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What is there to say about MeMe Roth that isn't obvious to the point of boredom? A new Guardian profile calls her "the woman who hates food," and I think that's about right, if you add "fat people, women, and herself" to the end of the phrase. (Check out that article for the "I don't have an eating disorder even though I obsessively exercise and don't eat" anecdote at the end, but be warned that there's some obesity panic in the article itself.) But just when you thought Roth couldn't get any more a) offensive, and b) wrong, she goes and says this:
"The defence has been made in the case of sex criminals that there is pleasure on the part of the victim. The same is true with what we're doing with food. We may abuse our bodies with food, but it's incredibly pleasurable. From a food marketer's point of view, when your quote unquote victim is so willing and enjoying of the process, who's fighting back?"
Clearly, MeMe Roth is a one woman army of failure. Everything is wrong with this statement, on both a factual and rhetorical level. Let's make a list.
- Classic straw man: "The defence has been made." Oh yeah? By whom? Nice passive voice.
- More passive voice to defend rape as not-rape: "there is pleasure on the part of the victim." Roth is saying that people like being raped. Only she's too chickenshit, or possibly too stupid, to say it that way. And of course, the rapist is disappeared from this sentence.
- Also note that she is claiming that we should use, as the logic behind deciding the single most crucial thing we do every day of our lives—i.e., eating food—the kind of logic that would let rapists stay out of jail.
- Ill-defined terms: "We may abuse our bodies with food, but it's incredibly pleasurable." If it's incredibly pleasurable, MeMeMeMe, that means it's not abuse.
- Victim blaming: "quote unquote victim."
- Again with the victim blaming and the complete fucking misunderstanding of what sexual assault is. Hint to MeMe: if someone "is so willing and enjoying of the process," that person is not being raped. That person is having sex.
So in using rape as her metaphor for what happens when you eat an Oreo, MeMe Roth demonstrates yet again that she literally has no idea what she's talking about. If we stick with her horribly ineffective metaphor, what she is suggesting is that when you are having an "incredibly pleasurable" time having consensual sex with someone, MeMe should break in and yell "Rape" to save you from your quote unquote victimhood. MeMe Roth wants us all to live the plot of Atonement.
Note to journalists or anyone else who would ever consider consulting Roth as an "expert": this woman believes people like being raped, just like you like to eat a cookie. She is the wrongest person who ever wronged. Please, do us all a favor and just leave the woman to her self-loathing.


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Liz - so sorry I never checked back! My site is my username. Check out - there is a free class available so you can get an idea of the exercises.
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Exercise at home: It means with the help of exercise equipment or like physiotherapy only. As it will be difficult for a disabled person to use the same. well, it would surely be helpful for us. Thanks
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Looking for a memorable Christmas gift, I managed to finish Adventure Rides in the High Sierra in time for the holidays. Anyone who has been on a Sierra ride with Jobst Brandt will want to check it out on Magcloud.com.
But there's more. I included some history of the passes and a little about the amazing Super Tour, multi-day journey that has been alive and well since 1976! The tour often goes through the Sierra, and takes in other venues out West.
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I watch a ton of TV and with the exception of live sports, almost all of it via DVR. I knocked a lot of stuff out over the previous September-May TV season including every new episode of The Good Wife, Homeland, Mad Men, The Walking Dead, Game of Thrones, New Girl, Modern Family and 30 Rock. But lest you think I'm TV show snob, I also knocked out all the new episodes of Bones, House, Law & Order: SVU, NCIS, NCIS: LA and Hawaii Five-0 (I might have been drunk while watching Five-0). Further, I plowed through pretty much every original Law & Order which amounts to over 400 hours-worth of TV viewing that through my DVR viewing habits I knocked down to around 200. And that doesn't count my daily Monday-Friday dose of Around The Horn, PTI on ESPN and Intentional Talk on MLB Network.
But a lot of stuff piles up on my DVR. As you can see just from the sliver above I've got 9 episodes of Archer, 23 episodes of Castle and 17 episodes of Grimm (along with some stuff I stored around Matt Cain's perfect game). But there's a lot you can't see ranging from 22 episodes of Parks & Recreation, 11 episodes of The Middle, 6 episodes of Common Law. I even still have the final six episodes of Men of a Certain Age which I'm saving like a fine wine.
Though I have plenty of storage space (currently I have 3TB allocated) there are definitely periods of "DVR Bulimia" where I binge on a ton of stuff and then purge it off my DVR. For example I knocked out the entire first season of New Girl over a few days in late May and saved the second season of Louie up for a marathon over the Christmas holidays. We'll have some period this summer where we're socked in with fog and I'll blow through all the Parks & Recreation and Archer episodes.
Sometimes though there's a big purging without any binging. My guess is that's what will happen with season two of The Killing.
There are a lot of shows I like just fine but am happy to wait to see them some other time. If not for this blog, I'd probably let everything pile up because I'd much rather watch 2-3 episodes of Game of Thrones at a time than wait for them to be doled out a week at a time. But I also hate spoilers. The DVR stockpile does give me an idea of which shows I like more (certainly Game of Thrones among them) and I'd have to cop to liking Suits and White Collar (no DVR stockpile) more than Royal Pains (8 episodes piled up).
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Gun-Control Advocate: Snowden, Obamacare Hurt Our Cause
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Since the Newtown massacre, Mark Glaze has been the face of the gun-control movement. The executive director of former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's Mayors Against Illegal Guns, Mr. Glaze led the futile 2013 fight for expanded background checks and has been regular on cable news after each successive mass shooting.
Now Mr. Glaze, 43 years old, has stepped away from the fight. Friday marked his last day working for Mr. Bloomberg's organization, now called Everytown for Gun Safety, after three and a half years as executive director.
In an interview at his organization's Washington office earlier this month, Mr. Glaze expounded on how President Barack Obama's unrelated political problems – health care, Edward Snowden, congressional gridlock – damaged the gun-control cause.
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And Mr. Glaze said the movement hasn't solved one of its signature problems: Many mass shootings wouldn't have been stopped by tighter regulations proposed by gun-control advocates, even if they might have prevented other gun crimes.
The Obama administration bungling its rollout of the Affordable Care Act website made any effort to enact gun control in the future even less likely.
"There's an almost perfect overlap, I think, between the people who are the most active and radicalized gun voters and people who just don't like and trust the government very much. When you take on the gun issue, you're forced to take on by proxy a much bigger issue in this country, which is a deeply ingrained distrust of government that gets worse every time the government can't get a healthcare website off the ground or can't get it's act together to pass a farm bill."
Surveillance activities exposed by Mr. Snowden are also not helpful.
"The fact that people have learned that the government has taken for itself the right to listen in on our most private conversations has done nothing to inspire faith in government restraint. It's that lack of faith in government restraint that makes it difficult to do things like ask everybody to take a background check."
The most attention on gun control comes after mass shootings – just look at the post-Newtown push and the brief attention paid to the issue after the Memorial Day weekend shootings in Isla Vista, Calif. Yet virtually none of the solutions gun-control groups are pushing would have prevented any of the massacres that capture public attention.
"Because people perceive a mismatch in the policy solutions that we have to offer and the way some of these mass shootings happened, you know, it is a messaging problem for us, I think. … Is it a messaging problem when a mass shooting happens and nothing that we have to offer would have stopped that mass shooting? Sure it's a challenge in this issue."
Before Newtown, the pre-eminent gun control player in Washington was the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. But Mr. Bloomberg's organization now has more money and Americans for Responsible Solutions, or ARS – launched by former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D., Ariz.) – has more star power. It still hasn't been enough to beat back the National Rifle Association.
"The NRA has a much vaunted, if overhyped political operation. But again, when we came to this the only support that members of congress got when they took a tough vote was a note of thanks from the Brady Campaign, and that's really not enough. I think [Mr. Bloomberg] with his super PAC, ARS with their political operation and lots of voters who we think are starting to pay attention to this more than they have in the past."
After the post-Newtown urgency, the timeline for reform is now much longer. Mr. Glaze spoke in terms of multiple election cycles before it would be realistic to think Congress would act.
"The federal picture will change when legislators come to understand that we are here to stay. … I think it will take an election cycle or two to understand that there are new players in town and they are free to do what they know in their hearts are the right thing and what 80 to 90% of their constituents want. You can't defy political gravity forever."
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Mount Whitney Climber's Log
davis2001r6 - Aug 10, 2004 6:10 pmRoute Climbed: Main Whitney Trail Date Climbed: August 8th, 2004
Well the day finally came and we all made a successful trip out of it. We arrived in Lone Pine on Friday morning and ate breakfast in town, then went to the ranger station and picked up our permits and asked a few questions. We then headed up to the lone pine campground at around 5500 feet. This was supposed to be our camp for the next 2 nights. It was pretty much dessert terrain that looked almost like a lunar landscape. We decided to drive up and check out the Whitney Portal campground and we were lucky enough to get the last spot available. The camp host was also nice enough to switch our reservation for a different site that we had reserved for Sunday night. This was all great news because the sites we beautiful. Huge pine trees, a stream 30 feet away, bathrooms about 150 feet away, plenty of trees for shade and the altitude is around 7500 there. The temperature was perfect also, mid 50's at night and maybe 80's during the day. We were also thrilled that we wouldn't have to pack up camp at 3AM on summit day.
After we got all settled in we went for a hike to see where the trailhead was and to get familiar with the area. We followed a stream up for a while which had many waterfalls and very clear pools. Took lots of pictures on different parts of the falls. Unfortunately Brad's camera decided to take a swim while we all posed for a self-timer shot. We tossed a Frisbee around for a while too. Afterward we went back to camp and Brad made us some great steak and potatoes dinner. We relaxed and played card for a while, and a small Bear decided to go fishing about 30 feet from us. So I got my camera and tried to get what pictures I could but unfortunately it was too dark and they didn't come out that great.
The next day we got up and had breakfast at the Whitney Portal Store. They have a pancake that is $2.74 and is about the size of two large plates. It could easily feed three people. After breakfast we walked up to the falls for a few more photos, then went back to camp and relaxed for an hour or two. We knew we needed to get acclimated a little better so we went out to Cottonwood Lakes which is only about an hour away. It was a nice hike that started at about 9500 ft and at the 1st lake which is where we stopped the elevation was 11,000 ft. It was a nice easy 5 mile hike each way with a destination I would move to California for. We ate lunch there played toss with the Frisbee a bit and headed back. It took us 2:05 to hike in and 1:50 to hike out. I think we would have liked to hike this on Friday instead of Saturday because we all didn't exactly want a 10 mile hike the day before a 22 mile one. We all felt really good for being up at that altitude.
When we got back to camp Brad made some great chili and cornbread for dinner. While Brad was cooking someone spotted a bear so I grabbed the camera and chased after the bear again. It was a little more interested in fishing that it was me though but I did follow it about a 1/4 mile down the stream. It was just about dusk again so the pictures didn't really turn out but there still in my head. It was the same small bear from the night before so I wasn't too worried about it. I was more worried about Momma bear around the corner somewhere not liking me as bear paparazzi. I did get within about 15 feet of it numerous time though. Back at camp we all got all out packs ready for an early morning departure.
We awoke at 2:45 and were on the trail by 3:45 and the weather was a perfect 56 degrees. There was a scale at the trailhead so we all weighed our pack. Rob came in the lightest at 15 lbs and mine the heaviest at 20lbs. I was pretty mad about that. Why in the he** is a daypack 20lbs?(Lots of extra food) We got just high enough to get some sunrise pictures over lone pine lake. I really really regret not getting a tripod for this trip because some of those sunrise pictures could be a lot better. It was an amazing site. If I only had Glen (Boynhisdog) with us we all could see how truly beautiful it was. We got to consultation lake pretty easily and filtered water and eat some lunch there. This was the half way point to the peak at 6 miles. After a long break we go back on the trail and started the dreaded 96 switchbacks. We started off at a great pace but that was a bit much for us so we just slowed it down to a good conversational pace and we made much better progress. At the top of the switchbacks is trailcrest at 13,600 feet. But just around the corner you drop about 400 feet which has to be gained again. I found this to be the hardest part of the trail. We finally made our way to the summit 7 hours and 45 minutes after we left. We took a nice break up there and took lots of pictures. Talked with some other people that we met along the trail. I had brought my phone and it did happen to work up there so we made some celebration phone calls. (Verizon) We then started heading back down. Brad and I had also intended on bagging Mt. Muir while we were up there but we were unsure of which one it was. We got some information from some people that said it was right were we were, so we climbed up 100 feet or so and I knew it wasn't it so we headed down. I found it about 10 minutes later but had no energy and Brad had already started running down to catch up with Marissa because she didn't have a water filter. Rob and I made out way down a little slower and finished about 40 minutes after they did. Brad and Marissa finished at about 13 hours and Rob and I around 13hours 45 minutes. The trail is pretty rocky half of the way so it's pretty hard on your feet, but we all did pretty good. Only a few small blisters between all of us.
We all enjoyed our $5 shower at the Whitney Portal store and ate some burgers and picked up our I hiked Whitney souvenirs. We went back to camp and called it a pretty early night. For whatever reason I was having a very hard time catching my breath and didn't sleep much at all. A bear decided to visit us also and tried to get into our trailer but it ran away after Brad yelled at it from inside his tent about 5 feet from it. It hung out around our tent for a while that night but unfortunately I left my headlamp inside my pack in the trailer so I never got to see a good view of it that night. It was really a great trip but I could have been in far better shape for it. This hot summer thing is killing me. Got on the scale when I got home finding myself the heaviest I have been in my life. So I need to do some major conditioning before I set off on any other adventures.
Thanks to Brad, Marissa and Rob for making the trip memorable. It was a blast!!!
Saintgrizzly - Aug 8, 2004 12:39 amRoute Climbed: Mt. Whitney Trail Date Climbed: October, 1988
After living all my life in MT, WY, and CO was going to school in San Francisco, and did this as an over-nighter with Jennifer and Jay Ratcliff. We were blessed with extremely warm October temperatures--the only thing needed on the summit was a light jacket! At the time we did Whitney, I was still into "higher is better," and remember thinking, "if the high point of the Lower 48 isn't in the Rockies, well, at least it's a nice mountain..." Which it indeed is. A pleasantly memorable outing, with a couple of terrific people!
Scott M. - Aug 3, 2004 2:54 pmRoute Climbed: Via the High Sierra Trail Date Climbed: July 31, 2004
Came up under a full moon arriving at 4 AM finishing the High Sierra Trail from Crescent Meadows in just under 47 hours. Great night! Sunrise was awesome, too.
tyler_durden - Aug 1, 2004 7:25 pmRoute Climbed: Whitney Trail Date Climbed: July 31 2004
Second time summitting...this week. This time did the dayhike and summitted Mt Muir on the way.
Don Nelsen - Aug 1, 2004 6:57 pmRoute Climbed: Mt. Whitney Trail Date Climbed: August 20th, 2000
A friend and I took off about 7:00 in the morning with plans to do the round trip by dark - good thing we brought along a couple of flashlights - also good thing there was a good moon later on as well!
We bivvied at Whitney Portal so had a little acclimation after the drive up from San Diego that morning. Still not quite enough acclimation as it turned out but it wasn't so bad, just a few minor symptoms of altitude sickness.
We didn't make the summit until after 5 so we were pushing it to be sure. My partner's knee started bothering her so we were slowed badly on the return. Came out at 1:30 am thankful to have that moon in the sky since batteries in both lights were long since dead.
This coudn't have been a more perfect day for a climb - light wind, about 50 degrees on top and fantastic visibility. We signed in as the 113th and 114th climbers that day but seldom saw other climbers - just a few here and there - this is a big mountain and a long trail!
Can't wait to do it again!
tyler_durden - Jul 26, 2004 10:55 pmRoute Climbed: Whitney Trail Date Climbed: July 25 2004
Second time summitting Whitney. Awesome weather!
poorboy44 - Jul 23, 2004 2:25 pmRoute Climbed: East Face Date Climbed: June 2003
I soloed this in 4 hours RT from Iceberg -- got a little sketched on the Fresh Air Traverse, but other than that it was fine. The crux was probably at the top of the Giant Staircase, a 5.6/5.7 wide crack, I had to dangle my jacket and shoes.
poorboy44 - Jul 23, 2004 2:24 pmRoute Climbed: East Buttress Date Climbed: June 2001
Great route, many options all the way up.
josephgdawson - Jul 22, 2004 9:06 pmRoute Climbed: Via the Whitney Trail Date Climbed: July 21, 2004
Bag it, tag it, sell it to the butcher in the store.
My main objective was Mt. Muir because I had already climbed Whitney via another route, but once Muir was in the bag I could not help myself from going on and tagging Whitney again, even though I did not want to. Love blowing past the tourists and asking the gasping porkers how they are doing.
t511a - Jul 21, 2004 8:14 pmRoute Climbed: Whitney Trail Date Climbed: Summer 1996
I was eleven or something and this was my first real mountain. As I recall we had beautiful weather. Did it 1-day style and I was hooked.
artg - Jul 15, 2004 3:22 amRoute Climbed: Mountaineers Route Date Climbed: April 30, 2004
Our climbing party of 3 spent the first night above Lower Boy Scout Lake; encountered a plethora of snow above 10,000 feet! Woke up early the next day carrying a light pack and made it to the summit by 1 PM. One member of our party aborted the climb at the top of the Mountaineers Couloir due to exhaustion and altitude sickness. The view from the summit was amazing!
happecamper - Jul 13, 2004 2:40 pmRoute Climbed: Whitney Trail Date Climbed: May 2001
2 night trip, stayed at Outpost and Trail Camp. The snow on the Chute was soft going up, glissading was good coming back down. One person in our party got altitude sickness and had to turn around at Trail Crest.
Dave Daly - Jul 12, 2004 3:34 pmRoute Climbed: East Buttress Date Climbed: 3 July 2004
Simply another wonderful trip out in the hills with Deb! Although we had our share of altitude sickness, we managed to summit without any real problems. We did see some brief snow flurries on the last pitch though! Deb made the first pitch (5.8) look so elegant.....lots of fun hand jams. My hats off to her for cranking up a 5.9 vertical section on the far right side (yep, we were slightly off route) Nice leading, Babe!
fugla - Jul 12, 2004 3:20 pmRoute Climbed: John Muir Trail Date Climbed: July 10, 2004
Finishing a week on the JMT with camping on the summit. Beautiful weather, awesome sunset - and sunrise.
Swifty - Jul 11, 2004 2:24 pmRoute Climbed: East Face Date Climbed: September 11, 2003
First time climbing on lead...on sighted it with massive amounts of beta from the following website message board: www.whitneyportalstore.com
Von Dutch sponsored the climb
Fred Bagni - Jul 11, 2004 1:10 pmRoute Climbed: Whitney Trail Date Climbed: October 2000
Cold and cloudy. Easy hike.
Fred Bagni - Jul 11, 2004 1:08 pmRoute Climbed: Whitney Trail Date Climbed: May 5, 2001
Lots of snow. A few challenging spots beyond Trail Crest; snow bridges with exposed drops. Fun.
Fred Bagni - Jul 10, 2004 7:06 pmRoute Climbed: Mountaineer's Route Date Climbed: January 2002
Winter summit. Cold. Pain. Cold. Pain. FUN!
sierradiscgolfer - Jul 9, 2004 6:01 pmRoute Climbed: Whitney Trail Date Climbed: July 1973
At fourteen years old this was one of my first peaks!
brandon - Jul 6, 2004 6:52 pmRoute Climbed: East Buttress Date Climbed: June 2004
4 hours round trip from Iceberg Lake, a really fun day after freezing on Russell.


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Maybe you have a super awesome 240Hz LCD. Technically, its refresh rate should probably support new FHD3D (full 3D HD) Blu-ray signals. But it can't because of this diagram (by HDGuru) - how the information is sent to your television.
It's called over/under, and rather than a single 1920x1080 frame beaming from your Blu-ray player to your TV, it's a double stack, a 1920x2205 image (representing left-eye and right-eye frames along with some active blanking for audio and extra info). The signal fires at a bitrate of 6.75Gbps.
Bottom line, the fancy TV in your house now was never designed to accommodate a 1920x2205 image.
That FHD3D bitrate is an important point, however, because while many of us have claimed HDMI 1.4 is needed for FHD3D, that's not completely true. HDMI 1.3 and 1.4 both have throughputs of 10.2Gbps. And because of this basic rule of bandwidth, the smartest HDMI 1.3 devices, those using software instead of systems on a chip (like the PS3) will be able to make the FHD3D transition.
As Gary Merson from HDGuru put it to us, "There is nothing inherent in HDMI 1.3 that would prohibit FHD3D signals from passing through."
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How would you feel if your husband already had a new girlfriend weeks after filing for divorce? And she has a baby too!
It's been heartbreak after heartbreak for Teen Mom 2 Leah Messer, who is currently dealing with a devastating divorce from her baby daddy and husband of only six months, Corey Simms. But now, to make matters worse, Corey has moved on with a new girl and is reportedly leaving his family with Leah behind.
Leah, 18, was hoping to mend the breakup with Corey, 20, after taking some time apart, but it seems like he didn't feel the same way. Corey is currently dating 21-year-old Amber Scaggs of Conroe, Texas — who friends of Leah say he was cheating with all along — and plans on becoming a supportive figure for her and her 11-month-old daughter, Bralyn.
"I'm the last person who would ever break up a family," Amber tells Ok! Magazine in their latest issue. "You can't break something that is already broken. Leah filed for divorce from Corey. That's clearly saying, 'I don't want to be with you.'"
It is true that Leah filed the papers on April 14, but it is also clear that she still has feelings for Corey and would love to fix their marriage, even if it's for the sake of their children, 1½-year-old twins Aleeah and Aliannah.
But now, it sounds like Corey is planning on being a father to a new child, rather than his own, and that has Leah devastated.
Sources tell Ok! that Corey and Amber clicked right away and truly relate to each other. "Amber and Corey have both been through a lot of the same things in their relationships," says a friend of Amber's, who adds that Amber's baby daddy Hayden O'Brien left her after the intensity of parenthood became too much for him.
And despite the fact that Corey just ended things with Leah, Amber isn't worried, nor does she have anything against the mother of his children.
"She doesn't dislike or think anything negative about Leah," says the source. "Amber isn't the kind of person to pass judgement on someone she has never physically met."
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And Amber hopes to have her own new beginning with Corey. "He has a lot on his plate, so the future is uncertain," Amber explains. "Still, I'll be a very lucky girl to build something with Corey."
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Joining us today is Jnan Dash, Chief Strategy Officer for Curl, which develops and maintains the Curl Rich Internet Application (RIA) platform.
DDJ: Jnan, from all appearances RIA looks to be the "next big thing" in the coming year. How come? What's going on?
JD: The year 2006 saw the beginning of a real focus on Web 2.0 technologies, and through 2007 the excitement was in the consumer space. Technologies such as wikis, blogging, mashups, tagging, bookmarking and social networking dominated the landscape. Soon after, the question came -- what about the enterprise? When are they going to take advantage of these Web 2.0 technologies? The term "Enterprise 2.0" was coined, but the confusion still exists as to the real value of Web 2.0 for the enterprise. Some of these technologies simply remain "solutions looking for a problem".
So here comes RIA, the low hanging fruit for the enterprise to endorse Web 2.0 or the Web as a serious platform for building interactive transactional applications. The value is very clear -- aesthetics matter and users would like a pleasant experience. Most enterprise applications are based on old client-server technology with high cost of ownership and lack of flexibility. Switching to the Web as a platform for mission-critical applications is very appealing as it lowers the TCO significantly. We have seen many proof points of this from our enterprise customers in Japan.
North American enterprises are starting to realize that endorsing Web 2.0 is going to happen via RIA. Improving the user experience and adding interactive visualization is just the starting point. RIAs also offer scalability, reliability, performance, and security on par with what they are used to with old client-server technology. Curl's RIA platform provides all that. Because of this, we think the market is ready for a huge take off on enterprise-scale RIA this year.
DDJ: When Dr. Dobb's first started covering Curl, it was described as a "programming language" that "combines the ease of markup languages with the functionality of object-oriented ones." These days it is described as a "RIA development platform." What's the difference?
JD: Curl's product has always been a platform for RIA, even before the term "RIA" existed. The Curl programming language is the foundation of the Curl platform and it combines the strengths of markup languages, scripting languages, and heavy-duty object-oriented programming languages. By providing good support for all three of these models in one unified framework, Curl greatly simplifies the development of applications that require more than one of these capabilities. Since many Web applications are effectively hybrids of classical Web documents (which emphasize markup and layout) and classical desktop applications (which emphasize interactivity and high-performance data processing), the Curl language offers significant advantages in developing Web applications.
Curl offers two fundamental software products based on the Curl language: the Curl runtime environment (RTE) and the Curl integrated development environment (IDE). The Curl RTE is the engine for executing and displaying Curl applications in the same way that the Adobe Reader is the engine for displaying PDF files. Thus, the Curl RTE is an execution platform for RIA.
Curl offers significant advantages over many other RIA platforms because it is based on the Curl language, which facilitates application development and it compiles applications into high-quality native code that executes at the full speed of the client machine. With Curl, even highly sophisticated applications can be implemented without sacrificing performance or development speed.
The Curl IDE is a full suite of development tools for building Curl applications, including a drag-and-drop visual editor, interactive documentation, performance profiler, and so on. This is Curl's development platform for RIA.
The Curl programming language is still a very important and powerful technology with the same advantages that we described when Dr. Dobb's was first covering Curl. Versions of the Curl RTE and IDE also existed at that point. They enabled the development of active, Web-deployed content, though the term "RIA" had not yet been invented. Now that "RIA" is a widely understood term, it is simpler to describe Curl as the best platform for enterprise RIA, and that's why you hear this phrase now.
DDJ: A lot of web development, particularly when it comes to RIA, is done via scripting languages. Curl seems to have much more horsepower than your typical scripting language -- more along the lines of C++ or Java. What does this say -- if anything -- about the kind of applications Curl is suited for?
JD: Because Curl provides much higher performance than scripting languages, it is especially suitable for enterprise applications, which are characterized by complex logic and large data processing requirements. There are many existing client-server applications whose client-side logic is too complex and performance-intensive to be able to be re-implemented in a typical scripting language. These applications have not been able to move to the Web using scripting-based RIA platforms. Because of its focus on high performance and good software engineering support, the Curl development platform that can be used to move these applications to the Web. Many existing Curl deployments fit this model. Case studies from Curl customers including Paisley and Nippon Sheet Glass can be found on the Curl Web site.
Even though Curl does have a lot of horsepower, we have worked hard to preserve the advantages that developers look for in scripting languages. Scripting languages are often used to promote faster prototyping and development for small projects. Their test-edit-run cycle is very quick and programmers don't have to spend much effort writing "boilerplate" code to declare types or otherwise set up an overall architecture for an application before starting implementation. In trade for these benefits, typical scripting languages have much poorer run-time performance because they use interpretation rather than compilation. Also, without programmer-supplied type declarations or other architectural information (such as declarations specifying the visibility of class definitions and class members), a scripting language implementation typically can't do much checking for programmer errors. This can be an especially big problem when applications get larger or are turned over to maintainers who are not the original application authors.
Curl supports concise scripting by allowing developers to express applications spanning the whole content spectrum from markup to heavy-duty data processing without having to write extra boilerplate code. It provides a fast test-edit-run cycle and lets programmers decide how much or how little they want to supply in the way of type declarations and other declarative information. In fact, Curl can be used either as a scripting language or as a C++ or Java-style development language, or as a combination of the two. Because of this, Curl serves the needs of a broad spectrum of RIA developers.
DDJ: What's the most interesting or unique RIA that you've seen developed with Curl?
JD: One of our most recent enterprise-scale RIA examples comes from one customer based in Minneapolis. Paisley provides industry-leading solutions for Governance, Risk, and Compliance to Fortune 500 companies in U.S. and Europe. Its original client-server solution was based on Lotus Notes Domino and the scope was just auditing.
The new product is broader in scope and is Java-based with a web-based front-end. The back end is J2EE and Curl is used for RIA visualization. They have a SaaS model called GRC-on-Demand. The enterprise GRC has 270 customers, while the GRC-on-Demand (multi-tenant model) has about 30 customers.
Paisley's application uses "heatmaps" and dashboard visualization, which are both implemented using Curl. These features are differentiating factors that directly relate to their competitive sales wins. Heatmap is a grid-like display of various business units and displays a color-coded compliance column that indicates instantly which units are failing. Compliance details can be visualized with just a mouse-over. Users claim that this is the key distinction factor why they prefer Paisley to other solutions. Business is growing at 40 percent per year due to the Curl-based RIA and Gartner ranks Paisley as the leader in the GRC space.
DDJ: Where can readers go for more information on these topics?
JD: They can go to the Curl Web site, Curl RIA Knowledge Center, and Curl Developer Community Site.


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FILE - In this Feb. 9, 2011, file photo, actress Michelle Yeoh attends amfAR's annual New York Gala at Cipriani Wall Street in New York. Officials in Myanmar say the military-backed government has deported Hollywood actress Michelle Yeoh, who stars as pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi in an upcoming movie. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, File)Associated Press
YANGON, Myanmar - The military-backed government of Myanmar has deported Hollywood actress Michelle Yeoh, who stars as pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi in an upcoming movie, officials said Tuesday.
The Malaysian actress arrived in the country's main city, Yangon, on June 22 and was deported the same day because she was on a blacklist, a government official said.
The official, who declined to be identified because he was not authorized to speak to the press, did not say why Yeoh was on the list. But Myanmar's repressive government has routinely rejected visa requests of journalists and perceived critics for years.
Suu Kyi spokesman Nyan Win confirmed Yeoh was deported but had no other details.
The Luc Besson movie about Suu Kyi's life, "The Lady," is due out later this year, and Yeoh has said she hopes her portrayal of Suu Kyi will raise awareness about the Nobel Peace Prize winner's story.
Suu Kyi, 66, spent most of the last two decades detained by the former military junta. She was released last year, just days after an election that her party boycotted and in which she was barred from being a candidate.
The vote was the nation's first in 20 years, and in March, the junta handed power to a civilian government. But critics say little has changed and the new government is merely a front for continued rule by the army, which has been in power here since 1962.
Yeoh visited Myanmar in December and spent time with Suu Kyi for the movie, which was filmed in neighboring Thailand.
Yeoh, a former Miss Malaysia, shot to international fame when she costarred with Pierce Brosnan in the 1997 James Bond film "Tomorrow Never Dies" as a tough but beautiful Chinese spy. She has also starred in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and "Memoirs of a Geisha."


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Living without a stomach for almost three years now.
Thursday, January 05, 2012
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And now the not so good of 2011...
... as seen by Mike Neumann.
Mike is a good friend of mine, so are some people he has mentioned in part two of his review of 2011, and who certainly won't like Mike's incisive observations. In those specific cases I cannot but be impartial.
Apart from that, Mike and I do not always agree on everything - how could we?
What I fully share with Mike, however, is his almost visceral aversion against BS. Thus, when we see something we don't like for BS reasons, we open our mouths rather than keep silent in order to be "Messrs. Nice Guys".
We are not "politically correct", and as far as I am concerned, I despise this new form of diplomacy which is often aimed at converting plain, smelly BS into some sort of odorless bull crap.
Some will say (I know who they will be.... :-): "Why do these guys feel they have to pick on other shark defenders? Why can't they just be tolerant and focus on the 'larger' issues?" Simple - because as in all other human activities, including organzations with common interests such as movie star fan clubs, there are always diverging opinions that should be questioned, debated, criticized.
A critical mind cannot be equated with being negative or destructive which is something I hear once in a while from some of the hypocritical shark "conservationists" out there.
In extreme cases I get reprimanded in the most subtle of ways.
As, for instance, by a youngster who found it appropriate to call me "a seemingly bored mother fucker" who should get a life rather than bad-mouthing other people who DO THINGS, like his newly found friend, shark pornographer extraordinaire ABC4, and other such professional and ad honorem "Shark Angels"... :-)
Anyway, enjoy Mike's blog. In literary terms it is an award winning piece of writing, as are all his postings. I would rank Mike, along with his choice of Patric Douglas, as the best 2011 shark blog writer, by far.


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Evangelical Divide Widens along Generational Line, Says Expert
Younger evangelicals are increasingly feeling disconnected from the older generation when it comes to politics, said an expert on Monday.
Michael Gerson, a former President George W. Bush speechwriter and advisor who is now with the Council on Foreign Relations, said that while young born-again voters continue to carry on the evangelical mantle of pro-life champion, they are markedly different from "traditional" evangelical institutions, according to Time magazine's "Swampland."
These young evangelicals see the pro-life cause as a social justice issue moreso than simply a moral value. They also see a deep connection between their faith and global social justice issues such as Darfur, global warming, and poverty, which they put on the same level of priority as abortion.
The former top Bush aide offered evidence for a possible coalition between these young evangelicals and the Democratic Party, which has long campaigned on social justice issues.
Gerson said Democrats polled about America's role in global social justice issues showed the strongest support for active U.S. participation among college-educated voters, and the least support among blue collar workers.
On the Republican Party side, the most noticeable divide on the question was along religious lines. Evangelicals were for America taking a strong, active role, while secular, libertarian conservatives were against it.
In other words, young evangelicals would be among the most likely to be for an active U.S. role in the world on social justice issues, which could make them attracted to the Democratic Party – a strong advocate on such issues.
Mike Gerson's analysis was among the first presentations at the Pew Forum's biannual conference on religion and public life, which kicked-off on Monday in Key West, Fla.
Also on Monday, William Galston of the Brookings Institution talked about Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and her support base of Catholic voters.
Galston spoke of Clinton's disproportionate support among white Catholic voters and offered a few theories on why Protestants leaned towards Obama and Catholics to Clinton.
Protestants, he said, have a liking to the idea of "reform," which Obama has promised and an idea which he has built his campaign on.
"Catholics are generally on the side of the 'the regulars,'" Galston noted.
Clinton's focus on "bread and butter" issues also appeals to Catholics' concern with social justice, he offered. And her older age may appeal to Catholics who tend to associate age with leadership.
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Clark College: Barbara Kerr, Executive Director of Communications, 360-992-2921
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By Tim H. Martin
Recipe courtesy of J. Wayne Fears and his book "The Lodge Book of Dutch Oven Cooking."
Makes 6-8 portions
1 package Adolph's Beef Stew Mix2 tablespoons vegetable oil3 pounds beef round, cut into 1-inch cubes1 cup all purpose flour1 package McCormick's Beef Stew Seasoning1 package McCormick's Brown Gravy Mix6 large Irish potatoes, cubed1 cup carrots, peeled and sliced
1. Put 3 quarts of water in a Dutch oven over medium-high heat.2. Stir Adolph's Beef Stew Mix into 2 cups warm water, them pour into Dutch oven.3. While that cooks, heat the oil in a skillet over medium heat. Coat the cubed meat with flour then brown on all sides.4. Add the meat to the Dutch oven and stir. Cover, reduce heat to low, and cook for 2 hours, stirring and skimming every 20-30 minutes to prevent meat from sticking to the bottom.5. Stir the McCormick's Beef Stew Seasoning Mix into 2 cups of warm water. Add to the Dutch oven mixture and stir well.6. Combine the gravy mix and 2 cups of warm water. Add to the Dutch oven and stir.7. While the stew continues to cook on low heat, peel and cut the potatoes and carrots. Bring water to a boil in two pots, then add the vegetables. Let them cook until they can be easily pierced with a fork. Remove and drain. (Cooking the vegetables separately has proven to keep them more tender.)8. Add the vegetables to the Dutch oven and stir.
Notes About Sara's Beef Stew— J. Wayne Fears
This beef stew is one of the best I have ever eaten. It is the creation of Sara Graves, wife of chuck wagon/Dutch oven master Chef Roger Graves. It differs from most stew recipes where the ingredients are simply dumped into a pot of water and cooked. This one has a few extra steps that result in one of the best stews ever.
— Editor's Note and Book Review by Tim H. Martin
Sara's Beef Stew is a savory recipe from the new Lodge cookbook I'm pleased to share with Deer Camp Dinner Diaries fans. I chose it because it adapts easily to a stovetop, and beef (or venison) stew is universally popular among hunters. Also, the woman who developed the recipe wasn't happy until she got it just right. Those dishes are usually keepers, and this one certainly is.
"The Lodge Book of Dutch Oven Cooking"
If you are an American who owns cast iron cookware, there's a good chance it was made by Lodge Manufacturing, right here in the U.S.A.
Lodge's latest cookbook by J. Wayne Fears focuses on outdoor Dutch oven cooking. The author succeeds in simplifying this notoriously tricky method of cooking with easy-to-read instructions, user-friendly charts, expert tips, mouthwatering recipes and high-quality photographs.
The book features a wide array of recipes for 'the magic pot.' On the traditional side, you'll find several chuck wagon-style side essentials, such as Brunswick Stew, Sourdough Biscuits, Mountain Man Breakfast, Tater Knob Hoecake, Zesty Chili, Santa Fe Soup, Bubbly Peach Cobbler and Tender Roast.
I was attracted to several of the not-so-traditional dishes, such as Reuben Casserole, Longhunter Meatloaf, Aneeda's Mac & Cheese, German Pork & White Vegetables, French Baked Salmon, and a particularly dazzling chuck wagon bread pudding recipe that Fears got from an outfitter in Canada.
The author — a journeyman outdoor writer — picked up several of his recipes in hunting camps, which make them even more valuable and authentic.
Fears provides interesting sections on how a Lodge Dutch oven is made, the history of the Dutch oven, detailed user tips, how to use charcoal briquettes, campfire cooking, cast iron maintenance, accessories, and a fascinating chapter on bean hole cooking.
If you use cast iron cookware to cook outdoors, I would classify this book as a must-have. But the book is also worthy of purchase for its many recipes that are adaptable to the conventional oven.
To Order: http://shop.lodgemfg.com/cookbooks-and-videos/dutch-oven-cookbook.asp
Country@Heart is Tim H. Martin's collection of country comfort food recipes with stories behind each dish. Many were collected on hunting and fishing trips throughout the world. Tim has been Rack Magazine's art director, a Buckmasters staff writer and an editor since 1996. Make sure to click "PRINT THE RECIPE" to print off your favorites!
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The Most Fun We Ever Had: A Novel (Hardcover)
July 2019 Indie Next List
"Claire Lombardo has written a rich and rewarding novel brimming with the messiness of families. Secrets kept and revealed provide a backdrop for the life-long love affair of Marilyn and David Sorenson as they raise their four daughters. The years are filled with joy, angst, anger, longing, and love as the members of the Sorenson family struggle to define their place among the ones who are nearest and dearest to their hearts. The Most Fun We Ever Had will resonate with all readers who have experienced and celebrated the chaotic love of family."
— Betsy Von Kerens, The Bookworm of Omaha, Omaha, NE
"Ambitious and brilliantly written."--Jane Smiley, The Washington Post
"Outstanding...[the] literary love child of Jonathan Franzen and Anne Tyler."--The Guardian
"Everything about this brilliant debut cuts deep: the humor, the wisdom, the pathos. Claire Lombardo writes like she's been doing it for a hundred years, and like she's been alive for a thousand."--Rebecca Makkai, author of The Great Believers
When Marilyn Connolly and David Sorenson fall in love in the 1970s, they are blithely ignorant of all that's to come. By 2016, their four radically different daughters are each in a state of unrest: Wendy, widowed young, soothes herself with booze and younger men; Violet, a litigator-turned-stay-at-home-mom, battles anxiety and self-doubt when the darkest part of her past resurfaces; Liza, a neurotic and newly tenured professor, finds herself pregnant with a baby she's not sure she wants by a man she's not sure she loves; and Grace, the dawdling youngest daughter, begins living a lie that no one in her family even suspects. Above it all, the daughters share the lingering fear that they will never find a love quite like their parents'.
As the novel moves through the tumultuous year following the arrival of Jonah Bendt--given up by one of the daughters in a closed adoption fifteen years before--we are shown the rich and varied tapestry of the Sorensons' past: years marred by adolescence, infidelity, and resentment, but also the transcendent moments of joy that make everything else worthwhile.
Spanning nearly half a century, and set against the quintessential American backdrop of Chicago and its prospering suburbs, Lombardo's debut explores the triumphs and burdens of love, the fraught tethers of parenthood and sisterhood, and the baffling mixture of affection, abhorrence, resistance, and submission we feel for those closest to us. In painting this luminous portrait of a family's becoming, Lombardo joins the ranks of writers such as Celeste Ng, Elizabeth Strout, and Jonathan Franzen as visionary chroniclers of our modern lives.
About the Author
CLAIRE LOMBARDO earned her MFA in fiction at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She was born and raised in Oak Park, Illinois. A former social worker, she now teaches fiction writing and is at work on a second novel.
Praise For…
Named a most anticipated book of the summer by O Magazine, People, Chicago Tribune, NY Post, InStyle, Good Housekeeping, Daily Beast, PopSugar, and LitHub
"A rich, engrossing family saga, spiked with sisterly malice...[rendered] with such skill and finely tuned interest that it feels like a quiet subversion of the traditional family saga."
—The New York Times Book Review
"Ambitious and brilliantly written."
—Jane Smiley, The Washington Post
"If ever there were to be a literary love child of Jonathan Franzen and Anne Tyler, then Claire Lombardo's outstanding debut, which ranges from ebullience to despair by way of caustic but intense familial bonds, would be a worthy offspring…This is a novel epic in scope—emotionally, psychologically and narratively. Combining a broad thematic canvas with impressive emotional nuance, it's an assured and highly enjoyable debut."
—The Guardian
"An assured first novel…The fun—well, that's in the reading of the novel, which nicely blends comedy with pathos and the sharp- with the soft-edged."
—Wall Street Journal
"The Most Fun We Ever Had is a remarkable first-time novel offering such an intimate picture of people's interior lives I feel as if every one of these characters is now a close friend. Lombardo has the remarkable ability to delve into people's minds so deeply that the most quotidian moments become utterly fascinating."
—Ruth Reichl, Los Angeles Times
"A wonderfully immersive read that packs more heart and heft than most first novels…A deliciously absorbing novel with—brace yourself—a tender and satisfyingly positive take on family."
"The big family saga of the summer, unfurling the fallout of a long-buried secret and persisting rivalries between four sisters across 50 transformative years."
"A sprawling, enchanting debut, this novel jumps back and forth across time to tell the story of one powerful, complicated, and utterly unforgettable family as they navigate love and loss."
—Town and Country
"This juicy saga spans more than four decades…You'll be glad this loopy family isn't yours, but reading about them is a treat."
—People Magazine
"[A] satisfying multicourse feast."
—O Magazine
"A rich, complex family saga."
—USA Today
"[A] brilliant debut."
"A sharp, sly family story of feminine guile and guilt...A fun and brimming tale...Divine."
—Kirkus Reviews
"Lombardo captures the complexity of a large family with characters who light up the page with their competition, secrets, and worries…A rich and rewarding family saga."
—Publishers Weekly
"A family epic…It resembles other sprawling midwestern family dramas, like Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections (2001)…The result is an affectionate, sharp, and eminently readable exploration of the challenges of love in its many forms."
"A sprawling drama that explores the maelstrom of love, resentment and tension of the nuclear family, and the ways in which a shared history can affect the future for years…Covering 40 years of Sorenson family strengths and foibles, The Most Fun We Ever Had is a classy but juicy read that always has one more surprise up its sleeve."
—Shelf Awareness
"Everything about this brilliant debut cuts deep: the humor, the wisdom, the pathos. Claire Lombardo writes like she's been doing it for a hundred years, and like she's been alive for a thousand."
—Rebecca Makkai, author of The Great Believers
"In The Most Fun We Ever Had, Claire Lombardo has given us a truly unforgettable American family. The book bristles on every page with intelligence and fierce wit. What a debut!"
—Richard Russo, author of That Old Cape Magic and Chances Are…
"Lombardo's impressive debut is a gripping and poignant ode to a messy, loving family in all its glory. She juggles a huge cast of characters with seeming effortlessness, bringing each to life with humor, vividness and acute psychological insight."
—Madeline Miller, New York Times bestselling author of Circe
"What a splendid, spacious, gripping novel Claire Lombardo has written. These pages sparkle with wit and wisdom. I love the four difficult Sorenson daughters, each in the grip of her own emergencies. The Most Fun We Ever Had is a gorgeous and profound debut."
—Margot Livesey, author of Mercury
"Remarkably alive and wise, Claire Lombardo's story of the Sorensons is a stunning vision--not just of family or love, but the funny, tender mystery of human connection itself, with all its intensity, charm, and wonder."
—Affinity Konar, author of Mischling
"Lombardo has a wry, often spiky humour and tightly written style that should appeal to fans of Maria Semple, Emma Straub and Jennifer Egan…A moving, immersive, often very funny study of family and sisterhood."
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(Phoenix, Ariz. – April 12, 2005) Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard today expressed his concerns about a proposed budget cut of more than $1.2 billion from the Federal Crime Victims Fund used to provide direct assistance to victims of violent crimes. Goddard joined the Attorneys General from all 50 states and Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, American Samoa and the Northern Mariana Islands.
"The Administration's proposal for the FY 2006 budget to remove $1.27 billion from the Crime Victims Fund would have a devastating impact on our ability to support victims of crime," the Attorneys General said in their letter to Congressional leadership.
The Federal Crime Victims Fund was created by the Victims of Crime Act of 1984 (VOCA). VOCA funds come entirely from collections from federal criminal fines,forfeitures and special assessments – not from taxpayers. Through grants to state victim compensation programs, victims of violent crimes throughout the country have been able to get help for medical care, mental health counseling, funeral expenses, and other vital services.
In Arizona a number of programs would be severely impacted by these cuts. They include the 24-hour hotlines set up to help victims of sexual assault, Childhelp USA's Mobile Center of Northern Arizona, a mobile advocacy center serving residents in rural areas, victim compensation that pays for medical bills, counseling, and lost wages when there are no other sources to cover these types of expenses, and domestic violence advocates and restitution advocates housed in county attorney's offices throughout Arizona.
"Some 4,400 local programs depend on VOCA assistance grants to provide necessary services to nearly four million victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, child abuse, drunk driving, elder abuse and robberies, as well as families of homicide victims and other victims of crime," said the Attorneys General letter to Congress. "VOCA is the only federal grant program that supports direct assistance services to victims of every description."
The letter to Congress coincides with National Crime Victims' Rights Week, April 10-16. The Attorneys General asked Congress to protect funding for vital crime victim services and assure the future availability of these monies to the Crime Victims Fund.
The VOCA Crime Victims Fund is administered by the Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) in the U.S. Justice Department's Office of Justice Programs. Although the Administration's proposed federal budget includes VOCA funding of $650 million for fiscal year 2006, all other monies remaining in the fund and any new monies collected in fiscal year 2006 would be eliminated. As a result, starting in 2007, there would be no money readily available for state victim assistance programs, crime victim compensation grants, or for federal personnel who provide victim services.
"The proposed cut could not come at a worse time for states and territories that are facing significant budget problems," the letter said. "Victims should not be further burdened by having to pay for such services themselves, or worse, forced to go without them."


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First of all a big "Thank you" for this wonderful site!
The following is an answer to your blog-entry Ten Years of Textkit – Small Reflections And A Big Road Map Ahead.
As for suggestions for a new and better Textkit I have a few:
The list of downloadable books (Library->Greek Books and Library->Greek Books) is not exactly easy on the eyes. The title of the book and the author blur into each other. In my opinion it would make for a quicker read if the book title and the author name were formatted differently. Personally I also feel that presenting this list using some sort of list character (e.g. "-") would improve legibility.
The formatting of the section Library->Greek Books also might be somewhat improved on. This book list is divided into sub-sections (something which ought to be done for the Latin books, too, by the way). What irks me a bit here is the large spacing between the sub-section-heading and the actual entries, and the lack of any spacing between a sub-section-heading and the last entry of the previous sub-section. Using a list character would be useful here, as well (actually even more so).
The same "spacing"-problem occurs on the "Home"-page.
a) Recommended PDF-files
This is most certainly true. So, Textkit's job ought to shift from supplying such PDF-textbooks to offering a guide to what is out there.Unlike ten years ago, digital copies of public domain textbooks, readers and course material are now commonplace.
After re-launching my interest in Latin I discovered (by pure chance) Archive.org and only then realized just how much public domain Latin material is out there, not only on Archive.org and Google-Books but in other places as well. There is so much material available, however, that one can easily get lost. So far I have downloaded about 5 GB of textbooks, readers, and accompanying books in my search for the few ones I am actually using. Doing so and even merely quickly looking through these books took me many hours: sifting, discarding, laying aside. And there's always more to discover.
Textkit should not try to give a complete inventory of the PDF-content available on the Internet but rather a guide to the most relevant, interesting and useful ones. There are, for examples, lots of "Cornelius Nepos"-editions available on Archive.org. It took me hours to finally select one of these. A mere inventory of all PDF-content would be mere data. A list of recommended PDF-editions, now, that is information.
By the way, this PDF-content is extremely important. Smartphones are nice, but in the end learning Latin (or Greek) is about reading, and the PDF-format is quite convenient. Before restarting my Latin-learning last year I had made another attempt a few years ago. That one failed - at least in part - because I did not have enough easy reading material in Latin. Now, however, with Archive.org et al. providing public domain-material there is more than enough available even for those with a voracious appetite.
b) Links
I am also missing a list of links to other resources on the Internet. Textkit is an important place for people new to Latin. Textkit should strive to make things easy for them. Easy to converse about Latin/Greek in the Forum; easy to find good material (mostly in PDF-format); and also easy to find other good resources.
Again, such a list should not try to be all-encompassing but rather selective so as not to overwhelm the tirones.
Some of these informations are probably already present in one posting or the other. But once a posting is off-screen this information is lost to most users. Also in many cases such informations are spread across various postings and threads. Collecting pointers to selected PDF-files and web-links in one point makes it easier for users.
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Salaam and Greetings of Peace:
Alhamdulillah! I received an email today from a translator in Tokyo who would like to translate Master of the Jinn into Japanese. It is a blessing for this unworthy darvish, and brought to mind that perhaps some of the kind readers of this blog may also know of, or have contact with, editors, publishers or foreign rights agents in other countries.
And so, a request:
If you, gentle reader, or someone you know, has any contacts or influence with a Book Editor or Publisher, or Foreign Rights Agent in your country, please email me and, inshallah, Master of the Jinn, this Sufi novel of Allah's infinite love and mercy, will be read in many countries in many languages. If you have not read the book yet, I will be happy to email you a copy in ebook format.
My email: Irvingk57 (@) aol (.) com (Remove the brackets and close up the email address so that there are no spaces).
May God bless you all and guide you on the straight path of love and wisdom.
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Friday, February 12, 2010
Military arrivals in South Africa
Not everyone who sailed to South Africa from overseas was an emigrant: their reasons often had more to do with their occupation or life circumstances. Ancestors in the military had no choice as to where they would be expected to serve.
Throughout the era of British government in South Africa there was movement of troops into and out of the country. Some regiments spent years garrisoning forts or fighting in colonial wars such as the Cape Frontier Wars, the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879, and the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902. Many had seen action in other parts of the Empire: India, Afghanistan etc.
Some elected to say in the colonies after being discharged from the army, or went back to their home country to collect their families and return to South Africa; others married South African women and settled permanently. For these ancestors a search for deceased estate files may be the sensible approach.
Tracing military arrivals by ship is almost impossible. Passenger lists may sometimes identify officers, but the rank-and-file are seldom named, e.g. '12 men 45th Regiment' arrived at Port Natal on the Flora from Table Bay in December 1846, and that's probably all we'll ever know about them. Each one may be somebody's ancestor. If the Regiment is known, military records would be the starting point.
There are occasional exceptions: men recruited in England to join the Natal Mounted Police (later called the Natal Police) came to South Africa on ships such as the Kinfauns Castle in 1880. They are individually named in lists held in the European Immigration Department records (EI) at Pietermaritzburg Archives Repository. These records are not online though selected examples may appear on this blog.
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