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Comment: Re: IKR? I'm sick of our hobby being lumped in w/ (Score 1) 77 77

We (the responsible R/C helicopter community) have been asking, in fact begging, for regulation for some time now. Even going so far as to have pseudo-regulation via AMA. Unfortunately the FAA has continually put the issue on the back-burner....

I'm aware of this. Sadly, this won't change until there's money involved, like Amazon's recent research on using quads for package delivery. These regulations are strict and hard to change, but, again, there's good reason for it.

Also, the analogy of radio-controlled cars is absurdly non-sequitur as cars are 3,000lbs of steel/aluminum and multi-rotors are 27 oz. of plastic/carbon fiber.

The thing is, you don't need a lot of mass to damage something that flies. A RC car can wreck havoc if stepped over by a car going 70MPH on a highway, just like a quad can do even more damage if sucked into the jet intake of an airliner / helicopter. Or the propeller / attack surfaces of a small airplane - incidents with birds, for example, are sadly common.

Comment: Re:IKR? I'm sick of our hobby being lumped in w/ (Score 1) 77 77

That's right, these people are just pretending they're in a real helicopter. IS that so wrong? I mean the stuff of little boy dreams is now possible.

It is if you get in the way of an actual manned helicopter. If drone/RPV usage keeps going up regulation will be needed, sooner or later. A good part of a private pilot license exam is regarding regulations and air traffic rules. Even if you only plan to spin around a runway in a small Cessna these still apply.

Imagine what would happen if people started putting radio controlled cars in a highway. Now imaginge the highway is 3,000FT above the ground.

Comment: Re: Exact mathematical value isn't the ideal (Score 1) 239 239

They aren't. When you start adding up a lot of cents you end up, invariably, with rounding errors. FPs are not intended for this task.

The way they intended to deal with this issue back then was to round down results to x decimals, just to make sure the clients weren't charged extra. And even that wasn't enough.

Comment: Re:Exact mathematical value isn't the ideal (Score 1) 239 239

Ditto. Not only that, i'm amazed by the number of programmers who don't properly understand floating point arithmetic either.

A long time ago i had to write a C/C++ fixed-point arithmetic library for a (major) telecom company because their billing processes would routinely output totals with cent errors; over a full year these added up to a significant ammount of money, a-la-Superman III. No one even had a clue of why their processes failed.

Comment: Re:Exact mathematical value isn't the ideal (Score 1) 239 239

Some idiot researcher who expects Excel or an FPU instruction to be accurate for sin to more than 10 decimal places is going to crop up SO MANY anomalies in their data that they'll stick out like a sore thumb.

Unless the processor's documentation explicitly promises that accuracy.

Comment: Re:Alternative headline (Score 1) 429 429

Because I have every right to use the network as the guy making it impossible for me to use it.

Then, by your own logic, you're not justified to use bithammer. I hate to play the devil's advocate here, but OzPeter makes a damn good point. If a BT user really prevents you from feeding your family then you should consider an alternative other than McDonalds in the first place.

Comment: Re:Many users won't be back (Score 2) 516 516

I was actually being facetious, but this is not far off from the truth. Nokia was already hurting when iOS and Android gained momentum, but it really took a nosedive pretty much the second the decided to support Windows exclusively.

A crying shame, because they sell some very nice hardware.

Comment: Re:PHP? (Score 1) 213 213

In ways you cannot undersand, evidently. The distinction on C when comparing type-casted operands is precisely because casting is guaranteed to destroy precision - operands are effectively modified in the process. This has NOTHING to do with the way relational operators work: they behave in a sane way, like they do in every other language on Earth.

Now contrast that with the idiotic PHP decision of setting rules for relational operators leading to circular logic. I know the "this might fool the typical PHP developer" warning went over your head, but ponder on this: on my original PHP code snippet, where's the "loss of precision"?

Where's the casting?

Hell, where do you apply your "object has precedence" mantra on it?

I really can't believe that someone could not only defend this madness so vehemently, but also without really understanding what he/she is talking about. Try a new language, son. It will open your horizons.

PS: I'm a he, not a she.

Comment: Re:PHP? (Score 1) 213 213

Just like PHP!

Just like PHP, where comparison operators are transitive except in cases where precision is lost in type-casting of operands.

Yeah. I'm dying to know what the "loss of precision" is when comparing a float to an array to an object.

No, you know what? I don't. Go have fun with your toy websites.

UNIX enhancements aren't.


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+ - how verizon digged the internet to troubleshoot a backbone link provider -> 1 1

djeps writes: How Verizon Digital Media Services not only fixed a recent backbone provider issue for our customers by removing bad transit, but continued to work on the issue after our sites were secure in order to help identify the root of problem and restore the backbone of the Internet for all.
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Comment: online systems to rescue, direct democracy now! (Score 1) 148 148

Well, that's one idealistic utopias of mine. To have a technology driven dictatorship. We already have the tools. We just need to educate ourselves and our children that representative democracy comes with too much human power, and that brings to surface the worst side of human kind. To exerce power over other humans, to subjugate our own kind in favour of corporations and institutions full of interest for profit, and not to the evolution of mankind. I'm talking about full direct democracy, like Iceland crowdsourcing their constitution and laws, with a online bidding systems like eBay for public civil contracts and development, centralized and unified banking, financial and economic system, ruled and governed by an open-source system, where the taxes fees paid yesterday could be put on projects needed today. We as human beings towards trans-humanist thinking and status-quo need to evolve and embrace such ideals.

+ - Scientists create massively parallel computer from->

MrSeb writes: "A group of Japanese scientists have built a massively-parallel, brain-like computer out of an organic molecule called DDQ. This computer, which is built from 300 DDQ “neurons,” has successfully calculated how heat diffuses through a medium, and the mutation of normal cells into cancer cells. The work of Anirban Bandyopadhyay and his team from the National Institute for Materials Science in Tsukuba, Japan, revolves around a molecule called 2,3-dichloro-5,6-dicyano-p-benzoquinone, or DDQ for short. DDQ is a ring molecule that can connect with up to six neighboring DDQ molecules. Most importantly, each DDQ molecule can be programmed into four different states, each conducting electricity differently. 300 DDQ molecules are placed on a gold substrate, and their conductive states and connections to other molecules are programmed using a scanning tunneling microscope. The end result is a cellular automaton of 300 neuron-like molecules that can perform calculations in a massively parallel way. It is another characteristic of DDQ "brains" that is most intriguing: When a DDQ molecule changes state, the change ripples down through the molecules that it's connected to, destroying old bonds and creating new circuits as it goes — much like a neuron making new synapse connections. This could eventually lead to emergent computing, where the DDQ brain can react to external stimuli and evolve over time."
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+ - Massively Parallel Computer Built From Single Laye->

djeps writes: Japanese scientists have built a cellular automaton from individual molecules that carries out huge numbers of calculations in parallel

Modern computer chips handle data at the mind-blowing rate of some 10^13 bits per second. Neurons, by comparison, fire at a rate of around 100 times per second or so. And yet the brain outperforms the best computers in numerous tasks.

One reason for this is way computations take place. In computers, calculations occur in strict pipelines, one at a time.

In the brain, however, many calculations take place at once. Each neuron communicates with up to 1000 other neurons at any one time. And since the brain consists of billions neurons, the potential for parallel calculating is clearly huge.

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+ - Searching for balloons in a social network->

djeps writes: The Red Balloon Challenge, sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) of the U.S. Department of Defense, laid out a simple objective: Use social media to identify the GPS coordinates for all 10 balloons, suspended at fixed locations across the country. The first team to do so would win $40,000. The challenge, commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Internet, highlighted social networking’s potential to solve widely distributed, time-sensitive problems.
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+ - Making Facebook Self Healing->

djeps writes: I've used to achieve this with Nagios Event Handlers scripts and RabbitMQ. But facebook has done it for a far larger scale than my old days of sysadmin: When your infrastructure is the size of Facebook’s, there are always broken servers and pieces of software that have gone down or are generally misbehaving. In most cases, our systems are engineered such that these issues cause little or no impact to people using the site. But sometimes small outages can become bigger outages, causing errors or poor performance on the site. If a piece of broken software or hardware does impact the site, then it's important that we fix it or replace it as quickly as possible. Even if it's not causing issues for users yet, it could in the future so we need to take care of it quickly.
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As Drought Worsens, California Orders Record Water Cuts 599 599

New submitter writes: The State of California has made an unprecedented move by uniformly restricting water supplies across the entire state as demand outstrips supply. Farms are most affected, though food prices aren't anticipated to rise in any hurry: imports from out of state continue apace. Notably, this is a problem Silicon Valley hasn't much helped to solve.

Will this move induce meaningful modernization upon the infrastructure supporting the state's thirty-eight million residents? Or will things continue to be corn, corn, corn for the time being?

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Russian Company Unveils Homegrown PC Chips 268 268

Reader WheatGrass shares the news from Russia Insider that MCST, Moscow Center of SPARC Technologies, has begun taking orders for Russian-made computer chips, though at least one expert quoted warns that the technology lags five years behind that of western companies; that sounds about right, in that the chips are described as "comparable with Intel Corp’s Core i3 and Intel Core i5 processors." Also from the article: Besides the chips, MCST unveiled a new PC, the Elbrus ARM-401 which is powered by the Elbrus-4C chip and runs its own Linux-based Elbrus operating system. MCST said that other operating systems, including Microsoft’s Windows and other Linux distributions, can be installed on the Elbrus ARM-401. Finally, the company has built its own data center server rack, the Elbrus-4.4, which is powered by four Elbrus-4C microprocessors and supports up to 384GB of RAM.

Comment: Re:So what online storage is safe? (Score 1) 23 23

If you' are not encrypting the stuff before they get it. You're a fool.

I don't see the point when my NAS is available, I use Openvpn and it's trivial to setup securely. Changes are encrypted and stored on that miraculous thing called a server I own that is co-located on a remote island. It is cheap and I only store encrypted backups on it.

I am taking notes on what else I should do to protect that stuff further. ;)

Comment: Re:Heh. (Score 1) 143 143

It could be
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1) them
2) a fan without their knowledge to whip up the skeer or
      a) just as a prank
3) It could be done by a bewildering number of government, quasi-government, eiteh at the national, regional or local level.
4) A vigilante
5) their ex.
6) a crazy person targeting them for kidnapping because they know how well they will taste with carrots.

i.e. apropos of nothing

Comment: Re:Overstamp First? (Score 1) 133 133

The serial is usually in a non critical spot. Just drill it out and fill it with silver solder.

If you want a perfect solution, live in a state in the US which isn't a liberal distopia you can build your own firearm legally as long as it's not covered under the NFA.

If it's one of the cast zinc firearms have your cat pee on it. It will be destroyed within days. ;)

Comment: Re:planned? (Score 1) 577 577

They've been at the for years. The high tech method before all this newfangled automation was called a autonomous meat sack with a pen and paper. Now that they funnel participants in to buy a ticked they can just slap up a camera and record away.

Comment: Re:Do it yourself? (Score 1) 130 130

I used a video capture card with Svideo input. I found after many trials that VLC worked well in capture mode with a tape that had issues. I had to manually clean the video and audio heads in the thrift store VCR and used another tape to verify the VCR worked wel mechanically. It still took two attempts. I then transfered it from the Windows 7 box to a Linux box and had FFmpeg transcode it after bleeding the docs for a couple hours and fumbling with several attempts.

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Around the world, American schools' long summer break is viewed as an anomaly, and the long summer seems to be getting shorter. While most American primary and secondary schools used to start after Labor Day, more and more of them now open sometime in August (and that's not counting the ones that have gone to a year-round schedule). Some of my younger relatives started a new school year last week (in Indiana), while Baltimore schools start later this month. Both Seattle and Portland's kids have until after Labor Day (with start dates of the 3rd and 4th of September, respectively). The 4th is also the start date for students in New York City's public schools, the country's largest district. Colleges more often start in September, but some get a jump start in August, especially with required seminars or orientation programs for new students. Whether you're in school, out of school, or back in school by proxy (packing lunches or paying tuition), what time does (or did) your school-year start? Would you prefer that your local public schools run all year round, if they're of the long-summer variety? (And conversely, if your local schools give short shrift to summer, whether that's in the U.S. or anywhere else, do you think that's a good idea?)

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Keeping It Simple

A business is all about its product, whether tangible or intangible. One thing that some business owners forget is to keep their product simple. What do I mean by this, and why is it so important? It is sometimes hard to remember that the product you have spent so long developing may by the time of its introduction seem simple to you, but may be complicated to the unfamiliar buyer. The level of complexity or the amount of time it takes for your intended customers to become familiar with your product is a must-know before you put it on the shelves.

Know Your Target Customer

If you are designing a product for a specific audience who is familiar with that product and its features, then you may not have to worry as much about how simple it is for your potential customers to figure out your product. However, for many entrepreneurs, designing and introducing a product that has immediate appeal and is very user-friendly is of utmost importance. If your potential customer is turned off by a product that seems overly-complicated from the get go, then it is unlikely they will buy.

Most consumers want a product that they can put their hands on, figure out, and become comfortable using in a short amount of time. One great way to determine if your product idea or design is user-friendly is to simply ask people about your idea. Will they think it sounds too complex to even consider purchasing it? Do the functions and features of the product appeal to them on a basis where they could buy it from the internet? After a first glance, will they be attracted to it?

If you have followed business news in the past couple of years, you will have read about how companies are downsizing their physical stores and the employees that work there because an increasing number of people are shopping online, whether through that store’s own website or through a site such as Amazon. One article I read within the past few weeks described how many consumers are entering stores to test a product, then going online to order.

How this relates to this post’s topic is that you want to keep your product simple enough that the average consumer could walk into a store, test it out and like it immediately, and then either purchase it there or online. If a consumer is shopping online, the immediate appearance of the product makes a big difference. Does the product look overly-complicated, especially as compared to its competition? Does the product have too many buttons on the front or too many features that make it seem from the future? Again, the average consumer want to feel comfortable and not have to rely on someone else teaching them how to use their product.

Achieving a Balance

As with so many other things in life, balance is necessary to success. While this post focuses on keeping your product simple, you still want to be on the cutting-edge and offer certain functions of the product that will make you stand apart. Design a product that gets the job done without making it hard to do so because of its complexity. It doesn’t need to have all the bells and whistles, but it needs to get the job done. Think of your average consumer, or the target consumer, and put yourself in his shoes. Consider yourself buying an unfamiliar product and what you would want from it.

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  1. I have always subscribed to the KISS theory. It never gets old – it never goes out of style.

    Honesty, simplicity, veracity….. Keys to success!

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Gabriel Duncan was a psychotic teen who shot and killed Clark Kent the summer after they graduated from Smallville High School in 2005.

Early life

He was the son of an Air Force colonel, who believed Smallville was being overrun with meteor-infected people. After the second meteor shower, his father became a metahuman as well; Gabriel claimed he begged him to kill him. The inside of Gabriel's house was covered in newspaper and magazine articles and clippings detailing the effects of the meteor rocks on the town. Gabriel was the computer wizard at the Smallville Torch at Smallville High and was accepted into MIT.

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Gabriel Duncan shoots a guard.

However, instead of leaving the town, he followed through with his father's plan. When he had read all he needed to know about missile launching, he used his father's plan to execute the launch of a missile that would head straight for Smallville to destroy all life in the city. He overtook the control booth for a missile launching station by killing the guards on duty. He tried to warn Chloe Sullivan to save her, but she enlisted Clark's help to stop Gabriel. Clark accosted Gabriel, who shot him in the abdomen. He kidnapped Chloe and left Clark to die in the street. (Clark was later revived by his Kryptonian father Jor-El.)

Gabriel forced Chloe to witness his execution of the launch by tying her to a chair. However, she got loose and she knocked him out in an attempt to abort the launch. But Gabriel revived shortly and he and Chloe fought until Chloe managed to defeat Gabriel when she accidentally shot him with a gun and killed him.

  • Gabriel is one of several humans to have driven psychotic by a hatred of meteor freaks; Van McNulty is another prominent example. Both Gabriel and Van created a plot to kill metahumans once and for all. Coincidentally, both Gabriel and Van worked at the Smallville Torch repairing computers.

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US Troops Prepare to Leave Afghanistan

US Troops Prepare to Leave Afghanistan by Eric Thomas, ABC News.

The Afghan Army and police are taking the lead now in combat operations against the Taliban as U.S. troops get ready to leave. But in this case, the administration is not declaring victory or even saying that the violence is under control.

It's America's longest war. And in many ways it's most frustrating...

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After 16 months in Afghanistan I’m sitting in Kuwait waiting for a flight home, presumably for the last time. I tend to wonder what desired end-state has been met in Afghanistan. Even I, as one who never breaks the wire, feel a sense of frustration. Knowing what many others have given up for a fractured/failed state and a fad strategy driven by fad policy. I particularly remember days that we lost people. Recently, I supported a unit that lost 3 soldiers in a SVIED attack. They were conducting a dismounted patrol in a village known to harbor and provide tacit support to the insurgency. Parts of the village celebrated immediately after the attack. Whether or not the people of that village feel any safer now is a moot point to me. I have come to realize that no matter how logical or beneficial it may be to stand up and govern your own village, the people of Afghanistan (this has been replicated country-wide) have been beaten down by external actors for so long that they will willingly give up all and celebrate with whoever the victor may be that particular day.


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Bob Saint discusses security and privacy, the effect of new policies, and what people should know about the Smart Grid.

Bob Saint discusses security and privacy, the effect of new policies, and what people should know about the Smart Grid.

Should consumers be concerned about security and privacy issues with respect to Smart Grid?

It's all about trust as far as I'm concerned. Utilities have always had access to information and usage information and personal type information from our customers, our members and we have done a good job of holding that information to ourselves and utilizing it for our needs but not letting the general public have access to it. And we're continuing that with automation with data flowing. We need to be concerned about security and privacy but if our members or customers have that trust that we’re doing the right thing, then they don’t need to be concerned.

What do you see is the killer app for the Smart Grid?

Automated meter reading is huge and that's why it has been implemented, so much by co-ops, and more than half of the co-ops right this minute have AMI systems in place and many are with full penetration. But there are different new technologies coming on and things like outage management, work force management are really gaining momentum. But this idea of a self-healing system and being able to detect problems in the system even before an outage may occur – that probably to me is the killer app. And we're right on the cusp of getting some new technologies in place and demonstrating some new technologies to be able to detect problems with this system before they cause outages and so we can address them and not affect the customer's use of power.

Policy and regulatory environments are drastically different from state to state and around the world, how do you think this will impact progression and evolution and the implementation of the Smart Grid?

Most co-ops are not regulated by the state commissions. About 80% of the co-ops are not regulated at all. They are regulated by the board of directors elected by the member consumers. So, that gives us a lot more freedom and lot more flexibility to do these innovative things without getting permission, if you will, from a regulator, although of course we have to get authorization from the board of directors and if they make bad decisions they don't get re-elected, so they try their best to make good decisions. But small companies, co-ops can be more flexible in that respect. And another added benefit, as far as the customer is concerned, is that we’re not concerned about making a profit. We are non-profit organizations. All the savings that occur with new technologies go right back to the consumer, and even if we do make a margin that eventually goes back to the consumer as well. So, the cost savings that we achieve with Smart Grid technologies goes right back to the customer. It doesn't go into the profits of the organization.

What's one message about Smart Grid would you want communicated?

Smart Grid has gotten a lot of publicity in the past and mostly negative publicity and it all goes back to the communication and basically the trust that the consumers have in their electric utility and so we need to do a better job or continue to do the job of communicating with our customers that the Smart Grid automating, obtaining more data, is a benefit for the utility and, therefore, the consumer. And we talk a lot about customer choice, it will allow more choices for the consumers. Whether they want to make that choice or not, they will have that choice available and maintaining the relationship with the utility if they want to and that's a choice as well, to let the utility continue to do the managing of the grid and maintaining the best way to operate the grid in the power flow, etc.


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Bullish calls surface as analysts begin to hope

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One animal seems to have heard the Prime Minister’s call to revive animal spirits in the economy. It’s the bull that was lying in coma in analysts’ backyards. Even as North Block prepared to give a teary farewell to Pranab Mukherjee over the weekend, many brokerage analysts, especially those from foreign brokerages, seemed to have begun harbouring hopes of policy reforms and better implementation.

On Monday (June 25), Manishi Raychaudhuri and Gautam Mehta of BNP Paribas asked clients to “embrace some domestic risk in anticipation of slight improvement in policy and implementation environment."

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This was one of the four portfolio rebalancing strategies listed by the duo in a market outlook report advising bottom-up stock picking. Raychudhuri and Mehta also advised clients to "take advantage of disproportionate share price declines due to regulatory concerns or other sector-specific reasons, throw in the towel for chronic non-performing ideas without visible catalysts, and buy fundamentally good stocks with visible catalysts, even at relatively expensive valuations."

  • BNP Paribas sees policy reforms, implementation picking up
  • Falling crude prices, weaker currency seen as positives
  • JPMorgan, Deutsche turn overweight
  • Deutsche sees valuations cheapest in 20 years
  • Barclays sees opportunities to bargain hunt
  • Some others see positives, but still cautious

The French brokerage is not alone. On Thursday, Ambit Capital’s Saurabh Mukherjea listed “three tantalising positives" that seemed to be heading towards India. The first of them was “the Indian Prime Minister stepping on the accelerator". The brokerage saw Raghuram Rajan leading the race to become the chief economic adviser as one of the signs of imminent reform. Ambit expected the Prime Minister to unveil a series of reform measures beginning with diesel price hikes.

“Either with TMC support and/or with SP support, the PM looks likely to push through retail FDI, aviation FDI and pension reform. Step three for the PM, ideally with a technocratic FM in tow, would be to get rid of GAAR and withdraw the Vodafone litigation, relics both of the outgoing finance minister’s troublesome tenure," Mukherjea wrote in a note titled “Is the dice increasingly loaded in India’s favour".

Mukherjea listed a devalued currency boosting exports and a slowdown in China as other positives.

Macroeconomic factors such as falling crude prices and easing liquidity are encouraging a number of analysts to take what still seems a contrarion call.

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art freighthoppersThe Proctor Revival Organization will once again honor the history of Graham County through May 31 with “A Time To Remember” celebration.

The events will focus on the construction of the Fontana Dam as well as the deep, pioneering roots of Graham County. The event will strongly focus on the people of Graham County, Western North Carolina, and elsewhere who contributed to the success of World War II by their contribution to the construction of the dam and on how this historical event changed the world as well as the culture of our citizens.

The power generated at Fontana Dam enabled the accelerated production of the nuclear material needed to complete the atomic bombs. The communities of Proctor, Judson, Bushnell and Japan were destroyed and 6000 residents were forced to relocate and re-establish their livelihoods during this difficult time in American history.

The Proctor Revival, Western Carolina University and Fontana Village Resort are planning a variety of events to celebrate this important local history with numerous educational exhibits, educational tours and lectures.

The Historic Gunter Cabin will be home to the Horace Kephart Exhibit, contributed by the Western Carolina University’s Mountain Heritage Center. Bobbie Jayne Curtis will be performing Gary Carden’s one-woman play “Birdell” at 3 p.m. May 24 at the cabin.

Granville Automatic will perform at 7 p.m. May 24 and May 31 in the Event Hall at Fontana Village Resort. The Freight Hoppers will also be joining them for an after-show performance at 8:30 p.m. on the Wildwood Sundeck.

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As talented as Michael Jackson, but weighs a whole lot less:

Work with me here. Michael Jackson would be totally offended if I called him fat, right?

... Nothing?Alright, on with the fallback joke. Let's just say that children are strangely attracted to this little fella too, but at least you won't feel so bad about it.

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So what does that mean for us? Not much... other than, of course, than we're going to be in Afghanistan until the Lord Jesus, Himself, returns, at which point He'll take one look and say, "Oh, kiss my cross-hanging ass," and turn around and leave. -- The Dark Wraith

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    Jesus would do exactly what you said.

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Ryan Tu ryantu at
Tue Aug 22 00:06:06 PDT 2006

Dear All,

I would like to open a discussion to increase the availability of the
cryostation.  Currently users are blocking out up to three days at a time,
24 hours per day.  I am guessing that a large portion of that time is not
being used for actual probing, however, I would like to get feedback from
users as to how much of the reserved time is actually used.

Since the leak is now fixed, a pump down to appropriate levels before
cooling should take less than two hours and then the cool down itself should
take no more than an hour, for a total of three hours per sample load.  As a
start for the discussion how about limiting the reservation to a 8-10 hour
block for a 24 hour period.  This would give a user 5-7 hours of probing at
low temperatures.  If more time is needed, then the user can make additional
reservations in subsequent days.  Please reply for any comments or other
suggestions.  If users are finding that they need more than 5-7 hours to
probe, that would be useful as well.  I have just observed that in many
instances, large blocks of reserved times are unused and could be used by
other users.

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Home field advantage is something that every team strives for especially when they are making a run at a title. They possibly may be continuing a dynasty of winning for several years in a row, either way you hope to pop champagne and raise the trophy above your head in front of your home crowd.  Clayton Shoemaker and the Bear Mountain Park Crew are true champions in every sense of the word as they seek to continue their championship run at the TransWorld SNOWboarding TransAm presented by Skullcandy. This season they do not have home field advantage with the TransAm Finals happening at Park City this week. This schedule change only fuels the fire between park building rivals and the end result is some high caliber parks for the kids to face off in for the last two stops of the tour.

Jon McDonald rode his face completely off with a fierce run at everything on the hill, especially the Skullcandy boom box wall ride. He aired well above the cassette in the boom box and slid across the very top of the beat blaster into first place. Veroniqi Hasson drove herself into first place by hitting the Muscle Milk parallel rails over the tower of triumph and fence pieces onto the top of the Bear Mountain stranger danger van. Jeremy Estorga kept his head in the game and his mind on his money by rolling through the Giro Helmets lift tube with ease. SiSi Cavretti took advantage of the blue sky and sunshine to jib the top of the Sanuk wave and drop deep into the swell bellow the rail. Dustin Hendrickson, was one of the smaller riders out ripping the set up, but he did not come up short on the Anon Optics pyramid rail to dumpster.  Hendrickson went dumpster diving and came up with the Pint Sized Ripper Award.

Matt Guntert adjusted his beanie and had everyone’s head spinning with his death defying antics on the Coal Headwear creeper. The Coal creeper could have been hit alone, but Guntert decided he would transfer from the tank jib adjacent to the ledge.  Oliver Dixon let the clouds carry him over the Ride Snowboards “Get Buck Wild” jump and found himself in heaven with a third place finish. Maria Thomsen took a short break on the Zumiez Couch feature, but relaxed in style as she rode the top of the couch and aired over the steps in the landing. Levi Kaseroff took a break of a different kind and literally was closed out in the close out rail next to the Skullcandy cassette tape. He broke his arm, but was awarded worst crash for his efforts.

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The action never left the snow as the competitors gathered around the Skullcandy truck to listen to DJ Slipmat drop beats and eat some hot diggity dogs.  Winners took home custom High Cascade Snowboard Camp backpacks filled with Zumiez gift cards, Wend Wax, Coal beanies, Anon goggles, Sanuk footwear, Custom Skullcandy TransAm Cassette and Aviator headphones, and Giro Helmets.  First place winners were given heavy metal guitar trophies from TransWorld SNOWboarding and Zumiez is flying them out to finals this week at Park City.  Muscle Milk gave out tons of awesome prizes and 200 dollars to the raddest rider of the day.  Ride Snowboards laced up the winners with hoodies, cowboy hats, and snowboard decks.  The riders are ready for finals with top winners across the nation from the previous eight stops throwing down to see who will be crowned TransAm champion.  Jeremy Cooper and the Park Crew at Park City are looking to oust TransAm Park Building Champions Bear Mountain in what I am sure will be a shoot out at the tour finale this coming Saturday.  Can you hear the fat lady singing?

1st Jon McDonald

2nd Jeremy Estorga

3rd Oliver Dixon

1st Veroniqi Hanssen

2nd SiSi Cavretti

3rd Maria Thomsen

Zumiez Best Trick- Matt Guntert

Muscle Milk Award- Simon Houlind

Pint Sized Ripper- Dustin Hendrickson

Worst Crash- Levi Kaseroff

If you make it to the Park City stop, be sure to check out the free concert series presented by Skullcandy.


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Three Weeks Of Seasonal Dumpage At Washington’s Most Legendary Resort-Mt. Baker

It’s fast approaching 10:00 p.m. on the streets (or rather street) of Glacier, the tiny town at the base of Mt. Baker, deep in the Northern Washington woods. Two tire marks make black stripes in a few inches of fresh snow accumulated on the road since the plow last came through, and the sky is the kind of dark that only exists in the middle of nowhere. Your cell phone has no service. You’d like to meet up with some familiar faces, and so you venture to Graham’s, one of two buildings with the lights still on. As you push through the door, the smoke from the fireplace stings your eyes and some flannel-wearing locals playing pool look you up and down. One of them may or may not be Mike Ranquet. The bartender comes over and asks you, “Wuht’ll eht be?” The beer tastes good. Everything has a real solidness to it and seems nourishing somehow. It’s the raw, pure living of the mountains. You have entered the world of Mt. Baker.
As a resort, Mt. Baker is defined as much by what it isn’t as what it is. As the closest Washington resort to the Canadian border, with the nearest “city” the college town of Bellingham over an hour away, Baker is a little too remote to attract a giant clogging mess of tourists. The absence of any slopeside hotels or other traditional “resort amenities” probably helps this cause. And as far as snowboarding goes, the mountain has fostered more of a tight-knit family than an overblown scene. “There’s a sense of community but no real scene,” says longtime local Pat McCarthy. “Everyone knows everyone, and it feels like a big family. You’ll hit a cliff under the lift and hear the hoots but not have time to stop and see who it is.”
The warm family vibe is accented by a rough, aggressive edge, though. The challenging nature of the terrain and the rugged flavor of remote mountain living requires a dedication to the institution of snow and a real hunger to ride things fast, big, and dangerous. They didn’t call ‘em the Mt. Baker Hardcores for nothing, you know. Like McCarthy says, “When there’s eighteen inches of new, you better be out the door by 6:00 a.m. if you’re planning on getting yours.”
And the “getting” of what’s “yours” at Mt. Baker is truly the stuff of legend-feeling the earth fall away from you as you bomb the treeless curve of Hemispheres; hiking the Shuksan Arm for a multi-faceted run of backcountry perfection that includes steeps, trees, and pillows; getting cliffed-out inbounds on your very first run of the morning and having to man up and just drop that son of a bitch; and the snow, the snow, the snow. Riding through a real Mt. Baker blizzard is a thing all its own. “When you’re up there and it’s snowing that hard, you feel like you’re in a different world,” says Baker warrior Mark Landvik. “You can hardly see what’s ahead of you unless it’s a tree. The wind is going off. Everyone is hiding underneath their layers trying to stay warm … ”
There’s not much more to say about the experience of riding this place beyond this: “Snowboarding all day by yourself in the powder. Randomly bumping into friends and sharing the day’s experiences. Riding every run you’ve been dying to hit up all season until your back leg feels so dead that all you can do is head for the lodge and some salmon bread bowls … it feels good just saying it,” sighs McCarthy. It feels good hearing it, too. Really, if you’ve tapped into the essence of Mt. Baker at least once in your life, then, my friends, you have lived.


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Early this morning JT Miller and Team USA lost 2-1 to Canada in the World Junior Championships.

Miller was scoreless today, won 5 faceoffs and lost 6,  had three second period shots and was on the ice for both goals scored against Team USA.

Miller lost the faceoff which led to Ryan Nugent-Hopkins goal. RNH shot the puck past Miller who attempted to block the shot

Chris Peters writes at the United States of Hockey that this may have been his best game of the tournament but that isn’t saying much. He says that Miller needs to become the difference maker that Team USA thought he would be.

Dave Starman writes at that Miller and the rest of the top six forwards were “invisible” today and that Miller needs to be a bigger presence in front of the net.


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    Georgie is Dead!

    Monday, December 17 2007
    Spinelli finds her strangled in the park, Sonny literally dodges a bullet and Lulu and Johnny sort out their ambush.

    At first, Georgie is frightened when she senses that someone is approaching her in the park. But when she sees who it is, she relaxes and puts her cell phone away. Big mistake.

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    Sonny is sitting on the Metro Court terrace with Trevor. He notices that Kate is walking toward them, asking what they are doing together. Then, she stumbles and Sonny jumps up to catch her before she falls. That's the moment that the sniper takes his shot, therefore hitting Sonny's glass of cabernet. When the shooting stops, The Metro Court security rushes out to the terrace and search for evidence. Kate tells Sonny that if he hadn't jumped up, the bullet would have hit him! Trevor has remained silent, but when Mac, Ric and Rodriguez arrive he acts as if the bullet were meant for him! Diane comes soon after and Kate quickly leaves with Mac's permission. Ric taunts Sonny by saying that if Kate had arrived a few seconds earlier and bent over to kiss him hello, she would be dead now.

    Maxi is sitting in Sam's hot tub. She is shocked to turn around and find not Coop, but Lucky standing in the doorway. Maxi explains that Sam gave her the penthouse for a romantic evening with her boyfriend. He asks who the guy is, and she tells him Coop. They are awkward with each other, and finally Maxi apologizes for her bad behavior last summer. Lucky accepts it, and then leaves her to enjoy her evening. When Coop finally comes, Maxi rushes into his arms and asks why his hands are so cold. He says he's fine and they turn to enjoy the view of snow falling on Port Charles. He talks about Iraq and how he can't stop thinking about what happened over there. He says that he really missed her when they were apart and doesn't want to take anything for granted ever again.

    Spinelli is walking through the park when he sees something disturbing. As he gets closer, he realizes that it's Georgie lying on the stairs. "Loyal Friend? Did you fall?" He rushes over and finds her dead with a phone cord wrapped around her neck. He cries and begs her to take a breath. Then he calls 911 and stammers like a child, "Someone beautiful has died."

    When Detective Harper arrives, he urges Spinelli to step away from the crime scene, but he wants to stay with Georgie. Then, the Detective sees that Mac has arrived and he tries to block him from stepping any closer to the body. It doesn't take Mac long to realize that the dead girl is Georgie. He rushes over to her and breaks down. Lucky shows up and Mac says, "They got her Lucky, they got Georgie." He says that he has to tell Maxi and Robin. Lucky offers to go bring Maxi to him.

    Kate is very shaken as she arrives home. Before long, her doorbell rings and it's Diane, who says it's not a good time for her to be alone. "Offer me a glass of wine and I'll be your best friend forever," Diane says as she pours two glasses rather than wait to be served. She tries to distract Kate with talk of the new round-toe shoe style, but Kate isn't enjoying the diversion. Diane does a good job of getting Kate to open up about her fear, and then admits that Sonny asked her to come over and sit with her until he can get there. Kate says that she's been at the Metro Court a million times, and now she's a target? "Welcome to life with Sonny Corinthos," Diane says.

    At the crime scene, Mac lays his eyes on Spinelli and grabs him by the coat. He demands that the "freak" tell him what he knows! He spits that Spinelli works for the mob and the mob knows everything. Spinelli sweetly says that all he knows is that the world is a less beautiful place tonight. Detective Harper assures Mac that Spinelli only found Georgie, but Mac insists that they get DNA from him. Detective questions what Spinelli knows. He says that he came from Kelly's and found her on the stairs, already cold.

    After Jason has finished up at Coop's, he goes over to Sonny's place. Sonny is angry and tells him that Zacchara tried to take him out tonight. Jason asks if Trevor was the one who arranged the ambush, but Sonny says it doesn't matter. He explains that Kate nearly got caught in the crossfire and he's going to have to make an example of the kid. What they don't know is that Lulu has convinced Johnny to come over to Sonny's house. They've cut through Kate's yard and are outside on the terrace listening in. Sonny tells Jason that he wants Johnny dead. They hear him say, "Kill that little bastard now!"

    Maxi and Coop are curled up on the sofa together. She asks him to spend the holiday with her and her family. She tells him about the GH party for the kids and that she and Georgie wear green tights and pixie boots. He says that he wouldn't miss it. Then, there's a knock at the door and Lucky tells her that he really needs to talk to her. She reluctantly lets him in and he gently tells her to get dressed and come with him. Maxi tells him that she knows when a cop comes to the door it's not good, so spill it. Lucky gently tells her that Georgie is dead and Coop rushes to get Maxi's clothes for her.

    Trevor and Ric are still at the Metro Court. Trevor wants to have a drink with his favorite son to celebrate the fact that he's still alive. Ric points out that he is his only son, but Trevor tells him not to put too fine a point on that one. Ric relents and orders a scotch neat. Trevor tells Ric that Sonny is the kind of guy who orders hits, not him. "Who wants to see your father dead? Sonny Corinthos." He urges Ric to go after Sonny because first he took Adele away and now he's trying to take him. Ric tells Trevor that he may hate him, but he has a real problem with Sonny trying to kill him.

    Maxi arrives at the crime scene and won't be restrained by the cops. She wants to be with her sister. Finally, she breaks through to Mac, who holds her while she cries.

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    Posted by jcrobinson at Monday, December 17 2007 02:32 PM

    Hey guys, I finally got my own TV Capture card today - that means I can take my own photos from the episode. Thanks to Amy, Chrissi and Kristi who have so generously given their time to make sure that GH fans have photos.

    It was so much fun! And so sad, suddenly I miss Georgie now, too, even though she annoyed me so much these past few months. SPinelli rocked his scenes, hey?

    Posted by KsGirl at Monday, December 17 2007 02:36 PM

    NOOOOOOOOO not Georgie.. and to have Spinelli find her. How sad was that!! I can't believe Mac thinks he has something to do with it. Spin isn't the killer type. I know, Mac is upset and not thinking clearly..obviously. I can't wait until they find this person. I'm getting tired of people dying. Coop was late to Maxie's evening..I wonder if he was one of the snypers. He was dressed all in black and his hands were cold. I don't think he was the one who strangled Georgie. She wouldn't have been relieved to see him since she suspects him. But..those are just thoughts.

    Posted by crzy4u at Monday, December 17 2007 02:44 PM

    Poor Georgie - she will be so missed. The jackal was grt today - so was Maxie - I cud feel their pain.
    The PCPD is useless as usual.
    Kate and Diane - fabulous. Their interraction over wine was also very good. Although I think that Diane being Sonny's lawyer shud be a target from his enemies. I mean certainly she is very much valuable to his organization (I mean the coffee business).

    Posted by dietcoker at Monday, December 17 2007 02:44 PM

    Hi everyone, Mac is the worst cop I have ever seen. When he thought Spinelli had something to do with it, come on. And I think that Coop is up to something. I don't think he is the killer but something is up. And it isn't Lucky because he was with Maxie. I really like Johnny.

    Posted by ehdidi at Monday, December 17 2007 02:49 PM

    It was LOGAN!!!

    He has that dark past that no one talks about anymore. And I bet Coop works for the Zaccaras

    Posted by Vronvy at Monday, December 17 2007 03:03 PM

    I don't think Coop is the killer. It has to be someone she is close to. Maybe Logan? If it had been Coop in the park, she wouldn't have put her phone away.

    Posted by Sapphire Minx at Monday, December 17 2007 03:09 PM

    I'll post more later. My lower back is bugging me.
    First off Logan is not the killer(unless GH changes it), in fact Spin and Logan team up.
    Georgie was scared, she was playing with her ring nervously.
    I think her putting the cell phone away is a fake out on the part of GH.
    Next the PCPD try to pin it on Spinelli because whoever is doing this knows they're way around computers.
    Save US from the PCPD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    They couldn't find a killer if the person was being stabbed over and over in front of them.
    More later all.
    Liason Rock IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Posted by devoted2sonny at Monday, December 17 2007 03:11 PM

    Hey guys, where do I start. OMG poor Georgie, poor Spin, poor Maxie, poor Kate! Everybody was so sad today. GH is "killing me" getting rid of the good characters. Who is the TMK?? I don't think it's Coop anymore--not today anyway, I probably will again tomorrow. *LOL* They are confusing me like crazy. Det. Harper felt guilty to me for some reason.

    I have a hard time believing Sonny & Johnny can't figure out that Trevor "slim ball" Lansing set them up. I did feel where Sonny was coming from though. Johnny's in charge, he better take care of Trevor or he'll pay the price.

    I loved Diane & Kate scenes, I bet she wish she had a guard today! LOL

    Posted by DAWNNEA1 at Monday, December 17 2007 03:13 PM

    Posted by christa304 at Monday, December 17 2007 03:19 PM

    Hey I know I have been posting some iffy theories. Finally I think it is Mike. I think Mike has finally snapped. He probably got it into his head that it was the only way to protect the women related to Sonny's life. Georgie was connected through Spinelli. Just a theory. I do like the theory about Coop being Brenda's long lost brother.

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Thursday, April 7, 2011

Something's Fishy In Wisconsin

Scout at First Draft has this quote from Gov. Walker on Wednesday:
“As long as the rules are clear, as long as there aren’t ballots somehow found out of the blue that weren’t counted before, things of that nature, as long as everything’s above board, I think that’s fair,” said Walker.

Yes, out of the blue. Out of the red is a different story, isn't it? Because always, always, always IOKIYAR.

Nobody could have anticipated! Really!

In a stunning turnaround, the county clerk for Waukesha County, a heavily Republican district in southeast Wisconsin, announced on Thursday evening that she'd failed to count more than 14,000 votes cast in Tuesday's state Supreme Court election. The error, disclosed by a former state GOP lawmaker who's been criticized for her handling of local elections, handed conservative incumbent David Prosser a lead of 7,582 votes, flipping the result of the race after an initial tally put liberal JoAnne Kloppenburg ahead by a mere 204 votes.

The Waukesha clerk, Kathy Nickolaus, a Republican, said in a press conference that the new votes, all of which were cast in the city of Brookfield, were missed because of human error that's "common in this process." Nickolaus apologized for the mistake, saying, "The purpose of the canvas is to catch these kind of mistakes."

This isn't the first time Nickolaus' role in overseeing elections in Waukesha has been engulfed in controversy. In 2010, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reported that she bucked the traditional election results system in Wisconsin and instead kept the county's election results on "stand-alone personal computers accessible only in her office." Nickolaus cited security reasons for her unorthodox method.

Well isn't that convenient! Nothing to see here, folks ... move along. But I'm sure there were hundreds of people named Mickey Mouse and Snow White voting on election day, right? RIGHT? Because we all know voter fraud is just something those dirty ACORN libs do.


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Manchester United target Sami Khedira will be offered a new contract at Real Madrid when he recovers from injury.

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The Germany international has been sidelined with a knee injury since November, and according to a report by talkSPORT, the 26 year-old is set to receive medical clearance before the end of the month, enabling a much anticipated return to first team football.

Real are intent on diffusing speculation regarding the midfielder’s future at the Santiago Bernabeu with Fiorentina and Manchester United keen to acquire his services.

United boss David Moyes has previously expressed his desire to strengthen in central midfielder, with reports claiming genuine interest in Sporting’s William Carvalho and Bayern Munich maestro Toni Kroos.

United have held discussions regarding Carvalho but are not willing to pay anywhere near the £37m buy-out clause in the 21 year-old’s contract while Kroos confessed the possibility of a Premier League move in February. Their aspirations of signing unsettled Borussia Dortmund midfielder Ilkay Gundogan accelerated following the announcing of Barcelona’s two year transfer ban, omitting a challenge from the Blaugrana for Gundogan’s signature.

Moyes is keen to assert his authority on the club with an overhaul of personnel after a faltering campaign and will be handed £200m to spend.

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"Naked as We Came" as written by and Samuel Ervin Beam....
She says, "Wake up, it's no use pretending"
I'll keep stealing, breathing her
Birds are leaving over autumn's ending
One of us will die inside these arms
Eyes wide open, naked as we came
One will spread our ashes around the yard

She says, "If I leave before you, darling
Don't you waste me in the ground"
I lay smiling like our sleeping children
One of us will die inside these arms
Eyes wide open, naked as we came
One will spread our ashes around the yard

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    General CommentSad and pretty little tale of an old couple with simple habits and a wise knowledge of what is to come of their lives. It's a pretty image, of the man staying in bed just to absorb the senses of his wife, and the small talk they make there.
    The image of the couple being awake and talking about their iminant death while their children sleep gives the impression that the elders in the world, those who have gained a respect for the motion of life, still attempt to ignore the painful truth that the knowledge brings and just lay smiling (even though the children might be very young or old, children gives that "naive person" impression... as to say, ignorant of death's inevitability) and happy.
    And of course, the overall picture, dieing inside the arms of the other is quite a nice touch to the message that you can find solace in love and dedication.
    I love this song (=
    eucilon December 23, 2004   Link
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    General Commentactually i was thinking that "naked as we came" refers more to how we entered this world, which is exactly how we will, thus, leave it, naked. we can't after all take anything with us when we die
    betterthanbeforeon May 04, 2004   Link
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    General CommentI've always thought of this song as about knowing you're going to be with one person until you die, and knowing that whichever of you dies first, the other will take care of you and "spread our ashes round the yard",.
    deliriumtriggeron June 05, 2004   Link
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    General CommentShe says "if I leave before you, darling
    Don't you waste me in the ground"

    And then the part about spreading the ashes, this is all about growing old with someone and dying. All the stuff about not being buried and spread around the yard is about wanting to be one with the things you care about.
    nuke_troopon October 08, 2004   Link
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    General CommentI think it's a melancholy comment on the nature of relationships. It's about the cyclical nature of relationships that parallels the cycle of life. You can take many of the lyrics literally and they work, but I think there's a deeper subtext that makes more sense. For me the key to interpretation is in the beginning...

    "She says wake up, it's no use pretending
    I'll keep stealing, breathing her"

    She's saying there is no use in pretending they will last forever.

    All relationships come to an end whether through a physical or emotional death. He's "stealing", as in denying the inevitable end of their relationship and acting like they will be together forever. Breathe = life. He'll keep breathing her, trying to maintain the life(love/relationship) even though it will end. No more breathing = death.

    but alas..

    "Birds are leaving over autumn's ending
    One of us will die inside these arms"

    birds migrate seasonally which perpetuates the cycle idea where there's always a beginning and an end. Autumn symbolizing the end of life or in this case the life of the relationship.

    One of us will not always be there to love the other, whether through falling out of love or actual death. One of us dying in these arms equals, one of us will fall out of love, exit the relationship and thus the relationship is dead.

    "Eyes wide open
    Naked as we came"

    With every end is a new beginning. perhaps a new relationship and the cycle continues. Naked as we came. We came into the relationship with nothing and created and invested and yet at the end, we are as naked as we came into it. It's dead, it's over. Starting from zero.

    "One will spread our
    Ashes round the yard"

    In this case, it'll probably be him "spreading the ashes" or memorializing their relationship and not wanting to let go.
    One of us will move on and one of us will lament what's been lost. People don't fall out of love at the same time whatever the reason.

    "She says if I leave before you darling
    Don't you waste me in the ground"

    In other words she knows one day it'll end between them, so she's telling him move on and don't grieve over her when it happens. He doesn't want to accept this, hence he keeps stealing, breathing her. No one wants to lose what they love.

    What a terribly sad thought that the one you so passionately love will not always be there. They may leave, fall out of love, or even die. No matter how great the love or relationship is, it's all only temporary and will end as it began and all that's been acquired will be lost. Sad, but true to life.

    And though it ends, it still doesn't diminish what was, hence...

    "I lay smiling like our sleeping children"

    I do not take children in the literal sense here. I think of children as a metaphor for their relationship, especially that which was good. All that came from being together that couldn't have happened independently, just like children can not be created independently. She lies smiling meaning she accepts the inevitable end of the relationship and smiles (a happy reflection) of what was between them, which now "sleeps". Sleeps being another metaphor for death or the end.

    Also, note the album this song is off of...Our Endless Numbered Days.

    the ironic title suggests...there's no end to the cycle of our days which will always end.

    cycles in life seem to be recurring them on the album (see sunset soon forgotten).
    quixoticxsoulon June 10, 2010   Link
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    General Commentamazing.
    acoustic1on April 26, 2004   Link
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    General CommentIt's just about life, and how it works.
    "Birds are leaving, over autmn's ending" - Everything changes, and eventually it will end.
    We are born with nothing, and will die with nothing.
    kakaron May 09, 2004   Link
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    General CommentO.K. My take on this song. It's about a couple. "She says wake up......." she is afraid of dying wondering why he's not or pretends he not. "I keep stealing........." He's saying he is just focusing on his love for her while he can. "Birds are leaving........" Everything ends. "One of us..........."
    He knows they will at least be together till the end. To sum up the chorus. We are born with nothing and we die with nothing and both agree not to be buried but cremated. 2nd verse. "She says if..........." same as second part of chorus." I lay smiling......" again he would rather live in the moment and not think of death like there children who are sleeping peacefully.
    lelandjkon January 23, 2012   Link
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    General Commentii love this. the video is so lovely. i dont know so much imagery when i listen to this song. i picture 2 lovers holding each other naked in a plush garden. so nice.
    bolshevikson April 24, 2004   Link
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    General CommentI agree with deliriumtrigger in that this song insinuates committment. Certain knowledge that one will be leaving in the arms of the other is to assume growing old together and leaving the world as they came into it, naked save for being not alone.

    The birds leaving and autumn to me contrast the relationship of the people in the song, which will endure such change as the world might offer, up until the inevitable.
    PapaBobDoleon December 06, 2004   Link

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The continued slow exodus from SL was a topic of conversation on Twitter last week with Ener Hax posting a commentary on her blog…   projecting a reduction to 10,000 sims.

Wizard Gynoid was at one point accused of schadenfreude [enjoyment of someone else misfortune], by another Tweep, an ex-Linden [maybe indoctrinated into the idea that all SL users are losers]. Obviously this person has missed the point entirely. We have all, longterm users of SL, predicted the effect of the dismal customer service meted out by LL and tried, in a small way, to draw attention to the foreseen consequences of such behaviour.

I told you so” is not schadenfreude. For all of us it is still a source of sadness mixed with exasperation that this steady decline continues unabated.

A few days ago Wizzy pointed to this post on Wikipedia about Technical Debt  … see below to save you following the link … asking the rhetorical question  “is this what’s wrong at Linden Lab..”

Technical debt (also known as design debt or code debt) is a neologistic metaphor referring to the eventual consequences of poor or evolving software architecture and software development within a codebase. The debt can be thought of as work that needs to be done before a particular job can be considered complete. As a change is started on a codebase, there is often the need to make other coordinated changes at the same time in other parts of the codebase or documentation. The other required, but uncompleted changes, are considered debt that must be paid at some point in the future.“

Now, this has long been the common view, summed up by Miso Susanowa’s sharp quote “you lag, you lose”…. and guarding against technical debt has been why the code wranglers at Inworldz, Jim and Tranq have moved so slowly and carefully in bringing new changes to their grid.

Like the tortoise and the hare fable, Linden Lab has now 4 new games coming to market .. … while InWorldz has been honing mesh and PhysX upgrades.

There is, however, a world of difference between SL and these new games … not in that they are different products, but how those products stand in relation to the competition. Whereas SL was years ahead of it’s rivals when it started, these new games are just more of the same…. i.e. another 4 games in a fairly full market.

Watching a leading internet-based company lose it’s position as leader through bad management, infighting and chasing the rainbow’s end is not a situation that gives any of us a feeling of satisfaction.

Schadenfreude … no way.

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  1. I haven't tried Patterns, but have bought Creatorverse for ipad. It's not earth shattering, but it's also not, as you say, 'just more of the same'. It's not a cheap app. but maybe it's enough for LL to probably make a profit. I'm not sure whether making games for PC will be as profitable. I suspect the market for games like 'Patterns' is limited, and it's hardly (as Rod Humble suggests) 'shared' space - but time will tell.
    Maybe, if right from the beginning, LL had seen the SL software as the asset and charged people to download the 'game' things might have been different. I think one of its big downfalls has been the ability to use it without paying anything.
    It's easy to see what might have been, but I think they rode a wave of optomism about where the money would come from, that in the long run just didn't pan out. So the artists and creators are gone (no money in them anyway), the business stuff didn't work out, and they are left with sex and porn and some illicit gambling.
    But, it amazes me that people still come to my shop and buy stuff. There are obvioulsy still new players and people setting up new places. Hard to believe I know, but why else are they buying stuff like waterfalls?

  2. Very true, there are always new people just discovering SL.
    I do wish them the best with their new apps, but it's a crowded market out here...

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