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Mike Slone… "There's no "a" in there. We couldn't afford the "a." (Referencing the spelling of his last name). Lives between Mousie and Blackey, in Knott County Kentucky;
Dulcimer Maker and Coordinator of the Hindman Dulcimer Project:
"I was born up the street here. I couldn't tell you the building, but it was a doctor's office. It was Dr. Barker. He delivered me, delivered my wife, and delivered our first child.
The doctors would go out and basically just do a circuit and drive by people's houses. I guess it was more convenient for him to get and drive around than it was for the people, especially if they were feeling poorly.
I've done all kinds of things. I actually have a degree in Biology that I've never used for anything. I like to think of myself as a student of Appalachian culture, and I came at it sideways.
One year in high school, back then we had teachers who would actually teach stuff instead of the test, and this teacher had something which I've really come to appreciate, which is an appreciation for what we have around here. So, she assigned everybody in the class to look up their family tree. I got to looking up the family tree, and this was before there was the internet so I was digging through books and all that stuff. I got to thinking about that, and running across little tidbits and stories about my family. That was almost 40 years ago, and ever since then I'll go through phases where I'll get into the family tree research, every 10 years or so. That started me on the path to really appreciating the culture here.
Then I went off to college. The only place I could afford to go to college was Alice Lloyd. Alice Lloyd just furthered that because, at that time, and I'm sure it's still like that now, they didn't specifically teach it but there was the tradition of value to the stuff around here. That really reinforced it. I got out of college, got that big fancy degree and got a job in the Post Office. And after that, through WMMT I got involved with Appalshop. You talk about some place that really appreciates the culture here. It just solidified the whole thing. Sometime back there when I was at Alice Lloyd, I made a dulcimer in a class. It was one of those easy added classes. It was one night a week and you come out with an A and a dulcimer. I made one then and that was in the early '80s. In the early '90s, somehow I got inspired to try making dulcimers again.
I bought a table saw. I had a power drill and a sander, and that was about it. And it didn't cut it. I made three or four, I've got one left, I gave one to my daughter, and I don't know where the others are and I'm not going to look for them. It just didn't work. During that phase, I had the pleasure of meeting Homer Ledford, the well-known dulcimer maker from Winchester. Two and a half years ago I saw this little news piece on the Internet. John Trusty was the Executive Director here then and he was talking about wanting to see Hindman once again become the center of dulcimer making. I had just finished up a carpentry job, so I thought; I'll just go try again. I came down and signed up and the dulcimer thing just snowballed. People would come in and tell us stories.
The mountain dulcimer has a long history here in Knott County, dating back to 1871. A man named Uncle Ed Thomas, as far as we know, made his first (lap) dulcimer then. A lot of people copied his pattern, one them being a man known as Jethro Amburgey, who had a distant cousin named Jean Ritchie. Jean, in the late 1940s went off to New York City and introduced the mountain dulcimer to the world.
The goal of (the Hindman project) is to re-introduce the mountain dulcimer to the people of this area. It had pretty much died off here. We want to bring it to the attention of those folks here that we own that heritage and it is important to us and to the world at large that Hindman be known worldwide for the mountain dulcimers. We're collecting oral histories, we're doing building workshops and we have a dulcimer festival once a year. We have a wonderful little mini museum exhibit here with pretty much the history of the instrument all contained in one display.
The most common shape in the world that Hindman is famous for is (the dulcimer) shaped like an hourglass. Someone in one of those dulcimer books that came out in the '60s said, and it even read like in a bashful voice, it's shaped like a lady.
It's a quiet-sounding instrument, at least the traditional ones are. Nowadays they make them a lot bigger. A lot of modern dulcimer players try to make them sound like guitars, but the old, traditional dulcimers are quiet and lonely sounding. It's more of an instrument to sit out on the porch in the evening and play those old tunes on, rather than to play square dances.
A traditional dulcimer from this area has three strings. There was a tradition around Galax, Virginia, and nowadays, modern dulcimers usually have four strings. The Galax dulcimers had four. But most of the old ones, especially from this area, only had three strings. And you only play one string.
The tuning pegs are wooden pegs. They're like fiddle pegs, basically. A lot of people don't like them. They are hard to tune, and if not done correctly, tend to slip out of tune at inopportune moments. They look better. That's the whole look of the dulcimer; those wooden pegs.
I'll tell you our best shop story. My friend, George Gibson has two Uncle Ed Thomas dulcimers. George called and said, I've got two Ed Thomas dulcimers and one of them is in pieces. Wonder if you could repair that for me. Of course, after jumping up and down and saying whoopee, I told him yeah I think we can do that. He brought them down the next day and I happened to get snowed in up in the holler where I live. I didn't make it in that day George came in and I came in the next day, drooling over the dulcimers. George was telling Doug Naselroad (Appalachian Artisan Center instrument studio director and master luthier) this story that the first written record of a dulcimer in Kentucky, that a man in Virginia named Eli Boggs built it for a young lady over in Eolia, Kentucky. Doug said, wait a minute George; my great, great, great, great grandfather was named Eli Boggs. So Doug told me that story, and I said, now wait a minute Doug, I'm kin to the Boggs' on my mom's side. So I went home and got my sister to look it up, and the same Eli Boggs is my great, great, great, great grandfather. Stuff like that keeps happening here.
We like to put it that history just walks through the door on a regular basis.
I would have never known that Eli Boggs had made dulcimers if George hadn't come in with that tale from Bud Phillips (Regional Historian).
As far as we know, the mountain dulcimer is the only instrument that is totally indigenous to the United States. It's considered to be a descendant of the German, that part of Europe, commonly called a scheitholt, an instrument that the Pennsylvania Dutch probably brought over with them. We have one of those in there in the museum we figure is at least 200 years old. As the migration down the Great Wagon Road, the Shenandoah Valley, as that happened, and probably in Pennsylvania, too. The Pennsylvania Dutch started intermixing with the Scots-Irish ancestors. There's no separating truth from fiction when you go back that far. Everybody's got ideas about it.
My favorite idea is that the scheitholt didn't have an arranged fret board or finger board. Frets were embedded directly into the body of the instrument. And somebody put it, well, you know Pennsylvania Dutch, they were playing those old, slow songs, and the Scots-Irish wanted something they could dance a jig to, so they put a finger board on it so they could whack the hell out of it and get some more noise out of it without wearing the instrument out so fast.
The lap dulcimer made inroads in the folk scene. Jean Ritchie got it started in New York, playing there. It got picked up here and there. The Rolling Stones had a couple of songs that they used the lap dulcimer in. Steel Ice Pan had dulcimers in several of their songs, and of course it made it out to the West Coast.
Traditionally, the dulcimer is fretted diatonically. You don't have every note in the scale in there, so much like a lot of the old-time banjo players, you would have to re-tune so you could get all the notes to your song. They stuck an extra fret in, and kept it at the same tuning and started playing chords on it and all that weird stuff. I think Joni Mitchell did some dulcimer. A modern musician is Cyndi Lauper who plays a lot of dulcimer in her stuff.
No matter where you go in this country, I think you'll find people that are descended from people here in the mountains. During the early pioneer migrations, a lot of them would stop off here, and the smart ones are the ones that ended up staying here. You know, hillbilly jokes are the only politically correct joke you can make any more.
We just have that sense of home and that may be the problem with a whole lot of the country. People don't have a sense of home or belonging. We've got that sense of belonging here. We belong to each other and share values.
We know who were are more than most people do, but everybody's always searching for their own identity. That's part of the beauty of the culture. You go somewhere else and you run into a strange person and most people think, that's dude's strange, kind of funny, but strange. Better stay away from him. But around here, the stranger they are, I think the more we treasure them.
All over the country, there are probably very few people who don't have a bloodline running back through here. I think too, even though hillbilly jokes are okay, and there's that stereotype, they wouldn't pay so much attention if they didn't think there was something to this.
I guess I embrace the word "hillbilly." It's okay if I say it, but if you ain't from around here, watch your tone of voice when you say it.
I think maybe one of our strengths is that we can laugh at ourselves, and embrace that, see the truth in it and on another level, resent the fact that people can't see past that stereotype, like Jed Clampett. They wanted Jed to be the stupid, stereotypical hillbilly, but Buddy Ebsen refused to do that, and Uncle Jesse (Denver Pyle) on Dukes of Hazard. They wanted them to be the stereotypical hillbilly, but when it came down to brass tacks, they were the smartest men in the room.
How to pronounce Appalachian? As Eve said to the snake, you get down or I'll throw this apple at 'cha. Anymore, when they mispronounce it, I just shake my head. I hear people around here doing it. I heard it on the radio the other day from someone I thought knew better. That's their problem. It ain't mine."


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Final bands announced for the Napster Third Stage…
The final bands have been announced for the NAPSTER THIRD STAGE at this year's DOWNLOAD FESTIVAL 2005.
Deftones singer Chino Moreno's side project Team Sleep will be joined on the Sunday on the event (June 12) by The Dresden Dolls, System Of A Down, The Saints and No Hope In New Jersey.
Saturday's Napster stage (June 11) will include Lucky Nine, Breed 77, The Explosion, Johnny Truant, The Ga Ga's, Quit Your Day Job, Panic Cell, The Answer and Crucified Barbara.
Hurricane Party, Slunt and Planets Of Women have all been added to Friday's Napster Stage (June 10) whilst Open Hand and The Hurt Process will join the line-up for Saturday's Snickers Stage.
Download Festival 2005 is set to take place on June 10-12 at Donington Park and will also feature performances from Garbage, Megadeth, Velvet Revolver, Feeder, [a][/a], Slipknot and Billy Idol.
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(Philadelphia Magazine)
In the spring of 2012, after nearly five years of songwriting and preparation, Jeff began recording "Stations", which was released in the fall of 2012. The concepts of feeling familiar and feeling at home are concepts that can change depending on where you are situated at any given point, whether that's in Barcelona, Belfast, or Baltimore. The songs on the record convey a gentle sense of motion through propulsive yet calming music about appreciating both the new and the familiar, the thrilling and the ordinary.
In March 2013, the video for "Philadelphia" was released, earning praise from a number of publications including Philadelphia Magazine, who called the video "melancholy perfection". In the summer of 2013, a video was released for "Traveling Man", which featured time-lapse footage of Baltimore.


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A History of Zionism: From the French Revolution to the Establishment of the State of Israel
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Cal Breed: Signs of Lift
October 26 through January 12, 2020
On view in the Weil Atrium
Cal Breed's (American, born 1972) enthusiasm for glass is integral to how he communicates. He states, "Glass is the ink I write with and has been my medium for years."
In 2002, his passion spurred him to open Orbix Hot Glass in Fort Payne, Alabama. The woods next to the Little River Canyon National Preserve, where his studio sits, provide endless inspiration for Breed. He experiments with and melds different glass blowing techniques to create sculptural pieces that reference natural forms and their connections to humankind. Dancing with light, Breed's sculptures embody elements from his environment to metaphorically address the fleeting and vaporous nature of life.
Organized by the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama
Cal Breed (American, born 1972), Walnut, 2013, glass, Lent by the artist, Photograph by Brian Francis


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Dubai Police reunite family with their son after six years
Police found the man unconscious in his home and bleeding from the head
Dubai Police helped reunite a family with their son after having not had contact with him for six years.
Maj Gen Abdullah Al Marri, commander-in-chief of Dubai Police, said Kate O'Halloran - who lives in the UK - called police in Dubai to ask for help finding her son, Gerard.
The Irishman had seemingly lost contact with his family after changing jobs multiple times.
#شرطة_دبي تلم شمل عائلة أيرلندية مع إبنها بعد 6 سنوات— Dubai Policeشرطة دبي (@DubaiPoliceHQ) October 15, 2017
Police flew the family out to the emirate where they were provided accommodation while police searched for the man.
He was eventually tracked to his home in Jebel Ali where attempts to contact him failed.
Police forcibly entered his home and found him unconscious and bleeding from the head after seemingly having fallen and hit his head on a table.
He was transferred to Rashid Hospital for treatment.
Ms O'Halloran thanked Dubai Police for their efforts in reuniting her family and looking out for her son.
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BOSTON (CBS.MW) -- Admittedly he's biased, but Tucker Walsh thinks small-cap stocks will be the place to be in 2003.
The manager of the State Street Research Emerging Growth Fund SCGAX said that the small-cap growth stocks his fund focuses on are likely to benefit from an economic recovery.
"Small changes in fundamentals can lead to big changes in the stock values of small companies," Walsh said.
His fund is down 22 percent over the past year and off 13 percent on a three-year annualized basis, according to Lipper. That compares to an average one-year decline of 28 percent and a three-year annualized decline of 16 percent for similar funds, again according to Lipper.
Walsh said his approach relies on intensive research to identify companies that are enjoying 20 percent growth in profit or cash flow annually. He said he and his colleagues at State Street Research meet with company executives and their counterparts at rival companies to identify investment opportunities.
Among Walsh's top picks is Priority Healthcare PHCC, a prescription drug distributor. He said the company has posted 50 percent earnings increases in recent quarters and looks poised to continue the growth. Shares of Priority Healthcare traded down 34 cents to $22.95 Monday.
Another fast-grower that Walsh likes is International Game Technology IGT, -4.39%. He said the No. 1 maker of slot machines is benefiting from the popularity of casino gambling in the United States. Its shares gained 73 cents to $77.92.
"IGT has the dominant market share and the best games," he said.
His last pick is Harman International HAR, -3.31%, a maker of high-end stereos and audio equipment. Walsh said the company would benefit as its equipment is used in an increasing number of cars. Shares tacked on 76 cents to $60.62.
"This could be growth that's multiple years in the making," Walsh said. "We like to see growth that's sustainable."


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Corporals Troy and Marika Sanson
Not only do they share the same rank and job as equipment auditors in the Australian Army, but both Corporals deployed to the Middle East together.
The pair met during Army basic training at Kapooka, NSW, four years ago and married in Townsville in December 2009.
For the past few months, Marika, 28, has been stocktaking equipment in the United Arab Emirates while Troy, 27, has been doing the same role in Afghanistan.
In the new year, the intrepid couple will swap jobs.
"Our Commanding Officer has been very supportive letting us deploy together, swap jobs and he's even allowed us to do a handover together in Afghanistan so we can spend Christmas together," said Troy.
"The deployment itself has been fantastic for each of us from a career viewpoint, but we're like any married couple who are separated by the job, struggling to catch one another on the phone and stay in touch."
Deploying to the Middle East as part of Australia's contribution to the international campaign against terrorism is also the first time the couple has travelled overseas.
The trip has sparked their interest to travel further.
"We're off to Paris and Rome for a couple of weeks soon," said Marika.
"It'll be nice to see the sights like the Eiffel Tower, Louvre and the Trevi Fountain in Rome, but we've spent so much time apart I wouldn't care if we lived in a cardboard box for two weeks so long as we spend some time together."
Marika and Troy return to Townsville in mid-2012 and are most looking forward to taking a bit of leave and catching up with friends and family around the country.
"We're actually homeless at the moment so we need to find a house in Townsville and then we plan on visiting Troy's family on the Gold Coast and mine at Millicent," said Marika.
"It's still some time away before we get to do that but we're already looking forward to seeing everybody over a few drinks."
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2017's Most Improved NFL Teams
It usually happens every year. An NFL team rises from its failures the previous season, turns things around, and makes great improvements. A year ago, one of those teams was the Oakland Raiders. After going 7-9 in 2015, the Raiders improved to 12-4 and qualified for the postseason. The Miami Dolphins turned their 6-10 record in 2015 into a 10-6 campaign in 2016 and earned a wild card berth. Somewhere, there is a team entering training camp right now that is not expected to win in 2017, but will do so anyway. Here are three that could end 2017 as the most improved NFL teams.
After four trips to the postseason – including a Super Bowl title – in five years, the New Orleans Saints have recorded three straight 7-9 seasons. In each of those three seasons, quarterback Drew Brees has led the NFL in passing yards. The offense is definitely not the problem. The Saints led the entire NFL in total offense in two of the past three seasons. The one where they didn't finish first? They finished second. For New Orleans, improvement in the win column starts with improvement on defense.
New Orleans picked up edge rusher Alex Okafor from the Arizona Cardinals. Okafor, a fourth round draft choice in 2013, played 13 games with the Cardinals last season and recorded eight sacks. Manti Te'o was signed after beginning his career in San Diego. Te'o missed most of last season with a torn Achilles tendon. Both Te'o and Okafor will be counted on to help improve the Saints defense which might be without its biggest acquisition prior to last season, DT Nick Fairley. The 6-foot-4, 308-pound Fairley was diagnosed with a heart condition that could end his pro football career.
The Saints addressed their needs in the defensive backfield by taking former Ohio State star Marshon Lattimore in the first round. Lattimore is a 6-foot, 195-pounder with 4.3 speed who can match up with any receiver. New Orleans also took safety Marcus Williams out of Utah in the second round. Both Lattimore and Williams could play big roles in a New Orleans defense that was dead last against the pass last season.
Two straight trips to postseason and a berth in the NFC Championship game had Arizona entering the 2016 season with high expectations. Head coach Bruce Arians and the Cardinals started 1-3 right out of the gate and won just three games in the first half of the season. They won their last two games and still had a shot at the playoffs late in the season despite finishing 7-8-1. Arians and company should be much better in 2017.
Like New Orleans, the Cardinals are pretty good offensively. The Cardinals need players like defensive lineman Robert Nkemdiche to improve. Arians and the Cardinals went heavy on defense in the draft selecting former Temple linebacker Haason Reddick with their first pick. Reddick played defensive end at Temple where, ironically, Arians served as a head coach in the 1980s. The Cards also picked up a very good safety in former Washington Huskie Budda Baker (5-10, 195).
The Jaguars haven't had a winning season since 2007, which was also the last time they made the postseason. In each of the past few seasons, it appeared as if Jacksonville was on the verge of turning things around. Two years ago, it was young quarterback Blake Bortles and his receiving tandem of Allen Robinson and Allen Hurns. Robinson had 80 receptions for 1,400 yards and 14 TDs. Hurns caught 64 balls for 1,031 yards and 10 touchdowns. Their production fell off heavily last season with Robinson getting 73 catches for 883 and Hurns just 35 receptions and 477 yards. As a pair, the two receivers combined for just nine touchdowns in 2016. That has to change in 2017.
Bortles is still one of the better young quarterbacks in the league. He threw for 3,905 yards and 23 touchdowns last season, but his quarterback rating of 48.9 is a concern. Bortles tossed 16 interceptions last year, a career low, but his yards per attempt fell from 7.31 in 2016 to 6.25 last year. Jacksonville added another piece to the offense's puzzle when they selected RB Leonard Fournette with the fourth pick in this year's draft. They also addressed the offensive line by taking Alabama offensive tackle Cam Robinson in the second round and signing former Dolphins OT Branden Albert in March.
The Jags need to get better on defense, not so much physically but mentally. Last year, Jacksonville was sixth in the NFL in total defense giving up 321.7 yards per game, but the unit gave up 25 points per game which was 25th in the league. Jacksonville signed CB A.J. Bouye from Houston to add him to a stingy secondary. The Jags also added a solid veteran defensive end in Calais Campbell who came over from Arizona. Campbell, Malik Jackson, and Yannick Ngakoue should be able to produce pressure on opposing quarterbacks. The Jags will need to do something to help their secondary.


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The hottest invite in the art world is the international art show, Art Basel, with three events annually in Basel, Switzerland; Miami Beach, Florida; and Hong Kong. This weekend, the coveted social event descends on Miami Beach (Dec. 7-10), and Grammy-winning producer Swizz Beatz is hosting No Commission: Miami, a traveling art and music exhibit, with partners Bacardi and The Dean Collection.
No Commission: Miami is the sixth in a series of artist support collaborations, and Swizz Beatz toldBillboard he wanted to give artists a chance to sell their work and take home 100 percent of the proceeds, as opposed to turning over a hefty commission to a gallery space.
The lineup includes Kehinde Wiley, Derrick Adams, Renee Cox, Nadine Ijewere and Karyn Oliver —to name a few.
"I feel like we pull from the Caribbean with a lot of different things, even with my partners Bacardi," the recent Harvard Business School graduate told Essence Magazine. "The way that we picked the artists with my curator was looking for those with vibrant work and some type of background with the Caribbean or did some dedication to the Caribbean."
"I love that the artists like Kehinde, Derrick Adams and all of these guys, and all of the artists that are on super levels are saying, 'You know what, it doesn't matter who my work is next to. It's the art.' That's like a real strong message, because most of the times artists are placed only in a certain bracket. This shows entry point is very broad. You can purchase something for a couple of hundred bucks or you can purchase for a couple of thousand, or a couple of hundred thousand."
So if you're in Miami this weekend and of legal drinking age, admission to the pop-up art showcase is free with RSVP.


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Lord Jesus, I want my life today to bring joy to You. Help me not to grieve Your Holy Spirit or displease You in any way.
I'm reading The Renewed Mind by Larry Christenson and have just discovered the answer to a years-old question: if I were consistently more loving and responsive to Warren, would he stop drinking? This is what "the old landlord," Satan, has been telling me for years and I see now that it is the whip of the law — "You have to be more loving!" Christ Jesus is the end of the law so I will start telling the old landlord, "Take that to Jesus. Whatever good is to be worked in me will come through His Spirit, not through the law." I can't make myself more loving, only Christ's spirit can do that. I turn to Jesus in praise and adoration.


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EDITORIAL | More bureaucracy will not make us stronger in space.
Six questions in need of answers.
A problem years in the making continues—especially in the Guard and Reserve.
USAF is pre-positioning base supplies and materiel throughout the European Theater.
After the stand-down, more focus on readiness.
Women are underrepresented in USAF's senior ranks. There are ways to change that.
How the Air Force is building the next generation of special warfare airmen.
The 12 Outstanding Airmen of the Year.
Miscalculations led the superior force to a stunning defeat in less than six weeks.
The B-52 has proven itself stunningly effective and adaptable to whatever the world throws its way.
Blaze of Glory.
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New Xirrus X2 Wi-Fi Solutions Enable Customers to Upgrade Their Wi-Fi Networks Without Compromising on Performance or Future Growth Requirements
THOUSAND OAKS, CA--(Marketwired - Aug 25, 2015) - Xirrus, the leading provider of high-performance wireless networks, today announced the launch of its new low-cost 802.11ac Wi-Fi access points (APs). The new X2 solves the challenges businesses face in meeting the demand of a BYOD workforce that requires being connected wirelessly on multiple devices at all times. The X2 delivers affordable, fast, reliable cloud managed Wi-Fi, ideal for the small/medium enterprise, hospitality and education markets.
"Today, organizations demand Wi-Fi that is fast, reliable, easy to deploy and manage. Users expect, and organizations need Wi-Fi that works in every environment and a breadth of solutions to accommodate this," said Kevin Burden, VP of Mobility at 451 Research. "With this announcement Xirrus delivers a low cost, best of class performance solution that in combination with its high-density offerings gives it a broad portfolio in the market."
X2: No Compromise Wi-Fi
Eliminating the choice between price and speed, the new X2 delivers best of class performance and reliable Wi-Fi at a fraction of the cost of previous solutions. The Xirrus X2 is:
Zero Touch Cloud Based Deployment
Designed for ease-of-use, the cloud-based Xirrus Management System (XMS) delivers a unique experience that benefits both the users of an X2 Wi-Fi network and the IT team that operates it, including:
An on-premise version of XMS is also available for management of X2 networks.
"For over a decade Xirrus has been the leader in delivering high performance, high density Wi-Fi solutions in the most complex environments on the planet. With the introduction of the X2, we extend our expertise to solve today's BYOD challenges by delivering a solution where customers no longer have to choose between price or performance," said Bruce Miller, Xirrus VP of Product Marketing.
Xirrus X2 is now generally available, starting at a list price of $445.
Today, Xirrus also introduced new 11ac Wave 2 Wi-Fi products. Read more about this new family of solutions here: http://www.xirrus.com/xd2/.
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About Xirrus, Inc.
Xirrus is the leading provider of high-performance wireless networks. Xirrus solutions perform under the most demanding circumstances, offering consistent "wired-like" performance with superior coverage and security. The Xirrus suite of Wi-Fi optimized solutions -- high density access points, access points, cloud services, and wired switches -- provide seamless connectivity and unified management across the network. Xirrus provides a vital strategic business and IT infrastructure advantage to industries that depend on wireless to operate business-critical applications. With tens of thousands of customer solutions deployed globally, Xirrus maintains operations and partnerships across the globe. Xirrus is a privately held company and is headquartered in Thousand Oaks, CA. For more information please visit: www.xirrus.com and follow us on Twitter: @Xirrus.
Xirrus and XR Series are trademarks or registered trademarks of Xirrus. Other trade names used in this document are or may be the property of their respective owners.


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July 18, 2011 Goyte f/ Kimbra, Somebody that I used to know
Goyte Facts:
- prounounced "Gaultier," as in Jean-Paul
- Belgium born, Melbourne dwelling
- I'm enjoying his blog – he has the Shaddap You Face video! Soulmates, amirite?
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Economic calendar (GMT0):
(Time/ Region/ Event/ Period/ Previous/ Forecast/ Actual)
00:30 Australia Home Loans January 2.7% Revised From 2.6% -2.3% -3.9%
06:00 Japan Prelim Machine Tool Orders, y/y February -17.2% -22.6%
09:30 United Kingdom Industrial Production (MoM) January -1.1% 0.5% 0.3%
09:30 United Kingdom Industrial Production (YoY) January -0.2% Revised From -0.4% 0.2% 0.2%
09:30 United Kingdom Manufacturing Production (MoM) January -0.3% Revised From -0.2% 0.2% 0.7%
09:30 United Kingdom Manufacturing Production (YoY) January -1.7% -0.7% -0.1%
12:00 U.S. MBA Mortgage Applications March -4.8% 0.2%
The U.S. dollar traded mixed against the most major currencies ahead of the release of the U.S. wholesale sales data. Wholesale inventories in the U.S. are expected to decline 0.2% in January, after a 0.1% decrease in December.
The euro traded lower against the U.S. dollar in the absence of any major economic reports from the Eurozone. Expectations for further stimulus measures by the European Central Bank (ECB) weighed on the currency pair. Market participants expect the central bank to cut its deposit further or/ and to expand its monthly asset purchases. The ECB's is -0.3%, and monthly asset purchases total €60 billion.
The British pound traded higher against the U.S. dollar after the release of the better-than-expected industrial production data from the U.K. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) released its manufacturing and industrial production figures for the U.K. on Wednesday. Industrial production in the U.K. rose 0.3% in January, missing forecasts of a 0.5% increase, after a 1.1% decline in December.
The increase was mainly driven by a gain in water supply, sewerage & waste management, which soared 9.3% in January.
On a yearly basis, industrial production in the U.K. increased 0.2% in January, in line with expectations, after a 0.2% decrease in December. December's figure was revised up from a 0.4% fall.
Manufacturing production in the U.K. climbed 0.7% in January, exceeding expectations for a 0.2% gain, after a 0.3% decrease in December. December's figure was revised down from a 0.2% drop.
Manufacturing output was mainly driven by a rise in other manufacturing and repair, which climbed by 4.8% in January.
On a yearly basis, manufacturing production in the U.K. decreased 0.1% in January, beating forecast of a 0.7% fall, after a 1.7% drop in December.
The Canadian dollar traded slightly higher against the U.S. dollar ahead of the Bank of Canada's interest rate decision. The central bank is expected to keep its interest rate unchanged.
EUR/USD: the currency pair fell to $1.0954
GBP/USD: the currency pair increased to $1.4240
USD/JPY: the currency pair rose to Y112.74
The most important news that are expected (GMT0):
15:00 United Kingdom NIESR GDP Estimate February 0.4%
15:00 Canada Bank of Canada Rate 0.5% 0.5%
15:00 Canada BOC Rate Statement
15:00 U.S. Wholesale Inventories January -0.1% -0.2%
15:30 U.S. Crude Oil Inventories March 10.374 3.5
20:00 New Zealand RBNZ Interest Rate Decision 2.5% 2.5%
20:00 New Zealand RBNZ Rate Statement
20:05 New Zealand RBNZ Press Conference
23:10 New Zealand RBNZ Governor Graeme Wheeler Speaks


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Program Overview
The professional Master of Architecture (M.Arch.) degree is designed for students with undergraduate baccalaureate degrees in fields other than architecture and for those holding a non-professional baccalaureate degree in architecture. The three-year (seven-semester) program helps prepare students to become leaders in the profession of architecture. Students enroll in a two-year core curriculum that helps prepare them with techniques, principles, histories, theories, and technologies related to the discipline of architecture. In the final year of the program the students develop a thesis project.
The program is a companion to our more than century-old accredited Bachelor of Architecture program and enjoys the curricular explorations and experiences that have gone into designing and maintaining a cutting-edge professional architectural education. We enrolled the inaugural cohort of students in fall 2013. The M.Arch. program was granted accreditation by the National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB) in March 2017.
Recent Awards of M.Arch. Students
Madhubala Ayyamperumal: 2018 SOM Women's Initiative Shadowing Opportunity Award
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The "Oh My God I'm Getting Married" Diaries- Thoughts from an engaged DJ
Chapter 5.5- FINDING a Celebrant
So...before I get into this, some of you might have noticed that it has been a few months since I updated this. *looks guilty* Ok maybe I slacked off a little when it came to this, but to be honest, there has not been a lot to report. That which did happen I will catch up in the next 2 posts, but in the mean time, let's get into the continuing saga that was finding our celebrant! So after Janelle and I had looked everywhere for someone and came up with nothing, one of my photographer friends suggested a lady called Danicia Dutry. After checking out her site and asking the hard questions, I was impressed. Mainly because she was firm as someone who knows they offer a good service but wont bend just because the questions might be difficult. We met up and Janelle really liked her and she presented just as good when I spoke with her over the phone. We had a good connection, she explained easily and clearly what a ceremony entails and since then have paid the deposit. We are catching up with her next Friday to go into more detail about how we would like to customize our ceremony and what we want in it. I am excited to see how she performs and if you could like to check her out, here website below :-)
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News & events
MAST-U gets better connected | 16/03/2016
We all live in an ever more connected world; and being connected with their data is especially important for tokamak physicists.
Advances in technology that have led to today's mobile phones and Raspberry Pis have permitted levels of performance once only dreamed of, at a cost lower than previously imagined.
In particular the combination of two technologies – field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and ARM processors – have enabled more complex diagnostic functions to be developed for MAST Upgrade at a remarkably low cost and with real-time availability.
One example of this new technology is MAST-U's bolometer system, which will measure plasma power emission in the critical divertor region. This requires the generation of 'excitation' signals for the bolometer sensors and detection of the returning signals; the FPGAs are able to perform the signal synthesis and digital signal processing, while the ARM is able to serve up the data rapidly to researchers waiting for it via standard web-style channels over the network.
The system is currently being tested on JET to collect data from eight bolometer sensors. Already it exhibits improved data accuracy and range, incurs lower hardware costs and takes up much less cubicle space.
The new bolometer was developed by Durham University PhD student Jack Lovell in collaboration with contractor D-TACQ (who produced the hardware) with guidance from CCFE's Anthony Field and Graham Naylor.
Graham Naylor is particularly delighted with the new diagnostic: "This has been a genuine team effort, using new techniques and hardware to create a more accurate, better connected and cheaper bolometer than we have ever used before. We can't wait for some MAST-U plasmas to test it on!"
Photo: Jack Lovell pictured alongside the new bolometer data collection hardware (in the right-hand cubicle), which takes up much less space than existing bolometer hardware (in the left-hand cubicle).


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Tattoo used to be reserved for biker gangs, soldiers, and sailors – faded green anchors, skulls with roses and a heart with "Mom" piercing its flesh. Over the last decade, tattoo popularity has exploded and is hitting an all-time high with even the most demure of people adorning their wrists with their children's name.
It's now trendy for hipsters to have full sleeves to match their black horn-rimmed glasses and 40somethings getting their family crest tattooed on their backs while away in Vegas. However, just because it's trendy doesn't mean that there aren't people who regret the decision. Tattoos, as you know, are harder and often more painful to remove than they are to administer.
What to do if you change your mind about a tattoo? Luckily, there are options…but first, let's take a look at some of the driving forces behind this form of art.
When Did it Start?
Tattooing dates back to thousands of years ago, as evidenced by mummies and archeological records. Some were with henna, some paint, and even natural dyes inserted into the skin via an archaic needle-like procedure.
Popular Tattoo Choices for Men and Women
As mentioned before, tattooing today has transcended the clichés of sailors and bikers. The popularity of television programs such as "Miami Ink" and "Ink Master" has only increased the demand for cool body art. Today, men are inking themselves all over their bodies, with the most popular areas being the back, shoulders, chest, biceps and calves. Tribal designs, Celtic art, intricate arm or leg bands and family crests are all popular choices. As for the female population, you're more likely to see tattoos on the shoulders, hips, ankles, lower back, and more popular today, behind the ear and on the inner wrist.
While those who have multiple tattoos or full sleeves of beautiful art may just be designing their bodies with a full palette, many people choose to get a solitary tattoo that has a cherished meaning. For example, commemorating the name or birth date of a child is a popular choice. A birth sign or a family name is also meaningful. Some people even choose to get a super talented artist to recreate a portrait of a loved one.
Overall, getting a tattoo is a big decision, and not one that should be taken lightly! Ensure that you do your research, visit a reputable artist and choose a meaningful design, and you will be less likely to regret it in the future.
Getting Rid of a Tattoo
But what if you want to get rid of that tattoo of the cartoon character that was popular at the time, or even worse: the name of an ex that you thought you'd be with forever? Tattoos are permanent, and removal is lengthy and can be painful – with some outdated techniques including using an acid that removes the top layers of skin, or dermabrasion and skin grafts for larger tattoos! Is there a better way?
Laser Tattoo Removal
Thankfully, the answer is yes. Thanks to laser technology, the new Q-switch laser technique works on the skin with an anesthetic, and destroys pigment with minimal scarring to the surrounding tissue. The ink is subsequently absorbed into the skin. Although it will take multiple sessions to fully remove the tattoo, and it will also depend on the pigment of the tattoo being removed (dark pigments, believe it or not, are easier to remove than colored tattoos), it is extremely effective and minimally invasive.


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Bloomington Amateur June 1-2
Join us on the course for our upcoming Bloomington Amateur.
This golf event is not only for Bloomington members, but for all Utah Golf Association members! Dates for the event are June 1st & 2nd with a shot gun at 2:00pm on Friday and 8:00am on Saturday. GHIN required in order to play, with regular senior and super senior flights available.
Prepaid entries only, entry fee is $150 which includes cart fee and dinner Friday night. To sign up, call the pro shop at (435) 673-2029 with a credit card ready to pay over the phone.


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Primebar, a restaurant "that proudly features local products, including produce and proteins from around the state, local spirits and wine and and all-Colorado draft beer list," opens this evening at 1515 Arapahoe Street, in the space that formerly housed Palomino, which closed in January 2008.
The menu, created by Max Mackissock, who was hired as the exec chef but is leaving after this weekend to head up the kitchen at the Squeaky Bean, is a mix of small plates (deviled eggs, steak tacos, oyster shots, sliders and smoked salmon corn cakes), sandwiches and burgers and large plates, including steaks, fish and pastas.
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Anyone have a question about this car?
I am pretty sure this car is owned by Matthew Lesko, "The Question Mark Guy."
Lesko was in a number of commercials and infomercials about asking him how to get free information and grant money from the government.
He dresses and drives in question marks, and I've seen him a number of times around town. Frankly, it's sort of hard to miss this guy!
His self promotion sort of makes you wonder, if you had to choose just one symbol to wear everywhere to represent you to the world--it could be a punctuation mark or anything else--what would that look like? ;-)
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Dictionary-based syntactic pattern recognition using tries
This paper deals with the problem of estimating a transmitted string X* by processing the corresponding string Y, which is a noisy version of X*. We assume that Y contains substitution, insertion and deletion errors, and that X* is an element of a finite (but possibly, large) dictionary, H. The best estimate X+ of X*, is defined as that element of H which minimizes the Generalized Levenshtein Distance D(X, Y) between X and Y, for all X ∈ H. All existing techniques for computing X+ requires a separate evaluation of the edit distances between Y and every X ∈ H. In this paper, we show how we can evaluate D(X, Y) for every X ∈ H simultaneously, without resorting to any parallel computations. This is achieved by resorting to the use of an additional data structure called the Linked List of Prefixes (LLP), which is built "on top of" the trie representation of the dictionary. The computational advantage (for a dictionary made from the set of 1023 most common words augmented by computer-related words) gained is at least 50% and 80% measured in terms of the time and the number of operations required respectively. The accuracy forfeited is negligible.
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Oommen, J, & Badr, G. (Ghada). (2004). Dictionary-based syntactic pattern recognition using tries. Lecture Notes in Computer Science.


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Remember the good old days when Friday meant more than just the end of school or work? It meant something far superior than that. It meant something that surpassed paychecks and not having to worry about homework. It meant something that had far more of an impact than a couple of days off from the daily grind. What did it mean, you ask? It's simple.
Friday meant 2 hours of Full House, Family Matters, Perfect Strangers and Step by Step. Now all we're left with is some lousy made for TV movie. However, this actually has nothing to do whatsoever with my topic for today. It was just something I had to get off my chest.
So what I'd like to talk about today is a thoughtful yet ultimately unanswerable question. Those are the best, aren't they?
If you've read my bio, you know I don't exactly have the most prolific athletic history. When your most vivid memory of playing sports is remembering when you fell on your butt into a puddle of mud on the infield and then couldn't sit in the car on the way home because of it, then it's safe to say that your primary role in sports is that of a fan. But that's nothing to be ashamed of because fans are important.
So with that in mind, which sport is the greatest fan sport? Meaning, which one offers the most to it's fans in exchange for their rabid enthusiasm and a percentage of their paycheck? And since it's Friday and no one wants to work anyways, I'm asking you guys to chime in big time and let me know what your thoughts on the issue.
But to get things started, I've created a list of pros and cons for each sport.
Pros – 162 games over 6 months (not including the playoffs, which means you can watch your team play almost every night during the season. In the Braves case, between March 30 and September 28, there will only be 18 days where they won't be playing a game.
Thanks to foul balls, home runs, and generous outfielders, it allows you the greatest chance to walk away from the game with a souvenir.
Cons – the potential of being put in a coma through A) a viscious line drive or B) the pitcher who just can't seem to throw a strike anymore.
Having to constantly watch the players adjust their jock straps.
Pros – The 16 game schedule allows for greater intensity because each game carries a lot more weight.
It's always funny when an opposing players lifts his face out of the dirt and has grass stuck in his helmet.
Cons – It gets a little tiresome to hear John Madden say things like, "Well the quarterback mongoose chaw kumquat gizzard oompa loompa….TOUCHDOWN!"
During the Super Bowl halftime show, you're forced to either watch either some aging rocker who miraculously lived to age 60 or the latest teenaged sibling of another pop star. Would it be too much to ask for an act that's somewhere in between?
Pros – You get to hear the commentators say things like "That is what this game is all aboot."
It proves that you don't have to have your real teeth to be successful
Cons – It's easier to figure out the square root of 2928372934579827 than it is to learn how to pronounce half of the players' names.
You don't get to drive the Zamboni
Pros – Smaller arenas make it a lot easier for fans to be closer to the action. And the proximity of courtside seats enables Jack Nicholson to wear sunglasses inside and still see what's going on.
It made Converse All Stars very famous in the 1950s.
Cons – You celebrate 3 of your own birthdays and your neighbor's son's bar mitzvah in the same amount of time it takes the teams to play the final 2 minutes.
Pros – You get to practice your polite clap, which incidentally also comes in handy at weddings, graduations, and when your friend asks you to come watch their interpretive dance routine.
You get to unload unwanted cameras by intentionally taking a picture during Tiger Woods' backswing
Cons – With the price of oil, a golf cart is looking more and more like the only car you can afford.
Pros – By the time you're done watching a match, your neck can bench press 200 pounds.
Let's face it, you never get tired of watching the ball boy frantically run from one end of the net to the other.
Cons – The women's grunting scares you a little
You realize that the frumpy looking net judge has entirely too much power for someone sitting in a high-chair.
Pros – Makes death seem like not such a bad thing after all
Cons – Explains why the prices of brooms and kettles have more than tripled at your local Wal-Mart since the last winter Olympics.
So there you go, just a few things to consider as we discuss which sport is the best one for spectators. I look forward to everyone's contributions! And long live Balki Bartokamous.
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My vote goes to soccer (football in the rest of the world). I personally can't stand the sport. I hate knowing that I've wasted 90+minutes of my time to watch a game that ended in a score of 1-0 and where fans go crazy over the smallest things like a pass to a player who is 200 feet from the goal.
The reason it gets my vote is that it gets the numbers. Outside of the USA, this is THE sport to be a fan of. Ratings for the EPL (English Premiere League) are incredible and fan loyalty surpasses American sports.
I don't understand the sport and I've watched close to 40 hours of EPL in the past couple years (due to time spent in Asia) and I'm still bored to tears watching the sport. The fans, though, are incredible, with their songs and all.
Side note: It would be helpful to know which Nate writes which post (or if it's a completely joint effort, to know that, too).
FUNNY! Loved this one. It had wit. It had sarcasm. It had women grunting – which scares me a little.
I think the ultimate fan sport is COLLEGE FOOTBALL. While not a professional sport (riiiiiiiight…) it has the tradition, the pageantry, the meaningfulness that all sports should have. You get a never ending cast of characters, plenty of real rivalries that you get to see every season, plus the added benefit of obnoxiously drunk chest-painted fans screaming for every three-yard gain and hitting on their own sisters.
What's not to love?
Other than the occasional loss to a cruddy team, the interminable TV timeouts and the same obnoxiously drunk chest-painted fans accidentally throwing up on your shoes?


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The Kartvelologist
The Kartvelologist" is a bilingual (Georgian and English) peer-reviewed, academic journal, covering all spheres of Kartvelological scholarship. Along with introducing scholarly novelties in Georgian Studies, it aims at popularization of essays of Georgian researchers on the international level and diffusion of foreign Kartvelological scholarship in Georgian scholarly circles.
"The Kartvelologist" issues both in printed and electronic form. In 1993-2009 it came out only in printed form (#1-15). The publisher is the "Centre for Kartvelian Studies" (TSU), financially supported by the "Fund of the Kartvelological School". In 2011-2013 the journal is financed by Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation.
Grammatical Category of Version in Georgian and "Conjugation Prefixes" in Sumerian: A Contrastive Analysis
In the article, semantics, syntactic functions, and morphological marking of the markers of the grammatical category of version in Georgian and of the so-called "conjugation prefixes" in Sumerian are described, analyzed, and contrasted with each other according to different syntactic frameworks. The results are valuable for functional typology.
keywords:The Georgian language, the Sumerian language, the passive voice, the middle voice, applicative, locative, reflexive, syntactic functions Category: კვლევები Authors: Zurab Baratishvili
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The Truth Is...
I seriously don't know what I'm going to do. I'm an over scheduled person who just wants to be lazy. I have the worst time figuring out food for my family and exercise may as well be trigonometry....impossible.
I used to eat and sleep as much as I wanted. That simple routine worked wonders for my figure until I turned 30. 30 is like an evil spell that steals your metabolism, gives you lines in your forehead and neck, & doubles your number of chin hairs. What the HECK! The worst is the lack of metabolism. Having been in my 30's for 2 1/2 years, I have added 35 pounds to my once curve-less figure. I can't decide how I feel about it, besides confused, and I definitely don't know what to do about it.
I'm still in the "healthy range" for my height but the line that divides healthy from unhealthy is a little too close for comfort. I'm afraid that I'm on a slippery slope and that laziness will keep me from digging in my heels and climbing back up.
Dad has told me over and over again, "Hang on and keep climbing." The problem right now is just being brave enough to start the climb.
If I'm not especially good at something, I don't like to do it....it's a weakness. That weakness is the main reason why I wasn't a school athlete (I quit softball once and track twice). So, in keeping with tradition, whatever exercise or active activity I need to take on comes with some fear.
About 4 years ago I thought I would do a 5K. I went "running" once.
ugghhhhh....running....I'm so bad at it. It seems like the thing to do, from what I see you all doing on social media. I just can't wrap my brain around it. Listening to music while running seems like it would be helpful, but I'm afraid that taking away my sense of hearing the outside world could get me run over or abducted. Abducted...that creeps me out....I don't want to go running.
The YMCA. I need to go there and put my kids in child watch while I do the elliptical or whatever. Here's the thing....Every time I start up with it, it doesn't last past 1 work out....Maybe more if someone is meeting me there. I'm always super proud after I've exercised and I promise I will do it again and again...but I don't....and I fail. Ugghhh.
So, I need to make a plan, right? Make a calendar for this week with Y time scheduled in. My personality type loves making lists and not doing them.
Wow, look at me with my plan and calendar and list! Wow, look at me, such a rebel-playing on my phone and giving the list dirty looks. MY LIFE!
I'm unhappy with my body. Even though I'm in the "healthy zone" I KNOW I am not healthy. I'm tired. One Just Dance song takes like 15 minutes of recovery.
I don't like it that my wedding ring feels too tight.
Although what people think shouldn't matter, I worry about everyone's thoughts when they see me. Their first thought has to be "Wow, Rachel is putting on weight!" or "She still hasn't lost that weight she put on?!" or....I don't know what.
TRUTH IS.... it wasn't just the dirty thirty that put on the pounds. The last two years for me carried some big emotional baggage. I didn't know how to handle new stress and felt like a failure in a lot of ways. As I mentioned earlier, feeling like I'm not good at something does not make me happy. This time, though, I couldn't escape like I did with school sports. I had to stick it out and realize that I'm not perfect and I really suck at life sometimes. I dealt with these awful feelings in self destructive ways. Too much time on the couch. Too much shopping. Too much time online comparing myself to other people. Too much time being bitter. Too much ice cream. Too much pop. Too much alcohol. It's easy to feel better about sucking at life when you can just put the kids to bed, have a big glass of wine and crash. But, the next morning, the suckiness is still there and a lot of calories have just spent the night turning into sadness and fat.
There was a lot of happiness through that time...my family is amazing. Chris and the kids are like warm sunshine....but I can't deny reality.
I'm happier now and I'm trying to get out of my comfort zone. You know...take risks and all that. Simplifying life and focusing on the joy that is right in front of my face everyday....warm sunshine.
I just need to get healthy. But I don't want to fail again.
So, no promises of work out plans or challenges or diets. Those are all things that could be dropped...quit...left.
I think I will just pursue more life. I'm not exactly sure what all that means. ..it's like a goal that can't be measured...which seems like cheating...but it's what I have right now. Pursing more life.
Did I mention how much I like sugar? I love sugar.
As always, I hope and pray that seeing into my real life is helpful to someone. Fakeness is cheap and unfair. Let's not try to impress eachother...let's just share this crazy life.
Much Love--
bobbi burns
12/29/2013 07:53:51 am
I absolutely love your blogs...I love each new one more the one previous one. You are so real and I love that about you. You give me inspiration. Inspiration to what? That I don't know, but I think this blog makes me want to exercise, but I hate doing it. You can quit anything you want; but please don't quit blogging.
Joe Leaman
4/21/2014 04:25:14 am
So, I'll be totally honest that I've never read your blog before... AND I HAVE NO IDEA WHY! This is so honest and inspiring- to be open like this takes a lot of guts. I'm going to continue reading now, but I just wanted you to know that I'm proud of you!
Rachel Burns
4/23/2014 10:39:02 am
Thank you, Joey!! :-) Thanks for reading!! :-)
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On Wednesday, The Lede is compiling reports on the war in Libya, protests in Syria and uprisings against governments across the Middle East from journalists, bloggers and activists in the region.
6:30 P.M.Syria Braces for More Protests
As my colleague Anthony Shadid reports, protest organizers in Syria have "vowed to turn out their largest numbers yet on what protesters have begun to call 'Great Friday.' Some residents said security forces were already deploying in hopes of damping the turnout, and organizers across Syria called the day potentially decisive for the uprising's momentum."
He adds: "thousands turned out for a protest in Dara'a, a city in southwestern Syria near the Jordanian border where the uprising was galvanized last month."
According to activists, this video shows a student protest in Dara'a on Wednesday:
According to Syrian activists, this video of marchers bearing candles, took place on Wednesday evening in Darya, a Damascus suburb:
The Lede will continue to follow the war in Libya and the protests in Syria and across the region on Thursday. In the meantime, please visit the home page of NYTimes.com for breaking news and to read reports from my colleagues in the region.
6:23 P.M.Misurata This Week, and 8 Months Ago
Many people following the siege of Misurata, which has now lasted two months, probably have little idea of what it looked like before the shelling began.
Below are two YouTube clips that illustrate how it has changed: the first shows fighters in the city this week; the second – which was posted last week on the Arabist, a Cairene blog, – was filmed last August:
5:55 P.M.Photographer's Death Documented Online
Since autocratic rulers in the Arab world began using violence to try to crush the uprisings against their rule late last year, activists and citizen journalists have posted graphic images of hundreds of dead or badly wounded civilians on Web sites like Facebook and YouTube.
In many cases, activists do so to make sure that there is some record of those deaths in countries where the professional media is partly or entirely controlled by the governments whose security forces have done the killing. In others, such as in Libya, government opponents are compiling what they see as important evidence of crimes against humanity, and some of those images have already been reviewed by the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, who has warned Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi and his commanders that they could end up in court after the war.
Links to such images have then been passed around on social networks like Twitter, not just by activists or other people with a stake in the outcome of the uprisings, but also by journalists, who have been forced to rely on such digital evidence of events in several countries where governments have made it difficult or impossible for independent reporters to work.
As a result, many people following the war in Libya or the protests in Yemen or Syria or Bahrain in recent months have become quite used to viewing remarkably graphic and disturbing images of the dead and the wounded. One of those people is Andy Carvin, a social media reporter for National Public Radio, who uses his Twitter feed to sift through the evidence of protests and combat found online and alert his followers to new information posted on the Web each day.
On Wednesday, Mr. Carvin, like other reporters following Libyan opposition Web sites, came across bloody video posted on Facebook shot the same day in a medical center in the besieged Libyan city of Misurata. As Mr. Carvin explains in a blog post written a short time ago, the video showed what appeared to be the body of a British photographer who was killed in Misurata on Wednesday, Tim Hetherington, and graphic images of two other photographers, Chris Hondros and Guy Martin, who were seriously wounded in the attack that killed Mr. Hetherington.
In Mr. Carvin's post, which includes a link to the footage, he explained why, after grappling with the ethical issues involved, he ultimately decided to let his readers know about the video and decide for themselves if they want to view it. He wrote:
I have posted hundreds of videos of war casualties since all of this started in Tunisia, many of them much more graphic and horrifying than this one. I've said countless times that people have a choice whether to view such content. They have a choice whether to follow me on Twitter, and they have a secondary choice as to whether they should view the actual content. In many cases I tell people they *shouldn't* watch it because it is so horrific. But I post it nonetheless because I believe it is important to document what happens during wartime and to give people the choice to bear witness.
War does not discriminate: it can claim the young, the old; men and women; soldiers and civilians. And in this case, journalists. Some people have suggested to me that I shouldn't share the link to the video because they were journalists, and that we know people who knew them in person. I too know a number of people who were very close to these men. But all the other people that have been documented as casualties during these attacks, they all had people who knew them and loved them. Yet we shared footage of them nonetheless, again because of that desire to bear witness.
Lastly, I have to consider who they are and what they do for a living. They're professional war photographers. It's their job to document the horrors of war, including the dead and injured. As fate would have it, they are now among the casualties. Would they want footage of them to be shared? I'll never be able to ask Tim, but I hope that Chris and Guy will one day be able to comment on this, whether they support my decision to share the video or to condemn it.
Ultimately it boils down to this: I feel like I would be an absolute hypocrite if I didn't share this video. So here it is. I don't know if it will even be online much longer. Either way, it is your choice to view it or not.
4:22 P.M.The Death of a Libyan Citizen Journalist
While much of the international community's attention has been focused recently on the dire situation for opponents of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi in the besieged city of Misurata, his forces continue to attack protesters turned rebels in another city in western Libya, Zintan.
While some journalists and aid workers have been able to reach Misurata by boat to document the frequently deadly attacks there, Zintan, in the western Nafusa Mountains, has been largely cut off, forcing residents of the city to find ways to report on their own struggle.
One of those ways has been through a group Twitter account, OperationLibya, maintained by a group of Zintan's revolutionaries. On Tuesday, the group's only English-speaking member, Khalid Ahmed Alghirani, who wrote as Kalid Zalitin, reported that he had been seriously wounded:
These are and could be my last tweet. I am using sat net from Zintan hospital. Was injured in battle today. We have very few medicine.
We will not give up nor give in, its not about life anymore, its about human dignity and rights. All our followers.
All tweets will b in Arabic if I can't make it. As am only English speaker here ATM. #freedom4libya #freedom4zintan #freedom4all
Several hours later, one of the blogger's colleagues announced that he had died.
brother khaled just became one of the shuhada
Liliane Khalil, a Cairene journalist and blogger, reported on Wednesday:
On Tuesday, 19 April, the Zintan fighters encountered a fierce battle with Colonel Muammar Qaddafi's troops and Khalid received a wound to the chest. What could have been a simple procedure in a medical center outfitted with modern supplies and equipment, became a critical situation when surgeons in the unit did not even have basic supplies such as packing gauze, sutures and proper lighting to conduct surgery. It was reported that surgeons were using the lights of mobile phones to examine Khalid's wound, and he was listed on Tuesday afternoon in critical condition.
Throughout Khalid's painful ordeal, he continued to Tweet, knowing that as he was the only English-speaking member of the group, the information he provided would be able to reach a much larger audience. Particularly since the group was attempting to reach out to NATO who had recently bombed the area – wounding many, and killing an unknown number of civilians on the ground. Beyond basic war zone triage equipment, the hospital in Zintan also lacked medication to help ease Khalid's pain. Despite his wounds and knowing that without emergency surgery his chances of survival decreased each hour, Khalid continued to tweet from his account.
Finally, as the pain became more than he could bear, and his lungs began to fill with blood, Khalid handed over his Twitter account to his cousin, Abdul Basit, and alerted his followers that future tweets would be in Arabic. Abdul tweeted next: "Inshallah, Khalid will be fine. I will try to hang on as much as I can…"
In the evening of Tuesday, 19 April, Khalid dictated a tweet to his followers: "This could be my final tweet. I am using satellite net from Zintan Hospital. Was injured in battle and there is very little medicine."
In the end, Khalid Alghirani succumbed to his injuries and died on Wednesday, 20 April, of a collapsed lung at Zintan Hospital. He leaves behind a wife and a son.
3:24 P.M.Photographer Killed in Besieged Libyan City
As my colleague C.J. Chivers reports, Tim Hetherington, a photojournalist and filmmaker, was killed in the besieged Libyan city of Misurata on Wednesday. Two other photographers working near him, Chris Hondros and Guy Martin, were also seriously wounded.
Mr. Hetherington, a British-born New Yorker who was 40 years old, was a contributor to Vanity Fair magazine known for his work in Afghanistan.
In a report on his death on the magazine's Web site, David Friend wrote; "In 2007, he won the coveted World Press Photo of the Year Award for his coverage of American soldiers in the Korengal Valley—one of three World Press prizes he received." Mr. Hetherington's photographs of American soldiers in Afghanistan led to his 2010 film, "Restrepo."
As Mr. Friend noted, Mr. Hetherington's last update on Twitter, posted on Tuesday, reported "Indiscriminate shelling by Qaddafi forces," in Misurata.
In besieged Libyan city of Misrata. Indiscriminate shelling by Qaddafi forces. No sign of NATO.
In a tribute to Mr. Hetherington on The New Yorker's Web site, Jon Lee Anderson wrote:
Tim Hetherington, who died in Misurata, Libya, today, was not only a very brave and good man, but an endearingly sensitive and honest person. Hetherington's life, his hopes, doubts, and aspirations, were all an open book; he shared them with an enthusiasm and a generosity that made him special. Tim and I had worked on assignment for The New Yorker together in Liberia, in 2006, a country he and I had both lived in at different times and shared a special affection for, and then again in 2009, in Guinea. He was just beginning to earn real acclaim professionally and was excitedly discussing new creative ideas with friends and colleagues. After publishing two very original books—one about American soldiers in Afghanistan and the other about people he had come to know in Liberia—and directing the award-winning film "Restrepo," Tim was looking to dig deeper into the theme of what happens to men who are at war.
1:30 P.M.New Video of the Crackdown on Syrian Protesters in Homs
New video, posted on YouTube by Syrian activists on Wednesday, appears to show the very start of the crackdown on protesters in Homs, Syria's third-largest city, in the early hours of Tuesday morning.
The security forces moved in at about 2 a.m. on Tuesday, after protesters had occupied a central square in Homs, following a long day of funerals and mass protests.
This video, uploaded to YouTube a short time ago by an activist who writes as Shantal7afana on Twitter, appears to have been filmed just as the first shots were fired:
In a description of this video on YouTube, the activist who uploaded it claims that the shots were fired from the police headquarters near the square, and says that this casts doubt on the government line that armed Islamic extremists have been behind all the attacks on protesters in recent weeks.
The same activist also uploaded this graphic video, which seems to show the body of a protester killed by the security forces in the attack being carried away from the square:
On the soundtrack of this video there are prayers for the dead man – "May God have mercy on your soul," and "Say there is no God but God" – and curses for both the security forces – "You animals, criminals!" – and Syria's president: "Bashar, you traitor!"
More new video of protesters fleeing gunshots in the square on Tuesday morning was uploaded to the 501bibo YouTube channel on Wednesday.
A burst of gunfire can be heard at the start of this clip, which also shows a bullet retrieved by a protester and the abandoned square around the new clocktower in central Homs:
This clip also shows protesters scattering as shots are fired:
More dramatic video of the protests in Homs on Monday, and the funerals for protesters killed one day earlier that sparked them, was added to the 501bibo channel yesterday.
The two clips below appear to have been filmed during the funerals in Homs on Monday.
This video seems to have been filmed as the coffins of dead protesters were being carried out of the Grand Mosque of al-Nuri in the market district of Homs on Monday:
The same event was apparently captured in this video, which was uploaded to another YouTube channel on Wednesday, and shows the coffins emerging from the mosque and being greeted by thousands of protesters on the street outside:
These clips, from the 501bibo channel, show thousands of angry mourners calling for the downfall of the Syrian government during Monday's funerals:
This video, added to the 501bibo channel on Wednesday – of a masked man hitting a photograph of President Bashar al-Assad with a shoe, a grave insult – is said to have been shot on Brazil Street, in Homs:
11:44 A.M.More Video From Aleppo of Students and 'Thugs'
More video of student protesters in Aleppo being confronted on Wednesday by "thugs," who support Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, has been uploaded to the Ugarit News YouTube channel.
Both clips look like they were filmed during the clash described in our previous update, which took place inside the university's medical faculty on Wednesday, even though the wrong date appears to have been added to the first one on YouTube.
The Ugarit News YouTube channel also includes this video, said to show Assad supporters confronting medical students in Damascus, the Syrian capital, on Tuesday (an incident described on The Lede yesterday).
Just as the presidents of Egypt and Yemen have in previous months, Syria's president has apparently mobilized government supporters who do not wear uniforms to attack protesters. As Borzou Daragahi of The Los Angeles Times reported on Monday, when thousands of protesters occupied a central square in Syria's third-largest city, Homs, "truckloads of plainclothes pro-government militiamen called shabiha arrived," to confront them.
One Syrian activist, who writes as Edward Dark on Twitter, pointed last night to this photograph posted on the Facebook wall of a man he describes as one of the shabiha, "complete with Bashar Head Tattoo on left bicep!"
The same Facebook wall, which is largely devoted to photographs of the page's owner flexing his muscles and images of Syria's president, describes Syria as, "a paradise on Earth."
10:10 A.M.Students Protest in Aleppo, Syria's Largest City
According to Syrian activists, a protest by university students in Aleppo, Syria's largest city, was broken up by the security forces on Wednesday.
These two video clips, uploaded to the DammySouri YouTube channel, are said to have been filmed during the protest:
This video is said to show an injured medical student being rushed to the hospital:
One activist in Aleppo, who writes as AnonymousSyria on Twitter, posted an account of the protest based on interviews with students who took part and a doctor who treated a wounded student at the university hospital.
A student told me: Imagine the janitor who I greet every morning, beats me when I say "Freedom, peaceful" #Aleppo #Syria
In a series of updates that began about an hour ago, the activist wrote:
I'll write what I gathered about Aleppo university protest today, all info were gathered from witnesses, I saw nothing myself. The protest started at the central university library, with tens of protesters chanting for freedom & peace. Then the protest surrounded by pro-regime thugs & students, they chanted for #Assad & beat protesters, someone saw an arrest….
About twenty students, medical students among them, escaped to the Faculty of Medicine & sheltered there. At this point, the reading library in the Faculty of Medicine were watching from small openings before the windows there. At this time, reading library turned into chaos, as students started shouting to support their friends in the lower floor.
Some students went from the reading library to the lower floor & all shouted against securities "برا برا" means "Out Out." Securities gathered with Batath thugs & broke into the faculty & started a brutal beating against students.
The brutality was indescribable, I saw myself some blood on someone's t-shirt when arrived….
Been told about 10-15 arrests, I couldn't confirm, but I confirm that security arrested one of their thugs by mistake….
A doctor at the #Aleppo University Hospital confirmed the arrival of one injured protester to the emergency department….
About the medical reading library, securities went there, closed the door & started lecturing & insulting students there. They didn't want to allow students out until they check their student IDs & make sure they are all medical students….
In the library, a student broke something (watch?) to express his discontent, securities were provoked & started beating him. Then students allowed out, some mobile phones were confiscated. Classes canceled for the rest of the day.
Another Aleppo blogger familiar with the university's medical school, who writes as Seleucid on Twitter, confirms that this video, said to show supporters of the regime in plain clothes beating students, was filmed inside the school:
After watching the video, Seleucid commented: "I wish I had it in me to stomach state TV, I want to know how they're explaining this."


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