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Written by: John Rayl
Directed by: Jon McBride and Tom Fisher
Starring: Jon McBride, Amy Chludzinski, and Christopher A. Granger
Reviewed by: Brett Gallman
If you suck my cock, Ill lick your pussy!
The 80s shot-on-video craze had to be one of the more bonkers cinematic movements of all time; sure, the do-it-yourself thing is still going (perhaps more strongly than ever), but the equipment and technical resources now available to ambitious homespun directors dwarfs the stuff that video auteurs were stuck with back then. Armed with Video8 cameras, minimal (or no) lighting rigs, buckets of fake blood, and armies of friends willing to embarrass themselves, they crafted some downright bizarre cinematic oddities that took bottom low-rent material (like slasher flicks) and somehow made it cheaper and trashier; yet, somehow, in their own charming way, these suckers are sometimes more entertaining than their bottom-of-the-barrel brethren. Its obvious what Cannibal Campout was cannibalizing cinematically, as it went where many ragtag film crews went into the 80s: to the woods, where everyone also went to die in violent fashion.
In this case, its four especially dimwitted college students looking to take a break from end-of-year stress. They plan a backwoods camping retreat despite a preponderance of disappearances in the area; upon arrival, they learn they arent alone, as theres a trio of hicks who decide to terrorize them. As it turns out, theyre actually homicidal cannibals who have gone a while without a good meal, so this campout quickly devolves into a grisly cookout.
One of two 1988 SOV efforts from director McBride, Cannibal Campout is typical gratuitous fare. Its not so much a movie as its a bunch of gratuitous stupidity punctuated by some spectacularly gruesome scenes. Not that it particularly matters, its technical merits basically stack up to your average SOV experience: choppy editing, varying sound volumes, a droning score that repeats the same few measures, and woefully inexperienced acting (with the exception of McBride and Richard Marcus, no one ever stepped in front of a camera again). Basically, it plays out like youd expect when a bunch of buddies get together and decide to make a movie while utilizing crude equipment. But you knew that already; anyone who ever strolled to this corner of the video store is more than familiar with this sort of shaggy aesthetic.
They also know that these things often make up for their lack of technical prowess with an irreverent, gonzo approach that embraces an unabashed enthusiasm. Some SOV flicks are certainly memorable because of this (or maybe despite it), and Cannibal Campout can mostly be counted among that group. With characters that are only noteworthy due to being so witless, its loaded with enough stupidity to get you through the many long stretches where they just wander around the woods. Dead baby jokes, bad mullets (the official hairstyle of 80s SOV horror), and unintentionally hilarious dialogue are on display here. When two of the guys wander off, theyre not sure if the tattered rag theyve found is covered in blood or berry juice, which leads to a great payoff when one of them has to later declare this sure as hell isnt berry juice! with a straight face. As for the girls? Well, theyre a couple of classy broads who are convinced that theyre in the middle of a romantic place situated in Gods country if you ignore the junky, overturned cars and rape-happy rednecks, I guess.
What a crew they are; from what I can gather, theyre a trio of brothers. The ring-leader is a bushy-eyebrowed lunatic who often mugs for the camera, while his sidekick is a wide-eyed grittily-voiced psycho who is prone to breaking out into song (talk about gratuitous--at one point, this guy repeats its a small world for a minute straight). And then theres the mentally handicapped one, who wears a flight suit and a helmet, as if hes a dimwitted, redneck Darth Vader or something. Their madness is matched only by their hunger and the carnage they perpetrate, which is grand and disgusting. If they arent hacking off limbs or forcing their victims to eat each other guts, then theyre performing their own cannibal ultrasound on a pregnant girl (if you think a dead baby jokes in figurative bad taste, imagine what an actual dead baby tastes like).
Luckily, theres a lot of padding in terms of victims; hell, theres two sequences that are completely divorced from the actual proceedings--one is a great black and white flashback where our three antagonists wistfully recall a previous rape. This is of course forgivable because its just another excuse to show off gore, which is all Cannibal Campout wants to do. Essentially a backwoods Blood Feast, its one of those films that fails on every traditional level, yet succeeds at the one thing it needs to be good at, and thats grossing you out. Purveyors of retro sleaze Camp Motion Pictures released this one a few years back on a features-laden disc that includes deleted scenes, a music video, a still gallery, a Camp trailer vault, interviews with the cast, and a commentary with McBride. The presentation is about what youd expect--it looks and sounds like a VHS tape thats been burned to DVD, which is fine. Its since been re-released as part of Retro Horror Collection along with a bunch of other SOV flicks. Thats the best way to go about acquiring this one, as its essentially a vault of bad taste classics. On its own, Cannibal Campout is a silly one-off affair thats probably more fun (and hopefully more gruesome) than your average family barbecue. Soups on! Rent it!
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Artist Madison McCaulley displaying her work at Loaded Joe's in Avon this month
Colorful, expressive, abstract, fun. That's how lifelong Eagle County resident Madison McCaulley describes her artwork. McCaulley is showing her framed artwork at Loaded Joe's in Avon this month. A variety of mediums, including paint, colored pencil and watercolor, are represented, though the pieces are mostly colored marker.An artist reception is set for Friday from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. McCaulley took the time to answer a few questions for the Vail Daily.Vail Daily: What does art mean to you?Madison McCaulley: Art, to me, is about expression, fun and play. I believe we are all born artists; it is justa matter of showing your creative side to others. I think so many people are afraid of what others may think. Art is the lens into the human spirit. Celebrate your creative side; don't hide it. VD: When did you want to become an artist? MM: I believe everyone is born as a creative spirit, but we each grow up and follow our own paths. I decided I wanted to take on art as a career about three year ago. I received my master's in painting in December 2011. I am so happy I decided to follow my passion for the arts, in particular for painting. Now I am making art in a studio over in Gypsum and working at an awesome art gallery in Beaver Creek during the day. VD: What inspires you to create? What sort of mood do you have to be in?MM: The environment around me inspires me to paint. I am working on a new series of large, colorful mountain landscape paintings. The Colorado mountain landscape we live in is very inspiring for me to paint during any time of year or any time of day. I enjoy creating the many textures and shapes found in the world we live in. I am always in the mood to paint. Art is like an addiction for me, but better; it's my passion. I want to share the joy I get from painting with others around me. If I didn't have to pay my bills, I would paint all the time. Or when there is snow, I will ski. VD: Why did you choose the medium that you work with, or did it choose you? MM:The mediums I like to work with are all about color. I like paint the best because it works the best to getthe best result I like. I love mixing my own colors and layering them. I also like to use oil pastels, colored markers, colored pencils and watercolor. VD: If I could meet any artist who would it be and what would you talk about? MM: I would want to meetartist Clyfford Still. I went to the Clyfford Still Museum in Denver a few weeks ago (I would highly recommend it). It was a very inspiring exhibit for me. I would love to talk to Clyfford about abstract expressionist painting.

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Gluten Free Vegan Pumpkin Gingerbread Pie
Sunday, November 29, 2009
A week or two ago, I posted about how I had always wanted to try baking a pumpkin pie from scratch. With it being the holiday season, I thought it was fitting to invite all of you to join me in a challenge of sorts. I thought maybe some of you might like to bake your pie from scratch too.
I understand that not everybody has the time, or the patience. For some people, pouring a can of pre mixed puree into a frozen pie crust is completely acceptable, and hey- whatever works for you. Some of you may have said "yes! I've always wanted to bake a pie from scratch, I'm doing it!", and then something came up, and it just didn't happen. Thats ok too.
Its never too late to get your pie on.
The day before Thanksgiving, I did it. I looked my baking pumpkin (that I had previously bought from the commissary), straight in the face, and told him to get ready for one heck of a day. I washed him up, cut him in half, and threw him into a hot oven, promising him that by the time the sun went down, he'd emerge a beautiful pie.
And that, is how you do that.
After my pumpkin was all pureed to a creamy orange mush, and I was good and proud of myself (really, I was beaming with domestic rays of sunshine)- It was time to bake my pie.
I had a kinda-sorta idea of the flavors that I wanted to mix, but couldn't find a recipe to match my plan anywhere. So I wrinkled up my forehead, looked awkwardly over my shoulder at my 3 year old, anxiously awaiting her approval for taking on another challenge, and dug both of my hands deep into the spice cabinet. I have failed (totally bombed, burnt, and been defeated) at creating many recipes in my kitchen, so I have to admit, I was scared. I had worked so hard on roasting my pumpkin, and made such a huge mess of the kitchen (I clean up as I go, though), I knew I'd be devastated if my pie turned out horribly. Too bad I had my heart set on a pumpkin gingerbread pie, huh?
I ended up creating the most beautiful pie in the world. Just like I had promised my nervous baking pumpkin earlier in the day. I try to hold true to my word like that.
The Crust:
-1 bag of gluten free vegan gingersnaps.
-4 tablespoons Earth Balance.
-2 tablespoons soy creamer.
Crush up cookies. Mix with melted Earth Balance and Soy Creamer. Put into greased pie pan. Bake at 350 for 10 minutes.
The Pie:
-2 cups of pureed pumpkin.
-3/4 cup soy creamer.
-1 cup sugar.
-2 Tbsp Earth Balance.
-1/2 tsp vanilla.
-1 tsp ginger.
-1/4 tsp nutmeg.
-1 1/2 tsp cinnamon.
-1/4 tsp cream of tartar.
-1/2 tsp baking powder.
-1/4 tsp xanthan gum.
-1/2 tsp salt.
-4 Tbsp tapioca starch.
Combine all of the above ingredients in a blender. Blend it up. A lot. Pour into your pre baked homemade pie crust. Cover the edges of the pie with foil, so that your crust doesn't burn. Bake your pie at 350 degrees, for 90 minutes. Yes, 90.
Do not eat this pie until it has completely cooled. Wait until the next day if you can. I know, its hard, but- trust me?
And if all goes well, you'll have something that looks something similar to...
Did you bake a pumpkin pie completely from scratch? If you did, thats rad. Seriously, rad. I'm really anxious to see your pies. Please leave the link to your pictures and recipe on the link list below. I won't be surprised if my list looks a little empty, but I hope that as the holiday season continues, y'all will join in on the challenge. Because like I said earlier, its never to late to get your pie on.
I've made a couple of buttons, to display on your blog if you'd like (I've got mine over there on my right sidebar, tee hee).
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You have some great pictures. I love the settings and the choices that you make. Well done and nice blog.ReplyDelete
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This is pretty neat and lots of fun to read. I really want some of your cookie recipies...but only the easy ones. I am such "not a cook", even my kids think so. Everyone can't be wrong....
Love the photos. The farm looks idyllic...inspite of the work.
What an uplifting place to visit! I love the pics of all the animals, especially the sheepies...they're adorable. I'd like to put a link on my blog, would you mind?ReplyDelete
I love your site. I look at it every day with my doggie. and now I can blog too!ReplyDelete
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Hi! Thanks for visiting Farmgirl Fare and taking the time to write. While I'm not always able to reply to every comment, I receive and enjoy reading them all.
Your feedback is greatly appreciated, and I especially love hearing about your experiences with my recipes. Comments on older posts are always welcome!
Please note that I moderate comments, so if I'm away from the computer it may be a while before yours appears.
I try my best to answer all questions, though sometimes it takes me a few days. And sometimes, I'm sorry to say, they fall through the cracks, and for that I sincerely apologize.
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Pilgrim's Pride ordered a massive recall of cooked chicken products Tuesday after consumers and federal meat inspectors found contamination by such foreign material as wood, plastic, rubber and metal.
The recall of almost 4.6 million pounds of fully cooked chicken products announced Tuesday is an expansion of an earlier recall, according to a statement issued Tuesday by the U.S. Food Safety and Inspection Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. That one, announced April 7, covered almost 41,000 pounds of cooked chicken nugget products.
Tuesday's recall involves products produced between Aug. 21, 2014, and March 1, 2016, bearing the establishment number "EST.20728" inside the USDA inspection mark, the agency said.
The items were shipped nationwide for institutional use, and records from the Waco, Texas-based company show schools purchased the products through Pilgrim's Pride commercial channels.
No confirmed reports of adverse reactions from consumption of the products have been reported, the agency said.
The recall involves 10-, 20- and 30-pound boxes of clear 5-pound bags of various Gold Kist Farms, Sweet Georgia Brand and Pierce fully cooked, whole grain-breaded chicken nuggets, patties and popcorn-style fritters, each with a variety of use-by and sell-by dates, package codes and production dates. Those details are available online .
The federal agency advises that consumers finding affected products either discard them or return them to Pilgrim's Pride.
In a statement, Pilgrim's Pride confirmed the recall was voluntary. It says it is retraining all employees involved in the production and is reviewing its production processes and plant systems to prevent a recurrence.
A complete list of the recalled products can be seen on the USDA's website here.


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Carol Minton Morris
Ben O'Steen
David Flanders
In a call to "keep it real" the 1977 Doobie Brothers' hit song "Takin' it to the Streets" contains the words, "You, telling me the things you're gonna do for me; I ain't blind and I don't like what I think I see." Developer Happiness Days (DEV8D) organizers David Flanders and Ben O'Steen borrowed a bit of that spirit to take intense and often useful hallway conversations from around the fringes of larger tech-and-info-culture conferences (where they feel that they are ignored) to make them the centerpiece of an unconference event aptly named Developer Happiness Days. The goal for the JISC-sponsored event, held in London February 8-12, 2009, was to keep it real, lively, relevant and most importantly fun for technology developers.
The idea of happiness as the basis for a technical gathering is nothing to laugh at. The 2006 global map of "Subjective Well-being" by Adrian White, University of Leicester, suggests that there are a lot of people out there, technically oriented and otherwise, who could use some cheering up. While we might be able to name a few things that please us, general happiness is often regarded as an illusive, hard-to-measure quality that tends to be something we recognize, fleetingly, when we experience it.
Flanders and O'Steen came up with methods that put developers and their ideas first to increase feelings of well-being. O'Steen suggests in his blog entitled Less Talk, More Code, "A good innovative developer possesses creativity and a positive outlook; someone with the 'rough consensus, running code' mentality that pervades good software innovation." DEV8D was all about fostering "play, vagueness and communication" by putting unlikely concepts and people together to create surprise and inspiration. They even considered the "usual suspect" type of developer who might be shy about sharing ideas and personal information in a face-to-face, social/work environment. O'Steen continues, "There is a need to provide means for people to break the ice, and to strike up conversations with people that they can recognize as being of like minds." He suggests that simple feedback loops such as being thanked for even small contributions can lead to increased communication and agreement in technical development processes.
The developers who participated spoke and wrote eloquently about what they learned (see related posts below). They managed their time at this carefully designed event to enable hands-on learning about rapid prototyping tools such as Python and Django, while also trying them out in a technical community. Lively question and answer sessions where participants agreed to the rule, "what is said in the room, stays in the room" promoted honest information exchanges.
A few successful techniques balanced play with free time, useful activities and leveraging lightweight Web 2.0 technologies. Noting that everyone likes to get a high score whether in video games or in social network sites, O'Steen used a service created by Sam Easterby-Smith on day two of the conference to collect metrics via twitter and provide feedback to participants ("Happyness-o-meter"). Wordle was used to create a word cloud snapshot of each attendee's web space as an abstract way of sharing information. Other easy-going game-like activities helped to keep people engaged and interested. Some DEV8D events were held in local pubs on the outside chance that people might relax in these types of informal settings.
By the second day DEV8D evolved into a build-your-own-experience that consisted of an all-hands "base camp" where developers came and went, hung out, worked on problems collaboratively and reflected on evolving perceptions. A series of "lightning talks" on a variety of short topics encouraged attendees to only attend those sessions that were of particular interest while leaving open the possibility of mixing and matching.
The main event was a 'Developer Decathlon' competition where attendees assembled into nine teams and were encouraged to make something useful and creative in exchange for a chance to win cash prizes.
Team Bsmmmm (Ben Charlton, Simon Yeldon, Matt Bull, Matt Spence, Matthew Slowe and Mark Fendley) took home the �5,000.00 grand prize in what was described by judges as fierce competition for a Web 2.0-friendly reading list prototype, "List8D." Read more about Team Bsmmmm's achievement, as well as the second and third prize winnners on the JISC website: <http://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/stories/2009/04/dev8d.aspx>.
More About DEV8D on the Web:
DEV8D JISC blog: <http://dev8d.jiscinvolve.org/>. Read posts from the event about collective intelligence and how technology can help to access it, a five-minute interview with Ross Gardler, Apache, Mark Dewey's semantic search idea, more rapid ideas, a video of Peter Sefton's lightning talk about focusing on something simple like making PDF documents more usable, all about "uber users" and several others.
Google Code DEV8D Web site: <http://code.google.com/p/developerhappinessdays/>.
Julian Cheal. "dev8D: JISC Developer Happiness Days." Aridadne <http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue58/jisc-dev8d-rpt/>.
Ben O'Steen. Blog post: "Developer Happiness days - Why happyness is important." Less Talk, More Code. <http://oxfordrepo.blogspot.com/2009/02/developer-happiness-days-why-happyness.html>.
Julliette Culver. Blog post: "JISC Developer Happiness Days." <http://www.jvvw.com/?p=292>.
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Heal Your Heels
Your feet can handle quite a bit of stress, but going over the limit can cause extreme discomfort. Heel pain generally falls into two categories: pain behind the heel and pain beneath the heel.
If your pain is behind the heel, you may be running too much or have shoes that rub or cut into the back of your heel. Pain behind the heel is most often caused by the Achilles tendon being inflamed where it connects with your heel bone. This pain can build slowly over time, and you may notice swelling and redness.
If you are experiencing pain beneath the heel, the tissues on the bottom of your foot may be inflamed. There are a number of causes for this type of pain, such as stone bruises, plantar fasciitis, and calcium deposits.
Stone bruises can occur when you step on a hard surface, such as a rock or stone. You may or may not be able to see a bruise.
Plantar fasciitis is a problem that can arise after too much running or jumping. After such activities, the band that connects the heel bone to the base of your toes becomes inflamed, which causes pain.
A calcium deposit, known as a heel spur, could form if plantar fasciitis continues for a long period of time. The heel spur itself is not the problem; it is the injury to the soft tissue and inflammation that causes the pain.
Other less common causes of heel pain include pinched nerves, fractures, or being overweight.
Common treatments for heel pain include:
- Resting from activities that caused the pain
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Moodle in school servers
환영합니다 | Portal | XO Korea | Deployment | Content | Hardware | Software | Mesh Network | Ethics | LOS | XO City | Accreditation | Consortium
This article is to establish moodle frame in school servers in Korea. If not familiar to moodle, see Moodle in wikipedia.
For Korean, moodle is now under localization process mainly projected by 한국무들사용자모임. Prof. Park Jong-Dae, Baejae Univerity (배재대학교 박 종대 교수) is the leader of the team.
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Well, just one more day of work to go before a fortnight of Not Doing Very Much can begin. Some may argue that I've spent much of my life performing that particular activity. I would respond at length to those sort of people but, frankly, it sounds like too much effort.
I will be away from Dante, my self-built PC/Media Server (or 'rig' if you prefer that term). Dexter, our cat, will somehow have to cope with not pestering anyone for attention at 4am but will have the run of the place to himself. I expect he'll have seen all the Jeremy Kyle and Loose Women he can stand by the time we return.
I'm travelling light, with most of my holiday gear being transported in shopping bags. I'm confident this will be good practice should I pursue a career as a hobo. I hear it's a very equal opportunities workplace with as much holiday time as you want but the options for advancement don't seem to be very, well, advanced.
I'll miss our glorious opening of the Oylmpics, where the weather will be perfect, Boris won't act like some spoon-fed buffoon and G4S will have made good – having checked the sofa and found a few thousand security staff they'd forgotten all about.
What could possibly go wrong?
I am hardcore gamer. Hear me roar.
Well, it seems that many others are watching this, so you may as well see it too. I can certainly vouch for its authenticity but I haven't a clue how a full console build gets out into the wild.
Now that's what I call an unfinished game.
My favourite bug during development were the overscaled Ewoks on Endor. You may think Ewoks are cute. Just you wait until you run into one that's 10 feet tall.
It's been over a year since I made a post on my own site.
..so it must be true!
Worse yet, the increasingly break-neck pace of internet news reporting – and the feedback loop it often turns into – has turned even some of the more wacky conspiracies into an odd kind of accepted wisdom. Monday's left-of-field interpretation of an event becomes Tuesday's "well, obviously!" comment on a thousand blogs (each just parroting the last, but none willing to admit it), and by Wednesday it's enshrined on Wikipedia as historical fact.
A moment of clarity provided by GamesIndustry.biz in an article covering the Resident Evil: Mercenaries single-save 'fiasco'.
I've just enjoyed playing the excellent Kirby's Epic Yarn on my Wii. The game's tone is set around the same level as Play School or Teletubbies.
Or is it?
That's one way to clean the fingermarks off the screen!
The headlines both on and offline seem to be increasingly littered with the doings of hackers. These digital rapscallions dashing to and fro, performing acts of daring like some cyberpunk Zorro. It's all so gosh darn romantic.
Certain readers may have spotted that koffdrop.com itself was hacked recently. Apparently the site was targetted and labelled as an enemy of Pakistan. Now, there's a good reason why I've not declared my views on Pakistan very prominently on my site. That would be because I don't have any. Since the incident, however, I'm of the opinion that Pakistan has some pretty shoddy and misguided hackers.
Elsewhere, various databases are hacked by more proficient (though equally misguided) hackers and wodges of private data and spilled onto torrent sites. Here and there various hacking groups claim responsibility for such acts. I think that's a behaviour worth making a mental note of. Can you think of other types of activists who claim responsibility for their incendiary activities? I can.
In gaming circles there is much emotive talk about Geohot and PlayStation 3. The media, fawning buffoons that they are, simply can't resist the salicious David-versus-Goliath spin on all of this and adding more melodrama to a topic that too many folk are using personal feelings rather than concrete data to draw conclusions from.
Now, amongst the feedback of all of this there are a few principles being hammered out:
Let's review these in a little more detail
No, that's incorrect. Like nearly every single argument where someone starts by saying "I bought X so…" the understanding of ownership is flawed. Arguments based on that flawed understanding are going to be increasingly flawed.
What you bought is a device that provides access to a manufacturer's technology and services. You own the device, you do not own the technology or service. Furthermore, that access is given to you under specific terms and conditions that you agree to before the device allows you to use it and, further to that, usage of the device typically declares your consent to the terms.
It's crucial to appreciate the distinction between the device and the technology inside it and the service(s) it provides.
Similar principles are true of software. When you buy a game you have not purchased the software. You have purchased a copy of someone else's software and a licence to use that copy under specific terms. The software is still owned by the software publisher. The shiny disc is yours, the data on it is not.
Back to hardware. As far as the device is concerned, you can do what you like. Smash it with a hammer and put a video of it on YouTube. Paint it bright pink. The hardware people don't care. Start fucking about with the technology though, well, that's a different story. Modifying the technology to work in a way that is not sanctioned by the terms under which you agreed to use it – you'd be the one in the wrong buster, not the guys who own the technology and who sold you the device.
On top of this, consumers get bent out of shape really quickly the moment a company doesn't maintain their side of an agreement. When consumers decide to break that agreement? Well shee-it, that's their God-given right dammit! And just because they don't keep their word doesn't mean they should lose any perks or benefits. Convenient double-standards at play in that mentality, don't you think?
There's a number of fallacies at play in this statement. Let's start with the most glaring by asking what prompted the removal of that functionality in the first place?
Oh, hang about, that would be because it was abused by hackers. It's funny how they keep that side of things rather quiet when justifying their crusade isn't it? You hacked it and so it got removed. Now you're acting like the removal was unfair so you're hacking things even more. The concepts of cause and effect appear to be lost on these people. Which is a bit odd because hackers are, broadly speaking, pretty smart guys.
OtherOS, as its name suggests, allowed the installation of other operating systems onto the PS3. Notably linux. Now, if you're looking for a platform to run linux on and you feel that your only choice is a $600 videogames console as opposed to, say, a $500 computer then you're not going to get very far handling an operating system like linux. For a start, you won't have a keyboard, let alone the appreciation of using the right tool for the right job. So let's dispense with the notion that OtherOS provided a crucial service that simply could not be replicated to an equal standard in any other form.
Let's also dispense with the idea that anybody gave a shit about OtherOS until it was revealed as means to exploit the PS3's security and tempt greedy gamers with the prospect of pirating games instead of paying for them.
So, in response to the actions of hackers, Sony removed OtherOS with a firmware update. Internet crybabies screamed that their most beloved of PS3 features (that one that they never used but had recently become very interested in) was going to be taken away from them. Of course they did – because people bitch about having something taken away from them, even if they never intended to use it. "But it's the principle!" they cry. Well, gee, if there's one thing we know about gamers it's that they're people of principle. So long as that principle serves them, that is. Otherwise the rest of the world can fuck off for all they care. But, you know, principles. Principles!
That's so true. Hackers are digital freedom-fighters. Enabling free speech from the evil corrupt closed-nature of the cyber-confines that these monolithic and brooding corporations impose upon helpless citizens.
This is a hacker:
Now, if I were a pacifist I might be against guns. So to prove my point, I'd hack guns so that ammunition of any sort can be made freely available to any gun-owner and I'd broadcast my methods to the world. No, I'm not endorsing unlicensed use of firearms, sir! I'm a pacifist! See, I wrote it on my blog so it must be true. What do you mean by saying my actions contradict my words. I wrote it down on the internet. The internet doesn't lie!
Sarcasm aside, saying you don't endorse piracy whilst indirectly yet knowingly enabling a tidal wave of piracy is what is commonly referred to as bullshit.
Once again, let's remember that hackers are smart geezers. They understand things that would leave most of us baffled. So shrugging their shoulders and acting like they don't know what they're not aware of the impact of their actions is spectacularly unconvincing.
Preach on brother!
Yes, lets overlook a huge wave of historical evidence that sets the template for cause and effect and say that hacking doesn't equal piracy. Of course it doesn't. Why doesn't it? Because hackers don't endorse piracy, didn't you hear?!
So, OtherOS was around for a few years. The PS3 was unhacked. Folk had the oppurtunity to use a powerful, open console to develop homebrew applications for the benefit of others. Did they? Not really, no.
PS3 gets hacked. Hacking doesn't equal piracy though, does it? How long did it take for people to start using the hacks to enable pirate copies of software to run on the system? Days.
But that most be coincidence because, you know, hacking brings oppurtunity for betterment, not piracy. There's no evidence to suggest that piracy follows a hacked system like the papparazzi follow Paris Hilton. Well, nothing aside from every hacked console there's ever been in the last 25 years. But, you know, that's not really relevant I guess. Real world facts have no place when you're preaching a sermon, do they?
And the PS3 has been hacked. So what wondrous benefits to people has it brought other than piracy? Well, there's been.. erm.. lots of cheating. Yes! See, cheaters can enjoy their games using less skill and ruin the experience for all the people that still play by the rules. Remember folks, gamers are all about principles! What else has hacking enabled other than mass cheating and piracy? Well… some emulators I guess. Whoop dee doo. What about PS2 backwards compatibility – lots of people are asking for that!.. er nah. I guess the hackers aren't really into that.
Hey, what about reinstating OtherOS functionality? Tellingly.. no.
But, hey, principles!
So when you strip away all the worthless pantomime drama and the greed and the general ignorance at play in all of this you have a fairly transparent behaviour being dressed up as something more than it is. It's just a script kiddie having a tantrum and wanting attention.
The hackers we have been reading so much about recently are not doing anyone any favours. They are not crusading for the greater good they are merely digital terrorists. When their particular beliefs are not being met they do not communicate like civil people, they hide behind $TuP1D NAME$ and exploit those that aren't doing things in the manner they want, happily letting innocents get caught up in the crossfire of their narrow-minded antics.
What will happen as a result of this? Systems will become more closed and more secure as a response to this behaviour. Hackers will insist that things should be more open and free, persistently refusing to take their own actions into account and just giving everyone they lash out against good reason to make things more secure and more closed.
Hackers need to drop the pretence and learn how to resolve their issues like civil, mature human beings.
..the internet was filled with racists and bigots that would spew their idiocy behind a cowardly wall of anonymity.
Today, a lot of them boldly do it on Facebook.
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NVIDIA GeForce DDR Roundup (March 00)by Matthew Witheiler on March 7, 2000 4:13 AM EST
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The necessity of a 3D graphics accelerator in today's world cannot be denied. We are constantly surrounded by 3D graphics, be if from games or from applications. In addition, the demand that a computer places on the video card seems to be upped with every new game or 3D modeling application released. What this means for consumers is that upgrading is not only suggested -- it is almost mandatory. This produces a problem: purchasing a 3D graphics card in today's market proves to be a mind boggling experience. Companies are at battle with one another to prove to you, the consumer, that one specific card is better than another. Some advertise additional features, while others present their low price. The truth of the matter is that there seems to be one constant in this world of chaos; that constant is the GeForce processor by NVIDIA.
Things did not always use to be this way. Looking back, it was not until the advent of the 486 processor that video acceleration really began take off. Before this, cards were rated on their ability to display simple text and graphics. This, in fact, proved to be the driving force in the graphics card industry until video games and graphic design took a quantum leap with the advent of GL Quake, a major advancement in game play. Since this time, the battle of video cards has been based on 3D quality and speed, features which former titan 3dfx excelled at. The original Voodoo graphics accelerator provided an entrance into a market that 3dfx would see grow exponentially for years to come. It seemed, however, that, after a while, 3dfx lost its drive. Products were coming at a slower rate than consumers, as well as developers, wanted. As a result, the market took a shift that allowed for other 3D chip developers to enter the scene forcefully. Companies such as ATI, Matrox, and NVIDIA, all made products in the past, but their sales were dwarfed by the behemoth 3dfx. It was with this technology lag on the part of 3dfx that NVIDIA was able to step up and take over the spot as king of the 3D graphics accelerator market.
As is typical of the current title holder, NVIDIA recently released two new processors to step up 3D gaming another notch. Those processors were the GeForce SDR (for lower end high performance) and GeForce DDR (for the highest performance). Due to the decline of 3dfx and the lack of originality in other manufacturer's products, the GeForce processor remains the chip to beat when it comes to 3D graphics. ATI's Rage Fury MAXX is often times passed by due to lag concerns and high prices. Matrox, while performing best on the 2D front, is often bypassed due to the fact that their top card, the G400, has been out for almost a year. Thus, to the user, the GeForce GPU, or graphics processing unit, is the product to own.
Therefore, the problem for the consumer is not which processor to buy, but which manufacturer to buy it from. Unlike the competition, NVIDIA does not make the boards that the processors sit on. Instead, NVIDIA finds it more profitable to sell the processors to individual card manufactories and have them battle it out for the top spot. This is where the problem for the consumer lies: given that all use the same processor, which card is best. It is in this roundup that we attempt to guide you, the consumer, along in purchasing the best of the DDR GeForce cards on the market. By evaluating price, overclockability, drivers and support, and software bundles, AnandTech has done the hard work in order to find out which DDR GeForce card is right for for you.


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Pandora is angry about the royalties it's paying to music publishers, so the company is making a bold move: It's buying a terrestrial radio station in South Dakota mainly to score lower rates.
The radio station buy is the latest salvo in Pandora's ongoing legal fight with the performance-rights group American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP). Pandora says ASCAP discriminates against the company by charging it higher royalty rates, as well as letting publishers pull their song catalogs from Pandora while keeping them available for competitors.
"Certain powerful music incumbents see Internet radio as a threat to the status quo," Christopher Harrison, Pandora's assistant general counsel, wrote in a blog post published on The Hill.
To combat that alleged discrimination, Pandora bought the Rapid City, South Dakota, station KXMZ-FM for an undisclosed amount.
Related story: Apple unveils iTunes Radio
Terrestrial radio stations and the Internet properties that own them "were given preferential treatment" through an ASCAP agreement with the Radio Licensing Marketing Committee (RMLC) last year, according Harrison's blog post.
Pandora says the KXMZ acquisition will let the company qualify for the lower-fee RMLC license. According to Pandora, ClearChannel-owned rival iHeartRadio has such a license because it also owns a terrestrial station.
In a statement, ASCAP accused Pandora of "trying every trick in the book to brazenly and unconscionably underpay" rights holders. The group also argued that "Internet and traditional AM/FM radio services are very different businesses with different formats."
Pandora did acknowledge that the station buy "might seem like an unexpected move," but the company insists its interests aren't entirely about royalty fees.
"We look forward to broadcasting our personalized experience to the community in Rapid City, an area where over 42,000 residents already use Pandora," Harrison wrote. "And we will apply Pandora's insights about listening habits to program music that accurately reflects local listeners' evolving tastes."


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Seven Songs
Uncut, 2001
by Simon Reynolds
Shame there's no good genre term sufficiently evocative and open-ended for the kind of music 23 Skidoo made. "Avant-funk" is too ugly, "death disco" is melodramatic and PiL-specific, "industrial"'s been tarnished by its latterday exponents. Whatever. Skidoo were prime explorers of a sonic terrain that opened up in punk's aftermath, when people were looking for a forward path to take them as far from the reek of rock's corpse as possible. Funk, it was decided, was the new music of danger. Based on a quite small range of instances---the madness latent in James Brown's most frenzied polyrhythms, the voodoo grooves of Tago Mago and Davis's On The Corner, Sly Stone's darker moments, Fela Kuti (Africa's JB), Last Poets--the idea of funk as a sinister energy emerged: rhythm as enslavement, as addiction, as possession. Mix in ideas borrowed from vanguard sci-fi authors Ballard & Burrough (sounds like a confectioners!) and paranoid vibes from Seventies auteur movies like Pakula's Klute and Coppolla's The Conversation, and voila, you've got the future.
Proteges of Genesis P. Orridge (who let them rehearse at his Death Factory space), 23 Skidoo bridged avant-funk's first-wave (Pop Group, Cabs, A Certain Ratio) and lesser second-wave (Hula, Chakk, Shriekback, 400 Blows). Their records have been out-of-print for years, but Skidoo have enjoyed a spectral presence in dance culture: the bassline to their single "Coup" was copied note-for-note by The Chemicals on "Block Rockin' Beats"; early darkside jungle circa 1993 was often bizarrely Skidoo-like, despite the absence of any direct lineage; the group's ethnological forgeries and tape-looped exotica pre-echoed the world music samplings of your Loop Gurus.
This sort of talk--precursors, legacies, inheritors, ahead-of-their-time, etc--is pretty academic, though: the real question is, why listen now? Because 1981's Seven Songs especially still sounds bloodcurdlingly intense. A malevolent tumble of hand-percussion, guitar feedback, and gutteral chants, opener "Kundalini" is as much Birthday Party as Gap Band, while the seething slap-bass and brittle-nerved rhythm guitar of "Vegas El Bandito" is offset by a lugubrious wail of lost-in-endless-fog trumpet. The track immediately cuts into "Mary's Operation", dropping everything but the dank, ailing Miles-like trumpet, multi-tracked and mingled with tape-loop drones. This resulting gloomscape of wilted, billowing sound in turn devolves into "Lockgroove", a roiling cosmic cistern. "New Testament" is dying machinery, a drum track massively slowed down and elongated, its rapid percussive events blossoming into pendulous cymbal-smashes and smeared snares. "IY" showcases Skidoo's strength (percussion) and weakness (vocals), but "Porno Bass" is just ill: booming bassdrones reverberate in a cavernous murk, while Hitler fan Unity Mitford, plucked from some radio interview, rails against pop music for displacing "manly" activities like athletics, sexually hyperstimulating da youth, and generally being "the sign of a degenerating race". When the rancid old nutcase opines that young people's "ears become degraded by wrong style and senseless reiteration", Skidoo mischievously double-loop the word "reiteration".
Seven Songs's closer "Quiet Pillage" references exotica king Martin Denny (whose Polynesian-flavored "Quiet Village" was a massive Fifties hit) but evokes an Apocalypse Now: The Day After vibe of humid disquiet. The track's plinky metallic chimes look ahead to 1984's Urban Gamelan, made after an expedition to Indonesia. "GIFU" is basically an alternate mix of "Coup", Skidoo's most straightforwardly funky single, with a Viet-Cong war-cry "G.I., fuck you" added for anti-imperialist edge, but most of the album is precisely what the title promises: gamelan-influenced drumstrumentals, all tuned percussion, hand-cymbals, and gongs. bals, gongs, and woodblocks. Well-produced compared with the hastily executed debut, Urban Gamelan often teeters on the thin line between minimal and underwritten. Its gently ominous atmosphere--space age bachelor padded cell music--grows on you, but it lacks the turbulence and sheer
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US Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke and the latest economic data provided the right mix for investors – further stimulus to underpin an accelerating recovery.
Reports on US consumer confidence and the housing market were better than anticipated. The Conference Board's consumer sentiment index rose to 69.6 this month, from a downwardly revised 58.4 in January, while new home sales jumped 15.6 percent to a 437,000 annual pace.
"Housing is now kicking into higher gear," Ryan Sweet, a senior economist at Moody's Analytics in West Chester, Pennsylvania, told Bloomberg News. "The next few months are still going to be a struggle for households as fuel prices are elevated, but the improvement in confidence reduces the risk of the worst-case scenario."
Both Home Depot and Macy's provided evidence of strength in their latest earnings and outlook. Shares of Home Depot were last up 5.7 percent, while those of Macy's were last 3.4 percent stronger.
Bernanke's testimony to the Senate Banking Committee in Washington today allayed concern raised last week by the release of the latest Fed meeting minutes that central bank officials might ease or end their record stimulus measures sooner than previously thought.
"We do not see the potential costs of the increased risk-taking in some financial markets as outweighing the benefits of promoting a stronger economic recovery and more rapid job creation," Bernanke said today.
In afternoon trading in New York, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.83 percent, the Standard & Poor's 500 Index gained 0.29 percent, while the Nasdaq Composite Index added 0.16 percent.
"What Bernanke is saying, bottom line, indicates that there will not be a reversal anytime soon in the stimulus program," Peter Cardillo, chief market economist at Rockwell Global Capital in New York, told Reuters.
The Fed chief also reminded lawmakers that the federal spending cuts set to kick in on March 1 if Congress does not reach agreement to avoid them will hamper the economic recovery.
The good news in the US eased concern about the euro zone as Italy is trying to deal with elections that resulted in a split parliament, which risks hampering progress towards solving its national debt crisis and may reignite Europe's sovereign debt crisis too.
Italy's stocks and bonds dropped. The MIB Index tumbled 4.9 percent. The yield on Italy's 10-year benchmark bond surged 40 basis points.
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This is adorable!!! I love the idea, I think I'm gonna invent something similar. Thank you for the inspiration, Melanie!ReplyDelete
This is brilliant! I AM SLIGHTLY OBSESSED with all things bunting/garlands etc. so this is like the perfect thing for me to print and use as a calendar - blogging about this NOW at youareingoodcompany.blogspot.com. THANKS SO MUCH!ReplyDelete
How wonderful! I have been following Mel's blog for a while but I never realised she had such a regular output of garlands! I would love to do this for my sister but I think her fiance would object. Instead, I make them for myself.ReplyDelete
ohhh! i love the pinwheel one! garland per month is a fantastic idea, i bet your sister loved it :DReplyDelete
Love her blog!ReplyDelete
I'm a big fan of Melanie's blog. Melanie this is so cute and creative. I don't know what you're talking about, because by the looks of these banners, you look pretty creative to me. Very cool.ReplyDelete
Love love love! I'm already obsessed with garland/banners/bunting but now I want to make all of these :)ReplyDelete
Great guest post!
- Anonymous05 May, 2010 07:39
You did an excellent job! I'm with you on the favorite, I love the December one too!ReplyDelete
This is such a fabulous idea! My fave is the December one too. Although since it's Cinco de Mayo today, that papel de picado is catching my eye :)ReplyDelete
awesome idea!ReplyDelete
melanie- you are one talented lady! love, love these and it's such a sweet gift idea. they can be used over and over. awesome.ReplyDelete
Love the cupcake case idea!! Very original. Grace xReplyDelete
I just had to tell you that your belt is to cute.ReplyDelete
This is such a sweet and absolutely genius idea. Very tempted to try it for myself - but so hard to pick just one fav.ReplyDelete
i absolutely adore this post! i haven't made a garland before but i think i must try these now! i LOVE LOVE LOVE the flower and pinwheel ones!!! this is such a great present!!!ReplyDelete
Melanie is my fave!!ReplyDelete
These are great! They make me want to throw a party!ReplyDelete
I kind of like November's message and simplicity. Great job!ReplyDelete
What a very whimsy, inexpensive decoratory idea!!! I am totally in love with these. I have been thinking about doing the cupcake garlands and doily garlands for some time now. I want to use them in my apartment next year!!!ReplyDelete
Thanks for sharing!!! :)
- Anonymous05 May, 2010 09:54
haha, such a cute idea! i love november. :]ReplyDelete
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oh my goodness!!! these are darling! i especially love april and august. how fun! thanks for sharing! what a great guest post!!!ReplyDelete
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this is such a great idea and i love the emphasis on how simple it is! i think my fav is december for the personal-ness of it and september because i am crazy for pinwheels at the moment!ReplyDelete
omg i love love love july. thats my birthday too!! and november is so gosh darn cute. you're amazing at those crafts. keep up the good work!!ReplyDelete
Love her! :) She IS crafty and I love her blog!ReplyDelete
wow, so beautiful! i love all of the garlands!!ReplyDelete
i adore these. and i think august is my favorite!ReplyDelete
cute idea! August is my fave :-)ReplyDelete
I love August, are they cupcake holders?ReplyDelete
These are amazing! The cupcake holders are such a simple and beautiful idea- who would've guessed?? So many great styles and options. Thanks for sharing!ReplyDelete
august is my fav also! :)ReplyDelete
HEY I want that belt! where can i get it???ReplyDelete
I actually like July's the best. Those lanterns are fabulous!ReplyDelete
ooh i love it!ReplyDelete
so pretty and cute!
and so very sweet what she did for you danni!
- Anonymous06 May, 2010 19:40
How fantastic is September? That brought me back - we used to make those pinwheels on rainy days at school when I was a kid. lovely.ReplyDelete
Thank you for the inspirationReplyDelete
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The belt is from Old Navy a few years back. Sorry that it's not more current.ReplyDelete
Especially the september, january, may, april.... basically. everything.
- Anonymous06 June, 2010 07:19
brilliant brilliant brilliant! thanks for putting all garlands / bunting family together...ReplyDelete
- Anonymous21 June, 2010 02:57
Ah. Pinwheels! I love them. They should be some first class art.ReplyDelete
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mumbai, nov 15 (ians) versatile actor nawazuddin siddiqui may have done challenging roles, but says his most difficult role has been in "mountain man", a biopic on the life of dashrath manjhi from bihar.
if he won international acclaim for his work in "gangs of wasseypur" and "miss lovely", nawazuddin was equally appreciated back home for his work in thriller "kahaani".
"mountain man" is being directed by ketan mehta and nawazuddin told ians: "my role in 'mountain man' is one of my toughest roles that i have played so far. it's not easy at all. it's a journey of a man dashrath manjhi. it's a very interesting film, which also has a wonderful love story."
dashrath manjhi from nagar village, in gaya district, made impossible possible with his sheer determination and perseverance. he cut a 300-metre-long and 25-ft-wide road through a mountain to link ghivra mauja of dashrath nagar, in gehlaur ghati to atara prakhand, wajirganj, reducing the distance from 75 km to just one km. it took him 22 years to do it.
manjhi, fondly called mountain man, died in 2007. he was 70.
the actor says he recently finished the shooting of the film in bihar.
"i have just finished the shooting of ketan mehta's 'mountain man'. it was completely shot in bihar in a 40-day schedule. i consider myself fortunate enough to be part of the film," said nawazuddin.
the film also stars radhika apte as manjhi's wife, falguni devi.
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P.O.D. Show Off San Diego in 'Higher' Video
A decade-plus after shouting out 'The Fundamental Elements of Southtown,' P.O.D. are offering another salute to their hometown with the San Diego-based new video for 'Higher.'
Singer Sonny Sandoval says, "We went through a bunch of treatments, and we loved the fact that the director wanted to do the video in San Diego. It's our hometown. The treatment had a good vibe and it reminded us of how we felt when we saw the video for 'Alive.'"
The clip, which was filmed by director Ramon Boutisveth, finds the band performing on a sunny San Diego day while other cityscapes, including a young kid making the most of the day by skateboarding through town, fill in the rest of the video's visual focus. Plus, per a recent agreement, the band featured a number of Harley Davidson motorcycles in the clip.
'Higher' is the second single from the band's 'Murdered Love' album, and you can catch them playing it during the upcoming summer and early fall dates on the Rockstar Energy Drink Uproar Festival. The tour launches tomorrow (Aug. 17) in Kansas City.


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A parent of a high school student complained that her son and another African American student were being racially harassed by other students. These students used racial slurs and epithets about these two students and about her. The district is 97 percent white. The district's student handbook did not refer to any disciplinary sanctions for students who commit actions of racial discrimination, including racial harassment and name-calling. In addition, the complainant said that the school did not discipline the students involved nor did it adequately address her concerns. As a result of the OCR's intervention, the school district agreed to modify its racial harassment policy and establish a community forum to address this issue and others. The district will also take steps to learn how to recruit minority teachers successfully by working with the area Desegregation Assistance Center and an affirmative action cooperative.
Racial Epithets Addressed
Racial epithets scrawled on school walls were not removed, resulting in a protest by the district's African American students, who were arrested by police for inciting a riot. In this case, the state education department and the United States Department of Justice, as well as the OCR, investigated. The district took action to ensure better understanding between races, as well as making changes in curriculum and hiring practices, and adding a mentoring program for African American students.


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Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Momma's New Toy
34 comments:
Oh Finn - humans hardly ever understand the important things in life. Always make sure no toys are hidden out of reach is surely near the top of the list :-) woofs and licks from Magic xxReplyDelete
Ooopps. We hope you get your toy out soon, Finn!ReplyDelete
Argh No - that is nearly as bad as when our Little2Legs throw one of my garden toys into next doors garden (whereby they have a 3 legged Cat that hounded me one day, but that's another tale!) - got all my paw pads crossed that you got your toy back very soon Finn! (Barnie x)ReplyDelete
A classic! My mom used to have one, she got it from our grandma.ReplyDelete
LOL, I hope you've already gotten your toy unstucked.
Huggies and Cheese,
My sis inherited a similar one from my Grandmother. :)ReplyDelete
Hope Finn's toy is untrapped.
Humans can be so oblivious. Our mommy wants to know if your mommy got the sewing machine that goes inside the table.ReplyDelete
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However, this could be a great place to put your toys.ReplyDelete
Oh no, hope she got that toy out for you Finn. That is an interesting piece of furniture. Take care.ReplyDelete
Oooooh! Is that a Singer? My sister has my grandmother's. How wonderful your Momma inherited that from her Aunt! Although she could have been a little more tentative to you and your ball! Geesh!ReplyDelete
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Mom wishes she still had her grandmother's. But her Mom had the sewing machine converted into something more usable. That is one beautiful table. But not so good for your toy. Hope help arrived soon, Finn.ReplyDelete
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Oooo what a cool new toy!ReplyDelete
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Beautiful piece!ReplyDelete
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Lovely old sewing machine....My sister has one, or used to....Funny about the toy getting stuck. My guys are very vocal when it comes to asking for help in such matters :-)ReplyDelete
Those suckers are so heavy! I hope you got your toy un-stuck, Finn!ReplyDelete
Love ya lots,
Such a beautiful piece! Hope you got your toy outta there, though :)ReplyDelete
Lovely table, I'd watch your nose if I was you :)ReplyDelete
Have a good week
See Yea George xxx
Oh er, now that isn't nice to have your toy trapped under a sewing machine. Maybe by now it's been rescued and back just where it belongs with you.ReplyDelete
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Uh Oh....but way cool sewing machine.ReplyDelete
We have the base of an old sewing machine, and it's heavy as the Dickens, whatever that means! Watch out for your toesies!!!ReplyDelete
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Finn - when that happens to me I give a couple of sharp barks......they know what that means because I trained them!ReplyDelete
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Any treats in there for you!??ReplyDelete
Oh boy, now your mom can sew you some outfits...hee hee!
I had a good laugh reading your post!
Happy Wednesday!
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Hey! We have exactly that same one!!! It belonged to our Dad's grandma!! Hope you got your ball back soon!! xoxo Chloe and LadyBugReplyDelete
What a beautiful piece! We hope you were able to get your toy.:)ReplyDelete
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- AnonymousApril 19, 2012 at 6:50 AM
Oh wow that is a gorgeous piece! Mom remembered sewing on her Mom's antique one. Very hard to pedal and sew at the same time BOL! :)ReplyDelete
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Is that a sewing machine? I think it's a Finn treat table. Looks like the drawers of the table would be good to put treats in, and then your Mommy can just open the drawer and pull out a buffet of treats!!! Sounds good to us!ReplyDelete
I hope she got it released for you pretty quick!! Looked like your toy was in jail there .... like all the poor souls who have ventured to Roo's blog today to take his challenge!ReplyDelete
Love and licks, Winnie the greyhound
hey Finn,ReplyDelete
BOL! How hilarious that your mom thought you were admiring the table when all along you just wanted your toy! You are so funny! Hope you got your stuffy out, poor squished thing! :->
p.s. My human thinks that table is beautiful, and the iron work is gorgeous. What a lovely piece to inherit!
Oh, poor Finn!! I would pull out your fetch toy for you!! ;)ReplyDelete
I used to own a BEAUTIFULLY UNIQUE German Shepherd/Golden Retriever cross.... Her name was Shadow.... She died nearly two years ago. Shadow had that "blond" fur of yours.... ;op
Hi Finn, glad you mum realised what you wanted. Is it a sewing machine table? I think our angel Nana had one when my mum was a little girl. Have a great weekend. No worries, and love, Stella and RoryReplyDelete
Oh my goodness...you were trying so hard to tell her that your toy was there and she just didn't see it. Glad that you got it now!ReplyDelete
Gopher loves 'hiding' tennis balls under stuff.ReplyDelete


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In the first piece of exciting literary news to come out of Comic-Con today, Neil Gaiman has announced that for the first time in ten years he will return to write a new release of his acclaimed graphic novel series The Sandman.
In Gaiman's video announcement above, aired before a stunned crowd at Vertigo's Comic-Con panel last night, the author explains his impetus for returning to the series after so long. He says that, dating all the way back to The Sandman's first issue, there was always an untold story waiting to be filled in:
When I finished writing The Sandman, there was one tale still untold. The story of what had happened to Morpheus to allow him to be so easily captured in The Sandman #1, and why he was returned from far away, exhausted beyond imagining, and dressed for war. It was a story that we discussed telling for Sandman's 20th anniversary… but the time got away from us.
The Sandman was first published in November 1988, which marks 2013 as the series' 25th anniversary. Gaiman notes that this fact makes next year seem "a particularly good year to tell this story." Much to Gaiman's fans excitement, the tale will finally have its telling.
In its 25 year lifetime, The Sandman has grown to become one of the most popular comic book series of all time, topping the New York Times bestseller list more than once (one of only three graphic novels to ever do so). This time around, artist JH Williams will provide the story's artwork, a sneak peek of which is shown above.
The mini-series' title is as yet unannounced. Print and digital copies will be published on the same day by Vertigo sometime late next year.


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|Our half bath remodel is finally 99% completed! I was so excited to show y'all how it turned out after a little over 3 months of pulling it all together.
|Before I share the new half bath here are a few pics of how it looked before hand.
|The sink has been something I wanted to change out since we moved in. With small kiddos those pointy edges are not kind and I can not tell you how many tears were shed from the boys hitting them. If you would like to see more of the half bath before you can click on over to here.
|Welcome to our new and improved half bath! Be prepared for MAJOR picture overload.
|This is a tiny space and I honestly thought I would have issues getting good pictures for y'all so I was surprised when I saw they came out pretty well.
|Rug from Target.
|Shelving I made and just love. As matter of fact I have plans on making some more for our laundry room which I am in the midst of redoing. They are super simple to make and are such a great impact for very little cost.
|I decided since it is the holidays I was just going to go ahead and decorate in here for the season.
|Vintage turquoise Ball canning jars I purchased back in June while we were in Peridido Key,Fl.
|Here is the other view into the half bath.
|I love its rustic chippy goodness.
|Here is where the major changes happened. The light fixture was switched out to this old school style with milk glass globes. I took down the builder grade mirror and replaced it with this vintage mirror I bought for just $10!
|I love its time worn beauty.
|Of course we changed out the sink. I had been eyeing this sink for almost two years now. I knew as soon The Hubster agreed to me starting this project that this was the sink for in here.
|I have to share this cute soap dispenser that The Hubster's cousin Tina made for us. It was a Pinterest project she found and it came out great. I just adore it!
|So there ya have our half bath makeover! It took a a bit longer than I had hoped but I had to do it a little at a time. It also cost a tad more than I had hoped but that is always what happens when you do a remodel of sorts. Speaking of which remember how I said the bath is 99% complete? Well the other 1% is going to cost us/me $100 to finish and once I get over being irritated I will call the plumber in to remedy the situation. Ends up that our water lines are too short to reach the faucet so our pretty new sink does not work yet. We have some type of stupid water line system that requires a crimping tool to cut off the lines and attach the extensions. I have been told it takes literally all of 5 minutes to do so you can see why I am irked that it will cost $100. I am hoping that I can find somebody to do it for far less. In the meantime though I have been known to just go and sit down in here and ponder life and what project I am going to start on next. Toilet closed of course!;)
Thanx for stopping by and lasting thru all of my reveal!:)
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In Any Event, You Can Zero Out Your Waste – November 12, 2012
Maggie Gainer
Special to the Eye
ARCATA – Since the North Country Fair, Zero Waste Humboldt has been contacted by several organizations seeking technical assistance for reducing waste at their upcoming events.
Recently formed, Zero Waste Humboldt is enthusiastic about the comprehensive zero waste approach to reducing waste and working with local businesses, governments and community groups.
As you rethink how you organize your event in order to reduce waste, you must start with a commitment to: sufficient advance planning, an emphasis on prevention strategies first, a few extra volunteers to help make the initial changes the first year, upfront investment (usually recovered in disposal cost savings over time), integrating zero waste principles in all aspects of contracts, entertainment, purchases, facility selection, event promotion, and careful recordkeeping to monitor and measure your progress.
There are many considerations, but here are a few basic pointers for your zero waste event planning. Some strategies work better than others depending on the numbers of people you will host and whether this is a one time only event, held annually or more often.
1. Pack-it-in; pack-it-out has become eco-chic. Offer a small incentive for attendees to bring their own cup or mug and cloth napkin.
2. Local rental businesses have everything –cups, glasses, plates, cloth napkins, etc. in several sizes– to reserve in advance. Some caterers are all set up to provide the utensils, plates, containers, linens that you need.
3. For a small fee and a hefty returnable deposit, another organization, local government, church, school, grange, etc. may be willing to lend you what you need.
4. Line up volunteer dishwashers.
5. If you plan to regularly hold events, consider buying everything you need from one of our fine local secondhand shops. A joint purchase of two or three organizations to share rewashable dinnerware might be a cost-effective, practical way to go.
6. Your local recycling and garbage collectors will advise you on how to prepare your recyclable discards for them, and you can contact Humboldt Waste Management Authority for advice on recovering food waste and compostable material.
7. Measure and record how much and what types of waste you generate at each event so that you can monitor your progress in the never-ending quest to reduce waste.
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Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology has a paper by Fumiya Tanabe of Sociotechnical Systems Safety Research Institute published online on March 28, 2012.
Tanabe is the one who said last August that there was a second "meltdown" in Reactor 3 on March 20-21, in which the melted fuel dropped through the Reactor Pressure Vessel onto the floor of the Containment Vessel, releasing a large amount of radioactive materials that caused the spikes in radiation levels in wide areas in Tohoku and Kanto.
In November last year (11/19/2011), he also disclosed his analysis of the Reactor 2 Suppression Chamber, and concluded that it may have been damaged by the earthquake. This paper looks to be that analysis, now peer reviewed and published.
The paper was received on December 9, 2011, accepted final version for publication on January 24, 2012.
So it is possible to disclose the outline of the analysis before submitting the paper to a peer-reviewed magazine, and the magazine has no problem accepting and publishing the paper. (All those researchers in Japan and elsewhere in the world who withheld their data, analysis, research until their papers were published by peer-review magazines, what would you say now?)
From Taylor & Francis Online:
A scenario of large amount of radioactive materials discharge to the air from the Unit 2 reactor in the Fukushima Daiichi NPP accident
Fumiya Tanabe
Based on an analysis of the measured data with review of calculated results on the core melt accident, a scenario is investigated for large amount of radioactive materials discharge to the air from the Unit 2 reactor. The containment pressure suppression chamber (S/C) should have failed until the noon on 12 March 2011 only by seismic load due to the huge earthquake on 11 March or by combination of seismic deterioration and dynamic load due to steam flowing-in through safety relief valve. Opening of the two safety relief valves (SRVs) at 14 March 21:18 should have resulted in discharge of large amount of radioactive materials through the S/C breach with the measured air dose rate peak value of 3.130E-3Sv/h at 21:37 near the main gate of the site. The containment drywell (D/W) should have failed at 15 March 06:25, at the cable penetration seal due to high temperature caused by the fuel materials heating up on the floor of the D/W, which had flowed out from the reactor pressure vessel. Then large amount of radioactive materials should have been discharged through the D/W breach with the measured air dose rate peak value of 1.193E-2Sv/h at 15 March 9:00.
Is Tanabe saying that venting of Reactor 2 on the night of March 14, 2011, with the Suppression Chamber already broken due to the earthquake, caused a discharge of a large amount of radioactive materials through the Suppression Chamber?
What a tragi-comical sequence. Amateur hours.
If the Reactor 2 Suppression Chamber was already damaged by the earthquake, what about other Reactors?


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Monday, 10 January 2011 07:42 AM EST
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie gives his first State of the State speech tomorrow after saying he may cut Medicaid and employee benefits to eliminate a $10.5 billion budget deficit in the second-wealthiest U.S. state.
Christie, who took office a year ago, said he'll tell lawmakers in his address that New Jersey remains in a financial crisis and they need to maintain fiscal controls as employment and revenue recover slowly from the longest recession since the 1930s. The Medicaid program "is one of the things we're going to have to look at," Christie said in a Jan. 4 interview.
The 48-year-old chief executive joined 28 other Republican governors asking President Barack Obama and congressional leaders last week for permission to reduce Medicaid outlays below federally prescribed levels. New Jersey budgeted $3.1 billion for Medicaid in the fiscal year ending June 30 and was scheduled to receive $1.1 billion in federal stimulus funding, according to the Treasury Department.
New Jersey has run consecutive annual deficits for a decade. The governor told reporters in December that balancing the next budget will be even tougher than the current plan.
"First and foremost is continuing on the path of fiscal discipline," he said in his wood-paneled office last week at the Statehouse in Trenton. "I'm not going to allow us to revert back to the wild spending that we've had for the last decade. It's going to take years for us to dig out of this hole."
Deficits Nationwide
States face deficits that may reach $140 billion in the next fiscal year, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities in Washington. The 2009 economic-stimulus bill and the health-care overhaul signed by Obama last year bar governors from reducing eligibility for the state-administered health-care program for the poor below a prescribed income level.
From New York to Washington, governors are targeting Medicaid for cuts. New York's new governor, Democrat Andrew Cuomo, said he wants to lower spending $2.1 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported. Rick Scott, the recently elected Republican governor of Florida, said he is looking to trim the program by $1.8 billion.
Christie may face a deficit next year equivalent to more than a third of his current budget, the nonpartisan Office of Legislative Services projected in July. In the current year, he closed a record $10.7 billion gap by slashing school and municipal aid and skipping a $3 billion pension payment.
$900 Million
The governor didn't say how much he may take out of Medicaid. He said he anticipates seeking to trim costs through unspecified efficiencies, after leaving spending on the program intact last year because of the economic slump.
New Jersey will also lose $900 million in federal funding for Medicaid next year, even as it's required to maintain benefits, under conditions of the stimulus act, according to Michael Drewniak, Christie's spokesman.
"That's a big hole to have to fill," Christie said. "We're going to have to look at all options. We have to figure out how we're going to deal with that."
Christie said in the interview he'll also seek savings in contract talks with state workers' unions later this year, especially since the Jan. 1 expiration of a no-layoff agreement instituted by his predecessor, Democrat Jon Corzine. He declined to provide details. Christie said he'd prefer to make moves through negotiations with unions, not executive order.
"I think collective bargaining is an important process and I want to participate in it fully with the workers of this state so they feel whatever deal they end up getting is a fair deal," Christie said. "If I have to resort to other tactics, I will, because I have to balance this budget."
State of State
Christie ousted Corzine in the November 2009 election as voters disapproved of the one-term Democrat's handling of the state's economy. Christie took office on Jan. 19, seven days after Corzine gave his valedictory State of the State speech.
While Christie seeks to cut Medicaid and worker benefits this year, he said he may resume contributions to the state's pension system for the first time since 2008, when Corzine made a partial payment of $1 billion. The fund had assets to cover 62 percent of its obligations as of June 30, down from 66 percent a year earlier, according to Treasury Department data.
New Jersey's pension deficit increased $8.05 billion, or 18 percent, this year to $53.9 billion, from $45.8 billion as of June 2009. The state has failed to make actuarially recommended contributions since 2003, according to bond documents. The funding shortage was $28.3 billion in 2007.
Benefits Overhaul
Christie said the pension deficit would have grown this year even if he made the $3 billion recommended payment. He said his ability to make a $512 million contribution next fiscal year will depend on the state's financial condition.
"There's a benefit problem," Christie said. "We need to get at the benefits and we need to get realistic with folks and tell them the truth: promises were made that can't be kept. We need to go after the drivers of these costs."
In September, Christie proposed undoing a 9 percent pension increase enacted in 2001, raising the retirement age and freezing cost-of-living raises for retirees. The governor said he will push the Democratic-led Legislature to pass a measure requiring employees to contribute 8.5 percent of salaries toward pensions, up from 5.5 percent now.
As the economic recovery took hold, the state collected 3.8 percent more revenue in the first five months of the fiscal year than projected as income taxes ran almost 13 percent above estimates, Treasurer Andrew Sidamon-Eristoff said on Dec. 14.
Work Remains
The increase may not herald the end of lean times for the state, Christie and Sidamon-Eristoff said. It may be a one-time infusion as high-income filers avoided potentially higher rates that were averted when Congress approved an extension of the Bush-era tax cuts.
"Imposing fiscal discipline is not a one-year fix," Christie said.
During his first year in office Christie enacted a 2 percent cap on the growth of New Jersey's property taxes, which at an average of $7,281 are the highest in the U.S. He also placed a threshold on school superintendents' pay and limited at 2 percent raises given to police and firefighters by arbitrators when contact negotiations break down.
Getting the economy moving, as well as calls for austerity and job creation, also will dominate the speech, Christie said. The governor will also push a proposal to make it easier for school districts to fire their worst teachers and base pay on student performance.
Christie needs to get lawmakers to approve the remaining items in his "toolkit" of measures designed to help schools and municipalities stay within the new cap, which took effect this year, said Brigid Harrison, a professor of law and politics at Montclair State University. The proposals would cap contract awards and curb payouts for unused sick-leave and vacation days.
"It's the difference between his being able to achieve political success and just being another politician with promises to lower property taxes," she said.
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Northern Pakistan - Part 2
Shandur pass (3700m). The border between Gilgit-Baltistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
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Mosque, Chitral bazar. Tirich Mir in the background (7708m).
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Chitral bazar.
Tea stall. Chitral Bazar.
Worker and shoe repairman, Chitral bazar.
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A Kalasha girl. Her mother is sewing a new kalash dress.
The Kalash (or Kalasha) people are only around 4100 individuals. They live in 3 isolated valleys in the far north-eastern part of Pakistan (a few kilometers from the Afghan border). The valleys are called Bumburet, Rambur and Birir.
A Kalasha girl in her home.
In each valley the Kalash live in small villages. Each village is associated with one of many clans. A woman cannot marry a man from the same clan (exogamy).
A Kalasha girl. Her mother is working in the background.
The Kalash people have a unique culture that differs greatly from their Muslim neighbors. They speak a Dardic language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European language group.
A Kalasha girl and her mother.
The Kalash are a non-Muslim ethnic group. Their religion has similarities to older forms of Hinduism. Despite being a very small minority community, surrounded by Muslims on all sides, they are still able to sustain their religion and culture.
A Kalasha woman working with her son in the background.
The forefathers of the Kalasha may have migrated from the nearby Nuristan province in Afghanistan. Some speculate that they may be descendants from the soldiers of Alexander the Great.
A Kalsha man is chatting with his neighbors.
A Kalasha man outside his home.
A young Kalasha girl.
Two Kalasha girls.
A Kalasha lady standing in the door to her home.
Making bread.
Young Kalasha girls weaving.
Bringing the goats back home in the evening.
Feeding the family goats in the morning.
Helping baby goat to mothers milk.
Helping out with the goats in the evening.
Riding a bicycle on a Sunday morning.
Children playing.
A Young Kalasha girl.
A Kalasha girl and her little sister.
A Kalasha lady and the family kitchen.
Kalasha lady in a shop.
Kalasha girl. Grandmother working in the background.
It is early morning and the mother is preparing breakfast for the family. It is soon time to go to school for the children.
A small Kalasha girl with her mother working and her brother in the background.
Kalasha girls. Ready for school.
A Kalasha girl preparing to go to school.