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Christmas cheer and fear (part 2)

2 Dec

E and ZP

Just when you thought Father Christmas was scary enough, along trots Zwarte Piet with a handful of sweeties. But what’s worse is that he tags along with Santa. Double trouble. Lock up your reindeer.

Zwarte Piet (Black Pete) is a familiar character in the Sinterklaas celebrations in early December in the Netherlands and Belgium. Tradition has it that Saint Nicholas (Sinterklaas) arrives on a boat from Spain (like Raymond Briggs’ Father Christmas dreams of, he has clearly ended up in a sunny ex-pat community) bringing with him a mischievous Moorish companion, Zwarte Piet. Piet ably assists Sinterklaas in deciding who has been nice and who has been naughty and, dressed in his colourful pantaloon and feathered cap, he looks very much the clownish companion of his sharper suited and bearded boss.

Nothing wrong in that you might think. A long-standing tradition from the 19th century. Harmless fun. You might be feeling some warmth towards Zwarte Piet already, imagining him darning Santa’s socks after a long day’s sleigh ride (or boat ride in this case). Gently brushing the snow from Santa’s beard. Bringing him a brandy. Nothing there that could be remotely unsettling for an adult or child. Right? We like a bit of history, a bit of colour. Would you like to meet Piet in his full glory?

This is the Zwarte Piet that you will see striding through the streets of Holland in the run up to Christmas, handing out sweets to children. He is also a staple feature of the decorations adorning shops and streets, as ubiquitous as the Christmas robin or reindeer. My first reaction on seeing Zwarte Pieten in the flesh in Holland was “Seriously? They’re blacked-up? In afro wigs? You’re kidding, right?” Coming from the UK where the Black and White Minstrels were given short shrift some time ago and assigned to the pile of once embraced characters now branded ‘politically incorrect’, Zwarte Piet made my PC alarm ring louder than the herald angels sing. To the non-local eye, he is an anachronism from a time when being sensitive to racial background simply wasn’t a consideration.

Opinion about Zwarte Piet is divided, even in Holland, with those complaining that the tradition is racist often being accused of trying to spoil was is just a bit of historically rooted, seasonal fun. Political correctness aside (hard as it is), what is obvious is that Zwarte Piet has the potential to scare the Christmas cheer out of small children like a festive Papa Lazarou. Our host in Holland (the very lovely Bee and Barlie’s Books) has, as a resident, been subjected to Piet overload. She describes how her daughter was left traumatised after a troop of “beyond black … and very, very tall” Zwarte Pieten visited the local school – “She came out and just jumped pretty much up onto my chest. Last time I saw her like that was Halloween”. That sounds like great Christmas fun. Of course there are exceptions. My 4-year-old was more than happy to meet someone who so filled her hands with sweets that she had to steer her scooter using her wrists.

Zwarte Piet is an unsettling character on several levels and makes any jitters about a scary Santa pale in comparison (if you’ll pardon the pun). Both are in the tradition of the grotesque characters that pepper our folklore and history and show that there’s nothing we like more then to be a little bit scared, even at the merriest time of the year. So deck your halls and rest ye merry but remember to bolt the door and block the chimney.

13 Responses to “Christmas cheer and fear (part 2)”

  1. nick December 3, 2012 at 12:38 am #

    Fuck you whore its isnt Christmas, be jealouse you fuck because Dutch has 2 holidays in december sinterklaas december 5th and christmas december 25th

    • Crumbs & Pegs December 3, 2012 at 12:57 am #

      I’ve approved your comment (a) to reassure you that having just spent a week in Holland with a Dutch family I know the difference and (b) to show everyone what a rude sh*t you are. Merry Xmas!

      • lacithedog March 5, 2013 at 2:35 pm #

        I wonder what Nick would think about David Sedaris’ take on this tradition?

      • Crumbs & Pegs March 5, 2013 at 3:19 pm #

        Ha ha – indeed! Thanks for commenting and for the link. Very funny! 🙂

      • lacithedog March 5, 2013 at 4:12 pm #

        You’re welcome. Relistening to Sedaris makes me realise the Papa Lazarou aspect to this tradition.

        Also, it seems it is dangerous to actually protest this tradition in Holland. I’m glad I kept my mouth shut when I saw them in Antwerp!

  2. simonsometimessays December 3, 2012 at 8:20 am #

    Excellent post – yet again. What a curious tradition, but perhaps no more so than Punch and Judy, which is hardly a role model for modern family life.
    I always knew that Crumbs and Pegs was, deep down, a Sherlockian. The Adventure of Black Peter is one of the best of the Sherlock Holmes short stories, in which the eponymous villain comes to a grisly end. It just gets more and more festive…

    • Crumbs & Pegs December 4, 2012 at 11:38 pm #

      Sherlockian maybe in the old fashioned sense – I have no desire for the new fangled Benedict Cumberpatch (unlike the rest of the female population it seems).

  3. tatia December 3, 2012 at 12:34 pm #

    Goodness me the level of foul language and incorrect Grammar just took my breath away there. Excellent post and I do think that generally any nation understands that different nationalities will view their traditions with different eyes. And how could we (anybody) not? As

    • Crumbs & Pegs December 4, 2012 at 11:35 pm #

      Absolutely. Though arguably traditions should move with the times! 🙂

  4. tatia December 3, 2012 at 12:36 pm #

    uups – mean to: x

  5. Elena December 4, 2012 at 7:24 pm #

    Racist or not, a character who scares the begeebers out of children on the run-up to Christmas comes in handy with coercing them to be nice instead of naughty! Interesting post… I’ve heard of Babushka and the Befana (is it still PC to celebrate with old hags? I think so, though it’s a matter of time), but never Black Pete, so thanks, Helen!

  6. lacithedog March 5, 2013 at 2:26 pm #

    Zwarte Piet is also found in the Flemish parts of Belgium.

    My first reaction was to want to say: “rise up against the man, bro!” Not a good idea given the Vlaamse Blok had just won the local election.

    Anyway, try US comedian David Sedaris’ take on this tradition:

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Well, I have bad news.

My computer’s monitor was damaged on Friday, and now there’s these stripes that make it hard to see things. Thus, until further notice, Lunar Shadow is on hiatus. I apologize for the inconvenience.

Basically, until my monitor’s replaced, I’m stuck listening to music and browsing the Internet. And since it’s sometimes super slow… I’m gonna be bored out of my mind like it’s nobody‘s business. :/

I would use my mobile to post and such, except… my mobile doesn’t allow me to do that, so all I can do with a mobile is lurk. And lurk. And lurk.

Lurk, lurk, lurk. Always with the lurking.

Apparently I’m not the only one whose monitor got cracked recently. A friend of mine, the founder of the Vresun: Ciraian Ruins forums, also has the same issue. Though, he hasn’t had a great 2016 at all, poor guy. 😦

Unrelated but I keep forgetting that I have two versions of my avatars on my computer.

The ZERO Progress Post (and spoiler information)

Okay, well, it has a double meaning.

Firstly, there’s been absolutely no progress on Lunar Shadow whatsoever, so my plans of releasing version 5a on 16 January are shot to the Grim Path (and probably beyond 😛 ). But there’s progress on Lunar Shadow ZERO (thanks to a friend).

And yes, it’s almost been a year since Lunar Shadow‘s first release on 16 January 2015. Which means, almost a year of Serenity being on her quest. (Except that would imply Newerth didn’t survive, right? D: )

Anyway, this post will be for… well, both those (probably not a lot, though) and some information on some of the characters that appear in the Lunar Shadow Project. Caution: major spoilers and stuff. Continue reading

Version 4a has awoken!

As of today, version 4a of Lunar Shadow has been released! 😀

7z link: here
zip link: here

The Confusion Zone has yet to be added, but that’s going to be for version 5. I’ve also updated the Works page, in case anyone was wondering.

Anyway, I apologize for forgetting about the blog, and I’ll probably forget about it again, but these things happen, right?

First things first. Serenity will not have a Whimsical Star-like item. And continuing on, spoilers. Continue reading

Mysterious Issues and Progress

First things first – for reasons unknown, the Lunar Shadow forums are down. I have no idea why, and I can only hope that this issue is temporary.

Secondly, I’m probably going to be less active or something; two of my friends (both sisters of another friend of mine) were recently hospitalized. 😦

Lastly, a wall of text of progress, containing massive spoilers. So if you want to avoid being spoiled, ignore the rest of this post.

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Wall of Information, Part Duex

Silly constructed languages aside, the Tirahnys continent has been posted; the next area to be added will probably be the castle itself. I’ve also started a page for characters, though updating it with all characters in Lunar Shadow would take forever, so when I do add the characters, I’ll only add the very, very important characters.

Aside from that, there’s also been some progress on Lunar Shadow!

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Both areas will be accessible in version 4, though I’ve been procrastinating (as usual) – I haven’t even decided on the enemies of either areas.

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Yesterday I attended several lectures on Historical interiors and restoration at the University of Amsterdam. (It was actually the leaving colloquium for Prof. Anne van Grevenstein.)

It was an interesting day with some interesting people sharing their knowledge and experiences.
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On the way back to the station I walked through the red light district and saw the following sight opposite the Casa Rosso theatre:

No no, I was just swanning around to see the architecture...

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Riding in Cars With Dogs

Mia is funny. She gets SO excited about riding in the car, but after about two minutes she starts feeling anxious. She paces in the back seat and whines nervously for the rest of the drive. It’s super annoying, haha. But I get it. I feel anxious when I’m out of control, too!

I know this is super cheesy, but our drive today made me think about my reaction to uncertainty in life. If I’d just chill for a sec and trust that the driver has my best interest at heart, then I could just relax and enjoy the ride!

See? Super cheesy. But I guess I need to hear this message because I’m seeing it everywhere.

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  1. Mia is a gorgeous dog. Have you ever considered installing a pet barrier to keep her secure to the rear of the vehicle? May help reduce her anxiety.
    Love your thinking in this post – we all need to be better about dealing with uncertainty.

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PacificFreePress.com: Council of Governors to Rule America?

Obama Establishes Council of Governors to Advise DoD, DHS on 'Civil Support Missions'

So far, there has been almost no coverage at all in the old-stream media on this astonishingly-powerful executive order passed this week by “President Obama”.

As usual, the bloggers appear to be only remaining real fourth estate. Thank you Lori and all the good folks @ PacificFreePress.com !!!

For the sake of everyone’s liberty do yourself a big favour: cancel your cable today and boycott the following websites: cnn, msnbc, fox, bbc, cbc and canada.com

“.. Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die,
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them…”

Inscribed on the One Ring forged by the Dark Lord Sauron in the novel ‘Lord of the Rings’ by J.R.R. Tolkien

My 2-Bits: Okay, so it appears the dark powers hiding behind Obama have decided to better Tolkien by one. I hope that is the only similarity and that Americans will get off their ass, march 10-million-strong to Washington D.C., throw their entire congress in jail, and bring back a genuinely-elected republic soon!

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2012 is the year of being "I am" living in the moment and being thankful for something each and every day. Hoping you will join us and expand this blog with your gratitude of the day and that together we will all live a much more positive and thankful life.

6 January 2012

on January 6, 2012

O what a beautiful feeling…. O what a beautiful day! Incredibly special to feel the wind blow through your hair whilst down at Cott beach waiting to meet special friends from SA for lunch. Great sculpture against an ever changing sea with a strong South Easterly blowing today so much to be thankful for…

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  1. Linda says:

    Today I am thankful for having my legs to enable me to walk the 18 holes of Margate golf course while Eksteen & Manie played the course. The breeze and soft drizzle for the second half was the fantastic. Grateful for that.

  2. Sue says:

    Looks great so thankful for the wide expanse of blue sea here in Australia

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Crowned Slaves

Sometimes I wonder it’s the same country which once Mahatma Gandhi dreamt of. Our country, India known for its biggest democratic system and versatile population still begs for answers, answers to questions we fear to ask. I just open my eyes and see a beautifully decorated concep

t of democracy everywhere, but when it comes to actual democracy, the nation fails miserably. I a

m not talking here about the big statistical figures and data which compare our country to other nations and finally prove that we are doing fine. When I see around, I don’t see “fine”. I see failure of the system as a whole.

One of the eminent books written by Mahatma Gandhi is “Hind Swaraj” published in 1909. In the book he mentioned reasons and solutions for the Indian misery. As he quotes “…It is Swaraj when we learn to rule ourselves. It is, therefore, in the palm of our hands. Do not consider this Swaraj to be like a dream. There is no idea of sitting still. The Swaraj that I wish to picture is such that, after we have once realized it, we shall endeavor to the end of our life time to persuade other to do likewise. But such Swaraj has to be experienced, for each one for himself. One Drowning man will never save another. Slaves ourselves, it would be mere pretension to think of freeing others…..”

In this book, Gandhi Ji mentioned many problems at that time i.e. 1909, when our country was being ruled by Englishmen. The problems were related to Education, Railways, Advocates and advocacy, health system and doctors etc. The fact which I came through was painfully shocking after seeing that the basic problems before the freedom and now are not different. The change is just, the people who were ruling us. Before 1947, we were ruled by British and now the place has been taken by some of our own. At the time of British rule, rich were getting good education, healthcare, security and the poor were deprived of the same. Indian rich class was as comfortable then as now. The poor were dying of hunger, no healthcare and poverty and the scenario is no different now. We don’t need to compare ourselves to countries like Somalia, to boast that we are doing well; we just can compare the metropolitan cities, which are few in number to the vast majority of rural India, to know the discrepancies in terms of economy, healthcare etc.   Obviously, things have changed, but have they changed to an extent of utmost satisfaction?

As Mahatma Gandhi said “…One Drowning man will never save another. Slaves ourselves, it would be mere pretension to think of freeing others…..” The point to contemplate is what nature of slavery is being discussed here? Is it the literal “master and slave” slavery or the slavery of opinions? If it’s the literal slavery then why our situation hasn’t changed since the freedom of our country? The current shape of the nation clearly describes about the form of slavery we all live in. ”The slavery we don’t know about. The slavery which has crept into our lives and our hearts and we dread questioning it coz we fear the consequences. The slavery which not only impedes us to act on which is right and wrong, but also stop us to even mention it from our tongues. It’s time we ask ourselves questions, the answers to which the nation demand. The answers to which we know but pretend as we don’t. It’s time to do the right thing…..

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107: Maggie

by Danny James

I broke my adolescence over Maggie Cassidy this past weekend, and until some days, will I be enough to stand and heed the oceans brotherly call, oft where go the great detached on Icarian odysseys of forgetting.

It is a good book that makes me read myself after, and gifts a keepsake of genial sameness with it, when putting it down becomes a sentimental exchange, that though you must walk away, you cannot help but look back for, – like a time, a place, or lover past that sits forever in the fairer shade of memory. Every little paper-backed Universe on the bookshelf is an existence over, with fresh astoundments and none replaced as though born backwards going in, and the space between dawns are but a whelm of sleep.


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God, Dad and Cars by David J. Bauman

My poem “God, Dad and Cars” has been published today on The Blue Hour Magazine. Thank you for the honor!

The Blue Hour

I’m 8 years old, perched
on a headlight under the raised hood
of our white four-door Chevy,

which has somehow stranded us
at Uncle Bob’s farm.
But this isn’t like the time before,

in Canada, when we broke down
along a country road, far from home.
Across the back seat Crystal and I

had played cards with mom while you
paced, and raged how God must hate
you. I wondered, why you thought

He’d bother a little family like ours,
only on vacation. Wouldn’t He
have more important things to do?

No one home at the farm,
but you know where the tools are—
your hands gloved in grease.

You are in control, under sweat
and sun. I hold something in place
while you work. Afterwards,

when the engine cranks,
you thank me, slap me on the back.
“Thank God you were here,” your smile

wide and rare as the…

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    • I’m glad you liked it, HC. Thank you. Yes, it’s been interesting and not always easy to write childhood memory poems. How much is what happened and how much is what we have created in our memory about what happened? Luckily I’m a poet rather than a historian. 🙂

    • I am soooo glad! You know I think this poem started after hearing a comedian, or someone talk about that flashlight moment that most all men have had with their father. That moment when we hold the flashlight while he does something incomprehensible, and usually we get in trouble for not doing it right: “I’m not working over there! Shine the light over here!” lol But this came to light instead, and thank you for jarring that inspiration loose from my foggy brain.

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DayBreaks for 4/21/16 – Finding the One Needful Thing

DayBreaks for 4/21/16 – Finding the One Needful Thing

From the DayBreaks archive, 4/21/2006:

Luke 10:41-42 (NLT) – But the Lord said to her, “My dear Martha, you are so upset over all these details!  42 There is really only one thing worth being concerned about. Mary has discovered it—and I won’t take it away from her.

As I write this, it is Easter Sunday afternoon.  As was true of churches all over America, we had more people in church today than on almost any other day of the year.  It happens that way every year.  It is at one and the same time both a delight to every preacher and a frustration.  It’s a delight to see people that you’ve not seen come for some time when they come through the door.  It’s great to meet new people who may need to know about Jesus.  And it’s great to get to preach the Word at any time.

But it’s also frustrating because it points out how frivolously some people take their faith.  They will show up for Easter and Christmas…and other than a funeral or wedding throughout the year, that’s about it.  Why?  I’m sure there are a lot of reasons, and while I know that in the verse above, Jesus rebuked Martha for being “upset” over many details, I think he would criticize many of us for being “obsessed” by so many things.  Perhaps distracted is more accurate.

I look at families who are extremely irregular in their church attendance.  They often have kids who are involved with soccer, football, baseball, gymnastics, cheerleading and other things.  It used to be that sports leagues had the decency to not have such things on Sunday because there was a respect for Sunday as a day of worship.  No longer.  And so many of these parents yield their God-given responsibility to raise their kids in the “nurture and admonition of the Lord” so that their kids can participate in sports or hobbies.  The parents often believe that they’re just being supportive of their kids, and, in a way, they are.  But are they being supportive in the things that really matter?  What’s more important – God and worshipping him, learning about Christ and the faith, or kicking one more goal?  I fear greatly for many of these kids.  They are learning from their folks many wrong lessons – such as, “There are many wonderful things in life you can do, and church is just one of them.  But if you decide you’d rather participate in some organized activity rather than going to church, I’ll support your decision.”  For most of those kids, the day will come when their parents wonder why their children have no faith – certainly not a faith that will sustain them when life gets hard and the enemy spreads his lies.  The answer will be simple: it will be because their parents failed in their God-given responsibility to model the Christian life and to insist that their children attend church and participate in spiritual things as a priority over earthly pursuits.

Jesus told Martha that there was only one thing worth being concerned about…and that Mary, by sitting at Jesus’ feet and learning and worshipping, had chosen that one thing.  The one thing that is needful for each generation is not to play organized sports or be part of some club, but to know Christ and Him crucified and risen from the dead.  I fear a dreadful judgment for parents who fail in this most sacred of responsibilities, and for the children whose parents didn’t have the spiritual insight to see how their “support” for what their children wanted to do could cost them in eternity.  If children haven’t established a faith in Christ by the time they are 18, the odds are that they never will come to know Him.

What are you teaching your children is the one needful thing in life?

PRAYER:  We are so easily distracted, Lord, from being with you.  We find and use every excuse to abandon you and fail to worship and fellowship with other Christians.  Open our eyes to the effect that our actions have on our children.  Help us to hunger and thirst after righteousness and not vicarious experiences through our children’s lives.  Forgive us and renew our commitment to putting You first, now and forever, in our lives.  We pray that you’ll draw our children to you and that they will come to know you, love you, and follow you all the days of their lives.  In Jesus’ name, Amen.

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  1. Hi Rosa, Thought this might be an encouragement to you as you try to reprioritize sports vs. Church. I know you are heading in that direction. What has Cesa found out regarding her lungs? Praying! Barbara

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A day's run is the distance traveled by a vessel in 24 hours.

End of Week 2…Reset!

I’m sorry I’ve been gone a few.  I had personal health issues to deal with.  It’s not something I wish discuss other than it just plain sucks to get old.  From my initial doctor visit to the appointment with a specialist, I started feeling sorry for myself and eating junk because food has always been a shoulder to cry on.  Two days stuck worrying about things and today I reset my priorities.  I had to get back on track for my marathon in May so I went for my scheduled long run.confucius

It was probably one of the slowest runs in a while, but I did all 8 miles I had to do today.  The temperature was 35 degrees and it started spitting snow at me the last mile.  It really was a fun run and I’m glad I didn’t quit in mile one.  Sometimes it’s hard to shut up that little voice in my head.  I had to run because it was Scout’s birthday.

scoutToday would have been Scout’s 15th birthday.  I still miss her.  Summer is doing better.  I know she misses her “Foofer”.  I try to give her extra attention when she asks for it, even if it’s at 3 in the morning.  She’s grieving too.

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Breakfast Planning!

On any plan, meal prep is key for success. I usually prepare all my meals on Sunday when I do all my other household chores. Oven going, crock pot fired up, and veggie cutting galore!
One of the easiest ways to do breakfast is using a muffin tin. Yeah I own one still! All you need are egg whites, veggies and muffin liners, is you want to.  To better explain it, check out Eat Yourself Skinny Egg Muffins.  Make more than enough for breakfast so you can eat for dinner when you’re in a pinch. Enjoy!

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Day one DONE!

Nothing spectacular to report other than I gained back nine pounds since the last 30 day challenge.  Not a bad as I thought, but still now I have to get rid of those first!  I know I can do it.  I just have to wrap my mind around it.  It’s a little harder this time because I know what the food tastes like, what the exercise entails, and what’s ahead of me.  It’s like driving down a road you’ve driven down a million times.  You know what turns there are, where the potholes are to avoid, and how boring it can be.  Like I’ve driven across Nebraska a bunch of times and it never gets easier.

I enjoyed my breakfast as I did before.  Lunch was another story…sweet potatoes are back!  I’m going to have to roast some this weekend.  Plain just ain’t cutting it!  I saw a great recipe on Pinterest for Spicy Roasted Sweet Potatoes and I want to try it.  I’m also going to look for some new fish recipes.  Do you have any to recommend?

I’m going to try to post everyday to let others know what I’m doing to get through this.  Follow me if you want to be included in my journey!  Thanks to everyone who has already joined me – all 100 of you!

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Any day is a good day to start!

Next 30-day challenge starts tomorrow!  The hardest part of the challenge is the mental aspect.  Your mind (that little voice in your head) is an evil genius at making you think the food is crappy, the exercises suck, and you were happier before dieting.  This isn’t a diet.  It’s a lifestyle.  I did great on the last challenge and then went to shit.  My mind started going back to old routines.  Skipping gym workouts.  Eating crap.  Getting sick.

Work of artThis time, I’m going to do things differently.  Instead of being so strict that I couldn’t sustain it after it ended, I going to do what will fit into my life.  A cheat meal or slipup isn’t the end of the world.  Nip it in the butt and move on.  Don’t beat myself up over little things.  I know I’m able to make this challenge something more than just 30 days.

I have to take better care of my body.  Tell my mind to shut up!  I deserve it.

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Bring on another 30 day challenge!

Last year, on the day after my birthday, I decided it was time to make a change.  I had missed two big races because of my migraines and not being able to train.  That finally hit home.  I needed to stop sitting at home feeling sorry about my life, eating every bad thing I could buy, and do something about it.  That’s when I contacted a local gym about a membership.  Little did I know the affect it would have.

I walked into Fit Quest Colorado Springs with all the bullsh*t other gyms had filled my head with.  I wasn’t building up Progress Photosmuscle; I was getting fatter!  I have a membership at another gym and was paying $$$’s to try to get fit.  It was more of a clique filled with gossiping moms.  I didn’t fit in.  I wanted a workout with an instructor who pushed me to be better.  That’s exactly what I got with Robert!

I started going to the classes he recommended and loving them, but I will say my heart wasn’t behind it.  I kept eating the same crap.  I went back to my marathon training mentality where I thought I’m working out so I can eat oodles of calories.  This didn’t help me with marathon training and it certainly wasn’t helping me now.

Move forward to September.  Robert set up a 30 day challenge where he would provide us with a menu and workout plan.  My military brain saw an opportunity for structure and all I had to provide was consistency and discipline.  I’ve done that before.  So I signed up and set out to follow it to the letter.

First week was…I won’t say awesome because it wasn’t.  It was different.  My “Fat Free, Low Calorie” mind was saying this is too much food.  You don’t realize how much 6 ounces of protein is until you put the food on the scale.  I started to think there’s no way I’m going to lose with this amount.  But I stuck with it.  Pulling recipes and ideas off Pinterest (check it out here).

I told myself not to step on the scale at home.  This is hard for me to do.  I usually weigh myself two if not three times a week.  I finally caved and stepped on the scale at the gym on the morning of the 11th day of the challenge.  I couldn’t believe this was actually working!  Now I know from previous diets, the first week can yield the greatest amount lost.  So I dug deeper and pushed on.

I didn’t have any issues with meal prep.  I’ve done it before.  On Sundays, I would cook everything for the week.  If I couldn’t get some chicken or fish cooked, I’d pick up a rotisserie chicken or chicken breasts from the deli.  No excuses!  I will say by the third week, I was so sick of cooking sweet potatoes that I begged Robert for no more of them.  There was one day with one cheat meal and I never used it, ever.  I didn’t want the temptations that can lead to an entire d@mn box of Oreos!

The diet itself wasn’t that bad.  You just have to be creative.  Find what fits for you and stick with it.  The exercise plan was brutal for me.  I’ve been a runner for years and Fit Quest’s classes made me find muscles I didn’t know I had.  I did have problems with the amount of sit ups required.  I really did try to do all of them, but some days, I just couldn’t.  Overall, by the 4th week of the challenge, my body started to get tired.  I was moody, cranky and hungry for something different (really I missed fruit).

I weighed out on the morning of my 28th day.  It was over.  Unfortunately, I went back to that “I’ll get back on it tomorrow” mentality.  The holiday binge commenced and my health put me in the E.R. with a migraine just one week later.  I knew I needed to make a change and tried, but had trouble shutting up the voice in my head.  The next month, I caught the crud going around (and still have it) which made me miss two weeks of training.  It sucked because I felt I let not only myself down, but I let Robert down.  I was able to take off the weight, but the underlying issues were still there.  Work in progress.

My personal results from the challenge:

  • 22 pounds lost
  • 4.5% body fat lost
  • 19 inches lost
  • 1st overall female in the 40+ women’s age bracket
  • 1st overall female in the women’s bracket – $100 prize!

New year.  New challenges.  First let me say I’m not one to make resolutions in January.  I’ve made them before and when I failed at it, I was disappointment in myself. I put together a list of things I would like to have happen:Win back my life!

  1. I want the body I had when I first started running back.
  2. I want to be able to run another marathon (already in the lottery for the Lincoln Marathon 2015).
  3. I want to gain control over my migraines.
  4. I want to reduce the amount of medicines I take each day.
  5. I want to be happy.

After the last challenge, I know I can get all five items.

I just need to take that first step. I did yesterday when I signed up for the next 30 day challenge.  Bring it!


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In early September, I completed the AdvoCare 24 Challenge and so far it has changed my life…for the MUCH better. This blog was started so I could share my journey and be a source of information as people go through the challenge and beyond. It’s never easy to start on a new path but with the support of AdvoCare, friends and coworkers, I have been able to challenge myself and start becoming a healthier person. I’m excited where this journey has gotten me and am looking forward to what’s ahead.

Learn more about the 24 Day Challenge and start seeing how you can surprise yourself!

It’s amazing what can happen in 24 days, check out my results.

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{Error Resolution} – Error in Microsoft Dynamics CRM email router – Could not verify the version of Microsoft Dynamics CRM.The requested organization service could not be activated.

Recently we started noticing this error in the event log  for Microsoft Dynamics CRM Email Router. After a bit of research, we found that the issue was occurring because from the authentication providers, of Microsoft Dynamics CRM website, the Negotiate provider was removed. So we had to add the Negotiate provider back. The following are the steps we followed.

  • Login to Microsoft Dynamics CRM Application server
  • Open IIS and go to Microsoft Dynamics CRM website
  • Double click Authentication, select windows authentication and Providers.
  • Add the Negotiate provider back.

Please check the screenshot below.

Now the big question. Why removing Negotiate causes this error? The reason for this error is because Dynamics CRM Email router tries to connect to Microsoft Dynamics CRM Organization Service using the WebHttpBinding which does not support NTLM with anonymous authentication.

Off course there can be other reasons for this error, but if you have Negotiate removed from the list of authentication providers, doing the above would help to fix the issue.

Hope this helps!

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Strange Corners’ second full-length, “Strange Pleasures” is expected to be released on May 7th, via Sub Pop, and the band will tour the UK behind the release. No other European or US dates have yet been announced. They’ve also offered a free download of the LP’s first single, “Berlin Lovers”, in exchange for your email.

Our listeners loved their full-length 2011 debut “Creatures Of An Hour”, and this is likely to generate even more buzz.

Tracklist for “Strange Pleasures”:

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  3. I Can’t Sleep
  4. All I Know
  5. Fireflies
  6. Berlin Lovers
  7. Future Age
  8. Going Back to Strange
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Leonardo DiVinci, great artist, sculptor, inventor....and prophet of sorts also?

Leonardo DiVinci is a well known figure for his many talents, but not everyone has learned that he wrote as well.  I could not say that he extolled Christ, which is all important regarding our soul, but he acknowledged God in various works and writings.  And in a diary-type writing (Thoughts on Art and Life) that he added to regularly over the course of many years there is a section 128 where he makes a few predictions about the future that are interesting given that the times in which he wrote were still pretty low tech by our present standards.

  Without further ado here are his .....thoughts?..... on certain future accomplishments of mankind:

  1.  Men will communicate with each other from the most distant countries, and reply.

  2.  Many will abandon their own habitations and take with them their own goods, and go inhabit other countries.

  3.  Men will pursue the thing which they most greatly fear, that is to say, they will be miserable to avoid falling into misery.

  4.  Men standing in separate hemispheres will converse with each other, embrace each other, and understand each other's language.

  While some of these remain unfulfilled, we obviously have achieved some of them already.  Was it lucky guessing by Leonardo, a visionary imagination, perhaps, such as with the great writer Jules Verne who foresaw so many technical developments in his science fiction writing, or did God share a glimpse of the future with our Italian friend?

  I just found it interesting to come across this, and thought you might too, as I had never heard that Leonardo had 'prophesied'.  Of course he may not have considered it prophecy, and it may not rightly be anything like that at all.  Probably just speculation.  But he seems to have seen the future pretty clearly concerning certain of these particular points, right?  Well, he also believed that the creation was a remarkable thing, and felt it had lessons to teach and taught them better and more truly than any other teacher.  I did not run across a place in his writing where he praised Jesus by name, which made me sad.  The Catholic Church was reigning powerfully in Leonardo's day, and its corruption issues at that time had cast a pall on many people's view of Jesus I believe.

For instance, in entry 106 of Thoughts on Art and Life he says:  "Pharisees, - that is to say, holy friars."  He seems a bit jaded towards them, right?

 But Leonardo seemed to have great certainty in a Creator, and saw His hand all around himself.  So, I find it pleasing that to a mind widely acknowledged as a very great one, the existence of a brilliant Creator seemed obvious.

  Here he speaks of God in part 2, Thoughts of Art, entry 21:  "Thou sayest that science increases in nobility in proportion as the subjects with which it deals are more elevated, and, for this reason, a false rendering of the being of God is better than the portrayal of a less worthy subject; and on this account we will say that painting, which deals alone with the works of God, is worth more than poetry, which deals solely with the lying imaginings of human devices."

  Leonardo did acknowledge God, and rightly.  Perhaps in some writing I missed or haven't read yet he speaks of Jesus, but he at least had the good sense to recognize the Holy Father in all that was around him.

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Interactive Degrassi

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Interactive Degrassi: what was simply a TV show a decade ago is
now … a cross-platform property that uses multiple media to
drive the brand.

By: Roma Khanna

Ten years ago the classic Degrassi television series ended its
first run as one of the most popular Canadian television shows ever. A decade
later it is back with the same edgy teen drama that made it a success the
first time, but this time with a twist.

The new series, Degrassi: The Next Generation, airing on CTV on Sunday nights,
has taken a multi-platform approach to television entertainment that reaches
out to kids where they are spending more and more of their time: on the
Internet, on their mobile phones and on iTV.

Degrassi: The Next Generation recognizes that while kids today face many of
the same emotional issues that they have for years, the way in which they
communicate has fundamentally changed. The Internet, e-mail, cellphones and
other tech devices are as comfortable for kids today as television and the
telephone were for kids 10 years ago. In bringing back the Degrassi series, TV
producer Epitome Pictures and Web producer Snap Media convinced broadcaster
CTV that a new Degrassi that purported to speak to kids on their own level
needed to embrace and incorporate these new methods of communication.

In a unique partnership of traditional and new media, Degrassi: TNG was
developed from the very start as a cross-platform property that would use
multiple media to tell stories, build a community, drive the Degrassi brand
and ultimately create new advertising and revenue opportunities. The show,
produced by Epitome Pictures, lives on-air as well as online through the portal produced by Toronto’s Snap Media. With the support of
CTV, Bell Canada, Bell Mobility and Bell ExpressVu, Degrassi has also reached
its audience through wireless applications and a season finale iTV episode.

The online version of the Degrassi Community School allows kids to register to
become virtual Degrassi students. They are assigned a homeroom filled with
other real kids as well as fictional Degrassi characters. They are given a
locker space to create a personal Web page complete with customized polls,
photo albums and a journal. They receive D-mail (a private e-mail system
exclusively for registrants) and use the
environment to communicate not only with other fans but also with show
characters. All of this content is served up by a content “syndication” engine
that delivers content to audience members in timed relation to their local
broadcast schedule. The online world aims to capture the attention of the
show’s audience between episodes by building on television plots and creating
a community around the brand, ultimately driving the success of the property

The popularity of the site is clear, with more than 46,000 registered users,
75% of whom are in the show’s core demographic between 13 and 17 years old. A
recent survey of the online community revealed that over 80% of the online
audience visits the site more than twice a week, with 25% of the audience
visiting more than five times a week. As well, 85% of audience members are
there for more than 15 minutes at a time, with 33% visiting up to two hours.
And they are telling their friends about it: Almost two-thirds of the audience
have passed along information to friends on how to register as an online
member. In terms of strengthening the TV brand, 67% stated that the Web site
makes the TV show more enjoyable for them.

This type of traffic, from a dear and identified demographic community,
suggests real value for Degrassi advertisers. With the site’s popularity now
clearly established, season two will move beyond the simple online ads of
season one to more innovative approaches to advertising, online content
sponsorship and cross-platform campaigns. Integrated campaigns will be
packaged for advertisers by Bell Globemedia Interactive and CTV.

With successes like Degrassi, the message to advertisers is clear: Be where
your audience is. More and more, we will see broadcasters offering integrated
media packages that take advantage of all the channels into the audience’s
home. Advertisers are well-advised to work with broadcasters and new media
companies to determine how to mine the potential of interactive and
personalized relationships with audience members.

While the future of television may still be evolving, it is clear that it will
involve a more integrated approach to content and advertising using
cross-platform content to speak to audiences on their own terms.

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Gores Win 10th Straight in Season Opener vs. The Dolls

Land Shark led the Dolls in scoring with 24 pts; Dust Bunny's 69% was the highest lead % in the bout.

Toronto Roller Derby kicked off its fifth season in front of a packed house at the Hangar last night, a showing that bodes well for ToRD in 2011. In light of recent controversy surrounding the fate of the Hangar’s TTC line (which, thankfully, resulted in a partial victory for ToRD), Toronto City Counselor Maria Augimeri blew the ceremonial first whistle to kick off the bout between the Death Track Dolls and the defending champion Gore-Gore Rollergirls. Despite tracking a youthful lineup that featured three skaters making their debuts, the Gores looked every bit the champion on their way to another decisive ToRD victory, their tenth in a row.

Brim Stone wore the star for 35% of the Gores' jams (being blocked here by Sue Saint Marie).

After taking the most jams with the star of her career last season, Brim Stone skated nicely into the spot in the jammer rotation recently vacated by the retired Lunchbox. It was a not-so-new-look 1-2-3 punch that came out swinging early on in the first half, taking the first four straight leads (and a 16-1 lead) before Land Shark finally took her first lead of the  bout (only to be reeled in and forced to call by Bambi). The Gores showed no signs of a championship hangover as they dominated the pack in the early going. The Dolls seemed content to allow the Gores to bring the game to them; loose packs and isolated skaters were no match for Bambi and Dust Bunny who finished 1-2 in 2010 jammer stats. The strong play of jammer duo Betty Bomber (.8 PPJ, 33% lead %) and Land Shark (1.04 PPJ, 43%) kept things from getting out of hand, earning leads or staying close enough to their opponents to keep the scoring low, and allowing the Dolls to at least remain within reach, 47-5, with 10:00 left in the half.

Kandy Barr (centre) and Lady Gagya joined the Gores' pivot rotation.

Dolls’ pivot Monichrome had a strong first half  for her team despite facing unfamiliar opposition up front as veteran blockers Kandy Barr and Lady Gagya took over pivoting responsibilities from Brim Stone. The Dolls began to tighten things up late in the first half, and with the score 54-8 a big Jubilee jammer take out (she led the Dolls with 18 blocks) allowed Land Shark to take the lead, pick up some points and, more importantly, some momentum. The Dolls were a streaky team in 2010 often riding waves of momentum in and out of bouts, and they pushed back hard at the end of the first. Spurred on by their strongest, most controlled packs of the half, the Dolls went into the lockeroom on a high, getting the crowd back into it and pulling as close as they had been all bout, 57-26.

The Gores did not look intimidated at the start of the second half. Despite allowing the Dolls to creep their way back late in the first, the Gores calmly regained control early in the second. After a few great stalemate jammer battles killed off the Dolls’ momentum, strong jamming by the usual suspects (Dust Bunny and Bambi) allowed the Gores to keep adding to the tally, even if only in small increments. The second-year core of Aston Martini, Hurlin’ Wall, Santa Muerte and Gamma Rei, armed now with the experience of a championship victory, played a huge role in this bout; it was with consistent attention to fundamentals that the Gores began to pull away. Despite some scrappy battles in the pack between Lucid Lou and Santa Muerte, and some hard-fought back-and-forths between Land Shark and Dust Bunny, the Dolls just couldn’t maintain a consistent offensive pushed and were facing an 85-35 deficit mid way through the second.

Panty Hoser (with a late jammer take out on Bambi) came on strong in the second half.

There were jams when the Dolls looked like they could compete, Dolls’ pivot Panty Hoser became a bigger factor as the bout wore on; Land Shark and Betty Bomber (despite only getting minimal breaks from jamming by Jubilee and Demolition Dawn) continued to put in spirited performances for the Dolls right through to the end; and Jubilee had a monster night in the pack leading her team in most statistical categories (hits, knockdowns and assists). Despite the great individual moments by the Dolls, the collective chemistry of the Gores was just too much; they kept things simple in the late stages of the bout, tracking veteran pivots to keep the pack under control and allowing the Gores jammer trio to continue their strong performances. Although the Dolls were able to hold the explosive Gores’ offense to a respectable 107 points, they were unable to put together a consistent attack of their own, and in the end the Gores secured their tenth consecutive ToRD victory with a 107-43 win.

The Gores have now won 10 straight ToRD bouts.

The Gore-Gore Rollergirls look ready to lead ToRD in this all-important WFTDA apprenticeship season. The three rookies in the lineup fit in seamlessly, and were slowly integrated into the lineup throughout the night. The Death Track Dolls, on the other hand, are going to have to regroup and look for a way to build on this. While they often seemed on the verge of pulling off strategies and wrestling control of the pack away from the Gores, they just seemed a step or two away from executing.

The Chicks Ahoy! and the Smoke City Betties kick off their season on March 12th.

You can catch video of the bout at layer9; stay tuned to ToRD.TV for an upcoming recap; stats highlights here.

CN Power hosts Killamazoo (Michigan) in an all-important inter-city bout on February 26th as part of a double header also featuring ToRD’s future stars, the undrafted D-VAS, taking on Sudbury’s Nickel City Roller Derby in the second bout of this up-and-coming league’s history.

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Minimalism Was Born in India

Over the past few months, I’ve been reading and thinking a lot about minimalism. Yeah it’s time, but please bear in mind that I’m a European, and in Europe we are always a trend late.

It seems minimalism has been growing on the net, with an increasing number of blogs dedicated to a minimalist lifestyle.

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What the hell is minimalism?

Basically, it’s stripping everything down to their bare essentials, working your way down to the littlest number of things you can own. Convenient when you need to move out of your place quickly, forget the U-haul.

Anyway, the bottom line is “less is more”, more space for the things that really matter to you. It’s not scaling down for the sake of it.

What precipitated the movement originally was the 2008 crisis and the recession that ensued. It is a reaction against our consumers’ society faced with this crisis, leaving a lot of people unable to keep up with the requirements of said society, namely “BUY BUY CONSUME BUY”, whereby you’re a somebody because you own things. Whether you need them or not is not important, as long as you have them.

Are you a minimalist?

By no means I consider myself a minimalist, first of all because I’m not one for labelling as you know ;), second of all because I own far too much stuff for this 😀 However I’ve grown interested in the philosophy – if I may use this word – and the enthusiasm, energy and nonconformism behind it (you bet!): these people have found an alternative way of living, making the most of what the system has to offer (ie the internet) to tweak it and spread simplicity. These are people who have cut down on their possessions, who’ve used the net to generate enough passive income to live a simple life, who work two hours a day, who are location independent freelancers most of the time, and who travel a lot. How could I not like it?

Is it really new?

Then I figured out why I liked the idea: from my yogic point of view, there’s a concept already existing for the “less stuff” facet of minimalism. A concept that has been around for centuries, popularized by a certain Patanjali: enter aparigraha, also known as “non acquisitiveness”. Leave what you don’t need, in 21st century English.

There you have it: a modern form of a thousand-years-old concept. Dedesigned and turned into a movement by Westerners. Again.

And just like Westerners yoga practitioners and teachers, the backlash has started, coming right at them, in the shape of “minimalism as marketing trick to create a fake movement and have people buy your stuff online”. Ouch.

Whether minimalism is a movement or a fad, the truth is that it has made me consider my own belongings, my cupboard full of clothes I don’t wear, the stuff I have kept “just in case” and never use, the piles of papers and magazines everywhere.

It has made me consider the way I purchase said clothes and stuff. I am a rather sensible person when it comes to personal finance (thanks mum!), but sometimes I should think twice before heading to the cashier with my newly-found treasure in one hand and my credit card in the other.

I understand aparigraha, but it has become real in my eyes.

More about minimalism?

Here are a few references you can check out if you’re not familiar with minimalism:

Leo Babauta: one of the fathers of minimalism, with his zen habits blog and various books on the subject.

Everett Bogue: far beyond the stars blog, has also written ebooks on simplicity and location independent work.

Tammy Strobel: yay, a woman! Check out her blog RowdyKittens, might be an inspiration to go car-free (confession: I already do, I don’t have my licence, it helps). She has written books too.

Colin Wright : the master of travel with his Exile Lifestyle blog. The guy is moving place every four months, as voted by his readers o_O

Let me know peeps, what’s your take on minimalism?

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  1. Are you a minimalist? You hit the nail on the head in that paragraph! It is an interesting concept, isn’t it? As a Westerner, I applaud those who’ve figured it out . Mainstream society here is about owning and aquiring more stuff – its all around me. Minimalism (at least in the Midwest) is almost unheard of. I’m a minority. It’s sad really, the mindLESSsness of others. Today is “trash day” and you should see the stuff on the street – most def things that could be re-used, repurposed or recycled. I wouldn’t call myself a minimalist, but I’m def into working toward a simpler lifestyle physically and mentally!

    • Heather – exactly! This is what appealed to me too, and I have started working out what I need vs what I don’t need, and this year I will work towards decluttering a bit 🙂
      I’d had this post on my mind for a few days before reading and commenting on your blog yesterday, then I knew I had to publish it. Talk about synchronicity 😉

  2. Great post! I am sooo not a minimalist: I’m a Scorpio and we don’t do anything in a quiet/minimal way. But I’m working really hard on this so thanks for the tips and links. The blog looks fantastic!

  3. Wonderful wonderful! As I progress in life the less I need. I know a lot of this comes from my life as a yogi, but it also comes from seeing the passing of two grandmothers and emptying out their homes of the things they acquired over their lifetimes. That takes a lot of people and energy.

    To me living as a minimalist not only incorporates how you live presently but also the flotsam you leave when you go.

  4. A friend of mine tells a story of a woman that he met. She and her husband started out in a one bedroom apt. worked their whole lives to build the house of their dreams. When my friend met the elderly couple, they were selling their beautiful 2-story home…. they wanted to move into a one room apt., back where they started. They worked their whole lives to end where they started. We seem to a ‘more is better’ attitude, when in reality… it truly is the simple things.

    • Hi Carrisa, thank you for sharing that story. I agree with you, indeed it gets down to the simple things… Less possessions leave space for something else, love, friendship, dreaming, anything 🙂

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AppleHDA 1.9.9f12 (10.6.5)

22 novembre 2010

10.6.5 Driver Update…
AppleHDA 1.9.9f12 patched for IDT  92HD71B7X.  Download
WiFi hasn’t been updated.. in any case you can use the old one.

  1. memo
    24 novembre 2010 alle 12:58 pm

    does it has the ssame disadvantages of the previous one???

  2. rob
    1 gennaio 2011 alle 2:09 am

    You Rock! Thanks for your help with the Dell Inspiron 1545.

    I’ve followed your instructions! Thanks for your help!

    I’m running 10.6.2, with ChameleonMR2. I’m hesitant on upgrading to 10.6.5 as I’ve finally got most everything working. I was curious, do you know how to get external monitor support working ?

    Any help on this would be much appreciated!

    Thanks again!

  3. Naeem
    23 febbraio 2011 alle 5:42 pm

    Deviato please givve compiled tutorial for Dell 1545 thanx. I am unable to install. i get kernal panic with every dvd

  4. eMxyzptlk
    29 aprile 2011 alle 12:15 am

    I’m disperately trying to get sound working on HP Pavilion DV7-1299EF but it only works with VoodooHDA which enable uncontrolled (can’t change volume) sound, headphones works but not the mic, as far as I know, it has the same device as your Dell but the AppleHDA did not work (using SL 10.6.8

    You can find everything you might need at https://github.com/eMxyzptlk/hard_dumps/tree/master/laptops/hp_pavilion_dv7_1299ef would you be able to help me?

  5. eMxyzptlk
    29 aprile 2011 alle 12:00 pm

    It’s me again, I finally worked it out.. could you please post the diff (or a howto patch) the AppleHDA so I can patch mine on my own and try to get the right speaker and the bottom woofer..

    • deviato
      3 luglio 2011 alle 3:06 pm

      You have the same codec as mine, I don’t think you have to patch applehda.
      You only need to patch your DSDT replacing AZAL with HDEF. However, I followed the instructions on projectosx.

  6. shadowfax
    2 dicembre 2011 alle 5:02 am

    hey deviato,
    can u please tell me how to embed fn key support in applehda.kext?
    i was an owner of a 1545 and installed leopard using your tutorial; and you rock \m/
    now that i’ve changed my system, i’m hunting for full functionality for all my devices. i’ve managed to patch applehda to work with my realtek alc269 codec, but no fn key support…. a tutorial would be great…. 🙂

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27 thoughts on “The Clocks In This House All Tell Different Times – Xan Brooks

  1. Beware inadvertent spoilers that sometimes accrue when one is real-time reviewing…

    IMG_3132“Wotcha, cocks,” Toto says.

    That quote seems to expedite this book eponymously!
    I have just finished reviewing a novel entitled “Number 11” that started with a teenage girl staying with her grandparents and visiting the Black Tower in the forest, I recall.
    Here, Lucy Marsh, with other teenagers, is taken by Coach in his Truck, a book’s book, I guess, to see the funny men who match characters in Wizard of Oz. Here a version of Epping Forest? I love the trees in Epping Forest. The tree with a face next to this review is not one of them, being from Beth Chatto’s last weekend. I am already captivated. Perhaps captured. The funny men remind me of a representational painting by Picasso. There are also stars in the sky of this text to gather.
    This chapter also mentions a charabanc trip to Frinton on Sea, a place within walking distance of where I live today. So perhaps not captured at all?

    “a place of possibilities”

  2. I have now glanced at the cover of this book and while trying to avoid what the book says about itself, I did glimpse a reference, for whatever unknown reason, to a book I real-time reviewed just over two years ago here: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2015/03/04/the-buried-giant-kazuo-ishiguro/

    2 – 4
    “The real magic blooms in the space between the performer and his client, between the truth and the lie.”

    This made me think of the process entailed in my gestalt real-time reviewing, and a perhaps wrongly serendipitous memory of such reviews I carried out recently of ‘The Lie Tree‘ and ‘The Essex Serpent‘.
    Here, I now gather we are in 1923 and I sense that era’s ambiance via the Ermine Street pub where Lucy grandparents live, and the horse that she cares about passing by, whether or not that is the same horse which finger-flaming Arthur Elms takes over from the charlatan spiritualist he worked for.
    We learn, too, of the hide and seek Lucy plays in Epping Forest. Carted there by a Crisis as well as a Coach, and the funny men are now fleshing out for us. And the British Empire spreading globally around her – the one to which Brexit hopes to return?
    My mother was born in London in 1926 … and my father in Wales in 1922 as grand-sired by those stricken ancestors who died of Spanish flu. (No reason I can remember why I mentioned Picasso earlier.)

  3. 5 – 7

    “People find omens when they look for them. Peer hard enough and you can read anything into anything.”

    I learn my lesson, after 9 years of studying and of real-time reviewing quality Weird Literature, which this XB book certainly is, I have already gathered, but under the guise of a modern magic realism with literary Salmanitis. A portrait of 1923 Britain through this filter of fiction, upon a palimpsest, for me, of visualised black and white photos, now of a pep jazz band of lively octaroons, or a masturbation of monkeys, and a theatre box of drugged gentlemen in interface with a pecking order within themselves as well as outside, and a lady masturbator who receives the pep-up omen of a chance message on a balloon set into the sky further west than London, and further east in Kent, we meet Elms again and his backstory of trenches in the last war. Vivid leanings of plot to match the earlier Terrible Unmentionables. And not forgetting Lucy herself witnessing street demolition near the Griffin pub where she helps her Granddad.
    Queer medicine. And a map of diffuse memories being gestalted or gestated that are not my memories, but now beginning to be instilled as mine. Or distilled. Don’t rush to die. Not yet, anyway.

    “All hail the power of the bouncing balloon.”

  4. 8

    “One, because swimmers held their breath for a minute at a time and never suffered any lasting effects. And two, because didn’t babies survive without air for nine months in the womb before the birthing bit began?”

    I thought this novel had already taken off, but now it REALLY takes off and it’s a din and stench humdinger of a 1923 London, and its increasingly post-war poverished peoples, more characters to savour, and its innuendos (we learn, through pub talk, more of the Coach trips with 14 year old Lucy to Epping Forest, and the funny men there), and more about Lucy and her special needs brother Tom, and how she looks after him. I reckon this book itself was dropped on its head as a baby, but it knocked a lot of great nonsense into it. Or it was starved of air at a crucial time in its post-gestation of a gestalt hindsight, perhaps a hindsight never to be clinched? Until I realise Tom and, then, Lucy watch breathless fishes in a shop’s tank … and are given glasses of milk by a seemingly kind proprietor.
    The Collapsed Catholics, notwithstanding.

  5. 9

    “One day soon,” Toto is saying. “One day soon you’ll be able to freeze the back of that lorry. You’ll be able to seal off the back and keep the temperature down.”

    I think I like Toto. And the other funny men on their only trips out from their home, trips to to the forest. Is Lucy getting older than the actual years passing through her, I also wonder? Amid the wonder of this cusp of time between empty lanes and car exhausts, an endless summer of melted ice cream and tantalising invitations to gambol in the forest, gambols that hopefully don’t cross any lines of behaviour. Premonitions that are ominous amid the warm ‘tween-wars that have remained no doubt special. Now frozen here. Any car collisions, notwithstanding, or car crash accidents of Brexit today?

    “The world reaches the funny men in little glimmers, in Chinese whispers.”

  6. 10

    “He turns to starboard and notes that the propeller has slowed to the point where he can identify each blade.”

    Sometimes still fast-spinning propellers seem to have discrete blades slowing – when viewed through the hindsight frame-by-frame camera of time?
    This viewpoint, too, back from us today – via the 1920s where the main body of this novel is so far set – of the thoughts (beautifully conveyed) of a slow-motion crashing Sopwith Camel pilot, shot down upon the cusp of friendly and enemy territory during the Great War. And of those who find him, but WHAT exactly do they find?
    This also aligns with the most famous Zeno’s Paradox, as never-ending travel through felt history in the concurrent piecemeal slow-motion real-time review I linked above.

    “Their sloshing genitalia make him think of kelp.”

  7. 11

    “It just goes to show, like Nan says, that you never know what people are like after dark.”

    The no. 11 where it’s all started to happen as I feared it might. Well, it has already BEEN happening, as I suspected it plainly was; it was just that we were not allowed to see it all happening to the children in Coach’s trips till now. Lucy is of the same age as when my own Mum left school only a few years later in the early 1930s and went to work in the near identical London, so perhaps it’s not so bad that Lucy has this job to do. Better than cleaning the filthy Gents for her Granddad in the Griffin, as she herself ponders. But just as Lucy thinks of the characters in the contemporaneous Baum book of Oz, these children are only fiction characters themselves, too? So what’s it matter? But matter it surely does. With some characters missing who might have made a difference, as in the characters missing in Lucy’s version of Oz in the Forest…

    “‘No,’ says Lucy, ‘This story’s different.'”

  8. 12

    “She has Beth in every day (and often overnight) to ensure that the floors are waxed and the clocks wound,…”

    A new character, Henrietta Shaw, living in a comfortable house on the fringes of town. Her son recommends to her a mountebank or magus, or both, called Magus. I suspect we know him already, but that is beside the point when body bits from the battlefield become, according to him, a sort of human gestalt of trench rats migrated from mainland Europe (by free movement or preternaturally scryable forces?) to where Henrietta lives and elsewhere.
    As if this book is a creature itself with the human bits it deploys as a prehensile gestalt.
    This is genuinely disturbing stuff coming together!
    With the added al dente traction of not being initially word-smooth nor roundly meaningful, but ever more tantalisingly promising to be paradoxically smoother inside the head and increasingly less meaningless outside of it.

  9. 13

    “Off the road, in the dark, the dimensions telescope and collapse until the figure at your side can feel a hundred miles away while the invisible sources of faraway sounds seem near enough to touch,…”

    This remarkable text is incongruently rhapsodic, if that is not a contradictiion in terms. Back in the forest with the children or young adults attending to the funny men, while an obliquely defined scout group that is beyond Baden-Powell camps nearby. The fact that this group has a name with the initials KKK gives food for thought in today’s hindsight. And the events in the forest are heart-wrenching for us to watch, but perhaps they represent some underpinning for the natural needs of us human animals in any age, except in that day and age they allowed, with a blind eye and a nod and a wink, certain things to happen. We today rightly or wrongly obliterate such and other things with a surface condemnation bordering on a liberal-justice totalitarianism.

    “‘The Campswarden met the Tally keeper and the Gleeman had his say,’ sing the unseen children of the Kibbo Kift. ‘Then all set sail in a coracle and cried, “We won’t return ’til May.”‘”

  10. 14 – 15

    “What had seemed so urgent just a few minutes before has become no more than a series of black-and-white blocks, words on a page,…”

    This book’s own words change one moment, too, from urgency and poignancy, to a feisty Lucy standing up to her mercenary granddad, then a block of a sort of semi-Joycean ‘Molly’s monologue’ of ducks fucking etc., by the balloon-message woman who entertains men and soothsayers…
    I am sure I am now reaching this book’s own Secret Garden, an apotheosis or optimum of the sort of book l love, not one that necessarily worries us ONLY with nightmares from the bookshelf with the pages’ internal messages freeing themselves into the room around me, but one that has a GESTALT of that kind of Secret Gardens’s sickness syndrome (here the Spanish Flu again and the utter love spent by soldiers bringing it home, as it were) AND the delights of great literature and games that can be played in the archetypal Secret Garden that we often think we know.
    Can you tell that I am enjoying this book?

  11. 16

    “Vive la revolution! Wheel out the guillotine. Poor old Coach, don’t you see, the irony’s priceless.”

    These funny men come from a House, looked after as lost ciphers of a Great War, if any War can be such, taken to the forest for a body’s necessities, life as ‘a game of old soldiers’ perhaps, emblemised by fantasy’s false masks, and, as someone says here, when you have to shit in a forest, you don’t stay there to smell it.
    All good things come to an end. All bad things come to an end, too. Neither of them ever in a nice way. The end of the Forest was inevitable. Time breaks it. Time always holds the trump card. All endings are unbearable, but we all have to grow up, even those of us who live in books. Unbearable, if it were not for the priceless ironies. And wishing sometimes to return there to paint it in a new light.

    “Lord Hertford is awaiting his presence in the Italian garden. A butler takes Sir William’s coat and escorts him under the barrel-vaulted ceilings, past the garish abstract by that young brute, Picasso,…”

    Meanwhile, this scene hit both my funny bones — a scene with a genius loci of a stately House that houses war casualties, and previous events are brought to task regarding the forest antics and so-called “public decency”, and the meeting about it, with reference to a statue of Pluto and a camel in the house’s grounds — and it is a literary event to cherish.
    Made my funny bones feel sad, too.

  13. 18

    “He says, ‘I’m going to draw every single old machine in Mr Lewis’s garden.'”IMG_3217

    This book reminds me of watching the gradual evolution of my wife’s quilt-making as blended with various styles of Picasso.
    This chapter is about a train journey’s worries about a storm, in the carriage the Magus, and, later, more reprises of characters and new slants upon other characters. Grotesquely Dickensian with a Joycean flow, but accessible when seen as a whole, a panoply of a past era with the seeds of our own era, at times rhapsodic, absurdist, sharp-edged, feisty, painfully poignant.

  14. 19 – 22

    “And on this occasion the procedure felt strange; it was bothersome and uncomfortable in a way it had never been in the forest.”

    The ‘dirty business’, that is.
    Dirt is in the eye of the beholder, the Devil, too (in the guise of fat Elms Magus or an Etonian from an explicitly Whovian or Wellsian future or the FUTURE that is us) and those hillocks of white dust. The pattern of characters continues quilting (including the prospect of a group of negro musicians), as the palimpsest of the Great War trenches are layered upon London streets, just as Lucy’s earlier forest antics are layered upon the environs of the mansion where the funny men actually live.
    Nameless war casualties swinging from right to wrong and back again, with told remembrances of other men in those trenches. Some so limbless, they become bodiless like the Invisible Man? And the ghostly marquee and Tom’s face that threatens to slip off, as in that horizontal Picasso above? Beautiful, if sardonic, remembrances of a book and its war that I predict will carry over after I have finished reading it.

    “In the bars of Pigalle, he drank alongside the likes of Brancusi and Picasso, Modigliani and Picabia…”

  15. 23

    What is this intriguing painting?
    Lucy’s backstory at the Griffin pub fades. Now even the camel in the House’s grounds seems more real to her.
    Her new acquaintances nurture her, by fabricating with clothes her nature. And nightmares and monsters haunt from beyond the frame of her own painting of self.
    Our future does fountain from here, too? A sort of Bullingdon Club, a “discount Aleister Crowley”, a new fixed face of fiction often with flames at his own fingers, too. And the “avant-garde painter”, “anarchist poet”, gestalt real-time reviewer, et al.

  16. 24

    “To ensure there is free movement and proper fairness for all.”

    The sound bites of the future are relentless, I guess, and here we reach Lucy’s tearful epiphany, a long motion epiphany, if such can be such, because the clocks all tell different times? The house is a blend of Waugh’s Vile Bodies or Decline and Fall, and we are still falling, and of Reggie Oliver’s Virtue in Danger, the mansion with statues to old legends and myths, now alive via the white hillocks and other charades of rôle-play or genuine theatrical performance and pre-figurement of later eras. The game of soldiers. Another one without a face, so no nose, but he can hear the sound bites; he needs a new face of fiction in 2017? Ceilings dropping by a notch, or each eye with a different image, self-disgust, sheer effrontery of existence. Even, a rudimentary wooden cross among the richer statuary. “Crippled half-life” or “demigods”? Bright young things or portents of doom. Epic poems about a brave Icarus or Satanic verses about a downed airman?

  17. 25 – 27

    “He wants the things that you don’t.”

    History as some sort of rag and bone man?
    This book’s sometimes more fraught than Trump’s tweetstorms. Or Hogarth’s or Bosch’s paintings, Yet, the characters have not yet focussed into right or left, fascist fascist or fascist liberal, and I can even feel sorry for the diminuendo entropy of Lord Hertford. And for the others’ Vile Bodies. And such Bodies’ needs. The decline and fall of the House.
    All of us are ever in-media-res, a work-in-progress, even with the the deceptively endless clinching of hindsight’s gestalt.

    “The liberal course is almost – not quite – Sisyphean…”

    And we watch the characters evolve into the future, their mountainous view of a promised land, whatever the trinkets of fate they cling on to – like Elms’ amulet and now its undead previous owner – and Lucy’s view of “the Pick-Arsehole painting” or of the residue of her Tin Man. A hide-and-seek game now become a Monster Hunt. A terrible poignancy. A Trump with his “gondolier’s waddle.” A derelict marquee.

    “But a lie is a lie. A lie’s always wrong.”
    “Not always, though. That’s what I’m saying.”
    “And that trick with the flames. That’s not real either.”
    “No, that was always real, a reaction to the war. And then it burned out. I can’t do it anymore.”
    “Why not, if it’s real?”

    • I confirm that when I made an aside to a Picasso style in the very first post above in this review, I had no idea whatsoever how relevant it would later become! This is perhaps yet another striking example of the preternatural power derived by the gestalt real-time method when reviewing hyper-imaginative literature?

  18. 28

    “So it’s all good,” he says. “The future.”

    Catharsis for the House, as some escape, piecemeal, one with the Pick-Arsehole. Elms’ fingers did the work after all. One never knows whether this novel (so far) is a gestalt that was destined to have its hindsight clinched by the fate of having been obtained by a reader that COULD clinch it. We are all such a reader of our own lives, ever appraising the inclusion in our book-life of those we perceive around us and those we perceive by other means, by fiction or by whatever other media or so-called realities. The coming together of forces that still pan out, even while we begin to realise that they exist at all. And behind everything, what sort of Wizard do we find? One whose fingers still hold their power? A buried giant? Or something quite other?

    “It makes no distinction between the servant and his master. It takes ahold of each man…”

  19. THE SEA

    “He jokes that one day people might look at St Paul’s cathedral and wonder why that was built too.”

    The spinning on of fast and slow time, a Beauty and Beast coda to this book’s fine,
    sometimes splendidly atonal, Symphony of Psalms, a palimpsest of then upon now.
    Where the more rules that are broken mean fewer are broken? History as “a system of small, self-contained kingdoms” still reaching towards the sea where I live today. To be sunk there or to stay there ruminatively upon its margins. Except Beauty and Beast’s histories reach towards the West, and I am to their East. And Undead Bram sees his past and leaves it be – because better without him? None of us know where we truly fit in. The optimum and the pessimum that so slowly oscillate. Till they stop? At the edge, that last balcony?

  20. 30 – 32

    “The roads link the villages in much the same way as a corridor and a staircase will link the chambers of a house,…”

    Babies squawking into the light, then the vision of a bi-plane journey, later the beast of Coach’s truck become an imaginary Sopwith Camel, that House’s camel again, for those children, grown up from babies, to play on. An Adventure Playground. By the seaside.
    We follow caring, feisty, fallible Lucy till the end. The perfect ending, if with disparate quilting, echoing and enfolding back to people already met, people yet to meet.
    Is an author a sort of peripatetic spiritualist? Or his or her book’s reviewer the spiritualist? Charlatans or magicians? A preternatural sensitivity amid a painted maze of otherwise jagged words or an electric current that burns itself out within “the hull of industrial mangle”? If you use this book to fill in life’s moving gaps of time, you will remember the book more than you remember what came between those gaps. Some books you forget, this one you will never forget.

    “…and beyond that is France and the warm folds of Europe, a whole world of foreignness upon the horizon.”

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SALSA’s Armstrong Joins Amputee Coalition’s Limb Loss Task Force in Developing National "Model System" For Care and Prevention

David G Armstrong, Professor of Surgery and Chair of the Southern Arizona Limb Salvage Alliance (SALSA) at the University of Arizona joined 10 other leading researchers and policymakers from around the country at a special limb loss task force in Boston this past week.  “I’m grateful to the Amputee Coalition for putting this program together.” noted Dr. Armstrong, “It is our collective hope that the end result of this great group of top clinicians and scientists will be development of and federal funding for a ‘model system’ to care not only for those with amputations– but also those at risk for their first or re-amputation.” Armstrong went on to say that “There now exists a good amount of data that putting teams together to not only prevent problems but to rapidly rehabilitate people after amputation can lead not only to a higher quantity of years– but a higher quality of life. I think we owe it to our patients to do our level best to see that happens, nationwide.”

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Seeing as anyone can edit DiabloWiki without any impairments, there are chances of vandals making changes as well. Deleting article content or adding new content that is not in line with the wiki, such as swear words, or just highly opinionated material. The history page comes in handy to see who the vandal is, and what they did. The Special:Recentchanges page is an overview of all changes to the Wiki, and a great place to start looking for wanted or unwanted changes. The individual history page for each article will show exactly what happened, and when.

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Ayo Technology

Yogi Berra once said, “It’s hard to make predictions, especially about the future.” With that said, here is my analysis of Epic.

Where they got it right: The media sensationalizing the news and personalizing it to the individual has been going on for years. MSNBC is catered to the liberal and Fox is catered to the conservative. The next likely progression is that it would be personalized on the internet. Epic also hinted at the end of the New York Times and print media. In a sense this could be true. The decline in newspaper is increasing every year, and by 2014 or 2015, when everyone has an iPad, print newspapers could be absolute. Also, their logo was pretty cool.

 Where they got it wrong: Epic assumes that Microsoft, Google, and Amazon will be the major players in the future, and have Google winning out. I think they got it half right. I believe the four major players will be Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and Apple. No one knows who is the most powerful company now, but looking at the trends, Facebook and Apple seem to be in the lead. Facebook almost has a billion followers, and Apple will soon revolutionize the text book industry.

Googlezon is interesting but to me it is not realistic. Personally, I don’t see the logical merger because both companies are in completely different businesses. Financially, I don’t see how these two companies can work out a business deal. There plan of personalized news would assumedly be free, Google already makes money off of the ads, so I don’t see the money to be made for both companies. Does Google really need Amazon and vice versa.

The final point is that Google will be the default news feed for everyone. Personally, I believe that the future of the news will come from each other. During the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Obama joked about the Huffington Post winning the Pulitzer Prize saying, “You deserve it, Arianna. There’s no one out there linking to the kind of hard-hitting journalism that HuffPo is linking to every single day. And you don’t pay them! That’s a great business model.” This is why I think Facebook and Twitter will become the default news instead of Google. Through social media, friends will link articles, comment on stories, and break the news before any major news site. Because people use social media more, they will get the latest information from them for the breaking news.

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  1. Ah, but where will Facebook and Twitter users get their news? You’re talking about distribution, not generation of news.

    FB is experimenting with putting “top trending articles” at the top of the user’s page, but where are they getting the feed? Most likely from their user’s statistical habits… Which looks like the worst possible echo chamber in the making… one that’s not only fed by people’s pre-existing filter bubbles such as the FOX vs. MSNBC difference, but reinforced by their “friendships” on FB.

    I don’t see how this will allow anyone to “break the news before any major news site” since the major news sites are the source of the, um, news.

    This is some data from 2010… What do you think is happening two years later?

    I see I’m going to have to start requiring that a bit of research in these posts in order to avoid the dead-ends of opinion.

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