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Thursday, March 21, 2013

Snakebit Kudzu by Murray Shugars

Snakebit Kudzu

by Murray Shugars

Copyright 2013 by Dos Madres Press inc.

Dos Madres Press

Loveland OH 45140

Softbound, 57 pages, no price

ISBN 978-1-933675-90-9

Review by Zvi A. Sesling

Murray Shugars presents us with his songs of the south – dogwood, Mississippi heat, mockingbirds. But we also get a bit of Michigan and “Big Lake,” Ravenna and a taste of New Orleans jazz. We also learn Shugars’ version of history: Christopher Marlow shot by a jealous husband in an SUV, some bossa nova poetry that leaves a smile and on and on. There are poems utilizing various devices such as with humor or seriousness or both make his point.

Take for example How To Kill A Tree:

When you decide to fell

the dogwood behind the house,

do it quickly. Saw it at the roots

and watch it fall

Don’t limb the tree—dropping

first the dead branches, then

the dying—and let it stand

alone on that hill, a brare trunk

with two raised arms

cut off at the elbows.

Don’t leave it there

naked in the Mississippi heat,

saying one cool morning

you’ll finish the job.

Or try the poem The Eccentric Motions Of The Bossa Nova

I found the five

unanswered equations of Apollonius of Perga

scrawled on a blank page in the dictionary of God

I found a formula

for the eccentric motions of celestial lovers

and the unrequited desire of planets.

I found the names of conic sections,

the date of each birth and death.

I found the tangents and harmonic

divisions of the bossa nova.

I think Tom Jobim wrote those notes.

In another poem, How To Judge A Poet we learn different views of what it takes to write verse:

When you meet a poet

outside G&L’s in Muskegon, Michigan,

where all the poets eat

the best goddamn chilidogs

anyone has ever had,

Now, if you want to find out how to judge a poet, better grab copy of this book and read the rest of the poem.

Shugars has a way of making his point. He is a different kind of poet, telling Federico Garcia Lorca to come to Vicksburg and walk the National Military Park together, or lump Plato and Ronald Reagan into one poem and in another presents you his bucket list.

Murray Shugars is a poet to savor, read slowly, more than once, sit back in that comfy stuffed chair, then crack a thin smile.

Zvi A. Sesling

Reviewer, Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene

Author, King of the Jungle and Across Stones of Bad Dreams

Editor, Muddy River Poetry Review

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Using Extrusions to Add Horns to the Helmet

This lesson shows you how to create a pair of twisting horns. It uses extrusions and transforms; it also demonstrates spline extrusion as a simple alternative to multiple extrusions.

Once again, apply a Symmetry modifier to mirror the edits you make to one half of the helmet.

Set up the lesson:

  1. Continue working from the previous lesson, or open helmet_03.max.
  2. If you opened the new file, select the helmet, and make sure the Modify panel is active. Click (Use NURMS) to turn it off.

Split the model in half and apply a Symmetry modifier:

  1. On the ribbon Polygon Modeling panel, activate (Polygon). Select the polygons on the left half of the helmet (from your point of view), and then press Delete.
  2. Apply a Symmetry Modifier, and adjust its settings as described in the previous lesson:
    • Axis = Y
    • Flip = on

    On the Modify panel, you can toggle (Show End Result) to make sure the helmet is mirrored correctly.

  3. On the ribbon Polygon Modeling panel, click (Previous Modifier) to go to the Editable Poly level.

Adjust vertices at the base of the horn:

  1. On the ribbon Polygon Modeling panel, activate (Vertex).
  2. On the ribbon Edit panel Constraints group, activate (Constrain To Edge).

    This ensures that the transform of any vertex will slide along the edges of the polygon to which it belongs.

  3. Change the viewport to a Left view. If you need to, click (Zoom Extents) to get a good view of the helmet.
  4. On the main toolbar, activate (Select And Move), then select a vertex in the upper region of the helmet and move it as shown in the next illustration.
  5. Select the vertex that is opposite the central vertex, and move it as well. Also move the vertices above and below the central vertex. The goal is to create a symmetrical shape that is roughly circular.
  6. On the ribbon Edit panel, activate (Constrain To None).
    ImportantWhen you forget that a constraint is on, surprising things can happen when you transform sub-objects. Because of this, it is a good idea to deactivate a constraint as soon as you have finished using it. Also, the buttons in this set behave like radio buttons. You can’t turn a constraint off by clicking its button a second time: You must activate Constrain To None to deactivate the currently active constraint.

Create the base of the horn:

  1. Select the vertex at the center of the circular group of polygons.
  2. On the ribbon Polygon Modeling panel, Ctrl+click (Polygon).

    This automatically selects all the polygons that share the vertex.

  3. Switch the viewport back to a Perspective view, and Orbit so you can see all of the base of the horn.
  4. On the Polygons panel, Shift+click (Inset).
  5. On the Inset caddy, drag the Amount spinner (the second control) to a value of approximately 0.25, and then click (OK).

    This creates an inset edge for the selected polygons.

Use extrusion and bevel to create the socket for the horn:

  1. On the Polygons panel, Shift+click (Extrude).
  2. On the first control of the caddy (extrusion type), choose Group from the drop-down menu.
  3. Set Extrusion Height to approximately 3.0, and then click (OK).
  4. On the Polygons panel, Shift+click (Bevel).
  5. On the Bevel tool caddy, set the Height value (second control) to 0.25 and the Outline value (third control) to –0.5. Click (OK).

    Helmet horn socket after first extrusion and bevel

  6. On the Polygons panel, Shift+click (Inset).
  7. On the Inset tool caddy, set Amount (the second control) to 0.35, then click (OK).
  8. On the Polygons panel, click (Bevel).
  9. Drag the selected polygons slightly toward the inside of the helmet, then release the mouse and drag slightly down to bevel the extrusion slightly in toward its center. Click once to end the operation.

    Horn socket after second inset and bevel

  10. Click (Extrude) again, and drag away from the helmet until the polygons extend slightly beyond the socket. Click to end the extrude operation.

    Helmet horn ready for spline-based extrusion

    At this point, you could continue to create the horn by using the Move, Rotate, and Scale tools, coupled with the Extrude, Bevel, and Inset polygon tools. Instead, you will guide the extrusion by means of a path.

Draw a spline for extruding the horn:

  1. On the Create panel, click (Shapes), then on the Object Type rollout, click Line.
  2. On the Creation Method rollout, choose Smooth for both Initial Type and Drag Type.
  3. Press Alt+W to view all four viewports, and in the Top view draw a line extending from the horn socket. Click, drag, and click again, until you have created a line of four or five vertices. Right-click to end Line creation.
  4. In the Front view, move the line along its Y axis until it is centered on the horn socket. Move it along the X axis too, if you need to.
  5. Go to the Modify panel Selection rollout, and activate (Vertex).
  6. Maximize the Perspective view and move the line’s vertices until they form the shape of the horn you want to create.
  7. Double-check and refine your Line edits in the other viewports.

    Left view

  8. Click (Vertex) once more to turn it off.

Extrude the horn:

  1. Select the helmet, then on the ribbon Polygon Modeling panel, click (Previous Modifier) to go to the Editable Poly level.
  2. Activate (Polygon), then click (Show End Result) to turn it on.
  3. On the Polygons panel drop-down panel, Shift+click Extrude On Spline.

    The caddy controls for spline extrusion are more numerous than for most caddies.

  4. Click the last of the controls, Pick Spline, and then click the spline you drew earlier.

    After you click the spline, 3ds Max grows horns, but these have no taper, yet.

  5. (Optional.) On the caddy, click Extrude Along Spline Align to turn it on.

    3ds Max aligns the spline to the normals of the original faces, making the horns more perpendicular to the rest of the helmet. This might or might not be a good effect, depending on the spline you drew.

    NoteYou can also try adjusting the values of Twist and Rotation (available only when Align is turned on).
  6. Change the value of Taper Amount to about –0.5, then click (Apply And Continue).

    3ds Max extrudes the horns still further. This is easier to see in other viewports, but you can also navigate the Perspective view, as shown in this illustration.

  7. Change the Taper Amount so the horns come to a point (for the illustrated helmet, the value was –0.955). Click (OK) to finalize these changes and finish creating the horns.

    By extruding the horns along a path, you saved yourself a great deal of back-and-forth between the transform and polygon modeling tools.

  8. On the ribbon Polygon Modeling panel, click (Polygon) again to turn it off.

Make the helmet a single object once again:

  1. On the Edit panel, make sure (Use NURMS) is off. NURMS smoothing needs to be off before you transform the helmet into an Editable Poly: Otherwise, you wind up with a model that has far too many faces.
  2. In a viewport, right-click the helmet, and from the Transform (lower-right) quadrant, choose Convert To Convert To Editable Poly, then press F4 to turn off edged faces.

    The Symmetry modifier is removed and all the mirrored polygons are integrated into the model.

  3. Press F4 again to turn edged faces back on.

Save your work:

Using Freeform Tools to Add Spikes to the Helmet

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Friday, April 16, 2010

Rulemaking Matters! Video Contest | US EPA

Almost every aspect of our lives is touched by federal regulations. Even before you leave the house in the morning, government regulations help set the price of the coffee you drink, the voltage of electricity your alarm clock uses, and the types of programming allowed on the morning news. But many Americans don't understand how rules are made or how they can get involved in the process.

We know how rules are made: At random.
And we know how to get involved in the process: Either (a) Get elected, or (b) Be important enough to someone ELSE's election that they'll reward you with a nice cushy appointment to some lucrative regulatory agency.

Did I leave anything out?

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Monday, April 12, 2010

TV Anchor Falls off Chair - CBS Cares

Wherever a television presenter overbalances and falls off her chair, the Internet is there.

P.S. If you've ever wondered if those people who appear to be in the room behind the anchor are real, wonder no more.

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Sunday, January 13, 2008

Changes in Urine Color

A patient came in today panicked because his urine had turned red. This is a frightening experience for most patients, and of course the doctor should be consulted for this condition. There are several medical conditions which may cause changes in the color of urine ranging from red to orange to brown. However, there are also some benign causes such as the types of food that have been consumed, as well as any food colorings, over-the-counter or prescription medications, or diagnostic dyes that were recently ingested.

Althought this is probably more detail than you would ever want to know about your urine, here is a very complete review by Dr. Martha Terris of the possible causes of different urine colors.

The normal color of urine ranges from light yellow to dark amber, depending on the concentration of solutes in the urine. The more dehydrated that the body is the darker yellow the color of the urine may look. Urochrome is the name of the pigment that gives urine its characteristic yellow color. Other urinary complaints may accompany changes in urine color. Such symptoms include urinary urgency (having to hurry to get to the bathroom), frequent urination, burning pain with urination (indicative of infection), or colicky pains (suggesting kidney stones).

Pink or red urine should prompt an immediate visit to your doctor. The first test is a dipstick for blood. A positive dipstick for blood implies the presence of red cells, free hemoglobin (from broken down red blood cells), or myoglobin (from broken down muscle cells).

Red blood cells in the urine may be from kidney loss (termed "glomerular" blood cells) in patients with renal disease. Red cells in the urine of these individuals will usually be misshapen and accompanied by protein in the urine. Normal appearing red blood cells (termed "epithelial" red blood cells to identify them as cells coming from the lining of the urinary tract instead of the kidney) may be present during a urinary tract infection, urinary stone, or urinary malignancy. Red blood cells are common in the urine after urologic procedures and occasionally following catheter placement. Complete urine testing (called "urinalysis") for the presence of bacteria and white blood cells, urine culture, cystoscopy, CT scan, and/or other imaging studies may be necessary to clarify the source of the blood.

If the urine is red and acid but does not contain hemoglobin, myoglobin, or red blood cells, suspect an indicator dye such as phenolphthalein (the laxative in ExLax) in which case the red should disappear when the urine is alkalinized with a few drops of potassium hydroxide. Blackberries and beets can turn acid urine red due to the presence of anthrocyanin, while rhubarb, anthraquinone laxatives, and some diagnostic dyes will redden urine only when it is alkaline. The anesthetic, propofol, has been reported to cause pink coloration of the urine, particularly in alcoholics. Other medications that can cause red urine are the phenytoin, phenothiazines, e.g., Compazine. Red urine can also be caused by chronic lead and mercury poisoning.

Orange urine may be produced by phenazopyridine (Pyridium) or ethoxazene (Serenium), both of which are used as urinary tract anesthetics to diminish urinary discomfort. Rifampin, phenacetin, sulfasalazine, Vitamin C, riboflavin, and carrots will also turn urine dark yellow to orange. An opaque orange-pink urine color can result from abundant uric acid crystals which can be seen in acidic urine of patients who have undergone intestinal by-pass surgery or are receiving chemotherapy for malignancy.

Blue or green urine may be caused by a blue dye such as methylene blue, a component in several medications (Trac Tabs, Urised, Uroblue) used to reduce symptoms of bladder inflammation or irritation. Administration of the dye, indigo carmine, turns the urine green and can last for several days if renal function is poor. While more often reported to cause pink urine, the anesthetic, propofol, has also been reported to cause green coloration of the urine. Amitriptyline, indomethacin, resorcinol, triamterine, cimetidine, phenergan, and several multivitamins also lend a blue-green tint to the urine. An inherited form of high calcium (called "familial hypercalcemia") can result in blue urine, which has lent this disease the nickname "blue diaper syndrome". Another metabolic disorder, indicanuria, can cause blue urine due to tryptophan indole metabolites. A blue pigment may also be produced by infection with the bacteria Pseudomonas . Dark green pigmentation, especially if associated with air (known as "pneumaturia"), urinary tract infection, and/or solid particles in the urine, can be caused by bile when there is a fistula between the urinary tract and the intestines.

Brown or black urine (not due to myoglobin or bilirubin) may be caused by excessive L-dopa or melanin excretion as well as copper or phenol poisoning. Ingestion of large amounts of rhubarb, fava beans, or aloe can cause dark brownish black urine. Metabolites of the antihypertensive medication methyldopa (Aldomet) may turn black on contact with bleach (which is often present in toilet bowls) . Other medications causing brown or brown-black urine are chloraquine and primaquine, furazolidone, metronidazole, nitrofurantoin, cascara/senna laxatives, methocarbamol, and sorbitol. Contamination with povidone-iodine (Betadine) solution or douche can turn urine brown. Melanin and melanogen, found in the urine of patients with melanoma, will darken standing urine from the air-exposed surface downward. Alcaptonia, a rare hereditary disease, will turn the urine dark after being exposed to the air over a period of time due to the presence of homogentisic acid. Urinary hydroxyphenylpyruvic acid excretion due the metabolic disorder tyrosinosis will also cause urine to be brown-black in color. In porphyria cutanea tarda, the urine will appear reddish brown in natural light but fluoresces pink under ultraviolet light.

White or cloudy urine is most commonly a result of phosphaturia. This is a benign condition in which excess phosphate crystals form in urine. Adding a drop of acetic acid to the urine sample will result in immediate clearing of the urine. Phosphaturia is usually intermittent, occurring following a meal or after ingesting a large quantity of milk. White urine is sometimes due to pyuria (abundant white blood cells) in association with an infection of the urinary tract. White cloudy urine can rarely be due to chyluria (lymph fluid), resulting from a communication between the lymphatic system and the urinary tract.

Please contact your physician with any concerns that you may have.

Reference: Dr. Martha Terris.
Photo: courtesy of News Target

Margaret said...

great website info, we were sure that it was the propofol for our patient and now we can convince the physicians. Thanks ICU RN's

7:05 AM

yas m said...

What about tiny white particles floating in urine? Is that something to be concerned about? My urine is not extremely cloudy and the color is a normal yellow but I have noticed small white particles floating. I don't have any burning or pain or anything that would indicate an infection.

Dr. Taraneh Razavi said...

yas, you should consult your doctor and do a urinalysis test.

Anonymous said...

What about blackish color? I was suffering from fever and body ache (including stomach pain) from the last 3 days. I had crocin and Pudin Hara. I am feeling bit better now but just noticed the color of Urine. Do I need to consult the doctor or is it normal because of Pudin Hara?

With Thanks!

shaun said...

too bad this entire post was taken from the stanford school of medicine's urology website...tisk, tisk, tisk...I'll be emailing them next. You should know better.

Dr. Taraneh Razavi said...

Shaun, I'm glad to see that you are so vigilant, however, this post actually was written by Dr. Martha Terris, whom I know and who gave me permission (in writing) to post it on the blog. She is referenced as the source of this article at the end of the post. Btw she is an absolutely excellent urologist in case you ever need one, but she is no longer at Stanford unfortunately.

p.s. all my posts list their references.


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A Dream About Avenged Sevenfold

I don’t remember much, but I do remember being on the stage in my school’s gymnasium. I was playing guitar to an Avenged Sevenfold song(I don’t remember which one), with some of my friends I had already formed a band with in real life. And then, out of no where my homeroom teacher told me to look to my left, and the band members of Avenged Sevenfold walked in and got on the stage with us. We played alongside, and Synsyter Gates was beside me, playing his guitar with me, looking down at me smiling. I had looked out into the crowd and saw my teachers, family, and boyfriend’s family out in the audience all smiling at me like I’d just graduated with honors.

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To play along with a famous band means that you nurse the desire to be famous. You have the potential to rock the big stage. So, if you get a break, you can take the stage by storm. Thus, the dream has a happy note as it symbolizes the fact that you are going to love to share the spotlight and if you put in the best effort, you have every chance to come out on the top of the different challenges. The dream is not hinting that you would actually be performing with the band; however, it does mean that you have the stomach for the big stage and you would come out on top on numerous occasions.

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M. J. Driscoll

M. J. Driscoll

Den Arnamagnæanske Samling
Nordisk Forskningsinstitut
Københavns Universitet
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KU staff profile

I am senior lecturer in Old Norse philology (norrøn filologi) at the Arnamagnæan Institute (Den Arnamagnæanske Samling), a section of Nordisk Forskningsinstitut, a research institute within the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Copenhagen. From September 2016 I will be Leverhulme Visiting Professor at the Irish and Celtic Studies Research Institute at Ulster University's Magee Campus in Derry, Northern Ireland. I am also Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Iceland.

Research interests:

Title page of Lbs 896 4to, Ein nitsa[mle]g Sögu og Rímna Bók, til fródleiks og skémtunar af ímsum samanteknnar af fornum frædibókum og framandi Ritgjördum, hefur að Giöf Lögrettumannsins Monseiur Thorkéls Jóns sonar Anno 1791 þann 15. Janúari med rettu eignast Sigrijdur sál. Sigurdardóttur Hansen; written 1756-75 by Þorkell Jónsson á Hrauni.

My research interests include manuscript and textual studies, particularly in the area of Old and Early-Modern Icelandic. But where traditional textual criticism sought to establish on the basis of the surviving manuscripts of a given work the text closest to the original — even in cases where the question of there ever having been an original could be said to be doubtful, or irrelevant — I prefer to see each manuscript not as a flawed representation of a putative Urtext but rather as a text in its own right, just as worthy of study as any other. I believe furthermore that no text can be dissociated from its physical embodiment, and that one must therefore always look at the whole book — including features such as format, layout, script, decoration and binding, as well as the surrounding texts — and the material processes through which it was produced and consumed, processes involving potentially large numbers of people over long periods of time. By shifting focus from the origins of literary works to their materiality — their existence as artefacts, shaped and reshaped by human hands — I believe we can achieve a better understanding of the structure and mechanisms of the production, dissemination and reception of not just of the chirographically transmitted Icelandic material with which I have chiefly worked, but of texts of any kind, from any place or period.

My current research projects include studies of Guðbrandur Sturlaugsson á Hvítadal (1820-1897) and Magnús Jónsson í Tjaldanesi (1835-1922), both from the Breiðafjörður region of western Iceland, ordinary people with little or no formal education who, seemingly for their own pleasure, spent much of their time copying out texts of all kinds, principally sagas, some going back to the middle ages, some more recent, the bulk of which never made it into print but circulated entirely in handwritten form.

Stories for all time, Silvia Hifhagel and M. J. Driscoll

Another major project is Stories for all time: The Icelandic Fornaldarsagas, a four-year research project funded by the Velux Foundation the aim of which has been to survey the entire transmission history of the Fornaldarsögur Norðurlanda and produce new digital editions of some of the principal manuscripts in which they are preserved. The project's chief deliverable is an electronic catalogue of all the manuscripts in which Fornaldarsaga texts are found, containing information on their format and layout, the other texts they contain and, where known, when, where and for and/or by whom they were written. Ancillary to this is a fully searchable bibliography of editions, translations and secondary material, initiated by me but compiled principally by the ever assiduous Silvia Hufnagel (pictured here). Funding for the project has now finished, but the work goes on. A volume of essays based on papers given at our final conference, The legendary legacy, held in September 2014, is in preparation.

Other research projects and networks in which I am currently or have until recently been involved are:

I also participated in the EU-funded projects MASTER (Manuscript Access through Standards for Electronic Records, 1999-2001), CHLT (Cultural Heritage Language Technologies, 2002-2005), ENRICH (European Networking Resources and Information concerning Cultural Heritage, 2007-2009) and DARIAH (Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities, 2008-2011).

I have, in addition, a long-standing involvement in the work of the Text Encoding Initiative. I served on the TEI Council from 2001 until 2010, during which time I acted as chair of the Task Force on Manuscript Description (2003-5), whose job was the definition of a module for the description of text-bearing artefacts, and of the Personography working group (2006-7), which was charged with defining special purpose elements for the markup of biographical and prosopographical data. The work of both these groups has been integrated into the latest version of the TEI Guidelines, TEI P5.

Academic qualifications:

I hold degrees from the University of Stirling (BA (Hons.) 1979), Háskóli Íslands (Cand.mag. 1988) and Oxford University (D.Phil. 1994). I also have a certificate in Practical Bulgarian (level A1) from the Cyril and Methodius University of Veliko Turnovo (2004) of which I am particularly proud (not least as it included eight hours instruction in Bulgarian folk dancing).

My publications include articles on various aspects of pre-modern Icelandic literature, editions and translations of a number of medieval and post-medieval Icelandic works, as well as the monograph The unwashed children of Eve: The production, dissemination and reception of popular literature in post-Reformation Iceland (London, 1997).

Some recent and forthcoming publications:

For a complete list, including links to those available on-line, click here.

Since 2003 I have been joint general editor (with Margaret Clunies Ross, Mats Malm and, since 2014, Annette Lassen) of The Viking Collection: Studies in Northern Civilization, published by the University Press of Southern Denmark, and recently I joined the editorial board of Narrative Traditions in Transmission, a new series to be published by Brepols. I am a member of the advisory boards of several journals, including Gripla, published by Stofnun Árna Magnússonar in Reykjavík, the Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies Bulletin, published by the Hiob Ludolf Centre for Ethiopian Studies at Hamburg University, and the Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative.

Conferences and workshops:

I get around a fair bit, and have given lectures and organised or participated in workshops and summer schools in some 25 countries, principally in Europe, but also places further afield, such as North America, Australia, Russia, Japan and Turkey. The lectures and conference papers have generally been on topics relating to Icelandic manuscripts, while the workshops have mostly dealt with various aspects of text encoding.

Some recent and forthcoming appearances:

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I am co-organiser, with Ragnheiður Mósesdóttir, of the conference The care and conservation of manuscripts, held every two years here in Copenhagen. In 2004 Anne Mette Hansen and I inaugurated the Arnamagnæan summer school in manuscript studies, held alternately in Copenhagen and Reykjavík.

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Since the late 70s I have dabbled in photography, mostly land- and cityscapes, as well as things of the peeling paint school; it has always seemed to me that, in the right light, there are few things more beautiful than corrugated iron (the image shown here, of a roof in Fjólugata, Reykjavík, was taken in the summer of 1981).

Apart from that, and drinking wine, I have no hobbies worthy of mention. I do, however, have enthusiasms; these currently include, but are not limited to, music by contemporary composers such as Arvo Pärt, Pēteris Vasks, Valentin Silvestrov, Sofia Gubaidulina and Giya Kancheli. I'm quite fond of Bach, too.

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To shave or not to shave, that is the question:
Whether ’tis Nobler in the mind to suffer
The Slings and Arrows of outrageous Fortune,
Or to take Arms against a Sea of Leg Hair…

Brilcream Spokespear, 2012.

I’ve been asked a few times lately if I am going to shave my legs. People look at me, and the hair on my legs, and they think, you can’t be serious about cycling with all that fur on your body.

You knows what’s serious? Viking Lumberjack Dudes. Totally serious.

Totally not gay.

If you have never seen the proud timber, my glorious thatch, my O.E. leg warmers, think Neanderthal. You’ll be close enough. A girl once asked me if I could tell if I was shaving my ass or my face?

She totally didn’t get a Christmas card this year.

I have not taken a razor to the legs in years. Years. In fact, upon reflection, I honestly don’t know how long it’s been. At least seven or eight summers past. Somewhere just shy of a decade. A big, hairy decade. Long enough that the reasons I ever bothered with such silliness have dissolved into the fading wisps of memory.

That, and I’ve got early-onset Alzheimer’s from all the canned beer.

He drinks his vodka neat.

About those legs. I just can’t seem to commit. I can’t stand shaving my face more than a few times a week these days. And, yes, I can tell the difference between my face and my ass most mornings! (Full disclosure: I have never shaved my ass. Count me among the minority here at DC in that regard.)

I cannot think of one possible benefit I’d realized from shaving my legs. OK, one. When I was smooth as a babies bottom, I noticed that crashing upon smooth legs made for a less gruesome wound and faster healing. Either that or I was high and didn’t know what the fuck was happening. Nevermind.

The pros and cons of this cycling specific oddity has been long discussed in various important forums. This one comes to mind:

Stand-out quote: “It always just seemed stupid to me.” —Multitime Leadville Trail 100 winner Dave Wiens.

When Dave Wiens talks, people should listen. Dude has more class in his big toe than Lance Armstrong has in his entire body. (Oh, snap.)

Another problem for the hairy folk out there (i.e., your humble author) is that where does one stop with the razor?  At some point you have to stop grooming and just let Mother Nature reign free. There will be hairy bits, hopefully well ensconced within the safe trapping of multi-colored lycra. (Which is really like throwing a plastic tarp over a crime scene, isn’t it?)

Jokes about shaving my ass-face/face-ass aside, have you ever witnessed the glory which is Hair Suit?

Gay bear style, son.

When you got it, you flaunt it. Right? I mean, why keep all this to myself? I gotta share it with the world.

Or something. Here’s the problem: When you look like a friggin’ bear, you pretty much have to shave everything if you’re going to shave anything. Otherwise you end up with a jarring line of demarcation where the razor stopped doing it’s magic. It’s like a wall of fur about four inches above the tan lines on your thighs. I mean, it’s ridiculous. Non one should have to live like that. Not you, not me. No one.

The alternative? Keep heading north with the razor until you hit your forehead. What’s the problem? You end up shaving your entire friggin’ body because there is a seamless carpet of hair which covers your entire friggin’ body. It is a binary choice, my friends, either a zero or a one. The one represents the thin blade. And I chose zero.

If you walked away from this information overload totally confused, you are not alone. I woke up confused and will undoubtedly go to sleep tonight confused. Ask anyone, I’m dumber than a box of hammers.

It’s a thick wicket. Sorta like my leg hair.

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The man, the legend. The guy who started it all back in the Year of Our Lord Beer, 2000, with a couple of pages worth of idiotic ranting hardcoded on some random porn site that would host anything you uploaded, a book called HTML for Dummies (which was completely appropriate), a bad attitude (which hasn’t much changed), and a Dell desktop running Win95 with 64 mgs of ram and a six gig hard drive. Those were the days. Then he went to law school. Go figure. Flagstaff, Arizona, USA

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  1. I inherited a sweater from my father and wear it proudly 24/7/365. What I think is sad is people who can’t grow a proper beard or mustache but sport it anyway. I don’t shave my face all winter and appreciate the insulation. I work blue collar though, and appearance is not too important. One of my favorite blog posts ever was How To Avoid the Bummer Life and Stevil’s celebration of mustaches in cycling.

  2. Unless you are a pro who is getting free massages every day and are in danger of getting f’d up up in a nasty crash every day during the racing season, there is no reason to shave other than cosmetic – which is weak ass.

  3. ‘When you look like a friggin’ bear, you pretty much have to shave everything if you’re going to shave anything. Otherwise you end up with a jarring line of demarcation where the razor stopped doing it’s magic.’

    The struggle, the contemplation, the decision. Great words.

  4. Clippers in the summer to minimize tick exposure? That’s a yes for me. I live in tick country.

  5. I haven’t shaved for nearly a decade. Back when I was thin and fit (and racing) it seemed like the thing to do. Psychologically, it made me FEEL faster, but I’m sure that would fall under the placebo effect. At this point, I’m fairly certain that no one over 190lbs (and I’m 205lbs) should shave, especially if they aren’t racing… unless it’s their fetish. In which case, do what you do. I won’t judge you.

  6. I gotta say, saved gams do better under massage, if you’ve got that as part of your plan. However old cyclist who don’t ride and still shave make me sad.

  7. I used to shave because of all the little cuts I would get in my legs from all the glass and sharp gravel on the roads. Then I got fenders and learned to make effective mud flaps from milk jugs and I don’t get cuts on my legs from road debris anymore. I stopped shaving after that. And I don’t shave anything between 10/31 and 3/1 the next year, because even in TX it gets cold in the winter, well in this part of TX, anyway.

  8. I only shave my gems so that I can rub out that easy one into a tubesock right before a race.

  9. I don’t shave my legs either. I did for a couple of months 5 years ago and hated it.
    I’m with Big Jonny on that fact that I even hate shaving my face and only get around to it about 3 times a week.

    Shaving to make road rash heal faster seems like a reason to shave but keep in mind that Lycra won’t save you from road rash so if you’re going to shave your gams then you have to shave every part of them, including the sides of your hips.
    Because I don’t know about you but that’s where I get the worst of it when I crash.
    No shaving for me!!


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Sex Offender Looks To Close Down Facebook Page

"facebook court case sex offender"A convicted sex offender has asked the High Court to remove a Facebook page which named him as a paedophile to be removed from the social network.

According to a report from the BBC the lawyers for the man has said that the page presented his client with the risk of being hunted down by Facebook users.

The Facebook page “Keeping our kids safe from predators” was found by the man to contain a picture of himself followed by abusive comments about him, although these comments and photographs have since been removed.

The lawyer for the unnamed man not only want the page to removed  completely from Facebook but they also want the identities of the people who set it up to be revealed.

The defendant is claiming that the site as misused his private information and has led to harassment and a breach of his human rights.

The man is currently out of prison on license after serving time for committing sexual offences.

Some of the offensive messages that were posted by Facebook users under the picture of the man were read out to the court.

According to the BBC one of the comments said: “So the man, or I mean mess of a human being, that’s taken this page to court, he must want to be the head paedophile and rule over all sex offenders.  he will be like a god to them.”

Another message said: “put him down like an animal” while another Facebook user said that they knew how to get around the ban on identifying the man – who is currently not able to be named for legal reasons.

The lawyer for the man said that the Facebook page had and continued to cause her client anxiety and fear.

She said: “The risk, the plaintiff would say, is that this sort of vitriol will translate into physical action of some type either against the plaintiff personally or against him and his property.”

She added that the picture of the man had been posted onto the Facebook page without his approval: “In essence the plaintiff is seeking that the page be removed in its entirety.

“There is a real risk, we say, that it will facilitate people to come together or to obtain information, maybe through a private message facility, to find out where he lives and those with criminal intent will carry out some sort of reprisal attack on the plaintiff or his property.”

Peter Hopkins from Facebook Ireland said: “will it give the plaintiff any benefit to shut down this site and deprive 4,000 legitimate users the freedom of expression, the vast amount of which is legitimate debate on sex offenders.”

The case draws to attention the difficulty in allowing the freedom of speech while also protecting the rights of individuals.

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    Lela December 5, 2012, 12:42 pm

    Ummm easy delete the plaintiff should delete his account and then no one should be able to track him down.

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      Lela December 5, 2012, 12:43 pm

      sorry Plaintiff should delete his FB account. Typo error there.

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Chinese wayfarers must have held these repellent belts of salt-coated terraces and the equally trying sea-bed between them.

That the name Po-lung-tui was applied also to an area much wider than that actually covered by those ` dragon-shaped ' white terraces was rightly recognized by M. Chavannes when discussing the mention made of them in the Wei lio, though the absence of adequate geographical data would not allow him to locate them correctly. This wider application is proved by the passage quoted by him from the Former Han Annals, which says : ` straight to the west of Tun-huang, outside the barriers (kuan) [of Yü-mên and Yang] there is the Po-lung-tui desert it! and the lake P`u-ch`ang g A ! '.24 The reference shows that the geographical knowledge of Han times placed side by side, as they are in reality, the two areas, corresponding to the dried-up portion of the old sea-bed and to that still containing marshes. But by itself the passage would not help us to locate the ` White Dragon Mounds ', and as it is the only other reference to them that I am able to trace in the texts accessible to me, we may turn now to the antiquarian question still left open, viz. as to where exactly the ` route of the centre ' is likely to have passed through the

This question, which the textual references do not help to settle, is equally incapable at present of definite solution by the available archaeological evidence. But if we carefully compare the latter with the topographical facts as our surveys recorded in Map No. 32 show them, we may, I think, arrive at certain conclusions considerably restricting the limits within which the line of the ancient route is to be looked for. Good fortune—or was it, perhaps, more than that ?—had made us come upon unmistakable relics of ancient traffic just at those points where the route coming from Lou-lan entered the western belt of salt-coated terraces and again where it passed out of the eastern belt. I refer to the finds of Han coins, the dagger and other small objects at the Mesa to the east of Camp ci, and to our discoveries where we emerged from the Yârdang belt on the eastern side of the dried-up sea and approached Camp civ.

Looking at the configuration of both Yârdang belts on either side of the sea-bed, as our survey shows them in Map No. 32. B, C. 3, it is easy to realize that if we had continued on our eastern course from the above-mentioned Mesa to the edge of the Yârdang belt and had thence struck across the sea-bed with a bearing approximately south-by-east, we should have been moving on a line which would have brought us straight to the place of the first coin find on the eastern side. On this line, the edge of the opposite Yârdang-belt with its far easier going could be reached by a crossing of the difficult expanse of hard salt only a couple of miles longer than our actual crossing between Camps cii and ciii. At the same time the total marching distance would be greatly reduced as compared with our circuitous route farther north. This saving is obvious from the map and could scarcely be less than fifteen miles. On the other hand, a course from the same assumed starting-point with a more southerly bearing would certainly have considerably lengthened the extent of that trying surface of salt crust which travellers by the ancient route had to cover. For our survey shows that the eastern belt of ` Dragon Mounds ', with the far softer shôr between them, ends close to the south of the line previously indicated, and that beyond it the salt-encrusted sea-bed steadily widens.

It would have been quite impossible for me, for obvious practical reasons, to turn back from Camp civ in order to search for traces of the ancient route where it was likely to have entered the Yârdang belt to the west or north-west of our last coin finds. But when a year later the opportunity offered of letting Afrâz-gul carry out supplementary surveys to the east and south-east of the once

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After  a few days of rumors, TSN is now reporting the finalization of a deal between the Sharks and Jamal Mayers.  Mayers, a big forward who has played most of his career with the Blues, is clearly meant to be a physical presence on the fourth line, probably with Scott Nichol.  For $600k, this is an upgrade over Brad Staubitz.  Mayers hasn’t played an AHL game since 1999, so those that would want to paint this guy as a marginal NHLer aren’t being accurate.  His best year points wise was only two years ago with St. Louis, 12 goals and 15 assists.  And he has traditionally played quite a bit of PK time, not much this past season, but 1:46/game with the Leafs in 08-09, and 3rd on the team in SH ice time with the Blues in 07-08.

I don’t have any problem with Mayers as a player, and we could use some toughness with Staubitz gone.  But what about Frazer McLaren?  I’m still a big booster of this guy, and desperately hope that this signing doesn’t relegate McLaren to the AHL again this year.  McLaren did have 6 points in 23 games for the big club last year (a slightly better scoring rate than Mayers) and had 15 points in 52 games for the Worchester Sharks, with some PK time as well.  It might not be the move I would make for this team, but it certainly fits Doug Wilson’s pattern of signing character veterans.  Either that or he’s going for the All-NHL Eyebrow team, and McLaren just doesn’t cut it.

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Our top selling pant - these are hard-wearing and long-lasting. Use and abuse them, they can handle it!

•  12-ounce, 100% ring spun cotton washed duck
•  Dungaree fit features a full seat and thigh
•  Sits slightly above the waist
•  Multiple tool and utility pockets
•  Left leg has hammer loop
•  Two reinforced back pockets
•  Stronger sewn-on-seam belt loops
•  19" straight leg openings fit over work boots
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Rated 4.8 out of 5 by 314 reviewers.
Rated 5 out of 5 by Daily wear The B11 is part of my daily wear. I can not imagine even trying to wear something else. Fits great, comfortable, I move about with ease, and very durable. July 26, 2016
Rated 5 out of 5 by Durable, Comfortable, reasonably priced. the summary states it! the three other brands that I still have, do not and did not retain color or form for time period I believed warranted. May 1, 2016
Rated 5 out of 5 by incorrect size on the outside labels on one pair One of the pants had an inside label of one size, outside stickers and bag listed a different size. Had to pay for the shipping fee to return them to you. Not fair April 28, 2016
Rated 5 out of 5 by Tough pants Great work pants for the tough job April 11, 2016
Rated 5 out of 5 by The Three About STYLE NO. B11 Washed Duck Work Dungaree I have built my style around two things, well sometimes three; Comfort is one. You have to move around so I am not talking about silk pajamas comfort. The everyday, working anywhere and in all conditions type of comfort. Durability takes two. Your pockets have to last. Holes in the knees after three weeks? I don't think so. Busted belt loop in six weeks. Not in my drawer. About the three sometimes. If I can take a pair of work pants and double up to wear them to a casual (after washing of course) all the better. Nothing to do with fashion. Just my style. I have never owned a pair of Cahartt pants. After some review reading though, I decided to try them out. So far so good. Now mind you I have only had them for three weeks and three washings so the durability results will be revealed in part II (Revenge of the Review?). The comfort level is easily in my style. Wear them to work, wear them out and be comfortable. That's two out of three. Now for the bad news. The back pockets could be deeper. They are adequate for a standard wallet. No wads of cash these days. Receipts and a couple of cards fill it. Large phones (5 inch screen or more) stick out. No big deal unless you're a poser. The side belt loops. I carry a multi tool all the time. Just a habit. If I wear it in front of the side belt loop I have a hard time reaching into that front pocket. If I wear it behind the side belt loop it tends to slide to the back loop and be unnatural. Did I say bad news? I guess it's only nit pickin’. I like these pants alot. So does my Girl. I don't have to hide them though. I bought two more pairs just in case. JayG March 26, 2016
Rated 5 out of 5 by Please make some needed changes Ive been wearing these for years. They are uniform pants at work.. Please make these pants with a gusseted crotch and make wider belt loops for a better fitting pants. The belt loops need to be like the style of pants b151 . With these changes made you will have the ultimate work pant...I get alot of feed back from many contractors and they all agree this is the only change needed to be the best Pant out there March 20, 2016
Rated 5 out of 5 by One tuff pair of pants yet comfortable! Once you've found what works it makes sense to repeat that trend. I have always felt these pants were more than worth their price and they'll outlast the life of almost everything else on the market. March 16, 2016
Rated 5 out of 5 by Trusted original These are the same great pants they have always been. I will continue to wear them for years to come. March 12, 2016
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