know. I thought it was actually kind of a nice idea, until you pointed out that it's actually the guy acting like that.ReplyDelete
So your natural assumption was hot software-on-software action? Good to know.ReplyDelete
- Person #1July 20, 2009 at 4:56 AM
Well, seeing as how Randall made hot hardware-on-hardware action before, it's really not that much of a stretchReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 20, 2009 at 5:18 AM
WHERE IS JAY ON THE LISTReplyDelete
- harrisonJuly 20, 2009 at 6:17 AM
I'll give credit to Randall in that today's comic is mildly amusing and he keeps the joke short without having to explain itReplyDelete
Yeah, the joke itself sucks, but it's presented way, way better than usual. A quick setup, a punchline, no extraneous post-punch dialogue, no telegraphing of the joke. The alt-text is pretty balls, but nobody's perfect.
That's three comics in a row that didn't make me lose hope for humanity! Randy, you get a gold star.
Actually, since the person in the comic is the AUTHOR of the Windows Copy Dialog, it's incorrect (and stupid) to just say it's a "humans acting like machines" joke. The comic suggests exactly the opposite: the Windows time estimation is so bad because its author actually thinks like that. It's not such an otherworldly concept.ReplyDelete
The only fault I can see with today's strip is the fact that it should have been done 10 years ago, not TODAY. But, heck, I still laughed.
I thought it would have been a cute joke ten years ago. Though much like angry Apple fans editing laptop hunter ads http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tE_LOoEYbF0 to have BSODs on the end, Randall just looks out of touch here.ReplyDelete
- Person #1July 20, 2009 at 7:51 AM
Fernie, that's a valid argument - but consider - in real life the author of that dialog does not behave like this. Randall is merely giving an explanation of why Man is acting like machine here, so I think it fits very well in that man/machine category, because even with explanation, it's just a man behaving like a machine.ReplyDelete
I sent my review to carl a few hours ago, btw.
- AnonymousJuly 20, 2009 at 8:26 AM
For once, I am with Fernie. There's a sense in which the joke is about how crappily written that algorithm is, and the joke is imagining the idiot who did it.ReplyDelete
Wait, Egoraptor? Like EGORAPTOR? Like Decline of Video Gaming and Flash artist Egoraptor? Tomical and Anonymous and the WORLD must know!ReplyDelete
- Der GermanJuly 20, 2009 at 8:53 AM
I love her tooReplyDelete
alt text has been fixed.ReplyDelete
please edit your comics AND alt texts, randyyyyyyyyy
The alt-text is still missing a comma following the word "if".ReplyDelete
Also now that I remember who Egoraptor could very well be, I'm going to have to join the rest in asking if this is, indeed *the* Egoraptor :pReplyDelete
...And I think my last post just got a C- in comma placement, hehe.ReplyDelete
why am i the only one who has no idea what you guys are talking aboutReplyDelete
The Egoraptor I am aware of makes the "Awesome" series of Flash-animated video game parodies. A recent example, "Gears of Awesome":ReplyDelete
Guys this is just an Egoraptor, not the Egoraptor. he has e-mailed me to clarify this.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 20, 2009 at 2:16 PM
Can we please have a guest post by William Montgomery Hughes, IQ 224?ReplyDelete
NEVER. He has his own silly web-blog for his own silly thoughts. If you care what he has to say, read his drivel there.ReplyDelete
Carl = William?ReplyDelete
Who's lazier anymore, Carl or Randall (mirite)?ReplyDelete
At least I'm upfront about my laziness...ReplyDelete
- A FriendJuly 28, 2009 at 12:22 PM
I thought they were the same person.ReplyDelete
- John EvansJuly 29, 2009 at 11:18 AM
Would anyone like to swap dates?ReplyDelete
Anything earlier than 8/14 would be good.


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We always salute the famous historical heroic figures like Pulaski or Kosciusko or possibly scientists like Madame Skladowska Curie and Mikolaj Copernicus or maybe a musician like Fryderyk Chopin. But I do not want this month to go by without a listing of the literary talents and the artistic talents.
Polish Literature is richly nuanced and uniquely Slavic. If you have read this blog for a while, you will have seen a mention of Stanislaw Lem or Czeslaw Milosz and a few others. There are so many to choose from: Mikolaj Rej, Jan Kochanowski, Adam Mickiewicz, Juliusz Slowacki, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Stanislaw Wyspianski, Wladyslaw Reymont, Stanislaw Witkiewicz, Wisława Szymborska or Slawomir Mrozek. For more information, please click on "Polish Literature" or my favorite website for Polish Lit: Staropolska .
Today's article is on James Michener's "Poland". Michener may not be Polish (he never knew who his biological parents were), but he is another of those great local literary talents of my adopted hometown of Philadelphia. This book is a historic novel with some fictional literary devices utilized to stitch together a coherent narrative around ten historical topics of Poland. These ten episodic chapters can be read straight through or sampled individually.
If you only read one chapter this month, of this easy reading novel, then read chapter five (on Jan Sobieski and his heroic salvation of Europe at the Battle of Vienna).
They probably sung a hymn / poem from the early 14th century, called Bogurodzica (Mother of God) which is the oldest poem in the Polish Language. You can hear this fascinating hymn here . This poem has no Latin equivalent, so it roots are entirely Slavic.
By the way, you may want to read Czeslaw Milosz's book, "The History of Polish Literature" for more background on today's article, including Bogurodzica.
Tomorrow … A Selection of Artists.
— Stanczyk
You may want to read Donna Pointkouski's Top Ten More Ways To Celebrate Polish Heritage Month for more ideas on this month of ours.


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If opted for the black Nokia Lumia 920 and are looking for a way to add a little color to your Windows Phone, take a look at the Incipio Ultralight Hard Shell. Even if your Lumia 920 is already bright and colorful, the Incipio Hard Shell can give your phone a little variety.
Along with adding color to the Lumia 920, the Incipio Ultralight also offers a little protection to your phone from scratches and minor dings. Not sure how well it would protect the Lumia 920 from drops though.
The design of the Incipio Ultralight Hard Shell case is simple. It's a molded chunk of molded polymer that wraps around your Lumia 920. The end of the Incipio is raised ever so slightly to prevent the Lumia 920 from sliding out. Cut outs are present for the side buttons and camera. The Incipio case leaves the top and bottom of the Windows Phone exposed.
The Incipio case is light and thin enough not to add any noticeable bulk to the Lumia 920. The only noticeable feel difference is that the case does recess the buttons a little.
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Color Options from Quilts and More™ Spring 2010
We know you love the projects printed in Quilts and More. We took inspiration from the magazine and created Web-exclusive projects.
Sunny All Around
A simple Pinwheel block is quite a star when it's surrounded by multiple borders—pieced and plain.Related Links
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Pinwheels Tabletop Quilt
Who would guess that the unexpected color combination of pink, green, and black could be so stunning? Quilt tester Jan Ragaller mixed prints from the Lily collection for Timeless Treasures Fabrics for this small quilt. White, a component of each print, ties the trio of colors together to make a lively table topper.
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Reproduction prints commemorating Abraham Lincoln's birth get center stage in a strikingly simple arrangement that has the feel of an antique quilt.Related Links
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Building Blocks Throw
If reproduction fabrics aren't your style, select contemporary prints to make Lincoln's Platform your way. Quiltmaker Kathleen Williams chose Deb Strain's Cherish Nature collection for Moda Fabrics for this calming throw. She used a restful aqua check to complement the strong colors of the blue, green, and chocolate prints.
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Sweet & Sassy
A simple open-top bag cleverly incorporates a deep outer pocket for holding necessities.Related Links
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Patchwork and Prairie Points Bag
Stir up a mix of blue and green prints from the Cheep Talk collection for Connecting Threads for a just-for-fun tote. Project tester Jude Sams Sohn says the patchwork pocket is a great place to showcase small swatches of prints and practice straight-line machine quilting.
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Flower Show
Florals and solids combine for a stunning but easy-to-sew bed quilt. You can change the theme of the large rectangles—think plaids or reproduction prints—to customize for any room.Related Links
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Fat Quarter Twin Bed Quilt
A subtle shift in background color—from crisp white to soft citrus—gives Flower Show a dazzling new look. Designers Bill Kerr and Weeks Ringle used solid watermelon pink strips between floral rectangles for added punch. The solid green binding echoes the foliage and the background color in many of the florals they selected for the pieced rows.
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Zinnia Flats
Spunky stripes and dots paired with dimensional appliqués give a contemporary quilt dazzling eye appeal.Related Links
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Four-Square Wall Hanging
When a fabric shouts for attention, it's time to give it a place of honor. Quilt tester Jan Ragaller chose a large floral from the Modern Mix collection for Benartex for the center of the blocks and used complementary prints and stripes to round out the case of this version of Zinnia Flats.
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Bare Necessities
Travel light with an envelope-style pouch. The over-the-shoulder strap keeps essentials handy.Related Links
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Scrappy Strips Bag
You don't need color to stand out. Strips and bits of black-and-white prints, dots, and stripes make an eye-catching bag. Omit the tassels. Slip strap ends between bag lining and secure in place to make a simple, swingy pouch.
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Wake-Up Call
Jump-start your day with a zingy, beginner-friendly pillow sham pieced from simple strips. Don't be alarmed by the hand quilting; our step-by-step photos show you how.Related Links
Wake-Up Call Color Option
Simple Strips Pillow Sham
Pay token to your island wanderlust with this version of Wake-up Call made of jewel-tone Boutique Batiks from P&B Textiles. In-the-ditch quilting complements the richly patterned fabrics.
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Glimpse of Spring
Pretty posies play hide-and-seek through a lattice motif carefully cut from stripe fabric. Our foolproof guide takes the fuss out of fussy cutting.Related Links
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Easy as A, B, C Throw
Transform the garden trellis-look of Glimpse of Spring into a lively, youthful throw with bright fabrics, such as these from Girl Friday by Cosmo Cricket for Andover Fabrics.
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Peace Out
Flash back to the '60s—the days of peace, love, and rock 'n' roll—while lounging on a floor-size pillow stitched from retro prints.Related Links
Peace Out Color Option
Butterfly Floor Pillow
Four printed panels make up the center block of this floor pillow. Project tester Judy Sams Sohn added a black dot flat piping to the center, and a border of printed butterflies. Fabrics are from the Papillion collection by Karen Montgomery for Timeless Treasures Fabrics.
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The explicit phases of the Unified Process -- Inception, Elaboration, Construction, and Transition -- and their milestones are important strategies for scaling agile software development to meet the real-world needs of modern organizations. Yes, I realize that this is heresy for hard-core agilists who can expound upon the evils of serial development, yet these very same people also take a phased approach to development although are loathe to admit it. The issue is that the UP phases are like seasons of a project: although you'll do the same types of activities all throughout a project, the extent to which you do them and the way in which you do them change depending on your goals. For example, at the beginning of a development project if you want to be effective you need to do basic things like identify the scope of the project, identify a viable architecture strategy, start putting together your team, and obtain support for the project. Towards the end of a project your focus is on the activities surrounding the deployment of your system into production, including end-of-lifecycle testing efforts, training, cleaning up of documentation, piloting the system with a subset of users, and so on. In between you focus on building the system, including analysis, design, testing, and coding of it. Your project clearly progresses through different phases, or call them seasons if the term phase doesn't suit you, whether your team is agile or not.
The UP defines four phases, each of which address a different kind of risk:1. Inception. This phase focuses on addressing business risk by having you drive to scope concurrence amongst your stakeholders. Most projects have a wide range of stakeholdres, and if they don't agree to the scope of the project and recognize that others have conflicting or higher priority needs you project risks getting mired in political infighting. In the Eclipse Way this is called the "Warm Up" iteration and in other agile processes "Iteration 0".2. Elaboration. The goal of this phase is to address technical risk by proving the architecture through code. You do this by building and end-to-end skeleton of your system which implements the highest-risk requirements. Some people will say that this approach isn't agile, that your stakeholders should by the only ones to prioritize requirements. Yes, I agree with that, but I also recognize that there are a wide range of stakeholders, including operations people and enterprise architects who are interested in the technical viability of your approach. I've also noticed that the high-risk requirements are often the high-business-value ones anyway, so you usually need to do very little reorganization of your requirements stack.3. Construction. This phase focuses on implementation risk, addressing it through the creation of working software each iteration. This phase is where you put the flesh onto the skeleton.4. Transition. The goal of this phase is to address deployment risk. There is usually a lot more to deploying software than simply copying a few files onto a server, as I indicated above. Deployment is often a complex and difficult task, one which you often need good guidance to succeed at.
Each phase ends with a milestone review, which could be as simple as a short meeting, where you meet with prime stakeholders who will make a "go/no-go" decision regarding your project. They should consider whether the project still makes sense, perhaps the situation has changed, and that you're addressing the project risks appropriately. This is important for "agile in the small" but also for "agile in the large" because at scale your risks are often much greater. Your prime stakeholders should also verify that you have in fact met the criteria for exiting the phase. For example, if you don't have an end-to-end working skeleton of your system then you're not ready to enter the Construction phase. Holding these sorts of milestone reviews improves your IT governance efforts by giving senior management valuable visibility at the level that they actually need: when you have dozens or hundreds of projects underway, you can't attend all of the daily stand up meetings of each team, nor do you even want to read summary status reports.
These milestone reviews enable you to lower project risk. Last Autumn I ran a survey via Dr. Dobb's Journal (www.ddj.com) which explore how people actually define success for IT projects and how successful we really were. We found that when people define success in their own terms that Agile has a 71% success rate compared with 63% for traditional approaches. Although it's nice to that Agile appears to be lower risk than traditional approaches, a 71% success rate still implies a 29% failure rate. The point is that it behooves us to actively monitor development projects to determine if they're on track, and if not either help them to get back on track or cancel them as soon as we possibly can. Hence the importance of occasional milestone reviews where you make go/no-go decisions. If you're interested in the details behind the project, they can be found at http://www.ambysoft.com/surveys/success2007.html .
Done right, phases are critical to your project success, particularly at scale. Yes, the traditional community seems to have gone overboard with phase-based approaches, but that doesn't mean that we need to make the same mistakes. Let's keep the benefit without the cost of needless bureaucracy.[Read More]
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Principal Proposed Uses
Dried and sliced thin, the root of the astragalus plant is a common component of Chinese herbal formulas. According to tradition, astragalus "strengthens the spleen, blood, and Qi; raises the yang Qi of the spleen and stomach; and stabilizes the exterior." 1 Don't worry if you didn't understand what you just read, because without many months of training in traditional Chinese herbal medicine , there's no way you could have. Suffice it to say that the traditional understanding of the way astragalus works is different from the way it tends to be presented today.
What Is Astragalus Used for Today?
In the United States, astragalus has been presented as an immune stimulant useful for treating colds and flus . Many people have come to believe that they should take astragalus, like echinacea , at the first sign of a cold.
The belief that astragalus can strengthen immunity has a partial basis in traditional Chinese medicine . The expression noted above, "stabilize the exterior," means helping to create a "defensive shield" against infection. However, according to tradition, astragalus formulas should not be taken during the early stage of infections. To do so is said to resemble "locking the chicken-coop with the fox inside," causing the infection to be "driven deeper." Rather, astragalus is supposedly appropriate only for use while you're healthy, for the purpose of preventing future illnesses.
What Is the Scientific Evidence for Astragalus?
Although Chinese herbal tradition suggests that astragalus should generally be used in combination with other herbs, modern Chinese investigators have found various intriguing effects when astragalus is taken by itself. Extracts of astragalus have been found to stimulate parts of the immune system in mice and humans, and to increase the survival time of mice infected with various diseases. 2,3 Astragalus has also been shown to enhance diuresis (urine output) by encouraging the kidneys to release more sodium into the urine. 12 Other highly preliminary research suggests that astragalus might be useful in treating atherosclerosis , hyperthyroidism , hypertension , insomnia , diabetes , chronic active hepatitis , genital herpes , AIDS , and increase the efficacy and/or reduce the side effects of cancer chemotherapy . 4-9, 11 However, none of these possibilities can be regarded as proven.
A typical daily dosage of astragalus involves boiling 9 to 30 g of dried root to make tea. Newer products use an alcohol-and-water extraction method to produce an extract standardized to astragaloside content, although there is no consensus on the proper percentage.
Safety Issues
Astragalus appears to be relatively nontoxic. High one-time doses, as well as long-term administration, have not caused significant harmful effects. 10 Side effects are rare and generally limited to the usual mild gastrointestinal distress or allergic reactions. However, some Chinese herb manuals suggest that astragalus at 15 g or lower per day can raise blood pressure, while doses above 30 g may lower blood pressure.
As mentioned above, traditional Chinese medicine warns against using astragalus in cases of acute infections. Other traditional contraindications include "deficient yin patterns with heat signs" and "exterior excess heat patterns." Because understanding what these mean would require an extensive education in traditional Chinese herbal medicine , we recommend using astragalus only under the supervision of a qualified Chinese herbalist.
Safety in young children, pregnant or nursing women, or those with severe liver or kidney disease has not been established.
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One of the first steps every genealogist should take when researching a new ancestor or surname is to conduct a literature survey. The purposes of a literature survey are simple: 1) to avoid the unnecessary duplication of another's work; 2) to find transcribed works leading to extant records; 3) to get a "feel" for the time period and locale in which the target ancestor(s) lived.
Conducting a literature survey is relatively easy and painless, depending on the resources at one's disposal, and should cover the following, at a minimum:
- Biographies, compiled or individual
- Family histories
- Local histories
- Transcribed and abstracted records
- Periodicals, except for newspapers (which are searched during the research phase)
- The Internet
Most biographies, histories, and published transcriptions can be located through WorldCat (see WorldCat for more information on the contents of its online catalogue). Once a copy of a needed item is found, the researcher may request the item through their own library or directly from the lending library, depending on the lending policies of each institution. If copies are not available for circulation, the researcher may wish to travel to the lending library to search the item. If such travel is not possible, the researcher may opt to find a volunteer (see RAOGK) or hire a researcher who can visit the library and search the work in question.
Unfortunately, many compiled genealogies are only available as leaflets or folders in the local public library or historical society, but such entities are usually willing to answer questions about their uncatalogued material when queried respectfully via mail or telephone. They may also be willing to conduct a search within these items, if the search is brief and concisely stated.
The periodical search should include:
- newsletters produced by local historical and genealogical societies, and by family associations or surname study groups
- local and regional magazines, especially those with a focus on history
- field-specific magazines, such as Everton's Genealogical Helper
- quarterlies and journals produced by lineage societies (e.g. the DAR), and state, regional, and national genealogical and historical societies
Many of the these periodicals have been indexed by the Allen County Public Library and compiled into a database known as the Periodical Source Index, PERSI for short. Some important journals are not indexed in PERSI (the National Genealogical Society Quarterly, for example), but they are well worth the added effort and money needed to track down indexes or to join the societies in question so that one has access to the members-only indices.
The Internet is one entity which is treated with both respect and disdain by seasoned researchers: respect because of the sheer capabilities of the Web, and disdain because much of the genealogical information disseminated online is virtually worthless, either because it's poorly documented, poorly reasoned, or out-and-out untrue. Nevertheless, the Internet should still be searched for information on the target ancestor or surname, not only for the reasons mentioned at the outlay of this post, but also to find others interested in the sought-after ancestor.
See Conducting a Literature Survey, Part 2 for a continuation of this discussion, including tips on managing a literature survey without becoming overwhelmed.


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Office hours are Monday, Tuesday and Friday 9am-4pm.
Orders are dispatched on those days (not including National Holidays), usually within 2 working days of receipt of the order. The office is closed on Wednesdays and Thursdays.
Pick up from Bristol office
- free of charge, your parcel will not be shipped. Please let us know when you would like to pick it up from our office: 4 Bishop Road, Bristol, BS78LT. Not available on Wednesday or Thursday.
United Kingdom (inc the islands)
- Standard Signed For delivery, ± 1-4 working days, Royal Mail or MyHermes
- UK shipping 0-1 kg £4.00
- UK shipping 1-2 kg £4.55
- UK shipping 2-5 kg £5.00
- UK shipping 5-10 kg £7.95
Europe (all EU and non-EU countries), based on the weight of your parcel, Signed For delivery, tracked where available, ± 3-7 working days
- Europe 0-1 kg £11.00
- Europe 1-2 kg £15.00
- Europe 2-3 kg £19.00
- Europe 3-5 kg £21.00
Rest of the World, based on the weight of your parcel, Signed For delivery, tracked where available, ± 5-10 working days
- International up to 0.5 kg £12.95
- International 0.5-1 kg £17.00
- International 1-2 kg £19.00
- International 2-3 kg £28.00
- International 3-5 kg £38.00
General shipping notes
- Please make sure your shipping details are correct, leave a correct contact email address and telephone number for international shipping. We cannot be held responsible for returned or lost parcels due to incorrect or incomplete address details. We can ship again, but at your cost. No refunds will be made for lost parcels due to incorrect details.
- If your address is difficult to find, please leave instructions for the postman in the feedback box at check-out. We will write these instructions on your parcel. If parcels are returned to us due to the delivery person being unable to find the address, we can ship again, but at your cost. No refunds will be made for lost parcels due to difficult to find addresses.
- Some heavy or bulky items will only be shipped within the UK, this is mentioned in the product description. If you wish to order one of these items from abroad, please get in touch for a shipping quote.
- Parcels over 5 kg to Europe or Rest Of World will require a shipping quote
- IMPORTANT: If actual shipping charges for European and international parcels are considerably higher than what was charged when you placed your order, we reserve the right to charge you for the extra shipping. We will contact you before shipping, to let you know how much the extra charge will be. An invoice will be send for the additional shipping and the courier will be booked after we have received payment for this.
- You can track your parcel via the details given to you in the shipping confirmation email.
- You will receive an automated 'have you received your parcel yet' email 10 days after we have shipped your parcel. Please respond to this email if you haven't received your parcel by then, so we can help locating it. If we haven't heard from you and the parcel is shipped back to us, we can ship again, but at your cost.
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- We will email you with a Returns/Exchange Number.
- Please do not send items back without contacting us or before we have authorised your request, we will not process them but send them back to you.
- Items must be returned in their original, unused, clean condition, in their original undamaged packaging, and with all tags still attached. We will have to be able to sell the item again. Items that do not meet these requirements will not be refunded but returned to you.
- Please note: Prints/poster are very fragile, you may return them but only if they are handled nicely, are not damaged in any way and have not been used. We will not offer a refund if they are returned to us in un-sellable condition.
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- The return address is The Pippa & Ike Show, 4 Bishop Road, Bishopston, Bristol, BS7 8LT, United Kingdom
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- Claims for lost or damaged returns items cannot be accepted.
- The return parcel is your responsibility until we have signed for it and have checked the contents.
- You are responsible for the costs of returning an item.
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- if the value of the exchange item is higher than the returned item, we will send a invoice for the difference. If the value is lower, we will give you a voucher for the difference, we do not offer a refund.
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Have a relaxed day looking at this Anteater and Sloth postcard, illustrated by Rebecca Jones for Petit Monkey.
The postcard is great to send but would look nice as a mini-print in a kids bedroom as well.
- illustrated by Rebecca Jones
- full colour print on FSC mixed matt card
- 400 gr
- matt finish
- normal postcard layout on back
- 10.5 x 14.8 cm
- there is a full size Anteater and Sloth poster as well


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The following is an exclusive excerpt from the third chapter of my new book Texts from Bennett (a novel). The book will be released on September 3rd by Simon & Schuster, and will be available wherever books are sold. Copyright © 2013 by David Sheldon.
Who's the greatest basketball player of all time?
Who's the most ferocious boxer of all time?
Think of a number between one and ten. Got it? Good
Michael Jordan, Mike Tyson, and the number seven are all prime examples of a single entity being such a powerful, behemoth force in their respective industries that they erase whoever came before them from memory and are used as a constant measuring tool to compare and contrast whoever comes after them
Now. Think of a few famous rappers. Got 'em? Who'd you come up with? 50 Cent? Jay-Z? Kanye West? 2Pac? Biggie? LL Cool J? Lil Wayne?
Good job. But what about white rappers? How many can you name? And no, Vanilla Ice doesn't count. He was a major record label experiment gone awry. I mean famous, certifiably talented, white rappers. Who'd you conjure up? Got him?
Eminem is an undeniable talent. He deserves every dollar and fan he has accrued over the last decade. However, the motherfucker kinda sorta casted a titanic eclipse over the hip-hop genre and type-casted every other melanin-deficient rapper as nothing more than an Eminem wannabe
Well, at least on a mainstream level
If I were to tell you that there are several hardworking, but not super famous, white rappers who began their careers before Eminem even existed in the public eye, and who currently make a decent-to-great living off modern rap music, would you believe me? And I don't mean white poseurs, drinking Moscato, throwing wads of cash around in their videos, acting like "stereotypical black rappers." I mean rappers who rap about day-to-day things people of all races go through. Authentic rappers, with skills and rhythm and a voice worth listening to. I'm one of those rappers
I've gone by Mac my entire life, but my legal name is David McCleary Sheldon. I'm a thirtywhatever, full-blooded American male with grandparents from Kilkenny and Cork. I inherited the classic Irish temper; a pasty, outer layer of skin; and ginger facial hair that blends with the chalky black hair my Black Irish relatives always had
As I've explained to Bennett on at least ten different occasions, "Black Irish" is a term used to describe descendants of immigrants from the prehistoric Iberia and Basque regions who hybridized with Irish natives in 7000 BC. It's not referring to African American people with Irish names, e.g., my sixth-grade teacher Mrs. McCormick, and Eddie Murphy.
I was born in Kansas City, Missouri, during the Leo moon to Warren and Ruth Sheldon. My dad is a hardworking, blue-collar Ohio boy who has a problem being nice to waitresses and terrible road rage. My mom was an artsy, thoughtful, Saint Louis belle, who was always very nice to waitresses and drove too slow. My parents divorced when I was five years old, so I never really saw them married, but they lived only a few blocks away from each other, so I had a solid relationship with both of them while growing up. My mom died in 2004, but I still have my dad; my two sisters, Rose and Evelyn; and their great husbands, Greg and Henry
I've loved Brazilian jujitsu, movies, and rap music for my entire life. I spent a majority of my formative years having vivid daydreams, staring into the distance, thinking about girls, and being completely disconnected from what was going on in the classroom. I was a space cadet, fully apathetic to the idea of success or work. School was so boring. I just wanted to sleep
What might surprise people: my Kansas City high school was a third Caucasian, a third Latino, and a third African American. There were also a few Asian and Indian kids, a band of Russians, and one Lakota kid, who came to school on hallucinogenic mushrooms at least twice a week and whose legal name was Adam Little Elk Running Over the Enemy. (What up, Adam? Call me when you see this!) There were a lot of drugs, fights, and troubled kids at my school. There was also a nursery for the girls who had babies
I wasn't necessarily a bad kid, especially compared to some. But I did have disciplinary issues. I skipped school a lot, got caught smoking pot in the parking lot a few times, and even got busted for having vodka mixed into a plastic bottle of Tropicana orange juice. I just wasn't stimulated by the stuff my teachers were teaching
I tried to get my parents to let me attend an art school of some sort, where I could develop right-brain abilities like sketching, oil painting, and creative writing -— but they declined. They didn't have the money to send me somewhere like that. So, instead, I just sat in decay, year after year, letting public schoolteachers cover my third eye with black spray paint
One random, agonizingly boring day during sophomore year, having slept through my morning classes, I was quite refreshed after lunch and was sitting in study hall with nothing to do. Not unusual. That day, though, I borrowed a piece of paper from Letasha Tilman and wrote MC Reptile at the top of it (my first rapper alias)
I still remember the verse by heart:
My name is MC Reptile
I weave words together like textiles
I grab the microphone and smack the sheriff off his saddle
I battle like a rattlesnake and make you all skidaddle
Rappers fuck with me they get beaten like eggs
You try to kick rhymes and I'm eatin' your legs
I stay so fresh, cook rappers like gizzards
Bitch I'm the wizard, the Reptile lizard
It may not look like much, but the mere act of writing those eight lines permanently seared the cobwebs from my imagination and inspired me to never sleep during class again. Instead, I began nurturing my passion for rapping
I'd heard the cliché: "You must spend ten thousand hours intensely practicing something to master it." So for the next six years, I did just that. I filled countless notebooks with rap lyrics, constantly challenging myself to parent my own, unique writing style. I read dictionaries and thesauri to expand my vocabulary, memorizing all sorts of exotic words and their definitions
Borborygmus: the rumbling sound of gas passing through the intestine
Fuscoferuginous: having a dark, rusty color
Quomodocunquize: to make money by any means possible
I read every book I could find by William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Vladimir Nabokov, Ernest Hemingway, Mikhail Bulgakov, Kurt Vonnegut, and Cormac McCarthy to try and learn how to write with deliberate fluidity. I devoured every rap album I could find, picking apart each rapper's deficiencies, adopting my interpretation of their strengths. I would freestyle rap for hours in my bedroom into a handheld tape recorder, while doing jumping jacks and push-ups. This helped me simultaneously improvise new rap ideas and develop lung power, projection, verbal articulation, enunciation, and breath control
I was methodical. I drilled constantly, pushing myself to improve. I never set out to be famous, or even make a living off music. I just wanted to impress kids in the high school cafeteria with my freestyle raps, while I made fun of Margot Glasscock's last name, or rapped about sleeping with Miss Steele, the school's foxy, thirty-two-year-old algebra teacher
After honing my rapping skills, I set up a makeshift studio in my mom's basement and recorded my first album, Mixed Drinks. The writing was funny, weird, and quirky. I made songs about not being able to find my car keys, and getting broken up with by a girl I didn't like in the first place but wanting to win her back just to have bragging rights on who broke up with whom. While it was lo-fi and sounded like crap, the people I passed it out to seemed to enjoy it for what it was. So I dropped out of high school and decided to pursue being a rapper full-time. Backup plans are for pussies
Touring seemed like the best way to expand my career, so I spent years networking with other independent artists, driving ten to fifteen hours every day, just to play free shows for crowds of fewer than fifty people. I passed out free tapes (and eventually CDs) that I assembled myself at Kinko's and slept on the beer-stained apartment floors of random weirdos my crew and I would meet at shows, to avoid paying for a hotel room. I could fill an entire book with tour stories from my early years, most of them unfortunate
Touring and building a fan base from scratch is immensely hard, and most people don't even achieve moderate success doing it. Most people quit the first time they fall flat on their face. Believe me, you have to be partially nuts to endure the things that traveling, working entertainers endure
Only 1 percent become megastars. The other 99 percent of us are on a daily grind, dreaming we can one day pay off our bills from music
Luckily, my dreams started to come true. After giving a passionate decade of my life to being a rapper, I started to turn a profit. My tiny, scattered, local following had enveloped into a dedicated worldwide fan base. I could play just about any part of the world, and pull at least one hundred people -- one thousand in some places
I sold t-shirts, CDs, trucker hats, sweatshirts, dog bowls, backpacks, fanny packs, socks, girl panties, pint glasses, shot glasses, et cetera -- all with my logo printed on them. I was a working, self-funded, independent rap artist, selling out shows, paying the bills, and living a dream that is oft never achieved by a majority of musicians, let alone rappers
For once in my life, music was no longer a struggle. It was a highly lucrative roller-coaster ride that afforded me the ability to travel anywhere and purchase anything I wanted, which was new to me, and slightly unsettling. I knew there was no way this could last forever, so I decided to invest my money wisely while my chips were up. I found an amazing, albeit slightly gaudy, house in the Brookside area of Kansas City, Missouri, put down a giant down payment (since touring tends to lead to bad credit), and moved in
I had my own home (I bought a house!), and it felt great
Me: Hey fucker, guess who?
Bennett: ?
Me: Guess who this is, you little dicked twerp
Bennett: ho i told u to stop texten me my girl gonna c dat shit
Bennett: bcide u wuz luven my big dicc in da parkin lot da otha nite lol slut
Me: Lol, you think this is a girl
Bennett: dis is ashly duh
Bennett: look.. u ever seen a tigger or a lion git married?
Bennett: u ever seen a eagel wit a diamend ring on it"s finger?
Bennett: no u haven't dats bcuz men R not saposed 2 be wit 1 women. men R wild animels......i fucc alot of hoez cuz men r saposed 2 spred there seed da bibel says we gatta evolve and fucc
Me: This isn't a girl!!!!
Bennett: wat
Bennett: now u gunna try 2 say u were a guy da hole time?bitch i seen ur vaginna u a girl or u got a realy gud sex change
Me: LOL, STOP. This isn't fucking Ashley. Who's Ashley?
Bennett: quit playn on my phone bitch who dis !!!
Me: It's Mac
Me: Helllooooo???
Bennett: mac my cuz??..
Me: Yes sir
Bennett: o shit lolz
Bennett: wud up G
Me: Care to explain what's happening with your mom losing her house?
Bennett: man.. it sux
Bennett: basicly da punk ass govermant niggas is kiccin us out da crib Cuz day so broke dat even my mom bustid ass house is wort takin
Me: Is she not doing well? Why can't she pay the bills?
Bennett: nigga my mom on Oxycotton 247365 times a day
Me: Do you mean 24/7/365?
Bennett: ya but im gittin sum pussy right now so i ain't have time to type dat side ways / thing
Me: Liar. You said "times a day" which negates a / even working. Bennett: look pussy u alweys talk shit to me when we txt.. u probaly jellice from all da COCC i sell and da $$$ i get
Me: You make money selling cock?
Bennett: na COCC... fuccin.. cocainn
Members of the Crips do not ever put the letters C and K next to each other and just use two C's instead. CK stands for Crip Killer, so this is a very serious typographical issue
Me: I'm fucking with you. WHY is your mom on OxyContin?
Bennett: cuz she also sleep all day an stop payen da bills..
Me: Her back is fucked up still, right? But OxyContin? Does she need OxyContin?
Bennett: ya she in pain alot. butt cmon playa n e 1 who take oxycotton does it for fun not bcuz they need it..nigga u ever try dat shit?it make u feel like ur 2pac in dat hot tub holden stax of cash pouren chammpane on a striperz head
Me: I see. Uh. Also, who's Tim?
Bennett: dats my mom BF
Me: Yeah? You live with him, yeah? Why can't he help with the bills?
Bennett: he wierd. he duz acid and smoke hella weed wit me but he a bum ass nigga 2.haha. he broke as fuk
Bennett: butt he smart like U doe.....
Bennett: he read sum wild ass books like U. sum crazy shit wit Da Illuminadi. he a wild ass nigga
Bennett: he show me a video on UTube of 911 an how da govermant planted dinamite in da billdings and blew dem up
Me: Do you believe that stuff, Bennett?
Bennett: hell yea who doeznt.?da white house has a grave unda it wit gosts and shit
Bennett: i dont beleive anything on Da news
Me: Right on, buddy. I'm going to call your mom. What's her number?
Bennett: K hang on
Bennett: 913-648-****
Now that I knew more of the scoop, I called Aunt Lillian and extended an invitation for them all to come stay with me for a few weeks. She was so intoxicated on painkillers that I couldn't understand a word she said, other than, "Thank you so much!"
This was spur of the moment, but I knew it was the right thing to do. Family is family. You're supposed to help family. Right? And all I wanted to do right then was help my aunt. Especially after hearing the pain and confusion in her voice over the phone
Especially after what she did for me in 2002.
Hardworking Kansas City rapper Mac Lethal has a problem, and his name is Bennett.
Mac's wannabe gangsta cousin is seventeen, uses drugs and foul language, claims to be 13 percent black, and swears he speaks "da female language." (Strangely that last one sort of seems true.)
But as different as they are, when Bennett and his mom lose their home, Mac's got their backs. They're family after all. Sure, it takes patience to live with the eternally smoked-out Bennett and the pill-popped Aunt Lily, but he can handle it.
You know who can't? Mac's very pretty, very WASPy, very uptight girlfriend. So as his once-peaceful household gets completely crazy, Mac learns that wanna-be-Crips are thicker than water, that his little cousin–flawed, irreverent, and basically a Saturday morning cartoon gone horribly wrong–has become his mentor, and that he really has no idea what's up with girls.
Advance praise for Texts from Bennett
"In Texts from Bennett, rapper Mac Lethal shows his storytelling chops through the voice of his (imaginary?) cousin Bennett. The author's portrayal of poverty, drug use, and the working poor white folks' struggle to get by has serious street cred." – Rollie Welch, Library Journal
"This is a necessary novel that follows the phenomenon of poor white teens diving into black cultural stereotypes. The language is rough but true, and tough issues are addressed with care and understanding." – Marl Eleveld, Booklist
"It will be the best $9 you'll ever spend, partly for the hilarious and at times strikingly graphic story, and the fact that you get Mac Lethal's new album for free when you order the book." – Gavin Muirhead, HefferBrew


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The ring bearer was Maximus Campbell of West Sunbury.
The bride is a 2002 graduate of Moniteau High School and a 2006 graduate of Slippery Rock University.
She is employed as a teacher in the Moniteau School District.
The bridegroom graduated from Moniteau High School in 2004.
He is employed by Mercer Lime and Stone in Branchton.
The couple is making their home in Zelienople.