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The information age has made what was once underground accessible with just a few keystrokes. And few things make one guy happier than letting his fingers lead him to the weirdest, most fucked up porn imaginable.
One of the most important speeches I've seen in the last few years is Clay Shirky's famous "Gin, Television, and Cognitive Surplus", in which he lays out a theory stating that we are presently enjoying an unannounced renaissance in creativity made possible by the tools of technological empowerment.
Did you ever see that episode of Gilligan's Island where they almost get off the island and then Gilligan messes up and then they don't? I saw that one. I saw that one a lot when I was growing up. And every half-hour that I watched that was a half an hour I wasn't posting at my blog or editing Wikipedia or contributing to a mailing list. Now I had an ironclad excuse for not doing those things, which is none of those things existed then. I was forced into the channel of media the way it was because it was the only option. Now it's not, and that's the big surprise. However lousy it is to sit in your basement and pretend to be an elf, I can tell you from personal experience it's worse to sit in your basement and try to figure if Ginger or Mary Ann is cuter. And I'm willing to raise that to a general principle. It's better to do something than to do nothing. Even lolcats, even cute pictures of kittens made even cuter with the addition of cute captions, hold out an invitation to participation. When you see a lolcat, one of the things it says to the viewer is, "If you have some sans-serif fonts on your computer, you can play this game, too." And that message-I can do that, too-is a big change.
Now, I grew up around futurists, and one thing growing up around futurists teaches you is to have a hair-trigger bullshit detector whenever you're anywhere near a futurist. If I don't see immediately testable predictions that map to both the futurist's theory and my own experience, I just file it away with the Long Boom and VR helmets. Shirky's model of cognitive surplus passes that test with flying colors. People, young people especially, are getting home from work and school, sitting down, and making things. Making lolcats, fan tumblrs, stupid YouTube videos. Making indie games, webcomics, 3-D printable models. Making crazy Rube Goldberg machines because the internet gives them an audience for their silly project. Making a playable arcade out of cardboard because why the hell not?
Even watching TV is now a participatory act for many people. You vote for the winners, you jump in the online discussions, you help with the save-the-show write-in campaigns, you pick the best screencaps to put Texts From Last Night over. And the makers of TV know it. They plan for buzz, they build fan spaces, they put fan jokes into the show itself. Consumption is no longer passive; it has become a give-and-take between art and audience in which the audience is an active and necessary part of the process, shaping both the art itself and the outcome of the symbiosis between them. Tell your grandchildren that you lived in the generation when postmodernism came to life and ate the world.
Of course, technology being what it is, one of the major things people are using this incredible participation for is making porn. SO MUCH PORN.
There's a term in the fan fiction community, "drawerfic". It arises from the answer to "What was your first fanfic?" given by everyone who grew up pre-internet: "This thing I wrote in a notebook when I was 14 and kept in a drawer and never showed anyone." Every little girl making porn (and not all fic writers are girls and not all fanfic is porn, but they mostly are and an awful lot of it is) thought she was the only one. Her creativity came pre-stifled and then it was back to Gilligan's Island. Fan fiction only became a community, became huge, when these girls began meeting, began corresponding, began exchanging fictions as gifts and trades. First in homemade zines, then exploding beyond all measure on the internet. Now it's one of the largest gift economies on earth, with untold millions of words a day being exchanged, people (mostly women) making things in exchange for other things people made. There's your cognitive surplus right there.
Naturally, an awful lot of what's being made is weird porn. Yes, there are many fanfics that are silly jokes, or character studies, or casefic, or otherwise not porn. There's also universes of D/s, mpreg, knotting, and (for one-stop shopping) porn-oriented AUs like the Alpha/Omegaverse, in which the way MRAs perceive masculinity becomes literally true and a lot gayer. This is why, when Gail Dines argues that the internet has made men addicted to porn, and influenced men's sexual fetishes until they make perverse demands on women, who themselves never enjoy porn and thus are free of sexual fetishes, I laugh until I can't breathe.
Of course, I don't want to imply that the weird porn of the internet is only restricted to women. Oh goodness, no. All genders and all types are accommodated, bless the internet's cold black heart. And more and more, especially at the weird ends of the spectrum, people are becoming more than consumers of porn, they're becoming producers. They're using the tools technology has given them to engage with their kinks, and they're drawing and writing and Photoshopping and molding the lovable 3-D people of Poser into configurations that god never intended. But then, who asked god's opinion anyway?
I am not kidding when I say that I find incredibly esoteric and specialized porn to be one of the most life-affirming things in the world. Even… no, especially the stuff that doesn't do anything for me. Every giantess crush site, every furry vore gallery, every Shintaro Kago shit-and-dissection-fest, every body-inflation discussion group, every set of specialized apron-fetish films, every dendrophile fan club, every time I learn a new word like "boytaur" or "OT3″ or "docking" or "unbirth"… all these things bring me a genuine and unironic joy.
These things, these kinks, these flights of imagination, are the impassioned obsessions of real people, everyday people. At least one of your coworkers, at least one of your family members. And that's not creepy, that's wonderful. Every one of those weird kinks is a shout of human individuality in a world that wants to reduce us down to buying patterns and demographic trends. "I am alive!" they cry. "I am not an emerging new style, I am not a market segment, I am not co-optable, I am not coming soon to a theater near you, I am not approved for all audiences, I am not available in stores, I am damn sure not fun for the whole family and I never will be."
Maybe you don't find that life-affirming, but I sure do.
This is why people become makers of porn, participants rather than consumers. If literally all you want is women with too much makeup and hairspray joylessly fucking men with statistically-improbable megadongs in a universe where pubic hair was banished by dark magics in 2001, then "mainstream" porn has you covered and you can safely be a passive consumer. For the non-mainstream other 95% of us, we must look elsewhere. If what you really want is something made by people who understand your desires because they share them, you're going to wander into a gift economy, and once there, you're going to be a lot more popular if you contribute.
This is, I am not joking, an improvement on the previous 10,000 years of human history. Before, people lived their entire lives feeling they could never be understood, either suppressing their weird kinks or, in a few rare cases, becoming Irving Klaw or Robert Heinlein. Now we have 21st-century technology, which smiles and says "There are people who will understand, if you find them and make yourself understood. Here are the tools to do it."
We use those tools to keep Community on the air, and we also use them to create animated GIFs of Jessica Rabbit with a huge dick. If either of those things strikes you as a strange use of time and technology, that's okay: it's not for you. And that's the point.
This post originally appeared on The Good Men Project and No, Seriously, What About teh Menz? Republished with permission.
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Longtime head coach has no problem being the No. 2 at Port Jervis
PORT JERVIS — It's not an admission that most head coaches would make, but George Rollman said he was never a big fan of coaching basketball games.
"I love practice more than anything,'' he said. "I would rather teach the game.''
Perhaps that's what made it easy for him to step down and serve as an assistant the past 20 years at Port Jervis, first with Ron Semerano and the last three seasons with his son, Brian. George Rollman coached both of them.
"I dreamed of this,'' Brian Rollman said. "I told myself when Ronnie decides to step away, I want to coach with my dad. It was a great opportunity. He knows a lot about the game and he was going to teach me so much. I didn't think about it twice.''
The coaching relationship hasn't always been perfect.
"He puts me in my place when I need to be put in my place,'' said George, 65, who has been retired as a teacher since 2003. "He runs the show, no doubt about it. He does tell me to be quiet sometimes, especially if I say something to the officials — that's not my job — so you have to learn to bite your tongue.''
It's even harder when things don't go well for the team and Brian has faced criticism from the stands.
"It's tougher when things don't go well,'' George said. "When I was the head coach I took it hard, but I take it harder as the father when things don't go well ... it's tougher on me. If people want to ridicule me, that's fine, but when it's your son it's tougher to hear things, like any father with their child and someone saying something about them that you might not agree. That's the tough part. Everything else is good.''
"We had a couple discussions in the offseason and we had to hammer some things out,'' Brian said. "He understood completely. The problem for him was he was emotionally invested as a father instead of being emotionally invested as a coach.''
George Rollman has been coaching for nearly 40 years, with stints as varsity head coach of the Port Jervis girls and boys up until 1992. Semerano, the school's current athletic director, took over the Port boys and George assumed the second seat. Semerano made the defensive calls for the team while Rollman focused on the offense.
"I never found it to be strange at all,'' Rollman said of their working relationship. "We seemed to get along well. He was a good coach. He was successful before I even joined him.''
"Ronnie leaned on him for a lot,'' Brian said. "Ronnie had no ego, kind of the same way with me.''
Brian Rollman said working with his dad is something he will never trade in.
"It is an experience that will never go away,'' he said. "You're sitting down in the coaches' office and talking basketball with your father or shooting the bull on your couch — people see us on the basketball floor, but no one knows about that stuff."


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There have been many discussions in the comments about what Article 233 of the Venezuela Constitution says about how to replace the President of the country.
Let's look at the article in Spanish:
Artículo 233. Serán faltas absolutas del Presidente o Presidenta de la República: la muerte, su renuncia, la destitución decretada por sentencia del Tribunal Supremo de Justicia, la incapacidad física o mental permanente certificada por una junta médica designada por el Tribunal Supremo de Justicia y con aprobación de la Asamblea Nacional, el abandono del cargo, declarado éste por la Asamblea Nacional, así como la revocatoria popular de su mandato.
Cuando se produzca la falta absoluta del Presidente electo o Presidenta electa antes de tomar posesión, se procederá a una nueva elección universal, directa y secreto dentro de los treinta días consecutivos siguientes. Mientras se elige y toma posesión el nuevo Presidente o Presidenta, se encargará de la Presidencia de la República el Presidente o Presidenta de la Asamblea Nacional.
Cuando se produzca la falta absoluta del Presidente o Presidenta de la República durante los primeros cuatro años del período constitucional, se procederá a una nueva elección universal y directa dentro de los treinta días consecutivos siguientes. Mientras se elige y toma posesión el nuevo Presidente o Presidenta, se encargará de la Presidencia de la República el Vicepresidente Ejecutivo o Vicepresidenta Ejecutiva.
En los casos anteriores, el nuevo Presidente o Presidenta completará el período constitucional correspondiente.
Si la falta absoluta se produce durante los últimos dos años del período constitucional, el Vicepresidente Ejecutivo o Vicepresidenta Ejecutiva asumirá la Presidencia de la República hasta completar el mismo.
The first part defines what an absence is. And then it says "When the absolute absence of the President elect occurs before he takes power, there will be a new universal election within thirty days immediately following. While the President is elected and the new President takes office, the President of the National Assembly will take office.
The next paragraph is what happens in the first four years of the Presidency.
And then it says: "In the cases before, the new President will complete the corresponding Constitutional period". That is, if the President elect is incapacitated and there is time for an election and if the same happens to the elected President in the first four years of the term.
Finally it says: "If the absence occurs during the last two years of the Constitutional period, the Vice-President will assume the Presidency until it completes the term"
Some lawyers believe the last part trumps all, if the President dies the Vice-President takes over.
What is confusing is what it says about the new President completing the the Constitutional term. But this refers to the elected President only. That is, if the President elect dies with sufficient time to hold a new election and have a new President, before the term ends, the newly elected President would complete the term
But this is no longer the case. There is no time to elect a new President before the Constitutional period ends. There are less than thirty days until the inauguration. Thus, it is impossible for the "new President" to complete the term and the President-elect is not holding office, thus, he can not be replaced in office.
The only possibility left, is what the last part says that the Vice-President completes the term and the President of the National Assembly takes over on Jan. 10th. once the "Constitutional term" is completed.
Which makes you wonder about the timing of the operation. It was performed precisely on the day in which there were no longer thirty days left and there was no room for any other interpretation.
A simple example in which the President and the President-elect are different may clarify this:
Suppose Capriles had been elected and something happened to him. If this event happened with more than thirty days left for his inauguration, the President of the National Assembly would take over, elections would be scheduled and held and the newly elected President would complete the Constitutional term.
But if this happened within thirty days to the inauguration, only the Vice-President is empowered by the Constitution to complete the term. Nowhere does it say that the President of the National Assembly completes the term.
That is what lawyer say…
(The Minister of Information just said that Chavez may not be back for his new term)


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Kendrick, John, c.1740–1794, American sea captain, b. Massachusetts. During part of the American Revolution he commanded privateers. As commander of an expedition composed of the Columbia and Washington, he explored (1788–89) the Pacific Northwest Coast in the neighborhood of Nootka Sound, managing to avoid conflict with the Spanish who were there at the time. Robert Gray, later discoverer of the Columbia River, sailed with him. Kendrick also visited Japan, becoming the first to fly the American flag in a port of that country.
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On the second batter, third baseman Brent Dlugach dove for a bunted ball and dislocated his left shoulder. Francona: "You could tell right away. [Papelbon] even said he kind of heard it."
Jon Lester began the game with two scoreless innings; one hit, one walk, one strikeout. He threw 27 pitches. ... Alfredo Aceves threw two potatoes. (AA: "It means zeros on the scoreboard.")
After suffering a mild concussion, Josh Beckett is avoiding all physical activity. "I don't even think they want me watching too much TV." Beckett will skip his next start, which had been set for tomorrow.
I feel all right. ... I think getting rid of some of the headache stuff that I had yesterday [Monday] is probably good. ... Yesterday was kind of nerve-wracking, because going up and down stairs was pretty tough.Adrian Gonzalez took 25 swings off the tee and 35 via soft toss, and is close to hitting in the cage. ... Mike Cameron is 3-for-6 in two games. ...
Jarrod Saltalamacchia has been spending a ton of time with each pitcher, developing a rapport. "It's like a marriage but not. ... You're going to have your disagreements. You're going to have your arguments." (I hope to post an interview with Salty soon.)
John Lackey pitches this afternoon against Atlanta, with Scott Atchison and Hideki Okajima among the relievers.


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Citi Bike Debuts in New York City!
Memorial Day 2013 marked a milestone in NYC transportation history: the debut of the city's bike-share system, Citi Bike. At 330 stations, 6,000 bikes (of a planned 10,000) were available to more than 13,000 members who signed up for a yearly pass - and many of them couldn't wait to hit the streets!
The press conference at City Hall was a media frenzy. Hundreds of reporters and cameras were on hand to watch Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan ring in the launch. Streetfilms was there at this historic moment and put together this fun four-minute film which features a Citibike bike share station along a protected bike lane, David Byrne telling us what he will do with bike share and the best shot anyone got of Commissioner Sadik-Khan test driving the bike at City Hall.


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I have written before about the really active, can-be-aggressive small child in several back posts of varying nature, but I had a few thoughts I wanted to share today. ( Please be sure to note I am dealing here with fiery temperaments, not especially with children dealing with sensory or developmental issues affecting behavior).
If you are struggling with a six year old who still seems rather "stuck" in immature behavior that involves physicality, I want to encourage you tonight. It doesn't seem as if people really talk about this at all in parenting resources; it seems it is well- assumed that tantrums or any physical response to a limit is over by age three.
From what I have seen, six year olds can definitely still have a hard time controlling their hands, their emotions, their reactions, their physical responses and such. To those of us involved in Waldorf Education, this seems like of course! Has anyone ever read the book "Ramona The Brave" by Beverly Cleary? Here is a passage about fiery Ramona, six years old and in first grade at school, when she becomes completely angry at a classmate (for those of you who have not read this book it is a paper owl and Susan had copied what Ramona had done to make hers, which is why Ramona is angry in this chapter):
'"Ramona slid out of her seat. Her chest felt tighter. Her head told her to keep her hands to herself, but her hands did not obey. They seized Susan's owl. They crushed the owl with a sound of crackling paper.
Susan gasped. Ramona twisted the owl as hard as she could until it looked like nothing but an old paper bag scribbled with crayon. Without meaning to, Ramona had done a terrible thing.
"Mrs. Griggs!" cried Susan. "Ramona scrunched my owl!"
"Tattletale." Ramona threw the twisted bag on the floor, and as Mrs. Griggs approached to see what had happened, she dodged past her teacher, out the door and down the hall, running as fast as she could, even though running through the halls was forbidden….She ran as if she were pursued by Susan, Mrs. Griggs, the principal, all of Room One, the whole school. She ran from her conscience and from God, who, as they said in Sunday School, was everywhere. She ran as if Something was coming to get her."
(When Ramona eventually asks her parents not to make her return to Room One after several more things, her father tells her she must return and to buck up and show her parents her spunk, which actually makes Ramona feel better and gives her determination to do better because her "spunkiness" has been recognized and there is recognition she can use that quality for good).
Anger is an acceptable emotion. But being aggressive is not acceptable.
And the piece that is frequently lacking for parents is how to handle all of this. I am just a mother, and I can only tell you what other mothers have told me.
I do think there could be two separate issues here – one is dealing with the Ramonas of the world – fiery, hot, remorseful when it is all over (or perhaps a mix of remorseful but still a bit angry or feeling like they needed to do something in the name of justice and fairness, LOL) and those children who have truly deeper issues. Therefore, I caution you to look carefully at your own child, and determine things with your health care team if your child is on the spectrum of developmental delay in some regard, leading to explosive or difficult behavior. In these cases, I am not certain what I have to say here will be helpful as I am not a behavioral therapist or a psychologist.
If this is a child who has a true sense of disrespect for his or her parents and is consistently physically lashing out to the parents or other adults by biting, hitting or such at the age of six, I do feel outside counseling help may be warranted. It may not be that this is not "fixable", but it may need extra help and the parents may need new help setting new patterns into play. I would wonder all sorts of things about that child, about the home life, that only someone in real life could investigate, evaluate and help with… This is not something to be figured out over email, over a blog, a forum, or a message board. This is something that a trained professional needs to be involved with for the behavior to change. And I think it is important to seek that help, because whilst human beings certainly always have the potential to change, what many parents have told me is that the patterns that are established when children are little still can be a "default mechanism" during times of stress as the child grows. So, I think seeking out someone who is respected, who is trusted and someone whom you can meet in person is important!
But, for those of us truly living with the simply fiery ones who get completely upset, and kick something (and maybe break it!) or who still throw themselves on the floor, I think there is hope. What I have seen and heard mothers say that has worked well are several things:
The most controversial one that parents talk about is holding their tantruming child, or even laying their body across a child who needs that gentle physical help to come back to themselves. Some may think five and six year olds may be too old for this, but I don't necessarily think so . I think this one can be helpful for some children to come back but also insanely tricky because the parent really has to be calm and gentle and be able to say calmly that they are there to help the child calm down – and be able to do this with a child who perhaps is hitting at them or flailing around and still remain as calm as a stone. And, the child must be responsive to something like that and not have it escalate their behavior even more. No small order. So that one may not work for everyone.
So, in the moment is hard. Some children at age six can respond to humor or distraction, or a bit of flailing on the floor in another space where they are safe but not on top of people for a few minutes before a parent can step in and either hold them or try to sweep up in a matter of fact manner into a snack, a story or something else.
I personally feel very strong physically and emotionally comfortable about trying any of the above. At six or so, the child should be much easier to calm than previously. Sometimes at that age, a child will be happy to have a good ole' fit on their own in their own room, their own space, under a table. I urge parents who are facing this to also think of a safe place where younger siblings could go if they are home alone dealing with this and have younger ones about.
If the child breaks something, then I feel he or she must fix it, pay for it, help Mom or Dad fix it, or not receive something they would otherwise get if they do not get an allowance to help pay for it. If the child hurts someone, I think they need to use their hands to do something nice for that someone, and also for a six and a half year old and up, I think they need to work for the number of minutes/ amount of time they spent having a huge fit that disrupted the whole family.
Rhythm is another strong aid. I find these children often have a lot of energy, may be extroverted in a sense, and without form and structure, their energy goes bad places. You need to be able to channel their energy until they can constructively channel that energy themselves. Six can be a more difficult age for this, because almost everything may be deemed as "boring." Long periods of time in nature can be especially helpful and therapeutic.
All of the basics need to be looked at and re-examined: sleep, diet of good fats and protein sources, outside time, the stress level of the house, how many outside commitments is this small child under, and media levels.
Limits are important, and can be one of those fine line areas in terms of timing (not in setting the limit though, the limit still needs to be set!). Some parents have shared with me that they were slow to set limits in the early years, and this is the child that now responds so badly to them at age five and six; a "no" makes them fall apart now that they are older with disaster ensuing. If you know you are starting later with limits and limits sets your child off, you can still set the limit and not use words about it. I think I gave the example in another post that if all the children are fighting, then staying home is a good option. You don't have to announce loudly to everyone that "now we are staying home because you all are horrible, terrible children who need to be hidden away!" but just do it. If comes up later, than you can say simply you were not feeling generous and we must be kind to each other. Curb your instinct to lecture and lash out. Some of these words can be delayed even to before bedtime if you need to bring it up.
But the fine line of this approach is this: after the child gets used to having some limits, then they do need to be set directly, because in life people will tell your child no,they will set limits and your child has to be able to take this without becoming angry or aggressive. A child may outgrow this sort of thing to an extent, but again from what I am hearing from parents of children with older children, again, is that this pattern did seem established in the ages of four to seven and did not just dissipate with time. It took work on the part of the parent to help that child. Also, I think what happens over time with these children if the adults are not careful, is that the adult does not want to set or enforce limits because that will lead to a battle, so what happens is instead of the child adapting to the limit, the child's behavior ends up shaping the adult's behavior. And this is a true problem that needs to be tackled, because that child may grow up and expect the world to adapt to them and what they want without any consideration for the others, for limits of the law, or other things. Not trying to sound dire here, but it is problematic. A trained family therapist or psychologist could also be helpful in this sort of situation as well.
Which brings us to community. I think children like this need a community of adults to help them and you as the parent,need to be mindful of when you are actually stepping in to be helpful or if you are just shielding your child and being a barrier between your child and what should be handled by the child's teacher, or the adult the child was talking to. At six years of age, this child should not need so much rescuing from you in their interactions with others. Let them be. What they learn may be beneficial, and this is important work for the child to do. Homeschooling families will need to really look and make this a priority – who else does your child have to show respect and listen to besides you? And if an adult asks them something, do you step in and navigate the whole thing for the child?
Be encouraged. You can guide them and help this child grow up to use their gifts of passion, perseverance, sense of justice in positive ways. But do not shirk from doing the work. Your child must learn to deal with frustration and limits in a constructive way. You can do this, hang in there!
Just a few thoughts I have garnered from my conversations with mothers and my own experience with the physical child…
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Viacom's MTV said it greenlit a pilot for a series based on the popular horror-movie franchise "Scream," while adding three new skeins to its schedule for the year ahead.
"Scream," whose premise comes from the 1996 movie written by Kevin Williamson that spawned three sequels, would be slated for a summer 2014 debut on the cabler, if the pilot proves satisfactory, MTV said in an announcement. Dimension Films, which distributed the original movie and its cinematic spawn, is currently in discussions with the movies' original director – filmmaker Wes Craven – to direct the one-hour pilot. DiGa Vision will serve as a producer. MTV and Dimension are in talks with various writers for the potential series.
Other series announced include "Generation Cyro," a one-hour docudrama exploring issues faced by children conceived by anonymous sperm donors ; "Nurse Nation," a new docu-series following nine nurses all assigned to work at a new hospital in a new city for 13 weeks; and "The Hook Up," hosted by Andrew Schulz of MTV2's "Guy Code." The last is a dating show that will air as an afternoon strip on MTV, and depict contestants choosing from four potential suitors based on social-media history.
MTV said it would renew "Snooki and JWOWW," a spin-off of its popular hit "The Jersey Shore," for a third season. In all, fifteen programs already on the air will return, MTV said.
At MTV2, executives will launch a "re-imagined" version of improv comedy show "Nick Cannon Presents Wild N Out" on Tuesday, July 9 at 11 p.m. "Guy Court," a half-hour comedic courtroom series, will premire in the fall of 2013. In addition, MTV2 will renew "Mac Miller and the Most Dope Family" for a second season. Production will begin production later this year and the second season is expected to air in early 2014.


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Vouchers, the greatest and bestest gift you can give someone, or the lazy man's way out of thinking about a present. Whatever way you look at them, they're useful. All the high-street shops stock them and online retailers do too which is why I ordered vouchers for my brothers Donal and Cathal, and my friend Justin to thank them for being best man and groom's men respectively.
Justin's over in the UK now, and I wanted to make things nice and simple so I ordered CD WOW! vouchers. At the time I ordered there was a handling fee of €1.20 for gift vouchers. That's €1.20 for each gift voucher. They may provide free shipping worldwide but that obviously doesn't apply to all their products.
When Donal went to redeem the vouchers after selecting the CDs he wanted he discovered that only one voucher can be used per purchase! Because the vouchers come in denominations which don't match the prices of their CDs he would have ended up buying extra CDs and paying for them himself. I find that underhand and just a bit sneaky. It is stated in their terms and conditions but that only leaves a bitter taste in my mouth because I didn't read them.
Imagine the consternation if you could only use one voucher per purchase in HMV or Virgin? At least they'd give you change in the form of money or a smaller voucher. In protest, Donal recommends that people do not buy CD WOW! vouchers and I have to agree with him. Go down to HMV, Virgin, Golden Discs, buy a paper voucher and the recipient can enjoy the experience of handling real goods immediately and savour the pleasure of rushing home to play a new CD.
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Google has set out to take users of its free online mapping service on an Arctic adventure with help from an Inuit community in the Canadian tundra. The search giant spent 11 months planning the mapping endeavour.
Google set out Wednesday to take users of its free online mapping service on an Arctic adventure with help from an Inuit community in the Canadian tundra.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper joined the effort as the Internet titan's Street View team arrived in the hamlet of Cambridge Bay in the Northwest Passage for one of its most remote projects to date.
'The goal of this project is to share with a global online audience the beauty of Canada's Arctic and the culture of the Inuit people who live there,' said a Google team member.
Google spent 11 months planning the mapping endeavor with Nunavut political leaders and elders in Cambridge Bay in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.
'People are always asking how we live; how we survive,' Cambridge Bay elder Anna Nahogaloak said in a Kitikmeot Heritage Society interview.
'They're always asking about everything,' she continued. 'This will help them understand and learn more about Nunavut.'
Nunavut is Canada's northernmost territory and was officially separated from the Northwest Territory in 1999.
Nahogaloak recalled being 10 years old when her family traveled by dog sled from Brownside River in 1958 to Cambridge Bay, where they built a cabin and became part of the small community that has grown to about 1,600 residents.
She recounted how many of the dogs starved along the way because game was scarce.
The Street View project began with a 'Mapup' at which a dozen residents worked on Chromebook laptops to enhance a Cambridge Bay map with local knowledge -- from roads and rivers to the curling club and a stone church.
'It is important for the Inuit people to contribute to the maps,' Nahogaloak said. 'The land is everybody's land. We all share it.' Google map software supports the local Inuktitut language.
Cambridge Bay teenagers Mia Otokiak, Siobhan Bligh, and Kean Niptanatiak were among the dozen residents who gathered at Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. (NTI) to add local knowledge to the Cambridge Bay online map.
Map enhancements included a game hall complete with foosball table and an ice hockey arena that relies on nature to freeze water for the rink.
'I think I'm going to gloat about it,' 16-year-old Otokiak said of fine-tuning a Google Map to be seen by people around the world. Harper and his wife stopped in to learn about Google software tools being used to craft maps in the way that Wikipedia harnessed knowledge for an online encyclopedia.
'The community accepted Google with open arms,' said NTI coordinator Christopher Kalluk, who sold Google on the project last year.
'They are visitors in our home and we want to show them a good time,' he continued. 'That is how we will be feeling with the world viewing Cambridge Bay with Street View as well.'
Google donated 10 Chromebooks to the effort and is lending NTI special 360-degree picture camera gear 'indefinitely,' according to Google Maps team leader Karin Tuxen-Bettman.
NTI administers land claims for the people of Nunavut.
'I feel the (people of Nunavut) will benefit with Street View because they will be able to show their communities off to people around the world,' Kalluk said. 'It gives them more pride and passion for where they live.'
A Street View trike equipped with camera and satellite positioning gear will be pedaled through the town to the nearby tundra on Thursday and Friday.
Google will not be leaving the trike behind because it wants to deploy it in other Nunavut hamlets next year.
'It is about providing all the tools to perfect that map and then letting the community do it itself,' Tuxen-Bettman said.
'Weather and the remoteness are the biggest challenges.'
Street View teams have cycled, driven and walked through cities and towns around the globe capturing images to add to online maps, letting people see what it might be like to stand at a spot they are curious about.
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Lange, Christian Louis krĭs´tyän lo͞o´ē läng´ə [key], 1869–1938, Norwegian pacifist. In his youth he joined the Young Norway movement and worked for the separation of Norway from Sweden. He taught in the Norwegian Nobel Institute, represented his country at the Hague Conference of 1907 and at the League of Nations, and was secretary (1909–33) of the Interparliamentary Union. Lange shared the 1921 Nobel Peace Prize with Hjalmar Branting.
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Border Trade Alliance suspects "border tax" may be in the works
This was written by Nelson Balido of the BTA:
I was reviewing the president's budget, and buried deep in the section relating to the Department of Homeland Security, there is language directing the commissioner of Customs and Border Protection to carry out a study of the potential impacts of collecting a border crossing fee on pedestrians and private vehicles at our country's land borders.
Just because the government has fallen behind during the past four years in funding our nation's ports of entry with up-to-date technology or better infrastructure does not mean that it should now study the collection of a tax to fund those endeavors. For much of the border there are already tolls being collected by municipalities and port authorities for every crossing. This would mean a new tax on top of the existing toll, or a fee where there is no existing fee in exchange for who-knows-what.
Let me spare the government the cost of carrying out such a study: A border crossing tax would be devastating, costing thousands of jobs in border communities that depend on our neighbors' ability to securely cross our borders to shop in our stores, eat in our restaurants, stay in our hotels, visit our tourist attractions and spend time with family and friends.
Slapping a tax on border crossings is a move fraught with economic danger. Visitors from Mexico and Canada represent over 56 percent of all international travelers to the U.S. according to data from the U.S. Travel Association, and the economic health of our border states is closely linked to the ability to attract Mexican travelers. Consider the data:
In Arizona, nearly 99 percent of Mexican visitors come from the neighboring state of Sonora, with over 30,000 direct and indirect jobs tied to Mexico-to-Arizona tourism.
In Texas, spending by Mexican nationals injects over $5.1 billion into the economies of South and Central Texas and supports more than 150,000 jobs.
Visitors from Mexico to California spent over $1.7 billion in 2011.
Mexican visitors to the U.S. are, as Raul Salinas, the mayor of the border community of Laredo, Texas so accurately states, "The best type of visitors." They inject outside dollars into communities, generating jobs and spurring business growth, but without creating a drag on public services. In other words, border-crossing visitors come to the U.S. to shop and spend money, not to visit the public library.
For Mexicans, visiting the U.S. is no picnic. It involves a visit to a U.S. consulate for an in-depth interview and vetting process in order to secure a Border Crossing Card. It most likely requires an hours-long wait in a line of cars waiting to get through the port of entry. Depending on whether the Customs and Border Protection officer the traveler first encounters needs more information, it could mean a lengthy inspection in a secondary screening area. And finally, depending on the traveler's destination, it might mean obtaining an I-94 entry/departure record for a $6 fee and supplying the required myriad of additional information items that proves fiscal solvency in the traveler's home country. It's a wonder they want to come at all. Why in the world would we want to make the process more difficult, more expensive?
Instead of creating new barriers between the U.S. and our neighbors, we should be looking for ways to make the border-crossing experience easier, with fewer hassles and less expense. If Washington is hoping it can solve its fiscal woes by sticking our neighbors with the bill, it's going to be disappointed. Instead it should better support the establishment of new private-public partnerships for infrastructure and technology so that local municipalities have a say in what happens in their communities at the ports of entry and in-between.
Instituting a new border tax is a very bad idea that doesn't need to be studied, it needs to be rejected.
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November 14th, 2013
Diabetes continues to spread around the world
On World Diabetes Day, news about the disease's global impact is dire.
An estimated 382 million people worldwide have diabetes, according to a new report from the International Diabetes Federation. The IDF expects that number to rise to 592 million by 2035, when one in every 10 people will have the disease.
"Diabetes in all its forms imposes unacceptably high human, social and economic costs on countries at all income levels," the report authors begin in the executive summary. They go on to say that this latest edition of the Diabetes Atlas "carries a bitter but unavoidable message: despite the array of tools at our disposal to tackle the disease... the battle to protect people from diabetes and its disabling, life-threatening complications is being lost."
"The thing that strikes me is that we keep saying the same thing again," she said. "Every time we produce new estimates, they are above and beyond what we had projected from past estimates."
There are three types of diabetes: Type 1, Type 2 and gestational diabetes.
People who have Type 1 diabetes do not produce insulin, a hormone the body needs to convert sugar and starches into energy. Type 1 diabetes used to be called juvenile onset diabetes because it is usually diagnosed in adolescence. Around 5% of the diabetic population in the United States has Type 1 diabetes.
Cells offer hope for Type 1 diabetics
People with Type 2 diabetes have developed a resistance to the insulin their body produces. Most people who develop Type 2 diabetes are adults, although experts worry about the increasing number of young people being diagnosed.
Gestational diabetes occurs during pregnancy and can increase both the mother and baby's chances of developing Type 2 diabetes later in life.
According to the IDF report, China, India and the United States top the list for the most cases of diabetes per country; around 24.4 million Americans had the disease in 2013. But islands in the Pacific have the most alarming rates of prevalence, or the number of cases compared to the country's population overall.
For example, 37.5% of the population of Tokelau, located northeast of Fiji, has diabetes. Micronesia, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Qatar also reported higher-than-average prevalence rates. A large part of this is due to the growing obesity problem; while all types of diabetes are on the rise, the number of people with Type 2 diabetes is expected to double in less than 25 years.
"We started seeing big increases in prevalence in those islands maybe 20, 30 years ago," Guariguata said. "That coincides with rapid development." The discovery of natural resources on the islands, she explained, led to an influx of money in the population. People started eating more imported foods and moving less.
But diabetes is no longer considered just a rich man's disease, Guariguata said. Approximately 80% of the people living with diabetes are in low- and middle-income countries.
The Middle East and North Africa currently have the highest rates of adult diabetes prevalence compared to other world regions, according to the report, but Africa will see the greatest increase in cases over the next two decades. Urban centers in Africa are showing higher prevalence rates than cities in Europe, Guariguata said, and many cases go undiagnosed and untreated because of a lack of awareness in these countries.
In addition to those that already have diabetes, IDF estimates 316 million people have IGT, or impaired glucose tolerance - also known as prediabetes. These are people at a high risk of developing the disease.
"There is no country that has solved the problem for diabetes and no country has gotten it right," Guariguata said. "The good news for all of this is diabetes is imminently treatable, with cheap generic drugs that are available and (with) lifestyle change. We're not looking at a disease that we have absolutely no response for."
Here are some other significant statistics from the IDF report:
- An estimated 5.1 million people died of diabetes-related complications in 2013
- 17% of babies in 2013 were born to women with high blood sugar levels, a sign of gestational diabetes, which Guariguata says will contribute to the global diabetes burden in years to come
- More than 79,000 children developed Type 1 diabetes in 2013; that's up from 77,800 in 2011
- The equivalent of $548 billion was spent on health care for diabetes patients around the world in 2013
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Truth Matters Newsletters – July 2012 – Vol. 16 Issue 7 – BE AWARE
Discernment Ministries International
By Rev. Robert S. Liichow
Here is a PARTIAL {we could not listed them all} listing of some SINisters who DMI has been warning the church about and can be seen daily on a global basis on television and whose books fill the shelves of virtually all 'Christian' bookstores and many local church libraries (I hope your pastor checks out all the books donated for public use, you'd be surprised what we have found on local church libraries).
Che Ahn — prophetic movement, signs and wonders devotee
John Avanzini — TBN's 'bagman' a prosperity 'pimp' of the first rank.
Todd Bentley — convicted child molester, adulterer, remarried: The Reality of the Supernatural World: Exploring Heavenly Realms and Prophetic Experiences: Journey Into The Miraculous Kingdom; Kingdom Rising: Making the Kingdom Real in Your Life; Baptisms of Fire (DVD)
Reinhard Bonnke — Word of Faith heretic, decision theology, signs and wonders
William Branham (denied the Trinity) — considered the greatest prophet of our times, false teacher, false prophet, false sings and wonders. HUGE cult following today
Rodney Howard Browne — Word of Faith heretic, 'God's Bartender,' helped popularize holy laughter excess and attending spurious manifestations, false prophet, pastor and teacher.
Paul Cain — exposed as a homosexual alcoholic, false prophet, Proponent of today's New Apostolic Reformation.
Stacy & Wesley Campbell — false prophet & prophetess
Charles Capps — according to Copeland 'the greatest living theologian,' Word of Faith cult false teacher.
Morris Cerullo — false prophet, false teacher, prosperity pimp.
Paul Yongi Cho — Word of Faith heretic, pastor of the largest 'church' in world
Kim Clement — false prophet, teacher, TBN darling
Kenneth Copeland — current king of the WOF cult, false prophet, false teacher
Paul Crouch — responsible for the global export of heresy, paid off a homosexual to keep quiet, lair.
Jack Deere — charismaniac currently serving as a pastor, former DTS professor, false teacher.
Creflo Dollar — Kenneth Copeland's son in the Gospel, WOF heretic, prosperity pimp, recently assaulted his younger daughter.
Jesse Duplantis —WOF heretic, false prophet, false teacher
Francis Frangipane — Latter Rain dominionist heretic
Kenneth Hagin — So called 'father' of today's WOF cult, false prophet, false teacher.
Bill Hamon —false prophet, leader in the prophetic movement, false teacher.
Marilyn Hickey — WOF heretic, false teacher, prosperity pimp/gimmick queen.
Steve Hill — responsible for importing the Signs & wonders non-revival from England to America, signs and wonders devotee, false teacher/prophet
Benny Hinn — WOF heretic, false prophet/teacher/pastor, liar, fraud, adulterer, prosperity pimp.
Cindy Jacobs — false prophetess, started 'Generals of Intercession' based on an angelic visit
T.D. Jakes — Oneness heretic, prosperity pimp, false teacher
E.W. Kenyon — True father of the WOF cult
Joyce Meyer — WOF heretic, false teacher


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This is part of a series of posts I've entitled, "Stories From the Road." Each week I will post a new story from Rick Sikes, a Texas musician who traveled the roads of Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and out to California for well over twenty years. With hours to pass in a bus full of sweaty musicians, they found ways to entertain themselves. These stories are told in Rick Sikes' words. I'll do my best to correct grammar, but I want to keep them in his own voice.
"I had a tall skinny bass man that we used to play tricks on. His name was Thomas Jenkins but we all called him Red because he had red hair. He wore glasses with thick lenses. He had a lot of trouble with his eyes. I remember one time we were in a motel out in California when he went to sleep on the floor watching TV with his glasses on. My brother, Bobby, had some watercolors and he painted the lens on his glasses with red, yellow and orange paint. When it dried on them, after a minute or so, he put a paper sack in an aluminum pan and set it on fire. Once the room filled with smoke, everybody started hollering, "Fire, fire, fire." Red woke up. He jumped up off the floor and of course, all he could was red, orange and yellow and he could smell the smoke. He was panicking until he pulled his glasses off. Of course, he failed to see the humor in it but we were all rolling on the floor laughing.
Another thing we used to do to him when he would zonk out like that was spray shaving cream on his glasses. He would wake up and couldn't see anything but white shaving cream and he'd think he'd gone blind. I suppose that was pretty cruel, but it was all in fun. No harm was ever meant by it.
This same guy, Red Jenkins, greased his hair down with Brilliantine oil, that was popular back then. He was bad about falling asleep; one of those guys that nodded off real good, kind of a Rip Van Winkle sort of guy. So anyway, this time, someone else was driving, Red was in the middle and I was on the passenger side. Three other guys were in the back of the car and we were heading to a gig. I was wearing a white western shirt. Red went to sleep and fell over on my shoulder with that greasy head so I pushed his head back up. He didn't even wake up. We went a little farther down the road and he fell back over on my shoulder again. I raised his head back up but by this time I was getting a little perturbed. So, the third time he fell over on my shoulder, I popped him upside the head and told him to wake up. He said, "That's alright, you sonofabitch. You're gonna want to sleep someday." It was kinda funny though. The guys all cracked up when I popped him good.
I will say this about Red Jenkins. He always had my back. I met him when he was hitchhiking through Texas on the way to California. I stopped to give him a ride. He wound up staying with me and playing in the band for many years and even went to prison with me. I felt responsible for him. He wasn't real bright, but he could play good and he was loyal. I often wonder whatever happened to him…"


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Today's News: Our Take - Arrow Scoop: Alex Kingston Returning to Starling City!
Alex Kingston is returning to Arrow later this season, TVGuide.com has learned.
Kingston portrays Dinah Lance, the mother of Laurel Lance (Katie Cassidy), who first appeared last season with a theory that her daughter Sara (Caity Lotz) was still alive. We now know that Sara is, in fact, alive, but will Dinah be let in on the secret?
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Arrow star Stephen Amell first teased the news on Twitter. "Working with an actor for the first time today," he wrote. Executive producers Greg Berlanti and Andrew Kreisberg revealed that said actor is Kingston during a screening of the upcoming Flash episode on Monday.
Kingston, whose credits include ER, Doctor Who and NCIS, will appear in Episode 14.
Arrow airs Wednesdays at 8/7c on The CW.
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Sunday's announcement from the Obama campaign confirmed it: whatever other political roles it may play, the internet is one hell of a way to fund a campaign. Obama raised more than $150 million in September, adding over 630,000 new donors and more than doubling the previous monthly record haul, also his. To put that in context, in this one month he pulled in almost double the $84 million (supplemented by RNC funds) that McCain can spend for his entire general election campaign.
Though much of the money came from large fundraising events in Hollywood and elsewhere, the average donation was less than $100 (most much lower) and came inonline, and the new donors have swelled the Obama list to some 3.1 million people. Large donors hit their giving limits and top out relatively quickly, making them a limited resource. By contrast, small donors are the gift that keeps on giving, quite literally — Obama and other politicians who've assembled large online lists can go back to the same supporters over and over again. Plus, online donations help campaigns capitalize on bursts of attention and on changing conditions, since money given electronically is available for use immediately. The result? A massive Democratic advantage in TV ad spending, field office-staffing and volunteer organizing — and quite possibly a 2008 Democratic landslide.
We've seen the internet play a truly significant role in several ways over the two long years of the presidential campaign: online video shifted the candidates' fortunes more than once, for instance, most dramatically Barack Obama's during the heyday of the Reverend Jeremiah Wright last Spring. And the Obama-is-a-secret-Muslim emails still dog his steps, and even after months of aggressive debunking, they remain one of the truly effective weapons against him.
But nothing else online compares in long-term significance to the Obama's creation of an army of supporters willing to part with relatively small amounts of money over and over again. They saved him after a disappointing Super Tuesday and again when the Reverend Wright threatened fatal damage to his image, in both cases continuing to fund television commercials and field organizing in critical states (remember that string of 10-odd unanswered caucus victories?) — while also helping him avoid the "campaign-is-floundering-and-bankrupt" storyline that's doomed many an election run in the past. And if November 4th somehow turns out to be closer than the current polling suggests, they and the other millions on his supporter list may save him once again.
Of course all of this is no accident, and the Obama team takes great care in cultivating their list. For instance, they don't just ask for money, and when they do, it's often for only $5 or $10 (fundraising emails from the RNC generally emphasize the one-off big-money donations, by contrast). But Obama supporters are also likely to get strategy videos or reports from the campaign, along with chances to help out non-monetarily (voter-registration drives, block-walking, etc.). The Obama campaign clearly sees relationships with supporters as assets to be nurtured over a long period of time.
Their greatest importance may actually lie in the future, though, assuming an Obama victory — as he begins to move from running for office to governing a country, they'll give him an independent power base, a permanent tool to use to promote his agenda, pressure Congress and assure reelection. Farther down the road? Cult figure, world leader or celebrity, they can still help — and as long as they continue to believe in him, they'll be there.
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Twitter's new list feature is one of those things that seems simple on the surface and is easily ignored.
But it has deeply changed how I get my news and how I interact with the tech community.
Click through these lists and you'll see a different world than you would have thought possible on Twitter. This is the order I visit the lists in the morning:
Tech News Brands. Here's 500 tech news sources. Everything from the Wall Street Journal to TechCrunch. Watch this list for a few minutes and you'll be up to date on what's happening in tech right now. This is far more complete than Techmeme or Google News and far faster too.
Once I've gotten up to date on the news, I check out the people who write and produce the news. Here you'll find 491 journalists and bloggers and see what the back channel is. Often this is more interesting than the tech news brands, but it's lots of fun to flip back and forth while some big news story is breaking.
Want to know what the news will be tomorrow? Well, the rich guys who are funding companies often know what will be big and so I watch this list of 415 venture capitalists and angel investors to see what they are thinking about.
The venture capitalists, though, are fun to contrast with 447 people who founded their own companies. Often these two lists have divergent points of view that are fun to flip back and forth between.
After all that I visit the tech pundits list. These are 451 folks who love to tell you what they think happened.
If you're an entrepreneur I've built a list of weapons for you. Everything from stationary companies to Yammer, for keeping your team up to date. This is still a list in progress, so if you have a company that has a weapon for entrepreneurs, let me know!
What about tech company executives? I have a list of 283 who are CEOs, CTOs, CIOs, or VPs. Lots of times news gets announced by these people. Marissa Mayer, for instance, announced that Google had made a search deal with Twitter and if you were following this list you would have seen that.
Here's a list of 376 tech companies and their official PR accounts (everyone from Google to startups). I find a lot of new products here and find out about updates, too.
Web Hosting and Cloud Hosting/Cloud Computing list. 500 people, news sources, hosting companies (not just Rackspace, either). I'm trying to keep up to date on the hosting business and Cloud Computing and this is how I do it. Find a more complete list anywhere.
Everyone should watch their coworkers. I do the same, with a list of 302 Rackspace employees and data sources. Have you made a list of your coworkers? Why not?
These are my core information lists that I check many times per day.
But I have a few specialized lists too:
TechStartups: this is a list of 500 startups that most people won't have heard of yet (mostly early stage). I'll work on this list more over the next few weeks.
Geolocation (174 people and companies). I'm interested in developers and companies that are building new kinds of apps that use GPS and location. Things like Foursquare and Gowalla (both of those are on this list, along with the founders).
iPhone. 500 of the top iPhone app developers and companies and other influentials and programmers.
Twitter tools and devs (353). Twitter has a growing ecosystem of companies and people who are developing tools and services. This list has everyone I've been able to find so far.
Tech Event Organizers (239). These are people who run events and the events that they run. Everything from Emerging Tech to BarCamps.
Video or audio shows (101 people and shows). These are podcasts and video shows, mostly tech centric. Everything from Leo Laporte's shows to Gillmor Gang.
My favstar list (500 people). These are the people I've clicked "Favorite" on the most. Favstar.fm keeps track of who I favorite the most and puts them on this list. It's actually one of my favorite lists, but less focused than the others.
Web Innovators (79). If you've done something big for the Internet I put you on this list.
Programmers (306). I'm not sure what I'll do with this list in the future (Twitter limits me to 500 people and obviously there's more than 500 programmers in the world). But, if you are looking for what programmers think this is a good place to start.
Most influential in tech (225). This is my most followed list, but it's also the most subjective. What makes someone influential? Well, I study who has the respect of their peers and who gets stuff done. Or, who has a bully pulpit and can get things focused on.
Anyway, if you are looking for other lists, I highly recommend using Listorious, which is a service that tracks lists (you have to add yours, if you haven't you really should).
If you think you should be added to a list of mine, let me know in the comments here or drop me a line at firstname.lastname@example.com. Thanks and hope you get some value out of these. I know that these have dramatically changed my world.
A few other things: 1. you should check out my favorites list. Every day I put my favorite tweets on there. In about two months I've put 8,000 items on this list.
My favorite Twitter client is now Seesmic Web, which supports lists now (and other new Twitter features like Geolocation). The other day I interviewed the Seesmic team about these new features and the video is very telling.


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== See also ==
== See also ==
* [[fphttpclient]] Part of fcl-web that can be used stand-alone in client applications
* [[fphttpclient]] Part of fcl-web that can be used stand-alone in client applications
* ''write me!''fphttpserver Small stand alone Object Pascal web server. Can be used to serve fcl-web CGI applications.
* ''write me!''fphttpserver Small stand alone Object Pascal web server. Can be used to serve fcl-web CGI applications.
Revision as of 13:30, 8 December 2017
Template:Web and Networking Programming
What is fpWeb
fpWeb can be used to build cgi applications. We need more details here: what other functionality does it have, how does it compare to other frameworks/tools, e.g. Brook
Using fpWeb together with Lazarus
Installing the weblaz fpWeb Lazarus Package
The first step to do is installing the package which comes in the path lazarus/components/fpweb/weblaz.lpk. As usual with design-time packages, you'll have to rebuild Lazarus.
Creating a CGI application
After the weblaz package is installed, a very simple CGI web application which displays an HTML page can be created by going to the Lazarus menu "File->New...". From the list of possible applications select "CGI Application" as in the image below, which will create a main CGI project file and a fpweb web module.
The TFPWebModule allows you to manipulate properties and events using the Object Inspector.
To add code to show the page, a request handler should be added. To do this, double click the OnRequest property in the object inspector, as in the image below:
In the event handler one should write the HTML code which will be displayed by the browser. To avoid mixing Pascal and HTML, this page can be loaded from the directory the CGI executable is in by using AResponse.Contents.LoadFromFile().
The type of the response should be set in AResponse.ContentType. For HTML pages this should have the value 'text/html;charset=utf-8'.
Finally, Handled should be set to True to indicate that the request was successfully handled (and return a 200 OK status code to the browser). After adding this code, the web module should look like this:
unit mainpage;
{$mode objfpc}{$H+}
Classes, SysUtils, FileUtil, HTTPDefs, websession, fpHTTP, fpWeb;
{ TFPWebModule1 }
TFPWebModule1 = class(TFPWebModule)
procedure DataModuleRequest(Sender: TObject; ARequest: TRequest;
AResponse: TResponse; var Handled: Boolean);
{ private declarations }
{ public declarations }
FPWebModule1: TFPWebModule1;
{$R *.lfm}
{ TFPWebModule1 }
procedure TFPWebModule1.DataModuleRequest(Sender: TObject; ARequest: TRequest;
AResponse: TResponse; var Handled: Boolean);
AResponse.ContentType := 'text/html;charset=utf-8';
AResponse.Contents.LoadFromFile(ExtractFilePath(ParamStr(0)) + 'mainpage.html');
Handled := True;
RegisterHTTPModule('TFPWebModule1', TFPWebModule1);
Deploying the CGI application
This section assumes the Apache web server is used. Of course, other web servers that support CGI (nginx, cherokee) can be used, too.
Apache can be downloaded here: http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi or installed using your distribution's package manager.
The default installation of Apache will treat all files located in its cgi-bin directory as CGI programs, so the user won't be able to access plain HTML files placed there. This directory can be set in the file httpd.conf in the following section:
# # ScriptAlias: This controls which directories contain server scripts. # ScriptAliases are essentially the same as Aliases, except that # documents in the target directory are treated as applications and # run by the server when requested rather than as documents sent to the # client. The same rules about trailing "/" apply to ScriptAlias # directives as to Alias. # ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/cgi-bin/"
If you place an executable called "mywebpage.cgi" in this directory, then the page can be accessed as http://localhost/cgi-bin/mywebpage.cgi (or remotely with the corresponding IP address or domain name).
fcl-web with Lazarus on Windows produces .exe files. For Apache to serve these files you have to add this:
AddHandler cgi-script .exe
And to serve your executables from another directory, you add this:
ScriptAlias /bin/ "C:/lazarus_projects/test-fclweb/bin/" <Directory "C:/lazarus_projects/test-fclweb/bin/"> AllowOverride None Options None Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory>
Formatting the HTML and Reading Query fields
The previous example just showed a plain HTML page. One might wish to e.g.
- dynamically change the HTML page output, and
- as read the variables the browser passed to the webpage in Query fields (in e.g. HTTP GET and HTTP POST actions).
A simple solution for the first problem is simply using the standard Pascal routine Format and adding %s or %d in the HTML file in the appropriate places which will receive a custom value.
Reading GET data
To read the GET variables one can use ARequest.QueryFields, which is a TStrings descendent. Each variable will be in a separate line in the TStrings in the format variablename=value, similarly to how they are shown in the browser page address. To search for a specific variable one can use ARequest.QueryFields.Values[], passing the variable name in the brackets to receive its value back, instead of parsing the string manually.
The resulting code:
procedure TFPWebModule1.DataModuleRequest(Sender: TObject; ARequest: TRequest;
AResponse: TResponse; var Handled: Boolean);
HexText, AsciiText: string;
HexText := ARequest.QueryFields.Values['hex'];
AsciiText := HexToAnsii(HexText);
AResponse.ContentType := 'text/html;charset=utf-8';
AResponse.Contents.LoadFromFile(ExtractFilePath(ParamStr(0)) + 'mainpage.html');
AResponse.Contents.Text := Format(AResponse.Contents.Text,
[HexText, AsciiText]);
Handled := True;
Reading POST data
Data submitted by POST requests can be obtained from
TRequest.Content. It will come without the request headers - in other words it contains the body of the request.
Submitted form data can also be accessed using
TRequest.ContentFields which is the content parsed as fields separated by & and decoded. For example, the following set of form values:
login: dfg 345&& login_senha: ==== email: dfg
Will be encoded in 'APPLICATION/X-WWW-FORM-URLENCODED' like this (see wikipedia POST (HTTP)):
And will be available in TRequest.ContentFields via the line index or using the Values property, which is more convenient:
TRequest.ContentFields[0]: login=dfg 345&& TRequest.ContentFields[1]: login_senha===== TRequest.ContentFields[2]: email=dfg TRequest.ContentFields.Values['email']: dfg
If using other mime-types than 'MULTIPART/FORM-DATA' and 'APPLICATION/X-WWW-FORM-URLENCODED' (the types supported by HTML forms):
- content is only available in TRequest.Content, not TRequest.ContentFields
- use of these mime-types raises an exception for FPC 2.4.2 (fixed in FPC 2.5+).
Note that HTTP POST can also send Query fields (in the URL), e.g. http://server/bla?question=how, and those are accessed by TRequest.QueryFields as explained in the previous section.
procedure TFPWebModule1.DataModuleRequest(Sender: TObject; ARequest: TRequest;
AResponse: TResponse; var Handled: Boolean);
lData: String;
lData := ARequest.Content;
Reading POST binary data
To receive data on the server that has been POSTed e.g. as multipart/form-data, use something like this:
procedure TMainWebModule.TFPWebActions2Request(Sender: TObject;
ARequest: TRequest; AResponse: TResponse; var Handled: Boolean);
i: Integer;
// Process all received files
for i := 0 to ARequest.Files.Count - 1 do
// Doing something else than writeln is highly recommended ;)
writeln ('Received Filename: '+ARequest.Files[i].LocalFileName);
Handled := true;
The client can send data using e.g. FileFormPost.
Using multiple modules
If there is only one module in the web application, all requests will be directed to this module.
As your web application grows, multiple modules can be used. A new module can be added by choosing 'File - New' and then one of 'Web module' or 'HTML Web Module'.
FCL-web uses the URL to determine how a HTTP request should be handled. It must therefore know which web-modules exist in the application. To achieve this, each module must be registered.
Each module is registered with fcl-web in the initialization section of the unit it is defined in:
RegisterHTTPModule('location', TMyModule);
The module will then be invoked if an URL of the form
is used.
If multiple modules are present, the name of the module must appear in the URL, or an error will be raised.
This behaviour can also be forced for applications that have only a single module by setting the Application's property AllowDefaultModule to false:
Application.AllowDefaultModule := False;
In that case, the fcl-web application will always require the name of the module in the URL.
The name of the request variable that determines the module name (by default, this is 'module') can be set in the Application.ModuleVariable property. The following code
Application.ModuleVariable := 'm';
ensures that the following URL is directed to TMyModule:
If all this is not enough to determine the module to which the request should be passed, the Application.OnGetModule event can be used. It is of type TGetModuleEvent:
TGetModuleEvent = Procedure (Sender : TObject; ARequest : TRequest;
Var ModuleClass : TCustomHTTPModuleClass) of object;
Creating an event handler for this event allows fine control over the module that is created to handle the request: the request (passed in ARequest) can be examined, and the 'ModuleClass' variable must be set to the class of the module that should handle the request.
If 'ModuleClass' is 'Nil' on return, an error will be sent to the browser.
Using Actions
A module can be used to group certain kinds of actions that logically belong together. Imagine a module TUserModule that is used to handle user management in the webpages. There can be multiple actions associated with a user:
- Creating
- Deleting
- Editing
- Displaying
These different actions can be handled by the same module. One can determine the action from the URL manually, as in:
This can be automated.
In order to make it easier to distinguish between various actions, the module has a property actions: this is a collection, in which each item is associated with a different response to the request. The actions have various properties:
- Name
- The name of the action. The URL will be examined to determine the name of the action.
- Content
- A string. If set, this is sent to the browser.
- Contents
- A stringlist. If set, this is sent to the browser.
- ContentProducer
- If set, the contentproducer will handle the request.
- Default
- if set to 'True', then this action is the default action. That means that if FCL-Web cannot determine the action name, this action will be executed.
- Template
- If set, this template will be processed, and the results sent to the browser.
There are also some events:
- BeforeRequest
- executed before the request is processed. Can be used to set the 'Content' or other properties.
- AfterRequest
- executed after the request is processed.
- OnRequest
- an event handler to handle the request. If set, the handler is used to handle the request.
Again, as in the case of multiple modules, the URL is used to determine which action to execute. The part right after the module part ("user" in this example) is used:
would execute the action named 'delete'.
The 'ActionVar' property of the module can be used to set the name of the request variable to use. Setting
UserModule.ActionVar := 'a';
may be used to change the above URL to
If there is only one module in the application, the URL can be shortened to
Using HTML Templates
For information about using templates, template tags and template tag parameters to generate response pages, please refer to the fptemplate.txt file under your FPC directory in /packages/fcl-base/texts/.
Example projects that demonstrate using templates can be found under your FPC directory in /packages/fcl-web/examples/fptemplate/ (see the README.txt in there for more). (In earlier versions, these examples were in the Lazarus directory in /components/fpweb/demo/fptemplate/)
Tips & troubleshooting
Sending result codes
To send a different HTTP response than 200 OK, use AResponse.Code and AResponse.CodeText, e.g.
AResponse.CodeText:='Document not found';
Sending binary data
An approach that seems to work to send e.g. a tiff file from the web server to the client - adapted from $(fpcdirectory)\packages\fcl-web\examples\jsonrpc\demo1\wmdemo.pp - something like:
AResponse.ContentStream := TMemoryStream.Create;
AResponse.ContentType := 'image/tiff'; //or whatever MIME type you want to send
// to do: there is an fpweb example that gets the mime type from the file extension...
AResponse.ContentLength:=AResponse.ContentStream.Size; //apparently doesn't happen automatically?
Handled := true;
Error: Could not determine HTTP module for request
You may have multiple modules and multiple actions. If you specify an URL with only 1 item, like:
then fpweb assumes you're specifying an action. If you don't have a default module set, you will get a 500 internal server error (Could not determine HTTP module for request)
You can modify this behaviour to let fpweb map to a module name instead by setting the application's PreferModuleName property to true.
Error: response code 500 Internal Server error when trying to handle DELETE method
In FPC 2.6.2 and lower, fcl-web does not accept the DELETE method and generates an error.
fpWeb/FCGI and Apache 2.4 (mod_proxy_fcgi mode)
When you want to deploy FCGI application behind Apache 2.4+ reverse proxy, you need PATH_INFO variable in headers that are sent via socket to FCGI daemon.
1, Enable following modules: setenvif_module, proxy_module and proxy_fcgi_module
(on CentOS 7 modules are defined in file /etc/httpd/conf.modules.d/00-base.conf and /etc/httpd/conf.modules.d/00-proxy.conf).
LoadModule setenvif_module modules/mod_setenvif.so LoadModule proxy_module modules/mod_proxy.so LoadModule proxy_fcgi_module modules/mod_proxy_fcgi.so
2, Reverse proxy configuration for fpWeb/FCGI listening on port 9000.
$1 = module name
$2 = action name
SetEnvIf Request_URI . proxy-fcgi-pathinfo=full ProxyPassMatch "/fcgi/(.*)/(.*)" "fcgi://127.0.0.1:9000/$1/$2"
- The cgiapp unit is deprecated, please use fpcgi as much as possible.
- The fastcgi, custfcgi, and fpfcgi units are not supported on Darwin at this time, because it uses a different mechanism than the MSG_NOSIGNAL option for recv() to indicate that no SIGPIPE should be raised in case the connection breaks. See http://lists.apple.com/archives/macnetworkprog/2002/Dec/msg00091.html for how this should be fixed.
- If you deploy your CGI application and get errors like "Error: No action name and no default action", you should make sure there's an action assigned to the URL, or catch non-supported actions with an action marked Default. In both cases, an OnRequest event handler for the action that sets Handled:=true should be used.
See also
- fcl-web tutorial (in pdf) by Leledumbo
- fphttpclient Part of fcl-web that can be used stand-alone in client applications
- write me!fphttpserver Small stand alone Object Pascal web server. Can be used to serve fcl-web CGI applications.
- CGI_Web_Programming#Debugging_CGI Information about debugging CGI applications
- Part of a tutorial by Leonardo Ramé that shows how to program an fcl-web CGI application; includes example of generating JSON content


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Frosty nights have arrived here in New York's Hudson Valley. Sadly, this means the end of tender plants including tomatoes.
If you're able to salvage some green tomatoes from your vines in time (or if your favorite farmer's market or your CSA has some), this heavily spiced chutney is a great way to put them to use.
This chutney is excellent with any Indian dish as well as on sandwiches or wraps (I like it with organic turkey); it's also delicious atop scrambled eggs. If you don't seed the jalapeños, it ends up quite fiery: feel free to seed them if that's not your "thing".
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This Green Tomato Chutney is my entry for Weekend Herb Blogging #255. This week's host is Prof. Kitty of The Cabinet of Professor Kitty. WHB is managed by Haalo…please see this post for more information!
Green Tomato Chutney Recipe
- *1 tablespoon peanut oil
- *1 garlic clove peeled and minced
- *2 jalapeño peppers with seeds, chopped
- *3 shallots peeled and chopped
- *1/4 cup uncrystallized candied ginger available at Trader Joes or use 1-2 tablespoons of fresh ginger, and consider adding a little more sweetener
- *1 large or 2 small green or red bell peppers cored, seeded and chopped
- *10 green tomatoes cored and chopped
- *sea salt
- *2 cardamom pods
- *1/2 teaspoon mustard seed
- *1/2 teaspoon coriander seed
- *1/2 teaspoon cumin seed
- *1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- *1/2 cup apple cider vinegar
- *2 tablespoons grated palm sugar or brown sugar
- 1. Heat peanut oil in a pan over medium heat. Add garlic, jalapenos, shallots, ginger, and bell peppers. Cook for 3-4 minutes.
- 2. Add green tomatoes and salt. Cook, stirring the contents of the pan around, for another 2 minutes.
- 3. Add the spices (mustard seed through cayenne), stir around for a minute or two, and then add the vinegar and the sugar. Bring to a boil, then reduce the heat to a simmer and cook for about 30 minutes more.
- 4. Allow to cool a bit and taste for seasoning. Add more salt, cayenne, or sugar, if needed. Spoon into glass jar(s) and store in the refrigerator...it should keep for about a month.


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MANHATTAN, Kan. – In the midst of one of the greatest seasons in school history, Kansas State quarterback Collin Klein was named the recipient of the 2012 Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award, the award's foundation announced today.
Klein is the first Wildcat to pick up the honor and the fifth from the Big 8/12 since the award's inception in 1987. The Loveland, Colo., product earned K-State's first major college football award since Terence Newman won the 2002 Jim Thorpe Award.
"It's a tremendous honor," said Klein. "Anyone that is familiar with the game of football recognizes that name. I'm just happy to represent Kansas State, our team and what we've been able to accomplish this season."
The 2012 Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award will be presented to Klein on Friday at the 2012 award celebration held at The Royal Sonesta Harbor Court Hotel in Baltimore, Md.
"Collin is not just a tremendous athlete and leader on the field, but an MVP off the field as well, who repeatedly has been recognized for his numerous contributions to the community and to the spirit of sportsmanship" says John C. Unitas, Jr., President of The Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Educational Foundation. "Collin joins a prestigious list of top quarterbacks who embody the characteristics that made Johnny Unitas such an enduring legend, including many who have gone on to illustrious careers in the NFL."
Klein guided Kansas State to its third conference championship and first since 2003 with a 42-24 victory over No. 18 Texas Saturday. In that contest, Klein rushed for 102 yards and two touchdowns, while throwing for 184 and another touchdown on 8-of-14 aim.
Along with 26 other seniors, Klein has led the Wildcats to their seventh 11-win season in school history and second BCS bowl berth as the Wildcats will play in the 42nd Annual Tostitos Fiesta Bowl. The Loveland, Colo., product has accounted for 37 touchdowns this year to rank 11th nationally in touchdown responsibility, while he is tied for second nationally and tops among quarterbacks with 22 rushing touchdowns. He is the only quarterback from a BCS AQ school in the BCS era to rush for at least 20 touchdowns and pass for at least 10 touchdowns in multiple seasons.
In 12 games this year, Klein has completed 180-of-272 passes for 2,490 yards and 15 touchdowns while totaling 890 rushing yards on 194 attempts. He ranks eighth in school history in passing yardage and 10th in touchdowns, while he is tied for tied for seventh in completions. Additionally, his current season pass efficiency rating of 156.12 ranks third in school history, while he is tied for second in rushing touchdowns behind his school-record 27 scores last season.
As a player who will go down as one of the best in K-State history as both a passer and runner, Klein ranks in the top 10 in school history in rushing touchdowns (1st; 55), touchdown responsibility (1st; 84), scoring (2nd; 336), total yards (3rd; 7,028), passing efficiency (3rd; 141.05), rushing attempts (3rd; 588), rushing yards (5th; 2,455), completions (5th, 353), passing touchdowns (t6th; 29), passing yards (7th; 4,573) and pass attempts (8th; 572). His 55 rushing touchdowns also rank fourth in Big 12 history and second among quarterbacks.
Named after the man many refer to as the greatest quarterback ever to play the game of football, the prestigious Golden Arm Award is presented annually by the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Educational Foundation, Inc. and Transamerica.
Candidates for the Golden Arm Award must be completing their college eligibility or be a fourth-year junior on schedule to graduate with his class. Candidates are judged upon character, citizenship, scholastic achievement, leadership qualities and athletic accomplishments. Other 2012 finalists included Matt Barkley (USC), E.J. Manuel (Florida State), A.J. McCarron (Alabama) and Geno Smith (West Virginia).
Established in 1987, the award previously has been presented to 25 outstanding young men. Past winners include Peyton Manning (Tennessee, 1997), Carson Palmer (USC, 2002), Eli Manning (Ole Miss, 2003), Brady Quinn (Notre Dame, 2006), Matt Ryan (Boston College, 2007), Colt McCoy (Texas, 2009) and most recently Andrew Luck (Stanford, 2011).
No. 5 Kansas State will take on fourth-ranked Oregon in the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl on Thursday, January 3, 2013, at University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Ariz. The game, which kicks off at 7:30 p.m. (CT), will be televised by ESPN.
For full video wrap-ups, including analysis, highlights, coaches & player interviews of K-State Football & Basketball check out PowerCatGameday.com
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