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Updated, fixed sloppy language, 8 December 2016
This letter as a pdf (opens in a new window).
Dear Angela Merkel,
The ongoing total crisis of the West is called economical or political. The true cause of the difficulties is an intellectual confusion as our possibilities to understand life and the world are usually restricted by hidden religious dogmas.
Please observe, I am for sure not against religion or Christ. I only expose that, today are we denied to investigate and improve what we actually are able to understand and talk about by hidden religious dogmas; that demand absolute submission.
What It Is All About
The Usually Hidden Relations
My Message To You
The massive problem is the Academic tradition, that has a monopoly of Knowledge and Education, is an organisation with hidden religious objectives, that trick the people AND the political élite to accept or even worship Dictatorship; by hidden dogmas of the Church that is said to be Reason and Science.
For example the central demand to be Normal in the so called Science of Psychology has no concrete definition as it is a hidden Static dogma of the Church; that means that the people must be restricted to accept how it is and to obey.
The historic relation is that our capacity to comprehend how to improve life and the society, in a concrete manner, has been replaced by to accept how it is and to obey.
Angela Merkel, head of the government of Germany, has for a long time said that the big problem is nationalism. And in 2017 Merkel wants to be re-elected in the federal elections in Germany.
Here is a recent example of the current situation. Merkel Must Change to Meet Germany's Challenges, Dirk Kurbjuweit, Der Spiegel, 25 November 2016. Kurbjuweit says.
... No less than liberal democracy is at stake.
It is the very foundations of this Liberal democracy that is based on false explanations of life and the world to support Hidden Might is Right. So, that the current Western terror, called Liberal democracy, is finally breaking up is the best that has happened for almost two thousand years!
The opportunity and challenge is now to create a culture of real Democracy based on a real Science and a concrete Reason.
What It Is All About
Most people hate the School and suspect that they are misled by the massmedia or the Lügenpresse/Lying press. But, they can usually not understand in a concrete fashion why or how it is like it is; as they from the beginning are trained to have a false understanding of life and the world that only supports to accept how it is and to obey.
We are simply tricked into a Static worldview – that takes away any concrete Dynamic qualities – like to develop the joy to discover, create and cooperate and are forced to accept how it is and to obey. Consequently, becomes Hidden or Open Dictatorships the same as how it must be.
All in all. We need to throw out the stupidity to restrict our capacity to understand life and the world.
We need to dissolve any relation between the State and the Academic tradition, that restrict our capacities, and develop a new system for how the State can support real Education and real Science.
The Usually Hidden Relations
The main and real objective of the Academic tradition is to make real thinking and real understanding mystical; in order to force the people to accept how it is and to obey.
The simple historic fact, that is usually hidden today, is that the current worldview of the West is a construction made to hide Dictatorship was made by the military dictatorship of the Roman empire.
The formal name of this method to fool the people to stupidity and suppression is Platonism.
Platonism is constructed to eliminate the foundations of true Democracy and true Science as it was developed and used in Athens. As the Athenians had formulated their ideals it was easy for the Romans to know what to eliminate.
The core of Platonism is to make the people believe that Reason, or the capacity to think, to reach insights, is mystical or impossible to grasp in a concrete manner.
In practice this means that The Mystical Reason reject concrete understanding of anything else than to accept how it is and to obey. The desired effect is that the highest Authority, like for example a State, is godlike or some form of god.
The teachings of the Academic cult are therefore based on the ideals of Dictatorship that has resulted in, for example Nationalism, Communism, Fascism and Nazism. So, it is about time to cut off any relation between the national States of the Western world and the Academic tradition.
One of the main problems of today, or perhaps THE main problem, is that the massmedia is totally owned and made by promoters of the ideal to use hidden religious dogmas to fool the political élite as well as the people. I would be delighted if I am proved to be wrong.
My Message To You
You are a powerful leader, not afraid to take a fight to do the right thing. For example, you kicked out Nuclear power in order to establish a foundation for sustainable alternatives.
So, if you now kick out the Academic tradition, or to be more precise dissolve all relations between the Academic cult and the State and set up a new structure for Education and Science. A fundament that supports our concrete capacity to improve, innovate and create can only result in a sustainable real growth in many dimensions. And then will other nations follow Germany.
You have the opportunity to finally put an end to the ongoing tragedy of the West, almost two thousand years of extreme stupidity and unnecessary sufferings, by opening up to a prosperous era of the Western civilisation.
You have the power and all the reasons to dissolve the relations between the Academic cult and the State. It will not be easy. So please, begin at once!
And do remember, Crisis means literally turning point and at the bottom of Pandora's box is the Hope.
These two simple messages from the ancient Greeks are examples of insights of Dynamic relations that the current Static Western culture is built on to eliminate a concrete understanding of.
In my book This Is How The State Fucks Your Mind are more concrete relations as well as undeniable historic facts.
The latest chapters that I have added are:
26. Virtus Killed Arete Therefore Can You Only Be A Normal Worker And Consumer – Overview Of The Mythological Level
27. The Demand To Be Normal Is A Dogma Of The Church To Guarantee That You Are A Uniform Soldier
Yours sincerely,
Ola Alexander Frisk


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Volume 11, Number 12
- Hacienda's Sanarus Medical, makers of an innovative device used to remove benign breast tumors on an outpatient basis, recently closed a $19 million series C financing round. Investors include Alta Partners, Channel Medical Partners, U.S. Venture Partners, and Forward Ventures. The company will use the additional funding to expand sales and to develop new products.
- Hacienda-based Individual Software has released Business PlanMaker Professional Deluxe 2004, a program designed to allow entrepreneurs to write winning business plans as well as transfer financial data to and from QuickBooks. Business PlanMaker guides users through each step of creating a complete business plan and includes a library of sample business plans for nearly every type of product and service business. The program is recommended by the U.S. Small Business Administration.
- Industry-leading video and voice conferencing company Polycom, headquartered in Hacienda, has acquired Voyant Technologies of Westminster, Colorado, specialists in voice conferencing and collaboration network solutions. The transaction is valued at $110.7 million. "Voyant is a natural and complementary fit into our unparalleled Polycom Office solution," said Phil Keenan, Polycom senior vice president. "Polycom's objective is to offer a complete, converged collaborative communications solution that extends from the desktop, to the meeting room, to the wiring closet, and out to the network core. Voyant's leading voice communications system is another key step in this strategy. Through Voyant's strong presence in key service providers such as AT&T, MCI, Sprint, Verizon, BT, NTT, WebEx, Raindance, and others, Polycom is also gaining a deeper relationship with these partners by augmenting our current video and web infrastructure platform." In other news, Polycom has agreed to collaborate on new IP telephony-enabled video solutions with the goal of making desktop and group video communication as simple as a phone call. Avaya also plans to sell and service Polycom products globally, significantly expanding the companies' existing North American reseller relationship.
- The Intero Foundation, a non-profit founded this year by Intero Real Estate Services, donated $10,000 to the East Bay Crisis Nursery and $7,500 to the Bay Area Alliance for Youth and Family Services, two local youth organizations. "These donations will help these organizations continue to provide critical services to the youth in our community," said Roy Dronkers, president of the Intero Foundation and an Intero Real Estate Services agent. "We are thrilled that our agents and staff have been so generous with their contributions to the foundation so that we're able to make significant donations to these groups and others."
Also in this issue ...
- Ingenico Makes Spending Money Easier
- Windermere Properties of the East Bay Makes Hacienda its Home
- Business Bits
- Executive Profile: Aaron Evans, Wal*Mart
- Roadlink Gets Products Moving
- Unisource Brings Paper and More to Bay Area Businesses
- Pleasanton's Economic Vitality Plan
- Make A Difference in the Tri-Valley
- Tri-Valley Interfaith Poverty Forum
- Pleasanton-Blairgowrie Sister City Organization Brings Cultures Together
- Hacienda Index

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Tuesday, January 29, 2008
What on earth happened?!
You may imagine my surprise when the top four finishers in this year's competition turned out to be ladies who had never before medalled at Nationals. Last year's medalists (Meissner, Hughes, Czisny and Liang) finished 7th, withdrew, finished 12th and finished 5th, respectively. Granted, the fact that Alissa Czisny finished out of the medals is not surprising -- she is notorious for having a mental block when it comes to jumps. I like her skating a lot, especially her spins and spiral sequences, but I must admit that it was more of a surprise to see her medal last year than to see her out of the medals this year. Kimmie Meissner finishing 7th, though... that was a surprise. Sure, she missed two jumps in one of her Grand Prix programs this season. But she's the 2006 World Champion. She can pull it together for Nationals, right? Apparently not this year. To her credit, though, she still threw everything she had into her program, even after missing her first two jumps, and she was very gracious afterward. That speaks volumes about her character.
Check out Mirai Nagasu and Caroline Zhang, though... Zhang is the 2007 World Junior Champion and she placed 4th at Nationals this year, and Mirai Nagasu is the 2007 World Junior Championship silver medalist and the 2007 US Junior Champion and she won Nationals this year. Here is her history-making short program (the best US short program ever under the new scoring system):
To give you a little perspective, her overall score for the night was 190.41 -- that's 15 points higher than Michelle Kwan's personal best under the new scoring system (the 2005 World Championships), and just 8 points under Irina Slutskaya's personal best (2005 Cup of Russia).
Neither Zhang nor Nagasu will be going to Senior Worlds this year because they're too young... the US World team will be Ashley Wagner, Bebe Liang and Kimmie Meissner. Next year's World Championships, though... that will be a very interesting competition, indeed.
Monday, January 28, 2008
I managed to find two pairs of pants that fit in the States over Christmas, but no jackets. All the jackets were either cut too long, had too low of a stance, had only one button, or had no definition in the waist, thereby making me look like an enormous rectangle. Oh yeah, and every single one had sleeves that were too short. So short, in fact, that they would still be too short even if a tailor let them out all the way.
Given my shopping woes in the States, I was not optimistic about finding a suit in time for my job hunt (which starts in April). I was, however, determined to find some pretty blouses -- the majority of mine are blue, and I would like to branch out a little color-wise.
So I started by going to H&M after my German class on Saturday. I found a pretty lavendar shell and bought it, along with a deeper purple V-neck top and a wool sweater that was 50% off. Plus I had 15 francs worth of coupons, so I fared pretty well in that outing. I was pressed for time, though (the ladies' long program at the European Figure Skating Championships was about to be shown on TV), so I decided to wait and hit Promod and the larger H&M at the train station today.
My trip to Promod was pretty disappointing. They have so many gorgeous items in for their new spring collection, but I had to limit myself to the sale rack because of the prices. I found plenty of beautiful blouses... but Promod's sizes run small, and this year there was just nothing that fit. Hopefully I'll have lost everything I gained last year by next year (were you able to follow that?) so I'll be able to shop there again!
I kept my chin up, though, and went to the H&M by the train station to see what kind of a selection they had. Sizes there run closer to American sizes, so I felt pretty hopeful. A thorough search of the lower floor only gave me one potential blouse, so I was starting to get a little discouraged. But then I saw the 50% off rack with a really cute pair of pants... no way were they going to be long enough, but I decided to try them on anyway to see if they could be let out by a tailor.
They fit beautifully. Not only did the hem hit the floor, but there was also a 1 1/2-inch cuff at the bottom! (Not to mention the fact that they show off my rear end rather nicely.) So I went out and grabbed all the cute pants they had in my size and tried them on... and found a black pair, a grey pair and a brown pair that fit. Not bad.
Then, just for the heck of it, I decided to try on some jackets even though I knew the sleeves would never be long enough. Sure enough, the same old problems kept cropping up... Too long. Stance too low. Only one button. No waist. I was so frustrated.
Until I came to the last two jackets... a solid black one and a solid grey one.
They fit. Perfectly.
I bought two suit jackets and three pairs of suit pants for a grand total of 230 francs (about $210).
Beat that.
Friday, January 25, 2008
Remember the Alamo!
As I explained in my post about the missions, the Alamo was one of the five missions established by the Spanish along the San Antonio River. Unlike the other missions, the church at the Alamo remained unfinished (a roof was never put on), and the Spaniards abandoned it in the late 1700s along with the other four missions.
At the close of the Mexican War of Independance in 1821, Texas became part of Mexico. A constitution had been drawn up that gave Mexico a federal system of government (based on that of the United States), with each state retaining certain powers (Texas was part of the state Coahuila y Tejas). The new government set up programs to sell land inexpensively in order to attract settlers from the United States. Stephen F. Austin was one of the men in charge of attracting settlers to Texas. Settlers had to agree to give up their US citizenship and become citizens of Mexico, and in return they were able to buy land for much less money than in the US.
In 1835, however, General Santa Anna took control of Mexico and scrapped the constitution. His goal was to strip the Mexican states of their rights and centralize the government's power in Mexico City. The majority of the citizens of Texas -- the recent immigrants from the United States and the Tejanos -- were against Santa Anna, and the Texas Revolution began in October 1835.
The Battle of Gonzales was the first battle in the Texas Revolution. In October 1835, the Mexican government sent word to the town of Gonzales that the Mexican army was going to come retrieve the cannon that it had lent them for protection against the Indians some years before. The residents of Gonzales decided to fight, and 18 men blocked the Mexican army from crossing the river into the town. The Mexican army retreated, but a few days later they tried to take the cannon once more. This time, the residents of Gonzales rolled the cannon out to the Mexicans. They rose a white flag with a black cannon in the middle and the words "Come and Take It" across the top, and then they fired into the gathering of Mexican soldiers. (Incidentally, I wanted to buy the shirt, but decided against it as the good people of Switzerland would be unfamiliar with the story and might misinterpret the meaning of the slogan...) The soldiers retreated again, and the Texan forces quickly overtook the Mexican army outposts at La Bahia and San Antonio. Incidentally, the army outpost in San Antonio was the Alamo complex.
William Travis was the commander of the 200 or so Texan forces stationed at the Alamo in February and March 1836. Also present were Jim Bowie and Davy Crockett (who reportedly said to a fellow Congressman who pleaded with him not to leave Tennessee: "You may go to Hell, but I will go to Texas"), as well as men from all over the United States and even a few from Europe. There were also a freedman named John, who fought for the Texans, a few slaves, and 15 women and children who were family members of some of the soldiers.
The Mexican army began a siege at the Alamo at the end of February 1836. They flew a red flag, meaning "no quarter", from the top of San Fernando Cathedral (which, sadly, we didn't get to visit because Main Street was completely blocked off for construction). When the forces at the Alamo saw the flag, they responded with a cannon shot. Travis sent messengers out with letters pleading for reinforcements, one of which was famously signed, "Victory or Death!" Legend has it that Travis also drew a line in the sand within the mission walls and asked all the men who wanted to stay and fight to cross it. Supposedly, all but one man did. The siege lasted for thirteen days, ending on the morning of March 6th, when the Battle of the Alamo was fought.
Nearly all of the Alamo defenders died in the battle, and those who didn't were executed (you don't want to know how -- I truly wish I had not read the description in the museum explaining what happened) and their bodies were burned on a funeral pyre by the river. The women and children and a few slaves survived and were sent out by the Mexican army to spread the story of the defeat at the Alamo to the citizens of Texas. The battle became a rallying force for the Texans, inspiring hundreds of men to join the Texan army.
Meanwhile, Texas had declared independance from Mexico, although the Texas army was still suffering defeats at the hands of the Mexicans. But at the Battle of San Jacinto, the Texans' luck changed. Santa Anna himself was leading the Mexican army, and the Texans (led by Sam Houston) managed to surprise his forces early on the morning of April 21st. (Legend has it that the Texan forces were able to surprise him because at the time, he was sleeping with a whore called the Yellow Rose of Texas. Which is why, when I used to play such women in the shows at my local theatre, I would wear a yellow rose at my bosom.) The battle cry, of course, was "Remember the Alamo!" The Texans managed to take Santa Anna's army prisoner, and Santa Anna himself was captured the next day. This brought the Texas Revolution to a close.
Now, since you've stayed with me through the story, I'll treat you to some pictures.
First we have the Alamo itself (whose distinctive roofline actually is not original to the church -- it was created later on by the US Army when they put the first roof over the building) :
Then we have a detail from the monument outside the Alamo, featuring the names and likenesses of the better-known participants in the battle:
And finally, the Six Flags Over Texas (US, Texas, Confederate Stars and Bars, Mexico, France, and Spain) :
Remember the Alamo!
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
The San Antonio missions
I decided that I should take my friend on a sort of historical tour of San Antonio while she was visiting me. We were supposed to visit the Alamo on the first day of her visit, but due to a misunderstanding of the driving directions... well, we ended up at the missions instead. On a cold, rainy day with one jacket and one umbrella between us. But we still had a good time.
There are five missions in the San Antonio area, all of them built by the Spanish along the banks of the river. We visited the two best-preserved missions -- San José and Concepcion. Here is their story:
Spain claimed Texas as part of its territories from the early 1500s until 1821. However, they didn't pay much attention to colonizing the area until the late 1600s, when France began encroaching on New Spain's territory. In 1690, Spain sent missionaries to East Texas to build missions where they would convert the natives to Catholicism and a Spanish way of life while staking Spain's claim to the region.
In order to help send supplies to the missions in the East, the Spaniards built a new mission alongside the San Antonio River to serve as a waystation. They named it San Antonio de Valero -- now known as the Alamo. The importance of the Alamo in Texas history is going to be explained in the next post.
The next mission to be established was San José. It was founded in 1720 by a Dominican friar who wanted to convert the local natives (the Coahuiltecans) to Christianity and confer Spanish citizenship upon them. Then the missions in East Texas began to fail, and the Concepcion, San Juan, and Espada missions were moved to strategic locations on the San Antonio River. Nowadays they're in the San Antonio city limits, but back then none of them were (although the town was visible from the Alamo).
The Coahuiltecans were a peaceful hunter-gatherer people, but they had a big problem: the Apache and Comanche tribes, who often attacked them. They were also starting to fall victim to European diseases. These two reasons, plus the prospect of a steady supply of food, help explain why they let themselves be converted and brought to live at the missions.
At the missions, each extended family (20 or so people) was given a two-room space to live along the mission walls. Some crops were grown within the mission, and there were stone, igloo-shaped ovens at each of the four corners of the walls. Each mission had an elaborate irrigation system known as an acequia (and they're still there today).
The missions flourished until the end of the 1700s, when disease and increasing attacks by the Apache and Comanche caused their decline. One by one, they were abandoned. Now they've been partially restored, and they're part of the San Antonio Missions National Historic Park. Recently they've started restoring the intricate paintings on the exterior and interior of the mission churches. They were done mostly in red and yellow (Spain's colors) and blue (the Fransiscans' color).
Pictures to come tomorrow...
Monday, January 21, 2008
Not happy
Nope. I got a bill for taxes and a bill for my credit card that were both due earlier this month. I used my credit card while I was on vacation -- they billed me that day and gave me only two weeks to pay it. Over the Christmas holidays. That fries my cheese.
It's going to be fun finding out how much I have in late fees. Really fun.
Sunday, January 20, 2008
Leavin' on a jet plane
I was really surprised to see a 5-year-old girl flying by herself. She was seated in the middle of the plane, with strangers on either side of her. I don't mean to stick my nose where it doesn't belong, but I question her parents' judgement...
Going to unpack now.
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
She's never heard an Aggie joke...
An Aggie is standing in line behind another customer, waiting to talk to the salesman. The customer in front of him says, "I want seven pairs of underwear." "Why?" asks the salesman. "One for Monday, one for Tuesday, one for Wednesday, one for Thursday, one for Friday, one for Saturday, and one for Sunday."
Then it's the Aggie's turn. He goes up to the salesman and says, "I'd like twelve pairs of underwear." "Why?" asks the salesman. "One for January, one for February, one for March..."
An Aggie living in Houston heard on TV that mandatory evacuations were being ordered because a hurricane was coming in. So he got on Loop 610.
An Aggie was stranded on a desert island with two other men. One day, they found an old bottle and rubbed it just to see what would happen. Poof! Out came a genie. "I'll grant you each one wish," he said. The first stranded man said, "I'd love to be on a sunny beach surrounded by beautiful girls." Poof! He was gone, sent away to the beach of his dreams. The second stranded man said, "I miss my family. I'd like to be back home, eating a spaghetti dinner with my wife and kids." Poof! He was back in his kitchen, eating with his family. Then it was the Aggie's turn. "You know, it's kind of lonely around here with my buddies gone. I wish that they were back!"
An Aggie and his friend both needed a job. One company gave them a test to see how well-suited they'd be to working there. The Aggie copied all of his friend's answers, but they both failed.
Once the hiring manager reviewed their test answers, he announced that despite the fact that they both had the same score, he was going to hire the Aggie's friend. "How come?" demanded the Aggie. "Because you copied off him," said the manager. "How'd you know that?" the Aggie asked. "Because on question 7, your friend wrote, "I don't know" and you wrote, "Me, neither."
An Aggie was hired to do quality control at the M&M factory. The foreman was really impressed with him -- he was weeding out far more defective M&Ms than the other workers. "What's wrong with all these M&Ms you're finding?" asked the foreman. "They all have Ws printed on them!" replied the Aggie.
An Aggie and his two friends decide to go to the desert. They each bring one thing on the trip. The first guy brings water so they don't dehydrate. The second guy brings food so they don't starve to death. The Aggie says, "I brought a car door so if it gets too hot, we can roll down the window!"
Monday, January 14, 2008
First my mom took me to the nearest med clinic, which was closed. So then we had to drive to the hospital.
Did I mention that a severe case of carsickness kicked all this off on Saturday morning?
The two car trips to find medical assistance were just too much for my head. I opened the door, assumed a Senator Craig stance, and vomited in the middle of the parking lot.
Apparently my Senator Craig stance isn't quite wide enough. My (brand-new!) shoes are now bright orange and stinky.
At least I feel better now.
Saturday, January 12, 2008
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Go ahead. Laugh.
Everybody else is, so you might as well, too...
I should start off this story by mentioning that everybody here has been commenting on how much taller I seem now than when I left to go to
Well, what do you know. I grew half an inch. So now I'm a solid 6'1".
The problem is that I haven't yet adjusted to this extra half inch of height. And clumsiness runs in the family. Two cases in point:
A long time ago, my grandfather (on my dad's side) took his car into the shop for repairs. He accidentally left some important papers inside, but the car was up on the pneumatic lift, so he had to climb up to get in it. He found what he was looking for and stepped out of the car… forgetting that it was still up on the lift.
Also a long time ago, when my dad was in 5th or 6th grade, he decided to ride his bike home from school one day. Not too far from school, a big, mean dog started chasing him. Dad was pedaling that bike as fast as it would go, constantly checking over his shoulder to gauge the distance between his bike and the dog. Eventually the dog slowed down and stopped, giving up. Dad kept looking over his shoulder though, still pedaling like hell and reveling in the growing distance between the dog and himself. Until… WHAM! His bike crashed into a truck, throwing him clear over the vehicle onto the asphalt on the other side. Dad got up, brushed himself off, and went to collect his bike. Which would no longer roll. So he picked it up and carried it the rest of the (long) way home. His mother greeted him at the door with, "What happened to your bike?!" No mention whatsoever of how banged up he was!
Anyway, tonight I made chicken tetrazinni for dinner. Mom wanted some, so I made up a microwave plate for her and went to take it to her. My grandmother was out smoking in the garage with the garage door up a foot for ventilation. I told her I'd see her later, hit the garage door button to make it go up, and attempted to walk out of the garage.
The problem is that extra half an inch. I misjudged how high the garage door had gotten off the ground and ran smack into it. I hit it so hard that I fell down and the plate of food went flying across the driveway. I sat there for a bit, trying to get my wits about me, then finally climbed up with the assistance of the car hood.
Meanwhile, my grandmother was sitting in the garage, laughing her behind off at me. I scooped the spaghetti up out of the driveway (we have feral cats in the neighborhood, and I did not want a yowling kitty party on our doorstep overnight), went inside, filled another plate, then managed to exit the garage successfully to drive over to my mom's house.
When I got to her house, Mom attentively created an ice pack for me and placed it on my head. Then she burst into uncontrollable giggles. My stepdad came in, saw the state of my ice pack, and began teasing me relentlessly. I called my dad, hoping for a little more sympathy, and he laughed so hard that he couldn't breathe.
So go ahead. Laugh. I can handle it.
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
The pride goeth before the fall
For those of you who don't know, I have never in my life had a weight problem… until last year. I was put on a medication that made me gain 45 pounds in the space of 13 months, skyrocketing me from a size 6 to a size 16.
Last month, the doctor changed me over to a new medication. All of a sudden, the weight is falling off effortlessly.
This morning I weighed myself and saw that I'd lost 7 ½ pounds in just over 3 weeks. That made me very proud.
That is, until I sat down on my bed and broke it.
Saturday, January 5, 2008
Words of wisdom
From my new pajamas: "Wuv is all you need!"
From the wrapper of the chocolate caramel candy I stole from my grandmother's stash: "Kiss someone!"
Think the universe is trying to tell me something?
Friday, January 4, 2008
From dawn to dusk
Thursday, January 3, 2008
The best salmon ever
A few years ago, when my mom and stepdad had just gotten married, my stepdad decided to cook my mom a nice dinner. My mother's favorite food is fresh wild salmon, so my stepdad went out to grill her some salmon filets. One problem: the smell of any kind of fish or seafood makes my stepdad instantly ill. So as soon as he put the salmon on the grill, he had to run to the bushes to vomit.
Well, somehow my stepdad managed to finish cooking the fish. He picked it up off the grill with a pair of tongs, put it on a plate, and dropped it. The salmon went tumbling down onto the concrete block upon which the grill is mounted… which, at the time, was covered in dog pee, leaves and dirt.
Lucy gobbled up half of the fish before my stepdad was able to get it up off the ground. After having suffered so much to make a special meal for my mom, he wasn't about to go back in the house empty-handed. So he brushed off the leaves and dirt (let's not think about the dog pee) and threw the salmon back on the grill for a few more minutes. Then he took it inside (this time without dropping it) and served it.
My mom ate every last bite. After the meal was over, she exclaimed, "Honey, that was the best salmon I've ever tasted!"
It was several months before my stepdad confessed what had happened!
Wednesday, January 2, 2008
Anybody need a running buddy?
Hopefully all this exercise will make him a little happier (and won't kill me!)
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Happy New Year
About those crosswords... my stepfather was helping me solve the NY Times puzzle, but we were both stuck on Reggie Jackson's nickname. Mom was cooking a pork roast in the kitchen (it turned out scrumptious, by the way), listening to us gripe about how stuck we were on this clue.
"Let me see," she said. "My dad was a baseball fan. I should be able to figure it out."
Well, she couldn't think of it, so she went on cooking while we muddled through the crossword. After a few minutes she disappeared, and I thought she was in the bathroom. Then she came back into the kitchen and kept cooking.
My stepfather and I moved on to a different clue for awhile, but then we came back to Reggie Jackson. After a few more minutes of pulling our hair out, Mom exclaimed, "I've got it!"
"His nickname's Mr. October!" she said, making swinging motions with her arms as though she had a baseball bat.
My stepfather and I were moderately impressed, considering that she hadn't been any help with any of the previous clues. "How did you know that?" he demanded.
"I told you, my dad always used to watch baseball. He always played well during the World Series, which is always in October."
So we went back to solving the crossword puzzle.
Awhile later, Mom said, "I have a confession to make."
"Yes?" I asked.
"Do you know how I knew about Mr. October? (pause for dramatic effect) I went and looked it up on the Internet while y'all weren't watching, and then I waited until the right moment to tell you about it!"
Well, I'll be. My mother managed to pull one over on me. Good job, Mom.


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The Weekend and Beyond
Some advice and suggestions for your upcoming travels:
Weekend Getaways
People heading to the Eastern Shore for summer's last gasps can get the latest on Chesapeake Bay Bridge traffic by calling 877-BAYSPAN or by checking the Bay Bridge Web site. The Web site information includes camera views of the toll plaza.
Closing on Route 28
On Monday, Aug. 25, the Virginia Department of Transportation plans to close the Park Center Road entrance and exit on northbound Route 28.
Park Center Road has provided access to an industrial and commercial area on the east side of Route 28 between McLearen and Frying Pan Roads. But VDOT says the turn lane in and out of Park Center Road does not meet standards for ramps on a limited access highway. In addition, VDOT says, the construction at Frying Pan Road includes a ramp and deceleration lane extending into Park Center Road.
Forest Glen Bridge
The Montgomery County Department of Transportation has installed new security features on the pedestrian bridge under the Capital Beltway, just south of the Forest Glen Metro station.
Walkers felt insecure on the path under the Beltway, because it was dark and noisy. Criminal activity was easy to mask. The county has added lighting, emergency call boxes and security cameras.
Kenilworth Avenue
The District's reconstruction of the heavily used route in the area of Nannie Helen Burroughs Avenue is about half done.
Construction includes widening of Kenilworth Avenue, improvement of the shoulders and realignment of the Nanny Helen Burroughs Avenue intersection with the Kenilworth Terrace and Kenilworth Avenue ramps.
Periodic lane closures occur during the daytime Mondays through Saturdays. The work should be done by fall 2009.
Park and Ride
Mary Ann Hall wrote with this suggestion for Eric Hill, who said he was beginning a commute from Reston to the District [Dr. Gridlock, July 27]:
Go to the Herndon-Monroe Park & Ride, at 12530 Sunrise Valley Dr. Park for free and hop on the 5A Metrobus to Washington for $3. The bus stops in Rosslyn, then goes to L'Enfant Plaza. It runs in both directions up to late evening.
"It is in my opinion an excellent value," she said.
New Pathways for Bethesda
Montgomery County projects include shared-use paths on the northside of Bethesda Avenue between Woodmont and Wisconsin avenues; the northside of Willow Avenue between Wisconsin Avenue and 47th Street and on 47th Street from Willow Avenue into the Elm Street Park entrance to the Capital Crescent Trail.
In addition, the county says, bike route signs are planned for sections of Norfolk Avenue, Woodmont Avenue, Old Georgetown Road, Cheltenham Drive, Tilbury Street, Sleaford Road, Pearl Street, Bethesda Avenue, Willow Avenue and 47th Street.
Robert Thomson
August 22, 2008; 11:10 AM ET
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OpenAPI configuration¶
The OpenAPI (formerly known as Swagger) specification is a standardized way to describe how an API functions. This description then can then be used by any tool that supports the standard.
Zulip uses the Swagger spec to generate an API reference from the
zulip.yaml file. This page is a basic introduction to the format of
this file and how to add content to it.
In a Swagger file, every configuration section is an object. Objects may contain other objects, or reference objects defined elsewhere. Larger API specifications may be split into multiple files. There are more types of objects than mentioned here, you can find the complete details at Swagger/OpenAPI specification page.
This library isn't in production use yet, but it is our current plan for how Zulip's API documentation will work.
Working with the
zulip.yaml file¶
A Swagger specification file has three general parts: information and
configuration, endpoint definitions, and object schemas referenced by
other objects (as an alternative to defining everything inline.)
References can either specify an individual object, using
$ref:, or
compose a larger definition from individual objects with
(which may itself contain a
These objects, at the top of
zulip.yaml, identify the API, define
the backend host for the working examples, list supported schemes and
types of authentication, and configure other settings. Once defined,
information in this section rarely changes.
For example, the
swagger and
info objects look like this:
# Basic Swagger UI info
swagger: '2.0'
version: '1.0.0'
title: Zulip REST API
description: Powerful open source group chat
url: https://zulip.org/
name: Apache 2.0
url: https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html
Endpoint definitions¶
The Paths Object contains Path Item Objects for each endpoint. It describes in detail the methods and parameters the endpoint accepts and responses it returns.
There is one Path Item Object for each supported method, containing a Parameters Definition Object describing the required and optional inputs. A Response Object similarly specifies the content of the response. They may reference schemas from a global Definitions Object (see Schemas, below.)
/users/{user}/presence endpoint (defined in a
Path Item Object)
expects a GET request with one
parameter, HTTP
Basic authentication, and returns a JSON response containing
result, and
presence values.
description: Get presence data for another user.
operationId: getPresence
- name: user
in: path
description: Enter email address
required: true
type: string
- basicAuth: []
description: The response from a successful call
type: object
- msg
- result
- presence
type: string
type: string
type: array
Definitions Object
contains schemas referenced by other objects. For example,
MessageResponse, the response from the
/messages endpoint,
contains three required parameters. Two are strings, and one is an
type: object
- msg
- result
- id
type: string
type: string
type: integer
format: int64
You can find more examples, including GET requests and nested objects, in
Zulip Swagger YAML style:¶
We're collecting decisions we've made on how our Swagger YAML files should be organized here:
Use shared definitions and YAML anchors to avoid duplicating content where possible.
Tips for working with YAML:¶
You can edit YAML files in any text editor. Indentation defines blocks, so whitespace is important (as it is in Python.) TAB characters are not permitted. If your editor has an option to replace tabs with spaces, this is helpful.
You can also use the Swagger Editor, which validates YAML and understands the Swagger specification. Download and run it locally, or use the online version. If you aren't using a YAML-aware editor, make small changes and check your additions often.
Note: if you are working with Swagger UI in a local development environment, it uses an online validator that must be able to access your file. You may see a red "ERROR" button at the bottom of your API docs page instead of the green "VALID" one even if your file is correct.
Formatting help:¶
Comments begin with a # character.
Descriptions do not need to be in quotes, and may use common Markdown format options like inline code ` (backtick) and
A single
|(pipe) character begins a multi-line description on the next line. Single spaced lines (one newline at the end of each) are joined. Use an extra blank line for a paragraph break.
Description: This is a single line description.
Description: |
This description has multiple lines.
Sometimes descriptions can go on for
several sentences.
A description might have multiple paragraphs
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The soldiers who fought in the battle of Tilly-sur-Suelles on the 8th June 1944 are buried here. 35 of these soldiers were originally buried beside the hamlet of Jerusalem near the village of Juaye-Mondaye and the other 12 not far from Belval farm.
The land was a gift from Chouain village and so the bodies were later brought together in the 'British cemetery in Jerusalem'. A Czech soldier is also buried here, along with a 47th unidentified body.
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At the meeting, some of the members of board said they should be considering other limits on high-calorie foods.
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Another board member thinks milk drinks should fall under the size limits.
Why stop there? Why not track and regulate each person's food intake, exercise, and other habits?
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An executive of Japarts and another man were Monday arraigned on charges of assaulting a peace officer, resisting arrest and disorderly behaviour. Paul Singh,38, of Croal Street, Georgetown pleaded innocent to the charges and was granted bail of GUY$10,000 bail on each charge. Chief Magistrate Judy Latchman ordered that the accused return to court on July 5. He is accused ...Read More »
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Labour Minister rubbishes private sector's position minimum wage, work week
Labour Minister, Dr. Nan Kishore Gopaul on Tuesday disputed claims by the Private Sector Commission (PSC) that garment manufacturers and other businesses could soon lay off workers because inadequate notice about a new minimum wage of GUY$35,000 was jeopardizing existing contracts. The PSC feared that garment manufacturers-exporters- which have to compete with such countries as China, Bangladesh and the Dominican ...Read More »
GPL technician shocked, burnt
A technician contracted by the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) was Tuesday afternoon shocked and severely burnt while on a utility pole at Parika, East Bank Essequibo. He has been identified as 30-year old Rayon Henry of N Bent Street, Wortmanville Georgetown. He is attached to the metering department. Well-placed sources said the linesman was assisted down by a colleague ...Read More »
Update: One dead, two badly injured in Mabura trail accident
One person has died and two others are seriously injured following an accident on the trail to Lethem, reports say. The dead man has been identified as 26-year old Trevon Morris, a contract worker attached to the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T), who lived at 'B' Field, Sophia. The injured are 37-year old Jermaine Prince, who was the driver, ...Read More »
Political direction, leadership top issues for PPP Congress
Executive member of the People's Progressive Party Clement Rohee says deliberations on the party's political direction leading up to 2016 will be a key feature of its upcoming Congress in August. Speaking at a party news conference on Monday he noted that the last Congress was held five years ago. The congress is to be held every three years but ...Read More »
Major yachting rally to stop in Guyana
At least twenty yachts are expected to grace Guyana's waters come September, as the 10 day Nereid's Rally leaves Trinidad & Tobago, bound for Guyana and French Guiana, the Guyana Tourism Authority (GTA) announced on Monday. Minister of Tourism, Industry and Commerce, Irfan Ali met Sunday with the organizer of this event, Mr. Davide Matelicani along with Mr. Kit Nascimento, ...Read More »
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Inspiration can occur most anywhere. For Nicolette Holferty it struck while she was knitting a hat for a friend. But getting over the resistance and self-doubt of pursuing her idea seemed to challenge her around each corner. Note… I said "challenge", not "stop".
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This is a video of one of Vat19's 5-pound Gummi Bears producing a fireworks extravaganza in hot potassium chlorate. I remember my high school chemistry teacher was going to perform this same experiment. The only problem is he was going to use Watermelon Sour Patch Kids, and I wasn't about to let that happen. I tackled him, wrestled the bag of candy from his hand, and made him swear he wouldn't try to repeat the experiment for the next class. I got suspended for six days, but I did manage to finish the whole bag while waiting to see the principle.
Keep going for the fireworks.
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text: Twitter's move comes after disclosures about widespread US government surveillance programmes [Reuters]Twitter Inc said it has implemented a security technology that makes it harder to spy on its users and called on other Internet firms to do the same, as Web providers look to thwart spying by government intelligence agencies. Twitter followed in the footsteps of Google and Facebook, adding a layer of security called Perfect Forward Secrecy to protect data that users would like kept from prying eyes. "On top of the usual confidentiality and integrity properties of HTTPS, Forward Secrecy adds a new property," Twitter explained in a blog post on Friday. "If an adversary is currently recording all Twitter users' encrypted traffic, and they later crack or steal Twitter's private keys, they should not be able to use those keys to decrypt the recorded traffic." The non-profit Electronic Frontier Foundation is among online rights champions who advocate for this kind of added protection on personal Internet traffic, according to San Francisco-based Twitter. "We are writing this not just to discuss an interesting piece of technology, but to present what we believe should be the new normal for web service owners," Twitter said of the announcement. "A year and a half ago, Twitter was first served completely over HTTPS," the company added. "Since then, it has become clearer and clearer how important that step was to protecting our users' privacy." Snowden disclosures US Internet titans whose businesses are based on maintaining the trust of users have been kept to strengthen privacy protection in the wake of disclosures of broad scale cyber spying by the National Security Agency. Former NSA contractor Edward Snowden revealed US surveillance on a global scale, straining Washington's ties with key allies and putting pressure on Internet firms to show people that their online privacy is being guarded. Among the disclosures were spy tools for decoding data and a practice of saving encrypted information so that it might be unscrambled in the future. Forward secrecy prevents attackers from exploiting one potential weakness in HTTPS, which is that large quantities of data can be unscrambled if spies are able to steal a single private "key" that is then used to encrypt all the data, said Dan Kaminsky, a well-known Internet security expert. The more advanced technique repeatedly creates individual keys as new communications sessions are opened, making it impossible to use a master key to decrypt them, Kaminsky said. "It is a good thing to do," he said. "I'm glad this is the direction the industry is taking." SOURCE: Agencies


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Church Newsletter Meets 21st Century
Do you remember when churches use to have newsletters? They were a pretty effective way to communicate a lot of information. People could bring them home and read them at their own leisure. I liked them! I also love the way technology has opened up our ability to do ministry more effectively. Today, I want to encourage you to leverage the internet and email to maximize a Deaf Ministry newsletter for your ministry.


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The Vonpischmeyer Collection. Olivier Goka
About the collection The Vonpischmeyer Collection is a set of plastic sculptures which inspiration was directly drawn from the catalogues and pieces kept in the museums of African tribal arts. The making process of The Vonpischmeyer Collection artworks consists in a method of plastic assembly that the Belgian artist Olivier Goka has been meticulously developing for years. [...]Continue reading


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(Reuters) - Firefighters battling a raging wildfire in southwestern Colorado faced more hot, dry conditions and gusting winds on Tuesday, and significant rainfall relief was not expected until the weekend, officials said.
The so-called 416 Fire has forced the evacuation of about 2,150 homes since the blaze started on June 1. Residents of another 500 homes have been told they too might have to evacuate, La Plata County officials said.
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More promising is a shift in the weather pattern in the area of the fire beginning on Friday, some of it associated with Hurricane Bud, he said.
Significant rainfall is forecast to start around midday Saturday, Charnick said, with the heaviest rain occurring overnight Saturday into Sunday morning. But the weather pattern could shift, causing it to miss the wildfire area, he said.
After doubling in size from Saturday to Sunday, the wildfire, 13 miles north of the small city of Durango, covered 23,378 acres (9,461 hectares) and was just 15 percent contained, up from 10 percent over the weekend, said Cameron Eck, spokesman for the multi-agency team fighting the fire. Firefighters said Monday that full containment of the 416 Fire was not expected before the end of the month.
The 416 Fire - named after its emergency service call number - is by far the largest of at least a half-dozen blazes raging across Colorado.
All 1.8 million acres of the San Juan National Forest in southwestern Colorado were due to be closed to visitors by Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said, citing the fire danger.
No buildings have been destroyed so far, but flames had crept to within a few hundred yards of homes.
(Reporting by Brendan O'Brien in Milwaukee and Bernie Woodall in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; Editing by Andrew Heavens and Steve Orlofsky)


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UCaaS/Hybrid RFP: What Can Cloud Providers Deliver? is the name for the session recently held at Enterprise Connect 2016. For the second year in a row, NEC and UNIVERGE BLUE won the competition, sweeping all three categories.
But what does it mean?
Why an RFP Competition?
The purpose of the mock Request for Proposal (RFP) session at Enterprise Connect is to provide an overview of the UCaaS/Hybrid communications solutions available in the market today. An RFP is an effective way for enterprise to evaluate solutions against their business needs, providing information on:
- Cloud and Hybrid communications solutions
- Pricing models
- Feature comparisons
- Cloud and Hybrid architecture comparisons
The Requirements
The actual RFP is too detailed to show in its entirety here, but this list provides an overview of the communications system requirements. The business request required a solution proposal for:
- UC phone services for 2,000 users
- An emphasis on resilient, redundant architecture
- A selection of different desktop telephone models – basic, advanced, mobile, etc.
- A single system for software features management and system administration
- Systems management must include:
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I was snooping around the BBC4 arts page this morning when I came across this
Eric Clapton in 1969 teaching a rather bemused old school BBC reporter how to play Electronic Guitar. In places it starts sounding awfully like Spinal Tap.
I keep expecting Sir Eric to turn it up to 11
There's a ton of interesting snippets from the archive including an interview with John Lennon and a very early Joy Division performance
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8.559061 - BURLEIGH: Music for Violin and Piano
Cecil Burleigh (1885-1980) Music for Violin and Piano
History has precious little to say about Cecil Burleigh. He was a composer and violinist, American born, but studied abroad at the Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory in Berlin. His violin teacher was Anton Witek, and his composition teacher was Hugo Leichtentritt. Before going to Europe, he toyed with theory and violin during high school, playing in local chamber music groups, writing incidental music and improvising at the piano. In Berlin he experienced the rigours of a proper musical training, and returned to America and enrolled in the Chicago Musical College. There, he pursued violin studies with Emile Sauret and composition with Felix Borowski. He was in demand as a soloist, performing concertos with major orchestras and touring in duo recitals, but abandoned this life when he was engaged as a teacher of violin at the Western Institute of Music and Drama in Denver, Colorado. He stayed there for two years, before he accepted a post as professor of violin and theory at Morningside College in Sioux City, Iowa, and again moved on to Montana State University. The lure of composition and the big city, however, got to him, so he abandoned his teaching career altogether, moved to New York City, and resumed his studies. His composition teacher was Ernest Bloch and his violin teacher was Leopold Auer. He supported his composition career in the city with his efforts as a violinist, but eventually accepted a position as a professor of violin, theory and composition at the University of Wisconsin. He was there from 1921 until 1955.
Burleigh's output is fairly extensive, though little of it is has been recorded on disc. He is the author of countless moment pieces (small works, much like preludes), a large portion of which are for violin and piano. He wrote many musical settings, for voice and piano, on the poetry of Tennyson, as well as three violin concertos, three symphonies, a number of string quartets and several tone poems for orchestra, these last bearing austere titles such as Leaders of Men and From the Muses. Until 1940 he composed mostly small pieces, the bulk of which were scored for piano and violin.
Compositions by Burleigh remain largely unknown today, with a few exceptions. It is very telling that one available recording, which contains a few of his pieces, is entitled "Sherry Kloss plays Forgotten Gems." Forgotten, indeed. Perhaps the present release, as part of Naxos continuing effort to bring American music to the fore, will further the cause of this genteel and thoughtful musician.
The pieces here included are short, compact miniatures, single-focused and elegantly composed. They owe much to Edward MacDowell, one of the first major American composers. MacDowell wrote small "character" pieces, the most famous of which is To a Wild Rose. The origin of these pieces can be traced further back, to Schumann, Chopin, Liszt and Brahms, all of whom wrote their own versions of these "moments musicaux," usually for solo piano. Yet it is not just as a composer of moment pieces that Burleigh basks in the spirit of MacDowell, it is also in the subject matter. Both men were fascinated with Indians, both wrote music that has a quintessentially "American" sound, both were academics in music schools and both took a European training back to their own land.
These are little gems, the longest of which lasts a little over three minutes, to be absorbed pell-mell, each evocative of a single idea. In Winding Stream we hear a dark, brooding melody over the flowing piano, while the faux-Indianist From a Wigwam or Indian Snake Dance, the lusty Bolero or colourful Tints, are charming little frozen moments scored for violin and piano. This is sincere, careful and often quite beautiful music.
Daniel Felsenfeld
"Details, Zina," Jascha Heifetz once advised, "It's all in the details," and he passed his love of the miniature along to me. His daughter, Josefa, while piano teacher to my daughter, Cherina, generously presented us with many of the newly released compact discs in the Heifetz Collection, one of which contained two charming works by Burleigh. When I read the liner notes, however, I realised that this Burleigh, a certain Mr. Cecil Burleigh, was not the Burleigh I thought he was, Dvorÿák's pupil Harry T. Burleigh. Like Jascha Heifetz, my Burleigh was a pupil of Leopold Auer. Intrigued, my resident sleuth and husband, Dr. Ronald Eisenberg, busied himself in Burleigh and produced piles of music for my perusal. Discovering gem after gem, we realised that this was a CD in the making.
In a sense this album is a sacred musical journal filled with precious details of my work with Jascha Heifetz and, more recently, of eleven years living in Shreveport, Louisiana. There, more than in any other time in my life, I was forced to observe details, immersed in the unfolding childhoods of my daughters and the Southern community that initially seemed foreign to me. Many of the Burleigh titles evoke specific times, people, and places, recalling tender joys and impenetrable mysteries. There really was A Log Cabin, Cottonfields, and Mammy, a Sweet Romance and very Early Mornings (Cherina did not sleep through the night until she was four). There were also Fairies Dancing, Hushed Woods, Haunted Shadows, Yuletide, and the Lament of a Rose. Like a Winding Stream, my journey continued now in California where, at the age of sixteen, Cherina finally repaid me for those sleepless nights. She lovingly and painstakingly produced this album, constantly reminding me of Jascha Heifetz's advice, as well as joining me in the studio as accompanist for the Impromptu and Cradle Song.
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