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What is Spread Open Media all about?
Spread Open Media is the one web site where you'll find everything you need to know about the media formats that will help build a better world. And if you believe in our cause, you may want to tell everyone you know about those new formats, because ignorance is their worst enemy. So come join the fight to free the content you care from the corporations that want to restrict your rights and lock your files.
On SOM you will find campaigns to join, advertisement material to use, tutorials to help your friends, a database of products that work with Open Media formats, and a directory of cool stuff to watch or listen to.
Open Media formats allow for innovation, quality, and freedom. Through them, and only through them, do projects like Wikipedia and Creative Commons make sense. Through them, and only through them, will video and audio work across the web as smoothly as images do now. It's time to promote them. It's time to Spread Open Media.
How can I help?
There's many things you can do:
- Start using Open Media formats.
- Share only Open Media formats with others.
- Link to this site. We have some banners that you may use.
- Inform companies that you want to use Open Media formats (check the MailOgging project).
- Join one of the campaigns.
- Suggest new campaigns.
- Help translate this site to other languages.
- Pay a programmer to fix existing programs that deal badly with Open Media formats.
- Pay for advertisement somewhere for the SOM cause.
- Record podcasts in Speex. Release music in Vorbis or FLAC. Use Theora for video. Make SVG and/or PNG graphics for your web site. Use OpenDocument on your office. Share XSPF playlists.
- Avoid MP3, AAC, H.264, Xvid, and OOXML like the plague.
What Open Media formats are there?
Here's a list of the most common:
- Theora (video)
- Vorbis (audio, lossy)
- FLAC (audio, lossless)
- Speex (audio, voice)
- XSPF (playlist)
- SVG (vector image)
- PNG (raster image)
- OpenDocument (office)
- SMIL (media presentations)
Why aren't GIF, JPEG, and JPEG2000 on this list?
What is this Ogg thing I keep hearing about?
Ogg is a container format. It's complex, but you don't need to know the details. Just keep in mind that Theora is sometimes called Ogg Video and Vorbis called Ogg Audio, because they both go inside Ogg.
You may also see some ignorant companies promoting so-called "OGG players". There's two serious problems here: Ogg is NOT an acronym and these companies are fooling their customers into thinking Ogg _is_ Vorbis, which is not true. So, if you see a company selling a player with support for "OGG", it means it can play Vorbis, but very likely it won't play any of Theora, Speex, OggPCM, OggMNG, or OggUVS.
To avoid confusion just forget about Ogg altogether and call the formats by their appropriate name, regardless of their connection to the Ogg project.
No, and if you actually want to help promote Open Media formats like Vorbis avoid them. Threat tactics, desinformation, and ignorancy do _not_ pass the message we want.


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Hi, you landed on Redheaded Blackbelt. I own it. That's me to the left, Kym Kemp. I do everything from photography to selling ads to writing stories.
I'm totally in love with the Emerald Counties, that incredible place south of the Oregon border and east of the Pacific Ocean that is home to redwoods, rolling hills, Victorian mansions, hippie homesteads, wildflowers, and wildlife.
Yes, I really did get my black belt (in Tang Soo Do) and I used to have red hair before I became a news reporter. (Putting this colorful world in black and white made my hair gray.) I live about 45 minutes from the nearest town and spend way too much time on my computer getting the latest information to my readers. (For something I'm really proud of click here.)
I also received the 2018 Unsung Hero award from the Society of Professional Journalists in Northern California.
You can contact me or my staff at redheadedblackbelt.com.
Here's someone else you should know. This is Oliver Cory. He began working for Redheaded Blackbelt when we first started out. He gives me a break on Sunday mornings.
He is one of the finest, young photographers in northwestern California. He also has a knack for technology. If we've got a fancy graphic, Oliver is likely the person who created it. If there's a quick way to get a photo from the scene to the person writing the story, he'll come up with it.
He also writes a few stories. He's mostly in Eureka but he can also be found throughout the Humboldt Bay region.
Kelly Lincoln (No photo yet) takes over for me on Wednesday afternoons. She also contributes stories on Southern Humboldt community issues as well as water and environmental science.
She has a knack for using 45 word sentences to clarify the tangled details and bring life to the slow moving events and dulcet tones of long, sleepy meetings which comprise the bedrock of participatory democracy so you can more easily follow along at home.
Frequent Contributors
Now, let me introduce you to Bobby Kroeker. Bobby is a wayward Canadian who has been living in the area for many years. He's out and about in northern Humboldt picking up stories for us.
He is also an artist.
Stormy Taylor is often out and about collecting information and taking photos of breaking news in the Humboldt Bay area. She's got an eye for composing images quickly–a must when the story is erupting around her.
She grew up in Trinidad and spent her entire life in Humboldt County. A mother of two, she's also a member of the confederated tribes of Siletz Indians of Oregon.
Mark McKenna's first real photojournalism experience came when he photographed a child pedestrian hit in front of his school and he sold the image. He honed his skills as a photojournalist by attending San Francisco State University as a journalism major graduating in 2000.
In addition to teaching photojournalism at Humboldt State University, Mark is represented by a photo agency you have probably never heard of, Zuma Press, and he operates a photo and graphic design studio in Old Town Eureka. He's always looking for the unusual while photographing the routine.
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And here's our behind the scene person Bobbi Wisby. She's our website developer and computer wrangler–she makes us look pretty. We tell her what we want and she makes it happen. (Go here for more of her stuff.)
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Drop me an email and let us know what you're thinking about at email@example.com or you can send a message to anyone here by putting their name in the subject heading and sending it to email@example.com.
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In other words, a well rounded and grounded human being.
anita marie
I had heard something about CBD oils and Trump. Kept looking, and I found it. it is on ProBrewer.com .
Mr. Mark Silva posted it. He and his wife want to use CBD in their beer, as well as THC.
It says that Trump would support a congressional effort to remove the federal govts ban on cannabis. Trump, speaking to a group of reporters, on or around June 20th, 2018, said that he would support Senator Gardner, one of the lead sponsors of a bipartisan effort to allow states to legalize cannabis without federal intervention. This is from the LA Times. I am hoping I got this right, that's why I sent it to you. If I have it wrong, please don't hurt me, lol. But I do want to be right on this, it's a big deal
i want to say thank you for you kind word you relly liked the last 5 lines well it is a start for me i ben racking my braine to come up with somthing new but im goin to get of of hear and go to bed for the night
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Ha, happened upon a link here at UniversalHD's Firefly board. Did a triple-take when I saw the name of the blog. What a coinkidink. Just saying hey.
Thank you for your blog on John's clean up efforts. We really appreciate it. Can you send me an e-mail so that I may talk to you some more. I wasn't able to find any contact info on you off of here. We'd like it if you could put down that people can make donations through paypal from our site, and a few other things.
Thank you again!!!
Eel River Clean Up Crew Webmistress
Hello Redhead. I hope you'll visit my blog based in Willits, here to the south. Your photography and poetic view of life is lovely. How do we find more bloggers in the redwoods?
I'm a blogger in Humboldt 🙂
Well done with today's coverage. You managed to keep pretty good tabs on BOTH of the local crises. The whole thing is very impressive.
Did you just happen to be in the right place at the right time, with the photos of the IRS raid? I've been trying to follow the "out of towners" on my scanner, but I think they're using a secure frequency.
Any suggestions on catching up with these guys?
Hi Kym, thanks for the inspiration! My name is Eric Sligh, I am 29 years old from Ukiah. I have a degree in French from HSU and recently completed the single subject credential program there as well. I did my student teaching at Eureka High School during the past year. I have also put together a print publication called Humboldt Grow. I asm still trying to figure out what the magazine is supposed to be. It kind of looks like a comic book to me sometimes. I have a website, http://www.humboldtgrow.com where you can view pdfs of the magazine. I am really excited about being finished with school so that I can become completely enveloped in the local social/political scene. I really hope that I can join the ranks of all of the quality independent news sources we have been blessed with. – Eric
Why isn't your site in English?
I enjoy your news.
I like what I see and what I read.
Far off from the normal bits I read and maybe that is why I like it so much. As Anita said before – A well rounded and properly grounded human being.
I so very much appreciate your blog. I't connects me back to so many of the indelible, intimiate things about salmon creek i love. Thank you very much.
Hi, Kim!
I got a chance to check out your site – I love it. You've done an a-musing/amazing job.
I sent an email to Chip. I'm hoping to hear from him.
And, I hope I'll hear from you again some day soon. It was really nice to reconnect with you. Let's stay in touch!
Sydney Lou
Very nice blog you have here.
I'd like to invite you to visit mine – AS IT STANDS (davesblogcentral.com)
I'm another Humboldt blog, still fairly new. Started in July 2008.
Thanks for the link! I get traffic almost every day from you. Finally got around to seeing who kymk was. Nice.
Kym, I don't know what is wrong with my brain (or maybe it's my salt-encrusted contacts affecting my vision), but I can't find your email address and I have a very important question for you:
What movies would you recommend to fans of Firefly/Serenity?
Thank you! 🙂
For a Guy who hates blogs I sure like yours. Lots of good stuff, good people.
Love your area, love your photos, love your hobbies.
Keep up the good fight, you may have inspired me to blog.
Oh, No!
Hope to make it to the Emerald Cup next year, do you know if you have to be local? I'm in Sac.
This site is like a clsrsaoom, except I don't hate it. lol
NIce to know you,ma'am…
nice photos you've posted…:)
Keep it up!
From Indonesia with Love, 🙂
Hi Kym!
I deleted Auntie Mayme's blog, so feel free to take it off your blog roll.
Thank you for your support!
Auntie Mayme/ Hunny
You know Kym….there are days when I simply do not want to visit your site. Your gorgeous pictures. Your beautiful words, elegantly arranged. Your thoughtfulness. It's really quite annoying.
The grace exhibited by your site, which must clearly be only a modicum of the grace in which you live your life, enriches me in ways so few other things do.
I'm not a person who believes in the soul or subscribes to the idea of the spirit, but if I did I believe your site would be like a temple in which I would visit.
Thank you.
Hey Kym, what do you know about the feds raiding Apex North and AEE Solar in the Meadows Business Park last Friday? There has been no mention of it in any of the news. Hopefully Kmud will have something tonight. Do you anything about it?
Kym, what's the best way to reach you? I just sent you an e-mail at the address listed above, but it got kicked back.
Just saying hi, Kym. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and your family. Keep up the great work! I'm still a frequent reader of your blog and love to keep up with your work.
Hi there!
Lovely photographs! Very nice stuff. We might like to talk to you about publishing some of them in one of our books.
Can you please email me at firstname.lastname@example.com to discuss?
Thanks so much!
Jack, Green Candy Press
This east coaster is dying to come tour Humboldt County, and your blog is a big reason why. Great work. Hope I make it out there someday.
Hi Kym… I like the new format after being a bit shocked… Didn't get the comment balloon for awhile but I finally figured it out. Thanks for all your work… Look out! You've become a primary news source, must be a lot of work!
Hey Kym, I don't know when you changed your blog (I always read it in RSS) but it looks great! Way easier to read and nice design. You are really doing a great job keeping us informed of Humboldt County issues – and your photography is beautiful!
Dear Kim,
I am a writer from Brazil researching for a book on drug culture, the future of drug policy and especially marijuana. I am in the middle of a trip to several countries to understand how humanity's approach to cannabis is changing. I am planning to go to Northern CA next week – I am in SF right now. Do you think I could meet you there?
Supreme Court allows warrantless exigent-circumstance search despite Fourth Amendment expectation of unreasonable searches and seizures:
Kym, I am a relative of people in your area and was concerned of this practice in your area with PG&E putting in smart meters. You should see this post on youtube. You may want to post something about this to your fellow Humbolt County residents. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JNFr_j6kdI
You can request that this not be done to a residence.
me and my wife are trying to relocate to humbolt or any surrounding area, i am 26 and she is 23, we are very hard workers and very respectable, if any one can help us with some work or housing let me know. my name is justin 765-225-7617
I him looking to come down to Humbolt and see if I gin find a job. It will be my first faraway trip. I would like to go to ensure damn but can not afford it so I guess California Humbolt is my best option. I him self efficient with my tenant and I was thinking just to bring my electric bike so I will be traveling cheaply. I him also looking for somewhere to camp why I look for a trimming job my e-mail is email@example.com
check out the site http://www.insanityinventions.com/ I him a renewable energy designer using solar panels and other devices I him sort of a mad scientist.
Hi Kym,
I have been so inspired by your blog, and SoHumBorn's stories, that I have started my own blog. I'm writing about my happy memories of being the child of hippies lucky enough to be raised in the mountains. Thought I'd remind everyone that it isn't all fear and money . . . Anyway, if you have a minute, please check it out. It's harmonyinthehills.wordpress.com
Thank you for sharing your thoughts, you come across as wiser than your years. 🙂
I kept having deva vue all over again as I read the comments. I don' t know about everyone's computer, but mine showed me each comment twice.
Kym, I just wanted to say that I for one am delighted that you chose to leave the Lost Coast Outpost and return here to your own blog. As my Mom taught me if you don't have anything good to say about someone don't say anything at all so Ill leave it at that for my feelings about the LCO. Keep up the good work here!
Hi kym how are u this is your class mate mark olsen luv your paper I read it everyday you report things that outpost doesn't I hope all is well with you and yours
Thank you Kym for all your awesome work!!! I have a friend who lives up at 4-corners right above the Lassics fire, so far she is still OK!! Between the wonderful work of all the firecrews, and the winds have been blowing the other way!!! I look forward to your updates twice a day, thank you so much!! You are awesome!!!
I retired from Navy Civil Service (30 years) after spending six comfortable years in the USAF avionics/autopilot field. Spent my twenties in Garberville area. Don't like wasting time on politics nor pot, but love any Redwood park. So, I thank a Navy guy for posting a great picture of the greatest Naval Service on planet Earth.
Your site is going great guns, keep up the good work! And thank you for everything you've done for me and my writing career. I appreciate you.
Glad the guy from Canada deiced to stick it out here lol..appreciate all that the RedHeaded Black Belt Team does 😛
Hi Kym ! How are you ?
First of all, I want to thank you for all your work !
It´s been a real pleasured to discover your blog as I´m looking for local news. I can see you put a lovely effort in all of it.
I´ve just wrote you an email with my account: email@example.com
I hope you can read it ! (just in case it landed in your spam folder…)
Best regards !
Octavio Rodríguez
Independent Filmmaker
Report on Humboldt County being exposed by EcoWatch as environmentally hypocritical for protecting the redwoods against logging but not against marijuana cultivation.
you look like miss. jesscia V an EMT i met
Hi Kym, we are new to the area. Retiring from the Santa Cruz Mountains to Shelter Cove. We love it here. Googled the 101 closure and your site came up near the top. Well done (and sustained I see for over 8 years!) Please let me know if you are interested in including local news from the Cove. Cheers, Cynthia
Kym do you have any updates on the burn victims from the Rio Dell drug lab explosion? Haven't seen any names or updates on their conditions. Hope they are going to be ok. Thanks for all the great coverage you do on all communities in the area.
Kym, in case you haven't seen it yet, here's a story of interest from yesterday's SR Press Democrat.
'Marijuana's 'trimmigrant' labor force poses conflicts for some North Coast towns '
There's an article linked in a 'related stories' sidebar on Giggles Fitzgerald turning himself in, with booking photos.
Thanks for your accurate and heart felt coverage about the loss of Liz Palmer and her babes. Tough duty for all concerned. Carry on Captain
Wow. I just noticed the date on that 1st comment, Kym.
So for over 10 years! now, you have been THE source of news for Humboldt and surrounding counties!
That is quite an accomplishment. You have done this on your time, your dime, put up with lunatics, and kept honesty and integrity in your articles.
Just wanted to point that out to people!
Keep Rockin Kym. Thank you for all you do.
Kym, our local ISP-ASIS was hacked. Cannot even bring up their web page. Those of us who have email accounts with them are affected. Sally Then said ASIS would be back on line last night, but still no go. Their server is down. Not sure if their being hacked means all of us who were their customers have had our data compromised. When they were hacked before Sally told me it was a former disgruntled employee who was now in Europe. Now she is is still trying evaluate this crisis. Nothing in the media for those of us thinking our equipment is the problem.
My guess is that you do not run your blog honestly. I am saddened to see that you choose to moderate your site to the extent of actually leaving lies in the replies. You know I left several comments that you did not post. Do better, be better, and you'll feel better and be a better person. My friend SideCar Jonny is rolling in his grave knowing the lack of respect you show to your (NOT REALLY YOURS) public viewers. You can edit all you want. But you KNOW that you lie.
I like how balanced you are Kym, The voice of reason sometimes. I have a hard time controlling my filter sometimes I am also from Alaska and do not always know whats appropriate to say, Just speak my mind. I will try not to offend. Sorry in advance.
Kym, do you have a paypal button here or can you receive them at firstname.lastname@example.com ?
All I have to say is I've been following Kym for some time now and her and her crew are awesome, she's right on it, tells it like it is with no bullshit, RHBB is my favorite blog its one of the first places I check on first thing in the morning, I was born and raised in Trinity county, lived in Fortuna for about 10yrs its my 2nd home and Kyms blog keeps me up-dated and in touch with good old Humboldt county..I just want to say Thank You to you Kym and your crew for all your input and dedication, keep up the good work your all awesome and we love it..
Dear Kym and staff,
As another year shoves its way towards us, I would like us to stop and tell those that we love and appreciate how we feel. Thank you for all you do for all of us. I know it's a tuff job and I couldn't do it.
I appreciate you and your family for allowing you to do what you do. So many times in life things happen, people move on, leave earth, change jobs and they are no longer in our lives, and I didn't get the chance to tell them how much I cared for them and all they do. I learned that you have to make those opportunities happen. So I'm thanking you and your staff for all the hard work you have put into 2017! I look forward to 2018 and what that will look like in stories.
I pray for Peace, health and Love for you and your family and friends! May this new year be the best year!
We love ya! We claim you as one of us that loves and sticks up for this crazy, beautiful beloved Community of southern Humboldt. We are like no other little place on the map, and that is why our families settled her. Thanks for making is a better place.
I look forward to 2018!
Know that we love ya and appricate you more than you'll ever know!
I am a business to business journalist who scours North America to see what people are saying about the energy industry. I like your approach to community journalism.
I was in Mexico awhile back and they were selling Donkey meat as well as horse for people to eat! I did not realize my comment was in such poor taste you had to remove it? Sorry Kym.
Hey Kym,
After reading one of your articles today I was asked to do a survey. Is this ligit?
remember when we would race souped up WILLYS on clam beach circa 1969 ? those were days my friend , I thought they would never end ? well they did and today you cant race WILLYS on clam beach and if you do , some acne-face renta-ranger will make you feel HIS POLICE TRUNCHEON !!!
Just a great big thank for all the work you do. I'm (trying to be) retired these days after many years of volunteer work with Beginnings board and the Fire Department and other stuff (homesteading and raising a family and like that), and enough computer work and weekly and monthly column work to understand that your hobby and passion has become your life (and probably sometimes your ball and chain).
Always the first place I go if it is local and important to get as close to the unbiased truth as is possible at the time. One of the things I admire the most about you is how quick you are to admit you got it wrong first time around – always a possibility on fast-breaking stuff – and how quick you are to get it as right as it can be got – which is way harder than it looks to them that ain't never tried it.
My hat is way off to you.
PS A big hi to Stormy – have not seen the word 'Siletz' for a long time- my dad graduated from Siletz High in 1929 – spent a summer working on my grandparents dairy farm on the Siletz river in 1950 – learned I never wanted to be a farmer…
Hi Kym, just letting you know how much I have learned about the communities in your county. You and your staff are doing a fine job. Keep it up.
The MENDOCINO COMPLEX FIRE PHOTOS are awesome, scary, and much appreciated. Thanks. (That's the understatement of the year.) af
Hi, Is your site for online news only? Do you publish in a hard copy newspaper too? I am creating a libguide at the College of the Redwood on local resources and was looking for an good description in several sentences of what you do.
Terri Bonow
Kym did I get banned?
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You all have heard (or heard about) the words of fear from Porsche purists parading around the Frankfurt auto show in their soiled Depends undergarments. "It is no longer the 911!," they have all pronounced. Damn it, they are saying, the 911 will no longer be one of the most unnecessarily challenging cars to drive hard, and every single existing Porsche fan around the world is waiting and seeing. Meantime, we just drove the center of all this attention around the grotesquely scenic south-central California coast where you'll find the highest ratio of Porsche 911s per capita.
The 991 911 is a fearsome undertaking the likes of which not seen since the 996 was introduced in the mid-'90s. Whereas then the engineers and designers were tasked with going water-cooled across the board and departing significantly from the iconic lines of the tight 993, today they confronted two once-thought "untouchables" in the 911 legend: a larger feeling, almost turismo sports car and electro-mechanical power steering. You can almost hear the silence fall over Porsche club gatherings in kinda nice motels all across these great United States.
But get us not wrong, oh fellow enthusiasts! We cherish every goose-bumped lap session we've ever had in any former generation 911 that had a decidedly gnarlier attitude toward us at the wheel. We've had days in G-model cars, 964s and 993s that nearly freakin' killed us. But they didn't and when we were done all we wanted to do was get out there and do it all over again. The 996 and 997 generations changed that driver/car interface experience a bit. With those it was a bit less hairy, quieter in the cabin and whatnot. But then again, those two made up for it by letting us go a hell of a lot faster, so the danger factor didn't stray too far from the 911 DNA chain. The Porsche Stability Management and Porsche Active Suspension Management with seven-speed PDK for the 997 II combined to provide a prelude to what we were to expect from the 991.
Whereas the base price for the 997 II CS in late 2008 was set at $86,200, we now leap to an eye-popping $96,400 for essentially the same trim level in the late 2011 991. Get the 991 3.4-liter Carrera for $82,100 as equipped with the seven-speed ZF manual tranny. Price hikes are a reflection of all of the technological and design advancements, certainly, but it is also a sign that the Europeans are sick and tired of making so little margin in the United States with our eternally hurting currency exchange rates.
The vast majority of 911 drivers have not been the type to really get the most out of their car when confronted with a twisty, sunny country two-lane. Rarely do they ever take the engine up into the 7000-plus rpm zone. The majority love the 911 in little moments of gusto between traffic lights and love the storied image a 911 brings to the mind. And it is a well put-together, almost overly well engineered, machine, which makes it satisfying to have such a conversation piece in the garage.
We digress like this before the new car launch simply because it's important to accept that Porsche has conceived the 991 911 to better fulfill this more GT 2+2 sporting car idea versus continuing to work within the tight confines of the 911 layout as we have known it up to now. Either we accept this and milk it or we get grumpy, wear soiled Depends, and mope around the Frankfurt auto show, or wherever. Or you can go right ahead and finally buy your Korean boom-box inspired Nissan GT-R and be done with it.
When was the last time the 911's wheelbase increased by nearly four inches? Nonetheless, now at 96.5 inches, that's still nearly eight inches less space between axles than the Ferrari 458 Italia, so it's not as though the 991 violates the 911 recipe that much. After all, overall length versus the 997 II grows by just 1.2 inches. There are so many good things gained by letting the 911 stretch out a bit, among them being more fore-aft adjustability for the front seats, more room in back, space enough to incorporate standard 20-inch wheels, and the positioning of the gearbox closer to the engine that results in greater mechanical efficiencies for the powertrain. Oh, yeah and a sports car that we can drive to wicked limits without fearing excessive front or rear lift, take your pick.
As we start off inland on a fetching two-lane scenic route through the coastal hills, it's quite clear that this Carrera S has very much matured. As for the PDK action, it has noticeably improved its behavior with super clean shifts that are always quick and do not bite us even in Sport Plus of the Sport Chrono Package. This is now the third generation of the PDK software, says 991 project manager Michael Schätzle, and whereas previously ZF provided not only the programming but also how it was specifically applied to Porsches, now ZF creates only the program and then Weissach does the application in-house. This allowed for several more iterations of the software to be tested and improved upon, resulting in virtual seamless upshifts and downshifts.
And honestly, we thought we'd be focusing really hard on the various inconvenient effects of turning the steering over to the electricians, but the feel at the wheel strikes a quite acceptable balance between assistance and lack thereof. Besides that litmus test, the action of the wheel, even in rapid left-to-right slalom movements, never starts to resist our input. Lock to lock, the wheel never binds. Working with hydraulics, Porsche really had taken the ancient art as far as it could go with such an "incorrect" powertrain arrangement as on the 911. Nonetheless, at speed and driving with spirit in any 997 II, the front axle still gets a bit too light with some occasional jitters. Today, the jitters are gone, and the feedback from the road surface is the most faithful we've felt yet via electronically assisted steering. Basically, every whine we envisioned whining prior to the drive was never whined.
From the 380 horsepower at 7200 rpm of the 3.8-liter in the 997 II, we nip on up to 394 hp at 7400 rpm in the 991. Torque climbs from 310 lb-ft at 4400 rpm to 325 lb-ft at 5600 rpm. The unprecedented usage of aluminum all over and under the 991 helps peel off 100 pounds from the curb weight of the Carrera S with PDK (66 pounds from the manually equipped CS). With the longer wheelbase, wider front track, lower stance and additional negative camber at the rear wheels, the dynamics of this new 911 are hungry to eclipse those felt in the whole 997 chapter. In the very sportiest setup of the Carrera S (e.g., our Aqua Blue tester with the optional PCCB front discs), the 991 laps the Nürburgring in 7:40, or 14 seconds quicker than the Carrera S it replaces. Or the same time posted by the 997 II GT3 and three seconds quicker than the recently tested Mercedes C63 Coupe Black Series.
And it really does feel this fast, especially when leaving the PDK transmission, suspension and throttle in Sport Plus. We enjoy the PDK with its Porsche in-house hands-on version of the ZF software since it is as fast as the fastest out there and all shifts create a terrific "bridge" growl from the exhaust. The 20-inch Pirelli P Zero tires—245/35ZR20 front, 295/30ZR20 rear—created quite a racket when we hit the older cement roads, but on the smoother black asphalt the sound is silky nice. Then on a special autocross parcours at a local airport, the new steering, chassis geometries, lighter and more rigid sprung weight, rear torque vectoring with torque braking of the inside rear wheel, and much improved PASM, the brisk transitions are ever so smooth.
Porsche gets numerically obsessed with a "991 911." We were wary, feisty, aloof. After a day's drive, we're like pre-teens at a mall concert.
Chassis project manager for the 991, Ulrich Mobitzer, explained the new and improved PASM for us. Whereas prior to now there was only one acceleration sensor on the left side of each axle, there are now three acceleration sensors and one wheel travel sensor at each hub. As with the extensive steering work, this PASM has been honed to greatness and the three modes—Normal, Sport, Sport Plus—are distinctly separate and each is much more sophisticated beneath us in its own right. The dynamic sway bars of Porsche Dynamic Chassis Control (PDCC) are available as an option only on the Carrera S and our car stayed amazingly flat through each and every curve. All too civilized? We might just be able to live without the PDCC on our personal 991, though work it certainly doth.
We also spent a good couple of hours in a manually equipped Carrera S, weighing 66 pounds less than the 997 II CS equivalent trim and some 44 pounds less than the PDK-equipped 991. Another frisky plus here is that only the manual cars come standard with a mechanical locking differential with 22 percent lock in acceleration and 27 percent in deceleration. The seven-speed phenomenon is another ZF PDK-derived setup and the 0.71:1 Seventh gear can only be reached when coming from either Fifth or Sixth gear. No surprises, it works great as expected, though that lever is way over there to the right when Seventh is engaged. On the other hand, the shift lever is very close to the steering wheel on the up-sloping, thick Carrera GT-like center console, an orientation that helps a bunch. Cruising in a manual Porsche 911 at 70 mph with just 2100 rpm on the tach is quite the new experience. Keep the optional sport exhaust switched off, too, and you really come close to hearing nothing.
In the driving of it, by the end, we realized that any fears of the beloved 911 turning into a fat and lazy GT car were unfounded; the 991 when driven as we like it driven is all 911 all the time. It's just the new upgraded interior, mention of electro- anything in the steering, and visibly longer wheelbase that can create fear in us or in you prior to doing the drive. With such a great start on the "normal" Carrera S, we are waiting with bated breath on the arrival of all Turbo, GT3, RS, etc., trims to see how they up the ante on all comers. The 991 911 Carrera and Carrera S arrive together at dealers on February 4, 2012.
So, go do the drive.
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Wednesday, December 7, 2011
a Hidden Hurt
It was X, wondering what progress I'd made with her present and why I'd unfriended her on Facebook.
"In fact," I told her, "that was another X, as I have two best friends, but the present I haven't got for you yet is even better, albeit undeliverable."
It's true. The French company from which I ordered it got in touch yesterday to say that my address doesn't exist. This came as a blow to me, as I've lived here for six years and received packages from all over the world in that time, including several incredible giveaway wins and, only last week, a Lifetime Achievement Award all the way from the Taiwanese High Consulate, as I told France vehemently.
And I hadn't unfriended X, but rather deleted my account on Facebook during the summer. You should see the great peace that has descended on me since then, no longer in the thick of things, unaware of everyone's sprightly activities unless they themselves tell me about them. I've ceased to be pressured into Liking everything and can revert to my sullen self, not liking most things very much, except, as ever, your lovely hairstyle.
So that leaves X with little prospect of a present from me, down from 367 to 366 in the all-important number of dear Facebook friends, and forced to listen to the Blogtopian poem in which I hint at a Hidden Hurt. "It's not hidden enough," she said. Who can blame her?
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Facebook, such a nuisance. You've reminded me of my thoughts of unplugging altogether. Remember the beginning of The Temptation of Saint Anthony (Flaubert)? The simple Hermit's cabin, the pitcher, the loaf of black bread? I'm assuming no Wi-Fi. This cabin is calling my name.ReplyDelete
Wow. When a simple, but poignant blog post, can garner a response such as Denise's, blog post deserves to be reread and perhaps reposted to my facebook page.ReplyDelete
I love you ladies. we're high flying here!
xo jane
I almost never check my facebook page. Hmm, deleting it...maybe I will :)ReplyDelete
Hello MiseReplyDelete
We still want to read your "wonky quatrain" your next post perhaps?
I think you should put pen to paper and inform his Honour Mr Sarkozy of your plight with the French company who are refusing to deliver your package. Someone gave me the lame excuse that Ireland needs postal or zip codes to avail of mail order delivery and... well, I just started singing "Oh the stranger came and tried to teach us their way, they scorned us for being what we are, but they might as well go chasing after moonbeams or light a penny candle from a star". (lyrics to the song: Galway Bay)
Helen xx
No Facebook account? Do you socialise the old fashion way?ReplyDelete
I have two Facebook accounts. The real me and the real blogtopian me. Oh the headache of two separate identities when one is quite anti-social. I'm tempted to write a haiku about it.xx
I have never clever to say, but I adore your blog.ReplyDelete
I never know what to say to your posts other than I find them an absolute joy to read and you are far too clever for me to comment at the same incredibly high standard as the blog content. So, just bask in my admiration :)ReplyDelete
If all you have left to like of me is my lovely hairstyle I shall hurry to the hairdressers right away! I am so relieved to know that you have merely left Facebook as I too was wondering where you were. Unfortunately, I never count my friends (due to highly realistic expectations of remaining well under the 2000 level that good business prospects would require) but noticed a distinct lack of reminders on behalf of your page that I should be scurrying over right away to check out what you're up to, or 'help you' find more friends.ReplyDelete
Residing in France, I would be delighted to help you out next time with your French postal worries. Please feel free to use my address, I am on good terms with the post mistress and she never forgets my house :)
I have deleted my facebook account several times (returning briefly because someone has told me someone has sent me a message and I should read it). Each time you delete your account facebook tells you that what you are doing is irrevocable, final, and irreversible. It isn't, you just tap in your password and you're back in amongst all the nonsense and trivia in a flash.ReplyDelete
I love Sue's comment! Dear Mise - or should I write - Dear Muse - I am sending you many empathetic thoughts from afore-mentioned France (Sarkozy I am terribly afraid has far more pressing issues to be dealing with than assisting a human in need) and I remind you that the French ADORE paperwork and useless data.ReplyDelete
There that wasn't much help, was it?
As ever I adore you and your hairstyle but have nothing intelligent to say first thing in the morning (last thing in the morning is the most hopeful window) except that I have no use whatsoever for Facebook.
I'm sorry you have a Hidden Hurt. There are not many rhymes for hurt. Unless it was about a skirt and someone was curt about the dirt and called you a flirt who was too pert. Could your parcel be sent poste restante?ReplyDelete
A Hidden Hurt - what a perfect excuse to refrain from too much Christmas festivity. "Sorry can't come I am suffering from a hidden hurt" I am sure I can find one somewhere if I look hard enough.ReplyDelete
Facebook Bah it worried me knowing what everyone was doing at various times in the day. There was I eating tea and crumpets, and someone would be reading Shakespeare or windsurfing . I started to feel rather fragile and folorn, best not to know that others actually do things.
I don't know - you girls. Why you don't just get it over with a fist-fight is inexplicable. I hate Facebook, but there again, I have no 'Friends' - just real ones, and I count you amongst them, Mise.ReplyDelete
Mise, Thanks for the Hilarious comment on Facebook, one of my pet-est peeves...yes, the simple Hermit's cabin (as Denise suggests), the pitcher, the loaf of black bread...sounds like my idea of abbey style...a reprieve from the Madding Crowd :)ReplyDelete
Lamentably, I have a feeling people can turn off Hidden Hurts in their Facebook options. But all the more reason for Blogtopian poems, of which I'm sure yours is very fine, Mise.ReplyDelete
I,too dislike Facebook and have never needed to count obscure friends to boost my morale. ...and, most hurts are given out for all to see on Facebook ....bad move.ReplyDelete
.....and, now that your home doesn't exist, where will you be spending Christmas Mise? Feel free to come and share our table won't you ? XXXX
Facebook....ordinary drivel...ReplyDelete
I deleted my Pinterest account in a huff one day...I imagine that is also a social faux pas.
Mise...you are refreshing and entertaining.
Oh mise, have always disliked Facebook just do not get it and its boring, have slight hangover so my brain is not registering the hidden hurt and poetry, I promise I will pay more attention to yourReplyDelete
next post as I really enjoy them
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tHis UnRelenTing over-communicationReplyDelete
is a constant source of surly vexation
As I write the third line of this very quatrain
[de dah de de dah de de something] ..in vain
- AnonymousDecember 8, 2011 at 7:09 PM
I've never signed up for Facebook or Twitter - it's old fashioned(!) emails for me! A friend recently apologised for 'unfriending' me on Ravelry ..... I told her not to worry, my Ravelry page is so bad that I would unfriend myself, if only that were possible.ReplyDelete
As for the French claiming your address dosen't exist ..... well, I can't say what I was going to say as it would be extremely xenophobic - the Entente Cordiale is, alas, no more.
Don't hide the hurt! Have all the hours of daytime tv taught you nothing?ReplyDelete
You need to bring the hurt out into the open, and let the vulgar gaze of the rude and scoffing multitude fall upon it. Let it be prodded, tested and featured in magazines not of the decor variety.
Then you'll be so famous, even the French will be forced to concede the existance of your wonderful abode.
Hello Mise:ReplyDelete
We really, really wish that we were able to ask just what exactly is Facebook, but alas we have, we must confess, heard the name.
As Mr and Mrs No Mates, clearly Facebook has nothing to offer but to satisfy our voyeuristic natures about what others may or may not be up to.
As for our sorrows, we wear them firmly on our sleeves, otherwise they are in danger of passing unnoticed. And gin and sympathy is such a tonic we find!!!
So pleased to find you on the best of form, dearest Mise, and when are we to be delighted by the quatrain?
I could never have a Facebook page while I was teaching and always felt as though I was missing something big. Once I opened one I found it most useful for learning all about LOLs and LMAO's.ReplyDelete
It did help when it came to correcting essays though.I once received a one liner for a book review....De book woz grt.
Lve ur blg, s grt :)
I just winked at you .
May all hurts heal, hidden or otherwise.ReplyDelete
Ah, you always present such delightful possibilities!ReplyDelete
If a hurt isn't added to your Facebook status update, did it ever exist in the first place? Hurrah for hidden hurts! Meredy xo.ReplyDelete
p.s. so relieved about my hair...the humidity in Sydney has been appalling.
Yes I am also a deleter, an unliker, a no-friender now. Very liberating. Now I just talk to random people I've never met on Twitter and blogs. Much better.ReplyDelete
I too struggle to stay 'connected' on facebook...and feel somewhat guilty for not doing so more often. I'm always much more drawn to fuller content, such as what one finds out in the PFW...is that snobby? This is a daily thought & wonder.ReplyDelete
Best of luck with your besties present...I haven't even started the whole 'commercialism' side of Christmas yet...I'm waiting for that wonderful adrenaline rush one gets when one waits until the last minute...it's very, very helful!
xo J~
I do not like Facebook and after 6 months just gave it up. That is not socializing in my book and in fact I agree with the gentleman named Tom Stephenson!ReplyDelete
As to the gift undeliverable (due to non existent address), I am still chuckling...I live on a tiny (private) island on the Pacific Northwest coast which unless you check a nautical map does not exist...Thus the USPS gave us a nearby town's name and house numbers which could not possibly exist (there are less than 30 families here living year around and only 365 properties so why numbers in the 20,000?). Additionally there are no USPS deliveries (mainland only and accessible only by ferry), or UPS or FedX or...I am sure you get the picture! It is however BLISS! I hear the orcas singing, the seals barking and the eagles (all 9 of them) swops over the house...
May this blessed season be all that you wish for and God speed!
Wow, I have never "liked" anything on FB, prob because I don't really know what it means. I figure it sets off an alarm in Washington and I get tagged as a TERRORIST or something (now your site will be suspect.)ReplyDelete
And Mise, your address barely does exist, you must admit. I've been there. I know - it's not easy to find, and I bet they decided that when they saw you surname, sort of like I did w/ a certain O'hIfearnain.
(smiley emoticon inserted)
Facebook is so awkward. I'm sure I've hurt millions and didn't even know it.ReplyDelete


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Lord have mercy.It's hardly the same thing, but if you want to at least get some of the festal material, the Antiochian Archdiocese has on its website the content for the current and upcoming weekend services. It's a page worth bookmarking: http://www.antiochian.org/liturgical-guideHere is the one for this weekend: http://www.antiochian.org/sites/antiochian.org/files/oct_24-10_-_complete_22nd_sunday_after_pentecost.pdfPraying your transportation situation improves soon!
Go to the following web site:http://pages.prodigy.net/frjohnwhiteford/services.htmYou will find readers services as well as the variable parts of the Typica and Liturgy. When I cannot go to Church, I find reading the Typica with all of its variables to be a very uplifting experience.
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Pilot Re-Enacts 1st English Channel Flight
Edmond Salis took off from Bleriot Beach, near Calais on France's northern coast, at 9:13 am local time, arriving 40 minutes later in Dover.
That's just slightly longer than it took Bleriot, who made his historic crossing July 25, 1909, in 38 minutes.
"The takeoff was a bit delicate because there were crosswinds at Bleriot Beach," said Salis, decked out in a leather aviator jacket and hat and a flowing white scarf, in an interview on I-Tele television. "Once I was in the air, I could already see the English coast. Listen, the closer the English coast came, the more I enjoyed it."
Before the flight, Salis dismissed any fears about flying the wooden and canvas craft, which dates from 1934.
"It's still an adventure. It is an old engine, it is an old motor, but it is well maintained, it works well, so there is no reason that any problem would happen," the 39-year-old said.
On Saturday, about 500 people - some in period costumes - were on hand in Calais to see Salis off, and five journalist-filled helicopters tracked his progress.
Salis' flight was one of several events - including flights by other Bleriot aircraft, daredevil stunts, a gala dinner and fireworks - marking Saturday's 100th anniversary of the Calais-Dover flight, which helped usher in commercial aviation.
Bleriot made his flight six years after the Wright brothers flew overland over Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, and during a decade in which pioneers in Europe and North America were developing the rudiments of airplane technology and expanding its limits.
Bleriot dismissed chiding and criticism - even from his mother, who declared him crazy - and poured a decade of his life and his entire fortune into his dream.
With just a handful of friends and helpers, he towed his craft into the start position on a field near Calais on the night of July 25, 1909. It had a 25-horsepower motor and was baptized Bleriot XI. The wooden propeller roared.
At 4:41 a.m., the 23-foot-long craft took off. Just 38 minutes later, Bleriot's dream became a reality: He landed in a field near Dover on the English coast, becoming the first person to fly across the English Channel.
The touchdown was bumpy, and the aircraft was damaged, because Bleriot had been forced to cut the engine 20 yards above the ground. The monoplane, made famous by the Channel crossing, was commercialized with more than 800 copies made, and put into action in World War I by several air forces.
Bleriot was not the sole early aviator. German Otto Lilienthal flew a few hundred yards in the 1890s, and the Wright brothers briefly lifted off with a motor-propelled craft in 1903.
On May 21, 1927, Charles Lindbergh became the first man to fly solo over the Atlantic, landing at Le Bourget outside Paris. Bleriot hugged him on arrival.
Lindbergh is said to have remarked that he would fly back across the Atlantic in his own aircraft, "But I wouldn't fly over the Channel in a Bleriot XI."
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Horse enters press room, sits on chair, falls through, mutters that they should make sturdier chairs. I don't know if I understand, is she saying We can't have them take us with Sow - that if they take the town, we still have to get out (which makes perfect sense)?
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TimelinesPosted: July 13, 2010 Filed under: Genealogy | Tags: Rants and riffs, Relatives 4 Comments
I was mucho enjoying Dick Eastman's review of the photography compilation The Last Muster: Images of the Revolutionary War Generation by Maureen Taylor. Some Revolutionary War veterans lived into the dawn of the age of photography, and Taylor's book collects as many of their images as she could track down. It's jarring to consider Continental Army soldiers posing for a photographer. Yet there they are, very old, often frail, but living links to a legendary past.
Time and generations are fluid, a point we often miss because of internal assumptions. Recently at a dinner with old friends, a trivia challenge was thrown down: Who is the earliest president to still have living grandchildren?
Good one! I was trying to think of presidents with considerably younger wives or second marriages. My guesses were Theodore Roosevelt or just possibly Grover Cleveland (the only president who got married in the White House! More trivia!).
But the answer, apparently, is John Tyler (1790-1862), president from 1841-45, or forty years before Cleveland. As of 2009 there were two living Tyler grandsons through his son Lyon Gardiner Tyler (1853-1935): Lyon Jr., born in 1924, and Harrison Ruffin, born in 1928. A jaw-dropper, but upon consideration, an understandable genealogy tale. It's a not-unprecedented combination of longevity and fertile second marriages to much younger wives — in Tyler's case, Julia Gardiner, 30 years his junior and the mother of Lyon Gardiner Tyler.
I saw another example of this a couple of weeks ago in the story of a (living) nephew of a Civil War veteran who worked to replace the marker on his uncle's grave. This, too, was a tale of two marriages and two succeeding generations of males producing children late in their lives.
While there is nothing quite that extreme in my own family tree, there does seem to be a pattern of later-than-usual marriages. Our timelines are a bit stretched out, as a result. When my 12-year-old had to make a family tree a few years ago, the teacher couldn't help noticing that she had a grandfather born in 1913, the sort of date most of the other kids were putting down for the births of their great-grandparents.
But families don't always reproduce on trend. It is a useful thing to remember the next time we're trying to figure out a time frame in which to search for Ancestor X. Better not say, "She couldn't possibly have been so-and-so's grandchild!" until we're sure that's really true.
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Fascinating and my jaw did drop when I read that John Tyler still has 2 living grandsons. Absolutely incredible. I haven't seen anything even remotely close to that in our family tree.
I've noticed this "stretching out" in my family, too. An older mother born to an older mother, and then a number of male ancestors with successive wives, so that their youngest children were born when the men were in their 60s – it adds up! Interesting post.


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Lady Cats coast against Culver
LAKEVILLE — With five of the last six Bi-County championships, the Lady Cats may have already been looking ahead to this year's championship at Thursday's semifinals.
It wasn't pretty, but Oregon-Davis got the convincing win, using its signature pressure defense to jump out to a 38-11 halftime lead and coasting to an eventual 69-42 win over Culver Community in the early semifinal at Dale E. Cox Gymnasium.
"We didn't play very well at all," said OD head coach Terry Minix. "That was disappointing because we didn't look like we were there mentally or physically. It sounds bad coming away with a 20-some-point win, but you can't do that. At this time of the year that's the stuff that I'm talking about trying to get ready for tournament time, and when it comes tournament time if you play that way it's one and done, and that's the mentality we've got to get them to understand. And this Bi-County next to the sectional is a big thing for us. We're defending champs, and we want to win it. I was just very disappointed in a total team collapse for the most part."
While OD might not have played to its potential, it was more than up to the challenge of a short-handed Culver Community lineup that was out usual starting forward Donna Zehner after she sustained a concussion in the Cavs' Bi-County opener with Bremen Tuesday.
Culver coughed up 22 turnovers in the first half as OD jumped out to an all-but-insurmountable 38-11 lead at the break.
"That's what we were worried about, about handling the basketball," said Culver head coach Gina Hierlmeier. "With Donna Zehner being out of the game, that was definitely a factor. We had to change our game plan about halfway through practice yesterday. I thought going into the start of the game we handled the pressure okay, and then we just kind of let the game get away from us."
The Cavs finally began to execute their press break in the second half to whittle their deficits down below 20 several times, but they couldn't get over the hump after falling behind early.
Kayla Shaffer scored 19, including eight of her team's 11 points in the first half, and Tatum Schultz put up 12 points with 11 rebounds.
"Once we were able to get Tatum in motion and attack from the wings and the middle, we were able to do what we wanted to do," said Hierlmeier. "Kayla and Tatum are always a huge part of what we want to accomplish. We just as a team need to make sure that we continue to execute our game plan."
OD was paced by Haley Collings' game-highs of 20 points and 14 rebounds. Ashley Campbell finished with 15, Jessica Avarone scored 13, and Alicia McIntosh chipped in 12 for the characteristically balanced Bobcats.
"(Haley's) been getting better and better, but she had other opportunities. If you count the bunnies we missed tonight, I'm probably not exaggerating that we missed 20 bunnies," said Minix. "In close games, you've got to hit them. We were fortunate enough to get off to a good lead and since we did it didn't bite us in the tail, but we've got to get our heads screwed on straight."
OD advances to play Triton in the Bi-County finals Saturday night at 6:30 p.m. Culver will look for a reprisal against the Sectional 51-rival Lady Cats on the road next Tuesday.
"We talked at the half about executing our game plan and allowing us to see if it works. I thought we did a better job of executing in the second half, which we even them out, so we're just going to have to work on those things and prepare to play them again in the future," Hierlmeier said.
At Lakeville
Score by quarters
Culver: 5 11 28 42
OD (69): Jessica Avarone 13, Ashley Campbell 15, Ashley Clark 0, Haley Collings 20, Lincy Jones 0, Taylor Kranenburg 3, Alicia McIntosh 12, Lexi Minix 6, Kendra Sauer 0, Riley Trott 0; Totals: 26 12-19 69.
CULVER (42): Mickella Hardy 6, Shakkira Harris 0, Marisa Howard 0, Angela Lewellen 2, Alonnia Montgomery 3, Ali Overmyer 0, Tatum Schultz 12, Kayla Shaffer 19; Totals: 18 2-4 42.
3-pointers: OD 5 (Avarone 2, Kranenburg, Campbell, McIntosh), Culver 4 (Schultz 2, Shaffer, Montgomery); Rebounds: 45 (Collings 14), Culver 33 (Schultz 11); Turnovers: OD 13, Culver 39; Steals: OD 21 (Collings 5, Minix 5), Culver 5 (Shaffer 2); Assists: OD 10 (Campbell 5), Culver 7 (Harris 2, Schultz 2, Montgomery 2); Fouls (fouled out): OD 10 (none), Culver 18 (none).
Records: OD 15-3, Culver 10-6.


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Get a head start on Tuesday's football talk with "NFL AM" at 6 a.m. ET on NFL Network. Catch up with all the day's news, plus live interviews and highlights of Monday night's Carolina Panthers victory over the Philadelphia Eagles.
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Here's what else is on tap for Tuesday:
» The 10-1 Houston Texans held onto the No. 1 spot in the latest NFL.com Power Poll. Find out which hard-charging team moved up to No. 2, and see where our experts rank your favorite team.
» Elliot Harrison offers his own detailed, 1-32 NFL Power Rankings.
» The Eagles' miserable season got worse Monday night when they suffered two more injuries. Gregg Rosenthal breaks down all of Week 12's walking wounded.
» Which NFC team has the best chance at the sixth playoff seed? Gregg Rosenthal handicaps the field, which includes Drew Brees and the upstart New Orleans Saints.
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» Daniel Jeremiah weekly QB Performance Report compares Tom Brady with Eli Manning.
» Bucky Brooks sizes up the two NFC North title contenders and asks who's better: Chicago Bears or Green Bay Packers?
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10 comments:
- Lynne said...
Beautiful words, beautiful arch.
I notice you live in Ardnamurchan- how lovely! Im down nearer Glasgow. Not so picturesque I'm afraid. I have taken note of your caravan for future breaks as I like to get away with my dog(and sometimes my daughter) to somewhere really quiet - usually Skye.You can see them both in a photo on my blog. Thanks for visiting by the way.Lynne
- 27 April 2012 at 23:12
- Effie said...
What a lovely quote....and a beautiful image, gorgeous arch. Thank you for joining in with Gothic Arches.
- 28 April 2012 at 09:06
- Salamanda's Scrappy Adventures said...
Strangely enough our holiday spot is very near yours... Spent all my childhood hols at Tougal and now as much time as possible at Camusdarach. Your blog header took me straight there.
- 28 April 2012 at 09:32
- Deborah said...
A lovely arch - and quote.
- 28 April 2012 at 11:42
- Yvonne said...
Gorgeous arch, Ellen!
- 28 April 2012 at 12:55
- Glitter Monkey said...
How beautiful - such a serene scene and I love the words. Thank you for supporting Gothic Arches. Lynn ♥
- 28 April 2012 at 14:31
- Wendy said...
Hi Ellen, I LOVE your arch, it really gave me a smile. The owl on the wood and the text you used, love it! What a beautiful place on earth you live in, by the way :) Thank you for leaving me a sweet comment, wonderful Sunday to you. Wendy
- 28 April 2012 at 20:40
- Wendy said...
by the way: ik zie nu dat je Nederlands spreekt :D
- 28 April 2012 at 20:46
- PaisleyPeacock said...
Really lovely and lush with Spring.
- 28 April 2012 at 21:14
So beautiful, Ellen!
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Vertical Gardening: 9 Great Vines & Hanging Plants
My city backyard includes two unattractive walls that I'd like to see covered in greenery this summer. I've started some research into plants that will grow up and down to beautify the space, and here are eight options I've found.
1. A little inspiration: a lighted trellis provides support to vines growing on Leah & Matt's Enviable Rooftop Oasis.
2. Vitis vinifera "Purpurea" is a grapevine with, yes, grapes, but its attractive foliage is the real draw.
3. Aristolochia macrophylla, or Dutchman's pipe, is a fast-growing deciduous vine native to the eastern United States, and does well in full sun or partial shade.
4. Another eastern United States native, evergreen Lonicera sempervirens, aka trumpet honeysuckle, attracts hummingbirds. (Beware its invasive relatives.)
5. Passiflora incarnata (purple passionflower), a herbaceous vine, can be found in the southeast United States.
6. Clematis, of which "Nelly Moser" (shown here) is just one of hundreds of varieties, is a popular climber on arbors and mailbox posts.
7. Available in bright green or deep purple, sweet potato vine is a fast-growing hanging plant.
8. As the name suggests, Fuchsia "Lena" produces beautiful trailing flowers in pinky-purples. This showy annual likes humidity.
9. The Boston fern is a classic fixture on Southern US porches.
10. Tuberose begonias are a personal favorite that offer cascading color. They like partial shade.


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Finals might be over for the year, but high schoolers are always on the verge of tests.
It�s important for a student to find what tricks aid studying. For some, that means incorporating music into a routine.
But it might be best, according to research, to use music in non-traditional ways, rather than simply listening to it while trying to consume information.
While the research is murky, teens say music makes it easier to buckle down while studying.
�Music does not only say what the heart wants to say that the words cannot, it helps me focus in on what is at hand,� said Rochester High senior Emily Murphy.
Emily said music helps her zero in on what she�s working on, making it easier to finish homework or study.
One area teen doesn�t think music necessarily helps her focus, but she has a hard time working when it�s silent.
Music can be a distraction at times, Sangamon Valley High School junior Ellen Sadler said. But, she said it�s better than studying when it�s quiet � which she finds difficult.
Experts say it can be beneficial to use music in certain ways. Songs can help you form associations for certain topics so you can recall the information when taking a test, according to an article by Chris Boyd Brewer on the Johns Hopkins School of Education website.
Use music to set the mood for what you�re studying. If a song seems appropriate for a topic, play it while reading that material.
�Music will activate students mentally, physically, and emotionally and create learning states which enhance understanding of learning material. For example, play music with an association for your topic in the background while reading a concise summary of the important information,� Boyd Brewer wrote.
He also recommends using music to boost energy.
But, there is a major potential caveat to studying with music.
�Previous research has found numerous benefits to listening to music before performing a task � it improves attention, memory, and even mental math ability,� Sheela Doraiswamy wrote in a Mind the Science Gap 2012 article.
But, she continued by saying studies with vocal music have found that can be just as distracting as hearing someone talk. Thus, students looking to listen to music, should, according to Doraiswamy, opt for instrumental music. Think Mozart.
Another report focuses on music training, not necessarily listening to music while studying.
Learning music �leads to changes throughout the auditory system that prime musicians for listening challenges beyond music processing,� according to William Klemm in a Psychology Today article. Klemm is a professor of neuroscience at Texas A&M University.
�Music training imposes a high working-memory load. That can be a good thing, in that it helps you expand your working memory capacity, and thus reduces the impairing effects on memory of working memory overload.�
Regan Ernst is a sophomore at Rochester High School.


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They spent their years content to keep key constituents dumb.
It is their nightmare right now because of that.
They spent their years lying their gums off just so they could easily become part of the corrupt elite.
It is their nightmare right now because of that.
They spent all their time selling out their race for their own personal game, facilitating in the spread of agendas that have placed the country in the mess we're in while they live lavishly away in their dishonesty.
It is their nightmare right now because of that
And now, Alex Castellanos, Leslie Sanchez, Danny Diaz, and all those Hispanic TV strategists that have helped carry the Sad Obnoxious Party's water are getting what they deserve right now.
In the midst of the SOP's racism in full ugly display since Tuesday's Sotomayor hoopla, those three Hispanic strategists are no where to be found.
Last night, I thought about this:
Hispanic GOP members are having one hell filled week with how some in their party haven't said nice things about their race.And look what Mr. Sargent reports today in his Weekend Open Thread:
Sam Stein reports that Hispanic GOP strategists are stunned and outraged by the conservative attacks on SotomayorIt's like a bad guy who realizes he doesn't need his lackey anymore, content to have him be damage goods or a sacrificial lamb. That's the feeling I already felt, and that was before I read Stein's article
Top-ranking Republican strategists who specialize in Hispanic outreach say they are outraged, disturbed and concerned by the type of reception Barack Obama's pick for the Supreme Court has received from conservative activists.Real translation for Mr.Sosa: We are screwed! We currently have nowhere to go right now! And they know why they don't have anywhere to go. Because they sold out their souls, choosing the decline fighting for what's right and instead thinking solely about themselves by doing whatever they can to abet the S.O.P's marketing misinformation, spin, and egregious lies.
The rhetoric has been enough to make Republican strategists in heavily Latino states cringe -- concerned that such slights could cement Democrats advantages among a growing and increasingly influential political constituency.
"Of course this disturbs me," said Lionel Sosa, one of the more influential Hispanic media advisers in the GOP. "I'm not surprised at Rush Limbaugh but I'm very surprised at Speaker Gingrich because he is one of the key people who knows the importance of the Latino vote to the Republican Party. He must realize how his rhetoric, if it does influence any Hispanics, how damaging it could be. This [confirmation] is something that is going to happen anyway. For a senator to have strong opposition to her, they are either not aware of the impact Latinos will have on the next election or they don't care.
Now it's all coming back to bite them harder than Bush's feisty little dog did that reporter last year. "La Raza is KKK", "that "brown chick lady", "she's only there because of affirmative action." All of these things and more have caused so much infliction for them this week. All of them thanks to their bosses, the ones who orders they followed in order to neglect their people and leave them gasping for air.
This sudden disparaging treatment by their party begs the important still asked question: "Why does any minority in this country, particularly Black, Hispanic, and Asian be a Republican or line themselves up in conservative means?"
Because it gets to a point where they are abused toys that a kid no longer wants (analogous to the evil villain-lackey). That's why I have no sympathy for Colin Powell and how he was unceremoniously dismissed the moment he left the Cheney Administration, the moment he choose to endorse Obama, and the moments he is spending to claim back a good Republican name right now. Because he went right along and had no problems, NONE WHATSOEVER, with the party throughout the years. And he especially wasn't concerned with finding the good rational side when the shenanigans of 2000 went on, wasn't he?
It is their nightmare right now because of that.
That is what Michele Steele is feeling right now (at least i hope for his soul that he is feeling just that, or he is really more lost than he currently is), and that was before his power to spend his party's money was relinquished. Alan Keyes, strategists like Ron Christie and Joe Watkins, world class Uncle Tom's like Larry Elder and Juan Williams, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.
Look, some of them may truly believe in conservative philosophy, in Republican values, and may not see themselves as going with the party that tried to deny their races rights at least four decades ago. That, despite being horribly misguided, is their business.
But you can just tell that some of them aren't with the S.O.P because of their trepidation for "big government" or "liberalism" leading us to being Commies or something along those lines. Instead, they are there as true Benedict Arnolds to their community, to their backgrounds, to their own skin color. And it is truly unfortunate.
Castellanos, Sanchez, Diaz, those crazy ass Diaz-Lambart brothers, and every other SOP Hispanic are feeling scorned, forgotten, and officially unloved from their own party members. And that goes to all the other minorities as well. It is their nightmare right now because of that.
They all are getting what they deserve right now. I shed no tears for them, and hopefully, neither should you.


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This topic is an attempt to more clearly understand what's going on on the Feminist Atheist part of the forum lately.
I've seen myself as a feminist for quite some time, yet it seems that my definition differs from that of other self proclaimed feminists on the forum. I'm not arguing which group of people is "True" or "Better" because as of yet I do not understand the differences fully, which is annoying as it is a hot topic.
One of the biggest problems seems to be that some people here, myself included seem to be convinced that feminism is about equalism (equality between the sexes). Others agree that this is partially true, yet they claim that equalism and feminism are not the same and that you cannot be both (or that's how I understood it, please correct me if I'm wrong).
I did a quick Google search and found the definitions below which all speak of equality when defining feminism. This does not necessarily mean that this equality necessarily means or leads to equalism (or am I wrong here?).
Wikipedia: Feminism refers to movements aimed at defining, establishing and defending equal political, economic, and social rights and equal opportunities for women
Dictionary: the doctrine advocating social, political, and all other rights of women equal to those of men.
Oxford Dictionary: Advocacy of the rights of women (based on the theory of equality of the sexes).
It seems that I'm not the only one that is confused, the wall at Feminist Atheists has sort of proven this lately. I hope that I (and others perhaps) can get some clarification and a better understanding of this subject.
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I think there's value in calling my position feminist when religious women have it in their heads that feminists are all man-hating extremists. And then their reaction is to embrace the misogyny of the bible as the only other viable position. It's kind of like why I call myself an atheist even though it has a lot of negative associations. They both need to have a diverse face.
When I told my husband I was a feminist, he assumed that I was therefore against the things he wants to see - more fair treatment of men in child custody cases for example. Of course that's not the case. I think I can be an equalist and a type of feminist. I may not fit in within this group. That has yet to be seen. Maybe I like men far too much to fit in, in which case I will be happy elsewhere.
I don't see it as a negative. I'm sure I could find fellow atheists who I would strongly disagree with as well. And I'm not led my anyone s far as my opinions on this topic. I'm not part of any organization. No one represents my views for me.
I think I want to be able to distinguish myself from the rank and file of evangelicals who strongly believe they are in an equalist marriage, even though they submit to their husbands' authority as a requirement of their faith. Feminism is antithetical to the 'biblical marriage model' preached by christians and so perhaps it is useful to me that way. 'Equal' leaves too much wiggle room for telling people how they should behave as men and women.
I've never heard of evangelicals describing their relationships as equalist, so I think you are safe there. Equalism is just as antithetical to the 'biblical marriage model' preached by christians, but it is also antithetical to the restrictions on men's rights sought by feminist organizations.
So again, which truly describes your views. Are you a feminist, who advocates only for women's issues? Or are you an equalist who advocates for the civil rights of both genders?
So, someone can be a nice, egalitarian member of the Ku Kux Klan, so long as they only hold that view that white people are entitled to civil rights too?
No, if you voluntarily associate yourself with a group known to oppose civil rights and equality (as feminism does), then you abandon the expectation of egalitarianism
How about this - I've already given you my reasons, even if you don't accept them. That doesn't mean you have changed my mind about anything.
Fair enough, you can label yourself however you wish. But if you choose to label yourself as a member of a group that opposes equal rights for all genders, then don't expect to be considered egalitarian.
I'm sticking with "equalist", and treating everyone fairly.
Feminism isn't simply about "being equal" any more than denial is simply lying. Before you can comprehend what "equal" means in this context, you have to realize it's not just easy-to-measure-stuff like equal pay for equal hours of work.
Feminism requires consciousness raising. Invisible, deep layers of oppression and inequality, internalized limitations we don't even notice, must be recognized and painfully faced, before we can peel away layers of inequality that constitute our selves. Having been remade from authentic beings into sex objects, women must find their true centers to articulate what job equality, for example, might look like.
Imagine the ability to compete for a living wage without walking around in high heels all day. When men have to cope with just as many demeaning and deforming dress requirements, while pretending to be happy about them, just to feed their kids, we can talk about job equality.
Reminds me somewhat of what my girlfriend has told me about transsexual women (male to female), of which she's known a few. One of the biggest things they need to adjust to is the constant focus and harassment.
For that matter, my girlfriend gets cat calls, just walking down the street, on a constant basis. There's a constant pressure of harassment to intimidate women and keep them in their place, under fear of being raped or killed. It's even worse in many other countries.
It gets better, but there is a long way to go. In the Netherlands 1 in 5 women becomes a victim of physical abuse, that's still a disturbingly high number.
It is also not unheard of to take advantage of women in certain situations, sometimes actively pursuing to bringing another into such a state where any kind of decision can be hardly taken consciously by the victim. Date rape drugs, alcohol can be included here, as to me it is about the effect and to some degree intention.
I've always been taught to escort girls home, and at moments like that I will not even bring myself into a situation where I might become vulnerable to do something stupid. I'll bring you to the door and then you're on your own. I'm not tucking you in, I'm not checking for monsters under the bed and I don't need another drink.
No offense to anyone, but if you're drunk I'm not going to put my trust in your ability to make an informed decision.
On the way home, you just might meet the wrong person, with the right moves that causes you to make a mistake. A friend of mine got a ride from some people who said were worried that he was walking home alone in the cold. They took everything he had and dumped him.
Women unfortunately have a much higher risk to be abused, and to become victims of such attacks and the constant pressure of harassment as you speak of, to me seems to show how big this problem is. But this abuse is not just by strangers, but by the people they should be able to trust too. Somebody telling you a story about how dangerous the street is, and how he would appreciate it if he was able to escort you home, but really just until the door, even a friendly person or friend might take advantage of you.
It's still ingrained in our culture it seems, both in that continuing cat calling and verbal harassment that shows our more antisocial, vile side that people ought to control. Women are still under constant threat of attack it seems from many sides and it is not something that is easily counteracted. Women's actions are not responsible for this problem, and neither are their clothes, it's the culture where people think that women should somehow be subjugated to men, that males are dominant and that women are somehow responsible for being victims is inexcusable.
Sorry for the long post, but the subject really pisses me off, and I really see the verbal harassment as a prime example of this problem that is so often said not to exist but in the mind of radical feminists or spineless men. /rant
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Bradley Cooper: Lance Armstrong in 'Red Blooded American'?
Bradley Cooper is reportedly in talks to star as Lance Armstrong in the upcoming Jay Roach-movie about the disgraced cyclist titled Red Blooded American, Deadline reports.
The 38-year-old actor, who is also in talks to produce the highly anticipated flick, could also potentially be playing Lance's teammate Tyler Hamilton.
Tyler was part of Lance's US Postal Service Team. He came forward and discussed Lance's steroid use on 60 Minutes.
The movie is reportedly being fast-tracked into production.
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Easter biscuits cooling on the rack:
These biscuits must come with a warning – the smell of them baking will drive you insane, so don't make them planning to eat them the next day – you will NEVER be able to resist! I was doubly tormented as the weather was blowing a gale outside so I couldn't have any windows open thus the warm biscuity aroma hung around the kitchen far longer than it normally would. Torture by baking smells!
When I made the biscuit dough I anticipated that it was going to be a beast to roll out as it seemed crumbly but it couldn't have behaved any better and was most amenable to re-rolls too. So don't panic and add water or milk to the dough to make it wetter – there's no need.
The texture is soft and crumbly:
100g unsalted butter, softened
80g caster sugar
1 egg yolk
100g currants
150g plain flour
½ teaspoon baking powder
2 teaspoons mixed spice
An extra tablespoon caster sugar for sprinkling.
How to make:
- Preheat the oven to 170°C/fan oven 150°C/325°F/Gas mark 3.
- Line a baking sheet with baking paper.
- Cream the butter and sugar together until they are pale and fluffy. Don't skimp on this stage – give the mixture a good beating.
- Beat in the egg yolk.
- Stir in the currants.
- Add the flour, baking powder and mixed spice and ensure all the dry ingredients are thoroughly mixed into the wet.
- Using your hand, bring the dough together and then give it a squeeze to warm it up and soften it – this will make it easier to roll out.
- Roll the dough out between two pieces of baking paper; aim for approximately 0.5cm in thickness.
- Take a round biscuit cutter (I used a 7cm cutter and got 12 biscuits) and cut out the dough.
- Place the biscuits on the lined baking sheet ensuring they are not too close as the biscuits expand slightly on cooking.
- Take the extra tablespoon of sugar and sprinkle over the uncooked biscuits.
- Bake for 12-15 minutes until cooked but not browned. Mine took 15 minutes.
- On removing from the oven the biscuits will be soft; leave them to harden up for 5-10 minutes before carefully transferring to a wire rack and allowing to cool.
- Bask in glory at the wonderful thing you have made.
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I don't know when I learned the word "conceited." I was raised in Utah where most of us didn't use "conceit" in the sense of an elaborate or strained metaphor but rather to mean that someone thought they were extra-super special. The little girl across the street who snubbed me because I didn't wear long stockings with garters (which was an immediate tipoff that I was not her kind) was "conceited" rather than prejudiced. The kid who was quick to make a point of how bright he was when I made a mistake was "conceited" rather than arrogant (or insecure). Gawd!I loved the word "conceited." I could apply it to so many situations and avoid learning new vocabulary words.
Of course, in a culture where being extra-super humble was valued, I soon noticed that our English language is, indeed, "conceited."
I'm speaking of the way we capitalize the pronoun "I." None of the other pronouns are capped. So what about this "I," standing tall no matter where you find it in a sentence? Recently as I tutored students in accent reduction and American culture I noticed that some languages (like Japanese) seem to do quite well without pronouns of any sort. I did a little research. Some languages like Hebrew and Arabic don't capitalize any of their letters and some, like German, capitalize every darn noun. So, English—a Germanic language at its roots—just carried on the German proclivity for caps.
But the question remained. Why only the "I?" Why not "them" and "you" and all the others. Caroline Winter, a 2008 Fulbright scholar, says "England was where the capital "I" first reared its dotless head . . . .Apparently someone back then decided that just "i" after it had been diminished from the original Germanic 'ich' was not substantial enough to stand alone." It had to do with an artistic approach to fonts. The story goes that long ago in the days of handset type or even teletype machines little sticks and dots standing all alone looked like broken bits of lead or scrappy orphan letters.
Then there is the idea that religion played a part in capitalizing the "I." Rastafarians (and some others, too) think in terms of humankind as being one with God and therefore— one has to presume—it would be rather blasphemous not to capitalize "I" just as one does "God." Capitals, after all, are a way to honor a word or concept.
Which, of course, brings us back to the idea that we speakers of English are just plain "conceited."
Carolyn Howard-Johnson is an instructor for UCLA Extension's world-renown Writers' Program, and author of the HowToDoItFrugally series of books for writers including The Frugal Editor: Put Your Best Book Forward to Avoid Humiliation and Ensure Success. It is a USA Book News award-winner as well as the winner of the Reader View's Literary Award and a finalist in the New Generation Book Awards. She is the recipient of both the California Legislature's Woman of the Year in Arts and Entertainment Award and is a popular speaker and actor. Her website is www.HowToDoItFrugally.com.


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We sat next to each other. I thought we had a great conversation. Can't stop thinking about it. We never exchanged numbers. Although you did mention that you worked out at Defined Fitness. Do you remember me?