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10 miles on 10.10.10

Hey there world! Is there a better day to run 10 miles than 10.10.10? I don’t think so! I put on my running legs and completed the run in 1:35. Yahoo! I want November 14th to be tomorrow!

Pre-run I had a piece of peanut butter toast (Ezekiel bread).

Mid-run I walked for a block and had a shot block.

And I drank Gatoraide. Word to the wise, water down your gatoraide. I didn’t and it kinda made me nauseous.

Post run I enjoyed my favorite recovery beverage:

Chocolate milk, and yes, I put salt in it 😉

For dinner I made roasted butternut flat bread. I used the leftover butternut squash and combined it with onion, garlic, oregano and EVO. I used TJ’s whole wheat dough, topped it with goat cheese and let it bake for 10 mins at 450 degrees.

Yum! This was delicious. I will be making more. Is there any dish that can’t be improved by butternut squash? I didn’t think so.

Hope everyone had a fun, restful weekend!

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Groups point voters toward judicial evaluations

By Bryan Cohen | Oct 16, 2012

WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - Seven states are taking advantage of broad-based and objective evaluations of incumbent judges' performance to determine who to vote for in the upcoming elections.

Utah, North Carolina, New Mexico, Missouri, Colorado, Arizona and Alaska use a judicial performance evaluation program in which court users asses the temperament, impartiality, communication skills and legal ability of the judges with whom they have interacted. The results of the surveys are summarized and shared with voters to provide them with a voting recommendation.

"For more than three decades, the American Judicature Society has supported the use of judicial performance evaluation programs as a valuable informational tool for voters in judicial retention elections," said Seth S. Andersen, the executive director of the American Judicature Society. "Surveys and exit polling demonstrate that voters use JPE results to make better-informed decisions on judges standing for retention. The key is to ensure that evaluation results are disseminated widely and are readily available to voters."

Several groups issued a joint press release Tuesday about the evaluations. They are Justice at Stake, the AJS, the University of Denver and the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System.

Judicial elections are usually low-information contests in which voters cast their ballots based on name recognition, party affiliation or ballot position rather than on experience and quality, the groups say. Judges are running in contestable elections in 32 states and standing in yes/no retention elections in 17 states in 2012.

A 2011 poll in Indiana found that two-thirds of respondents would find public performance evaluations for judges of great or some value. Approximately one-third of the people polled almost always skip voting for judges on the ballot. A 2012 poll in Minnesota found that three-quarters of respondents would support the creation of a balanced public performance evaluation commission to review the performance of judges and public the evaluation results.

"These polling results demonstrate that voters need more information to make informed decisions about the judges appearing on their ballots," said Malia Reddick, the director of the IAALS Quality Judges Initiative. "Judicial performance evaluation programs fill this void."

IAALS is a national, independent research center with the goal of continuously improving the culture and process of the civil justice system.

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The Story of Anita Afonu (27yo: Accra): A huge Lump Travel from my Tubes and….Down my Uterus and Stop!

Menstruating for the first time was a very daunting experience. It wasn’t weird because I knew nothing about it, it was weird because I was a bit too over grown when it happened. I was in Secondary school. An all girls secondary school. In my first year. Still a teenager, contemplating life and why I was alive at all. I hated my school, partly because it wasn’t the school I wanted to be at. My mother had forced me there because it was her alma mater and I was at serious loggerheads with her for sending me to that school. I was undergoing a serious sexual orientation issues and at some point in my life felt I was a boy trapped in a woman’s body. I couldn’t relate with many of the girls there because they had conversations I couldn’t have. They liked to have conversations about boys, menstrual cramps and Elle magazine. I wanted to discuss films, politics and literature.

So it was one of those days, a Monday to be precise. I had turned 17 about 8 months ago. It was time for math class. Oh how I hated math class. In fact, anything that had to do with numbers, I stayed away from. Mr Owusu was there rambling about an equation when all of a sudden I felt a huge lump travel from my tubes and sort of make its way down my uterus and stop. It felt funny, but I didn’t know how to react. Within a few minutes I felt wet and a slight sharp pain. Not sure what it was, I excused myself and run to the bathroom. I took off my underwear only to realize the horror. Red! It was blood. Oh My God! I shrieked. This cant be it, this cant be it. Not knowing what to do, I run back to class to talk to Victoria. Victoria was a no-nonsense girl, I have to say. She took crap from no one but had a very loving side to her. She was very slim with curly hair and was light skinned. When I informed Victoria, she immediately summoned her two side kicks, Sally and Sena. They lined up in front of me in the bathroom and took a serious look at me as if I were in the military. She ordered to see if it was true and when she did, she looked at me with such incredulity and said; ‘Oh Anita, what took you so long?’ Immediately, Sally hugged me so tight and so did Sena. They put me in the shower, helped me clean up and taught me how to use a sanitary towel. I had seen many women from Reproductive health organizations come to our school to tell us about how to use sanitary towels and all but I had never paid any attention to them because I just didn’t care. I hadn’t menstruated so why should I care?

Victoria, being the boss of all of us, assumed her role and taught me step by step how to wear a sanitary towel and what it means when I don’t menstruate. She taught me how to walk and what to do when I experience menstrual cramps. In that moment, I missed my mother. Not because I wanted to share with her this ‘joyful’ discovery, but to let her know that I am sorry. That I was sorry for hating her so much. In that moment, I needed her to assure me that there was nothing to fear, that there was nothing to worry about. That I will be fine. I felt she didn’t understand me, that she didn’t understand how I felt. Now, as I write this, its another time of the month. I am experiencing menstrual cramps as always, but I am grateful to Victoria, Sally and Sena all three of whom spent the remaining two years of High School with me, teaching me about boys and how to take care of myself and how to appreciate my womanhood. For me, menstruating was one major turning point in my life, in that it will be a constant reminder of two things, that I am not pregnant and the fact that I was a woman.

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thermador-appliance-repair-los-angelesThermador appeared on the market a while ago. However, back then no one could even suspect that they will become one of the leading appliance manufacturers on the market in the future. This was the time when Thermador was only specializing in electric heaters. Even though the times were rough, the company was able to become successful and eventually transformed into a major brand. They also began to work on appliances. Despite the fact that Thermador appliances are deemed as trustworthy, it does not necessarily imply that they do not need any repairs every now and then, and maintenance for the refrigerator which should be done once a year. In case you require Thermador appliance repairs or maintenance, it would be wise to call our Los Angeles Thermador appliance repair service.

One of many reasons why Thermador was able to really thrive when others could not, is the fact that they were doing their best to really listen to their clients all the time. If the company sees that people need something, they are going to plan and focus on that very need in order to satisfy the clients’ requirements. The company was constantly improving its services and all the other companies were simply unable to offer any viable alternatives. The most popular thing about Thermador is without a doubt their famous self-cleaning feature. They were also able to develop smooth cooktops as well as wall ovens. One of the recent developments of this company is without a doubt the star burner – it is visually appealing and it really allows you to cook with a lot more heat than you could ever imagine.

Once you are buying the oven from Thermador, you are certainly expecting that it will serve you for many years. These expectations are most realistic, seeing just how well-made these machines really are.

At times, people will dial the service to request Thermador oven repair, but once the technician arrives and looks at the appliance, he finds out that there is no problem. In most cases this is due to the fact that the oven owner was trying to use one of the special features of the oven and never took the time to learn more about using it properly. In case you wish to try out all the special features of the oven, it is important to learn how to use them all properly, which will save you some time and money in the future.

Many Thermador ovens require repairs, since the ovens just stop turning on. At times, the answer to the problem is quite straightforward, since someone simply pulled the power cord free from the wall. However, older appliances will need to be looked at more often, seeing how the wiring may really wear out over time and it can be a fire hazard.

Your oven must not be producing any odor when you turn it on, unless it has been a long time after the purchase. In case you smelled something electrical, you must not even consider using the oven. You will need to shut it off and get in touch with a qualified as well as genuinely experienced Los Angeles Thermador oven repair expert at the earliest opportunity. Using this unit may well be dangerous and you must not ignore the electrical short, which may easily cause a fire.

At times, the ice maker of your Thermador fridge will not produce any ice and all the lights inside the fridge will not be turning on. Although it could be a serious issue, in most cases it is very easy to deal with. Check if your fridge has a Holiday feature. If that is the case, press the button. This feature is meant for individuals, who are often leaving the house for a long time and do not require all the features of the unit to be burning the electricity all the time.

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Our name, Narcotics Anonymous, is not meant to imply a focus on any particular drug; NA’s approach makes no distinction between drugs including alcohol. Membership is free, and we have no affiliation with any organizations outside of NA including governments, religions, law enforcement groups, or medical and psychiatric associations. Through all of our service efforts and our cooperation with others seeking to help addicts, we strive to reach a day when every addict in the world has an opportunity to experience our message of recovery in his or her own language and culture.

Visit these sites for local Narcotics Anonymous: Central Western Pennsylvania Area Service Committee of Narcotics Anonymous and Tri-State Region of Narcotics Anonymous or call here: (412) 391-5247

Al-Anon and Alateen

From Al-Anon.org: Al‑Anon is a mutual support program for people whose lives have been affected by someone else’s drinking. By sharing common experiences and applying the Al-Anon principles, families and friends of alcoholics can bring positive changes to their individual situations, whether or not the alcoholic admits the existence of a drinking problem or seeks help.

Alateen, a part of the Al-Anon Family Groups, is a fellowship of young people (mostly teenagers) whose lives have been affected by someone else’s drinking whether they are in your life drinking or not. By attending Alateen, teenagers meet other teenagers with similar situations. Alateen is not a religious program and there are no fees or dues to belong to it.

For more information: Call (888) 425-2666

From Nar-Anon.org: The Nar-Anon Family Groups is primarily for those who know or have known a feeling of desperation concerning the addiction problem of someone very near to you. We have traveled that unhappy road too, and found the answer with serenity and peace of mind.

When you come into the family group, you are no longer alone, but among true friends who understand your problem as few others could. We respect your confidence and anonymity as we know you will respect ours. We hope to give you the assurance that no situation is too difficult and no unhappiness is too great to be overcome.

Our program, which is not a religious one but a spiritual way of life, is based on the Twelve Steps of Nar-Anon. We've found that the working of these steps will bring the solution to practically any problem. We urge you to take this program and its twelve steps seriously. It has been as helpful to us as the Narcotics Anonymous program is to the addict.

We only ask for the wisdom and courage to see ourselves as we really are, to do something about ourselves with the help of a Higher Power as we understand this, and for the grace to release our addicts with love and cease trying to change them.

Keep an open mind and attend as many meetings as possible. Feel free to share during the meeting. You may ask questions after the meeting. You'll soon make friends and will feel very much a part of the group.

With the understanding that addiction is a disease, and the realization that we are powerless over it, as well as over other people's lives, we are ready to do something useful and constructive with our own. Then, and only then, can we be of any help to others.

Stepping Stones, the drug and treatment program at Meadville Medical Center (MMC) in Meadville, PA offers both residential and outpatient treatment for drug and alcohol abuse. Serving the area surrounding Meadville, the Stepping Stones program not only treats the individual,  also offers family counseling services as well.

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LIFE HAPPENS – Happiness and Healing are yours for the choosing. We’ve all been hurt by other people, we’ve hurt ourselves, and we’ve hurt others. And as a result, every single one of us ends up with some sort of hurt, hang-up, or habit. But the question we all face is, Where do we go from here? Life’s Healing Choices offers freedom from our hurts, hang-ups, and habits through eight healing choices that promise true happiness and life transformation.

Hope for Healing Hearts is a support group for the friends, family members and loved ones of drug addicts. The group is run by Not One More | NWPA. Hope for Healing Hearts meets every third Tuesday of the month at 7p. They meet at Meadville Medical Center's Grove Street Campus. Ask the Security Guard for Directions.

Celebrate Recovery is a Christ-centered recovery ministry for anyone struggling with hurts, hang-ups, and destructive habits, no matter how big or small. Our purpose is to fellowship together and support one another as we celebrate God’s healing power in our lives through the eight recovery principles found in the Bible and in Christ-centered 12 steps. Check out the Oil Creek Celebrate Recovery Facebook page here!

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Microbial mechanisms controlling cellulose degradation in soil habitats remains a critical knowledge gap in understanding and modeling terrestrial carbon-cycling. We investigated land management and soil micro-habitat influences on soil bacterial communities and distribution of cellulose-degrading enzyme genes in three bioenergy cropping systems (corn, prairie, and fertilized prairie). Within the soil, aggregates have been examined as potential micro- habitats with specific characteristics influencing resource partitioning and regulation, thus we also investigated genes associated with cellulose degradation within soil aggregate fractions from the fertilized prairie system. Soil bacterial communities and carbon-cycling gene presence varied across land management and soil microhabitats. Examination of genes specifically involved in cellulose-degradation pathways showed high levels of redundancy across the bioenergy cropping systems, but medium macroaggregates (1,000–2,000 μm) supported greater cellulose-degrading enzyme gene abundance than other aggregate fractions and whole soil. In medium aggregates, the enriched cellulose-degrading genes were most similar to genes previously observed in Actinobacteria. These findings represent gentic potential only, and our previous work on the same samples found elevated cellulase exo-enzyme activity in microaggregates. These contrasting results emphasize the importance of measuring community, functional genes, and metabolic potentials in a coordinated manner. Together, these data indicate that location within the soil matrix matters. Overall, our results indicate that soil aggregate environments are hot-spots that select for organisms with functional attributes like cellulose degradation, and future work should further explore micro-environmental factors that affect realized C-cycling processes.

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By Jameson Tyler, Archives & Rare Books Intern

One of the most recent collecting areas in the Archives & Rare Books Library is the Historical Textbook Collection, transferred from the Curriculum Resources Center (now the CECH Library).  Created by former CRC librarian Gary Lare, the Historical Textbook Collection is comprised of American textbooks from the 19th century to the end of the 20th.  As part of the 2010-2011 ARB intern project, the collection will be organized and fully inventoried, and a collection development policy will be developed.   An online exhibit has been initiated ( to showcase select volumes as well as to provide a “textbook timeline” in the United States and to give a brief history of textbook publishing in Cincinnati.  There are, of course, McGuffey readers, along with spellers, science books, history texts, social studies volumes, and the entire range of K-12 education textbooks.  It is the aim of this project to position the collection for full cataloging and formal naming.

After working at Inkling in San Francisco as my last internship, and helping develop enhanced digital textbooks, I had a modest grasp on what it took to bring together all of the resources needed to assemble a textbook, but little knowledge of how the textbook has developed in America. I’ve always been interested in printmaking and publishing, and this seemed like a good opportunity to explore the past of the industry I was trying to move forward with my senior thesis.

While at Inkling, I had the opportunity to work with several major educational textbook publishers, including McGraw-Hill and John Wiley & Sons Inc., with subjects ranging from photography, anatomy/physiology, and public speaking. This gave me a good understanding of the modern structure that most textbooks follow, including chapters containing subchapters, begun by listing concepts and concluded with opportunities to self-test with short-answer questions and glossary terms. Possibly the most surprising differences were the scale of the books and the amount of knowledge in a topic the older textbooks attempted to present in such a noticeably smaller page area. Another interesting aspect to note was the abundance of different typefaces the books are set in, making the 3–5 point size that most modern textbooks are set in look rather sparse, if still very functional and efficient. Something that begs for further research is to find the reasoning behind the smaller size (both in physical proportions and page count) and whether it was more cost-effective to print this way, or if there was some precedent in other areas of publishing that would cause this practice.

Something I’d never thought about was the westward movement of all the industries that had over a hundred years to develop on the East Coast of the United States, and how much effort it was to start even just a weekly newspaper, a critical medium for spreading information and the only other main source of the time other than word-of-mouth.

After reading The Western Book Trade (1961) by Walter Sutton, I have gained a much better understanding of the publishing legacy of Cincinnati and how modern day exports in that concentration are minuscule compared to what it was in its 19th century prime between the late 1820s and 1910. I look forward to spending more time going through the collection and being able to connect the texts with the history.


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“In her lifetime, Alva Smith Vanderbilt goes from being a Have to a Have-Not to a Have-It-All. Not content to just build spectacular mansions and host fabulous high-society balls, she uses her status and immense wealth to help the poverty-stricken, promote racial equality, and advocate for women’s rights in the courts and voting booths. As she did in Z, Therese Anne Fowler digs beyond the sensational and scandalous newspaper headlines and brings depth to her protagonist to show us a life well-lived.”

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A Well-Behaved Woman is the riveting audiobook about iron-willed Alva Vanderbilt and her illustrious family as they rule Gilded Age New York, from the New York Times bestselling author of Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald.

Alva Smith, her southern family destitute after the Civil War, married into one of America’s great Gilded Age dynasties: the newly wealthy but socially shunned Vanderbilts. Ignored by New York’s old-money circles and determined to win respect, she designed and built 9 mansions, hosted grand balls, and arranged for her daughter to marry a duke. But Alva also defied convention for women of her time, asserting power within her marriage and becoming a leader in the women's suffrage movement.

In A Well-Behaved Woman, Therese Anne Fowler paints a glittering world of enormous wealth contrasted against desperate poverty, of social ambition and social scorn, of friendship and betrayal, and an unforgettable story of a remarkable woman.

Meet Alva Smith Vanderbilt Belmont, living proof that history is made by those who know the rules—and how to break them.

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62-Year Old Delivery Man Feels 15 Years Younger with Minor Lifestyle Change

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SCHILLER PARK, Ill. April 30, 2009 – Twenty-nine years of lifting heavy packages as a parcel driver, left Creston, Iowa, resident Robert Kendrick with back injuries that prevented him from doing much of anything. He tried everything to rid himself of the pain–from prescription drugs to epidural shots – but nothing seemed to work. Finally, after following intense physical therapy, he was able to return to work at the age of 62, but his body wasn't ready for the rigors of his profession.

"I had a very physically demanding route and by early afternoon, my energy was completely depleted," said Kendrick. "I knew I needed to find a program that would allow me to have more energy, and help me to reach my goal of retiring in good health."

After researching different exercise options, Kendrick decided to purchase exercise equipment for his home. Today, Kendrick works out five times a week on his new elliptical cross-trainer and home gym system from Life Fitness.

"Everything considered, I feel 10 to 15 years younger, and I look it too," said Kendrick. "My job has become much easier, and my life has become much more enjoyable."

As a result of his story Kendrick was recognized by Life Fitness and was awarded as a finalist in the company's annual "I Live It!" campaign. This program celebrates individuals who demonstrate a commitment to lifelong health and well-being.

"Robert's motivation for making the commitment to lifelong fitness is one that we felt deserved to be recognized," said John Stransky, president of Life Fitness. "He has utilized fitness as a tool to make his everyday life easier and more enjoyable."

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The idea of a machine that talks to you intelligently might be a ways off still, but Instructables user MisterM wanted to make a radio that’d announce general details throughout the day. To do this, he wired up a Raspberry Pi Zero to a text-to-speech engine, then tossed in a dose of If This Then That.

The idea here is simple: at certain points of the day, the radio “speaks” email subject lines out loud. Using different IFTTT recipes, MisterM created triggers to send various facts, like tomorrow’s weather, notifications for social networks, and more to a Gmail account. When an email arrives, the Pi uses its text-to-speech engine to speak it out loud. It’s a clever workaround to create verbal notifications for just about anything IFTTT supports. Even better, the whole thing is jammed into a 1940s radio case, so it’s a good looking little machine to boot. Head over to Instructables for the full guide.

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Thursday Song 4-28-16

Good morning everyone! I hope you’re doing well! My parents might have already forgotten this talented musician but I haven’t. Back then, I didn’t think he was that talented whenever his music played on the stereo at home or in the car! I was always thinking to myself, “What the hell are they listening to? Where did they even find this man’s music?” I figured they bought it at one of the local swap meets or a friend gave them the CD. (Going to a swap meet in El Paso is another post I’ll have to include here sometime.) To this day, I still haven’t asked where they found this man’s music. Apparently, his music and words still make me laugh today!

I wasn’t having such a great day yesterday so I decided to look for his music on YouTube. After listening to his music for awhile, I couldn’t stop laughing. Today, I’m introducing you to Tex-Mex music or Tejano music (Texan-Mexican music). I’m also introducing you to singer and accordion player, Leonardo “Flaco” Jimenez. Tex-Mex music originates from the Mexican-American population mostly in central and south Texas. Tejano music includes a variety of mariachi music styles, polka, pop rock, country, jazz, R&B and blues. According to Wikipedia, it has three main categories of music and bands: conjunto, orchestra and band. A conjunto band consists of an accordion, bajo sexto (six-bass), bass and drums. The other two types of bands  include an accordion player at times.

This song always makes me laugh! Country superstar Alan Jackson even has his own version of the song.

San Antonio native Flaco Jimenez has collaborated with several big names. He’s performed with Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, Dwight Yoakam, Willie Nelson, Los Lobos, Carlos Santana and several others. He was also a member of the Tejano fusion group, Texas Tornadoes. Flaco Jimenez has won six Grammy Awards (one was when he was Texas Tornadoes). In 2015, he won a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Today, I’m including some of his solo work, along with collaborations. Have a great day, everyone! I hope the music makes you laugh and/or dance.

  1. Awesome! I really look forward to your Tex-Mex post! I’ll be on the lookout for it! Freddy Fender was awesome! “Before the Next Teardrop Falls” is a great classic song! Thanks for checking it out!

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  2. Terrific post! I am a huge fan of Tex-Mex music and I do mean huge! I’ve been thinking about doing a post about Doug Sahm , the Sir Douglas Quintet, the Crazy Cajun and one of my all-time favorites Freddy Fender. His performance on “Before The Next Teardrop Falls” is definitely the poet’s meaning of love! Of course, freddy was already huge force in Tex Mex LONG before this hit. I’m hoping to feature that song and some of my own personal remembrances of Freddy on my blog in the near future. 👍👍

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New fridge

Update to the fridge situation – we got our new fridge last Wednesday and are getting used to it. We are very sure we made the right choice. This is one of the only ones that would fit in our space, and it was definitely the best option.

Hannah was a trooper; we spent three days refrigerator shopping. We measured and re-measured. She liked the tape measure.

She tried to help with the fridge.

Would it also be fun to measure the cat?

As a PSA, I’d like to mention that apparently cats do not enjoy being measured. Anyway, here’s our new fridge with Bingley making a cameo.

You might say, “It looks likes there’s at least an inch from the top of the fridge to the cabinet, you could have gone bigger.” But what the picture doesn’t show is that the cabinets were hung crooked and the right side bottom is lower than the left side bottom. Fun stuff. The ice maker is very loud, but I have twice as much produce storage which is wonderful. With a little shelf adjustment, I think we have good places for everything.

After six days without a working refrigerator, I have never been so thankful for this amazing appliance.

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  1. What’s a PSA? I Googled it and got results of things like Plano Skating Association, Professional Soccer Authority and Prostate Specific Antigen.

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Struggling with Anxiety

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Let’s talk about something that not many people discuss – anxiety and depression.

The reason I am writing this is because I know so many that suffer from some form. I knew friends who attempted (and some succeeded) to hurt themselves or take their own life. Thankfully I never EVER had those thoughts. I never once contemplated hurting myself or anyone else. But I did have a darkness around me that was so hard to shake.

I was diagnosed with depression/anxiety a little over a year ago. I realized that I had ben suffering from it for a while and my doctor concluded that it was a stem of post-partum depression that I never wanted to face. I thought “why the heck am I sad?” Three years ago I gave birth to the two most beautiful, precious children, I had a loving husband who cared for every little detail about me, always kind and understanding. So the feelings of sadness and anxiousness were pushed out of my mind because it couldn’t be possible that I was unhappy. But with such a jolt to my life – times two – no matter how amazing and wonderful something might be, a drastic change can have severe effects.

I dealt with this any way I could – I ate better, stayed productive, and immersed myself into my children. I smiled on the outside but I knew inside I felt like screaming. I didn’t sleep, and when I was able to it was broken and far from refreshing.  I started letting things like daily chores and household stuff slide. I cried at the drop of a hat. So finally after almost 2 years I decided to see my doctor about it and she helped me control it with medication, diet, and exercise.

Things got better, then they got really good – so good that I weaned off my medication. I was so happy to be able to take my small family to New York City for a week, then we bought a house and my husband got his dream vehicle (a vintage Ford). Everything seemed to be going great. Then about a month ago I started getting those old familiar feelings. The short temper, the lack of motivation, and just an overall cloud over my head. Which is why you may have noticed posts are not as frequent as normal. I took some time away to focus on me (and am forever grateful for my two assistants who picked up my slack).

I decided to see my doctor again, who again prescribed anti-depression medication to me. I have also again started to eat better and get out for some exercise which is a proven mood-lifter. I feel better now than I have in a while 🙂 I know now those feelings of “suck it up, buttercup”weren’t realistic and I needed help from my doctor.

Why am I writing this? Well, I know more and more people who are in the same boat. It seems like everywhere I turn there is someone who needs a shoulder or a hug. But sometimes that just isn’t enough. If you are feeling like there is a cloud over your head that you just can’t shake, I urge you to do something about it, whether it’s medication, a lifestyle change, anything to get you feeling like yourself. Because, frankly, it sucks to feel helpless.

There IS a light at the end of the tunnel. If you need help see your doctor or check out Freedom from Fear.

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Toddler Wisdom

Emily usually holds my hand and brings me with her as she wanders, but this past week she decided it was time to walk out on her own. She had the time of her life wandering around Riverside Park while Romeo (our dog) and I followed close behind. Her joy was infectious and my heart was exploding.

She is my most special teacher. Here are some lessons she has taught me.

Walking Beside Her

Every night as Em is winding down she does laps around the apartment. It’s like she’s walking off all her remaining energy. Tonight she kept grabbing my finger and leading me around with her. Even though I slept a lot last night I still felt so tired. I think that never ending tired feeling is just motherhood.

Anyway, even though all I wanted to do was curl up on the couch and not move, and even though my mind kept wandering to the veggie burger and fries I would order once she went to bed, every time she grabbed my finger I walked with her. I reminded myself that she won’t always want to walk with me. She won’t always want to bring me along into her world with her.

So, I thought- as long as she wants to bring me into her world, I will be there walking beside her.

Anyone But Me (A tale of middle school)

When I was in the 6th grade I would pass notes back and forth with a good friend. We drew funny scenes with imaginary characters and then wrote a little story about the character.  I don’t remember the particulars of the scenes, but I do remember laughing a lot.

One particular day the scene I drew was not funny. I drew an unflattering picture of a mutual friend. I made her look fatter than she was, made fun of her clothes, and drew arrows at her hair mocking her ponytail. I don’t remember the description I wrote, but it was probably equally mean-spirited.

I remember erasing the first drawing I made to make her look thinner because something inside of me was telling me to stop. I also remember getting a feeling in my gut to NOT pass the note. I wasn’t yet familiar with that intuitive voice inside, so I passed it along anyway.

Passing that note happened to coincide with the holiday season, and my group of friends were doing a Secret Santa. We would leave clues and presents in the locker of the person we had drawn to be our gift recipient. On the last day before holiday break, I opened my locker excited to find out who my Secret Santa had been.

What I saw inside was the note I had written hanging and surrounded by festive holiday streamers. Below it was a sign that read, “Next time you write something mean you should be careful.” Turns out, my Secret Santa was the friend I had made fun of.

My heart completely sank and I felt instant shame.

I don’t remember how everything else unfolded. I don’t remember if I apologized or if I just hid from the friend I had written the note about (probably the latter).  What I do remember was from that from that point on I was an outcast in my group of “friends.”

Around that same time, I had to miss a sleepover party because I had a dance show. When I came into school that Monday morning a friend came rushing towards me. “Everyone was talking about us the party”, she told me. When I asked her what she meant she went on to tell me a number of cruel things the girls had apparently said about me. The one thing that stood out and still hurts to this day is how they said I tried to be funny but wasn’t. They said they had to fake laugh at my “jokes.”

In addition to the note and sleepover drama, during this time I also really pissed off a friend (the same one who I had passed that note to by the way). She and I had a big crush on a boy named Steve (yes, he’s now my husband). Without telling me she asked him out, and they began “dating.” At the time I think that meant they would occasionally hold hands in public. Anyway, when someone asked what I thought about her asking out Steve I said, “No comment.” My lack of a comment got back to her and she was MAD. She didn’t want to speak to me anymore either. With that, I lost another friend.

From that day on, I wasn’t allowed to sit at the table with that group of girls anymore. I would sit at a different table feeling totally excluded and completely worthless.

In the midst of all this, I remember being in dance class and watching an older dancer perform. I thought, “I wish I was her.” I was hit with the absolute sinking feeling of TRULY wishing I was anyone else but me. To be her, I thought, would be so much easier. She was pretty and talented. I bet she had friends at school who let her sit with them. I bet she didn’t have problems like awkward, unfunny, ugly me.

Looking back, I know why I wrote that terrible note. It was because I felt terrible about myself. It felt good to project that feeling onto another person and get momentary relief. Many years later I was able to apologize to that friend for writing the note. I told her it was cruel and I should have never done it. She accepted my apology and laughed it off. She seemed a little uncomfortable with how serious I was about saying I was sorry.

Looking back, I’m happy I missed that sleepover. Instead of gossiping about other girls (which I most likely would have done), I was performing on stage.

Looking back, I’m not sorry I said “no comment” about my friend dating Steve. I really liked him. I married the guy for Christ’s sake! And I could have said something so much worse.

Anyway, I was wondering why I’ve been thinking about all this stuff lately, and maybe it’s because of the state of our world. There is so much animosity and hatred. There is a fighting and cruelty and misunderstanding. And it makes me wonder- where does that come from? If a person feels worthless, if they wish they were anyone else but them- how do you think they treat others?

I’m totally serious when I say- maybe how middle school girls treat each other is a microcosm of the darkness of the human condition. There was fear of anyone or anything different. There was projecting worthless feelings onto each other.  There was creating an “us” and “them.” At any moment everyone could turn their back on you. Middle school was rough!

My story is such a small one. It can by no means be compared to the serious horrors happening in our world right now. It does remind me though to stop and ask, “If that person is treating others like that, how must they feel?”

A Deep Exhale

Yesterday Em and I had a busy and stressful (for me) day. We had a follow up appointment with an orthopedist concerning Em’s hips. Being that she was a frank breech baby she was born with a risk of having hip dysplasia. For that reason, she was given an ultrasound on her hips at 6 weeks old and 3 months old.

We had a bit of a scare about her hips when she was six weeks old which left me a bit traumatized. You can read the back story here.

Our appointment was way across town which meant trekking across the city in the cold. I felt tense but breathed deeply and Em handled it like a champ.

We got there a half hour early. I know people say once you have a kid you’re always late but I haven’t found that (yet). Being late for something makes me SO anxious that I’m usually ridiculously early, even with my baby. I’m not saying this is a good thing. It’s just what always happens!

Being so early made me panic a bit wondering what the heck we would do for a half hour; however, The Hospital for Special Surgery happens to be amazing and very child-friendly.

There was a woman playing ukulele in the waiting area! She asked for requests and gave Em her own show. She sang Itsy Bitsy Spider and I’m a Little Teapot. Em was entranced and so was I. When she sang “You Are My Sunshine” and changed the words of the first verse to be happier (like I do) I cried.

We got called in early and met with the lovely doctor who said Em’s hips looked great but they would do an x-ray just to be sure. When I asked how safe an x-ray was he explained it would be the same amount of radiation as a plane ride to California. We did that plane ride with Em so using that analogy soothed my worries.

We went across the hallway to get her x-ray and Em said “hi!” to everyone we saw. The receptionist. The 10 year old boy wearing headphones and watching a show on his phone. The mom waiting with him. The technician who walked by. She also pulled out my ponytail, snuggled into me tight and kept kissing me. Did she know I was scared? I don’t know. But she made me feel better.

As for the x-ray, I consider it a miracle moment. She laid perfectly still as we sang the ABC’s. It was shockingly easy as pie!

In the end we got confirmation that Em’s hips are developing normally and we don’t need to go back. I’m more relieved that I can explain here. The only way I could describe it is that Em having hip problems has been weighing on me since I was pregnant and learned she was breech. Now it feels like that weight is released and I am ten pounds lighter.

When we got home, I was physically and emotionally SPENT. My back was killing me from wearing 21 pound Em in the carrier all afternoon. I rolled out my mat. I rolled out Em’s mat, and this video is what happened.

I just want to say I’m so grateful for my healthy, sweet, social, communicative girl. My heart explodes every single day and I’m a way better person because of her.

Always Stretching

Over the weekend a friend of mine and I were talking about yoga. He told me how he and his wife joke around and say, “Why is Jessica always stretching?”

I thought about it and they’re right. I am always stretching!

If I’m hanging out with friends or family in my home I’m most likely sitting on the floor doing some forward bends. If I’m sitting on the couch at a friend’s house I’m probably sitting cross-legged and doing some twists. I don’t really think about it. I just do it. It’s second nature.

Ever since I was tiny I’ve always been a mover. First a jazz, ballet and tap dancer. Then a modern dancer. Then a yogi. Almost every job I’ve ever had has involved moving my body. I tried a job sitting at a desk once. I lasted one month.

This past weekend I began filming a video for my childhood dance studio. It’s the 30th anniversary of the studio’s opening and I’m honored to be creating a tribute video for the occasion. I was deeply moved by the teachers’ performances of heartfelt solos. Something inside of me stirred as I watched them, and it continues to stir.

I’ve since began editing the footage and it bring tears to my eyes every time. The purity of it all. The movement. The music. The beauty. The passion. And it’s all there because of the amazing success of my childhood dance studio. And guess what? That’s the place where I learned how to stretch.

I can’t help but cry as I think. Yes, I am always stretching. And it’s because of where I came from.


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Archives of Sexual Behavior

, Volume 39, Issue 5, pp 1205–1206 | Cite as

The Trauma Myth

By Susan A. Clancy. Basic Books, New York, 2009, 236 pp., $25.00
  • Richard GreenEmail author
Book Review

The headline, press release, book title message trumpeted here is: Most children who experience sexual contact with adults are not traumatized at the time of the experience. Breaking news? Non-traumatic child–adult sexuality has been previously reported by International Academy of Sex Research members Gagnon (1965), Sandfort (1984), Okami (1991), and Rind (Rind, Tromovitch, & Bauserman, 1998). Here, however, Clancy presents it in italicized, bold, upper case 26 font.

Nevertheless, Clancy repeatedly reminds us how evil this non-traumatic (at the time) experience actually is. This moral mantra is identified as the catalyst of later trauma: “It is the act of sexual abuse and not the damage it causes that makes it wrong” (p. 185), “the act is inherently vile” (p. 186), “why sexual abuse damages victims probably has little to do with the actual abuse and a lot to do with what happens in its aftermath” (p. 113), and “Sexual abuse is very wrong, regardless of how it affects victims” (p. 185),...

  1. Gagnon, J. (1965). Female child victims of sex offenses. Social Problems, 13, 176–192.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
  2. Okami, P. (1991). Self-reports of “positive” childhood and adolescent sexual contacts with older persons. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 20, 437–457.CrossRefPubMedGoogle Scholar
  3. Rind, B., Tromovitch, P., & Bauserman, E. (1998). A meta-analytic examination of assumed properties of child sexual abuse using college samples. Psychological Bulletin, 124, 22–53.CrossRefPubMedGoogle Scholar
  4. Sandfort, T. (1984). Sex in pedophiliac relationships: an empirical investigation among a nonrepresentative group of boys. Journal of Sex Research, 20, 123–142.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Department of Psychological MedicineImperial CollegeLondonUK

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Today the latest Bon Appetit magazine arrived, all the kids went back to school and I have a (relatively) unpacked house... Sweet and Sticky Monkey Bread by sixtyone45

... the signs were clear. It was time to come back here.

Welcome September. Sweet & Sticky Monkey Bread by sixtyone45

It has been about two months since I have shared here and it's exciting to be back. It was a whirlwind summer with many adventures, the biggest of which was probably the move. We made the decision to sell the house and up down resize into a new neighbourhood.  It was stressful and hectic and busy - all things you expect when relocating with a two year old.  But it was also exciting and therapeutic and no question, absolutely the right move for our family.

Sweet & Sticky Monkey Bread by sixtyone45

We went up slightly in square footage, down significantly in yard space but mostly just found a better layout. Some folks questioned our decision- isn't it a step "backwards" going from a detached to an attached? Leaving the large yard a block from the elementary school to head for the more urban, high density area? People are funny. But then I guess so am I.  Because those comments really made me second guess our decision.  Were we crazy? Were we making a rash decision?

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It came down to what we knew for sure... The old house was going to need a lot of work in the upcoming years and a lot of maintenance in the upcoming every-hour-of-my-life.  And ultimately, we were just not the right couple to take that on.  We would far rather take a leisurely stroll with our toddler (so in reality barely a shuffle) to our local java shop.  Or execute a local scavenger hunt to find the perfect ingredients for an ambitious, no occasion dinner that night.  Or catch the latest football/baseball/hockey game and watch it in full...(maybe not even fast forward the commercials! or better yet... LIVE!) All without guilt that not "enough" got accomplished this evening or this weekend.

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And although we are only two weeks in, I know it was, it is, the right decision for this family.

And with that... here is some monkey bread!

This monkey bread is one of two bubble-style breads coming your way this month.  (The latter I will expand on in another post) One of the things on my "List" is to become a better baker, and specifically as it relates to doughs and breads. I have seen this on a few menus. My first taste of Monkey bread was Thomas Kellars at Ad Hoc. I had never heard of it and with one bite and I understood why they call it monkey bread. It's meant for sharing and when done right, you can be driven to fight for position to get the next piece like its primate namesake.

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I love cooking (and now baking) thoughtful comfort food, family style. Food that is easily accessible but thoughtfully and ever so slightly, elevated. I think this is a fun alternative to a plate of cinnamon buns and would make a great Christmas morning treat. (it is easily made the night before) It is by far best straight out of the oven, warm, gooey and sticky.  The little balls of goodness bake together so you literally pull them off one by one.  It's quite easy to make, fun for a Little one to help you with and can be made in any kind of pan. (although I found a spring form or bundt work best.) You can also make much smaller versions which may be fun (and slightly more diet friendly) for a smaller crowd.

It is great to be here again.

I look forward to sharing the food that comes out of the new kitchen, the photos that come with new windows of light and...

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... the words that come with a fresh perspective.

Really, Welcome back September.

Sweet & Sticky Caramel Monkey Bread

4 Tbsp butter 2 cups whole milk, warmed to 100 degrees 2 Tbsp white sugar 1 Tbsp vanilla 1 Tbsp active dry yeast 4 cups of AP Flour

Sugar Coating

1/2 cup white sugar 1/2 cup brown sugar 3 Tbsp cinnamon 1/2 cup butter, melted

Caramel Sauce

1 cup brown sugar 1/2 cup heavy cream 4 Tbsp butter 1/4 tsp salt 1 tsp vanilla

For the dough.

1. Create a spot to proof your bread. Some ovens have a proof setting. If not, preheat to 200 degrees then shut the oven off. It will stay a perfect warm, draft free space to proof the bread. 2. In a medium sauce pan, melt the butter. Add the milk sugar and vanilla. Stir to combine and heat to approximately 100 degrees. (basically take the chill off. Not too hot or yeast will burn) 3. Remove from heat, pour into bowl of stand mixer and sprinkle with yeast. Let stand for five minutes until lots of grey bubbles form. 4. Add the four cups of flour and combine using the dough hook attachment on the stand mixer. Mix until it forms a shiny mass and pulls away from the edges of the bowl. 5. Put dough in an oiled metal bowl, cover with plastic wrap or towel and place in the proofed oven to rise (until about double in size, about an hour)

For the sugar coating.

1. Combine sugars and cinnamon in a small bowl. 2. In a separate small bowl, pour in melted butter.

Bring it together.

1. When the dough has risen, remove from oven and punch it down to remove the air. 2. Depending on how big your want you "balls", pinch off a small amount and form into a small ball. Dip the ball into the melted butter, then roll in the cinnamon and sugar mixture. Place into your pan of choice. I prefer a bundt pan. 3. Repeat this process, continuing to layer the balls on top of each other. I like the size of a plum or just smaller than a golf ball as they will rise again. 4. When all the balls are made, put the pan back into the oven and let them rise another hour. 5. Remove them from oven, pre heat oven to 350 degrees and bake the bread for 40 minutes.

Caramel Sauce.

1. While the balls are baking, mix all the caramel sauce ingredients in a saucepan. 2. Heat to med-high and continually whisk the sauce until it comes together, golden brown. About 7 - 9 minutes. Watch it, it will burn. 3. When the monkey bread is ready, flip out of pan and pour warm caramel sauce over.


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windows migrant: choosing linux distribution

Linux Tyro fedora.bkn at
Thu Nov 3 07:41:02 UTC 2011

On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 8:03 PM, Tom Horsley <horsley1953 at> wrote:

I would say they are just different, not better or worse, though if
> you like a GUI package management tool, nothing beats "synaptic"
> on the ubuntu/debian family (I tend to prefer the command line
> tools since I use ssh to get to most systems and don't want
> to fool with remote X display, so for me it doesn't matter
> much if I use yum versus apt-get or rpm versus dpkg - it is
> just a question of sorting out all the command line options).

On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 8:10 PM, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 <
n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 at> wrote:

I like the openness, as well as the reliability, (it is much less likely
> to crash than windows).

On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 9:49 PM, Emilio Lopez <emiliollbb at> wrote:

I think Fedora is a good distro to start. As Joe Wulf said, is a good
> idea to install it in VirtualBox first, so you can play with linux &
> windows at the same time, and make the transition easier.

On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 10:02 PM, suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+linux at>wrote:

The OP can also try out the live media for the three distros. I
> personally think live media is the least hassle free way to see what
> one is getting into before actual installation.

On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 10:28 PM, Errol Mangwiro <pmangwiro at> wrote:

Yumex fan over here.

On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 10:46 PM, Joe Zeff <joe at> wrote:

Both are equally good; it's like asking if chocolate is better than
> vanilla.  And, most things you're going to install will be available in
> both forms.  If you're looking for a highly secured distribution (or,
> "distro") Fedora is one good choice, as it includes SELinux: "Security
> Enhanced Linux."

I agree with all of the above and try live CDs and going with .rpm side.

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Subject: [bugs #11100] Hang on +dictionaryWithContentsOfURL:
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 17:21:38 -0500
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I am using the CVS from a day and a half ago, and you may use
http://www.fuqn.ca/foo.plist as a source of the property list I was using.

[bugs #11100] Full Item Snapshot:

URL: <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=11100>
Project: GNUstep
Submitted by: 0
On: Mon 11/22/2004 at 10:41

Category:  Base/Foundation
Severity:  5 - Average
Item Group:  Bug
Resolution:  Unreproducible
Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  None
Status:  Open

Summary:  Hang on +dictionaryWithContentsOfURL:

Original Submission:  Using the attached program, I'm experiencing a hang when
calling +dictionaryWithContentsOfURL:. The URL contains a serialized property
list, with one key/value pair: Foo = Bar; .. OSX reads it fine. Each time I run
it through gdb, and then kill it (sometimes after a few seconds, sometimes
several minutes pass before I kill it), it always ends up in a different
location. However, it does share one thing in common, in each instances where I
break out of the program and examine the backtrace, everything is the same
until the next call after -[NSRunLoop limitDateForMode:] (any that come after
that, could be as shown below, or NSDefaultMallocZone(), etc). Output of 'bt'
from one instance when I stopped it (see note above) is below:

(gdb) bt
#0  0x28354aef in gettimeofday () from /lib/libc.so.5
#1  0x28152035 in GSTimeNow () at NSDate.m:133
#2  0x28155340 in -[NSGDate timeIntervalSinceNow] (self=0x8305fa8,
    _cmd=0x282ac110) at NSDate.m:1423
#3  0x281b5417 in -[NSRunLoop limitDateForMode:] (self=0x8305d28,
    _cmd=0x282ac080, mode=0x282ac244) at NSRunLoop.m:1754
#4  0x281b615c in -[NSRunLoop runMode:beforeDate:] (self=0x8305d28,
    _cmd=0x282b3aa0, mode=0x282ac244, date=0x8345188) at NSRunLoop.m:2035
#5  0x281eac61 in -[NSURL resourceDataUsingCache:] (self=0x80a0968,
    _cmd=0x2829ba70, shouldUseCache=1 '01') at NSURL.m:1380
#6  0x2814955f in +[NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:] (self=0x2829b9e0,
    _cmd=0x282af768, url=0x80a0968) at NSData.m:470
#7  0x281cc70c in -[NSString initWithContentsOfURL:] (self=0x806ec88,
    _cmd=0x2829dfd8, url=0x80a0968) at NSString.m:1484
#8  0x28164026 in -[NSDictionary initWithContentsOfURL:] (self=0x80b0848,
    _cmd=0x2829dfd8, aURL=0x80a0968) at NSDictionary.m:614
#9  0x28164312 in +[NSDictionary dictionaryWithContentsOfURL:] (
    self=0x2829de20, _cmd=0x8059150, aURL=0x80a0968) at NSDictionary.m:664
#10 0x0804b339 in main () at test.m:6
#11 0x0804b1b2 in _start ()

System is a FreeBSD 5.2.1 system, have only tested this with apple's Foundation
on osx, and GNUstep's on FreeBSD. Works on apples, doesn't on GNUsteps.

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Date: Mon 11/22/2004 at 22:15       By: 0 <None>
I am using the CVS from a day and a half ago, and you may use
http://www.fuqn.ca/foo.plist as a source of the property list I was using.

Date: Mon 11/22/2004 at 12:16       By: Richard Frith-Macdonald <CaS>
I can't reproduce this ... but there are variuos possibilities -

Various versions of NSURL have had problems with detecting the ends of
responses with some pages from some web servers.
There are no known problems with the CVS version, but you don't say whether you
are using up to date code from CVS or another version of GNUstep.

Unless there is a public URL that can be used to demonstrate  the problem with
the latest code from CVS, my assumption would be that any torubles are already
fixed in the current code.

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The infamous to-do list

Olaf Titz olaf at
Mon Jun 26 10:21:14 UTC 2000

> Wouldn't most dial-in users already be using the built-in modem
> compression, rendering it a minimal gain?

Modem compression is less efficient than application level compression
for two reasons:
- Modem buffers are smaller, limiting the compression rate
- A pure data stream (e.g. an active file) is more compressible than a
  data stream frequently intermixed with TCP/IP headers.

IMHO modem compression is much less useful nowadays than in the past,
when modems mainly ran text terminal connections and application
compression was uncommon (except for UUCP).

> And users on faster connections (DSL and stuff), the thing cruises down in
> almost no time...

ISDN isn't that fast either. Furthermore, fat pipes are not an excuse
for inefficient protocols IMHO.

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History File over 2GB

greg andruk gja at meowing.net
Fri Aug 30 20:50:50 UTC 2002

Russ Allbery wrote:

> I don't think I understand.  MODE CANCEL is still an interface to innd.
> Why does it help any to have that part of innd doing expensive work rather
> than the article processing part?

You still want to tell innd what's going away so it can knows what to
refuse.  For the time being, I'm leaving in the assumption that history
only has one writer.

> Or do you mean offloading that support as well, into an overchan-like
> daemon that just processes cancels?  Hm.  I think all of our overview
> methods lock against multiple writers, so that might work.

Yeah, the actual deletions would be done by the process feed.  It was
really the lack of something better than ctlinnd cancel that convinced
me to leave cancels out of the controlchan thingy.  That, and being too
lazy to look into how to feed supersedes to the thing.

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Question about "<news>/db/history" file size

Jeffrey M. Vinocur jeff at
Wed Apr 22 09:27:44 UTC 2009

On Tue, 21 Apr 2009, Petr Novopashenniy wrote:

> What was the maximum size of your "<news>/db/history" file in production
> environment? How many GBytes?

I'm not sure what you're asking here.

The history file is about 10,000 articles per MB, so you should be able to
predict how big it will get depending on your feed settings and so on.  If
you double your retention time, it will approximately double, and so on.
(Don't forget the /remember/ time in expire.ctl, if you have articles that
are retained for short times.)

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> @@ -8,6 +8,6 @@ CFLAGS += -Wno-strict-aliasing
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Let the Trick-or-Treating Begin: Halloween Gains Foothold in India

A source of nostalgia for returned NRIs and expats, and fun for the metropolitan crowd, Halloween is becoming India's own festival.

Many an op-ed and satires have been written about the rise of Halloween in India. Most of them express curiosity, some absolute bemusement and some horror at a trend they are attributing to a generation growing up on American sitcoms like Friends and How I Met Your Mother, all of which have Halloween special episodes.

However, for most NRIs who have returned to the country, it is a source of nostalgia for a festival they used to celebrate with aplomb during their stay abroad. Preetha J Sebastian, a graduate student in Bengaluru who now studies in Dartmouth, grew up in a thriving community in Dubai where trick-or-treating became an essential part of her childhood. “I wore the same witch costume every year,” she told Little India.

The apartment complex Sebastian lived in while working in Bengaluru, to her delight, celebrated the festival. “When Halloween came around, it became harder to be an adult. I had to be the one buying candy to give away to the neighborhood kids, which was a harsh reality to face. Some of the children didn’t even dress up! But, eventually, I found joy in giving away candy. I was too big to fit into my child-size witch costume anyway.”

Sebastian’s condominium complex was not the only one honoring the spirit of the dead. Shruti Narayanan, a dancer based in Bengaluru, says her community, which is a home to a lot of expats and returned NRIs like herself, celebrates Halloween every year. “There is constant merriment because you can hear the kids and teenagers running around and saying trick or treat,” she says. But the children only ask only at houses that have print-outs stuck outside saying, “Sweetmeats available,” since many Indian families in the neighborhood don’t get the concept and don’t celebrate the occasion.

Agrees Suman Kumar, a stand-up comedian who is looking to buy a zombie costume for his daughter this year, “Some families just don’t know the idea behind the festival,” he says, recounting how his neighbor just looked at kids blankly when they asked him for a trick or treat. “What he understood was that they wanted chocolates, which he gave them,” Kumar says.

Preetha J Sebastian as Death from Neil Gaiman’s Sandman.

Lakshmi Selvakumaran, who did her Ph.D. in Saudi Arabia, recalls her experience of confused India families who did not have a stock of candies ready. “They end up giving the children leftover Diwali sweets or gulab jamuns just because someone has come to their house,” she says.

Narayanan attributes the confusion to just the lack of knowledge among Indians about the Halloween tradition of trick-or-treating, which involves a threat made by the child, about whether the hosts would like mischief or to give them a treat. “Some houses here don’t even want to bother opening the door,” she reveals. “So what they do instead is fill a pot with chocolates or toffee and leave it outside for kids to come and take.”

Even though themed parties are mushrooming in hotels and clubs in metropolitan cities in India, people generally don’t have much knowledge on why Halloween – All Hallows Eve — is celebrated, if at all. “Not many of them know that Halloween came from the earlier cultures of worshiping the dead,” says Ankur Huralikoppi, an engineer based in California, where he sees celebrations every year. “It was thought that spirits are fond of kids, and on that day pleasing kids meant keeping the spirits happy.”

So while the occasion, which is observed the day before All Saints Day on Nov. 1 and All Souls Day on Nov. 2, is a time to honor recently-departed souls who are yet to reach heaven, it has been overshadowed by the bonhomie associated with costumes and make-up. Says Sean Pereira, a business professional, “While the costume parties have caught on, Christians just go to mass and visit the graves of their loved ones.”

And costume parties have caught on indeed. Every year, there is a new restaurant or bar holding a Halloween-theme night. Cafe Out of the Box in New Delhi has been hosting Halloween parties since 2010. Every year, they make signature cocktails, and name them according to the theme. For example, Dracula’s Blood is a Bloody Mary with a twist. “We usually play around with our interiors, try to make it look spooky,” Priyank Sukhija, the cafe’s owner, told IANS in an earlier interview. “The turnout has always been huge with a mix crowd, including expats.”

Not to be left behind, The Junction in Haus Khas Village in the Indian capital, is hosting a warehouse party this year with a mental asylum-themed decor with prizes for the “spookiest” dressed person. In Mumbai, Halloween is an opportunity for people to party, with many hotels hosting DJ nights, from the Taj to the Marriott.

Bengaluru, on the other hand, which has a thriving community of expats and returned NRIs, sees Halloween parties at every nook and corner of the city. Advertising professional Aakanksha Bhattacharya was a regular at such parties while she lived in Mumbai, and is looking forward to having more fun now that she is moved to Bengaluru.

While Arbor Brewing Company in the city has been hosting a party every year with themed menu and drinks, the newer pub Koramangala Social will organize its first themed party for Halloween this year. Harry Potter, more often than not, is a staple costume for a lot of people, says Samrudhi Sridharan, a researcher for an NGO based in the city. “I dress up as Hermione Granger every year. It is the easiest costume to put together and it is a character I relate to.”

It doesn’t seem to matter that Halloween is a festival that has no roots in India: it is another opportunity to get together, to dress up, albeit in spooky costumes or even more interesting, as characters, and for children to enjoy sweets. It sounds like an alternate version of our own Indian festivals, doesn’t it?

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Vanlife Pt. 8: Back from the Dead

When we came back from New Zealand after living in a van for 15 months we knew that we had to get a van in Canada. What we didn’t know coming our way was a pain staking summer of searching and the eventual find of a total relic that literally needed to be brought back to life. When we first started looking we didn’t find much and opted to have a look at motorhomes, but after viewing a few and chatting with mechanics we decided the size was too big and the fuel economy wasn’t ideal either.

The search for vans was limited to Alberta and Saskatchewan for us as that’s where we have residency and wouldn’t need to get an out of province inspection done. We first started in Alberta and looked at a couple that were overpriced pieces of crap. They wanted $5000+ for units full of rust holes and needed considerable interior upgrades as well. We continued looking, but never seemed to be in the right place when the good ones would go up for sale. One night when we were with our friends in Calgary they mentioned there uncle in Saskatoon had one sitting in his driveway that he hadn’t used for a few years. I looked on google map street view and BAM! This was exactly what we had in mind for our next van. They rang him and he said he was willing to sell it to us. We headed to Saskatchewan to have a look at it, and where we eventually learned that it hadn’t started in 8 years.

This is where our journey of bringing our 1980 Ford Econoline 351 M-block 1/2 ton back to life began. We started by siphoning the gas tank, replacing the fuel filter, replacing a couple rubber fuel lines from the fuel pump up to the carburetor, putting a new battery in and turning it over. A couple nights later she was alive, but when I went to put it in reverse I had no brakes. After I bled all four brakes we were back in business, however I wasn’t comfortable driving on the rubber that was currently on it. The van sat so long that the sidewalls were severely cracked and there was permanent flat spots on the bottoms. I sussed some new tires from the wreckers in near perfect condition and got those mounted on the rims. We drove it down to SGI and got some plates and a package policy. Since the vehicle being more than 30 years old we qualified for antique plating. Plates and extra insurance to cover the replacement of the van came to $260 for the year.

Old gas out and fuel filter removed

Since it seemed to be running pretty good and we really wanted to renovate the inside, we got to work gutting and refurbishing right away.

New countertops and flooring

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What seemed to be a steal of a deal as it was running good, turned south right away to hitting and missing and running like a royal bag of crap. I took it over to our family backyard mechanic, Richard, where some very long days/nights incurred for the next few weeks. We found three seized valves which were accompanied by bent pushrods coming from the camshaft. A few other basic repairs included; new plugs, new wires, new rotor but that didn’t make it much better. It definitely seemed to fix some major problems, but the van still kept running very poorly.

We agreed a carb rebuild was in order so we got a rebuild kit and went to town on it. While in theory this should have made it better, some other new issues were created. This carb had a hot air choke, which basically helps balance the fuel/air ratio when it’s cold and shuts-off when hot air from the manifold gets warm enough and releases this mechanism. While removing the choke the hot air choke pipes all broke off and left an exhaust leak from the manifold. It was right around this time that I was offered a new job position in Calgary for the summer to map trails for Parks Canada, and I had only a few days to get out there.

We got it running decent enough the day before I was meant to start work, however when we started the trek back west we broke down ~80km outside of Saskatoon. Once it cooled down the van started back-up again and were able to drive it back to Saskatoon that same night, and in turn I luckily got my start date also moved back a day. The next morning I replaced one spark plug wire that had been touching the exhaust manifold and melted as well as got a local welder to cut me a proper plate to cover that choke hole we created when we took the carb off. We finally headed west again later that same day, driving slowly and filling up very regularly, because at this time we had no gas gauge telling us how much fuel was in our gas tank. With a little luck we made it to Calgary with no problems. However, the next morning when I left for my first day on the job the van broke down only a couple km’s from Marisa’s parents house where we were staying. It felt like we just couldn’t catch a break! We got the van towed to a local mechanic so a fresh set of eyes could have a look and figure our van problem out.

The mechanic deemed it was a fuel issue and installed a new fuel pump for a handsome price tag. On our way home from the shop it broke down once again. He took it back to his shop and looked at it one last time before deciding he didn’t know how to fix it. If someone who gets paid to fix these problems couldn’t figure it out what chance did I have? It now became not only a challenge but my obsession to figure it out!

I googled, read forums, read and re-read our Haynes manual. At first I thought it was an electrical issue, being that it would run good until it got warm enough and would just quit. Once it cooled down long enough it would start-up again and drive fine until it got warm again. I tried a few things by replacing the ignition relay; NOPE. Then the ignition coil; NOPE. Maybe replacing the ignition control unit (ICU); NOPE. If it wasn’t an electrical problem then maybe the fuel supply must of been compromised somehow? The fuel tank was full of rust and plugging up the filter, which inevitably choking the engine. Operation drop and clean the tank was unleashed!

Once the tank was emptied, cleaned with a vinegar solution and thoroughly washed it went back on. I also removed the fuel pump, fuel filter, carb and cleaned them all of the rust that was in the system. The problem was solved (I thought)! I drove the van for an entire week with no problems besides an overheating issue, but it was also 30-40 degrees out everyday this summer so I wasn’t too concerned. When that week was up and I was on my way home from work one day, I broke down once again and stalled on Stoney Trail, which is not a road you want to break down during rush hour!

This is now about mid-July and we decided to get a new tank from the only place we could find, Rockauto, and it was coming from Texas along with a new fuel level unit as the current one inside the tank (right picture) was toast. When it all arrived we once again dropped the tank, removed the fuel pump, fuel filter, carb and cleaned the system all out before re-installing. A few weeks had passed and it seemed to have fixed our breaking down in the middle of the road problem we were having. The engine heat gauge was still rising so I replaced the thermostat and did a full rad flush, but it was still rising to the high “H” position when driving mid-day in the heat.

It was now the start of August and we were heading to B.C. for a week of mountain biking. We went through Golden, Revelstoke and eventually Silver Star Mountain in Vernon for BC Cup. It was all going good until when we tried to head home when driving down Silver Star and our brakes decided to stop working. I had just bled them before we left Calgary because they felt a bit soft. I tried to do another bleed once we got it to stop with the E-brake on down the mountain road, however I couldn’t get a bleed from the front brakes. The master cylinder had quit working!

After a night-time reverse back-up the mountain road to a safe pullover (thanks Blaire!), a hitch down and up the mountain the next morning in order to get a new master cylinder allowed us to be able to continue our journey back home. And home we made it!

For the rest of the summer and into fall, I continued to try and diagnose our overheating issue as well as our potential intake air leak, in addition to picking the brains of whomever was knowledgeable on the topic of carbureted engines and reading whatever material I could find on the subject.

Overall, there has been some very frustrating periods when the van was malfunctioning, but it would be a lie if I said I didn’t enjoy learning about the inner workings of the combustion engine and how to diagnose the many different problems it can have. It’s still my project to get running better and if time/money allows it, there may be some major repairs to come about in the spring. For now it will sit dormant in Vernon at the Cedar Falls Holiday Park for the remainder of winter, and as a home for us to live in while working up at Silver Star Mountain as Ski Patrol for the winter season.

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The Good and the Bad

Four days ago, the 2018 Winter Olympics began in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Events ranging from ice hockey and basketball to snowboarding and curling allows the average person whose not usually a sports fan to gain a keen interest in the different events.

The Olympics also give competing athletes a chance to try and push real-life problems like terrorism and school-shootings, the most recent one having occurred just yesterday in Florida, aside for a few days in an attempt to build up their respective countries confidence and win a few medals.

Two of my favorite events so far have been the luge and skeleton runs because the athletes who participate are pretty much much daredevils, cranking down solid ice courses on both their backs(luge) feet first and head first on their stomachs in the skeleton.  The question that I’ve asked myself time and again is this: how much protection would the helmets that the  athletes wear really be, especially for those doing the skeleton runs. As far as I know, there haven’t been any terrible wipe-outs in these events yet but, for the skeleton event especially, it appears that those doing this event are risking their lives. I guess that is why they probably sacrificed a great deal of their time to become as good as they now are, having reached the Olympics and all.

Reaching speeds of up to 70 miles per hour, it’s obvious that all those competing in these events get quite a rush from the speed and uncertainty that each of their runs provide them. Though there are plenty of other events to watch, I’ve only found the previously mentioned events worth watching.

In closing, I just wanted to send prayers out to both the students at the high school in Parkland(FL) where the shooting occurred and to the parents of the 17 victims who were killed.

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North Korea: Has Trump Rejected Diplomacy and Does It Matter?

by Tim Shorrock Korea watchers were offered a glimmer of hope in a front page, above-the-fold story in last Sunday’s New York Times. According to David Sanger’s reporting from Beijing, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was in “direct communications” with… Continue Reading

Why the World Will Have to Live with a Nuclear-Armed North Korea

by Rajan Menon It’s time to face reality. When it comes to a nuclear-armed North Korea, the question is no longer “if” but “when.” Denuclearization, the goal underlying UN Security Council sanctions, has become a chimera. Though there’s much that… Continue Reading


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35011 January Update

Good evening,

Tonight we are looking at the January Update from the General Steam Navigation project, the unrebuilding of a Merchant Navy has long been talked about since Barry with the amount of Merchant Navy’s surviving the cutters torch.

10403190_515409915303867_1642101284032591995_n We are happy to confirm that the 35011 General Steam Navigation team will be hosting its first society stand at the Mid Hants Railway ‘Watercress Line’ Spring Steam Gala between the 12th and 14th February 2016. With several members of the team being involved with the MHR and the galas Southern theme it seems highly appropriate that our first stand would be hosted there. The team will be based the Boilershop viewing area at Ropley Station for all 3 days and will give you the chance to talk to our members about the project, volunteering opportunities and answer any questions you might have. At the gala we will be launching the 35011 General Steam Navigation membership club on the Friday so people attending the gala will have the chance to be some of the first people to join the membership Club. The 35011 General Steam Navigation membership group costs £10 for the year with members being kept up to date with the latest goings on with the locomotive, receive a magazine 3 times a year with progress reports on GSN and articles about Merchant Navy’s and the light pacific’s, access to the locomotive when possible and the ability to get involved with the trust. During the gala we will also have General Steam Navigation mugs available featuring our new logo which will be available for £6 each or in a bundle with a year’s membership for £15. We only have produced a small number of mugs so grab them whilst you can.

The rest of the update can be found here.

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Logic Pro 8 Looking for templates for drum tracking

New Member
I'm stating to do some drum tracking, and I'm wondering if there is anywhere to get some decent templates to get me going. Something with some nice compressions and reverb and maybe other stuff already set up. I'd be interested to see what other folks are doing to help get me started. Thanks.
There's quite some channel strip settings coming with Logic I think...
Apart from that, I think that, especially with drums, it's not making all too much sense, so any preset would just be a starting point at best, as it all absolutely depends on what approach and/or mics you're using. For instance, if you work like "capture overheads/room properly and add everything else to taste" you may need entirely different settings than when working like "pull up kick, snare, hat, toms (etc.) and add overheads to taste". Both methods are absolutely valid but require quite a different mixing approach.
Also, reverbs are pretty much always added by using busses/auxes, and those aren't saved with a channel strip (ok, they are saved with a template song...).

However, IIRC, there's a bunch of channel strip presets and templates at logicprohelp.com to download. No idea about their quality, though.

- Sascha