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Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2000 10:00 am
Post subject: Robbed of an Oscar!!
How stupid are those Oscar people?
Mark Wahlberg so deserved an Oscar nom for Best Actor!! Who was nominated that year...Jack Nicholson (As Good As It Gets), Matt Damon (Good Will Hunting), Robert DuVall (The Apostle), Peter Fonda (Ulee's Gold) and Dustin Hoffman (Wag The Dog).
Out of those 5, only Nicholson and Damon were deserving. The other 3 old fogies were utter ****.
Wahlberg displayed a great talent in Boogie Nights by illustrating the differnt layers there are in adopting another persona. He brilliantly mocked the soap opera style acting of porn flicks and you could tell how much he (not to mention the rest of the cast) was enjoying himself!
The Academy voters take everything so seriously! Sure they honoured Burt Reynolds and Julianne Moore with supporting nods, but what's an ensemble film without its central protagonist??!!!
Next time dear Academy, think before you snub my darling Mark. Not only does he have the perfect body, mind, heart and soul... he is one **** of an actor and you better recognize!!!
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Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2000 5:45 am
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I agree Mark is one of the most gifted actors I know. His performance on Boogies Nights definately deserved as nomination. Actually believe his Three Kings performance deserved one as well.
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No matter what, Mark deserves an oscar for all those incredible movies that wouldn't have been better without him!
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I just watched Boogie Nights recently and I too am really surprised there was no nomination. I am truly able to put aside my bias (that he is hot!), because although his face was cute and I still wanted to rape him, he was NOT at his hottest in this film (ugh, the hair, the clothes!). And so a real acting range shone through...I was amazed! It was a long film to carry and he did great. He really put himself on the line, did some things that other actors would not do (simulating masturbation not once but several times is only on example). Really impressive and yes, robbed of at least a nomination, probably just because he used to be Marky Mark.
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Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2001 6:37 pm
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Yeah I also believe he didn't get one because he still was thought of as his "Marky Mark" persona. I don't think conservative Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences took seriously a guy who made some disparaging remarks regarding gays and made a name for himself grabbing his crotch. Personally, I think he should have at least received a nomination. Mark is a terrific actor who can speak a thousand words with just one facial expression.
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Yeah...his performance was...I think the perfect word is "brave." Julianne Moore's too...she shoulda won.
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Couldn't agree more............ROBBED! Its such a great film, but it is also incredibly controversial, so that is why he didn't win!
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Monday, October 26, 2009
More Than One Kind of Tree p2
There are druids out there to fit all over this graph. I'd place myself, as a 10-man raider in a "hardcore" 10-strict guild, pretty close to the middle, going up a little ways on the y axis towards PvE.
Pure 25-man raid healers who barely touch a tank, or at least no more than they do any other member of the raid, would be far on the Raid-Healer end of the spectrum. Speccing and playing in arenas or battlegrounds compared to pve content would budge a person up or down the scale on pve/pvp: degree would vary depending on proportionate amounts of time spent in each venue and how much they spec for it. A pure tank healer would be one who focuses on tank healing, be it by nourish or HT. In terms of pvp, the tanks may be yourself and an arena partner.
I'm going to tentatively say that the interest in crit rating would increase going from left to right on the raid/tank spectrum, with crit becoming more important the more a druid needs to heal tanks. At the same time, there is increased interest in nourish and regrowth: but that may be more limited to the PvE half of the spectrum, rather than PvP. Towards the far left, there is increased reliance on rejuv and wild growth (in 3.2) over any other spells.
As for haste, I think the interest is pretty unanimous across the board, with all kinds of healers finding usefulness in lowering their GCD and cast times.
Some of the most densely-populated areas of the graph would be, I think, the middle area (generically 10's, 5's, and leveling druids), and the upper left (pve raid healers). I've been out of the arena loop, so I'm unsure where most pvp druids would congregate on the graph in terms of tank/raid heals, but even they may vary depending on whether they heavily battleground vs arena, and possibly even in whether they are in 2's vs 5's.
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- lissanna said...
You could represent raid vs. tank instead simply as # of people focused on (where "tank" would be 1 person focused on, 2v2 arena focuses on 2 people, and 25-man raid healers would be focusing on up to 25 people). It's a better representation for both PvP and PvE healing, I think.
- October 26, 2009 at 6:28 PM
- Imabirdjk said...
This is Imabirdjk of P A R A M O U N T from Korialstrasz and a few times I've experimented fairly successfully with a 'Dreamstate' build and i find it fairly effective for tank healing since our guild has an abundance of trees that think casting a spare nourish on the tank as taboo.
- October 26, 2009 at 10:15 PM
- Kae said...
That's pretty impressive, as dreamstate would disallow you reaching WG in the talents. I couldn't pull that off in my 10's! Would certainly make for a pure tank-healer... though there'd be no living seed, either. I suppose it is a trade off: small extra heals off of crits, or staying-power with the regen of dreamstate.
I would have done so, but I wanted to eventually add differences in spell selection and stat choices to the plot, too. I think there are some differences in spell-use between pvp and pve... and those sorts of differences could be displayed on a more map-like graph that splits pve and pvp. I would like to add the "favorite" spells to different sections of the graph, but to do so, I want to research pvp healing... something I've not seriously looked at since my marshal-group days in vanilla!!
I'd go research it now, but ten zillion other projects are clamoring for my attention (and that "work" thing too, which pays for my wowaddiction) :) any pvp/arena healers out there that can explain some on their spell selection choices, and how they may change going from healing lots of people down to healing just you and another in a 2v2?
- October 28, 2009 at 9:27 AM
Yeah with my dreamstate build, I went for living seed and a rough 57% nourish crit, over traditional trees making the living seed very effective.
- October 29, 2009 at 10:56 PM


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You can set up an HTTP proxy server for splunkd so that all HTTP/S traffic originating from splunkd flows through the proxy server.
To set up a proxy server for splunkd, you can either configure Splunk's proxy variables in
server.conf or configure the REST endpoints.
This process configures Splunk to Splunk communication through a Proxy. The settings documented here do not support interactions outside of Splunk, for example:
- Access to Splunkbase via Splunk Web
- Splunk external lookups
- Actions that make a REST API call to an external service outside of a firewall
server.conf to configure splunkd to work with your server proxy
[proxyConfig] http_proxy = <string that identifies the server proxy. When set, splunkd sends all HTTP requests through this proxy server. The default value is unset.> https_proxy = <string that identifies the server proxy. When set, splunkd sends all HTTPS requests through the proxy server defined here. If not set, splunkd uses the proxy defined in http_proxy. The default value is unset.> no_proxy = <string that identifies the no proxy rules. When set, splunkd uses the [no_proxy] rules to decide whether the proxy server needs to be bypassed for matching hosts and IP Addresses. Requests going to localhost/loopback address are not proxied. Default is "localhost, 127.0.0.1, ::1">
Use REST endpoints to configure splunkd to work with your server proxy
You can also configure splunkd to work with your HTTP proxy server by modifying the
/services/server/httpsettings/proxysettings REST endpoint. To set variables using a REST endpoint, you must have the
edit_server capability.
Create the
[proxyConfig] stanza:
curl -k /services/server/httpsettings/proxysettings --data name="proxyConfig"
Write to the stanza:
curl -k /services/server/httpsettings/proxysettings/proxyConfig --data "http_proxy=....&https_proxy=...&no_proxy=...."
Read from stanza:
curl -k /services/server/httpsettings/proxysettings/proxyConfig
Delete the stanza:
curl -k -X DELETE /services/server/httpsettings/proxysettings/proxyConfig
For more details and example requests and responses, see server/httpsettings/proxysettings and server/httpsettings/proxysettings/proxyConfig in the REST API Reference.
Configure clusters to work with a proxy
To use the proxy server for communication in an indexer cluster or search head cluster, update the following additional settings in
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[shclustering] register_replication_address = <IP address, or fully qualified machine/domain name. This is the address on which a member will be available for accepting replication data. This is useful in the cases where a member host machine has multiple interfaces and only one of them can be reached by another splunkd instance.>
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Best practices when configuring an HTTP Proxy Server for splunkd
This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk® Enterprise: 6.6.0, 6.6.1, 6.6.2, 6.6.3, 6.6.4, 6.6.5, 6.6.6, 6.6.7, 6.6.8, 6.6.9, 6.6.10, 6.6.11, 6.6.12, 7.0.0, 7.0.1, 7.0.2, 7.0.3, 7.0.4, 7.0.5, 7.0.6, 7.0.7, 7.0.8, 7.0.9, 7.0.10, 7.0.11, 7.0.13, 7.1.0, 7.1.1, 7.1.2, 7.1.3, 7.1.4, 7.1.5, 7.1.6, 7.1.7, 7.1.8, 7.1.9, 7.1.10, 7.2.0, 7.2.1, 7.2.2, 7.2.3, 7.2.4, 7.2.5, 7.2.6, 7.2.7, 7.2.8, 7.2.9, 7.3.0, 7.3.1, 7.3.2, 7.3.3, 7.3.4, 8.0.0, 8.0.1, 8.0.2
This worked for me... I appended the following to /opt/splunk/etc/system/local/server.conf, where proxy-server is the hostname and domain is the domain-name for the proxy server. My server listens on port 8080, your's may be different. Also, you can use an IP Address instead of a FQDN.
http_proxy = http://proxy-server.domain:8080
https_proxy = http://proxy-server.domain:8080
no_proxy = localhost,127.0.0.1
Could you please clarify proxy configuration for a search head cluster? Current documentation seems to imply that `register_replication_address` somehow enables proxy use for cluster communications and if it is not specified cluster comms are not proxied.
I had http_proxy configured on my servers and `splunk bootstrap shcluster-captain` was failing with `socket_error=Resource temporarily unavailable`. It started working when I added local domain to `no_proxy`. This seems to indicate that setting `http_proxy` is enough to enable proxying for cluster communications.
Hi Tpeveler and Ccrayto,
Thanks for pointing this out. I've added a note about the proxy limitations to this topic as well as a few related topics. I will continue to update information as we find it.
Please update this documentation page so that it specifically points out that this configuration for enabling Splunk to Splunk communication through a Proxy. The settings documented here do not work for accessing Splunkbase via the UI nor do they work when you have a Splunk external lookup or Splunk custom alert action that is makes a REST Api Call to an external service outside of a firewall.
I have been unable to get this working for checking apps in the UI. I set up the proxy variables in server.conf, but still get errors when the Splunk UI needs to go through authenticated proxy. As most companies who care about security use authenticated proxies, it should not require Google searches and calls to support to figure out how to configure them.


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Steger was thrust into the national spotlight April 16, 2007, when a student killed 32 students on the Tech campus in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. Gunman Seung-Hui Cho killed himself after the rampage.
During his tenure, Tech increased its enrollment, saw its research portfolio grow by more than 300 percent, and established a school of biomedical engineering and created a school of medicine.
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Steger defended his actions, as he had in court when the parents of two slain students sought a negligent finding against the state. They were successful, but the Supreme Court of Virginia tossed out jury's verdict.
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Government IT managers share how they overcame failure and propelled themselves to eventual success
"Failure is not an option," the Gene Kranz character tells a roomful of NASA engineers who are trying to come up with solutions to save the crippled space capsule in the movie "Apollo 13." It's a thrilling, heroic moment in a film full of them.
If only all government technology programs and projects worked that way.
The truth is that many government IT projects don't succeed, at least not in the way that people initially envisioned they would. And there are often many small failures along the way, even if the eventual implementation is successful.
It's much the same for the people who are in charge of government IT. It's rare to find any executive in a government agency who does not have at least one example of a way that a project can fail.
As the following stories show, failure in government IT is definitely an option; it's almost a requirement. The people spotlighted here are among the best government IT practitioners, and yet it seems they almost had to fail at some point to learn the lessons that propelled them to their eventual successes.
Lesson 1: It's not about you; it's about the customer
Kevin Carroll finished his government career in 2007 as the Army's program executive officer at the Program Executive Office for Enterprise Information Systems (PEO-EIS). But it was years earlier, as a young contracting officer, that Carroll learned the lessons that helped carry him to one of the military's top IT management jobs.
As Carroll described it, he knew the rules of contracting and was technically competent, but he was also self-centered, controlling and leery of trusting anyone else's judgment. Carroll expected things to go exactly the way he thought they should go and considered himself the sole guardian of the taxpayers' trust.
"I thought industry was only out for profit and that my government customers only wanted to get promoted," he said. "I didn't trust anybody but myself."
The result was a tendency to restrict communications with both parties, something that came back to bite him in a big way during the Army's first big PC procurement. Carroll ended up with customers who were unhappy with what the contract offered and vendors who thought they hadn't been listened to. The procurement was eventually protested.
With the help of a mentor, he came to realize the need to be more open to input from all sides and more trusting that others also had the government's and taxpayers' interests in mind. He internalized those lessons over time, all the way to the program executive officer position.
"It gave me an ability to make sure customers were involved with program managers and to take industry input and utilize that for the betterment of government," he said. "That really became a part of my personality."
As president of his own consulting company, the Kevin Carroll Group, Carroll said he sees the same thing happening today. There are a lot of young and inexperienced people in government doing what he did, he said, "and, quite frankly, a lack of the mentorship that I had."
NEXT--Rethink your management style
Lesson 2: Get out of the way
Linda Cureton, NASA's CIO, considered herself a good manager during a 16-year stint at a previous government organization. But after she left and looked back, she decided she had not been all that she could have been.
Everything at that organization reverted to the way it had been before she got there, "so while I did a good job of managing, I didn't really bring people to the point where they could take over and keep the work going," she said. "I didn't do any of that stuff."
Taking that lesson to her next job, the first executive-level position she held in government, Cureton changed her style of managing. It's now been 10 years since she left, "and I can still see the things I put in place there are still in place, so I feel that I made a real impact with that."
That first, big mistake was in succumbing to the allure of strength. If you're a good manager and, in particular, have strong technical skills, it's easy to get sucked into a situation of solving all the problems yourself. As Cureton put it, it's "very seductive to micromanage when you're a good manager, and you get very comfortable with that."
"I knew the answers to problems, and I could help people with them when they came to me for help," she said. "But I never would put people in the position where they could help themselves and learn."
However, as a leader rather than as just a manager, you need to get out of that comfort zone to build the organization. Now, Cureton said, she makes it a point to breed leaders. But she's the first to admit it's tough.
"It takes a lot of humility to get yourself and your ego out of the way," she said.
NEXT--Nurture your learning tree
Lesson 3: Never stop studying
Being an IT professional requires constant study to keep up with the technical demands of your profession, something even those in leadership positions need to admit. Falling behind on that aspect of the job invites trouble.
Steve Boutelle found that out the hard way. He is now CEO of Cisco IRIS and vice president of Cisco Systems' Global Government Solutions Group. In 1997, the retired lieutenant general and former Army CIO was a colonel in charge of Task Force 21, the Army's first digitization initiative. For him, that meant more of the databases and Unix systems he was familiar with.
However, the world of Web services was starting to leave that environment behind. Despite the suggestions of some of his people to look in that direction, Boutelle drove the Army down the familiar path. But for one particularly persistent lieutenant colonel who pushed Boutelle hard on the issue, it could have been a much worse scenario than the year or so the Army spent in that outdated environment.
It was, Boutelle said, "like a lightbulb going on" when he finally realized his mistake through reading the periodical and technical journals and on one of his regular trips to Silicon Valley and Microsoft in Redmond, Wash.
That taught him the value of study as an IT professional and the need for leaders in that profession to be able to admit mistakes and change direction.
"It's not a job or an occupation," he said. "It's a profession, and there's a big difference between them."
Boutelle said he sees some disturbing signs that the lesson he learned might still be needed in government today, particularly when it comes to virtualization and cloud computing. That's a huge inflection point in industry today, and he said he feels it should be one in government, too. But the Defense Department and others are reluctant to commit.
To meet evolving demands, IT professionals need continual learning and studying, he said, "and I find that lacking."
NEXT--The primacy of people
Lesson 4: Put people first
When he was in government, Ira Hobbs was known for his ability to build teams and bring all types of people into the mix on the programs he ran as an IT manager and as CIO of the Treasury Department. As principal officer at his own consulting firm of Hobbs and Hobbs, the primacy of people is something he continues to advocate.
That person wasn't easy to see in his early days in government. By his own admission, he was a bright-eyed, bushy-tailed intern straight out of graduate school who had come to fix the government.
"I was very aggressive, very straightforward and, I thought, very businesslike," he said. "But in being that, I was very forgetful of the small things. I had a future, and I was going somewhere, but I was stalling all of the possibilities by putting the focus on me and what I was doing."
The turnaround came not through any great epiphany but from the intervention of his mentor's assistant. Perhaps seeing more in Hobbs than he saw in himself at the time, she took him aside and stressed the importance of people in the organization and the value of the roles they play. Hobbs said that one event stuck with him throughout his government career.
"That's why, in most organizations, the most important people that I got to know first were those who worked in the mail room because if they don't do their job, then, for the most part, senior management can't do theirs," he said.
Hobbs made the importance of valuing everyone in the organization a part of his professional and personal brand, he said, "because the moment you start to forget about the people who make up the organization, you start to forget about the organization itself."
NEXT--The importance of clear lines of authority
Lesson 5: Governance is crucial
In his new post as deputy mayor for operations in New York City, Stephen Goldsmith said he hopes the lessons he learned implementing IT projects as mayor of Indianapolis translate to the kind of complicated, cross-agency programs he will be in charge of in the Big Apple.
For example, in New York, he has responsibility for a complicated 911 emergency dispatch modernization that involves strong professional organizations, such as the fire and police departments, and many demands from residents.
In this case, there's an overarching technology solution and a need to referee the differing opinions of strong-minded professionals to generate an effective plan.
As the two-term mayor of Indianapolis in the 1990s, Goldsmith faced a similar situation when implementing a new, integrated criminal justice system.
"It took me a half-dozen years to create that system in Indianapolis," he said, "and when we turned it on, it was the best, most efficient example of a mainframe system on the day that mainframe systems became obsolete."
It took that long to implement because there were no clear lines of authority, he said. The cross-agency governance process didn't clarify who could make the final decisions.
It was a gradual process. Deliverables started to slip, and each time they did, people had a good excuse. Unresolved issues started to pile up. Eventually, the light bulb went on about the need to change the governance and decision-making process, Goldsmith said.
"That, we discovered, requires the senior leadership to have the person-in-charge under the mayor and deputy mayor to have a combination of true leadership ability, subject-matter knowledge, and to be technically fluent," he said.
The lesson learned, time and again, is that problems in implementation are never about the technology; they're about people.
"Almost every failure I've had has been a failure of governance," Goldsmith said.
NEXT--Time is of the essence
Lesson 6: Time is money
Karen Evans, who finished her long government career in 2009 as the Office of Management and Budget's administrator for e-government and IT, learned a couple of lessons the hard way: Government waits for no one, and good enough is often OK.
The first step in Evans' education came at a major department early in her career. Applications were not working properly, and code had to be corrected. As the person in charge, she focused on fixing the code and didn't keep an eye on other things, she said. In the meantime, pressure was building, and services were affected.
"The usual way to handle that kind of problem was to take time to analyze the code and figure out what was wrong with it," she said. "But in the age of 24/7, you can't just take your stuff off-line while figuring it out. I almost got fired for that."
Later, and particularly as technology got cheaper, Evans found ways of getting around those kinds of problems, such as using hardware to help resolve software issues. The code still had to be fixed, but technology gave her the leeway to make those fixes while maintaining performance.
An extension of that lesson is the realization that it's often counterproductive to try to be perfect and fix everything, she said. Another agency that Evans worked for didn't want to implement an inventory control system because it didn't have a module to deal with classified material, even though that only accounted for 5 percent of the total inventory flow.
"I do see that in government even now," she said. "They want a 100 percent solution when they could have something that can provide 80 percent, giving them time to work on getting the other 20 percent."
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While the focus is on IT, the general lessons learned are applicable across a lot of domains. I have seen every single one of these lessons play out during my military and industry career. Unfortunately these lessons are not new and will continue to be relearned the hard way.
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Gag. Retch. Sorry, I am skeptical. If so many government managers finally figured it out why is the fed such a mess still? These stories read why those who climb to the top of the bureacracy through effective bureacrating have something to say at their promotion luncheon. As for the "mentors," I see that as sucking up to the people who promoted these folks. Frankly, I have never seen true mentoring that worked. What I have seen that is described as "mentoring" is really just bureaucratic alliance and a suck-up relationship dressed up as something else.
GREAT article. Over 30 years of IT all too often I've been involved in projects where it seems they followed the 'Project Don'ts' list. Chief among them is remembering Lesson 1 "It's about the customer". LEsson 2: Managers should trust their people and "get out the way" and LEsson 4: the primacy of people. Many project mangers pay lip service to getting stake holders involved. They then develop a long term project in a vacuum until the end product is ready for presentation. More often than not, the result is disappointed end users and IT staff defending a project with 'this is what you asked for'. Lesson 3 is in my opnion the primary cause for concern among any Fed, state or Local agency with an IT department. While it is essential in IT, Civil Service rules of basing advancement on seniority is not an environment conducive to encouraging staff to keep their skills current. Rather, I've seen IT staff with 10-20 year old skills with no motivation to change. The few that make the effort are frustrated by the lack of reward for their effort besides personal gratification. You have to be self motivated to work toward a certification that may never translate to change in opportunities or compensation. NYS unions argue that 1,000 of workers could take IT consultant jobs if trained. The truth is probably closer to 100's that are willing to get training and do a challenging job. The rest are content to sit and wait for retirement. With the Governor pushing layoffs and early retirement incentives, they may get their wish.
At Micro Focus, we absolutely agree with the message in this article, and it's very timely since today marks an important milestone for government IT, as the deadline for OMB-listed agencies to submit plans to improve their underperforming projects has now passed. We commend the agencies that have had to take a hard, honest look at their OMB-listed projects over the past 30 days to come up with creative and thoughtful solutions. This OMB-led initiative has proven to be very constructive in sparking a dialogue about government's approach to modernizing its legacy systems. In the past, these projects have been large in scope and have typically involved rewriting or replacing a significant amount of IT assets. What's clear is that, in learning from previous challenges, a new philosophy is taking shape. In recent news, the Administration has repeatedly voiced its support for tackling modernization incrementally, with a focus on yielding smaller, modular solutions. In addition to breaking these large projects into more manageable incremental projects, agencies are learning that they can also leverage less invasive approaches such as application modernization to repurpose their viable systems without having to rewrite or replace any code or valuable business logic. Combined, this approach will significantly reduce the costs and risks of modernizing government IT. Looking forward, we hope to see OMB's list eventually serve as a proving ground for best practices in getting IT modernization back on track, providing a valuable playbook for the government IT community to learn from.Ken Powell, President of North America, Micro Focus
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VMLogix has released a new version of VMLogix LabManager, a tool that lets development, test, and support teams build, snapshot, share, and deploy production-like environments on-demand across virtualization platforms.
The newly released Version 3.8 adds support for network policy configurations and deployment within IP zones across multiple virtual hosts. This release also adds support for VMware vSphere 4 virtualization infrastructure and integration with VMware vCenter Server, formally VMware VirtualCenter, as well as extended support for Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2.
New features of VMLogix LabManager 3.8 include:
- Support for VMware vCenter Server 4.0 and VMware vSphere: integrating with VMware vCenter Server 4.0, LabManager supports a lab with VMware vSphere or VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 hypervisors on the virtual hosts. The support for vCenter Server in LabManager allows administrators to benefit from platform management capabilities such as vMotion, DRS, HA and resource pools.
- Updated support for Microsoft Hyper-V (Windows Server 2008 R2): extending platform support functionality, taking advantage of Hyper-V R2's new shared cluster capability.
- Network policies in configurations: allowing users to set custom firewall rules on the soft router in a configuration that allows virtual machines from within a LabManager configuration to connect to external IP addresses, outbound and inbound.
- IP zones across multiple hosts: enabling IP-zoned LabManager configurations to be deployed across multiple virtual hosts.
VMLogix provides virtual machine management tools designed that let software companies and IT organizations use virtualization platforms for consolidating test lab infrastructures, automating the software build and test process, and for managing the staging and delivery of applications into production.


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Call centre manager in the frame over ID scam
Alleged two-year dodginess using British identities
An Indian call centre manager is under investigation over allegations he used the identities of Brits to run an insurance fraud scam.
Edward Burn, 30, has reportedly confessed to using the details of 12 people to make fictitious insurance claims valued at £56,900 through insurance firm Aviva, whose brands include Norwich Union.
Burn, who's worked for EXL Service in Delhi since March 2004, is reckoned to have run the scam for at least the last two years. He allegedly used accomplices based in the UK to cash-out bogus claims. EXL Service clients include Aviva.
Police are going through records in order to identify the full scope of the fraud. UK-based detectives have reportedly questioned three London residents suspected of involvement in the scam.
A spokeswoman for Aviva told the London Evening Standard that policyholders' money was never at risk from the scam. ®
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Published by teNeues, this book showcases tribal cultures around the world. Jimmy Nelson not only presents us with stunning images of customs and artifacts, but also offers insightful portraits of people who are the guardians of a culture that they-and we-hope will be passed on to future generations in all its glory.
This historic volume is a must-have for any lover of documentary photography.
Before They Pass Away
by Jimmy Nelson
by Jimmy Nelson
Huli Wigmen
Indonesia + Papua New Guinea
Copyright © Jimmy Nelson
© Jimmy Nelson
Kui East Wigmen
Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea
© Jimmy Nelson
© Jimmy Nelson
Samburu Tribesmen
Kenya + Tanzania
© Jimmy Nelson
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Once again I have a soundless video, however I did manage to fix the lag. Don't worry, audio filled videos will be coming very very soon. This entire outfit was sent to me by my amazing fans off my amazon wishlist, you all are too kind. ANYWAY, back to the good stuff. I've just been so horny lately and I wanted to make sure I update my site more often so why not do it as much as possible? enjoy this steamy jerk off session with some extra strip tease action. Another huge load on the newly crowned Cum Towel.
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Preciosa platja de Au Leuk a la banda est de la illa de Koh Tao a Tailàndia, paradís per fer snorkel (coralls, peixos, anèmones,...).
Wikipedia:Ko Tao (also often Koh Tao, Thai: เกาะเต่า, Thai pronunciation: [kɔ̀ʔ tàw], lit. "Turtle Island") is an island in Thailand located near the western shore of the Gulf of Thailand. It covers an area of about 21 km². Administratively it forms a tambon within the district (Amphoe) Ko Pha Ngan of Surat Thani Province. As at end 2006 its official population is 1382 [1]. The main settlement is Ban Mae Hat.The economy of the island is almost exclusively centered around tourism, especially scuba diving.Ko Tao was named by its first settlers for the island's turtle-like geographic shape.[citation needed] Coincidentally, the island is an important breeding ground for Hawksbill turtles and Green turtles. Development of tourism has negatively impacted the health of these grounds but a breeding program organised in 2004 by the Royal Thai Navy and KT-DOC, a coalition of local scuba diving centres has reintroduced hundreds of juvenile turtles to the island's ecosystem.


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Here it is: The first Windows Mobile 6 smart phone, and it comes from none other than HP. It's a good choice for mobile professionals who want to keep on top of their e-mail and occasionally work on documents while on the road. The HP iPaq 510 Voice Messenger is a departure from the company's other smart phones as it focuses more on voice features and fills a void in its mobile device lineup, falling somewhere between its workhorse Pocket PC phones and standalone PDAs. Comparable to the Cingular 2125 or the T-Mobile SDA, the iPaq 510 looks and feels like a cell phone with its compact design; consequently, the controls are a touch cramped. However, this design flaw is tempered slightly by the fact that the smart phone has outstanding voice-command capabilities and convenient shortcuts to frequently used programs.
Of course, the other big news here is the new operating system. The HP iPaq 510 runs Windows Mobile 6 Standard Edition (formerly known as Smartphone Edition), which brings the full Mobile Office Suite for working on the go as well as enhanced e-mail capabilities, Windows Vista synchronization, and more. Though we've only had a couple of days with our review unit, we've been impressed so far with the new capabilities and the iPaq 510's performance. We're still running it through our CNET Labs test, however, so we'll update the performance section as soon as we have results.
HP has not made any carrier announcements at the time of this writing, but as a quadband GSM phone, it'll either be Cingular or T-Mobile. In addition, the company said it will start selling unlocked versions of the HP iPaq 510 Voice Messenger some time in the spring, with prices starting around $299. Who knows how many other Windows Mobile 6 smart phones will have cropped up by then, and though we're not completely sold on the design, we think the HP iPaq 510 is off to a good start.
Out of all the company's smart phones, the HP iPaq 510 Voice Messenger most resembles a traditional cell phone. Unlike the HP iPaq hw6900 series, the candy bar phone iPaq 510 is compact and lightweight at 4.6×2.8×0.7 inches and 5.8 ounces, and the overall design reminded us a lot of the Sony Ericsson K790a. The iPaq 510 certainly doesn't earn many style points with its utilitarian design and basic color scheme of charcoal gray and black. That said, it's completely appropriate for its intended audience of mobile professionals. In general, the HP iPaq 510 has a solid construction and feels comfortable in the hand and when held up to the ear.
On front of the device, there is a 2-inch-diagonal TFT screen that displays 65,000 colors at a disappointing 176×220 pixel resolution. Though text and images were clear, the iPaq 510's screen simply didn't have the crispness and pop like the displays found on the Cingular 2125 or T-Mobile SDA. Also, we noticed it had a tendency to hold a lot of smudges and fingerprints. The good news is we could still read the screen contents even under harsh lighting.
We should note that the HP iPaq 510 runs Windows Mobile 6 Standard Edition, and like Windows Mobile 5 Smartphone Edition before it, this version of the OS doesn't support touch screens, so you'll have to navigate the phone through the controls below the display. At your disposal are the standard talk and end/power buttons, two soft keys, a home page shortcut, a back button, a four-way directional keypad with a center select button, and of course, the numeric keypad. Now, here's where the smart phone's compact size works against it. The layout of the controls and dial pad is cramped, so it'll take some finesse to press the right button. It was very reminiscent of our experience with the T-Mobile SDA, and even with our smaller hands, we still had problems hitting the right key or texting without errors, so we can only imagine it'll be more difficult for those with larger thumbs. The keys also are a bit stiff, but looking on the bright side, they are adequately backlit.
The phone's interface combines some of the old and some of the new. The Today screen keeps the layout of Windows Mobile 5 devices, but the icons and font have more of a Windows Vista look and feel about it; you'll also notice this in the Start menu. HP has done a really nice thing by adding a Shortcuts menu at the bottom of the Today screen, where you can easily launch frequently used applications or functions with a click of a button. This is a huge time-saver as one of the biggest complaints about the Windows Mobile operating system is the number of steps it takes just to complete one task.
Other controls and design features include a volume rocker, a microSD slot, and a 2.5mm headset jack on the left spine, a voice-command launch key on the right, and a mini USB port on the bottom edge. Also, on the back of the smart phone, you will find the speaker, camera lens, and self-portrait mirror.
HP packages the iPaq 510 Voice Messenger with a USB cable, an AC adapter, a wired stereo headset, reference material, and a companion CD. A belt holster would have been nice, but the handset is small enough to easily slip into a pants pocket. However, if you're throwing it into your bag or purse, you might want to think about investing in some kind of protective case.


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Darien Lakes State Park Wednesday All Skill Levels Group Ride
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- 10.09.2019 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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Our regular no one left behind Wednesday group ride.
Sadly had to scrub last weeks ride because of rain so lets give it another shot.
With sunset at 6:43 pm we will be riding after dark so charge up those lights.
This is an all levels no one left behind ride, all are welcome beginner to advance. Wanna try mountain biking this is the ride for you.
Meet at Sumner Rd parking lot parking.
All rides will be weather dependent.
Please use your judgement.
This is the weekly gathering for riders of all levels. Ride leaders can rotate, so get your friends riding!
Helmets are required . Also, please make sure your bike is in proper working condition. No one wants to spend riding time fixing our bikes.
If you need a list of great shops in WNY, there are many! Campus Wheel Works and Tom's Pro Bike both offer rental MTB and Fat bikes.
All should have a spare tube, multi-tool, chain link, and or CO2/pump in case of trail issue.
Also, please bring water and any snacks you may want on the trail.
Ride length and skill level will depend on riders present and groups that are formed.
Safety should be top priority for everyone.
Post ride: Most of the time we hang in the lot for a bit, than head over to a local establishment for a cool beverage and tasty food.
The more the merrier! Any questions please do not hesitate to post a question here or message the event organizers.


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Wells paces offense as Yanks top Jays in 11
Kuroda solid but takes no-decision after bullpen allows rally
TORONTO -- The Yankees withstood what manager Joe Girardi described as a hiccup in the eighth inning to win a game that should have never been as close as it was.
But a win is a win, and despite needing extra innings to finish the job, the Yankees have won five of six games and have a series sweep of Toronto on their minds.
Vernon Wells scored the go-ahead run as New York put a pair across the plate in the 11th inning on a throwing error by Blue Jays reliever Aaron Loup to drop Toronto, 5-3, in front of a sellout crowd of 46,095 at Rogers Centre on Saturday.
After Wells and Francisco Cervelli started off the frame with back-to-back singles, Ichiro Suzuki laid down a sacrifice bunt that Loup fielded before throwing it away when trying to get the lead runner at third. The ball sailed into left field, allowing the Yankees to break open the tie game and take a two-run lead.
"I was shocked," Wells said about Loup coming to third on the play. "You know what? You get in the moment and you make an aggressive play like that, and sometimes it works out. You look great when it works out, and bad when it doesn't."
This game didn't seem like it was going to be much of a contest, as New York was cruising all game and appeared on its way to an easy victory until starter Hiroki Kuroda exited the game.
Kuroda left with one on and one out in the eighth, up 3-0, for David Robertson, which is when Toronto climbed back into the game.
Robertson allowed a two-out RBI single to Rajai Davis -- a run that was charged to Kuroda -- before Melky Cabrera drove a 2-2 pitch up the middle to score two and tie things up at 3.
It was an uncharacteristic day for Robertson, who entered the contest without allowing a run over five appearances this season. Robertson's control is what did him in, he believes, as he issued his first two walks of the season and gave up the decisive hit when he was up, 0-2, in the count.
Girardi said Robertson has to make a better pitch there, and Robertson didn't disagree.
"Thank goodness we came back and won," Robertson said. "It was a bad outing but ... I can smile about it now, but I was pretty mad with myself earlier."
There was no such drama in the 11th, as closer Mariano Rivera came in and finished off the Blue Jays to record his fifth save of the season.
Kuroda, who deserved the win but settled for a no-decision, threw 7 1/3 innings of one-run ball, while surrendering three hits, walking one and striking out a season-high seven batters. The Japan native, coming off a shutout, continued a recent string of dominance with another superb outing. Colby Rasmus' run scored in the eighth snapped a string of 20 1/3 scoreless innings for Kuroda, dating back to his April 8 outing in Cleveland.
After allowing a first-inning double to Cabrera, Kuroda sat the next 10 consecutive batters down before issuing a fourth-inning walk. That didn't faze him, however, and after Cabrera's double, the Blue Jays didn't record another hit until the sixth inning.
Kuroda had swing-and-miss stuff all game, thanks in large part to a slider he attacked Toronto's right-handed bats with, Girardi said. He pounded the zone, throwing first-pitch strikes to 18 of the 25 batters he faced and generated 14 swinging strikes, his most this season.
The right-hander, who followed up a strong outing from Andy Pettitte on Friday with one of his own, has struck out 12 and walked just one over his last two starts.
"Our pitching, honestly, has been our backbone -- [our] starting pitching," said Wells, who had three of New York's 11 hits. "It's been fun to play behind those guys."
Kuroda wasn't slowing down even when he was pulled at 108 pitches, but Girardi said he has to be mindful of his age.
"We have to remember that he's not 25 either anymore," Girardi said about the 38-year-old.
Wells provided Kuroda with an early lead by hitting a solo homer, his fifth of the season, off Blue Jays starter Mark Buehrle in the second inning. Wells drilled a 3-2 offering from Buehrle off the foul pole in left field for his second homer in as many nights against his former team.
The left fielder has had great success against Buehrle during his career, batting .500 with two home runs over 46 at-bats.
"He's a guy who throws strikes, and I'm usually a guy who is swinging often, so I've gotten a few to fall in," Wells said. "We talk to each other back and forth. We are two old guys that have been around a long time and have had to face each other several times, so we have fun with it."
Kevin Youkilis, who left the game in the sixth inning with lower back tightness, added a two-run single in the fifth that put New York ahead, 3-0.
Youkilis, who struck out in his first two at-bats, was not going to be fooled by Buehrle again, as he hit a screamer at third baseman Brett Lawrie, who was unable to field the line drive cleanly and watched the ball head into left field.
"That's a break for us," Girardi said.
Buehrle lasted seven innings, allowing three runs on eight hits while striking out a season-high seven batters.
"It was unfortunate that we lost the game today, but overall, I felt great," Buehrle said.
New York, which improved to 9-0 when holding its opponent under four runs, will turn the ball over to Ivan Nova for the sweep attempt Sunday.


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Baby Builders is a new weekly building and playing program for ages 0-4 years. Play with Duplo blocks, socialize, and make new friends! This program will take place at the Main Library in the Community Room. For more information, call the Children's Room at 767-7660 x3.


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Aw, how can a kitty look so cute inside of a Halloween pumpkin? I have a huge fetish for animals and definitely seasons. Autumn is my favorite season out of the four. The colors, the crisp air, the windy breezes and rainy cool nights. It's one of the most relaxing seasons where everything is frozen in time. This kitty and pumpkin are best friends, they share the same expression, and they love trick or treating. The colors came out really nice since I've finally mastered the technique of having varied hues for the lines and the base coloring. This should be a real treat for all you Halloween lovers, especially ones as big as I. Take your time with the process of this tutorial, and start from the top to bottom. We don't want to flunk our proportions. If you want when you're finished, you could color your drawing any color you want. You can have a grey cat, or orange one, it's your choice! I hope ya'll enjoyed this lesson, I had so much fun creating it. Thanks for viewing and enjoy!
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Samaya's Eco-Flooring is a retailer and installer of top-quality hardwood floors, flooring products and accessories. We carry the highest quality and most affordable brands at the lowest prices. We are 'Build It Green' certified, and the majority of our products are made with non-formaldehyde adhesives and are certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)- supported by the Sierra Club, The Natural Resources Defense Council, Greenpeace, and the World Wildlife Fund.
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Each of the following surveys examines a different aspect of your personality. At the end of each one, you will get feedback about your performance along with information about the research behind it. Although many people report that they find the surveys or exercises valuable in revealing insights into their personality, you should approach any feedback you get as a form of entertainment rather than solid truth.
Background Information. Let's start here with a general check on your basic behaviors, values, and world views. There are about 50 questions that will take you about 3-4 minutes to complete. You will get some feedback about your general life, health, and prospects for the future.
Texas Archive Project. This new project explores how people deal with big secrets in their lives. We are seeking volunteers who will let us analyze some of their emails. We pay $100 for participating. To learn more, click on the link.
Personality: Describing yourself. This is a serious task that requires you to describe who you are in your own words for a full 15 minutes. Using a new state-of-the-art statistical method, the computer gives you feedback about the ways that you see yourself and the world around you. Although this takes a real 15-minute commitment, you won't be disappointed.
The LIFE Survey: What do your daily behaviors reveal about your personality? Check out this questionnaire to find out. The entire questionnaire takes about 8 minutes and provides feedback about your behavioral type.
Perceptual style: You are what you see . Look at an everyday object and write about it for only 5 minutes. See what it reveals about yourself.
The PILL questionnaire. This is a 54-item symptom questionnaire that measures the degree to which people are aware of their various physical sensations and bodily symptoms. Take the survey and see how you compare with others. It should take about 3 minutes.
A projective test: The TAT. This is a classic test where you will first see a picture or drawing. You will then have 10 minutes to write story that describes what is happening to the people in the picture. After writing, you will get feedback about aspects of your personality. A classic.
Language and Perception: Thinking about Colors. Does naming the colors help? Check out a brief demonstration of the Whorff Hypothesis.
The Big Five questionnaire. Perhaps the most popular way of thinking about traits comes from researchers who argue that there are five central traits of personality. Fill out this 41-item version to see where you stand.
The Buddha Survey: Are you enlightened? Check out this 12-item questionnaire with immediate feedback. Ommmmmmmmmmmmm.... (translation: you get no money for this one; just self-knowledge).
Spirituality, Belief, and Religion survey. This questionnaire asks you about your spiritual and religious beliefs. You will learn where you stand compared to others on spirituality and belief certainty.
Depression: the CES-D questionnaire. Try out this brief 10-item screening questionnaire that is used around the world to detect depression.
The Mind Survey. This project comes from the Mental Control Laboratory at Harvard University. Explore how you rate different pictures and objects. The purpose of this survey is to measure how people perceive the minds and mental abilities of human and non-human agents.
Oh, and lest we forget: All your responses are anonymous and confidential. If you are under the age of 18, you must get the permission of a parent or legal guardian to complete the questionnaire. If you find any question to be objectionable, do not answer it. If you feel that you have reached this webpage by mistake, you have the right to turn off your computer and take a very deep breath. If you do not want to learn anything about yourself, do not complete any of the questionnaires. If you enjoy reading the fine print of consent forms, there are a number of high paying and important career paths available for you. Indeed, if you are such a person, you are encouraged to read and reread this consent form over and over again. If you have no questions and believe that your actions are guided by your own free will (which may, in fact, be an illusion), please continue.
Want to know more about this research? Contact James W. Pennebaker, Professor of Psychology, at the University of Texas at Austin.


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Recently, I did something that I hadn't thought possible a couple years ago; something I once worked hard for but failed to accomplish; something the medical establishment, the media, and even the US government had been coercing me to do: I lost 20 pounds. And I didn't even have to go to the gym!
Don't worry, faithful readers; I haven't hijacked Shapely Prose to turn it into Diet Central. You see, this year, for the first time in my life, I didn't want to lose weight. Thanks to Kate and The Rotund and the fabulous fatshionistas, I felt happy with my body and finally felt like my chub was not "extra" but part of who I actually am. I saw my body as one point in a range of possible human shapes and sizes instead of a deviation from a tiny norm. I stopped my negative self-talk, stopped trying to squeeze into the clothing size I used to wear, and stopped the mental calculus I used to apply to every woman I passed on the street: Is she thinner than me? Am I as fat as her? I even engaged in modest proselytizing with female friends, encouraging them to read up on fat acceptance and to recognize how fatphobia is connected to sexism.
So after all that, how did I do it? Why did I lose 20 pounds? Simple: I got sick and I didn't get better. I don't recommend this approach. I'm in a very fortunate place in my life as far as illnesses go; I have health insurance, and I'm in grad school and it's summer, so I've had a lot of time to rest, nag doctors, and attempt to get my body back under control. As far as getting ill in the US goes, I'm extraordinarily lucky, and I'm grateful for it. [Edited to note: I'm also lucky because it seems to be the onset of a chronic but manageable condition, not an acute or life-threatening one. Don't worry!]
Some people, though, think I'm lucky for another reason, which I bet you've already guessed. We've talked a lot at Shapely Prose about fat and health and the faulty logic behind the thin = healthy and fat = unhealthy equations. Kate recently pointed us to an article in the Chicago Tribune by someone who found herself in the "coveted" 0 size range due to serious illness; the article discussed the anger she felt at people's ignoring her poor health in order to praise her emaciated frame. It cannot be said enough: thin is not necessarily healthy, and fat is not necessarily unhealthy. We can carry this oh-so-controversial logic a bit further to arrive at a corollary: weight loss is not always voluntary, and it's not always welcomed by the shrinking person. If you notice that an acquaintance has lost a good deal of weight and you feel compelled to comment on it* (whether to praise her smaller waist or to rebuke her for selling out), ask her how she's feeling instead. You'll be a better friend, and you'll be combatting kneejerk fatphobia to boot.**
The last time I lost a significant amount of weight (over 50 pounds, about 7 years ago), though it was (mostly) intentional, the experience was so disconcerting that it taught me a lot about the public scrutiny of female bodies and thus about feminism. I was in college at the time, living on campus, and though I had often felt quasi-invisible as a fat person, I became super-visible as a person who was losing weight. People came up to me all the time to ask me for my "secret" — without giving any context, as if I would just automatically know that they meant the secret about my weight. What's more, any action I was taking must be secret, because we were all supposed to pretend we hadn't noticed that I was fat in the first place! The way I saw it at the time, these people were confirming all my worst fears about my body: they saw me only in terms of my fat, and they assumed that in any conversation with me, fat was a primary subtext. (Now I have a more generous interpretation: they were not thinking about me but about themselves; they weren't thinking about how fat I was but about how I could help them escape their fears of being or becoming fat.)
I got used to it soon enough, but it pissed me off. So I'd play dumb:
Random library staffer: Wow! Look at you! How'd you do it?
Sweet Machine: Uh, well, I went up to the computer lab and printed out the call numbers, and then I went into the stacks…
RLS: No, I mean how did you lose all that weight? You're so skinny!
SM: Oh. I don't know. I guess I started eating more salads.
This conversation happened so many times: with college staff who knew me only by sight, with classmates I saw every day, with good friends, with not so good friends, with friends' families, with my own family. I must admit, I took pleasure in disappointing people who wanted a clear answer; I wasn't on a commercial diet, I hadn't started Pilates or some trendy exercise scheme, and my actual "lifestyle changes" had more to do with finding exercise buddies and rediscovering the salad bar and, crucially, getting over depression brought on by some very stressful events in my life. "How'd you do it," it turns out, is an extremely personal question.
And that's the point I'm trying to come to, really: our bodies are extremely personal. Yet they are simultaneously the most public thing about us: they are us and they represent us. When you comment on someone's body, you may think you're commenting on the representation only, but, as most of us know, that's not how it seems to the person receiving the comment. Fatphobia is so insidious and hurtful because it plays on the double relation of selves to bodies: fat people are lazy and smelly and dumb, we're told, but it's okay — they're just one South Beach diet away from being assiduous, fragrant, smart, thin people. This is why fat acceptance is so threatening to so many: our culture tells us, "Your fat is you, but it's not the real you," and fat people respond, "It is the real me. And if the real me is happy and sexy and proud and accomplished, then fat is an inextricable part of that."
Right now, I'm a lot thinner than I'm used to being. Temporarily, I'm feeling a disconnect between the "real me" and the "representation of me." But maybe I'll stay at this weight, and I'll realign my self-conception; maybe instead of a chubby healthy person, I'll be a thinnish person with a medical condition. I'll adjust. I'll be good to myself. Maybe my health will improve again, and I'll gain back those 20 pounds and more. I'll adjust. I'll be good to myself. I'll remember that this body I live in is me and not a container or disguise or symbol for me. How will I do it? I'll start right here.
*If you do feel compelled to comment on your friend's body in the first place, ask yourself what you're really trying to communicate before you say anything.
**If it turns out she has been ill, please don't joke about the weight loss being a "fringe benefit" or a "lucky side effect." Dropping a couple clothing sizes and thereby becoming marginally more socially acceptable does not somehow balance out the negatives of contracting a serious illness. And (you'll have to trust me here), if you do make an asinine comment like this, your acquaintance may smile and nod, but she's really thinking about whether she'll have to take off her heels to kick you in the teeth.