My own personal cure for anything involving body aches is mud packs. Mrs. Green's, our local whole foods organic type market, sells them in packs of five: mud from the dead sea that you can rub over your whole body, leave on for 20 minutes, and then rinse off. I bought them initially just as mother-spa recreation. But it occurred to me that since body aches from viruses are supposed to be caused by toxins released by the virus, and since the mud was supposed to suck the "toxins" out of you, that maybe it might help. (It is, after all, how a sick animal would treat the problem.) I figured it couldn't hurt and might help. Works great. These days, when I buy the mud packs, I save them for when I feel sick.
Issey Miyake had a klein bottle evening gown about 10 years ago, though they didn't call it that. I really wanted one, but they were about two grand.
On the subject of framing, the expulsion flow chart frames violent school situations as an Us vs. Them, our wonderful kids vs. their terrible kids. While it may be to a school administrator or a school district's advantage to frame issues that way, often the perpetrator and victim in a violent school situation have a fair amount in common. Case in point: After my sister made this post to her blog, generated in part by her upset that her daughter in pre-K had been attacked several times by an 8-year-old retarded girl who was sometimes put in the pre-K class, I pointed out to her that if it was obvious to the casual observer that Special Ed kids weren't getting proper services, then there was a real problem with the support being given them.
She did a little nosing around and discovered a number of interesting things: Most of the $40,000/yr that was being given to the district to educate this child was disappearing along the way. The girl had no curriculum. She was supposed to have an aide, but the district wasn't providing one. Etc.
Public education is supposed to be about providing education for everyone, not just those it is convenient to educate. Non-Special Ed kids can benefit in a number of ways from being in the same class as designated Special-Ed kids, as long as the proper (and often legally required) services are provided. For example, the addition of an assistant teacher to a classroom cuts the student-teacher ratio in half.
Isn't it rather cowardly for adults to be scapegoating children?
Something about Covington & Burlington sounded familiar from my researches the other day on the Pacific Legal Foundation and their project to have the Endangered Species Act thrown out by the courts. (PLF is, by the way, one of the organizations behind the Bush adminstrations' dismantling or protections for salmon runs.)
I'm really amused to see what the commonality turned out to be: both PLF and Covington & Burlington involved themselves in Nike v. Klasky, the suit over the "corporate right to lie," whether lies by corporations have the same First Amendment Protections as lies by individuals.
Changing the name of the comment cgi script does ultimately work, though you may have to do it as often as once a week. (Today's comment spammers don't actually look at your site at all. They only have relations with your comment cgi script. )
Also, back up everything (even templates) before you do it. You can really screw up your MT install messing with that sort of thing. (I won't bore you with the technical details, but I've done it.)
It's really cruel and unusual pubishment for the moving people to allow David only 4 cartons to move office.
On the other hand, as his wife, I sure wish I could set that kind of limit!
Scott: Wow. That account is just astonishing. Consider, for example the passage Cats living on the main floor of the house on South River Street appeared to be more domesticated than the ones on the second floor. Many of the hundreds of cats were believed to be diseased.
I'm not sure how to evaluate the Cautionary Tale in Particles since the original post has been removed. There really are certain things you just shouldn't say lest you summon the Secret Service to your doorstep. How close was the guy to those? I can't tell whether he's just getting the idea that LJ isn't his livingroom, or whether relatively innocous comments brought unwarrented attention.
I myself once reported a commenter on my blog to the FBI: someone with an IP address in Kuwait posting threats of revenge for a specific incident in Iraq. There are circumstances under which one does that.
Nonetheless, whether he was being an indiot or just exercising his first amendment rights, the Cautionary Tale should probably get wide circulation since emotions are running pretty high. It may save a few people a visit from the SS.
I'm not sure how to evaluate the Cautionary Tale in Particles since the original post has been removed. There really are certain things you just shouldn't say lest you summon the Secret Service to your doorstep. How close was the guy to those? I can't tell whether he's just getting the idea that LJ isn't his livingroom, or whether relatively innocous comments brought unwarrented attention.
I myself once reported a commenter on my blog to the FBI: someone with an IP address in Kuwait posting threats of revenge for a specific incident in Iraq. There are circumstances under which one does that.
Nonetheless, whether he was being an indiot or just exercising his first amendment rights, the Cautionary Tale should probably get wide circulation since emotions are running pretty high. It may save a few people a visit from the SS.
That much was clear. And a coward, too.
That Yoshida guy is awfully brave writing a screed like that but without capacity for comments.
Tom: Cheryl Morgan has a list. I think Locus does, too.
By the way, Googlung for "hello from zimbabwe!" garfield produces over 700 results. My best guess is that the post is used to find out the name of the comment script.
I got about 400 comment spams when I was in Boston for the WorldCon. I didn't check whether they fed through to real sites. But it was really discouraging. The spammers found some chink inf MT Blacklist's armor and exploited it.
I've got Comment Moderation turned on in my MT3.11 install at this point because the Perl on my ISPs server is too crude to run MT Blacklist. It's still really irritating to get large batches of comment spam (which I do from time to time) but since spammers get no gratification of seeing their comments appear, I'm getting a lot less than I used to.
If I was getting more, I would change the name of the comment script once a week. (I do it now whenever I begin to receive comment spam regularly). These attacks are automated now, so the spammers aren't actually visiting you site at all. Rather, your comment script is in someone's malign database.
(Beware, those of you thinking about changing the name of your comment script for the first time. It is possible to screw up your MT install doing it. Back up everything first. Delete the mt.cfg file entirely before uploading a modified version.)
Time for the October surprise is slipping away. Perhaps the frozen cadaver of bin Laden was looted along with other things.
I think he's going in for secret surgery to get the rectangular growth between his shoulderblades removed.
David was trying to explain to me this morning why all of this is Important. When he got around to the part about Babe Ruth and started to tell me who Babe Ruth was, I said, "That much I know."
I saw that "Risk" poster hanging over the desk of the manager of the really low-end hotel where Albacon used to be held. For the whole weekend I kept looking around the hotel for evidnce that the manager was taking risks. The poster's display in such an inappropriate context is my most lasting memory of that weekend (the convention was otherwise not memorable).
CNN is reporting Ivan's first 2 US fatalities.
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