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May 1. Sudden energy crunch forces Juneau to conserve electricity. An avalanche cut off their hydro power and now electricity costs five times as much, so suddenly they're all using candles and clotheslines. I think this is an accurate preview of the powerdown: industrial-age energy will not go away, just get more expensive and less common, and when people get their backs against the wall, they will adapt.
May 3. Tom sends a link about how to make bike panniers from four gallon plastic buckets. Also, here's a photo of my own tupperware pitcher front bike rack. The metal bands are those thingies, I don't know what they're called but you see them around stuff on basement ceilings and you can get them at hardware stores. The bottom bands are held on merely by their own tension and the nubs on the front fork -- which not all front forks have. The upper bands are held on with thick glue, wrapped by tape, wrapped by wires. Those bolts on the bottom (covered with plastic tubing) are also necessary to support the weight. I chose tupperware pitchers because they're the perfect size to hold two-liter water bottles, and I wanted to put water up front to equalize the weight on long trips. But if you do that, you need some padding on the bottom or else tiny rocks will get in there and puncture your bottles. The photo is from below and behind the pitchers. It looks weird because it was taken with the bike upside down and then flipped.
May 6. Depressing article from Orion magazine about the invention of consumerism by evil elites in the 1920's. Our American habit of buying and buying and never being satisfied did not arise naturally, but was the calculated result of years of propaganda. Also, the reason we have a 40 hour work week and not a 30 hour work week is that people like Edward Bernays, who was probably the Antichrist, thought that leisure time would make the masses too hard to control.
May 7. Interesting link from Anne, Nightwalking. The author's thinking is sloppily credulous, and he falls for the myth that vitamin A will improve your night vision, which is only true if you're deficient. But there are also some good ideas, and his main thesis is exciting: you can get into an altered state of consciousness by walking around continually focusing your attention on your peripheral vision, especially if you do it at night.
May 7. I've been meaning to track down my favorite Sesame Street cartoon, which I hadn't seen in 35 years. I remembered it started with a white cylindrical object being moved by an ant, and it zoomed out to bigger and bigger things, including a zoo, until finally at the largest scale it circled around and became the little thing again. Well, I found it! Its strict title is Infinity and it's better known as That's About The Size Of It. Those links go to two different copies on YouTube. It's even better than I remembered!
May 9. Youngstown Ohio embraces shrinkage!
Now, in a radical move, the city is bulldozing abandoned buildings, tearing up blighted streets and converting entire blocks into open green spaces.... Already, delegations from smaller, post-industrial cities like Flint MI, Wheeling WV, and Dayton OH, have come to Youngstown to study the plan.
May 9. This NY Times article about Steampunk fails from the start by being in the fashion section. The correct and more radical category is technology. If you look past the Victorian frippery, Steampunk is a technological ethic that trades the factory for the garage, standardization for uniqueness, and "progress" for a mix of tools from every age. And here's an exciting idea that could help, TechShop: for a monthly fee, anyone can get access to hundreds of light industrial tools, classes on how to use them, and a community of inventors and tinkerers.
May 12-13. Scary article: Lots of animals learn, but smarter isn't better. Basically, scientists bred fruit flies to be fast learners, but then they were outcompeted by the slow learners, and regressed. This is troubling because it raises the possibility that humans work the same way. If we're getting smarter, is it only because of the rapid change of modernity? And if we shift to a physically challenging, slow-changing world, will we get stupider?
First, there are a bunch of different definitions of "intelligence". IQ tests, for example, measure skill in detached manipulation of abstract symbols, which is different from a popular definition, "the ability to learn." But learn what? In the fruit fly experiment, we assume they're learning habits, since we don't think fruit flies are capable of abstract thought. But as humans, we can learn on many levels, including habits, skills, and mental models. And then there's a difference between quickness of learning, quantity of learning, and depth of learning. And there's a difference between learning something new, and erasing something old and replacing it with something new -- which is not the same as the ability to perceive the need to replace an obsolete model with a new one. And that's not the same as the ability to act on the updated model.
To immediately recognize a difference between the map and the territory, correct the map, and adjust our behavior, is the key skill for mental-map-making creatures like humans. If we had it, almost everything wrong with the world would be fixed. But it's not measured by any intelligence test I've ever heard of, it may not be increasing, and it might not even be good to call it "intelligence".
I like the fruit fly experiment because what it tests is somewhat close to what humans need: to observe a change in the world, like "the industrial lifestyle is causing a climate disaster," and to change our behavior accordingly. What worries me is that if we have a post-crash world that changes very slowly, there will be no evolutionary pressure on us to learn to adapt mentally to change. And until we learn to effortlessly update our mental models, or to not make mental models in the first place -- until we lose our brainpower or lose our blindness -- we're just going to keep going out of balance.
May 14. Thoughtful and courageous piece on infanticide:
...from her viewpoint as an evolutionary biologist, Hrdy demonstrates that any sane, healthy, normal, intelligent mothers who weren't capable of coldly murdering their own infant children almost certainly had no surviving descendants at all to be our ancestors during some of the species-wide threats that have been demonstrated to have happened...
May 16. Last night I was poking around Daily Kos and stumbled on Dogemperor's Diaries. Here's a post from April, Hillary Clinton member of "cell church" run by The Family, and a Harper's piece on The Family, also called "The Fellowship". But it turns out this is something much more troubling than an elite networking group with a right wing agenda. Even conservative Christians like Pat Robertson have condemned the cell church structure, because it's basically a pyramid scheme of abusive relationships. It's used by many shady groups including Scientology, the Hare Krishnas, and Amway, and it's still growing.
Cell churches don't just tell members what to think. In this new post, Dogemperor describes how Cell churches can change your personality! He quotes extensively from chapter 2 of the book The Discipling Dilemma, which describes a study showing that one cell church, the Boston Church of Christ, radically changed its members' Myers-Briggs types, converging toward ESFJ:
The percentage of males who came out ESFJ went from 2.58 to 26.37 to to 54.23 while the percentages for females went from 5.10 to 34.31 to 53.48... Among those who started as extraverts, 97 percent remained unchanged, but 95 percent of those who started as introverts changed into extraverts... Among those who started with a preference for a judging orientation, 97 percent remained unchanged, but 95 percent of those who started with a preference for a perceiving orientation changed.
This might seem benign because Myers-Briggs declares all personality types equally valuable. But The Discipling Dilemma explains:
It is not healthy to pressure a person to deny his or her true type and become a copy of someone else. Trying to change a person from one psychological type to another is like spanking a child for using the left hand. One does not produce good right-handed people that way. One produces very poor right-handed people who are very frustrated.
Dogemperor speculates that since joining The Family in 1993, Hillary Clinton has moved from INTJ to ESTJ. This would explain a lot. A natural Introvert forced to be an Extrovert would seem phony and insincere, and she would lose her internal sense of who she is and what she stands for, and constantly shift her persona looking for external validation.
There's also a new book on this, The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power.
May 20-21. Just put a new Terence McKenna headquote on the home page. Thanks David for listening to McKenna mp3's and finding his wording, which includes the exact words I used plus a few more that I left out.
Alice wonders: who is "Tamo-San", the author of the quote that was at the top of the home page for the last few years? I don't know either, because there is almost no information about her online. Her real name was Ryoju Kikuchi, and that link goes to a very small Wikipedia page. I found the quote in John Hogue's The Millennium Book of Prophecy, and I've now restored it to the quotes page.
May 21. Yesterday I finished James Howard Kunstler's novel World Made By Hand, and I highly recommend it. It's one of very few works of fiction that I would call "soft postapocalypse" -- set a few years after a collapse, but not a collapse to the stone age or every man for himself on desolate plains, only to the way people lived before the industrial age. Kunstler is not a peak oiler dabbling in fiction -- he knows how to write a novel. The story moves along, and the characters are complex and alive. What I'm most impressed with is how well he balances two of the most popular post-crash visions, which you could call Happy Amish and Murderous Warlords. The protagonists are trying to keep a small town alive, squeezed between a neo-feudal estate, a settlement of lawless scavengers, and a newly arrived Jesus cult.
As I mentioned in my review of The Road, no speculative fiction writer is really trying to predict the future. Try it and you'll quickly learn why: it's easier, more fun, and more valuable to create a world than to try to guess exactly what's going to happen. Kunstler wants to create a rough but somewhat seductive world with extremely local politics and a mostly medieval level of technology. So he gets rid of the federal government with an atomic bomb in DC, and gets rid of more than half the population with disease epidemics. Either of those could happen, but I'd be surprised. And I don't think there's any way we'll lose bicycles or dogs -- even on ruined roads with improvised tires, bicycles are too energy efficient to go away, and people just like dogs too much.
May 26. Marcus sends this Steve Talbott essay, Technology and Human Responsibility. It's very hard to read, but I'll summarize: 1) The industrial view of nature as a lifeless resource is wrong, but so is the common environmentalist view of nature as a sacred place that we should leave alone. And what these views have in common is that we're disconnected from other life. 2) The right way to connect to other life is to engage it in a respectful, unpredictable, back-and-forth relationship that we can call a conversation. 3) Shocking rule: You can do anything as long as you take responsibility for it. The hard part is using the right definition of "responsibility". This strikes me as a much more ethical version of the rule, "Reality is what you can get away with." 4) The human ability to be detached and make moral judgments has done a lot of harm in the past, but we can embrace it and use it to serve other life in ways that no other species can.
It's interesting to apply Talbott's thinking to genetic engineering. He and his allies have already written plenty about it here. Maybe the best link from that page is Craig Holdrege's book about genetics and context, which explains how mechanistic reductionist thinking is leading biotech to make big mistakes. But what's missing from these writings is the optimism and openness that Talbott shows in his thinking about ecology: if we can integrate context into biotech, if we can perform it like a conversation and not manipulation, then we can use our unique human powers to serve the whole. In theory, human genetic technology could accelerate, by many orders of magnitude, the normal movement of living systems toward greater complexity and abundance. And given that we're causing a mass-extinction, I would say we have a moral obligation to accelerate the recovery. As Talbott writes:
We cannot heal a landscape without a positive vision for what the landscape might become -- which can only be something it has never been before.
May 27. New David Holmgren project, Future Scenarios. It starts out with a nice overview of energy decline and climate change, and then goes into four scenarios defined by the severity of those two factors. I think the more important variable, and also more unpredictable, is how humans react. A good reaction in the worst scenario could lead to ecotopia, while a bad reaction in the best could lead to catastrophic collapse.
Also, both environmental and human factors will vary greatly by region. How exactly will your local climate change? Where does your electricity come from? Where does your water come from? How far away does your food come from? How easy is it in your climate to grow gardens or fruit trees? Do you have any tradable resources? How physically healthy are the people? How mentally healthy? Will they tend to form into violent gangs or stay peaceful? How easily will they adapt to learning gardening and light manufacturing and getting around without cars? How intelligent and and unselfish are your local political leaders?
There has not been a universal collapse in all of history, and I don't think there's going to be one this time, because regional variability will enable some regions to thrive while others disintegrate. The thriving regions could even counteract a general collapse by taking in refugees and donating things like bicycle tires and water purifiers -- or they could make things worse by importing slaves and exporting guns.
May 28. New Gary Brecher piece, How Birthrate Is Turning Modern Conventional Warfare on Its Head. Basically, with our modern reluctance to openly mow down civilians, plus innovations in asymmetric warfare and nonviolent tactics, raw human population is now the most powerful weapon.
I'm trying to figure out how this fits into collapsism. Energy decline and climate change should lead to food shortages and population decline, which means either birthrate reduction or piles of dead bodies, or both. Yesterday I predicted that some regions will thrive while others collapse, and we know that there's an inverse relation between standard of living and birthrate. So it seems likely that the failing regions will put a lot of population-war pressure on the successful regions.
June 1. The latest Archdruid post, Why Decline Matters, has an important idea I've never seen before: a slow decline can be more catastrophic than a fast hard crash, because when a fast crash is over, almost everyone remembers how things were before it. They have both the skills and the motivation to rebuild the old system. But with a slow decline, the crisis state becomes the new normal:
By the time the process is finished, the people who remember how an advanced civilization used to function are long in their graves, and anything perishable in the material culture they knew has long since perished.
June 5. This article, A freelance lifestyle in a corporate workplace, is about a radical new workplace environment where workers can do whatever they want as long as they get the job done, and of course they get the job done better than in the old model where they're degraded and micromanaged. This refutes the idea that corporations = profit = evil, because here's an evil environment that interferes with profit. So if corporations are simply profit machines, where does the evil come from? It comes from humans! Humans who have been abused and controlled themselves can't stand to see other humans be happy and free, so they perpetuate the crushing workplace environment. And remember that it was humans who designed corporations in the first place to take more than they give with perfect indifference to external costs.
The much harder and more important question is: Where does human evil come from?
June 5-6. I am not expecting full industrial collapse, especially not in the Cascadia region, but I can't rule it out, and I'm quite sure the dollar will continue falling, so I want to put my savings into useful stuff while it's still worth something. Yesterday I paid out of pocket for a dental checkup and cleaning, and today I got something I've been meaning to get forever, a wheatgrass juicer. This is a survival tool, because green grass is loaded with sugars and nutrients, if you can separate the juice from the undigestible fiber. I did some research and the Hurricane is the best one.
A few other survival items I bought recently: a Fluke 117 digital multimeter, a really good LED headlamp, a SteriPEN UV water purifier with solar charging case, and a bunch of bike tools and spare ball bearings. And some other items I've bought and recommend: A Global Sun Oven, a Gransfors Bruks small forest axe, a Sierra zip stove, a Corona hand grinder (cheap and good for all coarse grinding), a Hori Hori digging tool (basically an unbreakable hand shovel), a Fiskars all steel digging shovel, and some eneloop batteries, the state of the art in rechargeables.
And after a lot of thought, I decided not to get any guns. What it comes down to is that I just don't like guns enough to put enough attention into them to get good at using them. I'm not going to add another tedious chore to my life unless I'm 100% sure it's necessary. So instead, with help from a massive reader donation, I got a crossbow! For just over $700 from the Bow Hunter Superstore on eBay, I got an Excalibur Phoenix, the best-buy model of the highest quality crossbow maker in North America, plus a "right stuff" accessories package with varizone scope, and a good shock and noise dampener.
At the moment, it's still illegal for me to hunt with it. Here's a page on crossbow hunting regulations in the USA and Canada.
June 11. For the last few weeks, John Michael Greer has been writing about the need for "cultural conservers", like the monks in medieval Europe, to keep the best parts of our culture alive through a long decline. Morris Berman wrote a book about the same kind of thing, The Twilight of American Culture.
I see a bunch of different issues:
1. What did the monks really save that was worth saving? Offhand I can't think of anything. Another Greer post mentioned that after the fall of Rome all the pottery got broken and nobody was making more. So why didn't the monks save the pottery industry instead of, say, Aristotle, a boring categorizer who would be better off completely lost?
2. Anne reminds us:
The majority of the "learning" of the Roman Empire was actually preserved intact in the universities and libraries of northern Africa and Al-Andalus. Even as Europe fell into a dark age, the Arab and Muslim empires continued the scholarly tradition unimpeded, and were able not only to retain the classic texts, but make significant advances in metallurgy, anatomy, mathematics and philosophy. Intellectualism and science seem to require a cosmopolitan culture with some good physical resources remaining to it.
In the 21st century some regions will disintegrate while others thrive, and it's anyone's guess who the next "Arabs" will be, or where exactly they will make advances.
3. Maybe what the monks were really preserving was a cultural tradition in which being a thinker was worth something. But I remember Fredy Perlman pointing out that the monasteries later grew into the bureaucracy that enabled the church to be so powerful.
4. We also need to keep in mind that the "dark ages" were a great time for Europe's nonhuman populations, and that even many human populations welcomed the fall of Rome. And there was also plenty of underground transmission of pagan cultures and herbal lore and a more ecological world view.
5. Of course, if any way of thinking has been truly lost, we wouldn't know about it, but the remarkable thing is how much we have, how easy it is for ideas to survive or be reinvented or appear out of nothing. Extreme primitivists want to destroy libraries and museums, but ancient peoples with no libraries or museums managed to exterminate species and cut down forests and invent complex hierarchical society all over the world. Many modern ideas and inventions were invented first by ancient people and lost, and reappeared anyway. And tens of thousands of nature-based cultures have been wiped out, yet the dominant culture has been getting more and more ecologically sensitive. (I'm talking about beliefs, not collective behaviors, which continue to be destructive. And the difference between these is another giant subject.)
6. A week ago in this post, Greer pointed out that complex cultural artifacts often pass through "dark" ages in the form of religion. At the end he raises the fascinating possibility that what we call "science" could be the religion-like belief system that does it this time.
June 13. Just finished reading Alan Weisman's The
World Without Us. I thought it would be like the History Channel "Life After People" show but with more details. But there's actually very little overlap. LAP has stuff about skyscrapers and hydro power and concrete and dogs and cats that TWWU doesn't have, while TWWU has stuff about plastics and toxic waste and oceans. I didn't count pages, but it seems like less than a quarter of the book is really about the world without us, and most of it is just stuff I already knew about how humans have damaged the world. A few things I learned:
1) In the middle of Turkey is a region called Cappadocia, with rock that's both strong and easy to carve, and it's been carved full of underground cities that are totally like the Mines of Moria in Lord of the Rings!
2) Elephants eat trees. In Africa, the landscape cycles, with elephants eating trees and bushes, allowing grass to grow, and then cattle eating the grass, allowing trees and bushes to grow. North America used to have elephants (mammoths), and when they went extinct, it's likely that the forest increased because there were no tree-eating creatures left, until the Indians again thinned the forest for hunting and farming. We like to think "forests good, Indians good, mammoths good," but in reality they often work against each other, especially if we believe that humans exterminated mammoths. And the guy who came up with the pleistocene overkill hypothesis wants to bring elephants back to North America and set them loose to eat mesquite in the southwest.
3) I've speculated that after a hard crash, solid bike tires could be made out of car tires. It turns out that's tricky, because a car tire is one giant molecule, and it can't be melted or reshaped. But Joel comments:
Rubber can be recycled, but it's kinda labor-intensive. A strip of car tire could be cut to fit around the rim, and meet at a shallow diagonal so that it doesn't affect rolling any more than the tread would.
The same chemistry that made the tire can also be used to add more to the molecule. The re-treading of tires involves spreading unvulcanized rubber onto already-vulcanized rubber, and heat-treating them both until they're bound chemically as if both were vulcanized together. I could see Americans of the far future growing a cactus or any of the many other latex-producing plants, and importing sulfur from volcanic regions, to glue cut pieces of long-buried tires into new, useful shapes.
June 27. The big news yesterday was the Supreme Court ruling that the Second Amendment gives individuals the right to own firearms. On a simple philosophical level, I'm happy about this. I don't think anyone should have a monopoly on any kind of power, including deadly force. Anything the police and military can have, the people should be able to have. But on a practical level, I don't see how any good can come out of more guns in the present society.
Here's what I wish they had said: Governments can make laws that you can't own any guns, not even a squirrel-hunting .22, unless you're a member of a well-regulated militia, with rigorous weekly training, not only shooting, but hard exercise and wilderness survival and all kinds of skills that would be useful in defending your local area from conquest. And when you've been through enough training, you can keep and bear fully automatic rifles and rocket-propelled grenades and surface-to-air missiles. That's the kind of thing that Jefferson and Madison had in mind. Imagine how much nicer the government would have to be, and how much less we'd be afraid of "terrorists", if American gun lovers were ordered in thousands of tight, highly disciplined cells, instead of being a bunch of disconnected individualists occasionally turning off the TV to shoot at beer cans.
But then, I'm wondering if violence itself has become obsolete. Surveillance and remote killing technologies are now so advanced that any violent resistance group will be crushed. And conquering empires are equally paralyzed because the only thing that really works, large-scale massacre of civilians, is now forbidden.
June 28-30. On my trip to Seattle, through careful driving, I managed to get 44 miles per gallon in a 1990 Honda Civic. The tragic thing is that 18 years after that car was made, American car makers are talking like 35mpg is something to be proud of. I was driving 60mph, a generous compromise between 45, where I'd get really good fuel economy, and the speed limit of 70, and almost every other car was roaring around me at 75. Maybe they just don't know how much money they'd save by going slower, or maybe they're under so much stress that they can't spare the time. Andrew has a good theory:
I think the appeal of speed is that it's inherently dangerous. We don't get enough real danger in our daily lives, not the kind of immediate danger you can fight like a lion or another tribal warrior. Cars are the riskiest thing that most people allow into their lives.
I had the idea that there was a fuel economy peak around 45mph, but Roger sends this Oil Drum article where if you scroll down about 20%, there are three graphs showing that many vehicles peak around 30-35mph (48-56 Km/hr) and drop off steadily above 40.
Also, why is it that the word "performance" gets attached to a Ferrari and not to a Honda Civic wagon? By the same logic, Youporn is a high-performance website because you get strong shallow pleasure from it, while Wikipedia is low-performance because it does useful tasks with great efficiency and no flash. The fallacy behind the popular use of "performance" is that speed and acceleration have use value, when in reality they have only pleasure value, unless you happen to be fleeing a tornado.
Of course, pleasure is good! It's just that we get in trouble when we confuse it with usefulness. Another example is TV news, which tries to inform and titillate and ends up doing a terrible job of both. Ideally, we would move people and goods with bikes and trains and barges and dull low-power cars, and then we would have race courses where anyone could drive fast for fun.


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"They call me the seeker, I've been searching low and high." Had to lead off with some Who lyrics, sorry. Speaking of searching and seeking, have you ever been working on a project–under the hood of your car for example, or way, way, way back under the sink–and said to yourself, "If I just had a borescope right now, my problems would be solved!"? Well, search no further because your problems have been solved. This handy video borescope tool from General is completely worth the price in cool factor alone. In fact, it's so cool you might forget the practical functionality of the thing. With a camera mounted on an extendable, flexible tube, there are virtually no corners, crooks or crannies that can escape its detection. I don't have to tell any professional mechanics, contractors, or even amateur gearheads that this can be a tremendous time saver. In addition to discovery probing, there are magnets and hook attachments included that will allow you to conduct search and rescue operations for stuck tools and those stranded parts that can get knocked back into hard to reach areas.
The Seeker's practical applications for professionals are pretty evident. I can see how this could be put to good use by plumbers or HVAC installers. The probe tube extends up to three feet and is waterproof. Another benefit, in addition to the actual diagnostic work you can accomplish, is that this device will enable you to better educate customers. It can be a useful visual tool when explaining repair work because your viewing options are not limited to real time. With the supplied 2 GB SD card, you can record up to three hours of stored video, then attach the scope to a computer or TV and analyze the footage at a later point. Seeing is believing, so the saying goes and like I said, I can imagine that this would be especially useful for professionals who might need the help of a visual aide in explaining to their clients exactly what an unseen problem might be. You can snap single pics, view and save them as a JPEG which you can send as an attachment in an e-mail. That's helpful if you need to solicit a second opinion. Another cool feature is the 4x zoom option in the menu. I found this feature came in handy when using the pickup hook. It makes it feel less like you're on a fishing expedition because it gives you better views of the contours of your target. I must say that the wireless color monitor is pretty cool too. It's positioned at an easy to read slant and the programmable menu is fairly intuitive.
As far as handling, the camera is pretty light and I like the pistol grip. As easy as the camera is to maneuver by hand, there are times when you need to go hands-free and that's completely doable with this thing. The unit contains a built-in stand and magnets to facilitate that process. There are also attachable magnets and a 45º attachable mirror so every angle can be viewed fairly easily. If you need to do some long distance viewing, that's a snap too. The Seeker features a detachable LCD monitor that can be utilized for viewing from up to 32 feet away. I can't think of a job where this might come in handy, necessarily, but if it does then you have that capability. I can foresee needing to extend the reach of the probe a few feet from time to time. You're limited to three feet with the probe that comes standard, which is probably fine for most commercial or household uses. If you typically need something with a longer reach, however, General does sell various lengths of extension which would allow you to extend that reach up to as long as sixteen feet.
All the necessary USB and video cables are included so you can get right to work. The Seeker also comes with two rechargeable lithium ion batteries as well as an AC adapter (does anybody actually use these things or do they all just fill up drawers in kitchens around the country?). The device comes with a custom hard case so you can pack the camera away nice and tight and protect it from inevitable mishaps in your garage or workspace.
In summation, this video inspection tool is quite an asset for people working in tight spots. It's ideal for plumbers, HVAC and auto mechanics who need to get a visual from multiple angles and there are quite a few practical household applications for it as well.

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Born: January 24, 1941 in New Orleans, LA
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Although Aaron Neville is often compared to singer Sam Cooke in terms of sheer vocal refinement, he has a voice and style uniquely his own. He is well known as part of the New Orleans sound of the Neville Brothers. Yet, aside from the 1967 number one R&B hit "Tell It Like It Is," few have heard his incredible early solo recordings. Many of the first recordings of Neville, in the early and mid-'60s, were arranged, produced, and often written by the brilliant Allen Toussaint -- another talent only later being really appreciated. Most of these sides were cut for the Minit and, later, Parlo labels. Songs like "She Took You for a Ride" and "You Think You're So Smart" on Parlo are masterpieces. While his more recent work, including that with Linda Ronstadt, makes for pleasant listening, it lacks the sheer persuasion of his early songs. Neville has re-recorded his early work often, and it is important to hear the originals. The early sides are just waiting to be heard.
Neville has ventured more into other waters besides R&B. 1993's The Grand Tour included a remake of a George Jones song that got Neville a little country attention, and he announced plans in 1994 to do a complete country album. He was also one of several R&B artists who teamed with country stars for the Rhythm Country and Blues session. Neville was paired with Trisha Yearwood, and the duo also performed together in a benefit concert for the LP held in Los Angeles in April 1994. The LP made history by debuting in the Top Ten on the pop, R&B, and country charts. Tattooed Heart appeared in 1995 and To Make Me Who I Am in 1997 on A&M Records. Increasingly Neville was drawn to his gospel roots, and the influence of the genre shows in his solo projects. Devotion and Believe were released in 2000 and 2003 respectively by Tellit Records. Nature Boy: The Standards Album came out on Verve in 2002 and the holiday album Christmas Prayer was issued by EMI Gospel in 2005. Neville kicked off the next year by singing the national anthem at Superbowl XL, followed by the release of Mojo Soul, a collection of some of his singles from the late-'60s and early-70s with producers Marshall Sehorn and Alain Toussaint, and Bring It on Home... The Soul Classics, which featured guests Chaka Khan and Mavis Staples, among others.


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|Some consideration was given to having Quark become the Ferengi Grand Nagus in this episode. It was decided that his character represented a sense of continuity on the show, however, and he needed to end the series still owning his bar, as he had before the series began. Armin Shimerman greatly approved of this decision.
Quark's speech "the line has to be drawn here. This far and no further!" was a parody of Picard's use of that line regarding the Borg in First Contact - another example of Ron Moore taking great pleasure in mocking his own work.
Similarly, his line that "This establishment will be the last outpost of what made Ferenginar great!" harks back to TNG's "The Last Outpost", the very first episode to feature the Ferengi.
This episode marks the final appearance of the characters Rom, Leeta, Grand Nagus Zek, Ishka, Maihar'Du, and Brunt. It's also the last appearance of background characters Broik and M'Pella, who were allowed to have speaking lines for their last episode.
In Zek's last episode he announces his retirement and names Quark as his successor - which is what he did in his first appearance back in "The Nagus"! And in both cases, Quark ultimately doesn't get to be the Nagus.
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Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Eyeball Massacre!
6 comments:
- Clint C. said...
The curse of Hale eyes. I don't qualify, either. My niece Annie Pulsipher has 9.5 contacts for each eye. Nephew Colton McKay has had a cornea transplant. A small price to pay for the genetic brilliance, right?
- January 17, 2012 at 5:21 PM
- Helene said...
Aw, that's too bad.
...Thinking of eyes made me think of this nice quote: "There's only one 'eye' in 'pirate'!"
- January 17, 2012 at 7:43 PM
- Meredith said...
That's a real kick in the pants. I can't believe you had to be tortured for hours for no reason.
- January 18, 2012 at 12:25 PM
- Clint C. said...
4k x # of eyeballs=12K? Do you have an extra eyeball?
- January 20, 2012 at 7:49 AM
- Rachel Q said...
Well Sarah, he did say "by my math". His math must add differently. :)
I went to a new eye doctor in California and they had all sorts of fancy equipment I'd never seen (I've been going to eye doctors since I was one). Instead of the air puffer they had this thing like a big pen with a rounded tip that they bounced on my eyeball. Weirdest thing. It didn't hurt, but my vision was like looking at ripples in lake.
- January 23, 2012 at 12:54 PM
- Erin Shakespear said...
Oh, my. I'd love to get that done, but I'm a great big chicken...
Sorry it didn't work out for you though!
- February 10, 2012 at 8:50 AM


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – "V" stands for versatility this fall for the Lipscomb Lady Bisons softball team.
Coach Kristin Ryman is looking at multiple players in multiple positions this fall. Ryman will get a first chance to analyze how all the variations work this Saturday when Tennessee State visits Draper Diamond for a doubleheader starting at 1 p.m.
Catching change
The Lady Bisons have to fill the vacancy left by the transfer of catcher Mickey Bell. Seniors Haley Elliott and Rena' Cothron are in the mix for the starting position.
Since joining the Lady Bisons Cothron has primarily played third base. Elliott was a designated player last season while recovering from a shoulder injury that hampered her throwing ability.
"Haley is still trying to recover and is taking some good steps," Ryman said. "Last season she was prevented from doing a lot defensively."
Cothron is making a major change in her role with the team. She has not worked behind the plate since high school. She has spent some time catching in the bullpen for the Lady Bisons.
"As the dynamics on our team have changed, Rena's role has changed," Ryman said. "I absolutely love the mentality and the team attitude that Rena' brings to the team.
"Rena' is doing some really good things behind the plate. She has a shot to be our starter back there. I think that speaks volumes for her work ethic and where she is mentally."
Sturdivant leads pack at first
Senior Kristen Sturdivant returns at first base. But the position is crowded this fall.
"Kristen is in a position right now where she is doing some really good things," Ryman said. "Defensively, there are some things we would like to see her improve on like her quickness and going after balls in the three-four hole. Those are things we feel like she is improving on day-by-day.
"She has got great footwork around the bag. She knows how to play first. She has a good first baseman's mentality. And she obviously has the experience. She has the upper hand right now."
Sturdivant is known for her power-hitting skills, but Ryman wants to see more consistency at the plate.
"Kristen is looking good swinging the bat," Ryman said. "She is doing good things at the plate. She is hitting some balls out of the park every single day. It is not always about home runs, but the swings she is taking are quality ones.
"She has always had power. What we want to see from her is consistency and cutting out strikeouts. She is improving."
Junior Gracey Aguirre, who played right field last season, is also spending some time at first. However, she is getting the bulk of her work in right.
"Gracey is a kid that you need on the field somewhere because you have to keep her bat in the lineup," Ryman said. "She is versatile. She is going to do whatever you need her to do. I love that mentality about her.
"We have thrown something different at her every year. She takes it in stride. She provides a little quickness at first. She doesn't have a lot of experience playing the position. We will be working on that this fall."
A pair of freshmen, Katy Richardson and Taylor Neuhart, are also working at first. Neuhart is primarily a pitcher who can also play first.
"Taylor is hard-nosed on the field," Ryman said. "She brings a gamer type of mentality.
"She spent most of her time in individual practice working as a pitcher this fall. Now that we are into team work we are mixing her in at first. A lot of it will come down to whether she can get into our top nine hitting-wise."
Richardson is classified as a true utility player. She is working at first and will also get time in the outfield.
"Katy has played every position on the field except pitcher growing up," Ryman said. "We want her to get as comfortable at first as she can. She could do some catching for us.
"She has lot of experience playing in a lot of different positions. That is going to be very valuable to us."
Who's on second?
Kelsey Cartwright returns for her senior season after redshirting in 2013 due to an injury.
"Defensively, she is looking comfortable," Ryman said. "Kelsey is known as a great hitter, but we challenged her this summer to spend as much time on her defense as does on her hitting.
"She is such an offensive-minded person. There are little things like knowing when to go get the ball and when to let it come to you and refining your movements and your throws. She has worked hard to address those things."
Kelsey also brings strong leadership to the team as a fifth-year senior. She has been challenged by the coaching staff to be aware of the role she is in.
"She has more experience than anyone here," Ryman said. "There are a lot of people on this team that look to her."
Jordan Abell, a junior, is also working at second. Ryman sees improvement every day in Abell's play.
"Jordan is a vocal leader," Ryman said. "She is a spark plug."
Ryman knows that sophomore Brittany Elmore can play second, as she did for much of the season last year. But Ryman thinks Elmore may contribute more in center field.
"We are trying to get Brittany as many reps as possible in center field," Ryman said. "We have talked about the mentality of a center field having to want the position.
"She loves second base. But she knows that where we need her the most right now is in center field."
Not short at shortstop
Senior Bridgette Begle is the heir apparent at shortstop. This will be her third year as the starting shortstop and her fourth year as a starter overall.
"Bridgette is such a good athlete," Ryman said. "She covers so much ground. She does a really nice job defensively.
"I played the position. I am pretty picky about what I look for in shortstops. There is a certain athleticism that you need to have to play the position well. Bridgette has it. She finds ways to keep getting better, mentally; she is getting stronger and stronger each year. She is starting to be more confident as a leader this year."
Paige Neely, a junior who played center field and third base last season, is getting some work at shortstop.
"Paige could step in and play there if we needed her at shortstop," Ryman said. "She may be the future shortstop of the team.
"She is easily one of the most athletic kids we have, if not the most athletic overall. She and Bridgette both have some really great positives there. I wish we could put two shortstops out there."
Back at third?
Neely established herself as the starter at third base last season. Neely's versatility is what Ryman admires the most.
"Paige has the mentality of doing whatever she can to help the team," Ryman said. "She will play wherever she will help the most. She makes our team better because she has that mentality."
Madison Wray, a sophomore, is also a versatile player who is working at third base and in the outfield. She might also see some time at first base.
"She played a lot of different positions in high school," Ryman said. "We can continue to explore different defensive options with her. She is getting a lot of good work in at third.
"She works and works and works every day. She is going to continue to challenge in various places this season."
Also working at third is freshman Mikayla "Mimi" Cartwright. She has also played virtually every position on the field.
"I like her presence athletically and I like her arm at third base," Ryman said. "I also really like her in right field because of her arm. We have had a string of strong-armed players in right field with Gracie and Caroline Mason.
"I think she could be a key factor out there. We are throwing a lot of different things at her. It is exciting to see her learn and grow."
Options in the outfield
Junior Brianne Welch is known for her defensive skills and will be given an opportunity to claim left field as her own.
"Brianne has defensively been one of our better outfielders since she has been here," Ryman said. "I call her fearless out there. She is somebody that goes after everything. I love that aspect of how she plays the game.
"She has a fighter's mentality. She goes home every summer and is always busting it to get in better physical shape each year. You can't say enough about her work ethic."
A key for Welch is to become more of a factor offensively. Ryman thinks Welch is taking positive steps in that direction.
"We are still addressing a few things," Ryman said. "She is working to take her game to the next level. If we can address a few things with her from a hitting standpoint she is going to be in the mix."
Also working in left is sophomore Dee Baddley, a player known for her work ethic and her desire to learn.
"She just soaks everything up," Ryman said. "She is always asking questions. She wants to get better.
"She plays with heart. She defines our team and how we want to play all the time."
Freshman Becca Dean is a left-handed hitter like Baddley. Dean has shown the ability to focus on doing the little things that will improve her at the plate and in the field.
"Becca is a really speedy kid," Ryman said. "She is one of the fastest we have right now. She is someone that I think could develop into a key player for us. Once it all clicks I can see her taking off."
Kasey Gibson, another freshman, is also working some in left field.
"Kasey has such a good attitude like our other freshmen," Ryman said. "She is really trying to pay close attention to her mechanics.
"It is a new system and it takes some time for the freshmen to make adjustments. Kasey can bring speed to the lineup. She could be a good fit in the No. 9 hole with Brittany at the top of the line-up. She is also a lefty at the plate and she is a stolen base threat. But there are others who could fill that role as well."
Welch will also work with Elmore in center field. Ryman hinted that Neely could also see some time in center.
"Our goal is to find the nine best hitters and find places for them," Ryman said. "I would prefer to keep Neely in the infield."
There a number of puzzle pieces for Ryman to put together to make a winning combination. If the choices are correct that "V" will also stand for "victories" in the spring.


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The lead singer of a successful Christian heavy-metal band told at least two people at a gym recently that he wanted to have his wife killed, a prosecutor said in court Thursday.
Timothy Lambesis, 32, of the band As I Lay Dying, met with a person he believed was a hit man — but was actually an undercover detective — and handed him an envelope containing $1,000 cash, his wife's address and the gate security codes. He told the agent he wanted his wife "gone," said Deputy District Attorney Claudia Grasso.
This and other information led sheriff's investigators to arrest Lambesis Tuesday in Oceanside. He pleaded not guilty in Vista Superior Court to a single count of solicitation for murder. He faces up to nine years in prison if convicted.
During the arraignment, Judge Martin Staven set Lambesis' bail at $3 million, noting that the defendant has ties across the United States as well as outside the country. If he posts bail, the judge said, Lambesis will have to surrender his passport and wear a GPS device to monitor his whereabouts.
Staven also ordered the defendant to stay away from his wife, Meggan Lambesis, and their three children.
Defense attorney Anthony Salerno did not talk in detail about the allegations during the hearing, but said afterward that he believed his client may have been the victim of a setup.
"He did not intend to harm anybody," the Los Angeles-based lawyer said.
Deputy District Attorney Claudia Grasso, who had asked for bail as high as $20 million, told the judge that the couple's relationship suffered a major blow in August of last year when Tim Lambesis was on tour with his band. He sent an email to his wife saying he no longer loved her and did not want to be with her anymore.
He also wrote in the email that he no longer believed in God, the prosecutor said.
The wife learned that Lambesis had been having affairs with other women. She filed for divorce in September, citing "irreconcilable differences" and alleging that her husband had become obsessed with bodybuilding and going to the gym. She said in court documents that she was concerned about her husband's ability to care for their children.
The couple had been married eight years.
Grasso told the judge that the defendant met twice with someone at the gym, on April 23 and 24, and talked about wanting to kill his wife. That person also had a conversation with another gym patron who, when asked how Lambesis was doing, said "he would be better if his wife was killed."
On Tuesday, Lambesis met with the person he believed was a hit man. In addition to the money, Lambesis provided photos of his wife and dates when the children would be with him, the prosecutor said.
When the detective asked Lambesis specifically if he wanted his wife killed, he responded, "Yes, that's exactly what I want," the prosecutor said.
Grasso said the wife is "terrified" and living with her children in seclusion. She said the woman remains fearful that her husband may have paid someone else to harm her.
"We don't know who else is out there," the prosecutor said.
Outside the courtroom, Salerno said his client was "disappointed" in how the divorce was proceeding, but did not want to physically hurt her. He said there was no domestic violence in the relationship and Lambesis had no criminal record.
Although he did not provide many details, Salerno said he believes someone may have given false information about Lambesis to authorities in order to "save his own skin."
"I would call it a scumbag snitch set up," he said.
Several of Lambesis' family members and friends, including some of his bandmates, appeared at the hearing Thursday. Many of them submitted letters to the judge showing their support for the defendant.
They did not speak to reporters afterward.


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Yeah, I liked it, I'd personally suggest it as one of the good reads I've had in this genre.
Of course I like more upbeat stuff that feels more like comic books.
But it really does come across as though it's a setup for a sequel. There are a lot of things that are introduced, but very little is resolved by the end of the book. Don't get me wrong, it's still a lot of fun and I enjoyed it. But I just get the feeling it's a lot of setup to get things in place for the next book.
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Sounds like Renegade X by Chelsea M. Campbell (as suggested earlier by Arkrite), which was good enough that it recently got a sequel which I have yet to read.FuzzyBoots wrote:Just finished Please Don't Tell My Parents I'm a Supervillain. It was good. It's a straightforward exploration of a super-powered world, no deconstructions or subversions. It's also pretty solidly a kid's book. Yes, the occasional person gets hurt, and there's beaucoup property damage, but ultimately, you're left with the impression that Penelope's choices are entirely consequence-free and she seldom struggles with a problem for more than a chapter before she's decisively ended it. It is also nice to have a book written from the perspective of a "tinkerer" type rather than a flying brick.
One of the Better books: I'm not sure I'd go as far as a good book.... I'm willing to negotiate it up to "good by comparison."Arkrite wrote:Yeah, I liked it, I'd personally suggest it as one of the good reads I've had in this genre.
But joking aside, I was on the train to a training program the other day, thinking about what I would like to see out of a superhero novel series & this is what I came up with.
- Batman pastiche: because it works better in narrative form then most "powered" heroes.
- A count of Monte Cristo civilian identity: A guy who the nefarious actions of another has travelled the world, stumbled across riches & then comes home, only to set himself up with these riches as a noble from a foreign land..... But instead of being a fake land, its a real land he just happened to buy the noble title from a real person.
- During his time abroad he's picked up a lot of skills on the brutal road home.
- He builds his super hero identity to take on this nefarious force which has reinforced itself since it betrayed him.
- Two sexy love interest: Because it worked so well in the Stephanie Plum Numbers series (not at all superhero related, but I think it would still work).
- The inclusion of other heroes as background flavour.
- a well developed meta-narrative universe, large enough a not to create obsession points among the fan base.
- The inclusion of meta-human thugs/villains as an oppositional force.
- References to nudity & sex, without doing it to seem mature (the HBO effect)
An that would just be book one in the series.
"Anti-Intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge'."
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You write it and I promise I will buy a copy.saint_matthew wrote:But joking aside, I was on the train to a training program the other day, thinking about what I would like to see out of a superhero novel series & this is what I came up with.


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The longest tenured softball head coach in Sacramento State
history, Kathy Strahan announced her retirement on June 21, 2013,
after 21 successful seasons at the helm of Hornet softball.
Strahan, who began her coaching tenure with the Hornets in 1993, concluded a 30-year collegiate head coaching career which saw her oversee programs at Sacramento State (1993-2013), San Jose State (1986-92) and Cal State Dominguez Hills (1984-85). She surpassed the 800-win milestone during the 2012 season and finished her career with an overall record of 823-780-3, and a Sacramento State record of 576-535-2. That Hornet record includes a conference mark of 247-221-1.
Strahan's career with the Hornets spanned four conferences as she guided the team from the Western Athletic Conference (1993-96) to the Big West Conference (1997-02), the Pacific Coast Softball Conference (2003-12) and finally the Big Sky Conference (2013).
Under Strahan's watch, Sacramento State made three NCAA Regional appearances (1993, 1995, 2008) and the team finished below the .500 mark in conference play just once during her final 11 years. Her Hornet squads posted at least 25 wins on 15 occasions, including nine 30-win seasons and one 40-win squad. A total of seven Sacramento State players have played in the professional ranks during Strahan's tenure, including five in the last 10 years.
The Lansing, Mich., native was named Coach of the Year in three different conferences (Big West, WAC, PCSC), has been inducted into three different Hall of Fames in her home state of Michigan, led a Hornet softball program that traditionally posted some of the highest grade point averages at Sacramento State, and served on numerous NCAA softball committees during her career. In fact, the softball program's graduation success rate was at 93 percent at the time of her retirement.
On the final day of the 2012 regular season, she became the 52nd softball head coach in NCAA history (for all divisions) to achieve the 800-win milestone. Her 823 victories were good for 20th on the NCAA's list of active head coaches when she retired.
Sacramento State never finished below the .500 mark in conference play during its 10-year tenure in the PCSC. The Hornets combined for a 119-76 record in PCSC play, and the squad finished lower than second place in the league standings just twice in the team's final eight years in the conference. Over a stretch of six straight years (2001-06), the Hornets improved their overall record each season, culminating in a 35-20 mark in 2006.
During her final season (2013), Sacramento State posted a 22-22 overall record and qualified for the inaugural four-team Big Sky Tournament where the Hornets suffered a pair of heartbreaking one-run losses. Six different Hornets received some form of all-conference accolade, including pitcher Caitlin Brooks receiving first team all-league honors after going 14-7 with a 1.81 ERA. Six different players hit better than .280 and the team strung together a seven-game winning streak from March 2-9.
In 2012, Sacramento State finished the season with a 27-19 overall record and a 10-9 mark in the PCSC. The team's .587 overall winning percentage ranks as the fifth best mark since Sacramento State joined the Div. I ranks in 1990. In addition, the Hornets posted the best fielding percentage in school history (.979), a mark which also ranked second in the nation. Five different players finished the season hitting better than .320, and the team's nine-game winning streak (March 4-18) matched the program's second longest streak during the Div. I era. Senior catcher Marissa Navarro was named second team all-Pacific Region, becoming the 10th Sacramento State softball player to receive Div. I all-region honors.
During the two-year stretch between 2010 and 2011, Strahan headed a youth movement that saw the Hornets start at least six underclassmen (freshmen and sophomore) every game of both seasons. Despite the rebuilding project, Sacramento State combined to post a 25-15 record in conference play and racked up 16 all-conference awards, six of which were first team selections. That included sweeping a four-game series on Loyola Marymount's home field for the first time in school history in 2010, and winning nine of the last 12 games of the season in 2011.
In 2009, the Hornets finished with a 28-23 overall record, a 14-6 mark in the PCSC and eight players were named to the all-conference team. A school-record five of those players were named to the first team. The Hornets won each of their last eight games of the season and narrowly missed out on their second consecutive conference championship, finishing one game behind Portland State (15-5). In addition, the team tied the program record with 34 home runs. The 2009 squad averaged 1.51 doubles per game, which ranked as the 15th best mark in the nation.
In 2008, Sacramento State finished the regular season with a 32-21 overall record, a 14-6 PCSC mark, and the program's first conference championship since joining the Div. I ranks in 1990. The Hornets were finally able to get over the hump after finishing second in the PCSC standings three consecutive years (2005-07). In addition, Sacramento State was a bubble team three straight years (2004-06) for a bid to the NCAA Regionals, but did not get an invitation.
The 2008 season marked a historic year in which the team averaged 5.5 runs per game and still owns eight offensive team records, including batting average (.311), on-base percentage (.371), slugging percentage (.443), hits (461), runs (293), home runs (34), RBIs (261) and total bases (656). Moreover, the batting average was the 16th best mark in the nation, the runs per game ranked 18th and slugging percentage 34th. The Hornets won each of their final eight conference games of 2008 to catapult themselves from fourth place in the league standings to first over a two-week span. For her efforts, Strahan was named the PCSC Coach of the Year for the first time.
Strahan also captured Western Athletic Conference Coach of the Year honors in her first season at Sacramento State in 1993. Her efforts led the Hornets to a berth in the NCAA Championships in 1993, the first postseason bid for any program in Sacramento State's Div. I history to an NCAA Championship event. Two years later, Strahan guided the 1995 squad to a 40-15 record and a No. 8 ranking in the final polls. During that same year, the Hornets hosted a regional for the first time in the Div. I era and finished first in the nation with a 0.76 team ERA.
Before coming to Sacramento State, Strahan turned struggling programs into nationally ranked teams at Cal State Dominguez Hills (1984-85) and San Jose State (1986-92). In the process, her teams regularly captured individual and team academic honors.
An honors graduate twice herself, Strahan has consistently recruited and produced outstanding student-athletes. Each of the team's last nine years in the PCSC, at least five Sacramento State players were named to the PCSC Commissioner's Honor Roll, including 13 in 2012 which matched a program record. Ten players on the 2013 roster finished the spring semester with overall grade point averages of 3.0 or better.
The softball team has traditionally posted some of the highest cumulative grade point averages in the 21-sport Sacramento State athletics program since Strahan's arrival. Fifteen times in the last 16 years, at least one of her players has earned NFCA All-America Scholar-Athlete honors, including two in 2012 (Alyssa Nakken and Lauren Blair). In fact, Nakken received the honor four straight years while Blair received the award three consecutive seasons.
In addition to academic honors, Strahan's athletes have thrived on the field. At Sacramento State, Strahan coached Susie Bugliarello to three All-America selections from 1995-97, Tami Blunt to an All-America selection in 1993, and Lindy Winkler to an All-America selection in 2006. Bugliarello pitched for Italy in both the 2000 and 2004 Olympic Games.
A total of seven Sacramento State players have played in the professional ranks during Strahan's tenure. That includes Jamie Schloredt and Izmena Cabrera, who both played for the National Pro Fastpitch League's (NPF) Chicago Bandits in the summer of 2009. Cabrera was also selected to play for Puerto Rico's national team in 2009.
Winkler went on to win a NPF championship with the New England Riptide in the summer of 2006. Former Hornet Katie Cichy was drafted in 1999 by the Durham Dragons of the Women's Professional Softball League in the third round (15th overall pick). In 2003, Nicole Deatherage was drafted by the Sacramento Sunbirds of the National Pro Fastpitch League, and Gina Givogri won a gold medal at the 1994 Pan American Games while playing for the United States.
The 1989 Big West co-Coach of the Year, Strahan posted a 201-187-1 record in seven years (1986-92) at San Jose State. During that span, Strahan's teams had just two losing seasons. Under her direction, the Spartans arrived on the national scene in 1990, finishing 34-28 and earning the program's first-ever NCAA postseason berth. San Jose State also made its first-ever appearance in the national top 20, earning the 11th spot and remaining in the top 20 all season long.
In 1992, the Spartans finished 33-24 and advanced to the NCAA West Regional. San Jose State climbed as high as ninth that year, finishing 13th in the final NCAA poll, duplicating the team's 1991 national finish after a 32-24-1 season. Her San Jose State teams won 30 or more games each of her last four seasons and won 20 or more each season of her seven-year tenure.
Strahan began her head coaching career at Cal State Dominguez Hills in 1984. After a 10-34 season, she led the Toros to a 36-24 record and a national ranking as high as sixth during the 1985 season.
Prior to her stint at Cal State Dominguez Hills, Strahan spent four years as an assistant coach at Santa Monica Community College (1983), Housatonic Community College (1982) and Michigan State (1980-81).
Strahan was a shortstop for the Raybestos Brakettes of Stratford, Conn., the Amateur Softball Association (ASA) national champions in 1977, '78 and '80. She was also a member of the United States gold-medal winning team at the 1979 Pan American games, while also playing with the 1978 U.S. World Championships team.
A standout softball and basketball player at Michigan State, she was a member of the 1976 Michigan State AIAW national championship team. Strahan was inducted into the Michigan Amateur Softball Association's Hall of Fame in 1995. Six years later, in 2001, Strahan was inducted into the Greater Lansing Area Sports Hall of Fame. She was then inducted into the Greater Lansing Area Sports Hall of Fame again on July 25, 2013, as a member of the 1974-75 Lansing Laurels Fastpitch softball squad.
Strahan served on the NCAA Regional Softball Committee for five seasons and the USA Today Softball Poll ranking committee. She was also a member of the Pacific Region softball committee and the NCAA certification committee.
Strahan earned her bachelor's (1979) and master's (1982) degrees from Michigan State in physical education, graduating with honors both times. In addition, she authored a 224-page book, Coaching Girls Softball, detailing how to coach softball to girls ages 7-13.


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|Log Type
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|Error log
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|General query log
|Established client connections and statements received from clients
|Binary log
|Statements that change data (also used for replication)
|Relay log
|Data changes received from a replication master server
|Slow query log
|Queries that took more than
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By default, no logs are enabled (except the error log on Windows). The following log-specific sections provide information about the server options that enable logging.
By default, the server writes files for all enabled logs in the data
directory. You can force the server to close and reopen the log
files (or in some cases switch to a new log file) by flushing the
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argument; or execute mysqldump with a
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The following appendix describes techniques for troubleshooting Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder, and identifies troubleshooting items:
This section describes troubleshooting for general issues.
If you see this error when attempting to launch
abctl or abstudio.sh and you are sure there is no other Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder client running, your machine may have run out of file locks.
You may also see such an error when performing concurrent operations through Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder Studio, or
abctl. To resolve this problem, check whether there is an environmental issue causing locks to release slowly.
To troubleshoot phone home timeouts:
Make sure the firewall on your Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder host is turned off.
As root run the following:
$/sbin/service iptables status $/sbin/service iptables stop
The firewall may be configured to start automatically when your machine reboots. To prevent this you can turn it off completely by running:
$/sbin/chkconfig iptables off
The default phone home timeout is 15 minutes. You can increase the timeout in
<Deployer WLS domain root>/ab_instance/config/deployer/deployer.properties.
If the file does not exist, create it and add a line similar to
phoneHomeTimeout=<number of seconds>.
If you have built an assembly archive for your assembly then that assembly is locked - meaning you cannot alter its shape, properties, packages or templates until you delete the archive. The archive can be deleted using
abctl delete -archiveOnly -name <assembly name>.
This section describes troubleshooting for introspection and file set capture issues.
If you see 'java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out' as the root cause of an introspection failure you may need to set proxy information in your environment before launching introspection. Enter the settings similar to the following, but appropriate for your shell type:
setenv SYSPROPS ' -Dhttp.proxyHost=www-proxy.example.com -Dhttp.proxyPort=80 '
After setting this in your environment proceed to launch the Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder Studio graphical user interface, or run your
abctl command.
Introspection of a deployed virtual machine (VM) can fail to complete when the temporary directory used for introspection is a mounted NFS share with NFS file locking. To avoid this problem, remount the NFS file system with locking turned off:
mount -o nolock example:/scratch /net/example/scratch
The logs for remote operations are copied at the end of a remote operation into the local directory of
$AB_INSTANCE/logs/remote_<remote machine name>/. For example, if the remote machine is abc12345, the logs are stored in
The default remote working dir is
/tmp/abRemote_<remote username>, but this can be overridden using the
-remoteWorkingDir flag.
If you are unable to perform remote introspection/packaging and get 'unable to connect' errors, one possibility is that you are running ipv6 on the remote machine but the
sshd_config file is incorrect.
When remote systems are configured to use ipv6 and ipv4, you must have the following line in the
sshd_config file:
AddressFamily any
(and not
AddressFamily inet).
If your remote operation hangs after you enter the remote password it may be due to an orphaned remote process left over from a previous remote operation that was killed. If the remote working directory is removed out from underneath the remote process this can happen. Go to the remote machine and kill any orphaned remote processes, then clean up the remote working dir and try your remote operation again.
The remote process appears similar to the following:
aime1 11662 1 0 11:51 ? 00:00:01 /tmp/user/abRemote_aime1/ab_home/jre/jre/bin/java -Doracle.core.ojdl.logging.config.file=/tmp/user/abRemote_aime1/ab_instance/config/logging.xml -Djava.util.logging.config.class=oracle.core.ojdl.logging.LoggingConfiguration -Djava.security.egd=file:/dev/./your -Dassemblybuilder.spif.app=apps/remotingapp -jar /tmp/kaw/abRemote_aime1/ab_home/jlib/oracle.as.assemblybuilder.spif_0.1.0.jar
Make sure the remote user or sudo user you specify for the remote operation has read permissions for the files in the reference installation.
SSH port forwarding must be enabled on reference systems in order for remote operations (introspection and file set creation) to work properly. Check the ssh config files:
~/.ssh/config /etc/ssh/ssh_config
The following error can be encountered if the shell of the remoteUser specified prints things to stdout/stderr during login.
Error: Error initializing the remote connection. Caused by: OAB-90061: Unable to create connection to remote server. Cause: Timed out trying to connect to IPV4 and IPV6 sockets.
Check the profile and rc files for the remote user and take out any logic that does this. Alternatively, you can specify a different remote user and use the sudoUser parameter to specify a user that has permission to examine/capture the reference installation.
When a template creation operation fails, check the following:
Verify you ran
$ORACLE_HOME/oracleRoot.sh as root during or after installation.
Verify that the ova utility is installed.
Verify that you have a valid base image (System.img) and vm.cfg file. Verify that file permissions are correct.
Verify that you did not run out of disk space.
Verify that you have a sufficient number of loop devices for the file sets you are capturing. See Section D.3.1, "Insufficient Number of Loop Devices".
You may run into an issue where the number of Linux loop devices on an Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder host are not sufficient to create templates for a generic product with a large number of file sets.
When creating templates, Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder and modifyjeos require one available Linux loop device for each disk in the template (that is, one each for the System.img and AB.img, and one per product disk). A typical Oracle Linux system has only seven loop devices, meaning templates can be created for a template with a maximum of five file sets.
To create templates for an appliance with more file sets, you must create additional loop devices. One way to do this is as follows:
Edit /etc/modprobe.conf. Add a line similar to the following:
options loop max_loop=<n>
Where <n> is the number of loop devices you want created.
As root, run the following commands to unload and reload the Linux kernel loop module:
# /sbin/modprobe -r loop # /sbin/modprobe -v loop
Verify that the new loop devices were created:
$ ls -l /dev/loop*
You should see <n> loop devices.
This section describes troubleshooting of Deployer communication failures.
You may run into the following error:
Caused by: Invalid deployer response returned. Cause: OAB-113409 - An invalid response was returned by the deployer. Action: OAB-113409 - Please check the deployer log for additional details.
Check the Deployments for the WebLogic Server instance hosting the Deployer and make sure the state of the Deployer application is 'Active' and its health is 'OK'.
If you run into 401/403 errors when trying to interact with the Deployer, check the following items in the WebLogic Server Administration Console of the server instance hosting the Deployer.
Go to Deployments > Deployer and verify that the Security Model is "CustomRoles."
Go to Deployments > Deployer > [Security] > [Roles] > ApplicationAdmin and make sure that conditions include Group: CloudAdmins or ApplicationAdmins.
Go to Deployments > Deployer > [Security] > [Roles] > CloudAdmin and ensure that the conditions include Group: CloudAdmins.
Go to Security Realms > myrealm > [Users and Groups] > [Groups] and ensure that "ApplicationAdmins" and "CloudAdmins" exist and are handled by DefaultAuthenticator.
Go to Security Realms > myrealm > [Users and Groups] > [Users] and make sure that "applicationAdmin" and "cloudAdmin" exist and are handled by DefaultAuthenticator.
Go to Deployments > Deployer > [Security] > [URL Patterns] and make sure there is no role definition on
root url-pattern.
When creating a connection in the client, make sure the username is one of the two listed in step 5 and is specified with the password for that user.
If your registration has become unresponsive, check the following:
If you have never had a successful registration, try to register a template using the Oracle VM console directly - bypassing Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder. If this is not successful then the problem is with your Oracle VM environment.
If you have a very large assembly archive or a slow network you may need to increase the 'Stuck Thread Max Time' setting for both Oracle WebLogic Server where the Deployer is running, and Oracle WebLogic Server running Oracle VM Manager. Access this setting using the WebLogic Server Administration Console, in the Tuning tab for the server instance.
This section describes troubleshooting of deployment failures.
If you cannot determine the cause of the failure from the Studio or Deployer logs you'll have to continue investigating. Log in to the Oracle VM Manager console and see if the VMs for your assembly were created and started.
Check the Deployer and the Oracle VM and Oracle VM Server logs for an indication of why the VMs were not created.
It is possible for the Deployer's state cache to get out of sync from the Oracle VM environment, especially if cleanup type activity was done in the Oracle VM environment outside of Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder. The Deployer may have recorded that an assembly is still registered or deployed, when it has actually been removed from the Oracle VM environment. If this has happened, you must unregister and undeploy your archive through Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder and re-register and redeploy it.
Perform the following steps if the VM is created, but not running:
Check the Deployer, and Oracle VM and Oracle VM Server logs, for an indication of why the VMs were not started.
Try starting the VM manually and see if any useful output is given.
Log in to the Oracle VM Server machine that created the failed VM (you can see which machine in the pool owns the VM via the Oracle VM Manager console)
Find the vm.cfg for the VM in question - it will be in some location under /OVS/Repositories, and will have the ID from the Oracle VM console in its path.
Use the
xm create -f <vm.cfg file> command to start the VM.
Try mounting the disk images and see if any logs were created. (This can be the case if the VM came up but then went back down for some reason). An Oracle Enterprise Linux image is composed of multiple disks; you must mount the disk you are interested in: such as, AB.img, System.img, or Product_001.img.
The Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder logs are on the AB.img disk - but the name of that image changes once it is registered in the Oracle VM environment. To find the location of the newly named image you need to find the vm.cfg. It will be in some location under
/OVS/Repositories, and have the VM ID from the Oracle VM console in its path.
Figure out the loop device using the path to the image file you just found.
#kpartx -a <path to img file> #kpartx -l <path to img file>
From the listing of the previous command, you can determine which loop device has been mapped to the disk. Mount the disk and specify the loop device.
#mount /dev/mapper/loop?p? /mnt
The first question mark ('?') above represents the number of the loop device, which is usually zero but may be a different number, and the second question mark is the partition number, which is usually zero but may be a different number.
Go to
/mnt and look at the files. The AB.img may have logs in
/mnt/logs, if reconfiguration got far enough to create them.
#umount /dev/mapper/loop?p? #kpartx -d AB.img
The network configuration for the machine did not complete successfully for some reason. If you are using DHCP make sure your Oracle VM environment supports it. If using static IP addresses make sure you have also specified the corresponding hostname in your deployment plan - this is required.
You must specify all of the following network related properties in your deployment plan:
at the assembly level
network_name (needs to match the name of a network in your target (Oracle VM) environment)
in the network properties for each appliance
hostname (if using static IPs)
dns-domains (only one is supported)
dns-servers (only one is supported)
on each network interface (NIC) for each appliance
ip_address (if using static IPs)
usedhcp (should be false if using static IPs)
To access the VM:
Log in to the Oracle VM Server machine that created the failed VM (you can see which machine in the pool owns the VM via the Oracle VM Manager console.
Run the command
xm list.
Find your VM in the list returned - look on the Oracle VM Manager console for the VM ID.
Run the command
xm console <vm ID> and then hit enter and provide credentials (
user: root,
password: the password supplied during template creation).
To triage the failure:
Check the logs under /assemblybuilder/logs. If there are no logs proceed to the next step.
Check to see if the ab service was installed. The ab service is installed to
/etc/init.d/ab. If it is not there, look at the oraclevm-template service log:
/var/log/oraclevm-template. The oraclevm-template service installs the ab service.
If the ab service is missing, make sure the permissions on the ab_service.sh and oraclevm-template.sh in your ORACLE_HOME are correct. These files should be executable. If they are not: fix the permissions, recreate your assembly archive, upload, register and try the deployment again.
If you believe the late bindings are incorrect or were not sent to the VM you can run the command
/assemblybuilder/etc/vmapi get +.
This command will output the late bindings.
If the VM is up and pingable, then the network configuration for the VM completed successfully.
Log in to the failed VM and check the logs under /assemblybuilder/logs. See the Logs section below for details on what is in the various log files. You should be able to ssh to the machine using the root user and the password you specified when creating the templates.
If you believe the late bindings are incorrect or were not sent to the VM you can run the command
/assemblybuilder/etc/vmapi get +.
This command will output the late bindings.
This section provides log locations and descriptions. There are several different logs and log locations that are useful to know about when triaging failures.
The log level for the Studio log can be altered by editing $AB_INSTANCE/config/logging.xml. Change the following line by indicating the desired level:
<logger name="oracle.as.assemblybuilder" level="FINE">
$AB_INSTANCE/logs/bottler/* - output from the modifyjeos tool used during template creation
The logs for remote operations are copied at the end of a remote operation into the local directory of
$AB_INSTANCE/logs/remote_<remote machine name>/. For example, if the remote machine is abc12345, the logs are stored in
The default remote working dir is
/tmp/abRemote_<remote username>, but this can be overridden using the
-remoteWorkingDir flag.
The Deployer application log messages will be in the server and/or domain logs for the WebLogic Server instance where the Deployer application is deployed. Stdout/stderr for the WebLogic Server instance may also contain relevant information or stack traces.
<Deployer WLS domain root>/servers/<server targeted by Deployer app>/logs/*
/u01/app/oracle/ovm-manager-3/machine1/base_adf domain/servers/AdminServer/logs/AdminServer.log
/assemblybuilder/logs/ab.out - stdout/stderr and progress messages from Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder infrastructure code and plug-in code
/assemblybuilder/logs/assemblybuilder.log - log messages from Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder infrastructure code and plug-in code
/assemblybuilder/logs/command.out - environment and command details for commands launched via the RehydrateUtils.runCommand() or runCommandAs() methods
/assemblybuilder/logs/proc.<unique>.log - stdout/stderr from processes launched via RehydrateUtils.runCommand() or runCommandAs() where the daemon flag passed in was true