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would open strange revelations of the strangest social condition ever made known in the whole existence of civilized humanity. In those auctions, the most wretched articles of the most wretchedly indigent were exposed to sale ; — the only cow or donkey ; the half-starved pig ; poultry; the solitary plot or platter; the winter's stock of potatoes; the bed-covering and wearing-apparel, down to the petticoat and the apron of Widow Gallaher. Lest this should be thought the exaggeration of burlesque, we extract from the book before us a literal copy of one of these advertisements.
" TO. BE SOALED BY PUBLICK Cant in the town of Ballymore on the 15th Inst one Cowe, the property of Jas Scully one new bed & one gown the property of John Quinn seven hanks of yarn the property of Widow Scott one petty Coate & one apron the property of Widow Gallaher seized under & by virtue of a leasing warrant for tithe due the Rev John Ugher." — Vol. I. pp. 310, 311.
"If," says a statesman, "an established church is valuable because it provides for the religious wants of the poor, the Church of Ireland does the reverse of this; it provides for the rich only, and compels the poor to pay." Now if tithes in their essential principle were so hateful to Irish Catholics that no amount of forbearance or prudence in collecting them could have rendered them tolerable, it is not easy to conceive the fearfulness of their grievance, when connected as they were with every possible abuse of administration. With the intervention of avaricious tithe-proctors, of unscrupulous appraisers, of lawyers, and of constables, the poor man often paid the fifth, instead of tenth, of his hard-earned property.
But it may be said that the clergy spent their incomes among the people.
Not always.
Sometimes the parson hardly ever visited the parish which paid him hundreds of pounds in yearly revenue. The present Archbishop of Cashel had been one of the most zealous of proselytizing orators. Besides other large benefices, he owned the richest parish in Cork, from which, it was estimated, he derived an income of two thousand pounds a year. The church at one time needed repairs, and the members of the congregation decided to tax themselves, and forego the legal claim for church-rates. The
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officers of the parish wrote to the rector for a subscription. He sent them five pounds. The officers sent the pittance back to him. This godly and evangelical divine never came near the parish, unless it happened to be within the range of an itinerating tour. Dr. Doyle mentions the case of the rector of a rich living in the county of Kildare, who had never been there but once in all his life. Such a man was not singular, but representative of a class. Many of the clergy were magistrates, and many to their ecclesiastical office added that of land-agents. Tithes formed but one item of the Church wealth in Ireland. Besides these, there were bishop-lands, glebe-lands, and church-rates. The income of five hundred thousand acres of bishop-lands were estimated at one million
A bishop's lease was but for twenty-one years, and the bishop accordingly could impose a heavy fine on the renewal of it. One see alone, as it appeared from Parliamentary returns, possessed fifty-one thousand eight hundred and eighty acres; and it was shown that one bishop received fifty thousand pounds for the renewal of a single lease.* Add to all this, that the bishops have extensive patronage in the Church, and that they very generally use it for the benefit of their families and kindred. Many bishops die enormously wealthy, and this could not happen without the means of rapid accumulation, since a man seldom reaches the episcopacy until life has sobered into the gravity of years. Dr. Beresford, the late Archbishop of Armagh, was reputed to have left more than a million sterling. This was decent saving, although it was the gathering of forty thrifty years. Another Beresford went from a rich see to this vacant one, which was still richer. The clergy, in congratulating him on his promotion, spoke feelingly on the apostolic simplicity of his millionnaire predecessor. In all that was secularly or sacredly gainful, the Beresfords were a most prosperous family; they had a mighty hunger for pelf and power, and good digestion waited upon ample appetite.
But the time came at last when the old tithe system must be no more. The decree had gone forth. The exhausted patience of the people could no further go. An individual here
* Edinburgh Review, November, 1825.
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and there hesitated to pay; another challenged the legal claim. At last the spirit of resistance spread until it became universal. No active opposition was offered. The Catholics imitated the Quakers. They folded their arms; they moved no weapon; they used no word of threatening or sedition. They simply, by their manner, said, "You want to tax our goods to pay your Church; then come and take our goods to the amount of
But that which was easy with an inconsiderable sect became terrific with a multitudinous nation. All liberals sustained the movement, but O'Connell and Dr. Doyle were the soul and spirit of it. The mountain-sides were covered with people who came to listen to orators who denounced the tithe system. Yet there was no violence. Property was seized, but there was no resistance. The property could not be sold in the localities wherein it was seized; so it was carried into adjacent cities, but in these also it could not be sold. Some property in this way was carried into Carlow, but twenty thousand men went in along with it. No person was bold enough to bid, and the property was returned to the owners. Some few cattle were seized in the county of Cork; but the authorities, despairing of finding a sale for them in the neighborhood, had them driven into the city. The largest open space was there appointed for the sale. On the morning destined for the auction there marched into the city some thirty thousand men from all sides of the county. They were young, healthy, strong, goodlooking, and well dressed. They were unarmed; they had not even a kippeen; they were as sober as judges, and wore the gravest of faces. They came to look on at the auction, but there were none that dared to bid. Except the voice of the auctioneer, all was dumb show. These lookers-on, who came into the city in the most orderly manner, marshalled into divisions, brigades, regiments, and companies, keeping form and step with perfect regularity, left the city in the same admirable regularity. And what was most astonishing in those vast gatherings was the absence of intemperance and of disorder. This was really the most fearful element in them to the clergy of the Established Church. No tithes were to be paid ; that was a decree which no Catholic disobeyed. No action for tithes could be enforced; the power of government seemed unequal
to such enforcement. The government which could hold a discontented kingdom, could not compel the payment of a shilling to the parish rector.
The climax of the struggle came in an impressive accident. A parson bolder than his brethren ventured, with military aid, to enforce a claim for tithe in a place called Rathcormac, in the vicinity of Cork. There was some resistance, and the soldiers fired. A young lad, who was the only son of a widow, and had no share in the riot, was killed. It is not possible now to give the least idea of the anger, and the sorrow, and the determined purpose which this event kindled in the souls of Irish Catholics. Nor was this feeling confined only to Irish or to Catholics: it excited the pathetic wonder of Christendom. The Rev. George Harris, an Englishman, then a Unitarian minister in Glasgow, heard of the event late of a Saturday, and on the Sunday afternoon preached a most impassioned and powerful sermon on the topic, in which he contrasted the conduct of Christ to the son of the widow of Nain with that of the parson to the son of the widow of Rathcormac. The sermon made such impression that he was invited over to Cork, and had there, during his visit, the most enthusiastic reception from liberal people of all creeds and classes. But there was in this, as in all revolutions, much of great and undeserved suffering. Good men were reduced from prosperity to pauperism." Vicars of Wakefield," whose parsonages had been refuges to the poor and mansions of hospitality to all classes, became households of sad and painful indigence. There were some generous Roman Catholics who, though they would not pay the legal tithes, yet exceeded them in voluntary gratuities. The government at length relieved the clergy by advancing a million sterling, and Parliament converted the tithe system into a rent-charge. This did not settle the controversy as to the principle of tithes, but it took from it its rudest conflicts, its coarseness, and its fury.
We had desired to make some remarks on the vital and recuperative energy of the Irish race, which enables the people of that race to recover rapidly from the most disastrous circumstances, and to vindicate at home, and all the world over, their living power of mind and body. We can, however, add
nothing to this long article, but the expression of our heartfelt hope that the destinies of the Irish people may be brighter in the future than they have been in the past; more worthy of their merits as an intellectual, brave, generous, faithful race, — a race that have always shown that they possess some of the best elements of genius and humanity,— who are ever giving the world assurance that they have within them a worth and wealth of nature which time does not exhaust, and which misfortunes have not injured, but improved.
Art. II. - PROFESSOR WILSON.
Christopher North." A Memoir of John Wilson, late Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh. Compiled from Family Papers and other Sources, by his Daughter, MRS. GORDON. Edinburgh : Edmonston and Douglass, 1862. 2 yols. Small 8vo. pp. xii. and 335, 399.
The relations of pitiysical vigor and intellectual character 'are strikingly illustrated in the life of Professor Wilson. Firm health, exuberant spirits, and keen sensuous enjoyment combined to give to his character the warmth, brilliancy, and audacity which have made the man, as well as his writings, so attractive. Endowed by nature with a large but supple frame, adapted to feats of agility and strength, he was equally fortunate in an education which encouraged the full development of his powers. The life of such a man affords an interesting subject for the biographer. In the case of Professor Wilson, this office has been undertaken by his daughter, with great honesty of purpose and a diffidence which invites friendly criticism, but with little discrimination in the choice of materials.
With the common tendency of biographers to find in the childhood of a man of genius some hints of his future development, Mrs. Gordon gives a few anecdotes of Wilson's early years. These are pleasant, but probably not more notice


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In terms of comparisons, Hannu Rajaniemi's The Quantum Thief, most reminds me of Snow Crash by Neil Stephenson. While the novels take place in vastly different universes, Rajaniemi creates a surreal, action-filled sci-fi novel along the lines of Snow Crash. The writing is fresh. The ideas are unique. For the most part, I felt I hadn't read this story before.
And, while there is no Hiro Protagonist, there are two characters, Jean le Flambeur, and Mieli, who embody the Protagonist spirit. Flambeur is the best thief in history and through technological advances may have been almost godlike, before being tossed in prison and forced to compete in the prisoner's dilemma using a pistol day in and day out for years. Mieli, is a tech-enhanced warrior with allegiance to a godlike being, and she has wings, because, wings are cool. The gist of the novel is that Mieli breaks Flambeur out of prison to steal something and then shit goes sideways.
While Snow Crash was partly grounded in virtual reality, in The Quantum Thief, people, especially on the Oubliette, an ever-moving city on the ravaged surface of Mars, live with augmented reality, and designer bodies allow others in the solar system to basically shapeshift. The residents of the Oubliette are extremely private and are able to adjust their privacy settings so they appear to be nothing more than a blur to strangers.
A few of the futuristic concepts that stood out included:
- Storing human consciousness in artificial, non-humanoid bodies.
- Migrating between life
- Combat autism (for when focus is necessary and emotions are not).
- Quantum communication (there was a lot of quantum stuff that was sort of lost on me).
- Physical identity theft.
- Bullets that basically hack a person or device.
Every Thief Needs a Rival
A flamboyant thief by himself isn't interesting. Rajaniemi opts for archetype instead of innovation and recreates a Sherlock-esque character to thwart Flambeur. It's definitely the weakest point in the novel and Rajaniemi compensates by making him younger and slightly bumbling. How the relationships between characters fit together becomes obvious partway through the novel and it's not quite the surprise that it may suppose to be.
The Quantum Thief is a fun book. I enjoyed the characters, the pace, and the strange universe. If you're looking for an escape without a lot of depth, this novel is entertaining.

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CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A federal judge says Charleston can't force tour guides to prove they know the history and architecture of the nearly 350-year-old South Carolina port city.
News organizations report U.S. District Judge David Norton ruled Friday that Charleston's tour-guide licensing law violates constitutional free speech rights. The city required hired tour guides to pass a licensing test based on a nearly 500-page manual written by the Historic Charleston Foundation.
One would-be guide complained the book covered facts about 2,000 different houses.
Charleston's attorneys argued in court that tour guides can say what they want, but the city wanted them to know Charleston's past since that's why tourists visit.
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The Assassin's Pistols and Blood Magic are a potent combination. This deck uses a variety of game systems. When the Assassin attacks with channeled abilities, they gain blood magic barriers to sustain themselves. Stackable critical hit buffs are builty up through summoning drones and from passive abilities.
Finally, stun and hindrance effects keep the Assassin from being overrun, and allow them to pick off targets with ease.*
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- Hair Trigger (Pistols)
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- Torture (Blood Magic)
- Increased Focus (Pistols)
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- Critical Help (Pistols)
- Mad Skills (Pistols)
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On Sunday, May 3, over 40 Girl Scouts and their families had the chance to test their skills on the green during Girl Scout Day at The First Tee of Hampton Roads, a program of the YMCA of South Hampton Roads, in Virginia Beach. Girls spent the afternoon practicing their swing on the driving range and perfecting their putting skills. They also learned proper chipping technique and put their new skills to the test by playing a hole of golf.
The First Tee hosted this special open house just for Girl Scouts as part of their mission to grow the number of girls who play golf. In addition to teaching the game of golf, The First Tee is committed to teaching children about healthy habits and the positive values that are connected to golf, including honesty, sportsmanship, confidence and respect.
Girl Scouts recognize that physical health is integral to girls' well-being and development. For over 100 years, fitness, health and nutrition have been an essential part of Girl Scouting. Even the earliest Girl Scouts played basketball, went on camping trips and prepared healthy meals-all progressive initiatives for girls at the time.
The Girl Scout Research Institute found that participation in sports and physical education classes decline as girls grow older. By giving girls the opportunity to learn about the importance of staying fit and active from a young age, Girl Scouts, in partnership with organizations such as The First Tee, shows girls how they can also have fun in the process and encourages girls to stay active throughout their teen years.
This event was just one of many healthy living activities offered by Girl Scouts of the Colonial Coast. This summer at Girl Scout camp, staying active and leading healthy lifestyles are at the center of every session. Girls of all ages will have the opportunity to participate in physical activities, eat healthy and build their teamwork and social skills, which are vital to emotional well-being. For more information about becoming a Girl Scout or attending Girl Scout camp, visit www.gsccc.org.
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Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Oat Meal Soap
When I had my soap and candle business I had professional cutters and molds. Now, since I am only going to do this as fun, I have to cut the soap by hand. So, the bars are not perfectly shaped and kinda crude but the soap is the same soap I used to make. It just doesn't look as pretty.
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- Sharon (notimetostamp) said...
This looks GREAT, Joan!
- December 10, 2008 at 1:28 AM
- Deborah Saaranen said...
I think it adds to the appeal of it being homemade-- beautiful!!! Do you sell these bars?
- December 10, 2008 at 7:15 AM
- Nancy said...
Love this! I think the soap looks perfect, without the professional cuts and molds. You did a beautiful job!
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- Janine said...
Love it Joan... I bet this smells nice!!
- December 10, 2008 at 7:21 AM
Fabulous Joan, another wonderful gift ensemble!
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Joan, with this kind of packaging, it doesn't have to look like anything LOL. This is GREAT!
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Stanford study finds promise in expanding renewables based on results in three major economies
7. 12. 2015 | Stanford University | news.stanford.edu
Stanford energy experts have released a study that compares the experiences of three large economies in ramping up renewable energy deployment and concludes that renewables can make a major and increasingly cost-effective contribution to climate change mitigation.
Stanford energy experts have released a study that compares the experiences of three large economies in ramping up renewable energy deployment and concludes that renewables can make a major and increasingly cost-effective contribution to climate change mitigation.
The report from Stanford's Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance analyzes the experiences of Germany, California and Texas, the world's fourth, eighth and 12th largest economies, respectively. It found, among other things, that Germany, which gets about half as much sunshine as California and Texas, nevertheless generates electricity from solar installations at a cost comparable to that of Texas and only slightly higher than in California.
Other conclusions of the report include:
- Germany's success in deploying renewable energy at scale is due largely to favorable treatment of "soft cost" factors such as financing, permitting, installation and grid access. This approach has allowed the renewable energy policies of some countries to deliver up to four times the average deployment of other countries, despite offering only half the financial incentives.
- Contrary to widespread concern, a higher share of renewables does not automatically translate to higher electricity bills for ratepayers. While Germany's residential electric rates are two to three times those of California and Texas, this price differential is only partly due to Germany's subsidies for renewables. The average German household's electricity bill is, in fact, lower than in Texas and only slightly higher than in California, partly as a result of energy-efficiency efforts in German homes.
- An increase in the share of intermittent solar and wind power need not jeopardize the stability of the electric grid. From 2006 to 2013, Germany tripled the amount of electricity generated from solar and wind to a market share of 26 percent, while managing to reduce average annual outage times for electricity customers in its grid from an already impressive 22 minutes to just 15 minutes. During that same period, California tripled the amount of electricity produced from solar and wind to a joint market share of 8 percent and reduced its outage times from more than 100 minutes to less than 90 minutes. However, Texas increased its outage times from 92 minutes to 128 minutes after ramping up its wind-generated electricity sixfold to a market share of 10 percent.
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Margaret Salmon: Circle, Tramway, Glasgow
Review for 'This is Tomorrow', first published 27 February 2018
American Glasgow-based artist Margaret Salmon's filmic, atmospheric, and carefully rendered installation, sensitive to the nuances of people, the subtleties of places and objects (and her relationships to them) is housed in Tramway immense principal space, and renders it quieter than normal, in half-light, a place for a rare, esoteric experience. The project, curated by Nicole Yip, consists of a weekly evolving programme of 16 and 35mm film works, entitled 'Here', 'There', 'Everywhere' and 'Outside Over There', alongside a new six-channel audio work, 'Part-Time', which intermittently plays out a broken flow of found sound, whispers and conversations from Salmon's archives and 'Company', a stacked set of nine monitors screening a cascade of outtakes, cuts and scenes from the marginalia of her principal productions, each monitor sequentially fading to a flat surface single-colour panel, until the array appears like a fluorescent cine-film colour checker grid.
The installation's collective experience presents a diaristic flow of criss-crossing sound and vision from American life: scenes of domesticity in the life of African American family, suburbia, hunters, a man asleep, a man boxing, and older woman walking her dog or moving slowly through a room, the camera's gaze resting on domestic light fixings, middle-class domestic architecture (often empty), glitter-like street lighting and objects disguised by heavy snow. It presents absences and feelings, blinding lights (often threatening to overwhelm the screen), strobe effects, repetitious anger, people smoking, sweating, ageing, washing the car windows, losing their memories. Voices emit love, lullabies and despair, and rage and grief often encoil. Slowly, it evidences Salmon's care for the transmission of the subjects, her 'behind-the-scenes' or 'lives overlooked' subjects. Her mechanical cameras becomes a literal 'medium', a camera clairvoyance. As she draws, through the screen, a psychic or mind-reading bond between herself and these portraits and these places.
Salmon enmeshes cinema verité, observational camera, direct cinema; it is documentary but slipping, askew, distracted. It evidences ideas of influence, of film and photographic art histories, bringing to mind artist/documentarians like Nan Golden, Jack Pierson, DA Pennebaker, the Maysles Brothers, Ben Rivers, Rosalind Nashashibi and Margaret Tait. In particular the Orcadian filmmaker's 'Portrait of Ga', from 1952, which could find moving companionship with Salmon's film-poem 'Peggy' from 2003.
The processes and constraints of 16mm filmmaking are matched to an observation of the struggles of the everyday. Film's colour palette, windup mechanisms, light meters, grain, exposures, and image gamuts, film burn-orange at the end of a roll, silver's sensitivity to light, the nature of capturing elusive images in changing light are all expressions of ideas of care and intimacy. What film emulsion contains (potentially dust, fibres and fog) is its precariousness and its understanding of the passing moment; its ability to sense and give expression to the essences of a subject. Salmon's everyday is composed, mundane, magical and hypnotic; she finds kinship with her subjects – how she makes empty spaces feel haunted and alive, connections between the living and dead physical and present. And in bringing these kinds of conflicting ideas together, in unflinching parallels, gives form and light to what the late-American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage, in revealing the universal, in looking directly at life, lives lived and lives passing, in witnessing, described as 'the act of seeing with one's own eyes'.
Installation view: Margaret Salmon: Circle, Tramway, Glasgow, 2018
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Angry Birds commence teaching English
Rovio Entertainment has teamed up with video language platform papagei.com to provide a range of interactive video courses for English language learners.
Utilising video content based on the Angry Birds Toons animated series, the courses are tailored for learners aged eight and above.
The students watch videos with bilingual subtitles and matching exercises on vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation.
"The combination of Rovio's brand and content and papagei's video learning technology results in modern language learning courses that match the environment of young digital natives," says Dr. Michaela Meier, CEO at papagei.com. "The Angry Birds clips are short, entertaining and at just the right language level for young learners."
Courses are currently available in Germany, Brazil, Mexico, Russia and Poland.
Additionally, the Angry Birds course offering in Germany also provides the opportunity to learn German in an Arabic-language environment. This initiative seeks to help newly arrived refugee children and young people from the Middle East with learning the local language.
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As a single Mom, every little saving counts and having recently entered my mid-forties, I've really noticed a change in my vision that would cost me a lot if I didn't do something about it and quickly. With four young children, I read to them every night until they fall asleep. It's a pleasure that I still thoroughly enjoy to this very day however, recently it's gotten a lot harder and I knew something has changed and changed for the worse.
When my first two children were really young, reading was a piece of cake. I'd ask them to choose a book, we'd get all the pillows nicely placed so that they can lay comfortably whilst I sat back against the bed and started to read their bedtime stories. I loved it and I still do now. But recently, the words just aren't as clear anymore.
At first, I thought it was because we changed lamps. These new energy saving bulbs just aren't as bright or as luminous as the good old fashioned ones. So I started to use a torch to help but it made no difference. The words were still hard to focus on and I found myself holding their storybooks further away from my eyes just to see what I was reading. The kids even noticed that I was struggling because I would pause many times or say the wrong thing. They knew the stories so well; even word for word that if I got just one line wrong, they'd tell me: "Mom, that's not what the story says. Read it again!". It was really frustrating.
I knew something was different and after checking online, I found out what it was. I had presbyopia and my eyes were simply fading with age. Boy, did I feel old at this moment. It was a little scary at first and really saddening because I knew that without cheap reading glasses, I couldn't read my children their bedtime stories. So I took the decision to go see my eye doctor straight away.
In truth, it was probably the best decision I've made in recent years. My optometrist is really thorough and what I like about him is he explains everything. He told me that presbyopia is not life threatening and it's simply an age related condition. Just like our muscles, our skin, our joints or our bones; things just don't work as great when we get older.
What was disappointing to learn was that there's no surgical procedure to fix my eyes so the only solution was to do an eye examination and determine which strength of reading glasses I needed so that I could go back to reading bedtime stories to my kids with no hiccups or blurred vision. I was a little scared but at the same time, kind of excited in truth. I got to buy myself a new fashion accessory. I don't get to treat myself very often but here, I had the perfect excuse!
So with my exam all done, my delightful optometrist told me that I needed +2.50 powered reading glasses. He said they has a small range of reading glasses that he I could try on but being the really nice, honest guy he is; said the best thing for me to do was to go to the mall or to the pharmacy as they would have lots of frames and styles to choose from. So faster than a flash, I jumped in my car and headed for the stores.
He was right. There were so many frames to choose from but what I didn't like about the stores was these frames were quite badly marked and damaged where so many people had tried them on. There was a decent range of frames but not enough for me to find one pair in my strength that I felt were the perfect style for me. And if I did find one pair that might be worth considering, they were always marked, scratched or the wrong strength. It was frustrating.
I asked the lady at the counter if they had more and she effectively said that what was on display was all they had. But then it hit me. The internet – my saviour!
I realised that all this time, no one buys reading glasses at the store. People simply come here to check their eyes, see what frames work for them and then go home and shop online. And that's when I decided to do exactly the same. I tried a few more pairs on, regardless of the lens power to see what I liked. I found so many styles that I thought could work so when no one was looking, I got my phone out, took a few cheeky selfies and ran out of that store so fast as I was so embarrassed.
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On Thursday morning I discovered that my nightly online data backup (I use JungleDisk — excellent software) to Amazon's S3 servers had been interupted at 3am because the Comcast internet connection went down. I called Comcast to check and was told that there was an outage in my area.
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Alinani(Thu Nov 1 13:14:32 EDT 2007)>How may I help you?
me_(Thu Nov 1 13:14:43 EDT 2007)>My internet went down about 3am. When will it be back up?
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me_(Thu Nov 1 13:15:40 EDT 2007)>thanks
Second support chat at 8:38pm in the evening:
Gerardo(Thu Nov 1 20:38:20 EDT 2007)>What is the problem?
me_(Thu Nov 1 20:38:16 EDT 2007)>Is the outage in Woodstock GA fixed?
Gerardo(Thu Nov 1 20:40:32 EDT 2007)>We only have an outage at Jersey City at the moment.
me_(Thu Nov 1 20:40:26 EDT 2007)>OK, thanks.
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me_(Thu Nov 1 20:41:19 EDT 2007)>How do I find out when my outage is fixed?
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me_(Thu Nov 1 20:46:18 EDT 2007)>It went down at about 3am this morning. It was still down in the afternoon.
me_(Thu Nov 1 20:46:23 EDT 2007)>I had to reconnect to AT&T DSL today to get my work done.
Gerardo(Thu Nov 1 20:48:23 EDT 2007)>Ok I think I will have to create a trouble ticket for you. I will check for your signal.
me_(Thu Nov 1 20:48:31 EDT 2007)>If its working now, there's no need to create a ticket.
Gerardo(Thu Nov 1 20:49:29 EDT 2007)>Ok
Gerardo(Thu Nov 1 20:50:37 EDT 2007)>Is there anything else I can help you with?
me_(Thu Nov 1 20:50:19 EDT 2007)>But it's fixed now?
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Gerardo(Thu Nov 1 20:51:27 EDT 2007)>We did not have that advice earlier, maybe it is just temporary.
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me_(Thu Nov 1 20:51:19 EDT 2007)>No, thanks
Gerardo(Thu Nov 1 20:50:08 EDT 2007)>I think there interruptions but not an actual outage.
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It is with some lament that I write this. If everyone agreed on a path forward, then there would be no need for this post, but here we are. There is a strong likelihood that we will need to know what will happen if Bitcoin forks (again). There is a chance that the protocol of Bitcoin will fork, which will cause a chain fork as well. (I discussed hard forks & soft forks from my perspective in a previous post.)
Some Bitcoin miners are signaling that they would accept one of two competing Bitcoin protocol changes: one protocol is Bitcoin Unlimited (BU), which would increase the maximum transactions that Bitcoin can process by 100%. The other protocol, called Segregated Witness (SegWit), is expected to increase this maximum by 70%. As of this writing, 35.9% of blocks are signaling for Bitcoin Unlimited while 26.8% are signaling for SegWit.
Bitcoin Unlimited vs. SegWit: Abstractly, what is happening?
Let's make a hypothetical situation where the proportion of Bitcoin Unlimited to SegWit votes stays the same, but is extrapolated out so that ALL Bitcoin miners MUST choose either Bitcoin Unlimited or SegWit. That would mean around 55% of miners would be supporting Bitcoin Unlimited and 45% of miners would be supporting SegWit. (There is an incentive to go with the "winning" majority chain, so this division of hashing power could be even more severe at the time of a hard fork.)
If Bitcoin Unlimited activated and a block over 1MB was mined, then the SegWit part of the network would reject this block and build off the previous block. With a drastic drop in hashing power but no change in the difficulty target, it would take the Bitcoin network longer to find the winning solution that confirms a new block to the blockchain. With our hypothetical numbers, blocks for Bitcoin Unlimited would come out approximately every 18.2 minutes and SegWit blocks would come out approximately every 22.2 minutes. Any transaction capacity increase promised by Bitcoin Unlimited and SegWit would be delayed until the difficulty target adjustment shakes out. As more blocks were found, the difficulty of each chain would adjust and after about a month (a little longer for SegWit), the 10-minute block time target would be restored.
How would this hard fork affect Bitcoin users?
A Bitcoin user with coins before the hard fork would then be considered to have a positive balance on both ledgers/blockchains after the hard fork. (The Ethereum blockchain forked after last year's DAO debacle, yielding ETH tokens and ETC tokens (Ethereum Classic) for users who owned ETH before the fork.) But without taking care, a user could intend to spend coins on one chain and unintentionally spend on both chains; this is known as a replay attack, though it's really not an attack if it's done unintentionally. Maybe that should be called a replay error so as to not be confused with an intentional replay attack meant to defraud.
How does one guard against a replay attack after a hard fork?
One way to guard against a replay attack after a Bitcoin hard fork is to transfer your Bitcoin to different, fresh addresses so that—ideally—one transaction would confirm on the Bitcoin Unlimited chain, and another transaction would confirm on the SegWit chain. (It is likely that simple tools would be released relatively shortly after the hard fork to help users split out their Bitcoin onto both blockchains.)
If you don't need to use your coins right away, waiting—maybe even a month—for network congestion to die down might be a good idea. Of course, there is no telling what the market will do in this event or how the values of each cryptocoin would be affected. In the absence of said tools, you could notice that one chain accepts lower fees than the other and send a low fee transaction hoping it confirms in one chain and not the other, but this is risky. (This would also require two different programs running, maybe on separate computers.) Also, some exchanges could accept pre-fork coins and split them for you, but you should check with the terms of your cryptocurrency exchange before attempting anything like this.
What will happen to your Bitcoin crypto wealth?
It's not possible to know what markets will do during or after a cryptocoin hard fork. After a hard fork, if a user can sell coins from the chain they don't want and buy on the chain they do want, it's possible to end up with more units than you started with. What the value of that will be in your local currency… nobody can know. Hedge appropriately. Personally, I'll be happy just to preserve my wealth, even if I miss out on any possible gain.
The politics of the Bitcoin block size debate
It is a shame to use the adjective political to describe Bitcoin, but that's an adjective that applies. There is debate as to whether the Bitcoin Unlimited chain will be called Bitcoin or something else if it becomes the majority chain—that is, the chain than gets the most hashing power. Most exchanges have announced that they will list a Bitcoin Unlimited branch as BTU (or XBU); however, ShapeShift.io CEO Erik Voorhees has announced that he will use "Bitcoin" and "BTC" (or "XBT") to describe the majority chain. This division will add to confusion during and after a hard fork. People are taking strong positions on what is called Bitcoin; the actual protocol won't care what you call it.
For the record, myself (personally) and @ShapeShift_io would use the BTC/Bitcoin name for whichever chain unambiguously "won," over time.
— Erik Voorhees (@ErikVoorhees) March 17, 2017
Would a Bitcoin hard fork cause a DDoS 51% attack?
In the event of a hard fork on the Bitcoin blockchain, the hashing power of each chain will decrease. This would make it more possible for one side to perform a 51% attack on the other. Economic incentives make a 51% attack unlikely, but with a lower network hashrate, a 51% attack does statistically become more likely nonetheless. There has been discussion among the SegWit team to change the Bitcoin hashing algorithm to help mitigate this "threat"; such a switch would be difficult and result in Bitcoin ASICS being useless on any chain that changes the hashing algorithm. (This did not happen with the only precedent we have, the Ethereum hard fork.)
Changing Bitcoin's proof-of-work to prevent miners from mining is the most absurd and reckless thing I've heard in the scaling debate.
— Erik Voorhees (@ErikVoorhees) March 20, 2017
Am I misunderstanding? If a Bitcoin w/ 2MB blocks is "an altcoin" because different rules, then is not a dif POW chain also an altcoin?
— Erik Voorhees (@ErikVoorhees) March 20, 2017
Short of a 51% attack, one side could mine empty blocks on the other chain. This would place more stress on a network that is already stressed. Since the environment is so hostile, this may happen.
Satoshi's vision: it wasn't supposed to be this way
The original vision of Bitcoin assumed that all miners would go with the majority chain. That would be the most secure chain, and the network effects would be greater for that chain. However, we now know that this probably won't be the case. People will split off for different reasons. Ethereum was the first example, and it won't be the last.
Related listening: We've got a special bonus interview with Bitcoin Angel Investor and Bitcoin.com CEO Roger Ver! Roger talks with us about how the current BTC block size limit is throttling the BTC network, why Blockstream/Bitcoin Core's SegWit isn't a good solution in his mind, and how Bitcoin Unlimited could be poised to increase the block size and allow the Bitcoin network to scale.
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UCEAP recently celebrated 50 years of UC academic exchange in the UK! UCEAP alumni, staff, Partner Liaisons, current students and friends and family joined us in a multitude of events in both Edinburgh and London. Here's what we did in London to commemorate the last half-century of successful collaboration between the UC system and its UK Partner Universities:
Thursday, the 15th of October: Exclusive Visit to Sotheby's Auction House and Afternoon Tea at the British Museum
The 50th Anniversary came to London on Thursday, first with a private tour of Sotheby's Auction House. Guests viewed valuable works of art that would be put up for auction that evening, including pieces by Warhol, Picasso, Raphael and many other renowned artists. Afterwards, art dealer and collector Angus Haldane gave a fascinating talk about the art market, its history and his predictions for its future.
Later that day, UCEAP alumni and staff met with current UCEAP English University students for afternoon tea at the British Museum. Attendees enjoyed sandwiches, scones, sweets and as much tea as they could drink while engaging in interesting conversation about their study abroad experiences.
For more photographs of these events please click here.
Friday, the 16th of October: Lecture at ACCENT by Alastair Owens
On Friday, the long-standing partnership between ACCENT and UCEAP was celebrated with a captivating lecture given by Alastair Owens, Professor of Historical Geography at Queen Mary University of London and a faculty member of the UC London Study Centre Programme at ACCENT. Professor Owens taught guests about Dr. Thomas Barnardo and the work he did with poor children in London's East End in the late nineteenth century.
Saturday, the 17th of October: Gala Dinner at Gibson Hall
The 50th Anniversary events concluded with a large gala dinner at Gibson Hall in London. UCEAP alumni, staff, current students, Host University Partner Liaisons and other guests mingled at a drinks reception before entering the great hall for a buffet dinner of gnocchi, beef bourguignon and chocolate mousse. After dinner thought-provoking speeches were given by Professor Susan Carlson, Vice Provost for Academic Personnel and Programmes at the UC Office of the President, Tina Takegi, an officer in the economic section at the U.S. Embassy in London and an alumna of UC Berkeley, Trisha Rassatt, the president of the UC Alumni UK Board and a UC San Diego alumna, and Sophia Crisafulli, a current UCEAP student studying at King's College London from UC Santa Barbara. Afterwards, guests took part in a fun and challenging pub quiz, testing their knowledge about England and California.
Study abroad programs like UC EAP give people the opportunity to learn about Britain, to see the country and its people up close, and to understand what makes them tick. And study abroad programs also allow us to bring a little of the U.S. to the UK. -Tina Takagi
These events were a fantastic way for all those either currently or previously involved with UCEAP to celebrate the UC system's long standing relationship with the UK and its Partner Institutions. UCEAP alumni enjoyed reminiscing about their time abroad and current UCEAP UK University students saw what the future might hold for study abroad students. Here's to the next 50 years!
To read about the 50th Anniversary Events in Scotland click here.
Here is a list of just some of the guests who attended our events:
UCEAP Staff:
Fraser Bryden
Susan Carlson
Ashley Cole
Michael Cowan
Paulette Greisner
Melody Knutson
Stacey Lydon
Hilary Noyce
Elizabeth Janis Perl
Ines de Romana
Byron Wheeler
Maggie Anderson- University of Sussex
Tom Atterson- King's College London
Jeffery Boloten- Sotheby's Institute of Art
Dominic Dean- University of Sussex
Federica Galoppo- Sotheby's Institute of Art
Jos Hackforth-Jones- Sotheby's Institute of Art
Hilmi Jaidi- University of Sussex
Susannah Lemon- University of Bristol
David Line- University of Bristol
Alejandro Madrigal- University College London
Anthony Manning- University of Kent
Amy Mechowski- Sotheby's Institute of Art
Mark Pickerill- University College London
Juan Carlos Sanchez-Madrigal- University College London
Alison Stenton- King's College London
David Stevens- University College London
Charlie Temperton– University of Sussex
Katrien Verbruggen- University of East Anglia
Jonathan Woolfson- Sotheby's Institute of Art
Sam Woolway- University of Sussex
Johana Canda-Fiserova-UC Los Angeles
Violet Del Toro-UC Riverside
Jayme Ilic-UC Riverside
Maya Ladno-UC San Diego
Sylvia Mas-UC Los Angeles
Mike Mompi-UC Davis
Mikael Perreau-UC Los Angeles
Trisha Rassatt-UC San Diego
Charlie Swann-UC Los Angeles
Catherine Townson-UC San Diego
A big thank to everyone who attended our 50th Anniversary events!
All photos of Gala Dinner by Greg Allen


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When that old IQ-GDP correlation doesn't quite go the way the HBDers want, they sure know how to wave their hands around and excuse subpar perfomances by their Asian darlings (you know, the folks who cheat on achievement tests and only report test scores from well-educated urban populations).
The arterosclerotic Greg Cochran says:
…bad choices (Communism), having the world kick you in the crotch (Mongols), or toxic intellectual fads can all make smart peoples unproductive.
Yes sir, the Chinamen (but not the Slavs, no siree) are held back by the legacies of Communism. And those poor pacifistic Mongols have been kicked in the crotch by the world, don't you know.
I mean, even for a misanthropic retard like Cochran, that's beyond delusional. Hey Greg, I don't know, but maybe the Mongols have been more the kickers than the kickees when it comes to global crotches, eh?
If memory serves, I do believe the Mongols established a vast empire through brutal warfare, terror, and the slaughter of civilian populations, followed by the exaction of tribute from the conquered peoples. And all that wealth and power resulted in what, pray tell? The Mongols are unique in human history in having established a long-standing empire lacking in any foundational cultural idea or impetus whatsoever. Ethnic Mongol cultural achievements: zero.
Hey, fundamentally dishonest HBDers – if you want to pick peoples of whom it can be reasonably said that they've been "kicked in the crotch by the world" how about the Balkans? Russians (Mongol conquest, Communism and genocidal Jewish commissars, Hitler's invasion, Jewish looting of the post-Soviet economy)? The Irish? Sicilians? How about the Basques?
Oh wait…they're not Asian, so historical excuses don't count, eh?


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April 28, 2013 Posted by Ramon in Broadleaf Rainforests, Class 3, Day Hike, Forests, Hiking, Malaysia, Mountains, Negeri Sembilan, Sunrise & Sunset, Tropical Rainforest
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Mount Datuk
Mount Datuk (also known as Mount Rembau or Mount Datuk Rembau) was apparently named after Dato' Perpatih Nan Sebatang who in 1372 was said to have organized a gathering of leaders in order to elect a clan chief (Dato' Lembaga). The town of Rembau itself lies about 25km South of Seremban in the state of Negeri Sembilan which meant that we had to leave Kuala Lumpur extremely early in order to be able to reach the summit of Mount Datuk (elevation : 884m) in time for sunrise. Read more


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Friday, February 21
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I realized something lovely yesterday. Over the course of a few months, I'm going to see 90% of the people I love. My bestie R was here last weekend, G&K (with a side of M) from college are visiting this weekend, I had a DC-roomie reunion the last weekend of January, and next month includes a reunion in Baltimore, followed by a visit to my sister in Philly and home to Boston for Easter. Now that you have my full life schedule, please join me in feeling grateful for all the wonderful people in the world.
So who has been following the Olympics? D and I don't have cable, which 99% of the time is amazing, but is a real bummer during athletic events. If you're following along, have more fun with this. If you're prepping for Canada v USA, this video will get you in the spirit.
Is there anyone in my network (that would be you) that understands travel hacking and slow travel? I'm deeply intrigued.
The art of persuasion in :59 seconds. I'm wondering if this was created by someone in annual giving. #fundraisingjokefriday
I'd say I'm pretty much always in the market for interesting workout programs. This "netflix for your body" idea is something I may try next month.
For all my bougie boozy friends, this article is a fascinating read.
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I'm trying to install ImageMagick to XAMPP.
I've tried to telnet into XAMPP to give the rpm file the commands to install - but I can't seem to telnet to XAMPP.
I've got XAMPP running perfectly on a Windows 2000 server (has been for a year), but this is the first time I've tried to install anything on it.
I'm using telnet from windows command line, but when I enter "telnet 127.0.0.1 80" the command window just hangs and doesn't show anything.
I've also tried "telnet localhost 80".
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Op-Ed: France struggles to accept the truth on the Algerian War
Michael Cosgrove
Sep 23, 2010 in
Like almost all its predecessors, a new film about the Algerian War is causing a furor in France. The Ministry of Defense has criticized it and the right-wing would like to see it banned. When will France come to terms with its past?
The Algerian War
was fought between France and Algerian independence forces from 1954 to 1962. It led to the independence of Algeria and resulted in anywhere between 350,000 and 1.5 million deaths according to whether you read French statistics or those of the victorious Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN.) Many independent historians put the figure at just below 1 million.
The war was the theatre of two French army coup-d'état attempts, the systematic
use of torture by both sides
, and the ramifications of Algeria's victory finally led to the collapse of the Fourth French Republic.
France has never come to terms with the Algerian war, and all public official documents and school books didn't even call it a "war" until 1999, preferring the more neutral term "les événements d'Algérie" – "The Events of Algeria." This led to it being referred to in more liberal circles as "The War with no Name." The war is widely believed to be at least partly responsible for continuing racial tension between ethnic French citizens and France's north African immigrant population, which is fiercely critical of France's refusal to admit the extent of the torture and other abuses which happened at that time as well as France's refusal to pay war reparations.
Several French films have been made about the war over the years and, needless to say, most of them have fallen foul of French censorship laws if not banned outright.
That's what happened to Jean-Luc Godard's second feature film
'Le Petit Soldat'
– 'The Little Soldier.' Shot in 1960, it was immediately banned because of its torture scenes, which the government said did not reflect the historical truth. It was finally released three years later.
'La Bataille d'Alger'
– 'The Battle of Algiers' was also banned from its scheduled release date in 1966 until 1971, this time because of the alleged trauma it would cause to ex-Algerian colonists, or 'Pieds Noirs' ('Black Feet'.) There are other examples of banned or censored films and documentaries on the Algerian War.
'Outside the Law'
('Hors-la-Loi' in French) is a newly-released film about the Algerian War by French director Rachid Bouchareb. It sees the war from the perspective of three Algerian brothers and begins in May 1945 during the
Sétif Massacre
in northern Algeria, during which the French army slaughtered an estimated 10,000 people, almost all of whom were civilians.
'Outside the Law' was released yesterday but it had already been subject to intense criticism by ex-colonists and the extreme right-wing, who called it "provocation" from the moment that news leaked of its content.
Lionnel Luca, a parliamentary deputy from the Alpes-Maritimes region, referred the film to the Defense ministry, who demanded to examine its content in order to check its historical accuracy. The verdict came shortly thereafter, and the film was judged to contain "Flagrant anachronisms" – a euphemism for historical inaccuracy and so-called irrelevant comparisons to the present. The internal note containing the appraisal was leaked and published in the printed version of the extreme right-wing paper
Official poster for 'Outside the Law', a French film on the Algerian War, released in 2010
Luca, who hasn't seen the film,
says in answer to critics
of his opinions that "I find it amazing that in France there's always this tendency to decry anyone who rocks the boat. Mr Bouchareb is the only person producing this kind of thing, but reopening the wounds of the past is a truly irresponsible thing to do today. He is not the Commander of all believers and I am not the Holy Gospel."
A recent preview of the film in Marseille
attracted a crowd
of angry members of the extreme right-wing National Front party and fighting broke out between them and a group which was demonstrating in support of the film. Riot police eventually restored order.
Now that the film has been cleared for release, various right-wing and colonist groups have promised to demonstrate in force to stop people going to see it, and the government is trying to keep the lid on the situation via the use of a self-imposed ban on comment.
Although this film has been accepted by the authorities, it seems apparent that opponents of any attempt to get at the truth about the Algerian War are still determined to keep the French from being able to express themselves in public on what remains an extremely sensitive subject.
Just as Jacques Chirac admitted France's collaborationist guilt for what happened in France during WWII, it would be good to see France officially admit the less glorious aspects of its actions during the War of Algeria.
Franco-Algerian ties are permanently strained because of the French refusal, and the people of both Algeria and France should have the right to consult documents and other evidence concerning what is yet another dark corner of French history.
But don't hold your breath while you're waiting...
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