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Alden Olmsted Receives Standing Ovation for “My Father Who Art In Nature”

Nevada City, California

On the closing afternoon of Wild and Scenic, well over a hundred people sat in the Foundry’s Stone Hall to watch My Father Who Are in Nature. Many of us knew the man who inspired the film, the filmmaker’s father, John Olmsted, the genius behind Jughandle State Reserve, Independence Trail, and the South Yuba State Parks. For a couple decades John lived among us, inspiring us, aggravating us with his singular vision, showing what simple, sheer, extreme will can accomplish in this world.

My Father Who Art in Nature stars John Olmsted, but ultimately it is not about him, but about Alden and their relationship. This seems to frustrate some viewers, who are expecting a straight-forward biography of our 20th century John Muir. Perhaps Alden or someone else will make that film some day. My Father Who Art in Nature is about other things: forgiveness and reconnection, healing, patience, and courage.

Alden spent little time with his father while growing up. The trails, parks, the basement museum, and ultimately the Necklace consumed John, and without that intensity we may not now enjoy and protect his legacy. Father and son connected as adults though, slowly at first. Finally, last year, when John was given six months to live, Alden left his Hollywood filmaker’s life to care for his father. The film focuses on those six months and their experience as father and son. As someone who knew John and helped further his work, I felt incredibly honored to share those last intimate moments of his life through film. I am grateful that in his last days he experienced a profound understanding of himself and the consequences of his choices.

When I first met Alden I confessed, “I didn’t know John had a son.” He said then that he’d heard that before, but I dont’ think he’ll hear it much more. Since John’s passing Alden has chosen to continue his father’s work, founding the Olmsted Park Fund. Alden figured that if each Californian gave a buck to save the parks, we’d be there. Hundreds of plastic buckets have since been distributed to businesses around California. Between the buckets and the internet outreach, young Olmsted has raised $27,000 to fund the parks. Several parks–including Henry W. Coe, Santa Cruz Mission, and Antelope Valley Indian Museum–have already been spared from closure for another year. After the film, Olmsted announced that he’s currently working with Malakoff Diggins State Park to pay its power bills–the single biggest expense in that remote outpost.

The story told in My Father Who Art In Nature reminds us of the powers of honesty, compassion, and forgiveness. The story Alden is beginning to live shows us that when we give ourselves over to such things, our life takes powerful, rich, and often unpredictable turns.

For more information on Alden’s work to save the parks, visit For more information on Alden’s film and his filmmaking career, visit

Filed under Community, Education, Sustainability, Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival

5 responses to “Alden Olmsted Receives Standing Ovation for “My Father Who Art In Nature”

  1. Thanks Carolyn…so well written! You pass on to us the inspiration of Alden’s film and his dream to keep our parks alive through us, and his late father. Sweet translation for all of us.

  2. Bravo! Thanks CC … wish I’d been there. And thanks Alden … and John!

  3. Hugh Glasco

    So wonderful…………John’s work will never be done……John Olmsted is a movement that will live forever…….!!

  4. Reblogged this on Lightcap Farm's Blog and commented:

    Alden Olmsted’s film screens before a sell-out crowd Sunday, April 15 at the Sonoma International Film Festival.

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Re: GNU/kFreeBSD debian-installer

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 07:54:47AM -0400, Brivaldo Junior wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 7:35 AM, Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> >
> Hi,
> > Starting from today, the daily GNU/kFreeBSD debian-installer images [1]
> > use a 8.1 kernel and install this version by default. The bonus is that
> > the console is now in UTF-8, so installation in languages different than
> > English is now possible.
> >
> >
> Congratulations Aurelien,
>    This FreeBSD Instalation, with the simple D-I are really good! Some
> errors with encoding on initial install in English (trying install in
> Portuguese Brazil). This steps will be included on
> Official Debian when finished? Option only by the kernel?

Indeed, I tried a few languages, but not this one. We should probably
load some fonts depending on the chosen locale. I'll try to look at
that, but probably not with a high priority.

The current image is what is planned for the Squeeze release, we will
try to fix as many bugs as possible until it happens.

Aurelien Jarno	                        GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73
aurelien@aurel32.net                 http://www.aurel32.net

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Re: mouse problem - going wild

I had some mouse problems recently... see if you have the same symptoms.
Start in a different getty, then switch to getty 7.  Don't move your mouse at
all after switching for a second or 2... then move it.  It should work right.
Now try that again and move your mouse right away after switching to getty 7.
Does it freak out then?

On Friday 28 March 2003 10:03 am, Wolfgang Rohdewald wrote:
> On 28.03.2003 12:03, ps wrote:
> > No it didn't help. I'm desperat! I tried everything, but mouse
> > still behaves badly
> > Any other idea. In which logs I should look for the answer? Any
> > other ideas? Thanks in advance
> do you have gpm running? If so, does the mouse behave correctly
> on the console?
> I had a similar problem until I configured gpm correctly, I believe.
> Not sure anymore.
> My gpm.conf has
> device=/dev/psaux
> type=imps2
> and XF86Config-4 has
>     Option "Protocol"    "MouseManPlusPS/2"
>     Option "Device"      "/dev/psaux"
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Re: how to install python applications

We encourage an application's modules to be installed privately when they won't be of any use to other modules / applications.

so what is the preferred way to make the programs find their modules, then?

* put the main python file in /usr/share/my_package/ and symlink it from /usr/bin (as it is done in themole), relying on python to resolve the symlink and find the required modules next to the invoked file

* have a "import sys; sys.path.append('/usr/share/my_program'); import my_main; my_main.run()" main wrapper in /usr/bin/

Choosing between these two is largely a matter of taste. The first one is usually less work, so I prefer it.

* some distutils/distribute/distutils2 magic i'm not aware of

None that I'm aware. ISTR somebody claimed that distutils2 was supposed to have some magic for this, but I can't see anything obvious in the documentation.

and, unless it's the third option: is there an elegant way to integrate that with packages that are already proper (in a python sense) packages and have a setup.py?

Two possible ways that come to mind:

1) python setup.py install --root=debian/foo --install-lib=/usr/share/foo --install-scripts=/usr/share/foo

2) Ignore setup.py completely and use dh_install to move stuff into appropriate places.

(In both cases things get a bit hairy if a script has the name as Python package name...)

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Bug#228706: kdepim: Ignores build errors and build docs on binary-only builds.

Package: kdepim
Severity: normal

I noticed you are building the docs with doxygen even on a binary-only
build. Thats is quite wastefull of the buildds resources. It would be
good if you could split that out in the makefile into different

I also noticed a lot or warnings and several errors during build that
get ignored (just a few representative ones):

uudecode: /home/mrvn/build/kdepim/kdepim-3.1.5/debian/patches/*.diff.uu: No such file or directory
../../calendarsystem/hconv.c:104: warning: implicit declaration of function `exit'
In file included from karm.all_cpp.cpp:7:
../../karm/print.cpp: In member function `void MyPrinter::print()':
../../karm/print.cpp:67: warning: passing `double' for argument 1 of `void QFont::setPixelSize(int)'
In file included from knotes.all_cpp.cpp:2:
../../knotes/knotesapp.cpp: In constructor `KNotesApp::KNotesApp()':
../../knotes/knotesapp.cpp:49: warning: base `QLabel' will be initialized after
../../knotes/knotesapp.cpp:49: warning:   base `DCOPObject'
../../../../libical/src/test/stow.c: In function `return_failure':
../../../../libical/src/test/stow.c:265: warning: assignment discards qualifiers from pointer target type

make[3]: Entering directory `/home/mrvn/build/kdepim/kdepim-3.1.5/obj-m68k-linux/kgantt'
mkdir -p -- ../apidocs/kgantt
Error: source ../../doc/api is not a readable file or directory... skipping.
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/mrvn/build/kdepim/kdepim-3.1.5/obj-m68k-linux/kgantt'

dh_install: usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/en/kdepim-apidocs/kfile-plugins/html/doxygen.css exists in debian/tmp but is not installed to anywhere

3617 out of 8095 lines in the build log go to stderr (thats 45%),
which makes me quite uncomfortable with the package. Please try to
reduce that somewhat.

-- System Information:
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Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux dual 2.4.23dual #1 SMP Sun Dec 14 13:57:16 CET 2003 i686
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Title: Early Childhood Teachers in Lebanon: Beliefs and Practices.
Authors: Faour, Basma
Supervisors: Merry, Roger
Award date: 2003
Presented at: University of Leicester
Abstract: The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between the beliefs and practices of Lebanese early childhood teachers and whether they differ in relation to school’s socioeconomic status, class size, grade level, extent of teachers’ educational background, their teaching experience or other situational factors. The study is comprised of 135 preschool and kindergarten teachers who responded to a questionnaire that is based on the Teachers Questionnaire devised by Charlesworth et al. (1991; 1993). Twenty – one schools representing part of the private schools in Lebanon were purposively selected based on their socioeconomic status and their regional diversity. Six participants were interviewed using semi-structured interviews with open-ended questions. Eighteen teachers were observed using the CPI inventory (Hyson et al, 1991) to compare self-reported classroom practices with actual observed practices. Factor analysis revealed seven factors related to appropriate and inappropriate self-reported beliefs and eight factors related to appropriate and inappropriate selfreported practices. Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) showed a moderate association between Lebanese early childhood teachers’ developmentally appropriate beliefs and practices (r= 0.47, p=0.001). A stronger correlation was found between teachers’ self-reported inappropriate beliefs and practices (r=0.62, p=0.001). The findings were consistent with previous studies done in the United States. When observed, teachers’ beliefs appeared more developmentally appropriate, but they follow a more developmentally inappropriate practice. Appropriate and inappropriate beliefs and practices can be predicted by certain teacher characteristics and school characteristics. Multivariate Analysis (MANOVA) revealed that teachers’ level of general education, training, age, salary, and parent’s and principal’s support were related to beliefs and practices of teachers. In addition, teachers’ beliefs and practices significantly differ depending on school’s socioeconomic status, class size, and grade level they teach in. Table summaries, interview data and classroom observation supported much of the information gathered through the questionnaire.
Type: Thesis
Level: Doctoral
Qualification: EdD
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The Point of Barack Obama’s Campaign

I have not said anything about the Democratic candidates in a while. I’m already tired of discussing the implications of every single word they say, and most of the “stories” about them are ludicrous. (Hillary didn’t tip well? Barack didn’t salute the flag? Hillary put a professional hit on CATS? Edwards got a haircut? Dennis’ wife has a tongue-stud and he sees UFO’s? PUH-lease.)

But I cannot keep silent on the bullshit coming out of Obama’s campaign any more. I didn’t say anything about his come-to-Jesus tour of the South, where he insisted on including an anti-gay gospel singer because we “need to reach out” to the homophobic community. I didn’t say anything about his holier-than-thou crap in the latest debate, where he all but accused Senator Clinton of being a liar when she tried to outline a complex immigration issue in 30 seconds. But with his latest line of attack about Mrs. Clinton, can anyone doubt what his real message is?

WASHINGTON – Barack Obama sparked a generational fight Wednesday by trashing White House rival Hillary Clinton for being too old to unite America, saying she and others her age have fought the same tired fights for too long.

Experts and opponents pounced, saying Obama’s remarks could offend the most reliable voters, people older than 50 – especially in early-voting Iowa. “You are counting precisely on an older group of Democrats in Iowa,” said Iowa State University’s Steffen Schmidt. “You can’t tell them they’re backward-looking. Somebody should be fired in his campaign.”

“I think there’s no doubt that we represent the kind of change that Sen. Clinton can’t deliver on, and part of it is generational,” Obama, 46, said on Fox News. “Sen. Clinton and others, they’ve been fighting some of the same fights since the ’60s, and it makes it very difficult for them to bring the country together to get things done.”

“Experts,” get a clue. Obama is not saying that Hillary is too old. He’s saying that she’s part of the eeeeeeeeeevil 60’s! And guess where he’s saying this? On Fox News.

The right wing in this country is notoriously, loudly, proudly anti-gay. So who is Obama courting when he refuses to fire a proudly homophobic singer from his tour?

The right wing in this country longs for that fictional 50’s America, when the country was white, prosperous and Christian. To them, the 60’s were the worst thing that ever happened, and they’re still trying to reverse the good things that came out of that time period. (Perhaps the Senator has forgotten he’s African American, but I’d like to see how far he would have gotten running for office without the Civil Rights Movement.) So who is Obama courting when he says that Hillary belongs to that generation?

Let me also ask, how many Democrats watch Fox News? Who is Obama courting when he goes on Fox to spread his message of unity with the right wing?

It’s so clear to me, as it has been from the beginning, that Obama is far more right-wing than any of the other Democratic contenders. That is the point of his campaign: I can unite America because I’m a conservative Democrat – never mind the color of my skin. I’m certainly not a scary 60’s liberal like Senator Clinton! It’s the Harold Ford strategy, and it’s a disappointing (and losing) one.

Any Democrat but Obama, please.

2 responses to “The Point of Barack Obama’s Campaign

  1. Believe me. No anti-war hippie has more love for my conservative counterparts than myself. Still, Obama’s message of reconciliation early in the campaign didn’t ring true with me. The Republicans have stepped way over the line of fairness and decency. They have built up a strong Al Qaeda where none existed before and made us the most hated and feared nation in the world. It is time to punish them for their sins, not to reach out.

    If what you say is true, Obama is very far to the right of the mark. The civil rights and anti-war movements of the 1960’s elevated our national awareness in a way that has not occured since. I think we can safely leave it to the WWII chaplains and their white-haired Sunday school classes to say that the 1960’s was the worst thing that ever happened to America.

  2. It is time to punish them for their sins, not to reach out.

    I agree. Fascism has no place in America. It’s time for these “conservatives” to be marginalized out of political existence, as they richly deserve to be.


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6.10.3 plans

Sigbjorn Finne sof at galois.com
Wed Apr 22 21:55:33 EDT 2009

Hi Ian,

thanks for the update on plans and the willingness to jump in and do another
release cycle so soon after 6.10.2. The suggested fixes seem agreeable to
me, but I have one _minor_ additional request for 6.10.3 if you end having
to rebuild 'base' -- add a DEPRECATED (or some such) to
Foreign.ForeignPtr.{newForeignPtr,addForeignPtrFinalizer} to indicate
that the operational behaviour of these have changed.

Small change, but could be helpful to package users&authors when migrating
beyond 6.10.1

On 4/22/2009 16:56, Ian Lynagh wrote:
> Hi all,
> Due to some problems with the handling of ^C in ghci, we are planning to
> do a 6.10.3 release.
> The idea is that, rather than being a full-blown release process,
> including all the various fixes that have been made since 6.10.2, we
> will only do what is necessary to resolve the ^C issue. By keeping the
> changes to a minimum, we will minimise the amount of testing,
> release-note writing, etc that is necessary.
> An exception to this rule is that we will probably also rebundle time in
> the bindists, as that has little chance of breaking anything else.
> There are actually two problems with ^C. One is due to the changes in
> the signal handling in ghci, and we will fix that. The other is that, on
> some platforms (including x86/Linux), the interaction between editline
> and GHC means that pressing ^C causes a segfault. Given all the other
> issues that people have had with editline, we plan to use haskeline in
> 6.10.3 instead. We already planned to do this for 6.12, but we think
> that it makes sense to do it sooner rather than later. The plan is:
> * Add haskeline and deps as boot packages
> * Move the interactive modules from the ghc package to the ghc-bin
>   package. This means that the ghc package will not depend on the new
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> Thanks
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[Haskell-cafe] Ray tracer language comparison

Jon Harrop jon at ffconsultancy.com
Fri Jul 27 05:54:44 EDT 2007

I've added four progressively optimized implementations of the Haskell ray
tracer to the language comparison:

Only the first is lazy and I haven't mentioned them in the discussion yet.

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Sebastian Sylvan sebastian.sylvan at gmail.com
Tue Nov 4 14:05:59 EST 2008

On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 3:45 PM, Svein Ove Aas <svein.ove at aas.no> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 11:31 AM, Tobias Bexelius
> <tobias.bexelius at avalanchestudios.se> wrote:
> > Before Direct3D 10, its too costly to read back the updated vertex data
> > in every frame, which force you to make this kind of operations on the
> > CPU.
> > With D3D 10 however, you should use the new Stream-Output stage which is
> > used to return updated vertex data directly to a vertex buffer on the
> > GPU. So if you can afford a new graphics card and likes Vista, that's
> > the way to go :)
> >
> Or you could use OpenGL, which has supported that since the first GPUs
> that did were released.

I think that came with OpenGL 3.0. Unless you're counting vendor-specific
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[Haskell-cafe] Automated tests with cabal

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Hi Haskellers,

I read about the cabal features for running test code from Setup.hs with "defaultMainWithHooks". I'm looking for more generic code that allows me to place any haskell in a subdirectory "test" or so and "cabal test" will run this test without any modification of my Setup.hs.

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Changelog for Net-LCDproc

0.104 2015-06-03T23:58:44Z
  [ Bugfixes ]
    - has_socket is called during DEMOLISH so make sure it is actually
      there (Ioan Rogers)
    - Fix a few metadata bugs in eg/ (Ioan Rogers)

  [ Other ]
    - [Closes #3] namespace::sweep is now obsolete, switch to
      namespace::clean. Thanks ETHER. (Ioan Rogers)
    - Switch from semantic to basic versioning scheme

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  - Declare minimum required version of Moo (Ioan Rogers)

0.1.2 2014-03-03T13:49:47Z
  - Switched from Moose to Moo + Type::Tiny (Ioan Rogers)
  - Updated minimum perl to v5.10.2 (Ioan Rogers)


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Net::Async::HTTP::Server::Request - represents a single outstanding request

Objects in this class represent a single outstanding request received by a Net::Async::HTTP::Server instance. It allows access to the data received from the web client and allows responding to it.

$is_closed = $request->is_closed

Returns true if the underlying network connection for this request has already been closed. If this is the case, the application is free to drop the request object and perform no further processing on it.

$method = $request->method

Return the method name from the request header.

$path = $request->path

Return the path name from the request header.

$query_string = $request->query_string

Return the query string from the request header.

$protocol = $request->protocol

Return the protocol version from the request header. This will be the full string, such as HTTP/1.1.

$value = $request->header( $key )

Return the value of a request header.

@headers = $request->headers

Returns a list of 2-element ARRAY refs containing all the request headers. Each referenced array contains, in order, the name and the value.

$body = $request->body

Return the body content from the request as a string of bytes.

$request->write( $data )

Append more data to the response to be written to the client. $data can either be a plain string, or a CODE reference to be used in the underlying IO::Async::Stream's write method.

$request->write_chunk( $data )

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Respond to the request using the given HTTP::Response object.

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Respond to the request using the given HTTP::Response object to send in HTTP/1.1 chunked encoding mode.

The headers in the $response will be sent (which will be modified to set the Transfer-Encoding header). Each call to write_chunk will send another chunk of data. write_chunk_eof will send the final EOF chunk and mark the request as complete.

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$stream = $request->stream

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The Pasty Little Putz, Dowd, Kristof and Bruni

We are spared The Moustache of Wisdom, who is off today.  The Pasty Little Putz decided to bend his attention to “The House’s Immigration Dilemma.”  He pondered deeply, and decided that there are risks wherever Republicans look.  MoDo, gawd help us, has decided to squeal about sex appeal.  She’s still in Paris, and in “The Tortured Mechanics of Eroticism” she gasps that a museum exhibition reveals the secret of centuries of sex appeal: industrial-strength underwear.  Between these two I’ve already lost about 50 IQ points.  Mr. Kristof is in Danja, Niger.  In “Where Young Women Find Healing and Hope” he says the next stop on this year’s win-a-trip journey is a new fistula hospital in Niger that is changing women’s lives with help from Times readers.  In “Tweeting Toward Sacrilege” Mr. Bruni tells us that musing on Egypt and sexual violence, Joyce Carol Oates saw that when you question religion, all hell breaks loose.  Sigh.  Just thinking about twitter-twatting just cost me another 25 IQ points…  Here’s The Putz:

The first thing you need to know about the House Republican view of immigration reform, the fate of which now rests with John Boehner’s restive caucus, is that there is no single House Republican view of immigration reform.

Instead, as the Democrats have come to march in lock step on the issue — dropping the old union-populist skepticism of low-wage immigration in favor of liberal cosmopolitanism and Hispanic interest-group pandering — many of the country’s varying, conflicting opinions have ended up crowded inside the Republican Party’s tent.

So there are Republicans who would happily vote for the Senate bill as is, no questions asked, and Republicans who might never vote for a bill that contains the words “comprehensive” and “reform,” let alone “immigration.”

There are law-and-order Republicans who care only about border security and E-Verify, pro-business Republicans seeking new guest-worker programs and religious-conservative Republicans for whom amnesty is a humanitarian cause.

There are libertarian Republicans who believe “the more, the better” is the only answer on immigration policy and communitarian Republicans who worry about the impact on wages, assimilation and cultural cohesion.

There are calculating, self-interested Republicans who think immigration reform will save their party from extinction, and calculating, self-interested Republicans who worry that it will create millions of new Democratic voters.

This diversity of views makes it difficult to game out exactly how the House might proceed on the issue. But right now, there seem to be two directions that Republicans could ultimately take.

The first is a kind of lowest-common-denominator approach suggested by the majority leader, Eric Cantor. It would advance two ideas that command broad Republican support — more spending on border security and more visas for high-skilled immigrants — alongside an idea many Republican representatives opposed in the past but seem to be warming to right now: a new version of the Dream Act, which would offer citizenship to illegal immigrants who arrived as children.

This combination would probably poll well, minimize intra-Republican divisions and focus on the policy area, high-skilled immigration, where there is the strongest consensus about the benefits to the nation. It would also vindicate the Republican Party’s (often notional) commitment to offering incremental alternatives to bloated liberal bills.

But such incrementalism would punt on the question of how to handle the bulk of the existing illegal-immigrant population, and thus wouldn’t be anything like the game changer sought by many Republican strategists worried about the Hispanic vote. And politically, it would have been much more clever months ago, before the Senate bill raised expectations for how sweeping a reform should be. In the shadow of Rubio-Schumer, a House that passed incremental bills and then refused to negotiate its way to something bigger might well receive the same kind of “do nothing” coverage as a House that did nothing at all.

Hence the (quiet, for now) appeal of the second option, mentioned last week by The Washington Post’s Ezra Klein and The Huffington Post’s Jon Ward, in which the House would find a way to go along with a version of amnesty that either didn’t include the promise of citizenship or made the path so long and arduous that few immigrants would take it.

To its supporters, this combination would deliver illegal immigrants the security and stability that pro-legalization activists are seeking, without running afoul of either the principled Republican desire to avoid rewarding people who have broken America’s laws, or the more cynical Republican desire not to have the newly legalized showing up to vote for Democrats.

But it, too, would come at a cost. We’re living through an era of stratification, a period of mass unemployment, an economic “recovery” in which working-class wages aren’t actually recovering. This is a strange climate in which to create — and then augment, via guest-worker programs — a permanent tier of explicitly second-class, mostly low-skilled residents, deliberately curtail their political leverage and then ask low-wage native workers to compete with them for jobs.

And it’s a particularly strange climate for a Republican Party struggling to shed its “party of the rich” label to identify with such a policy, and give up one of the few issues where it has some credibility with working-class voters.

The party faces risks whatever it does: killing comprehensive reform might further alienate Hispanics, as the conventional wisdom has it, but then again going along with Charles Schumer and a flood of corporate money might exacerbate the kind of “who’s looking out for me?” disaffection that kept many conservative-tilting, economically strapped voters from the polls in 2012.

But a clever-sounding deal that legalizes immigrants as laborers but not as citizens risks disaster on both fronts: rejection by Hispanics as insufficient and ultimately insulting, and rejection by many of America’s tired, poor, huddled workers as another example of the political class’s indifference to their fate.

The party faces its main risks from being run by a gaggle of barking lunatics.  Now gird up your loins — here’s MoDo:

The French may feel shaky about the underpinnings of the economy. But about the underpinnings for the body, they are as rock solid as the Arc de Triomphe.

During a summer when the French are drooping, the best uplift can be found in the Louvre complex at the Museum of Decorative Arts, which has mounted a dazzling exhibition on undergarments and embellishments dating from the 14th century on: corsets and bustles, hoops and push-up bras, crinolines and codpieces. The exhibit, titled “Behind the Seams, the Mechanics of Underwear: An Indiscreet History of the Silhouette,” provides a fascinating contrast between the industrial-seeming tools used to shape the body and the sexiness that results.

Only a French museum would take fine washables so seriously. The word lingerie, after all, derives from the French word linge, meaning “washables.”

Seismic social changes have always been reflected in fashion, and the politics of lingerie can be incendiary. Consider recent reports about Ritu Tawade, a city official in Mumbai who has responded to the horrific rapes in India by crusading to remove lingerie-clad mannequins from store windows, fearing they incite rape.

It was only two years ago that Saudi Arabia, hypocritical home to many racy lingerie stores, compelled them all to employ women instead of men.

In “The Heat,” Melissa McCarthy’s Boston cop warns Sandra Bullock’s F.B.I. agent that her Spanx squish internal organs. It’s the same argument a bloomer brigade of feminist reformers used in the belle époque to denounce corsets — stays that stayed around for 500 years.

Jean Cocteau wrote amusingly in 1913 about the women at Maxim’s: “It was an accumulation of velvet, lace, ribbons, diamonds and what else I couldn’t describe. To undress one of these women is like an outing that calls for three weeks advance notice, it’s like moving house.”

Denis Bruna, the curator of the exhibit, said he has studied the human form in art through the centuries and has read countless ancient texts instructing women to be beautiful and men to be virile. He even tried on the intimate items from the time of the ancien régime.

“It feels good,” the 45-year-old said in French with a droll smile. “It makes you stand up very straight. You feel noble.”

He explained that the hard corsets were mostly worn by aristocratic women who wilted standing at court all day and needed bracing. If you were rich and had servants, you could have stays laced in the back (in the squeezing-the-breath-out-to-get-back-an-18-inch-waist style of Mammy and Scarlett O’Hara). Lower-class women had their stays in the front, so they could lace them on their own.

As though women weren’t trussed up enough, the rigidity was accentuated by a busk, a concave piece of metal, horn or whalebone that was inserted into the front of the corset to hold the torso erect. Sometimes these busks had portraits or love messages engraved on them.

The most wince-worthy displays: iron medical corsets from the 16th century for correcting curved spines; miniature corsets worn by infants and toddlers, because physicians of yore insisted that children’s soft bodies needed support; and corsets for pregnant and nursing women (the latter with little shutters).

The Marie Antoinette “grand habit” silhouette, with the wasp-waist corsets often made from bone at the roof of the whale’s mouth, and 12-foot-wide paniers at the hips were so broad that the side cages had to be retractable by hand so the ladies could get through a door. Was this why French doors came into fashion? Picture them all crashing into one another at court.

The paniers were balanced by pouf hairdos, built on a scaffolding of horsehair and wire, covered with powder and topped with toy sculptures like a little farm or a battleship.

“The lower parts of the woman’s body were less noble, so they were hidden,” Bruna said. “They thought the legs were ugly and sheathed them in pantaloons. The shape represented a pedestal base to make the top prettier.”

Finally, in the World War I era, Coco Chanel began helping women come into their own, unstrapping them from their hourglass constrictions and sheathing them in supple jersey. Maybe that’s why you see Chanel’s image here more often than Joan of Arc’s.

Yesterday’s aristocratic underwear morphs into today’s fetishistic outerwear. The show illustrates the influence of the ancient fashion on modern designers, including a Vivienne Westwood bustle frock and an Alexander McQueen corset dress.

Mirabile dictu, there are even new variations on Renaissance codpieces, or braguettes, a bragging-rights style bound to disappoint. “They’re already being sold in gay shops in France and on the Internet,” Bruna said.

It was commonly thought that the point of lingerie was to incite the lust of men. Yet, as this exhibit shows, women have also used underwear to assert their power and status.

As we celebrate Bastille Day, note this: The mannequins wearing the aristocratic undies have no heads.

I may be driven to putting gin on my corn flakes this morning…  Now here’s Mr. Kristof:

They straggle in by foot, donkey cart or bus: humiliated women and girls with their heads downcast, feeling ashamed and cursed, trailing stink and urine.

Some were married off at 12 or 13 years old and became pregnant before their malnourished bodies were ready. All suffered a devastating childbirth injury called an obstetric fistula that has left them incontinent, leaking urine and sometimes feces through their vaginas. Most have been sent away by their husbands, and many have endured years of mockery and ostracism as well as painful sores on their legs from the steady trickle of urine.

They come to this remote nook of Niger in West Africa because they’ve heard that a new hospital may be able to cure them and end their humiliation. And they are right — thanks, in part, to you as Times readers.

There is nothing more wrenching than to see a teenage girl shamed by a fistula, and I’ve written before about the dreams of a couple of surgeons to build this fistula center here in Danja. Times readers responded by contributing more than $500,000 to the Worldwide Fistula Fund to make the hospital a reality. Last year, the Danja Fistula Center opened.

This is my annual win-a-trip journey, in which I take a university student along on a reporting trip to shine a spotlight on global poverty. So with my student winner, Erin Luhmann of the University of Wisconsin, I dropped in on Danja to see what you as readers have accomplished here. What we found underscored that while helping others is a complicated, uncertain enterprise, there are times when a modest donation can be transformative.

The first patient we met is Hadiza Soulaye; with an impish smile, she still seems a child. Hadiza said she never went to school and doesn’t know her birth date, but she said that her family married her off at about 11 or 12. She knows that it was before she began to menstruate. She was not consulted but became the second wife of her own uncle.

A year later, she was pregnant. Hadiza had no prenatal care, and a traditional birth attendant couldn’t help when she suffered three days of obstructed labor. By the time Hadiza was taken to a hospital for a Caesarean delivery, the baby was dead and she had suffered internal injuries including a hole, or fistula, between her bladder and vagina.

“I didn’t know what had happened,” she remembered. “I just knew that I couldn’t control my pee, and I started crying.”

Hadiza found herself shunned. Her husband ejected her from the house, and other villagers regarded her as unclean so that no one would eat food that she prepared or allow her to fetch water from the well when others were around. Villagers mocked her: “They would laugh at me and point to my dress,” which was constantly wet with urine.

She endured several years of this ostracism. Worldwide, there are some two million fistula sufferers, sitting in their homes feeling ashamed, lonely and hopeless.

A few months ago, Hadiza heard about the Danja Fistula Center and showed up to see if someone could help. Dr. Steve Arrowsmith, a urologist from Michigan who helped plan this center and has repaired more fistulas than any other American, operated on Hadiza and repaired the damage. He warned her not to have sex for six months to give the repair time to heal.

It typically costs $500 to $1,000 to repair a fistula and turn these women’s lives around. There is no one more joyous than a woman who has undergone this surgery successfully, and Hadiza was thrilled to return to her village.

Yet life is complicated. When she returned home — dry and cured — her husband summoned her to his bed.

“I didn’t have a choice,” she says. “I was his wife.”

The husband tore open the fistula, and she began leaking urine once more. He then threw her out of the house again, so now Hadiza is back at the hospital. She vows that this time, if she can be patched up, she will never return to her husband.

As in Hadiza’s case, a fistula is often a result of a child marriage. Here in Niger, about three-quarters of girls are married before the age of 18.

“Some of these ladies here have never had a period,” Dr. Arrowsmith noted. “They became pregnant the first time they ovulated, and then their uterus was destroyed.”

Aside from repairing fistulas, the Danja center also conducts outreach to improve maternal health and encourage women to deliver in clinics. It has set up a system so that taxi drivers are guaranteed payment when they take a woman in labor to a hospital.

The Danja Fistula Center is also conducting research on how best to treat patients. One approach pioneered here may allow fistula hospitals to move patients out of recovery wards in half the time, effectively doubling capacity.

The fistula center was conceived by Dr. Arrowsmith and Dr. Lewis Wall, an obstetrics professor at Washington University in St. Louis, and it partners with Serving in Mission, an American Christian charity with long experience here in Danja. It also gets backing from the Fistula Foundation, based in the United States. But, in line with the original vision, the Danja Fistula Center is run by Africans, with Dr. Arrowsmith training Dr. Itengré Ouedraogo, a surgeon from Burkina Faso, to be medical director.

Fistulas may be a grim topic, but this center you readers have helped to build is a warm and inspiring place. Women who have suffered for years find hope here, and they proudly display skills they are learning, such as knitting or sewing, that they can use to earn a living afterward. As they await surgery, their dormitories echo with giggles and girl talk. They are courageous and indomitable, and now full of hope as well.

This fistula center continues to exist on a shoestring, struggling for operating funds. But the exuberance of the patients is contagious, and I wanted readers to know that your generosity has built a city of joy. These women may arrive miserable and shamed, but they leave proud, heads held high. And in a complicated world of trouble, that’s a reason to celebrate.

And last but not least we have Mr. Bruni:

I wasn’t sure which to bring up first with Joyce Carol Oates: the Muslims or the llamas.

She had tweeted about both in the days before I dropped by to see her last week. This said something about the breadth of her interests. Or about Twitter’s way of playing midwife to mischief.

I veered in the safer direction.

“So where are they?” I asked, looking out the back window of her house here, across a yard as empty as it was green. Nothing grazing. Nothing woolly. Certainly not the “53 llamas” that she had suggested, in a tweet, that she was purchasing to satisfy “a metaphysical yearning.”

She explained that she’d been riffing facetiously off a story in The Times about rampant llama love. “There’s really not room here,” she said. “We only have three acres.” Plenty for Oates and her husband. Not for an Andean offshoot of the clan.

That subject dispensed with, we proceeded to the missives that had really lit up cyberspace and had really prompted my visit.

In the first days of July, Oates, one of America’s most celebrated writers, was monitoring news from Egypt and was struck by something that I’m sure many other people noticed as well. It certainly caught my eye. Amid accounts of street protests were reports of sexual violence, an odd expression and ugly byproduct of the rage.

On her Twitter feed she saw a statistic that chilled her. And she tweeted, “Where 99.3% of women report having been sexually harassed & rape is epidemic — Egypt — natural to inquire: what’s the predominant religion?”

This wasn’t an isolated query. It belonged to a stream of musings that day, all 140 characters or fewer, on Egypt, Islam and women.

She wrote, “If 99.3% of women reported being treated equitably, fairly, generously — it would be natural to ask: what’s the predominant religion?”

She also wrote, “ ‘Rape culture’ has no relationship to any ‘religious culture’ — how can this be? Religion has no effect on behavior at all?”

Fellow writers and intellectuals freaked. On various byways of the Internet, she was blasted for anti-Muslim bigotry. A “furor,” The Wall Street Journal called it, and in a headline no less.

I wondered if she wanted to take it all back.

“Well, I’m not a confrontational person, so I wouldn’t do it again,” she told me, at least not with the exact language she used. She said that she might instead have written, “If all these women are being harassed and raped and so forth, it’s natural to ask what are the social conditions.” You tweet and you learn.

That she tweets at all is astonishing. Where does she find the time? She teaches a full load at Princeton. She also writes long, deeply researched literary reviews. And then there’s her principal vocation and claim to prolific fame: churning out at least a book a year — the novel “The Accursed,” all 670 history-packed pages of it, is her most recent — along with poems, essays and more.

Now 75, she cannot off the top of her head even quantify her oeuvre, which makes anyone else’s look like a lazy internship. More than 100 titles. That’s for certain.

The 99.3 percent figure that she cites for Egyptian women who report having been harassed is questionable, from a United Nations survey that defines harassment broadly. And she hasn’t researched the “epidemic” nature of rape in Egypt. She’s never been there, or anywhere in the Middle East.

But in a world in which sexual violence remains as unconscionably prevalent as in ours, shouldn’t anyone who cares about women — about human rights — be asking all sorts of questions, including delicate ones? And why are questions that stray beyond the secular considered so particularly delicate?

Look critically at someone’s god and gird for the lightning.

Oates calls herself a humanist, rejects the conventional notion of divinity and told me, “I don’t have a sense that there are sacred institutions. To me, all religions and all churches are created by human beings.” In that regard, she added, “They’re not that different from, say, the whole legal culture or the medical culture or the scientific culture.” About which you can say or ask almost anything at all.

SHE finds certain barriers and etiquette curious. “If you thought that women were being mistreated 50 miles from where you are, you might want to go help them,” she said. “But if you were told it was a religious commune or something, you’d think, ‘Uh-oh, that’s their religion, maybe I shouldn’t help them.’ It’s like religion is under a dome. It gives an imprimatur to behavior that shouldn’t be tolerated.”

Is she saying that Islam oppresses women?

Although she expressed concern about Shariah law, she didn’t go that far, and she noted that most religions were patriarchies.

Islam stands out for her in terms of the extra-special sensitivity surrounding discussion of it. She said that while religion in general is still coddled in the United States, where churches get tax exemptions and God is on money and in inaugural speeches, we’ve indeed become less reluctant over time to poke fun or hurl barbs at Christianity or Judaism. She pointed to the unapologetic examination of child sexual abuse by Catholic priests.

“We can have cartoons about the pope,” she said. “Making fun of the pope just seems to be something that a Catholic might do.” She added, “But if you have a cartoon, or make a film, about radical Islam, then you’re in danger of your life.”

She did neither. She just tweeted, and isn’t sure why a format seemingly designed for uncensored, spontaneous, imprecise musings, not nuanced manifestoes, should become grist for such outrage.

“Once I said that the doorway to Hades was in our basement — I discovered it!” she told me, referring to a past tweet. That’s the degree of literalism she brings to the arena.

Yet readers parse the words they want to and cling to those of their choice. After all, I arrived at her doorstep expecting, on the basis of a single tweet, to meet a herd of exotic pets.

She shook her head, looked toward her llama-less yard and said, “It’s a little surprising to me that social media have turned out to be kind of prissy and prim and politically correct.”

I don’t have a whole lot of time for her books either…

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June 4, 2012

Recent trips impress Robbins

Miami (Fla.) Southridge three-star cornerback Lamar Robbins hit the road over the weekend to check out Alabama, Memphis, and Ole Miss. He talks about each of those visits and where his recruitment stands as the summer begins.

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by David Chiu

On Saturday night, New York’s Webster Hall hosted two California bands: sunny-sounding Girls from San Francisco and punky Dum Dum Girls from Los Angeles. Both indie groups evoked the catchy pop melodies of the ‘60s and then some, but their execution of those sounds was different.

Decked out all in black—including miniskirts and fishnet stockings—the female quartet of Dum Dum Girls were all business during their opening set. The sound from their performance—made clear on their recently-released Sub Pop full-length album I Will Be–drew from such acts as ‘60s girl groups, the Velvet Underground, the Go-Go’s and Joan Jett. But while the songs were very catchy and energetic, the tone and the lyrics convey something moodier and darker, echoed by lead singer Dee Dee’s dreamy yet cool vocals. Highlights from the set, which was basically tracks from I Will Be and the Yours Alone EP, included the poppy “Hey Sis,” “Jail La La,” “Catholicked” (which borrows the “Jesus died for somebody’s sins but not mine” line from Patti Smith’s “Gloria”), and the ballad “Rest of Our Lives.”

In contrast, all-male headliner Girls, fronted by singer/guitarist Christopher Owens and bassist J.R. White, were slightly brighter in terms of mood as well as aesthetically: the stage was littered with scores of flowers; they were everywhere from the speakers to the drum kit. Girls owes their very summery California sound to acts such as the Beach Boys (with also Brit pop and lounge-y elements), but like Dum Dum Girls, their melodies mask some angst in the lyrics. Beginning their set with the Phil Spector-ish “Ghost Mouth,” the band played tunes from their recent record Album–among them the poppy “Laura,” the greaser rock of “Big Bad Motherfucker,” “Lust for Life,” and the ballad “Lauren Marie.” Owens, who has a habit for lifting his left leg, evoked the anguish and yearning of the song lyrics through his soulful singing and also displayed some excellent guitar playing; co-founder White delivered outstanding melodic bass lines.

Clearly both Girls and Dum Dum Girls’ shows from Saturday night were a homage to pop music’s past. However, they also confirmed that they were in the present with their own distinct approach.

Dum Dum Girls: Jail La La

Girls: Hellhole Ratrace

Micachu & the Shapes, Tanlines at Le Poisson Rouge, 6:30

She & Him, The Chapin Sisters at Bowery Ballroom, 8ish

jj at Knitting Factory, 8ish

Califone, Sonoi at Bell House, 8ish

The Big Pink, A Place to Bury Strangers at Webster Hall, 8ish

Eskimo King (Brian Sullivan of Mouthus), Samara Lubelski, Religious Knives at Zebulon, 9

The Soft Pack, Nodzzz, Beaters at Maxwell’s, 8:30 (and Thursday at Mercury Lounge and Saturday at MHW w/ Male Bonding)

Abe Vigoda, Effi Briest, Cloud Nothings, MINKS at Knitting Factory, 8:30

The xx, jj at Webster Hall, 8

Ryan Moore (drums) w/ Thurston Moore and Daniel Carter at Rose Live Music, 8 (two sets)

Japandroids, Best Coast, Midnight Masses at Bowery Ballroom, 8

Holiday Shores, Twin Sister at Glasslands, 8

DOM, Golden Girls, Buvette at Pianos, 8

Blank Dogs, Wet Dog, Wild Nothing, Further Reductions at Glasslands, 8

Phosphorescent at Maxwell’s, 9:30

The Smith Westerns, Big Troubles, Golden Triangle, Darlings at Market Hotel, 8

Love of Diagrams, Wetdog, Partyline (Alison from Bratmobile), Coasting at Death by Audio, 8

Girls, Dum Dum Girls at Webster Hall, 6 (?)

The Smith Westerns, Male Bonding, So Cow, The Gaming Commission at Mercury Lounge, 7

When I first set eyes on Ryan William Lynch I knew he was a California boy. I mean- his style was just so West Coast. The long sleek hair, denim rolled up and totally not skinny jean style, a striped button down shirt tucked in and Beatles boots. It was almost over kill but I liked his completely bold and inspired attitude. It was his first show with Girls, and we were in New Jersey at the country’s greatest rock club, Maxwell’s.

He’s a jangly rhythm guitarist. And he does that same thing in his own band, San Francisco’s Dominant Legs. But these songs are more outright 80s pop- with synthesizers. Very nice and pretty “put your feet up” kind of tunes. Thanks to my main Massachusetts and sports fan man, Friendship Bracelet for reminding me of Dominant Legs.

Dominant Legs: Young at Love and Life

According to a release on the Matablog True Panther Sounds has been bought by Matador Records. Dean Bein (check the Q&A with him) will still run the label. Basically I think this means more money for everyone involved on the TPS of things. Maybe that means a well deserved Tanlines national tour? Will it mean these bands will end up on Gossip Girl, like another recent Matador band??

I’m sure all involved are real psyched on this deal. Now Bein will probably get to hire some people, or maybe that intern of his can start to get paid.

The Very Best and Sleigh Bells at Santos Party House, 7ish

Buraka Som Sistema at (Le) Poisson Rouge, 11 pm

Fucked Up, Andrew W.K., Vivian Girls, Titus Andronicus at the Brooklyn Masonic Temple, 7ish

Girls and Real Estate at the Bowery Ballroom, 8ish (see my review of the Maxwell’s show.)

Abe Vigoda and Hot Box at Death by Audio, 8ish

Vivian Girls, Grass Widow, Bitters at Market Hotel, 8ish

Brooklyn Museum First Saturday curated by Todd P (heh) featuring Crystal Stilts, Grass Widow and the Beets, 4

Picture Plane, Small Black, Cale Parks at the Market Hotel, 8ish

Cass McCombs and Acrylics at Bowery Ballroom, 8ish

Very rarely does one see a show where all the bands are equally satisfying. Last night at Maxwell’s was one of those times. The double whammy of a bill featured two sides of the same coin: Real Estate, the New Jersey rockers who focus on solos and long, textured rhythmic build ups, and Girls, the San Francisco band focused on the major-swoon inducing Christopher Owens and his superb heartbreak act. By the end of the show I didn’t know whether to jump up and down with enthusiasm or run home and cry.

I’ve seen Real Estate before and each time I do I like them more and more. It’s just that kind of band that gets into your head and grows, filling up all the space between synapses, like a re-uptake inhibitor drug. The band is really all about jams- of course there are lyrics and melody but the power in Real Estate lies in their guitar solos and Alex Bleeker’s interesting and almost guitar-like bass playing.

Matt Mondanile and Martin Courtney trade back and forth, when one solos the other builds the song– it happens slowly and deliberately. It’s easy to get lost in the hazy chord progressions… and that’s a good thing.

Girls came up next and I have to say, I haven’t been taken aback by a performer like I was last night in a very, very long time. Christopher Owens is literally the wounded bird with the tough shell. He is one part pure, sexy confidence and one part tender, perhaps bitter confusion. And his music reflects this tension.

At times he sings mournfully into his microphone (he brings his own), singing about loving someone so much he wants to be them, and other times he is dancing across the stage Chuck Berry style and creating more noisy sounds with a slide. It’s this dichotomy, this utterly confusing and palpable feeling of bewilderment that makes Girls so fucking great and powerful.

Owens is a singer and musician that people can relate to- and that people can love. He is completely lacking in pretension on stage, has an adorable lisp, a strange demeanor and yet he has both rock star and boy next door qualities.

While Chet “JR” White was surely an even keeled back-up to Owens, it’s pretty clear that this is Owens’ game. It is he who stands starkly center stage with no fear– though he sometimes hides behind waves of dirty blonde California beach hair– and leads the band, which also includes newcomer Ryan Lynch from Dominant Legs, and Garett Godard on drums.

Both bands last night reminded me of one of my favorite musicians of all time, Evan Dando. I know many people consider Evan an impostor, a phony, whatever. There’s a lot of hate around him. But what Evan and the Lemonheads did was take emotion, extreme blissed out and romantic emotion, (sometimes juvenile), and turn it into something serious, something adult. And drugs played a big role, as they do with Girls (anyone read the FADER cover story?) and Real Estate, too. I think… The Lemonheads ook pretty songs about love and loss and turned them into alt-pop/ rock and roll- which is just what Girls is doing too.

Get your ass to Girls and Real Estate if you know what’s good for you. You may walk away bewildered, confused, in love, whatever, but it will feel really good either way.

See a video from the bands here and here. (iPhone videos…not good sound.)

Dean Bein of True Panther Sounds is the man behind the biggest (probably) break out band of the year, Girls. Bein also threw like, 4 CMJ shows, DJed a FADER party, and even did another party on Sunday of CMJ weekend– when the shit was already over. He’s devoted to sound. Bein took some time out to discuss the music of Girls, working with Matador, the appeal of cassettes and records, how to pronounce his last name and more.

How and when did you start True Panther Sounds?
My friends Molly, Avi and I started a band called Red Tape Apocalypse so our friend Sam could have a vehicle to learn how to play guitar. We wrote some songs and decided we should go on tour. We made a recording in the basement on my 4-track, mixed it on a friend’s computer, pooled our money and put out a tour-only 7″. That record sold so we decided to put out another one using the money. The label has sort of kept afloat on that one-to-one project style since then. That was in 2006. Putting money into something, praying it would sell enough to put out something else.

You started in San Francisco right? Why the move to Brooklyn?
We started in San Francisco. At one point I realized that growing up in SF and moving back there made it really difficult to focus on anything. San Francisco is a fantasy-land in the best and worst possible ways- you can walk down the street, get some free pizza, step into Dolores Park and run into 20 of your best friends. It was really hard to accomplish anything longterm for me there because it had so much history for me. Once I got to New York I realized how vital the music scene in San Francisco actually is and how unfortunate it was that it didn’t really have a loud voice singing its praises.

How many people work for you? Do you operate in Cali too?
Nobody works for me. The label started out as just Molly, Avi and myself. Then it was just me. Now I’m really lucky to work with the staff at Matador to promote and support TPS releases. I also have a really smart industrious and generally awesome intern named Ben Mallett who helps a couple of times a week. But I don’t have any employees, per say.

How do you find talent, primarily?
I listen to music from the time I wake up to the time I go to bed, usually go to sleep listening to music. I trade music with friends, talk about it with them, DJ radio shows and parties, collect records, etc. Music is pretty much my life, so a part of that is constantly discovering new bands and musicians. I’m lucky now to also have the bands that I currently work with hip me to things they think are cool.

Tell me the story of Girls, were they first friends of yours? Did you know instantly that they would get so much love?
I used to see Christopher around SF a lot. I ran into him at Glen Park BART one morning at 8am as he was going to work, and I was going to work. I found it really surprising that he was up so early and commuting to San Mateo for work. A few months later, I was living in New York and incredibly homesick. I heard his and JR’s songs and completely fell in love, overwhelmed by the images of San Francisco they evoked and the beauty and intimacy of their songs and recordings. I feel like most people, if they are listening with an open heart, will recognize that their songs are really special, and have a sincerity that is rare these days.

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Das Racist, Brooklyn Bowl, Free, 9 INFO

Alex Bleeker and the Freaks, Karl Blau at Ash’s Place, 8ish INFO

Trevor Wilson, Horse’s Mouth at Pete’s Candy Store

Lightning Bolt and Black Dice Above the Auto Parts Store, 8ish INFO

Mt Eerie, Tara Jane O’Neil, Market Hotel, 8ish. INFO

Wooden Shjips, Vivian Girls, Crystal Stilts, Religious Knives, 171 Lombardy, 8ish. INFO

Deer Tick (as the Sex Pistols) at Brooklyn Bowl, 9ish

Girls and Real Estate at Maxwell’s, Hoboken, 8ish INFO

UPDATE: Discovery featuring Rostam Batmanglij and Wes Miles is not playing. It’s another band by the same name. Cake Shop linked to the wrong one. Sorryyyy.

I think this is a good band. Do i think they’re amazing? No. They’re not really breaking any ground. But the jangles and slacker vibe are pretty infectious. What i love though, is this video. It’s just so California. It reminds me of of the long lost summer i spent in Berkeley. It was filled with crazy (good) people, lots of partying and experimentation, naked pool swimming, and people climbing in and out of windows. The kids were punks though- not girls in flowery dresses. Otherwise, it was just like this video.

That girl at the end totally spilled all the water out of that bong…

more about “Girls “Lust for Life” Video“, posted with vodpod

Zs, Nine 11 Thesaurus, Secret Project Robot, 9 pm

Lemonheads at Bowery Ballroom, 9ish

Dinosaur Jr. at Music Hall of Williamsburg, 9ish

Girls at Mercury Lounge , 9 pm (and Fri at Monster Island Basement and Sat at Cake Shop, both at 9)

Magik Markers at the Silent Barn, 8ish

Samara Lubelski at Cake Shop, 8 pm

Blonde Redhead at Prospect Park Bandshell, FREE, 8ish (get there early)

Team Robespierre, Ninjasonik, etc., Studio B, all day-ish

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May 1, 2006

Ole Miss commit named MVP of Nike Camp

Going up against some of the best of the best talent in the Southeast, future Ole Miss commit Drake Nevis of John Ehret High School came away with the defensive MVP of the day at the Nike Camp held in Baton Rouge Sunday.

With more than 300 hundred athletes in attendance, two of Ole Miss commits were present and turned in good showings. Nevis along with O.P. Walker's Alex Williams were among over 75 participants who either have an Ole Miss offer or interest in the Rebels.

"I was kind of surprised about being named MVP," Nevis said Sunday night. "It felt good to go out and compete against some of the best in the country. It was a very impressive camp and the amount of talent there surprised me. I'm very glad that my parents and I decided that the Nike Camp was the best one for me. I got the opportunity to compete against some of the best players in Louisiana and surrounding states."

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Who Do? ooVoo

Today was the kickoff of “My ooVoo Day With…”, a “week-long experiment in blogger to fan interaction.” What’s ooVoo? According to the website, it’s “the next evolution in online communication.” It enables up to six people to participate in an online conversation, at the same time, via video chat or text. Other features include video messaging, file transfer, even phone calls. The name makes me smile, since it reminds me of an old comedy routine quoted by Myrna Loy and Cary Grant in “The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer.” (“You remind me of a man…”) But the technology has me intrigued.

To showcase the ability of the technology, well-known bloggers are hosting chat sessions throughout the week, covering a wide range of topics. Anyone is invited to grab an available slot and join in the conversations. As a thank-you to the hosts, ooVoo is making a donation to each blogger’s charity of choice.

I didn’t even own a webcam—but the opportunity to talk with these bloggers on a face-to-face basis was too good to pass up. So I ran out and got a webcam, and had it set up just in time for the start of “My ooVoo Day With…” I had the privilege of participating in a chat with artist and new media consultant Susan Reynolds and communications specialist Connie Reece, founder of Every Dot Connects. Susan’s battle against breast cancer inspired the creation of the Frozen Pea Fund, which is working to raise awareness and funds for the fight against breast cancer. The FPF is one of the organizations benefiting from the ooVoo Day event.

The site proclaims that ooVoo is “remarkably easy to use,” and I agree. Being familiar with web chat, I was able to intuitively use the features of ooVoo, even though I had no previous experience with video chat. The design—with its theme of black, gold and gray punctuated by bright primary colors—is aesthetically pleasing, and makes it easy to identify things at a glance. I quickly found myself looking at my own face onscreen, alongside those of the other participants.

For the first chat, I was on my laptop, with a high-speed Wi-Fi internet connection; but found that it had trouble keeping up. The audio and video were erratic, making it tough to follow the conversation. Thankfully, the simultaneous text chat capability helped me have a say even when my voice couldn’t make it.

A quick query to Scott Monty garnered the advice to use a wired connection–so I moved operations to the desktop PC. An ooVoo chat from there worked just as it should–decidedly cool. I noticed that if a chat participant is using external speakers rather than a headset, I hear my own delayed voice in the background–which makes it kind of surreal at first–but beyond that the chats were as easy and normal as sitting across the table from people at a coffee shop.

The possibilities of using ooVoo have me enthusiastic—whether it’s to connect with my siblings in the same state or get to know my readers from all over the world.

And I’m also looking forward to other “My ooVoo Day With” chats coming up later this week. They remind me of a place, actually. What place? A coffee shop. Who do? ooVoo.

Project Mermaid | Series Two: It’s Alive!

Allll right—let’s rock and roll!

Project Mermaid|Series Two has suffered through my disorganizational delays and an actual blackout that prevented it from going live last night, and it was late today—but it’s ON! Firmly nestled in its new time slot of Thursdays at 7:30 pm, voting for the new series will go live here on this blog every week, followed within minutes by the debut of the original artwork in my eBay auctions. You can comment on the fashions, vote for your favorite, and even bid to own the originals! It’s all good.

Plus this is doing mighty weird things to my writer’s brain—I think I’ll be posting mid-week behind-the-scenes gossip news about what’s going on backstage at Project Mermaid! (Well, yes, I do have a life, it’s just a very…storified one…)

So click on the link above to check out this week’s challenge—and also stop by last week’s page to see the winner and read the recaps! What are the designers thinking…?

(This one’s thinking it’s time for more cough syrup and some bedtime.)

We Are Experiencing Technical Difficulties

Yesterday it was my lateness, combined with the slowing effects of a brand-new cold. Today it was because the power went out when I was painting, and stayed out till it was too late.

So, loyal fans, PROJECT MERMAID: SERIES TWO will air at an unprecedentedly late THURSDAY time slot. Can it be unprecedented if it’s only the second week of the series? I guess so, since the first episode aired on time. Well, not really on time, it was late, as well, but at least it aired on Tuesday. But this works out well, after all, since next Tuesday is Christmas Day, and who will be browsing online then?

So—hang with me here—Project Mermaid Series TWO will start THURSDAY and end NEXT THURSDAY. Series Three will start next Tueday, as it should. Overlapping schedules, but we do what we need to do.

Apparently we need to be drinking way too much coffee and eating too many chocolate chips at an unconscionably late hour, prompting us to speak in the third person and spend more than the usual amount of brain cells pondering fish folk and writing about events that never existed…yet make it seem as if they did…but I’m a writer, so I can do that, right? Right. Okay, so go read the recap of this past week’s episode and see what the imaginary characters have to say for themselves.

I’m having way too much fun with this series.

Wait’ll you see the next installment…I spent way too much time painting them, too.

Project Mermaid: Series 1 Ends Tonight!

Project Mermaid: Series One: “Found Objects” ends tonight! The poll closes at 7:30 pm PST! So swim on over and vote for your favorite mermaid fashion—today’s winner will make it into my new mousewords calendar, and will go up against the winners over the next eleven weeks to determine the champion!

Which fish-ion designer/mermodel team gets your vote?

~~Designer Clay and mermodel Penelope with “Caught Looking Fabulous”?

~~Designer Sasha and mermodel Andrea with “Sea Wed”?

~~Designer Coralie and mermodel Raine with “Pearls Before Swim”?

~~Designer Sharky and mermodel Carmen with “Coral Fire”?

Just a few more hours to decide…until the poll closes and the NEW episode airs tonight! Tune in right here to find out what Challenge Two will be!

Proving, once again, that I must have more time on my hands than I realize, I have just launched PROJECT MERMAID!  Any fans of Project Runway out there?  Then check out my Project Mermaid for fun!  You be the Judge—comment on the fashion designs, then vote for your favorite! And if you really, really like a design, you can bid to own it in my eBay auctions!

WEEK ONE’S CHALLENGE is: “Found Objects.”

Visit my “Project Mermaid” page and let the fun begin!

TTa:01 Marian stood in the empty camp and stared at the devastation. 4 days. She was 4 days late. How could one make up for 4 days lost?”

…And so begins the saga of “Four Days Late,” a brand-new short story I’m writing on TWITTER! I’ve decided to participate in “TwittyTales” the challenge to write a full story in 1 month, 1 Twitter post at a time, one post a day. Very challenging, considering the fact that you only get 140 characters worth of space in a Twitter post. Plus I have six characters used up to identify and number my story. I’m finding it to be a great exercise for writing—teaches me to say more with less.

TwittyTales is the idea of Twitterer seamusspeaks. Check out his Twitter for his short story, “Meet Edward the BellyCat,” this December, and come visit mine to follow my mini-saga-in-progress! (Which I started…four days late.)

Here’s a preview of the first four installments to get you started:

“Four Days Late”

A TwittyTales Story by Christine Taylor, aka mousewords

TTa:01 Marian stood in the empty camp and stared at the devastation. 4 days. She was 4 days late. How could one make up for 4 days lost?

TTa:02 A winter wind bit at her lips as she drew a gasp. Tents & supplies were scattered. No sign of life. She was afraid to start looking.

TTa:03 A messenger had been sent but was caught. He escaped after 4 days. Only then did Marian get the news: Her home camp was under attack.

TTa:04 Marian had grown up among the forest camps. Now she was lady in waiting to a baroness. But her blood was wild, & her spirit was free.

To be continued…tune in tomorrow, same Bat-Time, same Bat-Channel.

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Early Detection: How Social Media May Save The World
Blog Post: August 18, 2009
  • Is this detection "system" already in place? And if it appears to be "succesful", why has it not picked up Swine Flu, which is now currently been flagged as a pandemic.  Surely you would have mentioned this as one of your examples in this post, as it is the most recent pandemic to have swept parts of the globe.  do you have any information on social media and Swine Flu?


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How Organized Spam is Taking Control of Google's Search Results
Blog Post: January 28, 2011
  • No, their mission statement is to organize all the data. Their mission statement does not declare anything about Google being able to do everything service wise. I take organizing the information as "make everything on the internet easily reachable", not "we are everything on the internet".

  • It would be difficult to create an algorithm that can perfectly identify what is a spam site and what isn't. When you search "work from home", for example, Google's algorithm is going to look for content and site structure that fits what it assumes you want: an easy, fast, "free" way to sit on your @$$ all day and make money (which we know is never going to happen). With the way Google is trying to cover every aspect of the virtual world with their own logo, the chances of this happening effectively and anytime soon is slim to none.

    The problem is that Google wants to have their fingers in everything. They have many billions of dollars to just chuck into a fire, so nothing bothers them and they often times get side-tracked from the fundamental problems that matter the most to people like us. For example, they just recently attempted to buy out Groupon for like 6 billion dollars and got declined. What do they do? Throw a hissy fit and decide that they are going to create something of an exact replica to Groupon... seriously? You say you're attempting to "organize the worlds information". I believe Google is getting to the point that it's so rich and powerful that it wants to control all the "relevant" information, but organize everything else in the shit bin.

  • Actually, their policing department is currently barren. That's the reason so many people can get away with it.

    But don't worry, give it some time: once Google gets done with a majority of its "revolutionary" and "innovative" projects and they decide to start cracking down on this stuff, all those spam sites are screwed.

Is SEO Immoral?
Blog Post: February 01, 2011
  • SEO is a technique, techniques are utilized by humans to achieve some sort of goal. As you expressed, guns don't kill people, the people that pull the trigger kill people. In that respect, SEO is not immoral, the people that use SEO are the ones that are sometimes immoral.

    I couldn't agree more.

  • That's a laughable concept.

    With how huge Google is, all the data centers they have to hold up, all of the information that they have to store (most of which is stored in random-access, not disks... how do you think they search so fast?), all of the many tens of thousands of employees they have to pay for, including expensive developers and marketing specialists that research for things like AdWords and AdSense, plus all of the other things that the public doesn't realize Google does and has to do to provide their imperfect yet extremely useful and widely loved search engine functionality (plus the other 80 services they offer), do you SERIOUSLY think they could survive as a non-profit organization?

  • If SEO didn't exist, people would be a lot more likely to get random search results instead of what they want. If SEO is immoral, then I should be an evil, evil little boy... I like to give a lot of relevant content and keyword usage when I write. Sue me.

Content Optimization: Revisiting Topic Modeling, LDA & Our Labs Tool
Blog Post: November 08, 2010
  • Incoming newbie questions on LDA and topic modeling:

    First of all, would you say LDA is something that is "needed" all across a website? Say you're running a retail website for hundreds and hundreds of products. Then there are a dozen or so categories with descriptive headers to organize the contained products. Now there's also a home page with three or four general descriptions to file everything into a few bigger categories. Would it be a good idea to apply LDA all over the place? Just categories and the home page? Just the home page? Or maybe just product pages, but leave the home page descriptions and category descriptions for user readability and ease of understanding where they are at? I ask because LDA seems complicated and I want to know if I SHOULD take large amounts of time figuring out good applications of LDA for everything, or if I should spend my time in better places.

    Second question: let's say I am applying LDA to all three of these general areas - specific product pages, category pages and the home page. Would it be much easier to apply LDA to an individual product, or the much larger, general scope of the category it's contained within? I would think the individual product since it's more... focused. A category description would be meant for a short but detailed description of everything IN the category, so it seems like it would be harder to focus on a "topic model" for something such as a category.

    Thank you very much in advance for any help :)


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Setting Goals (Not Tools) as the Foundation of Your Marketing - Whiteboard Friday
Blog Post: September 27, 2013
  • I like how you've super simplified the process. I've found Avinash's process described in this articleDigital Marketing and Measurement Model very useful as well. I'm sure others will find it helpful as well.

How I build Links by Offering Free Logo Identity
Blog Post: September 13, 2013
  • I guess the underlining strategy here is: Doing something for someone for free. On the internet, that generally pays off in more more ways than just backlinks and as such is always a good strategy. For most businesses, the consideration would be the cost of the "Free" they will be offering. In your specific example, you've highlighted a cost effective way of doing so and as long as you can find that, you're good!

How to Rank: 25 Step SEO Master Blueprint
Blog Post: May 14, 2013
  • Great post! What are your thoughts on KOB analysis (Keyword Opposition to Benefit Ratio) for further streamlining your keyword research. This process if I'm correct, takes "Keyword Difficulty" against Keyword Benefit (CPC x Monthly Search Volume) to determine a ratio allowing you to select keywords with low competition and high benefit.

Why We Can't Just Be SEOs Anymore - Whiteboard Friday
Blog Post: May 02, 2013
  • So if SEOs can change their titles to Inbound Marketers, why did so many people have a problem with the term "Growth Hacker"? Isn't that a need based evolution/hybrid whatever thingy too?

  • There's a Youmoz for comments like that. :P
    On a serious note, totally agree with this:
    "In short, SEO and Inbound Marketing are not mutually exclusive; the opposite: they need each other."
    In essence, if you're doing more than "SEO", call it more than SEO, call it Inbound Marketing or whatever other spin off that makes sense! Anything that gets those bigger budgets!


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PrintQueue.AddJob Method (String)

Inserts a new print job, whose content is a Byte array, into the queue.

Namespace:  System.Printing
Assembly:  System.Printing (in System.Printing.dll)

public PrintSystemJobInfo AddJob(
	string jobName

Type: System.String

The name of the print job.

Return Value

Type: System.Printing.PrintSystemJobInfo
A PrintSystemJobInfo that represents the print job and its status.

Use this method to write device specific information, to a spool file, that is not automatically included by the Microsoft Windows spooler. Of course, you need to know whether the spool file is Enhanced Metafile (EMF) or XML Paper Specification (XPS). If you prefer to work with the Stream API, you can use the PrintQueueStream class instead of this method.

After the AddJob method has been called, you must write a Byte array to the JobStream property of the PrintSystemJobInfo that is returned by AddJob or no print job is created. This array is what prints if the printer is working and is not paused.

Caution noteCaution

If the JobStream is not closed with Close before the end of the thread in which AddJob is called, then an InvalidOperationException is thrown when that thread ends because the spooler thread cannot gain control over the Stream object.

Other ways to print in Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) include the PrintDialog.PrintDocument method, which can be used with or without opening the dialog, and the many Write and WriteAsync methods of the XpsDocumentWriter.

The following example shows how to use AddJob(String) to read a file into a Byte array and send the array to a print queue. This code assumes that there is a file called test.txt in the root of the C: drive. This code only works with printers that can detect and print plain text. Some of them cannot.

// Create the printer server and print queue objects
LocalPrintServer localPrintServer2 = new LocalPrintServer();
PrintQueue defaultPrintQueue2 = LocalPrintServer.GetDefaultPrintQueue();

// Call AddJob
PrintSystemJobInfo anotherPrintJob = defaultPrintQueue2.AddJob("MyJob");

// Read a file into a StreamReader
StreamReader myStreamReader = new StreamReader("C:\\test.txt");

// Write a Byte buffer to the JobStream and close the stream
Stream anotherStream = anotherPrintJob.JobStream;
Byte[] anotherByteBuffer = UnicodeEncoding.Unicode.GetBytes(myStreamReader.ReadToEnd());
anotherStream.Write(anotherByteBuffer, 0, anotherByteBuffer.Length);

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How to: Use the Sample Android Application in the Windows Azure Toolkit for Android

Author: Ralph Squillace

Reviewer: Scott Densmore

This topic describes how to download, build, and run the sample storage client application in the Windows Azure Toolkit for Android. This topic requires:

The project loads and compiles in Eclipse Indigo IDE for Java Developers (installable here) and runs using the Android Emulator; it does not describe how to install the sample application on an Android device. (For more information on installing applications during development, see Using Hardware Devices.) Lastly, this topic describes how to use Eclipse to clone and then load and use any contained projects from a git repository at http://www.github.com, but does not describe git or GitHub themselves.

This topic assumes that you have already downloaded and are running the Eclipse IDE for Java Indigo Service Release 2; a new topic using a more current version will appear shortly. (Because of the differences between versions, please note which version you are going to use and adjust the instructions accordingly if documentation for your version isn’t yet available.) For more troubleshooting tips getting your Eclipse and Java environment running properly, see Getting Started.

Eclipse 버전이 사용됩니다.

Eclipse 플러그인 버전이 사용됩니다.

Building and Running the Android Storage Application in Eclipse

  1. To get the sample application with the toolkit, navigate to https://github.com/WindowsAzure-Toolkits/wa-toolkit-android to read the GitHub project page. You then have two choices: You can download the .zip file, uncompress it, and then use the files within from Eclipse as a local repository; or you can use Eclipse to perform this step from within the IDE.

  2. To download the .zip file and unzip it, click https://github.com/WindowsAzure-Toolkits/wa-toolkit-android/zipball/master, uncompress the folder structure, and place the files in a location that is easily accessible location. It might look like this:

    zipball을 포함하는 디렉터리입니다.
  3. Open Eclipse. The default window looks something like the following.

    Eclipse의 첫 번째 뷰입니다.
  4. Importing Toolkit Source and Projects

    1. From the File menu, choose Import…, and when the Import Selection dialog appears, choose Projects from Git, as shown below.

      git 프로젝트를 가져옵니다.
    2. Choose local (if you zipped or cloned on your own) or provide URI.

      git 리포지토리 위치를 선택합니다.
    3. Provide the Git repository URI and set the git:// protocol scheme: git://github.com/WindowsAzure-Toolkits/wa-toolkit-android.git. (You can also use the https:// scheme, or provide a file path.)

      git 프로토콜을 선택합니다.
    4. Select the master branch (or another branch if you want to build newer versions in the testing phase).

      git 프로젝트 분기를 가져옵니다.
    5. The repository is cloned to the repository path you specified in step c, above.

      복제한 리포지토리를 가져옵니다.
    6. Confirm that you want to import the existing projects.

      가져올 기존 프로젝트를 선택합니다.
    7. Select which projects to import into the Eclipse workspace. Here you must select at least Access Control for Android, Windows Azure Storage for Android, and the Windows Azure Storage for Android Sample Application.

      작업 영역의 프로젝트를 선택합니다.
    8. The Eclipse workspace should open and appear something like the following graphic.

      프로젝트의 첫 번째 열기입니다.
  5. Now you modify the targets to build the projects correctly. For each project in your workspace, right-click the project in the Package Explorer and choose Properties. In the Properties form (an example is shown below), select Android in the left pane, and select the Android Project Build Target you have installed and want to build toward.

    프로젝트 대상을 업데이트합니다.
  6. Right-click the Windows Azure Storage for Android Sample Application, choose Run As..., and select Android Application. If you build and run, you should see the emulator appear. When it does, the default screen may need to be “opened”. Click the lock and drag it to the unlocked position, as the following graphic shows.

    How long the compilation and emulator start-up period is depends upon your platform and its resources. You may also see several console processes appear and disappear as the emulator starts.

    에뮬레이터의 잠금을 해제합니다.
  7. Once the emulator is unlocked, you should see the following screen, indicating that you must provide valid toolkit connection type parameters in your application.

    구성 오류 응용 프로그램 화면입니다.
  8. Update the toolkit_connection_type information in the project to use the Direct connection type and to have the DirectAccessKey and AccountName of the Windows Azure storage account. (To find your account information to run the application, see How to View, Copy, and Regenerate Access Keys for a Windows Azure Storage Account.)

    1. In the Eclipse Package Explorer, expand the Windows Azure Storage for Android Sample Application project, then expand the res entry, the values entry, and double-click the strings.xml file.

    2. In the strings.xml view in the middle panel, scroll down until you see the toolkit_connection_type value, and enter Direct as the value, as in the following image:

      Toolkit의 유형을 선택합니다.
    3. Enter the DirectAccessKey and AccountName values from your Windows Azure storage account. The following graphic shows the entry of the account name to the direct_account_value.

      계정 이름을 설정합니다.
  9. Press Run, and the emulator should launch, providing you with the following experience.

    응용 프로그램을 실행합니다.

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