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Vox DA5 – Used in the Sahara desert by Tinariwen!
The Vox DA5 is a relieable, little workhorse of an amp, widely used by buskers, at home and even at small gigs…but, used in the Sahara desert!? Yes…the DA5 now makes name for itself in the Sahara, as acclaimed band Tinariwen also uses this fantastic little "desert amp"! Find out more…
Good amps are hard to come by at the best of times, but in the desert? This is why Ibrahim Ag Alhabib, lead guitarist with Tinariwen, who both records and lives in the Sahara depends on his Vox DA5 guitar amp (last UK stock of which is available from Dolphin Music only) when the band goes out and about among the dunes. Strapped onto the back of the nearest available camel, the DA5's portability makes it the ideal desert amp – and because it runs on batteries there is no problem with the electricity supply; making it ideal for the nomadic lifestyle of this now internationally well known band.
Alhabib is also keen on his Vox AC30, which the band used on their latest album.
"I do like Vox. They're solid and have a very honest rock sound, which is what I'm after for my music," he said. "It's important for our music not to sound too sweet and the Vox helps with that.
The rhythm guitars were fed through a Vox [AC30] on Imidiwan to get that grungy, churning sound."
Check those photographs of the DA5 in the desert!
Tinariwen have paid their dues. Formed in 1982 by a group of Mali musicians seeking respite from the brutal regime of the government, they used home-made guitars to fuse African and Western influences and forged a reputation that was too big even for the Sahara desert to contain.
By the time of 2007's Aman Iman album, Tinariwen was on the lips of legends from Robert Plant to Chris Martin, on stages from Glastonbury to Coachella and in the record collections of people who previously thought 'world music' was a dirty word. With the Vox-powered fourth album Imidiwan: Companions storming the charts, it looks as though they still have along way to go.
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Read the full interview:
With Vox-powered fourth album Imidiwan: Companions storming the charts, singer/guitarist Ibrahim Ag Alhabib looks back at the long, hard road behind him.
VOX: How hard was it to get to this point?
Ibrahim Ag Alhabib: "It's been very tough. I lost my father in the first rebellion in the early-'60s, then lived in exile until my twenties. The journey has been the same for thousands of other young Touaregs [the nomadic people of Western Africa] of my generation. Sometimes the suffering was intense; you can feel it in our music. But it wasn't totally bleak. We drew strength from each other, and faced the challenges together. That's one meaning of the new album title. I wanted to dedicate it to my companions, who have shared this long, hard road with me."
VOX: How important is music in Touareg culture?
IAA: "Music is everything. From the day you are born to the day you die, music accompanies you everywhere. But Tinariwen doesn't play traditional music. Before us, the guitar didn't exist in Touareg music. We introduced the instrument because it was easy to carry across the desert. It's also an instrument that is known all over the world, so by using it we were opening out to the rest of the world. In fact, all the traditional instruments, like the tindé, the imzad and the teherdent, have some kind of restriction on them; either they can only be played by women, or by traditional griots ['bards']. The guitar was a free instrument, because it was so new."
VOX: Which Western artists inspired Tinariwen?
IAA: "Each of us has their favourites. In the early days, I'd listen to Elvis Presley, Dire Straits, Santana, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan. We also love acoustic music, and country and western artists."
VOX: Did you ever think you'd be this successful outside Africa?
IAA: "We always dreamed about it. We'd look at maps and wonder what it would be like to be standing in New York, or Japan, or the plains of Canada. So it's remarkable that these dreams have come true. In the early days, we never thought our music might have any meaning for people outside the desert. Our audience were the Kel Tamashek, our own people. Since 2001 we've been conveying the same messages of awareness, of love of the desert, to the rest of the world."
VOX: How does it feel to know that the world's biggest artists are now your fans?
IAA: "It feels good to have the respect of some great musicians; like a justification of all our efforts and sufferings. I'm especially pleased that we've met and worked with Robert Plant and Santana, who are two artists I admire a lot."
VOX: What are the challenges of recording in the Sahara?
IAA: "For me, it's concentration. The desert has many distractions. My family are there and they often need help to carry and fetch people or animals. I also love to spend time in the bush, on my own, under the stars, and it's hard for me to be around people for too long. But then, the desert is where I feel free. It's where my inspiration comes. So that's a bigger advantage, I think."
VOX: Is it true that you made your first guitar?
IAA: "Yes, when I was very young, maybe four or five years old. It was made with a plastic water container, a stick, some rope and bicycle brakewire. It was pretty much the same as the guitar the kid is playing on the cover of the new album."
VOX: How hard is it to find good amps in the desert?
IAA: "You can't find any amps in the desert! You have to bring them from Europe. There are no music shops within fifteen hundred kilometres of my home."
VOX: Have you always been fans of Vox?
IAA: "I do like Vox. They're solid and have a very honest rock sound, which is what I'm after for my music. It's important for our music not to sound too sweet, and the Vox helps with that. The rhythm guitars were fed through a Vox [AC30] on Imidiwan to get that grungy, churning sound."
VOX: What made you choose the AC30 and DA5?
IAA: "It was Justin Adams, who produced Aman Iman. He brought an AC30 to the sessions in Bamako. The DA5 is a good desert amp. It's tough and it runs on batteries so we don't have problems when there is no electricity supply. We also used a Vox wah pedal on Aman Iman – you can hear it on the song Assouf."
VOX: Finally, do you feel like rock stars?
IAA: "No. We don't really know about rock stars in the desert. We're treated just the same as we ever were. Nobody bothers us. We're just one of the people."
Visit the Tinariwen Artist Page at Dolphin
Interview by Henry Yates – Photos by Jean-Paul Romann. Originally from Voxamps.com
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Clued-up post! Thanks for keep me notify about Sahara desert.
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An Oregon police officer chose the wrong time and the wrong person to mouth off to regarding a cruiser parking job. Eric Bryant, an attorney and Oregon citizen, watched as Officer Chad Stensgaard parked his patrol car illegally in front of a restaurant while waiting on and picking up food. Bryant then confronted the police officer about the parking job and received what we'll call a "dickish" response.
Stensgaard said, "If someone broke into your house, would you rather have the police be able to park in front of your house or have to park three blocks away and walk there?"
While obviously, we'd rather have law enforcement officers be able to park in front of our house, unless Officer Stensgaard's food happened to also be a burglar, there's a significant discrepancy between the example given and the actual situation. Bryant then acted not as an attorney, but as a private citizen by filing several complaints against the police officer.
In a happy ending for citizens maddened by power-hungry police officers, Officer Stensgaard was issued a summons to appear in traffic court and could face parking fines upwards of $540. The Law: 1, Abuse of Power: 0. [AP]

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I just installed mesa-full-i915 from aur on a poor 1005ha asus netbook, chipset is 945GM.
Now i can enable kde 4.5 desktop effects in opengl mode, yes, there are some glitches here and there, but the speed is awesome, at least compared to stock intel-dri.
Compiz literally "flies", it stick to 60fps and never goes down, still i can't enable blur effect, but who cares...
Having the same settings, sauerbraten which usually gave me 30...40 fps now is at 50..60.
with libjpeg-turbo this little baby is shining
If you have similar hardware i strongly encourage you to give it a try, and if are there other similar topics, silly me who missed them.
still i can't enable blur effect, but who cares...
If it in theory would work and I only forgot some compile options then please tell me.
Actually I have no idea what the i915 supports or if I did it right. I just took the mesa-full and mesa-full-gallium from the radeon repository and put them somehow together.
For example it still builds r300 and I have no idea how to get rid of it...
Glad that it works so good though. I wondered why gallium isn't the default for intel yet. Are there any known major issues?
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Phoronix has opposite results on a NC10.
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I'm going to try this out on my 1000H to see how it goes. Maybe the compiler flags used for building this package are helping the performance? Also, the tests on Phoronix were done with ubuntu so, not exactly the same thing.
Phoronix has opposite results on a NC10.
I wouldn't trust Phoronix' results.
I just readed the phoronix tests. What can i say, my experience is totally different.
The only thing i did was to remove the 'classic' intel driver and builded+installed the gallium one.
Compiler options was optimized for an atom cpu,and i was using intel driver 2.13, while phoronix uses 2.14.
This is the only 'unfair' thing i can think about, but i doubt it can explains a 20%+ of speed improvement.
...Looking forward for more testers!
PS: phoronix is known to leave compiz enabled when making his benchmarks, i don't know if he disabled it or at least 'unredirected fullscreen windows'.
Last edited by kokoko3k (2011-02-28 07:11:12)
Maybe now that openbenchmarking is open we can also submit benchmark results.
Can anyone start warcraft3 in wine with i915g? I wanted to see how it performs but it eats up all my RAM and gets killed by OOM...
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The package mesa-full-i915 will now build the classic mesa and the gallium-mesa is under mesa-full-i915g. You can't install both, they build exclusively and conflict (it's easier for me this way).
I think libdrm-git is needed, so I also created the package libdrm-git-intel (and changed the dependency), that just has --enable-intel and --disable radeon. You could just use libdrm-git but it will be bloat.
Also there is the package xf86-video-intel-beta with the 2.14.901 (only version changed in abs PKGBUILD (and removed patch, whatever it was for)).
I also recommend creating a xorg.conf and turning color tiling, pageflipping etc. on. Warcraft3 begins to show playable framerates on netbooks!
I tried xonotic and while it is painfully slow on both drivers with i915c I get ~2 fps, with i915g I get ~8fps. But warcraft3 in wine is much slower on i915g than on i915c.
gltron is much slower on i915 too...
I didn't really test much so far but the things I have seen are really mixed results.
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Are you sure sure there are options for color tiling and page flipping (which is enabled by default)? I think those are restricted to the radeon driver.
I created a xorg.conf with X -configure.
I found
Option "Tiling"
But no pageflipping, right. That's not there. But I have set "SwapbuffersWait" to false.
[ 2043.800] (**) intel(0): Option "Tiling" "True"
[ 2043.801] (**) intel(0): Tiling enabled
Is this not color tiling?
And by default it seems:
[ 2043.864] (II) intel(0): Kernel page flipping support detected, enabling
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Weirdly with the i915g driver I can't do 3D.. not even dcompmgr in --gl mode or glxgears: Error: couldn't get an RGB, Double-buffered visual.
Anyone else got this? I have a MHD 4500 (aka G45).
I wonder if the mesa-i965 will be superior to this, since my card is compatible.
Wait, your card runs with i915 and i965? How? Can you provide the output of
LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose glxinfo | grep render
Btw: I don't provide a gallium package with i965 because I have read on phoronix that it isn't as developed as much as i915 and the commits are very, very seldom so I don't expect it to perform well.
Also, I have to update the i915 gallium package I think.
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libGL: OpenDriver: trying /usr/lib/xorg/modules/dri/tls/i965_dri.so
libGL: OpenDriver: trying /usr/lib/xorg/modules/dri/i965_dri.so
libGL: Can't open configuration file /etc/drirc: No such file or directory.
libGL: Can't open configuration file /home/mariachi/.drirc: No such file or directory.
libGL: Can't open configuration file /etc/drirc: No such file or directory.
libGL: Can't open configuration file /home/mariachi/.drirc: No such file or directory.
direct rendering: Yes
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Mobile Intel® GM45 Express Chipset
GL_EXT_vertex_array_bgra, GL_NV_conditional_render,
I'm downloading nexuiz to see if there is a difference between i965 (currently installed), i915c and i915g (if I get 3D to work).
Are you really sure it should work with i915?
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lol it has been working for.. say... 3 years and I get a decent frame-rate in nexuiz and good 1080p with mplayer2 -- no vaapi yet though.
but maybe it's really not supposed to work with i915g. Since I'm at it, I'll check i965g out
Actually I don't know enaugh about intel. I only have a gme945 netbook and no intel graphics besides... I thought they were strictly disjunct.
Just ready with mesa-full-i915g update. mesa adds features quicker than I can enable them.
It's probably easier to change that PKGBUILD to i965g.
I think with llvm it should be faster so I added it as a dependency. I don't know if --enablegbm is a good idea because it needs --enable-shared-glapi which is marked experimental, so I didn't do that.
This is the article btw:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=n … &px=OTYxNA
Also I am pretty sure I have read that there is an experimental mesa branch with g45 vaapi support... I only found that now: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=n … &px=OTMxNw
Way too much editing... G45 was better for googling: Here it is, in libva rather than mesa: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=n … &px=OTQ1NA
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I remember reading somewhere that i965g was experimental. I'll give it a go anyway.
I read that phoronix article, but it seems too much trouble at this point (kernel patching, etc)
Ta-daa list of gallium drivers.
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=n … &px=OTYxNg
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It doesn't appear that any Intel DRM driver update is required on the kernel side to take advantage of this video playback acceleration
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hehe I get a ~10fps increase in nexuiz with i965g
although glxgears and dcompmgr --gl will freeze everything except the mouse cursor :S
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Another hit to the applications that gains with i915g is extreme tux racer.
with intel-dri, it reaches 11, 12fps, while with i915g it goes to 28,29.
Sadly enough, i just discovered that youtube in fullscreen is black and white when hw acceleration (scaling) is used as long as gallium, and that some applications will cause the system to heavily swap.
But there is a workaround, you can use intel-dri and gallium without going to install one and uninstall the other; what i did is to keep intel-dri installed for normal desktop use.
Next, i made the pkg for mesa-full-i915g with makepkg and unpacked it to (say) /mesai915g/.
When i need to use i915g for a particular app, i just do:
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/mesai915g/usr/lib/ LIBGL_DRIVERS_PATH=/mesai915g/usr/lib/xorg/modules/dri sauerbraten
This is also a quick way to make tests, comparisions and benchmarks
You could do it as how the radeon driver did it for a while:
Simply changing
--with-dri-driverdir=/usr/lib/xorg/modules/dri \
--with-dri-driverdir=/usr/lib/xorg/modules/dri_g \
and of course removing intel-dri from the conflictig files and adding it to the dependencies.
And for comfort I'd create a script like
LIBGL_DRIVERS_PATH=/usr/lib/xorg/modules/dri_g $@
for starting it like
gallium sauerbraten
(LIBG_DRIVERS_PATH should be a bit better than the whole LD_LIBRARY_PATH)
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Damn... They discontinued i965g (and removed it from git) just when I was about to try it! Apparently I have the same chipset with el mariachi. Is there a chance anyone still has their x86_64.pkg.tar.xz?
Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU E3400 @ 2.60GHz, XFCE 4.12, x86_64. AURs.
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I'm calling the series: 200 Words. You can read the series as it unfolds HERE.
And think of these posts like kites: let's just see if any fly.
First, if you are out of the loop, then read my post about moving from über-urban Manhattan to downtown Sydney.
Now, I know that no one really can, but I would like to start a vision from scratch. I'd like a Tabula Rasa if ever one existed, so that we could write only new and fresh things on it, trying to reach the lost as we love the city.
But (and here is a trustworthy saying and worthy of full acceptance), none of us start from scratch. Not even the church planters. None of us have a Tabula Rasa. The slate is not blank. Jesus has already written on the slate in his gospel. It is his church, not ours. And he has revealed his will in the Holy Scripture.
And more, the saints who are already serving in York St have been planning, and praying, and serving and reaching the city long before I will arrive, and long after I go (God willing). And so I will need to listen closely to those who are already serving Jesus from York St.
And even more, though some of my readers struggle with this, many of you are not a blank slate denominationally either: you are Anglican. And York St is Anglican, and I am one too. There are things we do, and its worth embracing what we have been given.
That having been said, I am beginning to conceptualize what a mature and vital church might look like and be like in the city of Sydney. Partly for my own benefit, and partly so that I will have good things to discuss when I arrive in Sydney.
I want to start my thinking, though, not with pragmatics, nor with a plan, nor with a profile of a city worker or dweller. This is not yet about cultural engagement. And this is not a vision statement for York St, or anything so specific.
I want to start with the broad vision of truths that matter.
I scribed these 20 points fairly quickly a few days ago. It's not exhaustive, and there is overlap. And I'll want to bring them down to only a few things in the end.
But this is kite flying, right?
I plan to write 20 posts (200 words a post) on the following 20 matters in the lead up to Christmas. Would that interest you? Would that be worth a read?
So, my question: what needs to be in the DNA of a church like York St? I'd say that a mature church needs to:
- Glorify and Fear the One True God
- Love and Serve Jesus.
- Be Born of and Empowered by the Spirit.
- Proclaim and Promote his Holy Gospel
- Inwardly Digest his Holy Scriptures
- Promote Preaching with Gravitas.
- Provide for both Sacraments
- Build and Serve Christ's Body
- Have a outward Kingdom Orientation
- Passionately Worship God.
- Appreciate Historic Anglicanism
- Submit to Discipline and Holiness
- Be Informed by Hope
- Love and Engage God's World
- Take Joy in Creation
- Live Generously and Hospitably
- Bind the poor and brokenhearted
- Express Joy
- Value Art, Literature, Music and Creativity
- Promote Productivity and Work
What's missing? What should be taken out? Say your piece now, before I write on each topic.
You can read the series as it unfolds HERE.


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It may be helpful to think of promoted tweets as being most similar to Google AdWords. Both are pay-per-click advertising intended to drive traffic. Promoted accounts might be thought of as the search engine optimization (SEO) done to improve results on Google or Bing. While you're still going to pay for each follow with a promoted account, the point is to increase the size of the audience that sees your posts naturally.
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The Twitter advertising self-service platform will allow you to target users by keywords, interest or through your profile.
In addition to these parameters, you can also target further by location, device and operating system, gender, interests or username.
When entering exact match key phrases that you want to target, it's important to keep in mind that in Google searches people tend to leave out small "connector words" like "a" and "the" but on Twitter people use conversational language so you may need to include these words in order to get an exact match.
In addition, Twitter will only deliver promoted accounts or tweets to users that it believes will be interested in your content. So selecting "fishing" as an interest does not necessarily mean that your promoted tweets or account will be shown to every Twitter user interested in fishing, but rather those interested in fishing that Twitter believes will also be interested in you.
An Auction Model
Twitter ads, like many other popular forms of online advertising, are based on an auction model, meaning that advertisers bid on their ads and the most profitable — not necessarily the highest bid — ads are likely to receive the greatest number of impressions.
Twitter has said that it will not increase ad frequency, which might make the platform pretty competitive. For many small online retailers, this competition may mean that it makes sense to get an early start on Twitter.
Almost all pay-for-performance advertising requires a bit of experimentation. And it is best to experiment when there is less competition driving up bids.
Have you experimented with Twitter Ads yet? Do you ever click on promoted tweets?
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May 16 2013, 11:03AM
I've set up a few paid tweet campaigns and I've found when targeting key words and key phrases that it's helpful to perform a Google search with your terms and look at the 'Searches related to..' area at the bottom of the SERP to get some alternative keyword ideas.
Nice tutorial.
May 16 2013, 11:04AM
Nick – that's a great tip. Thanks for sharing.
May 16 2013, 11:09AM
Very timely article Mark!
I just tried to set up some ads this morning and discovered that it was U.S. only. Fingers crossed they'll be rolling out in Europe soon!
May 16 2013, 11:39AM
May 16 2013, 01:11PM
Excellent article! But sad face for all the non US-based shops…
May 16 2013, 08:20PM
I has great results recently with targeting hashtags of popular Twitter chats. Engagement rates were almost 3%, which is the best I've seen so far.
These hashtags work well because you know what people will be discussing and they'll be glued to their feed and/or search results with your ad perched at the top.
May 17 2013, 06:21AM
Great job Mark. Such a wonderful article. Thanks for nice sharing.
May 17 2013, 09:57AM
Another great article, i've never really fully understood the point to Twitter ads but this explains it brilliantly, similar in the way it works to Google Adwords! Thanks for sharing :)
May 17 2013, 05:24PM
It's great that you're giving away Twitter Ads credit but the priority now should be to make it available to all users, not just US users only. It's rather frustrating to be left out when we are paying the same monthly fees…
May 17 2013, 05:37PM
Thanks for all the kind words everyone!
Alex G: Twitter Ads is currently only available to all users in the U.S. When they opent the ad platform up to other regions we hope to run a similar promotion so everybody can be included.
May 20 2013, 12:23PM
Ahh that makes sense. Thanks for the clarification!
May 23 2013, 02:25PM
What if we already have a twitter account, can you still claim those twitter ad credits?
October 22 2013, 12:30PM
FINALLY.. a clear and concise explanation of Twitter ads! THANK YOU! Twitter should pay you for this.
January 14 2014, 06:06AM
Does anyone know how they charge your credit card for promoted accounts? Does it charge as and when you get the new followers or at the end of the campaign for the full budget amount chosen?
Thank you :o)
February 24 2014, 05:21PM
how do i know how is the cost per click in USA for a promoted tweet ?
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We used to do this at the Protestant church I was a part of. We'd do it once a year, sort of a non-sacramental custom or tradition. It was quite interesting. The church was a pretty tight-knit group of about 90-100 though, so we weren't really strangers. I've heard of Orthodox doing the custom as well, e.g. monastics. It'd be a cool custom to use, if people were willing.
would you follow this example of jesus for a stranger?
I would, but I imagine it wouldn't really benefit anyone. Wouldn't it be better to "wash a stranger's feet" by helping them? Like giving money to the homeless, offering them a meal or a ride etc.
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And these are the days of our lives... by Angel Perkins
For those of you that are easily offended, I suggest you refrain from reading further. This is going to be a bit of a rant on a controversial subject.
It's not about politics (most politicians lie or become liars to some extent and presidents as a rule aren't omnipotent) or the latest abortion debate (as long as its not used as a form of birth control but rather to prevent several people — including the child — from a future of misery, and as long as it's done immediately, then I feel it's the woman's choice to decide) but something that I personally struggle with fairly often. We live in a day of sexual freedom — days where laws are being passed or argued about in regard to same-sex marriages, where morality has hit an all-time low (have you gone a month without hearing about someone molesting someone or abusing their authority to force themselves on someone sexually?). A time when rape is rampant, and where seeing people in the tiniest bits of clothing is fully-acceptable.
Now let me say now, I am not one that can considered a prude. I'll refrain from proving it to you — just trust me. I remember as a young person watching Jane Russell speaking on the reasons why I should buy a Playtex bra as opposed to any other and in the commercials of which censors wouldn't allow her to actually take her shirt off to show us the item, but rather had it displayed on a headless mannequin's bust. I remember when soap operas tried to depict a couple in the throes of passion, but had to hide their actual lips from the scene and discreetly walked into a bedroom, closing the door to do you-know-what. I remember when the only time you confused a man for a woman was from behind, and only because his hair was incredibly long and his clothing was non-descriptive.
I can only imagine how senior citizens feel ("Hell in a hand basket I tell you") in this day and age about the changes in bathing suit styles (can you say thong or its more popular name — Butt-floss) and television topics and presentations? It's no wonder so many of them have heart problems!
My son was about nine when he asked me what "male enhancement to improve her pleasure" meant because of a commercial he heard on the radio, and just recently my daughter wanted to see what was in the Trojan box at Walmart that she had seen blow the hair back on the couple of actors in bed together on the television commercial. (I misguided by telling her that that was the section for married people only, and if the cameras saw her messing with it we'd be kicked out of the store and then lied further, telling her I had no idea what was in there. I have to ask — and I honestly request that you respond online after this is posted on http://www.thepilotnews.com by "commenting" — what do you tell your children? Mine surely aren't the only ones questioning.)
We have condoms and sexual male enhancements being sold next to the lottery tickets at the counter of most gas stations. They sell sexual enhancement devices at most drug and general stock stores now, and risque commercials aren't only on cable or pay channels anymore. Heck, the titles of some of the movies available are offensive enough I have to block them from the screen because "Debbie Does Dallas" apparently is no longer considered an explicit-enough example for the titles of "adult" movies.
No longer are magazines with scantily-clad women on them required to be stuffed in the back of the magazine rack selections and have you read the titles of the articles on the front of Cosmo lately? My gran used to get the mag when I was a kid and they talked about presidents (and not about their sexual escapades), cooking and decorating one's home. Yes, these are the days of our lives. The days when there isn't a clue as to whether the person you passed on the street is a man or woman and there are about six descriptives for categorizing one's sexual preferences and literal body type.
I started on this rant because the other day when I turned on the TV to scroll through my options and a random channel was on in the background of my highlighted channel choices I saw that it was the "soapie," Days of Our Lives, one I had to watch as a child and watched of my own directive a little when I was older (until the writers got a little too creative), and to my surprise, saw two men with only pants on, fully making out — loving, touching, squeezing AND showing tongues. I was a deer in the headlights (without the sudden fear of death mind you). I was beyond shocked.
Now, I know, and am related to homosexuals. They are not demon spawn and in fact are honest, kind, intelligent, respectable, hard-working individuals that are delightful company. What they do behind their closed doors is not my business or for me to judge. I just don't want to watch them sharing affections and is why I don't live in a place more liberal like Chicago or San Francisco for example, and why I don't choose to visit those that I know in their homes. I don't want to go to the beach and see some man's "junk" stuffed into something the size of my headband or a woman who is showing the world what type of shaving style she prefers for her "bikini area." If I want to see all that I know what channels, magazines, websites bars to look for. So why is it in everybody's face? When I'm 80, will it be perfectly acceptable to walk around outside in one's underwear? Will Ernie and Bert come out of the closet?
I'm not saying we should all live like the Amish (and NO, I'm not saying there's anything wrong with how they live — in fact — those I know are the kindest, most hard-working, honest people I've ever met). I just couldn't wear all those clothes — especially in the summer. I'd lose my mind on a steamy day and run streaking down the street, tearing bits of cloth off myself screaming "I can't breathe!" But geez. Can't we keep what goes on in the bedrooms IN the bedrooms?


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Loretta Lynn Cancels First Concerts of 2012
A knee surgery and pneumonia kept country legend Loretta Lynn from fulfilling a number of her late 2011 tour dates. An unknown ailment is keeping her off the road to begin 2012. The singer has canceled her first shows of the year, a Jan. 7 stop in Ashland, Ken. and a Jan. 8 show in Durham, N.C.
A statement at Lynn's website says both shows will be rescheduled but doesn't list specific dates. The Durham Performing Arts Center lists an April 7 date with Lynn as the makeup date, however. This is the second time both shows have been postponed. They were originally scheduled for Oct. 22 and 23, but Lynn's battle with pneumonia forced her to pull out at the last minute.
In August, the 'Fist City' singer canceled eight shows to have knee surgery, and in July a hospitalization forced her to cancel an additional show. Despite all of this, Lynn told the News Press of Ft. Meyers, Fla. that she's feeling great. "I'm probably in better shape than most singers age 20. I really am!"
The statement at Lynn's website does not specify why she was forced to postpone this weekend's dates. We join her fans in Miami, Okla. and Dallas, Texas in hoping she recovers quickly and completely before her next scheduled dates in those cities on Jan. 21 and 22.


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Residents Have Trouble Learning If Hazardous Substances Are Stored Near Their Homes
More than a year after a fertilizer explosion in West, Texas, killed 15 people, it is now harder for state residents to learn whether hazardous chemicals are stored near their homes, an issue that is stoking political debate leading up to the Texas gubernatorial election.
Texas used to periodically release information about the nearly 70,000 manufacturing facilities that store hazardous chemicals in the state, in accordance with federal and Texas right-to-know laws. But in June, the office of Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott,...


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Governor Mitt Romney reversed course on the state's new emergency contraception law yesterday, saying that all hospitals in the state will be obligated to provide the morning-after pill to rape victims.
The decision overturns a ruling made public this week by the state Department of Public Health that privately run hospitals could opt out of the requirement if they objected on moral or religious grounds.
Romney had initially supported that interpretation, but he said yesterday that he had changed direction after his legal counsel, Mark D. Nielsen, concluded Wednesday that the new law supersedes a preexisting statute that says private hospitals cannot be forced to provide abortions or contraception.
''And on that basis, I have instructed the Department of Public Health to follow the conclusion of my own legal counsel and to adopt that sounder view," Romney said at the State House after signing a bill on capital gains taxes.
The unexpected decision revived an awkward political situation for Romney, who has staked out more conservative positions on social issues as he gears up for a possible presidential run in 2008. After vetoing the emergency contraception bill this summer, he declared himself firmly ''prolife" and faulted the Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion.
Yesterday, abortion opponents, who see the morning-after pill as a form of abortion, predicted a court battle over the issue, while reproductive rights advocates expressed surprise at the change of heart. Democrats accused the governor of a ''flip-flop."
Romney made his announcement a week before the controversial law takes effect. His decision resolves, for now, a debate that has raged since the Department of Public Health disclosed its position Monday. The department had said that the existing statute allowed private hospitals to sidestep the new requirement if they wished. Massachusetts is one of eight states that require all hospitals to offer emergency contraception to rape victims.
A dozen Bay State hospitals that treat rape victims do not provide the morning-after pill, according to a 2004 survey by NARAL Pro-Choice Massachusetts. The interpretation that all hospitals must offer the pill could have the greatest impact on Catholic hospitals that do not provide emergency contraception because it violates their religious tenets.
Catholic hospitals are extremely reluctant to discuss the issue. Christine A. Baratta -- a spokeswoman for the Caritas Christi Health Care System, which operates six Catholic hospitals in Massachusetts -- would only answer questions via e-mail. She said Caritas will continue to provide emergency contraception to sexual assault victims as long as they're not pregnant and that the hospitals use a serum blood test to determine pregnancy. It's unclear how that policy will conform with the law.
Caritas caregivers, Baratta said, ''are committed to providing sexual assault victims the appropriate, comprehensive, and compassionate psychological, spiritual, and medical care they require."
Representatives of other Catholic hospitals -- Mercy Medical Center in Springfield, Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester, and Saints Memorial Medical Center in Lowell -- did not return phone calls yesterday. Mercy and Saints Memorial officials have not returned repeated phone messages this week.
The emergency contraception pill, also called Plan B, is a high dose of hormones that women can take up to five days after sex to prevent pregnancy. Supporters of the new law say rape victims should have broad access to what they consider to be a safe, effective way to prevent unwanted pregnancies. But some conservatives and Catholic groups oppose the morning-after pill because they believe it amounts to abortion in some cases.
The fight over the law is unlikely to end with Romney's pronouncement.
Daniel Avila -- associate director for policy and research for the Massachusetts Catholic Conference, the public policy arm of the Boston Archdiocese -- said yesterday that despite the new administration position, Catholic hospitals will continue to have a basis for not handing out the morning-after pill.
''It's far from over," Avila said, arguing that Catholic hospitals can still rely on prior statute because the Legislature did not expressly repeal it in passing the new bill. ''As long as that statute was left standing, I think those who want to rely on that statute for protection for what they're doing have legal grounds."
Avila said it was premature to be ''disappointed with any permutation in the debate," because a legal challenge was certain.
''It will be determined in the courtroom," he said.
Attorney General Thomas F. Reilly was asked yesterday if he expected to have to take any enforcement action against hospitals that don't comply. ''I certainly hope that it won't come to that," he said.
State Public Health Commissioner Paul Cote Jr. said in an interview Monday that his department felt strongly that the new emergency contraception law did not compel all hospitals to provide the morning-after pill.
Romney said earlier through communications director,Eric Fehrnstrom that he supported the department's ruling because it respected ''the views of healthcare facilities that are guided by moral principles on this issue."
Asked yesterday to elaborate on that position, Romney said simply that the law was the law and that the state had to follow it. The governor characterized his own beliefs about emergency contraception this way: ''My personal view, in my heart of hearts, is that people who are subject to rape should have the option of having emergency contraception or emergency contraception information."
''We're certainly happy to see that the administration decided that clear state laws, even those that this administration might not agree with, really need to be enforced and followed by everyone," said Mary Lauby, executive director of Jane Doe Inc., a Massachusetts coalition against sexual assault and domestic violence.
The chief legislative sponsors of the new law also praised the decision. ''I think his lawyers are right," said state Senator Pamela Resor, an Acton Democrat. ''I am pleased to be able to say it."
Lieutenant Governor Kerry Healey, who would seek the GOP gubernatorial nomination if Romney does not run for reelection next year, has been a supporter of emergency contraception and said this week she believes rape victims should be able to get it at any hospital.
Reilly, seeking the Democratic nomination in the governor's race, took credit yesterday, as did other Democrats and reproductive rights organizations, for pressuring Romney to abandon a policy they said would have only burdened victims.
''I think we're all very happy that the administration has backed off on this," Reilly told reporters yesterday at a press conference with representatives of Planned Parenthood and NARAL Pro-Choice Massachusetts. ''This administration was on a road that would have made it worse for women in that position."
Gubernatorial hopeful Deval Patrick was one of several Democrats yesterday to attack Romney for what they said was a ''flip-flop."
''The governor got to the right decision. But, he took a long way to get there," Patrick said in a statement.
Raphael Lewis of the Globe staff contributed to this report. Scott Helman can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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"Rock of Ages," the Broadway musical that's also been made into a movie starring Tom Cruise, has landed in Las Vegas as the latest in a line of productions to be formatted for the Sin City stage.
Its website says the two-hour performance celebrates the "great rock music of the '80s." It's set along the Sunset Strip and tells the tale of two young people -- Drew (Justin Mortelliti) and Sherrie (Carrie St. Louis) -- who move to Los Angeles in 1987 to pursue their dreams.
The show opened Jan. 5 at the Venetian.
The love story features familiar, sing-along songs such as "Don't Stop Believin'," "Every Rose Has Its Thorn," "I Want to Know What Love Is" and "We Built This City."
"Rock of Ages" is performed at 8 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays and Sundays. On Saturdays, the shows are at 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. The musical is dark on Mondays.


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CONWAY, Ark. (KTHV) - A routine traffic stop in Conway is going viral around the state and the entire country after the driver proved their sobriety with a juggling act.
University of Central Arkansas student Blayk Puckett got pulled over late Friday night for driving under the speed limit. Officers suspected he was driving under the influence, but it's how he proved his sobriety is what has everyone talking.
The incident really is as crazy as it sounds. Officers said Puckett swerved a little bit, he was driving too slowly, and that he had a tail light out. Lucky guy, right?
Upon making contact, McKay asked Puckett where he was going. The student was headed home from the library on campus.
"I could tell pretty much from that initial contact, and no odor coming from the vehicle, that he was okay to drive," McKay said.
Still, officers decided they needed to investigate a little further. They ran Puckett's information through dispatch and everything checked out.
"It was very clear that I hadn't been doing anything wrong. I knew I had the tail light out, but I hadn't been drinking or anything," Puckett said of the incident.
But, Sergeant Keith McKay with the UCA Police Department said he didn't expect his night of typical patrol to turn out the way it did.
Puckett got out of the car after McKay returned and from there things took an unexpected turn.
"At that point we just had some fun. It was midnight. We had to do something during the traffic stop," Puckett said.
Little did police know, Blayk is quite the magician and a great juggler and he's got the license plate to prove it. Body cams and dash cameras were put to an unexpected use.
"I saw an object I couldn't make out in his pocket, his hands were also in his pocket," the officer recalled.
He asked Puckett to show him what was inside his pocket and he pulled out a magician prop of all things. That's when put on a juggling clinic for the officers, proving his sobriety and proving he's got some pretty good juggling skills as well.
By the end of the weekend, McKay said he was getting calls from people telling him the encounter was on Reddit and CNN. The video on YouTube has been viewed over 514,000 times.
"Though they are serious in nature, it's nice to have those times where you can have fun both as the officer and the person getting stopped," McKay said.
He said being polite, having manners, and showing courtesy goes a long way in providing a safe traffic stop.
"I was juggling for a police officer. I mean you hear jokes about this stuff so of course I had to film it. I would have been silly not to," Puckett said.


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A Boston surgeon and his wife, an anesthesiologist, are pushing to stop a widespread surgical technique used on thousands of women during hysterectomies, which they say caused her undetected cancer to dangerously spread.
Dr. Hooman Noorchashm, a cardiothoracic surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital, has started an online petition and written dozens of letters to medical journals and media organizations charging that the technique, called "morcellation,'' is endangering women and creating a public health crisis. He has adamantly demanded that his own hospital — where his wife's operation was performed — stop using the procedure, and called on other hospitals and doctors nationwide to do likewise. It is typically employed during laparoscopic hysterectomies, a type of minimally invasive surgery.
"This is a very ethically black and white issue,'' Noorchashm said. "One of your own got it. Stop doing it at the Brigham at least, and encourage others to stop doing it.'
The hospital has made some changes, including recommending against morcellation for certain women who are more likely to have undetected cancer, but will continue to use the procedure.
Leaders at the Brigham and a number of other organizations nationally said that the risk of spreading unknown uterine cancer is low, and that in many cases, particularly for younger women, it is outweighed by the benefits of removing the uterus laparoscopically, without major surgery. But some are starting to raise cautions about the procedure.
Noorchashm began campaigning against the procedure after his wife, Dr. Amy Reed, a physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and their family were hit with personal tragedy.
Reed, 40, underwent a hysterectomy in October at the Brigham to treat what she was told were likely benign fibroids, or masses, in her uterus. During the laparoscopic procedure, the gynecologist used a morcellator to cut her uterus and the fibroids inside into small pieces so they could be taken out through the tiny incisions used in minimally-invasive surgery.
Follow-up tests done on the tissue found that Reed had uterine leiomyosarcoma, a rare aggressive cancer. Later imaging tests showed that the cancerous tissue had been spread throughout her abdominal cavity during the surgery, giving her stage 4 cancer, her husband said. He said she also has nodules on her lungs that doctors are watching and they are unsure if those are cancer. The Brigham said it is not overseeing Reed's follow-up care, so cannot comment on her current condition.
The couple has six children between the ages of 1 and 12.
Reed is undergoing chemotherapy and is now recovering from major follow-up surgery at another hospital to remove cancerous tissue. She said in an interview Tuesday that she is lucky to "have a lot of family support'' but "it's been incredibly difficult for all of us. There is no reason women should be going through this.''
Reed said the gynecologist at the Brigham who did her hysterectomy did not inform her of the risk that morcellation can spread cancer. The hospital agreed with this characterization in a statement, though it said the doctor did disclose a remote risk of the fibroids being cancerous.
The Brigham, which uses morcellation in about 200 gynecological surgeries a year, said it won't stop using the procedure because it is the standard of practice, as recommended by national groups such as the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the American Association of Gynecologic Laparoscopists.
The Brigham did issue formal guidelines to doctors this month on when morcellation should and should not be used
The hospital is recommending against the procedure in women with any evidence of cancer or in women over 45, who have large uterine masses and heavy menstrual bleeding, who might be more likely to have hidden cancer.
In a letter sent to Brigham medical staff on Dec. 5, Obstetrics and Gynecology Chairman Dr. Robert Barbieri urged doctors to talk with patients about the small risk of spreading cancer through morcellation, which he said may occur in as many as 1 in 400 cases.
"We reiterated this is something we are keeping an eye on. We want doctors to be explicit,'' he said in an interview.
Morcellation also may impede later efforts to evaluate the tissue to determine the presence or scope of cancer, Barbieri wrote in the letter.
"An alternative to morcellation is the intact removal of the uterine tumor or uterus through an abdominal incision," he wrote. "An abdominal incision creates a larger scar, and is associated with a higher risk of skin infection and a longer period of recovery. However, if the uterine tumor is a cancer, there is minimal risk of spreading the malignancy or compromising the pathological diagnosis."
The Brigham said in a statement that "while it's not possible to know what impact the procedure will ultimately have on Dr. Reed's health, we do know that literature suggests morcellation of malignant tumors increases the chances of mortality. All involved in Dr. Reed's care are deeply saddened by the news of her illness.''
About 600,000 hysterectomies are done in the United States every year, most done to treat benign fibroids using minimally invasive techniques. Morcellation is not generally recommended for use in patients who are known to have cancer. But there is no definitive diagnostic test for leiomyosarcoma.
Such sarcomas are rare, aggressive, and have a high rate of recurrence even in woman who have not undergone a morcellation, said Dr. Barbara Goff, president of the Society of Gynecologic Oncology and director of the Division of Gynecologic Oncology at the University of Washington in Seattle.
Morcellation allows many women to have safer hysterectomies with better outcomes than full abdominal surgery, including less blood loss, smaller wounds, and a quicker overall recovery, Goff said.
"You try to balance cost and outcomes and doing the best you can for an entire population of women," Goff said.
But Dr. Bobbie Gostout, chairwoman of obstetrics and gynecology at the Mayo Clinic, said more women should be given the option of a vaginal hysterectomy, where the uterus can often be taken out intact through the vagina, especially because morcellation "is a questionable practice."
She said morcellating devices are not yet good at capturing tissue or protecting other sensitive organs from rotating blades.
"I don't want to see [morcellation] go away, but I would like to see it kept in perspective and occupy its necessary place," she said. "Morcellation is still so far off what it ought to be."
Noorchashm said he believes doctors and hospitals such as the Brigham are still using the procedure because it allows them to do more procedures faster, which is more profitable.
"There is a lot of money involved in this business,'' he said.
The Brigham said this is not a factor and that insurers pay more for open abdominal surgery because it requires longer hospital stays.Liz Kowalczyk can be reached at email@example.com.


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Earthworks to be vendor for new local Whole Foods store
PLYMOUTH - One local market has a big reason to be celebrating St. Patrick's day in a big way.
Earthworks Market will be celebrating the normal holiday along with the news that they will also be forming a partnership with one of the nation's top food chains, Whole Foods. The soon to be opening Mishawaka Whole Foods will feature bread from Earthworks.
"We applied to be one of their local vendors," said Sr. Sue Rogers of Earthworks. "We had to go through the regular process, meet with their regional managers and the bottom line is we were accepted."
"We are very excited about this. I mean we are really excited about this. Who would have thought something like this would happen. It's great news."
The partnership is a good one given the way each company is run. Earthworks does painstaking research on all their ingredients to be sure that they are natural and good for the earth. Whole Foods mission statement specifically spells out their dedication to carry natural and organic products, without any artificial additives.
"We go to great lengths to be sure all the ingredients of everything we sell is good for the earth," said Sr. Sue. "We know where all the meat we sell comes from, we make sure all the grains and products that we sell meet that criteria. It takes a lot of work but we think it's worth it. It insures that everything our customers buy is a responsible product."
Another local vendor "Simply Birgit" body care products will also be a local vendor for the Mishawaka Whole Foods store. Simply Birgit is a line of completely natural body care products made by Birgit Biehl.
As part of their St. Patrick's day celebration Earthworks will be serving corned beef sandwiches and St. Joseph's Day cakes on Saturday morning from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.. In addition any family who comes in dressed in green will get a prize of five mini cupcakes.
Earthworks Market is located at 900 W. Jefferson in Plymouth. You can learn more about them online at www.earthworksmarket.org. You can learn more about Whole Foods at www.wholefoodsmarket.com.


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I opened my mailbox this morning to discover the email that hundreds if not thousands of hams worldwide have been waiting for - a shipping notification from UPS to say that a 5lb package from Elecraft is on its way!
KX3 I didn't order.
That's right. Didn't order. I haven't ordered a KX3! I'm not saying I'm never going to, but I am not even going to think about it until such time as orders are fulfilled off the shelf. At the moment I believe that the lead time for an Elecraft KX3 ordered today is about 4 months. These days I just don't plan that far ahead.
I forwarded the email to Elecraft Sales in the hope that they can figure out who this notification should really have gone to and why it came to me. But for a brief moment this morning I thought this was going to be my lucky day!


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A random experiment in the kitchen brought forth this dish. For me, pork always means a gravy type. For the first time, I experimented on something different and am quite pleased with the outcome. We are a lot into spicy food so did not mind the fiery peppery taste of this meat. If given a choice, my husband would prefer it spicier but we stuck to this milder version instead. It goes well with a variety of rice items and not so much with Indian breads.
Pork - 1 Kg
Ginger chopped - 2 inches
Garlic chopped - 6
Red Chili Powder - 1 1/2 tsp
Big Onion chopped - 2
Big Capsicum squared- 1 ( I mixed half of both red and yellow capsicums )
Black pepper powder - 1 tsp
Green chilies chopped - 4
Soya Sauce - 2 1/2 tbsp
Salt to taste
Pressure cook the meat with no water for about 10 to 15 minutes or until well cooked.
Once cooked, remove about 3 tbsp of the pork oil into another wok.
Saute the chopped onions and green chilies in the oil until the onions are transparent.
Add the cooked pork into it after removing the excess oil.
Add the soya sauce and fry the meat with the onions for about 10 minutes.
Add the capsicums during the last 5 minutes of the frying time and saute it along with the pork.
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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration Tuesday announced a nationwide plan to help wildlife adapt to threats from climate change.
Developed along with state and tribal authorities, the strategy seeks to preserve species as global warming alters their historical habitats and, in many cases, forces them to migrate across state and tribal borders.
Over the next five years, the plan establishes priorities for what will probably be a decades-long effort. One key proposal is to create wildlife "corridors" that would let animals and plants move to new habitats. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Daniel M. Ashe said such routes could be made through easements and could total "much more than 1 million acres." The plan does not provide an estimate of the cost.
The effects of climate change are already apparent, the plan notes. Oyster larvae are struggling off the Northwest coast. In the Atlantic, fish are migrating north and into deeper waters. Geese and ducks do not fly as far south. In the West, bark beetles destroy pines because winters are not cold enough to kill infestations.


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My name is D Stall, and I live (semi-eremitical) on my family's 50 acre spread in rural southeast Central Texas. From there, I freelance as a webdesigner/developer, and design and maintain the website of The Orthodox Fellowship of the Transfiguration, among others. Previously, I worked as a registered landscape architect (20+ years) in Houston, Austin and San Francisco.
A Texas A&M University cum laude alum (BS Landscape Architecture & BS Horticulture), I am third in the first generation of my family to earn a degree. I can also be described as the great-grandson of Texas pioneers, grandson of Texas subsistence farmers, and (shamefully) a "city-slicker" (as my recently departed, dear ole dad would say), seeing how I was born and reared in Houston, post-war (WWII - the "big" one) on the blue-collar, industrial east side.
Baptized and confirmed in LCMS, I first wondered about Orthodoxy in the 70s when I came upon a National Geographic photo of a young girl lighting a candle before an icon in "Great Religions of the World", a book I had purchased for extra reading in my architectural history class. A classmate informed me of the Greek Festival in Houston, but I never managed to attend. The first Orthodox temple I set foot in was the Cathedral of the Mother of God, Joy of All Who Sorrow on Geary Boulevard in San Francisco, in 1992 (possibly during Nativity Lent). It took eight more years of spiritual seeking for me to "find" (or be found by) the Orthodox Church.
Interest in my genealogy and cultural heritage has deepened my appreciation of Orthodox Christianity. While the apostle St. Pavlos is my personal patron, my family patron is St. Boniface of Crediton. An avid reader and practitioner of the prayer of the heart (I don't go out much - nearest Liturgy is 85-100 miles away), my favorite books include the "Prologue From Ochrid" by Bishop Nikolai Velimirovic, and "The Southern Landscape Tradition in Texas" by John Brinkerhoff Jackson.
Other interests include: history, historical preservation, cultural geography, intentional community, sustainable living, cohousing, voluntary simplicity, fair trade, agrarianism, alternative energy, off-grid homesteading, homeschooling, nature study, hiking, gardening, ethno-botany, whole food, and animal husbandry (especially goats).
But my greatest interest is in synthesizing all these interests toward development of a distinctly contemporary Orthodox Christian lifestyle and culture, inspired by "sobornopravanist" – the local agrarian community as the center of Orthodox church life as manifestated on The Holy Mountain, in Old Russia and during the middle ages in Western Europe.
I can be found on the web at DStall.com or Skype d_stall


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This robot will cook your dinner!
Published on Oct 2, 2015
In the future, your kitchen will prepare your food for you. But it's not as far off as you might expect. CNBC visited the world's first robotic kitchen.
Tim Anderson records a recipe fo Moley Robotics
Published on May 20, 2016
The Moley Robotics system does not cook like a machine – it captures human skills in motion.
Tim Anderson, culinary innovator and winner of the prestigious BBC Master Chef competition (2011) played an integral role in the kitchen's development.
He first developed a dish that would test the systems capabilities – a crab bisque – and was then 3-D recorded in a special studio cooking it. Every motion and nuance was captured, from the way Tim stirred the liquids to the way he controlled the temperature of the hob. His actions were then translated into elegant digital movement using bespoke algorithms created with the collaboration between Moley and teams from Shadow, Universities of Stamford (USA) and SSSUP Pisa (Italy). The robot doesn't just cook like Tim – in terms of skill, technique and execution it is Tim producing the dish. The kitchen even 'signs off' its work with an 'OK' gesture – just as the chef does.
"To be honest, I didn't think this was possible. I chose crab bisque as a dish because it's a real challenge for human chef to make well, never mind a machine. Having seen – and tasted – the results for myself, I am stunned. This is the beginning of something really significant: a whole new opportunity for producing good food and for people to explore the world's cuisines. It's very exciting."
A day in the life of Moley Robotics
Published on Jun 23, 2016
Never-before seen footage. Learn the secrets of how the robots learns new recipes. Master Chef Giuseppe Patriarca from Isernia, Italy teaches robot how to cook two new recipes, risotto mantecato with parmesan cheese, pear and black truffle, and oriental style chicken.
Article "Need a hand in the kitchen? The robot arms that can prepare over 100 meals for you at home"
Robotic chef makes over 100 meals from well-known human chefs
Robot records human chefs cooking and mimics their motions
Users choose a recipe, set out ingredients and push start to make meals
The system is powered by a touch screen, a smartphone or tablet
by Stacy Liberatore
November 1, 2016
Shadow Robot Company development work for Moley Robotic Kitchen
Published on Sep 22, 2017
You may have seen the Moley Robotic Kitchen - did you know that we helped develop the hands/arms that perform the cooking functions? Masterchef winner Tim Anderson cooked a crab bisque; his actions were recorded and performed by our hands.


text: Could In-Field Drying Become Extinct? February 13, 2014 04:14 AM Tweet Gary Woodruff, grain conditioning technology manager with GSI, explains the latest grain drying technology at National Farm Machinery Show. TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Ben Potter AgWeb Social Media and Innovation Editor Email Advances in dryer technology could prove bin drying the safer, more economical alternative in many scenarios. Harvest grain drying has always been a bit of a balancing act. Harvest too early, and you're left with steep dry-down costs. But leaving corn in the field to dry down on its own can be risky as well, explains Gary Woodruff, grain conditioning technology manager with GSI, at the 2014 National Farm Machinery Show. "The drier corn gets, or the longer it is left in the field, the more susceptible it is to yield loss," he says. "When corn hits 15% moisture, as it does when harvested late, losses of 10% to 15% or more are common. When corn is harvested below 19% moisture, harvest losses due to dry grain shatter rise above 3%, and this doesn't include losses from lodging or storm damage." Click here for complete coverage of the 2014 National Farm Machinery Show. And don't miss these three free Farm Journal Media events featuring Greg "Machinery Pete" Peterson, Bob Utterback and more! Bottom line: Advances in drier technology has made the process more economical and easier, says Mark Leitman, director of business development and marketing with the Propane Education & Research Council (PERC). "Starting harvest earlier and drying corn with propane will improve yields when seasonable variables are out of farmer's hands," he says. "Think of drying as a type of insurance. The efficiency of today's dryers allows farmers to harvest without consuming excess fuel." Propane shortages in January drove up prices and have caused major concern across the industry. But Woodruff is optimistic the spike in propane prices is not sustainable into the 2014 harvest season. "The cost of propane is a big issue right now, but it's a short-term issue," he says. "We are dealing with transportation problems, not a shortage." Woodruff says the economics of today compared to 30 years ago are significant. With $4 corn at an average 160 bu. per acre, with steady LP gas prices, the cost of drying is about 4% the total cost of production. Most farmers he talked with this past year were all harvesting above 20% moisture. "Most farmers we talked to didn't harvest their entire crop at 30% moisture, but they started harvest at that level and were trying to be done by 20%," he says. Back to news


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The Characters:
Steve - Nuclear scientist who is possessed by an evil entity from the planet Arous.
Sally - Steve's fiancee', she's moderately worried about his sudden change.
John - Sally's father, um... ...that's about it for him.
Vol - The good brain from Arous, he is on Earth to stop Gor at any cost. Takes over the body of a dog.
Dan - Steve's assistant and friend, the unhappy recipient of third degree sunburn. (Courtesy of Gor.)
Sheriff Pane - (Reggae with me!) Gor microwaved the sheriff, but... ...er, sorry.
General Brown - Ranking military officer aboard Indian Springs.
Gor - Evil alien power which possesses Steve and really digs this libido thing. Steve finally stomps a hole in his Thalamus.
The Plot:
Two brains from outer space land on our planet, one is good, one is bad. Both must possess bodies to accomplish their goals. Who will be taken next? Can Earth survive the massive confrontation of beings from planet Arous?
Actually yes, but only if you can get over transparent brain monsters with glowing eyes.
When Steve and Dan go investigate a strange radiation source on Mystery Mountain they discover Gor. The renegade intelligence has fled to Earth seeking a hiding place. Not welcome on Arous any more, he plans to enslave humanity and build spacecraft to return home and conquer the universe! Gor discovers something else on Earth he likes: Sally. He turns the former gentlemen Steve into a sex-crazed maniac. Unfortunately, the young lady does not like it rough; advances fail past aggressively sticking his tongue in her mouth. (Oh sure, big tough alien power can make planes explode at will, but second base eludes you.)
Sally and dad are a little confused with the change in her fiancee's behavior until Vol shows up. He is a agent from Arous and powerful enough to capture Gor. Only when the criminal takes leave of Steve's body to gather oxygen though. Otherwise Vol would have to kill the possessed man.
Now it is time for math; if the good brain had taken the latter route and Steve died our total body count would be two. (Steve+Dan.) As it happens, they decide to try and save the nuclear scientist. Gor destroys two planes then fries the sheriff and Col Frogley. Final body count? At least forty-two people. So much for benevolent alien powers knowing best. There are plenty of B-movie contrivances (they find a piece of melted metal in a plane wreck and decide no power known to man caused it) and special effects to gawk at.
This is just a small part of Brainathon 99, make sure you read these other great reviews:
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Things I Learned From This Movie:
Geiger counters can pinpoint radioactive sources thirty miles away.
When it's hot the temperature is exactly 120 degrees.
Making sincere advances of friendship is difficult while holding a rifle at the ready.
French kissing causes migraine headaches.
Water coolers are not flattering.
Anytime you visit a mountain bring two flashlights.
Barking dogs ruin the mood during date rapes.
If you are an alien space brain, whose sole weakness is being clobbered on the Fissure of Rolando, don't leave axes lying around.
Stuff To Watch For:
4 mins - Steve, I'd take that gay hat off.
7 mins - Where did you learn how to drive, one damn mountain in the middle of a desert and you run into it.
11 mins - Why doesn't Steve's sweat patch run under his arm?
23 mins - Doesn't anybody use pronouns around here?
32 mins - Alien brain possessing you? Take two aspirin...
36 mins - RANDOM ACT OF VIOLENCE AGAINST A PLANE!
42 mins - Bodies which plummeted several thousand feet from an exploding airliner and struck rocks would be a little more mushy than that.
58 mins - How did they know that wasn't the atomic bomb?
65 mins - ANOTHER RANDOM ACT OF VIOLENCE AGAINST A PLANE!
Sally: "Oh, I'm beat dad. Whew, it must be 120 out here today."
Dad: "This is no place to rest, at least there's shade in that cave over there."
Gen Brown: "There is absolutely no doubt of your power to destroy. I saw it. I saw an American Colonel killed, burned to a crisp by radiation by one look from this man."
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Starving actors speak out
Gor: "I am Gor, I need your body as a dwelling place while I am here on your Earth."
Gor: "Your feeling of helplessness is your best friend savage. When I am occupying your body, or in my present transitory form, I without substance am indestructible!"
Vol: "You can help me save the Earth from a terrible experience. Yes, the whole Earth."
Gen Brown: "You mean to enslave the world?"
Russian Delegate: "Russia would never agree to it!"
Steve: "There's a simple answer to that, there'll be no Russia."
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Reply #1.
Posted on November 08, 1999, 02:48:01 PM by Ken Begg
Boy, you can say that again!
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Reply #2.
Posted on November 12, 1999, 01:16:35 PM by
that movie was so stupid
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Reply #3.
Posted on February 27, 2000, 01:05:26 PM by Stefan Robak
I saw this movie when it was on Space and I got to say it was a fun film. Not smart in the least but harmless and fun. Enjoy.
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Reply #4.
Posted on August 20, 2000, 12:11:11 AM by Kelly
Did anyone else notice the rubber face mask and the blinking eyes of the supposedly dead (or perhaps comatose??) fella when the girl discovers him in the lab?? It was in the mpeg on this site, the chick backs into him and almost pulls his rubber mask off (you can see it wrinkle up under his chin) and she almost slaps him in the face, making him blink. We're talking state-of-the-art here...
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Reply #5.
Posted on August 21, 2000, 10:31:23 AM by His Shadow
I just love that line "You can help me save the Earth from a terrible experience. Yes, the whole Earth" It sounds so patronizing. "Yes, the whole Earth. Not just part of it. The whole thing. Which is better than a mere fraction, etc." Teeheehee!
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Reply #6.
Posted on November 25, 2006, 04:09:49 PM by jim
This movie holds a soft spot in my.... well...somewhere lower than the heart. Back in the late 70's I was working as a film editor at a Television station in Mich. and I was lucky enough to edit this movie for air. Well, anyway, whoever ran the movie on that evening screwed up and the last 6 minutes of the movie were not aired. AND WE ACTUALLY GOT CALLS!! So our station director made one of those great executive decisions and we ran the last 6 minutes the next day as part of our evening newscast!
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Reply #7.
Posted on November 25, 2006, 04:09:49 PM by Macabre Matt
One of the greatest 50's Sci-Fic movies ever made! I love Gor, (the floating brain), I love how Agar distroys the plane by simply staring at it. It's hilarious!!!!!!!!!
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Reply #8.
Posted on November 25, 2006, 04:09:49 PM by The Brain Surgeon
Yes. After analyzing this movie, I discovered that the Bad Brain from Planet Arous definitely had an aneurysm waiting to happen. Given a few more hours, it would have self destructed anyway. None the less, MRI or not, this movie was very intellectual and stimulating. Probably the best movie ever made. But then again, I really enjoyed Fiend Without a Face, Donovan's Brain, and The Brainiac. Oh well, I have to get back to the OR. Take care fellow brain lovers!
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The word "Angamardhana" means gaining complete mastery over the limbs, organs and other parts of the body. True to its name, this practice revitalizes all the systems of the body including the muscular system, skeletal structure, nervous system, circulatory system and respiratory system.
It offers to everyone the opportunity to invigorate the body and to reach peak physical fitness.
The advanced form of Angamardhana is still being practiced by Martial Arts Experts. Sadhguru has designed Angamardhana with a series for 31 dynamic processes to be of universal appeal and application, Isha Angamardana needs no fitness equipment. It involves only the body and floor exercises that can be practiced anywhere, even during travel.
Angamardana comprises of 31 powerful processes to achieve complete fitness for body and mind.