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A Mexicana Goes South of the Border, Cuckolds Mexico for Chile
August 23, 2015 August 21, 2015 Kaelyn 1 Comment
Quihubo, amigos!? Despite living in Ecuador, I've been working so much that La Güera hasn't gotten many chances to stretch her legs, but good things are brewing so stay tuned. In the meantime, here's a guest post from a very close friend, Michelle Plascencia. She and I met while working together at a hostel in San Francisco, and since then have gotten ourselves into many an adventure, from terrorizing the quiet redwoods of Big Sur to bar-hopping in San Francisco's Mission District and everything in between. I even followed her through South America (or at least as far as Peru) without ever actually catching up to her. She's a wanderlust soul sister to the fullest extent.
On February 6th, 2014, I boarded a one-way flight for Bogotá, Colombia, with an open mind and heart, ready to let the spirit of travel guide me. I was an anxious twenty-something filled with wanderlust, but I was in many ways ready for this aimless journey.
Little did I know that I would have a love affair like none I had ever known — with Chile: its culture, its people, the landscapes, the lovers, friends, and connections that were so indescribable. You know that feeling when your stomach is filled with butterflies? Chile filled me with this unexpected fluttering for four months.
South America is filled with culture and beauty. Each country has its own spice and flavor. As I made my way south through Colombia, I was fortunate enough to meet Elliott, in Popayán. I instantly felt a bond with Elliot, a connection that was refreshing to a solo female traveler. I was nervous about crossing the border alone into Ecuador, but Elliot — a male, Chilean, travel guru — held my hand as we stepped from one country into another. He understood why I was traveling alone, but was also compassionate about my fear. We parted ways again in Quito, from which I continued on to Baños in the south. I was thankful for Elliott's guidance and had faith that I would be blessed with more characters like him on my trip.
I made it to Baños, the moment I like to refer to as the pinnacle of my trip. This is when I first felt it — the loneliness of traveling, the excitement and hesitation, the frustrations felt at times when I didn't know what to eat or where I would feel safe. Transylvania Hostel became my home for seven days. This is where I met my great friend Camila, my roommate in the dorm, and another solo twenty-something female. Camila, born and raised in Santiago, Chile, understood my love for travel. She also understood why I was doing so alone, why I wanted to be alone. The hostel was filled with solo travelers, groups of Chileans, dudes from Argentina, France, and the U.S., including sweet Alex from Indiana. We were a mixture of everywhere. We shared many moments together, surrounded by the mountains in Baños, but we all knew what every traveler knows: that the journey continues. Camila and I parted ways and exchanged information so we could keep in touch, but what does keeping in touch really mean?
I made my way down to Máncora, a beautiful coastal town in northern Peru, accompanied by Alex. After a few days of partying and lounging oceanside, it was time yet again to say goodbye. I parted ways with Alex and boarded my 17-hour bus ride from Máncora to Lima, Peru's capital. The bus ride was filled with emotion, excitement, and loneliness, the latter of which overcame me when I realized I was saying goodbye to a lover that I would probably never see again. Sure, we can keep in touch, but will that spark, that bond that we once shared, be the same?
I stepped off the bus in Lima and was immediately bombarded by taxi drivers clamoring to take me here or there. I didn't even have my backpack yet, but I already had 15 offers for cab rides. This is when I met Indira and Sebastián. When they noticed my overwhelmed facial expression, they immediately asked where I was going. It turned out we were going to the same hostel, so we walked away from the terminal and the gaggle of taxi drivers together. They were a vibrant, friendly Chilean couple. Indira was a calm spirit, while Sebastián was a louder, macho kind of guy.
I quickly became the third wheel while traveling with this kooky couple, but I felt more like a friend to these new companions who were on the same travel high as me. They would smooch on each other here and there but then they would get into screaming battles while I simply observed, simultaneously taking it in and losing myself in my own thoughts. Their relationship was close to home, as my parents are professionals at yelling battles and making up. Being around them was comforting. We traveled together to Arica, Chile, where they were taking a flight back to Santiago — the same place I was going, only on a thirty-hour bus ride. I was supposed to meet a dear friend of mine there. Indira and Seba walked me through everything: where to find reasonable bus tickets, what to do when I got there, etc. They gave me their addresses and phone numbers for when I arrived, before making sure that I got on the bus and waving goodbye from a distance. Indira and Sebastián… what a whirlwind of love they were.
I finally arrived in Santiago and felt like I was home. I stayed with Camila (my roomie from Baños) and was as welcome as if we had been friends for years!
I later met up with Indira and Seba, and it was as if we were on foreign lands together again. They welcomed me into their homes where we ate almuerzos, laughed, and later smoked a porro (joint) in Barrio Brasil.
Keeping in touch had a new meaning to me now. It was a real thing. We actually did and still do keep in touch.
As always, the journey continued, and I soon found myself in Punta Arenas, Chile, very unprepared to trek Torres del Paine. Full of ambition, I went to the well-known Erratic Rock to get some pointers for the hike. I was fortunate to cross paths with Osvaldo and Keko, two Chileans who were also prepping for the big hike.
"¿Vas sola?" they asked.
"Yes," I responded hesitantly, "I am going to rent some gear."
"Ven con nosotros, po!"
"¡Claro! Nomás vamos nosotros dos y tenemos todo. Nomás traete tu comida. Aquí nos vemos a las 6 a.m. mañana."
Five days later, we returned with endless stories, laughs, memories, and experiences that the three of us would always share: the moments we trekked in the rain, wind, snow, and sunshine and even rotated who would sleep in the middle to keep warm. The memories that created the kinship I instantly felt with them. The hike wouldn't have been the same alone. As I hiked eight hours a day with Osvaldo and Keko, I imagined doing it alone. The magical moments of the breathtaking landscape would have been the same, but the happiness I felt as we approached Glacier Grey wouldn't have been as magical if I had been alone. Sharing these moments with strangers felt wholesome. Once we got back, I headed back up north while they continued south into Argentina. As always we urged each other, "Keep in touch!" We embraced and parted ways.
I was finally heading out of Chile and into Bolivia. I stopped in Pisco Elqui, Valle de Elqui, Chile, a small town tucked away in the Andes. I attended a yoga class at Centro Tierra Pura, a holistic healing center, and was mesmerized by the energy there. I felt as though every moment prior to my arrival had been aligned to guide me to Pisco Elqui. After gushing about my instant love of Pisco to Loto, the owner, she immediately offered me a room to stay in in exchange for helping her while she traveled for work. I was a solo female wanderer, no plan or itinerary, and everything that I had experienced in Chile had brought me here, so I said yes. I was able to participate in meditation ceremonies, yoga, and other holistic healing practices.
The times spent in Pisco Elqui enriched my relationship with myself and opened my mind to the encounters that life has to offer if you're paying attention. I learned to embrace the present moment and understand that every moment, happy or sorrowful, is a gift. Sulking in what ifs, would'ves, could'ves, and should'ves tend to bring regret and cause us to forget to live in the present, creating a domino effect that takes away from the enjoyment of the now.
These few encounters that I've mentioned here are only a handful of the Chilean people that made me feel at home, made me feel like I could always go back to Chile and be welcome. All these encounters led me to my home in Pisco Elqui at a time and place that I cherish deep within my heart, remembering the moments as if they were dreams.
A surfer in Pichilemu, Chile, told me that there is no such thing as one soulmate. As humans, we are fascinated by the connection we share with an individual. Whether it's for an hour, a day, or a month, sometimes you feel a connection and sharing those moments together are far more meaningful than waiting and longing for ONE soulmate.
Throughout my trip I came across many soulmates, individuals that enlightened me with their spirit and who allowed my presence to enlighten theirs. We shared special moments and conversations, stared at the breathtaking landscapes of Chile, ate together, drank, hugged, laughed, or simply sat in pleasant silence. Although I don't keep in touch with all of them, they are all part of the person I have become. They are part of the love affair I had, and will forever have, with Chile.
Michelle is a full-time wanderer and film enthusiast who's almost always simultaneously training for a long-distance run. After working various film festivals and supporting arts education in San Francisco, California, for five years, she decided to take a leave of absence from her routine lifestyle in the States. Her recent trip to South America sparked a new and unexpected interest — to teach English abroad. Low and behold you can now find her in Incheon, South Korea, teaching energetic preschoolers. It has been a whirlwind of cultural differences and adjustments, but that's part of the thrill of living abroad, especially in a country that rarely sees a brown-skinned woman. The students, of course, never hesitate to ask why her skin is darker than theirs.
Genocide and Slavery: Pitstops on the Road to El Dorado
August 3, 2014 August 4, 2014 Kaelyn 2 Comments
[To reach El Dorado] they crossed swamps and lands that steamed in the sun. When they reached the banks of the river, not one of the thousands of naked Indians who were brought along to carry the guns and bread and salt remained alive. As there were no longer any slaves to hunt down and catch, they threw the dogs into vats of boiling water… (Eduardo Galeano, Memory of Fire, p. 99)
Of the multitude that followed him, one hundred and sixty exhausted Europeans and not one Indian remain. Leveler of cities, founder of cities, Benalcázar has left behind him a trail of ashes and blood and new worlds born from the point of his sword (100).
They left Peru months ago in search of the lake where according to legend there are solid gold idols as big as boys, and now they want to return to Peru on a war footing. They won't spend another day in pursuit of the promised land, because they realize that they already found it and are sick of cursing their bad luck. They will sail the Amazon, emerge into the ocean, occupy Margarita Island, invade Venezuela and Panama… (133-4)
…the Taironas, bled white by so many years of tribute and slavery, scatter in defeat. Extermination by fire….– everything burns. How many worlds do these fires illuminate? The one that was and was seen, the one that was and was not seen…. the Taironas flee into the mountains…. Far up there the invaders have expelled them, seizing their lands and uprooting their memory, so that in their remote isolation oblivion may descend upon the songs they sang when they lived together, a federation of free peoples… so that they should never again remember that their grandparents were jaguars. Behind them they leave ruins and graves (170-71).
Gold escudos in hard cash, doubloons, double doubloons, big-shot gold and little-shot gold, gold jewelry and dishes, gold from chalices and crowns of virgins and saints: Filled with gold are the arriving galleons of Jean-Baptiste Ducasse, governor of Haiti and chief of the French freebooters in the Antilles…. To France goes the gold of the sacked Spanish colony. From Versailles, Ducasse receives the title of admiral and a bushy wig of snow-white rolls worthy of the king.
Before becoming governor of Haiti and admiral of the royal fleet, Ducasse operated on his own, stealing blacks from Dutch slave ships and treasure from galleons of the Spanish fleet. Since 1691, he has been working for Louis XIV (277-8). [Fray Bartolomé de las Casas] addresses himself directly to the Holy See. He asks Pius V to order the wars against the Indians stopped and to halt the plunder that uses the cross as an excuse (143).
Antonio de Montesinos, Dominican friar… denounces the extermination:
"By what rights and by what justice do you hold the Indians in such cruel and horrible bondage? Aren't they dying, or better said, aren't you killing them, to get gold every day? Are you not obliged to love them as yourselves? Don't you understand this, don't you feel it?"
…. A murmur of fury swells up. They didn't bargain for this, these peasants from Estremadura and shepherds from Andalusia who have repudiated their names and histories and, with rusty arquebuses slung over their shoulders, left at random in search of mountains of gold and the nude princesses on this side of the ocean. A Mass of pardon and consolation was what was needed by these adventurers bought with promises…. (57-8).
St. Augustine authorizes war against those who abuse their liberty, because their liberty would make them dangerous if they were not tamed….
Before they start the rush for the gold, for nuggets possibly as big as eggs, [the Spanish lawyer Martín Fernández de Enciso] slowly and meticulously summons the Indians to leave these lands since they don't belong to them, and if they want to stay to pay their highnesses tribute in gold in token of obedience.
The two chiefs listen… to the odd character who announces to them that in case of refusal or delay he will make war on them, turn them into slaves along with their women and children, and sell and dispose of them as such and that the deaths and damages of that just war will not be the Spaniards' responsibility.
The chiefs reply… that the holy father has indeed been generous with others' property but must have been drunk to dispose of what was not his and that the king of Castile is impertinent to come threatening folks he does not know.
Then the blood flows (59-60).
The lake at the heart of the El Dorado legend, outside of Guatavitá, Colombia.
The Museo de Oro (Museum of Gold) in Bogotá is one of the main tourist attractions, even meriting its own metro stop. The gold was beautiful. The jewelry and figurines and ceremonial objects were created with a level of workmanship and attention to detail that was breathtaking. And yet, if the horrors caused by the Europeans' covetousness of this gold was mentioned once, it was only in passing and never the focus. But that was all I could think about: the immeasurable amount of blood that was spilt, lives taken or enslaved, worlds annihilated… because this gold was so precious to this continent's conquerors, more precious than the lives of children and women and men. Gold to which they felt entitled because of the color of their skin and the power of their God.
It makes me think about the kinds of things today's conquerors covet, the kinds of resources that make death and exploitation into "necessary evils". I'm sitting here, in Medellín, Colombia, thinking to myself: Has anything changed at all?
The Benefits of Travel-Induced Fear
July 21, 2014 July 22, 2014 Kaelyn 1 Comment
What is it about life that defies all expectations? I started this trip thinking I didn't have any expectations, but now I think it's absolutely impossible to go into any situation without subconsciously forming an idea of what will happen. Each day that has gone by, each step I have taken, has surprised me. I can already feel my travels hardening and strengthening me, breaking the mold I had created up until now. Traditionally speaking, I am homeless, and carrying all my belongings on my back has taken some of the softness from my body, a body whose favorite pastime had been sleeping in its own bed. Waking up each day with no plan or at best a very loosely-defined one has made me more adaptable and flexible. Finding myself alone in a big, big world has kicked the door wide open to what I am capable of. And yet I've also been reminded that I am not invincible, that as a woman and an obvious tourist some people see me as vulnerable and an easy target.
The feeling of belonging is one which is easily taken for granted. It's not until you find yourself suddenly an obvious other that you are reminded of how comfortable belonging really is. But being an other is immensely important. It gives you perspective into the lives of people who are always other, like immigrants or minorities, it gives you compassion and empathy. Now I don't personally think I'm ever really the sort to blend in with a crowd, but being a tall, white, blond woman in Colombia is like being a flamingo among sea gulls. We're all birds but the outsider is obvious from a mile away. It's enough to make one miss home, and I do, but missing home and wanting to go home are two very different feelings.
My time with Jessica and Adri is over now and suddenly I'm in a country where no one knows my name. The day they left was the first day that I felt something close to fear. Alone? On a continent to which the only connection I have is a hard-won language? It's hard to explain this quasi-fear and why it's not enough to deter me. I could say that I pride myself on facing my fears, and I do, but that seems trite and barely scratches the surface of why I'm doing what I'm doing. To be completely honest, I don't know what keeps me going most days, and that's not meant to be bleak. What is it in me that has made this possible? Why am I not content with my own bed and people who know me and love me and protect me? Why must I go out and find fear in the big world? Perhaps it comes down to this: I know there are things out in the world worthy of my fear, but there are also things that make risking that fear worthwhile, and for me, that knowledge is enough.
To illustrate the kinds of things I think worth braving fear for, let me share some of the things we all did together before my girls left.
For scale: Jess in front of La Piedra de Peñol in Guatapé, 2 hours outside of Medellín.
We climbed 675 steps to the top, in spite of being in the end phases of a three day guaro (local word for aguardiente)-induced hangover.
But the reward was worth the work.
The town of Guatapé: a reminder of one reason why I love Latin America. The colors!
Adri on an impromptu climb towards La Virgen in Santa Fe de Antioquia.
La Virgen and I overlooking the Río Cauca.
Jess and Adri deep within the Zipaquirá salt mines in the Salt Cathedral… being irreverent, of course.
Fear is an incredibly important emotion. Sometimes it tells us when we're in danger and need to be cautious. It reminds us that we are not infallible, not superheroes. It reminds us that there are people out there who can and will hurt us for personal gain or, even scarier, for no reason at all. But it can also be a useless emotion when it only serves to keep us from doing things. Comfort might be going to sleep in my own bed, surrounded by my things, near to people I love, in a city I know like an old friend, but it also means giving up seeing things, wonderful things, that can only be reached through a veil of fear. Fear can even keep us from meeting amazing people. I was a little anxious about my first Couchsurfing experience in Medellín, staying with a stranger and all, but by moving through it, we had the privilege of meeting and befriending the best host anyone could ask for. So yes, fear is ugly and I resent the way it can make me mistrust people I've never met or interacted with, but what you can find on the other side of fear is sometimes unutterably beautiful, so for now, I'll take fear over comfort, and run with it.
Our host in Medellín, Esneider, and his hilarious friend Carlos.
No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection. -Patrick Rothfuss, A Wise Man's Fear
Mountaintop Musings
It's been thirteen days since my feet left American soil and I placed them firmly onto the tarmac in Cartagena, Colombia, but I swear to you, that could have been a lifetime ago. Those same feet have walked further and endured more in less than a fortnight than I ever expected they could. I'm sitting here now on the rooftop terrace of my hostel in Santa Marta, Colombia, my legs a constellation of bug bites (I just now pulled some kind of biting bug out of the soft flesh behind my knee), scrapes, and bruises, my feet blistered and swollen, my skin damp and flushed, and I'm still me and yet another me, too. There was a Kaelyn who flirted with bartenders and was reminded that her heart wasn't quite as inaccessible as she pretended. A Kaelyn who danced and sang and writhed with the electricity she created within herself. A Kaelyn who was more joyous than any of the selves that came before. That woman is still here. But she's evolving again.
Never has shedding a skin been so instantaneous. Traveling does that to me. Nothing is so painfully pleasurable as travel, there is no touch so rough or so gentle, no master as demanding and generous. I'm using sexual imagery here because travel is a power play, and I'll tell you what, travel usually comes out on top, but boy do you benefit from being the bottom. It turns you over and shakes you out. Suddenly, some assumptions you've held for who knows how long show their true, ridiculous colors, suddenly you are completely humbled, suddenly you find this amazing strength in yourself and find that you have given yourself a broader, more generous view of the world and the people in it. But enough with the abstract.
I won't give you a play-by-play of my time here; the general idea will suffice. My time in Cartagena flew by. I have characteristically and whole-heartedly devoured my first shot of aguardiente (the local liquor which tastes like black licorice and goes down altogether too easily), a patacón con salsa (a king among street foods everywhere), mojarra frita (a fried fish which just might be one of my new favorite foods), various arepas and empanadas, probably too many Águila and Club Colombia beers, and a hot dog to put all other sausages to shame. I've found weightlessness and hilarity in a mud pit at the bottom of a volcano called El Totumo. I've partied from 5 to 5 (actually, 8) at a Colombian wedding only to literally fall asleep on the bride's doorstep. You see, Colombia has already begun the process of changing the girl who left home.
Jess and I on our balcony in Cartagena.
The remains of my mojarra frita… and moments before a hungry man snatched the head, spine and all, and ran out the door.
El Totumo: we had to climb down a ladder into the mud.
Jessica and I in the mud bath.
Note: this photo is not staged.
Five days is not nearly enough time to get to know any place well and I hope to be able to give Cartagena a second look some time in the near future. For now, I'll carry with me a picture of narrow streets with vines hanging from balconies, heat that softens your skin and frizzes your hair, and some pretty unbeatable street food.
We left Cartagena on Monday for Santa Marta, as we were scheduled to begin a hike to La Ciudad Perdida the next morning. The feeling of anticipation I had was not quite dread, but neither was I looking forward to it. For those of you that know me, you know as a child I would have rather sat in front of the TV and eaten a loaf of Wonder Bread than gone to play in the park across the street. As an adult, I'm a little better. I love soccer and yoga and surfing, but I have never been one for endurance sports, including hiking. And this was no ordinary hike and I was in no way, either physically or mentally, prepared for it.
La Ciudad Perdida, or Teyuna, is located in the middle of the Sierra Nevada mountain range. It was the sacred city of the now extinct Tairona Indians. It takes two days to get there, and two days to get back. I don't know what I expected. I thought that my natural physical strength would carry me through, that five days wasn't so long, that the brochure didn't mention any level of difficulty so it couldn't be too bad… I was so, so wrong. About an hour into the hike, after jumping into the river and thinking to myself "OK, this is cool", we started going up a hill. That hill didn't end for an hour. A half-naked man with a gold chain riding a horse came down the hill and I thought I was hallucinating, so exhausted was I already. That's when I knew: this is the real thing, and it's about to kick my ass. By the time we got to the first camp, I was feeling the beginnings of what would turn out to be some very serious blisters and nursing the bruised pride that came from acknowledging that I was not in the kind of shape that makes trudging up and down huge hills with a 25-pound backpack easy. I was done, agotada, and it was only the first day. Also, there was no toilet paper. Someone forgot to add that to the list of things we needed to bring. Some creativity ensued, but I won't go into that. We slept in hammocks the first night, with toads the size of my foot hopping wetly beneath me, creating a chorus that did anything but send me to sleep. Think sleeping in a hammock is idyllic? In reality, it involves less blissful slumber and more sore necks and fear of flipping over. Add into the mixture the kind of hallucinogenic dreams that malaria pills deliver and you're in for one wild night.
It was the second day that pushed me further than I've ever been pushed. By the time we stopped for lunch, the baby blisters on my heels had developed into full-blown sores and new ones were forming on each of my big toes. After a quick swim and some lunch, it was time to set off again, as there were still four more hours of hiking to go before we reached the base camp below Teyuna. Almost immediately, we started up another hill. Within ten minutes, I knew it was a hill to make every other hill I'd ever encountered laughable. In half an hour, I was convinced that every time I went around a bend, somehow I'd arrived back where I'd started because each bend was identical to the one before it. An hour in, I was sure that I'd somehow died and this was hell. Drenched in sweat, I was on the verge of tears when I practically fell onto the hill's zenith. Never, never did I expect to subject myself to such extreme (for me) physical duress. Voluntarily, no less!
The next morning, after 1,263 worn, mossy stairs, we finally arrived at Teyuna and it was, of course, impressive. But as self-involved as it may sound, I was much more impressed with myself. Part of me knew that I was only halfway, that I still had to go all the way back to the beginning, up and down and up and up and down again to get there, but still, I had made it further than I would have thought possible. My friends and I agreed: something had changed. Some self-imposed limitation we had set for ourselves had just been completely annihilated, and it felt wonderful. The way back was pretty horrific in terms of the pain my blisters caused me (I now understand on a deeper level how the little mermaid felt when the price she paid for feet was to feel as though she were dancing on knives every time she took a step) but somehow that made the success even greater when I arrived back at the beginning. Whatever old Kaelyn had been capable of, this new one could do so much more.
This should give you some idea of what I was dealing with.
This isn't even the worst of it.
The view from La Ciudad Perdida, or Teyuna.
As a closing note, for me the ruins were not the highlight of the trip in terms of things seen. It was something else, something simple and half-remembered. I woke up in a cold sweat after a particularly horrible Malarone-nightmare involving an ex-boss who I found out (in the dream, at least) was a serial killer of women and had me trapped in an elevator. All around me, swathed in mosquito netting, were my fellow hikers, but the dream had left a film of clenching fear on me, so I got up and walked outside and then, I looked up. Never had I seen the stars as I saw them in that moment. There was no electricity for miles. I was in the middle of the Colombian jungle. The stars were shining as they had never shone for me. The Milky Way looked tangible, like I could reach up and wrap it around myself, like a shawl. Orion was on the horizon to my right, and that warrior-god always reminds me of my dad, who first pointed out the three stars that make up his belt, and it was this reminder that chased away the evil vestiges of my nightmare. The world is enormous, but it is also small, and the people we love are with us always.
Knowing this, I went back inside and fell asleep.


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The hit American reality television series, Jersey Shore, recently aired its fifth season on January 5, 2012 but many viewers and fans of the show have probably missed it. However, before the premiere episode actually aired on television, MTV is provided a 12-hour Jersey Shore Marathon for all the Jersey Shore fans.
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In the meantime, as what you are expecting from the fifth season premiere of Jersey Shore, MTV tells us that we are going to get total drama through this statement: "a drama storm brews due to their unresolved issues left over from their time overseas. Mike threatens to destroy Snooki's newly rekindled relationship with her boyfriend and Jionni and the roommates worry about Vinny as he starts to withdraw."
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Once a mill town, Newaygo, Michigan, evolved into a tourist destination for people seeking a peaceful getaway, good fishing and fun on the nearby Muskegon River and Croton Pond. A cabin is one of the best ways to enjoy a Newaygo vacation, so it's not surprising vistors can select from several different types of cabins for rent in and around town.
If you're looking for a cabin with the amenities of a resort, Newaygo has several from which to choose. The Alpine Resort (newaygocountytourism.com/alpineresort) on Croton Pond offers waterfront cabins with sun porches and private fire pits. Fishing -- for bass, bluegill and pike -- is the resort's big attraction, but you can also swim or boat on the pond. The resort's cabins sleep four comfortably and have full kitchens. Families who need more space will appreciate the three-bedroom cabins at Love's Family Resort (lovesfamilyresort.com) on Diamond Lake. Bring your boat or borrow a rowboat for free from the resort to explore the lake. Cabins have screened porches, full kitchens and lake views.
The three-bedroom Croton Shores Cottage (crotonshores.com) features plenty of room for big families, including indoor and outdoor sitting areas, a big kitchen, two bathrooms and a dedicated dining area. It's on the northwest side of Croton Pond, just 10 minutes from downtown Newaygo but far enough from other cabins to feel private. More minimalist, the Newaygo Cottage (newaygocottage.com) is just off Main Street and has two bedrooms, a cozy living area with a fireplace and a full kitchen. The cabin's lawn runs right into the Muskegon River.
A number of Newaygo homeowners rent cabins through vacation rental websites and companies. On VacationRentals.com and HessLakeRentals.com, you can find rentals ranging from two to six bedrooms, with amenities like private docks, riverfront locations, screened porches, hot tubs and more. Rates vary depending on when you plan to visit. Research what's included in your rental; for instance, some cabins may provide linens and dishes, while others require you to bring your own.
If you like the idea of a cabin but the full service you get with a hotel, one of Newaygo's lodge-style hotels might be a good compromise. You'll find comfortable rooms complete with rocking chairs and lake views at the Shack (theshackbedandbreakfast.com), a rustic cabin turned upscale bed and breakfast. The Gray Drake Lodge (graydrake.com) on the Muskegon River has a variety of rooms, ranging from minimalist singles to oversize master suites. Your room includes a full hot breakfast; booking a fishing trip with the on-site outfitters requires an extra fee.
L., Holly. "Cabins in Newaygo, Michigan." Travel Tips - USA Today, https://traveltips.usatoday.com/cabins-newaygo-michigan-61787.html. Accessed 22 April 2019.


Beautiful Home Decor Haldi Kumkum Platter with Ganapathi design RC01. Made of Metal.
Haldi Kumkum symbolizes fortune, valor, bond and fertility. A tika is believed to protect energy. This festive season bring home tika platter from Pilgrimaide. It has two katoris for both haldi and kumkum; attached to a patterned tray. A Ganesh Figure adorned with kundan motifs is added to the bottom with flowers. The round tray border has multiple tiny ghungroos attached to it. It's a feast to the eye and ear at the same time. The platter is handy and apt for Raksha Bandhan, Karwachauth and other functions. A great return favor gift during pujas and functions.


A woman in St. Louis shot and killed her 70 year-old husband after he brought her a warm can of Stag Beer. The beer was warm because the couple had been without power for several days following a winter storm. I'm not sure why they didn't put the beer outside if they were so adamant about "cold" being the correct temperature for consumption. I should probably mention that she shot him 5 times. In the chest. I know you are thinking that is a bit excessive, but that just tells me you have never had to drink a warm Stag Beer.


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Icarus Verilog is designed to be extensible in a couple different dimensions. This leads to the possibilities of third-party extensions that I shall call ``plug-ins''.
Plug-ins may use the VPI interface to interface with the run-time simulation engine, or may be code generators that use the loadable target interface. The VPI interface to Icarus Verilog is a subset of the IEEE1364 PLI that is available with other Verilog compilers. Modules designed using PLI are useful for extending run-time behavior of the Verilog simulation. The loadable target interface is an Icarus Verilog API for writing code generators. Modules designed using this interface are useful for generating specific netlist formats, talking with different simulation engines, or other compile-time tasks.
The rest of this page contains links to various plug-ins that people have made available for Icarus Verilog. Some are actually stored on the Icarus FTP site, some are stored on the author's site. In either case, it is the author's task to maintain the particular package. If you don't yet know about Icarus Verilog, go <here>.
Simbus
This package supports distributed simulation of bus-based systems. It includes built in support for PCI bus and other bus type models, and support for models in Verilog and C/C++. More information is available at <http://iverilog.wikia.com/wiki/SIMBUS>
Image VPI
This VPI module provides simplified image I/O for Verilog programs. The source is available for download at <ftp://icarus.com/pub/eda/verilog/plug-ins/image-vpi>.
Pcisim
This package supports the development of test benches for PCI devices under test. The package includes simple models for typical host devices that would share a PCI device with the device under test, including a generic host processor. The latter includes an interface to a C API that allows software engineers, the device driver writers, to prototype device drivers for the device under test, and use those drivers to test the device. (This allows the software driver writers to become involved in the test of the device being designed.)
The source and binaries for some platforms are available for download at <ftp://icarus.com/pub/eda/pcisim>.
NOTE: This project has been replaced by Simbus described above. You probably want that instead, although pcisim is still available for legacy designs.
InFormal connects Icarus Verilog to NuSMV for formal verification (aka. assertion based verification). The home page for Informal is <http://www.confluent.org/wiki/doku.php?id=informal:main>.
NOTE: Links to InFormal seem to be inoperative. I do not know if it has moved, or the project is dead. Contact me if the project is alive at a new home.
This used to be called "Icarus Verilog Interactive" but has grown beyond just Icarus Verilog. It is a graphical developer aid that supports a variety of simulators. It may require a few minor patches to Icarus Verilog to work, but the package includes those patches, so it seems complete on its own. The IVI home page is here: <http://ivi.sourceforge.net>.
There is a seperate project to maintain a MacOS X port of IVI, here: <http://ivionosx.sourceforge.net>.
Software Model Interface
The SMI is a PLI-based toolkit that uses VPI to implement a form of interprocess communication between Verilog programs and C++ programs. It is intended to be more convenient the the raw VPI, which can be quite a burden when non-trivial models are needed.
NOTE: Links to SMI seem to be dead, suggesting that it is no longer maintained. Let me know if that is incorrect.
Python/Perl Target Module
Icarus Verilog supports loading of target modules that take on the task of generating the desired output format. The Loadable Target API is a C API that allows programs to write these code generators. Pinhong Chen as written a loadable target module that offers Perl/Python support. So if you want to script your code generators, this module might help. <http://www-cad.eecs.berkeley.edu/~pinhong/scriptEDA/ >
VTracer
VTracer is a Verilog Testbench developer aid. It contains a Verilog-Perl co-simulation environment (based on TCP sockets), parsers (structural Verilog, VCD/dump), and more. It's home page is here: <http://vtracer.SourceForge.net>.
EDIF Target Module
This project by Vladimir Dergachev is a loadable target module, and associated libraries, for the support of EDIF output from Icarus Verilog. This is intended for synthesis, and he claims to support at least Atmel AT40K chips. See his sourceforge development page here: <http://volodya-project.sourceforge.net/tgt-edif.php >.
Note that this module has not been updated in a while, and the FPGA target to Icarus Verilog does most of its job.
Extract Hierarchy
This is a perl script to extract hierarchy from a set of Verilog source files. It is not really a plug-in to Icarus Verilog but a general tool that the author decided to make available. The file contains it its comments a description of usage and limitations. Download it from here: <ftp://icarus.com/pub/eda/verilog/plug-ins/extract-hier/ >


2008-09: Justin Holl skated in 28 games for Minnesota's Minnetonka HS as a junior. He finished the season with 1 goal, 9 assists and 6 PMs. The Skippers were one of the top ranked teams in the state and faced Edina in the Section 6AA final.
2009-10: Played for Minnetonka High School, and then finished the season with the USHL's Omaha Lancers. In 31 games for Minnetonka, Holl scored 20 goals and added 17 assists. In his 11-game stint with the Lancers, Holl picked up 4 assists and had a +7 rating. In 8 playoff games for the Lancers, Holl scored 1 goal and added 1 assist.
2010-11: Holl was in and out of the lineup at the University of Minnesota as a freshman, appearing in 25 games with 1 goal, 6 assists for 7 points. He was limited to a checking role for much of the season on the Gopher's veteran blue line.
2011-12: Holl, a sophomore, was one of four Minnesota underclassmen on defense to play in every game as the Gophers enjoyed their winningest season since 2006-07. In 43 games he scored 3 goals with 8 assists and was plus-18 with 34 penalty minutes. The Gophers won the WCHA regular season title and reached the NCAA Frozen Four. Minnesota defeated North Dakota in the NCAA West regional final after having lost to the Fighting Sioux in the WCHA tournament semifinals.
2012-13: Holl shifted from defense to winger in his junior season as Minnesota captured its second straight WCHA regular season title. He scored 3 goals with 4 assists in 35 games and was +3 with 10 penalty minutes. One of the top teams in college hockey, the Gophers finished 26-9-5 after a 2-0 loss to Colorado College in the WCHA Final Five semifinals and a 3-2 overtime loss to eventual national champion Yale in the NCAA West Regional.
2013-14: Holl skated on the top defense pairing for Minnesota along with New York Rangers prospect Brady Skjei in his senior season. He scored 1 goal with 12 assists and was plus-10 with 20 penalty minutes in 39 games. The Golden Gophers finished first in the regular season in the inaugural season of the Big Ten hockey conference but were upset by Ohio State, 3-1, in the conference quarterfinals. Minnesota defeated Robert Morris and St. Cloud State to win the NCAA West regional title. Holl scored his only goal of the season with the Gophers short-handed and one second left in regulation in the Frozen Four semifinals against North Dakota; giving Minnesota a 2-1 victory. The Gophers fell, 7-4, to Union in the national championship game. Holl was not signed to a contract by Chicago, becoming an unrestricted free agent, and signed an AHL contract with Blackhawks' affiliate Rockford in August 2014.
Holl combines a projectable 6'2 frame with excellent skating ability. He is a strong puck-mover on the blue line with vision and passing ability. His defensive-zone play improved over the course of his college career and Holl also played forward while at Minnesota. He is not overly-physical despite his size. and relies on positioning and quick reads to make plays in his own zone.
Holl was signed to an AHL contract by Chicago affiliate Rockford and with several prospects in the Chicago pipeline he began the 2014-15 season with ECHL expansion team, the Indy Fuel. Part of a talented University of Minnesota team that was one of the top programs in college hockey in his senior year, the former second round pick faces a long road to one day reach the NHL.
Union College junior Daniel Ciampini and University of Minnesota senior defenseman Justin Holl (CHI) made this year's NCAA Frozen Four semi-final games ones to remember.
The Chicago Blackhawks system includes a deep pool of NCAA prospects as well as a few recent picks from overseas. Five of Chicago's collegiate prospects will take part in the upcoming 2014 Men's Frozen Four in Philadelphia.
The Chicago Blackhawks have plenty of prospects to watch during the 2013-14 season, particularly at the pro level where a few spots are open in Chicago and a talented class of rookies will be debuting with the AHL's Rockford IceHogs.


Is it easy to brick your iPhone if you try to jailbreak it?
AT&T Approved Unlock of Off Contract 4S, but how to complete steps without losing jailbreak?
Is this 6.1.3 untethered jailbreak real?
iPhone 5: Sprint to Verizon?
Trying to sell my wife's jailbroken iPhone 4 on iOS 6.1, is there a market for them?
iPhone unlocking, why has the cost increased dramatically?
Jailbreak now with the fingerprint sensor?
My Jailbroken iPhone 4 freezes & becomes completely unresponsive.
Can you jailbreak an iphone 4s that is Sprint to use with TMobile?
Jailbroken iPhone error: Connect to iTunes to use Push Notifications/Unable to sign in to iMessage.
Is there a way to jailbreak iPhone using iOS 7.0.2?
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U.S. federal government web sites have increased significantly the level of services and information offered to various internal and external stakeholders. The Workforce Investment Act of 1998 amended Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, which complemented the intent and aims of the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). As a result, federal agencies and departments were mandated to provide disabled stakeholders with access to key information from federal web sites. However, since this enactment, some federal web sites still do not meet fully the legal requirements to accommodate users with disabilities. Additionally, web sites of members of the U.S. Congress technically do not fall under regulation. Without regulation, non-adherence to accessibility standards by congressional web sites may result in poor or ineffective utilization by citizen consumers or other stakeholders with disabilities. The purpose of this study is to examine the accessibility statistics for a pseudo-random sample of 50 web sites of U.S. Senators. The main web page of each site was evaluated with an online web site analysis software tool – Truwex. Three factors were used to gauge the level of accessibility: criteria based on Section 508, WCAG 1.0 standards, and WCAG 2.0 standards. Results suggest that the vast majority of the U.S. Senate web sites do not meet the federal legal guidelines that otherwise are imposed on other U.S. governmental agencies and departments. Many of the sites contain consistent patterns of non-compliance, and some minor changes could result in increased accessibility for disabled stakeholders.


The Department of State, U.S. Mission to Guinea in the community development sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Ambassadors' Special Self Help Fund" and is now available to receive applicants.
Applicants must submit their applications by Dec 31, 2018.
Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $12,000.00 in funding.
Eligible applicants include: Independent school districts, Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Small businesses.
Review the funding details for the opportunity (DOS CONAK FY18 01) and check/verify your eligibility.


Such was my haste in packing and ignorance of Russia that I nearly followed my wife's recommendation to throw in a woolly hat for the World Cup before setting off from Venezuela.
Thank goodness I didn't, because it would have felt mighty silly having that in higher summer temperatures beside the Volga river than those back home on the Caribbean.
It was not the only misconception that I, a reporter - and hordes of fans who had likewise never been here - had about a host nation stereotyped for cold weather and cold people.
To our collective joy, edification and more than slight embarrassment, the Russia we found was hospitable, organised, modern, bending over backwards to help us - and ready to party.
My assignment was in Nizhny Novgorod, a "closed city" during the Soviet era, I had read in advance. That reminded me of the grey images of tower-blocks and food lines that were a staple of English media coverage during the Cold War of my childhood.
Whatever its past, this city of 1.2 million people at the confluence of the Volga and Oka rivers is now open and rocking.
From the airport to the stadium, hotel and public squares, young volunteers from local language schools were eager to show their English and spare us stumbling over phrase-books for a 'Spasibo' (thank you) or 'Zdravstvuyte' (hello).
At the gorgeous new Nizhny Novgorod Stadium, whose blue-and-white hues evoke water and wind, the facilities were perfect for journalists: high-speed internet, spacious desks with a TV for replays and a great view of the pitch, and special shuttle buses to whiz us through the crowds.
On the streets, locals sang, danced and took selfies with armies of fans from Panama to South Korea. Often, conversations merrily proceeded via phone translation apps.
When Russia played in a different city, the locals poured onto the streets, chanted, and packed the fan zone in scenes of exuberant patriotism that beat anything I had witnessed in previous tournaments at Brazil 2014 and South Africa 2010.
Even the feared English hooligans never materialized.
Instead, 'Three Lions' fans hung out their flags and partied courteously with Russians in cafes and boulevards, while police hung back discreetly in the side-streets, un-deployed for the trouble they had been trained to expect.
Even the food, sometimes ridiculed as stodgy and bland, was getting a thumbs-up, especially the ubiquitous Georgian cordon bleu, smoky Armenian cafes, and surprisingly affordable Siberian caviar.
"Forget everything you ever read or thought about Russia - this is absolutely brilliant! It's such a shame so many people were put off," said England fan Charlie Carline, 33, quaffing beer in the sun-kissed fan zone next to Nizhny Novgorod's 'Kremlin' castle on a hilltop overlooking the rivers.
Some of his friends, veterans of past World Cups, stayed at home for fear of a repeat of the Russian-English fan violence seen in France at the 2016 Euros or hostility due to the dire state of political relations between London and Moscow.
Photographer Lucy Nicholson, based in Los Angeles, had covered seven Olympics for Reuters but never a World Cup and was excited to be finally seeing Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.
"One of the most striking things about the World Cup compared to the Olympics, is how male it is: the vast majority of fans, media, and obviously players are male," she said.
"Given this, it was surprising how little rowdiness I witnessed ... I found ordinary Russians, particularly women, to be invariably kind and warm ... This welcoming behaviour could have been inspired by pride in a national event or perhaps by the balmy weather, but much of it seemed spontaneous and genuine."
Nicholson's biggest challenge was travelling between multiple cities - from Kaliningrad on the Baltic Coast to Sochi on the Black Sea. She took 14 flights in 18 days on Aeroflot and Siberia Airlines, once falling asleep in a stadium pre-match due to the exhaustion.
"It was fascinating to visit parts of Russia rarely seen by tourists," Nicholson said. "Restrictions on mass gatherings were suspended for the World Cup, creating an unusual carnival-like atmosphere."
Australia-based Reuters photographer David Gray was at his fourth consecutive World Cup and in Samara throughout.
"This World Cup differs from all the others due to one main factor - my preconceived ideas of what to expect," he said, echoing the conclusion of most Cold War-era western visitors.
"Talking with Russians during this event has broadened my understanding of their extremely strong national pride. A pride I find very admirable. It has also meant the cleanest city streets I have ever seen," said Gray, for whom the sound of water-spraying machines became as routine as that of cars.
He was also impressed by Samara's UFO-like stadium.
"The chanting and singing reverberates beautifully off the circular roof, and as at all World Cups, leaves a permanent ringing in your ears for many weeks after."
Of course, there will be a reality check after the love-in with Russia. It does still snow here in other seasons, no amount of fan fun can hide some serious political problems, and critics will say President Vladimir Putin has exploited the tournament to clean an increasingly pariah image abroad.
Yet for the glorious summer of 2018, Russia put on its best World Cup face - and the world smiled back.


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The laxative benefits of political churn
Paul Goodman of Conservative Home is, on the face of it, a textbook professional politician. From student political organiser to researcher, SPAD and MP, to ex-MP and political writer, with a bit of journalism on the side, the broad brushstrokes of his career are little different to the vast homogeneous mass of professional politicians with no real experience outside politics. He stood down from parliament during the expenses scandal. Not, I hasten to add, because of it. The Telegraph's only finding at the time was that
Paul Goodman claimed modest mortgage interest payments on a second home in High Wycombe. Underclaimed by £1,384 in 2006 and was reimbursed by fees office
Paul wrote one of those pieces yesterday for ConHome that strikes one immediately as 'right facts, wrong conclusions'. He notes the number of losses from the Commons, both recent arrivals and seasoned veterans, and postulates
Meanwhile, the shift from the elected representative to the professional politician model has been good news for constituents. The days when the local MP could ignore the latter, or visit his seat only occasionally, vanished a long time ago. That's the effect of consumer competition for you over the years, with the emergence of the SNP, UKIP, the Greens and the Liberal Democrats. We are moving from a model in which many MPs sat from late youth until early old age to one in which more serve for one or two terms – as the Editor of this site did.
Though I can't quite reconcile this with the quote someone has included on his Wiki page - "a House in which professional politics predominates, entrenching and empowering a taxpayer-dependent political class distinct and separate from those who elect them...for better or worse, this future Commons isn't for me". It seems he can't quite decide between the old patrician class and modern career professional politicians.
There is, of course, an alternative option. Neither.
Having read and digested the tens of thousands of comments on this blog for over ten years, the one thing I am sure of is that voters despise equally both members of the patrician political establishment and the privileged elite of professional politicians. They have both been responsible, as Paul quite rightly points out, for robbing the people of their rightful political power -
If you send much of your power outwards, to the EU; sideways, to the courts; and downwards, to the devolved institutions, then don't be surprised if voters become resistant to backing you and funding you – especially in the wake of the Iraq War, "expenses" and the financial crash.
Paul mourns the loss of middle-ranking ministerial experience from the Commons because of recent 'churn'. I think he's wrong. Why entrench the failures, betrayals, sell-outs, mendacity and inadequacy of the past forty years? Why retain experience when clearly they have not only been getting it wrong but acting contrary to the interests of the voters, largely to their own benefit?
I have often pointed out that the only one of the six demands of the Charter of 1838 remains unmet
A vote for every man twenty-one years of age, of sound mind, and not undergoing punishment for a crime.
The secret ballot to protect the elector in the exercise of his vote.
No property qualification for Members of Parliament in order to allow the constituencies to return the man of their choice.
Payment of Members, enabling tradesmen, working men, or other persons of modest means to leave or interrupt their livelihood to attend to the interests of the nation.
Equal constituencies, securing the same amount of representation for the same number of electors, instead of allowing less populous constituencies to have as much or more weight than larger ones.
Annual Parliamentary elections, thus presenting the most effectual check to bribery and intimidation, since no purse could buy a constituency under a system of universal manhood suffrage in each twelve-month period.
Bribery and intimidation - today the corrupting effect of establishment power, and the brutalising consequences of social media - remain a threat. But it is a frequent clear-out of the Commons that will keep it healthy, and not the institutionalising of status, privilege and entitlement.
We are in the process of reclaiming power - the power they have given away - winning it back from the EU, from the courts and from the unelected quangos and NDPBs, from anti-democratic and unaccountable supranational rule-makers and from an elite who have captured the State. It will take time to get a Commons that reflects these aspirations, but we are making a start.
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And then none of them be missed
The cull begins - the long awaited clear-out of the Commons. Like Brexit itself, it won't be an event but a process, but we have 56 who are going even before the starting gun is fired. Only Kate Hoey, I suspect, will be missed.
It's slightly strange, but they're mostly nobodies. MPs who hold themselves in such high regard, who imagine themselves to be so special, whose inflated sense of self-worth has led them to disobey the country for three years, are for the greatest part nonentities. Their delusion is caused by the power of parliament, by their mistaken belief that it is them, individually, rather than the institution that is important. Dissolution will bring them crashing down to earth with enhanced gravity.
The election itself will continue the clear out. I will have the record button primed for the declaration from Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford - if Yvette Cooper makes it through I'll eat my hat. Though Portillo himself has grown into a pastel-coloured gay icon since his defenestration and the extent to which, in government, he was loathed has faded with time, I doubt many in 2019 will be so fortunate.
Nigel makes the front pages of both the Telegraph and the FT (for any who are not aware, the FT is the pro-Remain, pro-authoritarian organ of the globalists, and shares writers with 'Marxism Today') and the debate you had here in yesterday's comments has moved into the columns of the MSM -
Whilst the Guardian is clearly upset by our description of the Conservatives yesterday as 'the people's party led by the people's Prime Minister delivering the people's choice' - today their front page screams 'Corbyn: The Tories don't represent the people, we do'. The election on the 12th, of course, will show who really represents the people. I doubt it will be Mr Corbyn.
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Thay have all, finally, agreed to a general election.
To the dismay of his MPs and the probable fury of the Noncefinder-General Mr Watson, who hid away when the vote was taken, Corbyn has caved in to the people's demands for a general election. He had little choice. With the LibDems and the SNP ready to trigger an election, it would not have been a good look for Labour to have opposed this and lost. Shortly after Labour's humiliation in parliament, Corbyn did a little-girl skippy dance down the carpeted steps of the palace for his Instagram followers, but his glum, drawn face gave the lie to his Prozac-cheerful words. Helping elect Corbyn to the Labour leadership was the best £3 I have ever spent.
So we're off. In a day or two the short campaign will start in earnest and everyone who wants all MPs to lose their jobs will have their wish; they all cease being MPs when parliament is dissolved. Many will not return. I suspect there will be many Portillo moments on election night. It is the last we will see of Grieve, Letwin, Soubry and the other wreckers, and worth it for that alone.
Both the Labour Party and my own party I suspect will try their hardest to pretend this is a normal election, fought on the grounds of an end to austerity and a new spend bonanza for the entire public sector funded by Wonga for Labour and a war on crime with increased police and prison spending, plus a cash boost for the NHS from the Conservatives. Voters, I think, won't be fooled. This will be the Brexit election, and each of the parties' narratives on Brexit will be critical - currently they go something like
Conservatives - Pro Brexit; the people's party led by the people's Prime Minister delivering the people's choice
LibDems - Will not accept withdrawal from the EU whatever the people say or how they vote, and however illiberal and anti-democratic this appears
Brexit - Standing for a no-deal Brexit and, er, that's it really
Labour - Anti-Brexit in London and the metropolitan areas, equivocal in Wales and the North. Official policy is to campaign for a Blair Referendum, negotiate with the EU then stick their tongues out and run away and revoke Article 50. Or something. No-one actually knows.
Of course this has utterly buggered all the pollsters' models and predictions. The telly Swingometer will have to be 3D. They won't have a clue how the most important election since the war will pan out. Anything is possible.
Of course I've avoided the matter of how TBP and the Conservatives interact; we just don't know. Personally I favour an election pact, but the Prime Minister has ruled this out. If by standing against eachother, the parties split the pro-Brexit vote and Corbyn and the Libdems win, neither Farage or Boris will ever be forgiven and it will destroy both TBP and the Conservative Party. I'm waiting for CCHQ to indicate how they intend to go.
It's a good time to re-state comment guidelines. Your comments on the issues in the posts may be as robust as you like short of defamation or illegality but link-dumping and trying to hijack posts for election prop will earn deletion - as will crude insults and slurs directed at me.
Right. That's all. Carry on.
Nemesis of the haute-remainers - John Gray
Today is yet another crunch day for Brexit. So many crunch days for Brexit have come and gone that I am not getting excited; either the Commons agrees an election and the EU deigns to allow an extension, or something else happens.
It's always good to take the chance to step back and look at the bigger picture. The Telegraph is absolutely right today in drawing attention to an essay in New Statesman America by John Gray. As the unfortunately-acronymed NS is core leftie-thinking fodder, it will be uncomfortable reading for many of those Gray terms 'haute-remainers' - the Blairs, Adonises, Grieves and others. I commend it to you.
I have said all along that Brexit was not primarily about the EU but about a wider democratic correction in the UK that re-balances power away from an establishment elite* and back to the voters. This year the BBC, in a rare act of political prescience, featured Reith lectures by Lord Sumption covering the effects of State capture by this political elite on the relationship between law and democracy. Gray's focus is the way in which the Conservative Party has reacted and changed, as it has throughout its history, to ensure it comes through intact. The same cannot be said of parties embracing the haute-remainer cause.
Gray's essay is too crammed with succinct and tight analysis to usefully select any single paragraph to quote summation, so here then, as a sample of the essay rather than a precis, is just one -
The haute-Remainer mind is an example of what the 20th century's subtlest and most original conservative philosopher called political rationalism. Michael Oakeshott (1901-90) used the term to describe totalitarian ideologies such as Leninism and National Socialism, but he was clear that any kind of political tradition could succumb to rationalist ideology – including conservatism. (His own version of conservatism – an ultra-liberal variety, in which the ideal role of the state was that of an umpire – itself did.) The core of rationalism in politics is an idea of politics itself. Rather than being a practice in which people negotiate the terms on which they co-exist with one another, politics means the imposition of an idea. The idea is self-evidently true; anyone who questions it is ignorant and stupid, or else wilfully malignant. Though they claim to embody reason in politics, haute-Remainers cling to a view of the EU in which facts are secondary or irrelevant. They fulminate on the dangers of Brexit without ever mentioning that Paris has been convulsed by riots while Barcelona has become the scene of mass demonstration, burning streets and police violence. No mere fact can be allowed to cloud the vision of a sacred institution.
Let's see what the day brings.
* E.g, at random, from 8/4/2010, and in many scores of posts before and after ..
"The Downfall of the Political Class
The public have been way ahead of the moribund old parties on this; we've been sick of the loathsome political class for some time. This hasn't stopped either party from fielding blow-in dags who have no experience other than politics or political organising for seats in the next Parliament, but their time too will come."
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There are few things I enjoy more than walking down to the gardens edge to pick a fresh snack or gather a few fruits to place in the refrigerator to chill for later in the day.
Spending time close to nature calms the heart and stills the mind for me. Many gardeners find their garden plot a welcome break from the pressures of the outside world. It connects them to the environment which many become detached from in the course of daily living. Watching seedlings sprout and grow nurtured by your own hand is a worthwhile and rewarding experience. By putting your hands in the soil and the subsequent bending, squatting, kneeling, twisting is a good exercise that can keep us nimble, flexible and active, making gardening a major health benefit. An even more important aspect of reward is that home grown foods are free of the residue of chemical fertilizers and pesticides that large commercial growers use and free of the long term health consequences of those poisons.
The resurgence and popularity of back yard gardens is growing every year. One reason is to offset the ever increasing costs of produce. Some savings can be had from even a small plot of land or container gardens. The majority of these gardens are seasonal summer crops for table greens and salads which limits yearly benefits although root crops and many other vegetables can be preserved and stored for the winter months. Having a diversity and variety of foods in our diet is key to healthy living.
After a long and cold winter many people begin flipping pages in seed catalogs, drawing paper diagrams with neat rows of selected vegetables and making early visits to local nurseries. This year in your planning why not consider incorporating perennial plants like berries, nuts and fruit trees to expand your food base. The rewards are not as immediate as say a row of radish, lettuce or tomato but the long term reward is an annual harvest with little effort year after year. With planning and patience you will reap the benefits for years to come.
Once upon a time, every home and homestead had a few fruit trees or even a small orchard on its property. The expansion of suburban communities over the past 50 years gave rise to a landscaping aesthetic that favored decorative shrubbery and ornamental trees over fruit varieties. Developers have also continued to shrink lot size for new housing projects over the years, to maximize density and boost profits while reducing the space available to homeowners. Many modern neighborhoods are devoid of any type trees at all. The lost habitat for animals, birds and insects is of immense consequence. We as humans are now dependent on orchards that are often thousands of miles away or further in a foreign country and subject to the whims of global markets and vagaries of a changing climate. Incorporating a fruit tree or berry bush to your gardening plan this year is well worth considering.
Grow fruit trees for the incredible variety and flavors. There are nuts, fruits and berries suitable for nearly every climate zone on the planet. A small orchard can advance sustainability and a single tree can expand your food base for better health and nutrition. Think about growing fruit trees that bear sooner. An orchard-sized apple tree can take 10 years to bear fruit—too long for some homeowners to consider it a worthy investment in time. But today there are many dwarf and semi-dwarf apple, pear and other types of fruit that can produce in half the time—some in just three years. Now is a good time to start – for future rewards.
Grow fruit trees for a gorgeous spring show of flowers and with the flowers comes scent: apple, plum and orange blossoms are famous for it. When considering a fruit tree, pay special attention to its ultimate site in your yard, to maximize both the striking view and the sweet scent.
Tangerines are one of my favorite fruits. Growing up in a northern temperate climate they were a somewhat exotic treat to be had during the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays. The tangerine like most fruits is ripe after a yearly cycle. In Hawaii that cycle ends in the winter months at the end of the year when the fruit is ready to harvest. On the property where I live there are several trees. It is like a dream come true to walk across the yard, pluck a fresh tangerine, peel it and eat it fresh, right there.
To select your fruit trees, plan thoroughly. Determine your goals, research which fruits do best in your environment and carefully choose the site location at your home. Be prepared for unintended consequences such as debris, leaf litter, fallen fruit and birds that are attracted to your trees. To be successful have patience. Perennial fruits do have rewards. Fruit trees restore the environment by cleaning the air, improving soil quality, preventing erosion, creating animal habitat, sustaining valuable water sources, and providing healthy nutrition. The freshest, tastiest, healthiest, safest, and most economical fruit you'll ever eat can be grown in your own backyard. And that is smart gardening.
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Eleven olives is a start anyhow, especially for the 1st year. Lemons awesome. Wishing you success and luck.


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Thread: religion/ country/people
July 27th, 2017, 09:07 AM #21
maddhan1979
India's religious thought process is driving it into uncomfortable situation.
India represents a vast majority of population which clings to blind faith, such thought process can even be seen in the places like national capital of India.
Just came across a thought process which stated that the earliest establishment of rule and order was the religion in human life. This is totally wrong.
People who state such thought processes are only advocating religion and not the truth and facts.
Religion thrives on uncertainties of human life, so does religious thought process. Magic/Jadu (in Hindi) done by such religious thought process is supposed to take care of these problems, which is not true, magic(Jadu), tandtra mantra, use of chemicals to effect human life has been part of religion as long as religion has existed. So, neither is the magic/Jadu (magic in Hindi) true nor are the magicians.
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Shantanuji, your name is also by religion. Try to get the essence of it. Country India, is known for its culture and values all by religion. We have two main epics in Hindu mythology, viz. Ramayana and Mahabharta. If one watch it properly, you will find the base of all problems been aroused of these and even from other religious facts which now taken as mythology because we are not the prime evidence of those happenings. Politicians are also people like us, what is to check is their thought perception even if they are well qualified, like Arvindji is not liked by majority even as CM, still he is in situation that prevails today.
Cutting down of trees is very serious concern, but it is also the need of the population to get the place to work and reside. Also, the thought of preforming Hawan for the purity of air is not wrong as it is the natural therapy for the foul environment which is suffocating our healthy life. Apart from it, it is religioulsy true that it creates happiness and positive effect in the nature, one, by producing smoke of pure elements fed to the fire and, two, by chanting mantras loudly.
Also, there are practices going around like one you copy-pasted the web link, again out of religious beliefs. People in Kerala do some religious practice by pulling the tail of the free elephant in the crowd and that pity animal ran in different directions where people then save themselves even. Imagine how dangerous it might be for their life but they knowingly do that where it is called even the women had the high literacy rate. So, its all mindset they have built. They cannot think about caring an animal where they lend themselve in trouble by irritating Elephant and might be resulting in death after getting under its feet due to its escape from crowd.
In all, religion is meant to set some principles of life, inculcate true values, present diverse culture, and offcourse more but people find their ease out of it and starting forceful impositions on others as for any religion one has to go through religious verdicts. To explain further, nobody taught me to be honest or true to myself but I learnt it that it is first thing I need to care for. Kuran speaks of truth and honesty a lot which I find good being Hindu woman and I accepted this principle for life being pragmatic. However, if talk about nation then yes it need a leader and its people need religion. So, it is upto us how we define our system. That is why selecting a leader for the country is the toughest job which I acknowledge that people have done justice to the nation in all. Still, as he too is human and has the possibility to make mistakes, which I recently noticed in one of his speech where Narendra Modi addressed people by raising voice to say "who fight from muslim?......a hindu" which he then did not cleared, rather he moulded his words of speech. This thought of his made me more strong to oppose such leader decided by entire nation for any purpose because when I was young I was made to learn a song by music teacher which is like....
Iss desh ko hindu
na musalman chahiye
har mazhab jisko pyara
wo insaan chahiye
Geeta ne karm sikhaya
nanak kaha ahimsa
jeevon se prem karo
Tum kahte ho
hazrat isah
kuran ne kaha
imaan chahiye
Har mazhab jisko pyara, wo insaan chahiye;
is desh ko hindu, na musalman chahiye.
and this song of my teachcer always pull me back for finding a perfect leader as Narendra Modi for us. Rest, I do not get deeper into the politics as its not my interest.
but a person who in public speak reluctantly on religion, is the biggest dislike for me forever.
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July 27th, 2017, 07:28 PM #24
It is interesting to note that all of the Abrahmic religions have roots out of India. India is a country in the world which has Brahmic roots, so Brahmic religions must have its origins/people from India.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abrahamic_religions
There might be lot of words which might hint towards an out of India origin of Brahmic religion, which might not be true because these words could have been coined/made at certain time in Indian history so that the Brahmic religions can incorporate/exist themselves into the outside influence. Religions (any religion) of the world has done a similar thing to make itself exist among majority outside influence. India with its open borders in ancient times saw a massive inflow/outflow of tribes at any given point of time.
In 1947 India got its independence and more than 500 kingdoms joined together to make today's India, if we take A4 paper sized map of India and put 500 dots over the map of India, i am sure map will be full of dots which are few kilometers apart. In such a scenario there would have been adaptation of identities and a change of identities as a means of survival for religion and the kingdoms alike.
There are words like Sharepa: which combines to make Share+Pa. Share in Hindi means Lion. This kind of word seems to be of very recent origin as compared to ancient history and tribal migration history of India, if there is a Sharepa then there must also be a Sharema.
So, lot of such words seem to be made up words derived from various sources. Ancient India which saw numerous battles among kingdoms, religions, people, etc. Must have created a society which saw existence of people who were able to survive by fighting in large groups(majority of the people recruited in Indian Army come from such origins) their existence was possible because these people were able to organize themselves in times of trouble and were able to support each other like in any society/community in the world(such societies and communities also exist even in modern cities and even in developed countries of the world), and then there would have been people who would have made their life existence through faith, religion, magic, tricks, etc., most of such things either required small knowledge or big knowledge, which outside people rarely had, while the people who were residing in the land since ancient times always had.
Outside religious thought would be an opposed view due to various reasons.
Originally Posted by DrRajpalSingh
Do you think pictorial depicts on artifacts does not represent archaeology ? It is very much a part of it.
There is a difference is it a "made up artifact", or a "natural artifact"?
natural artifact is mostly natural while there are also artifacts with enforced/influenced thought process such as religion.
Last edited by maddhan1979; August 1st, 2017 at 06:26 PM.
Originally Posted by maddhan1979
In 1947 India got its independence and more than 500 kingdoms joined together to make today's India, if we take A4 paper sized map of India and put 500 dots over the map of India, i am sure map will be full of dots which are few kilometers apart. In such a scenario there would have be adaptation of identities and a change of identities as a means of survival for religion and the kingdoms alike.
true, to an added information going into the past only leads to confusion and if not would be beneficial for any thesis or personal keen interest. History was the most boring topic for me to study ever. However, if I go by geography, then it was one piece of land and all religion existed there which get segregated by the movement of tectonic plates and thereby giving new names/changing names to different places with existence of life. So, it is again how the life on earth moulded the religion even. There is a personal history where I find Aryans as our ancerstors of grandpa's ancestors which afterwards were known as Jat adopting hinduism as identity.
Religions often perceive themselves as the custodians of fellow humans, animals,etc., often analogies are derived from domesticated animals.
Religion presupposes that it is the ultimate teacher to all fellow human beings, so people driven by faith often work in a way where religion produces analogies to compare human beings with animal classification and monetary evaluation.
evaluation: "the making of a judgement about the amount, number, or value of something; assessment"
Such thought processes and people are not only danger to educated people but also dangerous at a wider scale.
Last edited by maddhan1979; August 8th, 2017 at 08:23 AM.
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Q: how to upgrade standalone version of graylog I want to upgrade my standalone graylog2 instance from 1.1.5 to 1.2.1.
I unpacked the new version, copy the old graylog.conf file and data/ directory and after I start the new version I get some errors.
For example if I go to the indices page the graylog-webinterface log says:
Caught Exception while deserializing JSON request:
com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonMappingException: Instantiation of [simple type, class org.graylog2.rest.models.system.indexer.responses.IndexRangeSummary] value failed: Null indexName (through reference chain: org.graylog2.rest.models.system.indexer.responses.IndexRangesResponse["ranges"]->java.util.ArrayList[0])
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Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException: Null indexName
    at org.graylog2.rest.models.system.indexer.responses.AutoValue_IndexRangeSummary.<init>(AutoValue_IndexRangeSummary.java:21) ~[org.graylog2.graylog2-rest-models-1.1.5.jar:na]
    at org.graylog2.rest.models.system.indexer.responses.IndexRangeSummary.create(IndexRangeSummary.java:47) ~[org.graylog2.graylog2-rest-models-1.1.5.jar:na]
    at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor59.invoke(Unknown Source) ~[na:na]
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) ~[na:1.8.0_51]
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:497) ~[na:1.8.0_51]
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.introspect.AnnotatedMethod.call(AnnotatedMethod.java:120) ~[com.fasterxml.jackson.core.jackson-databind-2.5.3.jar:2.5.3]
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.std.StdValueInstantiator.createFromObjectWith(StdValueInstantiator.java:227) ~[com.fasterxml.jackson.core.jackson-databind-2.5.3.jar:2.5.3]
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What can I do?

A: Please check whether you also updated the graylog web.

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Where Do I Watch CMEpalooza Spring?
No. You are not on the Hangout. You are only watching a video feed of the Hangout. You can sing Edelweiss at the top of your lungs and no one will hear you except your neighbors, who might call the police, who might interrupt you while watching CMEpalooza. So basically, don't sing Edelweiss at the top of your lungs while watching CMEpalooza.
Can I watch CMEpalooza Spring at the office?
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Can I watch CMEpalooza Spring from the top of a volcano while doing the hula and eating a cheesesteak?
If the cheesesteak is wiz wit — sure. If not — no.
Do I have to pay anything to watch CMEpalooza?
Good question. Let's ask this guy.
Hmmm…seems a little high. The answer is no. You don't have to pay anything to watch CMEpalooza.
Well, you don't have to, but it would be nice if you did. It's only six questions and shouldn't take you more than 30 seconds. If it does take you more than 30 seconds, Scott will buy you a pony.


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Family Law in Focus
Marlene A. Pontrelli, J. Shoshanna Ehrlich
Family Law in Focus offers a comprehensive, practice-oriented approach to the legal and practical aspects of Family Law. By providing real-world scenarios throughout, the text gives students numerous opportunities to apply what they are learning, and solidify their understanding of important concepts. Clear explanatory text, Case Previews, and Case Follow-ups further clarify the doctrine and aid in student understanding.
The Focus Casebook Series
Chapter 1. The Law of the Family
Chapter 2. Marriage and the Legal Regulation of Nonmarital Couples
Chapter 3. Premarital and Postmarital Agreements
Chapter 4. The Law of Divorce, Annulment, and Legal Separation
Chapter 5. Child Custody
Chapter 6. Child Support
Chapter 7. Spousal Support
Chapter 8. The Division of Marital Property
Chapter 9. The Divorce Process
Chapter 10. Jurisdiction
Chapter 11. Domestic Violence
Chapter 12. Determining Parentage
Chapter 13. Child Abuse and Neglect
Chapter 14. Adoption
Chapter 15. Assisted Reproductive Technologies
J. Shoshanna Ehrlich
J. Shoshanna Ehrlich, J.D. is an Associate Professor of Legal Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She teaches a variety of courses including Family Law, Women and the Law, Legal Reasoning, and Children's Rights. She also teaches an innovative Family Law Practice course in which students provide representation to a hypothetical client in a mock divorce case starting with the initial intake interview and concluding with the drafting of a negotiated separation agreement. In addition, she is an Adjunct Professor at Northeastern University School of Law, where she teaches Family Law.
Before moving into the academic world, Professor Ehrlich was a family law attorney. She thus brings a real world perspective into her work as a professor and an author.
In addition to Family Law for Paralegals, Professor Ehrlich is the author of Who Decides? The Abortion Rights of Young Women, and she is currently working on a new book on the legal regulation of adolescent female sexuality. In addition to having published widely in law review journals, Professor Ehrlich has a range of other publications, including the co-authorship of a training manual for attorneys who represent young women in judicial bypass proceedings, a legal resource manual for family planning providers, and a series of encyclopedia entries on topics such as the adoption and foster parenting rights of same-sex couples.
Professor Ehrlich received her B.A. in Political Science and History in 1978 from the University of Michigan, and received her J.D. from Northeastern University School of Law in 1982.


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World of Warcraft: BfA leveling tips and tricks
Battle for Azeroth is for many players a beta and not a finished game.
Anyone who has played in the last days in Battle for Azeroth active or even just the forums and social media followed with BfA leveling, know that most of revolves around a theme: bugs, exploits and other errors.
BfA leveling in WoW
Most of the errors, there is a WoW addon ever had
started the disaster with an exploit that allowed some players, world quests, an infinite number of times.
So you were able to farms a lot of reputation and excellent rewards. Here you can push on an eye and say that it was targeted to exploit a small error.
Mythic+were unlocked -Dungeons. To the surprise of many players, many of the characters were on the US servers, strange rewards.
So you received the items with item level 415 or higher. Also essential absurd gems like "Shrine of storms +22" were not uncommon. Coping with the current equipment is impossible.
BfA Questlines in Dungeons
A world quest in the Dungeon Dazar'alor was also the frustration among the players. There was as a "Bonus" a little Extra Boss that was the target of the world quest. However, this Boss had – you can imagine – a grave error. He saw it that certain groups of enemies appeared in the double number. Read more about wow Battle of Dazar'alor in the best guide.
Instead of six enemies to defeat, there was now trash groups with twelve enemies. Depending on the difficulty of the Dungeons can be an absolute ordeal.
Many groups made the plan for BfA leveling, one of the two of the mow enemies down and die than to try the whole thing again. So "died" one piece at a time by the opponent groups.
BfA Warfronts with bugs
Then began in Europe the Warfronts. Players could sign up on the side of the Horde at the battle of Stromgarde if they belonged to the Horde. At least in theory.
In practice, the log, the player has ensured that the entire group finder has been laid up for almost four hours to a complete standstill. Not only war fronts could not be played, but the group search for a dungeon or island expeditions also did not work for many players. In the evening hours, the error was fixed.
Unfortunately, you have to say it's so hard: Many new features were unlocked in the weeks that are bugged. Hasty bug fixes to new problems.
Although Blizzard always pushes quite quickly to fix the problems with BfA, they don't always.
One group tried a healer in PvP to balance, should reduce the mana regeneration of BfA healers. The result, however, was that healers had a negative Regeneration, and in the fight of alone mana lost. At low levels, the Mana was consumed almost immediately. Read more about how BFA Healer loses mana.
Another group has nerfed a weapon massively, only to be a few hours later and again buffed. This absurd bugs without wild get even more consequences, such as a Mount, this is suddenly "forged war" to upgrade.
All of this does not fit "my" Blizzard. This is not the game manufacturer, has stood for quality and sophisticated systems. It is rushed, poorly tested, and the solutions to hastily.
WoW: Beta for BfA
In all of these errors and problems, it is hardly surprising that the players have already built some memes and the game unceremoniously renamed. Instead of "Battle for Azeroth" they call it "Beta for Azeroth".
Hundreds of comments to collect and again and again is, ironically, the question of whether anyone knows when the Battle for Azeroth finally comes out of the Beta Phase. Others go even further, and WoW in its current state name a "paid Beta Server".
Don't get me wrong. Battle for Azeroth is beautiful. The landscapes are terrific, the Quests I find captivating, and the cinematics is fantastic. The Soundtrack is chasing me the chills. Visually, sonically and story-wise the game is a stunner. However, the gameplay mechanics are not able to keep up at the moment, because there are always new bugs pop up.
Hardly a new Feature is ready, it is bugged. The game is far from "unplayable" and most of the Bugs are promptly fixed, however, it tarnishes the image of a new, significant WoW expansion massively.
Battle for Azeroth would have needed more time
Already in the Beta, it was clear that Blizzard is enough time. After all, some classes such as Shadow Priest, the play style boring and soporific. Already during the Beta, the developers stated that you'll address these problems with Patch 8.1.
It was not enough time to make a class fun, and now the day in and day out was also cut for other features of the fine.
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