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No end to the Tunisian contagion and $100-plus oil prices
There's a presumption out there that things look tough in the Middle East, but that soon enough — maybe by summer — they will sort themselves out, and becalm the volatile prices of oil and gasoline. Not so, says veteran oil analyst Edward Morse, a student of history who correctly called the 2008 oil bubble ...
There's a presumption out there that things look tough in the Middle East, but that soon enough — maybe by summer — they will sort themselves out, and becalm the volatile prices of oil and gasoline. Not so, says veteran oil analyst Edward Morse, a student of history who correctly called the 2008 oil bubble while everyone else was still throwing money into the pot. "This is not a one-off disruption," Morse says. Instead, we're in a new age of geopolitical risk that threatens to disrupt the region for a decade or even longer.
As if to reinforce his point, 6,400 miles away in Libya, Col. Moammar Qaddafi has again triggered the all-important Flaming Oil Port Index by having his air force bomb the country's main oil terminal at Es Sider, turning it into a ball of fire. Oil prices shot up.
Given the Libyan uprising, not to mention the trouble in Bahrain, Egypt, Oman, Tunisia and Yemen, even the region's rich petro-states understand the basic math, says Morse — their demographics (60 percent of the region's population under 25 years old, high unemployment rates, and lopsided income distribution), awakened by the kindling of revolutionary fever, have put all of them in potential jeopardy. "A rapid contagion is spreading," he said. "Even if you think you are relatively safe, this is a new, permanent risk. It will be with us for the next decade," or even two.
Therefore, all the petro-states are going to mimic the recent largesse of Saudi King Abdullah, who distributed $36 billion to his people in the form of higher wages and forgiven loans, and do so on a regular basis. They will also try to figure out how to put all those discontented and often well-educated youth to work.
That's great, but what does that mean for the rest of us? That the break-even point for annual government expenditures in all the states — meaning the price of oil required to cover regular state obligations like salaries, road repair and defense, plus these new expenses in order to satisfy the restive youth — has just gone up, says Morse. If they needed $60-a-barrel oil multiplied by the number of barrels they are producing and selling each day to fund the state budget, now they will need much higher prices. Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and other petro-statesmen that previously attempted to keep oil price stamped down to some degree can no longer be counted on to do so. Instead, they will be interested in the kind of price increases we are seeing today. For more Ed Morse, including a video, read on to the jump.
Oh, prices could dip down a bit back into the double-digits, but short of some apocalyptic global economic meltdown such as we saw in 2008, get used to paying a lot more to fill your tank.
Morse made his remarks in Houston at the Davos of the oil industry, a week-long conference put on by oil historian Dan Yergin called CERAWeek. I pulled Morse aside after his speech. Here is our conversation:
Even so, Morse is much less pessimistic regarding the coming decade than some others, such as Total CEO Christophe de Margerie (see yesterday's post). For instance, as Morse says in the video above, he thinks we will have a lot more spare oil production capacity coming two or three years than is generally understood — spare capacity is not going to dry up in that period, he says. When traders fail to see such a global cushion of surplus production capacity, they tend to react in a panic-stricken manner to energy events like pipeline explosions or hurricanes. We see this panic in the form of higher oil and gasoline prices. The world may still face a crunch in the middle of the decade, with all the disruption that suggests, Morse says, but fresh oil supplies will come onto the market by the end of the current decade.
So we have a divergence among the big thinkers — deMargerie forecasts general upheaval because of oil shortages; Morse thinks geopolitics have changed the Middle East, but that oil supply is misunderstood. We can't know with certainty who is right. What we can do is diversify in preparation for whatever happens.


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#GivingTuesday shines a light on organizations that join communities to transform our world. It's kind of like a coordinated day of gift-giving and gratitude sharing with extended, badass family, and a healthy antidote to the media craze of Cyber Monday and holiday shopping.
I thought to share some ideas with you for today (and beyond - because why be limited to Tuesday?!). Below are just a few organizations I had the chance to recently connect with. They are building opportunities that regenerate - for generations to reconnect to culture, healthy and accessible food, beginning farmers to deepen their skills, and healing relationships with the natural world. So please - pull up a seat, join in or add to the list, and share your loving support.
1. Bahay Kubo Garden Project. Bahay Kubo lifts up Filipino American health, food and culture. It does this through planting culturally relevant crops, gardening and eco-education, in connection with the broader work of Filipino Advocates for Justice. In May, the project was recognized by the Big Ideas contest as a Food Systems Innovator and won $10,000 seed funding. The site is growing and now has 17 days left to raise $2500 for a matching funds challenge - anything given today until December 18 will be doubled!
2. Sama Sama Cooperative. Sama Sama brings children, families and communities together to reclaim land, culture, and earth-based tradition. Run by a cooperative of dedicated families, it is - through and through - built with integrity and love. Learn more and check out their adorable video feature on Adobo Nation here.
3. Movement Generation. MG inspires and engages in transformative action towards the liberation and restoration of land, labor, and culture - whether through "earth skills" trainings, ecology retreats, or sassy storytelling for our planet.
4. Multinational Exchange for Sustainable Agriculture. MESA honors ancestral knowledge, sustainable tradition, and builds real connection between young and beginning farmers from across the globe, from the US to Peru to Mexico to Thailand and beyond.
5. CASFS Farm and Garden Apprenticeship. This apprenticeship builds practical tools in organic farming through an immersive apprenticeship, and has served as a catalyst point for farmers, advocates and educators around the globe. My time at CASFS in 2011 was made possible through the support of generous, anonymous scholarships, for which I hold deep gratitude. Here's to continued support of low income and apprentices of color to access this kind of quality training.
And while these aren't entirely food-culture-land organizations, they are doing deep healing and political work. Let it also be known that this work is done all while being volunteer-run organizations - they deserve even more love (on that note, I am a board member and editor in each, respectively, and deeply believe in their vision):
Filipino/American Coalition for Environmental Solidarity
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It's a deceptively simple yet eye-opening (life-changing even) book to read over the holiday season. Besides, it's only $5 a piece from Amazon and, when n>5, with free shipping. It's rarely expensive to inspire and electrify your loved ones and friends with a simple gift like this.
In any case, Christmas greetings from Seattle, WA.
It may be cliche, but the best Christmas gift I have ever received was my son. He was born just before Christmas last year. Happy Birthday Peanut!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 11, 2008 at 11:43 AM
My paternal grandmother lived far enough away that I rarely saw her growing up. I have a few memories here and there, but not many, since she passed away when I was about 13. Every year, though, when I was a kid, she would send me a big box of Christmas cookies she had made herself. There were all different kinds, several dozen of them!ReplyDelete
I started looking for the box in the mail after Thanksgiving, and when it came, I would sit down on the floor just inside the front door with the box and rummage for my favorites. It wasn't just the sweets (although she was a great cook), but it was also the love it implied that made this gift so special.
For me, it's not so much the big expensive things (although those are nice!). It's the little personal things that make you know the giver really cares.
Two best gifts: my husband for months said he liked to help me with my earrings (duh) so I let him every morning - one morning I went to feel which ones he had put in and wala BEAUTIFUL gorgeous handmade earrings to go with my eyes.ReplyDelete
The second best from hubbie- surprise SPA day at the Mandarin hotel on a post call day!
Best part - NOT KNOWING! NOT having to ask!
Worst part - those were the only two "surprise" presents in 18 years together.


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Parliamentary leader Lindiwe Mazibuko said the Democratic Alliance (DA) would never allow the ANC to defeat the aims of constitutional democracy.
"That is why yesterday I filed papers at the Western Cape High Court to seek an urgent interdict to compel the Speaker of the National Assembly to uphold the constitutional right of the opposition to have this motion debated."
Mazibuko was speaking at the DA's Gauteng North Regional annual general meeting in Tshwane.
She said the ANC was blocking the motion of no confidence against Zuma because it was scared that its own members would vote against him.
"The ANC parliamentary caucus is blocking it because they fear, rightly, that their own members will side with the opposition to vote against the president," she said
She said the Constitution allows for the motion to be considered in the National Assembly.
"It is indeed a sad day when a member of Parliament must seek an order of the court to compel the legislature to respect the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, and our rights to hold the President, that we elected accountable," said Mazibuko.
A motion of no confidence in Zuma was tabled on November 8.
President above the Constitution
It was brought on the grounds "that under his leadership the justice system has been politicised and weakened; corruption has spiralled out of control; unemployment continues to increase, the economy is weakening, and, the right of access to quality education has been violated".
ANC Chief Whip Mathole Motshekga on Wednesday said there was a unanimous agreement in the party's caucus that the motion was frivolous and had nothing to do with Section 102 and 89 of the Constitution.
He said the ruling party did not support it.
Mazibuko said the ANC was putting its President above the Constitution.
On Thursday while answering questions in the National Assembly, Zuma said he felt "aggrieved" by media reports that the government had paid more than R200-million for his Nkandla home.
Mazibuko said the public was hurting too and questioned if Zuma knew that.
"How does he think the millions of people who have no work feel when their president lives in such grand splendour? How does he think the parents of children who never received textbooks… feel?" asked Mazibuko.
"How does he think the widows and children of the 34 police and security officers, and mineworkers who were gunned down in cold blood at Marikana feel?" – Sapa.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — Stephen Strasburg struck out 10 to win a fast-ballers' duel with newbie Chris Archer, Joel Peralta managed to pitch without having his glove inspected, and the Washington Nationals snapped a four-game losing streak Wednesday night with a 3-2 win over the Tampa Bay Rays.
Strasburg (9-1) won his sixth consecutive start by allowing five hits and two runs over seven innings while throwing 111 pitches, the second most in his career, while Tyler Clippard picked up his 10th save. The Nationals needed all the pitching they could get — because the lineup didn't produce a hit after the first inning.
Strasburg was just a bit better than Archer (0-1), who faced the minimum over his final five innings after surviving a rough start in his major league debut. The final line for the 23-year-old right-hander: three hits, three runs, one earned run, seven strikeouts, one walk and a wild pitch.
Also effective was Peralta, who didn't get a chance to pitch Tuesday night because he was thrown out of the game for having pine tar on his glove, setting off a series of testy exchanges between Tampa Bay manager Joe Maddon and Washington counterpart Davey Johnson.
Peralta is likely to be suspended by Major League Baseball, but he remained eligible to pitch Wednesday while the league office continued its investigation. He entered the game with one out in the eighth inning and was soundly booed by the Nationals fans. He retired the two batters he faced.
Maddon didn't like the fact that Johnson used inside information to catch Peralta, who pitched for the Nationals in 2010. On Wednesday, Maddon said Johnson's move broke unwritten baseball rules and called it "an attempt to indicate a higher form of baseball intellect."
On a summer solstice evening hot enough to melt tar off any surface, Strasburg and Archer brought the heat. Strasburg's fastball clocked in the high-90s on the radar gun, Archer's in the mid-90s, both besting the 93 on the thermometer when the game began.
Archer, a fifth-round draft choice by Cleveland in 2006, became the first pitcher to start for the Rays who wasn't drafted by the team since Matt Garza on Sept. 30, 2010 at Kansas City — ending a major-league record streak of 232 games.
Archer gave up a double to Steve Lombardozzi to start the game, then an RBI single to Bryce Harper. Harper scored on a throwing error by shortstop Elliot Johnson, and Ryan Zimmerman later scored on a two-out single by Ian Desmond.
Jose Molina's home run got the Rays on the board in the second, and Tampa Bay picked up another run in third on Hideki Matsui's RBI single.
NOTES: Tampa Bay missed a chance to tie the major league record for consecutive road interleague wins. They fell one shy of the streak of nine set by the Seattle Mariners in 2006-07. … Rays OF Matt Joyce sat out with a tight back. He had to leave Tuesday's game in the fifth inning when the back tightened up. … Tampa Bay formally placed RHP Jeremy Hellickson on the 15-day DL with right shoulder inflammation to make room for Archer.
Copyright 2012 The Associated Press.
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Google announced that it will launch a new feature called "Standout Content" that will allow publishers to highlight their original reporting.
It's a "Standout Content" HTML tag that will go into the articles' header and highlighted "Standout Content" by Google News. However, Google tells publishers not to go gaga over the tag or they will lose their favored status:
At this point, we ask news organizations to use the Standout tag to cite their own content at most seven times in each calendar week. If a site exceeds that limit, it may find that its tags are less recognized, or ignored altogether. A news organization may cite standout stories from other news sources any number of times each week.
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That's very limiting to a publication such as the New York Times, which has dozens of great stories a day, but probably fine for an online mag which has one or two original stories a day. However, combined with last month's launch of Editors' Picks, which also highlights original content from quality journalism sites, Google News says it's attempting to screen out news aggregator content and other spam.
While it's true that most readers benefit from original and vetted content on the Web, the odd part is that Google News is probably the world's biggest news aggregator. By burying other aggregators, it also kills off some competition, so we don't think this is all done for the betterment of journalism.


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Please take notice that a South Centre Ward Meeting will take place as follows:DATE: Wednesday, May 17, 2017TIME: 7:00 p.m.LOCATION: Central Community Centre, 529 4th StreetThe following will be discussed at the meeting:1) Neighbourhood Priorities2) Other City & Ward IssuesMembers of Administration will be in attendance.Councillor Lonnie PattersonSouth Centre Ward No. 6
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Experience the country races at the Geelong Racing Club on Friday the 24th of May
As one of the oldest Country Racing Clubs in Victoria, our races attract leading jockey's and trainers from all over the state. We encourage racegoers to embrace country casual; where you can enjoy backing a winner from our public bistro "The Dual Choice", which also houses our bookmakers on the day. We also offer plenty of outside grandstand seating for those looking to watch the races from a great undercover spot. Alternatively, soak up the sun from our beautifully manicured lawns, and get up close to view our equine athletes in the mounting yard.
If you choose to drive, arrive early and secure one of our many free parking spots. Whichever way you choose to experience racing at Geelong, you're sure to enjoy a day that's got it all!
General admission is $10, Concession is $6 at the gate, Children 17 years and under FREE.
Racecourse Location
99 Breakwater Road, Breakwater VIC 3219
By Car from Melbourne
70km SW Melbourne (1 hour) - travel along the Princes Hwy. We have plenty of on-site parking both on-course and across the road.
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Catch a V-Line Train to South Geelong Station. On weekdays there is a Route 40 bus that goes to Deakin University, depart at Church/Tucker St and from there it is a 10 minute walk to the racecourse. Alternatively, catch an Uber or taxi from South Geelong Station, where it is just a 5 minute journey.


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Are too much oversight and too little operational flexibility to blame for the Postal Service's fiscal crisis?
When a government agency or a business runs into serious financial trouble, it's often a sign that somewhere along the way oversight fell short. The U.S. Postal Service, which lost $3.3 billion in the first quarter of fiscal 2012 alone and is arguably in the worst financial shape right now of any federal agency or major American company, is not wanting for watchdogs.
The quasi-governmental agency—which operates like a business without the benefit of appropriated funds—takes direction and advice from several bodies with different roles and often competing interests, including Congress, the Government Accountability Office, USPS inspector general, Postal Regulatory Commission and Board of Governors; USPS also must comply with the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act. In addition, hundreds of other stakeholders and customers nationwide weigh in on everything from postal rates to post office closings. That's a lot of oversight for an entity that doesn't receive congressional appropriations.
So with all those watchful eyes, how did the Postal Service get to the brink of bankruptcy? Some of the fault lies with the popularity of email, the decline in the use of first-class mail, and the agency's struggle to innovate in business and technology. There is the issue of flexibility. Postal Service officials, among others, argue that a lack of control over deciding everything from how to pay for employees' benefits to the frequency of mail delivery is as much to blame as modern technology for its financial troubles.
The Postal Service has said—albeit diplomatically to avoid ruffling too many political feathers—at least one of its overseers is partly at fault for tying its hands. "Unfortunately, while we have a mandate to operate like a business, the reality is we do not have the flexibility under current law to function as a business," Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe, said in a November 2011 speech at the National Press Club. Flexibility under current law, of course, depends on the dictates of Congress.
The 2006 Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act mandated wide-ranging agency reforms, including a controversial requirement that USPS prefund retiree health benefits at about $5 billion annually, making it the only federal agency with that obligation. "Consider this: During the worst of the downturn in mail volume—in 2008 and 2009—the operations of the Postal Service were profitable," Donahoe said in the November speech. "Our $6.6 billion in losses were due to $7 billion of mandated retiree health benefits payments that no business would have made."
The Obama administration favors giving the agency more leeway in restructuring how it prefunds such benefits. Pending bills in the House and the Senate contain a number of provisions that aim to give USPS more room to maneuver and would modify employees' pay and benefits, but many lawmakers are loath to cede too much oversight.
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., wrote an op-ed in the Dec. 18 issue of The Press Enterprise, a Riverside, Calif., newspaper, arguing the Postal Service's problems stem from its failure to adapt to a modern business model rather than congressional mandates. "The source of these troubles is not a requirement that the Postal Service fund the health care and pension benefits that its employees rightfully earn," Issa wrote. "The problem is not even that email has taken away the Postal Service's business. The main problem can be summed up in one word: procrastination."
The House committee approved a postal reform bill in October 2011, which provides some flexibility but also retains strong oversight of the agency. For example, the legislation gives the Postal Service the option of eliminating Saturday delivery, would require postal workers to pay at least as much as other federal employees in health and life insurance premiums, and would keep pay in line with the private sector's. The measure, however, also calls for a receivership-style authority to take over for USPS management when the Postal Service fails to pay its bills for more than 30 days.
The Postal Service has a somewhat different take on the situation. "While there are several provisions in the bill that we agree with, the bill appears to be based on the assumption that the Postal Service's challenges result from too little regulation," the agency said in a June 2011 statement, referring to the legislation the Oversight and Government Reform Committee approved last fall. "The opposite is true. Our financial instability is the result of dramatic loss in volumes, coupled with restrictions imposed by Congress that have prevented the Postal Service from adequately responding to those losses in a businesslike fashion."
The agency, which is looking to shutter more than 200 postal facilities nationwide, plans to eliminate tens of thousands of jobs through a combination of layoffs, buyouts and early retirement packages. USPS estimates office closures and workforce downsizing will save billions of additional dollars, but politics has stymied the agency's efforts so far, and likely will continue to do so.
In December, USPS announced it would delay closing or consolidating any post office or mail processing facility until May 2012, saying it made its decision "in response to a request made by multiple U.S. senators." The elections this year will further disrupt closures, with Post Office officials putting some on hold in response to state concerns about disrupting the mail-in and absentee voting. The agency also favors another cost-saving initiative—eliminating Saturday mail delivery—that some lawmakers oppose.
Ruth Goldway, chairwoman of the Postal Regulatory Commission, doesn't believe USPS suffers from too much oversight, but acknowledges the logistical challenges when stakeholders have differences of opinion. "We are sometimes frustrated when the Congress or the administration or the inspector general has a different position than we do, but the Postal Service is a creature of our government, so it's bound to be more complicated," Goldway says, citing the Postal Service's large size in particular. The independent PRC, which USPS funds, has broad authority to review postal pricing, service performance, product development and related issues. While the Postal Service is required to report to the body, its recommendations are advisory. But they can carry a lot of weight.
Goldway gives a hypothetical example of how intricate the web of postal recommendations and oversight can be. "It is tricky," she says, pointing out that it's possible for USPS to receive congressional approval on five-day mail delivery, but then receive criticism from PRC on implementation of the initiative. "USPS is given some discretion to try things out, and then we review them," she says.


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For the third consecutive season, we are proud to introduce the Deadspin Baseball Season Previews. Yes, baseball is awfully close now; heck, they're playing real games in Japan tomorrow.
Every weekday until the start of the season, a different writer will preview his/her team. We asked a gaggle of writers, from the Web, from print, from books, to tell us, in as many or as little words as they need, Where Their Team Stands. This is not meant to be factual, or dispassionate, or even logical: We just asked them to riff on why they love their team so much, or what their team means to them, or whatever.
Today: The Boston Red Sox. Your author is Eric Gillin.
Eric Gillin is the editor of Esquire.com and a founding editor of The Black Table. His words are after the jump.
This photo tells you everything you need to know about being a Boston Red Sox fan entering this season. I took it in Fort Myers, Fla., where the Sox and Minnesota Twins both hold their Spring Training camps. And although this was taken before the opening game of the Twins' spring season, it's quite clear that Twins Territory — like the rest of Major League Baseball — has a problem with illegal immigrants from Boston.
What makes the Red Sox this popular? The same things that made the Chicago Bulls and San Francisco 49ers so wildly popular in the 1980s and '90s. They won championships. It's easier to root for a winner, and given the recent success of the Red Sox, the bandwagon has turned into a caravan, filled with angst-inducing pink hatted masses and other non-baseball types who also feel an overwhelming need to belong to something.
It's fun to have something like this to belong to. Most people don't attend church. They don't join the Elks, or the Kiwanis club, or the Knights of Columbus. Nowadays, people are not joiners, not really, not unless you count Facebook. And that's not much of a club. Fifty-five year old men have Facebook pages now.
If anyone can be a Red sox fan just by virtue of liking them, what does it mean to be a Red Sox fan right now, after two championships in four years has replaced the old algebraic rule that said "Red Sox fan = abject agony"?
At its most obvious, I would argue that to be a Sox fan simply means that you want the team to win when they play other teams. I don't believe that a "true fan" needs to be able to name seven players on the team that aren't Manny Ramirez, David Ortiz or Jonathan Papelbon. I don't believe that true fans don't wear pink and have to attend at least one home game a year. And I don't believe that true fans even exist, except in the mind of insecure fans who feel that these new fans haven't "earned" it, in the same way that people who liked Nirvana when they were on Sub Pop have to remind everyone that came after who "found" the band.
There is a poor, deluded core within Red Sox Nation (a construct is precisely the kind of thing that happens when you have winning teams — the hypothetical Republic of Kansas City could hold their meetings in a photo booth) that has done everything in their power to stay miserable. As if misery were what it still meant to be a Red Sox fan. They call in to WEEI and complain, bitterly so, that the Red Sox didn't do enough in the offseason. That we didn't get Santana. Or that we tried to get Santana, and should have looked elsewhere. They complain about what the rotation will look like in 2009. They discuss balance sheet issues in 2012 and how the third-stringers in rookie ball are playing, ever searching for more to bitch about. To prove their fandom.
Which brings us to this season.
I believe this is the year that Red Sox fans — the pink-hats and the die-hards, who have been eyeing each other suspiciously for five years now — finally have it out with each other. This is the season where what it really means to be a Red Sox fan finally bubbles to the surface. Will the essence of fandom be defined by front-running, merchandise-loving bobble-heads? Or will it be defined by morose, woe-is-me, you-don't-know-pain, Calvinists out there? Do you have to sing "Sweet Caroline?" Can you still do "The Wave?"
I'm not sure. But I know the first few months of this season will be the trigger. The team is largely unchanged from last year — and indeed, at Spring Training, there were only three roster spots still open. Expectations, as a result, are impossibly high. We're expected to repeat and dominate. The sports people on the TV set and in magazines say so. We believe them, because they tell us what we, as Red Sox fans, want to hear.
But the beginning of this season will be a nightmare. The Sox play two official games in Japan, then some more exhibition games, then back into the regular season again. The 17-hour flights aren't the problem, really. It's the fact the Sox don't get to play as many Spring Training games. So when it's mid-May, they'll be in mid-April form. They'll get blown out by the Rays and everyone in Walpole will be put on suicide watch.
Then the sky will fall and people will panic. I mean, look at how terrible this team is. Staff ace Josh Beckett has back spasms! Daisuke Matsuzaka is a waste of money who leaves you hungry 20 minutes after a start! Curt Schilling's a lying-faced-liar who couldn't bring himself to clap at a McCain rally! The back half of the rotation consists of two young guys (Clay Bucholtz and Jon Lester, shown here after getting shelled by the Twins) who should be garroted in the street with their own jock straps!
(Yup, I can see WEEI's phone lines ablaze come late-May with irrational fans wondering why we didn't do more for Santana.)
I don't think the team will be that bad to start, but we won't be that great, either. Among the position players, there are other concerns, as well. Jacoby Ellsbury, who Men's Vogue called "baby Jesus in cleats," has had a dreadful spring. Jason Varitek, while solid behind the plate, seems to get slower each year. Julio Lugo is a total mystery. J.D. Drew only seems to look good hitting ping-pong-sized baseballs on a foreign continent. Both Manny and Papi looked to be in amazing shape in Fort Myers — especially Papi, whose belt buckle is once again visible — but those guys tend to be slow starters.
It's entirely plausible that this year's Red Sox team starts a bit more like last year's Yankees squad. I don't worry about the Red Sox team giving up, however. They're as loose as ever. (This picture is Jonathan Papelbon wearing Manny's #24 to pitch, since he'd left his at home. When asked why we wore Manny's jersey, Papelbon said there were always loads of extra Manny jerseys around, "just in case.") But when the going gets tough — and I suspect it will — I worry if these fans can handle losing bad and often without throwing the team under the bus.
And that's when we'll see what kind of fans, no matter what color their hat, are rooting for the Red Sox.
A sad note. Jason Forget, friend of Deadspin, tragically succumbed to his battle with cancer at the age of 27 a few weeks ago. Each year, his father organizes the East Woonsocket Little League Memorial Tournament to benefit the Jimmy Fund and Dana Farber Cancer Institute. It's a worthy cause and we wanted to spread the news about it. Anyone who would like to make a donation in Jason Forget's name can do so to:
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Avocado Milk Pound Cake - Avocado Week # 2
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Today is my last day of Child Care Leave (Cuti Jaga Anak). 3 years have passed. Time flew by. And Lyanne is now in kindergarden.
But I'm not going back to school tomorrow. I applied to finish up my quota, that is another 2 more years. So, I'll be back to work in 2014, probably, hopefully.


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As Congress struggled to shape new energy legislation this week, an equally important fight was shaping up: whether the United States will begin to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions.
The prospects for such regulation began to emerge this past April when, in a setback for the Bush administration, the US Supreme Court affirmed that the Environmental Protection Agency had the legal authority to regulate emissions. The wrangling this week over the Senate energy bill represents the first skirmish over what could quickly become a full-blown battle over measures to slow climate change.
By the end of the month, the EPA could announce findings that would require it to crack down on emitters of greenhouse gases, says a source familiar with discussions between the White House and EPA.
That may explain why the White House threatened last Friday to veto the energy bill unless it contained a seemingly minor provision to give the Department of Transportation (DOT) authority over auto fuel-economy standards rather than the Environmental Protection Agency. But the language would have effectively stripped the EPA of all authority to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions, thus nullifying the high court's decision in April.
Besides eliminating the EPA as a regulator, such a measure would have also gutted efforts by California and 16 other states to enforce carbon-dioxide emissions requirements for vehicles, environmental legal experts say. Yet a federal court ruling Wednesday upheld California's measures.
"The recent statement of administration policy [threatening a veto] certainly took sharp aim at reversing the Supreme Court's decision confirming EPA's power to regulate global-warming pollution under the Clean Air Act," said Vickie Patton, deputy general counsel for Environmental Defense, a Washington group.
The Senate at press time seemed poised to pass a stripped-down version of the energy bill, which would boost the auto-fuel standards for the first time since the 1970s under the EPA's auspices, as well as boost biofuels. But it would not include controversial measures that would have increased the tax burden on the oil, gas, and coal industries – or required electric utilities to use renewable sources of energy.
Soon, the focus is expected to shift quickly to greenhouse-gas emissions. In line with the high-court ruling, President Bush in May issued an executive order for the EPA to begin working on a new rulemaking process to create standards that reduce carbon from auto emissions – and to work closely with DOT and other agencies. At this point, the legal documents to do so are nearly complete and an EPA announcement is expected before year's end to comply with the Supreme Court's decision.
But in an internal debate last week, EPA chief Stephen Johnson told White House officials unequivocally that the EPA intends to issue an "endangerment finding" for carbon-dioxide emissions, according to one source familiar with the discussion, who asked not to be named because he was not permitted to speak to the press. Such a move could vastly accelerate federal regulation of greenhouse-gas emissions across a range of industries, the source says.
"The EPA has decided to go ahead with broader construction of an endangerment finding. That's what Johnson told the West Wing people – that EPA was going ahead with a strong finding," the source says.
When asked for comment, a White House spokesman said: "I can't speak to any communication the EPA administrator has had with the White House," said Scott Stanzel. "I can say that if Congress is going to take action on modern CAFE standards, they should want that process to be enacted, and not usurped, by a regulatory process."
An EPA spokeswoman, Jennifer Wood, wrote in an e-mail: "EPA and its federal partners remain on track to take the first regulatory step in addressing greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles."
If the EPA does announce a finding – saying that public health and welfare is endangered by CO2 emissions – the EPA would be required under the Clean Air Act to crack down on "major" emitters, legal experts say. That could be a very broad group indeed, including any stationary emitter in the country that emits 250 tons or more, according to congressional testimony last month by Peter Glaser, a clean-air expert at Troutman Sanders, a Washington law firm.
Apparently concerned about such a prospect, the US Chamber of Commerce and industry groups that represent refineries and manufacturers sent a Dec. 7 letter to the Senate, warning that the bill's "overlapping authorities" could produce the "unintended triggering of an expansive and costly stationary [greenhouse-gas] source control program."
At least some Wall Street analysts appear to be picking up on such issues. "EPA's proposal will probably include an 'endangerment finding' with an August 2008 target date that would classify CO2 as a pollutant," wrote Kevin Book, an energy analyst with FBR Capital Markets, in his newsletter for investors Wednesday. "This could force EPA to review CO2 as a pollutant from stationary sources, too."
Such a finding, he wrote, would probably require that the agency, under the Clean Air Act, require federal clean-air permits from a host of sites, including those emitting as little as 100 tons per year.
"This could paralyze construction sites, not just refineries and coal-fired power plants," he wrote.
While the energy bill failed in a vote early Thursday, environmentalists worry about White House allies within Congress also pushing in the same direction, who might insert a provision in the new stripped-down energy bill. Some question whether many in Congress realize that by eliminating "ambiguity" in regulation authority, it might also eliminate the EPA from CO2 regulation.
Indeed, a slender provision floated this week as a remedy for possible inclusion in the Senate energy bill would not only give DOT authority over fuel economy – but would also strip EPA of authority to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions, environmentalists say.
"It is a poison pill that, in the dark of night, would reverse the landmark decision by the US Supreme Court affirming EPA's power to regulate global-warming pollution," says Ms. Patton of Environmental Defense.
The controversial provision did not appear to be part of the energy bill that failed to pass a procedural vote Thursday morning in the US Senate, but it could be inserted into a new slimmed-down energy bill. That would be unfortunate, she says, given a recent legal ruling in California.
On Wednesday, the entire claim of an agency conflict in regulating auto fuel economy was dealt a blow by US District Judge Anthony Ishii. In a case involving automakers challenging California greenhouse-gas emission standards, he ruled that there was no conflict between the EPA's regulatory duties and DOT's setting of mileage requirements.


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Out from Smithsonian Press!
Were approaching 40 years since the last human set foot on the Moon, and weve yet to have the ability to point at a calendar and state unequivocally when such a feat may happen again. Thus, the era is dwindling when we can hear the stories of these early astronauts, in their own words. This weeks review entitled Falling to Earth tells the tale of NASA astronaut Al Worden, the Command Module pilot for Apollo 15. [Read more...]


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See, I really, really like this look, just not on Dita Von Teese. Not at all, come to think of it. The color washes her out entirely, makes her teeth look beige (which is never a good thing), and generally makes her look slightly older than her 40 years. Also? She kind of looks like Marilyn Manson in drag in this picture, and even after staring at the photo for fifteen minutes, trying to convince myself otherwise, the image is still there.
The things I do like about the ensemble? The shoes and the bag, because red is usually a pretty good decision and Dita always does red well, if nothing else.
Love it or leave it—Dita Von Teese's outfit today?


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So it's nearly here. Tomorrow sees the UK and US launch of the Sony PlayStation Vita and the long wait is almost over. We've already looked at an official game or two, but now it's time to focus on one of the many apps Sony plans to offer in its store, ready for download from day one.
Some of them, like this, are even completely free...
Cliff Diving
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- Price
- Free
- Where
- PS Store
When you first open the box containing your shiny, new PS Vita, not only will you see the handheld console, a power adaptor and USB cable, but there will also be a series of cards featuring strange symbols. It's not a peculiarly odd game of Snap - which won't ever end thanks to no repetition of the shapes - but a series of augmented reality triggers, the purpose of which will be baffling at first.
However, if you go on the PS Store, you'll see that there are several games offered free from launch day, including Fireworks, Table Football and this one, Cliff Diving. Those AR cards are for these apps, and we thoroughly recommend you get yourself a-downloading.
The reason it's free (perhaps) is that Cliff Diving is not the most in-depth game out there. We'd go as far as saying that it's more like a side show on a multi-event sports game. However, it does show off some of the potential of the Vita, while offering enough gameplay to keep you satisfied for a while.
You place an AR card - generally the one marked "01" - on any surface, point the PS Vita at it, and the game will collapse the real-world surroundings in order to build a diving board and pool. There are different scenes that you have to unlock by earning more and more in-game dough, and that's about it.
Dives are essentially performed through a sequence of well-timed pushes on the "x" button, and you get a score after each depending on how accurate your tapping has been. As you progress through levels, you are required to perform more elaborate sequences of dive, and there are different diving methods you can utilise on each background.
The most fun, we suppose, is actually in seeing your real world dining table, for example, explode ready for an atoll to burst forth. Plus, as it manipulates the background image as well as adding it's own graphics, it's clever to see a fairly decent stab at showing a gaping hole in a household object.
You can also add another of the AR cards at a different height and actually create your own custom scene, which can even have an effect on the gameplay, as you can choose the size of the pool your diver has to plunge into.
Cliff Diving won't win any prizes for its depth (ironically) but is a wholly decent casual gaming experience that more than justifies its price tag. Being free, and that.


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Place the water and shiitake in a saucepan, cover and bring to a boil. Reduce the flame to low and simmer 3 to 5 minutes. Remove from the flame and allow to cool to room temperature. When cool add the shoyu to the shiitake and water. Place the onions, carrot and garlic in a 2 cup, clean glass jar and pour the shoyu, shiitake mixture over. Make sure the liquid covers the top of the vegetables by pressing the vegetables down with a spoon. Cover the top of the jar with a piece of clean, cotton cheesecloth, securing it with a rubber band or piece of string. Set the jar on the counter and leave for 24 hours to ferment. After 24 hours remove the cheesecloth and place the jar lid on securely. Refrigerate until ready to eat.
One serving is approximately 1 tablespoon. Remove and rinse only the portion you want to eat to remove excess sodium, and refrigerate the remainder. These pickles will keep, refrigerated, for approximately 10 days to 2 weeks. The pickling brine may be reused, but add a little more shoyu to replenish sodium that the previous vegetables absorbed.
Homemade, unpasteurized pickles are a source of beneficial enzymes that aid in digestion. Be careful not to eat too many at a time as they are salty.
Variation: For variety and different flavors other vegetables can be thinly sliced and added or substituted. A small amount of Eden Brown Rice Vinegar (1/4 cup) can be added to the jar for a more sour flavor.
Per serving - 14 calories, 0 g fat (0% calories from fat), 2 g protein, 6 g carbohydrate, 3 g fiber, 0 mg cholesterol, 250 mg sodium


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Wednesday, June 06, 2012
does god smile at me?
27 comments:
- Kelli said...
Oh Amen. Amen Amen Amen All we can do is try to be our best every day. And some days won't be as good as other days. Love you girl. Thanks for the good word.
- 8:53 AM, June 06, 2012
- 3 Peanuts said...
Love this Paige. Your wisdom helps me and so many other people. I sure hope He smiles and the "trying" part cause I sure do fail at the accomplishing part a lot!!!
While I do always want to better myself as a person...I do not get caught up in comparing myself to others I don't think I could blog if I did. God gives us all our gifts and our weaknesses for a reason. We are perfectly imperfectly designed. So I know I'll never be that perfect blend of Martha Stewart/sexy/playful Mom/interior designer/gourmet cook/brilliant writer/fashionista etc... I can be the best me God intended me to be though....if I lean on HIM to get me there.
Hope you are feeling GREAT today. I just finished my exercise and am sipping my strawberry smoothie:) You go girl!!!
- 8:55 AM, June 06, 2012
- Jboo said...
Awwww -- love this post! Thanks for sharing. You are amazing!
- 8:59 AM, June 06, 2012
- Paula said...
You've just made my day! It's so lovely to hear that people feel the same way as I do sometimes and that there can be comforting and wise words to bring me out of a 'slump'. Your words have been VERY timely - exactly what I needed to hear. Thank you!!
Paula x
- 9:00 AM, June 06, 2012
Thanks for inspiration! I'm going to remember this today as I'm out making sales calls trying to build my business & think to myself I'm good & being smiled on from above! Blessings to you & yours!
- 9:06 AM, June 06, 2012
- alissa said...
thanks for sharing this! i am fighting right now to be the best to and for everyone...and failing. but i love that He sees me, and still loves me. that is what i needed to hear. have a great hike.
- 9:06 AM, June 06, 2012
- Unknown said...
What is it with us women, wanting to do all, be all and have it all?? Makes me crazy that I put that kind of pressure on myself!!! Thank you for the timely word and YOU CAN DO THiS! We all hit slumps. THankfully you recognized it and are conquering it - power to the she, sister!!
- 9:20 AM, June 06, 2012
- Alecia said...
On of my absolute FAVE scriptures! I've been struggling with the same things lately. I've worked so hard since January & have lost 20 lbs. but I see one picture that's not so pretty and I get so discouraged...thinking..."I've worked so hard & I still look like THAT!" makes me wanna shove food in my face & avoid the gym all together...but I won't...I can't...it's not a life God has called me to. He's transforming me and I have to do my part! I can't give up. So...thanks for the encouragement...thanks for reminding me that God delights in my...He sings & dances for Joy over me!!
Keep it up sweet friend! I believe in you :-)
- 9:31 AM, June 06, 2012
- Kelli said...
YES! SO grateful that God spoke to you and revealed once again His joy for you. He's so good!!! Thank you for sharing as we all can use that reminder.
- 9:55 AM, June 06, 2012
- slip4 said...
Just wondering if you have had your thyroid checked? I feel silly asking a nurse that question, but it can be responsible for a lot of those same symptoms. Love the scriptures you have shared. One of my faces is the "lift you up on wings of eagles" verse.
- 10:06 AM, June 06, 2012
- slip4 said...
OK, that was not supposed to be "faces" but auto-correct won't let me shorten "favorites" (shakes fist at computer!)
- 10:07 AM, June 06, 2012
- just ask beth said...
you are that girl..to me ,you have it all..a adoring husband, beautiful girls, your talent and gifts, your health , you are that girl that we all think WOW!
- 12:03 PM, June 06, 2012
- Heather said...
Thank you, thank you for these lovely thoughts. I needed this today.
- 12:42 PM, June 06, 2012
- Tiffany said...
exactly! so true - great reminder too!
have been feeling a bit similar lately - not exactly in the same ways as you but struggling to feel that I am enough. And realizing that we cannot be all things to ALL people! Its not possible, at least for me - I have to be ALL to Him and to me, then my kids after that, I don;t worry!
Big Hug Paige!
- 12:51 PM, June 06, 2012
- Debby said...
Now you are talking......that is so true. You are beautiful in all our eyes. (((((HUGS)))))
- 12:51 PM, June 06, 2012
- Tiffany said...
Oh and I should add - it is exhausting too - trying to be ALL things and I have found that when I settle into who I am and what I need to do - it feels SO much better - joy and peace surround me and exude from me!
- 12:53 PM, June 06, 2012
- christina said...
eh perfect is so overrated! i was praying this morning and i said- God, you know this might be all I do right today, don't cha. LOL! I like to think He winked at me, with the- that's good enough. LOL
Love ya sister friend.
- 1:29 PM, June 06, 2012
I bet Dan doesn't look quite the same as when you first met, a few more grey hairs maybe, times of being slender and times of being a bit fluffy. Bet you have never cared one bit and have always found him handsome. THAT is how he loves you so. The way that you love him.
I really admire you (you want to lose weight and feel less sluggish, so you DO something about it and workout REALLY hard) but I am also a little worried about you. That sounds like an awful lot of working out, I think you can overdo it. Perhaps you just need to do different excercise than what you have done for years, I hear yoga is wonderful . . .thinking about taking it upmyself as I know 3 women who have transformed their bodies, and I do mean transformed, and they feel great.
I always feel sluggish when the heat really hits.
- 1:53 PM, June 06, 2012
- Rebecca said...
I so needed this today! Thank you Paige!
- 2:35 PM, June 06, 2012
- cathypentonatelier said...
What a wonderful post my friend and by the way I think you are one of the most gorgeous mums I know...Loving you sweetie xo
- 6:35 PM, June 06, 2012
- 6:54 PM, June 06, 2012
Wow Paige! How did you know I needed to hear these words today! Well, everyday lately! He is working through you and I am so thankful for that! I think you look great! Wish we lived closer, I could use a good a workout buddy! He is smiling and so am I:)
- 9:10 PM, June 06, 2012
love the encouragement mom. you're wonderful.
- 11:36 PM, June 06, 2012
- Jodi said...
What an awesome post! Love it. :)smile.
- 12:02 AM, June 07, 2012
- christan perona said...
Oh, Paige, this is one of your best posts ever. You touched on so many points. I just complete a blog series on body image and feeling worthy. I'm now more conscious of everyone's feelings of unworthiness now across Blogland... across real life.
I cling to the words of a man once emailed to my husband - "Never forget that your identity is only in what Christ secured for you on the cross."
- 7:14 AM, June 07, 2012
- Claudine from ReStory.ca said...
Awwww... Beautiful!!!!
I am sorry I missed your other post, I was here, trying to reach perfection (but not quite achieving it...)!!!
I also read in a book recently, that if we are not well with ourselves it is because we are distant from God, as WE are part of HIM and HE loves as just the way we are. Sometimes things happen and we distance ourselves but like today you are closer to HIM and loving yourself more... Dan sounds like a great guy... Hugs
- 11:42 AM, June 07, 2012
- Ruth said...
I havealways felt that I could never quite measure up to the vision of the perfect woman in my head. Lately, things have gotten increasingly more difficult and tonight has been especially hard. Thank you for these encouraging words. I needed them.
- 12:13 AM, June 09, 2012


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Things that have happened recently:
- We are in FINALLY in escrow for a short sale house we've been waiting for the bank to approve for five months, which didn't make me anxious at all.
- Thought things were going well.
- They weren't.
- Had to switch lenders halfway through escrow.
- Things got stressful.
- Things got more stressful.
- We have to move out of the house we're living in next week and we have not closed.
- I'm beginning to see why cash is favored in the real estate business.
- I suck at winning the lottery.
- I will probably die in this house because I don't think I'll be able to go through this ever again.
- Of course, I'm assuming I'll actually be able to move into said house. Eventually.
- I've been having especially interesting dreams in the last few weeks. I think this is my brain's way of taking pity on me.
- I'm trying to prepare myself to be house poor. This has basically amounted to me thinking, "I should buy things now while I still have money!"
- I've been advised this is a terrible strategy. I still spend a few dollars on the lottery every few weeks though because maybe one day I'll stop being terrible at winning.
- I've heard winning is nice. Like having fresh-baked bread constantly available. And carbs don't count.
- I hate odd numbers.
- I've decided to try to start drawing more, with actual pencils and everything. I did a quick 30-minute sketch of my cat during my lunch today (I blame the poor quality on my #2 pencil – classic for Scantrons, but terrible for real life). Her forehead isn't actually that big. She's going to kill me when I get home.


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I had my first real taste of freedom the summer I turned 16. I'm not talking about driving. I did get my license that July, and it was awesome, but what happened in August was even better: I convinced my parents to let me stay home alone while they spent a long weekend at my aunt's cabin in Michigan for a family reunion.
Their trip was planned for the week before my best friend, Acacia,* was leaving for boarding school, and it seemed far more important to spend EVERY WAKING SECOND having fun with her rather than to hang out with my (boring, grown-up) relatives. Fortunately, since my mom had once been a teenager, she understood, so with her help I put together an airtight argument to get my dad on board. Acacia would stay with me the whole time, so I wouldn't be alone. We'd take care of the dog, so they didn't have to hire a pet-sitter. We wouldn't use the car or throw parties or have sex or do drugs or anything else that kids do in the movies when their parents are away. I was responsible and could be trusted. I had the straight As and the pristine babysitting record to prove it.
Of course, when my dad grudgingly agreed to this arrangement, the very first thing I did was call my friend Juliet and ask how much pot I could buy with my babysitting savings. Then I started spreading the word to my other friends to see who wanted to sleep over and smoke up in my bedroom, figuring with the incense burning and the windows wide open, the smell would be gone by the time my folks got home. I told my friend Matt to pick a night for his band to play, and we'd have a party. And this is where everything goes epically wrong, right?
Actually, no. During the stoned sleepovers, we ran around in the sprinklers in my backyard and made massive ice cream shakes in one gigantic bowl that we all drank from with straws. (For the next year, "Shake in a bowl!" was an inside joke that immediately generated giggles among my friends.) The night Matt's band played, Acacia and I carefully rearranged all of the furniture, moved everything that might break, and even rolled up the rug so it wouldn't get stained. We'd learned our lesson from seeing Jake Ryan's house get trashed in Sixteen Candles.
Nothing got broken. No one got hurt. No one got sick. The cops were never called. The pot smell was successfully aired out. I just had an incredible, unsupervised long weekend, and my parents were none the wiser—except for the band. When I told my mom that I was writing this piece, she told me that the neighbors had reported that back to her. Apparently, the only reason I was granted this liberation was because she trusted them to watch over me. But she agreed that while I'd broken some rules—actually, almost all of them—my friends and I just had fun.
Pushing boundaries is a rite of passage, a really thrilling one when you manage to pull it off, and there are a million ways to do it that don't even involve sex or drugs or potential Big Trouble. I spent the rest of my teen years testing the waters of freedom. Some of the things I did were relatively innocent but totally empowering—I lobbied for a later curfew, went to concerts in new neighborhoods all by myself, and made friends with strangers I met at the venue or talking about Riot Grrrl online. Some were not innocent, but they felt good enough to ignore the consequences—I had a secret boyfriend, one I snuck out of my house to meet and lied to my friends about, afraid that if they met him, they'd only see his drug problem and not his sweet, artistic soul.
Once I tasted freedom, I craved it, so I graduated high school a semester early and moved out on my own before I turned 18. I spent the six months between high school and college living with one of the girls I met online in Madison, Wisconsin, a city two hours away from my parents in Chicago. While I was in Madison, I started dating Simon, who was six years older than me and who could buy booze when I still couldn't legally buy cigarettes. The very first night we met, he slept over in my bed. He just held me. Nothing else happened, not even a kiss, because I was too nervous. This was probably the first time I felt in my gut that I might be going too far. I worried it was a little dangerous to let a strange older man into my bed. But I ignored my instincts, because I was caught up in the thrill of the moment.
I started drinking cocktails when I went out with Simon and his friends. We spent two or three nights a week dancing in nightclubs that I was several years too young to get into. When I got to college, I started drinking cheap boxed wine in my dorm room with Kirsten, the girl who lived next door, on a nightly basis—and sometimes in the morning, too, when we didn't feel like going to class or decided to bring Tequila Sunrises with us. Even though college was fun, the school I'd chosen didn't quite live up to my expectations, so I dropped out after my first year and moved back to Madison to live with Simon, despite the fact that he was in love with another girl.
You may look at this and see a downward spiral, but I see an amusement park full of rides. There were ups and downs, moments where I'd never felt so exhilarated and uninhibited, and moments where I was in a sickening freefall. Sometimes I experienced both of those moments at the same time—like on the spring break trip that Kirsten and I took to New Orleans. We spent our days exploring the cemeteries and voodoo shops of a city that I instantly fell in love with, but we spent our nights in bars and goth clubs, drinking and doing drugs. One night, I let Kirsten go home with a stranger, and I returned to our skeezy hotel alone and had a panic attack, convinced that Kirsten was going to be murdered and that I was going to OD on a mixture of coke, booze, and sleeping pills. In retrospect, she and I were both extremely lucky. When I look back at my so-called adventures, I want to slap my former self, or at least shake her really hard. I was once a smart, responsible girl, the daughter of nurses, who knew that the substances I regularly mixed together were lethal, but I did it anyway. I didn't have a death wish, I'd just lost the ability to rein myself in.
There's a fine line between freedom and losing control, and I spent the five years between the ages of 16 and 21 slipping back and forth across it. Then, just as I'd had that gorgeous long weekend of freedom, I had the moment where I realized the ride was over. The rollercoaster I was on was now nothing but a series of stomach-churning drops.
One spring afternoon, a few months before my 21st birthday, I woke up in the apartment that Simon and I shared, head pounding, mouth dry, eyes crusted over with makeup after a night of dancing, drinking, and fighting with Simon. My cat, Sid, was outside the room meowing pitifully, and when I staggered out to him, I found him staring into the bathroom at his litter box, unable to get to it across the lake of puke. My puke. It was red, the color of the many, MANY drinks I'd had before driving home. Maybe it was the crying cat or the fact that I was sober, but when I realized that I'd driven home blind drunk, I was so horrified that I couldn't ignore the this-is-very-very-bad voice any longer. Previously, all of my idiotic choices affected only me. If I had OD'd or went home with a stranger who turned out to be a serial killer, that was the result of a decision that I'd made—which isn't to say that I deserved such misfortune, just that I was endangering myself. But I couldn't remember anything about my drive home except hitting the curb and laughing, even though that curb could have been another car or a person. I could have KILLED SOMEONE. That thought looped in my brain, making me feel a new kind of sickness. And poor, helpless Sid, whom my parents had gifted to me on my 16th birthday…it dawned on me that it's true what they say: with freedom comes responsibility. I was in charge of Sid's life and my own.
So, after cleaning up my vomit, I took a long, hard look at my life in recent years. In the beginning, there was my Home Alone weekend, where I was able to pull off the kind of party that no one gets away with in the movies without going too far. I was testing limits: the ones my parents set for me. And in part, this gave me the confidence to make decisions that were scary and liberating, like graduating early and moving out. And I'd also had some pretty amazing, spontaneous adventures, like that New Orleans trip before it went downhill. My stomach had twisted when Kirsten suggested splitting up, and a voice started chirping in my ear, but I popped a pill to shut it up. At some point, the limits I was testing were my own. The only thing I had to keep me in line was my own intuition, and when I ignored it, I crossed the line. I lost control.
At 21, I had the kind of life that would have seemed awesome to me at 16. But my life wasn't awesome, and I wasn't happy, and I realized that I had to start trusting my gut again, and hope it would prevent me from making the kind of mess that might kill me or someone else. I needed to set goals, which I did by going back to college. I needed to abide by my own limits, and that was the hard part. My gut told me things that I really didn't want to hear, like that my relationship with Simon was unhealthy and that if I didn't cut myself off after three drinks, I almost always behaved in ways I would regret in the morning. It took me five more years to break up with Simon and curb my drinking. There was therapy involved and a lot of tearful, freaked-out journal-writing. But I finally got back to feeling the way I had that very first time my parents left me alone: I rediscovered freedom, but I had a new understanding of it this time.
Unlike in high school, where someone with authority was always stepping in to tell me what to do, I was in charge of my own destiny. If I wanted to drop out of college or end a relationship or move across the country (hell, across the world), I could. It was totally empowering. But it also meant that I was responsible for the consequences. Before, when I pushed boundaries, I was usually rebelling against someone—my parents, the guidance counselor, The Man—and for the most part, the worst that could happen was getting grounded or suspended. Now "getting in trouble" was different, and it wasn't always trouble in the traditional sense. My years of drinking and my messy relationship with Simon led to the miserable feeling that I'd wasted precious time doing things I was ashamed of. That kind of regret wasn't fun or freeing AT ALL, so I really had to think about what risks were worth taking. I was the ultimate authority.
Six months after breaking up with Simon, I moved to Los Angeles for a semester to study the adaptation of books into film. It was just me and three girlfriends, living in a brand new town. We went to famous nightclubs like the Viper Room, took a weekend trip to Vegas, and snuck into the pool at our rules-y apartment complex for a bit of nightswimming. But when I reached my threshold for feeling buzzed or my stomach knotted up in discomfort, I listened to the voice inside of my head rather than ignoring it. I didn't have any regrets that semester. It was pure freedom, which isn't always synonymous with fun. But in many ways, it's better. ♦
* All names have been changed.


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Industrial & Commercial
A selection of specialised industrial and commercial lamps is stocked by Lyco, which generally include: metal halide, ceramic metal halide, SON-E, SON-T, high-pressure mercury (MBF-U), dual SON and mercury, and SOX. These are collectively known as HID (High-intensity discharge) lamps, and are used in applications where a high level of illumination is required over large areas.
The various types of industrial and commercial bulb can be broken down as follows:
- Metal halide bulbs: have a typical 10,000 hour lifespan (10 times longer than incandescent) and are used for indoor and outdoor lighting applications. Because metal halide lamps radiate light across the UV spectrum, they are commonly used for applications such as indoor gardening and aquariums. This UV output is sometimes blocked, depending on the intended application. Metal halide lamps are also used to light sports stadiums, car parks, and are featured in many car headlights.
- Ceramic metal halide (CMH) bulbs: have a longer, 12,000 to 15,000 hour lifespan than metal halide bulbs. They're often chosen for their excellent colour rendering, with CRI scores sometimes impressively reaching into the 90s. In their cooler-output versions (e.g. 4200K), ceramic metal halide bulbs produce a very natural light, which helps in promoting alertness and concentration. These lamps are often used for retail display lighting, in TV or film-making applications, as well as street and architectural lights.
- SON-E and SON-T bulbs: are divided by their shape (elliptical and tubular). They are high-pressure sodium lamps often favoured over SOX lamps for better colour rendering. SON lamps require ignitors which can be integrated into the bulb itself (internal) or in the fitting (external). Bulbs are marked with an 'I' or 'E' inside a triangle. This symbol should always be checked, as internal and external ignitor SON bulbs are not interchangeable. SON bulbs emit an orange or gold light, and are used in modern street lighting, or for lighting forecourts or warehouses. Lifespans are long at around 30,000 hours.
- SOX lights are one of the most energy-efficient bulbs in existence, and are the classic form of street lighting. However, the near-monochromatic light of a SOX lamp makes it poor for colour rendition. Under its yellow light it is extremely difficult to discern colour, which limits the use of any colour-coded road or safety markings and also has crime-prevention disadvantages (the colour of clothes and vehicles are more difficult to recognise by either humans or cameras). Their economical use is still widespread, however, in street lighting, airports, docks, quarries, and foundries. Average lifespan is 18,000 hours.
- High-pressure mercury bulbs (MBF-U): produce high levels of white light. They generally come in two forms: clear and frosted, though the clear versions tend to have a bluish-green tint that makes them unflattering to human skin tones. For that reason the frosted MBFU lights are favoured for retail display use. Other applications include street, residential, stadium and car park lighting. SOX and SON sodium vapour lights are sometimes preferred for street lighting purposes, for their lower levels of light pollution. These mercury vapour lamps have a 4-7 minute warm-up time, and have a typical 20,000 hour lifespan.
- Dual SON and mercury bulbs: can be installed in either SON or mercury fittings, in which they produce a crisper, whiter light than the native bulb. These bulbs are a good way of altering output whilst avoiding expensive replacement of the overall fitting. Dual SON and mercury bulbs require an external ignitor, and are Son and mercury control gear compatible. These bulbs are usually used in floodlighting applications, and have an average life expectancy of around 15,000 hours.
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text: Sony's basically just confirmed we're unlikely that we'll see a price drop of the PS3 for the holiday season. Speaking at the Gamer 3.0 conference in London, Sony's UK managing director noted that the PS3 is essentially sitting at just the right price point, that there's a market out there for it and the console's price won't "be an issue at all." Sure, he's talking about the pricing in the UK, where sales are "absolutely on target" but it's a pretty reliable indicator that the price this side of the Atlantic isn't going to get a festive lowering either, no matter how tricky the economy gets. [PS3Fanboy]


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The Bail Project combats mass incarceration at the front end by paying bail for tens of thousands of low-income Americans at risk of pretrial detention.
Ubuntu Linux Packages
March 5, 2008 — Users of the Ubuntu distribution of Linux can now obtain packages for the 7.10 (Gutsy) and 8.04 (Hardy) releases of Ubuntu from Launchpad.
Caroline Ford produced packages of Tux Paint (including separate packages for "Magic" tool plug-ins, and plug-in development), Tux Paint Stamps and Tux Paint Config. for the following CPU architectures: i386, lpia and amd64.
Available Packages
The following packages are available from the package sources (option 1) and FTP site (option 2) listed below:
tuxpaint— the main program
tuxpaint-data— data files required by the main program
tuxpaint-plugins-default— "Magic" tool plug-ins
tuxpaint-dev— tools required to develop new "Magic" tool plug-ins
tuxpaint-config— a graphical configuration tool
tuxpaint-stamps-default— the optional artwork used by the "Stamps" tool
Option 1: Package Sources
To use your system's software package manager to install the
various parts of Tux Paint, add the following package repositry
("apt source") lines to your package system
(e.g., via Synaptic, Adept, or by editing "
in a text editor). Ask your system to fetch updates, and you will then
be able to install the various Tux Paint packages (see
"Available Packages," above).
- Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon)
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/secretlondon/ubuntu gutsy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/secretlondon/ubuntu gutsy main
- Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron)
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/secretlondon/ubuntu hardy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/secretlondon/ubuntu hardy main
(For more, see: "PPA for Caroline Ford" at Launchpad.)
Option 2: Direct Package File Downloads (Manual install)
Alternatively, you can download and install
the "
.deb" package files directly:
Download the packages that correspond to your system's CPU
architecture. (You can run the command
dpkg --print-architecture" to find out what it is,
e.g. "
i386" for Intel 80386-compatible CPUs.)
The "
tuxpaint-data" and "
packages are only data, and are therefore architecture-independent.
Install the packages by clicking them to launch gdebi
(under GNOME on Ubuntu) or Adept (under KDE on Kubuntu).
Alternatively, you can use the "
dpkg" command-line tool.
(e.g., "
sudo dpkg -i tuxpaint_0.9.19-0ubuntu2~ppa4~gutsy_i386.deb").
Note: Install "
tuxpaint_0.9.19" last, or install
them all at once using "
dpkg -i tuxpaint*.deb".
Did you know? Adults enjoy Tux Paint, too!


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Darktremor Apps2SD 188.8.131.52 Beta 04
Date of Release: January 29, 2011
Download Current Version
Instructions - Change Log - Commands - ROM List - Developer's Guide
Darktremor Apps2SD Fan Page ---- Darktremor Apps2SD Development Group
Update on Beta 4
It seems I'm getting mixed results with these betas. I'm not sure why this is occurring, some people have been able to get this working right while others have had a hard time with it.
Currently, I'm rebuilding the entire program. This takes a while because I have to figure out how to pack all these options into the program but make it small enough to where it will run correctly.
I will say that some of the beta features are coming back out...one of them is the search for a partition code. I suspect that code may be leading me into issues with certain platforms, so I'm going back to the 22.214.171.124 method of mounting (mmcblk0p2 or mmcblk1p2).
Also, parts of the code will use Busybox Ash (the only code that won't will be starta2sd, which will still use Bash for the time being). The startup code will definitely use Busybox Ash.
Until then, here are the links to the the last two betas and the last official release:
Version 220.127.116.11 Beta 04 - http://www.darktremor.info/files/a2s...a04-signed.zip
Version 184.108.40.206 Beta 03 - http://www.darktremor.info/files/a2s...a03-signed.zip
Version 18.104.22.168-1 - http://www.darktremor.info/files/a2s...2-1-signed.zip
And, if you want past versions, you can view the repository: ftp://dtuser[email protected] (ignore the smiley face...that's XDA doing that.)
Beta 04 took longer than I expected to release. I have done major changes to the code:
1. New commands: convert-ext4 - This will convert your EXT3 partition into EXT4. Just a friendly reminder on this command: Not every rom supports EXT4, so it is possible to go into a boot loop if you switch roms. Use with caution.
2. Reworked convert-ext3 (convert-ext4 gets similar code)...now a flag file is set before the reboot (no conversion is done before the reboot). At load time, the conversion is performed. This takes longer in the reboot process and you may think your phone has locked up...wait about five minutes before doing anything with the phone.
3. Repair is rebuilt...now it uses existing commands to repair the setup (reinstall, remove, cachesd, cachepart, nocache, datasd, nodata). Definitely shrinks the code.
4. Added fix_permissions program to the package. This may help with Superuser issues when using the datasd feature. It is used in reinstall, remove, datasd and nodata.
5. a2sd install is back!!! Both a2sd install and a2sd reinstall do the exact same thing.
6. Dalvik heap code has been shrunk and now creates a file called dalvikheap. Actually, the code has been doing this all along (since about 22.214.171.124, I think), but I never put the code in to use the file.
7. Low Memory Killer code has also been shrunk and uses a file caled dtset_lowmem to set the low memory killer parameter.
8. Replaced Busybox PS function with Toolbox PS. The issue with Busybox PS is that it gives a false reading when I look for android.process.acore (which is the main program when the GUI starts up). If that is present, the program thinks you are trying to run Darktremor without any command line parameters. This was because Busybox would report the process was there when, in reality, it wasn't (validated this when my phone was boot looping.) Toolbox's PS reports the correct setting. This should fix the bootlooping issues some people are experiencing.
9. New commands: usedtbusybox and usedefaultbusybox - these commands may help in diagnosing issues that is may be related to the native Busybox on your rom. a2sd usedtbusybox will use the Busybox that is packaged with Darktremor. a2sd usedefaultbusybox will turn back on the scan behavior of the program introduced in Beta 03.
10. Support for Darktremor Apps2SD version 2.7 and earlier has been discontinued. To upgrade correctly from one of those versions, use version 18.104.22.168 Beta 03b or earlier.
11. Finally fixed stalled boot issues (or at least my tests with several roms says so.)
See the change log for additional details.
You will notice that if the program runs repair and finds a problem, it will correct the issue and reboot. You will see a second reboot when the dalvik-cache clears (this is to fix timing issues with CyanogenMod...I can't control that startup as well as I can other roms). This only happens if repair is ran or you flash a new rom (as repair will realign all data). If you are upgrading from a previous version of Darktremor, you should not see the reboots.
But just because the Darktremor Apps2SD is all about stability, doesn't mean it isn't packed with features:
- Move applications (both free and paid) to the Secure Digital card.
- Move Dalvik Cache to run either from your Secure Digital card or from your cache partition and clears the cache on demand.
- Boot Loop Protection: prevents the phone from boot looping in the event the SD card could not be mounted.
- Dalvik JIT for faster performance on Roms which support it.
- User selectable sizes for the Dalvik heap sizes, allowing a user to freely optimize their system.
- Activate a swap partition on your SD card and sets how often the swap partition is utilized.
- Automatically fixes configuration issues.
- Users can check the free space on their SD card and check the installation to make sure all is setup correctly.
- Runs ZipAlign on demand...this makes your programs load faster.
- Built in help system for easy reference of commands.
- All features can also be reversed without repartitioning your Secure Digital card.
- New logging features assists in troubleshooting issues.
- Commands to set the Low Memory Killer feature at boot time. Great for those people who are the "set it and forget it" type.
- And more...
Darktremor Apps2SD is not the same as Froyo Apps2SD. Froyo Apps2SD creates a secure folder on the FAT32 section of your SD card (this is the section that you see when you mount your phone to your computer) and stores the programs there. This is nice as you don't have to do anything special with the phone, but it isn't backwards compatible with older versions of Android (Cupcake, Donut, Eclair) and, because of the way Froyo works, older programs not designed for Froyo will automatically stay on your internal storage (unless you install a program that forces the move to your SD card).
Darktremor Apps2SD takes a different approach. Based on the original CyanogenMod works, Darktremor Apps2SD uses symbolic linking to force Android into moving your applications to the SD card. Because Android will not allow anything to be ran from the FAT32 partition on your SD card (and, in Froyo, it will only allow you to run programs from a special folder), Darktremor utilizes filesystems called EXT2, EXT3 and EXT4. Each one of these filesystems is native to Linux (the operating system running Android), which allows you to run programs from them (same as, say, a computer running Ubuntu). This method is completely compatible with all versions of Android, including Froyo. In fact, you can run both the Darktremor Apps2SD and Froyo Apps2SD at the same time.
Check out the list of Roms that either have Darktremor Apps2SD installed or are compatible with Darktremor Apps2SD. Click on the link labeled ROM List at the top of this message.


text: This 16-bit transparent D-type latch is designed for 1.65-V to 3.6-V VCC operation. The SN74ALVCH16373 is particularly suitable for implementing buffer registers, I/O ports, bidirectional bus drivers, and working registers. This device can be used as two 8-bit latches or one 16-bit latch. When the latch-enable (LE) input is high, the Q outputs follow the data (D) inputs. When LE is taken low, the Q outputs are latched at the levels set up at the D inputs. A buffered output-enable (OE) input can be used to place the eight outputs in either a normal logic state (high or low logic levels) or the high-impedance state. In the high-impedance state, the outputs neither load nor drive the bus lines significantly. The high-impedance state and the increased drive provide the capability to drive bus lines without need for interface or pullup components. OE does not affect internal operations of the latch. Old data can be retained or new data can be entered while the outputs are in the high-impedance state. To ensure the high-impedance state during power up or power down, OE should be tied to VCC through a pullup resistor; the minimum value of the resistor is determined by the current-sinking capability of the driver. Active bus-hold circuitry holds unused or undriven inputs at a valid logic state. Use of pullup or pulldown resistors with the bus-hold circuitry is not recommended.


text: Holidays with Mountain Panorama Lermoos was an important place on the route from Germany to Italy, already for Romans. Located on the Via Claudia Augusta, the village is still on the most important road section, the Fernpass. Direct views of the Zugspitze peak might have already fascinated people two thousand years back. Today, it animates people to go waking in summer and skiing or snowboarding in winter in the Tirolean Zugspitz Arena. The diversity of sports is very important in Lermoos and therefore, there is a great golf course, a panorama outdoor pool and many other sportive options in the surroundings such as a summer toboggan run, a climbing wall, a sports and leisure park and cross-country skiing tracks which are particularly popular. Hiking and Golfing at the Via Claudia Augusta Summer holidays in Lermoos guarantee true relaxation at the heart of the Alps. The small community in the Tirolean district of Reutte is the ideal starting point for excursions in the surroundings such as a 2-hours hike to Grubigalm pasture, numerous other tours for different ability levels in the Tirolean Zugspitz Arena or a trip to one of the many lakes with the entire family. Lermoos is not far from Reutte, the Mieminger plateau as well as the beautiful Inntal valley and Innsbruck, the capital of Tirol. A special highlight for summer tourists is the nearby golf course, which is located at 1000 meters above sea level right in the middle of the mountains – the spacious and flat area is suitable for beginners as well as professionals and always holds new challenges for its guests. More Information - Details


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American Association of Railroad Superintendents
The Division of Medical Genetics in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco is recruiting a Clinical Geneticist to be appointed at the Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor rank of the Health Sciences (HS) Clinical or Clinical X faculty series (see UCSF Faculty Handbook https://senate.ucsf.edu/sites/default/files/2016-12/FacultyHandbook-UCSF.pdf). The Geneticist will have clinical responsibilities at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals in San Francisco and in Oakland. S/he will provide clinical care to pediatric and adult patients in General Genetics and in Biochemical Genetics Clinics and attend on both inpatient services. Teaching responsibilities include clinical teaching as well as didactic teaching in small groups and in lectures to a variety of learners. Clinical research, scholarly activity, or creative activity is expected, expectations vary with series (see UCSF Faculty Handbook).
Candidates will be expected to have completed or to be on track to complete residency training in Medical Genetics. Fellowship training in Medical or Clinical Biochemical Genetics or prior experience in the management of patients with inborn errors of metabolism is preferred, as is experience in an academic medical center.
Applicants must possess a medical degree and license, Board certification in Pediatrics or Internal Medicine as appropriate, and Board eligibility or certification in Clinical Genetics. Qualified candidates will have demonstrated skill in the provision of genetics care to diverse populations and demonstrated participation in scholarly activities related to education of medical students or residents, collaborative clinical research studies, or other academic activities.
All applicants must apply online at https://aprecruit.ucsf.edu/JPF02760, where they will be asked to submit a cover letter, curriculum vitae, statement of contributions to diversity, and contact information for three references.
UCSF seeks candidates whose experience, teaching, research, or community service has prepared them to contribute to our commitment to diversity and excellence. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, or protected veteran status.