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Work in film has slowed down a bit for the winter, allowing me to get in a little mapping. But what's this?!! A new Left 4 Dead 2 map? To be added onto the existing work on a campaign? Am I sure?! No! But here's a Hammer screenshot anyway...
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Weekend Craft Win
Okay, so it's not a very epic win, and Adam corrected me on it, but I was pretty proud of it.
We had several unmatched socks laying around, and so this is now hanging in our laundry room. And I happen to like it a lot.
Weekend Craft Fail
I have some doilies that my great-great grandmother crocheted and I think they are beautiful. Here are a few of them:
I just love how they look. I have been inspired by her to make some of my own and to mix some of mine with hers in some decorating. Well, even though I know how to crochet, this was a totally different animal. I worked on them all weekend. I sometimes struggled with the patterns, but could usually figure out what was supposed to be going on. Here are my doilies, that took my forever to make:
Yeah. Embarrassing. Yes, I admit it. I fail at doilies.
Hopefully one of these days I'll get over the shame and try again. Maybe practice makes perfect.
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I've got an HH Stingray that just started to make very strange noises. It did it a couple of times while I was practicing. I checked the battery and, according to the tester, it has a full charge.
I took the bass on a gig last night (I brought a backup bass just in case) and the weird noises occurred when I set the bass in the stand just in front of my amp.
I have another Stingray, an "H" that has never had a problem even when placed on the stand next to my amp.
The problem isn't the amplifier. The problem occurred when I was practicing through a different amplifier.
Is there a way to fix the problem?


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Elsevier Sponsors a Year of ScienceDirect and Scopus for Qinghai University and Tibet University
Elsevier and12 additional publishers provide Tibet and Qinhai Scholars with Peer Reviewed Research
Beijing, 21 August 2006 - Elsevier, a leading scientific, technical and medical publisher, today announced the sponsorship of Qinghai University and Tibet University in China with 12-month complimentary use of ScienceDirect, Elsevier's online platform including over 2,000 STM full-text journals. The two universities will also enjoy access to Scopus, Elsevier's award-winning abstract and citation database. This initiative forms part of Elsevier's support of an ambitious array of Chinese programs to develop the nation's far-west provinces such as Qinghai and Tibet.
In 2005, Lee Pui Lee, Sales Director, China, Science & Technology, Elsevier initiated a proposal to donate a year of ScienceDirect and Scopus to the far-western universities with the Deputy Director of Tsinghua University Library, Yang Yi,. This initiative was later joined by 12 additional international publishers and vendors, including: Cambridge Scientific Abstract, Inspec, ProQuest Information and Learning, Springer, Thomson Scientific, iGroup, ACM, SIAM, Swets, John Wiley, EBSCO and Thomson Gale.
To ensure that researchers at both universities are gaining the best possible use of the sponsored, databases, training sessions have been conducted on the campuses in Xining and Lhasa. The response has been overwhelming. Qinghai University Library Director Chen Wei expressed his gratitude towards all the companies, "This donation has greatly expanded the scientific resources available to our users".
"Elsevier is honored to extend access to ScienceDirect and Scopus to the researchers of Qinghai University and Tibet University, who will join the 500,000 researchers elsewhere in China, and 10 million worldwide, who use our platforms," noted Sharon Ruwart, Managing Director China, Science & Technology, Elsevier, "Connecting researchers in China's far west to their counterparts in the larger scientific community will enhance their ability to contribute innovative research to China's development."
Yang Yi, Deputy Director of Tsinghua University Library, remarked, "This initiative has tremendously supported the research collection development of the far-west region by broadening the perspectives of teaching professors and students on high-quality international literatures. So far, the responses from researchers at these two universities have been great. On behalf of Qinghai University and Tibet University, I would like to express our sincere gratitude to all 13 companies for offering 1-year access to over 40 databases in total. I hope there will be more publishers and other information providers who support universities from poorer regions in China in accessing wider range of academic information."
A ceremony was held on 11 August 2006 at Qinghai University and on August 14th at Tibet University to commemorate the year of sponsorship. During the ceremonies, Elsevier also presented a total of 124 of the company's most prestigious book titles, valued at US$20,000.
Victor Lam, Managing Director, Greater China, Health Sciences, Elsevier, commented, "We are also very pleased to contribute our renowned medical books to the Qinghai and Tibet Universities as part of our efforts to facilitate advanced health information sharing in China." Tibet University Library Director Shi Jian Ming said "Elsevier's donation will greatly expand the collection of our library, providing information we need to promote scientific research."
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Helloooo :) So I survived One Direction! It was quite good fun really and my sister is still in a bit of a daze, so it was worth it. We did somehow find ourselves being shouted at by some crazed Niall fan to help her hold up her sign she'd made though...and she was not a child lol. I'll post a few pictures if my sister ever comes out of her daze long enough to send me them.
Today I just have a very simple gradient to show you using OPI Sheer Tints.
Lastly, I added some fishy stamping from one of my MoYou plates, using Star Gazer 232.
I'd love some more suggestions for nail art looks to try out with these polishes! Just leave a comment :)


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along the way
along the way
During some event or timeframe. I had known Liz for years, but somewhere along the way in college, we fell in love. Along the way, my son's illness was misdiagnosed, and now he's very sick.
See also: way
do something on/along the ˈway
1 do something as you go somewhere: Buy a burger and eat it on the way.
2 do something while you do something else; do something during the process of doing something else: I've succeeded in this business, and met a lot of nice people along the way.


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It didn't even occur to me to keep my children's autism a secret. For Lady Bug, her speech delay and social differences and stimming were becoming more and more obvious, and it only made sense to me to help others understand my daughter so that they would not be confused or hurt when she didn't respond to their attempts to engage her. And when the boys were officially identified/diagnosed, Early Bird had been in the middle of some big struggles that had caused a temporary rift with good friends, and explaining to people that, no, he's not a spoiled horrible child he's having a hard time and his brain is hijacked by anxiety and flight or fight, was only natural.
So it surprises me when I see parents in private facebook groups asking about whether to tell people about their children's autism or not. One reason is there was no way we were going to keep that information from our kids. And once our kids knew, there was not way to keep it a secret. "Hi, I'm [Early Bird.] I'm autistic level 1 with sensory processing disorder. My sister is also autistic and is level 3. My brother is autistic level 1, like me!" This is Early Bird's introduction script to every new person he meets. We told him it was a positive thing, so he lives accordingly. Except for a few months after he found out there are people who think autism is a disease that they want to "cure." Then he was terrified to tell new people for fear they would try to take him away from us and try to "cure" him. (He read over my shoulder and asked questions that I had to answer.) Thankfully he's grown less afraid and more confident about it again.
I understand that not everyone we encounter is going to be accepting, understanding, and non-judgmental. But that is their problem, not mine. Probably it's my own neurodiversity that helps me not worry about fitting in their box. Surely the benefit of appropriate expectations and some grace and understanding is worth the risk of people looking at your family as atypical. (Which, you are.) I can understand that is difficult for some people. But if you hide it like it's shameful, that message is going to get picked up by your kid, and they may believe that it makes them wrong and shameful. And I don't believe any parent wants that.
Also, for every silent judge on social media I also have PMs from people asking questions, self identifying, or finally getting their kid assessed. And that makes it worth it.


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According to the September 25, 2007 press release from Cable in the Classroom, "New Poll Finds That Parents Are Taking Proactive Steps To Keep Kids Safe And Smart On The Web:"
…85 percent of parents and legal guardians of children ages 6 to 18 who go online say they have talked to their child in the past year about how to be safe and smart online, and more than 93 percent say they have taken action to make sure the Web sites their kid visits meets with their approval.
Even though the vast majority (71 percent) of parents reported having experienced one or more Internet-related issues with their child within the past year, an overwhelming majority of parents also believe the Internet is helpful to their kids. Parents agreed that the Internet has helped their child to learn skills and information needed to succeed in school (81 percent), learn about different cultures and ideas (74 percent), access current events and news (68 percent), express him/herself creatively (65 percent), and connect to and collaborate with people with similar interests (53 percent).
These report findings are good news amidst a plethora of "bad headlines" relating to Internet safety and online social networking for young people. I have, incidentally, started two new del.icio.us (social bookmarks) tags for good headlines and bad headlines relating to digital social networking and Internet safety. Most of these have been linked previously from my "Safe Digital Social Networking" online curriculum page. I'm going to keep adding to these tagged links in the weeks ahead.
A PowerPoint presentation saved as a PDF file highlighting the poll and its findings is available, as well as a podcast of the press briefing announcing this survey result. Both these media files are linked from the main Cable in the Classroom website for poll results. Today I listened to the complete podcast and reviewed the eighteen slides included in this published presentation. These are some of my key learning points.
In the podcast, "Annie" from Common Sense Media (one of the sponsors of this research effort, and now a graphical link I've added in my right blog sidebar) stated that her organization rates all sorts of media for parents to:
…help parents remain the primary influence in their kids' lives, because right now the average child in the United States is watching an average of 45 hours of media per week and spends only 17 hours with their parents.
This statistic is a key reason for boundaries on all types of media use, as I mentioned in "tips" on the post "Internet Safety: The mistake of talking down to kids." This is what I call "digital discipline," and it goes hand in hand with "digital dialog."
The following slide (#5) from the presentation summarizes some of the "good news" from this poll. More parents than I would guess are reportedly talking to their kids about Internet safety and acceptable digital use issues:
I am trying to be more attuned to the methodologies of surveys like this, in part due to questions I've received about the August 2007 "Creating and Connecting" study from workshop participants. This study by Harris Interactive was conducted as a telephone survey on 16-17 August 2007 and included 2,030 adults eighteen years old and older, along with "411 parents or guardians of online children ages 6 to 18." Is this representative of adults and parents in your local area? There is no way of knowing without doing your own survey of your local population, but I find these results none-the-less interesting and worthwhile.
Over half of the survey's respondents reported they use some type of filtering or blocking software at home to moderate web use. I was pleased to see that result, but I wonder what the breakdown of that statistic is by the age of students/children? Some of the other research findings included in the report summary (PDF) are broken down by age group, but the percentage utilizing web content filters is not. My perception of parents here in Oklahoma is that fewer than 50% are using web filters at home.
One of the most significant findings from this study was that the more engaged parents are in talking with their children about Internet safety and ethics issues, the more positively they view the Internet's value for learning. This finding is summarized in the following slide from the presentation summary (page 8):
This survey finding also makes logical sense: The more parents are using the Internet and talking to their kids about its use, the more "enlightened" they will be to understand everything about the Internet is NOT evil. As I generally say in presentations about Internet safety and online social networking, it's relatively easy to "scare people off the Internet." It's good to see that at least for this survey's sample, a majority of people didn't have radically negative views about the Internet.
When parents get engaged in communicating with their children about Internet usage, it should be expected that they'll run into issues and problems encountered in the online environment. This slide shows almost three-fourths of those surveyed reported encountering some type of problem with their children's use of the Internet:
Some of the results in the above slide (based on parent responses) are contradicted by other studies. According to a presenter during the study's press conference (available as a mp3 podcast) an iSafe group's study of students found 40% of students self-reporting incidents of cyberbullying. This contrasts with this Harris Interactive phone survey which found parents saying only 8% of their kids have experienced cyberbullying. We can't draw certain conclusions, but this seems to suggest parents may not be fully aware of the cyberbullying events taking place in their children's lives, and are therefore underreporting cyberbullying experiences.
The focus of this survey's conclusions are similar to others I've previously read about: Parents need to maintain open lines of communication with their kids. "Open dialog" is the key. It also suggests tangible benefits of parents having more regular conversations about Internet use and what is acceptable. The more parents are communicating about Internet use with their kids, survey results indicate parents have better perceptions about the benefits of Internet use.
One suggestion from the press conference / podcast that I hadn't considered, but certainly makes sense, is helping young people choose "gender neutral screennames." My own experiences last night with my wife venturing for the first time into some Yahoo chat rooms suggest that simply BEING in a chat room, irrespective of your screen name, can be enough to invite direct IM contact by others in the room. We didn't even type anything, and were contacted after we left the chat room by three different individuals:
Having conversations about website validity and the possible "agenda" of website authors is also suggested by the presentation authors. This is an essential part of media literacy skills, and I heartily agree with their conclusions in this respect. The presenters mentioned that while the survey results indicate many parents ARE talking to students about Internet safety issues, not many are focusing on media literacy and critical thinking in the ways they could and arguably should be.
The need to centrally locate the computer in the home was also emphasized by the presenters. This is a common theme in Internet safety presentations, but something I think is still overlooked or ignored by many parents. Parents who have provided their children with their own television set in their room many view a computer as "just another screen," and thereby fail to grasp the negative potential of online interaction and website browsing.
The Common Sense Media folks in the press conference maintained that 11-14 year old children are NOT ready for social networking websites like MySpace. I agree when it comes to MySpace, but do think social networking sites like Imbee (specifically created for this age demographic, non-commercial, and set up for students to socially network with their face-to-face friends rather than strangers) ARE appropriate and needed. Students need opportunities to practice safe online social networking, not just theoretically talk about it. Think.com is another free, wonderful environment for students in schools.
This is illuminating research, but it does not suggest educators and other child-advocates should become complacent when it comes to encouraging dialog about Internet safety. I'd like to know the states the 2000+ respondents of this survey live in. It's good to hear dialog about Internet safety issues is on the rise, but those conversations need to be maintained and expanded. Just as our need to have driver's education classes and continually focus on road safety will continue as long as we have people driving cars, we'll need continuing dialog about Internet safety as long as the Internet remains an essential part of our information landscape. I don't see either of those realities changing in the United States anytime soon.
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It has been more than three years since my missed abortion. Though I have not forgotten all about you, Angel, I failed to remember I kept a diary of us together. Reading them again made me ask God how you have been? You would have been three years and two months old today. But I read in one literature that in heaven, there are no children or elderly. "Some have said babies are given a resurrection body (1 Corinthians 15:35-49) that is 'fast-forwarded' to the 'ideal age,' just as those who die at an old age are 're-wound' to the perfect age. Some believe it to be around 30. Some guess 33 since that is approximately the age Jesus was when He died. (lifted from https://www.gotquestions.org/age-Heaven.html).
Anyway, I know you are watching us from heaven. And you saw your momi sad. So you made me discover these writings to remind me of how strong we were back then.
The diary of Angel: Week 4 Day 5
I was not able to document everything before. Now with your coming, I would like to make an account of everything throughout our eight-month journey.
Today is our four weeks and five days together. We had a not so good night sleep. I had a nightmare. I dreamt that I was sleeping at work and my boss called my attention. I promise to pray more sincerely tonight so we could have a real peaceful sleep together.


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A Major Donation Means Renovations for Woodridge Park
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COLUMBIA - The Cosmopolitan Luncheon Club will give the Columbia Parks and Recreation Department $125,000 Monday.
The money will help renovate 20-year-old Woodridge Park. Park Planning and Development Superintendent Mike Snyder said while it was time to update Woodridge Park anyway, the department wanted to make it more accessible for the area's new residents.
"With the Ronald McDonald House becoming a next-door neighbor, MU Women's and Children's Hospital moving into the area as well as the Thompson Autism Foundation being really close by, we thought it made sense to make this more of an inclusive playground," Snyder said.
Park improvements include refurbishing the playground and adding a walking trail to make the park more user-friendly for patients and families using the surrounding medical facilities.
Synder said a local doctor helped kick off the Woodridge Park Project with a personal donation to improve Columbia's parks' accessibility, and using the Cosmo Club's donation, the department also applied for the mathching funds for grant.
"In total, we have $213,000 to put towards improvements at Woodridge Park," Snyder said.
The Cosmo Club will formally present their donation to the department before the city council meeting on June 16.


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|chocolate cake recipe
The following recipe is for the best chocolate cake I have ever tasted, and I'm a pretty huge fan of chocolate cake. :) My daughter and I like to make this cake, if you make it, drop me a line and let me know how it turned out.
This recipe is from "Old Favorites from New Friends", The Wellesley Newcomer's Club Cookbook, published in 1995, with typography/design/indexing by my friend Ellena M.
Moist Chocolate Cake This is the cake your mom used to make-- the kind you can't find a recipe for anymore, until now!
2 C.sugar 2 C.flour 1 C.vegetable oil 1 tsp. salt 2 eggs 1 tsp. baking powder 1 C.milk 2 tsp. baking soda 1 C.hot coffee 1/2 C.sour cream, optional but makes it even moister. (Can substitute applesauce.) 1 tsp. vanilla extract Whipped cream or powdered sugar (or chocolate frosting) 3/4 C.cocoa
Preheat oven to 325 F. Grease and flour a 9x13 inch pan. In a large mixing bowl, combine the ingredients in order, one at a time, mixing well at low speed after each addition. (Do not mix fast or too much.) Pour into pan. Bake in a preheated oven for about 40 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean. Serve with powdered sugar or whipped cream (or chocolate frosting).
NOTE: For best results, bake one day before serving.
YIELD: 12 to 15 servings.


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A captivating drama that explodes with an intense visual style and sharp storytelling, Oceania is a rarity for such a young director. At 17-years-old, Harpreet Dehal wrote and directed a film that reveals a talent and a cinematic eye far beyond even the most seasoned Hollywood directors, and based on his debut film, there is no doubt that Dehal is one of the big discoveries of the year.
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Ancient cod bones unearthed at an Alaska archaeological site carry a very modern warning for a world with a rapidly changing climate -- as sea levels rise, so do levels of mercury in the food chain.
The bones, discovered at a coastal site in Katmai National Park and Preserve, date back to the early and mid-Holocene, a time when a warming climate melted glaciers and expanded the oceans. The rising seas inundating the Bering Land Bridge and other stretches of terrain caused some of the naturally occurring mercury that was locked in dry or frozen land to get free and disperse in the expanded marine waters.
The high levels of mercury in the cod bones are described in a study published in the journal Frontiers in Environmental Science.
After the end of the last Ice Age, sea levels inched up gradually, reaching their current level about 4,000 years ago. The cod bones, found among the trash dumped at an ancient human dwelling site, date back to that time and earlier.
Examination of the cod bones shows that mercury levels peaked as sea levels rose during the first half of the Holocene and mercury levels fell dramatically thousands of years later, when sea levels were stable and no new land areas were being conquered by water.
The study, conducted by scientists from the University of Calgary, UAF, the National Park Service and other institutions, is the first to examine mercury levels in a Gulf of Alaska marine species over that span of time. It describes just one aspect of the knowledge that has come from the Shelikof Strait archaeological site at a place called Mink Island.
Excavations began in the 1990s and were prompted by concerns that treasure hunters or curio seekers could damage the site, said study co-author Jeanne Schaaf, a retired National Park Service archaeologist who led the work there.
Long-term erosion and land changes also took a toll, but plenty of dwelling remains were left -- enough to provide a wealth of archaeological information about the people who were part of what is known as Ocean Bay culture.
"The erosion is more like big bites out of a cookie, but the layers of the cookie are still very well-preserved," Schaaf said.
The Mink Island site, now sealed off to protect against future erosion, holds a series of dwelling floors unearthed in the excavations, she said. The floors are covered with reddish ochre, a mineral that was used as a waterproofing material, she said.
The cod bones are among thousands of artifacts retrieved in the project, Schaaf said. While there were other types of fish bones, the bones of cod are a little larger and more solid and thus considered easier to test for mercury, she said.
Analysis at UAF found mercury levels that were generally above 0.4 parts per million in bones about 4,400 to 5,200 years old. The highest mercury level found in any of the cod bones was 0.7 parts per million. Much-younger cod bones extracted from the Mink Island site -- those less than 1,000 years old -- had much lower mercury levels, down to about 1/20th of the highest measurements found.
Modern-day Shelikof Strait-area cod, the study said, generally carry mercury levels in their muscles of 0.25 to 0.5 parts per million, according to the study.
The highest readings from the ancient cod bones are eye-opening because they come from a time well before the Industrial Revolution, but match or exceed present-day mercury levels in fish, which are known to be elevated by industrial activities around the world, said study co-author Lawrence Duffy, a UAF biochemistry professor and expert in contaminants.
It is not yet understood precisely how mercury levels in bone correspond to those in muscle – the part of the fish that people would eat – but scientists believe the cod muscle would generally have significantly higher levels, the study said.
If readings from a contemporary sea otter in the Mink Island area are any indication, Duffy said, some of the cod eaten by people thousands of years ago was laden with mercury in levels well above today's Food and Drug Administration's limit of 1 part per million for fish.
That sea otter had a mercury level of 9 parts per billion in its bones, but the level was more than six times as high -- 58 parts per billion -- in the animal's muscle tissue, Duffy said. If the ancient cod muscle similarly held six times the level of mercury found in bones, he said, eating that fish would have posed health risks for the people inhabiting the area 4,000 to 5,000 years ago, especially the youngest inhabitants, whose brains were just developing and were thus most vulnerable to contaminants, he said.
"The population, I'm comfortable in saying, would be more at risk than a population 1,000 years ago or 500 years ago when the levels had dropped," he said.
Mercury is a toxic element that can occur naturally and be sequestered in dry or frozen soils. But when those soils become wet or thaw, the mercury can be released and consumed by organisms. Mercury is most dangerous when it undergoes a chemical process to become methylmercury, the form that accumulates most readily in fish and the mammals that eat them.
Industrialization has added to the loads available to fish.
Human activities since the start of the Industrial Age (circa 1790), largely fossil-fuel combustion and mining, have tripled the levels of mercury in the surface waters of the world's oceans, according to a comprehensive study published last August in the journal Nature.
Now, present-day climate change is combining with modern industrial activities to increase mercury loads in ecosystems around the world. Effects are likely to be pronounced in Alaska, among other northern locations, Duffy said.
"With the predicted increase in rainfall along the Aleutians and in western Alaska in the next 50 to 100 years, with glaciers melting and ice levels melting, mercury will become more mobile and go into the food chain," he said.
Mercury levels in the far north are rising, scientists say, from permafrost thaw, increased freshwater runoff from rivers and other manifestations of climate change.
Added to that is long-range transport on atmospheric currents of distant mercury emissions from coal burning, mining and other industrial activities happening in latitudes far to the south.


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Two little bits more. I managed to type "through" where I meant "throw" (as in throw them away), and another useful way to mitigate the contention of "lgwr" and "arch" is to use plenty of on line logs. Most systems now have plenty of acreage and limited spindle bandwidth mitigated by cache. You do "ok" as long as you don't overrun the cache. Likewise on line logs. Other than space, there is no significant penalty for having quite a few of them. (I'm a fan of 12, which is divisible by 2, 3, and 4 for potential ping-ponging.) You do not actually have to wait for "arch" to complete until "lgwr" wraps all the way around and wants to switch to the on line log you're still archiving. (You'll still get potentially delaying interference between "arch" reading and "lgwr" writing the same array unless you "ping-pong" them.)
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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org]On Behalf Of Mark W. Farnham Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 10:57 AM
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Subject: RE: Datfiles/logfiles layout
With only two arrays useful separation is a challenge.
You didn't mention where your archived logs go. If you're testing for throughput without archiving and you plan archiving for production, you will probably get a pretty big surprise when you turn on archiving. So even if you don't care about recovery, write the logs and through them away if you want meaningful measurements. Use the same level of block checking and all that stuff that you plan to use in production, or else you're not really testing.
Once you get everything else out of the way and you actually drive an i/o challenge to disk for inserts, it is usually useful to ping-pong the online redo logs so that "arch" is reading a different drive than "lgwr" is writing. While multi-user considerations may mute the advantage, this can make a big difference if a batch insert is dominating performance considerations. You need to use a multiple of logs that is divisible by the available number of locations that have independent throughput (it seems as if this is two in your case), and you need to create them in order to they alternate. If the archive destination is one of these arrays, it still may be okay, since arch will alternate pretty big slugs of read and write when it is operating on the same array or "stripe set."
You apparently have all your control files on the same array, which is probably not a good idea. Are you going with a single control file and relying on multiplexed disks (aka mirrors) when you get to production? Even in test I would not go with a single control file.
Finally, you *may* find that at steady state there is an imbalance in i/o signatures between tables and indexes, so you may want a table tablespace and an index tablespace on each array with the indexes of a given table counterposed with the indexes for that table. If your total production layout is as simple as your test, then it looks pretty good otherwise.
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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org]On Behalf Of Harvinder Singh Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 10:24 AM
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We are setting up the oracle database machine and layout the files as
Env 10g on Win2k
2 cpu xeon processor box
2 raid array (raid 0, since this is testing) of 14 36G each and controller for each
Current layout:
Oracle software, control file, Rollback tablespace, temp tablespace, index tablespace(100GB file with extent sixe of 512MB) on 1 raid array (H:)
Table tablespace (100GB file with extent size of 1GB), redo logs on another array (I:)
We are testing insert performance where we are selecting from IOT table (on H:) and inserting into another table (on (I:) and its indexes on (H:)
Is this configuration looks ok or what are the changes that we can try?
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May 07, 2013jonwise
Mobile devices create an amazing ecosystem for developers to express new ideas, create new business, and expand existing worlds. Services like GameCircle and In-App Purchasing make those experiences more sticky and re-playable, drawing users into the experience with more depth. Another category of ecosystem depth that we've been focusing on is app-enabled accessories. Kindle Fire (as well as other Android devices) can connect to and control an incredible range of new devices, and a couple weeks ago we launched a few of these devices on Amazon.com as official Kindle accessories, creating new ways and new opportunities for developers to connect with Amazon customers.
From the self-stabilizing, Kindle-controllable AR.Drone and the high-tech Nest learning thermostat, to the Sonos wireless music system and the Nexia home automation system, there's virtually no limit to what an application can do with the right accessories.
I've had the opportunity to try out some of the development experiences the devices provide, and I wanted to share just how easy it is to get started. I've chosen the Philips Hue personal wireless lighting system, the starter-kit for which will be available for pre-order on the Amazon App Enabled Accessories store this week. Hue lights connect to a Wireless bridge that connects to your network, and exposes a RESTful API for control over the bulbs -- either individually or in groups. Accessing this API in Android, for Kindle and other devices, is pretty simple...
Once you've got everything connected, you can get started by authenticating as a new developer directly on the bridge:
Enter the root API url "/api" and send a JSON object containing your new developer identity:
Submit the form with POST. You'll get an error back telling you to push the link button on your bridge. Press it, then POST again, and you're in. This creates your development URL on the bridge, separating your commands from any other app. You can now send commands to the URL:
From here, you can send commands to groups:
Get state, or send commands to individual lights:
Here's some Android code telling the bridge to turn all the lights to blue...
HttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpPut httpPut = new HttpPut("http://<bridgeip>/api/kindledev/groups/0/action");
JSONObject lampMsg = new JSONObject();
lampMsg.put("on", true); //set the lamps to on
lampMsg.put("sat", 255); //set the saturation to 255
lampMsg.put("bri", 255); //set the brightness to 255
lampMsg.put("hue", 46360); //set the hue to blue
StringEntity se = new StringEntity(lampMsg.toString());
httpput.setHeader(HTTP.CONTENT_TYPE, "application/json");
HttpResponse response = httpClient.execute(httpPut);
Full documentation on the Hue API can be found on their website.
The other devices I mentioned all have programmability interfaces as well. Their own apps hit Amazon a couple weeks ago, but we can't wait to see what other experiences the developer community can create with them!


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Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters. – Albert Einstein
Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay. – Sallust
Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things . . . I am tempted to think . . . there are no little things . . . – Bruce Barton
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Keep it pretty 🙂
Fall is coming and I'm bored with the gym. I am still walking but the falling temps will slow that down soon enough.
On the lookout for workout alternatives, I have some interesting finds 🙂
Yoga or Pilates – forms range from gentle to more vigorous workouts; reduces stress; builds overall strength, flexibility, and improves posture; develops core; can burn a lot of calories.
Hula Hoops – adds variety and a little fun to a workout; is great for the core; is considered low-intensity for most; light hoops cause you expend more energy and so are better for aerobic exercise; weighted hoops move slower allowing you to work out longer and burn calories. Cinch that waist!
Belly Dance – develops feminine grace; improves posture and overall muscle tone most especially the abdominals; depending on intensity, can burn a pretty decent amount of calories.
Burlesque – adds spice and boosts confidence; includes lots of stretching for increased flexibility; corrects posture; promotes core stability; and is considered low intensity. Now this looks fun!
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If you remember nothing else, remember two things,
- Less is more and
- Femininity is sexy.
When you truly embody femininity, there is little need to pile on other things to display it. There is no need to overcompensate.
Less means less glitter, less embellishment, fewer accessories, less need to reveal body parts . . .
Simply accentuate your softness, your curves, and your beauty.
for the young ladies who are having trouble with the concept 🙂
to be feminine and sexy . . . yet classy and not trashy.
Just keep femininity first.
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Growing up, it was pretty clear, based solely on dress and deportment, who the "working girls", the cheap chicks, and the normal women were.
Times have changed. What looks like, walks like, and acts like a duck is still a duck but prefers not to be deemed a duck.
Unfortunately, women who miss the Class vs. Trash lesson, emulate what gets attention.
And train wrecks do get attention.
People are visual. The eyes constantly gather information. This is a good thing. The more information you take in, the better able you are to draw a reasonable conclusion. And people generally do make logical conclusions based on what they see.
So, if you look like, walk like, and act like a trashy female, you will be deemed a trashy female.
Too much cleavage, hemlines too high, clothing too tight, colors too loud, big, visible tattoos (masculine), AND strappy platform stilettos – too much. It's all too much. And overcompensation screams insecurity.
The only time overcompensation does not point directly at insecurity, is when the woman is "working" or just plain cheap.
Draw your own lines. Base them on reality rather than what you wish or perfect worlds that do not exist.
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The loveliest distance between two points. – Mae West
Beauty is the first present Nature gives to women, and the first it takes away. – Méré
Use it or lose it 🙂
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Focus on islet cell research at this year's DRWF-supported IPITA 2017 meeting
Clinicians and scientists from around the world, specialising in islet cell research will meet in Oxford this June when the annual IPITA congress will be held in the UK for the first time.
The IPITA (the International Pancreas And Islet Transplant Association) 16th International Congress takes place from 20-23 June.
DRWF is supporting the event, as it has done over the last 10 years, in line with the charity's commitment to islet cell research and transplants in the UK and around the world.
Professor Paul Johnson
Professor Paul Johnson, Director of the DRWF Human Islet Isolation Facility at Oxford and Chair of the Local Organising Committee, IPITA 2017, said: "The UK has a strong track record in the fields of whole pancreas and islet transplantation and has been instrumental in a number of key developments including being one of the first countries in the world to have a nationally commissioned clinical islet transplant programme, as well as establishing the first joint whole organ and islet donor pancreas allocation scheme."
The scientific programme for the event will cover all aspects of whole pancreas and islet transplantation (both research and clinical practice), with a specific focus on developing increased collaboration between the whole pancreas and islet transplant communities with the aim of moving towards an integrated, patient-centred approach to beta-cell replacement.
The event will provide the next generation of clinicians and scientists working in the field of beta-cell replacement with a forum to explore the full range of novel 'state of the art' technologies relevant to beta-cell replacement.
Islet cell transplantation involves taking islets from the pancreas of a deceased organ donor. The islets are then extracted and purified, and implanted into the liver of someone with type 1 diabetes. Once implanted, the islets become lodged in the structure of the liver and begin to make and release insulin in response to increased blood sugar levels. The main indication for this treatment is for people with type 1 diabetes who have lost the warning signs of dangerously low blood sugars (hypoglycaemia unawareness).
Islet cell transplantation and whole organ pancreas transplantation are considered treatment options for when these more straightforward measures have failed or are unsuitable. It is also available for people who still experience difficulty controlling type 1 diabetes after a kidney transplant.
Islet cell transplants thanks to research funded by DRWF can change the lives of people with type 1 diabetes
DRWF has been funding the DRWF Human Islet Isolation Facility in the Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolism at the Churchill Hospital in Oxford for many years. This facility, one of the leading islet isolation laboratories in Europe, provides human islets, not only for clinical transplantation, but also for a broad range of world-leading diabetes related research projects that require human islets.
Islet cell transplantation is approved by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) and the NHS has funded the clinical element of islet cell transplants as a recognised treatment option for a selection of people with type 1 diabetes since 2008. The UK was the first country in the world where this procedure was recognised as a proven treatment for life threatening hypoglycaemia.
DRWF Chief Executive Sarah Tutton said: "DRWF has been funding islet cell research since 2004, with the award of an unprecedented grant of £1.2 million to the Nuffield Department of Surgery in Oxford to establish an islet isolation facility. There have been significant advances in the development, refinement and offering of this treatment over many years in the UK and whilst there are still many questions yet to be answered about how to improve the results of islet cell transplants in order to make them more effective, these questions are being addressed by research teams around the world.
"Whilst the aim of a transplant is to restore hypo awareness, some transplant recipients also achieve insulin independence for sustained periods of time. We have an ongoing commitment to support islet cell research and transplant in the UK and around the world in the hope that the limiting factors to its availability can be overcome and as many people as possible can benefit."
Whilst islet cell transplants are limited in availability for a number of reasons, one of the main restrictions is the availability of suitable pancreas donations. With this in mind, DRWF, along with sister organisations in the US, Sweden and Finland, are supporting the work of Professor Bernhard Hering at the Schultz Diabetes Institute in Minneapolis who is working in partnership with the Spring Point Project to seek an alternative, sustainable source of islet cells suitable for human transplant.
Find out more about DRWF-funded research here
Read more about IPITA 2017
Read the DRWF booklet Islet cell transplant – what you need to know


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Settling Into Yourself
October 26, 2013
You know the feeling: the way you feel when you sit down in your favorite chair. Or, the way you feel as your head rests on your pillow in bed and you pull the blankets up and close your eyes. Settled. Comfortable. Secure.
What about settling into ourselves?
Today my yoga teacher said, "Settle into yourself." I thought, "What a beautiful, tender thought," Then I thought, "How do I do that?"
So now here I am trying to figure it out. If I think about a workday morning and all that happens from the moment I open my eyes, get out of bed and begin the day, there is really nothing at all about settling into myself. I am settling into the day and the morning routines, but really not into me.
At work, it's a similar pattern. First there are all the routine things to do, then the checking in with people and then the doing of being a preschool teacher.
And the day continues on in much the same way. I give no thought to "me". I get caught in routines. I get wrapped up in feeling rushed, frustrated, hungry, tired, or grumpy. I do things automatically, like driving to work without really thinking about it. I never settle into me. I settle into "me in the world with rolls to play and jobs to do", but not into the essence of who I am. My true self.
Why not? Do you?
What would settling into myself even look like or feel like? Checking in with how my body feels? With what my mind is thinking? With lists of things to do today?
How do I settle into myself like I settle into my bed at night? How do I experience the relief of being me? Of feeling comforted by me? Of feeling safe and secure in me? This is different from taking for granted or believing that I do feel these these things because I should, and therefore, somehow, do.
I had a moment during meditation this morning where I experienced something that was perhaps settling into myself. It was a feeling of being aware of my body as a feather: light and all most imperceptible. Very little physical sensation. My mind was quiet, very few, tiny thoughts of nothing in particular. A muffled sense of my surroundings that was really only insignificant. I was aware from deep inside that perhaps I had just then settled into myself. When "everything" was taken away or absent, there was only a sense of being that was fresh and light and an awareness that placed no value, judgement, expectation on myself.
Perhaps for a moment I did settle into myself……
The Shadow
August 25, 2013
I ran into Shadow quite unexpectedly the other day….and you know the rest of the story: I got to thinking.
Carl Jung came up with the idea of archetypes years ago. In college it was considered cool to know about Jungian psychology and try to piece together the puzzle of our personal archetypes.
First things first: I am not trained in any of this. I just think about it, and write my thoughts down.
Jungian Archetypes explained courtesy of Wikipedia:
" Carl Gustav Jung was a psychiatrist and psychotherapist who developed an understanding of archetypes as universal, archaic patterns and images that derive from the collective unconscious and are the psychic counterpart of instinct. They are autonomous and hidden forms which are transformed once they enter consciousness and are given particular expression by individuals and their cultures. Being unconscious, the existence of archetypes can only be deduced indirectly by examining behavior, images, art, myths, religions, or dreams. They are inherited potentials which are actualized when they enter consciousness as images or manifest in behavior on interaction with the outside world."
Jung defined twelve primary types that symbolize basic human motivations. Each type has its own set of values, meanings and personality traits. The twelve types are found in four basic groups: The Shadow, The Anima, The Animus, and The Self.
Today I'm bringing Shadow out into the light.
The Shadow refers to the whole of unconscious—everything that we are unaware of, the aspect of our personality that does not recognize itself. All those parts of ourselves that we feel are negative, undesirable and that we try to ignore or reject, are wrapped up in Shadow's cloak. Almost overlooked however, are the good qualities hiding there too. They become weakened by low self esteem, self doubt. They too are lost in the folds of Shadow.
The Jungian shadow often refers to all that lies outside the light of consciousness, and may be positive or negative. "Everyone carries a shadow," Jung wrote, "and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and denser it is." It may be (in part) one's link to more primitive instincts."
(*What are our primitive instincts? To survive?…how do we protect ourselves by empowering one aspect while perhaps closing off or ignoring another? What other of these primitive instincts can you identify with?)
Shadow likes to project. Shadow is instinctive and irrational. "Shadow uses projection to turn a personal inferiority into a perceived moral deficiency in someone else. If we allow Shadow to project these thoughts unrecognized and unchecked, then Shadow has a free hand to possibly bring about a "realization of its object" and give this situation character power…..it creates a thick fog of illusion between the EGO and the real world…" You/we give power to something that is a projection and is not real. (Wikipedia)
As a Jungian Archetype, Shadow is made up of life instincts. "The shadow exists as part of the unconscious mind and is composed of repressed ideas, weaknesses, desires, instincts and shortcomings. This archetype is often described as the darker side of the psyche, representing wildness, chaos and the unknown. These latent dispositions are present in all of us, Jung believed, although people sometimes deny this element of their own psyche and instead project it onto others."
Sometimes Shadow makes itself known in our dreams. Shadow may appear as a snake, a monster, or other dark or wild figure.
From Robert Augustus Masters, PhD:
"Shadow is whatever in us we are disconnected from or out of touch with, whatever we have disowned in ourselves, whatever we have not illuminated or will not illuminate in ourselves, whatever in us we are keeping out of sight.
So our shadow is that zone of us which houses what we have not faced or can't/ won't face about ourselves. To the extent that our conditioning (especially that originating in our childhood) is allowed to run us, it is our shadow. Or put another way, to the extent that our conditioning is kept in the dark, it is our shadow.
If we are to truly evolve, we need to know our shadow, and know it very well; if we don't, our shadow will direct our lives on every level."
So what can we do to bring Shadow out from the dark? How do we get to know Shadow?
First you have to recognize Shadow, and this hard. What is it in others you dislike? Is that Shadow projecting something about you onto another? What are your self doubts, fears?
How can you identify core wounds and heal them?
Are you able to work effectively with your feelings of anger, shame, fear, and guilt?
Are you able to step back and pause in order to see how your Shadow affects those around you.
Are you able to "be one with your pain" and ease your hurt and suffering by doing so?
Can you effectively stop the mind chatter that is the loudest critic of you?
Do you have a spiritual base? Anything? Organized religion or not?
For some meditation or guided practices may help.
Shadow, the part of us we cannot "see" is often the part of us that makes the decisions. And sometimes within those decisions, Shadow makes the same mistakes over and over again. We have to reclaim Shadow and understand Shadow.
Obviously, if this speaks to you, it is not a quick fix. Shadow holds the reigns on a large reservoir of energy. Somehow we have to tap into this.
Curious? The link below has some interesting thoughts. I'm not endorsing him, just introducing an idea to you. I have not read or listened to this person's work other than this podcast.
"The big step is to turn towards what we are running away from" Robert Masters
May 20, 2013
I am in my mid 50's. I need to loose some weight. My hair is gray. There are some wrinkles on my face. Freckles have changed into age spots. I move more slowly than I used to. I wear glasses to read.
At 50 I took up Svaroopa yoga and it has breathed a new life into me. I embrace myself. Even when I look in the mirror and do not see the person I see myself as….25 years younger, flawless skin, light reddish hair……inside I am that person.
Today I did a 3 hour yoga class. As always, the class begins and ends with shavasana (the Corpse Pose) and a guided mindfulness meditation. I have moments where I experience what some people call the" zen-like mind". No thoughts. Just a blank silence.
Today when my teacher began the end of the class shavasana, she said what she says every time: " As you settle into shavasana notice how your body feels."
I momentarily held my breath as I heard my inner voice answer, "Perfect".
That is a word I never associated with yoga. Or with myself. But there it was. Perfect. And that IS how I felt. In every sense. The whole moment. My whole being. My thoughts or lack of thoughts. The silence and the mind chatter. The muscle twitching.
It made me think of the mantra I sometimes use: So Hum. It means "I am that" or "I am this". And that is what that "perfect" meant: "I am this". Nothing more. Nothing less. Just this.
It was a lovely moment. A lovely place to be. Just this. And it was complete in itself. I was complete in myself.
The In-Between Spaces
August 4, 2012
ECOTONES: the in-between spaces in an ecological setting.
It is a transition area between two biomes
or different patches of the landscape,
like the space where the ocean meets the shore.
We have spaces like this too. In-between spaces, where the boundaries are blurred. It is not always clear where one emotion or thought begins and another ends. There is a symbiotic relationship. Each "part" needs the other to be balanced, but sometimes the boundaries change or are blurred making it difficult to feel we have completely moved on from one to another.
Emotions, thoughts, feelings that we might consider separate, actually coexist. There is no finite boundary, no solid line where one begins and another ends.
For many of us this lack of clearness can be difficult. We want to know that one thing is ending, finished, and another is beginning. But it isn't always so easy, so clearly defined.
We have pain and sorrow right along side joy and happiness. Anxiety can be cradled next to assurance. Perhaps trust is holding hands with doubt.
How do we live with dynamic boundaries where variables blur the edges? The in-between places where we are just not sure of what is going on, of how we are feeling, of where are going, or where we have been? What we may have lost? What we might have gained?
In nature these areas are sometimes turbulent, sometimes peaceful. Waves on the shore may carry sand and plants away, eroding the shore. Other times the waves bring new sand, plants or animals to the beach. Sometimes these are "good" changes, sometimes not. There is a give and take. Sometimes the balance is quick and easy. Other times, the compromises cause the two sides to give something up. But in the end it is Nature's way. Nature is life. And death. And violence. And supreme gentleness. In the ebb and flow there is all that represents life: change, uncertainty, risk, balance, loss, pain, joy, gain, happiness, sorrow, life, death, beauty, "ugliness", fear, calm, love……without any one part, the other pieces are diminished.
Think about the synonyms for "transition": changeover, conversion, development, evolution, flux, growth, metamorphosis, passage, progress, progression, realignment, shift, transformation, turning point, upheaval.
What are the whispers from your in-between places telling you? Take some time in this space and listen to the possibilities.
The Wilderness of Your Intuition
June 10, 2012
"You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself." ~Alan Alda
Definition: The word 'intuition' comes from the Latin word 'intueri', which is often roughly translated as meaning 'to look inside'' or 'to contemplate'. Wikipedia
Many of us know what intuition feels like. The sinking feeling in your gut. The hair rising on your arm. A nagging feeling that says "leave". For some, we laugh at the possibility that it might be real, yet find it easy enough to say: "I had a feeling about that".
Few of us think about the resource intuition could be, or the power it holds. Some of us may think intuition is a quirk. Some of us think it's so random an occurrence that it could not be significant.
What if there is power and significance in intuition. What if it can be harnessed and used to help us throughout life. What if, as Alan Alda says, you will discover yourself.
I know I have had very significant moments in my life where intuition was very important. And, there were also times where what I thought was intuition was simply fear of uncertainty. Obviously we have to learn how to be aware of true intuitive insight.
A huge barrier to our intuition being able to be heard and trusted is the hustle and bustle of our daily lives. We are seemingly always scheduled. If there isn't something on the schedule, we find something to do. We have computers to tempt us, video games to lure us, music to sooth or invigorate us, sports to keep us fit, get togethers to keep us from feeling alone…..but very little time to just BE. To sit, to have silence. To hear the rhythms of our own body, mind and soul.
But why is it important to be able to hear intuition speaking? You know why. Those gut feelings that turned out to be true. There is something inside of us that "knows". Not all the time. Maybe not even accurately all the time. When we learn to work as a partner with our intuition, we join forces with something powerful that is already a part of us. A part that is getting pushed further and further away from the forefront by all the enticing things that are currently available to us. What if we are loosing touch with something important?
Is it too hard, or too much to provide ourselves with time to nurture our inner voice, to make friends with it again? What do you think?
Solitude is not loneliness
April 10, 2012
The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of crowds, but that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incubator of the spirit. ~ Marya Mannes, US author
Scott McIntyre wrote a nice little piece for Goodlife Zen articulating the difference between solitude and loneliness. He makes a statement I personally have thought about often, and believe to be true for many today: we are hesitant to seek out solitude because we are afraid of loneliness. "Aloneness" often brings to mind a lack of belonging.
"Solitude is refreshing, a time of being on your own where you voluntarily retreat from the company of other people."
By engaging in this time of instant connections, are we loosing the capacity to get in contact with our inner selves?
How does solitude fit into manifesting our own potentiality? If we loose the thread of seeking out solitude as a means of growth and healing, what replaces it?


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Can you help me out with any of these? I'm thinking so! Let's hear your list too!
As items are crossed off, new additions to the list will be made.
Try at least one new recipe a month- 2011
Jan. (Pot Roast) Feb. (Tilapia & veggies) Mar. (Sloppy Joe Crock Pot Chicken) Apr. (Baked Breaded Pork Chops AND Homemade Pizza) May. (Breaded Baked Chicken Breast) Jun. (Spicy Ham BBQ) Jul. (Breaded shrimp) Aug. (steamed & seasoned veggies) Sept. (Creamy Chicken soup) Oct. (Chicken, mashed potato & stuffing bake) Nov. (baked asparagus and brussel sprouts) Dec. (vegetarian chili)
Keep a house plant ALIVE for a whole year
Take a road trip across the U.S.
Fly in an airplane. this will be happening Aug 28, 2013!!!
listen to 1,000 new songs
Visit Washington state This also is happening in August if 2013!!
visit the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame again
See Phish in concert
see aurora borealis
Own my own business
stop procrastinating
learn sign language
DMB Gorge 2013
Must-see Concerts: U2, Foo Fighters, Stone Temple Pilots, 311/Sublime, James Taylor, Gavin Rossdale and/or Bush,
Read 10 books by 10 different authors never read before
Spend more time with my sisters
lay a new floor in my kitchen
create an ETSY store to sell my designs The shop has been created, now to list the items!!!
Facebook less Clean out my storage unit and get rid of STUFF (still more to get rid of though…. always.)
buy a new vacuum cleaner
visit the Statue of Liberty
build a snowman
organize my cd's
get my "tattle chart" patented
start jogging again
restart jogging again
go dancing at a club
join the church choir (waiting for a new choir director, can't do it with the current fella. just don't have it in me! )
meet band members from Dave Matthews Band 11/27/12 Boyd Tinsley of the Dave Matthews Band at the Faces in the Mirror Stefan Lessard in Charlottesville 12/16/12 star gaze
Get my first and only tattoo (in the works 🙂 )
Children's book published
Learn photography (In progress 🙂 )
See sunrise and sunset at the beach
See 3 shows in New York City
Go on an "alphabet" walk and take pictures of each letter found until you've found all 26
Learn how to tie a neck tie
See Coldplay in concert
Take a random, unplanned road trip
Take a walk in the rain
Visit the Grand Canyon
Be silly more often
Take a bus to a small town just to spend a few hours exploring
Put all my pictures in photo albums
Laugh daily (pretty sure I do, but have this on here as a reminder 😛 )
Share my thoughts and words more freely
Go to the drive-ins
Go target shooting
Send a card to someone for no reason
frequent antique shows, flea markets, yard sales to find COOL frames
Print all the digital pictures I've uploaded
Watch a scary movie
Visit all the museums in the Pittsburgh area
Buy ice cream from an ice cream truck Get a massage
Pay the toll booth for someone behind me
Host get-togethers more frequently
Pay it forward Bought Starbucks for the car behind me & bought one for the till booth attendant
Surprise someone for no reason at all
get a pedicure
Wake up in the morning… take a picnic lunch… get in the car and see where the day takes me
Learn something new once a month for a year
Refinish grandma's sewing desk
Be a better daughter, sister, aunt, friend
Redecorate parts of my place
Make a difference in at least one person's life Get healthy and stay healthy
Travel to Italy and Germany
Find love; be loved
Blog more often (at least once a week)
Go back to visit Edinboro
Make cards to donate to nursing homes
Refinish bedroom set
Tell those who matter "I love you" more often
Show those who matter I love them more often
Do at least 3 craft shows in a year 1.) April 9th 2.) April 16th 3.) May 7th 4.) June 11th 5.)October
Write a song
Learn to play piano
Slow dance under the stars
Take a pottery class
Design a greeting card for Hallmark
Get published in a paper crafting magazine
Talk less, listen more
Go to Vegas
Make a stranger smile
Take a cooking class
o to at least 10 concerts in a year (It's been done in the past… but quite some time ago now) (2011) 1.) Jason Myles Goss 2.) Iron & Wine 3.) The Avett Brothers 4.) Kenny Chesney & Zac Brown Band 5.) NKOTBSB 6.) Scott Blasey 7.) Incubus
- 2012 was my year!!!! 1.the Avett Brothers 2. Brothers of the Sun Tour with Luke Ryan, Grace Potter & the Nocturnals, Tim McGraw & Kenny Chesney 3. Dave Matthews Band 4. ZBB 5. Lindsey Buckingham 6. Jason Myles Goss 7. Scott Blasey 8. Farm Aid 9. Neil Young & Crazy Horse 10. Passion Pit
Crank up the music and dance a fool at home
Make a "20 Things I Like About You List" for a friend or family member and give it to them
Jump in rain puddles Make a list of 100 random things about myself and share on my blog go to the chiropractor
Interview a band/singer/song writer for my blog
Participate in an official 5k race.
See a concert at the Gorge. This is REALLY going to happen!!! I leave Aug 28th! 4 nights & 3 shows in heaven's amphitheater
See a concert at Red Rocks
Be in the pit for a DMB, Avett Brothers & Incubus shows Pit for DMB on 12/15/12 & 12/16/12!!11 Comments


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Photo: John Autry; Styling: Cindy Barr
For a sweet, fruity treat that won't cost you a days-worth of calories, this simple yogurt bowl is the perfect solution. When making this Greek Yogurt with Warm Black and Blueberry Sauce in the summer, substitute fresh berries for frozen. This sauce also pairs well with biscuits or as a stand-in for syrup on pancakes.
How to Make It
Step 1
Combine first 5 ingredients in a small saucepan. Bring mixture to a boil. Reduce heat to medium-low; gently boil 10 minutes or until sauce thickens. Stir in butter.
Step 2
Spoon 1/2 cup yogurt into each of 4 bowls; top each serving with about 1/4 cup sauce. Serve immediately.


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Dramatic video was taken of a police chase that ended with officers shooting out the back window of a truck in the East Bay.
The chase started when Vallejo police officers tried to pull over a truck they say was driving recklessly before 11:30 p.m. Wednesday.
The truck didn't stop and police gave chase, with the California Highway Patrol helping out.
The driver crashed into the median about 15 minutes later on Highway 4 near Interstate Highway 680 and the driver refused to get out, police said.
A Concord police armored assault vehicle was called in, and officers arrested the driver.


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Stage Race Guide now available
We have a detailed Devo Stage Race Guide, which will answer all your questions about this exciting event, the grand finale of our Spring Classics series. Key highlights and notes:
- The River Road "crit" is really more of a kermesse: for safety and logistics reasons, we will use the 6.8 km River Road course, but at a crit duration. There will be time bonuses, including intermediate sprint time bonuses in the faster groups.
- You heard that right: time bonuses. Thanks to the wonders of chip timing, the Stage Race will be placed by time. The Saturday morning TT will be raced for time, and the crit and road race will have true time plus time bonuses. (riders off the back will be given a time and allowed to race subsequent stages).
- Leader jerseys, prizing info, and much more! Complete details in the guide.


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From Pope Francis' homily at his inauguration Mass:
How does Joseph exercise his role as protector? Discreetly, humbly and silently, but with an unfailing presence and utter fidelity, even when he finds it hard to understand. From the time of his betrothal to Mary until the finding of the twelve-year-old Jesus in the Temple of Jerusalem, he is there at every moment with loving care. As the spouse of Mary, he is at her side in good times and bad, on the journey to Bethlehem for the census and in the anxious and joyful hours when she gave birth; amid the drama of the flight into Egypt and during the frantic search for their child in the Temple; and later in the day-to-day life of the home of Nazareth, in the workshop where he taught his trade to Jesus.
How does Joseph respond to his calling to be the protector of Mary, Jesus and the Church? By being constantly attentive to God, open to the signs of God's presence and receptive to God's plans, and not simply to his own. This is what God asked of David, as we heard in the first reading. God does not want a house built by men, but faithfulness to his word, to his plan. It is God himself who builds the house, but from living stones sealed by his Spirit. Joseph is a "protector" because he is able to hear God's voice and be guided by his will; and for this reason he is all the more sensitive to the persons entrusted to his safekeeping. He can look at things realistically, he is in touch with his surroundings, he can make truly wise decisions. In him, dear friends, we learn how to respond to God's call, readily and willingly, but we also see the core of the Christian vocation, which is Christ! Let us protect Christ in our lives, so that we can protect others, so that we can protect creation!
The vocation of being a "protector", however, is not just something involving us Christians alone; it also has a prior dimension which is simply human, involving everyone. It means protecting all creation, the beauty of the created world, as the Book of Genesis tells us and as Saint Francis of Assisi showed us. It means respecting each of God's creatures and respecting the environment in which we live. It means protecting people, showing loving concern for each and every person, especially children, the elderly, those in need, who are often the last we think about. It means caring for one another in our families: husbands and wives first protect one another, and then, as parents, they care for their children, and children themselves, in time, protect their parents. It means building sincere friendships in which we protect one another in trust, respect, and goodness. In the end, everything has been entrusted to our protection, and all of us are responsible for it. Be protectors of God's gifts!
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Tis' the Season. Yes the season in which sacks of fecal matter with Jewish last names who identify as conservatives write about how much they love the holiday celebrating the birth of Christ.
It's amazing to me that a few hundred years ago, Jews would stand in line facing Cossack soldiers or Spanish troops, and die along with their children rather than convert to the Faith of Christ. Jews let themselves be burned at the stake, broken on the wheel and tortured to death in gruesome ways. Some as late as the 18th century like Joseph Oppenheimer who was tortured into confessing to the most ridiculous charges, but still refused to convert to Christianity even when confronted with death.
And today all it takes is a shot at being popular with Conservative Christians to make their descendants jump up like yapping little dogs and proclaim how much they love (Christ) Christmas. "Did I do good master? Was I a good little Jewish lapdog? Can I have a treat now?
Oh no wait, but don't you see Christmas is under attack? That's right the holiday celebrated by most Americans. Hell the holiday even celebrated in Communist Russia is in danger! Evil liberals (Satan) have convinced people to say Happy Holidays, which kicks Christmas in the balls. Because how will people know it's Christmas, unless everyone repeats MERRY CHRISTMAS 666 times a day? How???
Sure there are Christmas carols playing and Christmas trees everywhere. Also Christmas is a legal holiday and you can't turn on the TV or radio without hearing about Christmas. BUT HOW WILL PEOPLE KNOW IT'S CHRISTMAS? OUR CULTURAL HERITAGE OF A HOLIDAY THAT AMERICA DIDN'T CELEBRATE UNTIL THE LATE 19TH CENTURY IS BEING DESTROYED!!!
Well it's not my cultural heritage. More to the point it's not my damned religion. My ancestors spent thousands of years running from people who wanted them to bow to &*(*@#$# trees, statues, idols and kings. They said no, and I say no. I wear a visible Yarmulke on my head. Anyone who wishes me Merry Christmas is either
A.) blind
B.) a moron
C.) pushing Christmas on me
and my response is to ignore it. Because I'm a Jew. Not a Jew for Jesus. Not a Jew for Christmas. Not a Jew for Buddha, Allah or Obama. Just a Jew. And if you don't like it, here's two thirds of a Bronx cheer for you.
And if we get right down to it, Christmas is not the cultural heritage of the Puritans or America's Founding Fathers. It's not the cultural heritage of tens of millions of other Americans today, some Jewish, some from Christian denominations, some *gasp* Buddhist and some who just don't give a damn.
The War on Christmas crap is the product of a bunch of Evangelical Christian pressure groups who want to feed their followers' paranoia and shove their vision of America down everyone's throat. But you know what, America means nothing if it doesn't mean the freedom to believe what you choose.
I am an American and a Jew. I believe in God and He was not born on Christmas and his name was not Christ. Therefore I do not celebrate it. My great-grandfather Avraham was tossed into a furnace for refusing to bow to statues. My grandfather Daniel was tossed into a furnace for refusing to worship an idol. I can't claim to be making that kind of sacrifice by not verbally celebrating the birth of the Christian Savior… but on the other hand what is one to make of the Jews who fail even such a simple test of faith?