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On Friday June 26, 2015, the Supreme Court of the United States that said that the ban of gay marriage in America is unconstitutional. In a five to four decision the high court ruled in favor of James Obergefell sighting the fourteenth amendment; to the equal protection under the law. Today Let us reflect on the history of the wonderful and beautiful LGBT movement in the United States.
In 1957, a 33 year old Frank Kemeny who was from fired as an astronomer because he was gay, he protest near the White House saying equal rights for homosexuals. (In the 1950's it is illegal to be gay in America,) setting the tone for the modern Gay Rights movement.
In the 1960s there have been a rise of activism in the U.S. for black Americans. But in June 1969 there have been a raid at a bar in New York's The unrest at the Stonewall inn happen this month 46 years ago, sends a signal to America that the gays are people too and you can't do that to them.
The 1970's saw a lot of activism, gay activism, Specially in the San Francisco Bay Area. By 1977 a 40 year old openly gay man named Harvey Milk ran for office, and won. But by November of the next year Milk was assassinated by Dan White a former city supervisor. The out cry of the gay community in San Fransisco was vast, the anger they felt was huge.
In the 1980's fueled by the death of Harvey Milk the activism continues for the LGBT community. But by the mid 1980's there have been massive deaths in the community. It was cause by unprotected sex, it was AIDS. It meant that people are dying and vulnerable, partners, aren't allowed by the families to be in their partners bedside during their dying hours.
By 1989 27 year old journalist and gay activists from England Andrew Sullivan argue for same sex marriage. He got laughs from the gay community, the idea is too new to the community. Sullivan is diagnosed with HIV two years later.
A new administration came in 1993 the democratic president Bill Clinton gives a new hope, a new hope for LGBT Americans but aside from the medications for AIDS. President Clinton is hostile to the idea of Same Sex Marriage, and letting gay people to serve openly in the military, so he sign the Defense of Marriage Act the will not recognize gay marriages at the federal level. And the Don't Ask Don't Tell which prevents gay people from serving in the military openly.
The new millennium came and just one state with civil unions, Vermont, in 1998 a men is arrested for sodomy, John Lawrence. Lawrence and his partner are making out, when a neighbor saw them, he called 9-1-1, the two guys were arrested accused of sodomy. In Texas sodomy is a crime so they put the two men in jail. But the two men fought. And in 2003 it reaches the Supreme Court in a 6-3 decision the court said that all sodomy laws are unconstitutional, basically reversing Boweers vs hardwick in 1986.
Since sodomy is declared unconstitutional in 2003. The next year, in 2004 Massachusetts became the first state to have same sex marriage. That same year President Bush ran in anti gay campaign. Gay marriage is in the standstill. In 2009 gay marriage became legal in two different states Iowa and Vermont. (California is different because in 2008 they legalize but due to prop 8, it was stopped. the Supreme Court in 2013 decided it was unconstitutional.)
Personal stories
Edith and her partner Thea Spyre were married in Toronto Canada on 2007 on their fourteenth year together They were residents of New York so live there. but by 2009 Thea died. Because they are not married under the federal government, they are strangers. Edie needed to pay more than three hundred thousand dollars in estate taxes. So she fought for the right to marriage, it went to the federal court then the Supreme Court Which in 5 to 4 decision she won.
James Obergefell and John Arthur were married in the airport of Maryland in 2013. John Arthur was diagnosed with ALS two years earlier, and died in their home state of Ohio. The problem becomes because Ohio don't recognize gay marriages they can't put Jim on John's death certificate. Jim fought and it was a hard fight and in the 5-4 decision marriage was given in 50 states of the Union.
50 years since Frank Kemeny was first fired from his job. 46 years since stonewall, 35 years since Harvey Milk ran for office. 27 years since AIDS first break out. 19 years since president Clinton sign DOMA. 12 years since Lawrence vs Texas. 11 years since Massachusetts. 5 years since Thea Spyre died. 2 years since DOMA was replied We are here. on June 26 2015 the Supreme Court said that love and liberty wins.


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Take your friendly neighborhood christian leader's tweets and compare them to Hollywood's pop culture celebrity's tweets and you'll apparently find a big difference when it comes to something that's critical regarding social media: engagement. If you look at the top Christian tweeters, you might find something interesting.
Let's take Andy Stanley from North Point:
"Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning." C.S. Lewis
— AndyStanley (@AndyStanley) May 15, 2012
The New York Times recently did a comparison of various pop culture celebrities and christian leaders on Twitter and found Andy Stanley had 295 responses per 50,000 followers on Twitter.
If you prayed as much as you worry, you'd havenothing to worry about.
— Rick Warren (@RickWarren) June 4, 2012
What about Rick Warren? He's at 259 responses per 50,000 followers.
Now when you compare them to some of the pop culture celebrities, you get a totally different outcome:
RT if you do a dance when you bowl a strike.
— Katy Perry (@katyperry) May 27, 2012
Even with 20 million followers, we have a big whopping 6 responses per 50,000 followers for @KatyPerry
don't judge me if 35 years from now I have a clothing line like Liza. sort of a suppressed dream. I WANT TO SELL VELOUR and sparkly CHARMS! — Lady Gaga (@ladygaga) June 1, 2012
Lady Gaga is doing a little better than Katy. @LadyGaga drives 19 responses per 50,000 followers on Twitter.
The big gap between christian leaders' tweets and pop culture "powerhouses" even when you look a bunch more of big tweeters out there. What's interesting is that Twitter has seen the data themselves and have hired @Claire, who now runs "social innovation" at Twitter to explicitly reach out to religious leaders in order to get more of them on the platform.
What do you think drives the increased engagement with inspirational tweets from christian leaders across the Twitterverse? Are you surprised at these numbers?


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Fun Friday blog; tips for putting your coins to work!
I found some fun tips for putting your coins to work:
- Increase the bloom time of cut flowers by adding a copper penny to the water in your vase
- Measuring – a US quarter measures exactly 1 inch
- Scratching lottery tickets
- Coin flipping "heads and tails"
- Golf or bocce ball marker
- Wishing well sacrifice
- Collection for investment or hobby purposes
- Impromptu screw driver for Coin-struction Toys and miscellaneous uses
- Magic tricks like the coin behind the ear favorite
- Relieve boredom – flatten on train tracks
Do you use your coin for any of these?
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Enlightenment is just a word that points to the natural state where such a word, or any teaching is non existing. Or, rather, there is teachings, and there is concepts of wind and sun. But the sun and the sunshine doesnt put it self intowriting. Nor beliefs in descriptions based on random picking of false descriptors.
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In an earlier blog post, I introduced the topic of my JMP Discovery Summit 2014 e-poster titled "Analysis of Personal Diet and Fitness Data With JMP" and shared my interests in quantified self (QS) analysis projects. For my poster project, I exported two different types of data files from the web-based Activity Manager software by BodyMedia® and wrote JMP Scripting Language (JSL) scripts to import, format and clean my data for further analysis and visualization in JMP. I hope you were able to join me to hear more at the conference in Cary, but if not, you can sign in to the JMP User Community and check out a PDF of my e-poster in the Discovery Summit 2014 section. (Membership in the User Community is free and is a great way to learn from JMP users around the world!)
Today, I'll share how I used JSL to import and combine a set of multi-worksheet Excel files containing activity and calorie summary information. The Activity Manager software also exports PDF Food Log files, which I'll cover in my next blog post. By the way, I have uploaded an add-in to the JMP File Exchange that you can use to import your own BodyMedia® Activity Summary and Food Log files into JMP. It also includes a bonus add-in that imports CSV files that you can download from the popular MyFitnessPal food logging website using a Chrome extension.
In early August, I exported nearly 50 Activity Summary and 50 Food Log files covering the time period from 12/20/10 to 7/28/14. Activity Summary data is saved in Excel workbooks that contain six different worksheets, but I was interested in importing data from just the first five: Summary, Activity, Meals, Sleep and Weight. You can see the details of the contents of the other worksheets in my e-poster.
Most of my Activity Summary Excel files contained four weeks of data, although some covered fewer weeks. All files had column headers on line 5 and most had 28 lines of data on the first four tabs, though the number of rows on the fifth tab (Weight) varied. Before 2013, I entered weight measurements manually into the Activity Manager. In January 2013, I began to use a Withings Smart Body Analyzer scale, which uploads weight measurements wirelessly into its own web-based software and shares them automatically via a third-party integration with the Activity Manager.
I decided to script the import process after interactively importing my data files twice, about a year apart. Interactive import was more time-consuming the second time because I had even more files to work with. Since I accumulate new data every day, my number of files will always grow over time. After the second import, I formatted my columns and added formulas to the combined data table, only to compare it to the table from my first import and realize that I had forgotten several important steps.
While I backtracked to complete the steps I'd missed, I began to consider how scripting could make reprocessing all my files much simpler and faster. If the import process was easier, I would look at new data much more often. Fortunately, I found that even a novice scripter like me could write the JSL to import and combine my files.
I started with Source scripts (automatically added to JMP data tables during interactive import) and JSL examples from online documentation and discussion forums. I looped over all my files using a strategy patterned after a text file import example in a SESUG paper written by JMP developer Michael Hecht. As the longtime Mac expert at JMP, Michael is well-known for his high-quality and elegant code in all languages, so why not borrow from a master?
I ran into some snags while working to combine my data into a single unified table. One that I had to handle prior to import was that the Date column on the Sleep tab contained an overnight range rather than a single day like all the other worksheets did, preventing me from merging it directly without a preprocessing step. For example, a value of 12/20/2012-12/21/2012 indicated the night of sleep that started on 12/20/14 and ended the morning of 12/21/14. I parsed out the second day's date using the JMP Formula Editor and the JMP Word character pattern function.
After creating the formula interactively, I added code to my script to make these steps easily repeatable with help from the JSL Get Script command. Running the command MyColName << Get Script; on the Date column from the Sleep tab printed a key snippet of JSL to JMP's log, which I added to my script to automate this step. In my final table, the hr:m value displayed in the Sleep column represented how much I had slept before awakening that morning.
There was extra information in my input files that I didn't want included in my final JMP table. Calorie totals, averages and targets were summarized at the bottom of all of my worksheets (lines 36-39 in the picture of the table above). I added steps to my script to filter out these summaries, the lines of information above the column headers and also blank rows. In total, the version of my activity data table that I used for my Discovery Summit poster contained 1,316 rows of daily data on calories eaten and burned, activity measures, sleep and weight measurements.
My data table wasn't quite analysis-ready yet. The numeric columns in my table containing durations and percentages that were not formatted correctly upon import. I added formats, missing value codes and modeling types as column properties interactively. I used the Transform column feature on my Date column to quickly add new Date Time variables like Year, Month, Week and Day to my table, and then added to my script to automate those steps. I also added a new formula column to the table (Calories Burned-Calories Consumed) to represent my caloric deficit/excess for a given day.
If you have BodyMedia® Activity Summary files saved in Excel format, you can download my add-in from the File Exchange to perform a point-and-click import of your own files into JMP. This add-in supports the Activity Summary file type I just described, BodyMedia® food log files saved as text, and also food log text files that you can export from the popular (and free) MyFitnessPal with the help of a Chrome extension.
Special thanks to JMP testing manager Audrey Shull and technical writer Melanie Drake for scripting suggestions and add-in testing help! Stay tuned for my next blog post, where I'll describe how I automated the import of my BodyMedia® food log files using JSL.
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Gigabyte GC230D Atom Mini-ITX motherboard review
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Power Consumption & Temperatures
If you wanted stellar, this has to be the category to ask for it. At idle the GC230D used 62% less power than the entry AMD quad-core system, which is an astronomical saving. Then under full load the GC230D consumed 63% less power, making this entire platform no more power hungry than a typical house hold incandescent light bulb.
Keep in mind this is not the power consumption of the processor or the motherboard alone. Rather this includes power consumed by the entire system which includes a 2GB stick of DDR2 memory, a 500GB 3.5" desktop hard drive, a DVD-RW drive, and a USB keyboard and mouse. The exact same hardware was used to test the AMD quad-core system, so the primary difference is between the CPU/Motherboard combo.


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365 brand, blue cheese mashed potatoes, Danny's Kitchen, grill pan, grilling out, New York Strip, not-so-creamed spinach, potato ideas, recipes, side dishes, Steak, Whole Foods
Most people get excited about going out for a steak dinner. Not me. I want my steak one way, and one way only…cooked by Danny and in the comfort of my own pajamas. Now this is the way to enjoy steak! He has perfected his grill pan methods and it is nice because this means we do not have to wait for pleasant, outdoor weather to enjoy this hearty meal. In fact, it was pouring rain and we were under a tornado watch, and the steak hit the plate without delay.
This plating included New York Strip Steaks that were grilled to perfection and perfectly seasoned and served alongside Danny's Not-So-Creamed Spinach and blue cheese mashed potatoes. The flavors paired perfectly together! This is the kind of meal that tastes so palate-pleasing that you do not want to stop eating. I made my mind up to save half of my steak for lunch the next day, and that was a feat in and of itself.
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The only thing that would have made this meal better is a glass of wine. I kept sitting at the table and thinking, should I or shouldn't I? I decided to be good…today. Tomorrow's another meal 😉
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This is the third part of the series to collect conduct books, and educational guides for children during Victorian America. This facsimile reprint collection provides ten books for children by Lydia Maria Child (1802–80), a novelist and journalist. While famous for her activities as an American abolitionist and a campaigner for women's rights, she also had a keen interest in childhood and various issues surrounding children and early education. She started writings books for children in her early twenties. She even edited and published a periodical for children, Juvenile Miscellany, along with many children's books which she wrote or compiled. The collection illuminates this rather ignored aspect of Lydia Maria Child's achievement, as well as providing a source which offers an interesting new perspective on child studies of nineteenthth-century America.


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Opened 11 years ago
Closed 6 years ago
Last modified 6 years ago
#961 closed enhancement (implemented)
TotalTraffic option (upload+download)
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|Tor: 0.2.6.x-final
|Core Tor/Tor
|accounting easy tor-relay
|Athaba, nickm
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Description (last modified by )
Could a TotalTraffic option similar to AccountingMax be added?
I know, it isn't to hard to divide by two, but you usually need
to limit the sum of upload and download to not exceed your
traffic limit.
Maybe the description of AccountingMax should also be changed to
make it clear, if one, either upstream traffic or downstream
traffic exceeds the limit Tor will hibernate.
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Change History (18)
comment:1 Changed 11 years ago by
See also discussion on bug 871.
comment:2 Changed 10 years ago by
|modified (diff)
|accounting easy added
|post 0.2.1.x → Tor: unspecified
I'd personally favor an interface like "AccountingRule sum" or "AccountingRule max", to say whether the accountingmax applies to sum(r,w), or max(r,w). Moving this to the 'unspecified' benchmark; it's a fine thing to merge if somebody wants to implement it.
comment:3 Changed 8 years ago by
|tor-relay added
comment:4 Changed 8 years ago by
|Tor Relay → Tor
Changed 6 years ago by
|fix_961.patch added
comment:5 Changed 6 years ago by
|Athaba,nickm → Athaba, nickm
I implemented the AccountingRule idea. It should have a unit test. I'll work on learning how to add tests. I tested the code manually by printf'ing the in/out bytes and catching when it shuts down with both options (max and sum).
comment:6 Changed 6 years ago by
|new → needs_review
comment:7 Changed 6 years ago by
|Tor: unspecified → Tor: 0.2.6.x-final
comment:8 Changed 6 years ago by
|needs_review → needs_revision
Thanks for the patch! Some quick comments:
- Instead of doing
log_info(LD_GENERAL, "Weird AccountingRule given, defaulting to 'max'");inside check_reached_limit(), we should probably check that AccountingRule is either "max" or "sum" inside options_validate in config.c.
- We should document AccountingRule in doc/tor.1.txt
- The type of the "limit" needs to be uint64_t, which can be larger than 'int'
- I think the calculation in update_expected_bandwidth_usage might need to be different for this case too, perhaps.
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|fix_961_v2.patch added
comment:9 Changed 6 years ago by
Thanks for reviewing my patch.
I fixed those issues plus another calculation was done in
Also I modified
getinfo_helper_accounting to return a more accurate bytes-left when queried. I left it in the same format so that automated programs like tor-arm don't break, but I'm not entirely sure if it makes things too confusing. I'd need to look into tor-arm to make a better solution.
Not sure why giving a uint64_t to a function that only accepts an int doesn't give an warning.
I attempted to write a test, but I need to learn more about auto-tools to make files link properly.
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Thanks! A couple of quick notes:
- We write "} else {" on one line, with spaces as noted. Running "make check-spaces" can tell you about this and other formatting problems.
- At the end of "update_expected_bandwidth_usage", is it still correct to use "max_configured" as the upper limit for "expected"? Or should it be "2*max_configured" in the "sum" case? (I don't actually know.)
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I looked into various places where AccountingMax was used and modified them accordingly. I also wrote a unit test to test AccountingRule.
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Looks good to me. I've added a new branch "ticket961" in my public repository. (see https://gitweb.torproject.org/nickm/tor.git) If my changes look okay to you, I can merge.
(I made AccountingRule get passed to strcmp only once, and I fixed some compilation warnings.)
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Still looks okay to me. Squashing and merging!
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Wow thanks for helping me contribute to the project! Looks like the test I wrote is still working, and I don't see anything wrong with the strcmp removal you did. I recently got busy with school but I will try to contribute when I get free time.


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Brussels, 20 October 2008 - Environmental NGOs have today accused the EU Environment Ministers of supporting old-fashioned, inefficient and wasteful industries at the expense of those that innovate and create new jobs. During the discussion on the EU climate and energy package, ministers are also watering down the emission reduction proposal for non-industrial sectors, undermining the best chance to help European households suffering from high energy bills.
At the meeting of the EU Environment Council today in Luxembourg protectionism was the call of the day, with ministers defending as a priority the short term interests of a small portion of European industry, rather than pushing to protect European citizens from the most dangerous impacts of climate change and put an end to our dependency on expensive fossil fuels. The ministers opened the door for free CO2 permits for electricity production and weakened rules for free permits to manufacturing industries.
Climate Action Network Europe, Friends of the Earth Europe, Greenpeace and WWF said: "Today's level of debate was extremely poor and gave more room to the opportunistic demands of the Polish and Italian governments, who want to give old fashioned, inefficient and wasteful industries a free ride at the expense of innovation and job creation. These positions are particularly ironic since ministers also expressed high hopes for the UN climate summit next year in Copenhagen."
One week after EU countries agreed to release 2000 billion euros in support of the financial sector, Environment Ministers are backtracking on the 70-90 billion euros investments needed by 2020 to safeguard future generations through the EU climate and energy package.
Italy and Poland fail to grasp where Europe and the world's future lie and what unabated climate change will cost the world. Furthermore the Polish government has shown itself to be unfit to lead the next international climate negotiations taking place in December in Poznan. The international community should actively look for a new chair.


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It's a good thing the Sedins are married, cause it seems they can't get any love.
Of course, they get love from their family, their team, and fans of their team, but talk to anyone who isn't an out and out Canuck fan and you'll get a very different picture of the dudes. Their reputation around the league? Two words: Sedin Sisters.
Even more recently, when they finished second and third in the league in points per game, they still get less respect than a Rodney Dangerfield impersonator. Henrik Sedin won the Art Ross and yet was an afterthought for Hart consideration for many hockey writers. He said himself that he was honored just to be standing on stage with Crosby and Ovechkin. Both Sedins are projected for less than 100 points next season in most fantasy guides, and the general consensus seems to be that last season was a fluke. Why can't the Sedins get any love?
For the same reason that reliable, intelligent, bespectacled accountants can't get any love -- they just aren't sexy.
Sidney Crosby is sexy in a Harrison Ford sort of way. Obviously he doesn't have the same chiseled-grit features that Ford has -- Angelina Jolie has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to get lips like Crosby's. But Crosby seems to model his game off of Harrison Ford's characters. He's reckless, perfectly willing to rush alone into a group of defenders, and yet somehow, it pays off. Like Ford, he has a distinct whine that comes out when he feels threatened. Like Ford, he gets defensive when others threaten to be better than him. And like Ford, he looks ridiculous with facial hair.
Alex Ovechkin is a lot like Kanye West. Obviously, I'm not referring to his beautiful singing voice, but Ovechkin's celebrity has followed much the same path as Kanye's. While originally all we noticed about him was his talent, as soon as he found the spotlight he found ways to make it clear he was a star, but not a role model. Ovechkin plays physically, but also dangerously. During any game, he could score a goal, cause an injury, and earn a suspension -- soon to be called the Alex Ovechkin hat trick. And of course, we can't forget his celebrations. It's almost as if he wants to say, "I'm going to let you finish, but I'm the greatest player of all time."
Compared to that, what do the Sedins have? They aren't explosive. They aren't attention-hungry. They aren't arrogant. When it comes down to it, they're just not sexy. Crosby and Ovechkin are exciting, crazy and reckless. The Sedins are just consistent. You know when they're on the ice, they'll be defensively responsible, patient with the puck, and will find strategic opportunities to get a player a decent scoring chance. There isn't a coach in the NHL who wouldn't love them, but writers and fans are into more flash and dazzle than the Sedins can provide.
Even if the Sedins tie for the league lead in scoring, split the Hart and Pearson and hoist the Cup, they're still the mild-mannered reliable best friend, offering a crying shoulder to the girls dating the jealous, defensive egomaniac (Crosby) and the unpredictable playboy with a rap sheet (Ovechkin). The media likes them, sure, but more like a brother. The magic just isn't there.
So what does a team like the Canucks, faced with ridiculously reliable, safe and unsexy superstars, do to fill the void?
Hire ice girls. Other than that, I'm out of ideas.


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Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix was one of those rare albums that brought my siblings and I together. I might get lucky and inspire a brother of mine to listen to a single song I love, or another brother will spontaneously ask if I've heard of Bat For Lashes (in a manner which always echoes Aziz Ansari's cousin Darwish), but for a whole album to be adopted and become the new soundtrack to every car journey? I'd never known of such things in my bloodline, and when those same siblings excitably joined me to see Phoenix live, I thought a new dawn was rising. Fittingly, one might even say they were all "sick for the big sun" (myself included).
It didn't last, though, and we still live our lives with our differing music tastes, but it made clear that Wolfgang was a special album that had a lot of power. It was consistently fun, enjoyable, and danceable–still is to this day–and it thrust Phoenix into the limelight, as they went from minor indie stars to full-fledged headlining, Grammy-winning, Saturday Night Live-ing goliaths. At the time Wolfgang seemed invincible in some respects, that it might last for a long, long time, and considering what might follow it seemed pointless to ponder. We're four years on from that time, and Phoenix have returned with Bankrupt!, an album that they didn't want to copy its predecessor, but one that can't help but live in its shadow.
And it's kind of odd that Wolfgang looms so high over Bankrupt! as this time round they sound louder than ever. For most part the sprightly piano riffs and intertwining guitars from before have been replaced with synths, while the pummelling drums give way to drum machines. Producer Philippe Zdar certainly puts his stamp on the album, but the band come off sounding like they're caught in between, struggling to shake the off the pop shackles they've built their reputation on, and to devote themselves to a more daring experimental path. The struggle is encapsulated kind of perfectly on "SOS in Bel Air" with the line, "When you can't cross the line/ But you can't stop trying."
The struggle isn't entirely bad, and though their songs are driven forward with synths, they still niggle their way into your head–helped by Mars' pristine and coolly delivered lyrics and vocal melodies. Lead single "Entertainment" is the best example of this–and arguably the best song on Bankrupt!–as it flashes its title like neon lights in a big city. Like "Lisztomania," it's the kind of song which could only ever work as the opening track, and with it Phoenix pull out all the stops. Skirting along The Jam song of similar title, it boasts a chirpy Oriental-tinged opening riff and choral bridge, and Mars is not only on top form, but also clearer with his subject matter than ever, addressing the effects of fame on the band. The line "headline from this day on" comes off almost tongue in cheek.
But with all the noise blasting at you, the charm is lost somewhere after the midpoint, and while the second side of the album isn't bad, it's notably less catchy and interesting. Compared to previous outings or just the previous tracks on Bankrupt!, "Chloroform," "Don't" and "Drakkar Noir" exist as perfectly amicable Phoenix tracks done in flashy-big-sound-style but as nothing more. Each have one or two individual instrumental touches (the search light synths on "Chloroform," the chest pounding drum machines on "Don't" which strangely recall Brad Fiedel's metallic main theme from Terminator II), but they don't last much longer than when you're actually listening. Once "Bourgeois" fades into view things pick up again, but despite it running to nearly five minutes, it feels like a flash in the pan, like the moment's gone just after it arrived–a similar fate given to perky and boisterous final track "Oblique City."
Still, there's plenty in the first half worth visiting, and once you're hooked in by "Entertainment" it's easy to want to stick with Bankrupt! for the entirety of its forty-minute playtime. With its heavy and spiralling chorus, "The Real Thing" offers greatly enjoyable dynamic moment while the title track moves from keyboard noodling to awesomely devouring and carnivorous synths over seven minutes, coming to a calming climax during one of the album rare gentle moments. Inevitably Wolfgang will be called upon as a direct comparison (it bears a striking resemblance on the surface), and for the most part the aforementioned synth-driven sound should separate it, but there are moments that do seem to directly echo it. "Bankrupt" is this album's "Love Like A Sunset," consisting mainly of wandering instrumental sections that come together, but the guitar chug at the end of the first part of "Bankrupt" could easily be taken and put into its predecessor. "Fences" also has a mirror here in the form of "Trying To Be Cool" with its fluttering melodies and slower tempo (and where Mars sounds oddly like Kevin Barnes at times) while, as already mentioned, the opening and closing tracks are impressionable, big numbers that either seek to drown you with music if not reel you in.
It's easy to dwell on those comparisons, but it's not fair to. Phoenix have tried plenty of styles over their five-album career, but it's never felt like they made dramatic shifts. Instead they sound like they've grown into their music, and it has the ability to feel natural to them. Bankrupt! suffers because it feels a little detached at times, like you can't really tell where the band are in the big picture. That's why "Entertainment" stands out so much: you can hear the drums, guitar and keys working together. Heck, you can even hear the keys being pressed when the main riff is being played. It's the sound of a band working in unison. Upon its release I played it for a brother of mine, expecting him to be excited. His interest was there, but I can tell he suddenly longed for Wolfgang. Some things you just never get sick of, but Bankrupt! just feels a little too sickly at times.


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Mystery in the Heartland
What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America
The vestigial adaptations to primordial rigors that have shaped human nature become troublesome, even deadly, as environments change. Take for example the human addiction to sugar and fat, the physiological basis for the worldwide success of America's fast food diet, with its beckoning aroma of sizzling meat, its sweet shakes and sodas and now the source of widespread pathology, complaint, and controversy. The evolutionary function of these ancient appetites—fat stored as a hedge against famine and sugar for quick energy to flee predators or seize prey—is now in today's much different environment morbidly maladaptive, even fatal, yet irresistibly attuned to our evolved nature, even among the abstemious Japanese whose oily salmon, tuna, and eel over sweetened rice are also an international favorite and, except for the important substitution of fish oil for animal fat, nutritionally analogous to a Big Mac and a shake.
Or consider humanity's overabundant but now largely superfluous sexual appetite in its myriad, often dangerous, permutations, though infant mortality no longer threatens tribe and species with defeat and extinction as it did when a Bronze Age pro-lifer ordered the males of his flock to refrain from spilling their seed upon the ground or otherwise depositing it unproductively. An excess of sexual desire, analogous to the overabundance of spawn so that a few hatchlings may survive the hazards of pond and sea and perpetuate their species, is maladaptive in today's crowded world, but in their busy lives millions submit without thought or volition—and with, one suspects, minimal pleasure—to the cunning strategies by which their unappeasable sexuality is manipulated for commercial, political, and religious purposes.
A similar vestigial trait may explain the anomaly at the center of Thomas Frank's lively, heartfelt, somewhat repetitive book What's the Matter with Kansas?, which asks, but doesn't quite explain, why the poorest county in the United States, an economic and cultural wasteland of struggling ranchers and abandoned farm towns in a burnt-over section of Kansas's once vibrant Great Plains, gave more than 80 percent of its vote to George W. Bush in the election of 2000 and is likely to give the same or more this November, though the suffering of these and other heartland voters has worsened in Bush's four years. "How," a friend asked the author, referring to Kansas as a whole, "could so many people get it so wrong?"
"People getting their fundamental interests wrong is what American political life is all about," Frank writes, though he might have gone further and implicated humanity in general, with its primordial fear of exile, abandonment, and death in a terrifying environment, and its corresponding submission to factitious gods and the deadly schemes of mad rulers, unvarying from before the Pharaohs to the present. Hermann Goering famously told an interviewer during his trial at Nuremberg that
people don't want to go to war…. But, after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy…
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The friendly, albeit almost unintelligibly accented rep from Credit Card Services had a ten minute conversation with me: 10:35 is a call duration record!
The minimum balance has bounced back to $3500 and they're touting a 6.9% rate. She was unwilling to discuss exactly how this works before I "qualified" myself, but I was unwilling to reveal my financial details before knowing more about Credit Card Services.
So we went a few rounds…
Somewhat surprisingly, she gave me plenty of contact information:
- Credit Card Services ("We work with [list of big name credit card companies]")
- Orlando FL
- Callback 888-311-2249 (don't call it, it's not a real number)
- Anna Stakovic
- Extension 292
All of it bogus, of course.
Perhaps Anna married into her name, because she has a thick Indian subcontinent accent that wasn't helped by boiler-room background noise and VOIP dropouts. Correspondingly, I was hampered by a soft voice that often required me to repeat myself, despite speaking slowly and, if I do say so myself, rather clearly.
Anyhow, poor Anna became increasingly frustrated, accusing me of wasting her time and repeatedly telling me that if I was not interested in Lowering My Interest Rates I should just hang up. So I asked her if she worked for the same Credit Card Services that had called me several (dozen? hundred?) times previously; to my surprise, she said it was.
She said that she would "do her best" to remove my number, but that, because she didn't actually do the dialing, it might not have any effect. That agrees with what I've been told before: CCS is actually a demon-dialing front end for other scammers.
She dodged my question about why CCS doesn't obey the FTC No-Call Registry rules, claiming that she was just qualifying me for a credit reduction, not actually selling me anything. She was unwilling to discuss the relation between CCS and my various card issuers, which might have provided the "prior business relationship" required to work around the rules.
Somewhat surprisingly, she simply wouldn't hang up before I agreed that I had no interest whatsoever in Lowering My Interest Rates. I eventually agreed, she wished me a good rest of the day, and I suppose we parted as friends…


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How to Make It
In a large bowl, combine the avocados, onion, jalapeño, cilantro, lime juice, salt, and pepper. Stir well. Serve with the tortilla chips.
Tip: Plan ahead. You can prepare guacamole up to two hours before serving. To keep it from turning brown, cover the bowl with plastic wrap so that the wrap lies directly on the guacamole, with no air in between, then refrigerate.


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Winter Morning
Autumn and especially winter are the best seasons for decoration within secondlife. Creators release one adorable item after another and makes even me wanting to own a sim. On the other hand I guess I would constantly decorate and alter it and would have no time anymore for blogging… Anyways – here we go: a new hunt is coming to the grid, organised by CHIC. And that alone should set you in instant exitement because you know what you can expect from a CHIC event. Top stores, wonderful gifts and a way brilliant organised hunt. This one is called "With Love <3" and the gifts are wonderful. It is a great pleasure for me to show you some of the male gifts and also some decoration and furniture pieces you can get in this hunt.
The jumper, scarf and mittens is the gift from [ SAKIDE ] and I really love the casual and realistic look of the items. This indeed is something you could find in my RL wardrobe also. The jumper and the mittens are rigged (and can be worn seperate also) and the scarf contains a resizer. Definitely a keeper. The painter pants are from [Sheep Door] and the boots are from Adjunkt. Please note that the With Love ❤ Hunt is a 10 L$ Hunt – but the items are definitely worth it.
I already gave you some decoration ideas for your parcel/sim in my post "Cozy" and I promised there that I will give you a better look on the fabulous new mesh winter trees from Garden Of Dreams. Well here they are. Indeed all plants are from GOD which I love to use since they are copy and you can fill your sim easy with a very attractive winter look. The "Chill Grove Tree" Set from GOD contains 3 different types of trees that come in three sizes, but also in two different appearances: there is one version with branches and a "dead" version without branches at all. So that is a hell of a set! Like said the trees are mesh – and therefor the landimpact is a thing you have to deal with. One tree has a landimpact of 18 but on the other hand the trees rez much faster then the usual sculpted ones. And in my opinion they also look much better. So with trees I recommend to mix sculpted trees with mesh trees as accent.
These adorable benches in my little park come from estatica – a shop I got to know via the Silverlining Hunt. The Musgrove Benches come in a rounded version (around the tree) and in a straight version. And also – of course – in a fatpack with both. Each bench holds 47 animation/animated poses for male and female avatars and for couples. This is the perfect item to decorate your sim or home because not only that the benches are extremely well done – they are also copy and each bench has just 1 LI! And even if I used it on my winter set – they look also good in all kind of seasons sims.
The cute lanterns are from Trompe Loeil. They are available in 2 available color/material options. And each package contains a version with the Handle up or down. Also the lanterns have 1 LI and they are also copy – so this is also the perfect decoration item for your virtual home. The light is owner driven only and the texturing – like with all Trompe Loeil produkts – is absolutely flawless.
List of stuff:
Hair: REDGRAVE – Hairstyle EDWARD -midbrown-
Skin: KENTO – Preston T2
Scarf, Jumper, Mittens: [ SAKIDE ] – First Frost (for the With Love ❤ Hunt)
Pants: [Sheep Door] – Painter Pants Black
Shoes: Adjunct – Jacob's Ladder Boots Crude Oil Black
Benches: estatica – Musgrove Benches
Lanterns: Trompe Loeil – Rustic Lanterns
Trees: Garden of Dreams – Chill Grove Tree Set (mesh)


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How to Open the Printer Queueby Bonnie Conrad
When you send a job to the printer, that job goes to a print queue, and each job in that queue is serviced in the order it was received. If you need to remove a job you sent, you can do so as long as it is still in the print queue. Knowing how to open the print queue and check the jobs is important for anyone who uses a printer. With the print queue open, you can easily see which jobs are printing and which ones are waiting to be printed.
Step 1
Click the "Start" button and select "Printers" or "Printers and Faxes" from the menu. A window opens up showing all the printers you can access.
Step 2
Double-click the printer whose queue you want to check. A new window opens with a list of current print jobs.
Step 3
Right-click on any print jobs you want to remove from the queue.
Click "Cancel" to stop the job.
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Fordham, Mary Weston
O! sing ye a dirge for the loved and the lost,
That have found them a home 'neath the coral reefs
That have laid them to rest 'neath the murmuring
Where the whistling wind wails o'er their sweet,
but sad sleep.
They have gone to their home--their last resting-place
The blue waves embraced and called them their own;
While the depths of the sea and the billows thereof
Are mournfully sighing their sad requiem.
Down, down through the mass of the waters they sped,
Amid the dark chambers so mystic, so drear;
'Till perchance they selected some ruby-lit bed,
To sleep their last sleep 'mid jeweled gems rare.
O! 'tis sweet now to ponder, though many have gone
To that far-off bourne whence no traveller returns,
That the sea shall not always their bodies retain,
For Jehovah hath said, she must yield them again.
One bright little jewel outlived the dark storm,
So fatal to many, yet--blissful to tell--
His "Father in heaven" preserved him from harm,
O, parent rejoice! with your Louis 'tis well.


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More than 900,000 people in Colorado struggle to put food on their tables; yet the issue of hunger is often silent and invisible. Hunger Free Colorado is gathering 10,000 plates with personal notes, messages and signatures to help put a face to hunger in Colorado. Plates collected from across the state will be unveiled in the spring of 2012 as a unified voice to help end hunger in Colorado.
You can help be a part of the solution. Participate in the Hungry for Change campaign by setting up space for staff and/or the public to decorate and display plates. Contact Rita McCusker to receive a tool kit complete with English and Spanish plates, campaign information and a return envelope to send your decorated plates back to Hunger Free Colorado.
Visit the Hungry for Change campaign website for more information and to decorate a virtual plate.


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Newly promoted Hull City are set to make a fresh bid for Celtic striker Gary Hooper, according to the Mail Online.
The Tigers had been targeting Wigan Athletic's Arouna Kone, though he has expressed a desire to join up with former manager Roberto Martinez at Everton.
They had a bid of £4.5m rejected last earlier this month, with the Scottish champions holding out for a fee closer to £8m, though with the former Scunthorpe United man having just a year left on his contract they may have to settle for less.
The 25 year old moved to Celtic Park back in 2010, and has scored sixty-three goals in ninety-five league appearances.
He also scored four goals in last season's Champions League campaign, and hit a brace in last month's Scottish Cup final victory over Hibernian.
Meanwhile, Hull have completed the signing of defender Curtis Davies, who has joined on a three year contract from Birmingham City for an undisclosed fee.
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Sunday, July 08, 2012
Poor Man's Whiteboard
Or, poor woman's board in my case. I think I actually prefer it to a dry erase board because of the way I can move the Post-it notes around.
Kraft Paper + Post-it Notes + Sharpie Pen + Hardware Store Masking Tape is the recipe :)
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Oct 12
Zag and Dimond at playPosted by houndrat on Sunday Oct 12, 2008 Under dogs, Ridgebacks, Uncategorized
Just had to post this photo my aunt sent me from Colorado of Zag (Fergie's? ONLY black? nosed show littermate out of seven show puppies) playing with Dimond.
From my angle, it's hard to tell if we're looking at Ridgebacks or kangaroos.? Although, I bet kangaroos inflict less damage on remotes and shoes.? (Yes, Zag, I'm talking about you.? Even if you are a black nose.)
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"what's the big deal? … just say 'Ahhhhhh'!"
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FORT WORTH, TX and RUIDOSO, NM – April 17, 2018 – Ride Television Network, Inc., (RIDE TV) is the official broadcast partner to Ruidoso Downs Race Track & Casino (Ruidoso) for the telecast of the 2018 series of Quarter Horse races known as the Triple Crown. RIDE TV will broadcast a total six Grade 1 stakes races live on the network during the summer and stream the timed trials for these events on RIDE TV GO. All three finals will be live, exclusively on RIDE TV.
Ruidoso conducts the $3 Million All American Futurity - the richest Quarter Race anywhere - and, along with the Ruidoso and Rainbow series, comprises the Triple Crown of Quarter Horse Racing. Each leg of the three-race series has a race for two-year-old Quarter Horses and 3-year- old Quarter Horses. Coverage also includes streaming the qualifying timed trials that will be conducted two weeks prior to each final stakes event.
"RIDE TV is proud to partner with Ruidoso Downs again in 2018 as the exclusive television provider for the RICHEST Quarter Horse racing action in the world." said Craig Morris, President of RIDE TV. "These events are important to our audience and provide great Quarter Horse racing action to a group of people who may have never been exposed before. Mr. Hubbard, one of our major shareholders, recently sold the track, and we are looking forward to continuing a great partnership with the new owners and Jeff True. Most people are familiar with the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred racing, but many have never seen the drag racing-type action that Quarter Horses provide. It's quick, it's exciting and there is a whole lot of money up for grabs."
"RIDE TV is a great broadcast partner and has proven their ability to reach an audience that cares about Quarter Horse racing," said Jeff True, President and GM of Ruidoso Downs Racetrack and Casino. "The Triple Crown series consists of $13.6 million in purse and bonus money including six final stakes races preceded by nine days of timed trials throughout the summer. This telecast deal is good for Ruidoso, the Quarter Horse racing industry, and RIDE TV."
To watch the Ruidoso Futurity and Derby live on June 9-10, Rainbow series on July 21-22 and the All American finals on September 2-3, head to www.ridetv.com/watch to find out if you have RIDE TV available at home. Tune in to our distribution partner, Dish Network, to learn how to watch RIDE TV, visit www.dish.com/ride.
Timed Trials for each event will be streamed live on RIDE TV GO. Head to www.ridetvgo.com or www.raceruidoso.com for more details.
About Ride Television Network, Inc.
Ride Television Network, Inc. is a privately held corporation based in Fort Worth, Texas. The network creates over 90% of its own content and features high-quality television programming showcasing both English and Western disciplines and lifestyles and includes live events, reality shows, talk shows, children's programming, documentaries and more.
About Ruidoso Downs Racetrack and Casino
Ruidoso Downs Racetrack and Casino is a privately held track, slot casino and horse sales facility situated in the picturesque Sacramento Mountains of Lincoln County New Mexico. Conducting live Quarter Horse and Thoroughbred racing annually from Memorial weekend to Labor Day weekend, Ruidoso Downs has been continuously operating since 1948. The Billy The Kid Casino is open year-round and features slot machines and simulcast wagering. The Ruidoso Select Yearling Sale is conducted each year on Labor Day weekend and offers 500 high quality yearlings for sale.
For more information about on how to watch Ruidoso Downs events on RIDE TV, please visit www.dish.com/ride.
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I took a bunch of Vines of the train ride and Nice in general, so if you'd like to see the vids, check out my Vine account.
The main reason I went to Nice was to get some sun, and honey, Nice did not disappoint. Paris is great and all but the weather can at times leave much to be desired. I spent most of the time reading/studying, but I did also go to Musée Masséna, and I took a short day trip to Monaco.
Musée Masséna was really cool. I totally stumbled upon it coming back from the beach my second morning in Nice. It was situated right between my hotel and the iconic Hôtel Le Negresco. The museum is set back in from the street a bit, separated from the promenade by a lush garden. The museum had some really impressive mosaic work on the floors, and the exhibits had a lot of cool old-school promotional posters featuring the history of Nice as a resort town and the upper crust visitors that made the French Rivera (later dubbed the "Côte d'Azur " by the cool kids) the hot-spot that it became. As a forewarning, the exhibit placards are in French, but still worth checking out just for the visual splendor of it all.
|Napoleon is so #ubiquitous in France, man.
Monaco was amaaazing. I was only there for like 3 hours, but it was 3 hours well-spent. I don't think I would have needed to stay much longer to get the gist, at least not during the day (though I heard Monaco is the crack spot at night), as there's not a whole lot to see and do, but it's gorgeous. The rocher ("rock") where the palace sits was PACKED with tourists, and I went before the season had really started up. I can't imagine what it would be like during July, for example. The glut of tourists is totally understandable, however, because the views of the two harbors are amazing. Construction workers were setting up blue bleachers for the Monaco Formula 1 Grand Prix, which was cool to see. The train ride from Nice was only 17 minutes, and on the way back, I took a direct train, and it was only 10. So close. I do recommend taking the (slightly) slower train, which makes local stops, as you can really get amazing views of the towns in-between like Eze and Villefranche-sur-Mer. Also Monaco is another country, so it's fun to say you took a 3-hour jaunt to another country, and still made it back to your place in time for dinner.
|Place Masséna (that family ran Nice, apparently) on the way to the train station.
|Peeping over the gate of the Chagall Museum in Nice...it was closed :/
|Coming out of the Monaco train station!
I can tell I've been horribly spoiled by Paris food, as everything I ate in Nice was sort of "eh", but there were tons of fresh oranges around, which was awesome. Anything with a citrus element would probably be good in this region.
|Citrus on citrus on citrus.
This trip was great as well because I had never done any travel in in France outside of the Île-de-France region around Paris, so it was nice to sort of get a sense of what France is like holistically as a country. Me attempting to speak on France having just lived in Paris is probably tantamount to thinking you know the U.S. having only lived in NYC.
|The view out of my hotel room in Nice :)


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Brow ring, earring, lip ring, nip ring — at Museum of Living Arts you can get 'em all. The West Ashley location even offers a plexiglass viewing window that lets you see the sterilization process before your piercer ever touches you. Talk about transparency. Clean and safe is the name of the game at both the West Ashley and downtown locations. All piercing technicians receive annual training in CPR, first aid, and cross-contamination. No gunk in these gauges! Living Arts can do custom jewelry orders and make pieces specially for customers. To get an idea of their work, we checked out their Facebook page. We like what we see — pretty studs and hoops adorning ears, belly buttons, tongues, and, we can only imagine, a few nether regions. If you're thinking about piercing a sensitive area, check out the video on Living Arts' YouTube page titled "Scott and Einar's first nipple piercing." Oh, yeah.
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Spotlight on the Seller ……Rowan Tree Designs
Rowan Tree Designs is the trading name of Sonia Curry, a York based dressmaker who creates stylish one-off capes and cloaks in addition to bespoke orders. My capes and wraps are designed to keep you warm by also being stylish and easy to wear. Often made from super soft fleece (a customer favourite it seems) or a high quality wool blend I make a variety of one-off colour combinations as they take my fancy. In addition I make a small range of shrugs and other items of clothing. Commissions are welcome, whether it's a different colour combination to what's available in the shop, a differentRead More →


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|Hair up for once , not sure its my best look :S
|Me , Opie style
|Hair up for once , not sure its my best look :S
|Me , Opie style
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