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A two-day training programme on Moving Through Conflict.
"Seek first to understand, and then to be understood." – S. Covey
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Bhubaneswar: Perturbed over slow pace of Crime Branch investigation into suicide of Parala Palace manager Ananga Manjari Patra and her three family members, the relatives of the deceased have sought intervention of Odisha Government for expediting probe and met Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik in this regard.
The family said that they were forced to knock on the doors of the Chief Minister of the State as there has been an inordinate delay in the probe.
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A six-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) formed by the Crime Branch is investigating the matter.
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I am pre-writing my recipe for today because I already know it's awesome. We are having homemade chili. This is the recipe that my friend Crystal gave me and there is no secret. One pound beef (we use turkey of course), 2 cans tomatoes, one can red beans, one can black beans and one packet chili seasoning. Brown the meat, put everything in the crock pot and cook it on high for 4 hours or low for 8. Delish!
Now, let me talk about a few other things of note. Today, I took Anakin to see Beverly Hills Chihuahua. Stop laughing at me. Ok seriously. Stop laughing. Anyway, the movie was not good. It was interminably long but I have to be honest, the story was... ok. Not that bad. But not good either. For a kids movie, it was ok but had way too much dialogue and not enough action in it. It was a lot like Milo and Otis from when I was a kid and I hated that movie.
But, on a positive note, I took Anakin in big boy pants, and he did great! He told me he had to potty when he needed to, and he totally went on the big potty! I'm so happy! Also, yesterday, he went twice with big boy pants on by himself! He pulled, them down, went potty and then pulled them back up before he ever even told me he had to go. This is awesome! This is huge progress! The trick was, I bought him some Thomas and Spider Man underwear. Now, on my mom's behalf, she told me to do this all along. My issue was that they are too big. Sesame Street was the only brand I could find in 18 months (even though my kid is 2 and a half!) but I figured, pants that are too big that make him go are better than me cleaning pee off my carpet! So, it worked!
Anyway, thats whats going on in this journey somewhat familiar! See you guys tomorrow!
Friday, October 10, 2008
1 comment:
- stella g. said...
good job kid! and great tip from mom. i'll have to remember that one in, like, 5 years...
- October 12, 2008 at 7:49 AM
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Free legal advice clinics are being held for member First Nations of Nokiiwin. Legal information provided for family court, criminal court, and general inquiries. Contact your band office or Nokiiwin for more information or to book an appointment.
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The objective of both our foreign policy and our military should be straightforward: To protect us from harm and to allow us to exercise our freedoms.
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The March issue of Ex Libris Reviews is now on-line.
Along with my diet, I'm supposed to walk for 30 minutes every day. It took me a couple of days to work out a nice route, but I've been keeping up with it pretty well. The two big obstacles have been the rain and boredom. I solved the rain problem at the end of President's Day weekend, when it rained pretty much non-stop--I went out and got us a family membership at the local YMCA. On days when it rains I can go in and use a treadmill for half-an-hour instead. It's not the same, but I guess it's better than nothing.
So far as boredom goes, well, I've got my iPod. While walking, I prefer to listen to something with a bit of a narrative thread to it, so I started with my Monty Python albums, followed by Flanders & Swann (At the Drop of a Hat and At the Drop of Another Hat). At that point I was in danger of running dry, and so I decided to check out Audible.com's collection of audiobooks. And just on the off-chance, I did a search, and wonder of wonders, what did they have but....
Well, you see, one of my favorite books is The Screwtape Letters, by C.S. Lewis. And it so happens that ten or fifteen years ago John Cleese, of all people, recorded an absolutely wonderful two-cassette reading of the book. Our copy died of old age, and I've never found a replacement. I've checked Amazon occasionally, and they will indeed get you a used copy--for $100. That's One Hundred Dollars. When last I checked, they had 1 copy for sale and two buyers waiting. So when I went to Audible.com, I naturally took a look. And in fact, they have it available for download for $10. That's Ten Dollars. (You do the math.)
So this last Friday it rained, and I went to the gym and used the treadmill to Flanders & Swann, and that evening I downloaded The Screwtape Letters. And the next morning, my two boys decided to go on my walk with me. And on Sunday, my younger boy, James, wanted to come again. And he wanted to come walk with me today, too. And while we've been walking, we've talked about all manner of things: flood control dams, and wells, and the water table, and how we learn, and power generation, and wind mills, and hydro-electric turbines, and salmon, and golden retrievers.
Meanwhile, ol' Uncle Screwtape is languishing on the iPod, unlistened to. But I'll tell you, I'm not bored. If necessary, Uncle Screwtape can languish until the next rainy day.
I suppose I should give an update on my awful diet.
Oddly, Jane's having a harder time with it than I am. I'm over the head and body aches of the first week, and I'm feeling rather good; I'm just bored with the food I have to eat. Jane, on the other hand, is sick to death of providing it, for which I do not blame her. When my next appointment with my doctor rolls around, Jane says she's going to do her best to get the doctor to expand the list of acceptable foods a bit, just to make life easier on the cook.
For my part, I don't want to get involved. I find I do better if I simply eat what's put in front of me, and try not to think about it too much. Fortunately, I'm not a gourmet; not thinking about it is easier than I would have guessed.
I guess there is one milestone I should note: today I went to a real restaurant for the first time since I started my diet just over two weeks ago; it was a goodbye-lunch for one of my co-workers. We went to a local Persian barbecue place where I had something called "chicken barg"--a chicken breast pounded into a long, flat
ribbon and barbecued on a skewer. Now, frankly, seasoned chicken breast is seasoned chicken breast; I've been eating a lot of it recently, and it's getting a bit tiresome. But this was still pretty good--and it means that Jane and I can actually get a baby-sitter and go out to eat somewhere. Woo-hoo!
It's been quite a while since I've reviewed a Dalziel/Pascoe novel; mostly because I acquired its predecessor, Dialogues of the Dead, while I was in Australia a couple of years ago, and apparently the Commonwealth countries get them before we do. Consequently, it's been a long dry spell.
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The boys loved Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and so I immediately went looking for the sequel, which I dimly remembered from my childhood. On the whole I'm rather sorry I did, because it's a lesser book altogether. The book contains two mostly disconnected stories of only moderate interest, a few verbal gems, and vast dollops of cynicism with regard to the office of the President of the United States. It's not that I regard the President to be beyond criticism; it's just that I don't really think cynicism about our society and its institutions is proper in a book I'm reading to an eight-year-old and his little brother. My fault; I should have re-read it myself before starting it with David and James.
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It's that last bit that makes the premise so remarkable. It requires extremely high-tech, the kind that's indistinguishable from magic, to breed elves who live forever, orcs who will fight whenever, and dragons that can fly whereever, and yet given the pre-industrial setting that tech can't be available to the general public. If it were, everyone in the book would be a wizard.
And so, in fact, they were. Earth was a veritable utopia. Every citizen could spend his time doing anything that interested him, with every need met by the nanites of the 'Net. Even food production was no issue--Mother, the vast AI that maintained and protectedthe 'Net, had records of every kind of dish one could wish for, and the nanites could assemble it from atoms in moments. Indeed, one could have one's body sculpted into almost any form
And then came a division in the Council, the small group of individuals who oversaw Mother and the rest of the 'Net. The division turned deadly, and soon the two factions were fighting in earnest to wrest full control of the 'Net from each other. As all power reserves were drawn upon to this end, power became unavailable to the rest of the population--and all that nice, juicy high-tech magic became unavailable. Civilization crashed over night. Only a very few people retained any kind of use of the 'Net. The remainder were forced to learn to grub for food and build shelters out of natural wood, and all manner of archaic unnatural acts.
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As I say, it's an interesting book, with a number of memorable characters; and though there are some parts I disliked, I plan to keep an eye out for the sequel.
Ian (whose blog is not the only one I read, though for some reason it's one of the few I regularly link to) today posted an excerpt from L. Sprague de Camp's beautiful essay "On Thud and Blunder", which de Camp has made available on-line at the SFWA website. I've got a copy of it in an old de Camp anthology, but I hadn't read it in years.
The essay is a call for authors of heroic fantasy, aka "swords and sorcery", to spend more time getting the details right, with lots of examples of things authors and would-be authors get wrong. For example: nobody rides stallions; it's dangerous and unnecessary. You can't ride a horse at a gallup all day long; you must alternate gaits, and probably you'll need to bring some remounts with you, and there are lots of other things you'd better do or your beast is likely to drop dead. It's extremely dark in a city at night when there are no electric lights, much darker than in an open field, and there are just as many interesting things to step in. Swords will not, in general, cut through either mail or plate armor no matter how much you'd like them to. Like that. It's a fun article, and it makes me want to go out and read some more period history so's I can set fiction in it.
Better than that, it's just one entry on the SFWA's Writing page. There are quite a few other essays there; many concern practical matters like how to find an agent, how to submit a manuscript, and so forth, but many concern the craft of writing fiction itself. If you have any desire to write fiction, I suggest you hie yourself over there immediately, as it may save you trouble in the long run.
Update: Speaking of blunders, I attributed the essay to L. Sprague de Camp when in fact it's by Poul Anderson--no small mistake. The odd thing is that I distinctly remember reading this essay in an anthology of de Camp stories I've got. I don't have time to check it now, but of course it won't be there. Which leaves the question, where did I read it? I don't believe I have any corresponding Anderson anthology that it could be lurking in. Might it have been in one of the Flashing Swords anthologies? (Chuck, do you remember where the heck we read this? I remember you pointing it out to me....)
Update: My brother Charles assures me that I did read "On Thud and Blunder" in one of the Flashing Swords anthologies, except that the series wasn't entitled Flashing Swords, but rather Swords Against Darkness. In fact, it was in Swords Against Darkness #3, published in 1973, which he still has.
Do you ever have the feeling that sometime in the last decade you've stepped into an alternate time stream? I was sure the series was entitled Flashing Swords, and I'd have been willing to bet money that Swords Against Darkness was one of Fritz Leiber's Fahrd and Gray Mouser novels. I'm mistaken, of course, convicted in the court of Google and Amazon. Ah, well.
Some reasonably disjointed observations:
Well, I've now completed the first week of my diet. So far I haven't cheated on the diet, or been seriously tempted to, for which I thank the Good Lord. And also Jane, who's been making sure that I'm well fed even if on unusual things. And although we're still experimenting with new dishes there's been nothing else as bad as the Greenish-Brown Cylinders of Doom.
I've even been getting my 30 minutes of walking in every day, until today. Today it's raining, and we haven't worked out a solution for that yet. Either we're going to get a treadmill or a membership at the local YMCA, and most likely it will be the latter. That gives me an opportunity to use a treadmill on rainy days without giving it house room. Today, though, I have neither treadmill nor membership, and it's pouring, and there are frustrated drivers out there. I'm staying in here.
How I feel is actually kind of ironic. All week, I've felt like I had the flu. All the women at work have told me that it's normal to feel lousy during the first week of a diet, especially a no-carbs diet, because your body's craving that sugar. Today, though, I feel a lot better...except for that nasty cough that started to develop yesterday afternoon. I'm willing to attribute body aches and head aches to the diet, but the cough, I think, has to be due to a cold. Lovely.
Everything always happens at once. As it happens, today, tomorrow, and Tuesday are days when I simply have to be at work--my project's making a delivery, and if I'm not there to make sure that the correct hoops are jumped through by the correct seals (myself chief among them) there will be no end of grief. Fortunately I can more or less collapse this weekend.
Uneasy Money came as quite a pleasant surprise. It's a transitional work, published in 1916, before he'd fully constructed his world of farce and foolishness, and hence has a more realistic tone than the Jeeves or Blandings tales--indeed, except for a few short moments it isn't really a farce at all. On the other hand, the overly realistic atmosphere that mars the earlier A Gentleman of Leisure is completely missing.
In consequence, Uneasy Money falls into a category all of its own: it's a delightful romantic comedy written in Wodehouse' remarkable style. Because of the extra bit of realism, it matters that our hero marries the right girl, who is indeed a real peach, sweet, pretty, and capable of taking care of herself in every way that matters.
Our hero, William Lord Dawlish (Bill to everyone), is especially remarkable. Like many a Wodehouse leading man, he isn't the sharpest tack in the carpet; but he's solid. He has integrity--if it's not playing the game he simply won't do it. He'd love more than anything else to settle down and farm or something of the kind, but as impoverished peer he's got no money to invest, as a peer of any kind employers won't take him seriously, and he won't suck up to the kind of bounders who might advance his career for their own sakes.
It's a common scene: one of a pair of lovers is found in a seemingly compromising but actually innocent situation, and the other refuses even to listen, instead rushing off in a snit. (Don't you hate that?) Bill's the kind of guy who would listen--and assume his girl was telling him the truth, purely as a matter of course.
Anyway, I enjoyed this one thoroughly, which in this case means "more than usual for Wodehouse". Don't miss it.
Ramble 0.4 is now available for download at the Ramble Home Page. It has a number of major enhancements over Ramble 0.3.
Update: 7:29 PM: If you've already downloaded Ramble 0.4, you should do so again; the original version had a trivial error that breaks detection potions.
The more notable changes are as follows:
Visibility Model: The visibility model has changed. Instead of complete visibility, you now have persistent line-of-sight visibility; monsters are visible with strict line-of-sight within a 20-tile radius.
It's therefore no longer necessary to have a reduced viewport, and so the viewport is now twice as wide.
Combat Model: I've adopted a simplified version of the Angband combat model instead of the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons model I'd been using.
Monsters Galore: Partially as a result of adopting the Angband combat model, I now have monsters galore, and they get nastier the deeper you go. Most of them are roughly equivalent to Angband monsters in terms of combat statistics and general behavior.
Specifics of monster behavior still need to be worked out, and I need to add many, many more monsters to the game.
Equipment: You're now responsible for deciding what weapons and armor you'd like to use, buying them, and equipping them. There are many new kinds of weapon hand weapon and missile weapon, and many kinds of armor.
Level Design: There are some tweaks to level design, including one entirely new kind of level.
Regeneration of Health: You now get your health points back slowly over time, even without quaffing health potions.
Et Cetera: And of course there are a few surprises. You'll probably want to visit the Trouserville Public Library and see what the new commands are.
Ian says that this is good advice for screenwriters; I'd say it's good advice for software developers as well, and probably for anybody involved in doing creative work for a customer. In short, when asked to do something you think is a mistake, say "Yes." Then find out what they are hoping to get from it; they have a reason for asking. Then think about it, and see if you can figure a way to get them what they want. Then take your answer back to them.
Sometimes their request will be fatally flawed, but you'll be in a position to explain, patiently and without anger, just why it's a bad idea. Sometimes you'll find that your initial reaction was mistaken. And sometimes you'll be able to propose a better way to get them what they want. And no matter what the result is they know you've taken them seriously, and tempers will be much cooler without that big "No" hanging in the air.
As a side note, my favorite way of saying "You're mistaken" on such occasions is, "Actually, that turns out not to be the case."
Actually, things are going fairly well with my new diet, though I'm still undeniably grumpy about the whole thing. Jane's being wonderful about it, and is actively looking for ways to make my meals both tasty and varied, for which I am extremely (and vocally) grateful. (Jane's the cook in the family; I can scramble eggs OK, but I'm not allowed to eat any, so that doesn't help.)
However, it's clear to both of us that a number of her experiments are going to flame and burn (metaphorically speaking). Yesterday, for example, she fixed me four soy-based breakfast sausages from Trader Joe's. I'm fond of Trader Joe's, but sometimes they let ideology trump edibility, and this was such a case. I felt like Arthur Dent, being served something almost but not quite entirely unlike sausage.
I hasten to add, the problem wasn't simply that they were soy-based. Jane regularly buys some kind of microwavable vegetarian sausage patty that she makes for the kids. I've tried them, and while I don't like them much they do a pretty good job of mimicking real breakfast sausage. Not a really good job, but pretty good.
The four cylinders of doom I found on my plate, on the other hand, were like breakfast sausage in shape only. In taste and texture (and color!) they were like nothing on earth. We agreed not to try them again.
We salvaged breakfast, however, and lunch and dinner yesterday were really quite good, as were breakfast and lunch today. Dinner was another experiment, and something of a failure in that neither of us particularly liked it or would want to have it again; on the other hand, and we both cleaned our plates.
There will be many more experiments in the days to come, and some of them are bound to bomb; it can't be helped. But at least few even of the failures are likely to descend to the level of the cylinders of doom.
Meanwhile, Jane's being a trooper about the whole thing; and diet or no diet I'm an extremely lucky man to have her.
I have just been informed by my doctor that a number of important indicators are "too high" and must be reduced. I will not go into the sordid details, but part of it is that for the next two months I am to embark on a rather radical diet, something like the Atkins diet with the nice parts left out. As I said to Jane when I got home from the doctor's office, "I'm giving up food for Lent." This is combined with the usual suspects, i.e., regular exercise, diet supplements, and a check-up in one month's time.
I am put in mind of a short story by P.G. Wodehouse, entitled "The Juice of an Orange", in which the protagonist, one of the lower forms of life at a major Hollywood studio, is placed by his doctor on a rather special diet. For breakfast: the juice of an orange. For lunch: the juice of an orange. For dinner: the juice of an orange. Period. The effect is dramatic. Once a spineless yes-man, he becomes within mere weeks so thoroughly fed up with orange juice in specific and the world in general that through sheer bad temper he becomes the number two man at the studio.
Me, I don't even get orange juice.
I am, however, to walk for at least 30 minutes every day. After informing Jane of the catastrophe, I set out (iPod in pocket) to set a baseline. I went down the street, along past the elementary school, up another street to the local park, through the park and out the other side, and along a couple of other streets back to my house. Round trip time--18 minutes.
Did you know, it's very difficult to extend a brisk walk at the end of the loop? You have to do it in the middle, when you're less tired--and then, of course, you have no choice but to walk the additional distance home.
In most ways this is a typical Wodehouse farce, but it has a unique twist. Imposters are a dime a dozen in Wodehouse, but I've not previously run into a case where a gentleman goes to a country house pretending to be himself, and is terribly afraid lest anyone discover that he really is himself.
No Bertie, no Jeeves, no Blandings; this is yet another fine standalone novel, and it's Wodehouse, which really says all that's necessary.
Ramble's been taking up my blogging time for the last couple of days; and we've got house guests for the next week. Blogging might be slight for a few days.....
In Maze Generation 1 I discussed how to generate a rectangular "perfect" maze using the recursive backtracker algorithm, and gave a detailed implementation in Tcl. Here's a maze I generated in this way:
Perfect mazes can be fun to solve, but they really don't make very good dungeon levels. A perfect maze can be described as a tree: there's exactly one path from any given cell to any other cell, and there are no cycles--that is, you can't walk in a circle anywhere in the maze, and there are usually lots of dead ends, some of which are so short they're just annoying. On top of that, two cells on opposite sides of a wall might end up being quite a long walk from each other. This is frustrating if a detection spell has shown you a treasure hiding on the other side of the wall--which can be a good thing, actually, but not all the time. The dungeon's going to be frustrating enough, what with fierce beasts and horrible monsters and all, and so the dungeon itself should usually be just a bit friendlier, with fewer dead ends, especially short ones, and a fair number of cycles. So in this essay I'm going to describe several operations that can be performed on a perfect maze to make it more suitable for use as a dungeon level.
Sparsification: Building the maze involved carving out new rooms and adding them to the maze one by one. Sparsification--which I suppose could also be called pruning, though I like the word "sparsify"--is the process of removing all of the dead-end cells from the maze. The process can be repeated as many times as desired. The result is a maze with few short dead ends and many longy twisty passages. The basic algorithm is as follows:
You can also make the removal conditional, e.g., add the dead end cell to the Dead Ends list only 25% of the time.
Here are two views of the same maze, first as it was originally generated, and next after being sparsified twice. The effect on a larger maze is even more dramatic.
Connectification: Sparsification eliminates some short dead ends, and adds some dead space, which gives the maze an interesting texture; however, it doesn't add any cycles. For that we want to connectify the maze.
Like sparsification, connectification focuses on the dead ends in the maze; but instead of closing them off, it instead removes one of the three closed walls, connecting the room to another part of the maze. I find I get the best results if I usually pick the wall opposite the entrance to the cell. If that wall can't be used, then I pick one of the other walls randomly. The algorithm is as follows:
Here are two views of a maze, first as it was originally generated, and then connectified. As you'll see, it's much easier to get around in, but still nicely twisty.
As I hinted above, you can get interesting results by combining the two operations. Here are before and after shots of a maze which was sparsified twice and then connectified:
To my eye, that's really quite nice. Lots of long, snaky corridors that feed into one another, and one big dead-end at the lower left.
Now, if you've been paying attention there's a question that should have occurred to you; indeed, it should have occurred to you in my previous essay on mazes as well. The walls in these mazes I've been showing you are mere lines, separating square cells. But Ramble is a tile-based game--walls are represented by wall-tiles, which are necessarily one tile wide. In order to use one of these mazes as a dungeon level, then, I need to somehow convert it from a maze to a tile map.
As I explained in Maze Generation 1, a maze is a matrix of integers; the value in each cell indicates which walls have been opened. A tile map is also a matrix, but in this case each cell contains a value that indicates what kind of tile it is.
Now, there are many ways in which I could generate a tile map from any of the mazes I've shown in this essay; the most obvious is to add a floor tile for each room in the maze, a row of wall tiles for each horizontal wall in the maze, and a column of wall tiles for each vertical wall. If the original maze had size m*n, the new tile map will have size (2m+1)*(2n+1). The mazes shown above were all 10*20; the resulting tile map would then be 21*41.
Just to make it clearer, here's a picture of a tile map that's equivalent to a blank maze, that is, a maze in which none of the walls have been removed. As you can see, each room is separated from each adjacent room by a wall that's one tile wide:
The algorithm for converting a maze to a tile map is then as follows:
It's that easy. Here's a picture of a maze, sparsified twice and connectified, and the corresponding tile map:
Now that's just plain lovely, and a delight to wander about in. In a larger maze I'd probably want to add some large rectangular open spaces, just to connect things up even more.
I've got individual Tcl procs for each of these operations, naturally, but mostly I use a single command called tilemaze, which generates the maze and then modifies it as desired. It looks like this:
tilemaze M N ?options?
Where M and N are the number of rows and columns in the finished tile map (both must be odd), and the options allow you to:
The implementation of that last option is a bit of a hack, but it effectively what happens is that each wall removed during connectification gets turned into a door in the tile map.
And then when I actually want to generate a dungeon level, I call tilemaze with random options:
Every so often I modify these parameters a bit, but I find that they generate a nice wide range of tile maps. Water maps are especially interesting, because although water blocks movement, it doesn't block sight.
Did I mention that I've implemented incomplete visibility in the current development version?
It's a family joke that my mother-in-law grew up in prison. And the funniest part is, it's completely true--when she was a young girl her father, Barnett Huse, was the assistant prison warden at Folsom and later San Quentin prisons in California. As the Number Two man at the prison he was entitled to live with his family in a nice house that was actually inside the prison walls. They also had a houseboy, a Chinese man who was devoted to little Barbara. He was a convict, of course; according to Jane's family lore, he'd been a ring-leader in the Chinatown tong wars in San Francisco.
But I was speaking of little Barbara's father.
During WWII Barnett Huse was given command of Camp Roberts, a prisoner-of-war camp in the California desert. The POWs were Italian and German soldiers. The phrase "POW camp" has an ominous, alarming ring to it, but Camp Roberts was no Stalag 17; it wasn't even a Gitmo. There was no fence; the nearest water was 50 miles away, as Barnett informed new prisoners, and he was giving no hints as to the direction. If any prisoner wanted to run off to go looking for it, well, maybe somebody would find him before he perished of thirst. Meanwhile, here's a sack of fresh onions, and garlic, and other food stuffs; you get to cook for yourselves. Let us know when you've used up the onions, we'll get you some more.
Onions! Garlic! The prisoners hadn't had fresh vegetables in months. And they got three square meals a day, and they hadn't had that in months either. Truth to tell, I gather that few were all that eager to run off.
They were all released after the war, of course, and some of them stayed here; others returned home to Europe and later came back to the States to live.
Lest you should think I am painting an overly rosy picture, my mother-in-law has a letter to Barnett from a German officer, a doctor, who was an inmate of Camp Roberts. It's a remarkably warm, cordial letter; evidently the commandant and the doctor had become good friends.
But all of this is by way of introduction. Barnett and his family had a cocker spaniel named Judge; during the war, Judge stayed home with Barbara and her mother. Once at Camp Roberts, Barnett acquired a springer spaniel named Lady who accompanied him all over the camp, growling at prisoners who got too close. And on April 16th, 1945 Lady wrote a letter home. It's neatly typed, and I imagine she must have had some help. It reads as follows:
Dear Judge:
I trust that you will pardon my writing you this letter, for altho we haven't been introduced I'm sure that you must have heard about me. So that you will get some idea of what I really look like, I'm having some pictures inclosed which were taken with the man we both manage - the fellow who likes to think that he is our master. Now these pictures don't particularly do me justice - they were taken at a time when the Mess Hall was open for business and I just couldn't get my mind on the silly business of a picture when I could have been over at that open door waiting for some chow. So, most of the pictures will show me sitting down, this being the only position where they could keep me semi-still and looking at the man with the camera. I've been told that you like to eat - well, it's my favorite pastime too - and I don't believe in letting anything interfere with it. however, when we do meet I can only hope that you remember that I'm a Lady and get out of my way when there is FOOD in the offing - otherwise I'm pretty handy with my teeth for other purposes than eating. Mostly my disposition is very good, and I hope you're the same. But, then I guess I just can't expect too much, considering the family we belong to; they are enuf to spoil the manners of any dog.
I've had a pretty busy day keeping track of this master of ours; made some inspections with him, only places I miss going with him are into the mess halls - damn it! Right now it is time for us to take a short walk and then I'll crawl under his bed. By the way, do you snore much? They tell me that I snore like a freight train, but my master reaches down under the bed and swats me and I turn over and keep quiet till he goes back to sleep.
Sure hope I get to see you before very long - I'd like to look over the collection of bones in your back yard. Good night now, give my love to your two Mistresses and tell 'em our master loves them very much also.
Love and best wishes, from
The February Issue of Ex Libris Reviews is now on-line.
Actually, it's been on-line for a couple of days, but I forgot to post a notice.
Ian still thinks it's remarkable that I'd not previously read Dashiell Hammett, but takes exception to my claim never to have seen any of the film adaptations of his books. In particular, he's sure I must have seen A Fistful of Dollars, which is based on Kurosawa's Yojimbo, which is based on Hammett's The Glass Key.
Well, yes. Yes, I have. Just a year or so ago. And since I saw it with a buddy who's a Kurosawa fan, I knew about that link as well (though I've not seen Yojimbo yet). But you know, the credits for A Fistful of Dollars don't say "A competent Italian ripoff of a Japanese Masterpiece inspired by an OK Hollywood picture based on a book by Dashiell Hammett."
Really, they don't.


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Last year, 8 days before Christmas, Ted DuPuis, founder and pilot of Cloud Nine Rescue Flights, made his fifth and final trip from St. Croix, U.S.V.I., in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, transporting orphaned cats and dogs from the ASPCA's emergency shelter to mainland rescue groups, where they would be made available for adoption.
Of the 24 precious cargo on that last flight, a pair of kittens had already been adopted by Ted's co-pilot, Steven Thomas. They occupied a crate near the front of the twin-engine turboprop plane.
"When we were in cruise mode, we took them out and played with them," recalls Ted, who has flown more than 2,500 animals to their rescue over the past 10 years via the all-volunteer, nonprofit organization.
Saving Lives in St. Croix
Ted — who in 2011 transported 52 cats to Seattle after the Joplin, Missouri, tornado — flew 2 back-to-back trips in November and 3 in December from St. Croix to the U.S., relocating a total of 112 animals.
At a temporary shelter on St. Croix, Ted had watched as Steven went about selecting a kitten to take home to his family. Steven intended to adopt just 1, and his strategy was simple: "I'd put my hand in the pen with the kittens, and the friendliest and most affectionate one would be the one I'd choose."
"But," he explains, "these 2 immediately came over and wouldn't stop playing with my hand while wrestling each other at the same time. It was perfect, since my 2 boys at home are also playful and inseparable."
Steve and Ted's Excellent Adventures
Steven, a commercial-rated hobby pilot who works for LXDX, and Ted, who works in the aviation industry, have known each other since they first learned to fly.
"I knew when I started flying I wanted to give back to community with my aviation skills," says Ted, who volunteered at his local animal shelter and adopted his first dog when he started flying. "The more I did it, the more I liked it."
Unless called in to help during a disaster, Ted typically flies 2 transports a month. He is present for every Cloud Nine flight.
Ted and his family have several rescued animals, including a retired racing greyhound, cats, fish and a bunny. But he resists the urge to adopt animals from his transports.
"I know how it feels to want to take them all home," Ted explains. "But through transport I can save a lot more. There's a never-ending need to get animals out of overpopulated areas to places where they can find homes. And there are few things in life where you can have that level of certainty about the impact you're having. It's extremely rewarding."
"When Ted said they needed help getting animals out and supplies in, I immediately jumped at the chance," adds Steven. "This was one of those times where I felt I could personally make a difference."
Home Sweet Home
On December 17, the plane was loaded with animals for the last time of the year.
As it headed into the skies, the meows and barks on board subsided, and the cabin grew quiet. "The animals always settle down," Ted says. "I think rescued animals handle transport better than existing pets. They've gone through so much already and are used to uncertainty."
The next day, at the Thomas home, Christmas came early. "There were lots of joyful tears," Steven recalls. "We love animals, but there had been a hole in my wife's heart since her previous cat, Guinevere, passed away."
The new feline additions to the family were quickly named by Steven's young sons, who chose Wheatley and Fus Ro Dah (Fus for short), both based on video games. The family's other pets include 8 hens and a rooster — also named after video game characters — who free-range in the yard, as well as rescue dogs Yuna and Cloud.
"What Wheatley and Fus love most is wrestling with our dogs," says Steven. "We attribute it to them being raised with all the puppies at the temporary shelter in St. Croix."
For both Ted and Steven, a feeling of euphoria greets them every time a Cloud Nine Rescue Flight's wheels touch down.
"Arriving at the receiving destinations is a great feeling," Ted says. "These are animals that would have died for whatever reason, and we've brought them to a place where they have an almost 100 percent chance of adoption."
"It's our way of using what we're most passionate about to help others," adds Steven. "All these dogs and cats want is to be loved, and there's nothing greater we could share with the world."
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Anita Kelso Edson has been on the Media & Communications team at the ASPCA for more than 12 years. In her previous role, she spent six years as director of publicity for the SPCA of Texas in Dallas.


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For more information, watch this video on the Real Time Race:
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*Why is there unruliness in the legal profession in India?* (Part 3)
*By Balbir Singh Sooch, Advocate, Ludhiana*
*Legal Profession caught between Politics and Professionalism: Will the Real Lawyer Please 'Stand Up'? Written By Barrister Tureen Afroz:*
*Gone are the days when legal profession used to be socially considered as a noble profession.*
*The image attached to the legal profession, once held high in the eyes of the people, is now under increasing attack, mostly by the lawyers themselves.*
*Common men used to look up to the lawyers as an expert of law as well as a social engineer, standing for the cause of humanity and voicing against various social, political and economic injustice.*
*Social image of the lawyers was thus to be equated with those of a real hero, who would always be on toe for guarding mass conscience. Lawyers were seen as successful vocal leaders of many social movements against exploitation, social, economic and political. People's confidence and respect for the legal profession was so high that a lawyer in a family would surely add to its social reputation.*
*However, the social image of lawyers is very much in crisis these days and that should alarm not only the profession but also the society, at large.*
*The nobility attached to the legal profession demands certain "professional duties" to be performed by the lawyers. The lawyers' professional duties and responsibilities can be categorized into four different groups:*
*Duty towards the Court: A lawyer is said to be an officer of the court. It is his paramount duty to assist the court to meet the end of justice. The lawyers are not to misguide the court or to intentionally obstruct the course of justice just to benefit his fraudulent client. They should avoid any kind of corrupt practices that might help them to win the case in hand.
The lawyers should remember that they are required to perform their professional duties in such a way that common men's respect in the justice system is maintained at high level all the time.*
*Duty towards the Client: A lawyer should provide his best professional service to uphold the cause of his client and to use his expertise in assuring justice to his client from the court. The efficiency, with which a lawyer would represent his client, should never be compromised. The lawyers should utilize their 'due diligence' in handling their clients' case. They are expected to further the cause of their clients with utmost sincerity and to avoid any conflict of interest. Moreover, the lawyers should maintain the confidentiality of their clients' cases so that the matter does not get prejudiced.*
*Duty towards the Colleagues: Lawyers have certain professional responsibilities towards his colleagues, no matter whether they are associates, senior or junior, or lawyers of the opposite litigating party. Lawyers should always be respectful to each other and should maintain a healthy working environment both in the chamber and in the court premises.
It is against professional ethics to criticize the efficiency of other colleague lawyers or to speak ill about them in public.*
*Duty towards the Society: The lawyers are considered to be social engineers. They have a duty towards the society at large. As respected citizens of the country, the lawyers should behave in such a way so that the legal profession stands as a model profession in the society.*
*Lawyers should of course raise their voice against any injustice inflicted upon innocents. They all should work, both individually and collectively, to establish rule of law in the society. Lawyers, as experts in law, should know that their views do influence public opinion and as such, they should guard against mis-utilization of their image in the society.*
*Why is there unruliness in the legal profession in India?* (Part 3)


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First Impressions/Review: Last ~ Episodes 1-4
I wanted to start watching Last earlier, but i had to wait for a welcome amount of episodes and subtitles to appear on the horizon for my watching attempt to take place. Since the romantic comedy factor doesn't seem to work as expected, especially during summertime, there's always comfort into darkness. Since My Beautiful Bride has just reached the end i needed a substitution to fill in the void and Last seems to be offering the whole package even though i am only 4 episodes deep in its degrading and elevating world where hierarchy matters.
After My Love Eun Dong ended, Last feels like a grandiose attempt on jTBC's behalf with a strong and big in numbers cast giving life to a demanding storyline with many background stories lurking in the background. It's based on Kang Hyeong Gyu's same-titled web-comic. I love dramas with so many broken figures who haven't overcome their burden. On the contrary, it's an inseparable part of them growing deep within like a parasite along with the host, day by day, but that's what makes them stronger. They're not alone, when you have so much hurt in one hand, on the other hand lie many villainous figures whose ambitions and hatred are immense, it's the perfect counterweight!
Last is what the title says, it's the story of a man, Jang Tae Ho (Yoon Kye Sang), who was a rising force in fund management. He had dreams and ambitions and a pompous plan in the making, a plan that would establish him in the elite of his field with enviable benefits lying ahead. However, information was leaked, the whole project turned out to be a failure and he was almost murdered whereas his partner and friend, Park Min Soo (Park Hyuk Kwon), didn't make it. Between the joker and the king, in a moment's decision a friend was lost and Tae Ho had to forget life the way it used to be and become a part of the last link in the chain of survival.
He turns into an outcast in order to survive and he becomes a part of a homeless world in the outskirts of life. Trust is a word that doesn't belong inside his dictionary anymore and he's always on the run for his own life as he can't afford to get caught since it would mean the ultimate end of him. He gets close to a few people since loneliness would make his life way harsher, but soon he finds out there's hierarchy in the homeless society as well! Once he stands for his own rights he finds himself in trouble and it feels like he got transferred from one level of hell to another.
All of his memories pass by his mind as he tries to adjust to this new reality. Even though he refuses to pace with the homeless universe's flow, the loss of his prior life and the fact that he became the last one in life's hierarchy never forget to force their presence as he tries to survive day by day. Suddenly and out of nowhere he managed to take out of the picture one of the Seoul Sevel, Snake Eye (Jo Jae Yun), who was imposing his presence upon the homeless in the district where Tae Ho had found refuge. Tae Ho became number 7 in the homeless hierarchy, a palpable and active form of hierarchy within the vast pyramid of society where different types of hierarchies struggle for the upper hand.
◎ ~ Seoul Seven hierarchy.
∠ ~ Number 7: Jang Tae Ho (Yoon Kye Sang)
Even though he was denying his homeless condition and was refusing to adjust to his new reality, Tae Ho managed to become the 7th head of Seoul Seven, an organization by the homeless for the homeless which in fact drains the already drained members of the homeless society. The higher the position the greater the benefits. Tae Ho intends to reclaim his life and the woman he loved, Yoon Jung Min (Goo Jae Yi), the illegitimate child of a wealthy and powerful group. She recently started dating the seemingly righteous and innocent Kang Se Hoon (Lee Yong Woo) in Tae Ho's absence.
The only way to achieve this, except for taking revenge from loan shark Jung Man Chool (Lee Do Kyeong) who brought him into this condition and murdered his friend, is to climb the ladder of the hierarchy and eventually become the top member of Seoul Seven. In order to accomplish that he will have to triumph over the ones in higher positions one after the other.
He expands his own homeless-friendly sense of justice in his district as the 7th head of the Seoul Seven, it's something Sergeant Bae, Crocodile and Poison Snake don't approve since they earn less money and the less they earn the less they deliver to the headquarters. They decided to silence him once and for all and they enforced a duel with Sergeant Bae. It's a duel he lost and soon his body would had been transferred to the "factory" for the organ-selling business to take place, but Heung Sam's background research on Tae Ho saved his life since the headquarters intend to use him according to plan.
Tae Ho's not alone though, he's got a goth-looking figure by his side, Cha Hae Jin (Kong Hyung Jin), and a runaway geek, Gong Young Chil (An Se Ha). President Jo (Jeong Jong Jun) is a traumatic yet cult figure among the homeless and Foreman Oh (Kim Ji Hoon) is a nightmare which turned into a dream for Tae Ho who's not inconsiderate of others, but he has to survive on his own way while still preserving a new status of justice and caring among those below him.
Lately i've been falling upon figures which were not so exemplary in the parody of a drama named Night Watchman's Journal. In My Beautiful Bride i had the chance to find out Ko Sung Hee has progressed since then and now it's Seo Ye Ji's chance in Last to prove she's getting better. She presents Shin Na Ra, a nurse caring for the homeless by taking care of their health problems and organizing breadlines for the disadvantaged social groups of this world. She will play her own part in Tae Ho's life and i'm looking forward to their further interactions.
∠ ~ Number 6: Sergeant Bae (Kim Yoong Woon)
He used to be in the special forces, but he was kicked out because he was beating up low-ranked soldiers way too much. Not many things have changed since then, he uses homeless people as labor and he disciplines them in his renowned military oriented way whenever he thinks it's essential; always.
∠ ~ Number 5: Crocodile (Jang Won Yoong)
He forges fake identities, passports, etc and his arrogant stare is utterly represents of his greasy personality. He's recreant, devious and he wouldn't mind hitting women to quench his non-existent code of ethics.
∠ ~ Number 4: Poison Snake (Lee Cheol Min)
He's the leader of the aforementioned two, they follow him around and they obey his orders. He's into organ-selling business and it paces perfectly well with his cold personality and lifeless stare. Lee Cheol Min here looks like the Korean version of Tommy Lee Jones!
∠ ~ Number 3: Straw Cutter (Yoon Je Moon)
He's currently in jail, but the rumors say he chops up everyone who dares challenge him in any way. Good things don't last forever and soon he'll be a part of the outside world again.
∠ ~ Number 2: Ryoo Jong Goo (Park Won Sang)
He used to be an Asian Champion, but women, drugs and alcohol ruined him. However, this doesn't mean he has forgotten the art of boxing and he's as lethal as one punch coming right away from his fist can be. His greatest weakness is his past and the fact that he's unable to find his precious daughter tears him apart. He's a broken figure who swims in oceans of alcohol losing himself in moments of regret under the devastating veil of memories and longing.
He's probably the only one who can fully understand Tae Ho the most since he's well aware of how it feels to find yourself in the last position after a few imbalanced steps. He eventually decided to become Tae Ho's boxing teacher while at the same time he keeps a close eye on him so that he won't find himself in further trouble, at least not before he's trained enough in order to withstand the obstacles coming his way.
Even though he abides in loneliness and self-destruction he's not left all alone. Seo Mi Joo (Park Ye Jin), a hostess under Heung Sam's reign, has deep feelings for him and she always tries to bring him back to reality so that he'll be able to find his daughter again one day. They've known each other for years and even though it may seem one-sided on Mi Joo's behalf there's definitely something electrifying Jong Goo's heart's outskirts, a heart too overburdened to accept such feelings in an openhanded way, but he's always there for her.
∠ ~ Number 1: Kwak Heung Sam (Lee Beom Soo)
The underworld has two kings, Kwak Heung Sam who's the head of the Seoul Seven and the loan shark Jung Man Chool, but lately their personal benefits seem to be in conflict. Everything began when Tae Ho's plan was ruined and both of them lost billions of ₩. Ever since a chasm was created inside their relationship and as time passes by they've turned into enemies fighting for the peak of the underworld. And we all know that in the end there can be only one.
Times are dangerous and he wants to forge all of the Seoul Seven fractions into one united punch. He didn't save Tae Ho's life because he suddenly felt the urge to help one of his subordinates who lost a duel. He's well aware of his whole background and that he's the reason why he lost all that money back in the days. He wants Tae Ho to take care of Man Chool once and for all, but that mission is a two-edged knife and both of them know it. In one hand, Heung Sam wants Man Chool to get silenced and if Tae Ho succeeds Heung Sam won't be suspected. On the other hand, both Man Chool and the police force are after Tae Ho who's got no other choice but to comply to Heung Sam who will help him escape in case he succeeds; or not.
Heung Sam has a delicate psychosis with classical music. Of course, he would never listen to music the way most people do, his stylus and vinyls do the talking and he's losing himself in a floating trance-like condition. He's the most luxurious homeless after all and he preserves his style to the fullest! When he doesn't work on a wide variety of "projects" he's listening to music waiting for his subordinates to bring him the money. He doesn't need many by his side, a faithful right hand is more than enough and he's no other than Praying Mantis (Kim Hyung Kyu), a very specific, obedient and sharp-eyed henchman following Heung Sam's vision.
Thoughts: Last is an intriguing and pretty different proposal in the world of dramas with a broadening sense of conflict while it still focuses on its main figures without neglecting the screen-time of the undeniably many characters that surround them. Each and every figure breathes a distinctive air and that's always good in my book since a sense of well-conceived and well-executed variety is always welcome, especially when the pieces seem to fit together and that's the case here.
The cinematography is competitive and representative of the drama's theme since the shooting takes place in a wide variety of environments. The characters are well-placed in the surrounding environment and through angles and perspectives we get to witness the whole picture in a way which pleases the eye even more. The closeups emphasize on the characters' emotional world and along with the intriguing storyline and the expressive acting we get acclimated in Last's world.
It's a world filled with webs where anyone could be a spider while still being a fly at the same time. What you see isn't always what you get and terms like wealth, selfishness, power and ambition have their own dynamics as episodes pass by. It's a cruel world and Tae Ho has to climb the ladder anew, but even at the top the weather forecast isn't the finest and Heung Sam must preserve his reign at all costs.
In one hand, Yoon Kye Sang is highly representative as Tae Ho and one can witness the scars life left upon his face, but also the ones behind the surface which are being forged day by day as he acclimates himself in his new environment, an environment he was never used to but he has to adjust to in order to survive and reclaim his life. It's a power struggle against himself and everyone else at the same time, but allies blossom where you least expect them and the same applies to enemies.
On the other hand, Lee Beom Soo is exemplary as Heung Sam who lives in his own pompous universe dictating the lower scales of the homeless society. He's a king in his domain and not a homeless really, but for the good old time's sake he still considers himself one. Heung Sam's nothing like he appears to be, he may be presenting one side for you to see, but in the background he's already plotting something else. Lee Beom Soo is ecstatic and classy, but also menacing and imposing in his own way through the way he summons Heung Sam's spirit in front of the cameras!
There's action and there will be more action, there's careerism but there's also dirty work lurking in the background, there's struggle for survival but there's also a power struggle for more wealth and/or power. There are pain and scars but there are also hatred and plotting, loyalty and mistrust, solitary paths and crossroads, loneliness and interactions and somewhere in the far horizon romantic hints shyly appear. Last is a chameleon in the sewers and hallways of the metropolis acclimating itself or changing skin like a snake under events and circumstances, it's a tectonic vibration constantly being inflicted upon our characters.
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Loving this show. I fell hard for Yoon Kye Sang as the tortured, revenge filled Jung Se Ro in Beyond the Clouds. He is doing as well in this. Looking forward to the next episodes. I have yet to finish Bride. Holding back for one more day to say goodbye.
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The index page for the 1954 French flap section of this website is here.
Reference number for this case: 14-Oct-54-Montfroc. Thank you for including this reference number in any correspondence with me regarding this case.
[Ref. fr1:] MICHEL FIGUET AND JEAN-LOUIS RUCHON:
The two authors report that on October 14, 1954, à 06:00 p.m., in Montfroc in the department of Drôme, there was a huge ball of fire leaving a luminous trail behind itself.
The authors note that all the observations at 6 p.m. that day obviously refer to an object at very high altitude, seen simultaneously from very distant places, which is probably a large meteor according to descriptions.
The source is indicated as Le Provençal for October 17, 1954.
[Ref. bb1:] GERARD BARTHEL AND JACQUES BRUCKER:
The two authors note this case of October 14, 1954:
"Monfroc - 26 - 6 p.m.: investigation. Very fast sphere of fire."
[Ref. lc1:] LUC CHASTAN:
Luc Chastan indicates in his database that in the Drôme in Montfroc on October 14, 1954 at 18:00 hours, "Enormous ball of fire leaving behind it a luminous trail."
The source is noted: "Ovni, Premier dossier complet... by Figuet M./ Ruchon J.L. ** Alain Lefeuvre pub. 1979".
Not looked for yet. The 6:15 p.m. meteor.
(These keywords are only to help queries and are not implying anything.)
Montfroc, Drôme, ball, fire, trail, luminous, sphere, fast
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Warning: This article contains US-pace spoilers that some UK readers may prefer to avoid.
Grimm star Sasha Roiz has spoken to Digital Spy about what to expect from the fourth season.
Grimm's third run ended with Captain Renard (Roiz) shot and on the brink of death - but will he be back?
Roiz talks the character's fate in his interview with DS and also reveals his thoughts on Renard's future with Adalind, Nick losing his powers, and being paired up with NBC's new paranormal chiller Constantine on Friday nights.
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Whenever I print or draw a game or activity, I laminate it, cut it out, and put it in an envelope. If it already has a picture or visual directions, I print that; otherwise I take a photo, print it and tape it to the front of the envelope. Then I put the envelopes in a magazine holder on my shelf. Voila, organization!
Two of my favourite sites for printable activities are File Folder Fun and Montessori For Everyone.
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