Chinese Calendar
When the Wood is your lucky element
Rabbit and Tiger are your lucky animals.
Years of Rabbit and Tiger are your lucky years.
Months of Rabbit and Tiger are your lucky Months.
Spring is your lucky season.
3:00 - 7:00 (3 A.M. to 7 A.M.) are your lucky hours.
Eastern direction is your lucky place.
It will bring you luck to live a house that faces the east.
You should choose a bedroom in the east side of the house.
It's good for you to keep the east side window(s) open.
When arranging the office desk, you should sit facing the east
A wooden bed is good for you.
Your lucky color is green.
Sour foods and vegetables are good for you.
Take care of your Nervous system, Liver and Gall bladder.
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Rabbit and Tiger are your lucky animals.
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Astrology Chart
Section 1: How You Approach Life and How You Appear To Others
You appear gentle and soft, and you act rather reserved with others
until you know them well and feel it is safe to be open with them.
You have a strong need for emotional security and a sense of belonging,
and are deeply attached to the past: your heritage, roots, family, cherished
friends, familiar places, etc. Making radical changes or moves away from
what is known and safe can be very painful and difficult for you. You tend
to cling and hold on to people, memories, possessions of personal or sentimental
significance. Having a home, a safe haven, is very important to you...
Section 2: The Inner You: Your Real Motivation
You are a steadfast and patient soul, capable of tremendous devotion,
dedication, endurance, and constancy. The ability to follow through
and stick with things is one of your greatest assets. Once your course
is set, you pursue it tenaciously until it is completed, stubbornly
resisting any attempts to sway you from your purpose...
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You appear gentle and soft, and you act rather reserved with others until you know them well and feel it is safe to be open with them. You have a strong need for emotional security and a sense of belonging, and are deeply attached to the past: your heritage, roots, family, cherished friends, familiar places, etc. Making radical changes or moves away from what is known and safe can be very painful and difficult for you. You tend to cling and hold on to people, memories, possessions of personal or sentimental significance. Having a home, a safe haven, is very important to you...
You are a steadfast and patient soul, capable of tremendous devotion, dedication, endurance, and constancy. The ability to follow through and stick with things is one of your greatest assets. Once your course is set, you pursue it tenaciously until it is completed, stubbornly resisting any attempts to sway you from your purpose...
A bit of text from "Mack the Knife" by F.
Und der Heifisch er hat zahne
und die tragt er ihm gesicht
und Macky hat ein messer
doch das messer siht man nicht
Saint Francis of Assisi
Und der Heifisch er hat zahne
und die tragt er ihm gesicht
und Macky hat ein messer
doch das messer siht man
nicht.
Manhattan
Und der Heifisch er hat zahne
und die tragt er
ihm gesicht und der
Macky hat ein messer
doch das messer siht
man nicht.
Mexico. Coyoacan.
Paris. New York.
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Guerilla of the Week
... It's unlikely "Mosh" will be misconstrued. This is a song with a clear message. Eminem, in his typically egotistical way, is calling for regime change.
Come along, follow me, as I lead through the darkness.
As I provide just enough spark that we need, to proceed.
Carry on, give me hope, give me strength, come with me, and I won't, steer you wrong.
Give your faith and your trust, as I guide us through the fog, to the light at the end of the tunnel.
At the core of the song and video is a powerful anti-war statement, deeply rooted in the struggle of America's increasingly burdened working man (and woman) warriors. After seeing Eminem perform live in front of the troops in Baghdad, a soldier returns home to his wife/girlfriend and children, only to be greeted by a "re-enlist" letter. The soldier appears to desert, donning Eminem's ubiquitous black hoodie and joining the growing throngs following the rapper on some ominous, as yet unspoken, mission.
In another scene, a young Latina is hit with an eviction notice. In the background, Bush's State of the Union plays on the television, announcing tax cuts for the rich.
She, too, joins Eminem's army.
Bin Laden is depicted as a political tool, broadcasting his communiques from a sound stage. When the faux cave wall falls, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld are revealed.
The video is a culmination of Eminem's political transformation, and a sign of the times. Scores of previously apolitical or non-partisan big-time artists, from Bruce Springsteen to P. Diddy, have decided that the stakes are just too high in this election to sit this one out.
Eminem closes the video with a plea to the masses, not to revolt, which the menacing tone of the video could imply, but to take to the polls.
Let us set aside our differences and assemble our own army to disarm this weapon of mass destruction that we call our president for the present, and march for the future of our next generation to speak and be heard.
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Give your faith and your trust, as I guide us through the fog, to the light at the end of the tunnel.
The Love That Dares to Speak Its Name
Poem by James Kirkup that landed him in a controversial herecy trial in England. The poem's not pleasant, not sure it's much of a poem anyway.
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Osgood-Shlatter Disease
What Causes Osgood-Schlatter Disease?
Osgood-Schlatter disease is caused by repetitive stress or tension on part of
the growth area of the upper tibia (the apophysis). It is characterized by inflammation
of the patellar tendon and surrounding soft tissues at the point where the tendon
attaches to the tibia. The disease may also be associated with an injury in which
the tendon is stretched so much that it tears away from the tibia and takes a fragment of bone
with it. The disease most commonly affects active young people, particularly
boys between the ages of 10 and 15, who play games or sports that include frequent
running and jumping.
Symptoms and Diagnosis
People with this disease experience pain just below the knee joint that usually worsens with activity and is relieved by rest.
A bony bump that is particularly painful when pressed may appear on the upper edge of the tibia (below the knee cap).
Usually, the motion of the knee is not affected. Pain may last a few months and may recur until
the child's growth is completed.
Osgood-Schlatter disease is most often diagnosed by the symptoms. An x ray may be normal, or show an injury, or, more typically, show that the growth area is in fragments.
Treatment
Usually, the disease resolves without treatment. Applying ice to the knee when pain begins helps relieve inflammation and is sometimes used along with stretching and strengthening exercises. The doctor may advise the patient to limit participation in vigorous sports. Children who wish to continue moderate or less stressful sports activities may need to wear knee pads for protection and apply ice to the knee after activity. If there is a great deal of pain, sports activities may be limited until discomfort becomes tolerable.
It seems to not be as serious as we all thought at first. Primero Dios, she'll be okay soon.
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Osgood-Schlatter disease is caused by repetitive stress or tension on part of the growth area of the upper tibia (the apophysis). It is characterized by inflammation of the patellar tendon and surrounding soft tissues at the point where the tendon attaches to the tibia. The disease may also be associated with an injury in which the tendon is stretched so much that it tears away from the tibia and takes a fragment of bone with it. The disease most commonly affects active young people, particularly boys between the ages of 10 and 15, who play games or sports that include frequent running and jumping.
People with this disease experience pain just below the knee joint that usually worsens with activity and is relieved by rest. A bony bump that is particularly painful when pressed may appear on the upper edge of the tibia (below the knee cap). Usually, the motion of the knee is not affected. Pain may last a few months and may recur until the child's growth is completed.
Usually, the disease resolves without treatment. Applying ice to the knee when pain begins helps relieve inflammation and is sometimes used along with stretching and strengthening exercises. The doctor may advise the patient to limit participation in vigorous sports. Children who wish to continue moderate or less stressful sports activities may need to wear knee pads for protection and apply ice to the knee after activity. If there is a great deal of pain, sports activities may be limited until discomfort becomes tolerable.
La Caida de Castro / Castro's Fall
Watch the video, because yes. There is live footage.
Segun el primer diagnostico, Castro se fracturo la rodilla izquierda y tiene fisura en la parte superior del hśmero de su brazo derecho, dice en el examen medico realizado hoy al mandatario.
"El examen medico confirmo lo que el propio comandante en jefe pronostico, tras la caida accidental despues del acto de ayer: fractura en la rodilla de la pierna izquierda y fisura en la parte superior del humero del brazo derecho, que recibiran el tratamiento correspondiente", dice el Granma. Agrega que "es bueno y su estado de animo excelente".
En la nota, cuya elaboracion fue sugerida por el propio presidente, Castro pide que agradezcan en su nombre "las innumerables muestras de preocupacion y solidaridad recibidas de la poblacion" y exhorto a su pueblo "a mantener la tranquilidad" ya que considera que "muy pronto estara restablecido".
Ademas, segun el texto, "pidio que se informara que esta en condiciones de seguir atendiendo las cuestiones fundamentales (del Gobierno), en estrecha cooperacion con la Direccion del Partido y del Estado". "Estoy entero", expreso Castro tras su cai.
"Les pido perdon por haberme caido y, para que nadie especule, tengo alguna fractura en la rodilla y tal vez una en el brazo", dijo el mandatario, sentado en una silla rodeado de personal que lo asist’a en el multitudinario acto realizado en la ciudad de Santa Clara, a unos 270 kilometros de la capital cubana.
Inmediatamente, Castro dijo estar "entero". Y agrego: "Se el sufrimiento que les cause y ahora estoy interesado en ver las fotos de como me caida".
"La prensa internacional la ha recogido y seguramente estara en la primeras paginas de los periodicos, pero creanme que no estoy critico, estoy lleno de felicidad por este acto", acoto.
La television cubana permanecio por unos minutos transmitiendo solo un plano general de la actividad, donde se pudo observar apenas al personal de seguridad corriendo hacia el lado donde ocurrio el accidente.
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Chirp
hey,
Here's something I know will crack you up. Last night I was dreaming I
was outside. Now I don't remember anything visual, but constantly kept
hearing this chirping sound, thinking it was a bird or something. Next
thing I woke up thinking it was morning but it was only 4am, but I
heard the damn chirp sound again. Want to know what it was? It was my damn
pager w/ your last message. (what were you doing at that time, hot date
or something?)
Now I think dreaming about you would be a nice thing, but this isn't
what I had in mind. (sigh)
Andrew
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Here's something I know will crack you up. Last night I was dreaming I was outside. Now I don't remember anything visual, but constantly kept hearing this chirping sound, thinking it was a bird or something. Next thing I woke up thinking it was morning but it was only 4am, but I heard the damn chirp sound again. Want to know what it was? It was my damn pager w/ your last message. (what were you doing at that time, hot date or something?)
And Death Shall Have No Dominion
Everyday the beautiful country of my youth is deteriorating to a living hell.
Not only is the crime rising steadily, but it is now targeted at all citizens. And I mean
the poor killing, raping, and destroying the lives and minds of their next door neighbors
for cash to feed their own families.
Why? Because all the countries capital is being divided among the politicians. And as they get
richer, the country and it's people grow hungrier, poorer and more desperate. Mexico is starting to
have what is now called the "Express Robber" which basically is a person or group of people
that follow you, and as you are approaching an atm stick a gun in your back and make you give them
your cash. And not only that, now they drive you around the city and you withdraw your cash from
various atms and if you're lucky, they drop you off somewhere without a bullet in your head.
A person I know died. He got assalted and they found him dead. Why? I don't know. He wasn't rich.
He wasn't driving a car. He didn't have a wallet. Just because, when people are hungry and
desperate they turn against each other.
But don't think all of Mexico is this way. It isn't. It is a beautiful place, with a rich history,
culture and peoples.
And death shall have no dominion.
Dead men naked they shall be one
With the man in the wind and the west moon;
When their bones are picked clean and the clean bones gone,
They shall have stars at elbow and foot;
Though they go mad they shall be sane,
Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again;
Though lovers be lost love shall not;
And death shall have no dominion.
And death shall have no dominion.
Under the windings of the sea
They lying long shall not die windily;
Twisting on racks when sinews give way,
Strapped to a wheel, yet they shall not break;
Faith in their hands shall snap in two,
And the unicorn evils run them through;
Split all ends up they shan't crack;
And death shall have no dominion.
And death shall have no dominion.
No more may gulls cry at their ears
Or waves break loud on the seashores;
Where blew a flower may a flower no more
Lift its head to the blows of the rain;
Though they be mad and dead as nails,
Heads of the characters hammer through daisies;
Break in the sun till the sun breaks down,
And death shall have no dominion.
Dylan Thomas
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Dead men naked they shall be one
With the man in the wind and the west moon;
When their bones are picked clean and the clean bones gone,
They shall have stars at elbow and foot;
Though they go mad they shall be sane,
Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again;
Though lovers be lost love shall not;
And death shall have no dominion.
And death shall have no dominion.
Under the windings of the sea
They lying long shall not die windily;
Twisting on racks when sinews give way,
Strapped to a wheel, yet they shall not break;
Faith in their hands shall snap in two,
And the unicorn evils run them through;
Split all ends up they shan't crack;
And death shall have no dominion.
And death shall have no dominion.
No more may gulls cry at their ears
Or waves break loud on the seashores;
Where blew a flower may a flower no more
Lift its head to the blows of the rain;
Though they be mad and dead as nails,
Heads of the characters hammer through daisies;
Break in the sun till the sun breaks down,
And death shall have no dominion.
Pauline Oliveros Foundation, Houston
The Pauline Oliveros Foundation Houston (POF Houston) was established in 2000 to present the best of international contemporary music and to support the exploration of new methods in arts education.
Each year, POF Houston continues to present concerts by premiere artists in the world of creative music.
In addition, artists hosted by POF Houston work directly with students from Houston's inner city schools, community centers, and homeless shelters. POF Houston?s educational work helps to nurture a new generation of artists and inspire tomorrow's creative thinkers.
Each year, POF Houston serves over 600 young people in public schools and community outreach programs.
I am a volunteer in said organization, and the website I designed is up. Have a looksy
http://www.pofinc.org/houston
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Photos
Here are some of my "chaparrito" and Chloe.
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Interesting Article
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Here is a logo I did for my "fake radio station" project.
Among other things, I am
DJ Tiger Morrison, and my station's call letters are K.R.O.K. (read K Rock).
People always seem to say over here that public figures die in threes.
1. Jacques Derrida, 74
2. Christopher Reeve, 52
3. Rodney Dangerfield, 82
They might not all be important to you, but public figures none-the-less
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1. Jacques Derrida, 74
2. Christopher Reeve, 52
3. Rodney Dangerfield, 82
More Karaoke Pictures
Here we are Yota, Wing, Linh, and I.
Tony singing the Darkness' first
single. When I first arrived he was singing it, and people outside waiting to get in were wondering
who was singing in that high pitched voice, shoulda known it was Tony. ;)
David and Peter singing
something... More pics on the couch.
This is my favorite pic,
Wing doing a Yesika impression.
David, wing and I. Josh is such
a good dancer!
Wing and her teddy shirt
and finally... Tony
with his bling* bling*
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David and Peter singing something... More pics on the couch. This is my favorite pic, Wing doing a Yesika impression.
David, wing and I. Josh is such a good dancer!
Wing and her teddy shirt and finally... Tony with his bling* bling*