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By Lesley Wroughton and Maayan Lubell
JERUSALEM (Reuters) — Israel may impose a
partial settlement freeze to keep U.S.-brokered peace talks with the
Palestinians alive, an Israeli source close to the negotiations said on
The proposed halt to Israeli public construction in the occupied
West Bank would be part of a package that includes the release of
Jonathan Pollard, an Israeli spy jailed in the United States, and
hundreds of Palestinians held by Israel.
The source, who is close to talks held on Monday and Tuesday between
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. Secretary of State John
Kerry, said that in return for the Israeli steps, Palestinians would
agree to extend the peace talks beyond an April 29 deadline into
"The settlement freeze does not include East Jerusalem, private
construction or building of public institutions," the source said,
speaking on condition of anonymity.
Another official involved in the negotiations said the Israeli
government "will adopt a policy of restraint when it comes to state
tenders for construction" in the West Bank.
There was no immediate Palestinian comment on the emerging deal.
Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, land
captured in the 1967 war and which Palestinians seek for their
state, have been a major stumbling block in the talks that began in
July. Most countries view those settlements as illegal.
Israel last imposed a partial settlement freeze in 2009 in a bid to
restart peace negotiations. Palestinians returned to the talks in
2010 but negotiations collapsed within weeks after Netanyahu refused
to extend the 10-month moratorium.
The current negotiations, aimed at creating a Palestinian state and
ending a decades-long conflict, have also stalled over
Palestinian opposition to an Israeli demand that the country be
recognized as a Jewish state.
They appeared to be have been on the brink of collapse at the
weekend when Israel failed to press ahead with a promised release of
several dozen jailed Palestinians.
Under the proposed deal, Israel would go ahead with the release of a
fourth group of Palestinians, the last among the 104 it pledged to
free as a confidence-building measure under an agreement that led to
the renewal of the current talks.
That group of inmates also includes 14 Arab citizens of Israel, a
potential political stumbling block for Netanyahu.
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In addition, Israel would also free 400 other Palestinian prisoners,
including women and minors, who have not been convicted of killing
Israelis and are close to completing their sentences.
Palestinians regard brethren jailed by Israel as heroes in a quest
for an independent state. Israel views them as terrorists.
Freedom for Pollard, a U.S. citizen and former Navy analyst who
pleaded guilty in 1987 to charges of spying for Israel, could
provide Netanyahu with leeway he may need to persuade hardliners in
his governing coalition to agree to a partial settlement freeze and
the wider prisoner release.
U.S. intelligence agencies have long opposed any early release of
Pollard, and U.S. officials said no decision has yet been made.
Pollard, now 59, is due for parole next year.
Sources close to the peace negotiations said Pollard could be freed
before the Jewish holiday of Passover, which begins in two weeks'
time. A spokesman for Pollard's wife, Esther, declined comment.
Kerry, who has visited the region more than 10 times in little more
than a year as he strives for a peace deal, met separately with
Netanyahu and Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat before
leaving on Tuesday for a NATO meeting in Brussels.
The focus of his Middle East mission appeared to have shifted from
reaching an elusive framework agreement by April 29, including
general principles for a final peace accord, to simply keeping both
sides talking beyond that previously set deadline.
A Palestinian official said Kerry might return to the region late on
Wednesday to see Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
(Writing by Maayan Lubell; editing by Jeffrey Heller and Angus MacSwan)
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She was excited to swim that night.
But strangely, UC San Diego senior Beth Dong felt no pressure when she stepped onto the blocks to begin the 400-meter individual medley final at last November's Arena Invitational.
Arena was the Tritons' first big meet of the season. Beth was coming off a blazing fast 4:19.20 in the morning prelim where she'd shaved five seconds off her personal best.
It was a phenomenal result — especially for a Division II swimmer racing against an Olympian and a host of other top-notch Division I athletes.
It also meant that Beth had punched her ticket to Birmingham, Ala., for Wednesday's Division II National Championships. Quite an accomplishment for a woman who, in the past eight years, had survived two major back surgeries as well as the loss of her mentor.
So in this final, she had nothing to lose.
The call came: "Take your mark."
A couple lanes down from Beth, Cal's Caitlin Leverenz was getting into her start position.
Yes, the same Caitlin Leverenz who'd won a 2012 Olympic bronze medal in the 200IM right around the time Beth was preparing to have her back sliced open on an operating table.
Freshman Beth might have been intimidated. Senior Beth was unfazed. She was going to be just fine.
"I remember just being really grateful that I was there," Beth recalls. "Swimming in finals, even swimming at all."
After all, there was a time not so long ago, when the woman the Tritons call "The Comeback Kid" had wondered if she'd ever swim again.
Show time.
The swimmers sliced into the water.
Beth was 14 the first time she woke up drugged and in doubt, after a six-hour surgery.
Her strong, previously-unblemished swimmer's back was now dissected by a massive line of stitches that ran from the bottom of her neck all the way to her tailbone.
"It looked like a horror story," Beth recalls.
Or at least she assumes it did since she never actually saw the wound. It apparently looked so horrific that her mother didn't take a picture for fear that it might traumatize her daughter.
But all physical scarring aside, the scariest thing about that day was all of the unknowns.
After an 11-year love affair with competitive swimming that started at the age of 3, an extreme case of scoliosis had forced Beth to say goodbye to the sport that had come to define her.
Scoliosis is an abnormal lateral curvature of the spine that, in extreme cases, can severely compromise organ function.
Beth was first diagnosed with the problem after a routine scoliosis screening in fifth grade.
The school nurse ordered Beth off to see a doctor, who found that the girl's spine was already curved at a 44-degree angle. Specialists generally recommend surgery to correct curves of more than 50 degrees.
So for three years from sixth grade on, Beth wore a thick, hard plastic brace under her clothes.
The thing was uncomfortable, and the only time Beth was allowed to take it off was when she was in the pool.
Perhaps it was then that swimming began to function as the ultimate release — the only activity that the awkward teenager could perform unencumbered.
Swimming felt natural to Beth, it always had.
She'd grown up on pool decks watching her older siblings, Rachel and Jacob, compete at swim meets, while her self-proclaimed "swim-mom" worked the meets as a volunteer.
Beth swam her very first lap at the age of 3, when her mother lured her across the pool with the incentive of a gold medal on the other end. Little Beth had only just started learning how to swim, but she gamely flopped onto her back and backstroked 25 yards across the pool.
Like all little kids, she tried different sports. Swimming was the only one that stuck.
She loved the water, and under the tutelage of Kevin Perry at the Fullerton Aquatics Sports Club, Beth had learned to harness every ounce of that natural talent she'd shown the day she first backstroked to her waiting mother at the age of 3.
The results were rolling in, too.
By age 14, she had qualified for junior nationals in the mile and the 400 IM. Her times were dropping, and the future looked promising. Beth dreamed of swimming for a Division I college on scholarship.
Then came her freshman year of high school. Beth's condition had deteriorated and her spine was now curved 75 degrees and in the shape of a question mark.
Surgery had become a necessity, her doctor said.
If the condition was allowed to progress unchecked, the bones in Beth's spine could rotate, her ribs could get deformed, and her chest could narrow, giving her heart and lungs less room in which to function. If that happened, she could die.
Beth just wanted to know what this would do to her swimming career.
The surgery would require doctors to cut open her back, move the muscles, then insert and secure two metal rods on either side of her spine to force it to fuse straight.
It was a major procedure that came with a small risk of paralysis, and it called for months of recuperation.
If it sounds extreme, that's because it is.
"It's barbaric," says Beth's surgeon, Dr. Robert Bernstein, a pediatric orthopedic specialist at Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. "But it's necessary in some cases."
A former competitive swimmer himself, Bernstein warned Beth to prepare herself for the worst: "You could maybe swim again," the doctor told her. "But you're not going to be good. You're not going to really excel."
It was probably the most spirit-crushing thing he could have said.
"I had to say goodbye to swimming, basically," Beth says. "It was devastating. It was like my world was ending."
So by the time anesthesia set in and Beth slipped into the darkness, she was already in mourning.
"We always do the Bernstein Dance," the doctor told Beth when he appeared in her hospital room the day after the surgery.
Beth was in so much pain, she didn't even want to stand up, let alone allow the dark-haired doctor with the kindly face to lead her in any sort of dance.
Her body felt foreign and … fragile. Like one big broken bone that she had to be very, very careful with.
The surgery had realigned everything.
"Everything is attached to your spine, you realize," Beth says. "They'd basically just chopped up my whole back. They'd ripped things off, put them back on. It kinda feels like someone is holding all the skin of your back in the middle, and just making it really taut.
"My whole body was different. I had to learn how to walk with a different body."
It didn't matter whether she wanted to or not, though. Bernstein got Beth out of bed and made her stand up. Then, he took her into his arms. She held onto his shoulders and they stood in the middle of her hospital room, rocking gently back and forth in the invalid's version of the eighth-grade slow dance.
The pain was intense. But Beth was standing, even sort of swaying.
"He wanted to show her that you can get up, you can move, and you can do this," says Michelle Dong, Beth's mother.
Shortly after Beth was released from the hospital, complications from the surgery sent her back to Cedars-Sinai for another week.
Then came the long recuperation. Beth was homeschooled for the first three months after the surgery, and each day began with the challenge of forcing herself out of bed and onto her feet.
Every day, she willed herself to go a little longer between doses of pain medication, and to walk a little farther.
Even though she couldn't swim initially, she hung out at the pool in her wheelchair, watching swim practice and wishing she could be in the water with her friends.
"It was where I spent all my time, and I was invested even at 14," Beth says. "It meant a lot to me to even just be there."
That's when she knew that the doctors were wrong. She was going to swim again. And she was going to be good.
He demanded perfection. And he usually got it.
Kevin Perry was known for his ability to get the most out of every swimmer he'd ever worked with.
But he wasn't easy to be around. Everything had to be done his way, up to his standards. If he felt as if his swimmers weren't giving effort or weren't doing something right, it wasn't unusual for Perry to lose his temper and throw a chair into the pool.
But like so many others before her, Beth loved him because she knew he cared.
The day Beth returned to swimming, two months after her surgery, Perry got into the water with her and taught her to swim again.
"It was very touching to see his caring for her," Michelle says. "He wanted so badly for her to be part of the swimming family again in any way possible. He could see that it was part of the whole mental process of getting better. It gave her such hope."
Standing in the pool with Beth, Perry helped to move her body correctly as she got used to the way her new body felt.
He also proclaimed, in that firm, no nonsense way he had, that she would swim again.
"You can do it. And you're going to do it," he told her.
To Beth, those words took on the gravity of an edict from God.
"He didn't give me an option," Beth says. "When you're young and you don't know if you can, but your coach says you can, you believe him."
So the process began.
As Perry stood in his usual perch on the pool deck with his eyes zeroed in on her, Beth pulled on fins and slowly, painstakingly, swam one lap.
"Another!" he'd call, and she'd swim another. And another. And another. And another.
"He always knew my potential," Beth says. "And I think I always trusted him. He knew what I needed and was always like, 'I know exactly what to do with you.'"
By the summer, Beth was competing for her club team again. Her first race for FAST was a home meet where she swam the 400-meter freestyle.
She came in last by a wide margin. But at the end of that race, Beth knew it was all going to be OK.
"At that moment, I was like, 'this could happen,'" she says.
Thus began the legend of the Comeback Kid.
The last time Beth saw Kevin Perry was in January 2008. They'd just finished a Saturday morning practice at the pool in Fullerton, and he was walking out.
By this point, he was using a walker.
The walker had made its first appearance on the pool deck at Junior Nationals the summer before. Perry never said anything to his swimmers or told them that he was sick. It was just business as usual.
Thereafter, he'd come to practice with the walker, park it at his usual spot on the deck, and yell at his swimmers in the pool, loud as ever.
Even with Stage 4 prostate cancer.
Perry continued to coach his swimmers as if nothing had changed, but he slowly deteriorated before their eyes.
As the coach walked out of practice aided by the walker that January Saturday, Beth thought about running after him to tell him that she had to miss the team's next practice.
In that split second, she decided to email him instead.
She never saw him again.
Perry never came back to practice, and he refused to let the kids come visit at the hospital.
"The cancer really got to him and we weren't allowed to see him," Beth says.
So instead, the budding filmmaker — Beth would later major in visual arts at UCSD — produced a mockumentary of the swim team and sent it to Perry at the hospital.
On April 9, 2008, at age 56, Perry lost his final fight.
Beth still wishes she'd run up to her coach that Saturday to talk to him about missing practice.
"If I'd talked to him that day, that would have been the last time," she says. "I would have said bye ... He just left, one random day, and none of us could see him again. It's like maybe he's still around somewhere, hanging out."
After Perry's death, everything changed. At least that's how it felt for Beth.
An assistant coach assumed responsibility of the team, and everyone plugged along as best they could. But it wasn't the same.
Most of Beth's close friends were a year older, and that spring, they all graduated, leaving her to start her senior year feeling more lost than ever.
"Without him, I didn't know what to do," she says. "I was swimming for him a lot of my years. We had that partnership. He knew how to make me swim fast.
"That year, I had nothing to swim for. He was gone. My friends were gone."
Her times plummeted that season, but the swimming résumé she'd compiled over the years was impressive enough that she still attracted some interest from colleges.
West Virginia offered her a partial scholarship, and she also looked at UCLA and Cal.
Between official visits, Beth mulled the idea of just being done with swimming entirely.
Then, UCSD invited her to come check out its program. More than any other team she'd visited, the Tritons made the grieving swimmer feel at home on their campus.
The team was close-knit, and the men and women practiced together like a big family. It reminded her of her FAST club team during a time where she swam for so much more than just herself.
So Beth committed.
UCSD swim coach Corrie Falcon had seen enough.
The Tritons were at the 2010 Pacific Collegiate Swimming Championships, and the coaches had made Beth the anchor swimmer on the 800-meter freestyle relay because they wanted to see how well the freshman would cope under pressure.
The race was close, with UCSD and Loyola Marymount neck-and-neck until the very end, when Beth was out-touched at the wall by a big LMU upperclassman whom the Tritons had nicknamed "The Man."
Disconsolate, Beth freaked out and started bawling.
"She was definitely in a place of complete defeat. But I knew we were going to go one of two ways there," recalls Falcon, who was an assistant coach at the time.
One more day of competition remained. Falcon knew Beth would either deflate completely and tank her final event, or bounce back and shake it off.
The coach took it upon herself to steer the freshman in the right direction.
"This ends now," she told Beth "You can't react this way anymore. We shake it off, take a deep breath, and do better next time.
"You need to stop being a high school girl, and start being a college woman. Be better."
The pep talk struck a chord.
"That worked for me," Beth says. "Tough love. She said 'You need to grow up right now, shut your brain off, and just swim for you and just let it take.'"
The next day, Beth annihilated the competition in the 1,650-meter freestyle, clinching gold in 17:11.70 — a full nine seconds ahead of the second-place swimmer.
Falcon wasn't Perry, but like him, she clearly knew how to push Beth.
The partnership between coach and swimmer blossomed as Beth's collegiate swimming career took off.
At her first national championship meet, she finished the 1,000-yard freestyle in 10:18.76, her fastest time all year, and good for seventh place.
Beth also came in sixth in the mile, and finished her freshman season with All-American and all-conference honors. She was named the Tritons' rookie of the year.
By the end of her freshman year, Beth had not only rekindled her love for the sport, she'd also found a new family.
"I love the 'team' part of this," she says. "For me, that's the most important part because that's where I take my motivation from most of the time.
"Because for me, it's just not enough to be like, 'I want to win.' That's just not how I roll.'"
Then came the day Falcon got a phone call from Beth that put swimming, winning and life all in perspective.
It was July 2011, the day before the start of one of the Tritons' swim camps.
Falcon was walking across campus to pick up dorm room keys for the campers when her phone rang.
"I can't work the camp," Beth said, when Falcon answered. "I have this infection in my spine. They don't know if they can take out the rods, and I may not survive the surgery."
"She was very, very scared," Falcon remembers. "Like, life-or-death scared."
It didn't quite come out of the blue. Beth had been sick for almost her entire sophomore year.
Since the beginning of the school year, she'd been in a constant state of lethargy. It started with tingling sensations in her back. Then, pain became part of Beth's world.
She couldn't sit up without pain, couldn't drive without pain, couldn't swim without pain.
At first she shrugged it off. Swimmers are used to pain. Maybe she'd pulled a muscle? Maybe it was some side effect of the scoliosis?
Then in the third meet of the season, when her back hurt throughout the 1,000-yard freestyle, Beth succumbed and went to the trainers.
They told her the pain was on her spine and that she couldn't swim again until she was cleared by a doctor. The doctor Beth consulted gave her a cortisone shot, but decided against an MRI because it was deemed unnecessary and expensive.
It was the first misdiagnosis Beth received, but it wouldn't be the last.
Out of nowhere, her hair starting falling out. Over the next few months, Beth also discovered two oozing sores on her back. The doctor told her they were cysts and that as long as they were drained regularly, they would eventually go away.
They never did.
Instead, Beth got so sick that by March, emotionally and physically depleted, she quit the swim team.
When Beth's parents noticed a third cyst on her back while she was home in Long Beach over the summer, they insisted that she see a doctor there.
Michelle took her daughter into urgent care where a doctor took one look at Beth's back and ordered an immediate MRI.
The MRI showed that Beth's back was completely infected. Those constantly draining "cysts" were actually sinus tracts her body had developed as an outlet for the infection. Her entire spine was infected, and doctors traced it to the rods in her back.
They needed to come out. Beth would need another back surgery, and soon. Or the infection could be fatal.
This time, whether or not she'd be able to swim again was the farthest thing from Beth's mind.
This time, this was about surviving.
How could this be happening again? Hadn't she been through enough the first time around?
Beth was incredulous.
Beth was angry.
Beth was scared as she went home and called her coach.
She wasn't crying, or hyperventilating, but that almost made it worse. Through the quiet, over the phone, Falcon could sense her swimmer's terror.
Suddenly equally scared, Falcon stopped walking and sat down on the curb. Somewhere amid her own fear, she summoned strength.
"I knew I needed to be a huge strength for her at that moment, stronger than she was," Falcon says. "I knew I had to believe in her more than she believed in herself."
It wasn't all posturing either. The coach says she truly believed that day, that Beth was going to get through her ordeal.
"You're going to be OK," Falcon said, with conviction, over the phone from La Jolla. "You're going to survive the surgery, and you will get better."
Falcon's not the religious sort, but that day, something in her gut told her that Beth was going to come back, and that she was going to do great things.
This time, the surgery took five and a half hours.
Beth had mentally prepped herself the way Falcon had taught her to prepare for a race: Visualize success from start to finish. Repeat her power words, "perseverance," "strength."
"I had to tell myself that every day because I didn't know what was going to happen. I wasn't actually sure," Beth says.
Yet, the minute she opened her eyes in the hospital's intensive care unit after the surgery, her body didn't feel as foreign as it had six years before.
"I knew that the change that had happened wasn't as scary as the first," Beth says. "It was just the same amount of pain (as after the first surgery) but my body hadn't changed. All they did was take the rods out. They didn't have to reconfigure my spine again. It was nice."
The rods had done their job and her spine had fused. She didn't need to have them replaced.
Pretty soon, she was up and about, walking laps around the hospital with the help of a walker and her mother.
Within a month, she was running two miles a day.
"I felt 100 percent better because I wasn't dying," Beth says. "I was just ready to go."
Beth called UCSD co-head coach Matt Macedo that fall and told him she wanted to come back and swim the following year, her senior year.
"Why not just try and come back this year?" Macedo suggested.
That was all the motivation The Comeback Kid needed.
As her fingertips touched the wall at the end of the Arena Invitational 400IM final, Beth listened intently.
One thing she'd learned after almost two decades in the pool was that even before you pop up at the end of a big race, you can gauge how well you've done by the sounds from the surface.
She'd swum plenty of races where the only sound she heard from the wall was the dreaded sympathetic "ohhhhhhhhhh…. " that tapers into a whisper, the first sign of a disappointing swim.
But on this night, the crowd was going crazy
She popped her head up.
"GOOD JOB, BETH!" the coaches yelled, as Beth turned to look at the clock.
Beth hardly ever cried. But that night, the tears came as the Tritons engulfed her in congratulatory hugs.
Not only had she set a new personal best, she'd broken the school record of 4:18.21 that UCSD swimming legend Alex Henley — arguably the best swimmer to ever come through the program — had set the year before.
Beth went from strength to strength at that meet, shattering several personal bests that had stood since before her first surgery.
It was as if the universe had finally decided to repay its karmic debt to her.
"I think everything lined up, and I just had so much fire, so much passion to do well. It had been such a long time coming," Beth says. "I have not felt like that probably since I was 14."
Life was much kinder to Beth in 2012.
In February, six months after her surgery, Beth signaled her return to the college swimming scene by medaling in four events at conference championships.
She even made it to nationals as a junior, finishing in the top-10 in the 400 IM and 1,000-yard freestyle, and helping her 800-meter freestyle relay team to a silver medal.
The Comeback Kid's story inspired the entire UCSD swim team, and they made Beth a co-captain at the start of the 2012 season.
Everything is now coming to a close.
Next week, the Tritons go to the Division II national championships in Alabama, which likely will be the final meet of Beth's competitive career.
After missing her sophomore season with medical issues, she technically has one year of eligibility remaining. But she's already decided that this year will be her last.
Beth has learned to listen when her body talks to her, and her body is just about ready to tap out.
"It's taken all of me to come back, and I really don't think I have that much left," Beth says. "I don't think I could physically do another year."
She's just done.
"It feels right to finish now," Beth says. "My whole class, which I'm insanely close to, we're all finishing. Emotionally, I'm a senior."
Beth will swim a full slate of seven events at nationals, and she goes into the meet ranked No. 1 in the 400 IM.
It's the first time in her career that she's earned the top national ranking in any event, and to come away with the gold would make for the storybook ending to an already memorable four years.
But in a way, Beth has already pocketed the ultimate prize.
She made it.
She beat the odds, and now she'll get to pull on her race suit one last time, earn the Tritons some points, and cheer on her teammates in the hunt for a national title.
Winning would be great, but the goal is to have a blast.
The end is in sight, and the Comeback Kid is determined to just enjoy her final ride.
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Evolution is a painfully slow process, only noticeable under close examination. Charles Darwin was slightly more interested in fossils than bands, but The Thermals' gradual transformation is moving at an equivalently glacial pace. Each of the Portland trio's five albums has presented tiny mutations of their poppy punk sound. They're almost inaudible from one record to the next, but compare Personal Life to debut More Parts Per Million and it's difficult to believe it's the same band.
More Parts Per Million is scratchy, succinct, exuberant. Personal Life is defiantly calm by comparison. In between the two is the breathless Fuckin' A, the raging The Body, The Blood, The Machine and last year's Now We Can See, comfortably their most polished collection to date. Personal Life takes that mood as its starting point and stretches it out until it's close to breaking.
Deliberate chords are left to breathe here for twice as long as they would have two albums ago and there's a sense of space to the music which is an entirely new feeling for a Thermals album. Some parts are almost epic, like the gently reverbed (gulp) Kings Of Leon-style guitar that colours 'Never Listen To Me'. The kick drum and snare sound like they've had a crisp packet taped onto them and a hidden fiddle nags for attention in the thrilling build up of the song's intro. Tiny touches, but effective at bringing atmosphere to what's a typically straightforward Thermals song at its core.
There's still something approachably simple about this record. 'I Don't Believe You' packs an irresistible "oh-oh-oh / oh-oh-oh-oh!" refrain to go with its vim-filled harmonies and the incredulously spat out title. It's like a lost blueprint for how Green Day might have grown old gracefully. As ever, Harris' voice is a mix of ache and orders and he's allowing himself a little more expression with his guitar, throwing in a minor solo on the sparse 'Only For You' and concluding 'A Reflection' with 30 seconds of reasonably interesting feedback.
Moments like these are a relief in an album which doesn't lack for ideas, but will struggle to hold your attention. Sequencing gets tricky when there are so many songs of similar mood at similar tempos. The Thermals will never be a boring band to listen to, but the surely deliberate decision to fill the middle of the record with so many mid-paced songs is going to test some long-term fans. Rather than the bold riffs and brash hooks of old, most of Personal Life's songs have single-string guitar lines as their key instrumental motif and they're just not interesting enough to carry the load. 'Not Like Any Other Feeling', 'Power Lies' and 'Alone A Fool' are especially monotonous and lack for anything memorable. Coming as they do as fourth, fifth and seventh songs on a ten song record, they deliver a near-fatal lull way too early.
Harris' lyrics are also changing, with no instructions to "pray for assassination" here, as on Fuckin A's 'God And Country'. These words are largely for and about someone in a couple. There's an eloquently straightforward statement about the power of relationships in the album bookends 'I'm Gonna Change Your Life' and 'You Changed My Life'. When Harris sings the latter so directly, unadorned by the protection of metaphor, it's tremendously touching – the ultimate compliment you could give someone.
At this point in their evolutionary process The Thermals' songs can't match the grandeur of such statements. Hutch isn't rabble rousing anymore, but his singing is still declamatory and clipped which makes it sound like he's just shouting all these emotive lyrics into his beloved's ear. It's a funny image, but it's not nearly as fun as railing against the president, the church, or the culture as they have done before. The Thermals are in transition, sitting awkwardly between their lo-fi roots and a clear desire to do something grander. They seem stuck at a point where their skeleton is no longer fit for purpose.
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COLUMBUS, Ga. – Recording around 27 holes of golf Tuesday, the No. 8 Georgia College golf team took fourth place among 16 teams at the Aflac/Cougar Invitational, hosted by Columbus State University.
Played at the par-71, 6,515-yard Country Club of Columbus, the Bobcats finished 28-over par for the three rounds, edging Coker College by a pair to claim fourth. The Bobcats saved their best round for last, carding a 291 in round three.
Senior Taylor Smith (Mansfield, Ga.) recorded his first top-10 finish of the season, taking seventh of the 90 golfers at three-over par. Smith shot rounds of 72, 71 and 73, posting three birdies in final-round action today.
Sophomore Ryan Trocchio (Norcross, Ga.) leapt to 12th with solid rounds in his final two (75, 72, 72) to finish six-over. Trocchio was the lone Bobcat to card an eagle, holing out in three on the par-five No. 17 in the final round.
Senior Patrick Garrett (Kennesaw, Ga.) picked up another top-20 finish at eight-over in 20th. Garrett sandwiched a solid 71 and 73 around a middle-round 77. He was at plus-one on the back nine in his final round.
Junior Victor Monte (Chantilly, Va.) fired a 73 in his final round, jumping to 43rd place at plus-13, while Bryan Fox (Roswell, Ga.) was plus-18 in 66th place.
No. 15 Florida Southern College took the team title at 11-over par, followed by host CSU four strokes behind. The individual medalist was CSU's Jesse Gibson at three-under, bettering the field by a single stroke.
The Bobcats are back in action Monday, Oct. 29 at the McDonough Cup in Orlando, Fla.
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Hanami means literally "looking at the flowers". And that's also how the japanese call the sort of picnics that they organise specifically during the cherry blossom "sakura" season.
They usually gather with their classmates, colleagues, friends or family to have drinks and food under the "rain" of sakura petals.
Tama area is the name of the western part of Tokyo Metropolis. It consists of 26 cities, 3 towns and a village. A lot of people (about 4 milion) live in a eastern half part of the area. However, there are many mountains in the western part of Tama area, and there are very little flat land. Many hiking spots are in the western area, so you can enjoy walking on the trail, camping, and so on. If you see the beautiful mountain scene, you may not believe this is also in Tokyo.


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Richie Cole fans continue to praise the jazz/bebop artist who was listed in the 2006 edition of Marquis Who's Who in America. Cole is recognized worldwide for the sweet sounds of his alto sax and the creativity behind his Alto Madness Orchestra. The Alto Madness Orchestra was developed by Richie in the early 90's and its continuing popularity is proof of its uniqueness.
Cole's ability goes far beyond mesmerizing the audience with his saxophone because he does all the composing and arranging, having amassed over five thousand of the latter. He also finds time to arrange for full big bands and Symphony Orchestras. Jazz Festivals book Cole months in advance and his appearances in clubs assure large audiences.
Richie's musical mind is always working and it's not unusual for him to write five to ten original compositions a day and copies all the parts for his seven piece band.
Cole and his saxophone, one of three Selmer Paris saxes he uses, travel the world captivating his fans. When Cole was touring Siberia he premiered his Jazz Suite, "A Night in Siberia," which was performed by the Red Army Big Band. The mayor of Tomsk, Siberia and the concert promoter are hoping to arrange a state department tour of their Orient Express route.
Cole's knowledge is revered in Master Classes at Universities and Colleges and the Alto Madness Orchestra course has entered its sixth year at the University of Madrid in Spain.
Richie Cole's own love for the music that has become his life began when he was 10 in home town of Trenton, New Jersey. "I played in a lot of different school bands and orchestras until I graduated," he recalled with a smile. His talent and dedication won him a full scholarship from Downbeat Magazine to the Berklee School of Music in Boston, Mass.
His serious professional career began in 1969 when he joined the Buddy Rich Big Band followed by becoming a part of the Lionel Hampton Big Band, then he joined the Doc Severinsen Big Band. In 1975 Richie teamed with the great Eddie Jefferson and worked with him until Jefferson's death four years later.
Cole has performed with the Manhattan Transfer, Bobby Enriquez, Freddie Hubbard, Sonny Stitt, Boots Randolph, and Nancy Wilson, to name just a few of his musical collaborations.
Cole's tours with Alto Madness have included performances in Australia, Japan, Africa, Finland, Russia and throughout Europe. He was appointed to the Board of the National Jazz Service Organization , and the Board for the National Endowment for the Arts where he served as chairman for one year. He is also a long time member of the International Association of Jazz Educators and has performed at their annual convention and in 2005 was awarded the State of California Congressional Certificate of Lifetime Achievement in Jazz on behalf of the Temecula Jazz Society.
Cole is ever expanding his collaborations which have included appearances with two vocal jazz groups including Five By Design and the Uptown Vocal Jazz Quartet. Five By Design brought Cole into the symphony arena that included appearances with the Vancouver Symphony, Spokane Symphony, Topeka Symphony, Columbus Symphony, Wheeling Symphony, and Terre Haute Symphony orchestras.
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>This usually occurs in the aftermath of a period of reduced blood flow to an area of the body. When circulation is fully restored following constriction of blood flow the blood vessels dilate and can become engorged with blood. This can cause discoloration ranging from dark red to the bruised appearance you described as well as exquisite pain.
>If our fin straps are too tight or we have forced our foot into the foot pocket too firmly we can create a steady mechanical pressure on the blood vessels. This is colloquially known as 'fin foot'. Colder water can also contribute to the constriction of the blood vessels adding to the reduced blood flow to the area. Usually this condition does not require medical intervention other than pain management. Typically staying off the affected foot as much as possible, elevating the foot and applying warm compresses will help keep the affected area comfortable.
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Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Silver Lining Sick Days
This is the mostly-good kind of crazy, right?
Cause this week it feels just crazy. The plain kind.
The days have lost their ever-loving minds starting right around 3pm. The evenings have been long, intense, and exhausting.
The good news is, Silas has been sick. Hear me out.
While it's not good that he suffered a high fever, "watering" eyes, mysterious "mouf" ailments, and a muscle twitch in his right heel ("my foot is pumping up! it's not flat! wahhh!"), it IS stinking good to have a reason to lounge all morning in our "pojammies" without a care in the world. (Pumping up feet aside.)
We've shared a grapefruit (dude can't get enough), read Harold, watched Madeline, played Bingo and just today tried to light the Christmas tree, only to find that ALL of the lights are dead, save one 50-light strand. (If you know Silas at all, you can imagine how devastating this was/still is.)
He's on the mend now, working hard at saying "THink" instead of "sink" and telling me things like, "When I grow bigger'n you, I'll be your boss. Yes I will."
Tomorrow? He goes to school.
Oh, he's going to school.
canvas came! Lordy, I love it. They sent a coupon for $50 off my next purchase. Don't mind if I do!
We deliberated long and hard over which photo would be honored and I couldn't be happier with the winner. It feels important to point out that this shot was a big, fat mistake. Spot metering gone awry. SCORE!
If you haven't ordered a canvas yet, DO IT. Right now Canvas People is offering 60% off with free shipping. DOUBLE SCORE!
So, how has your week been so far? Is our crazy contagious?
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been a bit nutty around these parts...our own kinda crazy...maybe it's global warming.ReplyDelete
I felt like I was on the brink all day. I was either going to fall asleep or kick something. And the baby wont stop climbing onto the table and the table is extremely tall.ReplyDelete
I have been right there with ya Sista! Though I am hoping to be at the end of my craziness soon.The last 3 + years for us have simply been out of control and I had to say Lord enough is enough I have to have some PEACE and CALM in my LIFE NOW PLEASE! I think my demands have been answered, though I never want to get my hopes up as they are soon quashed! I myself fought and fought and begged, pleaded and finally surrendered in defeat.Maybe that's all I ever had to do Hmmm? I would have given up much sooner but learned much less.So enjoy your CRAZZY it's clearly taking you somewhere....ReplyDelete
Hope Silas is feeling better, he sounds so precious! The Canvas is fabulous, great Photo choice.
~Cheers & Blessings Kim
I had forgotten about da pitty lights for Silas!! How devastating for him!ReplyDelete
He is soo cute it almost hurts.
Sorry you're having such craziness. I am just leaving death's door after a weird allergic reaction ON Thanksgiving!
Kinda makes you wish for lots of old folks at the donut shop and the one lady sharing : my kids tore my insides out. One of mmy fave stories EVA!
Hope tomorrow is better. The only thing I like about being ill is lying around in pojammies and watching, lifetime movies...I've just outed myself!
Keepin it real,
Now I desperately want to watch "look at pitty lights" ON VIDEO. (Remember that one? Of course you do!)Delete
Your old lady story cracks me up so bad.
Is today treating you better so far? What are you allergic to? Don't say turkey. Tell me it's not turkey. Or mashed potatoes.
- AnonymousNovember 29, 2012 at 2:56 AM
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I only get a chance every once in awhile to glance at your blog. I just get some bits and pieces so I may be off on this but it just struck me that you may want to look at a book called, "A Meal With Jesus." I checked it out from the library and ran through it and now months later have one coming in the mail tomorrow. Just one of those that I need to get deeper into. Ya know, the kind you just gotta highlight! I think you can look it up on Amazon. I ordered mine from Christian Book. Blessings from a reader in WA!Replies
Thanks for the suggestion! I'm always hunting down a good read. This sounds right up my alley.Delete
When I click the link you posted about the deal from Canvas People, it goes straight to the main page of a parenting website.ReplyDeleteReplies
Hmmm...not sure what's going on! I just checked the links and they're working fine for me. Anyone else having trouble?Delete
- AnonymousNovember 29, 2012 at 4:39 AM
Pretty sure Leo's picked up an ear infection... but conveniently we have his 15mo. appt. today, so hooray for not paying a co-pay twice!? (PS - AND I get to take a sick day!!!!)ReplyDelete
Your crazy is a bit contagious, yes-lol! I had my baby girl this week-but via emergency C-section. Not how I pictured it. But the reward of our beautiful daughter, Betsy Grace, is a silver lining big enough to happily choose to forget all the trauma! I love your canvas print-it speaks of hope, calm, and a strong beauty :)ReplyDeleteReplies
Best news ever! I love the name Betsy. Congrats, Mama!Delete
At the risk of sounding a bit crazy myself that canvas is the kind of gorgeous picture that you could just sink your head right into? Is it only me? xxReplyDelete
He'll be the boss of you. Ha!ReplyDelete
There's only a little bit of crazy going on around here. It will settle down soon and we'll be surprised by the next wave of crazy.
(Did you get my email about photo storage and blogger?)
- AnonymousNovember 29, 2012 at 6:36 AM
Glad Silas is on the mends! He is still so darn cute even when he's under the weather :) Def an excuse to stay on pjs! My week has been basically husband less because of his work situation. I didn't realize I would miss my best friend so much. Zaney may not be the word for me but totally mixed up is!!! Love the canvas, way to go!!ReplyDelete
Yep. Your crazy is catching. We've got the colds, the kid in lock up, and even the little kid who says 'sink' to match yours. Prayers headed your way from one also in the crazy trenches.ReplyDelete
sorry you got a sick one and that is some crazy day...geesh! i just ordered from them this week. can't wait to see it. big hugs!!!!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 29, 2012 at 8:44 AM
So YOU'RE responsible for the crazy! :p My car has been in the shop Monday and Tuesday for different things. Got it back yesterday. No more money...so surely the car is fixed! :D God Bless You and your bunch. Your blog is a joy to read! xoxoReplyDelete
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I can not even think about my week. It pales in comparison to the eyes on my future son-in-law. Law. We will have beautiful grandchildren.ReplyDelete
Hahaha! Never give up the dream, Sister! I promise to be the best MIL EVER!Delete
ps - I'm praying for you. FYI. :)
Sorry to hear Silas is sick, but you have a great attitude. I am hoping for craziness today as I am in Guatemala on a mission trip and praying God opens my eyes to see Him at work in the craziness of life here.ReplyDelete
I LOVE your canvas! It looks like a painting , and I love photos that look like paintings. Also, I feel guilty about enjoying sick days, too. But it's also nice not to have to wonder if they're off painting the carpet or cutting their hair. They're nice and contained on the couch. It's not my fault they only choose to do that when they're not feeling well. Those photos of him are so adorable. I hope he's feeling much better today!ReplyDelete
We're as crazy as ever. I had a feeling we caught it from you. :)
Siley looks so comfy cozy on that couch in his "pojammies"!! Makes me wanna do the same!! It's always crazy here, always!!! Number five started off our week with a fever and runny nose and then threw up right next to me without any warning!!! Well 20 minutes prior she said she felt like she could throw up, so I did get her a bucket to puke into, okay so it was a popcorn bucket, but still - it worked!!!ReplyDelete
Yesterday number four complained of a sore throat and neck! Five is on the mends!! Praying that numbers three and two steer clear!!! Oh number one is old enough to live somewhere else....he comes with his own set of things I'm praying against!!! lol
Gotta love the crazy!! <3 and that print - it's BEE-U-TEE-FULLLLLLL!!!!!
If you want crazy, I've got crazy. My world has been upside down crazy, and my heart inside out since my 85 year old daddy decided his Christmas lights needed to be hung from the second story just one more time. A ladder collapsed and sent him crashing to the ground the day before Thanksgiving. Its been crazy ever since.ReplyDelete
Silas is entirely adorable.
It is really nice picture and looking so great. Amezing and very beautiful flowers.ReplyDelete
so sorry for your crazy week....we're right behind you in the crazy week department over here.ReplyDelete
and i could hear your sassy voice, even though i've really never heard you, when you said, "oh he's GOING to school."
love it.
hoping your weekend is better...i'm envious of the love that you have for your friends...the one in jail and the one in hiding for beating someone up. God is good.
Your canvas is the best "mistake" ever! It reminds me of a soft water color painting. And that cute little one of yours - don't you just melt when you look at his eyes...praying for him.ReplyDelete
So sorry your babe is sick...but so glad you had so many wonderful moments to savor! I was just thinking to myself the other day "Wow, did I get through my semester without getting sick?" and whammo...I'm laid out with strep...(feel your pain :) I made a playlist for sick days on my blog today... :) Your canvas is beautiful! Love reading your blog - you're writing voice is fantabulous! :)ReplyDelete
Let me just say that I LOVE YOU! I don't know you but I love you. I love your outlook on life. I love your funny banter with us. I love your kids cute little faces. I love that you have adopted (for whatever reason). I love that you love my Jesus. Yes, it's safe to say that I love you. Thank you for sharing your life with us.ReplyDelete
Oh girl, we are on day five of snots, fevers, coughs and breathing treatments for the entire family and, wait for it...in eight days the movers are coming to move us across the country.ReplyDelete
Well. Do you mean crazier than the yooj? Because I think we have been over the crazy that is my life. To add to the fun though, I am starting my spring cleaning early and seriously decluttering my house. We moved in a few months ago and my love is fizzling. It's not me. It's you. I mean the house. It's so white. Racist, I know but I just can't take it. It's white and cluttered because we lost a thousand square feet and my children are just getting taller. I am buckling down and making it happy. Also. The river that runs through our town is flooding. Right now. It's going to flood four feet into homes. Half the city has been making sand bags for days. Not me. I staye with the kindergarteners. It's for the best.ReplyDelete
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I miss my son when I read your post. He's now with her Dad in Italy. I don't want to cry... Be positive Kristine. Anyways, thanks for the information and enlightenment. I really appreciate it.ReplyDelete
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Pidgin can be installed from the Angstrom Repositories (see Repositories).
opkg install pidgin
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Good Evening Valentine: Open ThreadPosted: February 14, 2013 Filed under: American Gun Fetish, Great Britain, Gun Control, open thread, Political Affective Disorder | Tags: Academy Awards, Horse meat, Oklahoma, Oscars, Wayne LaPierre 27 Comments
Happy Valentine's Day!
Evening everyone, hope your Valentine Day is going well. Usually I get a kick out of V-Day, but this year…meh.
The past two days have been a kind of fog for me, and other than the news that another athlete has shot and killed his girlfriend, I have no idea what is going on in the world. Heavy duty pain medication and a case of PAD is keeping me from reading and watching the news.
That is why today's evening reads are going to be rather thin.
First this from "Pepe" LaPierre( I wish I could draw, if I could I'd do a caricature of LaPierre as a skunk, like Pepe Le Pew….kissing an AK15…saying, "Come wiz me to ze Casbah – we shall make beautiful musicks togezzer!") from Huffington Post : Wayne LaPierre: More Guns Needed For 'Hellish World' Filled With Hurricanes, Kidnappers, Drug Gangs
Wayne LaPierre, CEO of the National Rifle Association, adopted on Wednesday a significantly more ominous and expansive line of reasoning than he has before in order to make the case that newer, more dangerous threats require Americans to buy more guns, join the NRA and organize opposition to gun control measures.
"Hurricanes. Tornadoes. Riots. Terrorists. Gangs. Lone criminals. These are perils we are sure to face — not just maybe," LaPierre wrote in a commentary published by The Daily Caller, a conservative news site. "It's not paranoia to buy a gun. It's survival. It's responsible behavior, and it's time we encourage law-abiding Americans to do just that."
"Tens of millions of Americans are already preparing to Stand And Fight to protect their families and homes," LaPierre declared, but the threats are growing "during the second Obama term."
Good Lawd, what horrors!
…LaPierre wrote that "the American people clearly see the daunting forces we will undoubtedly face: terrorists, crime, drug gangs, the possibility of Euro-style debt riots, civil unrest or natural disaster. Gun owners are not buying firearms because they anticipate a confrontation with the government. Rather, we anticipate confrontations where the government isn't there — or simply doesn't show up in time."
New York City in the wake of Hurricane Sandy was LaPierre's prime example of just such a disaster: "After Hurricane Sandy, we saw the hellish world that the gun prohibitionists see as their utopia. Looters ran wild in south Brooklyn. There was no food, water or electricity. And if you wanted to walk several miles to get supplies, you better get back before dark, or you might not get home at all."
The facts, however, indicate the opposite was true. In the five days following Hurricane Sandy, there were no homicides at all in New York City — which is unusual, considering historical data.
You can click the link to that HuffPo article, which goes on to point out other facts LaPierre has twisted to his will.
I think this cartoon from Signe Wilkinson fits perfectly with this discussion. NRA Shoppe
The Guardian has a cool interactive poking fun at the dumbing down of the US President's State of the Union Address: The state of our union is … dumber: How the linguistic standard of the presidential address has declined
How the linguistic standard of the presidential address has declined. Using the Flesch-Kincaid readability test the Guardian has tracked the reading level of every state of the union.
Just go and check it out!
Also from The Guardian: Horsemeat scandal deepens as minister says bute may be in food chain
Eight horses slaughtered for food in the UK have tested positive for the veterinary painkiller phenylbutazone, known as bute, new tests from the Food Standards Agency (FSA) revealed on Thursday.
The minister for food and agriculture, David Heath, told the Commons that 206 carcasses had been tested. Six of the carcasses that tested positive may have entered the food chain in France in the last few weeks, according to the FSA, and efforts were being made to recall them. Heath said the Findus lasagne found to contain horsemeat had tested negative for bute. The FSA confirmed that all tests on the food products analysed so far, including Tesco burgers, were negative.
Heath said: "It is unacceptable that bute at any level has been found in horsemeat. We are investigating and anyone found to have broken the law will be dealt with."
In other horsemeat news, Oklahoma State Senate committee advances bill on commercial slaughter of horses
A state Senate committee unanimously passed a bill to allow the operation of horse slaughterhouses in the state.
Senate Bill 375 – written by Sen. Mark Allen, R-Spiro – passed the Senate Agriculture and Rural Development Committee on a 9-0 vote without debate or question.
Before the bill was considered, Allen announced that he had substituted new language in the bill that would ensure that meat produced at an equine slaughterhouse would be consumed only outside the state and that animals would be allowed to come to a facility only through a livestock auction and a livestock dealer, meaning horses couldn't be sold directly to a slaughterhouse.
Cynthia Armstrong, state director of the Humane Society of the United States, said the changes to Allen's bill didn't make it any less horrible and unacceptable for the state.
"Oklahoma City has a reputation as the Horse Show Capital of the World," Armstrong said. "We do not need to be known as the Dead Horse Capital of the U.S."
Of course I have a cartoon for this story too: Oklahoma Horse Slaugherhouses – Political Cartoon by Bruce Plante, Tulsa World – 02/14/2013
Lastly, this year's Oscar poster is cool, check it out: Oscar Poster Reveals Years Of Best Picture History, But Can You Guess The Movies? (PHOTOS)
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences released a fun new poster on its website Tuesday. The Olly Moss and Gallery1988 project features 85 renderings of Oscar statuettes — one for each Best Picture winner from 1927 to 2012.
Go to the link to see a gallery of each statue. I like the ones that make references to the movie itself, and not just a costume. Like The Sting (finger to nose), The Apartment (tennis racquet and spaghetti), English Patient (melted head and shoulder) and All's Quiet on the Western Front (butterfly).
Have a wonderful evening!
This is an open thread.
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The speaker of house (as well as other republicans) couldn't manage to stand up in honor of Desiline Victor, the 102 year old who waited hours in Fla. before casting her vote. I bet if she had a M-16 in her hands he would have stood up.
Happy Valentine's Day………….take good care JJ.
Just a personal anecdote about Valentines Day. My partner of 30 years and I always shop separately for the other's Valentine treat. Generally we give each other things like chocolate, a book, Pj's, a stuffed animal, Movie tickets, etc. This year we gave each other the exact same box of chocolates and the exact same Valentine's day card. What was even more bizarre is we wrote sentiments to each other that were nearly identical. What are the odds of that happening? We both got a great laugh out of it and after we shared our freaky Valentine's Day experience with friends and family we decided that we've been together for so long that we're no longer two people. We also decided that next year only one of us is going to buy a Valentine's Day gift that we both will share and we're going to flip a coin to decide who does the buying.
JJ…..Sorry you had such a bad day. I hope you feel better soon.


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- 1 Fedora's Audience and Why Fedora
- 2 Guesstimation of Top 10 User Tasks
- 3 Defining Success
- 4 Stakeholders
- 5 Interview Notes
- 6 Resources / Meta
- 7 Meetings
Fedora's Audience and Why Fedora
Fedora's Target Audience
The target Fedora user audience is people who:
- are familiar with and comfortable interacting with computers.
- are not afraid to try something different when it comes to technology.
- want to change how they work with their computer.
- are not necessarily computer hackers or developers.
- participate in online forums such as online shopping product reviews, blogs, or movie fan sites.
- someone who does not mind submitting a bug report as long as it's not too time-consuming.
- are active users of the web, having accounts on a wide range of web-based applications.
- use their computer to produce content, whether it's an expense report for work or a photo slideshow of the kids for Grandpa.
Why should the target audience be interested in Fedora?
Fedora enables people worldwide to enjoy and contribute to free and open source technology without requiring them to be computer hackers or developers. It allows them to accomplish every day personal and work-related tasks in a safe and secure manner, presenting them with a selection of the best-of-the-best free and open source software to get the job done, either pre-installed or easily installed when needed. Fedora also makes it easy for people to put their own mark on the free and open source software community, whether its participating in a user forum or filing a bug to make free and open source software better for everyone. Fedora makes free and open source software fun and easy to integrate into their lives.
Guesstimation of Top 10 User Tasks
Based on our target audience definition alone, here is a guesstimation at the Top 10 User Tasks we'll want to support. Keep in mind that these may change based on findings in user research. Some of theseare also ob-board specific tasks.
- Decide whether or not to download Fedora.
- Download and install Fedora, and personalize it, configuring email, bookmarks, wallpaper, etc.etc.
- File a bug with Fedora. Follow up on the bug and take a look at its progress.
- Take a photo of the kids and send it to Grandpa.
- While on a business trip, make a video call to your boyfriend/girlfriend.
- Print out invitations to your holiday party, including directions and mailing labels for the envelopes.
- Create a mix of tunes, save it for later use, and burn it to CD for an upcoming roadtrip.
- Get live help with Fedora.
- Find a good meeting time and book an appointment on your calendar for a business meeting.
- Write and send in your weekly status report for work, and figure out what you should work on today.
Defining Success
Success for Users
- Fedora has the functionality they need to get the job done.
- Fedora is not painful to use in getting the job done.
- Fedora is enjoyable to use, and 'cool.' They *want* to use it and are happy with it.
- Fedora is a sustainable positive experience, uninterrupted by broken applications or an unusable machine which requires command line heroics or other hackery to fix
Success for the Fedora Project
- More bug reports!
- More posts on Fedora-related user forums, and more activity and blog posts and general discussion of Fedora online and off.
- More downloads of Fedora. Increased traffic to the website.
- Increased awareness and mindshare of Fedora and free & open source sofware in general.
- How do we make this measurable? --Duffy 22:15, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
|Fedora Board
|Fedora Desktop Team
|Fedora QA
|Fedora Design Team
|spliction / mizmo
|Fedora Release Engineering
|Fedora Marketing Team
|tactica / mchua
|Fedora Ambassadors
|Fedora Spins Maintainers
|ryanlerch / sdziallas
|Fedora Infrastructure Team
|mizmo / abadger1999 & smooge
|Fedora Documentation Team
|Fedora Websites Team
|Fedora Help forums (#fedora, fedoraforum.org, Fedora Unity)
|mizmo / nirik
|Current Fedora contributors
- For each of these stakeholders, we'll need to ask:
- How well do you think Fedora accomplishes its stated goals in light of your role in the project?
- How is Fedora not meeting those goals?
- What questions do you have about Fedora's target audience that you'd like to see answers so that your team can help get Fedora closer to its goals?
- We'll then need to prioritize the goals based on importance, severity, and priority.
- Per goal, we should formulate research questions, and come up with specifics to research for each question.
- Then we'll need to decide research methods for each questions.
- Then we'll need to come up with a research schedule.
Interview Notes
- mizmo, abadger1999, smooge
- nov 24 2009
- raw log available: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-design/2009-11-24/fedora-design.2009-11-24-20.00.log.txt
- How well do you think Fedora accomplishes its stated goals in light of your role in the project?
- Not utter fail, but definitely problems.
- How is Fedora not meeting those goals?
- Two-way communication between groups can be quite poor. We need to improve inter-team communication. Things are poorly communicated if commnunicated at all at times, and projects end up getting dropped or implemented in a way that doesn't account for infrateam's needing to schedule and manage resources. this results in confused end-users, who may be expecting a project to come out and it never does. or it does but infra doesn't have the resources to support it properly.
- Example: acrimony rather than discussion between desktop developers and unix users / system administrators. I like that we're on the cutting edge of desktop development but too often the cutting edge is thinking about single user desktop problems when our users use us because we're a multi-user desktop/unix solution.
- Example: Amber project, was dropped then re-picked back up. Finally ended up working with pkgdb but was a long road to get there.
- Infrastructure / design team / developers - interact one-on-one rather than all three together
- too many different views at times; lack of central vision to move forward when 20% pull one way, 20% pull the other,and 60% don't care
- We need to improve the consistency across our web properties. there still isn't a standard look/feel documented or design resource specifically allocated for developers to turn to. this hurts our end users because our web properties are a smorgabord of styles/looks and they don't seem the same. We also have multiple website templating language. Genshi and mako (fcomm/ bodhi). But they are in the same family (python / turbogears) so it's not as bad as it could be.
- No content plan or allocated resources for it. We're pretty much only about rpm packages. Locally installed free content like copying deviantart as wallpapers or project Gutenberg for ebooks - RPM packaging is the wrong way here. But users want it and being able to get it to them fits with our mission. Other ways could be to partner with other services (like deviant art and project gutenberg). We don't have a good plan for locally installed docs (rpm and publican is showing that it doesn't scale in one or more directions depending on how we try to massage it.
- No where are we going plan. Users get upset not knowing why website or applications change (even if they like the newer way). We make changes but forget to tell people sometimes we are going to do it, why we are doing it, and what we are trying to accomplish so they can see if we are meeting that or not. Sometimes it feels like change for change's sake.
- Two-way communication between groups can be quite poor. We need to improve inter-team communication. Things are poorly communicated if commnunicated at all at times, and projects end up getting dropped or implemented in a way that doesn't account for infrateam's needing to schedule and manage resources. this results in confused end-users, who may be expecting a project to come out and it never does. or it does but infra doesn't have the resources to support it properly.
- What questions do you have about Fedora's target audience that you'd like to see answers so that your team can help get Fedora closer to its goals?
- Would like to know what kind of oversight do you (Board, maybe) want to give us over what runs in Infrastructure.
- How can we enable them to contribute to Fedora?
- (suggested) What web properties of fedoraproject.org right now are the most important to the target audience?
- (suggested) What parts of infrastructure is the target audience likely to use?
Fedora Help Forums
- mizmo, nirik
- nov 24 2009
- raw log available: Media:nirik-2009-11-24-19h53.log
Will fill out notes later.
Resources / Meta
- Note: The methodology followed here is outlined in Observing the User Experience by Mike Kuniavsky.
- Discussion: starting 19 Nov 2009 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-advisory-board/2009-November/msg00045.html
- 24 November: 3-hour kickoff in #fedora-design


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Don't be evilOctober 11th, 2014 by yksehtniycul at www.digitaldevildb.com
Don't be evil
Just tossing this meme out there.
Also, while I'm here, I want to toss this link too.
The database is a community effort. It needs help to survive and thrive!
Don't be evilOctober 11th, 2014 by yksehtniycul at www.digitaldevildb.com
Just tossing this meme out there.
Also, while I'm here, I want to toss this link too.
Fixed Archives (woops!)August 30th, 2011 by yksehtniycul at www.digitaldevildb.com
I discovered a bug today (while working on another website) that was preventing the page browsing links on pages like the Persona Category Archives page from doing their magic…
So like now you can navigate to listings beyond the first page. Don't believe me? Well go ahead and try it! You're welcome :p
More SMT merchandise coming this year!June 23rd, 2011 by Jessicat at www.digitaldevildb.com
Both FuRyu and MegaHouse are back again this year with new sets of Shin Megami Tensei and Persona merchandise!
FuRyu has its next figure candidates for set 2 of it's "Real Figure" [リアルフィギュア] series: Lucifer [ルシファー] and Kerberos/Cerberus [ケルベロス]. Lucifer is about 20cm [8"] tall, and Kerberos is 19cm [7.5"] long. Release date for these are July 25, 2011. They retail for 1,200 Yen each or 2,400 Yen for the full set.
Otacute is taking pre-orders for both: Lucifer | Kerberos
Hobby Link Japan has listings up but not taking pre-orders yet: Lucifer | Kerberos
amiami has their full set bundle pre-order sold out, but Kerberos alone is still available [no listing for Lucifer alone]
There are no official English news articles on this release, but more images and information in Japanese are here:
Game Characters Collection Mini Part II continues the figure series by MegaHouse, featuring these Persona 3 & Persona 4 characters: P3P female protagonist, Aegis (kimono), Mitsuru Kirijo, Akihiko Sanada, Yosuke Hanamura, Kuma/Teddy, Chie Satonaka, Nanako Doujima and one secret character. In the same style as the first series, these are small figures measuring 3cm [1.25"] tall. Release date is late May 2011. Retail price is 4,560 Yen for a random box of 12 figures.
Boxes are available for pre-order from:
June, 2011June 9th, 2011 by yksehtniycul at www.digitaldevildb.com
Hello anyone reading this site / still checking in now and then to see if anything has changed.
As far as I am aware, there is nothing newsworthy happening Megaten wise these
Any past users are welcome to login via the front page and write new posts and articles for the site whenever they please. I don't know if I personally will see the new activity immediately so that the new content can be published, but there is no rush… and maybe I can setup some kind of notification system for myself if I try (who knows)
I'm leaving forum registration off for the foreseeable future… at least until (heaven forbid) things might start looking up for Megaten / this website.
Registration is also disabled for the front page. If you'd like to contribute posts/articles you can post a comment to this news post which will allow us to see your email address in order to register/contact you.
I don't personally follow any Megaten fan sites myself. I'd be curious to know if there are any new ones or old ones with a presently very active community (excluding Gamefaqs)
Sitewide comments RSS fixed,August 31st, 2010 by yksehtniycul at www.digitaldevildb.com
I noticed today the aggregated comments RSS pages were not working the way they are supposed to. It's unclear why this is, but in the meantime I was able to patch things up so the URLs quietly redirect to the HTML document which is supposed to get loaded up by Wordpress, and it just seems to work.
Still on the Fence? Then Check This OutJuly 22nd, 2010 by wolfzau at www.digitaldevildb.com
For those of you who are still trying to justify buying yet another version of Persona 3, this time for the PSP, head on over to giantbomb.com where they are currently showcasing a 30 minute, in depth video of the game.
For those of you not in the know, P3P is a port/update of the highly acclaimed rpg Persona 3 which was originally released on the PS2. This updated version includes a new choice of protaganist, updated social links, new musical score, new endings and the ability to control all four party members in combat.
The one omission is The Answer, an epilogue game that was included on Persona 3: FES, released in 2007, also for the PS2.
If you are curious about this new reincarnation of Persona 3, then you can see the video here: link
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Mumbai, Aug 20:
Popular rapper Yo Yo Honey Singh, who will soon be seen in a new singing reality TV show "India's Raw Star", fell down and hurt himself while shooting for its first episode, said a source.
"When Honey Singh was shooting for the last bit of the first episode, an unforeseen incident happened with him. He slipped and fell down," said a source close to the show's production house.
"He faced minor bruises but his spirit was undeterred. He immediately got up and to everyone's surprise, created no fuss and agreed to re-shoot," the source added.
On "India's Raw Star", Honey Singh will be seen as a friend, mentor and guide to the contestants.
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Immediately after I activated a Subscription for daydream I became unable to access the drowtales Main site and the daydream site, only the forum is fine.
Every time I try go to the Drowtales website, it times out. (Using Firefox) I can only assume it hangs up on the autologin?
I am still fine with accessing the site via Google Chrome but its annoying as I usually exclusively use the Firefox browser. Is there some special sort of cooke I have to delete to clear this up (emptying the caches didnt do anything).


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By intertwining advanced technology into M.T.H. models, consumers can now own the most realistic operating locomotives available today in every level of the M.T.H. product line. Patented M.T.H. features like our locomotive speed control system, locomotive remote uncoupling system, synchronized puffing smoke & the excitement of Proto-Sound 2.0 & DCS are unparalled by others in the industry. Although innovative, every M.T.H. product is easy to use, easy to setup & fun to operate. More importantly, all conventional features found in M.T.H. products can be accessed with a simple transformer equipped with only a bell & a whistle button.
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