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An Etymological Dictionary of Astronomy and Astrophysics
فرهنگ ریشه شناختی اخترشناسی-اخترفیزیک
M. Heydari-Malayeri - Paris Observatory
Number of Results: 6 Search : technique
heterodyne technique
تشنیک ِ هترودین
tašnik-e heterodin
Fr.: technique hétérodyne
superheterodyne technique.
heterodyne; → technique.
Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Technique (IACT)
تشنیک ِ وینهگری ِ چرنکوف ِ جوی
tašnik-e vinagari-ye Čerenkov-e javvi
Fr.: téchnique d'imagerie Čerenkov atmosphérique
The method used to detect very brief flashes of → Cherenkov radiation generated by the → cascade shower of → relativistic charged particles produced when a very high-energy → gamma ray (in the range 50 GeV to 50 TeV) strikes the atmosphere at a typical altitude of 10 km. Owing to this technique, it possible to discriminate cosmic gamma rays from the cosmic ray background and to determine their energy and source direction. More specifically, the incoming gamma-ray photon undergoes → pair production in the vicinity of the nucleus of an atmospheric molecule. The electron-positron pairs produced are of extremely high energy and immediately radiate in a → bremsstrahlung process. This radiation is itself extremely energetic, with many of the photons undergoing further pair production. A cascade of charged particles ensues which, due to its extreme energy, produces a flash of Cherenkov radiation lasting between 5 and 20 nano-seconds. The total area on the ground illuminated by this flash corresponds to many hundreds of square meters, which is why the effective area of IACT telescopes should be large.
imaging; → atmospheric; → Cherenkov; → technique.
interferometric technique
تشنیک ِ اندرزنشسنجی، ~ اندرزنشسنجیک
tašnik-e andarzanešsanji, ~ andarzanešsanjik
Fr.: technique interférométrique
An observational technique based on principles of → interferometry.
interferometric; → technique.
laser cooling technique
تشنیک ِ سردش ِ لیزری
tašnik-e sardeš-e leyzeri
Fr.: technique de refroidissement par laser
laser; → cooling; → technique.
superheterodyne technique
تشنیک ِ اَبَر-هترودین
tašnik-e abar-heterodin
Fr.: technique superhétérodyne
The technique used in a radio receiver in which the frequency of an incoming signal is changed by adding it to a signal generated within the receiver to produce fluctuations or beats of a frequency equal to the difference between the two signals. See also → mixer.
superheterodyne receiver; → technique.
تشنیک، فن
tašnik, fann
Fr.: technique
From Fr. technique "formal practical details in artistic expression," noun use of adj. technique "of art, technical," from Gk. tekhnikos, from tekhne "art, skill, craft, method, system;" cognate with Pers. tarâš- "to cut, hew; scape; shave," tišé "axe," as below.
Tašnik, related to Pers. tarâšidan "to cut, hew; scape; shave;" Mid.Pers. tâšitan "to cut, cleave; create by putting together different elements;" from Av. taš- "to cut off, fashion, shape, create," taša- "axe" (Mod.Pers. taš, tišé "axe;" tarâšidan "to shave"), tašan- "creator;" cf. Skt. taks- "to fom by cutting, tool, hammer, form," taksan- "wood-cutter, carpenter;" Gk. tekton "carpenter," tekhne "art, skill, craft, method, system;" L. textere "to weave;" PIE *teks- "to fashion."
Fann or fan, from Pers. fan "way, manner, mode, art, science," related to Mod/Mid.Pers. pand "path, advice, counsel;" Khotanese pande "road, path;" Ossetic fœndœg "path, road;" O.Pers. paθi- "path, way;" Av. paθ- "path, way," variants paθi-, paθā-, pantay-; cf. Skt. pánthā- "road, path, course;" Gk. patos "path, way," pontos "sea;" L. pons "bridge, path;" P.Gmc. *finthanan "to find;" E. find; PIE base *pent- "to go, to tread."
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KLIA Taxi - Scam or not?
I would like to alert travellers to an issue with taxi’s at KLIA.
The taxi system at KLIA is pretty confusing for most people unless you are a regular traveller to Malaysia and the very poorly design website doesn't offer any information regarding taxi services at the airport.
The main taxi company at KLIA who until recently held a monopoly is Airport Limo. This company provides a multi tired limo service by way of stating your destination, class of taxi and then purchasing a coupon for the journey.
The other system is what’s known as a city cab which is basically a standard meter taxi service which operates from level 1.
One of the frustrating problems with Airport Limo is the regular shortage of taxi’s especially at peak periods or owing to traffic congestion in KL. It is quite common for the coupon counter staff to tell you that there are no taxi’s or that there is a big queue.
I usually take a premier taxi which is between the budget and limo for a more comfortable ride and the fact that most of the drivers know the location of my condo.
The taxi coupons sold are valid for a month and owing to my weekly trips to and from Singapore I always have an option to use it another week if I change my mind and take the train or city cab.
Over the past few months I’ve noticed a trend whereby I’ve been told time and time again that there were no taxi’s and that I must get a limo or mini bus which costs significantly more than a premier taxi.
When I’m told that there are no taxi’s and I must get a limo/mini bus I simply request that they sell me a ticket. The counter staff look confused and usually don’t want to sell me one. When I firmly request a coupon the behaviour of the staff usually follows a similar pattern whereby a lot of time is spent on the radio chit chatting (about me) and generally ignoring me.
When I force the issue the staff act very sheepishly and begrudgingly sell me a coupon. Now the strange thing is that 9.9 times out of 10 when this happens I find little or no queue and at least several taxi’s available at the premier car area outside door 5.
The behavior of the staff and the fact that there isn’t usually more than one or two people queuing for the premiere taxi’s makes it appear that there is a scam taking place to rip off unfamiliar travellers. I have witnessed several other people encounter similar experiences at both the budget and premier services.
So is it a scam or are the unwelcoming counter staff simply out of touch with what is happening in the queue even though they have a radio?
The taxi service at the LCCT operated by a different company also tries this from time to time, however I haven’t found it quite so prevalent.
Perhaps it’s time raise a report to the authorities, not that SPAD will take any real action.
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Frontier Airlines to pay $10 million for $50 million in damages to passengers
Frontier Airlines is paying $10,000 for each passenger who flew on a Frontier flight from Dallas to Los Angeles last summer.
The amount is a small sum for the company but the passenger is trying to get compensation for the emotional trauma he experienced on the flight.
Frontier said in a statement that it has paid $1.4 million in the lawsuit to the passenger.
It was the fourth settlement Frontier made in a three-year period.
The company settled a class-action lawsuit in 2012 and another in 2015.
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Q: If my mother wants to sell an apartment that we jointly own, does she need my permission to do so?
My mother and I share 50/50 ownership of an apartment. If she decides to sell it, does she need my written permission to do so? And if she sells it, am I entitled to 50% of the profits?
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A: She may need your permission, depending on the type of ownership rights you share. The same goes for the profits. More details are necessary to provide a professional analysis of your issue. The best first step is an Initial Consultation with an Attorney such as myself. You can read more about me, my credentials, awards, honors, testimonials, and media appearances/ publications on my law practice website, www.AEesq.com. I practice law in CA, NY, MA, and DC in the following areas of law: Business & Contracts, Criminal Defense, Divorce & Child Custody, and Education Law. This answer does not constitute legal advice; make any predictions, guarantees, or warranties; or create any Attorney-Client relationship.
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Hi im trying to set up trial before my laser gets here to get familiar with the program but i cant seem to download it. It keeps wanting me add the lightburn bridge and i cant find it. Can someone let me know if im able to do this before i get my laser or does windows 11 not compatible. Thanks in advance
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Things are looking up for atheists
A recent survey by the Pew finds that feelings towards atheists and Muslims are getting warmer, with younger people leading the way.
Pew atheists
Not surprisingly, people who have a personal connection with someone from a particular group tend to rate that group more warmly than those who do not know anyone.
I was having a conversation recently with a friend (who is himself not that religious) about the shocked reaction I got from some very religious people when I told them I was an atheist. I do not gratuitously tell people that I am an atheist but they had asked, upon meeting me, what church I went to. He said that maybe my response was more ‘in your face’ than saying something along the lines of “I am not very religious” which was his option. But I told him that my choice of label was deliberate because I wanted people to know that atheists were not some exotic species but part of the mix of people they would encounter in their everyday life, though they may not know it.
Meanwhile Pope Francis has delivered a kind of backhanded compliment to atheists, saying it is better to be an atheist than a hypocritical Christian.
Pope Francis has delivered another criticism of some members of his own church , suggesting it was better to be an atheist than one of many Catholics who he said lead a hypocritical double life.
In improvised comments in the sermon of his private morning mass in his residence, he said: “It is a scandal to say one thing and do another. That is a double life.
“There are those who say, ‘I am very Catholic, I always go to mass, I belong to this and that association’,” the head of the 1.2 billion-member Roman Catholic church said, according to a Vatican Radio transcript.
Since there is no person, Catholic or not, who is not a hypocritical in some way, that means that the pope thinks that atheists are better than all Catholics, no?
1. jrkrideau says
To a Canadian, this is totally bizarre.
Who would ask what church you attended? It would be seen as rude, unpardonably nosey and rather weird. Well, actually, really weird.
Heck, it was only after one of our Prime Ministers retired that some throw-away comment in a newspaper enlightened me to the fact that the PM apparently did go to church.
2. Shanti says
The Pope should never have made such a comment that people who do not do the correct thing should call themselves Atheists. I think most Atheists are good
Intellectual people who are against religious people who are hypocrites
3. Mano Singham says
In the US this question asking about your church is quite common, especially in less urban communities where the church often defines your social circle. It is seen as a ‘getting to know you’ question, like where you work, and less of a theological question.
A friend of mine is a Buddhist and said that in her small town she was asked this question all the time. They were a bit flummoxed by her Buddhism but generally took it in stride.
4. machintelligence says
What seems fairly surprising to me is the high score of the Jews among all age brackets. This has certainly changed in the last half century.
5. Mano Singham says
I was also a bit surprised that Mormons ranked relatively low in general and even lower with young people.
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Three teenagers in court on Mountcharles arson charges
Donegal Circuit Court has heard how three teenagers set fire to the furniture in a gate lodge house in Mountcharles, south Donegal causing €60,000 in damage.
One of them, a girl who was 15 at the time, and now has a nine-months-old baby girl, Donegal Circuit Court was told.
The girl, who cannot be identified and a young man, 20-year-old Edgar Kearns, admitted arson at Gate Lodge, Mountcharles, on March 8th 2008.
Another teenage girl, also too young to be named, has already been dealt with by an earlier court.
Judge John O’Hagan said it was a “very serous” offence with a life sentence the maximum penalty.
He said the youngsters were an out-of-control anti-social group who had been drinking and there were probably other substances involved. They broke a window to gain access to what was a holiday home.
He added that the act done was absolutely deliberate.
The judge heard the youngsters piled up furniture and then set it alight. When thick black smoke emerged they fled the premises.
He said he believed that Kearns, who was 18 at the time, and the teenage mother, now 17, were remorseful for what they did and they hadn’t been in trouble with gardai since.
Kearns, of Millrace Crescent, Donegal Town, was sentenced to two years, suspended on condition that he do 50 hours community service.
Because of conditions that apply under the Children’s Act, Judge O’Hagan put the girl’s case back until Friday when he will hear from the Probation Service.
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The internet is abuzz today with the news that an IMDB writer penned a scathing bio of Kim Kardashian, which was up for at least a few days on the entertainment information site and then promptly removed.
The bio, written by Jon C. Hopwood, called Kardashian shallow, talentless, and then some. He writes:
Hopwood goes on to compare America's embrace of people like Kardashian and Paris Hilton to Rome's "shuffl[ing] off the moral coil of virtue of the Republic." He then quotes Daniel Craig and Jon Hamm saying mean things about Kardashian, and finally wraps up with this:
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In the decadence that is America of the $15-trillion deficit and no serious plans from either party for a solution to the economic problems of the "Great Recession", Kim Kardashian is welcomed to her second White House Correspondents Association Dinner in Washington, D.C. in 2012 and made fun of not only by host Jimmy Kimmel but by the President of the United States, Barack Obama, himself and laughs merrily at the merriment. That the women's fame rests on the February 2007 "leaking" of a four-year-old home sex (for which she ultimately received $5 million from Vivid Entertainment) is an apt metaphor for socio-economic-cultural malaise in Washington and the country beyond, where everything seems to be run by amoral prostitutes in bed with each other and merely out for a buck.
On a twitter page that appears to belong to Hopwood, the writer confirms that he wrote the bio, and has one final word for the reality star:
So. The bio is amusing, and it's being lauded by some bloggers as full of "truth grenades," while Hopwood is being called a "hero" by others.
As much as we hate to rain on anyone's parade, though, can we get real here for just a moment? It's not like Hopwood has said anything that we don't already know. It's not like he's revealing the identity of Deep Throat. Surely no one is surprised to find out that Kardashian is shallow, or that some people find her morally repugnant.
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No, the remarkable thing about this is that Hopwood, who has written over 600 bios for IMDB, was apparently willing to put his job on the line in order to make this Kommentary. This bio is basically the blogger's way of grabbing two beers, shouting expletives over an airplane's PA system, then sliding down a chute out the emergency door.
Anyway, it should be interesting to see how this all plays out. Hopwood will probably get a book deal. In the meantime, thanks to him for spicing up our day.
Here's the whole bio, via Uproxx:
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Gang Stalking – FBI newbies in training?
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English: Standing on Pennsylvania Avenue NW an...
English: Standing on Pennsylvania Avenue NW and look up F Street NW at the J. Edgar Hoover Building, the headquarters of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Washington, D.C., in the United States. Español: Edificio J. Edgar Hoover, la sede de FBI (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
No one stays long in apartment 204. Since I moved into this apartment, people move in and out of it constantly. The apartment’s never furnished. The people who stay in the apartment are there to watch me. I’ve noticed all they do is use the computer and nothing else.
There’s a new couple (I don’t think they’re married), and they look like they just came off a FBI training school. They just have the look that they’re in training. They’re FBI newbies that moved into the apartment to get their basic training. They have a Vermont license plate, and it looks like they’re not going to stay in Las Vegas. I should post their license plate on here, but I won’t.
The seal of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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They have the look that most FBI people have. Just as everyone who lives in the complex, they don’t work, either. Now, where do you think these people get their money? From the corrupt U.S. government.
Just another couple of perps to harass me. Oh, I’m going to give them some basic training. Believe me!
Enjoy your basic training FBI perps! I’m going to give you a run for your money.
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First of all, you are not crazy. Something is happening to you. So stop thinking you’re going crazy. You’re not. What you’re experiencing is gang stalking. You have become a target of the United States government. I know. You are very surprised. You’re wondering, ” Why would the government be after me. I’ve done nothing?” You haven’t done anything. The government is doing experiments on U.S. citizens and you’ve just become a target of the U.S. government. It is an experiment to drive you crazy. That’s their ulterior motive. When it succeeds driving you crazy, it succeeds in its experiment. Your job is not to let it win. To stay sane. Then you win.
We call ourselves targeted individuals. There are more than a half million, or more, of us that this is happening to. So you’re not alone. You have a lot of company. And each day more and more people get on this list.
You are probably followed everywhere you go. It is not your imagination. You’re followed by a group of people who we call gang stalkers. These gang stalkers are employees of the government and get paid. They are from every age group–kids, grandmas, grandpas, professionals, homeless, sales clerks, blacks, whites, Pacific Islanders, Hispanics, doctors, Asians, etc. They come from every walk of life. They are not the gang stalkers you grew hearing about on the 6 o’clock news. These are normal(?) every day men and women. They are your friends, co-workers, family, etc.
Yes, your family knows. This is the worse news of all; to hear your family knows, but it does. Your family gets notification from the United States government that you are a very violent person and must be watched. The government will have proof of all this. A dossier(file) is shown to your family about you. It has information (lies) to convince family and friends you really do need to be watched. They will all be convinced it’s true. Believe me, they’ll fall for it. The government is so good convincing people it’s telling the truth. Don’t confront your family about the fact that it knows. It will be a waste of time. It will deny it knows anything. So save your breath. Your family will tell you that you need psychiatric help. It’s been convinced by the government you’re crazy. Your family knows you and knows you’re not crazy, but it goes along with the program.
I’ll stop here and continue with this tomorrow. I know it’s hard to take this all in on one day. I’ll give you a chance to sleep on it. Just know that you’re not crazy and you’re not alone.
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Rawtext.club's "gab" Script
There's something interesting about smaller social communities of the tech-savvy using SSH and *nix to create social networks. They have none of the commercial aspects associated with large social networks (ads, tracking, algorithm-based feeds, etc.), but they also seem to tend to stay off the web, instead using SSH, Gemini, Gopher, and RSS.
I think the web is largely OK as is (though I admire Gemini quite a bit), but needs to be made easier for folks to run, like a vacuum cleaner or a car.
Take a look at the gab script for rawtext.club as an example. It's an entire chat service, with rooms, users, blocking/unblocking, in a single 356-line Python script. There are a lot of attributes of the problem that make such a simple approach possible:
• Storage: available for each user, it's nothing more than creating a directory in the user's home directory to store the necessary files.
• Permissions: the *nix filesystem has user permissions, so setting the right bits is all that's needed.
• Identity: provided automatically via $USER and enforced by SSH keys.
• UI: the commmand-line provides an existing UI that is already familiar.
This is neat! A chat service to serve up to several hundred users can be tiny and easily written by one person if it reuses existing components. What's interesting to me is that we don't have this for the web. Where is the reusable storage, permissions, identity, and UI to make web apps as trivial as CLI apps? I think web frameworks come close, and Parse/Firebase were exploring related ideas (making the backend highly reusable), but there might be room for a "cartridge" style of webapp that reuses storage (maybe sqlite), identity (maybe providing OAuth and password-based options), and UI (default layouts for standard views).
The value of this is not to power world-class services like YouTube or Facebook, but to power the neighborhood message board. It would be a beautiful thing if every town and neighborhood and family had their own system that did this. Fragmentation can be ok in an ecosystem with aggregators. Then one could use RSS to aggregate posts from all the interesting networks. I suspect this would be a much healthier outcome than the centralized services for a variety of reasons, but perhaps that's best discussed another time.
The gab script at rawtext.club
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#NOLATech Ideas: Potential Billion-Dollar Startups with Business Models
Editor’s Note: This post was written by Douglas Finley, an entrepreneur in the #NOLAtech community. He is the founder of Social Chomp, the easiest way to create multimedia marketing campaigns using videos, photos, and text from your social media fans. Please feel free to give feedback in the comment section below.
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Virtual Reality Developer Environment:
Programming from a laptop can be a hassle. With new technologies like Oculus VR and “Magic Leap”, a development environment for programmers to build applications using a combination of VR style goggles, Leap Motion gesture tracking, and a MIT Scratch like interface would open the capabilities to a new world of programmers. Programming needs an immerse interface to really take engineering efficiency to the next level.
Business Model — Charging developers for the “environment”. An app store for add ons. I always tell my friends…if you can play video games, you can program computers. The VRDE would be “THE Game” for developers.
Mentor Me:
I was the co-director of mentoring program at Georgetown, and I’ve been involved with mentoring youth ever since. The problem as I’ve gotten older is that I don’t have the time to dedicate anymore. Many young people and children in America are going through a variety of issues and really need a family/team to help them through their issues. Parents are busy, but it still takes a village to raise a child.
Mentor Me is a platform for parents to screen mentors to work with their child on specific subjects ranging from STEM or Public Speaking to Entrepreneurship. The difference is that all conversations between the child and mentor are recorded and parents/gaurdians would be able to listen/watch in realtime. The interface would use a combination of screensharing and facetime-like functionality. A user signs up for Mentor Me with skills and timeframes they would be willing to mentor/tutor. The parents and mentor would schedule the time, and the app would handle the rest. Security and Privacy would be baked in.
Business Model — Any transaction fees paid to the mentor/tutor. I can see a scenario where most people work for free, but some parents who have the money are willing to pay for a team of experts to engage with their child. They could have a schedule of people across various subjects stimulating they’re curiousity and reminding them how important they are. You could also bill parents for archiving recorded sessions.
Dropship Instant Storefronts with Unlimited Product Variations
Sales are the lifeblood of a business. Manufacturing systems are more advanced and building a business that can deliver personalized products on demand is the next wave of ecommerce. The process of creating and distributing engaging visuals is keeping consumers engaged but transactions are what allow businesses to innovate. Non profits, Small Businesses, Entrepreneurs have thousands of tools to create visuals. If those visuals could just as easily be transformed into products that ship to international customers, the power and value of every image created grows. Obviously, the key is that these platform users would not have to purchase the goods in advance. A middle school basketball team looking to fund they’re tournament, could easily create a marketplace of personalized products within seconds…all from a few pictures. This platform would definitely need to be integrated with social media networks to help streamline marketing. An API would allow this functionality to be embedded anytime any website to give platform users more places to generate revenue.
Business Model — A monthly fee to access the platform. The platform generate revenue from any merchandise sales and split the profits back to the users. A 15% fee of retail costs would be an intriguing opportunity for a variety of businesses looking to diversify their revenue stream.
If Dropship Instant Storefronts with Unlimited Product Variations are interesting to you, create an account on socialchomp.com or contactdoug@socialchomp.com.
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I know that it's possible to call .NET code from your VBA code, but why does VBA continue to exist? The only reason I can think about is legacy.
I just had to sort a Scripting.Dictionary and the amount of code needed was frightening.
The IDE looks like Visual Studio 2003. And there are many little details, that drive you insane (Like changing the line, and getting a warning because of some compilation error). Or, if you open more than one spreadsheet, it mixes into you "VBAProject" and this is really confusing.
The whole module/classmodule/form division is actually not that bad, but I end up everytime with directly writing logic in forms, or having one huge module that handles everything.
Why can't I press Alt+F11, and hack in C#?
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"The only reason I can think about is legacy." And that is not enough for you?
– Euphoric
Aug 4, 2014 at 14:44
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Microsoft is the king of legacy applications and backwards compatibility... any other answer would be surprising to me given this is Microsoft we are talking about.
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Aug 4, 2014 at 14:53
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@Kiril It's most likely not "we always did it that way"; it's probably "we've compared how much we stand to gain from breaking backwards compatibility vs how much we'll lose, and found it's not worth it."
– Doval
Aug 4, 2014 at 14:57
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@Kiril - you question asks to ship Office with .NET "instead" of VBA. That would require abandoning it.
– JeffO
Aug 4, 2014 at 15:15
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@Kiril: a lot of very dodgy characters would also be very happy to embed dlls in documents, but not for your benefit. Aug 4, 2014 at 15:58
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Microsoft Office have multiple ways to let you change/enhance the default behaviour programmatically. VBA is a battle tested, proven and widely spread language for in-doc scripting. A lot of office people know VBA and use it, while they don't know more complex programming languages like C#. Office would not be sold as much if customers had to rewrite loads of old macro enabled documents that does business critical things - after they learnt a new language or whatever. Backwards compability is a key feature!
A full .NET stack for Office likely requires some set of dependency management (dll:s, etc) and will easily get heavy to manage for simple tasks - it's hardly an alternative for lightweight scripting. VSTO gives you the ability to go with C#, but at the price of a heavier plugin development cycle.
A program manager at Microsoft has written about this here. It's clear that VBA is and will still be around for small scripting purposes.
• The explanation in the article is very good. Thanks.
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Aug 4, 2014 at 15:57
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As an ex-staffer I can add that some clients pay big money to have Gates/Ballmer/Nadella etc available on Speed-dial as well as regular chats and that VBA is considered critical enough that any changes which break VBA behaviour (especially in Excel and even between versions) get attention EXCEPTIONALLY quickly. Also it's by no means just for the unskilled; there is an army of professional developers using it. C# is quite commonly sought with VBA as working knowledge. Aug 4, 2014 at 22:52
• This argument didn't stop MS from obsoleting VB6 years ago in favor of VB.Net which broke lots of code. Aug 30, 2018 at 23:32
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The link is dead (killed off by Microsoft in Feb 2016) but you can still read it here: web.archive.org/web/20160201170821/http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vsto/…
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@rkagerer - thanks, I updated the link in the answer. Jul 7, 2020 at 6:43
Well, the answer is not strictly "legacy". The answer is that VBA is neither VB6 or VB.Net: it is VBA. A seperate, but related language. If replaced VBA with VB.Net it would inevitably break a lot of DOCUMENTS.
Replacing VBA with VB.Net would almost certainly result in data loss for a significant number of users of their prime products -- not a good thing.
And their target market for VBA is not programmers.
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VBA is a very close cousin of VB6. The only material differences are those having to do with the API; i.e VBForms instead of the Excel or Word object models. Absent those differences, you can copy/paste VBA code to VB6 (or vice versa), and it will still work 99 percent of the time. Aug 4, 2014 at 15:06
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Support for VBA and VB.Net/C# don't have to be mutually exclusive. Feb 9, 2017 at 22:31
If you consider the main reason people buy Office is to keep compatibility with all the existing documents, many of which have macros and VBA in them, it would be a very brave Microsoft to treat those users like they did the VB6 crowd and tell them to suck it up and start coding in .NET, just take a look at the #1 uservoice request ever!
I imagine the LibreOffice guys would cheer themselves into unconsciousness though!
VBA is for productivity in Office, not "programming". The day you need more power from your documents is the day you hire a programmer to rewrite everything. I guess another reason is why Visual Studios macros are not .NET either - think of the devenv4 COM object as not much different to VBA.
• He's not asking them to ditch VBA. He's asking them to have .Net as an additional option. Feb 9, 2017 at 22:31
I think there is a slight, but important, difference between legacy and popularity. And when you've done as many contracts as I have, you learn that VBA is insanely popular :) I can't tell you how many contracts I've done for "Excel jockeys" that don't know a thing about programming but can crush VBA like it's a matter of life or death.
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Apple announces its silicon
Apple announces its silicon
Analysis: Takes two years to transition
Apple has finally announced the beginning of a two-year transition towards its own silicon. The first systems based on Apple silicon will be shipping later this year.
The move is barely any surprise for anyone as it was evident years ago that Apple has an aspiration to lock down further its ecosystem and transition to its SoC beyond phones and iPads. Silicon, such as A12X and A12Z, gave us a good idea where things will go with Apple’s new laptop silicon aspiration.
At the WWDC earlier this week, Apple announced a developer transitioning kit model number A2330 and consists of an A12Z processor, 16 GB RAM, 512 GB storage drive, and a variety of common I/O ports (USB-C, USB-A, HDMI 2.0, and Gigabit Ethernet) in a Mac Mini case. Software developers can get one for $499 if select by apple to quality and start working on native ARM-based desktop applications today. Nick did a bit more detailed article about it.
Later this year, it is expected to see real laptops based on ARM-based Apple Silicon, but Apple has assured the market that there are still exciting Intel-based machines to launch in the next few months.
What Apple chose to show today was the A12Z SoC based developer platform, the SoC that it has already launched and used before. The A13x (A13Z ) is most likely the next one powerful enough to power the future MacBook.Have in mind that Apple’s next A13X SoC is most likely manufactured on 5nm TSMC geometry.
Remember, the two year period is how long it will take to push Intel entirely out of the roadmap.
Apple benefits
Apple gets to make its own in-house silicon tailored for its operating system. It can get a bit faster performance and design specific gates, blocks, and pathways to serve Apple’s needs. Using Intel is generally a compromise as it means that the operating system has to adjust to processor generally designed to fit everyone’s needs. Now Apple can design what it needs, and it sure has expertise in-house that can help. iPad is just a keyboardless laptop for the most part, and ironically it does sell with a keyboard that can make an iPad into a laptop.
Now Intel creates 9W, 15W, and 45W laptop parts and desktop Xeon W-3265M with 24 cores, 48 threads, and 205W TDP. The Xeon is the one we don’t see as something Intel can easily replace, while Apple should be capable of replacing the laptop parts within two years. It will most likely start with lower TDP parts and grow into higher TDP parts, putting more cores, higher clocks, and more GPU power to fits the needs of MacBook 16.
Long term, it will work well, but the transitioning period will be painful as there will be some inconsistency in powering countless numbers of X86 to Apple-ARM architecture. Emulators will help, but they often provide a degraded experience.
Professionals using audio and video tools from Adobe will be fine. This will all work well, and so will Microsoft’s Office tool, but the smaller publishers and developers might not have the will or work power to rewrite its code to fit the future macs. The issue will be solved with time, just as it was a decade and a half ago when Apple went from PowerPC to Intel’s X86.
Intel without Apple
Financial analysts were focusing on the potential three million of revenue that Apple was generating for Intel. It won’t go unnoticed, but it will create a big deal either. Apple for Intel was always a Frenemy. Anyone that ever worked with Apple didn’t like it, was pushed around, and even got to court. Just ask Qualcomm.
Apple’s 10nm notebook parts and upcoming Tiger Lake platform mark the era of Intel’s come back. Ice lake was a huge step forward for Intel but Tiger Lake with better graphics. It won’t be surprising to see Tiger Lake-based Apple products either.
Intel’s focus on the mobile market is literally everyone else but Apple. Every big and small OEM is using Intel for the majority of its systems, and this won’t change anytime soon. There will be some designs that AMD will win with its returning to a decent mobile computing performance market, but the majority, especially high-end designs, will stay with Intel.
Ryan Shrout from Intel showed that Battlefield V in thin, lite, and compact form factor playing Battlefield V, all settings at high at 1080p 30FPS. Tiger lake 2.2 (1KG) 13-inch and alike laptops will give you an ability to play some extremely demanding games on the next generation laptop for the OEM of your choosing.Ryan Shrout@ryanshrout
Perks of the job! Took a prototype Tiger Lake system for a spin on Battlefield V to stretch its legs. Impressive thin and light gaming perf with Xe graphics! Early drivers/sw, but it’s the first time I’ve seen this game run like this on integrated gfx. More later this year!
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Apple was never and probably will never become a serious gaming alternative, but it is more like a fashion statement for its users who are just drugged into this ecosystem. It is a vicious circle that it is extremely hard to leave.
Tiger lake and Intel’s future
Tiger Lake should get the AI performance up and enable new use case scenarios too, but Intel will take about this a bit closer to the launch.
Desktop platforms, especially the Alder lake, look very promising with the unequal cores that can target different workloads, and the server is where Intel will continue to thrive.
AMD will get some of the action, but the majority of 95 percent of the server market, will stay with Intel. Intel has edge computing and 5G as a growth opportunity.
One especially interesting aspect of Apple and Intel cooperation are the profit margins. Apple was squeezing every penny out of that deal for merely having this high volume and particular position. The strategy won’t be missed at Intel, that is for sure. Intel’s recent departure from the 5G SoC market and selling what is left of to Apple was just another turn point where intel management realized that it needs to spend the time on cure business instead of something that might become profitable in years.
Recently announced Lakefield is the step in the right direction for Intel, and there will be more innovative packaging, mix core design, and flexible IP that moves across geometries in the time to come.
Apple will still end up buying loads of servers from Intel for the years to come.
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What is halitosis?
Halitosis is the medical term for bad breath. While everyone experiences occasional bad breath upon first waking in the morning or after eating particular foods, for some people, halitosis is a daily problem.
It’s difficult to assess the smell of your own breath, which can make it hard to know if there’s a problem. Feedback from loved ones is sometimes the best indicator of whether there is a problem that needs to be addressed.
What are the causes of bad breath?
Numerous factors can cause or contribute to bad breath. Poor dental hygiene is one of the biggest factors. If food particles are left trapped between your teeth, they will begin to decompose in your mouth, creating bad odors as you breathe.
Plaque can also cause bad breath. The bacteria within plaque create odors that are carried on your breath. If plaque collects in pockets beneath your gum line, the problem can become even worse.
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The Knick
This post contains light spoilers of general themes from this season of The Knick although there are no specific plot twists discussed. You can use this as a primer for the second season before you begin, or review this list of historical moments before watching this evening’s finale.
Cinemax’s period hospital drama The Knick, now finishing its second season, spends a serious amount of time hunched over an operating table.
The able and ambitious surgeons of Knickerbocker Hospital cut open flesh, severed body parts, injected experimental serums and performed delicate incisions on brains, faces, throats and abdomens.
The special effects teams should be applauded for making me want to throw up on at least five occasions this year.
But The Knick is more than a procedural about a turn-of-the-century hospital although those watching for medical drama (or horror) will come away satisfied.
With Season Two (set in 1901) this hospital drama rose to become a detective story about New York City itself.
In Season One historic figures populated a story about a growing hospital. In Season Two the show finally found its footing within the messy patchwork of the Gilded Age.
Below are some historical highlights from the season, taken from some of my Tweets from the show’s original broadcast over the past several weeks.
There are no plot spoilers here — in fact, I’ve chosen to not even mention any characters’ names — and some of you might even find this helpful before you watch.
New Yorkers raced to find faster, more efficient solutions to horse-drawn vehicles. In the early years of automotive conveyance, it appeared the electric variety would lead the charge; however the earliest models were expensive and entirely inefficient.
Meanwhile oil refiners like the ones in Lima, Ohio, concerned that Edison’s electric light bulb was killing the kerosene market, began looking for other uses for their product.
Apartment living was all the rage with the upper middle class in the 1880s and developers around Central Park monopolized on the craze with lavish apartment complexes, bringing the amenities of upper crust life to those who couldn’t afford the upkeep of a mansion.
In particular, the Upper West Side was rapidly developed, becoming one of New York’s trendiest residential neighborhoods by 1900.
The ground was broken on New York’s ambitious new subway system on March 25th, 1900, but not everybody considered it progress. Miles of underground tunnel required unprecedented investment which tore into busy streets, creating nuisance and danger.
Those of the more sheltered class flinched at the idea of immigrant workers ripping into their streets. Most New Yorkers were certainly unsettled at the sound of dynamite explosions and feared that whole city blocks might blow up.
Medical practice and scientific thought were expanding in the 1900s, but new modes of treating complicated conditions like drug and alcohol addiction were having a difficult time in the morality based institutions of the day.
Most physicians still believed that addictions exposed flaws of the human character and had little connection to the processes of the brain.
Deteriorated or stunted moral character was also seen as endemic of new arriving immigrants especially those from southern Italy.
The study of eugenics — belief in the improvement of the human race through selective reproduction — rapidly grow in colleges and universities in the 1900s. Naturally the eugenics argument was also used against African-Americans and wielded as a threat against any who attempted to upend the status quo.
Although the scandals of Boss Tweed were almost 30 years old by 1901, Tammany Hall still held a viper’s grasp upon New York City infrastructure — from the ports to the construction projects.
A standard building project would often require many layers of ‘greased palms’, and expensive materials were often used because a corrupt middle-man could hide more layers of kickbacks there.
While the dangerous qualities of many common drugs were well known, few were actually banned in 1901. Cocaine and heroin were still used in the operating room, and even substances we consider deadly poisons today were available over the counter.
Inspired by P.T. Barnum’s American Museum and the popular cabinet of curiosities of Europe, ‘dime’ museums became a popular pastime for New Yorkers in the late 19th century. They were a hodgepodges of exhibits, from people with extraordinary abilities to exotic foreigners.
In places like Huber’s Museum in Union Square, some of the most popular attractions were humans with various deformities, the individuals who would make up the freak shows of Coney Island. Few considered these people in need of care, and they were often harshly abused by their handlers.
In a society so clearly judgmental of non-reproductive sexual behavior, STDs were poorly understood.
Syphilis remained a deadly illness running rampant through hundreds of New York brothels. Some protection, like condoms, did exist at the time, but they were terribly uncomfortable and not consistently made.
Pregnant girls were forced into the treacherous world of back-alley abortions. Many died during procedures — or afterwards due to unregulated and filthy conditions — and their bodies dumped into the river.
Violent racial tensions in neighborhoods like Five Points and the Tenderloin forced many black New Yorkers to move north — to the largely Jewish neighborhood of Harlem.
By the year 1900 thousands of African-American lived here, creating a foundation for the huge wave of new residents who would arrive a couple decades later, turning Harlem into the center of American black culture.
The greatest waves of immigration into America came in the early 1900s, and the largest group among them were southern Italians. Unlike the earlier wave of Italians, Sicilians were poorer and less educated. Difficulties in understanding led many New Yorkers to consider them a vastly inferior class and even dangerous.
While the modern restaurant was essentially invented by Delmonico’s in the early 19th century, it wasn’t until the Gilded Age that the delights of public dining were properly indulged. With the influx of opulent life came the finest hotels and eateries, all equipped with modern conveniences. Most were situated on Broadway, from Union Square to Herald Square. Longacre Square (not yet Times Square) was a few years away from becoming the center of New York nightlife.
For more historical Tweets of The Knick and other television shows, just follow me on Twitter at @boweryboys.
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Opinion: Football fan calls out 'standup guy'
By Martin Strouse
Cincinnati Bengals fans cheer their team against the Tennessee Titans at Paul Brown Stadium on Sept. 21.
Martin Strouse is an Anderson Township resident and longtime Bengals season ticketholder.
A few years ago my wife Kathi and I were watching a Bengals game in seats about 10 rows up from the field and I got to witness firsthand how the standing phenomenon gets under way.
It rarely starts with the people in the front row. Why would it? It starts with an exciting play when everyone gets up and cheers out of excitement and then sits down – that is, except for "standup guy" in around the fifth row. He remains standing. Then, of course, the guy behind him has to stand in order to see. By the time the chain reaction is over the back row is standing.
Kathi and I have master's degrees in human services and have worked in the field for more than 35 years. This doesn't make us experts in the study of the football fan, but we do find that the football fan is one of the more interesting studies that only require observation for approximately three hours every other week.
Martin and Kathi Strouse, in the football jerseys, sit between Kathi’s parents, Jim and Patricia Malone, at a Bengals game.
I never understood the thinking of the guy who starts the reaction other than it must feel pretty powerful to have that much control over that many people. Not only does standup guy control the physical actions of hundreds of people, but he also controls their emotions. Many fans get angry at standup guy. Many love him and bond with him. Most just wonder why standup guy doesn't realize or care that those around him can't see. My favorite is "standup and look at phone" guy. Not only is he oblivious to those around him, he isn't even watching the game.
At a game a few years ago, I had the opportunity to ask standup guy who owned the vacant seat right in front of me why he was standing. He said, with great conviction: "Because it's football." He was clearly angry when other fans began asking him to sit. Imagine leading an army into battle only to look behind you and see your troops sitting down. You now know how standup guy felt. His pride would not let him sit, though. He had a battle to fight and, by God, he would conquer. Thank goodness I could sit, watch the big screen and enjoy my beer.
Over the years, the trend has grown. For one thing, the Bengals have gotten more exciting to watch. But also, there is a new generation of fans who seem to personalize the sport. It becomes who they are. This has led to a culture that is evidenced by a sense of infallibility and power along with an extreme lack of awareness of their environment. Mix that with a little alcohol and you have "standup guy."
I really didn't notice it until I began having leg problems. I currently have a prosthetic leg, which doesn't prevent me from standing but makes it less easy than it used to be.
During the first few games of the 2013 season the Bengals management made announcements encouraging fans to stand during appropriate times but be mindful of those who can't stand. Standup guy, a couple of rows down from me, responded to one of these announcements by yelling "those people should stay home." I wanted to hit him over the head with my prosthetic leg.
Maybe this article will get a message through to standup guy: "Not everyone wants to join in the battle. Not everyone believes in you." But that would require standup guy to pick up a paper and read. I think he is probably too busy checking his phone.
Maybe I'll just be grateful that we have an exciting team whose play induces standing and cheering. Otherwise, standup guy would look pretty silly.
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NDP Should Push Liberals for Public Hearings on Popular Wealth Tax
Canadians might well be interested to learn that the NDP's proposed 1 per cent tax on wealth-holdings worth more than $10 million would only affect the wealthiest 75,000 families, but would raise $17 billion a year.
Linda McQuaig
by Toronto Star
In a recent article, a young freelance journalist expressed the familiar lament that she and other millennials won't be able to own their own homes or have financial security.
But in a surprise twist, she went on to embrace her reduced circumstances, and suggest other millennials do likewise.
The NDP might well have sufficient leverage to push the Liberals, ever anxious to prove their chops with progressives, to at least establish a parliamentary committee—with full public hearings—to study a wealth tax.
"We need to adjust to a new reality and remove the archaic expectations from previous generations about home ownership, investing and saving," Brianna Bell wrote in The Globe and Mail. "But that doesn't mean we should feel ashamed or guilty … it's time we admit that's OK."
Well, I'm no millennial, but I respectfully disagree. It's not OK. It's outrageous.
The fact that so many millennials—and other Canadians—have little prospect of experiencing the prosperity and financial security widely enjoyed in the early postwar years isn't due to some unknowable development.
What happened was the financial elite managed to change the laws—including tax laws—in ways that redirected income and wealth to those at the top, rather than being distributed more broadly throughout society, as in the boomer era.
But there's no economic law that decrees only the rich should own homes or that a tiny group at the top should be allowed to siphon off an ever larger share of what we all collectively produce.
In this week's federal election, the party platform that came closest to addressing today's grotesque inequality was the NDP's proposal for an annual net wealth tax—a modest version of the wealth taxes advocated by U.S. Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.
Making the tax the centrepiece of their campaign—as an indispensable tool for financing universal programs and distributing resources more fairly—the New Democrats have established the wealth tax as a serious subject in the Canadian political debate.
Anyone scoffing at the notion Canadians take taxing the wealthy seriously should look at polls showing the incredible level of public support for a wealth tax—89 per cent, including substantial support even among Conservative voters, according to an Abacus poll last month.
Of course, the NDP ended up winning only one additional seat in the election, giving them insufficient clout to force the minority Trudeau government to introduce the tax. But the NDP might well have sufficient leverage to push the Liberals, ever anxious to prove their chops with progressives, to at least establish a parliamentary committee—with full public hearings—to study a wealth tax.
That could be more consequential than it sounds, particularly because the tax is already hugely popular.
Public hearings could raise awareness and galvanize support for taxing the ultra-rich—particularly as members of this privileged set start decrying pandemic-inflated deficits, and insisting that the only way to reduce them is to drastically cut government spending.
Against a backdrop of calls for a return to full-blown austerity, Canadians might well be interested to learn that the NDP's proposed 1 per cent tax on wealth-holdings worth more than $10 million would only affect the wealthiest 75,000 families, but would raise $17 billion a year, according to Alex Hemingway, an economist at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
Canadians might also be curious to learn just how wealthy those 75,000 families have become, particularly since the pandemic. (Spoiler: Canadian billionaires increased their wealth by $78 billion during the pandemic.)
Another intriguing fact is that our current tax system leaves the wealthiest Canadians largely untaxed. As long as they don't sell their stockholdings, they can avoid paying income tax on this wealth, even as it increases in value. They can finance their lavish lifestyles by borrowing against it, and avoid income taxes for decades.
It turns out a wealth tax isn't about punishing the ultra-wealthy; it's simply the only way to tax their vast fortunes, which account for a significant share of Canada's wealth.
While some millennials are resigned to their diminished circumstances, others appear resentful, such as Kristen Darch, who wrote a recent article entitled "Boomers, stop bragging about your second homes."
Both these millennials, the resigned and the resentful, seem to feel there's not much they can do about their plight. Imagine if they heard about the wealth tax.
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Linda McQuaig is an author, journalist, and former NDP candidate for Toronto Centre in the Canadian federal election. The National Post has described her as “Canada’s Michael Moore.” She is also the author of "The Sport and Prey of Capitalists: How the Rich Are Stealing Canada's Public Wealth" (2019), "War, Big Oil and the Fight for the Planet: It's the Crude, Dude" (2006) and (with Neil Brooks) of "Billionaires’ Ball: Gluttony and Hubris in an Age of Epic Inequality" (2012).
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Spain’s European, and in particular, Champions League dominance this century is well known.
Since 2000, Real Madrid and Barcelona have shared ten titles between them with only England coming anywhere close with five wins across three clubs.
The times are changing however, with Real’s last win coming in 2018, and if one of the three Liga teams in this year’s competition fail to lift the trophy, it will be Spain’s longest ‘drought’ since 1997.
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Things aren’t exactly looking rosy currently either. Having seen Barca dumped out in the group stage, Real Madrid are currently 1-0 down against PSG from the first leg of their last 16 tie, while Villarreal could only draw at home to Juventus ahead of a tough trip to Turin.
It was a similar story for Atletico, who allowed Manchester United a late equaliser in the home leg of their tie, meaning the likelihood of needing a win at Old Trafford.
Are we really seeing an end of an era for Spanish football in the Champions League after these last 16 games? Andres Weiss assesses the Liga sides’ prospects ahead of the second legs.
With none of three teams winning their first legs, is there a worry that there will be no Spanish teams in the quarter finals?
The fact that the away goals rule is no more is good news for Atletico Madrid and Villarreal, since they played well against Manchester United and Juventus respectively.
Real Madrid will now play at home where they've been strong this season, a fact that gives them hope. But there's a chance that the three teams will get eliminated in the second leg, you never know.
What seems to be the issue? Difficult draws or something more concerning about Spanish football at the moment?
The main fact is that Spanish teams usually play in La Liga with a lower rhythm these days and that penalises them when they have to play against teams from England, Italy, Germany or France, where the game is now more intense.
Villarreal put up a decent fight against Juventus but face a tough away trip - can Emery mastermind a victory in Turin? and how?
Dusan Vlahovic will be a big fear for Villarreal, but they've had two big wins in their last two away games (0-2 vs Betis, 1-4 vs Granada) and following the strategy employed in those matches will be the route Unai Emery has to continue.
How disappointing was it for Atleti to concede so late having failed to kill off the game against Manchester United?
It was bitterly disappointing. It was a very good game from Simeone’s side. They hit the bar twice, Griezmann’s effort could have killed the game, but Elanga's goal broke the good mood of Simeone and his players.
PARIS, FRANCE - FEBRUARY 15: Kylian Mbappe of Paris Saint-Germain scores their team's first goal past Thibaut Courtois of Real Madrid during the UEFA Champions League Round Of Sixteen Leg One match between Paris Saint-Germain and Real Madrid at Parc des P
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Given their inconsistent form in La Liga, is there any optimism about getting a win at Old Trafford?
It wouldn't be surprising if it happens, since their inconsistency shows that literally anything can happen.
Add that to United's inconsistency, the second leg is an impossible one to predict.
All eyes will be on Madrid for the return match against PSG, how will Real approach the game if they are to overturn the 1-0 deficit?
The first key is the fact that Santiago Bernabéu will be at full capacity. However, they've not found it easy to score in their more recent games, and they haven't managed a goal in the first 45 minutes of their last seven games.
Everything is likely to be decided late in the game, just as it was in Paris.
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With echoes of Gone Girl and My Lovely Wife, Sarah Bonner's debut novel introduces an exciting new voice in twisty thrillers.
When Megan discovers photographs of her estranged identical twin sister on her husband’s phone, she wants answers.
Leah already has everything Megan ever wanted. Fame, fortune, freedom to do what she wants. And when Megan confronts Leah, an argument turns to murder.
The only way Megan can get away with killing her twin is to become her.
But then lockdown hits. How can she continue living two lives? And what happens if someone else knows her secret?
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Five people killed on North West roads this year: Gardai urge people to slow down
Gardai are warning people to be responsible on the roads this Bank Holiday weekend.
Inspector at Letterkenny Garda Station Michael Harrison is appealing to people to follow the advice to slow down, wear your seatbelt and never drink and drive.
56 people have been killed so far this year on roads around the country which is three more than last year.
Sadly as Inspector Harrison points out 5 of those fatalities have been in Sligo, Leitrim and Donegal:
You can hear Inspector Harrison’s full interview with Claire Mulcahy here:
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The Jerusalema Challenge Goes Wild At An Elephant Sanctuary
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The Jerusalema dance craze has swept the world, but no one expected animals to get in on the act. No one told the animals in a wildlife park in Zimbabwe, though. At the Wild Is Life sanctuary for rescued wild animals, the keepers, elephants, and even giraffes are taking part in the viral dance challenge.
If you somehow have managed to miss it, Jerusalema is a song by South African DJ Master KG and performed by Nomcebo. The song has exploded on the internet, with everyone from Cristiano Ronaldo to Janet Jackson posting a video of themselves dancing to it.
No offence to all these celebrities, but their performances can't hold a candle to the fun and touching video posted by the keepers. It was recorded by the facility's founder Roxy Danckwerts who said they decided to do it to combat lockdown boredom for the employees. Now that it has received so much attention and acclaim, however, she hopes that the viral video will help to raise awareness:
"I hope it will spread further and get more people involved in the challenge. But really, it is about — for us particularly — it is about spreading awareness about animals and the sentience of animals and the importance of animals for national heritage" Take a look at these brilliant nuns doing their version of the Jerusalema Challenge.
It's impossible for anyone not to feel uplifted by watching this incredible video. It shows many groups of employees dancing and clearly having a ball. What makes it extra special, though, is the parts that include animals from the sanctuary. In any reserve, the worry is that the animals will be stressed and unable to behave as they would in the wild. This video allays all those fears as the animals seem so relaxed with their human carers.
The internet certainly agrees as the performance has been viewed 2.8 million times and received 39,000 likes. The comments all share how emotional and happy viewers feel when they watch the team and animals at Wild Is Life: "I love these animals and their caretakers so much that I want to cry tears of Jerusalema JOY! God Bless them all. Loved the mother elephant who tried to dance with the guys."
Let's all hope more dance crazes sweep the internet so we can see more. We should also hope that funding and awareness are raised for this sanctuary and their excellent work preserving wildlife for future generations. If you want to see more from these brilliant animals and their keepers, subscribe to the sanctuary’s YouTube channel.
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Big Brother 14: Willie Hantz Houseguest Profile
Big Brother 14 cast houseguest Willie Hantz, 34, can primarily lay claim to fame as the brother of villain Russell Hantz from Survivor: Samoa and Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains, the uncle of Survivor cast member Brandon Hantz, and brother to Shawn Hantz of flipped off.
Willie, who lives in Dayton, Texas and works as a tankerman, is willing to do whatever it takes to win Big Brother 14 and gain his own level of Reality TV fame. He said in one preseason interview that he would vote his own mother off to make it to the top. He actually thinks he can overshadow his famous brother Russell and be an even better reality TV show player. Big shoes there Willie, big shoes!
Vinton, Louisiana born Willie is also gross. Let me just say that. He told our buddies over at he thinks it would be a great trademark to leave a “deuce” in the toilet each time he takes a dump. Disgusting. He’s apparently really fond of his own excrement, as his Twitter feed tagline is “everytime i take a sh*t i blow up the toilet.”
Mr. Hantz is also allegedly still Tweeting to his fans, despite CBS not allowing contestants to do any such thing. Obviously it is someone else is having a great deal of fun playing Willie — probably his brother or nephew I’m thinking. (There was a rumor Willie got thrown off BB14 before the premiere because he had smuggled in his phone, but I’m not believing that until I see it.)
Also on his alleged Twitter Feed profile, Willie Hantz notes he is “not the glass house” — ha ha, yeah. Very cute. Willie’s Facebook page has been restricted to friends only, which is no fair because we just love reading all the wacky stuff on the Facebook pages of the new houseguests.
Willie, who says he can barely read, enjoys stupid movies like 21 Jump Street and reality shows (duh!) like Survivor and So You Think You Can Dance. He also listens to Celine Dion, Michael Bolton, and Lil Wayne. That makes me wince.
Willie says his strategy in the house is to help stir up drama and chaos, but not be in the center of it so he doesn’t look like it’s his fault. He also wants to keep all the crazy people in the house as long as he can to keep the target off himself. He has a girlfriend, but he’ll lay it on thick with the ladies if he thinks he can get ahead by doing it. However, he thinks showmances are a bad idea because the guy usually ends up a target. Also, he has said he would NEVER open Pandora’s Box unless things were seriously bad.
Decently knowledgeable about Big Brother, Willie’s favorite player is Dani Donato and he really wished Rachel Reilly would be on the show to cause the ultimate amount of chaos possible. He also said in his CBS profile, however, that he would have had to shoot himself if he’d been in the house with her last season. Willie admits he is a gambler and likes to take big risks, but he has lost more than he has won over the years. That could end up being exactly how he plays Big Brother.
Eviction: Willie defied all predictions, especially those placing him in the top three, by self-evicting when he was thrown off the show for getting violent with Chef Joe Arvin. He became the third person to leave Big Brother 14.
Willie Hantz CBS Big Brother Profile
Name: Willie Hantz
Age: 34
Occupation: Tankerman
Three adjectives that describe you: Serious, hostile and docile.
Favorite Activities: Gambling and strip clubs!
Most difficult part about living inside the Big Brother house: Eating the slop because I’m used to my roommate’s (i.e. my mother) cooking.
Strategy for winning “Big Brother:” To make as much confusion in the house in order to take the attention off of me.
Finish this sentence: My life’s motto is… only the good die young.
What would you do if “Big Brother” made you famous: I would be on All-Stars.
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Patriot Act renewal passes House
Ed Morrissey
The House had another opportunity for progressives to do a little piñata-beating on a bill last night — but curiously, it passed with little note or controversy. The extension of the Patriot Act sailed through the lower chamber with almost no one noticing, following a similarly quiet passage out of the Senate earlier in the week:
The vote was 315-97 .
During George Bush’s term in office, every renewal the Patriot Act became grand theater, with newspapers inveighing against the overreach of Bush and the danger to American liberty in the bill, which wasn’t an entirely vacuous argument. Protesters would fill streets, and reporters would demand positions from various members of Congress. So what happened this year?
First, Barack Obama took most of the wind out of the critics’ sails when he voted to extend the Patriot Act in the summer of 2008, reversing a pledge he had made just a few months earlier.
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interesting post…
Don’t want to go into a flame war or anything but surely the development of Linux would top this. Imagine a bunch of programmers communicating only through Usenet posts and FTP and coming up with that!
Interestingly, it looks the NT codebase is still fairly portable, even though x86 is now the only platform for windows.
The xbox OS is a cut-down version of Win2k - the xbox was based on PC x86 pc hardware. And for the xbox360 OS they started from the orignal xbox codebase… even though its a radicaly different architecture. With things like .net and DirectX 10 now appearing on the 360 there must have been some merging with windows/vista codebase.
Another interesting fact I’ve read is x86 wasn’t actually the original main target platform for windows NT. I forget which platform the new OS was originally planned for, but the it was only changed to x86 in the late stages of development - and Dave Cutler’s foresight in keeping the main codebase clean of platform-specific stuff allowed the change to x86 without a major fuss.
It’s also interesting to note that nobody is writing new operating systems any more.
Quite amazing how many people visit the website every day then, I guess.
And we’re seeing such WONDERFUL results from there arn’t we?
I also enjoyed this book. In many ways, it’s a paean to Cutler and his team. His Marine-like discipline and toughness of mind is a model for any project leader. The book reminds me of Microcosm, George Gilder’s paean to Carver Mead, another genius in technology.
I love that for the last few days many, many people have been bemoaning Jeff’s captcha and not commenting on his article. Good article, by the way. It seems like two seperate entries though; one on discipline ( and the other on Dave Cutler.
The original target for NT? Well, that would be the Prism RISC architecture, and NT would have been under the guise “Mica.” When Ken Olson (crazy as a loon) killed Prism/Mica at DEC (because the world only wants a little VAX, a medium VAX, and a large VAX), Cutler went to MS and took a lot of the team and the ideas with him. NT on DEC Alpha was, belatedly, Mica on Prism.
For what it’s worth, Cutler’s original target choice for CPU was MIPS. He didn’t care for i386 at all.
I think it’s possible we may not see another “from the ground up” OS developed in our lifetimes.
The internet 1.0, Web2.0, Google API etc. But I know what you mean, a real OS, not just an API or software development platform.
And we’re seeing such WONDERFUL results from there arn’t we?
And as was pointed out in the article, it took about 10 years to get to a version of Windows NT (2000) that didn’t completely suck. So give the new OS developers a chance. We wouldn’t want to appear hypocritical, would we?
It amazes me how everyone forgets NT started out as a co-development effort with IBM’s OS2. As an early third party developer I would get two large boxes of floppies from MS to develop with one was for NT and the other was for OS2. As a driver developer they were basically the same just substitute GDI for GPI etc. MS eventually dropped out of OS2 and focused on NT which eventually beat out IBM since it was used on third party PC’s. The IBM PS2 computers eventually lost out on cost. How much of IBM’s OS2 remains within NT has always been the question.
I was on that team. The platform was designed to run on x86 but the platform that Dave Cutler preffered was MIPS. We all had primarily x86 machines and one MIPS. Then came the the Alpha. It was always assumed the primary platform for V1 (NT3.1) would be x86. The cool thing about the OS at the time for Microsoft was the fact the it was portable across platforms. Dave Cutle was definately a personality. There were no build breaks from lousy chackins when Dave was at the helm. If you did break the build Dave would show up in your office and scare the living %$#(@ out of you. That WAS the process.
I just found your blog. Real nice article and I enjoyed it enough to go to Amazon and buy the book you discussed. I cant wait for that to be dropped off!
I don’t understand why somebody hasn’t started developing a third OS from the ground up. It makes no sense to me. Win NT has changed the landscape, but it is arguably the most frustrating OS in history. The problem I have with M$ technology is that it doesn’t work when you need it to, plain and simple. Whereas with Unix, it has no choice but to work. Apple software just works. The GPS funtions without flinching on an iPhone, but on my Win Mobile 6.1 Touch phone it may work or it may not. I say all of this to say that I just wish somebody would come up and develop a Unix competitor that works just as well and solid!
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Corinthians could scupper Barcelona's plans to sign Cavani
In Brazil, Globoesporte report that Corinthians hope to lure the Uruguayan with a lucrative offer, and a salary exceeding what Barcelona could pay him.
Corinthians could scupper Barcelona's plans to sign Cavani
Edinson Cavani's future remains a mystery. He has hardly enjoyed many opportunities at Manchester United - not even under new manager Ralf Rangnick and it looks likely that he could be moving on in the January transfer window. He is keen to be somewhere where he is playing regularly - the big question is where? Barcelona were one of the big favourites to sign him although it remains to be seen whether they can afford to once they complete the operation to bring Ferran Torres to Camp Nou. Now it appears there is another club who is prepared to not only meet Barca's offer but raise it - Corinthians.
Initially, Cavani seemed set to stay in Europe. Barcelona would have been the ideal place for the Uruguayan but there is just one snag, his salary.
Corinthians, according to Globoesporte, are keen to sign him. The player's brother insists that they will start negotiating from 1 January, when they are able to resolve the striker's contractual situation with Manchester United. Cavani's contract expires in June but it is likely that he won't complete his time at Old Trafford. United won't stand in his way if he finds a new club. It is not known whether they would ask for a fee, which could hamper Cavani's chances of moving on.
Cavani's agent: "Obviously, if Edinson receives an offer from Barcelona..."
André Cury, who is Cavani's agent, spoke to journalist Jorge Nicola and stressed that the player won't go to Brazil if he receives a good offer from a European club. Even so, a return to his South American homeland isn't entirely ruled out. "He's not happy at United. I know what he is like because we almost took him to Palmeiras last time. He's got his own ranch in Uruguay and he likes being close to home, so in that sense, there is a possibility. But obviouly, if he were to receive an offer from Barcelona, he wouldn't go to Brazil. If nothing comes through from Barcelona or another club playing in the Champions League, then there is a chance he could could back home," Cury said.
But the player's agent added that he feels slightly wary about Barcelona's financial situation. "We're not too sure what is happening at Barcelona. To give you an idea, I was working there when they claimed that Luis Suárez was too old and we paid what we had to so that he could leave,but then they signed Agüero, who is even older than him. It seems the club has been doing what they shouldn't for some time. Cavani is a big name playerand has the technical qualities to play at Barcelona. It could happen or not - bot because of what the club wants, but for their economic situation".
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IA-32 (short for "Intel Architecture, 32-bit", sometimes also called i386[1][2])[3] is the 32-bit version of the x86 instruction set architecture, designed by Intel and first implemented in the 80386 microprocessor in 1985. IA-32 is the first incarnation of x86 that supports 32-bit computing;[4] as a result, the "IA-32" term may be used as a metonym to refer to all x86 versions that support 32-bit computing.[5][6]
Within various programming language directives, IA-32 is still sometimes referred to as the "i386" architecture. In some other contexts, certain iterations of the IA-32 ISA are sometimes labelled i486, i586 and i686, referring to the instruction supersets offered by the 80486, the P5 and the P6 microarchitectures respectively. These updates offered numerous additions alongside the base IA-32 set including floating-point capabilities and the MMX extensions.
Intel was historically the largest manufacturer of IA-32 processors, with the second biggest supplier having been AMD. During the 1990s, VIA, Transmeta and other chip manufacturers also produced IA-32 compatible processors (e.g. WinChip). In the modern era, Intel still produced IA-32 processors under the Intel Quark microcontroller platform until 2019; however, since the 2000s, the majority of manufacturers (Intel included) moved almost exclusively to implementing CPUs based on the 64-bit variant of x86, x86-64. x86-64, by specification, offers legacy operating modes that operate on the IA-32 ISA for backwards compatibility. Even given the contemporary prevalence of x86-64, as of 2018, IA-32 protected mode versions of many modern operating systems are still maintained, e.g. Microsoft Windows (until Windows 10; Windows 11 requires x86-64-compatible processor for x86 versions)[7] and the Debian Linux distribution.[8] In spite of IA-32's name (and causing some potential confusion), the 64-bit evolution of x86 that originated out of AMD would not be known as "IA-64", that name instead belonging to Intel's Itanium architecture.
Architectural features[edit]
The primary defining characteristic of IA-32 is the availability of 32-bit general-purpose processor registers (for example, EAX and EBX), 32-bit integer arithmetic and logical operations, 32-bit offsets within a segment in protected mode, and the translation of segmented addresses to 32-bit linear addresses. The designers took the opportunity to make other improvements as well. Some of the most significant changes (relative to the 16-bit 286 instruction set) are described below.
32-bit integer capability
All general-purpose registers (GPRs) are expanded from 16 bits to 32 bits, and all arithmetic and logical operations, memory-to-register and register-to-memory operations, etc., can operate directly on 32-bit integers. Pushes and pops on the stack default to 4-byte strides, and non-segmented pointers are 4 bytes wide.
More general addressing modes
Any GPR can be used as a base register, and any GPR other than ESP can be used as an index register, in a memory reference. The index register value can be multiplied by 1, 2, 4, or 8 before being added to the base register value and displacement.
Additional segment registers
Two additional segment registers, FS and GS, are provided.
Larger virtual address space
The IA-32 architecture defines a 48-bit segmented address format, with a 16-bit segment number and a 32-bit offset within the segment. Segmented addresses are mapped to 32-bit linear addresses.
Demand paging
32-bit linear addresses are virtual addresses rather than physical addresses; they are translated to physical addresses through a page table. In the 80386, 80486, and the original Pentium processors, the physical address was 32 bits; in the Pentium Pro and later processors, the Physical Address Extension allowed 36-bit physical addresses, although the linear address size was still 32 bits.
Operating modes[edit]
Operating mode Operating system required Type of code being run Default address size Default operand size Typical GPR width
Protected mode 32-bit operating system or boot loader 32-bit protected-mode code 32 bits 32 bits 32 bits
16-bit protected-mode operating system or boot loader, or 32-bit boot loader 16-bit protected-mode code 16 bits 16 bits 16 or 32 bits
Virtual 8086 mode 16- or 32-bit protected-mode operating system 16-bit real-mode code 16 bits 16 bits 16 or 32 bits
Real mode 16-bit real-mode operating system or boot loader, or 32-bit boot loader 16-bit real-mode code 16 bits 16 bits 16 or 32 bits
Unreal mode 16-bit real-mode operating system or boot loader, or 32-bit boot loader 16-bit real-mode code 32 bits 16 bits 16 or 32 bits
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1. ^ "DITTO". BSD General Commands Manual. Apple. December 19, 2008. Archived from the original on June 2, 2012. Retrieved August 3, 2013. Thin Universal binaries to the specified architecture [...] should be specified as "i386", "x86_64", etc.
2. ^ "Additional Predefined Macros". software.intel.com. Intel. Archived from the original on February 15, 2021. Retrieved November 25, 2020.
3. ^ Kemp, Steve. "Running 32-bit Applications on 64-bit Debian GNU/Linux". Debian Administration. Archived from the original on September 16, 2013. Retrieved August 31, 2013.
4. ^ "Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual". Intel Corporation. September 2014. p. 31. Archived from the original on January 26, 2012. Retrieved December 19, 2014. The Intel386 processor was the first 32-bit processor in the IA-32 architecture family. It introduced 32-bit registers for use both to hold operands and for addressing.
5. ^ Green, Ronald W. (May 5, 2009). "What do IA-32, Intel 64 and IA-64 Architecture mean?". software.intel.com. Intel. Archived from the original on December 19, 2014. Retrieved December 19, 2014.
6. ^ "Supported Hardware". Ubuntu Help. Canonical. Archived from the original on December 19, 2014. Retrieved August 31, 2013.
7. ^ "Windows 10 System Requirements & Specifications | Microsoft". www.microsoft.com. Archived from the original on May 1, 2018. Retrieved August 20, 2018.
8. ^ "Debian GNU/Linux on x86 Machines". Archived from the original on April 28, 2019. Retrieved August 20, 2020.
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A SpaceX two-stage Falcon 9 rocket launched a KoreaSat 5A communications satellite from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday afternoon. KoreaSat 5A is owned by the South Korean company KTSat. The satellite will provide TV and other communications services to people in South Korea, Japan and Southeast Asia, according to the company's website. The satellite will also aid maritime communications from East Africa to East Asia.
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PM: Reform for extraordinary elections but decision up to the president
Kaja Kallas in the Riigikogu.
Kaja Kallas in the Riigikogu. Source: Siim Lõvi /ERR
Prime Minister Kaja Kallas said that a vote of no confidence in her would prompt the Reform Party to inquire about the possibility of extraordinary elections, while the decision is up to the president.
Kallas said that a coalition between the Center Party, Isamaa and the Conservative People's Party (EKRE) would require a vote of no confidence in her that would give Reform grounds to request extraordinary elections.
"The Constitution does provide the possibility. However, the decision is up to the president at the end of the day. The government would be within its rights to propose it and it would be peculiar not to seize the opportunity," Kallas said when answering ERR's questions during the Thursday government press conference.
The premier added that even though the ratings would favor Reform going into extraordinary elections, that is not something the president can base his decision on.
"He must not weigh who would benefit and who would lose. The president needs to decide whether parliamentary democracy needs protecting or not. That is his discretion there. What we can decide is to make the proposal."
Minister of Rural Affairs Urmas Kruuse (Reform) added that extraordinary elections would help clear the air.
The PM also talked about what it would cost to hike family benefits, also in terms of potential tax hikes in the future.
"These amendments (family benefits hike – ed.) would cost €285 million in 2023. We would have to hike VAT from 20 percent to 23 percent. Or we could tax income, hiking the tax rate from the current 20 percent to 24 percent. Were we to look to excise duties, they would have to be hiked by 30 percent. Those are the figures people fighting for nothing but expenses should be voicing," Kallas said.
Kallas added that the Reform Party does not want to hike taxes but also understands why Isamaa finds raising child benefits so important.
"And should Isamaa decide in our favor, decide to launch talks with us, that is one of the things we will be discussing," the PM offered, adding that Reform would like it to be a part of state budget strategy deliberations.
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Maybe it’s because spring is just around the corner and many of us are thinking about our next garden. Or maybe it’s because the recent deep freeze plunged many of us into temporarily going “off grid” that brings this topic to mind. But have you ever considered what your Cherokee grandparents and great-grandparents went through to put food on the table and to preserve it through the winter months after our people were removed here to Indian Territory?
Now, many of us are familiar with the so-called Three Sisters — corn, beans and squash — that have been held up as a traditional staple for Cherokee gardens. Our ancestors found that the three, grown together, thrived and provided many of their nutritional needs.
The garden season in the Cherokee Nation starts for many of us around March or April and can run through mid-October. It’s a glorious time where we can amble out to the garden and pick a fresh tomato or pepper and enjoy it straight off the vine. If we have a bumper crop of something (I’m looking at you, zucchini), we modern folks can usually freeze it to enjoy long after the garden is gone.
Meat, also, is not hard to come by. It usually just takes a trip to the grocer or, again, to our freezer if we’ve planned ahead.
But a hundred years ago, most of our Cherokee ancestors didn’t have access to a freezer or a grocery store. What they often did have was a smokehouse and maybe a springhouse or a root cellar. Stories from our ancestors remind us that different times called for different measures. A lot of planning and preparation went into it, if one intended to continue to eat well through fall and winter months.
For instance, in the summer it was common for Cherokees to gather at a designated spot on the river for gigging and catching fish. Drying and smoke racks would be built on the river bank where the fish would be smoked and preserved for future use. Dried softshell turtles were also common to “put up” for cold season eating.
A smokehouse was a handy spot to preserve hog meat or even wild game. Meat was hung in the top of the smokehouse over a smoldering batch of coals for several days. The smoke both dried the meat and coated it with an acidic mantle to prevent bacteria and spoilage. Salt could also be used to coat the meat in the smokehouse.
Corn and beans were some of the most commonly preserved items. Old-timers often placed a bit of tobacco in sacks or cribs with corn to stave off insects such as weevils. Besides drying, corn kernels could also be preserved as hominy to prevent sprouting. It was made by boiling the corn with a teaspoon of lye in a pan of water or, if lye wasn’t available, woodstove ashes were used to get the same effect. Or dried corn could be reconstituted into hominy to make bread and other foods.
Most Cherokees also kept dried stores of pumpkin and string beans (sometimes called pole beans). The string beans were simply run through with a needle and thread, and then hung in the smokehouse or another dry spot. Cleaned pumpkin slices could be made the same way, but many families set them on top of their home’s shingles to dry out before storing. Later on, the pumpkin was reconstituted with water and maybe a little sorghum added for a winter treat.
Families often dug a root cellar to keep vegetables over the winter. Thick-skinned squashes, potatoes, turnips and even heads of cabbage could be preserved for months in a root cellar. Root cellars ranged from a deep hole in the ground to a fancier structure with a door and steps. They came in handy in later years as canning became another popular way to create long-term storage for food.
While our modern Cherokee chefs such as Nico Albert, Taelor Barton and Bradley Dry today can have access to traditional ingredients nearly year-round thanks to freezers and other modern devices, our ancestors found their own innovative ways to keep nutritious food on hand. It’s just something for us all to marvel at as another season turns the corner here in the Cherokee Nation.
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Meet a Former ESOL Student Now a Physician's Assistant
by Anna Golovk
Juan Carlos Zelaya today as a physician's assistant.
Mr. Juan Zelaya is a former Blair ESOL student who graduated in 1981. Mr. Zelaya is now a physican's assistant in Salisbury, Maryland.
Mr. Zelaya came to the United States from in December 1978 from Tegucigalpa, Honduras when he was a fifteen-year-old boy and he was a student in Blair's ESOL program. "I couldn't understand any English," said Mr. Zelaya. When he graduated he was in the regular English class with Mr. Stant. "I still have a mild Spanish accent," Mr. Zelaya said. He was a member of National Honor Society as a senior at Blair.
He was also a member of the International Club here in Blair. " The International Club was fabulous. I learned how to deal with people all over the world and it helped me to understand other cultures which now helps me in my chosen field of work. I loved the outings and the friendships," he said.
After graduation from Blair he attended Montgomery College at Takoma Park campus for three years. "I had a senatorial scholarship while at MC," Mr. Zelaya said. Then he went to the University of Maryland for one semester. After that he transferred to the University of Maryland at Baltimore where he graduated with a BS in science (medical technology) in 1987.
Juan Carlos Zelaya (back row, faw left) was active in the International Club in 1980. (Mr. Bellino was the sponsor of the club that year and he took this picture.)
Mr. Zelaya worked as a medical technician for three years. Then he decided to become a physician's assistant. "It's the greatest profession there is," Mr. Zelaya said. To get his degree as a physician's assistant, he went to George Washington University for three years from 1990 to 1993.
He has been a physician's assistant since he finished at George Washington. "My job involves dealing with patients in the rehabilitation field. I manage them in a hospital in Salisbury, Maryland," he said.
"My advice to Blair ESOL students is to never give up with your studies and listen to Mr. Bellino's advice. He is older now and for that matter wiser. Study hard because it is worth it at the end."
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This Video About Dueling Protestors In Dallas Is The Video America Needs Right Now
There’s been a lot of tragedy during this last week, with the deaths of Alton Sterling, Philando Castile, and five police officers escorting a Black Lives Matter march in Dallas Thursday night. The Dallas shooting could have made racial tensions worse, but at least in some cases, it has brought people together. On Sunday, a video of Dallas residents hugging the city’s police officers went viral. Now, a CNN video of Black Lives Matter protesters and their counter-protestors has also gone viral, showing what is possible in healing the divide that has created all this pain and suffering.
The CNN video above shows the protestors and counter-protestors meeting on the streets of Dallas, with the Black Lives Matter protestors chanting “too black, too strong,” while the counter-protestors surround themselves with flags bearing “Texas” and a drawing of a gun on it. “We all matter. Hell!” one of them says. The two demonstrations start at opposite ends of the same street until representatives from each group meet in the middle.
It’s unclear what was said at first, and why they both decided to approach each other, but soon both groups are meeting and everybody starts hugging each other. They then pray for Dallas together, and the police officers assigned to watch both groups join in.
It’s still heartwarming to see a Black Lives Matter and an All Lives Matter group display some solidarity, rather than more violence. This surely didn’t solve America’s racial divide completely, but it’s a step in the right direction.
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Why Facebook Promotion Must Be Key in a Moving Firm Marketing Strategy
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Why Facebook Promotion Must Be Key in a Moving Firm Marketing Strategy
Social media has revolutionized the advertising agency. With more than 2.89 billion users, Facebook is chief amongst social media platforms. Facebook quickly became not just a platform for people to share their personal stories, but also for advertisers to purchase ad space.
The moving industry is highly saturated, in order to thrive you need to be proactive in seeking leads. For business owners, Facebook offers low-cost marketing and a platform to provide customer support. When used strategically, Facebook can be used to increase brand awareness and profitability.
Keep reading to learn more about Facebook promotion, and how you can utilize it for your moving business.
Build a Business Page
Similar to user profiles, businesses can create their own page. A business account page can be used to engage with customers and promote products and services. For a business page, leads will engage with the page by giving it a "like".
Facebook business pages let you share information about your business. This platform is also beneficial to provide customer support and engage with customers.
Your Facebook page can act as a virtual storefront. Your moving business can draw in customers by making organic posts on local neighborhood sites.
Your business page can be used to drive website traffic and generate a buzz around your business model. A robust media following can translate to an increase in sales.
Generate a Stream of Content
It's important that you always have a supply of copy-quality content ready to go. Brand consistency is key when it comes to stockpiling social content.
Building content off of set aesthetics allow you to ensure that your brand is recognizable. By developing a branding guide, you can ensure that your social media content looks cohesive and attractive to customers.
Posting consistently can help strengthen your brand and help you convert followers into clients. For Facebook you should build out a Content Calendar that allows you to map out your social media feed. By scheduling posts in advance you can generate interest in services and sales.
Engage with Users
Engaging with users on social media is as simple as a few keystrokes. Customer engagement is the emotional connection between a customer and a brand. Social media makes it easy to build rapport with potential customers and convert leads into sales.
Facebook makes it easy to engage with customers. By monitoring social media comments and direct messages, you can work on strengthening your relationship with your customers.
According to Facebook’s algorithm, posts with high engagement rates are boosted in the algorithm. By engaging with followers in the comment section, you can get your business more attention. Business owners should go through social media engagements each day to interact with posts.
Highly engaged customers are more likely to demonstrate company loyalty. This means that these customers will come back over time and continue doing business with your brand.
Post Facebook Ads
Ads are paid content that businesses place on Facebook. With paid advertisements you will be able to reach more people than you would with organic social content. These ads allow you to draw the attention of new customers and grow your business.
The Facebook algorithm also does remarketing on sponsored Facebook posts. Remarketing is when the platform recognizes which users have already interacted with your brand. This data helps Facebook place future ads for you in order to help improve your engagement rates.
Make Data-Driven Decisions
Facebook analytics also allow you to pull data from your advertisements so you can readjust your messaging. Facebook Ad Manager will allow you to sift through your advertising campaigns to see a visual representation of your ad's performance online.
These analytics can be used to help you see what messaging has a better click-rate and is more profitable. Data-driven marketing makes it possible for advertisers to learn the habits of their audience. Content creators can then tailor messaging to them for a more well-received message.
Use Targeting
In the digital sphere, targeting allows you to narrow the pool of people who are shown your sponsored content. Facebook collected demographic and behavioral data from its users. These cultivated lists of user data allow Facebook to pick and choose who gets to see particular ads.
Moving businesses can place geo-targets on their advertisements so they can directly target people in the area. This will help bring in business and drive up profits.
Targeted advertisements can have a higher degree of personalization. Identifying a target audience allows advertisers to invest in relatable media. Well-tailored content is more likely to connect with viewers and have higher engagement rates.
Building out different messaging tracks for particular audiences is cost-efficient. Although targeted ads have a higher placement fee, they also tend to have a greater return on investment.
Create SEO Friendly Content
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) content works in tandem with search engine algorithms. Well placed keywords and links directed to your site can increase your brand visibility. For a moving business it will be profitable to incorporate localized keywords to attract local leads.
Use Facebook Promotion for Profit
Moving businesses can't rely on reoccurring customers, so they need to come up with strategic ways to lure in new business. Facebook can play a foundational role in building out a robust digital marketing campaign. Facebook promotion can be used to increase profit through social media marketing.
Connect with us to learn more about how you can use Facebook to draw in more clients.
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ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WNCN) – A magnitude 2.5 earthquake was detected Saturday morning in Asheville, Marshall and two other surrounding states just before 4:30 a.m.
The United States Geological Survey (USGS) said the quakes epicenter happened approximately 19.3 miles west northwest of Asheville and 10.6 miles west southwest of Marshall, North Carolina. Additionally, USGS reported it was also felt in Greeneville, Tennessee and Columbia, South Carolina.
Additionally, the depth of the earthquake was reported as 5km.
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Shamil Tarpischev is to be asked by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for his position after Serena Williams today accused him of being "sexist" and "racist" following remarks he made about her and sister Venus.
Tarpischev, President of the Russian Tennis Federation, called the American siblings the "Williams brothers" on a Russian television chat show earlier this month.
It led to him being fined $25,000 (£15,500/€20,000) by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) Tour and suspended for a year.
Tarpischev has been a member of the IOC since 1994 and is currently part of its Entourage Commission, which deals with matters concerning the relationship between athletes, coaches, managers, sponsors and all other stakeholders that support athletes.
In a statement yesterday, Tarpischev called the Williams sisters, who have 25 Grand Slam titles between them, "outstanding athletes" but claimed the comment was "taken out of context" and was made "without malicious intent".
The IOC will now seek further clarification of the situation before deciding whether to take any action themselves, which potentially could include referring Tarpischev to its Ethics Commission.
"We take note of Mr Tarpishev's apology and the sanctions imposed by the WTA," an IOC spokesman told insidethegames.
"The IOC will first contact Mr Tarpishev to ask for his position before considering any next step."
Serena Williams, the world number one, today commended the WTA on its swift action in dealing with Shamil Tarpischev.
"Well, I think the WTA did a really great job in taking initiative and immediately taking actions," Williams, winner of 18 Grand Slam singles titles and four Olympic gold medals, said ahead of the WTA Finals in Singapore.
"His comments, I thought, were very insensitive,
"I just wasn't very happy with his comments and I think a lot of people are unhappy as well."
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Jobs, Ballmer and Obama: The Criticality of Balance
President Obama’s approval rating is in the toilet, and his recent firing of his lead general in Afghanistan suggests his approval inside his administration is likely not much better than we see outside.
Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s CEO, has been under fire for a while now and seems unable to get out from under stories of his impending replacement.
Steve Jobs, on the other hand, is on fire and — despite problems with suicides in China, AT&T’s stumbles, and App Store approval issues — is on top of the world.
I think this is because while Obama focuses excessively on form but not enough on function and Ballmer on function and not enough on form, Jobs is the only one that blends both effectively. Let’s talk about that this week.
We’ll close with my product of the week: a fascinating online gaming product called “OnLive” that may eventually render obsolete both Apple and Microsoft and prove Oracle’s Larry Ellison right.
Steve Jobs and Balance
Those of us who have been successful in jobs have learned that it isn’t just what you do, it’s how what you do is valued that makes the huge difference in our careers. You can put in 60 hour weeks, but if your boss isn’t happy with what you’ve done, you not only won’t get a raise and a promotion, but you likely won’t keep your job. Some people don’t get that you have to play to perceptions and make those who are important to your future appreciate what you are doing or it won’t make a difference.
Not getting this is why so many hard-working people are laid off or fired. On the other hand, there are those who constantly take credit for others’ work and go out of their way to seek praise but don’t actually do much of anything. They often get better jobs initially but are eventually fired because eventually the fact they didn’t actually accomplish anything catches up with them.
The ideal case is one of balance. Steve Jobs doesn’t hype crappy products, and he doesn’t build strong products and then fail to market them. He builds strong products that he hypes the crap out of. If he did the latter, he could be proud of the products but not the sales, and if he did the former, he might get lines once, but those folks would never buy from Apple again. However, realizing that impression is virtually all of reality, if he shifts to any side, he shifts to the hype side, because he knows that is what will make his boss, the shareholders, happy.
Obama and Form Over Function
President Obama fully gets the need to look positive and be in front of people. He likely would make a good CMO (chief marketing officer), but so far he sucks as a chief executive. This is because when you look under the hype, you don’t see much substance, and little seems to be getting done. The recent firing and replacement of the lead general in Afghanistan showcased the problem. Strangely enough, the public position of that general — that there was no substance behind the positive reports — may have resulted in a focus on the problem that might actually result in some real progress.
But from the various wars, to the economy, to the BP oil spill, you certainly can see strong marketing but very little in regard to actual progress because there is too much focus on the former and not enough on the latter.
What really drove this home was when I did a review of the 2010 Joint Strategic Plan on Intellectual Property Enforcement. It sounds great, it says all the right things, until you realize that it isn’t a plan at all because it has no milestones, not measurable goals — only promises to continue doing whatever everyone is doing and that things will get better. It is nearly 100 percent marketing fluff, and this seems to be the cornerstone of this administration and goes to the core of why Obama started out incredibly popular and is trending to be a one-term president with approval scores that are dropping faster than rocks.
To be successful, he needs to focus on building some substance under all this marketing fluff or virtually everything he has done, which isn’t much, will be undone in a few short years. We had one president who promised to get us to the moon in 10 years, and we got there. We’ve had eight say it was critical we get off oil over a period of 30 years, and we are literally swimming in a sea of oil. Obama is far from the first that has this problem.
Steve Ballmer: Function Over Form
If you step back and actually look at Microsoft the way it was in the late ’90s before Steve Ballmer took over and then look at it today, it is actually in much better shape. In the late ’90s, its enterprise products were an industry joke, it was under attack by the DOJ, and interoperability (critical to the market it was in) was a serious problem both inside and outside the company. It didn’t have any consumer products and probably didn’t really need them.
A little over a decade later, Microsoft leads in interoperability, they have settled virtually all of the old antitrust actions, their enterprise products are often preferred over other offerings, and they still make more profit for every dollar of revenue and more revenue than virtually any legal company on the planet. Those are solid fundamentals. However Apple and the consumer technology market, coupled with the economic downturn, have hurt and changed the metrics surrounding Microsoft. Working hard alone doesn’t get the job done; investors have to value the result highly — and they don’t, at least comparatively, in Microsoft’s case.
This is the exact opposite of Obama’s problem — a lot of functional improvements, but the company lacks the ability to get credit for them. Granted, gadgets like iPads and iPhones are easier than infrastructure products, but it was always up to Microsoft where to focus, and Jobs made better choices and redefined Apple around his skills. Steve Ballmer is actually a friend of mine, and I think he may be making progress, first by having Kathleen Hall do Windows marketing, and second by taking direct action on the kinds of products that have made Steve Jobs shine. We’ll see, we’ll see, but this clearly showcases that function over form works no better than form over function. You get more done with the first and get more initial credit with the second, but ultimately an unbalanced approach fails to reach its full potential.
The lesson here is that managers and investors tend to like balance. They don’t like people who self-promote but don’t actually accomplish much of anything, and they don’t appreciate people who can’t self-promote regardless of what they actually do. To be successful, you have to learn to do both, as just doing the part you like and are good at won’t result in the success that should be the ultimate goal.
Product of the Week: OnLive Cloud Gaming
Product of the Week
Speaking of setting impossible goals and then accomplishing them: A little over a week ago, OnLive launched, and many, including Microsoft’s ex-head of their entertainment and hardware division, said it was impossible.
OnLive is a gaming service in the cloud, and in many ways it is very close to the vision Larry Ellison had for thin client computing, but it is actually inexpensive and works. I’ve been playing on the service — way too much, I might add — for something like 40 hours, and I’m both impressed and unfortunately hooked. Game play is good if you have a strong wired Internet connection, and the experience is better in many ways than it would be on a PC. This is because the game actually runs on OnLive’s hardware and not your own, so you don’t have to deal with compatibility or performance issues (other than networking).
OnLive MicroConsole TV Adaptor and Controller
The OnLive MicroConsole TV Adaptor and Controller
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Right now, you run the service in your browser with a plug-in, and they will have a client device out (that would work like a game console) for under $100 (possibly free) shortly. You are basically watching a high-definition stream of the game you are playing, which also gives you the unique option of being able to watch other people play from their point of view, and that’s a great way to learn game strategy or get a sense of games you might consider buying.
Like streaming movies, you don’t actually get to own a physical disk, but you can play the game on any machine that has a fast enough Internet connection, and you always start from where you left off, much like it would be if each of these machines were your own. The graphics aren’t as good as they might be if you had a top-end game machine, but they are more than adequate, and you don’t have to fork over thousands for that top-end game machine.
This could be the beginning of truly appliance-like computing. It will likely take a decade for all of the potential for this to be realized and all of the performance bottlenecks (like WiFi and 5G) to be addressed, but it represents the best shot at a truly different PC experience, even more so than the iPad, from we have yet seen.
Because a lot of folks said this was impossible, because it actually is a great deal of fun , and because this could eventually drive the appliance PC experience we’ve all mostly wanted, OnLive is my product of the week.
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• Apple certainly can do no wrong. Microsoft on the other hand cannot do right. Even though Windows 7 is a big success. The media writers cater only to Apple in celebrating what Apple does and not what Microsoft does. Obama is just a snake oil salesman and the American voters believed him when he promised to fix government. I AM not sure anyone can fix what ails government.
Steve Balmer comes over like a lead balloon to me. He seems too brash and Steve Jobs is a much better salesmen. Until Microsoft finds themselves a Steve Jobs like salesmen the media will continue to ignore Microsoft.
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To Freshmen On The Night Before Move-In Day
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To all first-year college students on the night before move-in day,
There are hundreds of open letters such as this one floating around the internet, but I promise this one will be at least a tad different, and I hope worth the read.
The night before move-in day, I barely got three hours of sleep. My mind switched from extreme excitement to nerves that were absolutely off the wall. I was excited to start a new adventure that allowed me to start over and become a person I was more proud to be. But I was nervous that people would not like my new persona as much as my old one.
You are likely feeling something along these lines. And you likely feel as though you are the only one caught in this spiral of eagerness and hesitation, but you are most certainly not the only person feeling this way.
The night before move-in day will be one of the longest nights of your life. Longer than Christmas Eve in Kindergarten--when you were expecting a huge box from Santa the next morning. Longer than the night before your 18th birthday--when you became an "adult."
Even if you have friends from high school going to the same college as you, you will still meet many new people. And if you're anything like me, meeting new people is one of the most intimidating things you have to do.
You may spend the night before move-in day contemplating who you will be when you meet all these new people. But if I have one piece of uber cliche advice to give you in this letter, it would be to be yourself. Who you are when you first meet the people you'll be with for the next two to four years will be one of the largest ways they will remember you. And being someone you are not is not only hard, but it is not fun in the slightest.
Be someone you are proud to be. Be someone you want to be. Do not be afraid to switch it up from high school. You are not in high school anymore. You are going to be in a completely new environment, and you are most likely going to be with a brand new set of people. Don't think about it. When someone asks you a question, such as "what's your favorite movie?", Don't say some artsy indie flick that you think will impress them if your favorite movie is actually She's The Man. More than likely their favorite movie is something along the lines of She's The Man. Unless, of course, your favorite movie is an artsy indie flick, then, by all means, say that.
Move-in day will likely be the opposite of the night before. It will be a blur. It will be full of new names, faces, and places. As long as the night will be, know that the months to come will be different. College will go by so fast, so savor the slow moments that come before.
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Facebook wants to be your Internet ID Card
Mind you, even though Facebook wants to be your Internet driver's license, the service is still insecure and it's continuing to tear at your privacy.
God knows I understand that going from one Web site to another with one login and password scheme after the other is a real pain-in-the-rump. After the Gawker password fiasco it's become clearer than ever that using the same brain-dead simple login and password from one system to another is clearly dumb. But, the idea of using Facebook (Facebook!?) Connect as a universal Internet login and password system makes me want to gag.
You see Facebook is insecure by design and privacy is given only a minimal amount of programming and lip-service. Sure, you can make your Facebook information safe, well safer, anyway, but who has the time to be constantly plugging in Facebook's privacy holes? Especially since Facebook keeps opening up more and more or your personal information to vendors.
For example, Facebook quietly announced just before the recent three-day weekend that they were opening up a way for third-party Facebook apps developers to get to your snail-mail addresses and phone numbers. Isn't that nice of them? I know I want the likes of Zynga, makers of FarmVille, and all their partners, to have my home address and phone number.
Facebook has back off a bit on this. While still insisting that "you need to explicitly choose to share this data before any application or website can access it, and you can not share your friends' address or mobile number with applications," Facebook also acknowledged though that they need to make "people more clearly aware of when they are granting access to this data. … [and] are making changes to help ensure you only share this information when you intend to do so. We'll be working to launch these updates as soon as possible, and will be temporarily disabling this feature until those changes are ready. We look forward to re-enabling this improved feature in the next few weeks."
Fine and dandy, but I still trust Facebook about as much as I do Goldman Sachs' fouled up Facebook IPO. Regardless of that, though, hundreds of millions trust Facebook enough to keep using it. What I'm more concerned about today is that more and more Web sites are using Facebook Connect for their login and password management.
I started noticing this myself in the last few weeks as I kept stumbling over more and more sites, such as the Internet Movie Database (IMDB) and ESPN, that would let me login into them using Facebook. I was beginning to think about looking about this trend, when I found that others were already looking into it.
According to a Technology Review report, more and more Websites are essentially out-sourcing their identity systems to Facebook. The Websites get more than just an easy way to log you into their site though. Those sites also gets access to some, or all, depending on your privacy settings and whatever security blunder Facebook is currently making, of your personal data. Does ESPN need to know who my friends are? I don't think so.
Worse still, besides Facebook's privacy problems, Facebook's login and password system still has two major security holes: its use of a single user name and password and an unencrypted tracking cookie. It's that last that enables Firesheep, the easy to use network eaves-dropper program, to snoop on your Facebook sessions. And, oh yes, if you login into a site using Facebook Connect, those Web sessions as well.
So, what can you do? Well, for starters if you're going to use Facebook, lock it down using ZDNet's The Definitive Facebook Lockdown Guide and every time Facebook asks you for some new permission to share your data, just say no.
As for using Facebook to access other sites, are you crazy? It's bad enough that Facebook is such a security mess, but to trust it to be my universal Internet drivers' license? No. Just no. This is a security disaster that's just waiting to happen and I have no intention of being caught in it.
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Looking for some great streaming picks? Reviewed in the United States on March 15, 2017. Gilbert is kind, and has a big heart. Gilbert's unusual life circumstances threaten to get in the way of their budding romance. Small American towns nurture kindness and big hearts, as personified by Gilbert Grape (Johnny Depp), a twenty year old guy who heads a loving but difficult family of two younger sisters, a mentally retarded younger brother named Arnie (Leonardo DiCaprio), and their obese momma (Darlene Cates). Arnie also runs out and goes to Becky, who takes care of him for the evening and helps him overcome his aquaphobia until he is picked up by his sisters. he plays the part of Gilberts (Depp) younger brother who has severe autism, Leonardo was only 19 when he made this film, and he puts in a stunning and thoughtful portrayal of someone with autism, his acting ability is without question astonishing. مشاهدة وتحميل فيلم Whats Eating Gilbert Grape 1993 مترجم للعربية كامل بطولة جولييت لويس و جوني ديب و ليوناردو دي كابريو و ماري ستينبورجين و جون سي. Gilbert's life, his future, is thwarted he knows this, but it is in this guardian angel that his love and bond for Arnie cannot, and will not, be let go. Great movie, not much difference to DVD quality and no subtitles. In addition, Gilbert is having an affair with a married woman, Betty Carver (Mary Steenburgen). Movie25 - Watch What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) Full Movie Online Free - Plot unknown. What's Eating Gilbert Grape was shot in Texas, in various towns and cities; Austin and Pflugerville were primary locations, as well as Manor, where the water tower featured in the film was located.[4]. Obviously the movie is a classic and if you don't already own it on DVD, then go for the blu ray. He also apologizes to his mother for his behavior and vows not to be ashamed of her or let her be hurt anymore. The film is worth a serious look, for its thematic depth, for its acting, and for its attention to detail in sets and production design. What's Eating Gibert Grape is a beautifully shot movie of tenderness, caring and self-awareness that is set amongst the fictional working class one street town Endora. Was this review helpful to you? I could of just stuck to my old DVD. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 22, 2018, Bought for my 14 year old daughter, whose mad on Leonado DiCaprio, it was delivered promptly and fitted through the letter box, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 11, 2020, Top subscription boxes – right to your door, © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. Love the film, quality for a blu ray is so so. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 20, 2018. An artificial man, who was incompletely constructed and has scissors for hands, leads a solitary life. Gilbert falls in love with Becky, but gets problems when he tries to find time for his own private life. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. With Johnny Depp, Leonardo DiCaprio, Juliette Lewis, Mary Steenburgen. What's Eating Gilbert Grape The film is more vignette than involved story, portraying the life of the Grape family, especially that of Gilbert Grape, in the the week preceding Arnie's 18th birthday. Use the HTML below. Directed by Lasse Hallström. "[9] Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times described it as "… one of the most enchanting films of the year" and said that DiCaprio deserved to win the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for which he was nominated. I know the fame Leonardo DiCaprio achieved after this movie and we used to joke about how many didn't know about this role. Reportedly an animated project based on the long-running What's Eating Gilbert Grape video game franchise. Check out some of the IMDb editors' favorites movies and shows to round out your Watchlist. Having recently read the wonderful book, I was pleased to see that Peter Hedges also wrote the screenplay. This is another Johnny Depp film I was unaware of before Amazon brought it to my attention through a recommendation email, a big thanks to Amazon! A young man in a small Midwestern town struggles to care for his mentally-disabled younger brother and morbidly obese mother while attempting to pursue his own happiness. DiCaprio earned his first Academy Award portraying Arnie Grape, the cognitively impaired little brother of the titular Gilbert, played by Johnny Depp. The film really tugs at your heartstrings. Robert B. Hedges). Leonardo DiCaprio is just fascinating to watch, especially after seeing him in later roles when he is much older. Gilbert's life, his future, is thwarted he knows this, but it is in this guardian angel that his love and bond for Arnie cannot, and will not, be let go. What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. There's really nothing to break this movie down in any way. Centred around the Grape family Ellen and Amy and their two brothers Arnie and Gilbert, who, along with their morbidly obese widowed mother Bonnie Grape are striving to survive and coexist with the absence of a father figure, low wage work and seventeen-year-old Arnie's severe mental condition. Darlene Cates does a wonderful job in this role.Gilbert and his family live in a modest house. Discover what to watch this November including a Marvel docu-series, a '90s reboot, and a Star Wars holiday celebration. And Johnny, what can one say about the roles he's played? Momma is trapped in an obese body. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film was given a 90% "Certified Fresh" score and an average rating of 7.3/10 based on 49 reviews. [7], The film received positive reviews, with many critics praising the performances by Depp and DiCaprio. But life in a small town in Iowa is hard, and it can be frustrating and confining. Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. In one sequence, momma must face gawkers as she leaves the courthouse. The children, wanting to protect their mother's dignity, empty their family home of possessions and set it on fire with her in it, burning her to ashes and the house down. Vicenarian Richard travels to Thailand and finds himself in possession of a strange map. A fisherman, a smuggler, and a syndicate of businessmen match wits over the possession of a priceless diamond. [6] The wide release garnered $2,104,938 on its first weekend. View production, box office, & company info. It is also incidentally about life in small town, rural America, something that folks like me who have spent their adult lives in an urban bubble, don't see much of anymore. The film's plot is slightly repetitive. The dinner table must be moved each meal to wherever momma is sitting. [5], The film was nominated for the prestigious Grand Prix of the Belgian Syndicate of Cinema Critics. The only times the police get something to do is when Gilbert's autistic brother Arnie tries to climb up on the watertower nearby. Quickly browse titles in our catalog based on the ones you have picked. Who can sum it up in words? No subtitles on the disc and no additional features. Very grainy. The site's consensus states that the film is "sentimental and somewhat predictable, but those are small complaints, given the tender atmosphere and moving performances at the heart of What's Eating Gilbert Grape. Her response is inspiring and majestic. These are humble, unpretentious common folks who do the best they can. Then one day, a suburban lady meets him and introduces him to her world. part due to Dicaprio's nomination for Best Actor in a Supporting Role at the Oscars and the film still remains popular as a vehicle for Depp and DiCaprio. This movie still holds up after all these years. A local woman named Betty (Mary Steenburgen) is trapped in an unsatisfying marriage. (1993). as this is a fantastic film, a straight role for Johnny Depp perfectly executed, but an absolutely amazing performance from a young Leonardo DiCaprio, wow!
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Interesting to see that John Naugton was talking about open data and "cultural agoraphobia" in The Observer this weekend..
Talis, where I work, has just announced its Talis Connected Commons, which offers free storage of semantic data sets to anyone - as long as the data is open. Peter Murray-Rust, who is quoted in the Observer article, is one of the people who will hopefully be making use of the Talis triple store.
And I've just been listening to Paul Miller's recent podcast with Reuven Cohen about the Open Cloud Manifesto, which tries to create a coherent idea of what an "open cloud" might be (although that seems to be more concerned with interoperability and portability, rather than openness of data). That seems to have caused some controversy along the way, even making it into The Economist.
It certainly feels like there's a tipping point approaching for the next version of data on the web, but (as usual) the barriers are more cultural than technical.
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Thursday, December 27, 2012
Sweets With A Side Dish Of Humor
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Crunch Cookies
Because I’m sorry to say, there’s more to come:
I hope you’ll come visit me at my blog:
Crunch Cookies
1 stick butter, softened
1 stick margarine, softened
2 cups sugar
2 eggs
2 tsp vanilla
2 1/2 cups flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 1/4 cups Cocoa Krispie cereal
1 cup mini chocolate chips
*Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease cookie sheets.
*Mix in flour, baking soda and salt.
*Bake for 12 minutes.
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Five Wishes
And cookies...lots of cookies...
Friday, December 14, 2012
The Secret Subject Swap
* Feed a baby panda at the zoo.
* Pour myself a glass of pinot grigio.
* Cuddle my chinchillas.
* Make sure I have enough toilet paper for the week.
* Play tug-of-war with my pug.
Sunday, December 9, 2012
Holiday Hoarder
Sunday, December 2, 2012
Caveman Twitter
"Me start fire. Ug."
"Nobody answer."
"Me start 'nuther fire. Ug"
"Bigger fire."
"Now they answer."
"Where water? Ug."
Response: "How small?"
"Very small."
Response: "Not interested. Ug."
Response: "Make bear tooth necklaces?"
"That dumb. Ug. Me chase cantaloupe."
Response: "WTFug?"
"Tweet wrong. Antelope. Ug."
"Me have newest leopard print wrap. Ug."
Response: "Me have Victoria's Secrets Bobcat print."
Response: "Latest monkey butt satchel soft."
"Bear balls also make good satchel."
Response: "Dinner?"
"Me kill rabbit for dinner. Ug. Interested?"
Response: "Don't care."
"What if me kill deer?"
"Your son grow up quick. Ug."
Response: "We call him Stinky Fuss."
boyfriend at Brontosaurus Burger Barn. Ug."
Thursday, November 29, 2012
My Five Minutes Of Blogging Fame
Sunday, November 18, 2012
Life In The Unemployment Lane
Our current situation renders negative and positive thoughts on being unemployed:
Friday, November 9, 2012
Dear Meno Mama
Dear Meno Mama:
Dear S.S.:
Dear Meno Mama:
Dear L.L.:
Dear Meno Mama:
Dear P.O.P.F.P.:
Dear Meno Mama:
Dear S.N.S.B.I.S.:
Sunday, October 28, 2012
Season Of Change
Saturday, October 13, 2012
Bloggy Buddy Awards
*I make a damn good prickly pear margarita.
*While most women collect shoes, I hoard nail polish.
Answer 5 questions about yourself (same ones listed here)
List 7 random facts about yourself (already did this)
Pass award along to 7 other bloggers
Nominate 5 other deserving bloggers
Give 7-15 random facts about yourself (already done)
Post 7 interesting facts about yourself (already done)
Pass the award to 7 deserving sisters
*Foodaholic (and damn proud of it!)
List 11 factoids about yourself (done!)
Answer 11 questions given to you
Create 11 new questions for the bloggers you nominate for the award
Choose 11 bloggers for the award
Go to the blogger's page and inform them of the award
Thank the person who nominated you and link back to their blog
1. Do you salt your watermelon?
2. Your favorite beverage is?
3. Have you ever tasted cat or dog food?
5. What animal best represents you?
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Saturday, September 22, 2012
Pigs, Poodles And Possums
Several bloggers have asked me recently why I don't post weekly or even daily on my blog site. Professional bloggers recommend it in order to increase traffic and followers. I know this is sound advice, but I am ashamed to admit that I am often stumped by writer's block. And that's when I turn into a professional procrastinator.
This is how it starts:
5:45 a.m.
Obnoxious alarm clock jars me awake. I want to yank it from the wall and toss it out the window onto the neighbor's lawn. It wouldn't matter because they get up at the ass crack of dawn to rev up their lawn mowers.
On my night stand sits the TO-DO list I scribbled out last night when there was still adrenaline coursing through my veins after watching a rousing episode of Top Chef. In the bleak morning light, that TO-DO list becomes a GO-TO-HELL list. No way am I getting up early to make everyone breakfast. That's why God invented granola bars and oatmeal-on-the-go.
Slap the snooze button on the alarm for fifteen more minutes.
6:00 a.m.
Just as I have drifted off into Never Never Land, I hear a nagging buzzer go off, and wonder if I'm on a new game show called, "Wheel Of Misfortune."
I REALLY need to wake up.
6:15 a.m.
Coffee. My morning elixir. Jumper cables to my heart. Now I'm ready to work.
6:30 a.m.
Realization that just because my body is doing the happy dance doesn't mean that my brain has caught onto the dance steps. Need more coffee.
7:00 a.m.
Staring at a blank computer screen, convinced that my muse bought a one-way ticket to Bora Bora and is completely content to sip Mai Tais on the shore while I struggle to post something witty on my blog site.
7:30 a.m.
Still staring at blank computer screen. Pick dog hair off tee-shirt and make a daisy chain out of paper clips. I end up trolling Facebook for status updates.
"Wow Camille, you sure look wasted in those office party pictures. Do people still do that kind of stuff on copy machines???"
"Aw, Cynthia, I just LOVE little Tommy's mullet. Is he channeling Billy Ray Cyrus?"
"OMG Vicky! Your poodle just pooped in your Jimmy Choos?!"
9:30 a.m.
Staring out home office window. When did the neighbors get a hairless cat? Oh, that's a possum rummaging around in the trash can. I didn't know possums liked beer.
10:00 a.m.
Glance at Facebook again to see if anyone commented on my latest status update: "Is it too early to add whiskey to my coffee cup? LOL!"
10:30 a.m.
Check fridge to see if anyone left an amazing surprise in there for me to eat, like an ice cream bar or a leftover egg roll.
11:00 a.m.
Back on the computer and begin typing blog entry: "Hello Readers! I'm hyped up on caffeine and shaky as hell but my brain has a log jam and I.....oh look! A cupcake!
11:30 a.m.
Gotta get this blog post going...whoa, what's this? New outdoor decorating ideas on Pinterest? Pot-bellied pigs for sale on Craig's List?
1:00 p.m.
Stalk other blog sites for inspiration. They're all good. Damn good. This leaves me feeling a bit insecure and I pick up the phone and call a friend for moral support.
2:30 p.m.
Damn possum is back. Brought some of his buddies. I didn't know they could carry a six pack and beach chairs.
4:30 p.m.
Wake up to computer keyboard imprints on my forehead.
5:00 p.m.
Feed and walk dogs, try to figure out something clever yet appetizing for dinner. My family is starting to catch onto the fact that I'm recycling leftovers tossed into pasta and rice to confuse them.
8:00 p.m.
Back on the computer. Something skitters across the floor and under my desk. Could have been a cockroach. Or a possum. Call Husband to exterminate whatever predator is stalking me.
10:00 p.m.
Loud cheering from the TV room. My family is either watching a Dolphins football game or The Kardashians. I need to investigate.
Computer screen still blank. So is my brain. Time to reboot both. Possums now sitting around campfire singing Kumbaya and making smores.
Surely tomorrow will be a more productive long as a parade of pugnacious pot-bellied pigs and prancing pink poodles doesn't pass by my office window...
Saturday, September 8, 2012
Menopausal Mama Drama
Got a complaint? Pick a number and stand in line. It will be three lunar eclipses before I have time to address your grievances. I would rather spend the day scraping up the collective gunk in the corners of my refrigerator drawers than discuss these issues, but I just can't keep my mouth shut any longer. In the past, I was a pro at sidestepping conflict, but there comes a time in a woman's life (known as MMP---Menopausal Mean Phase), where we've just GOT to unleash the hormonal beast raging inside of us. I'm tired of being stretched in ten different directions like a Stretch Armstrong doll just to please the entire universe. Some days I'd rather pull the covers over my head and staple the blanket to my mattress to prevent people from disturbing me in my cotton fortress. Just. Go. Away.
Maybe I'm feeling this way because I'm menopausal-bitchy-hungry-tired-hot flashy, or maybe I'm just older and wiser and have realized I don't need to put up with the bullshit anymore. My kids and my husband, I can handle. But outside of that comfortable nucleus, if you see a sign posted on my front door that reads, "Beware Of Rabid Otter...Enter At Your Own Risk" trust me, it's up there for your own good.
Things that REALLY piss me off:
*People who shove their political agendas down my throat via emails, robo calls, television ads, bulk mail and Facebook. This is especially insulting if the political onslaught hits me early in the morning when my eyes are at half mast. I'm basically brain dead until 9:00 a.m. when the coffee kicks in, so don't ask me to support your cause or I may end up voting for Sponge Bob.
*Waiting not-so-patiently in the "Ten Items Or Less Express Lane" at the grocery store only to have some jackass in front of me who: A) Has 15 items in his basket: 8 cans of sardines, 6 jars of pickled pigs feet and a ginormous bag of kitty litter). Dude, what are you doing-- hosting a redneck feline barbecue in your backyard? B) Decides he can't afford that many jars of pickled pigs feet and has the check-out girl de-scan them all. C) Tries to pay for his purchases with a credit card that has been denied (guess that case of chewing tobacco he bought last month maxed out his card).
*People who can't pay their mortgage but somehow scrape up the funds to book a room for a weekend at the beach, drive Beemer convertibles and suck down lobster tails at a five star restaurant.
*Late service calls. "Dear Mr. Internet-Television-Telephone-Electricity-Repair Man: I don't mind sitting in a dark cave for two weeks, waiting for you to show up and restore our service. I'll just sit here in the candle light and crochet a pastel noose while I wait patiently for your visit.
*People who criticize me or my family behind my back because they're too insecure to face their own demons. Criticize my kids and I'll go all Charlie Sheen on your ass. Yes, I know they've done some stupid things over the years, like sticking bubble gum in a sibling's hair or throwing a hot iron at someone who was poking fun at them...but at least they didn't shove a raisin up someone's nose like my older brother did to me when I was little. Raisins+nasal passage=emergency room.
*Erratic drivers multi-tasking behind the wheel while speeding down a busy interstate. These people aren't human--they're aliens from a planet that produces colonies of octopus people. Amazing how they can text, apply makeup, slip a contact in their eye and brush their teeth, all while dodging in and out of traffic.
*Diet products and expensive exercise equipment that promises to turn women into JLo. *NEWSFLASH* The money you wasted on these items could have been invested in a Twinkie factory, because either way you're going to come out looking like Melissa McCarthy from the Mike and Molly show.
*Celebrities who whine about their lack of privacy and run-ins with the paparazzi. Well duh, after clawing their way to the top, what did they expect? They can always switch careers---I hear they're hiring janitors at the local middle school to scrub spit balls off the bathroom walls. No need to worry about paparazzi showing up there.
*People who try to involve me in the he said/she said game. I'm tired of playing referee and would rather sit along the sidelines while they duke it out in the Octagon. Popcorn, anyone?
*Door-to-door salesmen. In the dinosaur days before internet, people used to sell encyclopedias door-to-door. As a kid, it was pretty darn exciting to flip through the glossy pages and look at the mating cycle of the woolly worm. But nowadays, it never fails---we'll just be sitting down to dinner when the doorbell rings and some squirrelly looking guy who seems to be hyped up on meth is trying to sell me an alarm system, a magazine subscription or a set of Ginsu knives. The only sales people allowed to cross my threshold are the ones selling Girl Scout cookies or those giant World's Finest chocolate bars to support the high school glee club.
*People who brag about their high paying jobs, yet bitch about the lengthy hours they put in each if the rest of us poor slobs do nothing but sit around the pool all day and sip pina coladas. Who do the they think they're kidding? Just. Shut. Up. Everyone knows they're the ones keeping TLC, MTV and the Bravo channel ratings up by never missing an episode of Honey Boo Boo, Sixteen And Pregnant, Real Housewives Of New Jersey and Toddlers And Tiaras.
*Cheap people. Don't bring the Walmart wine-special-of-the-week wrapped in fancy trimmings when I know damn well you can afford the good stuff. You can wrap your trash up in a pink bag with purple bows and it's still gonna smell like crap to the garbage man.
These are the types of people who have been sucking the life out of me for years. To hell with them. Now it's time for me to kick back, pour a glass of wine and watch back to back episodes of Koalas Gone Wild.
Monday, August 27, 2012
Menopausal Blogoversary
Today I'm celebrating my one year blogoversary. There have been a lot of changes around here since I stepped outside of my prehistoric bubble to learn how to turn on a computer. I was once the clone of Donna Reed, the nurturing mother and wife catering to the needs of my family. The laundry was always neatly folded into squares, meals were cooked from scratch, shelves were dust-free and the floors were spotless. But deep inside, a small voice kept whispering, "Eat the cupcake, eat the---" no, not THAT voice! It was the other voice that kept nagging at me about the unfinished book manuscript collecting fuzz balls under my bed.
I continued to ignore the voice until I learned about blogging. I was equally fascinated and intimidated by the concept of exploiting my life in the blogosphere, where I could be either loved or ridiculed for my views. But I figured, what the heck? What did I have to lose other than my dignity (that ship sailed LONG ago)!?
With a glass of Chardonnay in one hand and my laptop in the other, I composed my first blog post, which was much easier to write after the third glass of vino (*see "First Menopausal Moment" 8/27/11).
Starting a blog was one of the best decisions I have made, but not without some sacrifice. My addiction to blogging has created setbacks in other areas of my Donna Reed lifestyle; changes that my family hasn't wholeheartedly embraced:
* I seldom have time to run the vacuum cleaner these days---you could knit a sweater and matching scarf set with the amount of dog hair embedded in my carpets.
* I discovered that the microwave is a mother's best friend. I've learned to be creative when it comes to putting dinner together. Each night it's a surprise smorgasbord of leftovers from the dark depths of my freezer, also known as No Man's Land. Amazing what you can create with a lone hotdog, a sad-looking waffle and a bag of freezer burned peas.
* A raging caffeine addiction. Forget the coffee pot. Just give me the whole damn bag of coffee and I'll chew on the grounds like it was granola. My husband claims that caffeine overload has turned me into a whirling dervish (a.k.a. Tazmanian Devil). It's all fun and games until I'm wide awake, sitting alone in the dark at 3:00 a.m. and wondering if I should join a nocturnal commune of bats.
* Due to the aforementioned insomnia, my eyes are often puffy and ringed dark like my new cousin the raccoon. If I keep this up much longer, the airlines are going to charge me double for the extra baggage I'm carrying under my eyes. The pale pallor of my skin after a restless night doesn't help, either. I'm thinking I should apply for a job as an extra on the set of The Walking Dead.
* My husband thinks I have gone underground in the witness protection program because he never sees me. The untouched stash of Butterfinger candy bars is evidence that I've been missing for a long time.
* I stare at the computer screen so much now that I've upgraded my 1.5 readers to 2.5. Just last week I enrolled my pet pug into a seeing eye dog class so he can navigate me from my refrigerator to my home office. I just need to teach him how to post a blog with his front paws.
* I'm always looking for new blog followers. If my husband was more agreeable, I'd dress him up like a giant Cheeto and have him dance along Federal Highway with my website address plastered across his orange belly.
* My nightmares have turned into blogmares, and they always have something to do with Teletubbies and Mothra. Freud would have a field day with that one.
* My family finally figured out that I haven't done laundry in months. You can only get away with spritzing dirty clothes with Febreeze for so long.
* Lack of exercise. I used to power walk six miles a day. Now I'd rather stay home, eat pancakes and become a blogger blob.
Sacrifices? Plenty. The cost of a good blog post? Priceless!
Saturday, August 11, 2012
Menopausal Cuckoo
I think I'm losing my mind. Seriously. I used to be a compulsive organizer and proud of it. The spices in my spice rack were placed in alphabetical order from anise to turmeric. My closet was color coordinated along with the contents in my under ware drawer. Shoes fit snugly in shoe trees according to heel length and seasonal use. And all of my photo albums were neatly labeled and shelved in chronological order. Freakish to some, but at least I wasn't cultivating a dust bunny farm.
I was never late for a function, and I could easily juggle work with the kids' karate/cheerleading/
gymnastics/choir/ballet classes effortlessly while entertaining company and serving up a homemade five course meal Martha Stewart style. Wonder Woman had nothing on me.
And then something changed when I entered my menopausal years. It started with the keys. Took me thirty minutes one morning to find the refrigerator between the yogurt and an old bag of potatoes that were starting to grow roots. I kept forgetting to throw them out---something the pre-menopausal me never would have done. The keys? I swear I didn't leave them in the refrigerator. Surely someone was playing a prank on me---had to be my mischievous kids playing that "Lets-Drive-Mom-Crazy-Until-She -Is -Willing-To-Increase-Our-Allowance-And-Never-Make-Us -Clean-Our-Rooms-Again," game.
My glasses disappeared the following week and I walked around like a blind mole bumping into furniture and eating what I thought was a brownie but turned out to be a charcoal briquet. How do you find glasses if you need your glasses to find them?
It wasn't long before I was forgetting appointments with my hairdresser (which explains why my hair looked and felt like worn out Brillo pad). It also explains why the last time I showed up at the doctor's office to get my cavity filled for a tooth that ached, the nurse reminded me I was there for a colonoscopy and that yes, they were certainly going to fill a cavity while I was there.
What the hell was happening to me? Did all the crazy, drunken weekends from my college years really destroy THAT many brain cells ( I knew that weekend in St. Louis with my sorority sisters was going to cause some long term damage some day)?
It was karmic retribution for all of those times I poked fun at my husband for his Attention Deficit Disorder. I thought it was rather endearing to watch him struggle to remember what he walked into a room for (Your sunglasses? They're on your head), or when he stomped through the house and stubbed his toe while searching for his iPad (in the bathroom next to the toilet where you sat for an hour playing
raccoon relay races). I had to suppress a giggle each time he accused the kids of losing the TV remote when all along it was nestled between his butt cheeks on the couch. His ADD also worked to my advantage when it came to arguing---all I had to do was throw around a few incidences and conversations from the past, which of course he could never remember, and I always came out on top.
Now the tables have turned, and my mind has taken a seat on the crazy train somewhere between this birthday and my last.
Cooking is one of my passions, but what good is it if I get distracted and add salt instead of sugar to a recipe, or bake a loaf of bread that turns into a lumpy pancake that even the dog turns away from: "Lady, I may be just a dog, but even I have some standards. You can't pass off this crap like it's manna from heaven!" If the dog is insulted, he pees on the furniture to exact his revenge---or maybe it's just because I've forgotten to walk him in awhile, which explains the cobwebs on the dog leash.
Some days I forget to take my vitamins, especially the fiber pills. This can be dangerous for all the wrong reasons---something akin to a septic tank on the brink of failure.
While it is a relief to learn that memory loss and menopause hold hands and skip gleefully down a path together toward their best friend dementia, it is equally disturbing to discover the alarming rate for which it is happening. Think of all the women out there who are forgetting to fold the laundry, cook dinner or pick up the kids after school while they're sitting in a Starbucks sucking down a Frappuccino. How about the ones who take the wrong exit ramp for work and end up in a nail salon or at a bingo hall in Arizona?
My mother suggested that I start doing crossword puzzles to sharpen my mind. I tried this, but I think my brain is too far gone, because I couldn't remember the three letter word for donkey.
So what am I going to do? Make myself a margarita (or three) to help myself forget what I can't remember.
By the way, have you seen my glasses?
Saturday, June 30, 2012
Sharing The Love
Thank you, Roe!
The rules for the award are as follows:
2. Answer 7 questions about yourself.
3. Provide 10 random factoids about yourself.
4. Hand the award to 7 deserving others.
1. What is your favorite song?
2. What is your favorite dessert?
3. What do you do when you're upset?
4. What is your favorite pet?
5. Which do you prefer, white or whole wheat?
6. What is your biggest fear?
Drowning. Flying. Cockroach stampedes.
7. What is your attitude mostly?
Theresa @
Thanks, Sandra!
The rules are as follows:
3. Nominate 10-12 other fabulous bloggers.
1. What would you most like to change about yourself?
2. What's your theme song?
5. What was your favorite childhood toy?
6. What is your favorite housecleaning chore?
7. Do you Twitter?
8. Any goals?
9. Do you really drink margaritas all the time?
Mara Paz@
Noir Ha@
Have fun all of you, answering these questions!
Rules to the Fabulous Blog Award:
2. Name 5 fabulous moments in your life.
3. Name 5 things that you love.
4. Name 5 things you hate.
Honest B@
M Monaghan@
Belly Dancer@
Nash Nordin@
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