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The Industrial Era
2000 - 2001
Since you honestly can not speak of historic events
for this period the editors had the idea to display the trends in
computing that has drawn attention in previous five or ten years.
As well as promising inventions and other developments that might
be of future value.
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Serious Millennium bugs are not reported after the transition into the new millennium. Apart from those on stamps ;=)
picture courtesy Larry Dodson digitally enhanced by thocp
Some date related displays were a hundred years off (see below).
A few satellites were off the air for some hours, and some other minor incidents with systems happened. Some errors still occurred a few years into the new millennium in some software installations but that was all. Thanks to the measures taken by major companies and most governments in industrialized countries, who invested billions of dollars into the millennium program, no serious incidents occurred. In general major disasters as foretold by some (news) pundits stayed out.
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates resigned as CEO of his own company to dedicate himself to the development of software.
Calling himself Software Architect, a title which also can be found in books from the Science Fiction scene (e.g. Asimov's Foundation series).
One of his reasons were that he did not want to spent most of his time with political and legal issues and processes against his company. That he said drains almost all of his energy and creativeness. He will devote his time and energy towards the architecture of software.
His long time friend Steve Ballmer took over the helm.
IBM released a follow up of Deep Blue. Nicknamed Blue Gene it operated at 1 Quadrillion Ops per second (one peta flop) and was a thousand times faster than Deep Blue.
This computer was to be used for modeling human proteins. The search for the cause of the folding of human proteins (14) started. Unraveling the genetic code could help pharmaceutical laboratories to develop medicines.
The experimental architecture of the machine is called SMASH (Simple, Many And Self Healing) as it was designed to reduce the number of instructions for a particular processor to speed up processing. It also had what was called massive parallelism to handle about 8 million simultaneous threads of computing and possessed "self healing" abilities to prevent failures.
February 6. The web site of the History of Computing Foundation thocp.net is published.
A few months later a foundation will be established (May 11) to ensure the continuity of its existence.
PlayStation2 en PS One (handheld PlayStation)
Games op GSM en WAP
On the sixth of February the 1000 Mega Herz(9) or Gigaherz barrier is broken by AMD's Athlon micro processor.
To be followed a few days (9th) later by Intel's Pentium III also running on 1000 Mega Herz. In tests they appeared to be each others equal, but the Intel chip is somewhat less tolerant towards higher temperatures.
March, Iridium Satellite LLC, the company that promised to revolutionize global communications with its satellite mobile phone system, files for bankruptcy protection.
At Bletchley Park museum the Enigma machine is stolen from the exhibition room.
The Enigma was a coding machine used by the Germans during W.W.II. Because of this machine's so called 'unbreakable' code the development of computers went into an overdrive. Hereto the Bombe and Colossus were developed and put to the job of cracking the codes.
After the Bletchley Museum agreed to pay over 45.000 EUR or 40.000 US$ the machine returned in October 18. But some of the coding wheels are still missing. This was the first time a computing device is stolen from a museum at a ransom.
May, the I Love You virus, a.k.a. the Love Bug and the Love Letter worm, attacks e-mail systems and multiplies across the Internet in only six hours. Like its predecessor Melissa.
Cyber attacks brought some major web sites down here attackers made use of tens of powerful computers in various American cities and bombarded sites of e-Bay, Amazon, CNN and Buy.com with large amounts of data: requests for information.
This tactic(6) is called "Denial of Service" and proved to be fatal to Yahoo some weeks before. This caused Yahoo to down its servers for a few hours.
The first victim ://Buy.com an online cyber shop - that went through a successful IPO(5) this month - was unavailable for a few hours caused by this attack. Buy.com got 800 MBit per second to process about 8 times the maximum capacity of what the infrastructure(4) could handle. Usually the traffic is about 30 Mbit per second. According to Buy.com the attacks were retraced to powerful computers from Boston, New York en Chicago.
After this auction house e-Bay had to endure an attack. Servers from eBay in San Jose could not cope with the traffic and went down too: customers could not be served anymore. This means the company could not earn money during that time. A spokesperson of e-Bay said they were cooperating with other sites that were hit and the authorities to find out the identity of the so called "cyber terrorists" .
Two hours after the attack on E-Bay, Amazon.com got its share of the "Denial of Service" attacks. This very popular on-line shop went down for over an hour. About the same time CNN got under attack. Only after two hours the attack on CNN could be fended off. Possibly by just pulling the plug first and later to deny service (counter attack) to computers that were generating too many requests.
Spoke persons of all Internet companies stipulated that the hackers did not have access to data stored on the attacked servers. It is said that the FBI was involved in the investigation to catch the hackers.(8)
In Russia there were this year many "unemployed" scientists but with almost no money to realize their projects.
Promising and interesting developments did not reach the market because of that. One of the examples was a virtual world globe that just waited to be picked up by the entertainment market.
This globe represented a virtual world in which you could walk, run and fall down without you had to wear a data suit. It was developed by the brothers Latypov (www.virtusphere.com) (10)
June, a federal judge orders Microsoft to breakup, condemning Microsoft as a monopolist and orders the company to separate its MS Windows operating system product from their other software applications. Of course Microsoft appealed the ruling.
June, first survey of the entire human genome completed.
In a race against the clock between competitors: the Human Genome Project (HGP), and representatives of the biotechnology company Celera announced the completion of a first model DNA sequence of the human genome.
This project provides scientists worldwide with a map to an approximated 90 percent of the genes on every chromosome(16). Though this figure is contested by some scientists, they said that the map is just a crude cut through the entire genome and that it will take another few years to complete the entire genome. The debate that has risen is that commercial companies wanted to patent the information and scientists wanted to have it in the public domain. Ethically spoken scientists said nobody can claim copyright or patents on any material deriving form the human genome.
Luis von Ahn, Manuel Blum, Nicholas J. Hopper (all of Carnegie Mellon University), and John Langford (of IBM). develop and publicize the notion of a CAPTCHA:
"Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart"
picture courtesy of www.newfreedownloads.com
A user has to type the letters of a distorted image or digits that appears on the screen. Search bots can not read this at this time and so access control is established. The first CAPTCHAs are widely used at Yahoo!.
Later OCR features are added to the bots engines and the algorithm to generate CAPTCHA's needed to be changed:
making it extremely difficult to recognize the digits for spam- and searchbots, for now ;=)
details on captcha
Wikipedia is founded on January 15.
image courtesy Wikipedia.org
Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia that is setup by Jimmy Whales and Larry Sanger. The contents will grow at a fenominal rate to millions of pages. See the history of Wikipedia for more information.
wiki's first page courtesy Wikipedia.org
A dispute will grow between the two who was the originator of the idea and who founded Wikipedia. Read on this subject here.
This year brought us some virulent virus attacks, bomb letters and the first Linux virus is detected.
Official Launch of Windows 2000 - Microsoft's replacement for Windows 95/98 and Windows NT.
Microsoft claimed W2K to be faster and more reliable than previous versions of Windows.
But it actually was a descendant of the NT series - thus a UNIX based kernel - the tradeoff for increased reliability is that it won't run some old DOS-based games or programs anymore.
To keep the home market happy Microsoft also released Windows ME, the newest member of the 95/98 series.(Feb. 17) (3) This version proved to have too many bugs in its software and it will be replaced by the next generation by: Windows XP.
March, as Internet companies struggle to improve their financial situations, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) begins an investigation of a $12.2 million stock transaction by Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com.
The allegations come at a time when Internet companies are experiencing dramatic devaluation in their stock prices. Experts point to the plummeting stock prices as evidence that the Internet stock bubble has burst.(16)
Also this year there were many cases in court concerning patents and the ongoing case of Microsoft's monopolistic behavior.
(June 29) Judge reversed a lower court decision to split up Microsoft Corporation, but also stated that Microsoft did act illegally in its actions to maintain its dominant position in the area of PC Operating Systems.
British Telecom (BT) claimed the rights on hyperlinks on the basis of a US patent (#4873662) granted in 1989. Similar patents in the rest of the world have expired. Their claim is widely believed to be absurd since Ted Nelson wrote about hyperlinks in 1965, and this is where Tim Berners Lee said he got the ideas for the World Wide Web from. This is just another in the line of similar incredulous cases - for example amazon.com's claim to have patented '1-click ordering'. (June 20) (3)
BT even started to sue Prodigy, the oldest and largest public provider, to charge license fees. The claim is dismissed on the basis that BT's claim concerned server oriented technology and not client based documents which were not even invented when BT filed its patent.
In March a federal judge issues an injunction against MP3 music site Napster, requiring the company to begin blocking copyrighted music files. The ruling deals a blow to Napster, which continues to operate despite the ruling.
In an effort to continue operating without legal restrictions, MP3 music site Napster and its partner, Bertelsmann AG, offer to pay $1 billion in licensing fees over the next five years to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The industry association rejects the offer and legal wrangling continues.(16)
Personal Computers with CPU's in excess of 1.4 Gigahertz speed come on the market.
US Government announces restrictions on exporting cryptography technology to be relaxed (although not removed).
This allows many US companies to stop the long running, and rather ridiculous process of having to create US and International copies of their software. (Jan. 14)(3)
In concurrence with that announcement RSA Security Inc. released their RSA algorithm to the public domain, in advance of the US patent (#4,405,829) expiring on the 20th September following the relaxation of the US government restrictions earlier in this year. And by doing so the organization removed one of the last barriers to the worldwide distribution of much software based on cryptographic systems.
It should be noted that the IDEA algorithm is still under patent and also that US government restrictions still applied in some places. (Sept. 6) (3)
Microsoft releases Windows XP - the latest version of their Windows operating system.
Based on the NT series kernel, it is meant to bring together both the NT/2000 series and the Windows 95/98/ME series into one product. Of course it was originally hoped that this would happen with Windows 2000 ... But only time will tell if Microsoft succeeds with Windows XP. (Oct. 25) (3)
Gordon Moore states (May 2nd) that his law should be changed from doubling of transistors on integrated circuitry every two years into every four or five years starting 2010 or 2020.
Gordon Moore
The fact that this law held for almost 36 years is a miracle when you take the speed of change in this field into account. See also 1964
Do we get a patron for the Internet?
The catholic church wants to propose Isodorus de Sevilla who lived between 560-636. Saint Isidore compiled the first true encyclopedia, Etymologia, comprising 20 volumes, more than 1.400 years ago. Some Spanish Catholics named him "protector" of the web in 1999.
As usual there are more candidates: Titus Brandsma (a Dutch priest- no picture), San Pedro de Regalado (Spain) and Santa Tecla (Bask - Spain)
And the winner is: Isodorus de Sevilla day of celebration April 4th. Would be nice to have patrons from other religions too!
Sega stops producing Dreamcast and licences the software to other companies.
sega dreamcast
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approves the AOL Time Warner merger.
The merger, announced in January 2000 as the largest corporate merger in US history, is subject to conditions outlined by the FCC. The takeover marks the first time a new corporate giant created by the Internet boom used the new economy value of its stock to acquire an older Fortune 500 company.(16)
According to a study from IDC about 460 million people are now connected to the Internet.
Forecasts want us to believe that there will be over 1 billion connections within the next 5 years, meaning a small twenty percent of the contemporary population of the world (?).
Apple released MacOS X. At it's heart is `Darwin', an Open Source kernel based on FreeBSD.
Using this MacOS X finally gives Mac users the stability benefits of a protected memory architecture along many other enhancements, such as preemptive multitasking. The BSD base also makes porting UNIX applications to MacOS easier and gives Mac users a fully featured command line interface alongside their GUI.(19)
Michael Robertson has come up with a solution for the death of desktop applications for the Linux operating system: Make Windows software run on top of Linux.
While Linux has made significant in-roads on the server side, particularly as a server operating system, it hasn't made a dent in the desktop. There have been a few Linux ports of applications -- Borland's Kylix is essentially Delphi for Linux -- and some games -- Quake III: Arena, Unreal -- but the Linux desktop market has not taken off.
Michael Robertson's solution is Lindows, a new Linux distribution that will, eventually, run all Windows applications as they would run on Windows 98, NT and XP. (20)
October, Apple launches its iPod. A modern version of a walkman storing music in Mpeg3 format on a small 5Gb internal harddisk.
Apple's first iPod (portable music)
The iPod has "only" 5GB of storage — though unprecedented at the time. The price is a steep $399 and reception by the general public is therefore slow. It has a monochrome 160 x 128 LCD, 32MB of RAM and 32MB ROM, includes a 1.8-inch hard drive, and the mechanical scroll wheel. This first generation has FireWire-only, and sells 125,000 units in its first two months. (21)
Later generations unleashed a thru revolution (hype?) in portable music, (over 40Gb of storage, color screens etc.) and within a few years many manufacturers will more of less imitate this original iPod. Thus creating a new market for wearable computing: portable audio.
It leaves no room for speculation that this new iPod saved Apple from disappearing from the market.
A Bangalore (India) based group of seven professors and engineers have developed what they call a "Simputer" -- short for "simple inexpensive mobile computer."
Copyright © 2000 The Simputer Trust
And it will cost only $200. The Simputer looks and feels like a bulkier Palm. It uses three AAA batteries and an Intel strong-arm chip. It has 32MB of RAM and 16MB of Flash memory and runs on the free Linux operating system. It also features a gif-image touch screen, e-mail and Net access when connected to a working telephone line. And most importantly, it has a smart card reader that enables the machine to be used on a shared basis. (22)
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Footnotes & References
|Computable 11-Jan-2002 p 1
|http://ox.compsoc.net/~swhite/history/history.html ; http:// inventors.about.com/librairy/weekly/aa070100a.htm
|think of routers, firewalls, databases, harddisks, processors, bandwidth etc.
|IPO = Initial Public Offering meaning bringing your company to the stockmarket
|Hardly to call it a tactic when you bombard a site with requests, but it is one of the anarchistic axiom's: when to bring down a system give the system so much to do that it succumbs to the generated overload ( forms and requests)
|ref: www.computable.nl
|(indicating the clock speed of a central processing unit)
|Times magazine April 2, 2001p 66,67
|Times magazine April 15, 2002 p 16, graphic by thocf based on data from TM
|, folding proteins is source for human diseases.
|courtesy AtChinatech
|Soviet union/ eastblock and former eastblock countries, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Germany, USA are but a few examples of those who try to control the Internet
|courtesy US postal service
|picture and information courtesy: http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000337057889/ last accessed 9 September 2005
|ref: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0%2c1282%2c44642%2c00.html ; last access 20051130
|ref: http://www.simputer.org/simputer/press/snaps.php" Copyright © 2000 The Simputer Trust


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so guess who didn't show up last night? or text. or call. or answer my call. yeah, that would be CG.
i really wanted to come. i thought this time would be different. i thought we would fall asleep together, and he'd realize that i'm what he wants. he always complains about how girls always see him as just a friend, but i don't. i'm here. i'm not unattractive.
i try to be a good friend. i try. he seems like he isn't trying at all these days.
i really need to stop becoming enamored with people who can't/ won't reciprocate. i guess it's all part of having "daddy issues" from a lack of any consistent father-figure. (i mean, i LOVE my dad, but we didn't spend much time together.)
c'est la vie.
anyhow, i just got back from brunch:
^^^ i ate this. and then i went and got more of the dim sum.
my estimate? 900 calories. terrific. but i AM going to a concert tonight (Phoenix) and so i will make it a point to dance.
and i have my gym class today. and a LOT of studying (not much time to think about food, i hope).
i need to do this! i've already lost almost 2 pounds since last week! 3 more and i'm back into the 90s where i want to be. and when i'm 98, i'm going to buy myself a briefcase-inspired satchel. in brown.
🙂 / 😦
au revoir!

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PR master stroke from the board
After a string of bad managerial appointments, the Glasgow Rangers board chose to roll the dice once more – but this time they're certain it'll pay off. Pedro Caixinha was a disaster from beginning to end, Graeme Murty proved to be a youth coach in over his head. Cue the arrival of Steven Gerrard.
When Gers first announced they intended to hand former Liverpool captain Gerrard his first senior management roll it was fair to say fans were taken aback and rather unconvinced. But, to date, it has been a PR master stroke from Dave King and his men with the world's media falling over themselves to get to Ibrox and be first with the transfer news.
The failed Caixinha era cost the team upwards of £10m, money they're unlikely to claw back on the likes of Carlos Pena. Critics say the pot is now empty, but a war chest has supposedly been promised to stop Celtic in their tracks with the Govan-based money men admitting the England midfielder's appointment has already attracted the promise of fresh investment.
Supporters know Gerrard is an untried manager with no experience in the roll, but they also know he was once one of the best players in world football and holds an enviable contact list from his playing days as well as nurturing the talent at Liverpool youths. A lot of similarities can be made between him and the Graeme Souness reign.
Rangers have already moved to bolster their squad, bringing in Scott Arfield from Burnley, Allan McGregor back from Hull and they made Jamie Murphy's loan move from Brighton permanent. Each of those were down to director of football Mark Allen, but with the approval of Gerrard we're told.
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Gerrard set to call in some favours
There's no surprise Steven will stick to what he knows when taking charge on June 1st and has made former teammate Martin Skrtel his number one target with the Fenerbahce defender valued at £4m. Another is Anfield wonderkid Harry Wilson who is expected to move north on loan from the 2018 Champions League finalists. What a deal that would be with the 21-year-old Welsh winger touted as the next big thing by some. Celtic failed to land him last year.
Then there's the strange and far-fetched. Rangers have been linked with the likes of Jermain Defoe and even Fernando Torres. One thing's for sure – there's plenty more crazy in this story before the transfer window slams shut.
We'll see how much ready cash the board have, we'll also see the true extend of Gerrard's pulling power – but will we see the club end their long, painful wait for silverware? As their bitter rivals across the city completed a record-breaking double treble those loyal to the Gers cause could only sit in wait.
Will Gerrard come back to haunt his former boss and end that dominance? Bookies have had their say and Rangers to win a trophy during the 2018/19 season is 5/4 second favourite with Bet Victor behind 4/7 no trophy. That'll catch the attention to those with blue tinted glasses but there's more to be had if you fancy a multiple.
Scottish Cup and League Cup double is 40/1. Premiership and League Cup 40/1, Premiership and Scottish Cup also 40/1, all with Bet Victor. Who's for a domestic treble? 150/1. A Europa League winner's medal may be a bridge too far at this stage when recalling what happened vs Progres last season. The clean-sweep is just ridiculous at 3000/1.


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* Understanding Youth and Online Social Networking * by Malene Charlotte Larsen * Aalborg University * Denmark
Today is Safer Internet Day 2008. In that connection the Danish Media Council and I launch some of the results from our online survey about Danish children and young people's use of social network sites. See more about the survey here.
Download press release.
Download fact sheet with central findings.
Unfortunately, the documents are in Danish, but I promise to blog about the central findings in English when I have more time. Now I have to get ready for the Safer Internet Day event in the Experimentarium in Copenhagen.
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First of all, I\'ll skip the discussion on what ZNC and IRC are, as you likely know if you are reading this post. I use IRC with my development team at work. It\'s helpful to stay logged in 24/7 to keep up on pertinent discussions. I could stay logged in 24/7 with any IRC client at work, but some days (and perhaps some evenings) I may be working and chatting from home. To solve this problem I was using tmux and irssi running on my work computer. If I ever needed to log in from home, I would just ssh into my work computer and connect to tmux.
Since switching jobs, I got a laptop. Obviously it is not connect 24/7. So I switched to using my home computer. In this process of changing, I decided to try out ZNC. The main benefit to ZNC over irssi to me is that I can use other IRC clients that have more features. So I\'m going to explain how I set up ZNC and Limechat (OS X).
I was running ZNC on my home computer – currently a Mac Pro. But I find either my 1 yr old or 4 yr old keeps getting into my office and turning off my computer. So, just to try it out, I set up a Linode running Ubuntu. Here are the step by step instructions that took me all of 10 minutes to get set up.
If you don\'t have a Linode account, create one. Please feel free to use my affiliate link. (Note: I now use DigitalOcean as you can get a droplet for only $5 per month. I have it running on my Sentry server, so 2 for the price of one!)
- Add a Linode. I selected the cheapest one, which is a Linode 512 for $19.95 per month. (I understand that paying $20 is likely a waste of money just for an IRC bouncer, but I\'ll talk about this later…)
- Create an instance of Ubuntu on your Linode. I used Ubuntu 11.10. Make note of your new IP address for your server. You may want to create an entry in your hosts file so you can reference it by name instead of remembering the IP address.
- Boot your Linode
- ssh into your Linode
- Create a new user:
- adduser <username>
- Create an admin group
- addgroup admin
- Add yourself to the admin group (so you can use sudo)
- adduser <username> admin
- Log in to your user account
- su <username>
- Install ZNC
- sudo apt-get install znc
- Make a ZNC config file
- znc –makeconf
- Here are the options I selected:
- listen on port 6667
- SSL? no
- ipv6? no
- Listen host – left blank for all
- No global modules
- Username and password – I used the same as my IRC nick & password so it is easy to remember
- Blind host – left blank
- Number of lines to buffer per channel – 5000 (why not?)
- Keep buffers after replay? no
- Default channel modes – went with default [+stn]
- yes on on modules
- IRC server: irc.freenode.net, port 6667, no password
- I added one IRC channel (#utahdjango), I\'ll join the others later
- I added my IRC user and password.
- Then I started IRC at the end of the script. (If you don\'t, just type \'znc\' to start the znc server)
- Connect to your new server. I used Limechat with the following settings:
- Network name: Linode ZNC
- Server: Name I mapped to my linode IP address in my hosts file. You could just enter your IP address.
- Port: 6667
- Server Password: passoword I entered on my IRC makeconf script
- Nickname: irc nick
- Login name: irc nick (remember I used the same nick & password for znc that I use for freenode)
- Real Name: Dustin Davis 😉
- Nickserv Passoword: same as above
That was it! I was connected and up and running just like that. Now, I\'m by far NOT an expert on this stuff, but if you have any questions on what I did, leave a comment below.
As I mentioned, paying $20 per month for an IRC bouncer doesn\'t seem like a great idea. So here are some things to consider…
- Use your home computer. If you keep your computer on 24/7 and basically have a static IP this shouldn\'t be a problem. If you have a router, you will have to set up port forwarding as well.
- If you don\'t want to leave your main computer or, or use you main computer in this manner, consider buying another computer. I have a friend that uses a plug computer for this purpose. This is actually very tempting for me. Paying for a linode for 5 months is about the same as buying a $99 plug computer. You would then have a small server running 24/7 on minimal power and it could also be used for a media server by plugging in an external hard drive among other uses. Another options is Tonido Plug, but these always seem to sell out so fast.
- User your work computer. This may not be easy. At my old job I was given a static IP and subdomain to connect to my computer.
- If you are paying for hosting elsewhere, consider moving your hosting to your new Linode server. This would save you money from hosting elsewhere, but you should be comfortable managing your own hosting server.
I purchased a GuruPlug and got it set up. I\'m now running ZNC from it. The set up was pretty much the same, so I won\'t bother documenting it. No more monthly fees and its only consuming 2 watts of power from home!
Update 2
My GuruPlug got fried in a lightening storm 🙁 . I replaced it with a Mac Mini. Setting up ZNC on a mac is essentially the same except that I install ZNC with Homebrew. Just replace step 9.1 with \"brew install znc\"
Also after owning a mac mini for about a month, I swapped out the hard drive with an SSD so I had to reinstall. For some reason I couldn\'t get it to work. I kept getting the error: \"Cannot connect to IRC (No route to host). Retrying…\". I found a tip that suggesting using the IP address instead of the server name and that resolved the issue.
Update 3
I now use DigitalOcean as you can get a droplet for only $5 per month. I have it running on my Sentry server, so 2 for the price of one!


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My husband and I just returned from The Sea Ranch, where we went to celebrate our tenth wedding anniversary for four nights. We did not have internet access while we were there, or cellphones (yeah!), so it was a very low tech long weekend. But I did take my computer and wrote and stored some blog entries. Here is the first . . . .
My husband and I have been coming to The Sea Ranch once or twice a year since we were married. Maybe even before. We have come alone, with the boys, with other members of our families and with friends. Everyone loves it – even the teenagers. It is just a magical place where the elements seem to be intensified in the blue of the water, the clarity of the air, the fecundity of the earth and the fire of the setting sun.
Every time we come here, I experience some sort of spiritual jumpstart. I have always found my deepest connection to the divine while looking at the ocean. Don't know why, just do. Maybe because it seems the beauty and power and, most of all, the mystery of the ocean most clearly represents God to me. I only know that when I am at the ocean, I unfailingly feel the impulse to pray.
It is no different on this trip. We are staying at The Garden House, a small house we have rented a couple of times before. For one thing, it is a house that welcomes dogs, and Bella has come with us on this trip. It isn't the most modern house, it isn't the most luxurious house, but we find it a most comfortable and welcoming house. It has the most wonderful wall of windows overlooking the meadow and the ocean, and it is here that I sit right now, early Sunday morning, with my prayer beads.
Let me tell you what I see as I look out this window. There are two bird feeders on posts just outside the window, and a couple of blue birds come to eat there every ten minutes or so. I call them "pig birds" for their enormous appetites. They are the size of jays, with the color of the sky on their backs and the white of the clouds on their breasts. When they are not on the feeder, they flick around under a hedge that runs to the left of the window at a right angle. Sometimes they are joined by a pair of partridges or a pair of small yellow and black birds, and on two days we were visited by a large pheasant with a bold turquoise and green neck.
Beyond the birds and the feeders there are green and brown wild grasses, dotted here and there with yellow and some small purple wildflowers. Beyond that is some green brush that runs down in a slope to the Pacific Ocean about one-quarter of a mile away. The ocean has been alternately gray and calm when the fog has rolled in, or blue with white wave caps when it has been sunny and the wind has joined us. Today is it sunny and the blue and white of the ocean and the green of the meadow are brilliant and cheerful. A row of houses – all of weathered wood – run down to the ocean in my line of vision on the right.
Sitting in this window is my favorite thing to do in this house. It is one of the places I like best to pray in the whole world. I sit in the window seat with my back to the room and my face to the sea and I let my prayer beads slip through the fingers of my right hand one by one. I keep my eyes open, letting them fall on the birds that drop by, the waves of grass moved by the wind, the white caps on the ocean moving ever from the right to the left, from north to south. Looking at the ocean, I cannot help but feel the presence of God. My breathing soon becomes as regular as the waves, and my consciousness of my connection to the all that is and was becomes as deep as the blue of the sky.
In this state, it hardly matters what I pray, only that I pray. Sometimes, I start with something more formal – meaning I have not memorized it but refer to it in my prayer bead journal, where I write down prayers I like. This week, I have been inspired by all the natural beauty around me to pray with St. Francis of Assisi, and chose a section of his Canticle to Brother Sun, which I adapted to the Anglican rosary in Bead One, Pray Too (page 80-81). My eyes on the ocean, I repeat, "Be praised, My Lord, through Sister Water; she is very useful, and humble, and precious, and pure." My eyes on the meadow or the sky, I say, "Be praised, my Lord, through Brothers Wind and Air, and clouds and storms, and all the weather, through which you give your creatures sustenance." Other times, I begin with something simpler, something memorized, like, "God with me lying down, God with me rising up, God with me in each ray of light," from the Carmina Gadelica (Bead One, Pray Too page 96). But it isn't long before I slip into something more rhythmic, drawn by the constancy of the ocean and the awareness of my own breath. Then I pray The Jesus Prayer: "Lord, Jesus Christ, have mercy on me. Lord, Jesus Christ, have mercy on me." And later I will change the prayer to the most basic of all, the Hindu "Ham Sa." "I am THAT. I am THAT. I am THAT." I lose track of time, I lose track of myself, I lose track of everything but the glory of creation and my own breath that ties me to it. I do this every day we are here.
When I am done praying, I will rise and take a shower and make some breakfast. Then I'll sit back in the window – or perhaps on the small deck in the back yard – and wait for my husband to wake up. We'll hike along the beach and maybe up in the hills. Then home to dinner and wine and it all starts again tomorrow. Our rhythms here are as a regular as the ocean, set by the regular slip of my prayer beads through my fingers each morning.


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The Customer
The customer is a public listed, US based networking company that designs and builds sophisticated appliances that meet the toughest challenges in switching-routing in internet service provider, enterprise and core network segments.
The Project
Development of an intelligent network manager and web based management tool sustenance services.
Tata Elxsi's solution:
- Network & Security Management Suite:
- Successful release of 6 modules of the network & security management suite addressing total 904 PRs including 498 Customer Found Defects
- Developments and QA teams built complete network & security management suite expertise, thereby no dependency with/ on the customer
- The team worked in tandem with the JTAC team to resolve critical customer issues, delivering a number of complex network & security management suite enhancement features on Regular Schema Merge, Validation and Publishing activities. The response time has always been very sharp while resolving critical issues
- Web Based Management Tool:
- This management tool is used to control the switching OS of the customer, deployed mainly in Service provider infrastructure. Tata Elxsi Team did a sharp ramp up of knowledge and product and end user environment understanding.
- Developed many critically enhanced features within very short time and ensured delivery on the committed dates. Addressing the same functionality in multiple branches by multiple code check ins.
- Product field support was provided for leading US telecom service provider by directly interfacing with the end customer and showcasing demo of the solution.
Business Benefits
- Tata Elxsi team demonstrated excellent technical competency to solve a whopping 904 issues to realize 6 version releases
- Subsequently the QA team also demonstrated their skills in testing and supporting the dev team with defects other than and/ or beyond the ones pointed out by the customer or customer's client
- This performance ensured the patch and newer version release of the software which is the customer's most critical and global solution for service provider and core switching network management and security/ authentication suite


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THEIR VOCATIONS IN THE 1960's
The priests and religious who began leaving in their thousands in the 1960's and are still leaving found themselves in a modern garden of Eden. The modern world was so alluring, so appealing. There were all the wonders of modern technology, especially washing machines, freezers, vacuum cleaners, marvellous health care, limitless opportunities for pursuing an academic career, and easy international travel. Vatican II told religious to go back to their roots to the pure inspiration of their founders, and to some extent they did, but like little Kay in Hans Christian Andersen's The Snow Queen, their vision had been distorted, not by the splintered mirror that fell from the hands of the devils taking it up to Heaven, but by the Tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil. Once they had eaten of this tree their knowledge was distorted beyond belief. The poison was all but deadly; the vision perverted.
These poor men and women interpreted their founders and their past using the bitter fruits, and they were these. The fruit of Darwinian evolution, the fruit of Marxist social and economic theory, the fruit of Freudian psychology and all the other essentially anti Christian psychologies, which are simply a new form of Pelagianism, albeit a secular one. There was the fruit of Malthus namely the false notion of the population explosion, and the worst fruit of all for Christians and Catholics, the fruit of Biblical Higher criticism which emptied the Bible of the miraculous, and in doing so the factual. This fruit when eaten made the priest or religious believe that the Bible was not much different from other ancient religious writing.
The sixties priest and religious, especially the gullible religious sister saw the world through different lenses. They would be told that the Bible had to conform to evolution, which was presented as a fact. The problem with Evolution was that in a way it did not appear to have a beginning, or its past was so many millions of years away from us that it all became a bit abstract. If God was overseeing evolution then he must be very slow or very uninterested, so why should we be too bothered what he thought, because it looks as if either he does not care or is not really bothered about what we get up to. Then the priests and religious would be told the Freudian lie that all relationships are sexual, and they would be told that because there was this terrible spectre called the population control then artificial contraception was the good and true response. They were also told that Marx was basically right, and that the Soviet Union was an aberration. The final fruit that was not so obvious but as deadly as the others and sprang from them was that which said you must express yourself, fulfil yourself be yourself at all costs. The poison of this last fruit was so deadly, because it presumed that you were alright, basically you were a good person, and that your feelings really mattered more than anything else. The problem was that this fruit blinded you to your sinfulness and concupiscence, however what was the problem with that as we were all evolving and we knew better than our fathers of the past. We were on a higher plane. That the priests and religious and even the bishops could have swallowed such tosh can be explained by one thing and one thing only. Did they really know Christ as presented in the Gospels. Did they really love him, wish to imitate him and follow him with all their hearts? Only they can answer that question and most of them are old, and many will be bitter.
Armed with this mad mixture of pseudo philosophical intoxicants priests and religious produced anfalse Christianity, a false humanism, and a false psychology and they walked out of what they thought was an antiquated Church or remained in it to destroy it. These men and women, like Eve, fell for Satan's lie, "You will not die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil." (Genesis 3:4-5), and they ate and found that they were naked and not ashamed. They exulted in their bodies, rejoiced in their sexuality, and began to worship the Golden Calf, namely themselves, though it was far more subtle than that. They would chart their way to God, they would interpret the teachings of Christ, and they would redefine Christian morality. They would be their own gods, and they would worship themselves. They did not realize that they were doing this, but they had preferred chosen comfort not Christ, and they embraced pleasure and not penance, and they believed that they could have Heaven on Earth, and Heaven in eternity, and very few were in danger of going to Hell, if indeed it existed at all. Feelings triumphed over thought, subjectivity of objectivity, lies over truth, and that is why the Church is in such dire straits today, but we should not fear, for Christ has conquered and his Mother Mary has crushed the head of the serpent with here heel. If we are humble like Bernadette, and the little shepherds at Fatima, if we are heroic like the martyrs of old and the martyrs of the 20th and 21st centuries, and if we have the love of Thérèse of Lisieux, a Vincent de Paul, or a Francis de Sales, and if on top of that we have the zeal of a St. Francis, a St. Dominic, a St. Francis Xavier, and above all the sheer power and love of St. Paul, then we will transform the Church and the World, but to do this we have to vomit forth those deadly fruits so that we may see again clearly, and see the World for what it really is the Devil's playground, whereas it should be the Kingdom of God, the domain of the Prince of Peace, Christ Our Lord, Universal King and Lord of All.
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Sometimes back, we reported the launch of TouchPoints™ (initially known as Buzzies) – by Arizona based startup, Touchpoint Solution; an event that the media and critics hailed as a true 'Game Changer' in the field of neuroscience. This is specially true when we consider adults and kids with Autism and ADHD.
If you are wondering how do these TouchPoints™ work and are keen to understand what this wearable product is all about, check out their website or read the detailed review below.
Today, we will share a detailed review this path-breaking innovation and explain exactly how these TouchPoints™ can transform the lives of kids and adults with Autism, ADHD, anxiety, depression and sensory processing dysfunctions.
Spoiler's Alert! Let's face it, we are all busy in our daily lives. So while this post is the most comprehensive TouchPoints™ review done till date, I understand that many of you may not have enough time at hand to go through the full story.
So let me give out the essential details to start with. For those of you looking for a deep dive TouchPoints™ review, keep reading..
LATEST: TouchPoints™ are now available for Pre-order in Australia. Check it out here.
TouchPoints™ User Specs Review:
Kit Specifications:
- Standard Kit has 2 TouchPoints™ devices (or 1 set), USB Charger, detailed user guide and watchbands
- There is a Family Pack consisting of 8 devices (4 sets).
- Institutional Pack consisting of 20 TouchPoint™ devices (10 sets) also available for organizations.
Known Benefits: Following are some of the known benefits of TouchPoints™ (further down, we present some proof points based on statistical studies along with real life case studies):
- Relieves Stress & Anxiety. The company claims that using TouchPoints™ could reduce up to 70% stress in less than 30 seconds)
- Improves Focus and Attention span
- Reduces Cravings
- Improves Performance on daily living activities
- Anger Management
Also Helps in: In many cases, TouchPoints™ are also known to have positive effects for the following:
- Reduced Pain
- More Calm
- Better Sleep
Availability: The kit is available for sale in USA and Canada. It is about to launch in Australia and UK in April, 2018 and is currently taking preorders.
App Support: Yes! Supports both Android and iOS. See below for a detailed App review.
Price: All prices are tax inclusive.
- TouchPoints™ Basic: US$189. Currently taking preorders in Australia for
- TouchPoints™ Original: US$259. Currently taking preorders in Australia for
- Shipping is free in U.S. for orders over $100.
- Free shipping in Australia for orders over $40
- International shipping is available but at additional cost.
Warrantee & Refunds:TouchPoint Solutions offers a 100% Satisfaction guarantee with a standard 1 year replacement warranty. If you are not fully satisfied with the product, or the Touchpoints do not work for you, they will either offer you a replacement or your money back!
Side Effects: The Touchpoint devices are non-intrusive by design. There is no known negative side effects of the product as of today.
FDA Approval: Given the non intrusive nature of Touchpoint, it is considered, more as a lifestyle product and hence doesn't require any FDA approval.
Where to Buy: To buy Touchpoint, click this link to the Touchpoint Solutions store.
Touchpoint was initially launched as part of Buzzies Kickstarter – an online crowd-funding campaign to provide the financial means for the company's production launch.
Since its market release, TouchPoints™ has become an overnight success and the company faced severe order backlogs reaching 6 to 8 weeks due to unanticipated and overwhelming demand!
While the waiting periods have now somewhat eased, the product's popularity demonstrates the positive impact that using TouchPoints™ has had on peoples' lives, and has eased any doubts in minds of potential consumers.
Though the product is still pending a patent, it is quite safe to conclude that the TouchPoints™ revolution may have already kicked in. Interested consumers should avoid long waiting times by securing their device from the official TouchPoints™ website by clicking the below link:
How do TouchPoints™ Work?
Touchpoint Solution's tagline for TouchPoints™ goes like this:
But how does that work? Magic? No, let me explain..
BLAST Technology (Bi-lateral Alternating Stimulation-Tactile Technology)! In plain English, TouchPoints™ work by interfering with the stress response of a person's body.
The use of BLAST technology is based on pre-established set of treatments and scientific researches. However, Dr Serin, the innovator behind TouchPoints™ has adopted this tried and tested technology and used it in completely different settings – as a wearable device.
TouchPoints™ are not intended for use to treat medical conditions and should not be treated as a substitute for medical advice. TouchPoints™ are general-wellness devices that could be used daily.
Quick Review of the TouchPoints™ App
TouchPoints™ could be triggered via your smartphone or tablet App. The Apps seems intuitive and supports both Android and iOS versions. The interface is clean easy to navigate. The latency between when the device is triggered via the app to when the device fires is negligible – which is great! Check out the video:
Who can use TouchPoints™ as an Anxiety wearable Device?
The common misconception in the market is that TouchPoints™ only works for people with Autism and/or ADHD. This is not quite true!
Although the device was primarily designed for ADHD and Autistic individuals, anyone can benefit from its use.
According to the product guidelines, TouchPoints™ is meant to work for anyone who is prone to stress, anxiety, depression, or even anger cravings.
The makers of TouchPoints™ believe that the product even works to improve performance and ease stressful situations, such as exam pressures or de-stressing before an important meeting.
You can wear it on either of your wrists, keep it in your socks or just clip it to your belt. The choice is yours—but remember that the device will make a buzzing sound (20% less than your smartphone on vibration mode)!
Feels like something you might need?
Remember, TouchPoints™ is not water proof! (It can withstand minor water contact, just like any other electronic device, but it should not be used while swimming, bathing etc.)
Do TouchPoints™ Work for Autism & ADHD?
Studies show that continued stress can lead to serious longer term medical conditions. The good news is that people have been reporting noticeable changes after using the TouchPoints™ device.
Statistical Review on Effect of TouchPoints™
Recent studies have analyzed statistical data from the newly created TouchPoints™ user base of 140 individuals. The data shows how people have experienced a 74% change in their stress levels, and an additional 68% reduction in their stress-related body sensations.
Here is some evidence that the group collected as part of their TouchPoints™ Challenge campaign:
The new evidence combined with archived benefits of BLAST technology suggests that there is a consistent trend towards giving users significant relief from physiological and psychological stress in about 30 seconds.
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TouchPoints™ Case Studies
This TouchPoints™ review would be incomplete without any case studies. So let me start with this press coverage of youngster with Autism using TouchPoints™ to keep him calm.
Following is a testimonial from Brian
See TouchPoints™ at work for a child with Autism
Other Regular Folks Using TouchPoints™
Brandon, a marketing consultant, uses TouchPoints™ to stay more productive at work. He suffered from stress and tension due to his work commitments.
He is thankful for the invention of TouchPoints™ which has had a miraculous effect on him and has also improved his family life.
Tim, a marine vet, is 39 years old with five tours in Iraq and Afghanistan under his belt, having experienced regular exposure to conflicts and life-threatening situations. Tim applauds the invention of TouchPoints™ and says it is a must-have tool for him and his colleagues.
"I first started using TouchPoints™ during very stressful situations, like dealing with difficult business situations, or my ex; now I find myself wanting to apply TouchPoints™' calming results to all personal and professional relationships, emails, meetings, and decision making. I gain a special confidence knowing my decisions are driven by facts, void of counter-productive fear and anxiety," says Tim


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We tend to keep in touch between sessions and there is some continuing support where needed – this is discussed more in our contracting.
The groups tend to be challenging, supportive and at times, very funny! I am sure the neighbours have enjoyed us sculpting in the garden!
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Hey ya'll, 4th of July is coming, and there are so many fun crafts and recipes you can make using Mason Jars, it boggles my Yankee Doodle mind. 🙂
These 4th of July Mason Jar crafts are super fun and super cute. But for sure they aren't the only 4th of July crafts on this blog. Oh no! Click on Mason Jar Celebrations at the top of your screen for lots more ideas to ensure you have a "dynamite" 4th!
4th of July Mason Jar Crafts
From top left to right…
1. 4th of July Painted & Embellished Mason Jars – Chase the Star
2. Mason Jar 4th of July Candles – Organized Island
3. Glitter & Paint Mason Jars – Lilyshop (perfect for an outdoor 4th of July party if you change up the pain colors!)
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A new trailer for Homefront, the forthcoming drugs thriller movie starring Jason Statham and James Franco, has been released.
The two-minute teaser features lots of blood and violence as well as some very fruity language. If this doesn't bother you, watch it below.
Homefront is based on the popular novel of the same name by Chuck Logan. It pits Statham's former Drugs Enforcement Administration (DEA) employee, now seeking a quiet life with his family in a small town, against a local meth kingpin played by Franco in badass mode.
Logan's novel was adapted into a screenplay by Sylvester Stallone, who also served as one of the film's producers. Stallone does not appear on screen but the film's strong supporting cast does include Winona Ryder, Kate Bosworth, Frank Grillo and Mischa Barton.
Director Gary Fleder (Kiss The Girls) shot Homefront in New Orleans between October and December of last year (2012). The film opens in US cinemas on November 27 before getting a UK release two days later on November 29.


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Of course when one thinks of an alcoholic coffee beverage they automatically think of one drink: Irish Coffee. This drink is a classic and is typically associated with writers and artists (trust me, writers need coffee and alcohol, at all times), but even a classic and iconic beverage can benefit from a modern day fall twist.
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4 oz. coffee
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Garnish: whipped cream
Combine Irish cream and pumpkin pie spice in a mug. Pour in coffee and stir. Garnish with whipped cream.
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Release Date: August 10th, 1960
DVD Release Date: January 8th, 2002
Not Yet Rated |2 hr 7 minPlot Summary
Danny Ocean (Frank Sinatra) calls on some of his World War II buddies -- including Jimmy Foster (Peter Lawford), Sam Harmon (Dean Martin) and Josh Howard (Sammy Davis Jr.) -- to pull off an elaborate New Year's Eve heist at five casinos in Las Vegas. Eleven members of Danny's crew come together to pull off a perfect robbery, but they suffer a series of setbacks when Duke Santos (Cesar Romero), a former gangster, tries to thwart Ocean's plans to disappear with the money.
Cast: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford, Angie Dickinson, Richard Conte, Cesar Romero, Patrice Wymore
Director: Lewis Milestone
Genres: Comedy drama
Production Co: NPV Entertainment, Jerry Weintraub Productions, Section Eight Ltd.
Distributors: Warner Bros.
Keywords: Pursuit, 1960s, Temptation, Witty, Cool, Wife, Quest


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(From left to right: Kevin Compton, Ryan Yunker, Bryan Bozeman, and Danny Helms)
Almost Kings brings their own uniqueness to the music scene. A band unlike any other, they take rock and hip-hop and blend it into something utterly amazing. Vocalist Bryan Bozeman (aka "Boze"), guitarist Ryan Yunker, bassist Danny Helms, and drummer Kevin Compton are poised on the verge of greatness, their following growing with each passing day.
I met Almost Kings more than a year ago and was very impressed with their energy and style. I become a bigger fan with each show, each song, each interaction. Not only talented as musicians and performers, the four men are also very humble and down-to-Earth.
Recently, my brother Rick and I sat down with them for an interview…
Me: Let's start with the really standard question of your influences and why y'all started doing what you do.
Boze: I think we started it because we're all passionate about music, but we didn't know we could actually make a living out of it. Although we're not making a good one out of it now. [laughs] But that's the ups and downs of music. You have to stick with it, like any love you have. [pause] I don't know what the other question was, but I probably shouldn't answer it.
Me: The influences for each of you.
Ryan: I was raised on more of the rock side–The Allman Brothers, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Incubus…
Boze: I was raised on rock music like, uh, Outkast and Cypress Hill, Nas, Biggie Smalls, Tupac…all those guys influenced me. Some white kid named Eminem.
Me: If you had answered that question without saying Eminem, I would have been surprised.
Boze: No, no. Of course. He's a rap god.
Kevin: I'd say James Brown, Incubus, Deftones, uhh…
Boze: Weird Al Yankovich.
Kevin: And some Tom Petty back in the day with my parents. Bon Jovi.
Boze: I do like Tom Petty.
Danny: I've got a lot! Gonna start off with a little Justin Timberlake. Weird, right? Incubus, Deftones–one of my all-time favorites. I could say Pink Floyd. Pretty much a little bit of everything.
Me: So then how was the decision made to play the rap/rock genre?
Boze: They couldn't get a singer to sing.
Danny: Limp Bizkit!
Boze: They didn't have a choice. I rap. I can hit a couple of notes, but mostly you're gonna get wrapping paper with some Boze. [pauses for effect] Get it?!?!
Kevin: Bozeman asked all of us to join this, and we did. We wrote "Legend," "Unstoppable," and "On Like That" in the first twenty minutes we were together.
Boze: Yeah, I'd say half the first record was probably done the first practice. Not done, but the ideas were down.
Me: Okay. Another standard question–how did the band get its name?
Boze: We came up with it because everyone, at the time, was like "King of the south, king of the north, I'm the king of this, I'm the best at everything" and everyone's like…music is all about gloating, and we're just regular dudes.
Danny: And the name starts with "A." It's easy to search.
Ryan: Top of the list. That's an "A" in my book.
Me: Who is, for each of you, the band/artist you were the most excited to play with?
Boze: We haven't played with anybody I like, so…just kidding! Joking!
Danny: You are lying through your teeth. We played with Vanilla Ice, and he was ecstatic about it.
Boze: I did love Vanilla Ice. And he was nice. We played with Ludacris. He didn't talk to me…
Danny: Sevendust. That was mine. And Everlast. Everlast was super cool to play with.
Boze: Yeah, he was actually nice. Anybody that's nice.
Ryan: Avenged Sevenfold.
Boze: We did play with them. That makes us sound a lot cooler.
Danny: Stonesour.
Kevin: Stonesour, yeah. Halestorm!
Me: Y'all have played with a lot of people. Wow. All right. Let's see if you can remember your most embarrassing moment onstage. Ryan?
Ryan: I jumped off the riser and completely busted my ass back into the amps. Everything dominoed. It was in front of a packed house. It was pretty embarrassing.
Boze: Forgetting lines of songs. I'm a bad recovery person. Like, most people would catch on, like, the third bar in and be like "Oh, well here's where I am." If I miss the first line of a verse, I miss the whole entire verse and there's no going back for me.
Kevin: Mine's vintage, but falling off the drum riser while playing. It was a tight squeeze and I fell back and had to play, like, all extended. It was bad. Or throwing up onstage that one time. That sucked. That was here at The Nick.
Danny: Mine was at a hometown show that we did. There's a riser behind Kevin's drums, so I was able to jump over the kit, and I landed on my knees and pretty much barrel-rolled. I tried my hardest to play it off, like "oh, I meant to do that," and I'm limping the rest of the show, like "this is the worst idea I've ever had in my life." Uh, yeah, that was probably the most embarrassing, but it was embarrassing for me because nobody knew that anything happened.
Boze: We play off stupidity well, but the cool thing is, we don't try to be cool, so it's easy to be stupid and mess up. Easier.
Me: I don't know why most singers don't say forgetting lyrics bothers them.
Boze: I hate it. That's the only reason I write fast verses, so no one knows what I'm saying. If I do mess up, I'm just like "Shamalamalamalama"…
Danny: Watermelon, banana, banana.
Ryan: Banana, banana.
Me: Do you remember the first time you heard Almost Kings on the radio?
Danny: I was at work!
Ryan: I was in the McDonald's parking lot.
Danny: First time we got put on was a week-long thing where they played one of our songs from Filthy Nice every night, a different song each night for a week straight, at ten o'clock or midnight or something. The first song I ever heard was "Legend." I was at work. And I … [laughs] … I made everyone in the bar shut up and, like, turned it all the way, full blast, on the stereo. They were like "Turn that shit off!" because it was so loud. Or maybe it was just that bad.
Me: Next, I wonder what y'all think makes Almost Kings different from everyone else?
Kevin: I'd say our energy. Our energy on stage sets us apart.
Boze: People are starting to jock that, though.
Kevin: Often imitated–[Boze joins in]–never duplicated!
Kevin: For real, people will steal Danny's and Ryan's moves and all that, but, like, the energy on stage is…you watch people and they feed off that. You get hype like that and the crowd gets hype as fuck, too.
Rick: What is "made it" to you guys?
Kevin: Doing only this. Not having to worry about a nine-to-five.
Danny: Living healthy and wealthy.
Me: That's a good definition.
Boze: Yeah, I'm down with that. I like that answer.
Rick: And what do y'all hope to achieve once you've made it? What do you want to do with your success?
Kevin: I wanna help some people. We had a fan the other day hit us up that was in a serious deep depression and she said that our song saved her life. That's what I want to do. That was the coolest thing! We had another fan that had an illness and she said, you know the placebo effect, like with happiness and stuff you can beat those things? She said she jammed our music and it literally helped heal her.
Ryan: That's what it's about.
Boze: I want to be remembered like "man, those guys were good and they weren't douche bags." That's pretty much it. That's not really a good music answer, but that's my goal.
Me: [to Danny] What about you?
Danny: I would like to continue to do this for the rest of my life, healthy and wealthy and comfortable.
Ryan: They say "If you're working a job you love, then you never work a day in your life." I would say if we can do that and continue to help people and make people happy in the process, then we've done our job and we've done it right.
Boze: These are great political answers. [To Ryan] You're fucking good. [To me] Are you quoting this?
Kevin: Are you running for office?
Boze: Just leave mine out. Quote them. Vote Yunker.
Me: I'm glad that y'all believe fans when they say Almost Kings saved their lives. I've heard bands say they don't like the responsibility that goes with fans telling them that.
Boze: Music has done that for me. That's why sometimes I write very vague in songs like "Shadows." It was about a certain thing that I had to deal with, but I wrote it vague enough that you could insert your own problem.
Me: Some bands seem to forget that it's the fans who keep them alive. They reach a point where they don't want to show appreciation anymore, like they feel that the fans aren't helping and so they don't have to care.
Danny: [When that happens], they should quit. The fans are the best prize. **


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A ha! Experts agree with your humble Felt Up blogette that Dr. Phil is indeed a moron! CNN reports:
Dr. Phil's public brand of tough love sometimes makes him tough to love, particularly among mental health professionals who are accusing television's self-help guru of making an uncalled-for house call on Britney Spears this week.
Although Dr. Phil -- whose full name is Phillip McGraw -- announced Monday that he is shelving plans for a show on Spears' latest breakdown, some in the mental health community say just showing up at her hospital room last week was going too far.
"It's true people sometimes need to be placed under involuntary mental health treatment because they can't take care of themselves," veteran psychiatrist Dr. Jeffrey Sugar said of the 26-year-old Spears. "But there's a difference between being detained involuntarily for psychological treatment and being forced to endure Dr. Phil involuntarily."
Spears, who appeared to have enough trouble already, saw McGraw barge into her life Saturday when he showed up at her room at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center as she was about to be discharged. She had been taken there Thursday after an hours-long standoff with police that was triggered by her custody dispute with ex-husband Kevin Federline.
McGraw said he was invited to the hospital by Spears' family.
Sugar, chief of child and adolescent psychiatry, crisis and emergency service for the University of Southern California, said that isn't good enough. Late adolescent or not, he said, Spears is still an adult who has the right to decide who she lets into her hospital room.
I really love Dr. Jeffrey Sugar--not only does he speak the truth, but he's got an awesome name. I can just hear the intercom at the hospital where he works (and in my mind, it's a Pee Wee Hermann voice, of course): "Paging Dr. Sugar. Dr. Sugar you are urgently needed in the cafeteria." I could, of course, make a "pour some Sugar on me" joke here, but decorum prevents me from doing so now.
PS: Britney spoke with a British accent while she was in the hospital, according to Us Weekly.


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Some (light) reading for the festive season
First Things First – 40 TODAY The Right – direction of travel … rightwards Seriously Hard Man of The Right, Laurent Wauquiez, has been overwhelmingly (and predictably) elected by the ever-dwindling membership of France's conservative party (aka Les Républicains in its most recent manifestation) and so become its President. Wauquiez picked up 75% of the votes, with over half the Party membership abstaining. Wauquiez intends … Continue reading Some (light) reading for the festive season


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It's been an uber-crazy week at work so I'm not even going to attempt to write a blog post that's informative, creative or interesting. No, instead, I'm going to provide you with some random facts me (Emma!) and really, any other statements that pop into my head.
Apologize in advance for the randomness of this post. Feel free to commence banging your head on the desk now.
-Every day at around 3:30 p.m., my becomes flushed…very flushed. Doesn't matter the temperature outside, what I'm doing – my face is going to look like a beet. My doctor says it's perfectly normal and not to worry but I gotta admit, on the occasion I glance in the mirror around that time period, YIKES!!!! It's not pretty.
-I am completely OBSESSED with Baskin-Robbins sugar-free cookies and cream candies. If you haven't tried these suckers, run to Walgreens right now and pick some up. Run, I said!
-I hate taking baths. The tub is uncomfortable, the water gets cold and I feel like I'm sitting in my own filth. Ick.
-On average, it takes me about six hours to read an issue of Women's Health magazine. It is by far my favorite publication (I'm very deep, obviously) and I like to savor it like a fine wine.
-I hate pop music but have a special place in my heart for Rob Thomas songs. I dunno…
-Painting my nails gives me an instant "I rock" feeling. It's a simple as that.
-Sundays, yes Sundays, are my favorite day of the week. It's a day for brunching, lounging and over-consumption and that suits me just fine.
It's almost Friday people!
Thursday, February 25, 2010
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Step Up: Revolution
It may be surprising, but I actually was not dreading having to watch Step Up: Revolution. Yes, the writing and acting were bound to be less than amazing, but like all the Step Up movies this is really a thin wrapper around a dance showcase. And as far as the dancing goes it's pretty successful, so it achieves everything it promises.
The story is straight out of an '80s movie, and the familiar conventions probably helped it go down easier; it's more hackneyed than flat-out bad. Specifically, I mean the kind of '80s movie with the earnest, photogenic young guy leads a moderately diverse, rag-tag group of fellow young social underdogs to artistic success and victory over the mean rich folk while both saving the orphanage or community center or whatever and winning the love of the pretty girl. It's not that this story is guaranteed to be done badly — The Goonies proved that it can actually be quite compelling — but it's such a cookie-cutter template that it doesn't require any real thought on the part of the writer.
The earnest young guy here is Sean (Ryan Guzman), who with his friend Eddy (Misha Gabriel Hamilton) leads The Mob, a group of flash-mobbing hip-hop and dubstep dancers in Miami. And yes, they're based on the wrong side of the tracks or, in this case, the river. Sean and Eddie work as waiters at the Dimant hotel in South Beach, under the thumb of the douchebag general manager. The hotel is owned by the powerful William Anderson (Peter Gallagher), who wants his daughter, Emily (Kathryn McCormick) to help him and give up her dreams of joining a renowned professional dance company.
Of course Emily and Sean meet up just in time to find out that Anderson wants to plow under the neighborhood where the Mob all live in order to redevelop it as another luxury hotel. Emily hides her identity from the group — setting up a later conflict — and helps them turn their performance art into a protest movement.
The story is thin gruel at best, and none of the performances are particularly good. But again, we're here for the dancing, and the dancing is pretty great. And it's not all street or party dancing either, like almost all of Footloose is; the art gallery sequence alone is a fantastic and stunning achievement in contemporary dance.
And yet I find myself wondering, why do we need a story at all? An action movie needs some through-line between the explosions — we can't care about something blowing up unless we know why it's blowing up — but a good dance can tell its own story, or stand on its own with no story at all. Indeed, for the first half of the movie the dances have nothing at all to do with the story anyway. Might it be possible to throw together a sequence of spectacularly choreographed and filmed dance routines and just let them speak for themselves?
Be that as it may, the story isn't the biggest drag on the movie; that would be the stereography. The 3D effect is only occasionally of use to the dancing, and the rest of the time it makes sunny Miami look muddy and dark. Worse, a lot of the detailed moves go too quickly for the effect to keep up with, and we're left with distracting trails of phantom images. A dancer does a backflip with eight hazily flickering legs instead of two smoothly gliding ones and the moment is lost.
But if you go to a 2D showing you're in for some impressive visuals that even a hokey script can't ruin. And hey, if you remember the '80s as fondly as I do even the script has a certain retro charm.
Worth It: yeah.
Bechdel Test: fail.


text: Well, here goes nothing! Darci and I are about to embark on another season in the A Division with hopes that my darts will return and her's will improve. During practice last night I shot some count up at 38+ppd so felt it was a sign....then tanked as the arm got tired but at least there is some hope I'll admit, this season will be a decider for me. After all, I've fought through 3 degenerating discs in my neck which caused considerable pain and/or numbness in my right arm (my throwing arm) this past year which resulted in a lot of changes to my throw in an attempt to overcome it as well as some dartitis due to it. I can only hope now, that the pain is no longer an issue, that I can find that old throw again and start the slow climb back up to somewhere near where I feel I should be. We shall see but I'll report along the way! One thing I should mention is that while yes, I can still hit 180's on a steel board on somewhat of a predictable and frequent basis it really doesn't mean much if I cannot consistently hit the target when it counts and therein lies the key. 180's are great, and I understand not everyone hits them on a daily (or near daily) basis but someone who can average 28ppd on a softtip machine all night long will win every time against a player that can show up for only one game out of 3. Sure, maybe I crush a game of 01 shooting in the 40ppd range but dropping into the low 20's the next two means you lose. So here's to trying to get the old throw back, forgetting the dartitis days and maybe competing again in the higher divisions! Wish me luck!


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Dropbox, Box and BooleBox: a security challenge in the field of EFSS
After the recent announcement of BooleBox Cloud integration with Office 365, we decided to make an in-depth comparison to establish which of these three top cloud service competitors can better respond to business security needs
Dropbox, Box and BooleBox are three of the largest and most full-featured cloud storage and file-sharing services. Key-players in the international market, they all offer domain management tools, granular collaboration insights for both privates and businesses and custom integrations. We decided to carry out a thorough laboratory test, covering all their key functionalities, to bring out their weaknesses and strongpoints with a specific focus on security and collaboration.
Cooperation and communication internally and externally is crucial for businesses to recover agility, efficiency and productivity. Thus, there is no coincidence that all these three services give their customers the possibility to create and edit Microsoft Office documents, as well as share them with other users in the interests of a fruitful collaboration, thanks to the integration with Office 365. Differently from Dropbox and Box, BooleBox' announcement of joining Microsoft Cloud Storage Partner Program is still hot news in the market of EFSS. As its two main competitors, now BooleBox offers also the possibility to create, access and work on Microsoft Word documents, Microsoft PowerPoint presentations and Microsoft Excel sheets on a web browser, without any app installation needed. With BooleBox' added-value of security.
Today, the cyber threat landscape continues to be complex, with increasing risk. Security has become a primary necessity, having in mind all the recent and frequent cybercrime attacks. Just think about last weeks' eye-catching CIA Vault 7 WikiLeaks dump, which had tremendous resonance in the whole IT world (and far beyond). Or all the impressive facts and figures released every day by the media and experts in the field, starting from the cybercrime damage costs to hit $6 trillion annually by 2021, or the +102% of cyberattacks on healthcare in 2016. Both privates and companies should be assessing their vulnerability to cyber-attacks and take advantage of security solutions to mitigate the potential for these events to harm their lives or business.
What emerged from our comparison is that all three enterprise cloud services rely on security features that help set some cloud concerns to rest, starting from Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) / Transport Layer Security (TLS) technology and 256 bit AES encryption and different login options, such as Single Sign On (SSO) or 2-step verification – this one, to strengthen the authentication phase to the cloud platform.
They can also guarantee secure exchange of files and folders, through a secure link. Always granting granular access rights. Users will always be able to revoke those access rights or edit them, whenever they want.
Of course, in EFSS the possibility to have a tool to sync all files between desktop PCs, online folders and mobile devices is a must. What we've noticed is that BooleBox provides an additional security layer on files, thanks to its personal key technology: the local data is fully encrypted on the disk with a key known only to the user. This means that, in case of loss or theft of your devices, you will only lose your hardware, but not your data.
Last but not least, all the three solutions offer users the possibility to access the full history of all the previous versions of modified files, as well as the possibility to access activity logs, which provide an advanced auditing system.
Having said that, what are the main points that make the difference from a business and strategic point of view?
With BooleBox, in addition to decide which users can access documents, it is possible to protect the content while in-use, inhibiting all those operations that could put at risk the security of data, such as "Copy", "Cut" and "Paste". Also BooleBox "Anti-Capture" and "Deter PhotoShots", which reduce all risks related to screen capture actions for top-secret documents, are a way to ensure the confidentiality of data not only when it is transferred and stored online, but also when it is being used. To cut it short: BooleBox is more security-oriented, based on granular protections and a wider array of protection options to be applied to both files and emails.
Box, on the other hand, is more focused on collaboration functionalities. That's why it gives more attention to third-party integrations, instead of enhancing its security offering. It distinguishes itself in the field of EFSS for its large number of integrations with different partners and solutions, to manage data not only inside the cloud, but also in other environments. Of course, this goes in the detriment of security.
Dropbox represents the starting point for all cloud sharing solutions, and this is why it still remains the most known and used in the consumer-world. According to this, it keeps on offering its customers worldwide multiple consumer-oriented integrations. To distinguish itself and create its own market niche, any other solution has to focus on a specific aspect – such as Box does with collaboration or BooleBox with security.


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Oh, and just fyi, the green crates are from Target this season. They were about $3.50 a piece.
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Megs! when I read how you painted the containers, I said: "cool!" :) Then I scrolled down and there you said it yourself. We.are.so.alike. :)
I just love the new look ~ very clean and organized. I'm inspired again. And I hadn't heard of white space before... thanks for the heads up!
Tons of love!
Wow, so smart! I have so many of these clear boxes. Adding this to my to do list. Thanks!
This is a good idea, has it chipped off the plastic yet?! Also... I've read of putting a piece of material over containers that don't have lids - of just over the whole darn thing. I haven't done it, but I bet it could be cute! :) I like closet doors!
Very clever! The closet looks great. I was just thinking this morning how I so need to reorganize our tiny linen closet...again. One small closet for six peoples linens=mess most of the time.
i wish i could find those green containers you have there. I looked and target dosent carry them anymore, not even walmart has the green ones. I need them to complete my daughters chuggington display i bought. I have the red and blue just need the green to go with koko. If you know where else i can get them let me know please


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2016 has been a strange year, it's been one of those years that I have watched so many horrible things happen to the people I love and to the world, yet personally, this year has overall been a good one. Of course I was challenged (A LOT) but I have also grown a lot, learnt a lot and had some amazing opportunities. So I want to take the time to talk through the things that I have learnt within the last 365 days that are 2016.
- Happiness comes in the simplest of moments. Happiness comes when watching a sunset on a beach with my best friend or on hay barrels with my brother. Happiness comes from feeling the wind in my hair and the sun on my skin as I sail around Lake Garda. Happiness is being in the arms of a loved one. Happiness comes from laughing like a child, feeling my soul connect to music, and meaningful conversations with like minded people.
- People leave and places change. I am currently in a very temporary stage of my life, the places I call home are only for a year. The friends I have made and continue to make are constantly changing because people are living their lives and I am living mine. This year I can no longer call a friend with whom we shared 7 years of friendship with for no reason, but, they are not a bad person, it is simply that their chapter in my story has come to an end.
- Have faith. I am a strong believer that everything happens for a reason and I have learnt to have faith this year. The bad things happen because I have lessons to learn, and every lesson learnt is an opportunity to grow.
- Life is short. This summer a dear friend of mine was a in a serious car accident which put her in a coma. When she awoke she had lost her ability to communicate, her mobility, and some of her memory. This made me realise how fragile life is and if I want to say something than I should just say it, if i want to see someone, I should just do it. But likewise, life is too short to be spending it with bad company or doing things I don't want to do.
- Work hard and never give up. No one ever achieved anything sitting on a sofa. So I get up at 6am to be able to enrich my knowledge in my degree subjects, I give back to the community and to fellow students, I have open conversations about mental health to reduce the stigma, I go to work and give it my all and I continue to try my very best.
- I am capable of much more than I think I am. This year I overcome many of my fears put in place by anxiety. I travelled to London and took an underground train for the first alone, I travelled to Italy for a month as an au pair on my own, I got a first in the first year of my degree and I got the job of my student dreams.
- Nothing lasts. The bad moments will pass to make way for happier ones so breathe through them. The good moments will also pass and not last and instead be replaced by horrible moments. So treasure the good times and breathe and remain strong through the tough ones.
I am unsure as to what the next year holds for me but I hope to have the strength to face any challenges put in my way and the ability to remain grateful for the opportunities thrown my way. I hope that 2016 was a good year for you and if not then this is your opportunity to begin afresh. A new 365 page book is about to start and how you fill in those blank pages are up to you. Not everyday will be easy but you can still attempt to take some positives from those pages, and remember your worst and best days consist of 24 hours, it will pass.
See you all in 2017 for more blogging and more talk surrounding mental health.


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**Provides the recommended dose for pregnant or lactating women.
4–6 capsules per day, in divided doses, with meals.
* These statements have not been evaluated by the Food & Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. See Disclaimer
‡† lutein is a registered trademark of Kemin Industries, Inc.
††Zeaxanthin is sourced from OPTISHARP™ brand. OPTISHARP™ is a trademark of DSM Nutritional Products, Inc.
See Also:
Vitamins and Nutrition Infocenter at 1stholistic.com
Vitamins Knowledgebase at 1stholistic.com
Product Specifications and More Information: http://specialgifts.com/health/Resources/ProdInfo/default.htm
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1 bottle contains: 360 capsules
Also Available in 180 capsules/bottle
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