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Royal weddingThursday, May 31st, 2018
The date
Harry and Meghan's wedding will take place on Saturday 19 May 2018 – which breaks royal protocol due to being at the weekend. While there's no official rule, royal weddings have always traditionally taken place on a weekday (Prince William and Kate Middleton married on Friday 29 April 2011; Princess Diana and Prince Charles on Wednesday 29 July 1981; Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip on Thursday 20 November 1947). Having the wedding in May will allow the Duchess of Cambridge some time to recover from the birth of her third child, due in April.
The venue
The couple will say their vows at the picturesque St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle. The chapel reportedly has space for around 800 guests, in contrast to the 2,000-person capacity of Westminster Abbey, where William and Kate got married.
The cost
While it's not known exactly what the royal wedding budget is (and it's unlikely to ever be disclosed), Kensington Palace confirmed that the event will be paid for by the royal family – at no cost to the taxpayer.
The royal titles
After the wedding, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will become known as their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.
The Queen has also made her grandson Earl of Dumbarton and Baron Kilkeel.
Buckingham Palace said in a statement: "The Queen has today been pleased to confer a Dukedom on Prince Henry of Wales. His titles will be Duke of Sussex, Earl of Dumbarton and Baron Kilkeel.
"Prince Harry thus becomes His Royal Highness The Duke of Sussex, and Ms. Meghan Markle on marriage will become Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Sussex."
The invitations
Kensington Palace confirmed that the invites were issued mid-March, and created by Barnard & Westwood, a company which has held a Royal Warrant for Printing & Bookbinding by Appointment to Her Majesty The Queen since 1985.
The invitations were die-stamped in gold and then burnished. The text on the invitation is also die-stamped, while edges of the invitation were bevelled, then gilded. The invitation features The Three Feather Badge of The Prince of Wales, and the names of invited guests were added later by a calligraphy printer.
Around 600 people have been invited to the service at St George's Chapel and the lunchtime reception at St George's Hall, which is being hosted by the Queen. The palace also confirmed that 200 guests will also be invited to the private reception at Frogmore House.
The engagement photos
The couple released two photos to celebrate their engagement. The images, which were taken by Harper's Bazaar regular photographer Alexi Lubomirski, feature a close-up shot, as well as another where the two are sat down. Both were taken at Frogmore House in Windsor.
They also released a third, more candid image from the day of the shoot.
The dress
It's widely expected that Markle will turn to a British designer for the all-important gown – and most fashion experts now believe that she has chosen Ralph & Russo, the only British couture label, to make her dress.
According to a royal insider, the duchess-to-be has opted for a hand-stitched, beaded gown which boasts a serious price tag of £100,000.
The source revealed: "It sounds a lot, but this is the wedding of the year and hundreds of hours of manpower have gone into making it, almost all by hand."
Other sources have suggested that Markle will be wearing two dresses on her big day, changing for her second reception in the evening into something more modern. If she does this, she will be following in the footsteps of the Duchess of Cambridge wore two Sarah Burton for Alexander McQueen dresses for her wedding. Markle could, however, opt to choose a different designer for the evening. Brands including Roland Mouret, Stella McCartney, Burberry and Erdem are just some of the names being suggested as contenders.
Markle previously talked about her "dream wedding dress" in a 2016 interview with Glamour, which took place following the wedding of her on-screen character Rachel Zane in Suits.
"I have the luxury of wearing beautiful pieces of clothing every day for work, so my personal style — wedding or not — is very pared down and relaxed," she said. "Classic and simple is the name of the game, perhaps with a modern twist. I personally prefer wedding dresses that are whimsical or subtly romantic. Delphine Manivet and Christos Costarellos are faves of mine for their uniqueness and beauty. And I will always be a fan of Elie Saab. J. Mendel is spectacular as well, especially for more structural designs."
She also revealed that her favourite celebrity wedding dress was the one worn by Carolyn Bessette Kennedy – a simple silk column dress by Narciso Rodriguez.
The wedding party
After playing best man to brother William at his 2011 wedding to Kate Middleton, Harry is repaying the favour and has asked William to be his best man. The news was announced via the palace's Twitter account, which shared a number of sweet photos of the duo.
William's children, Prince George and Princess Charlotte, will also have roles within the wedding party – as they did at Pippa Middleton's 2017 wedding – as a page boy and bridesmaid, alongside eight other children.
After Thomas Markle was forced to pull out of attending the wedding due to health issues (he reportedly suffered a heart attack and had to undergo surgery), Kensington Palace confirmed that Prince Charles will be walking the bride down the aisle. She will travel to the church by car with her mother, Doria Ragland.
The Duchess of Cambridge will make a low-key appearance at the nuptials, having recently welcomed her third child, Prince Louis, and will also not want to risk upstaging the bride.
Markle will not have a maid of honour or an adult bridal party, but will instead have a group of close girlfriends "assisting" her on the day.
A spokesperson for the palace revealed: "She has a very close-knit circle of friends and she didn't want to choose one over another."
They continued,"All have been actively involved in helping her prepare for the day and will be there in the days beforehand. She's very happy to have their support."
The coverage
The wedding will be televised on a number of channels in the UK. A pool camera will be allowed inside St George's Chapel, allowing international media outlets to plug into the source the royal family provides and broadcast the same footage.
"The couple of course wants the day to be a special, celebratory moment for their friends and family," said a royal spokesperson. "They also want the day to be shaped so as to allow members of the public to feel part of the celebrations too and are currently working through ideas for how this might be achieved."
There have been two other televised royal weddings in history, that of William and Kate in 2011 (to which an estimated 23 million people tuned in) and Charles and Diana in 1981.
Find out more about exactly how you can watch the royal wedding here.
The cake
Claire Ptak, owner of London-based bakery Violet Cakes has been chosen to create the royal wedding cake.
"Prince Harry and Ms Markle have asked Claire to create a lemon elderflower cake that will incorporate the bright flavours of spring," confirmed Kensington Palace. "It will be covered in buttercream and decorated with fresh flowers.
"Claire Ptak, who was raised in California, focuses on using seasonal and organic ingredients in her cake. Ms Markle previously interviewed Chef Ptak for her former lifestyle website The Tig," they continued, adding that the couple are "looking forward to sharing the cake with guests at their wedding".
The flowers
Meghan and Harry have selected London-based florist Philippa Craddock to design their wedding flowers, which will follow a natural wildflower theme. Her team will partner with a team from St George's Chapel and Buckingham Palace to locally source white garden roses, foxgloves and branches of beech from the gardens of the Crown Estate and Windsor Great Park. Craddock will also incorporate peonies, which are Markle's favourite flower, according to her now-deleted Instagram account.
"The Royal Parks will also supply pollinator-friendly plants from their wildflower meadows," said a statement released by Kensington Palace. "These plants provide a great habitat for bees and help to sustain healthy and biodiverse ecosystems."
"Where possible, Philippa will use flowers and plants that are in season and blooming naturally in May," they added.
The music
Harry and Meghan have announced the music plans for the ceremony, which includes a number of group and solo performances, including from a gospel choir and 19-year-old cellist.
"Both Prince Harry and Ms Markle have taken a great deal of interest and care in choosing the music for their service, which will include a number of well-known hymns and choral works," the Palace tweeted.
The couple have chosen to appoint Karen Gibson and the Kingdom Choir, which is made up of a group of British musicians that have been performing together for over 20 years. Meanwhile, 19-year-old Sheku Kanneh-Mason will be performing. The cellist was the winner of the 2016 BBC Young Musician competition. The Choir of St. George's Chapel will of course also be taking part.
Read more about the music at Harry and Meghan's royal wedding below.
The carriage
The couple have selected the Ascot Landau carriage for their anticipated procession through Windsor Town. The royal newlyweds will travel in a one horse-drawn carriage in the Carriage Procession from St George's Chapel, taking the couple through Windsor Town and returning to Windsor Castle along the Long Walk, Kensington Palace has confirmed. William and Kate used the Imperial State Landau on their wedding day, as it usually remains stationed in London. Their wedding was also a state wedding, and the Imperial State Landau is often used by the Queen to meet Foreign Heads of State when they arrive on State Visits to Britain.
The honeymoon
The notoriously private couple (who managed to keep their relationship a secret for the first six months) will likely seek somewhere away from prying eyes for their post-wedding getaway. Botswana would be an obvious choice, as a country that holds a special significance for the pair; they holidayed there in the early stages of their relationship and Harry sourced a diamond from the country for Markle's engagement ring. However, it's more recently been strongly rumoured that the couple have chosen Namibia as their honeymoon destination.
However, what we do know is that the couple will not be going away on honeymoon straight after their wedding, but will instead be heading off a little later. Kensington Palace confirmed that the newly married couple would be undertaking royal duties the week after their wedding.
"The couple will be going on honeymoon, but not straightaway," said Kensington Palace spokesman Jason Knauf at a press conference. "They will have their first engagement as a married couple in the week after the wedding."
Reports also suggest that the newlyweds may choose a different African country to honeymoon in – with the neighbouring Namibia one of the rumoured destinations. As the least densely populated country in the world it would certainly provide the privacy they'd be craving after such a public wedding.
The royal titles
Buckingham Palace said in a statement: "The Queen has today been pleased to confer a Dukedom on Prince Henry of Wales. His titles will be Duke of Sussex, Earl of Dumbarton and Baron Kilkeel.
"Prince Harry thus becomes His Royal Highness The Duke of Sussex, and Ms. Meghan Markle on marriage will become Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Sussex."
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Who is Martin Luther King Jr. to us, 50 years later?Wednesday, April 4th, 2018
50 years after MLK's assassination, is America moving backward on race relations?Wednesday, April 4th, 2018
Nearly 50 years after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, his protégé Jesse Jackson ticks off a list of the many ways in which the civil rights leader's push for people to reach what he called the "mountaintop" — a final plateau of racial and economic harmony — continues to be a struggle.
Jackson, who was with King in Memphis to press for fair wages for the city's sanitation workers on the day of the killing, notes all these years later, more than half of African-American workers earn less than $15 an hour — and income inequality in America has ballooned.
White supremacists, Jackson said, are boldly and more frequently espousing their racist views in the aftermath of President Trump taking office.
On Wednesday, the nation marks 50 years since King was shot on April 4, 1968, as he stood on his balcony at Memphis' Lorraine Motel — a dark moment in American history that triggered riots and violence in more than 100 U.S. cities.
In Memphis, civil rights leaders will commemorate King's legacy with a march through the city. In Washington, the National Council of Churches will hold a rally on the National Mall they say will be the starting point of a multi-year effort with the lofty goal of eradicating racism and bringing the country together. Smaller memorials honoring King are scheduled throughout the country.
But the solemn milestone also is being observed as the nation finds itself wading through choppy waters in race relations.
The highly charged confrontations between police and black men have affected Americans' view on race in America, polls show.
For much of the past two decades, race relations has been the issue that Americans say they have been least worried about, according to the polling firm Gallup. The question hit a nadir for American anxiety in 2010 as President Obama — the nation's first black president — settled into his first White House term: Just 13% of Americans said they were greatly concerned.
Jackson said that if King were alive today he would see a ray of hope amid the uncertainty in the diverse group of young people who organized last month's March for Our Lives rallies against gun violence in Washington and across the USA.
"There is unfinished business, but my hope is that America has become disgusted with this attempt to go backward," Jackson said. "The Trump foray … is a temporary season. There is a tug of war for the soul of America. Should we move forward by hope and healing or backward by hurt and hate? I think hope and healing will win."
French police officer is being remembered as a heroSunday, March 25th, 2018
The CranberriesTuesday, January 16th, 2018
WHILE many of us have sang along to The Cranberries' biggest hit song Zombie, few of us are familiar with the tragedy that inspired Dolores O'Riordan to write it.
O'Riordan died yesterday morning in a London hotel room, on a day the 46 year old was due to record her vocals for a new version of her iconic hit Zombie.
Written during the band's UK tour in 1993 and released the following year, Zombie is in memory of two children killed in an IRA bombing in Warrington, Cheshire.
Two bombs detonated within a minute of each other in litter bins on Bridge Street on March 20, killing three year old Johnathan Ball and injuring 12 year old Tim Parry who died five days later.
The IRA claimed responsibility for the attack, but insisted they had given two warnings prior to detonation and police had failed to act in time.
Moved by the violence, the Limerick singer penned the five minute song in a seething condemnation of the IRA and a visceral response to the death of two young children.
"I remember seeing one of the mothers on television, just devastated," she told Vox magazine in 1994.
"I felt so sad for her, that she'd carried him for nine months, been through all the morning sickness, the whole thing and some prick, some airhead who thought he was making a point, did that."
O'Riordan was particularly offended that terrorists claimed to have carried out these acts in the name of Ireland.
"The IRA are not me. I'm not the IRA," she said. "The Cranberries are not the IRA. My family are not.
"When it says in the song, 'It's not me, it's not my family,' that's what I'm saying. It's not Ireland, it's some idiots living in the past."
"I don't care whether it's Protestant or Catholic, I care about the fact that innocent people are being harmed," she told Vox. "That's what provoked me to write the song.
"It was nothing to do with writing a song about it because I'm Irish. You know, I never thought I'd write something like this in a million years. I used to think I'd get into trouble."
She later told NME in 1994: "[Zombie] doesn't take sides. It's a very human song.
"To me, the whole thing [terrorism] is very confused. If these adults have a problem with these other adults well then, go and fight them. Have a bit of balls about it at least, you know?"
This morning, Tim Parry's father Colin Parry told Good Morning Ulster that he had been touched by the lyrics did not realise they were written about his son until after O'Riordan's death.
"Only yesterday did I discover that her group, or she herself, had composed the song in memory of the event in Warrington," he said.
"I was completely unaware what it was about.
"I got the song up on my laptop, watched the band singing, saw Dolores and listened to the words.
"The words are both majestic and also very real.
"The event at Warrington, like the many events that happened all over Ireland and Great Britain, affected families in a very real way and many people have become immune to the pain and suffering that so many people experienced during that armed campaign.
"To read the words written by an Irish band in such compelling way was very, very powerful.
"I likened it to the enormous amount of mail expressing huge sympathy that we received in the days, weeks and months following our loss.
"Proportionately a very high total of that came from the island of Ireland," he said.
West Brom legend Cyrille Regis dies at 59Tuesday, January 16th, 2018
Former West Brom and Coventry forward Cyrille Regis has died, aged 59.
Regis won five caps for England between 1982 and 1987, having been one of the stars of the Baggies team between 1977 and 1984.
He scored 112 goals in 297 appearances for Albion before moving on to Coventry, winning the FA Cup with the Sky Blues in 1987.
The Professional Footballers' Association announced the news on Monday morning and wrote in a tweet from its official account: "A true gentleman and legend, he will be deeply missed. Our sympathies to his family and friends."
Regis was born in French Guiana in February 1958 but moved to London with his family at the age of five.
He did not come through the youth ranks with a professional club and was instead spotted playing Sunday morning football by the chairman of Surrey non-league club Molesey.
But it was in the top tier of English football that his goalscoring feats were most lauded, netting 158 league goals.
In 1984 he moved to Coventry City where he continued where he left off with the Baggies, with 62 goals – and his only major trophy in football came in 1987 when he won the FA Cup with the Sky Blues.
Regis also played for Aston Villa and Wolves before spells at Wycombe and Chester where he ended his career.
Regis represented England at under-21 level and won his first senior cap in February 1982 against Northern Ireland.
His final cap came against Turkey in October 1987.
After his stint at Coventry he also played for Aston Villa, Wolves, Wycombe and Chester before ending his playing career in 1996.
He worked as an agent for the Stellar Group after his retirement from the game, and the agency's chief executive Jonathan Barnett released a statement to Press Association Sport on Monday.
"Cyrille was a wonderful person to work with and his death has left everyone in the company and the players he represented with a great sense of sadness," Barnett said.
"Cyrille was a pioneer in British football and hugely respected by everyone in the game. He was a role model to his young clients and a genuinely lovely man."
The statement from Stellar also praised Regis for his "passion, determination and integrity, especially in the way he would champion the careers of up and coming players".
Praising the role played by Regis in dealing with racism, he said: "In later years I was privileged to get to know him as a friend and he just didn't carry anger with him from that time. Apart from being a powerful and talented striker, Regis inspired a generation of black players at a time when they were a rarity in the top echelons of English soccer and were regularly subjected to racial abuse from crowds.
On one occasion he received a bullet in the mail along with a threat that he would get one in the knee if he played for England at Wembley.
"The racism was quite abhorrent but I turned a negative into a positive," he recalled. "I chased harder and played harder, I wanted to score goals and win points."
Regis returned to West Brom as a coach before becoming a football agent.
Whether verbal or physical, rugby can't hide from its discipline problemTuesday, January 16th, 2018
The old cliche about rugby being a game for hooligans played by gentlemen is still casually recycled on a regular basis.
Today's footballers, frankly, should sue next time anyone with an oval-ball background seeks to use a superior tone. The weekend delivered more fresh ammunition: Toulon's Mathieu Bastareaud has issued an apology for the homophobic abuse he appeared to direct at the Benetton lock Sebastian Negri but the reputational damage has been done, both to him and his sport. So much for noblesse oblige and sportsmanlike conduct.
Rugby's noble image has, in truth, always been a subjective issue. Few who played in the south-west of France or in south Wales on a wet Wednesday night in the amateur era ever came across much in the way of soft play or kindly advice. "Do that again and you'll live up to your name," was the threat famously directed at Dai Young, the great Lions and Wales prop, only partly in jest. Part of rugby's appeal used to be its twilight world, to borrow from AC/DC's back catalogue, of dirty deeds done dirt cheap.
Plenty of people, in short, behaved badly but few beyond the participants ever heard about it, save for a few ribald after-dinner speeches a quarter of a century later. Now, with microphones and TV cameras practically inserted up the players' nostrils there is no hiding place. A big Frenchman abuses a Zimbabwean-born Italian in the last minute of a relatively low-profile pool game and thousands have already passed judgment on social media before the pair reach the dressing rooms.
Bastareaud now finds himself staring down the barrel of a lengthy ban and rightly so. The only small consolation to which he can cling is that rugby's sanctions are consistent only in their unpredictability. Last week Joe Marler received a six-week suspension for a shoulder to the head of TJ Ioane; some argued he should not even have received a red card. This week it is James Haskell's turn in the dock following his sending-off for clattering high into Harlequins' Jamie Roberts. Those insisting he was unlucky must have forgotten all the World Rugby directives last year specifically instructing referees to show zero tolerance towards players who, deliberately or not, catch opponents on the head.
Roll up, roll up: welcome to modern rugby's moral maze. Bastareaud aside, the definition of serious naughtiness has never been more confusing. Catch a leaping player a split-second early in the air and you could receive anything from a penalty to a lengthy ban; clear out a ruck even a fraction too high and the same uneasy game of disciplinary roulette applies. You need the judgement of a Nasa scientist to be absolutely spot-on every time; either way an opponent will probably try to convince the referee otherwise.
The Bastareaud case, whether he was provoked or not, clearly belongs in a different category but imagine you are a member of rugby's judiciary. Is abusing someone verbally a worse sin than attempting to gouge their eyes out? Is swearing at the referee a significantly more serious crime against the game's core values than, say, faking injury or attempting to get an opponent sent off? Maybe the answer is a new catch-all offence, beyond mere unsportsmanlike conduct, carrying an entry-level punishment of six weeks for anyone guilty of tarnishing rugby's good name, whether by word or deed.
The worsening picture is not all about money's corrupting influence, either. Only last November the Scottish Rugby Union dished out a record 347 weeks of suspensions to 14 players, a coach and an official from Howe of Fife RFC following a grim initiation ceremony on a team bus which reportedly left one player with internal injuries. In September an 18-year-old Australian received a 10-year ban after striking the referee in the face during a local under-19s final.
No sport can ever be immune to bad publicity but rugby, given its physical nature, treads a more precarious line than most. The game's traditional code of respect between players, coaches and officials – "Scrum please, sir" – has certainly never felt more frayed. To castigate everyone for the bigoted language of one individual might feel unfair but, when they look themselves in the mirror, rugby's guardians should be honest enough to admit there is a growing problem. Never mind the moral high ground; rugby is on an increasingly slippery behavioural slope.


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Mother. Sister. Daughter. Wife. That is what I am to somebody related to me. I am the oldest of five, the mother of two sons, the daughter of a mom (passed away), a father that left when I was around one (and hardly know) and the wife of Tony. And all my life - all 50 hmmm + of them - I have been pulled into one direction or another by one, if not all, of them.
Now maybe it is because I am 50 hmmm + that I finally am getting to the point where enough is enough and I don't feel like being pulled anymore, or maybe it is this somewhat screwed up, stressful world that we live in that makes it harder to put up with Family Dynamics and DRAMA, and yet has increased Family Dynamics and DRAMA.
Family Dynamics is something all of us put up with. Most of us are part of some sort of Dysfunctional Family and there always seems to be DRAMA - fighting, who's mad at who, whining - or there is those that ignore the others, they don't interact, help out, they pretend it is not there. Not sure which is worse?
With all that most of us are going through these days - job loss, bad economy, health, stress - Family Dynamics is just not one more thing I want to add to the plate. So I guess I choose, at this time, to not be a part of it.
Expressing myself with DRAMA and just leave me the #@)) alone. Take the drama somewhere else.
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Sunday, July 3, 2011
Traveling with an 87 Year Old Kid
Are we there yet? How much farther? I can't wait to get there! Oh, look at that! Tony, take a picture. This is so exciting! I will do that. I can't wait. I'm hungry. Can we go there? I want Ice Cream. Look at this. I want to ride the rapids. I am so excited. I can't wait. Hurry up. Come on, let's go.
You couldn't tell she is 87, with all of the excitement and energy.
Expressing myself with: awe and hope that I am like that when I get older......
You couldn't tell she is 87, with all of the excitement and energy.
Expressing myself with: awe and hope that I am like that when I get older......
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What is this growing next to my strawberry
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This is growing next to my strawberry plant. Looks like it's growing weeds on it.
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It does look like some type of broad leaf weed. I would recommend carefully removing it from your strawberry pot, being sure to take as much of its root system as possible.
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Globe is a supplier of OEM and "Hero" producs to retailers over the worldwide, like Macy's, Kohl's, Bed Bath & Beyond, Boton, Toysrus.
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Now, Globe's website is reconstructed and restart. You're always welcome to visit our homepage and check out what products suitable for your business.
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Sunday, February 8, 2009
Update on Cloth Napkins
Here is the picture of my first napkin that I made! I started it at 10pm last night. I think that might have been a bad idea because it took me 1 hour and 20 minutes to finish 3 sides. I did the last side this morning and it only took about 10 minutes. I like it, however I would like it to be a bit bigger. This one measures about 11 by 11. Perfect for the little guys. I think I will try and make another one later today but a bit bigger. We will see how it holds up when I wash it.
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Labels: Cloth Napkins, Frugal Living
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I am going to making some of these soon out of old table cloths that I don't use anymore. I measured some cloth napkins at a store recently ( yes I carry a small tape measure in my purse. It seems that most of the store bought ones were 17 x 17. Hope this helps :)ReplyDelete
This is so cute!!ReplyDelete
Thanks Autumn!ReplyDelete
And thanks for the measurements. I was thinking of cutting them about 15x15. We will see how they turn out.
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Make Friends By Being One2013-03-30 (Saturday) by Mikael Linusson
It's as simple as what I'm about to say:
If you want more friends, be one!
By being nice and friendly you attract nice and friendly people into your life.
I could have stopped here, but I won't. ;)
So let's talk some more about how to make friends. But keep the "Be one!" in your thoughts, it's an important part of the formula.
It's Not All About You
Needy people who believe that other people should be their friend, or is obligated to be it, or whatever they think, are out on deep deep water. The only way to get real friends is to be one.
And with that I don't mean that you should let people use you, a good candidate for a real friend would never do that.
You should do things for other people because you want to do it, not because you want something from them, and not just because someone asks you to do it, but because you are a good person. It doesn't have to be big things and don't keep score. Don't expect people to do the same for you that you did for them.
Nobody owes you friendship or anything like that, no matter what you've done for them. If you and another person are a good friends match, then you'll be friends, otherwise you won't, and that's how it should be, it's the best for both of you. And even if people really like you and you get along well, then it doesn't mean that they want more friends in their life right now. Don't take things personally.
Be and Behave as a Friend
Aim to be a fun and loving person to be around. Be nice to other people, without expecting anything in return. Smile more, a lot more. Be friendly and be yourself.
Don't strive to get friends. If you are going to strive for anything then strive to be a friend. Don't expect or try to get things from other people. Be a giver and soon you'll be the one receiving. Be a friend and soon you'll have potential friends everywhere.
Do You Think You Are To Shy?
If you believe that you are too shy to get to know new people, then I have only one thing to say to you: Get over yourself!
You stop being shy the moment you stop acting like a shy person. Not a minute before, not a minute later.
Begin to talk to people and look them in their eyes while you do it. Practice by doing. Just walk up to people and talk about whatever pops to mind. Don't expect anything, just try to be nice. Dare doing, you have nothing to lose. What other people think about you doesn't matter. Try talking and connecting with people and have fun doing it. Keep your expectations down and see the experience as the reward.
Additional Tips
As I'm feeling really nice today I'll give you some extra tips. ;)
- Smile a lot.
- Be helpful.
- Be nice towards everybody.
- Practice making eye contact.
- Don't run around and expect friendship, it happens when it's meant to happen.
- Be around people. You know, if you sit at home it will be quite hard to meet people. :)
- Try to remember people's name. A good tip is to use it in a sentence right after they told it to you.
- Don't be afraid to make a fool of yourself. It really doesn't matter what others think about you.
- Talk positively, especially about yourself. No one wants to be around a whiner.
- Be you! You will never get real friends by pretending to be something other that what you really are.
- Focus on living and having fun and the friends will show up due time.
Do something nice to someone you kind of know, but isn't best friend with. For example, bring a cappuccino to some fellow (or fellows) at work, or help some known or unknown person with something when you notice that they need help. Just do it then continue doing what you were doing. If they say "Thank you" then just give them a big smile, if they don't say "Thank you", then that is their problem, not yours. :)
Leave Your Shell and Begin to Live
Get out of that shell of yours that stops you from living and begin to live your life as you really want to!
The ones who are a good match to be friends with you will be your friends if you just let them get to know the real you.
Get out and live and have fun and everything else will be just fine! :)


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As many as 18,000 people were allowed to visit the farm, where children are allowed to touch and feed animals including geese, goats and llamas, in the nine days after health protection officials became aware of a possible risk.
A total of 36 people have been taken ill with the potentially lethal bacterial infection including 12 children who are in hospital.
Four of the children are said to be in a serious condition after developing complications such as kidney failure as well as diarrhoea.
Some 24 other people – both adults and children – are known to have been infected with the virulent 0157 strain of the bacteria, which is transmitted through animal faeces.
But it is feared that the eventual total could be considerably higher because of the delayed incubation period.
Among those being treated in hospital are Tracy Mock's two-year-old twin sons who visited the attraction on Aug 31 while her five-year-old daughter is also ill.
"If they had just shut the place down to investigate, my sons would not be in hospital on kidney dialysis machines," Miss Mock, from Kent, told the BBC.
"They are still in hospital, my partner and I are taking turns to be there with them. One has had a blood transfusion.
"The doctors say it could be weeks until they are in a fit state to come home."
Neil Wilson's six year-old nephew Tommy contracted E-coli after visiting the farm and is now in hospital in Sidcup suffering from kidney failure.
Mr Wilson said: "I can't understand why they didn't shut down that area of the farm until they found out exactly what the problem was.
"I just think they kept it open because it was the school holidays."
Meanwhile Graeme Newby, of Chatham, Kent, said that both his wife and daughter had fallen ill after visiting the popular attraction. His wife is also among those to have been treated in hospital.
The Health Protection Agency has disclosed that the first case with a possible link to the farm was reported to it on Aug 27.
But areas of the farm where people can contact animals are understood to have remained open until Sept 5, only after several other cases emerged. The whole site, including the areas without animals, was closed on Sept 12.
Around 2,000 people passed through the petting farm each day during that time, putting them at possible risk from coming into contact with faeces from an animal such as a calf or young goat contaminated with the bug.
It is the largest outbreak of the infection in the UK thought to have been spread by animals.
The probable earliest infection has been traced to August 8 and up to 60,000 people visited the farm between then and it finally being fully closed on Sept 12. At least 30,000 of those would have been children.
Richard Oatway, the farm's manager, said he had complied with everything officials had asked him to do and would not reopen until given the all-clear.
Experts who have inspected the farm still had "no idea" what the source of the outbreak was, he said.
Mr Oatway said: "All the staff at the farm are very upset and we hope that all the children make a full and speedy recovery.
"Our main priority has always been to make sure the farm is safe for everyone who comes here to visit. This includes our own children and grandchildren.
"I have three daughters who all grew up at the farm and my grandchildren who come here often."
:: Did you visit Godstone Farm in August or September?


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Tips on writing letters to your recruit during Boot Camp or Basic Military Training from Project Write 2 Them.
Tag: Army Basic Training
"Does a red envelope mean extra push-ups for my boyfriend or girlfriend at boot camp?" "I just sent a Valentine in a red envelope to my daughter/son at basic training, will they get in trouble?" "I just decorated my envelope with hearts and stickers, will my husband/boyfriend get my card or will the Drill Instructor … Continue reading Valentine Cards at Basic Training
We are blessed at Project Write2Them to have wonderful volunteers. One of our volunteers has found some new versions of Bible verses to support and lift up your loved one while they are at basic training, boot camp or deployed! For your loved one in the military Psalm 31:14-16 "But I trust in You, O LORD; … Continue reading Bible Verses to share during Basic Training and Boot Camp.
I had a lot of fun working with the USPS (United States Postal Service) to create this podcast. We added some images and turned it into a video podcast on You Tube video http://youtu.be/o1dEZiVhLTc . We can't say enough good things about the US Postal Employees who do an amazing job!
I thought this was an interesting and fun read. Here's an Army Drill Sergeant's entertaining look at some of the mail sent to recruits at basic training. No problem with Project Write2Them mail, however, plain white envelopes properly addressed (with plt numbers and names on the back flap), just full of postive thoughts from home. Project Write2Them sends letters to all basic training and boot camp locations.
Life of an Army Drill Sergeant
Army privates are briefed from the moment they step off the bus at the reception station about contraband such as food, drinks, drugs, etc. They are not allowed to keep any of these items. They are later briefed about receiving mail; what they can have and what they can't have. We allow them to call home, I reiterate to them,"Tell your families and friends not to send you any kind of food, medicine, electronic devices because you cannot have those things while in basic training.
Throughout my time as a drill sergeant I have seen many interesting packages such as baby wipe containers that have a piece cut out of the center with candy. I noticed that the package of wipes didn't have the cellophane wrapping on it. Then when the private opened it, it was just wipes, until you took the top layer off. How about shampoo or lotion bottles? Well…
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I'll admit it; I do like to gather friends and family together for any occasion…or for no occasion at all, other than to spent time together! Before our son headed off to Basic Training at Lackland AFB in San Antonio, Texas, we gathered friends and family together for a party! My son wasn't too excited … Continue reading Planning a Party Before Your Son or Daughter Leaves for Basic Training or Boot Camp.
When our loved ones are away at Boot Camp or Basic Military Training, we want to show our love and support by keeping a steady stream of letters (or emails if you use Write2Them) coming their way. I know the whole idea of a blank piece of paper or an empty email with only the … Continue reading Eight Great Ideas When Writing Letters to Recruits at Basic Training
Every Tuesday I think about all the young men and women who are about to leave their families and head off to Boot Camp or Basic Training at one of our military installations. I also think and pray for the family members they leave behind, especially the Moms. Yes, Dads, Brothers and Sisters will also miss … Continue reading Entering the Military ….Going off to MEPS (Military Entrance Processing Stations)
I just read this great blog about a Dad and Son's 'adventure' at Ft. Knox during Basic Training (BMT) Graduation weekend. It certainly made me smile and reminded me of our family 'adventure' during our son's graduation from Basic Military Training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas. Our 'adventure' occurred while dropping our son back off at his … Continue reading Adventures at Basic Training Graduation…
Welcome to the Write2Them blog! Write2Them is dedicated to improving communication between family members and loved ones around the world by turning email into letters from home. With Write2Them service, you send email and your loved one receives a letter. We want you have a great experience with Write2Them. In this blog we will be sharing lots of useful … Continue reading Welcome to the Write2Them Blog


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1. These Participation Rules ("Rules") apply to the Maurice Lacroix Timecode game ("the Game"). By participating to the Competition, each Participant expressly agrees to have fully understood and to be bound by these Rules. Where prohibited by applicable local law, no participation in the Game shall be allowed.
2. The Game is promoted and organized by Maurice Lacroix SA, located at Rue des Rangiers 21, 2350 Saignelégier, Switzerland (hereinafter referred to as "Maurice Lacroix").
3. The Game takes place and a participation in the Game is possible from May 8, 2019 until December 15th, 2019. Each Participant will participate in the Game via the following website address: https://timecode.mauricelacroix.com or via the Maurice Lacroix Instagram account: https://www.instagram.com/mauricelacroix/ or via the Maurice Lacroix Facebook account: https://www.facebook.com/mauricelacroixwatches/.
4. These Rules are available in English only and are displayed on the Game web page at https://timecode.mauricelacroix.com
5. Maurice Lacroix reserves the right to cancel the Game and/or change the Rules at any time without prior notice to Participants, without liability to the Participants. Any changes will be posted on the Maurice Lacroix website at https://timecode.mauricelacroix.com
6. The competition is open to all natural persons that are of legal age. Only one participation per person is permitted. All participants who are not of legal age (in most European countries 18 years) are not permitted to participate in the Game. Maurice Lacroix reserves the right to ask for the proof of legal age at any time, and in particular during the attribution and/or sending of any eventual prize to the Participant. In case the Participant fails to submit such identification and proof of legal age within 1 week of its request, Maurice Lacroix will be entitled to cancel his/her participation in the Competition.
7. By participating in the Competition and accepting these terms & conditions you warrant that you have the legal capacity to enter the Competition and accept the Rules (i.e. that you are of sufficient age and mental capacity and are entitled to be legally bound in contract).
8. Employees and immediate family members of Maurice Lacroix employees and their associated companies, professional advisors, advertising and promotional agencies connected with the creation or administration of the Competition are eligible to take part in the Competition. Maurice Lacroix reserves the right to verify the eligibility of all Participants.
9. There is no purchase requirement to participate in the Competition and there is no charge to use of the Maurice Lacroix Competition web site (https://timecode.mauricelacroix.com) and other social media other than the usual Internet connection charges payable to your service provider and/or telephone company.
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11. Maurice Lacroix reserves the right to disqualify any Participant if it has reasonable grounds to believe the Participant has breached any of these Rules.
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- visanandAsked on August 31, 2016 at 10:13 AMi am not able to upgrade my account. I have an Indian visa/mastercard debit card. please help.
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While the garnet is a treasured gift as the birthstone for January and to celebrate a 2nd, 6th, and 19th wedding anniversary, its use dates back centuries. It is a testament to its durability that garnets have been found that were in use as far back as 3000 BC. Unlike other gemstones that tottered back and forth from favored to feared, the garnet has been revered throughout history. Here are a few of the historical beliefs and uses for the garnet past and present:
- Bohemia (now a part of Czechoslovakia) enjoyed a rich garnet industry and the area is still known for amazing garnet jewelry
- The King of Saxony was believed to have owned a garnet over 465 carats.
- Garnets were popular for jewelry during the Victorian era
- The popularity of pomegranates and garnets has often been linked, including in Old Spain.
- Garnet is a plentiful stone and is cherished for its luster and broad spectrum of colors.
- In medieval times, the garnet was believed to protect against nightmares, aid with liver diseases, cure depression, and treat hemorrhages. It was also thought to guard children from drowning and treat poisoning.
- Religious mentions of the garnet include a symbol of Christ's sacrifice, the illumination in the Moslem Fourth Heaven, and one of the 12 gems in Aaron's breastplate.
- On a romantic note, garnets are used to protect a loved one when traveling and to heal a broken relationship. It is not just traveling, however, that the garnet is believed to do, as it is thought to be a protective talisman against disease and harm.
- There are many healing properties associated with garnets, including countering melancholy, treating the heart, treating inflammation, and overall health preservation. Mental and emotional benefits include self-esteem, devotion, faith, truthfulness, fidelity, passion, friendship, and energy. Some believe the powers of the garnet can only be experienced with an uncut, natural stone.
You'll find uncut, natural garnet and much more here at Mosteller American Gemstones. Whether you are looking for a special birthday gift, anniversary gift, or a natural gemstone for purported mental and physical health benefits, you'll find what you are looking for in our Gemstone Gallery. If you have any questions or don't see what you are looking for, give us a call and we'll do our best to help you.


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I just got home and it wasn't as bad as I thought it might be.
Both dogs greeted me at the door wet and soggy which means they just stood on the back porch and barked.
I had to turn my back when I walked in because they looked so funny and so darn cute.
After a quick towel dry and a spin thru the fluffer ( that's a game we play with the towel)
I combed them both out and look fine. Sheeesh ! I am so relieved.
My nails look great by the way. I'm just waiting for Mark to call to say goodnight at 3:00 in the afternoon.
It's after 10 pm there.
Goodnight Mark !
Tell a friend !
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
soggy doggy update
Posted by Cathy at 1:09 PM
Labels: soggy doggy
1 comment:
- Libby said...
cathy, "After a quick towel dry and a spin thru the fluffer ( that's a game we play with the towel)"...
this is a good validation for my having an indoor cat!! sorry! i'm just a wimp...!
- March 24, 2009 at 3:21 PM
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We had the outline. We had the skeleton. We even had the will, and the intent. But still our curriculum hadn't yet come alive… Thinking about the next steps in developing our Knowledge-Rich curriculum in the Amethyst Trust led me to thinking about another favourite tale of mine: The Invention of Hugo Cabret, by Brian […]Read More


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The current man-pages maintainer is (since 2004) Michael Kerrisk (email@example.com; blog).
One day, someone else will be the maintainer. So, to make life easier for the next person: some tips on how to maintain the Linux man-pages project (also useful for anyone who wants to help with work on man-pages).
Read at least the following:
All of these pages are relevant for maintaining man-pages. Some of them are part of packages other than man-pages.
History matters. The man-pages project documents not just the current state of the Linux kernel and glibc APIs, but also how they have changed over time.
Once upon a time, man-pages also used to document Linux libc details (libc4, libc5), and there are still some vestiges of that intent in existing pages, but Linux libc has been dead for quite a long time now (see here and here for some details), and there is no longer much need to keep documenting its peculiarities.
Your time is valuable, and disk space is cheap, so set aside a few gigabytes of disk space...
You can find nearly every kernel release ever made at http://www.kernel.org/.
Given the modern Linux development model,
it can save time to keep
unpacked trees for all of the releases since Linux 2.6.0.
These trees can be inspected to look at
differences across kernel versions.
You can get a copy of Linus' Git tree (i.e., the current development tree) using this command:
$ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git linuxThereafter, just update the copy using git pull.
For browsing the kernel source code, lxr can be useful. (Online browsable versions of various free kernels can be found at http://fxr.watson.org/.)
A lot of glibc tarballs can be found at http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/glibc/. Many older tarballs can be found at ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/linux-local/libc.archive/. A copy of the latest glibc development tree can be obtained via git:
git clone git://sourceware.org/git/glibc.git
Sometimes it can be useful to grep through random source code to see what uses a certain API and how. For example, one could unpack all of the source code of a distribution and then grep that code. Download locations for source code: Fedora; OpenSUSE.
One of the biggest challenges is keeping up to date with changes in the kernel and glibc. There are a few ways to do this.
The linux-next tree is the holding area for patches aimed at the next kernel merge window. It can be useful to track what's going on there, in order to get some idea of upcoming changes to the kernel. (Some notes on working with linux-next.)
If you are looking for a specific kernel commit, or a commit log message containing a particular string, then searching Linus' Git tree can be useful.
Linux API
The linux-api mailing list (firstname.lastname@example.com) discusses changes that affect the Linux programming interface (API or ABI). In theory, all patches that change the interface should be CCed to this list. To subscribe, send a message containing the following body to firstname.lastname@example.com:
subscribe linux-api
An archive of this list can be found on gmane.
Linux Kernel (LKML)
This list (email@example.com) contains patches, bug reports, and general discussions about the kernel. To subscribe, send a message containing the following body to email@example.com:
subscribe linux-kernel
The problem with this list is that the volume is extremely high, so keeping close track of it all would require a lot of time.
http://www.kernel.org/ provides the locations of a few searchable archives of this mailing list.
Linux Kernel Announce
This low-volume list (firstname.lastname@example.com) announces releases of new versions of various kernel branches, including release candidates for the mainline kernel and new -mm kernels. To subscribe, send a message containing the following body to email@example.com:
subscribe linux-kernel-announce
The netdev list, (firstname.lastname@example.com), is the list used by the developers of the Linux networking subsystem.
To subscribe, send a message containing the following body to firstname.lastname@example.com:
subscribe netdev
Archives of this list can be found on lore and marc.
Linux Test Project (LTP)
The LTP produces test suites for the Linux kernel. Subscribe to the discussion list here. There are list archives here.
Kernel Newbies
Can be useful for asking questions on aspects of the kernel source that you don't understand.
To subscribe, send a message containing the following body to email@example.com:
subscribe kernelnewbies
Archives of this list can be found on lore and marc. See the kernelnewbies web site for more information.
This list announces each glibc release. Subscribe by sending an email to email@example.com or visiting this page. There is a list archive here.
This is the development list for glibc. Subscribe by sending an email to firstname.lastname@example.com or visiting this page. There is a list archive here.
This list is for asking general questions and getting help on glibc. Subscribe by sending an email to firstname.lastname@example.com or visiting this page. There is a list archive here.
These websites are useful because they in part include attempts by others to summarize changes to the Linux kernel.
When a new kernel release is made, scan the patch and ChangeLog, to see what important changes there have been. This is quite a big job, and pretty much impossible to do thoroughly, unless doing man-pages is your full time job, but a bit of scripting can help (e.g., to discard device driver stuff and architecture-specific stuff other than for (say) x86 and ARM).
Just as for the kernel, when a new glibc release comes out, scan the Changelog and the differences in the source code tree. Reading the NEWS file in the glibc root directory also provides information about important changes in a glibc release.
The following is useful to get a rough idea of what symbols are new or changed in various glibc releases -- execute it at the root of a glibc tree:
cat $(find . -name 'Versions' | egrep -v '/(s390|alpha|sparc|hurd|sh4|bsd|ia64|powerpc|x86_64)') | sed -n '/GLIBC/,/}/p' | sed 's/#.*//'| tr ';' '\012' | sed 's/^ *//' | sed 's/ *$//' | sed '/^$/d' | grep -v '^_' | awk '{ if ($1 ~ "^GLIBC_2.*") { tag = $1 } else if ($1 ~ "^[a-z].*") { printf "%-32s %s\n", $1, tag } }' | sort -u
The kernel.org bugzilla can be used to report man-pages bugs. The list of unresolved bugs in the bugzilla can be seen here.
Also useful: How to use bugzilla.kernel.org.
Debian makes it easy for upstream maintainers to subscribe to bug reports for man pages. To do this, visit http://packages.qa.debian.org/ and look for the Debian source packages manpages.
A current list of Debian bug reports for man-pages can be viewed here. The Debian manpages patch tracker is here.
Debian even provides an email interface that allows an upstream maintainer to manipulate Debian bug reports (using the "tags" command; see http://www.debian.org/Bugs/server-control).
The Debian developer/upstream-centric view of manpages can be seen here.
Every now and then it may be worth reviewing the Debian downstream diff patches applied to man-pages, to see if there's anything they should have pushed upstream, but didn't. Have a look at the diff patches that are available by following the "unstable" release links at http://packages.debian.org/manpages and http://packages.debian.org/manpages-dev, and downloading the Debian tarballs. Or look at the web patchtracker.
The following mail address reaches people with an interest in man pages at Debian: firstname.lastname@example.com.
Ubuntu uses Launchpad for manpages (bugs, package) and manpages-posix (bugs, package). There are links on the "bugs" pages to allow subscribing to bug reports.
Red Hat provides a man-pages bugzilla component.
URL for Fedora package: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=401. From there, you can reach the RPM files, and unpack them to see the diffs from upstream, using:
rpm2cpio foo.rpm | cpio -idmv --no-absolute-filenames
Downstream Git repo for Red Hat patches:
git clone git://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/man-pages.git
It is possible to subscribe to Fedora man-pages bug reports, as follows:
Perhaps some other distributions have similar facilities, but these are the only ones I know about so far.
Writing test programs (in C) is an essential part of writing man pages. It verifies the author's understanding of what is being documented and also finds bugs in the kernel and glibc. In some cases, example programs are also suitable for inclusion in the man pages themselves.
To follow the development curve closely, download release candidate (rc) kernels from http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.0/testing/. Build and install the kernel, and write programs to test new features. Since the declarations of new system calls probably won't yet be in your (g)libc, the use of syscall() may be required; see the syscall(2) man page.
For information on building and testing glibc releases, see Appendix C Installing the GNU C Library in the glibc manual, Frequently Asked Questions about the GNU C Library on the glibc wiki, and especially Carlos O'Donell's Testing a glibc build page on the glibc wiki.
It is not enough to document what Linux does. Programmers writing portable applications need to know about places where Linux differs from other UNIX implementations, and about places where it doesn't adhere to standards.
If in doubt about portability, write a test program and run it on a few other systems. As a starting point, testing say Solaris, FreeBSD, and HP-UX is likely to reveal most of the range of differences that occur on other implementations. Bonus points for testing on other BSDs, on AIX, etc.
Join the Austin group. (Membership is free.)
Get electronic copies of current and past UNIX standards, especially the POSIX.1-2008/SUSv4 standard, available in PDF format to members of the Austin group, and browsable online. Note also that section 3p of the man pages includes pages containing the specifications for all functions in POSIX.1 (e.g., try man 3p stat).
Other standards to look out for are SUSv1, SUSv2, and the SVID (System V Interface Definition), all of which are available in electronic form.
And get the C programming language standards.
And have a look at the LSB.
Get man pages for as many other UNIX systems (including past and current versions) as you can find. Check those man pages to see what differences there are from Linux. They'll also provide ideas about topics that should be covered in corresponding Linux man pages. Don't violate copyrights by copying text from man pages whose licenses prohibit re-use.
Sometimes there is useful information to be found in the info(1) documentation for a particular function (if the info documentation exists...). Always worth checking.
It can be handy to have a set of /usr/include trees from various other implementations. Grepping all of these trees can give some clues about interfaces that are/aren't present on other UNIX implementations.
The source code of some other UNIX implementations is available, and useful to study in order to determine undocumented details of behaviour on those systems.
Instructions on how to get the source code of Open Solaris can be found here. You'll need to install Mercurial ("hg").
The FreeBSD source code is available via anonymous CVS, as described here. You'll want a command something like the following:
$ cvs -d email@example.com:/home/ncvs co src
Look here.
Release tarballs are made available at http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/man-pages/. Files are uploaded using kup. Look here.
The man-pages website resides at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/. Files are uploaded using kup. Look here.
Testing kernel and glibc features while writing man pages will inevitably uncover bugs. Report them.
For the kernel, a report can either go into the kernel bugzilla, or, if the report is of general interest (e.g., a significant bug in a new system call), it may be worthwhile submitting a note to the relevant developer (e.g., the author of the system call) and CCing LKML (firstname.lastname@example.com).
Bug reports for glibc go here: http://sourceware.org/bugzilla. This is also the place for bug reports for glibc info(1) documents.
The man-pages project was begun in 1993 by Rik Faith, who created releases 1.0 through to 1.5 (February 1995).
Rik Faith was succeeded by Andries Brouwer (aeb), who continued in the role for more than nine years, creating releases 1.6 (June 1995) through to 1.70 (October 2004).
The current maintainer, Michael Kerrisk (mtk), took over in November 2004, starting with release 2.00.


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Like it or not, the European Union, in the wake of Lisbon, has become an international actor. It now faces two major external challenges. The first is to develop strategic vision for a potentially tumultuous emerging multi-polar world. The European Council's December 2008 "Report on the Implementation of the European Security Strategy" recognized that, over the last five years, the threats facing the EU had become "increasingly complex", that "we must be ready to shape events [by] becoming more strategic in our thinking", and that this will involve being "more effective and visible around the world". The second challenge is to help nudge the other major actors towards a multilateral global grand bargain. Such a bargain will be the necessary outcome of the transition from a US-dominated post-1945 liberal world order, towards a new twenty-first century order accommodating the rising powers and sensitive to the needs of the global South. Without such a comprehensive and cooperative bargain, the emerging multi-polar world will be rife with tensions and highly conflict-prone.
In order to play a constructive role in forging that grand bargain, the EU must begin to think strategically. To date, its actions in the wider world – both CFSP and especially ESDP – have been reactive, ad hoc and tactical. This has to change. Henceforth, the Union must be clear about its common values and interests. It must be clear about its medium to long-term global objectives. And it must be clear about the means required to achieve those objectives.
There are three main reasons why a strategic approach is imperative. First, the EU suffers from serious long-term disadvantages: demographic decline, energy dependency, territorial exiguity, penury of natural resources and the absence of a unitary political centre. Developing a strategic approach will be difficult. But without it, the EU will have little chance of influencing the course of the 21st century. Second, such an approach is even more necessary because all the other major players are proving to be highly strategic in their own approach to the evolving global system. They are playing chess. The EU is playing ping pong. Third, in the post-Cold War world, the EU can no longer simply rely on the US to provide a security guarantee. President Obama, in Strasbourg last spring, practically implored the EU to assume its responsibilities on the global stage and become a true strategic partner for the US. Europe's future attractiveness to Washington will be a function of its ability to bring something substantial to the transatlantic table.
But developing strategic vision is not an end in itself. It must be applied to the great challenges thrown up by the coming transition to a new global order. Power transitions, as Organski and Gilpin have argued, normally involve violent overthrow of the existing order by the rising hegemon. There are good reasons to believe that such an outcome can be avoided in the 21st century. For the first time in human history, the post-1945 world has benefited from global institutions, increasingly effective multilateralism, a growing corpus of international law and complex interdependence – leading to what Giovanni Grevi has termed "inter-polarity" (the combination of interdependence and multipolarity). Moreover, the lessons of 1914-1918 and 1939-1945, together with the end of Empire, have demonstrated the futility of territorial aggrandisement. Military power in its traditional sense has been shown to have limited political usefulness. Failed states have become more dangerous that powerful ones, soft power the necessary companion to hard power, human rights the mirror image of states rights, humanitarian intervention the new normative underpinning of international crisis management.
In this brave new emerging world, what are the available options for the major players? It is unlikely – though not impossible – that they will revert to the zero-sum jostling, the militarised power-balancing of the old Westphalian system. All players recognise the advantages of cooperation over conflict in a world where climate change, environmental degradation, migratory flows, regional instabilities and commercial and investment interdependence have significantly reduced the scope – and even the meaning – of national sovereignty.
The choice, then, boils down to two scenarios. Either the rising powers will be persuaded, as some American liberals believe is possible, to embrace the existing international liberal order essentially in its current form (with some minor adjustments). Or the major players will agree to devise – collectively and cooperatively – a new global order which better manages and harmonises the multiplicity of preferences, the diversity of cultural realities and governance systems, the asymmetries and imbalances which still persist between East and West, North and South, rising and declining powers, rich and poor. Robert Hutchings has termed such an agreement a "global grand bargain".
Those who believe in Europe as a "normative power" will be tempted to make common cause with US liberals in holding out for a Western-anchored global order posing as the champion of "universal values". It is unlikely that such an approach will succeed. In the past twelve months alone, we have witnessed the humiliation of the deregulated market system, growing pressures for meaningful reform of the Bretton Woods institutions, of the United Nations, the dominance of the G-20 over the increasingly irrelevant G-8, the imperative of global cooperation over climate change, the return of Russia as a strategic actor, and above all the omni-presence of China as a power-broker. In a post-colonial, post-imperial world, the very concept of universal values is deeply problematic. The EU should avoid trying to project itself as a normative model. The "brand EU" is not for export. Other actors may wish to emulate it, but that must be their choice. Rather, what the EU should seek as a basic strategic objective is a world of cultural and political diversity in which, nevertheless, stability, security, prosperity, development, environmental sustainability, solidarity and self-determination are considered in holistic terms as key elements of global interdependence – of inter-polarity.
The global grand bargain will involve a necessary series of trade-offs, some bilateral, some multilateral, between the rising and the declining powers. These trade-offs will be necessary in all major policy areas – governance, security, finance, trade, agriculture, energy, climate, development, proliferation, cultural exchanges and intellectual property. This will not involve selling off the family silver or succumbing to foreclosure on the estate. It will involve bartering some elements of that silver in order to create an even larger and more all-embracing domain.
In that process, the EU will need to be crystal clear about its deepest values and interests and about its strategic bottom line. Grand strategic clarity is essential if we are to arrive at a global grand bargain. The EU has many assets in this process. The price of failure will be a return to the jungle – a jungle in which European assets will count for very little.
Jolyon Howorth is Visiting Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at Yale University. He is currently working on the second edition of his 2007 Palgrave book "Security and Defence Policy in the European Union"


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Cryptocurrency Funds Coming Back to Life
In case you were wondering where all the noise over cryptocurrency retreated to, you need wonder no more. After garnering much excitement at the end of 2017, when the year long gain notched a mouth-watering 1700 percent growth, (yes that's 17 with two zeroes), the first quarter of 2018 was a bit bumpier. Eurekahedge observed its Crypto-Currency Hedge Fund Index dropped 6.04 percent in January, 13.21 percent in February, and 34.11 percent in March. Not something to write home about.
April saw a change in direction for this sector worth singing about, with a climb in value for that month alone of 83.86 percent. Currently the price of one bitcoin hovers at about $8300, leaving analysts and observers to speculate on the probability of the digital coin to reach $10,000, where it hasn't been since early March. However, compared to where bitcoin was on December 18, 2017 when it reached an all-time high of just under $20,000, getting to $10,000 does not seem like such a big deal.
Although bitcoin has been showing signs of better health in recent weeks, it could be other cryptocurrencies that are fueling the Eurekahedge index growth. The second largest cryptocurrency by market cap, ethereum, grew by 70 percent in April. But Bitcoin Cash more than doubled its value during that same time span.
It might be hard to get a real overview of how cryptocurrencies are behaving since at the moment there are a tiny number of funds dedicated to investing in them-just seven on Eurekahedge's index. But if digital money continue to dominate from now on, there is a good chance investors will take more of an interest in their performance and value.
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With the release of The Cure the bar band sound that made The Saw Doctors reputation has returned but thankfully they've ditched the echo chamber vocals. Lead singer Davy Carton's voice is nicely up front and center.
The Cure is typical Saw Doctors in a lot of ways but it is not an album that will win over many new fans. Their inventive often clever lyrics are still there but the melodies all tend toward sameness. It's not a bad release, and completists will want to own it, but newcomers should start with their debut If This Is Rock N' Roll, I Want My Old Job Back (1991) and All The Way From Tuam (1993).


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|About this Recording
8.573503 - MORENO TORROBA, F.: Guitar Concertos, Vol. 2 - Homenaje a la seguidilla / Tonada concertante (Pepe Romero, V. Coves, Extremadura Symphony, M. Coves)
Federico Moreno Torroba (1891–1982)
Torroba and the Guitar Concerto
Federico Moreno Torroba is among the most salient figures in the modern repertoire for the classical guitar. Indeed, he may well have been the first prominent composer to write for the instrument who was not himself a guitarist. There is considerable irony in this fact, as Torroba was principally a man of the theatre. He got his start writing zarzuelas (operettas) in Madrid and would eventually compose about seventy such works over a period of four decades. He was among the most successful composers of zarzuelas in the genre's history, his biggest hit being Luisa Fernanda (1932), which has been performed over fifteen thousand times. However, that is but one of several of his works that have found a permanent place in the zarzuela repertoire.
How Torroba came to compose for the guitar can be summed up in a single word: Segovia. Andrés Segovia was an early admirer of his music, and around 1920 he persuaded Torroba to write something for the guitar. From this collaboration came a long list of masterworks, including such classics as the Suite castellana, Piezas características, and Castillos de España. Indeed, he eventually composed about a hundred works for the guitar. Urged on by Segovia, Torroba made some early attempts at a concerto, but these efforts did not bear lasting fruit until the 1960s, the decade in which Torroba devoted increasing attention to writing for the guitar rather than zarzuelas, which were by then going out of style. And Torroba became nothing if not prolific in writing concertos for guitar(s) and orchestra, a fact that this recording makes very clear. By the end of his life, he had composed ten such works, more even than his friend Joaquín Rodrigo. His concertos are mostly for solo guitar, though Nocturnos is for two guitars, and the Concierto ibérico, for four. This latter concerto was inspired by Rodrigo's Concierto andaluz and, like that work, it was written for the celebrated Romero Guitar Quartet. In fact, during the period in which he wrote his concertos, Torroba was expanding the circle of guitarists for whom he wrote music, and in several cases these new collaborations provided the impetus for his creativity. These performers included not only the Romeros but also Narciso Yepes, Irma Costanzo and Michael Lorimer.
Torroba's guitar works have two things in common with his zarzuelas. First, they are eminently lyrical and present us with a cornucopia of evocative and memorable melodies. Torroba described himself as a "melodist," one whose operatic idol was Puccini. Second, they are grounded in the Spanish folklore that Torroba knew so well, including Andalusian flamenco.
Homenaje a la seguidilla (1962)
The seguidilla is a type of lively song and dance in triple metre that exists in regional varieties. It is especially characteristic of Castile but also found in Andalusia, as the playful sevillanas or very serious siguiriya. Torroba's Homenaje a la seguidilla is a loving homage to this characteristically Spanish type of music. Dedicated to Narciso Yepes, who gave the initial première in Paris in 1962, it is in three movements, marked Andantino, Andante, and Allegro sostenuto. However, Torroba was not content with his effort and continued to revise the work over a period of several years. Its formal première finally took place in 1975, at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, with the composer conducting and Irma Costanzo as soloist. Costanzo was a native of Buenos Aires who had studied with Yepes and Uruguayan virtuoso Abel Carlevaro. Yepes recorded the Homenaje in 1976 and, after further substantial revisions, it was recorded again in 1981, with the composer conducting the English Chamber Orchestra and Ángel Romero as soloist (this revision was dedicated to Ángel). As Federico Sopeña said of this work:
"[In the case of Moreno Torroba,] without subjecting himself to any fad, faithful to himself and secure within that faith, his Homenaje a la seguidilla is like an autobiographical anthology, which one listens to with pleasure. I believe that the hour has arrived in which our programming will open more and more to the works of our composers who, dispersed by the Civil War—an entire generation—die twice, because the first death was that of incurable nostalgia."
Local critics in Buenos Aires also sang the praises of Costanzo and the new work, describing it as "abounding in attractive and playful ideas, nobly conceived and realised, with a modernism that does not resort to absurdity and cacophony to establish itself as modern".
The first movement recalls the opening of Falla's Noches en los jardines de España in its gauzy and mysterious evocation of the seguidilla, with its triple metre with intermittent hemiola, Andalusian scale, and use of castanets. The arrival of the solo part heralds increasing animation and drive, with the distinctive seguidilla rhythm of an eighth followed by two sixteenths repeated over and over. The guitar part features rasgueo (strumming) passages and lightning-fast picados (scales) evocative of flamenco. Occasional asides in free rhythm seem to suggest the interjections of a solo singer, in contrast to more dance-like sections. What one also detects here is the admixture of harmonies that evoke not only Andalusia but also American jazz. Torroba was a great lover of Broadway musicals and of Gershwin's music, so that his works of the 1970s in particular often exhibit a fragrant mélange of Spanish and North American elements. The second movement is a languid idyll, exhibiting Torroba's inveterate lyricism. The final movement is a technical tour de force, and some passages may again suggest Falla, especially El amor brujo, a work Torroba knew very well.
Tonada concertante (1975–80)
During the years 1975–80, Torroba laboured over a new concerto, which he fancifully entitled Tonada concertante, a tonada being a type of theatrical song of the eighteenth century. Ángel Romero premièred the Tonada concertante in 1982, though it was dedicated to his father, Celedonio. Torroba had every reason to be completely satisfied with these renditions, and the Romeros thus developed a very close and warm friendship with him. The concerto is in four movements. The opening Andante—Allegro movement is notable for its playful good spirits, while the second movement, Andante, is especially introspective and foregrounds the composer's lyrical muse. A brief scherzo-like movement, marked Allegro moderato, connects the slow and final movements. The concluding Allegro is a cheerful, dance-like romp that makes colourful use of percussion and winds.
Concierto de Castilla (1960)
The year 1960 was pivotal in Torroba's turn towards the concerto. In December of that year he wrote to Segovia to say that he had finished his Concierto de Castilla, the first of his ten concertos. This was first recorded by Renata Tarragó and the Orquesta de Conciertos de Madrid in 1962 on the Hispavox and Columbia Masterworks labels. The work is in three movements, marked Adagio – Allegretto moderato, Andante, and Andante – Allegro moderato, with the outer fast movements both featuring slow introductions. The work highlights not only virtuosic guitar playing but also the composer's imaginative handling of the orchestra, especially the writing for winds. Torroba was always composing zarzuelas, even when he was writing a concerto. Thus, the work features a free-spirited lyricism evocative of the folklore of Castile, a vast expanse in the middle of the Peninsula with which the composer strongly identified. Born in the heart of Madrid in 1891, he spent his entire life there. His Castilian Concerto is the logical and heartfelt expression of this identity.
The three works on this recording are entirely representative of the great composer's style in both their lyricism and Spanish ambience, so it is something of a mystery why they have enjoyed relatively little currency on the concert stage and the recording studio. These performances, by artists who display a profound rapport with the composer's music, will do much to generate interest in and a long overdue revival of Torroba's guitar concertos.
Walter Aaron Clark, University of California, Riverside
Authors of Federico Moreno Torroba: A Musical Life in Three Acts (Oxford, 2013)
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