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Q: How to load PHP page with variables passed from javascript I'm new to PHP and am trying to figure something out that I'm sure is very basic. What I am wanting to do is generate variables in javascript and pass these to a PHP page which then loads and displays. The problem is, I seem to be able to both POST variables to the PHP page and load the PHP page but am unable to load the PHP page with the variables that I POSTed.
Here is an example of my code:
index.php
...
<script language="javascript">
      function passToPHP(){
          $.ajax({
              type: "POST",
              url: "/TraceExperiment/TraceExperiment.php",
              data: {
                  varToPass: "foo"
              },
              success: function(){
                 window.location.href="/TraceExperiment/TraceExperiment.php";
              }
          })
      }
  </script>
<input type="button", value="displayPHP", onclick="passToPHP()"></input>

TraceExperiment.php
<?php
  $tempVar = $_POST["varToPass"];
  echo("hello" . $tempVar);
  print_r($_POST);
?>

What is happening when I click displayPHP is that the ajax POST succeeds and
TraceExperiment.php loads fine (it actually has a whole heap of other html, php etc. code that loads and displays fine but for simplicity I've excluded that) but the $_POST array seems to be empty.
i.e. what ends up being displayed when I try to echo and print the POST array and variables is:

Notice: Undefined index: varToPass in C:\xampp\htdocs\TraceExperiment\TraceExperiment.php on line 3
  helloArray ( )

Any help resolving this would be much appreciated. Ultimately, I'm simply after a way to display a PHP page that uses variables passed from a javascript file.

A: You can dynamically create a form in JavaScript and submit it rather than calling ajax and refreshing the page:
<script language="javascript">
      function passToPHP(){
          $('<form action="/TraceExperiment/TraceExperiment.php" method="POST"><input type="hidden" name="varToPass" value="foo" /></form>').appendTo('body').submit();
      }
  </script>
<input type="button" value="displayPHP" onclick="passToPHP()"></input>

A: dont redirect to the same page on success. you are getting the undefined var on second go to that page
function passToPHP() {
    $.ajax({
        type: "POST",
        url: "/TraceExperiment/TraceExperiment.php",
        dataType:text,
        data: {
            varToPass: "foo"
        },
        success: function(data) {
            console.log(data);
        }
    })
}

try doing like this
if you want to show the message in the html
try
success: function(data) {
    $('body').append(data);
}

A: There is 2 solution for This

*

*by the different approach
Generate your variable value by JavaScript and than use
Write in TraceExperiment.php

    function genratenumber(){
      return "number"
    }
      window.location.href= "/TraceExperiment
    /TraceExperiment.php?yourvar="+genratenumber()
     </script>
   <?php     }else{
     // get the value of $_GET['yourvar']
   } ?>

Than get it by using $_GET['yourvar'] on same page

*

*By using your approch
you need to put that variable in session (in ajax file) than only you can get that variable

A: You can do a get request like this
 <script language="javascript">
          function passToPHP(){
              var varToPass= "foo"
              window.location = "/TraceExperiment/TraceExperiment.php?varToPass="+varToPass;
      </script>
    <input type="button", value="displayPHP", onclick="passToPHP()"></input>

    <?php
      $tempVar = $_GET["varToPass"];
      echo("hello" . $tempVar);
    ?>

or a post request by creating a simple form
$('#frm').submit(function(e){
  var varToPass= "foo"
   e.preventDefault();
    $(this).find('#varToPass').val(varToPass);
    $(this).submit();
});

<form id ="frm" method="POST" action="/TraceExperiment/TraceExperiment.php">
  <input type="hidden" id="varToPass"/>
  <input type="submit"/>
</form>

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Bubblegum Crisis Collection - DVD
In the fourth episode in the Bubblegum Crisis video series, the Knight Sabers must capture a man who has declared war on the biker gangs that terrorize MegaTokyo. Gibson, a man who survived a biker attack years earlier, has modified a sports car, turning it into a deadly killing machine to exact his revenge on the outlaw gang members, and it's up to the Knight Sabers to stop Gibson before his one-man crusade costs him his life. ~ Jonathan E. Laxamana, All Movie Guide
[None specified]
Bubblegum Crisis: Revenge Road
Sound Format
Dolby Digital w/ sub-woofer channel
Eng/Japanese
Subtitle Languages
Eng/Fre
Chapter Info
Side #1 -- Episodes 1, 2 & 3, 0. Episode I: Tinsel City Chapters, 1. Tokyo 2032 [2:11], 2. Konya Wa Hurricane [4:42], 3. Boomer Rampage [1:40], 4. Angel of Loneliness [2:33], 5. Leon Strikes Out [1:17], 6. Hidden Agendas [2:32], 7. Sad Remembrance [2:18], 8. The Morning News [2:42], 9. Buses and Bargains [4:32], 10. The Search Begins [2:03], 11. Bikes and Boomers [2:43], 12. Aqua City [2:08], 13. Priss in Peril [3:18], 14. The Battle Begins [2:20], 15. Priss Is Persistant [2:15], 16. All Is Illuminated [3:26], 17. Ending Credits [3:27], 0. Episode II: Born to Kill Chapters, 1. "Mad Machine" [3:20], 2. Evidence and Accusation [2:06], 3. Briefing and Coverup [2:22], 4. Decisions and Dates [1:58], 5. Cola and Conspiracy [2:30], 6. Aerobic Confidences [2:11], 7. Stalking the Prey [1:57], 8. Run for Your Life [2:47], 9. "Angels Dancing..." [2:05], 10. Knight Sabers... Go! [2:05], 11. The Superboomer [2:02], 12. Ending Credits [2:51], 0. Episode III: Blow Up Chapters, 1. Boomer Assault [1:56], 2. The Law's the Law [4:16], 3. Burgers and Boys [2:16], 4. Plots and Dreams [2:59], 5. Data and Demolition [3:37], 6. Death and Vengeance [2:06], 7. "Victory" [2:29], 8. "Touchdown to Tomorrow" [3:36], 9. Ending Credits [3:36], Side #2 -- Episodes 4, 5 & 6, 0. Episode IV: Revenge Road Chapters, 1. Rumble in the Night [1:51], 2. "Crisis-Run With Anger" [1:29], 3. Fill 'Er Up, Pops! [2:18], 4. Bad Dreams [1:12], 5. Survival Shot [2:45], 6. Tuneup for Terror [1:56], 7. Priss Eats Asphalt [2:51], 8. The Helpful Hacker [2:48], 9. The Final Ingredient [3:09], 10. The Chase Begins [2:54], 11. Driving a Hard Bargain [2:22], 12. The Trap Is Laid [2:57], 13. "Devil and Angel's Kiss" [2:14], 14. Crash and Burn [3:08], 15. "Twilight" (Ending Credits) [4:08], 0. Episode V: Moonlight Rambler Chapters, 1. A Desperate Flight [6:43], 2. "Mysterious Night" [1:20], 3. A Smashed Shuttle [1:28], 4. Corporate Coverup [1:39], 5. Police Briefing [1:28], 6. "Soldier of Roses" [1:13], 7. A Secret Commission [3:50], 8. Vampire Victims [1:41], 9. Sexaroid Suspicions [1:15], 10. Riding Free [2:10], 11. Vampires and Villains [1:20], 12. A Gift of Life [1:12], 13. Search and Steal [1:24], 14. The Chase Begins [:52], 15. News From Above [2:01], 16. Ride for Your Life [:51], 17. Bye Bye Boomers [:49], 18. Leon Gives His All [2:20], 19. Knight Sabers... Go! [1:33], 20. A Deadly Request [2:25], 21. A Dying Bequest [1:46], 22. "Held in My Heart" [4:31], 0. Episode VI: Red Eyes Chapters, 1. A New Line of Work? [2:14], 2. Leon's Dream [1:36], 3. Genom Reacts [2:23], 4. Milly and Madigan [1:11], 5. Suspicious Setup [3:01], 6. Rathunt [1:52], 7. Terror in Tinsel City [1:05], 8. A Quiet Word [2:04], 9. The Battle Begins [1:52], 10. Driving Mr. Largo [3:29], 11. My Gun's Bigger [4:20], 12. Quincy Decides [:49], 13. Edge of Disaster [1:13], 14. Death of a Minister [1:11], 15. A Room With a View [3:51], 16. Priss to the Rescue [1:44], 17. Anri's Revenge [2:51], 18. Playtime Is Over [4:01], 19. In the Nick of Time [1:52], 20. Parting Shots [3:08], 21. "Rock Me!" (Ending Credits) [3:49], Side #3 -- Episodes 7, 8 & Music, 0. Episode VII: Double Vision Chapters, 1. "Say Yes" [4:53], 2. A Deal Is Struck [1:23], 3. A Deadly Interruption [3:43], 4. A High Level Conversation [1:04], 5. Vision Arrives [1:54], 6. Preparations in the Night [2:11], 7. Assault on Genom [1:52], 8. Damage Control [1:01], 9. Leon Investigates [1:19], 10. A New Assignment [1:09], 11. An Enforced Vacation [1:11], 12. Boating on the Bay [1:25], 13. A Steamy Stakeout [1:16], 14. A Sexy Takeout [1:09], 15. Old Scores [1:09], 16. Dangerous Liaisons [1:11], 17. Priss Is Outmatched [1:41], 18. A Date With the Dead [1:15], 19. Vision Unveiled [4:00], 20. The Meet Is Set [2:49], 21. The Players Assemble [1:59], 22. Quincy Takes It in the Head [1:24], 23. The Battle Begins [3:16], 24. Arresting Performances [2:01], 25. "Never the End" (Ending Credit) [2:20], 0. Episode VIII: Scoop Chase Chapters, 1. Shutters in the Night [1:31], 2. "Bye Bye My Crisis" [1:25], 3. Nene's Assignment [2:34], 4. Mirlam the Mad Scientist [1:00], 5. Lisa's Objective [1:01], 6. Damaging Photographs [4:17], 7. Drive-In Discussions [1:01], 8. Lisa Suspects [2:32], 9. Trailing and Training [5:59], 10. Cake and Calamity [3:08], 11. Another Day at the Office [2:16], 12. A Chat With Sylia [3:04], 13. Countdown to Combat [2:05], 14. Boomer Assault [3:27], 15. Knight Sabers to the Rescue [2:22], 16. Run for Your Life! [5:38], 17. Miriam Overloads [2:43], 18. Lisa's Scoop [1:09], 19. "Chase the Dream" (Ending Credits) [2:44]

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Q: Problema com o pyinstaller+ os.getcwd() no MAC OS Depois de inúmeros problemas com Tkinter e o Pyinstaller, finalmente consegui fazer uma aplicação executável Unix funcionar normalmente no MAC High Sierra. Porém dentro da pasta da minha aplicação, existe uma pasta chamada script, que uso chdir(os.getcdw()+'/scritp') para abrir-la.
O problema é justamente na utilização do executável para Mac OS feito com pyinstaller. Quando eu clico em tal executável, ele entende que  os.getcdw() é justamente a pasta do usuário. Ele não pega a pasta onde está o arquivo do executável.
Por exemplo, ao invés de os.getcdw() ser igual a "/Users/isaacvictor/Desktop/scriexe"
ele retorna "/Users/isaacvictor"
Como eu faço para resolver este problema? Eu quero pegar a pasta do arquivo executável.
Muito obrigado a todos que contribuirem.

A: Como você pode ver na documentação aqui, durante a execução de um programa congelado com pyinstaller o caminho do executável fica em sys.executable - o problema é que isso não acontece quando você roda o script em formato .py, somente no executável;
Porém existe uma solução, você pode verificar a variável especial sys.frozen para saber se está rodando o executável ou não:
import os
import sys

def pega_caminho_script():
    if getattr(sys, 'frozen', False) :
        # rodando executavel
        caminho = os.path.abspath(sys.executable)
    else:
        # rodando py
        caminho = os.path.abspath(__file__)
    return caminho

Essa função vai retornar o caminho para o arquivo .py ou para o .exe, dependendo da forma que está sendo executado o programa, antes ou depois do pyinstaller.


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Best Native Trees to Plant in Virginia Beach
by Francesca Singer | Updated: November 20, 2020 | 0 Comments
Tree care, Virginia, Virginia Beach, VA
Thanks to balmy summers and mild winters, the Virginia Beach area is bursting with exceptional native tree species. Narrowing the choice of which to plant on your property can be tricky, so we've the homework to help make it easy for you.
Dr. Roger Harris
Virginia Tech horticulture professor and extension specialist Dr. Roger Harris recommends planting smaller trees if you have the patience to wait for them to mature. "Smaller trees transplant better than larger trees," he says. "Transplanting larger trees is stressful to the tree because 95% of the root system is removed when the tree is dug."
While there are many other trees to choose from, these are the best native trees to plant in Virginia Beach.
American Hophornbeam
(Ostrya virginiana)
Topping out at 25 to 40 feet, this slow-growing understory tree thrives in full sun or part shade. While incredibly resilient to drought, the one thing this tough tree (pictured above) cannot tolerate is salt spray. Hophornbeams erupt into white catkins in April, and the leaves change to yellow and reddish-orange in fall. In winter, the unusual reddish, flaking bark adds a little seasonal interest.
American Sycamore
(Platanus occidentalis)
This fast-growing, large canopy tree can reach heights of 75 to 100 feet, so it needs a lot of space. It has lush, green leaves and tolerates wet and saturated soils. Fall colors hit sycamores early, and so does leaf fall. Known for their distinctive creamy-white and camouflage-patterned trunks, these are stately trees that look great in winter.
(Prunus serotina)
Black cherry. Credit: Andreas Rockstein, CC by SA 2.0.
The largest native of the cherry trees, black cherry trees are beautiful and ornamental. Growing to between 40 and 75 feet tall, these trees have canopies that spread anywhere from 30 and 60 feet wide. They tolerate full sun to full shade and can tolerate moist or dry soils. Black cherries burst into delicate white blooms from May to June and then form lustrous, dark fruit from late summer to mid-fall.
Eastern Redbud
(Cercis canadensis)
Fast-growing and beautifully shaped, redbud trees are fantastic understory trees. Try layering one beneath a large canopy tree for texture and color. Growing as high as 30 feet, the umbrella-shaped canopy is typically as wide as the tree is high. From April to May, the branches of this ornamental tree burst into brilliant color with tight clusters of deep pink flowers. Even in winter, the graceful shape of the redbud's trunk and branches create visual interest. Native to riverbanks and woodlands, redbud trees prefer well-drained soils that are moist and fertile. Another benefit? This tree attracts native bees and pollinators aplenty when in bloom.
Scarlet Oak
(Quercus coccinea)
Scarlet oak. Credit: Famartin, CC by SA 4.0.
This is one of the faster-growing oak trees, making it an ideal shade tree for the yard. Long-lived and tolerant of a wide range of soils, the scarlet oak grows to 115 feet with a 40-50 foot spread. With yellowish-green catkins in the spring, reddish-brown acorns in summer, and brilliant scarlet foliage in the fall, this is a tree for all seasons.
(Oxydendrum arboreum)
This visually stunning tree can grow 30 to 70 feet tall, with a 10 to 25-foot crown. Thriving in full sun to shade, a sourwood performs best in well-drained to dry, acidic soils. With small, bell-shaped white flowers in spring and deep red leaves in autumn, sourwood trees are a beauty throughout the year.
Sweetbay Magnolia
(Magnolia virginiana)
Sweetbay magnolia. Credit: Plant Image Library, CC by SA 2.0.
This showy, ornamental Virginia native has glossy evergreen leaves and reaches heights between 12 and 30 feet. The magnificent, large flowers of the sweetbay magnolia start out as reddish buds, then burst into showy white flowers that are fragrant and long-lasting. They appear in May and last well into July. Performing best in moist, rich, acidic soils, these iconic Southern trees prefer part shade.
(Betula nigra)
Fast-growing and long-lived, this multiple-trunked tree adds great year-round visual interest to gardens. Its distinctive, silvery peeling bark and cinnamon-colored trunk stand out. Its foliage in the fall turns yellow, and in the spring, it erupts in red and green catkins. The river birch is also a host for hundreds of butterfly species and attracts songbirds in the fall with its small seeds. It grows well in sun to part shade, and thrives in moist, acidic soils–either sandy or clay is fine. While many trees and plants struggle to thrive in the local sandy soils, river birch will perform well even without any amendments to poor, sandy soil.
(Acer rubrum)
Perfect for yards that don't receive full sun, the red maple tops out at 100 feet with a 30 to 70-foot wide canopy. Its leaves are beautifully shaped, and the small, red flowers that cover the tree in spring go on to form lovely brownish-yellow seedpods in summer. The red, orange, and yellow fall colors of this native maple tree are unmatched in vibrancy. Red maples do best planted in wet clay, loamy or sandy soils, but can tolerate dry soils.
Virginia Pine
(Pinus virginiana)
Virginia pine. Credit: Jay Sturner, CC 2.0.
No list would be complete without at least one conifer. Well-suited to poor, dry soils, the Virginia pine is a hardy, sun-loving conifer that can reach heights of up to 100 feet. With a twisted trunk and a rugged character, this pine is best grown as an edge tree on large lots where it will add value to the wildlife as a food source.
When you're selecting trees and plants for your Virginia Beach site, go native when you can. Not only are these trees best suited to the region, but they provide valuable habitat for native wildlife. Choose the best native trees to plant in Virginia Beach and look forward to decades of enjoyment, watching them thrive.
Dr. Roger Harris is a Virginia Tech professor of horticulture and an Extension Specialist in woody plants. His research focuses on woody landscape plants from the time they're planted in the nursery until they're established in the landscape. His goal is to help people create environmentally sustainable landscapes.
Main image credit: Hophornbeam tree, Katja Schulz, CC 2.0.
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Greg's note: The excellent print and online magazine, Enrichment Journal, published a very informative series on the 'age of the earth' debate showcasing the three main evangelical views by leading proponents of each view. Each author presents his case and also responds to each of the other's articles. Regardless of which view you hold, or if you are undecided, I believe it is important to investigate each one with an open heart and mind and to not let this sensitive issue become one that divides us as believers. I personally believe that each one falls well within orthodox Christian beliefs and holds to the doctrine of biblical inerrancy. You might want to bookmark this page for future reference.
NextWhen it is OK to Beg the Question?
A review of The Truth Project. Presented by Dr. Del Tackett.
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Michael Shrieve
Kennedy Hall of Fame member Michael Shrieve shown at left accepting induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame!
Carlos Santana said, "I owe Michael a lot. He's the one who turned me on to John Coltrane and Miles Davis. ... He opened my eyes and my ears and my heart to a lot of things. Some drummers only have chops, but Michael Shrieve has vision. Michael is like a box of crayons; he has all the colors."
Mr. Shrieve has played on, written, and produced albums that have sold multi-million copies worldwide.
Recording credits include: Mick Jagger, The Rolling Stones, Pete Townshend, Steve Winwood, John McLaughlin, Freddie Hubbard, Jaco Pastorius, Bill Frisell, and Jonas Hellborg.
His outstanding work has been cited in The New York Times, Downbeat magazine, Billboard magazine, Modern Drummer, Musician, Paris Match, Life magazine, Drum magazine as well as numerous European publications.
As the original drummer for Santana, Michael at nineteen was the youngest performer at Woodstock.
"Fame comes and goes but it is not the measure to which we should aspire."
"For me it all started here at Kennedy. I grew up about 4 blocks from this school. {One day} I passed the band room and I didn't play anything ... the drum section was right inside the door. (After watching for awhile) that day I went down to the carpet store and bought 3 carpet samples and I went and bought some drumsticks ... and that was the day I started playing drums. My life changed ... it was as if - before music and after music."
"I urge parents and teachers and schools not to turn your back on music, or the (rest of the) arts."
Quoting Albert Einstein: "Not every thing that can be counted counts - and not everything that counts can be counted."
Michael Shrieve: "That sums up the way I really feel about this ... there are a lot of things that really matter that you can't judge on a test score. As parents and educators we've got to shift our focus from those numbers so we can get in there and get to the good stuff!"


Here is all the information you need about "Stagecoach: The Texas Jack Story" on American Netflix. Details include the date it was added to Netflix in the USA, any known expiry dates and new episodes/seasons, the ratings and cast etc. So scroll down for more information or share the link on social media to let your friends know what you're watching.
Still want to watch it? Try looking for 'Stagecoach: The Texas Jack Story' on Amazon .
A former stagecoach bandit leading a normal life assumes a new identity and begins robbing again after a vengeance-seeking marshal comes after him.


Barry Bergdoll is the former (2007–2013) Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design at The Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMA) where he continues to curate exhibitions. He is a professor of modern architectural history at Columbia University and holds the Meyer Shapiro Chair in the Department of Art History and Archaeology. Bergdoll holds a B.A. from Columbia University, an M.A. from King's College, Cambridge, and a Ph.D. from Columbia. His broad interests center on modern architectural history with a particular emphasis on France and Germany since 1800.
Bergdoll has organized, curated, and consulted on many landmark exhibitions of 19th- and 20th-century architecture, including "Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling" at MoMA (2008); "Lost Vanguard: Soviet Modernist Architecture, 1922–32" at MoMA (2007); "Mies in Berlin" at MoMA (2001), with Terence Riley; "Breuer in Minnesota" at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (2002); "Les Vaudoyer: Une Dynastie d'Architectes" at the Musée D'Orsay, Paris (1991); and "Ste. Geneviève/Pantheon; Symbol of Revolutions," at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal (1989).
He is the author or editor of numerous publications, including Mies in Berlin, with Terence Riley (winner of the 2002 Philip Johnson Award of the Society of Architectural Historians); Karl Friedrich Schinkel: An Architecture for Prussia (1994), winner of the AIA Book Award in 1995; Léon Vaudoyer: Historicism in the Age of Industry (1994); and European Architecture 1750–1890 (2000), in the Oxford History of Art series. He edited Fragments: Architecture and the Unfinished with Werner Oechslin (2006). Bergdoll served as president of the Society of Architectural Historians from 2006 to 2008.


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Q: Unable to display the list object retrieved from python dajngo -view to ajax autocomplete I'm passing list object from view to ajax autocomplete in template  but unable to show the no Cars found in the drop down list
I'm passing a list object as 'No Cars Found' if no objects found in dB and if found the relevant objects are sent.But i Could see DB objects are shown in the dropdown but 'No Cars Found' is not shown in the Dropdown when no objects found.
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script type = "text/javascript" >

    jQuery(function complete() {
        $(".basicAutoComplete").on('keyup', function() {

            var value = $(this).val();
            $.ajax({
                url: "{% url 'ajax_autocomplete' %}",
                data: {
                    'search': value
                },
                dataType: 'json',

                success: function(data) {
                    var carslist = data.list;

                    list = carslist;

                    $(".basicAutoComplete").autocomplete({
                        source: list,
                        minLength: 2,

                    });

                }
            });
        });
    });

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/script>

View
def autocomplete(request):
    if request.is_ajax():
        q=request.GET.get('search')
        queryset = Cars.objects.filter(car_model__istartswith=q).values('car_model')

        list = []
        for i in queryset:
            list.append(i['car_model'])

        if not list:
                list.append('No Cars Found')

        data = {
            'list': list,
        }
        return JsonResponse(data)

I need No Cars Found to be displayed in the  dropdown when no matching cars found in DB.

A: Read  the concept of autocomplete in query and thanks to Jquery Autocomplete - no result message
Used a function for the source
  $(".basicAutoComplete").autocomplete({
        source: function(request, response) {
            var results = $.ui.autocomplete.filter(list, request.term);
        if (!results.length) {
            results = [NoResultsLabel];
        }

        response(results);
    },
    minLength: 2,

});


Some of the costs associated with saving and investing are patently obvious, but there are others that can be quite well hidden.
It's the new year, and holiday indulgences weigh heavily on us. Do you feel the urge to shed the excess? No, not pounds and inches. Instead, let's shed the unnecessary investment costs that hurt your long-term financial success.
Is there just one cost to reduce? Silly you. Of course there's not. There are many ways to take your money!
You should be able to find these costs listed explicitly.
Expense ratio. The price you pay each year for the management of the fund. In 2015, the average expense ratio for mutual funds was 0.61% (you pay $61 for every $10,000 invested in the fund).
Loads. A sales commission you pay when you buy a fund ("front-end" load) or sell a fund ("back-end" load or "deferred sales charge").
Purchase and redemption fees. You can incur a fee if you purchase or sell funds too frequently or too soon after buying them.
Account maintenance or service fees. You might have to pay to open or maintain an account.
You think it's hard to keep track of all the costs I just listed above? How about the ones that aren't listed anywhere?
Transaction costs. The costs associated with buying and selling stocks and bonds within a mutual fund. Experts not only have a hard time measuring these costs, they even have a hard time defining them. Passive-investing advocate and Vanguard founder John Bogle conservatively estimates 0.50% annually for actively managed mutual funds.
Cash drag. If your mutual fund has 5% of its assets in cash, that means 5% of your money has no chance of growing significantly in value. Bogle's research estimates this cost at 0.15%.
Tax inefficiency. What you invest in, how often you trade and which accounts you invest in affect how much in taxes you owe. The bottom line, according to Bogle's estimates: a 0.45% annual cost.
Dumb behavior. Probably the biggest cost of all, this usually boils down to buying higher and selling low.
How Do I Lower All of Those Costs?
Expense ratio. Buy low-cost funds. Funds don't need to be index funds to be inexpensive; but they usually are. There's no magic threshold above which funds are too expensive. Try to stay under 0.25%. In your company's 401(k), costs might be higher. But it provides convenience and simplicity, so try to stay under 0.75%.
Loads. Don't buy load funds. Ever.
12b-1 fees. Don't buy funds with these fees.
Account maintenance or service fees. Ask a representative if the fee can be waived, especially if you contribute regularly to the account. Look for a custodian that doesn't charge the fees. If you consolidate your accounts in one place and save regularly, you'll soon have a balance high enough to avoid these fees.
Transaction costs. Buy funds that have low "turnover," that is, they don't buy and sell very often. Every time a funds buys or sell, you pay a commission. Index funds usually win this race, though there are some more conservative actively managed funds that have low turnover, too. The popular Vanguard S&P 500 index fund's annual turnover is 3%, meaning it sells just 3% of its holdings each year. Rydex Electronics, by contrast, with a 769% turnover, sells and replaces all of its holdings over seven times each year.
Cash drag. Buy index funds. These usually have little to no cash, so all of your money is invested in securities that have a chance of growing. Cash has a righteous place in your total financial portfolio, but not in your investment portfolio. Put it in your bank.
Tax inefficiency. Trade infrequently in your taxable account, use tax-efficient funds (like index funds) in your taxable account, and save into tax-advantaged accounts like IRAs and 401(k)s.
Purchase and redemption fees. Don't trade frequently. It turns out that frequent trading not only runs up costs for the company handling the mutual fund, but it also hurts your investment returns.
Professional fees. Evaluate what value you're getting for your professional fees. It's fair to pay a fee in return for a service, but make sure the service is valuable.
Dumb behavior. This is by far the hardest part of successful investing. Good investor behavior requires planning, discipline and accountability. If you want to learn more about how your own brain tries to sabotage you, take a look the books listed here.
A diet to keep your trim physique requires daily attention and discipline. A diet to trim your investment costs, however, is one that you can do once a year and ignore the rest of the time ... and reap the benefits literally for the rest of your life.
Meg Bartelt, CFP®, MSFP, is the president of Flow Financial Planning, LLC, a fee-only virtual firm that provides financial guidance to women in tech. She is a member of the XY Planning Network.


Facial: Pertaining to or toward the face (Buccal, Labial).
Filling: Material used to fill cavity or replace part of a tooth.
Fissure: A deep ditch or cleft in the surface of the teeth.
Frenum: Muscle fibers covered by a mucus membrane that attaches the check, lips and or tongue to associated dental mucous.
Gingivectomy: An inflammation or infection of the gingiva (gum tissue); the initial stage of gum disease.
Gingivitis: An inflammation or infection of the gingiva; the initial stage of gum disease.
Graft: A piece of tissue or synthetic material placed in contact with tissue to repair a defect or supplement a deficiency.
Hemisection: The surgical separation of a multirooted tooth through the furcation area in such a way that the blocked, defective, or periodontally affected root or roots may be removed along with the associated portion of the crown.
High noble metal: See metal, classification of.
Immediate denture: A denture constructed for immediate placement after removal of the remaining teeth.
Impacted tooth: An unerupted or partially erupted tooth that is positioned against another bone or soft tissue so that total eruption is unlikely.
Implant: An artificial device, usually make of a metal alloy or ceramic material that is implanted within the jawbone as a means to attach an artificial crown, denture, or bridge.
Incipient: Dental carries in an early stage of development, usually not requiring immediate restorations.
Incisal: Pertaining to the cutting edges of incisor and cuspid teeth.
Incision and Drain: (I and D) a sweeping incision made through the core of a lesion to allow draining of infection, and removal of any abnormal or unhealthy tissue.
Indirect pulp cap: A procedure in which the nearly exposed pulp as covered with a protective dressing to protect the pulp from additional injury and to promote healing and repair via formation of secondary dentin.
Inlay: A cast gold filling that is used replace part of the tooth.
Intracoronal: The area within a crown of a tooth.
Intraoral: The inside of a mouth.
Lingual: The area pertaining to or around the tongue.
Local Anesthetic: The injection given in the mouth to numb the areas where a tooth or area needs a dental procedure. Often referred to as Novocain.


Thanks for posting that quote. That is what I recall too. Billy and Rick cant have it both ways.....refusing to appear on the cover then unhappy with a picture an artist comes up with representing the band.
A few things I noticed just now that I never noticed before. The woman sort of has a wedding dress on under the man's sports coat. She is also sporting a engagement ring.
The dark clouds in the background and food on the table. So much going on which makes it so interesting.
As Long As You Follow and No Questions Asked wouldn't be included as these tracks weren't recorded during the Behind The Mask sessions.
They were recorded a year or more before, especially for the 1988 Greatest Hits album. Both tracks have also since been remastered for The Very Best Of Fleetwood Mac in 2002 (2009 in the UK).
True, but I just included those two songs because they were recorded by that particular incarnation of the band. I would also include Paper Doll. Maybe even Love Shines, and Heart of Stone, even though Stevie wasn't on them.
You know, when you look at the full image like that it does look like an interesting composition (and a lot of the D. Gortan pictures in the rest of the portfolio look really quite stunning). Having the border and the crappy font detracted from the image a little. In fact, all these years I just thought it was some throw away stock photo that had been used. If they'd put the image across the full album cover it would have looked a lot better.
Paper Doll ended up on "25 Years – The Chain" 4-CD box set. Wikipedia states that it's a new song, which would mean that it was recorded in 1992. It was however co-written by Nicks, Vito and someone called John Herron. Both Billy Burnette and Rick Vito play on this track.
Love Shines and Heart Of Stone are also listed as new songs on "25 Years – The Chain". Only Billy Burnette plays on Love Shines. I can't find any info on who played on Heart Of Stone.
It is possible that these tracks were actually recorded during the Behind The Mask sessions and were passed off as new tracks when "25 Years – The Chain" was released, seeing as they were previously unreleased and only recorded two years previously.
"Behind The Mask" stands strong as the most lackluster Fleetwood Mac album in their entire catalog. I bought it on the day of the release and was done with it in about 3 weeks. I actually tried to give it another listen in 2008, but no dice. It was as forgettable as ever. I can't think of a more bland era of this band.
This was discussed recently in another thread...cant remember which one.
The music to Paper Doll was initially written by Rick Vito and John Herron and Stevie then added the words. It was written when he fist joined the band and was suggested for inclusion on Greatest Hits. Mick didnt like it much and it was shelved (No Questions Asked was put on Greatest Hits as a Stevie song instead). When they were doing the box set they dug out Paper Doll. It could have easily appeared on Behind The Mask.
- the girl in front is standing away from the band. Her distance, demeanor, expression suggest Stevie. She's "there because she has to be there".
This was an odd time for the band. There are definitely some great songs (both on the album and not), a shame that more Rick and Billy material didn't show up on the album or on tour.
Except Stevie didn't have to be there. She very willingly and happily stayed with the band and was much more present during recording of BTM than she was on Tango.
After reading some of the posts here, I agree that any live recording from the Tango tour should be included on a Behind the Mask Deluxe Edition, if there ever is one. The Iive disc should include all the songs from the live Tango DVD, plus added songs from the Behind the Mask tour, such as Save Me, Love is Dangerous, Stand on the Rock, and maybe even the live version of Go Your Own Way from the last night of the tour, with Lindsey on stage with them.
I'd love to see more pictures of the band from that era and learn more behind the scenes info in the liner notes. I know the album was originally titled Twist of Fate, for example.
I remember watching the first time this cover. I didn't dislike it, and yes I found, and still find it misterious. I didn't think about the relationship of the picture with the band, the members, but I did think about where is the mask? How does this picture relate to a mask and somethig behind a mask?


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Another Quaker queried, on one of the Facebook threads, about what the Quaker read was on the pledge of allegiance. For background, Quakers have issues with taking any kind of oath to begin with, as there begins a double standard (under oath and not) and "forked tongue" as a native language.
My answer was esoteric. As a child I learned the pledge as a classroom ritual and have said it many times. A pledge is a pledge unless somewhere retracted right? So insofar as I'm obliged to accept the burden of childhood promises, I'm pledged to the Republic for which it stands, Banana or otherwise.
Nowhere in the fine print does it say we can't do due diligence and unearth the distant past of said flag. Yes the USA took it over, modified by stars in varying patterns, signifying states of the Union (more on that shortly). Took it over from whom? That's not a verboten topic for exploration.
As a matter of logic, the flag's standing for a certain Republic does not preclude it having many other meanings, including those resonating with a certain past. A Republic has a prehistory. The pledge might keep going back, in that case, to even before the Republic and its symbol.
Some states tried to secede and flew a new flag, abandoning the more Yankee-flavored East India Tea motif. Their attempt at secession occasioned a great Civil War, during which time, a pledge of allegiance to that specific symbol could be considered traitorous to a warring side.
Forcing a Yankee ethic on the loser states, newly suffering other losses of specific icons, is what the Trump Tower edicts appear like to some in the NFL. He's making the Confederate States pay homage, now that he has defended their right to be defiant, in an almost ACLU type position.
I saluted the flag in Portland, where dad was in some pitched battle over how to route the future freeway. He was not a fan of its hugging the shoreline, obliterating the riverfront.
He was a city planner back then, with a hankering to work overseas, the focus of his PhD thesis. He'd been trained at Johns Hopkins for international work, so why not? Let the locals have their freeway battles. He'd be in a small plane over the Sahara (not flying it, part of the overview crew), not looking back. Lots of oases.
He was a consultant, not telling anyone how it had to be (not bossy), just applying what he'd learned, at University of Chicago and elsewhere, as the state of the art insofar as the US practiced it (city and regional planning).
This explains my transplant to Rome, Italy at a young age, to resume my academics at the Junior English School of Rome, and later the Overseas School of Rome (OSR). I came to more appreciate my identity as a USA citizen according to some macro-melodrama one could scarcely understand. We'd have to learn about Rome first, and Greece before that. "It's a long story" the adults said, rolling their eyes sometimes.
Fast forward and I'm almost sixty and still couldn't tell you exactly what's up with all this flag business. Symbols play a deep role in human consciousness, is what the anthropologists are telling us, historians too.
I'm hypothesizing that recent Civil War tremors (aftershocks) have newly awakened us to the fragility of the Union.
The spectacle of Puerto Rico needing rescue, as part of a big triple whammy (Harvey, Irma, Maria), just adds to our sense of disorientation, if not outright disunion.
There's a need to bond over something. As far as secular symbols go, Old Glory still carries weight. I'm not gonna walk on stage and tell people how their symbols don't matter. Of course they matter.
However I've always been taught graceful ways to stand aside on oath taking, using "affirm" or other language. As a Quaker, I enjoy the practical consequences of walking an ethnic talk.
To me, that's the glue of the Americas: an understanding of our melting pot role, an acceptance of varying ethnic practices, yet getting the job done anyway.
People were already here; people came here from everywhere. The flag belongs to Chief Crazy Horse as much as to General Custer.
With a history like that, one shouldn't be apologetic if "allegiance" means something nuanced. Ben Franklin would understand.
Betsy Ross got in trouble with some Quakers, many of them still loyal to their King, in Revolutionary War times. Free Quakers broke off from the mainstream, in taking a pledge of allegiance.
Later, Quakers as a sect forbade the practice of slavery among its members, well before the USG deemed slave-holding illegal. We're in a similar position today with our support for the UN treaty banning nuclear weaponry. We also remember the Kellog-Briand Pact.
Fall Equinox Celebration
The Friday following the CERM Academy presentation, we gathered for potluck. Greg & family were of course invited and may make it another time.
We've been doing these Equinox and Solstice celebrations pretty much since being granted access to the Linus Pauling House as a part of the Silicon Forest sponsored ISEPP project, which included restoration and preservation of this historic home.
Linus studied chemistry in the basement and came to intellectual maturity during that exciting time when organic chemistry was first getting its head around macro molecules, DNA included. He won two Nobel Prizes, one for Chemistry, one for Peace.
Our discussion turned to off-color acronyms, such as engineers use to remember the color coding of resistors. That took us to the politically incorrect (at first blush) mnemonic phrase I learned at Junior English School (Appian Way, Rome) for spelling "arithmetic": A Red Indian Thought He Might Eat Tobacco in Church.
Bob McGown and I realized somewhere around the time I trucked out Pascal's Triangle, that this Red Indian must be that very Chief SohCahToa to whom we who our memorization of the specific names of functions in Trigonometry. He lives in a tetrahedron tepee. It all came together.
My spin is of course smoking tobacco would be the natural thing in a church, seeing as it was treated as a medicine and religious substance. We have lots of "tobacco churches" in America, and that's just for starters.
C6XTY, often dubbed a "molecule" by neighbors, especially when assembled, is indeed named in part for C60, the carbon molecule. The 6 also refers to its six identical parts, locked together with eight screws to give the 12 pentagons and 20 hexagons of the Fullerene macro molecule.
Alpha Helix by Julian voss Andreae, the red helical sculpture outside, commissioned by ISEPP's Doug Strain and its president, Terry Bristol, shows a much simpler molecule than DNA, but one that inspired chemists with portents of what folding could do. Linus Pauling had worked out its structure.
We collectively learned molecules could do origami like nobody's business. Shape matters, a lot. There's a jigsaw puzzle aspect to chemistry, with lots to visualize. Chemistry is a lot like a block-based language (thinking of MIT Scratch and its kin).
In attendance: David DiNucci, Barbara Stross, Dick Pugh... I could go on, but not everybody likes their name mentioned. Brenda Wyse showed up, nice for me as she always showers me with affection (an English idiom). No Nirel though.
We talked a lot about Brenda's ambitions to get a rather muscular tractor. She'd done a lot of homework and got into details. I enjoy tractor talk, even if I'm not good at it. She has a large farm, that her dad worked on, showing her the ropes. We've had celebrations there to.
"Tractatus" for "work" connotes "tract of land" and "roe to hoe". One of my favorite Latin roots.
Mom and I drove the maxi taxi, parking a block behind, and coming across Satya at the temple. Some equinox-related ceremony was happening there too.
Satya is one of our local holy men who bounces around between the outdoors athletic youth culture (Rainbow Gathering etc.) and elder spaces (Food Not Bombs is for all ages).
I met him through Lindsey, political refugee (not unlike Dawn in that respect) and former house guest, sometime Wanderer. She's in Kathmandu these days, immersed in some of the cultural traditions this temple traffics in, part of a Religious Studies major through OSU.
Bob McGown brought his dog, which I appreciated and Facebooked about. Wanderers for me is about celebrating non-humans in addition to humans. I've always considered the dogs among us as symbolic of this respectfulness.
However the dog's specific name will be left out of this account in order to keep the confusion level down. Having a pet python named Barry is bad enough, given Barry Redd the former Peace Corps volunteer machinist banker. Barry helped a lot with the Sam Lanahan C6XTY Gala Event, another major subject of our conversation.
Life During VUCA Time
:: greg | CERM Academy ::
VUCA, an abbreviation for Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity, is meant to characterize the times we live in. We can't just go by established patterns. Alvin Toffler anticipated a somewhat shocking future, and this is it.
Greg and Vic, with their daughter Margaux, packed the Pauling House for what was a first for this audience: a talk on life during VUCA times with perspectives from the Hutchins family.
Greg talked about the challenge to continually reinvent himself given accelerated change in engineering.
Vic is in the midst of changing careers in mid life, turning herself, along with Margaux, into a computer programmer.
Margaux, age 18, has researched the return on investment for college and doesn't see how it pays off. A lot of people she knows find only low income jobs yet are already saddled with debt.
She has been homeschooling and volunteering on numerous projects, gaining life experience by leaps and bounds. She and her mom just got back from Burning Man, a first time for both of them.
The premise of the talk, well established using slides, was that the challenges faced by each family member were highly representative of mega-trends in the workplace. Their predicaments are our predicaments.
We're moving to a gig economy. Artificial Intelligence is promising to automate many jobs that humans are currently paid to perform. The nation (USA) is swimming in debt, yet only mega-spending on infrastructure is likely to keep it alive politically.
Greg has written and led workshops on Risk Based Thinking [tm] for quite some time, and through his CERM Academy counsels businesses on ways to manage risk in times of upheaval.
Learning to connect the dots and think outside the box may sound cliche, but only because such skills remain vitally important.
How we respond and adapt organizationally is at least as important as how we respond as individuals.
The talk was perfect for Wanderers and sparked conversation and debate. Some of us are already retired whereas others are just starting their careers. We come from many walks of life. I didn't recognize quite a few.
Steve Crouch brought donuts. Chips and salsa, along with soft drinks, were also served. Deke recorded the whole presentation on his iPhone. The projector misbehaved at first, so Vic and Margaux dashed home to get another one, but then it ended up getting the job done.
:: derek @ LPH ::
It (movie review)
It took me a few weeks to realize this movie It at The Bagdad, my neighborhood movie theater, was the same movie as this box office record-setter I'd been reading about, featuring some scary clown.
For context, I was joking about Trump fitting the "scary clown" archetype before going, and then after coming back from the movie I dove into the Steve Bannon interviews, with Charlie Rose.
So Trump is a student of Jung's I found out. So the scary clown knows what he's doing? Scary.
The film is a kind of Goonies meets Stand By Me meets Carrie, and some other horror films you may have heard of.
The directing is confidant, way more than competent, and is self aware of its genre, which filmmakers in this area generally need to be. It's a world of symbols and motifs, of nightmares and minor keys.
As we learned from Vienna Circle, a good way of tackling taboo subjects and sending messages along to the tormented, is to employ the code language of Gothic horror.
What children most fear, including their own fantasies of vengefully murdering others, get explicit treatment amidst manifestations of disgust and outrage over mistreatment.
In childhood, the local bullies may be of primary concern. Intelligence learns to zoom out and appreciate the bigger picture. A 27-year-long time cycle haunts this town. The evil is at the archetypal level, less than in the individual incarnations.
The stereotype personalities in the making band together as blended hero, to fight their collective projection of pure Evil, whom they eventually find, and corner. They fight for each other.
The hellmouth they find is worthy of another Buffy and crew. I respect the cinematographic effects.
There's always a library, full of those musty books, telling texts that at least hint at the sulfuric sepulchral creatures that haunt the netherworld.
Childhood means taking up the perennial battles against our own deepest fears.
Horror flicks like this one help us focus and deal with whatever traumas.
Glenn and I moved some plants out of the expected rains, an October harvest, prior to which I shop vac-ed a bit, spewing fine what powder out the rear while barely getting enough pressure to lift a few rat turds.
I also swept a bunch in the basement, wherein the dust is harder to see but nevertheless a suspect. New hot water heater going in, the last one lasting from a manufacture date in 1992, and installed before we moved in to what these days we call the Blue House.
I'm blaming the fine dust for the more milky vision, but according to WebMD and other sources, I'm overdue for another eye exam. I rolled over on my main frames the other night, falling asleep to quantum mechanics (Bell's Theorem experiments again), and woke up to another logistical challenge.
Of course it doesn't help that the city's air is full of particulate matter, the detritus of incinerated forest out the Gorge. I-84 has been closed for some time. The fire is less than half contained.
Lloyd Center Lenscrafters didn't carry spare parts, only sparkling new frames, but I was directed to a place I'd seen driving by on numerous car trips, may have even patronized in chapters past: a frames fixer on SE Powell and Foster.
The guy was quick with the frames. All they needed was new bows. This milky vision symptom came later and seems fleeting hence the shop vac dust theory. However I'm reminded by the Internet that I've got the problems of an almost sixty year old male.
I switched my healthcare plan awhile back and haven't visited my primary provider since the switch. However we're talking eye doctor here, not family care.
I'll be relying on pretty good vision in the coming weeks given all the driving and coding I have scheduled. Vacation time is coming to an end.
No I don't have a bizmo yet (beyond the body itself), although my friend Tim Hitchcock does. He brought it to Sam Lanahan's gala gathering on Friday. More about that gathering in another post.
:: grampa carl ::
:: Jack Urner (my dad) ::
I was grateful for some downtime after the 7:30 AM to 6:30 PM gig, including commute, with some even longer hours ahead. I'm just staying at home ("home me o stays is") and marveling at the strange colors. Oregon's forests are burning, British Columbia's too. The moon, almost full, is blood orange (deeper red than just copper). The atmosphere is full of ash.
Hurricane Harvey has already struck as of this writing, lots of collateral damage. Irma is still swirling in the Atlantic, its future uncertain. Computer models see about two weeks ahead max. That's less a deficiency in computing than a feature of everyday math. Climate modeling and weather modeling are two different things. The former need not be detailed about day-to-day weather phenomena whereas in weather modeling, that's the whole point.
The downtime has not been idle time. I have more freedom to dwell on my own projects, which these days includes drilling into Jupyter Notebooks more, and sharing them on Github. I'm recycling some of my homework from the 1990s wherein I dove into cryptography some.
The whole RSA thing (public key crypto) was fascinating. These days we hear more about the blockchain, with crypto-currencies bopping up and down like publicly traded stocks, investments in some Global Data Corporation (GCD) of the science fiction future (but with value today).
RSA is in every web browser so is for sure not off limits to journalism, given Mozilla is free open source, plus the patents have expired.
When you use your Visa card number via HTTPS (little lock next to URL), you're in TLS mode, meaning your browser and some distant server have shaken hands (shorthand for "opened an encrypted channel") that makes it difficult for 3rd parties to crack in, stealing info. People are meant to have secrets in current economic models, if prosperity is a goal.
What I'm attempting is an on-ramp into Python the computer language, where I explain a little Group and Number Theory along the way, somewhat mirroring an established academic approach you will find in some progressive high schools and colleges.
RSA is completely open, as an algorithm. What makes it cryptographically secure are current facts about the state of the art, in mathematics and computing power.
Bitcoin and blockchain technology leverage similar facts.
A bitcoin miner, a dedicated computer, has the job of brute forcing through a math problem that should take about ten minutes.
The miner that gets there first broadcasts to all the others, and in the case of a tie, there's a way of breaking it.
The miner's version of the blockchain thereby "wins the day" (actually just the block) and the block detailing what just happened (a set of transactions) around the world, in the last twenty or thirty minutes or so, is accepted by all the others as "the truth" and on we go, block by block.
Lots of blockchains are up an running, many of them experimental given this is all recent technology.
Glenn and Joanne Baker came through for dinner with Carol and I at Bread & Ink. They were on vacation too, exploring Ashland (pun intended) after catching the eclipse. I was at work during the eclipse, but allowed to go outside to get the 99.4% experience (not totality).
They were able to see Crater Lake, but on some days I gather the smog has been filling the crater, hiding the lake from the rim.
Oregon is burning, as I said at the top.
We had heavy rainfall all winter and a lush spring, then the water shut off (no rain) and lush vegetation turned to tinder. The flick of a cigarette will set off a major forest fire. Some jerk was doing fireworks near Eagle Creak. There's no telling how careless some will be.
Glenn Stockton (different Glenn) has been assiduously working on the back patio and backyard, on those C6XTY sculptures. I've had an art teacher visit. I should encourage Julian to swing by.
Most of these sculptures are on their way to a photo shoot, and some won't come back.
I'm reminded of Bonnie Tinker's Love Makes a Family float, a tall-tiny house on a wagon, that used to sit out there too.
Our Quaker Meeting was supportive of liberal values, with member Dawn Wicca providing safe haven for said float (I believe I'd become a non-member by then, without changing in my love of beer).
Vacation time is a chance to run errands and catch up on stuff.
I rolled over on my glasses (talk about careless) and wonder if Lenscrafters at Lloyd Center will be up for fixing them.
Carol (88, hard of hearing) needs to replace a charge card she canceled, then thought she'd lost, then found again. Lloyd and OnPoint are not far apart.


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The Boris Johnson great Brexit distraction!
Would you trust Diane Abbott as Home Secretary?!
Trump, Security, Corbyn and the NHS!
Tolerating the intolerable!
Labour Brexit 2019 General Election Warning!
Remortgage lending breaks records
Posted by Economic Voice Staff | Jun 25, 2013 | Business & Finance, News | 0
* May remortgage lending rises to £3.9bn, up 17.1% on April's £3.4bn. This is not only up 37.2% since the beginning of the year but is also the highest it has been since October 2012. Total gross mortgage lending is also up 21% to £14.7bn.
* The average remortgage loan amount is at an all-time high.
* Those remortgaging are each taking out an average of £19,325 in extra equity (above the value of the redeeming loan). This implies a total of £523.5m equity withdrawal by remortgaging in May – the largest total amount of equity being released from remortgaging in one year (since May 2012).
* Prospects: LMS anticipates a steady upward trend as customers continue to take advantage of current competitive deals.
LMS figures reveal that monthly gross remortgage lending increased by £576m in May to £3.9bn. This is up 17.1% on April's £3.4bn reported by the Council for Mortgage Lenders (CML) last week.
The CML has also reported that total gross mortgage lending rose 20.8% in May to £14.7bn, from £12.2bn in April. As a result, remortgages now represent 27% of the market.
LMS estimates that the total number of remortgage loans in May increased by 12.7% to 27,087 compared with 24,041 in April. This figure, however, is down 10.8% on this time last year.
The average remortgage loan amount has risen by 3.9% over the past month and now stands at £145,754. This is the highest figure we have on record.
Commenting on the latest figures, Andy Knee, Chief Executive of LMS says:
"May marks yet another month of growth for the remortgage sector, with the total remortgage lending figure rising by 17.1% to £3.9bn. These heights have not been seen since October of last year. Despite a considerable increase in gross mortgage lending, remortgages continue to account for more than a quarter of the market.
"The average loan per person is at an all-time high, with an average of £19,325 being released to spend of paying off debts or to supplement income.
"We have seen a brilliant start to the year and we expect it to continue as the Funding for Lending Scheme (FLS) continues to encourage competitive rates for remortgage customers."
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Touring The Maternal Heart Of Darkness
Performed on stage by Lynn Crosbie at Ryeberg Live Toronto 2012.
I read that Snooki was having a baby, and this made me think about mothers, about mothers in pop and their changing faces.
I want to start with a clip of a 1981 film I watch each Mother's Day, as a tribute to this creature's lioness power and fearsome style.
Frank Perry, "Mommie Dearest" (1981)
A high camp classic, which has caused more than one delirious viewer to yell, "Hit her again!," this movie critically undermines Christina's highly suspect sob story and in fact, shockingly vulgar use of wire hangers on her beautiful little gowns.
In 1976's "Of Woman Born," Adrienne Rich discusses the maternal "heart of darkness," and tells horrible tales of actual (not demented and cinematic) violence against children, torture and infanticide, committed by mothers for reasons I believe the great feminist writer calls "complex."
And these women, these angry, even homicidal, women were losing their shit before what I call the "Panoptimom" came into existence.
What is this? Jeremy Bentham's 18th century prison/Panopticon, designed for maximum visibility of the prisoners, prisoners who could never tell when they were being observed.
The Panoptimom is, simply, western culture's constant scrutiny of the pregnant body, and then maternal conduct — a far more easier feat now, thanks to camera phones: was that crazy screaming bigot mom on the British subway simply a monster or a pretty bad mother who thought, Sunset Boulevard style, that given all the cameras, she was on TV sharing vital information about the working classes?
We watch: we watch the smoking mother, the beer and liquor drinker, the screamer, the smacker, the ignorer, the slob, the Diabetes-maker, the TV-allower, the unambitious-by-proxy, the tacky mom, the huge mom, the vain mom, the slutty mom, the mom with the bejeweled, lazy, chrissie ass.
How do mothers stand all this scrutiny, let alone the stealth photography/recordings?
They have started to become gorilla-like: the gorillas who stand, captured, behind glass, eating their vomit defiantly. That is, embracing the maternal aesthetics of the 1960s and 70s, and being as bad as they want to be.
Let me clarify: these are women in POP I am talking about. Here's one.
Paul Feig, "Bridesmaids" (2011)
If the wretched Pop mother is a thrilling reference to women's discontent, actual bad mothers are dull, and deeply disturbing. Look at this short clip.
HEADY1313, "Worst Mom Ever" (2009)
It's not that what she does is so bad, in the context of all bad things, but in its utter triteness, it is almost unbearably cruel.
Pee Mother is the antithesis of my talk: actual, all evil substance, no style.
NMATV, "Frances Bean Cobain: Courtney Love Was A Bad Mom" (2012)
I am just letting videos run in the background of Courtney Love as an anime character (video abridged @ Ryeberg Live) and "Teen Mom," Amber Portland, having a fight with her hideous baby daddy.
xxpreppygalx, "Gary & Amber's Fight" (Teen Mom, 2011)
These Mom villains, the first based on a true story, unfortunately, are clearly reveling in their rejection of such bourgeois values as nurturing and caring for their young; of not debasing them and murdering their pets with Oxycodone Snausages.
When Pop veers into reality, or reality TV, a site between truth and fiction, it is, obviously, harder to enjoy. Reality TV and YouTube have given us, long after the truly disturbing "America's Funniest Videos," virtually unprecedented insight into the fraught relationship between mother and child; into what constitutes their relationship and selves. Childhood is still, erroneously, viewed as an age of complete innocence (powerlessness is not innocence) and idolized: it is watched over hawkishly for reasons good and bad.
So when Snooki, Jersey Shore's hard partying, heavy drinking, whipped-cream guzzling dwarf-goddess was revealed to be pregnant, one felt a collective, concerned gasp.
Here is Saturday Night Live's take.
Saturday Night Live, "Weekend Update: Snooki On Her Pregnancy Rumors" (2012)
YouTube posters are far more unkind: responding to her maybe-pregnancy, "enforced sterilization" has been suggested, contempt that "she thinks showers are a bunch of sprays of perfume" and the following: "I'm not in favor of abortion, but in this case I'll make an exception. Please do not have the child. This woman should not breed, she should be fixed. This is the most retarded imbecile in the planet, the last thing a child needs is to be is born into her wierd, perverted, twisted version of the world. Let's not forget that this is the same BEING that when in Rome, stood in front of the statue of David and commented on his peunus size. This moron should not be allowed to breed."
This poster spells penis "peanus," by the way. Allowed to breed? She should be "fixed"? The modern woman, filtered through pop culture, is here to tell you she is not a house cat but a tiger, a strong, vital creature ready to do battle for her right to be herself and a mother.
Which leads me to my favourite child, and by extension, the mother who raised her: I want to show Alana and her mother June, the Diva Beauty Queen and the Coupon Queen, respectively. Featured on "Toddlers and Tiaras" recently, they became a viral hit: Alana, for being the greatest child on earth; June for being "the world's worst mother."
TLC, "Coupon Queen & Honey Boo Boo" (Toddlers & Tiaras, 2012)
See when I watch June, her eyes rolled back into her skull, her body rocking perversely, and screaming with ecstasy — "WORK IT SMOOCHIE! THAT'S IT BABY!" — I feel warmed by her passionate love for this remarkable child.
Simone de Beauvoir notes, in "The Second Sex," that we do not "make" our children, that they form themselves inside of us. Yet June raised Alana, and Alana's charisma and wit speak to a very good life.
Make a list of all the children you would kidnap, if given the opportunity then admit she is pages above the Beckham or Jolie-Pitt dullards.
Among so many trying to break free, there is the great June. She is a brave, intrepid new mother: she is woman, roaring, too big too ignore.
– Lynn Crosbie
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Magnús Þór Jónsson (born 7 April 1945), better known by the stage name Megas, is a vocalist, songwriter, and writer who is well known in his native Iceland.

Interest in music
Being an admirer of Elvis Presley, Megas welcomed the arrival of rock & roll to Iceland by 1956, although his interest in music had to be postponed while he attended grammar school in 1960.

While he was young, he studied piano and showed skill at painting. He wrote outrageous short stories for the school papers and in 1968 he also published the sheet music and lyrics to 14 songs, many of which would be released on his first records. As a young bohemian writer, he was inspired by Bob Dylan and Ray Davies, and embarked into songwriting, but his works were not copies of the American or British idols, but in fact, his songs were very original...

First release and controversy
At the beginning of the seventies, his music works were not accessible as Megas only performed them to his friends of the left-wing circles. However, in 1972, Icelandic students in Oslo, Norway helped him release his first album, in which diabolic and satiric lyrics were accompanied by a mild acoustic music played by Norwegian folk musicians. This work caused controversy and his music was banned by the Icelandic national radio, but Megas became a cult figure in the growing alternative scene.

In 1973, as Megas found it difficult to release further albums, he published his verses and music in 3 books.

When his original lyrics were performed with the electric rock band Judas in 1975, Megas managed to reach a broader audience. Several of those songs lampooned the Icelandic cultural legacy, including his two next albums: Millilending (1975) and Fram og aftur blindgötuna (1976), which were much heavier than the first one. He focused on topics that challenged all of Icelandic society's taboos with references made to classical literature and a sarcastic revisionist history. His work polarized the audience. His songs' remarkable poetry and use of Icelandic language proved a novel way to boost Icelandic rock and roll.

In 1977, Megas released Á bleikum náttkjólum with the accompaniment of Spilverk þjóðanna, a popular folk-rock band. This album was voted the best Icelandic album ever made, and with a variety of music styles, it features what many critics considered the first Icelandic punk song. By the end of the seventies, Megas was perceived as a provocateur and his important role in the Icelandic rock scene turned him into a reference for future artists.

He then released a children's song album and a double live album and withdrew from the Icelandic music and started working as a dock worker and graduated from arts school.

Back to music
By 1983 reappeared in the Icelandic music scene by collaborating with other bands and playing as a guest musicians on several albums.

Towards 1985 joined Kukl in a new project was named MegaKukl and toured all over Iceland recording around 20 songs which still remain as unpublished material.After seven years of absence, his solo career was resumed in 1986 with the release of  Í góðri trú.

In 1990 Megas released Hættuleg hljómsveit & glæpakvendið Stella, and started a new project music with Kukl members called Hættuleg hljómsveit (A Dangerous Band), featuring singer Björk as backing vocalist.

The present
Megas has remained one of the most important Icelandic artists. Considered the father of Icelandic rock and acclaimed for his prolific and, sometimes controversial works, his complete discography up to 1990 was reissued in 2002, remastered and with bonus tracks.More recently, he joined  Súkkat to create a new project called Megasukk and released Hús Datt, their debut album in 2005.

Some of the artists that have worked with Megas are the following: Björgvin Gíslason, Björn Bjarnason, Bragi Kristjónsson, Guðlaugur Kristinn Óttarsson, Hjálmar Sveinsson, Páll Baldvin Baldvinsson, Páll Valsson, Svavar Gestsson, Þórður Magnússon, and Þórunn Valdimarsdóttir, among many others.

Trivia
Megas is mentioned in the song "Iceland" by The Fall which appeared on Hex Enduction Hour (1982). The song was recorded in Hljóðriti studio in Iceland in 1981. In a Melody Maker article about The Fall's stay in Iceland called "The Decline and Fall in Iceland" (published 26 September 1981) is this written about Megas: "Our hosts play us tapes of a man with a cracked voice and a Dylanish air and describe him as "the father of Icelandic rock'n'roll". And they tell us the story of Megas, who ridiculed the sacred Sagas of the land, wrote scathing, surreal lyrics, got heavily into booze and drugs, was barred from radio and shunned by society. In 1979 he released a double album called "Plans For Suicide" announced his retirement, and hasn't performed in public since he's now a dock worker. Mark Smith is entranced by the story, and rivetted by the music. The following day Megas, a pale, gaunt figure, turns up at The Fall's concert at the Austurbæjarbíó and shakes him by the hand. Mark will return to England clutching a parcel of Megas records under his arm."

Solo career
Albums:
1972 - Megas (MGAB 720601), re-release in 2002 with bonus tracks.
1975 - Millilending (Demant D1-002), re-release in 2002 with bonus tracks.
1976 - Fram og aftur blindgötuna (Hrím hf D1-005), re-release in 2002 with bonus tracks.
1977 - Á bleikum náttkjólum (Iðunn 002), with Spilverk Þjóðanna, re-release in 2002 with bonus tracks.
1978 - Nú er ég klæddur og kominn á ról (Iðunn 004), re-release in 2002 with bonus tracks.
1979 - Drög að sjálfsmorði (Iðunn 008–09), live album recorded 1978.
1985 - Megas allur, box set with all previous albums and two bonus LP's with rare and unreleased tracks.
1986 - Í góðri trú (Hitt leikhúsið HITT 011), re-release in 2002 with bonus tracks.
1987 - Loftmynd, re-release in 2002 with bonus tracks.
1988 - Höfuðlausnir, re-release in 2002 with bonus tracks.
1990 - Hættuleg hljómsveit & glæpakvendið Stella (Megas), re-release in 2006 with bonus tracks.
1992 - Þrír blóðdropar, re-release in 2006 with bonus tracks.
1993 - Paradísarfuglinn, best-of compilation.
1994 - Drög að Upprisu (Japis), live album by Megas and Nýdönsk recorded 1993, re-release in 2006 with bonus tracks.
1996 - Til hamingju með fallið
1997 - Fláa veröld
2000 - Svanasöngur á leiði
2001 - Far... þinn veg
2001 - Haugbrot
2002 - Englaryk í tímaglasi, re-release of Bláir draumar (1988) with bonus tracks.
2002 - Megas 1972–2002, best-of compilation.
2002 - (Kristilega kærleiksblómin spretta í kringum) hitt og þetta, a bonus cd with Megas 1972-2002 with rare and unreleased tracks.
2006 - Passíusálmar í Skálholti (Tindur), live album recorded 2001.
2006 - Greinilegur púls, live album recorded with Hættuleg hljómsveit 1991.
2007 - Frágangur, with Senuþjófarnir.
2007 - Hold er mold, with Senuþjófarnir.
2008 - Á morgun, with Senuþjófarnir.
2009 - Segðu ekki frá (með lífsmarki), live album with Senuþjófarnir, recorded in 2007.
2011 - (Hugboð um) Vandræði, with Senuþjófarnir.
2011 - Aðför að lögum, with Strengir.
2013 - Jeppi á fjalli, with Bragi Valdimar Skúlason.

MegaKukl (1985)
No official releases: - Megas and Kukl recorded about 20 songs but the original tapes are lost.

Hættuleg hljómsveit (1990)
No official releases: - Megas and Kukl recorded some tracks at Púlsinn.

Discography of Megasukk
2005 - Hús Datt

Tribute albums
1997 - Megasarlög by various artists.
2006 - Pældu í því sem pælandi er í by various artists.
2006 - Magga Stína syngur Megas by Magga Stína

Bibliography by Megas
1968 - Megas I (Megas), reprinted in 1973.
1968 - Megas II (Megas), reprinted in 1973.
1973 - Megas III (Megas).
1991 - Textar (Almenna bókafélagið).
1989 - Sól í Norðurmýri: Píslarsaga úr Austurbæ together with Þórunn Valdimarsdóttir, reprinted in 1993.
1994 -  (Mál og menning).
2012 - Megas: Textar 1966–2011 (Reykjavík: JPV).

Related bibliography
Rokksaga Íslands, by Gestur Guðmundsson. Forlagið (1990).

External links
Page about Megas at Tónlist.com
Page about Megas (in Icelandic) on Guðmundur Heiðar Gunnarsson's blog

1945 births
Living people
20th-century Icelandic male singers
21st-century Icelandic male singers
Icelandic writers

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For The Love Of Horses: Illinois Cowgirl Comes To Kansas To Become Vet, And Stars As Barrel Racer On K-State Rodeo Team
Posted By: Frank Buchmanon: February 16, 2015 In: Blogs, Buchman, Frank, News EventsNo Comments
By Frank J. Buchman
Match that 'just right' horse with proven one of the very best college-age cowgirls in the world, and it's a team to be reckoned wherever the competition arises.
"I've had several top horses, and have some good horses, but Pepper is sure one of the best. I'm really getting with her now. It always takes some time to become accustomed to the way a new horse works, and for her to understand that I ride different than somebody else who has ridden her before," Katelyn Eike evaluated her barrel racing horse.
"Pepper ran a 12.6-seconds pattern to win the Iron Woman barrel racing jackpot recently. She really worked quite well. We'd been doing all right, did well in some fall rodeos, but I'm sure looking forward to the spring college rodeos," said Eike, a member of the K-State Women's Rodeo Team.
Ranking 14th in the women's division barrel racing of the Central Plains Region of Kansas and Oklahoma after four fall rodeos sanctioned by the National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association, Eike said she's anxious for the spring series, of six rodeos kicking off this weekend on her home court, Weber Arena, Manhattan, with the 59th annual K-State Rodeo, February 20-21-22.
"I'll be in barrel racing on Pepper, and I'm entered in breakaway roping on another horse, too. So, I'd really like do well in both events here at home, and then go ahead at the remainder of the region rodeos to qualify for the National College Finals Rodeo during June in Casper, Wyoming. I'll have to end up in the top three of the yearend standings in an event to qualify, so I have a ways to go.
"I would like to have qualified for nationals last year as a freshman, but I just got my new mare a year ago in January, and we weren't quite together in the barrel races at the spring college rodeos. So, I'm shooting even harder this time around," said Eike, a sophomore studying animal science in the pre-veterinary medicine curriculum at K-State.
From Chatham, Illinois, Eike came to K-State with scholastic assistance in her prescribed career, but also received a Kansas State Rodeo Club Scholarship for the proven record in her best sport.
"Some of my family's friends in Illinois had horses and got me riding when I was in kindergarten. Then, we started going to Illinois Junior Rodeos. I won several all-arounds, and qualified for the Wrangler Junior High Rodeo Finals every year I was eligible," Eike related quite humbly.
Continuing to contest in goat tying, breakaway roping, team roping, pole bending and barrel racing, Eike was the all-around cowgirl in the Illinois High School Rodeo Association four years, being the high point rider in several events during that time.
"I competed every year at the National High School Rodeo Finals, made the short go-round my freshman year in poles, but everything never quite came together to do as well as I knew I could," Eike said.
Her sorrel gelding called AJ that Eike had competed on at high school rodeos was permanently injured and retired. "I've borrowed my brother's calf roping horse, an 11-year-old sorrel gelding called Chip, and he's working out well for me now in breakaway roping," Eike said.
Her brother, Kyle Eike is a freshman competing in the Illinois High School Rodeo Association in steer wrestling, calf roping and team roping. Ranked high in the standings at this time, he hopes to qualify for the National High School Rodeo Finals this year. "Kyle did really well last year, ending up 14th in the nation in steer wrestling," Eike noted.
Still entering a number of events at amateur rodeos and certain jackpot competitions, Eike said, "I'm just focusing on barrels and breakaway roping at the college rodeos."
Generally riding geldings in the past, Eike had some early-on issues with her barrel racing mare, but seems to have them worked out now.
"Pepper was having some follicle trouble last summer, but we have her on a prescription which stopped her cycle. She's doing great," the cowgirl said.
The 10-year-old, 15-2 hand, gray, Sun Frost mare had collected more than $50,000 in prize money barrel racing before the K-State cowgirl acquired her.
"Pepper is a one event horse, but she seems to be the one who could go all the way, if I can continue to do my part," Eike said.
Active in the K-State Rodeo Club, Eike has taken leadership roles in planning for this weekend's K-State Rodeo, and is anxious to assist in not only the club development, but also in helping build both the women's and men's rodeo teams.
"We have a good coach in Doug Muller, good practice facilities and stock. All of the cowgirls and cowboys have plenty of ability, and we could sure win some rodeos and qualify several team members for the college finals," Eike stated.
Studies first, with rodeo close second in priorities; Eike is looking to her own successes in the college arenas, in addition to amateur rodeo and jackpot events, along with the possibility of professional rodeos somewhere down the line.
"I intend to do my best at the college rodeo level four years, get my degree in animal science, and go straight into vet school, graduating in 2022," Eike said.
As one might expect, her veterinary practice will likely lean toward equine, specifically lameness and soundness. "There is a need for more sports medicine practitioners, and that's sure what I think I'd like to do," Eike said.
"Whatever direction my profession takes me, I'll continue to compete in barrel racing, and maybe even some other rodeo events, too. I really love it all," Eike verified.
First things, first. There are rodeo performances Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 20-21-22, at K-State. "I have to get my horses ready and ride them right. They'll do their part, as long as I do mine," K-State Women's Rodeo Team member, all-around cowgirl Katelyn Eike concluded.
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