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Dear All,
I hope you are well. It is a pleasure to open another window on Iran as we start yet another lively and colorful autumn in St. Louis. This will be a full window with lots of news about Iran on various subjects including current issues, art, science and technology.
Upcoming Events
* If you are in St. Louis this weekend, you will have a chance to see the play The Veil of Silence, by Andrew Michael Neiman and Suzanne Renard. Saturday November 10 at 8 PM, and Sunday November 11 at 2 PM at The Black Cat Theater, 2810 Sutton in Maplewood.
* And if you are planning to be in San Diego next Sunday, Nov. 18, stop by the UNC Press booth at the book exhibit for the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion in the Convention Center where I will have the pleasure of meeting you while signing copies of Jasmine & Stars: Reading More than Lolita in Tehran. See the flyer here: Jasmine and Stars American Academy of Religion Flyer.
Let us now move to our first set of beautiful slides. I cannot think of a better opening for any window.
Visual Delight
* Iranians have a history of love for calligraphy. In the past two or three decades there has been a clear revival in this historic art form. One of the interesting features of contemporary Iranian calligraphy is its interrelation with painting. As you know from these windows, young Iranian painters paint a great deal and in a vast array of styles and media. This week I am going to introduce you Sadegh Tabrizi, a master painter and calligrapher (born 1938). Tabrizi has had numerous individual and group exhibits in various parts of the country. What is particularly interesting about the exhibit which you will see is that every painting is inspired by letters of the alphabet and the art of calligraphy in general. Please click here: Calligraphy Art by Sadegh Tabrizi. Enjoy!
* While we are on visual arts, lets add a touch of performance and watch a clip form a current Iranian TV series that I told you about a few weeks ago. This is the love story called "The Zero Degree Turn" involving the rescue of a number of French Jews and putting them on a plane to Iran disguised as Iranians. (Thanks to Behrooz Ghamari for sending the clip).
Current Issues
* An Iranian woman takes up a seat in the House of Lords cross benches as a non-party political peer in recognition of her work. Professor Haleh Afshar, who is an adviser to the British government on public policy relating to Muslim women and Islamic law and the founder and chair of the Muslim Women's Network, was chosen as a 'People's Peer', an appointment for people who will bring distinction and expertise to the House of Lords. For the full article click on: http://www.payvand.com/news/07/oct/1265.html (courtesy of a new subscriber to the windows on Iran Mina Naji, thank you Mina Khanom!).
The New US Sanctions against Iran
* As you read that the US imposed unilateral sanctions against Iran may not be as effective as the current American government presents them to be, please know that ordinary Iranians are quite a bit worried about further economic hardship resulting from these sanctions. The point to keep in mind is that sanctions and economic problems do not encourage diversity and change in any country. If you have doubts about this, think about a simple situation. If you were to take care of your family during an economic crisis, which will be your priority: "finding medical care for a sick child" or "attending a meeting or a rally to improve the country's political system"?
* We usually hear that China and Russia are helping Iran survive the U.S. attempts to isolate it. A lot of less known individuals are also working to do the same. One such attempt involves building the first 7-star-hotel run entirely by solar energy. "Generating electricity from the sun is a very expensive project but I mean to bring this technology to Iran," said Hossein Sabet, the Iranian investor of the solar hotel. "Now that other countries are imposing sanctions on Iran, building such a hotel is an important step in tourism development," he concluded. Here is an article, if you like to see pictures and read more: http://www.payvand.com/news/07/nov/1016.html
Passionate Appeal to Europe
* Jean-Marie Matagne, President of "Action of Citizens for the Total Dismantling of Nukes" (Action des Citoyens pour le Désarmement Nucléaire, ACDN, France), Doctor in Philosophy and Dr. Yehuda Atai, Executive Secretariat of the Mediterranean No Nuclear Neighborhood (MN3), Member in the Israeli Committee for a Free Middle East of WMD, Publisher of the "World of the Bible" have made a passionate appeal to the European community to do everything in their power to prevent a war on Iran: http://acdn.france.free.fr/spip/article.php3?id_article=361&lang=en
* Here in our own country, the presidential hopeful Senator Barack Obama made headlines when he introduced a note of sanity into the election debates that at some point looked like an Iran bashing competition. In an interview, on November 1st in Chicago, Senator Obama pledged to work on building a new relationship with Iran, should he get into the White House. He further explained that sticking to the rhetoric of "regime change," just for the sake of it, is wrong and suggested that things need to change in a more fundamental way on both sides. The fact that he had one of his successful fund raising weeks last week may not be solely the outcome of this interview. However, it shows that the American public is tired of angry rhetorics and is hoping for a more sophisticated foreign policy. You can read more at: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21586430/
Stem Cell Research in Iran
* This month, Rudolf Jaenisch, a founding member of the Whitehead Institute and a professor of biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology attended a major scientific conference in the Royan Institute in Tehran. Professor Jaenisch who was warned by friends against traveling to Iran had this to say: "During my time in Tehran, however, I encountered only enthusiasm and hospitality. Other Westerners, such as Emory University's Sarah Berga, who has spoken at this conference before, were treated equally well. My only regret is that there were not more Americans there. Despite my colleagues' concerns, I felt safer than if I had been a tourist in a large American city. There were no panhandlers or aggressive touts to harass me, and the country is beautiful." Here is the link, if you like to read more: http://www.nature.com/stemcells/2007/0710/071025/full/stemcells.2007.105.html.
* On a related topic, NAS expands cooperation with Iran. Following productive discussions in Iran between representatives of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and senior Iranian officials and scientific leaders, the U.S. National Academies plan to expand a program of scientific cooperation with Iranian institutions that began in 1999. During the past eight years, continuing political confrontations between the U.S. and Iranian governments have complicated bilateral scientific cooperation, but with perseverance by scientific institutions in both countries, important programs have been carried out: http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=10312007.
Iranian Women in Sports
* For a variety of recent images of Iranian women athletes, visit http://www.shirzanan.com/spip.php?article476. To enlarge individual images, double-click on them. I did not make them into a power point slide show to keep the volume of the visual attachment to this window small.
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Fatemeh Keshavarz, Professor and Chair
Dept. of Asian and Near Eastern Languages and Literatures
Washington University in St. Louis
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#Iblamesyrana that I am going to be on TNB this Friday 27th/Saturday 28th depending on which wonderful part of the work you live in.
#Iblamesyrana that we all life in different parts of the world. Still it means we do have a whole worlds of experiences, food and silly accents.
#Iblamesyrana that I have only pumped the AzerothUnited Childsplay charity drive a couple of times.
Armaggedon's Coming: The Guild
I have decided on a new membership fee for Armaggedon's Coming: The Guild.
Until the Childsplay drive is complete, a gold coin (in Australia this is $1 or $2 coins) donation will buy you a spot and a tabbard in the most pointless guild in the game.
It occurred to me that if your average 30-50 person guild got each of their member to do a gold coin donation, Fim, Nib, Brig and Rawcast would be forced to give us a new target. If some of the bigger guilds encouraged it, well it would set an impossible target for next year…
Of course impossible is just the possible that hasn't happened yet.
So that's both the old and new covered, I'll see you on Friday on TNB… I'll be there on Saturday, but fear not the magic of the Infinite Dragonflight should bring it all together at the same time.
#Iblameyou if you don't drop the cost of a coffee into the Childsplay charity box, but #Iblamesyrana if you aren't in the chat room of TNB to help me kick a Gnome Troll, Orc, Tauren, Foresaken or Blood Elf… Hey if BoE can't make it, the least I can do is return their "Alliance Love" with a little "Horde Love".
Gnomer and Out, Squidly and Stout!

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Fix bug #451596 - Mark ext4 as recommended fs
Part of bug #437338 - Remove acronym YMMV and use a better known sentence (in this case, "your results may vary")
Enhancing information on downsides wrt multiple partitions. This hopefully also clears up some of the confusion that is surrounding separate /usr partitions. Yes, it now mentions that an initramfs might be needed in that case. And no, we do not "recommend" a separate /usr partition, nor do we "not recommend" it.
Fix bug #334167 - Mention ext4 in the handbook. Done for alpha, mips, amd64 and x86. Other arches: please verify and comment on the bug. Thanks to Maciej Grela for reporting.
fixes from #180550 by Ernestas Liubarskij
Engrish fixes, bug 253374
release time. note that since this is beta1, the release dir and stage/media names have been adjusted accordingly. also, the handbooks are marked with a disclaimer=draft, so once the final is out, that will be removed and the release names adjusted. in the mean time, these are live. the beta is officially released. no, it's not april fools, but it is april 1st. :)
Fixed partition number in <pre>, Tx to cla
fixing tree type confusion. spank whoever told me to add that ext3 stuff in the first place, and me for blindly adding it. all fixed now; also fixed reiserfs, since it's actually B+, not B*
2007.0 release is here; final changes and new docs
Removing -O dir_index was not clever. It'll have to be removed for 2007.0 though.
Reworded reiserfs and ext3 descriptions for bug 153518
2006.1 networked docs are in. portage handbook still untouched per separate bugs. thanks to all the hard work, guys. blame me if something is wrong (and please fix quickly) :)
added bootloader note for bug 137410, thanks to tcort for the patch
#103723 warning about mount -t ext3 not required anymore
#101034 - Adding "-O dir_index" information to the guide Leaving it out of the real example mke2fs command to "stage" it. When we know more about this b-tree stability and architectural support we can follow the SPARC handbook and use it by default.
#92450 - Add in information about the size of the Portage tree
Updating docos to 2005.0
#82559 - People got confused about the sentence :/
Fix GByte -> GB typo
Fixed minor typo thanks to so.
merge arc/alphabios/milo partitioning fun
Converted dates to YYYY-MM-DD format
Moving 2004.3 documentation
Adding version/date information in pages
#62186: Fixed language mistakes all over the place thanks to John Richards
some fonts show the 1 as an l so make a small note that it is a 1 (one)
add info on how to create a BSD disklabel if your drive is empty
#50289 - Move mounting of /proc right before the chrooting. This also takes care of the errors users receive while unpacking the stage tarballs. Apparently logics is something the crowd wants less
Fix #52267 - Incorrect device naming for alpha; patch provided by wwoods
#57937: removed occurrences of xfs-sources, gaming-sources and [*] /dev/pts
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Portman joins call for currency rules
Sen. Rob Portman urged U.S. trade negotiators on Friday to push for protections against currency manipulation as part of the Asia-Pacific free trade agreement that the White House wants to finish by the end of the year and potentially send to Congress for a vote in 2014.
"We have to hold other countries accountable when they skirt trade rules," the Republican senator said in a statement issued after a meeting in his home state of Ohio with members of the United Auto Workers and managers of a Ford transmission plant.
"That includes countries that manipulate their currency to disadvantage American workers," he said. "We need to make sure that our trade negotiators take these currency issues seriously as they seek to lower barriers to American exports."
Portman, a former U.S. trade representative under President George W. Bush, said he intended to sign a letter with other senators urging U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman and Treasury Secretary Jack Lew to include protections against currency manipulation in pacts such as the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership or TPP.
"As the United States negotiates TPP and all future free trade agreements, we ask that you include strong and enforceable foreign currency manipulation disciplines to ensure these agreements meet the 'high standards' our country, America's companies and America's workers deserve," says a draft version of the letter spear-headed by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.).
About 230 House members signed a letter earlier this year that also called for rules against currency manipulation in trade pacts.
As the Pacific trade talks get closer to conclusion, a number of interest groups are seeking favorable outcomes on their particular concerns, forcing the administration to carefully manage sometimes conflicting demands to strike a deal that has enough support to get through Congress.
Portman's announcement was applauded by Ford and other Detroit-based automakers, who accuse the Japanese government of driving down the value of yen to give its automakers an unfair advantage.
"In order for this agreement to establish a level playing field for all partners, it is critical that Japan agrees to reforms that include strong and enforceable currency disciplines," Ziad Ojakli, a Ford vice president for government affairs, said in a statement.
Most economists stop short of calling Japan's current monetary policy a form of "currency manipulation" since it is aimed primarily at reviving the country's domestic economy.
Portman oversaw the negotiation of several free trade agreements during his tenure as USTR and did not seek rules against currency manipulation in those pacts.


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I am reading an ARC of Reached by Ally Condie. Reached is the third and final book in Condie's Matched trilogy.
I loved Matched and compared Condie to Lois Lowry. Crossed, though, was not as good as the first book. But Reached is just as good, maybe even better, than Matched.
If you love YA dystopian fiction, or if you are a fan of The Hunger Games, you will definitely want to try Condie's trilogy.
Reached comes out November 13, 2012. ALL WILL BE SORTED.


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Two more patients in a 10-patient segment of a mid-stage trial testing Gilead Sciences Inc's experimental hepatitis C drug GS-7977 had the virus return within four weeks of treatment, researchers said on Tuesday.
The company, which recently paid nearly $11 billion to acquire the drug and its developer, Pharmasset, said last month that six out of 10 patients with a prior "null response" to standard hepatitis C therapy saw the virus return within four weeks of treatment with a combination of GS-7977 and the antiviral drug ribavirin.
The latest results from the mid-stage trial bring to eight the number of patients who have relapsed.
One patient has not reached the four-week point and the other showed a response to the drug, Dr. Edward Gane from New Zealand's Auckland City Hospital and the study's lead investigator said here at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections.
The trial segment he updated involved patients infected with genotype 1 hepatitis C -- the most common, but also the most difficult to treat, subset of the disease.
"The majority of null responders have relapsed post treatment," Dr. Gane said, adding that such patients will likely need either a longer duration of therapy or combination treatment with other direct-acting antiviral agents.
He said the relapsed patients will be offered a "rescue protocol" in the form of another trial of GS-7977 in combination with a different experimental drug.
Shares of Gilead have dropped 18 percent since the company's announcement of the trial results, which suggested that an all-oral treatment for hepatitis C may be further away than many had hoped.
Dr. Gane said ongoing pivotal-stage trials of GS-7977 "should establish that interferon-free treatment is not a dream. It's a reality that should be here within the next five years."
Current hepatitis C drug regimens require injections of interferon, which causes severe flu-like symptoms and cannot be tolerated by some patients.
GS-7977 is designed to block an enzyme essential to the replication of the hepatitis C virus. It is one of a new class of treatments designed to be given without injections of interferon, which helps boost the body's immune system but can also cause debilitating flu-like side effects.
Gilead has said it expects to announce at the end of this month results from a mid-stage trial of GS-7977 in previously untreated hepatitis C patients.
Hepatitis C is a liver-destroying disease that affects some 170 million people worldwide. Untreated, it can lead to cirrhosis, liver cancer and the need for a liver transplant
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Gilead Hepatitis C Setback Opens Door to Rivals
Mar 1
Gilead Hepatitis C Setback Opens Door to Rivals
Feb 28GS-7977 Plus Ribavirin Will Displace the Current Proprietary Clinical Gold Standard, Telaprevir in Combination with Peg-IFNa/Ribavirin, According to Findings from Decision Resources
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GS-7977: Hard-to-Treat Group Trips Up Hepatitis C Drug


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Humans love to catch and eat fresh Alaskan rainbow trout, but it turns out the fish themselves have an impressively large appetite.
Researchers at Togiak National Wildlife Refuge in southwestern Alaska were catching the trout for tracking, and one fairly small fish -- 48 centimeters -- was bleeding and wasn't going to survive.
Fish biologist Mark Lisac and his colleagues decided to see what was in the fish's bulging belly and were stunned to pull out 19 shrews.
"I can't say for certain that I've ever seen a well preserved shrew in a stomach analysis," Lisac said. "No one ever thought they would pull 19 shrews out of it."
Trout enjoy eating small mammals such as voles and shrews, but 19 might be a record. Lisac said the most he's heard of is seven, inside a grayling trout.
"It may be surprising at how many fish actually do specialize in that, or it could have just been a freak event," he said.
Some fisherman even use the fish's fondness for shrews and voles to their advantage, with fly fisherman tying a wads of deer hair cut to look like a mouse on their hooks.
On the Togiak Refuge's Facebook page, a photo of the trout has been shared more than 700 times, an enormous uptick from the two or three shares most of the page's posts get.
"How did so many shrews make it into one trout? It's anyone's guess," the the post says. "But perhaps a nest by the river eroded, dumping all of the shrews into the water where this rainbow trout likely came away feeling like a lottery winner."
Fish are known to feed heavily in summer, enlarging their digestive tracts to gorge in advance of winter, where they don't eat much and remain mostly sedentary, digesting the excess food all season long.
Rainbows are known to eat salmon eggs, insects and small fish, as well as shrews and rodents such as voles and mice.
Lisac wondered if the trout's passion for shrew becoming more common knowledge would turn fish-eaters off the species. One friend of his "said he's not going to tell his wife about it," Lisac said. "He's afraid if he tells her, she won't eat grayling anymore."


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OECD Reviews of Regional Innovation
Key Facts | Policy issues | Recommendations
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This study of Central and Southern Denmark takes place in the context of several national and international agendas. The EU has developed its Europe 2020 strategy, including the Innovation Union Initiative. The EU is also preparing for the next programming period for EU Structural Funds, calling on regions to develop "smart specialisation strategies" as a prerequisite for spending funds.
Within Denmark, a new national Innovation Strategy is also being developed that will need to take into account the role of regions and their contributions to national goals. In this report, the strategies of Central and Southern Denmark are therefore assessed given the types of innovation system potential, the regions' institutional position, and the nature of their strategic choices in this political context.
While Denmark scores high on wealth and quality of life indicators, it suffers from lagging productivity growth, chipping away at its competitive advantage relative to other OECD countries (declining from -0.6% of the average of the top 17 OECD economies in 1996 to -11% in 2010). Central and Southern Denmark, like other non-capital Danish regions, are at around 82% of the Capital Region's Gross Value Added per worker.
Both regions face future labour shortages, as well as population decline on the West coast. The crisis has highlighted the bottleneck of low-skilled labour, and growing shortages of certain high-skilled workers. Central Denmark benefits from a second-city growth pole, while Southern Denmark has a more complex settlement and economic development patterns.
Central Denmark accounts for 22.6% of the Danish population, 21.5% of GDP, 23.6% of national GDP growth 1998-2008, 14% of R&D expenditure and 23.4% of patenting.
Southern Denmark accounts for 21.8% of the Danish population, 20.4% of GDP, 19.1% of national GDP growth 1998-2008, 6.3% of R&D expenditure and 13.5% of patenting.
Central Denmark tends to capture a proportionate share of national STI policy funds (as compared with its share of national GDP), while Southern Denmark tends to capture only half of its GDP share in public R&D, but does perform better in capturing funds from other innovation programmes.
How can secondary regions in high-income countries position themselves globally with strategies that truly reflect regional specificities?
What is the best way to strengthen regional innovation systems, triggering growth and transformation?
How do national policies to promote innovation take sufficient account of non-capital regional needs?
What vertical coordination tools for regions in a centralised context support innovation-driven regional development, particularly for growth drivers outside of regional competences?
Build on the new national-regional Partnership Agreements to promote greater inter-ministerial coordination at national level, considering longer-term commitments with associated funding.
Generate commonly accepted mappings and studies of research and industrial competencies to match the localisation of research with industry when possible.
Identify with regions and the EU opportunities for administrative simplification and flexibility in EU spending rules and/or the Danish interpretation of those rules.
Achieve greater clarity on the regional growth bottlenecks and growth expectations in different settings (rural areas) and also consider innovation in public services to address those growth barriers.
To achieve international best practices for smart specialisation as currently defined, adjustments include: next generation cluster policy (cross-border and cross-cluster); broader firm and civil society engagement; critical mass through linkages; and a policy mix that includes non-STI innovation.
Strengthen the most relevant innovation system actors and system relations, including through minimising programme proliferation and by developing functional mappings of innovation actors.
Develop and attract regionally needed skills to meet current and future labour shortages, with adapted policies for both low-skilled and high-skilled workers.
Assessment and recommendations
Chapter 1. Innovation and the economies of central and southern Denmark
Central and Southern Denmark Regions are in a knowledge-intensive country suffering from lagging productivity growth. This chapter first considers the national context for regional performance. It then reviews the demographic and economic trends of each region. Their economic and innovation performance is assessed within an OECD context and with respect to relevant peer groups. The chapter concludes with a discussion of areas of potential for innovation.
Chapter 2. Danish governance and policy context for regional strategies
The relatively new regions in Denmark, mainly responsible for health care, are tasked with regional economic development to promote growth. This chapter first considers the mandates and institutions associated with the regional authorities. It then reviews the regional development policy context as well as that of national innovation and business development policies. The regional role in a multi-level governance context of municipalities, central government, and the EU is discussed. The chapter then explores the governance challenges of co-ordination within the region (among municipalities), with central government, and with other regions in Denmark and beyond to best achieve national and regional growth goals.
Chapter 3. Regional strategies for innovation-driven growth
What strategies and actions are being taken by the Regions of Central and Southern Denmark to promote innovation-driven growth? This chapter reviews the regional business development strategies and associated policy mix, particularly in light of EU expectations for smart specialisation strategies. The prioritised industrial sectors for regional action are discussed in depth. Other bottlenecks for regional growth are highlighted. Finally, the state of policy intelligence, monitoring and evaluation to inform the development of these strategies and projects is addressed.
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SSO is designed specifically for students seeking an academically robust program. In tutorials, students meet one-on-one with acclaimed Oxford scholars (often including widely-published authors, historians, former international ambassadors, and other celebrated scholars) to go head-to-head on subjects within the disciplines of history, literature, languages, philosophy, musicology, art, science, and more.
SSO is an intensive study experience. While all majors may apply, it requires a 3.7 GPA at minimum. Your Visiting Student status comes with extraordinary privileges such as: participating in Oxford's athletic clubs, taking part in artistic organizations, and of course, an all-access pass to world-renowned libraries. It culminates in a program that many students find to be the perfect bridge from the undergraduate world to the world of graduate studies.
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text: Biography...I'm a retired communications instructor/developer, raised on the Eastern Shore of Maryland (USA). I have a wide range of interests which include some artistic talent. My eclectic tastes, thirst for variety, and preference for images over words, eventually lead me through the internet to the world of 3D stereo in 2006.Once I discovered that basically anyone with a camera, PC and access to the internet could create and share 3D images, I enthusiastically began a very interesting and somewhat addictive odyssey into a world that was a little off the beaten path though right up my alley! I realized quickly that this particular hobby was becoming more of a passion. I joined several international internet groups devoted to facets of 3D stereo which helped me immensely to learn and share ideas.Each time I think I've reached a peak, I find myself crossing another threshold that challenges my abilities and talents while paving way to another plateau. My hope is to become the best that I can be, not just with 3D stereo but life in general. A few have told me my 3D images have inspired them to reach for similar results. I couldn't ask for a better compliment to my work. I view my accomplishments thus far however as merely a good foundation upon which to build into the future. I'm also creating normal 2D images for those who are not into 3D stereo.


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Now, in less than a week, I'm onto the biggest adventure of my life so far: moving to Shanghai! I'll be teaching K-6 music in an international school there for at least two years. I've started a new blog, called Eastbound, to share my experiences living, exploring, teaching, eating, and of course, sewing!
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Because of my limited luggage allowance, I am not bringing my sewing machine. However, once I get settled, I plan to buy one. I've already started reading up on the best fabric stores (see this post by Adey of The Sew Convert!) and it can't be too hard to buy a sewing machine, even with my nonexistent Mandarin skills.
I'd love it if you'd join me on my new adventure. It'll be fun!


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My favorite song by the group Megaptera, from the album The Curse of the Scarecrow.
Playing this album has become an annual Halloween tradition.
Click below to hear the full song.
Friday, October 22, 2010
Now Playing: Don't Desecrate The Dead
My favorite song by the group Megaptera, from the album The Curse of the Scarecrow.
Posted by Rot at 10:19 PM
Labels: megaptera, music, now playing, the curse of the scarecrow
6 comments:
- Goneferalinidaho said...
I'm going to listen as soon as I'm finished with Hauntcast.
- October 22, 2010 at 10:48 PM
- Rot said...
It's a little harsher than most of the stuff I post.
Kinda like Industrial Dark Ambient...
And it has a horror movie quote at the end.
- October 22, 2010 at 10:58 PM
- Goneferalinidaho said...
Oh, now I'm very interested.
- October 22, 2010 at 11:16 PM
- Pumpkin Jack said...
- October 23, 2010 at 2:42 AM
- Hopsy the beer drinking clown said...
This is great, I really like the image posted with this track on you-tube...necro-industrial i think they called this genre back in the 1990's...what will those Swedish come up with next!
- October 23, 2010 at 8:48 AM
- Unknown said...
Thanks for the heads up - this is the kind of stuff I like to listen to all year, but I've never heard of Megaptera - just bought this album from Amazon!
- October 29, 2010 at 11:53 PM
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A former top Senate aide accused of possessing child pornography was found dead in a possible suicide Thursday, the Carroll County, Md., Sheriff's Department confirmed.
At about noon Thursday, family members reported finding 35-year-old Jesse Ryan Loskarn unresponsive in his parents' basement in the 6900 block of Kenmar Lane in Sykesville, according to the sheriff's department. The preliminary investigation found he may have killed himself. His body was taken to the medical examiner for autopsy.
"We loved our son very much, and we're devastated by his death," read a statement from his parents. "Please respect our privacy at this difficult time and let us grieve in peace. Pray for him, his family and friends."
Loskarn, the former chief of staff of Sen. Lamar Alexander, R- Tenn., had been living in his parents' home since Magistrate Judge John M. Facciola released him to their custody Dec. 16. The judge had ordered he wear a monitoring device and not use the Internet.
"For everyone involved, this is a sad and tragic story from beginning to end," Sen. Alexander said in a statement Friday.
Loskarn was arrested in December at his southeast D.C. home as a result of a child pornography investigation involving U.S. and Canadian authorities, who identified him as a customer of a company that sold DVDs and downloads. Those videos, according to investigators, showed children as young as 5 or 6 years old involved in sexual acts with other minors or adults. Loskarn was accused of offering one video for distribution on a peer-to-peer file sharing network.
As investigators were at Loskarn's front door to arrest him, he was seen placing a computer hard drive outside a rear window, according to court documents. Authorities found images of children engaged in sex acts on it.
Alexander replaced Loskarn as chief of staff after the arrest.
Judge Facciola had explained his decision to release Loskarn to his parents, rather than keeping him in custody, in a memo. The judge said Loskarn's parents had assured the court the only devices in their home that could access the internet were iPads protected with a password they would not share with Loskarn, so the risk of Loskarn downloading more child pornography was not great.
Loskarn faced up to 10 years on the possession charge and a minimum of five and maximum of 20 years on the distribution charge.


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Boston bombings: Hollywood sends messages of support to victims
While reporters were scrambling to cover the bombings at the Boston Marathon on Monday, some of Hollywood's famous faces took to social media to send emotional support to the victims of the attack.
"My thoughts and prayers are with everyone in the city of Boston and all of those affected by this terrible incident," Justin Timberlake wrote on Twitter after the two explosions rocked Beantown.
"Captain America" star Chris Evans echoed that sentiment.
"Thoughts and prayers are with everybody in boston," he tweeted. "Heartbreaking..."
Ellen DeGeneres took a similar approach and encouraged all of her followers to do the same.
"Let's all send our thoughts, our prayers and our energy to the people injured in Boston," DeGeneres tweeted. "My heart is with you."
Zoe Saldana, who spent Sunday evening at the MTV Movie Awards promoting "Star Trek Into Darkness," took a moment to think of those who lost their lives today.
"My prayers and thoughts are with the victims who lost their lives today at the Boston marathon," Saldana tweeted. "Que Dios los tenga en su gloria."
"Clerks" creator Kevin Smith called the attack "just plain f--king evil," but remembered how lucky he and his loved ones are to not be affected by the tragedy.
"Go hug your loved ones. I'll be doing the same," Smith tweeted. "Be strong, Boston."
"Argo" director Ben Affleck, who grew up in the greater Boston area with friend Matt Damon, took to Twitter to send the "resilient" city some love.
"Such a senseless and tragic day," Affleck wrote. "My family and I send our love to our beloved and resilient Boston."
Piers Morgan, the CNN personality who broadcasts "Piers Morgan Tonight" out of Hollywood, sent his prayers into the Twitterverse after seeing the first gruesome images from the bombing.
"Some horrific images being posted on Twitter from #BostonMarathon explosions," Morgan tweeted. "Those poor people - pray for them."
President Barack Obama also expressed his "deepest thoughts and prayers" while addressing the nation on Monday afternoon.
"On days like this there are no Republicans or Democrats; we are Americans united in concern for our fellow citizens," Obama stressed.
And along the same patriotic message, Steve Martin chose to quote a verse from "The Star-Spangled Banner" -- an effective reminder of America's long history of overcoming even the worst of tragedies.
'...And the rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air, gave proof through the night, that our flag was still there,'" Martin wrote. "?#Boston?."


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The Magic Eight DeconstructedPosted by rtmsf on January 16th, 2008
Today SI's Grant Wahl published his annual January synopsis of the eight teams that he feels have sufficient chops to win the national title in April. He likes to point out that in the eight previous years of doing this article, he's been correct in seven of them (the one miss: 2003 with Syracuse). FYI, here is a spreadsheet of his Magic Eight picks for each year since its inception. Looking at the document with the caveat that we generally like Wahl's work, in the last eight years the only true "gotcha!" champion was that Cuse team, which raises the question of just how difficult it is to pick eight top-tier teams in the hopes that one of the group cuts the nets down.
The short answer is not very. Had Wahl simply chosen the top eight teams in the AP poll for the correlating January week, he would have nailed six of the eight champions during this period. The only other team he would have missed (besides 2003 Syracuse) would have been 2000 Michigan State, and Wahl would be the first to tell you that the reason for MSU's relatively low ranking at that point in the 2000 season was completely because of Mateen Cleaves' foot injury that kept him out of the lineup until conference play. After all, MSU was the preseason #1 team in America that year.
What we think is considerably harder to do is to pick Final Four teams three months ahead of time. The truly elite teams (champions) almost always rise to the top, but with the knowledge that there will inevitably be upsets and great-looking in January will be off the map by March, we figure that if you can consistently pick half of the F4 that far ahead of time, then you're probably doing something right. Well, it turns out that in the eight years of Wahl's M8, he's nailed sixteen of the thirty-two F4 teams for a success rate of exactly 50%. Using our AP ranking measurement mentioned above, he would have gotten fifteen right (47%) by sticking with the poll. So at least he's beating the chalk.
Which brings us to our analysis of his M8 teams for this season. Here are his eight selections:
- Georgetown
- Indiana
- Kansas
- Louisville
- Memphis
- Tennessee
- Xavier
Perhaps getting a bit full of his record (or taking a huge gamble in an attempt to look really smart on April 7), this year's selections omitted the UNC Tar Heels, who are currently 17-0 and the #1 team in both major media polls (#2 in the blogpoll). We can't figure this one out.
Grant, what are you thinking?
Does Wahl really believe that Xavier (or Dayton, as he claims he almost chose) has a better chance of cutting down the nets than UNC? Is he willfully encouraging hordes of Carolina-blue hatemail upon his inbox? Is he simply trying to up his hit page stats ? We have no idea, but let's see what his justification is for leaving off one of the four teams that has shown itself to be head & shoulders above the rest of the country this year, and quite possibly a juggernaut.
Carolina just doesn't defend as well as the other three.
That's it? While he's right (they don't), there is still time for significant improvement on that measure, and it's not like they're piss-poor (#31 nationally as of today). But more importantly, the Heels also are one of the very best offensive teams in the country, and that alone should indicate they're worth a look as one of the eight teams most likely to win the national championship. We just don't understand his reasoning here. If you don't think they'll win it all, that's fine; but to make a claim that they're not one of the eight most likely to do so… that's just criminal. Moving on…
As for his 2008 selections, no Wazzu, no Michigan St., no Duke and no Texas A&M is fine – each of those teams has a major flaw or two. Had we produced a M8, we would have definitely taken UNC over Xavier and probably replaced Tennessee with Michigan St. We may have also left Louisville off because we don't know where their outside shooting is coming from and who will be injured next, but we're not sure who we think is a marginally better choice, so we'd probably end up leaving them. But really, no major beefs other than the UNC omission.
FWIW, since it'd be fairly disingenuous to rip Wahl's picks without providing our own for review, we're sticking with the F4 selections we made for STF at the beginning of the season – UNC, Indiana, UCLA, Gonzaga. The only one we're currently nervous about is Gonzaga, simply because they haven't taken off with the return of Josh Heytvelt like we thought they would. There's still time, though.
Update: we sent this link to Wahl, and he responded in an email that he thought we had mischaracterized his article in the sense that he never claimed to be picking the eight teams most likely to win the national championship. He said that if that were the case, UNC would have been #4 on his list; however, his intent was to eliminate one of the "Big Four," so as to make things interesting and avoid the appearance of playing it safe. We thought the intent of the M8 was to create a pool of teams from which he "guarantees" the champ will come – if that's the case, we still don't really understand the UNC omission.


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The solid waste division serves 1.5 million Phoenix residents. According to Trujillo, the city started the competitive bid process in 1979 during tough economic times. Private firms approached the City Council, promising that Phoenix could save money by awarding contracts to them, but the council created a managed competition process instead of privatizing services. Ever since, companies have had to compete with government to see which group could provide the most appropriate solid waste services for the lowest cost.
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The versatile Joel Edgerton has carved out a nice character actor resume, bouncing from genre to genre – crime flick Animal Kingdom to the MMA fighting Warrior to the body horror remake/prequel The Thing. This Wednesday – Edgerton stars in the all-encompassing family/supernatural film The Odd Life of Timothy Green. Edgerton stars as Jim Green, one half of probably the nicest couple in film history, who along with his wife Cindy (Jennifer Garner) literally wishes a child into existence. The newfound parents then have to grapple with the responsibilities and missteps that come with their unforeseen parenthood.
In the following interview, Edgerton discusses approaching the magical/fantastical elements of the story versus playing the reality of the situation, the importance of the family unit and his future projects: Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty and Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby. For the full interview, hit the jump.
Joel Edgerton Time Index:
- 00:00 – Edgerton on the importance of the "family unit" in the film
- 00:55 – On working with David Morse (who plays his father in the film)
- 01:35 – On approaching the magical elements of the story versus the reality
- 02:42 – On branching out into writing and directing his own films
- 03:30 – On Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty
- 04:10 – On working with Baz Luhrmann on The Great Gatsby


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The Secrets Of Great Cooking And Great Business
The Secrets Of Great Cooking And Great Business
The online magazine Ozy covers people, places and trends on the horizon. Co-founder Carlos Watson joins All Things Considered regularly to tell us about the site's latest feature stories.
This week, Watson tells host Arun Rath about an Iranian-American chef hoping to bring basic cooking genius to the masses, and the "CEO Whisperer" who is a secret weapon for many powerful business leaders.
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The Woman Behind The Next Big CookbookAya Brackett
"Samin Nosrat grew up the daughter of Iranian immigrants down in Southern California, jokes that her lunchbox used to be very different than the lunchbox of her kind of classic American pals. [This] led her to love cooking, and she decided that instead of a cookbook that just laid out an endless number of recipes, she really wanted to teach people how to [use] four essential elements — salt and heat and fat and acid — in order to cook whatever they wanted. So, 'You don't need fancy ingredients,' she'd say, 'You just need to know the basic principles involving those four things."
Business' Secret Weapon: A 'CEO Whisperer'The Demo Conference
"Bill Campbell is what many of us call the 'CEO Whisperer.' About 15 years ago ... he started advising a then-little-known CEO named Jeff Bezos, of Amazon. While Bezos was on the edge of being kicked out of his job ... Bill came in, gave him incredible advice ... and today we see one of the most successful CEOs of all time. He did the same kind of advising for Steve Jobs and a whole series of others. ...
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We all start somewhere. Why, I remember back in the day when I had to blog uphill both ways in the snow….
And it was deep snow.
History Lesson
I started this blog for GW because once upon a time a guild leader (who shall not be named) /ragequit his guild and banned people from the forums, thus cutting me off from pages of fan fiction and character stories that I worked hard on and naively stored only on the forum.
Lesson learned.
I kept a personal blog on livejournal, but it didn't have the capability I wanted for a character-centric blog. Also, like myspace before it, people were leaving livejournal and going other places. So I followed.
If you're a new blogger, check out the Newbie Blogger Initiative site. Mind the mess and watch where you step, it's a new site and there are ads everywhere right now. I expect the site will be much prettier in weeks/months to come and as more and more "veteran bloggers" or "sponsors" make their way to the site, there will be more and more useful content to help people just starting out.
Advice from Belzan about blogging
Two pieces of advice today and prolly more down the road.
1. Find a site that meets your needs. WordPress was recommended to me by a friend, but there are lots and lots and lots of blog sites out there. I of course recommend WordPress, but Blogger, Xanga, and LiveJournal are all good places to start. The biggest question early on is: how serious are you? I'm a casual blogger and I use WordPress to host my site. You can generally do that for free, but you can also pay a small fee to host your own site. You get a lot more options that way. For now though, I recommend finding a site you like, posting, and tinkering with your options. If you're really starting from scratch, do a Google Search. There are lots of quality how-to guides out there.
2. Share! Post! Comment! While I believe I write quality material from time to time, I wouldn't have half the traffic or followers I do now if it weren't for fellow bloggers. Hunter paved the road to my site in a big way back when GW2 was first announced. I stumbled upon his site and liked what he had to say, so I started following him and commenting. Soon he started following me. Then people started noticing he followed me and were like "cool, Hunter thinks this site is worth following, maybe I'll check it out."
Lather. Rinse. Repeat folks. Make connections and people will read your blog. Every time I find a blog I like I add it to my blogroll <–. I also write for Talk Tyria and people follow the breadcrumbs from that site to mine. The blogging community is just that–a community.
Why Blog?
ArenaNet's take on the Guild Wars 2 community will change the status quo of Guild Wars fandom. Hundreds of fansites cropped up around Guild Wars covering every topic imaginable. With ANet's official GW2 forum and official wiki, many of the fansites of old are likely to go the way of the dodo. A blog is a great way to offer your unique perspective on the game and on your interests. My interest is writing fan fiction and creating detailed character stories for roleplaying. And occasionally screaming from high atop a soapbox…. I write my blog because I feel like there are at least a few people out there who enjoy reading my stories. I write my blog because it is a place where I can write freely about what I want. I write my blog because I like to connect and communicate with others who are interested in the same things I am.
So feel free to start a blog and claim your slice of the internet. Share your interests. And explore other blogs. Sites like Newbie Blogger Initiative and events like GuildMag's Blog Carnival will help you get started and help put eyeballs on your site. It's up to you to make your blog interesting. Now there's the challenge 🙂


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As we wind down the the work week and many head home for an extended holiday break, here's a few bits of year-end cheer.
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Thankfully, Fox News host Megyn Kelly — who declared that Santa Clause was, in fact, white — has been silenced. It turns out that the big guy takes on many different colors and ethnicities, not a tough act to pull off when you're a fictional character. Kelly, by the way, was not the first to land in hot water this past month for casting Santa in a single mold.
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"Who am I to judge?" With those five simple words, spoken in response to questions about gay priests, Pope Francis shocked the world and managed to recast Catholicism as a more inclusive, open-minded and compassionate institution. Here's why Time magazine named him Person of the Year:
He took the name of a humble saint and then called for a church of healing. The first non-European pope in 1,200 years is poised to transform a place that measures change by the century.
Read more about Pope Francis in this New Yorker profile.
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The annual ritual of capturing the past year's best and worst is well underway. Time magazine selected these photos as the top 10 — a choice that just gets tougher as more of us equipped with cell phones fancy ourselves photographers.
"Dizzying technological advances allow a mind-boggling number of images—half-a-billion a day—to be shot and posted online," writes David Rohde in this Atlantic piece. Rohde argues that the world still needs professional photographers, though, who capture the moments that change history.
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Speaking of photos, here's one that's stirred up a bit of a controversy and raises this important question: Can you be a Springsteen fan and a Carolina fan at the same time?
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I just put another trailer for the Cleveland's Screaming documentary up on You Tube. You can also see it on your right over there under the links. You Tube is some weird mojo.
I walked to my post office this morning. There are two post offices in my vicinity. One is about 5 minute's walk away. But that's not the one that delivers to my place. It's actually in Beverly Hills, while my apartment is in Los Angeles. The post office that delivers to my place takes about half an hour to get to on foot. But I hate driving, and I especially hate driving there. So mostly when I have to go there, I hoof it. My friend Hiroshi Maruyama, who designs all the monsters Ultraman fights, sent me a dinosaur book from Japan that wouldn't fit in my mailbox. So I had to go retrieve it.
It's funny to note the cultural differences between the two post offices. The one in Beverly Hills is very open, spacious and welcoming. The one in Los Angeles has all of the workers encased behind inch-thick plexiglass. I'm never sure if this is intended to protect the postal workers from the customers or to protect the customers from potential psycho postal employees. This is some weird kinda place I live in, I tell you what.
Next month I'll be in Hastings, Nebraska doing a lecture at Hastings College. The lecture is on October 24th. I know nothing about Nebraska. My mom was born there, but the family moved to Ohio shortly afterward. So I guess I have some connection to that state. But I've never been there. Can't even imagine what it's like. But it should be fun.
Next Sunday I'm giving a talk at the Karuna Yoga Studio in Los Angeles' Los Feliz section. I'm not sure if the general public can attend or not, or if it's just for members of that studio. I'll post when I know.


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In the end of April 2013 I organized a short trip to Kyrgyzstan (just 10 days). We explored a few important areas in search of Tulipa and Hepatica. We found all the plants in full flower and in great numbers. Kyrgyzstan is a easy country to travel in, but I recommend to use a good travel agent who can deal with the transport and accommodation.Read More
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text: This was super fun to record. I did it all on my trusty 22 (I took some backups, they were not needed). I have found that this guitar not only sounds great, but it sits well in the mix as well, something essential when playing next to a keyboard player. We recorded it live, just take after take after take. There's only a few vocal overdubs. We wanted to keep it raw and as close as to our live performances as possible. I am not the only one who solos in this band, it just so happened that the songs we picked for this recording session had all guitar solos! Please, have a listen and let me know what you think! http://www.foxyandthesound.com/music About us. We have been playing together for almost a year, writing and road testing the material around the L.A. area. We play the Sunset Strip every now and then and we are excited to get out there. This demo will allow us to reach more people. We try to pay homage to our classic rock roots but we are decidedly looking for our own signature sound. Cheers! P.S.: If you are in the L.A. area and would like to come to one of our shows, check our Events tab on our page for future updates. You can also find us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/FoxyAndTheSound


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By Betsy Schiffman June 06, 2008 | 1:36:47 PMCategories: Amazon.com
UPDATED: See Amazon official comment below; new error messages reported.
Oops. The Amazon.com site became "unavailable" for millions of users across the U.S., at a potential cost of $31,000 per minute.
The outage comes just a few months after Amazon's S3 (an online storage service) failed.
The site was down for roughly two hours, starting at 10:25 PST and was back up at 12:30, according to spokesperson Patty Smith. The cause was not disclosed.
"The system is very complex. On rare occasions when we experience problems, we try to resolve them as soon as possible," Smith says.
The actual cost of the outage? Unclear, but if Amazon generates close to $4 billion this quarter (that's the Wall Street consensus estimate) the company could book roughly $1.8 million in sales per hour, or $31,000 per minute.
Of course, those numbers include international sales, and international properties were unaffected. Also, there is no way to account for daily or weekly shopping trends.
"It's hard to say that those sales are just lost, gone and unrecoverable — maybe some people came to the site, saw it was down, poked around, and came back and bought," says Domenic Lacava, an analyst with Canaccord Adams.
We're still not clear on what happened, but in an Amazon.com forum, the company left the stark message:
Greetings from Amazon.com,
We are currently investigating an issue that has impacted the availability of the Amazon.com website. Engineers are actively engaged in resolving this issue and we will provide an update once the issue is resolved. We appreciate your patience during this time.
Technical Account Management
And while S3 still did not go down, some customers have complained about a sharp rise in errors; and extremely slow speeds.
In the meantime, several readers report getting an error message implying they're robots:
We're sorry!
You have been denied access to this feature because we believe you violated the terms, conditions, rules, guidelines or policies of our site in the past. If you believe we have taken this action in error, you may contact us at email@example.com.
Incidentally, the Amazon site isn't the only thing that's down — the stock closed down close to $4, or more than 4.6 percent.
Source: http://blog.wired.com/business/2008/06/amazon-down.html


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Boston's third annual Inventgenuity Festival is presented by Beam Camp, a New Hampshire summer camp for the applied arts, technology and collaboration. The weekend Festival will be loaded with a tremendous range of activities led by Beam's staff of artists, engineers and big thinkers. The Inventgenuity Festival has become a popular annual winter celebration of making things for kids ages 7-14 and their parents.
At the Inventgenuity Festival, kids will playfully and productively investigate what digital technology and manual mechanisms have in common. In two days of hands-on workshops and on-going collective projects led by expert makers and manipulators of sound, image, electricity, and motion kids will explore this year's theme, DIGITAL BY HAND.
Says Beam Camp's Co-Founder Danny Kahn: "We love watching kids jump behind and beyond the screen to discover how the magic is made and meeting the artists and engineers that make it through nothing less than hard work, persistence and imagination. We feel it's our job, our mission really, to physicalize and make play out of concepts that are generally veiled in mystery and expertise."
In the weekend's big Project designed by Allen Riley, "Physical Video Processing Unit," kids will become the bits and bytes of a room-sized video machine using physical materials to edit and transform video.
Participation in the project is free. Attendees may also sign-up for one of the rotating slate of 45-minute workshops. Scheduled workshops will explore DIGITAL BY HAND through Handpowered Animated GIFs (Brett Van Aalsburg), Crazy Cursor Bots (Reid Bingham), Origami LED Pixels (Susan Ngo), LED Fortune Tellers (Eun Jung (EJ) Park), and Embroidered Emoticons (Julie Schneider).
Festival admission is free, but advance sign-up is required - register through the website. All workshops will repeat throughout the day.
Workshop registration will take place at the Festival. There is a $5 materials charge for some workshops.


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Recently, a new term started for one of the colleges for which I teach. After a brief introduction to the course; I went to the board and starting explaining to the class how grades would work for this particular college math course.
"It's March and I like March Madness and college basketball, so I'm going to take a tournament approach to grading," I said as I started drawing a tournament bracket on the board. After noting, "This is going to be fun," I continued explaining how my grading system would work for the term.
The students look dumbfounded; I kept a straight face and continued with my explanation. "The class will be divided into five groups or brackets for each test." I went on to note that the highest grade in each group would compete for an A, the second highest for a B, etc. Of course, I also noted that the lowest in each group would compete for an A, also.
My logic was that even if you are one of the lowest performers, you still had a chance for an A.
It didn't take long, for a student to note, "This is not fair."
I stopped drawing my elaborate "March Math Madness" brackets on the board, and looked at the student who had noted that my grading method was not reasonable.
Going back to my lectern at the front of the class, I grasped both sides like a Baptist preacher preparing to lay down the main point of the sermon.
"What if you were 8, 9 or 10 years old?" I asked them. "Would you think it was fair then?"
The class again looked at me like I had a horn sticking out of my forehead.
"What if you put all of your effort, all of your heart into a race and after you finished with the second best time, they awarded the Second Place Trophy to the runner who came in sixth?"
At this point, a couple of the students started fidgeting in their seats and got that, "How do I drop this class?" look on their faces.
I've ranted about it before, I will rant about it again, and I will rant about it on my death bed. If I don't, please remind me; it will give me reason to live.
Needing to lose a couple of students because of space in my classroom, I thought seriously about continuing my sermon without explanation.
I did not; I let them off the hook. Math causes anxiety in some folks; I didn't want to add to their fears. It is always nice to feel that folks agree with you.
They didn't know it yet, but they were agreeing with me.
People think of March Madness and college basketball when March comes around each year, I think of the Pinewood Derby and the wounds caused by those who cheated me out of my red second place ribbon.
Why worry about second place?
If you earned it, you should be proud of it.
The leaders of my "pack," in their infinite wisdom, thought it would be nice for everyone to have a chance to win a ribbon. Doesn't this sound familiar? "Everyone should win." "Everyone should get an A."
I'm ranting now.
Forty years later, it still burns me up. Fifteen cars; the five fastest raced for the blue ribbon, the second five fastest raced for my red second place ribbon and the five slowest cars raced to see who would get the white third place ribbon.
It doesn't make a lick of sense. It didn't then and it still doesn't.
Yes, I came in second in the group of the five fastest cars. It was by about a half a car length. Daddy told me it was going to happen. He knew race cars and had the orange and black car that would win pegged when we first showed up with my meticulously painted, slick and aerodynamic red, white and blue masterpiece.
Daddy looked at me and said, "That boy's daddy works at the sawmill, I'm going to tell you right now that thing's going run like greased lightning." Daddy was a drag racer, he called things what they were – when times were tough, he didn't hold back.
Therefore, I have to continue living, knowing I was cheated, wronged and denied my second place red ribbon.
It is hard to take, particularly in March, when all the younger guys at work start drawing designs on the chalkboard for their sons and daughters Pinewood Derby and Powder Puff Derby cars. These guys design rockets, satellites and really cool stuff. I want to help to them, but I just can't.
The wounds are too deep.
One of my new students asked me if class would always be this entertaining. I told him, "I will make no promises other than I will never cheat you out of second place."
The student was looking up at me; I was standing on a table at this time. As much as I try, I can't stay behind the lectern when I tell this story.
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In order to compute a function t = (t₀, t₁,...) ↦ f(t₀ y + ∑ t_i a_i) where y and a_i are vectors, I have used gemv to perform y ← t₀ y + ∑ t_i a_i. However, in case the sum is empty — ∑_{i ∈ ∅} which translates to N=0 when calling gemv — gemv leaves y unchanged instead of performing the mathematically correct behavior: y ← t₀ y.
Is this broken semantics the intended behavior — or must it be considered as a forgotten corner case? If the former, why? And why hasn't this be fixed — as it seems to me that having the mathematically correct behavior is definitely better and can be obtained at zero additional (computational) cost.


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The Impossible Astronaut, the first episode of Doctor Who's sixth series (or thirty-second season, if you prefer) will air tonight at 6:00pm BST on BBC One in the UK, at 9:00pm Eastern (6:00 Pacific) on BBC America in the USA, and at 8:00pm Eastern (5:00pm Pacific) on SPACE in Canada. US viewers will also be able to purchase episodes from iTunes or Amazon Instant Video.
After the episode airs, viewers in the UK will be able to view My Sarah Jane: A Tribute to Elisabeth Sladen on the CBBC channel. Doctor Who Confidential will follow on BBC Three at 7:00pm.
Finally, to tease the final hours before the debut of The Impossible Astronaut, the BBC's Doctor Who website has posted some potentially spoilerrific photos from the episode, as well as this enigmatic video under a link to "The Silence":
"Are real", BBC, via BBC website
"Silence Will Fall Tonight", BBC, via BBC Website


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Invest ripple
It is unequivocal that invest ripple is gaining popularity. And this popularity is changing with varying success.
Bitcoin is a bubble or new technology?
The world has split into two camps. Some consider bitcoin – a new technology, like the invention of a wheel or the advent of the Internet. Others believe that bitcoin is another financial bubble, similar to the tulip fever in Europe or the dotcom bubble in the US in the last century. Both camps use invest ripple in their own interests, changing the direction of the bitcoin market in a matter of days or even in a few hours from positive to negative or vice versa. And they manipulate the moods of people using, for example, information about invest ripple.
invest ripple today.
When bitcoin appeared, then invest ripple appeared and began to gain momentum. In the beginning invest ripple were raw and contradictory. Today invest ripple have a completely different quality. They are more technological, more truthful and more close to reality.
It is necessary to understand that if this market develops at the same pace, in the future invest ripple will make another qualitative leap.
Do you believe in Bitcoin?
If so, then invest ripple is for you!


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taking, titrating, and tapering BuSpar (buspirone)
Jessica Allan
Author Information Copyright, Citing and License information Published online 08 July, 2011
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Taking & Titration Overview
One of the most important aspects of any medication is how to go about taking it. This includes:
- how much to take (the dosage or dose)
- when and how often to take it (dosing schedule or doses)
- how much to start with and how to increase the dose/dosage until you're taking the target amount (titration or titration schedule).
Although we often disagree with them, we'll always give you the manufacturer's recommendations from BuSpar's full US Prescribing Information. If, for some reason, that isn't available, we'll use information for patients leaflets, SPCs from overseas, or whatever official sources we can find. Most doctors will give you some idea of what it will be like, and this is what every pharmacist is trained and paid to tell you.1 As "often" doesn't mean "always", whatever is in the PI sheet works for us a lot of the time.
We usually advocate starting at a lower dosage than recommended. One of our core philosophies is increasing the dosages as slowly as one's condition allows, and staying at the dosage that works instead of a target dosage2. More and more doctors are agreeing with us3. You and your doctor can always discuss increasing the dosage when you need to in advance.
And since you never really know how a drug might affect you, it's best to start when you have some time off of work. Like Friday night / Saturday morning, or your equivalent. Better still would be to get someone to stay with you or at least check on you frequently, especially if you're the primary caretaker of young children and similar critters.4
BuSpar (buspirone) Dosage and Doses
The starting dose is usually 5 mg 3 times per day, for a total of 15 per day. With a half life of 3 hours, stepping up every two to three days is not unreasonable biologically — however, it's insane from a common-sense point of view. Give BuSpar a week between dose step-ups at least, so you can see if it's doing anything for you at the lower dose. Standard dosages of BuSpar in clinical trials are usually 20 to 30 mg per day; the maximum dosage of BuSpar is 60 mg per day.
Special Instructions/Best Way to Take BuSpar (buspirone)
BuSpar (buspirone) Titration (Dosage Increase)
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Vaccines Cause Immunity
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One thing PI sheets and doctors infrequently discuss, and don't go into enough detail about, is how to discontinue a medication. With some meds it's not too bad, but with others (most notably SNRIs like Effexor and Cymbalta) it can be a nightmare if not done carefully.
How to Stop Taking BuSpar (buspirone)
Given a half-live of two to three hours, stepping down by 5 mg at every day is reasonable. Though every other day would be safer. Unless it didn't do anything at all, including no psychiatric effects, including stuff like making the anxiety or depression worse. In which case go for 10mg a day.
Discontinuation Symptoms
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1 And everyone has the time to do their jobs properly, when said time isn't being wasted by idiots asking for grocery store phone numbers** or they aren't playing Angry Farmers on the Faecesbooks.
2 Although not everyone has the luxury of stopping at a dosage when the symptoms abate and not increasing it unless the return. Sometimes you just have to keep going up until you reach that target dosage. E.g. you have a history of seizures that haven't yet responded to several medications.
3 Most notably Dr. Edward Faught, founder and Director of the Epilepsy Center, and vice chairman of the Department of Neurology, at the University of Alabama School of Medicine in Birmingham. His article on new antiepileptic drugs in Volume 7 issue 1 of Peer Review in Review stressed starting at low dosages, doing a slow titration, and stopping at the dosage where symptoms were under control. In Topiramate in the treatment of partial and generalized epilepsy, the one free, full-text article I could find (that's not about geriatric patients), he again stresses the low and slow approach to avoid or lessen most side effects, while still achieving seizure control in the same amount of time.
4 Assuming you have the luxury of a job, being able to cope with your symptoms not being dealt with for however many days you need to wait in order to do this, and/or someone who can and is willing to stay with you for a few days. Read enough of this site and you can tell what sort of fantasy world I live in.
**DrugMonkey, Master of Pharmacy, answers the question "Why your prescription takes so damn long to fill"
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1 While there are plenty of books to help you with hypochondria, for some reason there's not much in the way of websites. Then again, staying off of the Internet is a large part of curing/managing the disorder.
2 Remember kids, Microsloth operating systems are like TOS Star Trek movies with in that every other one sucks way, way more. With TOS Star Trek movies you don't want to bother watching the odd-numbered ones. With Microsloth OS you don't want to buy and install the even-numbered ones. Anyone who remembers ME and Vista knows what I mean.
3 Have I mentioned how open source operating systems for commercial applications is one of the dumbest ideas in the history of dumb ideas?* I don't even need my big-ass rant any more. Heartbleed has made my case for me. And that's just the one that got all the media attention. The very nature of an open source operating system makes security as much of an illusion as anonymity on teh Intergoogles. Before you flip out too much: the domain Crazymeds is hosted on uses a version of SSL that is not affected by the Heartbleed bug. That's one of the many reasons why I pay a lot of money and keep this site on Lunarpages.
* Yes, I know I'm using open source browsers. I also test the site using the now-defunct IE and Safari browsers. Their popularity - and superiority - killed IE and Safari, so that's why I rely on the open source browsers. It's like brand vs. generic meds. Sometimes the generic is better than the brand.