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From tundra to desert, from prairies to rainforests, the trade routes of Ganelerdos converge at Sparrenfor, Enelarmos, Larpektis, and Torg-ra-Honnet—the Merchant Cities. Fair exchange offers prosperity to the creative and industrious, whether human or elemental… and unearned riches to the ambitious and greedy.
A RIVER THROUGH EARTH, by Raymund Eich
The First Book of the Merchant Cities
Scorned by his father, mocked by his older brother, Woldirek Hansar rides with a caravan into a desolate wasteland. He emerges with a bold plan to make House Hansar the most prosperous family in the Merchant Cities. A plan to transform the continent of Ganelerdos forever.
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Du Fu 杜甫
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Du Fu (712-770), Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty.
"Take any one of Du Fu's poems, or even one line, and everywhere you will see his concern for his country and his love for his sovereign, his compassion for the times and his sadness over disorder, his refusal to compromise in adversity, his integrity in poverty, his way of expressing his indignation and refining his nature by means of enjoying the landscape and drinking with friends, even though he had travelled through rugged, war-torn, bandit-infested terrain: this is Du Fu's visage. Whenever I read him, it leaps before my eyes." - Ye Xie (1627-1703), On the Origins of Poetry (tr. James J.Y. Liu)
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Engraved gems in the Middle Ages of the subjects of pagan mythology was forbidden by law, but the old ideas were retained for many years, and small objects like cameos or intaglios were carried about concealed upon the person.
Later on, when all knowledge of classical art had sunk into oblivion, such stones became prized not only for the subjects engraved on them, which their medieval owner seldom understood, but also for the fact that they were supposed to possess special talismanic virtues.
The majority of these gems were mounted as rings or as seals of secular and ecclesiastical personages of rank. Preserved among the Harleian MSS. in the British Museum is a thirteenth-century, which contains instructions for the wearing of various stones, and for the composition of the different metals of the rings in which they were to be set.
A proof of the firm establishment of the Romans in Britain is afforded by the number of their gems brought to light in medieval times, while the decay of the art of gem-engraving in the Middle Ages is shown by the fact that the Harleian MS. always refers to these gems as objects "to be found and not made. …
A stone engraved in one manner you should suspend about the neck, as it enables you to find treasures, the impression in wax of another stone will cause men to speak well of you." The engraving of a dove with a branch of olive in its mouth should be mounted in a silver ring, and another gem should be placed in a ring of lead.
From these and similar writings it is clear that one of the objects aimed at by the medieval authors was to define the different virtues of the vigils engraved upon precious stones. Such ideas, not previously unknown, as, for example, among the Gnostics, were no doubt stimulated by the Crusades, whereby the study of alchemy and the interest in Oriental mysteries became spread throughout Europe. Leonardus, as late as the six- tenth century, observes that stones " if engraved by a skillful person or under some particular influence, will receive a certain virtue. . . .
But if the effect intended by the figure engraved be the same as that produced by the natural quality of the stone, its virtue will be doubled, and its efficacy augmented." We see thus that the talismanic ideas respecting precious stones were attached as much to their engraving as to the stones themselves.
Owing to the complete decline of the glyptic art in the Middle Ages, antique cameos and intaglios, on account of some fancied assimilation in subject or idea to Christian symbolism, were occasionally used for devout subjects. Together with the general ignorance of classical art, and the consequent attempts that were made to give the pagan representation upon antique gems a Christian signification—frequently in a very forced and curious manner—there appears to have been a certain appreciation of their beauty.
When small relics, such as particles of the wood of the cross, or larger relics, as bones of the saints, were enclosed either in portable reliquaries or in costly shrines, such receptacles were not infrequently encrusted with ancient cameos and intaglios, as representing the very choicest objects which the fervent devotion of the age could select for this sacred purpose.
The Shrine of the Three Kings at Cologne and the Treasure of Conquest" are still enriched with many fine examples of the gem-engraver's art, and the magnificent gold shrine of Edward the Confessor in Westminster Abbey, long since despoiled, was formerly mounted with numerous cameos, all probably antique.
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European Academic Network on Romani Studies
A European Union / Council of Europe Joint Programme (2011-2015).
The aim of the European Academic Network on Romani Studies is to support efforts towards the social inclusion of Romani citizens in Europe. The project facilitates intercultural dialogue and raises the visibility of existing research outside the academic community in order to foster cooperation with policymakers and other stakeholders. By creating an interface between academic researchers and political decision makers, while promoting and improving the existing resources on the European Roma communities, the project shall ultimately allow for the implementation of better conceived policy initiatives based on reliable evidence.
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Reply from Council of Europe Secretary General Thorbjørn Jagland
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An e-book on the legacy of the Network project is published. Read more
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'Twas the night before Christmas and all through the sty
The pot bellies hoped that some food was close by.
Their stockings were hung on a nail by the door
And all had their names, some sows and some boars.
They soon bedded down all snug in the hay
While visions of apples kept coming their way.
For apples were one of their favorite treats,
Although there is much that they liked to eat.
When out of a stall there arose a loud grunting,
One of the piggers was desperately hunting
A crumb or a morsel – just one more small bite
Is all that he needed to get through the night.
He rooted and rooted around on the floor,
And soon he did realize there must be no more.
So off to his bed he decided to go
And soon he was dreaming of things he loved so.
He dreamed of a trough that was flowing with treats.
All that he wanted – even chocolate so sweet.
He ate and he ate – he savored each bite.
What a wonderful dream – what a wonderful night!
And then the next day when the piggers did rise,
They squealed with delight at the Christmas surprise!
Their stockings were filled up with candy and fruit.
Their tails were all wagging, they started to root.
Their snouts how they twitched, their eyes they did shine.
With juice on their jowls they were such happy swine.
Their bellies were growing and getting more round
And soon they would all be dragging the ground.
But that didn't matter how chubby or plump
The piglets became with fat on their rumps.
For they knew if they had been treated this way,
They would always be dear, as they were Christmas Day!!!


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In general the community looks like 6500M:10CCC, where M is a continent code and CCC is a three digit country code as defined in ISO3166. The information about origin of each AS has been taken from Maxmind GeoIP Database.
For example, BGP community for AS15169: 65007:10840 of the route 126.96.36.199/24 means this community belongs to a member from North America (7) and the country is USA (840).
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Today is the day Beauty and the Beast (2017) is finally released!
Disney's animated version was released in 1991 and won numerous awards for its incredible music and storytelling. Honestly, I'm surprised a live action version of the Disney film has taken so long.
But then again, I'm probably biased since it's my favorite film of all time.
When I first heard of the possibility of a live action Disney Beauty and the Beast film in 2015, I was so excited I think I started hyperventilating (yes, it's quite pathetic). My excitement was further enhanced when I discovered that Emma Watson would be playing the main protagonist, Belle.
Belle has always been my favorite Disney princess. An independent and fiery bookworm whose beauty goes beyond her facade was in my eyes nothing short of inspirational.
Emma Watson appears to be a down-to-earth young woman whom I first took notice of in the Harry Potter series as the strong and intelligent witch, Hermione Granger. But it was her work with Books on the Underground, the Book Fairies, as well as the HeForShe campaign from UN Women that garnered my respect for her.
She, in my opinion, is the perfect Belle.
Every trailer and clip that I watched leading up to the movie's release always gave me chills.
From the light piano playing in the background to the dance between Belle and her Beast to the stark red rose petals falling slowly to the ground.
All of that on top of the incredible CGI that went into creating the Beast and his staff is awesome! And what is also equally cool is Lefou's homosexuality. I mean, it's the 21st century people! There aren't just straight people! There are lesbians, gays, transgender, aseaxuals, so why shouldn't they be represented in our media and entertainment? In the words of director Bill Condon on the controversy around it, "I'm so sick of this!"
My family and a couple of my friends were lucky enough to nab some tickets the day after its premiere.
I'm so excited I'll probably start crying before the film even begins.
It's not just about the cool animation or the crazy musical numbers.
It's getting the same feeling I got when I first watched the animated version when I was a little girl. A sense of complete wonder and content from watching a beautiful and meaningful film.
I'm sure the 2017 version will be as wonderful as the original.
Either way I'll be humming the title song all the way home afterwards.


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60K Still Without Power Nearly 1 Week After Ice Storm
DETROIT (WWJ) - Nearly a week after a severe ice storm battered southeast Michigan, thousands of homes and businesses still remain without power.
As of Friday afternoon, fewer than 60,000 power outages remained -- down from an estimated 598,000 homes and businesses that lost service across the state. A majority of the outages are in Genesee and Lapeer counties.
DTE Energy said they were dealing with about 11,500 outages in the metro Detroit area, down from 150,000 total customers that lost power. A spokesperson said crews have been working around the clock, but have been delayed by the extent of damage, power lines continuing to fall and icy working conditions.
In addition to the initial power outages caused by the ice storm, DTE said wintry weather over the past few days caused another 40,000 homes and businesses to lose power. DTE said their best estimate is that the majority of customers will have power restored by Saturday.
Click here for DTE Energy's power outage map.
Meantime, Consumers Energy said about 52,000 of their customers remain without service, down from more than 377,000 total outages. Spokesperson Debra Dodd said it's the largest Christmas-week storm in the company's 126-year history and the worse ice storm in 10 years.
Dodd said the majority of customers still without power are expected to be restored by the end of the day Saturday, but restoration times may be affected by additional storm activity causing more damage.
Click here for Consumers Energy power outage map.
Both utilities say linemen from several other states have traveled to Michigan to help restoration efforts. Those crews are working 16-hour shifts, around the clock, to get the lights turned back on.
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Here's a new short interview of Taylor Schilling and the 'Orange Is The New Black' cast with Vulture
From Vulture
In the new season of Orange Is the New Black, Litchfield devolves into chaos as the prisoners riot, and everyone's lawlessness manifests differently. Taystee handles the hostage negotiations, while Flaca and Maritza run a beauty vlog. The otherwise quiet Frieda invites a handful of inmates — which includes much of the original cast — into her bunker near the old pool. Trained as a survivalist, Frieda has outfitted the bunker with enough food, supplies, and weapons to survive a nuclear war. But the space seems dark and cramped, and they are down there for hours. At a recent party for the premiere of season five, Vulture asked the cast and executive producer: What was it like to shoot there? (And how many Pop-Tarts did they consume?)
Taylor Schilling (Piper)
It was quite poignant simply being with the people we started the journey with who were all together again after five years. So many people came in and out, and there was something really poignant about being with the tribe. It is impossible not to think about it in the context of our lives as people, and where we were when we started together. So that last scene when we were holding hands was really powerful. It felt kind of reflective and sweet.
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Blue Dinosaur Bone Inlaid Black Ceramic Ring with Beveled Edges
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This luxurious ring features an authentic inlay of a dinosaur fossil. The ceramic band is lightweight and extremely durable. It also works well at preventing scuffs from normal wear and tear, as it is highly scratch resistant. This blue tone fossil was delicately excavated years ago from the Earth and now it has been cut and polished to be furnished on your finger. It is well suited for daily use thanks to its dome profile and will keep it comfortable for prolonged wear. The beveled edges on either side further enhance its comfort. To bring the look together, the black ceramic and fossil inlay have been polished to perfection and create an amazing contrast when paired with each other.
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Earlier this month, Motorola announced the list of devices getting Google's newest Android i.e. Android 7.0 Nougat. You can go through full list- Here.
As said earlier by Motorola, the Moto Z and Moto G4 Family will start getting Android 7.0 Nougat update in Quarter 4 and Yes... Seems Motorola has started rolling out Android 7.0 Nougat for Moto G4 Plus Soak testers in Brazil.
The update costs 953MB and is hitting Soak testers of Moto G4 Plus in Brazil.
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Check out the links below to see some samples of my work!
I have written hundreds of blog posts for enterprise software companies, including these recent samples:
- The US Government Vs Botnets
- Academic Research Reports Nearly 30,000 DoS Attacks Per Day
- Regulations May Decrease IoT Botnets, but Won't Stop Them
- WannaCry Ransomware Attack Wreaks Havoc Across the Globe
- DDoS Attack Briefly Cripples the FCC Comment System
- Small DDoS Attacks Cause Big Problems
- What Bank Executives Need to Know About DDoS Prevention
- An Ounce of DDoS Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure
- The Impacts of DDoS on the Janet Network and Connected Universities
- DDoS Hackers Using IoT Devices to Launch Attacks
- DDoS Attacks Can Be Used in Cyber Warfare or Political Hacktivism
- DDoS Mitigation Service Provider Staminus Suffers Security Breach
- Cybersecurity Gets Attention from the White House
- What Motivates DDoS Attackers?
- DDoS Attacks Lead to Downtime and Lost Revenue for Hosting Providers
I've also written a collection of blogs for Green Energy Money, a company that helps property owners and builders obtain green mortgages to increase energy efficiency and real estate value.
I've written many press releases, such as these two examples:
Atomic Data Selects Corero's Real-Time DDoS Mitigation Solution to Eliminate Downtime and Outages due to DDoS Attacks
Susan Edwards to Receive 2015 Environmental Education Award from the Nashua River Watershed Association
In 2015 I co-directed a short documentary film, Greenway Heroes: Profiles in Land Conservation.


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This week is my last week as Featured Designer by CASology. I want to say thanks for Melissa to allowed me being on your Blog as FD :) its a happy time to contacting with you and emailing you...you are a great Mama, great Woman and great Owner of the challenge blog. Two thumbs up for you :)
I try to collect my washi tape...if you know me I never bought it... I got as birthday present last year from sister in law...and here it is what I can make with my collection of washi tape :)
1. Put my washi tape in a row like the photo above.
2.Took my Circle Stiched Circle DIE and cut the area with washi tape in a circle shape.
3. Then I put the big colorful Circle in the middle of the card base, drew (by my self) the top area of the christmast bauble, and using the ''x'' stitched DIE, run my card under the big shot.
4. Last step stamped the sentiment with red ink.
Tips: if you dont have washi tape, try to search stamp that looks like washi tape...example a long strip stamp and stamp it with colored ink and try to tore it, will be look like washi tape then :)
CASology Week 191: Washi
Wonderful Wednesday 30 March: Anything Goes
Word Art Wednesday #224: Anything Goes
Inspiration Destination #79: Anything Goes
Through The Craft Room Door 29 March-4 April: Anything Goes (2/2)
Crafty Galz Corner #65: Anything Goes
Simply Papercraft Challenge #26: Anything Goes (3/3)
Simon Says Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes (2/5)
Crafty Sentiments Designs: Anything Goes (2/3)
Lemon Short Bread #12: Anything Goes (2/3)
Holly Jolly Christmas Challenge #68: Use your Stash
Beside that I want to share some pictures we made at our holiday in Bali. Yes it was December 2009 - middle January 2010. My son Kevin was 5 and Adrian was 3 at Januar 2010. I miss to go there again....you can see nice pictures that my hubby made here. There you can see all green, rice field and nice and kind people who always smile to us (at the hotel and at the street, at the small shop).
Thanks for looking and leaving me some love...this post is the last post from me at CASology as Feature Designer, cant wait to see the next month Designer ;) ....I am also wishing you happy friday :)


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First off, let's be clear about how many folks are watching this: the Facebook post with this video has been shared almost 290,000 times. That's a lot of people watching this, and it's simple, basic, unrefined bullshit. I know it's no fun to pay for gas (or, well, anything), but you can't run on "gas fumes."
Well, technically, you car always runs on gas fumes — or, more accurately, gasoline vapor, but we'll cover that later. Let's look at what's going on in this video first. Maybe you've been sent an email by your mom (or in our case, Deb & Randy) that reads something like this:
Maybe people make fun of Rednecks and their ideas but here is one Genius who will make you stop and think for a minute. He watched his neighbor do this with a lawn mower and used the same technique on his V-6 Dodge Dakota pick-up truck. Why can't GM, Ford, Chrysler, etc do it too?
Which links to this video:
Our humble narrator and lead engineer on project More Free Energy Bullshit is Joshua Lineberry. Lineberry describes his experiment like this:
This is an experiment I did to see if cars will just run on gas fumes. It was so simple and I was so excited and very pissed that it worked at the same time. We are getting majorly screwed at the pump. I drove like this for a few miles and came home with no problems.
Lineberry freely admits that his setup is a little "hillbilly" but I'm not going to hold that against him. Lots of great inventions started by being made out of crap. You should see what John Logie Baird's first television systems looked like. The problem's not what he's made his rig out of, it's that his rig is nothing more than a distraction to divert your attention from the fact he hasn't really altered his truck in any way.
The rig consists of a plastic 2-gallon gas can, which has been perforated with hoses in six locations: three short hoses at the rear of the can open to the atmosphere, and three more leading from the front of the can directly into the air intake of the truck's air cleaner housing, which then feeds to the Dakota's throttle body fuel injection air intake.
Lineberry has made a nice little metal plate to seal the three hoses from the gas can into his air cleaner housing, and he's removed the air cleaner. He's also claimed to have removed the relay switch from his Dodge truck's electric fuel pump, which would, theoretically, starve the engine of fuel.
It's probably worth mentioning here that working with gasoline vapor in any way is dangerous, as that stuff is incredibly flammable. So, aside from the fact it's bullshit, don't try if you want the best hope of eyebrow retention. This is serious enough that there's even, in the YouTube comments, a link for a GoFundMe for a father and son who allegedly burned themselves trying this with a lawn mower.
He claims the engine will run just from the gasoline fumes found in the plastic gas can, and to prove this he starts up his truck, which starts and runs without a hitch. To prove that the truck is, in fact, running on the fumes from the tank, he uses his hands to block the hoses exposed to the air from the gas can, and the truck dutifully stops.
All this is, at the risk of sounding repetitive, bullshit.
What's really happening here is a laughably simple bit of trickery. The gas can and hose assembly into the engine's air intake is nothing more than a huge, ridiculous extension of the air cleaner housing's intake tube. You'd think if you wanted to run a car on gasoline fumes, you wouldn't want to make holes in your gas can exposed to the air, where all your fumes could escape. But if that gas can was really just a useless chamber connected to your car's air intake, you better believe you want it exposed to the open air. Hence the three hoses.
And, when he places his hand over the hoses, the engine stops because it's being choked of air, not starved of fuel.
The crux of the trick is the simplest — that relay he shows as being from the fuel pump? It's not. We have no idea what that relay is from, and no attempt to show the properly labeled relay socket or anything like that to confirm the fuel pump is off happens. Because the fuel pump isn't off.
This truck is running perfectly normally, pulling liquid gasoline from its fuel tank and letting the fuel injectors atomize it into a vapor into the cylinders just like God/Lee Iacocca intended.
That's just the thing — all cars run on "fumes" already. The gasoline doesn't squirt into your cylinders like a stream of urinated gasoline, either the carburetor mixes it with air to form a vapor or the fuel injectors atomize it into a vapor. Cars already run on "fumes," and they need a full tank of liquid gas to make enough of those fumes.
Reading the Facebook and YouTube comments — never a smart thing to do — shows that many people really want to believe this works. Of course they do. It would mean essentially free gasoline. But there's zero science to support this, which borders on perpetual motion quackery, and videos like this are just trolling a population desperate to quit paying for gas.
If this guy really wants to convince us, he'd need to absolutely prove that no actual fuel is getting to the cylinders. Maybe disconnect the fuel supply line, so we can see it, and plug the hole?
A similar experiment would be easy enough to try. If Mr.Lineberry wants to show me the inside details of his hoses-in-gas can rig so I can duplicate exactly what he's doing, I'll connect, via hoses, a gas can to the air intakes of the carbs on my Beetle, disconnect my fuel line, and try to duplicate his experiment. I want to see how he has the hoses inside the gas can first so there's zero discrepancy in our two rigs.
I'm not going to be surprised at the outcome, since I already know what happens to my car when it gets no fuel. It doesn't run.
Because, of course, this is all bullshit.


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Man who police say pretended to be Uber driver accused of sexually assaulting FGCU student
A Fort Myers man accused of sexually assaulting a Florida Gulf Coast University student in August remained at the Lee County jail Wednesday on $200,000 bail.
Willie Foust Jr., 33, is accused of assaulting the student after telling her he was an Uber driver and taking her to the FGCU campus on Aug. 25, according to police records. Police arrested him Tuesday.
The FGCU Police Department obtained a warrant for Foust after a sexual assault kit was submitted to a Florida Department of Law Enforcement lab. When DNA from the kit was checked against a national database, a match for Foust's DNA was found, records indicate.
"That just shows that the legislation that's been passed on felons providing DNA samples ... is being put to good use," FGCU Police Chief Steven Moore said. "It helps solves crimes."
FGCU:Student turns stories about rape into theater
FGCU:Greek life isn't all about partying, drinking and hazing, members say
FGCU:Ex-music professor testified in 2001 he had sex with University of Nebraska student
Foust has a long arrest history.
Florida Department of Corrections records show that he was sentenced on a grand theft charge in Lee County in 2008. In 2013, Foust was sentenced on child abuse, burglary and grand theft charges in Lee County.
The FGCU student was sexually assaulted after she requested that an Uber driver take her back to campus from a bar. A driver in a Toyota Corolla was supposed to pick up the student.
"What we believe happen is he just took advantage of a situation," Moore said. "It was raining that night. When he pulled up, she asked, 'Are you my driver?' He said, 'Yes,' and she got in."
The student ended up getting into a Kia. The student had doubts about the vehicle "but because the male was heading in the general direction of FGCU, she assumed he was just a different Uber driver," according to the police records.
The driver pulled into a parking lot near the school's Welcome Center. Foust is accused of getting in the back seat with the student, taking her cell phone and assaulting her, according to the records.
"We are just happy to get him off the streets, and it was nice that everything came together and the system worked well," Moore said.


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Wolfrum Chronicled: I'm Coming Out
July 8, 2013
Ok, this book thing is starting to read like the ravings of a madman. Which is likely it's destiny, regardless, but I should at least try and create some type of plot. This story needs some plotification, I say. So please allow me to plotify.
Listen, I've spent almost the last decade building my brand. I am William K. Wolfrum, the brand. You'll find me right next to Tide and Coca-Cola. Unfortunately, I've spent the majority of that time in Brazil. This has made cashing in a bit more difficult. I'm a man between two countries, as it were. Thus, it behoves me to start spending some time back in the good ol' U.S.
Yes, Brazil is fine and I'll likely spend most of my time down here. I have a bunch of dogs, after all. Nonetheless, now is the time to embrace what I have started. It is time to cash in. It is time to be more than just an online persona. It is time to come out.
The Summer of Wolfrum is coming, as I plan to go to the U.S. and get myself out there. I'll do work as a pundit or a comic or what have you. I've made the connections. I have the name. I have the game. And now I have a plot.
(Note 1: The full story can be found on the Wolfrum Chronicled Main Page.)
(Note 2: For an explainer on this project, please go here.)
Wolfrum Chronicled: Finding my way
June 22, 2013
It's been, what, 10-plus years since I quit drinking? Time, it does fly. Mind you, it's not that I take my sobriety lightly. I don't. I just don't use time as a gauge as much any longer. In too many ways, I'm the same person as I was the day I quit. For me, I will always be newly sober and need to be ever-vigilant.
Ok, I have no ability to write about my alcoholism without sounding like a complete tool. I'm Mr. Inspiration, producing hings like this from 2008:
It was 1,825 days ago that I nearly drank myself to death. And it wasn't some party gone wrong. It was a culmination of nearly two decades worth of drinking. It was a desperate attempt to keep drinking when every part of me knew it was way past time to stop. It was the final act of a nightmare. It was my bottom, and I hit it as hard as possible.
And now five years later, I haven't had a drink since.
While I quickly discovered that AA wasn't for me, I adopted several of the 12 steps to help what has been a recovery pf 1,824 days and counting. My main step was basically accepting my wife as my higher power. She means everything to me, and has helped me in more ways that I can imagine or even express. And she continues to, every day. Mainly, I've taken sobriety seriously, and never take it for granted. I'll always be an alcoholic, but I never want to go back to where I was.
1,826 days ago I saw no way out. I never could have imagined I could be sober for five years and eager for more. I was lost. My wife and family helped me find myself, and I am more thankful than I can say.
If you're lost, just know you don't have to be. That recovery can happen. That no matter how bad it is, and how deeply you've buried your secret, you can be the person you want to be and should be. If you'd like to chat with me about anything, click on my name in the "Contributors" section over on the left. Or find a family member or friend you trust. It's hard, I know. But it's worth it. Because life can be beautiful if you're willing to see it with a clear mind.
One of the big things I've gotten from blogging is the ability to be more open as a person. And the one area of my life I've tried to be more open about is my alcoholism.
Not too long ago I celebrated my fifth anniversary of sobriety, and I wrote about that here. It was received with a lot of positivity and a lot of people sharing their own experiences.
But this weekend, I wanted to write to those of you still out there fighting your demons, whether it be alcohol, drugs, food or anything else that has grabbed a hold of you and won't let go. And really, my message is simple and as non-preachy as could be:
I'm thinking of you.
Because this weekend is a holiday weekend. And whether you celebrate Easter or not, I know that holidays can be just plain awful for the addicted. I have drank away more holidays than I could ever hope to remember. And I have spent holidays actively trying to get away from friends and families so I could drink. Holidays can really suck if you have an addiction.
So if you're out there, and fighting through this holiday weekend, know that you aren't alone. Know that others are struggling just as you are, and that others like myself have struggled through holidays. Whatever your addiction is, there are others out there, even among the Shakers that have a pretty good idea of how you're feeling this weekend. So please hang in there.
Because you aren't alone. We're thinking about you.
Now, I really felt those things at the time, and still do. But that's just a part of being a recovering alcoholic. It's great and useful to try and express a level of positivity, but it doesn't mean I've shared anything. How drinking affected and continues to affect me in day to day life are areas I've rarely tread. It's too real for me, I guess.
All I can say is, it's made me feel older than I am. More tired than I should be.
It's a lot like when you see a basketball team gets down by 25 points and then make a valiant comeback but falter at the end. I feel like I just can't completely overcome it. The battle for me has been to close the deficit, not overtake it. I just don't feel like I have the gas to get all the way to the finish line, that I'm developing into one of those aging ex-addicts who have the look of a whisper and time.
It's more than a decade later. The feelings of shame have gone. The strong urges have gone. All that's left is me, trying to make up for lost time. And, you know, speaking of time, I just did the math and today is day 3,794. And I still don't want to go back.
(Note 1: The full story can be found on the Wolfrum Chronicled Main Page.)
(Note 2: For an explainer on this project, please go here.)
Wolfrum Chronicled: A Contender
June 5, 2013
I've generally lived my life based on one simple philosophy - things will eventually work out. I don't know how they will, but they will. They always do. Sure, lots of people have that essential plan, but it really seems to work for me. I'm just special that way.
So, I won't say that I'm surprised that I was contacted yesterday by a book publisher who was interested in this project. It was, in fact, just a matter of time before what I was doing would be recognized, wouldn't you say? I mean, c'mon, I'm talking about selling this book, while writing it and including reviews and even a soundtrack. If this isn't genius than Einstein was a plumber.
Thus, I imagine that a lot of this year will be spent doing promotional stuff, a book tour perhaps, probably a guest spot on "The Daily Show" or "Colbert Report." You know, high-end stuff. Stuff worthy of me. But don't worry, this will book - the first draft, at least - will still be available here at the blog. After this, you'll have to pay for my words, but that's to be expected. Because everything is working out for me. Just like it's supposed to.
(Note 1: The full story can be found on the Wolfrum Chronicled Main Page.)
(Note 2: For an explainer on this project, please go here.)
Wolfrum Chronicled: I Belong With You, You Belong With Me
June 4, 2013
I have been many things in this life, and many of those things have been bad. I am not just an imperfect man, I am the imperfect man. But everything started to change 12 years ago, when I married Emilia. I became a better man, human and living entity.
My wife had no business marrying me, but luckily, she seemed eager to marry below her station. Together, however, we have made an amazing duo. Together, we are far more than two individuals. We are a team. A sometimes ridiculous team, sure, but a team nonetheless. I wrote this in 2008:
I try not to mention my wife, Emilia, in my work because, well, I don't know why. She sure as hell talks about me at her work. She has several bits down pat about the adventures of the silly American in a strange land.
Generally, however, I keep Emilia in the background. But I had mentioned a story in a blog post about her innocently (I'll testify to that in court) about something we did on a cruise ship. I feel like this might be embarrassing for her, but I thought, "hey, If I justwrite a really sweet post about her first, I'd probably be ok on this one." If there's one thing they don't teach you about marriage, it's this – variables. Get to know them, and play them.
So anyway, this one time, on a cruise ship …
My parents, showcasing again why they are the greatest parents in the world and shining proof that conservatives are not all evil people, took myself, my two sisters and our spouses, as well as my sisters' kids on a five-day cruise.
First of all, let me just wrap this part up now: If you are thinking of taking a cruise, do it. It's a fantastic, relaxing time where you can do whatever you like. It'll run you when you're on board especially, but they do treat you right (and I'm just speaking of the top-named ones because those are all I know).
So the trip was a blast for all involved. But right in the middle, on the third night was a contest I'd convinced my wife to join with me. We had been married just over a year, and the ship was holding a bawdy "Newlywed Game" of sorts. So we went to the "audition" as it were, which was scheduled just 45 minutes before the show in one of their big fancy show rooms. Shockingly, a lot of couples wanted in on this. There were maybe 30 couples there, for only three spots. And then one of the spots went to a couple that had been married 700 years and were as sassy and funny an older couple you could find. They should have their own show.
Then the next spot went to a younger couple, who were married the least amount of time. They had actually been married on the boat, a few hours earlier. So, there was just one spot remaining, and to make it onto the show, they lined us all up and gave us an "American Idol" audition of who could perform the best "Tarzan and Jane" impersonation. The odds were stacked against us. I told Emilia not to worry, I'd get us there.
So as there were less than 10 couples left, doing their lame Tarzan and Jane imitations, I came up with the plan: A three-part plan, actually:
1) Art: Emilia would perform "Tarzan and Jane" via interpretive dance.
2) Stand up: I would tell a "Tarzan and Jane" joke acting live a Vegas comedian.
3) Porn: Emilia would then fall on her back, I'd give a Tarzan yell, and pounce on her.
Let me tell you, for having merely seconds to come up with this, it was pretty impressive plan. Emilia kept saying "I have to do what?" and "Don't make me do that," and "Oh please don't make me do that," and other things on the same variation. But aside from that, things were going smoothly. And then it was our turn. And we nervously stepped forward to the center of the room, the audience having already reached 500 or so. We lept into our roles …
… and it worked. Brilliantly.
The main reason it worked was the fact that once Emilia decided that she was going along with this plan, she was going to give it her all. She interpretive danced her ass off.
She was behind me so I couldn't see as I threw a lame joke at the audience like "What did Jane say to Tarzan when he came home? Hey Tarzan, you're starting to smell like a cheata." But the crowd was going nuts. Emilia was just back there working it for all she was worth. When I finally ran over to her for the finale porn scene, she was exhausted, but fell to her back and dutifully kicked her legs up comedically after I roared and pounced for the ultimate porn act.
It was the scene, man. The crowd was going bonkers, we went back and stood in line and awaited the rest of the act. We were nervous and somewhat humiliated.
Because here's something I left out: My parents were there. As were my sisters, their husbands and combined six children. We could see them in the balcony. It was surreal.
So the finale came down to the audience giving a "Clap-off" with another couple. That couple had made it to the finals because he had shouted "Me Tarzan, you Jane," lifted up her top and rubbed his face all over her ample bosoms. The audience was in varying taste that day, as I'd swear the clap came back a virtual tie, but the host chose us, and Emilia and I, who had been front of the stage, ran around and got on stage, facing a thousand fellow travelers, ready to put on a show. Even with the darling newlyweds and the cute-as-a-pool-of-kittens older couple, we were the favorites. Because Emilia had won the crowd over with her interpretive dance.
The Newlywed Game
The show itself was taped (but sadly, not the audition, Emilia's dance will only remain in the minds of those who watched, family included), so I'm not going to go into it too much. Go ahead and find a tape and post it on the Internet, I dare you. I own one and I know a few others exist.
But one answer sticks out. You see, what they do is send all the guys back stage and ask the girls a question, then vice-versa. I had just come back from being backstage, and the question presented to me was "How do you know your wife is in the mood?" I answered – just as she had previously answered – "When she puts her hair up."
The crowd was already laughing.
"Why does she put her hair up, Bill?"
"Well, you know, so she can go, you know, down there. You know."
Crowd goes nuts. The younger guy on stage with us – in an impressive bit of comedic timing – stands up to me and shakes my hand and gives a small hug. I turn around, the older man had gotten up to, and was shaking my hand vigorously. The crowd loved it.
Oh yeah, my parents and family were there. Did I mention that? Thought I should remind you.
Anyway, we somehow did whatever we had to do to win, got enough answers right and took home the prize. I said I'd come up with a way to get us there, but it was all Emilia after that. We were Newlywed Games Champions, and received a bunch of crap to prove it to the world. It was a memorable night.
My parents just pretended it never happened.
The Fall out
After it was over, we were stars. Literally stars. A cruise ship, you see, is it's own community. And we were the celebrities of that community. Everyone came up to talk to us, we could see people looking at us, a guy even took our picture. It was a nice little glimpse of what it's like to have some fame. It added to the cruise's enjoyment.
The Truth Revealed
Emilia cheated. Yes, my wife cheated to win at "The Newlywed Game" on a cruise ship. She cheated out a couple that were married during the Nero Administration.
It's not her fault really. When it comes to games, Brazilians are the cheatingest group of people on the planet. It's a cultural thing. Cheating and gaining an advantage is how you play. Watch Brazilians play soccer some time, their flops can be more athletic than when they net the ball.
So keep in mind, this is a culture issue. When it comes to games, it's important to not get cheated on, and to find your own way to cheat. It's part of any game. It's frowned up in the U.S., but it's a purely cultural. Brazilians like to win. And will do whatever is needed to get a win.
So in the end, my wife wasn't being dishonorable, she was being true to her culture.
Basically, it happened as me and the guys returned from back stage. I got on stage and she gave me a quick hug and whispered "Sex motel" in my ear.
In Brazil, a motel, is basically by definition, a place for sex and partying that you can rent by the hour. The better ones are really fancy, have jacuzzi, sauna, hot and cold running porn and the likes. They even deliver food to you that's quite good, and it's all done in an environment of complete secrecy. Even the poorer sections of town have the, even when all they have is garages that close.
So when the Question was asked of me "Where did your wife say your strangest encounter was" I had my answer. I would have answered that anyway, because it was strange. Awesome, but strange. Place even had a waterfall. I told the crowd all about it – the crowd that included my parents.
No one has ever known about this until now. My parents, family, all those who fawned over us afterward – they were cheated. We pulled one over on them. My wife cheated at "The Newlywed Game" on a cruise ship.
And really, how can you not love that?
An elderly lion lay in the grass, suffering and watching his days slip away. A group of animals that he once terrorized walked up to him and began mocking and laughing at him.
"Look at you," said a rabbit. "You couldn't hurt a fly."
"Haha, you can't even catch me now," said a turtle.
The lion looked at the group with a calm expression of his face.
"What you say now may be true," he said. "But I was once a lion."
When I feel my path has taken me to dark places, I always and stop and think, "I once had a love affair. And I still do."
My legacy is safely in the arms of the woman I love.
(Note 1: The full story can be found on the Wolfrum Chronicled Main Page.)
(Note 2: For an explainer on this project, please go here.)
Wolfrum Chronicled: What Is Real?
June 1, 2013
Look: I quit taking Paxil last week. Ok, let me rephrase that - I've been taking Paxil about 10 years ago for a panic disorder. This week, I finally decided I was done with it. While it has done its job in controlling panic attacks, it has left me about as dull and shiftless as a man can be.
Of course, one of the great secrets of Paxil is that - despite denials from Smith-Glaxo - quitting Paxil leaves one with a wide array of withdrawal symptoms. Imagine sticking your head underwater while riding a roller coaster after smoking some weak weed. Add to tat a feeling of having the flu, body aches, depression and periodical electric zaps to the brain. Paxil withdrawal is essentially like that, just less fun.
Having a mental illness is someting Ié always been loathe to write about. I'm not against discussing my faults or mistakes - I've been upfront that I lost my last newspaper job because I showed up drunk to work, for instance. But, like most, I've allowed the fact that I have a mental illness to cause me shame. My left shoulder is almost worthless from bursitis. I'm cool talking about that. But the fact that my brain produces too much serotonin leaves me feeling like a failure.
I generally blame my panic disorder on having been an alcoholic for two decades (More on that later). But I really I don't know. I just know that I'm 46 years old and it's time for a change. I've done well for myself the last several years and have become a prominent voice. Paxil took away my ambition, however.
But now I stopped. Maybe the panic disorder will return (it hasn't yet) and maybe it won't. I just know that I'm now exhausted with fighting my own brain. So, I'll exercise, take vitamins and work hard. I'll do whatever I can to keep my brain as an ally. But whatever happens, I'll have my ambition back. And I'm never letting go of that again.
"As a sometimes hoaxster himself, Wolfrum would know to be dubious of any tips, distrustful of any information fed his way. If a dubious sources said X, he would print Y. And would do it proudly and vainly. That was his nature. That was his character."
– From "I Am Martin Eisenstadt: One Man's (Wildly Inappropriate) Adventures with the Last Republicans."
I made my name exposing Martin Eisenstadt. But the creators of the hoax conservative - Dan Mirvish and Eitan Gorlin - had me figured out the entire time. In the end, though, it brought me fans from all walks of life.
(Note 1: The full story can be found on the Wolfrum Chronicled Main Page.)
(Note 2: For an explainer on this project, please go here.)
Wolfrum Chronicled: Asiding
May 27, 2013
An aside: I am an awful employee. My last job,I got fired due to passing out drunk at work. But they could have fired me well before that, my boss just didn't want to find a replacement. Because, really, I'm an awful team player. I'm arrogant. I'm moody and nowhere near as good as I think I am. I can be funny, so that helps, but I wouldn't want to work with me. I'm a jerk.
Hmm, you know, there may be foreshadowing going on here. Let me look into that. Every good book needs some foreshadowing. I just may be on to something here.
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(Note 2: For an explainer on this project, please go here.)
Wolfrum Chronicled: Snapping out of it
May 22, 2013
All roads led to Emilia. I just took too many roads. When I met her, I strutted off a fishing boat straight to college. By the time we finally got together, I was a shambling wreck.
It began in Alaska, as most things for me did. I had just walked off my job as a commercial fisherman for the final time. Here's something I wrote about that in 2010:
Some are born eyes wide open. They are the few that have an innate understanding of life from the get go. They understand love, and responsibility and the importance of others. I was not one of those people.
I suppose my eyes didn't really start to open until I was 29. Up until then, I was the typical American boy. Stupid, self-centered, ignorant yet arrogant. I lived in the land of U.S. fantasy, where anyone could be great if they really tried and worked hard. Ronald Reagan was the greatest President ever, because my Dad had said so and I really didn't care one way or another. I was the prototype American. I was oblivious.
It was 1996, and I was working on a fishing vessel. We were in Dutch Harbor, Alaska. I had been doing that job about four years. I was standing in a huge freezer and we were offloading the 30,000 cases of fish we had just caught.
The freezer was open to the air, and we'd load a pallet full of cases of fish, and the ship's crane would come down and pick it up, taking it to the dock. So for about a minute, from deep within the ship's bowels in a freezer, I could look up and see the threatening Alaskan sky. I stood in the freezer as they craned off a pallet of fish and looked up and felt snow hit my face.
I was 29, I was standing in a freezer on a boat on the Aleutian Chain, and it was snowing on me. I thought of going to college for the first time. I knew something had to change.
That was Day One. That was the day my eyes finally began to open.
I would never have met Emilia, a traveling student studying business, had I never gone to Alaska. Or if I had never worked on fishing boats. Or if I had never decided to go to college. Still, I waited six years to close the deal with her. But, apparently, other roads needed to be taken to get to her.
My wife was born in the state of Minas Gerais in the southwest of Brazil. While our cultures aren't exceedingly different, differences show up daily. She once told me about watching "Moonstruck" as a kid. Knowing only Brazil, Emilia was shocked that the Nick Cage character - a lowly baker - could live in such a nice apartment.
"That's how it is in the United States," her father told her. "Jobs like that pay enough for people to be able to afford to live well."
Ah, those were the days. A young Emilia would recognize the U.S. much easier today. Because labor is cheap, and it's just going to get cheaper. Unless people snap out of it.
(Note 1: The full story can be found on the Wolfrum Chronicled Main Page.)
(Note 2: For an explainer on this project, please go here.)
Wolfrum Chronicled: Got the name, got the game
May 21, 2013
Hold the phone. I just realized that this process allows me to post reviews of the book, while I'm writing the book. And, yes, I'm calling it a book. I have to call it something.
Anyway, Hugh from the Internet had this to say about the first three chapters:
Thanks, Hugh. We'll see if we can keep the ball rolling in Chapter 5.
Writing has become a tough racket. I mean, the cream will still rise to the top and get notoriety and money, but the rest of us are left battling for a dwindling amount of scraps. Also, supply is through the roof. Suddenly, everyone's a writer. I mean, I don't mind the bad writers so much, but there are an inordinately number of good writers out there. Take Chris Kluwe, a friggin' NFL punter:
I can assure you that gay people getting married will have zero effect on your life. They won't come into your house and steal your children. They won't magically turn you into a lustful cockmonster. They won't even overthrow the government in an orgy of hedonistic debauchery because all of a sudden they have the same legal rights as the other 90 percent of our population—rights like Social Security benefits, child care tax credits, Family and Medical Leave to take care of loved ones, and COBRA healthcare for spouses and children. You know what having these rights will make gays? Full-fledged American citizens just like everyone else, with the freedom to pursue happiness and all that entails. Do the civil-rights struggles of the past 200 years mean absolutely nothing to you?
That was in an open letter to an anti-Gay rights politician. And how good was that? Crap, I can't get my points across that well. Which brings me to the next problem for me: I'm really not that great of a writer. I'm sure you've caught on to this by now. I'm a good thinker. And I have a strong voice. So I do have that going for me. Plus I have good hair. And I think that matters.
Don't get me wrong, however. I'm happy with where I am. Sure, I don't make the big bucks - or any bucks - yet, but I'm getting there I had a 10-year journalism career at newspapers and magazines. I've been featured in the New York Times - twice - as well as the Washington Post and a ton of other big publications. I have 12,000 followers on Twitter, including movers and shakers like Ana Marie Cox. And let's be honest, I did my part in tweeting out the vote and helping President Barack Obama win re-election.
In the end, I have to say that Arianna Huffington and The Huffington Post has helped create an Internet full of people who write for free, in search of that almighty exposure. Well, speaking as someone who's had plenty of exposure that you can't buy anything with it. She also created an internet full of sneak sideboob pictures of female celebrities. Quite the legacy.
Nonetheless, things are good for me. My star is rising. Still, it's a tough racket.
I like my name. William K. Wolfrum. It has gravitas. It can sound a little too German, perhaps. Like, if you read a story that sa "92-year-old Nazi William K. Wolfrum was arrested for his crimes against humanity today …," you wouldn't blink an eye. Maybe this is why I have such confidence in my future. The name just can't fail. It's no "Shaquille O'Neal," but it's pretty tight.
The "K" stands for "Kenneth," by the way. Which has no significance. It was just a name my mom liked. Here in Brazil, middle names have meaning. A child is given his mother's maiden name as a middle name. When a woman marries, she either changes her name by removing her mother's maiden name and making her father's last name her middle name, or she takes on two middle names. My wife, for instance, is Emilia Albernaz Arantes Wolfrum. It's a long name, but at least it has meaning.
Oh yeah, I'm married and live in Brazil. I should probably talk about that next. It'll get good reviews.
(Note 1: The full story can be found on the Wolfrum Chronicled Main Page.)
(Note 2: For an explainer on this project, please go here.)
Wolfrum Chronicled: The Truth Lies Within
May 20, 2013
Wolfrum Chronicled
By William K. Wolfrum
I'm doing this because I'm trying to make some money. Plain and simple. My wife and I just finished building a house and I had to borrow $10,000 from my Dad. And I don't pay it back immediately, I may go mad. Owing money to the man who single-handedly made me a wreck on all issues monetary is not something I can deal with at the moment. Seriously, the guy can squeeze blood from a penny. Yet while he's squeezing, $1,000 falls out of his pocket and he's none the wiser.
SPOILER ALERT: This will not be a book about my daddy issues.
Let's try this again: I have known for several years now that if I wrote a book, or anything even remotely book-like, it would be successful. The main reason being that I've got contacts. Media titans like Jake Tapper follow me on Twitter and have let me know that they'd promote my work. I just had to produce some actual work, as it were.
Now, everyone thinks they have a book in them. Something to chronicle their lives and adventures. And most are right to believe their lives have great moments of drama, comedy and tragedy. There just tends to be no plot except that everything gets really nasty and tragic on a long enough timeline. Experiences happen, and we move forward. Life is not a movie and things don't wrap up nicely. Things just continue, good or bad. All of this, of course, can lead to a fulfilling life. It just doesn't make for rational storytelling. Very few of us have that one experience or adventure that defines us, that gives us a proper end to our story, that leads us to living happily ever after.
I can't tell you if there's a plot to this whole thing. I just know it's time to let people know how I got here.
I keep thinking of this as an Austerity-era book. That it meets the needs of those who feel people should get less. On the bright side, this book shouldn't lead to rampant unemployment and social unrest. I mean, that would be awesome if it did, but I should try and be realistic.
My left arm came out first when I was born, with my doctor using said left arm to pull me into this world. My little arm was paralyzed for a day or so afterward. Currently, I have bursitis in my left shoulder. Are these two events connected? So many questions.
Anyway, that's how I was born. I was the youngest, with two older sisters who are eight and seven years older than I. That's one of those things that cause people to raise their eyebrows and nod knowingly when they first learn about it. And they are probably correct in all their assumptions.
Mostly, though, my youth was spent engulfed in ignorant Americanism. Not that there's anything wrong with that, mind you. I played sports, watched "Happy Days" and listened to pop music. I knew what was taught in school and not a lick more unless it was about sports. I was good at sports and funny, so I didn't get picked on. I was a happy, American kid. My youth was fun, but it essentially taught me nothing.
I used to work on fishing boats awhile back. I'll discuss that more later. I tend to discuss it a lot because I have a firm belief that discussing my time as a commercial fisherman makes me look like a brave, rugged hero who has a penis that women should crave. Or something like that. Anyway, the boat I worked on was about 50 percent American and 50 percent Japanese. The Japanese were hard-working and stoic, and would warm up to you if you proved you were willing to work hard. As surprising as it seemed, I fit that bill and earned friendships with some of them, including a man name Nakasuka.
Here's something I wrote about him in 2007:
I spent a good chunk of my twenties as a commercial fisherman in Alaska. It's one of those things that appears fantastic in hindsight – steaming out of Dutch Harbor, wind blowing through my hair, muscles rippling, etc.
In reality, of course, it was a hellish collection of freezing 18-hour work days, surrounded by fish. Overall, an interesting thing to have in your past. At the time, though, it more or less sucked.
One thing those days taught me is that when scientists claim that the world could be out of fish in 40 years, they aren't just hysterical eco-bedwetters. Even then, more than a decade ago, one was told about the decline of fish in the Bering Sea. And one could see how man abused the sea.
I particularly remember my first trip. Three months on a trawler, which was three months too many. We'd send a huge net down deep in the ocean and scoop up everything available. We fished mainly for mackerel, but the seasons were limited. On the day that mackerel season closed, we went in search of Pacific Ocean Perch (POP).
POP is a red fish, very easy to differentiate from mackerel. The first time we dropped the net for the start of POP season, we pulled up a full net of fish. Full of mackerel. As mackerel season had been closed, we weren't allowed to keep any of them.
It took us just two hours to process the net of fish that day, as we sent 20,000 pounds of dead mackerel back into the ocean. The boat was filled with depressed young fishermen, wondering what the hell they were doing out there. It was an extremely sad day.
I was thinking about those days recently, more to the point, thinking of the Japanese guys I worked with out there on longliners (after my trawler experience, I worked the rest of my time out there on longliners, which are much less wasteful). You see, a Japanese company owned 49 percent (the most allowed) of our company, and always had several workers on board.
I was thinking of Nakasuka, in particular. He was a hardworking guy, who was as old then as I am now, about 40. While not a big fan of Americans in particular, Nakasuka (Suka, for short) would take a liking to anyone, provided they worked hard enough. We worked together for the better part of three years, and got along well, despite not understanding each other's language.
What struck me as I thought about Suka was this – he's out there. Right now. Because that's what he is – a fisherman.
It was part of the reason the Japanese we worked with tended to dislike Americans. Because while the trite phrase of "They hate us for our freedoms" is a load of crap when discussing terrorists, it was partly true on a fishing boat. The Americans there were destined to leave the boat to try other things. The Japanese were fisherman for life.
The translator on board (we had a total crew of less than 40, and the translator also was a worker) told me once that for these Japanese men, being a fisherman was honorable. The culture itself was one that mainly cared about money – the only way for you to be successful was to make a lot of it. But fisherman were respected, even though they weren't rich. They brought home the food.
But they were definitely jealous. We could come and go as we pleased, but their lives were mapped out, and had been for a long time.
Even then I knew I eventually wanted to be a writer or a journalist at some point, and I sit here now with those things as my job description. While Nakasuka is floating on the Bering Sea, still.
Because Americans are free. In our culture, we still make our own paths, rather than having them built for us, as Suka had. Since then, however, Japanese culture has changed somewhat dramatically. The young have more choices and opportunity. Suka missed out on that, but his children likely haven't.
Because cultures change. Sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse. What's important for Americans, however, is to hold on to the one thing that we always hearken to – freedom. But as U.S. culture changes, and freedom becomes more and more attached to wealth, and freedoms become under appreciated, we need to fight to keep our rights as free men.
Was my time as a fisherman a wasted time of a wasted youth? To a point. But it was my choice, my decision, my experience. The pain and the cold and the wet have slowly left my mind, but the memories and lessons remain.
The main lesson was that I've been free to do whatever I've wanted, just about anywhere I wanted. That was the blessing, and I can only hope that future U.S. generations have the same freedom to have interesting experiences, or even make outlandish mistakes. Because cultures change. And not always for the better.
My dad wanted me to be a Major League Baseball player. Or he wanted me to take over his trucking company. If I wanted to do anything else, that was fine. But it wasn't up to him or my mom to help me chart any courses. I appreciate the freedom I've always had to make the choices I wanted. That freedom has helped me make me the man I am today. But maybe, just maybe, if my parents could have had a little Japanese in them, they could have helped guide me to being the man I was supposed to be.
Either way, my left shoulder would still hurt.
Spoiler Alert II: Seriously, I'll stop with the Daddy Issues.
(Note 1: The full story can be found on the Wolfrum Chronicled Main Page.)
(Note 2: For an explainer on this project, please go here.
Wolfrum Chronicled: A Blog Book (or something) Extravaganza
May 20, 2013
I've had this Web site for a decade now. It's gone through a couple transformations through the years, but has always served primarily as a place for me to write. It's why I splashed my name all over the joint.
With that in mind, and to celebrate 10 years here, I am undertaking a grand experiment. Or at least, an experiment, grandeur TBD. Over the next several weeks, if not few months, I will be using this blog to put together a book, of sorts. This book will be a fictionalized, satirical, semi-autobiographical look at an aging writer trying to find his way. The protagonist is named William K. Wolfrum.
I'm going into this with the belief that the only place this will be published is my blog. Thus, I will be using things like hyperlinks, and will include Youtube clips to provide a soundtrack, so to speak. While I have been working on this idea for some time and know the story I want to tell, this process of writing will allow to include real-time news and social-media responses. This story will be told traditionally using sections and chapters, but some chapters will essentially be political and social musings, while some will be little more than tweet-length. As this progresses, I believe you will see patterns emerge.
While I will post the story on the blog as blog posts, the whole story can be seen in order, at the Wolfrum Chronicled Main Page. All updates and edits will takes place on this page, and I will notify readers of any edits that affect the plot.
This will be my main task until it is finished. I hope you enjoy this experiment, and please know that comments are welcomed and that I can be reached here or at [email protected] If you are interested in donating any amount to this project, I will periodically place links to my Paypal account.
Also, as Twitter will be a character in this story, you may follow me here: @Wolfrum


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A benefits fraud investigator and his wife appeared in court this morning accused of falsely claiming more than £30,000.
Amjad Mohammed Aslam, of Bassingham Road, Wembley, was accused of swindling benefits from his employers at the Department of Work and Pensions, at Harrow Magistrates' Court.
The incidents date back to April 2004 when his wife Afshan Ishaq, of Barn Way, Wembley, claimed to be living at a rented property in Pinner Road, and was receiving housing benefits and income support to help her living costs.
However the prosecution argued she was in fact living with her husband at Kingsley Road, South Harrow, who owned the property and was in fact renting out the other property to tenants.
Aslam, 37, faces 10 charges including theft, perverting the course of justice and misconduct in a public office. His wife, 38, who was an ex-DWP employee, is charged with six offences including theft.
The court heard the couple, who married at Brent mosque in October 2004, failed to reveal they were married and Ishaq stated she was a single parent.
Prosecutors also told the court Aslam had investigated his wife for fraudulently claiming benefits whilst working, but during the investigation neither claimed they knew each other and he cautioned her for the offence, but did not register it.
In addition 14 fraud investigation files were found at Aslam's house and he has been accused of forging signatures for claimants and his co-workers on benefit investigation files, leading to benefit overpayment.
The pair were bailed with conditions including surrendering their passports and travel documents and staying at their places of residence.
Aslam and Ishaq are set to appear on January 22, 2009 at Harrow Crown Court.


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Skater, Model, Drifter and Photographer
Fedor Andreev is best known for his successful figure skating career, which includes winning the Canadian Junior National Championship in 1999. In addition to skating, Andreev is also involved in professional modeling, acting, drift racing, and photography. He is currently training for the 2010 winter Olympics where he plans to compete for Azerbaijan in men's singles figure skating.
"I've been very fortunate to experience rather diverse fields of work in my lifetime. From being an athlete, model, actor, race car driver, and a coach, I've come away with tremendous knowledge of many different walks of life. It's these experiences that have helped shaped my personality and given me a new outlook on society."


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On 1 December the statesmen and -women of molecular biology will meet in Washington, DC, for a three-day international summit on human gene editing, sponsored by the US National Academy of Sciences, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the UK's Royal Society. The meeting coincides with the publication of an open call for evidence to inform our own current genome editing project.
The Washington meeting is the latest, and perhaps the grandest, of a series of such meetings that have taken place since CRISPR-based genome editing systems seemingly re-wrote the future of life science research in just a few years, since their appearance in 2012. Their rapid uptake and diffusion has been accompanied by earnest and inreasingly anxious discussions about how we should think about this emerging technology, and the proper mode and limits of governance. From Manchester to Strasbourg, Cairo, Amsterdam, Stockholm and Washington, groups of scientists and fellow travellers have been recombining to elaborate an anticipatory political epistemology of genome editing. (I have written about some of these initiatives in previous posts on this blog.) The character of these meetings has evolved uncertainly to include researchers from outside the natural sciences, policy makers, industry and civil society actors. That knowledgeable and interested people are talking about the broader implications and governance of genome editing is important, but there are two things that I think should be borne in mind.
The first is that genome editing is both a tool for basic research and a technology that assembles knowledges, practices, products and applications.
The views, opinions and positions expressed by these authors and blogs are theirs and do not necessarily represent that of the Bioethics Research Library and Kennedy Institute of Ethics or Georgetown University.


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The broad aims of the Center of Excellence in Tumor Genetics Reasearch are:
- To compile a cloud-based data analysis environment that enables large-scale analyses, method development and integration with public datasets.
- To improve the functional annotation of the noncoding human genome.
- To harness the synergy of the national registry infrastructure to examine the occurrence of cancer in a multifaceted manner, and to derive key materials for molecular studies.
- To generate key omics data sets within the CoE to understand molecular characteristics of tumors and tumor predisposition.
- To functionalize the relevant variants and mutations on genome-scale using published resources and regulatory genomics datasets generated within the CoE.
- To translate the knowledge into impact such as novel approaches in risk prediction, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment.
Publications by the CoE group leaders can be found at https://plu.mx/helsinki/g/med/coeintg


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What do you get for lying to Colorado state legislators when you testify in front of them? If you're Connect for Health Colorado's CEO Patty Fontneau, you get a $14,000 bonus and an almost $5,000 raise.
Where do we even start with this mess? Fontneau's audacity to ask for a raise as her organization was experiencing a horrendous rollout? Her organization's proposal to raise fees on people not even getting their healthcare through her exchange (someone's got to pay for her raise)? When she went before Colorado state legislators and claimed C4HCO didn't need to be audited because the federal government was doing that, only to have The Colorado Observer reveal last week this was a complete lie? Or, the timing of this raise coming conveniently less than a week after the Colorado state legislator just adjourned for the year?
As The Denver Post reports today:
Connect for Health Colorado's board gave chief executive Patty Fontneau a 2.5 percent raise and a $14,291 bonus Monday morning.
Fontneau's salary for this year increases to $195,314, making her the third-highest paid executive of an independent state health exchange under the Affordable Care Act. Only the California and Connecticut exchanges pay their chief executives more.
Yep, certainly sounds to us like C4HCO doesn't need a single audit by the state of Colorado. We mean, why should we be concerned Fontneau is receiving a bonus and a raise at the same time she and the bureaucracy she is running claims it can't pay its own bills? She's already claimed she's cut all expenses to the bare bones. Bare bones is a $14,000 bonus? What's the non bare bones bonus? A private island for Fontneau?
So far, we only know of this bonus that Fontneau's receiving, but what about the rest of the chiefs at C4HCO? Will the chief marketer, or the chief technology officer be getting comparable bonuses? They're already paying them millions. This is the exact reason we need an independent legislative audit, so we know these answers. That way, when Fontneau sets aside her jewels and furs to come beg poverty for increased fees in front of the legislature, it has the ability to call her out on her BS.


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Scouting Hot Finds Boy Scout Category Top 10 List #28
Jason Spangler brings back an old feature, the top 10 highest selling Scouting items on eBay from the first week in March 2021.
Last minute snipes, insurance bids and good old fashioned store inventory are among the best selling items in the Boy Scout category of eBay for the week of March 1-7, 2021. This video brings back an old classic. My last Top 10 video was published in May of 2012. So in bringing it back I've drawn some inspiration from other hobbies where this type of video has become popular.
You can see the video by clicking the image below.
One of them #6, was a Caldwell Pin from Shu Shu Gah Lodge #24. The one in Jason's list also included the cloth pouch and box with the Caldwell logo, not sure if this contributed to this price realized.
There is currently another #24 Caldwell Pin available on eBay right now.
Let Jason know if you want to see more of these.
"Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition." —Thomas Jefferson (1781)


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William (Bill) Schulenburg passed away peacefully on Monday, November 30, 2009, in the Kamloops hospital at the age of 95.
Born in Germany, Bill and his family moved to the Adams Lake area in 1954 where Bill started working for the Holding Lumber Company. Beginning at the green chain, he worked his way up to millwright and being in charge of the maintenance personnel at the barker plant until his retirement in 1979. Once retired, he enjoyed working in his workshop, keeping bees, keeping his vegetable garden weed-free, snow birding and visiting his extended family.
He will be greatly missed by his loving wife of 66 years, Anni, his three children, Inge Anderson of Adams Lake, Gisela Zinner of Edmonton and Wilfried Schulenburg of Adams Lake, as well as 8 grandchildren and 13 great grandchildren.
A memorial service in celebration of Bill's life will be held at the Kamloops Seventh-Day Adventist Church, 364 Fortune Drive, Kamloops on Sunday, December 27, 2009 at 2:00 p.m.
In place of flowers, memorial donations in Bill's name may be made to your favorite charity.
Arrangements entrusted to FISCHER'S FUNERAL SERVICES & CREMATORIUM LTD., Salmon Arm, (250) 833-1129, email condolences and share memories at www.fischersfuneralservices.com.


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In what could be the latest in a series of reality checks for BlackBerry, a report has emerged claiming that just one app developer accounts for a third of all apps on the company's app store. A quick search for S4BB on BlackBerry World reveals that the developer has over 48,000 apps. This was first spotted by BerryReview. Also Read - IMC 2022: MediaTek, Invendis join hands for 5G, Wi-Fi router solutionsAlso Read - iPhone 6 is now a vintage Apple product: Here is what it means
BlackBerry had in May announced that its App World had over 120,000 apps and cited growing developer interest in the platform as the key for the impressive numbers. However, it seems that just one developer was responsible for over a third of all apps on the store, casting serious doubts about the actual developer interest in the platform. Also Read - Massive Pixel Watch leak reveals pre-order date and Fitbit offer
"Developers in all app stores employ a number of different monetization tactics. BlackBerry World is an open market for developers and we let market forces dictate the success or failure of these tactics. Discoverability in overcrowded stores continues to be an issue affecting all developers. This is why we have worked hand in hand with developers on the Built for BlackBerry program to help showcase apps and games that exemplify the power of BlackBerry 10," said Varghese M Thomas, director corporate communications, India and SAARC region.
The problem of spam apps is not exclusive to BlackBerry but the fact that just one developer might be accounting for more than a third of all apps on a store is unprecedented. This is notwithstanding the fact that BlackBerry regularly encourages developers to port their existing apps on other platforms to its own.
It is not surprising that many BlackBerry users complain of not getting many useful apps on their latest BlackBerry smartphones even when the company claims it has over 120,000 apps to offer. Yes, it is true that BlackBerry keeps adding marquee developer names to its store but it seems that the developer interest isn't as high as BlackBerry would like everyone to believe.