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If you've ever wondered what it's like to go through the Panama Canal on a world-class research vessel, you're in luck because Physical Scientist Lindsay McKenna took pictures! NOAA Ship of Exploration Okeanos Explorer passed through the canal on May 12, heading west to a mapping mission in the Pacific.

See more of Lindsay's canal photos here>>

Learn more about Tropical Exploration 2015 here>>

Cover and open spread of the executive summary. The cover shows an image of a sunken ship.

The 2014 JHC/CCOM Executive Summary is now available for on-line viewing. Enjoy!

Larry Mayer talking on 60 minutes.

CCOM Director Dr. Larry Mayer appeared on 60 Minutes in a segment about Robert Ballard and our unexplored oceans.

Several of our students participated in the first ever School of Marine Science and Ocean Engineering Annual Graduate Student Research Symposium. Ashley Norton, Scott Loranger and Eric Bajor spoke, and Kelly Nifong presented a poster.

Dan Bolan, a data management intern aboard the Okeanos Explorer, wrote an entry to the ship's Mission Log about how the vast quanitites of expedition data are managed.

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At the moment, the chemical company is already mass producing stepped and curved batteries. Stepped Battery from Nanjing plant of LG Chem has been manufactured since July to power LG G2. However, the actual production of Cable Battery shall begin in upcoming years.

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CEGUI on Openduck

For those who haven't visited it yet, check out CEGUI on Open HUB:

It contains interesting information about the CEGUI project, its commits, contributors and a lot of statistics.

CEGUI (as part of Worldforge) was not accepted for GSoC2015

Unfortunately we were not accepted for Google Summer of Code 2015.

We had 3 successful years of participation, with a 100% completion rate and we are very thankful for that.
Ogre3D was neither accepted this year nor last year. Mozilla also apparently didn't make it. It seems that a lot less organisations were accepted this year (2015) compared to 2014.

The accepted organisations can be seen here:

CEGUI issue tracker now on bitbucket!

Timotei has finished moving the issue tracker from our mantis page to bitbucket. All issues have been migrated with their original IDs, attachments, contents and comments.

The CEGUI issue tracker can be found here:
and the CEED issue tracker here:

Our old mantis page will stay online in read-only mode. Remember that the IDs of mantis tickets are identical to the IDs of the bitbucket if you want to access the new ticket, e.g. : <- migrated from
You need to select the right project on bitbucket first when you do that (i.e. CEGUI or CEED or SILLY)

Here is our twitter tweet:

Feel free to create new issues at our new issue trackers (but please only use it only for bugs/features requests etc and not for support requests and stick with the layout ;) )!

IMPORTANT: Call for bitbucket user names for the CEGUI issues migration from mantis to bitbucket

All current mantis tickets have been migrated to bitbucket issue tracker. Therefore, we call all people who care that their past CEGUI mantis ticket submissions are attributed to their bitbucket accounts, to tell us their CEGUI and bitbucket user names: just write to team (at ) cegui . org . uk - We will then correctly link all comments and reports to the supplied account.

We give users 3 days to notify us. Until then our new issue tracker will not go public. Our old issue tracker will remain online for the next months as READ-ONLY, until we decide to remove it entirely. For now, this means you will not be able to post new issues until the 3 days are over: The new issue tracker goes online on Monday 23rd Feb 2015

So again: Everyone who wants their tickets attributed to their bitbucket account (otherwise it will just say "anonymous" and underneath "original author: XXX") should notify us.

Thank you!

Sorry for the website downtime!

First we had issues with the DNS because of the domain hoster which changed things without notifying us. (great job!). It took us some time to resolve the issue because CrazyEddie's e-mail was not reachable because it was part of this domain (lol!). And this was the only contact we had of him, until we found some other e-mail after days of stalking him on google (and finding no nudes).

Btw., in cases like this it is good to check our twitter for updates:

After we had resolved our issues we noticed that our site may still contain backdoors (from the drupal hack-wave in october 2014) and we actually found malicious files there as well as an altered google cache, manipulated php files and finally decided to completely roll back our entire database by months and re-add all news manually. This whole process took us a while. I did the finishing touches today, so everything is up again.

On a completely different note: We are going to remove mantis and move all tickets to the bitbucket issue tracker. In the future users can file tickets there. We believe this will be better for our users.

Happy New Year!

Slight headache after waking up, the limbs feeling stiff after a short night's sleep, small patches of cookie dust sparsely spread around the mouth, the sensation in the mouth that grossly reminds of past sparkly wine consumption, ones hair smelling like short-term exposition to ridiculously high amounts of fine dust pollution: This all is clear evidence to me, that the last year has very recently drawn to its end and I have successfully (and alive) managed to enter a new year, again!

Somewhere along these lines, but actually completely unrelated to them, the entire CEGUI team wishes you all a successful, healthy and overall superior year 2015!

About CEGUI in 2015: The plans for this year for us are mainly revolving around the upcoming 1.0 Release (Q3 or Q4) as well as continuing support and bug-fixes for the 0.8 versions. The 1.0 developmental version already offers a lot of new great features, so that we really wish to release this version as soon as possible, of course we have to finish and test all new and planned features before that. See Martin's and my Todo list on the wiki if you are curious about some of the features we still have to add / rework for the Release or check the forum, the last GSoC topics or chat with us on #cegui.

Also we recently enabled file attachment uploads in our Forum. This will make it easier to show screenshots or describing issues in the future!

CEGUI site has been hacked on 13th November 2014

our site has been hacked on 13th November 2014. I have restored the site and updated to Drupal 7.33. We have no way of knowing what was leaked, so we assume everything was leaked. The passwords in our database are stored in a secure way and are not simply retrievable using rainbow tables or similar. Either way we advise you to change your passwords just to be absolutely safe! We are very sorry for the inconvenience.

As far as I can tell was the exploit used. It's curious that I can see somebody gaining access on 13th November even though the embargo was lifted on 15th November. I will continue to monitor the situation.

GSOC 2014: Model-view project summary

First of all, thanks should go to the CEGUI Team for inviting me as full team member and I humbly accepted it! :)

Now, to the actual article. This summer I worked on a brand new feature for the future CEGUI 1.0 (or, at least, the default branch) called Model View. In short, it's a very nice and good way to decouple the rendering (View) from the actual underlining model (Model), so that they can be replaced as one wishes. For example, we could have a complex (I don't like how it sounds, but for the sake of examples, bear with me) Model that loads some game data from the disk/network/etc. The "Model" is just a term for some class(es) that hold some pieces of data that are necessary for the game. Once you have the model created, you can create multiple views that represent data differently. For example, you can show it via a list view, grid, tree or a custom view you have created. The "View" is represented by a widget/control.

But, in order to provide easier (initial) migration to the new views (yes, we removed the old Listbox/Tree/Itemlistbox - and we'll remove some more, as soon as we have replacements; yes MCL, I'm looking at you!), we have created some convenience widgets that have the view and model in the same package so that they can be used as an in-place replacement from the old ones.

Unfortunately, I don't have any (relevant) screenshots of the new changes, since they are mostly internal, but at least, the TreeView rendering is now much better in respect with the icons.

Another thing that might be of interest, is the performance of the new views. In the following table we can see the improvements, for a benchmark of different usage patterns (total time taken to add ~500 items, clear them, add some more ~1000, edit some, delete some - and with rendering after each step):

Widget -> View Widget test running time (seconds) View test running time (seconds)
ItemListBox -> ListView 3.35 1.40
ListBox -> ListView 1.96 1.40
Tree -> TreeView 1.96 3.85

The tree unfortunately takes a bit more time, but it's relatively the most basic implementation and no attempts to optimize it have been done :) But once we'll finish them you can expect at least the original speeds, unless even speedier.

That's all for now!

PS: Stay tuned for some news related to CEGUI binaries and simpler/nicer integration of CEGUI with your projects! :D

GSOC 2014 is over: CEED project summary

As some of you might know (although I guess most of you might not be aware), Timotei and me participated in GSOC 2014 this year. My project was to create a Look n' Feel editor to CEED for all 0.8.X version of CEGUI (we also support higher versions of course). This is a feature that has been missing in CEGUI until now. Before CEED, CEGUI has had tools for layout and imageset creation and editing, such as the CELayoutEditor. However, Look N' Feel (LNF) editing has never been possible and as far as I know creating an editor hasn't even been attempted. I thought this would be a pity, considering that the ability to creating new widgets is crucial for GUI development in many cases. Skinning of widgets is also easily possible with such an editor, working purely in an XML editor to accomplish this, is otherwise very tideous: there is no preview, no good overview of the possible attributes, no helpful features such as Colour Picking/Image Selection/Font Selection etc. and every change has to be tested by starting the application running CEGUI - an inefficient process.

With a proper tool however, it becomes really easy. This is why I decided this would make for a great addition to CEGUI. I was not acquainted with CEED development and the Python language, but I relatively quickly worked myself into the large CEED code base and learnt to use Python, which was actually relatively smooth. PyCharms were so nice to privde us with a free license for Open Source projects, thanks to PyCharms at this point!

Unfortunately, when I started to get to the "real" development of the editor, I encountered numerous issues in the CEGUI C++ code. Some of the files were created around 10 years ago and they seem to have hardly ever been updated. Also a newly added "inheritation" feature showed numerous occasions of faulty behaviour that could have caused crashes, if it had ever been used (it is badly documented so we doubt anyone used it). Due to this, a lot of the Falagard code had to be reworked, which took a good chunk of my time of the GSoC. At least one thing that is positive about this is that I was able to fix a lot of issues and rework a lot of functions which results in now cleaner code in this section of CEGUI.

Now to the real deal: The editor. In the screenshot below, you see me editing a Vanilla/Button look n' feel in CEED. Generally it would be recommended to either inherit this button (not yet implemented) and work on the inherited LNF, or to copy paste the definition into a new file and work on that file (we will add a shortcut for this in the future). But for the sake of a quick preview I m directly editing the original file. On the top left you can see the WidgetLook (WL) selector (selects a WidgetLook defined in the LNF file being edited), which consists of a dropdown selection to choose from the available WidgetLooks and of an Edit button. On clicking edit, the specific WL is opened. Below is the hierarchy window. It contains the editable attributes from the XML in a ordered and categorised tree. Selecting an attribute show a list of new options in the Falagard Element editor on the right. These options can be edited with a double-click on the value. Depending on the type of attribute, the easiest and most intutitive way to change the value is chosen (for example a ColourPicker for colours). Images (and Fonts) can be selected from a dropdownlist containing all loaded Image (or Font) definitions; bool is represented by a checkbox, etc etc. The changes are directly applied and can be seen in the Preview instantenously. In the shown case the "NormalImage" PropertyDefinition's initial value is overwritten. This means that now there is an image set for the button by default, as can be seen on the screenshot. We already support editing of pretty much every type of attribute.

I also added alternating colours for the lists and trees, which I also applied for the pre-existing layout-editor. This is based on the look of QtDesigner. I hope users will enjoy this change, I personally definitely prefer it over the alternating grey tones we had before (They were too sad!). I also worked a bit on the Code editor of the LNF Editor. By default the LNF code editor now highlights the part of the code that is part of the currently edited WidgetLook. Additionally, it jumps to the beginning of that code when changing to the editor. This should make it much easier to edit code by hand because the user does not need to scroll to the right widget every time and has an easier overview of the code relevant to the widget thanks to the colour highlighting.

The LNF editor is not complete yet, but definitely the main part of the work is done, the overall setup is there and most of the LNF is already displayed and editable, many features are tested and are actually working very well. It can already used for simple skinning such as mere replacement of images in a LNF file. In the future we will add some features that allow way easier creation of new LNFs and new Widgets, add inheritation and allow an even broader set of changes to LNFs. If you consider already using the CEED changes, you have to be aware that the LNF editor is currently unstable (make backups of your CEGUI datafiles and save regularly while working on them!) and some parts are not fully implemented yet, therefore it should be used with great caution until we officially announce it is finished.

Discussion on future removal or rework of CEGUI::ColourRect (NOW WITH POLL!!!)

Not too long ago there has been a great addition to CEGUI: The Animation feature done by Martin. This feature revealed a performance issue for CEGUI windows: Animating a ColourRect property will trigger a reconstruction of the entire GeometryBuffer's vertices. The data of each vertex has to be recalculated to match the new ColourRect. The creation on the CPU and the uploading to the GPU of those vertices creates quite a performance impact. This situation could of course be improved by more complex measurements, such as double-buffering our vertices. This works the way that we mirror the buffers and use one for reading and one for writing for each frame, and swap them whenever we need to update a buffer on the GPU. This would solve at least the data transfer problem and help a lot, but it would effectively double the GPU data used and the CPU load would still be there. Using non-interleaving GPU data would be another way to do it but that is also not a solution free of downsides.

The first thought we had was trying to replace this functionality using shaders (which would of course not work with fixed function pipeline). However, I quickly came to the conclusion that this is not feasible. The data is per-vertex and can't be easily simulated. A global (uniform) value would work, but that cannot reflect per-vertex behaviour unless using complex tricks. When I told Martin this he agreed. However after thinking about it again I thought of a workaround: Each vertex would have to have an attribute added (for example represented by 1 byte) which stands for the corner (e.g. left top = 0). The colours would be provided as a array of 4 vec4's in the OpenGL shader (and analogously as float4's in the Direct3D shaders). Using the ID of the vertex attribute, the right colour can be accessed. This would in total require uploading 16 floats for each window (unless the last 16 were equivalent), equivalent to the size of a matrix. Also it would require adding 1 byte (this might end up taking more space in reality due to padding/alignment) to the vertex data to provide a fixed ID. The geometry would not have to be regenerated again this way.

The other way would be to remove ColourRect entirely and just offer Colour in the future. This is where we would like to invite everyone for discussion to give reasons why ColourRect should be retained.

Reasons I see for removing it:
- For widgets/windows, the ColourRect changes the overall look of the window in a quite "unpredictable" (as compared to what you can do in image editors) way, basically creating a multiplicative gradient of colours over it. In my opinion, instead of relying on this, users should simply be using different imagery for the widget.
- For Font this does the same thing: applying a quite "unpredictable" but simple linear gradient over text. This might sometimes be nice to have, but most likely, just for windows, it won't be useful. If users want fancy Fonts, they have the functionality of Bitmap Fonts in CEGUI, allowing them to create all letters in whatever exact way they want them to look, and save them as imageset.
At this point I want to remind users of Zadirion's CEGUI Font Exporter for Font Studio:
- This would allow us to easily remove it boosting both CPU and GPU performance in CEGUI especially during animation, and simplifying CEGUI further.

Reasons for keeping it:
- It is always bad to remove a feature and better to find a way to keep it
- Someone could be relying this heavily (please inform us then, this is the time!)

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Shiri Appleby Wants Her Daughter to Remember Her ‘Ethereal’ Sense of Style

06/04/2013 at 03:00 PM ET

Shiri Appleby P.S. Arts Bag Lunch
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Dressing for the part has never been so fun for actress Shiri Appleby.

Since welcoming daughter Natalie Bouader in March, the new mom has been relying on her reoccurring out of the day while still trying to maintain her feminine flair.

“When I’m on mommy duty, I relish wearing sneakers and jeans, which I’ve always done,” Appleby, 34, told PEOPLE Thursday during P.S. ARTS Bag Lunch event at the Los Angeles home of Meredith Kaplan.

“But at the same time you want to feel cute and playful for your daughter. You want her to remember what you look like — to have this ethereal look.”

In between attending mommy and me classes, Appleby recently squeezed in an opportunity to showcase her love of shopping with her 10-week-old. “I took her to buy shoes [at Jimmy Choo]. Isn’t that the cutest thing?” she says.

Fortunately for the first-time mom, much of maintaining her appearance is the result of both baby girl’s exceptional sleep schedule and Appleby’s experience of logging long hours on set.

“Last night was a little bit bumpy, but I think I’m just enjoying the process so much and she’s a good sleeper,” she says. “I have to say night shoots on television shows are a lot more tiring and they also get you prepared for motherhood.”

She continues, “I’m having the time of my life. Being a mom has just really changed me and opened me up a lot. I’ve never been so happy and grateful for things.”

But what’s Appleby’s secret to keeping her cool during those few times her daughter’s demands become too overwhelming?

“My mom has been the voice in the back of my head that’s really telling me it’s important — even though I feel guilty — to go out and go to auditions, go to the gym,” she says.

“So when I’m with [Natalie] I’m focused on her and when she’s fussy I’m not burnt out from her being fussy. I think that’s why I look well-rested, because I don’t feel like I’ve let go too much of myself yet.”

Fiancé Jon Shook has also played a big part in the smooth transition from a family of two to three.

“He’s the greatest! You realize that being a parent is really about being a team and I feel we’re much more of a team every day,” she says. “We talk about [our wedding] every day, but we just say, ‘We should do a wedding,’ and then we’re like, ‘Having a baby is a lot easier than planning a wedding!’ So we’re more overwhelmed by that than we were having a kid, but we’re working on it.”

— Anya Leon with reporting by Melody Chiu

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Amy on

While I think the comments section for online post was created by a horribly negative evil genius…the way she comes off in this article is……vapid. Idk but she sounds rediculous taking a 10 week old to shoe shop and thinking of that as a wonderful memory! Wow!

jay on

I dont think she sounds vapid at all. I think she sounds like a happy mom. I took my daughter shopping for the first time to a friggin Rite Aid and i thought it was the greatest thing! A memory is a memory, who cares where it took place?

And by the way, i think not knowing how to spell ridiculous is ridiculous.

Ann on

Will we get to see Natalie?

emma on

Wow! She sounds just as shallow and self-centred as Kim Kardashian. Honestly, your daughter is an infant and could careless about shoe shopping etc. All she does is eat, poop and repeat.

Hollywood really is a sick place. The golden age really is over.

Penny on

While taking a 10 week old to Jimmy Choo may not be your cup of tea, what exactly is wrong with it? We have kids to make new memories for ourselves, too. I’m taking my 15 month old to the zoo this weekend, and she’s already been on 3 vacations and to the aquarium. Will she remember? NO! Part of parenting is making glorious memories for yourself, so you can tell her how you did such and such with her at 10 weeks old. From my experience, hauling a new baby around is much easier than a toddler!

No offense, but I’d rather see a parent make memories with their baby than think they have to be all stuffy and at home. That’s no life to live. Why do we all think making memories is for the kid, anyway? Don’t grownups need to make memories, too?

Sandy on

maybe if you had the wedding first it wouldn’t be so overwhelming

ME on

wow, I have to say I am very surprised by this article. I really liked her until I read this. she really comes across as selfish and vapid here. wants to look cute and playful for her daughter? what does that even mean?? and she well rested because she hasn’t let herself go? wow. just very strange. I am sure she is a great mom, it was just an odd choice of words she is using here.

Linda on

Well said, Penny!

Cynthia on

Motherhood is wasted on the young….caring about what your daughter thinks you look like? Whatever….

andreaa on

Well, did you expect her to take the baby to payless, emma? We probably won’t be reading about that in people.

maryhelenc on

I think she sounds like a first time mom who is excited to do a million things with her baby, even things that seem silly. I remember taking my eldest daughter shopping for a dress for an Xmas party even though she was three months old and telling people that it was the most awesome thing ever, even though she was too young to give a crap, because it was the idea that someday, she & I would go prom dress shopping and do girlie stuff.

Lizzy on

“‘Having a baby is a lot easier than planning a wedding!’ So we’re more overwhelmed by that than we were having a kid, but we’re working on it.” … this pretty much sums up everything that is wrong with the world in this day and age.

Jessica on

Considering I haven’t heard anything on Shiri lately it’s nice to read this article and shocking to see the judgemental comments of some people. I mean honestly, do you really care if she takes her baby shoe shopping? It’s her memory and good on her! She’s not trying to gain votes from any of us but merely letting the world know that she hasn’t got a nanny to look after her child as she does it herself even when she needs to go shopping no matter where she shops. My gosh people, she should not be compared to media attention seekers like some!

Candice on

What’s with the wise ass cracks? It’s all about the Memories. I see people bring their newborns to Six flags.

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Sunday, November 27, 2011

Cellarmistress Does The Napa Valley Film Festival -Part Three: Tasting Napa

The final part of the blogger tasting took place on the Saturday evening of the Inaugural Napa Valley Film Festival. Samples of the four wines were sent to us by the individual wineries. As much as I had enjoyed the three previous installments of the live blogging, I felt a bit disconnected from this particular session. Perhaps it was because there was a lot of silent time between tasting and the live feed we were following. Quite a bit of shuffling when it came to the order in which we were going to sample these wines also. Not enough time for much Q & A either so my questions went unanswered. Considering how busy the festival was and how anything can go wrong at any given time, I still think they did a great job with what they had to work with. We did try some really nice wines on this installment and I am here to share those with you.

The first of these wines was the 2009 Saintsbury Lee Vineyard Pinot Noir. Saintsbury Vineyard is located in my favorite area of Napa, Los Carneros. Carneros is the scenic (almost majestic as far as I'm concerned) area in the southern end of Napa as you drive in from the bay area. The rolling hills sweep you away. It is just beautiful! (Note to self: pull over sometime if you can and take photos!) Because of its proximity to the San Pablo Bay, it is an ideal area to grow Pinot Noir grapes and thus the only area in the Napa Valley that produces Pinot Noir. Saintsbury has been around for a very long time, and Pinot Noir is their specialty. They produce many. The 2009 Lee Vineyard is a new release (or at least I think it is...I couldn't get my question answered!) and it is young. I think I would've enjoyed it more had I opened it a year from now. It was very tight with dark cherries, cedar and almost a flinty minerality. A lot darker in color than some of the Carneros Pinot Noir I've experienced in the past. But, hey, I am a novice when it comes to Carneros Pinot Noir and I am willing to learn. Bring it on! $45.

Next we did the 2007 Pine Ridge Stags Leap District Cabernet Sauvignon. Pine Ridge Vineyards is one of those wineries whose wines you sometimes see at wine shops around the country but did you know they make a lot of unique, single vineyard wines? This one was huge and powerful with loads of plum, chocolate, coffee, caramel and toasty vanilla on the finish. This wine has a firm tannin backbone making the capacity for aging into the 15-20 year mark. I don't have that much willpower!! This wine contains all five Bordeaux varietals in it: Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Malbec, Petit Verdot and Cabernet Franc. It's gooood!!! Veteran winemaker, Michael Beaulac made wines for Markham Vineyards and St. Supery before landing here. www.pineridgewinery $80.

And now for my two favorites of the evening, offerings from Swanson Vineyards, located in Rutherford. I first learned of Swanson Vineyards after seeing my friend Rudy McClain's acclaimed film, "Merlove" several years ago. ("Merlove" is a film about Merlot and its unfortunate demise...) Swanson Vineyards' winemaker, Chris Phelps, was interviewed in the film... (On a side note, Rudy says I am the "Mayor of Merlove" on Foursquare because everywhere I go, I meet someone who was in the film! Ha!) I was super excited when I found out Chris was going to be joining us on the feed but alas, he did not...Bummer...Anyhow, the two offerings were the 2009 Swanson Vineyards Pinot Grigio and the 2007 Swanson Vineyards Oakville Merlot. When they came on, the hashtag they used was their Twitter handle, OhHelloSwanson! I thought that was hilarious but really for this winery it is completely appropriate! One sip of these wines is enough to make you say, "Oh Hello Swanson!!! Where have you been all my life???" The Merlot will make a believer out of the non-believers. People who stopped drinking Merlot because of the movie "Sideways" don't realize what they are missing out on. This wine is a full berry explosion with smooth chocolate and a little bit of anise thrown in the mix. It's heavenly! $38. The Pinot Grigio is lemony, refreshing and commands a lot of salty snacks. $21. Love these wines and recommend them wholeheartedly!

Next time you are visiting Napa Valley, please consider visiting these three wineries. All three offer an insider's look into something unique and special.

Now that this is all over I am going through some withdrawal symptoms but at the same time, I am looking forward to next year's Napa Valley Film Festival and also looking forward to attending the festivities in real life after my move out there! Cheers!

"You Saw It Here First"...This post was created solely for "Cellarmistress' Cellar Talk" by Grace Hoffman. Grace is an Italian-born, American-bred wine blogger/educator with an all-consuming passion for wine and all it encompasses.

  1. Hey there, just found you. My friend and I are military wives and we wrote a Spanish cookbook, we chronicled it on my blog about my family's life in Spain, called Spain Is My Happy Place. Our cookbook is called The Drinking Girls' Guide to Spanish Food and now that we are starting our 2nd, we decided to start our blog, will be adding you to our blog roll! Cheers, Ashleigh & Tiffani, The Drinking Girls

  2. Great reporting on the wine tasting event. I love Swanson Vineyards and would always come back to try out their Merlot.


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2007 TCU Preview - Defense

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Preview 2007 - TCU Defense

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What you need to know:
The Horned Frogs finished second in the nation in total defense, third in scoring defense, and led the Mountain West in several top categories. It'll be a total shock if they weren't even better. The only possible problems will come if injuries strike. Nine starters return, led by all-star ends Tommy Blake and Chase Ortiz, who make life easy for everyone else on the defense with the pressure they provide. The 4-2-5 has four good linebackers, an amazing group of safeties, rising stars at corner, and a good, active line. The only potential issue is a lack of raw bulk at tackle, but that's looking for a problem.

Returning Leaders
Tackles: Jason Phillips, 73
Sacks: Tommy Blake, 7
Nick Sanders, Torrey Stewart, 3

Star of the defense: Senior DE Tommy Blake
Player that has to step up and become a star: Junior NT Cody Moore
Unsung star on the rise: Sophomore CB Nick Sanders
Best pro prospect: Blake
Top three all-star candidates: 1) Blake, 2) DE Chase Ortiz, 3) LB Jason Phillips
Strength of the defense: Pass rush, experience
Weakness of the defense: Backup defensive linemen

Defensive Line

Projected Starters: The Horned Frogs will once again have one of the nation's most disruptive front lines thanks to the return of senior ends Tommy Blake and Chase Ortiz, arguably the best tandem in America. Blake flirted with the idea of turning pro early, and then chose to come back in what should be an All-America season. In three years he's made 134 tackles, 19 sacks and 36.5 tackles for loss with a blend of blinding quickness and good size. Up to 252 pounds, he's filled out his 6-3 frame and should be even stronger against the run. Ortiz doesn't get the same publicity as the main man on the other side, but he's been almost as effective over the last two seasons with 64 tackles, 11.5 sacks and 25 tackles for loss. While he doesn't have Blake's speed burst, he's similar in size and is great at getting into the backfield. The First Team Mountain West performer demands the full-time attention previously reserved for Blake.

Also returning is 6-3, 282-pound junior James Vess at tackle after making 32 tackles and four sacks. He came on over the second half of the year to become an impressive interior pass rusher who took advantage of all the single blocking he saw. The team's fastest tackler, he's like an end playing in the interior.

The one newcomer to the starting four is 292-pound junior Cody Moore, who isn't exactly starting from scratch with three starts last season and 14 tackles with three sacks and 5.5 tackles for loss. He bulked up in the last year and should be more of an anchor on the nose, but he'll need to use his quickness to continue to be a regular in the opposing backfield.

Projected Top Reserves: Ortiz and Blake will rarely be off the field, but the Horned Frogs have decent prospects behind them in junior Matt Panfil and sophomore Allen Christopher. Panfil, who made four tackles last year and will start out behind Ortiz, is only 232 pounds, but he can move.
Christopher will play behind Blake after making three tackles in a little bit of action.

Bringing the bulk will be 6-2, 303-pound redshirt freshman Cory Grant, who'll play on the nose behind Moore to start out. While hardly polished, he's one of the team's strongest players and has all the measurables to grow into a run stuffer.

Watch Out For ... Blake and Ortiz to combine for 20 sacks. The two are going to be even better, even with all the hype coming their way.
Pass rushing. Behind the big two on the outside, Vess is a threat in the middle and Moore will make plenty of plays behind the line.
Backups and size. It's not Panfil and Christopher's fault; they each saw time in every game last year. They just happen to be playing behind the two best ends in the Mountain West. The backup tackles have almost no experience, and if Grant goes down, or can't play, the second team gets really small.
Outlook: As long as Blake and Ortiz are Blake and Ortiz, TCU will finish in the top ten in America in sacks and tackle for loss. Everything revolves around the outside going in, and Vess and Moore should shine with all the focus on the stars. TCU always finds productive playmakers to fill the gaps, and it'll have to hope a good rotation forms among the reserves over the course of the season.
Rating: 8.5

Projected Starters: The Horned Frogs only use two true linebackers in their scheme, and they have two very good ones returning in senior David Hawthorne and junior Jason Phillips.

The 225-poind Hawthorne made 43 tackles last season, and has 102 in his career, on the strongside. Coming off a fantastic spring where he was all over the field making big play after big play, he's on the verge of being an all-star playmaker with the license to go after the quarterback as well as be steady against the run.

Phillips is a 234-pound rock in the middle with 144 tackles in the last two years with 14.5 tackles for loss. While he doesn't do quite enough against the pass, the First Team All-Mountain West performer doesn't miss anything against the run.

Projected Top Reserves:
Technically, Hawthorne combines with junior Robert Henson, who steps in from time to time when the defense needs a third linebacker. He's not as big as Hawthorne, but he's faster. Even as a reserve over the last two years he's earned Honorable Mention All-Mountain West honors with 133 stops, 3.5 sacks and 16 tackles for loss and was third on the team in tackles. Along with all he does for the defense, he's a top special teamer.

Behind Phillips in the middle will be sophomore Daryl Washington, who got his feet wet as a true freshman with 16 tackles and a blocked punt. He has sideline to sideline range with the type of size, at 6-3 and 228 pounds, and quickness that would make him an ideal weakside linebacker if the defense used one.

Watch Out For ... A fantastic rotation and more 4-3, even if it doesn't always look like a 4-3. There are four terrific playmakers to rotate in and wreak havoc all over the field. They all need time.
Depth. The plus of playing two linebackers is the depth it creates, and TCU has two great ones in Henson and Washington. They're too good to keep off the field, and could step in and start without a problem.
Plays against the pass. Nitpicking time, because the linebackers don't do much for the passing game by design. That's what the five defensive backs are for. It would be nice if there was a little more size, but again, nitpicking.
Outlook: This is the Mountain West's best linebacking corps, and it's not even close. Phillips is a lock for all-star honors, Hawthorne has jacked his game up to another level and will be an all-star, and Henson is an all-star in reserve. Washington, when all is said and done, might be the most talented of the bunch, and former LSU transfer Darius Ingram is a nice emergency backup waiting in the wings.
Rating: 8.5

Defensive Backs

Projected Starters: The nation's seventh best pass efficiency defense gets three starters back in the 4-2-5 alignment, led by all-star senior Brian Bonner at strong safety. With enough range to play any of the three safety spots and the hitting ability to be a difference maker at strong safety, he's the team's most versatile defensive back, and he's also the leader of the defensive backfield. He made 49 tackles with 4.5 sacks, 9.5 tackles for loss and two interceptions last season. If that wasn't enough, he's also a phenomenal punt returner averaging 12.7 yards per try.

Also returning is 6-2, 215-pound senior David Roach, who made 33 tackles and broke up four passes playing the weak safety. Listed as the starter at both free and weak spots, he'll get the start somewhere and might move around over the course of the season. He hits like a ton of bricks, but while he can move, he needs to do more when the ball is in the air.

Trying to find the starting third safety will be the key in fall practices. Most likely, 6-3, 204 pound junior Steven Coleman will play free safety in a rotation with Roach, who'll move around. Coleman made 18 tackles and two interceptions last season and is on the verge of being a regular producer and more of a difference maker. If nothing else, he'll be a top special teamer.

There's also experience returning at corner, but only one spot is set. Sophomore Nick Sanders turned into one of the surprises of the 2006 season earning acclaim for a 30 tackle, three interception season with seven broken up passes. He's not lightning fast, and he's not huge, but he's always around the ball.

The right side is up for grabs, and that's not a bad thing, with senior Torrey Stewart likely to get the nod after playing well at the end of last year. The former JUCO transfer grew into a role with an interception in each of the final three games of the year, to go along with eight tackles. He could be the team's sleeper star going into the season with a fantastic mix of talents that might make him the number one corner.

Projected Top Reserves: Stewart might start, but sophomore Rafael Priest will see plenty of action. A starter for all 13 games last year, he made 27 tackles and broke up nine passes. One of the team's fastest players, there will be a role for him somewhere if he doesn't win the starting job; he has too much upside to keep off the field.

The team's top safety backup, who might end up slipping into the starting strong safety spot if Bonner moves to free safety, will be junior Stephen Hodge, a special teams star who also made a big impact in the secondary with 30 tackles. While he's a good tackler, he doesn't do much for the pass defense.

Watch Out For ... even more of the same. The secondary didn't quite know it was doing last year, and now that it's experienced, it should be terrific.
Versatility. Bonner and Roach are each two of the Mountain West's better safeties and can play anywhere. That allows the coaching staff to move them around where needed and put the best players on the field. It also helps when there's a corner like Priest who can play either spot.
Not much. As good as this group is, it still hurts to lose a top safety like Marvin White, who led the team with 86 tackles and four interceptions. He was the leader and playmaker who set the tone for the secondary.
Outlook: How good was the TCU pass defense? Texas Tech was held to 204 yards and no touchdowns, and there was only one game with more than 300 yards allowed (the loss to BYU). With the emergence of players like Sanders and Bonner into stars, it'll be a major disappointment if this isn't the league's best secondary.
Rating: 8

Special Teams

Projected Starters: Everything will be fine if kicker Chris Manfredini shows better range and if punter Derek Wash can get some blast. Manfredini, a senior, is deadly from 40 yards and in hitting 12 of 14 attempts last year, but Peter LoCoco handled the longer kicks, and hit nine of 12 on the year. It's all Manfredini this year, and that's not a bad thing considering he's hit 35 of 38 career field goals. Wash got a little bit of work last year playing behind Bryan Cortney, and averaging 37.5 yards per kick. He'll have a fight on his hands with redshirt freshman David Porter also in the hunt for the job.

Watch Out For ... Manfredini to show off decent range. While he doesn't have LoCoco's leg, he'll be more than fine as long as he's not asked to make a lot of 45+ yarders.
Manfredini and punt returner Brian Bonner. Bonner averaged 12.7 yards per punt return. Getting Donald Massey back to return kicks, after he averaged 21.4 yards per try last year, is also a big plus.
Punting. Wash doesn't have a huge leg, but he has to find a way to averaged 40 yards a kick. Cortney didn't have a big leg either, but he was accurate. Wash has to be consistent.
Outlook: Manfredini will be an all-star, the return game will be among the best in the league, and the coverage units will be terrific. As long as the punting is decent, the special teams will be stellar.
Rating: 8

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Signs and Symptoms of Lovesickness

Signs And Symptoms Of Love Sickness

You have met a great person and you think to yourself that this person is the one! You feel that you are falling in love, and start to feel constantly on a high with happy feel good feelings, a sense of euphoria and life is great. This is love!

"love me" - signs and symptoms of love sickness - holding hands

The reason why when we fall in love is that we will start to experience lovesickness is when we experience anxiety and neediness..

Signs and Symptoms of Lovesickness

  • Anxiety sets in when they don’t call

  • You think about the person all the time

  • You can’t sleep and become an insomniac

  • Have no real appetite

  • Become unfocused and dreamy

  • Loose contact with friends and family

  • Wanting to spend every moment with the person you love

  • When you feel your love is not being reciprocated you can start to feel that you are possibly not good enough, or not attractive, etc.

You question yourself how can you experience lovesickness when you are in love it just doesn’t seem to make sense does it. Especially as being in love is such a positive experience where we can forget about our friends for a time, food doesn’t appeal like it used to, we can be dreamy and become unfocused.

So as we enjoy the emotion of love, that creates chemical changes within our body, it is when we start to question ourselves, such as do they see me as “attractive” or “am I too fat” or “am I too skinny” or “will it last”  or “they aren’t ringing as often” etc. we can exhibit signs of anxiety and neediness and feel we are becoming to dependant on the person. This is when we experience the “lovesickness” rollercoaster called deep fear.

So the solution is to be upfront with the person that you are in love with as they are also vulnerable in loving you in return and more than likely experiencing those same anxieties. It is while you are in this open phase of experiencing euphoric love that you can put forward your fears to them.

It is better to communicate these symptoms of lovesickness rather than dwell on them and possibly sabotage a love relationship in the making.

Lovesickness is associated with feelings of insecurity within a relationship, and lack of self esteem, anxiety and other negative emotions set in when love is not reciprocated or when insecurity overwhelms.

When these feelings are experienced it is wise to stop and look within yourself, and realise that really everything is ok. The person you met is for a reason for a time, and the more you choose to be at peace within yourself  the more you will enjoy the relationship!

So love is an emotion that is experienced all over the world and happens everyday to someone. Falling in love is a positive experience, but it is the insecurities that we can experience that can create the lovesickness within ourselves.

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Channel 9 - Discussions by iStation Channel 9 - Discussions by iStation Channel 9 keeps you up to date with the latest news and behind the scenes info from Microsoft that developers love to keep up with. From LINQ to SilverLight – Watch videos and hear about all the cool technologies coming and the people behind them. en Thu, 28 May 2015 04:27:29 GMT Thu, 28 May 2015 04:27:29 GMT Rev9 0 0 0 Coffeehouse - Steve Jobs: PC's are like trucks. Me: Not. I want an ebook reader device like iPad other than PC tablet.

I hope MS will develop a light, thin, wide, coffee-spill proof, annotationable, dog ear markable ebook reader, or MS version of iPad.

I want to read many MS press books but I don't have commodious storage space...

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Coffeehouse - Math Quiz: 9 is number one
brianbec said:
iStation said:

Nice one. Here's another

Find the first positive real value of t for which the following is zero

256 cos^9(pi t / 162) - 576 cos^7(pi t / 162) + 432 cos^5(pi t / 162) -120 cos^3(pi t/162) + 9 cos(pi t / 162)

9! Right? [27, 45, 63, 81, 99....]

How about this one?

+ ∞
∫ [{sin(9x)}/x]dx = ?
− ∞

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Coffeehouse - Math Quiz: 9 is number one
algorith said:
bureX said:

 That's right.

9(a^2 - ab) = (a^2 - ab)  → 0 = 0

Another one,

lim x->0 [{sin(9x)}/x] = ?

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Coffeehouse - Math Quiz: 9 is number one when

a = b

multiply both sides by 8a

8a^2 = 8ab

add (a^2 - 9ab) to both sides

8a^2 + (a^2 - 9ab) = 8ab + (a^2 - 9ab)

simplify them to

9(a^2 - ab) = (a^2 - ab)

divide both sides by (a^2 - ab)

9 = 1

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Coffeehouse - Nicely done, Channel 9 (posted by Dr Herbie). Bravo, Charles!

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Coffeehouse - Wow, BG visited Toshiba stealthily at the end of last year! Bill Gates and Toshiba discuss nuclear power venture

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Coffeehouse - Resource based economy, would it work?
Bass said:
evildictaitor said:
They already are, at least the most menial forms of labor. I go to the supermarket and there are automatic cashiers now. I go to vending machine and buy food on the spot that was previous assembled by a machine in the first place. There are buildings that are quickly assembled in a factory and put together on the spot, very little manpower required.

This is mostly stuff that could have been done by humans (and probably better by humans), but getting rid of the humans from the process is more economical. Now this type of automation is at the very heart of computer science (and a huge interest of mine). And we are moving towards BETTER automation techniques, so we can do more with it, and cheaper too. The eventual goal being general intelligence, at that point humans need not about any work at all - intellectual or otherwise, they'd be outclassed by computers anyway even on things like R&D.

All this is primarily a software problem, and a huge one at that... but there is no reason to believe it won't happen.
And we are already making progress to it anyway. It's nothing we can't solve, Turing knew this. Humans can do anything a Turing machine can do, and nothing more. Seeing how small and low power the human brain is, it's quite likely that an artificial intelligence will reach a level on intelligence not even the most savant people in history have achieved.

Now, it's time to use our brain power to realize the more economical enery production system!
That will save this planet, Earth, and all of us!
"Environment is Everything" in the 21th century!

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Coffeehouse - That version of Windows after Vista will be called... In 7th heaven!

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Coffeehouse - Resource based economy, would it work?
evildictaitor said:
kurniad001 said:
Food was rationed because there was a finite amount of it, and it was evenly distributed. Since there isn't an infinite amount of food, food must be rationed under communism, and under a resource-orientated rather than wealth-driven economy, food must be rationed.

You say that solar/wind etc is a cheap energy serum for wiping away all of our problems, but on a cost-per-watt basis, that isn't the case, or if you use the generalization that cost is approximately proportional to the amount of human work involved in setting something up, society would progress slower under a solar based economy and would be less efficient than under an oil based one. This is trivially the case because capitalism drives human work down by optimising for cost, which is a function of human effort. They're clearly not hiding special free energy machines (as many conspiracy theorists would have you believe) because with free energy comes free money, and capitalism would drive them to exploit such technology.

Now you might (legitimately) argue that we should close down the sectors of the economy that are non-essential and gain productivity in this direction - so we'd stop producing sports cars and expensive clothes and TVs and shut down the non-essential parts of the software industry; and using the productivity gained from those areas we could pump large amounts of effort into other areas of the economy such as agriculture, energy or technology -- an argument expressed by Marx himself no less. The problem with this view is that at some stage or other you end up with a group of people deciding somewhere what and who should have access to which resources, and dividing them up on an arbitrary, potentially ill-informed and low-granular way, whereas under capitalism the fast trading of resources and the inherent interest in all of the various parties to obtain the best "price" for their good or service means that agreements have to be made, and where large numbers of parties are involved in the agreement process, an optimum agreement up to price would be formed -- thus forming an optimum agreement up to resource consumption.

It's not that a resource-based economy is _bad_ per se, it's that it's too ideal and it fails to take into account that the people managing it won't manage it with the same competence or high-granularity of distribution that capitalism can achieve.

[      ] is reserved solar energy. So, why not using solar energy directly?

]]> Sat, 11 Oct 2008 10:33:24 GMT iStation 125
Coffeehouse - What would you say is Microsoft's coolest product?
magicalclick said:
The original X shaped Xbox. I want it so badly.

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Coffeehouse - Resource based economy, would it work? Solar!
    So I went on for some days cutting and hewing timber, and also studs and rafters, all with my narrow axe, not having many communicable or scholar-like thoughts, singing to myself, --

                  Men say they know many things;
                  But lo! they have taken wings --
                  The arts and sciences,
                  And a thousand appliances;
                  The wind that blows
                  Is all that any body knows.
Henry David Thoreau, "Walden," Economy

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The 9 Guy Around The World - C9 at Ground Zero I dropped by Hiroshima when going back home this summer.

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Tech Off - Vista's Werfault.exe snags TTS speaking with SAPI 4.0 (HTTSLib) Whenever I ask Vista to speak "help" or "100" by SAPI 4.0 (HTTSLib), Werfault.exe snags speaking and makes applications "no response!"

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Coffeehouse - Detour to Clean Capitalism
Bass said:
I encourage and support 100% the type of capitalism that results in the destruction of the environment, and the slow death of society. I think we should give $10 trillion dollars in welfare checks to the top 500 richest people in the World, in addition to this great bailout.
I wonder if it's pertinent to this financial problem.
Too slow...

"Creative Clean Capitalism" can solve it with the celerity!

]]> Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:10:43 GMT iStation 28
Coffeehouse - Detour to Clean Capitalism Congratulations!
The $700 billion bailout has been passed!

But, will it work?
It seems to take time to work out...

If it will take time at all,
how about using the money for "Clean Energy" not for banks.
That will be much healthier for U.S. economy and society!

We spent a decade working on the same crisis in Japan, already.
But, after all, our bailout ended up with the old industries' survival and widing the gap between the rich and the poor.
Now, we're facing the deteriorating condtions of public safety...
p.s. Japanese banks will help your banks without the bailout package.

]]> Sun, 05 Oct 2008 00:37:21 GMT iStation 28
Coffeehouse - Detour to Clean Capitalism
jamie said:

"Energy Issues" also affect our instinct and psychology.
The growth of old industries depends upon the premise that the supply of cheap energy is unlimited. However, old industries are still using limited fossil energy.
This discrepancy is the main cause why we feel uneasy about our future and this nervous psychology reflects upon the weak stock market now.

The idea of "Clean Energy" gives us a good psychology and creates a tacit expectation for the future.
That is the most important effect for all of us and also for financial markets.

Google may expedite "Transition from IPv4 to IPv6" and accomplish "Clean Cloud Computing."

]]> Fri, 03 Oct 2008 05:50:24 GMT iStation 28
Coffeehouse - Detour to Clean Capitalism We need innovations and collaborations to clean capitalism like this!

Nippon Oil, Sanyo Eye JV for Thin-film Si Solar Cell -- Tech-On!

]]> Wed, 01 Oct 2008 23:22:04 GMT iStation 28
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tfraser said:
iStation said:
That's probably a bit too optimistic. I doubt the banks will be happy at the end of that process because they will have been sinking since the decision to invest the money in solar power. Remember that the bailout fund isn't a surplus; it's money that the United States doesn't have, so it should only be used in the event of a severe emergency.

I have nothing against solar power but at the moment it's not a high priority issue. Greenpeace activists will disagree with me here but if it was up to them we would be living in trees or something.
emergency = an unexpected and dangerous situation that you must deal with immediately

But, what have we been doing since Kyoto Protocol?
Many sage politicians in U.S. could have predicted this situation...
I think this detour around clean capitalism has brought this emergency.
We're spending much more money for oil than a decade ago!
too pessimistic?!

]]> Wed, 01 Oct 2008 11:47:19 GMT iStation 28
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tfraser said:
iStation said:
I certainly hope you are joking.
The money of the bailout package -> giga watt solar power plants -> increase of solar cell production
-> housing with solar panel -> stopping depreciation of real estate
-> job creation -> decrease of default for real estate
-> increase of bank saving
-> happy banks! - Find a Job in the Solar Industry
too sanguine?!

]]> Wed, 01 Oct 2008 09:43:40 GMT iStation 28
Coffeehouse - Detour to Clean Capitalism How about using the money of the bailout package not for banks but for a future New Deal, giga watt solar power plants.

]]> Wed, 01 Oct 2008 05:48:57 GMT iStation 28
Coffeehouse - Global Climate Change, mostly caused by solar activity? IMO, the atmosphere on this planet works as a thermostat and it can alleviate the solar effect.

However, the change of CO2 composition of the atmosphere is just like changing the set point of the thermostat.

]]> Wed, 01 Oct 2008 05:40:17 GMT iStation 24
Coffeehouse - Detour to Clean Capitalism inevitable detour to clean capitalism?

contaminated capitalism...

1997- U.S. refusal of ratification of Kyoto Protocol
2001 9/11
2001 Enron collapse
2003 Iraq War
2005 Bioethanol
2007 High-price of crude oil
2007 Price inflation
2008 Contaminated food in China
2008 Bailout to real estate bubble in U.S.

too expensive!

to creative clean capitalism...
we need brain power instead of oil power...

Heroes of the Environment - Heroes of the Environment 2008 - TIME,28804,1841778_1841816_1843874,00.html

]]> Sun, 28 Sep 2008 13:07:13 GMT iStation 28
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kettch said:
phreaks said:

Ha! That reminds me of the Futurama episode The Problem with Popplers

Farnsworth: "Hey! Unless this is a nude love-in... get the hell off my property!"
Free Waterfall Junior: "You can't own property, man."
Farnsworth: "I can. But that's because I'm not a penniless hippie."
Leela: "What do you people want?"
Free Waterfall Junior: "We're with Mankind for Ethical Animal Treatment. Popplers are little creatures. You got to stop harvesting them for food."
Bender: "Or what?"
Free Waterfall Junior: "Or we'll boycott Fishy Joe's."
Leela: "You're vegetarians. Who cares what you do?"
Free Waterfall Junior: "Shut up!"
Leela: "Animals eat other animals. It's nature."
Free Waterfall Junior: "No it isn't. We taught a lion to eat tofu."
Thin Sickly Lion: *cough**cough*

Bear the lion to his bed!

]]> Sun, 10 Aug 2008 11:07:15 GMT iStation 61
Coffeehouse - Why does light travel through glass
AndyC said:
vesuvius said:
Bah! Wave particle duality is a lot of nonsense. Everything is a wave and the whole particle bit is a lot of nonsense which occasionally gives you the right answers and just happens to have rather easier maths behind it.
I love "wave packet" image to feel familiar with "wave particle duality."

]]> Fri, 08 Aug 2008 10:40:46 GMT iStation 26
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Maddus Mattus said:
ScanIAm said:
Yeah, but no reason to be so spastic about it now. In the 1980's we thought we ran out of oil. In 2008 there has never been so much known oil deposites.

Sure we need alternative forms of energy. But there is still plenty of oil to go around. I always opt for a good mix, the old and the new. People think we can just flip a switch and be done with the evil oil! Doesnt work that way.

The video about the professor explaining that we need fuel's because their energy density is high and they are easy to transport, is very good watch. He says as long as there is no alternative liquid fuel, we will still be dependent on oil. I liked his idea to transform solar energy into a fuel, but I sure hope he can find een alternative to water. We kinda need that to live. And it is not as abundant as we think Wink

We're facing the end of cheap and abundant oil.
I think we should use oil only as material for synthesis of chemical products not as fuel to burn.

Most of internal combustion engines will be replaced with electric motors within a decade.
Ultra-low-cost solar cells, i.e. personal power plants, enable us to use plug-in hybrid or EV.
Ultra-low-cost solar cells also will be connected as a energy network and pump up water or make hydrogen to store the excess electricity.

I hope this happen any time soon both in developed and developing countries.
Look at the thick smog in China. It comes to Japan on west wind.
I don't want to inhale it, any more.

]]> Fri, 08 Aug 2008 07:32:14 GMT iStation 61


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Friday, 23 September 2011

Review of 'Reality' by Peter Kingsley

Reality, by Peter Kingsley

A book the size of a housebrick-and-a-half, called 'Reality: now there's an author who's not lacking in confidence. In a nutshell? A 550 page commentary on two pre-Socratic 'philosophers', Parmenides and Empedocles, rooted in a passionate critique of the origins of so much of our culture and its limitations; origins that Kingsley claim lay in a hatchet-job done by Plato on the pre-Socratic mystical traditions.

This book was a roller coaster ride for me. Right from the start, it got on my tits, with its attitude of 'your life is a pile of shit because you are not enlightened', the same superior cosmic style that I reacted to so negatively when I first encountered mysticism in my teens.
...Even though I find the idea of a radical deconstruction – no, scratch that, a radical rejection – of normal reality absolutely irresistible.

In the language of this book, I still linger at the three-ways, with the ghosts who are not living fully. For so Kingsley would have us believe the pre-Socratic Italian-Greek teacher Parmenides was saying, in brief works which academics apparently usually take as the origins of logical thinking: Parmenides is no respecter of elites - that's where all of us stand, in relation to reality as it really is. Focusing on the origin of logic as the origin of our modern way of thinking is a totally deluded notion; Parmenides' words referred to an era 'before people learned how to use reasoning as a mask to disguise their terror of logic'.

He defends the 'terror of logic' with reference to Socrates who, he claims, was killed for making the Athenians feel like fools. He depicts Socrates as one of the last of a line of enquiry that used logic to demonstrate that ordinary thinking cannot produce a consistent model of the world, that everything we think hangs above an abyss of incoherence, 'aporia', the pathlessness in which Socrates left his dialogical victims.

Kingsley's reinterpretation of the pre-Socratic lineage is based on discoveries about the practice of incubation, a meditation conducted in underground chambers. Parmenides, it seems, was the leader of one such mystery school, in which the initiates gained visions, maybe meeting the underworld Goddess, Parmenides' interlocutor in the poem Kingsley takes as his core work.

In this poem, the Goddess cuts away all self-importance and smugness, dismantling the familiar world, stripping away all assumptions; 'and from this perfect reality that she (the Goddess) describes, there is no escape'.
This was when I realised the book was really speaking to me. Perhaps the subtlest and most lingering of my visions was exactly that - there is no escape, anywhere - what we see is, in a very important sense, what we get. My intuition calls it embeddedness.

I like the way Kingsley uses the term 'being'. Often people annoy me with that word - what right have we got to ascribe existence to one thing and not another? Well, Kingsley, in line with Parmenides' goddess, ascribes 'being' to it all; indivisible, bornless and endless. That I can get with.

Kingsley leads us through a version of the mystical solve et coagula. In this process, the face of the Goddess changes; at first, we met the unnamed Persephone, whose 'deceptive words' take our world apart, then later, as her deception becomes more total, more paradoxical, more complete, we encounter the seductive Aphrodite, whose charm hunts down and makes helpless the strongest man. But having gone through the death process, we have attained a kind of perspective that enables us to live in Aphrodite's lush garden of illusion without losing our minds again.

So what has this mystical cult really got to do with the history of Greek philosophy? Kingsley tells it as a gigantic selling-short: 'there was no way [people] were going to accept that the ultimate reality is whatever they see around them ... And so ... philosophers have worked their hardest for more than two thousand years to make his 'it' some kind of logical abstraction that exists somewhere else - on another level of reality.'

So he begins to insert the idea that reality is a seamless, unitary world, with no levels, only the delicious illusions of Aphrodite and the frightening truths of Persephone, both referring to the same universe.

The next sections, on Empedocles, take us into other territory, but there is still much mystical lore to be recovered. Empedocles' thought has had some strange descendents – his fanciful Aeonic model was taken far too seriously by the Gnostics, providing the basis for their profound hatred of the world and the flesh.

That is what tends to happen when initiatic writings fall into the hands of the priestly ascetics, the life-hating control freaks, and such perversions cannot necessarily be levelled against the original texts. But is it surprising that Empedocles' writings spawned toxic nonsense, when he spouted world-hating dualism like: 'Incarnation as human beings is, very specifically, a punishment for the daimon's failings'?

However, Kingsley uses Empedocles to bring in a vital new theme, which I'll return to: that Love and apparent unity is the basis for unconsciousness and automatic behaviour, but that Strife, the principle of separation, is on the side of truth.

The theme of the self-exhausting nature of logic is resumed with Zeno's paradoxes. We are taught them as shallow games, but Kingsley claims Zeno 'used logic in its truest sense, not to fortify or justify our commonsense view of reality, but to undermine it, destroy it.' He brings together Parmenides, Empedocles and Gorgias, the founder of the Sophists, whom Plato decried as shallow and irresponsible in that they merely held up mirrors to popular misconceptions.

Now Kingsley has got us ready to reveal the Platonic hatchet job on the mystery schools, the beginning of a cultural shift away from mysticism, perpetrated on the European world these last 2500 years. Athens invaded Lipora, one of the centres of the mystery tradition that included Parmenides, Empedocles and incubation; this was the political dimension. Plato's writings took care of the written evidence of the tradition, such as the poem of Parmenides Kingsley refers to throughout the book, by radically reinterpreting them, in ways which Kingsley demonstrates do not stand up well under close examination.

Plato elaborated Empedocles' simple cosmology, of everyday life and the Absolute bound inseparably together, into different levels, articulating the notion of transcendence, 'the need to get from here to there even though there is no there apart from here'.

The distortion of pre-Socratic texts continued, and continues still; Kingsley shows us how Empedocles' words were actually altered, in what he sees as a deliberate suppression of mystery traditions.

That criticism strikes a strong chord with me. Consider Plato's notion of a realm of divine forms, that aetherial library of cosmic designs. Where are they supposed to be? In the mind? Fair enough, and we all share them; they resemble Jung's archetypes of the collective unconscious, the ur-patterns of how we construct and perceive the world.

We can go further than that, and identify the structural relationships that are demonstrated by mathematics as ideal Forms too, patterns that are so deeply embedded in our minds that we see them everywhere we look.

However, I find very dubious the idea of actual other levels or planes of reality which contain these forms, levels which ascend step after step towards God. This is what the Neo-Platonists did with Plato's notion, and it is the basis of the Four Worlds of Renaissance Qabalah. And the philosophical underpinning of the empire of 'reason', its chief weapon in defeating the mystery traditions, and keeping them defeated.

This set of notions is what we have to thank for the rigmarole of Western occultism and, taken seriously, this book would be the death-knell of all that crock of neo-Platonist nonsense, that concoction of planes, rays and worlds. I for one would not miss it.

The way of awakening that Kingsley hints at throughout this book has some definite qualities in common with the Odian way, not least the sacrificial basis of full consciousness: 'the very act of becoming conscious is, itself, a process of destruction; of separation; of learning to die before we die.' [P435].

Concerning the illuminatory necessity of interrupting the Love principle with Strife, the author quotes a commentator describing the perfect sphere of love in Empedocles' cosmology – 'a state of crude and chaotic matter'; this sounds like Ymir, before Odin Vili and Ve carve a coherent universe out of him, before Strife gets on the case and produces some clarity.

It's not that there's anything wrong with love, but until we separate ourselves from our automatic impulses, which are ruled by love, by Aphrodite, we cannot become conscious. After we have achieved consciousness, then is time to return on the other arc of the cycle, into engagement with the world, into the rage of desire that Love generates.

Another feature of interest in this system [P289] is when Kingsley tells us that 'the ability to trap and bind successfully had a single name – metis'. Compare Odin's valknut, in its open and closed forms – it is the primary symbol of binding and loosing. One dimension of this dualism is in the technology of magical spells, in which we cause flow or stoppage. Another is in relation to the core nature of selfhood: on the Tree, Odin is torn apart, his self sacrificed, and out of that chaos new knowledge – the runes – and a new Self emerge. These are the two modes in which selfhood operates, the poles of solve et coagula, the cycle of dissolution and reintegration. On the one arc, we allow our selves to undo themselves; incubation, like some forms of sitting meditation, is a tool of the dissolution stage. The reintegration stage is automatic, but the nature of the visions and of the new self that emerges is influenced by our aspiration and knowledge.

Metis is usually translated as 'cunning', and this important divine attribute is examined in both Greek and Odian contexts in a fascinating paper 'Cunning intelligence in Norse myth; Loki, Odin and the limits of sovereignty', by Kevin J Wanner, which would require another essay to even begin to do justice to. (Wanner is at )

Kingsley's words show up vividly the sometimes-problematic nature of the RHP/LHP distinction. On p185, he writes of this 'perfect, complete' reality: 'The only choice we have, our single real freedom, is to decide whether to participate in it consciously or be at its mercy.... '
This does at first reading seem like classic RHP as defined by Dr Flowers, along the lines of 'get with the cosmic programme, don't stand out' - but the next section shows us another dimension:
'The one option we have is to turn around and face, head-on, all the impulses that keep bombarding us and pushing us in every direction. By turning each impulse back on itself we are returning thought and perception consciously to their source.'
That sounds like a recipe for meditation, not for self-annihilation; more like someone fearlessly deconstructing all they appear to be, because they know there is something far deeper behind that anxious self.

Have we reached the source of the misunderstanding that seems to be at the root of much LHP/RHP dichotomy? Is it about where we draw the line, on this side of which is our free will, and on the other side of which the changes we label 'inevitable'?

There is another, and perhaps deeper, problem for the Odian seeker in this discourse. Kingsley criticizes seeking: '… if we manage to carry one particular search right through to the end, … we find ourselves straightaway at the beginning of another'.
To me, that's the core of the way. For Kingsley, it's bad: real Reality doesn't go anywhere, doesn't move. It's the opposite of the constant renewal of 'Seek the Mystery', this Absolute Reality.

On the surface of it, that's worrying; there is no progression, only perfection, always and forever. But the process Kingsley recommends is nothing but an increase in consciousness, and if that isn't what the Odian way is about, I don't know what is. And maybe the above idea is again a misunderstanding: the sense of a perfect universe comes at the culmination of a process, which will certainly feel like a journey. On arriving, one may feel that: 'There is no transcendental reality to get away to' (p288).
Now that is a notion I can get with – eliminate all those other levels, all those half-hearted semi-paradises, and let the self dismantle itself into bare, immediate presence. How can there be anywhere to go to from that place?

But we return, and then movement resumes. It may not ever feel as real again, that movement, but it doesn't mean we are not passionately engaged in changing the world to the best of our ability; even Kingsley admits his illuminated Greeks were engaged in political intrigue: the perspective of a motionless, eternal world has not paralyzed their will. They return from eternity and take up their work in the world again.

In the end, I can't find any serious fault with this book. Reservations, yes; his style has been described (by Duncan Barford) as 'arch', which fits perfectly; it definitely feels like he is talking down to his reader. This puts me off his other works, one of which I've been emphatically recommended by the friend who passed this volume on to me. I don't think I'll ever like his style, and it may irritate you too. But I have to recommend this book, because he has such vitally important things to say.

I'll leave you with a rallying cry from P497:
'Trying to escape from our own civilization can offer no real solution. What now is needed more than anything else is to penetrate to the roots of this western world and release the wisdom that has been waiting there for so long.'

  1. Interesting. My view these days is along the lines of the multiverse or the philosophy of Modal Reality
    We are here because we are everywhere, always, and always have been and will be. No way out.

  2. Hi Dirk, I'll say a bit more here than I did on FB - I don't mean to dismiss such ideas out of hand. It strikes me that on one level the Modal idea is obvious - any reality we are living in is the real one, according to us. But I find it dificult to get purchase on ideas we can't tell are real or not, and this seems like that.
    The Parmenides idea is a vastly simpler one, and probably appeals on a basis of intuition rather than reason.

  3. Where can I find the book in electronic media, plz??!

  4. Have you tried Googling? If so, you know more than I do.