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So thanks to coronavirus, my husband and I have had to make alterations to our wedding. I don't think I have to put this in, but this isn't a joke and need we thoughts on this. We're planning on having our full, entire wedding inside this bubble (I'm inside it for scale). This is to get complete isolation from the virus and to prevent it from spreading to either of us, or if we have the virus somehow, spreading it to others. Both of will get inside it for the whole day (or at least that's the plan). We are ok with making small to moderate changes from a typical wedding if it means isolating inside a bubble, but any big changes would mean we probably won't use the bubble then. Are there any parts in the wedding that would be difficult or downright impossible to do inside this bubble? What are your thoughts on this idea, and what would need to be changed from a traditional wedding?


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We had another big snow last night and got around 8 inches! The boys were excited because they got another snow day! I have to admit that I'm loving all these days off! As a teacher January is a really slow month but it's flying by this year with all of these snow days! I tried to go into this snow day with a better attitude than my last snow day... I knew the boys were going to play in the snow and bring buckets of it into my house so I decided when God
gives me lemons I should make lemonade gives me snow I should make snow ice cream!
8 - 10 cups freshly fallen snow
1 (14-ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Gather your snow in a big bowl. I prefer to set my bowl outside before the snow falls. Then I pluck my ice cold bowl from the snow and bring it inside. I put my bowl out on my back porch, can you spot it?
Pour in the sweetened condensed milk.
Spoon in the vanilla extract. Look at the concentration on Abbott's face, that kid is going to be a great cook one day! Stir it together for a few minutes, until it is all the same color and starts to resemble homemade ice cream... it helps if you have a little brother cheering you on!
Andrew likes his snow ice cream plain.
Justin, Abbott, and I like ours with chocolate syrup!
Snow Ice Cream
Thursday, January 20, 2011
We had another big snow last night and got around 8 inches! The boys were excited because they got another snow day! I have to admit that I'm loving all these days off! As a teacher January is a really slow month but it's flying by this year with all of these snow days! I tried to go into this snow day with a better attitude than my last snow day... I knew the boys were going to play in the snow and bring buckets of it into my house so I decided when God
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Mary's Spinach Dip
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
I work with a gal named Mary, she's the best! She knows my looks... my sighs... my pain, and she's always there to step in when our students get to be a handful (which happens around a gazillion times a day). Just today she saw me doing the potty dance and told me to go to the bathroom... that's when you know you have a good friend who cares :-)
Mary is a vegetarian, so she's basically an expert on yummy foods that don't contain meat. She always brings the best cake, chips, nuts, etc. to work! I like to tease Mary though because she can't weigh more than 100 pounds and I swear she eats 3 almonds for lunch and says "I'm stuffed", it's disturbing. When talking about food Mary likes to use descriptive words like "huge" and "enormous"... she'll say "Hey Carrie, I brought in a gargantuan bag of pretzels if you want some" only to pull out a ziploc with 10 pretzel sticks in it. It cracks me up!! Mary once described a 1/2 cup of guacamole as a "humongous vat of guacamole". I have to give her kuddos for her positive outlook, she's always a "the glass is half full" kind of gal, I love that about her!
Mary brought in this spinach dip a couple years ago and I knew it would be delicious (because it had Mary's endorsement) but I was hesitant to try it because I didn't think cold spinach dip would be very good. Boy was I wrong! I like this cold spinach dip better than warm spinach dip now! I make this for every potluck and party I go to! It's SUPER EASY and everyone raves about it, even I can't stop munching on it... I feel rude because I stand by my own dish and scarf it down, it's embarrassing!
Fritos Scoops Chips (don't try to use any other chip, these go the best with this dip)
1 box of Frozen Chopped Spinach, thawed and drained
1 packet of Knorr Vegetable Recipe Mix (it's next to the dry soups at the grocery store)
1 cup of Hellmann's mayonnaise (it has to be real mayonnaise, NOT Miracle Whip)
1 (16 ounce) tub of Sour Cream
Stir together the spinach, Knorr vegetable packet, mayonnaise and sour cream. Make sure to drain the liquid from the spinach and if your spinach is still frozen just pop it into the microwave for a few seconds to thaw. Cover and refrigerate overnight. Serve with the Fritos Scoops and keep refrigerated! Oh, and try not to eat all the dip yourself ,-)
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Bean Soup
Monday, January 10, 2011
We had a snow day today, so no work or school! It's the perfect day for some bean soup (yeah!) and playing in the snow (oh crap!)... I consider myself a pretty good mom. I accept that boys will be loud and rowdy at times, I don't freak out when something is accidentally broken/spilt, and I try to be patient as they learn and make mistakes. My downfall is when the boys want to play in the snow!
Nothing gets me more frustrated than spending an hour hunting through the house for gloves, scarfs, long underwear, etc. Then, the boys go out and play for maybe 20 minutes (ringing the door bell every two minutes to give me a play by play of everything they're doing). It never fails that at least one of them needs to use the restroom while they're playing (today it was Abbott and that's a disaster in and of itself). Then once they're done playing they pile back inside (usually bringing a couple neighborhood kids with them) to unload buckets of snow and wet clothing onto the floor. Their 20 minutes of fun costs me hours of gathering, cleaning, and washing. Not to mention that after they come in (and I'm huffing and puffing trying to mop up the floor and clean up the humongous pile of clothes) they always ask me to make hot chocolate! So as I'm mumbling under my breath and sloshing around hot chocolate, I happen to look outside to see practically the entire contents of our garage strewn about the driveway. They didn't even clean up the snow toys they got out! Blink. Blink. Sighhhhhh...
1 (16 ounce) bag dried navy beans
8 cups water
2 cups of cooked diced ham
1 chicken bullion cube
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 pinch ground black pepper
1 bay leaf
1 cup sliced carrots
1 cup sliced celery
Ketchup- optional
Place rinsed beans into a large stock pot. Add water and bring to a boil. Boil gently for 2 minutes; remove from heat, cover and let stand for 1 hour.
Add cubed ham, bullion cube, salt, pepper and bay leaf. Bring to a boil; reduce heat, cover and simmer for 1 hour and 15 minutes or until beans are soft. Add carrots and celery and cook until tender (around 45 minutes). Once the beans, carrots, and celery are tender, remove the bay leaf and it's ready to serve! You may want to get a potato masher and mash some of the beans to thicken the broth... this is just my preference though! I also prefer to add ketchup sometimes, it's just a habit from when I was a kid ,-)
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Homemade Hostess Cupcakes
Saturday, January 1, 2011
Well, our Christmas break is almost over... boohoo :-(
It's been a fun couple weeks! It seems like every Christmas break we go through an entertainment trend. This year's trend was board games, especially the game Clue (we played it probably 10 times). This is the first year Abbott has understood Clue and was able to really play, so it was "game on" as we strategized and asked our questions... Mr. Plum, with the candlestick, in the library?
It's so much fun playing with the boys! Abbott especially has come into his own recently, he is a witty lil punk! My stomach muscles have been sore from laughing so much!
We also celebrated Andrew! Last year he scored in the top 2% on state assessments so he was invited to a scholarship program. Initially I wasn't very excited because it required that Andrew take the ACT... a 7th grader take the ACT?! Eventually though, my school's college counselor convinced me to let Andrew take it. We got Andrew's ACT score a few days ago and he scored a 20! We are so proud of him! 20 is an amazing score for a 7th grader!
Now, on to the cupcakes! No joke, this is THE BEST cupcake recipe I have! Justin was shocked when I told him I've never blogged this recipe because I've made it a few times (and they've gotten rave reviews every time), but these cupcakes are gobbled down so quickly I usually can't get any pictures! I decorate the top of the cupcakes with the hostess signature loops, but you could draw words or pictures as well. I tried writing "love" once but my handwriting is so sloppy... I have to stick to the loops ,-)
Cupcake Ingredients
1 box Devil's Food Cake Mix (and the oil, water, eggs to prepare it)
1 large jar Marshmallow Fluff
Ganache Ingredients
1 (12 ounce) bag chocolate chips
1/2 cup milk
Icing Ingredients
1 stick butter
1 1/2 - 2 tablespoons milk
2 cups powdered sugar
1/4 teaspoon vanilla
Cupcake Directions
Position a rack in the center of the oven and preheat to 350. Place paper liners in muffin tin for about 20 cupcakes. Spray liners with non-stick cooking spray.
Prepare the Devil's Food cake according to the directions, divide the batter evenly amongst the cupcake liners (about 1/4 cup batter per cupcake) and bake until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, about 17 minutes. Cool for at least 1 hour.
Spoon the marshmallow fluff into a pastry bag... this is the hardest part because the fluff is so sticky (get a helper to hold your bag while you try to fill it). With a medium star tip (I used a Wilton #199 tip). Insert the tip into the center of each cupcake top; fill until the cupcake is heavier or the top starts to split. It's OK if some of the filling peeks out, it will be covered by the ganache ,-)
Ganache Directions
In a tall cup or bowl (I use a 2-cup measuring cup) add the milk and chocolate chips. Microwave in 30 second intervals stirring after each cycle until it's melted. Mine is usually melted and ready to go after 3 cycles (1 minute 30 seconds).
Icing Directions
Meanwhile, prepare the icing: Using a mixer, beat the remaining 1 stick butter, 1/4 teaspoon vanilla, the milk and confectioners' sugar until smooth, adding more milk if needed. Spoon into a pastry bag with a small tip (I used a Wilton #4 plain tip); pipe onto the cupcakes to decorate.
Store in the refrigerator, they are yummy cold!
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The film based on Elizabeth Gilbert's bestselling book Eat, Pray, Love suggests that spiritual tourism is still alive and that India remains a magnet for such tourism, despite the snares awaiting the naïve seeker, or the irony contained in the title. I mean, aren't these three actions the very essence of the pursuit of happiness? Still, because there's big money in spiritual tourism, we Indians aren't complaining. We are also pursuing happiness, preferably material.
In India we hate to offend, so it is not uncommon for charlatans to dress up as sages and offer platitudes as transcendent knowledge, hoping to reel in rich foreign suckers with proto-ascetic razzamatazz.
The world has been here before. The prime time of spiritual tourism was the '60s and the '70s, when everyone from the Beatles and the Rolling Stones to the crowned heads of Europe followed thousands upon thousands of hopeful young Americans to India seeking enlightenment, while materialistic Indians happily raked in the money. In my book Karma Cola: Marketing the Mystic East, I wrote of that time, "Never before had the Void been pursued with such optimism and such razzle dazzle. Everyone suspected that whatever America wanted, America got. Why not Nirvana?"
Alas, many only got disillusioned because the Indian dream is about endurance, not happiness. We believe in re-incarnation, the cycle of birth and rebirth. So our fondest hope is not for eternal life, but an end to this wheel of existence through eternal death. Similarly, when the seeker asks an Indian master, "What is the answer?" instead of coming up with some profound revelation, the master irritatingly replies, "Who is asking?"
Because of such paradoxes, heavy hitters from the West once issued grave warnings to foreigners determined to find answers in India. Carl Jung maintained he had met many Western seekers who were insulated from India by Western thought processes, adding that if this insulation broke down, India would drive them quite literally mad. Nietzsche wrote that seekers hoping to reach India might find themselves wrecked against infinity. Aldous Huxley, whose book The Doors of Perception made him the guru of all acid-heads, left India in disgust, though he prefaced his writings on India with this quote from Milton, "What is truth? said Jesting Pilate, "And would not stay for an answer."
Appropriately, Huxley's book is titled Jesting Pilate, and in today's vortex of mass communication and global marketing, the demand is for instant gratification, even in matters of the soul. Like Pilate, seekers want answers to the big questions NOW and, unlike Elizabeth Gilbert, they are not prepared to accept that enlightenment is an arduous, even dangerous, undertaking.
Fortunately, in India we hate to offend, so it is not uncommon for charlatans to dress up as sages and offer platitudes as transcendent knowledge, hoping to reel in rich foreign suckers with proto-ascetic razzamatazz.
So, for those still determined to look for answers in the East, it may be helpful to remember two names India has given herself: Rishi Bhoomi—the Land of the Masters—and Karma Bhoomi—the Land of Experience. You might get lucky and find a real guru, in which case you might leave India enlightened. Or you might get conned and only leave India experienced.
As any Indian could tell you, it all depends on your karma.
Plus: Check out Book Beast, for more news on hot titles and authors and excerpts from the latest books.
Gita Mehta is the author of three works of nonfiction, Karma Cola: Marketing the Mystic East, Snake and Ladders: Glimpses of Modern India, and Eternal Ganesha; and two novels, A River Sutra and Raj. Her books have been translated into 21 languages and been on bestseller lists in Europe, the U.S. and India. She divides her time between New York, London, and New Delhi.


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VICTORIA — The B.C. Liberal election campaign is headquartered in a modest office building in downtown Vancouver, right above the storefront for one of the city's gold and silver buyers.
The proximity has sparked predictable laugh lines about the Liberals being able to liquidate the party silverware to pay their debts if this campaigning-for-a-fourth-term thing doesn't work out.
Joking aside, when I visited the Liberal war room on the morning after the television debate, I found the mood to be reasonably upbeat and the party mavens still hopeful about closing the gap in the opinion polls before election day.
The walls were festooned with encouraging slogans. "It's about the economy," said one. "Only Christy Clark and today's Liberals have a clear plan to control spending and grow the economy and get to a debt-free British Columbia," said others.
There was even a Wonder Woman calendar on the wall, in tribute, presumably, to Premier Clark, who paid a morale-building visit to campaign workers Tuesday morning before heading out on a swing through the Interior.
By way of contrast, I've covered election campaigns that unfolded with all the grim inevitability of a march to the scaffold.
Social Credit in 1991 for instance. One of the first stops on the campaign tour was scheduled for the longtime party stronghold of Fort St. John, amid expectations that then-premier Rita Johnston could start things off on an optimistic note surrounded by grassroots supporters from the hinterlands
But the first salt-of-the-earth citizen into the room for that first event announced to the assembled media that he came because "I didn't want to miss having breakfast with the last Social Credit premier of British Columbia."
Which proved to be precisely prophetic. The Socreds were all but liquidated in the subsequent election, leaving the remnants to be absorbed over the subsequent decade into its centre-right successor, the B.C. Liberals.
Campaign 2001 was pretty much a death watch for the governing New Democratic Party.
Reporters still tell about the day from hell when the campaign bus for then-premier Ujjal Dosanjh got lost, stalked by a coyote, given the finger repeatedly, and wound up for a media scrum in a condom-strewn parking lot outside a livestock rendering plant on Vancouver's waterfront.
A cabinet minister from those days took to referring to his government as "the Kursk," after the Russian submarine that was lost with all hands. Why not the more familiar metaphor for a marine accident? "Because some people survived the Titanic."
That proved to be close to prophetic as well, as the New Democrats managed to save only two seats in the subsequent electoral reckoning.
The B.C. Liberals are still some distance from the defeatist moods of those two electoral debacles. Perhaps they are also mindful that the outcomes of those two decade-apart campaigns were different in one significant respect, namely the resulting balance of power in the legislature.
The 2001 election really was a wipeout. Indeed, Dosanjh conceded the election when the campaign still had more than a week to run. "I get it," he said. "I accept that I will not form another NDP government."
Though some New Democrats have never forgiven Dosanjh for that (or for later joining the federal Liberals), at the time he threw in the towel, one opinion poll showed his party trailing by an astonishing 50 points. Plus his purpose was to plead with the voters to elect an "effective opposition" to "hold Gordon Campbell accountable."
About 40 per cent of the electorate did cast ballots for options other than the Liberals, but only two New Democrats managed to navigate successfully through the shoals of our first-past-the-post electoral system.
The meagre Opposition presence (which Campbell, shamefully, refused to recognize in any official capacity), made it much harder to hold the government to account in the legislature, notwithstanding the remarkable and often single-handed performance of the then-leader of the NDP, Joy MacPhail.
The outcome was significantly different in 1991. The New Democrats won a more than comfortable majority of 51 seats in the then-75-seat legislature. But the voters also elected seven survivors of Social Credit, plus 17 newcomers from the B.C. Liberals.
The Liberals were inexperienced, the Socreds demoralized, still, that made for two dozen MLAs on the opposition side to hold the government to account.
The New Democrats were subjected to more heat in the legislature from the outset, and though they survived to win a second term, it was a near-run thing — losing the popular vote, but winning a majority in the seat count.
Looking to the current campaign, NDP leader Adrian Dix is fighting to win everywhere, though his party denies (not all that persuasively, in my view) that he means to crush, crush, crush the Liberals the way Campbell did the New Democrats in 2001.
The Liberals, in fighting against the odds to turn things around, are also serving the dual purpose of trying to save as much as they can of their seat complement to establish a sizable opposition beachhead for the next four years.
Plan B, one might call it. And unless the gap between the two main parties drops to the single digits very soon, I expect it will become the operative one for the Liberals as election day approaches.


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A new study find that studying one's Facebook profile boosts his or her self-esteem after a crushing blow to the ego.
"The conventional wisdom is that Facebook use is merely a time sink and leads to an assortment of negative consequences," lead researchers Jeff Hancock, a professor of communication at Cornell University, told Agence France-Presse. "But our research shows that it can be a psychologically meaningful activity that supplies a sense of well-being at a relatively deep level."
The study of 88 undergraduates included the subjects giving a brief speech. Awaiting feedback on the speech, subjects were given time to view Facebook and look at either their own profile or others for a few minutes. The subjects were then given negative feedback about the speech (all were given negative feedback whether their efforts were good or not.) When asked to rate the feedback, those who looked at their own profile were less defensive than those who looked at other profiles.
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For researchers, this means spending time looking at one's own profile is a way to self-soothe after a harrowing ego-bruising from the boss or others, or "restore deep-seated notions of themselves as a good person loved by a network of friends and family."
While we think that's some rather huge leaps in logic based on a relatively small and simple study, perhaps it also tells us that a person's persona on Facebook may be largely positive rather than negative. We have all witnessed friends on Facebook who seem to be having the best time and vacation, but not so much when they are having bouts of self-doubt. Perhaps this also works on the individual creating this image.


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January 2009 Reader's Tech Tips
Tips from your fellow racers!
Do you have a GM rear end? Have you been troubled by the cross-pin bolt? Here's a solution to the "over-tightened, I can't get a socket on it" blues. Take an 8mm end wrench, the one I used had 6mm on the other end. Weld a quarter inch drive cut from a cheap nut runner into the 6mm end. Keep it as short as possible. With an 8mm socket, the cross-pin bolt can be broken loose and then backed out with the open end wrench. These are things that are lying around almost every shop and it works well for me.
Gary BakerConyers, GAChevy Super TruckPeach State Speedway/LanierNational Speedway
After trying several styles of shaker screens, we decided to give a standard house furnace filter a try. Using our metal brake, we used some aluminum sheeting and made a 3/4 inch channel to fit on each side of the filter and used pop rivets to fasten it in. Depending on the style of frame/rollcage on the car, a stop may be necessary on the bottom also. The filter can and will suck in toward the radiator but a couple of vertical braces or a stiff screen between the filter and radiator will be enough to take care of that problem. A couple of tie-wraps at the top are more than enough to keep it in place. A $2 filter will keep a lot of dirt out of the radiator. We always keep a spare behind the seat in the truck and change out the filter every couple of races. This photo shows the amount of dirt stopped after one night of racing.
Tom VothGoodhue, MNWissota Street Stock
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Sunday, June 07, 2009
In the 8 years that I have been running FANS I don't believe that I have run one where it has rained. All. Day. Long.
Well, actually we began before the rain started. It began to rain a few hours in and it would not let up. It was so wet that my fingernail polish began to bubble off and my nails are opaque.
As I pulled into a spot on the street I knew it was going to rain so decided to just leave all of my gear in the car. I didn't bring a tent and didn't want my bag of items getting soaked on the grass. I laid everything out in an orderly fashion and then left to pick up my packet and number.
Lots of familiar faces. I remember the first few years I ran FANS I didn't know anyone at the race. Over the years I now associate certain runners with FANS. Lots of meeting and greeting. Great fun.
I decided to begin running in a long sleeve and shorts. It was cool, 45F and windy. I figured I'd add a jacket when the rain began. As it turned out, I probably waited too long to add a jacket. I was freezing, soaking wet when I finally decided to go to my car and change shirts, bra and add my dry jacket. Ah, it felt so good.
I brought along plenty of gear; gloves, jackets, long sleeves, pants, shorts..you name it I had it. I had HEED, Hammergel, Red Bull, Sandwiches. Everything I needed.
After about 2 hours I knew I wasn't in the race mentally. You know, you can have the physical training in but if you aren't in it mentally, you just aren't in. I wasn't in. It has been almost a year since I've been in an ultra mentally. I guess the flame began to flicker around the time of the Voyageur 50 last July. I've tried to get it to burn bright again, but it just isn't there. I'm OK with that now. I wasn't feeling my groove. I wasn't in the race when I mailed in my entry. Probably why I waited until last minute to sign up.
I was tired. Topaz has been sick and I've been sick with worry. I haven't been sleeping well. I decided I'd run anyway, thought I might have a last hurrah at FANS. I had a hurrah, a 12 hour hurrah.
At 730 Steve called. I became worried. In the two seconds it took me to answer my cell I had a zillion thoughts that went through my head. Topaz is worse. Troy was injured at baseball. My Mom's results came in. Tyler had an accident at work. It was the former.
Last week I applied Frontline onto Topaz. I had used Frontline 4 years ago and Topaz became ill. He would vomit, became very mucousy and just off. I knew it was the Frontline. I didn't give him anymore after that first application. Last year Topaz ended up with Lyme's. I decided to again try Frontline this year so that he wouldn't have Lyme's.
I shouldn't have. The reaction from Lyme's would have been better than the reactions from the Frontline poisoning.
I noticed last weekend that while running in back of Topaz his left ear was down lower than the right. When deer flies are biting, his left side is cocked downward a bit. There were no deer flies and his head wasn't cocked. His head was level but the ear was sunk down. Odd. I noticed that he looked back at me, as if questioning me. Questioning about what?
When we arrived home I checked him over closely. His left eye had been tearing since the day before. I realized that the left eyelid wasn't blinking. The right would blink, the left eye would roll back, but not blink. The left side of his mouth was becoming slack. His tongue was drooping, and looked longer than ever.
I continued to watch him closely and gave him a vigorous bath, trying to wash the Frontline from his skin, although I imagine it had already been absorbed into his skin.
On Thursday I brought Topaz to the vet. She told me he did indeed have partial paralysis of the face. It could stem from the brain or something else..she didn't think it was the Frontline. I am not so sure. I have since researched Frontline and have found that 44000 dogs became ill, suffered seizures or death last year. The EPA is going to place a warning on Frontline 'in the near future'.
After speaking with Steve I finished the lap that I was on, bawling, and came to the timing tent looking for Maria. I told her what had been happening with Topaz and that I was done. I was meeting Topaz and Steve at the ER vet.
Maria walked me off the course, thankfully my car as all packed with my gear. I quickly changed shirt, bra and jacket out on the street and drove off from FANS.
11.5 hours 55.5 miles. Good enough for me!
We found that Topaz also has a tooth infection of some sort. The vet put him on an antibiotic and confirmed these seizures could be neurological or maybe this infection is causing nerve damage to the face. This vet confirmed problems and reactions from Frontline.
He will have surgery this next week.
Physically I am fine. No soreness, tightness, blisters, etc. Mentally I feel like I've been hit by a Mack truck. This morning Topaz seems a bit more himself. It is so strange. His neurosis's are magnified by whatever is going on with him. He is running circles constantly around the kitchen, herding Toffee nonstop, all of his issues are magnified. The vet told me to go ahead and exercise him, not in the heat and not to exhaustion. This morning we went for a 5 mile cool walk. It's 43F and drizzling. STILL! He did fine.
Back to FANS. John Storkamp: congrats on your run! My god, a machine. It was fun to watch you lap me over and over. A huge thank you to all of the volunteers that stayed outside in that horrific weather. Ugh. You are angels! The crew, pacers and family members of the runners! I can't believe how many people were sitting, running, cheering on their runners in that crappy weather. How wonderful you all are.
Thanks FANS, I've had a blast over the years.
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- Mark H. said...
Sorry about Topaz. I had Lyme disease about 10 years ago and know that Bell's Palsy is not unusual in people. Sounds exactly like what Topaz has. Although I never got Bell's Palsy, I noticed that the nerves in my face were 'not normal' and I could never remember where I parked my car when I got out of work. I had no motivation and didn't want to do anything physical. I expect dogs have a tough time with it too. I hope Topaz recovers soon.
- Cynical Dirt Doll said...
Oh Julie.. I'm so sorry about Topaz, I'm sending all my good, healing thoughts and energy to him. Frontline is evil, evil stuff. My Great Dane would get sick for days whenever I used it.. I'm kinda dense so it took me 3 applications until I figured out the connection. I've been able to avoid using it by being really proactive about tick checking, but he's not a running trail dog like your Topaz so his risk is much lower. Stay strong!
- nwgdc said...
Really sorry to hear about Topaz...my wife just ordered Frontline for our doggy, and I was a bit concerned about it also...being a Chiropractor, I question this kind of stuff by nature.
Please keep us updated!
- Kel said...
Sending good thoughts to you and Topaz...
- christian said...
I don't know if it's any better, but we use "Revolution" on our three dogs and have for well over 5 years.
I have a 130 lb rottie, a 70 pound shepherd, and 40 pound beagle and all three suffer zero notable negative symptoms of any kind.
I don't know if that helps, but I understand the "pet love"-thing and thought I'd share.
- Kel said...
Christian - a 40 pound beagle?!?!?
- johnmaas said...
I saw you at FANS and then didn't after 8PM. This explains it.
Hope Topaz gets well soon!


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"Partner selection is an area of STD prevention that could complement what we are already doing with promoting condom use, and could possibly really help people," says Stephanie Staras, Florida Uni epidemiology prof.
"If somehow we could convince individuals to incorporate this information in a meaningful way into their decision-making, then we could reduce STDs."
Staras' team evaluated various things about sexual partners which might indicate that they'd be likely to give you the clap. These included obvious ones like them having had an STD before or having had sex with other people lately. Other warning signs of a possible Cupid's catarrh carrier are these: having done jail time, marjuana or alcohol problems, or a five-year-plus age difference from oneself.
Apparently if all these factors in a partner are considered together, they can affect one's chances of getting a dose even more than use or non-use of condoms. Or in other words, having sex with dope-smoking, alcoholic, poxed jailbird philanderers outside your own age group is riskier than doing it unprotected.
"It's all about the risk of the partner and sometimes we forget that," commented Richard A Crosby, who is "the DDI endowed professor" at Kentucky Uni.
Staras' and her colleagues' research was carried out by surveying people who attended STD clinics between 1999 and 2002.
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|Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist
|Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist (霧の忍刀七人衆, Kiri no Shinobigatana Shichinin Shū)
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The Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist (霧の忍刀七人衆, Kiri no Shinobigatana Shichinin Shū) was an organisation consisting of only the greatest blade-wielding shinobi of their generation that Kirigakure can produce. There can only be seven members at a time — hence the name. The swords of the Seven Swordsmen are passed down from generation to generation.[1]
Some time after the Third Shinobi World War, the Seven Swordsmen of the time (Fuguki Suikazan, Jinin Akebino, Kushimaru Kuriarare, Raiga Kurosuki, Jūzō Biwa, and two others) cornered a Konoha team. The team was rescued by Might Duy, who fought all seven using the Eight Gates Released Formation.[2] The fate for most of the members afterwards is unknown.
The group's make-up would change over the years: Mangetsu Hōzuki joined and mastered all seven swords; Fuguki was killed and replaced by Kisame Hoshigaki. But as Kiri descended into the years of the "Bloody Mist", its members started dying — as in the case of Mangetsu, or becoming missing-nin and taking their swords with them — as in the cases of Kisame, Zabuza Momochi, and (in the anime) Raiga. By the time of the Fourth Shinobi World War, only Hiramekarei remained in Kiri's possession, wielded by Chōjūrō.
The "strongest" generation of the Seven Swordsmen is reincarnated to fight for Akatsuki during the Fourth Shinobi World War.[3] Five of the swordsmen are reunited with their former swords, which they use against the Third Division. Although the Third Division suffers numerous casualties, they are able to seal all of the Seven Swordsmen by the second day of war. They are later released from the Impure World Reincarnation and their souls return to the Pure Land.
- Kubikiribōchō (首斬り包丁, Viz: Executioner's Blade, Literally meaning: Decapitating Carving Knife): A giant sword with a butcher-knife-like appearance, the wielder can use the semi-circle on the blade to decapitate an opponent's head, hence the name. The sword has an ability to regenerate using the iron absorbed from the blood of those it cuts down. It is also called a "Seversword" (断刀, Dantō).
- Samehada (鮫肌, Literally meaning: Shark Skin): The most terrifying of the seven blades, it has the appearance of a giant knife covered in shark scales. It is a sentient, living weapon and has the ability to "eat" chakra. It is also called a "Greatsword" (大刀, Daitō).
- Nuibari (縫い針, Literally meaning: Sewing Needle): A sword in the shape of a needle with a long thin wire that resembles thread attached to it, which can be used to pierce enemies and "sew" them together in human bundles. It is also called a "Longsword" (長刀, Chōtō).
- Kabutowari (兜割, Literally meaning: Helmet Splitter): A sword consisting of a single sided axe and a hammer joined by a length of chain. Said to be capable of crushing any and all defences. It is also called a "Bluntsword" (鈍刀, Dontō).
- Shibuki (飛沫, Literally meaning: Splash): A sword that has a scroll full of explosive tags incorporated into it, lined up behind the blade, combining swordsmanship and explosions. It is also called a "Blastsword" (爆刀, Bakutō).
- Kiba (牙, Literally meaning: Fangs): Twin swords that are imbued with lightning which increases their cutting power. They are said to be the sharpest swords ever forged. They are also called "Thunderswords" (雷刀, Raitō).
- Hiramekarei (ヒラメカレイ): A bandaged double-handled sword that is capable of storing and emitting the user's chakra which can then take on various forms. It is also called a "Twinsword" (双刀, Sōtō).
Known Members
An earlier generation of the organisation consisted of Fuguki, Jinin, Jūzō, Raiga, Kushimaru and two other unidentified shinobi:
- Hiramekarei's wielder: A shorter individual with moused-up hair who wore his forehead protector as a choker and a utility belt around his waist along with a flak jacket and a pinstriped shirt and pants. He carried the Twinsword strapped to his back horizontally.
- Shibuki's wielder: A slender man who wore a pinstriped shirt and a cloth-mask that only showed his eyes.
- It seems to be a tradition for the members and aspiring members of the Seven Swordsmen to have sharpened teeth.
- All the known named members also have fruit-derived surnames, or if lacking a surname, their given name. This does not hold true for Raiga.
- All of the reincarnated swordsmen have bandages around their necks.[4]
- At least three of the members became missing-nin, while one was discovered to be a traitor, leaking confidential information to other villages.
- Although Mangetsu was said to have mastered use of all the swords, other members of his generation wielded six of them, leaving Hiramekarei as the blade he likely primarily used.
- Three members of the Seven Swordsmen were former Anbu members.
- Three members of the Seven Swordsmen managed to fake their own deaths or regain life later on, by the means of an accomplice.
- In the anime, Kushimaru and Jinpachi were known collectively as the "Heartless Pair" (非情コンビ, Hijō Konbi) due to their many acts of cruelty in their lifetime.[5]
See Also
- Kinkaku Force: A similar group of shinobi from the Land of Lightning.
- Twelve Guardian Ninja: A similar group of shinobi from the Land of Fire.


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Twitter is revamping the service with personal Twitter profile pages, a new timeline that includes rich media and other related information embedded into tweets, and easier search for information based on @ symbols (usernames) and hash tags.
Talking at Twitter's unfinished new headquarters building in San Francisco, founder Jack Dorsey and CEO Dick Costolo explained that the changes are meant to make Twitter more accessible to everybody.
Their three goals:
- Expose the "universe within every tweet." Tweets aren't just 140 characters -- there's also context like retweets and replies, and embedded content like videos, images, and songs. Today, accessing this material still feels like opening a "side drawer," said Costolo.
- Make Twitter less obscure to use. Today, the @ and # symbols are too obscure -- people don't know what they mean. This contributes to a lot of people visiting Twitter but not really participating actively. The redesign surfaces these symbols and makes them the gateway to find out more infrmation about people and topics on the surface.
- Share it with everybody. The world has 7 billion people. Most of those people are "not yet on Twitter," said Costolo. The redesign will roll out to mobile devices simultaneously, and is streamlined to load up to 500% faster.
The trick is doing this without adding too much complexity. As Dorsey put it, "simplification is the key here."
Here are elements:
- Personal profile pages. Every Twitter user will get a new profile page that contains everything about them -- all their tweets, followers, favorites, images they've uploaded, and so on. "Tell more compelling story for you."
- New home timeline. The new timeline page will embed everything about a particular tweet right in the tweet -- retweets, favorites, and added content. Twitter will also put an embed code into every tweet, so Web sites can take entire tweets and put them on Web pages, just as they do with YouTube videos and other content.
- #Discover. A new # option at the top of the page will take you to a list of interesting stories related to people you're following, or people Twitter thinks you might be interested in. (The relevance algorithm isn't that great yet -- the top two stories for me right now are about Ice Cube and Rick Perry, neither of whom I've ever followed or tweeted about.)
- @ names are now the shortcut to people. A new @Connect item at the top of the Twitter home page will let you see everything that is happening related to your username -- all retweets, direct messages, and so on.
We'll have a walkthrough posted shortly.
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Fort Morgan's Board of Education approved Monday continuing late starts to classes at Fort Morgan High School to allow time for meetings of professional learning committees — and upped the time to be spent in those meetings.
The committees started meeting for 1 ½ hours every two weeks in January; next fall the meetings will be for an hour once a week.
Students report to classes late on the days that the PLC's meet.
All classes are still held on those days but are shortened by a few minutes.
Teachers Greg Edson and James Wilson briefed the board on the PLC meetings held this semester.
The time is needed to improve student performance, Edson said, and the schedule lacks flexibility to have the meetings in another way. Having meetings before or after school leads to absence of some teachers due to other school activities.
The late starts provide a way to meet within contact hours, Edson said.
He and Wilson went through some myths and facts about the meetings.
The myths included disruption of instructional time, chaos managing students, confusion among students about the schedule and not much difference from before or after school meetings.
Instructional objectives are still being completed on time, the students who show up early on PLC days get tutoring (fewer than 50 show up early), the students have adapted to the schedule changes and teacher attendance is better than it was at before and after school meetings.
Paragraph writing and graphs were among targets identified in the meetings; Wilson said he has noticed a big improvement in his students' essays.
Board member Rob Carruth expressed concern about taking away from instructional time, saying he wanted to be sure any such time resulted in measurable progress.
Ben Bauman, middle school principal who is moving to the high school next fall, said such progress was being made.
In fiscal matters, chief financial officer Mike Lee reported that budget projections indicate a deficit of about $1 million for the current fiscal year, which would lower the beginning balance for 2013-14 to about $6.8 million.
State equalization for the year was about $400,000 less than the previous year, he said.
There were several revenue increases projected for 2013-14 — propety tax up $300,000, specific ownership tax $14,000 and state equalization $164,000.
However, federal and other cuts will take about $441,000.
A deficit of about $628,000 is projected for 13-14, which would lower the ending balance to about [cent]6.1 million.
If the trend continues, the district could run into sustainability issues in future years, Lee said. The board approved several polices on third reading — readings on administrative staff positions, alcohol and drug-free workplace, public conduct on school property and community use of school facilities. :
The second of three required readings were held on updates to policies on parent involvement, public concerns about teaching methods, activities or presentations and public concerns and complaints; public concerns about personnel and school-community-home relations policies were eliminated.
Angela Smith of the Fort Morgan Education Association told the board that FMEA concerns about loss of due process in eliminating public concerns about personnel policies were eliminated after meetings with Ron Echols, superintendent of schools, and revisions to the updated public concerns and complaints policy.
Third readings on policies on administrative staff positions, alcohol and drug-free workplace, public conduct on district property and community use of school facilities were approved.
Board member Dr. George Saiter cast a "no" vote on the policies, as he did on administrative staff positions after asking that they be separated from the consent agenda. He said that he thought differences in salaries between assistant principal and dean of students positions that had similar duties were unfair to the employees.
Voting in favor were Carruth, David Kauffman, Damon Mussman, Roger Segura and Connie Weingarten; Don Kembel was absent.
Personnel actions approved Monday included:
Administrator resignations — Tammy Johnson, director of special services, and Linda Slothower, Green Acres Elementary School principal.
Certified resignations — Teachers Andrea Carrico, English language learners, Green Acres; Hannah Fleming, fifth and sixth grades, Baker Central; Stuart Johnson, music, Fort Morgan High School; Lylee Lautenbach, fifth and sixth, Baker; Chris Turner, fourth grade, Columbine Elementary, ahnd Colleen Wildenhaus, kindergarten, Sherman Early Childhood Center.
Classified resignations — Veronica Gallegos-Cruz, general bus assistant, Head Start and Colorado preschool; Erica Gilliland, health clerk and secretary, Baker; Maria Kage, cook, Baker; Kelly Pelton, health manager, Head Start, CPP; Elizabeth Schossow, special education teaching assistant, Green Acres, and Carissa Zion, special education teaching assistant, Baker.
Classified hire — Kristy Riddle, curriculum assistant, district support center.
Also approved were:
The Lincoln High School graduation list, subject to completion of requirements. On the list are: Dominique Barragan Tripp, Jessea Brown, Lissett Beltran-Gomez, Luis Cruz, Mariah DeHerrera, Janie Estrada, Chitlaly Lucero Galaviz-Castro, Cristian Garcia, Ana Landeros, Mercedes Martinez, Trenton Pangle and Ryan Cano..
School board and accountability committee meeting dates.
The Baker Central handbook.
A national Future Business Leaders of America trip to Anaheim, Calif. coming up in June.
Ben Creighton, student liaison to the board, was attending his last board meeting Monday. The board wished him well as he goes off to college, and he said of his time with the board, "It's been an honor."
Saiter reported on his attendance at the recent National Association of School Boards convention in San Diego, Calif.
He said he attended sessions on ethics for board members, a trend from textbooks to digital and school safety.
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To the editor:
I am not one to put pen to paper, or fingers to keyboard very often, but when I see such biased reporting on something that strikes so close to home, then I feel as if I must say something.
As a parent of a young man who is extremely athletic and has a passionate love of a sport, you can guess that I have spent countless hours, practicing, coaching, encouraging and supporting him in his love. So, when not only my son but the sons of many other parents are not given the respect that they have earned from one of our very own newspapers, it is a very hard thing to swallow.
Jacksonville Post 265 and their amazing young men as well as the great coaching staff have pulled off something that has not been done in the history of Post 265. They have made it to the state games. This was done by a lot of hard work, dedication, long nights and much athleticism from these young men. They have played their hearts out. They have learned the meaning of sportsmanship and fair play. They have made the commitment to be the best that they can be because they love this sport and they have pride in their community.
So how disheartening is it to get up every day, be enthused about picking up The Daily News, head straight to the Sports section, only to find that the person writing the story appears to have something against this team.
My family has never been one to need acknowledgement in whether or not they have performed well � it is in the satisfaction that you did your best; but it is horrible when you pick up the paper and the article is all negativity and slanted to make it sound as if they have not really earned the wins but just got lucky.
In many of the reports, the viewpoint of the reporter has been one of negativity, criticism and non-supportive. While everyone knew that this team had a lot of work to do, they also knew that they have a ton of raw talent that just needed some harnessing � and boom! There you have it. Going to state games to see how we do.
These reports, albeit I understand that they have to report the facts, could have been much more encouraging, upbeat and congratulatory in nature on a team that came from the underdog category to being winners.
Does the reporter at The Daily News live somewhere else or not believe in supporting his own community? Because that is how it appears.
Also, how in the world can a pitcher who pitched six innings in a game, not be even mentioned in the article. In this case, yes, it is my son � but no matter who the pitcher was, if they pitched six full innings and the opposing team was never ahead of them, then I would think that would make that particular pitcher the winning pitcher and at least noteworthy enough for a one liner.
These young men are outstanding ambassadors for the sport and for this community. How about we acknowledge that as a community?
Kristy S. Jones


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20:37:39 Shinmera Why can't everyone just speak [the particular language I prefer]
21:17:08 jmercouris hello everyone, I'm having a strange error using clos: https://pastebin.com/EVfTeSbP
21:17:31 jmercouris it says unknown initialization option :X, but I have defeined :initarg X in my class
21:18:13 jmercouris just figured it out, forgot the colon
21:18:20 jmercouris sorry for wasting everybody's time!
21:18:34 phoe_ no, you ha-- oh
21:18:35 green_ question: I am creating a stand-alone lisp app with buildapp (which dumps an sbcl image). The application needs the contents of a file at runtime. I would like to load that file into a variable at compile time so it will be built into the image, and I don't have to read it at runtime. I've tried variations of eval-when, but just get mystery errors.. any pointers on how to accomplish this?
21:18:38 phoe_ okay~
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21:18:56 mfiano use #.
21:19:02 jmercouris phoe_: sorry!
21:19:05 phoe_ jmercouris: no problem
21:19:39 Bike (defvar *file*) (eval-when (:compile-toplevel) (setf *file* (read-in-contents))) sorta thing
21:20:04 Bike or just #., you know, whatevs
21:21:24 green_ oh, wow, just got it working. Thanks.. I guess I just needed a captain obvious.
21:32:29 Shinmera green_: shouldn't just regular defvar work too? I mean, the sources of your application are LOADed before the image is dumped.
21:32:44 Shinmera No need for compile-time shenanigans.
21:42:25 green_ Shinmera, oh, you mean (defvar *FILECONTENTS* (read-file-contents)) ? I ... guess........... hmm.. yes?
21:42:32 green_ I don't know
21:43:02 green_ is the value of defvar eval'd at load/compile time?
21:44:39 Shinmera Well, when else would the variable receive its value except at its latest at load time
21:51:54 green_ Shinmera, thanks -- that works! I was over-thinking this.
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1:48:20 drmeister scymtym: Are you online?
1:48:43 drmeister I got beach's fast generic function approach working in Clasp.
2:28:35 jmercouris what's the reccomended way of working with trees in common lisp? do you guys roll your own structure every time?
2:29:07 Bicyclidine depends on what kind of tree. if it's real simple just using conses is okay.
2:29:59 jmercouris it's a simple tree, but I want to be able to traverse in both directions, which is why I didn't really want to do it that way
2:31:07 Bicyclidine "both ways" as in up and down? yeah, that's something i'd use something else for.
2:31:52 jmercouris yeah, I mean accessing children nodes, and parent
2:32:10 jmercouris unfortunately I'm also looking for a non-binary tree implementation, most of them are binary only
2:32:20 jmercouris that is, any child can have more than two children
2:33:06 aeth sounds like there are 10 different ways to do that, all with disadvantages
2:33:24 aeth at least, given your description
2:33:40 jmercouris aeth: what do you mean?
2:34:30 jmercouris I just want every node to have a children function to return all direct children, and a parent function to return the parent
2:34:39 aeth There are many ways to do your own tree there.
2:34:52 aeth Technically, you could even still use conses, afaik.
2:34:57 jmercouris aeth: yeah, I was thinking about using objects, an adjacency matrix would be too sparse
2:35:17 jmercouris or maybe a struct...
2:35:48 jmercouris luckily I don't have to worry about node deletion or balancing
2:35:59 jmercouris or quick traversal, only insertion has to be quick
2:36:04 aeth ways I can think of just now: lists (put a cons in the cdr), maybe a size 3 vector, a CLOS object, a struct object, even a lambda (more of a Scheme thing, though)
2:36:30 jmercouris aeth: can you explain the cons cdr idea?
2:36:48 aeth (cons data (cons parent child))
2:37:09 jmercouris aeth: but how would that work with multiple children?
2:37:28 aeth (cons data (cons parent child-sequence))
2:37:33 jmercouris unless the children were part of a linked list
2:37:35 jmercouris yeah, i was about to say
2:37:36 aeth Probably too complicate to be clean
2:37:42 aeth s/complicate/complicated
2:37:44 jmercouris I think so, I think the struct method will be simplest
2:37:54 jmercouris aeth: thank you for your feedback!
2:38:13 aeth I tend to use structs. There is a downside, though. Some implementations don't like you recompiling structs.
2:38:24 aeth So you give up some of the advantages of the Lisp environment.
2:38:36 jmercouris in this case it is okay :D
2:38:43 jmercouris it's not a long running program
3:07:06 jmercouris is there a way to set the default value of a struct field?
3:07:19 jmercouris I'm looking at the hyperspec here, and I don't get it
3:12:19 aeth iirc, you just put it there, no keyword argument
3:12:43 aeth like in the ship example in the hyperspec
3:13:09 jmercouris aha, I see it now, thank you!
3:16:25 neachdainn Hey all. New to Lisp. I'm trying to `(defun deriv1 (mono) ...)`
3:16:48 neachdainn How do I check that mono is of the form `(c x i)` where `c` and `i` are numbers?
3:18:42 aeth check-type
3:18:44 jmercouris neachdainn: is that a backtick or a regular quote?
3:19:21 neachdainn jmercouris: That's me distinguishing between my text and code. Habit from other languages... Probably not the best in a Lisp context
3:19:54 neachdainn aeth: Looking that up. Thanks
3:19:58 aeth Unfortunately you won't (afaik) be able to e.g. define an array type with deftype unless you have something more specific than number (which depends on the implementation).
3:20:13 aeth So you'll have to check each element of the sequence.
3:22:01 aeth That is, (upgraded-array-element-type 'number) will probably be T but (upgraded-array-element-type 'single-float) will probably be single-float. So you can work with arrays, but only if the elements are all of the same, implementation-supported type. (Almost all implementations will support many integer sizes and single-float and double-float)
3:22:36 neachdainn I think I understand
3:22:58 neachdainn Is the best way to get the first three elements to use first and rest?
3:23:54 neachdainn I.e., (let (c (first mono) (x (rest (first mono)) (i (rest (rest (first mono)))))
3:26:07 aeth Personally, I would use an array and use (elt foo 0) (elt foo 1) and (elt foo 2) but it probably doesn't matter at that size.
3:26:36 aeth I would probably also use elt on a tiny list
3:26:41 aeth It's generic over sequences
3:28:35 neachdainn O
3:28:37 neachdainn O
3:29:03 neachdainn Sorry. I'm getting "The LET binding spec (ELT MONO 0) is malformed"
3:29:33 aeth I think you're missing an outer () around the variable list in let
3:29:58 aeth e.g. (let ((x 42) (y 37)) (+ x y))
3:30:12 neachdainn Ah. It looks like I might be
3:30:30 neachdainn Yeah. It was
3:35:03 neachdainn Does the let binding only apply within the (let ...) parens?
3:35:53 aeth iirc, unless it's a variable that should, by convention, use earmuffs like *foo*
3:36:39 stylewarning If I have foreign pointers wrapped in a struct, is there a way I can recreate these objects if I save an image?
3:36:40 aeth If *foo* is special, I think (let ((*foo* 42)) (bar)) will change the *foo* within the function bar, if bar uses *foo*
3:36:59 aeth But if you don't deal with those variables, then yes, it's just within the let
3:37:11 stylewarning I'm almost looking for a make-load-form but for executable saving of foreign data (in SBCL)
3:42:17 neachdainn This is giving me the "X must be a number" error... I'm not sure why? https://pastebin.mozilla.org/9032357
3:43:08 neachdainn Oh. Wait. I think I know
3:43:26 neachdainn Yeah. Typo. Hahah
3:57:48 neachdainn So I want to return the list ((* c i) x (1- i)), but I'm not sure how
3:57:54 neachdainn That tries to call a function
3:58:17 neachdainn Changing it to '((* c i) x (1- i)) returns the literal
4:19:27 jmercouris the following function: https://pastebin.com/2ZEwuLu1 throws a stack overflow
4:19:49 jmercouris the overflow looks like this: https://pastebin.com/6Jn7U7CB
4:19:51 jmercouris any ideas?
4:21:46 alandipert jmercouris does it still stack overflow if you remove the print calls from the top?
4:22:57 jmercouris alandipert: no, amazingly not
4:22:59 jmercouris why is that?
4:23:14 alandipert print probably calls itself when it's printing nested structures
4:23:24 alandipert and so deeply nested structures can blow stack
4:23:41 jmercouris well, the structure wasn't deeply nested, but it was a circular reference
4:23:47 jmercouris the node has a reference to children and parent
4:23:50 alandipert oh, i can see how that would do it also
4:23:53 jmercouris so it would print in an infinite loop
4:24:00 jmercouris interesting, I would have never thought of that
4:24:03 jmercouris thank you for your insight!
4:24:28 alandipert no problem. i think i just successfully answered my first lisp question here, so thank you for the opportunity :-)
4:54:15 nancy anybody can explain for me about "declare (ignore x)"? how it work?
5:09:18 beach Good morning everyone!
5:09:58 beach nancy: It tells the compiler not to issue a warning when there is a variable that is defined but never used.
5:10:43 nancy oh! i get it, thanks
5:11:08 beach Anytime.
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5:28:28 loke Hello Lisp
5:28:36 beach Hello loke.
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5:30:08 iqubic Hello Loke.
5:30:32 iqubic I really hate the people of #emacs.
5:35:00 faultline iqubic, why is that?
5:36:11 iqubic Yesterday my ban was lifted. Today I appear to be banned from #emacs again. So, either freenode is screwing me over, or someone wants to keep me out of #emacs.
5:36:26 iqubic I'm not sure which it is. Both options scare me.
5:37:10 faultline iqubic, or a bot is just confused. Talk to a mod.
5:37:37 iqubic Yeah, I have messaged a mod that I trust.
5:51:13 scymtym drmeister: i will have time to talk in about two hours
5:53:55 beach scymtym: Er, drmeister will be asleep then. Or, at least we hope so.
5:54:37 beach scymtym: It is currently 2am where he is located.
6:25:59 galdor2 ** NICK galdor
7:03:53 flip214 iqubic: how about trying #neovim instead? ;)
7:14:44 iqubic flip214: Why? I need help with emacs, and not neovim.


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I am honored to share the design team samples with you--everyone has played along this week!! Hoooooray! You can click on the links to see more of their beautiful work!
Lisa Arana- PS Sunny Side Up, Alphadot, and Santa Paws stamp sets
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Third Annual Lagaan Week: Ninth Anniversary Special
5 comments:
- Shellie said...
Woo hoo! Lagaan week! Finally a feature week that I can get behind and actually participate in!
I can't wait to read everyone's wonderful posts this week as well as share mine (which I have just put the finishing touches on)!
Thanks for the cake. Yum yum. I'm full!
- Monday, June 14, 2010
- theBollywoodFan said...
Thank you Shell! I too can't wait to read everyone's posts, including yours, and am sure there'll be several new angles to look at the film!
Glad you liked the cake, it won't run out! :) And I must add, as a disclaimer, that although I've been a cricket fan all my life (the cake's from my sixth birthday, a fair reflection of fandom, I'd say :) it's Lagaan's ability to use sport as a metaphor for life that makes it so delicious. Apt timing too, with a major world sporting event ongoing!
- Monday, June 14, 2010
- dunkdaft said...
ahem ahem..
I m here with my blabbering. :)
- Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Good Morning and Happy Birthday, Lagaan!!!!
The celebration of Bhuvans (yes, that's the nickname she had choosen two years ago) century went off well. We had lots of fun watching Lagaan simultaneously and chatting about it (and other things) on the net...
Thanks for the cake. I'm sure even after all these years it tasts really good... :-)))
I'm eagerly waiting for all the wonderful posts that will come from all over the world for one of the best movies ever... Maybe I will contribute with one or two snippets from Balham to Bollywood... :-)
- Tuesday, June 15, 2010
- theBollywoodFan said...
Darshit: Thanks once again. :)
Kristine: Thanks for your visit and comment! Neat, Bhuvan must be a role model, then. ;)
You're always welcome (in fact, encouraged) to contribute, please! The posts have begun, hope you enjoy them.
- Tuesday, June 15, 2010


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A Thousand Points of Spite: Week 12 awards
Assorted bests and worsts from college football's weekend that was:
• Most ominous foreshadowing: The head of the beloved Oregon mascot whipping off and flying away in midair, not too long before the Ducks' first loss of the season. That led, of course, to this spectacle on GameDay:
We should've seen Stanford coming. We all should've known.
• Best convert: Hey, Tavon Austin at running back! That seems to be going pretty well! How well, Charleston Gazette?
- Austin carried the ball 21 times for 344 yards in his first-ever appearance as a running back. That broke K.J. Harris' school record of 337 set against East Carolina in 2004.
- He added four catches for 82 yards, all of them in the first half.
- He returned eight kickoffs for 146 yards.
- Add it all up and it comes to 572 all-purpose yards. It goes without saying that it shattered both the school and Big 12 records. As it turns out it was just six yards away from the NCAA mark of 578, set by Emmett White of Utah against New Mexico State in 2000.
• Best bad company: Every Bowling Green Falcon who misses a tackle on this second Dri Archer run, and the poor couple of souls who miss tackling him twice.
(The first run's not bad either.)
• Most covert eight-touchdown performance: Tajh Boyd. We mentioned this Saturday, but we were glued to USC-UCLA along with seemingly everyone we know, when all of a sudden in a lull we got a look at Boyd's stat line and saw that he'd managed eight total touchdowns in three quarters. That's some spycraft.
• Grape Job! Colorado executing a quarterback sneak for a first down -- a first down the Buffs already had. We may have to retire the Grape Job sticker after this. Football doesn't get much graper.
• Best use of a virtual bye: Christine Michael. Hey, if you're going to get thrown out, get thrown out during a week in which your presence won't make the difference between a win and a loss, and it might not the following week either. Another sterling example of those SEC scheduling smarts at work.
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• Biggest waste of a retort: Franklin's post-touchdown throat slash. He got as far away from the cameras as possible, but he was going to get caught, particularly when so much of the pregame chatter centered around the proper and improper use of bladed weapons on a football field.
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