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a wont of you, would be difficult to give upward

: jimmyhorntt; November 13th, 11:08

Weegee

weegeefinal
Duet in Fetish Enchantment
, 1956

: jimmyhorntt; November 12th, 15:16

crawl up and over and through this metropolis
across the soggy bottomed river
so much rust and mush
heading for the Columbia
and the Pacific

arches and trusses,
drawbridges and spans of concrete
someway graceful in their engineered signifier
traversing nullities, transporting machines over
industrial riversides and saved greenish
infinite wearing engineered names like
esplenade and storm-water keeping roofs

i sit in a north facing,
clime commanded
castle
waiting for a sleepyheaded one
to stir
so we can again
head bent on search this flowering
new urban wonderland before us

1, 2, 3, 4

: jimmyhorntt; November 5th, 9:55

I reckon because I hold nix really to write of I will recur to the Amy Classic Station Formatting. The listing, complete with my ain interview-style enquiries:

1. Flowers on Desk this hebdomad? Pink lilies, with small magenta splenetic things conflate in. They 're the purest pink lilies I hold ever seen.

2. Any mischances today? Really, yes! Naturally, you cognize I 'm wearing my ill-famed white shirt, the skirt that pulls mishaps the manner a nickelodeon pulls inebriated people. In today 's episode, a pen explosion in the underside of my pocketbook, leaking through the bag ( my favorite bag ever, by the bye ) and right onto my white-skirted lap while I was sitting on the EL. Delicious. Then, rummaging about in the bag afterward, I got ink over my manuses so I look a trifle like a sick soul. I already sought utilizing desk cleaner to get it forth, but that method makes n't appear to make anything. In the least.

3. Oh No! Makes this mean you should repaint your nails? In fact, no. I read on my favorite blog ever, All Lacqured Up, that you can but utilize Windex to get ink grades off nails. Is that the most utile tip you 've ever heard or what?

4. What color is your nailpolish, anyhow? BLUE. The most beautiful bright, vibrant sky blueness ever. I love it.

5. What vocal to you hold lodged in your caput today? Thankfully, not Aggregate Occultation of the Bosom
, which I holded lodged in my caput for roughly a hebdomad. This morn I woke upwardly thereupon one vocal, I 'm not sure what it Holds named. It Holds a church vocal that moves `` Untellable, uncontainable, you layed the stars in the sky and you cognize them by name '' I consider. I make n't cognise, it holds all those similar multi-syllabic words in it so I can ne'er think the exact words or their exact order. Anyways, I 've holded it wedged in my caput all forenoon.

6. Seen any good movies tardily? Yes! I simply completed The Diving Bell and The Butterfly
Besides the fact that I am the Biggest Gull Ever for Gallic movies with subtitles, seriously if I only hear people begining to speak in Gallic I 'm fascinated, this was simply a rattlingly good picture. It was interesting and lively and diverting and touching and sad.

7. Conditions. Ideas? It Holds beautiful out. I 'm glad it Holds halted raining, that was getting wearisome. I hold two lovely new jackets for autumn, so I 'm middling pumped to see the conditions modification. Not to name aroused about autumn in the main.

8. And what makes fall average to you? Starbucks toffee apple spice in my manus, a strong-armer wedging out the dorsum of my jacket, eventually getting to wear a scarf, desiring to be outside every min, travelling apple picking with Wayne, and course, Thanksgiving and Midnight Thanksgiving, my two favorite vacations. Although Midnight Thanksgiving is really but a capricious dreaming I track, the jumbo fish I ever trust to catch but ne'er make. Anyhow, the apple pick, we certainly should make that. And the premix cadmium competition, that overly. And wearing scarves, yes, definately.

9. How Holds the short hair handling you? Incredibly. I purchased a smaller-barrelled curling Fe. It works much better.

10. Any dreamings or aspirations to mouth of today? I 'm essay to do my ain jewellery. I 'm excited at the chance; I love love love handmade jewellery. Love it. It Holds a consistant and incomprehensible passionateness of mine. Makes n't it add up that I would larn to do my ain? I 'm a trifle intimidated though. I hold taking out all my pieces and looking at them and stating, `` yes, this is lovely, this will be lovely '' but I 'm frightened to thread them together and risk doing such pretty beads look stupid. Oh, I could do them look stupid, I 'm sure of it. I 'm x ages old again, I desire my mum to love or something. So when I get over my psychosis therein country, I 'll allow you cognise. I 'll be shaking all the stupid
beautiful jewellery I doed, so naturally you 'll cognise.

Chris on being a cockatoo

: jimmyhorntt; November 4th, 7:43

Chris
: I am a cockatoo in the coop of life

.

: jimmyhorntt; November 3rd, 9:53

Yeah, you can laugh again; i stated i like not Pidgin English, period. Yet, if you desire me to learn you how to verbalise Yoruba, i will if you inquire nicely.

Hmmm, be careful how you mouth anyone Tho '. Why? Simply knew you wo n't but, enquire. Anyhow, what about this
and this
on NIMMO 's blog?

Literary Movies

: jimmyhorntt; November 2nd, 7:53

With Autumn and the new academic year, likewise comes the Serious Picture Season ( yay!! ). Get out your handkerchiefs! All these aspect instead assuring

Here Holds the first lagger for Peter Jackson 's The Lovely Bones
onApple.com ( holds n't Peter Jackson got thin! ).

The Time Traveller's Wife
opens this hebdomad. I adored this book and holded the usual concerns about a pic version, but the lagger
done me shred; that Holds not all that hard, but still

Then there 's Jane Catchfly 's film about the relationship between Keats and Fannie Brawne: Bright Star"
Course we cognize it Holds not attending stop goodly, but we might hold some merriment getting there...

Another Prospective Eee-Book

: jimmyhorntt; November 1st, 17:07

While we all sit about and wait for the assured Apple Tablet ( aka Ebook+ ) and the `` Kindle Killers '' only over the skyline, EeePC denoted a two screen full color and tied E-Book in two flavors. A budget and premium framework are in the programmes. Here are two articles about the annunciation with a graphic of a image that was exhibited ( likely the premium framework ):

Asus Eee Reader' to Join E-Reader Fray, says Report
PC Macrocosm

Asus Rethinks Laptop With Dual-Panel Portable at Cebit
Microcomputer Existence

One thing is certain ( and this comes from an early adopter of the Kindle with a really big library ), the Kindle is not the device for school shavers and didactics. A school territory is not attending follow a individual intent device that 's $ 400/student to replace texts. Out here in CA we are seeing our budgets blow offly to zero, and there Holds no alleviation in sight. In my dominion we 've cut over $ 20m in the past two eld, and dollarfish to cut another $ 20m+ this following July. There are not very much of spots to cut anymore without withdrawing full sections or programmes.

The schoolbook marketplace is a money-spinner and a consumer of large balls of the one-year school budget. Dominions already chance it impossible to hold upwardly with computer replacings, with many holding inventories near 10 ages old. The only spots still getting new computers are laboratories, and these are usually funded out of non-general fund roots. It Holds not a stretch to see territories leveraging the budgets apportioned for texts to address these defects. If you can replace expensive texts with ebooks capable of full color and living AND Cyberspace connectivity ( either through wireless LAN or other ) you hold a slayer device that can alter the landscape of the schoolroom.

Out here in California there is a move to boost unfastened rootage schoolbooks by the Province. Here Holds an artile from Ars Technica on open source textbooks
and the challenges they confront. Unfastened origin or not, e-books make hold the potentiality to ditch those 50lb haversacks and convey fresh calculating powerfulness to engineering famished schoolrooms. This may eventually be the one-to-one engineering that deposits. My hope is that one day we can get out of the concern of rendering pupils desktop computers and they can convey their ain e-books to school. We could supply lenders for those educatees seing low income touchstones who would be exempt from buying their ain. This would salvage the most money, but likely not be rattlingly popular with parents.

There Need to to be a better mode. With budgets fastening I am already hearing grumbles from school administrators to widen the espousal round on texts to to a higher degree five eld to cut costs. I ca n't ideate the publishers are attending enthusiastically encompass an e-book framework, simply like the entering industry still combats MP3 participants and on-line music companies. Individual asks to step out and pilot this engineering in a meaningful and mensurable fashion. Until we can exhibit that this will profit educatees, not many territories are attending offer treasured budget dollars to essay it out.

What saddens me is the deficiency of enthusiasm or even involvement in these engineerings by many school administrators. So off to a new academic year the pupils travel, burthened with heavy haversacks and small engineering incorporated in their day-to-day school lives.

WYPR Board and CAB Meet in May

: jimmyhorntt; October 19th, 10:35

WYPR 's Directorate and newly reconfigured Community Planning board encountered
on May 27, 2009, at 3 autopsy and 5: 30 P.M. severally. Overall WYPR exhibited a invigorated direction procedure where multiple voices from the board of managers were heard during the meeting compared to one yr ago. The new community planning board ( CAB ) -which pulled 19 CAB members-also exhibited some energy and zip as the CAB debated with itself and with WYPR Board member Bathroom Machen what it Holds function could and would be.

The CAB looked to determine their part would be two things:
They would be a diverse representation of the community that could give WYPR advice-as CABs are thought to be in the federal ordinances involving CABs at public wireless stations. They likewise will aid acquaint community leaders of assorted types to the WYPR tidings section, under an enterprise suggested by WYPR President Tony Brandon that he names `` ascertainment. '' Brandon 's ascertainment sounds like a positive thought, and it includes holding the CAB hint in 100 + community leaders per annum from around the WYPR coverage country to be questioned by the intelligence section, in order to expand WYPR 's contacts in the community, too as voices and themes covered on air. Brandon tells this ascertainment procedure is similar to federal demands in situ before 1996. President Clinton and the Congress passed the Telecommunications Enactment of 1996 that deregulated media; alongside NAFTA, FDA reform, and the terminal of Glass-Steagall, media deregulating is another corporate-conglomerate-benefiting gift that gift-horse William jefferson clinton holds foisted upon the world.

The CAB plans to see in June again
, unfastened to the populace, and 10 transactions per meeting are reserved for anyone from the populace to notice, told CAB Chair and BMA manager Doreen Bolger, who is looking to release her place and canvvas into a less controversial sundown. The 19 members of the CAB included mostly new members ( three pre-2009 CAB members attended ). We will see if these new members keep to demonstrate upward to CAB meetings, whether they really discourse scheduling and offering advice.

In footings of the committee meeting, WYPR is weathering tough economical times passably goodly,
according to WYPR Board member and finance chair David Bowen and Tony Brandon. Subvent / ad receipts is down around 7 %, told Brandon, compared to 20 % to 50 % at assorted commercial radiocommunication stations. WYPR holds frozen paysheet, but not implemented required staff cuts or work furloughs, stated Brandon. The board passed a resolve to praise the WYPR staff for their robust work on WYPR in footings of programing and funds. Bowen and Brandon both state WYPR is constructing a cash modesty to brave the usual slower summertime season and the bad economy.

Brandon stated the board that WYPR presently holds a $5.2 million debt loading
, and that 52 % of the receipts comes from underwriting. He afterward stated the WYPR CAB that the debt burden was $5.3 million, and that 50 percentage of receipts comes from underwriting. Brandon punctuate at both meetings that WYPR fundamentally is a stand-alone public radiocommunication station, having simply about 7 % of its gross from the regime, in the signifier of federal taxation dollars funnelled through the Corp for Populace Broadcasting. Perchance this input was intended to emphasize the commercial set of WYPR, which swears more on subvent / advert than existent rank. As a matter of fact, their recent on-line auction looks like a fundraising tool that makes not further rank, in and of itself. Reckoning that the original loan to buy WYPR was $4.2 million in 2002 ( according to "Holding Company History and Description: Your Public Radio Corporation" A WYPR Document Six geezerhood afterward why holds WYPR taken on extra debt? Moreover, holds WYPR simply been paying the involvement on its loan, not paying downwardly principal?

WYPR 's board voted on two new members
-one a local African-American doc and appurtenant prof at Johns Hopkins whose name I maked not catch-and another, a long-time voluntary and `` friend '' of WYPR Gary Levine who attended the meeting. Levine holds been volunteering with WYPR since it was WJHU in 1991. He joined the WJHU board in 1998, but maked not remain the board when it went WYPR in 2002. Levine states that many people-especially immature people-are obtaining their public radiocommunication through podcasts, obtaining their word through who cognizes where. Levine desires to see WYPR get a more robust multi-platform environment, especially employing the Cyberspace.

The WYPR board-meeting docket holded clip to discourse the recent CPB audit of the station, but they ne'er maked. The presenter of that segment-WYPR board member and local lawyer Bathroom Machen-said in inputs after the meeting was over that he buried.
Reckoning that the Corp for World Broadcasting ( CPB ) inspector generals ' office chance WYPR in multiple infringement of assorted laws-including unfastened meeting demands, fiscal coverage demands, and not holding an bing CAB-well, you would believe the WYPR Board might discourse it after the study was relinquished. The study ( # 903 ) Published on Mar 20, 2009 and linked here-
Naturally would come upward at the May 27, 2009 committee meeting? Incorrect.

Machen maked present a study on the CPB audit at the posterior CAB meeting-describing jobs happened as merely a cluster of paperwork in the incorrect spot. Well... that is why CAB and WYPR board members should read things for themselves. Many new CAB members looked to hold maked simply that. Argument resulted. It was vigorous, multifarious, hard to include here without accompaniment and the high play of fictional techniques. That being stated, here is Maryland jurisprudence prof Sherrilyn Ifill
's takings on the study (linked here) SaveWYPR.com
papacies too (linked here)

Machen besides observed that CPB COO Vincent Curren
sayed him that the CAB ordinances that go with the $ 300, 000-plus WYPR 's from taxpayers each twelvemonth are a `` fault. '' This blog conceives that CPB grants ( which are endorsed by taxpayer money ) should not come without strings attached that insure community members and taxpayers hold a say. Curren likelily desires to be the following U.S. Exchequer Secretary Timothy Geithner-and public wireless, the following AIG. If one looks at the fiscal crisis in the U.S. today, the existent `` fault '' is believing people like former Frs Chairperson Alan Greenspan who state fiscal companies would self-regulate. These fiscal companies like Citibank and Bank of America recently self-regulated themselves 1000000000000 in taxpayer subsidies while foreclosing on people 's places across USA. Curren may be a fault.

Looking before
, WYPR 's board plans to proceed seeking for new board members to encounter its new diverseness end. WYPR 's new CAB plans to encounter in June. WYPR President Tony Brandon 's new ascertainment procedure is intended to be transported out by the CAB, and sounds promising. Community leaders who desire to be affected should reach the CAB ( how? ) or perhaps WYPR itself (www.wypr.org ). The following WYPR committee meeting will be Sep 23, 2009 and November 11, 2009.

The Diamond Stonecutter Has Moved!

: jimmyhorntt; September 24th, 9:38

Well folks, it Holds clip to tell adios to WordPress. They hold been a great place to The Diamond Stonecutter but now it Holds clip to unveil the new site over at Bloguin.

The new site is www.diamondcutterbaseball.com

Make a point to update your bookmarkers! Now c'mon over and check out the new diggings, new subdivisions and new forum!

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