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Howdy, pardners! If you're worried that David is hogtied to a railroad track or doing time in the pokey, rest assured he's not—David is still very much the author and owner of Precocious Curmudgeon. In his typically gracious fashion, however, David offered me a temporary place to hang my five-gallon hat after I left PopCultureShock and lit out for the territory. Most of my reviews will focus on manga, though I may share thoughts on noteworthy music, movies, and books as well. I'm very honored to be David's guest and promise not to sully his good name.
As you might have guessed from that cornpone introduction, I recently finished the first volume of Yu Yugami's Go West! (CMX), a high-spirited adventure from the creator of Those Who Hunt Elves, Dokkoida?!, and Hikkatsu! (Looking at that list of titles, I'm beginning to wonder if Yagami's editor is inordinately fond of emphatic punctuation marks. But I digress.) Go West! tells the story of Naomi, a plucky teen on a mission to find the parents from whom she was separated eighteen years earlier. With few clues to guide her search, Naomi rides west, where she believes her parents intended to settle. Naomi's efforts are helped and hindered by a colorful assortment of characters, from Gunman, a taciturn bounty hunter who takes his fashion cues from Clint Eastwood, to Red Bullet, a horse incapable of deviating from a straight line, cacti and buildings be damned.
Yagami's vision of the American West is pure Hollywood. His towns look like stage sets, with swinging-door saloons and dusty Main Streets, while his landscapes resemble the Monument Valley—all that's missing is a howling coyote. The very fakeness of the setting actually works in favor of Go West!, as it suits the story's cartoonish, hyperbolic tone. It also grants Yagami license to mix-and-match genre conventions, as he borrows plot points and character types from blaxploitation and kung-fu movies.
Those characters are both an asset and a liability to the story. Naomi, for example, often comes across as a shonen hero in drag, as she's brash, determined, and astonishingly naive to the point of seeming dim-witted. Yet her can-do spirit and sheer gutsiness are welcome attributes in a female lead; Naomi radiates confidence and purpose, inspiring others to follow her example.
Naomi's flamboyant bodyguard Mingo Bomber, on the other hand, is primarily defined by his appearance—an unfortunate decision on Yagami's part, as Mingo is the only black character in the story. Yagami doesn't give Mingo much to do except dispatch a few bad guys and announce that Naomi is his long-lost sister. That joke is beaten into the ground, yet never yields a single laugh; it's both tasteless and toothless, and serves little dramatic purpose other than underscoring the characters' racial identities. (In one of the series' more bizarre anachronisms, Naomi claims to be from "the Far East." Students of American history may remember that nineteenth-century statutes explicitly banned Asian women from entering the United States as a strategy for deterring Chinese immigration.)
The artwork is also a mixed bag. Yagami shies away from screentone, preferring spidery line work and bold, black patches to delineate space and objects. Most of the time, his approach works beautifully, yielding clean layouts that give his characters room to breathe. His fist-fights and shoot-outs, however, would benefit from a more judicious and varied use of tone to transform the tangle of lines and unidentified flying objects into body parts, bullets, breaking chairs, etc. so that the reader can make sense of what's happening.
As with Yagami's other work, Go West! is often more frantic than funny, with characters fussin' and fightin' and repeatin' themselves, seldom to good effect. Yet Go West! has undeniable charm. Yagami grasps an important truth about the West: it's not a place or a time period but a state of mind, a stage on which seekers and scam artists alike act out their dreams. However anachronistic or limited his characters may be, they hanker for a better life, know the value of camaraderie, and display true grit when circumstances demand it. Sounds like a Western to me.


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Seagate Momentus 7200.3 320GB Notebook Hard Drive
Seagate Momentus 7200.3 Hard Drives
Seagates Momentus 7200.3 hard drive is a very popular 7,200 RPM, 320GB hard drive for performance and gaming notebooks. The drive can be found in everything from Dell XPS and Alienware laptops to retail store shelves around the world. This 2.5 inch form factor drive features the latest and greatest SATA 3.0 Gbit/second interface as well as a 16MB cache that enhances performance. This means that the Momentus 7200.3 hard drives are ideal for mainstream and performance-class laptops, small form factor PCs and even workstations. The Momentus 7200.3 is the third generation 7200 RPM hard drive from Seagate and features a number of improvements over the 7200.2 series of hard drives that we have reviewed in this past article.
As previously mentioned, the Seagate 7200.3 is the third generation of 7200rpm Momentus series drives. The drive is able to store 320GB on two platters rather than just 200GB due to the fact that the data density is higher per platter. The Seagate Momentus 7200.3 laptop hard drive will still fit in any device that has a 2.5-inch drive space.
Hard Drive Features:
- Form Factor: 2.5″ x 1/8H
- Capacity: 320 GB
- Interface Type: Serial ATA-300
- Buffer Size: 16 MB
- Features: Native Command Queuing (NCQ), Perpendicular Recording
- Drive Transfer Rate: 300 MBps (external) / 80 MBps (internal)
- Seek Time: 11 ms (average)
- Average Latency: 4.17 ms
- Spindle Speed: 7200 RPM
- Shock Tolerance: 350 g @ 2ms (operating) / 1000 g @ 1ms (non-operating)
- Manufacturer Warranty: 3 year limited warranty
The back of this 2.5″ notebook hard drive gives a better look at the SATA power connector and the SATA NCQ interface. There is a jumper just to the left of the SATA data connection that enables the drive's 3GB/s speeds. With the jumper in place the speed is limited at 1.5GB/s, and with it removed the full potential of the drive is unlocked. This OEM drive was shipped to us with no jumper installed.
Now that we know the basics on the Seagate Momentus 7200.3 320B hard drive, let's move on to the benchmarks!
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If a general and his men fear death and are apprehensive over possible defeat, then they will unavoidably suffer defeat and death. But if they make up their minds, from the general down to the last footsoldier, not to think of living but only of standing in one place and facing death together, then, though they may have no other thought than meeting death, they will instead hold on to life and gain victory.
To consider oneself different from ordinary men is wrong, but it is right to hope that one will not remain like ordinary men.
One who aspires to greatness should read and study, pursuing the True Way with such a firm resolve that he is perfectly straightforward and open, rises above the superficialities of conventional behavior, and refuses to be satisfied with the petty or commonplace.
Those who take up the science of war must not fail to master the [Confucian] Classics. The reason is that arms are dangerous instruments and not necessarily forced for good. How can we safely entrust them to any but those who have schooled themselves in the precepts of the Classics and can use these weapons for the realization of Humanity and Righteousness? To quell violence and disorder, to repulse barbarians and brigands, to rescue living souls from agony and torture, to save the nation from imminent downfall-these are the true ends of Humanity and Righteousness. If, on the contrary, arms are taken up in a selfish struggle to win land, goods, people, and the implements of war, is it not the worst of all evils, the most heinous of all offenses? If, further, the study of offensive and defensive warfare, of the way to certain victory in all encounters, is not based on those principles which should govern their employment, who can say that such venture will not result in just such a misfortune? Therefore, I say that those who take up the science of war must not fail to master the Classics.
Once a man's will is set, he need no longer rely on others or expect anything from the world. His vision encompasses Heaven and earth, past and present, and the tranquility of his heart is undisturbed.
In relations with others, one should express resentment and anger openly and straightforwardly. If one cannot express them openly and straightforwardly, the only thing to do is forget about them. To harbor grievances in one's heart, awaiting some later opportunity to give vent to them, is to act like a weak and petty man-in truth, it can only be called cowardice. The mind of the superior man is like Heaven. When it is resentful or angry, it thunders forth its indignation. But once having loosed its feelings, it is like a sunny day with a clear sky: within the heart there remains not the trace of a cloud. Such is the beauty of true manliness.
What I mean by the 'pursuit of learning' is not the ability to read classical texts and study ancient history, but to be fully acquainted with conditions all over the world and to have a keen awareness of what is going on abroad and around us. Now from what I can see world trends and conditions are still unsettled, and as long as they remain unsettled there is still a chance that something can be done. First, therefore, we must rectify conditions in our own domain, after which conditions in other domains can be rectified. This having been done, conditions at court can be rectified and finally conditions throughout the whole world can be rectified. First one must set an example oneself and then it can be extended progressively to others. This is what I mean by the 'pursuit of learning.'
From the beginning of the year to the end, day and night, morning and evening, in action and repose, in speech and in silence, the warrior must keep death constantly before him and have ever in mind that the one death [which he has to give] should not be suffered in vain. In other words [he must have perfect control over his own death] just as if he were holding an intemperate steed in rein. Only he who truly keeps death in mind this way can understand what is meant by [Yamaga Soko's maxim of] 'preparedness.'
Nowadays everyone lives selfishly and seeks only the leisure in which to indulge his own desires. They look on all the beauties of nature-the rivers and mountains, the breeze and the moon-as their own to enjoy, forgetting what the shrine of the Sun Goddess stands for. The common man thinks of his life as his own and refuses to perform his duty to his lord. The samurai regards his household as his own private possession and refuses to sacrifice his life for his state. The feudal lords regard their domains as their own and refuse to serve King and Country. Unwilling to serve King and Country, at home they cherish only the objects of desire and abroad they willingly yield to the foreign barbarian, inviting defeat and destruction. Thus the scenic beauties they enjoy will not long remain in their possession.
As things stand now the feudal lords are content to look on while the shogunate carries on in a highhanded manner. Neither the lords nor the shogun can be depended upon, and so our only hope lies in grass-roots heroes.
Life and death, union and separation, follow hard upon one another. Nothing is steadfast but the will, nothing endures but one's achieve-ments. These alone count in life.
Once the will is resolved, one's spirit is strengthened. Even a peasant's will is hard to deny, but a samurai of resolute will can sway ten thou-sand men.
It seems hopeless, hopeless. Those who eat meat [at public expense] are a mean, selfish lot, and so the country is doomed. Our only hope lies in the grass-roots folk who eat our traditional food.
What is important in a leader is a resolute will and determination. A man may be versatile and learned, but if he lacks resoluteness and determination, of what use will he be?
If the body dies, it does no harm to the mind, but if the mind dies, one can no longer act as a man even though the body survives.
When I consider the state of things in our fief, I find that those who hold positions and receive official stipends are incapable of the utmost in loyalty and patriotic service. Loyalty of the usual sort-perhaps, but if it is true loyalty and service you seek, then you must abandon this fief and plan a grass-roots uprising.
If Heaven does not completely abandon this land of the Gods, there must be an uprising of grass-roots heroes.
If the plan [to intercept the shogunate emissary to the Kyoto court] is to be carried out, it can only be done with men from the grass roots. To wear silk brocades, eat dainty food, hug beautiful women, and fondle darling children are the only things hereditary officials care about. To revere the emperor and expel the barbarian is no concern of theirs. If this time it should be my misfortune to die, may my death inspire at least one or two men of steadfast will to rise up and uphold this principle after my death.
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Passion For Traction –
Andy Owen has been managing director of MasterMover since 2007. Here, he talks to Simon Duddy about the company's ethos, new products on the horizon, and how he has developed the company in recent years, expanding into new industries and territories, such as Brazil.
Simon Duddy: What makes MasterMover tick? Andy Owen: We think a lot about traction, it's important to us. If you want to put extra weight on a unit to develop traction, it's a restrictive and inefficient way of doing it. What makes us stand out is our patented design that allows customers to move heavy loads with relatively light equipment.
Our industrial tug range uses a weight transfer principle, and utilises a hydraulic lifting device, which sits over the top of the drive wheel.
When our interface connects with the coupling system, it creates an upwards force. We're using some of the weight of the load to generate a tractive effort.
But it's not just about moving the load, smooth operation is key and we deliver this. The operator only needs to concern himself with steering, if he wants to stop he simply lets go, and in a controlled manner, the tug comes to a stop.
All products are AC driven. This allows us to programme the machines. For example, for in the pharmaceuticals industry we could be moving a 1,500kg load carrying fluid. The customer doesn't want abrupt stops that move the fluid, they want very controlled movement.
In essence, a machine can have a host of technologies – motors, control systems, electronics, to create power and drive, but if the wheel is spinning on the floor, the power is worthless. Traction is key and that is what we have mastered.
In addition, we are proud to be a UK owned manufacturer that designs and builds its own products.
SD: Can you tell me other ways in which your products are used? AO: Our equipment is perfect for where people are. The machines are pedestrian operated, safe in comparison to forklifts and easy to pick up and use. They don't have the restrictions of licensing associated with forklifts. We're seeing customers say they want to move away from using forklifts inside premises.
There is greater demand for space, it cannot be wasted, companies want to use space for valued production, not as space for forklifts to operate.
It can be expensive to add extensions and buy new premises, so there is an imperative to maximise space. These companies can achieve this with our smaller machines.
In factories that manufacture high volume products, our tugs are used to move products and components from point to point in the manufacturing process. Interestingly, in low volume, high value manufacturing (such as aerospace), the tug can become the semi-automated track. The product becomes a low cost 'conveyor', if you like.
SD: Tell us more about the safety benefits of using your machines? AO: The use of the tugs reduces the risk of manual handling injuries. We do a lot of work in the healthcare and retail sectors, which are very reliant on roll cages. One person generally will move one roll cage manually and these can carry 500kg.
Our Smart Mover takes the strain off operatives. In addition, it increases efficiency. It is a small device and is capable of moving multiple cages. We've had feedback from retail users saying it resembles a hoover, it's dead easy to use, hooks up to the first cage, and we've developed systems to allow the tug to pull a train. We find that safety and efficiency improvements go hand-in-hand.
SD: Can we expect to see any new products soon? AO: We will launch two new products next year, one for the industrial market and one for the healthcare market.
We're also always looking at new conversions and adapters for the machines. The attachment side is very important, and has to be designed well. We test our attachments thoroughly as customers may want to move 8 tonnes point to point, and will want it to work in a straightforward way.
It is important in the healthcare market, for example, to make sure machines can interact with the various equipment clients have, while at the same time being as intuitive and easy to use as possible. After all, lots of people in healthcare are not accustomed to using industrial equipment. There is a learning curve.
SD: As a business, how have you coped with the downturn? AO: In a number of ways. For one, we feel in slower times companies spend longer on the procurement process, which works in our favour.
Companies are looking more closely at improving efficiency and this gives us the opportunity to present our offer and get them to look at their processes differently.
Exports have also been important.
We've always exported but in 2007, when I took over as md, we began to push the exports side more, albeit that we decided to take it in bite-sized chunks. We built the foundation before the recession, so that after 2009 when the manufacturing side slipped in the UK, we were already growing exports. For example, we now have over 100 machines in Brazil, and we started that connection in 2008. Our business has been growing at about 15% per year since 2007, with exports contributing significantly. In 2007 less than 5% of our business was exports, this year it will be close to 40%.
Thirdly, our diversification into other sectors, such as healthcare, helped when the economy slowed.


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Cellulosic Ethanol
Ethanol has been used as gasoline in the usa since at the very least 1908. Touted being a prospective help for the fossil gas issue, cellulosic ethanol will be the only sustainable energy provider which can be made in enough quantity to produce a dent in gasoline consumption. Cellulosic ethanol, the biofuel that is different from corn-dependent ethanol in that it can be made from pretty much any organic subject, is straightforward to make and possesses as the resource an inexhaustible resource – city and county waste. Cellulose (C6H10O5)n is a long-sequence polymer creating the key structural part of natural plants and flowers. Cellulose ethanol reveals a world wide web vitality content 3 x greater than corn ethanol and emits a minimal world wide web level of green house gases.
Cellulosic ethanol showed garden greenhouse gas emission savings of about 80% in comparison with standard fuels. Research is becoming financed to make us totally free of non-domestic fuel by more effective synthesis of domestically made biofuel. Solutions of biomass that could be transformed into cellulosic ethanol in many instances are adverse price feedstock. They cost more to discard rather than to approach into gasoline.
A microbe traditions digests natural and organic issue and creates ethanol as being a byproduct, in a fourth the store cost of a gallon of fuel. Business people are utilizing their business funds to create processing plant life that can come to be operational in the next 18 to 24 weeks. Cellulosic ethanol is in the radar monitor of big company and can be a substantial assist reducing our gasoline turmoil.
The Cellulose Fermentation Process
In biomass, Glucose C6 sugars is likely to cellulose, and Xylose (C5) is locked in hemicellulose. Considering that normal yeast can't ferment Xylose, genetically engineered E. coli microorganisms is used in an swap response road to transform nearly all the Xylose into ethanol. The cellulose in Fermentable Biomass is damaged into Xylose sugar (gray bar). Then this Xylose is segregated through the outstanding cellulose (light blue bar). The Xylose is fermented with E. coli (top rated yellow-colored), and the cellulose it broken down into typical blood sugar (reddish) which is fermented the standard way (bottom part discolored). Ultimately each of the ethanol is distilled (this type of water and lignin by-products eliminated). The lignin is burnt in the the still's boilers. Lignin kinds the woody mobile phone surfaces of vegetation as well as the "concrete" between them.
Natural Gas
Natural gas offers several advantages short term in this the product, its pipelines, storage, and dispensing stations happen to be within the infrastructure for size transit globally. There are actually over 1,300 gas vehicle (NGV) fueling stations inside the U.S. – over half are accessible for general public use. Very low emissions. Using a cost approximately 1 / 3 lower than gas, natural gas cars most economically work fleet automobiles. NGVs are most useful for fleets because fleets generally run numerous automobiles that happen to be centrally maintained and supported, and traveling more miles everyday compared to average individual use automobile.
* taxi cabs
* transit vehicles
* university vehicles
* airport terminal shuttles
* over-the-highway trucks
* refuse haulers
* delivery service vehicles
* forklifts
Propane gas
Another popular alternative fuel option for vehicles is propane gas (LPG) by having an infrastructure of pipelines, digesting establishments, and storage space already in support. Propane gas is created being a by-merchandise crude oil polishing. With about 200,000 propane gas cars in the usa contributing to 9 million worldwide, moving up intake of this gasoline over fuel could restrict pollutants and climatic change.
Autos run by reprocessed plant gas from eating places and fast-meals bones is undoubtedly an idea that is under some critical inspection by environment teams. Even if this option gas can be inexpensive and clear, there simply isn't enough of it to create a large ding within our gasoline intake.
The conversion to cooking essential oil is easy and cheap. It costs about $800 to transform a car using a diesel motor to run on plant gas. Precisely what is required is undoubtedly an additional fuel tank that contains a heating element on the inside. The oil must be held very hot to burn. Also needed are gasoline facial lines up to the motor, filtration systems, valves, and toggle changes therefore the vehicle driver can decide in between working on veggie oils or on typical diesel gasoline.
In the negative aspect would be the information that no structure is now into position to make the cooking oils energy offered commercially. One currently has to make preparations with community dining places to obtain the gas, typically presented readily. You need to also filtration system the preparing food oil for solids left over through the frying procedure. With limited cooking gas sources offered, there is little probability that commerce will probably be motivated to build up the desired wide-spread system to make the gasoline a lot more readily available. Organic gas fuel for autos may obtain with the grass beginnings stage, and might eventually become more wide-spread, especially when gas costs improve.
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(Since today is the Memorial Day holiday, I am taking a break and doing a repost.)
There is a famous and funny old sketch called the Five Minute University in which comedian Don Novello acts in his character of Father Guido Sarducci.
As he says, when students study theology at his university, all they will learn are the answers to the two questions: "Where is god?" (Answer: God is everywhere) and "Why?" (Answer: Because he likes you). I am beginning to think that the answer to the first question is absolutely correct.
Take a look at this picture of a cut tree stump that is in a churchyard in Ireland. What do you see?
Nothing? Just a tree stump that someone has cut in an odd way? Oh ye of little faith! To the devout this looks like the Virgin Mary and they think its appearance is (what else?) a miracle. People are making pilgrimages to pray around it. Over 2,000 have signed a petition objecting to plans to uproot the stump, and want to convert it into a permanent shrine of some sort.
The thing that strikes me is that recently Jesus and Mary seem to be showing up all over the place, in slices of toast, grilled cheese sandwiches, womb ultrasounds, Marmite jar lid, Kit Kat bar, shower curtain, cheese curl (the last one has been dubbed 'Cheesus'), dental x-rays, mugs of hot chocolate, even on the backside of a dog and in bird droppings.
Commenter Chris sent me this compilation of a huge number of Jesus sightings that local TV news shows love to report on. There seems to be an epidemic.
The one newsperson had it right when she said, "You know, it seems like if Jesus was going to show up somewhere it wouldn't be in ice cream."
Such stories, apart from revealing religious people to be hopelessly credulous, also demonstrate how weak some people's faith is, not how strong. It is only people who are really desperate for a sign to bolster their beliefs that will seize on such pathetic things as validating their faith. The woman who saw the Marmite Jesus 'took comfort from the image' saying, "I'm not particularly religious but I like to think it's Jesus looking out for us." She seems oblivious to how ridiculous it is to think that god would reveal his presence in a bread spread.
This kind of thing puts religious authorities in a quandary. On the one hand, they realize that if you have too many such sightings, religion begins to look more and more ridiculous. Even the TV reporters in that compilation clip seemed to find the whole phenomenon humorous. After all, if people start worshipping tree stumps, how can you distinguish so-called mainstream religion from more allegedly primitive religions, such as paganism. Some religions actually do involve tree-worship and the Christmas tree symbol itself likely began as one.
On the other hand, religious authorities cannot categorically debunk all of them as nonsense because their livelihood depends on people believing that god can reveal himself to people on occasion even if it is such weird and useless ways. The problem for the church is that it wants to discourage freelancers and maintain a monopoly on what qualifies as a revelation of god and what doesn't, as this is the source of their power and money. They tried to walk that fine line on this occasion too.
Local parish priest Fr Willie Russell said on radio station Limerick Live 95FM yesterday that people should not worship the tree. "There's nothing there . . . it's just a tree . . . you can't worship a tree."
A spokesman for the Limerick diocesan office said the "church's response to phenomena of this type is one of great scepticism".
"While we do not wish in any way to detract from devotion to Our Lady, we would also wish to avoid anything which might lead to superstition," he said.
Fortunately for the spokesman, he was not asked what distinguishes this particular "superstition" from all the superstitions that the church expects people to believe, such as that the wafer and wine become transformed into the actual body and blood of Jesus when the priest mumbles some words over it. Mary-in-a-tree-stump is nothing compared to that. He could depend on the 'respect for religion' nonsense to deter 'polite' reporters from asking such obvious questions.
That Mitchell and Webb Look reports on another miraculous sighting.
All these Jesus and Mary sightings and the comment in the above clip that the melon message blew his tomato message out of the water gave me an idea for a new reality TV series, because what the nation really needs is another reality show. This one would consist of people bringing their candidates for an authentic god appearance and making the case for it on live TV. Then a panel of theologians would give their comments, the audience votes for which artifact is the best miracle of god, and then everyone worships the ultimate winning object.
I think the perfect title for the show would be "American Idol". I hope no one has used it already.
POST SCRIPT: You mean the Earth isn't 6,000 years old?
Watch this statement by Arizona State Senator Sylvia Allen (R).
What is amazing is that her statement that the Earth is 6,000 years old is said so casually during a discussion of environmental concerns over uranium mining, as if it was the most commonplace fact in the world and not at all something idiotic and controversial. These people live in their own bubble world.


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Many of us (here in the States, anyway) will spend today looking forward to a nice three-day weekend, visions of grilled meat, open-wheel race cars and (if you're like me) binge-watching the entire fourth season of Arrested Development on Netflix dancing in their heads.
Seems like a good time for a "fun" sort of post, so let's snark at a bad lottery scam email I received this morning:
From: [redacted]@co.pg.md.us
Subject: ! Are You Aware!!
Your email has been announced the winner of the Microsoft E-mail Sweepstakes of 5.6, Million Pounds. Please send these informations:
Full Name:
Tel / Mobile No.:
Sex / Age:
Alternative E-mail:
Contact Mrs. Kathrin Rogers: { email@example.com<mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com> } OR { email@example.com<mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com> } with details. Sincerely, Josphine B. Clay
(Microsoft Management Board, Copyright 1991-2013)
This E-mail and any of its attachments may contain Prince George's
County Government or Prince George's County 7th Judicial Circuit
Court proprietary information or Protected Health Information,
which is privileged and confidential. This E-mail is intended
solely for the use of the individual or entity to which it is
addressed. If you are not the intended recipient of this E-mail,
you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution,
copying, or action taken in relation to the contents of and
attachments to this E-mail is strictly prohibited by federal law
and may expose you to civil and/or criminal penalties. If you have
received this E-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately
and permanently delete the original and any copy of this E-mail and
any printout.
Oh, where to even begin?
For one thing, it doesn't say I won anything. My email, on the other had, has won 5.6 million pounds. Fat lot of good it will do.
Also: pounds? Microsoft, based in Redmond, Washington, conducts business in pounds? Sure. Whatever.
"Please send these informations." Uh-huh. Because Microsoft doesn't have enough money to hire people who use proper grammar.
! Are You Aware!! Um, ?No I'm Am Not ! !!
Why would a message about a Microsoft sweepstakes come from a Prince George's County, Maryland email address?
Why would the disclaimer refer to said county, and not, oh…I don't know…maybe Microsoft?
Finally: there is absolutely no such thing as a Microsoft E-Mail Sweepstakes, nor has there ever been, and nor will there ever be. But if you've been reading this site for a while, you already knew that one, didn't you?
Have a good weekend. Stay vigilant. (Also, try grilling corn with garlic butter and without wrapping it in foil if you're cooking out this weekend. You have to move it around a lot to avoid flare-ups and burnt corn, but dude…seriously, you'll never do it the old way again.)


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This stocking better not have any coal in it ... much too beautiful for that! Thanks for the tutorial!ReplyDelete
I was so surprised at how beautiful the finished project was ... along the way I was expecting something far folksier. It's just lovely - and I adore it! Great design ... and I love the upcycled brown grocery bag! Charming work!ReplyDelete
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- AnonymousNovember 12, 2013 at 7:08 AM
Great stocking. A good way to use up scraps. You don't need an expensive base for the stocking. Love it. Thanks for the tutorial and the idea.ReplyDelete
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Very clever using a paper bag..the squares remind me of a quilt pattern!ReplyDelete
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Very cute. I love the papers you selected!ReplyDelete
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oh my gosh, this stocking is so very very cute! perfect for gift giving! :)ReplyDelete
Love Authentique products and the patchwork stocking.ReplyDelete
Your stocking is absolutely adorable! This would be a great way to give Secret Santa gifts! Every Christmas Eve I go around to all of my nieces and nephews and grandchildren's houses and leave little gifts from Santa for them to open that night before bed. This year I am going to make a few of them for them and put a few little goodies inside and hang them on their doorknob when they are not home as their little surprise! So far nobody has guessed that I am the one who does this. I wait till they are at Christmas Eve Mass to do it. At one point I was doing this for over 25 kids because I was having so much fun that I did it for random houses where I knew the kids. It was the talk of the town for a few years and I acted as surprised as everyone else in town. I have had to cut back due to health issues but I still do it for family kids up to the age of 15. Thanks for giving me a new way to "wrap" the goodies!ReplyDelete
Cool quilted look! Lovely stocking!ReplyDelete
WOWonderful idea!!! Love the patchwork and I'm thinking what a great way to use up some of those larger scraps we keep. TFS :)ReplyDelete
What a fun idea!!ReplyDelete
Well done. thanks for the tutorial. I am sorry to inform you that I may have to lift this great idea. :-)ReplyDelete
Beautiful colors and love the patchwork! ; )ReplyDelete
Is is strong enough to hold a bottle of wine I asked Santa to put in my stocking! Lovely project.ReplyDelete
A fun project to try.ReplyDelete
wow-I really like this and just may borrow this creative and cute idea-thanks heaps for the inspiration! You did a beautiful job :)ReplyDelete
Love the stocking, perfect for all the Christmas decorating!ReplyDelete
What a cute stocking! Thanks for sharing!ReplyDelete
I am going to have to try to make this I am not good at drawing.... yours is so beautiful!!ReplyDelete
And the stockings were hung! Wow - this is fabulous!ReplyDelete
This is a wonderful project and almost looks like paper quilting. Thanks for sharing!!ReplyDelete
Wow Just love the stocking I'm going to try and make myself one... Thanks so much..ReplyDelete
That is so cool. The stocking is fantastic. Going to have to make one for each of our family members.ReplyDelete
Love to see such fun use for beautiful papers!ReplyDelete
Love the stocking project. Creative and fun. Thanks for the inspiration!ReplyDelete
i'm LOVNG the samples used so far and they are giving me inspiration for my own christmas cards ... thank you so much!!!ReplyDelete
I really like that stocking project - your paper makes it very special !ReplyDelete
I LOVE the papers (and the names of them :)) ! Beautiful stocking.ReplyDelete
This is going to be a fabulous project for me and my grandkids to make after our thanksgiving dinner this year!! Thanks so much for sharing the tutorial !!ReplyDelete
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What a great idea! make your own stockings! I love this. I needed some but now I have an idea on how to make my own thank-you! All the best! :)ReplyDelete
Wow, awesome stocking! Love how you wove the paper! So creative!ReplyDelete
So beautiful, well done..something that could be made with children and put their names on or they give as gifts..wonderfulReplyDelete
I love this! I have made stocking with paper bags before but never thought to weave the paper...it looks stunning! tfs!ReplyDelete
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This is such an awesome project! Reminds me of when I was a kit and used to make my own paper stocking for Christmas. But this one... wow! So pretty! Thank you so much for the inspiration!ReplyDelete
Wow is a grat idea!!!! Thanks so much for the tutorial!! :)ReplyDelete
I never would have thought about making a stocking out of paper. It's just adorable - love the patchwork!ReplyDelete
Wonderful Project, love the quilting effect, my sister will love it too...ReplyDelete
Love the stocking. Thanks for sharing this wonderful tutrial.ReplyDelete
The stocking is a great project, with easy to follow instructions. Thanks for sharing in detail.ReplyDelete
What a wonderful stocking, one to emulate. Thanks for the inspiration.ReplyDelete
So pretty and creative...love the trims and papers, and the added lace at the top...love it!!ReplyDelete
Oh Holy My- What a GORGEOUS Stocking this turned out to be. It does not even LOOK like it is made from paper, how ingenious! *Hugs*ReplyDelete
What a beautiful project love it !ReplyDelete
I love this. Going to make several in mini form. Thanks for sharing.ReplyDelete
Oh My STOCKING this is just so FABULOUS! fab papers on it and you should have it stuffed up with crafting goodies...ReplyDelete
Such a great idea!ReplyDelete
Such a great idea!ReplyDelete
This stocking is just too darn awesome, I love it.ReplyDelete
Wow! That stocking is amazing! Love all the individually inked squares to give the authentic patchwork look - stunning! The lace and cluster of flowers is a perfect finish!ReplyDelete
What a fun project! The "patchwork" looks great!ReplyDelete
That is a great tutorial. Looks easy enough. I might have to give it a try!ReplyDelete
this is an awesome tutorial thanks for sharingReplyDelete
I am so impressed with this stocking! I love working with blocks. I am going to make one or two or moreReplyDelete
What an adorable project :) Love all the inspiration on the hops!ReplyDelete
Beautiful project!ReplyDelete
How I love this stocking...awesome way to make it...tfsReplyDelete
Fabulous stocking, I love the patchwork.ReplyDelete
This stocking is such a fun idea and I love the patchwork quilt look of it!!! I can't wait to make a few for family and friends! Thank you.ReplyDelete
I love this stocking - and the tutorial is great. Thanks for sharing and the chance to win such lovely prizes.ReplyDelete
I love the way you weaved the papers together to look like a quilt and the stitching finishes it off beautifully! Thanks for sharing.ReplyDelete
What makes a stocking the perfect fit? Authentique and Petaloo! Love this! Love the inspiration I'm finding throughout the blog! Now if I only had the right products to make these awesome projects.....hmmmm! Thank you for the opportunity to win!ReplyDelete
Darling Christmas stocking...LOVE it!ReplyDelete
Such a fun and fabulous project - I love the woven Authentique papers and the stocking is stitched so perfectly!!!ReplyDelete
Wonderful project. Thanks for the tutorial.ReplyDelete
Beautiful - love the lace and colorsReplyDelete
this is great thanks for the inspirationReplyDelete
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What a great idea. I can see these attached to the bedroom doors of children and guests.ReplyDelete
TY for the chance to win love all the workReplyDelete
love the paper - thanks for the chance to win!ReplyDelete
What a great stocking!ReplyDelete
I like the creative stocking♥ Beautiful mix of paper and embellishments!ReplyDelete
This is a great Christmas project - you make it look so simple :)ReplyDelete
Love this stocking!ReplyDelete
Beautiful Christmas project! I will definitely give it a try:)ReplyDelete
Beautiful Christmas project! I will definitely give it a try:)ReplyDelete
Very pretty. I like the mix of papers and the sewing.ReplyDelete
Great project! Love the papers and the beautiful trims and embellishments! I'd love to make one of these!ReplyDelete
What a great project. Love itReplyDelete
Love this stocking, I'm definitely gonna do a version of this myself :)ReplyDelete
I think I'd keep it or make another one to give.ReplyDelete
Super cute project. Love it. Johanne LacombeReplyDelete
Cute project. Thanks for sharingReplyDelete
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I love that you can actually put stuff in it! Great idea for all those leftover paper scraps, too.ReplyDelete
I totally loved this project for being so do-able and pretty ...and useful!! love the quilting effect with the gorgeous Authentique papers !! would really like to win some of your lovely prizes, thanks for a chance.ReplyDelete
this is awesome and I love Authentique and Petaloo together...perfect match!ReplyDelete
Such a cute idea! Would be a fun project to do with little kids before Christmas!ReplyDelete
that's a really great project. I love the inking you did, and the patters on that paper all go so well together...very "home-y" feeling to me! addition of the whip stitching was a great idea.ReplyDelete
Great idea! This is so cute! t.igoReplyDelete
Wow Wow Wow what a fantastic project so inspirational and the you have made it so easy with your instructions, thank you so much for shareing such a wonderful project. I love the idea of patchwork as it reminds me of doing quilting years ago. The stocking is just stunning and at the same time it is a project that children would love doing so you have catered for all ages with this project. I just adore the stunning Authentique papers as they looks great and mix so well with Petaloo products its the perfect partnership. I just love the stitching you have done all around it as it make th stocking pop the finish of the lace trim with everything else is so elegant with the papers and flowers.. I can't wait to try out this project and will have every thing crossed as like every one else I would love to win Thank you so much for giving all of us a chance to win such beautiful products. All I can do now is hope fingers crossedReplyDelete
What a neat and wonderful idea! Thanks for the tutorial!ReplyDelete
What a fun project! Thanks for sharing! LOVE Authentique papers!!!!!ReplyDelete
Awesome stocking! Thank you so much for sharing how you made this! I love the white lace at the top too! Thanks for sharing.ReplyDelete
Katie B.
I've been thinking of making a few stockings out of paper but it never occured to me to make it look like patchwork. What a great idea! Thank you!ReplyDelete
Very sweet and a great idea to do with my granddaughter.ReplyDelete
i love making patchwork out of paper. the effects are wonderful!ReplyDelete
Beautiful stocking, I love it. Thanks for sharing.ReplyDelete
Thanks for the chance to win.
I decided I wanted to make small Christmas stockings as my gifts for my Christmas table this year but had no idea how to start. Thank you for sharing this!ReplyDelete
I decided I wanted to make small Christmas stockings as my gifts for my Christmas table this year but had no idea how to start. Thank you for sharing this!ReplyDelete
Awesome. Idea!!!I love it!ReplyDelete
Thanks for the chance !!!
Hi Heather,ReplyDelete
Well Santa will be proud of his new sock; they are for sure one of a kind ;p! I like your patchwork idea but pffuuww! Such a lot of work! I will ask Santa if he give me a sign when he needs more socks, then I'm giving my created ones next year hihi! Thank you for showing!!
Hugs, Karin
A simple project that looks so complex and pretty at the end. Great idea!ReplyDelete
OH MY - I have never seen a grocery bag look so DELIGHTFUL!!!ReplyDelete
LOVE the pretty patchwork papers, patterns and flowers,
SO CLEVER to add the stitching, apart from being very practical to make it sturdy, it makes it look like a traditional stocking too!!!
THANK YOU for sharing your inspiration and tutorial :)
Amazingly Authentique!! I NEVER would have thought of this! So beautiful!ReplyDelete
Gorgeous stocking - so creative.ReplyDelete
love the stocking tutorial!!! looks super fun and cant wait to try it out!!ReplyDelete
fabulous stocking!ReplyDelete
Gorgeous card and tag. Love the colors.ReplyDelete
These colors are great! Stocking, card and tag ~ oh my! Love them all! Thanks for the chance ~ReplyDelete
Wow! What a wonderful idea! And thanks for tutorial!!!ReplyDelete
What an adorable stocking. Would make a great way to give some one a gift.ReplyDelete
What a cute idea, would love to re-create, thanks for sharing.ReplyDelete
Very cute Christmas stocking!ReplyDelete
a very cute paper quilted stockings!! lovely it is..ReplyDelete
Moxie Craftie
I just LOVE the stocking. I'd love to try and make one. It's beautiful.ReplyDelete
Wow....lot of work, but spectacular results! Love that patchwork pattern. So pretty and festive!ReplyDelete
What a fun project! Thanks for sharing! LOVE Authentique papers!!!!!ReplyDelete
What a nice stocking! Thank you so much for the detailed tutorial! The paper and colours are adorable!ReplyDelete
I really love the traditional feel & colors. Thanks for the inspiration.ReplyDelete
This is adorable! The papers are perfect for it.ReplyDelete
I'm totally in love with this stocking. Thanks for sharing the instructions.ReplyDelete
I have a pattern like this using fabric and I created it an LOVE it. NEVER did I think of doing it with PP or CS. Can't wait to make it now with these lovely PP!!! Thank you so much for sharing.ReplyDelete
What an awesome paper stocking! I love the papers that you chose to make your patchwork pattern out of. Very cute!ReplyDelete
What an absolutely fantastic project Heather. I love the quilted look. Thank you for sharing the details of its creation.ReplyDelete
Wow! That is one beautiful stocking! Thanks for the tutorial I will be making some of these!ReplyDelete
I love this. Such a fun idea!!ReplyDelete
Cute stocking. The patchwork look is really great.ReplyDelete


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Environment Variables¶
A number of environment variables can be used to control MapServer's behavior or specify the location of some resources.
List of all possible MapServer Environment Variables¶
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Used to specify the location of the Certificate Authority (CA) bundle file to be used by Curl when using HTTPS connections in WMS/WFS client layers. Curl comes bundled with its own CA bundle by default, so this variable is not required unless you have an unusual installation:
export CURL_CA_BUNDLE=/path/to/ca-bundle.crt
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A default DEBUG level value can be set using the MS_DEBUGLEVEL environment variable in combination with the MS_ERRORFILE variable.
When set, this value is used as the default debug level value for all map and layer objects as they are loaded by the mapfile parser. This option also sets the debug level for any msDebug() call located outside of the context of a map or layer object, for instance for debug statements relating to initialization before a map is loaded. If a DEBUG value is also specified in the mapfile in some map or layer objects then the local value (in the mapfile) takes precedence over the value of the environment variable.
This option is mostly useful when tuning applications by enabling timing/debug output before the map is loaded, to capture the full process initialization and map loading time, for instance.
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The MS_ERRORFILE environment variable specifies the location of the logging/debug output, with possible values being either a file path on disk, or one of the following special values:
"stderr" to send output to standard error. Under Apache stderr is the Apache error_log file. Under IIS stderr goes to stdout so its use is discouraged. With IIS it is recommended to do direct output to a file on disk instead.
"stdout" to send output to standard output, combined with the rest of MapServer's output.
"windowsdebug" to send output to the Windows OutputDebugString API, allowing the use of external programs like SysInternals debugview to display the debug output.
It is possible to specify MS_ERRORFILE either as an environment variable or via a CONFIG directive inside a mapfile:
CONFIG "MS_ERRORFILE" "/tmp/mapserver.log"
CONFIG "MS_ERRORFILE" "stderr"
If both the MS_ERRORFILE environment variable is set and a CONFIG MS_ERRORFILE is set, then the CONFIG directive takes precedence.
If MS_ERRORFILE is not set, then error/debug logging is disabled. During parsing of a mapfile, error/debug logging may become available only after the MS_ERRORFILE directive has been parsed.
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The MS_MAP_NO_PATH environment variable can be set to any value to forbid the use of explicit paths in the map=… URL parameter. Setting MS_MAP_NO_PATH to any value forces the use of the map=<env_variable_name> mechanism in mapserv CGI URLs.
If this variable is not set then nothing changes and the mapserv CGI still accepts explicit file paths via the map=… URL parameter.
Example, set set MS_MAP_NOPATH and some mapfile paths in Apache's httpd.conf:
SetEnv MS_MAP_NO_PATH "foo" SetEnv MY_MAPFILE "/opt/mapserver/map1/mymapfile.map"
and then calls the mapserv CGI must use environment variables for the map=… parameter:
The mapfile to use if the map=… URL parameter is not provided.
It is also possible to use an environment variable name as the value of the map=… URL parameter. The value of this environment variable will be used as the mapfile path:
MS_MAPFILE_PATTERN can be used to override the default regular expression which is used to validate mapfile filename extensions.
The default value for this variable is:
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The MS_MAP_BAD_PATTERN environment variable can be used to specify a Regular Expression to catch & not allow problematic character sequences in any mapfile paths passed to the mapserv CGI in the map=… URL parameter. If the value matches then an error is generated. By default all MapServer installations (since 7.6.3) set a hardcoded value for MS_MAP_BAD_PATTERN of:
which will therefore not allow "/../" or "//" in the map value.
For Windows users, MS4W uses the PCRE regex library (which requires a slightly different regex syntax), so all future MS4W releases will contain the following default MS_MAP_BAD_PATTERN enabled (to not allow "/../" or "//" in the map value) :
For more Windows information see Securing your MS4W Installation
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Limit Mapfile Access & Associated Pull Request for the 7.6.3 release
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The MS_MAP_PATTERN environment variable can be used to specify a Regular Expression that must be matched by all mapfile paths passed to the mapserv CGI in the map=… URL parameter.
If MS_MAP_PATTERN is not set then any .map file can be loaded.
Apache's SetEnv directive can be used to restrict mapfiles to a specific directory and subdirectories.
Unix users may set the following expression in Apache to restrict mapfiles to the /opt/mapserver directory and subdirectories:
SetEnv MS_MAP_PATTERN "^\/opt\/mapserver\/([^\.][_A-Za-z0-9\-\.]+\/{1})*([_A-Za-z0-9\-\.]+\.(map))$"
Windows Apache/MS4W users can set the following expression in the Apache conf file, to limit the possible MAP= paths to the common C:/ms4w/apps/ directory (where all MS4W mapfiles and applications live), allow encoded urls, allow "." or "_" or "-" in MAP= paths but disallow ".." directory traversing:
SetEnv MS_MAP_PATTERN "^(C:)?\/ms4w\/apps\/((?!\.{2})[_A-Za-z0-9\-\.]+\/{1})*([_A-Za-z0-9\-\.]+\.(map))$"
MS4W users can see specific examples at: https://ms4w.com/README_INSTALL.html#securing-your-ms4w-installation
Default value for the mode=… URL parameter. Setting mode=… in the URL takes precedence over the environment variable.
The URL to the OpenLayers javascript library (can be used when testing WMS services using imagetype application/openlayers), for instance:
Set the WEB TEMPPATH.
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Used to enable XML Mapfile support. Points to the location of the XSLT to use for the XML->text mapfile conversion.
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The PROJ_LIB environment variable or CONFIG directive can be used to specify the directory where the PROJ data files are located (including the "proj.db" file, or "epsg" file for older PROJ versions), if they are not in the default directory where PROJ expects them.
For the full list of possible PROJ variables to use see the official list.
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Positively Promoting Markland
The "Positively Promoting Markland" Committee Mandate
The "Positively Promoting Markland" committee is a duly authorized committee of the Board of Directors of the Markland Homes Association as contemplated in section 7 article (g), (i) which reads as follows:
"The Board shall appoint such committees as are deemed necessary to carry out the affairs of the Markland Wood Homeowners Association; to include at least:
- Public Relations Committee
- Nominations Committee
The mandate of the Positively Promoting Markland committee is to investigate, develop and recommend to the full Board ways and means of enhancing the image and profile of the Markland Wood area in the GTA. The target constituency includes first and foremost residents but also elected representatives, visitors, people in transit, youth and others interested or impacting on the quality of life within Markland Wood.
To accomplish its mandate the Committee shall annually prepare and submit for approval a "work plan." This work plan will incorporate the major activities planned for the coming fiscal year and an approximate cost for each activity. It is anticipated that the Board will approve in whole or in part the work plan and that the Committee will then execute the work plan and report to the Board at each meeting. The Board reserves final approval authority on all expenditures and or commitments included in the work plan in excess of $500.


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School's Out (For Ever?)
"Baby taking her GCSE's. Passing of time is wonderful. Means never again I will hear a school choir sing I Believe I Can Fly. Thank Christ."—Alison Moyet on Twitter. Amusing that R. Kelly has written the modern school anthem of positivity & inspiration—may I humbly suggest that all schools now switch to R. Kelly's Relief. Great, great tune, beautifully covered by Sam Amidon as a folk ballad, has that anthem thing going on, teeming with hope, if not quite actualité.
"The storm is over, and I'm so glad the sun is shining
Confusion everywhere, without a clue on how to make things better
A toast to the man upstairs, 'cause he puts the pieces back together
Now let's step to a new tune, 'cause everything is o.k.
You're alright, and I'm alright, well, let's celebrate.
What a relief to know that—we are one
What a relief to know that—the war is over
What a relief to know that—there is an angel in the sky
What a relief to know that—love is still alive"
Imagine a hundred ten-year-olds singing that.
Nostalgia Time 1. Mixing Buddy Guy And Junior Wells, Vanguard Studios, NYC, 1968
Sam Charters has been staying with us and I managed to find some pictures, among them this gem—a Three Track Machine (cutting edge, apparently), a vacant studio in Midtown, a twelve year old wannabe engineer.
The Poetry Of Aaron Copland
Came across this great piece I'd ripped out of the New Yorker years ago, by Alex Ross: "There is an affecting recording of the elderly Copland rehearsing Appalachian Spring with the Columbia Chamber Ensemble. When he reaches the ending, an evocation of the American frontier in ageless majesty, his reedy, confident Brooklyn voice turns sweet and sentimental: 'Softer, sul tasto, misterioso, great mood here… That's my favourite place in the whole piece… Organlike. It should have a very special quality, as if you weren't moving your bows… That sounds too timid. It should sound rounder and more satisfying. Not distant. Quietly present. No diminuendos, like an organ sound. Take it freshly again, like an Amen.' Copland conjures a perfect American Sunday in which the music of all peoples stems from the open doors of a white-steepled church that does not yet exist."
For Emily, Wherever They May Find Her
From thetrichordist: Recently Emily White, an intern at NPR All Songs Considered wrote a post on the NPR blog in which she acknowledged that while she had 11,000 songs in her music library, she's only paid for 15 CDs in her life. Our intention is not to embarrass or shame her. We believe young people like Emily White who are fully engaged in the music scene are the artist's biggest allies. We also believe–for reasons we'll get into–that she has been been badly misinformed by the Free Culture movement. We only ask the opportunity to present a countervailing viewpoint.
David Lowery [Camper Van Beethoven, Cracker] wrote this open letter. It's worth reading. Here's an excerpt:
"The existential questions that your generation gets to answer are these:
• Why do we value the network and hardware that delivers music but not the music itself?
• Why are we willing to pay for computers, iPods, smartphones, data plans, and high speed internet access but not the music itself?
• Why do we gladly give our money to some of the largest richest corporations in the world but not the companies and individuals who create and sell music?
This is a bit of hyperbole to emphasize the point. But it's as if:
Networks: Giant mega corporations. Cool! have some money!
Hardware: Giant mega corporations. Cool! have some money!
Artists: 99.9 % lower middle class. Screw you, you greedy bastards!
Congratulations, your generation is the first generation in history to rebel by unsticking it to the man and instead sticking it to the weirdo freak musicians!"
Nostalgia Time 2. Sid Vicious Stole My Corgi Toys
Nah he didn't. But the Punk Britannia series on BBC4 put me in mind of Simon, as I knew him—John Simon Ritchie—an extremely nice playmate. My mother's friend Rene was Anne Beverly's sister and was often called on to help a fairly troubled woman navigate her messy life. We lived in the same block as Rene and her son David, and Simon—a shy kid— spent time there, when the need arose. I remember long afternoons spent on our hands and knees with Corgi cars in David's tiny bedroom… At some point he stopped coming round to play and we all moved on to other things. I saw Simon twice more. Once on Shaftesbury Avenue, looking in the window of a music shop, long greatcoat, hair cut like Bowie, fidgeting, mumbling, smiling. And then as Sid, on a tube train—summer of 77 I'm guessing, definitely a member of the Pistols—leather and chains, when I felt too intimidated to say anything, but we exchanged a glance and sort-of-knew that in some previous life we had known each other.


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In the same week that the South African import District 9 gives us a Johannesburg beset by alien invaders, the latest film by animation legend Hayao Miyazaki envisions a small Japanese port town turned upside down by visitors from the bottom of the sea. Loosely based on Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid, by way of Jules Verne, Miyazaki's Ponyo sticks to Andersen's basic story of an enchanted sea creature and her love for a human — except, in the Miyazaki version, the mermaid princess is an anthropomorphic goldfish, and her handsome prince is a 5-year-old schoolboy still in full possession of his baby teeth.
The advance word on Ponyo — which opened in Japan last year and arrives here in an English-dubbed version adapted by E.T. screenwriter Melissa Mathison and supervised by Pixar guru John Lasseter — had suggested that the film would mark a conscious return by Miyazaki to the gentler, more kid-friendly style of movies such as My Neighbor Totoro and Kiki's Delivery Service after the epic-scaled and sometimes violent narratives of Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away. And while that might be the case, the appeal of Ponyo is hardly limited to the Romper Room set. It's a movie for anyone who, like Miyazaki himself, can still happily commune with his inner 5-year-old.
The great ocean deep proves a natural canvas for Miyazaki, who has set previous films against the clouds of the sky and the fragile topography of the Earth, and he responds by filling the screen with a Cousteau-worthy panorama of iridescent sea flora and magnificently scaled, tentacled creatures of all shapes and sizes. One of them, Ponyo (voiced by Noah Cyrus, sister of Miley), who carries a distinctly human head atop her fish body, is introduced as the daughter of Fujimoto (Liam Neeson), an eccentric alchemist who himself resembles a cross between Captain Nemo and Ziggy Stardust and who has been charged — presumably by Ponyo's ocean-goddess mother (Cate Blanchett) — with maintaining the delicate ecological balance of the seas. Trouble ensues when Ponyo swims a bit too far from home, gets caught in a fishing net, and washes up onshore trapped inside a littered glass jar.
So Ponyo meet-cutes Sosuke (Frankie Jonas), who rescues her, takes her to kindergarten with him in a plastic bucket, and seems altogether unsurprised — in the way Miyazaki's characters so often do upon encountering the unexplainable — when the fish blurts out its declaration of love for him. And this is before Ponyo, having been briefly recaptured by her flustered father, returns once more to the surface, this time in human form, bringing along a hurricane-force storm caused by her disturbance of Fujimoto's magic, ocean-altering potions.
Coming about halfway into Ponyo's modest, 100-minute running time, that storm — capped by the fantastical image of Ponyo running atop a series of tsunami-size waves — ranks among Miyazaki's most majestic set pieces and ushers in a whole new collection of visual possibilities. After the rain subsides, the waters have risen so high that they cover the entire town, with prehistoric fish swimming down former city streets and a low-hanging moon pulling an armada of commercial ships (including the one captained by Sosuke's father) close to an enormous, suspended wall of water. Into this topsy-turvy world, Ponyo and Sosuke set out in a candle-powered toy boat to try to restore order to the universe.
Like much of Miyazaki's work, Ponyo carries an unsubtle environmental message: "They spoil the sea. They treat your home like their empty, black souls," decries Fujimoto, a human or former human himself — such details are ultimately trivial in the Miyazaki universe — who shudders at his beloved child's desire to live among the two-legged. (Perhaps he has seen The Cove, the recent documentary about the horrors of the black-market Japanese dolphin-harvesting industry.) Miyazaki, too, is keenly aware that nothing — neither children nor oceans — stays pure and innocent forever, and yet, as he glances at the world once more through a child's wide, unspoiled eyes, he seems to find hope for renewal.


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Alone, young birdy
Ich komme aus meinen Schwingen heim -by Rainier Maria Rilke
I come home from the soaring in which I lost myself.
I was song, and the refrain which is God
is still roaring in my ears.
Now I am still
and plain:
no more words.
To the others I was like a wind:
I made them shake.
I'd gone very far, as far as the angels,
and high, where light thins into nothing.
But deep in the darkness is God.
-from Rilke's Book of Hours – Love Poems to God
As I have since this blog's inception, on the day of my sobriety anniversary I publish this treasured Rilke poem, but with a new image each year.


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Today's Music: The Firm – Star Trekkin'
Note on Today's Music: TMWGITU made me use this. The things we do for love…
Well, I had a kill-yourself kind of week. I'm tempted to call out the laptop manufacturer whose product has been driving me batpoop crazy all week, but I don't think the Lenovo people, or their buddies at IBM would appreciate it. The T520 team definitely wouldn't, so I'll just let it go.
But the fact that it was such a long week made reading the other blogs that much more fun and appreciated as I struggled along.
Lisa shared some of her addictions, and I hope she never goes into rehab for them, because they're too funny.
Asplenia earned herself a lifetime pass from cooking, and finished up the post with one of my favorite bits ever from a Monty Python flick.
And the Girl in the Cat Frame Glasses put up her Epic Four Part Bio, with a nod to mental health in part 3. It's a great well told story.
(It's still Mental Health Awareness Month.)
Thanks to them and everyone else for feeding my addiction to great stories!
Last week, instead of doing the smart thing and asking how these polls should be asked, we went the other way, and asked how they should be answered. Several people were confused and had no idea what I was talking about. Welcome to my world ladies and gentlemen…
So here they are, your answers to last weeks poll, The correct answer for these polls is… (As always, my comments are in italics)
lurking somewhere just beyond the horizon Laura (liveclay)
(Not sure if that's Joe Walsh – In the City, or Rod Serling…)
there's an app for that.
(You know, Angry Birds can't solve everything.)
Filling in bubbles is so inside the box. No boxes. Red.
(Perhaps an oval, with a Möbius strip wall?)
take two aspirin and call me in the morning. Barking in the Dark.
(If you hold the pills between your knees, you won't have good stories to tell in the morning.)
all of the above and then some.
(Wait, going above and sideways? I like it!)
With a shotgun_Barb
(Step awaaay from the coffee, Barb.)
Huh? Elyse, 54.5
(I believe you have grasped the essence of these polls, Elyse!)
Roast beef
(No, that was the pickle poll a few weeks ago…)
Always mine. Quirky
(I am so tempted to write "WRONG" here. Fortunately, I am (barely) not that immature!)
Call me a dumb blond on this one cuz I'm just not gettin' it. Michelle Motley News
(It was a test, Michelle. And you've passed brilliantly!)
Yours for only $19.99….that's a $60 value! Stay Abnormal
(I'll take seventeen hundred!!! Will you throw in an oven mitt?)
Umm, whatever he said (jerking thumb to the left) Kanerva
(GAH!!! Watch those thumbs lady! That was my eye!!!)
whatever I answer I decide to grace you with. G-Snaap
(Who is Grace, and why are you waving her at us?)
The correct answer is 'me'…'cause I'm always right! KJ
(By official order of the President of Canadia!)
C and some that I typically can't provide – a quick, witty answer. (Frank)
(At least you have the wisdom not to fake wit, Frank. Unlike a certain Friday Foolishness poll writer I could name.)
if I KNEW.. I would win one WOULDNT I? lizzie
(Wait for it…)
I am confused
(Hey, you can join Michelle and Elyse at the support group! I'll be there too. Sigh.)
Dude, you have too much free time on your hands. WG
(god, how i wish that were true…)
I did NOT have sexual relations with that woman! lizzie..
(yes…I think…can it be…
and despite what that Linda Vernon character thinks, I was not intimidated into picking you this week.)
(I'm not scared of her.
Congratulations to LizzieCracked for this weeks winning answer! And for those that are wondering, the most popular poll choice was F. What the hell are you asking me for?.
Congratulations to you all. For making it through another one of these. Sigh.
There's been a bit of hullabaloo in NYC. They flew in a space shuttle, and are going to put it in the incredible Intrepid Air & Space Museum. Until then, it's sitting in an airport. Under a shed. Next to the highway.
Why are the best ideas also the worst? I'm going to take a short drive this weekend just to see it. I swear, officer who might be reading, I'm just going to look.
But for those of you who've been here a while, this week's poll asks. Where you wanna go?
Vote often, and if you write in an answer, leave a way to recognize you and I'll link back to you next week. Just do it by 2359 EST on 24 May. Because that's when the poll closes.
And to keep you entertained until I call for bail, enjoy these:
The first man on the moon
and a quick look ahead, from NASA
Have a great week all. I gotta go catch my ride.


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Nine Wishes for Your PHP Applications
When it comes to PHP, some 99% of amateur sites and 60-70% of all sites use the professional scripting language called PHP. But is it safe to use PHP? Does the implementation of the language not have any gaps that are critical to the operation of our applications? Remember that security problems don't arise just from the language itself, but also from the programming skills of those who write PHP scripts. Of course, most of the errors can be avoided. But, how can they be avoided? This article is an attempt to answer that question. We will discuss most of the issues with which we meet in life everyday. So let's start our adventure. For the purposes of this article, we assumed that we do not have access to php.ini, and all operations will be performed from within PHP.
How keep a site secret by using the error_reporting function
A lot of people use error_reporting () to check their website. Obviously this is useful, and this feature should not be abandoned. During development, it is reasonable to use the setting error_reporting () to display all errors. But is that the case with sites that are located on servers already? A page that creates error is actually very easy to break, and it is easy to figure out its structure. One has to know which files on the server may be vulnerable, and we need a script to show which variables. Let's see how we can log errors, because the error logging function is usually error_reporting (). Here are all the possible settings:
[php]/ / Turn off all error reporting
error_reporting (0);
/ / Report simple running errors
error_reporting (E_ERROR | E_WARNING | E_PARSE);
/ / Reporting E_NOTICE can be good too (to report uninitialized
/ / Variables or catch variable name misspellings …)
error_reporting (E_ERROR | E_WARNING | E_PARSE | E_NOTICE);
/ / Report all errors except E_NOTICE
/ / This is the default value set in php.ini
error_reporting (E_ALL ^ E_NOTICE);
/ / Report all PHP errors (see changelog)
error_reporting (E_ALL);
/ / Report all PHP errors
error_reporting (-1);[/php]
The same can, of course, be done by using ini_set (). Here are a couple of examples:
[php]/ / Turn off all error reporting
ini_set ('error_reporting', 0);
/ / Report simple running error
ini_set ('error_reporting', E_ERROR | E_WARNING | E_PARSE | E_NOTICE);
Of course, now all the errors will be displayed on the screen of our monitor. But fortunately PHP gives you the ability to hide it from the script by using display_errors. Use this variable from the function ini_set (). Here are two examples that should interest us:
[php]ini_set ('display_errors', 'On') / / Enables the display of errors
ini_set ('display_errors,' Off ') / / disables the display of bugs[/php]
Well, you probably already know when to use which value for display_errors. During production, turn it on, and for a site that is already on the server, turn it off.
Why is it so important to use .htaccess?
This file is the main configuration file of a website. It allows you to control access. The first thing we should do is change records links to the so-called nice link URL. This is useful because it helps hide most things that are called by the $ _GET array from the prying eyes of hackers. Unfortunately, it does not help when rules are combined. But it is always seen and passed on to the mechanisms. You can use ".htaccess" to prevent anything from being written in PHP. In addition, using the ".htaccess" can also block users and block all incoming connections on our website from suspicious IP addresses. We can immediately write a script that will do it all for us from a vending machine. This is a much better solution. But of course we can do the same thing in PHP, by putting all of the suspicious IP addresses into a database and denying them access. It's that simple.
Be sure to turn off global variables
Global variables allow access to the variable from any PHP script. In thousands of existing programming languages, the design includes certain features to quickly develop software. And here they make a fundamental error. If a global variable is enabled, the programmer leaves open a way for an intruder to go through the entire application and find all the places where he has access to a variable. In fact, the exclusion of global variables is actually the first thing to do when the development process begins. Global variables are no longer available in Version 6 of PHP, but they can be used in the obsolete Version 5 and in the commonly-used Version 4. What was register_globals meant to do? It was intended to support the rapid development of applications, but it did not work. This function is used hundreds of times in applications, threatening their safety. But how can we turn off global variables, as we do not have access to the php.ini file? We add the following entry to the "htaccess" file:
[php]php_flag register_globals 0[/php]
In addition to global variables, there are many super-global arrays, such as $ _POST and $ _GET, that cannot be excluded using ini_set(). But we'll talk about them later.
Turn off magic quotes
To save all magic_quotes, the programmer was advised to use addslashes () and other security features in the code, but this doesn't work as a security measure. There are two fundamental errors in the use of magic_quotes. The first is that if you use this feature and function addslashes (), there are definitely bugs in your code. In addition, when you use magic_quotes, you do not always know when they are really turned on and when they are not. What can we to do to get them completely turned off? Let's assume that we do not have access to the PHP settings. I use the beloved file "htaccess" and add there the following entries:
[php]php_flag magic_quotes_gpc 0 php_flag magic_quotes_runtime 0[/php]
Be sure to never use magic_quotes, and instead use other security functions in PHP.
Anything that introduces the user has to be checked
This is also true. Anything that introduces the user has to be checked and validated. Use preg_match, as the user inputs the strings. Go ahead and use the function is_null () and is_empty () to be protected against hackers. Use the function is_int (), if you pass through the int variable. If you want to int, it must be int. Test it and see what the function returns. Use all possible limits, and values greater and less than the limit. Use validation using jQuery or function die () to inform the user what to do. Do not be afraid to throw away hundreds of users with interesting messages.
The most common attack, cross site scripting, is in the OWASP Top 10
Note that each web application, not just PHP, allows you to process some data from users. Most also allow for the processing of HTML, both in articles and comments. And here problems often begin. Think about what happens if the user enters JavaScript malicious code that messes with the structure of our application. What will happen then? Now, using JavaScript, you can capture both sessions and cookies. An attacker can easily gain access to user accounts and can do a lot of bad things with these accounts. An account can be removed, passwords can be changed, and logging can be prevented. If we run the portal to commercial services, a hacker can also kill good user accounts and issue them a huge invoice. What is the point here? Of course, we do not prohibit a user from simple editing and beautifying posts. The ability to add emoticons can also be added, but only those emoticons that suit your needs. Use classes to handle BBCode. Allow for simple formatting, but filter all. To handle bbcode, use the function preg_replace (), and many other cool features. Do not be afraid to give users stuff on the site, but try to limit them to stuff and snippets that are controlled by you.
Avoid SQLInjection, also in the OWASP Top 10
The SQLInjection attack is still in the OWASP Top 10 list. Surely it will not disappear from the list in a finite time. Perhaps it never will disappear. Does this mean that PHP programmers are not good enough? No, I do not mean that. I mean that PHP developers do not understand the written word. My advice is that you should not use SQLInjection for application development frameworks; or use it properly, if you must use it. If possible, use your own framework. My is a set of classes that allows you to fully create each web application. But if you write alone, and do not use frameworks, observe the following rules.
Everything you add to the database should be filtered. I mean everything, every variable that queries the database, should always be filtered. Do not be afraid to use the function mysql_real_escape_string (). Please, if you have variables passed as part of the database query, filter them forever. If you pass an int, you do not need to use mysql_real_escape_string (), but then you should always use is_int (). Scan your site for the presence of SQL errors using the OWASP tools. They will show you what you forget when designing your site. Do not let a hacker break it as easily as possible. Raise the bar and raise it fast. Lift it to a level that will prevent a hacker from ever breaking in.
Watch out for session hijacking, also in the OWASP Top 10
The easiest way to capture a session involves the acquisition of the session ID. It can result in very unpleasant consequences for our service. The easiest way is to download the session id and append it to SESSID to the address, which means that the user who makes this attack becomes the "real" user. Acquiring data such as user name and password and posing as someone else is no longer treated as a crime. By using Session_regenerate_id with (true) is a way we can protect against interception of data in the session. The same function without true replaces the current session id with a newly generated one. With the option set to true the session ID is deleted, which will work even if the page is not reloaded. Other methods of preventing session capture are to comparing the IP address, comparing the browser, and a few other things. Maybe someday I'll show you how to write a fast mechanism to fully secure session. I do not know, we'll see.
Remote file inclusion, another in the OWASP Top 10
This allows a hacker to send code to a given web page. It is usually used when you want to upload a file via a script. Sometimes we simply forget to validate what we wrote. Using this method, an attacker can to make server-side code or client-side code, can block any service and can manipulate data. PHP can be the reason for the attack if there is no decision on the files sent by $ _POST, $ _GET, $ _COOKIE. This error applies to most of the include () and require (). Here is a PHP script that contains this error:
$file = 'my_file';
if (isset ($ _GET ['file']))
$ file = $ _GET ['file'];
include ($ file. '. php');
Can we change this code to prevent an attack? Why not? To make it a thousand times better, use e.g. switch ():
If (isset ($ _GET ['file'])) {
$file = $ _GET ['file'];
switch ($file) {
case 'noname':
require_once ("noname.php");
case "my_file":
require_once ("my_file.php");
require_once ("my_file.php");
We must always check our code and take more time to control our code. Never leave anything to chance.
This article should be construed as an introduction to PHP security. Apparently everyone is familiar with these techniques, but at the moment when security has to be considered, it is forgotten. Why does this happen? In the press of work, we forget what we really need to do. Always, always stay in control of all that is caused by the PHP scripts. Do not leave anything to chance and write code in such a way that you do not control it at all. I really try to write good applications and concise code. Good Luck!
PS. The title of this article comes from a conversation with my son, who also had nine wishes. Dad will help you meet them, son.


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FBI searches apartment in ricin letter case
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) -- Authorities in hazardous materials suits searched a downtown Spokane apartment Saturday, investigating the recent discovery of a pair of letters containing the deadly poison ricin.
Few details have been released in the case, and no arrests have been made. Federal investigators have been searching for the person who sent the letters, which were postmarked Tuesday in Spokane.
The letters were addressed to the downtown post office and the adjacent federal building, but authorities have not released a potential motive. They also have not said whether the letters targeted anyone in particular.
Ricin is a highly toxic substance made from castor beans. As little as 500 micrograms, the size of the head of a pin, can kill an adult if inhaled or ingested.
There have been no reports of illness connected to the letters.
FBI agents, Spokane police and U.S. Postal Service inspectors descended on the three-story apartment building Saturday morning and the investigation continued into the afternoon.
FBI spokeswoman Ayn Sandalo Dietrich would not say whether agents were questioning anyone in connection with the case.
"We are not actively looking for a subject," Sandalo Dietrich said. "We are not asking the public's help in bringing someone in."
Despite the hazmat suits, officials said apartment residents were not at risk, and people were seen coming in and out of the brick building in the city's historic Browne's Addition neighborhood.
"There's no public risk," Sandalo Dietrich said.
Scott Ward has lived in the building for three years, and lives on the second floor near the apartment that was being searched. He said he does not know the neighbor who lives in that apartment.
"He's a guy with a big beard," Ward said. "He sticks to himself."
"He doesn't talk," said Ward, who added he was awakened about 7 a.m. by the sounds of "banging and what sounded like a big vacuum."
Building resident Jim Lehman said he was asleep when he was called by a friend. "He said, 'hey Jim, you're surrounded,'" Lehman said. Lehman said he saw workers in hazardous material suits working in a second floor apartment.
"It was all gas masks and the door was open and there were hoses in there," Lehman said.
Sandalo Dietrich would not say specifically why the FBI was searching the apartment.
"Information we developed led us to believe this was a productive spot to search," she said.
Two letters containing the substance were intercepted at the downtown Spokane post office Tuesday.
The Postal Service has received no other reports of similar letters, said Jeremy Leder of the Postal Inspection Service on Saturday.
In a statement following the discovery, the Postal Service said the "crude form of the ricin suggests that it does not present a health risk to U.S. Postal Service personnel or to others who may have come in contact with the letter."
The Spokane investigation comes a month after letters containing ricin were addressed to President Barack Obama, a U.S. senator and a Mississippi judge. A Mississippi man has been arrested in that case.


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Though it isn't remembered by many TV viewers today, The Virginian TV show was one of the most popular Westerns in its day. The NBC series ran for eight seasons, from 1962 until 1970. The characters returned in the 1970-71 season in a different format and the show was renamed The Men from Shiloh.
The Virginian series follows the adventures of a strong-willed man known only as the "Virginian" (James Drury) who works to maintain order on the Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming. Other regular actors during the run of the series include Doug McClure, Lee J. Cobb, John McIntire, Charles Bickford, Stewart Granger, Clu Gulager, Gary Clarke, Randy Boone, and Roberta Shore.
It's often been remarked that The Virginian had such high production values that each episode looked like a feature film. The 249 installments are 90 minutes apiece and were all shot in color; a rarity for its day.
Now, nearly forty years after the end of the series, members of the cast are reuniting as part of the 10th Annual Saddle Up festival in Pigeon Forge, TN. On Saturday, February 27th, Drury, Clarke, Shore, and Boone will come together for a special three hour event that will include a meet and greet reception, a Q&A session, clips from the series, and autograph sessions.
The event will also mark the release of The Virginian on DVD. The complete first season is being released for the first time on DVD. Episodes have been restored and will be accompanied by special extras. The first season is being released in two ways; in a pair of half-season releases and also in a 10-disc, special collector's edition tin. Patrons of the festival can be among the first to purchase the DVDs since they won't be available in regular retail stores until May 25th.
Tickets for the festival are $20 each for adults or $50 for the four day weekend, February 25-28th. Kids under the age of 17 are free. Aside from the reunion, the festival also features Western-themed concerts, shows, poetry readings, and dining. The Virginian castmembers will be attending each day, in addition to the reunion event.