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Things that happened to San Francisco
The mayor, every member of the Board of Supervisors, and several other elected officials take a 2.4% pay cut with the just-signed budget for the city.
Police have arrested a suspect in the series of car fires that struck the city last week, a 62-year-old homeless woman. She might also be responsible for the porta-potty fires that broke out several months ago.
The Eddie Bauer business is now the property of a San Francisco firm called Golden Gate Capital Partners, though its corporate headquarters will continue to be in Bellevue, Washington.

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The hallmark of Jason Molina's career, Magnolia Electric Co. is both a confluence of all he would create and a line in the sand to mark a shift in his songwriting approach. It was the last statement under his iconic Songs: Ohia moniker, and the moment before he began making new legends as Magnolia Electric Co.. Now — here at the end of that decade — with Molina gone, his work gathers more weight and meaning. The expanded 10 year anniversary edition of Magnolia Electric Co. is released this week and features one never-before-released track plus many rarities.
DiS spoke to Will Schaff on the 10th anniversary of the album that introduced a new, heavier country-rock sound for Molina; that offered an oblique response to September 11th, and the build-up to the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan; and that for many listeners, was their favourite Molina album.
DiS: What were your feelings about Molina's music up to that point, and how did the new direction strike you at the time?
Will Schaff: I was a huge fan of Jason's music up to that point (and remained so for his entire career). When I heard the final record, I was really taken with the direction and the power he found in the band format he was working with. Up to the release though, I had only ever heard these songs as solo acoustic songs, so it was quite different an experience for me when the record came out. I was working with a cassette Jason had sent me with a bunch of songs on it, some of which where then released as the album we know. I was also floored when the record came out because I didn't realize Jason was going to leave the band name off of the cover and the spine. I figured he would have added those. When I saw the finished product I was so honored that he left the artwork speak for itself, and for the record that way.
DiS: The iconography of that album seems to reflect the strangeness of that historic moment: the cultural collision of Holy War against an icon of global capitalism. You don't encode those events directly, but some of that sense of historical rupture, and primal forces being unleashed, comes across in the collision of elements from different artistic traditions (resembling the mediaeval altarpieces of Grunewald, Bosch, and some Brueghel; hieroglyphics; Max Ernst's collages; Frieda Harris's tarot deck). What were your influences and how did you adapt them to this project?
WS: Medieval art has always held an influence for me in my work. mostly, it was just my reaction to Jason's music, and some heavy things that were going on in my own life at the time. I tried to make the finished image as personal a piece as I felt Jason had done with the songs. Especially in the poster that came with the record (part of which is now the interior cover of the re-release) you can see a lot of visual references to things that were going on when I made the pieces.
DiS: The two main figures on the front and back-cover - the owl and the bird-skull-headed man, as well as the lightning, and magnolia - relate to Molina's personal symbolism, but also converges with your own. Was their a specific remit he gave you, or did he recognize a kindred spirit and just offer a few pointers?
WS: A few pointers. All Jason said to me, before I started the artwork was, "when I recorded the record, I was thinking a lot about owls pyramids, and magnolias." So I tried to include those elements into the finished pieces.
DiS: You've gone on to do artwork that seems integral to the identity of several bands (especially Okkervil River), but it's hard not to associate your style with that apocalyptic moment, when the dark-side of the boom years was becoming apparent. Levez Vos Skinny Fists... by Godspeed You Black Emperor! is another album that it's hard to imagine without your artwork. How did your politics chime with theirs, and the anti-globalization movement?
WS: I think they saw much more of a broader political meaning behind that pieces than I had intended (not that I mind). They got those images from a little book I had made which was basically a letter to a friend about how my life was going in Providence. Both those pages show me struggling to support me and my loved ones but not being able to do much art because of working shitty jobs to pay the bills. You can see the whole book and the context the original pages are in here.
DiS: Thinking of your iconography in general - the way those figures seem to inhabit some Jungian collective unconscious / Dreamtime / what have you - would you say that you're using them to articulate some particular spirituality? Or is it simply that the closest we come to stepping outside our time and context, into eternity, is engaging with the same set of symbols that people from all over the world have done for millennia?
WS: Wow...probably the latter.
DiS: Are there plans for a wider release of your book, or another edition?
WS: Not that I am aware of. I pretty sure the publisher (graveface records) still has some left. I am pretty sure they can only be ordered through his website. You see them up on eBay and Amazon from time to time, but those folks are always charging way too much for a book still available from the publisher.
DiS: How's your own music going?
WS: Well, thanks. We are winding down to our winter hiatus we take every year. It has been a busy year for the band, including -- oddly enough -- the band performing with Blondie for one song in New York.
DiS: As well as being the 10th anniversary of the MECo record, this re-issue also seems a fitting memorial for Jason Molina. Do you have any memories of him you want to talk about?
WS: If I was to pick one humorous memory, it would be standing next to Jason at a venue in Providence, Rhode Island. The opener that night was this performer, Joe Beats, he had just released an album of ..I don't know what you would call them...remixes for lack of a better term....of indie songs. So he's spinning from the stage and one of the songs he had done was Jason's "Coxcomb red". Basically, it is slightly sped up, with a beat behind it, and samples from some groupie being interviewed cut into it. I like the track, but watching Jason listen to his own voice being released from the stage with this dance beat behind it....I asked him what he thought and he just looked a bit bewildered and said, "very surreal". You can hear Joe's track here
Magnolia Electric Co. is reissued this week on 2CD/2LP/Digital formats by Secretly Canadian.
Read Alex Tudor's Farewell Transmission to Jason Molina here
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Two 90 year old men, Mike and Joe, have been friends all of their lives. When it's clear that Joe is dying, Mike visits him every day.
One day Mike says, "Joe, we both loved rugby all our lives, and we played rugby on Saturdays together for so many years. Please do me one favor, when you get to Heaven, somehow you must let me know if there's rugby there."
Joe looks up at Mike from his death bed," Mike, you've been my best friend for many years. If it's at all possible, I'll do this favor for you".
Shortly after that, Joe passes on.
At midnight a couple of nights later, Mike is awakened from a sound sleep by a blinding flash of white light and a voice calling out to him, "Mike -- Mike."
"Who is it? asks Mike sitting up suddenly. "Who is it?"
"Mike -- it's me, Joe."
"You're not Joe. Joe just died."
"I'm telling you, it's me, Joe," insists the voice.
"Joe! Where are you?"
"In heaven," replies Joe. "I have some really good news and a little bad news."
"Tell me the good news first," says Mike.
"The good news," Joe says," is that there's rugby in heaven. Better yet, all of our old friends who died before us are here, too. Better than that, we're all young again. Better still, it's always spring time and it never rains or snows. And best of all, we can play rugby all we want, and we never get tired."
That's fantastic," says Mike. "It's beyond my wildest dreams! So what's the bad news?
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RENO, Nev. -- Mitt Romney's running mate is calling the Republican presidential nominee "obviously inarticulate" when he remarked that nearly half of Americans believe they are victims and entitled to a range of government support.
Wisconsin congressman Paul Ryan made the comment in an interview aired Tuesday by KRNV-TV in Reno, Nev.
Romney has defended his remarks, but he has also called them "inelegantly stated."
Asked what he thought of Romney's remarks, Ryan told the Nevada station: "He was obviously inarticulate in making this point." Ryan went on to say the point the Republicans are making is that, under the Obama economy, government dependency is up and economic stagnation is up.
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Asthma control during pregnancy is vital because uncontrolled asthma can cause harm to mothers and their babies, according to a new review.
Asthma affects about 10% of pregnant women, making it the most common chronic condition in pregnancy, the researchers said.
Overall, the severity of asthma during pregnancy remains unchanged, worsens or improves in equal proportions, according to the review. But asthma control deteriorated in 60% of women with severe asthma, compared with 10% of those with mild asthma.
All pregnant women with asthma need to be closely monitored, however, regardless of asthma severity, according to the review, which was published recently in The Obstetrician & Gynaecologist journal.
Guidelines recommend that the management and treatment of asthma in pregnant women should be generally the same as for non-pregnant women and men, the authors said. They noted that poor asthma control during pregnancy can lead to high blood pressure and increased risk of caesarean delivery and low birth weight.
Potential side effects
Some women and health-care providers have concerns about potential harmful side effects that asthma drugs can have on mothers and their babies, but the review concluded that it is still safer for women to use asthma drugs during pregnancy to prevent uncontrolled asthma.
"Asthma is a widespread condition and poor management during pregnancy can lead to adverse maternal and foetal outcomes," review co-author Chris Brightling, a professor of respiratory medicine at the University Hospitals of Leicester in England, said in a journal news release.
"Good asthma management to maintain tight control is vital, and standard therapy may be safely used in pregnancy to achieve this along with close surveillance from midwives, obstetricians and, for women with severe asthma, a respiratory physician," Brightling said.
Education is key for anyone, especially pregnant women, to manage their asthma, journal editor-in-chief Jason Waugh said in the news release. This means understanding the condition and its treatment, avoiding triggers, and adhering to medication guidelines, he said.
"Any women who have concerns about their asthma management during pregnancy should contact their [general practitioner] or midwife for further advice," Brightling said.
More information
The American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology has more about pregnancy and asthma and allergies.


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Solaris Package Archive -- tcl 8.3.0
Solaris Package Archive
tcl 8.3.0
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What is it, (from www.scriptics.com):
Tcl is the most powerful and flexible scripting language available today. Created by John Ousterhout in 1988, Tcl has grown rapidly in popularity.
Tcl is an interpreter for a tool command language. It consists of a library package that is embedded in tools (such as editors, debuggers, etc.) as the basic command interpreter. Tcl provides (a) a parser for a simple textual command language, (b) a collection of builtin utility commands, and (c) a C interface that tools use to augment the builtin commands with tool-specific commands. Tcl is particularly attractive when integrated with the widget library of a window system: it increases the programmability of the widgets by providing mechanisms for variables, procedures, expressions, etc.; it allows users to program both the appears and the actions of widgets; and it offers a simple but powerful communication mechanism between interactive programs.
Tcl provides a dramatically easier way to build integration applications ranging from simple graphical user interfaces to complex financial, Web, and management applications Tcl can easily be extended to connect any X to any Y, whether X and Y are existing applications such as database engines, components such as JavaBeans or ActiveX components, protocols such as DCOM or CORBA, or devices such as manufacturing equipment, test equipment, or network switches. Tcl doesn't just connect the components; it allows them to be managed in powerful ways by writing scripts. Tcl's programming facilities are ideally suited to integration tasks, allowing integration applications to be created 5-10x faster than with traditional approaches such as C, C++, or Java. Because Tcl is interpreted, it provides the flexibility to customize and evolve applications as needs change.
The main site for Tcl is
A lot of Tcl resources can be found at:
If you follow the above links you will see there is a LOT of extensions to Tcl and Tk. Sometimes I will require the use of a number of them to meet my requirements, e.g. Itcl is available on this site. However because of the wide variety and depth of the software available it's impossible for me to package everything and offer it here. If I use it, it will be here.
If you intend doing serious Tcl work I recommend you take a good look at
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I've locked each package to the Solaris release it was built on. Only install the correct version for your system.
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Epson Stylus Pro 7900/7910/9900/9910-->1.2.4 General Specifications->Temperature Operating: 10 to 35 °CHumidity Operating: 20 to 80% (no condensation)
This doesn't make a lot of sense if you think of ink drying on the head.
Humidity: In the room where my 7900 lives it's around 30% RH in winter and humidity is regulated with a dehumidifier to 58% in summer. I've had the printer since December 2008, and each winter without fail I have essentially no clogging issues at all. When summer comes the humidity rises and occasional clogging issues return. I don't claim to have any answers but this is what happens. I can't quite believe the printer likes being in 30% humidity, but maybe it does like being cooler. In winter the room is sometimes as cool as 63 or 64 Fahrenheit. Right now it's 70 and the mild occasional clogging has returned. The temperature usually gets to 75 in the heat of August and I guarantee the clogging will be worse then. It always is. The humidity is already as high as it will ever get (58%) but the clogging will get worse when the temps are hotter. Of course this does not prove any cause and effect relationship, but it's gone through the exact same cycle 3.5 times now. FYI, there's a digital temperature and humidity meter near the printer and it's been checked for accuracy.


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d'Armond Speers isn't really a huge Star Trek fan. The reason he spoke only in Klingon during his son's first three years of life was to learn about language acquisition processs. Yeah, sure. What a petaQ. Updated: Speers wrote in.
Yes, I think That Speers is such a horrid person that I had to learn how to say so in Klingon from our intern Don. It just baffles me that Speers actually sounds genuinely proud of his personal pseudo-academic project:
I was interested in the question of whether my son, going through his first language acquisition process, would acquire it like any human language. He was definitely starting to learn it."
It's great that he wanted to see how languages are picked up, but did he not think that there's potential that he hindered his son's social development by keeping focus away from a real language? I'm all for teaching foreign languages early on, but lets make it ones that are spoken on this planet, please. [Citypages viaGeekologie]
Update 1: Turns out that d'Armond Speers is a daily Gizmodo reader and not too excited about what I or some of you have said. To his credit though, he wrote me a very polite email and at no point called me any number of foul words that I might not understand.
Among other things, in his email Speers explained that his son is 15 now and has turned into a great kid. While he didn't remark about which languages his son speaks or studies now (or about how the boy feels about his childhood language experiment), the general implication is simply that he's a happy camper without any social scars.
As far as the main issue went, Speers told me that the only time he spoke Klingon around his son during those three years was when the two were interacting directly. His son was primarily exposed to English in his environment and also observed Speers speaking the language to others, which was why this whole thing didn't work as planned:
This ultimately was the reason the attempt failed, because it was an extra effort for him to speak Klingon to me, that was obviously not necessary because I obviously spoke English.
Clever kid. Why should he be speaking in tongue-twisters to dad when he doesn't have to? Sounds like a slightly-too-early example of teenage rebellion and no reason it shouldn't, because according to Speers, aside from the Star Trek influence, his son had a pretty normal childhood:
Second, just because I spoke Klingon does not mean that I was teaching him to wield a bat'leth or drink black ale. It was a language, and we did normal things that other parents do.
While even after Speers' email (and his unexpected sense of humor), I still don't think that Klingon (or any constructed language) is the best language to teach a child who's still barely grasping his mother tongue, the man behind the story seems a lot more human now. And while I or some of you may not agree with his methodologies or that his child was his subject for study, Speers didn't seem to let his academic curiosities overpower his primary prerogative as a parent. So, final disagreement or not, I take back the petaQ.
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Last, First*: Enter the name of the person you wish to find, starting with the beginning of the last name. This is a case-insensitive wild-card search, so searches for smi will return all names starting with Smi. If you know both the last and first names of the person you wish to find, you may do so by supplying a comma and space between the last and first names, so searches for smith, j would return all Smiths with the first name starting with J.
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The Creator God is the God of wonderful reversals. He grants a child of promise to old and decrepit Abraham and Sarah; he delivers a nation of slaves from the world's most powerful empire by making a pathway through the sea; he defeats the champion warrior Goliath through David, the shepherd-boy; he crumbles the walls of Jericho through songs of praise.
And God performs his ultimate reversal by raising Jesus from the dead. At the very darkest moment in human history, when humanity committed its most outrageous injustice, when the creation killed its Creator, when all hope was lost, God brings about his greatest triumph and radically alters reality forever.
God raised Jesus from the dead!
Father in heaven, God of reversals and redemption, we praise you for sending Jesus into the world to die for sin and for raising him from the dead to conquer sin and death forever. Thank you that we have the promise of new life even though we may pass through death. We praise you, Father, that you have unleashed on the world your resurrection power. Give us grace to walk in your love so that we might experience that power in our lives, for the glory of Christ and for the good of the world. Amen.


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Ever heard the advice, "Dress for the job you want, not the job you have"? Perhaps you've also heard this inspirational line, "Dance like there's nobody watching."
When you work from home, the truth is somewhere in between: Dress Like There's Nobody Watching. Because, really, nobody is watching. That you know of, at least. Yes, I have one of those magical jobs that could only exist in the 21st Century. I work from home, part-time. I have deadlines, but long as the work gets done, it doesn't matter exactly where or when I do it. I love the relative flexibility and freedom, the ability to spend more time with my children while they're still needy and incontinent. *
But most of all, I love the FASHIONS! Don't be fooled – dressing for the Home Office means so much more than just crawling out of bed towards your laptop. You, too, can dress for success with these simple tips!
PROJECTOPHILE'S FASHION, BEAUTY and LIFESTYLE TIPS FOR THE HOME-BASED WORKER
Most of you heard this advice at the Unemployment Office after you lost your job in 2009: Change out of your pajamas every day, even if you have no place to go.
But how do you ignore this advice if you sleep in your underwear? You find the next best thing to pajamas: Sweatpants!
But not just any sweatpants – your husband's sweatpants! When Scott and I wed five years ago, we committed ourselves to a sweatpants-free marriage. It was a matter of pride that our pants had zippers, buttons, and belt loops – no elastic in sight. That all changed last year when Scott underwent a minor procedure that will prevent us from having any more (of his) children. The doctor instructed him to bring baggy sweatpants to the procedure, since he'd be sporting some ice packs below the belt on the way home. He grabbed a pair from the $5 sweatpants/shirts bin at Walgreens, strategically located between the junk food and the check out:
The sweatpants seal had been broken! And soon enough, those shapeless, XL sacks of cotton became my daily work wear.
And when there's a chill in the air, nothing complements your husband's sweatpants better than his second-favorite hoodie: DON'T FORGET YOUR EXTREMITIES! For the Home-Based Worker, your choice of footwear is a very personal one: Slippers or socks? Slippers make my feet sweat. But even in the summer, I can't risk leaving my feet bare, since most of our apartment's floors are either sticky or planted with Legos. Thick wool socks fit the bill. Skip the cotton — wool breathes and never gets stinky.
In the winter, you don't want to heat the whole house just to keep your three square feet of workspace warm. If your electronic devices aren't keeping you toasty enough, consider cutting the tips off your least-favorite pair of gloves for additional warmth, without any loss of dexterity. WHEN YOU NEED TO KICK IT UP A NOTCH: When I'm feeling drowsy or hitting a deadline, I'll pull on some actual athletic gear, like running shoes, shorts and sports bra. The tight synthetic fibers always get my heart pumping. Please note that sweatpants, track pants and yoga pants do NOT qualify as athletic.
WHEN YOU MUST LEAVE THE HOUSE: A FIVE–MINUTE MAKEOVER: Sometimes you need to run to the post office or pick your kids up from school. Many Home Workers find the process of leaving the house to be quite traumatic. The good news is that you don't actually have to take a shower. Here's a few easy steps to ease the transition from the Inside to Outside World in five minutes or less.
1) First, brush your teeth and tongue. If you really can't be bothered, then a stick of Trident will do.
2) Using a wet washcloth, scrub away the eye boogers and grape jelly that's dried on your cheek.
3) Apply some deodorant if you plan on hugging anyone. Otherwise, don't bother.
4) Even though shoulder-length hair is fairly easy to maintain, it does start to look like a greasy rat nest after a couple of days.
Let's get a close up of those oily bangs — eeew!:
Use my patented two-step system to transform your look. All you need is some shampoo and a water bottle — no shower required. While leaning over your sink, simply wet and wash ONLY THE BANGS (or the hairline area if you don't wear bangs).
Rinse your bangs with the water bottle and blow-dry. Pull the rest of the hair into a sleek ponytail. What a transformation!
Can we get a close up of those clean, shiny-but-not-greasy bangs?5) Makeup: I've heard that makeup helps women feel sexy, but lipstick makes me feel like a circus clown. So I have nothing to add here.
6) Swap out your sweatpants for something on the other end of the comfort spectrum, like jeans. I've learned that "skinny" jeans, while a questionable style choice for some, actually hold their shape quite well after days or weeks without being laundered due to their high level of elasticity. Use the same washcloth from Step #2 to dab away any visible stains.
7) Time to change your shirt? No way! Just add an extra layer to mask whatever stains you've accumulated over the past few days. A sweater vest is perfect for hiding the grape jelly stains on your torso:
Choose a cardigan for when your front is clean but you accidentally dipped your elbow in chocolate cream pie (I actually did this on Sunday).
Re-heat the same cup of coffee over and over again. Alternately, leave a cup of coffee in the microwave for days on end. Wander around the apartment aimlessly while drinking your coffee, put it down, and promptly forget where you left it. Especially if you use cream and sugar, your kids will be thrilled to discover it days later covered in green fuzz.
Leave the radio on for at least eight hours a day. This is the closest thing you have to human interaction, and the hourly change of programming will give you a sense of the passing of time. I like to take a coffee break at 11:00 AM to chat with Terry Gross. Plus, you'll always know when someone famous dies, cause she'll immediately air their interview from the archives.
Finally, pay special attention to your local traffic report. Pity the poor members of the Commuting Class, while sipping your fifth cup of reheated coffee. Just don't spill any on your sweatpants.
* This means I also get to be full-time cook, laundress, grocery shopper and butt-wiper. Jealous?


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Steve Forbes: You two are unique. In very different spheres you've each reached a level of success that's almost legendary. What did you do that made you different?
Warren Buffett: Well, I was lucky that I got started early. My dad happened to be in the investment business, so I would go down to his office on Saturdays. At age 7 or so I started reading these books that were around the place. I knew what I wanted to do early. That's a huge advantage.
You don't need a lot of brains in this business. I've always said if you've got an IQ of 160, give away 30 points to somebody else, because you don't need it in investments. What you need is emotional stability. You have to be able to think independently, and when you come to a conclusion you have to really not care what other people say. Just follow the facts and your reasoning. That's tough for a lot of people. But that part, I was just lucky with. I was born that way.
SF: But what was that extra thing? So many will acknowledge that, and yet, as we saw in the current crisis, they panicked while you went into seemingly potential disasters like GE and Goldman Sachs.
WB: I can't really tell you. I didn't learn it in school or anything. It never bothered me if people disagreed with what I thought, as long as I felt I knew the facts. There's a whole bunch of things I don't know a thing about. I just stay away from those. I stay within what I call my circle of competence. Tom Watson [IBM founder] said it best. He said, "I'm no genius, but I'm smart in spots, and I stay around those spots."
SF: We were talking at dinner the other day about how in tennis, most of us are never going to get to Wimbledon. But if we just focus, get the ball over the net, don't try to be fancy about it, we'll do fine.
WB: That's a little bit like these rules I have. The first rule is don't lose, and the second rule is never forget the first rule. It isn't so much having a lot of brilliant decisions, it's just not having some terrible ones. I learned from Ben Graham how to avoid ever having any disasters in investments. He also taught me to see a stock not as something with a ticker symbol that wiggles around but to think about it as part of a business. Don't get elated because something had gone up or depressed because it went down. If I knew the facts, and it went down, I bought more of it. He also taught me that famous lesson about a margin of safety, that you don't drive a truck that weighs 9,900 pounds across a bridge that says "Limit 10,000 pounds" because you can't be that sure. If you see something like that, go a little further down the road and find one that says, "Limit 20,000 pounds." That's one you drive across.
SF: Jay, you're in a business even more competitive. There's not a young person in the country who at some point in their lives doesn't want to be a star. And you not only have done it but done it consistently.
Jay-Z: As I was listening to Warren, I could just hear all the similarities and all the things in what he's saying, right? Because if you don't look at the tickers, you're really just searching for the truth within all the numbers and all the chaos. And that's the key to being a recording artist. You're telling your story or finding your truth at the moment.
My story's a little opposite from Warren because I started a little later. My first album didn't come out until I was 26, so I had a bit more maturity. The album had all these emotions and complexities and layers that a typical hip-hop album didn't have if you were making it at 16, 17 years old. That isn't enough wealth of experience to share with the world. I had so much wealth to share with the world at that time, and I've never forgotten those things, like you say. You never forget those true things that you stick to, your basic things that make you successful.
And for me, it's that truth, finding the truth of the moment, of where I am at the time, not trying to cater to a certain demographic or being something I'm not, not driving the truck over a 10,000-pound bridge. There are so many similarities in what he was just saying. So for me, it's just having the discipline, and the confidence in who I am. If I go into a studio and find my truth of the moment, there are a number of people in the world who can relate to what I'm saying, and are going to buy into what I'm doing. Not because it's the new thing of the moment, but because it's genuine emotion. It's how I feel. This is how I articulate the world.
SF: Jay, you mentioned at lunch that you got your love of words at a young age from a sixth-grade teacher who brought that out in you, and it has stayed with you for a lifetime.
JZ: I grew up in the Marcy Projects in Brooklyn. Our classrooms were flooded. It was very difficult for teachers to give you one-on-one attention. And there was this one sixth-grade teacher named Miss Lowden. She must have seen something in me, and she gave me this attention and this love for words. It's funny how it works, just a little bit of attention. She also took us on a field trip to her house, which opened me up to the world. My neighborhood had been my world. It's the only thing I had seen. I saw a whole different world that day, and my imagination grew from there. I wanted that. I aspired to have that. The small things. She had an ice thing on her refrigerator. You know, you push it and the ice and the water comes down. I was really amazed by that. I was like, I want one of those. It's true.
SF: Even though you didn't record your first album until you were 26, you were in effect writing music in your mind.
JZ: I was around music my whole life. My mom and pop had a huge record collection, so I started out listening to music early on, and I would just write. I had a love for it from there. I didn't get to it, you know. I got caught into my neighborhood and my surroundings. But I've always taken it with me, and I've always gone back to it. It just got to a point where it was, like, "Make this decision, because this is something you really love and you love to do. "It's time to really focus on and then get serious about it, give it your all." And once I did that, it was no looking back from there.
SF: Jay, a lot of people fade away after one or two albums. That hasn't happened to you.
JZ: I think it goes back to a bit of what Warren was saying. It's the discipline not to get caught up in the moment. You know, music is like stocks, too. There's the hot thing of the moment. There's this hot, electro sound, or the hot auto-tune voice, or the hot whatever's new and exciting. People tend to make emotional decisions based on that. They don't stick with what they know, you know, this is who I am. This is what I do. They jump on this next hot thing. And it's not for you.
SF: You once said that as an artist you're fighting against everything that's new and everyone's fascination with new things.
JZ: Yeah, shiny things. People fall in love with shiny things.
SF: As you grow older, can you bring an audience with you because the topic of your music grows with you?
JZ: Yeah, because hip-hop is, like, 30 years old. It's a fairly new genre of music. We've never seen the maturation of hip-hop in this sort of way. People would get to a certain age and still try to pinpoint at this young demographic because hip-hop is a young man's sport. But, you know, people that listen to hip-hop when they're 18 listen to it when they're 28. It's just that the voices of hip-hop are not speaking directly to them anymore. Or weren't. They're speaking to an 18 year old. I'm not going to do that anymore. I'm just going to make the music I love to make and I'm going to mature with my music. Luckily for me, it was the right decision.
SF: When did you realize you had to treat music as a business, to avoid ending up as so many do, losing everything they have?
JZ: That was the greatest trick in music that people ever pulled off, to convince artists that you can't be an artist and make money. I think the people that were making the millions said that. It was almost shameful, especially in rock 'n' roll. Here you got these millionaire guys who had to pretend as if they weren't successful at all or it would be like a detriment to their career. Hip-hop from the beginning has always been aspirational. It always broke that notion that an artist can't think about money as well. Just so long as you separate the two and you're not making music with business in mind. At some point it has to be real when they touch it, when they listen to it. Something has to resonate with them that's real. When you're in the studio you're an artist, you make music, and then after you finish, you market it to the world. I don't think anything is wrong with that. In fact, I know there's nothing wrong with that.
SF: When you were president of Def Jam Records you saw what was wrong with the music business. You wanted out and were willing to pay money to get yourself out.
JZ: For a long time a hit record solved all your problems because there was no Internet, YouTube and so many other factors. It was just the music. That model still exists of just putting artists out and seeing what works. As the machine started moving faster, a lot of things got lost in the process, like artist development. It got to a point where as a business we were releasing hundreds of albums every year, and the percentages were really low, like out of 56 albums four artists worked. At Def Jam I wanted to bring the entire culture into it. I wanted a fund so I could do other things aside from signing artists, like buying a television station or a club where we can develop these artists, or putting out some headphones, all these different things. I don't think at that time they could really get their mind around that. It's not something they were willing to do. I just felt like I would be a waste there. So I started my own thing, Roc Nation, and that's what we do. We pretty much have everything: music publishing, songwriters, recording, touring.
SF: Didn't you end up paying $5 million to buy your last album from Def Jam?
JZ: I have a better story for you. The year I went over to create Roc Nation with Live Nation, I still had one album left to make with Def Jam. L.A. Reid, the chairman of Def Jam at the time, did a great thing for me. He allowed me to walk in and have the conversation with [chairman of parent company Universal Music Group] Doug Morris. We had a fantastic relationship. So it was very cool. I bought my last album back. What people don't know is the day before I flew from Hawaii, where I was doing some recording and put it on an iPod. I had on jogging pants, and my iPod, with all the music I recorded, was missing. It was on the plane somewhere. I had to walk into Doug's office the next day and buy an album back that might leak the next day. Every day I would wake up and check all the Internet places and everywhere. I was like that for three months.
But it was worth it, you know. I was heading in a different direction and needed that freedom. It was a great decision for the company. They got some money. And a great decision for me. I got a very successful album, Blueprint 3, which had "Empire State of Mind" on it. That sold about 4 million singles itself. And my first solo number-one single came off that. I believe in everything lining up.
SF: There is that element of luck you can't quantify. Warren, you've thought about luck.
WB: There's lots of luck. Just being born in the United States in 1930 the odds were 30-to-1 against me. I didn't have anything to do with picking the United States as I emerged. And having decent genes for certain things. I was sort of wired for capital allocation, and being wired for capital allocation two hundred years ago in Nebraska wouldn't have meant a thing. But here I was in this soon-to-be-very-rich capitalistic system, and what I did paid off enormously in a market system like we have. If I'd had a talent in some other area that was way less commercial, I would've had a good time doing it, but it wouldn't have paid off like this.
Jay said it perfectly when he talked about how he's in there recording for himself, and the money comes afterwards. I got to do what I love, and it doesn't get any luckier than that. I would be doing what I do now and I would've done it in the past if the payoff had been in seashells, or sharks' teeth, or anything else. I've had all kinds of luck. I had the luck of getting turned down by Harvard, which meant I got to study under Ben Graham at Columbia, which changed my life. All kinds of things have worked out. So I just hope I stay lucky. I've been lucky for 80 years.
SF: Jay, where you grew up, you could have easily ended up being put away.
JZ: Yeah. There are very few people from my neighborhood that make it out. Forget about being successful, I mean making it out alive or just incarcerated. I have a great friend who just came home, one of the most beautiful people you'd ever meet; he just came home from doing 13 years. And we were together every single day. Back then there was a guy by the name of Jazz who I started out with. He had a deal with EMI. He had the opportunity to go to London to record his album. I went along with him for two months. In those two months there was a sting operation and they took my friend I'm talking about, for 13 years. The only reason I wasn't there was because I was away doing this music stuff. Had it not been for music, and music taking me out at the right time, my life could very easily have been his, very easily.
SF: Jay, how are you going to survive in a business where the old rules are no longer true?
JZ: There was a time in music where a hit solved everything. That's no longer true. I think the music business is still stuck in that place because we haven't figured it out. One of the biggest things in business is to open yourself up for change. We don't have to change who we are, we have to change the way we go about it.
At Roc Nation we're taking our time with artist development, but there are many parts of the business that we're in. For a long time, music labels weren't into touring and now they're making up these 360 deals [where labels get a piece of everything: albums, tours, merchandise]. I don't want this to be a record-company-bashing thing but this whole 360 model is not what the record company does. The record company is not in the touring business. So why would an artist sign with you when that's not your area of expertise? We're with the biggest concert promoter there is, and there's just so many different aspects we're into to make ourselves successful: touring, producing, publishing, clothing, movies.
WB: I don't want to compete with him, Steve. I'm not interested.
SF: Jay, you're also wise enough, or big enough, where you don't mind sharing billing with Eminem or Bono.
JZ: It's fun for me, for one thing. I don't have that ego where I have to be the only guy on the bill. I'm cool with going out with other artists. I've been doing it my entire career. Before Eminem, before Bono, it was R. Kelly or 50 Cent or DMX. I just believe in giving people a better package so when they leave the concert hall, they want to come back again. A lot of people make that mistake when they're hot. They just sell off the name and sell off the moment. We're over-delivering on the experience.
SF: Warren, what advice would you have for Jay-Z in the music business? You've seen business models change a bit in the newspaper business with the Washington Post and Buffalo News.
WB: It happens. Street railways were big here in Omaha 100 years ago. But I will say this about investing: Everything you do earn is cumulative. That doesn't mean that industries stay good forever, or businesses stay good forever, but in learning to think about business models, what I learned at 20 is useful to me now. What I learned at 25 is useful to me now. It's like physics. There are underlying principles, but now they're doing all kinds of things with physics they weren't doing 50 years ago.
But if you've got the principles, if you know what makes a good business, if you know what makes a good manager, if you know what makes a good product, and you learn that in one business, there is some transference to other businesses. As you go along, you learn what things you're not going to understand. Knowing what to leave out is just as important as knowing what to focus on. Somebody said how to beat Bobby Fischer; you play him any game except chess. And so I don't play Bobby Fischer at chess.
SF: Warren, you said you wouldn't want to compete with Jay. What advice would you give?
JZ: He's super-duper joking.
SF: You've said businesses need to build moats around them. What kind of moats should Jay-Z be building?
WB: Well, he's building moats all the time. Obviously. That's why he's succeeding even though he's moved beyond the age that you normally associate his field with. The best moat you can have is your own talent. They can't take it away from you; inflation and taxes can't take it from you. I urge students when I talk to them to look at the people you admire and list what makes you admire them. Those are things that you should do. Just write them down.
SF: Jay, you have any advice you want to give to Warren on building moats?
JZ: What am I going to say to this guy, man?
WB: He can do things I can't do, believe me! I can't do anything he does.
SF: This gets to what money is for. There are only so many steaks we can eat. Warren, your ability to employ capital, multiply it, was a great service. A few years ago you decided to do something else with the money.
WB: If you go back to when I was in my 20s, this sounds obnoxious, but I really did know I was going to become rich. I'd learned something that was going to work. And my wife and I decided then that we were going to enjoy life. We were going to have everything we'd possibly use or need. Incidentally, I think a $5 dinner is better than a $100 dinner.
I felt, one way or another, all that money would go back to society. I thought my wife would outlive me, and she was the one who loved the process of seeing people with problems that money would help. I thought we would pile it up and she would do the distribution of it. But the big money was going to be later on, and then she died while I was still alive, and then I had to make a decision as to the best way to get this money spent in an intelligent way, relatively promptly. I came up with the idea of splitting among five foundations, the largest of which is the Gates Foundation. That was four years ago. I couldn't be more pleased with the decision.
SF: You made a provision that all of your funds had to be employed, what, within ten years?
WB: Ten years after my estate's completed the money has to all be spent. It can't go to institutions which in turn put it in their endowment or anything like that. I want it with people that I know are in sync with me, and I know will be true to certain ideals. I want them to dispense it because who the hell knows 50 years from now, you know, when the place becomes some large institution, what will happen.
SF: Have you denied society something in that the capital, if you'd keep employing it, might have done more good in invested in more companies?
WB: Well, Berkshire is still around. I'm still running it.
JZ: Yeah, it's not doing so badly.
WB: I think it's been a perfect solution. When my wife was pregnant, I didn't think I was going to deliver a baby. If I get a toothache or something, I don't take out my own tooth. I turn it over. I follow Adam Smith's advice; turn it over to a specialist. And there's no reason to think that because I'm good at making money, that I would be the best, necessarily, at distributing it. Foundations are not tested by a market system. I mean, if you've got a business idea, and he's got music, it's being tested by a market system. People will make a decision is whether that next album is good, and they'll make a decision, you know, on whether Coca-Cola still keeps them happy, and all that sort of thing. A foundation has no market tests. So it's very easy to start rationalizing things that are a long way from what you thought you were setting out to do.
SF: Jay, you're just beginning to look at charities. You have the Shawn Carter Scholarship Fund. Where do you see it going?
JZ: The reason I've focused on that is because such a small thing changed my life, right? A sixth-grade teacher said, "You know what, you're kind of smart." And I believed her. I said, "I'm smart, right?"
So she gave me that sort of opportunity. She sparked that idea in my mind. So that's why my first thing is a scholarship fund, because there are a ton of very intelligent kids coming out of these urban areas who can make it all the way if given the opportunity. It's a challenge that I gave to my mom. And my mom is so involved with it. She gets on the bus, and she takes these kids to their interview with colleges. And now we're starting to see kids graduate from college, and I'm getting that sort of feeling when it's real, you know. I'm not just sitting home, writing a check to make myself feel good. It's something I really want to do, and I'm into it and excited about it.
SF: Philanthropy and business are almost opposite sides of the same coin, meeting the needs and wants of others, a little different way of doing it.
WB: It's tougher than business, Steve. You're looking for easy things to do in business. If people have liked drinking Coca-Cola for 100 years, they'll probably like it for another 100. It doesn't require great brainpower to figure that out. In philanthropy you're tackling the tougher problems of society, things where people have applied money and intelligence before and haven't really solved the problem. Education is a great example. Gates is working on eradicating polio. They have gotten 99% of the way there. But that last 1% is very tough, and nobody knows for sure if it will get done.
SF: Warren, one of the things you do in your annual reports is discussing what went wrong and what you've learned.
WB: Part of making good decisions in business is recognizing the poor decisions you've made and why they were poor. I've made lots of mistakes. I'm going to make more. It's the name of the game. You don't want to expect perfection in yourself. You want to strive to do your best. It's too demanding to expect perfection in yourself.
SF: How do you each plan to get your message out about philanthropy? Warren, you and Bill Gates did a bold thing with your Giving Pledge drive.
WB: The way I got the message out was to get a copy of FORBES, look down that 400 list and start making phone calls! Bill and Melinda did the same thing. We only called 80 or so people so far, some I know, and some I don't know. We've gotten a way better reception than I thought. In many cases we picked people that we knew already had pretty strong philanthropic interest and, in a very low-key way, asked them to sign a pledge, not legal but moral, that they would give away half their net worth in their lifetimes or at death. About half of the people we asked said they'd be delighted, and we asked them to tell their stories on our website [givingpledge.org]. They are fascinating to read. I don't think you'd see anything like this in parts of the world outside of the United States. We'll see how far it goes, but even if it only goes as far as it's gone it will have a big impact. I've already learned something from the three or four dinners we've had with people. We will have smarter philanthropy in this country 10, 20 years from now, and in a small way this will contribute to it. So keep publishing the list so I can milk it.
SF: Jay will soon be on it. Jay, how do you get the message out to your audience that giving doesn't have to be dollars? It could be time, like the way your sixth-grade teacher did?
JZ: As entertainers, we're the first generation to capitalize on our talent. For many years artists were dying broke, because the record companies took advantage of them. I'm not talking about rock stars, like Bono. The first thing for me is to lead by example and show how these things have an effect on people's lives in a real way. I know there is a future generation of stars in my old neighborhood that we must help out, to become what they could be if given the opportunity. So my first thing is to show by example and pull a guy in like Puff [Daddy]. We made a huge pledge to Katrina together. I think we could have done more. It showed hip-hop the power in doing things together. We'll move forward from there.
SF: Fifty years from now, when people say Warren Buffett, what words will come to mind?
WB: They'll probably say Berkshire Hathaway. I hope it's still around then, doing very well, too. If it isn't I'll come back and haunt 'em! No, but what I've done has not been very complicated. I followed somebody else's teachings. I guess if you could pick one word it would be "teacher." Jay has talked about his sixth-grade teacher. I think almost anyone that's been successful has had a teacher, somebody that's affected them. If you can pass that along, I think that's better than money, actually.
SF: Jay?
JZ: I hope to inspire. I guess Obama took this thing already but just the hope of how far we can make it and the hope in knowing how far you can go from where you started if you really apply yourself and stay true to who you are.
WB: Jay is teaching in a lot bigger classroom than I'll ever teach in. They're going to learn from somebody. For a young person growing up he's the guy to learn from.


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Shane gives a good breakdown of the various ways to classify data as structured or unstructured. He points out that very often data is a mixture of both structured and unstructured data, and he gives several examples.
What I find so interesting about this, however, is how well ModeShape can handle these varieties of data.
ModeShape handles structured data really well. Most data structures are very easily mapped to the nodes and properties that ModeShape uses. And when those nodes also say which node types apply to them, ModeShape can enforce the node structure by validating it against those built-in and/or custom node types and prevent invalid data from being stored.
The other end of the spectrum is unstructured data, and ModeShape handles that beautifully, too. You can store unstructured data in a property using a string value or a binary value. Typically you would use a string value when the data is some form of text, and a binary value in any other cases (or when you don't want to treat it as text).
But the best part is that ModeShape naturally handles combinations of structured and unstructured data. Recall that ModeShape is a hierarchical database, which means that each database consists of a single tree of nodes, and each node has one or more properties. That hierarchy is by definition structured, though it's up to you whether ModeShape validates and enforces that structure using node types. But the leaves of that tree — that is the properties and their values — typically unstructured (though property value like dates and even some string values could be considered structured).
ModeShape's query languages can also deal with both structured and unstructured data. Relationships between nodes, specific properties defined by node types, and the definitions of those properties all are addressable within the query language. But ModeShape queries can include full-text search constraints on both string and binary property values!
ModeShape can search those binary values when it can extract text using the Tika library, which supports many formats, including PDF, Microsoft Office™, RTF, HTML, and many others.
There's one more way that ModeShape can deal with unstructured data: it can sequence unstructured data (string and binary property values) using built-in or custom sequencers to extract structure and save it as more nodes and properties in the repository. This is ideal for getting at that unstructured data that has the implicit structure defined by the format. For example, if an image is loaded into the repository, ModeShape's image sequencer can extract the EXIF data in the image (e.g., ISO setting, focal length, aperture, shutter, geo-location, etc.) and save it as properties in the repository. ModeShape has a number of built-in sequencers that can extract this implicit structure from a variety of file formats:
- DDL files
- images (JPEG, GIF, BMP, PCX, PNG, IFF, RAS, PBM, PGM, PPM and PSD)
- audio (MP3)
- comma-separated and delimited text files
- Java source and class files
- Microsoft Office™
- ZIP archives
- XML Schema
In summary, ModeShape deals very naturally and easily with data that is part unstructured and part structured. What else could you want?
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Security is expected to remain an IT budget priority in the coming years, according to a survey from technology analytics firm Gartner, with worldwide spending on security infrastructure to rise 8.4 percent to $60 billion in 2012. Despite a continuing economic slowdown that has been putting pressure on IT budgets around the world, the Gartner report projected security spending would continue on an upward trajectory, reaching $86 billion in 2016.
The fastest-growing segments in security infrastructure, which Gartner terms the software, services and network security appliances used to secure enterprise and consumer IT equipment, include managed security services like IT outsourcing, secure Web gateway appliances and security information and event management (SIEM). Above-average growth is expected for cloud-based security markets as demand for this delivery model grows, the report said.
"The security infrastructure market is expected to experience positive growth over the forecast period, despite risks of further economic turbulence," Lawrence Pingree, research director at Gartner, said in a prepared statement. "Results from the 2012 annual Gartner CIO survey show increased prioritization for security compared with 2011 and results from Gartner budgeting surveys published in June 2012 underline the fact that organizations globally are prioritizing on security budgets."
The survey found 50 percent expected their IT security budgets to remain the same, while 45 percent said they expected those budgets to rise. A mere 5 percent of respondents expected security infrastructure budgets would decline. With demand for security services driven by a perpetual threat landscape and the evolving sophistication of attacks, regional variation is expected to be minimal, although Gartner research director Ruggero Contu noted emerging economies would see a much-higher rate of security budget increases.
"Although security remains fairly resilient in tough times, the prolonged financial crises seen in the U.S. and Europe have had some impact on IT security spending globally but to a lesser extent for emerging countries, such as Brazil, China and India," Contu said in a prepared statement. "Our most current forecast reflects our expectation that the various markets within security infrastructure will be affected to different degrees."
Pingree also remarked that in 2012, the market contributing most to overall growth, excluding exchange-rate effects, would be security services, followed by security software. "We expect current market trends will keep security infrastructure growth at between 9 percent and 11 percent from 2011 through 2013, but we are factoring in a higher degree of caution in terms of buying behavior," his statement concluded.


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Watching news, movies or stories around people shooting people, guns and essentially a culture of violence. We can only exist in such 'culture' as an acceptable thing if it is made acceptable At Home, wherein we are taught to love our parents while learning how to judge those that are clearly not part of our 'loved ones,' which later on escalates to the righteousness of being able to actually Hate people that are deemed as the villains in the movie of reality. We take the right to recriminate, spit and boast around in anger about the so-called psychopaths while biting our tongue the whole time because: we are them as well.
We push the envelope even further every time, and it's fascinating how love and hate emerges from the acts of people like James Holmes or Jared Loughner wherein they get an instant bred of 'fans' that suddenly obsess with them, while some others pull out their guts as words to hate them and absolutely express their own distress toward the obviously shocking realization of a human being being able to perpetrate acts of violence that disturb our perfect little quiet lives. From a certain perspective I can understand both the lovers and haters, simply because the mind can grab onto virtually anything to have just another fascination to cling on to, really.
In terms of 'the Holmies' as James Holme's 'Lovers/ fans' we have a word for what they are expressing, and it's not a surprise that we have such a wide range of paraphilia's in this world? Mix sex with anything that is generally stigmatized and voilà, you get your perfect new drug. Let's look at the word that describes this:
"Hybristophilia "is a paraphilia of the predatory type in which sexual arousal, facilitation, and attainment of orgasm are responsive to and contingent upon being with a partner known to have committed an outrage, or crime, such as rape, murder, or armed robbery. The term is derived from the Greek word hybridzein, meaning "to commit an outrage against someone," and "philo," meaning "having a strong affinity preference for" – Wikipedia
So, having a strong affinity (love) for someone that has committed an outrage (hate) against another Isn't this word 'hybristophilia' depicting what we actually thrive in? Morbid fascinations such as getting turned on by serial killers, having animal crush fetishes, snuff films, movies like Crush that made it into popular culture and are elegantly termed 'erotic films' while it clearly depicts an aspect that no one is willing to admit: the love for those that hate, the hate for everything that could resound love as the ultimate spite– the perfect endless loophole that we have subsumed ourselves in. Nothing else but an energetic addiction, really – but, do we even dare to strip it down to see it for the battery-nature that it is? Hell no, according to people, life would be 'boring' if there was nothing to obsess about. That is 'our popular culture' – and this is what kids are born into at the moment.
This 'rationality' called 'dichotomy' is the outflow of our own ignorance about this reality as a result of the lack of understanding about our own mind and how we sentence ourselves with and by our own words. However, any 'psychopath' is not just a spontaneous-creation, it is the byproduct of our own society which is not this gigantic cookie-monster called 'system' that exists in separation of ourselves – no. It is all 'home made' and that is a literal term to consider, because we often see all types of evident-abusers in the world and condemn their acts which is the entire hatred toward the hater that is absolutely astounding and no one really cares enough to even ask how is it that a point of violence is attacked with even more violence.
So, from the 'haters toward the hater' coming from James Holme's fan page on Facebook:
Veronica Abigail Jordan-Hubble how are ya'll fans of this man? freaking sick fuckers! This man killed a 6 year old little girl, a mother, father, boyfriends, girlfriends. He killed so many people and your going to be fans!? You would not be a fan if it was you in the theater that night, you wouldn't be a fan if it was your mother, father, girlfriend, boyfriend, sister, or brother he killed.
James holms fan club Why would my friend kill my family
Veronica Abigail Jordan-Hubble if your family had been in that movie they could have been killed, or seriously wounded.
Zoltan Csordas: Because your friend might have a fuckin screw loose? or might be seriously fucked up? who ever is a fan of this guy should be fucking shot dead and hung, and then shot while they're hung. fucking disgusting people. James Holmes changed cinema going for those people involved that night FOREVER, and for those peoples children, and their children etc. I hope Holmes gets the ELECTRIC chair, never mind the non painful lethal injection shit…. no fuck that, this guy should be crucified onto a table, have his testicles pinned apart by his scrotum, and then one at a time, have each testicle 'popped' by a small hammer. I can think of many other ways to 'take care' of the rest of him but i aint gonna dwell too much on that. He deserves no fucking mercy, no compassion. and i don't give a shit if he has a mental problem… too many murderers seem to be blaming their crimes on stuff like that. That guy knew EXACTLY what he was setting out to do. i hope those people killed RIP and my sympathy and thoughts will be with the survivors and others caught up in this horrific situation till the day i FUCKING die.
What no one realizes is how 'the bad guy' is ourselves at all times and how the very same thinking patterns that lead anyone to abuse and kill others – or themselves – are the very same patterns existent in each and every one of us as it is clearly proven in these quotes above. But, why are they seen as 'acceptable' when they are in fact the same type of thinking that lead someone to actually do it?
If we were able to call out each other's abusive acts, we would be doing the same about each and every single adult person that is obviously an equal participant in this mess called 'society' and 'reality' that is clearly the brewing pot of any sociopath that is currently walking on Earth, which is essentially everyone but the children. However, our ill-driven minds ensure that children are quickly indoctrinated in 'the ways of the world.' Give them a toy gun, show them your regular 'action movies' and videogames and voilà, you'll get a child playing to kill his fellow classmates with plastic guns that later on turn into legally bought weapons and you get Columbine, and with that a plethora of raging critics that can not even fathom that all condemnation is essentially a reflection of what exists in our minds.
Then, we dare to start condemning their acts as if they had suddenly 'lost their mind' to perpetrate such events, without realizing that is in the very mind that such atrocities are schemed and built-up throughout time as the accumulation of thoughts as the belief of 'who we are,' just because there was absolutely No One that could tell us otherwise. And this opens the inevitable question: Who wants to point out parents as the cause and reason for any 'apple gone rotten' in the tree of a happy Family-Lie? No one, that would definitely deflate any sense of 'honor' that is held at stake toward the so called 'nucleus of society' that is obviously and absolutely inherently flawed from generation to generation. I mean, how could we as humanity have even dared to create the word 'progress' as a positive thing when all we have done is copied the same limiting and self-abusive patterns of the past and covered them up with LED lights to make them seem 'bright in accordance to an artificially held by tweezers future'?
So, All Abuse has a beginning – and thank Anu, also an end – and our beginning is clearly in the womb of a woman that has lived in a world wherein Life has never been honored, wherein the basic considerations of human integrity do not exist and where money dictates who lives and who dies, wherein the Earth's resources are consumed in absolute mind-possessed ways that are currently mining our entire 'civilization' from head to toe – we really lack the most basic common sense to not see and realize this. And that's how we come into this world, some with more or less fortune speaking in money-terms, however all being equally ignorant of how it is that the very education – or lack thereof – from our first 7 years on Earth will determine who we will be for the remainder of our life. It is great that scientists are busy trying to find a 'god particle,' but can't even explain the most basic repulsion that every kid experiences toward their parents while growing up, being a friction that we have accepted as 'who we are,' an inherent battle toward everything and everyone including ourselves. This is what we have become.
Therefore, being able to point fingers at someone requires turning the finger back at self to see and realize how we have become in fact the very perpetrators of everything we could possibly hate and love which is just the polarity relationships that we keep ourselves bound to, just by thinking and believing that there are 'good things to keep' in this world and in that, keeping our fascinations nearby and repulsions at a 'safe distance' apparently, we haven't yet realized that this entire world is the materialization of our own mind, our 'real nature' made world-system. This is the only way how we can explain ourselves the reason why e have turned abuse into an entertainment industry and money into our own killer – literally.
So, back to the main point: any killer is not a man on an island, every abuser can only learn from what is seen around in the environment – therefore any form of abuse is and can only stem from a previous example available as 'popular culture,' such as a fascination for serial killers and all types of 'role models' such as the 'rich and famous' that set the tone for what kids will live to aim for – who has ever questioned how this creates robbery in the first place? Crime begins at home the moment that a child is not given a step by step explanation of the images seen on TV, of the advertisement on the street, of the basic ways in which this world function, pointing out the truth of our reality while giving a solution that can be worked for, establishing a communication to see what is it that they are in fact experiencing within themselves.
"I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not realize that Parents Produce the Nature of Their Children as Hate through the Excuse of Love, Even Inventing an Imaginary God, to Deny Responsibility, to End up as a Product as a Child, which is taught How to Love so that the Child can become another Parent that will Produce Hate as Very Few Humans are in fact Satisfied with themselves Physically and Mentally, and Refuse to Realize that this Result in the Direct Effect of the Spirit of Religion that is Used to Justify the Love through which Hate is Produced, ending up with a World where Love is Used to justify Hate, even Calling the Truth Negative, just to Not take Responsibility for the Sins of the Parents Generation after Generation." – Bernard Poolman*
WE must understand that we are facing ourselves full on in/ as this world, that every single event that goes on in this world is not some random schizophrenic act to be amused by for a moment – no. Everything and everyone that is currently existing in this world is ourselves and as such, we have to start Paying Attention to what we are in fact becoming as humanity – see what is behind the animal fetish, what is behind the movie theater shooter, what is behind the life-long happy pill addicts, what is behind children being dumped in China, what is behind women having unprotected sex while being highly drunk, what is behind people eating people's faces, what is behind the celebrity fascination in our culture – these are pertinent questions to ask and as such, seeing how the very things we cling on to that in any way we believe is GREAT of this world is in fact the very lock that disables the realization of how we have created the positive to mask the negative. Come on, peace cannot exist if wars didn't exist – it's just like perfume. We create these wondrous smells to cover up the natural stench of the human flesh – well, as long as we continue hiding from ourselves, nothing will change.
Stopping Love and letting go of all those 'small things' as the positive experience we have gotten ourselves high with is a Must-Do in order to sober up and realize hate as the actual human nature that must be self-corrected through a self-willed process, wherein you and I can live to be the final point to the ongoing mayhem on Earth. Once we dare to face the killer as ourselves will we be able to actually make progress in understanding how we bred ourselves into Insanity.
Walk the Desteni I Process to finally realize and understand who and what we are as our mind, what are the implications of the current existential process on Earth wherein we have the opportunity to Change ourselves into a living-reality where all beings are equally considered as Life. This is the final call for us all if we want to in fact prove that we can 'love' and stop all hate for once and for all.
Support the Equal Money System which is the world-system change wherein Parental Education will be compulsory before even thinking about having children, because we are witnessing the result of undesired lives brought to exert such self-hatred onto this world. WE are all on the same page, yet we are taking Self-Responsibility for our own minds, for our own bit within the map of this reality that requires more beings to Wake Up to the fallacy we have built until now.
Join the Journey to Life to stop the Madness in this world – it all begins within yourself.
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16-year-old Helena Muffly wrote exactly 100 years ago today:
Friday, April 14, 1911: I spent most of my time indoors today for the weather was decidedly dreary and ugly. Had a time hiding pop corn this afternoon from Jimmie and Mother.
Her middle-aged granddaughter's comments 100 years later:
Grandma seems focused on hiding pop corn from her 6-year-old brother Jimmie and her mother. Why?? Was there a shortage of pop corn? Had Grandma popped it—and she wanted to enjoy it herself? . . . .
A hundred years ago on this date it would have been Good Friday. I wonder if the family was making any preparations for Easter. The April 1, 1911 issue of Ladies Home Journal provided suggestions for dyeing Easter eggs:
Easter Egg Dye
A harmless dye for Easter eggs is made by boiling the eggs with onion skins. Put the eggs on to boil in cold water, with enough onion skins to cover them. Boil till the eggs are hard. They will come out in pretty shades of brown and red. Polish them with a soft flannel cloth. Two cupfuls of onion skins will color eight or ten eggs.
I used white eggs and the outer skins from yellow onions to test these directions. The eggs were easy to color–and the dyed eggs are a pretty reddish-brown. I'm amazed how the skins of yellow onions produce a dye that is so red.


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Microsoft's Hyper-V virtualization platform today moved out of beta. The RTM version is now available for download, and will be released to Windows Update on July 8. Hyper-V, previously codenamed "Windows Server Virtualization" and "Viridian," was originally due to ship with Longhorn Server—Windows Server 2008—but due to slipping schedules it was delayed to "within 180 days of the launch of Server 2008.". With Server 2008 going RTM at the end of February Microsoft has kept its word.
Hyper-V is being positioned as a part of the Windows Server platform. To ward off any potential antitrust complaints Microsoft offers Windows Server 2008 both with and without Hyper-V, with the latter version a few dollars cheaper, but the intent is clear; Microsoft believes that virtualization is as much as part of the server platform as Active Directory or IIS. Virtualization is a key technology for server consolidation scenarios, as it allows individual server roles to be isolated without causing a proliferation of hardware, reducing maintenance and cutting power and cooling demands in the data center. Microsoft also believes that virtualization will be essential to offering software plus services platforms in the future.
Compared to Microsoft's previous virtualization platform, Hyper-V boasts significant new capabilities—such as the ability to run 64-bit guest OSes and up-to-16-way SMP—along with improved performance. Virtual machine performance is often limited not by processing power but by I/O performance. Hyper-V demonstrates much greater I/O performance than Virtual Server, meaning that it is now practical to run more demanding server tasks on virtual machines. Although more capable than Virtual server, Hyper-V does not live up to its original expectations. Microsoft initially planned to support live migration of virtual machines (so that they could be moved between physical servers without interruption), 64-way SMP, and the ability to dynamically add processor and memory resources to Virtual Machines. These features were cut to allow the product to ship sooner, and are promised for a future version.
Hyper-V's improved performance is a result of its new architecture. Unlike Virtual Server, which relied on the technique of dynamically translating guest OS code whenever that code attempted to do interact directly with the system hardware, Hyper-V uses (and requires) the virtualization hardware found on most AMD processors and high-end Intel parts. Virtual Server ran guest OSes "on top" of the host OS; each guest OS is essentially a thread or process in the host OS. Hyper-V's approach is different; Hyper-V uses a "hypervisor"—a kind of low-level OS that runs directly on the physical hardware, which controls switching between virtual machines. One virtual machine (which must be running Windows Server 2008) called the "root partition" is able to access the hardware directly. The other VMs communicate with the root partition through the hypervisor. To further improve performance, it is possible to write drivers for the guest OSes that allow direct communication with the root partition.
Hyper-V architecture. Image source: Microsoft
This new design and improved performance puts Hyper-V in competition with VMware's ESX product. ESX is still the more capable and mature of the two—ESX supports more memory and processors, and live migration, for example—but with Hyper-V, Microsoft's virtualization platform is now suitable for many tasks where Virtual Server was too small or too slow. As the delayed features are eventually implemented, this trend will continue, and Hyper-V will be usable for an increasing proportion of virtualization tasks. Hyper-V is considerably cheaper than ESX; Microsoft's approach is to give the core functionality away for free and then charge for VM management tools, whereas ESX is sold in the more conventional way. For those who need the extra features, ESX is still a good option, but Hyper-V is sure to cause some VMware customers to look elsewhere.


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Rabbit Hole: Is It Dead Kid Season Again Already?
Here's a trailer for Rabbit Hole, the dead-kid drama based on the Pulitzer-winning play by David Lindsay-Abaire. Nicole Kidman steps into the role that won Cynthia Nixon a Tony on Broadway, plus Aaron Eckhart shows up for some moping.
Unfortunately I didn't see the play when it was taking New York by storm several years ago, but from what I understand the script is actually laced with a lot of cathartic, occasionally jarring humor. I'd expect nothing less from Lindsay-Abaire, the author of more gonzo works like Fuddy Meers and Kimberly Akimbo. Plus there's the intriguing presence of director John Cameron Mitchell, who takes an unexpected veer into the mainstream, after outre projects like the porno-lite Shortbus and the Weimar-by-way-of-Cold-War transsexual musical extravaganza Hedwig and the Angry Inch. I'm curious to see what he does with more straightforward material.
Once again Ms. Kidman is a bit elusive. Has that face slackened up a little bit since last we saw it try to emote in Australia? Will that clipped, breathy voice of hers be a strong enough vessel for outpourings of grief and rage? There's no doubt that Kidman is a fine actress, but she's not exactly a chameleon. Certain roles fit her really well, while others find her looking a bit too frightened or injured. And Aaron Eckhart, such a square-jawed quaterback of an actor (losing some roles to Jon Hamm these days, I'll bet), doesn't always play well in sincere dramas. Usually his corny good looks and superhero voice need to be offset by some irony, lest the whole package be a bit too Ken doll.
Anyway, the film was well-received in Toronto, which is what earned it its Oscar-contention release date. Previously this looked, finally, to be Annette Bening's year to win the big one, but will Kidman come along and gum up the works? Oscar season, and dead-kid season, is upon us!


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Swami Vivekananda: The Maker Of Lions!
It really fills my heart with bliss that this part of the world originally hailed as Aryavrata, now known as Bharat (India), has always produced evolved souls, having the capacity to delve deep into the world of mysticism in effortless manner- a reason why this part of the land is viewed with great wonder by people living in the other part of the hemisphere. I often meet yogis/saints, witnessing many such mysterious phenomenon related with world of Yoga, but this feeling saddens me that, back in past, when great saints and spiritually advanced yogis, roamed on this land quite frequently, I wasn't fortunate enough to be the part of that era! It's interesting to note that these great souls played different roles as per need of the society. Some roamed in jungles, some lived in caves, some lived as householder, and some became part of mainstream affairs, even as they retained their ascetic robes, to shape the destiny of Bharat-the land of divine principles.
True, many fake Gurus, have turned religion into a most lucrative affair, but it remains ultimate truth that India is intrinsically wedded to yogic principles. This land, in absence of spiritual values, would not be able to survive. May be currents of time sometimes lead to clash of values, but this nation has the capacity to absorb contradictions and conflicts in easygoing way. Like myself, others too, would have not believed the glory of Indian spiritual world, had saints like Swami Vivekananda not appeared in the modern phase of civilization. His presence was certain sign of the fact that supreme consciousness was still in operation. Swami Vivekananda removed my doubt that great yogis were mainly confined to storybooks; that great tales of yogic feats were exaggerated description of imaginative minds. However, after reading life-sketch of, Sri Aurobindo, I became truly confirmed that people in league with extraordinary psychic powers, were not only part of ancient India but they were very much part of modern India as well.
However, today I wish to remain confined to world of Swami Vivekananda, since on this very day, 12 January, 1863, this Avatara of Lord Shiva, manifested on earthly plane. He was an extraordinary person in his lifetime but one who had normal childhood. He involved in naughty pranks like any other child of that age. However, the thing that separated him from others was that he frequently got absorbed in higher form of consciousness. As he grew up and took admission in college life, he was the one who loved to read various philosophies, roped in by great teachers in past. In other words, he remained hooked to intellectual plane alone! That was not the final destination of a great mind like him placed on route to realization. The Updesha Vakyas (Directive Statements) found in Upanishads were yet to culminate into Anubhuti Vakyas or Anubhava Vakyas ( realized truths).
A great truth of the world of spirituality is that a willing seeker or a qualified seeker soon comes to find a Guru (The Master). The same thing happened with Swami Vivekananda, when he met with Sri Ramakrishna. Naturally, that turned out to be life-defining moment for Swami Vivekananda. He soon emerged as a realized soul. In fact, he was always a realized soul and able Guru like Sri Ramakrishna merely ensured that ignorance inside him which made him see himself as ordinary mortal get vanished for forever. It's interesting to note that in pre-Independence era, we had host of great spiritual souls, who ensured that India's journey in future as independent nation takes place amid certain special values. The Western world, and we Indians too, remember him mainly because of his great speech at Parliament of the World's Religions, delivered on 11 September 1893, in Chicago. Not many are aware of the fact that it wasn't a smooth journey and there was lack of funds to sponsor this visit, and surprisingly, he was not allowed to participate in the conference because of lack of endorsement from a well known organisation. It was only after the intervention of Professor John Henry Wright of Harvard University he got the chance to participate in this conference. Wright was so taken aback that he had to say: "To ask for your credentials is like asking the sun to state its right to shine in the heavens."
Anyway, a soul of his stature, does not appear on earth for attainment of petty goals. He arrived to make supreme consciousness part of this land, which appears to be heart of the universe. If it stops functioning, the other civilizations are bound to collapse one after another. Although if one has a close look at the life of Swami Vivekananda, one would notice that he suffered life-long at the hands of mediocre minds but today when he is now no more in physical form, his own words have come true that real significance of his achievements would manifest after many years of his death. I must say that now when India is struggling hard to keep its ancient identity- the land of spirituality- intact, the words of Swami Vivekananda offer great solace, great strength. In other words, his thoughts and thoughts of other great minds are keeping at bay values antithetical to its spiritual essence. These great souls have now become active at subtle level, considering the way we have begun to realize that their thoughts alone could brighten our lives marred by ills of materialism.
It's upon us that we either follow their way and emerge as an evolved being or ignore their wisdom to emerge as "dirty picture" of crass values. "All the powers in universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark." (Swami Vivekananda). Isn't it the right thing to live life in light of these great values? Is there any merit in dying like a retarded lamb when you could have always roared like a lion? Let's attempt for such huge transformation from this very moment.
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