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Q: Redirect input to a Java application inside a bash script I am using the ftm cli by Oracle. When I run a command, it asks for a password by saying "Enter a password". I am writing a script which uses this command and so I want to enter the password programatically.
Here's what I have tried -
echo "password" | java -jar ftmcli.jar list

But this doesn't work. Any idea what to do to make it work?

A: Without being able to look into the source code of ftmcli, I presume that Oracle is using Console.readPassword() from the java.io.Console class. However, there is a snag with this function:

public final class Console
Methods to access the character-based console device, if any,
  associated with the current Java virtual machine.
Whether a virtual machine has a console is dependent upon the
  underlying platform and also upon the manner in which the virtual
  machine is invoked. If the virtual machine is started from an
  interactive command line without redirecting the standard input and
  output streams then its console will exist and will typically be
  connected to the keyboard and display from which the virtual machine
  was launched. If the virtual machine is started automatically, for
  example by a background job scheduler, then it will typically not have
  a console.
If this virtual machine has a console then it is represented by a
  unique instance of this class which can be obtained by invoking the
  System.console() method. If no console device is available then an
  invocation of that method will return null.

By piping/redirecting the stdout of echo to the JVM, the Java method System.console() will return null and hence not read anything from your redirection.
Look at the following questions which handle the same problem, but on Java side: "How to handle java passwd reading when System.console() returns null?" or How to pipe input to Java program with bash
On your side, there is more or less nothing you can really do. Executing echo $password | java -jar ftmcli.jar list or java -jar ftmcli.jar list <<< $password will always fail as long Oracle doesn't change the way how ftmcli reads the password from stdin.

A: If you are ready for a one time password setup, then follow the below steps.

*

*run java -jar ftmcli.jar   --save-auth-key

*You will be prompted for teh password and once it is given, the file will be uploaded and a ftmclikeystore file is created under ftmcli folder.

*Now as long as if you don't change the user, then ftmcli will take the password from this file.

A: Found this little but fantastic tool called expect does the magic:
$ ./expect.script
spawn java -cp /tmp/brm-test/oraclepki.jar:/tmp/brm-test/BRMActions.jar com.oracle.installer.brm.BRMInstallHelper 7 /tmp/brm-test/client upgC
Enter Password for the wallet:
$

Perhaps it's not very much visible in the snippet above, but it is working:
$ cat /tmp/brm-test/client/.wp
upgC=MyMag1cPa$$word#

What is in the expect.script?
$ cat expect.script
#!/usr/bin/expect

stty -echo

spawn java -cp /tmp/brm-test/oraclepki.jar:/tmp/brm-test/BRMActions.jar com.oracle.installer.brm.BRMInstallHelper 7 /tmp/brm-test/client upgC

expect "Enter Password for the wallet:"
send "MyMag1cPa$$word#\r"

interact

Seems this can be used also in Chef, see this cookbook.
I hope it will help,
Jarek

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Elizabeth duck is a breed of domestic duck that originated in Australia. It is a dark brown duck with white feathering on the body (primarily around the head and neck), chest, back, and wings, a greenish-yellow bill, dark legs, and feet. These ducks were created by crossing black Australian ducks with mallard drakes.
Breeding them together led to a unique breed that is difficult to find outside of Australia. The ducks can be kept both as pets and for consumption. Like many domestic ducks, they do not usually reach full maturity until 8-10 months of age; young are usually ready for market at around 28 weeks.
1 How to identify Elizabeth duck?
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The main identifying feature of an Elizabeth duck is its appearance: primarily dark brown with white plumage. It can be confused with the Chinese back, but this duck generally has a longer neck and legs.
Elizabeth Duck IN the water
The white feathering on the body, wings, and tail of both breeds may be disheveled or broken up in the first few months of life. They are relatively small and compact compared to other domestic waterfowl, which makes them well-suited to backyard flocks.
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They mature faster than most other meat breeds, too; they reach adult size in just eight to ten months, compared to three years for many other heavy-breed ducks. They weigh around 3 kilograms when they reach maturity and have matured in 28 weeks since hatching.
Aquatic characteristics
They are excellent foragers and excel in both freshwater and saltwater environments. Their dense feathers provide insulation, allowing them to swim through cold waters while remaining unfazed and keeping their body warm.
They generally have strong legs and feet, allowing them the ability to walk on land without floundering in muddy or sandy shorelines. Additionally, they have minimal difficulty in escaping predators; Elizabeth ducks can quickly dive underwater if startled.
Elizabeth ducks have a range of uses. They are raised as livestock for meat, eggs, and feathers to be used in fishing flies. They are favored poultry birds by duck hunters. Their meat is tender and lean with a mild flavor that makes it preferable to that of other duck breeds. Elizabeth ducks can be kept in confinement or allowed to roam freely throughout the yard or on a pond.
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Country/Place of Origin Australia.
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Breed Class, size Small; Medium-large.
Climate Tolerance Frost-hardy, mild climate.
Temperament Intelligent and easy to handle.
Diet Omnivorous.
Rarity Rare.
As Pets Yes.
Lifespan Elizabeth ducks can live for up to ten years.
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Faithless Priests
A journalism test piece I wrote during a short-lived attempt to get out of the games ghetto – I never pushed to get it published.
The outside of New Unity church on Islington's Upper Street doesn't look much like a church. You could believe that the pale brick and painted wood belonged to a cheap village hall. But not to a congregation that's been around since the Great Fire of London and that had Mary Wollstonecraft as a congregant. Investigate more and you find a sign proclaiming that the current chapel is a result of the German bombing campaigns of the 1940s. But I'm not here to judge the external merits of the building. Inside, there's the unusual item I'm here to see; the smiling Andy Pakula.
Reverend Pakula is an unusual leader for the 350 year-old congregation because he's been an atheist for his whole life. "(I grew up) in this Jewish family where we had a Christmas tree, no one ever talked to god, clearly no-one ever believed anything." he tells me. "I've always been an atheist, except when maybe when I was five and I wanted to run faster. And that had nothing to do with god – I just wanted to magic it. "
The first recorded English-language use of 'atheist' is in John Martiall's 1566 A Replie to Mr Calfhills Blasphemous Answer Made Against the Treatise of the Cross, as an insult. Indeed atheist was exclusively used as an insult in 16th and 17th century Britain, meaning 'one who lacks moral restraint'. The first person I can find who reclaimed atheism as a positive word was Jean Meslier. This seemingly-pious French village priest wrote a strident Testament, published posthumously, which was the first defence of atheism. (We only know about the Testament because Voltaire Bowdlerised it into a defence of deism.) Meslier also seems to have been the first person we can say for certain was a faithless priest.
After studying at MIT and working in biotech for many years, Pakula joined a Unitarian church in America. Soon, after he started the long process of seminary study that resulted in his acting as New Unity's minister since 2006. All normal, if he hadn't been an atheist. Yet the two core pastimes of ministers in monotheistic religions seem to be prayer to, and praise of, the god. Pakula can't indulge in either of those. So what does he do, as a priest who has declared he has no faith?
"Unitarian congregations are all different, they're not like franchises. There's no one to tell you what to do. Some of them would be 'of course god exists'. I try to be open and I hope I say things that allow for many interpretations. But you know, I talk about real life and why hope and compassion are important, and why change is hard… I believe in love."
I suggest to him that his function is something like a community social psychologist. "Yes. Especially positive psychology, not abnormal psychology… Every person has worth and dignity. Go from there. You can make that religious and say every person has an immortal soul. You can take the Hasidic, Qabalistic view about the fragments in the divine in everyone. Hinduism with Atman and Brahman is lovely. We can work with that, it's just stories. I base (my value system) on the values that I think will make a better, more peaceful, loving just world. What else can we really be for?"
Can we still call this a religion? Well, the UK supreme court has recognised that god isn't necessary for a religion, recently ruling that Scientology is a religion. On that reading, secular organisations like London's Sunday Assembly may one day get state religious backing.Of course, Revd. Pakula is unusual amongst atheist priests in that he's 'out'. Though the numbers are unknown, many more clergy are still 'in', hidden away in congregations around the world. A study by the Free University of Amsterdam found that 1 in 6 protestant priests in Holland were either atheist or agnostic.
Of course all clergy express doubts. Many faiths emphasise that part of being a good theologian is testing your faith. But for some that process of testing can be catastrophic. Daphne (not her real name) is a Baptist Reverend in the UK. Her congregation emphasises a process of breaking down and rebuilding beliefs as part of the training process. "One of the first things that they try to do is strip down what you've inherited." she says "They help you to own what you really believe. Then they question you… some people come away with a huge frustration over the institution and faith. They end up with a deeper faith, but they can't cope with the hypocrisy of the institution."
And some end up with no faith at all. For a priest that has lost his or her faith, the next step is hard. That's because being a priest is more than being a font of godly power. It's also a profession which comes with associated benefits. To be a priest, is to have a house, lifestyle, income, car, family, and community, all tied to that role. To step away from that – or even to risk it – must seem huge. Most faiths inculcate you with an ethics that praises openness and truth-telling. And as a priest and community leader, your role is to be a clear standard for that moral system, no matter the consequences.
Yet as the incentives against honesty include the loss of everything that defines you, it's a hard thing to step away from. According to letters published by her postulator, even Mother Teresa managed to conceal her loss of faith for over fifty years. After all, it's not like there's a clear career path for ex-clergy. Thankfully, many of the more progressive Western faiths are supportive, like the Unitarians. The Church of England tacitly allows Christian non-realists to be ministers – that is, ministers who do not believe in the objective existence of a God. This has allowed ministers such as the former head of the Church of Scotland, Richard Holloway, to come out as non-believers. The PKN church in Holland is also supportive.
Gretta Vosper is similarly lucky. Her faith – the United Church of Canada – has been ordaining women and LBGT ministers for many decades. Yet until Vosper came out to her congregation, it hadn't had an atheist minister. "I preached an utterly spontaneous sermon deconstructing the idea of a supernatural, interventionist god called God."
Unusually, the board of Vosper's congregation decided to follow her. "We met. I openly acknowledged that I did not believe in god although at that time I did not call myself an atheist. I used the term non-theist…I acknowledged that this took me outside of what they had called me to do in ministry with them and they considered what they wanted to do. And they decided they wanted to head out in this direction and see where it led. The leadership of the congregation has been unbelievably amazing, supportive, wise, patient, loving, and encouraging. They have offered to stand by me as heresy trials have been threatened and been with me through everything. I feel so privileged to be in a congregation with them."
Leaving god has also allowed the values that Vosper teaches to shift. "We place (positive values) before us in the same way we once placed god which was, to be true, simply a projection of a collection of values. We have distilled the good ones and use them. And I often speak of the future as a kind of god against which we can assess our actions. Are we living and making choices that will be judged positively by future generations or are we not?"
Vosper is now a member of the Clergy Project. This community, created by Daniel Dennett and Linda La Scola, hosts discussion for religious leaders who've lost their faith. It currently has 556 members, including Christian clergy, rabbis and imams. Of those, around a quarter are still serving as ministers. A message from Richard Dawkins welcomes new members saying. "It is an aspect of the vicious intolerance of religion that a mere change of mind can redound so cruelly on those honest enough to acknowledge it." The project financially supports ministers who want to use outplacement services to find new roles. Vosper is working to expand their remit to the conversion of congregations. "We have not yet set up a process to support clergy as they transition their congregations beyond belief but I am hoping to be able to do that with TCP's support."
The project emphasises anonymity because few faiths and nations are as forgiving of atheism as the Unitarian church or the UK government are. The International Humanist and Ethical Union's 2013 report noted, "The non-religious are discriminated against, or outright persecuted, in most countries of the world." It also showed that 13 Islamic countries have the death penalty for atheism. Last year, the UK government granted asylum to an Afghan atheist, as apostasy carries the death penalty in Afghanistan. Given that the majority of Islamic scholars agree that the punishment for apostasy is death, an imam who loses his faith is in a dangerous situation.
For that reason, all the clergy I spoke to were thankful that they lived in a society that tolerated their beliefs. Daphne says, "All the ministers in our area are basically preaching 'let's be tolerant, welcoming and open for our communities, however messy life may be'."
http://clergyproject.org/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14417362
http://iheu.org/you-can-be-put-death-atheism-13-countries-around-world/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/10510301/Scientology-is-a-religion-rules-Supreme-Court.html.
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=20snAQAAIAAJ&q=%22to+entre&redir_esc=y#v=snippet&q=atheist&f=false
Interviews with Pakula, Vosper.
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Introducing Malaysia's and South East Asia's first Voice SMS from DiGi, taking mobile messaging to a new level of communication
Kuala Lumpur, January 31 2005 - Industry trends show that text messaging is a daily staple for mobile consumers, but DiGi customers can now look forward to the mobile messaging avenue - the intriguing BubbleTalk message! Available nationwide from today onwards, DiGi prepaid and postpaid customers can send and receive voice Short Messaging Service (SMS).
BubbleTALK is a 'Click, Talk and Send' Short Voice Messaging Service (SVMS). This is a 'talk. listen and reply' messaging alternative to the 'type and read' service provided by SMS.
"With BubbleTALK, DiGi has taken messaging to a new high. Now, messaging comes with emotions with BubbleTALK's voice-SMS and breaks language barriers. And it will also be a simple and fun alternative for those who are not attuned to typing on a key pad with current text messaging," said DiGi's General Manager, Marketing, Mr Peter Tay
DiGi customers who wish to enjoy this service need to dial * followed by the number of the recipient. Customers can record their message for a maximum of 30 seconds. A BubbleTALK recipient receives a notification on their phones informing that they have a Bubble message from the sender.
The message directly appears on the screen as a Flash SMS to get the attention of the recipient. Recipients can choose to reply. A maximum of 10 messages can be stored at any time. The speed for BubbleTALK, especially on sent could be parallel to an SMS and almost instantaneous. With DiGi's HighSpeed Mobile, the service is faster and offers better quality.
BubbleTALK is currently available intra-network for DiGi customers only and customers will be charged 10 sen for each BubbleTALK sent. There will be no charges for those retrieving a bubble message. The beauty of the service is that no special handsets are required for it.
"DiGi is always committed to bringing you smarter mobile innovations that enhances our customers' lifestyles. BubbleTALK is simple, easy and fun to use and will definitely be a hit - be it at work, play or at home," stressed Mr Tay
BubbleTALK compliments two other lifestyle applications offered by DiGi which is LifeLogger and Friends Finder. LifeLogger is an exclusive website that allows DiGi subscribers to upload their multimedia content from their mobile phone to the website page via MMS. The multimedia content on LifeLogger can then be shared with an unlimited number of people. The charges for a successful posting is RM0.70 and the user has unlimited storage capacity.
All customers need to do is snap a photo, send an MMS to 2000 along with the photo caption and it will appear immediately in your personal log on the Internet. Thus allowing DiGi customers to never miss a special moment with family and friends, when on the move.
Friends Finder on the other hand is an interesting service to locate friends and family who are DiGi users. The service allows people to check current locations of friends and family members by simply sending an SMS message. The recipients have to give permission if they want to be located. For Friends Finder, customers will be charged RM0.15 each time they send an SMS to locate their loved one and an additional RM0.30 will be charged once the find is successful.
To know more about these services, DiGi customers are advised to call in to DiGi customer service at 016 221 1800 or log on to www.digi.com.my.
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Being evicted from your home is traumatic. It often occurs after days of fear at the arrival of bailiffs or high court officers, after weeks of trying to organize support and to pack up your things, after months of fighting in court and by other legal means to stay in place, and after years of struggling to keep up with inflated rents in spite of illness or unemployment or slashed benefits or all three. It is a violent and distressing process and it causes havoc for the people who have to go through it.
When it does happen, evicted tenants need adequate support while they work to put their lives back together. But the failures of the law and of government to support tenants extends beyond the eviction itself and includes its aftermath as well, even for tenants who are not summarily classified as 'intentionally homeless' and refused help altogether.
Digs members Nadia was evicted from her home in Stoke Newington in late August. Her and her sixteen-year-old son Jad were initially moved to a bed and breakfast in Finsbury Park and from there to a thoroughly inappropriate one-bedroom flat in White Hart Lane. This was effectively a studio flat, lacking a door to separate the bedroom from the living room, and was therefore allocated in obvious violation of the council's own statutory obligation to provide suitable accommodation. It also relocated Nadia and Jad outside of the borough of Hackney and away from the friends, community networks and educational and health services on which they were reliant.
After a legal challenge and significant campaigning by Nadia they were then moved to slightly less inappropriate accommodation in Homerton. Three moves in less than two months absorbed an enormous amount of their time, frayed their nerves and cost them money that they didn't have to spend.
The Council has a statutory obligation to provide Nadia and Jad with suitable accommodation and support. What kind of help did it provide?
While all of this was going on, the majority of Nadia and Jad's possessions remained in storage in Islington. Despite receiving assurances from the bailiff and from police that they would be entitled to return to their home in order to recover their things, the landlord of the property, Mark Bushman, decided to take matters into his own hands. All of Nadia's and Jad's things were removed from the house under his supervision within a week of the eviction taking place. Many of Nadia and Jad's possessions were damaged in the process, and for many weeks they also believed that they had lost their pet cat [I can't remember the cat's name!].
Nadia and Jad didn't have time to collect their things from storage and they didn't have the money to hire a removals van. Despite repeatedly reaching out to the Council for support, Council representatives who are responsible for temporary accommodation and for child support consistently dithered or behaved dishonestly. The person responsible for temporary accommodation supplied mixed messages about the availability of funds to assist in removals and about the accessibility of cheap Council storage, while a child support worker who did offer to help then spent her time trying to persuade Jad that he would be better off going into care.
While all of this was going on – and while Nadia and Jad were trying finally to settle into their fourth home in less than three months – their ex-landlord set about destroying the possessions that Nadia and Jad had not been able to retrieve from the storage facility. He left behind a few (not all!) documents and computers as if to make a show of observing legal requirements.
Nadia lost furniture and her life's collection of books. Jad lost the collection of camping equipment that was his passion and that he had collected over a period of years. To the injury of losing their home because of extortionate rents is added the further injury of losing many of the things that might have helped them to settle in their new home.
Why are we expected to accept this? Why is there not a clearly advertised support system for evicted tenants that can aid them to recover their possessions? Does Hackney Council think that, if it provides real assistance to tenants who are thrown out of their home, that if it provides substantive and compassionate assistance, of the kind that actually suggests a commitment to tenants as people, then it will have to provide more tenants with support? It's difficult to see how else to explain its unwillingness to provide a minimum of assistance to homeless families who have already suffered hell and who it has a legal obligation to support. And then what is the rationale for the Council to pay for its own private storage if it won't be honest with its constituents about its existence? Nadia and Jad's case won't be isolated – if you get evicted and then shunted around from place to place then you don't have the time or money to concentrate on removals – and so why are there not concrete plans in place to aid tenants in securing their possessions after they have gone through an eviction?
As for the landlord, Mr. Mark Bushman, no surprise there. His action is par for the course for entitled homeowners who have made hundreds of thousands if not millions of pounds through inflated property values, through no virtue of their own besides the virtue of good luck, and who then use all of the legal facilities at their disposal (and often other facilities too) in order to harass and to punish tenants who have the audacity to fall behind on their ludicrous rents.
Don't rent from Mark Bushman. For so long as our homes are business transactions for people like him then homelessness will continue to rise and the situation for the majority of people in Hackney will continue to worsen.
Pressure the Council to take action! Hackney Council needs to do more than pay lip service to the suffering experienced by evicted tenants. Real concern for the situation of renters means recognizing that no one CHOOSES to get thrown out of their homes, and by treating the people who do get thrown out with the humanity and care that is currently reserved for the paying customers at the coffee shops on Stoke Newington Church Street. We are not trash. If we are treated as if we are then we will answer straight back.


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La Gran Princesa Anna Vasilievna de Riazán () (1451-1501) fue una noble rusa, Regente del Principado de Riazán en 1483 y en 1500-1501, durante la minoría de edad de su hijo y nieto. Era la única hija del Gran Príncipe Basilio II de Moscú y madre y abuela de los últimos Grandes Príncipes del Principado de Riazán. Ana nació en Moscu y pertenecía a la familia de Basilio II, que había sido cegado cinco años antes de su nacimiento durante una época convulsa, y Maria Yaroslavna de Borovsk.

Vida
Antes de su muerte en 1456, el Gran Príncipe Ivan Fyodorovich de Riazán confió a su amigo Basilio de Moscú el gobierno temporal del principado y el cuidado de sus hijos Vasily y Teodosia hasta su madurez. Pero poco después de la muerte de Iván, Basilio trasladó a los huérfanos a Moscú y nombró a un vaivoda para Riazán. Esta decisión inició un proceso de adhesión del Principado de Riazán al Gran Ducado de Moscú. El heredero de Basilio II Iván III de Rusia continuó la política de su padre hacia Riazán y Ana creció junto con el príncipe Vasily de Riazán.

Cuando Ana creció su madre ha decidido casar a Ana y Vasily. Pidió a su hijo Iván III que demorara la anexión de Riazán porque no era adecuado para una Gran Princesa casarse con un noble ordinario, aunque fuera de ascendencia principesca. Iván III accedió y permitió en el verano de 1464 que el príncipe Vasily regresara a su sede familiar. Regresó ese mismo invierno a Moscú para casarse con Ana, tras lo que la pareja regresó a Riazán.

En 1467 Ana dio a luz un hijo Ivan y hasta la muerte de su marido en 1483 no participó en el gobierno del principado, ni protestó cuando su hermano se anexionó en dos ocasiones los territorios de Riazán.

Regencia
En 1483 Ana se convirtió en Regente de su hijo de dieciséis años. Ana trató de expandir su dominio, visitó a menudo Moscú y consiguió, gracias a sus esfuerzos diplomáticos, que Pronsk fuera incorporado a Riazán. Un problema importante en las relaciones Riazán-Moscú fue el llamado ryazan ukraina, una enorme zona esteparia en la cuenca del río Don. Según los tratados, Riazán estaba obligado a no establecerse en estas tierras, pero durante muchos años los príncipes de Riazán habían colonizado secretamente esta área y durante la regencia de Ana este proceso se volvió aún más significativo. Numerosos inmigrantes recibieron privilegios considerables, consiguiendo exenciones fiscales durante 3-7 años a cambio de establecerse definitivamente en la estepa.

El hijo de Ana murió en 1500 y hasta su muerte en 1501 fue la regente de su nieto Iván V de Riazán. Después del final del reinado de Ana, el principado de Riazán finalmente perdió su independencia. Además de Iván, Ana tuvo otros dos hijos, Fiódor y  Ana que se casó con el príncipe Lituano Feodor Ivanovich Belski.

Referencias

 This article includes content derived from the Russian Biographical Dictionary, 1896–1918.
 (in Russian) Славянская энциклопедия. Киевская Русь-Московия. Т. 1: А-М, Published by Olma Media Group, 2001, ,  (available in Google Books)

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Nacidos en 1451

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When the phone rang one sizzling summer day about three years ago, I answered it only to hear the quivering voice of my dear friend on the other end. Barely able to speak, she told me she had just been diagnosed with breast cancer. We cried, talked about treatment options, and cried a little more. It's an understatement to say it was a challenging time for my friend, but in the midst of it all, she managed to seize a quiet moment to ask why this had happened to her. She wasn't asking other people their opinions, though; she was asking this of herself, her true self, her soul.
In the deep reflection of her life and how she lived it, my friend became aware of something that drastically changed her perception. She concluded that the cancer came mainly from feeling stressed a lot about the past and worrying about the future. Specifically, she spent a lot of time regurgitating prior events where she thought she had made critical mistakes. She carried the pain and disappointment of these events with her and revisited them often. She didn't have much peace, to say the least. She also feared the future. She worried about things not going well in her job, whether her son would continue eating junk food as an adult developing health complications and how long it would take for her to find love again, if ever. She said she believed she had been a bad mother, sister, daughter, and friend. She told me all of this without reservation, with profound conviction and, most of all, with calm acceptance. Then she asked me to help her. She wondered how could she take this revelation and use it to change her life? My answer to her was to practice living in the Present Moment.
What If You Lived Fully in the Reality of the Present Moment?
There are three distinct moments available to us here on Earth: the Past, the Present, and the Future. Each one occupies our minds at some point throughout each day, but one rarely sees much face time compared to the other two. Can you guess which one that is? If you said the Present Moment, you are correct. And what is the Present Moment? The Present Moment is NOW. It is the only moment where reality truly exists. The Present Moment is the only moment where we can do something about anything. It is where we affect change, where we experience life, and where we find peace and health. It is the only moment where we breathe in and out. We repeat this over and over and create each moment of our reality with each breath.
By contrast, the Past and the Future are illusions. This is because the past is over and the future isn't here yet, so this makes them both one thing — just thoughts. Thoughts about an event that has concluded or about one that hasn't occurred yet are imaginary and fictional – they are make-believe. Yes, the Past happened, but it is not reality in this moment. Think about how many times people reminisce about the past. You can't really affect that moment any longer, but you can certainly use it to affect you in this moment, and many of us do. But, we often let the past affect us in a negative way, just as we do with the future.
The Past and the Future, then, are not real. For example, let's say you had an argument with someone at work last year about project deadlines that seemed unreasonable to you, but you didn't say anything. Instead of resolving it in the Present Moment, you stayed silent and felt slighted having to follow someone else's bad schedule. Now, an entire year later, you are still replaying that scenario over and over in your head, wishing you had said something. You spend valuable Present Moment time playing out the new endings in your head. The only problem is the event is over. It can't be changed. All of your scenarios with your new endings are fantasies – they are unreal. You can do something about it in the Present Moment, though. You can say how you feel and, by doing so, prevent that in the future, at least to some degree.
Similarly, the Future is also an illusion. We have no idea what will happen in the Future and yet we operate as if we know exactly how things will unfold in the Future. Let me ask you this: how many times have you said or thought to yourself, "Well, that didn't work out at all like I thought it would!" Our illusions about the future are often nothing more than that—illusions. Don't waste precious time now making up the future.
And so, as we spend the majority of our time in the Past and the Future, we rarely experience true living. We are often somewhere other than here, and yet here is exactly the place that your body occupies. Our minds often wander off leaving our body behind to experience the Present Moment all by itself. Without the mind, the experience is not properly understood or utilized on a human level. When we are not in the Present Moment, we are out of alignment with our natural internal rhythm and innate wisdom.
This lack of alignment creates chaos, confusion, and an unbalanced sense of life. Any thoughts we have about the past or future that generate emotions are experienced in our body as if the event is happening now, but it's not. All the stress generated by your mind and transferred to your body is for nothing. This unbalanced sense tends to create preventable illnesses that continue to plague us until we find our way back to the Present Moment where peace and health exist. We must remember that we can't do anything about the past except have an experience, learn a lesson, and apply it when a similar situation presents itself. When we practice doing this with the past, we can become free from it rather than tied to it.
The Future is similar to the Past, although instead of unsuccessfully trying to change what has already happened, we often make up and play out scenarios on our heads that haven't even happened yet. This, too, is just a fantasy—illusion. The problem with the future is that we mainly see things not working out for us or others. There is a lot of negativity placed on future events. The good news is, this is just training and we can unlearn any training to bring us into alignment with the Present Moment, leaving the future behind, so to speak. Although the Present Moment feels the least familiar, the least comfortable, and the least accessible to us, it is the only place that is natural, normal, and healthy for us to be. With practice, we can experience this.
As we have discovered, the Past and the Future are both out of alignment with our soul energy. This mis-alignment leads to dis-ease as we worry and feel bad about things in our past and what might come in our future. We have a body that has a level of intelligence unmatched by the human ego, or what is also called our false self.
We also have a body where good health and vitality are normal. Living in the Past and the Future, with judgment, blame, regret, anger, worry, and fear actually misuses the valuable systems and resources within our body that are meant to keep us healthy in the Present Moment. For example, we have a fight, flight, or freeze mode onboard that helps us save our lives in the event of imminent danger, such as when we are being chased by a Tyrannosaurus Rex, or when we are held at gunpoint. This fight, flight, or freeze mode gives us the energy to stay and fight, to run to safety, or freeze like a statue. However, we tend to use our fight, flight, or freeze mode for daily life events and call upon it when someone cuts us off on the freeway or when someone says something we don't like. Using this throughout the day for non-emergencies, we exhaust ourselves to the point of illness—preventable illness. The power to be healthy and live vibrant lives is ours and we can do this with a few small, but significant shifts. We can train ourselves to live more in the Present Moment than in the Past or the Future.
The Present Moment is real and available to us. It is what is truly happening right now. The Present Moment is a more peaceful place to live because living here allows us to spend our time and our resources handling what is really going on, using our energy to deal with reality instead of fantasy. Since most of us are not in situations of imminent danger throughout the day, reducing our stress can happen instantly if we want it to. This leads to a vast improvement of our health as we realign with the intelligence deep within us. With awareness of the contrast between the Past, the Present and the Future we can observe life and begin to focus on the Present Moment, experiencing the sights, sounds, smells and thoughts in what is often called The Now.
How can you make this shift and live in the The Now? Let go of feeling bad about what has already happened and let go of worrying about what isn't here yet. You've already experienced what happened in the past — you don't need to do it again. And don't know what will happen in the future — you can only make informed decisions in the now. When you are in alignment with the Present Moment, it is easier to make choices that serve your highest self instead of your ego.
Be willing to see what transpires when you are aligned with the Present Moment. Don't let any excuses get in the way like "My work is stressful" or "I have to drive on roads filled with angry people". You can be in the Present Moment anywhere in the world. If your job has some stress attached to it, this is all the more reason to find some peace in it by focusing on the Present Moment every chance you get. Take care of what is in front of you and then let it go. Don't retell the stress of the day over and over to others or run it through your mind hundreds of times. And when you are driving to and from work, give yourself a break by noticing the weather, the colors all around you, and the things you are grateful for in your life. This is where peace, love, and health exist—and all it takes is awareness and a little practice.


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SFSTL Presents a Bold, Fast-Paced "Romeo and Juliet" With a Modern Flair
June 4, 2018 by Michelle Kenyon ("Snoop")
Directed by Elena Araoz
Shakespeare Festival St. Louis
Sigrid Wise, Reynaldo Piniella
Photo by J. David Levy
One of the things I love about Shakespeare is how timeless and adaptable the plays are. No matter what the setting, whether traditionally staged or modern dress, the plays still speak to modern times in terms of universal themes such as love, jealousy, family, friendships, and more. Sometimes, though, the staging of a play can set these themes in a way that's more immediately accessible to modern audiences who may not be as famliar with more traditional stagings. St Louis Shakespeare's current production of Romeo and Juliet is a prime example of that kind of modern immediacy. With a strong sense of theme, a quick pace, and particularly modern phrasing, this production brings the classic story to life in a way that's especially likely to resonate with today's audience.
The familiar story of star-crossed lovers is here, presented on a colorful, scaffolding-and-neon decorated set designed by Margery and Peter Spack. The brightly colored costumes by Dottie Marshall Englis feature elements of various times, from modern day, to the 1970s and 80s, to Elizabethan times. The men wear swords, but also occasionally sport modern-style backpacks or carry an 80s-era boombox. Romeo (Reynaldo Piniella) and his friends Mercutio (Terrell Wheeler) and Benvolio (Antonio Rodriguez) are dressed in more "today" clothes, while Romeo's parents, Lord and Lady Montague (David Heron, Patrice Foster) are more 70s-styled, while Lord and Lady Capulet (Michael James Reed, Cherie Corrine Rice) are in more of a modern upper class style, and Juliet (Sigrid Wise) is in vaguely modern styles that can't really be tied to a specific decade, and the Nurse (Jane Paradise) is outfitted in more generally traditional garb, as is Friar Lawrence (Gary Glasgow); and the Prince (Pete Winfrey, who also plays Paris) is decidedly more Elizabethan. It's a hodgepodge of styles, but possibly because of the color scheme and the vaguely but not specifically modern set, it's all more or less cohesive. The tone-shift inherent in this play, from comedy in the first half to tragedy in the second, is maintained here, with the early scenes given a sort of ominous underscoring by the excellent Dust Ensemble, who provided a musical score for the production that lends much to the overall atmosphere, style, and drama of the production, along with Rusty Wandall's sound design and John Wylie's bold lighting design.
One notable difference from other productions of this play that I've scene is the way the language is delivered. Shakespeare's dialogue has not been altered, but the way the characters speak it has been given a more directly modern cadence and approach, so that the youth of the title characters and their peers is highlighted all the more, as is the boldness and confrontational tone of much of the proceedings. The words and fast-paced direction blend well with the musical score to heighten the emotions of key moments. The cast is excellent, as well, with Piniella's impulsive Romeo and Wise's sheltered, curious Juliet well-matched, bringing a chemistry to their interactions that is easy to believe. There are also standout performances from Wheeler as a particularly brash Mercutio, Dakota Granados as the confrontational Tybalt, Paradise as the devoted, doting Nurse, Glasgow as the well-meaning Friar Lawrence, and Patrick Blindauer in three distinct roles. The Montagues and Capulets are well-paired, as well, and performances are strong and cohesive across the board.
As excellent as this production is, I have one quibble with the overall Festival set-up this year. The general layout of the space at Forest Park's Shakespeare Glen has been changed around significantly, with the Green Show stage, refreshment stands, and other areas moved from where they have been for the past several years. For the most part, this works, except for the woefully inadequate restroom facilities that have been reduced in number and moved much further away from where they used to be. I imagine this could cause difficulties with crowds during intermission. I hope the Festival fixes this situation in future years.
As for the play itself, the overall impression of this production is a fresh, bold approach to the material that brings out the youthfulness of the protagonists and the seriousness of their story. Although much of the styling here in from previous decades, tonally this is a Romeo and Juliet for today, directed in a way that makes the action and relationships immediate and relatable. It's another excellent presentation of Shakespeare's work from SFSTL.
Reynaldo Piniella, Sigrid Wise
Shakespeare Festival St. Louis is presenting Romeo and Juliet in Forest Park until June 24, 2018.
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Police: Albany man confesses to burglary spree
Albany police say a local man last week admitted to committing a spree of local break-ins.
Police: Albany man confesses to burglary spree Albany police say a local man last week admitted to committing a spree of local break-ins. Check out this story on thestarpress.com: https://www.thestarpress.com/story/news/crime/2019/01/13/police-albany-man-confesses-burglary-spree/2562218002/
Douglas Walker, Muncie Star Press Published 9:30 a.m. ET Jan. 13, 2019
Phillip Woodard (Photo: Photo provided)
MUNCIE, Ind. – Albany police say a local man last week admitted to committing a spree of house and garage break-ins.
Phillip Christopher Woodard, 34, of the 500 block of North Delaware Street, was arrested Wednesday on eight preliminary counts of burglary.
In a report, Albany Police Chief Shannon Henry said Woodard came to the town's police station "wanting to turn himself in."
The Albany man allegedly admitted to breaking into six homes and two garages, sometimes with an accomplice, in a series of crimes that began in early 2018.
Items taken in the burglaries included a large mirror, clothing, women's shoes, collectible figurines, a vacuum cleaner, lunch meat, peanut butter, tools and a television.
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Woodard said the stolen items were "normally traded for meth," the report indicated.
The Albany man continued to be held in the Delaware County jail on Sunday under a $70,000 bond. He has been convicted of theft, conversion and driving while suspended.
In other police news:
Car break-ins: A Muncie man told city police he broke into vehicles in a westside neighborhood in order to raise money to pay his rent.
Tony Deckard (Photo: Photo provided)
Tony Junior Deckard Jr., 20, was arrested Jan. 5 after officers found him in the 600 block of North Riley Road, near a vehicle with a shattered window.
At the time of his arrest, Deckard had items in his possession that he later reportedly acknowledged had been stolen from unlocked cars in the area, including a handgun and a set of binoculars.
He said he used a rock to smash the window in a locked vehicle at the Riley Road address because he believed he saw cash inside.
On Thursday, he was charged in Delaware Circuit Court 3 with theft of a firearm, theft, carrying a handgun without a license, unauthorized entry of a motor vehicle and criminal mischief.
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There are two key Bills pending with the Utah State Legislation right now. Specifically HB114, and HB 76.
The first is the Second Amendment Preservation Act.
This bill declares that the regulation of firearms is reserved completely to the state and provides penalties for the prosecution of anyone attempting to enforce federal laws to the contrary.
What that means is Utah can stop and could prosecute any Federal Agent attempting to enforce an unconstitutional Federal Law. This gives serious teeth to the letter the Utah Sheriff's Association sent to Obama. Basically the State is backing up it's Sheriffs. This is a very good thing.
The second is Concealed Weapon Carry Amendments.
This bill would give Utah "Constitutional Carry". Also known as Vermont Carry. This means quite simply, if you are legal to have a gun, you can carry it concealed if you are over 21. No Concealed Carry Permit required in the State of Utah. Looking the bill over, you would of course still need a Permit if you cross State Lines.
What I'd like to see here is a line that says something to the effect that Utah would honor other Constitutional Carry States Citizens rights, if that state honors ours. For Example if you are from AZ, you could come to UT and carry concealed if UT residents could do the same in AZ. A Constitutional Handshake if you will.
What's amazing about HB76 though is that it's sponsored by John Mathis. The guy I ran against for public office and destroyed in the debate in Moab. (Not my opinion, that's what I was told after the event by several residence of Moab) John has been just about completely useless up until this point. But him sponsoring this bill… I'm impressed. Honestly, I'm shocked. I was planning on running against him in the Republican Primaries next time… but really, if this passes, I wont have to.
Awesome. Wish I could import some of that sanity to Cali. I console myself somewhat with the knowledge that I am, at least, in a gun friendly county a long way from liberaltopia. But still, would be nice.
Well, you have your gay marriages and free abortions.
Well, there's always that. And our high taxes, don't forget about that.
Wait, did you assign me a pink avatar because I'm from California? Mean.
No, the system did that automatically. I'm not kidding.
Indiana isn't bad but after Seattle it's a bit dull.
Utah sounds pretty sweet, especially now.
Ogres never hang out. We abide.
Who would deny a man the right to fish from horseback?
I am going to riot.
Maybe burn my car in protest.
Right. Because we all know that fishing from horseback gives an unfair advantage.
How do some of these stupid laws even get thought up, let alone passed?
Most laws happen because something happened. I'd like to know what happened.
Utah residents (as well as anybody else from Outside) can already CCW in Alaska with no permit.
But you can't get there from the lower 48 by land…..
I have FedEx'ed my side iron up and down a few of times, as machine parts. A manually aligned reciprocating linear piston accelerator, hand held. I have without fail found it waiting at a friends house after the drive.
Can't do much about that until after secession. Once the conquest of BC and the Yukon are complete, all visitors from what's left of the US can bring whatever weapons they want. In the meantime, you can ship them up as Mark suggested, or check them in your baggage when you fly.
You can indeed. Its just a long road through Canada. Easier to take the ferry from Seattle.


Been to the grocery store lately? Ever noticed that giant red box outside the entrance that spits out DVD rentals for cheap? Well, guess what? Those things could be packing video games real soon, too. The company that owns those rental kiosks, the aptly-named Redbox, has just hired a new VP of video games to oversee game integration into its rental service.
According to Video Business, Redbox will be putting up two new types of machines: one solely dedicated to game rentals and the other a hybrid of games and movies. It appears Redbox will host mostly current-gen, home console games (Wii, Xbox 360 and PS3) and will even offer game trade-ins at the kiosks, as well. Currently, Redbox is still in the testing phase with only a few select cities participating in the market test.
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2. I wrote my second story when I was, ahem, forty-something.
4. My favourite colour is red, but gold suits me better.
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Yes, i'm studying Italian and have bit off more than i can chew.
Let's back up some and wonder why in the world at 77 years old and half dotty, i am taking up an intellectual endeavor as challenging as learning another language.
Part of it, of course, is that i just love languages, ummm, at least Indo-European ones. And i've studied Spanish, French, German, and Dutch enough that i can get along marginally in all of them although none is even close to fluent.
There are three other languages that particularly interest me – Frisian, Catalan, and Afrikaans. Frisian has the advantage of being rather close to English and even closer to Dutch, but the disadvantage of having only 400,000 speakers of the primary dialect, which makes it highly unlikely to be useful unless i move to Ljouwert. Worse yet, Frisian is distinguished by its large number of vowel sounds….all the standard pure sounds plus every imaginable diphthong and even some triphthongs, a language that is warbled rather than spoken. Considering that my weakest point in language acquisition is the sounds and that my hearing is failing, Frisian is clearly off my plate.
I've found Catalan fascinating ever since when i was in London and heard the guys next to me in a bar speaking and discovered that even though i was on the brink of understanding them, i couldn't quite comprehend. Finally, i broke down and asked. They laughed and said that they got that question continually and that often people would edge closer and closer until their ears nearly touched the speakers' lips before giving up and asking. How little it takes to fascinate me. Unfortunately, while there are about ten million speakers of Catalan, they are concentrated in Catalonia and its adjacent regions, so it wouldn't be useful unless i moved to Barcelona.
Of course he knew since he had learned English, but what a delicious response underlining the near absence of them in his language. (Actually, the only two irregular verbs in Afrikaans are their words for "to be" (wees) and "to have" (hê), which are irregular only in that their infinitive is not the form used in all conjugations, as is normal. For example, "wees" is conjugated in all three persons, singular and plural as "is", which means "is" and sounds like English "us".
But i digress, and anyhow, Afrikaans is out because South Africa is too far away.
But why, since it's not a language that i was particularly interested in, am i studying Italian? Easy. My wonderful Spanish teacher has gone on strike and is on a wild fling teaching Italian instead. And since he's such a good teacher, fascinating polyglot (he also teaches a class in Yiddish), and entertaining man, i'm stuck studying Italian. About half the class are people like me. The other half are people with Italian roots so embarrassed by their inability to speak the language that they're doing something about it. It's a great class, and it's so exciting that by the time each session ends, i'm exhausted.
So why am i complaining? See, when Armando announced that he'd be teaching Italian instead of Spanish, i thought, being half-competent in Spanish and French, it would be sort of between them. Oh silly me. What i'd not taken into consideration is that it is closer to the Vulgate than Spanish or French and is thus more highly inflected.
I remember fondly kidding my German friends about the utter ridiculousness of having six words for "the", so you can imagine my horror when i discovered that Italian has five words for "the" before masculine nouns (il, i, l', gli, and lo) as well as an additional two before feminine nouns (la and le). Also, Italian forms contractions of common prepositions with articles, so to the above list we'll need to add the following: nel, nella, nei, nelle, al, alla, ai, alle, dal, dalla, dai, dalle, del, della, dei, delle, sul, sulla, sui, sulle, and coi.
And then, when Spanish forms plurals by simply adding "s", there are three pages of rules for creating the plurals in Italian.
That's just stuff out of the first couple of weeks, but to make matters worse, when i broke my back back in June and could no longer ride the Segway, getting to class meant taking the 24 Divisadero bus and then transferring to the F Market streetcar, for which i simply didn't have the strength at first and the will power later, so i missed a month of classes before i finally dragged myself back.
And we all remember from our undergraduate days how excruciatingly difficult it is to catch up in a class when you get behind, particularly a class in which you were already struggling.
I always did well in language classes, but in this one i'm probably the least proficient person there. But hey, the only harm is to my pride, and at least i'm now able to pronounce understandably everything on an Italian menu.
Late note: A kind reader got back to me and triggered an Aha moment. But wait, i thought, how come all the southwest American and Mexican cities were named "San" something since the conquerors were Spanish rather than Italian. Oh, of course, they were first and foremost Catholics, so all the saints had Italian names. To think that since childhood i'd thought that San Antonio and later San Francisco were Spanish rather than Italian.
Meanwhile, my jaw dropped when i saw this can in the ice trough at a garden party. Then i grabbed and guzzled it with fond memories.
I never dreamed i'd see this concoction in a can, but it was a great favorite in Texas bars in the seventies although they just poured a mug about a third full of tomato juice (Clamato being too expensive), filled it with draft beer, and called it "Red Tap". I loved it. When i told Californians about it years ago, they refused to believe that even Texans would drink such an atrocity.
I don't know this for a fact, but I think that the Christian saints have Latin names, not Italian names. When the priests named the missions in the New World, the Italian language did not exist.
Do i love my readers or what! Your comments were food for thought, and i was fascinated to learn Venetian dialect for "Louis" and that our first names come from the same root. Wow.
Trying to decide when the Italian language originated is quite complex and leaves ample ground for widely divergent dates. Certainly manuscripts from the 10th century were written in Italian dialects, but hardly anyone would date the origin of Italian so early. On the other hand, Dante completed the Commedia in 1320, and it is routinely lauded as the first work in the Italian language even though Dante wrote it in the Tuscan dialect. The Spanish priests started missions in the New World early in the 16th century, and it wasn't until the unification of Italy in the middle of the 19th century that the Tuscan dialect became standardized as the Italian language, so it can certainly be argued that the Italian language didn't exist, at least officially, when the Conquistadores were setting up New World missions. Ummm, yes, except that it was essentially the same language written six centuries earlier by Dante. Gets complicated.
For me it gets even more complicated when i look at all our place names with "San" when the Spanish is "santo" and the Latin is "sanctus" and i found "san" in an Italian dictionary. So that's why i jumped to the conclusion that the missions were given Italian names. Your comment made me realize that my jump was ill considered, which is a nice way of saying it was ridiculous. So i put a little more thought into it. First, while i agree that those place names are not Italian, i can't believe that "San Antonio" or "San Francisco" are Latin. So i did more digging and discovered that "San" is an accepted Spanish contraction for "Santo". Thus, i was right originally when i thought the names were Spanish before i foolishly decided they were Italian. It is quite reasonable that the missions were given Spanish names since, after all, the vast majority of the conquistadores didn't speak Latin.
Many thanks for making me think about this and research it.


Leave it to Sony to take a perfectly ordinary business tool like a PDA and turn it into something, well, fun. But the Sony Clii PEG-N710C features provide more than entertainment value.
While the 320 by 320 pixel, 8-bit color screen isn't as vibrant as the Sony monochromatic N610Cs, it is certainly good enough to display business graphics and most photos. Even the address book takes advantage of the color screen, allowing photos to be attached to contacts.
While there aren't as many color applications as black and white programs, those that support color are easier to use and more intuitive. Multimedia applications like Clii's own gMovie video player and PictureGear Pocket wouldn't be possible without a color screen, but everything from expense tracking to spreadsheets becomes more manageable with a color interface. While early color units from Palm and Handspring felt a bit sluggish, the Sony Clii runs with no noticeable speed problems despite the high-resolution color screen.
The N710C comes bundled with all the standard software that Palm users have come to know and love (or hate), plus a few bonuses. The unit includes a number of titles aimed more at recreational than business use, but the bundled AvantGo allows the Clii to be loaded with content from any Web site . RandMcNally's StreetFinder. enables Clii users to turn the handheld into a portable mapping device. Finally, Vindigo provides business travelers with info on food and entertainment in most major metropolitan areas.
The built-in movie player is slightly less useful than the photo browsing software, but the ability to watch streaming video (the length of which is determined by the Memory Stick being used) could come in handy for showing a client a quick presentation in the field.
The built-in MP3 player eliminates the need to pack two devices for a commute or business trip. Having an MP3 player built in comes in handy for work, too, allowing traveling employees to listen to speeches, interviews, shareholder reports, and any other corporate audio in MP3 format.
All this audio and video goodness is stored on Sony's Memory Stick cards, which slide into the unit and can be swapped to provide more storage. The Clii N710C comes with 8MB of RAM on board, plus a rather anemic 8MB Memory Stick card. Files can be transferred to Memory Stick with either an additional card reader or by simply docking the Clii and transferring files as if the unit were an additional hard drive.
The Clii doesn't seem to sync any faster or slower than any other device we've used. Sync speed seems controlled more by the host OS running the backup software and the connection (pure USB for Handspring, USB to serial for Palm, etc.). It also seems to be based on the amount of data being transferred and the platform from which it's being transferred. Since the Clii has both Vindigo and AvantGo, it's really hard to time it. The sync times change each time a sync is made, depending on how many files are selected and how many updates were made.
With a brushed metal finish and matching buttons, the N710C is one of the sharpest looking Palm devices on the market.
Perhaps the only downside to the device is its price. $499 is a lot to pay for a Palm; it's more than one third the cost of a whole Macintosh iBook. But size matters, and as long as the price of color LCD screens stays high, so will the price of color Palm devices. Sony packs a lot into this device, though, making it worth the money.


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We need his jokes right now.
Dave Chappelle is back, folks. It's been over a decade since his sketch comedy series Chappelle's Show met an infamous, unexpected end during its third season. Stand-up fans had a collective freakout in November when Chappelle first announced his return after an excellent SNL hosting gig, but that's nothing compared to the infectious hype that's been all over Twitter this week. Two of Chappelle's previously recorded, but never-released routines finally came out on Netflix last night — plus there'll be an original special soon — and the result is mild hysteria.
The excitement is totally warranted. Despite Chappelle's Show's short run, the series has secured a place in TV legend. Love for the show has only grown since its conclusion; Entertainment Weekly considers it a "new classic." Chappelle picked an ideal time to return, too: The country has a particularly voracious appetite for comedy these days to offset all this political turmoil.
Of course, it's not like Chappelle has been completely absent from entertainment until now. He did some sporadic gigs between the end of Chappelle's Show in 2006 and 2012, and began touring full-time again in 2013. He made a long-awaited return to film by appearing in Spike Lee's Chiraq in 2015.
Uhh @netflix if you think I'm staying up until 3 am for this Dave Chappelle special...you're absolutely right.
The specials dropped today, so what are you waiting for?! Watch the trailer if you like, and then go and check out the new shows on Netflix.


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I just happened to flip by Cartoon Network and caught the Lego Star Wars: The Yoda Chronicles cartoon. It's actually pretty funny, especially when making fun of itself. They even made a Commando Cody reference.


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Posted on 30 April 2013.
The Continental Interior, 2013, mixed media installation of hand cut paper, ink, tempera, thread
Imagine unmooring the globe's landmasses and suspending them in midair from strings like a cosmic puppeteer. That, essentially, is what Val Britton does in The Continental Interior, a room-sized installation in which the collagist pushes her estimable 2-D visions of terrestrial reality into three-dimensional space. For Britton, whose largest collages run to 10 feet square and can sometimes strain the bounds of what can be displayed on a wall, this seems like both a breakout move and a logical extension of what she's been doing since the start of her career. For a prime example, check out SJICA at artMRKT, May 16-19, at Fort Mason Center – Festival Pavilion. There, you'll find Beginning Anywhere, one of Britton's iconic large-scale works from 2008.
Her hybrid 2-D constructions meld the specificity of road maps and jet routes, the swirling contours of topographical maps and the allusiveness of abstract painting –geometric and biomorphic. The results are expansive, intricate, reinterpretations of man-made and natural forms depicted from an aerial perspective.
Britton now occupies the upper tier of collage. She arrived there by carving out a niche in the fast-evolving subcategory of mapping, wherein artists take maps, the very symbol of authority, and use them to challenge boundaries of all types: racial, political, geographic, sexual and so forth. For an excellent survey of the field, consult Katharine Harmon's The Map as Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography In it, you'll find Britton's work alongside that of a great many well-known artists (Mark Bradford, Vic Muniz, William Kentridge and others) who take great liberties with materials.
Sister Ship, 2013, ink, watercolor, collage, and hand cut paper, 72" x 60"
The last installation of Britton's I saw was in 2010, in a group show organized by Intersection for the Arts called Here be Dragons: Mapping Information and Imagination and Open Process Events. Her piece encircled a spiral staircase. This installation is much more expansive. It occupies SJICA's Focus Gallery, bisecting the room diagonally, from the rafters almost to the floor. The piece engages you at eye-level and pulls your gaze up upward to the strings that suspend it from the ceiling. From those strands hang painted shards of paper that Britton has sliced into silhouettes of varying opacity. Held mostly taut, they range in size from specs no bigger than a fingernail to jagged masses of up to a yard in length. Some bend or fold over on themselves to suggest erosion or wind. Overall, their shapes bring to mind floating river islands, continents, icebergs, mountains, cumulous clouds and riverbeds.
The strings play an especially important role. They suggest how the whole construction might be manipulated like a giant marionette; and though that potential isn't realized, the feeling that the piece could suddenly spring to life persists even though the suspended forms remain static, disrupted only by faint air currents.
What propelled Britton into this realm was the sudden death of her father, a long-haul trucker. He died when she was a teenager, and since earning her MFA from California College of the Arts in 2006, she's created, dissected and reassembled maps of her own making an effort to follow his "tracks".
Sister Ship (detail)
Her "navigational" tools are scissors, X-Acto knives, brushes, glue, ink and watercolors, the latter of which she uses to create stains suggestive of mineral deposits, fire and other natural processes.
Five large-scale collages accompany the installation. Each is stunning, but none more so than Sister Ship. I hesitate to call it immersive because that descriptor is so overused. But here it applies because of the way Britton turns two-dimensional space into a landscape into which you easily project yourself. She builds up the composition in visible layers; slices out swaths of negative space that read as waterways (or jet routes); and soaks paper in pigment so that it wafts and warps – like the rise and fall of actual topography. The effect is of soaring above a floodplain and, at the same time, feeling of texture of the substances that comprise it. Thus, Intimate Immensity, the title of this show, makes perfect sense.
Britton may not crisscross the country the way her father did, but her art covers a lot of ground. In so doing It creates the palpable sense that you are too – just by looking.
–DAVID M. ROTH
Val Britton: "Intimate Immensity" @ San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art through May 18, 2013.
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Farmers In Northern India Protest Against Food Security Bill
posted 2 Sep 2013, 05:55 by Mpelembe [ updated 2 Sep 2013, 05:56 ]
Farmers union of India's main opposition, Bharatiya Janata Party protest in northern Chandigarhcity as they oppose the food security bill and demand adequate compensation for their produce.
CHANDIGARH, INDIA (SEPTEMBER 02, 2013) (ANI) - Farmers union of India's main opposition, Bharatiya Janata Party protested in northernChandigarh city on Monday (September 02) as they opposed the food security bill and demanded adequate compensation for their produce.
A large number of farmers from the states of Haryana and Punjab gathered together and protested and blocked Chandigarh-Delhi National highway -21.
India's food minister K.V, Thomas said on Monday (September 02) that his priority was to get the nearly $20 billion cheap food security plan offering food grains to the poor, passed in the upper house of the parliament.
President of the famers union of India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party, O P Dhankar said that the government was turning a blind eye to the problems created for the farmers by the food security bill.
"We have come here to oppose the crippled food security bill. We want to say that by distributing our grains they want to gather votes, they do not want to give us our due. They should implement the report of the farmers commission and give us our due. We have come to say that all our inputs have been captured by multinationals. Our seeds, grains and pesticides are with them. The price of diesel and manure is increasing every day. If the imports are increasing then we should be given money. Implement the report of the farmers commission and give us atleast 2100 rupees, ($31.74) for the grains. We have come to demand this," said Dhankar.
The lower house had approved the plan last week on Monday (August 26) to provide cheap grains to the poor, a key part of the ruling Congress party's strategy ahead of the upcoming 2014 general elections in the country.
Protesters marched with party flags and raised anti government slogans slamming them for passing the bill as a vote earning tactic ahead of the upcoming 2014 elections.
Under the plan, the government will sell subsidized wheat and rice to 67 percent of its population of 1.2 billion.
India is home to a quarter of the world's hungry poor, according to United Nations data, despite being one of the biggest food producers and experiencing years of rapid economic growth.
The lower house had passed the bill only after nearly nine hours of debate and the inclusion of amendments that government sources could lead to an additional requirement of about 3 million tonnes of grain.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had said last year that the child malnutrition in India, where almost 50 percent of children are underweight, was a "national shame". Despite that, some critics have dubbed the new plan a waste of public money at a time when growth has been steadily slowing.
The expanded subsidy is a pet project of Congress leader Sonia Gandhi, who led the party to victory in the last two elections on the back of populist programmes such as a rural jobs plan and a $12.5 billion farmer loan waiver passed just before the 2009 general election.


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To celebrate the brand's 40th year (and the man's 65th birthday), Brunello Cucinelli brought the party to his beloved Solomeo last week, the hamlet in Umbria where he has manufactured his now worldwide empire of sportswear since the early days of his brand when just 14 perfect cashmere sweaters were all he did.
"Hamlet" is Cucinelli's word of choice to describe Solomeo, and indeed, though the company now employs more than 1,000 people (mostly locals), the hilltop village retains the look and feel of a bygone era. This is small-town Italy perfected, in no small part thanks to Cucinelli, who has over the years restored, protected, and beautified many parts of town. In his view, betterment of communities, even whole societies, can happen just as effectively in a tiny town like this as it can in an urban center. Think local, act local...the rest will follow.
Some 500 friends and members of the media from all over the world assembled for the event in Solomeo's perfect little square presided over by a charmingly noisy bell tower. The assembled guests could be forgiven if their attention wandered away from the speechifying toward the stunningly picturesque valley below as it became washed in coral by the setting sun. Anyway, this is what we'd come to see: the unveiling of The Project for Beauty, a four-year process of reclamation in which Cucinelli bought five disused 70s-era warehouses, tore them down, and in their place planted vineyards and sunflowers and constructed a hillside shrine to human dignity.
Since 1978, Cucinelli has been restoring the land to reflect the values that inspire and guide him: beauty, humanity, and truth. "Five monuments that embody these values have been positioned in harmony from the hill to the valley," he says of the landscape, "Each of which we feel are both beautiful and true: the Spiritual Forest, the Church, the Theater, the Wine Cellar and the Monument." Now, he's unveiled a new travertine monument, hoping to add another 2,000 years of value to his sacred place.
The semi-circular piazzetta flanked by marble monoliths is the concrete manifestation of Cucinelli's world-view and business philosophy. According to him, every pillar of civil society—politics, economics, ecology—starts with an imperative to treat each human with respect. The man practices what he preaches. For every employee, hours are strictly 9 to 5:30, with a mandatory 90 ministers for paccheri and burrata in the company canteen during which email shuts off (as it does every evening and weekend). Quality of life equals quality of product. That—in this age of fast fashion, fast communication, fast everything—is the not-so-simple formula for Cucinelli's success. And you can see and feel it in every product.
And feel it you can in the knitwear. Cucinelli uses the cashmere produced in Solomeo, like in this blended crewneck, in his designs. And starting today, he's collaborating with Mr. Porter on a special, 60-piece project of day-to-evening transitional wardrobe pieces for the modern man—perfect for Cucinelli's hometown or yours.