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Americans are obsessed with size and frankly, it's getting a little tired. Certainly there are reasons for it – if nothing succeeds like excess then it makes sense that amplitude of everything from our cars to our breasts to our Big Gulps to our waists to our phones end up being a subject of interest or exaggeration. There is one thing, though, the size of which I get tired of seeing attended to (besides women) and that is the penis.
When we say that size doesn't matter we're not being nice. It's just true. The penis-car comparison is made a lot, i.e., if a guy drives a Hummer he might be overcompensating for a perceived shortfall…well, the comparison works in that there's no question that a Honda will get you where you want to go as well as an ATV….possibly more happily, depending on the driver.
For openers, let's take the vagina. A sensitive place, yes, but 90% of its nerve endings are right near the opening, in the first third of a space that's 3-5 inches long. It can expand with arousal but we're still talking about 90% of the sensitivity being at the front. If you were to go to a party and 90% of the guests were in the foyer, you probably wouldn't have a chance to worry about getting to the backyard.
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How can I get event logs output to S3 or DBFS on Databricks?
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I seem to be unable to get Spark's event log to write to a location on hdfs, s3, or even the local filesystem. The reason I want this information is so I can perform some analysis of job performance over time, to track positive or negative changes in performance.
See this README for some details about the kind of stuff I'd like to do with the logs (not my work):
I am updating the cluster settings via the Spark setting input box at the bottom of the cluster's configuration page on Databricks; e.g.
I have tried all of these combinations of values
1) hdfs output
spark.eventLog.enabled true spark.eventLog.dir hdfs:///eventlogs
error found in logs
18/04/10 16:44:10 ERROR SparkContext: Error initializing SparkContext. java.io.IOException: Incomplete HDFS URI, no host: hdfs:///eventlogs at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DistributedFileSystem.initialize(DistributedFileSystem.java:143) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem.createFileSystem(FileSystem.java:2669) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem.access$200(FileSystem.java:94) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem$Cache.getInternal(FileSystem.java:2703) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem$Cache.get(FileSystem.java:2685) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem.get(FileSystem.java:373)
2) Local file output
spark.eventLog.enabled true spark.eventLog.dir file:///tmp/spark-events
error found in logs
18/04/10 17:04:26 ERROR DriverDaemon$: XXX Fatal uncaught exception. Terminating driver. java.io.FileNotFoundException: File file:/tmp/spark-events does not exist at org.apache.hadoop.fs.RawLocalFileSystem.deprecatedGetFileStatus(RawLocalFileSystem.java:611) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.RawLocalFileSystem.getFileLinkStatusInternal(RawLocalFileSystem.java:824) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.RawLocalFileSystem.getFileStatus(RawLocalFileSystem.java:601)
3) S3 output
spark.eventLog.enabled true spark.eventLog.dir s3://mybucket.domain.com/apphistory
error found in logs
18/04/10 17:15:28 ERROR DriverDaemon$: XXX Fatal uncaught exception. Terminating driver. java.io.FileNotFoundException: No such file or directory: s3://databricks.dev.analytics.ionicsecurity.com/users/timothy/apphistory at com.databricks.s3a.S3AFileSystem.getFileStatus(S3AFileSystem.java:1319) at com.databricks.s3a.S3AFileSystem.getFileStatus(S3AFileSystem.java:78) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.EventLoggingListener.start(EventLoggingListener.scala:94) at org.apache.spark.SparkContext.<init>(SparkContext.scala:539) at com.databricks.backend.daemon.driver.DatabricksILoop$$anonfun$4.apply(DatabricksILoop.scala:311) at com.databricks.backend.daemon.driver.DatabricksILoop$$anonfun$4.apply(DatabricksILoop.scala:311) at com.databricks.backend.daemon.driver.ClassLoaders$.withContextClassLoader(ClassLoaders.scala:29)
I do see that by default
spark.eventLog.enabled is set to
false in clusters, and I also see that there is a special setting
spark.databricks.eventLog.dir which is set to
eventlogs. Further I see that
spark.extraListeners is set to
com.databricks.backend.daemon.driver.DBCEventLoggingListener, which I assume means that by default databricks is sending event logs to a database.
Answer by kul_deep1 · Apr 13, 2018 at 06:46 AM
I am trying exactly the same thing as you are trying to do so that i can archive application history json for further analysis on some S3 location i gave following properties :
spark.eventLog.enabled true
spark.eventLog.dir s3a://path/to/sparkEventLogs
spark.history.fs.logDirectory s3a://path/to/sparkEventLogs
spark.history.provider org.apache.spark.deploy.history.FsHistoryProvider
It does not giev me any error with spark context intialization but i did not get any json in S3 loaction.
Please let me know if you were able to achieve this.
Nothing yet @kul_deep1.
I'm assembling a list of questions to send to their support team now, and I'm planning on sending that off by the end of the week, so I should have a response from their team in a few weeks.
I talked to a Databricks employee yesterday about this (I think he's @Joseph here) and he's going to reach out to some engineers for help.
Answer by nielango · May 20, 2018 at 05:57 AM
Did you try setting spark.databricks.eventLog.dir to hdfs path?
No, I tried
spark.eventLog.dir but not
spark.databricks.eventLog.dir. I can give that a try.
I am curious - where did you find information about that setting? I've seen a couple different values for it but the
databricks namespace for that setting is new to me.
I am trying to achieve the same thing as you. This setting is in their default configs and the default value is 'eventlogs'. I tried setting to an hdfs path, but I don't see the logs uploaded there. The Spark UI is supposed to be based off of these event logs, but I am still trying to figure out the location of the logs.
I noticed on a cluster that I just ran that the directory
/databricks/driver/eventlogs existed on the master node, so I tried these settings
spark.databricks.eventLog.enabled true spark.databricks.eventLog.dir file:///databricks/driver/eventlogs
That didn't work either. Nothing was created in that directory in the new cluster, even after running many spark commands.
Answer by turtlemonvh · Jun 01, 2018 at 09:50 PM
This isn't a direct solution, but I did find a work around.
What I really wanted out of all this was task-level statistics that I could analyze to find unbalanced stages (in terms of duration or memory usage) and slow stages.
I started looking into the eventListener implementation a bit more (at the suggestion of @amy.wang) and realized that if I subclassed the default listener (https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/api/scala/index.html#org.apache.spark.scheduler.SparkListener) and listened for
onTaskEnd events, I could accumulate a dataframe with all the information I wanted to diagnose performance.
Then I realized that all this already existed in a nice package called spark measure:
Here is what usage looks like in codeval taskMetrics = ch.cern.sparkmeasure.TaskMetrics(spark)
spark.sql("select count(*) from range(1000) cross join range(1000) cross join range(1000)").show()
taskMetrics.end() val taskMetricsDF = taskMetrics.createTaskMetricsDF("PerfTaskMetrics") taskMetricsDF.show
And here is what the resulting dataframe looks like in a notebook.
So I'm going to start using that package more and not worry about access to the raw event log anymore.
Answer by viswanathboga · Oct 09, 2019 at 05:31 AM
Did anybody manage to actually get the event logs exported?
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project life 2012 - week four
One thing I like to do is to keep the overall colour scheme consistent, so this means I often recolour elements. For instance this week, I recoloured the date stickers from Becky's Clementine kit to match the pink used on the rest of the layout. I also recoloured the tv journaling card by Splendid Fiins to make it pink! I even added a Dora the Explorer image to make it!
On page two, I used Becky's template D. You'll notice in the bottom, right corner I have four different photos within that one square. To do this, I added four separate square layers, added my photos to each square, merged each photo to its square layer and than merged all four layers to the layer in the template. This is a great way to add multiple pictures for one day! I've never done this before, as I usually stick to selecting one photo for each day of the week, but I can see me doing this more often going forward!
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- AnonymousFebruary 13, 2012 at 1:08 PM
Love, love your work! Again, I'm wondering if you keep any traditional photo albums. I have transitioned over to digital and love the process, but I'm not sure if I should keep a traditional album around the house or not. Also, when you recolored the journaling card, how did you do it? I feel like if I try it, photoshop will recolor the entire card, filling in the tv as well. Same thing goes for Becky's day of the week stickers. In the past when I've selected to change the color of the element, I've had this problem. Any advice? you inspire my creativity so much. I love visiting your blog!ReplyDelete
Thanks for visiting my blog! I wish I knew who I was responding to :) I am glad I can inspire you!ReplyDelete
To answer your question, do I keep any traditional photo albums? No, not anymore. I did years ago, but since starting scrapbooking I don't. I not only do Project Life to document our everyday life, but I also keep scrapbooks for my girls and us as a family. Although, I will admit I don't keep them as updated as I would like, but that's okay. I will be sharing more about my process in upcoming blog posts, so keep coming back to learn more :)
As for changing the colour of elements, etc. I am by no means an expert in Photo Shop. Your probably might be that you're not selecting exactly what part of the image you're wanting to recolour. It does take some practice to get it just right. Good luck!
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Hi Sheri, I'm in love the freshness of your layouts, the colours that you choose and how you lay them out is so pretty and inspiring ! Loving the digi layouts :)ReplyDelete
I really love how bright and fun your layouts are. And the colour co-ordinating - I'm very jealous! Looks awesome. I'm trying a little bit of digital this year, I'm a complete novice so I'm taking VERY small steps!ReplyDelete
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I just found your blog through Becky's CT post. It's so nice to see people using the digital version this way. I love all your bright colors, and I especially like your second page this week using the 6x6 template. I like the big journaling block with the divided picture block in the opposite corner. Great idea!ReplyDelete
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I spend most of my time working from a remote office or on the road. I use a VPN to access the intranet on my company's corporate network. To access external resources while I'm connected through the VPN, the proxy settings in Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) must be enabled. When I'm not using the VPN, the proxy settings must be disabled. Because my company doesn't use proxy autodetection, I have to manually enable and disable the proxy settings. How can I script this task?
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IE stores its configuration settings in the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings registry subkey. In this subkey, the ProxyEnable entry controls enabling and disabling IE's proxy settings. Setting ProxyEnable to 0 disables them; setting ProxyEnable to 1 enables them.
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Shares of Harris Corporation's (HRS) closed down $1.37 or 1.65% to $81.57 per share in Friday's trading session after the company reported earnings for the company's 2015 fourth quarter early this morning. The company reported stronger than expected earnings and revenue for the quarter. But this is not new. Harris has a track record of positive earnings surprises in each of the last four quarters.
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So I've learned a new trick this week. Actually it was the second new trick. The first was learned by my husband this past weekend — he learned to bake a squash whole. That's right, no grunting, groaning, teeth gnashing or cursing while trying to cut open a winter squash that seems to be made of steel. He just put the whole thing into the oven and took it out an hour later all soft and easy to open. It happened to be a spaghetti squash which we served with artichoke spaghetti sauce and steamed kale. (I think my husband would eat artichoke spaghetti sauce every day, whereas I prefer a little variety.) You can find more complete instructions here. I found this post after my husband had learned the trick elsewhere, and it's a good description of what to do.
Bean and corn fritters
- 1 cup chickpea flour
- 1 teaspoon chipotle powder
- 1 tablespoon dehydrated onion
- 1 teaspoon chili powder
- 1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon salt (I tend to use less salt)
- 3/4 cup hot water
- 1 15-ounce can canellini beans, rinsed, drained and partially mashed
- 4 to 6 green onions, chopped (about 1 cup)
- a large carrot, grated (about 1 cup)
- 1/2 cup chopped cilantro (or parsley)
- 1 cup frozen corn kernels
- Whisk together the chickpea flour, chili powder, salt, chipotle powder and dehydrated onion. Whisk in the hot water.
- Stir in the green onions, carrots, cilantro, corn and beans.
- Form into fritters and cook in a small amount of cooking oil on a medium-hot, non-stick pan or griddle. You could also use well-seasoned cast iron. You can use a 1/4-cup measuring cup to mold the fritters, if desired. Fill the measuring cup about halfway. (You don't want them to be too thick.)
- Cook until the bottom is brown, about 4 to 5 minutes, then flip and cook until the fritters feel firm and done, about 3 to 4 minutes. I like to press them down a bit as they cook.
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I love collecting restaurantware, but limit my collection to pieces from British Columbia, Canada. Could you tell me more about the creamer in row 3, column 5? Is it "Hotel Sunset", and can you tell me the marks on the bottom? Thanks!ReplyDelete
Hi Dennis... In response to your question about the creamer HOTEL SUNSET... this is from Toronto... it's marked on the bottom WOODLAND & SONS ENGLAND and what looks like SWANS KENT & Co, TORONTO. I checked out your blog... Beautiful collection!!ReplyDelete
I also collect restaurant creamers. Handleless only. Do you sell your creamers through your Etsy store?ReplyDeleteReplies
Hi... I sometimes do... and also sell on ebay. I have 2 available for sale right now that I was going to list. One is from the US Army Medical Dept and the other is a nice flower design. I can email you pics if you are interested...Delete
Actually I have the US Medical creamer. I think several LOL! And the flower design sounds nice, but I try to limit myself to designs that have a business name or specific design. I tell myself this will limit my buying, not true! I have over 400 creamers!! I have one like your Hotel Sunset. I love the Canadian pieces, they aren't very common. I've been rearranging my displays. You might enjoy visiting the Restaurant Ware Collectors Network. It's a fabulous RW collecting site. I'm pretty sure Dennis is a member as well. Please keep me in mind if you get any design specific creamers you want to part with.Delete
LOL... I have several of those too! And wow, 400 creamers!! I'd love to see pictures of your displays! I probably have about 100 with no handles and then more small ones with handles. I love restaurant china! I will check out the website! THANKS!Delete


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Friday, June 19, 2015
I'm good
The staff, nurses and Doctors at Temecula Valley Hospital were all great and Leslie was amazing as always, up early like a trooper and by my side the whole way.
Hadn't eaten since midnight so I was hungry when we left. Leslie and I decided after discussing various options to try a Chinese place we hadn't checked out before, Shanghai. Now a place in Temecula serving my favorite chinese cuisine couldn't be any good, could it? It was.
We started out with Xioa lo ban, the precious pork steamed soup dumplings, fantastic. We also had a griddle lamb dish with inky black mushrooms and great vegetables as well as cold shanghai duck in brown sauce. I want to bring a group there and go crazy. Soon.
Was put under, my head is still a little farblungen, I'm home now and taking it easy. They want me to chill for several days, try to stay in normal stasis and rhythm.
I haven't been able to communicate and know that many of you have called, emailed and texted. All is good, Leslie is taking good care of me, thank you. We will talk soon.
9 comments:
- Sanoguy said...
Congrats! Sounds like Chinese is comfort food to you! Take care!
- June 19, 2015 at 6:52 PM
- Blue Heron said...
chinese, thai, italian, stroganoff...
- June 19, 2015 at 8:33 PM
- Ken Seals said...
I'm so glad you came through ok! I have spent a considerable amount on Spanish history on Wikipedia and I immediately thought "Converso" before you mentioned it.
- June 19, 2015 at 9:42 PM
- Blue Heron said...
Ken, there are times I focus and there are times I like to just bop around.
- June 20, 2015 at 8:28 AM
Glad your procedure was swift and successful...but I don't know
about pork, lamb and duck as a chaser.
You look mellow...take care.
- June 20, 2015 at 6:03 PM
Has anyone told you lately how dreamy your
eyes are?
- June 20, 2015 at 8:28 PM
- Sanoguy said...
HMMMMM…. just who is Maynard and why is he making that sort of comment???? HMMMM…..
- June 21, 2015 at 12:16 PM
- Blue Heron said...
obviously maynard is a chick.
- June 21, 2015 at 2:08 PM
Wouldn't it be funny if it was Maynard the old sheep farmer that lives up off of De Luz and Sandia Creek.
No it couldn't be..could it?
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Saturday, May 31, 2014
Farm Bulletin: Managing the Wild and Cultivating the Feminine
Weeds. Go easy on them. That's my advice in a nutshell. Or go easy on yourself, because what is the mania for weed obliteration if not a masked male inferiority complex easily manipulated by the forces of Wall Street and Madison Avenue in a gruesome combination. Go easy on the weeds.
In my case, I spent several years eliminating milkweed from the fields, It took a fair amount of aggression and even hatred channeled into long afternoons of walking and hand pulling to get out the plants by the roots. I knew I was giving in to the forces of Madison Avenue and Wall Street in gruesome combination as referenced earlier, but I did not care. I was determined. I wanted green grass and that was it for my sheep. No offending and unsightly presence of the amazingly productive and almost magical flowering and swaying stalks that produce sustenance for the migrating monarch butterfly. Today I regret what I did and wish we had more monarchs. We used to get swarms of them. Maybe they'll come back. Maybe they won't.
Another example staying with the sheep. They are beautiful animals but prey to many including a parasite known as the barber pole worm that is endemic anywhere there are sheep. I used to dose like crazy several times a year experimenting with combinations of medications, but then i learned the barber pole was developing massive immunity to all the known medications and I stopped trying. I lose less sheep now. Why? I let them graze on the fields that have not been mowed or weeded. When the grass is longer than four inches there is less chance of the sheep ingesting barber pole larvae. As a culture we need to step back from the impulse to dominate nature with our technological prowess and learn a knew approach. Of course I'm not trying to make a living from the land. As soon as you introduce market forces and you need to maximize profits you have to give up on the Tao of farming and it's open warfare a la Colin Powell with massive infusions of capital, technology and hatred for the wild in order to come out ahead. Is that what's happening to us as a society? We need smarter approaches across the board.
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Monday, May 26, 2014
Reaping the Sacrifices
This morning I took one of my daughters down town to watch the parade, It was one of those perfect days, windy and not hot and the town felt clean and fresh as if the summer had not really started and that's largely because it was such a brutal winter people are wearing their tank tops and stuff but not quite believing it can be the right time for it and so being very appreciative of just the simple fact that it was a nice day and the river was running full of water you could tell below the stone bridge and the old people in the Drum Corps with the funny red hats and tassels and scarves wrapped around their too large bellies who march every year looking as immortal and nerdy as ever. Then the parade started and veterans marched by in their uniforms and then followed the town mahoots in the jeeps who came down the street waving followed by the Girl Scouts and the Boy Scouts and then the little league teams throwing candy. After they marched to the town hall and the little cemetery in the back and fired off some volleys we all adjourned to the bandstand to hear a speech from the high school principal, a 26 year military veteran who graduated from RPI on an ROTC scholarship, married someone from his hometown in Massachusetts and served in the two Gulf Wars before retiring as a colonel on the same day as his 16th wedding anniversary. In other words this was a man you could like and his speech was an exegesis of the Star Spangled Banner complete with facts about Francis Scott Key I did not know, such as he was a successful lawyer with a commission from the US Navy to negotiate the release of US prisoners on board the British warships blockading Fort McHenry. They released the prisoners to him and told him to sail behind their lines as they continued to bombard the fort through the night. So he watched the battle from the decks of his ship out on the water wondering whether the fort which stood between the British and the city of Baltimore could withstand the attack. I didn't know that. And the principal tied this in to questions we all have about whether our missions will succeed in life and whether the sacrifices we make will be worthwhile and remembered by others. It was a good speech as far as Memorial Day speeches go. And plus I saw a couple of people I hadn't spoken with in awhile, so there was that good feeling of reconnecting in the place where I live and liking probably almost all of the people that were there.
Thank you Memorial Day, for making us be appreciative of the need to remember.
Next week: A hike in the Minks.
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Saturday, May 24, 2014
Writing the Vida Loca -- Truth and Fantasy
In my younger days I was enamored of being the man of letters. I imagined a life of high adventure and interpersonal relationships marked by camaraderie and a code of honor shaped by bullfighting and deep sea fishing. You know what I'm talking about, that 1950s cultural icon that somehow survived into the seventies despite taking a beating at the hands of folk music and drugs and the sneaking suspicion that people cared more about the Mary Tyler Moore show than the latest tome from Norman Mailer. When it became apparent that the writer had been relegated by the culture to a sideshow, a carnival attraction, then for me writing became an underground war of attrition, a personal quest that kept me sane by clinging to a juvenile obsession that had not only marked me for life, but determined all the major choices I ever made: college, career, life partner, etc. It was kind of like being a secret monk, scribbling away nights, typing up drafts of novels and stories from varied locales that all had in common a resolute distance from the centers of literary opinion.
And then last year came the breakthrough i'd been waiting for. A publisher willing to take a chance, put my name on their brand and launch me out into the world of legitimate writerhood, (authorship?). Despite the slap in the face of a contract that specified marketing and publicity would be up to me, I told myself that was just the state of play in the "industry" and I went all in, applying the marketing lessons gained from self-publishing previous titles, and when SAVIOR came out as a Kindle Ebook in April, I was like a proud parent, beaming with the new presence in the world of my book. The reviews were good, some were excellent, and sales have been solid, if not spectacular to date.
So how has my life changed and what have been the benefits and drawbacks of the experience? These are legitimate concerns and despite the fact that i know nobody cares, I'm going to try to spell it out anyway.
In most visible ways, nothing has changed. My kids still think I'm a doofus and remind me of it. My wife would rather I not spend as much time as I do on extraneous Twitter like marketing activity which she does not understand and does not want to understand. A couple of my Spanish students have asked me about my book and how it's doing and one even got excited when I told him it would be on sale in a couple of weeks. So I am that high school teacher guy with the mildly interesting hobby/sideline. (I remember my algebra teacher in 9th grade, Mr. Mucarzel, and his leather handbags.)
One of my neighbors won a free copy of SAVIOR in exchange for helping out with crowd funding, and another neighbor asked me at my daughter's soccer game how the book was doing.
My mother refuses to talk about my writing and changed the subject on Mother's Day when I brought it up in desperation. My father, who actually went out and bought a Kindle so he could buy a copy of SAVIOR, said I was improving but said he's not into dystopian fiction.
So that's it as far as the people around me and the impact the book has had.
Next week: Social media - Benefits vs. Pitfalls
SAVIOR is available as an Amazon Kindle Ebook.
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Monday, May 19, 2014
MONDAY FARM AND COUNTRY -- The Garlic and Blackflies
Now that it's half way through May, the only way I can work outside is with the full body armor, head and upper body netting, with tight collars at bottom and sleeves to prevent entry for the blackflies which invade at this time of year and swarm around faces and eyes and anything moist and heat giving. Their bites can inflict an amazing dose of toxins given their minuscule size, and the irritant can be so bad that infections develop and blood poisoning ensue. That's how bad they are. One of the confounding things about nature for many folks is the sheer itchiness of being outside in it. Why did God make blackflies and mosquitoes? That's easily one of the key questions to be able to answer for all the doubters in our offspring. For an answer just point to the sky at evening and the swooping blue and white arcs of gravity defying beauty known as swallows. Their aerobatics are more than just pleasurable, although they are surely that as well. It's feeding time for them all spring and summer long, payoff for the long trek up from Central American as they make nests and prepare for breeding. And the moist fields and swamps of New England provide the insect life they count on to live.
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Saturday, May 17, 2014
A Little Eddy in the Tunnel of Love
The book seems to be selling. It hasn't snowballed into best seller status, but has held its own in the Kindle rankings over a month period. Yay. Thank you reviewers, in particular Diane Bylo of Tome Tender, Stacie Theis of Beach Bound Books, Dianne Nelson of Sand In My Shoes Reviews, Roberto Mattos, and Diane Donovan of Midwest Book Review.
I doubled my readership on the blog here during the April A to Z challenge, a byproduct of having daily posts on a current subject and flagging that subject beforehand. Like weapons technology that produces positive spinoffs for the civilian market, so book marketing has taught me a thing or two about blogging. I need to set up a schedule to get out more blog posts. So, presuming there is a readership that cares and takes note of these sorts of things, and you have to presume that there is or you'd go virtually crazy, here is what that schedule will look like going forward:
Farm and Country Monday (posts on land, sustainable living, farm life, animals, vegetables --including myself, etc.)
Fishbowl Thursday (looking out at the panorama of the world through the lens of my little life)
Writing Weekend (reflections on The Process, guest posts from fellow writers, reviews. etc.)
Suggestions for posts, submissions and rants can be sent to me in the comments section or if you prefer and find email easier, then by all means have at it:
tcaplan (at) mcttelecom (dot) com
The sun is out after heavy rains last night. I can feel the current picking up. The tunnel of love is calling again. Gotta go.
(Overheard at Edmund's this morning.
Tourist: When exactly do the blackflies go away around here.
Shopkeeper: When the mosquitoes come out.
Me thinking to myself: Just in time. LOL)
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Microsoft Rejects Windows 10 Privacy Concerns, Project Spark Goes Free… [Tech News Digest]
Microsoft counters Windows 10 criticism, Project Spark will soon be completely free, the iPhone 6s may actually be waterproof, Facebook suffers another major outage, Coca-Cola pays for emoji, and The X-Files is back.
Microsoft Explains Windows 10 Privacy
Within days of Microsoft launching Windows 10, users started raising concerns over the way the operating system collects and uses data. Some of these issues were overblown, but some have an element of truth to them. Either way, two months later, Microsoft has finally addressed these Windows 10 privacy concerns Everything You Need to Know About Windows 10's Privacy Issues While Windows 10 has some issues that users need to be aware of, many claims have been blown out of proportion. Here's our guide to everything you need to know about Windows 10's privacy issues. Read More .
In a lengthy blog post, Windows chief Terry Myerson details the many ways Windows 10 collects and stores data. He tries to explain why Microsoft set things up this way, and allay fears that the company is nibbling away at users' right to privacy.
The overarching message is, "Windows 10 collects information so the product will work better for you," and "you are in control with the ability to determine what information is collected". What's more, Windows 10 "collects and uses a limited set of data" which allow you to "use additional features," all of which are "optional".
Myersen also addresses claims that Cortana How Cortana Became The "Other Woman" In My Life She appeared one day and changed my life. She knows exactly what I need and has a wicked sense of humour. It's little wonder that I've fallen for the charms of Cortana. Read More is some kind of keylogger. He explains, "To give you text suggestions and auto-corrections that actually help, we make your personalized dictionary by using a sample of your typed and handwritten words. We automatically take out things that could potentially be used to identify you, like IDs and IP addresses".
Microsoft is clearly rejecting the very idea that Windows 10 is somehow spying on its users, and explaining its methods should help allay some fears. However, anyone who already mistrusts big companies, including Microsoft, to do the right thing, are unlikely to be swayed. In which case they should probably avoid upgrading to Windows 10 How to Upgrade to Windows 10 Now & Why You Should Wait Have you been waiting patiently since July 29 for your Windows 10 upgrade? You should probably wait until you receive an official notification, but if you are determined, you can force the Windows 10 upgrade. Read More in the first place.
Project Spark Will Soon Be Free
Project Spark will soon be available completely for free, with Microsoft switching the game from free-to-play to simply free. For the uninitiated, Project Spark is set of tools allowing you to design your own games, and hundreds of thousands of users have already produced their own games.
The change will occur on Oct. 5, with an update that opens all existing content packs and assets up to everyone for free. Anyone who paid for the game or content on or after July 28 will receive Microsoft Store credits. This may lead Microsoft to abandon Project Spark altogether, but for now, free equals good.
The iPhone 6s May Be Waterproof
Your iPhone 6s or iPhone 6s Plus Here Comes the iPhone 6S: What's New & Should You Upgrade? The good news: the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus has just been announced. The bad news: your iPhone is now out of date, and you'll need to sell a kidney for the latest model. Read More could be waterproof, even though Apple isn't selling this as a feature. We know simply because YouTuber Zach Straley drowned both devices in a bowl of water for an hour to see what would happen. A full 48 hours later and both have survived intact.
What does this mean? Well, we would recommend you endeavor to keep your iPhone 6s or iPhone 6s Plus as dry as possible at all times. However, if you were to accidentally drop it down the toilet or in the bath, it should at least survive the ordeal. And if it doesn't, blame Apple, not us.
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Coca-Cola Pays For Custom Emoji
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Coca-Cola has become the first brand to pay Twitter for custom emoji. You may have noticed these promotional emoji popping up when you use certain hashtags, but Coca-Cola is the first company to have actually paid for the privilege. So, Disney got that trio of Star Wars emoji for free, but Coke is paying for #ShareaCoke.
This is a win-win for Coca-Cola and Twitter. Coca-Cola gets the iconic shape of its bottled drinks posted across the social network, and Twitter gets cold hard cash. Meanwhile, Twitter users 7 Reasons Why You Should Be Using Twitter Twitter has now been with us for seven years and counting. This was seven years to the day since Jack Dorsey sent out the first tweet in 2006, at a time when the micro-blogging social... Read More have to come to terms with the fact these custom emoji are likely to become less of a novelty and more of an annoyance from here on in.
The X-Files Is Back!
And finally, The X-Files is back, with a new six-part mini-series set to start airing on Fox in January 2016. Four months ahead of the return of this iconic sci-fi show comes the first proper teaser trailer, which gives eagle-eyed viewers plenty of clues as to what's kicking off.
The trailer shows FBI agents Mulder and Scully back together again for the first time in over a decade. And it looks as though the relationship is still built on the same foundation, with Fox Mulder being the instigator, and Dana Scully reigning him in as the skeptical scientist.
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Suppose you're the warden of a women's prison. Among your valued employees is a correctional officer named Dave, whose job puts him in charge of dozens of female inmates for long, lonely nights.
Dave is a popular guy among his colleagues. But there's also something odd about him. One day you learn that local police suspect him of being a world-class perv. They believe he's been stalking at least three women in the metro area for years -- burglarizing their homes, leaving them disturbing and graphic messages, boldly pursuing an elaborate kink that involves intimate relations with a certain brand of sneakers. He's already been identified by two victims, and the cops plan to arrest him as soon as all the evidence is in.
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C. Sit tight and wait for the other shoe to drop.
In the case of David Christensen, Colorado Department of Corrections officials decided on the third option. That decision is at the heart of a lawsuit filed by a female inmate whom Christensen raped in 2002 at the Denver Women's Correctional Facility, where the forty-year-old correctional officer continued to work the graveyard shift while under investigation in the stalking cases.
Attorneys for inmate Penifer Salinas say that Warden Joanie Shoemaker and other DWCF officials knew that Christensen was the prime suspect in several sexually charged criminal acts months before he assaulted Salinas, but they did nothing. The federal case is one of several arising from sexual misconduct by male guards at women's prisons in Denver and Pueblo ("Bulls Behaving Badly," May 6, 2004).
The stalking cases date back to 1999, when a Jefferson County woman discovered a pair of red Keds sitting on top of her car. She removed them and drove to her job at King Soopers; shortly after her arrival, a caller to the store reported that her lights were on. She went to the parking lot and found a pair of white Keds on her car.
More Keds showed up over the next few months, in various colors. One pair came with a note that addressed the woman by name. "I'd love to watch you tickle a little boy some day," the note read. "Keds...they feel good!"
In the summer of 2000, while the woman and her husband were on vacation, someone burglarized their home. The thief took the multiple pairs of Keds that had been piling up in her closet as well as photos, but didn't touch the couple's money or jewelry. The Jeffco investigator assigned to the burglary soon found a similar case in Greenwood Village and then another in Lakewood.
As the investigation heated up, so did the bandit's weird behavior. He made hang-up calls from pay phones to the victims' homes. The Keds kept coming, now inscribed with graphic sexual messages: "I love baby boy boners." "I love to suck small boys and tickle and rape them." "If I had a cock, I'd fuck little girls." "I'm a closet child molester." Some of the sneakers appeared soiled, as if the suspect had -- well, had his way with them.
In 2001, Greenwood Village police almost caught the suspect when he approached a victim's front porch at midnight carrying a pair of sneakers. The man got away, but a surveillance camera captured his image. One victim identified him as a former employee at the King Soopers where she shopped. The woman who worked at King Soopers recognized him as David Christensen, her former co-worker whom she'd dated briefly ten years earlier. The relationship had never been intimate, she added, but Christensen had stalked her for months afterward.
Police soon learned that Christensen was a state corrections officer. He was from a respectable Catholic family and had been trying to get into law enforcement most of his adult life, applying to the Denver Police Department, Jefferson County and the state highway patrol without success. He was not married; he would later tell investigators that he'd been a compulsive masturbator since high school and was "not good with women."
Warden Shoemaker and other officials at the women's prison were notified of the investigation of Christensen in late 2001. They provided the police with a handwriting sample from him, a critique he'd written of a DOC sexual-harassment training video in which he'd appeared in various roles. The sample came back as a "highly probable" match to the writings about child molestation scrawled on the shoes.
Yet prior to his arrest, no one seems to have given serious thought to moving Christensen from his duties on the graveyard shift, where he was left alone with up to 72 female inmates for hours at a time. There had been several prior incidents of staff misconduct at the prison, but the DOC had not yet put surveillance cameras in the living quarters or the janitor's closets, where most of the instances of sexual relations between inmates and staff occurred.
On the night of April 1, 2002, Salinas, who was serving two years for car theft, went into one of the closets for cleaning supplies. Christensen followed her. The officer made her perform oral sex on him, she later told an investigator, then raped her, telling her to keep quiet or "she would never get paroled." The sex was rough and left her bleeding from her vagina, she said.
The arrest warrant for the stalking cases was signed that same day. A search of Christensen's home turned up drawings he'd done of the torture and sodomization of small children. The drawings were on the back of a DOC policy manual. Investigators also found a blond wig that he'd stolen from a Cherry Creek store and other paraphernalia that seemed to be part of his fetish rituals.
Christensen's immediate supervisor told people he was shocked by the arrest. He wrote Christensen a letter, offering to be a character witness. "I have seen fifty or a hundred people get into trouble over the last fifteen years I've been with DOC, but none have ever affected me like this," he wrote. "I like to think I'm a pretty good judge of character."
But a sergeant at the prison would later tell investigators he wasn't shocked at all. After the arrest, he reminded the supervisor of a 1998 incident, when the sergeant had caught Christensen running out of a women's bathroom, nervously wiping the front of his pants. In the bathroom was a female inmate with her breasts exposed. The sergeant claimed to have reported the incident to Christensen's supervisor, but no written record of the incident exists.
Salinas didn't report her rape for months. When she did, she also admitted to a consensual sexual relationship with another corrections officer. Christensen's supervisor tried hard to discredit her, according to Salinas's attorney, Julia Yoo.
"This has been devastating to her," Yoo says. "It wasn't just the rape itself but the way it was handled when she came forward. Nothing was explained to her. She was put in the hole and felt totally isolated. She didn't have access to her legal mail or letters from her mother. And other officers were retaliating against her. She had no idea Christensen had even been removed or arrested."
Attorneys for Shoemaker and other DOC officials say they couldn't predict that Christensen would assault inmates, but Yoo insists they should have taken more precautions. "They knew he was a predator and a dangerous person," she says. "Would they have taken that kind of risk if the potential victim was somebody related to them? I don't think so."
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Christensen denied the rape, but he was found guilty of sexual assault by a Denver jury and sentenced to five years to life. He pleaded guilty to burglary and stalking counts in the Keds cases and got six years, to be served concurrently with the rape sentence.
Salinas, Yoo says, still has anxiety attacks when she hears keys rattling, as if her attacker is coming back for her. Now doing time at a private prison, Christensen has his own demons to confront -- including the hazards of being an ex-guard surrounded by inmates.
"I hope they don't know much about him," Yoo says. "Even though I'm disgusted by what I've seen in this case, nobody deserves to be attacked in prison. I wish he had received some help. His life didn't have to spiral out of control like this."
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Starting The Road Trip Off on a Great Foot!
Monday, October 12, 2009
The Kings are off to a solid start to the season going 4 and 1. I found their game on Saturday against the St. Louis Blues to be a solidly won game while the win this morning against the New York Islanders was less cohesive but still satisfactory. On Saturday the Kings played a great game all around. The passing was clean, the transitions were smooth, and the lines were clicking nicely. They won 2-1 with the Blues giving it an exciting ending to the cap off the night.
Every game brings me closer to saying, "I'm cool with Ryan Smyth." I can't deny he does what the Kings have needed for a long time, get a body in front of the freaking net, and I can comfortably say I like Smyth better than Justin Williams. I feel like I'm never going to be sold on him; what's the deal? Someone please have a discussion with me! I give a definite two thumbs up to this win with the only time the Kings faltering in their play was the incident that led to Alexander Steen's goal, which was in and out of the net so quickly that play was not halted immediately. The defense looked great and Jonathan Quick was solid.
The score was also 2-1 for today's game on the Island, but the noted difference was that both teams were allowing the play to move back and forth through both zones instead of one team asserting themselves over the other. The Kings didn't control the game until Anze Kopitar's PP goal in the 2nd period. I can definitely see Kopitar's potential beginning to show itself from his past seasons If he keeps this point and performance streak moving forward, he will definitely get noticed outside of the greater Los Angeles area. The noted player of this game was Drew Doughty wearing facial protection due to the puck-in-the-mouth incident in Saturday's game. Jarret Stoll did an awesome job on this play drawing the opposition to him while he was bringing the puck into the Islanders' zone, which left Doughty wide open for the pass. Doughty slapped the puck and got it far side on Marty Biron for his second goal of the season. SICK.
Even though the Kings are 4-1, there are still plenty of things the Kings need to work on, firstly, their faceoffs. Here are the percentages in the circle so far:
- 44% against the New York Islanders October 12
- 40% against the St. Louis Blues on October 10
- 38% against the Minnesota Wild on October 8
- 43% against the San Jose Sharks on October 6
- 41% against the Phoenix Coyotes on October 3
By the way, who scored the lone Islanders' goal? Matt Moulson of course! He was looking quite scragly with his new coif, which probably is very much needed on the east coast. The funniest part about Bob Miller and Jim Fox's discussion of Moulson was his relationship with Jonathan Quick's wife's sister. It was mentioned twice that Moulson was perhaps Quick's future brother-in-law. Now, now, let's not jump the gun.
The stats for this game overall weren't impressive in terms of shots on and hits. The Kings had 22 shots while the Islanders had 29. Hits were 22 and 34, respectively. It's fantastic the Kings are getting the wins, but the it's the little things that add up to carrying a solidly performing roster deep into the season. The individual players still have many parts of the game to work on, so that's definitely promising. There is room for lots of growth over the entire season, and I'm (almost) happy with the current team on the ice.
P.S. I love Raitis Ivanans. He played 2 minutes and 44 seconds and absolutely pounded the HELL out of Joel Rechlicz, whoever that is.
A few more things:
- Happy birthday to Mr. Bob Miller! Still looking great!
- Check out Hockeywood, L.A. for great content on the Kings!


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I know, I know, I still have my old header, but I recognized Minji wearing something I really love!
Loving the scarf by Walter Van Beirendonck! Check it out at his official shop here.
That Jeremy Scott shirt is making its way around huh? G-Dragon's in white and Minji's in black. ^^
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Condoleezza Rice: Yulia, you are in my thoughts and prayers
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Former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has written a letter to former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko expressing her support and hope for the opportunity to meet, according to Official web site of Yulia Tymoshenko.
"Dear Yulia, I want you to know that you are in my thoughts and prayers. The world is watching the events concerning your imprisonment, and many are advocating on your behalf. I remember well the many times that we met, and I look forward to the day when we can meet again. Please know that until then, I will think of you and pray for your health and release," Condoleezza Rice wrote.
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For Easter…
A fishy gets an oyster egg
A foxy gets a seagull's
A wolfy gets an easter leg
And there are grass eggs for the bulls
But only children get a chocolate one
So let's hope that Easter will be fun, fun, FUN!
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Problems Crop Up with The Queen's New Website
There are some glitches in the new website of HM The Queen and the British royal family.
Users have complained that the dates for official engagements listed in the royal diary are often inaccurate and that the page is difficult to navigate.
The site is also incompatible with systems like Linux, and it is not optimized for search engines like Google, which makes it difficult for potential visitors to find.
The website was recently overhauled in an attempt to make it more user-friendly. The design was changed, and several new features were added, including a Google-map-style tracker that allows visitors to follow the official engagements of various senior royals. The redesigned site also features new content that was not included on the old site: photos of the royal family, historical documents, and more video material.
The Queen launched the new site on February 12 at Buckingham Palace.
For more on The Queen's website and her other technological involvements, visit this thread.Filed under The United Kingdom
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UNC study: no need to repeat colonoscopy until 5 years after first screening
September 17, 2008 — Among people who have had an initial colonoscopy that found no polyps, a possible sign of cancer, the risk of developing colorectal cancer within five years is extremely low, a new study has found.
"For that reason, once someone has had a negative initial colonoscopy, there is no need for that person to have another colonoscopy sooner than five years after that screening," said David F. Ransohoff, M.D., a professor in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine and senior author of the study, published in the Sept. 18, 2008, issue of The New England Journal of Medicine.
The lead author is Thomas F. Imperiale, M.D., of Indiana University, with whom Ransohoff has collaborated on several colonoscopy studies.
Ransohoff, also a member of UNC's Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, said the latest study confirms what most gastroenterologists already believed, but it is the first large, formal study to confirm this conclusion. The report is also an important step to determine the appropriate interval for rescreening, he said.
"The current recommendations call for rescreening 10 years after an initial negative colonoscopy," he said. "Now, based on the results of this study, we know that there's no need to rescreen sooner than five years later. But we still don't know exactly how long the appropriate screening interval should be, so that's a question that future studies should address."
In the study, 2,436 people were identified who showed no signs or precursors of cancer after an initial colonoscopy. Of these, 1,256 or 56 percent were rescreened five years later. None who were rescreened were found to have cancer. One or more adenomas (polyps) were found in 201 people (16 percent) and of these 16 people (1.3 percent) had advanced adenomas (precancerous polyps). Men were more likely than women to have any type of adenoma and to have an advanced adenoma.
"These findings suggest that among persons who are at average risk for colorectal cancer, rescreening colonoscopy need not be performed sooner than 5 years after an initial colonoscopic examination with normal findings," the study concluded.
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Welcome to Gablody28.03.2014 > 31.05.2014
Galerie E.G.P is pleased to present Welcome to Gablody, a solo show by the London-based artist, Oliver Bragg.
In his most recent series, Bragg makes use of various media to evoke a sense of urban contemporary life. The works show faint glimpses of late night reflection and artificial light, a city absorbed by all the senses. This is Gablody, Bragg's parallel universe in which meaning is found in the signs, symbols and language which surround us. By inviting the viewer to step into this world of re-imagined culture, the artist challenges our concept of realtiy.
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I've been working on base cartography for the research area in Rwanda. Unlike here in Cleveland, we have some great topography to work with, so we can leverage that for basemaps. But, it's such a beautiful landscape, I didn't want to sell these hillshades short by doing a halfway job, so I've been diving deep.
First, some legacy. I read three great blog posts on hillshades. One was from ESRI revealing their "Next Generation Hillshade". Drawing on Swiss Cartographic Traditions, these are some nice looking hillshades using lighting sources from multiple directions (more on this later):
Next, we look to Peter Richardsons's recent post on Mapzen's blog regarding terrain simplification.
I tried (not nearly as hard as I should have) to understand their code, when I saw a link to Daniel Huffman's blog post from 2011 on terrain generalization: On Generalization Blending for Shaded Relief.
That's when I saw the equation:
((Generalized DEM * Weight) + (Detailed DEM * (WeightMax – Weight))) / WeightMax
I'll let you read these posts, rather than rehashing, but here's what I did toward adding to them. The gist of Daniel and Peter's approach is to blend together a high resolution and lower resolution version of the DEM based on a weighting factor. Both use a standard deviation filter to determine where to use the high resolution DEM vs resampled version — if the location is much higher or lower than it's neighbors, it is considered an important feature, and given detail, otherwise the low resolution version is used (actually, I suspect Mapzen's approach is only highlighting top features based on their diagrams, but I haven't dived into the code to verify).
The Need
Excuse the colors, we'll fix those at the end, but this allows us to simplify something that looks like this:
Into something that looks like this:
See how the hilltops and valleys remain in place and at full detail, but some of the minor facets of the hillsides are simplified? This is our aim.
I developed a pure GDAL approach for the simplification. It is purely command line, has hardcoded file names, etc, but could be done with a python or other API and turned into a proper function. TL:DR: this is not yet refined but quite effective.
Landscape Position
If you've been following my blog for a while, you may recall a series of blog posts on determining landscape position using gdal.
This, with small modification, is a perfect tool for determining where to retain DEM features and where to generalize. The one modification is to calculate standard deviation from our simple difference data.
The Tools
Back to those ugly colors on my hillshade version of the map. They go deeper than just color choice — it's hard not to get a metallic look to digital hillshades. We see it in ESRI's venerable map and in Mapbox's Outdoor style. Mapzen may have avoided it by muting the multiple-light approach that ESRI lauds and Mapbox uses — I'm not sure.
HDRI (Shading)
To avoid this with our process (HT Brandon Garmin) I am using HDRI environment mapping for my lighting scheme. This allows for more complicated and realistic lighting that is pleasing to the eye and easy to interpret. Anyone who has followed me for long enough knows where this is going: straight to Pov-Ray… :
The results? Stunning (am I allowed to say that?):
The color is very simple here, as we'll be overlaying data. Please stay tuned.


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What would a stat be without some new songs to check out? And there's some good stuff this week, too.
1. Alexisonfire, Familiar Drugs
Single (for now) (Distort)
RIYL: Drugs that you know.
A cryptic Instagram post had fans freaking out worldwide. And yes, it meant new music from the best screamo band on the planet. And yes, it sounds like Alexisonfire should. This begs the question: What else is on the way? We'll see, won't we?
2. Simple Creatures, Drug
Single (for now) (Warner)
RIYL: Any drugs (and blink-182)
Blink-182 isn't doing much at the moment and neither is All Time Low. So to burn off some creativity, Mark Hoppus and Alex Gaskarth—guys who have known each other forever—whipped up this single with producer Zakk Cervini. A debut EP is due in March.
3. Bring Me the Horizon, Medicine
Amo (RCA)
RIYL: Prescription drugs
Before the album came out on January 25, it was preceded by five singles (nearly 50% of the entire record). Some fans are a little annoyed at the band's poppier approach, but BMtH evidently thought they'd maxed out on building their fanbase with their original sound. Remember how the group trolled fans about opening for Justin Bieber's 2016 UK tour? Not entirely a joke, apparently. This record could introduce them to a whole new crowd—but at the expense of some of their long-time fans. Generally, though, reviews have been quite positive.
4. Nikki's Wives, Lemonade
Single (Independent)
RIYL: Canadian indie bands with loads of potential
I've been following this London, Ontario, band for a couple of years now and I really think they're on the cusp of doing something big. Canada's Next Big Thing for 2019? It's impossible to say with certainty (this is the music industry, after all), but I'd keep my eye on them.
5. PUP, Kids
Morbid Stuff (Universal)
Recommended if you like: Listening to songs in your '97 Camry
One of the great Toronto bands of the 2010s and they just keep getting better. If you're already a fan, you might now about PUP the Zine Vol 2 which came with a flexi-disc featuring this song when it was mailed to fans last month. The album is due April 5.
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There's nothing better than a smoothie as a filling meal or a refreshing snack. But recipes for smoothies can seem endless and become overwhelming! So, here are a list of Dr. Oz's favorite smoothies to get you started. From wrinkle-fighting to cancer-fighting and berries to kale there are smoothies for all kinds of health concerns and taste buds. Give one (or several!) a try.


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Her critics may dismiss Ann Coulter as a "kooky-con," the craziest of conservatives. But there is nothing nutty about Coulter.
If the right-wing diva appears to be crazy, it is crazy like a fox.
The woman is diabolical. And she has a genius for the doing more damage than mere mortals could hope to inflict.
And her latest gambit is so sly that she has everyone talking — and just about everyone misreading her sly intent.
Few political realities are more certain than the fact that Coulter hates, hates, hates Hillary Clinton with a passion she and other conservatives will never be able to muster against the softly-bipartisan Barack Obama. Obama is probably more liberal than the former First Lady, and almost certainly more likely to win the presidency if the Democrats nominate him.
But Obama does not have the history with Coulter and the conservative echo chamber that the Clinton's have. Bill Clinton outmaneuvered them even when the GOP took control of the House and Senate. And Hillary Clinton named their "vast right-wing conspiracy."
The disdain is deep, sworn and eternal. Coulter calls Hillary Clinton "pond scum."
But Coulter is making the rounds of right-wing talk-television shows to say she'd back Clinton as the Democratic nominee against Republican John McCain. "She's more conservative that he is," the author and commentator claims. "She will be stronger on the war on terrorism…I will campaign for her if it's McCain."
Of the woman she once accused of committing treason, Coulter now says, "Hillary's gonna be our girl!"
Here's the slanderer of all things Democratic and liberal from last night's "Hannity & Colmes" gabfest on Fox:
ANN COULTER: Hillary is absolutely more conservative. Moreover she lies less than John McCain, she's smarter than John McCain. When she's caught shamelessly lying at least the Clinton's know they've been caught lying. McCain is so stupid he doesn't even know he's been caught.
ALAN COLMES: Go! Could you fill in for me next week? Let me get this straight, would you vote for Hillary Clinton?
COULTER: Yes!
COLMES: You would actually go into a voting booth…
COULTER: If it's close and the candidate is John McCain, because John McCain is not only bad for Republicanism –- which he definitely is -–he's bad for the country.
COLMES: Can I tell you the last thing Hillary Clinton wants, is Ann Coulter's endorsement.
Colmes is, of course, correct.
Coulter despises McCain because he is on the verge of winning the Republican nomination without the help of the paid partisans of the Republican right. She and Rush Limbaugh fear for their franchises.
She is a sly woman this Ann Coulter. And she is not entirely insincere. While she may not really believe that Clinton is more conservative than McCain, she undoubtedly would rather have Clinton as president. That's because Clinton presidency would be a full-employment program for the right-wing attack machine for which she is Cog No. 1. And a McCain presidency, by defining a different and more responsible conservatism, could marginalize Coulter and her kind.
So anything Coulter can say to hurt McCain, she will say. And to suggest that the right's favorite demon, Hillary Clinton, is more credibly conservative than the maverick McCain hurts the senator from Arizona with the Republican base that is only now beginning to warm to him.
But the diabolical part of Coulter's strategy is this: In attacking McCain and endorsing Clinton, the right-wing heroine that the left loves to hate hurts both the Republican she fears and the Democrat she despises.


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Take a look at how we organise our Writing curriculum. It is structured around lager blocks (one per half term) focussing on the purpose for writing and what different 'genres' or 'text types' have in common. The four writing purposes we will be using are:
Writing to Entertain
Writing to Inform
Writing to Persuade
Writing to Discuss
KS1 only focus on the purposes of writing to Entertain and Inform. LKS2 look at writing to Entertain, Inform and Persuade, whilst UKS2 look at all four purposes.