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So I was sick and going to the doctor and there was an estate sale just 15 minutes from the doctor’s office so… you know – hauling is the best medicine anyway.
When I walked in there were a bunch of miniature items on the table that the guy said were 2 for a dollar. I recognized this bunny as an Erzgebirge figure. He has some condition issues but for 50 cents I couldn’t pass him up.
On the same table was this sweet little bear that I learned is made of Cryptomeria style wood. I recently sold a cat and mouse in the same style for $16.99 so I picked this guy up.
I have sold a few vintage wedding items in the past and this cake topper was too funny to pass by.
This pretty angel is an Anri/Reuge musical figure but her mechanism no longer works. If it did she would have a value of about $40. I’m hoping someone might want to purchase her for around $20.
I spent $5 in all from that sale. I also recently went to the thrift store where I picked up a bag of earrings for $3 because the colors reminded me of Bakelite. There were three pair in the bag and one pair actually turned out to be Bakelite.
So that’s my little holiday haul. Enjoy the holidays everyone!!!
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2019-04-24T04:48:52Z
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https://newenglandfindsandfancies.wordpress.com/tag/estate-sale-haul/
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A lovely smile with a flirty wink could be the beginning of a new relationship. So I thought if I practice smiling and winking, I could possibly get meself a man. I have been a widow for almost ten years now. But I believe I still got another soul mate out there, possibly just lost. I created this gif to catch him. What do you think? Need more practice huh?
When I got interested in learning how to create gifs, I was in a bad mood and I transferred my anxiety into my fourth gif which was Piss Off! Well, someone commented that based on my posts, I must be “perpetually angry.” Not true. I am really a cheerful happy person. So here is my cheerful happy self.
A friend said that I was being sadistic to him in the forums, like pushing him off the cliff and telling him to go fly a kite during a thunderstorm. I sent him a note apologizing saying I was not a sadistic person, very mean but never sadistic. He replied saying everything was cool and posted in the forums “Shut up and hurt me”.
So I created this gif and posted, “ok you asked for it”.
My best friend Pisces has a really cool Cake and Coffee Shop. I bring her fresh flowers from my neighborhood everyday. I’m sure she will love these lovely roses.
Someone posted something vulgar in the forums. So I want to express my disgust in gif. hahahaha I am so enjoying this new hobby of mine.
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2019-04-22T18:41:15Z
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https://mzrosie.wordpress.com/2017/07/
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↑ "The State Statistical Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Administrative and territorial units of Azerbaijan Republic". Azstat.org. Archived from the original on 12 May 2011.
หน้านี้แก้ไขล่าสุดเมื่อวันที่ 29 มีนาคม 2562 เวลา 23:51 น.
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'S e roinn na h-Eadailt a tha ann an Emilia-Romagna. Tha e na laighe ann an Eadailt a Tuath. 'S e Bologna a tha na phrìomh-bhaile agus tha Ferrara, Modena, Ravenna agus Parma cuideachd cudromach. Bhuin i gu Stàitean na h-Eaglaise o chionn fhada.
Air a tharraing à "https://gd.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Emilia-Romagna&oldid=544379"
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2019-04-26T08:30:27Z
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https://gd.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emilia-Romagna
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Dr Lynne Kelly is one of the more interesting people to be encountered among the Australian Skeptical community. She’s a writer, researcher and science educator, as well as being a foundation member of Australian Skeptics.
Lynne tends not to follow stereotypes. Her first tertiary qualification was in Engineering; armed with this, she began a teaching career in government secondary schools. On the way she co-authored a series of Maths text books. She later branched into extension education for gifted children. Her 1994 book Challenging Minds: Thinking Skills and Enrichment Activities is one result of that period.
The Leopard Lodge, Melbourne Zoo on Saturday evening 26 November.
AUSTRALIAN SKEPTICS NATIONAL CONVENTION 2016 will be hosted in Melbourne at The Carrillo Gantner Theatre, Sidney Myer Asia Centre, University of Melbourne from 25-27 November, with the annual Dinner at The Leopard Lodge, Melbourne Zoo on Saturday evening 26 November.
Early-bird ticket purchasers will receive a discount and will be able to reserve seats close to the stage.
We can confirm that speakers at the convention will include Lawrence Krauss, Edzard Ernst, Harriet Hall, Michael Marshall, Katie Mack and Mel Thomson, with more great speakers to be announced soon. Nicholas J. Johnson is our M.C. for the annual Dinner. Information about our speakers is available from the Convention website.
We are proud to announce that Melbourne will host the annual Convention in 2016.
The main venue will be the Carillo Gantner Theatre in the University of Melbourne’s Asia Centre.
Lawrence Krauss and Edzard Ernst have accepted our invitations to head up a great range of speakers.
We will be setting up a dedicated website for this event: More details soon!
Why was Tolstoy excommunicated by the Orthodox Church?
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Join us for an informal meal and social chat with like-minded people from 6 pm.
Alternatively, you can turn up at 8 pm for the speaker or event. A $4 entry applies for the talk.
Go to the events tab on this page for more details or check the notice above for upcoming events.
The Australian Skeptics (Victorian Branch) Inc. [Vic Skeptics]. promotes critical thinking, scientific literacy and encourages a rational, sceptical approach to the paranormal and pseudoscience.
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Check out our “Bed of Nails” video. Snippets from third Mondays at La Notte, behind the scenes at the 10:23 campaign and many more skeptical videos.
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The Vic Skeptics support the 'Ask for Evidence' campagin.
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This collection features some of the best online skeptical writing of recent years, as nominated by readers.
The e-book is available here or visit the Young Australian Skeptics website.
Vic Skeptics are supporters of education, particularly good Science teaching. We hope some of this material will be useful to you.
Please make comment on our blog. We encourage comments and we are quite happy to allow comments that don't agree with the views expressed here.
Having said that, here are a few guidelines you might like to read before hammering away at your keyboard only to find your comment edited or removed.
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And generally, be nice, there are real people, all volunteers, behind this web site. Skeptics want to encourage thoughtful, rational discussion.
"Obscenity shouldn't be used as an ad hominum substitute for a logical argument".
If you’d like to put a photo of yourself next to your comment, or any image, please go here.
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2019-04-21T23:07:45Z
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https://vicskeptics.wordpress.com/tag/australian-skeptics-convention-2016/
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Technically, a frozen banana was Roku’s first raw food. I started him with this at 4.5 months because his gums were a bit swollen which is a sign of teething. He sucked on it through the Munchkin fresh food feeder (I call it the ‘snacker’) much like he is the papaya in the video below. However, we decided to give him more banana in the snacker and it did not go down so well. He ended up filling up his diaper pretty well with poo which is an indication that it was either too much or his digestive tract is not ready for solids. He was a little over 4.5 months old at that point. A few weeks later I decided to let him try papaya. Papaya naturally contains digestive enzymes, so I thought that this would go down a little bit easier. He did very well the first day I gave it to him. I gave him less than a tablespoon in the snacker. I gave him a little more the next day and it came back up. So I have decided to wait until at least 6 months before I try out any other solids (and continue breastfeeding, ofcourse!). At 27 inches tall and 22 pounds, he is doing just fine on breast milk for now!
Summer is Here! Time to stock up on SAFE Bug Spray!
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2019-04-26T08:04:24Z
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https://rokuban.wordpress.com/tag/snacker/
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Porn
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Graeme Wood’s The Way Of Strangers is a riveting, intimate journey into the minds of the Islamic State’s true believers, one which up-ends our understanding of their psychology, character and aims.
From the streets of Cairo to the mosques of London to the suburbs of Melbourne, Wood, a national correspondent for The Atlantic, interviews supporters, recruiters and sympathisers of the world’s most infamous jihadist group. We meet an Egyptian tailor who once made bespoke suits for Paul Newman and now wants to live under Sharia; a garrulous Australian convert who translates the group’s sermons and threats into English; and a self-taught Muslim cleric who is now determined to see America, the nation of his birth, drenched in blood. Drawing on insights from a wide spectrum of Islamic scholars, Wood explores the group’s apocalyptic dogma and the theology that influences its expansionist project.
The Islamic State is bent on murder and apocalypse, but its recruits find meaning and fellowship in a utopian dream. This appeal of the Islamic State is key to understanding it – and predicting what its followers will do next.
With on-the-ground reporting, vivid character studies and clear-eyed analysis, The Way of Strangers uncovers a movement that has inspired tens of thousands of people to abandon or uproot their families. It will shape how we see a new generation of terrorists.
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2019-04-20T02:34:49Z
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https://ireadthereforeiblog.wordpress.com/tag/graeme-wood/
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This review by York University's Daniel F.J. Siksay is pretty gratifying. If you can't make it past the pay-wall and want a copy, just e-mail me and I'll send you one.
Helping Mark Allan Ohm translate Garcia's magnum opus was probably the second hardest thing (after caring for a newborn) I've yet done, and it's tremendously validating to get a pat on the shoulder as well as to see that other people agree with me that it was not time wasted.
To be clear, if you had to translate a one hundred seventy thousand plus word metaphysics tome from its original French, you could not do better than to translate one by as preternaturally gifted a writer as Tristan Garcia. But it's still a lot of moving pieces you have to juggle for sustained periods.
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2019-04-24T12:34:54Z
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https://drjon.typepad.com/jon_cogburns_blog/2015/03/review-of-garcias-form-and-object-in-dialogue.html?cid=6a00d83451aec269e2022ad3e239ae200b
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Sometimes I just want a straightforward romance so picked up this one. Sadly, though the premise was good, I found it was for me an ok read, not one to really “get” to me, enjoyable and well written, but just not with that magic spark that makes a five star read. Still, that’s only me, and I’m sure there will be thousands of readers for whom this is a perfect read.
I understood her initial actions, likewise his feeling of rejection, but the romance and the drama set out via the competiton would have worked so much better for me if she’d have shown some teeth, some backbone, something of the Ava that had become sucessful in her career and life. Matthias was Alpha, hot, sensual, wealthy – all the things that make the romatic hero, but at times he seemed unable/unwilling to see anything other than his own viewpoint. That made him so much less in my mind…I needed him to show some respect, and the turnaround at the end just wasn’t enough for me.
Stars: three – its well written and a good storyline, but the two main chacters needed more for me to like them and care about what happened to them.
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2019-04-25T04:45:33Z
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https://jeanniezelos.wordpress.com/2014/07/08/
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This is the jaw dropping epistolary novel created by Sherby 57 and I. It’s a sizziling rhomboid of regency bum clenching romance and adventure. If you don’t like it you’re probably DEAD.
NB, the heroine’s name was changed from Lady Sheds to Eileen Bilton. This is due to HoP being started off as a random free wheeling thing and then turned a bit serious-ish.
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2019-04-23T19:06:44Z
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https://worldofsheds.wordpress.com/a-hazard-of-parsnips/
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This entry was posted on 30 marzo 2012 at 15:40 and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
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2019-04-24T11:48:54Z
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I have this friend named Eddie who used to shine shoes over on 5th and Hill — and I realize I’ve been called out for this before. While he is not the type of friend I would have over to my place, when you talk to someone nearly every day while walking to work you start to get to know them well enough that using ‘friend’ seems right. For more than a year, rarely a day went by that I didn’t see Eddie. Most days I would stop and chat for a bit before heading on my way to the office. He was doing pretty well for himself, all things considered. After awhile, someone bought him a shoe shine box to help his business. A little while later he had his own sign advertising his services. Not bad.
About two weeks ago I had an awful thought. What if something happened to Eddie. I would never know. I was saddened to realize this, and sent a quick prayer in a somewhat upwards-like direction asking whoever might be listening to watch over him.
Now, yesterday was an extremely busy morning for me. I think I traversed a 3 mile radius within DTLA about 4 times for different things. By the end it was only noon, I had already been awake for 7 hours, and I was beyond exhausted. I was finally heading towards my office walking along 5th street across from Pershing Square when I saw this man in a wheelchair. He looked a lot like Eddie, but about 30 pounds lighter.
“You know I was ready to post flyers and start asking people around here if they’d seen you. Where the hell have you been!” I asked Eddie as I approached him.
“Well I had to get surgery on my stomach,” Eddie said while raising his shirt a little to show me a substantial scar that ran from around his belly button up several inches.
“Damn, Eddie, how long you been out?” I asked him.
It was at this point that I realized, in all this time I’ve known Eddie he’s only asked me for one thing. I was late to work one day about 8 months ago and he asked me for a favor. He handed me $5 and asked if I could go into the Gas Company cafeteria and get him a chili dog. He was rather particular about his order, so much so I had to write it down. I, of course, took his order and went inside to make the purchase bringing him back his chili dog and change.
I said goodbye and promised to visit him again soon.
Welcome back, Eddie. It’s good to see you again, my friend.
Among all of these amazing applicants for this position, what do you bring to the table that is different than everyone else?
When you really sit down to contemplate this question, it’s not an easy one to answer. First, you have to think what would all of those other applicants mention. Background? Education? Experience? Second, you want a unique answer that makes you stand out but not sound completely ridiculous or too full of yourself. It’s a tough combination to bring together.
If I were asked that question today, my answer would be simple. For some reason, people want to tell me their life stories.
I’ve been accused of many things over the last month. Among the comments disparaging my character (just kidding) are repeated statements that I am too open and as a woman walking alone in downtown I am crazy to talk to any random person on the street. Guilty? It’s true, I really have no qualms talking to random strangers as though I’ve known them for years. It’s actually a lot of fun at times.
However, there are rules to this game, if you haven’t noticed already. Rule #1: I am only willing to have a conversation during daylight hours. Once that sun sets, I’m sorry friends, my headphones are on and the “don’t talk to me” body language is in place. Rule #2: if your eyes are bloodshot, your bodies are randomly convulsing because of some substance you’ve recently ingested or…you are running in place while shouting “I’m late for my next appointment” (yes this did happen), then likely I’m going to cross the street and avoid you. Rule #3: I trust my gut. People give off vibes and sometimes those vibes tell me this person is no good. There have been a few times that I’ve come across an individual who did not do or say anything that made me wary. It was simply a gut feeling telling me it’s best to pretend like I don’t understand what is being said and move on quickly. Rule #4: Don’t talk back no matter what. Even if you think you have a witty comeback or you want to put someone in their place, it’s really not worth it. Just walk away from that situation. So far these rules have kept me out of real trouble while walking the streets of DTLA on my own.
And so this morning I had a fun conversation with a transient about dog walking.
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2019-04-24T06:05:44Z
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https://isthatapedestrian.wordpress.com/2012/02/
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Kocani, a town in eastern Macedonia, Europe, lies at an altitude of 320 meters above sea level, first mentioned in a charter from 1337 in which Despot Jovan Oliver donated the church of St. Dimitrija to Kocani. Archaeological finds in the town itself have revealed remains of a settlement here in the Roman and Byzantine periods. Early in the 15th century it felt under Turkish rule. The travel chronicler Evliya Chelebi, who visited it in 1662, recorded that it had 600 households, a mosque, a mezjid, an inn and 15 shops. During the 18th and in the early 19th century, the town grow up very slowly. It was only around 1878 that the population began to rise, at which time it had about 450 - 500 households. The town has two feudal residences in the shape of towers believed to date from the 16th - 17th century.
During the World War II Kocani was an important center of the liberation Movement. Aspirations for its liberation never cased to exist. After numerous successful missions the freedom fighters of the IV Macedonian brigade liberated the town on 7-th September 1944. By the happiness didn't last long. Only three days later enemy forces occupied the town again. The final liberation came on 22-nd October 1944. The town was left in ashes and ruins. But this didn't discourage the industrious inhibitions. On the ashes of the burned town and centuries-old backwardness, a new life was built. Since the end of World War II, there has been a great upturn in the region's economic fortunes.
Numerous cultural and historical monuments, from ancient times to the middle ages, can be found in the vicinity of Kocani. Monastery complexes in the nearby villages Morodviz and Pantelej are world famous both for their architecture and for the unique frescoes.
Today the surroundings of Kocani are well known for the cultivation of rice. Kocani spa is in its nearby surroundings, with thermal sulphuric springs whose temperature is 58°C.
The plan on the other hand is thickly inhabited. Kocani is center of heavily developed trade and industry, with new roads, bridges and factories, new schools and community centers, with modern means of communication and transportation, sport facilities and cultural institutions. There are 46 inhabited settlements in the region, with population of more than 55.000 inhabitants in 15.660 housing facilities and 13.634 households. The majority of the populations are Macedonians: 48.000, Gypsies: 2.000, Turks: 511, Serbs: 129, Vlachs: 123, Albanians: 23 and 712 others. The biggest settlement is the town of Kocani with a population of more than 30.000. The development of the town in the past was unequal. Because of its riches accumulated by the skilled farmers and craftsmen, the town was frequently robbed. Epidemics and earthquakes also left their marks. But its patriotic inhabitants always opposed the oppressors.
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2019-04-25T21:50:33Z
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http://rtvkocani.tripod.com/welcome/kocani.html
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2006-07-31 Assigned to AKAMAI TECHNOLOGIES, INC. reassignment AKAMAI TECHNOLOGIES, INC. NUNC PRO TUNC ASSIGNMENT (SEE DOCUMENT FOR DETAILS). Assignors: LISIECKI, PHILIP A., DILLEY, JOHN A.
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A content file purge mechanism for a content delivery network (CDN) is described. A Web-enabled portal is used by CDN customers to enter purge requests securely. A purge request identifies one or more content files to be purged. The purge request is pushed over a secure link from the portal to a purge server, which validates purge requests from multiple CDN customers and batches the requests into an aggregate purge request. The aggregate purge request is pushed from the purge server to a set of staging servers. Periodically, CDN content servers poll the staging servers to determine whether an aggregate purge request exists. If so, the CDN content servers obtain the aggregate purge request and process the request to remove the identified content files from their local storage.
The present invention relates generally to high-performance, fault-tolerant web content delivery.
It is known in the prior art to distribute media-rich web objects away from busy home sites to a network of content servers located across multiple major Internet backbone networks. One such service (CDS) is known as FreeFlowSM content delivery, which is available from Akamai Technologies, Inc. of Cambridge, Mass. Akamai operates a global content delivery network (CDN) comprising a large number of distributed content servers, network mapping servers, and associated mechanisms to track reporting and administration of its content delivery service. The Akamai content servers are typically located at edge-of-network access points such as Internet Points-of-Presence (POPs).
In operation of the FreeFlow content delivery service, a software tool is used to tag embedded web page objects, such as graphics and images, for delivery via the CDN. Typically, the objects are tagged by transforming web page Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) that identify those objects. The objects identified by the modified URLs are then hosted on the CDN content servers. In one typical user interaction with a web site enabled by FreeFlow, the user's browser sends a request for a web page to the site. In response, the web site returns the page markup language (e.g., HTML) code as usual, except that the embedded object URLs have been modified to point to the content delivery network. As a result, the browser next requests and tries to obtain the media-rich embedded objects from an optimally-located CDN server, instead of from the content provider's site. The above-described web content delivery service provides significant advantages, namely, faster downloads for end-users, reduced load on the home site, flash crowd protection, easier web site management and infrastructure scaling, and the ability to distribute media-rich objects effectively. Further details of the Akamai CDN and service are described in U.S. Pat. No. 6,108,703, which is incorporated herein by reference.
CDN customers (namely, content providers) may want to purge objects from the CDN from time-to-time. This need may arise, for example, because the customer has published the wrong object and needs to remove it before the object's normal time-to-live (TTL) expires. Another reason a customer may desire to purge an object is because an error occurred during the tagging of the object, e.g., an object is given a 1-day TTL instead of a 30 minute TTL. Other reasons purging may be required are unauthorized publishing of an object, publishing an object with the wrong object name, or the like. CDN system administrators may also have a need to purge given content. In addition, where CDN servers are used to provide dynamic content assembly on behalf of the content provider, it is desired to maintain the content provider's publishing and content management environment, and such environment may include the ability to remove particular content.
To this end, it would be desirable to provide a mechanism to enable the CDN content provider customer and/or the CDN administrator the ability to selectively remove content from the CDN. The present invention addresses this need.
A CDN purge mechanism preferably includes a number of components. A Web-enabled portal preferably is used by customers to enter purge requests securely. A particular purge request typically identifies a set of one or more content files to be purged from the content delivery network. The purge request is pushed over a secure link from the portal to a purge server, which validates purge requests from multiple CDN customers and batches the requests into an aggregate purge request. The aggregate purge request is pushed over a secure link from the purge server to a set of staging servers throughout the content delivery network. Periodically, CDN content servers poll the staging servers to determine whether an aggregate purge request exists. If so, the CDN content servers pull (or otherwise obtain) the aggregate purge request over a secure link and process the request to remove the identified content files from their local storage. Throughout the purge process, notifications are sent when purges are accepted, rejected, and upon completion.
As is well known, given content servers in the content delivery network may share content, e.g., through use of the InterCache Protocol (ICP). According to another technical advantage of the invention, each control server includes an appropriate control routine to prevent exchange of stale data (i.e., to ensure consistency) between the content server and other content servers that are sharing content in this manner. This functionality preferably uses purge sequence numbers to enable content servers to synchronize their purge states so that stale content is not exchanged between servers.
According to yet another technical advantage, a given content server may leverage the content delivery network itself to obtain purge request files from a given staging server. The given content server may then share the purge request files with one or more other content servers (e.g., in a region of content servers) using ICP or some other communication protocol. This reduces the load on a given staging server.
The foregoing has outlined some of the more pertinent features of the present invention. These features should be construed to be merely illustrative. Many other beneficial results can be attained by applying the disclosed invention in a different manner or by modifying the invention as will be described. Accordingly, other features and a fuller understanding of the invention may be had by referring to the following Detailed Description of the Preferred Embodiment.
FIG. 7 is a more detailed illustration of the various processes that comprise the purge mechanism of the present invention.
FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an illustrative content delivery service in which the present invention may be implemented. The invention may likewise be implemented with other known or later-designed or built content delivery services or systems. In the illustrative embodiment, the content delivery service (CDS) comprises a preferably global content delivery network (CDN) 100 of content delivery servers 102 a–n, a dynamic domain name service (DNS) system 104, and a tool 106 that allows content to be tagged for inclusion on the network. Generally, the content delivery service allows the network of content delivery servers 102 a–n to serve a large number of clients efficiently. Although not meant to be limiting, a typical server (such as content server 102) is a Pentium-based caching appliance running the Linux operating system with a large amount of RAM and disk storage. As also seen in FIG. 1, the content delivery service may include a network operations center (NOC) 112 for monitoring the network to ensure that key processes are running, systems have not exceeded capacity, and that sets of content servers (so-called regions) are interacting properly. A content provider may also have access to a monitoring suite 114 that includes tools for both real-time and historic analysis of customer data. One tool is a traffic analyzer 116 that provides multiple monitoring views that enable quick access to network and customer-specific traffic information. A reporter 118 allows for viewing of historical data. A billing tool 118 may be used to generate appropriate billing information for the content provider, who typically pays for the service as a function of the amount of content delivered by the CDN.
High-performance content delivery is provided by directing requests for web objects (e.g., graphics, images, streaming media, HTML and the like) to the content delivery service network. In one known technique, known as Akamai FreeFlow content delivery, content is first tagged for delivery by the tool 106, which, for example, may be executed by a content provider at the content provider's web site 108. Site 108 is sometimes referred to as an origin server. The tool 106 converts web page URLs to modified resource locators, called ARLs for convenience. FIG. 2 illustrates how the origin server 208 operates after given embedded objects in a web page have been modified with ARLs. As illustrated, the origin server 200 preferably still serves the basic or “base” HTML page 202, although this is not a requirement. Because the URLs of the embedded objects within the page have been modified (e.g., into ARLs), the objects preferentially are served from the CDN content servers 204 as opposed to the origin server. CDN content servers preferably are located at network access points (e.g., Internet Points-of-Presence) so that the content is closer to requesting end users. If a given requested object is not available from a given content server, the object may be retrieved from another CDN content server or, failing that, from the origin server.
According to the present invention, the above-described content delivery network is enhanced to enable the content provider customers and CDN administrators the ability to evict or “purge” content from all or some of the CDN content servers efficiently and reliably. There may be many reasons why it becomes necessary to remove such content. Thus, for example, the customer may have published the wrong object and needs to remove it before the object's normal time-to-live (TTL) expires. Another reason a customer may desire to purge an object is because an error occurred during the tagging of the object, e.g., an object is given a 1-day TTL instead of a 30 minute TTL. Other reasons purging may be required are unauthorized publishing of an object, publishing an object with the wrong object name, or the like. In addition, where CDN servers are used to provide dynamic content assembly on behalf of the content provider, it is desirable to maintain the content provider's publishing and content management environment, which may include the ability to remove given content from the page.
FIG. 3 illustrates a representative purge mechanism at a high level. In the illustrative embodiment, the purge mechanism comprises three (3) main subsystems or components: a purge server 300, a set of staging servers 302, and the CDN content servers 304. The purge server 300 preferably originates all purge requests on the CDN. In the illustrated example, the purge server 300 receives purge requests from authorized CDN customers who enter them, for example, via a user interface (to be described below) available on a customer-facing portal site 306. The portal site 308 typically is an extranet application that may be accessed using a web browser over the Internet or other computer network. Communications between the portal site and the purge server preferably occur over a secure and authenticated (e.g., SSL) link 310. The staging servers 302 process accepted purge requests. In particular, the staging servers preferably store purge requests to be requested by the content servers 304. The content servers 304 are the CDN “edge” servers that actually deliver customer content to requesting end users. In the illustrative embodiment, a content server 304 is modified to facilitate the purge functionality as will be described in more detail below.
The purge server 300, which may be implemented in a redundant manner using a buddy server, is the main receiving and collection point for all purges. In operation, CDN customers log into the customer portal and enter purge requests to the purge server 300. In a preferred embodiment, the purge server 300 is responsible for receiving purge requests, validating the purge requests, issuing a purge identifier (ID) for each request, batching purge requests, and pushing them to the staging servers. A batch of purge requests is sometimes referred to herein as an aggregate purge request because it includes purge requests from multiple CDN customers. Preferably, the purge server 300 also regularly polls the content servers 304 to determine when purges are completed. Once a purge is complete, the purge server sends notification to the customer, e.g., by e-mail.
The staging servers 302 preferably are geographically distributed across the CDN and receive purge batches from the purge server 300. The staging server's role is to hold purge requests for communication to the content servers. A given CDN content server may communicate with a given staging server, or a set of such servers. Preferably, the staging servers establish and manage all connections between purge requests and the CDN. All communication between the staging servers and the content servers preferably occurs via secure and encrypted communication. Preferably, a staging server uses an HTTP server (e.g., Apache) to deliver the purge requests, and those requests may be compressed prior to transmission. As will be described in more detail below, in a preferred embodiment, the content servers 304 periodically contact the staging servers to check for new or waiting purge requests. Once content servers receive a purge request, they remove the content from their system.
In a preferred embodiment, a given content server may use the content delivery network itself to obtain the purge request. This reduces the load on the staging server components of the purge system. In addition, if content servers (e.g., a set of servers within a CDN region) are sharing content, a given content server may share the purge request with other content servers, e.g., using ICP. An illustrative embodiment of this function is described below.
FIG. 4 illustrates a simplified flowchart of a preferred purge process of the present invention. Individual process steps are associated with the components, namely, the portal, the purge server, the staging server, or the content server, as the case may be. As noted above, generally the purge server receives and batches purge requests, while checking their validity. Validated purges are then pushed to the staging servers from which they are later pulled, in particular, by the individual CDN content servers. The workflow of the purge begins at step 400 when the customer (in this example) logs into the purge application. As noted above, preferably, the application is an extranet application accessible over the Internet via a secure and authenticated (e.g., SSL) connection. At step 402, a secure link is established between the application and the purge server. At step 404, the user enters content file identifiers targeted for purging. In Akamai FreeFlow, for example, a content file identifier is sometimes referred to as an ARL. At step 406, these ARL(s) are then sent to the purge server. The process then continues at the purge server at step 408, which checks the validity of the ARL. If valid, the process continues at step 410 with the ARL being batched with other ARLs for purging. If the ARL is invalid or the purge otherwise fails, the process branches to step 412, wherein the purge server notifies the user of the failure.
At step 414, the ARLs of the accepted purges are sent, preferably in batch, to the staging servers for removal from the system. At step 416, the ARLs are stored on the staging servers. The process then continues at each of the respective content servers. In particular, preferably, an ARL is removed from the CDN via an internal communication infrastructure whereby the CDN content server (or, alternatively, a CDN on its behalf) regularly polls the staging server to check for purges. Thus, at step 418, a test is performed at a given content server to determine whether it is time to poll the staging server(s). A given content server may poll one or more such staging servers. If the outcome of the test is negative, the routine cycles. If, however, the outcome of the test is positive, the content server polls the staging servers at step 420. A test is then executed at step 422 to determine whether there is content to be purged. If not, the routine ends. If the outcome of the test at step 422 indicates that there is content to be purged, at step 424, the staging servers securely send the information to the polling content server. At step 426, each content server removes the content, which results in the content being removed from the CDN.
Thus, in the preferred embodiment, the process of removing a piece of content from the CDN is a combination of both push and pull operations. Customers push the requested ARLs (or other content file identifiers) onto the purge server, where they are subsequently pushed to the staging servers. An individual CDN server then pulls the content to be removed from the staging servers. The pulling methodology allows individual servers to keep track of whether they have up-to-date information and to proactively update themselves. Because the purge mechanism preferably uses a pull operation for the last step, the CDN can have a high degree of confidence that content targeted for removal will actually be removed regardless of network conditions or server availability.
Preferably, access to the purge mechanism requires a username and password. Authorized customers obtain access to the purge mechanism, e.g., from a “Tools” section of the CDN customer portal. Once logged into the system, customers can only purge content that is associated with their username and password. FIG. 5 illustrates a representative user interface dialog 500 for the purge tool. To enter a purge, the user preferably enters an e-mail address for notification in field 502, together with the ARLs that are to be purged in field 504. The e-mail field 502, of course, is optional. If no e-mail address is given, then no notification of completion is sent. Preferably, all purge e-mail notifications are archived. The ARL field 504 is where customers enter the ARL or group of ARLs to be purged. As used here, an ARL may refer to the origin server URL, to the origin server URL as modified or tagged by the CDN, or to any portion of the origin server URL. Preferably, the customer enters one ARL per line. Alternatively, customers can point to a text file on their local machine containing a list of ARLs to be purged.
Once the e-mail address and ARLs are entered, the purge is not complete until the user selects the purge button 506. When the purge button is selected, a purge request is sent to the purge server as previously described. The purge server checks that the username is authorized to purge the designated ARLs and returns a notification to the user. If accepted, the purge server returns a message such as shown in FIG. 6. As seen, the notification indicates that the purge has been accepted, and it includes an ID code (e.g., 782) for the purge, and an estimated time for completion (e.g., 480 seconds). The notification also provides a summary of the ARLs to be purged and their status.
During the purge process, the mechanism preferably provides a series of notifications. Notifications may be sent when purges are accepted, rejected, and upon completion. Accepted and rejected notifications occur, for example, on the customer web portal. Completion notifications preferably are sent via e-mail to the designated e-mail address(es).
Because purging content is a sensitive content management action, the purge mechanism includes a number of security mechanisms. As noted above, customers must obtain a special username and password for accessing the purge tool. This username preferably is unique to each customer and determines from which domains they are authorized to purge objects. Customers will only be able to purge ARLs from these designated domains. As also described above, preferably all communication within the purge communication infrastructure occurs securely. This includes communication between the various components and communication with the customer.
Preferably, the purge server is designed to purge requests together and send them to the staging server(s) when it is determined that the system can process these requests without degradation to the content delivery service being provided by the CDN. Once the requests are sent to the staging servers, the objects will be removed from the content delivery network. Typically, purges are completed within a short time period, e.g., every few minutes.
The following is a detailed description of an implementation of the purge mechanism of the present invention. FIG. 7 illustrates the various processes described below.
The purge system allows customers and system administrators the ability to evict stale content from all of the CDN content servers efficiently and reliably.
Purging (Web) Server 700: a web server where users can log in and submit a session request.
Session Request: a set of object names (such as CDN modified URLs or “ARLs”) submitted by a user for purging.
Purge Batch: a set of object names to be purged grouped into one unit by the Purging Server. (A Session Request may be broken into multiple Purge Batches, and a Purge Batch may contain object names from different Session Requests). Batches preferably are used as a unit of publishing requests to the CDN although this is not a requirement of the invention.
Staging Server (stager) 702: a server that publishes purge information to the CDN.
Pending Purge Requests: purge requests that have not yet been made available (or published) to the content delivery network.
Updater 704: The updater process runs on a content server machine 705 and is responsible for fetching published purged updates and purge instructions from a stager and purging its local content server accordingly.
The Purge System components comprise: purge GUI, Purge-Batcher 706, submit program 708, (file) Pusher 710, Staging Servers (stagers) 702, Updaters 704, content servers 705, User Notifier 712.
The following is the high level overview of the system.
1. The CDN extranet leads the users to the Purge Server 700.
2. The Purging Web Server GUI allows users to login and submit purge requests through the UI. Session Requests are submitted by the GUI to the Purge-Batcher 706 that runs on the Purge Server 700.
4. The Pusher 710 pushes the batch files out to the Staging Servers 702.
5. The Staging Server machines make the purge batches available for download for the rest of the CDN. Staging Servers are used to reduce the load that may be placed on the Web servers, and to increase their availability and network accessibility.
6. Updaters 704 sitting on all the content server machines 705 periodically fetch the Purge Batches by making requests to one of the Stagers 702 for the next sequence number, or for a directives file which contains the range of valid purge sequence numbers. Updaters purge their local content servers with these Purge Batches. To reduce the load on the Stagers, updaters preferably leverage the content delivery network to pull the purge data. Updaters and content servers can report their current purge sequence number to a monitoring system to help monitor purge progress.
7. User Notifier notifies customers when their Session Requests are completed, i.e., all reachable updaters report that the purge is complete.
The user interface allows clients to schedule a set of object names to be purged; this set of object names is called a session request. A user is given a unique request id. At a later time, notification may be sent to the user for the given id. Purge requests may also be submitted to the system via a programmatic interface which securely conveys purge requests to the Purge-batcher.
From User: On the initial screen this will be the username and password; on the purge screen either a list of object names or a filename of object names to upload. The GUI may maintain a list of default email notification addresses. Optionally, the user may change or add additional email addresses for a given notification.
From the Purging Server: A list of access controls that will specify which objects can be purged by each user, and what priority is given to each user, and the maximum number of object names this user may have pending.
From the Purge-Batcher: Errors from submission or assigned request ID and completion time estimate.
Request Accepted Screen, including Request ID and an estimate of maximum time the purge should take.
Purging Service Not Available Screen.
Bad Purge Request Screen. (Too many pending object names, not authorized to purge these objects, badly formatted object names, etc.) A purge request with errors will not be scheduled; the errors should be fixed and then the request may be resubmitted.
Output to local disk: Log the session request that includes a list of object names, its request ID, and user email addresses to which user is to be notified.
Output to Purge-Batcher: A session request that includes a list of object names, customer name (for scheduling policy), maximum outstanding object names, priority of that user and user email addresses to which user is to be notified.
A customer connects to the Purging Server GUI via the extranet and supplies a list of object names to purge (enter a list, cut and paste a list, or provide a file containing object names). In addition, the GUI receives an access control list that includes, for example, content provider codes that the user is allowed to purge and the priority of that user.
The GUI contacts the Purge-Batcher using a secure, encrypted, and authenticated protocol, sends the session request, and receives a reply.
The Purge-Batcher checks the list of object names being submitted for correctness. If any of the object names do not validate returns “Bad Purge Request” screen with an object name that failed.
If the GUI receives a valid request ID, it logs the session request and returns request ID to the user. If not, the GUI generates an error page.
The GUI itself preferably comprises two sub-components: a CGI script, servlet, or equivalent, and a purge session request send program. The CGI script will take the input from the user's form and from the user's account information and format a session request. The submission program will contact the Purge-Batcher to send the purge session request, and receive a session request ID and an estimate of the maximum completion time of the purge. Once the Purge-Batcher has assigned a session request ID and returned it to the submission program, a copy of the session request is written to disk on the GUI machine (by the GUI) as a backup. The session request ID is returned to the CGI script. If any object names are invalid, the Purge-batcher cannot be contacted, or some other error occurs, a descriptive error message is returned to the CGI script, in the format described below. The CGI script should then present the session request ID along with a general description of the meaning of this ID, or an error screen including the error generated by the submission program.
The GUI logs for each session request: the status of the request (whether the request was allowed and if so request ID), list of object names, customer contact info, priority, and any customer-specific information.
The Purge server is responsible for collecting all purge requests and, optionally, other requests, scheduling them for dissemination to the content delivery network, and making the necessary files available to the stager machines for download by the updaters. These functions may, of course, also be split among several distinct server machines.
Session requests from the GUI machines, purge files from the user (if provided), and status information from the stager machines.
Encrypted purge files to the staging servers. Reports various status tables to query. Sends email to customers when purges complete.
To accomplish these functions, the purge server runs a variety of programs. The Purge-Batcher daemon receives “session requests” from the GUI machines and breaks them up into smaller “batches” which are handed off to a Submit process one at a time. The Submit process takes the batches, as well as any metadata files, and makes them available to the file pusher. The file pusher takes these files and makes them available to the stager machines. This machine also runs a User Notifier process that determines when purge session requests have been completed (using output from the Purge-Batcher and data gathered from the Updaters) and then sends email to the customer.
Email addresses to notify when a given session request in complete.
Which session requests a given purge batch completes, i.e., after that batch and all previous batches are purged, no object names from these session requests remain to be purged.
From Content Servers: Which servers have completed which purge batches.
Polls the content servers to find the greatest purge sequence number has been propagated to all of the content servers. Historical data may be kept for several minutes and multiple redundant data sources may be consulted to improve data quality.
The Purge-Batcher is a process that may run on the same machine as the Pusher and is responsible for organizing customer session requests into Purge Batches and submitting the batch files together with a directives file to the system.
From the Purge Sender: Session requests. Note that the Purge-batcher has to handle multiple User Interfaces contacting Purge-Batcher simultaneously.
To Purge Sender: Replies with request ID and completion estimate on success or an error message on failure when a session request is submitted.
To Pusher: Regularly submits purge batches files and the “directives file” to the Pusher. Old purge batches may eventually be deleted when it is known that all content servers have seen them.
To User Notifier: Information about sessions and batches, as defined in the User Notifier section.
The Purge-Batcher receives session requests from the purge sender, as discussed previously. The Purge-Batcher checks the validity of all of the object names in the session request, tests whether they belong to the user submitting the purge request, and then makes the request available to the main Purge-Batcher scheduling algorithm.
The Purge-Batcher periodically creates purge batches from the pending session requests, attempting to distribute users' requests fairly, without forming batches that are too large.
Once a batch is completed it is submitted to the Pusher as a file with a sequence number as part of its name. (e.g. purgebatch27). The Purge-Batcher submits the new batches followed by the new “directives” file, which describes the range of valid existing batches, e.g., “10–1723” (see the Updater section below for more detail on directives).
A batch file is merely a text file that lists object names, along with any other information deemed necessary.
Once the submission occurs, Purge-Batcher logs the batch that is has scheduled.
The Purge-Batcher may be made redundant and fault-tolerant using a variety of techniques. One approach is to have each Purge-Batcher use an independent numbering sequence and have the updaters/content servers fetch from all of these sequences. A simpler approach is to use leader election and data replication among a set of Purge-Batchers to allow an automatic fail-over. This process can leverage the fact that once a batch is published to any stager or content server, it can never be changed, but it can be replaced by an empty batch, so long as any objects formerly listed in that batch are later rescheduled.
The Purge-Batcher needs the ability to submit files to the Pusher. This may be accomplished by a stand-alone program that is executed by the Purge-Batcher, or by some other programmatic or network interface.
The pusher is responsible for pushing scheduled files to all of the stagers intelligently, minimizing the amount of traffic and time (latency) that it takes to push new files.
To Stagers: encrypted packed files, an index file, and a heartbeat file.
Pusher packs, encrypts, and signs all submitted files using a shared private key or public key cryptography and pushes them out to the stagers. It also pushes out an INDEX file that describes all the data files and a heartbeat file.
Pusher logs new submissions, new pushes of data, and stager unreachable messages.
For purges, pusher reports the latest purge sequence number, the smallest purge sequence number, and the number of files missing in that range.
The Pusher can be made more fault-tolerant by allowing multiple Pushers to push to a single stager; as long as any Pusher is alive, the system will function.
Index file, encrypted/packed files from the Pusher, heartbeat files.
Encrypted files to its web server (e.g., an HTTP Apache server) for download by the updaters, and a stager index file, to be picked up by the Pusher.
Every few seconds reads the index file. If the index file is valid and contains new timestamps for one or more of the purge or metadata files, and if the MD5 checksums listed for each file are correct, it places the new encrypted purge files on its web server for download by the updaters. The stager periodically reconstructs the stager index file. This file lists all of the files available for download from the stager together with their timestamps and sizes. This file is later checked by the pusher to see which files are missing. Every time a stager downloads gets a valid INDEX file, it will delete all files that are not listed in the INDEX file.
Logs when something new is staged, logs when heartbeat file has not been updated, e.g., because it cannot be reached by the Pusher.
The stagers may pull data from the Pusher instead of relying on the Pusher to push changes.
The Updater fetches the directives file and purge batches files from the stagers and makes them available to its content server.
Encrypted/packed purge batch files and a directives file from a stager. Acknowledgments from content server on notifications.
Decrypted and unpacked purge files and directives file.
Notifications and purge requests to content server.
The purge functionality of an Updater can be modeled as two state machines: a regular fetch thread that fetches the directives file (as well as, optionally, other files), and a purge thread that fetches purge batch files and notifies a content server about them. For simplicity, only the purging thread and the part of the fetch thread related to the directives file are discussed. All fetch wait timeouts preferably are randomized to keep them spread out in time.
1. The fetching thread of the Updater wakes up and performs a query for the directives file (Idle→GET). If no new file exists or if the request fails, it goes back to idle (GET→Idle). This request may be an IMS (If-Modified-Since:) HTTP request, or may use some other protocol. This request may be made through a content delivery network.
2. If the thread is successful in getting the file, it tries to move the file atomically to its permanent location (GET→Move). It also broadcasts the contents of the file to other nearby Updaters. It then moves back to the Idle state regardless of success or failure but reports any failures (Move-Idle).
3. In the presence of a directives file broadcast, the system examines the broadcast purge sequence values against the ones it has stored locally. Broadcasts from unrecognized Updaters or from itself are ignored. If the broadcast represents newer information, the thread accepts the new values, creates a file and stores it in its permanent location. It also resets the timeout it uses to wakeup and check for the existence of a new directives file. This approach has the benefit of reducing the load to stagers as in most cases only one machine per group of nearby updaters needs to get the directives file.
1. Updater starts in the idle state upon startup. It has a preconfigured timeout whose expiration forces it to communicate with the content server to ask for the last purge sequence number it has processed (Idle→Getting N).
2. If no answer is received, the updater goes back to the idle state and retries later (Getting N→Idle). Otherwise, it saves the answer from content server (Getting N→Got N). It then proceeds to read the most recent directives file (Got N→Parse File).
3. If the file cannot be parsed, the Updater gives up and goes back to the idle state, possibly reporting its failure (Parse File→Idle). Otherwise, it moves on to check what action is mandated by the directives file (Parse File→Check Action), as defined below.
5. Action could be that content server is out of date (i.e., content server's sequence number is not in the directives range) (Check Action→Idle). In this case the Updater should raise an alert.
6. Action could be that content server needs to be purged (i.e., content server's sequence number is in the directives range, but is not equal to the Updater end) (Check Action→Fetch). The Updater will fetch the N+1 batch from the stager. If the Updater fails to fetch it, it will report and go back to idle (Fetch→Idle). Otherwise, the Updater will try to allow content server to purge the batch and wait for an acknowledgement (FetchN recent→Wait ack). After getting an acknowledgment, Updater deletes the purge batch file from disk.
7. Waiting for an acknowledgement could result in success (Wait ack→Got N) or failure. In the latter case, the updater gives up and returns to the Idle state (Wait ack→Idle). Notice that if the updater fails repeatedly to purge content server, eventually the content server will fall out of date and the content server must be manually flushed.
8. The process repeats from step 3.
Updater may request that the content server purge a batch of objects and update its sequence number, that the content server return its current sequence number, or that the content server forcibly set its sequence number to some value.
Updater logs result on fetching or getting a broadcast of the directives file. Results on notifying content server for a purge batch.
Updater should report the most recently fetched version of the directives file, and the highest purge sequence number that its content server has processed.
Purge batch files and sequence number queries from updater.
Acks for notifications to Updater.
The following describes behavior in the content server as it pertains to purging.
1. The content server starts in Boot state and reads the persistent value of N upon booting. The content server also initializes the Purge History Table to this value. It then moves to the idle state (Boot→Idle).
2. From the idle state, content server can transition as a result of any of three requests: a request for each value of N, a command to set N, and a command to purge a set of object names in a file.
3. If content server gets a request for N (Idle→Get N), it sends back the value of N it has in memory and moves back to the Idle state (Get N→Idle).
4. If content server is instructed to set N (Idle→Set N), it will attempt to write the new value to disk (Set N→Disk OK). If it succeeds, it will respond with “success” and move back to idle (Disk OK→Idle); otherwise, it will respond with “failure” and return to Idle (Disk OK→Idle).
5. If content server is instructed to purge a file, it will attempt to do the purge (Idle→Purge). If the purge sequence number is not greater than its own (e.g., by 1), content server will reject the request with a failure code. Before purging a particular object name, content server is responsible for updating the sequence number for that object name in the history table. Notice that content server is safe to update the in-memory copy of the sequence number before the purge is successful, as its only side-effect is to force the content server to get an even newer version of an object than it really needs. If content server fails to purge, it will respond with a failure code and go back to idle (Purge→Idle). If content server succeeds, it will also attempt to write the new value of N (should be old N+1) to disk (Purge→Inc N). Notice that this should be done only after the purge has been persistently committed. If content server fails to do so, it will send a failure response and move back to idle (Inc N→Idle); otherwise, it will send a success response and move back to idle (Inc N→Idle). Note that no object name in the batch, no matter how badly formatted, should prevent content server from incrementing N; content server may still return an error code, but it must increment N.
If content servers share any data amongst each other, they must be careful to ensure that a content server that has already processed a purge request does not receive a “stale” object from another content server which has not yet processed that purge request. A simple scheme is to require that the purge sequence number of the provider of the object include in its response its own purge sequence number. The requester may then consider any object coming from a provider with a lower purge sequence number to be stale. In the middle of processing a purge, it may be that a given provider-requester pair will be unable to share data, even though the relevant data has not been purged. To address this, a history table may be provided or available to the requester to allow the requester to be more lenient in checking the sequence number returned by the provider.
All objects in this content server's cache have not been purged between when they were fetched from the origin server and completed_seq_num. In other words, this content server's cache is authoritative up through and including batch completed_seq_num; i.e., if the object has ever been purged (up through batch completed_seq_num) but is still in the server's cache, the object must have been fetched from the origin server (e.g., perhaps via another content server) after the most recent purge for the object (up through batch completed_seq_num) was scheduled.
For any object name x (in cache or not), no purges of x occurred in batches greater than required_seq_num_table [hash (x)] but less than or equal to completed_seq_num.
completed_seq_num is read in from persistent state on startup.
All the entries in the required_seq_num_table are then initialized to completed_seq_num.
completed_seq_num is updated persistently to N at some point after content server has finished processing all purge batches through the one numbered N. Note that the results of processing these batches must be persistent at that point.
completed_seq_num is included in responses to other content servers; it indicates that the data returned is guaranteed to be correct with respect to all purge batches through completed_seq_num (and perhaps later).
required_seq_num_table is similar to a hash table: a function is used to hash object names to entries in the table.
required_seq_num_table [i] represents the maximum purge batch sequence number in which a purge has been seen for an object whose object name hashes to i.
required_seq_num_table is updated whenever a purge for a single object is processed: if the object name for the object in the purge batch hashes to bucket i, required_seq_num_table [i] is set to N where N is the number of the purge batch being processed.
A constraint is the following: when content for an object name x is retrieved from another content server, the completed_seq_num returned along with the content must be at least as big as the receiving content server's required_seq_num_table [hash (x)], or else the content must be rejected as stale.
If content server is ever outdated (has completed_seq_num outside of the range of available purges in the directive file), or is behind (has not seen purges in many hours, days, etc.), this content server will have an older sequence number in its completed_seq_num than any content servers than are not in this situation have in their history tables, which implicitly turns off data sharing unless both content servers are also in the same situation. The use of history tables is optional, but desirable for improving performance.
The purge tool of the present invention provides numerous advantages. It provides CDN customers with an effective means to remove content from the CDN as thoroughly and as quickly as possible. The architecture enables the removal of such content on an “as-needed” basis but without adversely impacting the performance of the CDN itself. It is also simple to use and manage. The tool may also be used by CDN administrators as required. In addition, content servers may take advantage of the content delivery network itself to obtain content (namely, purge requests) from staging servers to thereby reduce the load on such servers. The inventive purge architecture also includes means to prevent exchange of stale data between content servers that share files.
Representative purge server and staging servers are Pentium-based computers running the Linux operating system and Apache Web server. One or more of the processes described above are implemented as computer programs, namely, as a set of computer instructions, for performing the functionality described. Purge tool customers use any convenient computer platform having a compatible browser, a valid username and password pair, and Internet access to the CDN portal.
A variant to the above-described embodiment is to implement a design in which purges are pushed from the staging servers to the content servers, e.g., by having each content server establish a persistent connection to some staging server, which would push all new purges down that connection. Another variant is to include one or more additional levels of servers within the purge hierarchy if needed.
Having thus described our invention, the following sets forth what we now claim.
wherein after a first content server has executed the aggregate purge request and, as a result, has purged a given content file, inhibiting the first content server from receiving the given content file from a second content server with which the first content server shares content files if the second content server has received but not then executed the aggregate purge request.
2. The method as described in claim 1 wherein the aggregate purge request is pushed to the each of the set of staging servers over a secure link.
3. The method as describe in claim 1 wherein the aggregate purge request is pulled from the given staging server to each of the set of content servers over a secure link.
4. The method as described in claim 1 further including the step of issuing a notification that each content file identified in the aggregate purge request has been purged from the content delivery network.
5. The method as described in claim 1 further including the step of issuing a notification that each content file identified in the aggregate purge request has been accepted for purging.
6. The method as described in claim 1 wherein the step of identifying the content files to be removed from the content servers includes the step of verifying that a user requesting removal is authorized to purge the content files.
7. The method as described in claim 6 wherein the user is a content delivery network customer.
8. The method as described in claim 6 wherein the user is a content delivery network administrator.
code executing on a given content server for periodically polling a given staging server, for pulling the aggregate purge request, for removing the identified content files from the given content server, and, with respect to a given content file that has been removed from the given content server, for inhibiting the given content server from receiving the given content file from at least one other content server with which the given content server shares content files if the other content server has not then removed the given content file that has been removed by the given content server.
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Several records were set at the national Paralympic games. They are in the suburbs. Today is the second day of play.
The results of the first day of the competition. The results that our Paralympians showed the day before at the Paralympics in Rio would allow them after the first day to take top standings in the overall team standings, and perhaps even first place. Well played yesterday, the athletes and swimmers. Today, we expect that they will continue their confident stride. Now came to positions the Paralympics-archers who compete in shooting from a classical onion.
These minutes completed the workout puleviki. They started the finals. Dash compete in a closed arrow from a pneumatic gun for 10-meter distance competitions in shooting from a small-caliber pistol at 50 meters. The athletes today final race. At noon there will be held a master class on mini-football. And after the 13 hours to begin the ceremony of awarding the winners. At the Olympic base "Lake Round" today will be held final competitions of Paralympic athletes in swimming, judo and fencing.
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Some prison time needs to be handed out to the Obama administration. I cannot imagine the calls for Bush’s head on a PIKE if this was his administration. The left is loaded with MURDEROUS hypocrites. Its no wonder they want to disarm law abiding citizens. Then they can kill whomever whenever wherever they want to.
Does Obama Response to Death Star Petition Signify End of Seriousness in Political Discourse?
← January 19th is Gun Appreciation Day.
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Disclosed herein is a statistical approach, a win share approach, used to assign a win share value to content items. User interaction with content items is tracked, and a win share value is assigned to content items in response to a “winning” action performed by a user. Win shares associated with content items are used to identify content items that are to be presented, and can further be used to identify an optimal presentation, e.g., layout, presentation frequency, etc., of content items that is to be presented.
This application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 60/984,277, filed Oct. 31, 2007 and entitled “CONTENT OPTIMIZATION SYSTEM AND METHOD”, the contents of which are incorporated herein by reference.
This disclosure relates to optimization of content in content presentation, and more particularly to use of a win share associated with content items to optimize content presentation.
A constant challenge faced by providers of content, e.g., a portal, website provider, etc., is identifying content to be displayed to a user. A user that visits a web site, or a web page displayed at the web site, typically scans the page for something of interest. If the user does not find something of interest, the user will typically leave the web page, or the web site altogether.
Conventional approaches manage keywords and a link structure within the website to ensure good traffic from search engines.
The present disclosure seeks to address failings in the art and to provide a system and method for optimizing content, and the presentation of content.
Embodiments of the present disclosure can be used in determining what content to display, and where content should be placed on the web page, for example. By way of some non-limiting examples, content can include news, multimedia, research, advertisements, search results, web pages, etc. content. By way of a further non-limiting example, content can originate from the users themselves, or can be provided by another content provider. Embodiments can be used to identify content to be presented, e.g., engaging user-generated content. In addition to identifying content to be presented, embodiments of the present disclosure can be used to identify an optimal presentation for content, e.g., so that content is presented in way that it engages users.
Embodiments use a statistical approach to assign a win share value to content items. In accordance with one or more such embodiments, user interaction with content items is tracked, and a win share value is assigned to content items in response to a “winning” action performed by a user. Win shares associated with content items can be used to identify content items that are to be presented, and can further be used to identify an optimal presentation, e.g., selection, layout, frequency, etc., of content items.
In accordance with one or more embodiments, a win share approach is used to optimize content, e.g., display content available via a user interface, such as that provided via a web site. Embodiments of the present disclosure collect information associated with user interactions with the user interface, which can include user selections and other user interaction with the user interface. In accordance with one or more such embodiments, a portion of the user interaction, e.g., interaction with a subset of the users that interact with the user interface, is used to optimize content, so as to identify, e.g., filter, content, e.g., engaging content, from other content, and then present, e.g., push out, the identified content to the entire population via one or more web pages offered via the user interface.
In accordance with an aspect of the present disclosure comprise a system, or method, that determines a win share for a plurality of content items, prioritizes the content items based on the win share determined for each of the plurality of content items, and presents one or more content items from the plurality of content items based on the determined win shares. In accordance with one or more of such embodiments, the presentation of content items includes determining a frequency with which the one or more content items are presented based on the determined win shares.
In accordance with another aspect of the present disclosure, a system, or method, determines a win share by tracking user interaction with one or more of a plurality of content items, recognizing a predetermined interaction with a user, identifying content items from the plurality of content items with which the user interacted preceding the predetermined interaction, and assigning a win share to each of the identified content items. In accordance with one or more aspects of the present disclosure, the function distributes the win share evenly across the identified content items. In accordance with other aspects of the present disclosure, the function distributes the win share unevenly, based on a given weighting, across the identified content items. The weighting can be based on factors such as a timing of the user's interaction with a content item, one or more characteristics associated with the content items and/or the user.
FIG. 1 provides examples of an activity-based web log and time-based web log for use in accordance with one or more embodiments of the present disclosure.
FIG. 2 provides an example of an ordering of content IDs associated with content items, the ordering being based on the win share values associated with the content IDs.
FIG. 3 provides an example of content identification using win shares determined using a subset of an entire user population in accordance with one or more embodiments of the present disclosure.
FIG. 4 provides an example of a data structure, in the form of a database table, which can be used to generate win shares in accordance with one or more embodiments of the present disclosure.
FIG. 5, which comprises FIGS. 5A to 5C, provides examples of database queries for use in accordance with one or more embodiments of the present disclosure.
FIG. 6, which comprises FIGS. 6A and 6B, provides results of human judgments corresponding to content judged in accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure.
FIG. 7 illustrates some components that can be used in connection with one or more embodiments of the present disclosure.
FIG. 8 provides an exemplary process flow to optimize content in accordance with one or more embodiments of the present disclosure.
In general, the present disclosure includes a content optimization system, method and architecture.
Embodiments of the present disclosure use a win share approach to optimize content. A win share method can be explained with reference to a baseball team, and selection of players for a team. Assume that n players are to be picked for a team from a collection of m players, and that there are to be N games played before the final team is selected. Various combinations of n players can be selected for each of the N games. The players that are a part of a team that wins a game can be assigned a share of a win, and a player's win share can be used to select players for another team. To illustrate, every time a team wins, each one of the n players on the team is assigned 1/nth of a share of the team's win. At the end of N games, an aggregate win share is determined for each player based on that player's win share for the N games. The players can be sorted in descending order based on their aggregate win share value. To pick a new team from the m players, the top n players can be selected from the ordered list. This method rewards players who were associated with a team win by giving them an equal share of the win, simultaneously it penalizes users who were not involved in a win, since a player that plays for a losing team would have a win share that is less than another player that plays on a winning team. The book entitled Win Shares by Bill James is incorporated herein by reference.
A win share mechanism can be used to optimize content displayed using a user interface, e.g., web content, where the web content, or content items, are the players, and a win comprises a winning user action. e.g., a desired user action with a website or the web content. In accordance with one or more embodiments of the present disclosure, user website activity is collected and stored in web logs. The web logs are converted to a time log of activity on the website. FIG. 1 provides examples of an activity-based web log 102 and a time-based web log 104 for use in accordance with one or more embodiments of the present disclosure. In accordance with such embodiments, the activity-based web log 102 is used to create the time-based log 104. It should be apparent that the activity-based and time-based web logs 102 and 104, respectively, can be created concurrently, or that the time-based web log 104 can be created alone, without the activity-based web log 102, e.g., in a case that an activity-based log 102 is not already being generated. It should be apparent that the examples shown in FIG. 1 can comprise an excerpt from an activity-based log 102 and/or a time-based log 104, with additional information being stored in either log.
In the example shown in FIG. 1, the activity-based log 102 includes row entries 106A to 106J, each of which includes, without limitation, time field 108, cookie field 110 and content identifier (ID) field 112. To illustrate, each row 106 in the activity-based log 102 corresponds to a user's interaction with the website/web page, e.g., content presented by the website or web page. In such a case, the time field 108 identifies a time for the user activity, the cookie field 110 identifies the user, and the content field 112 contains a content item with which the user interacted, as identified by a content ID, QN, which can be used to identify the particular item of content, group of content items, etc. A log can span a period of time, such as one or more years, months, days, hours, sessions, etc.
While the activity-based log 102 shows particular examples of values for the time, user identification and content identification, it should be apparent that any manner of identifying time, user and content can be used with embodiments of the present disclosure. In addition and while time is indicated across all of the users, it should be apparent that time can be indicated relative to each user, i.e., each user has its own time frame. Similarly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, users are identified based on a unique user identifier (ID) contained in a cookie, or other store, maintained at the user's computer or other storage location, e.g., a server. Finally, any technique can be used to identify content, such as a uniform resource locator, or other content identifier.
In accordance with one or more embodiments, data contained in the activity-based log 102 is used to create a time-based log 104, which identifies a chain of activity for a given user, or a “chain of content” that a user views, or otherwise interacts with, on the website. Referring again to FIG. 1 and for the sake of a non-limiting example, it is assumed that users A, B, C, D “interacted with” content as shown in the activity-based log 102, such as content selection, mouse over, etc., for example.
The activity-based log 102 can be used to generate the time-based log 104 also shown in FIG. 1. In accordance with one or more embodiments, the time-based log 104 has entries 114, each of which corresponds to a given user. With reference to the time-based log 104 example shown in FIG. 1, entry 114A corresponds with user A and indicates that user A interacts with content item Q1 and Q2, entry 114B corresponds to user B that interacts with content items Q2, Q1, Q3 and Q4, entry 114C corresponds with user C that interacts with content items Q1, Q2 and Q3, and entry 114D corresponds with user D that interacts with content items Q1. The time-based log 104 provides a time line 116 of a user's activity, which identifies an order in which the user interacted with the content items. For example and as shown in entry 114B of the time-based log 104, user B interacts with content Q2, then interacts with content Q1, then Q3 and then Q4 at times along time line 116.
In accordance with one or more embodiments of the present disclosure, the content items correspond to the “players”, for which a win share is to be identified. In accordance with such embodiments, a win can be anything determined to be significant. A winning action can be, for example, anything that the stakeholders of the website are interested in “driving up” using the content, such as registering users with the website. By way of a non-limiting example, a win can be a user viewing a content item, or interacting with something that corresponds with the content item. By way of a further non-limiting example, the interaction can be mouse over, click through or other interaction with the content or an item associated with the content. By way of yet another non-limiting example, a winning action can comprise a user providing information as part of a user profile creation, e.g., user registration, operation. Referring to the illustrative activity-based log 102 shown in FIG. 1, a winning action occurs in correspondence with the times 7, 9 and 10, corresponding to users C, B and D, respectively. It should be apparent that while the winning action could be indicated in a separate entry in the activity-based log 102, for the sake of simplicity, it is identified in connection with the last content accessed by the user prior to the occurrence of the winning action. In a case in which the winning action has its own entry in the activity-based log 102, the content field could be used to identify the winning activity, e.g., creating a profile.
In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, the winning “team” comprises the content items, e.g., the chain of content items, that the user interacted with, e.g., viewed prior to a point in time that the user initiated the “winning action”, e.g., the user created the profile. In accordance with or one more such embodiments, it is assumed that content items with which the user interacted prior to initiating the winning action contributed to the winning action. By way of a non-limiting example and in accordance with one or more such embodiments, if a value of 1 is associated with a winning action, all of the content items that contributed to the winning action share in a fraction, 1/m, where m represents the number of content items identified as contributing to the win. In this example, the win is divided equally among all of the content items that contributed to the win. It should be apparent that other distributions of the win can be used. For example, certain content items, e.g., newer content items, older content items, content items more recently viewed, etc., can be given a greater, or lesser, portion of the win.
FIG. 2 provides win share examples for the example logs shown in FIG. 1 in accordance with one or more embodiments of the disclosure. Matrix 200 includes rows 202A to 202D, which correspond to content items Q2, Q1, Q3 and Q4, and columns 204A to 204D, which correspond to users A, B, C and D. Column 204E shows an aggregate win share value determined using the example provided in FIG. 1.
As can be seen from the activity-based log 102 and time-based log 104 of FIG. 1, while user A interacted with Q1 and Q2 content items, user A did not perform a winning action. In accordance with one or more embodiments, since user A did not perform a winning action, user A does not contribute to the win share value of any of the content items, including the content items with which user A interacted. This result is shown in column 204A of FIG. 2, which includes a zero win share for in all of the rows 202A to 202D. User B, on the other hand, interacted with content items Q1, Q2, Q3 and Q4 prior to a winning action. In accordance with at least one embodiment, content items Q1, Q2, Q3 and Q4 share ¼th of the win, in a case that the content items share equally in the win. As shown in column 204B and rows 202A to 202D, each content item is given a ¼ share of the win.
Similarly and since user C interacted with three content items, i.e., Q1, Q2, Q3, prior to a winning action, these three content items share in the win. As shown in column 204C and rows 202A to 202C, each item is given ⅓rd of the credit for the win, in a case that the content items share equally in the win. In the case of user D, since user D viewed one content item, Q1, prior to the winning action, the one content item gets the entire share of the win. As shown in column 204D and row 202A, content item Q1 is assigned a win share of 1. The win shares distributed to each of the content items based on users B, C and D interaction with the content and winning action are aggregated to determine an aggregated win share for a given content item. In the example, as shown in column 204E, the content items Q1, Q2, Q3 and Q4 have aggregate win shares 204E shown in rows 202A to 202D of 19/12, 7/12, 7/12 and ¼, respectively.
In accordance with one or more embodiments, the content items can be ordered using their aggregate win share values. For example, the content items can be sorted in descending order of their aggregate win share value. FIG. 2 provides an example of an ordering of content items, and their associated content IDs, the ordering being based on the win share values associated with the content items. In the example shown in FIG. 2, content item Q1 is ranked above content items Q2 and Q3, which share second place, followed by content item Q4.
In accordance with one or more embodiments, the entire user community can be used to determine win shares. Alternatively, a subset of the user community can be used. In accordance with one or more embodiments, a feedback loop can be used, wherein new content is tested against the entire user community or a small percentage, e.g., 5%, of the population determined to fairly represent the entire population. In a case that a representative user sample is used, the win shares can be computed using the representative user sampling. The resulting win shares can be used to identify the content items from the new content items that are to be provided to the entire population.
FIG. 3 provides an example of content identification using win shares determined using a subset of an entire user population in accordance with one or more embodiments of the present disclosure. In the example of FIG. 3, win shares determined using a representative user sample 302 can be used to determine a frequency with which content is presented to the user population. The representative user sample 302 can comprise a percentage of the users determined to represent the entire population of users 306. In the example shown in FIG. 3, new content items 304, e.g., Q1, Q2 and Q3, are shown to the representative user sample 302. Win shares are determined for the new content items 304 exposed to the user sampling 302 in accordance with one or more embodiments of the present disclosure. In the example of FIG. 3, the computed win shares can be used to determine an ordering 308 of the content items 304. In the example, content item Q3 has a greater win share than the win share determined for content item Q1, which has a greater win share than content item Q2.
In accordance with one or more embodiments, a frequency with which the new content items are presented to the entire user population 306 can be determined, such that content item Q3 is presented to the user population 306 more frequently than is content item Q1, which is presented to the user population 306 more frequently than content item Q2. By way of a non-limiting example and in accordance with one or more embodiments, content with high win shares can be shown to a user population 306 based on win shares determined by a representative user sample 302, thus greatly improving chances of invoking winning actions from the user population 306. In accordance with such embodiments, win shares can be determined for new content 304 without the need to involve all of the user population 306, e.g., in a case that the user sample 302 is 5% of the user population 306, 95% of the user population 306 need not be involved in judging the new content 304 and/or determining the frequency with which new content 304 is presented. Using the user sample 302, win shares can be determined for new content 304, and new content 304 with higher win shares can be shown more frequently than new content 304 with lesser win shares.
Use of a sampling of users in accordance with one or more embodiments, is advantageous, among other reasons, as it provides an ability to reduce the resources used to determine win shares. For example, data structures and storage amount needed to store log information, win share information, etc. can be reduced in a case that a user sample is used to determine win shares. In addition, the data structures can be represented as simple data structures, e.g., as relational database tables, which can be queried using a structured query language, SQL, thereby avoiding a need to have complex applications running to filter content.
FIG. 4 provides an example of a data structure, in the form of a database table, which can be used to generate win shares in accordance with one or more embodiments of the present disclosure. In the example of FIG. 4, a table 400 is created using a sampling, e.g., a sample size comprising 5% of the user population, of users who are exposed to new content over a given period of time, a given day. The table stores an event log of how the users in the user sample interacted with the web site up until they left the web site or performed a winning action, e.g., created a profile. The rows 402 of the table 400 are created each time a user interacts with a content item. Each row 402 has a time stamp field 404A, user identification information field 404B, content item identification field 404C and a profile created field 404D. The fields 404 in each row 402 identify a time, a user, a content item, and whether or not the user created, or activated, a profile.
The table 400 can be queried to identify a list of content IDs corresponding to content items with which a user interacted, e.g., viewed, prior to performing a winning action, e.g., activating a profile. FIG. 5, which comprises FIGS. 5A to 5C, provides examples of database queries for use in accordance with one or more embodiments of the present disclosure. A list of the “top ranked” content IDs, e.g., the content IDs having the largest win shares, can be determined using the queries shown in FIG. 5 and the database table shown in FIG. 4.
The query shown in FIG. 5A retrieves a list of content IDs a given user interacted with on a website prior to the user initiating a profile activation operation. The query shown in FIG. 5B retrieves a count of content items with which the user interacted on the website prior to the user initiating a profile activation operation. The query shown in FIG. 5C is used to compute the win shares for the content items identified in the query shown in FIG. 5A using the content determined using the query shown in FIG. 5B.
In one exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, data is collected for an application with which user interacts via the web. The application allows a user population to post questions and answers to posted questions. In accordance with this embodiment, the content can comprise the question or the answers to the questions, or question-answer pairs, and the winning action corresponds to a user creating a profile. Once a user creates a profile, the user is able to submit questions and/or answers to the questions, for example. User session data is collected to determine the win shares of various content IDs in accordance with one or more embodiments disclosed herein.
A small sample of the content for which win shares were determined was also made the subject of a blind test, which involved human editors, or judges, providing their judgment concerning the content in the sample. The editors had no knowledge of the win shares associated with the content for which they were asked to provide their judgments. The editors were asked to rate each item of content using a three point scale of 1, 2 and 3, where 1 represents content judged to be excellent, 2 represents content judged to be mediocre content, and 3 represents content judged to be least desirable, e.g., least informative, questionable content, and/or of little importance or interest.
FIG. 6A provides an example of results of human judgments corresponding to content judged in accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure. Each row 602 in table 600 includes a judges' scoring field 604A, number of content items scored field 604B, an average win share field 604C and standard deviation field 604D. As can be seen from the table 600 shown in FIG. 6A, the average win shares 604C for content items correlate with the judges' scores 604A. With reference to row 602A, the content items given a rating of 1 by the judges have an average win share 604C that is greater than the average win shares 604C of those content items given a rating of either 2 or 3 by the judges in rows 602B and 602C, respectively. The content items judged to have a rating of 1 by the judges had an average win share of 6.97, with a standard deviation of 11.52. This is in contrast to the content items rated 2 and 4, i.e., the 49 and 96 content items judged by the judges, which have average win shares of 4.75 and 1.57, respectively.
As can be seen from the standard deviations, win share scores varied in this example. This can be attributed to the type of content tested, i.e., questions and answers that included user-generated content. Such content can be of low quality, with several grammatical and spelling mistakes, which can invoke a poor response and content generation activity from the user community.
FIG. 6B provides a graphic that shows a cumulative distribution of win shares determined in accordance with one or more embodiments. In the graph shown in FIG. 6B, the x-axis corresponds to win share scores for those question-answer pairs rated 1, 2 or 3 by the human judges on a logarithmic scale. The y-axis corresponds to a cumulative fraction, or percentage of content items having both a win share score and judges' scoring. In the table shown in FIG. 6B, the x-axis corresponds to win share scores associated with question-answer pairs rated as 1, 2 or 3 by the judges on a logarithmic scale.
The win share scores at the 50% mark of on the y-axis for question-answer pairs rated 3 by the human judges, point 614C, is significantly below the 50% marks, points 614A and 614B (respectively), corresponding to question-answer pairs rated 1 and 2 by the judges. That is, fifty percent of the content items rated 3 by the judges have a win share score below 0.01, while fifty percent of the content items rated 1 or 2 by the judges have win share scores above 1.
Approximately 45% of the question-answer pair content in this example, that was rated 2 by the human judges has win share scores less than 0.01.
The maximum win share score of question-answer pairs rated 3 is 27.8 and more than 5% of those rated 1 are above that win share score.
In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, win share content optimization provides an effective mechanism to identify optimal content, e.g., so as to identify content that is likely to increase a user's engagement with a website.
Content optimization using win shares as described herein can be used in combination with other filtering mechanisms. For example, it is possible that win shares associated with content items can be used to identify content items, e.g., question-answer pairs, with high win shares. In some cases, high win share scores may correspond with abusive content. For example, abusive content might tend to enrage users and make them want to engage, which can result in high win shares for such content. Embodiments of the present disclosure can be used in combination with additional filtering mechanisms to avoid such content being re-presented, e.g., use human judgment in a review of content having win shares considered to be abnormally high and/or low.
FIG. 7 illustrates some components that can be used in connection with one or more embodiments of the present disclosure. In accordance with one or more embodiments of the present disclosure, one or more computing devices, e.g., one or more servers 702, are configured to optimize content using win shares determined for content items. The one or more servers 702 can serve content to user computers 704 using a browser application via a network 706, and track user interaction with the content and winning actions in the browser application. Such user interactions can be stored in a data store 708, e.g., as logs stored in the data store 708. The logged interactions can be used to determine win share amounts for the content. The determined win shares can be used to prioritize content based on win shares associated with the content, such that content that has high win shares can be selected to be served to the user computers 704. Alternatively, a frequency with which a content item is served to the user computers 704 can be determined based on a content items win share.
The user computer 704 can be any computing device, including without limitation a personal computers, personal digital assistant (PDA), wireless device, cell phone, internet appliance, media player, home theater system, and media center, or the like. For the purposes of this disclosure a computing device includes a processor and memory for storing and executing program code, data and software, and may be provided with an operating system that allows the execution of software applications in order to manipulate data. A computing device such as server 702 and the user computer 704 can include one or more processors, memory, a removable media reader, network interface, display and interface, and one or more input devices, e.g., keyboard, keypad, mouse, etc. and input device interface, for example. One skilled in the art will recognize that server 702 and user computer 704 may be configured in many different ways and implemented using many different combinations of hardware, software, or firmware.
In accordance with one or more embodiments, the server 702 makes a user interface available to a user computer 704 via the network 706. The user interface made available to the user computer 704 can include content items selected for the user interface using win shares associated with the content items. In accordance with one or more embodiments, server 702 makes a user interface available to a user computer 704 by communicating a definition of the user interface to the user computer 704 via the network 706. The user interface definition can be specified using any of a number of languages, including without limitation a markup language such as Hypertext Markup Language, scripts, applets and the like. The user interface definition can be processed by an application executing on the user computer 704, such as a browser application, to output the user interface on a display coupled, e.g., a display directly or indirectly connected, to the user computer 704.
In an embodiment the network 706 may be the Internet, an intranet (a private version of the Internet), or any other type of network. An intranet is a computer network allowing data transfer between computing devices on the network. Such a network may comprise personal computers, mainframes, servers, network-enabled hard drives, and any other computing device capable of connecting to other computing devices via an intranet. An intranet uses the same Internet protocol suit as the Internet. Two of the most important elements in the suit are the transmission control protocol (TCP) and the Internet protocol (IP).
It should be apparent that embodiments of the present disclosure can be implemented in a client-server environment such as that shown in FIG. 7. Alternatively, embodiments of the present disclosure can be implemented on a standalone computing device, such as the server or computer shown in FIG. 7.
FIG. 8 provides an exemplary process flow to optimize content in accordance with one or more embodiments of the present disclosure. At step 802, content items, or type of content items (e.g., multimedia, question, answer, question-answer pairs, search results, etc.), and winning action(s) are identified. At step 804, user interactions with the content items and winning actions are tracked and stored in a log. At step 806, the user logs are examined to identify those users that performed a winning action and the winning actions performed by such users. At step 808, a determination is made whether or not all of the users and winning actions identified have been processed. If so, processing ends at step 818.
where N is the identified number of content items that led up to the winning action, and 1/N is the content item's share of the current winning action being processed. Processing continues at step 808 to process any remaining users and winning actions.
where Ω is the set of content items, Qi, associated with a winning action. One example of the function F(Ψ(Qi),Ω) is Ψ(Qi)+1/N. Other examples of such a function include but are not limited to using a weighted fraction 1/N, where the weighting is based on such factors as primacy and/or recency. For example, newer content items can be given a greater, or lesser, share of a win. By way of a further non-limiting example, content items that the user interacted with closer in time to the winning action than other content items can be given a greater, or lesser, share of the win. A win share can be a function of the users themselves, and knowledge about the users that interact with the content. For example, a win share can be increased, or decreased, based on knowledge about the users, such as consistency and/or reliability of input, or known characteristics associated with users. As yet a further non-limiting example, a win share can be adjusted based on the content items themselves, and or an additional filtering mechanism (e.g., human judgment information).
For the purposes of this disclosure a computer readable medium stores computer data, which data can include computer program code executable by a computer, in machine readable form. By way of example, and not limitation, a computer readable medium may comprise computer storage media and communication media. Computer storage media includes volatile and non-volatile, removable and non-removable media implemented in any method or technology for storage of information such as computer-readable instructions, data structures, program modules or other data. Computer storage media includes, but is not limited to, RAM, ROM, EPROM, EEPROM, flash memory or other solid state memory technology, CD-ROM, DVD, or other optical storage, magnetic cassettes, magnetic tape, magnetic disk storage or other magnetic storage devices, or any other medium which can be used to store the desired information and which can be accessed by the computer.
In accordance with one or more embodiments, a user interface with which content items is made available to a user, e.g., the user's computing device, via a network such as the Internet or other network, and content items are made available via the user interface based on win shares associated with one or more of the content items. By way of a non-limiting example, a content item's win share can be used to determine whether or not to make the content item available, the frequency with which the content item is made available, and/or a display order for the content items in the user interface.
While the system and method have been described in terms of what are presently considered to be the most practical and preferred embodiments, it is to be understood that the disclosure need not be limited to the disclosed embodiments. It is intended to cover various modifications and similar arrangements included within the spirit and scope of the claims, the scope of which should be accorded the broadest interpretation so as to encompass all such modifications and similar structures. The present disclosure includes any and all embodiments of the following claims.
assigning a share of a winning score to each identified content item.
distributing the winning score evenly across two or more identified content items.
distributing the winning score unevenly across two or more identified content items.
applying the identified content item's weight to the winning score to determine a win share for the identified content item.
applying the identified content item's weight to a win share value to determine a win share for the identified content item.
identifying at least one of the plurality of content items to make available via the user interface based on a win share associated with the at least one of the plurality of content items.
determining a placement in the user interface of at least one of the plurality of content items based on a win share associated with the at least one of the plurality of content items.
determining an ordering of two or more of the plurality of content items in the user interface based on a win share associated with each of the two or more content items.
determining a frequency with which at least one of the plurality of content items is made available via the user interface based on a win share associated with the at least one of the plurality of content items.
making one or more of the plurality of content items available to the user population based on win shares assigned using the user sample.
assign a share of a winning score to each identified content item.
distribute the winning score evenly across two or more identified content items.
distribute the winning score unevenly across two or more identified content items.
apply the identified content item's weight to the winning score to determine a win share for the identified content item.
apply the identified content item's weight to a win share value to determine a win share for the identified content item.
identify at least one of the plurality of content items to make available via the user interface based on a win share associated with the at least one of the plurality of content items.
determine a placement in the user interface of at least one of the plurality of content items based on a win share associated with the at least one of the plurality of content items.
determine an ordering of two or more of the plurality of content items in the user interface based on a win share associated with each of the two or more content items.
determine a frequency with which at least one of the plurality of content items is made available via the user interface based on a win share associated with the at least one of the plurality of content items.
make one or more of the plurality of content items available to the user population based on win shares assigned using the user sample.
assigning i share of a winning score to each identified content item.
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Some road-geeky sights in Siskiyou County, California.
This is on CA 263 (once US 99) north of Yreka.
Shot of the bridge and the Shasta River canyon.
Somebody got artistic (or lazy) with this CA 263 shield.
Note the difference in the shape of the 2 CA shields.
For some reason, CalTrans decided to sign hidden CA 265 north of Weed - all 1/2 mile of it.
The SUV you see in the background is very near the end of it, about to enter the I-5 ramp.
I finally got a picture of this odd CA - 3 shield. The shield is located on northbound I-5 at the last Yreka exit.
Note the normal CA - 3 shield in a picture above this one.
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Analytical writing – 3 (Issue) | What I learn, I blog !
Many of us believe and endorse the fact that science and economics have greater impact on our lives than arts and humanities. Scince helps in development of things ranging from as tiny as contact lenses to as large as a skyscraper, whereas economics help in boosting the living standards of general masses. On the other hand, arts has no contribution in the above mentioned fronts. However, while stating the above points we forget about the sustainence of our lives. Let us take few examples that will help in clearing this point.
Arts, as already mentioned above, helps in sustaining life. Philosophy, which stands for love of knowledge, basically defines the course of one’s life. Philosophy, combined with religious studies, conveys what is right and what falls in the wrong pool. Science, as an example, taught us how to make an atom bomb and economics made us financially able to use it, but it was humanities that taught us not to use it against humanity, which consequently makes both the areas, science and arts, equally important.
Although it was science that invented music instruments like guitar, flute, harmoinca etc, but it was music, which comes under arts domain, that made us even more creative with them. People innovated different ragas, different chores that help us rejoice, alleviate all pain and live a happy and long life.
Furthermore, we can argue on the fact that, what if the earning capacity is reduced for people relating to art? Consequently, all contributions towards the area of arts and humanities will go down. Top thinkers will migrate to areas like science and economics which will, for sure, reduce the literature in numbers and definitly in quality too. With this sudden reduction in literature, philosophy and music, sustainibility of life will affect for sure. People will not find anything, when in dire need of inspration or anodyne music.
Hence, with all the evidence in hand it is easy to say, if the earning capacity of people in arts and humanities is reduced that of of people in science and economics will not only affect the society but also the humanity as a whole.
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You Catch More Flies with Honey! Lesson ReLearned! | Diary of a Public School Teacher!
You Catch More Flies with Honey! Lesson ReLearned!
It’s funny because I wrote this post in March 2012, and ended the title with the words, “lesson learned”.
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The Bing Maps iOS Control is an Objective-C control for embedding maps directly into native iOS apps. With a rich, gesture-based UI provided by Seadragon, the Bing Maps iOS Control provides support for adding pushpins and other overlays to the map, allows your device location to be displayed, and provides the ability to retrieve contextual information for a given map location.
Mac OS X Snow Leopard, version 10.6.4 or later on a Macintosh computer with an Intel x86 processor.
The Windows Phone Interoperability site focuses on helping developers who have been creating phone applications on various platforms ramp up quickly on the Windows Phone 7 platform. The goal is to help them leverage existing skills, and provide recipes to successfully design and build applications for the Window Phone. The site will also address interoperability scenarios aiming to provide tools and guidance to help developers building applications for multiple platforms.
Microsoft says it’s learned from user feedback about Office 2008 and has tweaked the user interface accordingly in Office 2011. Most notably, there’s a new Ribbon at the top of each document window. The Mac version of the Ribbon doesn’t replace any menu bars, but it does replace Office 2008’s controversial Elements Gallery, which took some fire from Mac users for its size and inflexibility. This new Ribbon is designed to give users quick access to each program’s most commonly used tools. Unlike the Elements Gallery, the ribbon is customizable and, if you want more screen space, completely collapsible. Now users who has volume license can start download the new version from their site and for the rest, it will arrive in time for the 2010 holiday season.
The other big news in Office 2011 is the demise of Entourage and the return of Outlook. The new Outlook will support PST imports (allowing you to move an Outlook installation, including all your old e-mails, from a Windows PC to a Mac). It will also support Microsoft’s Information Rights Management (IRM), which allows senders to specify what recipients can do with messages (print, forward, and so on). Previously-Windows only, IRM is required in some corporate settings.
Microsoft has re-engineered the Outlook message database system to be a series of small files, so it’s more easily backed up with Time Machine and searched in Spotlight. “Outlook’s new database is more reliable, faster, and fully supports Time Machine and Spotlight.
Visual Basic was dropped from Office 2008 in part because it was too technically difficult to port it to the Mac’s then-new Intel CPUs. Microsoft says it began work on that port as far back as 2008—before the last Mac Office shipped. That work is now complete. And the Mac suite will be using the most up-to-date version of Visual Basic, so it’ll be much more compatible with Office for Windows than the Visual Basic in previous versions of Office for Mac.
The iOS4 Release and iOS 4 Download will be released on June 21, 2010 by Apple. Estimate that the iOS4 Release Date Time is around 9:00 AM Pacific.
If you plan to get the iOS 4 Download, know that it works with iPhone 4G, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 3G, and all iPod touch models. You must get iTunes 9.2 download in order to get the iOS4 software when it is released.
Now with Exchange server 2010 and Outlook Web apps, there is a menu called Option, where this is actually giving you the Exchange control panel for the selective user. From here you can manage the Phone syncronization.
From this option, you can see your device sync status and also when you lost the phone, you can wipe the data from here to protect your data of the lost phone.
Cool features..when you do Exchange server 2010 with Office 2010 and Office web apps.
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NIKK members met at Bruce Todd's pond for a barbecue and discussion of some bacteria issues in Andersons pond. Reverse osmosis and carbon filtering were discussed as a means to remove heavy metals from pond water--thus relieving stress for the koi. What a knowledgeable group this is - great conversation and some very good suggestions!!
Gene presents Bruce Todd with his well-deserved PNKCA Ed Fujimoto Award.
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Our January 2010 issue (fourth edition) of Motoring Tampa Bay has debuted. Several thousand copies of the paper will be distributed this week at selected auto stores in Tampa Bay, as well as car shows and cruise-ins (such as the Jan. 2 Dade City Cruise-in).
If you would like a copy, annual subscription is only $12. The check can be mailed to MOTORING TAMPA BAY, 18313 CYPRESS STAND CIRCLE, TAMPA, FL 33647.
The Northpointe Village Christmas Special Classic Car Show will be held Saturday, Dec. 19. It is being hosted by Let’s Roll promotions with U.S. Marines Toys for Tots and Motoring Tampa Bay (www.motoringtampabay.com) Northpointe Village is at 16506 Point Village Drive, Lutz. At the 5 to 8 p.m., there will be live music, door prizes, 50/50. There is no entry fee; just bring an unwrapped toy or a $10 donation. The show, a first for Motoring Tampa Bay, is open to all classic and muscle cars, street rods, hot rods and customs, For information or to sponsor, call Paul Figoni at (813) 468-0277.
Do ask for the December issue of Motoring Tampa Bay publication when you come to the show. See you all there!
You are currently browsing the Motoring Tampa Bay Editor's Blog blog archives for December, 2009.
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Matsumoto (松本市, Matsumoto-shi) is a Japanese ceety in the Chūbu region on the island o Honshu. It is a ceety locatit in Nagano Prefectur. Matsumoto is designatit as a Special Ceety.
As o Julie 1, 2012, the ceety haes an estimatit population o 243,571 an a population density o 250 persons per km². The tot aurie is 978.77 km².
This page wis last eeditit on 11 Mairch 2018, at 08:08.
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Surjit Nongmeikapam (Bonbon) was born in Manipur. He completed a BA in Choreography from the Natya Institute of Kathak and Choreography and has worked with Natya Stem Dance Company and Natya Maya, Bengaluru, as a contemporary and traditional dancer. He has trained in Kathak, Kalarippayattu, Manipuri, Thang-ta and contemporary dance, continuing to actively learn other movement styles from different gurus and mentors. In 2014, he won the Prakriti Excellence in Contemporary Dance Award, successfully securing funding and mentorship for his next choreographic work.
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There were flowers. There were hula girls and grass skirts. There were loud Hawaiian shirts, paper and real leis, colourful food, and even a beach on the deck. And, of course, there were lots of loud, happy, enthusiastic WELLfolk. It was a shining moment in the time-honoured tradition of WELL Office Parties…..
What’s a luau without a beach?
“… we had hundreds of mini-carnations that we beheaded and strung into flower garlands. I also brought a bunch of clippings from my rose-scented geranium, so we added the rose-scented leaves into the leis, thus adding a strong floral fragrance to the garlands.
“Don’t forget “Most Gawd-awful Yet Wonderful Aloha Shirt” [award] to (pbs) who looked lovely in Caribbean-motif garb.
“The photo of Maria in her rubber skin-diving gloves could probably fetch big bucks from “Rubber Fetish” magazine: the pose is unintentionally suggestive.
For information about the next WELL gathering (this year’s Annual Picnic!) please come on by the WELLcome conference — we hope to see you there!
All credit for the photography is gratefully given to (jayson) and the photos here are used with his permission. All quotes are taken with permission from the Aloha WOP topic in the party conference, party 111.
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We created the Ohio State Buckeye football cake for a birthday. The base of the cake was a vanilla buttercream. The football field is created out of marshmallow fondant.
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Nowhere to go but up: what 0-2 sounds like.
“That hasn’t changed one bit,” Richt said. “Let’s face it, could that game Saturday have gone either way? I think it’s pretty obvious that it could have. Did we improve tremendously in a lot of areas? There’s no doubt about that.
There are only so many ways for a coach to spin the hope that his team will get buttah.
Bill Connelly’s chart holds few surprises. Georgia lost, despite being the superior offensive team, because of brutal turnovers, Marcus Lattimore and an inability to cash in on a dominant first quarter beyond two field goals. If there’s an unexpected positive to take away from his post, it’s that the offensive line managed to get a decent push in the running game.
… the offense itself hasn’t suffered at all in Richt’s absence — in fact, scoring, total offense and pass efficiency averages from 2008-10 were slightly better than the averages in the salad days, and are already on a similar pace through the first two games this year. Saturday’s 436-yard, 42-point outburst against South Carolina was UGA’s sixth 40-point effort in its last eight games.
It’s frustrating. You get the sense that in some ways the team is very close to success, but there’s no denying that it continues to suffer from an inability to close the deal.
Sometimes, even when you learn from history, you can be doomed.
Even better, it sounds like the coaches were ready to do that against South Carolina. Unfortunately it turned out to be one on those situations where the spirit was willing, but the flesh was weak.
“As the game was going on, I thought he was running well,” Richt said. “But when I looked at the film, he really made some great runs. He did take a shot in the ribs and was having trouble breathing. I think his energy level and his excitement level got to where he’d raise his hand and want to come off. You say, ‘Stay in there,’ but you don’t know why he wants to come out to begin with. So when he wanted to come out, he came out.
If you’re like me, you’ve seen a certain amount of chatter about how this year’s team can try to take some inspiration from how Georgia was able to turn its 2007 season around. If a parallel develops between the two seasons, it won’t be without some potential irony. The what-could-have-been part of that season was not feeding Knowshon Moreno the ball enough in the South Carolina loss. That was by design. You wonder how Bobo and Richt will feel if, knowing that they weren’t going to make the same mistake twice, Georgia still comes up just short of an SEC East title in 2011.
This sounds pretty definitive. And may be proof that Isaiah Crowell doesn’t spend much time on the Internet.
… Crowell said he’s never been approached by anybody within the program about the number issue.
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Magic Johnson’s first turn as whatever the heck you think he is with the Los Angeles Lakers is going exactly as you’d expect. Big proclamations, big stars, appearances on television shows that people Magic’s age (and people that tweet like Magic) tend to watch, and not a whole heck of a lot by way of specifics.
Beyond, apparently, a “three to five”-year window, that seems like a heck of a lot of time for a fan base that will celebrate the seventh anniversary of their last NBA title in June.
This is what you’re supposed to say, and these are the Showtime promises that you’re supposed to make. Especially when speaking directly to the sort of less-enlightened crowd that First Take typically reels in on a weekday morning.
If the Lakers had hired an analytics wizard whose name you’d never heard of outside of a few tweets and Sloan Conference listings, that analytics wizard would still be charged with fawning over Kobe Bryant in his first round of press meetings. If Jerry West weren’t currently under contract with the Golden State Warriors, his name would be out there as well. The same works for Shaquille O’Neal, otherwise bothered by his small ownership stake in the Sacramento Kings.
The problem here is that, with Magic Johnson and Los Angeles Lakers, you actually believe that Magic and the Lakers would follow through with these sorts of moonshots.
Remember how you weren’t surprised at all when Isiah Thomas traded to add Steve Francis to a Knicks team already featuring Stephon Marbury and Jalen Rose, as coached by Larry Brown? How you couldn’t be knocked over by a flying mallet after the Chicago Bulls added Dwyane Wade and Rajon Rondo? Same ideal.
“It’s going to take three to five years to get them back rolling again,” Johnson said in an interview on CBS This Morning that aired on Monday morning.
Magic absolutely isn’t wrong about the draft approach, and that young talent on cheap contracts, acquired for no cost outside of a lost season spent out of the playoffs, are worth its weight in gold. No longer are championship teams created with wads of free agent cash and midnight meetings on July 1. At worst, some holdover star has to act as an incumbent draw, and the Lakers do not have that star yet.
Five of the seven best players in the last two Cleveland/Golden State NBA Finals matchups were drafted by their own teams, with the only two additions (trade acquisition Kevin Love for Cleveland, free agent Kevin Durant for Golden State) only coming on board because the franchises have drafted so well.
Of course, Cleveland did its damage with two current No. 1 overall picks (LeBron James, Kyrie Irving) and two other No. 1 overall picks (Andrew Wiggins, Anthony Bennett) that turned into transaction gold with Love. The Lakers haven’t had a No. 1 overall pick since 1982, when it housed Cleveland in a deal that landed Los Angeles (for Don Ford and Chad Kinch) the eventual top overall draft selection, which turned into James Worthy.
Since its 2010 title, the Lakers have missed the playoffs three times and are well on its way (6 1/2 games out of the final spot in the West with 36 to play) to missing the postseason for the fourth consecutive year. Those misses have resulted D’Angelo Russell, Julius Randle, and current rookie (and now youngest active player in the NBA) Brandon Ingram.
Fine talents, we recognize, but none of the three even looks like a surefire All-Star in waiting just yet. Worse, the Lakers are set to give up its pick in this year’s draft to Philadelphia (due to 2012’s Steve Nash deal) if their pick falls out of the top three. Los Angeles, entering Tuesday night, is a game and a half “ahead” of Orlando and working with the third-worst record in the NBA.
That’s good news in another bad year, but also recall that we’re not only working within the same time frame that Jim Buss gave himself to turn the Lakers all the way around, but with the same front office that once needlessly (the deal was in 2012, not 1999 … and who still does this?) sent semi-protected draft picks to Phoenix (who sent them to Philadelphia) just to deal for Nash.
Steve Nash’s disappointing, pre-retirement play as a Laker isn’t the point. General manager Mitch Kupchak acquired him while working with a set of rules that even predated Phil Jackson’s time with the Lakers. Kupchak did not need to send draft picks to another team in order to sign the free agent; because despite his brief and understandable waffling at age 38, Steve Nash was not going to pass on the familial priorities that pointed him toward sticking with a West Coast team in the first place, ahead of other free agent suitors (most notably, in 2012, the Toronto Raptors).
This works right in line with the report from Ramona Shelburne that suggests that Mitch Kupchak is a bit behind the times when it comes to the idea behind team-building. And that the confluence of free agent money and Los Angeles Lakers bluster is enough to secure a boffo star in the moments just past the initiation of the official free agent period just past midnight on July 1. As if he’s going after Antonio Davis or Derek Anderson on the free agent market, and not Kevin Durant and, potentially, Russell Westbrook.
Kobe Bryant and Magic Johnson, two men who are rather set in the ways of their respective eras, wouldn’t seem like the types to break that moldy habit. The Unnamed Upstart Math Kid probably would be, all full of gusto and NBA-legal chats with player representatives both official and unofficial, but this isn’t how the family-run, star-obsessed Lakers run things.
Which is fine, when the center is Shaquille O’Neal, and not Dwight Howard. Or when the rookie teenager is Kobe, and not Brandon Ingram. That “confluence of free agent money and Los Angeles Lakers bluster” worked in 1996, but it has been less successful over the last few years.
It wasn’t even working when Kupchak was charged with building depth around the Shaq and Kobe Laker teams during the championship years. Veterans should have been lining up around the block for the free ring, but Mitch struck out repeatedly with both aging big names (Isaiah Rider, Mitch Richmond; with A.C. Green, Ron Harper and Horace Grant playing way over their heads) and the sort of successful and lasting role players that former Phil Jackson boss Jerry Krause had no trouble finding for minimum salaries in Chicago.
However, Magic Johnson loves Mitch Kupchak, his former teammate. And the Lakers love Magic enough to not only look to him to rescue the slow-building re-building project, but to tolerate him bounding about your television dial, saying very Magic Johnson-styled things.
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Eve is a 1968 thriller film directed by Jeremy Summers and starring Robert Walker, Fred Clark, Herbert Lom, Christopher Lee and introducing Celeste Yarnall as Eve. When the director quit midway through filming, Spanish horror film director Jesus Franco was brought in to finish the job. The film was a co-production between Britain, Spain, Liechtenstein and the United States, and location scenes were filmed in Brazil. It was also released as Eva en la Selva, The Face of Eve (in the UK), Eve in the Jungle, or Diana, Daughter of the Wilderness.
An explorer looking for a priceless missing Inca treasure in the Amazon jungle runs across a bikini clad and barefoot young woman named Eve, who is worshipped as a goddess by jungle natives. Eve is also being pursued by a showman who wants her for his freak show; by the natives who now want to kill her for helping a white man; and by an explorer, Eve's grandfather, who wants to silence her.
^ "Eve (1968) - Notes - TCM.com". Turner Classic Movies.
^ "The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the ... - Google Books".
^ "The Face of Eve". BFI.
^ a b "Eve". TV Guide.
^ Fantastic Movie Musings & Ramblings. "Fantastic Movie Musings & Ramblings - EVE (1968)". scifilm.org.
This page was last edited on 5 March 2019, at 16:55 (UTC).
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Let this Beginner's Bunny rock your body! The B Yours Beginner's Bunny is a petite sized rabbit designed for the woman who wants a smaller sized rabbit.
This rabbit has multiple rows of rotating pleasure beads and the gyrating shaft's multiple speeds are controlled by an easy to use slide control. All functions are independently controlled, including the rabbit ear's speeds.
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The internationally award-winning documentary film, Bully, tells the story of four kids who were victims of bullying in their respective schools. Tyler Long, who committed suicide because of the unrelenting physical and mental abuse he endured each day in school, was one of the kids whose stories was shared in the making of the film. A short trailer for the film follows.
We have talked often in this blog about creating high reliability organizations (HROs) in healthcare. Other high risk industries do not tolerate bullying like healthcare does. Why is that? Does healthcare lack the strong leadership needed to eliminate it? Bullying does not belong in healthcare period, or anywhere else in learning cultures for that matter. While it is allowed to persist in any given health system, it will be almost impossible to achieve high reliability.
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2019-04-23T22:11:17Z
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https://educatetheyoung.wordpress.com/tag/bullying/
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Hello people. It’s been a while since I wrote anything. I’ve been busy recording my new EP and thinking of new ways to improve the way I work. In this sense I’ve made the decission to incorporate my blogging diatribes to my Website and upgrade to a wordpress.org blog which gives me a lot more options. This means that this old blog is history and all its content has gone to juanzelada.com/blog where I’ll renew my activity and offer wonderful new thingies.
If you were so kind to link to me before or add my site to your Blogroll please update the old URL to the new one and if you were getting tired of my nonsense then it’s your lucky day.
Anyway, goodbye to juanzelada.wordpress.com hello juanzelada.com/blog.
Good to hear that you are doing well. I stopped working at Kellett last year. Mrs Nevin is still there.
Drop me a line at tomnevin@hotmail.com if you have time.
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Our sunset last night was spectacular! Here in Florida we get the best sunsets after stormy weather. Afterward the frogs were busy croaking all night.
Let’s have fun, let’s have fun, let’s have fun.
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October eighteen is the 2010 deadline Montana tax extension. If you do not pay your state taxes, federal taxes on time, then there will be a punishment obligatory. The IRS will drive a good on leading of your taxes which will need to be paid which if not will only make the situation worse. Online tax extension is the best Ian Leaf Scam way for all US tax payers. We all despise taxes to some diploma, but no one at any time arrives to messing with deadlines for taxes or extensions. We all know if we attempt to mess with it or disregard the deadline that we will get rid of and only the IRS will gain.
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2019-04-23T08:03:15Z
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Read more "The Other Son"
Food Security or Bank Security?
Read more "Food Security or Bank Security?"
Read more "Sidon’s Cultural Legacy"
Read more "Circus in Town"
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2019-04-26T12:58:11Z
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Doesn’t it feel great when you stumble on an up-and-coming band who end up fulfilling their promise, and them some? Castle Black‘s sizzling set Friday night at Basement Bar in Bushwick had the fearlessness and outside-the-box creativity of classic punk rock. A lot of people assume that punk music is just three chords and a fast beat, but the reality is that the artists in the first wave of punk bands went into punk because they wanted to do something more fun and also more sophisticated than they could within the cliched confines of 70s dadrock or hippe blues. Castle Black delivered that kind of defiantly individualistic energy with equal parts guitar-fueled savagery and sardonic humor.
It’s amazing how tight this band has become over the past six months: constant gigging will do that to you. And yet, their music hasn’t lost its raw edge, or persistent unease, or outright menace. And they’re a lot of fun to watch live. Guitarist Leigh Celent played most of the set on her Fender Jazzmaster, changing to a Mustang when she wanted to switch out grit for reverb and resonance. She rocked a vintage Runaways t-shirt and jeans, with a wiry intensity in both her vocals and stage presence.
Back-clad, dark-eyed bassist Lisa Low made a stark contrast, distant, enigmatic and seemingly haunted. She ran her Fender Precision bass through an amp turned way up, then varied her attack on the strings for an unexpected amount of sublety. But when she stepped to the mic and traded vocals with Celent, she was no less forceful. If you could find the perfect picture of a rock drummer circa 1981, that would be Matt Bronner. Head down, sticks in the air, focused to the point of tunnel vision, he made the band’s sudden detours into some unexpectedly tricky metrics look easy, as one song shifted into 10/4 time, another one with some deviously teasing syncopation. And he’s not the kind of guy who tries to beat the sound into the drums: instead, he lets it out, for extra low rumble.
The band opened with the skronky postpunk of Doing Time Pass. Celent is an interesting guitarist: she likes catchy hooks, but just when things might get predictable, she veers off into noise. There was a little Andy Gill, or maybe Arto Lindsay in her jagged lines, but mostly it was just her. The band roared their way into Leave It with a slow, stalking groove, like a vintage Buzzcocks epic that they suddenly took doublespeed into anthemic Avengers territory, then back again.
This Old Town, with its uneasy shifts between major and minor, was a biting, bitter portrait of deadend hopelessness. Just when the catchy, Joan Jett-flavored Premonition sounded like it was going to sway along with an easygoing highway rock beat, Bronner and Celent bit down hard. They took that drive to an angrier level with Sabotage and then segued into the night’s best song, the ominously ferocious Secret Hideaway. After a confident run through the endlessly unanticipated, haunting dynamic shifts of Dark Light – Castle Black’s Last Rockers – they closed with their single The Next Thing, with its offhanded references to both stoner metal and classic punk. Castle Black’s next New York gig is July 29 at 10 PM at the Parkside; for the Hoboken crowd, they’re also at Maxwell’s the previous night, July 28 at 8.
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2019-04-26T00:41:29Z
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https://newyorkmusicdaily.wordpress.com/2016/07/11/castleblack/
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Recipe 77: On top of the massive work i had this week and the cooking section i try to do at least on saturday or sunday, this week i also participated to the audition for a cooking TV program. I did it just for fun of course but i still had to cook once more. I was really pleased because they liked my dish a lot but it’s not this the point. The problem is that i had even less time to cook, so the recipe of this week will be again another easy and quick one to prepare.
Ingredients for 2 people: you will just need 3 big courgettes, olive oil, garlic in powder, salt and Parsley.
This is a classic and simple vegetable dish you can cook every night to go with any meat or fish. So clean the courgettes and cut them in pieces and not slices. Put some oil in a pan but not more than 2 spoons and when hot put the courgettes.
Add some garlic in powder (because i think it can be mixed better on all the vegetables) and salt. When the courgettes start to fried a bit, add some water and let them cook covered. They will became softer and softer and will create a nice sauce.
Let them cook for about half an hour and then serve with some parsley finely chopped!
PS. Mamy finalmente le ho cucinate anche io! basta con sempre ‘ste zucchine lesse, meglio trifolate! Anche a Nat sono piaciute tanto! Semplici semplici ma con quel gusto in piu’. E poi questa settimana proprio non avevo tempo di provare altro con anche la torta da cucinare per la trasmissione Tv. Comunque gli e’ piaciuta un sacco! Non sai come se la sono gustata la crema della crostata! La tua ricetta della crema e’ insuperabile!
Recipe 139: This is a basic dish that in my family we use to cook almost every time we invite someone. It’s very easy to do and everyone loves it. On top of that, this is a side order that goes well with any meat or fish you cook.
– Peel the quantity of potatoes you decided to cook and then boil them. You need to take them out of the fire before they get too cooked. I would check after 25 minute trying to insert a fork in them. If this goes, they are ready.
– Then pass them under cold water and cut them in pieces.
– Put them in the oven at 160-180 to finish to cook with oil, salt and fresh rosemary…but also with thyme they are really good.
– If you can, put the grill in your oven and after other 10 -15 minute they will be ready and crunchy. If they are already quite cooked, just put the grill.
PS. Mamy prima di dare la ricetta delle tue polpette ho pensato di inserire la ricetta per le mitiche patate al forno che fai tu. Visto che qui i forni funzionano un po’ come gli pare, ho pensato di aggiustare la ricetta facendo bollire le patate prima. In questo modo dovrebbero venire croccanti ma non secche e magari ci mettono anche un po’ meno tempo a farsi. Che te ne pare?
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2019-04-26T03:51:46Z
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I was talking to a couple of kids from St Louis tonight. He was 32 & she was 23. Some synergy there? Dunno.
Telling them about my trip out to west Texas. 'member? Trials and tribulations of driving in west Texas in a rental with Florida plates?
Told them about my trip to the Wayneamo. But both professed to not knowing who the Duke was, or ever seeing the movie 'The Alamo'. I was crushed.
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#48 Triptych Portrait Series – Seun @ Cliche, a photo by bang* on Flickr.
Anyone looking back through the triptychs on here will notice missing numbers, worry not they’ve been shot just not everything makes it on here.
The full series as it stands only resides upon my harddrive. One day I’ll be happy enough with it to publish the full thing, until then you’ll have to make do with the odd snippet now and then.
Before Summer Ends, a photo by bang* on Flickr.
Kate Waldron @ Boss Model Management.
Sorry, I told you it’s been a busy month or so. Absolutely loads of new work shot so it’s about time I get to sharing some of it on here. Here are a few of the crop of images I shot with the brilliant Thembi Mkandla of Kate Waldron. Thembi hit me up with an idea of finding the least “English” looking beach we could whilst still not travelling too far from Manchester to shoot some summery beauty and swimwear stuff for both our portfolios. We found an awesome location or three thanks to the help of Alan, another photographer I know. He scouted us some great spots, hooked us up with space to base ourselves, humped my gear, drove people around, got sandwiches, and basically acted as a first rate second assistant whilst Michael (my usual assistant wrestled with the Rotalux in the wind). The beautiful designs we managed to acquire for the shoot came via Roscoe Forsythe a great Manchester stylist I’m happy to have made contact with, he pulled pieces from Joanne Miller & Laura Bancroft and they really took the whole ting to another level.
A great team, great weather and slightly more production value than some of my recent “simple” shoots. Fell in love with the tiny Elinchrom pack (well my assistant did as he could lug the thing around all day on his shoulders and didn’t moan too much).
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The New York Times released a memo penned by Trump lawyers to Special Counsel Robert Mueller earlier this year outlining their theory of executive power and privilege in relationship to Mueller's investigation.
The memo is only the analysis of President Trump''s lawyers. It's not the law. Getting a judicial decision on these issues would require this extraordinary sequence: (1) Mueller to subpoena President Trump to testify, (2) President Trump to decline, and (3) Mueller to attempt to enforce the subpoena in court.
The language seems to justify absolute presidential immunity for two different reasons, (1) because prosecution would amount to the president obstructing himself, and (2) because he could terminate the inquiry or issue pardons (presumably even pardon himself). The second reason sweeps beyond obstruction charges and suggests that the President, by definition, cannot violate any federal law, recalling President Nixon's infamous claim that "when the President does it, that means that it is not illegal."
The records and testimony we have, pursuant to the President's directive, already voluntarily provided to your office allow you to delve into the conversations and actions that occurred in a significant and exhaustive manner, including but not limited to the testimony of the President's interlocutors themselves. In light of these voluntary offerings, your office clearly lacks the requisite need to personally interview the President.
Notably, the memo does not offer a specific reason for the privilege beyond the President's general need for frank and candid advice from advisers. Instead, it takes the tack that Mueller already has the information he needs, and that he hasn't demonstrated a need to interview the President himself. But this conclusion rests on the many and highly questionable assumptions and conclusions in the rest of the memo, in particular, that the President can't obstruct justice, that he didn't intend to, anyway, and that there was no collusion with Russia.
It also assumes, of course, that Mueller actually has all the information he needs about President Trump's involvement.
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2019-04-20T10:47:21Z
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/conlaw/2018/06/trump-lawyers-claim-breathtaking-power-privilege-in-mueller-investigation.html
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And in the aftermath of bailing out of Afghanistan and Iraq, the present day defense establishment — from the giants like Boeing and Northrop down to basically invisible outfits like Tom Schmidt’s Specialty Bolt Manufacturing Company and Acme Uniformed Janitorial Services and Tillie Walter’s Accounting and IV&V Agency — is going to be chopped in half.
In half. We’ve got 40 years of experience in scaling back defense production — almost 70 if you want to count WWII — and we know how these things go. And not a politician and not an economist in all the world will propose the sightest change.
How wonderful a National Intelligence Estimate will be! How useful! I’m sure Washington is just filled with bureaucrats who will examine the numbers carefully and construct wise policies aimed at expeditiously ramping up defense production in future crises – none of which, in the best government tradition, can be expected for decades to come.
Fair enough, but probably missing the point. The point being whether self-sufficiency of the industry has been impacted to a degree that should raise concern. I’d say probably. But the same case can be made for many other industries. A lot of stuff has been outsourced to places that are not nominal, or not reliable, allies, to an extent that domestic industries have effectively shut down with their physical and human assets strewn to the winds.
tapers off — and 2010 fits the pattern nicely.
before and we know how they turned out.
I agree with you (or at least I don’t disagree), but we may be talking at cross purposes. Sure, to an extent there is some scaremongering involved, but it’s easy to fall prey to a “reverse psychology” kind of effect, concluding that just because you don’t trust a source, *everything* they say is false. Outsourcing/offshoring is real. The “defense” sector is sourcing commodity components from outside the nominal “defense” sector. But just because something is commodity that doesn’t mean a disappearing supplier can be replaced within a week, especially not when the domestic industrial base is sufficiently thinned out. Compare also Boeing’s recently reported outsourcing debacle with the 787.
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2019-04-22T04:02:01Z
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https://innovationandgrowth.wordpress.com/2011/02/13/is-the-defense-industrial-base-disappearing/
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Tiny Panda and Tiny Unicorn are mocking me.
The knit along that Wendy Johnson of Wendy Knits is having started on the summer solstice. So mid-June. Since the kick off three parts of the pattern have been released. I’m not even halfway through part A. I’m at least three sections behind.
My only hope is that I have a looong drive coming up. That’s the only way I’m going to catch up. But with my luck I’ll have to sit in back and keep BabyLiu entertained the entire drive.
Tiny Panda and Tiny Unicorn are right to make fun.
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Hey dear! Wanna learn a trick? Keep reading!
Hot Tip: Spend most of your shopping money on fresh fruit, vegetables, fresh meats, seafood and dairy, opt for whole grain bread and pasta, avoid processed and canned food in that order.
Recommendation is to put fresh fruit and vegetables on top of your grocery list. Buy seasonal fresh produce, work with the ingredients that are on currently on sale in the supermarket and plan your meals accordingly around that.
Proteins derived from meat like chicken or fish or plant based protein derived from things like kidney beans and dried lentils.
Dairy; milk, cheese, greek yoghurt.
Always opt for whole grains, whole grain bread and pasta- if you want to eat healthy and lose weight incorporate more whole grains into your diet.
Avoid processed packaged or canned food with high fat and sodium content. Avoid the middle aisles like the plague people, including pre-packaged frozen food, frozen meals and junk food aisles. Check out the organic aisle as they offer more foods made with fewer preservatives and less sodium and you may just be pleasantly surprised at what healthy surprises you can find!
Preparation is key. Instead of shopping for groceries based on a weekly meal plan, consider planning your meals around what’s on sale that week or seasonal produce, whether it be fruit, veg and protein. Local produce that is season is generally cheaper and usually at it’s peak in both in vitamins, mineral and nutrient content. This will help you save money and inject some creativity on ways how to add fruits, vegetables and protein into your diet. Don’t forget you can also freeze it!
My partner and I often go to South Melbourne Markets on Sunday after 3pm, this is when all the vendors heavily reduce and discount their items and you can score some great deals with beautiful fresh produce for the week ahead. The vendors want to unload as much as possible before they close and commence trading later in the week. I would also recommend taking cash to the farmers markets, as the vendors are more likely to give you a better deal when you give them cash.
Before you shop for healthy, budget conscious food items, create a meal plan. If you have a specific idea of what you plan to cook, then carry a shopping list at the grocery store. This will help you spend less money and stay on track with your healthy eating plan. In addition to creating a meal plan, keep a food journal. The journal helps you monitor your food intake, improve your diet, and stick with healthy foods long term.
Keep your fridge and pantry organised to help minimise food wastage, labelling is a perfect way to keep things in check or keep a list of current items in your fridge and work with that. Make sure you check what is in your freezer and pantry inventory weekly and make sure you eat what is in there to reduce waste.
Beans and whole grains like quinoa and brown rice are an inexpensive way to bulk up meals. Try quinoa a super grain because of it’s high protein content.
Look for meat on sale and freeze it. Opt for chicken thighs or tenderloins instead of chicken breasts if you are making a curry, stew or casserole.
Eating less meat is good for your health and a good way to save money. Opt to have at least bare minimum 2 days a week where you eat other protein sources such as canned tuna, eggs and legumes. These are all cheap and nutritious sources of protein.
Preparing food in advance is a step in the right direction towards eating healthy, it’s also a good way to ensure you are eating what’s in the fridge and freezer to minimise food wastage. Sunday is the perfect opportunity to cook say two meals for the week and voila there is a few lunches or dinners for the week easy!
Always opt for whole grains, whole grain bread and pasta- if you want to eat healthy and lose weight incorporate more whole grains into your diet. Whole grains like oats are cheaper per serving size than most processed cereals.
Cut junk from your diet! Junk food is packed with loads of unhealthy ingredients, sugar, sodium and preservatives and can also be expensive.
Cook at home, it’s much cheaper than eating out. Get in the habit to cook at home, rather than eating out last minute.
Eating out is expensive if done regularly. Opt to pack your own lunch, snacks, drinks and other meals.
Buying seasonal produce for fruit and vegetables.
Brown rice; side dishes, rice salads, casseroles, and stews.
Multi-grain or wholemeal bread or multigrain pasta. Buying a multi-grain or wholemeal loaf allows you to make several lunches and toast for breakfast.
Oats; cereal, creating your own granola, deserts and muffins. Oats are higher in fibre, low in fat and might lower cholesterol.
Spinach leaves; add to salads, egg dishes, casseroles, soups, stews.
Eggs; need of protein, scramble with veggies, make a crepe or frittata.
Cans of tuna; perfect for sandwiches casseroles, bakes, salads and to have with crackers. Cans of tuna are cheap source of omega 3 which is crucial for brain health.
Dried lentils; perfect for casseroles, salads, soups, stews. Lentils are a superfood when it comes to budgeting, they can be added to minced meat and made into patties and added in soups.
Almonds: small handful for extra protein, almonds reduce the risk of diabetes and aid in weight loss.
Chicken breasts: A small, fresh chicken breast is cheap and filled with health, lean protein.
Chicken tenderloins: You can stir-fry chicken tenderloins can make at least 2 dinners with leftovers for the next day.
Lean turkey, chicken or beef mince: 500g of mince makes 2 dinner meals with lunch leftovers, when you bulk up the mince with extra vegetable or legumes such as lentils or kidney beans.
Canned tomatoes: stews and casseroles, look for cans with no added sodium or sugar content.
Cheese: A block of cheese can be made into frittatas, patties, soups, enjoyed with fruit or as a snack.
Thanks for sharing my fabulous article! I actually wrote it, so I’d appreciate you remove your “name” as you aren’t the author.
My sincere apologies. I normally do a ping back of articles re-blogged from other authors, I must have forgotten to add a link. TERRIBLY SORRY. I will put a link now. Again, I am terribly sorry.
I would have appreciated an email. Thanks for your understanding. It was a wonderful post.
Wow Chinenye, this was an extensive post that provides well-informed, researched advice. We particularly love the tip of considering seasonal produce and weekly specials as a means to plan meals around, in order to save money. We at HealthCent$ also aim to show low-income Australians that they can still eat healthy on a budget. We were wondering what we should look out for when picking seasonal produce? Do you have any you love in particular? We would love to know your thoughts!
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2019-04-22T10:08:52Z
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https://jadinehub.wordpress.com/2018/07/13/on-a-budget-how-to-shop-for-healthy-foods/
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My son loves white flowers. I am not particularly fond of white flowers. There are so many fascinating, rich, deep, bright, cheerful, and all manner of other adjective-laden colors for flowers. Why should I bother with boring, colorless white? Besides, our house is painted white, so the white flowers really do not do anything interesting in our yard.
Last year in the week before Mother’s Day, we were feeling the effects on our wallets of an early-May trip to Disney World, so my wife and I agreed we would not exchange gifts for the springtime Hallmark parenting holidays. However, my son, who was four at the time, wanted to get something for his mom, and who was I to squelch such an impulse to generosity and gratitude? Since the plants on our front porch needed some seasonal refreshing, I told him that he could pick out a plant from the local big-box home store (please don’t judge) to give to his mother for her day.
We went on our guys-only shopping trip, and he instantly picked out a green plant with tiny star-shaped flowers which were, of all colors, white. Why wouldn’t he? He has made it clear for at least half his life that he loves white flowers. I showed him that he could get the same plant with flowers that were brilliant pinks or rich, warm shades of orange. I reminded him that he and I share a favorite color, yellow, and pointed out that there were healthy specimens of the same variety in that bright, cheerful color. We paused in that conversation, looked for other departments at the store, picked out a few items I needed, and then returned to the subject of flowers for mom. After more discussion, we headed to the checkout counter, me with my few necessities, and him proudly carrying his gift, with its plain, white flowers.
I really am, at heart, pleased with the whole incident. My son has strong opinions about what is beautiful. He appreciates the effects of color, or the lack of color, on the look of things. He sees in his own way what is worthy to serve as a gift for his beloved mother. And he knows how to express all of those opinions, all of that appreciation, and all of that vision through the natural materials of the garden.
I am reminded of this scene at the local big-box home store because of an article I read in the days leading up to Father’s Day last week. The writer was reminiscing about her father and how he taught her about gardening. Her father knew that his gardening was secondary in importance to his role as a father, so he made decisions about what to do in his yard not solely based on the light, soil, water, and other conditions. He also took into consideration the opinions, appreciations, visions, and even the playful whims of the little girls in his home.
That is the kind of gardener, and more importantly, the kind of father I hope I am to my son. A father like that can teach a whole host of things to his child: about nature, about beauty, about hobbies, about what it means to live in a family and a neighborhood and other relationships, about play and fun. I recognize that my son may or may not experience as he grows up the same satisfaction I get from the hard and dirty work of keeping the yard. I know that he may find other ways to help to create, or at least to arrange, beauty and sustenance in this world. But I believe that part of what I can give him is some understanding of the world that he can never gain in a classroom, and sharing in my own love of gardening is one way I can give him that gift.
There are plenty of times my son is less than interested in the garden. Usually when I ask him if he wants to help me water or do other quick chores on a Saturday afternoon, he says he would rather stay inside and play computer games with his mom. Sometimes he takes me up on the offer, but I know that his attention to what I am doing will be short-lived, and he will soon be waving the sticks that have fallen from the trees in the front yard like they are magic wands or weapons in some epic battle of good and evil. On our frequent trips into the back yard to turn it into a zoo which must be developed, or a series of islands which must be explored, or a dinosaur battlefield which must be defended, I sometimes get a bit distracted and start pulling weeds in the flower beds. He gets annoyed at my efforts to restore order amid the pine straw and commands me to return my attention to the game. He doesn’t always love gardening, and he possibly never will.
But one morning last week, on the first bright day after a week or so of thunderstorms and rain, he looked out the door and saw the most ginormous mushroom ever, and it was growing in the middle of our back yard. He was already late to leave for his summer camp, but I promised I would take a couple of close-up photos and show them to him after I got home from work. He made me keep my promise, and I happily obliged, showing him digital images of the really big mushroom as well as a number of other mushrooms which had popped up in our lawns and flower beds. Some had straight stems and some were slanted; some were brown, some were white, and some were some set of colors in between; some had perfectly rounded tops and others had all manner of curves and curls about them. He looked at the photos, and then he hurried outside, first to the back yard and then to the front, looking for all of these specimens of wonder. He found them all, coming back in to excitedly report to me which ones were still there and which ones had already fallen over from their own weight or been stepped on by the dog.
We got to talk over the next few days about how fungi are similar to and different from plants and about shapes and sizes and colors of different mushrooms. We found some gnarly, asymmetrical mushrooms growing right up against the lavender which emitted a puff of powder when we kicked them, and we talked about spores and baby mushrooms. We talked about poison as well as about the technique of sauteing in butter. His mother got to tell him about her experiences picking wild mushrooms when she lived in Hungary, and about never daring to eat any of them until the local grocer confirmed which were good and which could kill you with the smallest morsel. We might have exaggerated a bit on that last part for effect. Mostly, we got to witness the wonder together as a family about the beautiful, unique, and even strange things that can come from the dirt of our little bit of nature.
And I feel like I might be doing something right as a father.
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11. Aug. 2013 in Colors, Review.
24. Apr. 2013 in Review.
24. Mar. 2013 in Colors, Review.
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#1 Vitamin C (1,000mg 3-4x daily) – Helps with immune system function and boosts white blood cells.
#2 Echinacea (500 mg 3x daily) – Echinacea is an herb known for helping the body fight off infections and viruses.
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#5 Zinc (50 mg daily) – Zinc supports immune function and has an antiviral effect. It works best when taken at the first sign of illness.
According to Mayo Clinic, reducing stress in your life as much as possible is actually a key shingles natural treatment. This lifestyle change can help to prevent and treat shingles since stress reduction is such an overall immune system and health booster.
Very informational. I’ve known several people who have suffered from shingles. I’ve saved this article for future reference.
Glad you saved it. That is same reason I made it, to have the information handy. Herpes zoster isn’t considered contagious but if you have never had chicken pox and come in contact with the fluid from a blister you can get chicken pox from shingles. Pregnant women should steer clear of people experiencing this condition.
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« Water Pennywort flourishing in wet conditions.
Spadefoot toad I dug up yesterday.
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My father and relatives got together here and enjoyed hot pot.
Onoya is serving hand made soba(buckwheat) noodle locates near Yoyogi-hachiman station.
I ordered Tamago-don, instead of Soba noodle.
Tamago-don is a one dish of various rice bowl dishes.
Rice bowl dishes have been served many Japanese restaurants but these rice bowl dishes at soba noodle restaurant is somewhat different.
I had favourite tamago-don of soba noodle restaurant in my high school years.
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This entry was posted in Family History and tagged Adelia C. West Kenyon, Albion Dane County Wisconsin, George Soule, Joseph West, Mary Ann Brock, Seventh day Baptist Church, Squires family history, They came to Milton, Wisconsin.
The Mayflower Society or the Soule Kindred web site list many variations for the spelling of the name for George Soule. Check their web sites for more information.
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One of our developers here at the Giving Group has recently knocked out a new version of our sponsorship widget. It’s basically a miniature Flash version of our full sponsorship page.
A common complaint we’ve had is that these widgets don’t work on MySpace, and after a bit of digging it seems that MySpace is rewriting the object tag’s allowNetworking attribute to change the value to internal. This tells Flash not to allow navigation to other domains, so when users click on the “Donate” button they go nowhere, which is a problem.
The first option for enabling this is to use MySpace’s own redirection system to bounce a request on to an external site, but considering their clampdown on other methods of external hyperlinking I suspect that this would not last long if they saw it being used heavily.
The second option for navigating users is to use CSS to carefully float a hyperlinked image that looks like part of your widget over your Flash object. This makes it seem like the Flash link is working but in fact it’s just a regular hyperlink. An example of that in action can be seen on the page TN links to in his comment below.
If you want to download it or read documentation, visit the JQuery site. If you’ve heard of it but aren’t convinced, please read this open letter.
I was in a meeting with some of the staff here at Justgiving (Firstgiving in the US) earlier this week and, amongst other things, we talked about honesty and transparency.
There seemed to agreement from everyone that we should strive to be completely straight with each other, with clients, and with our users. That got me to thinking that we should try to engage more with the people that we serve, in order to foster better relations, trust, and a flow of information that we can all benefit from.
Using my perspective as a developer here I think I can widen our existing blog communication to include people who are interested in technology and new products.
So, this is the beginning of my experiment, and my first blog post. I wonder if anyone will read it.
You are currently browsing the Rich Marr's Tech Blog blog archives for August, 2007.
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The dogs have been killing sheep.
Some predator killed a ram lamb a month ago. Since then the pony has shared the sheep’s paddock and there had, until two days ago, been no trouble. But we are approaching the season when we feed hay out on the pasture, to spread fertility (noun concrete) more evenly and to spare ourselves the chore of moving fence all winter, and for the past two days the sheep have had the run of the home pasture, sometimes wandering far from bossy, cantankerous Bridget.
Our six-year-old, who is small and moves softly, sees things which change or move away before we larger, heavier folk arrive. He saw two coyotes and a skunk on the wooded edge of the back pasture Monday night while two of us were up there mending a water line. He walked up on a hawk with one of our half-grown ducklings clutched in her talons, giving us later a description of the event which might have come from a naturalist on a field expedition, his prose lucid and untutored, guiltless of plagiarism since he cannot read. Today he witnessed canine pack predation.
Narrating events from the dogs’ hunting spree this afternoon he draws a animated picture before the mind’s eye: the three dogs spread out, closing on the sheep flock, pressing it here and there; the lead ewe taking two steps out and stamping a warning foot; the dogs’ dart and bark; then the lead ewe steps too far and they cut her out, drive her down the hill. They hound her up and down the creek bed, biting, pulling, the six-year-old shrieking and bringing down his stick on any dog within reach; the chase grows hotter and the ewe more exhausted until she collapses in the shallow water under the bridge. The son beats away the dogs with his stick.
When we arrived, summoned by his shrieks, the ewe, less hurt than terrified and exhausted, scrambled to her feet. At once the dogs closed in again, chivying and biting like animals possessed, deaf to shouts and threats that would under normal circumstances have sent them into retirement under the front porch. Even when by our combined efforts we beat them away and the ewe, limping and shivering, took refuge with the two June calves, who sniffed and licked her in stolid reassurance, the dogs still circled, half an eye on us and the greater part of their attention on their prey, looking for a chance to dodge in and cut her out once more. Like the drive to reproduce which consumes the male dog in proximity to a female in oestrus and enables him to overcome any obstacle, the feral instinct overcomes domesticity.
We know of no cure for the dog who hunts livestock. We are in mourning.
Updates. The lactating cows are still on the front pasture, and it looks like they will be able to graze there another two or three weeks, making two months in all. This pasture was only worth a month of grazing in July. The conclusion to these facts is that the second-growth forage has a higher feed value, due in part to the beneficial effects of rotational grazing. This is predictable, but still gratifying.
The dry cows are moving across the back half of the farm, where there is still about five weeks’ grazing before they must be moved closer to the frost-free spring tank. Even paddocks that were grazed only a week or two ago show green regrowth, and the west side of the hill, over which the cows passed in September, is emerald green and smooth the fuzz on a peach. This area is remote from the monastery; a six-year-old boy with a golf-club and no interest in the work at hand returned from a dusk stroll with reports of two coyotes patrolling the wood’s edge, and a frenetic skunk doing the hoochi-coo in the naked raspberry canes. It is an interesting life.
Eight small piglets were moved to the monastery garden last Thursday, where they patrol an area some thirty by thirty-five feet, grubbing for whatever pigs grub for. We have not yet put them in the barley patch; right now they only have access to frozen beans, which are of only slight interest, and the beets and turnips, which have more appeal. Unforeseen is the disparity in size between the turnips – many are larger, considerably larger, than a softball – and the tiny mouths of these fifteen-pound baby pigs. The tops of the vegetables are eaten with relish, but the roots themselves are just too big for the babies. Shall we cut them up? – lengthy job – or pull them and cart them back to the barn for Hunk and Porca, the parent pigs? Actually, Hunk, who lived his first five months on commercial feed, shows little interest in roots, but Porca, who has been with us since she was a little piggy and knows all about vegetables, loves beets and turnips. Come to think of it, it will be nice to know that there is at least one food Porca will get to enjoy without having to compete with Hunk, her ungallant lover. At any rate, the pig garden looks like giving us a good deal of pig food, one way or another.
Our first snow of any consideration fell late on Monday night, and the cows’ consumption of water went down to almost nothing. Who needs water when every bite of grass includes a good mouthful of snow? But paddocks have to be bigger now, when the cows require extra food just to keep warm. The two-year-old steers that have been out on grass an hour west of here on the farm of a friend with more grass than livestock, were fetched home yesterday and put in with the dry cows. The grass must have been good where they were; they are huge, for Jerseys, solid, with a look of meditation in their dark eyes. One will go to the locker on Monday, his karma being to provide fuel for the monastery’s prayers. They knocked down a fence this afternoon, so I, for one, will not miss him.
Three nights ago blew in a gusty rain, southerly, but shredding the rusty leaves from the trees and revealing the brown backs of these Appalachian foothills. In the ditches and along the riverbanks, though, the sumac is still red, if it is the small, five-year variety, or gold, if it is the tall, twenty-year kind. Five-year sumac has cones of dark red berries held upright over drooping compound leaves like palm fronds; twenty-year sumac trails wads of winged brown seeds like dirty cobwebs. Both are weed trees which spring up in rocky, sour, or waste soils, and add brilliant color to our autumn show.
We burned the late fall bonfire last night, the weather giving of its best, dry, cool, and windless. Along the lane the torches that topped each fence post smoked and flared, and the bonfire itself sent sparks seventy feet in the air. The summer kitchen was the center of a crowd gathered there for hot doughnuts, cider, and cocoa, and on the lawn people sat in folding chairs and on blankets and held long conversations about the dead, and the future. Prayers were offered for both. It is almost winter.
Today we planted hoops over the winter beds of greens, carrots and beets; next week these will be covered with plastic sheeting to protect them from the frosts that are getting more frequent. The pig pens had to be forked out, and the Massey-Ferguson in its big shed swept free of chaff and dead leaves and covered with tarps to keep off the snow.
The three little children went out to shift the home paddock and were gone an hour and a half. Bridget, the sorrel mini, was feeling the seasonal shift and broke out of the paddock where she is nominally in charge of the sheep to go charging up and down the south pasture chivvying chickens and squealing like air escaping from a balloon. The sheep got out, too, to go surging up and down the hill, and even the two July calves got into the act, galloping to the top of the steep pasture and requiring to be brought down again when the new paddock was ready. The animals are grazing their way up the middle section of the pasture and have grass enough for another two or three weeks; when hard frosts put the grass into dormancy we will begin feeding them hay. The sheep are due to begin lambing in a couple of weeks, anyway; time to go into the barn, out of reach of coyotes and stray dogs.
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Hi Georgia, sorry a bit delayed ressonpe. I don't know if NYU events and speed of progress are related. Could be! It's still going to be a little while tho' (I thought it might be done relatively soon at that point.) Andrew, red would be fabulous! Is that significant for something or just because it's a great color? Thanks for your comment. Cathryn.
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Bob’s Red Mill 10 grain cereal with brown sugar and a banana, and a vanilla cappuccino!
Knott’s Merry Farm, here we come!
After two weeks of being homeless, I finally have a kitchen!!!! It’s so good to be able to cook food and know exactly what’s in it. I’ve been able to keep off the weight creep by being very, very careful, but making my own food again will make it so much easier!
It has about 20 fewer calories than honey, plus a wider array of antioxidants that may help muscle recovery.
The real thing – a good source of zinc and manganese – lists just one ingredient: 100 Percent Pure Maple Syrup.
It still has a ton of calories, though – 210 per 1/4 c – so let’s not go cray, okay?
I could actually make it now!
Everyone, please welcome the incomparable Alex, writing about our new thing of the day for Thursday! He kindly agreed to guest blog his kitchen experiments as he tries to eat lower on the food chain. Spoiler alert: This pizza was amazing!
Red meat and I have broken up. Every now and then we’ll get together and do stuff (like the Bacon and Onion pizza I just ate from the pizzeria across the parking lot from our apartment – which is a healthy eating killer, by the way, glad I had forgotten how good it was until a week before we leave), but most of my cooking experiments lately have been centered around me attempting to get not only the red meat out of my life, but also the meat.
Most of the time, I find myself eating unhealthy solely because it seems easier than going through the work of trying to make something healthy, discovering I don’t really like the new flavors, and then having to go find something else to eat anyway. Usually, I’ll just go find the something else to eat to begin with.
Originally, I had intended to just buy a pizza kit at the store for my dough, but when I remembered how much I hate finding things at Shop-Rite, I just looked up a quick and easy pizza dough recipe. Use whatever dough recipe you like, if you have questions about the specific recipe that I used, feel free to ask in the comments or ask me on twitter (@asfreeman). The dough, I don’t think, really played into the final taste of the pizza, it just served primarily as a vessel.
Once you have your dough ready to go, it’s time to prep the toppings. This recipe made a medium cookie sheet sized pizza – do with that information what you will.
Diced Onions (Not actually in the pizza I made, but I wanted it to be) This would be because his incredibly attractive girlfriend used it in her lunch – sorry Alex!
Brown the ground beef substitute in a pan. Once browned, mix with the peppers, onions and BBQ sauce in a large mixing bowl. Ensure that the substitute is completely coated.
Spread the substitute mixture on your dough (spread evenly covering the pan). Cover the mixture with as much cheese as your heart desires (I used slightly more than 1 bag of cheese).
Bake for 15 minutes, or until cheese and crust are a nice golden brown. Let cool and enjoy!
Pretty simple recipe, but it tasted great. Hope you enjoy!
New thing of the day! NTOTD! That’s gonna be a catch-phrase! Or not! Fine!
Pumpkin bread! Gluten-free pumpkin bread! Would have been vegan if I thought I could find things like guar gum in my Shop-Rite! Does anyone know if you can get these kinds of things in crappy grocery stores in low-income neighborhoods?!
I’m really glad I can represent those of us who live more than 30 minutes from the nearest Trader Joe’s or Whole Foods in the blogosphere. Although I *am* moving to the very epicenter of weird health trends in mere weeks, so I can quit my b*tchin and SWIM IN A BATHTUB FULL OF NUTRITIONAL YEAST if I want to. Which I really, really don’t.
Also if you know of any simpler ways to veganize baked goods, I would totally appreciate that info as well.
I am probably moving to LA about a week earlier than I first thought I was so that I can make the October auditions for Second City’s Conservatory program, which I am really, really itching to do! Finally some real training in comedy, instead of me just kind of winging it for the past six years, which has worked out pretty well, but you know could be better!
I wimped out on ANOTHER open mic tonight. I am a giant whatever synonym for wimp you can come up with because you’re more creative than I am.
Alex made an awesome vegetarian barbeque pizza from scratch (crust and all) for dinner tonight, and is totally going to guest blog about it, so look for a post from him tomorrow! New things! Yay!
Seriously, how can I make awesome pumpkin bread with no eggs?
It’s so good to be back to What I Ate Wednesdays! It’s been a little rocky getting back into this whole blogging thing, so I didn’t take a ton of pictures and I sort of forgot I was doing this – SO – consider this a pure, unadulterated look into what I eat when I forget anyone’s looking!
I loaded ‘er up with a slice of whole grain toast with honey and peanut butter and a smoothie (skim milk, chocolate protein powder, frozen cherries, frozen strawberries, and some more peanut butter – natch). With coffee with Splenda and skim milk!
Don’t even pretend you don’t make mini-pancakes for your dog.
My first new thing of the day! I made Multigrain Medallions recipe care of Runner’s World for the fam. (This is linked to Joanna‘s blog, because she was less lazy than I am and actually typed it out.) I didn’t have any cornmeal so I just used 1/4 c whole grain flour and 1/4 c oats (I also halved the recipe because a. I only had one egg and b. there’s only two (and a puppy) of us, jeez). They turned out kind of thin, but surprisingly hearty and SUPER delicious. Win!
You heard me right. Fried. Spaghetti.
We had to head into the city kind of early for what we thought was an open mic sign up. (When we got there, we found out I was supposed to sign up online. If you’ve ever wondered if it’s easy to get onstage in front of a bunch of people and try to make them laugh, the answer is no…and I’m just talking logistics here!) My point being that dinner was at 5:30, which may be normal for those of you with jobs and kids but is SUPER EARLY for us theatre/gambling type folks. And I made New Thing Number 2: FRIED SPAGHETTI! Woman’s Day (which was my savior while cooking without the internet this summer) tries to be classy and call this “crispy spaghetti,” but let’s get real here: How do you get things crispy? You fry them. I’m okay with that. So this was really great and got some zucchini in us, which is rare. It came out a little oily, but I saw that as a bonus because it kind of dressed the salads I put it on (les herbes pour moi, spinach for Alex). BOOM!
We watched half of the pilot for Mob Doctor, which I think is going to end up in my stand-up. Here’s a taste: Why in hell would the mob write “KILL HIM” in three-inch high letters on a card for her? How on earth do you get to where you are as a criminal organization if that’s as subtle as you get? Think about it. Get back to me.
Oh, with Diet Coke, because I don’t drink before I do comedy. Well, sometimes I do, but I’m not intending to do that comedy…and that’s more of a sad clown act, and involves lots of de-tagging on Facebook in the morning.
I WANNA BE A KID AT HALLOWEEN AGAIN!
After the comedy fail Alex suggested we go to the movies instead. It was my turn to pick, and since I last picked The Master and it was sort of disappointing, I played it safe and picked Paranorman, which was amazing! It was just the right level of scary for me. (I’m a huge wimp – wait til October, when I force myself to watch scary movies every day. You’ll get a hoot out of my weird self-inflicted pain.) And it made me super nostalgic for the kids Halloween movies of my childhood, like Hocus Pocus. Anyway, this is a super long-winded way of saying that I ate a bunch of my absolute favorite never giving it up snack: movie popcorn. Oh yeah, with the fake butter. Love it.
When we got home, I showed Alex a ten minute set of Maria Bamford, who just blew me away with her ability to inhabit a character. He was like, “I know her” and proceeded to show me an entire MOVIE featuring her and three other comics. (It’s The Comedians of Comedy: The Movie, which I believe is a Netflix production, and therefore probably only available on Netflix, but I could be super wrong.) It made me feel better about a lot of things, including Brian Posehn’s story about having to do stand-up right next to a giant screen playing a football game, and everyone’s just annoyed that you’re next to it babbling about your relationships and your cat…I was like “I HAVE LIVED THIS!!!” It made me feel like a battle-hardened comic even though I’ve done like two gigs.
This is all a round-about way of telling you I had a glass of red wine and three pieces of delightful Ghiradelli’s 60% cocoa chocolate.
See? I take in some science and philosophy, too! What am I, a cretin?
So I didn’t stop there. Jeez. I also made baked sweet potato fries. Which were delicious. And then I was still hungry, so I had nonfat Greek yogurt w/Ghiradelli chocolate chips. I’m considering marrying into the Ghiradelli family to save some cash.
I have been eating A TON lately, but this is fine with me, as I have been working out a lot and also losing weight kinda rapidly and also only eat when I am hungry. I could probably eat a tad better though. I’ll get right on that, captain.
Cha, didn’t you read my post?!
That’s not a fair question, but I will say I have an immense girl crush on Paula Poundstone and squeal like a teenager at a Bieber concert whenever she’s on Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me!
I finally find my fashion twin – at the Tower of London of all places.
We all get into ruts, right? Having the same go-to outfit, eating the same thing for breakfast everyday, always going on the same date. This can be comforting, but is it really necessarily healthy?
Welll…I was reading Fitness magazine the other day and came across a little study that said that study participants who did something different every day for a month lost an average of a pound a week without making any dietary changes. Intriguing, huh? The study’s authors postulate that breaking your routine may keep you from falling into habits that keep you overweight.
Now, I am not overweight. And I’m not sure I even have four pounds to lose (I mean, I could, but should I is the real question). But, there sure are some unhealthy habits in my life that could use breaking, so I’m gonna give this a try: For the next month, I’m going to try something new everyday! And, because I firmly live by the title of my blog, we’re starting immediately.
This was part of an article in Runner’s World (the July issue) for improving balance and core stability for trail runs, which is mostly what I do. I used pillows, since I don’t have any fancy balance doodads. Once Alex and I make our move, we’re going to invest in some more at-home fitness tools. We’re going to try to avoid paying for gym memberships as long as we can!
I’m starting off simple, but adding balance did challenge my abs more in this familiar move, and that’s definitely a good thing.
Sometimes it’s best not to mess with perfection.
Which was exactly what I needed to snap out of my funk. I felt like kind of a loser sitting around all day watching teen drama, especially while, though a performer, I will never be in a musical (never say never, except when you can’t sing a note). But it got me to the fifth episode, which included two very important lessons I needed to remember today.
Quinn sits Mercedes down after she faints from starving herself and tells her that her relationship to food has changed since she started eating for her baby. “What I realized is, if I’m so willing to eat right to take care of this baby, why am I not willing to do it for myself?” I have this thought all the time, especially since so many of my fellow bloggers are moms or moms-to-be. And that goes for attitude, too. I would NEVER want a daughter of mine to allow other people to tell her she wasn’t good enough, so there is NO WAY I should allow myself to do it!
Which inspired this performance by Mercedes, which I may have sung along to, and maybe continued singing while walking my dog. Maybe.
So check it out. You are beautiful. This is a fact. You are unique, talented, and have something wonderful to share with the world. And a bunch of beer-swilling frat guys making fun of you because you’re an unwelcome distraction to the Giants absolutely stomping on the Panthers can’t change that fact…or you know, whatever’s getting you down.
Go show the world what you can do, guys! I believe in you!
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This morning, reaching outside the door for another piece of firewood, I heard the steady thump, thump, thump of water dripping off the roof onto an overturned bucket. Strange… The third week of January has just passed, it is 14 degrees outside and the sun is bright, but bright enough to turn the roof’s snow to water?
I’ve never cared for winter. It brings out the vulnerabilities which retrieves the perverse nostalgia of realizing the painful struggles with winter in my youth. But the dripping from the roof also brings out vulnerability concerns, not some poetic hope of spring. You see, according to 30+ years of bee keeping, it is right on schedule with what I have been experiencing in terms of global warming. No, it’s not the arctic melting away to the joy of Shell oil, and consternation of naturalists. It is the very real impact that this is having on us all, only in small increments, unnoticed in the everyday. Back in the late 70’s, the “wake up” period for bees, trees, etc. was at the start of February. Since then it has slowly crept up so that most things are happening almost two weeks earlier than then, and lasting a good two weeks later in the fall. The dripping is right on schedule. There’s less stopping the sun now than previously. We’re very vulnerable, and no one is paying attention. Yeah, in the back of everyone’s mind is that global warming will effect us all and change everything to our detriment. But it is filed there along with smoking is bad for you, cholesterol is detrimental, obesity ought to be avoided, texting and driving don’t mix, etc. As the experts point out, climate change (like honey badger) don’t care; it will effect us all, rich or poor, republican or democrat, Christian or Muslim. I’ve never cared for winter but I’m a little concerned about what a year without winter will be like in Ohio.
You know, the ancients were on to something. All over the world are architecturally excavated/built sites where ancient people created structure that aligned astronomical phenomena with constructed edifice. The “experts” tell us this was for religious reasons, “art”, or as calendars to determine planting times, etc. Yet it is undeniable that an effort was made, and a considerable one at that, to integrate what was going on “out there” with what is going on “down here”. The denizens of these sites couldn’t help but notice. The constructed site was part of their everyday. We enlightened inhabitants of the 21st century would do well to pay attention to the ancients’ fait accompli. We believe that by putting ourselves “out there” (with the likes of the space station, Hubble telescope, Mars’ robots, etc.), by being “out there”, we don’t need to concern ourselves about the effect the “out there” has on the “down here”.
compete- to strive to outdo another for acknowledgement, a prize, etc.
competition- the act of competing; rivalry for supremacy, a prize, etc.
“You’re better than that!” yell all the motivational speakers. “I would prefer not to.” replies Melville’s Bartleby. 25 runners take off for the laurel crown. 24 will have “you’re better than that” continuously resonating in their brain. To say “you’re better than that” implicates competition. The hierarchy of good, better, best exists only within the competitive milieu. Saying “you’re better than that” is really an admonition to compete. It is NOT an affirmation or reinforcement of self-worth, self-esteem. It is an instigator of competition. The Lance Armstrong/Oprah Winfrey conversation reveals the antinomy of a culture obsessed with competition. Although most are daily dogged by the “popular” motivation of “you’re better than that”, who questions its relation to self-worth? The slippery slope leads to “well, it is the competing that makes one worthwhile, getting out there and striving for acknowledgement.” Somehow that wouldn’t exactly be a great selling point on a résumé if you are one of the 24 constantly dogged by “you’re better than that.” We are likewise continuously reminded that having a job is integral to a sense of self-worth. Now we have one whose job has been to wear the laurel crown eschewed and spurned as a character of low worth, stripped of his crowns for not having been worthy. For what? The act of competing, “to outdo another for acknowledgement, a prize”? The Oprah interview with Lance Armstrong makes us uncomfortable precisely because we’ve embraced this mythical connection between self-worth and competition, one founded on the ancient Greek belief. The gods residing on Olympus embodied the very qualities that made them so worthy (why they were gods!). It being sacrilegious to compete with the gods (how many stories reveal the sad demise of those who dared attempt that!), the ancient Olympics were meant to compensate for that lack, to pay tribute to what was not (the relationship between competition and worth, divine worth at that). This mythical association of self-worth with competition, for which there is no real correspondence, reveals itself, its myth, in the competitiveness of Lance Armstrong.
Resistance to standardized tests has been simmering for years, but now a group of Seattle teachers is in open revolt. No longer will they administer the tests, they say, citing a waste of public resources.
“First one teacher, then another, and then more stepped forward to charge that the test wastes time, money, and dwindling school resources. It is also used to evaluate teacher quality.
I don’t know whether it is because of the events of the last weeks, the last years or just the holidays but it feels as if the only thing on is a late night festival of B grade black and white economic noir movies. The action, actors and their lines are almost too predictable anymore. Add to that the Jimmy Olsen cub reporter asking the redundant, oxymoronic questions of the usual suspects and one could end up with old movie toxic shock syndrome. Return with us to some of the more memorable stock lines. “The gov’t needs to come up with a long term plan as to how it will pay off the huge deficit.” This comes off so tough guy you can almost feel the cigarette dangling from the lower lip! Until you realize that the US gov’t isn’t part of the European Union and thus does not borrow or owe a central bank, the way the various members of the EU do. In fact, the US has always borrowed. Not only that, but most businesses, whether mom and pop or Wall Street listings, borrow to operate and then continue to do so as they attempt to pay off the original investors or debtors. It may sound like a pyramid scheme to the naïf but that is how commercial banks become too big to fail. Nothing new there. No one says “Businesses need to come up with long term plans as to how they intend to pay their employees more so they can fund their retirements, purchase health care for their families, etc.” Oh, that would change the whole character of the B grade black and white film, maybe make it into color, 3D even. The B grade movie script is getting stale to say the least. Fie on you, nasty old gov’t, for making people rely on you for food stamps while they are working, Social Security for when their employer shows them the door, and various medical/health care entitlements for children and others unable to provide. “Well someone has to pay for it!” Then Jimmy Olsen will ask the “small business” owner who runs a restaurant chain, or clothing outlet or whatever whether that means they will be cutting back on their employees and not hiring any new ones. “Oh, I had planned to expand to another 30 outlets for my franchise, but now I don’t know. I have X hundreds of employees but will have to stay lean and mean.” Etc. Give me a break. Dog eat dog world out there. Grow or get eaten. Cut back on your shelf space at the grocery aisle and someone else will fill it. Lose your market share and your competitor will gobble it up. The lost market share will never return. Jimmy never brings THAT up. Yet if Business Weakly was interviewing this “small business owner” and the talk came down to how and why they operate their business with the imperative to grow and expand, that is precisely what you would hear. Either way, Jimmy or Business Weakly, they make it sound like without them, the store shelves would be empty like in the Soviet Union during the 1960’s. No, the B grade black and white economic noir genre always promotes the standard plot line of the solitary individual tough guys trying to create jobs and provide opportunities for the mindless schmucks who are totally incapable of knowing how to make their own beds (let alone lie in them) and thus have to be taken care of by the G men so they don’t end up at night in the City that never sleeps. But wait, the festival is far from over. We still have many more nights of this to enjoy. We all know how it ends.
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Before noon on a hot June day in 1984, I was aboard a rickety Haryana Roadways bus to my beloved Naani’s house in Chandigarh to enjoy a spell of golf and pampering following a strenuous assault on the Class X Board examinations. A military history buff and a passionate reader of Commando comics, my youthful imagination was stirred when our bus snaked through innumerable convoys of troops draped in camouflage nets on the GT Road from Delhi. I wondered if our nation was preparing for war. Luckily, I just about sneaked into my grandmother’s house in Sector 11 when curfew was imposed.
I was imprisoned. I stood for hours at the gate watching Army trucks patrol the streets of this genteel neighbourhood. I darted out one afternoon to collect labernum flowers — strewn, unadmired and untrampled on the pavements — for my grandmother only to be rudely shooed back by soldiers in a jeep. The mystery of the Army tailing me from Delhi was soon resolved. Then PM Indira Gandhi addressed the nation on AIR and spoke of the need to storm the Golden Temple, the revered shrine of my community. My paternal Aunt, a God-fearing lady entirely free of malice, rang up, quoting her relatives from Amritsar. She spoke of Army truckloads spilling over with bodies of Sikh pilgrims, dumped in mass pyres and plumes of smoke rising from the Holy City as the bones and flesh of the innocent crackled and hissed. The truth, however, is certainly far less dramatic. The fact was that the Sikh psyche had been irreparably scarred.
As passion inflamed my heart, my late father, a senior civil servant then serving with the Government of India, counselled me. Mrs Gandhi had criminally blundered by delaying the flushing out operation and had let Bhindranwale and co. arm themselves to the teeth. Yet, at the same time, we as a community had failed because we had not objected strongly enough to armed desperadoes desecrating the temple’s sanctity. Four of my father’s colleagues, including a dear Uncle, went on protest leave against Operation Blue Star.
My father summoned me back to Delhi as soon as curfew lifted. He had a terrible premonition of darkness looming. On October 31, as I loitered about in school for a meal break, we were informed that Mrs Gandhi had been assassinated. We were granted a holiday right then. Sikhs spoke of divine retribution and fondly quoted the statement published in a Southall publication soon after Blue Star: that the bullet designed for Mrs Gandhi had departed the barrel.
In the evening of November 1, a mob of 700 stood outside our bunglow behind Parliament House baying for our blood. As fortune would have it, KK Paul, who later rose to become Delhi Police Commissioner, lived down our road and spotted the smoke coming out of a Sikh MP’s house right next to his, which had just been torched by the mob. He sent in a burly Sikh officer with a posse of cops to our house. The mob was turned back. Later that night, as we dowsed our lights and told our domestic helps to put out word that we were out-of-station, a lone Sikh was caught by a mob of 100, bashed on his head with a boulder, and dowsed with petrol siphoned from a motorbike tank just 20 yards from our bunglow. Our domestic helps, who were guarding our gate, recounted that horrific slaying to us later. They could never extinguish that memory. On the day of Mrs Gandhi’s cremation, we fled our bunglow at 3 am and took shelter with Paul, whose wife, Omita, proved a very reassuring host.
Strangely, none of the `brave gun-toting followers’ of Bhindranwale rushed to Delhi to take on the murderous mobs. Perhaps, the communalists hoped it would trigger migrations and help create Khalisthan. Perhaps the socio-economic mix of Delhi’s victims did not sync with the concerns of a section of the Punjab peasantry that spearheaded militancy. The 1984 Sikh pogrom has never really inflicted that deep a wound on the Punjab Sikhs arraigned against the Indian State though it has served as a handy political tool to whip the Congress with. With time, the pogrom’s scars may heal but the Sikhs will never forgive or forget Blue Star. No `invader’ who has dared enter the Golden Temple through history has gone unpunished; neither has any Sikh `luminary’ with an over-weaning ego, aka Bhindranwale. Interestingly, Lt Gen KS Brar `Bulbul’ starts off his rather racy account of the battle in his book (Operation Blue Star: The True Story) by remarking that both Bhindranwale and himself belonged to the Brar-Sidhu gotra of the Jat Sikhs.
As the memorial for Blue Star gathers steam, a deep schism surfaces. Many articulate people from Punjab’s minority community voice apprehensions in newspaper letter columns. Memories of passengers pulled out from buses, segregated and shot, migrant labourers mowed down sleeping at tubewells, shopkeepers butchered on their stools and RSS workers slayed while exercising. These are not just memories but genies of a collective consciousness that can come loose again. The years of armed militancy have left another odious legacy: a police and bureaucratic regime spoilt rotten by the heady years of President’s Rule. But armed militants have dared not rise from their cold pyres. Perhaps, the Gurus sitting in the Heavens above had not sanctioned all that Bhindranwale and his men committed in their august names, and had dealt militancy an early and deathly blow.
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How can you ensure a good line up between your needs and the skills and attributes of the preferred candidate for the role that you have available in your organisation? This is a question that we are asked often and here are a few insights.
There are numerous personality and related tests out there but really it comes down to a line up of orientations. There are possibly two main aspects that you need to give credence to and plan for.
Firstly, look at job design and related specification. What are the main aspects of the role and what do you want delivered as a priority? Will this need some-one with a goal driven focus or more of a social bent, for instance? What about people with a power orientation… is there a lot of delegation to be done, because power oriented people tend to be good at that.
When taking on new staff a hiring manager may be faced with an age old challenge; does experience have preference over education or does the educational level carry more weight?
Both experience and education have significant value when it comes to recruitment. The scoring sheet for candidates should have an area to score for each. Yet suppose the panel is left with two candidates who are both very strong contenders but one is experienced though lacks relevant qualifications and the other has recent qualifications but is a newcomer to the field; which way should the panel lean?
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Do you want to be part of a rising movement for climate justice ? Do you have experience in Non Violent Direct Action and would love to share your skills for this movement to grow even stronger ? The UN Summit on Climate Change (COP21) is coming to Paris in December and mobilisations are gaining momentum ! It will be a unique moment for social movements to organise resistance against the corporate take over of the negociations, and the basis for years of genuine solutions to the climate catastrophe. This September, the Climate Justice Training for Trainers will be a chance to develop skills, experience and confidence to train groups and individuals to take part in the creative direct actions taking place during the COP21 (particularly for the last day of mass actions on December 12th and the Climate Games), and learn how to support small groups to make their actions more powerful, more creative, and more fun. The Training for Trainers will be a safe space to try out and discuss different training techniques, and gain insights into the roles of a trainer. It will cover topics such decision making (whilst preparing an action and during the action itself), role allocation, sustainable activism, creative tactics as well as a short briefing about the legal situation in France. It will also prepare you to organize trainings in your own organization, movement or group of friends. This Training for Trainers is especially designed for people from a range of European countries, who will be giving trainings before and towards COP21, and we ask that everyone who attends the training guarantees to give 2 trainings (working with another trainer) in the rest of 2015. We expect participants to be confident to speak in front of a group, and to already have some experience in direct action, creative actions, civil disobedience etc. It will be delivered in English. The Training for Trainers will take place from Thursday 17 September at 18.00 to Sunday 20 September at 16.30, in Paris (location to be confirmed). Travel bursaries and basic accommodation (in youth hostel or at local people’s houses) will be available for those who need it, and meals will be provided. Please apply via this application form. Application deadline is August 21st 2015. We will aim to give a reply to all applicants by August 31st. For more info and/or if you would be interested in a Training for Trainers in your own language, do not hesitate to get in touch: isa@350.org The Climate Justice Training for Trainers is a collaboration between 350.org, Greenpeace, Climate Games, the Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination and Climate Express.
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Homo antecessor is an extinct human species dating from 1.2 million to 800,000 years ago, that was discovered by Eudald Carbonell, Juan Luis Arsuaga and J. M. Bermúdez de Castro. H. antecessor is one of the earliest known human varieties in Europe.
The best-preserved fossil is a maxilla that belonged to a 10-year-old individual found in Atapuerca, Spain. At the site were numerous examples of cuts where the flesh had been flensed from the bones, which indicates that H. antecessor could have practised cannibalism.
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ABOUT 10 protesters have settled in to the caretaker’s cottage at the Rushcutters Bay Tennis Centre this afternoon, Thursday November 18.
They were facing off against workmen contracted by Sydney City Council to demolish the building.
The kiosk at the tennis centre is also slated for demolition.
A Sydney City Council spokesperson said last week the cottage needed to be demolished to make way for an extra tennis court and the kiosk was to be demolished because a new one has already been built nearby.
“At the moment we are very angry,’’ said former Deputy Lord Mayor of Sydney Dixie Coulton, one of the protesters.
“We spoke to Cr Meredith Burgmann this morning who said she would speak with the Lord Mayor.
“We were under the impression the building was not going to be demolished until next week but now we find, rather than having the opportunity to discuss this with the Council, they want to demolish the building straight away,’’ Ms Coulton said.
“The Lord Mayor Clover Moore and the CEO Monica Barone could stop this immediately,’’ she said.
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This national campaign aims to find 1 million Dementia Friends by 2015 and create dementia friendly communities in order to help people live better with dementia.
If you are interested in becoming a Dementia Friend and joining a national initiative that will help people living with dementia feel included in their communities, then you need to register as a Dementia Friend and go to one of our Friends’ information sessions.
Friends’ information sessions are run by Dementia Friends Champions, who are volunteers who have taken the Dementia Friends Champions’ training. Each Friends’ information session lasts around one hour. You will learn more about dementia and how you can help to create dementia friendly communities. There are information sessions running across England.
After the Dementia Friends’ information session we want you to tell us about how you are going to turn your understanding of dementia into a practical action. You will get lots of ideas about the actions you can take at your Friends’ information session, and there will be lots of other ideas on this website. You don’t have to commit to doing something time-consuming. Every action counts.
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Since starting this, I’ve been trying to reconcile my inclination that at the root, all blogs are an exercise in egocentricity. I do enjoy reading blogs, however, so, as I mentioned in my First Post, why not me? I am not going to be posting every day, unless I really think I have something to say.
I’m not an intellectual, so I doubt that I’ll be posting erudite analysis of arcane religious dogma. I believe I’ll be mainly commenting, in a general way, about matters that strike my fancy, or that irritate me, or that otherwise cry out for Joe Schmoe’s reaction. Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens speak and write far better than I, and with far more style, that I wouldn’t even think about trying to copy them, or step in their turf. This blog is more for me, to test my thinking on relatively simple matters. The best way to test it is to hold it up to scrutiny. I think that’s the best service a blog can provide me. Other blogs have helped me in the process, but there’s nothing like trying to put one’s own thoughts on paper (or in this case, in cyberspace) to clarifying one’s thinking.
America is on the cusp of a critical change from religious zealotry to honest reason, and I simply wish to thank you for your enlightened role in facilitating that change.
I am (k)new to the world of the atheosphere (not believing in a round god?) er . . . atheist blogging. I discovered your site through Atheist Revolution (not a shameless plug, though I did get to do a guest post there). In the short time I have been frequenting such enlightened fare, I have switched from agnostic (with a touch of atheism) to atheist (with a touch of agnosticism) (though some call me just ‘touched’).
Anyway, don’t knock your (supposed) lack of indepth knowledge. I have found more useful information, ideas, and philosophical huh?!?! on sites such as yours than I have found in “higher” forms of publication. In other words, little old me (history major, interpreter, dad, husband, etc.) can actually understand the posts. And the brilliant (usually) posts by your readers are almost as educational.
Thanks Billy. If you ever have a post that you’d like to put up, and vjack doesn’t want it, or you think it might be more appropriate here, feel free to let me know. I’ll host it.
I was thinking of commenting to your current post, because I once engaged a theist who had persuasive answers for the question of evil, but I couldn’t think of an approach to enter in upon.
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Why Don’t You Just Get a Better Job?
I’m often asked this question and it’s not as simple to answer as it might seem. The reasons I’m asked are valid; I don’t get paid well, two bedroom places in my area run $800-1000 per month, I don’t particularly enjoy what I do and … Continue reading Why Don’t You Just Get a Better Job?
What in the World is Unschooling?
If you’re not an unschooler or even a homeschooler in the know, you may be wondering what exactly is “unschooling?” I can only explain what it is for us, since unschooling varies as much by family as any other method of homeschooling. We certainly can’t … Continue reading What in the World is Unschooling?
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Design your own katana choose the colors and materials for the handle, choose the blade type and the steel type, all is customized, what creates a large number of combination and sword variations.
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Sometimes it feels like time is just at a standstill and other times it just feels as if it’s zipping by in near incoherence. You think you’re anchored to something. Maybe it’s a feeling. Maybe it’s the certainty of tomorrow. Then the world sends you off an edge you didn’t know existed and you’re not sure if you feel alive or if you feel the inevitability of the end. It seems so far away but it’s closer than you think.
And sometimes you just spew out words that make no sense at the moment because it’s all just feelings and musings and nothing tangible. But one day perhaps, the words will mean something to you or to someone else and then you’ll be glad to have said them.
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Iteration of the resulting exactly symplectic map.
This dissertation addresses all three components of the process, with the emphasis being on developing new methods that allow long-term tracking as accurately and efficiently as possible.
Specifically, the contributions to the first step concern the fringe field effects. The truncated Taylor map should include every relevant effect, so that it is an accurate representation of the system over one turn. While it is straightforward to compute the truncated maps over the regions where the fields are independent of the longitudinal variable, it is not so anymore at the ends of the magnets, the so-called fringe field regions. We study fringe fields generically, to show their importance, and develop a method that allows "exact" fringe field map computation of superconducting magnets, for which the coils and the iron parts are represented by current wires. The theory is illustrated by a detailed study of fringe field effects on the nonlinear dynamics of the Large Hadron Collider at collision energy.
Many contributions are established to the second step. It is well known that the theory of generating functions of canonical transformations provides a possible symplectification method. It is shown that, by transforming the dynamical problem into a problem in symplectic geometry, a general theory can be developed, which leads to a set of infinitely many new types of generating functions. It follows that it is possible to use this extended set to produce symplectic maps, and to reduce the whole set of generators to classes that give the same symplectified map. Moreover, the effects of factorization of the linear parts on the outcome of symplectification were studied. A variety of examples show the performance of various generator types, from which it can be concluded that it is not only important to symplectify, but also to symplectify ``the right way". The precise meaning of the last statement is the subject of the optimal symplectification theory, which can be formulated using methods of symplectic topology. In particular, Hofer's metric allows the formulation of the optimality condition in a very general setting, and the solution leads to a generating function type (EXPO) that, in general, gives optimal results. In the proof, an interesting one-to-one correspondence between fixed points of symplectic maps and critical points of generating functions is developed, and a generalized Hamilton-Jacobi equation is derived.
Finally, as contribution to the third step, it is pointed out that the numerical method used to solve the implicit equations arising in the iteration of the symplectic maps makes a difference in the final results, and, in general, a fixed point iteration is more robust than the widely used Newton method.
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Any post to do with movies and film.
Good day all! It’s been sometime since i did an “Eleni’s Evaluation” on a movie and that’s going to change right now! Friday night i saw The Drop with Tom Hardy and James Gandolfini, his final performance before his unfortunate death. Set in modern day Brooklyn, we follow the workings of the Chechen mafia and what they like to call Drop Bars – bars that hold their profit illegally. It’s discreet and simple. The bar in particular we watch is Cousin Marv’s, owned by Marv (James Gandolfini) and his younger cousin Bob (Tom Hardy). The two of them make for an interesting dynamic – Marv was the gambling and blackmail king of Brooklyn back in his time and Bob is the lonely, quiet and misunderstood bartender. One night while the cousins were closing up the bar, counting and storing the Chechens profit, a robbery took place. Marv willingly gave up the Chechens money while Bob noticed something distinct about one of the robbers – the robbers watch was stuck at the time of 6:15. The robbers fled but not without brutalizing one of the younger employees at the bar, which then led to the cops being involved, this was the last thing Marv and Bob wanted. Some days after the robbery on his way home from a shift at the bar, Bob rescues a beaten pitbull puppy from someone’s trash can. The owner of the trash can came out to see what Bob was doing and then we learn that the stranger was unaware of the puppy being in her trash. She lets Bob and the puppy into her home and helps Bob with healing the puppys injuries. Thus, we meet Nadia (played by Noomi Rapace). Bob and Nadia decide to co-own the puppy, seeing as though Bob felt it was a big responsibility to do it on his own.
As the movie progresses, we learn times were hard for Marv, the bank threatening to foreclose his house and just pay the bills and collectors for his gambling was a challenge. Now you remember how i said Marv used to be king? Well he had some tricks up his sleeves on how could steel money from the Chechnan’s – plan a fake robbery at his bar. SO YES! Marv was in on the robbery that night! Will he get away with it or will Bob, unaware he’s in the crosshairs, figure out his cousin isn’t who he thought he was? I have to say, Bob’s character development in this movie was extremely interesting, there was a huge twist at the end that i never saw coming, you probably won’t either! James Gandolfini was superb as always and Tom Hardy gave me a reason to become a fan. Tom’s performance was definitely something to be noticed and praised. I would see this movie in a heart beat again.
Hi everyone! I just finished my bio notes for the day so now I’m free to do my weekly movie review – WOOT! So lets get down to it shall we? I need to just get this off my chest, if i may. I’m not a huge fan of overly sappy, cheesy and predictable romantic movies. In fact, i’ll take it a step further – I DESPISE THEM! I like a good underestimated love story but as soon as i got the plot figured out, I’ve lost all interest. I’d rather watch huge battle scenes, CGI blood and muscley men in skirts than watch a chick flick. Which brings us to the movie of the week. Let me introduce 300: Rise of an Empire! Now I know it came out a little while ago, you don’t need to tell me but I have been listening to the soundtrack all afternoon so i have it stuck in my head. When it first came out in early March, I was soooo excited! I loved the first 300 despite it being somewhat historical inaccurate, that was the least of my concerns as I watched the brave 300 battle the 20,000 Persians in the battle of Thermopylae. Also, the Spartans abs were a nice distraction. The way the movie was shot was the first of it’s kind, slow-mo kill strikes, the “spraying blood”, blue screen filming and the use of colour in the shots to portray moods. I was a fan to say the least. So this leads us the 300’s sequal, 300: Rise of an Empire. I loved this movie more than the original (don’t kill me). Wanna know how much i love it? I saw it in theaters 3 times, all in 3D and i have the poster version of the picture above taped to the back of my door along side my Thor: The Dark World poster. I AM HOOKED! The sequel stayed true to the original with the filming, colours and muscley men. The only difference with the filming i thought was there were a lot more Hi-Def close ups, and being in 3D, it looked freaking cool and crystal clear! Also the way the plot line was set up was very interesting too. It was a told before the Spartans Battle of Thermopylae, during the battle and then after the Spartans defeat. In the sequel, we follow the Athenians, not nearly as advanced as the Spartans in combat but they make due with what we fans like to call Athenian Shock Combat.
A little taste of Athenian Shock Combat.
If you have a movie that you think I would enjoy and would like to know my thoughts, please leave a comment and I will be delighted to watch and tell!
Thank you everyone ! Have a good night!
Good evening everyone! Now if you’ve read our “About” page, you would have seen that I am a movie lover. I will watch practically anything and there are very few movies that i dislike! I have to say my love for film started when my brother made me sit and watch The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring back when i was 7 in 2002. Yes your read that right, i was just the young age of 7 when I first met the Belrog (don’t know the Belrog? watch the movie!). But I’m not here now to talk about my love for The Lord of the Rings, that’ll be for another day. Today, I will be giving my own little review of one of my favourites: Amélie. The film came out in 2001 and only until recently have i discovered its amazingly quirky self! Set in Paris, 1997, we follow Amélie Poulain, a young woman working as waitress who’s grown up to be introverted thanks to her cold parents. Like everyone else, she has her own little pleasures. She enjoys skipping stones, cracking the burnt sugar crust on creme brulee and letting her fingers sink into a bag of grains. One evening, while she watches the news, she’s shocked to learn of the death of Lady Diana. In her shocked state, she finds an old metal box containing toys that look to have been owned by a little boy who lived in her apartment 40 years ago. She decides to find the boxes owner and promises herself that if she finds him and it makes him happy, she will devote her life to bringing happiness to others and helping others as much as she can. And here i ends my little summary. Amélie as a whole is a very quirky, adorable and under-rated movie. I have watched it 2 times in 2 days and every time before, it has always brought a smile to my face. It’s the type of movie you can watch on a crappy day and feel better about everything at the end. There are subtitles throughout the movie, just to warn you but even it you’re not a fan of them, just listening to Audrey Tautou (actress of Amélie) speak french will make your day 100% better. The genre i would classify this is romantic comedy. Comedic in Amélie’s everyday life and perception of the world and romantic in the aspect of her trying to come to terms with her feelings for Nino Quincompoix, a stranger who collects discarded photo booth pictures of people and keeps them in a family photo album. Nino and Amélie were made for each other and you can tell right away when they first meet. And plus, just look at these two sweeties!!!
I love the way Amélie stares longingly & lovingly at Nino.
Now i’m not going to give away the ending! I hate spoilers and so should you! It’s up to you now to find out if Amélie succeeds in returning the metal box, in helping those around her and if she gets her one true love Nino.
Thank you everyone – have a pleasant night!
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2019-04-24T10:51:52Z
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This car has the same everything and looks like it did from a half restoration. Original owner was Henrick from Sunland, CA Please email me at jabacaa@hotmail.com Thanks!
I like to know if this car was purchased in Nevada from a realator. It looks like the care I grew up with that I tried to track down. It has a AAA sticker in the corner of the passanger side of the front window. It also did not have the cover for the rear wheels. It also had the emblem on the gril. Would be interested to know. If this was the car from California.
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ya, it looks like your room... but is it really?
um... oh CRAP, it's not!
Lets just hope my room isn't mistaken for any other activities.
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2019-04-26T06:41:31Z
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https://sahrie.livejournal.com/115889.html
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How to add a fixed Background Image for a UIScrollView?
So recently I wanted to add a Fixed image behind a ScrollView in Xamarin Forms. Furthermore when the ScrollView is scrolling the background image shouldn’t scroll along with it, and background image should stay fixed while the content is scrolling.
So the obvious solution would be to lay down a RelativeLayout and top of that Image, and then a ScrollView with Transparent background.
but instead of laying out all those layouts and multiple controls, I wanted to achieve this right from one Control, by customizing the ScrollView accordingly.
So I created a Custom ScrollView control in PCL project and added the Custom Renderers for each platform iOS and Android. Although I got it working with ease in on Android by setting the Image as the Background drawable for the ScrollView, I was having some struggle with iOS.
So the Xamarin Forms ScrollView’s native iOS mapped control is the UIScrollView. So I tried adding the a UIImageView to the UIScrollView from the custom renderer hoping it should get the job done according to theory.
but the background was panning across the Content size. And it started scrolling alone with the Content.
So as per the obvious solution I added the UIImage into a UIImageView and added it into the UIScrollView as a SubView as shown below. Also you may have noticed how I have called SendSubviewToBack method to place the UIImageView behind the UIScrollView.
And this was the result as you can see below..
Then I thought what if I resized the Image to the actual Height and Width of the UIScrollView and added as a Subview as show below.
Now in an iOS Custom Renderer we can not access the UIScrollView’s Bounds or Frame right from the OnElementChanged method, we need to override the Draw() method, which provides the Height and Width since it’s actually being drawn on the Parent view.
So as you can see I have resized the UIImage and added it to the UIScrollView thought a UIImageView holder.
3. How about InsertSubview() ?
There are couple of methods for Adding a SubView to a View, the most common used one is the AddSubView() method which is also an alias for Add().
Then there also another method call we could use, InsertSubview(). In theory it does the same thing as AddSubView() but in a different manner where you could define a View index, in terms of which index the View should be added to in the array of sub-views in the given View.
Let’s call the below, as you can see I’m placing our UIImageView at the very bottom of the SubViews stack by giving index 0 value.
4. How about InsertSubviewBelow() ?
5. What about directly setting the Background?
Frustrated with trying to add SubViews approach, I thought of directly setting the Background property of UIScrollView, specifically set the UIImage directly to the BackgroundColor Property of UIScrollView.
Well there’s no way we could set the BackgroundColor property from the Draw() method override, hence the canvas is already drawn. So we need to set it before its being drawn.
So let’s move back to the OnElementChanged method and set the BackgroundColor.
Since there’s no availability of the Height and Width values within the OnElementChanged event firing, for now we’ll just directly set the UIImage to BackgroundColor without resizing.
Oh well, look at the results. It also fills up the whole Content area, without just setting the “background” on UIScrollView.
5. What about directly setting the Background with resized UIImage?
Alright now let’s get a bit serious and retry the above approach properly, by accessing the Height and Width of the UIScrollView and resizing the UIImage accordingly.
So to do this we need to tap into the place where the Height and Width first gets allocated before the Draw method. That’s by subscribing to the OnPropertyChanged() as shown below.
So inside the OnPropertyChanged() event we are waiting till the Width and Height properties are available, as you can see we are looking for the PropertyName in the event args. Then we resize the UIImage according to the retrieved Height and Width and values of UIScrollView and set the UIImage to the Background.
Now as you can see, the Background Image gets resized to the exact size of UIScrollView but the Background is still scrolling with the content. And if you notice closely, you can see the Background has repeated the Image, this is because of the UIColor.FromPatternImage() where as the UIImage gets repeated to fill the whole canvas. This means that the Background still gets spread across the whole Content area of the UIScrollView.
then I witnessed something strange….
So meanwhile playing around with different override methods and properties, at some point….
I accidentally left the Draw() method overridden in my Custom Renderer as shown below, and moved the setting of the UIScrollView Background to the OnPropertyChanged event like I did in the previous step.
As you can see in my above code, I have just overriden the Draw() event and left it just as it is, without writing any code inside the method.
Although this does not make any sense, how could the Background of the UIScrollView prevents itself from scaling to the size of Content size just by simply overriding the Draw() event, without even executing any code inside of it.
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2019-04-21T08:06:16Z
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https://theconfuzedsourcecode.wordpress.com/2016/12/15/how-to-add-a-fixed-background-image-for-a-uiscrollview/
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I thought I would continue the theme of cars and driving and tell you a bit about our year down here in Australia without a car. Similar to the other blogger who gets surprised looks when people find out it’s possible to get by in SoRo without a car, we have received the same sort of reaction here in Adelaide. People are pretty attached to their cars here, which is a bit unfortunate.
We decided when we got here that we could either buy bikes or buy a car (two reasonable road bikes were about the same price as a used car, if you can believe that!) We opted for the bikes, and have been really pretty happy with our decision.
We’ve found that between our bikes and public transportation, we can pretty well get around the city. And, when we want to go further, we’ve caught rides with other people, which has been great. If we had a car, I suspect we would have done a lot of trips by ourselves. That would have been fine, but we’ve really enjoyed meeting other people.
Although there isn’t ZipCar here, we have rented a car twice — both times to go visit someone who lives about 2 hours from the city. But, apart from that and one taxi cab ride, we’ve been really fine without a car. It’s undoubtedly been cheaper for us (gas, or petrol as they call it) is more expensive here than in the US, and with a used car, you never know what kinds of repairs you’ll have to have done.
This entry was written by chelsealm and posted on October 28, 2010 at 7:11 am and filed under MSEL Blog Page. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.
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2019-04-25T22:50:59Z
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https://vlsmsel.wordpress.com/2010/10/28/on-the-theme-of-cars/
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Ongoing military operations in Slavyansk have left at least 20 rebels dead and dozens more civilians injured according to Interfax.
As RT reports, fatalities are on both sides with little progress reported one way or the other. The White House says it’s “extremely concerned” by the deteriorating situation in southern Ukraine. Perhaps more important for the average American citizen, Klitschko has decided to postpone his planned wedding to Hayden Panettiere due to the conflict… now it’s getting serious!!
Used as a storage and distribution facility to spread weapons to rebel fighters around the world – and also to prepare for the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion – the location of the CIA’s secret arms storage center has reportedly been identified in Texas.
According to the New York Times, that location is believed to be north of San Antonio, Texas, at the US Army facility Camp Stanley.
Over the years, the arms cache has been referred to simply as the “Midwest Depot,” but documents studied by the Times, as well as studies conducted by former CIA analyst Allen Thomson, seem to indicate the codename didn’t actually refer to the facility’s precise location.
New details have emerged concerning a northern California slaughterhouse scandal that earlier this year prompted the United States Department of Agriculture to recall roughly 9 million pounds of meat.
Petaluma, CA’s Rancho Feeding Corporation made headlines back in February after the USDA began to recall around 8.7 million pounds of tainted beef carcasses, oxtail, liver, cheeks, tripe, tongue, veal bones and other exports that were shipped from the California slaughterhouse between January 1, 2013 and the second week of this year.
After investigating the goods, the USDA eventually blamed Rancho for shipping meat that was “unfit for human food,” later linked to have come from cancerous cows that were chopped and sold for beef with seemingly zero regard from Rancho’s staff. Earlier this month, documents obtained by CNN lead the news network to believe that Rancho was buying diseased dairy cows and simply processing them at times when government inspectors weren’t on site.
NATO’s three-week ‘Spring Storm’ drills, involving a record-breaking number of 6,000 troops, have begun in Estonia. For the first time, a cyber security team from France is participating in the military exercises.
“This year’s Spring Storm brings together a record number of allied troops – infantry from the Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment, soldiers from Latvia, soldiers from the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team of the US army, as well as soldiers from Lithuania,” the Estonian Defense Ministry said in a statement.
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2019-04-22T01:11:06Z
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30%83°75°Showers with a high of 81 °F (27.2 °C) and a 45% chance of precipitation. Winds from NE to ENE at 6 to 8 mph (9.7 to 12.9 kph).Night - Cloudy with a 45% chance of precipitation. Winds variable at 5 to 9 mph (8.0 to 14.5 kph). The overnight low will be 75 °F (23.9 °C).
45%82°75°Scattered thunderstorms today with a high of 82 °F (27.8 °C) and a low of 75 °F (23.9 °C). There is a 45% chance of precipitation.
50%81°75°Scattered thunderstorms today with a high of 81 °F (27.2 °C) and a low of 75 °F (23.9 °C). There is a 50% chance of precipitation.
50%78°75°Scattered thunderstorms today with a high of 78 °F (25.6 °C) and a low of 75 °F (23.9 °C). There is a 50% chance of precipitation.
Today - Showers with a high of 81 °F (27.2 °C) and a 45% chance of precipitation. Winds from NE to ENE at 6 to 8 mph (9.7 to 12.9 kph).
Tonight - Cloudy with a 45% chance of precipitation. Winds variable at 5 to 9 mph (8.0 to 14.5 kph). The overnight low will be 75 °F (23.9 °C).
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2019-04-20T09:28:11Z
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/weather/brazil/amapa/mazagao-velho-457577
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Last night, I came home to a nice little surprise in my inbox. My Fantasy Romance, A Soul For Trouble, was named a finalist in the OVRWA Enchanted Words Contest. I did a little happy dance and updated my webpage, adding to the accolades this unpublished, unagented manuscript has received.
But that’s why I bring this up. You’re not going to please everyone in a contest. You may get the judge who’s SO just left her because she was PMSing too much. You may get the NYT bestseller who offers some great advice. It’s all luck of the draw. But the key here is that YOU GET FEEDBACK. And you’ll get it from more than one person. The good, the bad, and the ugly — your opening pages will be finely dissected, and your story will be weighed and measured.
I’d sworn off contests in the past because I don’t write to formula all the time and have gotten some rather harsh feedback from judges because of it. But I took their advice, applied to my WIP at the time, and started entering A Soul For Trouble. At first I was a bit gun-shy, so I just entered my local RWA contest. I won frist place. Then I entered my specialty genre chapter’s contest with ASFT and another manuscript that had been ripped to shreds in the past and recently revised. They both finalled, and the revised manuscript won it’s category. I was on a roll. I started scouring the RWR (Romance Writer’s Report) for any contest I could enter. I became an addict, wanting to reap more rewards for my writing. I even started a spreadsheet for all the contests I could enter, listing the deadlines, the fees, and the final judges.
What are you thoughts on writing contests? Are you a contest whore, too? Do you avoid them like the plague?
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2019-04-21T06:39:03Z
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Two years after graduating with a degree in marketing from the Marriott School in 1990, Jenner Marcucci decided he was going to make his first $100,000 and buy a house—and then he did it.
By digging in and working hard, Marcucci was named the top sales rep at Pfizer; in fact, he speculates that he went to the beach just five times in the four years he worked in Hawaii. His efforts ultimately led to a promotion as a manager, but the rise up the ladder wasn’t all Marcucci envisioned.
The challenges he faced in his new career prompted him to continue his education. He sought coaching from experts on leadership and implemented their advice. He changed what he was doing and became so specialized in leadership training that he founded his own company, Summit Leadership Consulting.
Now a seasoned consultant, he recently came back to BYU to present to hundreds of students about the trade secret he learned as a first-time manager: emotional intelligence eclipses everything else in the workforce.
Self-Awareness: How well do you understand and accept yourself?
Self-Motivation and Self-Regulation: Can you regulate your mood, marshal good emotions when you need them, and control your temper?
Empathy: How well do you understand and empathize with others?
Social Skills: How well do you manage relationships and network?
Emotional intelligence isn’t just a key component to professional success.
Marcucci closed his remarks with praise for the students present on their development thus far.
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2019-04-26T08:31:20Z
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https://marriottmag.wordpress.com/2017/04/05/a-career-changing-mindset-alum-jenner-marcucci/
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As is often the case with adventure shows, one of the last episodes of the run is a clip show. This one has a frame story of Captain Blue being interrogated by somebody claiming to be from Spectrum Intelligence, and it features clips from the episodes “Big Ben Strikes Again”, “Crater 101,” and “The Trap.” The clip from “Crater 101” includes a clip from earlier in that episode, so at one point, yes, Captain Blue relates a flashback of a flashback.
Since there’s not much to say about clip shows except how frustrating they are, I’ll note that the only real disappointment in this set from Timeless Media Group is that every one of the episodes contains actor Ed Bishop’s narration, “Leading the fight, one man whom fate has made indestructible. His name: Captain Scarlet!” Some of the episodes were later given a new voiceover by Donald Grey: “Captain Scarlet is indestructible. You are not. Remember this; do not try to imitate him.” I love that and wish it had been included!
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2019-04-19T20:54:35Z
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https://firebreathingdimetrodon.wordpress.com/2016/03/26/captain-scarlet-1-31-the-inquisition/
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ARIES. (March 20 - April 18): You will have to back down, but don't back off. A dispute is far from settled. Look for encouraging developments after June 25.
TAURUS. (April 19 - May 19): You can tell it like it is without being too harsh. There's a reason why they say a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down. And make that a tablespoon, not teaspoon!
GEMINI. (May 20 - June 20): You're taking your wish list too literally. Go for the gist of it and you might be pleasantly surprised.
CANCER. (June 21 - July 21): Your eyes glaze over when stats are thrown at you haphazardly. Make the person who's supposed to be explaining, explain in a way you understand. It's his job.
LEO. (July 22 - Aug. 21): Take what everyone says with a grain of salt thru July 1. Either people are working an angle or they're misinformed.
VIRGO. (Aug. 22 - Sept. 21): A little self-criticism is ok, but not when it undermines your self-esteem. Spend a little more time with your pluses than your minuses.
LIBRA. (Sept. 22 - Oct. 22): A conversation with an old friend gets you thinking about a path you never pursued. It's never too late to follow a dream if you're open to where it may lead.
SCORPIO. (Oct. 23 - Nov. 21): You begin to wonder what you've gotten yourself into. Don't worry. You're more than equal to the task at hand.
SAGITTARIUS. (Nov. 22 - Dec. 20): Refrain from gossiping at work. You may not realize it, but you're sitting on information that others want to know.
CAPRICORN. (Dec. 21 - Jan. 18): You have all the support you need to go to the next level. Don't worry about that stamp of approval. It will be there when you need it.
AQUARIUS. (Jan. 19 - Feb. 17): Get ready for a flip-flop. But what feels like the rug being pulled from under you is really the Cosmos giving that rug a healthy shake. The dust settles after the 25th.
PISCES. (Feb. 18 - March 19): Adopting the ostrich policy never helps. Use sensitivity and tact to point out to a loved one that he's burying his head in the sand of past woes.
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The World Is Flat – We are all connected. We are all one.
When we made it to Cannes….
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2019-04-19T12:44:57Z
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Andrew, just read the entire blog from beginning to end… and what a read!
Thoroughly enjoyed it.. so interesting reading all this from a visitors point of view. And you truly write beautifully. Also had a bit of a lesson on local birds.. found myself googling them as they were mentioned 🙂 You should write a book.. I for one would definitely read it.
Really enjoyed reading and learning a bit about the actual problem. My sister is a community service physio there so I have been filled in to a degree about this annoying and potentially damaging issue. It’s uncanny how humans crave drama. It’s normally best illustrated in rural areas where there’s not as much ‘exciting’ stuff happening as in the city. This leads to restlessness, boredom and the ‘need’ to manufacture drama. One hopes that sanity and foresight prevails!
We faced similar grievances when I worked in Manguzi, northern KZN in 2007 when the Health MEC for KZN at the time came up for an official visit and held a meeting in the community hall where she proceeded to tell everyone present to beware of the umlungu doctors, they there for money, and they must be cautious when taking the ARV’s that these doctors are dishing out. This led to rage amongst our senior and long serving doctors who removed her picture off the wall and dispensed it into a more suitable place. However this was spotted by a traitor and before long this particular doc was being investigated, threatened and I believe ultimately led to his departure for ‘greener’ pastures…which resulted in a massive loss for the entire community.
One needs to be very weary of these sorts of uprisings as the potential losses to the masses of innocent people far outweigh any gains for the few.
Andrew, myself and husband Pete Grant were at Zithulele 2009 for a year (me doctoring, him running Jabulani). I devoured your entire blog and found it a spellbinding read. It really brings back the flavours smells and emotions of being there so vividly.
It makes me so sad (but not so surprised) to hear of recent events. Thank goodness for the resilience and strength of the zithulele team.
Please keep writing. I have been reading it w whilst feeding my 4 month son during the night and finding those wakes much more enjoyable so thank you.
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Once submit is clicked, the PHP program determines the local file and does a COPY command to get the files to where I want them to go on the server.
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It seems to only occur if the aggregrate size of the files being uploaded are greater than a certain amount.
Does anyone know what this amount is?
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Above all, of his gift of vision and action, faith and scholarship toward building a more pluralistic, tolerant and enlightened Israeli society.
Click below to listen to an edited version (10 minutes) of the awards ceremony, including Rabbi Hartman’s address to the audience.
Israel Knohl tells us his latest in-depth article about the “Messiah Stone” and its translation is available in the new issue of Biblical Archaeology Review (It’s the cover article for you print types).
Those four words provide the basis for the thesis that ties in Jewish prophecy of the day with the origins of the Christian Jesus.
Shalom Hartman Institute Senior Fellow Israel Knohl is in the news – in a big way – as the New York Times has covered the so-called “Gabriel’s Vision” stone tablet, a sort of “Dead Sea Scroll on stone” from Second Temple days that suggests a Jewish myth/story/prediction of a messiah who would rise from the dead after three days.
The Times story has brought a huge amount of attention to Knohl – it’s the most emailed and blogged article on the Times website right now – and the Institute website is really the only online location for Knohl’s original article.
There are many controversial aspects to this matter. One is Knohl’s reading translation of the degraded text on the stone, and the other is the interpretation he give it, which is that Jewish mythology/belief of the Second Temple era included a messiah who rises from the dead after three days and whose blood purifies the people.
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Step 1: Look at the 2019 projects and themes.
Continue to grow with us by sharing your Project Leader experiences with our new PLs, and get a chance to work behind-the-scenes to make ARW happen! Email Amina Farah at amina.farah@utoronto.ca if you are interested in being a Lead Project Leader.
3 – 8 p.m. | Orientation and Meet your Team, in OISE, 252 Bloor St. West (Auditorium on main floor).
9 a.m. – 12 p.m. | Registration and welcome in OISE, 252 Bloor St. West (Auditorium on main floor).
Questions? Contact Amina Farah at amina.farah@utoronto.ca.
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To stay informed about our events, please send your name, postal address, and email to Joyce@JoyceJazz.com. The list and all info will be kept strictly private.
This fall, we are excited to announce three new classes! Call now to register for the fall series to begin in late Aug./early Sept., or call to drop in! 415-663-9176.
Sing your favorites, learn the back up harmony vocals, try the guitar, bass, and drum parts! All instruments available. All ages and stages welcome!
2. Gentle Drumming - meditative, bonding, unifying, stimulating, uplifting, and fun!
Students report being in a euphoric mood at the end of these classes.
3. Two, three, and four part singing - for music readers who enjoy complex musical mazes and for all musicians who want to develop their musical ear, whether or not singing is a customary activity. Music of many composers, and mostly Bach.
Call to register interest, find out schedule and fees, or to notify of your dropping in.
This fall, we are excited to announce four new classes!
1. Developing Deep Rhythm in Your Music: When we play music with others, whether be classical, folk-based, or jazz, it is often the rhythm that becomes the most subtle layer that we need to work with. When we listen to the masters, we notice their attention placed on every note. This is what I describe as “deep rhythm,” being; attention placed with conviction and space toward and around each note, chord, and rhythmic gesture in alignment with the human breath and its physical language of the body. Deep rhythm is a layer of practicing often left to the “rhythm section” players, (often called, “the groove” or “the zone”), but even working on our rhythm with solo strumming a guitar or playing a melody with a certain conviction can be a deeper part of our independent practice that can offer an unending stream of joy. When the lead player or vocalist commands a sense of deep rhythm, it draws along the rest of the ensemble with its current. This class will be an exploration and practice of these aspects of solo and ensemble music-making. For individuals, pre-formed groups of all genres, or new groups forming. Please call 415-663-9176 for exact time, schedule, and fee.
2. Learning to Read Music: This class will be divided into two levels: those who are complete novices in the skills of reading music and those who wish to improve their confidence in their fundamental knowledge of music reading. Fun exercises and rhythm games will include ear training, “eyes-closed” note identification games, discussion of the beautiful system of scales we use in Western music, learning simple tunes with reading and writing, and eventual songwriting in the genre of your choice. Take a step toward opening your entire world to the literature of written music! Please call 415-663-9176 for exact time, schedule, and fee.
3. Improvising Music and Poetry from the Heart: This class is for complete novices as well as those who have sung or played instruments over the years. In the past, this class became a four-year odyssey of creative expression for people with many levels of experience. Picture an experienced piano improviser, a new person to small percussion listening for a place to make a subtle sound, and another person spotting a source of creative sound - a piece of paper to tear at the just the right second. The entire practice is about attention and sensitivity to rhythmic timing, with musical sounds as the medium. Poetry will also enter in to our pieces to add a verbal and vocal level of expression. Please call 415-663-9176 for exact time, schedule, and fee.
4. Hand Drumming: How do we express ourselves from the heart to the hand to the skin of a drum? How do we learn to play with the kind of gentleness and subtlety that will consistently bring out the deep resonance of a beautiful African-style hand drum? How do we pay attention to our own rhythm part as well as our fellow drummers to create a sound of “one drum” in musical unity? These are some of the major issues we address in this class. Authentic rhythm patterns of Senegal - experienced over 30 years by the instructor after learning them with the master drummers of the National Ballet of Senegal, West Africa - will be our palette for learning. This is an ongoing class. We welcome newcomers who will be given “easy parts” to play after a private session or two with the instructor. Please call 415-663-9176 for exact time, schedule, and fee.
Have you ever dreamed of making music or singing in a group? Have you ever wanted to know what it would be like to live your life as a full-time dedicated musician, writer, or artist? We offer 2, 3, 4, and 5 day immersions for both individuals and groups throughout the year in our beautiful zone of seashore, mountains, grazing hills, and forests. Combine walks in nature with mixed arts with our available strings, guitars, piano and keyboards, winds, and percussion. Gather with friends and family or create a quiet solo retreat with our guidance. Please call 415-663-9176 to start designing a beautiful experience of the natural world with the arts for yourself, with friends, or with family.
Whatever your age, our mission is to work with you over a span of time to build your skills and your love of music. All the arts are utilized in this process from storytelling, to writing poetry and songs, to drawing and taking photos and video. We also dance, throw and bounce balls for hand-eye coordination, tell jokes in rhythm, and aspire to be at the heart of childhood, no matter our age, at every opportunity.
Point Reyes Music Center Announces a new rigorous hands-on musicianship and ear training program for all ages! This is a basic Harvard College course (and children's prep course) in music skills made available to everyone, uniquely designed for each student's goals and pleasure!
See details under "Classes & Lessons"
and follows your creative energies in a special way.
A River of Words and Music DVD. Poetry readings by Jane Hirshfield, Linda Pastan, and Robert Hass, accompanied by new music compositions by Joyce Kouffman, premiered before a sold-out audience on October 5, 2007.
Joyce has recorded and produced four CDs. Joyce's solo recording If Bach Were Brazilian... features Cello, Guitar, Bass, and Percussion interpretations of J. S. Bach, with a danceable Latin touch. All instrumental parts performed by Joyce. This is a 20-minute preview CD.
(2004) feature pianist-composer Mary Watkins and other great musicians including Cindy Brown, Ruth Davies, and Don Braden.
Please write for a special limited edition of Joyce's poetry and music recording "Fierce Unruly Joy," with prize winning poet, Linda Pastan, and special guest vocalist LisbethScott !
with your name, postal address, and email. All info will be kept strictly private.
All website content © Joyce Kouffman and Point Reyes Music Center, or used by permission.
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Storyline: Best buddies Dustin, Albert, and Mark are twelve year old boys looking forward to a summer of fun in 1970. When Dustin mows the lawn of seventy-five year old Jonathan Sperry, a unique friendship develops. Soon, not only Dustin but also his friends come to Mr. Sperry’s house for a Bible study. They’re continually harassed, however, whenever they pass by Nick. They want revenge, but Mr. Sperry tells them to love their neighbour, so the question is, will love work to transform the hard-hearted, mean spirited Nick or will he continue to harass Dustin and his friends? What happens the rest of this summer is something Dustin and his friends will never forget!
PRAISE CHRIST JESUS! THANK YOU SO MUCH. IT TOUCH MY HEART AND BROUGHT A FEW TEARS. I WILL CERTAINLY PURCHASE THIS MOVIE FOR MY COLLECTION OF CHRISTIAN MOVIES. I CANT WAIT TO SHOW IT TO MY FAMILY ESP. MY GRANDCHILD OF 12. THANK YOU AND GOD BLESS YOU. JESUS LOVES YOU AND SO DO I, UNCONDITIONALLY!
Praise God dear sister, for this blessed and inspired site. May God open our eyes, more and more to the truth as well.
I’m sad because it said here the video doesn’t exist, I wonder why. I really want to watch the movie, can you help me how.
Dear Evangelina, It has been updated now. Check it out now.
unable to download. copying and pasting in the address bar does nothing. what else can I do?
It refused to download the last time I tried. But now, I’m already downloading it. So sorry about the initial comment.
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Heard dis on smosh! epic WIN!
Your description fit perfectly, and it gave me an image to hold on to as I listened to the song, which was awesome, by the way. The ending sounds sad, yet happy almost, because the warrior got to fight one last time...I just want to root for him to win!
This song is Amazing! 10/10!
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I have a group that needs to used the announcement list and we have set one up for them.
The problem they are having is that they want to use their email client to send the email. I only see a way to send a message and that is if they log into dreamhost with my account.
I then thought that maybe I could setup a discussion list but have it only allow an admin to send or reply, but no luck there either.
reply to should have the senders email address.
only one person is allowed to send the email.
Any ideas on how they can do this?
Why didn’t the discussion list work? You can configure permissions so only specific users can post unmoderated to the list. Reply To is also configurable.
Can you explain how to set that up? I thought I tried every setting.
I suggest you install a test discussion list to experiment.
In the General Configuration, there is an option for where to direct replies, and I think an option to override the From: address. It’s pretty flexible, so it’s easy for all replies to go to the poster.
When managing users, you can turn on moderation, so their posts to the mailing list go into a queue. For your setup, this is more like a black hole, since none of their replies will ever get posted to the list. Give your main user permission to post without the Moderation flag turned on.
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Description: LONDON, 1812: Giselle Barrington is living a double life, juggling the duties of chef with those of spy catcher. She must identify her father’s savage killer before the shadowy man finds her and uncovers the explosive political document her father entrusted to her safekeeping.
Review: I loved this novel – the characters, the tightly woven plot, the tension thrumming in the air, and the fast pacing. A historical thriller, set in 1812, the book also includes a romantic element.
In the beginning of the story, twenty-one-year-old Gigi, the only daughter of a famous British folklorist, is at a society ball in Stockholm. She witnesses her father’s murder by a traitor and knows the killer would be after her next, hunting for an important political document. Fleeing for her life, she arrives in London – to hide and decide what to do. The rest of the story consists of the deadly cat-and-mouse game Gigi and the murderer play with each other. He wants to find her and the document to avoid exposure. She wants to protect the document and survive in the process.
I like Gigi. A smart and proud girl, she is brave one moment, scared the next. Balancing between grief for her father, fear and loneliness, she has no kin to turn to. Unable to go home, where surely the villain would be waiting, she has to fend for herself in the unforgiving streets of London, and she still finds strength and determination in her heart to help others, less fortunate. Her compassion feels boundless, and her intellect and poise are formidable. An all-together admirable heroine, plucky and emotional, she is nonetheless vulnerable, and some of her decisions are surprisingly silly, leading to more complications in her already entangled predicament. In short – she is alive, the best compliment I could pay to a writer.
The other characters are less so, but the male protagonist, Lord Aldridge, is portrayed skillfully enough to satisfy even the harshest critics. Personally, I’m indifferent to him. I think male characters are not the author’s forte, while her female protagonists are always first class.
Of course there are problems in this novel too; that’s why 4 stars instead of 5 stars. One of the problems concerns the writing. It is terse, almost devoid of adjectives, which some readers might enjoy but I find a tad dry. It’s adequate to convey the non-stop action, but the descriptions suffer, minimized to rare and puny one-liners. For me, that’s a flaw; I like an occasional verbal arabesque or a lovely metaphor enlivening the narration, but that’s my personal opinion.
Another problem – the romance line seems alien to the plot, tucked in to satisfy the marketing department. The story doesn’t need it and wouldn’t suffer if it was removed.
Other than these two minor hitches, the rest is almost perfect. Once I started reading this book, I couldn’t put it down. This is the third novel by this writer I’ve read, and they’re getting progressively better. Everything she writes in the future would definitely be on my automatic to-read list.
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On the last day on South Padre Island, we decided to hike the Laguna Madre Trail and visit the Sea Turtle Center. Finding the Laguna Madre Trail turned out to be a bit hard. We initially parked at the Birding Center and walked that trail, but it was the wrong one.
H said he saw a trail one block up ahead so we went and had to turn into the Convention Center. Even then, we didn’t know where to park or how to get to the trail, but H said he saw someone walking so we drove to the other side of the Convention Center and saw the Aquarium building. The Laguna Madre Trail was right by the Aquarium.
The trail was basically a wooden bridge over swampy area that led out to the bay.
On our first stop, we saw an egret perched on the rail of the bridge.The kids had gone on ahead of me as I took in the sights around me on my phone.
When I reached them, all four kids were standing quietly to one side of the trail while a man with a camera took photos of the egret. They didn’t move for fear of scaring the egret away. When I reached them, I too joined on tiptoe and silence. The egret remained still too, looking out at the bay.
We took selfies as quietly as we could with the egret in the background. I actually accidentally caught the egret as it was taking off; perfect shot! It had started to slowly shuffle away from us step by step, which was quite comical, before taking off.
The trail itself wasn’t long, but it was a nice quiet relaxing easy hike. Another part of the trail we went to had a sign that said it has alligators in it, and we were not to feed it. I remember as I was researching this trail online, that some people had seen alligators there.
The hike was a short, easy, yet enjoyable one, as the view of the bay was eye-soothing. We saw people fishing in the bay, standing calf deep in the water with their fishing lines in the water.
We saw water fowls in the water, and hermit crabs actually walking in the bottom of the bay. The water was crystal clear, so we could actually see the crab from the bridge we were on!
There were bird tracks too on the swamp ground and hubby and I saw a turtle quietly poking its head above water before going back in again.
On our way back before checking out of the hotel, we stopped by the Sea Turtle Center. It’s a non profit organization for Sea Turtle Rehabilitation, and there was no entry fee but donation amount was encouraged. They had a presentation about sea turtles which Z eagerly sat through, at the very front too!
It’s really interesting how sea turtles lay so many eggs, but only a handful of those baby turtles make it out alive as they waddle back to sea. The center rescues injured sea turtles who are washed ashore, takes care of their injuries and keeps them at the rehab before assessing if they could be released to sea again. It was an informative visit for all of us.
So Hubby decided that he would just pay the $10 and bring the van in.
As soon as Z realized that there was a beach up front, he started running. That’s a beach addict for you!
We had our lunch at the one of the covered picnic areas. Eating hot rice and my precooked meals with the ocean breeze and seagulls was nice. We also prayed Zuhr and Asr on the beach before we left.
Hubby had somehow come across Gulf Seafood Market as something recommended by someone he was talking to, so we looked for it and bought some seafood for the drive home. I personally prefer Malaysian-style cooked seafood. My taste buds are purely Malaysian. Not that their seafood was not good. The service was top notch! It was good, but I just missed Malaysian seafood I guess.
We had ordered grilled shrimp and fish for Z because of his allergies, and had even told them to make sure there were no butter or flour, but Z still reacted to the shrimps. He looked crestfallen and me heart sank as well. I think it must have been the shrimps touching the fish. So, I told him to stop, and immediately gave him the medicine. After a few hours he asked for the shrimp again and I gave it to him and his tongue still itched. Since I couldn’t give him the medicine again, I told him to just let me know when the itching has stopped. Usually it takes about 20 minutes. Alhamdulilah he was fine.
It’s situations like these that take away my desire for baking or cooking at home. Sure, I can cook allergy free version, but I ever wanted to make something that he can’t eat, I’d have to make the alternate version too. So I just stopped doing anything altogether.
The sight of his crestfallen face is ingrained in my heart, leaving an indelible mark in it. It’s the reason I have begun to dislike potlucks and even being invited somewhere for a meal has become a chore for me, just because it means I have to plan to bring his meal, and if everyone else was going to eat something fancy, that means I have to cook something somewhat similar for him so he doesn’t feel left out. When being invited somewhere might mean no cooking that day for others, it just means more work for me. When potluck may mean less cooking for others, it just means I have to cook extra and make sure his portion is not cross contaminated during the potluck.
Alhamdulillah, the rest of the trip back home went well, except for a stop at the checkpoint. We arrived home safe and sound. As with any trip we make, nostalgia would always consume me as soon as we leave a place. My father loves traveling and would always take us places when we were growing up. I realize now that I probably inherited his love of traveling too. Even if that means a lot of planning because of Z’s allergies.
May Allah cure him completely and protect him from it. Ameen. Which reminds me of another reason I love traveling; high priority dua. Allahu Akbar!
Till we meet again South Padre !
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hiding me, looking like some highfalutin ballet dancer or giving me a hug.
‘specially those things that once were live.
Today would be bright and brave.
and felt you shiver on the other side.
the stirrings of salt and sand.
living on a completely different day.
Is that why you cut hastily?
while I kept pressing more tape to mask?
any mention of my name.
Heather M. Browne is a faith-based psychotherapist, recently nominated for the Pushcart Award, published in the Orange Room, Boston Literary Review, Page & Spine, Eunoia Review, Poetry Quarterly, Red Fez, Electric Windmill, Apeiron, The Lake, Knot, mad swirl. Red Dashboard released her first collection, Directions of Folding (2014).
she holds her reed boat still.
as your top came off.
follows ‘deadline on printer review’.
completes in around five minutes.
tracks. He drove to work.
Simon Williams has written poetry for 35 years. It ranges widely, from quirky pieces often derived from news items or science and technology, to biographical themes, to the occasional Clerihew. He has several published collections, the latest being Spotting Capybaras in the Word of Marc Chagall (Indigo Dreams Publishing, 2016) and Inti (Oversteps Books, 2016). Simon has a website at simonwilliamspoet.moonfruit.com, was The Bard of Exeter in 2013 and founded The Broadsheet. He makes a living as a journalist.
mutters more beer, more fun – his epitaph.
that mists his glass, but empties mine.
his head. It moulds a humbleness of stature.
the magic of writing will clot his doubt.
He counts the letters, and utters every word.
shall hatch, pupate, shiver to guilt again.
Insomnia is a fist of fluttering moths.
– gods thrive on melodrama.
the hurrying sorrow of debt.
the room rutted with hope.
Phil Wood works in a statistics office. He enjoys working with numbers and words. His writing can be found in various publications, most recently in: Sein und Werden, Ink Sweat and Tears, Autumn Sky Poetry, London Grip and The Centrifugal Eye.
just dull wide flatness. Lead.
this hill now a shallow promontory.
South from the window, a glimpse.
on the blades of the shore, seahogs to the slaughter.
ugly as sin, from somewhere in the skies.
and climbed into our minds, where it took hold.
our new horizons vast and grim and cold.
light reflects at countless angles.
or a slightly time-lagged aura.
A treat of the light.
if there was a reason for the hospital being destroyed.
rockets and bombs don’t always land where they should.
What did we know of the world?
we returned to the sofa and the TV remote.
and said we wouldn’t have to take our coats to the park.
his glistening teeth into fangs.
until pain is quelled by pain.
or the street’s broken glass.
will be too satiated to care.
Mark Greene is a poet, short-story writer and novelist. He was born on the Wirral but now works and lives in Sheffield. Mark has previously been published in Now Then, Platform for Prose, STORGY, The Cadaverine and Ink. magazine.
children for Christmas. Or a bus.
she rode hills on a swaying bus.
twins, wheelchairs, pugs. The most off-track?
She hurries on, through busless streets.
who picked at toast, yawned at each stitch.
cool as sea, brown as petals, burnt.
with ‘recipes’ her mother tried.
salts, to revive. They may have died.
Their small ghosts crowded in her mind.
The enemy would not retire.
mud whisper, soot fly from her fire.
My father saw her climb a chair.
Arms, dark as chimney, sluiced each beam.
her deep black spoons for spices, flour.
Find rags. Rub tarnish. Hold her gleam.
shutters, thick as barn doors.
above the soft pine floor.
a few streets from his door.
How dark the room was where he wrote!
if he once glanced at it.
while they snored, he would sit.
His eyes were lit, clean blue and green.
No stiff lace soured his throat.
like ours, he lies apart.
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President Rodrigo Duterte has released an intelligence report on law enforcement officials allegedly involved in the illegal drug trade.
They include dismissed Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency deputy Director General Ismael Fajardo, dismissed superintendents Eduardo Acierto and Leonardo Suan, Superintendent Lorenzo Bacia, inspectors Lito Pirote and Conrado Caragdag and SPO4 Alejandro Gerardo Liwanag.
Duterte decided to make the document public at a press conference in which he was asked about Davao City-based businessman Michael Yang, whom he cleared of drug links last week.
"The narcotics industry has reached an unimaginable sphere of influence all over the country," the report said.
"Enormous networks of powerful people people and sophisticated modus are utilized to protect and continuously carry out unscrupulous activities under the guise of legitimate law enforcement operations," it added.
GMA News Online is still trying to get the comments of the personalities named as of posting time.
The document discussed the activities of Fajardo, who was relieved of his post on September 14 over his links to the alleged smuggling of P6.8-billion worth of shabu in August.
PDEA Director General Aaron Aquino told a House committee on September 27 that Fajardo and resigned Customs Intelligence and Investigation Service officer Jimmy Guban knew that the hundreds of kilograms of shabu would be shipped to the country.
"Director Fajardo is known in the [law enforcement] community as a 'scorer' or one who delivers accomplishments. However, he is branded as a 'recycler' of drugs and fabricator of stories," the report said.
"Instead of fully disclosing and surrendering the recovered drugs for purposes of inventory and disposal, he keeps some portions of it for personal use and/or for reselling. At times, Fajardo and his group use those drugs to plant evidence or make a 'scenario' for accomplishment."
Fajardo also "cripples suspects by bleeding them of resources" in order to stop them from using their money in hiring a lawyer, bribe the judiciary and influence important personalities "which may all help reveal their modus," according to the document.
The report added Fajardo is involved in several incidents of drug recycling and other illegal activities involving drugs since his early days as anti-narcotics operative in the Philippine National Police.
For instance, Fajardo and his group allegedly made up stories to justify the arrest of Marine Lieutenant Colonel Ferdinand Marcelino and his Chinese companion during a raid in Manila on January 21, 2016.
Marcelino, a former PDEA official, and Chinese interpreter Yan Yi Shou had asserted that they were only fulfilling their lawful duties at the time of their arrest, when anti-narcotics agents seized nearly 77 kilograms of shabu at a townhouse in Sta. Cruz, Manila.
Marcelino and Yan were cleared of the charges for possession of dangerous drugs last year.
The report also said the National Bureau of Investigation apprehended Fajardo and his girlfriend sometime in December 2016 for drug peddling, but the NBI did not press charges "out of courtesy to a fellow enforcer after PDEA leadership intervened on his behalf.
Acierto, meanwhile, has allegedly maintained connections with "various narcotics financiers and manufacturers inside and outside the country" including Chinese nationals who are currently in jail, according to the report.
"He is the mentor and considered to be the one whom Fajardo takes order from when it comes to anti-narcotics operations," it said.
Acierto was recently dismissed from the service due to his involvement in the anomalous purchase of 1,004 AK-47 rifles which later on were found in the possession of the New People's Army.
He was also the officer-in-charge of the defunct PNP Anti-Illegal Drugs Group when its operative killed South Korean businessman Jee Ick Joo inside Camp Crame, Quezon City in October 2016. Acierto was not charged for command responsibility after the PNP-AIDG was dissolved by Duterte following Jee's death.
The report did not contain details of the specific participation Paderon, Suan, Bacia, Pirote, Caragdag and Liwanag in the drug trade.
The report also discussed the anomalies linked to Guban such as collecting monthly "tara" or "grease money" from owners of warehouses he was raiding as well as their managers and helping the entry of various contraband items such as illegal drugs and ukay-ukay.
"Accordingly, his modus was to arrange with the owners the raid of their warehouses. The arrangement is for the owners to remove 75 percent of their goods and leave 25 percent to be caught by the BOC [Bureau of Customs] officials and shown off for media mileage," it said.
The report recommended the conduct of investigation for various offenses and lifestyle check on Fajardo and Guban due to suspected unexplained wealth.
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Imagination | "Where in the world are Barry and Renee?"
“The body travels more easily than the mind, and until we have limbered up our imaginations, we continue to think as though we had stayed at home.
…..take up residence in someone else’s point of view…such a timely thought you posted. I was listening to public radio, a program called humankind, another fab interview show that is thought provoking.
In brief, but to the point of your posting, the head of habitat for humanity is a neighbor of Jimmy and Rosyln Carter and, while pitching to the listeners what a piece of humanity IS the project Habitit for Humanity, the interviewee talked a bit about Jiimmy.
He recounts he heard the former president say that he learned more about the poor from living with the people for whom they were building homes than all the times before that in his life. It took sleeping in their beds, eating with the recipients, learning the names of their children, making the actual human connection to get what HE needed to get from the project.
Jimmy does actually work every year on a project building in various locations in this country and Mexico as well. He does not come to work from a hotel in the area. It becomes a transforming experience for each person there to be a part of constructing decent housing for people who cannot otherwise obtain this. It becomes also a transforming experience for those receiving a real home and finally some place to feel rooted.
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2019-04-21T10:26:17Z
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LOS ANGELES — Boutique brand B Swish has introduced the Bnaughty Deluxe Unleashed collection of remote controlled wireless bullet massagers as part of the company’s Deluxe range of massagers.
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Okay, I have to post my word count graph from NaNoWriMo because it makes me laugh. Can you guess which days I was out of town?
Anyway, I hope you’re all hitting your own writing goals and pushing forward with your literary dreams. I know sometimes my own hopes and aspirations can seem a little laughable, but we’ve gotta keep pushing forward, even through the rough patches.
One of the things that can show a person is serious about their business is a commitment to improvement, to continuing their education in their field. I love writing, and I love reading, and I love learning, so reading books about the craft of writing is kind of the no-brainer intersection of those loves.
I read a lot of craft books, and I’ve definitely found some to be more useful than others. Here are a list of some of the craft books that have either had the greatest impact on me, or that I think at least have potential to be of use to you.
Sometimes the Magic Works by Terry Brooks I do believe this was the first craft book I ever read, and it’s stuck with me ever since. (Seriously. It’s in my reference case at the desk I’m sitting at right now. It is hugging my shin as I type.) I don’t even remember a whole lot of specifics from the book, but it impacted me deeply and marked the start of my feeling like I might actually be published some day.
No Plot? No Problem by Chris Baty Being a huge NaNo fan, I didn’t love this one as much as I wanted to, but I think a big part of that was that not having a plot really is a problem for me, haha. I have a hard time just pounding out words without some idea of what I’m getting at. But this book was useful to me for encouraging better writing habits- most importantly, consistency and working on a deadline.
The Pen Commandments by Steven Frank Okay, so this is really a grammar book, not a craft book, but it’s one of the more engaging and fun grammar books out there, and I’m pretty sure I’ve read more grammar books than the average human. If you feel like your language could use a little cleaning up (or you’re just an incorrigible nerd), this book could be worth a read.
On Writing by Stephen King Part memoir, part craft book, this is a bit of a straddler as far as genres go, but I really enjoyed it anyway. (Read the full review here!) It had been on my to-read list forever (but really, what isn’t?), but I was so glad when a friend finally just bought it for me just to make me shut up about this one corner of my litany of literary eventualities. I won’t say that this book gave me much new information regarding craft, but I did enjoy a sense of affinity while reading it, and I like the no-nonsense tone.
Writer Mama by Christina Katz Full disclosure: I didn’t finish this one, and I think there are two main reasons for this. First, I found a lot of the suggestions to be impractical for my situation. (I basically stopped paying attention after reading the “hire a nanny or a daycare so that you can write” part.) And second, most of the advice targets a career path in nonfiction article writing, while I hope for a career as a traditionally published fiction author. I probably could have pressed on with one or the other problem, but not both. Seriously, I’m making this book sound worse than it is. If you can afford/don’t mind using childcare and are looking at freelance article work, this is probably the book for you. With lots of practical exercises, bulletized tips, and query/submission tips, this book as a lot to give. Just… not to me.
Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott I think I read half of this book aloud to whatever poor schmuck happened to be standing within earshot of me. Like Stephen King’s On Writing, this is a bit memoirish, and a bit craftish, but it’s all muddled together without any distinctions between the two. And it is beautifully written. I think my favorite thing about this book was how frank and funny and hopeful it is. I may not have encountered much craft stuff that I didn’t already know, but I felt a lot of encouragement and comradery throughout.
Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss Haha, that title. That cover. And with the rallying cry of “Sticklers unite!” how could I resist? Again, this is more a grammar (specifically punctuation) book than a craft book, but I’m putting it here anyway. I was laughing out loud by the preface. Truly, if you have any interest in punctuation, you should read this, and then priggishly correct all your friends. It’s lighthearted and accessible, a rant and a romp that I couldn’t stop snickering over.
Save the Cat! by Blake Snyder This is one of those books that I heard recommended for years before actually procuring a copy. And really, it’s more for screenwriting than for novel writing, but a lot of the principles are the same. This book is very practical and provides a strict formula to follow, laying out how to craft a tightly structured screenplay blow by blow. This book may not be as inspiring and artful as the other craft books on this list, but it is easy to read and easy to follow without any of the wait-for-the-muse mumbo jumbo that I so love and hate.
The next craft book I’m going to read is Diane Ackerman’s A Natural History of the Senses, followed by Natalie Goldberg’s Writing Down the Bones. Like so many of the other books on this list, these both came to me highly and repeatedly recommended.
How about you fine readers? Any books I’m missing out on? Please let me know in the comments! And until next week, happy writing!
I’m not the biggest Stephen King fan in the world, and I don’t write novel-length horror, so I wasn’t sure how useful I would find the much-lauded On Writing. But it had been recommended to me countless times so I figured I’d get around to it some day. Then the inestimable M Elizabeth Tait got me a copy for my birthday and I was plumb out of excuses.
The book is split into three sections, but the first and last are both pretty autobiographical, so I’ll lump those together.
Not sure how I missed the whopping huge hint in the subtitle, but I was not expecting a memoir! Go figure! This part was wonderful, particularly his childhood. A little sad, a little funny, I found a lot to relate to. There were struggles I’d never had, and other struggles lacking that I’d known, but it felt wonderfully real and sincere: the same sort of quirky, bizarre, magical childhood I’d had, stuffed with childlike ambitions and adult problems only half understood.
And then adolescence and adulthood. Again, I felt I could relate- at least right up until the checks started pouring in, haha. But still, it gave me hope. Like maybe I just had to keep hustling and I too would eventually get my break.
Ahh, the meat and potatoes. This is what I had come for, and On Writing didn’t disappoint.
What are the tools Mr. King recommends? Frankly, the same stuff we always hear recommended. I don’t think there was any advice here that I didn’t already know or hadn’t already heard elsewhere. Simple things- like reading other books, respecting grammar conventions, and writing what you love- that we all know already. But as King himself points out, this isn’t an advanced course in creative writing. This is the baseline stuff. This is crossing your T’s and dotting your I’s so that some time after you’ve put years of your life into this, you have the foundation necessary to write amazing stories that grab your readers and never let go.
The craft section did not change my style or my process. It didn’t give me some magic potion to make me sell books, or teach me the secret code for making publishing houses fling money at me. Quite the opposite. This book, if nothing else, set my expectations straight. And we all need that sometimes, that slap in the face to get us thinking right when it feels like the plane’s crashing down around us.
It will be hard. Most of us will never make it to King’s level of success. But the journey is worth the effort. Love of writing is reason enough.
The thing that makes this book so unique on the craft shelf of my bookcase is the ‘memoir’ bit. This isn’t just about how to write. It’s about being a writer. It’s about what it feels like to have stories bubbling out your fingertips, what it feels like to ask the bizarre questions, the creepy questions, the inappropriate questions. What it feels like to get shot down over and over again, what it feels like to have that first tiny success. It’s more than about the writing craft. It’s about the writing life.
So my whole-hearted recommendation: Read this book! Even if you don’t write horror and even if you don’t read his other books. Read this one.
Free bonus? Mr. Stephen King himself gave me full permission to read and write for 4-6 hours a day, every day. I can get behind that.
Unrelated, but I’ll close this week on an ominous warning. Tomorrow, I and my beloved family will fly out for the start of our entire-summer-long road trip. I’ll try my very bestest to keep up with the Monday posts, but I cannot guarantee reliable internet access all over the country. (Heck, I can’t even guarantee reliable internet access all over my house.) So be ye warned! There will still be twelve posts in the next twelve weeks. Just… maybe at weird times. Your safest bet is probably to subscribe (there’s a button over on the sidebar and I promise, promise, promise not to spam you), or just check back every now and then and scroll through the archives.
Writing Children’s Books covers a lot of ground. Starting with the history of children’s books, it brings you up to speed quickly and touches on the broad array of audience ages- from infant’s board books to the awesome-for-all-ages free-for-all that young adult books have morphed into. It runs the gamut of experience from first toying with the idea of maybe writing a book, to the moment your sweet baby hits the shelves. A lot of detail gets glazed over, but the book goes over quite a bit of information. Like I said, very good primer.
Another thing this book does well is that it is absolutely accessible. The language is clear and easily understood, the information is broken down into logical and digestible segments, and even the things that normally terrify me (You want me to show this stuff to other people? Send it to agents and publishers? Whaaaat?) are made somehow less scary. The authors lay it all out calmly and practically, and it maybe doesn’t sound too bad after all. It was a quick and engaging read that I generally enjoyed.
However, its handling of some pretty important pieces to the modern publishing scene seems outdated. The authors have little to nothing to say about indie- or self- publishing, and seem almost dismissive in their few mentions of digital publications. Traditional publication is really the only respectable venue in this book, whether it’s approached with or without the help of an agent.
My final analysis? A good beginner’s read that is quick and simple and unintimidating. If you’re new to the literary world, give it a read! But if you’ve already waded out into the wide waters of writing and feel like you have some sense of what you’re doing and where you’re going, it’s probably not worth your time- you’ve likely already gathered much of the information here. There are many other much more comprehensive and specific books out there for the intermediate and advanced writers.
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2019-04-23T18:14:56Z
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BURLINGAME, Calif., March 18, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- AeroCentury Corp. (“AeroCentury” or the “Company”) (NYSE American: ACY), an independent aircraft leasing company, today reported a fourth quarter net loss of $3.8 million, or $(2.48) per share, compared to a net loss of $4.5 million, or $(3.16) per share, for the third quarter of 2018 and net income of $6.0 million, or $4.25 per share, for the fourth quarter of 2017. Fourth quarter 2018 results reflect the combined operations of AeroCentury and its newly acquired subsidiary, JetFleet Holding Corp. (“JetFleet”), which was acquired on October 1, 2018. Fourth quarter 2017 results included a $5.4 million tax benefit from the revaluation of the Company’s deferred tax liability caused by the passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017.
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements in this press release other than statements that are purely historical are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements in this press release include, without limitation, statements regarding (a) the potential for the Company’s acquisition of JetFleet Holding Corp. to lower overall management costs, and thereby be accretive to shareholders in the long term, and (b) improving the transparency of the Company’s business by bring management in-house. The Company's beliefs, expectations, forecasts, objectives and strategies for the future are not guarantees of future performance and are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from the results contemplated by the forward-looking statements, including but not limited to (a) unanticipated increases in costs and expenses in connection with management of the Company; (b) a substantial change in the character of the aircraft portfolio or the status of aircraft lessees such that management of the portfolio would require additional expenditures of human and other resources. The forward-looking statements in this press release and the Company's future results of operations are subject to additional risks and uncertainties set forth under the heading "Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations—Factors that May Affect Future Results and Liquidity" in documents filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the Company's quarterly reports on Form 10-Q and the Company's latest annual report on Form 10-K, and are based on information available to the Company as of the date hereof and speak only as of such date. The Company does not intend, and assumes no obligation, to update any forward-looking statements made in this press release. For these reasons, readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements.
2 Information as of December 31, 2017, includes four turboprop aircraft that were reclassified to assets held for sale on September 30, 2018.
3 Information as of December 31, 2017, includes one engine that had previously been installed on an aircraft that is now being sold in parts.
4 Maintenance reserves revenue is dependent upon the amount of reserves retained upon lease terminations. The year ended December 31, 2018 also included $1.6 million of maintenance reserves revenue resulting from payments received from a lessee that returned three leased aircraft to the Company in 2017 and which the Company has recorded as they were received.
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2019-04-25T02:03:39Z
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Another busy day at the International Desk today. We'll again mainly be focusing on the economy.
Although the Dow Jones average rose three days in a row and is flirting with flat today, don't be fooled: the world economy is still mired in a deep physical – and existential – crisis.
It's not just what's going wrong (the jobless rate, the frozen credit market, the depressed consumers, the mismanaged banks etc.,) it's how to fix it and what new system should replace of the old model.
We'll be going live to London for the meeting of financial leaders ahead of the G20 summit next month. President Obama's economic team head said today that concerted action is starting to unclog credit markets.
But after months of trying, and using all the tricks in an economist's toolbag, consumers still aren't spending. The challenge is to figure out how to reboot the economy without going back to living on borrowed time – and borrowed money.
That brings us to today's I-Dek poll. People are angry and pessimistic. They're losing their retirement money in huge chunks. They're worried their kids will be worse off than they are. When people hurt, they want someone to blame. So we're asking you: who is responsible for the economic mess?
Are bankers, who mis-invested billions in shady mortgage backed securities the main culprits? What about political leaders, who allowed the old system to thrive?
And now frustrated investors are taking aim at financial analysts. Satirist Jon Stweart this week savaged CNBC host Jim Cramer, highlighting some bad advice he gave viewers before the banking collapse. But the comedian Stewart has done more than take aim at one business channel host, he's captured the outrage of ordinary Americans who feel misled and lied to by those who should have warned them of the cataclysm.
Also at the I-Desk, we'll be talking to Richard Quest about a couple of high profile interviews he conducted today in London.
We're hoping to go live to Bangladesh for coverage of a dramatic fire that destroyed parts of the country's largest shopping mall.
And the rest of the day's top news stories, including Michael Jackson London tickets selling like hot cakes.
Financial Analyst.............. I really hate their confidence, self-assurance, ……. Anyone with big mouth can replace them…….
I would love to have an hour or so of international news on CNN TV and how about a 15 minute to 30 minute show of good news. Do you think anyone would watch? Unless I just don't know where to look, other than Link TV, I can't find a good hour show of international news. Some of your information shown at the bottom of the screen is more interesting than what you are actually airing. Many thanks for the opportunity to express my views. Shirley E.
It's time to take the power out of the hands of the Bankers. I used to think the main enemy of a capitalistic democracy were the corporations but now understand they are secondary to a few wealthy & powerful bankers.
I don't think Congress had much control over the situation regardless of what they did or did not do. The Regulators were not taking their job descriptions seriously, along with the bankers they need to be made accountable and punished in criminal courts.
Time to change the system from great high huge 'bubbles' to deep low losses. the people in a position to manipulate the situation can make loads of money if their timing is good but it's not worth the trouble it makes for the rest of us!
Shirley, I bet people would watch international news gladly.
CNN international has been my favorite since i moved to Crete and discovered the channel (using an antenna on top of the house!).
But then the channel was switched (partly to save money) to the 'Vouli" channel which has a live feed from the Greek parliament and lots of great documentaries, opera, plays, etc.
Please show the truth from the west Bank. Why are the settlements still expanding and Obama does nothing?
Where is the peace plan, Blair, Mitchell and gang?
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2019-04-18T22:21:07Z
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