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Once again you find yourself confused. Once again you think it's not for you
Once again you cant imagine yourself over this, and once again you cant see a brighter future
your mind is filled with discontentment and blaming, which quickly fades
into self-pity coated with self-hatred.
Your mind goes through periods of empowerment over illusions you try to feed to your head
which quickly implodes into helplessness and anxiety breakdowns
and you realize how silly you are and you laugh at yourself while crying uncontrollably
What did I do wrong? Am I enough?
Wishing you could turn back the hands of time and make it right
But there is not right, only wrong
But the wrong is so right for this time
and you know things played the way the universe intended
yet you resist
yet you try to accept
filling your soul with self-pity and emptiness
resisting it all till you become numb
till you forget
till years later when you realized you didn't really learn much
it was all just an experience
gathering tid bits of memories before you lie six feet deep.
Laughing at yourself for suffering for such insignificant things
that meant absolutely everything to you then
but that's exactly what you wanted to do then,
so you wont stop yourself from indulging in the pain
in these questions and scenarios that torture your soul
suffering is a beautiful part of life, and as it all is…
An experience that fills up your days and mind to your last breath.
And you leave confused, resisting it all, trying to accept.
But always laughing at the absurdity of it all.
Once again you find yourself confused. Once again you think it's not for you
Love is not for the weak
Love is not for the prideful
Love is not for the lustful
Love is not for the liars
Love is not for us.
So I have been following the Mike Brown case for weeks now and I find something that shocks me everyday about the case and about America. When justice is an innate part of your being, it is hard not to get infuriated with the state of Ferguson and what occurred there weeks ago.
Before I get backlash from anyone let me summarize it for you guys: The reason why so many of us are enraged is because an 18 year old got shot 8 times when he was unarmed. Whether he stole something, whether his body language was aggressive, the police officers could have used so many different things like body force and taser to arrest Mike Brown. This is justice. Stealing shouldn't justify someone's death. And saying that Mike Brown deserved his death for this crime is absolutely abominable.
Same with Kajieme Powell who was screaming "Shoot me now! Kill me now!" while having a knife in his pocket. Could the police not have tased him or used force to put him on the ground to arrest him? If deadly force is the first go-to solution for controlling a black man and bringing justice to this country…well America, you are doing it wrong!
Powell was arrested after he was shot multiple times. Why? Why was Mike Brown's dead body left out there for hours? Powell gave a powerful message to America. He was a mentally unstable man but perhaps he knew what he was doing. The video shows us that if a police man sees a black man screaming and mad he must be violent and they resort to killing him right away but how can a young white man who shoots a public place or school senseless not be shot down and killed on the spot?
This is not about hatred for cops. This is about hatred for injustice.
This is not about white people being racists. This is about racist people.
What is infuriating to us who support Mike Brown is that people who have been so guarded and inexperienced in life experiences and adversity can claim that racism does not exist. That the lives of people today are not affected by racism and opportunities are not taken away because of racism. That racism is an excuse used by blacks to justify their high jail rates, impoverishment, and overall unequal representation in the nation in terms of power.
The African-American community definitely has its problems. It is a fact that slavery ended not that long ago, that the 60's was just yesterday and that racism exists today. The scope of history extends for thousands of years and the history of blacks in America has just recently started. You cannot expect generations of enslavement, illiteracy and then little rights to all of a sudden within a few decades to become a generation with a culture that is all about academics and makes their way up to control the system of capitalism.
What really motivated me to write this all is an article talking about Ferguson on the Economist. The comments were so appalling that I decided to give my take on this. This newspaper is meant to be for more educated individuals and the comments reminded me of the early eugenics movement. People still to this day blame genetics for so many things in order for their little brains to ignore all the social, economic, and cultural implications history has on people.
This article is called "The Lessons of Ferguson." It is a great article, however the comments were so racists and kept saying that black people were inherently dumb and inferior and deserve all these problems because it is all their faults for being inferior. A perfect example of a comment such as the many on these is:
"A race-based quota system is ALREADY in place. The problem is that blacks cannot pass the entrance exam. They cannot read or write. If they cannot read or write then they cannot read the law and apply it fairly, and they cannot write reports that are admitted into the court system.
Blacks are failing in every school system in the US. The reason is genetic and IQ. No matter which country Africans live in, even when attending "enriched" school systems, they continue to fail and have a "flat" IQ of 70…with very few able to read or write above a 5th grade level.
We are different and no progress is going to be made until that fact of our differentness based on genetics is realized and only then will the research come out that will affectively assist blacks and Africans in reaching parity…or as a class, be classified as 'special'…and accomodations made for them."
So you are going to tell me that people with this mind set do not exist? And you are going to tell me that racism has no impact on the opportunities and mindset of blacks in America?
So when you want to ask why Mike Brown's body was left out there, why the police officer was donated more money than Brown's family, why being black and walking down the street would get you more attention from the police than being white? Why why why can continue for a very long time.
The answer can be definitely linked to this:
Because racism exists today and has been a long part of our beautiful and "fair" American system. If you are not black or other minority you may not experience this and see how it affects you everyday. But to say that it doesn't exist and impact the DAILY lives of African Americans, you are being foolish and idealistic.
Racism leads people, even highly educated people to think so illogically and unscientifically and then act on those beliefs. For as long as rampant racism exists telling our brains that every young black man is violent (even genetically so) injustice will follow.
So to my Black Americans, understand the state of America but I encourage you to lift each other up, to read to your children before bed and encourage them to seek higher levels of education. To teach them about budgeting money and saving (something my Honduran mom did not teach me and now I'm not the best with money) to get them to be proud of being black and knowing their history but to be eager to change the future of America. If you are already doing this and encouraging the success of the community, keep doing it, you are shaping the future. Let's use this horrible time in our history to gear up for the future and new history and new ideologies.
For us all, let's open our hearts and mind to justice and love. If we get thoughts of hate and intolerance lets reason with our brains and let those thoughts leave us and not reflect our actions. As humans were are so alike and all these differences made up by the world, history and egos must be minimized so that we can evolve our minds in order to create a better world for the human species.
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A couple of years ago, I asked a friend of mine how she met her husband. It was at a bar, and when she asked his occupation he replied, "I work for the city." She took that to mean he was a construction worker. They began dating and quickly fell in love. Much to her surprise about a month into their relationship, she learned he actually played for the NFL team in their city.
Two nights ago, I had the pleasure of having dinner with two very pretty surgical residents. As they are both single, the conversation quickly turned towards the "single life" here in our city. One began to tell me she uses dental hygienist as her go-to occupation when meeting men, while the other uses flight attendant. I have to admit, the flight attendant bit is pretty genius – it actually explains our crazy schedules pretty well!
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One moment we are here, and another moment we have gone. And for this simple moment, how much fuss we make!How much violence,ambition,struggle, conflict, anger,hatred, just for this small moment! – Osho
via A rich man knows poverty as no poor man can ever know..
A poor man is never so poor because still he has hopes: some day or other, destiny is going to shower blessings on him; some day or other he will be able to arrive, to achieve.
He can hope. The rich man has arrived, his hopes are fulfilled — now, suddenly, he finds nothing is fulfilled. All hopes fulfilled, and yet nothing is fulfilled. He has arrived and he has not arrived at all — it has always been a dream journey. He has not moved a single inch.
A man who is successful in the world feels the pain of being a failure as nobody else can feel it. There is a proverb that says that nothing succeeds like success. I would like to tell you: nothing fails like success. But you cannot know it unless you have succeeded. When all the riches are there that you have dreamt about, planned about, worked hard for, then sitting just amidst those riches is the beggar — deep inside empty, hollow; nothing inside, everything outside.
In fact, when everything is there outside, it becomes a contrast. It simply emphasizes your inner emptiness and nothingness. It simply emphasizes your inner beggarliness, poverty. A rich man knows poverty as no poor man can ever know. A successful man knows what failure is. At the top of the world, suddenly you realize that you have been behaving foolishly. You may not say so, because what is the point of saying it? You may go on pretending that you are very happy — presidents and prime ministers go on pretending they are very happy; they are not. They are just saving their faces. Now, what to say? There is no point even in saying anything — they are not true.
So I read this blog today about this person explaining their concept of love and marriage and how society has skewed this concept and makes people who get married young feel like idiots for doing so. Being young should be about dating around and getting to know people and falling in love multiple times before choosing someone to put a ring on it, according to society. As a person who has lived a life of little commitment and much lust I can say that this approach is probably not the best. One of my best friends started dating a guy when she was 14 and now at 23 she has been married to him for almost 2 years now. When I was younger I viewed what they had as something that did not appeal to me. My perception of being with someone that long to me seemed like limiting your growth as a person and your life experiences. Today I see them still so much in love. They value and respect each other so much and its fascinating to know that it is possible to be so in love with someone who has remained constant and almost routine in your life. Although they have known each other and become best friends, they are always trying new things and go out and have night life fun with others. I see what they have and its beautiful.
My dating life on the other hand has been relationships under a year with a lot of time in between each relationship to talk to many guy and go on dates just to explore. I didnt develop any feelings for more than half of the men I talked to and in others there were qualities that I truly enjoyed and hoped that my future lover with possess those qualities. At the end of so much dating, you combine a list of qualities that you like and another list of things you do not want in a lover. When you finally find someone that you can be yourself with and you enjoy them so much, there's always that baggage that you take around with them. There's no way one person can possess everything you like about these people and there's no way one love can give you the same emotions as another. The only thing that changes is how much you are willing to give to yourself to this person. Perhaps there will be a time that I will love this person more than I could ever imagine and he will be exactly what I want, but for now I can see how my history can be a burden for my mind. I was watching videos of this philosopher named Osho who said he did not believe in the concept of marriage because it was about possession. He said that a woman's body is erotic everywhere and that marriage would cause guilt and internal problems because the sight of a beautiful woman would make him want to spend time with them. This bothered me because I did not see what was wrong with wanting to be with just one person. As time goes by your lover won't seem as exciting as new potential lovers because our brain gets used to the stimulus of one person and a new one would definitely cause excitement. However, it is vital to understand that and know that there is something so beautiful being with one person. It is not about being possessive because you can't possess someone's soul, however it is a decision to be loyal and dedicated to this person's despite having lustful thoughts.
Love is a commitment, it requires constant work and its something beautiful to be shared with another. Lovers who get married young may be settling with someone who may not be the best for them, or maybe they may know exactly what love is about. They view love as something simple and pure, and that is much more beautiful than someone who expect love to be unrealistic and that person to be perfect. We are all flawed. The point of love is to find someone we are happy with and can still grow as a person through time. I think my own perception of love is skewed but I'm trying to figure it out little by little.
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I got engaged at an early age, and though others may scoff at that, I don't regret it for one minute.
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Sometimes, people treat me as if I'm insane for getting engaged at a young age. They always fool me into thinking that life is a set of calculations I have to solve before even considering marriage, and I hate it. They think I'm idiotic when I say I don't have all the answers, but I have a direction and plan. They comment on how I should have everything lined up, and I'm left feeling like my romantic view of love has been zapped of all its wonder and magic.
I start to believe them, that maybe love is more than just wanting to marry your best friend; it's money, a secure job, insurance, car payments, rent, and all the troublesome things of real life.
This is the problem I have with many views on love circulating around our culture today. Too many people empty love of its fascination, making it more a matter of getting your ducks all in a row instead of sweeping you away in something profound and magical. People blog on the joys of being single, parade around how great it is to be young and not engaged, and talk to those who are engaged as if they're making a mistake. But in my mind, these views don't have the right perception of love.
Maybe, we're against getting engaged at an early age because we believe the wrong things about love.
Call me a rebel, but I don't think love is dependent on my age. Here are the things I do believe about love, the things that propelled me to propose in the first place:
1. Love is not an end
Some people's solution to the growing divorce rate in America is to find out who you are and get what you want in life before you enter marriage; that way you're never left guessing whether you could've had more during your marriage. I hate this view. It makes it seems like you have to have everything together before you get married, like marriage is a halt to your ambitions, stopping you from doing what you want and becoming who you need to be.
Love is not an end. It is continuous, encouraging and cultivating us to be more in this world. Love, when expressed in its greatest fashion, is meant to encourage your dreams, not stifle them.
2. Love is not part of a checklist to life
When people talk about life and love, they act as if falling in love and getting married are part of some cosmic checklist to life that everyone has to accomplish. The thing about this view is that when you have checklists, you feel unsatisfied unless you move onto the next thing and cross it off your list. Marriage then becomes a requirement for everyone.
For me, I find magic in the idea that marriage is not something I have to do; it's something I choose to do. Seeing marriage in this light adds value to what I'm doing, beautifies it by making it a choice rather than an obligation.
3. Love is not determined by age
People say I'm young, and that's true. But when people say I'm too young for marriage, I oppose that. Maturity and love are not defined within numbers; they're expressed through manner. Sometimes, maturity is linked with age, but as you grow older, your thinking, your circumstances, and how you position yourself in society define your maturity. If you prove yourself to be ready for marriage, then a number shouldn't tell you otherwise.
4. Love is not measured by the quantity of your money.
People wait to get engaged until they make a certain amount, and there's nothing wrong with that. But that's not my story. In my heart, I was wildly in love with my fiancé, so much so that I couldn't wait till I had a steady job. What I knew was that when it came down to it, I would buckle down and provide, no matter what that costs me.
If to love is to risk, then let love be measured by risk, not by how comfortable you are.
5. Most importantly, love is an adventure.
Some people live boring love stories, where their relationship is nothing more than a routine of dinner and a movie. When love is viewed as a routine, it's easy to encourage others not to jump into it at an early age. We tell others to live life while they're young, but maybe, to love is to live life. Because love, in its right sense, is an adventure, compelling us to live better stories with our lives. It doesn't make sense to dull love down to habit and procedure. If love is to live to its potential, it should continue to sprout new stories and new journeys, sprinkling our lives with creativity and enjoyment rather than boredom.
Love is the most creative and daring adventure anyone could choose to go on. This means that the only end associated with marriage is the ending to a boring and complacent story.
These are the foundational lessons on love I'm holding onto as I get ready to marry my best friend. They remind me that the only insanity I have is to love deeply and passionately; and in my opinion, that's the best form of insanity there is.
I think my worst character flaw is pride. It's something that has caused me much pain that I inflict on myself and I have chosen pride over many things before. Pride has serve me some good because it does not allow others to take advantage of me and it gives me the initiative to end something that is not doing my soul any good. The older I have gotten the more I have made it a conscious effort to have enough pride that it is good but not enough to a point that it blinds me and causes me pain and problems.
This weekend was interesting because it made me think of so many things. I've developed very strong feelings for someone and being in the honey moon phase you often forget how quickly relationships can get sour. They're something that is a CONSTANT working progress and dedication, its like a commitment you take to constantly nurture it and give your real raw you to them. Anyways, I got really insecure and hurt from something so simple and even though I tried convincing myself that I had forgiven him, the way I felt kept eating at me and my pride kept yelling at me to be prideful and be alone, as always. I tried so hard to see from his perspective and tell myself that I could not continue being so unforgiving and being so prideful in relationships like I always am. Who seriously ends up having a relationship that works with too much pride? That's right, that shit ends because pride is seen as a strength and vulnerability is a weakness and unacceptable and without vulnerability are you really being yourself? This same event that happened this weekend made me think of how I made an ex-lover feel because I did something similar times a million times worse. When he could not understand me or forgive me I was enraged. Karma came and did something slightly similar to me and even though this should have made me more understanding, it didnt. My pride kept telling me that I was better off alone, that relationships were too inconvenient for me, that it was not worth swallowing my pride for this. Pride causes you not to express how you really feel. Pride causes you to display someone that's not really you. Pride stems from fear and not wanting to feel insignificant.
I decided to forgive, truly forgive and stop having pride be such a big factor in this and choosing to show my weaknesses and insecurities instead of portraying myself as a strong woman who won't take shit from anyone. In all relationships, there has to be an understanding that pride needs to be controlled in many situations.


text: Will Hines is an actor and writer who has performed at UCBT since November 2000. He currently lives in Los Angeles, where he performers with The Smokes. He's been on the TV shows "Broad City," "Brooklyn 99" and "Inside Amy Schumer" and he also proudly played the character "Fat Professor" on CollegeHumor's hit web series "Very Mary-Kate." He's written and starred in many sketch shows at the UCB in his day, including "Small Men" (co-written and co-starring Neil Casey) which won Time Out NY's "Best in Sketch."


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Glimpses of adventure
Eternal Phoenix Company
Named after the inn of the same name, the company is based in Bet Rogala, the capital of Pekal. It is said that the name comes from a previous group with whom Kurgan adventured in his younger days.
Its members are a diverse bunch but they are all linked in a way or another to the current owner of the inn, Kurgan. Three of the members are his adopted childs, another is a distant niece from the mountains and the fifth one is a gnome that came to Bet Rogala to study magic at the college.
Members of the the company
- Mieka Damvalk the dwarven fighter
- Ariana Amoroth the druid
- Faerbast Bogazi the gnome sorcerer
- Darian Amoroth the undead monk
- Darius Amoroth the rogue
Past histories
Nothing is known about the past. yet.


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In recognition of Remembrance Day, the SOHL Office will be closed Monday November 12. Please take a moment to remember those who have sacrificed their lives for our freedom, and those who have and continue to serve to protect us and our country, Canada.
Please be advised that our office will be closed on MONDAY, JULY 2 to observe Canada Day.
International Mother Language Day
Each year, Saskatchewan Organization for Heritage Languages (SOHL) organizes public celebrations to commemorate February 21st, the UNESCO-proclaimed "International Mother Language Day". This year, SOHL recognized that with the funding limitations it was experiencing, a sponsor for a provincial event would be required in order to proceed with a provincial event for International Mother Language Day. Unfortunately, a sponsor could not be secured in time for this year.
Therefore, SOHL encourages the heritage language community and membership to acknowledge and celebrate International Mother Language Day by organizing your own local activities.
We are pleased to indicate that for next year's event, sponsorship is being developed with two sponsors that will include a national media broadcaster. Event plans have been initiated with an update in the fall.
The Saskatchewan Organization for Heritage Languages (SOHL) is pleased to introduce our new Program Coordinator - Yvonne Gray.
Yvonne comes with a wealth of administrative experience. She worked with the provincial government for fourteen years including being a member of the government's administrative team for the millennium celebrations in 2000 and the provincial centennial in 2005. She was co-owner of an event and project management business, oh my! solutions, for nine years and worked extensively with the cultural community. Yvonne is looking forward to working with Gord and the SOHL Board in promoting heritage languages throughout our province.
Thank you to everyone who applied for our position of Program Coordinator, the candidates were outstanding and well qualified - it was difficult to select only one! You will all meet our new Program Coordinator shortly!
Annual General Meeting taking place on Saturday, June 17 in Regina at St. Athanasius Catholic Church (55 McMurchy Ave).
The day will consist of member consultation in the morning, followed by lunch (Subway sandwiches). After which we will have Praxis Consulting present a current report of the work they have done for SOHL during our transitioning period. The AGM will end the day and include Board Elections for both Vice-President and two positions for Director at Large.
A chartered bus is being provided for our Saskatoon members to help with the travel for the day. For more information on this service, please contact the office 306-780-9275 or sohl@<at style="box-sizing: inherit;">sasktel.net </at>
Looking forward to seeing you all there!
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I have met more people in the past two weeks than the entirety of last year. As week three begins at my new job, I continue a round-robin marathon tour of the company's activities. From producers to directors to shaders to board ops to gaffers ... the names and faces keep on coming. Invariably just about all of them ask me The Question.
All of us know The Question. All of us answer The Question all the time, sometimes several times a day. Electricians ask it of each other on coffee. Directors ask it of potential LDs. The IATSE review board ask it of applicants. Interns ask it of those they shadow. My supervisor asked me on my first interview, as has every fellow employee since. It's an seemingly innocuous question. It looks so innocent. After all what could be simpler than wanting to know what you've done?
So go ahead. Try it. Right now. Whip out a recording device and answer (without any practice) The Question: What have you done? If you're on-site, just pretend you're booking work on the phone. It won't be weird. We'll wait.
I've been asked The Question approximately 463 times ... give or take ... and my answers have all been different. Sometimes I give a long and thoughtful response; other times I manage only three or four words. Some days I emphasize my extensive experience in project management; other times I omit any knowledge of production whatsoever. Sometimes I name drop; mostly I don't. I never gave much thought as to how I answered The Question. Suddenly, now, I'm thinking about it a lot.
Timing seems to matter greatly. Too long and you're trying too hard. Nobody likes people who try too hard. Too short and you're a labeled a newbie. Extremely short and you're a jerk. The length of the answer also depends on your audience. A person interviewing you for a job may want a lengthy, in-depth answer. A fellow electrician may just want the highlights so you two can quickly establish common ground, which comes in helpful while running a 1/2 mile of multi-cable through The Central Park Zoo at 2 A.M. without food, water, breaks, or adequate work lights.
To pile on the complexity, the immediate environment hugely affects the answer. If the board-op asks you The Question two minutes before taping starts, the response cannot include the time you zip-tied bundled 4/0 feeder to a sprinkler pipe in Studio B at Peter White Studios and that to this day you're surprised it didn't tear the pipe out of the ceiling flooding the party with moldy water. There's just not time to fully express the asininity of that experience. If a fellow employee asks you The Question over lunch, it's best not to describe the working conditions of the strike after "The Black Party," held at The Roseland Ballroom, and how you'll really miss that pair of pants and shoes which just had to be thrown away. So any good response to The Question must be timely and situationally appropriate.
An individual also cannot appear too excited. Too upbeat a response may grate against the cynical attitude a lot of industry veterans portray. After all this crowd really has seen it all. Under no circumstances should one volunteer to answer The Question without having been asked -- huge mistake. This includes inserting small pieces of the answer unsolicited into routine conversation. For example, if someone says, "Run up channel 12," nothing should be said that resembles, "Back when I was running [insert closed show] on Broadway I got really good at working an Eos. So, I'll do it. Not a problem." That awkward silence immediately after is the crew head mentally picking your replacement. Nobody likes anybody over-eager to talk about themselves. Only when asked The Question are you given permission to answer it.
Speaking of [flourish] Broadway, when is it appropriate to drop names? I find this variable the most difficult to gauge on-the-fly. For example, I designed the lighting for a one-off at Lincoln Center's Avery-Fisher Hall once. Is that impressive? That largely depends on who you are. If you're my mother, you're probably hugely impressed. If you're a fellow television LD in NYC, you probably couldn't care less.
I think the most appropriate method of name dropping consists of a limited amount of names dropped and only using names in the industry of the person asking the question. For example when a television board-op asked me, "What have you done?," I named all the networks I've worked at in the past. That same answer to an Off-Off-Off-Broadway board-op -- who probably has a day job answering phones at a medical office -- would be incredibly obtuse. Theatre-folk love love love to drop names. I never know who they are talking about because it's not my world. It probably never will be. Conversely, if I started dropping names of really cool past events or interesting television shows my co-workers design, their eyes would glaze over too. I get name dropping is a vital part of general networking and also an important component of answering The Question. Who the audience is, though, matters tremendously.
After every answer I give to The Question, I mentally evaluate my response. Was it too long? Did I reference my prior work appropriately? Did I use too many or too few names? Should I have included this job or that experience? It's maddening. I hear myself and think, "Who is this boring person meekly speaking about their experience right now?" My neuroses aside, how does anyone compress a career of production into (at best) 45 seconds? How does anyone express a competence that comes from being neck-deep in the trenches -- installing, designing, and striking gear again and again in conditions most non-industry people don't even think still exist in this country?
I know I should stop fretting. I suspect nobody even remembers or cares about the responses I gave. Maybe, then, it's less about what you say and more about how you say it? Or, perhaps, it's the complete opposite? Or is it a common way to break the ice and really means nothing? Then again, in some circumstances, it could mean everything.
So I practice more. I rehearse my answer to The Question in the shower before work. One day it will be timely, situationally appropriate, and nonchalantly said (only after being asked) using just the right amount of names. It will be perfect in every way. Sadly, on that same day, I will be probably be old enough to retire.
Lance Darcy is a Lighting Director and Director of Photography for The Lighting Design Group, based in New York City.


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Dual drive via optical bay on mid-2010 27" iMac?
Installing iMac Intel 27" EMC 2309 and 2374 Dual Hard Drive
Is this method compatible with the mid-2010 / EMC 2390 / iMac 11,3 model?
From what I've gathered, I'm guessing it's not recommended because mid-2010 machines support dual drives without losing the optical drive. But if I want a more simple installation, can I just use a 12.7 mm optical bay enclosure to add an SSD to my machine?
Is this a good question?


text: I have not been to the grocery store in a while. I went today and could not believe what I saw. Every single item in the store seemed to be a lot more expensive then before. I also stopped at a Wendy's and could not believe that I had to pay 7 dollars for a meal. I went to happy hour, had 1 drink and it was ten bucks. There is no doubt in my mind. Inflation is out of control, rates are going up. The price of food is going up like the price of Google. Gasoline is way over 3 bucks. How can they not raise rates at this point? Its simply out of control. Anyone who does not believe inflation is out of control must be out of their mind.


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Final Fantasy house Square Enix has announced significant moves at the top of the management chain, with Euro head John Yamamoto assuming North American CEO responsibilities from Square Enix top dog Yoichi Wada.
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Why did the other one leave ? Also Multi-Platform Rpgs are usually bad ....
Why would Square Enixe put Final Fantasy XIII on a crapy console that always breaksdown 2 months and 2 weeks. and it doesnt mean that there going to have a new CEO that is american it doesnt mean hes going to like the XBox 360 and make it multiplatform nice_cuppa antonius05 -.


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To paraphrase Mark Twain: contrary to my previous blog, reports of the death of the Big Society are grossly exaggerated. The Cabinet Office recently released an outline of their plans to give the Big Society legs, and there is a distinct possibility that they will run all over the country, although to stretch this already strained metaphor, the idea may take some time to get its shoes on.
A noteworthy conceptual point is that the document made reference to "Society - the families, networks, neighbourhoods and communities that form so much of the fabric of our everyday lives". That's not quite a definition, but it's good to see the idea given some tangible structure. As I indicated previously, Margaret Thatcher's contention that "there is no such thing as society" is often wrenched out of context, because she actually said:
"There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first. It's our duty to look after ourselves and then, also to look after our neighbour. People have got the entitlements too much in mind, without the obligations. There's no such thing as entitlement, unless someone has first met an obligation." (My italics).
So families and neighbours are already part of the otherwise purportedly nebulous notion of "society", and now we have the explicit recognition of networks and communities too. This is the core turf of our Connected Communities project.
Recent updates on the unfolding Big Society include the fact that Nat Wei, the founder of Teach First, has been appointed as the new Government advisor on the Big Society. Meanwhile, Ed West at The Daily Telegraph fears the idea is too New Labour, and author Zadie Smith doesn't think the idea makes much sense:
"The big society? I don't know. I don't really want to build my own school or my own hospital – I appreciate it if someone else does that for me," she said. "I am not so keen on that kind of people action. I think most people would like their services prepared for them. I am not a great fan of that concept."
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Sky diver Inmate Actress Vanessa Hudgens made an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel recently to promote her new film Spring Breakers, and boob alert! The star was precariously close to a wardrobe malfunction! The strapless orange jumpsuit VHudg wore showed a lot of cleavage, and, well, there are some pretty risque photos of her on the Intrawebs right now. A word of advice: When you're lucky enough to be so well-endowed, Vanessa, you may want to consider wearing something a little less low cut. Up to you.
But, see, that's not the biggest problem with this outfit.
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Some other options? Oh, I don't know, a shawl, a leather jacket, a Snuggie, a curtain you ripped down from your dressing room -- anything but a sweatshirt. Sweatshirts are for walking the dog; running errands; gardening; sleeping; sweeping. They're not for complementing a fancy outfit that probably costs more than I make in a month.
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How to Teach Using Simulation in Healthcare provides an ideal introduction and easy-to-use guide to simulation in medical education. Written by a team of experienced medical educators, this practical text - packed full of case examples and tips - is underpinned by the theory of simulation in education, and explores how to integrate simulation into teaching.
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How to Teach Using Simulation in Healthcare is invaluable reading for all healthcare professionals interested and involved in the origins, theoretical underpinnings, and design implications of the use of simulation in medical education.
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Chapter 7: Running a simulation session: some practicalities, 55
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Thurston Moore clocks in at 99 in Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Guitarists. And here we have category confusion. What measure did they use? Technical ability? Influence? Record Sales? Ability to roll off stacked diatonic fourths in every position on the fret board?
It seems to me that Thurston deserves a higher spot, if only because of his expanded use of the instrument. You don't get wailing pentatonic blues, you do get album after album of unique and perfectly executed riffs. And lets not even start on alternate tunings.
Certainly there have been more experimental guitarists, like Fred Frith, but no one more popular, listenable and experimental...perhaps only Lee Ranaldo. And this is the weird thing, Lee Ranaldo doesn't make the list. It is very difficult to work out who is playing what on any Sonic Youth recording so quite how Thurston pipped Lee I do not know. Perhaps he is thrown a bone for being the more prolific songwriter?
Nice to see a guitarist who is influenced by Alban Berg as much as he is by Jimi Hendrix.
Absolutely no qualms with his place in the hundred but in my opinion he should be up around 50. There are an awful lot of pedestrian players ahead of him...and what exactly have they done? His contribution of popularising experimentation seems a huge contribution to me.


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Dehradun: 42 percent polling was recorded till 1 pm in Uttarakhand where five Lok Sabha seats went to polls in the eighth phase on Wednesday.
Nearly 42 percent of the electorate across the state have cast their votes till 1 pm, Chief Election Officer Radha Raturi said.
A polling official, Arvind Singh died of a heart attack today at Nargarha booth of Bagheshwar district which falls in the Almora Constituency, she said adding, polling is being held peacefully in all the constituencies with no other report of any untoward incident from anywhere so far.
Polling began amid tight security across the hill state for Pauri-Garhwal, Tehri, Nainital, Almora and Haridwar seats at 7 am with men and women in large numbers turning up at the polling stations since early morning to cast their votes.
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Elaborate arrangements have been made to conduct free and fair polling across the state with the deployment of 48122 poll personnel on the state`s 10,094 booths, election officials here said.
The 48,122 polling personnel deployed on the booths include 11,484 presiding officers and 36,638 polling officials, the state election officer informed, adding that 711 micro observers have also been deployed to ensure free and fair poll.
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Some high profile candidates trying their fate in these elections are three former BJP chief ministers Bhuvan Chandra Khanduri, Bhagat Singh Koshiyari and Ramesh Pokhariyal Nishank besides Chief Minister Harish Rawat`s wife Renuka, former CM Vjay Bahuguna`s son Saket and daughter-in-law of erstwhile Tehri royal family Mala Rajya Laxmi Shah.
BJP heavyweight Khanduri is pitted against Cabinet minister and Congress MLA from Ruydraprayag Assembly constituency Harak Singh Rawat in Pauri-Garhwal Lok Sabha seat.
Former CM Koshiyari is taking on sitting Congress MP K C Singh Baba in Nainital from where AAP`s Balbir Singh Cheema and BSP`s Laik Ahmed are also trying their luck.
Nishank, also a former CM, is pitted against Harish Rawat`s wife Renuka in Haridwar from where AAP nominee and the country`s first woman DGP Kanchan Chaudhry Bhattacharya is also in the fray.
Former CM Bahuguna`s son Saket is pitted once again against sitting BJP MP Mala Rajya Laxmi Shah in Tehri to whom he had lost by more than 20,000 votes in 2012 bypoll to the seat.
In Almora sitting Congress MP Pradeeep Tamta is pitted against BJP`s Ajay Tamta.
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6033 Kenzie Lane, Lot #47, Dublin, OH 43017
- $469,900
- 3 Beds
- 2 Full | 1 Partial Baths
- 2,890 sq ft
- Year Built: 2018
- Condo / Town home
- Listing #218018129
New Build Detached Condo 6033 Kenzie Lane, Dublin, OH 43017 Call Becky 614 327-0759 for information at The Village of Coffman Park. Virginia Homes new build, 6033 Kenzie Ln Lot #47 is now completed and ready to move in. This model called the "Kilcullen" is 2890 sq ft. All with first floor Master bedroom and bath. This price includes the basement with 9 ft ceilings and a rough in for a bath. Many other upgrades in the price! You will see granite in the kitchen, fireplace with bookcases, large closets, basements, laundry rooms on first floor and rear paver patio for grilling and relaxing. Open floor plans to entertain family and friends, with fabulous community center with large party house, outdoor fireplace & deck that overlooks beautiful, peaceful lake with fountain. Walking paths surround the pond, only a few blocks from all shopping, restaurants and major highways. Builder anxious to sell, Fall promotions going on now! Come to Open House every weekend or call for showing any weekday.
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Poor Man's Fruitcake
Preheat oven to 350 F
Grease and flour one 8 1/2x4 1/2 x 2 inch loaf pan.
Heat raisins, sugar, lard, and water till sugar dissolves, and lard melts. Cool
Whisk together, or sift the dry ingredients. Add dry to wet, stir well.
Pour into prepared pan.
Bake 45 to 50 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the middle comes out clean.
Wrap and store for several days before cutting.
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A beautiful fresh tart from Rachel Allen's Everyday Kitchen
A beautiful fresh tart from Rachel Allen's Everyday Kitchen
- for the shortcrust pastry tart case:
- 200 g (7oz) plain flour
- 100 g (31/2oz) chilled butter, diced
- pinch of salt
- 1/2–1 egg, beaten
- for the filling:
- 10 ripe tomatoes, halved widthways
- 2 tblsp olive oil
- 1/2 tsp sugar
- salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 25 g (1oz) butter
- 1 onion, peeled and finely chopped
- 2 eggs
- 200 ml (7fl oz) double or regular cream
- 2 tblsp torn or sliced basil
- 150 g (5oz) cheddar cheese, grated
- 23cm (9in) diameter, fluted, loose-bottomed tart tin with 2cm (3/4in) sides
- Sift the flour and salt into a bowl and rub in the butter until the mixture resembles coarse breadcrumbs. Add half the beaten egg and, using your hands, bring the dough together, adding a little more egg if it is too dry to come together.
- If you are making the pastry in a food processor, sift in the flour and salt and add the butter. Whiz for a few seconds, then add half the beaten egg and continue to whiz for just a few more seconds until it comes together. You might need to add a little more egg, but don't add too much – it should just come together. Don't over-process the pastry or it will be tough and heavy. Reserve the remaining beaten egg for brushing over the finished pastry.
- Without kneading the dough, carefully shape it into a round, 1–2cm (1/2–3/4in) thick, using your hands to flatten it. Cover with cling film and place in the fridge to chill for about 30 minutes.
- Meanwhile, preheat the oven to 180°C (350°F), Gas mark 4.
- Take the pastry out of the fridge and place it between two sheets of cling film (each bigger than your tart tin). Using a rolling pin, roll out the pastry to about 3mm (1/8in) thick. Make sure to keep it in a round shape and large enough to line the base and sides of the tin.
- Removing just the top layer of cling film, place the pastry upside down (cling-film side facing up) in the tart tin. (There's no need to flour or grease the tin.) Press the pastry into the edges of the tin, with the cling film still attached to the dough, and using your thumb 'cut' the pastry along the edge of the tin for a neat finish. If there are any holes or gaps in the pastry, simply patch them up with some of your spare pieces of dough.
- Remove the cling film and chill the pastry in the fridge for 15 minutes or in the freezer for 5 minutes.
- Remove the pastry from the fridge or freezer and line with greaseproof paper or baking parchment, leaving plenty of paper to come up over the sides. Fill the lined tart case with baking beans or dried pulses (you can use these over and over again), and bake 'blind' for 20–25 minutes or until the pastry feels just dry to the touch on the base.
- Remove the paper and beans, brush with a little of the remaining beaten egg and return to the oven for 3 minutes. Again, if there are any little holes or cracks in the pastry, patch them up with any leftover raw pastry before returning to the oven, so that the filling doesn't leak out during cooking. Once the pastry has been baked blind, take it out of the oven and set aside in the tin while you make the filling.
- For the filling, place the tomatoes on a baking tray, drizzle with the olive oil and sprinkle with the sugar and 1/2 teaspoon of salt. Place in the oven and bake for about 45 minutes or until completely softened and a little browned around the edges. Remove from the oven and allow to cool.
- Meanwhile, place a frying pan on a medium heat and add the butter. When melted and foaming, add the onion and cook, stirring occasionally, for about 10 minutes or until golden. Remove from the heat and set aside to cool.
- In a bowl, whisk together the eggs and cream and season with salt and pepper.
- Spread out the fried onion pieces in a layer in the blind-baked tart case. Top with two-thirds of the cheese, then arrange the cooked tomato halves on top. Next pour in the egg mixture and top with the remaining cheese. Place in the oven and bake for 30–40 minutes or until golden brown on top and just set in the centre.


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Digital photography: how it works and how to improve it
In this article, we look at the essence of digital photography, its technology and main characteristics of digital cameras. You will also learn about ways to improve your photos and share them in web albums.
Technology of digital photography
Color reproduction and color spaces
How digital camera registers the picture
Output image formats
Digital photo size and resolution
Improvement and retouch of digital photos
Technology of digital photography
In digital photography each image is, in fact, a file containing an array of data in the digital format. Besides, digital photography uses an electronic device, a sensor, as a photosensitive material.
Both in film and digital cameras, the light from the scene being photographed focuses in a lens, then falls on a photosensitive material (a film or a sensor, in the case of a digital camera).
Digital technology in photography made it far easier to take and store photos. Digital photography has many advantages over film, which include:
- Instant review of pictures.
- Greater flexibility and speed in taking photos and getting the result.
- Ability to take and store an almost endless number of images.
- Cheaper permanent storage on digital media.
- Easier and cheaper copying, printing and distributing.
- Ability to embed metadata within the image file, such as the time and date of the photograph, model of the camera, shutter speed, flash use, and other similar items.
- Ability to capture and store hundreds of photographs on the same media device within the digital camera.
- Ability to retouch the photo and apply various filters.
A more comprehensive review of digital photography can be found in this article: "Digital versus film photography".
How digital camera registers the picture
The heart of a digital camera is an image sensor that consists of an array of tiny pixels (PIcture ELements). The number of megapixels (1 Megapixel = 1 million pixels) is one of the major factors for a digital camera, though there are other critical things, such as processing system inside the camera that turns the data from sensors into a color-balanced photograph, the physical size of a sensor and camera lenses characteristics.
Sensor pixels are also called photodiodes or sensors. When you press the shutter-release button on your camera, the light starts to fall on photodiodes (elements of a camera sensor), and they begin to store photons into its cavity. Photodiodes are color blind, that is they are unable to determine the color of the light that falls on them. So digital cameras use different color filters to transmit light through. The most common are filters for three basic colors – red, green and blue. So, the camera is able to calculate the number of photons of three basic colors that fell on each photodiode while the shutter was open.
To calculate all color components around each photodiode, red, green and blue filters should be situated adjacently. This makes it possible to convert raw image data into a full-color image in RGB (Red Green Blue) space. The most common type of color filter array is called a "Bayer array".
You can learn more about color filters, and the way they are arranged in sensors, from this article: "Color filter array".
Digital photo size and resolution
When making a photo, you can select resulting photo resolution (number of megapixels in a photo). Maximum resolution is a significant factor for cameras, but it is not the only measure of image quality; a larger sensor with the same number of pixels will generally produce a better image than a smaller one. One of the most important differences is an improvement in image noise. This is one of the advantages of digital SLR (single-lens reflex) cameras, which have larger sensors than simpler cameras of the same resolution. Common image sizes are 640 x 480, 1280 x 960, 1600 x 1200, 2048 x 1536, 3008 x 1960, 3088 x 2056 and 4064 x 2704. The larger image size, the better is printed photo quality.
Color reproduction and color spaces
Color reproduction (gamut) is dependent on the type and quality of sensor used and the quality of the optical system. Different sensors have different color sensitivity; the photographer needs to understand his equipment, the light conditions, and the media used to ensure accurate color reproduction. Many digital cameras offer RAW format (sensor data) which makes it possible to choose color space in the development stage regardless of camera settings; in effect the scene itself is stored as far as the sensor allows, and can to some extent be "rephotographed" with different color balance, exposure, etc.
Output image formats
The uncompressed and unprocessed image data captured from the image sensor is called RAW format. Ordinary, if you are not a professional photographer, you don't use RAW files, because most part of point-and-shoot digital cameras don't output photos in this format; besides, you need special RAW converters to process "negative" RAW files into a "positive" file format. On top of that, there is a different RAW format for each manufacturer and camera model. Different manufacturers use their own proprietary RAW formats, and offer their own software for raw processing. Image formats most frequent in the internet are .JPEG, .PNG and .GIF formats.
JPEG is a standardised image compression mechanism. This format is designed for compressing either full-color (24 bit) or grey-scale digital images of "natural" (real-world) scenes.
It works well on photographs, naturalistic artwork, and similar material. However, it is not advised to use it for lettering, simple cartoons, or black-and-white line drawings, as files will come out very large or artifacts will be noticeable.
GIF is an 8 bit format which means the maximum number of colors supported by the format is 256. GIF uses LZW compression algorithm.
GIF format was developed in 1987 by CompuServe to provide a color image format for their file downloading areas. In 1989 the format was enhanced; the new version added support for animation delays and transparent background colors. GIF favors flat areas of uniform color with well defined edges, that is why it is best suited for logos, other sharp-edged line art with a limited number of colors and simple animations.
PNG (pronounced Ping) is a bitmap graphic format that uses lossless compression. This format was developed to surpass the limitations of GIFs. PNG is patent-free, it has better compression and supports millions of colors. It also provides greater depth of color, catering to images up to 24 bit in color.
However, PNG format will never completely replace GIF, as it doesn't support animation and the difference in compression rate for small images is no more than 5%.
Improvement and retouch of digital photos
Each digital image is, in fact, a set of pixels. In RGB color space each pixel has 3 components corresponding to the three basic colors: Red, Green and Blue. The depth of color (a number of bits used to represent a color) determines how many different colors an image may have.
As any image file is a set of digital components, it can be easily edited just by changing the value of Red, Green and Blue components. This is a main principle of any photo editor, either online or offline.
Digital photography has taken photographing into a realm of infinite possibilities when it comes to image editing, storing and sharing. That is why digital photography is rapidly replacing traditional film-based photography.
But even digital photos sometimes are not ideal. A common nuisance is the notorious 'red-eye' caused by the flash light bouncing directly back from the center of the eye. If you use an entry-level point-and-shoot camera, or use a professional camera with improper settings, you may be disappointed with poor color and lighting.
We always want to see well-balanced photos with nice composition, vivid colors and unblemished faces. Of course, you can study Photoshop or ask professionals to retouch your photos, but it takes much time and money. A wise alternative is using online services and easy-to use software tools at Pho.to site that was specially designed to let you fix the most common problems of your photos in a snap.
Pho.to site offers efficient, easy to use and mostly automatic image editing tools (both online and offline). Also, here you will find a wide set of photo manipulation tools for fun and entertainment, like services for making photo montages, creating animated avatars or even changing face mimics on a photo.
More useful information on common problems of point and shoot photography and on how to fix them can be found on Photo Tips & Tricks page. There you will also find tips on arranging your photos into cool web galleries and 3D albums.
Pho.to team believe that you will have lots of fun learning to understand and edit digital photography. Don't be afraid to experiment, you will certainly enjoy it!