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'The Knick': Cinemax's Quality Play Opens Its Eyes To Race

Aug 8, 2014
Originally published on August 8, 2014 1:33 pm

Cinemax's The Knick is an amazing bit of TV filmmaking: a gritty look at a turn of the century hospital, with explicit scenes showing how brutal early discoveries in surgery and medicine must have been in the year 1900.

But as much as I savored director Steven Soderbergh's innovative way of making a period drama feel modern, alongside Clive Owen's masterful take on a gifted, driven surgeon who is secretly a cocaine addict, my eye was drawn to a different character: Andre Holland's Dr. Algernon Edwards.

Edwards is a gifted, Harvard-trained surgeon who becomes the assistant chief of surgery at the Knickerbocker Hospital in New York, circa 1900. Trained in London and Paris, he takes the job at the insistence of the Robertsons, a wealthy family that bankrolls the institution.

He is also a black man, the son of the maid who has served the Robertsons for many years. And his appointment opens up a wide range of storylines often ignored by period films and TV shows that downplay race and avoid casting prominent nonwhite characters.

In fact, The Knick joins HBO's Boardwalk Empire as a show that seems juiced by the wider range of plotlines and stories allowed by diversifying the cast. Suddenly, a program that could have been stuck on one culture shifts, offering a broader look at race, class, gender, science and society in ways that turn storytellers into kids surveying a particularly large candy store. See a preview here and here.

The Knick would be a powerful series even without this advantage. Soderbergh, with co-creators Jack Amiel and Michael Begler, has developed a 10-episode series about a world on the verge of modernity. Doctors in the hospital are trying to learn how to successfully complete procedures we now take for granted, such as Cesarean sections and appendectomies, struggling for techniques that will not kill their patients.

Owen's determined, talented Dr. John Thackery is a perfect surgeon for these times. Arrogant and unswayed by the pressure of tackling procedures that often leave patients dead, he is skilled, resourceful and buoyed by the hidden use of opiates and cocaine. Injecting the drugs between his toes after late-night sessions in opium dens, he is a man drawn to the chaos of an addict's life, perhaps as a way to handle the pressures of his position.

He is also driven by the death of a mentor, played by Matt Frewer (Max Headroom, Orphan Black), which highlights the toll this brand of medicine can take on its practitioners.

Soderbergh and his writers depict the hospital's underbelly in many ways, from a corrupt administrator stealing for gambling debts to ambulance drivers fighting over corpses that they sell to the hospital for teaching/study purposes.

The director also uses modern music and shooting techniques to lend a contemporary feel to a period story. A camera strapped to Holland's head during a fight scene gives a unique, jarring perspective; handheld cameras lend a jittery, impatient pace to some scenes.

But Dr. Edwards' struggle also brings new layers to the story. Forbidden from joining in surgeries by a dismissive Thackery, the doctor decides to begin secretly treating black patients on his own.

Living in a roach-infested, rundown rooming house where his educated manner is seen as a challenge by some black people, Edwards trains black laundry workers and janitors to serve as nurses and receptionists, giving the area's black residents important access to health care.

Because race has so often been used as a shorthand for class in America, these stories open up new ways of talking about poverty and oppression at the century's turn. And because every period story is also about the time in which it is made, The Knick also gets to make poignant observations about how health systems treat the poor and people of color today.

Like many period films and TV shows — Steven Spielberg's Lincoln and AMC's Hell on Wheels, for instance — racial tolerance is used as a signal to the audience about which characters they should find sympathetic. So when a race riot breaks out after the death of a police officer, one way we learn which characters to like — and not — is how quickly they rush to protect innocent black people injured in the violence.

Boardwalk Empire found similar success last year when it brought on Jeffrey Wright to play the magnetic Harlem drug dealer Valentin Narcisse, setting up a war between him and Michael K. Williams' Chalky White. The conflict — and its thinly veiled references to Marcus Garvey — energized the show so much that both characters are prominently featured in ads for the show's upcoming and final season.

The Knick would be a groundbreaking series even without its race-centered storylines, planting a quality TV flag on Cinemax — which has been described dismissively as "Skinemax" for its late-night, soft-core adult movies.

But Dr. Edwards and his journey add new layers to an already compelling narrative, highlighting the wonderful stories that can come from taking advantage of onscreen diversity instead of avoiding it.

The Knick debuts at 10 p.m. Friday on Cinemax.

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Kansas memorial honors educators killed on the job

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EMPORIA, Kan. (AP) — Three decades ago a 14-year-old student walked into a Kansas junior high school armed with an assault rifle and started firing, killing the school’s principal and wounding two teachers and a student.

On Thursday, the widow of Goddard Junior High School Principal James McGee joined educators from Newtown, Connecticut’s Sandy Hook Elementary School to dedicate a memorial to educators — administrators, teachers, bus drivers and custodians alike — who have been killed while performing their duties, The Emporia Gazette (http://bit.ly/1itHeIn ) reported.

The Memorial to Fallen Educators, located next to the National Teachers Hall of Fame on the Emporia State University campus, will ensure McGee and at least 112 other educators whose lives ended on duty aren’t forgotten, said Crystal McGee, who attended the dedication ceremony with two of her husband’s siblings and two of his children.

“I think that is one of the hard things about loss,” McGee said. “You lose somebody you love and you see the world going on. So it is important to families to know that the world did stop for a moment to remember him.”

The December 2012 Sandy Hook shootings, in which six educators and 20 students were fatally shot by a 20-year-old assailant, were the motivation for the memorial, said Jennifer Baldwin, administrative assistant for the National Teachers Hall of Fame.

Staffers researched educator deaths all the way back to 1764, where they found the first documented slaying of a teacher, she said.

The 113 names on the memorial are what researchers were able to find, but there undoubtedly are more, Baldwin told The Associated Press on Friday — including two new ones that came in since Thursday’s dedication.

“Doing research, you can find thousands of pages of information about who did the shootings, but you might find two tiny paragraphs about the educators who were killed,” she said. “We are trying to change that.”

Those listed on the memorial died in a variety of ways while performing their roles as educators, Baldwin said, including teachers killed in tornadoes, custodians electrocuted while on the job or bus drivers killed in crashes. One of the main criteria for inclusion is that the educator was on the job at the time of death, she said.

For example, of four educators on American Airlines Flight 77 when it crashed into the Pentagon on 9/11, three who were on a school-sanctioned field trip are included on the memorial while the fourth, who was on vacation, is not, Baldwin said.

Liesl Fressola, a Sandy Hook Elementary teacher, tearfully read the names of the six teachers who were killed in the Dec. 14, 2012, massacre. Among them was Victoria Soto, her closest friend at the school.

“I would much rather be here tomorrow to induct her and my other colleagues into the National Teachers Hall of Fame,” Fressola said in a written statement. “But that will never happen.”

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Little Big Town Announce Fall Tour
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Little Big Town's Jimi Westbrook says he and his bandmates are "stoked" about their upcoming album, and "can't wait" to bring their new music to the stage.  The country group has announced plans for "The Pain Killer Tour."

They'll launch the trek in Youngstown, Ohio on November 8th.  Little Big Town will play shows in Atlanta, Denver, Detroit, and nine other cities before bringing the run to a close in Rockford, Illinois on December 13th.

The group has tapped Brett Eldredge and the Brothers Osborne to join them as openers.

Little Big Town's Pain Killer will arrive on October 21st.  The album features the group's current single, "Day Drinking."

Little Big Town's "The Pain Killer Tour" dates

November 8 - Youngstown, Ohio, at the Covelli Centre
November 9 - Cincinnati, Ohio, at the Bank of Kentucky Center
November 13 - Roanoke, Virginia, at the Salem Civic Center
November 14 - Knoxville, Tennessee, at the Knoxville Civic Coliseum
November 15 - Atlanta, Georgia, at The Fox Theatre
November 20 - Denver, Colorado, at the 1st Bank Center
November 21 - Wichita, Kansas, at the Hartman Arena
November 22 - Dallas, Texas, at the Verizon Theatre at Grand Prairie
December 4 - Detroit, Michigan, at the Masonic Temple Detroit
December 5 - Chicago, Illinois, at the Rosemont Theatre
December 6 - Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, at the Soaring Eagle (Brett Eldredge Only)
December 12 - Rochester, Minnesota, at the Mayo Civic Center Arena
December 13 - Rockford, Illinois, at the BMO Harris Bank Center

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Posted: 11 December, 2012

NORFOLK (AP) - A national newspaper says the high school football rivalry between Norfolk Catholic and Pierce is the best in the state. USA Today picked the Class C1 teams as the best high school rivalry in Nebraska after fans voted on three finalists.  Norfolk Catholic and Pierce are perennially two of the top teams in Class C1, and they played for the state title in 2010 and 1999. This year, Pierce handed Norfolk Catholic its only loss of the regular season before Norfolk Catholic beat Pierce in the playoffs en route to the title.  The two other finalists for best football rivalry in Nebraska were Scottsbluff vs. Gering and Millard North vs. Millard South.  Online voting at www.usatodayhss.com will determine whether the Norfolk Catholic-Pierce rivalry is the best one in the Midwest.

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      Free Citizen CPR Courses Offered Across Metro Through Summer

      Area residents wishing to learn how to perform basic CPR can take courses beginning May 30.

      Tulsa Parks and Citizen CPR are joining together to offer the courses in Tulsa, Broken Arrow, Owasso, Bixby and Sand Springs. They will be held at various locations through August.

      All classes are being offered for free with the help of the American Heart Association, EMSA and Cox Radio, Inc. Course will be taught in the AHA's "Family & Friends CPR" format.

      Officials added that participants need no experience before taking the course. Instructors will will teach basic CPR for infants, children, and adults. The hands-on course will also explain how Automated External Defibrillators work and give attendees a chance to try to use an educational AED.

      Dates for the CPR training are:

      5/31 Hicks Park, 3443 S. Mingo, Tulsa

      6/7 Whiteside Park, 4009 S. Pittsburg, Tulsa

      6/14 Owasso YMCA, 8300 Owasso Expwy, Owasso

      6/21 Lacy Park, 2134 N. Madison Pl., Tulsa

      6/28 Case Center, 1050 W. Wekiwa Rd, Sand Springs

      7/5 No Parks Class due to July 4th Holiday

      7/12 Nienhuis*, 3201 N. 9th St., Broken Arrow (1:30-4:00pm)

      7/19 Reed Park, 4233 S. Yukon, Tulsa

      7/26 Whiteside Park, 4009 S. Pittsburg, Tulsa

      8/2 Central, 1500 S. Main, Broken Arrow

      8/9 Bixby Community Center, 211 N. Cabaniss, Bixby

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Youth Waves Story #6 - Dangers of the River Road

Moab, UT – Today, Meagan Lamb from Moab brings us another in our series Youth Waves. Her piece is about the dangers of Highway 128, a 17-mile stretch of road also known as the River Road she thinks about who must drive on it and lives it has taken.


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A Look At The Numbers

from Chris Stevenson at the Toronto Sun,

63 - The number of combined wins for the three California-based NHL teams. Teams used to look forward to a trip through Southern California, but the big Anaheim Ducks (22-7-5) and gritty L.A. Kings (21-7-4) have a combined home record of 22-4-4 (the Ducks still haven’t lost in regulation at home). The Sharks (12-6-6), meanwhile, are 11-1-3 at home this season. That’s a total of 33-5-7 for the home teams on the Left Coast.

6 - The number of teams with a negative goal differential -- there are 16 of them overall -- in the Metropolitain Division, another illustration of how weak the Metro has become compared to other divisions. Of the 16 teams with a negative goal differential, 10 of them reside in the East as of Thursday. Unsurprisingly, the worst goal differential in the league belongs to the Buffalo Sabres at minus-40. Second worst is the N.Y. Islanders at minus-34.

118 - The number of wins Western Conference teams have racked up against its Eastern counterparts as of Thursday. The West is 118-49-20 against the East, led by the Los Angeles Kings and the Vancouver Canucks, who each have 11 wins against the East. Only four East teams have winning records against the West: Boston Bruins, Tampa Bay Lightning, Pittsburgh Penguins and Washington Capitals.

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Marijuana Businessman Sues Wenatchee For Right To Open Retail Store

Jun 4, 2014

Wenatchee issued a marijuana ban counter to Washington state law, one businessman is now suing to open a retail store in the city.
Credit KUOW Photo/Bond Huberman

David Hyde talks with Seattle attorney Hilary Bricken about a lawsuit against the city of Wenatchee, which has banned marijuana businesses. Bricken's client, Shaun Preder, is suing to open a marijuana retail store.


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Austin's Shearwater Soars With 'Animal Joy'

Feb 6, 2012
Originally published on August 6, 2012 9:18 am

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Many singers work in miniature, opting to sketch out small moments or document fragile emotions, then mumble into their own chests to ratchet up the intimacy. Then there's Shearwater, whose far-reaching songs about man's relationship with nature boom and swoop with epic grace and grandeur. Jonathan Meiburg's strident vocals often drop to a high falsetto whisper, but he's not afraid to be audible from the farthest reaches of space, either. For a group of musicians about to embark on a tour with the subtly brilliant, oft-understated Sharon Van Etten, Shearwater is a bold, majestic band with big conceptual ambitions.

Those ambitions led Shearwater to release a mighty trilogy of high-concept albums in recent years: Palo Santo, Rook and The Golden Archipelago, all of which can be arty and graceful or rugged and bombastic in any given moment. With those interlocking works completed, Meiburg is free to head up a somewhat more straightforward rock group on Animal Joy, out Feb. 14. "Animal Life," "You As You Were" and "Immaculate" positively blaze here, gathering power as they accelerate, but Shearwater is still a band led by an intellectually curious bird scientist. Humanity's complex interactions with biology and nature haven't given way to mundane ruminations on love gone wrong, as stormy songs like "Breaking the Yearlings" find Shearwater booming portentously over dire warnings of ominous weather and destructive tides.

Even at its most tender and delicate, Animal Joy pairs Meiburg's brainy proclamations with brawny, searching arrangements: Inventive percussionist Thor Harris leaves his reverberations all over the record, and he's aided by terrific bassist Kimberly Burke and an impressive assortment of guests, including Wye Oak multi-instrumentalist Andy Stack. The common thread binding them all, and binding everything Shearwater does, is a love of big thinking — and a clear understanding that brains and beauty need never be mutually exclusive.

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Wed Sep 9 18:03:54 EDT 2009

  for the first time, i'm doing a manual partitioning install of
debian lenny (5.0.3), where i'm creating a small primary partition
/dev/hda1) for /boot, and the rest of the HD is devoted to a single
LVM PV, which will contain a number of other logical volumes.

  my problem is that, no matter what variation i use, i'm only given
the option of installing LILO as the boot loader, not grub.  it's as
if my selection of partitioning confuses the install process to the
point where it thinks grub is not an option.

  i've googled a fair bit, and one suggestion was to make that /boot
primary partition bootable, which i did, and it made no difference.  i
finally just left LILO in there, after which the install completed,
and the reboot crashed, unable to mount the root filesystem.

  does anyone know what it is about a partitioning selection that
would make a debian install give up on grub as a bootloader option?

Robert P. J. Day                               Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA

        Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry.

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I am currently working on a few new book projects but I'm also planning on refining and adding new content to A Book of Dwarves and shopping it around to a few publishers.


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Saturday, January 14, 2012

She's 3!

Macy turned 3! I still don't feel like she should be three, but I suppose she is. This third birthday was the LAST thing to put in her baby book, I'm still kind of aw struck about that. To celebrate Miss Macy's 3rd Birthday we had a Pizza Party! In attendance we had Grandma and Grandpa Carbonneau, Chris & Kati, their crew, Grandma Gardner, and Kym. We had pizza, cake (Macy picked German Chocolate, smart girl), and some ice cream. The best part of having a birthday party at Mr. G's is their projector/wall to watch a movie! The adults chatted a bit and the kids played with Macy's new toys, watched the movie, and just ran around. It was a great way to celebrate our little girl.

 Macy was super lucky and got some really cool presents! We have her the baby twins to go with her dollhouse, Aunt Kym gave her Moon Sand, Chris and Kati gave her "Brown Bear Brown Bear'' (which she reads ALL the time) and two bracelets, Grandma and Grandpa Carbonneau gave her a velcro sandwich set and a cooker dress (an apron), and Grandma Gardner gave her a Cheerleader Doll. She made out pretty good.

Thank you to everyone that joined us for the party, it was super fun and I'm glad we got to spend it with family!

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Lantern Review: Issue 5

The mule peach thrives
in a Massachusetts greenhouse.
The mule orange survives
February freezes.

Mule: A half-bred tree with no flowers,
a crossed fruit with no seeds,
a mixed man with no sons

III. Hy´brid or Hyb´rid, n. A mongrel. a. Produced by the mixture of two species; mongrel.

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Jadeveon-ClowneyJadeveon Clowney is so good some people believe he has a chance to top Derrick Thomas’ single-season collegiate sack record of 27. Clowney is also so young that he told reporters Thursday he doesn’t remember the former Alabama standout.

“I’m going to try to break that, hopefully,” Clowney said of Thomas’ 27, via The Post & Courier.

The Post & Courier’s Darryl Slater says that when asked, Clowney said he did not remember Thomas.

Thomas was a star linebacker with the Kansas City Chiefs from 1989-1999. He amassed 126.5 sacks in 169 games, including 20 in the 1990 season — seven of which came in one game against the Seattle Seahawks, which is an NFL single-game record. The Hall of Famer was in a car accident on Jan. 23, 2000 and died because of a blood clot two and a half weeks later on Feb. 8.

Clowney, who is turning 20 and entering his junior season as a DE at South Carolina, was only six years old when Thomas died, so it’s understandable why he wouldn’t remember the Chiefs legend. Clowney also said during an interview with ESPN this week that he considers LeBron James the best basketball player because he didn’t really see Michael Jordan play. That’s the difference between a youngster like Clowney and someone like LeBron; James is a sports fan who has taken time to study the history of the game. Clowney could stand to do some of that so he’ll know more about some of the people whose records he will be breaking on his way to a likely Hall of Fame career. And then maybe he won’t make many of us feel so old in the process.

For those who forgot about the awesomeness of Thomas, here’s a video showing his seven sacks against the Seahawks:

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Check out my New York Times post for English Language Learners on art — students complete an interactive about an artist who uses chewing gum for his creations, and I share teaching ideas using online art apps.

I guess I’m feeling energetic this week because I’ve come up with another list that joins my other Websites Of The Year. I expect to take a break after this one and put time into adapting these “Best of…” lists into a page on my website suitable for student self-access.

This list, The Best Art Websites For Learning English, is probably a little more arbitrary than my others. Here, not only are the rankings of which are best is pretty subjective, but the notion of what qualifies as art is, too.

I’ve also included links to examples of how my students have used a couple of these web applications.

There are a ton of art-related sites on the Web. However, I only think a few are excellent tools for language-development and worthy of being on this list. Four are very, very similar, so I couldn’t really distinguish among them. So, for the first time, there’s a four-way tie for first place.

Here are my choices:

Number six is the Language Guide Art Page. As in The Best Music Websites For Learning English, it’s pretty important for English Language Learners to learn basic art-related vocabulary.

Artpad is number five. It’s sort of like a “revved-up” Imagination Cubed. You can see how my students used it to illustrate some collaborative stories they wrote here. After each sentence you’ll that their name is highlighted as a link. Click on it, and you’ll see their illustration for the sentence they wrote. (Unfortunately, Artpad went off-line for a VERY long time. It’s back working now, though. However, none of their older drawings were saved, including the ones in the story)

The Artist’s Toolkit is number three. It provides image, audio and text support for students to learn basic art concepts and experiment with them online.

Number two is MOMA’s Destination Modern Art. It has a series of activities where students can learn about and experiment with looking at specific pieces of art. There’s audio and image support for the simple text..

Harcourt has an excellent Multimedia Art Glossary that provides audio support for the text in addition to visual images.

I’ve just added CoSketch to both The Best Online Tools For Real-Time Collaboration and The Best Art Websites For Learning English.

It’s an easy way for English Language Learners and anyone else to collaboratively draw a picture.  There’s no real registration necessary, either.  You just go to the site, are given a private “virtual room” in which to begin drawing, and then you email the link to whoever else you want to participate.  While you’re drawing there’s also a text chat feature to communicate.  You can then save the image and either link to it or embed it in a student/teacher blog or website. You can also upload a photo for and discussing. looks like a simple online drawing application. It’s easy to draw and then your creation. Press the “c” on your keyboard to gain access to drawing in color.

Slimber is a very simple online drawing tool that requires no registration. Once you go to the website, you click on “painter” at the top, and you can begin creating. Once you’re finished, you can click “play” and it will “rerun” the artistic process you used. After clicking save, you can write a description of your image. Next, click on “gallery” where you can see your creation and get a url address or embed code.

Drips let you paint like Jackson Pollock, and you can save it online. Even cooler, it gives you a choice of painting it with either your mouse or your webcam and computer microphone. With your webcam, you can use your cellphone light or something else as a brush and your voice to change the color. After you save it, you’re given its url address. Students can post it on a student/teacher blog or website and describe it, as well as comment on others made by their classmates.

Little Bird Tales lets you easily make slideshows where you can add text and, more importantly for English Language Learners, provide an audio narration. On nice touch is that you can virtually paint/draw artwork in addition to uploading images (unfortunately, the site doesn’t have the ability to grab photos off the web by url addresses). It’s free to use, but I’m unclear on if there will be an eventual cost to use the site. It appears to have an upper limit on the number of shows you can produce.

Draw It Live lets you create virtual “rooms” where you can collaborate with people of your choices to draw. It also includes a chat window. You can save the image to your desktop, but it doesn’t appear to let you save it on the web. Thanks to The Center For Applied Second Language Studies for the tip.

AWW lets you draw with others or on your own, and does let you save the creation on the web. It doesn’t have a chatboard, however. You can read more about it at Richard Byrne’s blog.

FlockDraw, with no registration required, lets you create a virtual room where up to ten people can draw in addition to being able to “chat.” You can save your drawing on the Web. It can’t get much easier than what they’ve set-up.

Though I’m not convinced the world needs another online drawing tool, doSketch is an easy one where you can draw and save your creation with no registration needed.

Sketchlot lets students…sketch and draw online. Teachers sign-up and can create a class roster letting students log-in, and drawings are embeddable. You can read more about it at Richard Byrne’s blog.

PixiClip is a neat drawing tool I learned about at Richard Byrne’s blog. I’d strongly encourage you to go there and read more details about the site and see his example but, basically, it lets you make a drawing and record either audio-only or a video to go along with it. It also lets you upload an image from the web and “mark it up,” but I think there are plenty of other web tools that let you do that easily enough — and let you grab images off the web with photo url addresses (PixiClip just lets you upload one from your computer) — so I don’t think that feature particularly stands out (you can see those other tools at The Best Online Tools For Using Photos In Lessons).

But the audio-plus-drawing capability could really come in handy for English Language Learners.

For example, my Beginners are studying the theme of “Home” right now. After doing some pre-planning for a rough “script,” I could see them doing something like the recording I’ve embedded below as a novel summative assessment and may try that out next week. If we do, I’ll post examples on this blog.

Here’s my model:

Sketch Toy is a simple and useful online drawing tool. You can learn more about it at Richard Byrne’s blog.

Sketchlot lets teachers create virtual classrooms for their students, who can then create drawings or other products on an online whiteboard that can be monitored by their teachers.

As always, I’m open to suggestions and critique.

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  1. Thanks Larry, your keen eye once again results in some great resources. Art opens up so many different possibilities for ELL projects. Thanks for the helping hand, errr website!

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  2. Frank,

    And thank you for all of your supportive comments!

  3. Dear Larry,
    Thank you for your blog and web-site, you are doing a great job to support teachers and learners of English.
    Hope you’ll be the winner of edu-blog award

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  6. Hey Larry – just to let you know that the Aloofdoof link goes to a hard core pornography site. Thank goodness I wasn’t on the Smartboard when I opened it up!! …………..oops!

  7. Loved the Historic Tale Construction Kit, but couldn’t get there via your link–goes dead. I googled the name and someone has recreated the site without flash (using html and javascript). Here’s the new link: . Hit the Start button, and you’re set. It looks great! Thanks for the initial heads-up, and thanks for your great lists!

  8. Hi Larry,

    In the field of Educational Websites and motivational technology resources, you have an amazing, organized, and knowledgeable approach to “show what you know”, streamlined for every discipline. The effort and dedication to your site and ultimately to our future generation echos that of a true “educational humanitarian”!

    With Appreciation,

    Susan S.

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Bob Kraft says Super Bowl ring “given” to Vladimir Putin actually stolen by Russian president

Vladimir PutinYou might have forgotten about it, but way back in 2005, Patriots owner Robert Kraft, and a group of assorted fellow businessmen, met with Russian president Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg, Russia, in a meeting which left Kraft one $25,000 Super Bowl XXXIX ring lighter. At the time Kraft told the media that the ring was given to Putin as a gift, because it really is the perfect present for the world leader who has everything. Here we are some seven years later, and Kraft is finally setting the record straight on “Ring Gate.”

Yep, turns out that Kraft didn’t actually give the ring to Putin, but rather that the Russian president stole it. Or borrowed it for the rest of his life. Either way, Kraft ain’t getting that $25,000 bit of bling back anytime soon.

From the NY Post

“I took out the ring and showed it to [Putin], and he put it on and he goes, ‘I can kill someone with this ring,’ ” Kraft told the crowd at Carnegie Hall’s Medal of Excellence gala at the Waldorf-Astoria.“I put my hand out and he put it in his pocket, and three KGB guys got around him and walked out.”

Kraft, though, really did want his ring back, but there was someone else, someone very important and powerful, who thought it’d be in everybody’s best interest if the ring stayed with Putin…former President George W. Bush.

 But Kraft really wanted the 4.94-carat bauble back, he said Thursday, admitting he’d gotten a call from the George W. Bush-run White House, saying, “‘It would really be in the best interest of US-Soviet relations if you meant to give the ring as a present.” (In fact the Soviet Union had collapsed 14 years earlier.)

But, Kraft said, “I really didn’t [want to]. I had an emotional tie to the ring, it has my name on it. I don’t want to see it on eBay. There was a pause on the other end of the line, and the voice repeated, ‘It would really be in the best interest if you meant to give the ring as a present.’ ” The ring is now reportedly kept in the Kremlin library.

And there you have it. One the one hand it sucks for Bob Kraft to lose a one-of-a-kind memento like that, then have to try and save face by lying about gifting it to Putin, but on the other hand, you do have to admire the ballsy move by the Russian leader to pocket Kraft’s Super Bowl ring right from under his nose. Only the world’s foremost expert in badassery could have pulled off a brazen bit of thievery like that and gotten away with it.

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    It’s just a common saying in the Russian language, “it’s so big I
    accidentally can kill someone with it”. Looks like he was just trying to
    joke a little, unfortunately an untranslatable joke. Either Kraft did
    hand it as a gift, or there was some misunderstanding and Kraft just
    silently watched Putin leaving the room because he had no balls to say
    “give my ring back”. Can you take seriosuly a guy who says “Soviets” and
    then fears his ring can end up on eBay, because, well, Putin has a
    habit of selling things he stole on eBay, right. Yeah let’s now call
    Putin a thug because Mr. Kraft is an unfortunate person with bad

  • Derek Votta

    kraft probably gave the ring to get some sort of oligharchic monopoly on the paper bag industry and when it didn’t work cried foul and wanted it back. kraft is someone with no class and no morals

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From Hip Hop International, the creators of MTV's Randy Jackson Presents America's Best Dance Crew, comes the 9th annual World Hip Hop Dance Championship. The best dance crews from across the nation and around the world will return to Las Vegas at The Orleans and Red Rock Resort to thrill audiences with dazzling, awe-inspiring moves. At stake is the gold medal and $20,000 in cash prizes. Preliminary events include the USA Finals, World Popping, Locking and Freestyle Battles, and Urban Dance Moves workshops that will take place from July 26-July 31. For information and tickets for all preliminary events, go to or call 1-800-NOW JUMP.

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John Chiang reelected California controller

November 2, 2010 | 11:40 pm

Democrat John Chiang was reelected to a second term as state controller, once again besting Republican Sen. Tony Strickland (R-Moorpark). Chiang, who once worked as an attorney in the controller's office, returns to the job for another four-year term, according to early vote tallies.

The controller is the state's fiscal steward, monitoring cash flow and writing all of the state's checks. The controller also sits on the Franchise Tax Board, the Board of Equalization and the State Lands Commission.

Chiang received strong backing from organized labor during his campaign, while Strickland received the backing of Republican gubernatorial nominee Meg Whitman and business groups. Chiang made headlines earlier this year when his office investigated the finances of the city of Bell at the request of Bell's interim city manager.

Chiang's office later posted a list of salaries and pension benefits for local government officials across the state. Strickland criticized Chiang's office for reacting slowly to the Bell scandal and said his office demonstrated a lack of leadership in its handling of the situation.

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State wins $19.5-million judgment from Shell over violations at gas stations

November 6, 2009 | 11:23 am

State officials today announced a $19.5-million judgment over allegations that Shell gas stations violated California environmental laws.

The judgment caps a three-year investigation into allegations that the company violated state rules in the underground storage of fuel at its gas stations.

"Shell Oil Co. disregarded the state's underground fuel storage and hazardous waste laws, committing hundreds of environmental violations at its gasoline stations across California," Atty Gen. Jerry Brown said in a statement today. "This judgment requires the company to pay $19.5 million in penalties, comply with state law and improve its spill monitoring, employee training and hazardous waste management."

According to Brown's statement, his office and the California State Water Resources Control Board found numerous violations during an investigation that included inspections of 1,000 gas stations around the state.

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Girl who accused Miramonte teacher of abuse recants her story

February 8, 2012 |  7:17 am
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One of two girls who accused a Miramonte Elementary School teacher of fondling her has recanted her story, according to law enforcement sources.

Martin Bernard Springer, 49, was charged Tuesday with three counts of committing lewd acts. He was arrested Friday after two students at the school accused him of fondling them.

But the charges filed Tuesday only involve one  girl. The source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the case was ongoing, said one of two two alleged victims had changed her story in the last few days.

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Springer has pleaded not guilty to the charges.

Judge Upinder Kalra set bail at $300,000 and directed that Springer wear an ankle monitoring device if released. He must also stay 100 yards from the alleged victim and witnesses, and 250 feet from schools and parks, and may not be in the company of minors without a supervising adult.

If convicted, Springer, of Alhambra, faces a maximum sentence of 12 years in prison, district attorney's spokeswoman Sandi Gibbons said.

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Springer's arrest came as the elementary school in the unincorporated Florence-Firestone neighborhood of South Los Angeles was still reeling from the arrest of former teacher Mark Berndt, 61.

Prosecutors allege that Berndt spoon-fed his semen to blindfolded children as part of what he called a "tasting game." Police have collected hundreds of disturbing photos; in some, children are shown with a milky substance around their mouths.

Berndt was charged with 23 felony counts and was being held in lieu of $23-million bail.

Springer, like Berndt, had spent his entire teaching career at Miramonte. Berndt, a Torrance resident, began working as a teacher there in 1979, Springer in 1986.

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91-year-old woman critically injured in hit and run, LAPD says

March 6, 2012 |  8:42 pm

Recent crimes reported near the hit-and-run scene in Lincoln Heights.
Los Angeles police Tuesday night were looking for a driver who struck a 91-year-old woman in Lincoln Heights and fled the scene.

The woman was critically injured, the Los Angeles Police Department said. Her name was not released.

She was hit Feb. 29 about 6:55 p.m. as she was crossing the street where Spring Street, Broadway and Avenue 18 intersect, police said.

The driver was described as a Latina, between 53 and 58 years old, and about 5 feet 2. She was about 170 pounds, the LAPD said.

The woman was driving a white Toyota or beige Honda Accord with a cracked windshield and front bumper damage.

Anyone with information is asked to call Det. D. Wilson at (213) 972-1852. Anonymous messages can be left at (800) 222-8477.

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John McCain actually claimed he would be competitive in California. He wasn't

November 19, 2008 |  6:42 pm

In case anyone had any doubt, California is Barack Obama country.

The California secretary of state's latest count shows that Obama had amassed 3 million more votes in California than John McCain. As of Tuesday night, 7,641,850 Californians voted for Obama to 4,633,304 for McCain and Sarah Palin.

Nationally, Obama's vote spread is 8.5 million. Bob Mulholland of the California Democratic Party notes that California accounts for more than a third of Obama’s popular-vote margin.

Mulholland also notes that Al Gore received 1.29 million more votes in California than George W. Bush in 2000. John Kerry received 1.24 million more votes than Bush four years ago.

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Sarah Palin talks with fox news channel's Megyn Kelly 9-9-11 on Obama's Jobs speech

Sarah Palin commented today on President Obama's jobs plan presented in a nationally televised speech to a joint session of Congress on Thursday night. (Video below.)

First, the former Republican governor told Fox News' Megyn Kelly what the Real Good Talker talked about wasn't really a plan.

I don't consider it a plan at all. A plan is something that would give you a roadmap as to how to get to your goal, and he had no plan that he articulated.

Just a lot of goals, a lot of flowery rhetoric, but nothing that is going to tell us how we are going to pay for his big spend again.

And I guess I look forward to next week or the week after, whenever it is that he supposedly will truly reveal a plan, how we are going to pay for these things he believes will get the economy rolling again.

So, what does the possible 2012 Republican presidential candidate think is behind the....

...poll-challenged Democratic incumbents request for a joint session, an occasion usually reserved for national emergencies (Sept. 11, Pearl Harbor) or a major detailed legislative initiative (Obama's healthcare launch)?

He kind of plays us all for fools, if you will, in that he wants us to believe that just spending more money that we do not have, that we will have to borrow, that we will have to print, that spending more money, and growing more government is going to be the answer to our economic woes.

When over and over again history and time-tested truths have shown that it is the private sector that creates the jobs...and yet he keeps spewing the same rhetoric over and over again, and we saw more of that during his speech. Really assuming that the American public isn't smart enough to understand.

So, why would an experienced politician, albeit a Chicago one, go through all this?

It's indicative of panic mode...creating crisis and then never letting a good crisis go to waste….And that goes beyond I think the president's kind of arrogance within his personality saying that, you know, just trust me, believe me, I don't have to explain what it is that I am talking about and how we are going to pay for this. Just trust me and pass it now and then you'll find out what's in this eventual bill.

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The beaches in the resort of Varadero, Cuba's top sun and surf destination, are shrinking due to erosion caused by rising sea levels, state media reported.

"Varadero has annual losses of between 40,000 and 50,000 cubic meters (429,991 and 537,489 sq. feet) of sand due to erosion associated with the rising level of the sea," Environmental Services Center coastal management office chief Oscar Garcia said.

The Hicacos peninsula in Matanzas province, where the resort is located, is losing between 70 centimeters (2.2 feet) and one meter (3.2 feet) of shoreline annually, Garcia told the AIN news agency.

Cuba is creating programs to determine the threat level from rising seas in coastal areas and take measures, such as banning construction on sand dunes, to protect the shoreline, the expert said.

Some 84 percent of the beaches across Cuba, which has 4,000 kilometers (2,485 miles) of coastline, are threatened by erosion, government figures from 2012 show.

Studies found that 413 beaches show some signs of erosion, with the erosion rate estimated at 1.2 meters (3.9 feet) annually.

About 2.9 million cubic meters (nearly 31.2 million sq. feet) of sand have been used for beach renourishment in Varadero, which welcomes more than 1 million tourists annually, since 1987.

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While some polls give governing FMLN party candidate Salvador Sanchez Ceren a double-digit lead over his main rival in El Salvador's Feb. 2 presidential election, he seems unlikely to gain the absolute majority needed to avoid a runoff.

Of the last eight voter surveys, published this week, the majority show Sanchez with an advantage of anywhere from 3.7 to 14 percentage points over Norman Quijano, of the main opposition ARENA.

Two other surveys, meanwhile, show the two men in a virtual tie.

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Editor: Donald C. Clarke
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Thursday, May 26, 2011

China's Jasmine Crackdown and the Legal System

[The following commentary appears in revised and shortened form at the Australian National University's East Asia Forum web site.]

Since late February, China has seen a wave of detentions and disappearances of lawyers, activists, and others whom the state apparently finds threatening. Particularly alarming to many is the government’s apparent disdain for even the modest requirements of the laws that it created itself. While some people have been detained or arrested in accordance with procedures required under Chinese law, others have simply been picked up by security officials and disappeared.

The immediate cause is doubtless the government’s desire to forcefully dispel any fantasies Chinese citizens might have about having their own Jasmine Revolution. More concretely, in the current atmosphere no official wants to be on the receiving end of an angry telephone call from his superior when someone he has failed to control causes a stir that in some way embarrasses the leadership. There is little downside to detaining as many potential troublemakers as possible, and no upside to erring on the side of tolerance.

What this means for our understanding of China’s legal system is not immediately clear. Here I will canvass three different viewpoints, each widely held, and then suggest why I think they are not completely satisfactory. I will then propose my own way of understanding what’s going on.

One school of thought I’ll call the Disappointed Optimist. The DO sees China’s legal system as a work in progress, constantly heading towards the kind of system the DO sees as desirable (an idealized version of the legal orders of the developed West) but also constantly subject to setbacks: the Antirightist Movement in the late 1950s, the Cultural Revolution in the mid-1960s, the June 4th massacre in 1989, and now the current crackdown. At each setback the DO is strongly tempted to throw up his hands in despair and may even do so, but eventually his innate optimism gets the better of him, and the inevitable post-setback recovery makes him think that perhaps China is really on track this time. The DO’s response to the current crisis is to declare that China has reneged on its commitment to the Rule of Law and is now moving backwards—a direction that can only be ascertained and labeled if one has a theory about where the legal system is and ought to be heading.

Another school of thought is the Realist Separationist. The Realist Separationist sees himself as having clearer insight than the sentimental, hand-wringing DO. According to the RS, the Chinese legal system can be divided into two spheres: that of politically sensitive matters and that of ordinary matters. Or the RP might also say that the legal system simply doesn’t cover politically sensitive matters, and should be understood as having only a limited reach. While acknowledging that politically sensitive matters are not now, and should not be expected any time soon to be, governed by legal principles, the RS points to steady progress (labeled as such, not simply “movement” or “change”) in the legal system in areas such as ordinary commercial disputes. In other words, the non-political sphere of law is getting better and bigger.

To the RS, then, the main story of China’s legal system is what’s happening for most Chinese who interact with it in non-sensitive ways, not for the few who get into political trouble. And that story is by and large a satisfying one. The RS might, therefore, share the DO’s dismay at the current crackdown, but does not see any need to revise his views about China’s legal system. Indeed, he may go out of his way to refute the DO’s assertions that China has abandoned its commitment to the Rule of Law by pointing to developments in the non-political sphere.

A third school of thought is the T-Told-You-So Cynic. To the IC, nothing has ever really changed about China’s legal system: it has always been a sham. Any “progress” has been at best a house of straw that collapses at the least puff of political wind. To the IC, therefore, the border between the politically sensitive and the non-sensitive is so fragile and porous as to be essentially non-existent; any matter can, in the right circumstances, become politically sensitive and so the distinction loses its value. To the IC, the current crackdown is just the system showing its true colors; far from being of marginal importance, politically sensitive cases are precisely where we should look in order to see the essence of the legal system. A house of straw really is different from a house of bricks, so even if fierce political winds blow only rarely, we should grasp those moments in order to understand the difference. Like the RS, the current crackdown gives the IC no reason to change his views; it simply confirms his view that the state never had a commitment to the Rule of Law, and therefore the current crackdown is nothing to be surprised at.

I believe the current crackdown can best be understood from yet a different perspective. That perspective requires abandoning a concept common to all three schools of thought outlined above: the “Rule of Law” and China’s movement toward or away from it. The DO sees China moving in fits and starts toward it, but is constantly disappointed. The RS sees the Rule of Law as growing and at least potentially present in one sphere while admittedly absent in another. The IC sees the Rule of Law as absent everywhere and then has nothing more to say about China’s legal system.

But suppose we stop asking whether and how far China is traveling along the road to the Rule of Law, understood here to mean a system where there are meaningful legal restraints on the powers of government and those in power cannot do simply as they please. Let us face the fact that if legal systems can be said to have ambitions, that has never been the ambition of the current Chinese legal system. This should not come as a surprise; Chinese political leaders have repeated the point over and over. Rights lawyers detained by the police who make legal objections regularly report responses like that received last year by Teng Biao: “Don't talk so much about the law with me. Do you know where we are? We are on Communist Party territory!” and “You belong to the enemy! ... In that case, we don’t have to talk about legal constraints at all!” In their sometimes crude way, those who hold power in China keep telling us how the system works; the problem is that sometimes we don’t want to listen.

What they are saying is that political power was not, is not, and will not be constrained by law. The DO is wrong because there was never any governmental commitment to the rule of law (understood as legal constraints on state power) from which the government later backtracked. The RP and the IC are wrong for more complex reasons.

The RS is wrong because the distinction between the politically sensitive and the ordinary keeps breaking down precisely when it needs to matter. An ordinary matter can become politically sensitive, and thus removed from the sphere where the RS observes the growth of the Rule of Law, any time someone with sufficient political clout decides it is. Indeed, the RS’s definition of “politically sensitive” sometimes seems tautological, relying not on the nature of the case but instead on whether it ultimately in fact did or did not attract political attention.

But isn’t the RS right to identify real progress somewhere? How should we understand the improved educational level of judges, the rising number of case reports posted on line, the increasing sophistication of legislation? Can the IC really be right that this all means nothing?

Indeed, the developments identified by the RS do mean something. But they don’t mean movement along a path toward the rule of law. And here we come back to the central point: China’s legal system was never about the rule of law. It has been and remains about making government function more efficiently. This does not mean it does not take care of issues that arise between citizens that have little plausible connection to the government. But it does that in effect on the side; the fundamental characteristics of the system, and its place in the polity, stem from its statist orientation.

The developments identified by the RS are indeed real; governments can function with widely varying degrees of efficiency, and different political and economic environments will call for different efficiency-enhancing measures. Given the government’s economic policies in the post-Mao era, the pre-1979 legal system could hardly have done the job. But it is a mistake to interpret them as developments in the direction of the rule of law, even though they show many of the features we might expect to see in such developments. A well organized army, for example, could develop a highly bureaucratized system for ensuring that commands were accurately passed down and properly executed. It might come up with procedures for resolving disputes between soldiers. But that would not change the fact that all those procedures are not intended to, and do not, restrain the commander. The commander can change or disregard his own rules at any time; whether or not he does so is purely a matter for his own pragmatic consideration. If he observes a rule when it is not in his immediate interest to do so, it is because he has calculated that it is in his long-term interest to do so.

The model of the perfectly organized army is, of course, only an ideal. It does not describe the reality of China, where there is not a single supreme commander—Communist Party leader Hu Jintao is more accurately described as a primus inter pares—and subordinate officials exercise considerable discretionary power simply because any leader in the real world must delegate. But that model—let me call it here the “statist model”—offers a better way of understanding how the Chinese legal system actually functions than does the “rule of law” model, which sees unlawful detentions as aberrations, mistakes, or backsliding.

In the statist model, the difference between detention according to law and detention not according to law is one of policy and convenience. If activists are “disappeared,” it is not because some fragile and immature rule of law has broken down in the face of overwhelming political pressures, but simply because the authorities have decided that the message sent by disappearing someone is preferable to the message sent by detaining them in accordance with legal procedures, or because the detention was considered too urgent to allow time for proper procedures. To call the detention “unlawful” serves certain purposes, to be sure: it clarifies that a particular policy decision is involved in the detention, and it shows the limited coverage of the sphere of “legality,” thus falsifying government claims that legality is all-encompassing. But it can obscure the way in which such detentions are quite regular and normal parts of the Chinese legal order, identified by one of Teng Biao’s earlier-quoted captors as “Communist Party territory.”

The Jasmine Crackdown less reveals than reconfirms this feature of China’s legal system. It is intended to serve the purposes of the state. It can do so in ways that are more or less efficient, and that produce more or less justice for individuals as a byproduct. It can develop and change; we can judge it by various yardsticks to be better or worse. But it is not developing toward a system that will restrain government action when it counts.

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“Paper Chase,” the book, movie, and  TV series, feature the unforgettable law professor, Charles Kingsfield—a formidable character who resonates with the law school lives of many law professors and older law  students. But on whom did author John J. Osborn, Jr. base the socratic master? Here’s one answer, according to Wikipedia:

During an event at Harvard Law School to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of the book's release, the author said that the character was a composite of several of his professors at Harvard Law School, saying, "It wasn’t like it was hard to find role models."[2][3] Many Harvard Law graduates believe the character to be a composite of Contracts professor Clark Byse [4][5] and Property Law professor A.J. Casner, legendary intimidating users of the Socratic method. Osborn has stated that Contracts was his favorite law school course.[6] John Houseman, who played the role in the film and television series, said that he based his performance, in part, on stories he was told by former students of Earl Henry Warren, a professor at the law school from 1904-45. Warren, who taught a first-year property-law course, was famous at the school for his sarcastic comments during lectures and intimidating manner. Houseman's performance was also based on his experience as a professor and director of the drama department at the Juilliard School.[7]

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The consistency with which Ron Paul comes to the assistance of Romney has been clear since the fall debates, and Paul almost never has a harsh word to say about Romney.

Paul’s media staff put together some of the most vicious and effective ads, but always against the rising not-Romney.

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Subject: [Leica] D Vario on E3 - magnification in live view
From: cummer at (Howard Cummer)
Date: Mon Feb 4 16:45:56 2008
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Dear Tom,
Another myth busted - I turned them both on and the camera just lay
there - silent and inert. One thing I have discovered. The live view
magnification doesn't come up until you have pushed the info button
enough times to clear all the info on the screen and a little green
box makes its appearance. Then push the okay button for live view.
Thanks to Dr. Joseph Yao for help in discovering this information -
which is essential for accurate focusing of R lenses - via adaptor -
on the E3.
Howard (STILL freezing in HK)

> Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 08:18:32 -0800
> From: Tom Schofield <>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] D Vario on E3 - was HK Winter shot
> To: Leica Users Group <>
> Rumor has it that if you leave both IS turned on, you can let go of
> the camera and it remains floating in mid air.  Some report that it
> tracks moving subjects, and can automatically take swishy pans!  ;-)
> I think it sounds like a new episode of Myth Busters.
> Tom

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The Firestarter Sessions by Danielle LaPorte

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The Fire Starter Sessions is an apathy-kicking, integrity-infusing guide to defining success on your own terms.

As the creator of DanielleLaPorte.com–deemed “the best place online for kick-ass spirituality,” Danielle LaPorte’s straight-talk life-and-livelihood sermons have been read by over one million people. Bold but empathetic, she reframes popular self-help and success concepts:

: Life balance is a myth, and the pursuit of it is causing us more stress then the craving for balance itself.
: Being well-rounded is over-rated. When you focus on developing your true strengths, you enter your mastery zone.
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: We have ambition backwards. Getting clear on how you want to feel in your life + work is more important than setting goals. It’s the most potent form of clarity that you can have, and it’s what leads to true fulfillment.

(Note: This is a good lead-in to The Desire Map that I am planning on choosing for January/February 2015)

Grab your copy of The Firestarter Sessions by Danielle LaPorte from Amazon, your library, your friend’s bookshelf, your local bookstore, Audible. Wherever. September 1 is soon!

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Saturday, December 10, 2011

Reverse proxy node.js websockets with HAProxy

The more I toy with it, the more I love node.js and websockets. Pushing notifications asynchronously has never been this easy. In the little project I use for this post, I have an apache2 hosted app serving my pages, and I built a little notifier with node.js to broadcast various events to clients with

Now the small issue here is I want websockets to communicate with node, while I want my other http request to be handled by apache. A first solution is to have node listen on another port, with client code looking like this:
<script src="http://www.test.tld:9000/"></script>
    var socket = io.connect('http://www.test.tld:9000');

I have two obvious problems here. For one, some network setups only allow ports 80 and 443 to go through. And then it's just painfully ugly! A more graceful way would be to differenciate the requests based on subdomains rather than ports, and for that I need a reverse-proxy.

Apache2 already possesses a reverse proxy mod, but it doesn't handle websockets (and doing this with apache2 would somehow defeat the point of using node.js). I played a little with nginx, which is very light and fast, but having to patch the source code to use tcp_proxy to handle websockets made me unconfortable regarding the update process in the future. I finally chose HAProxy, which handles websockets out-of-the-box.

For the reverse proxy to work we first need to modify the ports node and apache listen to. So I changed the apache conf to have it listen locally to port 9010, and kept node on port 9000. HAProxy will now handle the initial requests on port 80 and dispatch them to node and apache. I want the requests sent to the domain "io.test.tld" to be forwarded to node, and the rest to be forwarded to apache. Here's a sample HAProxy configuration that does just that:
    maxconn 4096
    user haproxy
    group haproxy

    log global

#this frontend interface receives the incoming http requests
frontend http-in
    mode http
    #process all requests made on port 80
    bind *:80
    #set a large timeout for websockets
    timeout client 86400000
    #default behavior sends the requests to apache
    default_backend www_backend
    #it all happens here: a simple check on the host string
    #when "io.test.tld" is matched, an acl I call arbitrarily
    # "websocket" triggers
    acl websocket hdr_end(host) -i io.test.tld
    #redirect to my node backend if the websocket acl triggered
    use_backend node_backend if websocket

#apache backend, transfer to port 9010
backend www_backend
    mode http
    timeout server 86400000
    timeout connect 5000
    server www_test localhost:9010

#node backend, transfer to port 9000
backend node_backend
    mode http
    timeout server 86400000
    timeout connect 5000
    server io_test localhost:9000

It's fairly straightforward and it just works. Of course the best way to handle this case is to have 2 different IP addresses, but as far as subdomains discrimination is concerned, I'm very satisfied with this solution so far.

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Listen to Postgresql inserts with node.js

I've been playing with node.js a lot these last few days, and one of the things I've been trying to accomplish is to push live notifications to clients when an insert is done in a Postgresql database.
To start things on a good foot, I found this nice article detailing exactly my use case. I started right away and created a similar trigger on inserts on my Article table, with a stored procedure looking like this:
CREATE FUNCTION notify_article_insert() RETURNS trigger AS $$
  PERFORM pg_notify('article_watcher', || '###' || );
$$ LANGUAGE plpgsql;

Then, with a simple install of node.js 0.6.3 equiped with the node-postgres module, I tried the following script:
var pg = require ('pg'),
    pgConnectionString = "postgres://user:pass@localhost/db";

pg.connect(pgConnectionString, function(err, client) {
  client.query('LISTEN "article_watcher"');
  client.on('notification', function(data) {

It worked just as expected... but only for 15 seconds. The query then seemed to somehow timeout, and I couldn't get anymore notification. What's worse is I couldn't find a way to catch this timeout when it happened and couldn't reissue the LISTEN query.
I dug a little and couldn't find any information on that subject. I finally got my answer straight from Brianc on the node-postgres module repo: 'pg.connect' is meant to handle pooled connections to the database, not persistent ones. For a LISTEN query, I need a standalone client that will stay open at all times:
var pg = require ('pg'),
    pgConnectionString = "postgres://user:pass@localhost/db";

var client = new pg.Client(pgConnectionString);
client.query('LISTEN "article_watcher"');
client.on('notification', function(data) {

Problem solved! I ran the script for 2 days straight and it caught every single insert.

One last detail I learned along the way: Postgresql NOTIFY queries won't catch every single insert made. In case of a transaction with multiple inserts, a NOTIFY would proc just once in my tests. You have to use "Pg_notify" available on Postgresql 9+ and specify a payload to guarantee the notifications.

More articles on node.js are coming soon about websockets and reverse proxies.


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