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The 84th Annual Academy Awards – the night when Hollywood takes the Super Bowl, Christmas and campaign season, rolls them all into a ball and spray-paints it gold – is coming live this Sunday, Feb. 27. All the talk has been about the return of beloved Oscar host Billy Crystal, but what about the actual movies up for golden statues?
"The Artist" has been storming through awards shows all across the globe since its triumphant unveiling at Cannes last summer. But will the momentum hold? Will a French silent film shot in black-and-white really dominate the 2012 Oscars? Let's take a look at the biggest categories and see who we think will take home what prize – and who should.
Best Director
Michel Hazanavicius, "The Artist"
Alexander Payne, "The Descendants"
Martin Scorsese, "Hugo"
Woody Allen, "Midnight in Paris"
Terrence Malick, "The Tree of Life"
Will win: Michel Hazanavicius
Should win: Michel Hazanavicius
Setting aside for a moment the fact that Tomas Alfredson ("Tinker, Tailor, Solider, Spy") and Nicholas Winding Refn ("Drive") got totally stiffed, Hazanavicius made a gorgeous and engaging film with one had tied behind his back. That said, if it weren't for the dinosaurs and Sean Penn's furrowed brow, Malick would be walking away with this thing.
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Best Actor
George Clooney, "The Descendants"
Jean Dujardin, "The Artist"
Brad Pitt, "Moneyball"
Gary Oldman, "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy"
Demian Bichir, "A Better Life"
Will win: George Clooney
Should win: Gary Oldman
By our count, Clooney has already been named Best Actor by seven awards bodies and was nominated by seven others – people have gone goofy for him in a role and film that left us completely cold. Dujardin's rubber face can say more with a twitch than a lot of guys can get out of their entire bodies, but Oldman commanded every scene of "Tinker' with a stony silence that hid a furiously working mind.
Best Actress
Viola Davis, "The Help"
Michelle Williams, "My Week With Marilyn"
Meryl Streep, "The Iron Lady"
Rooney Mara, "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo"
Glenn Close, "Albert Nobbs"
Will win: Viola Davis
Should win: Viola Davis
It almost feels like a fait accompli that this one is going to Streep, but for all her Oscar nominations, she hasn't won in 29 years – and her film was both a commercial and critical dud. Davis, meanwhile, hits a couple of Oscar sweet spots with "The Help," as both a pro-Civil Rights film and a box-office monster. Throw in a gifted actress who's long overdue for some recognition, and you've got a recipe for victory.
Best Supporting Actor
Christopher Plummer, "Beginners"
Kenneth Branagh, "My Week With Marilyn"
Jonah Hill, "Moneyball"
Nick Nolte, "Warrior"
Max Von Sydow, "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"
Will win: Christopher Plummer
Should win: Christopher Plummer
Where's Albert Brooks? In 1986, after 50 years in Hollywood, Don Ameche won Best Supporting Actor for his role in "Cocoon," as the Academy suddenly realized that the man was reaching the end and had never won an Oscar. Plummer is the new Ameche, the difference being that he gave a brilliant turn in an excellent film.
Best Supporting Actress
Octavia Spencer, "The Help"
Bérénice Bejo, "The Artist"
Jessica Chastain, "The Help"
Melissa McCarthy, "Bridesmaids"
Janet McTeer, "Albert Nobbs"
Will win: Octavia Spencer
Should win: Octavia Spencer
Without Spencer's relentless ferocity, "The Help" would've been little more than a tired and maudlin affair brimming with self-importance.
Best Original Screenplay
Woody Allen, "Midnight in Paris"
Michel Hazanavicius, "The Artist"
Kristen Wiig & Annie Mumolo, "Bridesmaids"
JC Chandor, "Margin Call"
Asghar Farhadi, "A Separation"
Will win: Woody Allen
Should win: Woody Allen
"The Artist" had no dialogue, "Bridesmaids" wasn't that funny, the rest of "Margin Call" didn't live up to the script (though we liked the film) and "A Separation" isn't even in English! Also, Allen delivered his best film in 20 years, a hilarious poke in the eye to wearying nostalgia buffs everywhere.
Best Adapted Screenplay
Nat Faxon, Alexander Payne & Jim Rash, "The Descendants"
Aaron Sorkin & Steven Zaillian, "Moneyball"
John Logan, "Hugo"
Bridget O'Connor & Peter Straughan, "Tinker, Tailor Soldier Spy"
George Clooney & Grant Heslov, "The Ides of March"
Will win: Faxon/Payne/Rash
Should win: Sorkin/Zaillian
The screenplay prizes are the Academy's favorite way to throw a bone to the films they lack the courage to name Best Picture, so Payne and friends will take the statue. But Sorkin and Zaillian somehow managed to take a book that is essentially a business seminar packed with statistical analyses of baseball players and turn it into an engaging underdog story that managed to pull in non-baseball fans without angering people who loved the book (Hello!).
Best Animated Feature
"Puss in Boots"
"Kung Fu Panda 2"
"A Cat in Paris"
"Chico & Rita"
Will win: "Rango"
Should win: "Rango"
"Rango," writer-director Gore Verbinski's tale of a chameleon undergoing an identity crisis (voiced by Johnny Depp), was a smart and funny homage to old Hollywood that felt fresher than any non-Pixar cartoon in a long time.
Best Costume Design
"The Artist," Mark Bridges
"Jane Eyre," Michael O'Connor
"Hugo," Sandy Powell
"W.E.," Arianne Phillips
"Anonymous," Lisy Christl
For this one we turned to our colleague Laural Pinson of The Thread for her expert opinion:
Will win: "Anonymous"
Should win: "Jane Eyre"
This is that rare category in which a film's critical reception has no bearing on its chances of winning, as not since "The Aviator" in 2004 has a Best Picture nominee won Best Costume Design. The Academy tends to favor period pieces (wouldn't it be nice if the Academy were to nominate a contemporary film in this category?), the showier the better. While "The Artist" deserves mention if only for creating a vivid textural palette in black-and-white, the real battle is between "Jane Eyre" and "Anonymous." While the attention to detail in "Jane Eyre" is staggering, from the undergarments to the slightly worn approach to the characters' attire, the fact of the matter is British royal dramas and epically ridiculous collars have dominated this award of late: "Elizabeth: The Golden Age," "The Young Victoria," and "The Duchess" and last year's "Alice in Wonderland."
Best Picture
"The Artist"
"The Help"
"The Descendants"
"Midnight in Paris"
"War Horse"
"The Tree of Life"
"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"
Will win: "The Artist"
Should win: "Tree of Life"
"The Artist" has too much momentum to be stopped, having dominated the BAFTA awards, the Golden Globes and a other dozen ceremonies, and it's the kind of film the Academy loves, brimming with its love of old Hollywood, song-and-dance numbers, the French… Remember, the average Academy voter is old enough to have grown up watching black-and-white silent films and not sneering at cheese-eating surrender monkeys.
Think you can do better? Want to have a friendly contest with your friends? Print out our 2012 Oscar ballot, covering all 24 categories and two tie-breaker questions.


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What is immunotherapy?
Immunotherapy is a form of treatment, commonly known as allergy shots, in which a patient with allergic rhinitis gets controlled exposure to allergens through injections. It will not be the first course of treatment. In immunotherapy, a doctor raises the allergen dose in your shots over a number of months and years – the intent is that as the dose rises, you become less sensitive to allergens.
Who should get allergy shots?
First, your allergist will take a history, do an examination including skin-prick tests to determine what you are allergic to, and then will prescribe medications. If you're still suffering even with medication, allergy shots may be the next step. Candidates for this treatment are usually people who are no longer helped by allergy medications and those who have serious rhinitis symptoms for prolonged periods of time.
If you haven't had allergies for long, you are more likely to be responsive and experience longer-lasting benefits. Children, however, should have had seasonal symptoms for at least two years before being considered candidates, says Dr. Eric Leith, an allergist based in Oakville, Ontario. The child should be old enough to understand what's going on, he says, "and if a reaction occurs, they must be able to express that."
Allergist Dr. Harold Kim says about 5 to 10 per cent of patients receiving immunotherapy have skin, breathing or gastrointestinal reactions. Only about 1 to 3 per cent have more severe reactions. While anaphylaxis is rare, "immunotherapy can be life-threatening," cautions Leith. "You should be waiting in the doctor's office for half an hour [after the treatment] to make sure you are not reacting." If you have asthma, Leith stresses that it must be under control or the shots "may accentuate the asthma."
How long does immunotherapy treatment last?
Immunotherapy can take years to carry out. Patients receive one to two shots a week of minimal amounts of their allergen for about six months, until they reach their "maintenance dose," which means symptoms have improved. Then, a monthly dose is required to keep the allergies under control. Treatment can take up to five years, but the benefit of immunotherapy is that it may have a lasting effect even after the shots have stopped. Leith says there have been cases in which patients have seen their symptoms disappear completely.
First published in Allergic Living magazine.
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In this tutorial I'm going to go over some simple common ways to use ASP gridview controls and the RowCommand to trigger an events and then to navigate to a detail form view.
Let get into it:
A simple way to navigate to a detailed view is to set up a gridview with data from your database:
If you don't know how to setup a gridview go here.
Create a event by double clicking your gridview, you should get an event like:
protected void GridView1_SelectedIndexChanged(object sender, EventArgs e) { }
This will be triggered whenever the user clicks your gridview, we can then use some code to redirect the user to a detail view:
protected void GridView1_SelectedIndexChanged(object sender, EventArgs e) { string RecordId = GridView1.SelectedRow.Cells[1].Text; Session["RecordID"] = RecordId; Response.Redirect("DetailPage.aspx"); }
Let's go line by line:
string RecordId = GridView1.SelectedRow.Cells[1].Text;
This bit of code will select the recordID which is in column 1 (remember were 0 based) I have chosen to leave this visible but you can hide the column in the markup by setting the column property visible = false
Session["RecordID"] = RecordId;
This will store our recordID into the Session Object so we can pick it up on the next page
This will redirect us to our our detail view page
So now were going to write some code in the pageload event of our detailpage.aspx page, this code will be executed when the page load's giving us the desired result.
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) { string RecordID2 = (string)(Session["RecordID"]); int RecID = System.Convert.ToInt32(RecordID2); DataClassesDataContext db = new DataClassesDataContext(); var resultset = from r in db.Records where r.RecordID == RecID select r;
string RecordID2 = (string)(Session["RecordID"]);
int RecID = System.Convert.ToInt32(RecordID2);
Here we are picking up the RecordID that we stored into the Session Object converting it into an integer
DataClassesDataContext db = new DataClassesDataContext();
var resultset = from r in db.Records
where r.RecordID == RecID
select r;
Next we pass it into a LINQ statement to get the specific row of data.
*You could just as easily do this with ADO/SQL if you choose.
foreach (var r in resultset) { Label3.Text = r.First + " " + r.Last; TextBox1.Text = r.First; TextBox16.Text = r.Last; TextBox2.Text = r.Address; TextBox3.Text = r.City; etc ................................. } }
Here I am populating the fields on the form to give us something like
Note: This is a very simple example and there are often better/more secure ways to do this but this is good place to start if your trying to learn ASP ...
Now lets look at how to use the RowCommand Event. This is a way to initiate a more complex event from your gridview.
ASP Markup
<asp:GridView ID="GridView1" runat="server" OnRowCommand="myGV_RowCommand" AutoGenerateColumns="False" onselectedindexchanged="GridView1_SelectedIndexChanged"> <AlternatingRowStyle BackColor="White" /> <Columns> <asp:ButtonField HeaderText="Download" Text="Download" ButtonType="Button" CommandName="click1" /> <asp:ButtonField ButtonType="Button" HeaderText="Answer" Text="Answer" CommandName="click2" /> [/b] <asp:BoundField DataField="Doc_Txt" HeaderText="Type" SortExpression="Doc_Txt" /> ect ...
What am I looking at ?
Ok take it all in:
1. Our GridView is called, well GridView1
2. Our OnRowCommand is myGV_RowCommand
3. The CommandName forour buttons is Click1 and Click 2 Respectively
Next we have to write some code in our cs file to handle these two would be events:
protected void myGV_RowCommand(Object sender, GridViewCommandEventArgs e) { if (e.CommandName == "click1") { int index = Convert.ToInt32(e.CommandArgument); //get row number selected GridViewRow row = GridView1.Rows[index]; Go ahead do something like above } if (e.CommandName == "click2") { Do something cool ... } }
Good link to check out:
GridView.RowCommand Event
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Transmutation spells change the properties of some creature, thing, or condition.
So if a transmutation spell was cast after an alter self, and then the alter self was dismissed. Is the transmutation spell still active.
In this particular case, I am look at a transmutation spell that affects the eye sight. (The spell is called dragon sight). The spell Alter Self does not affect eye sight, so I am assuming that the transmutation spell is still in affect.
However, what happens if after an alter self, enlarge person was cast. And then the alter self spell was dismissed. What happens to enlarge person?


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Poppy's Return
Poppy's Return
Brian Floca, Avi
Poppy returns ... with big trouble. Family trouble. Poppy and Rye don't know what to do about their son Ragweed Junior's attitude. He is rude, he is crude, and he has dyed his fur to look like Mephitis, his skunk friend. In short, Ragweed Junior is very much a teenager. Even Ereth, the cantankerous porcupine, with his salty swearing, can't straighten him out. Then Poppy gets an urgent request to return to her old home, Gray House, where her aging parents, Sweet Cicely and Lungwort, are in difficulties. Not only does she agree to go back, she decides to take Junior, in hopes traveling together will bring them together. But when Junior's skunk pal and Ereth join the party, the trip doesn't quite go as expected. And when Poppy recalls she did not get along with her parents, things become even more complicated. Poppy's Return is a hilarious adventure tale about family: the gleeful joys, the farcical sorrows, the high emotions, and the low comedy of living with and without relations. It's also about bears, bulldozers, and the boisterous antics of young mice doing the stinky red. And sugared slug soup, there's always Ereth to stir the stew of Poppy's rich and rewarding life.
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About me
The history of a family can be so much more interesting than lists of names and dates. Finding their stories helps us understand and empathise with our ancestors' struggles and achievements. If you need help, Kerry Farmer can assist with professional research to find not only details about their marriages and children, but also the sundry documents that provide insights into their lives.
Teaching family history classes since 1997, I am on the Education Committee of the Society of Australian Genealogists, and present seminars and classes there as well as at adult education colleges and elsewhere. Links to course notes and useful URLs may be found on my website at http://familyhistoryresearch.com.au.
I teach classes in Australian and UK research and have also presented classes in Norwegian and Jewish research, as well as how DNA can help with genealogical puzzles. I currently teach online courses in "Australian and New Zealand Genealogy" through the National Institute of Genealogical Studies (http://www.genealogicalstudies.com).
I worked for many years designing, writing and testing computer software. My tertiary qualifications include a BSc (Computer Science and Pure Mathematics) and a BA (Literature). I am currently the Coordinator of The Master Genealogist User Group, Sydney.
In 2010, with Rosemary Kopittke I wrote Which Genealogy Program?, published by Unlock The Past, and available through Gould Genealogy & Heraldry (http://www.gould.com.au). This publication helps family historians choose the most appropriate genealogy software for their needs.


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Because there are so many different types of canopies available, it's important to choose the size, style, and functionality that best meets your needs. How do you make the choice? Start by thinking about how you'll most often be using your new canopy. Will you be entertaining large groups? Do you want a canopy for the primary purpose of sheltering your car from the elements? Or is your primary goal you're your canopy to block the sun while you eat, entertain, or relax outside? Your intended use will direct the choice of the ideal canopy. Size is always one of the most important considerations. Whether it's your number of guests you'd like to shelter or the dimensions of your car, you should keep your size requirements in mind as you shop for canopies. Once you know what size will fit your space and your usage purpose, you can browse the options to find the canopy that suits your design and style preferences.


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By Brendan White aka SteakNchop
After a successful all-time best positions players ever, players that had to be retired, I think I better make a modern one. Baseball has changed quite a bit over the years, so for the all-time list I had to compare the players to other players of their era. With this however, they are all playing during the same period of time so this list should be entirely accurate.
Note: These are not predictions of future performance or how the player would do
Back in 1892, Cal Berkeley started a baseball team. The Cal Bears, they were an excellent college team on and off the field. They won National Championships in 1947 and 1957. Year in and year out, they field a quality team.
Of any college baseball program in the country, Cal provides the most first round picks of any school. Many would consider it the best baseball program there has ever been, with a very good chance of making it to the big leagues from there. Many prospects and stars have
Last Saturday, I went to my first sports card show. The decision did not come very easily, though. February 5th was also the date of the 2010 World Series champion San Francisco Giants FanFest. Now, Ive been to this lets say every year except last since 2006. It is great for getting autographs, skipping the lines and just going upstairs to see interviews of current players and coaches. However, this year was expected to be different.
As we all know, the Giants were the World Series champions
Wherever you go, there will be groups of people who seem to act the same. Be it your work, your school, or your old-persons home, you will notice a trend in how we act. On Sports Card Forum, Ive noticed the exact same thing.
There are a few categories people on SCF are placed in. The first is,
[B]The Newbie[/B]
The newbie is quite an interesting collector. One way you can tell which category someone is in is how they check a bucket or photo album. When a newbie checks a bucket,
By Brendan White aka SteakNchop
[IMG]https://www.sportscardforum.com/articles/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Bazooka_gum.jpg[/IMG]Far back in time, before most of us had been born, Topps was as big a power as it is today. They have been manufacturing baseball cards since 1952 and have not stopped since. Heres their story
When Topps was created by the Shorin brothers back in 1938 they did not make baseball cards. All they made was bubblegum, under the name of Topps Gum. They went


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For thin client use cases, the key symbol based keyboard handling in classical RFB may cause problems,
as a 100%-mapping may not always exist between the client and server keymap, especially consider to support all possible keyboar layouts available in the world.
In addition the indicator led state may get out of sync.
Similar issues exists for VNC connections to virtual machines, so QEMU has defined two RFB extensions to address these isues:
- Extended key events, which transmits a layout independent scancode together with the keysym
- Keyboard indicator led state notifications from the server to the client
These extensions are documented in rfbproto:
https://github.com/rfbproto/rfbproto/bl ... o-encoding
See also: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/libr ... index.html
They are supported by gtk-vnc and noVNC on the client side, and QEMU on the server side.
We prepared a pull request within the TigerVNC project to enable support for these protocol extensions there too.
The pull-request has been accepted recently and the feature will be supported within the next TigerVNC release.
I like to ask for feedback from the maintainers if such feature would be welcome for Ultra VNC too?
In case "yes" - we would be willing to contribute to prepare such a commit also for Ultra VNC.
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While Ali Lohan's busy trying to turn her face into Anne Hathaway's, the real Anne Hathaway, inspired by Sabrina, was at work on the set of The Dark Knight Rises in LA. I love the name Sabrina. More people should be called Sabrina. Anne does Audrey a lot more convincingly than Jennifer Love Hewitt, non?
Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne was also shooting yesterday. It has been a while. He looks good. Really good. Not a skinny junkie which is my last recollection of him since The Fighter.
Very much looking forward to watching the chemistry between these two. Is it electric? Is it awkward? Is it awkward because it's electric? TDKR is due out July 20, 2012. Is it July yet? Once the liveblogs come back after TIFF, we should discuss your expectations. Sam Raimi's Spider-Man was great until the third installment. If anyone can avoid the 3 curse though, it's Christopher Nolan.
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José Ricardo Basiches-Fit2you Boutique Fitness
At Design Interviews
(Excerpt) Interview with José Ricardo Basiches : Frank Scott: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?. José Ricardo Basiches : Meet the needs of my clientes when we tried to create a totally concept of fitness for a particular audience .Frank Scott: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?. José Ricardo Basiches : With this work plan achieve the satisfaction and enjoyment of people attending the site for you to enjoy every day more of needs to work the body healthy and conscious way .Frank Scott: What are your future plans for this award winning design?. José Ricardo Basiches : To continue wit this work always seeking the most elaborate details to get a result precision between architecture and a funcionality. Reach this goal is that motivates us to seek and always study each type of project that wu have developed .Frank Scott: How long did it take you to design this particular concept?. José Ricardo Basiches : Takes 15 days to develop the concept .Frank Scott: Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you decide to pursuit an inspiration?. José Ricardo Basiches : Customers jsut gave me the will and the desire to design a facility with different concept, something cozier where all who love and those do not like to train .Frank Scott: Is your design being produced or used by another company, or do you plan to sell or lease the production rights or do you intent to produce your work yourself?. José Ricardo Basiches : There is a plan to expand to other cities in Brazil and abroad, We are responsible for all new projevts .Frank Scott: What made you design this particular type of work?. José Ricardo Basiches : The challenge of studying and desnhar something different from the conventional. The passion for architecture makes this the perfect design search motivates us every day to improve more and meet the customer program. .Frank Scott: Where there any other designs and/or designers that helped the influence the design of your work?. José Ricardo Basiches : I seek inspiration in life, in the city and drawings that practice to put the ideas into practice. .Frank Scott: Who is the target customer for his design?. José Ricardo Basiches : Any person or company that seeks a result that replicates of escape, and give us liberade to create to reach melhro possible outcome of a project .Frank Scott: What sets this design apart from other similar or resembling concepts?. José Ricardo Basiches : This project is something totally different from other gyms. The size of our concern with design and wellness. The finishing materials, coatings and all climate created, differs from other .Frank Scott: How did you come up with the name for this design? What does it mean?. José Ricardo Basiches : The name of this project was chosen by customers .Frank Scott: Which design tools did you use when you were working on this project?. José Ricardo Basiches : Always in every project we start from the initial idea to the simpler, the pencil and paper and a lot of creativity .Frank Scott: What is the most unique aspect of your design?. José Ricardo Basiches : The bold use of materials, and much creativity to put all the equipment program in a single functional space .Frank Scott: Who did you collaborate with for this design? Did you work with people with technical / specialized skills?. José Ricardo Basiches : Our entire team is qualified to develop qualqeur project type. Our teamwork is critical to the success of each project .Frank Scott: What is the role of technology in this particular design?. José Ricardo Basiches : This fully attached to the project. Starting with training where one can already view the online training before arriving at the gym, have your review to buy other drills and everywhere lighting project was designed to practice time and students circuit .Frank Scott: Is your design influenced by data or analytical research in any way? What kind of research did you conduct for making this design?. José Ricardo Basiches : Yes We did a survey of students' profile and other gyms to get this project .Frank Scott: What are some of the challenges you faced during the design/realization of your concept?. José Ricardo Basiches : Study thoroughly all it takes to get the perfect result between functionality and aesthetics, for the welfare and health care of all students .Frank Scott: How did you decide to submit your design to an international design competition?. José Ricardo Basiches : Interest in the promotion of the work of Brazilian architecture as a qualified and international awards .Frank Scott: What did you learn or how did you improve yourself during the designing of this work?. .[ End of Excerpt: Read complete interview with José Ricardo Basiches on Fit2you Boutique Fitness at design-interviews.com ]
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Improving security of the FreeBSD boot process: TPM and Secure Boot in FreeBSD
Master & Minions or the Dream of BSD Automation: Using Salt and Python to manage the a BSD Cloud
Migrating a bhyve guest
Netflix and FreeBSD: Reflections on Running FreeBSD Head in Production
The Future of OpenZFS and FreeBSD
Twenty Years in Jail: FreeBSD's Jails, Then and Now
Virtualization of BSD Using the QNX Hypervisor
CheriABI: Enforcing Valid Pointer Provenance and Minimizing Pointer Privilege in the POSIX C Run-time Environment
bhyve - Improvements to Virtual Machine State Save and Restore
BSD Unix Solutions in the Australian NFP/NGO Health Sector
Finalizing booting requirements for a guest running under bhyvearm
FreeBSD - Live Migration feature for bhyve
FreeBSD Virtualization - Improving block I/O compatibility in bhyve
Improving security of the FreeBSD boot process
Parallel, Multi-Axis Regression and Performance Testing with FreeBSD, OpenZFS, and bhyve
Security Fantasies and Realities for the BSDs
Yet Another Container Migration on FreeBSD
ZRouter: Remote update of firmware
Adventure in DRMland - Or how to write a FreeBSD ARM64 DRM driver
bhyvearm64: Generic Interrupt Controller Version 3 Virtualization
Doubling FreeBSD request-response throughputs over TCP with PASTE
LLVM and the state of sanitizers on BSD
Managing System Images with ZFS
Monitoring FreeBSD Systems: What to (Not) Monitor
powerpc64 architecture support in FreeBSD ports
25 Years of FreeBSD
Automated Firewall Testing
ELI5: ZFS Caching
Embedded FreeBSD on a five-core RISC-V processor using LLVM
FreeBSD Graphics
FreeBSD in Audio Studio
How to build a FreeBSD CI/CD environment based on pot container
KLEAK - Practical Kernel Memory Disclosure Detection
Migrating a Big Data Cluster from Linux to FreeBSD
Netflix and FreeBSD: Using Open Source to Deliver Streaming Video
Rspamd integration into FreeBSD.org mail infrastructure
Walking through walls
ZFS Powered Magic Upgrades
MeetBSD 2018
BSDCan 2018
MeetBSD 2018
NUMA and VM Scalability
Vdev Properties
BSDCan 2018
Flexible Disk Use in OpenZFS
FreeBSD ARM32/ARM64: Porting to a new board
How to bootstrap a BSD conference
Implementing ZSTD in OpenZFS on FreeBSD
Imprisoning software with libiocage: Utilizing FreeBSD to build secure compartments
Introducing FreeBSD in new environment: the good, the bad, the ugly
IT automation with Puppet
Plumbing the Internet, BSD-style: Building your Internet presence with BSD
Preparing your home router(s) for the future: A journey through Homenet and interconnected objects
Replacing Traditional Backup Systems with ZFS: Using ZFS Snapshots and Replication to Simplify Backups
RoCE as a performance accelerator
Running Linux applications on FreeBSD
The Evolution of FreeBSD Governance
Why did my application crash? Practical Low Overhead Record/Replay in FreeBSD
zrepl - ZFS replication
100x Faster Clone Deletion for ZFS
A Public-Key Trust Infrastructure for FreeBSD
Adding verification to FreeBSD loader
All along the dwatch tower: A DTrace tool for the masses
Automating Network Infrastructures with Ansible on FreeBSD
devmatch -- matching devices to modules: PNP plays matchmaker for kernel modules
eBPF Implementation for FreeBSD
Forget reusability, aim for perfection: New lessons from mandoc development
Improving netdump hardware support and performance with iflib
Institutionalizing FreeBSD Isolated and Virtualized Hosts Using bsdinstall(8), zfs(8) and nfsd(8): Authentic jail and VM hosts are best created with authentic tools
Introducing FreeBSD/VPC: Hosting Virtual Private Clouds on FreeBSD
Is it time to replace mmap()
Leveraging Jails for a FaaS System
Oh, a new Unix shell
PASTE: Fast End System Networking with netmap
Profiling the FreeBSD kernel boot: From hammer_time to start_init
SSH Key Management
The Tragedy of systemd
The TrueOS Difference: Changing Methodologies for Changing Times
ZFS send and receive, performance issues and improvements: Encryption, pipes and context switches need to go!
Reflections on the Meltdown fix for FreeBSD
Tuning FreeBSD for routing and firewalling
FreeBSD bhyve projects in University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest
FreeBSD/VPC - Virtual Private Cloud support (fka SDN)
FreeNAS and bhyve
FreeBSD : pkg provides
CBSD, Isolation manager
Configuring build base on FreeBSD
pot: another container framework based on jails and ZFS
Reflections on Teaching a Unix Class With FreeBSD
The FreeBSD Foundation and How We Are Changing the World
Unix Architecture Evolution from the 1970 PDP-7 to the 2018 FreeBSD
ZFS: Advanced Integration
vBSDcon 2017
Memory Management in FreeBSD 12.0
Tuning FreeBSD for routing and firewalling
vBSDcon 2017
A Deep Dive into FreeBSD's Kernel RNG
BSD Systems Management with Ansible
GELI Support for UEFI
Making gets() and its Friends more like SIGPIPE and SIGILL
The History and Future of Crash Dumps in FreeBSD
The Realities of DTrace on FreeBSD
The State of Network Security Tools on BSD
Towards Oblivious Sandboxing
Abusing SSH for ZFS and Profit
Continuous Integration of the FreeBSD Project
IA32 Paging Perspective: OS Developer view
Writing FreeBSD IR driver for ARM boards
Continuous Integration of the FreeBSD Project
CloudABI for FreeBSD
My BSD sucks less than yours
Transport Evolution on top of the BSD's
Modern Network Servers
Continuous Integration of the FreeBSD Project
Looking Backwards -- The coming decades of BSD
The FreeBSD ports & pkg System - Developer's Perspective
bhyve ATA emulation
Capsicum and Casper - a fairy tale about solving security problems
CheriBSD: A research fork of FreeBSD
Directory Services on FreeNAS
diskctl(8): A permissively-licensed S.M.A.R.T. and raw disk command utility framework
FreeBSD based high density filers
FreeBSD Test Cluster Automation
TLEM, very high speed link emulation
tree parsing and manipulation library
Xen HVMlite and FreeBSD
vBSDcon 2015
vBSDcon 2015
getdns, A New Stub Resolver
Improving MemGuard Support for UMA on FreeBSD
Interesting Things You Didn't Know You Could Do With ZFS
Made to Measure: Network Performance Analysis in FreeBSD
Supporting a BSD Project
Universal Configuration Files
Large-scale plug&play x86 network appliance deployment over Internet
Go based content filtering software on FreeBSD
FreeBSD -- Not a Linux Distro
Mitigating and Isolating DDoS at Layer7
VT-d and FreeBSD
Managing FreeBSD at Scale
A Fault Aware Global Server Load Balancer in DNS
FreeBSD ABI: Shared Page
Intel GPU Driver
Software Tools - Mission Accomplished or Mission Failure ?
AMD64 architecture
FreeBSD: problems of the project
Capsicum: practical capabilities for UNIX
FreeBSD Release Engineering
VM Overcommit
BSDCan 2009
BSDCan 2009
Crypto Acceleration on FreeBSD
Evaluation of Source Code Copy Detection Methods on FreeBSD
An Independent H-TCP Implementation under FreeBSD 7.0 – Description and Observed Behaviour
Porting the Solaris ZFS file system to the FreeBSD operating system
Lousy virtualization, Happy users: FreeBSD's jail(2) facility
A Scalable Concurrent malloc(3) Implementation for FreeBSD
Mac OS X - From the server to your desktop
Building a FreeBSD Appliance With NanoBSD
Introduction to Multithreading and Multiprocessing in the FreeBSD SMPng Network Stack
The FreeBSD Project: A Replication Case Study Of Open Source development
Ioctl(2) is so 1980ies
Cache missing For Fun And Profit
Thread Scheduling
GEOM Tutorial
Making sure data is lost
GBDE - GEOM Based Disk Encryption
GEOM tutorial
Making sure data is lost
An Automated Binary Security Update System for FreeBSD
Implementing a Clonable Network Stack in the FreeBSD Kernel
The TrustedBSD MAC Framework: Extensible Kernel Access Control for FreeBSD 5.0
ULE: A Modern Scheduler For FreeBSD
Recent Filesystem Optimisations in FreeBSD
Authorization and charging in public WLANs using FreeBSD and 802.1x
An implementation of the Yarrow PRNG for FreeBSD
Locking in the Multithreaded FreeBSD Kernel
Problems updating FreeBSD's card system from ISA to PCI
Rethinking /dev and devices in the UNIX kernel
ACPI implementation on FreeBSD
Timecounters: Efficient and precise timekeeping in SMP kernels
Jails: Confining the omnipotent root
Kernel-Scheduled Entities for FreeBSD
The Nanokernel
Raw data: Interrupt latency measurements
Malloc(3) revisited
A Distributed Shared Memory Facility for FreeBSD
Dummynet: A simple approach to the evaluation of network protocols
Author Index
FreeBSD Presentations and Papers
> Making sure data is lost
Making sure data is lost
Poul-Henning Kamp
Spook strength encryption of on-disk data
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November 17, 2012
Therapeutic recreation staff member Brenda Holloway, second from right, poses with Omega Psi Phi fraternity members Kyle Hill, Melvin Stalligs and Tellas Minor. The fraternity provided free concessions to participants and their families during the Miracle League season.
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Kelley Cares Miracle Field dedicated for athletes with special needs.
The t-shirts being handed out by volunteers said it all: "A miracle happened in Alexandria, Virginia on November 17, 2102" as the new Kelley Cares Miracle Field was dedicated and officially opened for play.
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Transgender teacher to remain a substitute
A transgender teacher recently dismissed from her job will be returned to the list of Lumberton substitute teachers, according to reports from 12NewsNow.com.
"I am re-instated!" Klug, 52, wrote on a Facebook group aimed at supporting her employement with the district.
Thirteen people addressed the school board during a regularly scheduled meeting Thursday night about the her suspension.Klug, a transgender woman, did not speak on her behalf but sat attentively as people spoke both for, and against, her.
The school board could not address comments made during the meeting, due to the item not being on the agenda.
Superintendent John Valastro said after the meeting that no decision would be made in open session because the item was not on that night's school board agenda.
Chip Darby, who is with the radio station Freedom 1300, said that the supporters of Klug were attempting to bully the school board. Each parent has the right to determine at what age it is appropriate for children to be exposed to certain things, Darby said.
"This is obscene that this has turned into a media circus," Darby said.
Jasmine Moore said discrimination against those with different lifestyles should be stopped. Discrimination is nothing but bullying, she said. Judgment should come from an employees' performance of duties, not who they are or what they do, she said.
Moore said that the truths of the world can't be hidden from children.
"The only way to make change reality is to begin now," she said. "A change that starts with us."


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"An eloquent and vivid portrait that includes a view through the telescopes of rear-echelon
commanders, the rifle sights of front-line skirmishers, and the clouded spectacles of field surgeons laboring in candlelit abattoirs . . . the finest kind of popular history."
—William Rosen, author of Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire
Praise for Empire of Blue Water
"A swashbuckling adventure . . . [the] characters leap to life."
—The New York Times Book Review
"Reeking of authentic blood and thunder, and as richly detailed as a work of fiction . . . dramatically evokes the rough and tumble age when pirates owned the seas. A thrilling and fascinating adventure."
—Caroline Alexander, author of The Endurance
"Stephan Talty's vigorous history of seventeenth-century pirates of the Caribbean will sate even fickle Jack Sparrow fans. A pleasure to read from bow to stern."
—Entertainment Weekly
"Serves up swashbuckling history at its briny, blood-soaked best, with enough violence and passion to keep the pages flying by."
—Tom Reiss, author of The Orientalist
"Talty's delicious new book succeeds where other volumes of history fail. . . .A ripping yarn, worthy of its gaudy subject."
—Dallas Morning News


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OK, well, first, the basic set-up - which is based on the myth of Prometheus, here renamed 'Mazda' (I'm not sure if that's significant, it doesn't mean anything to me) (Edit: it would appear that 'Mazda' is a Zoroastrian god associated with fire, which makes sense - see comments below). Prometheus, in Greek mythology, stole the secret of fire from the gods, and was punished by being chained to a rock for all eternity, with an giant eagle eating his liver every day (the liver regrowing overnight). The main source for his myth is Hesiod, who also has Heracles (Hercules) rescue Prometheus after a (fairly long) period of time. The Discworld version is very similar, though simplified (in Hesiod, Zeus has deprived men of fire in punishment for another trick of Prometheus', which is why it must be stolen back again) and the story of Mazda is accompanied by an illustration based very closely on this sixth century black figure vase, but incorporating the Discworld chief god Blind Io.
Ironically for one of the shortest Discworld novels, the themes of The Last Hero are those of epic poetry - mortality and the immortality that may be gained if a hero is remembered in song. Although the unnamed singer and some of the aesthetics - the heroes' fur costumes and Viking conceptions of both funerals and the afterlife - owe more to Beowulf (which is Anglo-Saxon) and probably Wagner, the problem of mortality is central to a lot of epic poetry. Perhaps it's not such a strong theme in the Odyssey, though it is there, especially in Odysseus' journey to the underworld, and the Song of Roland is quite keen on the idea of the glorious death in battle, but the Epic of Gilgamesh is about the search for immortality, the Iliad is all about problematizing the values of long life and peaceful death against a short life with poetic immortality and Beowulf itself sees its hero grow old and die.
Death is not something that is often embraced by Discworld characters, the series being built on Rincewind, a hero who is pretty determined not to die any time soon. However, it is occasionally embraced by elderly characters, like the witch in Mort or, to some extent, Miss Flitworth in Reaper Man, so it would not be entirely surprising to see the elderly Silver Horde of heroes of the barabarian variety die willingly. However, this is not what they have in mind. The Silver Horde are determined to rage against the dying of the light and are extremely angry at the gods for allowing old age and quiet, non-heroic death to overtake them, so they plan to return fire to the gods, with interest - interest in the form of a very large explosion.
Unfortunately, this explosion will destroy the world, so a different sort of hero has to be sent to stop them. Although they call themselves barbarians, the Silver Horde are pretty similar to Greek heroes - the job of a hero consists of murder, theft and pillage. The difference between them and Greek heroes is that they don't include rape, and don't have to, since the women they 'ravish' are apparently quite willing. (This is, of course, because modern readers tend not to sympathise with rapists). The hero who must stop them is Carrot, a more modern hero - a man with a steady job protecting the public whose idea of heroism is to save lives whenever possible, not take them. (The Dark Lord Evil Harry is also a more modern phenomenon - he belongs in 20th/21st century fantasy fiction, thanks to Tolkien).
The gods of the Discworld, as I noted in the last post, also have a distinctly Classical bent.
This is Paul Kidby's illustration of some of the Discworld gods - (l-r) Offler the Crocodile God, not actually an Egyptian deity (as far as I remember) but clearly inspired by Egyptian deities which included jackal-headed, dog-headed and eagle-headed gods, Flatulus God of the winds (ha ha ha, but note the Romanised name), Fate, Urika (no obvious Classical origin, but the name sounds like the Greek 'eureka!', I have it, shouted by Archimedes in the bath and possibly explaining why she's goddess of saunas), Blind Io (basically Zeus/Jupiter, but with the extra element of the floating eyes), Libertina (Goddess of apple pie among other things, which is best not to think about), The Lady (Luck/Fortuna), Bibulous, Patina, Goddess of Wisdom (Athena/Minerva, she's wearing Athena's helmet), Topaxi (little red one down at the front, no idea what he's about), Bast (cat goddess at the back, actually an Egyptian goddess though not originally associated with things left on the doorstep or half-digested under the bed, that's just modern domestic cats) and Nuggan (who comes up later in the story). Later, we see the blacksmith god, who is unnamed, but Hephaestion, Vulcan and Wayland (Celtic) are actually name-checked here (along with Dennis who I think is... less genuine).
As you can see, their home, Dunmanifestin (Dun manifestin', like dun roamin') also looks very Greek. Kidby's illustration of the outside of Dunmanifestin includes architectural elements from various religions - Egyptian, medieval Christian, Aztec, even the Easter Island faces - but the majority is vaguely Greco-Roman and the top area, where we see the gods play their games, looks definitely Greek. In the western imagination, polytheistic religion is Greco-Roman, with just a hint of Egyptian. (Edited to add: Their home, and the size and placement of the board game, is also clearly inspired by Jason and the Argonauts, which I recently re-watched!).
A lot of the story is about the fact that the world the barbarians lived in is slipping away, and in many ways the minstrel they bring along to witness and tell of their great deeds epitomises that. (The Horde have heard of the Muses, but they've either misunderstood their purpose - ancient poets don't claim to be witnesses of mythology, they are inspired by the Muses - or simply don't trust them to tell it right). The Horde need Homer or the author of Beowulf, but they've got Shakespeare - great with sonnets, not so good at epic. (They have been ruling the Agatean Empire, but rule out poets there for not writing more than 17 syllables - to the western imagination, all Asian poetry is haiku. This is entirely inaccurate, but there we have it). Over the course of the story, however, the minstrel becomes somewhat converted, though the emphasis on the music he plays at the end may imply he is going the route of Wagner rather than Homer.
As the minstrel tries to understand why the barabrians are doing what they're doing, he quotes the great conqueror Carelinus, who conquered all the known world except Fourecks and the Counterweight Continent (Australia and Asia - the Discworld does not appear to contain America, of which make what you will) and wept when he saw there were no more worlds to conquer - i.e., Romanised name notwithstanding, Alexander the Great. The line about Alexander weeping is of uncertain but not ancient origin, though it may stem from Plutarch's suggestion that, when he heard there were infinite worlds, Alexander wept because he had not yet conquered one. Cohen, though he thinks weeping is sissy (proving himself not to be a Greek hero, as Achilles and Odyseeus regularly burst into tears) thoroughly agrees with this sentiment.
There are some nicely satisfying moments for Classicists in this book. There's the obligatory rescue of Mazda of course (the eagle won't know what stabbed it with a big sword). Even better, while Ponder Stibbons struggles to come up with a way to stop the spaceship crashing when the designer (Leonard da Quirm, the Disc's greatest genius), the Patrician realises they should pull 'Prince Haran's Tiller' because Prince Haran was a legendary Klatchian hero whose ship had a magical tiller (I can't remember the real-world origin of this story at the moment, though 'Kltachian' suggests Arabian Nights).
The last page of the book says 'No one remembers the singer. The song remains'. Homer, if he was a real person, might not approve entirely, but the story certainly comes to the same basic conclusion as the Iliad - that there is something to be said for a glorious death if it is remembered in song. The Horde, however, are considerably older than Achilles and although 'second star to the right and striaght on till morning' is pooh-poohed as a ridiculous method of astronavigation, the Horde do ride off on the horses of the Valkyries into the stars, with Death refusing to confirm whether they are alive or dead. It's a beautiful story, beautifully illustrated, and provides a suitable send-off for the now out-dated Silver Horde - for just as they have no place on the Discworld any more, modern tastes tend away from the barbarian hero, and thoughts turn more towards the philanthropic, self-sacrificing hero of Carrot's mould.
Edited to add: it's been pointed out to me below that I missed out the heroic trio's motto - Morituri Nolumus Mori, which roughly translates as 'we who are about to die don't want to die'. Rincewind suggests this, of course, demonstrating his well-known ability with languages as well as his fervant desire not to die yet. No one else seems to object to it though, and it's a rather good motto, though not as good as the dwarf battle cry which reworks the Klingon 'Today is a good day to die' into 'Today is a good day for someone else to die'...


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ORLANDO, Fla. – Freezing temperatures invaded Central Florida for the second straight day, but a gradual warmup throughout the week will lead to 80-degree weather by the end of the week.
The low temperature in Orlando early Monday morning reached 35 degrees, but temps in Marion County plummeted into the mid-20s.
"The wind added to the problem, making it feel like the teens in parts of Marion County," Local 6 meteorologist Troy Bridges said.
The high temperature will max out at 67 degrees in Orlando. The overnight low will hover around 50 degrees.
"And then, we're talking about a big warmup on the way," said Bridges, noting that from Monday's low to the weekend high will span about 50 degrees.
Tuesday's high will be 78 degrees, with a 20 percent chance of rain.
By Friday and into the weekend, high temperatures will be in the low to mid-80s, with no chance of rain.
Watch Local 6 News for more on this story.


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Posted by MI5Victim on 06/23/07 02:24
Newsgroups: uk.misc,soc.culture.british,uk.media,uk.politics
From: email@example.com (Dick Jackson)
Subject: Re: What it's like to be watched by the security services
Message-ID: <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Sender: email@example.com (Usenet Admin)
Nntp-Posting-Host: soldev
Organization: Citicorp-TTI at Santa Monica (CA) by the Sea
References: <firstname.lastname@example.com> <firstname.lastname@example.com> <firstname.lastname@example.com>
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In article <email@example.com> firstname.lastname@example.com (Mike Corley) writes:
>Strangers in the street have recognized me on sight many times, and shown
>awareness of the current thread of abuse. To give you one example, in 1992
>I was seriously ill, and a manager at work somewhat humouroursly said that
>"it wasn't fair" that people were bullying me. A few days later, I
>attended for the first time a clinic in London as an outpatient, and on my
>way out was accosted by someone who asked if "they had paid my fare", with
>emphasis on the word "fare". He repeated the word several times in this
>different context; that they should have paid my "fare", each time
>emphasising the word.
>For two and a half years from the time their harassment started until
>November 1992 I refused to see a psychiatrist, because I reasoned that I
>was not ill of my own action or fault, but through the stress caused by
>harassment, and that a lessening of the illness would have to be
>consequent to a removal of its immediate cause, in other words a cessation
>of harassment. I also reasoned that since they were taunting me with jokes
>about mental illness, if I were to seek treatment then the abusers would
>think that they had "won" and been proved "right".
<I've deleted a lot, but I think this gives the idea>
I have so far not contributed to this tread, it has been unpleasant
in my opinion. However, I was struck by the resemblance of the above
passages to the writing of Franz Kafka.
Viz. while from an objective viewpoint it seems to refer to a abnormal
world, in a strange way it does resonate strongly at other levels.
Mr. Corley, have you tried to write for publication? I honestly think
it might lead somewhere positive.
Dick Jackson (serious for a change and expecting to get beaten up)
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WASHINGTON - The Tunisian government will allow the United States access to a suspect in the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, two senators said Friday.
Republicans Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Saxby Chambliss of Georgia said they've been pushing the Tunisian government for access to Ali Ani al Harzi.
Earlier this week, in a letter to Tunisia's government, Graham wrote that "providing access to this suspect is of the highest importance to me and many other members of Congress." He said, the Tunisian response was "of the utmost importance and could have profound impacts on the relations between our two countries moving forward."
Chambliss last week met with the FBI to emphasize the need for direct access to this suspect and any other individuals related to the Benghazi attacks that killed U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens and three other Americans on Sept. 11.
The senators said U.S. investigators would interview the suspect under Tunisian supervision. The Tunisian government has confirmed it arrested the 28-year-old Tunisian and that he was in custody in Tunis.
"Allowing American investigators in person access will make the interview more meaningful and is a welcome breakthrough in our efforts to find the perpetrators of the Benghazi Consulate attacks," the senators said in a statement.
State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland would not comment on the development.
"I'm not going to be speaking about any aspect of the requirements to bring to justice those who were responsible for the Benghazi attack," she said. "I'm not going to speak about our conversations with other governments. I'm not going to speak about what we're learning, or who we may be pursuing along with the Libyans."
Deputy Secretary of State William Burns met Thursday with Hedi Ben Abbes, a senior Tunisian foreign ministry official, but there were no details on the meeting.
Graham is the ranking Republican on the Senate Appropriations subcommittee that oversees American assistance to Tunisia, and Chambliss, is the vice-chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence,


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How Yarn Can Transform Your Home Into a Treasure Hunt for Your Kids
Ever wonder what it's like to get caught in a spider web?
Or to be a thief winding through a maze of lasers?
Looking for a fun activity that will get your kids (and you) all wound up?
Give them a stringing! It's part treasure hunt, part obstacle course, part laser maze and all fun.
In this article I'll show you how to turn a ball of yarn into an afternoon of tangled family entertainment.
Why Surprise Them With a Stringing?
Picture this: You arrive home from school or work or practice or wherever you've been, open your front door and find that your house is full of string. It zigzags everywhere: upstairs, downstairs, over doors and under furniture. Every room is a maze of multicolored web.
And then you're handed one end of the string and told that if you follow it in all its twists and turns, you'll find a prize.
Sounds pretty cool, huh? THAT is a stringing and your kids will love it!
You'll love it too, because it's just as much fun to set up the string as it is to follow it to the end. Your prize will be the looks of surprise and glee you'll see on their faces.


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Most companies today are realizing the benefits of including more green practices in their offices and business practices. Whether they make these decisions to help the environment, save money on energy bills or to be more attractive to clientele, these companies are utilizing out with the old, in with the new practices.
One of the biggest changes that companies are making revolves around their printing practices. Some companies print too much, use the wrong type of paper and use very harsh inks, which not only uses too much energy, but it also destroys plants and places harmful chemicals into the air.
If your company is interested in being more eco-friendly in your printing processes, the following are some tips to help you.
1. Don't print so much.
Cutting back on overusing the printer unnecessisarily is the first thing you can do to invoke green printing policies. If you don't have to print it, don't. Save certain documents, notes and emails to an external hard drive if you want a back up.
Rather than waste tons of ink and paper on billing or sharing information with clients, start sending files and invoices electronically. These items can easily be emailed to your clients instead of sent via USPS. Not only does the sharing of files electronically save you from using the printer, but it also provides your clients with this information instantaneously.
2. Recycle paper.
If you must print, make sure that you print front and back to save paper. If you have pieces of paper that are only printed on one side, place them in a bin next to the printer and allow employees to use the other side of the paper if they need to print internal documents. This way, you are getting the maximum use out of your paper.
3. Print in black and white.
Sticking to black and white ink is safer for the environment. Most color inks contain harmful chemicals that can have negative side effects on one's health. Plus, choosing to print in black and white save energy. Save the color prints for those items that truly require color.
4. Use recycled paper.
There are many new paper options available today, allowing you to purchase recycled paper at a comparable price to non-recycled paper. Make sure to purchase paper that is 100% post-consumer recycled. You can also choose paper that is chlorinefree (PCF), certified by ForestStewardshipCouncil (FSC), uncoated and/or made by renewable energy sources, such as wind or solar power.
You can also purchase paper that isn't made from trees, and instead made from hemp or other organic and biodegradable product.
5. Use soy or vegetable inks.
Soy or vegetable based inks are much safer for the environment. They are low in VOCs, and choosing paper under 2 is the best option for green printing. If you must use pantone colors, choose those that don't contain copper, zinc or barium, which have nasty health benefits.
6. Choose eco-friendly printers.
If you outsource your printing, make sure you choose an eco-friendly printer. Choose companies that use alternative energy to power their plants and produce low emissions. You should also make sure that these companies use soy or vegetable inks and print on recycled or treeless paper. Even the use of waterless or digital printing are much safer than traditional methods.
If you want to start making a difference in the future of the environment, opting to implement green printing practices is a great way to start. Not only will you be taking a step in the right direction for the planet, but you may even be able to save some money while doing so.
Jaimie Lee writes for Appi Miami Printing Services.


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by Pete Mazzaccaro
When Gina Smith bought Lemons & Limes, the small, tidy gift shop at 8133 Germantown Ave. three years ago, it was the perfect fit.
"I knew I never wanted to work for someone else," she told the Local. "I always wanted to own a business like this. I love what I do."
But recently, Gina's husband Nick Smith, was offered a great new job in Austin Texas. So the family is going to move and Gina has decided to sell her store.
Smith, a Dallas native said the move is not without irony.
"I always told my husband that I wouldn't move back to Texas unless it was to Austin," she said.
She's excited about the move and the opportunity but acknowledged that it's hard to part with the business into which she's put so much of herself.
"This is the hardest part," she said about moving. "I've been busy cleaning our house and getting it ready to be sold. But you can leave a house clean with a realtor. I can't do this with the business. This is a good business, one that makes money and I hate having to leave it when I know how good it is."
Smith said she has built a loyal customer base since she took over the shop. She's based that business on carrying items you can't find in bigger stores or even on Amazon. She regularly goes to small business trade shows and stocks items made by other small businesses.
A notable part of her business is clothing and bags for children and parents. It's a must-shop stop for the stroller set.
"People know they can come here, get a unique gift and get it wrapped without worrying about it."
She said many of her customers came to her for Christmas gifts particularly because they wanted to make sure she didn't lose business in the slow economy.
"It says a lot about the Hill to have customers say that to you," Smith said.
And that's part of the reason she wants to sell it. She said she does not want the community to lose a store that has become important to people and to the larger business community.
"This isn't about another retailer closing its doors," she said. "This business has been very good."
Asked what she's looking for in a buyer, Smith paused to think about it.
"That's a good question," she said. "I guess, someone like me. Someone who has always wanted to own a gift shop like this and want to own a business. Someone who has retail experience. … Someone who will love being an owner.
Smith said that she exercised her three-month option to vacate the lease with landlord Bowman Properties and will close on February 28 if no one buys the business before hand.
"I'd be willing to stay open longer or do anything I could to ease a transition to a new owner," Smith said. She also said she believed Bowman was interested in keeping the business as a tenant.
"You know, so many people have come in here and said, 'I'd love to own a shop like this,'" Smith said. "I didn't realize I should have been getting their numbers or e-mail addresses."
Anyone interested in visiting — or buying – Lemons & Limes can check out the store's hours on its Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/lemonslimes. Smith will likely be there. The phone number is 215-242-3080


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From the grim and morbid images of James Nachtwey's war photographs, it's probably a good time to take a break and focus on the beauty and vitality of the world. In this particular case, it seems beauty isn't just in the eye of the beholder, but innate to humans. Or is it? That's what portrait photographer Vee Speers questions in her series "Immortal".
Vee Speers is a photographer now based in Paris. She works mainly with portraits, starting in 2002 with her Series "Bordello" done in the red-light district of Paris and moving on to the series "Parisians" focusing on the other intersting characters that inhabit the city.
She became more widely known in the art and photography world for her series entitled "The Birthday Party" wherein she photographed children on their birthday dressed in their favorite costumes, but through her lens transformed them into eerily curious little people. So far, all of her projects have an air of theatricality that combines a bit of reality with her own fantasy.
Speers began her Immortal series around 2010 with the objective of rendering a visually striking depiction of its namesake, Immortality. The collection explores man's fascination for beauty and immortality, and also hints at destruction and death.
For Speers, it is somewhat curious that some people think about their own mortality but don't immediately associate that thought with growing old. Through her pictures, she presents today's perception of immortality; youth, sensuality and perfection.
For all the beauty present in these pictures, even the average viewer can see something's a bit off; they appear too beautiful and overly perfect (if that's even a term used). They are more fantasy than reality, and in being so viewers can't think of these subjects as wholly human. In Speers' previous work involving children, fantasy and illusion are quite obvious yet acceptable because who doesn't dream of being a gladiator or ballerina when they were young? Here however, man's weakness and fear of growing old and wrinkled is all the more emphasized.
Still, the photographs provide some nice eye candy without having to go through all of the philosophical implications underneath.
Vee Speers' website is here. Her "Immortal" series is here. She currently has two book published on her previous collections both touching on two different types of beauty depending on the eye of the beholder, The Birthday Party and Bordello.


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How the film world can reap benefits from brands like Red Bull, Grolsch and beyond.
You remember that guy who jumped out of space last weekend? Well, I'll bet that nearly as many people who remember his name (Felix Baumgartner) will remember that Red Bull was his sponsor.
It's relevant to film because Red Bull is also very active in content. During last year's AFM, I met with Red Bull Media House, which was set up three years ago, and is 100% owned by the beverage company. They revealed to me that the company spends about €1 billion per year on content production.
Yes that is a billion, not a million. Sure, a lot of that is spent directly on advertising related content, but some of it is spent on consumer-facing films that will premiere theatrically.
During San Sebastian last month, Red Bull Media House announced its new European monthly series of action sports movie events. And at the festival the company Red Bull showed off its 3D films The Art Of Flight and Storm Surfers.
Separately, today sees the YouTube launch of The Fourth Dimension, a project backed by Grolsch Filmworks and Vice Media — with Harmony Korine and Val Kilmer as part of the creative team. Earlier this year Bombay Sapphire launched its Imagination Series short film competition, with a script by Oscar winner Geoffrey Fletcher. Also, Asger Leth and Mads Mikkelsen recently partnered on the Move On film project launched by Deutsche Telekom (DT).
I think most smart consumers (and indeed those in the industry as well) don't see this as 'selling out' anymore – they see it as brands being aids to creativity. It's not such a dirty business in most cases, and often advertisers give talents the creative control — Shane Meadows' Eurostar-funded Somers Town was 100% Meadows and 0% ad spiel.
Last week at the Abu Dhabi Media Summit, WME co-CEO Ari Emanuel said that Hollywood's next key step will be adding "a marriage with Madison Avenue".
With film investment always hard to find, working with a brand can be a smart way to get a project off the ground. Plus, brands like Red Bull and Grolsch are experts at interacting with consumers, and as such can help an unknown filmmaker tap into a much wider audience than usual. And most of those audiences don't really care where the funding came from, they just want to watch quality content.
No, I don't expect Michael Haneke to make a film for Adidas anytime soon, but especially for young talents, brand support can offer great opportunities. Even without having to jump out of the sky.


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Technically it's a front yard sale.
My son stops by to see what's going on, exclaims, "For sure you're going to blog about this!"Once I had a patient who worked for the stock exchange. Or was it the commodities exchange. In the pit. Everything about it, he said, wreaked mania. The sheer energy, the excitement, the thrill of buy-sell. Of course, that was when the millennium was new, the economy flourishing. Now we all feel a little older, slower.
After the smoke clears and I have a little distance, weigh all the risks, the benefits, because who can move without doing that, it seems like a good idea.
I never knew it, but garage sales are the real American stock market. It never grabbed me, however, the old furniture, old light fixtures, what people called OPJ, other people's junk. Not that the show, The Antique Road Show couldn't keep my attention, it did. But it wasn't like browsing thrift stores turned me on, and I only bought a few things second hand -- winter jackets for the grandsons. One was for girls, apparently, so that was a huge faux pas. Some of us need more direction than others.
Like many immigrants who come to this country, my father, after serving in a world war, had to decide what to do with his life if he expected to buy property, support a family, that sort of thing. He started setting up windows in a jewelry shop and thought, How hard is this? I should own the shop.
And without the Internet to guide him, without a degree in business administration, he and his brother set up a business or three. They hired someone to fix watches and Dad watched carefully. The modest idea morphed into a buying and selling obsession.
It is an obsession, I'm learning, one that is not in the DSM, yet millions of people have it. Most are on Ebay. They have stores and monikers and merchandise and self-esteem, pride themselves on their packaging, their advertisements, the text of the sale, the pitch. For now, sales are primarily online.
Selling online, as even my father could see, is replacing the store. My father wanted to get into it, selling online, but his illness overcame him. That and age. At some point you really do stop retaining new information, even old sober sharpies like my dad.
So when he passed on he left us a lot of stuff. Things like china, stoneware. Random gift plates and jewelry, ID bracelets, new, in cases worth at most, $18 bucks a pop. Clock radios. Wallets and lighters. Cigaret lighters! Most of the jewelry was neither hisht nor haihr (Yiddish for neither here nor there). Meaning not very valuable, but it might be. You never know.
Perfect garage sale stock. Your average buyer at such an event will embrace the prospect and think about the problem for as long as you keep the tables up, as long as you attend to them.
"Do I buy it or not?" they're asking themselves.Real pressure. I had no idea that putting a few things out to make a couple of bucks for my mom would be so intense! Each sale so meaningful, so important. It's like me at the grocery store. Do I try the generic? I want to, I really do, but will it give me a rash? Is it worth the rash to save a couple of bucks? Probably not. But it might be. (Certainly the generic Pantene is fine. At least for me.)
The heat at the garage sale, palpable. Do I buy it or not? Can I get it for less? Why won't she come down. And everyone calling my name, because I'm the one who sat down with my mother for days, went over the stock with the glass, weighed it, loved it. All this work to set a fair price.
So it's the closest thing to a family manic episode, or to being at the stock exchange on cocaine (for it's quite common, or used to be synonymous, market and cocaine) or to working in a gift shop the week before Xmas. And obviously, it is grief work.
It was hot. Being there was being in the hotbed of America. The wonderful people of Chicago would have felt it anyway, the heat, 90 degrees in the shade. This is an annual neighborhood gig, the neighborhood yard sale, and there are twenty-six other yards to pick over. Why everyone seems to come back to mine is still a big mystery.
Of course there's much more story here, but it can wait. Suffice it to say there was jewelry, and the thing that seemed to draw shoppers to the yard was the jewelry. And Israeli coins. Why, when we're in a recession that has affected every one of us in one crazy way or another is jewelry the hot ticket item at a garage sale, well, you tell me. My hunch is that it is beautiful, and garage sales are synonymous with deals, and beautiful and deal, go together. At least that's one of the things I learned as a child.
Anyway, this event took some preparation, and you could say it was highly anticipated, we were all pretty pumped, looked forward to hanging out in the hood on a Sunday and divesting of the junk that had moved from my mom's basement to mine. Had to get a city permit and everything. This just felt important.
And we were mobbed. All day long, the same people kept coming back. I felt we were old friends by noon.
You'd have thought it was the California gold rush. They're squinting at things, peering through loops. If I had sold nothing but jewelry loops, mom would have walked away a rich woman. They're weighing little trinkets from one hand to the next.
"Is it 14K?" Everyone wants to know. "14K? 10K? Any 18K? Can't you go inside and look for more? You know you have more! This couldn't be everything from the store!"
How do you tell people, Listen, my grandkids took all the good stuff back with them when they were here for the summer. They might be young, but they're not stupid.
"What we have here," my standard reply, "you have to buy it at your own risk. This isn't what I do for a living."
Oy vey! Wrong answer. So what do you do?
Well, when you're caught off-guard and you're me, you're honest, and let's just say, . . . we're off.
But let's not talk about me. What's really interesting is that there is a garage sale culture, the ecosystem that has passed many of us by. We can't do everything, can't have our hands in everything. We have to miss, on occasion, an awesome ecosystem or two.
Sometimes people come to therapy and they haven't got hobbies, haven't got a social niche or a social system they're comfortable in, or haven't things to do during their discretionary time. Many people, these days have a lot more of that than they wish they had, discretionary time. Discovering how to develop an interest in everything, maybe even old things, collectibles, or free things, like the exoskeletons of the cicada (see previous post) is the cure. It's called personal growth, learning who you are, what you like, doing it, and convincing others, this is good to do, this is good to have.
Who knew I would have liked the stock exchange? Never in a million years would have thought such a thing.


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Manipulate the default connectome provided with TVB to see how structural lesions effect brain dynamics. In this hands-on session you will insert lesions into the connectome within the TVB graphical user interface. Afterwards the modified connectome will be used for simulations and the resulting activity will be analysed using functional connectivity.
This lecture covers structured data, databases, federating neuroscience-relevant databases, ontologies.
Introduction to the Mathematics chapter of Datalabcc's "Foundations in Data Science" series.
Primer on elementary algebra
Primer on linear algebra
Primer on systems of linear equations
Primer on calculus
How calculus relates to optimization
Big O notation
Basics of probability.
This lecture covers describing and characterizing an input-output relationship.
Part 1 of 2 of a tutorial on statistical models for neural data
Part 2 of 2 of a tutorial on statistical models for neural data.
Introduction to stability analysis of neural models
Introduction to stability analysis of neural models
Oscillations and bursting
Oscillations and bursting
Weakly coupled oscillators
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This contagious viral or bacterial infection affecting the upper airway is readily transmitted between animals that have been confined together, particularly if they are stressed. Dogs have a honking or barking cough, may have nasal discharge, and may vomit food because the cough is so violent, although they generally do not feel very ill. Try these remedies to calm your dog's cough and support the healing process:
- Ipecacuanha: violent cough, sounds wet/rattling; the cough may cause vomiting.
- Rumex: harsh painful cough, sounds dry but may bring up mucus; much better from drinking.
- Spongia: cough as if something is in the throat, honking nature, may gag at the end.


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1/17 Technology Predictions and Forecast
Talk Title: "2018 Technology Predictions and Forecast"
Date: Jan 17, 2018 (Wednesday) 7:00 - 9:00 pm (Registration starts at 6:30pm)
Venue: ITRI Int'l, 2870 Zanker Rd., Suite #140, San Jose, CA
Come and learn more about some of the "Technology Predictions and Trends" for this new year 2018!
Talk Title: "2018 Technology Predictions" by Dr. William Kao
Talk Abstract: It is the beginning of the year 2018.
What are the technology trends that will dominate, and what are some of the technology predictions for 2018?
In this two hour seminar talk, Dr. William Kao will report on what the tech industry is predicting for 2018. He will cover what major firms and institutions such as Gartner, Forbes, Forrester Research, Computer World, Time Magazine are saying about this year: trends, facts and figures, some predictions, projections and prognostications.
Focus will continue on IoT, AI and Machine Learning. Other technologies covered include: AR/VR, Big Data, Blockchain, etc.
Speaker Bio: Dr. William Kao received his BSEE, MSEE and PhD from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He worked in the Semiconductor and Electronic Design Automation industries for more than 30 years holding several senior and executive engineering management positions at Texas Instruments, Xerox Corporation, Cadence Design Systems.
Dr. Kao has authored more than 40 technical papers at IEEE Journals and Conferences, and holds eight software and IC design patents. He was an Adjunct Professor at UCLA Electrical Engineering Department where he taught courses in computer aided IC design.
Dr. Kao is a Senior Member of IEEE, and was one of the founding members of IEEE-Circuits and Systems - Silicon Valley Chapter, where he was Chapter Chair in 2005 and 2006.
Dr. Kao currently teaches Renewable Energy, Clean Technology and Business Sustainability courses at the University of California Santa Cruz, Silicon Valley Extension.
Dr. Kao current interests include the subjects of Energy, Environment and Education.
He teaches and is a frequent lecturer on various Emerging Technologies including Clean Technology, Renewable Energy, Business Sustainability, Big Data, IoT, Smart Cities, Sensor Networks, Innovation, Augmented Reality, Robotics, AI and 3D Printing.
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Shelter Lending Services is a joint venture between Zeitlin Sotheby's International Realty and NewRez LLC, a leading nationwide lender. As a direct lender with in-house underwriting and closing, Shelter Lending Services offers low rates and costs, flexible loan options and a "Close-on-Time Guarantee" for your real estate transaction.
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Nas is to perform at a special concert commemorating Amy Winehouse's 30th birthday, Mitch Winehouse has revealed.
The rapper - who duetted with the late singer on his track 'Cherry Wine' - is to take to the stage at the event, which is being held next September at The Roundhouse in Camden, north London, to raise money for The Amy Winehouse Foundation.
Mitch says Nas will be joined on the bill by a host of other big name artists and he is hoping that a statue of his daughter Amy will be ready to be unveiled at the venue on the same evening.
Speaking at the Spirit of London Awards at The O2 in London on Monday night (10.12.12), he told BANG Showbiz: "From the start of next year we're building up to Amy's birthday on September 14. We're going to be holding a concert at The Roundhouse and we're working on the line-up of performers now. Nas is definitely going to be performing because he wants to do as much as he can for the Foundation. It's going to be a fantastic night, and will be a great tribute to her. And if it's ready we're going to be unveiling Amy's statue."
Mitch insists 2013 will be a busy year for the Foundation as in March the organisation will be hosting the Amy Winehouse Inspiration Awards and Gala at which Tony Bennett and Nas will be honoured for their music and for helping to "inspire greatness in others".
He added: "We've got a lot going on next year. In March we've got the gala dinner in New York, at which we're honouring Tony Bennett and Nas and Salaam Remi. Jennifer Hudson is going to be performing, Nas is going to be performing, it's going to be great."
The Spirit of London Awards recognise outstanding work by young people in local communities in the UK capital and were launched by the Damilola Taylor Trust in 2009.
Other stars in attendance included McFly, Labrinth, actress Emily Atack and Little Mix.


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"Roll on down to my steep ravine where the nuggets are as gold as the trees are green, pan for gold like never before in an epic adventure there's fun for sure."
Set in the heart of his woodland playground of steep ravine can you spot Smokey's friend Digger deep in the mine shaft? Can you help pulley the buckets of dirt to the surface and pan for the rare Welsh nuggets?
Collect as much Gold as possible ready for the smelter and go home with your very own ingot of Smokey Gold!
Experience the woods like never before on a journey sure to create 'golden' memories.
Panning for Gold - Open in time for Whitsun half term
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The boardwalk is a fabulous new addition to the resort; this leads our guests with ease into the wilderness of the secluded Camp Smokey.
Whether you're a fitness enthusiast or just enjoy a bit of competition with the kids, we're almost certain it will be tough for the adults to resist the brand new indoor climbing wall and outdoor Sky Wire activities.


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DEAR ABBY Oct. 2: If you care about our nation, be sure to register to vote
DEAR READERS: If you like the way things are going, VOTE. If you don't like the way things are going, VOTE. If you have never voted before, VOTE. (Don't be embarrassed by your ignorance -- when you get there, they'll show you how.)
If you're not registered to vote and don't know where to register, contact the League of Women Voters, your county registrar's office or your secretary of state's office for details. All are listed in your phone directory or online. The deadlines for registering vary from state to state.
Don't let anything -- or anybody -- keep you from voting on Tuesday, Nov. 6. It may be the most important thing you will do all year.
DEAR ABBY: I have been dating a divorced woman for four years. She said in the beginning that she had very little sexual experience because her former husband "had problems," but decided after the divorce to find out what she was missing. She hasn't discussed this in detail, but once in a while she lets out little snippets of information that lead me to believe she was active.
Do I have a right, now that we're engaged, to know how many partners she had since the divorce? She's being evasive about it. -- WONDERING WIDOWER
DEAR WONDERING: No, you do not have that "right," because if she answers the question, your next questions will be what are their names, how many times did she sleep with them and were they better than you are in bed. Sometimes it is wiser to leave the past in the past and simply appreciate the special relationship you have with the person you love.
DEAR ABBY: "Webbed in Columbia, Md." wondered what kind of spider went up the waterspout (July 8). Well, it depends on the location of that spout. Waterspouts in England, Australia (and I'm guessing Canada) attract spiders that are "incy wincy." American waterspouts are climbed by "itsy bitsy" spiders. (And at this time of year we see really big ones.)
Between English-speaking countries there are also slightly different lyrics for "The Wheels on the Bus" and "Ring Around the Rosie." Because my hubby and I are from opposite sides of the Atlantic "pond," our son is learning multiple versions of many things. -- SUNKISSED IN HOUSTON
DEAR SUNKISSED: Readers young and old responded to that letter, and you are correct that it depends upon which side of the pond you hail from. In the United States, it's also "teensy weensy" and "itty bitty." In Switzerland, it's "inky dinky." And then there was the following submission:
DEAR ABBY: The confusion may stem from "Webbed's" family members having confused the "Itsy Bitsy Spider" poem (song) with the "Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini" song. The spider song I learned in school and the bikini song I heard when my dad belted it out. It made us all laugh. Thanks for the memories. -- KAREN IN RENO, NEV.
Write Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.


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While Lisa was being the marvelous daughter that she is, visting her dad in the hospital Saturday, Warren kept up the BC quest by doing a spot of birding up at Fort McHenry up in Baltimore, which is actually quite a birdy spot.
Warren didn't expect to see the Snowy Owl that had been reported there a few days ago - at the least the third in Maryland this winter - and didn't. There were some nice ducks in the Patapsco River, but after a frigid hour, he headed off to Oxbow Lake Nature Preserve on his way to meet Princess at home for dinner.
After checking out some lovely Northern Pintails and Hooded Mergs, Warren continued along the lakeside path, when he heard the rustling of a fairly large mammal in the brush nearby. A closer inspection revealed a beaver, which took its sweet time moving away, allowing for a really nice photo opportunity....
Here she is slapping the thin sheen of ice on the lake with her paws:
No sooner had Warren gone back down the path and put his camera back in the backpack where he had dropped it, than he heard another large rustling sound behind him.
He'd missed this:
Papa beaver. The trained journalist, observer and nature-watcher in Warren was more than a bit embarassed to realize he had nearly missed the second half of BeaverCouple!!
Incredibly, papa beaver sat there chewing on a stem for several minutes, allowing me to take more pictures from no more than six or eight feet away.
He was watching me, however:
Finally, Mr. Beaver had had enough, and made for the water:
Checking me out again:
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It is a rarity to encounter folks that have faced numerous adversities, yet never complain. They continue to hold their heads up high, dig in their heels, and keep pushing for a better outcome.
It is even more of a rarity when that person is willing to sacrifice and give their all so that others can lead better lives. Yvette McShan is one of those people.
The 55 year-old mother is co-founder — along with her partner Renee Harris — of Victorious Black Women. The organization aims to help women of color — especially African-American women — gain a positive second chance at life. Through workshops, one-on-one counseling, and mentoring, Victorious Black Women supports participants in overcoming the stigma of incarceration, as well as substance abuse and mental health challenges — with the larger hope of stripping the prejudice and shame that society generally casts on women in those circumstances.
McShan works tirelessly. Even though she finds the work to be stressful, "my passion for people drives me." Most recently, she reached out to ex-cons, the homeless, and those with mental health challenges to empower them to get to the polls to vote. She also helped launch rallies for voter registration, and the realignment of the criminal justice system in California. VBW is developing a new program geared toward helping women that have recently been released from prison gain life skills and enroll in college.
McShan has a passion and drive from what she does. The excitement and happiness in her voice when she talks about the numerous women who have benefited from the program is so empowering. Since its inception in November 2011, Victorious Black Women has helped over 135 people. There is the woman that was once homeless, but now owns a house.
There's another success story associated with VBW — the woman that left home at 13, had a daughter at 14, and has been in an out of almost every prison in California as she battled her addition to heroin. She eventually went to college and started her own business. That woman is McShan.
Though she was born in San Francisco and raised in a middle-classed household, the dysfunction in the home lead McShan to leave in her early teens. She spent her adult life in East Oakland's 65th Village, where she encountered drug king pin Mickey Mo, and became hooked on heroin.
"I have been in recovery since 1996," she says. "I just decided one day that I wanted to stop and I did."
Shortly after, McShan enrolled in Merritt College and received an Associate Degree in Substance Abuse Counseling. She plans on returning to school to earn Bachelor's Degree, but has put that on hold so that she can help others. "I'm not telling you this for a sob story," she explains.
"I just feel that if others see that I can make, they can do it. It's real."
In reflecting on the importance of helping people stay on a healthy and positive path, McShan says, "I do this not because I think I can do it, I know I can do it."
Oakland Voices Correspondent Katherine Brown moved to Oakland when she was 6 years old.