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NPS-NRL-Rice-UIUC Collaboration on Navy Atmosphere-Ocean Coupled Models on Many-Core Computer Architectures

The goal of this project is threefold. The first goal is to identify the bottlenecks of the Nonhydrostatic Unified Model of the Atmosphere (NUMA) and then circumvent these bottlenecks through the use of: 1) analytical tools to identify the most computationally intensive parts of both the dynamics and physics; 2) intelligent and performance portable use of heterogeneous accelerator-based many-core machines, such as General Purpose Graphics Processing Units (GPGPU or GPU, for short) or Intel's Many Integrated Core (MIC), for the dynamics; and 3) intelligent use of accelerators for the physics. The second goal is to implement Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF) interfaces for the accelerator-based computational kernels of NUMA allowing the study of coupling many-core based components. We will investigate whether the ESMF data structures can be used to streamline the coupling of models in light of these new computer architectures which require memory access that has to be carefully orchestrated to maximize both cache hits and bus occupancy for out of cache requests. The third goal is to implement NUMA as an ESMF component allowing NUMA to be used as an atmospheric component in a coupled earth system application. A specific outcome of this goal will be a demonstration of a coupled air-ocean-wave-ice system involving NUMA, HYCOM, Wavewatch III, and CICE within the Navy ESPC. The understanding gained through this investigation will have a direct impact on the Navy ESPC that is currently under development. NUMA has already been shown to scale up to tens of thousands of processors on CPU-based distributed-memory platforms. This impressive scalability has been achieved through the use of the Message Passing Interface to exchange data between processors. The work proposed here will further increase the performance of NUMA especially for the most costly operations that are currently taking place on-processor. Examples of such operations include the right-hand-side (RHS) vectors formed by the continuous/discontinuous Galerkin (CG/DG) high-order spatial operators, the implicit time integration strategy, and the sub-grid scale physics.

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About KTM MotorBikesAbout KTM Motorbikes

The company KTM originally started out under the name Trunkenpolz and repaired and sold on Opel and DKW motorcycles. Post second world war the company wanted to produce it's own motorcycles and started serial production a number of years later in 1954 with almost every single component being produced in house rather than being bought in.

Shortly after, Ernst Kroneif a businessman, became a major shareholder after acquiring a reasonable amount of the company. Soon after his appointment the company was then renamed Kroneif & Trunkenpolz Mattighofen or KTM for short.The off road influence was highlighted in the dominance of rally-raid events such as the Atlas Rally and the Paris-Dakar Rally.

KTM set a plan to sponsor and support road racing event to again get the brand name associated with the sport by advertising the official competitive team colours which are black, orange and silver strung together by the company to create a strong brand identity similar to Ferrari and the colours red, yellow and black.

The KTM Supermoto bike may be the most prevalent and well known of the bikes in the United Kingdom after receiving highly regarded reviews within all credited bike magazines and newspapers. KTM has built it's brand awareness and value within the last few decades with it's off road influence in the motorcycle industry despite recently expanding into the street motorcycle production.

Earlier this year, KTM in it's second year of competing in Moto3 secured the World Championship title after developing a successful competitive strategy. It's due to the consistent speed of the KTM riders that KTM have decided to develop the bike further for the upcoming season in 2013. Both the MotoGP Red Bull Rookies Cup bike and the production racer will start next season giving the new and up and coming riders the ability to profit in the near future from the development.

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Be-Dom (4 stars)

This article is from 2010.

Joyous fun with Portuguese drums

As the huge white screen they’ve been playing behind in silhouette collapses to reveal what appears to be a junkyard full of cavorting, hunky (and fairly well-scrubbed) crusties, the tone is set for an hour of shambolic play.

Switching fairly regularly between broad physical clowning and bursts of foot-pounding, room-shaking rhythm, the Be-Dom boys make music out of anything available to them: plastic oil drums, paint tins, whistles, jars, and, thanks to some clever hidden microphones, their own fingers, thighs and faces.

There’s no real order to proceedings: you’re just basically hanging out with a group of freakishly talented (and did we mention terribly attractive?) friends, jamming. The rhythms they create out of nowhere are infectious, and they’re clearly having a great time, too. While their comic timing isn’t always as good as their rhythm – a skit set in a café is nothing more than an excuse for false moustaches and an impromptu drum kit created out of saucepans – and there are a few too many time-sapping costume changes, this is still an utterly joyous way to pass time.

Udderbelly’s Pasture, 08445 458 252, until 30 Aug, 2pm, £12–£14 (£10.50–£12.50)

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Portugal’s percussion-mad sextuplet make their Fringe debut with a dynamic show that combines the best elements of music, comedy and theatre. Using alternative instruments (including barrels, trash, bottles and the audience), 'Be-Dom' has created a performance guaranteed to thrill, uplift and make you shake your booty. An…

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Went to see Be Dom last night and they were outstanding.

I can't agree about their comic timing and costume changes. Maybe they've worked on that since the original review, but I thought it was seemless!

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Happy Halloween, Day 24

Link of the Day: Derelict London: Cemeteries and Churchyards (This is a remarkable site. Be sure to check out the amazing photos!)

Literature of the Day: Here's something spooky from the seventeenth century.

"The Hag" (1648)
By Robert Herrick

The Hag is astride,
This night for to ride;
The Devill and shee together:
Through thick, and through thin,
Now out, and then in,
Though ne’r so foule be the weather.

A Thorn or a Burr
She takes for a Spurre:
With a lash of a Bramble she rides now,
Through Brakes and through Bryars,
O’re Ditches, and Mires,
She followes the Spirit that guides now.

No Beast, for his food,
Dares now range the wood;
But husht in his laire he lies lurking:
While mischiefs, by these,
On Land and on Seas,
At noone of Night are working,

The storme will arise,
And trouble the skies;
This night, and more for the wonder,
The ghost from the Tomb
Affrighted shall come,
Cal’d out by the clap of the Thunder.

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Starting with the handmade

I really like to do original artwork by hand – maybe sketching or watercolour or acrylics or whatever. I know it’s not on trend really, but this is what I do. The items can always be treated in any fashion in Photoshop afterwards.

But for my recent illustration for “the current reduction in insects being squashed on car windscreens” (what a thought, nicely clean but ecologically worrying!), I assembled rather more than usual – a whole horde of insects in fact. And then I coloured them in fabulous colours because the shapes had to be recognisable but the colours not. These had all been drawn and painted at different times. And of course they needed a good deal of tidying up to be put on the windscreen!

Here are a few of the ones I’ve painted over time, collaged together:

insect group blog

And here is the final illustration – with some repetition and colour changes involved – plus they’re placed in a pseudo graph to indicate the lessening occurrence of mess on the windscreen!

car windscreen

Of course, anything at all can be done with the top image. This is a rather silly example:

insects embossed

Or even the windscreen – this is the “ink outline” filter and it’s picked up the shading on the windscreen itself, which would be a hopeless result!

car windscreen ink outline

But that’s pure post processing – the real fun for me was in the handmade beginnings!

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Prince Charles: Eco Revolutionary

The Greenest of All Blue-bloods

By Chere Di Boscio

Not long ago, Prince Charles was considered a bit of an eco-eccentric, to say the least.

He claimed that pesticides used on food were damaging the health of people and the environment, and started Duchy Organics in 1990. Initially criticised for being a ‘tree hugger’ and even slightly paranoid, we now know he was right, and Duchy Organics is doing booming business, selling over 200 sustainably produced products, the profits from which are donated to the Prince’s Charities.

But the Prince’s dedication to the environment runs deeper than mere farming. Since 2007, the royal has published accounts of his own carbon footprint, and targets for reducing the emissions of his entire household. He has been criticised by some for his use of a private jet to travel, but making his emissions public knowledge is certainly a step in the right direction–no one else in the royal household feels compelled to reveal anything at all about their energy consumption.

Prince Charles works hard to encourage businesses to act on climate change, and he launched the May Day Network in 2007 to facilitate comprehensive policies on carbon emission reduction in the business community. Politically, he called for European leadership to help save the planet urgently by enforcing stricter carbon emissions regulations, and playing a stronger international role in protecting fisheries and the Amazon rain forest. He said that those who denied the planet’s climate is undergoing serious changes are playing “a reckless game of roulette” with our future and are having a “corrosive effect” on public opinion.

With his first grandchild on the way, the Prince of Wales expressed deep concern for his or her future. He warned that society was “leading to the terrifying point of no return” and would face “very grim consequences” if the human race continued “pushing nature beyond her limits”.

Far from being considered a strange tree hugging blue blood for making such remarks, the rebellious royal is now highly lauded for his foresight on environmental issues. He recently received a Green Awards’ Lifetime Achievement Award for his continuing environmental work, and we are sure this eco-revolutionary will be even more respected as the consequences of global warming become increasingly apparent.

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How an Estate Agent Can Help You Sell Your House

ImageOf all the things that can prove difficult in life, you’ll find that trying to make a profit when you decide to sell your home can be one of the most challenging things of all. In the aftermath of our recent housing crisis, this problem becomes especially important for people. The only way you’re going to be able to come away with the best possible sale price for your home is if you can work with someone else who has been dealing with these kinds of sales for years.

When it comes to selling a house in the Ely area, you will need to make sure that you can discover a Ely estate agency capable of giving you the best service and expertise. Of all the things you can do to try to increase the sale price of your home, you will need to think about hiring an estate agent to get the most out of the process. To get a better idea of how to find any site of estate agents in Ely, you can check out the following post to get a good sense. Discover a Ely estate agency by going here.

You’re going to want to look to a search engine when you’re searching around for a link to estate agents in Ely. This will allow you to get a much better sense of just which companies are currently operating in the area, especially as it concerns the actual sale of your home. The more you can learn about these companies ahead of time, the happier you will typically end up being with the end result. If you’re concerned about which estate agents tend to have the best information and reputation in the area, your best bet is going to be to check out a wide range of reviews online.

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When you have gone through the process of choosing a great estate agent in your area, you can then begin thinking about what sorts of ideas you should consider when getting ready to sell the place. You’ll need to make sure that you have been making strong preparations where the cleanliness of your home is concerned, and you will also need advice about the best time to sell. Any experienced agent is going to know exactly what to do in all of these situations.

You can very easily understand why so many people selling their homes will rely on expert agents to handle the work, since this is going to make it much easier to get your home out of your hands. Anyone who relies on experts for getting their home sold will come away a happy person.

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Model Driven Solutions

Model Driven Solutions, a division of Data Access Technologies, Inc.  provides consulting, mentoring, technology development and standards facilitation for actionable architectures. Our actionable architectures and tools enable business-focused models to directly contribute to enterprise and government ready capabilities.

Specializing in model driven information sharing, conceptual modeling, service oriented architectures, and semantic technologies we are able to help government effectively realize solutions with reduced cost and risk.

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Friday, May 25, 2012

London Summer

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London Summer, a photo by empresswu designs on Flickr.

The weather in England suddenly turned hot and sunny last Tuesday , the day we arrived in London. Perhaps summer has arrived, after the cold snap experienced during the last week. I took a break in the cool shade of the beautiful trees on the walk up to Alexandra Palace. The weather remained great for the couple of days we were in Somerset, to meet a long lost Simmons cousin and to follow some other family history leads. We returned to London tonight for an important appointment to see the House of Commons - Grandfather James Simmons was a Member of Parliament, so we are still tracing the footsteps of Simmons ancestors and appreciating the historical sites connected to the family.

Taunton, Somerset

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Enjoying holidays in England

Sunday, May 13, 2012

Happy Mothers Day from Manchester

Best wishes on Mothers Day from Manchester, England. This photo was taken in the grounds of Manchester Cathedral. I am really enjoying the short visit in Manchester, trying to take in as much history, sight seeing and visiting arty places as possible before going south to Birmingham on Monday.

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Monday, May 7, 2012

Water Inspired Dolls Display

Fish Brooches
Fish, mermaids,  fishermen, water goddesses, ocean creatures and a couple of majestic frogs were all there.
The doll making group I belong to, Hello Dollies, was a featured artist at the Dobell Art and Crafts festival  last weekend. The little colourful fish which were made at one Saturday meeting were the most popular amongst the crowd, with most of them  being sold  on the first day of the festival.  Here are a few images of the dolls on display... no wonder there were lots of oohs and aahs....
Fishermen and  Siren of the Sea

Water maiden, mermaid and frog prince

Chubby mermaids

Water doll, mermaid and sea urchin

Sea Goddess

Frog Prince

Water Maiden

Mermaid, Venetian fisherman and "compass" doll

"Taking a friend for a walk " - hard to see but the friend is a fish!

Ocean maiden and beaded face mermaid

Part of the display

Promotional photo

more fish...
It was my job to take down the display. I did so reluctantly. What a wonderful watery world!


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A Priceless Bond

The speech made by TAU President Prof. Joseph Klafter, who initiated the establishment of the Tel Aviv University Alumni Organization, at the University's 60th anniversary event.

TAU President, Prof. Joseph Klafter

Good evening to you all, dear TAU alumni and guests,

When we decided to establish the Alumni Organization, to weave the fabric of this extensive social network – which we are all a part of – no one would have believed that thousands would fill this square – the Schreiber Square, the lawn on which we all studied, and did a few other things as well...

Who are our alumni?

Any person who ever studied here and completed his or her degree at this university, is considered an alumnus. I admit that for me personally this took a while, but with my PhD I also corrected this wrong, and joined the ranks of TAU's alumni. Since then I have linked my own life and destiny with that of TAU, and my closest family members have acquired many degrees on this campus…

I am proud to follow in the footsteps of the university's first President, George Wise, who also took his time realizing that the future belongs to the university of the city that never stops. But once he understood, he worked tirelessly for our university's future.

170,000 graduates have emerged from this great institution in its 60 years of existence, a number that should fill us all with pride. Together we have enormous power – the power to lead processes and activities of great significance for society, both in Israel and worldwide. As alumni of Israel's largest research university, offering the most extensive range of study and knowledge disciplines, we have all the tools we need to advance both your dreams and ours at the university.

The TAU Alumni Organization was established in order to preserve and further develop the unique bond between the academic home and its residents - past, present and future, and also amongst these residents themselves – as an essential element of the social fabric in which we all live and operate. The aims of the Organization are: to strengthen our ties with the community, to provide fertile ground for mutual nourishment and inspiration, and to enable a continuum unlimited by time and place.

It is clear that when a university grows and flourishes, enhancing its reputation and elevating its position, its graduates also gain in status and prestige.  I believe that this is a two-way connection: because as you, the alumni of TAU, grow increasingly successful, holding more and more key positions in Israel's society, economy and academia, our university also gains in value. And so we continue to supply the fuel that drives the country's most important processes.

The importance of this bond - whose first anniversary we celebrate today, together with the university's 60th anniversary - is priceless. The diplomas and degrees you attained at the university are keys to a life of creativity, meaning and value, qualities which must be nourished every day.

I wish to take this opportunity to thank everyone who helped make the dream of the Alumni Organization come true: first and foremost the General Director of our Friends Association, Ms. Sigal Eder, and the Director of the Alumni Organization, Ms. Sigalit Ben Hayoun, who, together with their dynamic teams, are recruiting more and more graduates, while initiating powerful, thrilling activities.

Thank you all, dear alumni, for being an inseparable part of our activities and our vision. I wish each and every one of you success in your chosen field and profession. Together we will make our world a better place.

Tel Aviv University, P.O. Box 39040, Tel Aviv 6997801, Israel
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CAPD library

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CAPD library
Developer(s) Jagiellonian University
Initial release 2005
Stable release
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Written in C++
Operating system Multi-platform
Type Application framework
License License

The CAPD library (Computer Assisted Proofs in Dynamics) is a software library that aims to provide a set of flexible C++ modules designed for rigorous numerics in Dynamical Systems and homology computation. It has been used in a research of chaotic dynamics, bifurcations, heteroclinic/homoclinic solutions and periodic orbits. The RedHom (Reduction Homology) subproject provides efficient methods for computation of a homology of sets based on geometric and algebraic reductions.

The CAPD library is developed at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science at the Jagiellonian University. The software is available under an open source GPL license.


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Coordinates: Sky map 06h 07m 38.65s, +24° 29′ 53.5″

WISEP J060738.65+242953.4
Observation data
Epoch 2010.30[1]      Equinox J2000[1]
Constellation Gemini
Right ascension 06h 07m 38.65s[1]
Declination 24° 29′ 53.5″[1]
Spectral type L8[1]
Apparent magnitude (i) 20.02 ± 0.03[1]
Apparent magnitude (z) 16.94 ± 0.01[1]
Apparent magnitude (J (2MASS filter system)) 14.22 ± 0.03[1]
Apparent magnitude (H (2MASS filter system)) 13.04 ± 0.03[1]
Apparent magnitude (KS (2MASS filter system)) 12.47 ± 0.02[1]
Proper motion (μ) RA: -470 ± 10[1] mas/yr
Dec.: -330 ± 20[1] mas/yr
Distance 25.4+4.6
[1] ly
[1] pc)
Mass 0.03—0.072 M
Luminosity 10−4.56 ± 0.09 L
Temperature 1460 ± 90 K
Other designations
WISEP J060738.65+242953.4[1]
2MASSW J06073908+2429574[1]
2MASS J06073908+2429574[2]
SDSS J060738.79+242954.4[1]
Database references

WISEP J060738.65+242953.4 (designation is abbreviated to W0607+2429[1]) is a brown dwarf of spectral class L8,[1] located in constellation Gemini at approximately 25 light-years from Earth.[1]

WISEP J060738.65+242953.4 was discovered in 2012 by Castro & Gizis from data, collected by Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) Earth-orbiting satelliteNASA infrared-wavelength 40 cm (16 in) space telescope, which mission lasted from December 2009 to February 2011. There are also precovery identifications of this object in Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) data (observation epoch 1998.11) and in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) (DR7) (observation epoch 2006.98).[1] In 2012 Castro & Gizis published a paper in The Astrophysical Journal, where they presented discovery of a newfound by WISE L-type brown dwarf WISEP J060738.65+242953.4 (a single discovery, presented in the article).[1]

Trigonometric parallax of WISEP J060738.65+242953.4 is not yet measured. Therefore, there are only distance estimates of this object, obtained by indirect — spectrophotometric — means (see table).

WISEP J060738.65+242953.4 distance estimates
Source Parallax, mas Distance, pc Distance, ly Ref.
Castro & Gizis (2012) 7.8+1.4

Non-trigonometric distance estimates are marked in italic.

Physical properties[edit]

WISEP J060738.65+242953.4 has temperature 1460 ± 90 K and bolometric luminosity 10−4.56 ± 0.09 Solar luminosities (the estimates are based on the object's spectral class (L8)).[3] Mass estimates, determined from this temperature, are from 0.03 (for an assumed age 0.5 Gyr) to 0.072 (for an assumed age 10 Gyr) Solar masses, anyway below the hydrogen-burning limit, which implies that WISEP J060738.65+242953.4 is not a true star, but only a substellar object.[3]

While some researchers had claimed that WISEP J060738.65+242953.4 may be viewed from its pole, or may rotate slowly because of its narrow spectral lines, later work demonstrated that both of these claims were unlikely.[4] This latter study estimated that the size of the radio-emitting magnetosphere is approximately 107 m.

See also[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y Castro, Philip J.; Gizis, John E. (2012). "Discovery of a Late L Dwarf: WISEP J060738.65+242953.4". The Astrophysical Journal. 746 (1): 3. arXiv:1110.4351Freely accessible. Bibcode:2012ApJ...746....3C. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/746/1/3.
  2. ^ "2MASS J06073908+2429574 -- Infrared source". SIMBAD. Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 2012-12-24.
  3. ^ a b Gizis, John E.; Burgasser, Adam J.; Faherty, Jacqueline K.; Castro, Philip J.; Shara, Michael M. (2011). "WISEP J180026.60+013453.1: A nearby late-L Dwarf near the Galactic Plane". The Astronomical Journal. 142 (5): 171. arXiv:1109.0054Freely accessible. Bibcode:2011AJ....142..171G. doi:10.1088/0004-6256/142/5/171.
  4. ^ Route, Matthew (July 10, 2017). "Is WISEP J060738.65+242953.4 Really A Magnetically Active, Pole-on L Dwarf?". The Astrophysical Journal. 843: 115. arXiv:1706.03010Freely accessible. Bibcode:2017ApJ...843..115R. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/aa78ab.


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Zarex (Ζάρηξ) is the name of a hero of Ancient Greek mythology, son of Carystus or Carycus, grandson of Chiron.[1] He is credited with having learned the music of Apollo, and having founded the town of Zarex in Laconia; he also had a heroon at Eleusis, next to that of Hippothoon.[2] There also was a mountain on Euboea thought to be named after him.[3] He married Rhoeo and adopted Anius, her son by Apollo.[4]

  1. ^ "ZAREX, Greek Mythology Index". Retrieved 2010-04-12.
  2. ^ Pausanias, Description of Greece, 1. 38. 4 = Pausanias (1900). Pausanias' Description of Greece, Volume 1. Harvard University: G. Bell. p. 75.
  3. ^ Tzetzes on Lycophron, 373
  4. ^ Tzetzes on Lycophron, 580


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08 October 2007

Connect and Disconnect

Silence of the disconnect. They used to say turn on, tune in. Pierced by the piercing of streets, days strayed, slept in this tune. Tuned in to what? The instant thought that says look, the handheld array. Then comes the boom, a wreck of tons of steel. Cars collide inept. Silence is not quiet. There are two. The one above the boom and the one within the thoughts that deafen. Then there is a silence that makes three.

When you lay upon your roof at night and hear the roar, see the aura of lights, it sounds like a savage celebration just far enough away. You know the two states, yourself on the roof and the maelstrom below. Descend and you will not remember the one you left. Boom, the two are one, the roof disappears. The disconnect makes separate states appear only from afar, separate from the flare. It is Las Vegas, Vanity Fair vs Solitude, Silent Thought. Thoughts are noisy enough as it is. Drown them without noise.

The two states are like the soul come to communion, come with cares, sounds, thoughts, at the best, the highest part of the connect, dreams, plans, intentions, not that the worst are left, they come too but why give place to them, they're the same as hopes and fears. This is the state of the connect.

Only disconnect! Disconnect from sound and dreaming, wondering, staring, surely by now the cell is off, Ipod still. While Beethoven is playing his Opus in A and VanGogh tramping down daisies in a blue field with a yellow sky, disconnect. While the UN is streaming live video, forests are burning, ER's are teeming, what's in front of your eyes? They are closed. The ears cannot hear. You forget yourself.

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An anonymous reader writes "Just after half past seven on the evening of Friday 19th October, history was made at the Destination Star Trek London event at the capital's ExCel centre; when Captains Archer (Scott Bakula), Janeway (Kate Mulgrew), Sisko (Avery Brooks), Picard (Patrick Stewart) and James T. Kirk (William Shatner) appeared together on a European stage. This momentous event, which had occurred just once before, at the Wizard World Comic Con in Philadelphia in June, not only lived up to the expectations of fans, but exceeded them by a good light-year."
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  • by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 23, 2012 @06:34PM (#41746511)

    ...but I think that only counts as "history" in the very loosest sense.

  • Re:Archer (Score:5, Insightful)

    by hey! ( 33014 ) on Tuesday October 23, 2012 @07:07PM (#41746735) Homepage Journal

    Well, can you name any other female leader roles that didn't seem arrogant to you? Excluding eye-candy actresses?

  • Oh My! (Score:5, Insightful)

    by DragonTHC ( 208439 ) <Dragon@[ ] ['gam' in gap]> on Tuesday October 23, 2012 @07:32PM (#41746883) Homepage Journal

    They forgot Captain Sulu!

  • Re:Archer (Score:5, Insightful)

    by mosb1000 ( 710161 ) <> on Tuesday October 23, 2012 @07:33PM (#41746887)

    Can you name a StarTrek captain that didn't seem arrogant to you? I'm pretty sure that's a job requirement. Providing episodes with story-lines by working against the interests of her crew, however, is not a job requirement, and it's curious they cast her in that role. It makes a situation where we're rooting against her instead of for her.

    I suppose she was meant to contrast with Sisko, who was willing to break pretty much any rule for the benefit of his crew or society in general. In one episode he collaborates with Garak, who eventually assassinates a member of the Romulan high council to bring them into the war. In the end of the episode he concludes that he'd do it again. Janeway, on the other hand, have never met a rule she didn't like. At one point she happily complies with the rules of an alien society and foregoes an opportunity to cut 50 years off of their journey! The conclusion you can draw is that following rules is only for people who hate themselves and hate everyone else.

  • Re:Archer (Score:3, Insightful)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 23, 2012 @08:03PM (#41747067)

    Troi was rarely arrogant, although sometimes somewhat preachy - I like that in a psychologist. She was, especially in the later seasons, among the calmer, most professionally behaved characters.

    Beverly Crusher was, for my money, the sexiest woman on TV due to her BRAINS - she kept her head cool in many instances when everyone else was going apeshit. She became my hero when she willed her hallucinations away in "Night Terrors" - that appeal to reason is one of the core values of humanistic Star Trek.

    Does the physical beauty of characters make their arguments invalid? If so you fall in the same trap as jocks do, and you should turn in your nerd card: looks, good or otherwise, do not make a person. I never felt that TNG was trying to sell itself to me via sex appeal. It simply did not need to. Voyager, on the other hand....

  • Re:Archer (Score:5, Insightful)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 23, 2012 @08:41PM (#41747379)

    Neelix is the Jar Jar Binks of Star Trek.

I bet the human brain is a kludge. -- Marvin Minsky


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I know I would still be writing. And I would still be reading out loud. I think that if you are any kind of an artist, then validation is just sort of… it can be a result, but you’re going to do the work anyway. Because you’re just wired that way. It’s so engrained, it’s such a part of your personality that you don’t just stop doing it. Eventually I’ll retire on some level, eventually no one will want to buy my books or a ticket to see me read, it’s inevitable that’s going to happen. Uhuhuhuh fake cries But it won’t stop me from writing. I’ll just write about how sad I am all the time.

– David Sedaris on whether he’d persevere as a writer without validation.

If a tree falls in the woods, do you hear the sound it makes?  If you write and write and write but don’t get the feedback or recognition you need to push on, does it matter?

Yes and no.  I’d write anyway, just because it’s the only way I can organise my thoughts and when it’s quiet, I enjoy writing just for myself. I enjoy the tap-tap-tapping on a keyboard, I enjoy writing on a thick pad of paper and I enjoy the solitude writing gives me.

On the flipside, I don’t enjoy the solitude when all I hear are the voices in my head. If I write for myself, sometimes it feels selfish if I’m the only one getting anything out of it.  I would prefer if my writing was doing something for someone.  Probably because it’s been drilled into us in school and uni and whatever that if you love something, you should find a way to share it with the world.

I see how that works, but also … does it take the fun out of what you love, if you put a monetary value on it?

I love to write, but sometimes it doesn’t come easy. Right now I’m on fire, but I’m emoting and I feel like because this is just me on a rant, it doesn’t matter what I write.  I had a previous role where the writing tasks were draining, so much so that one Easter long weekend break I went home alone (while my husband and friends went out for a post-work drink), polished off a bottle of wine by myself, ate a wheel of blue cheese by myself and fell asleep in front of the TV watching old episodes of 30 Rock.  My husband came home and found me passed out on the couch like a chick flick cliche.

It was one of the worst nights of my life, and it was the beginning of the end for me with that role.

Ironically, though, I wrote about that experience in a long and frustrated entry in my journal the next day.

I decided I would write because I love it, and to stop focussing on the money and the recognition.  There is so much around making what you love the thing that you do for a living. It is hard work … but it has to be worth the hard work.  If you come home at the end of the day and the hard work just doesn’t seem rewarding anymore, then … what’s the point?

But writing is different. It’s kind of like a habit now. I’ve come so far from being someone who denied herself the right to finally embrace my love of writing, that I can’t abandon it now.  I wrote for myself before, but now I feel like I can share that with others.

If a tree falls in the woods and nobody is around to see it, does it make a sound?  Yeh of course it does. The reality is, a tree dropped from an upright position and crashed to the ground, and yeh, that makes a loud sound.  Whether anyone was around to witness it or not is irrelevant.

I want to make a sound with my writing though. I want people to hear the crash as a piece or post or article hits the ground.  I want people to come running into the forest to check out the noise, “What was that? Who did that?”.  They don’t need to be rich people. Or beautiful people. Or important people. Because I’m not one of those people.

So I’ve dropped something, which has taken me years to put together as it’s been germinating in my head for a long time.  I’ve finally knocked that tree down.

From my welcome note on my homepage:

Welcome to MY LOCAL WORLD, which I hope will soon become part of YOUR local world 🙂 Get outside the world you live in, and discover multicultural experiences right here in your own home.

This is about bringing the world to you, and in the process, discovering that it is, in fact, a small world, after all.

I’d be delighted if you could check out the tiny noise I’ve made. Maybe as more people join you in the forest, the sound, in hindsight, will just grow louder …

The only thing you need for a trip is curiosity

Travel. But not just to “exotic” places.

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The path to fame and fortune isn’t paved with gold and inspirational memes

Maybe because I’ve seen so many of them, maybe because I no longer connect with them, I dunno, but I know that those inspirational memes like this:

From photo credit: symphony of love via photopin cc

Photo credit: symphony of love via photopin cc

Or this:

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Photo credit: deeplifequotes via photopin cc

…no longer have that strong an effect on me.

OK, so the last one was nice.

But these inspirational memes do very little by way of giving me tools to overcome difficulties, or show me how someone aspirational has overcome whatever challenge he or she had.

I love when Hollywood stars come out with really insightful things to say. Viola Davis was recently featured in a Vulture article called Viola Davis’s 14-Step Guide to Happiness and the article said this about her thoughts on fear and failure:

“Nobody tells you about failure,” Davis argues. “People always talk about winning, vision boards, getting what you want. People also don’t talk about fear. It’s always keeping fear at bay. Squelching it. Throwing it away. I’ve embraced fear and failure as a part of my success. I understand that it’s part of the grand continuum of life. I’ve been through it all. Breakups, heartache, and I’ve lost a parent already. So now I get it at this age, I get that that is it. That life literally is what you make it.”

I love that she says that fear and failure form her journey to success.  A lot of the time whenever I read about someone who’s achieved a lot in their lives, it’s always as if they’ve had clarity the whole way, they never wavered, they had this unyielding passion and tunnel vision attitude to success.

Which is great for them, but what if you don’t work like that? What if your idea of success is very different to the more traditional notions of success? What if success doesn’t mean fame but more a recognition of a job well done and recognition that you’re a thought leader or expert in your field?  What if success doesn’t mean riches but is more along the lines of comfort and not excess?  What if success means not reaching goal after goal and being disheartened after each goal is reached, but rather living through your life’s direction (I learnt this last idea from Sze Wing Yip, who told me that living a life based on your path and journey rather than goals was a better way to live – totally paraphrasing, but I’ve lived by it since she told me this)?

So Viola Davis’ article really got to me, it means that fear and failure are part of my journey to live my life’s direction, and as long as I keep reminding myself of what that is (so that I’m always asking, “what is the purpose of this?”) then I should be fine.

It’s all work ….

My favourite thing on Facebook that has nothing to do with my actual friends or my Facebook friends is Humans of New York. If I had a dollar for every time I thought, “why didn’t I think of doing something like that?”, I’d never have to think it coz that’s what I would be doing all day every day, going out into the world and meeting all kinds of people and finding their unique stories.

And Humans of New York have done it again. The picture and caption/explanation of the image(s) came up on my Facebook newsfeed and, wow:

Following your dreams is nothing but work

I love that. “… Following your dreams, successfully, is nothing but work”.

I really needed this right now.

Having a hard time seeing the forest from the trees, vocation-wise, because I thought I had worked past the “following your dreams” bit and was, you know, finally bloody following them.  But lately everything just seems HARD. Hard to work on what you love. Hard to be with who you love. Hard to do things outside of work to be a well-rounded person, someone you love.

This TED talk by Nigel Marsh is bookmarked on my laptop and I watch it every now and then to remind me that the idea of work/life balance is a bit of a weird one. It implies that you can have this neatly divided focus and time for work and for your life.  My favourite part of this talk is, ” … Being more balanced doesn’t mean dramatic upheaval in your life. With the smallest investment in the right places, you can radically transform the quality of your relationships and the quality of your life. Moreover, I think, it can transform society. Because if enough people do it, we can change society’s definition of success away from the moronically simplistic notion that the person with the most money when he dies wins, to a more thoughtful and balanced definition of what a life well lived looks like.”

Work will always be work. It will not be about spending time in the sun with the husband in a five star resort by the pool, even if you are a five star resort reviewer who gets to take their husband on flights with them everywhere.  Coz you’re still going to have to file that story, speak to the management, get it through to your editor, ensure it gets read, ensure it doesn’t read like a dog wrote it.  It’s still work.

So Brandon Stanton from Humans of New York is definitely right.  There’s always work involved in following your dreams.  So now I know that this means that all that work better on something you believe in and is worth the effort, otherwise you are definitely not following your dream.

There is no inspirational meme on the interwebs right now that can succinctly mirror this idea, even if its an image of a sunrise or a young girl doing the “heart” sign with her hands or if you put a hipster filter over it.  I’m not even really sure if those do anything to inspire me anymore, because the urge to punch the screen sometimes becomes too strong.

Writing notes for a review (The Zero Theorem, Terry Gilliam’s new film), and this is my best note from it:

Bob, the young guy in the movie, is like the Andrew Garfield character from the Heath Ledger movie in the other Terry Gilliam film.

Written in a dark screening room with very little coffee.

I will refine and it will be brilliant.

I think the ole braineroo needs a bit of a push …

Am attempting, with all my heart and soul, to finish off some work. But words are not flowing from my chocolate-drenched noggin right now. So here I am. Procrastinating online.  Lucky I haven’t checked Facebook in a while.  That could possibly end me for tonight.

Ok, not all my heart and soul.  Some of it.  The majority of it.  The parts that I need to complete my task.  So I can go watch Back to the Future with the boy and then a little Craig Ferguson and then go to bed.

Aaaaand then earlier today I downloaded Viber and Whatsapp onto my iPhone.  Now I feel like the time will soon be upon us (us, or just me?) where I will no longer need to utter words to people to communicate and have meaningful relationships, I will simply send them text messages and they will never hear my voice. EVER.

I recently read somewhere that procrastination is like a credit card. It’s lots of fun untill you get the bill. And by “recently” I mean less than 5 minutes ago. And by “somewhere”, I mean I googled it. Just then. Just then I googled it.


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Tim was great to work with. Thank you!

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Matt B. en

The sign in process online to pick up the truck did not work. I had made the reservation and designated my husband as the driver. That apparently was a mistake because they wouldn’t accept his ID because the reservation was in my name and they wouldn’t accept my ID because the driver was listed as him. We called and talked to 4 different people before it was figured out and we ended up finishing the check in over the phone (which was a lot easier once we got to that 4th person). The first person couldn’t help us at all and transferred us without saying anything. The second person said everything has to be in my husbands name, so we changed our profile to reflect this. Then the third person said no, no, no, everything has to be in my name because I was the one who made the reservation. So once again, we changed the information in our profile back to my name. After that didn’t work, we called again and they connected us to the road service that finally got things under way. We had arrived at the facility 20 minutes early and ended up leaving a half hour late from our original scheduled pick up time. After that mess, everything was fine. Truck drove great and the return process went very smoothly.

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Dealer was easy to work with and very accommodating of some needs that were out of the ordinary. I would recommend working with him at any time.

Wipe down the truck interior.... the console had pop or something spilled and dried all over it... when we buckled our seat belt my had got sticky.... and the cab reeked of cigarette smoke

Carol P. en

We were able to return the equipment after hours and drop the key in a secure drop-box. Very easy with no stress

Michael A. en

Provide more discounts for local moves.

Douglas K. en

Not a thing!

Janet M. en

Not a thing! We were totally satisfied. This is the 2nd. time we have used this U-Haul service & have had a great experience both times. Thanks Tim for the great service!

Bryan S. en

Excellent location! Very professional!

Both times we have used this location, he treats us Awesome. Very nice, and caring. Definitely will return to him for our next uhaul truck

Nikki L. en

Not a thing!!!!!

Jody W. en

lights worked at first, then I was almost ran off the Hwy, had to get a hotel and go to another uhaul location. they tried 3 different trailers before they could find one that had lights work. then I had to transfer my belongings. My mother and I could have lost our lives. the girl at the 2nd location was helpful and said she'd file a complaint on my behalf...I tipped her $20 just to find out she never filed the complaint. This was a horrible experience.

William B. en

Can't think of anything---Tim was very professional and detail oriented.

Karianne S. en

I was a bit upset that I was not offered the in town mover deal of $10 for pads and dolly, I wanted to use pads but didn't want to owe an additional $10 after I'd already paid for the dolly but $3 more I could have easily done.

Jeff M. en

This is a great place to rent a u-haul!! Everything great including The personal (Tim)!!!! ??!!

Amy B. en

We were sent to this location by the district management in Toledo as it was the only one that was open until 6:00 pm on a Saturday. We arrived, finished with our use of the truck, at about 4:00 pm to find Shine's locked and closed. So we left the truck and put the keys in the lock box. We never heard back from anyone at UHaul - any location - that they had received return. I will never rent from U- Haul again. From beginning to end there was no community between any of the service providers and I was continuously being the one inconvenienced. Entire experience was very bizarre

Loren B. en

Scheduled a Sunday pick-up, this made it a little more challenging.

Sean K. en

My personal vehicle was left on the lot and damaged by another vehicle while left there. The owner nor U-Haul is accepting any responsibility for the damages to my vehicle. What a terrible experience.

Betty J. en

Tim was very helpful, took all the time needed to answer all our questions. The cargo van he recommended was the perfect size. We have requested the same vehicle for 2 weeks from now, and we will continue to use Tim's place whenever we need a cargo van.

RUTH R. en

Excellent service, plan to rent again.

PAUL D. en

Tim did a great job setting up a trailer for me...everything went like clockwork...I'll be back again to rent from U Haul !!

ROSE W. en

At this particular site, there is no need for improvement! The service was excellent and this is my second time renting from them. They were courteous and very personable. I enjoyed my experience both times. All I can say is keep up the good work!!

PAUL M. en

Very helpful and polite. Great experience.

BRET K. en

Unprofessional. Lied about equipment availability, did not provide a contract printout due to IT problem. Expected but did not get Point of pick up mileage on vehicle, and didn't notice until much later. I have seen this handwritten on brochure sleeve at other locations. Stuck with equipment available on a Saturday afternoon far from home even though correct equipment was specifically asked for..

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Blocking a Shawl and Unblocking Health Care

I start every day with breakfast and pills.  While I am waiting for the pills to do their thing, I get my first look at morning email.   My method of attack is to first scan the whole list and wipe out the junk – solicitations, sale notices, friending notes from Facebook, spam that the filter missed, and group conversation comments that I don’t want to read.  Next I attack the urgent mail – Etsy orders (woefully infrequent), real messages from family and friends (as opposed to the ever-present and quickly deleted forwards), and notifications from companies I pay on line.  Finally, I open the mail that takes a bit longer and requires more focus – Alternet mail with timely and informative articles on political and social matters, the New York Times headlines, new information on craft shows and markets, and comments on threads in my groups that I’d like to follow and perhaps contribute to.

This morning, an interesting notice caught my attention.  It was a request to join hundreds of thousands of Americans in a petition from the Stand with Dr. Dean organization.  It has a very common sense argument for a public health plan.  If you’ve been following the issue, you know that huge numbers of our population (43 to 47 million Americans) have no health insurance, and thus miss out on most of the nonemergency health care that they should be getting.  There’s a lot of hoopla in Congress over whether we can afford to have a public insurance program, paid for by the government, to cover all of those people and perhaps any others who want to ditch their employer-sponsored plan.  The Dean organization points out that this is the only route for true health care reform, that any other option (involving just private insurers) is only insurance reform, and doesn’t address the real need for improved health care in this country.  They have a concise overview of the situation, comparing our vital health care statistics (life expectancy, survival of acute illnesses, etc.) with those of other developed nations.  The site includes a petition that you can fill out in one minute to join other public health option supporters.  Check it out: .

This week I’ve found time to admire someone else’s handknitting.  A friend brought me a gorgeous shawl to block, and I had a wonderful time working on it.  Knitted lace doesn’t look very special when you’re working on it.  It is the subsequent stretching that reveals the beautiful patterns and makes it hang with appropriate drape.  That is achieved by using wires and pins strategically placed to pull out the piece to its limits and accent the proper areas of the design.   I don’t think she will mind me showing you:  DSC04084 As you can see, I have pinned out the shawl on a queen-size bed (thanks, Dayna).  The pins go through the comforter and into the mattress, as they have to be securely anchored.  I prefer to pin it dry, then spray it with water using a perfume atomizer.  You can buy atomizers for a few bucks.  Never spray with a bottle that has held perfume, as it may discolor your piece.  I spray until the entire piece is damp, smoothing over the whole shawl with my hand to make sure I haven’t missed a corner.

DSC04083  The shawl instructions gave only one dimension – about 68 inches from side to side.  You can see that it takes most of the bed length.  I put in the blocking wires at the top straight edges, and adjusted the fabric to achieve the proper width.  Then, working first the bottom corners, then bottom center, then filling in the sides and bottom spikes, I stretched until the pattern was clear and pulled to symmetrical dimensions.  The pins are placed at the very tip of the scalloped edge, emphasizing the diamond row above it.  DSC04088 Just another view of pretty!  This shawl takes my breath away.  Mary Z did a fantastic job!

I gave it another spraying down with water today, because I removed a pin and found that it wasn’t holding its shape as well as I wanted.  I will give it another 48 hours of drying time, then remove all the pins and present it to its rightful owner (sigh).

I have to apologize for the previous post, Rockstar.  I wrote it two nights ago and forgot to push the publish button.  Don’t neglect it, there’s some fun involved.

Every now and then I find myself in a group of folks who lament the income and respect disparity between celebrities and more essential pros like teachers.  We talk about how nurses are underpaid relative to football players, and the value of a good social worker versus a good television evangelist.

During these conversations I inevitably hit that wall that comes from knowing all the celebrities, and not knowing who to credit on the side of the little guys.  The rockstar faces are all over the papers and television screen and jump out from my internet news.  Even if I’m not a fan, their latest productions, their lifestyles, their children are all thrust into my consciousness.  I may remember that Joseph Anglin was the most fantastic middle school teacher of my experience, but there is no one famous teacher on our screens that we can all applaud and discuss.

Now Intel is airing a commercial that totally rocks.  They show a man of Indian heritage walking through his workplace, followed by adoring stares and swooning colleagues.  He is identified as Ajay Bhatt, co-inventor of the USB.  The commercial absolutely thrills me!  It portrays a smart guy (read “geek”) as attractive, sexy, and valuable in the community.  Aside from the fact that this guy is my ideal man is the supercool vibe of the whole segment that keeps me watching it over and over.  Here, see for yourself: .

A few days ago Discontinued Brand-name Yarns ( began to advertise hand-dyed hanks of worsted weight cotton.  I checked them out and found gorgeous colors.  I’ve been looking for affordable yarns for baby blankets, and ordered a pile of these.  They came today and they do not disappoint, at least not in quality of colourwork or softness of the boucle yarn.  I have already balled one hank and knitted several rows of a baby blanket panel.  The one annoyance I have is the amount of debris in the yarn.  I have picked out tiny pieces at least two or three times each row.  Hopefully, this attention now, coupled with a vigorous washing, will make this a wonderful finished product.  While you are waiting for photos, check out this selection:

It’s just after midnight.   It’s not too late to make cake mix cookies.  I feel a sweet coming on.

Riverbend and Early Rising

It is the end of Riverbend Festival week in Chattanooga.  The festival lasts 10 days, and attracts tens of thousands to its varied musical performances.  Even in years when I choose to avoid the heat and crowds, I can feel the excitement in the air.  Traffic patterns change, new faces appear in familiar places, television coverage and personal reports abound.

My daughter made her first appearance at the festival at age three, dancing in the street with the community at the Bessie Smith Strut.  She still attends regularly, and I eagerly await her reports.  Last night we stayed up until 3 a.m. talking about the events of the week, the excitement still present.  She showed me her loot from the last night:  a necklace with a real scorpion embedded in glass, a six-pack of Coke Zero, jeans purchased in her pre-concert shopping.  Her descriptions of the Little Richard concert, with his unexpected presentation of his young nieces and nephew-tiny children standing on his piano to sing Itsy Bitsy Spider-kept me spellbound.  Attendance by proxy, as dictated by the current state of my lupus.

In spite of the late late bedtime, I rose early to appreciate the glorious, bright day.  I have always been an early riser, eagerly waiting for morning to come, happy for summer when it is marked by bright light streaming into my bedroom.  As a child, I felt that I was missing something if I lay in bed late.  It was intolerable to hear activity in the rest of the house and not be a part of it.  Now, when the agenda of the day is dictated by me, I still feel the urge to jump into the day early.  I come by this honestly.  My father always rose early, his farm upbringing and Army career reinforcing the habit.  As an infant and small child, I woke to be with him and start the day.

My son appeared unexpectedly at the front door yesterday.  He rang the bell and I interrupted a phone conversation to answer it.  My shrieks of pleasure greeting Julian probably frightened my friend on the phone.  A nice long spell of catch-up conversation ensued.  Meanwhile, a knitting friend showed up for an extended visit.  We began the evening with conversation, ended with pizza and a viewing of The Secret Life of Bees

So much to awake to, so many reasons to get out of bed.  That’s a good life.

Inflammatory Knitting

I’ve been smiling since noon yesterday.  I feel wickedly happy, because I outsmarted the lupus and recognized that my terrible pain last week was unresolved inflammation.  I began the week with bad foot and back pain, and nothing was improving it.  I had my mind fixed on the recent rheumatology visit, where my doc noted all the signs of osteoarthritis.  The pain was so severe I stayed in most of the week.  It finally hit me Friday that this pain was not osteo but my old buddy lupus, in its familiar nesting place:  sacroiliac joints and feet.  I increased my teeny prednisone dose from 5 to 15 mg, and at 24 hours I was greatly relieved.  All day Saturday I continued to improve.  Sunday (today) was the day to start a gradual taper.  Only inflammation gets better that quickly with steroids.

Like I said, yesterday was good.  Midway through knitting group, I decided to take a friend and go yarn shopping in a town south of here.  I enjoyed driving the 30 minutes through the low mountains of north Georgia, and our foray into town took me way off my beaten path.  I had not been out of view of the interstate in this city, and it actually has a nice town area, and – more important – a great yarn shop.  Krazy Knits is in a converted house, and has several rooms of yarn, neatly shelved and organized.  I cruised all the rooms, gradually adding to my pile on the counter by the cash register.

I could bore you with an account of each yarn I purchased.  Suffice it to say that I have lots of pretty, soft, colorful stuff.  If this is titillating, call for details.  More importantly, I already knit a cutie-pie toddler poncho and have started a scarf.

I haven’t shown anything I made in a long time.  I’ve been knitting and crocheting daily, so here’s a sample:

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Upper left is a pair of fingerless mitts from undyed organic cotton.  They are waiting for buttons.  Crocheted, of course.  The knitted swirl hat is small child-size, from Knit Picks sock yarn (cotton, merino, nylon).  The lower hat is 9 mos to toddler size, also organic cotton, crochet.   To the side you can see the edge of a baby blanket that is being blocked, blue, red and brown, diagonal garter stitch with yarnover eyelets up the edges.  Better photo when it’s off the wires.  Matching booties and hat are here, too.

I promise, not everything is cream coloured.  More soon.


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Tao Maine

Good stories and good food make for memorable summers. This year I’ve been lucky.  Summer 2012 will be remembered because of a few books and restaurants.
Canada from Richard Ford, Home from Toni Morrison, Unsaid from Neil Abramson and Monument 14 from Emmy Laybourne are so far my favorites.
In terms of food it is hard since I spent some time in France. Food there was of course au rendezvous.
Sometimes however amazing food comes unexpectedly. Tonight my eighteen-year-old daughter, her father and I spent the day raking leaves in our yard. Since we are in Maine only in the summer, it means that fall yard work happens in July. The weather was gorgeous and we got the work done just in time for dinner. A long day of work deserves a reward. The three of us love food and although we are faithful to a few favorites, we enjoy new places. I was told of an Asian fusion restaurant in Brunswick, twenty minutes away from our summer home.
Brunswick is home to Bowdoin, the renowned liberal art college, to Gelato Fiasco, a cool ice cream/coffee place, to Seadog, a brasserie style restaurant on the river dam, to Henry and Marty, a relaxed and yet refined restaurant with an interesting array of entrees that can satisfy the meat lover and the vegetarian alike, to a variety of small shops and boutiques, to the largest main street in the state, called Maine Street, and to Tao restaurant.
Being from France and living in California, Asian food is one of our favorite cuisines. When we are in Maine, we favor lobster, clams and mussels, cornbread, clam or lobster bisque, blueberries and strawberry shortcakes to Asian food.
Who would expect a Maine restaurant that offers Asian food to top a Californian restaurant?
And yet, Tao, located a block off Maine Street, only a few blocks away from the College, is one of the best new places I tried in a long time.
The restaurant is housed in a former house.  The décor is sleek with a distinct elegant Asian touch,  Painted screens separate the bar and the sitting area from the main dining room. Black chopsticks, small votives, green and white dishes, water glasses, which look like antique glass yogurt containers and a water carafe, sit on each table.  The young waitress was welcoming and attentive. The dining room where we sat was empty and I only hoped that it didn’t hint for trouble. Our last culinary experience in Brunswick hadn’t been exactly successful. We had an 8 o’clock reservation at Clemetine, the hot spot in town. But by 8:30 we were asked to wait some more for a hypothetical table. We ended up across the street at good old Henry and Marty where food and service never disappointed us.
But the empty dining room at Tao wasn’t synonym of disaster. Au contraire!
The menu, elegantly printed on beige paper, suggests picking three to four dishes per person between a selection of cold and hot entrees so guests can share.
We each chose three dishes; and between the tuna tartar, the turnip cakes, the bean buns, the grilled goat cheese, the red fruit pane cotta, the flourless chocolate cake and the excellent coffee, we enjoyed one of the best meals of our summer, and definitely the best Asian food in ages. Flavors matched the impeccable presentation.
The restaurant opened less than two months ago and the chef, a local native, has been trained n Paris at Le Cordon Bleu.  We spoke before dessert and she shared her plans for a green house so she can grow her greens and herbs year long in a state where summer is sometimes only a brief pause before winter.
She carried poise and unusual professionalism for someone so young.
We can only root for her and whisk the gourmets, tired of waiting for a table at Clementine, toward Tao, nestled near the post office and library, to get ready for a memorable culinary journey.
As for us, we’ve already made the promise to return when my son’s summer camp is over. The only bad news is that we will have to share more dishes. and at the cost of about six dollars each, we better keep raking our fall leaves on our own before hiring some help.
Ah! What would the French do for good food!

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What’s this all about, Part 1: The Rise of Citizen Librarians

I got the idea for this blog from Dan Gillmor, a journalist who over the past few years has been documenting and encouraging the “citizen journalism” movement online. He gave an inspiring presentation at the Digital Library Federation’s forum earlier this month on some of the work being done by amateurs and professionals to gather, analyze, and spread news around the world using the powerful, easy-to-use tools provided by blogs and other online communication technology.

The technology is essential for enabling this kind of activity broadly, but the true value comes from what many people have been inspired to do with the technology. “Citizen journalism” isn’t a pretentious synonym for “blogging”. Rather, it describes ways in which ordinary people provide news, analysis and commentary to the community at large, using relevant journalistic principles, but outside established, professional media channels. The blog is one common medium that now makes this work easier, but it’s not the only medium for the work.

Collectively, citizen journalists cover many beats that the traditional media do not and cannot, due to limited time, resources, and interest. Through the Internet they can reach any other online reader who finds their work of interest. They aren’t limited to readers who live in a limited area or who pay for a subscription to their service. They do not replace professional journalists (though they may be threatening to some of them). Rather, savvy journalists and news organizations find ways to improve their own work by building on the work of their non-professional colleagues.

It occurred to me that a lot of what I’ve observed and encouraged online for the past fifteen years could, along similar lines, be characterized as “citizen librarianship”. The term’s not new; it’s been used, for instance, in discussions on rebuilding New Orleans. The practice it describes goes back considerably further than that: Lots of people, inside and outside of established library organizations, have been collecting, describing, organizing, making accessible, helping people find and use, and preserving information of all kinds. They’re serving constituencies that are potentially much larger than that of any purely physical library. It’s becoming increasingly easy for people to do this work online, with the various digital tools that are available or in development. And collectively, these citizen librarians have the potential to provide much more in the way of both collections and services than professional librarians can on their own.

I’m not claiming that everyone who uploads their pictures to Flickr or tags some web sites in del.icio.us is a librarian, any more than everyone who blogs is a journalist. But the more that people adopt principled methods for collecting, describing, and doing all the other things I list above with information, as a service for their communities, the more they’re acting as librarians. And the more the things they build function as libraries.

It’s not just individuals, of course, that are creating these new libraries and library-like services. Big corporations are doing it too (sometimes to much publicity). And many non-profit organizations, including many established libraries, are putting up new libraries and library services online. Many of these new sites, though, are still powered largely by the particular individuals who thought them up, or by lots of independent individuals that collectively build them up.

All this activity has seriously disrupted libraries, and disrupted the way that many library constituents perceive them. In some circles, there’s been notable pessimism and concern that libraries may now be obsolete. The new libraries and services may be threatening to some librarians and libraries that don’t adapt, just as bloggers may threaten the livelihood of some news purveyors that don’t adapt. But I believe that savvy library professionals can and will find ways to improve the services they offer by building on the work of their non-professional colleagues. Going the other way, I believe that the “citizen” and other non-professional librarians can increase the usefulness of their collections and services through adopting principles and practices that librarians have developed over the years. And I think there’s a lot more that people in both camps can do to share their work and expertise.

Or, to put it another way, the future of libraries, if they are to best serve their communities, must include understanding and building up “everybody’s libraries”. And here I mean “everybody’s libraries” both as a collective group, and as a concept. I’ll explain what I mean by the concept, which I’ve chosen to title this blog, in Part 2.

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I'm a digital library architect and planner at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Thursday, March 27, 2014

The Expanding Unionversity

The National Labor Relations Board ruled on Wednesday March 26th, that the football players at Northwestern University can unionize.

Is this even right? Can the wo/man-children be manipulated in this fashion? Can the wo/man-children earn a union wage for their 'education'? I honestly didn't think upon first hearing this news that I would be as ruffled as I am. I'm ruffled. I don't like it.

Merriam-Webster's definition of University: "1: an institution of higher learning providing facilities for teaching and research and authorized to grant academic degrees; specifically : one made up of an undergraduate division which confers bachelor's degrees and a graduate division which comprises a graduate school and professional schools each of which may confer master's degrees and doctorates

2: the physical plant of a university"

Clearly, the University is a place for education first and foremost. Sports? Sure, they happen. Indeed, they can be taught to a point. There is the first hurdle in this discussion. Are you teaching these athletes the key training procedures they need to reach a professional state, or; are they paid members of the university? If they're being paid for their services, surely they can provide some sort of degree or certification of their knowledge. Oh, what's that you say? They're going to college to learn sports? To learn some other field once their bodies shun athletics? Well! That settles it! They're students!

But it's not that easy. It never is.

There is great truth in that the universities have made and will continue to make millions and millions of dollars on the fields of athletics. Surely for most programs, after expenses, there is money left over. Fine. Put that money into an injury compensation fund for the student athletes. Most do have some form of employment, and boom, if they blow out their ACL, what will they do for a job? That's also a great argument on the other side. That if the athletes get paid, they wont have to worry as much. Where are their degrees? If they're not student athletes, they're coaches. Most coaching jobs require some form of degree or certification. At which point, the student part of student athlete drops off. Why aren't you in the NBA/NFL/MLB? The Answer: The National Football League and the National Basketball Association require three years of college participation for their future athletes. Major League Baseball is the lone hold-out of the Big Three American Sports to allow for non-collegiate participation.

Is that all you ever saw? The money?!

If we allow the process set forward by the National Labor Relations Board to stand, then at the very least we should have the Northwestern University Wildcats compete not for the little college Bowl Championship, but in the dang ol' Super Bowl?! Come on! We want the Wildcats to ROLL over the competition! NO. It will never happen. The reason for that is almost ALWAYS brought up at College/Super Bowl time. In a fantasy setting, the WORST NFL teams are usually wagered by bookies in Las Vegas at being FIFTY or so times BETTER than the BEST COLLEGE TEAMS. So, according to common logic, the 0-16 DETROIT LIONS from a few years back would be FIFTY TIMES better than the current BCS Champion Florida State Seminoles or the Rose Bowl winning Michigan State Spartans. Would the Seminoles, Spartans or Wildcats like to LOSE FIFTY CONSECUTIVE TIMES to the WORST TEAM in the League? No, and quite frankly, if they did, they wouldn't last more than three or four seasons. These college teams, they're filled with children.

Don't let your children end up like this. Sad. :(

So what do you do about the problem of children wanting to be a part of the 'big time'? Make them go only a year or two? The Leagues already tried that. Make them go four? What's an additional year, especially if you're unionized? There are two real solutions. One: The Parents put their feet down and demand their children attend the university of the child's choosing as a student athlete, unpaid save for the students own employment or perhaps an injury compensation fund. Two: The Leagues undergo a MASSIVE EXPANSION EFFORT across the country (and Canada). Put some D-League'ers in the League to enhance upcoming player development. Promote some minor league teams to the majors. Throw Canada a ball; you ever see how tough they are at the hockeys?

Where you develop the talent is almost as important nowadays. (Wichita State? Pfft. I chose Michigan State DECADES ago.) Where can these athletes continue to develop their skills? Perhaps not the Colleges. The Leagues wont take less than 3 years collegiate experienced players. EXPANSION is the Number One Answer here. Maybe not even the expansion of the current leagues. I'm feeling a bit radical here, to show my support of the formation of NEW LEAGUES and DEVELOPMENTAL TERRITORIES in the sports of BASEBALL, BASKETBALL and FOOTBALL, not to overtly challenge their systems, but to give the children a chance at fulfilling their dreams as professionally trained adults. Why teach these sports if 90% will never play professionally? If one were to go to the colleges and their students with that number, such a current state COULD NOT EXIST. There is simply NO SUCCESS and LIMITED MONEY in a 90% FAILURE RATE. (Take that NCAA sports success story commercials!)

The 'Physical Plant of the University', ALL education starts at home. Don't you think there is someone, of indiscriminate age, that needs a start in the education of athletics?

The Towns however, could deal with this. At least more effectively than the professional organization could. All they need is a bit of seed money from the UNIVERSITY to give them the right resources to start their own venture, let's say the CityLand Ventures. You've got the elders teaching the youth the concepts behind baseball, basketball and football, leadership, business and life skills. Then all that is left is the athletically educated adult, left to hone his or her skills on the field; to help a little boy or girl reach their athletic dreams.

What I would propose is a return to community-based systems of the old times. Challenge some of these ex-league members and their college educations. If they're willing to coach the CityLand High School football team (I'm going for a 'Brett Favre' on this one), then why not put the time in to the CityLand Ventures? They aren't 'in the minors', because you've eliminated that by supporting such expansive efforts. Neither are they as glamorous, since we've got the Unionversities and 'the minors' nowadays. The Leagues don't like these community-based systems though. Look at the NFL and the Green Bay Packers. NFL doesn't like the way the Packers are owned, which clearly goes back to the community. Expand your Community through proper research, education and enjoyment at ALL LEVELS.

What is more important here? What everybody KNOWS for a FACT is a CORRUPTED COLLEGIATE SYSTEM; or the development of youth into fine, upstanding adults, ready for the professional 'big time', having the ability to shrug off every creeping and corrupting influence put upon them? It's not just a battle of business versus education. It's a battle over the Purity of Youth versus the Corrupted Youth, since obviously Corrupted Adults taking on kids is, you know, bad.

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Safiyya: Shareek Hayaat LP

    Safiyya: Shareek Hayaat LP

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  • Artist: Safiyya
    Label: Umor Rex
    Cat No: UR058LP

*Limited "Beer" colored vinyl edition.* Vinyl LP limited edition of 300 copies packaged in an uncoated stock jacket with double sided insert, black inner sleeve, and free download coupon. First 170 copies on "beer" colored vinyl, remaining copies on black vinyl.

Shareek Hayaat is the second album by Safiyya, the duo formed by Brad Rose and Pat Murano. Brad Rose is the head of the Digitalis label, and also he is well known for his work as The North Sea, Charlatan and Altar Eagle. Pat Murano, head of Kelippah Records, has also worked under the name Decimus, and as a member of the venerable No Neck Blues Band.

When Max Ernst said that the forest was a supernatural insect and a drawing board, Pat Murano and Brad Rose hadn't been born yet, but this odd couple of fine woodcutters would one day grow up to prove his point with sounds. What kind of sounds? Electronic and organic, the sounds derived from the intricate and layered process one can expect from wizards like Brad Rose and Pat Murano. Do you need to speak Arabic to decode their stuff? Maybe… The title of each track seems to allude to some kind of archetype and to describe a stage in some sort of ritual. Maybe there's a specific meaning tied to the words, but feel free to project your own. The important thing to keep in mind is that there is some kind of black rite happening in the deepest part of the woods (or the desert), and Murano and Rose are the ones in charge of setting the mood and deranging the senses. Hacky mediums need not apply. This is how you conjure the spirits and direct them through sound; this here indeterminate musical object is the real deal. Let's say Music is a walled country and Noise is the barbarous wasteland where cartographers fear to tread. In between, there's a wild and dark forest, a forest of terror and wonder: that's Safiyya, that's Shareek Hayaat. You can picture it as a shape-shifting image of the forest as a supernatural bug, doodled on a drawing board with the alchemy of musical and non-musical instruments. If you like brilliance with your weirdness, and you'd like to take a trip down to the land between music and noise, this one's for you.

TRACKLIST: Total run time 40.2 minutes