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Archive for October, 2013
Oct 31
A Beautiful Account of God's Work among the Rabinal Achi
To highlight God's work among the Rabinal Achi, Karen Gregory recently published an article for TGC's International Outreach, "Christ for Guatemala's Mayan People." It's a wonderful article that will make your heart rejoice. Here's how it begins:
Our group from Desert Springs Church in Albuquerque, New Mexico, had taken a second mission trip to the town of Rabinal, in the Baja Verapaz region of Guatemala. We wanted to spread the Gospel to the Achi people, descendants of the once-mighty Mayan nation.
On that memorable day in 2004, we traversed a mountainside for two hours. We hiked alongside Pastor David Ixcopal, his wife Maria, and several of their 11 children, with the goal to share the Jesus film—the pastor's only Western gospel resource at the time. A donkey carried the film, along with a generator and sheets that would serve as a movie screen. By evening the entire village of Patchalum viewed the movie; for many, it was their first exposure to the glorious Gospel of Christ.
For several days we accompanied Pastor David up and down steep mountains, taking paths between corn rows to reach the low, dark dwellings of Achi families.
I was overwhelmed by the Guatemalan pastor's daily response to the call of Jesus, and the willingness of his family to ignore the seemingly impossible task to spread the Gospel. Their crushing poverty, amazing energy and boundless joy, in contrast to my many resources, paltry excuses and constant grumbling, made me weep. I returned home a broken woman.
Read the rest of Karen's article here. To learn more about our Rabinal Achi Partnership, visit the DSC Global Missions Page.
Oct 24
Who Are the Unreached? – Preparing for Missions Emphasis Week
To prepare for Missions Emphasis Week, which begins this Sunday, watch this short video by John Piper answering the question, "Who Are the Unreached?"
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By way of reminder, here is a list of what's going on at DSC this week:
Sola Aqua | October 20-30
We're in the middle of this! If you haven't started already, fast from beverages except for tap water and pray for God to bring living water to the peoples of Native America, Guatemala, and North Africa. Then, donate the money you save to DSC's water projects in Guatemala.
Special Guests on Sunday Morning | Sunday, 9:00 AM and 10:45 AM
At our Sunday Services, Matt Ellison will preach from 3 John and Philippians, a sermon titled, "Caring for Missionaries in a Manner Worthy of God." Matt, a member at DSC, is co-founder and Chief Ministry Officer at Sixteen:Fifteen, a church missions coaching organization that has been instrumental in the formation of DSC's vision for missions.
In addition, Rodrigo Barrera, our beloved missionary and Wycliffe Bible Translator, will share about he and his wife Carol's ministry among the Mayan Rabinal Achi in Guatemala.
Dinner with the Missionaries | Sunday, 5:00 – 8:00 PM (Registration closes Friday at 11:59PM)
"Dinner with the Missionaries," including a Q&A with Carol Barrera, Cindy Harper, and Mrs. G. Click here to for more information and to register. Enjoy a nice Pacific Rim dinner, free child care (12 and under), and access to the Silent Auction.
Silent Auction | Sunday Morning – Wednesday Night
The Silent Auction will be open Sunday morning at 8:00 AM, then on Monday and Tuesday from 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM, and on Wednesday from 8:00 AM – 6:00 PM, just before our Lord's Supper service. Click here, here, here, and here to read about the various things and services that have been donated bye DSC members for this auction.
Lord's Supper Service | Wednesday, 6:30 PM
Mr. G, our SNAP Team Leader will be sharing about the progress and upcoming transitions for him and his family. They look to launch to France en route to North Africa in January. Click here to learn more about the Sunrise North Africa Partnership (SNAP).
Also, swing by the Book Nook for several featured books on Global Missions.
It's going to be a great week!
Oct 23
"Work Matters" Conference at Hope Church this Saturday
Here's what D.A. Carson had to say about Tom Nelson's fine book on Christian vocation, Work Matters: Connecting Sunday Worship to Monday Work:
"Not many pastors are adept at encouraging the Christians they serve to think deeply about the work they undertake during the six days when they are not gathering for corporate worship. So many of our applications and exhortations, as important and as faithful as they are, deal with prayer, Bible reading, family relationships, and evangelism, and not with the work that takes up much of our time and that we are called to offer up to God. I first heard Tom Nelson bring some clarity to these matters in some addresses at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, and I am delighted to see his reflections expanded and put into print. This book is greatly needed."
—D. A. Carson, Research Professor of New Testament, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
On Saturday, October 26, from 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM, Hope Church will host a half day conference with Tom Nelson, "Work Matters: Integrating Faith and Work." If you'd like to join, the cost is free, but you'll need to register here.
If this subject has your interest, check out Nelson's sermon, "Is Work a Four-Letter Word?," this video interview by Crossway, and this written interview by The Gospel Coalition.
Tom Nelson is the Senior Pastor of Christ Community Church in Leawood, Kansas, and a council member of The Gospel Coalition.
Oct 16
"Revelation 7" – A New Song for Cause for Praise, This Friday
DSC's fourth annual Cause for Praise worship concert is this Friday, October 18, at 7:00 PM at Desert Springs Church. We use the word "concert," but this event is more precisely a special and extended evening of corporate worship in song. The event will be recorded and several songs from the evening will be released over the next year.
As has become our tradition, we will learn a few new songs together. One new song we'll sing is part of a future DSC recording project called, "Songs of Revelation." As the title makes clear, this will be an album of songs based on texts from the Book of Revelation.
For a taste of what's to come this Friday, here are the lyrics to a song based on Revelation 7:
Revelation 7
Chris Elliot, Drew Hodge
1. O eyes, behold the multitude
of souls amassed from 'cross the globe;
No tongue from lyrics to preclude
a cry of praise to God enthroned.
Before the Lamb, clothed in white,
all in accord they cried . . .
Salvation belongs to our God!
Salvation belongs to our God!
2. Saints and angels gathered round,
elders and the creatures sang;
Before the throne all faces down
beyond all time God's glory rang.
Before the Lamb, clothed in white,
all in accord they cried . . .
As you are probably aware, DSC's musicians have written a number of songs over the past few years, many of them recorded and available for listening and download at DSC's Bandcamp Page.
Oct 14
Baptism Testimonies from Sunday, October 13, 2013
Yesterday we had the joy of witnessing the baptism of ten brothers and sisters, five in each service. As a new tradition, we will post the baptism testimony videos following our baptism services. Below are the video testimonies from Sunday morning! You will be blessed by these testimonies of grace.
As we listen to these testimonies, let's praise God for his salvation of these people and remember these words from the Apostle Paul for all of us who are in Christ:
… all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.
— Romans 6:3-4
9:00 AM Service
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Isabel Betancur, Larry Gallegos, Ramona Gallegos, Carlos Stearns, Courteney Gurule
10:45 AM Service
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Melissa Velez, Eric Lewin, Amber McBride, Campbell Beck, Emma Beauchamp
Oct 11
At the Book Nook in October: Global Missions
DSC's annual Global Missions Emphasis will take place this month from October 27-30. Follow the Missions Blog for details, and be sure to register for our second annual Dinner with the Missionaries, Sunday, October 27 (learn more here).
While we have a column of shelves dedicated to missions and evangelism, this month we are featuring three books on global missions. Below you'll find Amazon links and descriptions for each.
Finish the Mission: Bringing the Gospel to the Unreached and Unengaged, by John Piper and David Mathis
"This is no ordinary missions book. The theme isn't new, but the approach is refreshing and compelling, as contributors David Platt, Louie Giglio, Michael Ramsden, Ed Stetzer, Michael Oh, David Mathis, and John Piper take up the mantle of the Great Commission and its Spirit-powered completion.
From astronomy to exegesis, from apologetics to the Global South, from being missional at home to employing our resources in the global cause, Finish the Mission aims to breathe fresh missionary fire into a new generation, as together we seek to reach the unreached and engage the unengaged."
The Gospel for Muslims: An Encouragement to Share Christ with Confidence, by Thabiti Anyabwile
"There are between five and eight million Muslims living in the United States today. They either are, or soon will be, your neighbors and co-workers. Does the thought of reaching out to them with the gospel make you nervous? How can you effectively communicate the good news with such large theological differences? The Gospel for Muslims can help make sharing your faith easier than you think.
Thabiti Anyabwile, himself a convert from Islam to Christianity, instructs you in ways to share the good news of Christ with your neighbors and friends. The Gospel for Muslims allows you to focus on the people rather than the religious system. Meant for the average Christian, this book is not an exhaustive apologetic or a detailed comparative study of Christianity and Islam. Rather, it compellingly stirs confidence in the gospel, equipping the reader with the basics necessary to communicate clearly, boldly, and winsomely."
Window on the World: When We Pray God Works, by Daphne Spraggett and Jill Johnstone
"Stunning photographic visuals complement this A to Z collection of countries and people groups providing an exciting learning experience and guide for prayer. Short stories about featured countries or people groups help relate foreign lands and people to children in the West. Each page includes a small map putting the country into perspective with neighboring countries and a fact box with essential country and people information. . . . This invaluable resource develops cultural, political, and geographical awareness through a Christian lens . . . [in order to help all of us] pray more effectively for [our] world."
Oct 3
Pray for New Mexico's Preaching Pastors
If the church is to be strong for her work in the world, she will need to be established in the Word. Preachers are a primary way God gets that done. Listen to how Paul described Timothy's job:
I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. – 1 Timothy 4:1-2
And so this is how we can pray for the church: by praying for God's preachers to preach God's Word.
This week at DSC we've had 40 pastors from throughout the region on site for a preaching workshop led by Simeon Trust. It's called, the Simeon Trust Workshop on Biblical Exposition and this is DSC's second year to host this three day event. Its purpose is to help pastors grow in their confidence in and ability with the Word of God. For those interested in theological training who desire to know and teach the Bible well, Simeon Trust also offers an online course worth checking out here.
Below are some pictures from the last few days of the workshop. As you browse these photos and as this workshop comes to mind, please pray for these men and for their encouragement in the lofty, difficult, and wonderful task of preaching the Word.
This Sunday morning, Juan Sanchez, one of this year's workshop speakers, will be preaching for us. Prepare for his sermon, titled, "When God is No Longer Silent," by reading 1 Samuel 3. Juan is the preaching pastor at High Pointe Baptist Church in Austin, Texas, and a council member for The Gospel Coalition.


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Diana Jean Krall, OC, OBC (born November 16, 1964) is a Canadian jazz pianist and singer. Krall was born into a musical family in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada. She began learning the piano at the age of four. In high school, she started playing in a small jazz group. When she was 15 she started playing regularly in several Nanaimo restaurants. At age seventeen she won a scholarship from the Vancouver International Jazz Festival to study at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, and completed three terms. In Nanaimo her playing attracted the attention of famed bass player Ray Brown (ex-husband of the late Ella Fitzgerald, long-time member of the Oscar Peterson Trio and Grammy-winning composer) and drummer Jeff Hamilton. After hearing her play, Brown and Hamilton persuaded Krall to move to Los Angeles, and study with pianist Jimmy Rowles, with whom she began to sing. This also brought her into contact with influential teachers and producers. In 1990, Krall relocated to New York. Krall and British musician Elvis Costello were married on December 6, 2003 at Elton John's estate outside London. Their first children together, twin sons Dexter Henry Lorcan and Frank Harlan James, were born December 6, 2006 in New York City. Her father Jim Krall's large record collection helped to expose the young Krall to jazz legends. Diana lost her mother Adella to multiple myeloma in 2002, within months of also losing her mentors Ray Brown and Rosemary Clooney. Krall's only sibling, her sister Michelle, actively supports her older sister's career.
In 1993, Krall released her first album, Stepping Out, which she recorded with John Clayton and Jeff Hamilton. It caught the attention of producer Tommy LiPuma, who produced her second album, Only Trust Your Heart (1995). Her third, All for You: A Dedication to the Nat King Cole Trio (1996), was nominated for a Grammy and continued for 70 weeks in the Billboard jazz charts. Love Scenes (1997) quickly became a hit record with the trio of Krall, Russell Malone (guitar) and Christian McBride (bass). In August 2000, Krall was paired on a 20-city tour with Tony Bennett. Orchestral arrangements by Johnny Mandel provided the background on When I Look In Your Eyes (1999); more Grammy nominations came along, and she was rewarded as Best Jazz Musician of the Year. The band mix was kept, following arrangements on The Look of Love (2001) created by Claus Ogerman; this record achieved platinum status and reached the top 10 of the Billboard 200. The Look of Love went to number one on the Canadian album charts and went quadruple platinum in that country. The title track from the album, a cover of the Casino Royale standard popularized in the late 1960s by Dusty Springfield and Sergio Mendes, reached number 22 on the adult contemporary chart. In September 2001, Krall began a world tour. Her concert at the Paris Olympia was recorded and released as her first live record. Diana Krall - Live in Paris topped the Billboard jazz charts, went top 20 on the Billboard 200 and went top five in Canada. It garnered her second Grammy (Best Vocal Jazz Record) and a Juno Award. The album included covers of Billy Joel's "Just The Way You Are" (a hit on U.S. smooth jazz radio) and Joni Mitchell's "A Case Of You." After marrying Elvis Costello, she worked with him as a lyricist, and started to compose her own songs, resulting in the album The Girl in the Other Room. The album, released in April 2004, quickly rose to the top five in the United Kingdom and made the Australian top 40 album charts. "Temptation", a cover of the Tom Waits's song off his Frank's Wild Years album of 1987, reached number one of the World Jazz Charts (based on the U.S., Germany, France, Japan and China). She also joined Ray Charles on his Genius Loves Company album in 2004 on the song, "You Don't Know Me." In late May 2007, Krall was featured in a Lexus ad campaign. [1] She also sang, "Dream a Little Dream of Me" with piano accompaniment by legendary pianist Hank Jones.
In 2000, she was awarded the Order of British Columbia. In 2003 she was given an honorary Ph.D. (Fine Arts) from the University of Victoria. In 2004 she was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame. In 2005, she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. She is an honorary board member of the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation.
Official Site: www.dianakrall.com
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Mark, please see my comments inside. 8-) I've cut out the cut-out-able stuff. Jacek Kopecky Idoox http://www.idoox.com/ On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Mark Baker wrote: > Jacek Kopecky wrote: > > > Now we have XMLP. I'll use this acronym because I think we > > should consider what we would do if we built XMLP from scratch, > > and then compare it with what SOAP does and decide on the > > relative merits. What I say about XMLP may not be true about SOAP > > Version 1.2, I'm changing the facts here for the sake of > > discussion. > > XMLP messages are defined in terms of Infoset, with processing > > rules based on the Abstract Model. We need to transport the > > messages from one XMLP node to another. We are in need of a > > transport protocol. TCP will suffice for some applications. > > The "null contract" that transport provides is indeed one of the ways in > which XMLP intermediaries can "communicate". However nothing in the > Abstract Model that I'm aware of (which isn't prescriptive anyhow) > prevents the contract between XMLP intermediaries from being stronger > than simply transport. See further below. > > I guess nobody will argue that TCP is an application protocol. > > Now we see HTTP, and we know HTTP is good. And we know HTTP > > traverses firewalls. And we decide to use HTTP. > > We use HTTP as a transport protocol because we need nothing more > > from it than from TCP. This is a layered approach so XMLP faults > > are HTTP successes. > > This assumes that all that is required is transport. Certainly it does, that was the intention. > > Now back to reality - we have SOAP/1.1 and a working draft of > > SOAP Version 1.2 and we started with the HTTP binding modeled as > > an extension of HTTP. We are considering binding to TCP now. > > I can see how one binding could be layered over one protocol > > while an other binding would extend an other protocol, even though > > it is a bit of inconsistency. > > Anyway, does modeling the HTTP binding as an extension of HTTP > > bring some significant added value? > > I hope so, otherwise all this typing is a big waste of time 8-). I'm afraid you understood my last question as "does HTTP binding bring some added value?" instead of the intended "does HTTP binding as an extension of HTTP (as opposed to using HTTP as a transport protocol) bring some added value?" See below as well for I might have misunderstood you here. > The main benefit is that you can still operate within the context of the > application defined by the application protocol. HTTP provides a very > rich set of application semantics in addition to those used with POST. > So SOAP-over-HTTP based apps can work together with HTTP based apps. > Ditto for other application protocol bindings (SOAP-over-SMTP working > with SMTP). And you can do this *and* be able to transfer a single SOAP > message over gateways for various application protocols (the work to > bridge the gateway, say a HTTP/SMTP one, is entirely at the > application-level - SOAP need not worry about how that gateway works). > > > Will then the TCP binding > > actually create a whole 'nother application protocol? > > The application semantics have to be defined somewhere. TCP doesn't > have them, so SOAP would either have to be used for RPC, or the > semantics would have to be implicit by some other means. Or the binding > would have to define them. All of those are, IMO, worse than simply > reusing the semantics of the application protocol. I don't see how HTTP binding specifies application semantics for SOAP. I don't see how any part of if does. In my opinion, to SOAP, HTTP only provides the natural request/response messaging pattern. The HTTP requests don't differ except in the SOAP envelope if I'm doing an RPC or an async notification or some data submission. How does HTTP define application semantics? (I'm not necessarily saying it does not, I'm saying I can't see it.) In my view HTTP adds to TCP the following significant things: 1) hierarchical address namespace 2) application metadata (in HTTP headers, in SOAP now used only by Content-type, Content-length, and SOAPAction that is being considered for removal) 3) transport methods (GET,POST...) of which SOAP only uses POST so it could as well be the only method 4) wider transport support - transparent compressions, chunking etc. 5) status reporting Which of these do we really need for SOAP as an XML protocol? 2) Content-type for MIME envelope support 5) some status reporting so that we can have requests without responses and still reuse one connection (think "204 No Content" or "200 OK, content-length: 0" and add pipelining of requests) These two things still don't define an application protocol, they make rather a "smarter" transport protocol. Here's why I think the others are not really needed: 1) there's always just one significant (server) address in a client/server communication; anyway there's as many addresses as there are nodes in a communication; so IP addresses and ports should suffice, although they are not as pretty. 2) SOAP has perfectly good way of transporting metadata (SOAP headers) except for the info about the payload, and of that only content-type and length are used now, putting aside SOAPAction (I'm a proponent of removing it.) 3) SOAP only uses POST and I don't see how others would be needed (as opposed to somewhat convenient) 4) again not _needed_, just somewhat convenient sometimes Best regards, JacekReceived on Thursday, 19 July 2001 16:32:41 UTC
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text: The report points out that sales of sportswear brands rose this year compared with last year. The best-performing brand was Nike, which recorded an 82 percent increase in sales last year. Under Armor followed with 53 percent sales growth last year, Adidas ranked third with a cumulative increase of 100%, ranking fourth with 224% growth in New Balance, while The North Face finished fifth with 40% growth. The trend of leisure sports will be popular because many non-traditional sports brands have launched sports apparel inventory, according to the report, non-traditional sports retailers in the second quarter of this year, the number of sportswear production increased over the same period in 2014 87 %.cheap air max 1 black smoke, The report also pointed out that fast fashion brands such as Zara and H & M this year will launch a series of home casual sportswear. The report noted that in the past two years, sports shoes is the second best-selling sports products, accounting for 24.4% of total sales, while the best-selling product type is sports underwear, 28.7% of total sales. Research found that sales of underwear in the third quarter of this year compared with the same period in 2014 rose 112%. With the pursuit of healthy consumption of life, the industry is expected in January next year, legging pants sales will continue to grow, according to the report, legging pants sales in January than in January this year, up 160%. In addition, the report also pointed out that the trend of denim single product will also continue this year, full-price jeans sales rose 49 percent last year, the report stressed that although the trend of leisure and sports mainstream, but cowboy fashion elements are essential , It will always be popular.


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For a brief period of time I served as clerk in the Chief Office then on "G" Street, copying from original records into large volumes intended for publication, comparing data etc. General Hazen, of course, was Chief Signal Officer at that time. While at work there the surviving members of the Greely expedition returned and I was thrown into contact with one of the members of that expedition who was assigned to my room for duty, Sergeant Brainard.
While at Ft. Myer, we inherited...rather dubious tricks by which we endeavored to make everything as easy for ourselves as possible. This refers chiefly to the military training, the signal practice by flags in the day time and by torches at night. The latter form of signalling was especially laborious, and often practice messages were arranged beforehand between the two parties, the one at home and the other in the field, so that we knew beforehand just what words were being sent, and I am afraid that unless an officer was present we did not take much care in sending or receiving, and probably learned about as much.
But signaling by the heliograph was much more interesting and several men in my class made good records which resulted in their being selected afterwards for duty in Arizona. We were supposed to learn telegraphy also, but excepting Lt. Swift, who was an expert operator, the other instructors were quite poor. At the closing examinations L. Walshe, a rough Irishman but with a good heart who used to pound his desk with rulers until it broke to pieces, examined us in telegraphy. I remembered that I passed by the skin of my teeth, for Walshe opened the telegraph key about an inch wide and pounded on it with his fist making a racket loud enough to wake the dead. He gave several trials with different paragraphs all of which I missed but finally kindly returned to the first one tried which I remember and so got through, but I certainly was not a finished telegraph operator.
The meteorological work was comparatively simple, mostly the routine work of taking observations. What meteorology I know I learned afterward. Even here there was trickery so simple that authorities must have known and cared not. We were required to prepare monthly reports on the order of the present Forms 1001. These were to be completed by the students, were examined by the clerks at Washington and the men rated on them by the number of errors made. But all of the original records which had long been corrected were lying on the tables before the men and it is not surprising that the practice forms sent in were mostly merely copied.
The fact that I was fresh from school and used to passing examinations is the only reason that I can assign for passing the final examinations at the head of the class. The man who passed at the head of the class was paid the compliment of being sent in charge of a station, and so I happen never to have been an assistant at any station. My first assignment was in charge of the office in San Antonio, Texas.
Arriving at San Antonio I found a telegram revoking my orders and requesting me to wait for further instructions by mail. I found myself entirely without funds in a strange city with no expectations of getting any for about two weeks or so, but I preferred not to write home but to manage in some way for myself. So I selected the best hotel in San Antonio at that time for my experiment, and going up to the clerk, I explained to him that I was a government official stranded and in want of board and lodging for about two weeks, but no money to pay as yet. He looked me over from head to foot and seeing that I looked free from guile, simply said, "Register." I paid the bill when my salary check arrived.
When my orders finally arrived I found that I was to proceed to Fort Concho, Texas, a station about 100 miles from the railroad at Abilene and near a small town called on the maps San Angelo, but nicknamed by its inhabitants "Hell on wheels." This was in the fall of 1885. Here I relieved Dr. I. M. Cline a gentleman well known to us all up to the present day.
The Concho station consisted of a two small roomed house located on the flat prairie about three miles from San Angelo, and not far from the military post of Ft. Concho in the hottest and driest part of Texas. I do not remember whether it ever rained there but I do remember that the temperature rose on some occasions as high at 110 in the shade. I had to sprint to get my telegrams off in time as they had to be filed at the W.U. (Western Union) office in town. Concho was discontinued however very soon, and I turned over the house and everything to the commanding officer at the Fort. Again I was ordered in charge of San Antonio.
Here I found myself immediately in hot water, for this was a telegraph station. I certainly had not made any reputation while at Ft. Myer in the operating line, except by Heliograph, and wondered that I had been selected for this post. The office was located at the military post, about three miles from the center of town and connected with the Western Union, and there was considerable work for the military people.
I relieved Mr. Dorman and the Commanding Officer was General Ruggles. As soon as the change of observers had been accomplished, the Manager of the W.U. called me up by wire and proceeded to send me a message at the rate of about 1000 words a minute as it seemed to me. Although I broke the operator a few hundred times I never did get the message straight, and finally told the manager I would take it by telephone which I did. I did not see why the telephone could not have been used all the time, but as there was a telegraph office of course the messages had to come that way. The Manager of the Western Union immediately wrote to the commanding officer, Gen. Ruggles, a strongly worded letter in which he could not be responsible for the correctness of messages sent by telegraph to the post as the new man was absolutely incompetent. Gen. Ruggles sent for me, read me the letter and asked what I had to say. Probably much to his astonishment I replied that the Manager of the W.U. was perfectly correct and that I was by no means an expert telegraph operator. The General then asked how long it would take me to learn, and I told him that I thought I could manage the office in about a month, whereupon he kindly pigeonholed the letter and told me to try.
I immediately went to the City, saw the manager of W.U. and when he learned that I knew about his letter to Gen. Ruggles and did not resent it, but was anxious to learn, he advised me to buy a repeating sounder and promised to place it on a busy wire so that business not intended for me would be continually passing over my wire. This was done and I spent every moment of my time in learning to take down the messages that I heard. Meanwhile the other operators at San Antonio, when there was business for the Fort, very kindly sent the messages very slowly so that I got along fairly well. In about a month the Manager tried me again, and as he really could send a telegram most beautifully, though fast, I managed to take it this time without a break. When through I asked him, "How about it?" He replied, "You'll do," and that was the end of my troubles in this line.
San Antonio was a pleasant station and I hoped to remain there some years, until Lt. Sebree arrived in charge of the telegraph division embracing Texas and adjoining states, Lt. Sebree at once ordered me to move my office quite a distance away to the vicinity of his, and when I mentioned that the barometer could not be moved without instructions from the Chief Signal Officer, he replied that his orders were just as good.
I had a somewhat narrow escape here, for I should most certainly have refused to move the barometers without instructions from the Chief Office. I think that Lt. Sebree saw that I would probably give him some trouble for he spoke of it to other officers at the post, and I heard of it through other channels. Fortunately for me, Lt. Sebree about two days after his arrival went off on a hunting trip for a few days, and while he was gone I received telegraphic instructions to report at once for duty to General Miles at Fort Huachuca, Ariz. For duty against the Apache Indians which had gone on the war path in southern Arizona and northern Mexico. This was Geronimo and his band.
My orders came in April 1886. It happens that another man of the Signal Corps was at the moment in San Antonio for reenlistment and he received orders at the same time to remain and take charge of San Antonio. I remember his disgust when he learned that he would have to move his office next to Lt. Sebree's and be practically an assistant, rather than be in charge of the station.
I received transportation requests from the army quartermaster, and did not stop to get a ticket. Conductors in those days did not hesitate to accept government transportation requests. The train was crowded with soldiers, and I noticed frequently a gentleman in civilian dress walking along the car who glanced at me as if he wondered what I was doing on the train. I did not know that this was General Miles, or I should have presented to him there the letter of introduction that General Ruggles had kindly given me.
An amusing incident occurred on this occasion. After I had surrendered the transportation request, which the conductor did not refuse but kept looking at as if there were something wrong about it, he went on about his duties, but when they were finished he came back and sat down with me and we had some general conversation. After a time he again took out my transportation request, looked at it, and then remarked, "You have a very peculiar name." "Yes," I said, "It is distinctly a German name, but I nevertheless am an American citizen having been born in the United States." "Yes," he replied, "I recognized that part of it is German, but how do you come to have Pat for your first name?" For a moment I was quite puzzled until the conductor showed me the transportation request where the clerk had abbreviated my title Private to Pvt. but had written it so carelessly that it looked like Pat von Herrmann. Upon my explanation the conductor laughed heartily.
When I arrived at Fort Huachuca my previous military experience was again serviceable. For on reporting to the adjutant he started to say I will assign you to troop so-and-so, but I spoke up quickly and said that the men of the Signal Corps on duty outside of Washington did not participate with the troops but would take care of themselves, as he could judge by the fact that I wore no uniform. "All right," he said, "there is a hotel," and promptly forgot all about it. So I took quarters at the hotel and there I found also all the young unmarried lieutenants and other officers, and as they did not know me I was not disturbed, and remained at the hotel for some time until I found more reasonably priced lodging and board with a married commissary sergeant.
I was the only man apparently who had so far been ordered to Huachuca for heliograph duty, and of course I did not then know that many others would also be ordered there, otherwise I might have saved several members of the class sent direct from Fort Myer a great deal of trouble. Unfortunately they arrived at Fort Huachuca and reported to the post adjutant before I knew it. They were assigned to troops, as they were in the uniform of a private, and the adjutant had forgotten what I told him. Soon afterward when I heard they had arrived I hastened to tell them not to accept assignment to troops but was too late.
By the time the new men arrived, I had already completed a permanent heliograph station on a pretty high hill close to Huachuca. This station used a large round heliograph mirror which tipped backward and forward slightly by means of a key at the back, making a click just like a telegraph sounder. No screen was required as the flash of light was simply lifted far above and dropped down to the station to make the dots and dashes. I had had a very firm stand or table made with heavy posts let into the ground, and the outfit worked wonderfully well.
Here there occurred an illustration of the effect of the clearness of the atmosphere in the west, which was well known to me. The young fellows from Ft. Myer had none of them ever been west. When they first visited my heliograph station I pointed out to them a town in which the houses could be very clearly seen. I asked the boys how far away they thought it was. One spoke up and said, "You can't fool us on that proposition. We have heard all about the deceptiveness of distances in this country, and so although that place looks to me to be about 2 miles distant, I'll say it 5 miles." With this the others mostly agreed and were astonished when they found the place was 25 miles away.
When I reported to General Miles the morning after my arrival, he informed me that the plan was to establish signal stations on prominent peaks for the purpose of watching the country thoroughly by telescopes and transmitting intelligence of the movements of troops and of hostile Indians by the heliograph which would be the instrument chiefly used. I was able to inform General Miles that I had had considerable success in the use of the heliograph while at the school of instruction at Fort Myer, Va. and that I could instruct men in the use of the instrument. Classes for instruction were at once assigned to me. We practiced across the parade ground and the officers, I could see, had but little belief that the instrument could be of any service.
As the altitude of Huachuca is very considerable, the sun was very powerful, and being obliged to be in bright sunlight practically from sunrise to sun set, my face burned terribly and the skin pealed off not once but continually, as I unfortunately do not burn brown but rather burn up. Finally the adjutant of the post took compassion on me, and gave me an oddly made shade. It had a strong wire frame which was secured around the body, and above it an umbrella like structure covered with white canvas, which could be folded over the back when not in use. I wore this all the time and it was certainly a comfort, but it was conspicuous and I became a notorious character.
During May, 1886, before there were any other heliograph stations established excepting the one at Huachuca, I made my big flash move continually around the country trying to stir up something, and especially I directed it on every little collection of houses that I could see through the telescope, so that the natives were generally more or less wonderstruck. At last one day I got an answering flash very faint from a party in the field, and after careful adjustment took a message to the commanding office requesting the immediate dispatch of forage and other supplies to a place some fifty miles away. When I delivered this telegram to the Commanding office, the fact became known shortly and a crowd of officers came up to the heliograph station to see it work. The supplies were sent at once. I have seen the heliograph flash as far away as Ft. Bowie, 90 miles distant.
Huachuca was station No. 7, and communicated west with Mt. Baldy, about 40 miles, on which my friend Neifert was in charge. The heliograph line ultimately attained a length of over 200 miles from Mt. Baldy, to stations in New Mexico, and undoubtedly aided the troops in capturing Geronimo and his men who were frightened by the flashes of light which appeared everywhere. But this story has no doubt been fully told in public reports.
The time I spent at Ft. Huachuca was very pleasant. The work was interesting, the climate was fine, and the skies so clear at night, that having an excellent book on astronomy with me with some good charts of the constellations, I spent a good part of every night in studying the heavens and learned much about the "friendly stars."
The heliograph stations were discontinued in September, 1886, and I was ordered to take charge of the station at LaCrosse, Wis. I got on the train at Huachuca station with a straw hat and linen duster, and as the country was uninteresting and besides familiar to me, I hardly left the car, reading novels most of the time until I reached Omaha. Here I got off the train and for a moment was surprised to have everybody at the depot staring at me, until I began to feel that it was very cold, and presently saw a cold wave flag flying and found that the temperature was 3 degrees below zero. I bought an overcoat, quick.
At LaCrosse I found the station in bad shape. I relieved a man whose name I have forgotten, as he soon left the service. But he had an office the main entrance to which led past some toilets which appeared to be continually out of order so that a decent person could not get to the office. The first thing I did before even taking charge was to telegraph to Washington for authority to immediately move the station. I selected two rooms in the large MacMillan Building, furnished them nicely, and soon had all the girls in the large department store on the ground floor running up to find out about the weather at their lunch hours, and Lt. Walshe who inspected me there flattered me by the remark, when I found him quite unexpected in my office (he having found the key where I usually hid it) "von Hermmann, this is the neatest little office I ever entered." At this place I delivered a lecture on meteorology to an audience of Y.M.C.A. men.
At LaCrosse the temperature once fell to 43 degrees below zero, a temperature I had twice experienced before in Wyoming. On this occasion the circumstances were somewhat peculiar. At night when I went to bed I did not care for a fire, but I liked to get up in warm room, so I always had a fire laid in my room in the afternoon, which I would light in the morning, and then remain in bed until the room was comfortably warm. But on this particular morning when I got up it did not seem to me to be cold enough even for a fire in my room, and I got up and dressed without the least discomfort; wore my overcoat down town wide open, and no gloves and yet experienced no inkling that it was very cold, and was supremely astonished to find all the mercurial thermometers frozen and the alcohol minimum registering 43 below zero. Fog prevailed at the time, and I wondered why the fog particles did not freeze; they did not appear to be frozen, though settling on objects in the form of thick frost work. I have never been able to explain why on this occasion I did not experience a sensation of cold, but was perfectly warm and comfortable, until I had read the thermometer.
I was transferred to Fort Custer, Montana. On one occasion there was a tremendously severe hail storm at Fort Custer, a description of which would probably be found in the records from that station. What I recall particularly in connection with it was the evidence of good sense shown by a quartermaster's team of six mules that happened to have been loosely hitched to the porch of my office at the beginning of the storm. At the first touch of hail these six mules deliberately climbed up on the porch and sheltered themselves. Horses would have fled in wild fear. This storm was so severe that cattle were killed, and large hailstones fell through shingle roofs into the rooms where people were sitting.
I left Fort Custer in consequence of the death of my father, and after a brief period of duty in the instrument room (Central Office in Washington, D.C.) under Prof. Marvin, I was offered either Mount Desert Island, Maine, or Savannah, GA. I selected the latter station but was there only three or four months when I received orders to take charge of the Section Center at Raleigh, NC. Here I was introduced to climatological work, and remained at Raleigh until the meteorological work of the Signal Corps was transferred to the Department of Agriculture.


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Peter had us working this morning mostly on improving our freestyles. We actually got to practice a couple of times. I've gone down hill a biy from lack of practice. The first time I was not entering as often as I had in the past. The second round through I did better.
Also in class we did Tony's killer taiotoshi. This time I picked him as a partner so I could see exactly what he was doing last week. What he does is quite simple. He enters inside and continues in a circle bringing uke through the same line he started with the tsuki. Once he gets a connection with the arm, he basically tenkans in front of uke wrapping him around.
Not much else going on. When Buddy and I worked together I suggested for the kaitenage that he draw uke forward just a bit so when you bring the arm down, uke sort of just falls right into the hole you create. This was shown to me back at North Shore Aikido at some point.


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From: Ivan Herman <email@example.com> Subject: Re: draft response for 52b / JR6b Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:39:29 +0100 > I have an additional point. Jonathan also says: > > [[[ > I have no idea what an RDF graph that is not well-formed would be. > The cited document uses "well-formed" in several different ways, none > of which is what I think you mean. Please delete all occurrences of > "well-formed" from this document unless you can provide or cite a > particular definition. > ]]] > > I think it is worth referring to the fact that the new version of the > Syntax document will give a more explicit lists of those restrictions > that allow RDF graphs to be mapped back to the Structure. (With the > assumption that this is what we meant by 'well-formed' in this context.) > > Ivan I believe that all the "well-formed" were in the RDF Semantics, and have since been changed. This falls under the "specific editorial concerns with the RDF-Based Semantics document" which have been explicitly excluded from this reply. Anyway this "well-formed" isn't related to the conditions on ontology structures in Syntax. peterReceived on Thursday, 12 March 2009 10:27:52 UTC
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> This is a tricky problem indeed. > > The current appcache actually has the behavior that you're advocating, > but that's something that a lot of developers has complained about. In > fact, that's the second biggest complaint that I've heard only > trailing the confusing "master entries" behavior. > > I personally think the problem with this particular aspect of the existing appcache is that its so incredibly hard to clear the cache and go online during development - i.e. once you're offline you have to jump through hoops to get back online. A secondary issue was that once you as a developer got used to dealing with that, If your users somehow get stuck in an offline state because of a bug, there is/was no real way to "repair" them other than telling them to clear their cache. > > On the other hand, it creates the "load twice to get latest version" > behavior that a lot of developers dislike. I.e. when a user opens a > website they end up getting the previous version of the website and > have to reload to get the new version. > > I think that if there is a programmatic API that is available early-on, then at least starting in offline gives the developer the option of going online if they so choose - and it could be done even before the onload handler if they want to avoid flashing the old/deprecated page in the browser. If you require hitting the network first, then I can't think of how you'd write programmatic hooks to bypass that. I personally think that no matter how expressive the declarative syntax is, developers are always going to need to work around it - "expiration" or "staleness" is simply too complex to just give an absolute or relative date or time - caching policy in apps can simply depend on things that extend beyond your caching syntax - I mean imagine a caching policy that depends on it being before or after sunset in your locale. > > If you have other ideas for how we can solve this then I'd love to > hear it. If we need to add more knobs to allow authors to choose which > policies they want to use then I have no problem with that. It would > be particularly interesting to hear what policies people are planning > on implementing using NavigationController to see if we can enable > those. > > A more complex, real example: at my last company had a "systemwide horizon" expiration policy that we implemented with a caching proxy. Imagine this: a very large interconnected data set where individuals spent their time editing data in small regions of the corpus. The goal was if you made an edit, then everything YOU saw would be consistent with that edit. It was perfectly reasonable to have other users see "stale" versions of any page - a poor man's (i.e. startup with only a few application server's) eventually-consistent solution. The way this worked, if any individual user made changes to a particular dataset that affected a page, they would get a cookie set on their client saying "you have made changes through time T" and all future pages that they visited had to be newer than time T. When the browser would hit the proxy with an If-Modified-Since, the proxy would look at the cookie and say "Hmm.. I have a stale version of this page at time T-6, I'd better regenerate it" or "I have a version of the page at time T+2, so I can give this to you" - To make this work we had to set max-age=0, essentially bypassing the entire user's browser cache for every page, even if the server mostly responded with a 304. (so the proxy server sitting in our colo in Santa Clara functioned as your browser's cache because that was the place we could programatically write a policy) That really sucked for performance though, so we increased max-age to maybe 30 seconds, and put a generated <script> in the head that included the time the page was generated, and then compared the cookie to the embedded time. If the cookie was higher, then we know the page was served stale (by our definition of stale) from the browser cache so we forced a refresh. Since this was all in the <head>, the page didn't even flicker. Something like <head> <script>var lastWriteTime=1292830; // generated in-page by the template engine if (lastWriteTime < extractLWT(document.cookie)) reload(); // boilerplate cache policy </script> But of course the problem there is that ONLY works on HTML - all other resources had to have a different policy. With a NavigationController model (or some other programmatic model) you can write arbitrary logic. to deal with these kinds of cases. I'm not saying the declarative model doesn't fix 80% of the issues, but more that you still need a programmatic model in addition. > >> If the user is offline, or if we checked for update for the appcache > >> within the last 5 minutes, we use the index.html from the appcache > >> without hitting the network first. If index.html uses index.js or > >> index.css, those will be immediately loaded from the cache. > > > > Is the opposite true? If index.html is loaded from the network will > index.js > > ever come from the cache? (current appcache says no) > > To start simple I'm so far proposing that the answer is "no". What's > the plan on the NavigationController side? > > >> Whenever we check for updates for an appcache with the above manifest > >> we do an if-modified-since/if-none-match for the manifest. We then do > >> an update check for any resource requested by the manifest. I.e. even > >> if the manifest hasn't changed we still do an update check for each > >> resource linked to by the manifest. If any resources were added since > >> the previous manifest those are obviously simply downloaded. If any > >> resources were removed from the manifest those are discarded. As an > >> optimization the UA can start doing update checks on the same set of > >> URLs that the previous version of the manifest contained. > > > > Don't get the last line, does "the same set of URLs that the previous > > version of the manifest contained" mean "URLs that are in the current > > version, and also the previous version"? Is this suggesting that obeying > > HTTP cache headers is an optional optimisation? > > Sorry, I might have derailed this by mentioning the performance > optimization. > > The basic idea is that even if the manifest hasn't changed, we still > do an update check on all resources. I suspect that both for the > update check of the manifest itself as well as the resources we still > honor the normal http caching semantics. Except that caching > heuristics is disabled. (I think that means that the UA should not > estimate expiration times based on last-modification headers. Are > there other heuristics commonly done?) > > As an optimization which may or may not be a good idea the UA could do > the following: > > To avoid latency, when the UA wants to check an appcache for updates, > it can do if-modified-since requests for the manifest *and* the > resources at the same time. Since the manifest hasn't yet been > downloaded, this would mean that we only know the contents of the > "old" manifest. > > This might mean that the UA does an if-modified-since request for a > resource which doesn't appear in the new manifest. This shouldn't > break anything, it'll just mean that we do an unnecessary download of > a resource. > > I don't think this is something we should rathole too much on. It's > not something that would be a normative requirement in the spec. At > the most an informative note about a possible optimization. It might > not even be a good idea if bandwidth is a bigger concern than latency. > And if the server supports SPDY it's probably not needed at all. > > >> In order to further cut down on the number of network requests, we'd > >> also enable providing last-modified dates or etags directly in the > >> manifest: > >> > >> { > >> "expiration": 300, > >> "cache": [{ url: "index.html", "etag": "84ba9f"}, > >> { url: "index.js", "last-modified": "Wed, 1 May 2013 > >> 04:58:08 GMT" }, > >> "index.css"] > >> } > > > > > > Adding these into the manifest would require some kind of automation, if > > there's a level of automation couldn't it just change the url to > > index.84ba9f.js and have rewriting or static generation take care of the > > rest? > > That's probably true, but you'd still need to include a last-modified > date or an etag in the manifest in order to avoid the UA checking if > the existing url has been updated, no? > > I.e. simply doing > > { > "version": "15.3", > "expiration": 300, > "cache": ["index.html", > "index.js", > "index.css"] > } > > would result in if-modified-since requests to index.html/js/css > whenever the version is updated. > > > >> { > >> "expiration": 300, > >> "cache": ["index.html", "index.js", "index.css"], > >> "cookie-vary": "uid" > >> } > >> > >> This would mean that even if the user is offline and navigates to > >> index.html, if the value of the "uid" cookie is different from when > >> the appcache was last updated, the appcache would not be returned. A > >> UA could even use the value of the "uid" cookie as an additional key > >> in its appcache registry and thus support keeping appcaches for > >> different users on the same device. > > > > > > If I have an expiration of a day, and log out as one user log in with > > another, then get on a plane, none of my content would be available to > me? > > Yes. That's the purpose of the cookie-vary feature. Feedback from > developers has been that often user-specific data ends up in the > appcache and showing that information to another user could be both a > privacy as well as a user-confusion issue. > > >> The actual AppCache object has the following API: > > > > I'm worried the API here loses the simplicity that this proposal is > supposed > > to have over the scripted solution, where you have to learn a manifest > > format and how it interacts with items added via its scripting API, > whereas > > the navigation controller only has a scripting API. > > This is a good point. What features do you suggest we remove? > > However note that removing scripting features here and having people > use NavigationController doesn't mean that people end up doing less > scripting. It just means that they have to do it a different way. > > Note that a goal here is that the NavigationController API and the > AppCache API is as aligned as possible. Ideally even using the same > API. This is not something that I've started looking at yet due to > wanting to get an initial draft out. > > But I'm hoping that we can start that work very soon. > > > Is there anything here that couldn't be done with the > NavigationController & > > a library? I'm not suggesting that's reason for it not to exist, just > > wondering if it's offering anything unique. > > It's a goal that all of the features in this proposal can be > implemented using NavigationController. That's the "layering" that > Yehuda and Alex Russell like to talk about. So I hope the answer is > "no" :) > > If there are, and those features are good, we should probably look at > adding them to the NavigationController. > > / Jonas > >Received on Wednesday, 27 March 2013 02:41:07 UTC
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and pregnant women and old people so they won't hesitate" targets, and the really bad attitude they seem to feed into.
In comments on her post, Tam has
As far as the value of the targets goes, however, I think that it's a
banana peel on a roller skate at the top of a 10W40-covered slope.
Statistically-speaking, the odds of that toddler pointing a gun at you,
versus a cap gun or a finger or a chicken finger, are miniscule. I'd
rather err on the side of caution when it comes to building in
conditioned responses.
This ties into the officer-safety movement
that has conditioned some cops in urban areas to scream
"GUN!!!1!!!eleventy!" at the sight of a heater, even if, when the echoes
die down, that heater turns out to have been holstered.
Well, thinking back to when I was a teenager(about 16 as I recall) I got to sit in on a shoot/don't shoot training
session, back when it was a slide projector and cap guns,
run by a OHP trooper. This was for a school class that had him in for a talk, and he was using the same slides they used in their academy; some of the pictures were the same person as in a
previous, but in one they were holding a gun, in others a phone or
something else. In some with a gun it was pointed at you, in others
simply in their hand, pointing at the floor. The WHOLE FREAKIN' IDEA
was 'LOOK at what's in front of you, is it an actual threat or not? Is
it a threat that demands you shoot NOW, or be ready to if you have to?'
As Tam
said, this seems to be aimed at eliminating that trained-in thought
process and going straight to 'Kill them'. And that is a big damn
Especially when you add in the huge use of ninja-suiters for crap they shouldn't be used for and the apparent lack of concern on their part for making sure they have the right damned address before they start kicking doors and shooting dogs. For that matter, the lack of concern on the part of some officers requesting the warrant for making sure that, say, it's actually a good tip and the information is accurate. Take the attitude behind this mess, throw in 'don't hesitate to shoot anything you see as a threat' attitude and it's bad. REAL bad.


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I think it was called the Force.
I stared at the back of Finnigan's head as he talked with the skanky brunette (whose boobs were clearly fake), I mustered all my concentration and tried to use this so-called Force to blow his head off.
As I did this I stirred some more cupcake batter.
All that happened was that I got batter on my apron due to increased stirring; the brunette looked over at me and laughed.
Oh honey, who do you think you and your boobs are kidding?
I glared some more at Finnigan when his girlfriend wasn't looking, were they even dating? She didn't look like the type who'd be in a relationship.
"Oh Merlin, she's here again," I turned around to see Mrs. Finnigan senior rolling up beside me, she glared at the girl with Seamus.
"You don't like her either?" I asked, oh my goodness, I think we're going to have a bonding moment. And then we'll band together to get fake boobs out of Seamus's life—
"No and I don't like you much either," said Mrs. Finnigan senior.
Forget the bonding moment. If anyone else had said that to me I would have had some sort of scathing retort to fire back with, but she's my boss.
I might be brave but I'm certainly not stupid.
"Speaking of you," she poked me in the side with a very sharp nail. "I need someone to go man the register. Go do it."
I wonder if her mother ever hugged her.
"Uh, huh?" Parvarti was ignoring me, I could tell, not only was her response vague but she was also staring intently at the guy across the street who was taking a shower.
She had been hogging the binoculars for the past ten minutes.
"I've realized something."
"Uh, huh."
See, she's totally ignoring me. How rude.
"I never really fully re-bounded from Seamus."
Now she's listening.
Parvarti spun around in her seat in order to face me. "Please elaborate that sentence Lavender and make it quick, because that guy's going to put his clothes in any second."
"Well, I never re-bounded, which is why I still dislike him."
"Where are you going with this?"
"Well, in order to re-bound people go to clubs and hook up with hot guys, have a crazy night of sex and then stumble back home."
Parvarti raised one eyebrow. "You're a virgin Lavender."
"Fine, but I want to go to a club."
"With what money?"
I gave her the puppy dog look.
"It'll be so much fun!"
"No- Fuck he's putting on pants! You made me miss his butt Lavender!" Parvarti looked livid.
"You know, you have terrible logic. Why aren't you re-bounding over someone like Ron Weasley? Who you actually dated."
Because Ron Weasley didn't walk downstairs shirtless with a skanky brunette who clearly had terrible surgery.
At least Hermione Granger can do a proper enlargement charm.
I shrugged. "I dunno, I've just been thinking about Seamus a lot."
"Well, no, I'm not spending money so you can go to some wizarding club and get wasted."
"I won't drink, you know I don't drink."
Parvarti gave me a look. "Gryffindor party? Sixth year?"
"That was different, that was for courage," I said giving her my puppy dog look. "I was trying to get the courage to talk to Weasley."
"Yeah, instead you swapped spit with him," mumbled Parvarti, then in a slightly louder voice. "I hate you, you know that right?"
"Yay! Thank you!" I said jumping up. "I've got the perfect outfit!"
Five minutes later:
I consider myself a fashion wonder woman, I mean seriously; this outfit. It rocks people's socks.
Its rocks them.
That's how awesome it is.
"You look like a slut," proclaimed Parvarti as soon as I stepped out of the bedroom.
"What?" I said, completely hurt.
"Dear god, that's for a monkey it's so small," said Parvarti, she rolled her eyes. "Give me a second Lavender, that dress is to tight, I'll find something."
Minutes later I was wearing jeans and Parvarti's prize leather jacket. She kept eyeing it as if something was going to happen and before I was allowed to put it on she gave me a long lecture about not even going close to anything liquid around it.
I think she said something about ice cream falling from the sky as well, but I wasn't really listening.
"Thank you Parvarti," I said again as we got into a line outside a wizarding club. "You know you're awesome right?"
Parvarti sighed and looked at her watch. "Oi!" she yelled to bouncer standing outside the club, at first I hadn't realized he was human because he was just so huge.
About two hundred pounds of unadulterated muscle, with a blonde crew cut to help the whole military image.
The bouncer barely looked at her, but that didn't stop Parvarti from asking her question. "How long do we have to wait?"
The bouncer now turned his full face towards her and raised one eyebrow. I cowered behind Parvarti, but the bouncer simply indicated his hand to the door. Parvarti walked through the door and I followed behind her.
The bouncer was so hitting on her, who knew Parvarti was so useful to bring to clubs?
The club wasn't much like the muggle movies show it. It was bit grimier and they didn't have gorgeous people (re: men) in tight t-shirts.
In fact I was grossly overdressed.
Parvarti looked relieved and quickly asked the bartender for some kind of muggle soda.
"Can I have one?"
"Not in that jacket," answered Parvarti automatically, taking a seat at the bar, I sat beside her and just pouted for a while.
"Dear God Lavender," said Parvarti sighing. "You wanted to go to a club and now we're here."
"It's a dirty one," I protested, earning myself a glare from the bartender. "It's not like those muggle movies, where there's hot guys and everything."
"That's America," said Parvarti rolling her eyes. "And I don't have the money to take you to one of those here."
I pouted for about two minutes but stopped when I saw the blonde bouncer coming our way. Oh no he must have mistaken us for celebrities and that's why he let us in; now he's realized the truth and he's going to kick us out.
"Hello there, I'm Nick," he said smoothly sliding onto the barstool beside Parvarti, his voice was incredibly deep and rich. "Let me just say you look incredibly sexy tonight."
Like Batman's.
Parvarti turned bright red; I was guessing that was from angry, she's always getting offended when people objectify women.
"Er…she doesn't like—OW!"
Apparently Parvarti was a big fat liar and really did like to be called sexy because she had just hexed me under the table.
Cruel woman.
"I'm Parvarti."
"I'm Lavender," I offered as well, while massaging my hip which was still stinging.
He completely ignored me and instead concentrated on Parvarti with incredibly intense brown eyes. Parvarti was concentrating on him as well.
They were obviously eye-snogging.
"So, do you want to get out of here?" Nick asked without even blinking. He must have some kind of eye-snogging superpower.
"I can't, I'm babysitting," said Parvarti indicating to me.
"Hey!" I said now completely offended. "I'm still here Parvarti."
"Shh," said Parvarti, giving me a look that clearly told me to take off. "So Nick, what exactly do you do here?"
"Besides flirt with exceptional women?"
Parvarti blushed.
Smooth hulk-like bouncer, very smooth.
I sighed, it was clear that even if I didn't leave it would only take Parvarti and Nick five minutes before they'd start making out, and believe me I didn't want to be anywhere near it.
What with their spit flying everywhere? No thank you.
"Alright, I'm going to get a drink," I said standing up and sighing.
"Have fun," said Parvarti, she probably didn't hear a single word other then 'going'.
I took a seat at the opposite side of the bar and was about to ask the bartender if he had any magazines (preferably fashion) under the bar when some guy sat beside me. He was a skinny, tall sort of fellow; with jet black hair and dark eyes.
Kind of like peat bogs.
"Can I buy you a drink?" he asked me, his accent sounded Scottish. I shrugged in reply.
"Two whiskeys please," he said now facing to the bartender.
"Oh, I don't drink alcohol," I said quickly.
"Ah, just give it a try," said the guy passing me one of the glasses. "The drinks here are really something else."
I shrugged and took a drink. How bad could it be anyway?
The whiskeys actually burned in my throat, but I drank another two anyway the boy introduced himself as Scott, I told him my name was Lavender and that my head hurt.
Although I don't think I meant to say that last part aloud.
Scott laughed. "I think I have the perfect cure for that Lavender."
"Really?" I asked pitifully.
"Yeah, sure," said Scott standing up, I stood up as well and when I did he took his arm and placed it over my shoulders, giving them a tight squeeze.
A bit too tight actually.
We ended up in the back of the bar and I leaned against the wall as my head throbbed. It felt as though there was a heavy metal band playing in my brain.
"Hey, Scott, what are we doing here?" I asked. "I thought you had painkillers."
"I do," said Scott, leaning forward and kissing me on the lips.
Oh, there is no way this shit is going on.
I pushed him backwards and wiped his salvia off my lips (someone needs to lay off whatever it is that creates salvia because he's like a St. Bernard). "Ew," I muttered.
He must have heard me because his face turned bright red. "Hey! You wanted this!" he said.
Where has he been the past two minutes? He came on to me, I just followed him because I thought he might have painkillers.
My head was throbbing even more now. Scott leaned forward again and –- yet again, does this guy not understand the word no?—pushed him back.
I was about to tell him off when I heard another voice speak up.
"I believe she told you to lay off!"
Oh my god.
This is not happening to me.
"Oi, lay off, she wants it!" Scott yelled again.
"Leave her alone!"
Yes it is, wow, my lucky frog bra is really working tonight. Apparently some guy is going to fight frog-lips here to make sure he doesn't hurt me.
Please let him be hot.
"No!" Scott said, he sounded very much like a small child.
"So be it," said the other guy, I couldn't see anyone's face right now because I was sitting on the street due to my headache.
"All I heard was a smack and then—"
That was Dog-drool boy by the way, the other guy leaned down beside me. "You okay Lavender?"
Lavender? He knows my name?
I turned around to face my savoir (I was already mentally naming our children).
It was Seamus. Finnigan.
And he didn't even have his shirt off.
What a disappointing evening.
I slumped forward and almost threw up before answering.
"Yeah Finnigan, I'm perfectly fine," I said calmly.
"Come on," said Seamus standing up, he then grabbed my hand and brought me to standing position.
With one hand.
Wow. That's impressive.
"Here," he said placing my arms over his shoulders and before I knew it he had hoisted me up so I was currently riding on his back.
His back was pressed up against me.
His shirt smelled like bread.
I passed out at that moment.
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Christmas time may not seem like the ideal time to be hunting for a home. Many people will put there plans on hold because of the busy holiday season. However now more than ever maybe the ideal time to make your move.
Signs the Red Deer real estate market is changing:
- Decrease in listing volume.
- Increased Sales Volume.
- For 2010 the overall numbers show that sales volume is still down by 25.74%. However short term numbers show that November recorded 113 MLS® sales this year and 114 last year (2009). A quick snap shot of December reveals that so far this month we have recorded 64 sales this month compared to 55 for the same time period last year.
- Rising interest rates.
- We've been warning of a potential increase for sometime. The rush to do so to date has not been warranted. Until now. A .25% increase was announced early this week. Where rates at 3.69% are now at 3.94% for 5 year fixed terms. (contact your bank today if you have a rate hold, rates may be available lower for quick closings as well).
- Economic prosperity.
- We are in the beginning stages of growth once again according to economic experts.here are a few articles referring to Alberta that point to a stronger 2011.
- Carbon pipeline back before board for approval http://bit.ly/hnAmuN
- Mackenzie gas pipeline OK'd http://bit.ly/dHFzt6
- Canada's Western Provinces Sign Pact To Harmonize Oil, Gas Laws: http://bit.ly/iaLTy9
- We are in the beginning stages of growth once again according to economic experts.here are a few articles referring to Alberta that point to a stronger 2011.
What is important in all this is...
Buyers today have less homes to choose from, the decreased rate of supply is strengthening price, the increase in sales with rising rates for borrowing indicate the "market is picking up", Rates on the rise are a response that banks see our economy as getting stronger, the oil activity in increasing as is the price per barrel. Red Deer real estate is a reflection of our Oil and gas economy. The stronger and more robust that industry is the more ours will be.
Don't miss out on a great opportunity to buy today. Home ownership is a long term investment with plenty of growth potential in Central Alberta.
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Introduced by Dennis Robertson MSP in December, the Disabled Persons' Parking Badges (Scotland) Bill plans to give local authorities the power to cancel badges which have been reported lost or stolen and confiscate badges that are being misused, as well as provide a review process for applicants when an application is refused on eligibility grounds.
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How to Design A Cohesive Collection / Creativity
Im thinking vibrancy for S/S 06. Boldness..really vivid..almost dreamlike yet still realistic and wearable. Lots of stand out colour..particularly soft shades of purple. Im thinking retain the ethnic jewellery... chunky necklaces and wristbands to correspond with outfits. What do you guys think? rubbish concept? worn out?
it depends on how you do it and who sees and promotes it old ideas can always be made new and fresh if they are presented in an interesting and original way.
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Creating your collection
For those who have their own companies, how far in advance do you start working on your collection and what is the order that you generally do things on (right from starting to getting it to the store)? Do you usually show 6 months or a year before the collection will be in stores? And if you are not showing your collection but rather going directly to store owners or sending out catalogues how far in advance do you do this? I am trying to work on doing a collection and following timelines but I'm really not sure what timelines to follow.
Also, on the creative side of things, how much of your collection is just you doing what YOU want and how much is you doing things that you think your market wants or that you have seen other designers do? For example if you're not really feeling capris but you've noticed that capris are really in with all the other designers, will you do them? Or if you are looking at Sean Paul suits and seeing how unique the lapels are (I saw one that was not a normal triangular lapel, it was round) and you cater sort of to the same market will you go for a unique style because of perceived competition or will you do just whatever you want? Those are just 2 examples but I hope that illustrates my question.
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I think a true designer isnt afraid to break rules or make a statement... sometimes its better not to base a collection on trends
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need a bit of creative focus
I've reached a point in my business goals that I am stuck at. I am ready to start designing my line but I really don't know where to start as I have just so many ideas and need some kind of direction. I don't know how many pieces to try to design or if there is a good way to create a good flow/connection for the pieces. I was wondering if anyone had discussed this in their classes and what you had been told or if there were any books/websites that you had used for reference.
When you design a line do you have any methods you do to focus the line and your creativity?
etre soi-meme
it depends on the designer and the approach he/she wants to exercise with a given collection.
usually one works with theme(s) and then styles them in a creative way, your fabrics will lead you no? its always better to start with the fabric in mind and built on a design idea based on the abilities/effects of your materials.
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designing sportswear?
Hello! I'm posting under the career&education section again because I've gotten a lot of help in the past. I am in the middle of applying to FIDM (I know how everyone feels about this school so please don't trash it again) and I have my fashion design project. My problem is sportswear, I know sportswear is just clothes you can move around in not necessarly jogging pants but I'm still having a problem since my passion is evening wear or more dressy clothes. So I guess my main question is how dressy can sportswear be? Any suggestions would be helpful, thanks!
etre soi-meme
How to Design A Cohesive Collection
just read this very interesting article on being a designer today and the real work that goes hand to hand with the romantic idea of ... 'creativity'
credited to wwd, written by Marc Karimzadeh (www.wwd.com)
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i know a lot of people just did bathing suits, but thats not my thing at all. i just went through my own closet and picked out what i thought was 'sportswear' and sketched it while tweaking it here and there but keeping the same basic silhouette. Good luck mcswirlgirl! let me know how it went.
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Designing A Cohesive Collection
Almost every program has at least one class that teaches collection design. What I am wondering is if there are any textbooks that go along with this? I'm not looking for someone to describe what they do but rather would like to know what is TAUGHT.
And by the way I do not mean designer-patternmaker-samplemaker-factory, etc. I mean DESIGN only. Mood boards, drawings, etc etc I know I know. But is there a METHOD that is taught and is there a textbook that describes it?
The closest I've seen someone's process written down is The Fashion Designer's Directory of Shape and Style which has several pages that outline the process.
Is there anything that goes into more detail? Specifics such as how to co-ordinate colour and even how many colours a collection should have so that it does not feel disjointed. Or how many variations of the silohette?
If you look at student fashion shows there very rarely is a collection which you do not immediately say "this is a student collection." It is not that most students lack talent, nor is it that their sewing skills are poor, the difference is that their collections are not cohesive. This is a skill learned with experience obviously but the grad shows at some schools sport a higher number of cohesive collections than others...the students at such schools are being provided with much better direction on how to create a collection and I'd like to know if any of this information is written down anywhere.
Alternatively...if there is anyone here who has been to one of the schools who do a good job of teaching the theory behind collections, could you contact me privately? I am a couturier, not an RTW collection designer so I've never taken this, nor do I expect to ever need it, but it is information I would like to have anyway as I consider myself a lifelong student of design.
Could be useful for Fashion Grads/Students - Topshop
Saw this and thought it could be useful for any Fashion Students?
As they talk about the collection, and show sketches and ideas etc So thought might be of interest
Thank you for this. I'm going to merge it with a few other posts to create a long needed thread about how to think ... when creating your own collection.
It gives a lot of insight as to the thought process of making a collection for the juniors market ... and how they like to mix things up ... high/low, masculine/feminine, soft/hard, etc.
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Years ago, I took clomid given to me by my GYN - so took 50mg without monitoring and had a seemingly normal cycle of 25 days for me, then I had copious amounts of EWCM on day 2 of my next cycle and only a day of bleeding. I then had only a 19 day cycle after that one and bet it was due to a cyst producing E2 or why the EWCM on day 2!!
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I created a custom menu using the custom menu widget. Every time I create a page and add it to the custom menu it also appears on top of the site. I will be having a LOT of pages and need this stopped as it will make the site look ugly as anything. I want ALL navigation links in the side bar ONLY. A little help please.
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Odd, I have that unchecked already. But I do not remember if I unchecked it before or after I created the three pages. (i'm getting old hehehe)
Okay, if this works, how can I remove the current ones that are at the top. I want links just in my custom side bar menu.
Thank You once again for your time.
Sorry, but that did not work. I just created a new page and then clicked add to menu and it still put it both on top and in the side menu. (sigh)
This is odd but it worked. I created yet another menu.
I named it Navigation 2
I created another page and still added it to the original menu called Navigation.
I then switched to Navigation 2 as the primary menu.
All the top links went away and the new link appeared in the side menu.
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Los Angeles: She was the queen of Hollywood`s award season and now actress Lupita Nyong`o has been declared as the most beautiful woman by a magazine.
The 31-year-old star, who won the best supporting actress Oscar for her poignant portrayal of slave girl Patsey in Steve McQueen`s `12 Years a Slave`, says growing up she never thought she would be called beautiful.
"It was exciting and just a major, major compliment. I was happy for all the girls who would see me on [it] and feel a little more seen," the 31-year-old star said about landing on the cover of People magazine.
Born in Mexico and raised in Kenya, Nyong`o says she first equated beauty with what she saw on television:
"Light skin and long, flowing, straight hair. Subconsciously you start to appreciate those things more than what you possess."
Her mother "always said I was beautiful," Nyong`o adds. "And I finally believed her at some point."
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St.Peter's Church. Apr 04, 2013
St.Peter's Church first was mentioned in year 1209.This Church first was a Catholic church till 1523.Then it turned Lutheran.The Tower was destroyed several times,because then Tower was wooden.First time when it got completely ruined was in year 1666.It was rebuilt a year later,this time it was made of construction of glass ritual.Of course during Both World Wars,it got damaged again,and tower was on fire once again,but finally in year 1973 it was finally rebuilt,and this time it is still standing,how it should be!
St.Peter's Church have a rich history and i just give you a little bit glimpse of it.I'm not top History teller :D!
Now about Inside the Church and why it's worth to visit.
Location in Center,near Blackheads house,you can't miss this Tower. Admission fee is expensive (my opinion),but you can take the lift to the observation platform for spectacular views of the city,and take awesome photos of City.And then money well spend ;).
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| Experiences From Asias Rural Co-Operatives Workshop report 9
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by Chhaya Datta Pandey
Agricultural co-operatives constitute more than 81.82% of the total co-operatives in Nepal. Co-operative Unions at the district and central levels as well as the National Federation are yet to be established.
Among the main activities of the co-operative societies are the sale of consumer goods and marketing of agricultural produce.
A high-level National Co-operative Development Board (NCDB) was constituted in 1991. The responsibilities of the NCDB included: (a) to work-out suitable policy guidelines and a new legislation relating to the co-operative movement, (b) to create the organisation structure of the movement from the village upward to the National level, and (c) to coordinate the activities of co-operatives all over the country.
A new Co-operative Act was promulgated in May 1992 and, the NCDB has already prepared the policy guide lines, draft co-operative rules, and model bye-laws of agricultural co-operatives.
In an effort to re-vitalize existing co-operatives, the NCDB launched a nation-wide campaign for carrying out detailed situation studies and solving their problems, particularly those relating to over-due loans, bad debts, embezzlements and reconciliation of accounts. The studies havealready been completed, and the final report is expected to come out shortly.
One of the important move currently on is toprepare for holding elections in all co-operatives. The elections are likely to be completed by mid-January 1993.