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La Dolce Vita vs. Un Héros Très Discret
When fighter pilots fought face-to-face
Blood writing for real
Weird MS grammar
Dealing with uncertainty
Steamboy: A Very Peculiar Apocalypse
Simon Brown in Year's Best Horror
"Argonauts" for Realms of Fantasy
For whom the Pell tolls
Big in Bulgaria
Chapter One
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The slums of Canberra
26 DEC 2004 | source Frankenblog | permalink
The Monster for Health and Ageing, Tony Abbott, has just released the details of the new Medicare package. Of particular interest to GPs is the higher rebate for doctors working in areas of special need. This includes all rural regions, which is reasonable, and all of Tasmania, because apparently Hobart and Launceston are no longer cities. There are also several city areas deemed to be of special need, such as Darwin and outer Melbourne, whose citizens have limited access to healthcare. Of the 28 non-rural areas of special need, 5 are in the ACT and one is Queanbeyan, which might as well be in the ACT. This means that 21% of all Australia's areas of special need are to be found in a territory that holds 1.8% of the population (I've excluded Tasmania's population from this calculation).
I had never realised until now that our national capital was wracked by such poverty. And it is worse than I could have imagined...the median household income in the ACT is 136% of the median Australian household income. By simple deduction, we can surmise that the poor people in Canberra must be much, much poorer than the poor people in the rest of Australia. In fact, assuming the population of Canberra has the same proportion of wealthy people as, say, Sydney, we can calculate that the poorest vingtile of Canberrans must earn a negative income.
Please, next time you meet someone from Canberra such as a political adviser, a senior public servant, or a diplomat, offer them shelter and a meal.
Xmas wishes
24 DEC 2004 | source Frankenblog | permalink
The United Nations aren't.
Free trade isn't.
Peacekeepers don't.
Whatever your religion, philosophy, or politics, I guess we can all agree that world could change for the better. Let's wish for peace in Uganda, democracy in Iraq, and humanity in the Sudan. If you're thinking of donating to charity this Christmas, I humbly recommend the Red Cross, still the most judicious of all the international aid agences, and CARE Australia, which has no religious or political philosophy other than essential humanitarianism.
La Dolce Vita vs. Un Héros Très Discret
19 DEC 2004 | source Frankenblog | permalink
Obligatory Spoiler Alert! You have been warned
I saw my first Fellini film tonight, La Dolce Vita. I am chastened to admit I didn't enjoy it very much. I have seen other critics' takes on it, including those whose opinions I appreciate, but I honestly can't see why it is held in such high regard. Sure the camerawork is astonishing, the performances exemplary, and there are moments of genuine cinematic genius...but the fact of the matter is that this is a movie about a man's pointless life that illustrates its message with repetitive scenes of pointlessness. For three hours.
I suspect that the critics who love the film are bringing a lot of their own baggage into their appreciation -- much as my love for Les Enfants du Paradis is enhanced by my knowledge of its history, which has nothing at all to do with what goes up on the screen. Fellini made La Dolce Vita in 1960 with a narrative structure that would be utterly alien in Hollywood. It trangresses a lot of sexual boundaries in ways that were extremely provocative in its time, but now look almost naturalistic. It was the film that introduced (indirectly) the word "paparazzi" from the name of one if its characters, Paparazzo. And the opening sequence is gobsmackingly good film-making. I shudder to think how much effort Fellini put into the way the shadows work in those first images. For film buffs in 1960 with a desperate appetite for something outside the Hollywood straight-jacket, I can see why this would have an impact...but its flaws more than outweigh its successes. It is way too long. It satirises intellectual preening, but satire should be funny and pointed rather than excruciatingly dull. Worst of all is the dreadful psychologising. In continental Europe of that era, incoherent political-psychological commentary was sophisticated; looking back on it from the vantage of a half-century's experience of pop-psychology implemented by political force, it is downright embarassing.
Last year's French-Canadian The Barbarian Invasions deals with this issue, when an ageing and dying Marxist intellectual admits how gauche he was when he once complimented a Chinese woman on the Cultural Revolution. Of course, like the contemporary viewer, The Barbarian Invasions has the advantage of hindsight. Fellini did not have that advantage; but then neither did Orwell, Greene, or Camus -- or Shakespeare and Chaucer for that matter -- yet they managed to avoid the trap of constructing flimsy post-hoc psychological explanations for the sake of unlikely plot contrivances.
There are some extraordinary sequences in La Dolce Vita that will live with me forever, such as the Miracle Tree scene, which remarkably manages to conjoin cynicism and humanism, but almost everything of interest takes place in the first half of the film, and thereafter it's a ninety-minute drive to nowhere.
For reasons that are not entirely transparent to me, I would like to compare La Dolce Vita to another foreign film, a 1996 French movie called Un Héros Très Discret. It was marketed to English-speaking audiences as A Self-Made Hero; as usual the direct translation would have made a better title. It is not a Great Film. It won't turn up in any Top 100 lists and doesn't deserve to, but it has something that makes it, for me at least, a vastly superior experience to La Dolce Vita -- and it's not just that you can watch it in half the time it takes to sit through La Dolce Vita.
Un Héros Très Discret stars Mathieu Kassovitz as a young Frenchman just after the Second World War who pretends he was a member of the Resistance. He conjures up the life of a hero because he has an overwhelming appetite for social approval. As is usual for stories about people living a lie, the bulk of the story is taken up with the hero's mimicry of Resistance fighters followed by his increasingly strained efforts to cover the holes in his story. It's classic French farce. But what sets Un Héros Très Discret apart is its completely atypical denouement. Our hero, Albert, is given leadership of a group of men whose job it is to secure the countryside after the war. They receive reports of some chickens going missing and on investigating, uncover a small unit of German soldiers who have been hiding in a forest since the end of the war. The French round them up and find them to be a sorry lot in tattered uniforms, unshaven, and starving. And then something extraordinary happens: Albert finds himself confronted with a situation where he needs to show heroism, not of the standard variety, but a deeply difficult moral choice. He summons up his courage and finds himself capable of rising to the task -- and the next day he disappears to return to his old, anonymous life. Albert has finally discovered what heroism means, and it has little to do with the sort of things that win war medals -- and he doesn't like it in the least. He has no appetite for playing the hero anymore. (In the Hollywood remake, God forbid it would ever happen, the Third Act would show Albert redeeming himself by committing an act of great physical courage, and his detractors accepting him as a hero after all.)
To this jaded filmgoer, the flaws in Un Héros Très Discret give way at the end to an extremely moving and sophisticated resolution, whereas La Dolce Vita ends with a slice of highly contrived symbolism. I know which film I'd rather watch again.
When fighter pilots fought face-to-face
12 DEC 2004 | source The Aerodrome | permalink
As you plug the latest flight combat sim into your Xbox or PS2, spare a thought for a time before radar and air-to-air guided missiles; when synchronising the machine gun with the propellor was Anthony Fokker's design breakthrough that prevented the pilot blowing his own propellor off; when pilots referred to their planes as "flying coffins." I'm talking of the first ever combat aircraft: the planes of World War One.
The very first air-to-air combat kill in history took place in January 1915, when a German plane was shot down by an Allied pilot from a rifle shot.
If it seems extraordinary that the first combat pilots carried rifles into the air with them, just consider what happened when engineers got involved and really made life hard. Frederick Libby, the first American ace, said of the F.E.2b:
When you stood up to shoot, all of you from the knees up was exposed to the elements. There was no belt to hold you. Only your grip on the gun and the sides of the nacelle stood between you and eternity. Toward the front of the nacelle was a hollow steel rod with a swivel mount to which the gun was anchored. This gun covered a huge field of fire forward. Between the observer and the pilot a second gun was mounted, for firing over the F.E.2b's upper wing to protect the aircraft from rear attack ... Adjusting and shooting this gun required that you stand right up out of the nacelle with your feet on the nacelle coaming [sic]. You had nothing to worry about except being blown out of the aircraft by the blast of air or tossed out bodily if the pilot made a wrong move. There were no parachutes and no belts. No wonder they needed observers.
RFC officers demonstrating how to deal with an attack from the rear in an F.E.2b: the observer stands up and faces backwards while holding on to the rearward machine gun for all his life's worth. If the observer is shot or thrown from the plane, the pilot cannot reach the guns and is effectively disarmed. Later models, such as the one pictured, overcame this deficiency by mounting a third Lewis gun in front of the pilot. Here the pilot can be seen aiming his machine gun for the gaps between the legs of the observer and the forward gun. Understandably, the men preferred to give this demonstration on solid ground with the chocks in place.
The Sopwith Camel was a major advance, but hardly safe:
Much like a real camel, this aircraft could turn and bite you. Noted for its tendency to kill inexperienced flyers, many pilots feared its vicious spin characteristics. Until sufficient speed was developed during takeoff, Camel pilots maintained full right rudder to counteract the torque from the rotary engine. Failure to do so often resulted in a ground loop with the Camel crashing on its starboard wingtip. During World War I, 413 pilots died in combat and 385 pilots died from non-combat related causes while flying the Sopwith Camel.
The Germans didn't have it any easier. The Fokker D.VII was designed with assistance from Baron Richthofen himself, although the Red Baron never got to fly it in combat, having being shot down only days before it entered service. The D.VII was considered the supreme combat plane of 1918, but...
When introduced, the D.VII was not without problems. On occasion its wing ribs would fracture in a dive and high temperatures sometimes ignited planes armed with phosphorus ammunition or caused their gas tanks to explode.
And this was the technically superior fighter plane on the front.
It is worth bearing in mind that this was by all measures one of the most extraordinary flowerings of technological development. The Wright Brothers' first powered flight was in 1903; they did not demonstrate in Europe until 1908. For European engineers, powered flight went from a non-existent technology to a critical instrument of battle in six years.
Farman F7 Longhorn
In service 1912
70 h.p. Renault engine
max. speed 59 m.p.h.
wooden frame, like Wright Brothers design
Fokker D.VII
In service 1918
220 h.p. Mercedes engine
max. speed 135 m.p.h.
tube-steel frame, highly maneuverable
And of course the history of WWI aviation contains a reflection, like the world in the sand-grain, of all the stupidity and waste of the Great War. One of the very first pilots to be killed in action was Adolphe Pègoud, a French pilot who was the first European to use a parachute and the first pilot to perform a complete loop. Instead of helping develop the field of aviation with his pioneering spirit, he died age 27, shot down by one of his former students, Walter Kandulsky. Two days later, Kandulsky dropped a wreath from his plane over the place he gunned Pègoud down. Men who loved and respected each other put their minds to killing each other for the sole purpose of preserving the honour of their kings. To get a feel for the scale of the folly that was World War One, multiply Kandulsdky-kills-Pègoud by a factor of 7.2 million.
Blood writing for real
11 DEC 2004 | source sneedle flipsock | permalink
Margaret Ruwoldt has kindly informed Frankenblog of the following item from the Annals of Improbable Research:
As a test of the name-to-bioactive peptide concept, a peptide was designed to have an amino acid sequence that corresponded to the letters of the name of the current US Secretary of State, Colin Powell. The resulting peptide, COLINPOWELL, was chemically synthesized and subjected to a battery of tests...
My goodness, it's "Written in Blood" in action. But wait, as the telespruikers are fond of saying, there's more:
It gave positive results in 50% of tests including: anticancer activity;...immune boosting activity;...no deleterious effects on plasma coagulation. Studies of the structure of the peptide showed that it resembled portions of naturally occurring proteins. These results indicate that peptide, COLINPOWELL, might have useful biomedical properties...
Well, yes, and random number generators might give winning lotto sequences. Presumably the peptide CONDOLEEZARICE would demonstrate the same properties, only with a greater affinity for GWB receptors.
Weird MS grammar
10 DEC 2004 | source Frankenblog | permalink
We're all aware of the deficiencies of computer grammar checkers, I hope, but this is particularly bizarre. I wrote this:
"I hear all sorts of fanti stories. I don't believe half of 'em, lad, and I'm sceptical about the other half. But I need to hear 'em told."
Fanti is slang from the WWI trenches meaning mad or insane. Apart from the spellchecker not recognising the word, the paragraph was fine. Then I remembered that the story narrator is writing this down and that in that time, starting a sentence with "But" was considered terribly ungrammatical. So I fused it into one sentence:
"I hear all sorts of fanti stories. I don't believe half of 'em, lad, and I'm sceptical about the other half, but I need to hear 'em told."
MS Word seems to think this is grammatically flawed and that I should substitute "I'm" for "I are." I are!
I are thinking about it, but it sound not right.
Dealing with uncertainty
30 NOV 2004 | source Frankenblog | permalink
I received two medical letters from specialists recently that I thought I'd share because they illustrate how good physicians deal with uncertainty in the scientific literature. I've removed any identifying details, of course.
Letter #1 is about a woman with trigeminal neuralgia:
She has tried Neurontin, Endep, Tegretol and local anaesthetic injections and a steroid injection in the area without benefit...I think the options are very limited. I would like to try Botox injections because I do them regularly and because of the recent experience with them in other pain syndromes. I have explained to her that this is an unproven application of Botox and that there would be initial problems with slight droopiness of her eyebrow and weakness of the forehead which would wear off over some months.
Letter #2 is about a man with recurrent oesophageal stricture:
I have today changed his Nexium to Pariet in the hope that the smaller size of the Pariet tablets may be passed through the narrowing with much ease and may actually become more effective. I have also put him on some sucralfate 1g three times per day. He is to crush the tablets before taking. This is mainly with the hope that we may be able to heal the raw surface area more quickly and may prevent stricture relapse. However, commencing sucralfate is based on a lot of optimism here rather than evidence.
Emphases added.
Steamboy: A Very Peculiar Apocalypse
28 NOV 2004 | source Frankenblog | permalink
The creator of Akira is back. Nearly twenty years after the film that launched anime into Western cinemas, director Katsuhiro Otomo has returned with his second feature, Steamboy. Superficially, Steamboy is a very different beast to Akira. Steamboy is set in England during the Industrial Revolution whereas Akira was set in a future Japan, but these films are cut from the same cloth. Both films are obsessed with ways of conveying motion. Both films explore the destructive powers of technology. Both films build to a technological apocalypse.
As animated art, Steamboy is extraordinary. The availability of CGI has opened up new avenues to explore, and Otomo does so with a delirious joy that borders on the compulsive. This is both its blessing and downfall. Even without CGI, the hand-drawn motion effects of Akira were more gripping. The problem with CGI is that it makes it too easy to fall for the Crescendo of Explosions that has become the standard ending (I refuse to use the word climax) in Hollywood action movies. Otomo is no Hollywood hack -- he turned down Hollywood financing because of the strings that came attached. Although there are plenty of explosions in Steamboy, they are not the dominant visual trope. But Otomo falls for his own melancholy steampunk version of the Giant Meaningless Explosion. In Steamboy, the explosions are replaced by bursting pipes, clouds of steam, and crumbling edifices. They are all highly symbolic, but towards the end of the film the sheer repetition leaches all sense of spectacle. Instead of being jolted, the audience is numbed. Oh look, another crumbling building! And there's another pipe bending! Look, more steam! Whelan the Wrecker comes to the Turkish baths!
As a story, Steamboy starts beautifully: Ray Steam is a young lad living with his mother in Manchester while his father and his grandfather are away in America building dangerous new steam machines. There is a stunning early scene where an engine running a weaving factory loses control and it is up to young Ray to turn the machine off. I remember an engineer telling me that factory lines, like ocean liners, have momentum and you can't just stop them dead with the press of a button. Here Otomo's fetish for the minutiae of machines works to brilliant effect. The power and fear of rampaging machinery is conveyed compellingly.
And then the wheels fall off. Young Ray receives a package from his grandfather in Boston, with a note telling him not to let it fall into anyone's hands. Barely minutes later, two menacing henchmen appear at the cottage and start making veiled threats...and a few minutes after that, the grandfather himself appears in person to tell Ray what he has already said in the letter! Narrative coherence is not Otomo's strong suit. From there Steamboy degenerates into an unsubtle examination of good scientists vs. bad scientists, vox-pop diatribes about the evils of science, and ridiculous symbolism that kills any possibility of suspending disbelief.
There are very clever elements in Steamboy. I was particularly taken with the idea of taking Robert Stephenson, the designer of the Stephenson Rocket, and turning him into an Industrial-Age secret agent for the Empire. As a lover of steampunk, I was delighted by tbe decision to set the story entirely in Manchester and London and the Crystal Palace. There are some excellent patches of dialogue ("Simon, what is going on?" "We seem to be at war with England, Miss." "Simon?" "Yes, Miss?" "Don't lose.") in an otherwise moribund script. And there is a moment when Roy's father, who lost his arm in an industrial accident and built himself a new one, pilots a giant steam-powered citadel by pushing his mechanical arm into the machine and having the cogs of his arm merge with the cogs of the control system. This is gorgeous stuff. This is man/machine identity crisis. This is steampunk.
So it is a great pity that Otomo cannot develop the story beyond an insultingly simplistic parable which only seems to end because the budget for wanton destruction ran out. Steamboy looks great and has moments of delight, but any joy is soon suffocated by undisciplined story-telling, blatant and patronising evangelising to the audience, and imagery so repetitious that it becomes hard to tell one scene from another. See it if you like that sort of thing.
For background, read Japan Times on the production timeline. There's a sad story buried in there.
Simon Brown in Year's Best Horror
24 NOV 2004 | source Frankenblog | permalink
Friend and collaborator Simon Brown will be in the next volume of The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror. His story "Water Babies" was chosen by editor Ellen Datlow as one of the top thirty or so stories for the year published anywhere in the world. It's a great achievement. It's also a feather in the cap for Cat Sparks, who edited the Agog! anthology the story first appeared in. Cat has done more for Australian genre fiction in the last five years than anyone else I know. Congratulations to ye both.
"Argonauts" for Realms of Fantasy
I received an email yesterday telling me Shawna McCarthy has decided to buy my 10,000-word Ancient Greek Grand Guinol pastiche story "Countless Screaming Argonauts." I think. I'm going to celebrate anyway. You have no idea how hard it is to find a professional market for a 10,000-word Ancient Greek Grand Guinol pastiche story.
For whom the Pell tolls
14 NOV 2004 | source Frankenblog | permalink
Cardinal George Pell, the archconservative ex-archbishop has made another public statement that will stand in the Museum of Fools Hall of Fame. Pell is calling for a change to democracy. He wonders how we can justify democracies that allow abortions and gay marriages. He doesn't seem to understand that the basic principles of democracy mean that churches don't get to dictate state policy. Even more bizarrely, he actually claims that liberal democracy "engenders" religious intolerance. Coming from a senior representative of one of history's greatest instigators of religious violence, this statement beggars belief. (In news tomorrow: how the Spanish Inquisition would never have been convened if not for the Jews and witches, and how the root cause of the orthodox schism was the lack of hospitality Constantinople showed the Fourth Crusaders.)
I was going to write a careful, point-by-point rebuttal of the Cardinal's statement, but then I realised there was no point. His comments are so off-beam as to indicate that he has lost all touch with reality. What is the point in responding to the comments of a man who gets about in a red frock telling people what God thinks? The man should be institutionalised. Wait a minute --
Big in Bulgaria
Jack Dann has just sent me a cheque. Apparently he's managed to sell the rights to Gathering the Bones to Bulgaria. The cheque is for US$8.62, which means I get to bank $1.20 at today's exchange rate, after bank fees. I'm not going to bother. This is one of those cheques that is worth more as a memento than as money. (Sorry, Jack. Hope it doesn't screw up your reconciliations.)
I'm very pleased to be published in Bulgaria, but the economic realities are clear. If you really want to know what it's all about, have a read of The Truth About Publishing, Ian Irvine's new warts-and-all article about the realities of being a writer. Ian is not some schmuck with a chip on his shoulder about lack of success; he is one of Australia's most respected fantasy writers. (This link was brought to my attention by Sean Williams.)
Chapter One
13 NOV 2004 | source Frankenblog | permalink
OK. I've just finished the first chapter of what I hope will be the final draft of Proof of Concept before I submit it to be torn apart by agents, editors, and publishers. I've been slow as a snail on Serepax, I know. But Christ, this is hard work and I've had a lot of other things on my plate. Still, I'm happy with this chapter. It has a pretty damn good hook. At least, I think so. This is how the chapter ends:
...It remains to be seen if the lesson Harry and I have learned is of any use at all. We might achieve nothing. We might even make things worse. If we're still alive next week, we might be able to say.
It's not quite there yet. The cadences aren't quite right. But the idea's there. Now try to imagine it in context...
Parental pride story
16 OCT 2004 | source Frankenblog | permalink
My son Alex just turned six. The other day, he was drawing shapes and I heard him say, "a corner...a corner...another corner...another corner...." and so on. I asked him what he was drawing and he said, "It's a googolagon!"
Not a bad invention. The real term is a googolgon, not a googolagon, and a googolgon has so many corners that you can't actually see them (by that I mean a googolgon drawn several times the size of the observable universe would be circular down to the sub-Planck level). And Alex doesn't have a real understanding of what a googol is, other than that it's a REALLY big number. Still, I was impressed.
Here's an image of the birthday boy enjoying less intellectual pursuits.


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UP to 180 million people are infected with hepatitis C.
Scientists say they have, for the first time, worked out the pattern of spread of hepatitis C, showing early diagnosis is key to preventing epidemics.
The researchers said their results would help tackle the disease's spread.
Globally, up to 180 million people live with the virus, most are unaware that they have it. Those infected do not develop symptoms for up to 20 years and spread it to others without realising.
Study leader Dr Gkikas Magiorkinis, from Oxford University, said when people were infected with something such as flu it was very easy to work out where it had come from, because people knew they were infected within days.
But with hepatitis C, no-one has been able to pin down how the virus spreads, because cases occur months or years apart.
To overcome this problem, the researchers looked at four hepatitis C epidemics in Greece, using data from 943 patients collected between 1995 and 2000.
The researchers said that people were more infectious at in the early days of catching hepatitis C because they had higher levels of virus.
The evidence they have produced suggests programmes targeting the diagnosis and treatment of hepatitis C in high-risk groups as early as possible would prevent many new infections and associated health care costs many years down the line.
About 20% of those infected will develop cancer or liver scarring after 20 years of infection, at which point the only treatment is liver transplantation, which costs about N25 million.
Dr Magiorkinis, who did the work in collaboration with the University of Athens and Imperial College London, said the model had helped build a "solid argument" to improve early diagnosis and antiviral treatment in drug users.

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The Lady of the Decoration by Frances Little description:
Set between 1901 and 1905, the story is presented as the diary of a young missionary kindergarten teacher in Hiroshima, Japan who travels to Vladivostock, Russia as a consequence of the Russo-Japanese War. At the dawn of the 20th Century, most Americans knew almost nothing of Japan, and Little's novel presented a view of Japanese life that captured the imagination of the reading public, making it the No. 1 bestseller of 1907. Followed by The Lady and Sada San.
pers, and laughed at the big sleeves.
"Where are you going to wear all these lovely things?" asked Miss Dixon. And again my heart sank, for even my simple wardrobe, planned for the exigencies of school life, seemed strangely extravagant and out of place.
But I want to say right now, Mate, that if I stay here a thousand years I'll never come to jerseys and eight-year-old hats! I am going to subscribe to a good fashion paper, and at least keep within hailing distance of the styles.
It is too warm to go down to the school yet so we are to spend a week in the mountains before we start in for the fall term.
Dear Pa and Little Germany have been here twice in three hours but I saw them first.
Home letters will not arrive until next week, and I can scarcely wait for the time to come. I keep thinking that I am away on a visit and that I will be going back soon. I find myself saving things to show you, and even starting to buy things to bring home. I have a good deal to learn, haven't I?
HIEISAN. Au
1 The Shepherd of Banbury's Rules to Judge of the Changes of the Weather, Grounded on Forty Years' Experience by John Claridge
2 Mr. Punch Awheel by John Alexander Hammerton
3 The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 3 by Robert H. Newell
4 The Boy Scouts in the Rockies by Herbert Carter
5 Notable Women of Olden Time by Anonymous
6 Beasley's Christmas Party by Booth Tarkington
7 The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot
8 The Submarine Boys' Lightning Cruise by Victor G. Durham
9 The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer by Charles James Lever
10 At Sundown by John Greenleaf Whittier


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Cathrine "Cat", Office Manager/Patient Services
"Cat" moved to the upstate in March of 2013. Cat is a native of Sweet Home Alabama. Cat began her dental career shortly after high school in 1992 as a dental assistant and obtained her dental hygiene degree from the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 2002. Cat met her fiance' while White Water Rafting on the Chattooga River in 2009 and now resides in Long Creek, SC and works on the weekends at Southeastern Expeditions in her spare time. When not at work Cat enjoys traveling, spending time with family and making it home in the fall for Alabama football and tailgating.
Beth, Insurance Specialist
Beth is originally from Texas where she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology and Counseling. She enjoys getting to know the patients at Fort Hill Family Dentistry, but her specialty is working with insurance companies to ensure good care for our patients. Beth and her husband live in Clemson with their three children.
Denise, Registered Dental Hygienist
Denise is a native of Indiana where she graduated from Indiana University School of Dentistry with an Associate in Science in Dental Hygiene. With over 25 years of dental hygiene experience, she credits her interest in dentistry to her sister, who is also a hygienist. Denise enjoys building personal relationships with her patients and finds the most rewarding part of her job is seeing the results in her patients as their oral and overall health improves. Denise lives in Clemson with her husband and two daughters. When not at work, she enjoys spending time with family, boating on the lake, traveling and, of course, Clemson football.
Michelle, Expanded Duties Dental Assistant
Michelle resides in Walhala, South Carolina, and she holds an Expanded Duties Dental Assisting degree from the University of Florida at Gainsville. In addition, she obtained a Radiology degree from the University of Tampa. Michelle has been a dental assistant for over twenty years and finds assisting to be very rewarding and enjoyable. Outside of work, Michelle appreciates spending time with her husband, children, grandchildren, and her two puppies. Her favorite leisure activities include camping and motorcycle riding with her husband.


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The Emu is the world's second-largest living bird, and like the largest (the ostrich), is also flightless due to its undersized wings. Its feathers are of a soft and downy nature and are unlike the generally-accepted idea of a feather with no rigid vein running down the center. When they have attained a mature age they stand between 5 and 6 feet tall, and can weigh up to 70 kilograms. In no way does their size interfere with their mobility as they can attain speeds of up to 60 km/hr.
They are a very versatile animal being found dwelling in forests, deserts, and also plains. Surviving in temperatures anywhere from less than zero through to climates as high as 100 degrees, they can live on a simple diet but do drink abundant amounts of water, consuming between 8 and 15 litres daily. Emus are hardy birds and some have been recorded living for 30 years, but it is their adaptability as a species that has seen them survive for 80 million years in their native home of Australia.
As a source of useful elements, the emu has held a special place in the lives of the Australian indigenous aboriginal people (Koori) for many centuries. Their meat was a good source of food (low in fat and cholesterol, high in iron and protein), their hides and feathers were used for clothing, bedding, and shelter, and last, but by no means least, the emu was a source of medicinal elements too.
Emu oil was utilised by the Koori people to help with many ailments, including accelerating the healing of wounds and burns, reducing arthritic and muscle pain, reducing itchiness and inflammation of insect bites, as well as aiding relief to general pain and swelling. Emu oil was also used with skin irritations and conditions, from sunburn to cracked lips. It is still being used today for many of these things.


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Ivan Hernandez is self described as "nerd gent comic jerk" That's right, no need for punctuation. When not forcing individual panels of comic books on the internet's population for proper acknowledgment of their radness, Ivan tells jokes all over San Francisco. I think it's his birthday this Wednesday too, so buy him a burrito and wrap it in a page from a Hellboy novella.
Colleen Watson is an idiot, according to her Twitter bio. But we know better. She is also a regular at Rooster T. Feathers, Colleen the SJ Improv, Punchline, Tacoma Comedy Underground and Utah's Wiseguys. She's opened for Arj Barker, has been molested by Norm MacDonald, and continues to take the Bay Area by storm with her biting and bitter comedy.
Mike Recine was nominated for Time Out New York's '~Joke of the Year'in 2010 and an ECNY award for '~Best Emerging Comic' . Most recently, he was selected to perform in the '~New Faces Showcase' at the 2011 Just for Laughs Festival in Montreal. Mike works really hard on his jokes and on being likeable. He owns 5 pellet guns and is happy to give you one.
Erin Lennox is a nice girl and a writer / comedian based in Brooklyn, NY. She is originally from Chapel Hill, NC and has been in exactly 3 bar fights. She hosts a weekly show at the People's Improv Theater called FRESH, which isn't always. And a monthly variety show called I LIKE YOU TOO with her best friends the Bandana Splits.
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Sunday, September 24, 2006
Dog Parkin
Then to the library.
Then cleaned house.
Then computer/phone calls/dinner/movie/bed.
The end.
Tuesday, September 19, 2006
Maybe it's already started...
I got off work early today so Lazlo and I headed to the dog park before another shower moved in. As we were walking home I got several raindrops in the eye. Gotta take advantage of that sunshine while you can.
Also can we get a Woot for Internet RADIO?! Radio here is like radio everywhere else: boring. Only when you get on the internets you can choose from 10,000,000,000 stations, most of which have playlists you haven't heard repeated in 4-hour loops. Joy. Pure joy. Blues. 30's Jazz. Trance/House. Whateva. Even the Denver Police Scanner.
Had dinner last night with mom. She was in town for a seminar. One night only. It was nice to see her again, (hi Mom!) even though it's been less than a month since they were here. Like she said, who know when we're going to see each other again. Could be decades! xoxoxox
Okay, time to go meet Keith @ the MAX station. I tell Lazlo, "Where's Keith?" and he goes berserk.
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
Got that itch.
But there are bills to pay first. BORRRRRRING.
I told Keith we should both make appointments for the end of the year. Then we would have something to look forward to. I have my design already. Or the basis of. I would like Whoever to tweak it a little; art it up. So it's like this:
Catrina with black butterflies coming out of her head. And the text "J'ai des papillions noirs tous les jours." Gotta find a font for that.
You know where you can get ANY font: The Internet. Oh Internet how I have missed you. The wi-fi was just not cutting it for me. Everything is so fast now. Praise Comcast.
It's supposed to rain tomorrow. Good. Lookin forward to it.
Here's a preview:
Saturday, September 9, 2006
I should be cleaning the house right now.
Highlight of The (Yester)Day: Getting the bill from the M.D. from my ER visit (in addition to the hospital's bill). For nearly $300 I received: mediocre, nearly unacceptable care from an M.D. who asked me how I was doing and then before waiting for an answer stepped out the door to take a phone call, then left me waiting in the holding pen for an hour and then came back to tell me "Sorry, can't help you," but would you mind signing this form saying you will not hold us legally responsible if you decide to jump out in front of a bus? Thanks so much. Appreciate it.
Wednesday, September 6, 2006
Lovin me some Neil Diamond.
Today Andy and I went to the dog park to play with Lazlo. So I got paid to exercise my dog. Andy wanted to! Seriously.
I'm slacking and abstaining from the Super Secret Yoga Society this week (again). Maybe I'll save up my free class for when I really really need it. Which would be....
Hopefully going to dinner with Tamiko and Dani tomorrow night. Maybe here? My mouth watered just reading their menu.
My kid sister sent me photos of her classroom and one of her with her class. So exciting! So proud of her. Lucky kids!
Highlight of the Day: Getting the bill for my trip to the ER. Next time I'll just burn the money and get the same amount of help that the good people @ Good Sam gave me. You know what would be nice? If I wrote them and said, "You know, you didn't help me at all. You just wasted my time." And then they would reply, "Oh, so sorry about that. Just disregard that bill."
Tuesday, September 5, 2006
Close encounters
Saturday morning we went to the Portland Market downtown… Dad had to get on the MAX (light rail) with other people; he was very brave. We looked at lots of crafts, ate some food, and people-watched. Dad summed up the morning like this: "I saw more lesbians today than I've seen in my life."
Mom and I dropped by VooDoo Doughnut to get something for Sunday's breakfast before we got back on the MAX. YUM. (Keith and I shared vegan chocolate with coconut donut and also a vegan sprinkle donut—both excellent; I am really glad about finding them, in fact I am making excuses to find myself in that part of town often.) Saturday evening we went to Halibut's where Dad ate his second basket (of three) of fish and chips of the weekend. Halibut's lived up to the expectations and everyone ate delicious eats. I have Sauvie Island corn on the cob and fries and raspberry lemonade (Welcome to Canker Sore City.)
Sunday after breakfast dad and Lazlo took a nap and Mom suggested we go to the ocean. OK! Load up. But it was hot in Portland and we forgot it's cold on the coast so all of us but mom forgot a jacket. The whole population of Oregon was on the coast. We drove and drove looking for a parking spot near an eating establishment and ended up in Manzanita. After an excruciatingly long wait for our food, we took Lazlo on a run for the beach where he nearly sprained his neck barking his head off at a kite. When it crash landed hard on the beach and Lazlo went sprinting for it, to shake it and break its neck no doubt, and I envisioned him destroying a $7500 kite. The wind was blowing but the sun was out and we all laughed and talked about the last times we had been to the ocean. Super great visit with them overall. It was just in time.This week's featured visitors: Tamiko & Dani!


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Check out this great memorial to the great Harold Pinter, where New York playwrights respond to specific plays in Pinter's canon.
(I cover "The Lover")
Check out this great memorial to the great Harold Pinter, where New York playwrights respond to specific plays in Pinter's canon.
(I cover "The Lover")
With the latest sonic technology at his disposal, comic marvel Reggie Watts moves through various scenarios in a kaleidoscopic mélange of supernatural musical outbursts and abstract comedic monologues. Co-created and directed by Tommy Smith — who previously collaborated with Reggie on the experimental theatricals Disinformation and Transition- Fait Accompli is a workshop of discovery, where Reggie will perform a completely different set of musical material every night of the run.
"Nakedly entertaining! Watts, with his cloud of black hair and surprisingly beautiful voice, is loads of fun to watch … Wouldn't it be strange if this is what the future of theatre looks like?" –Variety
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Sometimes you'll be so beautifully opposed: Should I Marry Him? or I Want That Dress. Sometimes your vanity overrides your sense of well-being and now look at yourself: Sequins and spangles and bright pink bows in your matted country hair, and thinking as men in white tuxes tax your costume with wild animal eyes I Should Buy A Mirror. And later, running in three-inch heels, you broke your ankle and fell into the arms of a man: Stout, muscular, with hair that could sail ships. You forgot life was a Restoration Comedy. You forgot all these entrances and exits and doors slamming in rapid succession have been scripted. If you squint your eyes you can see the Prompter, sitting in his box, waiting for you to Fuck Up so his life can have purpose. Who said it wasn't going to be lonely? Who could predict that Earthquake that destroyed Downtown but only knocked an old bottle off your broken refrigerator? The older you get, the less you believe in tragedy. Things happen: Things happen. Yesterday morning, you stared outside and contemplated how the sky got blue. Your former lover called and asked how the disease was going. Oh Fine, you replied, and sat around until it got dark.
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It is more than your average Bali villa, it is a piece of art constructed from the idea and guidance of Indonesian native, Dorry Afidick. "By Dorry" started off as a brand which labeled all of her creations. Let it be from a simple shirt design to a shower curtain pattern, Dorry always left her stamp with the two words "By Dorry." Now not only can these two words be found on her home made designs, but on the front of a beautiful Ubud villa.
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Flameless candles looks like a real candle but does not burn. These candles produce a beautiful, luminescent glow, very similar to that produced by standard votives, tea lights, or tapers. Flameless candles come in a variety of shapes and sizes, including those just mentioned, and in many round oblong shapes of varying heights. Many people love to light candles, but fire safety when using candles in the home remains a concern. This is especially true when you place candles in areas that are not under constant supervision, like the bathroom, or a seldom-used hallway. Even as decoration on a table, true candles knocked over, or grabbed by younger children can create problems. The invention of flameless candles helps solve this problem, since you get the pretty look of candles with none of the risk.
The look of flameless candles tends to be most convincing when you purchase votives, tea lights or round oblong candles in different sizes. With regular candles of these types, the flame and wick usually sink below the top of the candle, and the candles emit a glow when they are lit. Tapers are a little less effective in "fooling" people into thinking you've lit real candles, since the wick and flame of tapers are much more visible. They can still be very pretty, however, and are definitely safer.


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Zac had his first and second snow days last Thursday and Friday. We ended up with about 4 inches of snow but man was it cold. We have been huddled in the house since the cold started, we headed out a couple times for milk, bread, Mt Dew, and you know the things you cannot do without. I have been reading I am on my 4th book this month, I also have done a few scrapbook pages maybe I will get some pictures and add them. Today is a quiet day, Ernie is out watering the dogs as it is cold and the water is still frozen. Hopefully we will get above 32 degrees and it will start to melt. Zac is enjoying went back to school today, he enjoyed his 5 days off, played his play station 2, and watch cartoons, and played with his puppy.
Here is one of the layouts that I did, it is of a trip to the live historical farm. This is a Becky Higgins Sketch. I pulled out my Becky Higgins' sketch book and got 4 layouts done. I had a bad case of scrapper block and figured what better way to get pages done that pull out the sketch book choose a sketch and go.


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Recently the Spanish Tax Authorities (the Directorate General for Taxation or "DGT") issued a tax ruling regarding the indirect taxation of sales and purchases made using electronic currency ("Bitcoin") in vending machines and ATMs.
The DGT argues that, being it is a business and/or professional activity, such transactions constitute a business that is subject to VAT, according to Article 2 of Council Directive 2006/112/CE, dated 28 November 2006, on the common system of VAT taxation (the "VAT Directive").
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OMG! I'm alive!
I cannot believe I have been away from my blog for over two months.
Has anyone missed me? LOL!
But really I do have a very good excuse, I ran away from the cruel Alberta winter for the last week of January and headed to Mexico where my Nephew and his new bride exchanged their wedding vows.
After a wonderful week of laying around in the sun and stuffing ourselves silly, it was back home for two days and then we headed to Arizona where once again we are soaking up the sun! and enjoying the beautiful sunsets around the pool.
I finally pulled out the scrap booking supplies last night to make my granddaughter a Birthday card, she turned 15 on March the 18th and of course we were not there to help celebrate so I will throw this card in the mail tomorrow with a check so she can go shopping!
I found a fun sketch challenge blog called Seize the sketch and decided to play along.
Here is the picture of this weeks sketch
and here is my take on the sketch
sorry about not being able to crop the cards but I only have my laptop with me so it has been a real headache.
I did bring down my cricut machine this year and my gypsy so I was able to cut out this tray of cupcakes using cricuts Sweetshop cartridge.
I am also going to enter this in this weeks challenge over at Die Cuttin Diva's: Snack attack!
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Chinese officials and business leaders visiting Taiwan this week can expect a lukewarm welcome at best, with the resurgence of the pro-independence opposition casting further doubt on deals already slowed by public suspicion of closer ties with Beijing.
The eight-day visit by a delegation led by a former Chinese commerce minister and including Alibaba founder Jack Ma is seen by many in Taiwan as aimed at gauging the mood on the self-ruled island towards its giant neighbor after a stinging election defeat for its ruling party, the Kuomintang (KMT).
"The KMT is the most important partner of China. The biggest loser in this election is China," said Wu Chi-chung, an associate professor at Soochow University in Taiwan.
Elections on Nov. 29 for mayors and councilors island-wide eroded the power base of the KMT, or Nationalist party, forcing President Ma Ying-jeou to step down as party chief.
President Ma has promoted tighter economic links with China, but mounting opposition - often on security grounds - has already seen cross-strait investment flows slow from his early years in office after the KMT regained power in 2008.
Read MoreTaiwan's ruling party in crisis as China factor looms large
Chen Chung-Hsien, an official at the Ministry of Economic Affairs, likened the attitude in Taiwan to having a "big door" for inviting foreign investment, while the "door" for mainland Chinese investors was smaller due to restrictions they faced.
"You don't want anyone to see the tiny 'welcome' sign in front of that door for mainland investors," said Chen, who works in the ministry's Bureau of Energy, which is in charge of Taiwan's first offshore wind power generation project.


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summer' written all over it. Markku Salo recorded "On lämmin" (It is warm) in 1965. I'm afraid I don't know anything about Markku Salo. He recorded three unsuccesful singles in 1964-65 and was never heard of since. Which is kind of pity, becouse at least this song shows that he would have got some potential. The original summer song was called "In Summer" and it was performed by Billy Fury, (b. Ronald William Wycherley). Billy was a successful British singer from the late 50's to the mid 60's. Fury's Elvis Presley -influenced, hip-swivelling, and at times highly suggestive stage act contributed to his popularity. He never had number one UK hit, but this "In Summer" reached as high as number 5 in 1963.
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Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Guess Where I Am
I know what you're thinking: great minds think alike. What? You weren't thinking that about the coincidence of me being in the building Ben was posting about? Oh. You were thinking you've never heard the words "dashing" and "podiatrist" in the same sentence. Whatevs.
I'm on the roof of the Pasadena Professional Building, looking west down Union Street. The Professional Building stands gracefully at the intersection of Union and Madison Avenue, just as it has since it was built in 1925 (two years before City Hall). The official address is 65 N. Madison. The building has an interesting history, some of which I learned while I was there. I'll post more about it in the coming days.
Actually, the building hasn't always stood at Madison and Union. It used to stand at Madison and Herkimer; Union Street was once called Herkimer Street. Now I know how the Herkimer Arms got its name. That's the square white building in the lower center of this photo, the only extant apartment building designed by Greene and Greene and slated to be moved to a new location in the near future. Just beyond the Herkimer, with the aquamarine trim, is the brand new David Allan Hubbard library of the Fuller Theological Seminary, another of Ben's great recent posts. Further west on Union you see All Saints Episcopal Church and Pasadena City Hall. I don't know what those two huge buildings center right are called. Does that make me a bad person? Don't answer that.
More to come about the Professional Building and its early 20th century super-doctors. They didn't fly, but they built a mighty nice building.
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- Laurie said...
What a view!
I'm still chuckling over "dashing podiatrist." His brother, no doubt, is a swanky taxidermist. (Maybe a posh proctologist?)
I've clearly taken too much cold medicine.
Gorgeous pic, P. I didn't know that building was a Green and Green.
- February 4, 2009 at 1:00 AM
- Vanda said...
Those professional building can sometimes be snooty to buildings that have never finished high school.
- February 4, 2009 at 1:05 AM
- Kim said...
That is a really magnificent view! I'm only sorry you were there to see the dashing podiatrist. I'd love to see more of any Green & Green building. Your city is so full of treasures, and in sight in this shot is my fave, your city hall.
I will be in a classic historical period piece on Friday for an appointment and will try to capture a shot or two for you of that.
Enjoy that sunshine!
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- February 4, 2009 at 4:14 AM
- altadenahiker said...
They still haven't moved that building yet? So much drama.
- February 4, 2009 at 8:09 AM
This is a very interesting view, and the first time I've seen the new Fuller Seminary library - I'm usually too busy looking out for random people in the middle of the road (as in your photo) to be able to look around. But how did you manage to get onto that roof?
Thank you for the competition, Petrea, and for the beautifully inscribed book, Dianne. I've already started it!
- February 4, 2009 at 8:15 AM
- Bernie K. said...
I was going to say you were out loose in the city, getting high, but then I thought that would be stupid. So never mind.
- February 4, 2009 at 8:31 AM
- Stéphane Kardos said...
That's the kind of view I like at the moment :)
To answer your question yesterday dear Petrea, I was at the top of the parking structure on the corner of Union and Fair Oaks, looking toward Colorado. Not far from where we had our brunch few weeks ago.
- February 4, 2009 at 8:52 AM
- Petrea said...
Eeuw, "posh proctologist." That's just wrong.
Hee hee, Vanda. I hope this building hasn't been rude to the simpler ones around it.
Hi Kim, I'll look forward to that classic of yours.
Karin, remember that post on Pasadena PIO about Fair Oaks Court? I think the people who created that housing are the same people who're going to move the Herkimer Arms, and they're moving it to that same area. So maybe it'll be soon. Hoping.
Hi Barbara! I'll tell you how I got onto the roof in tomorrow's post. It was legal. I read the first chapter of Cut to the Quick. Already captivating and chilling.
Bernie: I was high, but I wasn't loose. As for stupid...
- February 4, 2009 at 8:54 AM
- ben wideman said...
Awesome picture Petrea! What a view! I think one of those buildings in the center right are the Westin hotel (far right). I'm not sure if the other one has a name.
The Herkimer Arms building is being moved for Fuller's new worship center - translated as "somewhere to hold major performing arts events" or "big enough space for commencement so that we don't have to hold it at Lake Avenue Church anymore".
- February 4, 2009 at 9:49 AM
- Margaret said...
I knew you were on Union. Does that count for something? But I think Vanda's right. Those Professional Buildings can be awfully full of themselves. A little elitist really.
- February 4, 2009 at 11:47 AM
- lynn said...
What a great view, but I couldn't have stood there. I get vertigo!
- February 4, 2009 at 3:25 PM
- pasadenapio said...
Recently I gave my staff graphic designer, the young and talented Zack, the task of shooting some new Pasadena cityscapes that include City Hall. Thanks for showing us a unique vantage point!
- February 4, 2009 at 4:19 PM
- Petrea said...
Hi Ben, I knew the Herkimer was on Fuller property, so thanks for the info. I'm glad an agreement was worked out to save the building.
Yes, Margaret, knowing I was on Union counts. Just knowing I was on a roof counts. For what, I don't know.
Lynn, I think vertigo's relative. If I'd been higher up I'd have gotten it, but the Professional Building's only 8 stories.
You're very welcome, PIO, I'll do it any chance I get!
- February 4, 2009 at 4:45 PM
- Christie said...
What a great shot, Petrea. I love the height you have here. I would love the "legal" story behind it. I have to admit I'm not fond of heights, but I don't want them to stop me either. Which is why I went skydiving. If that makes sense.
- February 4, 2009 at 5:38 PM
- Ms M said...
Great view and interesting history. Looks like a beautiful clear day, too.
Hope your visit to your dashing podiatrist went well. Better that than a swashbuckling surgeon...
- February 4, 2009 at 8:23 PM
- magiceye said...
that sure was a lovely view!
- February 4, 2009 at 10:28 PM
- Rose said...
Did you manage to get a photo of the dashing doctor?
- February 5, 2009 at 1:32 AM
- Petrea said...
Wow, Christie! I'm not ashamed to admit I have no intention of enter skydiving. I'm impressed!
Ms. M, a swashbuckling surgeon sounds like one to avoid.
Thanks, Magiceye.
Rose, I didn't think to ask! I'm shy about photographing people. I have to buck up about that.
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Welsh hunk Luke Evans ("The Raven," "Immortals") has scored the title role in F. Javier Gutierrez's reboot of "The Crow" franchise at Relativity Media.
Evans was the original choice for the role but scheduling prevented him from doing so. As a result, the likes of Tom Hiddleston and more recently Alexander Skarsgard were considered.
Ultimately though, the project's start date has been pushed back to early next year to accommodate his schedule and secure him. Negotiations are underway with a deal expected to be made shortly.
Evans' current schedule includes promotion for his role in "Fast and Furious 6," reshoots on the third "The Hobbit" feature, and the lead role in the upcoming "Dracula" reboot.
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Discussion in 'iPad' started by hasanahmad, Apr 24, 2012.
What is this, apps are using too much data and there is no way to delete the data or the cache
Two suggestions:
- see if you can clear the app's cache using iTunes
- if not, delete the app and then reinstall it using the App Store.
I noticed the AP Mobile app doing this also. I barely ever use the app and it continues to use more and more storage. I think it is something the developer can address in an update because I used to have a similar problem with the instagram app on my iphone.
I have the same problem. Did you ever find out how to fix it?
Delete and reinstall the app, but it'll just regain the cache over time, its there for a reason.
On another thread, we had members saying that no one needs more storage capacity than Apple provides!
Then Apple FINALLY releases a 128GB iPad.
In my opinion that's a great start but still not enough - especially for the prices they charge.
Tunein and iHeart Radio both do this to me although nothing like 150+ MB. And it's definitely an iOS Apps issue because if I use Tunein or iHeart on my Android devices the cache is stuck at roughly 500K and the app never grows in size.
If anyone uses the fb app--just take a look at how much space it hogs up--it went to 300mb docs and data
Have you tried turning off the iPad. Or doing a hard reset. Could force clear the caches.


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Hey babes! I hope you are having a wonderful Monday. A whole new week is here which means I am that much closer to marrying the love of my life! [ I have a count down and I'm not ashamed of it! ]
When Austin and I first got engaged I wasted no time making our registry. I spent hours choosing each pretty item for my soon to be new kitchen and felt quite satisfied with the finished result. Once my engagement bliss settled down I realized that some kitchen essentials were missing. Namely, the right cookware and bakeware! I adore cooking, and baking especially [ proof, proof, and more proof 😉 ]. Outfitting our kitchen with the right tools for creating the best dinners and treats is so important to me and Austin. Cooking together is one our favorite activities to do as a couple! It is important to us that we have the highest quality cookware and bakeware on our wedding registry so we can create the best possible results in our kitchen.
Creating a wedding registry is.. stressful. Am I the only one that completely stressed over that?! There are so many little things that are easy to forget to put on the registry. The bigger more essential items can be difficult to narrow down. When it comes to cooking fantastic meals, you need to start with fantastic cookware – Plain and simple. Starting with quality bakeware and cookware is key to coxing out the most delicious flavors from your food. I chose to outfit my first kitchen with Calphalon because I know that it provides me with the highest quality tools, that are expertly crafted and designed, to bring the best out of every meal, which is so important for me and Austin as we look to have the best cookware!
So what should be on your wedding registry? I have narrowed down the most essential cookeware and bakeware item that you need in your kitchen! These pieces are a great base to build off of. Many of these items can be added to your wedding registry in sets – making your life that much easier!
Essential Cookware
First things first: the cookware [ because you can't have dessert without having dinner first.. or can you? ]. Great results in the kitchen start with quality cooking tools. Selecting quality cookware is the ultimate way to build a kitchen collection that will encourage time together and inspire great tastes!
A starter kitchen, or any kitchen for that matter, should have these essential cookware items:
- 1 8qt stock pot
- 1 5qt dutch oven
- 1 large sauce pan
- 1 medium sauce pan
- 1 12in omelette pan
- 1 10in omelette pan
These basic pots and pans will become your lifeline in the kitchen. Every delectable dish will start in one of them and come together in chef quality dinners for you and your partner! The Calphalon Contemporary Nonstick 12-piece Cookware Set is a great starter set for to put on your wedding registry.
Essential Bakeware
I am a sugar girl! Desserts are my jam. I've never met a baked good that I didn't like! Baking is a precise art; it takes thought and care to bake a cake well. The right ingredients and the right pan can produce some insanely good desserts! Creating the best treats begins with the tools you use to make them.
Every kitchen should be outfitted with these essential bakeware items:
- 2 round cake pans
- 1 square baking pan
- 1 muffin pan
- 1 large baking sheet
- 1 small baking sheet
- cooling rack
You can make life in the kitchen even easier if you opt for Calphalon's Signature Nonstick Bakeware 6-Piece Set, and skip greasing the pan before you bake.
Good Cutlery
I absolutely cannot survive in the kitchen without a good set of cutlery. Knife cuts matter, babes! I started cooking when I was sixteen, and one of the first things that I learned how to do was knife cuts. Food just looks so much better when it's cut properly. Remember: We eat with our eyes first!
Every kitchen should have these essential cutlery items:
- 8″ chef's knife
- 6″ santoku knife
- 1 paring knife
- 6″ serrated knife
- set of 4 steak knives
- kitchen shears
- self sharpening knife block
Trying to prepare/cut food with dull blades is a [ no pun intended ] recipe for disaster. Make sure you add a self sharpening knife block to your wedding registry to keep those blades super sharp! The Calphalon Precision™ 10-Piece Space-Saving Self-Sharpening Knife Block Set is the perfect option!
Setting up your first kitchen can be a breeze – Calphalon products are available for you to add to your registry at many fine retailers, including Bed Bath & Beyond, Crate & Barrel, Macy's and Williams-Sonoma. You can add your favorite pieces to your wedding registry or add the collection set that suits your needs! You can also learn more about Calphalon product offerings by visiting Calphalon.com or by following them on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram at @Calphalon!
I am so excited to use my Calphalon cookware and bakeware to make many delicious recipes for years to come! I have already broken both sets in which the most delicious coffee infused scratch made granola. It is crazy good! The recipe is coming your way very soon!
What essentials do you keep in your kitchen? Did you have fun setting up your wedding registry? Let's chat in the comments!
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Sinc(x) interpolation
The Shannon Theorem states that given a signal limited in bandwidth with the maximum harmonic fc <= 1/2 Fsample you can rebuild the original signal by interpolating :
I wanted to write it down because I found the CH1 waveform funny. Its actually pretty!
So... last week I made lot's of progress, I'm now sampling at 100 MSPS... on the above picture the horizontal resolution is 20 nsec/div...
I will post again once I fixed the sinc(x) problem!


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Salt fish is not widely available here but you can make a more than passable version at home using fresh cod and sea salt. This could be fried, deep fried in a light batter or, as in this case, used to make croquettes. It is accompanied by an irresistible sauce made out of roasted baby tomatoes, red onion and roasted pureed red peppers.
The tortellini are best prepared ahead because they are tricky to make at the last minute. You could also prepare the salt fish dish and its sauce in advance so if you really were coming back for dinner after midnight mass it could be on the table in minutes.
If you consider tortellini too fiddly, you could make a larger filled pasta or even serve the prawn filling between two small sheets of pasta, but it will be less delicate.
The chickpea puree needs careful preparation. Chickpeas and aubergines are two foods that are too often poorly prepared because they are taken for granted. Soak the chickpeas overnight. Bring them to the boil and then immediately put in a very slow oven for several hours or simmer on a low gas. They hate rapid boiling and tense up. If you live near a Spanish or Portuguese shop, you could buy a jar of sumptuous cooked garbanzos.
Preparation time: in inverse proportion to the time taken to down the tortellini.
Ingredients (for four generous portions)
for the tortellini pasta
300g pasta flour
3 whole eggs
3 egg yolks
½ tsp salt
for the tortellini filling
200g uncooked large prawns
2 tbsp olive oil
25ml brandy
50g ricotta
4 spring onions
salt and pepper
for the chickpea puree
150g chickpeas
4 cloves of garlic
3tbsp extra virgin olive oil
50g parsley
salt and pepper
for sauteeing
2tbsp olive oil
25g butter
1. The day before, soak the chickpeas in plenty of warm water
2. The next day, bring the chickpeas to the boil along with the garlic, then immediately transfer to a slow oven (140 degrees C.) or a low gas so that the chickpeas simmer.
3. Make the pasta by combining all the ingredients and kneading until the dough is elastic and no longer sticky, 10-15 minutes. Wrap in clingfilm and transfer to the fridge.
4. Remove the intestinal channel and shells from the prawns and quickly fry in olive oil until they turn pink. Add the brandy and flambé.
5. Chop finely or process along with the ricotta, spring onion, adding salt and pepper. Place in the fridge.
6. When the chickpeas are soft, strain them and process with the peeled garlic, olive oil, parsley, salt and pepper.
7. Roll out the pasta dough using a rolling pin or a machine until it is almost transparent. You will have a number of wide strips of pasta that you should cover with a cloth to keep them moist until you come to use them.
8. Mark out 4cm diameter circles using a pastry cutter. Place a half teaspoon of filling in the centre of each one. Fold the pasta over to make an envelope and pinch it together ensuring that no air is trapped inside.
9. You can finish there or you can make the characteristic shape of tortellini by wrapping the pasta around your finger so that the two wings touch and then are pressed together. It will help if you gently push the filling into a fat little cord shape once you have created the envelope.
10. Heat the puree in a dish over a pan of simmering water or in a microwave. Put on a salted large pan of water to boil, reduce to a rapid simmer and add the tortellini a few at a time.
11. Depending on the fineness of your pasta, they will take 4-6 minutes to cook to al dente. Try one after four minutes. Strain them when they are cooked.
12. Heat a oil and butter in large frying pan, tip in the tortellini and sauté for two minutes.
13. Place a mound of puree on each plate, flatten it slightly with a spoon so that it provides a platform for the tortellini.


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U.S, Secret Service agents prepare to grab President Gerald Ford on a San Francisco street after Sara Jane Moore fired a pistol at him on September 22. Earlier in the month, Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme attempted to shoot President Ford in Sacramento, California.
"You Operate Instinctively"
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Sunday, August 9, 2009
Tobias' featurette No. 4 - Angels In America (NYC/MTL)
'Angels In America' is a band made up of two kids who have assumed the persona's Moppy Pont and Rob Rombus. Who met in High School in NYC and formed the group at that time. After self-releasing their 1st tape "Cunt Tree Grammar" they sent a copy to Thurston Moore & Byron Coley's Bull Tongue column in Arthur Magazine (R.I.P). Soon after that exchange they were invited to have the tape re-released by Moore's own label 'Ecstatic Peace!'. Moppy has been living in Montreal for the past year or so (and is returning to the states permanently after this tour). While they were staying in Montreal they picked up two backing members which they will be taking with them through the states all month on their first tour.
They have been described as "a really stoned Teenage Jesus and The Jerks." and variations of that. They are way too pretentious to have a myspace page but you can download some high quality mp3 versions of their tunes on WFMU's Free Music Archive.
They sell teeshirts at their gigs of a man in black face being hugged by witches for $5.00 printed on the thinnest and tightest material known to man. 1 size. Which they got wholesale for .99 cents each.
Oh and probably the greatest live band you will see this Summer! We got into it recently. This was a recorded conversation in their borrowed apartment from 1am after a long day of wearing colorful costumes, barfing sprinkles and gummybears for an artfilm called "Smile Stealers" that Moppy stars in and Rob Rhombus also cameos in. I will also mention that Rob Rhombus has a stick n' poke tattoo on his stomach of a gravestone that reads "PIZZA", which he got this Summer.
(Moppy Pont in the film 'Smile Stealers' by Jasa Baka)
(Rob Rhombus in the film 'Smile Stealers' by Jasa Baka)
Rob Rhombus: I gotta control myself.
Tobias: Okay. You're a band, you did a
tape, how old were you? 18? You covered 18 by Alice Cooper when you
were 18? Is that right?
Moppy: um huh.
Rob Rhombus: We were babies.
Tobias: You were babies.
Moppy: We were 18.
Rob Rhombus: I had adopted this baby.
Moppy: And we had just been adopted by Mr. Boombastic.
Rob Rhombus: Father Boombastic. He runs a mission.
Moppy: We said "Can you be cute to us?"
Rob Rhombus: Yah.. he was a real fi-yah-star-tah.
Tobias: And the tape?
Rob Rhombus: I made one. And then I tried to make another one. I
couldn't do it so I called up my friend. My friend Peter. Greazy
Peter. Yeah we made it and then we made more of it. Let's just leave
it at that, allright?
Moppy: Then we had a little rendezvous at Kinky's.
Rob Rhombus: Yeah it was just the usual stuff. You go down to Kinky's.
They make your paper pop.
Moppy: Now we have a lot of inserts. They made a big mistake.
Rob Rhombus: Let's just say we knew what they knew. Listen this is the
real deal. We had gotten Mr. Boombastic to sponsor us at this
Dance-a-thon. And for every dance he would donate a tape. So we got
really energized. And then we got all these tapes outta the deal.
That's true. That's a true story.
Tobias: How many shows have you played in total?
Moppy: 4
Rob Rhombus: 5.
Tobias: So you've been a band two years and you've played 5 shows. 2
in the last week. And then.. a 100 in the next month on tour in the
Rob Rhombus: We just decided to start showing our turds. Spreading our
stuff around. Smearing it. We are going to teach the people about
Tobias: Who's your favorite philosopher?
Moppy: Maria Bello.
Tobias: Angels In America is..
Rob Rhombus: Some Kinda Monster. It's this quote we heard in Some
Kinda Monster. Phil Towel says it. Then Lar's dad reiterates it later
in the film.
Tobias: What do you think about..
Rob Rhombus: I got this rash. Seriously. Off the record. I gotta rash.
Moppy: I think this is a good interview.
Tobias: Where do you want to go from here? Not in your band but in
this interview?
Rob Rhombus: Basically the main thing is.. we're like..everytime I look in the mirror I expect to see the Candy Man. And that helps me because if I don't. In a way I feel like my day
has been ordained for safe passage. I just keep licking myself. I
can't stop. That's how I know it's going to be a good day. If I lick
myself for like 3-4 hours at the beginning of the day. Then I can go
out and just take care of it.
Moppy: yeah.
Rob Rhombus: That's what Mr. Boombastic taught me at the Rash Academy.
He taught me if you have a rash you need to just lick yourself. 'cause
that's how you clean.
Moppy: But sometimes if you lick yourself too much you get a rash.
Rob Rhombus: That's called too much of a good thing.
Moppy: That's what we're about.
Moppy: We wrote a new song about Obama.
Rob Rhombus: It's called "Touch it." We're going to debut it really soon.
Tobias: What are you touring in?
Rob Rhombus: America.
Tobias: No.. what kinda of vehicle are your touring in? Greg (of
Special Noise)'s parents car?
Moppy: & Markus' parents car.
Tobias: So that cars of both band drummer's parents.
Moppy: Why don't we talk about the new song?
Tobias: Sure talk about it.
Rob Rhombus: Talk about it but talk loud. We wrote a scary song about
the moment we saw the ghoul;that has become our god.
Moppy: And..
Rob Rhombus: .. he told us..
Moppy: There was some bad news.
Rob Rhombus: And the bad news is "Congratulations.You are.."
Rob Rhombus: ".. a satchel.. down below.."
Moppy: "..a little.. living...cutie..."
Rob Rhombus: It's about how if a cutie comes out of you.. and what to do then.
Tobias: What's the song called?
Rob Rhombus: Phallaform. It's like "Brenda's Got a Baby" meets Ramstein.
Tobias: Can you talk to me about the new members of your band you've
picked up in Canada?
Rob Rhombus: Yah we're playing with a couple of real greazzzy weasels.
And their great.. Nader.. I mean called BiteNFight.
Moppy: Nader Hasan.
Rob Rhombus: But he goes by BiteNfight. And then there's Papa Spawn.
Moppy: He's kind of our new daddy.
Tobias: What would be a good reason to come to one of the upcoming performances?
Rob Rhombus: If you like good time Hellraiser licks. Mixed with
Darjliing Limited costumes.
Moppy: I'm sari.
Rob Rhombus: No it's okay, I was sarong.
(by David Forcier)
08/08/09 - Montreal, QUE - Divian Orange w/ Woods
10/08/09 - Montreal, QUE - The Silver Door w/ Special Noise, NightGoat
12/08/09 - Providence, RI - AS220 w/ Kokomo, The Ram, Special Noise
13/08/09 - Boston, MA - House Show w/ The Great Drought, Special Noise
14/08/09 - Providence, RI - Warehouse Party w/ Special Noise
16/08/09 - Brattleboro, VT - Jared's House Party w/ Special Noise
17/08/09 - Brooklyn, NYC - Don Pedros w/ Stupid Party,Bad Blood
18/08/09 - Philadelphia, PA - TBA w/ The Great Drought, Special Noise
19/08/09 - Baltimore, MD - The Bank w/ Sewn Leather, DJ Dog Dick
20/08/09 - Washington, DC - The Mini Gallery w/ Sewn Leather, DJ Dog Dick
21/08/09 - Brooklyn, NYC - Monster Island (Todd P presents..)Sewn Leather, Teenage Girl Fantasy, MDNR
22/08/09 - New Brunswick, NJ - Meat Town w/ Special Noise
23/08/09 - Brooklyn, NYC - Silent Barn w/Sewn Leather, Hume
30/08/09 - Burlington, VT - TBA
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