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Zoomylicious: Bah, back to snow tires!
It's only been about a week since were were able to put our all-season performance tires (the "all-season" part is a joke. They don't handle even an inch of frozen precip well at ALL) back on the car, but due to the recent and predicted snowfall we had to switch our Winter wheels and tires back on. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE our Blizzaks and they are the difference between a car that is virtually undriveable and one that handles snow and ice like a pro, but putting the snow tires back on is a blatant sign that Winter is not in any hurry to leave.
*sigh* I was just starting to get used to days with temps above freezing and even a little sunshine.
Yeah, I hear that...and I was really starting to enjoy being able to do a little running on clear roads. Winter has really overstayed its welcome (doesn't it always?!)!


Starting this week, the Frugal Traveler column is changing its format — though you'll barely notice the difference. This blog will no longer be updated, but the column will continue as articles — the same sort you see across nytimes.com. Photos will be more prominent and you'll still be able to share your thoughts and advice. And you'll be able to scroll through links to the current and archived articles just as you can now by going to the Frugal Traveler topic page. Change your bookmarks from the page you are on now to to the column page — and watch nytimes.com/travel for weekly Frugal columns. And, as always, you can follow me on Twitter and Facebook.
I'm not a vegetarian, but I play one in this column.
Shortly after landing in Barcelona earlier this month, I met up for lunch with a friend of a friend, who asked what I wanted to eat. Not in town to write about food and not feeling particularly contrarian, I said what I'd guess many travelers to Spain would say: "Tapas." He took me to Ciudad Condal, a spot on the Rambla de Catalunya long ago flooded by tourists but still good enough to attract locals ready to wade around them.
Behind the long bar was a feast: trays loaded with Iberian ham and chorizo and octopus and razor clams. Normally, in this kind of situation my mouth would water and my desire to gorge would trump all other brain function, including empathy. But this time, for some reason (jet lag?), my mind turned to others. "What a nightmare this would be for my vegetarian friends," I thought.
And so I spontaneously decided to spend my four days in town as a vegetarian. More problematically, a tapas-loving vegetarian in this pig-and-shellfish crazy city, is a bit like a rock fanatic who won't listen to guitars.
For the purposes of my meat-defying efforts, I defined tapas broadly to include montaditos (mounted on bread), Basque pintxos (skewered with a toothpick) and platillos, another common item on Barcelona menus, which literally mean "small plates." (That's how we often translate tapas into English, anyway.) I also decided to add Argentine-style empanadas, which are sold across the city and would be a crime for vegetarians to ignore.
Others, though, were more sympathetic, offering the obvious patatas bravas (potatoes with a spicy sauce, usually tomato-based and sometimes spiked with paprika and chilies), and tortillas (Spanish omelets, which for some reason I despise). Quite often I'd spot an otherwise gorgeous eggplant or cheese or sun-dried tomato creation, only to realize on closer inspection that it had been sullied by an artful ribbon of anchovy. At the Vermuteria del Tano, one of Barceona's traditional (and newly chic) vermouth bars, a nice woman stared at the clams before her, then speared a tart pickle, an olive, a bit of red pepper and cocktail onions on a toothpick and handed it over. It wasn't good, but I was actually there for the house vermouth, which will remain vegetarian until a trendy entrepreneur decides to infuse it with bacon.
On to the highlights – and, luckily, there were quite a few. Another friend of a friend joined me at her favorite spot in the Gràcia neighborhood, an L-shaped bar called Gasterea, assuring me it was both reasonably priced and that there were plenty of vegetarian choices. I started in on the cold choices (1 euro, about $1.28, each), displayed pintxo-style on the counter: thin crispy eggplant slices with a scoop of creamy cheese pinned on with toothpicks, for example. But my favorites were the hot pintxos (1.90 euros) and cazuelitas, tapas-size "little pots" of goodies (2.65 euros): artichoke tempura with romesco sauce, the red pepper and nut-based sauce native to Catalonia. A small portion of mushroom risotto. Potatoes, presented not in bravas style but romescadas, like the artichokes. Seriously, how hard was that, I thought.
Some are unlucky in love, others in business. I am unlucky in calendars. Wherever I travel, local holidays materialize from thin air – shutting down attractions, slowing down public transport and sending the locals fleeing to country homes.
The latest unwanted holiday was in Toulouse. I planned a quick trip from Barcelona (three hours by train, six by bus), allotting 75 euros ($95.35 at $1.27 to the euro) to spend over 24 hours in France's fourth-biggest city. Toulouse looks like a tourist haven – churches, museums, a tangle of medieval streets – but the hordes are actually more likely to be university students, probably a bit rowdier but otherwise more agreeable company.
I booked a "single room without window" in the Hotel des Ambassadeurs for 40 euros, via its Web site. That left 35 euros for a day in a relatively cheap city: entry to Les Abattoirs, the well-regarded modern art museum, is only 7 euros; Toulouse's bike-sharing system costs 1.50 euros for 30 minutes (you are charged slightly more if you keep a single bike for more time, or you can switch bikes); and many of its nicer restaurants offer "plans du midi," weekday lunch specials often for half the price of the dinner prix fixe. For dinner, I'd stock up on bread, local sausage and cheese at one of the city's celebrated markets.
Alas, the only full days I could spare were last Wednesday or Thursday — the same days the French were to celebrate V-E Day and the Feast of the Ascension. (Good days for Europe and Jesus, bad days for me.) Many attractions closed and plans du midi vanished, if the restaurants stayed open at all.
But by now I know the routine: briefly curse your luck, then regroup. Restructure with what's left, be flexible — and see the bright side: although streets are emptier, residents who stick around are at leisure, perhaps with more time to engage.
Ah, the problems budget travelers used to have. Hours on the phone with the airlines trying to pin down the cheapest fare. A bargain B&B that looked great in the brochure – if only there were a way to access feedback from previous guests. I wish there was a way to tell the world in 140 characters or less that I made it to the top of this Mayan temple!
How quaint. But there are still plenty of problems out there, just waiting to ensnare the traveler. Below are five, along with relatively new Web sites that are trying to solve them. Note: "trying." None of them work perfectly and some have a long way to go before they become household names. But they all get an A for ingenuity.
1) Business travelers on expense accounts pay the same airfares as penny-pinching leisure travelers.
It's that old economics problem: one group of consumers would pay more than another – if only companies could create separate markets. Airlines have made attempts (by creating business class, for example), but for the most part, business and leisure travelers are lumped together. The booking site GetGoing has a clever solution for flexible travelers called "Pick Two, Get One." It is similar to a normal booking site, with one major catch: customers must select two flights – to different cities – and reserve with a credit card before finding out where they're heading. The idea is that business travelers, presumably with appointments scheduled, can't leave to chance whether they'll be landing in Istanbul or Beijing.
Of course, not every leisure traveler can either, but for the more flexible ones, the savings are significant. To test it, I entered dates for a weeklong European getaway from New York in June. Given a choice of 20 major cities, I picked Venice and Athens, and for each got a long list of flight options and prices, with airline names hidden. (I could have also chosen more proximate destinations, like Barcelona versus Madrid or Frankfurt versus Berlin.) Ruling out flights with too-long layovers, I picked the cheapest options left: Athens for $1,114 and Venice for $1,166. (Those prices were about 15 percent less than what I found doing the same search for each city on Kayak.com.) I put down my (fake) credit card information and soon got the result: Athens, on Delta, for $213 less than the best Kayak price for a similar flight. Pretty impressive.
2) You have a day in Paris (or Seattle or Bangkok), but don't have the time or patience to piece together a sensible itinerary from the standard sources.
Mosey lets you browse itineraries, walking tours, favorites lists and more created by fellow users. It's not the first site ever to let travelers share tips, of course, but the format is compellingly concise, attractive and useful. At their best, these "Moseys" provide step-by-step agendas accompanied by photos and a map with all locations already pinpointed. The site is new, and the entries are still quite hit-or-miss. But when I plugged in São Paulo (the city I know best, aside from New York), I got a daylong itinerary I thought was pretty darn good. That said, the site is far from ready for prime time: it needs more content (get to work, readers) and some way to rank them by quality and filter them by length and type (get to work, Mosey).
"Do you know him?" he asked me in Spanish, with a sudden sparkle in his eyes. Of course I did: he was standing in front of me, 55 years later.
Philadelphia might claim Benjamin Franklin as its own, but I can think of two ways he's more closely tied to Boston. First, he grew up there. Second, I just spent a weekend in Boston for the value of the bill that bears his portrait.
Even the strictest of budget should allow for occasional splurges: a modest hotel room after a string of hostel bunks; a just-this-once late-night cab; a beer upgrade from P.B.R. to I.P.A. But some luxuries never enter the frugal equation. Take, for example, the restaurant tasting menu — those drawn-out dinners of 8 or 10 or 25 courses, exquisitely designed (and sometimes served) by the chef. Or so I've heard.
On my trip to South China this past winter, I finally found a tasting menu I could afford. It took some D.I.Y. initiative, but at a spot called Hubu Alley in Wuhan, I indulged in an eight-course meal that was a culinary tour of Hubei province. And all for just over $8 (52.5 renminbi, or $8.39 at 6.14 renminbi to the dollar, to be exact). A dollar a course? No tax, no tip? Beat that, Le Bernardin.
Hubu Alley isn't a restaurant – it's a T-shaped pedestrian area on the east side of the Yangtze, famed for the breakfast dishes sold by dozens of vendors from street carts and stalls. And designing my tasting menu could not have been more straightforward: I simply watched what other people were eating and followed suit.
So here it is: The 8-Course Hubu Alley Breakfast Tasting Menu.
As we drove down the mountain from Lao Jun Dong, a Taoist temple perched above the smoggy mega-city of Chongqing, I tried to describe to YangYang, my host and a local magazine editor, the kind of restaurant where I wanted to eat that Sunday evening.
It had to be cheap, have no English menu, perhaps in a run-down neighborhood and serve local dishes spiced for local tastes.
A few hours later we were sitting at a sidewalk table, drinking local Shancheng beer from bowls, our hands in plastic gloves as we used toothpicks to extract snails from their shells after digging them out from under an avalanche of Sichuan peppers. The place – to me a restaurant, to her a street vendor – was Du Lao Wu, on Jianking Road. The menu, of course, was only in Chinese, so I had told YangYang just to order "whatever is most unsuitable for tourists." That included the snails (20 renminbi, or about $3.25 at 6.15 renminbi to the dollar), as well as crawfish in a similarly messy and difficult-to-eat format (38 renminbi), as well as a salad of yuxiang cao, which means "fishy-smell herb" and is accurately named. YangYang had come through.
I very rarely reveal my identity as a travel writer while on the road, but YangYang, who had been hosting me for free through Couchsurfing.org, had shown such generosity – inviting me to both her magazine's Chinese New Year party and a lavish dinner with some friends (presenting me at both as a professor of Latin American Studies, my impromptu cover) – that I decided to make a calculated exception.
Toward the end of my trip up the Yangtze, I had been planning to move on to Chengdu, the more tourist-friendly capital of neighboring Sichuan province. But I had taken a liking to Chongqing and decided to ask YangYang – whose real name is Jiang Yu – if she would use her expertise – her magazine's English name was "City Weekly" – to show me an insider's version of the city.
Which country has the world's friendliest people?
It's a preposterous question for many reasons. Yet writers, guidebooks and travelers can't seem to stop asking it. Admit it, you've returned from a place and declared to your friends that its people have got to be the friendliest (or nicest! or most wonderful!) people on the planet. I certainly have.
But today I declare I never will again, and I ask you to join me.
It's not because such judgments are wild generalizations of culturally complex places, nor because most travelers (including me) have been too few of the world's countries to speak authoritatively. Those are valid points, but I think we all know this is cocktail party patter, not rigorous academic research.
It's because I find the question imprecise and unhelpful. What does "friendliest" even mean?
I'd like to suggest a "taxonomy of friendliness," to help us all be more specific when we return from vacation and declare how wonderful the world is.
To tease out the elements of niceness, I asked the dreaded question one last time on Twitter last week, but insisted that people specify what made their country of choice so friendly. The answers flooded in: the Japanese will go out of their way to help visitors, Estonians are kindhearted people eager to share their rich history, Filipinos are always smiling and will help anyone no matter their own situation. There was more: the Lebanese are always happy to see tourists, the Irish have some of the best storytellers in the world, and you never know when a Georgian (as in the Republic of) will invite you to a feast.
So here, with the help of Twitter, input from colleagues and my own personal experiences, is an initial proposal – admittedly still unscientific — for Kingdoms within the domain of Friendliness, and what countries (and cities and regions) might be contenders for each crown.
Last summer, Korea started singing along to "Gangnam Style," by the K-pop star Psy. By October, my nephews in Maryland had joined the chorus. A couple of months ago in Chongqing, China, I saw women exercising by doing its signature horse-riding dance in a public square. In February, Psy performed before thousands at Brazilian Carnival.
The thoroughly global hit (its video is currently YouTube's most watched video ever, with over 1.3 billion views) has made Gangnam, a 15-square-mile district of southeast Seoul known for packed nightclubs, pricey boutiques and ubiquitous plastic surgery clinics, into a newly magnetic destination.
I normally avoid such spots — a matter of both budget and preference — but during a recent trip to South Korea, I couldn't resist the challenge: Would it be possible to spend three days in a district defined by opulence without hyperextending my budget?


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Q: How to get the coordinates of a mouse click on a turtle screen in python? Basically I want to access the coordinates of 2 mouse clicks, and then I even have to perform operations using those coordinates .
I have found this code but this is running infinitely and not terminating after 2 times as how I wanted
import turtle

def get_mouse_click_coor(x, y):
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A: How about the follwing approach.  Click on the window twice and then do_whatever() will be called with the two coordinates:
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How do we remember the words?
31 Jan 13 - 03:04 PM (#3473967)
Subject: How do we remember the words?
From: Uncle Tone
Probably the greatest aid to memory is rhyme. Try learning the lyrics as a poem first.
Difficult ones I tend to do visually, but then I have a 'visual' mind.
Take Martin Graebe's Harry the Hawker is Dead for example. (Reminders in brackets.)
Old Harry the Hawker is dead
No more he'll bring his boot hooks and laces (start at the foot)
And fancy goods from foreign places
Old Harry the Hawker is dead (Knife cutting a bootlace)
No more he'll bring his knives and forks
The finest Sheffield cutlers works
Old Harry the Hawker is dead (Knife cutting a candle in half)
Knives and forks, boots hooks and laces
Old Harry the Hawker is dead. (pins sticking in a candle)
No more he'll bring his lamps and candles
In holders of brass and graven handles
Old Harry the Hawker is dead.
Lamps and candles, knives and forks, etc.
No more he'll bring his needles and pins
In penny boxes and tupenny tins
Old Harry the Hawker is dead (Needles sewing a sash)
Needles and pins, lamps and candles, etc.
No more he'll bring his ribbons and sashes
To brighten our hearts with their colourful splashes
Old Harry the Hawker is dead (snatches almost a rhyme with sashes)
Ribbons and sashes, needles and pins, etc.
No more he'll bring his songs and snatches
His frisky jigs and cheerful catches
Old Harry the Hawker is dead (me in a ribbon. What a joke!)
Songs and snatches, ribbons and sashes, etc.
No more he'll bring his jokes and smiles
Collected from England's many fair miles
Jokes and smiles. songs and snatches, etc.
Harry the Hawker, written by Martin Graebe.
(In the reverse)
Songs and snatches, (snatch a ribbon out)
Ribbons and sashes, (needles in a sash)
Needles and pins (pins in a candle)
Lamps and candles (knife cutting candle)
Knives and forks (knives cutting laces)
Boot hooks and laces
And fancy goods from foreign places (rhyme)
Poor old 'arry
(well into short-term thingy loss)
Subject: RE: How do we remember the words?
From: Ebbie
By far, the easiest for me to memorize are the songs that tell a story that develops verse by verse.
Songs where verses are interchangeable, that can be stuck in anywhere are much more difficult. In 'Give Me the Roses', for instance, there are two verses that basically say the same thing. To this day I often almost forget one or the other of them.
I use rhyme as an editing tool, not necessarily while I'm learning the song. In other words, if a couple of lines try to intrude into the wrong verse but don't rhyme...
From: Phil Edwards
I just do, I'm afraid. I think I've got an auditory memory more than anything. When I listen to a song and then learn it, it feels more like bringing back a memory than learning something new - as if there's a word-for-word recording in there somewhere, and I just need to bring it to the surface of my mind.
For shorter songs I have a very strong sense of what verse goes second, what comes last and so on - once I've learnt them they're really nailed into place. (Not necessarily the places they were in when I learned them!) For longer songs, the story is everything. I don't see pictures, but I am very conscious of a voice telling a story and making one thing come after another - so after Lord Allenwater's had his nosebleed the horse has to stumble on a stone, and after the little footpage has swum the wide water he's got to come to the green wood.
Songs with interchangeable lines are a sod. A while ago I learned Noel Coward's "There are bad times just around the corner", which is basically nothing but; the rhymes help you avoid getting the lines mixed up, but entire sections can float from one verse into another if you're not careful. For songs like that, you just have to rely on the three Rs - Repetition, Repetition, Repetition.
From: Artful Codger
I learn words and music together, since the music helps "contextualize" the lyrics, providing additional memory cues, and I use a slew of other mnemonic techniques besides. The topic of how to memorize lyrics has been discussed quite a few times before, so I'd suggest searching for those threads. A sampling:
Tips for memorizing songs
Learning songs by heart
How do you learn/memorize songs?
Memorizing songs and performance quality
And if you can filter out the heated blather:
Is it OK to sing from a song book?
Most of the advice, of course, is of a general and fairly intuitive nature, but occasionally people have made more helpful and specific suggestions, particularly in the first thread. Such tips, extracted, would form a handy PermaThread, considering how often people would like help memorizing things.
From: Joybell
Begin before you learn to read is the best way. Too late for most people now with the availability of song-books. In the 1950s I reversed the learning process with reading when I was given a small song-book of Christmas Carols. I was about four years old and already sang hundreds of songs learned by ear. I taught myself to read using that book and the Stephen Foster song-book my father had.
Songs I learn from books remain a visual memory of written words. Songs learned by ear are tied to images within the song. I try not to write a song down until I know it by ear.
From: GUEST,Blandiver
Repetition! Too right! Trouble us, my memory's getting so bad these days I usually get bored with a song long before I've learned it...
We've repetition in the music and we'er never gonna lose it (ah)
From: GUEST,JHW
i am now finding a problem in learning new songs. Can't get them to stick.
I certainly would learn words and melody together and if I had a possible verse for a new song I would hang it temporarily on a familiar tune (and vice versa). As above a ballad is much easier than a set of verses with no link or progression. For the life of me I couldn't learn Snows They Melt the Soonest until I had the idea to transpose the middle two verses which gave a link and so a cue and no bother ever since.
From: Steve Gardham
Ballads no problem, you're simply following the story, but I found a neat way with Lady Franklin's Lament which doesn't have a strong thread.
I use key tag words in the last line of one verse repeated in the first line of the next verse.
From: Commander Crabbe
I sing the song I'm trying to learn while I walk the dogs. It bores the dogs to death but it gets the words into my memory.
The amount of repetition required can be greatly reduced by coupling it with various other mnemonic techniques, and by focussing the repetition on just the troublesome bits rather than repeating whole verses or the entire song. It also helps to slow down so that you have time to remember/practice things flawlessly rather than repeating (and conditioning in) mistakes and lapses.
From: RTim
I am amazed what I can remember - once the first line is found!!
That is why my song book is just first lines.
I too find as age comes, so does the ability to learn quickly.
Like "Blandiver" - once I have learnt the song by repetition - I'm bored with it!!
It also doesn't help if you try and know too many songs.......
Tim Radford
"It also doesn't help if you try and know too many songs......."
That is an excellent point. In my folder (which never gets to a folk club) I have about 200 songs. I know this is not a huge repertoire in the scheme of things, but I have sung all of them, some many times, others just now and again.
What I tend to do is pick about 20. Concentrate on those. When I start to get tired of some of them, I'll then feed in five or six others. That way I don't get bored, and neither do the audience.
Any singer worth his salt should be able to remember about 20 songs, that s/he has chosen because s/he likes them, I would have thought. And as has been pointed out, practising them until they are second nature, getting the instruments in tune before you go on, and I might add, not waffling, help the performance. If you have something to say, then rehearse that too unless you are a natural raconteur with stand-up potential.
In one singaround club I attend I didn't repeat a song for two years. But then they started asking me to repeat certain songs, so now I work out what I'm going to do on the basis of giving them new stuff, and also repeating some of the old stuff that they are familiar enough with to join in the chorusses.
What I don't do is read the same few songs out of a book every club meeting. I respect the audience too much (mostly performers themselves) to do that. And I think that respecting the audience is the MAIN reason for not reading out of a book.
(Sorry. I think I've cross-threaded.)
01 Feb 13 - 03:03 AM (#3474232)
From: Nigel Parsons
An interesting example of how you remember the song by visualising it.
A shame it only allowed you to remember 3 lines of verse 3!
Bulk Learning is good too. I always try and have a batch of songs on the go at any one time and it works a treat. Out of every five, invariably three get through.
Motivational factors are crucial too. For me learning a song because I like it is no longer enough. We take an annual spring break in Norfolk & last year I was serenading my wife around Fakenham Morrisons with as much as I could remember of Fakenham Fair. I don't much like Fakenham Fair; indeed many have argued that it's not even a proper Folk Song, and I agree, but not without qualification (see HERE for the discussion). Nevertheless, I determined to learn it (from the singing of Peter Bellamy - I'd like to say Jim Eldon, but whilst it's reported to be in his repertoire I've never heard him sing it) just so the next time we're shopping in Fakenham Morrisons I can sing it all. Meantime, I'll sing it as a souvenir of my beloved Norfolk along with Harry Cox's Cod Fish and Sam Larner's Butter and Cheese and All.
"An interesting example of how you remember the song by visualising it.
A shame it only allowed you to remember 3 lines of verse 3!"
In trying to be too clever and picky, Nigel, I think you have confused verse three with the 'chorus' line. Do you know the song?
From: MikeL2
I learn by repetition. Just keep listening until I know it well. I used to record the words on to tape and play in my car when driving. I find once I've learned it, it sticks.
I learned to speak Spanish that way too.
You just have to find a way that suits you and stick with it.
Could never remember song titles though. Had a crib sheet on the side of my guitar.
MikeL2
01 Feb 13 - 05:27 PM (#3474608)
I can't remember titles either. I have to sing a song through until I find it. I like the ones that give it early -- "The first time ever I saw your face...".
I can never remember songwords I write myself. Probably because I pin them down on paper after exploring many possibilities. I write parodies for the local children as part of musical plays and they're on their own once we go into rehearsal. They are very good at it which is a good thing. One of the youngest children is a very poor reader but is some kind of musical prodigy. He has the songs down after singing them through once.
Last year all of the children sang a three verse-song in Russian after learning it by ear. Some songs are sung in parts and some with solos and dancing.
From: McGrath of Harlow
Start with the last verse, and work backwards isn't a bad idea. That way as you go forward you are more likely to be heading into more familiar territory.
And it helps to be quick at making up a replafment for a line on the spot. Call it a variant... Well, that's how variants come into being, and often enough the later versions are better. That especially goes for your own songs, you rub off the rough edges that way.
From: Paul Davenport
Which all goes to prove a rather strange thing about memory. The more you have to learn the easier it is. The tune supports the words and vice versa, the use of imagery, mnemonic ideas such as starting and finishing rhymes also help. The fact is, narrative song is also easier to memorise than plainly lyrical stuff.
Another oddity is a thing called, 'working memory' there's a finite limit to what you can hold in memory in one session. There's a passage of time required in order to transfer material from 'working memory' to 'long term' memory. Its still a case of 'nothing in excess'.
From: DebC
You have to use what works for YOU. Mike Waterson once told me that he would memorise a song by reading it over before he went to sleep and without fail would know it in the morning. Didn't work for me.
I am very slow to memorise and use repetition. I do a lot of memorising in the car while I am driving. If I have a recording of the song, I'll play a verse and then repeat that verse only without the recording. I try to build on each verse or line.
I once had a seven hour drive from Maine through New Brunswick on my way to Nova Scotia. I was memorising "The Rose In June" (maritime ballad) and had it down by the time I got to Moncton.
Unfortunately, I'd haven't sung it since and I need to do some brushing up on that one 'cuz it's a good one.
Deb Cowan
From: Tattie Bogle
I have a very much better memory for tunes than words, possibly because of early involvement in music. (can't always remember tune titles mind you. When I've HAD to learn words, e.g. for a stage production, then it was the tape in the car stereo: I used to record myself reading scripts but leaving out my own lines which I then had to fill in. For musical productions I would have my own part (alto) with NO words for tune learning, and the full works (with words) for singing words plus my part against the melody. Unfortunately usually as soon as the show was finished, the slate would be rapidly wiped clean to allow my ageing brain to store whatever else came its way!
For folk songs, I try and learn by singing along with a CD in the car: repeated reading of words just doesn't work for me: then it's "use it or lose it", i.e. keep singing it till it's well bedded in, or it just gets deleted off the hard drive. However there are some songs that are very seasonal, so I would perhaps put words in front of me and just try to get away with looking at them now and then, rather than having my nose buried in them. (Seems a lot of professionals now have the big music stand and do just that these days, especially those of us whose hard drives are getting overloaded or tired.
As fr my own songs, yes, have the words somewhere visible as unless your friends are really big fans, no-one can help you out if you forget!
From: The Sandman
From: PHJim
Like MikeL2, I learn many songs while driving. I'll stop the CD after the first stanza and sing it a few times, then play the second stanza and sing both a few times. As some have stated, a story song is always easier than a song that can be sung with the verses in any order, like "Life Gets Teejus, Don't it".
Once I learn a song, it seems I have to sing it without thinking too much about it. A song like "I'm My Own Grandpa", I have to sing without thinking about what comes next or I'll mess it up.
From: YorkshireYankee
When I did a lot more driving than I do now, I also did what PHJim, MikeL2, Deb Cowan, Tattie Bogle, etc "talk" about. Perhaps I should mention that, by the time I'd start practicing in the car, I already knew the tune.
When I do need to learn tune as well as words, I just play the song constantly while I'm doing other stuff, until I know the tune without having to worry about it. Knowing the tune helps me later remember the words - because they need to fit the tune.
As for learning the words, what is extremely effective for me is to write them down. (Once used to pretty much do it when I was younger; now two or three times might be needed.) If I've written down the words first, it usually cuts the time I take for memorizing by at least half.
Since I don't spend much time in the car these days, the place I currently find time to memorize/refresh words to new/old songs (mentally, not out loud; practicing the song/figuring out what key to sing in/working on how it sounds in my voice is a different kind of practice) is while I'm lying in bed waiting to fall asleep... as good as counting sheep (and more useful!).
From: Howard Jones
If I'm learning a song from a CD I find transcribing the words helps. I've probably already listened to it a lot in the car, but I won't consciously try to learn it, although quite a bit usually sticks.
I start by writing down the first few words of each line as the song plays. I then go back and try to fill in the gaps from memory. Then another play-through to fill in more gaps and correct any errors. Repeat until it's right. By this time I'll listened in a focussed manner several times and concentrated on the words, all of which helps to fix them in my mind.
If I'm going to accompany it I'll then work on the arrangement, but I'll also just sing it a lot, again often in the car. A lot of repetition is required, and there's a danger that by the time the song is ready to perform you're already sick of it.
Finally, I'm not too bothered about getting a few words "wrong", in the sense of being different from my source. Provided they're not crucial to the story, or have a particular lyrical quality which is important to the feel of the song, a few "ands" and "buts" in the wrong place are not important, in my opinion.
From: open mike
When i need to remember the 3 verses to the Carter Family song
Give Me The Roses While I Live
I just think of "WhiFfen Poof" (it works for me)
as verse one begins with "W" in Wonderful,
verse 2 starts with "F" for Folks and
the last verse starts with "P" for Praises
1.Wonderful things of folks are said, when they have passed away.
Flowers adorn the narrow bed, and over the sleeping lay.
Give me the roses while I live, trying to cheer me on,
Useless the flowers that you give, after the soul is gone.
2. Folks are forgiven when folks lie, cold in the narrow bed.
Let us forgive them ere they die, now should the words be said.
3. Praises are heard not by the dead, roses they cannot see.
Let us not wait till souls have fled, tenderest friends to be.
CHORUS, REPEAT CHORUS


New research by the TaxPayers' Alliance reveals that councils are paying their staff millions more than they should be in mileage allowance payments.
Employees who use their own vehicles for business journeys are often reimbursed with mileage allowance payments by their employers to cover the cost of using the vehicle. HMRC sets an approved amount for cars and vans: 45p for first 10,000 miles.
The TPA first exposed this needless waste of taxpayers' money back in 2011, and some councils have shown that reducing their mileage payments to the approved rate is an easy way of saving money without affecting frontline services. However, too many still pay more than they should, costing taxpayers millions.
The Department for Communities and Local Government first advised councils to stop paying above HMRC's approved rate five years ago.
This research has the figures for every council in England, Scotland and Wales, including the overall amounts spent on mileage payments and the rates paid.
"Driving is extremely expensive in Britain thanks to sky-high rates of fuel duty and vehicle excise duty, but there's no excuse for councils to pay more than HMRC's approved rate for mileage. It's simply not credible for local authorities to plead poverty and raise council tax while paying over the odds for basic expenses, especially when the government has been telling them to rein in these payments for the past five years."
Local authorities made £223 million in mileage allowance payments to their employees in 2016-17.
The average council rate was 48.92 pence in 2016-17 - 3.92 pence higher than the HMRC approved rate.
Bassetlaw paid the highest rate at 69 pence per mile, over 50 per cent more than the HMRC approved rate.
Compared to an employee paid the approved rate, a Bassetlaw council employee is: £240 better off over 1,000 miles.
Lincolnshire council paid out the most – £6.9 million – in mileage allowance payments in 2016-17.


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            this.GetDirectories().FirstOrDefault(dir => dir.Name == directory) ??
            new FtpDirectory(this.Client, this.FullName.TrimEnd('/') + "/" + directory, base.encoding)
            {
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            this.GetFiles().FirstOrDefault(dir => dir.Name == file) ??
                new FtpFile(this.Client, this.FullName.TrimEnd('/') + "/" + file, base.encoding)
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            {
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        public FtpDirectory CreateSubdirectory(string name)
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            {
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Tree Photos in fall foliage peak always make for exceptional photography. This one is a bit different and I encountered the scenery for this abstract tree fall foliage impression on my last trip to Acadia National Park. While cruising on Route 3 towards the national park excitement was building with every mile I got closer. The rush was suddenly interrupted when I caught sight of this tiny pond with a beautiful autumn reflection right next to the entrance of Hancock Country Bar Harbor airport. I first kept going but then decided to turn around and work the subject. It was late afternoon and the trees were beautifully back-lit. Turned out to be impossible to get a great shot of the trees and their reflections in the pond without the distracting airport in the background. Wind also was an issue and as often in the field became my enemy. Little ripples caused by the wind did not allow for the perfect reflection I had in mind. I was pretty much out of patience when I realized a great potential for an addition to my Impressionistic Photography gallery. I then solely focused on the reflection and its impressionistic impression. A tiny leaf carried by the ripples back and forth provides more interest and a focus point for the viewer.
The Canon EF 27-70mm f/2.8 L USM provided the appropriate crop of the image. I focused on the single leaf and a polarizing filter boosted color saturation. The aperture was set to f/5.6 providing a 1/30 of a second Exposure time at ISO100. During post processing I removed dust spots, minimally adjusted lighting, contrast, and color saturation before sharpening the final Reflection Photography image.


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Each year begins the same we make a bunch of resolutions or promises to ourselves that we know we aren't going to keep. From unrealistic goals to unrealistic results, we set ourselves up for disappointment and failure from the jump. 2018 is all about being real — real with yourself. If you want to make some changes in your life ,you have to do in in a way that you'll be able to easily incorporate into your daily habits. Here are our 12 cheap and easy way to easily incorporate more health & wellness into into your new year of growth.
At the end of each month, take 10 to 15 mins to reflect on that month.What lessons did you learn that month? Did you accomplish any goals you have set ? If not, how can you accomplish them in the next year?
Treat yourself — Every month. Treating yourself doesn't mean you have to buy those new Jordans that you know you shouldn't buy. You can treat yourself in other ways, like watching a new show you've been dying to check out, trying a new restaurant, or listening to that new Gucci Mane album you've been meaning to. Whatever your thing is try and make time for you to enjoy each month.
Find small ways to add exercise to your daily routine — no gym membership required. Do 10 pushups before you shower, park your car at the end of the parking lot, do 10 squats before you pee. However you can add that extra exercise in, do it. You won't regret it.
Watch the new show/movie or read that new book you've been hearing everyone talk about. It's cool to do your own thing but it's also cool to connect with people on a common subject. Keeping up with what's popping allows you to communicate with new people in other ways.
Take a personal day. You may not actually be sick but you have grown sick of your co-workers, boss, work environment, etc. Take a day to relax and recharge. Do whatever you want to, except work.
Do a social media clean-up and/or detox. You can do it once, you can do it over and over again but a social media clean-up is necessary. Look over your socials and clean it up a bit. Get rid of those old videos and photos of yours ex's (friends included). Getting rid of that stuff will help you to move on. Take a detox from your timeline for a fresh perspective by logging off for at least 24 hours. Believe me, what is there yesterday will still be known tomorrow.
Wash your face everyday. I can't say that in any other way. Seriously just do it. Your pores and skin will thank you later.
Buy a piece of art. Art is literally happiness. This study says so.
Travel to a part of your state you have never been to. Even if its a place that 10 mins away, switching up your environment will either give you wanderlust or have you seriously appreciating where you currently live.
Try online therapy for those days when there is no one to talk to. I know…you don't need therapy, but you do need someone to talk to about things that are going on in your life. Your friends and/or family aren't always available when you need them but an online therapist will be. Sometimes you need to express yourself to someone who won't judge you or isn't going to give their unwanted opinion — therapy is perfect for this! Check out sites like Talkspace or Breakthrough to get started.
Forgive yourself for the mistakes you've made and the ones you will make. Don't be so hard on yourself. You'll want to be nice to yourself, you'll only be with yourself for the rest of your life. Forgiving yourself will have you looking and feeling as happy as the people in the cover photo.
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Disney's powerful film Queen of Katwe opens in theaters on Septemer 23, 2016! Queen of Katwe is the vibrant true story of a young girl from the streets of rural Uganda whose world rapidly changes when she is introduced to the game of chess. As a result of the support she receives from her family and community she is instilled with the confidence and determination she needs to pursue her dream of becoming an international chess champion.
The powerful film stars David Oyelowo (Selma), Oscar winner Lupita Nyong'o (12 Years a Slave) and newcomer Madina Nalwanga and is directed by Mira Nair (Monsoon Wedding). The drama is from a screenplay by William Wheeler (The Hoax) based on the book by Tim Crothers, Queen of Katwe is produced by Lydia Dean Pilcher (The Darjeeling Limited) and John Carls (Where the Wild Things Are) with Will Weiske and Troy Buder serving as executive producers.
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10 Best Text-Based Games to Play Right Now
Fiction is always a satisfying pastime and is a gem to its readers. If you are one of them, it could be possible that you wish once to immerse yourself in it. But that can happen despite having no virtual instruments to aid you.
Readers are known to have the ability to steer their imagination into the places inside their minds. Fortunately, some games will enable you to read and experience the sequence of the story. That is what we are going to discuss here in this article.
Majority of the games that we know feature immersive gameplay we love to experience. The gameplay shows you the game's virtual environment and the rules to act within it. However, not all games are created equal, and some have other different gameplay elements.
The Uniqueness of Text-based Games
Text-based games are unique because they are suitable for those who love the unpredictability of fiction. These games do not only bring you the gameplay, but a whole story you will explore. It happens that these games, as you wish, and you will know each of them here.
Text-based games are any category that allows you to play the game through text. The content of each of the games differs in storylines with stages of choice. The choice is what makes you play the game interactively, like you are immersed in it.
That is not present in other games. EmulatorPC will let you play the best text-based games available on their platform. So grab your cup of coffee and explore each overview of these games. You can then download and play them later here if you like.
AI Dungeon
Latitude is the best when they created this text-based game. AI Dungeon is suitable for those who are creative in chatting on messaging platforms. But you are not talking to real people here. You are talking with the Artificial Intelligence that is into it.
The most exciting part of the game is you will be traversing a story. So be crafty in executing the most creative conversation and have fun playing this text-based game.
Underworld Office: Visual Novel, Adventure Game
Are you fond of exploring mysteries and will not get tired of reading-related stories? Underworld Office: Visual Novel, Adventure Game can be the right one for you. You are lucky to know that this text-based game is also available in EmulatorPC.
It is published by Buff Studio (Story Games, Calm Games) and will introduce you to an interesting story. Like the first game mentioned, you will interact with the characters in a text-based manner. The catchy part of the game is it stimulates your curiosity with its soundtrack.
Grim Quest – Old School RPG
Imagine playing an adventure RPG in a unique way. What we are saying here is immersing in a quest in a textual manner. That is a unique feature for a role-playing game published by Monomyth.
The game is suitable for those heavy readers who love to steer the story to their preference. If you are this type of player, you will enjoy playing the game that features the RPG quest.
You will surely love this game if you are fond of playing detective games. Published by Twinaleblood, I am Innocent will surely delve into an investigative exploration of its storylines. The game brings you into a memory of a character whom you will play in the game.
The story starts after the disappearance of your sister many years ago. Many disappearances happen following that incident, and you must put justice on your terms. Because of that, you will traverse storylines to find the right one that leads to justice.
Love makes the world go round since you are in high school. Whatever definitions you will categorize your stance on love, you can relate to this game. It takes you to the story of a young male student named Mark Blythe.
It happens that he falls in love with a girl named Nicole Tyler. So because of that, your role in the game is to steer the story in the best possible direction. You have what it takes to be a virtual cupid, and you can do much more than that.
Mysterious Forum & 7 Rumors
When you are reading novels, you will find some mysteries related to your desires. Some of the desires are related to your curiosity about an interesting character. Luckily, Entabridge Co., Ltd. brings you a text-based game that reflects the descriptions we just said.
The game will allow you to enter the mystery that happened in a fictional high school. The has been a rumor that one photo is cursed and anyone who will have it will die. To prevent that, you have the responsibility to steer the story to the best choice of storylines. You will love this game as it will show you unpredictable twists you never expect.
Impossible Quest
Impossible Quest is an adventure game published by Axel Sonic. The game will introduce you to an immersive experience full of twists and turns. You will be exploring the type of adventure based on textual exploration but still very exciting.
The most interesting part of the game is its funny approach to storytelling which makes it humorous. The game also allows you to explore other storylines, which you are free to choose while playing.
Duskwood – Story
Do you want to fancy yourself with a Sherlock level of detection? You can unleash that with this adventure RPG where you will find another type of Moriarty. Duskwood will bring you into a remote town called Duskwood where a mysterious crime takes place.
Your role in the game is to investigate the mystery by embarking on a textually rigid journey. You should choose the best storyline to solve the mystery, and you can do that in the game.
Lonewolf (17+) – A Sniper Story
This game is for you if you have a fascination with great assassins. Your role is to enter textual gameplay where you have to comply with every task. You have to be creative while playing Lonewolf as it will immerse you in an action you will love.
That will be exciting as you have to finish over 30 challenging jobs that involve assassin tasks. The game will provide you with the essential weapons to be good, and unleash your assassin skills.
7Days!: Mystery Visual Novel
You will love this game If you are looking for an adventure that defines life and death. This adventure game will take you into an interactive story of a bargain. The main character, Kirell, needs to complete a series of tasks to get resurrected.
Your role in 7 Days!: Mystery Visual Novel is to play the main character which will elevate the excitement. You have what it takes to be a man who will do anything to be alive. Unleash your creative thinking skills to succeed in every stage of this game.
Now that you know each of the games, try to play them on your PC. You can play these games with friends for a thrilling story-game moment. There's more game collection to wait, so explore as much as you can! For more updates about them, stay tuned here in EmulatorPC.
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Your First Look at ADVENTURE TIME: MARCY & SIMON #2 by Olivia Olson and Slimm Fabert
by First Comics News on January 23, 2019 Your First Look at ADVENTURE TIME: MARCY & SIMON #2 by Olivia Olson and Slimm Fabert2019-01-23T22:52:31-08:00 - News
Discover The Future of Your Favorite Vampire Queen & Former Ice King in February 2019
LOS ANGELES, CA (January 23, 2019) – BOOM! Studios and Cartoon Network today revealed a first look at ADVENTURE TIME™: MARCY & SIMON #2 (of 6). Writer Olivia Olson (voice of Marceline on Cartoon Network's Adventure Time™) and artist Slimm Fabert (Adventure Time™ comic series) bring fans the exciting official comic book continuation of the Emmy® Award-winning Cartoon Network animated series by revealing what's next for the reformed Ice King and Vampire Queen Marceline in comic book form.
Marcy and Simon's friendship has endured over 900 years and through bouts of insanity and amnesia. So when Simon's memories of his life as the Ice King and his memories of Marceline, start slipping away, Marcy recruits Princess Bubblegum to figure out how to get them back. It's time for some mad science! But if even the maddest of science isn't enough to fix Simon's brain, where will Marcy turn next?
A modern day fable, the Emmy® Award–winning animated series Adventure Time™ has become a global success since its premiere in 2010, attracting adult and kid viewers in their millions over the course of 10 seasons. It follows unlikely heroes Finn and Jake, buddies who traverse the mystical Land of Ooo and encounter its colorful inhabitants. The best of friends, our heroes always find themselves in the middle of heart-pounding escapades. Finn, a silly kid with an awesome hat and Jake, a brassy dog with a big kind heart, depend on each other through thick and thin. Adventure Time™ is created by Pendleton Ward and produced at Cartoon Network Studios.
BOOM! Studios has been publishing the New York Times bestselling Adventure Time™ comic books and graphic novels through their KaBOOM! imprint for middle grade readers since 2012 and been honored with Eisner, Harvey, and Diamond Gem Awards for the series.
ADVENTURE TIME™: MARCY & SIMON is Olson's third writing contribution to the expanded literary world of the eponymous franchise, previously collaborating with her father Martin Olson (the voice of "Hunson Abadeer") on The Adventure Time™ Encyclopedia. The two also co-authored Adventure Time™: The Enchiridion & Marcy's Super Secret Scrapbook, written from a first-person perspective through Marceline's diary entries about when she and Simon first met. Both Adventure Time™ books, published in partnership between Abrams and Cartoon Network, are available now everywhere books are sold.
ADVENTURE TIME™: MARCY & SIMON #2 features a main cover by Brittney Williams (Goldie Vance), along with variant covers by illustrators Ray Tonga and Ashley Morales (Adventure Time™ ).
ADVENTURE TIME™: MARCY & SIMON is the latest release from BOOM! Studios' award-winning KaBOOM! imprint, home to comics for middle grade and younger readers including licensed series such as Over The Garden Wall, Regular Show, Steven Universe, Peanuts, and Garfield, along with original series like Mega Princess by Kelly Thompson and Brianne Drouhard, Bodie Troll by Jay Fosgitt, Ruinworld by Derek Laufman, and The Deep by Tom Taylor and James Brouwer.
Print copies of ADVENTURE TIME™: MARCY & SIMON will be available on February 20, 2019 at local comic book shops (use comicshoplocator.com to find the nearest one) or at the BOOM! Studios webstore. Digital copies can be purchased from content providers like comiXology, iBooks, Google Play, and the BOOM! Studios app.
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Sitting bored in the car while his sister auditioned for The Legend of William Tell, Michael Wesley-Smith ventured inside and stumbled into a professional acting career. Discovered by the show's casting director, he went on to appear in all five seasons of hit The Tribe. He also starred as the newest student at Atlantis High, another show made by company Cloud 9. Later, after completing a law degree in Otago and studying at Christchurch's NZ Broadcasting School, Wesley-Smith became a reporter for Three, and has worked on Campbell Live, Story and Newshub Nation. He has also reported for Sky and ESPN.


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Why "Fjordman"?
Fjordman's latest essay has been published at Vlad Tepes. Some excerpts are below:
Why I Chose the Name Fjordman
I have previously written a brief review of Bruce Bawer's latest ebook The New Quislings: How the International Left Used the Oslo Massacre to Silence Debate About Islam. I am now preparing a longer text with some comments about the subjects the author discusses in his book, but will first say a few words about why I started using the name Fjordman. Bawer has some nice things to say about me, which is appreciated, but also a few critical comments, among other things about my writing under the pseudonym Fjordman.
Bruce Bawer thinks that my pseudonym is "silly." He is, of course, well within his rights to think so. I have been asked several times why I picked that pen name, and the answer is that there is no particular reason.
I opened my old blog in February 2005, when I was already very familiar with the world of Internet websites related to Islamic issues. I even did my master's thesis at the University of Oslo in 2004 on the subject of English-language Iranian blogs and how communications between Iranians in exile might affect the debate behind the censorship wall of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The government of Iran has copied some of the censorship measures employed by Chinese authorities. I have also seriously toyed with the idea of writing a PhD on Internet censorship, but even if you are accepted this takes years. One has to be 100% motivated before starting on something like that.
The reason why I picked the name Fjordman is partly coincidental. I wanted something that was short, easy to remember and vaguely Norwegian. I have lived next to fjords for most of my life, with a few exceptions such as the years I spent in the Middle East. I grew up in the town of Ålesund on the west coast, which has a high concentration of Art Nouveau or Jugendstil architecture due to a major fire in 1904, after which the entire town center was rebuilt in stone over the period of a couple of years. Ålesund is situated on a fjord close to the Atlantic Ocean, and has a long and living maritime history. The spectacular Geirangerfjord, one of the most famous among tourists, is located in the same district.
I began my studies at the university city of Bergen, which is a famously rainy but also very beautiful city. Founded nearly a thousand years ago at the end of the Viking Age, it was Norway's most important city until the nineteenth century, and was a Scandinavian center of trade for the Hanseatic League in the Late Middle Ages. It, too, is situated next to a fjord. The Oslofjord may be less spectacular than some of those on the west coast, but it's still a scenic one with plenty of nice islands to go along with it. Edvard Munch's famous painting The Scream (Skrik) shows an agonized figure with the Oslofjord viewed from Ekeberg in Oslo in the background.
It was thus natural for me to pick this name. I may be critical of my country's politics sometimes but I have a deep appreciation for its natural beauty, at least when it's not too cold or dark.
Read the rest at Vlad Tepes.
For a complete archive of Fjordman's writings, see the multi-index listing in the Fjordman Files.
What better name than one that expresses who you are and where you come from. Through your writing, it has come to stand for the people and values that grew and developed along the fjords, long before the vicious and dangerous Lilliputians who are so eagerly binding up the giants they fear: vision, wisdom and knowledge of history.
jlh
Silly?!
I think it is a wonderful name
What associations Bawer has with it I don´t know, but from where I´m standing it sounds fine.
I hope you are doing well Fjordman, and that your troubles are over.
Centera said...
It is so true! How the left used Breivik to try to scare us to be silent about islam. But we won't let them and we will never be silent!
It works for "Elder of Ziyon".
A nom de plume is standard practice. Especially in light of murderous Musselman Jihadists. I'd prefer to think of yours as a nom de guerre though.
@ JLH so brilliantly said, the "blog name" is evocative of the culture that forms the thinker that is Fjordman. Each of us is formed by a "home turf" ; and it is that locale, our national and cultural pride that we accept as the norm. We grow up, and see, and experience other cultures, but we have our touchstone always.
The PC/MC bunch can not have this; nor can Eurabia. It is a lose lose scenario for those who oppose both 'culture enrichers' and their useful, Western idiots. By our individuality, we are damned; by our collective cultural memory/experience we are damned. Hence,Fjordman must be damned...his own name is a hated subtext to these rootless, spiritless wanderers in the desert of indifferent morality and false equivalency.
So, what's in a name? or pseudonym?....our dernier cri of identity....that which defines us, separates us from the everyman, yet brings us to that touchstone...the one that MANY an indifferent reader may have not yet met?
Sincerely, Prospero
Hmm...well, y'all have exposed my choice of Saint Dymphna, healer of lunatics.
Chased by evil as she was, she never gave in. Because there ARE worse things than dying.
Some names are fated. I never heard of her till her card fell out of a used book of poetry I bought online.
It suits my Celtic spirit to think she chose me.
And Bruce Bawer can go sit on a tack. Anyone who thinks Charles Johnson had the truth on Vlaams Belang without bothering to read the thorough refutation made against Chazzer's assertions...well, can that a serious person?
Charles & Mr. Bawer have grown to deserve whatever it is they need to believe.
It'll sound silly but I do suspect dymphna is the only person in the world who can actually have a humble opinion. :D
I've found, rcently, there is still fracturing and re-alignment going on in the whole right-wing blogosphere. Two camps. The people who genuinely seek freedom an those who just want to exchange one set of dictators for another.
Fjordman, GoV and most of the posters here fall into the former. The latter tend to out themselves and start attacking after a while. It's going to be a fun few years.
Col. B. Bunny said...
I fail to see how Fjordman's pseudonym could be seen as "silly."
I reckon it's a brilliant name keep it.
Breivik a False Flag to Discredit the Right
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AliceNorthernLights said...
For the last Anonimus# - the link you posted is from an anti-zionist site. Did you read posts in it?
I love the name Fjordman, i believed it was you real name (also because that name does exist).
I enjoy your writings, but I don't really care which name you use, or why
roses smell as sweet, etc.
Pensions, Ethics, Tobacco, and Fighter Jets
The Platform for Catalonia Branches Out
Totalitarians Suffer From Free Speech Phobia
Why Islam is the Largest Threat to Freedom
Can We Say "I Told You So"?
Muslims Slaughter Christians in Nigeria and Kenya
Muhammad Manipulated the Koran
The Natives Come First!
Sabotaging the Lettuce
Demography is Destiny
Is Breivik's Trial Unconstitutional?
The Great Jihad Comes to Hesse
Conserving Electricity Through Cultural Enrichment...
Sabotaging Our Miserable House
More on the German Koran Giveaway
The Protocols of the Norwegian Academy
A Loss of Faith in Sweden as a Democracy
"Oh, We Know…"
Zakat: Returning to the Bimetallic Standard
A Petition to Ban the Koran in Spain
The Influence of the Salafists
Testosterone Poisoning and the Counterjihad
The Trial of Anders Behring Breivik: Week One
The Progressive Alphabet
The Acquittal of Lars Hedegaard
On Being English
Fjordman: The Norway Killer Trial: Week One
The Fall of the Dutch Cabinet
A Gift from the Religion of Atrocity
An Economic Suicide Pact
Useful Idiocy
"We Can Leave a Disaster for Our Children"
Why the Arab Spring Will Descend Into an Islamic I...
Jihad: The Law of War
Paid in Advance
The Norwegian Straitjacket
Sh-h-h-h!
No Asylum for Apostates
The Proper Disposal of a Free Koran
The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Multiculturalists
Lars Hedegaard Acquitted
Murder at the Convention Center
War Between the Sudans
The Theory and Practice of Halal
Norwegian News Roundup
More on the Buffalo Child Murder
Muh... Muh... Members of a Monotheistic Religion
Somali Cultural Enrichment Comes to Buffalo
What's in a Name? Jihad!
Gunning for the Swedish Free Press Society
Breivik in Brief
Cracking Down on Christian Terrorism
The Somali Mafia: Grooming and Pimping in Minnesot...
Trial Without Limits
Oslo, 2012: The Rape Wave Continues
Muslims in France: Time to Leave the Toilet!
Fjordman: The Breivik Trial Begins
Lies, Damned Lies, and The Guardian
Surprising Developments in the Trial of Lars Hedeg...
Cowardice on Utøya
Taliban Jailbreak
Korans for Everyone!
"Islam is the Religion of Blood"
Islam Reclaims Barcelona Cathedral
The First Honor Killing of the Year
The Cordoba House and the Myth of Andalusian "Ecum...
The Show Begins
Eliana Benador: Impeachment-Ready Obama Surrenders...
Triple Jeopardy for Lars Hedegaard
The Andalusian Spring
Halal Slaughter, Zakat, and Mad Cow Disease
The Muslim Brotherhood at Home and Abroad
A Crash Course for the Norwegian Left
Paul Weston at the British Freedom Party Meeting
Gang Rapists Convicted in Småland
Blood Libel, Courtesy of the Green Party
Conquering the World Via the Halal Movement (Updat...
The Ruut Causes of Terrorism


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HomeMemorialsObituaries ArchiveArvin Clifton Ketchem
Arvin Clifton Ketchem
Mr. Arvin C. "Toad" Ketchem, 84, of Elizabethton, went home to be with his Lord, on Sunday, July 10, 2011 at the James H. Quillen Veteran's Administration Medical Center Hospital following an extended illness.
He was the son of the late George Denny and Katie Holdren Ketchem and was born in Elgood, WV. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his wife, Mary Charles Nidiffer Ketchem, a brother Aven Ketchem, and a sister, Elberta Szkiresak.
Mr. Ketchem was a veteran of the United States Navy and served during WWII. He was retired from North American Rayon Corporation and was the last engineer to drive the train there. He was an active member of Pleasant Beach Baptist Church where he served the congregation as a deacon and treasurer for thirty-nine years and the choir director for thirty-six years. He was a devoted father, grandfather and great-grandfather who loved to fish and play golf.
He is survived by a daughter, Cathy Ann Miller, Elizabethton; a granddaughter, Cara Miller Buchanan and her husband, Jim, Elizabethton; four great-grandchildren, Ashton, Cameron, Bryston and Jeremy; a brother, Ervin Ketchem and his wife, Bea, Elizabethton; four sisters, Irene Bates, AZ; Anne Lee Ferren, MI; Clara Lyons and her husband, Vernon, FL; and Shirley Carter, Elizabethton. Several nieces and nephews also survive.
The funeral service for Mr. Ketchem will be conducted on Wednesday, July 13, 2011 at 7:00 PM in the Riverside Chapel of Tetrick Funeral Home, Elizabethton with Rev. Charlie Biggs, Rev. Bobby Stout and Rev. Ken Jones officiating. Music will be under the direction of the Pleasant Beach Baptist Church Choir. The family will receive friends in the funeral home chapel from 5:00 – 7:00 PM Wednesday.
The graveside service and interment will be conducted on Thursday, July 14, 2011 at 10:30 AM at Happy Valley Memorial Park. Active pallbearers will be Jim Buchanan, Adrian Tolley, John Russell, Pat Smith, Charlie Pearson, Gordon Lewis and John Bradley. Military honors will be accorded by American Legion Post #49. Those wishing to attend are asked to meet at the funeral home at 9:45 AM Thursday to go in procession to the cemetery.
The family would like to express a very special thank you to the staff of Pine Ridge Care and Rehab Center and to the doctors, nurses and other staff members of the James H. Quillen Veteran's Administration Medical Center Hospital for the love, care and concern shown to the family and to Mr. Ketchem during his illness.
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Imagining: Creating Spaces for Indigenous Ontologies, by Marisa Elena Duarte & Miranda Belarde-Lewis influenced me to imagine the people standing up as one against those who decide to destroy and leave out important information. This text states "much of our ways have been lost, subjugated, censored, and stolen from our communities, with no substantial return of documents, artifacts, institutions, or status in the foreseeable future." This quote really hit home. I could not imagine my culture, land, and existence being deliberately obliterated, because of greed and cold-heartedness. Several of our class discussions have focused on those who have the power to hide, create, and delete information. In my African American and Diaspora class, we have talked about the Africans who were stolen from their lands and distributed to the Americas, Britain, France and so forth. Slaves were documented only to prove whether or not someone owned them. Furthermore, many of the slaves on the trading ships were killed and their deaths were not recorded, because employers of the slave trade wanted insurance money along with other brutal reasons. I could not imagine being deleted, or historically recorded only as property rather than a human being with a personality, culture, mindset, and ideas.
This text also states "as indigenous thinkers, in order to imagine, one must not allow the trauma of the past harms to cloud our future vision." This quote takes the ideas right out of my head. I have always said "we should understand our history, but prevent ourselves from becoming hypnotized by it, so we can actually make positive changes." Furthermore, I believe individuals who fight for their culture or history should not marginalize themselves from people who seem different from them. At the end of the day we are all human beings trying to find a purpose in life.
I feel the pain of those indigenous peoples who were forced to assimilate into certain societies, with the fear of being marginalized due to any resistance. If we, as a people, seek the truth where do we begin? Do we expose those who have hidden or created false information? Do we search for answers and debate which ones seem the most legitimate or accurate?
The picture below represents we as a people supporting each other on a quest for the truth. No matter where we come from or what we believe in, we have to stand together as a whole to make change. We cannot forget that the people are the majority and the most powerful. The minority need us to function. We are as in control as we want to be.
Tionna- I also never thought about the treatment of historical archives as an opportunity of colonization. I have taken history classes that focused on colonization throughout history, and I was under the impression that this was something we were moving away from in our modern world. The article suggests that this is not the case, and I completely understand why. When the Europeans came to America they colonized the land by forcibly removing the people who lived there (Native Americans). This is not unalike what we are doing today with their histories, forcibly removing their stories from the index of available knowledge. This is indeed an act of colonization. Makiah's project for his summer internship (mentioned in his post) says it all. If a people's history is not digitized, it is likely that it will cease to exist in the future. This is the reality we face- digitization is preservation. So, if we do not digitize the history of minorities like Native Americans, we may lose their histories forever, and we wont be able to get them back.


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The American Society of Civil Engineers has awarded its 2022 H. Bolton Seed Medal to Jonathan D. Bray, Professor and Faculty Chair in Earthquake Engineering Excellence in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the College of Engineering at University of California, Berkeley. The H. Bolton Seed Medal recognizes outstanding contributions to teaching, research, and/or practice in geotechnical engineering. Professor Bray is a PEER-funded researcher and Principal Investigator of the CEC-funded project to develop a seismic risk assessment tool for natural gas storage and transmission systems.
Bray will be recognized at the 2022 Geo-Congress which will take place March 20-23, 2022, in Charlotte, North Carolina. Bray is recognized for advancements in geotechnical earthquake engineering, including liquefaction ground motions, seismic site response, seismic slope stability, soil-structure-interaction, and surface fault rupture. He is also recognized as a gifted teacher and mentor of undergraduate and graduate students at UC Berkeley and a gifted educator of professionals through numerous short courses. His many honors include the Ishihara Lecture from the ISSMGE, the Joyner Lecture from SSA and EERI, the Huber, Peck, and Terzaghi Awards from ASCE, and election to the National Academy of Engineering.
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Why Your Student Can't Skip Reading Tonight!
I received this from a colleague a few years back and thought I'd share it with you all! Enjoy, and please check out my post on blogging for higher order thinking skills!
I came across a great article recently entitled: "HOT Blogging: A Framework for Blogging to Promote Higher Order Thinking", which was published in the May 2009 issue of The Reading Teacher. This article gave a great instructional framework for effectively using blogging with students to promote critical thinking skills (what we all want to do!).
The article also gave super insights for beginning bloggers, and would be a great resource for teachers who are not sold on the value of blogging.
Personally I want to take blogging to the next level in my classroom this upcoming academic year. I plan on using it often, in order to give students a solid platform to connect to a large audience, and to think critically on issues with that audience. Blogging truly provides students with authentic writing experiences. Check out my blog I used to communicate things to parents and students this past year…I think I will be changing it, just a bit. 2008-2009 Mr. A's Classroom Blog. I am a firm believer in using technology to engage learners and move them into higher order thinking. Blogging can be used to do this!
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Of the Indiana Pacers' many strengths, playing with a bad memory might be their strongest.
One night after allowing a franchise-record 49 points in the first quarter in a loss to the Hornets, Indiana played like a team coming off of a win.
Victor Oladipo and Bojan Bogdanovic each scored 19 points and the Pacers relied on a strong second half to beat the Philadelphia 76ers 100-92 on Saturday night.
"I think we just did a good job in the second half of containing their shooters and making sure they didn't get downhill," Oladipo said.
Oladipo added nine rebounds and four assists. Domantas Sabonis scored 10 points.
The Pacers jumped out to a 40-27 in the second quarter but the 76ers pushed back, outscoring Indiana 24-10 over a seven-minute span for a 51-50 lead. The Pacers managed to put together a 12-6 scoring run to end the second quarter and take a 62-57 lead into the locker rooms.
Indiana led 76-75 at the start of the fourth quarter, extended its advantage with an 7-2 run and held on with both teams were playing on the second night of a back-to-back.
Joel Embiid played on both nights of the back-to-back for the first time in his career and finished with 24 points and 10 rebounds. Ben Simmons scored 10 points and added 11 rebounds for Philadelphia.
Lance Stephenson had a lot to do with the Pacers' surge in the fourth quarter. Stephenson finished with 14 points and nine rebounds off the bench.
"When Lance plays like that and is effective like that, it takes a lot of pressure off of everybody. He did a great job on both ends (of the floor), especially on the defensive end and slowing them down a little bit," Oladipo said.
The 76ers made six straight 3-point attempts in the second quarter but made just one of their 14 shots from beyond the arc during the second half.
After the 76ers did not commit a turnover in the first quarter, they finished with 18 total turnovers, including seven in the fourth quarter alone.
76ers: Four of Philadelphia's five starters scored in double figures. Philadelphia's entire starting unit has scored in double figures 17 times this season. . Simmons has scored at least 10 points in 40 of the 76ers' 49 games this season. . The 76ers have now lost four straight road games.
Pacers: Nate McMillan returned to the Pacers bench after missing Friday's game in Charlotte due to personal reasons. . Indiana has now won six straight at home.
After recording a double-double in a win against Memphis on Wednesday (15 points, 11 rebounds) and a double-double in a loss to Charlotte on Friday (19 points, 11 rebounds), Myles Turner found himself in foul trouble early against Philadelphia and missed much of the first half. Turner finished the game with no points, three rebounds and two assists.
Embiid recorded his fifth consecutive double-double. Despite the organization's concerns regarding Embiid and back-to-back contests, Philadelphia's All-Star center was glad to be on the floor for both games.
"I'm happy that I finally got to play in a back-to-back, but I wish we'd gotten the win. Overall, though, I felt great. I wasn't tired, my legs were fine, my body was fine," Embiid said.
76ers: Host Washington on Tuesday.
Pacers: Host Washington on Monday.


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Q: Can one programmatically obtain the MAC address of a device running Android 6.0+? Can one programmatically obtain the MAC address of a device running Android 6.0+?
According to this,

To provide users with greater data protection, starting in this
  release, Android removes programmatic access to the device's local
  hardware identifier for apps using the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth APIs. The
  WifiInfo.getMacAddress() and the BluetoothAdapter.getAddress() methods
  now return a constant value of 02:00:00:00:00:00.

Does that mean it's impossible to get the device's MAC address in Android 6.0+? If it's possible, can you tell me how to do it in Android Studio?
Also, this answer only applies to devices with versions of Android below 6.0

A: You can use an alternative way to get the MAC addr on a Android 6.0 device.
First add Internet User-Permission to your AndroidManifest.xml:
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE" />

Secondly,
try {
        // get all the interfaces
        List<NetworkInterface> all = Collections.list(NetworkInterface.getNetworkInterfaces());
        //find network interface wlan0
        for (NetworkInterface networkInterface : all) {
            if (!networkInterface.getName().equalsIgnoreCase("wlan0")) continue;
        //get the hardware address (MAC) of the interface
            byte[] macBytes = networkInterface.getHardwareAddress();
            if (macBytes == null) {
                return "";
            }

            StringBuilder res1 = new StringBuilder();
            for (byte b : macBytes) {
                //gets the last byte of b
                res1.append(Integer.toHexString(b & 0xFF) + ":");
            }

            if (res1.length() > 0) {
                res1.deleteCharAt(res1.length() - 1);
            }
            return res1.toString();
        }
    } catch (Exception ex) {
           ex.printStackTrace();
    }