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Title : Analyses and Comparisons of Transmission Protocols for oneM2M Specification
Author(s) : Chi-Hua Chen*, Ming-Shan Yeh, Yi-Hsin Lin, Chin-Chieh Huang, Shau-Sheng Tung, Wen-Hsien Chiang, Moa-Tai Chen, Kuen-Rong Lo
Author affiliation : Telecommunication Laboratories, Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd., No. 99, Dianyan Rd., Yangmei District, Taoyuan City 32661, Taiwan, R.O.C.
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Recently, Internet of Things (IoT) has become more and more popular. Several applications for IoT devices have been designed and developed to detect environmental changes and send instant updates to a cloud computing server farm via mobile communications and middleware for big data analyses. Multiple international organizations such as oneM2M have established specifications of M2M (Machine to Machine) communication and provided some use cases across multiple disciplines including energy, enterprise, healthcare, public services, residential, retail, transportation, among many others. Some middleware techniques which are defined by oneM2M include Representational State Transfer (REST), Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP), and Message Queue Telemetry Transport (MQTT) for transmission. However, the analyses and comparisons of these middleware techniques have not been discussed and investigated. Therefore, this study designed and implemented two transmission scenarios to compare the performance of each protocol. The experimental results showed that the response time of using MQTT protocol is the shortest. However, the transmission cost of using CoAP is the lowest. Therefore, the adaptable middleware technique can be selected and adopted in accordance with various IoT applications. Finally, two practical case studies including smart home and Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) in Taiwan are illustrated to discuss and to analyze the applications of these middleware techniques.

Key words:Representational state transfer; constrained application protocol; message queue telemetry transport; internet of things; oneM2M

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Chi-Hua Chen, Ming-Shan Yeh, Yi-Hsin Lin, Chin-Chieh Huang, Shau-Sheng Tung, Wen-Hsien Chiang, Moa-Tai Chen, and Kuen-Rong Lo, Analyses and Comparisons of Transmission Protocols for oneM2M Specification, Advances in Industrial Engineering and Management, vol. 4, no. 2, 2015, pp. 111-116, doi: 10.7508/aiem.2015.02.001

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Every year the Twin Cities Creation Science Association puts on a science fair which is sometimes called the Home Schooling Creation Science Fair. It used to be held at Har Mar mall, which was great because it is always a pleasure to stop in at Har Mar. But for the last two years, including last weekend, it was held at a local Bible College. I haven’t gone every year, but most years, as does The Lorax at Angry By Choice and a variable handful of others. This year, PZ Myers also attended. (Speaking of PZ I just noticed that his book is now available as an audio edition, just so you know.)

Over the years, the number of entries has gone steadily up (this year was down from last year, but both years are up from previous years) and the quality of the entries has skyrocketed. In the old days, many of the entries would be about things like “How did Noah build the Ark” or similar topics such as how fossils are fake and evolution is too. But increasingly, the entries are about real things, and despite the required presence of a “relevant” Bible quote on each poster, most of the entries are not about “creation science” (sic) at all, but rather, about something interesting, usually science relates. Many entries are descriptive, really demonstrating how a student has learned about a particular topic, while others are reports of an experiment or set of experiments to test one or more hypothesis.

Back in the day when the fair was all about actual (fake) creation science, I did not approve. I regarded this as an attempt to brainwash innocent young children to have a very incorrect and even damaging view of the world. But now I like the Creation Science Fair for the very reason that the exhibits are of better quality and often demonstrate a child’s engagement with thinking about the world around them from a scientific perspective.

The typical visit by those of us who get get to the fair and who come from the science community involved us walking around and chatting to the students about their work. We don’t impose or cajole or make fun or anything like that. We simply contribute to the conversation, and don’t even identify ourselves as scientists. One wonders if a visit by a half dozen interested people who have a good science oriented conversations helps. I think it does.

I hope the Twin Cities Creation Science (Maybe Homeshooling) Fair keeps going. It is a good thing in a questionable context and I think it has a positive effect on the up and coming future scientists.

Also, I got a great idea for how to make a ketchup bottle that actually pours out ketchup. I also met the family I used to buy sheep from. But that’s another story.

Above photo stolen from PZ Myers.

  1. #1 Robin Mavis
    United States
    February 18, 2014

    Do they still sell sheep? I’m looking for a source. Mine from a dozen years ago left farming altogether.

  2. #2 Greg Laden
    February 18, 2014

    Robin, I sent you a number.

  3. #3 dean
    February 18, 2014

    But now I like the Creation Science Fair for the very reason that the exhibits are of better quality…

    How would you say it compares to the public school science fair? (Enthusiasm of the kids, their ability, quality of work, etc.)

    Any evidence that, other than the limiting factor of the creationist influence of the home-schooled group, that one side or the other has better access to resources (or is that bound to the home-schooling?)

  4. #4 G
    February 19, 2014

    Excellent way of going about this. Just have conversations and encourage the kids to keep thinking. No need to say anything even remotely controversial. Thinking leads to more thinking;-) You’re 100% right on target with your approach.

  5. #5 Greg Laden
    February 19, 2014

    Dean, good question. Julia used to contribute to the Roseville Elementary School Brimhall achievement Fair which was similar in age range etc. They were very similar except there were no required bible quotes and at Roseville, being virtually an extention of the St. Paul Campus which includes the College of Forestry and Ag (etc.) and the interesting part of the Biology department, meant a sprinkling of highly advanced presentations.

    As far as the semi-pro track of science fairs, where students go on and on to eventually compete sate wide and nationally, this was a wash-out but with some potential. The rabbit exhibit was probably science fair league or at least the research was heading in that direction.

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[DIYbio] Fake news has reached Nature - our turn

Guys this is horrible. Fake news and stories have become very cool recently, Brexit and Trump proved the trend. Anti-vax and anti-GMO groups have been doing it before it was cool.

This articles links to two Nature studies

Roundup – liver toxicity: http://www.nature.com/articles/srep39328 (Open Access)

NK603 GM corn analysis: http://www.nature.com/articles/srep37855 (Open access)

Seralini involved of course.

Now the high quality? peer reviewed? journal Nature?!?!

If we as scientists don't mount a response against such things, we deserve science being thought as being unreal.

I haven't had time at the moment to critically read everything.

Comments I 've heard:

"Crops used in the analsis were grown on different fields, so differences may be nothing more than that. The size and magnitude of the effect was also pretty small, and a number of analyses usually used in these types of expression screens are missing."

" The group [....] appears to be hiding the raw data, which is suspicious, to say the least."

"Here he comes out and says "critics said we had to compare the GMO corn with many other non-GMO varieties to see the range of "natural variation." But comparing with more varieties has the effect of hiding the differences—the exact opposite of what we were trying to do. Our aim was to analyze to see any effect of the GM transformation process, so the only scientifically valid comparator is the nearest possible isogenic non-GMO counterpart. When you do that, you find differences."
That tells me that even he knows that any differences are minor and well within natural corn variation. He just managed to show some slightly different protein expression profiles from the closest ancestor because the modified corn was metabolizing an extra product. Honestly I could show different expression profiles by shining a blue light on the plants for an hour. *shrug* [...]" (figured out by Brian Kirkpatrick)

My preliminary, and still very superficial thoughts.
Glyphosate interferes with the shikimate pathway and probably tells lots of riboswitches that there is enough Shikimate in the cell, even if there is not. That the glycolysis and other enzymes will try to compensate seems pretty natural.
Small molecules - same as above

Radiation breeding produces way more off-target gene disruption than genetic engineering https://www.geneticliteracyproject.org/2013/12/03/gmos-vs-mutagenesis-vs-conventional-breeding-which-wins/

The purpose of peer-review is to create literature that you can read just the abstract, and can reasonably assume that that information will be right to some degree. Try this in a freaking newspaper, if you just read the headlines!!! Then you read their conclusion and are quite sure that the story is true - other smart people have critically reviewed (or should have - I read horrible stories of lazy peer-reviewers!). Of course it is good pracvtice to look a their methods and see if they used appropriate methods - but the average Joe doesn't doe that and peer-revied (in theory) makes that less a problem.
Peer-review *should* be the guarantee that not some random journalist made the story up that sells good but claims that flying immigrant elephants are poisoning our wells with their laser eyes.

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Monday, May 30, 2005

Tragic Story

Proving yet again, nothing goes together better than little kids and guns. How sad that this child would lose his life so early to the simple idiocy of adults. How can people be so oblivious to danger. I guess the parents, and the man who fired the gun, will have a lot of time to thyink about it. May the boy rest in peace, those involved never will.

Saturday, May 14, 2005

Chivalry Is Not Dead After All...

and neither is Nancy Pelosi's shoe! Aw, shucks.

In Case You Didn't Know: Pat Robertson is Nuts

Yep, certifiably crazy.

On This Week with George Stephanopoulos (no, I did not spell that right the first time), Pat came on and had some interesting things to say:

STEPANOPOULOS: Sir you have described this [judges/filiabuster issue] whole battle in pretty apocalyptic terms saying the "liberals are engaged in an all out assault on Christianity. The Democrats will appoint judges who do not share our Christian values and will dismantle our Christian culture and that the "out of control judicary" is the most serious threat that America has faced in nearly 400 years. More serious then al-Qaeda, more serious then Nazi Germany and Japan. More serious then the civil war?

ROBERTSON: George I really believe that. I think that they are destroying the fabric that holds our nation together. There's an assault on marriage. There's an assault on human sexuality as judge Scalia said, "They've taken sides in the culture war." And on top of that, if we have a democracy that the democratic processes should be that we elect representatives who will share our point of view putting both those things into law.

A few seconds later Stepanopoulos interrupts Robertson:

STEPANOPOULOS: But sir, let me just stop you there. How can you say that these judges are a more serious threat then Islamic terrorists who slam into the World Trade Center?

ROBERTSON: It depends on how you look at culture. If you look over the course of a hundred years, I think the gradual erosion of the consensus that's held our country together is probably more serious than a few bearded terrorists who fly into buildings. I think we're going to control al Qaeda. I think we're going to get Osama bin Laden. We won in Afghanistan. We won in Iraq, and we can contain that. But if there's an erosion at home, you know, Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oligarchy and if we surrender our democracy to the tyranny of an oligarchy, we've made a terrible mistake

Now you can see here, George tried to throw him a line and bail him out, but Pat would not take the rope. Pat instead blasts out about "a few bearded terrorists who fly into buildings." I was speechless. Also, did you know that only Christians and Jews should serve as judges? "They have said in the Koran there's a war against all the infidels," he said. "Do you want somebody like that sitting as a judge? I wouldn't." No Muslims allowed. See the whole vile thing here.

He also does faith-healings, has claimed to avert tornadoes and hurricanes via the power of prayer, blamed 9/11 (with Jerry Falwell)on America's growing acceptance of gays, lesbians, and feminists, and is just all-around hateful and full-of-himself.

Daily Kos points out his hypocracy as well:

When asked why God allows bad things to happen to huge numbers of people---specifically, the tsunami that hit Asia in December---Robertson batted it aside, saying, "The reason for that tsunami was the shifting of tectonic plates in the Indian Ocean. I don't think [God] changes the magma in volcanoes and I don't think he changes the wind currents to bring about hurricanes. So, I don't attribute that to God..."

Which got us to thinking about this little comment he made about God's wrath on June 6, 1998: "I would warn Orlando that you're right in the way of some serious hurricanes, and I don't think I'd be waving those [rainbow] flags in God's face if I were you... But a condition like [Gay Day at Disney World] will bring about the destruction of your nation. It'll bring about...earthquakes, tornadoes, and possibly a meteor."

But never a tsunami. That would be silly.

Guess Who's Last?

Interesting collection of polls here rating the nation's governors. Last is mine, Ohio's own, Bob Taft. Taft has budget deficits, spending cutbacks, a slowly recovering economy, a scandal-ridden statewide party, and made himself no friends in the latest election on the gay-marriage ban bill. (He opposed the specific bill as going too far, but does not support gay marriage.)

Find out how yours ranks!

I'm Back For Now

I have not posted in a while. I just seem to never have time for it, or the aggravating blogger website is down again. Right now work is consuming of all my time. We have more than doubled in size now in the past month and a half. I am really the only point of contact for all of these new people and just getting all the simple new hire stuff is driving my crazy. New e-mail set-ups, new passwords, new accounts, all the paperwork, all the training. Plus the non-stop questions! It seems somedays like we are just spinning our wheels, as right now we are adding loan officers but not closed loans. This weekend I have decided that it is time again to take a step back to go forward, to work on long-term projects rather than shor-term and take some time to just recover from the rush and get new people acclimated before we grow anymore. Our resources (and mine) are getting stretched thin, nearly to the point of breaking. We just need to take a cool down period for now.

Last weekend I went back home to help my parents move and celebrate Mother's Day. Saturday my father and I did a major project on the deck- invloving an hydraulic jack, many a power tool, and wrestling with a new 6X6 footer. My parents are moving father from DC to an absolutely beautiful new house up towards the mountains in Thurmont, Maryland. So they are completing projects around the old house to prep it for sale. We really did not have much time to just visit- all Saturday was spent working pretty much. I feel a little like I came home for Mother's Day and barely saw my mom. Oh well, it is a busy time for all...and at least I was a dutiful son! Hopefully next time will be nmore relaxed.

I am looking forward to being able to come down and just explore the area- amazing views and they are only a few miles from Catoctin National Park! I remember these hills from when I grew up, I feel so connected there. It's funny, those rocky hills hold so many happy childhood memories for me. I have not been back there for years, but I remember all over again why it is one of my favorite places on earth.

Monday, May 02, 2005

What a Great Idea

These brothers in NYC have decided to help out the soldiers in Iraq by feeding them, one salami at a time. They own Hobby's Deli and as one brother put it: "We know there are a bunch of homesick men and women over there, and to be able to do something. How do you put words to it? You have to do something. I can do salamis."

Maybe the most heartwarming part of it all is, the money to do this is all being donated by folks putting up as little as $10 each. Want to help give our soldiers a taste of home? Cut a $10.00 check to Hobby's Deli at 32 Branford Place, Newark, New Jersey 07102. Or call 973-623-0410 for more info. The official website is here. Throw in $100 and get an official t-shirt for your trouble.


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A brief history of YouTube (infographic)

It’s kinda difficult to imagine a time when YouTube didn’t exist.

We probably did get a whole lot more done then… without being sucked into what can sometimes be an endless vortex of related videos.

While there is a lot of silly, funny, amateur and spammy content on YouTube, it’s also an incredibly useful platform for businesses to store and leverage video content.

And the numbers are pretty incredible… Just take a look at the below infographic from Daily Infographic.

Here are some great tips on how to make video a successful part of your content marketing strategy.

Or feel free to contact me to discuss how you can make the most of video content.

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Wednesday, January 23, 2013

This week Operation Write Home Midweek Throwdown is EASTER!  I had just downloaded some cute Easter digis a week or so ago and now I get the chance to use them

Printed Papers - Fanyc Pants Time for Spring 6x6

Solid Cardstock - Creative Memories (yes, I'm trying to get thru a bunch of extremely old stuff)

White Ribbon - Close To My Heart Organdy

Green Ribbons - misc

These are my least favorite of the sets but I love the image... not sure, hope the service men/women like them tho

  1. Really nice set of cards using those lovely vintage images.

  2. Those vintage images are pretty cool!

  3. Love it... I love the vintage look. Reminds me of cards I used to get from my grandma when I was little. :) I'm sure that was only 20 years ago... *cough* nice cards!!!

  4. Very nice digis -- I like their vintage look. The plaid paper adds a nice vintage touch too.


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Hi guys. A couple of you have emailed me wondering what is up...why I haven't been around as much.

Not going to bore you or bring you down...but let's just say...I am having a hard time emotionally, physically and spiritually right now. I am going to snap out of it..I promise. I appreciate you all and hate that I am feeling like this.

I will be back around...just going to get some rest tonight and pull my head out of my tush.

Ginger Thibodeau said...

Awwwwww i hope you are feeling better soon! If you need an ear to bend, I will be around

Julie said...

Hey darling... Hope you are feeling better.... I know you have been a busy girl.. but you do need to take time for yourself too. If you need anything you know how to find me... HUGS

PS should have some LO for you this weekend... :-)

Raji said...

Ah, Tracy. Hope you feel better soon.

Fiona said...

Big Hugs to you Tracy!

lmayruby-laura said...

Oh, I hope today's a better day!!! May it be sunny and carefree.

Hope I wasn't a big part of it with my dumb email/pms about the exchange cl.... making you feel even more overwhelmed. Never mind me, 'k??

You are such a joyous presence at RAKs... there's a few people that just stand out with their sweetness. You're one of 'm.

Tania said...

I think it's in the water, LOVE you!!

Ruthy said...

Hi tracy,
I just went & finally grabbed those Cutest Cowgirl & Madeline Rose sets I've been ogling since last week. To heck with Divorce court!
Cheer up sweetie. A lot of us are thinking of you. Don't make us have to come in there & cheer you up. I always have such a hard time squeezing my butt through the monitor!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL

Robin said...

Big hugs! I hope you're feeling better!


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BeastboyRockz's Movies-Spoof of 'Aladdin'

  • Finn (Adventure Time) as Aladdin
  • Princess bubblegum (Adventure Time) as Jasmine
  • Jake (Adventure Time) as Genie
  • King dedede (Kirby right back at ya!) as Jafar
  • escorgoon (Kirby right back at ya!) as Iago
  • Skunk and Rabbit (skunk fu) as Abu
  • snake (Skunk fu) as Peddler
  • krokorok (pokemon) as Rajah
  • Kirby as Carpet
  • Horton as Elephant Abu
  • Waddle doo (Kirby right back at ya!) as Razoul
  • The lorax as Sultan
  • Wasp (The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes), Rogue (X-Men Evolution and Hello Kitty as Harem Girls

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Old Time (abbreviated as OT)[Titan]p33 defines the epoch in Titan's history that began with the ending of the Godswar and ended with the ending of the Chaos Wars after which a new dating system called After Chaos was introduced.[Titan]p42 It is reckoned to have been 1998[Titan]p42 years in length, although in truth the reckoning of the years during the Splitting of Irritaria is believed to have been somewhat wayward and Old Time may be longer.

It is unknown when the use of Old Time became universally adopted and little in the way of Irritarian documents can shed light on this matter. It may well be that in ancient times, the calendars of the various states of Titan were counted in terms of the number of years of the reign of the current monarch and certainly this use of regnal years is still used in Hachiman and similar systems can be found around Titan.

Ages within Old Time

Epochs of Titan
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• Emily as Tillie (Emily and Tillie are both beautiful girls)
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Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Free Refresher @ Starbucks (Jul 13)

Starbucks is rolling out a new drink for the summer, and they want you to be one of the first people to try it on them! This Friday, head on over to any participating Starbucks location and enjoy a free tall Starbucks Refreshers beverage between 12 to 3pm. There are two flavours to choose from: Very Berry Hibiscus or Cool Lime. No purchase is necessary and is limited to one beverage per person.

Click here for more details of the promotion and info on the Refresher, and to find a Starbucks near you.

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What to do now for those in the United States: The Supreme Court has issued edict - this is what we must do - Jay Richards - How to defend traditional marriage. The rest of the world will get good guidance here also.

Important Article Three things your church must do immediately to protect itself

What we need to be doing now - a book to buy Truth Overruled by Ryan T. Anderson or here

What to do to protect freedom of speech Forget A Federal Marriage Amendment and Go For Religious Freedom Acts in All 50 States

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Our Prayers are with Coach Joe Kennedy Read the Story

Our prayers are with those of Paris.

Help out SweetCakes by Melissa with their $135,000 ruling against them Read the Story and Contribute Here

United We Stand Stronger As Americans - What did our Founding Fathers really say? For Which We Stand

Movies Upcoming:

Risen - “Risen” is the epic Biblical story of the Resurrection and the weeks that followed, as seen through the eyes of an unbelieving Roman soldier - This movie is to be very true to the Biblical story - opens Jan 19, 2016

Here is my review ...

I would say that overall this is a movie of the quality (and well researched and tested to boot) of very many mainstream movies. The acting is top notch. The message would come across to a non-believer to where they would say - "I might have to check this out some more" The story stays true to the Bible in many many respects. What it does fill in is a good extrapolation of what the characters would say given their characters and the situation. As a sequel to the Passion of the Christ one might have expected it to be closer to the Bible narrative, but the Bible doesn't always fill in the insignificant details. That the Tribune ended up being so close to the disciples and that the two (only two?) guards for the tomb got involved in drinking while on duty - these are a stretch. Overall this is a great sequel and a great introduction for unbelievers to consider afresh the proofs of the resurrection.

I won't spoil the rest of the movie for you.

Miracles From Heaven - From the studio that brought you Heaven Is For Real, don't miss the incredible true story coming March 16, 2016.                       Synopsis:

MIRACLES FROM HEAVEN is based on the incredible true story of the Beam family. When Christy (Jennifer Garner) discovers her 10-year-old daughter Anna (Kylie Rogers) has a rare, incurable disease, she becomes a ferocious advocate for her daughter’s healing as she searches for a solution.
After Anna has a freak accident and falls three stories, a miracle unfolds in the wake of her dramatic rescue that leaves medical specialists mystified, her family restored and their community inspired.

God's -Not- Dead 2 - Sequel to God's Not Dead from Pureflix - coming April 1, 2016 in United States and Canada.

Dios -No- Está Muerte 2Sequela de Deus não é morto de Pureflix - provenientes de 1 de Abril de 2016 (Site está em Espanhol)

Dios -No- Está Muerte 2 - Secuela de Dios no está muerto de Pureflix - viniendo de Abril 1, 2016

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Dios -No- Está Muerte 2 - Teatros en Español en los Estados Unidos

Movies to buy on DVD:

Audacity - Watch the Trailer - A movie that the LGBTQ community is warning against.

Download for $19.99 and, 1. See “Audacity” a month before its August 19 release, 2. Get other free material (see details below), and, 3. Help us create future Christian movies…for which we are very grateful (this movie becomes yours to watch as many times as you please).

Faith of Our Fathers A story of fatherhood. A journey of brotherhood - opens July 1, 2015 - DVD coming soon.

WarRoom Prayer is a Powerful Weapon - opens August 28, 2015 - in theaters now - Great and powerfully moving movie.

-- "War Room not only hit #1 in U.S. theaters (over Labor Day weekend), it also has been the #1 movie in Central America and Bolivia! War Room is also playing in Spanish in some American theaters. Please keep praying for the movie's impact around the world!"

«¡Cuarto de Guerra no sólo golpeó número una en los cines de Estados Unidos (alrededor de Lunes, 7 de Septiembre), también ha sido la película número una en América Central y Bolivia! Cuarto de Guerra

también se juega en español en algunos teatros de Estados Unidos. ¡Por favor seguir orando por el impacto de la película todo el mundo!» Cuarto de Guerra - la Pelicula

«Sala de Guerra não  atingiu o número um nos cinemas dos EUA (em torno de Segunda-feira, dia 7 de Setembro), também tem sido o filme número um na América Central e na Bolívia! Sala de Guerra também está

jogando em espanhol em alguns cinemas dos EUA. Por favor seguir orando para o impacto do filme ao redor do mundo

Em breve para o Brasil: Sala de Guerra do Filme (site em Espanhol)

90 Minutes in Heaven (PG13 - For intense accident and injury images) - Based on the incredible true story and New York Times Bestseller - opens Sept 11, 2015 -- I like this movie and do not doubt the sincerity of the one who experienced it. There is a need to address near death experiences in general - 'What do We make of '90 Minutes in Heaven'

Captive (PG13 - Mature thematic elements involving violence and substance abuse) - Faith Redemption Survival - Based on the inspiring true story - opens Sept 28, 2015

Hillsong Movie:Let Hope Arise - The worship band - It's not about them - It's about Him! - opens Sept 30, 2015

Finding Noah - Exploring Mount Ararat to explore for the final resting spot of Noah's Ark with using state of the art technology and real-time satellite imagery - opens Oct 8, 2015 - one day only.

Woodlawn -  True story of how love and unity overcame hate and division in early 1970s Birmingham, Ala. in a football team it affects them and their town in ways no one could have imagined - opens Oct 16. 2015

Laughing in the Dark - Laughing In The Dark chronicles Chonda’s life, her struggles and God’s faithfulness.-  opens Oct 27, 2015 - one day only.

The 33 - Discover the miraculous true story of miners and their rescue - opens Nov 13, 2015

Do You Believe? This stirring new film from the creators of God's Not Dead arrives in theaters March 20, 2015. More than a movie, it's a question we all must answer in our lifetimes: DO YOU BELIEVE? | Canada Showings |

EL Poder De La Cruz

«EL PODER DE LA CRUZ» relata la historia de 12 personas, cada una en su propio mundo pero todas con el anhelo de encontrar algo más. Uno de los 12, es un pastor local que es sacudido fuertemente cuando un predicador de la calle lo desafía a vivir realmente su fe. De manera milagrosa, que solo Dios puede orquestar, las vidas de estas 12 personas se cruzan inesperadamente y cada uno de ellos se enfrenta a la pregunta: ¿Crees en el poder del sacrificio de Jesús en la Cruz?

Where Hope Grows An unexpected journey. An unexpected friendship - Godspeed pictures - on DVD August 25

A Romantic Drama - Ultimately, Clay must step out from behind his relational theories and Amber must overcome her own fears and deep wounds as the two of them, together, attempt the impossible: an 'old-fashioned' and God-honoring courtship in contemporary America. Old Fashioned MovieOld Fashioned Movie

The Drop Box - the movieThe Drop Box - the movie - A drop box is a warm bin, lodged in a wall. This allows mothers to deposit their children without being seen - “The Drop Box”: Promoting - Life Documentary

The Principle - One of the Most Heated Debates of the Century - Is our galaxy (and therefore earth) at the apparent center of the known universe?  The PrinicipleThe Priniciple

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Pure Flix

Affirm Films

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Christian Film Database

What is the way for Churches to deal with sin - whether it be any kind including homosexuality? Speak the truth in love. Be a Healing and Transformational Church. New Church Vision - Sin and Homosexuality

Others who are addressing the same issues - letting the Bible speak for itself:

The Gospel and Homosexuality by David Platt

On Love, Homosexuality, and Sin: An Evangelical Proposal By Rob Schwarzwalder

What is the way for Churches to conduct themselves - Individual and Corporate? What are Biblical methods to judge success? New Church Vision - Individual and Corporate

What is the Holy Spirit and are the Gifts for today? How desperate should we be for the Holy Spirit? How do we employ spiritual gifts in an orderly manner? New Church Vision - What About Gifts

What kind of God do we serve? What is a view of God from the scriptures? New Church Vision - Our Great God and our free will

What Christian ministries are there to those enslaved by Alcohol or drugs? Here is one such successful ministry that could be copied around the world:

The Mission House of North Kitsap as well as The Mission House of South Kitsap (all for men, but plans for a Women's mission house are in the making.

A Christian band that was featured on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon For King and Country - Enjoy

Soothing Songs based on the Psalms - by the Sons of Korah - Enjoy

Soothing Hymns with harmony, orchestra, and natural settings: FountainView - Enjoy.

Who is Running for President (and Who's Not)? - New York Times Update Page

Je suis Charlie
Freedom of speech is one of the principles of the founding fathers of the United States. Violence has been drastic against mankind (and mostly toward Christians) almost exclusively from atheistic totalitarian regimes. Religion has not been even close to being the main source of violence in the world in general. Even with the latest events religion is not the main source of violence. Now there is violence from extreme islam to add to that violence. Christians are told by Christ Jesus to love their enemies - bless them and pray for them (don't have to like them, but want the best for them). For news about Christians and to pray for Christians around the world - see also see

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Patterns of Evidence: The Exodus - You Never Know Where a Crisis of Faith Will Lead You.
A Thought-Provoking One Night Event - Monday, January 19, 2015 - In Select Theatres Nationwide

Saving Christmas with Kirk Cameron - Put Christ back in Christmas - In theaters already - limited engagement unless there is a surge of people keeping it in the theaters!

These are the Days of Elijah - The Marines - Hoo Rah! - Could this video go viral?

The right of churches to freely speak the truth is under threat in Houston. I Stand Sunday is a special nationwide simulcast from Houston on Sunday, November 2nd at 6:00 p.m. CT/7:00 p.m. ET.

Please bring this to the attention of the your church leadership, and encourage them to have your church join with us and churches across the country as we focus on this issue that is crucial to the freedom of the church. If your church is unable to join, there's also a home viewing option, where you can watch with your small group.

Privileged Species event - Pacific Northwest Premiere - Michael Denton Rocks the Museum of Flight as Privileged Species Premieres in Seattle to a Packed House -- Are humans the accidental products of a blind and uncaring universe? Or are they the beneficiaries of a cosmic order that was planned beforehand to help them flourish?  -- Now available for purchase: Privileged Species - the Movie

Dinesh Dśouza - America (the Movie) - Imagine the World without Her - in movie theaters come July 2. Please consider demanding it at your theater!

For Worship:

Christian Worship Music Mix #1, Christian Worship Music Mix #2, Christian Worship Music Mix #3, and Christian Worship Music Mix #4

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Christian Dance Music Mix #1Christian Dance Music Mix #2, Te Amo, Te Amo, I Love You, Blood Bought Church, and Skillet - Awake and Alive

Good Movies:

godsnotdeadthemovie.comGod's Not Dead - the Movie-English | Spanish / Español | one can now buy the DVD.

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Gosnell - Movie - A historic crowdfunding campaign for a movie about America's biggest serial killer, abortionist Kermit Gosnell and the media cover-up.

Agenda - Grinding America Down and also, (but don't watch them back to back - you have been warned!)

 The Project by Joe Weasel and no you will not find either of these movies listed on Internet Movie Database

Non-partisan site dedicated to a Convention that could bypass all three branches of the government - Check it out in the U.S. Constitution -Friends of the Article V. Convention

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Saturday, May 5, 2012

Adding bits

Slowly but surely, I am adding bits to my blog on here.  Even if 3FC is repaired, I'm not sure if I will go back.  I mean, it was a horrible issue that lasted for a LONG time so I'm not sure if I want to go back to posting there after the run around.  It should've been fixed months ago.  Why did it take until the first week of MAY to get it fixed?  I'm not sure... but either way, I'm thinking that I only need and only want one blog to update.  I mean, I loved the support on 3FC, but the upkeep is a pain.  Although, I guess I could always just post the link like what I did before, huh?  I will probably still do that for a while just until I've gotten everything moved.  Although I must admit I felt a bit safe on 3FC.  On here, I do feel a bit 'exposed' like someone from somewhere will pounce on me on here.  LOL  Silly, I know, but very true to how I feel.  It's not like I'm on here bashing people, so I'm not sure why I worry.  And all in all, I don't really post much personal info, either.  I guess it's just the change... I don't take well to change.  LOL

So, in case any of you were wondering, my cycle did indeed start in the middle of the night -- right after midnight!  LOL  So, I went to 30 days.  Which is unusual.  I'm not complaining really, I just don't understand why it decided to change.  But oh well, it is what it is.  At least it's here and somewhat on time.  I'd have worried more if it hadn't started today.  But starting today is fine.  My weight this AM was 195.5.  But I was so groggy when I got up I didn't do it then.  So, that is my weight after breakfast and some coffee with my house dress on and my underthings.  But I weighed!  LOL  Gotta get back into the habit.  I don't know why I've gotten so off of it that I'm having to weigh after I eat.  I will try to be better.  I think somewhere in my head I was thinking it's going to be way up after going out last night so I didn't want to see it.  But I need to see it so that I KNOW where I'm at.  It's an internal battle, I guess.  But I want to get a number on my calendar for every day of May.  And hopefully those numbers involve 1's, 8's, and then the last number going DOWN.  I am hoping after my period to be under 190 or right at.

We did go out last night without kiddos.  My AWESOME sitter offered to watch my friend's kiddo so we went out without them.  It was GOOD!  My friend was a bit sad over her kitty, but we still tried to have a good time.  She knows that 20+yrs. was an amazing time to have, but it was just hard on her.  But overall, we had a really good time hanging and talking, eating, drinking, and listening to music.  I drank a giant margarita, a shot, and a beer.  Plus chips and salsa and then my dinner.  Although, I didn't eat much dinner... I think at that point I was full of margarita because I had drank water before I left the house and then the margarita when I got there.  LOL  So, not much room for food.  But what I ate was good!  Some salad, some rice, and one enchilada.  NOM NOM.  After, I had some coffee and a cupcake.  But this AM, I passed on leftover cupcakes (other than the one bite I had of youngest's) and had a regular breakfast.  But I do feel kinda swollen and bleh.  I'm not use to alcohol, so having it probably threw my body for a loop.  LOL  It's not that I purposely ignore it or leave it out, it's just that I don't think to have it on a regular basis.  I always kinda felt like those were the calories that I can give up without feeling deprived at all.  It's just not at the top of my priority list.

I don't have much planned for today.  I just checked the weather and as of right now, it's looking like the rain may hold off for a bit, so I'm thinking that I may go out and finish mowing the front yard.  And then maybe go do some more cutting down in the back yard.  Even if I can't burn it right now (which I may try to do anyways!) maybe I can at least get more cut down to dry.  I would also like to move some of the plants if I can, but we will see how the weather does and how I feel.  Hubby is about to change his schedule again, so I don't want to wear myself out.  Especially with this being the last few weeks of school.  We have a lot going on, so it would be nice to not be so tired that I can't be with oldest to enjoy it.  Although, I'm not sure how much I'm going to be able to help out with everything with youngest and the constant change in hubby's schedule.  It's sorta a mess!

Well, going to get off of here and get going.  No point in putting stuff off that needs to be done now when I actually kinda feel like doing stuff!  Even if I can't do it all, maybe I can do some.  :)  Every little bit helps!  Hope everyone has a great Sat. and Sun.  I will try to post tomorrow if I'm not worn out!  HA!

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  1. hahaha :) You are so funny! ^__^

    First off, I just want to say that I saw your profile picture and you look stunning in that blue dress!! :)

    Secondly, I do know how you feel. I am struggling on the decision whether to go back to 3fatchicks too. But I realized, that I like this place a lot better! ^__^ It's like a higher version of a blog. IT's really is a blog. I felt really limited back in 3fc bc it really did have limited function.

    However, I feel you when you feel kinda "exposed" here. But then again, this blog is something different. It is a change. And sometime, change is good because it pushes us to grow & evolved.

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Why Do Some Practicioners Want To Preserve Others?

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In modern globe, there are so many factors that one can do, and this can cause them to be confused. This is why it is not always a 'fantastic' factor for one to have more factors to pick from.

Having more option makes it even more complicated for one to know what they want to do; whereas if they only had a specific quantity of choices, it could be much simpler for them to determine. However, if one was to go long ago in history, they may come into get in touch with with others who knowledgeable limited by the choices that were available.

Another Outlook

Another way for one to manage all the choices that are available would be to take the a opportunity to think about what they appreciate doing. Through getting in get in touch with with what is going on within them as instead of being absolutely concentrated on what it going on without, there is less possibility of one being confused.

This is because they will be conscious of what their needs are, and they can then ignore all the choices that don't fit with their needs, for example. If one isn't in get in touch with with their needs, they are not going to be able to do this.

Following Others

As a outcome of this, one could end up doing what individuals around them are doing, or they could go along with their recommendations. On one aspect, this can allow them to get acceptance, but on lack of, it is unlikely to be something that is very satisfying.

However, this is often portion of lifestyle and something that one needs to go through to be able to come into get in touch with with their real needs. Through doing what other individuals want them to do, it can be possible for them to understand what they do want to do.

A Studying Experience

In this feeling, being 'of course' can be something that allows one to be 'on course', and this could be something that they encounter for initially. One has then not been spending their life; they have basically been doing something that ensured that they understand what issues to them.

The substitute would be to do nothing, but then this would not allow one to understand what they want to do. This is a deductive approach; where you find out what something is, by discovering out what it isn't.

The Picturesque Route

In lifestyle, it is regular to want to take the quickest path possible, and this is partially because of the need to achieve immediate satisfaction. For example, if one could stick to a path that would get them somewhere in ten moments, they are unlikely to take a path that would get them there in 20 moments.

Yet, lifestyle does not always perform this way, and this indicates that one has to take what could be considered as the 'scenic' path. However, through using this path, one can not only end up being exactly where they need to be, they can also appear there at just the perfect time.

There is also the ability that one could have obvious concept about what they want to do, even though they are out of get in touch with with themselves. While his might appear contradiction, it is what can occur when one has designed a false-self.

On the outer lining they can come across as though they are linked with themselves, but this is not going to be the finish fact. This does not invariably mean that what they end up doing will be absolutely out of get in touch with with their real needs; what it can mean is that it won't absolutely fit.

Helping Others

For example, one may desire to matter in other individuals lifestyles, and this could cause them to become a specialist or some type of trainer. And while this can be a representation of their real needs, it could be a signal that they are not absolutely linked with themselves.

It can all rely on how they go about creating a distinction in the lifestyles or others, and if they been employed well on themselves. If one seems like they need to save others, this can display that they are out of get in touch with with the portion of themselves that they need to save.

This will reveal that one has not proved helpful through their own discomfort, and through being out of get in touch with with how they believe, it is going to be regular for them to venture their declined areas onto others. As a outcome of this, it might not be possible for them to sustain their limitations and to understand there is only so much they can do for someone.

They can end up seeing themselves as the only individual who can matter, and each other can be seen as someone who needs to be 'fixed'. Therefore, their value as a person can end up being based on how other individuals react to their initiatives to 'save' them.

A Nearer Look

When one encounters lifestyle in this way, it could be a signal that their beginning decades were a moment where they had to satisfy their caregiver's needs. This would have resulted in not only would they have turned off from their needs, they would also have noticed embarrassed with them.

They would then get acceptance by conference their caregiver's needs, and this would have resulted in they would have had to build a false-self in the procedure. Being there for others is then an oblique way for them to get their needs met, and the while this is not going to be satisfying, it is going to be what seems relaxed.

For provided that one continues to be turned off from the agony sensation that they seen by not getting needs met as children, it will be regular for them to want to 'save' others. This is not to say that they won't want to be a specialist or a trainer once they been employed well through their discomfort, but this could be something that happens.

Once one is in get in touch with with how they believe, it is likely to be a moment where they will be grieving their unmet kid decades needs, among other factors. This is something that can occur with the assistance of a specialist and/ or a assistance team.


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Environment & Sustainability and Law (M.S. and J.D.)

The School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS) and the University of Michigan Law School offer a dual degree program, allowing interested students the opportunity to study concurrently for the Juris Doctor (JD) and the Master of Science (MS) in Natural Resources degrees. The goal of this program is to encourage more effective integration of knowledge of environment and sustainability problems with the methodology and skills of the lawyer. The program is designed so that all requirements for both degrees can be completed in four years.

Career options for program graduates are quite varied. Among the alumni, one has served as an attorney for the U.S. Department of the Interior, supervising the implementation of environmental laws and regulations; another has been a member of the legal staff of a large power company; and a third has served as director of a major state environmental action council. The dual JD/MS program might also be attractive to students interested in the practice of law for corporate clients who are engaged in the use of natural resources, and to students who foresee careers in trial practice in which use of expert witnesses in the fields of ecology and environment may be necessary.

J.D. Requirements

Students entering the Law School must complete the required first-year law curriculum. Students must also complete Transnational Law and Intro to Constitutional Law during their third or fourth semester of law school, in addition to completing a course in professional responsibility and an upper-level writing requirement.

The JD requires a minimum total of 82 credits earned between Law School courses and courses through the School for Environment and Sustainability, which is affiliated with the Rackham School of Graduate Studies. Students must earn at least 70 credits toward the JD through courses taken in the Law School. Twelve (12) credit hours may be taken from the satisfaction of requirements toward the MS degree. Instructions for requesting Law School credit for non-law courses are posted on the CTools site for dual degree students.

M.S. Requirements

Students admitted to SEAS must complete 42 credit hours along with either a Master's opus (project, thesis or practicum) or faculty approved course work. The 42 credits hours consists of:

  • SEAS Core Courses 10 credits

  • Field of Study Core Courses 3-8 credits
  • Analytics 4-7 credits
  • Opus 6 credits (or faculty approved course work 6-8 credits)
  • Electives 12-15 credits

Up to 9 of the 42 required credits hours may be earned for appropriate environmental law courses taken in the Law School

Applicants must gain separate and independent admission to both the Law School and the School for Environment and Sustainability, affiliated with the Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies, and should contact the admissions office of each school for application and admission information. The applicant’s LSAT score may be used in place of the GRE. However, a valid GRE score is preferable.*

Students must satisfy the requirements of each school for each degree and should consult with advisors in each school for the precise graduation requirements for each degree and for information about course offerings. Students will find a few courses available in the School for Environment and Sustainability during the summer, but should not expect any Law School courses beyond first-year courses to be offered in the summer term. Students will not receive credit toward the JD for coursework taken prior to matriculation at the Law School. Students should consult with the advisor at the School for Environment and Sustainability concerning credit toward the MS for Law course work.

During the third and fourth years of the program, students are permitted to elect courses in both schools. Tuition will be assessed at either the Law School or the Graduate School rate, whichever is higher, when courses toward both degrees are taken in one term.

At the beginning of their final year of study in the combined program, students should consult with the SEAS Registrar and the Law School Registrar regarding forms that need to be completed prior to graduation. Also at this time, students should submit a Dual/Joint Degree Election Form (http://www.rackham.umich.edu/current-students/policies/academic-records/dual-joint-degree-programs) for approval from both the Law School and the School for Environment and Sustainability. Students should review the completed sample forms on the CTools page prior to filling out the form. Students may also consult with the Office of Student Affairs if there are any questions regarding completion of this form.

The combined degree is not open to those who have already earned either the JD or the MS. Students who are registered in the first or second year at the Law School or the first year of the SEAS’s program may apply for admission to the dual degree program.

Contact Information

Law School:
Admissions Office
University of Michigan Law School
726 Oakland
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-3031
Email: law.jd.admissions@umich.edu
Web Site: www.law.umich.edu

Dual Degree Programs:
Office of Student Affairs
University of Michigan Law School
307 Hutchins Hall
625 South State Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1215
Email: law.dual.degrees@umich.edu

School for Environment and Sustainability:
SEAS Admissions
1520 Dana Building
440 Church Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1041
Email: seas-admissions@umich.edu


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Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Gratuitous force violates Section 1983

This pro se plaintiff alleged that state troopers subjected him to excessive force. The district court threw out the case. The Court of Appeals reinstates the case, holding that it does not take a vicious beating to make out an excessive force claim.

The case is Phelan v. Sullivan, a summary order issued on September 17. The district court said that plaintiff's injuries were minimal and he therefore did not have enough evidence for a jury trial. As the trial court saw it, "Phelan did not allege any specific injury or allege that he sought medical treatment, and that the force used was reasonable to effectuate his arrest. The district court also stated that, at most, Phelan alleged that '[Defendants-Appellees] broke down the door to [Phelan’s] apartment without warning, tackled him to the ground, placed their feet and knees on his back, twisted his arms behind his back, and handcuffed him.'”

Sounds like a weak case. Except that it's not, at least on paper. There was more evidence than that. The Second Circuit (Calabresi, Livingston and Chin) noted that "Phelan alleged that several of the Defendants-Appellees punched, kicked, and beat him while effecting his arrest, and that Defendants-Appellees’ actions nearly broke his arm."

The Second Circuit held in 2004 that excessive force claims exist when the police use gratuitous force against an arrestee. And the Court said in Robison v. Via, 821 F.2d 913 (2d Cir. 1987), that the plaintiff (who did not seek medical treatment for her injuries) had a case "where the plaintiff alleged that a defendant 'pushed' her against a car door, 'yanked' her out, 'threw [her] up against the fender,' and 'twisted [her] arm behind [her] back,' and that she had suffered bruises lasting several weeks." This case is like Robison, and it goes to trial.

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The Devil Rides Out

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Satan OklahomaCould some Satanic kitsch be about to descend upon Oklahoma City?

The Daily News reports:

A satanic group unveiled designs Monday for a 7-foot-tall statue of Satan it wants to put at the Oklahoma state Capitol, where a Ten Commandments monument was placed in 2012.

The New York-based Satanic Temple formally submitted its application to a panel that oversees the Capitol grounds, including an artist’s rendering that depicts Satan as Baphomet, a goat-headed figure with horns, wings and a long beard that’s often used as a symbol of the occult. In the rendering, Satan is sitting in a pentagram-adorned throne with smiling children next to him.

“The monument has been designed to reflect the views of Satanists in Oklahoma City and beyond,” temple spokesman Lucien Greaves said in a statement. “The statue will also have a functional purpose as a chair where people of all ages may sit on the lap of Satan for inspiration and contemplation.”

The Satanic Temple maintains that the Oklahoma Legislature’s decision to authorize a privately funded Ten Commandments monument at the Capitol opened the door for its statue. The Ten Commandments monument was placed on the north steps of the building in 2012, and the Oklahoma chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union has sued to have it removed…

And (as the Daily News had revealed earlier) Satan might not be the only new arrival:

Days after a Satanist group expressed a desire to construct a monument on the grounds of Oklahoma’s state capitol, a Hindu organization announced that they would also like a slice of that religious freedom pie.

Rajan Zed, president of the Universal Society of Hinduism, announced plans to erect a statue of the revered Hindu god Hanuman, the monkey king, outside the capitol.

Hanuman is an important deity in the Hindu pantheon. He is revered for his life of service and his devotion to the powerful god Rama.

And there are other candidates to stand alongside the Ten Commandments too.

Somehow, I don’t think that the Oklahoma State Legislature had this quite in mind. In an age of multiculturalism, a strict view of the separation of church and state may be about to win some unexpected converts.

Man plans, God laughs.

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  • John Farrell · January 12, 2014 at 3:37 pm

    Dennis Wheatley would find a marvelous story in all this.

  • Author comment by Andrew Stuttaford · January 12, 2014 at 4:55 pm

    Nice catch!

  • PermReader · January 14, 2014 at 5:52 pm

    The wonderful coexistance of the brand new World were the satanists can fearlessly build their immense ugly monument and the old Jew who is affraid to wear his traditional clothes for not to be attacked.The old prejudices and the modern decay.

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November 23rd, 2015

Seven Thefts In Five Days

Public Storage facility in Birmingham AL

Seven thefts in five days at the same facility must be a record even for Public Storage. Unit holders at the Public Storage Birmingham, AL facility have had TVs, household goods and sound equipment stolen over a five day period. One woman whose husband is a craftsman has had over $15,000 worth of tools stolen.

Public Storage are well known for their lack of security but this time they seem to have excelled themselves. Not only are their no surveillance cameras but there is no proper lighting and what little lighting there is goes off intermittently. To top it all the gate is broken and has been for some time.

Sgt Mike Mangina, Irondale Police Department said “Some of these victims are moving the rest of their property out because they don’t want to stay there, they think that it is unsafe. You know I would probably do the same thing.”

As we have said before if you are thinking of using a Public Storage facility you could save yourself the storage fees by dumping your stuff on the sidewalk with a notice “Help Yourself”.

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Cristina Jurado interviews Steve Redwood

Cristina Jurado, who reviewed Broken Symmetries (Simetrías rotas) last week for us, interviews Steve Redwood. You can also read the Spanish translation of this interview on her blog Más ficción que ciencia (which I strongly recommend if you read Spanish).

Steve Redwood explains that he left the UK at twenty-five because it did not stop raining since he was born in 1943. I´m sure it wasn´t because of the weather but of the lack of decent food. It is well established that British colonizing ambitions are not due to their entrepreneurial spirit but to their empty stomachs. Urban legends about him reveal that he didn´t established properly until he arrived in Spain. After living in Turkey (think about the country several decades ago) and Saudi Arabia (doesn´t matter when you think about it) we are not surprise that our country seemed to him a dream island. No job is listed in his profile… even though rumors say that he worked as an English teacher, but those allegations have yet to be confirm. He did not start to write until reaching his fifties, probably because his globetrotting bottom could not sit still until then, but that is a hypothesis waiting to be tested.
His first humorous and fantasy work Fisher of Devils was nominated in 2003 as best novel by the British Fantasy Society. A couple of years later he published Who Needs Cleopatra? and in 2010 the anthology Broken Symmetries came out. In our country is Simetrías Rotas, published by Sportula. His short stories had been included in collections and magazines like Thackery T Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric and Discredited Diseases (finalists of the Hugo and the World Fantasy awards) and The Mammoth Book of Comic Fantasy. A wicked spirit decided that Spain deserves to enjoy his novels and El pescador de demonios (published by El Tercer Nombre) and ¿Quién necesita a Cleopatra? (published by Ajec) are now available in the language of Cervantes. There is also an anthology of short stories by Redwood under the title (surely purely metaphoric) Los pingüinos también se ahogan (published by Torre de Marfil).

Here you have my conversation with Redwood, who revealed to be a good sportsman by getting into it without any anesthetic substances.

Cristina Jurado: I want to start with, I´m afraid, an obvious question: Why the title Broken Symmetries? (I had a theory about it but I´m sure it´s just the product of my sick mind)

Steve Redwood: Oh my Gosh, I wish I could remember!  I would like to impress you by saying it refers to a basic idea in quantum theory, but then you might ask me, “Could you be more precise, please?”, and I would be exposed as a fraud, and my vengeful ex-wife Carmen Moreno, a harpy in her spare time, would gloatingly reveal my shame on Facebook or Twitter.  It was probably because I like to thwart reader expectations, or at least ‘bend’ the tropes, distort the expected symmetries, while maintaining internal logic and consistency and even (I hope) inevitability. I remember a reader of Off the Shelf (María 8) phoning me, furious, complaining that from being an exciting science fiction story it had suddenly turned into meaningless waffle. (Don’t you dare…!) A more obvious example would be Circe’s Choice, in which, without changing the myth in the slightest, I aimed to completely overthrow the idea that Scylla was just a pitiless monster, and Circe an equally pitiless goddess. Or Sanctuary, where the word ‘sanctuary’, as well as the concept of euthanasia, takes on a rather ... err, unusual meaning.

Besides, Broken Symmetries sounds more impressive than the more accurate Disjointed and Disordered Digressions of a Dislocated Mind.  Err… what was your theory?  Sounds rather exciting…

CJ: Many of your short stories in this anthology are comical. You employ humor as a scalpel to dissect everyday life, always finding something disturbing, melancholic, or provoking. I think that being truly funny in any genre, but especially in science fiction, is quite an accomplishment those days. Do you feel that humor suits your style because it reflects the way you see the world or because it´s a powerful device to bring out the truth, or both?

SR: The first option: I tend to stand a bit outside life and (like many other people, of course) ‘see the funny side’ of things (including my own thoughts and imperfections (I repeat: Don’t you dare…!). I now never go ‘seeking the truth’ because that road leads you to either intense depression, or to ridiculous escapist fantasies, like religions, constructed on something much less solid than a bubble of air. I agree that it’s difficult to be funny in SF (unless you’re aiming at satire), and most humorous ‘science fiction’ is usually so exaggerated as to be really fantasy: the wonderful Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, for example, or Lem’s Cyberiad. There aren’t many Robert Sheckleys around. I read a bit of the best-selling Robert Rankin, and found him childish. None of my humorous stories are really SF (not even Two Legs, Good…), even if they do employ common elements like time travel or cloning or aliens. If I think about those aspects seriously, then, yes, they become SF stories. I’d say there are only five genuinely SF stories in the book.

CJ: Some say that recurrent themes in literature can reveal the real nature of a person. Does that means that you are a voyeur, atheist and lefty kind of guy?

SR: You’ve caught me out! The only story in this collection with the slightest bit of autobiography is precisely Nastassja’s Honour, in which a character spends all his time rewinding and watching the nude scenes with Nastassja Kinsky in Cat People.  That was exactly how a much younger me (and not only me, I bet!) baptized his first ever video player (you won’t even remember the Sony Betamax!) to celebrate a temporary escape from Saudi Arabia. And when I later had the idea for the story, I had a great excuse to do the same thing all over again in the interests of accuracy!  I do indeed enjoy looking at women – but I also look at dogs, trees, cake shops, tortoises, and cloud formations!  Age Cannot Wither Her (La edad no la marchitará), a reference to Shakespeare’s Cleopatra, seemingly takes the same theme, but to a horrifying extreme, and was suggested by the case of John Hinckley Jn., who stalked the actress Jodie Foster and finally, possibly as a means to attract her attention, tried to assassinate President Reagan (pity he failed! What, ‘lefty kind of guy’, me??). Here is, I think, a good example (whether the story is good or not is another matter) of the unique ability of science fiction to allow you to stress the full potential horror of a situation by taking it to at present impossible extremes.

Atheist, me? I direct you to my ground-breaking Vatican-funded theological study, Fisher of Devils, which fills in the gaps the Bible left out, or my discovery of the solution to the enigma of Cain’s wife (since there were no other women around, except his dear old Mum) in Who Needs Cleopatra?

‘Lefty’?  Just because I reveal what the PP ministers really get up to in the basement of party headquarters when they claim they are working on solving the country’s problems?

But I am not a ’thinker’ in any real sense of the word, I have no vital message to impart, except: “And God said, ‘Let there be Ginger’; and there was Ginger. And God saw the Ginger, that it was good: and God divided the Ginger from the goddamn Garlic and Onions.” Indeed, I now notice, there are not a great variety of themes as such in this particular collection. Many of the stories, for example Nose Trek, began as a simple flight of fancy, such as considering the fundamental physics behind the antics of Pinocchio’s nose, or from examining clichéd expressions like ‘family values’, or ‘he’s made of money’ (The Heisenberg Mutation), or a woman left ‘on the shelf’. Whether the resulting stories turned out to be humorous or quite the opposite was in itself a Schrodinger’s Cat question, and most probably depended on whether I had, or had not, run out of ginger biscuits at the time.

Indeed, I suspect that, as much as the themes themselves, it is the way those themes are treated which might reveal a lot about the writer.

CJ: I was surprise to detect many references to Borges in your stories, not just at a theme level but also at a structural one. I tend to think that the Argentinian is not well known in the rest of the world as it is in Spain and Latin America. There are many others references, like Nabokov (in “El nido”) or Kafka (“La Mutación de Heisenberg”) or Terry Pratchett (with the cultural references in all the stories). Besides the already mentioned authors, what kind of literature mix is your source of inspiration?

SR: Often, they’re just passing references, to deceive people into thinking I’m cultured. I studied literature at university (ah, those wonderful early sixties, when ‘university’ in the UK meant that one (if impoverished, like me) was given free tuition, accommodation, food, and beer money by the state, as well as instant acquaintanceship with hundreds of intelligent young women, just for lying down on a bed and reading a few books!). I, like most of my friends, also read quite a variety of books outside the ‘canon’ (my God, we believed then ‘literature’ was a definitive list of a couple of hundred books, full-stop!), as the advent of paperback books meant we could read the other Europeans (and, yes, Borges) too. SF was an early love, and I’ve probably read something by almost ‘everybody who was anybody’ in Anglo-Saxon SF up to the eighties, but in the last couple of decades I’ve read far less, for various reasons I won’t go into.  (One reason is the time I’ve devoted to reading Spanish authors; I have the bad bad bad habit of studying the language as I read, so although I can in fact read almost as fast in Spanish as in English, I tend to take at least five-ten times as long, as I pause to ponder the reason for that subjunctive, for the choice of that particular word, the  history of that expression, etc.)

But I didn’t write anything until I was nearly fifty, and I’ve always had a terrible memory, which is now even worse, so it’s hard to cite any direct influences. I guess a few writers who must have influenced me, at least indirectly, would include Charles Dickens, Jonathan Swift, Graham Greene, Mervyn Peake, Evelyn Waugh, Stanislaw Lem, the French absurdists, Arrabal, Calvino… I’m not saying I know (or knew) their works well, but that their attitude to life seems to chime in with mine. In SF, of course, I must have read hundreds of Asimovs, Simaks, Dicks, Herberts, Silverbergs, Bradburys, Orson Scott Cards, Watsons, Moorcocks, John Varleys, etc. but I don’t really think they’ve influenced my writing. Even books that had an instant KO effect on me, such as the Strugatski brothers’ Roadside Picnic, Dan Simmons Hyperion, Margaret Atwood’s A Handmaid’s Tale, Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire, Kate Wilhelm’s Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang, James Tiptree Jr.’s short stories, Orwell’s 1984, probably haven’t had a great influence on what I write.  But who knows?  I don’t.

Ah, probably my love of creating a range of different idiosyncratic and/or insane narrators comes from Edgar Allen Poe and the Victorian poet Robert Browning, whose Dramatic Monologues are a wonderful tour de force.

CJ: The common denominator in all the stories is a sense of the weird being just in front of our eyes. It seems that all it´s needed is a little push to unveil it, regardless of the reader’s nation. What are the differences between the stories in the English and the Spanish version? Why did you feel it was important to make changes in the Spanish one?

SR: I would guess that the ‘sense of the weird being just in front of our eyes’ comes from having lived abroad most of my life. This means you are constantly looking in through a window at the lives on the other side – or maybe you are looking out. Your living in Dubai must also affect you the same way.

But, as regards the stories, the reason Simetrías rotas isn’t exactly the same as Broken Symmetries is simply that some of the stories (in general, the more realistic ones) in the original book have already been published in Los Pingüinos también se ahogan, some are untranslatable, and new ones, including the two longest, were written for this collection.

In the stories themselves there aren’t really many differences at all, except those necessary to make something intelligible. For example, my titles (often puns, quotations, or themselves part of the story) often cause problems. An intractable example is Hot Cross Son (La venganza es Su perdón), which contains about five puns or verbal echoes in the title alone, the main one being impossible for a foreigner to detect, unless you happen to eat ‘hot cross buns’ at Easter – yum yum!  Such verbal echoes, word play, hidden allusions, alliteration, inversions, and so on, nearly all get lost in translation, although sometimes they can be replaced by a Spanish cultural equivalent. In the same story, the clever Cristina Macia, without whom George RR Martin would not exist in Spain, dealt with my ‘sins of the flesh, not sins of the meat’, by substituting ‘filete’ for my ‘meat’, since ‘carne’ doesn’t show the distinction. And, in almost the next line, my ‘Well, you couldn’t put it much straighter than that!’ became, perfectly, ‘¡Más claro, agua!  In other words, the real differences between the English and the Spanish usually come from the requirements of translation. A story like Fowl Play in Broken Symmetries is, unfortunately, completely untranslatable, due to the deliberate twisting of normal language. (Although, oddly, it was translated into Russian, but a Russian speaker said it was completely incomprehensible – I repeat my repetition: Don’t you dare!)

In a more general sense, due to my living abroad, in content (but not tone or style) my stories have very little ‘Englishness’ in them: there’s almost no direct reference to British culture or traditions. In this book, only three have an English setting, and in only one (Going Back) is the specifically English setting and booze ‘culture’ of any importance. (This, of course, would be true of almost all SF and fantasy.)

Stories like De Madrid al Infierno I of course wrote specifically for Spain, and thinking in Spanish. Luckily, Spanish humour seems to be much closer to English humour than, say, French or Italian.  We all love Monty Python and Terry Pratchett and Douglas Adams (don’t we ?!!!)

CJ: Do you think that there is a name for your condition or would you rather state that it´s the rest of us who are mentally compromised?

SR: Whatever this condition is, I believe I share it (on a more modest scale) with El Jueves magazine in Spain, and, in the Universe, with the Greatest Heroes of all time, mentioned above, Monty Python (and Rowan Atkinson)!

About the interviewer

Cristina Jurado Marcos writes the sci-fi blog Más ficción que ciencia on Libros.com. Having a degree in Advertising and Public Relations by Universidad de Seville and a Masters in Rhetoric by Northwestern University (USA), she currently studies Philosophy for fun. She considers herself a globetrotter after living in Edinburgh, Chicago, Paris or Dubai. Her short stories have appeared in several sci-fi online magazines and anthologies. Her first novel From Orange to Blue was published in 2012.

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