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package org.springframework.cloud.lattice.connector;

import org.cloudfoundry.receptor.client.ReceptorClient;
import org.cloudfoundry.receptor.client.ReceptorOperations;
import org.cloudfoundry.receptor.commands.ActualLRPResponse;
import org.cloudfoundry.receptor.commands.DesiredLRPResponse;
import org.springframework.cloud.AbstractCloudConnector;
import org.springframework.cloud.FallbackServiceInfoCreator;
import org.springframework.cloud.app.ApplicationInstanceInfo;
import org.springframework.cloud.app.BasicApplicationInstanceInfo;
import org.springframework.cloud.service.BaseServiceInfo;
import org.springframework.cloud.util.EnvironmentAccessor;

import java.lang.Class;
import java.lang.Object;
import java.lang.Override;
import java.lang.String;
import java.lang.SuppressWarnings;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;

/**
 * @author Spencer Gibb
 */
public class LatticeConnector extends AbstractCloudConnector<Process> {

	private EnvironmentAccessor environment = new EnvironmentAccessor();
	private ReceptorOperations receptorClient;

	@SuppressWarnings({ "unchecked", "rawtypes" })
	public LatticeConnector() {
		super((Class) LatticeServiceInfoCreator.class);
		String receptorHost = environment.getEnvValue("SPRING_CLOUD_LATTICE_RECEPTOR_HOST");
		if (receptorHost == null) {
			receptorHost = "receptor.192.168.11.11.xip.io";
		}
		//TODO: support username/password
		this.receptorClient = new ReceptorClient(receptorHost);
	}

	public void setEnvironmentAccessor(EnvironmentAccessor environment) {
		this.environment = environment;
	}

	public void setReceptorOperations(ReceptorOperations receptorClient) {
		this.receptorClient = receptorClient;
	}

	@Override
	public boolean isInMatchingCloud() {
		return environment.getEnvValue("PROCESS_GUID") != null;
	}

	@Override
	public ApplicationInstanceInfo getApplicationInstanceInfo() {
		String instanceGuid = environment.getEnvValue("INSTANCE_GUID");
		String processGuid = environment.getEnvValue("PROCESS_GUID");
		//TODO: read receptor?
		HashMap<String, Object> map = new HashMap<>();
		return new BasicApplicationInstanceInfo(instanceGuid, processGuid, map);
	}

	@Override
	protected List<Process> getServicesData() {
		Map<String, Process> processes = new HashMap<>();
		List<DesiredLRPResponse> desiredLRPs = receptorClient.getDesiredLRPs();

		for (DesiredLRPResponse desired : desiredLRPs) {
			processes.put(desired.getProcessGuid(), new Process(desired));
		}

		List<ActualLRPResponse> actualLRPs = receptorClient.getActualLRPs();
		for (ActualLRPResponse actual : actualLRPs) {
			Process process = processes.get(actual.getProcessGuid());
			if (process != null) {
				process.add(actual);
			}
		}

		return new ArrayList<>(processes.values());
	}

	@Override
	protected FallbackServiceInfoCreator<BaseServiceInfo, Process> getFallbackServiceInfoCreator() {
		return new FallbackServiceInfoCreator<BaseServiceInfo, Process>() {
			@Override
			public BaseServiceInfo createServiceInfo(Process process) {
				return new BaseServiceInfo(process.getProcessGuid());
			}
		};
	}
}


People born in the year of the rat are sociable. They have no problem being thrown into a large crowd and start a conversation. In fact, people will be drawn to them because they are charismatic. The first animal to win the race, and obviously they won with their brain power. Don't be surprised when the rat knows the answer to the questions before anyone else. Last but not least, the rat is an influential sign. Most people follow their lead because of all the traits mentioned above, no wonder they are the first of the animal signs.
On the other the hand, the rat is very acquisitive. If they want something badly, they'll make sure they find a way to acquire it, even if it means getting their hands dirty. They can also be critical to the point that they will fuss over little things and won't have any other way. If it's none of their business, they will stick their nose deep into it. In the end, if it impacts what they want, they will interfere to due their nosy nature. Worst of all, they can be overambitious to the point that they will push people down so that they can get to the top.


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Évènements

Janvier
  :
 instauration du Brevet de pilote en France. Seize de ces brevets ont déjà été attribué à titre honorifique à seize pionniers le ;
 création d'A.V.Roe and Company à Manchester, une des premières entreprises au monde dédiée à la construction aéronautique.

 4 janvier : le pionnier français Léon Delagrange (Brevet de pilote ) se tue sur l'aérodrome de Croix d'Hins près de Bordeaux sur un Blériot.

 7 janvier : Hubert Latham atteint les  d'altitude en avion, à Mourmelon.

 8 janvier : premier vol de l'avion français « Sommer ».

 Janvier : premier vol en avion effectué en Amérique du Sud. H. Bregi réalise cette première à Buenos Aires sur un « Voisin ».

 10  au  20 janvier : premier meeting aérien de Los Angeles (États-Unis). Le pilote français Louis Paulhan (brevet de pilote ) est l'invité vedette de ce meeting. Ce dernier améliore d'ailleurs le 12 janvier le record d'altitude : .

Février
 9 février : arrivée par bateau du premier avion en Inde. C'est un « Blériot ». Il est longtemps en douane, car il ne figurait pas sur la liste des produits autorisés à l'importation.

 11 février : le Français Julien Mamet effectue le premier vol en avion en Espagne sur un « Blériot ».

Mars
 6 mars : la baronne de Laroche est la première femme à obtenir son brevet de pilote (36).

 10 mars : premier vol de nuit effectué par le Français Émile Aubrun à Villalugano, près de Buenos Aires en Argentine.

 13 mars :  effectue le premier vol en aéroplane en Suisse.

 21 mars : le magicien Harry Houdini, alors en tournée en Australie, effectue sur son avion personnel, un « Voisin », le premier vol officiellement enregistré en Australie.

 27 mars : le meeting de Cannes- Aviation débute, la manifestation se tenant à l'aérodrome de la Napoule jusqu'au . Les aviateurs Christiaens, Frey et Crochon étant les gagnants de la première journée de compétition.

 28 mars : premier vol sur 800 mètres de l'hydravion de l'ingénieur Henri Fabre sur l'étang de Berre. Il s'agit d'un appareil de type « canard » — ailerons à l'avant et ailes à l'arrière — équipé d'un moteur de 50 chevaux et de flotteurs permettant l'envol et l'amerrissage sur une surface liquide.

Avril
 Création d'un embryon d'armée de l'air en France avec un commandement spécifique.

  7 avril : le Français Guyot effectue le premier vol en avion en Pologne.

 18 avril :
 premier vol de l'hydravion américain « Flying Fish »;
 la première conférence sur la navigation aérienne se tient à Paris.
 W. Brooking effectue sur un « Wright » le premier vol de nuit aux États-Unis.

 23 avril : le Français Hubert Latham bat le record de vitesse pure en avion sur une « Antoinette » :  et remporte la course d'aéroplanes entre Nice – Cap Ferrat (aller-retour) avec un chrono de  16 min, 46 s, 3/5, face aux pilotes Métrot, Efimoff, Rolls, Riemsdyck, Chavez, Duray et Van den Born.

 25 avril : aéroplanes brisés, hangars saccagés et brûlés, plusieurs blessés, charge de la gendarmerie: voilà le bilan de ce 25 avril 1910 lors d'un meeting aérien à l'aérodrome de Durango, en Espagne. Les spectateurs manifestant leur mécontententement, après des heures d'attente sans voir le moindre aviateur dans le ciel!

 27 - 28 avril : le Français Louis Paulhan remporte la course aérienne organisée par le Daily Mail entre Londres et Manchester. Il est le premier homme à voler sur une distance de plus de  en ligne droite.

Mai
 25 mai : les frères Wright volent pour la première fois ensemble.

 28 mai : L'aviateur français Louis Paulhan va évoluer au-dessus de l'ossuaire de Solférino pour y lancer de son aéroplane des roses et des œillets rouges, afin de rendre hommage aux soldats morts lors de cette célèbre bataille.

 29 mai : l'Américain Glenn Curtiss relie Albany et New York, soit  en 2 heures et 50 minutes.

Juin
 2 juin : Charles Stewart Rolls, créateur avec Henry Royce de la célèbre firme de moteurs, accomplit à bord d'un biplan Short-Wright, la première traversée de la Manche aller et retour sans escale.

 9 juin : première mission opérationnelle pour les aviateurs de l'armée française. Féquant et Marconnet relient Châlons et Vincennes.

 14 juin : l'Américain Brookings bat le record d'altitude en avion sur un Wright : .

 19 au 26 juin : Grande Semaine d'aviation de Rouen.
 23 juin : l'aviateur Cody est victime d'un accident d'aéroplane au camp d'Aldershot, se crashant plus exactement  dans la plaine de Laffan, à cause d'une rafale de vent.

Juillet
 3  au 10 juillet :  Grande Semaine d'aviation de la Champagne à Reims. Les appareils « Blériot » raflent tous les prix.

 7 juillet : à Reims, le Français Hubert Latham bat le record d'altitude en avion sur une « Antoinette » : . Ce record est battu dans la journée par le Belge Jan Olieslagers :  sur un « Blériot ».

 9 juillet : à Reims, Léon Morane améliore le record du monde de vitesse en aéroplane avec  à bord d'un « Blériot ».

 10 juillet : à Reims, le Belge Olieslagers bat le record de durée de vol sur un « Blériot » : 5 heures, 3 minutes et 3 secondes.

 12 juillet : Charles Rolls se tue à Bournemouth dans un accident aérien. C'est la première victime aérienne britannique de l'histoire.

 14 juillet : Guillaume Busson devient le 4e pilote de l'histoire de l'aviation à évoluer dans le ciel parisien après le comte de Lambert, Emile Dubonnet et Champel. Un vol réalisé en début de soirée du  avec un appareil monoplan Blériot.

 15 juillet : le tsar Boris de Bulgarie est le premier souverain régnant à effectuer son baptême de l'air en avion. Le pilote belge Kiewit est à l'origine de cette première.

 29 juillet : premier vol de l'avion britannique Bristol Boxkite.

 30 juillet : le Belge Jan Olieslaegers devient le nouveau recordman d'altitude en aéroplane : avec un monoplan, il a "grimpé" jusqu'à 1 439 mètres lors du meeting national d'aviation de Stockel.

Août
 Le deuxième brevet de pilote féminin est attribué à la Belge Hélène Dutrieu ().
 1 août : l'aviateur anversois Jules Tyck établit lors du meeting national d'aviation de Stockel le nouveau record d'altitude, soit 1 700 mètres avec un monoplan signé du constructeur français Louis Blériot.
 3 août : le Belge Jan Olieslagers bat le record d'altitude en avion sur Blériot avec .
 7 au 17 août : le Français Leblanc remporte la course du « Circuit de l'Est » sur un « Blériot ». La course part de Paris et passe par Troyes (1h32), Nancy (4h), Charleville, Brayelle et Amiens pour un retour sur Paris. Le vainqueur gagnait .

 11 août :
 l'Américain Drexel bat le record d'altitude en avion sur un « Blériot » : ;
 l'Américain Drexel bat le record d'altitude en avion sur un « Blériot » : .
 15 août : le Français Louis Paulhan gagne le prix du Daily Mail récompensant le pilote ayant volé le plus de kilomètres entre le  et le . Paulhan totalise sur les douze derniers mois .

 17 août : le Franco-Américain John Moisant effectue le premier transport de passagers au-dessus de la Manche en emportant son mécanicien à bord de son « Blériot » biplace.

 24 août : les aviateurs Ruchonnet et Daudret réalisent le premier vol au-dessus de Bordeaux avec un monoplan « Antoinette », au départ de l'aérodrome de Beau-Désert.

 27 août : Frederick Baldwin et John McCurdy embarquent un émetteur radio à bord de leur biplan « Curtiss » et transmettent des messages au sol.
 Fin du mois : Lilian Bland devient la première femme à concevoir et construire un avion.

Septembre
 Première utilisation d'avions en condition de combat dans l'armée française à l'occasion de manœuvres en Picardie.

 23 septembre : Jorge Chavez Dartnell franchit les Alpes en monoplan « Blériot » entre la Suisse et l'Italie (de Brigue à Domodossola). Il se blesse à l'atterrissage et meurt le  des suites de ces blessures.

 26 septembre : Alors qu'ils participent au prix de l'Automobile-Club et au prix du conseil municipal de Paris, les aviateurs Mahieu et Loridan se crashent respectivement à la Fère et à Saint-Quentin.

 27 septembre : le Français Hubert Latham atteint en avion la vitesse de .

 28 septembre : le Français Tabuteau effectue le premier survol des Pyrénées, reliant Biarritz et Saint-Sébastien.

Octobre
 2 octobre : au-dessus de Milan, première collision aérienne de l'histoire entre un « Farman », piloté par le capitaine Bertram Dickson, et une « Antoinette » pilotée par un certain Thomas. Les pilotes survivent au crash.

 8 octobre : baptême de l'air en avion pour le président des États-Unis, Theodore Roosevelt.

 15 octobre - 2 novembre :  Exposition de la Locomotion aérienne au Bourget].

 15 octobre: l'aéronaute Wellman décolle du New Jersey avec son ballon « America » pour réaliser un vol jusqu'en Europe, malheureusement, après quatre jours de vol, le raid prend fin, sans être arrivé à bon port.

 16 octobre : première traversée de la Manche jusqu'à Londres en dirigeable, soit un trajet de  en 6 heures par le Clément-Bayard II d'Adolphe Clément.

 16 et 17 octobre : premier voyage en avion Paris - Bruxelles et retour, soit un trajet de  en 5 heures et 39 minutes de vol.

 28 octobre : le Français Tabuteau bat le record de distance sur circuit fermé en avion :  en 6 heures.

 29 octobre : le Français Leblanc bat le record de vitesse pure en avion sur un « Blériot » : . C'est toutefois le Britannique Graham White qui remporte la Coupe Gordon Bennett en remportant la course de  en 1 heure et 1 minute, soit une moyenne horaire de .

 31 octobre : l'Américain Johnston bat le record d'altitude en avion : , sur un « Wright ».

Novembre
 14 novembre : le premier décollage d'un avion en mer a eu lieu à titre expérimental à bord du croiseur américain . C'est le pilote américain Eugene Ely qui a réalisé l'exploit à bord d'un biplan Curtiss 1911 modèle D.
 27 novembre : tout juste brevetée, l'aviatrice Marie Marvingt va réaliser un vol de 53 minutes au camp de Châlons avec un monoplan Antoinette.

Décembre
 8 décembre : le Français Georges Legagneux bat le record d'altitude en avion : , sur un « Blériot ».

 11 décembre : premier vol en circuit fermé de plus de , par Georges Legagneux à Pau ( en 5 heures et 59 minutes).

 15 décembre : possible (controversé) premier vol en avion en Asie. Le Belge Van den Born effectue un vol à Saïgon.

 18 décembre : le Français Henri Farman bat le record de durée de vol : 8 heures, 12 minutes et 47 secondes sur un « Farman ».

 18 décembre : Thomas Sopwith remporte le prix du baron de Forest avec son biplan Howard T Wright.

 20 décembre : le Belge J. Tijck effectue le premier vol en avion en Inde (Calcutta).

 22 décembre : la Belge Hélène Dutrieu remporte la Coupe Fémina en couvrant  en 2 heures et 35 minutes.

 28 décembre : l'ingénieur anglais Willows achève son raid Londres - Paris réalisé en deux mois avec le ballon dirigeable « le City of Cardiff ».

 30 décembre : le Français Tabuteau remporte sur un « M. Farman », la Coupe Michelin Internationale 1910 en couvrant  en 7 heures, 48 minutes et 31 secondes. Une performance signée dans le ciel de Buc, le pilote devançant entre autres Henry Farman, Pierre Marie, Louis Bréguet et Legagneux qui avaient tenté un dernier vol sans succès au dernier jour de la compétition.
 31 décembre :
 le Français Henri Farman remporte la « Coupe Archdeacon » en effectuant un vol de ;
 S.F. Cody remporte le Trophée « British Empire Michelin » avec un vol de  et 787 yards en 4 heures et 47 minutes. Très distancés à l'époque des pionniers, les Britanniques ont rattrapé une bonne partie de leur retard sur les Français.
 John Moisant se tue en Louisiane, éjecté de son Blériot dans une ultime tentative de reprendre la coupe Michelin.

Notes et références

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Delma Rivera-Lytle just recently was approved by The Democratic state party to run for the state's 93rd District, but Gov. Tom Wolf and other Democratic powerhouses are already throwing support at the campaign.
Delma Rivera-Lytle just recently was approved by the Democratic state party to run for the state House's 93rd District, but Gov. Tom Wolf and other Democratic powerhouses are already throwing support at the campaign.
The Seven Valleys native was joined by Wolf, his running mate John Fetterman and more at her campaign kick-off event Tuesday, Sept. 18, at Goodwill Fire Co. in Jacobus.
At the event, four state House candidates were present along with the gubernatorial duo, offering support that Rivera-Lytle said "exceeded my own expectations."
Casting call: Rivera-Lytle first became interested in running for office after becoming "outraged" by comments from U.S. Rep. Scott Perry, R-Carroll Township, about Puerto Rico last year.
But the York native decided to put off running for a congressional seat because "timing is everything," and instead of entering the race then, she went to Puerto Rico to help family and friends in need.
However, the Democratic Party of York County put out a call Aug. 1 for a candidate to oppose Republican Mike Jones in the 93rd District after Meggan O'Rourke withdrew from the race for personal reasons.
Rivera-Lytle answered said call, and after a county party-selected committee of 39 individuals chose her as the nominee Aug. 13, the state party approved her candidacy just three days later.
"When this opportunity became available, I knew I had to run," Rivera-Lytle said. "I just felt like my own congressman didn't represent me."
On the ballot: She's now officially on the ballot to run against Jones for the seat currently held by Rep. Kristin Phillips-Hill, R-York Township, who is in pursuit of the 28th District Senate seat Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott Wagner vacated.
Wolf, on the gubernatorial campaign trail with Fetterman, couldn't help but tout some of his accomplishments while in office, such as fighting the opioid crisis, investing in education and depositing money into the state's rainy day fund for the first time in more than a decade.
But the governor emphasized that "we're here for Delma" and focused on the possibility of seeing more Democrats in the House come November — with the help of Rivera-Lytle, who is running in a district that has remained red for more than 40 years.
"This is a really big deal," Wolf said. "This is our chance to take our democracy back, and we're the party to do it. Imagine what we can do if we had more than 81 members in the 203 member House of Representatives."
Platform: Rivera-Lytle is running on a platform fueled not onlyby her passion for Puerto Rican relief efforts but also her interests in education, infrastructure, employment, housing and health care, specifically the opioid crisis.
The wife of a Republican, the new candidate said her home life adds another aspect to the platform: a willingness to work across the aisle.
"I believe we have to work with people who think differently, even if they're from another party," Rivera-Lytle said. "Even though we both have differences of opinion, we can have civil dialogue. For me, that's very important."
She touts the theme in her new campaign slogan: "Making a difference together."


Your friend has such a wonderful place, it really is incredibly beautiful. That albino peacock is amazing. Oh, and I should mention that I'm quite envious of that village.
I lost an enter camera full of photos as well. Our entire Christmas Eve and Day was completely erased. Very sad. There will be less pages in the 2015 scrapbook.
What a beautiful place your friend and her husband live in. So peaceful and natural. Glad you had such a wonderful time together.
Glad your travels were safe - even in nasty weather.
Sounds like you had a terrific time away...visiting your friend and finding fences. I love Marie's Village!
I learned M-I-double S-I-double S-I-double P-I. I like your saying better, it's cuter.
Enjoy getting into the swing of things in 2016!
Hello Celestina! Welcome back it's good to see you again! It looks like you had a wonderful vacation. The peacocks are just marvelous!! How I would love to see them in person. I'm sure they were just beautiful to admire. Best wishes for a Happy New Year!
How wonderful to spend the holidays with this sweet lady. I would love to see her Christmas village. Happy New year my friend. Hugs, Diane PS hope you got a new camera from Santa!
Looks like you had a nice visit. It sounds like you were visiting me... we have a similar set up with peacocks, chickens and such... The Christmas village is amazing! I set one up and it takes me a long time with just a few houses; I couldn't imagine setting that one up! I'm sorry for the death of your camera.. does that mean a new one? I can relate to all of your new year goals! They sound like mine. Happy Thursday!
and glad, you had such a lovely time with your friend!
Sending love, hugs and blessings for a wonderful weekend ahead, my sweet friend!
What a great way to start the year off. Seems like the perfect holiday trip.
Love to see pictures of friends.
Happy New Year again, friend.
I'm so glad you went away and had a great time away visiting with you friend during the holidays. I enjoyed looking at the photos you were able to take. Wishing a nice weekend.
Such a very beautiful visit Celeste, your friend lives in a most beautiful spot, and her surroundings are very lovely.
Everything there looks big and majestic !!
Thank you for the Google report about blogging and Friends Connect , I`m a google Crome, but have many friends whom are not googler`s and they might not be able to visit me anymore, of which I`m sad. Sometimes I understand that many are leaving blog-land to only post on FB.
Sending you winter wishes, and hugs.
Happy New Year Celeste !
Mary's property looks great and beautiful with all these trees and birds. I visited her etsy shop. She also makes amazing creations.
How so very beautiful...can't imagine living on a gorgeous piece of property like that and seeing those fabulous peacocks every day!....So glad you had a wonderful visit with Marie!! Happy New Year!
It sounds like you had a wonderful holiday break and a lovely visit. We had a friend who owned peacocks long ago and I always thought they were the neatest animals! How fun!
Celestina Marie, What a mesmerizing and inspirational trip!
Oh I have seen Marie's theater dolls before and her blog.
It's always fun to spend time with a cherished friend! And what a gorgeous place to spend time in! So fun!
Such a beautiful place and lucky you to get to visit. I'm so glad you had a great time and made it home safe and sound. Great picture of both of you. I love the white peacock. Happy New Year, Dear!
Welcome back, Celeste, it's great to hear & see that you enjoyed a wonderful Christmas with loved ones!
You friend lives in a very pretty spot with all those animals it must be so good!
The village is incredible & how fantastic that it is open for all to admire!
Looks like a wonderful place and you so enjoyed it. I do remember the Mississippi spelling rhyme!!
Glad you had a a wonderful time away. Thanks for info,I did not know that.
Beautiful pictures and what a peaceful place to live! Marie's village is fabulous. Thanks for the info.
Celeste beautiful, beautiful photos and WOW a 10 hour drive, but it seems to was to a magical place embraced by loving friendship. The miniature town scape which BTW is amazing reminded me of a scene in Beetlejuice. I fixated on the minature town and the hanging grain wheat bulbs - just magical.
Welcome back to posting sweet friend - you've been missed.
her place is divine! love the gazebo and oriental pagoda, especially! sorry your camera decided to expire during your trip! your friend looks like a sweetheart and her village is really neat.
Wow what a wonderful place to visit! I love seeing peacocks though I can do without the noise they make! Too bad about your camera.
I'm sitting here scratching my head trying to understand Bloggers logic behind this new move. I wonder if this is some kind of security thing. It just seems like they're trying to corner the market and get more people signed up with Google.
Thank you Celeste, for the most wonderful post. And thank you to all of Your friends in Blog land for the most wonderful comments...Bill laid down new gravel after ya'll left. It was such a muddy mess...We loved your visit and wish you both to come back any time. I know the village took a lot of time ,but it sure was a joy to share the last nite it was opened with my new family. I was sooo happy that you were here. It seems unreal that Sherry was here for the grand opening and you were here for the closing...WOW !!!You can tell your friends you can Google or Face Book WhitmanVille, for more pics. of the village, and any info. .
Dearest Celeste, good afternoon! I am very late....back to school this week you know! I am SO EXCITED to see that you know and visited MARIE! YES! Do you know that Edie Marie and Marie Antoinette were my first two blogger friends way back eight years ago now? What a joy to meet up with individuals with whom you correspond and share. I am glad to hear you had a great time! Batten down the hatches my friend...I hope the El Niño doesn't effect your area...MUCH LOVE!
Hi Celeste! Oh, I'm sure you had such a wonderful visit to your friend's place. Such a lovely place and to see those peacocks! Her village looks amazing and she looks so sweet.
Hope you're doing well and Happy New Year.
Wow your visit with your friend Marie looked wonderful. They live in such a lovely area with yes, lots of good fences. I also loved the peacocks. - She does have an amazing Christmas Village and that is so cool that she shares it with the entire town. - So very sorry to hear of your camera's demise. I hope it gets fixed soon or you get a new one as I'd hate to miss your lovely photos. - Happy New Year.
I'm sure you found a bit of peace and tranquility here. What a lovely place.
I'll say that is the perfect place to live! And I bet that 'village' is amazing to see.
What a wonderful Christmas you had. What a lovely place and that village.....WOW, 124 feet long, it must surely be so beautiful at night.
Wow, what a wonderful trip you both had! I am so glad you were able to visit with Marie (love the photo of you two!!). Her home and property sounds amazing! Just look at all of those pretty peacocks! What a shame your camera decided to die!! Marie sounds like alot of fun, and must be so creative. Loved the pic of you and Larry, too! Geez, why won't Google just leave well enough alone? Seems like they are always changing what was once a good thing. Nothing like adding to our confusion and frustration with Blogger, right?! Looking forward to all of your projects in the works!!
Celeste where to begin with this? The Peacocks, gazebo, wishing well, the beautiful fence. Then you take us to see that amazing village that Marie shares with her town. What a wonderful thing and amazing collection. Love it!!
So many great pictures here! Looks like you had an amazing time with a very talented friend :-) Happy new year!!
Marie lives in a beautiful place !!!
Happy New year for you, your family and her !!!
So good to hear you had such a wonderful time away and visiting with friends. It looks like a fun place to get away too and watching all the wild life, how fun!! Sorry you had problems with your camera but you still manage to get some great pics! That Christmas village is just amazing and what a wonderful thing for your friend to share with her community, I can only imagine what that must be like.
Wishing you all the best in the year ahead!!
A happy post, Celeste. I enjoyed catching up with all your news. Happy 2016, hope it's a good one.
This place is truly amazing and wonderful to live in, isn't it ?
I'm charmed by Mary's village too, it's really big and incredibly special, thank you for sharing so many beautiful things, not last the photographs of you together with your dear ones, my lovely lady!
So glad that you had a wonderful visit with your friend Marie. Everything is so beautiful there and all the lovely fences she has.
Her Village is stunning - WOW, It takes me a good day just to do my little one.
Great picture of you and your honey.
Have a wonder 2016, looking forward to all your wonderful posts.
Your friends living in an idyllic spot - beautifully.
Glad to see you back and it sound/looks like you had a wonderful time. Loved the photo of you and your hubs....Happy New Year may it be a blessed one!
What a wonderful place to be!!! You really did get some gorgeous pics of her place. Looking forward to a wonderful 2016 with you and your fences!!! Happy New Year.
It looks like you had a wonderful trip, and such a fun time with your friend, Celestina. She is a talented lady!!!
Looking forward to 2016 and what's in store for us in the coming days.
What a beautiful place to get away too, and live; your friend is very blessed. Maries' Christmas village is wonderful! Thank you for sharing and for stopping by.
What a beautiful place to get away to! If that is the ugly time I wonder what the beautiful time looks like!! Going over to visit the links. Thanks for the info on Google too!
Yes, I remember that funny little saying in school. What a fun time you had in Mississippi. You saw a dear friend, and got to spend some time with nature at the same time. I really like this picture of your friend standing next to her Christmas village. And what a grand village it is. You look so cute in this picture with your husband, Celestina.
I hope the new year is being good to you so far. Oh, thanks for the heads up about google friend connect. I was wondering, can someone still follow our blogs if they have a gmail acct? It all sounds so complicated.
What a lovely place your friend has. It is nice that you were able to enjoy the peace and quiet of the country for Christmas.
What a treat for all those people who get to enjoy Marie's Christmas village!
Marie has some spectacular doll creations! It must keep her very busy.
I am sorry to see Google making it so that friend connect is not available to everyone. I really do not like Google plus. I hope that they don't make it so that you have to have Google plus to keep blogging.
Loved seeing all your pictures of your holiday at your friend's home. Thanks for sharing them.
Oh Celestina, I didn't realize this was Marie from blog land. Marie and Edie have been sweet blog friends for years. They are both such talented ladies. Isn't it fun to see our blog friends in person? I've met only one. She owned a vintage shop in So Cal and I used to go in there all the time.
Marie lives in a gorgeous setting even if she thinks it's the ugly time.
Thanks for the info about google friends changes.
So wonderful to catch up with you again-Christmas and all of the comings and goings seems to have accelerated time!
Oh goodness, but what a joy to see you back, looking wonderful and vibrant as always.
What a joyful journey you had on this outing and the scenery is lovely.
My husband is from Mississippi and I always love to visit his family and walk among the Cypress Trees, Tall pines and enjoy some of the great food too!
dear friend! I totally loved the photos!!


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Q&A Scene: Jenn Wasner ~ WYE OAK
April 6, 2018 Mary Boukouvalas
Tell us about your new album 'The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs' …
I think this record is a culmination of everything we've been working on for the past 10 years. It incorporates a lot of the techniques we learned while making Shriek (electronic/synthetic textures) but many of the songs were written on guitar (like the majority of our older material). It feels like we've finally matured to the point where we can create something that sounds the way we want it to with no qualifications. Thematically it's about trying to find ways to continue to live when the world around you (and inside of you) makes less sense than ever.
What's your favourite work at this point in time?
I can't see how it would be a good idea to say anything other than the album we're currently trying to promote, don't you think? ;) It's true though, I think this record—The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs— is absolutely our best. And tied for second in closeness to my heart might be my solo record (under the Flock of Dimes moniker, called If You See Me, Say Yes.)
Tell us a quick, on the road or studio, anecdote.
There was this one time, we drove 6 hours, stopped at a gas station, ate at a terrible fast food place, and then loaded all of our gear into a venue, and…
What, or who, inspires you?
The need to justify my existence by hopefully someday making something great enough that it offsets all of the damage I do just by being a selfish human consumption machine.
Which song do you wish you wrote?
Almost anything by Kate Bush or Joni Mitchell or Arthur Russell.
I guess I'm going to make some lunch and maybe hit up a yoga class later.
What's your scene?
That one in Pink Flamingos where Divine eats dog shit.
'The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs' is out today!
For 'The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs', Wye Oak's Jenn Wasner and Andy Stack flew to one another's cities – she in Durham, North Carolina, he in Marfa, Texas – for a week or so at a time, hunkering in home studios to sort through and combine their separate song sketches. These shorter stints together produced less second-guessing and hesitation in their process, yielding an unabashed and unapologetic Wye Oak.
They discarded past rules about how to write a record, instead funneling all those experiences and experiments into perfectly unified statements. The result is the biggest, broadest, boldest music Wye Oak has ever made. Louder pursues a litany of modern malaises, each of its dozen tracks diligently addressing a new conflict and pinning it against walls of sound, with the song's subject and shape inextricably and ingeniously linked. It arrives at a time of immense doubt, when our personal problems are infinitely compounded by a world that seems in existential peril. But these songs answer the challenge by radiating self-reflection and resolve, wielding hooks and musical intricacy as a shield against the madness of the moment.
The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs contains the biggest, broadest, boldest music Wye Oak have ever made, and today, the duo of Jenn Wasner and Andy Stack provide a song that exemplifies the band at their most enlightened.
The title track of The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs – the triumphant fifth album by Wye Oak – is a coil of anxiety and exuberance, its verses and chorus sweeping into cascades of magnetic harmony. By the time the song ends, it has bloomed into an undeniable pop anthem, a spell to be shouted against the ills of our world. Press play for proof!
During the intoxicating It Was Not Natural, a weary walk through the woods unearths a discarded antler, a talisman that provokes deep questions about our work lives, social codes, and romantic mores. The music – a sophisticated tessellation of pounded piano and loping bass, scattered drums and chirping synthesizer – is as complex and ponderous as the issues themselves. "It Was Not Natural" is Wye Oak at their most sophisticated, navigating life's difficulties with the nuance and power they demand.
Jenn Wasner offers the following: "This is a story about finding an object of uncertain origin whilst walking through the woods. Or, if you'd rather: it's about exploring the space between the things that we are socialized to believe about ourselves, and the actual truth of our nature – learning how to push the limits of the systems we've put in place to help ourselves make sense of chaos."
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Mary is a photographer and a writer, specialising in music. She runs Rocklust.com where she endeavours to capture the passion of music in her photos whether it's live music photography, promotional band photos or portraits. She has photographed The Rolling Stones, KISS, Iggy Pop, AC/DC, Patti Smith, Joe Strummer, PULP, The Cult, The Damned, The Cure, Ian Brown, Interpol, MUDHONEY, The MELVINS, The Living End, Foo Fighters, Smashing Pumpkins, Rage Against The Machine, The Stone Roses –just to name a few - in Australia, USA, Europe and the Middle East. Her work has been published in Beat magazine, Rolling Stone magazine, Triple J magazine, The Age Newspaper, The Herald Sun, The Australian, Neos Kosmos, blistering.com, theaureview.com, noise11.com, music-news.com. She has a permanent photographic exhibition at The Corner Hotel in Richmond, Victoria Australia.
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General Dragoljub Mihailović's Chetnik movement has been the subject of historical studies for more than half a century. Most have focused on the Chetnik-Partisan war and the issues of Chetnik resistance to and collaboration with the Axis powers. This study expands on the existing body of knowledge by considering the effects of ethno-religious conflict on the Chetnik wartime strategy and ideology. By examining primary source documents, this thesis looks at the original wartime Chetnik plan for guerrilla resistance as envisioned by Mihailović and traces its gradual transformation in the light of both the Ustaša genocide against the Serbs in the Independent State of Croatia and the Serb uprising there. As Chetnik and Axis wartime documents show, ethno-religious conflict had a profound transformative effect on Chetnik wartime behaviour and their post-war vision for royalist Yugoslavia. Ethno-religious conflict also had a significant impact on the Chetnik strategy of collaboration with the Italians in the Independent State of Croatia, the Chetnik relationship with the Partisans and the Chetniks' resistance plans. As a result of these various wartime processes, the Chetnik movement transformed from being a direct extension of the Yugoslav Royal Army into a Serb national force that focused on the survival of Yugoslav Serbs and was devoted to Serb post-war territorial unification within a restored Yugoslavia – or even without the restoration of Yugoslavia, for that matter. This meant abandoning Yugoslavism as an ideological platform, something that contributed to the Allies' abandonment of the Chetniks in favour of the communist Partisans.


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+  - reg: Physical base address and size of the controller's register areas.
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+ - dr_mode: Should be one of "host", "peripheral" or "otg".


The University of Birmingham, Newman University, Birmingham City, Aston… there are quite a few universities around here!
Britain's second-biggest city is full up, fit to bust, and bursting at the seams with things to do.
There's the grand: the Hippodrome and Symphony Hall. Host to the world's biggest musicians, performers and its most eye-catching musicals.
There's the modern: The Bullring centre and the Custard Factory. Where stonking great department stores (Selfridges) combine with small boutiques, offbeat independents and everything in between. There's the quirky: the Jewellery Quarter. Home to hundreds of historic 250-year-old businesses, as well as… drum roll, please… the Birmingham Pen Museum. That's right: a museum for pens.
And then, there's the food – and lots of it. Cadbury chocolate started here. Today another C dominates: curry. It's the nation's favourite cuisine and Birmingham's the best place to sample it. Legend has it chicken tikka masala was invented in the city's iconic Balti Triangle.
So what are you waiting for? We'll see you in Brum.
Contemporary chic in the heart of the student quarter in Birmingham.
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Congregations as human systems develop their own 'ecologies'. Such systems demonstrate complexity because they are communities that possess many different kinds of relationships. The longer the system exists, the greater the complexity because 'tradition' accumulates and varied expectations become operative. The number of people who truly understand and know all of the pertinent history information diminishes over time. New leaders arise who "knew not Joseph." Policies become outdated, but still remain 'official'. Ways of doing things become entrenched. Before too long formal and informal confusion begins to impede the ability of the system to thrive in healthy ways. Clarity becomes then a vital and life-giving antidote to the threats that confusion holds. Where clarity is stifled, stuff gets done through informal channels, rather than with the transparency provided by good policy, well-defined authorization, and clear lines of accountability.
How does this confusion find root and like pernicious mold generate 'rot' in the system?
Lack of clarity fosters lack of accountability.
Lack of clarity hinders effective communications.
Lack of clarity generates unnecessary conflict that saps energy and fractures relationships.
Lack of clarity puts things out of alignment, causing the system to go astray because it loses focus on the mission.
Lack of clarity allows empire-building to go unchecked.
Lack of clarity wastes or misapplies scarce resources.
Lack of clarity perpetuates ineffective programs.
I could continue to add elements, but I think you get the picture. Lack of clarity becomes exceedingly harmful to a congregation in a whole variety of ways and at multiple levels. It's a toxic element that impedes congregational health. It can result in your best leaders (paid and volunteer) deciding to serve elsewhere.
In one sense the determination to create and sustain clarity describes an essential operational value for a church board chair. If advancing the congregation's mission is the most important priority for a church board, then organizational and operational clarity become key factors in the achievement of that goal. For example, if the church board is unclear about the role that a lead pastor plays in the strategic leadership of the congregation, then this lack of clarity will hinder the accomplishment of the board's outcomes because the board lacks clarity about whom it made responsible for implementing strategic plans for each outcome. This lack of clarity prevents the board holding the lead pastor accountable for assisting the board in reaching its goals.
Or consider the damage that lack of clarity creates when it comes to financial planning. If the church board is unclear about its goals, then how does it know what resources have to be gathered and expended in order to move the mission forward? Financial planning becomes financial guess-work based upon traditional expenditure patterns. Fund-raising lurches from one immediate urgent need to the next.
Or what happens when the lead pastor resigns? If a church board lacks clarity about the congregational vision and outcomes, then how does it know what gifting, experience, and skills the next executive leader will have to bring into the congregation in order for its mission to be advanced? Lack of clarity about such matters runs the risk of turning the selection process into a popularity contest or a selection based upon which candidate can present one really good sermon during the candidating process — hardly a sufficient basis for discerning an effective leader.
I observe that lack of clarity often occurs because church leaders fail to pay sufficient attention to good communication. Church board chairs usually guide the board in developing proposals for new initiatives that the congregation will be evaluating. The chair works hard to bring the board to consensus and achieve a good decision. However, the chair sometimes forgets how much communication had to occur within the board over a number of months in order for the board members to discern direction. And then the chair is surprised when congregational members are not so enthused about the idea, because they only have one page of information and limited time in which to decide whether or not to support it. In other words boards frequently fail to make a sufficient effort in communicating their good ideas to the congregation and as a result initiatives do not get supported. Lack of clarity in communication figures into such frustrating circumstances more often than not.
On a positive note, effort expended to generate clarity does pay dividends, and often more quickly then one might expect. When a lead pastor knows clearly what the board's expectations are for him/her and provides the authority and resources necessary to fulfill those expectations, then job satisfaction will show immense improvement.
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Is America a Conservative Country?
That's what pundits would have you believe, that we're a "center-right" nation, that Reaganism is deep in the electorate's bones, yadda yadda yadda. But does the data bear it out? Well, no.
James A. Stimson is a political scientist at the UNC-Chapel Hill, and one of the most well-respected public opinion researchers in the nation. For years, he has developed a factor analysis of public opinion, developing a measure of the public's ideological "mood": the higher the number, the more liberal the public is. Here is his most recent plot:
Does This Look Like a Reagan Revolution to You?
Whatever this graph tells us, it certainly belies the notion that Reaganism has had a major impact on US public opinion. Currently, the public's "mood" lies somewhere between 57 and 58, slightly above its level in 1972, and far above where it stood in 1981, the apex of the Reagan era. Indeed, if anything, it shows that as soon as the public got a taste of the Gipper, it turned sharply in the other direction, as it did when George W. Bush was appointed by the Supreme Court. That doesn't mean that Reagan came from nowhere: the 70's represented a sharp rightward shift. Ditto with Gingrich ascendancy, which essentially caught up with great conservatism in the 1990's.
Note well, however, that current opinion is not even close to the heights of conservatism, and is closer if anything to the Great Society of the mid-60's and Nixonian liberalism of the early 70's. So this is a period when the public mood is somewhat sympathetic to progressivism.
Why during such a period the Right has been successful at framing and dominating the policy debate is an exercise left to the reader.
Author: Jonathan Zasloff
Jonathan Zasloff teaches Torts, Land Use, Environmental Law, Comparative Urban Planning Law, Legal History, and Public Policy Clinic - Land Use, the Environment and Local Government. He grew up and still lives in the San Fernando Valley, about which he remains immensely proud (to the mystification of his friends and colleagues). After graduating from Yale Law School, and while clerking for a federal appeals court judge in Boston, he decided to return to Los Angeles shortly after the January 1994 Northridge earthquake, reasoning that he would gladly risk tremors in order to avoid the average New England wind chill temperature of negative 55 degrees. Professor Zasloff has a keen interest in world politics; he holds a PhD in the history of American foreign policy from Harvard and an M.Phil. in International Relations from Cambridge University. Much of his recent work concerns the influence of lawyers and legalism in US external relations, and has published articles on these subjects in the New York University Law Review and the Yale Law Journal. More generally, his recent interests focus on the response of public institutions to social problems, and the role of ideology in framing policy responses. Professor Zasloff has long been active in state and local politics and policy. He recently co-authored an article discussing the relationship of Proposition 13 (California's landmark tax limitation initiative) and school finance reform, and served for several years as a senior policy advisor to the Speaker of California Assembly. His practice background reflects these interests: for two years, he represented welfare recipients attempting to obtain child care benefits and microbusinesses in low income areas. He then practiced for two more years at one of Los Angeles' leading public interest environmental and land use firms, challenging poorly planned development and working to expand the network of the city's urban park system. He currently serves as a member of the boards of the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy (a state agency charged with purchasing and protecting open space), the Los Angeles Center for Law and Justice (the leading legal service firm for low-income clients in east Los Angeles), and Friends of Israel's Environment. Professor Zasloff's other major activity consists in explaining the Triangle Offense to his very patient wife, Kathy.	View all posts by Jonathan Zasloff
Author Jonathan ZasloffPosted on December 22, 2011 December 22, 2011 Categories Everything ElseTags Democratic Party, Elections 2010 and 2012, History, Political Science, Politics and Leadership, Republican Party
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Those are big error bars.
Jonathan Zasloff says:
Agreed. It would be interesting to see what Stimson says about that.
Of course we're a center-right nation! Our policy preferences are pretty close to that of the center of the Democratic Party. If the Carter/Clinton/Obama Democrats aren't center-right, nobody is.
The late John Tukey said the first priority is ascertain direction, the magnitude is the second step. The "error" bars (I'd rather call it uncertainty) are wide, but the direction is clear. The trend is also pretty clear.
There is another trend present in the graph, but it isn't clearly shown. The magnitude of the uncertainty has increased pretty steadily over the last 20 years. Without knowing the models being fitted, one can only speculate about the cause.
One possible explanation is increasing polarization of the electorate. If Stimson is fitting models that don't allow for differential means, then that variation is going directly into the residual (unaccounted variation, a combination of error and lack-of-fit issues).
That said, it's not immediately clear to me how one would fit models that allow for an increasingly polarized electorate.
EMRVentures says:
It seems like Americans come out center-right when polled with questions that contain cues to which side they're voting for — ask them about "Obama's healthcare plan" and they don't like it. Remove the political cues and poll them purely on policy and we're a solidly Democratic country. Lots of people want conservatism and spending cuts for others, but not for them.
To Dennis' comment above, yes, there is a great deal of polarization in the electorate but to some extent it seems to attach more to the "team" one is loyal to than the actual policies one believes in when the team is taken off the table.
"Remove the political cues" is a pretty big tell. Because the "political cues" are what billions of dollars of right-wing funding are buying.
"..is an exercise left to the reader.." How about progleft clustering? Everybody left goes to live in cozy Berkeley (Ann Arbor, San Francisco, Santa Monica, Austin) and then there are a lot of districts – nice, geographically contiguous, etc – where there is a moderate preponderance of the right. And add in the further effort to make minority-majority districts, even when neither nice nor geographically contiguous, and the progleft is fighting with one hand behind its back.
The answer, of course, is money. The elites work hard at their propaganda.
Maynard Handley says:
Isn't this begging the question? How is "conservative" defined?
Is it "conservative" to be extreme religious? 200 yrs of European History says so.
Is it "conservative" to favor substantial rapid changes to the political system?
Is it "conservative" to want higher taxes on the rich? What if that's coupled with a desire to prevent gays from marrying?
Is it "conservative" or "liberal" to believe that the US should spend rather less time telling the rest of the world what to do?
And that doesn't even get to EMRVentures' point.
Larry Roberts says:
"…when George W. Bush was appointed by the Supreme Court."
While some members of the Supreme Court majority may have disgraced themselves it's my impression that they did not decide the 2000 presidential election.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/12/us/examining-vote-overview-study-disputed-florida-ballots-finds-justices-did-not.html?pagewanted=print
A comprehensive review of the uncounted Florida ballots from last year's presidential election reveals that George W. Bush would have won even if the United States Supreme Court had allowed the statewide manual recount of the votes that the Florida Supreme Court had ordered to go forward.
Contrary to what many partisans of former Vice President Al Gore have charged, the United States Supreme Court did not award an election to Mr. Bush that otherwise would have been won by Mr. Gore. A close examination of the ballots found that Mr. Bush would have retained a slender margin over Mr. Gore if the Florida court's order to recount more than 43,000 ballots had not been reversed by the United States Supreme Court.
Even under the strategy that Mr. Gore pursued at the beginning of the Florida standoff — filing suit to force hand recounts in four predominantly Democratic counties — Mr. Bush would have kept his lead, according to the ballot review conducted for a consortium of news organizations….
Even if Bush would have won anyway, the Supreme Court appointed him. The only thing that your information, if accurate, demonstrates is that the Court's appointment was unnecessary for it to accomplish its goal and that the majority of the justices destroyed the Court's reputation needlessly.
I see what you mean but am still concerned that Jonathan's phrasing suggests that were it not for the US Supreme Court Gore would have been President.
Um – it looks like the "model" is a fairly good inverse correlation to the party that holds the presidency. Which is to say that people, being temperamentally bitchy about prominent politicians, tend to favor whatever political ideas are not being pushed by the regime in power. The fact that there is a "trend" leftward since 1980 is thus an indicator that republicans have held the Presidency for 20 of the last 31 years.
So: what's being measured on the vertical axis? and how is it measured?
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Russia may use vessel docked in Pacific to finish Nord Stream 2 - minister
MOSCOW, Dec 27 (Reuters) - Russia may use a vessel currently docked at a far eastern port to finish the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline to Germany, Russia's energy minister Alexander Novak told reporters on Friday.
The Swiss-Dutch company Allseas, which was laying the pipeline, suspended work after the United States imposed sanctions on Nord Stream 2. All that remains to be completed is a 160 km (100 mile) stretch near the Danish island of Bornholm.
Novak did not name the vessel. In 2016, Gazprom bought a special pipe-laying vessel called Academic Cherskiy which is now in the Russian Pacific port of Nakhodka.
It would take about 45 days for Cherskiy to reach the Bornholm area via the Suez Canal or about 37 days using Northern Sea Route in the Russian Arctic, though it would need to be accompanied by an icebreaker.
Novak also said Nord Stream 2 was expected to be launched before the end of 2020. (Reporting by Vladimir Soldatkin and Olesya Astakhova; Writing by Katya Golubkova; Editing by David Clarke)


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Series: UW Applied Population Lab: Wisconsin's Demographics
Where Are Binge And Heavy Drinking Most Common Around Wisconsin?
Excessive Drinking Rates Are Higher In Urban Areas, College Towns
Malia Jones
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Wisconsin's alcohol use is among the highest in the nation, particularly for binge drinking, but levels of drinking are not uniform across the state. On average, adults in urban counties have more excessive drinking than those in more rural areas, and counties with a University of Wisconsin System campus have more excessive alcohol use than those without one.

In the 2019 Wisconsin reporting from County Health Rankings and Roadmaps, which uses data from 2016, Dane County had the highest rate of excessive drinking in the state. This metric is defined as either binge drinking, which consists of five or more drinks in a single sitting for men or four for women, or heavy drinking, which is 14 or more drinks per week for men and seven or more for women. Almost 30% of Dane County adults reported either binge drinking or heavy drinking in 2016.

Other counties that stand out for high rates of excessive drinking in the 2016 data include Brown, Grant, Pierce, Portage and Calumet — all with a rate of 28% among adults.

Binge drinking on college campuses has been a major point of national public health concern for years. Of the 10 counties with the highest average excessive drinking rates over the last 3 years, six are home to a UW System campus. The average rate of heavy or binge drinking in all counties that host a UW System campus is 24.1%, while non-UW System counties are a bit lower at 22.4%.

The size of the undergraduate student population is also linked to excessive drinking across all counties, independent of the total population of a given county. Dane County has both the highest excessive drinking rate and the largest undergraduate enrollment in the state. Over the 3-year span between 2014 and 2016, excess drinking also increased more in counties with UW campuses, although overall rates grew in both UW counties and non-campus counties, by 0.7% and 0.5%, respectively.

There are also differences in excessive alcohol use across the rural-urban spectrum. Metropolitan counties tend to have the highest rates of excessive drinking with an average rate of 25.4%, followed by micropolitan areas at 24.5%, while rural areas have the lowest rates at 23.1%. Between 2014 and 2016, the excess drinking rate grew in all three types of places.

However, in spite of higher overall alcohol consumption, Wisconsin's urban counties tend to have lower rates of fatal car accidents involving alcohol. This difference is likely due to longer travel routes and higher speeds on smaller roadways in rural parts of the state, as well as availability of public transportation, taxis and rideshares in urban areas.

Excessive alcohol use can lead to chronic health conditions, accidents, suicide and violence, and is the leading cause of deadly motor vehicle crashes. Alcohol use externalities such as these are estimated to cost over $4 billion in Wisconsin each year. Most of these costs are accrued in lost workplace productivity, healthcare, automobile accidents — with related injuries, deaths and damage — and the criminal justice system's enforcement of OWI laws.

Altogether, those costs add up to $1.62 for every drink sold in Wisconsin, according to a 2013 report issued by the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute, Wisconsin Partnership Program and now-disbanded Health First Wisconsin. This report includes a county-by-county summary of the excess costs of alcohol consumption in Wisconsin. Meanwhile, less than 1% of these external costs of alcohol use are collected by the state in alcohol sales tax.

Editor's note: The article was reported in collaboration with Wisconsin Public Radio for its "High Tolerance" series, which explores the state's complicated relationship with alcohol.

Where Are Binge And Heavy Drinking Most Common Around Wisconsin? was originally published on WisContext which produced the article in a partnership between Wisconsin Public Radio and PBS Wisconsin.

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Empty beer cans cover a makeshift table in Madison on a football Saturday in 2010.
Wisconsin's alcohol use is among the highest in the nation, particularly for binge drinking, but levels of drinking are not uniform across the state. On average, adults in urban counties have more excessive drinking than those in more rural areas, and counties with a University of Wisconsin System campus have more excessive alcohol use than those without one.
In the 2019 Wisconsin reporting from County Health Rankings and Roadmaps, which uses data from 2016, Dane County had the highest rate of excessive drinking in the state. This metric is defined as either binge drinking, which consists of five or more drinks in a single sitting for men or four for women, or heavy drinking, which is 14 or more drinks per week for men and seven or more for women. Almost 30% of Dane County adults reported either binge drinking or heavy drinking in 2016.
Other counties that stand out for high rates of excessive drinking in the 2016 data include Brown, Grant, Pierce, Portage and Calumet — all with a rate of 28% among adults.
Binge drinking on college campuses has been a major point of national public health concern for years. Of the 10 counties with the highest average excessive drinking rates over the last 3 years, six are home to a UW System campus. The average rate of heavy or binge drinking in all counties that host a UW System campus is 24.1%, while non-UW System counties are a bit lower at 22.4%.
The size of the undergraduate student population is also linked to excessive drinking across all counties, independent of the total population of a given county. Dane County has both the highest excessive drinking rate and the largest undergraduate enrollment in the state. Over the 3-year span between 2014 and 2016, excess drinking also increased more in counties with UW campuses, although overall rates grew in both UW counties and non-campus counties, by 0.7% and 0.5%, respectively.
There are also differences in excessive alcohol use across the rural-urban spectrum. Metropolitan counties tend to have the highest rates of excessive drinking with an average rate of 25.4%, followed by micropolitan areas at 24.5%, while rural areas have the lowest rates at 23.1%. Between 2014 and 2016, the excess drinking rate grew in all three types of places.
However, in spite of higher overall alcohol consumption, Wisconsin's urban counties tend to have lower rates of fatal car accidents involving alcohol. This difference is likely due to longer travel routes and higher speeds on smaller roadways in rural parts of the state, as well as availability of public transportation, taxis and rideshares in urban areas.
Excessive alcohol use can lead to chronic health conditions, accidents, suicide and violence, and is the leading cause of deadly motor vehicle crashes. Alcohol use externalities such as these are estimated to cost over $4 billion in Wisconsin each year. Most of these costs are accrued in lost workplace productivity, healthcare, automobile accidents — with related injuries, deaths and damage — and the criminal justice system's enforcement of OWI laws.
Altogether, those costs add up to $1.62 for every drink sold in Wisconsin, according to a 2013 report issued by the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute, Wisconsin Partnership Program and now-disbanded Health First Wisconsin. This report includes a county-by-county summary of the excess costs of alcohol consumption in Wisconsin. Meanwhile, less than 1% of these external costs of alcohol use are collected by the state in alcohol sales tax.
Editor's note: The article was reported in collaboration with Wisconsin Public Radio for its "High Tolerance" series, which explores the state's complicated relationship with alcohol.
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I chose this picture because it spoke to me.
I felt stuck in a brain fog all day.
I wanted to be productive but I was unfocused and I just gave up.
Sometimes breathing, eating, being me is all I can do.
There are thousands of topics that I could touch upon but my heart is not in it.
So here's to embracing my off days.
I wonder what is the best thing to do when it happens. Should we muster up all our courage to do sub par work or just give up and start up again tomorrow?
There's a fine line between acknowledging and embracing our feelings and being led by them.
I accept that not all days can be as productive as I want them to be but doing nothing because I feel off seems like selling myself short.
Pushing ourselves beyond temporary feelings is bound to produce more results.
What we do when we don't think we can do anything is something nonetheless.
There's a strong wave of "let's cut ourselves some slack" defenders.
Proponents of self-love and self-care are all about embracing off days.
I tend to fall in their camp but I don't know if it's always right.
I want to believe there's some value in what I say even in my off days.
Not writing anything because I'm feeling unfocused, boring, not myself and all those ultimately subjective feelings is akin to telling myself my thoughts are not worth anything today based on an nonfactual attribution.
What do you do when you have a off-day?
I'd love to read your insights in the comments.
Thank you for reading if you've made it this far!
I take the same bus everyday. I pass by the same houses and street corners.
Seasons change and make the experience different.
In winter the windows get dirty and grey, there's not much to see. Spring and summer are more interesting.
When fresh air can enter through the open windows, we get a plethora of sounds that is otherwise inaudible.
Street chatter, cars passing by, honking and music. There's this man on the corner of the busiest street that plays the violin everyday during the warmest months. He always stands barefoot on the sidewalk.
I realized today that I missed him.
I would be sad if he wasn't there next spring.
As a city dweller, I'm lucky.
I get to hear all sorts of music everyday.
There's the nice older gentlemen with his guitar on the metro around 5pm. He plays Beatles songs and Christmas melodies these days.
There's the young guy with his flute in the underground tunnel downtown.
Sometimes I wonder why they show up day in and day out.
People pay little attention to them. A handful of change, a couple of smiles and nods is all they do it for.
The kids often ask me if the musicians are poor. Why do people play in the metro?
I always tell them that audiences are hard to come by. Artists don't want to stay home and play for themselves.
An artist creates an experience that is meant for an audience.
Without a public, readers, listeners, eyes to contemplate, our work is meaningless.
It is impossible to be an artist without a willingness to be open and vulnerable. Every piece, every performance in its very existence says to the recipient "I made this for you", "I'm creating this experience, this present moment, for you".
In extending this gift to others, the artist is making a statement of his willingness to reach people no matter who they are, where they are in time and in life.
It's putting a hand out into the world and telling everyone "I am here if you need me. I am here even if you don't know you do yet".
I think back to the sweet sounds of violin carried by last summer's breeze and I say thank you for providing me with something I didn't know I needed.
Even if he's not there on the corner next spring, I can say that the notes he played still haunt the space.
Their echo resonates in me every time I pass by, reminding me how important it is to be open and vulnerable.
An artist, standing barefoot, among the crowd of passersby.
I was told all my life that I should go to school. That I was smart and could do whatever career I wanted. That a degree would lead to a good job. That I'd have financial security.
I'd be all set for the rest of my existence.
I'm not going to tell you the rest of that story. Honestly, it's getting old. It's exactly the stereotypical millennial "get out of university and face the void of a jobless future" kind of sappy existential crisis story line that we have all heard too many times.
I'm over feeling sorry for myself and pretending I don't feel sorry for myself.
Truth is, we all feel a little sorry for ourselves when our bank account overdrafts once, twice, too many times.
I got asked the question of all questions last week.
She didn't quite put it that way but that's what she wanted to know. I can decipher a 7 year old's between the lines inquiries really well now after 2 years on the nanny job.
She wanted to know what my "real" job is.
I had to say the dreaded words, "I have no profession".
I don't know if my answer was satisfactory but for once I felt more than okay with it.
I'm still not so sure what these things are that I actually do but I'm happy.
I want a life of unprofessional doing of many things.
Ultimately, this is the story of not being tied down to a particular path.
The one I want to tell instead of that old cliched millennial trope.
I got out of university with a degree in psychology. I learned so much about the world and most of all myself.
I realized going to grad school wouldn't make me happy so I didn't.
Being around kids always made me happy so I took a part-time job as a nanny.
Having time for myself makes me happy.
John Lennon famously said that when he grew up he wanted to be happy.
That's what we all want in the end.
I feel like that's the story I want to tell, over and over again.
And I don't care if this one becomes a millennial cliché.
Maybe I'll be a master of some trade one day but it sure won't be in trading happiness.


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package net.anotheria.moskito.sql.util;

/**
 * SQL intercept test.
 *
 * @author Vitaliy Zhovtiuk
 *         Date: 11/29/11
 *         Time: 2:22 PM
 */
public class QueryProducerTest {
	          /*
    private Connection connection;
    private QueryProducer queryProducer;

    @Before
    public void setUp() throws Exception {
        connection = TestDBUtil.getConnection();
        TestDBUtil.createTable(connection);
        queryProducer = (QueryProducer) ProducerRegistryFactory.getProducerRegistryInstance().getProducer(QueryProducer.PRODUCER_ID);
        queryProducer.reset();
    }

    @Test
    public void shouldGetQueriesNumber() throws Exception {
        MatcherValueDAO valueDAO = new MatcherValueDAO();
        System.out.println("List of matchers " + valueDAO.getMatcherValues(connection));

        MatcherValue matcherValue = valueDAO.createMatcherValue(connection, new MatcherValueBuilder().value("123").type(1).matcherId("123").build());
        System.out.println("Created " + valueDAO.getMatcherValue(connection, matcherValue.getId()));

        IStats iStats = queryProducer.getStats().get(0);
        assertNotNull("Query execution stat should be defined", iStats);
        assertTrue("Query execution stat should be defined", iStats instanceof QueryStats);

        QueryStats queryStats = (QueryStats) iStats;
        System.out.println("Query stats " + queryStats.toStatsString());
        assertEquals("Should have 3 queries", 3, queryStats.getQueriesExecuted(null));
    }

    @Test
    public void shouldGetFailedQueriesNumber() throws Exception {
        Statement statement = connection.createStatement();
        int failsCount = 0;
        try {
            statement.executeQuery("select * from T1");
        } catch (SQLException e) {
            failsCount++;
        }
        try {
            statement.executeQuery("select * from T2");
        } catch (SQLException e) {
            failsCount++;
        }
        IStats iStats = queryProducer.getStats().get(0);
        assertNotNull("Query execution stat should be defined", iStats);
        assertTrue("Query execution stat should be defined", iStats instanceof QueryStats);

        QueryStats queryStats = (QueryStats) iStats;
        System.out.println("Query stats " + queryStats.toStatsString());
        assertEquals("Should have 2 queries", failsCount, queryStats.getQueriesFailed(null));
    }

    @Test
    public void shouldGetQueries() throws Exception {
        Statement statement = connection.createStatement();
        ResultSet resultSet = statement.executeQuery("select * from matchervalue");
        resultSet.close();
        ResultSet resultSet2 = statement.executeQuery("select * from matchervalue");
        resultSet2.close();
        IStats iStats = queryProducer.getStringQueryStats("select * from matchervalue");
        assertNotNull("Query execution stat should be defined", iStats);
        assertTrue("Query execution stat should be defined", iStats instanceof QueryStringStats);

        QueryStringStats queryStringStats = (QueryStringStats) iStats;
        System.out.println("Query stats " + queryStringStats.toStatsString());
        assertEquals("Should have 2 queries", 2, queryStringStats.getTotalRequests());
    }

    @Test
    public void shouldGetFailedQueries() throws Exception {
        Statement statement = connection.createStatement();
        int failsCount = 0;
        try {
            statement.executeQuery("select * from T1");
        } catch (SQLException e) {
            failsCount++;
        }
        try {
            statement.executeQuery("select * from T1");
        } catch (SQLException e) {
            failsCount++;
        }
        IStats iStats = queryProducer.getStringQueryStats("select * from T1");
        assertNotNull("Query execution stat should be defined", iStats);
        assertTrue("Query execution stat should be defined", iStats instanceof QueryStringStats);

        QueryStringStats queryStringStats = (QueryStringStats) iStats;
        System.out.println("Query stats " + queryStringStats.toStatsString());
        assertEquals("Should have 2 queries", 2, queryStringStats.getTotalRequests());
        assertEquals("Should have 2 failed queries", failsCount, queryStringStats.getErrors());
    }

    @After
    public void tearDown() throws Exception {
        TestDBUtil.dropTable(connection);
        connection.close();
    }
    */
}

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Has Intelligence Declined in the Modern Era?
I mentioned this subject a couple of times before.
Simple reaction time data from Woodley et al.Bruce Charlton is the first person I know of to discuss the implications of the change in simple reaction time data in the paper by Woodley et al. Charlton claims the data shows a 1 standard deviation reduction in IQ based on the correlation [r = .3] between simple reaction time and IQ or the g factor. I remain unconvinced that that intelligence has declined in the last 100 years. For one, that is a terrible fit [see scatterplot]. For another, with that kind of correlation, I need better evidence that the model is correct. Charlton's best arguments focus on the way in which intellectual inquiry in general still seems to be dominated by the same famous men of the last century.
How do we know that the 500 or so years of the Modern Age are at last drawing to a close? Lukacs's answer to this, and it's a good one, is to draw attention to the remarkable intellectual barrenness of the 20th century. In 1914, when the century began to manifest its characteristic features, the guiding spirits of the time were Freud and Marx and Darwin and Einstein. In 1989, when in a political sense the 20th century was already over, the guiding spirits of the time were Freud and Marx and Darwin and Einstein. There was no other century of modern times that produced so little new intellectual history. Indeed, all but the earliest part of the Middle Ages was livelier.
In a general sense, I agree with Charlton that the rate of the big gosh-wow discoveries in science seems to have slowed remarkably. I've come to the same conclusion myself. Where I differ is the cause. It is not apparent that the problem is our minds have gotten weaker. Rather, I think we [we meaning the West] have chosen to focus on other things. The problem is cultural.
What I lack here is any sort of quantitative data. My sense is that the tasks to which we apply ourselves have if anything, gotten harder. We just are getting less output partly because our best minds think about other things, and partly because the easy scientific discoveries have already been made. Now if only I could prove it.
There is a cracking good discussion of the technical details of the SRT paper over at Greg Cochran and Henry Harpending's blog, West Hunter, that makes some of the same points I want to make here. However, I am more interested in the cultural aspect than the scientific aspect at present.
I think we don't make big scientific discoveries anymore because we don't want to. This seems strange, this sort of thing is frequently in the news and a subject of discussion. However, if you look at our priorities as a civilization, we have decided to do other things. You might also say that our civilization is decadent. I use this in the technical sense proposed by Jacques Barzun in From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life 1500 to the Present 1st (first) edition, a decadent society is one that wills the ends, but not the means. We say we want big science, but we have a remarkably inefficient way of doing it.
So what are we interested in? I think the things we are interested in are actually very good things, but they don't produce good headlines. For example, one thing the Victorians were terrible at was industrial hygiene and product safety. A fad for green dye made with arsenic in Victorian England lead to thousands of deaths. The manufacturing process for safety matches produced a condition known as phossy jaw, which could actually make your bones glow in the dark before it killed you. The discovery of radium by Marie Curie lead to the incorporation of radium into a wide variety of products, contaminating much of Paris. It is not very hard to multiply examples like this ad infinitum. The Victorians discovered lots of new things, but they left a lot of collateral damage in their wake in the form of dead and maimed factory workers and widespread environmental pollution.
There are now systems in place to verify that products are safe before they enter the market. Designing nearly any product is vastly more complicated now than 100 years ago, not only because science and engineering have progressed and we are pushing the limits of our knowledge, but because you have to make certain every material and manufacturing process you use is safe not only for consumers, but for the workforce that creates it. The big scientific discoveries made life better for everyone on average, and the systems and techniques and regulations we have developed help make sure each individual is able to benefit from that knowledge personally. We have chosen to spend our effort on mitigating the clear downsides of progress, rather than plowing ahead with new discoveries.
This dynamic is illustrated by the development policy the Chinese seem to be following: explicitly trading pollution and worker safety for faster progress in order to catch up with the West. A brutal policy, but in fairness to them, didn't we do the same thing, with perhaps a little less self-awareness? The current Western policy is far more boring, even though it probably has greater benefits for the common man. For example, who knows the name of the man who invented the plastic barrels that sit at exit ramps and highway abutments? That man has saved thousands, maybe tens or hundreds of thousands of lives. Preventing something from happening will always be less interesting than making something happen, no matter how useful it is. Yet, our culture happens to promote this. Is that really a bad thing?


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ACM publications bring the discoveries of computing researchers and practitioners to the world's attention. For more than 60 years, the best and brightest minds in computing have come to ACM to meet, share ideas, publish their work and change the world. ACM Publications offer the premier venues to showcase cutting edge research, breakthrough discoveries, practical solutions to real world challenges, technology news, and commentary from the computing world's thought leadership. Through conference proceedings, journals, magazines, newsletters and books, ACM provides the resources that inspire tomorrow's innovations.
Provides senior executives insights and in-depth knowledge of information technology. Includes full-text articles from 1994 to present along with research and learning tools.
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One of the world's leading computer and technical book publishers. O'Reilly Media spreads the knowledge of innovators through its books, online services, magazines, research, and conferences. Since 1978, O'Reilly has been a chronicler and catalyst of leading-edge development, homing in on the technology trends that really matter and galvanizing their adoption by amplifying "faint signals" from the alpha geeks who are creating the future. An active participant in the technology community, the company has a long history of advocacy, meme-making, and evangelism.
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Manning is an independent publisher of computer books for software developers, engineers, architects, system administrators, managers and all who are professionally involved with the computer business. We also publish for students and young programmers, including occasionally for children. We are an entirely virtual organization based on Shelter Island, New York, with many staff working from far-flung places like Manila and Zagreb.
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Juniper Debuts E120 Broadband Services Router for Targeted Subscriber Awareness
Sunday, July 08, 2007 Service Providers
Juniper Networks has expanded its E-series family with the introduction of the E120 Broadband Services Router (BSR), a compact edge router designed for IPTV and multiplay services. The new E120 mirrors the feature set of Juniper's E320 BSR, but in a smaller, compact factor. It delivers 120 Gbps of capacity and supports up to 64,000 individual subscribers. The new platform uses the JUNOSe operating system and existing line cards and interface modules of the E320.
Significantly, Juniper's E-series now supports service and subscriber-awareness, enabling service providers to determine on a second-by-second basis which IPTV or Video-on-Demand channels viewers watched. By translating Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) traffic into detailed program data, providers can gather real-time viewing statistics that can invaluable to national, regional and local advertisers constantly striving for more reliable metrics and greater accountability.
Juniper said this ability to deliver highly-targeted advertisements based on geographic, demographic, and usage-based patterns will enable advertisers to develop localized, highly-targeted ad campaigns. Highly accurate subscriber data can assure more valuable and effective ad placements, while opening up a significant new revenue opportunity for IPTV service providers.
To help service providers leverage this advertising opportunity, Juniper Networks is working with an initial set of partners, including
HP: Centralized business intelligence system collects, analyzes, and reports viewing data; makes ad placement decisions
Packet Vision: Targeted, addressable advertising service embracing the accountability and interactivity of IPTV
NebuAd: Targeted browser-based ad insertions for high-speed internet users
SeaChange International: Linear and advanced advertising solutions
http://www.juniper.net
Juniper's E320 Broadband Services Router is available with a 320 Gbps switch fabric and capable of scaling up to 128,000 subscribers per platform.
BT forms new 'Division X' unit within its Enterprise business
BT has appointed Marc Overton as Managing Director of a newly created 'Division X' unit, which forms part of its Enterprise business. Divis...


An Italian approach to steak accompanies pastas, charcuterie and more on Kevin Rathbun's inventive menu.
: Kevin Rathbun's passion for steak gets an Italian twist at KR SteakBar, located in the Atlanta Decorative Arts Center (ADAC) West in Peachtree Hills. A carnivore's delight, the place also offers seafood and pasta dishes. We suggest beginning with the cured-meats plate or perhaps the selection of Italian cheeses. The lamb sausage we enjoyed on an early visit now appears with rapini and olives with orecchiette. All mains have their own accompaniments, so, for instance, the hanger steak comes with rapini and vin cotto. But there are additional sides, such as cauliflower with chili, raisins and Pecorino cheese, for more flavor experiences. Be sure to check out the desserts, which are likely to include house-made gelati and sorbet. Consider the $55 chef's selection menu, which the whole table must order. The wine list culls an assortment of Italian reds of distinguished pedigree, but other regions are represented, too, and the dessert wine line-up is thoughtfully selected. Our only complaint: the noise level once the restaurant fills. Strive for booth seating, where a lower ceiling tempers some of the sound.


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Do you enjoy welcoming all to Mass, inviting people to greet those nearby, and encouraging everyone to participate in upcoming parish events?
WHAT DOES A LECTOR OR COMMENTATOR DO?
Lectors joyfully proclaim God's Word to the congregation, reading from the Old Testament, the Responsorial Psalm (if there is no Cantor) and the New Testament. At home, Lectors pre-read the chosen Readings for Sunday in their "Handbook for Proclaimers of the Word." This Handbook contains pronunciation guides and background information on the readings for Mass.
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How to Camp
How to Camp with Heather Menicucci
Learn about Heather Menicucci, author of "Let's Get Primitive: The Urban Girl's Guide to Camping," in this Howcast video.
Hey. I'm Heather and I wrote, "Let's Get Primitive: The Urban Girl's Guide to Camping". I grew up on Staten Island, New York. I had never camped when I was a kid. I didn't even know anybody that camped, and it wasn't until college that I first even realized that people like camping. I'm a total city girl, but I fell in love with camping after my first trip, and I just decided that it was something that I really wanted to convince other reluctant campers of.
I just wanted to explain that it was something that anyone could do. That even if you are somebody who is really attached to the city, really attached to your cellphone, really attached to makeup and taking a shower everyday, and hot coffee, and all the conveniences of life... If you felt like you were one of those people that could never live without those things, like I was, you could camp. You could do it.
So I was writer and I started by pitching an article to Bus Magazine just trying to teach girls who were scared of camping that they could camp and that eventually became a book. So I wrote, "Let's Get Primitive: The Urban Girl's Guide to Camping". It was published in 2007 by 10-Speed Press and I sort of am on somewhat of a campaign trying to convince people who are scared of camping, who are scared of cat holes, who are scared of being without a shower or running water, that they can camp.
I don't mean campground camping or car camping. I think that those are both really great. They're cheap. They're fun. But what I'm really talking about is primitive camping where you have everything that you need on your back and you hike in a mile or two miles, or three miles, or six miles, to your campsite and you set up your site. You poop in the woods, all that stuff.
I'm sort of on the campaign to convince anyone who thinks they can't do that that they can do it and that it's worthwhile and it's fun. It's amazing to sort of hit the reset button, to be away from your phone, to realize that we are these super-adaptive creatures, that we can get used to almost anything. It's kind of exciting.
So I'm doing this series for Howcast and I hope that you guys will all be convinced to go pitch your tent.
How to Protect Yourself from Bears While Camping
How to Treat a Snakebite
How to Go to the Bathroom While Camping
How to Make a Cat Hole While Camping
How to Bathe While Camping
How to Pack a Camping First Aid Kit
How to Avoid Poison Ivy & Poison Oak While Camping
How to Put Out a Campfire Safely
How to Protect Yourself from Ticks
Do's & Don'ts of Fire Making
How to Purify Water for Drinking While Camping
How to Make a Fire While Camping
How to Store Food Outdoors
How to Make Fire Starters for a Campfire
How to Pick Wood for a Campfire
How to Keep Food Cold While Camping
How to Make a Fire in Wet Conditions
How to Booze in the Great Outdoors
How to Camp in the Desert
How to Set Up Your Campsite
How to Pick a Campsite
How to Use a Camp Stove
Best Camping Foods, Pt. 2
4 Great Campfire Recipes