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Drawing on his years in South Africa, artist and designer Selven O'Keef Jarmon will drape the Art League Houston building, 1953 Montrose, in 600,000 beads this summer. He unveiled his plans for the "360 Degrees Vanishing" project to arts patrons Thursday at Barbara Davis Gallery in Montrose.
The exhibit, seven years in the making, will bring 16 skilled beaders from co-ops in the Eastern Cape of South Africa to Houston to create the huge installation. It's part of an international exchange with the South African government, the Craft and Cultural Hub of the Eastern Cape, and the South African Cultural Minister's Office.
Jarmon, wearing a beaded ornament over a crisp white shirt, said he was inspired by the disappearance of the South African beading culture.
"I hope it will make people think about things that are disappearing in their own cultures," he said.
African drummers welcomed guests outside, while chef Soren Pederson prepared hors d'oeuvres inside. Spotted in the crowed: Michael Peranteau, Molly Hubbard, Tina and Josh Zulu, Suzanne Hite, Mary Kelly, Jonathon Glus, Alton LaDay and Emily Stein.


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147 Too Big To Fail Corporations on the Wall
Further to yesterday's look at the doomed round of G-20 talks, New Scientist points to research on
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. The capitalist network is made primarily of 1318 corporations, of which 147 companies are superconnected. The Top 50 list of these hubs is almost exclusively money movers and includes Lehman Brothers, due to when the data was collected.
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Ferrari California 30
Much like the early-life milestone, the thirty in the Ferrari California 30 represents a slight transformation of values, which, when combined with the new Handling Speciale option, addresses accusations from purists that it is too suited for cruising the boulevard instead of weaving through tight S-bends. With 70 percent of California buyers new to the brand, Ferrari sees an opportunity to market the model towards loyalists through a lighter, more powerful and more stiffly sprung iteration.
The 30 goes for all new Californias, representing a gain of 30 horsepower and 14 footpounds of torque, and a loss of 30 kilograms, which amounts to 66 pounds for us Americans. The 4.3-liter V-8 now produces a maximum of 483 horsepower because of new exhaust manifolds and engine mapping, and the loss of weight is due to new aluminum fabrication techniques. In all, Ferrari says the changes enable the California to take 0.1 of a second less to reach 62 m.p.h. But the car really comes to life with the optional Handling Speciale package. It features faster-responding magnetorheological dampers, (normally a standalone option), stiffer springs and a lower steering ratio for quicker responses.
With all these performance enhancements on board, it may come as a surprise that the smooth operation of a manual transmission is no longer available. With just two-yes, two-of the 8,000 or so California buyers opting for the manual transmission, it's easy to see why it has been deemed obsolete. Still, we can't help but wonder if the model's new sporty enhancements wouldn't drive a few connoisseurs or rarity-minded investors to the H-gate.
Price: $202,000
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Dismas: A Journey of ForgivenessMarch 28th, 2014
The only place I felt forgiven was in the Catholic church. The individual who expressed this sentiment is a convicted felon, a young man who served time and has continued to serve time through the seemingly never-ending punishments meted out by society after the door closes behind you on the way out of prison.
I didn't know much about returning citizens until three years ago when I joined a task force of Advocate for Justice, the Archdiocesan Social Action Collaborative. So often when we speak of the criminal justice system, we speak in terms of statistics and generalities. When I began to attend the task force meetings, I began to hear voices. I met Nate and James and Dominic and Reno. I met their young children. I met Brother Mike, who was challenged to "do something" about the young men hanging on street corners in Over the Rhine.
What Bro. Mike found out, and I and the other task force members learned, was that for many young men, one mistake can last for life. (There are serious racial implications in this story, but it would take far too many words to delve into that.) When we think felons, I imagine many of us think of murder or robbery or some kind of violent crime. We think of career criminals. Do you think of a young man who was convinced by someone else to write back checks, not understanding that it was a crime? Do you think of a young man who freely admits to making bad choices but who wants to turn his life around so that he can raise his children in a safe and nurturing environment?
Do we realize the roadblocks faced by these young men, barriers that can make committing more crimes seem the only option because employment is nearly unattainable? Until about a year ago, Ohio had 850 collateral sanctions that prevented persons with a felony record from obtaining many types of employment. Writing bad checks could keep you from becoming a registered nursing assistant or a school janitor. The nature of the crime had little to do with the kind of employment you could never have. The employment challenges are simply one of many, some legal and some societal.
When Brother Mike came to understand the barriers that returning citizens face, he began to do something about it. And the HELP Program was born. Over the past three years, I have heard the stories of several other men. These guys are incredibly bright and articulate. They are also passionate about changing the system. And so they have visited Catholic churches around Cincinnati, telling their story and inspiring parishioners to stand with them.
It was from these events—the Dismas Journey—that Dominic experienced forgiveness, which sadly seems to be in short supply in our world. It is certainly not a Gospel value to consider people beyond redemption and cast them out of society. Jesus made it his business to welcome the outcast back into community and relationship, but I'm not sure Catholics always have the reputation of embracing that part of the gospel message. How many of us can say we forgive those who trespass against us?
It fills me with joy and hope to know that if we move past the news stories and the grim statistics and look at the faces of our brothers and sisters, hear their stories, establish relationships, we are moved to solidarity—and to action. As we approach Lent and begin to focus on our own brokenness and on God's inexhaustible supply of forgiveness, we might want to take a careful look at the ways in which we fail to offer the forgiveness that we would wish to receive. We could look past the news and the statistics to find the people. We could practice forgiveness in our daily lives and advocate for reconciliation in the world around us.


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It is hard to limit the effects of therapy so that only cancer cells are removed or destroyed. Because cervical cancer treatment also damages healthy cells and tissues, it often causes unpleasant side effects.
The side effects of cervical cancer treatment depend mainly on the type and extent of the treatment. Also, each patient reacts differently to their cervical cancer treatment. Doctors and nurses can explain the possible side effects of cervical cancer treatment, and they can help relieve symptoms that may occur during and after treatment. It is important to let the doctor know if any side effects occur.
Methods for removing or destroying small cancers on the surface of the cervix are similar to those used to treat precancerous lesions. Cervical cancer treatment may cause cramping or other pain, bleeding, or a watery discharge.
Hysterectomy is major surgery. For a few days after the operation, the woman may have pain in her lower abdomen. The doctor can order medicine to control the pain. A woman may have difficulty emptying her bladder and may need to have a catheter inserted into the bladder to drain the urine for a few days after surgery. She also may have trouble having normal bowel movements. For a period of time after the surgery, the woman's activities should be limited to allow healing to take place. Normal activities, including sexual intercourse, usually can be resumed in 4 to 8 weeks.
Women who have had their uterus removed no longer have menstrual periods. However, sexual desire and the ability to have intercourse usually are not affected by hysterectomy. On the other hand, many women have an emotionally difficult time after this surgery. A woman's view of her own sexuality may change, and she may feel an emotional loss because she is no longer able to have children. An understanding partner is important at this time. Women may want to discuss these issues with their doctor, nurse, medical social worker, or member of the clergy.
Patients are likely to become very tired during cervical cancer radiation therapy, especially in the later weeks of treatment. Resting is important, but doctors usually advise patients to try to stay as active as they can.
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My wife Jean literally taught me how to see the world around me in a new way, and to see more of what was around me than I could before she became a part of my life. Jean is the most visually perceptive person I have ever known. To this very day, when we go hiking or go for walks on the beach, or when we go any place outside in nature, Jean's visual ability shifts into a higher level of awareness and she sees things that maybe I might see without her there with me, but often she sees visual details that I don't see, and I might never notice… Until she shows me what she can see and she shares her vision with me.
She is fascinated by natural light shining down from the sun and all the ways that the light is constantly changing as it is absorbed into many different colors and also reflected back in bright highlights from the mirror surface of water, or filtered into rays shining down through the leaves and branches of the trees, and how the leaves glow a brighter green when the light shines directly through them. She sees art created by forms, outlines, shapes, patterns, and textures, and the contrast between brightly lit areas and dark shadows.
She loves to see the brightly varied colors and delicate designs of the flowers and the green color of life in the leaves of plants, She is delighted by what is easily seen when bright and brightly colored, or moving with the blowing flow of a breeze.
She enjoys seeing rock ledges large and impressive in size, and tree branches that are eye catching with an unusual shape or pattern. She appreciates seeing the things that are quick to be seen as visual stand outs.
But her real talent is being able to see things barely perceptible but still visually impressive when she finds what often goes unseen by most others, as they pass by unaware of what she finds and enjoys noticing.
She loves the changing light of late afternoon as the sun moves down lower in the sky toward the horizon, when the light changes from bright white into a more golden yellow color that becomes more orange as the sun gets lower, and shadows lengthen and grow longer.
She loves and never tires of the magic of all the glowing colors of a sunset when the colors are as vivid and awe inspiring as they are rapidly changing and deepening from lighter to darker in hue, and finally incredibly red before turning purple and quickly fading as only the glow of the departed sun lightens the horizon, then darkens and fades into the darkness.
But she also loves the light of the bright white moon above on a clear night and the silver moonlight that bathes the features of the dark but still visible landscape below, creating the sharply outlined contrast of black shadows and the softly reflective muted places where dim but still visible light in the darkness of night exists and reveals that all is not darkness in the absence of direct sunlight.
There is still reflected sunlight shining on the face of the moon, bright with the promise that the dawn of a new day of sunlight will return, and the entire spectrum of light will create the ever changing magic of a new light show.
Life is sustained, renewed and created once again by light in all the ways that light creates visual magic for my wife to see and enjoy, and then share it with me, so I'll see it with her, and not miss it.
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dang how did i miss this? that thing is cool! is that miller a 180 or 211? i have been wanting a 211 for about a year now. The little millers weld great. i have used a 140 on 120ac and it did great but the duty cycle sucked!
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Great little tow bar slam but I'd plate the 't' as much as possible. On saying that it looks great, Nice work! Any recent pics of it?
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I liked this "towbar" idea and decided to attempt to build my own so I could move my non op Datsuns from one location to another.
I built mine a little differently than Slam but I didn't start from scratch.
Problem #1 I had was that I am not a welder and do not know how to weld
Problem #2 I am not a carpenter or fabricator I am a mechanic.
I bought a welder about a year ago thinking I would learn how to use it but it sat in a corner until recently.
I was a a local welding shop and looked into their "dumpster" and found my inspiration for learning how to weld.
I started with a towbar someone had made, I could not use it as it was due to having a pintle style hitch hook up.
Fisrt thing to do was to cut the loop off,once I got the loop off I measured and found out I was working with 1 1/2" square tubing with 1/4 wall. So back to the welding shop I went looking for a short piece of 2 1/2 X 2 1/2 square tubing with a 1/4 wall, didn't take long and I was walking away with a piece 18" in length.
Next was a stop at tractor supply company to pick up a coupler, I settled for a 1 7/8 ball 2 1/2 channel coupler rated for 2000lbs.
I cut and trimmed and mocked up till I was happy then dug out the welder.
I made the "triangle" part angle down slightly from the ball for a few reasons and worked out well. I don't trust my welding but so far all is well. I pulled my white Datsun 38 miles with the old goat with no issues at all.
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Youtube Kinetic Typography
I discovered the joy of Youtube kinetic typography. My first exposure was to Dwight's Speech
But Who's on First is probably the most accessible way of getting into it
The typography of Hitler's speech allows non-German-speakers to understand something of his effectiveness:
A lecture on how its made:
For my geek friends, the kinetic typography Portal's "Still Alive" is interesting
Tibet WAS, IS, and ALWAYS WILL BE… well, what, exactly?
I saw the popular youtube video "Tibet WAS, IS, and ALWAYS WILL BE a part of China" a few weeks ago. Sent it from another source, so it's clearly still making the news. The video is composed of several "facts," each of which contain some truth but most nonetheless distorts the fact. So here are the facts behind the seven facts:
Fact #1: China is NOT a single Ethnic nation, in fact 56 ethnic groups make up China, including Han, Mongols, Koreans, Muslims, Tibetans, etc.
Evaluation. The number of Ethnic groups in China varies according to government whim (China's flag was once five horizontal bands, to signify the five principle races). But the fact remains that many ethnic groups live under Han hegemony in China.
Fact #2: Tibet has been part of China for thousands of years.
Well, maybe. The video appears to use text books from out of Chinese textbooks, which are notoriously innacurate. Still, for long stretches of time Tibet was part of the Chinese Empire (or Mongol Horde, or the Empire of the Great Qing, or whatever) but not one of the provinces of China. This status of China — in China but not of China — is what the Dalai Lama calls for.
Fact #3: 1903 AD, due to the weak Qing Dynasty, British gained control over Tibet as an colonial region and treated them as slaves
Of course, being part of the Chinese Empire but not of China leads to a question: how to deal with the fact that China did not historically exert control over Tibetans? The answer is to state that Tibetans were treated unfairly (which is true — Tibet was historically a feudal theocracy) and to blame foreign powers (which is odd — if British people are criticized for treating Tibetans badly, will the video creator say that Tibet was part of Britain? Probably not.)
Fact #4: Prior to 1950 when Chinese regained Tibet, Tibet was still in a slavery society under Dalai Lama's puppet regime.
Two claims here, one arguable and the other strange. Chinese Communist historians often use the term "slave" for what western historians would describe as "Feudal," so arguing that Tibet was a feudal society is as controversial as arguing that the Cultural Revolution was chaotic. I'm not sure how the Dalai Lama's regime was a "puppet" — perhaps the video creator meant that the Dali was a client of Britain? (I have made a similar mistake, myself.)
Fact #5: DaLai Lama was, and still is, funded by the CIA to separate Tibet from China.
A source is The CIA's Secret War in Tibet Photographs appear to be from the area of the so-called Democratic and Socialist Revolutions, from the late 1940s to 1950s. So this claim, based only on fifty to sixty year old facts, is precisely as accurate as me writing "Mao Zedong was, and still is, funded by the KGB to weaken American power in the Pacific Ocean."
Fact #6: The Chinese government spends 200 millions (40 million US) a year develop Tibet, Building schools, hospitals, infrastructures.
True. The Communist Party's lifting hundreds of millions throughout China, and that's why it's important to support China by protesting the Olympics.
The video contains other assertions, such as Canada should allow a reference on Quebec independence (?!?), but these are the six "facts" that anchor the video.
That Humanizing Moment
Such was Terry McAuliffe's description live-on-MSNBC description of this:
And such is really good evidence for why Hillary Clinton's style is so bad that it will hurt the country.
Relatedly: Clinton defeats Obama in N.H. primary.
Good news from University of California
The University of California's flagship campus in Berkeley is making waves. Not only are the Golden Bears currently #3 in the NCAA Football standings — but they've put hundreds of hours of lecture video online!
I'm currently listening to Physics 10 – Lecture 23: Relativity II. If you thought MIT OpenCourseWare or iTunes on Campus was cool… you ain't seen nothing yet!
The website: youtube.com/ucberkeley.
Use Vixy.net to convert YouTube Videos to MP3
One of the best things about YouTube are how works of art — which otherwise would languish on their creator's computer or never be made at all — become viral on the net. Rx's "Freedom 101" (previously featured here and by Mountainrunner, Sean, and ZenPundit), for instance, is an amazing mashup of ideology, freedom, and principle. However, the artist himself is busy running for President) and hasn't provided an mp3 on his web site. So how to listen to it on my iPod Mini 8GB?
Answer: vixy.net.
Vixy is also an open source project that converts youtube's flac format to standard ones. Until google implements a "Save As" feature for YouTube, vixy's website offers a free, fast translator supported by ad-revenue. I recommend it.
I also tried vixy on LOST breakbeat and Reggae Soviet Anthem. Both worked fine. Thanks vixy!
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Less skilled though hilarious versions are also available.
Likewise, the LOST theme music break-bet remix makes me want to find a Youtube-to-mp3 convertor, as its so awesome. Lost + Weird Al + Queen is beyond words.
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Or fist up signify?"
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As Dean, Mark, penraker, Sean, and Tom himself wrote, Dr. Thomas P.M. Barnett has begun a series of interviews with radio host Hugh Hewitt. Comments on this ranged from the supportive (apparently from people right-of-center to bitterly hostile (apparently from the reflexive Left), and are generally worth checking out. Listen to the interview now.
Relatedly, Dave Porter is hosting part one, part two, and part three of strategic breifing given by Tom Barnett some time ago.


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Wow! Ann Romney on The View was the epitome of intelligent, elegant, class. She reminded me of Laura Bush. Woopie Goldberg, again woefully uninformed, went for the gotha question based on erroneous information about Mormons and Ann Romney handled the question with restraint, class and firmness.
Mrs. Romney would not be dragged into the policy weeds. She spoke to her husband's heart, as the person who knows him best. Woopie wants to know how Mrs. Romney will handle greeting dead soldiers when her own sons did not engage in military service. Wants to know how she'll answer the mothers of those dead sons. Whew, Woopie, apparently, assumes that for a grieving mother, another mother's sons is uppermost in their minds. I seriously doubt that is what is on a grieving mother's mind. The question, as it frequently does, clarifies the questioner more so than the person on the receiving end of the question. If someone is out of touch here it is not Mrs. Romney.
Oh yea, Ann Romney is going to be a factor in the last three weeks of the campaign. If you're not a highly ideological woman and don't think she's a class act please respond to this post and explain it to me because I don't see anything other than class. If you don't think she'll impact the woman's vote, I'm all ears.


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Friday, December 20, 2013
12 Wine Fun Facts
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- AnonymousDecember 20, 2013 at 10:18 AM
Thank you for posting these Wine Factoids. I do have a question...if Spain grows more grapes than everyone else, why are they only third in wine production?ReplyDeleteReplies
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Sandra, that was fun :-)ReplyDelete
Roses at the ends was very interesting: the canary in the mine!
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I am witness to the alarming rate at which Malaysia sways towards religious oppression of its non-Muslims. In further development of this, Malaysia's north-eastern state of Kelantan is set to propose the enforcement of the Islamic 'Hudud' Bill in its Parliament after it was unanimously passed by the Kelantan State Assembly on 19 March. Hudud is a term for the severe, Koran-prescribed punishment for offences that are considered being against God himself. These include amputation for theft, stoning for adultery, flogging for alcohol consumption, crucifixion for armed robbery and execution for apostasy.
This Kelantan bill which was initially passed in 1993 but prevented from being implemented on the grounds of its unconstitutional nature, has been passed yet again and now being set in motion. The Bill is an amendment of the 1965 Syariah (Sharia) Courts Act which currently limits Sharia penalties to a fine of 3,000 Malaysian Ringgits ($800), 5 years imprisonment and 6 strokes of a cane. Sharia law is heavily prevalent in the running of Malaysian law and politics and Kelantan state is of no exception. In Kelantan, Syariah courts function alongside the penal court system and are governed by state legislation rather than federal law.
The Islamic Parti Islam-se Malaysia (PAS) Party is the ruling coalition in Kelantan state and have already proposed 2 Private Members Bills in Parliament during its sitting which concluded yesterday. The first proposal is to enable Syariah courts to legislate on certain crimes currently under the charge of the Penal Code. The second is to enable Syariah courts to sentence those convicted to the aforementioned punishments according to the Koran-prescribed Hudud. Despite the requirement for a majority Parliamentary vote to enact the first proposal and a two-thirds majority to enact the second, given the unanimous passing of the Hudud Bill in the first place, it is highly unlikely that the Kelantan state government will struggle to enforce such punishments.
This PAS Bill states that Hudud can only affect the Muslim population of the state but it fundamentally strips away the right of anyone wishing to leave Islam for any other religion or quite possibly, to simply abandon it. The implementation of this Bill will clearly divide the state along ethnic and religious lines, as under the proposed code for example, women and non-Muslim men are not permitted to testify as witnesses in Syariah courts. This has led political and social researcher, Dr Wong Chin Huat to pose the valid statement:
'If I am robbed in Kelantan by a Muslim and his case goes to Syariah court and I cannot be my own witness in full competence, how can this be justice?'
It should be pointed out that this Hudud Bill is not unique to Kelantan alone, rather the state is just a latest example of the curtailing of religious freedom within Malaysia. Terengganu state for instance has also attempted to introduce similar legislation. I am still living in Malaysia until the summer and I can honestly say the country's politics does not shy away from exclusively carving out a Muslim nation explicitly for the Malays and chipping away at non-Malay and non-Muslim freedoms.
Two-thirds of Malaysia's Christians live in Sarawak and Sabah and the churches of Sarawak have been particularly vocal in its criticism of the Hudud Bill, perceiving its enactment to be in violation of the secular foundation upon which Malaya, Sabah and Sarawak formed Malaysia. The Kuching Ministers' Fellowship (KMF), a network of church pastors and leaders in Sarawak, joined the Sabah Council of Churches in criticising the passing of the Kelantan Shariah Criminal Code II Enactment 1993 (amendment 2015) last month in the east coast state run by Islamist party PAS.
"The recently-passed Kelantan Hudud enactment is in direct contradiction to the aspirations of founding fathers of our nation to keep Malaysia a secular state as evidenced in several historical documents that explicitly state this," KMF chairman Pastor Daron Tan stated.
"The introduction of hudud law is a fundamental breach and deviation from the expressed commitment to complete religious freedom, a key term underpinning the Malaysia Agreement signed in July 1963 between Sarawak, Sabah and Malaya," he added.
As the original secular roots of Malaysia continues to be eroded and replaced with an ever-present, ever-pressing purer form of Islam, the nation continues to be plunged deeper into uncertainty for its religious minorities. Malaysia is becoming a country of increasing alarm, its politics increasingly embedded and infiltrated by hard-line Islamists. Personally speaking, it has become a country that has gained priority in my nations-to-watch list.


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"I now know that, yes, I am powerful. I'm more powerful than my mind can even digest and understand."
"I now know that, yes, I am powerful. I'm more powerful than my mind can even digest and understand."
I am going to start with this week with a forward. This forward is being that I am probably the only one that will read this that plays StarCraft and be the only one that gets my own references. So pulling Jimmy Fallon from Saturday Night Live past, I will laugh at my own jokes and enjoy them thoroughly because at the end of the day I don't get paid for this, and do it for my own enjoyment, so screw the reader. But at least compared to you other gamers out there, I play a game with million dollar earning professionals with a plethora of South Korean groupies, so at least I am learning life skills, while you just learn how to dota or counterstrike or whatever you people do.
Chocolate frogs are one of the most notable sweets in the Harry Potter Series. They include many great attributes that children enjoy, such as collectable items, chocolate, mobility, and of course frogs. These chocolate frogs are come to life when unwrapped and hop around, which is as amusing as it is unhygienic.
So I watch TED talks fairly often and there was one that came out fairly recently about 4D printing. If you're wondering how you can print in the 4th dimension (time), I would ask what if you considered self-assembling materials? Think of the ability to print out materials that are able to independently shape themselves and self-assemble over time. There is a huge market for such a technology.
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Bellonna is a independent halfling business owner from Diobel who has submitted her name for consideration as Grayrain's replacement. For the past decade she has clashed with the Barge Gang, an operation that has a monopoly ferrying goods about Diobel's hazardous harbor. She sees Absalom as equally crippled by the Flotsam Graveyard.
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Yesterday we returned from our 7 day trip to Florida to see my grandma (affectionately called Bossy) one last time. Today we got a call that she had passed this morning. I am, of course, sorrowful at the passing of my Bossy that I really loved, but it is a joyful sorrow, bittersweet in so many ways. You see, I know in my heart that Bossy is with Jesus right now. I am not sitting here questioning it or trying to make myself feel better by saying it, it is a truth I am sure of.
While my sister and I were visiting, Bossy was transferred to hospice so we had the opportunity to go back to the nursing facility to go through her things. We found an old autograph book there that will be a treasured possesion for the rest of our lives. Bossy was a member of the Salvation Army, even attending their training college, when she was a young woman. At that time their whole focusing was winning souls for Christ. These young men and women were sold out for Jesus and what they wrote in this book just took our breath away. It gave us a glance of who Bossy was as a young woman and her heart for Jesus.
Here are a couple of quotes some friends put in the book:
Just one life, 'twill soon be past, only what's done for Christ, will last.
An archer is known, not by his arrows, but by his aim. May your aim always be souls and heaven. God will make your try a try-umph!
We only found out today that she did not communicate besides with grunts to anyone else but when my sister and I, who are the only Christians in our family, began to talk to her about Jesus, she spoke words to us. She told us she loved us. She sang the words to old hymns to us. She told us she wanted to be with Jesus. She told us that our girls were just precious. Over and over again, "Precious, precious, precious."
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A week before devising this recipe I was at Jamie Oliver and Alex James' Big Feastival. During this event Alex James launched a new blue cheese (Blue Monday) designed for people "who don't like blue cheese". Alex loves blue cheese and is looking to get some converts. This got me thinking.
Green Juicing for Juicing Newbies
I love green juices, but they are without doubt the hardest juices to persuade people to try. Then, a friend of mine mentioned that his wife enjoys some of the juices he has been making, but gags whenever she attempts to try the green ones. The challenge was on to come up with a green juice recipe for beginners. A green juice that those who love green juice would enjoy, but also one for those people "who don't like green juice". I think I've cracked it, but would love to hear your feedback!
Juicy Ingredients
- 3 romaine leaves
- 2 apples
- 1/4 pineapple
- 1/3 cucumber
- 1/2 stick of celery
- 1/2 avocado
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- Wash / clean all the produce
- Juice the romaine
- Juice the cucumber
- Juice the celery
- Juice the apples
- Chop and juice the pineapple
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Rather than giving you one Christmas card this year, I will share 14. I read about these wonderful cards in the Deseret News. And while watching it, I was touched, and reminded of the reason we celebrate Christmas. So, I am now sharing them with you.
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Matthew Ray Loveridge
Rachel Ann Jones
Houston Trueblood (with Note that I like his inspiration more than his actual illustration).
I hope that you enjoy them and the presentation as much as I did.
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Bundibugyo – Death Toll At 85
The number of people killed now stands at 85 in Bundibugyo alone, according to Rwenzori region army spokesperson Lt Ninsiima Rwemijuma.
Last Saturday afternoon, a group of unidentified gunmen, wearing casual clothes, attacked Kicho police post and Bundibugyo police station and killed two policemen. Also over 50 civilians were killed. Another group attacked two security officers, guarding a weigh bridge in Kasese, killing one and left another in critical condition, taking their guns in the process.
Ten people were confirmed dead in Kasese, most of whom were residents of Bigando village of Kistwmaba sub-county. The dead were either Basongora or Batooro. Commander of Special Forces Group Muhoozi Kainerugaba and Police chief Kale Kayihura are reported to be in the area.
Some people link the attacks to Allied Democratic Forces (ADF ) whereas the army officer blame the incidents to tribal conflicts between the Bakonjo and Basongora in Kasese and the Bundibugyo attacks to conflicts between Bamba and Bakonjo. It is also reported that the army has declared a curfew in Bundibugyo town and told residents to stay 'indoors' although it is not clear when this applies.
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The summer after Grade 11… I was in shape. I weighted a buck sixty four and size 34 jeans and in my desert boots… I could stand under the basket on the first day of high school and turn and jump and hang on the rim with one hand. That summer at the courts… I could remember jumping and hanging on with two hands. Just enough fingertips to hang on.
I'm 45 and I want to do that again.
It honestly sounds impossible. With my goal to a healthy lifestyle the weight will come off and I will focus on achieving this goal.
Last night at the courts… I jumped and could touch the bottom of the backboard. Every time I play I will focus time on jumping and jumping and see if I can get a little higher up the backboard over time. I can also track and measure this at the YMCA this winter.
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Latinos have achieved a significant milestone – for the first time ever, young Latinos make up a record 16.5 percent of U.S. college students, matching Hispanics' overall population representation (16.5 percent). While there is still ways to go – Latino college rates should be at 20 percent to match the percentage of 18- to 24-year-old Hispanics – the growing numbers of Latinos in colleges is a significant achievement.
"These milestones signal something favorable is occurring," says Richard Fry, Senior Research Associate at Pew Hispanic, who authored the new report, along with Pew Hispanic Associate Director, Mark Hugo López.
"We have never seen these numbers; in 2011, three-quarters of young Latinos finished high school or obtained a GED," adds Fry.
At more than 2 million, 18- to 24-year-old Latinos are now the largest minority group on college campuses, making up a record 16.5 percent of all college enrollments, according to the new report. In fact, in one year, from 2010 to 2011, Latino enrollment at four-year colleges increased 20 percent, from 1 million to 1.2 million. Hispanic college enrollment growth accounts for three-quarters of all college enrollment in 2011.
Part of the rise in enrollment is due to high school completion among Hispanics is at a new high. Among Latino high school students, Pew Hispanic found 76.3 percent of all Latinos between the ages of 18 and 24 obtained a high school diploma or GED degree in 2011, up from 72.8 percent in 2010.
ACT scores hold steady, Hispanic, Asian students make gains
And of these growing numbers of Latino high school graduates, almost half (46 percent) are enrolled in either two- or four-year colleges, which is a record share. Among whites, the number is 51 percent, and among blacks, the number is 45 percent.
Why are Latinos graduating in larger numbers? Pew Hispanic's Richard Fry believes part of the reason might be a tougher job market. "Traditionally there are always students in all racial and ethnic groups who are 'on the fence' between just going to work instead of pursuing higher education," explains Fry. When there are fewer jobs, students might choose college, which is good news when it comes to college completion rates, Fry says.
The increase is being seen around the country, but especially in Latino-heavy states such as Florida. Seminole State College, for example, increased its Latino enrollment by 59 percent in the school year between 2007 and 2011, according to the Orlando Sentinel.
Another important reason for increased Latino enrollment, says Dr. Antonio Flores, president of the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU), is the investment made by the government over the last fifteen years in more funds for Hispanic-serving institutions (HSIs). "In the 1996-97 fiscal year, total amount to HSIs was 12 million per year; today, it is over 200 million dollars per year," explains Flores.
"Modest investments can yield tremendous results," Flores adds.
More Latinos in our nation's colleges have resulted in new highs for Latino college graduates. In 2010, Latinos received a record 140,000 bachelor's degrees and 112,000 associate's degrees, according to 2012 Department of Education numbers. This means Hispanics received 13.2 percent of 2010 associate's degres and 8.5 percent of 2010 bachelor's degrees.
Latino college degrees, however, are still low compared to other groups. 71 percent of the bachelor's degrees awarded in 2010 went to non-Hispanic whites, 10 percent to blacks and 7 percent to Hispanics. Among associate's degrees in 2010, two-thirds went to non-Hispanic whites, and 13 percent went to Latinos as well as blacks.
Latino educators such as Dr. Flores worry that budget problems in states such as California, with a large number of young Latinos, is limiting the amount of students at the state's public institutions. "Congress and the federal government have to be mindful that investments which have been made in the past have to be increased significantly; otherwise we will remain behind the curve – and Latinos are the main source of new workers in this country," Flores explains.
Latinos are an increasing share of our nation's schoolchildren
And one-in-four (24.7 percent) elementary school students in our nation's public schools are Hispanic. In fact, Latinos now comprise almost 24 percent of all pre-K through 12th grade students.
But that is just current numbers. By 2036, the U.S. Census projects Latinos will make up one-third of all the nation's children ages 3 to 17.
HACU's Dr. Flores says these growing numbers of Hispanics point to the need to invest in the nation's schools and universities.
"In my view, this investment is a down-payment," says Flores. "The future of this nation hangs in the balance when it comes to higher education success," he points out. "This is not about Latinos doing better – this is about Latinos as the foundation of this country's well-being."


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The Visa Waiver Program (VWP) allows citizens of participating foreign countries to enter the U.S. without a visa for 90 days. In exchange for this benefit, participating countries agree to information-sharing and security cooperation with the U.S., along with reciprocal travel privileges for U.S. citizens.
The rise of ISIS has created a heightened threat of foreign terrorists entering the U.S. from European countries that participate in the Visa Waiver Program. Accordingly, some members of Congress are talking about ending the program.
Yesterday the Heritage Foundation took up this question. You can watch the program here.
Former Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff argued that ending the VWP would be a serious mistake. Doing so, he contended, would actually deprive us of information the use of which enhances our ability to keep terrorists out of the country. It would also hurt the U.S. economically due the resulting decline in tourism, and would set back our diplomatic relations with Eastern European nations at a time when we need to present Putin's Russia with a unified alliance.
Economic and diplomatic considerations are important, of course. But the overriding issue is whether abandoning the Visa Waiver Program would make us safer.
In answering this question, it's important to remember that under the VWP, we obtain plenty of information about foreigners entering the U.S. Applicants must go online and answer complete a questionnaire. This provides us with advance information about who is coming in. And that information can be checked against data obtained from the country of origin through the information-sharing that occurs thanks to the VWP.
What is lost by waiving the visa requirement? Essentially, it's the face-to-face interview.
Face-to-face interviews are not without value. However, as David Inserra of the Heritage Foundation pointed out, they are often perfunctory. And, of course, they will become more perfunctory if we end the VWP and attempt to conduct face-to-face interviews with everyone who wants to enter the U.S. Indeed, Inserra and Stewart Baker (former Assistant Secretary for Homeland Security) agreed that we would be unable to conduct face-to-face interviews on that scale.
The gains achieved through the increase in face-to-face interviews that would accompany an end of the VWP must be weighed against the loss of information-sharing and other cooperation that would also result. European nations are not eager to provide the U.S. with information about their citizens. Our gains in this area have been hard-won.
Cooperation and information-sharing with foreign governments would not end if the VWP were abandoned. But they would likely decrease significantly due to a combination of resentment, inertia, and privacy concerns.
Chertoff, Baker, and Inserra have each concluded that the loss of information and cooperation from foreign governments would outweigh the gains from more face-to-face interviews. They make a strong case. Perhaps someone with standing and knowledge comparable to our former Secretary of DHS can persuasively argue the other side. If not, we would be well-advised to retain the VWP while looking for ways to improve it.


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Since Britain voted to leave the European Union on June 23rd, there has been confusion, uncertainty, and dire predictions about what Brexit might mean for our country. What we need is reassurance that Britain isn't completely screwed.
So fear not - the politicians have almost got Brexit sorted out. Yes, we've no idea what a post-Brexit Britain will look like, or what our future relationship with Europe will be, or whether the rest of the world will even be receptive to Britain's solo advances. But it looks like we might be able to get the most important thing sorted: We might have a stupid fucking boat.
A few days ago Tory MP Jake Berry suggested that perhaps the best thing to do in these uncertain times is to recommission the Royal Yacht Britannia so we can sail around the world begging for trade deals aboard a physical manifestation of Britain's delusions of imperial grandeur.
Since being given the chop in 1997, the yacht is now permanently moored in Leith, and is one of Scotland's most visited tourist attractions.
Of course, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, who is no stranger to pissing cash up the wall, has also since weighed in supporting the proposal - and now the Prime Minister herself, Theresa May has according to The Telegraph "left the door open" for bringing the yacht back into service.
In reality, her 'backing' of the plan was fairly mealy-mouthed - and sounds more like the words of someone who is too polite to slap down a colleague in public. She's quoted as saying:
"The important question is how do we get out there and promote Britain, promote Britain as being open for business, promote the interests of people investing in Britain and for our businesses actually exporting overseas."
"There's a whole variety of ways in which we're able to do that and are doing that. And I've created a department for international trade that's going out there, taking that message across the world."
Well, it's not a "No", so the campaign can rumble on as a cause célèbre for blue passport brigade. Just don't mention the fact everything else is still screwed.


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Atypical (Netflix)
Premiered August 11
As soon as I saw that Keir Gilchrist was starring in a new show, I immediately remembered a great movie I saw in 2010 called "It's Kind of a Funny Story." He carried that film exceptionally as a teenager experiencing a life in a different way than others, and what better item to have on his resume for this project? This show has a cool premise, following the life of an eighteen-year-old on the autism spectrum who doesn't have a lot of friends and spends most of his time either at his job at a geek squad or talking to his therapist. Sam speaks his mind and discusses how he processes everything differently, and he really loves his research. I like that his sister isn't too fond of other people but is deeply protective of her brother and anyone else that she sees as being threatened. They're both exploring dating at the same time, which is going pretty poorly even though Sam is putting his best foot forward and did fine until he accidentally hit the redhead who expressed some interest in him. I was initially unsure of Jennifer Jason Leigh and Michael Rapaport as the actors chosen to play Sam and Casey's parents, remembering them from "The Hateful Eight" and "The War at Home," respectively, but by episode's end, I was pretty confident in their abilities, with Leigh's Elsa showing that she might want something else but knowing not to do it and Rapaport's Doug standing up for himself when he seemed to be an uninterested dud. I think this show is set up for success, and I look forward to seeing where it goes.
How will it work as a series? His first date wasn't great, and now it seems that he's become fixated on his therapist, something that's not going to go well at all. But this show seems like it's invested in all of its characters, not just Sam, and I imagine that will make it a strong comedic drama.
How long will it last? The reviews are pretty good, and even though Netflix has recently cancelled three of its shows after their first seasons, I think that this is right up the network's alley in terms of originality and individuality. Expect a renewal sometime soon.
Pilot grade: B+
Tuesday, August 15, 2017
Pilot Review: Atypical
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Because There's A Fistfight Going On Somewhere In New York Right Now, And You Should Know About It
Sunday, October 28, 2012
Scenes from the Abu Dhabi Jiu-Jitsu Pro Trials in NYC
Yes, I went to a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu tournament in Queens yesterday. Yes, I followed around
. Yes, it's for an article that will appear on VICE and you're going to have to wait to read about it. But in the meantime, here are some pics.
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Today I awoke and noticed a beautiful sunrise. This in itself gave me hope that all is well, and my world is untouched. But, this thought gave me a moment of pause and I wondered, what about those who woke up and found that someone in their family was hurt or dying, or their world had been turned upside down in some way? Does the sunrise have the same meaning for them that it did for me this morning, obviously not?
We constantly desire that life, which is so fragile, continue each day the way that it has all the days before. But, for some of us on this day, it will not be the case. Life's unexpected circumstances at times do not fall into place, and we are left with many unexplained hardships that leave us with no adequate answers to meet the challenges that lie before us. Where do we then find that place of solace that we so desperately seek? The sunrise that gave us so much peace and joy yesterday, now somehow echoes an empty promise that the day will go well. What do we do then?
When King Saul, a king who wanted to kill David, was pursuing him,
David found himself overwhelmed by the sheer necessity in just staying alive. Feeling overcome by circumstances, David learned through these hardships that his solace was to be found in his God. "The cords of the grave coiled around me; the snares of death confronted me. In my distress I called to the Lord; I cried to my God for help. From his temple he heard my voice; my cry came before him, into his ears. . . . You have made known to me the path of life. . ." Psalms 18
David realized that he could not rely on the everyday elements around him to give him comfort, peace and protection that he so desired. He knew that his faith was the key to getting through these hard times, even when circumstances denied this peace that he so craved. We do not know why hardships enter our lives at times, God doesn't always tell us the reasons why. His will is that we trust in him during these times of darkness. In Romans 8:28 Paul tells us, "And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose." We at times cannot see the "good" that Paul talks about but, during these moments, we must walk by faith, a faith that goes beyond our desire for answers. In time though, like the blossoms of spring, we eventually will see the fruits of his promises come forth. By trusting him today, we will experience this inner peace that passes all understanding. Jesus tells his disciples who were suffering, "Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your heart be troubled and do not be afraid." John 14:27
May Jesus our Savior surround you this day with his love and peace.


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It's clear from Auditor General Bonnie Lysyk's annual report released last week that Waterfront Toronto, the provincially mandated agency charged with revitalizing the waterfront, needs a major overhaul.
While Infrastructure Minister Monte McNaughton fired the three provincial representatives on Waterfront Toronto's board a day after Lysyk's report, that alone isn't enough, given that the city of Toronto and federal government each have their own appointees on the board.
Indeed, the fact Waterfront Toronto has three political masters appears to be part of the problem.
Lysyk said many of the problems at Waterfront Toronto occurred because the three governments that created it didn't give it sufficient authority to do its job.
Waterfront Toronto was created in 2002 with $1.5 billion — $500 million each from the three levels of government — with another $1.25 billion now earmarked for Port Lands flood protection.
Lysyk concluded it has failed to deliver its mandate effectively.
Among her findings:
In 16 years, it has directly developed only 5%, or 55 acres, of publicly owned land on the waterfront, and provided funding to other organizations for just 14%, or 151 acres.
It repeatedly went over estimates both on the costs of its own development projects, and those where it transferred funds to other organizations, as well as spending money on projects later cancelled.
Lysyk criticized Waterfront Toronto's handling of its high-tech "smart city" development, and how it selected Google's sister company, Sidewalk Labs, as its partner.
She said Waterfront Toronto rushed through the approval process.
Contrary to previous practice, it failed to sufficiently consult with all levels of government.
An oversight committee learned the name of the successful bidder just five days before it was announced, prior to a final framework agreement being signed.
While Sidewalk Labs had the most comprehensive proposal by far, Lysyk said, it "received more information from Waterfront Toronto…than other respondents" prior to its request for proposals from potential private sector partners.
Lysyk said Waterfront Toronto hasn't addressed privacy concerns about the confidentiality of data to be collected in the high-tech community.
Ann Cavoukian, Ontario's former privacy commissioner, resigned as a consultant for Sidewalk Labs over this issue.
"In order to protect the public interest, this situation does deserve government study before any long-term commitment is reached with Sidewalk Labs," Lysyk said.
Waterfront Toronto responded that despite obstacles, it has attracted billions of dollars in private investment to the waterfront and created new parks and access to Lake Ontario.
On Sidewalk Labs, it said: "We want to be crystal clear — our RFP (request for proposal) processes are competitive, fair, and follow best practices."
It noted former Ontario integrity commission Coulter Osbourne reviewed Lysyk's findings for Waterfront Toronto, finding "no proponent or potential proponent (for the project) secured any unfair advantage."
That said, there are clearly significant problems at Waterfront Toronto that need to be fixed.


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I promised a last post in the "testing in Emacs" series. I have covered both unit and integration testing. In this post I will show various tools you can use to improve your testing skills even more.
All my projects has a
Makefile with tasks for running the tests and
setting up the local development environment. I recommend that you do
the same. Here is an example
CASK ?= cask
EMACS ?= emacs
all: test
test: unit ecukes
${CASK} exec ert-runner
${CASK} exec ecukes
${CASK} install
.PHONY: all test unit ecukes install
In your projects README file, you can now under the "Contribution" section write:
To contribute to my project, Install Cask and then:
$ make install
Run the tests with:
$ make test
Travis is awesome! It's free for open source projects and really easy to set up. So go ahead and do it for your projects now!
Here is a Travis configuration file that I use for all my projects:
language: emacs-lisp
- curl -fsSkL https://gist.github.com/rejeep/7736123/raw | sh
- export PATH="/home/travis/.cask/bin:$PATH"
- export PATH="/home/travis/.evm/bin:$PATH"
- evm install $EVM_EMACS --use
- cask
- EVM_EMACS=emacs-23.4-bin
- EVM_EMACS=emacs-24.1-bin
- EVM_EMACS=emacs-24.2-bin
- EVM_EMACS=emacs-24.3-bin
- emacs --version
- make test
Add that content to a file called
.travis.yml in your project root
and activate that project on the Travis website. Next time you push to
your repo, Travis will run and make sure your tests pass.
I recommend using mocks and stubs only when you have to. If you test a function using mocks and stubs, the test will depend on the implementation of the function. That means, if you refactor the function, it is likely that you have to update the test as well. If you write your test without mocks and stubs, you should be able to change the test implementation without updating your test.
But, sometimes we need to use stubs and mocks. There are two libraries in Emacs for this as far as I know: el-mock and mocker. Since I am the maintainer of el-mock, that is the library I will explain here.
All mocking and stubbing is done in a block called
;; ...
El-mock has three functions that I primarily use in my tests:
mock and
The stub function is used when you want to change the return value of
a function. By default,
nil is returned. A use case for this is when
a function prints a message and you don't want that in your test
(stub message)
You can also make a function return a specific value:
(stub f-exists? => t)
A mock is like a stub, only a bit more advanced. You can assert a
function to be called with specific argument (if
f-exists? is not
called with
"/path/to/foo", the test will fail).
(mock (f-exists? "/path/to/foo"))
You can also specify how many times the function must be called:
(mock (f-exists? "/path/to/foo") :times 3)
If you want the mocked function to return a value, you can do that with:
(mock (f-exists? "/path/to/foo") => t)
This function is as simple as it sounds. It makes sure that a function is not called.
(not-called f-delete)
There are a few other functions in el-mock, but I let you explore those yourself!
EVM (Emacs Version Manager) is a tool that allow you to install multiple different versions of Emacs. Functionality differ between Emacs version, even minor, so you have to make sure that your packages work on a few different versions.
If you have installed EVM and a few Emacs versions, you can run the tests in multiple versions using a simple script like this:
for version in 24.1 24.2 24.3; do
EMACS=$(evm bin emacs-$version-bin) make test
If you want to make it even more fancy, check out
make -j, which can
do the same thing, but simultaneously.
To be able to test a project of mine called Prodigy, I had to work with asynchronous functions, but Ert has no support for this, so I wrote a wrapper library around Ert that does this. The library is called ert-async.
It works almost exactly like Ert. There is a function called
ert-deftest-async that works like
ert-deftest, except that the
function argument list is used for done callbacks.
Let's say you have a function and you want to test that it callbacks when done.
(ert-deftest-async my-funky-func-test/callback (done)
(my-funky-func (lambda () (funcall done))))
If the
done function is called (without arguments and once) within
ert-async-timeout (default 4 seconds), the test will pass.
If the
done callback is called more than once, the tests fails. This
can be useful at times. For example, if
my-funky-func would have
callbacked more than once in the previous example, the test would have
failed, which we expect.
If the
done function is called with an argument, the test also
fails. This can also be useful. Let's say that
my-funky-func takes
two callbacks, one if the function was successful and one if it was
not. You can then call
done with an argument in the error callback
to make sure that is never called.
(ert-deftest-async my-funky-func-test/callback-successful (done)
(lambda ()
(funcall done))
(lambda ()
(funcall done "should have been successful, but was not"))))
Cask is key to everything I do when I develop Emacs packages. I've used Cask in the previous posts, so you should be fairly familiar with it.
I do however want to talk a bit about the future of Cask. As we speak (or as you read), we are actively working on making Cask more than just a dependency manager, which it is today. We are working on making Cask a project management tool. That means that Cask will handle the whole development cycle: setup, testing, development, packaging, releasing and more.
I recommend you start adapting Cask right now, so that when this functionality is ready, you are too.
That's it! I hope you found this post useful. Please post your questions and comments below.


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Our Favorite Things
24 December 2010
We spent an unusually warm Christmas Eve day driving down to our favorite place (on earth, possibly), the beach where we used to stay at for two weeks until last year and where Jim spent many a childhood summer vacation.
If you've been reading this blog for a bit, I'll warrant you won't be surprised to know that my guys did 18 miles handily, or that the rest of the day passed in a reasonably peaceful-easy manner with plenty of refueling/eating, iPad-ing with rather a lot of Disney tunes, and rides in the white car.
It being the holidays, Jim and Charlie and I found ourselves on a venerable New Jersey state highway off to get some Vietnamese summer rolls (yes, we can make them at home, but they never have that 'restaurant taste' and believe me, Charlie can tell the difference).
He first ate those rolls in a little restaurant in St. Paul, Minnesota, when he was a toddler. The restaurant was located in an old diner-ish sort of place (though diners aren't a Minnesota thing) and the young man whose parents owned the place and who often served us was Pete, and he had been a student at the U(niversity of Minnesota). And he liked cars.
And over and over 'Feliz Navidad' played on the sound system, no matter what the season. No matter what a mess Charlie made getting rice vermicelli and chopped cilantro and pickled carrot slices and bits of rice paper wrapper all over the floor and him and us. No matter what people said ('he's a handful,' was one man's comment and then, to Jim, 'I like your shoes').
It got to the point that Jim started to sing 'Feliz Charles 'n' Dad' as he and I hastily finished our squid and rice and noodles. I would gulp down tea while trying to clean up the remains of the meal with tissue-paper thin napkins, while Jim paid the bill and got on Charlie's parka, hat, and gloves, and carried him over the ice and packed snow to our still-newish green Subaru stationwagon.
It is a lot warmer here in Jersey. Charlie eats his summer rolls (which he still calls spring rolls because I think that's how they were listed on the menu of that St. Paul Vietnamese restaurant and we never corrected the error) quite neatly.
And driving down that state highway on the night before Christmas 2010 we heard one of the three of us's all-time favorite songs.
Once home (and the spring rolls eaten), Jim played another favorite song---we like to think of it as set in St. Paul, that being Charles Schulz's hometown. Plus, the Merriam-Grove Park neighborhood where we lived looks just like the backdrops Charlie Brown and the gang have their (mis)adventures in.
Whatever you celebrate, wishing all of our family and friends peace and joy, and happy times with your favorite people.


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Who has to wear seat belts?
Question: Regarding seat-belt laws, who has to wear one? And can a cop stop you for not having one on?
Answer: Seat belts may be the easiest and most important traffic-safety device any driver and/or passenger can use to be safer in today's car.
In Arizona, all front-seat occupants must be restrained in a properly fitted seat belt. Any passenger under 16 years of age, whether in the front or back seat, must wear a seat belt.
This applies only to vehicles manufactured in 1972 or newer and designed to carry 10 or fewer passengers.
Our current seat-belt law is considered a secondary offense. That means a police officer cannot stop you for the sole reason that you were not wearing a seat belt.
If you are stopped for any other lawful reason, and in the course of the contact it is determined you were not wearing a seat belt, you can be cited.
As it relates to occupant safety, there are other nuances that may apply, for example, child safety and booster seats, which are not secondary offenses and are equally important.
Officers, deputies and state troopers see the tragic consequences of the unrestrained occupant every day, we hope you "click it" so you don't get a "ticket."
Motorcycle Officer Walter Olsen works for the Phoenix Police Department.
Have a public-safety question? Send it to email@example.com.


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London, UK, 11thJuly 2019 – Groovy Gecko (https://www.groovygecko.com), the live streaming specialist, has helped launch the new Facebook Questions Card for Facebook Live, with one of the first ever activations taking place in the music industry.
Using the new technology, Groovy Gecko recently streamed a live interview with globally renowned US band, The Lumineers, in London's Union Chapel. Viewers watching on Facebook were able to use the live questions card, overlaid on the live stream to submit questions, which were moderated, before being asked by the presenter George Lamb.
The technology works across any Facebook Live and provides a highly engaging way for viewers to participate in live streams from their favourite bands and brands.
Band members from The Lumineers were interviewed ahead of featuring on the Other Stage at Glastonbury, their third appearance at the world-renowned festival.
Jake Ward, Business Development Director at Groovy Gecko said of the developments: "Audiences are favouring more interactivity and opportunities to participate in their online experiences. Being able to access bands and put direct questions to their idols has been made possible with the development of this tool. We saw tremendous excitement among the live stream viewers when their questions were selected which is exactly at the heart of what this tool is all about, fans getting up close access and driving the conversation. This isn't just about music and bands as the tool can be used for a wide range of brand activity."
The questions card was incredibly popular and those posed by live viewers were moderated by the editorial team and when selected presented to the interviewer via a confidence monitor and in ear comms from the director. Fans reacted enthusiastically to shaping the interview and seeing their name and question appear on a lower third on the live video stream.
Following the success of this activation, it is set to be used again in the coming weeks for an exciting interview with members of a prime-time TV programme, as well as for a panel discussion streamed to brand channels on Facebook.
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For the second Beer o' Xmas that the Beer Gnerd pushed on thee, it's Wasatch Winterfest!
This annual favorite pours a clear ruby color with a moderate fluffy off-white cap of foam.
The nose is bright with citrus and pine with subtle spicy caramel malt
beneath. The flavor starts out with grapefruity hops and a bit of orange
zest. Next comes a faint hint of gingerbread then transitions to a rich
maltiness. I think there may be a little roastiness in there as well.
Very nicely balanced with a well hidden 7.1% abv.