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How obliging of AOL to hawk Disney's Princess wedding line apparently free of charge! "Which Fairy Tale Wedding Are You?" indeed.
(Writer and radio host Kurt Andersen quoted the headline as "Which Disney Princess Bride Are You?" on Twitter; it's not clear if the headline has subsequently been changed or if it was teased off the homepage differently. But it makes way more sense for a reader to be a Princess Bride than to be a Fairy Tale Wedding!)
The Disney bridal line has been around for awhile, but it's even more wonderful than you previously knew. Per the AOL story,
You should also be sure to check out the other inspired, more affordable (and unofficial) alternatives. Also notable, Kirstie Kelly doesn't just design bridal gowns and rings for each Disney Princess, she also designs maidens gowns, flower girl gowns, and accessories for them. If you wear plus-size, be on the lookout for dresses from the Red Label line.
But first you have to figure out which Disney princess you are so you can buy accordingly. This is more fun than figuring out which Sex And The City character you are! I'll be honest, I lingered a bit over Belle but — I'm a total Jasmine! Maybe it's cause I have this weakness for anything with the phrase "exotic flair" in it.
But seriously, this arduous process of choosing has already been made easier by two similar specimens of Internet ingenuity:
Now, take your pick.
Related: What Disney Princesses Teach Girls [BoingBoing]
Earlier: Disney Princesses Rely On Good Looks, Little People, Men For Salvation
Disney Bridal: For The Fairy Princess In None Of Us


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For clarification, a patch is considered a new driver when it's introducing a new protocol into the driver. For example, if your driver supports ISCSI, but your patch proposes support for FibreChannel, that's a new driver patch.
For clarification, a patch is considered a new driver when it's introducing a new protocol into the driver. For example, if your driver supports ISCSI, but your patch proposes support for FibreChannel, that's a new driver patch.
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For clarification, a patch is considered a new driver when it's introducing a new protocol into the driver. For example, if your driver supports ISCSI, but your patch proposes support for FibreChannel, that's a new driver patch.
The deadline for new backend drivers, with working third party CI and no code review issues, will be July 13th, 2016 at 7:59 UTC.
Third Party CI Requirement Policy
See third party CI wiki.
Before you write any code
- Read the How To Contribute Page.
- Read the Cinder wiki page.
- Understand how Cinder works, what it's used for, why the other projects in OpenStack may or may not use it. Fully understand the difference between ephemeral storage on the Nova side versus the persistent storage offered by Cinder
- Cinder offers a reference implementation that should be used as a model. The reference implementation driver file is cinder/volume/drivers/lvm.py, not to be mistaken for cinder/volume/driver.py which is the base class that all of the drivers inherit from. Note that there are a lot of options that show up there regarding iSCSI targets etc, but this gives you an idea of the expectations in terms of features that are implemented and some of the behaviors. I strongly recommend loading up devstack (you're going to need it to test your driver anyway) and play around with the default LVM. It's really important that you get a feel for how Cinder works and interacts with the other OpenStack projects before you get too far along.
- You don't need a cinder spec for most drivers. You always need to submit a blueprint in Launchpad introducing your driver, so that it can be targeted for a release.
- We have a development channel on freenode: #openstack-cinder. There are developers here round the clock, it's a great resource for you get started. Log in, ask questions, don't stare at code in isolation for a week... if you're stuck on something just ask. There's also no need to start off with "Can I ask a question"... you likely won't get a response. Just type in your question, that way anybody monitoring the channel that might know the answer can step in and answer.
Writing Code
- You must implement all of the methods that exist as core features.
- Your driver should not make any state changes. (e.g. make Cinder database calls). The volume manager is responsible for making state changes after the driver is done talking to the storage backend. Your driver should try not to read from database if possible.
- Unit tests for new code are required. We're in the process of converting everything to use mock (rather than mox) for our unit tests. Be sure when writing unit tests and setting up fakes to use mock, examples of it's usage can be found in the existing tests like cinder/tests/test_volume.py.
- Make sure you're not duplicating a configuration option that already exists. To verify this, you'll need to need look at the cinder/etc/cinder.conf.sample file. To generate this file:
- Install tox
- Run tox -egenconfig
- Make sure to follow the OpenStack Style Guide. Very likely you'll get nit pick reviews otherwise, which is not productive either way.
- Cinder's manager layer will log useful information like failures from the driver that are raised. However, you're more than welcome to add additional logging, but please follow our logging guideline. Use log markers by importing cinder.i18n so that log translations can be made.
Submitting Driver For Review
When submitting your driver, please include a release note along with your patch. See the Reno Documentation for details on how to generate new release notes.
The release note should be something along the lines of:
--- features: - Added backend driver for vendor storage.
All new code should also be Python 3.4 compatible. Add all unit tests to the test-py3.txt file at the root of the cinder repo until we are able to remove the test whitelist.
- Do NOT bother the Cinder team for reviews. We are aware of your patch being posted.
- Make sure your commit message follows the OpenStack project guidelines.
- Make sure your driver has appropriate third party testing done. It is required that your CI posts the necessary tests pass. Since your driver is not yet merged, follow instructions to have you unmerged driver properly tested.
After Your Driver Is Added
Congratulations! You're not done yet though. After your driver has been merged there are still some things that need to be done.
- Make sure there is documentation for your driver
- Third-party driver documentation is welcome in the Configuration Reference which is hosted on http://docs.openstack.org.
- Read http://docs.openstack.org/liberty/config-reference/content/ch_configuring-openstack-block-storage.html and follow the description from other drivers when you add content.
- Add a liaison name to https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Documentation/VendorDrivers after reading this spec
- Refer to Documentation Contributor Guide on how to contribute.
- Work with the doc team on any concerns through the openstack-docs mailing list or the #openstack-doc channel on IRC.
- Send a change to the openstack-manuals, the Block Storage drivers are documented at http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/openstack-manuals/tree/doc/config-reference/source/block-storage .
- Continue to be available on IRC and attend the weekly meetings in case questions come up.
- Subscribe to receive bugs for your driver! The Cinder team will be triaging bugs and will tag bugs with the name of your company that are related to your driver. To subscribe:
- Go to https://bugs.launchpad.net/openstack/cinder/+bug
- Click 'Subscribe to bug mail'
- Click the radio button "are added and changed in any way"
- Click checkbox 'Bugs must match this filter (...)"
- Click tags
- With "match all tags" selected type in the field the name of your company.

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By James Kwak
(This is Part 2 of 2; Part 1 covers the shift in personal computing from the age of the standalone PC to the age of cloud computing.)
We left off with the idea that personal computing was inexorably, though slowly shifting toward a Web-based model in which our computers' main purpose is to run browsers and we spend most of our time on the Internet. A decade ago when this idea became popular it was not particularly practical, because you simply couldn't do very interesting things in a browser; it was originally designed, after all, for reading static web pages. But in the past decade, web sites have become much richer and interactive — think about something like Gmail, with its automatic refreshing and keyboard shortcuts, or Google Documents, which allows multiple people to edit a document at the same time — to the point where most of what people do most of the time can be done in a browser.
But then there was Apple.
Apple has a computer business, but there's nothing revolutionary about it. They make very nice, somewhat expensive computers that are structurally basically the same as Windows machines: they have an OS, people write programs that you install on top of that OS (and still not as many people as the ones who write Windows programs), and people with those computers spend more and more of their time using the browser. The increased importance of the Internet as opposed to local (on-computer) applications has probably helped their market share a little, but not that much.
Then there was the iPod, but while it was revolutionary in many ways, it didn't mean much for the course of computing. It's dependent on the existence of a computer running iTunes, which is an ordinary application; the only thing "Internet" about it is that it can access the Internet to buy music.
And then there was the iPhone. The iPhone was a big hit for multiple reasons, like the fact that it was cool, but for our purposes the most important is that it was the first powerful, usable computer in your pocket. Besides email (which it never did as well as a BlackBerry), you can run applications on it that will do virtually anything, since its operating system provides an API that lets developers do pretty much whatever they want.
For most iPhone users, I suspect, what they like about the iPhone is that they can check their email, take photos, and do other things that any smartphone can do. But technology commentators have focused on iPhone's "apps," and Apple has used its app library as a selling point against its competitors.
So what is an app? It's just a plain old application — like the kind we've had on our PCs for decades — except someone figured out that if you drop the last three syllables it sounds new and cool. An app is a piece of software that runs directly on the iPhone OS (a variant of OS X, the operating system on Mac computers), and that you download and buy from Apple's App Store.
If you've followed me to this point of the story, you should realize why I find the app craze so perplexing: it seems like a giant step backward, back to a pre-Internet world where we had to install a bunch of separate applications on our computers, and developers had to write different programs for each operating system. It seems worse than that, even, because with Apple the only place you can get software is from the App Store, which means that Apple gets to decide what can run on your iPhone.
The app model is not entirely pre-Internet, of course. The iPhone and iPad can download apps over the Internet, and those apps can use the Internet as well. But the experience is still that you are switching between a bunch of different applications on your device, as opposed to surfing the web using a browser. You have to find and install those applications, and periodically you have to install updates. Sure there are things that require direct operating system (or hardware) access, like graphics-intensive games, but the thing that confuses me is why people would use apps to do things that they can already do perfectly well in a browser.
This is understandable with the iPhone, because its screen is so small; some iPhone apps just take content on the web and reformat it nicely for the smaller screen. But it makes less sense when you move up to the iPad, which basically has a full-size screen. For example, the New York Times has an iPad app. Buttons across the bottom let you switch between sections (business, sports, etc.), and for each section you have a front page that shows you the beginning of each article, and if you click on an article it takes you to the full content. Very pretty. But I can't think of any reason to prefer it to the Times' web site, which has much more content, and which displays perfectly well on the iPad's browser. This is just one example, but it shows how apps provide a crippled version of what is already on the web. There are other examples, like NPR's app for listening to their radio stories; it's nice, but why not make their web site just as nice, so everyone can benefit from it?
So why apps? The iPad is Apple's attempt to change the way we use computers, away from the PC model and toward a tablet model. And the strategy goes beyond just a new form factor; as we start using tablets, Apple wants us to adopt the app model instead of the Internet model. In particular, Apple is aiming at the category of netbooks — small, light computers whose primary purpose is getting to the Internet (hence the name). It's inevitable that we are going to use smaller computers with touchscreen input; Steve Jobs is right about that. The question is whether we will use them in an Internet-centric way (the way technology was trending over the past decade, and the way Google wants us to use them) or whether we will use them the way Steve Jobs wants us to use them.
Apple prefers the app model for two big reasons. First, it makes their products stickier, since you're not just buying an iPad, you're buying Apple's whole system for delivering stuff onto the iPad. Second, it seems that people are willing to pay for apps while they are unwilling to pay for anything through a browser. So people will pay $1.99 for an app that plays some game when you can already play the same game for free on a web site somewhere. Maybe people think of apps as standalone objects that have some value and that they can buy, while they see web sites just as destinations that they go to and that should be free. But as long as people will pay for apps, that means that Apple can make money by selling them to you — and by preventing developers from selling them to you directly.
I think it's not too much of a simplification to say that Apple wants to be the new Microsoft. It wants you to buy applications that run locally on your computer iPad, and it sees its competitive advantage as having the most developers and the most applications (hence all those "there's an app for that" ads). As Microsoft showed, if you can get a lead and become the developers' platform of choice, you can benefit from network effects.
This is why the dispute with Adobe is important. For those who don't know, Adobe develops Flash, probably the dominant technology for interactive content on the Internet. The iPhone and iPad don't support Flash, meaning that if you go to a site that needs Flash, you get a big empty box on your screen. (Like, for example, if you daughter wants to visit the Dinosaur Kids site to play How Big Are You?) This is important because Flash is the most widely used technology to do things on the Internet that otherwise people would buy apps for. You can think of it as a small attempt to cripple the Internet (for people using an iPhone or iPad) to force them toward the App Store (for games) or the iTunes Store (for video).
(Even the iPad's browser — a version of Safari — has trouble with some rich interactive web sites; for example, I can't figure out how to edit Google Documents on the iPad. This is probably simply due to the tradeoffs Apple had to live with in order to make the browser work with the iPad's modest specs, but it has the side effect of slightly crippling the Internet and forcing you toward apps.)
But the Apple-Adobe dispute goes further. In April, Apple changed the terms of the iPhone developer agreement to prevent developers from using cross-compilers to create iPhone apps. A cross-compiler is a tool that allows you to take an application you wrote for one platform, push a button, and repackage the application for another platform (in this case, iPhone OS). The immediate target of this was Adobe, which was developing a tool that would enable developers to take Flash apps, push a button, and make them into iPhone apps. This simplest explanation for this is that Apple, as the market leader, wants to make it harder for people to develop for multiple platforms at the same time. "Write once, run anywhere" — the slogan of Java, but also the essence of developing for the web — is bad for Apple, and they want to make it as hard as possible. (John Gruber makes a different argument that Apple wants control over their platform and doesn't want cross-compilers between it and the developers, but that interpretation is not inconsistent with mine.) In other words, if you're number one, then openness just helps the competition, because if developers have to choose just one platform, they're going to choose yours.
So Apple is competitive; we knew that already. And they don't want to repeat the mistakes of the 1980s and 1990s; we knew that already, too. But I think the important point is that they are promoting a model of personal computing where most of the developers write for the iPhone OS, and if you want to use their applications you have to buy an Apple hardware product. Yes, Apple makes great hardware, but I think consumers will do better with an open model; if you look at smartphones, it's already the case that many phones running Android — Google's open-source operating system — are better than the iPhone at many different things. (The iPhone may still be the best overall, but there are many good reasons why you might pick a particular Android phone over the iPhone.) And Android has already passed the iPhone as the number two smartphone (measured by new sales), behind the BlackBerry.
Conceptually, I still think the best thing for consumers is a model that is open on every level: web-based development, so that content and functionality are available at the same time for anyone using any browser, allowing competition among operating systems and, for a given operating system, between different hardware manufacturers. With personal computers, Microsoft established a monopoly on the OS level, which made Windows the least common denominator of everyone's computing experience. Now Apple wants to lock people into their hardware and OS and create an ecosystem of developers, applications, and content that you can only get through Apple.
The obvious alternative is Google, which has its own operating systems (Android and Chrome), but doesn't particularly care if you use them or not — as long as you are using the Internet, where they sell their ads. I'd like to see an Android tablet with a real browser that can handle anything on the Web, and then I simply wouldn't need most of the apps I have on my iPad (Calendar, Contacts, Notes, Maps, AccuWeather, Netflix, NPR, Bloomberg, etc.). Now, Google isn't pursuing an open strategy because it's nice; they're doing it because they want everyone to go to the Internet to see their ads. But ultimately I think that's a better model for consumers, because you avoid lock-in on the development level (developers don't have to commit to the iPhone OS) and on the hardware level (anyone can build an Android device, which is already providing more innovation and choice when it comes to smartphones).
So while I like Apple products, I have no particular wish to see them win the technology war, at least not with their current strategy.


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For veteran Tulane Law students, the October fall break is a welcome time away from classes – but for 1Ls, it's an important opportunity to reflect on the first weeks of their legal careers.
And to help first-year students transition into law school, new Assistant Dean of Students Abigail Gaunt is spearheading academic and wellness programs that encourage smart study habits and healthy lifestyles. Workshops open to all students focus on outlining skills and exam prep, while an in-depth academic support program for 1Ls provides tutoring from upper-level students who are in the top 15 percent of their classes.
But 1Ls are honing more than study skills. They're also learning to stay balanced while juggling coursework and school activities.
"Mastering the skills to deal with stress in law school will help students manage the challenges they will face throughout their professional careers," Gaunt said.
This semester, she's organizing a health and stress management session during the Career Development Office's 1L mini-course, while Professors Keith Werhan and Pam Metzger are leading a school-wide mindfulness course. Both programs dovetail with enhanced wellness initiatives across campus.
Looking back on her own law school experience, Gaunt advises first-year students to "trust the studying habits that work best for them; take time for themselves to do things outside school; and not compare themselves to their classmates."
"Above all, try to keep perspective. Law school is incredibly important, but it's not as important as your health and happiness," Gaunt said.
Below, three first-year students with degrees and experiences from across the country share their distinct backgrounds, favorite New Orleans finds and experiences juggling their first semesters at Tulane Law.
Annie Hundley
Hometown: Mowata, Louisiana. I grew up on a crawfish and rice farm there, approximately 150 miles west of New Orleans.
College: LSU, Baton Rouge.
Before Tulane Law: I was the digital art director at SKDKnickerbocker, a political communications firm in New York, for four years.
Started law school because: I'd always wanted to go to law school, but wanted to take some time after undergrad to make sure I wasn't blindly following a path I'd set out at an impressionable age. After working for a few years, I was sure this was what I wanted. Law seemed like more of a sure thing than art, which can be inconsistent and often subjective. Also, my LSAT score was expiring, so it was something of a now-or-never moment.
Best Tulane discovery: The best thing about Tulane is how kind and helpful everyone is. It sounds disingenuous to make such a blanket generalization, but it's truly the most defining characteristic I've found. People are always offering advice or outlines or "anything you need" — it's so far from the stereotypical law school experience. And if you put in the work, you can find free food somewhere in the building at least twice a week.
Best New Orleans discovery: Again, so much food, all the time. Also, people wave or say good morning or interact with you in some way when they pass you on the sidewalk.
Mid-semester thoughts on Tulane Law: I never expected to be surrounded by so many smart, interesting people whose ambition doesn't keep them from treating others well. Plenty of people here are accomplished enough to be overly snobbish, but you'd never know it. There's a ton of camaraderie for what's an inevitably competitive environment, and I feel lucky to be a part of it.
Lauren Starnes
Hometown: Chattanooga, Tennessee.
College: Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia.
Before Tulane Law: I took three years off between undergrad and law school. During the first two years, I taught middle school English at a private school in North Carolina. I spent the last year working as the office manager and legal assistant at Williams Anderson Ryan & Carroll, a boutique law firm in Dallas.
Started law school because: I decided to go to law school after completing a winter internship with Federal Defender Services of Eastern Tennessee. I found this experience incredibly moving. It fueled my desire to attend law school, so I could guide people through our complex and often confusing legal system.
Best Tulane discovery: I was pleasantly surprised to discover that Tulane gets the most interesting people to speak at the school! Just in the first month, I have heard Bill Nye and Tig Nataro speak.
Best New Orleans discovery:
Audubon Park! I run there every day. The giant live oak trees make exercising a little bit more bearable.
Mid-semester thoughts on Tulane Law: Everyone who has attended law school elsewhere has horror stories of evil classmates and professors. However, at Tulane Law School, my classmates and professors are incredibly nice and supportive. It is such a wonderful community!
Fall break getaway: In between studying and outlining, I soaked up some sun in Seaside, Florida.
Shane Copelin
Hometown: New Orleans.
College: Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh.
Started law school because: I thought law would be a good career for me that suited my personality, and I thought it would help add to my public policy undergraduate degree. I've always been fairly solemn, quiet and a logical thinker. I rarely believe things at face value. Becoming a lawyer was something I originally considered as a kid but did not come back to until I was a sophomore in college. [I later realized] law fit my personality, because lawyers are often calm, cool and collected thinkers, able to argue positions from multiple sides without emotional bias and after considering all possibilities. I think these personality traits align with my own, and I think law will harness my need to analyze things.
Most interesting law discovery: My most interesting law discovery is learning about "heat of passion" defenses in criminal law. Before law school, I used to wonder whether there were exceptions to murder in situations such as self-defense or when a women is escaping an abusive relationship. I found it interesting that my notions were already ingrained into the law almost 100 years ago.
Mid-semester thoughts on Tulane Law: I'm definitely enjoying law school thus far. It's not quite as time consuming as people lead me to believe coming into it. I'm happy to be up early every day and learning something new that's directly applicable to real-life scenarios, since everything we learn is from actual cases. The only thing I would say that caught me off guard about law school thus far was the amount of time spent on legal research and writing.
Spent fall break: I outlined for class and used my free time to work out, catch up on sleep and see my friends who don't go to law school. I also watched the Saints beat the Falcons at the Superdome, which was great to see!


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So here I am late in the evening on a rare flight (LAX to JFK) that has in-flight Internet. Despite topping 100K of flight miles (a dubious achievement, believe me; plus I really don't like knowing TSA agents by their first names anyway) in both of the last two years, this is only the second flight I've been on with wi-fi. If you must know, I'm on my way to New York for a secret, confidential meeting of perhaps some consequence, and being secret and confidential naturally I'm going to tell you all about it.
Actually, I'm not. I'll only say that I've been invited by some introspective liberals (rare perhaps, but not an oxymoron) to have a lengthy conversation with them. Which is the kind of argument that I think is worth doing.
Meanwhile, they may throw me out if they happen to read the Wall Street Journal first thing Wednesday morning, where I have an article saying that we really ought to politicize the EPA. What!?!? You mean the EPA isn't political enough already? Actually, yes. I argue that the EPA ought to be organized and run by a five member commission (like CPSC, NLRB, NRC, etc) instead of the sole, oracle-like "administrator" model. Since the article will be behind a paywall for many Power Line readers, here's an excerpt to give you a flavor of the argument:
There is a reason Congress has adopted the commission model. While a bipartisan consensus exists for regulating some parts of the economy by independent agencies that harness specialized expertise, there remains an underlying partisan disagreement about the means and ends of policy. The commission model recognizes and accommodates these disagreements, with a process that emphasizes public debate and is more transparent and accountable.
The EPA's single-administrator model, on the other hand, is based on what amounts to a conceit that some policy matters are beyond politics or meaningful controversy. This is the apotheosis of the Progressive Era ideal, or rather myth, of enlightened administration by neutral experts. It is also a tactic to deny that what are deeply political administrative decisions are in fact political. The single-administrator model makes it much easier for an ideologue like Ms. Jackson to use the regulatory process as a steamroller to achieve policy goals.
A bipartisan commission would change this dynamic. The president would, as is customary, still appoint a majority of the commissioners, including the chairman. But the minority would have their dissent on policy matters on the record.
And finally this at the end:
If you think reforming the EPA into a five-member commission is a modest reform of little consequence, here's a suggestion. Have House Republicans introduce a bill to do this, and watch how ferociously the environmental establishment fights it.


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Douglass Redux: What, to Women, is the 4th of July?
by @zizii2
On that sweltering July 5th 1852, exactly 162 years ago today, Frederick Douglass delivered his famous speech "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July", a speech uncensored in its brutal rebuke of the hypocrisy of America celebrating independence, while its black population remained shackled in slavery. I wonder what he would say today if he were here in our time. No doubt the brutality of slavery in his time can never be compared to anything going on today.
Yet in view of the determined aggression of America's conservative forces in our time, to derail every single gain made in the last century to advance Democracy and make this country "a more perfect union," one wonders what he'd say. In the lifework of Frederick Douglass in which he combined his abolitionist cause with the fight for Women's Rights, he always saw the struggles of enslaved African Americans as intertwined with the struggles of ALL disenfranchised Americans.
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"What do you say to a 40-year-old mom with cancer?" an old friend asked me in an e-mail message the other day. I know she's had trouble dealing with my recent diagnosis of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, but I was disheartened to find out that she's too scared to even talk to me. After all, I'm still the same old Jen, just bald. Worse though, I feel guilty that I've made her heartsick when even I don't feel that way most of the time.
Her husband, on the other hand, isn't having the same problem. That's why he's one of a dozen contestants in my Wacky Wig Contest, a competition to see who can make me, as he put it, "look as ridiculous as possible during your greatest time of need."
I realize that most people don't normally deal with cancer by taking pictures of themselves in blue Marge Simpson wigs and posting them on the Internet for public viewing, let alone voting, but that's how I've chosen to deal with this tough time. I want to keep as much fun and joy in my life as possible, but how can I give my friend permission to join me when she doesn't even know how to talk to me anymore?
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Perhaps she's afraid she'll say something stupid. Take heart, buddy: Someone has beaten you to it. A phlebotomist, who was using a tiny infant needle to draw my blood because that's all that would work on my chemo-battered veins, actually said to me through her chewing gum, "Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma? That's the bad cancer, right?"
You mean there's a "good cancer?" Can I change my order? Oh, that's right, I didn't sign up for this. That's got to be why my old friend has so much anxiety about what to say to me now. Neither of us saw this coming.
It's not normal to be slapped in the face with mortality just months after reaching the unofficial start of middle age. Forty is supposed to be the new 20, not 80. When I got my diagnosis, I didn't know what to say, either. Mostly, I just cried and held my husband's hand.
But since then, I've learned to find the funny and the wonderful in my life's most harrowing time, and I'd like to share that with as many people as possible. I want to make people happy, not heartsick, because, really, that's how I feel most of the time.
So, what do you say to a 40-year-old mom with cancer, dear old friend? The same thing you said when my first baby was born prematurely. Or when I had to put down my sweet 14-year-old cat. Or when I endured several surgeries for endometriosis. Or when my beloved grandmother passed away just shy of her 95th birthday.
You simply say, "I'm here for you." That's all. And the wig? That's optional.


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The Henry Ford museum in Dearborn, Mich., hosted the 2012 Maker Faire on July 28 and 29. It featured more than 400 backyard inventors, tinkerers and future engineers, filling the expansive parking lot and a few sections of the museum. For fans of robotics, 3-D printing or homemade food, there was plenty to see. But for car guys there was one attraction—a 2005 Ford Five Hundred.
We know the Five Hundred wasn't the pinnacle of Ford's full-size sedans; in fact, it might have been the Mariana Trench. But the students in the Custom Cars and Concepts program at Washtenaw Community College didn't let that stop them when Ford came asking for a cool project featuring the Five Hundred.
"We had a few ideas, but to make the Five Hundred really cool, we needed to use a Ford GT," said instructor Tim VanSchoick.
The Five Hundred GT-R, as they call it, features the supercharged 5.4-liter V8 from the GT, and it's placed where it should be—over the rear axle. Connected to the Ford GT's six-speed transmission it puts 525 hp to the rear wheels. The original plan was to build the car as a front-engine machine, until the team had trouble finding a torque tube that would work. It was not a short project.
"The build took about a year, with about 30 students working on it," said VanSchoick.
The car is mostly GT. The GT donated its cooling package, exhaust, rear suspension, brakes and gauge package. The interior is a custom-made hybrid of both cars. Washtenaw students stitched the racing seats, hand-built the center console and installed a five-point racing harnesses.
The body needed to be customized to fit over the GT internals. The students widened it about five inches, added a custom hood, a carbon-fiber spoiler and added functional cooling ducts to the car's flanks. The paint is a PPG mix called Bright Ass red.
The car debuted at Detroit's Autorama in 2006. It saw a few more shows before it was involved in an accident when returning from the Woodward Dream Cruise. The trailer that the Five Hundred was riding in flipped over.
Students must be learning over at WCC because the second build—or repair—only took about three months. Check them out at www.facebook.com/teamwcc or on the Washtenaw Community College Web site.


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"Support Black College" YOUTH Hoodie "Gold"
Featuring a sleek, stylish design, these kid sized hoodies not only provide optimum comfort and movement during playtime but also make an empowering statement when taking the kiddo on the go, dressing them up or simply just getting comfy. This is a great clothing piece to get a conversation surrounding HBCU's going in the household!
✔ Made with 50% Cotton, 50% Polyester blend
✔ Sporty, comfortable fit with spandex cuffs and waistband
✔ Chenille patch on the pullover reading, 'Support Black Colleges'
✔ Double-lined hood without drawstring for added safety
Support Black Colleges is an apparel line founded in 2012 with the sole purpose of bringing awareness to HBCUs. These colleges have inspired a whole new generation, changing the lives of many, and it is our mission to shed as much light as possible on them with our clothing brand.
At SBC, we are also doing our part by providing grants and scholarships for education at HBCUs and beyond. We also employ students from African-American communities at every step of our supply chain to empower, uplift and inspire as many black lives as possible!


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Interference with Public Duties
P.C. 38.15 - Interference with Public Duties
(a) A person commits an offense if the person with criminal negligence interrupts, disrupts, impedes, or otherwise interferes with:
(1) a peace officer while the peace officer is performing a duty or exercising authority imposed or granted by law;
(2) a person who is employed to provide emergency medical services including the transportation of ill or injured persons while the person is performing that duty;
(3) a fire fighter, while the fire fighter is fighting a fire or investigating the cause of a fire;
(4) an animal under the supervision of a peace officer, corrections officer, or jailer, if the person knows the animal is being used for law enforcement, corrections, prison or jail security, or investigative purposes;
(5) the transmission of a communication over a citizen's band radio channel, the purpose of which communication is to inform or inquire about an emergency; (Reference to this provision in: Sec. 38.152. Interference with Radio Frequency Licensed to Government Entity.)
(6) an officer with responsibility for animal control in a county or municipality, while the officer is performing a duty or exercising authority imposed or granted under Chapter 821 or 822, Health and Safety Code; or
(7) a person who:
(A) has responsibility for assessing, enacting, or enforcing public health, environmental, radiation, or safety measures for the state or a county or municipality;
(B) is investigating a particular site as part of the person's responsibilities under Paragraph (A);
(C) is acting in accordance with policies and procedures related to the safety and security of the site described by Paragraph (B); and
(D) is performing a duty or exercising authority imposed or granted under the Agriculture Code, Health and Safety Code, Occupations Code, or Water Code.
(b) An offense under this section is a Class B misdemeanor.
(c) It is a defense to prosecution under Subsection (a)(1) that the conduct engaged in by the defendant was intended to warn a person operating a motor vehicle of the presence of a peace officer who was enforcing Subtitle C, Title 7, Transportation Code.
(d) It is a defense to prosecution under this section that the interruption, disruption, impediment, or interference alleged consisted of speech only.
(e) In this section, "emergency" means a condition or circumstance in which an individual is or is reasonably believed by the person transmitting the communication to be in imminent danger of serious bodily injury or in which property is or is reasonably believed by the person transmitting the communication to be in imminent danger of damage or destruction.


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4145.0 - Selected Museums, Australia, 1997-98
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This publication presents the findings of the 1997-98 Survey of Selected Museums, the second survey of museum activity conducted by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) in recent years.
The first survey was conducted in respect of 1996-97, the results of which were published in Libraries and Museums, Australia, 1996-97 (cat. no. 8649.0). That survey covered employing businesses whose main activity was the provision of museum services. Also included were the museum operations of some local government authorities.
The second survey was in respect of 1997-98, and covered museums that either did not employ staff or were part of a larger organisation whose predominant activity was not providing museum services. It was designed to complement information presented in Libraries and Museums, Australia, 1996-97 (cat. no. 8649.0), but museums operated by local government authorities were included in both surveys.
The 1997-98 survey was funded by the Commonwealth Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts.
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Off-duty police officer rescues woman from burning home
Cause of Arlington fire under investigation
An elderly Arlington woman might very well owe her life to an off-duty police officer and neighbor who rushed into her home Tuesday afternoon as it erupted in flames.
The two-alarm fire on Webster Street started shortly before 6 p.m. in the back of the house.
Arlington K-9 police officer Michael Hogan happened to be riding by on his bike and spotted the smoke.
"You could hear the crackling in the back. The whole back of the house was really roaring," said Hogan.
He and a neighbor forced open the door to the first floor, grabbed the woman and carried her outside before the flames and smoke overwhelmed her.
"She was brought to safety, and she was brought out near the stairs," said neighbor Rachael Fontaine.
She managed her own heroics, grabbing a garden hose to help fight the flames before firefighters arrived.
"Got the hose going, and I aimed it toward the corner of the back of the house, and put the fire out in the back of the house; but just the corner, not the porch," she said. "And then the black smoke came, and I couldn't even breathe anymore, and they said, 'Get out,' and I left."
"It was smoky, but not that much. I was in the front room of the house," Hogan said.
The neighbor, John Flynn, brother of Arlington Police Captain Richard Flynn, saw a different scene deeper inside of the home.
With the flames spreading and several oxygen tanks nearby, Hogan helped the elderly woman out, her daughter already safely outside.
"I could see she was barefoot. There was glass everywhere, so I said 'I'll pick you up and take you outside."
Within minutes the fire department put out of the rest of the flames.
They said Tuesday it's still unclear what started the fire but noted cigarettes had been discarded in the back yard.
"It felt like a barbecue, when you get too close to the barbecue," said Philippe Heckly, who was landscaping when he noticed his neighbor's home was on fire.
"And then you had that smoke that started to come up that was very dark and towering," he said.
Arlington police said the woman was recovering at the hospital and was in good condition.
Hogan shied away from being called a "hero."
"All I did was go inside and pull a lady out. Look at those guys in Watertown. Those guys are heroes," he said.
Hogan said he was riding training for August's Pan-Mass Challenge. He said he rode the race last year for the first time with his wife, who is now undergoing treatment for breast cancer.


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It's a testament to The National's startling emergence from the bleak terrain of the outsider that tonight's gig begins a run of sold-out shows – two at this venue and two at Alexandra Palace. Few who fall under the spell of this band would think it less than ample reward for their remarkable run of recent albums. Yet, the release of their sixth album, Trouble Will Find Me, has divided opinion like none of their albums before. In one camp; those who consider it a sensual, richly-woven selection of carefully tessellated jigsaw pieces, in the other; those who (to quote a recent comment from a fellow Drowned in Sound writer) feel it's "all a bit Snow Patrol". Similar statements are floating around the stale beer-tinged air of Manchester Apollo othis evening, though suffixed with "the new stuff will probably work better live".
To these ears, the opposite occurs tonight. I sit firmly in the camp that considers Trouble Will Find Me to be a cryptic, meticulously measured and finely-filtered record that develops an alchemical cohesion with repeated listens – a true "album" in the wilderness of isolated downloads. Wrenched from this context, their new material can occasionally fall short of the stunningly high benchmark they have assembled for themselves. While 'Sea of Love' and 'Humiliation' grow claws in the live environment, 'Demons' and 'I Need My Girl' sit uncomfortably without being nestled within the sum of their parts, with 'Slipped' being particularly bloodless tonight. Rather than detract from the experience however, they simply secure the thought that the recent record is one for appreciating on its own individual merits, rather than as a tool of comparison against the more familiar material. That said, a gloriously woozy 'Pink Rabbits' and a quite spectacular, tumultuous 'Graceless' belie that logic with the nagging sense that the latter is one of the best three tracks of 2013 growing by the moment.
From a musical perspective, The National now operate on their own instinctive level: a tightly-wound balance between beauty and fury continuously shifting with a fluid dynamism, as illustrated perfectly by the constant three-way battle tonight between Bryce Dessner's jagged, jarring lead lines, Bryan Devendorf's hypnotic drum-punches and Matt Berninger's voice – stripped of the darker brooding recorded overtones and given license to bark, scream and strain as he slowly warms into his role. Initially shuffling around centre-stage, he progresses over the course of the evening to prowling like an angry lion, clambering to the side of the stage and then eventually disappearing into the crowd to sing with them. As time progresses, the screams get louder until his broken, ragged cries are fill floor to ceiling and wall to wall. How he maintains this over an entire tour is a mystery. But all we care of is here and now – the emotion touching our rawest nerves. With a brass section adding colour and volume to the sound – simultaneously funereal and celebratory – and the darting, insistent rhythms from Aaron Dessner and Scott Devendorf, it's progressive, colourful and expansive without ever losing sight of the sinew and honed muscle beneath the skin. Musically, this is a band as in touch with their audience as closely as they are with their own jagged, raw chemistry.
With regard to the rest of the set, what you are fundamentally experiencing is a peerless masterclass of post-millennial American alt-rock. The angular and stretched tension of 'Mistaken for Strangers' and the pent-up frustration of 'Squalor Victoria' (ending with Berninger literally screaming the title into the microphone before throwing it away) bolstering the devastating bittersweet of 'Apartment Story' and 'Slow Show'. The turbulent build and climactic stagger of 'England' and the vicious, cinematic fury of 'Bloodbuzz Ohio' rising from the smouldering beauty of 'Afraid of Everyone' and 'Sorrow' If there's any criticism, it's the lack of material from Alligator (represented solely through a quite staggering 'Mr November') but that only goes to prove how far this band have come, that they can leave out songs of the calibre of 'Abel', 'All The Wine' and 'The Geese of Beverley Road' that 95% of bands would keep as their closer forever. As a performance, it's a remarkable lesson in how a band can rise from anonymity to claiming sheer adulation through never compromising, never settling for too long and above all, knowing where the heart; though never straying too far from the gut-punch. As tonight closes with the entire band stood at the front of the stage – unplugged and largely unmiked – singing 'Vanderlyle Crybaby Geeks' as if it's the closing-up of the world and being nearly drowned out by the entire auditorium singing every word back, it's difficult not to get entirely swept up in such a powerful, swirling emotional moment of connection. The National demand emotion to exist, but in the live setting, they give it back with interest and dividends paid handsomely.


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San Jose on Thursday became the first city to sue President Donald Trump over his decision to roll back the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA. The suit filed in federal court claims the administration's actions constitute a breach of contract and a violation of the Fifth Amendment.
Under DACA, undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children are protected from deportation. But Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced earlier this month that he'd put an end to the Obama-era program, which puts the onus on Congress to come up with a legislative solution.
In San Jose, the 10th largest city in the nation, 40 percent of residents were born in another country. The lawsuit claims that because the city employs Dreamers, it would "suffer tangible losses" from Trump's DACA rescission.
"The city's own workforce is harmed by this rescission, imperiling the ability of these city employees to lawfully continue to serve our community in critical functions," Mayor Sam Liccardo said at a news conference. "Our city residents directly suffer because they lose critical services at a time when we are already stretched thin with hundreds of vacancies at City Hall."
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra filed a similar lawsuit, as did University of California President Janet Napolitano. But those cases cover only state and UC employees.
In a press release from Liccardo's office, city officials describe how Trump's planned DACA revocation "has caused significant fear, uncertainty and impacts" among about 800,000 Americans brought to the country as kids.
"In addition, to qualify for this program, these individuals had to meet stringent eligibility requirements, including educational achievement and a lack of any felony or serious misdemeanor convictions," the press release stated. "As a result, this action affects not only DACA recipients and their families, but the very communities to which they contribute so much."


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Flaubert, Gustave
Flaubert, Gustave güstäv´ flōbĕr´ [key], 1821–80, French novelist, regarded as one of the supreme masters of the realistic novel. He was a scrupulous, slow writer, intent on the exact word (le mot juste) and complete objectivity. The son of a surgeon, he studied law unsuccessfully in Paris and returned home to devote himself to writing. Because of a severe nervous malady, probably epilepsy, he spent much of his life at Croisset, near Rouen, with his mother and niece. Nonetheless, he also became an established figure in the Parisian social and literary world. In 1856, after five years of work, Flaubert published his masterpiece, Madame Bovary, in a Paris journal. Portraying the frustrations and love affairs of a romantic young woman married to a dull provincial doctor, the novel is written in a superbly controlled style. The book resulted in his being prosecuted on moral grounds, but he won the case. It was followed by Salammbô (1863), a meticulously documented novel of ancient Carthage; a revision of an earlier novel, L'Éducation sentimentale (1870); The Temptation of St. Anthony (1874); and Three Tales (1877), which contained the great short story
A Simple Heart.After his death his unfinished satire Bouvard and Pécuchet was published (1881). His correspondence, including that with George Sand and the letters to his niece Caroline, appeared in nine volumes (1926–33).
See The Selected Letters of Flaubert (ed. and tr. by F. Steegmuller, 1954); biographies by E. Starkie (2 vol., 1967–71), H. Lottman (1989), G. Wall (2002), F. Brown (2006), and M. Winock (2016); study by V. H. Brombert (1966); H. James, Notes on Novelists (1914), and F. Steegmuller, Flaubert and Madame Bovary (rev. ed. 1968).
The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright © 2023, Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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For about a year, I chose to wear curly weave. I could not figure out what to do with my hair after my big chop started growing out. While I enjoyed the look of flat twist outs and two-strand twist outs, re-twisting every night simply was not feasible. My hair NEVER looked the same way in the morning when I woke up as it did when I fell asleep the night before. However, I finally mustered up the courage to wear my natural hair for the summer time.
I reserved to embrace the hair growing out of my scalp. This, though, required that I learn how to style my natural hair from home, and the styles needed to be feasible for a mom of three. In other words, I needed easy to maintain, easy to create natural hair styles.
One month into my new hair length, here are some of my go-to natural hairstyles.
1. Flat twists.
Attach a bun to the back of flat twists, and you can wear them for about a week. Your friends and family will love it because they could actually see your face without the distraction of big hair.
2. Two-Strand Twists.
Dare to wear other twist styles in public. You need options for day to day hair, so try two-strand twists styling on natural hair. Instead of twisting late in the evening, blow-drying forever with cool air, sleeping and still waking up to try to untwist wet hair, wear the twists for a day or two so they have time to dry on their own.
3. Twist outs
Here are a few tricks (learned after much trial and error) to make the look last. Section your hair into 4-6 sections and wear 4-6 ponytails (tied down with a silk scarf) at night. YouTube has a few great tutorials on good nighttime hair routines for short natural hair. Some of you have tried tying your hair down with a silk scarf without ponytails. You tried using a silk bonnets with your hair free underneath, and, of course, you tried, the ever popular, pineapple. These smaller ponytails serve as mini pineapples for stretch and preservation of style.
4. One low ponytail
My daughter loves this style best. She always asks for low ponytails more than high ponytails. After scouring Youtube to find protective styles for not quite medium length natural hair, this video stood out. You can do the look with or without the extra hair. No matter what you decide, the low ponytail is a go-to every few days to give your hair a mini rest from twisting and styling.
5. Fro it out
This is why my daughter likes her low ponytail. It stretches the hair.
You do not always have to have perfect ringlets. Your fro is just as beautiful.
Other styling tips
So you now have a list of styles, but you still may need to know how to actually create these natural hair styles. I included some links to videos for some of the styles, but here are some other ways to help you enjoy your looks more and more.
- Anything that requires manipulation requires moisture. Bounce Back* and water create the moisture needed for low ponytails and twists. You can lock in the moisture with castor oil and XXIVK*. You can also accomplish these looks after a fresh wash. (Use my code TLPOEM to get $5 off any order of $25 or more at the Love of People.)
*I received $0 for talking about the the Love of People. I am sharing my honest opinion one curly girl to another. For my full disclosure, click here.
- For stretched hair looks, re-wetting will cause shrinkage. All of your manipulation should take place during twisting and forming ponytails. The right product mix during the moisturizing phase will allow your curls to flourish and shine when you take the styles out to wear your hair down.
- Change up you stretched hair styles by pulling parts of your hair up/pushed back. Half up, half down looks are options. Pulling up one side or twisting just the front or sides gives your hair a new look without too much hard work.
Natural hair is a journey and so is learning how to style your natural hair. What are some things that you have learned about how to style your natural hair in your natural hair journey?
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Editor's Note: This post comes from Mark Brown, Windows Azure Community Manager.
Welcome to the newest edition of our weekly roundup of the latest community-driven news, content and conversations about cloud computing and Windows Azure.
Here is what we pulled together this week based on your feedback:
Articles, Videos and Blog Posts
- Blog: Cloud Computing Service Models by @toddysm (posted Jan. 30)
- Blog: Azure SQL Database Execution Plan Differences by @gfritchey (posted Jan. 30)
- Blog: Running node.j2 tests when deploying to Azure Websites by @richorama (posted Jan. 30)
- Blog: Running unit tests when deploying to Windows Azure Web Sites by @maartenballiauw (posted Jan. 30)
- Blog: Windows Azure Access Control Service, Windows 8 and Visual Studio 2012: Setting Up Development Environment - Oh My! by @gmantri (posted Jan. 28)
- Blog: "Key not valid for use in specified state" exception when working with Access Control Service by @sandrinodm (posted Jan. 27)
- Blog: 30 Mins to a Ruby on Rails application with the Windows Azure vmdepot (Part 1) by @azurecoder (posted Jan. 27)
- Blog: VMDepot is now integrated into the Windows Azure Portal by @pkefal (posted Jan. 25)
Upcoming Events and User Group Meetings
North America
- October - June, 2013: Windows Azure Developer Camp – Various (50+ cities)
- February 8-9, 2013: PHP Developer Conference - Miami, FL
- February 11, 2013: Build Open Source Apps on Microsoft's Cloud – London, England (Register via Lanyrd, "I'm attending")
- February 11, 2013: Event: Windows Azure - Coventry, England
- February 19, 2013: Advanced: Windows Azure - Brussels, Belgium
- February 27, 2013: Windows Azure and Twilio - A happy tale to tell - Zaventem, Brussels
- February 20, 22, 26, 2013; Windows Azure Open Platform Services Summit - Mumbai, Pune & Bangalore, India
Rest of World/Virtual
- Ongoing: Windows Azure Virtual Labs – On-demand
Interesting Recent Windows Azure Discussions on Stack Overflow
- How to online view, edit and attach signature to the document in Windows Azure storage - 2 answers, 1 vote
- Node.js + Azure SQL Database - 1 answer, 1 vote
- SSO using Windows Azure Active Directory- 1 answer, 1 vote
- Is HttpContext.Current.User Safe for Stateless Session? - 0 answers, 0 votes
- Need to Setup DNS Server on Azure VM - 1 answer, 0 votes
- Do I need a Windows Server license if I have an Azure subscription? [closed] - 1 answer, 0 votes
If you have comments or suggestions for the weekly roundup, or would like to get more involved in a Windows Azure community, drop me a line on twitter @markjbrown


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Molteni Black Espresso Cup & Saucer Set
Super cool dinky little Molteni Black espresso cup and saucer. Featuring the eye catching design made famous by the legendary Eddy Merckx. Another lovely cycling gift in the Cycling Souvenirs range.
The cups are hand decorated in the UK and have a lovely gloss finish
- Authentic classic Italian design featuring thick walled cups. Consequently the cup insulates well and keeps the drink warm for longer.
- Conical, straight sided espresso cup.
- The cute cup is 80ml/3oz measuring 6cm in height. In addition the saucer is 10cm in diameter. As a result it fits under the majority of automatic coffee machines.
- Importantly 100% dishwasher and microwave safe
- Old school production. The cups are screen printed and cooked in a kiln in the heart of the UK pottery industry; Stoke-on-Trent. Consequently the finish is glossy, shiney and resplendent.
Shouts ?vintage?. Therefore a wonderful cycling gift for the espresso connoisseur.


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Mansplainer, For Men: Why Don't Women Like It When You Tell Them They're Hot, In Public?
Dylan Byers, the dumbest media-news reporter in the business, has been thinking a lot during the past 24 hours about the difficulties of being a man. The Politico, America's worst media outlet and Byers' employer, reported yesterday afternoon that President Obama had called California attorney general Kamala Harris "the best-looking attorney general in the country" at a fundraiser. Even as The Politico started and amplified a fuss over the president's remarks, according to its usual mechanical fuss-making protocol, Byers wondered what the fuss was about:
How did it become so difficult to call a woman good looking in public?— Dylan Byers (@DylanByers) April 4, 2013
Some people tried to explain it to him, but it didn't go well, maybe because many of them were women, and women are oversensitive and irrational about issues such as how men talk about women, so Dylan Byers has a hard time discussing things with them. Or something like that:
when we became full humans and not objects RT @dylanbyers: How did it become so difficult to call a woman good looking in public?— Zerlina Maxwell (@ZerlinaMaxwell) April 4, 2013
@zerlinamaxwell So it is no longer acceptable, under any terms, to publicly compliment a person for their looks in public?— Dylan Byers (@DylanByers) April 4, 2013
Eventually right-wing nepotism baby John Podhoretz jumped in, meaning John Podhoretz was at least transitively defending Barack Obama. Bros before hos, obvs.:
@zerlinamaxwell @dylanbyers and how would you know what it's like to walk around as a man?— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) April 4, 2013
Unfortunately, it looks as if further explanations from women might not get much of anywhere. Not through any fault of your own, women! But there you have it. For these occasions, Gawker offers a special Mansplainer feature, in which a male writer will try to put things in terms other men might listen to.
So, OK, fellas! Why can't you talk about how foxy-looking that lady is—you know which one, right, the foxy one? That lady. Dag, she's fine. What's wrong with stating a basic fact, out loud, in public, so everyone can agree?
Because it's rude, you idiots. Because what you're saying is: Let's stop thinking about her and start looking at her—everybody here in this room, have a look, check her out. Check it out.
People don't actually like being looked at that way, on those terms. "I wouldn't mind a nice compliment," you say. The heck you wouldn't, guys. Pretend a compliment on your looks is a cheeseburger. Who doesn't like a delicious cheeseburger? Dudes love cheeseburgers.
Now suppose that every time you asked for anything, all day long, you got a cheeseburger. Hey, good morning, sleepyhead, here's a cup of cheeseburger to wake you up. Lunchtime is a cheeseburger with a cheeseburger. Smoke break: Light up a cheeseburger. Get home and open that envelope from the Department of Motor Vehicles, and instead of your new license, they mailed you a cheeseburger. Looking for the remote? Have a cheeseburger.
Some of these are really inherently unappetizing cheeseburgers, too, by the way, cold school-lunch gristleburgers with unmelted cheese, but that barely even registers, because no one in years has even asked you if you want another fucking cheeseburger. You're a dude; you get cheeseburgers. Everybody give this dude a cheeseburger!
And then the president of the United States comes by, and he praises your professional performance—as you do richly deserve, on your merits—and then he says, "Give it up for the cheeseburger guy!" and he shoves a cheeseburger in your mouth, in front of everybody.
(We're going to keep this simple and not even get into the discussion of how, for centuries, men's opportunities and their value in society were more or less entirely determined by their perceived appetite and aptitude for being fed cheeseburgers.)
And so the other dudes who have had way too many cheeseburgers in their own lives are like, Ugh, even the president, and then Dylan Byers asks, Why can't anyone order a simple, delicious cheeseburger anymore without people making a big controversy out of it?
Or specifically, as we wipe off the grease and move away from our metaphor, he writes today that there has been "a fair deal of debate over an individual's freedom to compliment the looks of another in public."
For a person whose job is to think and write about the media, Dylan Byers has a remarkably confused notion of what it means to have the "freedom" to say something. People are free to say all sorts of things, and other people are free to get upset about what they've said, and to say critical things in return. It is not an infringement of the Bill of Rights for someone to point out that you're being an asshole. Donald Trump is not in jail, nor is he barred from expressing himself, even though he is an idiot and a pig. The Politico is at liberty to keep on publishing strings of words typed by Dylan Byers, even though he is worthless.
And the President of the United States is not, in his public discourse, an "individual." As an individual, I can go ahead and say that Vladimir Putin is a creep and a thug, and that Russia would be better off without him. If Barack Obama says that, it's a problem.
So the president apologized. However friendly and cheerful Obama's personal relationship with Harris may be, he is a powerful executive, who was speaking in public. And there are lots and lots of less powerful but still powerful men who also are quite sure that they have great professional relationships with the women around them, and that everyone will understand that they, too, mean absolutely no harm when they express themselves, either.


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Last week, Interactive Architecture ran an article about the Singing-Ringing Tree sculpture in Burnley, Lancashire, UK. The video resonated very much with some of my recent thinking on how public art that is part of the commons can be at the heart of community economic development.
First of all, it reminded me of an interview of Douglas Rushkoff about his latest book Life Inc where he tells the story of how Middle Age cathedrals were built:
The Vatican and central Rome did NOT build the cathedrals. The funds came from local currency. They were what we would now call "demurrage" currencies that were earned into existence. Towns ended up creating more value than they knew what to do with! They started investing in their infrastructure and their windmills and their water wheels; and also in their future in the form of cathedrals and other tourist attractions.
The second thought I have had recently is that a currency is a unit of contribution to a common goal, and it is this common goal that gives the value to the currency, because the common goal provides a social incentive for everyone to participate in their own way, some by contributing directly to the common goal and being issued currency, others by contributing indirectly to the goal by accepting it for goods/services. In my view, individuals' common goals or common individual goals are what initially create community, more than anything else.
A public art piece like the Singin-Ringing Tree is such a common goal. It creates long-term value for local businesses like the cathedrals of the middle-age. It creates identity and pride for the local population. It also create jobs.
One approach to funding art is to seek grants from tax-funded government development agencies, but this approach can be viewed as quite inefficient since it requires tax collection, projects competing for funding with other projects, and a hierarchical and highly centralized decision making process.
Another approach could be to use a community currency dedicated to the particular art project. It would work like this:
- The art project would issue acknowledgments for in-kind or monetary donations made to the project. Issuance would be made public.
- Businesses could show their support by accepting some of these acknowledgments for partial payment of goods/services they provide.
- The notes, if printed in paper, could bear an artist rendering of the public art piece to be built.
- After it is built, the public art piece would likely attract tourists to whom the notes could be sold as a "piece" of the art piece, likely for many times the face value in dollar, since originals would be in limited supplies. This would provide a natural way for the currency to disappear from circulation, and be replaced by new ones for new projects.


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Napoleon Bonaparte (French: Napoléon Bonaparte, Italian: Napoleone Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821) was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the latter stages of the French Revolution and its associated wars in Europe.
As Napoleon I, he was Emperor of the French from 1804 to 1815, the first Monarch of France bearing the title Emperor since the reign of Charles the Fat (881-887). His legal reform, the Napoleonic Code, has been a major influence on many civil law jurisdictions worldwide, but he is best remembered for his role in the wars led against France by a series of coalitions, the so-called Napoleonic Wars. He established hegemony over most of continental Europe and sought to spread the ideals of the French Revolution, while consolidating an imperial monarchy which restored aspects of the deposed Ancien Régime. Due to his success in these wars, often against numerically superior enemies, he is generally regarded as one of the greatest military commanders of all time, and his campaigns are studied at military academies worldwide.
Napoleon was born at Ajaccio in Corsica in a family of noble Italian ancestry which had settled Corsica in the 16th century. He trained as an artillery officer in mainland France. He rose to prominence under the French First Republic and led successful campaigns against the First and Second Coalitions arrayed against France. He led a successful invasion of the Italian peninsula.
In 1799, he staged a coup d'état and installed himself as First Consul; five years later the French Senate proclaimed him emperor, following a plebiscite in his favour. In the first decade of the 19th century, the French Empire under Napoleon engaged in a series of conflicts—the Napoleonic Wars—that involved every major European power. After a streak of victories, France secured a dominant position in continental Europe, and Napoleon maintained the French sphere of influence through the formation of extensive alliances and the appointment of friends and family members to rule other European countries as French client states.
The Peninsular War and 1812 French invasion of Russia marked turning points in Napoleon's fortunes. His Grande Armée was badly damaged in the campaign and never fully recovered. In 1813, the Sixth Coalition defeated his forces at Leipzig; the following year the Coalition invaded France, forced Napoleon to abdicate and exiled him to the island of Elba. Less than a year later, he escaped Elba and returned to power, but was defeated at the Battle of Waterloo in June 1815. Napoleon spent the last six years of his life in confinement by the British on the island of Saint Helena. An autopsy concluded he died of stomach cancer, but there has been some debate about the cause of his death, as some scholars have speculated that he was a victim of arsenic poisoning.
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Urban Development Department adopted a Citizen's Charter in 1999 which set out its objectives and activities and spell out the commitments to the people who had dealings with the Department.
The main objective of the Urban Development Department of GNCTD of Delhi is to plan for various infrastructure facilities and essential services being implemented by various agencies for works such as Water Supply, Sewage Disposal & Sanitation, Urban Poverty Alleviation and various municipal services.
The Urban Development Department formulates policy, provides funds, monitors and coordinates the activities, of the Urban Local Bodies, which include the Municipal Corporation of Delhi, the New Delhi Municipal Council, Delhi Jal Board & Trans - Yamuna Area Dev. Board.


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What Has Happened to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness?
Tony Beam Dr. Tony Beam's Weblog
- 2007 Dec 10
No one knows for sure when it happened but sometime over the last forty years or so the word "pursuit" was dropped from the Declaration of Independence and the words "life" and "liberty" migrated from the unalienable to the alienable category. These words survived the first one-hundred and ninety years or so but somehow their true meanings were lost during the turbulent decade of the 60's.
You know the phrase I am talking about right? It is the phrase from the Declaration that says, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." It is my contention that the loss of the word pursuit and the redefinition of life and liberty have wreaked havoc on our understanding of just what our "unalienable rights" are all about. In fact, there seems to be major confusion among most of the current seekers of the presidency from both major political parties concerning the true meaning of our unalienable rights.
Unalienable rights are rights which cannot be taken away by government because they were granted by God. On January 22nd, 1973 the United States Supreme Court announced the right to life was no longer unalienable and was instead a "choice" granted to women in protection of their "right to privacy" or more specifically their reproductive rights. This launched a nationwide philosophical debate over the meaning, the value, and the exact moment of the beginning of life. We learned that legislatively, life could be defined by an arbitrary system of viability related to which trimester a woman happened to be in when she decided to abort her baby. In the early stages of the debate most states came down on the side of early trimester abortions only. But as we moved further and further away from the concept of life being an unalienable right we moved the "deadline" for abortion closer and closer to the moment of live birth until we approached infanticide with the advent of partial birth abortion.
Once we became comfortable with life being defined by the government instead of God we began applying our new definition to life at the opposite end of the life cycle. If the convenience of the mother could be a justification for the death of her unborn child that same argument could be applied to those whose lives had become a burden to themselves, to others, or to the State because they were either too old or too infirm to matter.
From there it was a short step to the rationalization of life being destroyed in its embryonic stage for the purpose of a possible cure for terrible diseases. Once life became alienable by becoming expendable it was inevitable that we would eventually get around to sacrificing life for the sake of improving humanity…..even though obvious options are now available which render embryonic stem cell research unnecessary.
Liberty survived as unalienable until some legislators realized we would exchange our liberty for heavy taxation if we perceived ourselves as the beneficiaries of the government's largess. In his excellent little book Politics: Easy as P.I.E. former Ohio Congressman Bob McEwen equates freedom with choices. The more choices we have the more freedom we enjoy. Taxes remove our freedom by limiting our choices and expanding the reach of government into our lives. McEwen says, "The higher the taxes, the greater the government's control. The greater the governments control the fewer the choices."
Of course, there are other ways the government can usurp a person's liberty. It can pass laws such as hate crime legislation that allows the government to judge the thought process of individuals. Thankfully the latest attempt to pass such laws on the national level failed thanks to stiff opposition in the House.
The government can pass laws redefining the meaning of eminent domain to include the confiscation of private property for its tax revenue potential. The government can also remove our liberties from the unalienable category by granting those liberties to illegal aliens and terrorists. Such a cheapening of liberty affects the freedom of every American by filling our country with people who understand liberty to be nothing more than a tool for personal gain as it relates to illegal aliens or a tool for national destruction as it relates to terrorists.
Finally, we come to the pursuit of happiness as an unalienable right. Notice our nations founders realized it is the pursuit of happiness that is unalienable and not happiness itself. As someone who has served as a pastor of the local church and now serves as an administrator of a Christian University I can promise you it is impossible for one person to make another person happy. For happiness to be unalienable it must be always pursed but never legislated. The main reason we are infected with such an entitlement mentality in America today is because most lawmakers believe happiness can be legislated rather than pursued. True happiness is possible only when the government gets out of the way and allows its citizens to pursue happiness until it is apprehended.
Politicians promise happiness by taking money from one group and giving it to another. They falsely believe relieving the producers of society of the fruit of their labor and giving it to the consumers though a social welfare system will produce happiness. All it produces is endless bondage to an unsustainable entitlement mentality.
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness….until we recognize them once again as unalienable because they are God given I am afraid they are in danger of becoming unsustainable.


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Artichoke, Asparagus, Spinach, Sun-dried Tomato, Mushroom, Onion Pizza
by Gail Davis
- 1 packaged pizza dough (I like the pizza dough made by a local company, The Bread Stop)
- 1 16-oz jar Trader Joe's Fat-free Pizza Sauce (or favorite/homemade tomato sauce)
- ½ yellow onion, sliced into ¼-inch rings
- 8 asparagus stalks, tough ends removed
- 1 cup spinach, roughly chopped
- 1 cup baby bella mushrooms, sliced
- 1 15-oz can artichoke hearts, drained and sliced into ¼"-thick rings
- sun dried tomatoes
- fresh basil, roughly chopped
Preheat oven to 450°F. Roll out pizza dough and place on a lightly-oiled pizza pan or pizza stone. Bake on the bottom rack for 10 minutes. Remove from oven, and gently press down any parts that have risen.
While dough is baking, using a large skillet, gently cook onions in a tablespoon of olive oil, or for a fat-free version, use ¼ cup water. (If you have more time, you can caramelize the onions for even more flavor!) Remove from heat, and set aside.
Place asparagus spears in a steamer basket, and steam for 3 minutes, just until bright green in color. Remove from pot, and set aside.
Spread sauce over par-baked pizza dough, and then evenly place asparagus spears over pizza, so that each pizza slice will have an asparagus spear at its center. Arrange spinach, mushrooms, artichoke hearts, tomatoes, onions, and basil around asparagus spears, decorating as you please. Bake on center rack for an additional 15-20 minutes, until outer crusts begins to turn slightly golden-brown.
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4 Things to Look for When Buying Her First Bra
A girl's first bra is a rite of passage for both her and her parents – and one that's occurring at younger and younger ages. For some girls, it's a turning point fraught with anxiety; for others, it's a celebration. Either way, parents have a hard time ensuring their daughters to have good memories of shopping for and wearing their first bra.
"Trying on your first bra in a big discount retail store can be unnerving for an 8- or 9-year-old who may already feel shy about the experience," says Kelly O'Brien, a lingerie specialist whose experience with young customers led her to launch LingerTween, the first ecommerce site dedicated to undergarments for tweens. "And those stores have limited selections, both in sizes and styles."
The average Caucasian girl now enters puberty, which is marked by breast development, at 9.7 years old – about 4 months younger than just 17 years ago, according to an ongoing study as part of the Breast Cancer and the Environment Research Program. For black girls, the age is 8.8 years and the number of girls developing breasts in first grade has tripled since 1997.
"Another choice is shops like Victoria's Secret, a place most parents don't feel comfortable taking their young daughters to shop," O'Brien notes.
But there are options. Once you've found a comfortable place to shop with a good selection of choices, O'Brien offers these tips for ensuring your daughter is comfortable and happy in her first bra.
1. One size does not fit all.
If your tween is average sized, bras labeled "one size fits all" may work. If you're looking at bras with cup and band sizes, you'll need to measure. For the band size, wrap the measuring tape around your daughter just under the breasts, where the band sits. Add 5 to that number, and that's the size. (Tape says 23 inches, band will be 28 inches.) For cup size, measure around the fullest part of the chest and subtract that number from the band size. The difference is the cup size – 0 to 1 inch is an A; 2 inches is a B.
2. Check the strap length.
Straps are very important to consider for fit — especially if your tween is petite. If the strap is a traditional adjustable strap, such as those on most women's bras, be sure it can be shortened sufficiently. Elastic or stretchy straps are usually a safe bet.
3. Consider a lined bra – it's not about making her look more developed than she is!
Generally speaking, tween padding is not meant to increase cup size. If a tween bra appears to have some padding, it's typically a thin layer of foam used to smooth over the nipple area so nothing is visible under the shirt. It's a modesty measure that also helps some girls feel less self-conscious.
4. Camisoles and sports bras are popular options for shy girls who worry a bra will call attention to them.
A short or full-length camisole provides a bit of coverage and isn't as noticeable under a blouse. For the same reason, some girls like to start with bras cut in a sporty style that don't feel like a traditional bra.
"In my shop, girls will come in with their mother and often their grandmother – buying that first bra is a big deal!" O'Brien says. "This is a rite of passage for everyone involved, and we can make it an experience that's fondly remembered decades later."
Kelly O'Brien is the owner of Linger, an upscale lingerie shop, and blogs about lingerie at ShopLinger.com. A former teacher, digital marketing executive, adjunct college professor, and part of the team that launched glossy.com, the first website for teen girls, O'Brien founded LingerTween, (Tween.ShopLinger.com), to address a glaring marketplace absence.


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Rice and Tomatoes
Maybe it sound strange but this is a great recipe for the hot summer days, and also great as a side dish. And even greater if you have a steamer.
200 gr rice (any kind)
100 gr finely chopped tomatoes (save the juice)
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 tablespoon dry oregano
1 tablespoon finely chopped parsley
salt, pepper
Clean and rinse the rice untill the water start to become clear (around 5 times). This way you rinse the starch and the rice won't stick. Then cook the rice until is cooked. I cooked mine in a steamer for 40 minutes, you can cook in on the stove too. When the rice is done, add the olive oil, tomatoes, oregano, parsley and the tomato juice and mix everything. Add salt and pepper and it is done. You can add more vegetables or some sauce, It is up to you.