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Title: If I Can't Love Him
Words: 1347
Characters: KendallXLogan, Carlos, James, Gustavo
Warnings: Character Death, Suicide, Self-harming
Logan sits on the edge of the bathtub holding the razor blade in his right hand and watching some blood flow down his left wrist where he just cut a good few times. Logan doesn't know when he started cutting himself but it must have been around the time his Mom died.
When his Mom died, Logan and his younger sister Lizzy had to move in with their aunt. Logan was 14, Lizzy was 12. Their Dad left when Lizzy was just a baby, she never actually got to know him. Logan never had any friends at school, he was always an outsider and a loner and he was always bullied. He has been bullied since preschool basically and when the same bullies also went to the same Highschool as him, things only got worse. Logan is a great singer but nobody ever really appreciated that and people called him a 'Freak' and 'Fag'.
Now, Logan is 18, living with his three best friends he eventually met in school. When all three of them moved into town and were the new ones, Logan took the risk of introducing himself to them without them knowing he was the one everyone bullied on. Kendall, James and Carlos are second cousins and they all lived with their aunt who never had kids of her own but always took care of her three nephews. The boys' Moms died in a car crash when the boys were only 2 years old.
"Hey Logan." A knock on the bathroom door takes Logan back to reality.
"Are you done soon? We gotta go to rehearsals before Gustavo tries to kill us."
"Yeah, I'm coming, just gimme a sec, please."
"Alright, I'll wait for you."
Logan gets up, puts away the blade and wipes up the few blood drops that got unto the floor. Then he wraps some gauze around his wrist, pulls his sleeve down and walks out of the bathroom. Kendall is waiting impatiently for him in the living room.
"There you are. Ready to go?" Kendall grabs Logan by his wrist causing Logan to yell in pain. Kendall looks at Logan worried. "Are you okay?"
"Yeah, I just hurt my foot", Logan lies and walks out the apartment with Kendall.
Rehearsals went by slowly with a lot of yelling from Gustavo's side making Logan feel even more worthless than he already thinks he is. Gustavo telling him he ''can't dance'' and has ''no talent or swag'' whatsoever. Logan haven't wanted to cut so bad in a couple of months now but right now, this is what he needs the most. When rehearsals are over, all 4 of the boys drive back home and Logan rushes into the bathroom. He locks the door, takes out the blade again and sits down once more on the edge of the bathtub.
"Logan? Are you alright?" Logan cringes and accidentally cuts a bit deeper than usual, as he hears a knock on the door and Kendall's voice calling out to him.
"What?" Logan's voice sounds cracky. "Yeah, I'm okay. I-I just had to p-pee very bad." Another lie today.
Logan lost track of all the lies he told the guys over the past few months although it was mostly the same lie. 'I'm fine.' He never really was and he's not going to be. Not unless he gets any help which he won't so no, he's going to be alright.
Logan cleans up the bathroom again and steps out to see Kendall standing right in front of the bathroom door, eyebrows raised.
"Can we talk?"
"What about?"
Logan wants to protest but Kendall grabs his wrist, causing Logan to let out a groan of pain, and pully him into their shared bedroom, locking the door behind them.
"Logan, you know, I'm your best friend. You can tell me everything."
"Kendall, I know, I just can't tell you."
"You've been miserable for almost 5 months now. Carlos and James may not see it but I do. You can't hide, Logan. Please, just talk to me. Please!"
"There's nothing to talk about", Logan snaps at Kendall.
Kendall looks hurt. "Fine then, be that way. But if you decide you want to talk I'm always here for you, okay?"
Logan nods. "Yeah, thanks."
Kendall hugs Logan really quick and leaves the room again. Logan sits down on his bed and sighs. He knows he should tell Kendall that he is in love with him. But falling in love with your best friend is even worse when you know for sure that your best friend could never love you back. Logan is about to go into the bathroom again, when he hears Kendall's voice and presses his ear at the door.
"What?", James snaps back. Apparently Kendall is interrupting something.
"I think there's something wrong with Logan. Have you noticed any odd behaviour?"
"Well, he spent an awful lot of time in the bathroom, lately", Carlos says.
"Yeah, if he was a girl, I'd say he's pregnant or something." James laughs.
How could he think this was a funny topic to talk about? This is in no way funny.
"James, seriously. There's something up with Logan and...oh.."
"Oh? Oh what? What Kendall?" Carlos sounds excited.
"I-I j-just...I just realized something. I'm such an ass."
Logan hears Kendall walking towards their bedroom door so he gets away and sits down on his bed. Kendall opens the door and walks straight over to Logan to sit next to him.
"Hey, Logie", he says. "Are you sad because I spend too much time with Jo? I know I haven't been the best best friend you could imagine but you still are my best friend. In fact, I'll call Jo right now and tell her that I can't meet her today. What do you wanna do?"
"No", Logan answers. "You didn't do anything wrong, Kendall."
Hearing Kendall talk about Jo always killed Logan just a little bit more inside.
"Ar-Are you sure?" Kendall looks at him, desperately wishing to hear a different answer.
"Yeah, I'm sure. You have fun with Jo."
"O-Okay...But Logie?"
"I love you, as my brother of course." Kendall gets up and walks out of the room leaving a very much distraught Logan behind.
An hour later Kendall finds Logan dead on his bed. His wrists are cut open and a letter is lying next to him. Kendall starts crying and screaming Logan's name. Carlos and Logan come running in.
"What ha...Oh no!" James walks over to Logan's bed fast but even he can see that the smaller brunette boy is dead by suicide.
While Kendall is still screaming Logan's name with Carlos trying to comfort him, James picks up the letter and reads it:
Dear Kendall,
I'm sorry. I'm sorry for everything. And I'm especially sorry for not telling you that I love you, with all my heart and soul. I didn't love you just as a best friend or a brother, I really loved you. Every time seeing you with Jo just broke my heart this much more. Please, don't blame yourself for my death. There is nothing you could have done to change my decision.
Nobody ever really liked me except for you guys. My Dad left, my Mom died, my aunt left. Nobody ever thinks I'm good enough at anything. I'm not even good enough at dancing or singing, I'm still the weakest link in our group and I can't let that ruin you. I wanted to quit but I just couldn't.
Knowing now I probably hurt you worse than I ever could but please, you have to try to understand me and that none of this is your fault.
Tell Mama Knight, Katie, Carlos, James and Lizzy that I love them.
Kendall, I am so sorry. I love you.
If I can't love him
Let the world be done with me.
James notices that the last 2 lines are from a song of The Beauty And The Beast.
"I think, this is for you, Kendall", James says holding the letter towards Kendall.
Hey guys, I wrote this one shot for 'Love And Peace Forever's Disney Kogan Challenge.
I know the ending sucks as probably does the whole story but I kinda like it. So please, let me live, okay? ;) | <urn:uuid:600ebeca-ae70-411f-9e1c-ee216efdcd90> | https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7280522/1/If_I_Cant_Love_Him | en | 0.981702 | 0.069441 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
March 17 1998
A slight breeze blew through the windows of Shell Cottage as Fleur Weasley opened the door to check on Hermione Granger. The girl was sleeping soundly, cocooned in blankets and her bushy hair spread out on the pillow behind her. Fleur smiled. At least in slumber she looked peaceful. But as Fleur drew closer, she knew that it was all a facade. Dark circles casted unpleasant shadows under her eyes, and her skin was pale and sickly, due to the terrible conditions she had faced. Harry and Ron had refused to tell her anything, but Fleur was not stupid. She knew the signs of the Cruciatus Curse when she saw them.
Fleur glided over to the window and pulled the curtains away to allow soft, golden light to illuminate the room. Sunlight lit up Hermione's face and she stirred and fluttered her eyes. Fleur rushed to the girl's side.
"Hermione? Comment ça va?" she crooned, gently patting Hermione's forehead.
Hermione groaned and opened her brown eyes, staring into Fleur's perfect sapphire ovals.
"Where does it hurt, ma cherie?" Fleur asked.
"Ron," Hermione rasped.
With a nod, Fleur left the bed and called out for Ron at the top of the stairs. He appeared so fast, it was as though Fleur had summoned him with a summoning charm.
"She is asking for you," she told him. Ron said nothing and disappeared into the bedroom. His face was downcast as he knelt beside the bed and held Hermione's hand.
As Fleur watched them from the landing, she felt Bill's arms wrap around her waist. His long, red hair brushed her chin as he bent to kiss her smooth cheeks.
"Is she alright?"
"I think so," said Fleur with a smile, looking up into her husband's face. He was still so very handsome to her, even with the scars. A small hand reached up and traced lightly over the scars on his face, making Bill close his eyes at her touch.
"She is in safe hands now," said Fleur.
"As am I," said Bill and he drew his wife's lips up to meet his own. Bill had realised long ago that he was envied by many men for being with Fleur. Her Veela ancestry had favourably enhanced her features and she was by far the most beautiful woman Bill had laid eyes on. But as he ran his fingers through Fleur's curtain of silvery hair, he understood just how beautiful she really was. Compared to her compassion, her bravery and her kindness, Fleur's beauty was nothing. He knew that he was the luckiest man in the world.
Their intimate moment was interrupted by a wail erupting from Mr Ollivander's room. Fleur broke away and gave Bill an apologetic smile.
"Do what you must, love," he told her, giving her tiny hand a squeeze. He watched her hurry away to the nearest bedroom with a smile. Underneath her French stubbornness was genuine Weasley kindness.
"Monsieur?" Fleur asked as she ran to Mr Ollivander's side and began putting a damp cloth over his brow. A sheen of perspiration glistened on his forehead as he thrashed about in his sleep.
"No, no! I don't know anything! Please! I beg of you!" he screamed, throwing his head back on the pillow and releasing a piercing cry.
"Shhh, Monsieur!" said Fleur in her soothing, throaty voice. "C'est un dream, only a dream! Shh!"
Mr Ollivander opened his pale, translucent eyes. "Dream... only a dream..." he muttered.
"Oui, Monsieur, only a dream!" Fleur assured him.
Nodding his head slowly, Mr Ollivander closed his eyes and relaxed, immediately falling asleep. Fleur sighed. If her maman had told her that she would be tending to injured Goblins and wandmakers in her first house, Fleur would have merely scoffed. Now, she realised, it was all she was going to do until Mr Ollivander and the Goblin were fit enough to continue their work. She removed the cloth and placed it on the bedside table, before smoothing her apron and making her way to her bedroom.
"Fleur!" called Harry.
"Can I talk to the Goblin?"
Fleur glanced at the bedroom door doubtfully, a frown marring her angelic features.
"If you must," she said gravely. "But he is very weak."
Harry nodded and disappeared into the bedroom, followed by Ron and Hermione.
The bedroom Bill and Fleur shared was by far the grandest in the cottage. A magnificent view of the ocean was clearly visible from the large window. Bill was sitting on the bed, his hands bunched in the white duvet.
"What is it, ma cherie?" Fleur untied her apron and hung it on the door handle, before slipping out of her shoes and joining her husband.
"It's Ron!" Bill replied gruffly. "He shows up here with a dead house elf, an injured Goblin, a weak Mr Ollivander and a tortured Hermione, and doesn't tell me a bloody thing!"
"Shh," purred Fleur. A tiny white hand slipped into Bill's and another rubs his back gently. "Do not blame Ron. It is zis war zat is to blame!"
She took his face in her hands and traced his scars softly with her finger. "Wars can ruin faces, but zey can never ruin families. And your famille needs you to be strong, Guillaume!"
Bill smiled at the French equivalent of his name; his wife's nickname for him. He had often tried to pronounce it, but it sounded more beautiful when Fleur said it in her throaty, French accent.
"Do not be mad at your frère. He is doing what is best for his amis."
"Since where are the French so wise?" Bill joked.
Fleur smiled, "When zare husbands do not see sense!"
Bill captured her mouth with his and pulled her small frame closer to his. Memories of their wedding night came immediately to his mind. White sheets, silvery hair, pale skin, panted breaths. The fiasco at the Burrow had done little to halt their wedding.
Pushing Fleur backwards, Bill hovered over her and admired her tenderly. Her pale skin was slightly flushed with desire. Bill bent to kiss her again but she pulled back.
"Non, Guillaume. Zare are too many people in zis house! Someone could hear us!"
"Let them!" he proclaimed with a twinkle in his eye. "Let them hear me make love to my beautiful wife!"
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New Adobe Flash Exploit Could Give Any Website Access to Your Webcam
A Stanford computer science student named Feross Aboukhadijeh has uncovered a pretty major security hole in Adobe Flash, in which somebody could turn on your Mac's webcam and mic and save that video for whatever nefarious purposes. Oh good.
Basically Adobe has a webpage you can access that allows you to determine which sites can have access to your webcam and mic. There is a way rip the code from that site, make it invisible, and then embed it in a webpage. Users visiting the page are tricked into making a series of seemingly innocuous clicks in what appears to be, say, a Whack-a-Mole type game, but in actuality you're clicking though the process in Adobe's code that opens up your computer to this site. Suddenly they have streaming video and audio of you, and you're probably none the wiser.
Obviously, this is a major problem. One company could use it to spy on another. Or one could get caught going fapfapfap to some internet porn (no judgements) and suddenly find themselves the target of a blackmailing sceme. Currently the exploit only works on Mac computers and in Firefox and Safari browsers.
Apparently, Feross sent this bug to Adobe weeks ago, but he never heard anything back from them, so he decided to go public with it in order to force them to deal with it. It seems to have worked as Adobe has finally emailed him saying, "our product team is wrapping up their investigation and is now working on a fix, which should not require a Flash Player update." Hopefully they'll have a full fix implemented with a quickness, before anyone get's recorded playing one-handed whack-a-mole, if you get my subtle innuendo. [ via The Register]
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I've heard and seen religious Jews painting the backs of the tefillin straps black, and they claim a kabbalistic reason somewhere in the Schulchan Auruch. Does anyone know anything about this, the reason, and source?
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Welcome to Mi Yodeya Sam! Nice question. – Bruce James Dec 24 '13 at 0:12
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There are opinions that this makes the Tefillin a more beautiful Mitzvah. Although the Arizal may be one of them, the Rambam, the Or Zarua and others who are not regarded as kabbalistic in their rulings also rule this way.
The general custom is to not do this, but as you noted, there are those who follow those opinions. Nobody puts it as a requirement (except perhaps some Kabbalists, depending on their understanding of the Arizal), but rather as a Hiddur Mitzvah.
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When I upload my fully working codeigniter app on live server it did not find any controller and cotroller action.
For example:
my local url is:
Yes, It works fine, But when I upload the same thing and url becomes:
It does not work. Shows error that cant fine the controller. I am wondering why it is happening so while it is working on local server. Kindly help
controller code:
class Ajaxification extends CI_Controller{
public function __construct() {
public function Index(){
public function getUserDetail(){
$uid = $_REQUEST['uid'];
echo $this->MAjaxification->getUserdetail($uid);
// echo "A test response";
public function getRandomUser(){
$top = $_REQUEST['top'];
$left = $_REQUEST['lef'];
// $this->load->model('MAjaxification');
// print_r($this->MAjaxification->getRandomDonoers());*/
$res= $this->db->get();
foreach ($res->result() as $row)
?> <div style="border:0px solid black; width: 31px; height: 29px; float: left;">
<a onclick="getUserinfoDetail('<?=$row->userid?>')" href="javascript:void(0)"><img width="40" height="40" src="../profile_pix/<?=$row->pic; ?>" /></a>
private function countUsers(){
return $res->num_rows();
function getRandUser($f=1,$t){
$index = rand($f, $t);
return $index;
public function testme(){
echo "This is a test";
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Can you provide us with link to site? It might be misconfigured install or are you sure you have uploaded all files? – Raimonds Oct 1 '11 at 9:01
dustyfeet.designers99.com/index.php/ajaxification/testme You can see that dustyfeet.designers99.com is working my base_url is: $config['base_url'] = 'dustyfeet.designers99.com/';; – Kannu Oct 1 '11 at 9:10
Check CASE of filename. – Usman Oct 1 '11 at 9:13
Other Controllers looks like work, are you sure there is this controller? Please paste the code of that controller please? – Raimonds Oct 1 '11 at 9:16
Yes, it is working on my local server – Kannu Oct 1 '11 at 9:18
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I never worked with Codeigniter, but if it is similar to Kohana, you have to setup the base_url. [EDIT] Check this post from CodeIgniter forum: https://github.com/EllisLab/CodeIgniter/wiki/Automatic-configbase-url
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base_url is alreay set up and working – Kannu Oct 1 '11 at 8:52
I think this problem may be related to some configs in application config folder routes.php :
• $route['default_controller'] you should be set it to the default controller
config.php :
• $config['base_url'] should be '' if you used the htaccess rules to remove index.php in the URL and also the .htaccess file in the app directory may be causing this problem
Also the controller filename must be the same name of the class which extends the CI_Controller
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Shahul X
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Dream Car... take it over any ferrari/lambo etc....
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Looks like incredible fun, and is something out of my league which I will likely never even see, let alone drive. But I find the figures on the motor disappointing. A 2.3L IL 4 putting out only 285 hp/torque only moderately impressive if it is not turbo charged. If it is not turbocharged, I have to ask why not? There are plenty of examples reliable and well performing small displacement, turbocharged 2-2.5L 4 cylinders on the market today. Why not source a mill that makes more power or weighs less with same output built on one of these proven designs? Lets not forget that Honda made 200hp/torque out of a 2.0L IL4 15 years ago in a modified stock block for the S2000. Once you account for the 14% difference in displacement, that's only about a 5.9% gain in efficiency in all that time. Considering that the Mono is mostly a track day car and doesn't have to live up to the Honda legend of reliability, I expect more output, turbo or not. If it doesn't need more power, and I doubt it does need more power, then cut the displacement down and save the weight. They are excited about offering brake rotors that would save around 10-12 kilos, cutting this to a turbo 1.8L IL3 would have save more than that.
Joao Carmo
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I think the lack of a turbo is because they are prone to heat, complexity and reliability issues for what is primarily a track car. Packaging becomes an issue as well, where would you place the intercooler would be the most obvious concern of mine. Also your figures are incorrect. Honda never made a 2L with 200hp and 200tq. The highest outputs I could find for the following Honda engines; K20 201hp/142tq, K24 201hp/174tq, F22 240hp/162tq. 285hp and 206tq from a NA 2.3L is pretty damn impressive with a specific output of 124hp and 90tq per liter. Honda manages a still stellar 109hp and 74tq per liter from the F22. This makes sense since the Cosworth unit isn't a production line engine but a race bred one. Given the facts I just don't see how it's a disappointing engine, especially considering the power to weight ratio of this thing. I'll take a responsive NA engine versus one prone to lag and heat soak any day in this car.
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Awesome for sure kinda odd that they said "nothing else like it" several times.... Are we to assume they've never heard of the Atom and X-Bow? They are quite similar | <urn:uuid:514fc92b-2c9c-4ab0-a969-e1fca772c060> | http://www.autoblog.com/2014/05/20/xcar-behind-wheel-bac-mono-video/ | en | 0.957742 | 0.381556 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
EXTREMELY cool 3D Space Station video - taken from the ground!
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May 14 2010 7:00 AM
EXTREMELY cool 3D Space Station video - taken from the ground!
I've written about Thierry Legault's phenomenal imagery of space before; with relatively modest equipment, but excellent foresight, he gets astronomical shots of surpassing beauty.
He sent me a note earlier that he had something new and cool, and he wasn't kidding: a video of the ISS in 3D!
Phil Plait Phil Plait
Coooooooool. To see it in 3D you don't need glasses; it's a bit like those Magic Eye posters. Look at the video, and cross your eyes slightly to merge the left and right images into one. Then hit play (move your mouse into the frame to get the video controls). It may take you a while to get the hang of it, but it's worth the effort! I found it easiest to do when my eyes were about 50 cm (18 inches) from my monitor; for reference, on my screen the image of the ISS is about 8 cm (3 inches) high.
What you're seeing here is actually only one video of the ISS. As it orbits the Earth, the ISS actually keeps the same attitude -- that is, the same physical orientation. It only seems to rotate because Thierry centered it in the video. Take an orange or something like it in your hand, and move it straight across your field of vision. If you start on the right, you'll be able to see more of the left side of the orange; as you move it to the left you'll start to see more of the right side of the orange. It's as if it's rotating, but really you're just changing the angle between you and the two sides of the orange. If you keep your head pointed right at the orange as it passes, you can see this more clearly. Note that it gets bigger as it gets closer, just as the ISS does in the video.
What Thierry did then was pretty tricky: he offset the left video in time a bit from the one on the right. We see 3D with our eyes because the angle from our left eye to an object is slightly different than the angle using our right eye (this effect is called parallax). Our brain processes these slightly different angles to construct an object with depth -- it's how all 3D works, from red-green anaglyphs to movies in the theater. And since the ISS was apparently rotating with time in the video, all Thierry had to do was offset the two videos a bit to trick the brain into thinking it's seeing two different angles from your eyes; the brain does the rest.
Note that the ISS was over 300 km away when he took these shots on April 24th from France. It was also moving at over a degree per second across the sky, which is pretty fast. To make the animation cleaner, he took every 15 frames and combined them, a standard practice to make fuzzy images somewhat sharper. He also sped the animation up 2.5 times.
This video is extremely well done, and a fantastic exercise in clever thinking. Thierry continues to amaze me every time he does something new... but he'll have a hard time topping this!
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Doing The Backstroke
Yay! Weeds! Man, I missed this show. Last time we saw Agrestic, it was like this: Nancy had sixteen guns pointed at her head by both U-Turn and the less-than-neighborly Keshisyan group, and no pot to give any of them. Peter was dead outside, thank the Lord, and adorable Sanjay was in the grow house closet. Pouting worthless Silas had absconded with all the pot and was pulled over by cops and the more-than-usually insane Celia. Shane and Kat were in a high-speed chase with her bounty hunter Abumchuk, joined by Andy. Huskaroos continued to rule unabated.
Now: An overexcited mommy of a complainy family grew up in the grow house apparently, and because of complainy daughter's complainy bladder, they just let themselves right in. This is why you must forget your past and all that goes with it: nostalgia leads to things like bumbling into the middle of drug deals gone astoundingly south. All the angry drug dealer people hide their guns when the little girl stumbles into the kitchen, having missed her shot. U-Turn gets chatty with the Complainers, but really he is threatening them with death. Nancy begs with her eyeballs for them to help out with her situation, but the Complainers just want to bug out. U-Turn offers them the chance to hit the "reset button" and they leave, the little girl waving happily on her way out. They chorus a goodbye and then turn their guns back on Nancy and each other. Many redundant playground F-bombs are dropped until Conrad points out that they are screwed until the pot reappears. Nancy dials out again but can't get a signal; the entire house groans together in exasperation.
Celia strides up to Silas and the cops, screaming about his various vandalism behaviors related to her Drug-Free initiative. Much bavardage occurs in which Celia gets the keys to Silas's car and spits in his face about his total worthlessness. That part was tight. The Silas Takedown should be part of her daily regimen.
Nancy searches for bars all around the kitchen while the Armenians and U-Turn people chat; Silas's phone rings and Celia answers from the car. Celia delights in telling Nancy her awful son has been arrested, like the frenemy crap even signifies right now, and Nancy hangs up, telling the assembled dealers that they need to bounce and go find Celia. She promises to locate the pot and Conrad offers to stand as collateral. Each of the interested parties sends a person with her -- no raping, Keshisyan yuckily explains to his guy -- and Conrad settles in to wait, as ever, on Nancy's issues. I swear Conrad is the only person that ever takes anything seriously. Problem is, he takes everything seriously. He's my hero.
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Switchgrass may be a few years away from being used in cellulosic ethanol production, but its growth curve could make it an option today as a forage companion to tall fescue, according to research at the University of Tennessee, presented at the Milan No-Till Field Day in Milan, Tenn.
Gary Bates, professor, Extension coordinator, University of Tennessee Plant Sciences, said the growth curve of tall fescue shows good development in the spring and the fall, but the plant is not adapted to high temperatures and periods without rainfall, so forage production slumps during the summer.
But warm-season grasses such as switchgrass have the opposite growth curve, he says. “When fescue is starting to slump in June, July and August, switchgrass grows best. So animals could graze on the switchgrass during this time and you could rest the fescue. Last year was perfect example. If you just had fescue to graze, you really struggled.”
Bates says quality objectives for switchgrass are different for forage than for biofuel. “What makes a really good biofuel crop — low nitrogen content, low energy and a lot of fiber — makes a very poor hay crop. For a hay crop, we want a lot of protein, a lot of energy and very little fiber. So it's just a matter of how you manage the crop.”
Research indicates that annual switchgrass yields are not significantly different between a one-time harvest and a two-time harvest. However the forage quality from a one-time harvest late in the year “is pretty rough. The November cut was only getting 2 to 3 percent protein. That is not going to meet the needs of a cow during the winter.”
Work done on two switchgrass varieties, Cave-in-Rock and Alamo, showed that if either is harvested early enough in the year, “you can get a protein content that is 12 percent to 14 percent protein. That's good quality for livestock. But the later you wait to harvest it, the lower the protein. Every forage crop follows this same type of curve. When you cut it early, it's good. If you cut it late, it's bad.”
Other warm-season grasses, bermudagrass, pearl millet and crabgrass, are the same way, Bates says. “If you cut them when they're vegetative and they don't have a seed head, you get 15 to 16 percent protein. If you wait to harvest until they start producing a head, they have 6 to 8 percent protein. So it relates to maturity.”
Extra management is required for switchgrass, Bates stressed. “Traditionally fescue hay is cut when there's a break in the weather, when we have a week to get it laid down and dried. If we cut fescue before it produces a seed head, we can get 14 to 15 percent protein. In west Tennessee, that's going to be in the first week of May. Even if I cut in the first week of June, it will still be 10 percent protein and the cow will do fine. So I have a month window for cutting and still can get a good hay crop.
“We don't have quite as much leeway with switchgrass. Our research showed that quality started dropping long before it produced heavier stems to support a seedhead. You have to get it out when it's relatively young, about 30 inches tall. If you wait past that, you'll start getting lower nutrient quality.”
Producers can also use switchgrass in grazing programs, according to Bates. “Research in Nebraska on two different types of switchgrass indicate gains for steers of 1 to -2 pounds per day. The point is if you get rainfall, you get good gains. If you have a drought, your weight gain might be lower.
“But you have to be careful. The biggest hesitation on using switchgrass as a grazing crop is the harvesting height. If you start cutting or grazing down below 6 to 8 inches, you start to weaken your plants. It's harder for them to come back when you remove the growing points.
“So if you use switchgrass for grazing, you need to have some level of a rotational grazing program. You can't just chunk the cattle out there and say, ‘go at it, girls.’”
In the future, the beauty of switchgrass could be giving the producer flexibility to use it as either a forage or biofuel, according to Bates.
“If it's used as a biofuel, it's allowed to grow for the entire year and gets to 7 to 8 feet tall. The first week in November after a few frosts, it goes dormant, then it's harvested for cellulosic ethanol.”
“If you had 10 to 20 acres of switchgrass that was supposed to go to a biofuel crop, you could take the first cutting off 10 acres for hay, then let everything from that point on go to a biofuels crop. Yes, I'll cut my biofuel yields down a little bit, but maybe the value of it as hay crop early would offset that.”
Planting switchgrass could be a good hedge against weather too, noted Bates. “Think about last year, the Easter weekend when we had that freeze. When producers cut their hay crop in the spring, they knew they had about half the hay crop they needed.
“It would have been good to have some warm-season grass out there.”
Bates doesn't believe switchgrass could turn into a weed problem in other crop fields.
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For other uses, see Tulipwood (disambiguation).
Brazilian tulipwood
Most commonly, tulipwood is the pinkish yellowish wood yielded from the tuliptree, found on the Eastern side of North America and also in some parts of China. In the United States, it is commonly known as tulip poplar or yellow poplar, even though the tree is not related to the poplars. In fact, the reference to poplar is a result of the tree's height, which can exceed 100 feet. The wood is very light, around 490 kg per cubic meter,[1] but very strong and is used in many applications, including furniture, joinery and moldings. It can also be stained very easily and is often used as a low-cost alternative to walnut and cherry in furniture and doors.
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Brazilian tulipwood is a different species. A classic high-quality wood, it is very dense with a lovely figure. It is used for inlays in furniture and for small turned items. Available only in small sizes, it is rarely used in the solid for luxury furniture. Like other woods with a pronounced figure it is rather strongly subject to fashion.
In the nineteenth century Brazilian tulipwood was thought to be the product of Physocalymma scaberrima, but in the twentieth century it became clear it was yielded by a species of Dalbergia. At some point it was misidentified as Dalbergia frutescens var. tomentosa, a misidentification which can still be found in books aimed at the woodworker. For some decades it has been known to be yielded by Dalbergia decipularis, a species restricted to a small area in Brazil.
There also exists the Australian "tulipwood", the common name of Harpullia. Certain varieties of Harpullia were prized for their dark coloured timber. The one most commonly known to horticulture is H. pendula which is widely planted as a street tree along the east coast of Australia.
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Do you like Timid or Modest on (Mega) Gardevoir?
#1TheFAQKingPosted 11/29/2013 12:42:47 AM
I know most people like Timid, but I just bred a 5IV Modest and that's what I'm going to run. To put a little more fear in those dragons.
#2Dante2049Posted 11/29/2013 12:44:21 AM
modest is fine. Enjoy it ^^
#3The_DragonwPosted 11/29/2013 12:45:09 AM
I just stuck with the one given to you...
It might look cool Shiny but oh well.
#4Izaya_sanPosted 11/29/2013 12:49:13 AM
I usually stick with Naughty Nature, because that alone results in preg-Mega Gardevoir.
Anyways, Modest.
#5kitsuruPosted 11/29/2013 12:54:44 AM
Modest works for me. I like to use screens and pass her some Acid Armor boosts to ensure that if she doesn't need to outspeed.
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Being 15, it wasn't actually that long ago that I watched all the Disney Classics, but this always stands out as a great one for me. I remember watching this as much as physically possible for so long - i knew every word to all the songs, and still love "I won't say I'm in love" and "I can go the distance" They really stand out as great songs and mature for a child's film. I'm not particularly keen on the new disney films, they tend to avoid the old Classic routine, so my friend and I always remonise our old memories of them.
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Heidi Wolfsberger
Wolfsberger is new to the marathon, but has proven she's ready to take on the competition at the Olympic marathon trials.
March 19, 2008
Well, you moved up a few places late in the race. You obviously were running well within yourself. Were you surprised to feel that good that late in the race?
Yeah. I was just wondering when I was going to hit that wall. You hear a lot of stories about how it could hit you in mile 24 or 25. I was just hoping that that wouldn't happen.
What had your mileage gotten up to in this marathon training period?
It was probably around 75 or 80 miles a week at the most.
From looking at the Moravian College records, without any false modesty on your part, it seems like you're the best female middle distance and distance runner that they've ever had .... Now you can say "aw, shucks."
You still have quite a lot of the records there. Were you a high school runner who might have been able to go to a Division I school if you wanted to?
Well, I really came on late (in high school). My senior track season is when I really started progressing. I just had more desire and got into it. I was a state champion, but that was my senior year, in the two-mile (actually 3200 meters, in Pennsylvania). In my fall cross country season, I was the last person to qualify for States and I did horribly at the state meet. I know that's when they do a lot of recruiting. I thought I was going to stay local, that was the other thing. I was happy to go as far as Bethlehem (to Moravian).
Did you get go to NCAA Division III Championships?
I went several times. In cross country, we went all those years as a team. I finished 28th as a freshman, 26th a sophomore, and then second my junior and senior year.
Even though you did quite well at the shorter stuff, do you think these longer distances like the half-marathon and marathon may be your metier?
I'm not really sure. I have no idea what I can do yet. I'm very, very new to everything. I'd like to up my miles and see where that leads. I don't think that even on April 20 (the Trials date) that I'll be in the best shape for this distance. I think I'll need more experience for that.
And your job now is assistant cross country coach at Marywood University (in Scranton)?
And I'm a fourth-grade teacher.
How did Marywood do in cross country this year?
They did well. The men are building, and the women won their league (Pennsylvania Athletic Conference) meet for the fifth year in a row.
Do you run with the team?
I'm a morning person, so in the fall I'd do mine before I went to school. Sometimes I would meet team members, and afternoons, sometimes I'd run with the team and sometimes I wouldn't.
You've had some pretty good success at local races in recent years - like the Run For The Cookies (in Berwick). What do they give you for winning that?
A baker's dozen of cookies. They give you raisin and cherry cookies.
What will you do next?
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No weather Full Offensive. 11-1 at 1800 Rating on Showdown
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That being said, I'm confident that this is a top tier team. I went 11-1 on my Showdown account : "Always" while testing this team. This full on offensive team makes game really fast paced, usually the match is decided in 15 or so turns, which is why I love it so much. (In reality it's because I have no clue how to use a stall team.)
*Reminder : I am not analyzing in depth every individual member but rather the whole team and what your game plan should be with this team.*
Terrakion @ Focus Sash
4Hp / 252Atk / 252Spe - Jolly
Close Combat
Stone Edge
Stealth Rock
It's your typical suicide lead. I might consider Hp Ice for those pesky Gliscors.
Dragonite @ Lum Berry
4Hp / 252Atk / 252Spe - Adamant
Dragon Dance
Fire Punch
Earthquake / Extremespeed
Although every member is crucial, Dragonite is the absolute MOST important member. Earthquake helps a lot with Jirachi, which my team is weak to several variants of them, and Xspeed is useful in general when I can't get a DD in.
Latios @ Choice Specs
4Hp / 252SpA / 252Spe - Timid
Draco Meteor
Dragon Pulse
Draco Meteor and Dragon Pulse are essential, don't try to waste your time suggesting to replace one of them. Explanation later
Breloom @ Life Orb
4Hp / 252Atk / 252Spe - Adamant
Mach Punch
Bullet Seed
Low Sweep / Swords Dance
Low Sweep sounds better on paper, since you really don't need more power with the ridiculous power Bullet Seed has. I consider Swords Dance more gimmicky since it can help you make great comebacks but not that useful in general.
Rotom-W @ Leftovers
184Hp / 4Def / 144SpA / 176 Spe - Modest
Thunder Wave
Hydro Pump
Volt Switch
Hidden Power Grass
Ripped straight off Smogon's strategy dex. Deals with a lot of this teams counters. I find Will-O-Wisp pointless as I'm not trying to be defensive with this team, I'd much rather paralyze. HP grass for Gastrodon.
Jirachi @ Expert Belt
80Hp / 252atk / 176Spe
Fire Punch
Ice Punch
Iron Head
~Has surprise value, adds a lot of diversity, momentum with U-turn and checks some counters. Might be the only member I consider replacing since often find its usefulness underwhelming. It used to be a Scizor but I had too much trouble dealing with Gliscor.~
**GAME PLAN**
1. The opening.
Analyze opponents team. If they are a rain team, usually leading with Rotom-W walks all over them. With Hp Grass, there are nothing that are immune to Volt Turn that can beat Rotom-W. The best case scenario they open with something weak to Volt turn, like Politoed, just Volt turn blindly, and you will always win the match up. If you feel like they are going for Ferrothorn, though, go for Terrakion. For any other team, Terrakion is your best bet, since the worst case scenario is you set up stealth rock and hopefully get some damage in, and with some prediction Taunt them so they don't get Stealth Rocks up. If they have something that is very weak to Stealth Rock and they have a spinner, it might be a good idea to keep Terrakion alive until Stealth Rock is no longer needed. In some occasions opening with Latios also works, if you feel like they won't start with a steel type and they don't have a Tyranitar, you can get some free damage.
2. Early game. (Opponent has 5-6 Pokes or total health 400%+ Left)
-If they have few steel types that aren't really bulky enough to take a lot of Draco Meteors, then try to dent their steel types as hard as possible while not letting Latios die, by spamming Draco Meteor. Sometimes I Draco Meteor away even if they have a Tyranitar, because I know if they're smart they aren't going to let Ttar die before my Latios does (since Ttar doesn't serve much other purpose with sand in), and there would be no point to keeping Latios alive.
-If there is any chance for a free dragon dance with Dragonite, do it, even if it's early game. There are absolutely no full health Dragonite counters with a DD in, and you are more than likely taking down at least 2 pokemon with Dragonite. Except for some very rare scarfers, keep an eye out for stuff like these.
-Try to switch in Dragonite before they set up Stealth Rocks. Don't think it must be a late game sweeper. In a lot of cases, if their team is very weak to Dragonite, sacrificing Terrakion taunting something just to ensure it doesn't set up Stealth Rock is worth it.
-If there is any chance for Breloom to safely come in on something slower, do it, and Spore. With the exception they have a perfectly healthy Toxic'd Gliscor or Espeon.
Only do the above when you are very certain >95% probability. Because you don't want your Dragons dying early to surprise attacks.
3. Mid game (Opponent has 3-4 Pokes or total health 250-400% Left)
Look at what pokes they have left, Sleeping pokes thanks to Breloom are considered dead. Take note of how much health their steel types have left. When possible, switch in Latios and choose between Draco Meteor and Dragon Pulse, depending on the KO range. If you are doing this correctly, every time Latios is switched in something on their side should die. Determine which of your pokemon is useless against what they have left, and expend them using them as free switches. Use Jirachi and Rotom-W as momentum rollers (as I like to call U-turner and Volt-Switchers.).
4. Late game (Opponent has 1-2 Pokes or total health less than 250%)
By this stage, every step should be like a simple puzzle if you are any good. There usually aren't much to say here. Either Breloom can Mach Punch everything, Dragonite can DD/Extremespeed everything, or Latios can Dragon Pulse everything.
Problems for my team :
Choice Specs Jolteon. Especially when I somehow can't get Stealth Rock up it can just spam Volt Turn, and when my team is weakened, thunderbolt/thunder.
Gliscor with toxic. Toxicing my Latios and Rotom-W, once these two are out I can't beat Gliscor.
Please leave any suggestions, I'm mostly looking to replace Jirachi. Its main role is to check Outraging/Choiced Dragons, Tornadus, Lucario, U-Turn and be able to dent Gliscor. Scarf Genesect would be perfect if it wasn't uber.
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Mystery bird: Madagascar blue vanga, Cyanolanius madagascarinus
This striking mystery bird is unique amongst its family because it is the only one NOT endemic to Madagascar (includes audio)
Madagascar blue vanga, Cyanolanius madagascarinus (protonym, Loxia madagascarina), Linnaeus, 1766, photographed at Zombitse National Park, Atsimo-Andrefana region, Madagascar.
Image: Nick Athanas/Tropical Birding, 10 November 2010 (with permission) [velociraptorize].
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Question: After yesterday's mystery bird (which remains a mystery to all of us, apparently!), I've got blue plumage colour on my mind once again, so of course, I can't resist sharing this beauty with you. This Madagascan mystery bird is part of a small taxonomic family we've not seen here before. This species is unique amongst its family members. Can you tell me why? Can you identify this bird's taxonomic family and species?
Response: This is an adult male Madagascar blue vanga, Cyanolanius madagascarinus. This bird is a member of a small shrike-like family, Vangidae. Although we do know that the vangas are songbirds, we're not sure about the specifics of their relationships with other passerines, and indeed, in some cases, we're not entirely sure which birds are vangas.
In general, vangas are small- to medium-sized birds and they have strong similarities in their skull shape and bony palate structure. However, the vangas are quite variable and, having evolved from a single founding population, they are a lovely example of adaptive radiation. The vangas diversified to occupy the various niches on Madagascar that are typically occupied by other bird families in other parts of the world. For example, some vangids resemble shrikes whilst others look a lot like babblers or flycatchers. Further, some studies indicate that several Old World babbler and flycatcher species on Madagascar are actually vangas [doi:10.1006/mpev.1999.0684 & doi:10.1111/j.0014-3820.2001.tb00639.x].
Madagascar blue vangas are unique amongst their relatives (as we currently know this family) because they are the only vanga that is not a Madagascar endemic; a population is also found on the Comoro Islands. Also, unlike their relatives, which have black, brown or grey upperparts, the blue vanga is, well, blue on top. Blue vangas are also distinct from all but one of their relatives because they occasionally supplement their carnivorous diet with fruit.
The blue vanga is fairly common and widespread in woodlands on Madagascar and on the Comoros islands and Mayotte.
Embedded below is a 1 minute recording of a pair of blue vangas responding to playback, courtesy of Xeno-Canto:
(recorded on 25 November 2010 by Nick Athanas at Mananara Lodge, Anjozorobe, Madagascar [audio link]).
Oh, and speaking of relationships; I admit I am very curious to know why Linnaeus originally placed this species into the genus Loxia (the crossbills). Does anyone know what his reasoning was?
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The 3 remaining towers of the NSS Annapolis.
NSS Annapolis, officially known as Naval Communications Station Washington, D.C. Transmitter or NavCommStaWashingtonDC(T), was a Very Low Frequency (VLF) and High Frequency (HF) transmitter station operated by the United States Navy.
It was located at Greenbury Point, in Anne Arundel County, across the Severn River from Annapolis, Maryland at coordinates 38°58′40″N 76°27′12″W / 38.97778°N 76.45333°W / 38.97778; -76.45333. NSS Annapolis was used by the USN for submarine communication. The station consisted of an umbrella antenna supported by a 1,200-foot (365.76 m) high central mast, which was insulated against ground, 6 guyed masts of 800-foot (243.84 m) and 3 freestanding towers of the same height.
The huge towers were a local landmark, and served as a visual reporting point for aircraft landing at the nearby Baltimore-Washington International (BWI) airport. A golf course ran through the VLF antenna farm; special rules addressed hitting a tower with a ball (usually stroke and distance). The NSS HF receiver station, and the headquarters for NavCommStaWashingtonDC(T), was located at the Naval Communications Station in Cheltenham, Maryland until 1969. In late 1969, the receiver station at Cheltenham closed and a new receiver station was activated at Sugar Grove, West Virginia.
NSS began transmitting in September, 1918 using 500 kilowatt Poulson Arc transmitters. However, arc transmitters were significantly inferior to the then state-of-the-art Alexanderson alternator and the arc transmitters were replaced by more modern vacuum tube transmitters in 1931. VLF, or "longwave" radio was the standard at the time for long range radio transmission, later to be generally replaced by shortwave.
VLF later became essential for communicating with submerged submarines, a critically important capability as submarines became strategic missile platforms. The NSS transmitter fed one million watts of radio energy to its antenna, and during idle times, transmitted the string "W W W VVV VVV VVV DE NSS NSS NSS" in Morse code. The power was so high and the frequency so low, one could hear the signal on practically any kind of receiver anywhere in the Annapolis area (not to mention within some people's dental work). Actual messages were also sent in Morse code, but were either prearranged code signals or were encrypted.
Rendered obsolete by satellite technology and the end of the cold war, NSS ceased operation and most of all of the antennas and most of the towers were demolished in 1999. Only three of the smaller towers were preserved for historic reasons.
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Argonne nanoscientist Elena Rozhkova is studying ways to enlist nanoparticles to treat brain cancer. This nano-bio technology may eventually provide an alternative form of therapy that targets only cancer cells and does not affect normal living tissue. View the entire Lab Breakthrough playlist.
Argonne National Lab researcher Elena Rozhkova and other scientists are capable of building materials atom by atom and controlling their advanced functions. Such materials can be used to manipulate, control, and repair biological systems at unprecedentedly small scales. She talks a bit about the effect of these machines on medicine and technology.
Question: What makes the breakthrough so exciting for doctors and patients?
Elena Rozhkova: “Nano” is a big trend these days, and there are great expectations that it will revolutionize technology and overcome our civilization’s challenges, including a sustainable energy supply, information storage, and medical treatments for diseases such as cancer, which is what we’re working on. Current treatments such as chemotherapy and radiotherapy, developed in the last century, cannot win a battle with the deadly disease. But nanotechnology is expected to lead to a new generation of diagnostic and therapeutic technologies, dramatically improving the quality of life for millions.
Q: What about your facilities specific resources made it the right place to develop this technology?
ER: The Center for Nanoscale Materials at Argonne National Laboratory is a user facility that provides expertise and instruments for interdisciplinary nanoscience and nanotechnology research.The CNM user program is open to academia, industry, and government agencies worldwide. CNM’s staff scientists have strong backgrounds in physics, chemistry, materials, and life sciences, which allows us to help medical doctors answer questions in nanoscience and nanotechnology.
ER: Our principles are inspired by biology. For example, we use a high-efficiency photocatalyst called titanium dioxide — a white pigment known from ancient times — to build what’s called a nano-bio catalyst. This is a nanoparticle that triggers specific reactions in cells. The particle attaches to unwanted (tumor) cells, and when we shine light on them, they kill the cells through oxidation. In another example, magnetic disks attach to tumor cells. When we apply a very weak magnetic field, the disks trigger receptors that cause the cells to begin apoptosis, or "cell suicide".
We know how to build materials with desired structures and “tune” their photophysical and magnetic properties. While these materials are mainly developed for energy, catalysis, and information storage technologies, they can also be introduced to natural systems to manipulate complex biochemical machinery. Finally, in our collaborative user projects, we translate similar principles to apply these materials for advanced medical technologies.
Q: These are pretty futuristic technologies. If this works, could it possibly mean the end of cancer?
ER: We are fortunate to live in an incredible time in which the field of nanotechnology is vigorously expanding—and nanotechnology itself is a very futuristic, cross-disciplinary field of research and technology. Now scientists are capable of building materials atom by atom and controlling their advanced functions. Such materials can be used to manipulate, control, and repair biological systems at unprecedentedly small scales, all the way down to proteins and DNA. It is very possible that we are going to witness how scientific progress will put an end to a fatal disease.
Q: Could these processes have other applications in medicine? Or even outside of medicine?
ER: Yes. Titanium dioxide has been used to degrade harmful microorganisms, and serve for photocatalytic cleaning and disinfection. Once it is tagged with biological molecules such as proteins or nucleic acids, it can recognize and demolish unwanted cells such as tumors, atherosclerosis plaques, and thrombi, and selectively knock down genes involved in illness development. Magnetic disks can be also used for cancer diagnostics and drug delivery.
Outside of medicine, they can be used in “liquid armor,” a fluid that hardens upon magnetic field application.
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My MacBook seems to be really slow these days, no matter what I do. On Windows I had so many choices to figure out what's taking memory, CPU cycles and what not and take action appropriately.
Wondering if there is an equivalent alternative for Mac OS X for what Task Manager is for Windows?
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As an aside, as the title of your question may bring people here: Opt-Cmd-Esc to get the Force Quit dialog. – Arjan May 1 '10 at 7:26
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Activity Monitor. It's included with OS X. Just look in your Applications/Utilities folder or use Spotlight to find and open it.
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I wish they made this as part of the "Apple" menu. Pretty basic stuff that can save some people some vent fan heat ;) Thank you! – DemoGeek Aug 18 '09 at 19:19
Activity Monitor found in Applications/Utilities folder.
O'Reilly Mac Dev Centre has a good run down on how to "read it". And Peek-a-boo is a good way to show you how processes connect to one another.
Although if you really want to know what your system's up to, I'd recommend iStat pro.
istat pro
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I run iStatPro but that doesn't give me the details on what process is juicing up my CPU cycles. – DemoGeek Aug 18 '09 at 19:20
no, but is shows you what processes are running. – cust0s Aug 18 '09 at 20:42
As others have answered, Activity Monitor in /Applications/Utilities/ is the most direct equivalent to the Windows Task Manager, but there are other options..
I mainly use iStat Menus to work out which application is using up all the CPU time..
Instead of having to launch Activity Monitor (which takes a few seconds to start), I just click the little CPU menu bar item, and it lists the current top processes:
iStat Menus CPU menu
You can also use the "top" command instead of Activity Montior (it's quicker to launch also). Just run the top command in a terminal:
the top command
I have an alias ltop which launches top, ordered by CPU usage, with a few flags to reduce it's CPU usage (reduces it's accuracy with regards to memory usage, but uses about 2% CPU instead of about 10-12% by default):
alias ltop='top -F -R -t -o cpu'
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or alternate is htop – Jakub Oct 28 '11 at 15:16
One thing that will help when using Activity Monitor is to add columns of information (exactly the same as Process Explorer). Right-click on the process columns and you can add significant additional info:
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Another important piece of information to look at in activity monitor is your paging:
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What this shows is how much hard disk page swaps have occurred and how much swap memory is physically written to disk. If you see active page ins/outs, then an application is forcing swapping.
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Also, interesting to note that you have a shortcut ( that took me a year to remember ) to quick access that:
Super handy ( as Task Manager in Windows is super super handy )
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Tasks Explorer, which is close to Activity Monitor, although has some features which Activity Monitor does not have (process environment, used shared libraries, opened files, exported symbols).
I also find useful htop utility from *nix-world (available in macports).
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You can check out "Mac Helpmate" to tidy up your OS.
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A powerful utility (CLI) is process explorer from mac, available here. It emulates Linux top with Mac OS X and iOS specific options, and is also grep-able.
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AMD's heterogeneous queuing aims to make CPU, GPU more equal partners
— 12:20 AM on October 22, 2013
Slowly but surely, details about AMD's Heterogeneous Systems Architecture are trickling out. In April, we learned about hUMA, which will allow the Kaveri APU's CPU and GPU components to access each others' memory. Today, we can tell you about hQ. Otherwise known as heterogeneous queuing, hQ defines how work is distributed to the processor's CPU and GPU.
The current queuing model allows applications to generate work for the CPU. The CPU can generate work for itself, too, and it does so efficiently. However, passing tasks to the GPU requires going through the OS, adding latency. The GPU is also a second-class citizen in this relationship; it can't generate work for itself or for the CPU.
Heterogeneous queuing aims to make the CPU and GPU equal partners. It allows both components to generate tasks for themselves and for each other. Work is packaged using a standard packet format that will be supported by all HSA-compatible hardware, so there's no need for software to use vendor-specific code. Applications can put packets directly into the task queues accessed by the hardware. Each application can have multiple task queues, and a virtualization layer allows HSA hardware to see all the queues.
AMD's current hQ implementation uses hardware-based scheduling to manage how the CPU and GPU access those queues. However, that approach may not be required by the final HSA specification. Although hQ is definitely part of the spec, AMD says the OS could get involved in switching the CPU and GPU between the various task queues.
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Is the McDonnell Case Overblown?
Former Virginia governor Bob McDonnell and his wife have been indicted on 14 criminal counts by the Department of Justice, related to gifts he received from a businessman named Jonnie Williams, work he did promoting Williams’s nutritional-supplement maker in various capacities as the state’s chief executive, and a few other activities. There’s no question that McDonnell made serious mistakes, as he surely knows, and he was dishonest, but did he do something that’s really worthy of a federal criminal indictment?
Rachel Maddow suggested on her show last night that his crime was comparable to Rod Blagojevich’s attempt to sell a U.S. Senate seat. What did McDonnell do? He (allegedly) accepted a ton of fancy gifts while suggesting to Williams that he’d help promote the company, did quite minor things as governor to actually promote the company, lied about one item on two different loan applications. His wife allegedly wrote a note to Williams claiming, falsely, she’d return the gifts. The federal indictment alleges this adds up to bribery and a criminal conspiracy. Obviously what McDonnell did was wrong, and dishonest — there’s a reason why he tried so hard to keep the gifts secret, and made sure to avoid having to disclose that his family held stock in the nutritional company (disposing of and dispersing them just before a reporting deadline). But this isn’t exactly selling a seat in the U.S. Capitol.
Maddow argued the lack of interest from other corners of Virginia state government derives from the fact that (unlike, say, in Chris Christie’s New Jersey) the governor’s party controlled the legislative branch. But as former McDonnell spokesman Rich Galen (who, of course, is predisposed) points out, there’s another explanation: The rest of Virginia’s state government is on thin ice, too, because they all have taken advantage of Virginia’s remarkably lax gift rules. Galen writes:
As I understand it, an elected official in Virginia has to report any gift or thing of value over $50 in a calendar year. He or she can take as much as they want, but they have to report it. However, they do not have to report gifts to family members or gifts from family members or close friends. That is, if I give you – Madam Delegate – a lovely decanter from the gift shop at George Washington’s Mt. Vernon that cost $250, you can take it, but you have to report it. However (again, as I understand it) I can present your spouse with John Kerry’s $7 million yacht, for keeps, and you don’t have to report a penny of that.
You know how I know this is the way business is done throughout the Virginia state government? Because of the screamingly loud silence that came from Democrats in the state house and senate during the entire investigatory process that began last March. 2013, remember, was an election year in the Commonwealth. Governor, Lt. Governor, and Attorney General offices were all up for grabs as were all the members of the House of Delegates. . . . I can’t see every elected official’s bank account and vacation schedule, but in a year when attacking Bob McDonnell would have been Politics 101 if only to sully the Republican brand, there was almost none of it. . . . Nobody had the stomach to rain down investigators on every state legislator for the sake of one press release against Bob McDonnell.
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I have function 'my_a' in OCaml, which could have a very complicated return type:
exception Backtrack
exception Continue of (* How do I put the type of function 'my_a' here? *)
let my_a arg = try do_stuff (List.hd arg)
| Backtrack -> my_a (List.tl arg)
| Continue (found_answer) -> (try my_a (List.tl arg)
| Backtrack -> raise Continue(found_answer)
| Continue (other_answer) ->
raise Continue (compare_answer(found_answer,other_answer));;
(* the caller of my_a will handle the Continue exception to catch the found value
if something was found*)
This is my problem: I'm using backtrack to find a solution. When a backtrack exception is raised by do_stuff, there was no solution going that path. However, when it raises an exception of type Continue, it means it found a solution, but, it may not be the best solution there is, that's when I try again with a different path. If there is another exception, I want to return the answer it already had found.
The thing is, to be able to use that feature of OCaml I need to to tell it what data type Continue will be carrying. What the OCaml top level returns when i define my_a:
'a * ('a -> ('a, 'b) symbol list list) ->
'b list -> ('a * ('a, 'b) symbol list) list * 'b list = <fun>
Does anyone have any idea of how to do that, or a different solution to that?
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You should tell us what problem you are trying to solve. Since you think that function names can start with a capital letter, and at the same time you are using exceptions in a highly unconventional way, we can help you much better if you allow us to tell you how to solve your original problem, rather than ask us a specific technical question about return types. – Andrej Bauer Jan 28 '13 at 12:24
Hi, I provided more info, I hope you can help me – Miramontes Orlando Jan 28 '13 at 18:35
This sounds wrong. If Continue already happened, and then another Continue happens, your function will return the result found by the first Continue, but you say in the text that you should compare both solutions found so that you can use the better one. In any case, you shouldn't be structuring your program around exceptions like this. – Andrej Bauer Jan 29 '13 at 7:47
Since you cannot know the best solution until you have searched the whole space, this is just an exhaustive search. Or do you intend to prune the search at some point? – Andrej Bauer Jan 29 '13 at 7:48
Alright, I do intend to return the best solution, ignoring any other alternative. I guess I should display a bit more info on my idea. The thing is I'm kind of stuck with not being able to fully implement it. – Miramontes Orlando Jan 29 '13 at 21:51
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You are gaining nothing by using exceptions. Here is a possible solution.
(** There are many ways to implement backtracking in Ocaml. We show here one
possibility. We search for an optimal solution in a search space. The
search space is given by an [initial] state and a function [search] which
takes a state and returns either
- a solution [x] together with a number [a] describing how good [x] is
(larger [a] means better solution), or
- a list of states that need still to be searched.
An example of such a problem: given a number [n], express it as a sum
[n1 + n2 + ... + nk = n] such that the product [n1 * n2 * ... * nk] is
as large as possible. Additionally require that [n1 <= n2 <= ... <= nk].
The state of the search can be expressed as pair [(lst, s, m)] where
[lst] is the list of numbers in the sum, [s] is the sum of numbers in [lst],
and [m] is the next number we will try to add to the list. If [s = n] then
[lst] is a solution. Otherwise, if [s + m <= n] then we branch into two states:
- either we add [m] to the list, so the next state is [(m :: lst, m+s, m)], or
- we do not add [m] to the list, and the next state is [(lst, s, m+1)].
The return type of [search] is described by the following datatype:
type ('a, 'b, 'c) backtrack =
| Solution of ('a * 'b)
| Branches of 'c list
(** The main function accepts an initial state and the search function. *)
let backtrack initial search =
(* Auxiliary function to compare two optional solutions, and return the better one. *)
let cmp x y =
match x, y with
| None, None -> None (* no solution *)
| None, Some _ -> y (* any solution is better than none *)
| Some _, None -> x (* any solution is better than none *)
| Some (_, a), Some (_, b) ->
if a < b then y else x
(* Auxiliary function which actually performs the search, note that it is tail-recursive.
The argument [best] is the best (optional) solution found so far, [branches] is the
list of branch points that still needs to be processed. *)
let rec backtrack best branches =
match branches with
| [] -> best (* no more branches, return the best solution found *)
| b :: bs ->
(match search b with
| Solution x ->
let best = cmp best (Some x) in
backtrack best bs
| Branches lst ->
backtrack best (lst @ bs))
(* initiate the search with no solution in the initial state *)
match backtrack None [initial] with
| None -> None (* nothing was found *)
| Some (x, _) -> Some x (* the best solution found *)
(** Here is the above example encoded. *)
let sum n =
let search (lst, s, m) =
if s = n then
(* solution found, compute the product of [lst] *)
let p = List.fold_left ( * ) 1 lst in
Solution (lst, p)
if s + m <= n then
(* split into two states, one that adds [m] to the list and another
that increases [m] *)
Branches [(m::lst, m+s, m); (lst, s, m+1)]
(* [m] is too big, no way to proceed, return empty list of branches *)
Branches []
backtrack ([], 0, 1) search
(** How to write 10 as a sum of numbers so that their product is as large as possible? *)
sum 10 ;; (* returns Some [3; 3; 2; 2] *)
OCaml happily informs us that the type of backtrack is
'a -> ('a -> ('b, 'c, 'a) backtrack) -> 'b option
This makes sense:
• the first argument is the initial state, which has some type 'a
• the second argument is the search function, which takes a state of type 'a and returns either a Solution (x,a) where x has type 'b and a has type 'c, or Branches lst where lst has type 'a list.
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It's hard to tell exactly what you're asking. I think you might be asking how to get the type inside the Two exception to be set to the return type of A without having to specifically declare this type. I can't think of any way to do it.
Things might go better if you used option types instead of exceptions. Or you can just declare the return type of A explicitly. It might be good documentation.
A couple of side comments: (a) function names have to start with a lower case letter (b) this code looks quite convoluted and hard to follow. There might be a simpler way to structure your computation.
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"Not being able to write the type down" looks like a design smell that I think should rather be confronted than avoided through other tricks to get more inference. The type structure of a program is as important as its term structure, and if inference allows us to avoid redundancy, it should not be used to lose control on it whatsoever. Define type synonyms to capture the domain abstractions, and then a type should not be globally unpalatable. – gasche Jan 28 '13 at 9:16
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I agree totally. I think we need to have a 2-pronged, if not 3-pronged approach.
Weaken the Republicans through infiltration, weaken the Democrats through infiltration and attack from the outside as well.
If Gary Johnson is getting marketshare from without, it forces Republicans and Democrats to move in order to cover their bases and keep them from leaving. Democrats will be forced to come out against the drug war and immigration war. Republicans will be forced to come out against the Fed and IRS.
Both parties will ALWAYS shift to try to maintain as close to 50% market share as possible. But if they don't move fast enough, it could become 40/40/20. Either way, liberty wins and grows.
That's why I'm realistic that Paul won't win the nomination BUT there is a huge chance to influence policy, moving Republicans to where they can pick up independents from Democrats. Johnson takes independents from Democrats. Then they shrink. And they lose. And they need to reevaluate their statist beliefs. Get them into a war over who believes in smaller government and more freedom.
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The New York Times reported that the Indian Supreme Court ruled drug companies there could keep making generic versions of Swiss drug maker Novartis' leukemia medication Gleevec (imatinib). According to the Times, generic versions of Gleevec in India cost about $2,500 per year, compared with $70,000 per year for the branded version.
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Main Points:
The Fast-Food Rule is the best way to talk to any upset person: Before saying what you think, repeat what he said — with sincerity. If you skip the Fast-Food Rule, your irate friend may not be able to listen to you. When your child is upset, it helps to translate what you say to him into Toddler-ese (his native language). Toddler-ese has four characteristics: very short phrases, repetition, emphasis, and gesturing.
How Do You Say That in Toddler-ese? Communication That Really Works!
Toddler-ese takes some practice-but it will help you be a better, and happier, parent. You are about to learn a new and highly effective way to defuse your toddler's outbursts with love and respect. It's based on understanding how his prehistoric mind works.
First, let's start with a little quiz. Which best describes your toddler's mind?
1. A neatly manicured park 2. A rolling green meadow 3. A jungle If you answered (3) "A jungle," you're absolutely right! Toddlers are sweet and fun, but they're also wild and disorganized. This is especially true when your child gets upset (angry, frustrated, hurt, etc.). As ambassador to your little jungle pal, your job will be much easier once you learn to speak his language (complete with grunts, gestures, and short, primitive phrases)! Becoming fluent in his language is nothing less than your ticket to a fun, wonderful relationship. But before being trained in Toddler-ese, you must first master the number- one law of speaking with anyone who is upset-the Fast-Food Rule!
Okay, I know that burgers and fries are not very prehistoric. But I hope that this funny name will help you remember this important concept forever! Once you've learned it, I'll show you how to translate the Fast-Food technique into Toddler-ese. Together they will be your miracle potion for quickly calming your toddler.
The Fast-Food Rule: The Golden Rule of Communication In conversations you have to take turns-and whoever is most upset goes first! — Karp's rule of communication
The Fast-Food Rule is simple: Before you tell an upset person your concerns, you must repeat back his-with total sincerity. It is a very simple rule and once you master it, you'll be able to make the person you're listening to feel understood, respected, and cared about.
Here's how it works (and why my patients named it the Fast-Food Rule):
The Fast-Food Rule, Step 1: REPEAT the message you hear Burger joints have their problems, but they do one thing incredibly well: taking customers' orders.
Imagine you're at the drive-through. A voice crackles over a speaker, "Can I take your order?"
You reply, "I'd like a burger and fries."
What does the order-taker say back to you?
"What's the matter? Were you too lazy to cook tonight?"
"Do you realize how much fat is in that meal?" "That will be four dollars."
The answer is none of the above!
No. The first thing she does is repeat your order back to you!
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Man-Skills 101
July 10, 2009 2:23 AM Subscribe
Help me man-up! Inspired by these questions, I would like some pointers about how to become a more capable, handy man.
My Dad never taught me any real practical skills when it came to household maintenance so now I am a 26 year old married man that is always asking brothers-in-law for tools and small maintenance jobs to be done. I'd obviously like to man-up a bit and be able to get my own tools from my own tool box and fix my own damn door that won't close properly!
So my question is two-fold:
1) What tools will I be needing in my beginners toolbox and for what reason?
2) What basic maintenance skills should I know or pick up? Please provide links to online tutorials, YouTube clips, or just really thorough idiot proof instructions for for unblocking the toilet.
Thanks for the oncoming Father-Son chat, AskMeDad.
posted by man down under to Home & Garden (35 answers total) 106 users marked this as a favorite
Well, to unplug a toilet, use a closet snake. Available at any hardware store.
As for will tend to accumulate them over time, buying them as needed. There are basics, of course...screwdrivers (both flat and phillips), hammer, wrenches, vice-grips. Beyond that, I've found a reasonable size set of socket wrenches to be life-savers.
There are tons of other tools I've accumulated as specific jobs came-up. I guess it would be easier to give you a list if you had a vague idea of what sorts of jobs you might want to tackle.
posted by Thorzdad at 2:57 AM on July 10, 2009
the best and most effective trick i've found to unblocking a toilet is to squirt a few drops of dish soap into the water in the bowl and letting it sit for a minute or so.
using the plunger after applying the soap is usually effective when the plunger alone fails to do the job.
posted by cheemee at 3:12 AM on July 10, 2009 [3 favorites]
Good domestic toolbox
- Good quality Crosshead and Flathead screwdrivers. (for EVERYTHING)
- Set of glasses sized screwdrivers (for wee screws)
- Claw Hammer (for putting in and taking out nails) Claw can be used for leverage too
- small hammer for panel pins
- set of alan keys
- Adjustable wrench (for most domestic sized nuts and bolts
- Pack of screws(various sizes)
- Pack of rawl plugs for screws(approppriate to the types of walls in your house)
- Measuring tape (size it to the biggest room in your house)
- Spirit level (any size - but NOT combo with measuring tape)
- Hacksaw with decent blades (for cutting metal)
This should do you for most domestic jobs. I didn't mention power tools cause that's a whole other game.
Also there are a ton(literally) of other bits and pieces that you'll acccumulate once you start on this.
The one bit of advice that I can give is "measure twice, cut once"
posted by MarvinJ at 3:59 AM on July 10, 2009
The best tool in my toolbox is being self aware enough to know what my limitations are. These are (at the time of going to press)
1) Half ass-ing things
2) Rushing
3) An inability to measure accurately.
4) Being one stumbling block away from a complete nervous breakdown when it comes to DIY.
Whenever I'm called upon to do things around the house, I try to mentally run through those limitations and refer them back to the task in hand. Usually this involves having a fight with my brain:
Brain: Did you measure that piece of wood?
Me: Totally. 100mm
Brain: Did you measure it again?
Me: Yep
Brain: Is it the same length as it was before?
Me: Totally. Oh wait. No. It's 95mm now. What the...
Brain: OK, look, measure it again and write it down this time.
Me: That'll take ages...
Brain: Yes, but remember what happened last time? You'll end up crying and smashing things again.
Me: Sigh. Well. OK...
Brain: OK, Got your pencil? Great. Now, how about the gap? Is that the same size as you thought it was 10 minutes ago?
Me: Yep. 7 inches
Brain: Joe, for fuck's sake. You're doing it again.
Me: What?
Brain: Mixing metric and imperial.
Me: Feh! You worry too much. I'll fix it in the mix. Now then: What's 95mm take away 7 inches?
Brain: Seriously dude. Don't make me come down there.
Me; OK, OK, I'll remeasure. Now, let's get a move on here because the West Wing re-runs are starting in an hour...
Brain: Joe: Slow. The Fuck. Down.
etc. etc.
By being aware of where I usually fuck things up, I make sure that I'm approaching the job with my expectations constantly adjusted. I try to hold in my mind the memory of just exactly how satisfying it really is when you've done something - however trivial - yourself with your own hands. Trying to attain that feeling makes me slow down, take care, and over-rides all the other tendencies I have to "Good enough" the job.
Pro-tip: Door frames are particularly satisfying for this.
Tools-wise, there's no shame in not having the tools on hand to do a given job. But, similarly, there's no way that you're not going to need the following so you may as well get down the hardware shop and fill your boots:
1) A good, rubber handled screwdriver with removable heads
2) A medium-cheap priced drill - but spend a little extra on the bits as good ones do make a difference. (Cordless ones lack power, but cabled ones are a pain in the arse. That's the trade off.)
3) Have a pencil and paper handy for writing stuff down. Have a number of spares.
4) Tape measure.
5) I like having a set-square knocking around - but I'm doing a fair whack of woodwork at the mo. YMMV
6) Have a biscuit tin? Good, stick all the screws and nails you've got in it. Never throw screws or nails away. Ever.
7) You can never have enough small and medium sized rawl plugs.
8) You can get budget jigsaws and sanders etc for next to nothing. I'm a big fan of these as its not worth spanking cash on something you're not going to use often. But you will need a jigsaw eventually. Yes, you will.
9) Oh and you'll need a saw too.
10) The tool I keep coming back to is this - which I've used for scraping paint and wallpaper, applying grout, applying plaster and polyfilla, removing plaster, laying a cork-floor - man, everything I've done, I owe to that putty knife. I can't explain why its awesome, but it is. Its like an extension of my body. Totally inexplicable - but I can't recommend them enough. You can even jimmy the lids off paint cans with it. Astonishing.
Oh, and 11) Get a nice hammer. A man's not a man without a good quality hammer.
posted by Jofus at 4:10 AM on July 10, 2009 [20 favorites]
Can you ask your brothers-in-law to show you things as they do them? Be their bitch for a weekend while they work on their own house? The difference between handy guys and non-handy guys is that handy guys have fixed a lot of things in the past, non-handy guys haven't. So you need to start fixing broken things.
Also, consider taking a class. In something handy. It sort of doesn't matter what it is. Carpentry, furniture making, welding. A lot of hand skills are not so specific, meaning what you learn in welding class could be applied to carpentry. Particularly if you don't have basic skills like measuring and cutting things. Basically anything you are interested in is good. If you could find a class in making a kayak or a boat, that would be the best because boat people are the handiest of the handy.
Tools wise, just buy what you need, when you need it. The most annoying nube-trying-to-be-handy thing is to run out and buy $2000 worth of tools that the actual handy guy can't afford, and then the handy guy will hate you even though he can do more with a broken screwdriver than you can do with your complete ratchet set.
Oh and if someone is showing you something, don't talk too much. Just watch and if you have a question ask it. My least favorite thing about teaching people something they don't know is when they are constantly saying "oh of course" or "sure". I know it's just a nervous tick but I want to be like, "no, not of course because you don't know how to do this". Maybe this annoys me more than it should. But I think watching and listening and then asking pertinent questions is better than constantly talking through someone teaching you something.
posted by sully75 at 4:11 AM on July 10, 2009
As far as tools go, I think it makes the most sense to simply buy what you need, when you need it. If the tools are expensive and specialized, then maybe that's a job to hire a pro for.
But don't focus on the toolbox. Shiny new tools are fun and exciting, like school supplies in the fall, but what you really need is understanding. Start learning about how your house works, and you will begin to see that this big, intimidating conglomerate is made up of a bunch of really simple systems. When you have that sort of understanding, the house will seem much more malleable, and it will usually be fairly obvious what's gone wrong and what you need to do about it.
For starters, find your water meter (assuming you are on city water) and follow the pipes as far as you can see them. See the shutoff valve just past the meter. See the branch pipe that goes to the hose spigot. See where another branch feeds the water heater, and how the hot-water pipe coming back out of the heater then runs parallel to the cold water supply, and these two supply lines branch in various places to feed every sink, shower and toilet. Notice all the shutoff valves that allow you to stop water flow in small parts of the system so that you can fix something without turning everything off. Hang some labels if you feel like it, and draw some arrows on different pipes showing the direction of flow. Then, use a similar process to familiarize yourself with the waste pipes, the electrical system, etc.
Tools will eventually become necessary, and you'll inevitably make some mistakes while learning to use them. For now, don't focus on specific repair techniques. The range of things that can wrong is very broad. You can't learn it all ahead of time, and you don't need to because Google can give you the more specific information whenever you need it.
posted by jon1270 at 4:13 AM on July 10, 2009 [2 favorites]
Go to Target, spend 25 or 30 bucks on the a toolbox they have there. Most of them are pretty similar - you only need the basic set.
That'll do for now. In my opinion, I would learn on a case-by-case basis. When a problem crops up, do internet research to figure out how to fix it. Then take it slow, and give it a shot. You'll only become good with practice and experience but you have to start somewhere, so don't fear being a beginner. Mentally approach it like you're a kid, exploring something new...failure and mistakes are the best teacher (just make sure they don't get too expensive ^^).
posted by Risiko at 5:07 AM on July 10, 2009
To determine which tools you will need, start by asking your wife what little maintenance problems bug her everyday, then check to find out how to fix it.
To get you started...
1) Tools I use (in order of frequency of use)
• screwdrivers, hammer, allen keys, socket wrench set, locking- slipjoint- and needlenose-pliers, rip- fret- and hack-saw, crow- pinch- or wrecking bar, plane, spirit level, adjustable- or set square, nail punch set, chisels, tin-snips, clamps, sharpening stone
• cordless drill, jig- drop- and saber-saw, stud-finder, detail sander, belt sander, dremel
• a good strong locking toolbox (!)
2) Low-hanging fruits of house repair
Fix leaking taps by replacing washers (or with a tap reseater)
realign all the cabinet doors in your kitchen, oil squeaky hinges, unstick doors that jam shut (with a hand plane)
• free up sticking drawers or sash-windows by rubbing candle wax on interacting surfaces
unsqueak floorboards with talcum powder*
sharpen all your knives
*I worked with a guy that made a fortune off this trick - he fixed all the squeaks in Buckingham Palace. He also pissed on the Queen's horses, because he is Scottish. True story.
posted by mhjb at 5:11 AM on July 10, 2009 [14 favorites]
While I agree with this completely, you're going to need something to keep your tools in anyway, so I suggest picking up a tool box with mini storage trays for your various screws and small bits.
posted by Fleebnork at 5:17 AM on July 10, 2009
what jon1270 said. tracing stuff is good. also, if you live in a multi-story house, take note of how things line up between floors, and see if you can extrapolate where the pipes run in between the floors -- bathrooms are generally on top of other bathrooms.
Do you have oil heat? Trace the path the small pipe takes between the oil tank and the furnace. Check the fill level indicator on the tank. Gas heat? Where does the gas line come into the house and how does it get to the gas heater?
another thing to do to get more familiar with your house would be to figure out where various circuit breakers go. chances are that there are 20A circuit breakers for kitchen stuff, and most of the rest are 15A. if you want to try discovering what breaker an outlet is on, use a loud radio that you can hear from near the circuit breaker panel and flip breakers off and on until you hear the radio go silent. Note that different outlets in the same room may be on different circuit breakers. and the lights in a room may be on a different breaker as well.
in your circuit breaker panel, there are probably a bunch of single width breakers, about an inch or so thick, and one or more breakers that are like two single breakers with their switches joined together. one of these is probably the main disconnect for your house. It may be marked "main", or separate from the other breakers in the panel. If you see numbers printed on the breaker switches (15, 20, 30, 60, 100, and 200 are common values), then the largest number is likely to be the main. these numbers refer to the load the breaker can handle. if something is a two-breaker (called "two pole") set that is 30A, it's probably an electric clothes dryer. a 60A two-pole breaker is probably an electric range. If you have electric heat, there's probably one or more 20A two-pole breakers.
Often times, when a circuit breaker trips, the tripped position is in between 'off' and 'on', but it may be difficult to tell by looking. Try wiggling the breakers a bit and the tripped one will feel different. You'll need to turn it off before turning it back on.
for tools and such:
i'm a sucker for estwing hammers. i love the feel of them.
get a boxcutter type razor knife and some spare blades. i much prefer the standard type of boxcutter compared to the fold-out type. i always feel like i'm about to slip and slice my hand open with the fold-out type.
screwdrivers with swappable tips are nice, but there's something to be said for a nice solid 4 or 6 inch flathead screwdriver to bash the hell out of. (it's a screwdriver! it's a chisel! it's a prybar!)
i used to be an electrician, so i have a great fondness for a solid pair of 9 inch lineman's pliers. besides being pliers, they make a great improvised hammer. the three most-used tools in my toolkit when i was working in the trades were my lineman's pliers, my 4 inch screwdriver, and a boxcutter.
there's a trade-off between tool price and performance. while there's an appeal to high end tools, there's something to be said for cheap tools that you can treat badly and misuse.
vice grips are almost never the right tool for a job, but they are the not-quite-right tool for many jobs.
a small can of wd40 and a small can of basic oil like 3-in-1 will help with squeaky things and stuck things.
and, yeah, learning by doing is good.
posted by rmd1023 at 5:20 AM on July 10, 2009
I'm self-taught at bicycle and car mechanics as well as carpentry, which I now make most of my money from (not to say that it's very much!). I assure you, there is nothing wrong with picking things up as you go along!
You are getting enough good tool lists that I'm not going to repeat any of that, but I would recommend a couple of other things:
1. a good handyman type book. Something broad in scope, but with specific tips. There are a couple of different versions of this, most of the DIY stores publish their own that are pretty good. I'd get a more specific reference (from the library) for anything that worried me, but I used one of these books last weekend to help me figure out how to pour a concrete pad. They never stop being handy...
2. a willingness to make mistakes. Particularly if you are trying to find man-skills, this is one of the biggest ones. You *will* make mistakes, and if you keep going at it long enough, you will eventually be surround by things that once satisfied you, but now make you cringe. That's life. Don't be afraid of them, don't revel in them, don't keep making the same ones and never shy away from examining them.
And to paraphrase a line from a book I read on fixing cars that I think of all the time "Cars, like babies, can sense when you are approaching without confidence and will immediately begin acting up. Move with assurance, and you will have less problems."
posted by schwap23 at 5:21 AM on July 10, 2009 [2 favorites]
Also, I recommend picking up a ratcheting screwdriver set. This will fulfill all the basic functions of an entire set of screwdrivers and allen keys.
Proper dedicated screwdrivers are more sturdy, but will cost more, so the ratcheting set will be a good place to start.
posted by Fleebnork at 5:21 AM on July 10, 2009
Far as screwdrivers go, the end-all be-all in my mind is the Klein 10-in-1. Two phillips, two flathead, two allen, two square, and take the bits out, you have a nut driver. I keep one in each car, two lying around the house (I lose stuff), and one at the office.
posted by notsnot at 5:25 AM on July 10, 2009
Learn by experience. No matter what you do, you're going to do a shit job the first few times. So...
To learn a little carpentry, get yourself some plans for building dumb little things that don't have to be perfect, and make sure the plans are so basic that they specify exactly which tools you will need. Buy those tools. Probably a hand saw, maybe a drill, a screwdriver or two, a hammer, a measuring tape, maybe a mitre/miter box, maybe a clamp or two, sandpaper, and a tool box.
Then build yourself some bird houses, bird feeders, bee houses (yes!), dog houses, doll houses, garden seats or planters if you have a garden. The birds won't know if your fuck things up a little, as long as it's generally built according to plan, and you can put a bird house up somewhere no human will see. If you like doing this sort of thing, build lots of bird houses, but make sure you are building to spec for a local type of bird that could and would use the housing. Read up. They prefer a certain size box, certain size hole, and probably no paint or varnish or glue, and you need to put it up in the right spot. Ask the local scouts or birdwatchers how you can help. (And then you're going to need a long ladder and some balance to get those suckers up where they belong. Don't fall.)
If this turns into a long-term hobby and you have the room somewhere far away from clean and pretty things, build yourself a bigass workbench and add a big clamp to hold stuff. The bench doesn't have to be pretty, just be the right dimensions and smooth and sturdy. And make sure you have good light.
Now you're ready for some indoor stuff. Try adding a shelf somewhere that could use a shelf, but pick a place no one will notice but you. A shelf inside a cupboard no one really cares about? A space in the basement or garage that won't be ruined by a couple of wanky shelves? Probably you'll have to buy a piece of wood and some brackets to hold it up. You'll learn a little about sinking screws into walls (unless you're going straight into solid wood, there are thingamajigs that you might have to put in the holes first, and then you sink the screws into the thingamajigs -- read up), and you'll need a level to make sure the shelf is on straight. And maybe you'll need to varnish or paint this thing, so now you need a brush and stuff. And you'll need to clean the brush afterward, so be ready for that.
Slowly, you acquire a whole boxful of tools and learn how to use them with confidence. Then go back to your door that won't close properly, but with a new eye, not because you put the old eye out with a nail, I hope, but because you fucked up so many things so many times that you now know exactly what not to do. Like: don't start cutting and drilling stuff until you are absolutely sure.
But I would generally leave plumbing and electrical stuff alone. Just learn about fuses and circuit breakers (what they do and how to replace them if needed) and learn (as you mention) how to unplug toilets and drains. Get some DIY books if you want to learn about replacing leaky washers and stuff, but otherwise leave it to professionals unless you can't afford them.
posted by pracowity at 5:35 AM on July 10, 2009 [4 favorites]
I'm sorry if this answer is way off base or not what you're looking for, but I think part of the man-mystique of being handy, capable, and so forth is partially a matter of attitude. The idea here is to be practical, think things through, learn what you're doing if you're not sure, don't be squeamish about getting your hands dirty, and make yourself useful.
Like unblocking the toilet, say. Think about how a toilet works, in detail, and it'll be easier to figure out what you need to do to fix one that's broken.
posted by clockzero at 5:35 AM on July 10, 2009 [1 favorite]
For tools, this MSN article is quite good: The 15 tools every homeowner should own.
For skills and general learning, a good generalized homeowners book would be helpful (possibly the one mentioned in above article?). Also, the Handy Guys Podcasts can be pretty good.
posted by masher at 6:08 AM on July 10, 2009
I'm in agreement with schwap23 -- buy a book or three, and start making mistakes.
I'm a big fan of buying tools as you need them, rather than buying tools preventively or because someone else uses that tool all the time. (That said, I don't see how you can avoid owning a hammer, pliers, screwdrivers, and drill, regardless.) I strongly recommend buying good quality tools if they are going to be used again, and buying cheap tools (or renting) if it is a something you will use only once.
I don't think that those cheap tool collections at Target and similar stores are usually a good deal. The quality often isn't high, and you get someone else's idea of what tools you should own. At least buy a tool collection from a decent brand, like Craftsman (watch for sales), where you can return a tool if you break it.
All the big box DIY stores will have large book racks. I'd suggest buying one of the large "how to fix everything in your house" books, which will provide a basic overview of most tasks. Then, if you are facing a particular challenge, such as electrical, plumbing, or building something in the backyard, go back to the store and buy (or just stand there and read, if you have a simple question) a book that explains that problem in detail.
It's really important to remember that most competent people (diy skills are not man-only, obviously) did not sit down, study, and learn 25 skills at once. They learned one at a time, as they needed to. You learn by doing -- unless you start jumping in, screwing up, and fixing your mistakes, you won't learn.
At heart, it's important to know and respect your own limits. I see people doing unsafe work all the time, and doing bad quality work that will hurt the value of their house. Don't do that. Changing out an outlet is super, super easy, and if you take minimal precautions (breaker off? confirmed by voltage tester?) you are totally safe. But standing in a flooded basement while digging into a main breaker box? Probably time to call a professional.
And even when something is within your competency, sometimes it is still a good idea to hire a professional. Maybe you are busy, or you want a particular skill set involved, or the professional can get it done faster and cheaper than you can. Don't be such a slave to DIY that you get all stubborn and refuse to consider all the options.
posted by Forktine at 6:16 AM on July 10, 2009
The one power tool I have is a drill, because you can't really fake your way around that with hand tools. I like a corded one, because my cordless drill's battery was always dead when I wanted to use it, but YMMV.
posted by smackfu at 6:20 AM on July 10, 2009
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posted by clockzero at 6:25 AM on July 10, 2009 [3 favorites]
A workbench with a vise is a good thing. There are lots of plans for this sort of thing on the web. This gives you a place to keep your tools and to work on stuff.
Pracowity's advice about doing projects that aren't "real" (like bird feeders or the like) is solid. The time to develop a skill is when it doesn't really matter.
You know how they say knowlege is power? That is never more true than when you are trying to fix something that is broken. For example, someone I know was having problems with one of those setups where you have a light switch at either end of a hall. To them, it was pure magic. It was obvious to me what was wrong about four words into their description of the problem. So before you jump in to the deep end of anything, get a book on the subject and read it. Black and Decker has a bunch of surprisingly good home maintanence / improvement type books, but whether or not they're even available or applicable to Australia is beyond me.
posted by Kid Charlemagne at 6:51 AM on July 10, 2009
Here is a little practice project for you. Get your power drill, set of drill bits, screw driver, wood, and wood screws, and follow me.
Today you will screw together two pieces of wood, with a countersunk head, and not split the wood. Grab your flat-head wood screw. Go to the drill bit assortment, and get the bit that matches the head's width, and set it down in your work area. Next, get a drill bit that matches the width of the screw, including threads, and set it down next to the first. Now get the drill bit that matches the center of the screw, so that when you hold it next to the screw you can see threads on both sides of the screw. Set it down with the other two bits.
On the top piece of wood, drill a very shallow hole with the widest bit, just deep enough to hold the screw head. Change out bits to the next size down. Drill though just the first piece of wood. Now, align the two pieces of wood, and drill down though the hole and into the bottom piece of wood, just deep enough to equal the length of the screw. Screw the wood screw in with authority. All the way in, until it stops, but not too deep. Style points if you orient the screw head (assuming it is a straight head) at 90 or 180 degrees.
Repeat as needed. Put away your tools and clean up your shavings.
posted by Midnight Skulker at 6:51 AM on July 10, 2009 [1 favorite]
1. Wood filler and caulk are the beginners friend. They fill gaps caused by poor measuring/cutting, and once painted, are invisible. Get a caulking gun and latex-based woodfiller (latex, because you can revive it with a little water when it dries out)
2. Subscribe to Family Handyman. I've shilled this before here, but it bears repeating - they spend A LOT of time making sure their illustrations are clear to the most rank beginner, and they have a sense of humor as well. Although lately they've been doing an irritating thing where they put part of a project plan in the magazine, and put the other part on the web.
3. HOWEVER: Don't get sucked into projects beyond your skill level. Even FH is guilty of making things look too easy. Based on a chipper and cheerful article aimed at beginners, I once spent a weekend trying to lay a sheet vinyl floor by myself and it turned out crap, and I was really resentful towards the entire home-improvement-advice industry for a long time after that.
4. Others note that starting on birdfeeders and the like is a good first stage. I'll expand that to "all outdoor projects." I've built some really cool adirondack chairs, benches, a treehouse, and other projects and they're more fun because you don't have to be good, at all.
posted by stupidsexyFlanders at 7:17 AM on July 10, 2009
Okay, there are already a few good answers here, I'll try not to repeat things.
I've been slowly renovating my house for the past year, and my absolute favourite tool is my impact driver. It's basically a drill, but intended only to be used as a power screwdriver. Once it feels resistance it ratchets the screws in progressively harder, but you can control this depending on how hard you squeeze the trigger. I've used my driver for screwing in THOUSANDS of flooring screws for subflooring throughout the house and to take off and replace switch plates, door handles, etc... I barely use my manual screwdrivers anymore. It's just way quicker.
I bought a relatively cheap one (RIGID, Home Depot's house brand) but I've been really impressed with the power and the charge retention on their cordless tools. Mine is pretty heavy though, which can be fatiguing when working on ceilings or in awkward places.
Basically the trade off with this tool is power versus weight. You can get light ones that aren't very powerful for cheap, and powerful ones that are very light for cheap, but you have to shell out for a good power to weight ratio.
The impact driver probably isn't a real necessity, especially if you have screwdrivers and good wrists, or a drill for the really tough screwing, but once I got mine it quickly became my most used tool. If you got some extra cash, I say buy it. It won't disappoint.
Okay, what else. Needle-nose pliers are great to have around the house. Two if need to get into a tiny space with both "hands".
If you plan on doing any plumbing, you'll need channel locks, a pipe cutter, and a blow torch, but you can get these when you need them.
Oh yeah, get a full set of metric and imperial allen keys. Tightening IKEA furniture when it starts to wobble is a really easy way to appear handy. I like the kind that fold into one tool so I don't lose individual ones.
posted by consummate dilettante at 7:41 AM on July 10, 2009
Take your time and use your head. Every project has a hundred things that can go wrong. Before you start, think about those things. Hell, make a detailed list. You'll still make some of those mistakes, but by thinking about them in advance you'll probably also come up with artful ways of minimizing their effects. For example, you know you're going to measure something incorrectly, so make sure you err on the side of leaving too much material and leave it in someplace where you can remove it later. You know you won't put those hinges on in the right location the first time, so don't put all three screws in each hinge. You know you'll trash at least some of your building material, so buy extra to prevent a second trip to the hardware store. And so on...
If something is going badly, STOP IMMEDIATELY. You're making it worse. Go get a beer. Get away from the problem for 20 minutes. It will be better when you come back. This is why beer and tools go together so well (though it doesn't mix with heights, power tools or electricity).
Don't buy crappy tools. Aside from a few single-use items, tools are precision instruments. Two good screwdrivers, a nice knife, and one set of good pliers is way more useful than a whole box of crappy tools from walmart. I can't emphasize this enough.
Find a good local hardware store and buy all your stuff from them. Build a relationship. Ask their opinions about projects. If they seem reluctant to answer, or just plain dumb, find another hardware store. Handy fix-it types are always happy to dispense advice.
Know your limitations, but ignore them unless the potential for damage is really high. You'll learn by pushing yourself outside your comfort zone.
Stockpile construction materials. Scrap wood, random old screws, etc are going to save your ass more than you know.
Start important projects on Friday night, not Sunday morning.
posted by paanta at 7:51 AM on July 10, 2009
Two pipe wrenches, snake, plunger.
Some projects can wait, others can't.
posted by Iron Rat at 7:52 AM on July 10, 2009
pay some schmuck on minimum wage to stick their hands down the toilet!
You haven't paid a licensed plumber recently, have you? Skilled tradespeople can, and often do, earn well into white-collar territory. I was talking recently with a guy who owns his own shop and does over $5 million in business every year, with a crew of less than 10. Even after rent, wages, and materials, there's a really nice profit margin there, and I know that he pays his workers very well, too.
And that's the real reason to become competent at DIY -- not so much the "manliness" of it, but the cost savings of repairing two outlets for under $5, compared to the electrician charging you $75/each. But that's also the reason to be smart about it, and cherrypick the fun projects and the ones that have the biggest cost/benefit ratios. When you can pay to have it done for only a little more than doing it yourself, or the risk of serious harm is high, DIYing is not the smart route.
posted by Forktine at 8:13 AM on July 10, 2009 [1 favorite]
The simplest way to make any job easier is to move it to a comfortable height to work at. Don't crouch on the floor or balance on a tiny stool unless you really really have to. Build a workbench if you don't have one - you can go very simple, and as long as it's sturdy, it doesn't matter how it looks.
posted by echo target at 9:50 AM on July 10, 2009
Being a homeowner has forced me to man up on this stuff and I, like you, have been fortunate enough to have a brother-in-law whose shown me a good number of things. I've mostly taken his tool-buying advice over the years, and he's a Craftsman guy, so I am too. Here are the things that I've found pretty useful:
1. Screwdrivers. Get a decent set of flat-head and phillips-head screwdrivers. Using too small a screwdriver leads to stripped-out screw heads, which escalates the problem. A powered one can be handy, but don't underestimate the value of a manual set.
2. Wrenches. These are a bit expensive, as you often need regular and metric and usually need the one size you don't already have. You can get by, for quite a lot of things, with a nice adjustable wrench. If you watch the sales, you can get a some sets with lots of common sizes and then just add to that when a project requires it.
3. Hammers. I have a carpenter's hammer and a rubber mallet. The mallet is particularly handy when putting together kids toys (wagons and the like, which use little plastic end-caps to secure axles) or any other situation where you fear a blow from a real hammer will break the thing you're hammering.
4. A rechargeable drill and a set of wood bits, mostly for drilling starter holes for screws, which is best practice that will save you a lot of trouble and wrist strain.
5. If you do any electrical work, you'll need wire strippers, pliers, and electrical tape. And you'll need to understand how your breaker box works.
They get pricey, but decent tools (and a decent box in which to keep them) are a sound investment. I've spent years with crappy tools and never understood how much more pleasant home fix-it projects can be when you have some decent tools at your disposal. I understand buying cheap things for one-off projects. But certain staples are worth paying a little more, as they'll last longer and eliminate themselves as a variable when you're trying to figure out what's going wrong.
posted by wheat at 10:14 AM on July 10, 2009 [1 favorite]
I will add on one more tool to that isn't here yet, but which I have found to be indispensable: Vise Grips. Don't get a huge one. Something that doesn't take up much space is better in the long run, but you can do so much better than pliers with Vise Grips, including removing those nuts that you stripped with your pliers or adjustable wrench.
posted by plinth at 10:56 AM on July 10, 2009
All the above advice is great. There are 4 slightly unexpected tools I own which I use ALL the time and are crucial to keeping a 110 year old house going.
1. A great ladder and scaffold system. It's hard to justify an expensive ladder until you fall off a crappy one. This is really the best tool money I've spent. Being able to set up a scaffold makes high work much easier.
2. A Japanese pull saw. This thing works really well on small thin pieces, like shim.
3. This nail puller.
4. A work bench. I thought these were stupid until I started using one.
My rule: Buy any tool you need, but only when you need it.
posted by Carmody'sPrize at 11:00 AM on July 10, 2009
Something like the Readers Digest Fix it Yourself manual is good for reference as, at least the old one I had, showed you how the insides of things like toilets fit together and basic framing techniques. Even if you end up having someone else do the work, it's a good bs meter for anyone giving you a quote.
Nthing the advice wrt tools. Personal advice: buy what fits your hand and is comfortable to use. For example, hammers come not just for different jobs, but in different weights. And, never buy cheap tools or nails, wear your safety gear, and keep the floor of your workspace clean.
posted by x46 at 1:21 PM on July 10, 2009
Bit of advice from a woman who's had to man up in this area a little more than she would have liked: Don't trust the advice of employees at Home Depot. Some of them know what they're doing, but others don't, and it can be hard to tell them apart. Ask questions on Gardenweb or similar instead.
posted by lakeroon at 1:40 PM on July 10, 2009
Some pieces of advice from someone (me) who used to work in a hardware store:
1) Buy tools as you need them. This has already been mentioned by others, but it is important enough to mention again here. You don't need to go out and buy the massive $200 socket set with a fitting for everything.
Exception to (1): Power tools. Buy a cordless drill when you see one on sale. It doubles as a power screwdriver for most jobs. Buying on sale can save you a lot on power tools. Other kinds of tools cost the same amount almost all the time, so you can buy them when you need them.
2) The best way to learn is to do your own repairs. The guys at mom and pop hardware stores usually give good advice. Just don't mess with anything that can cause serious damage, such as plumbing or electrical work, without knowing what you are doing. If something could flood or burn down your house if you screw it up, it is a job for a pro.
3) Repair your own bicycle. Change your own oil. Install your own ceiling fans. Paint your house yourself.
4) The most important part: recognize that contrary to the stereotype, most men aren't very handy with repairs. So don't feel bad. Just learn as you go along. That is what everyone else does.
posted by twblalock at 5:59 PM on July 10, 2009
For handy-around-the-house, it's hard to beat a good multi-tool. I use my Leatherman Wave nearly every day, because (like vice grips) while it's not often the best tool for the job, it's often good enough that I don't have to go out to the shed and look for the exactly right tool. And carrying it on my belt means I always have a knife, screwdrivers, scissors, file, pliers, wire cutters, and saw readily available. It's really amazing how much you can get done with those.
posted by hades at 6:09 PM on July 10, 2009
I can hardly believe that you've got all this advice, and yet no one has stressed the importance of good work lights and flashlights! You can't fix what you can't see is wrong! And while eye protection was mentioned in the MSN tool list linked upthread, it deserves being called out, on its own. Good, clean safety glasses are a must. A decent magnifying glass has shown me the root of a problem, more than once.
I'm also going to suggest that you acquire an inexpensive digital camera with a mechanical zoom lens, and macro capability, and that you learn to use it. In home repair, some good pictures are often worth 10,000 words, several trips to hardware stores and lumber yards, and days of frustration. Many, many times, I've found that taking a picture of my problem, printing it up in zoomed form, adding some dimensional notes in handwriting, and taking the resulting annotated illustration along with me to the hardware store, is invaluable for explaining my issues to the personnel there, and/or finding and selecting replacement parts and products.
I'm also going to suggest that you consider several kinds of chemicals to be "tools," and that you acquire and keep an organized, fresh collection of such on hand. And you should also be aware of your community's methods and locations for the safe disposal of household chemical wastes, and do the right thing when disposing of outdated products. At a minimum you should have an appropriate assortment of adhesives (wood glue, rubber cement, contact glue, hot glue & hot glue gun, and Cyanoacrylate), lubricants (light water white machine oil, 30W motor oil, light lithium grease, heavy grease, WD40), penetrating agents (penetrating oil, ethyl alcohol, methyl alcohol), detergents & oxidizing agents (Dawn dish soap, Chlorine and oxygen bleach, laundry detergent, Ivory soap, hand cleaner), and finally, polishing and cleaning supplies (clean rags, paper towels, Barkeeper's Friend, steel wool in various grades from 4/0 to 0, sponges). To these disposables, you can also add a stock of abrasives, such as a sandpaper assortment (wet & dry, in various coarseness and types of abrasive) and common tapes (masking tape, duct tape, carpet tape, electrical tape, teflon pipe tape, and colored vinyl tapes in several colors for marking wires and pipes). You may also want to have an assortment of cable ties on hand, which are very handy in many electrical, plumbing and woodworking situations.
You need some general knowledge of how adhesives and lubricants work, as choosing and correctly applying these agents can be 95% of the secret to success in some DIY projects.
posted by paulsc at 6:46 AM on July 14, 2009
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Tuesday, July 31, 2012
My Response to "Justification: Five Views"
A response I have written to the book "Justification: Five views" has been published by Logia. It can be found online here.
Thursday, July 26, 2012
Does 1 Timothy 3:15 Support the Roman Magisterium?
Due to all the talk in the blogosphere about Jason Stellman's announcement that he is converting to Rome, I felt that it was a good time to answer a question posed by one of my readers regarding a text frequently used by Roman apologists, 1 Timothy 3:15.
The claim made regarding this particular passage is that if it is the church is the pillar and foundation of the truth, then sola scriptura cannot possibly be true. If Paul held to sola scriptura, surely he would have labeled scripture the pillar and foundation of the truth rather than the church. This is then assumed to be the case only in the Roman church, rendering all Protestants, Anglicans and Lutherans wrong. I find this argument unpersuasive. Here are a couple reasons why:
First, notice what the text doesn't say. A comment made in passing about the church is hardly grounds for assuming an infallible magisterium under the Roman Papacy. This text says nothing about any magisterium or Pope. There is no definition of the church given in this text at all. Does it refer to the church in the apostolic era? The Eastern Orthodox church? The Coptic church? For a Roman Catholic to simply assume that it refers to what would become the modern Roman Church is highly isogetical. The text does not say anything about the infallibility of the Church. It doesn't give justification for the convening of infallible church councils. It doesn't give the Roman bishop authority to establish dogma by decree when speaking ex cathedra.
Second, the text doesn't state that the Church is the sole foundation of the truth. Look at the way the text is translated in the ESV:
Here is the Greek text:
"ἐὰν δὲ βραδύνω, ἵνα εἰδῇς πῶς δεῖ ἐν οἴκῳ θεοῦ ἀναστρέφεσθαι, ἥτις ἐστὶν ἐκκλησία θεοῦ ζῶντος, στῦλος καὶ ἑδραίωμα τῆς ἀληθείας·" (SBL)
Both translations of the text are possible renderings. Paul could either be saying that the church is the foundation of the truth or a foundation of the truth. The absence of a definite article leaves either translation as a possibility. Irenaeus for example is just as willing to call scripture the "ground and pillar of our faith." (Against Heresies 31:1.2) He did not assume exclusivity to the claim that the church is the foundation of the truth.
All of that being said, neither translation renders the Lutheran approach to sola scriptura false. I can't imagine any Lutheran shying away from the statement that the church is the pillar and foundation of truth. The church is where the gospel comes to God's people. It is where the Scripture is proclaimed with boldness. The church is where faith exists, and where the sacraments come to God's people. Surely, there is nowhere else on earth other than in the church where the truth of the gospel is proclaimed. If someone were to ask where the truth is in American society, I could easily answer, "not the government, not in the broader culture, certainly not in the public school system, but in the church!" To assume anything beyond this of one statement made in passing without any broader explanation is reading far too much into the text. | <urn:uuid:1a45ade0-3548-481b-9509-90ce06195f8d> | http://justandsinner.blogspot.com/2012_07_01_archive.html | en | 0.960058 | 0.178794 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
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I have been using ISA on Windows Server 2003 to publish multiple web servers hosted on the same machine. Setup as follows:
• ISA HTTP/S listener bound to + external IP
• IIS bound to
• Apache bound to
• Python web application bound to
• Custom applications bound to 127.0.0.x
I could route requests depending on the hostname to the specific server by setting up publishing rules in ISA. ISA allowed me to retain the original client IP and the requested hostname, and had a lot of other features like request validation, URL mapping and rewriting and caching.
Now I'm on Windows Server 2008 R2, ISA doesn't work here, TMG is a huge PITA (and doesn't even work with my IP setup at all - default gw, subnet mask, and ISA generally proved to be difficult when it came to RPC and other internal network traffic. So I'm looking for a way to do the same, especially when it comes to retaining the original client IP. I tried Faststream IQ Proxy, which looked promising, especially because it installed it's own NDIS driver, and server publishing worked fine, but the client IP is always lost. Delegate and Squid may be candidates. but they don't install any network layer drivers, so it seems impossible for them to retain the originator IP.
I'm currently running IIS on the external IP and and using ARP with Reverse Proxy to publish other servers, however it doesn't work too well, and the client IP is still lost for the proxied servers. To be honest, it's shit, and I am truly sorry that IIS 7.5 still does not include a viable reverse proxy solution like ISA did years ago.
Does anyone know a software that archives the same web server publishing effects like in ISA, preferably with a decent GUI (I could also live with configuration files though), that reverse proxies requests to local webservers, without loosing hostname information and the original client IP? Or am I doomed to get TMG to work in my setup?
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You probably don't need to retain the original IP in the actual TCP header. Many reverse proxy setups will allow passing the original IP address the request was made from as an HTTP header. (See for example: Squid configuration directive forwarded_for.)
Apache with mod_proxy would also do the trick, and will also add X-Forwarded-For headers for reverse-proxied traffic. This might be convenient since you already have Apache running on the machine.
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Thank you. I know that, and I'm currently doing that with IIS/ARP, but putting the X-Forwarded-For header back into the chain is also a real PITA, for instance you need to use a different log file field definition in Apache so that the X-Forwarded-For-IP instead of the proxy IP shows up, and PHP is a different story. Please, only solutions that reflect the capabilities that ISA allowed and were so convenient. – Alexander Gräf Dec 4 '11 at 21:47
You ruled out TMG, which is the current version of ISA; other solutions will have more pain than that. From the look of it, unless you change your addressing scheme to be TMG compatible. Yes, I know it's a pain; pick the least painful pain. – TristanK Dec 5 '11 at 21:01
Last night I thought I give TMG another shot, installed a new VM with WS 2008 R2 and TMG, but the 127.0.0.x trick doesn't work anymore. As soon as "Requests appear to come from the original client" is ticked, weird things happen.With TMG listening on the external IP, and IIS bound to, the host starts to send out ARP requests for With IIS bound to, IIS tries to answer the request directly to the client, and TMG ignores the answer, and gives a timeout. TMG is also really a PITA because every change on the configuration takes about a minute to get applied. – Alexander Gräf Dec 5 '11 at 23:19
Just for the record, TMG can be installed with some tricks:
1. Install the Microsoft Loopback adapter (hdwwiz)
2. Set a static address in the private IP range (e.g., no default GW) for the loopback adapter and disable DNS registration in the TCP/IP settings for the adapter
3. Install TMG
4. Upgrade TMG to SP1 or use a bootstrapped installation
5. Optional: promote to DC/RODC
6. Optional: if the server is a DNS, add the "real" adapter as HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\DNS\Parameters\PublishAddresses, so the private address won't be published
7. Bind IIS with netsh http iplisten to and
8. Use server publishing rules in TMG to publish
9. Register additional addresses on the loopback adapter and bind your applications to the addresses (,, etc), so you can publish them too in TMG
Not as smooth as in ISA, but it works. Be sure to install TMG before promoting to DC because it's not supported by Microsoft to have TMG on a DC installed
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Dad banned from seeing child for 13 years
Updated January 17, 2012 14:20:10
The Family Court has banned the father of a five-year-old girl from seeing his daughter until she turns 18 by ruling that shared care would not work.
After a long legal battle, the court ruled it would be pointless to order shared care of the girl because the mother was determined to ignore court orders and destroy the daughter's relationship with her father.
The court said while it was not in the best interests of the child, the only solution was to ban contact between father and daughter until she turned 18.
The case has been branded by legal experts as one of the most extreme since amendments to shared care legislation in the Family Law Act were introduced by the Howard government in 2006.
Jenni Millbank, a professor of law at the University of Technology in Sydney, says the Family Court needs to consider the relationship between the child and both parents.
"The Family Court has to consider the benefit to a child of a meaningful relationship with both parents and, if they order shared parental responsibility between the parents, they must also then consider whether or not the child would benefit from so-called equal time or, if not equal time, substantial and significant time," she said.
But Professor Millbank says certain circumstances mean some shared care arrangements do not work.
"If a parent is violent or abusive or if they have a very serious mental illness or an addiction, if they are not able to prioritise the child's need over their own needs or if there is such extreme conflict between the parents that the benefit of the relationship is outweighed by the destructive impact of the conflict on the child," she said.
'Fraught issues'
The director of Canberra law firm Farrar Gesini and Dunn, Juliette Ford, says those circumstances existed in the current case.
"There are a number of extremely fraught issues between the parents," Ms Ford said.
"There were allegations of violence between them; there are allegations of abuse in relation to the child; there is evidence of the father's attitude towards the mother, which is negative.
"And then there is also a lot of evidence as to the mother's attitude towards the father, which is also negative."
"The courts have been very careful not to in any way be seen to be complementing, congratulating or condoning the actions and attitudes of each of the parents, and this isn't a case where one should see that the mother has been vindicated in her actions.
"The court has very much made a decision as to what's in the interests of this little five-year-old notwithstanding the actions of her mother in this particular case."
Audio: Mother's refusal sees father banned from contacting daughter (The World Today)
Professor Millbank says the case should not set an unwanted precedent for shared care.
She says it just confirms that the case in question was extreme.
"As Tolstoy says, every family is unhappy in its own special way," Professor Millbank said.
"So there's no such thing really as the death of shared care or a precedent that binds other cases. This sounds like a very extreme and unusual sets of facts and so you're going to get an unusual judgment.
"I think it's very clear that the shared care legislation has set down a pattern of much more shared care. So you can't just say because it didn't happen in this one case that the quotes about the death of shared care, I thought, were just a bit extreme."
High-stakes game
Professor Millbank says parents who simply refuse to deal with each other are playing a high-stakes game.
"There is absolutely that question of kind of thwarting the relationship but that is also a consideration in the legislation," she said.
"The court has to consider the willingness of each parent to facilitate the relationship of the child with the other parent or with other important people.
"So if you just say 'it's over and I hate him now so I don't want the child to see him', then one of the possible outcomes is the child will actually go into the primary care of the other parent."
Ms Ford says the laws have mostly had a positive impact.
"What's happened since those amendments is there's been a greater number of cases where people have been spending more time with their children," she said.
"Some can see that as being a good thing. Some may point to some decisions where that necessarily hasn't been a good thing.
"But what it has caused people to think about is well, my actions and who I am as a person is going to have some relevance towards what orders somebody makes which is in the best interests of my child and it's not about me and what my rights are, it's about what's appropriate for my children.
"That's really what this case struggled with."
Editor’s note: (January 17) a related video has been removed as it was inaccurate and lacked balance.
Topics: family-law, family-and-children, courts-and-trials, australia, canberra-2600, sydney-2000
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Canons of Saint Hippolytus
Canons of Saint Hippolytus, formally Canons of the Church and Precepts Written by Hippolytus, Archbishop of Rome, According to the Ordinances of the Apostles, a collection of 38 canons (church regulations) preserved in an Arabic translation. The original text was Greek and written in Egypt; the Arabic version may rest on a Coptic translation.
These canons are neither the authentic work of St. Hippolytus nor the oldest church regulations but are a later adaptation of the Apostolic Tradition of St. Hippolytus. The unknown author of the canons generally follows the order of his source and treats the same subjects: ordination, catechumenate, Baptism, prayer, and discipline of the Christian community. But he alters the text when he wishes and makes additions of his own. Internal evidence indicates that he lived after the Council of Nicaea (ad 325) but that he wrote before the Roman Empire officially became Christian at the end of the 4th century. Unlike the Apostolic Tradition, the canons do not seem to describe an actual Christian community but instead contain a mixture of apostolic fiction, ideal reform, and actual practice. | <urn:uuid:63d49a92-034f-4593-a01b-2e539a403b10> | http://www.britannica.com/print/topic/266681 | en | 0.931334 | 0.046261 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
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THIRTEEN’s Nature Profiles The Gathering Swarms
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THIRTEEN’s Nature series will profile The Gathering Swarms Wednesday, May 21, 2014 on PBS. The lineup includes bees, bats, cicadas, desert locusts, emperor penguins, mayflies
It is quite a spectacle when animals come together in inconceivable numbers: sometimes in the millions, billions, and even trillions. When swarms gather, a kind of super-organism is created in which individual intelligence is superseded by a collective consciousness that shares information and moves with a single purpose for the benefit of all. This behavior applies to a number of creatures that form these great gatherings for a variety of reasons: to breed, migrate, find food, and even to protect themselves.
Using high-speed camera techniques, The Gathering Swarms captures these world-wide displays and explains why they occur. The documentary airs Wednesday, May 21 at 8 p.m. (ET) on PBS (check local listings). After the broadcast, the episode will be available for online streaming at
The Gathering Swarms provides many examples of swarm intelligence such as what prompts emperor penguins to start huddling. As the only creatures on earth to breed in the Antarctic winter, their survival, as well as those of their chicks, is put in jeopardy when the temperature falls to 40 below. So, instinctively, emperor penguins all converge on the same central point and begin to form a huddle. As those on the outside take the brunt of the cold, those on the inside take tiny steps that move the huddle in waves. The pack continues to shift and rotate from the center, so no one is left permanently in the cold. The formation often breaks down when those on the inside overheat, at which point the coldest penguins, which were on the outside, form a new center as the other members of the colony huddle around them.
Bees create swarms when they are house hunting. A scout bee is sent out to find a new cavity large enough to house the whole hive. Once she has measured and inspected the new accommodations, the scout returns to let the swarm know its location using a “waggle dance.” An advance party follows her to check it out, hold a “committee meeting,” and somehow arrive at a consensus. Then the scouting party signals the entire colony that it’s time to move, and tens of thousands of bees take to the air as one to make their way to their new home. The whole process is an example of highly-developed collective decision-making.
Like many birds, fish school together on the principal that it is better to be part of a crowd when finding food or facing predators. Travelling up the coast of South Africa, sardines are part of the greatest fish migration on earth. Their ability to simultaneously move as one relies on a pressure sense that runs along their bodies detecting the movements of their nearest neighbor. This “lateral line” also detects predators like sharks, dolphins and flocks of cape gannets. Although sardines try to fend off attacks by staying deep and keeping the school together, some assaults can break up the super-shoal into smaller, more vulnerable target groups. But they will try to rejoin the master shoal as soon as possible, benefiting once more from the collective intelligence of the swarm. | <urn:uuid:f2c5e2ef-dd7c-44b7-95df-39a270c52453> | http://www.examiner.com/article/thirteen-s-nature-profiles-the-gathering-swarms?cid=rss | en | 0.938091 | 0.022866 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
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Evil_Carrot, January 7th, 2012
Metallica has a fanbase that has, for their entire existence, been pretty much all about jumping ship. Some claimed to only like Mustaine’s contributions, some claim they were lost when Metallica did their first slow song (“Fade to Black” from Ride the Lightning), some were lost with the progressiveness of Puppets, the loss of Burton, the Rawness of Justice, the commercial sound of the black album, the bluesy sound of the Loads, or the stripped back awful St. Anger sound. Regardless of what this band does, there’s going to be a group saying “Metallica is ruined forever,” as well as a group saying everything they do is gold. But I don’t think even St. Anger received as much backlash as their collaboration with Lou Reed, Lulu. A lot of people really seemed to feel that was the last straw. Metallica was pretty much over. Despite a warmer reception for Death Magnetic, it wasn’t enough for Metallica to regain the metal community, and Lulu finally burned that bridge. So, under the pretense of celebrating their 30th anniversary, but more likely as a form of damage control, Metallica released an EP of four tracks that didn’t make it to Death Magnetic. How does this apology fare…?
The album kicks off with Hate Train, which has an intro that, just as it feels like it’s going to drag, starts to thrash, and at about :50 seconds in has what I consider to be a pretty sick solo. Unfortunately, just as the track begins to thrash, albeit with a riff that sounds like the concept was “let’s take the riff from ‘Fuel’ and make it thrashy, James somewhat ruins what promised to be a small victory with the line “HATE!! IS A TRAIN!” This line signifies everything that has been wrong with Metallica for 20 years with me. See. I was ok with Load and Reload musically, probably because I listened to The Black Album before Master of Puppets, so it wasn’t really a shock to me. But my problem with every album since the Black Album has been the lyrics. From “HEY! Tie your tap shoes tightly,” to “My lifestyle determines my deathstyle,” to “LOVE Is a four letter word,” they’ve gotten progressively worse on a lyrical front. You’d think that after James’ face being photoshopped onto a table hours after premiering “The View,” they’d think these lines out a little better. Especially considering that wasn’t even the goofies line on that album (“I would cut my legs and tits off…” “I Waggle my ass like a dark prostitute…”). Sure, Lou Reed was in the driver’s seat, but Metallica was in the vehicle, and their name is on the product. And they supported that music and those words, to the point where Lars claimed he cried listening to it… And “Hate!! Is a train!” is almost wallowing in parody. How about Apathy is a Greyhound Bus? Anger is a Soccer Mom’s Minivan. Sympathy is a Tugboat. And some band needs to rerecord this as “SNAKES!! On a Plane!”
Anyway, The track slows down to a groove riff and goes back and forth between this and the thrashier riffs, though with nothing feeling too out of place, even the slowed down “You took away tomorrow” part. Another note. James’ voice. A lot of people hate how it sounds these days, and especially hate his newfound attempts to sing. I really don’t mind his singing voice though. The problem I have is somehow, when he TRIES to sing with a bark or growl, he just sounds wrong. He does need to stop accenting added –Ah’s and ooh’s, like “DESCEND-AH!”and “STAND-AH!” He really never did this until the 90’s, and even then it wasn’t like this. It’s like he’s doing it BECAUSE it’s become a trademark, not fully realizing the parody it’s becoming. Hate Train’s solo is decent, though there’s a part I refer to as the “railroad crossing” riff, which is almost so goofy in a goofy song goofily named Hate Train that it’s almost a joke. But that riff at about 5 minutes is heavy as hell.
Just a Bullet Away isn’t nearly as thrashy, but is decently heavy, with Lars attacking the drums almost as though he cared. He needs to kill the Kick-Snare-Kick-Snare formula though. The lyrics remain silly “Suck on the barrel, suck until it’s gone dry, for all reflections look the same in the shine of the midnight revolver.” At 4 minutes it ends abruptly and you think, “well that was a decent song,” and then after a quick pause, it goes “Master of Puppets” and gives us a pointless slow part, except where I liked the slow part in Puppets, this feels pointless, and just to pad the song out, since every thrash band from the 80’s seems to think they can’t write a 4 minute song anymore, cause long songs are the shiznit. It goes back up to midpace and kind of half-asses its way across the finish line. Similar sentiments can be said for “Hell and Back,” however it’s a generally better song, and so far, has the best lyrics on the EP: “And when the sun goes hellbound, And the moon does resurrect the night, I'll hide within her, Not much good has come out the light…” overall it’s not poetry, but a lot better than some of the crap lyrics they’ve put out recently.
Then comes ‘Rebel of Babylon.’ Just When you thought this album was going to wallow in mediocrity, comes a track that should have probably been on Death Magnetic instead of say, Suicide and Redemption or even Cyanide or Judas Kiss. This song almost captures, during the verses, the fact that Metallica were once a thrash band. And during the verses, has a decent groove riff with a catchy enough chorus to keep you until the thrash comes back. The song remains interesting through the instrumental section with various riff changes eventually going back the thrash riff it began with. This is defiantly beats out some of the weaker tracks from Death Magnetic.
Overall, the EP drags in some places, the two middle sounds could have been shorted, and the lyrics to Hate Train re-written, but this sounds similar to Death Magnetic, making it decent outtakes to a decent album, serving less as a 30 year anniversary celebration or a new release and more as a reminder that even though they experimented with Lou Reed, they still, presumably, plan to once again get in touch with their heavier side when they next return to the studio. I guess. Or they plan to record Load 3: Unload, and this is just to fuck with their already volatile fan base. | <urn:uuid:0ae5769d-46c9-4588-94e7-b709b3d1f4f7> | http://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/Metallica/Beyond_Magnetic/324847/Evil_Carrot | en | 0.968913 | 0.076429 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Unhappy Woolies shoppers wait and wonder
Online customers were being promised delivery a few days ago; now all they'll get is a refund, writes Lisa Bachelor
Woolworths customers waiting for the arrival of goods they bought online will be disappointed: their orders cannot now be met and, instead, they will receive a refund.
Alarmed customers of the family-favourite high street store are deluging internet forums with stories of goods that have been ordered and paid for but have not turned up.
The store went into administration 11 days ago but while the remaining high-street stores are trading as usual until after Christmas, the Woolies website is not working and hundreds of online shoppers have been left in the dark.
One forum user on Moneysavingexpert.com said payment for an online order had been taken out of their account on 22 November but as yet there was no sign of their goods, even though the automated tracking service showed the delivery had been due last week.
'When the website was up it said my order was fulfilled... I have no idea what to do,' the user added. Other online customers were wondering whether they should try to claim back from their card provider the money they had spent.
Since last weekend, customers logging on to the Woolworths website have been greeted with a grey screen and the message: 'Our site is currently undergoing essential maintenance. We apologise for any inconvenience caused. Please check back later.'
As late as the middle of last week, the administrators in charge of Woolworths, accountants Deloitte, said they were still hoping to fulfil many orders, but they now admit that will be impossible. Here we tackle some of the questions you have been asking about the troubled store.
I ordered something from Woolworths and it has not turned up. What happens now?
Anyone calling Woolworths' customer services last week would have been greeted with the automated message: 'With respect to any outstanding orders our administrators are currently reviewing whether these orders can be fulfilled.' A spokesman for Deloitte now says: 'The administrators and Woolworths' management carried out an urgent review into outstanding customer orders. Regrettably, following discussions with suppliers and distributors, it has been determined that it will not be possible to fulfil these orders. We will be providing customers with a full refund.'
Everyone who was awaiting a delivery should have now heard from Deloitte - in most cases by email - and, if they paid by card, should have also received a refund. There will be a few customers who may still receive their items if, says the spokesman, 'they have come through a different supply chain'.
The small number of people who ordered goods in a Woolworths store and paid by cash will have to visit a store for a refund. If you haven't heard from Deloitte, the number to call for outstanding orders is 020 7706 5000 or email woolworthsplc@deloitte.co.uk.
Can I still use my store vouchers?
Yes, but Deloitte has only committed to keep the stores open until after Christmas. After that the chain will either be sold on to one of the current bidders or wound up. If the chain is wound up, you obviously won't be able to use your vouchers in Woolies, but you will still be able use them in B&Q and Comet.
Should I spend the money on my Woolworths' Christmas bonus card now?
Yes. The Christmas bonus card, rather like the infamous Farepak Christmas hamper scheme, was designed to spread the cost of Christmas purchases by allowing you to save money on the card throughout the year, with Woolworths also adding to the total each time you put money on the card - for balances of £49 to £96.99, the store added £1, increasing in stages up to £10 for balances of more than £240. Money saved in Christmas schemes is not protected, so if you have money on your bonus card you should redeem that before Christmas.
I want to buy something from Woolworths, but what happens if the firm is wound up and then the item breaks down or turns out to be faulty? What are my rights?
'It really is tough luck,' says Professor Geoffrey Woodroffe, editor of the Encyclopedia of Consumer Law. 'If the goods are defective, rather than dangerous, the only claim is against the seller, so if the seller has gone under the administrators are unlikely to meet that claim.'
If you took out an extended warranty - a type of insurance product - at the time of buying a product from Woolworths you can still claim on this, he says: 'These warranties are usually a waste of money but there is some virtue in difficult times to taking out this sort of extra protection when you buy something.'
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Stu Ostro's Meteorology Blog
Polar Vortex, Global Warming, and Cold Weather
By: stuostro, 11:47 AM GMT on January 10, 2014
Image credit: Skreened
I just searched for "polar vortex" and got about 17,000,000 results. Apparently the number doesn't display when specifying a date range; I wonder how many would have come up if I had searched a week ago! And searching for "polar vortex" "global warming" gives 78,300,000.
Looking at those topics in relation to the recent cold weather over parts of the U.S. and Canada from an objective, scientific perspective ...
Image credit: NOAA/CPC
• A polar vortex is not only not something new or mysterious, it's a standard feature of the atmosphere, strongest in winter. The term has been used in the scientific literature at least back as far as 1939 in a paper by Rossby. [Update: I don't know if it was in a scientific journal back this far, but the term was used at least as early as 1853. (H/T to the commenter below.)] This meteorological phenomenon has likely been present for as long as there has been weather on Earth.
• A polar vortex is large circulation in the upper atmosphere that has generally west-to-east winds circling the Earth. It's not a cold wave or a storm. As the name implies, polar vortexes (or vortices -- either is grammatically correct) are usually centered in the polar regions, one near the North Pole and another near the South Pole.
• Polar vortexes exist at a high altitude. They are most well-defined in the stratosphere, higher up than the portion of the atmosphere in which most of what is typically thought of as weather is (troposphere). Their circulations extend down to lower altitudes (the atmosphere is a continuum) but are more irregular and chaotic in the troposphere. As observations and understanding of higher altitudes have evolved, the American Meteorological Society Glossary definition has evolvedoriginally referring to the middle and upper troposphere (which is where I originally learned it was), and then the middle troposphere to the stratosphere, and the now the scientific literature mostly refers to the stratospheric polar vortex. NASA Goddard refers to it extending from the tropopause (boundary between troposphere and stratosphere) all the way up to the mesosphere, which begins approximately 50 kilometers (~31 miles) above the Earth's surface, and indeed the current chart above of the *1* millibar height shows the polar vortex very pronounced at almost that altitude! [Update: The AMS has again changed the definition. There's what seems to be an a typo at that link: "not merely a stratospheric phenomenon" must mean "not merely a tropospheric phenomenon," since it's referring directly to the original Glossary entry that cited only the troposphere. They still refer to two "centers" when they're really axes or lobes, and only in the long-term means, which can be misleading, as they're not necessarily there at any given time (and much of the time are not). And it says the vortex is strongest during the winter in the upper troposphere and stratosphere, whereas what started all the "endless media mangling" was the L in on the chart below at 500 mb in the mid troposphere. And about that troposphere ... interestingly there are apparently many more uses of "circumpolar vortex" in the literature in regard to that level than just "polar vortex" ... which makes sense, since while a subtle semantic difference, the definition of circum- seems to apply well to the tropospheric manifestation, given that there it's largely a band of westerlies circulating around, but removed from, the pole, and relatively irregular and chaotic, stretching (figuratively and literally) the term "vortex," whereas the stratospheric polar vortex is more truly polar and more truly a vortex.]
• Its air flow spins around like a large wheel. There are "waves" which rotate around like spokes in a wheel. Sometimes (in the Northern Hemisphere, rarely in the Southern) the wheel breaks into separate smaller wheels displaced farther from the Pole, and around the smaller wheels some of the air flows from east to west.
• The recent arctic blast might have had a connection to the stratospheric polar vortex, but's that's tenuous at best. At lower altitudes, there was a sharp dip in the jet stream ("trough") over Canada and the U.S. that could be considered a portion of the tropospheric polar vortex circulation, but such a trough is not uncommon; this one was just particularly strong. And on the first map below, from Monday evening at the peak of the cold, while what I've circled over Ontario is what caused all the hype and hysteria, is that the polar vortex? What about all the other things I've circled? Or is the polar vortex the large circle/circulation within which the others are? What about the circulations outside that which broke off from the main polar jet stream? Well, on the second map, of the stratosphere (squarely in it at 30 mb, a bit lower than the 1 mb map above), you sure can see what/where the stratospheric polar vortex is! Lines on the map represent the air flowing counterclockwise in the direction of the lines with the center of the vortex over the North Pole. And on the third map, three days later, even though the frigid arctic air had retreated and there had been a big warm-up the circulation is nearly the same and still extending southward well into the Lower 48, in fact if anything slightly farther! Further illustrating the problem with the polar vortex meme! (At that level by then there had been an elongation of the core and a couple of centers show up. A bit lower, at 70 mb, that is more apparent; higher at 10 mb, not so much. There has been some stratospheric warming that this might be related to, but only a modest amount, and the vortex has not completely split like at other times such as last January, when one of my images of the year was of that vortex split, and this is occurring as the temperatures on the Earth's surface in the U.S. and into southern Canada are getting a lot warmer, not colder. And ironically, there was more of a collocation of the vortex in the stratosphere & troposphere and very cold air at the Earth's surface on New Year's Day, but it didn't sweep across the U.S. because the other factors that ensued a few days later were not present.)
• There was that system dropping south from the Arctic and one from the Pacific which combined to bring cold air down from Canada. That sort of thing happens frequently; this arctic plunge was just colder than usual.
• The recent cold wave was not unprecedented, and there have been others in the past which have been of greater magnitude in a number of ways (such as in 1996, 1994, 1985, 1983, 1977, and, farther back in time, perhaps the most extreme one on record, 1899). The intensity of this cold has been relatively rare in the past couple decades, however. Temperatures during this cold wave were not nearly as cold as they can get on Mars, which is approximately -225°F.
Image credit: Colorado State University
Image credit: NOAA/CPC
• Global warming did not create polar vortexes, though the changing climate might be changing the nature of them. Nor did humans create the term this week: as noted above, it's been an accepted scientific one for at least 75 years
• Cold weather at a particular place/time does not disprove global warming -- it does not negate the decades of temperature rise in the graph below. Global warming and a cold wave are not mutually exclusive
Image credit: NASA GISS
• This recent cold weather must also be viewed in geographical context. While there have been frigid arctic air masses and major snow/ice storms the past few weeks in the Lower 48 and Canada, the area of below average temperatures there has been amidst a large area of warmer-than-average temperatures. In the Southern Hemisphere, heat which has been extreme and more climatologically significant than the cold has occurred in places such as Australia and Argentina.
Image credit: NOAA/ESRL
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Updated: 3:53 AM GMT on February 25, 2014
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The European Parliament voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to locate the three proposed agencies supervising the European Union’s banks, financial markets and insurance business in one place: Frankfurt.
The idea favored by European governments is to have the banking supervisor in London, the insurance supervisor in Paris and the markets supervisor in Brussels.
The reason to put them all in Germany’s financial center is to “ease interaction among them,” the Parliament says. Frankfurt is also where the overarching European Systemic Risk Board will be based.
The idea has been around for a while and was back by the Parliament’s economics committee in May. To sweeten the pill for likely livid governments, MEP’s decided that while the headquarters would be in Frankfurt, there could be representative offices in major cities around Europe.
Observers say the odds of the agencies all ending up in Frankfurt are slightly better than Emile Heskey winning the Golden Boot at the World Cup — he’s already gone home, goalless — but not much. Read More » | <urn:uuid:76a16869-5011-4b28-a606-50a783c0cb88> | http://blogs.wsj.com/brussels/tag/frankfurt/ | en | 0.941821 | 0.034161 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
2013 Ford Explorer Sport: It SHO Is Heavy
I'm torn over the new Ford Explorer Sport, announced earlier today. I don't particularly like the new Explorer, but if you've got to get a three-row crossover for some terrible reason a 350-hp, twin-turbo V6 one with decent handling and sporty looks is probably the one to get.
Just like the Ford Taurus SHO the new Explorer shares a platform with, power comes from an EcoBoost twin-turbo V6 putting out 350-hp and 350 lb-ft of torque. It's AWD. This sounds like something I should like.
Overall, power is down about 10 horsepower and 27 lb-ft of torque compared to the HEMI-powered Dodge Durango R/T, but it puts out a slightly better 16/22 mpg (city/highway) fuel economy.
Oh, and it weighs 4,859 pounds. Base. Maybe that's why I'm so unenthused. That means even with all the proper towing equipment it can barely pull another Ford Explorer Sport.
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What's Wrong With Having Frenemies?
I've had a frenemy or two. Haven't we all? The thing that pisses me off about this article in the Daily News (title: "From Frenemies To Player HateHERS, Women Just Can't Get Along") is that they make it seem like this is an exclusively female phenomenon. Writes Leah Chernikoff, "There are different types of frenemies… There are 'black holes' who bring constant drama and are always in crisis. There are frenemies who'd rather hear about how miserable you are than hear about the successes in your life. Then there are the fair-weather frenemies who only want to see you when they're single, and ditch you as soon as they pick up with a new guy… So why do women act this way?" Here comes the old women-are-sensitive-creatures-at-the-mercy-of-their-emotions bullshit. When Chernikoff asks, "Why do women act this way?" here's what she gets:
Engaging in frenemy or player hateHER behavior can be "an outlet for aggression and negative behavior," explains Long Island-based psychologist Dr. Jean Cirillo. "Sometimes a woman is continuing a bad relationship with her mother or a female friend."
And there's a reason we keep our frenemies close. "It makes for good gossip with your friends," says therapist Stacy Kaiser. "It's why we like reality TV or we rubberneck when there's a traffic accident - it is literally like that person is the traffic accident. It's so shocking that you want to watch it. Until the pain gets too great."
Hear that ladies? You don't hate that chick who slept with the guy you liked even though she knew you liked him and then continue to see her socially because you have your pride and refuse to let her get the best of you. No, it's because you have mommy issues or problems with some other female, says the female shrink. Or because you're a drama queen who loves gossip, says the other chick shrink. Deep breath.
Here's my theory: Having a "frenemy" is actually not a problem. Having a fremeny is the civilized and polite choice. Having a frenemy is not the exclusive domain of women. When a human being is upset by another human being but doesn't want to upset the delicate balance of his or her immediate community and therefore smiles through the seething hate instead of clawing the offender's jugular out, that is advanced sociopsychological behavior. Wars can be avoided by learning the refined skill of diplomacy. Why waste time and effort in confrontation and conflict over a so-called friend stealing champagne from your house when you can just vow not to speak to her for three months and then have dinner with her in six months? My answer to the question "Why do women act this way?" is: Because we're evolved.
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sundew, any plant of the genus Drosera, family Droseraceae (order Nepenthales), which contains four genera (Aldrovanda, Dionaea, Drosera, and Drosophyllum) and about 100 annual and perennial species of flowering plants notable for their ability to trap insects. They are widely distributed in tropical and temperate regions. One of the best-known sundews is the Venus’s-flytrap (q.v.). The name sundew is most commonly applied to members of the genus Drosera, which is
Drosera species, distributed worldwide but most
abundantly in Australia,
but the term sundew also applies to all Droseraceae. (See also Nepenthales.)
Drosera species, which occur for the most part in wet, boggy places with a sandy acid soil, ; they are predominantly perennials. The small, nodding, five-petaled white or pinkish flowers are borne on one side of a curving stem, 10 to 25 cm (4 to 10 inches) tall, which rises from a rosette of usually basal leaves. The roundish, often reddish-stalked basal leaves, less than 2.5 cm (1 inch) in diameter, are covered with gland-tipped hairs that exude a sticky substance attractive to insects. Insects are captured by flexible tentacles (in reality stalked glands ) on the upper surface of the leaf, and eventually become engulfed by a web of sticky tentacles glands (see photograph). After the trapped prey has been digested by enzymes secreted by the tentacles, the leaf reopens, resetting the trap.
The most common North American and West European sundew, D. rotundifolia, has small white or pinkish flowers 1.25 cm (0.5 inch) across or less. The round, flat leaf with purplish hairs narrows abruptly to a long fuzzy stalk. The fruit is spindle shaped. | <urn:uuid:fb11b7ce-9351-42e8-8949-d146800f7d02> | http://media-3.web.britannica.com/eb-diffs/842/171842-16742-70361.html | en | 0.936278 | 0.031263 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
Marlins, Orioles Swap Option-less Players
Baltimore gets Robert Andino for Hayden Penn
The Deal
The Orioles traded righthander Hayden Penn to the Marlins for shortstop Robert Andino, in a deal involving two players with no options remaining.
The Young Players
It only seems like Penn has been around forever, but he's just 24 and hasn't pitched in the major leagues since 2006. He's a testament to what the Orioles used to be—an organization that didn't have enough talent and didn't really know what to do with talent when it was on hand. A fifth-round pick in 2002, he was signed away from San Diego State and immediately hopped on the fast track. He finished his first full season in Double-A Bowie, and jumped to Baltimore at the end of 2005. He clearly wasn't ready, but the Orioles had so little pitching at the time they didn't have many other options. The 6-foot-3, 200-pounder checked in as the organization's No. 3 prospect at the time, behind Nick Markakis and Adam Loewen, having shown a low-90s fastball that reached 96 on occasion, as well as a solid changeup and fringy curveball. Health problems and a lack of development of the curve have dogged him since he was rushed into the breach. He had bone spurs removed from his elbow in 2007, and missed part of 2006 with an appendectomy. He battled shoulder problems most of 2008, when he went 6-7, 4.79 for Triple-A Norfolk in 21 starts, though he didn't have surgery. With a chance to win a big league spot this spring, Penn went 0-3, 10.06 in 17 innings, giving up four home runs.
Andino's story is similar—same draft year of 2002 (second round instead of fifth), same big league debut season (2005), similar lack of big league success. The 6-foot shortstop has hit .201/.250/.299 in 144 major league at-bats for the Marlins, but he didn't really need to hit to stick as a reserve in Florida. He wasn't going to beat out Hanley Ramirez as the starter, and his glove should have made him a good option as a defensive replacement and utilityman. Scouts consider his range and arm above-average, and he has the infield actions to be both steady and able to make the spectacular play. His bat has been the problem; his swing path is sound when he stays with a line-drive approach, but he lacks pitch recognition, loses focus and lacks the strength to make consistent hard contact, having struck out 100 times in each of his last three full minor league seasons.
Quick Take
Why not? The Orioles don't have a long-term answer at shortstop and lack homegrown options; if Andino picks up some professionalism from Cesar Izturis, he could be a solid placeholder if everything comes together. Penn still has somewhat live stuff, and clearly needs a new voice or two in his ear. The Marlins had tired of Andino's act and can see if Penn can benefit from being around their stable of young, live arms.
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Immigration law polarizes Arizonans
By Emanuella Grinberg, CNN
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Arizonans on new immigration law
• Arizona college student carries three pieces of ID to prove citizenship, fears being detained
• Phoenix mayor, advocacy group plan legal challenges to the measure
• Supporters say law fills federal government's role in addressing immigration reform
• Youth activists in Arizona take lead in organizing protests
(CNN) -- These days, Jessica Mejia doesn't leave the house without three pieces of identification to prove her citizenship.
"Even if you're legal, you're in fear that maybe your driver's license isn't going to be enough or if you're walking down the street and the police stop you," said Mejia, 21. "It's a constant fear we're living in and even legal citizens are afraid to go out."
Mejia's concerns were echoed by others in Tucson and across the country who oppose the legislation, which requires police to question people if they have reason to suspect they're in the United States illegally.
Protests continued Sunday outside the capitol building in Phoenix, with hundreds gathering in a largely peaceful demonstration against the new measure.
Read about Sunday's protest
The law also requires legal immigrants to carry their alien registration documents at all times. But U.S. citizens like Mejia, who identifies herself as Chicana, says she carries her driver's license, voter registration card and school fingerprint card at all times out of fear of being racially profiled.
"How can you tell what will give an officer reasonable suspicion to stop you?" she said. "We understand there's a need for protection on the border, but we think it should come more with immigration reform, not by pulling over people and stopping them on the street."
Opposition to the bill is also coming from elected officials at various levels of government in Arizona. Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon said he has scheduled an item for the Tuesday session of City Council to prepare for legal action against SB 1070.
Gallery: Protesters gather at Arizona Capitol
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"I will direct the city manager and city attorney to file a lawsuit against the state to enjoin the law from going into effect and have it declared unconstitutional," he said.
Supporters of the law say it fills a void left by the federal government's failure to properly address immigration reform.
"One of the few enumerated, delegated and specified duties and powers given to the federal government in the Constitution is to provide for the common defense of the nation. In this they have failed by not securing the border and by not keeping immigration law up to date with the needs of our nation," said CNN iReporter Tom B., a defense contractor in Iraq who didn't want his last name to be used for security reasons.
Read why iReporter supports law
"This law will allow local law enforcement in the course of their duties to question individuals in regards to their immigration status. Since Arizona is a border state they are the site of the main issue at hand," he said in an e-mail.
Arizona state Rep. Russ Jones, who voted for the bill, said the state felt compelled to craft its own legislation.
"Until the federal government actually puts up an effective border fence securing our southern border, we cannot sit back and hope for the best while our laws are broken every day and the hands of law enforcement are tied."
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Gov. Jan Brewer signed the legislation Friday, citing border-related crime as a key factor. She also issued an executive order that requires additional training for local officers on how to implement the law without engaging in racial profiling or discrimination.
The rules, to be established in by the Arizona Peace Officers Standards and Training Board, are due back to her in May. The law goes into effect 90 days after the close of the legislative session, which has not been determined.
Other police organizations that support the bill, including the Phoenix Law Enforcement Association, say the legislation has numerous safeguards to protect the rights of minority groups.
"The bill requires reasonable suspicion for officers to make contact and also contains language that allows officers discretion in enforcing the law," a statement on the group's website says. "Officers cannot stop a person based solely on race, color, or national origin."
The Arizona Association of Chiefs of Police, which had opposed the measure, issued a statement saying, "Law enforcement professionals in the state of Arizona will enforce the provisions of the new law to the best of their abilities."
The bill's passage immediately triggered vows from advocacy groups across the country to pursue legal action to stop it in its tracks.
Victor Viramontes, senior legal counsel for the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, said his organization plans to ask the federal government for a permanent injunction to prevent the law from taking effect.
"What we need is singular immigration policy, and that's what the Constitution mandates. The Arizona statute stands in the way of the federal government's ability to do its job by overwhelming the system," Viramontes said.
Most undocumented immigrants follow the laws of the country, Viramontes said, and deserve the same human rights afforded U.S. citizens.
"Sometimes it's politically expedient to target undocumented immigrants and push them further into shadows, but they're already some of the most vulnerable to civil rights abuse, and the Legislature's role should be to protect these contributing members of society."
On the ground in Arizona, students and young people are at the forefront of the fight, using social media and technology to organize.
"As soon as [Brewer] signed that bill it shook the hornet's nest. It awoke not only Arizona, not only our community, but the nation," said Jeff Santino, a student organizer and graduate student at the University of Arizona. "People are all flooding us with support and I think we need to garner that support."
Mejia said her generation owes it to future generations to ensure they don't grow up in a society that legalizes discrimination. She said she also feels a debt to her parents and grandparents, who may be too busy working to support their families to engage in a political fight.
"I feel like it's a really big responsibility on our shoulders to protect our community when they don't have voice in what's going on."
CNN's Thelma Gutierrez contributed to this report.
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1. 2 cups dried cannellini beans (about 14 ounces), soaked overnight in cold water to cover
2. 1 onion, quartered
3. 1 carrot, halved
4. 1 celery rib, halved
5. 1 fresh tarragon sprig
6. 1 fresh thyme sprig
7. Salt and freshly ground pepper
1. Drain the beans and rinse them in cold water. In a medium saucepan, combine the beans with the onion, carrot, celery and 8 cups cold water and bring to a boil over high heat. Reduce the heat to low and simmer gently, stirring occasionally, until the beans are almost tender, about 1 hour and 10 minutes; add more cold water if necessary to keep the beans covered.
2. Add the tarragon and thyme sprigs and simmer until the beans are very tender, about 20 minutes longer. Remove and discard the tarragon and thyme sprigs. Drain the beans and season with salt and pepper before serving.
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Tina Dettman-Bielefeldt column: Teaching method leads to business idea
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John Orth, a teacher in the Manitowoc School District, believes in doing whatever it takes to help students learn. If he has a pet peeve, it is when someone fails to recognize that people learn in different ways.
As a former sergeant in the Marine Corps, he discovered that he had a gift for relating to those in his command. "Everyone is different, and you have to adjust your approach to relate," Orth said. "It's the same with teaching. People learn in distinct ways, and my approach is more individualized to make learning an enjoyable process."
He is now turning that process into a business: Konker Math.
"This program has literally saved lives," he said. "If someone doesn't graduate, they get down on themselves and think they're a loser. I can take them step by step into the next mathematical concept, and they get excited about math. That gives them confidence to do other things."
With multiple degrees, including one in psychology, Orth studied technology and learning styles, and combined color, emotion, humor and fun into a flash-card program that he says is like nothing else available. It focuses on multiplication and division, a foundation that is necessary to future learning. He is developing a similar program to teach decimals and fractions.
"Without learning this, you'll never make sense of the world and how things work," he said. "It goes back to third or fourth grade when the concepts are first taught. And if students don't get it, it could mean a lifetime of struggling and feeling bad about themselves and math in general."
Orth came up with the program when he was working with students in the county jail, and discovered that learning by memorization wasn't working. He started drawing pictures on cards and adding humor. As he noted the effectiveness of the pictures, Orth started looking for patterns in the numbers and put numbers in categories that made sense.
"I found that I could teach almost anyone, and within a few hours, they would learn it permanently," he said.
As he considered the results, Orth began to think about taking it to the next level and turning his program into a business with flash cards, a DVD, instructor's manuals and student workbooks. His target market includes parents of students who are struggling, institutional centers, adult education classes and teachers.
For assistance in establishing the business, Orth met with SCORE counselors Paul Carron and Geoffrey Liban at the Green Bay SCORE branch office at the Economic Development Corporation of Manitowoc County. They talked about the next steps, which will include a business plan and funding. Forming a nonprofit is a consideration because that would allow Orth to qualify for educational grants.
As he works on the business, he continues to see success in teaching alternative education in Manitowoc. He hopes to get his product on the market before another school year passes.
"The biggest frustration is not having it out there yet," he said. "There is another whole year of kids who will be struggling and feeling bad and this should have been there for them."
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Bangladesh protests against Islamist leader's death sentence turn violent
Police clash with opposition supporters demonstrating against decision to execute Abdul Quader Mollah for war crimes
Bangladesh protests
Bangladeshi security forces stand guard in Dhaka during a strike called by Islamist party Jumaat-e-Islami in protest against the court ruling. Photograph: Munir Uz Zaman/AFP/Getty Images
Supporters of Bangladesh's largest Islamist party have clashed with police amid a nationwide strike called to protest against a court's ruling that one of the opposition party's leaders should be executed for war crimes.
One man was killed when he was hit by a stone thrown by opposition supporters outside the capital, police said.
Bangladesh's supreme court on Tuesday sentenced to death Abdul Quader Mollah, a senior member of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, for committing crimes against humanity during the nation's 1971 independence war against Pakistan.
A five-member panel headed by the chief justice, M Muzammel Hossain, found him guilty of ordering the killing of a family of four during a Pakistani army crackdown in the capital, Dhaka, in March 1971. Mollah and his supporters say the case against him is politically motivated.
Hours after the verdict, Mollah's party said it was calling a 48-hour general strike across the country beginning on Wednesday to denounce the ruling.
TV stations showed clashes on Tuesday between Jamaat-e-Islami activists and police in Dhaka and in several other towns, leaving scores of people injured.
In Dhaka, police detained at least five activists from the party when they clashed with security officials, Bangla Vision TV station said.
On Wednesday, schools and businesses were closed as the strike was enforced. Police fired teargas to disperse opposition supporters who exploded homemade bombs, barricaded roads and threw stones at security officials.
TV footage showed stick-wielding supporters of Jamaat-e-Islami attacking buses and cars that defied the strike.
The man who was killed was having a driving lesson when his vehicle came under attack in Noakhali district, 75 miles (120km) east of Dhaka, said local police chief Anisur Rahman.
Mollah was previously convicted by a special war crimes tribunal in February and sentenced to life in prison. Both the defence and prosecution appealed against the sentence to the supreme court.
The attorney-general, Mahbubey Alam, said Tuesday's verdict was final, with no option for a further appeal through the courts. He said Mollah's family could seek presidential clemency.
The defence counsel, Abdur Razzaq, said they were "stunned" by the court's decision to increase the sentence to death.
The ruling Awami League and its allies welcomed the verdict.
Mollah's party is an ally of the country's main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist party headed by the former prime minister Khaleda Zia, a rival of the current prime minister, Sheikh Hasina.
Zia has accused the government of using trials to weaken the opposition. The government denies the allegation and says it won power in 2008 with an election pledge to prosecute war crimes suspects.
Several other senior leaders of Jamaat-e-Islami have been convicted of similar charges.
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Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release July 15, 2009
James S. Brady Press Briefing Room
3:27 P.M. EDT
MR. GIBBS: Good afternoon, folks. Before we get started with our regularly scheduled program, I want to bring to you guys a special guest, Judith McHale, who is Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy, to discuss some of the efforts that we undertook to highlight the President's speech in Ghana throughout the continent of Africa -- a successful effort that she and her team worked closely on with members of the White House, including our media guys, Macon Phillips and Katie Stanton.
UNDER SECRETARY McHALE: Thank you, Robert. I'm delighted to be here with all of you today to talk about some of the exciting new initiatives that we're starting at the State Department.
Thank you very much.
Q How are you going to keep using this list? If you have 16,000 phone numbers now, what are they going to be getting?
UNDER SECRETARY McHALE: Well, it's actually not 16,000. It is about 250,000 e-mail addresses that we have. And one of the things that I'm very committed to, and I think it's critical to do it, is to have an ongoing involvement with them. So we're developing a variety of ways to reach out and continue that discussion.
We received several -- I think about 100,000 different comments and questions going through those -- some of them we're posting online. And we're going to continue to identify, when you looked at that analysis of the words that were used, we can begin to see communities which are groupings. So if we identify individuals who are -- we're going to be building communities around themes -- those who are interested in the topic of democracy, we would set up discussion forums for them to be able to participate in education and other things. So we're continuing to do that, because, to me, that's a critical component of what we're trying to do, is to build these networks and continue to sustain them by providing them information about topics that they're interested in.
MR. GIBBS: Margaret.
Q Do you know whether past administrations have had databases of non-Americans, of foreigners, to use for diplomatic purposes and how they were collected?
UNDER SECRETARY McHALE: I don't know. Sorry, I don't have an answer.
Q You mentioned engaging with tens of millions of people. Can you just go over that math?
UNDER SECRETARY McHALE: How did we do it? Well, online we had about 250,000. But in Africa, it was a great sort of matching of new and old technologies, so one of the things we did -- obviously, the feed went out live and was carried by television networks throughout Africa. But radio is such a predominant -- it is one of the predominant media still in Africa, so what we did -- the speech went out live, but we also did this podcast. So when we received the 250,000 questions that came in, we had three African journalists who went through about 100,000 of those questions, I believe, to sort them out -- came up with a number of questions for the President to answer.
We submitted them to the President. He answered them on a podcast, which was recorded. The podcast was both downloaded online, but it was also transmitted -- in many cases by bicycle, frankly -- to radio stations and broadcast on radio stations.
So we've been aggregating the data of all the outlets that we reached, and we're in the process of continuing to refine that. But basically, it was the combined reach of online -- of traditional media -- radio, television -- and online.
Q Adds up to tens of millions?
UNDER SECRETARY McHALE: Yes, absolutely.
Q Did you coordinate the effort with the local governments? Do you think this coordination is needed?
UNDER SECRETARY McHALE: I think we -- I'm not exactly certain of the answers to whether we did it, but we were able to certainly work with our posts, and I think where it was appropriate and they felt like they wanted to do that, they did. I know that there were many government officials who were invited to the embassy viewing events. So certainly they knew about it and there was a lot of support for our efforts. There was not any resistance that I know of -- so, yes.
Q Do you have any feedback from the governments in the region?
UNDER SECRETARY McHALE: I have not heard anything specifically myself.
Q -- not broadcast widely live?
Q Regionally, are you talking about Russia, former Soviet Union, or even wider than that?
UNDER SECRETARY McHALE: It was primarily Russia and some of the adjacent countries is where we went to for the Moscow speech.
MR. GIBBS: Mark.
Q What was the amount of the micro grant to the movie theaters to show the speech, do you know?
UNDER SECRETARY McHALE: No, I don't know. I know it was not a lot of money. But they basically -- I thought it was a very innovative approach, where they basically went out and contracted with cinemas for people to go for free. But I don't believe it was a significant amount of money. When they call it "micro grant," I'm taking them at their word.
Q What's your operation's budget?
UNDER SECRETARY McHALE: Our total budget for this initiative?
Q No, for --
UNDER SECRETARY McHALE: For public diplomacy?
Q Right.
UNDER SECRETARY McHALE: You know, I'm relatively new to my job, so can I answer that in a couple more weeks? (Laughter.)
Q Just to follow up on Jonathan's question, should we assume that if the -- I mean, what was the number of outreach in Russia? I mean, you're here to talk about all the great outreach you did with the Africa speech. It does -- does it seem that the outreach didn't -- wasn't as effective?
UNDER SECRETARY McHALE: No, I think it was very effective in the --
Q How do you know, measure-wise? Do you have the numbers?
UNDER SECRETARY McHALE: I don't have the specific numbers with me, but what we are doing is analyzing what were the targeted audience that we were trying to reach within the region, and understanding -- I mean, in Moscow, we were basically using new media. So it was not a television/radio kind of outreach effort. I don't think we have the numbers. Do you have the numbers for -- I don't have them with me.
Q I mean, just a --
UNDER SECRETARY McHALE: We're checking --
Q We got a public briefing on Cairo, a pre-briefing on --but we have not gotten a big briefing on the Moscow --
UNDER SECRETARY McHALE: My guess would be we're talking in the thousands for that.
MR. GIBBS: They tend to be a little skeptical. (Laughter.)
UNDER SECRETARY McHALE: Oh, you tend to be a little skeptical? (Laughter.)
Q -- between the lines of information, information, no information.
UNDER SECRETARY McHALE: You know what, we can get you that information. But I would tell you that the answer is in the thousands, as opposed to the hundreds of thousands, just given the nature of what we were trying to do there.
Q Is the goal here to create a global database of foreign citizens around the world from different regions to poll together? And if so, what do you intend, or what do you anticipate doing in terms of reaching out to them in the months and years ahead? And what will you be sending to these people? What's the strategy?
UNDER SECRETARY McHALE: The strategy is one which I think is very consistent with the President's strategy and the strategy of the Secretary of State, which is to actually reach out to reengage, if you will, and connect with citizens all over the world; to listen to them, to understand what is on their minds so that as we sort of move forward together to face all the challenges that we're facing, we have the basis of a conversation and dialogue.
So that is, frankly, the basis of what we're trying to do. The follow-up for it, and the strategy -- because a key part, as I said earlier, is to keep them engaged -- is to continue to provide content and information which is of value to them, things which they want to receive, information which they are seeking, and engage them in that dialogue. There's so many issues that I think face us collectively and the challenges that face us, so we're going to be a stronger --
Q -- do that around the world.
UNDER SECRETARY McHALE: We are doing that around the world. That is correct. That is the challenge.
Q How did that work with radio?
UNDER SECRETARY McHALE: How did it work with radio?
Q Yes.
UNDER SECRETARY McHALE: Well, two things: One, the speech went out live. Secondly, we had a podcast, so people had sent in questions; the President answered questions. We downloaded the podcast. The embassies actually transferred it to a disk and bicycled it to local radio stations throughout Africa. I mean, that's literally the way it was done. And it is continuing to play now. So it has gotten multiple plays, and it's continuing to play.
Q How did you kind of assess the Cairo effort now that there's been some time between? Are you -- you said you wanted to kind of continue the dialogue --
Q Is that continuing? And then are we going to get copies of the slides you showed?
MR. GIBBS: We can get you copies of those.
UNDER SECRETARY McHALE: Each of these -- we're learning more and more as we do them, which is sort of the fun thing about doing it. And compared to -- Cairo was the global initiative. This one was probably -- had a slightly different focus; it was primarily Africa and throughout Europe where we saw the African diaspora. So it was slightly -- we had a slightly different initiative to it. And we're learning on each and every case.
But the key for me is, as we go through this, A, to learn, to be sure that we get better at what we're doing and constantly evolving it, and we've got great folks helping us out in doing that; and secondly, to be sure that we don't just -- this is not just a one-off with these folks, so that when they come in -- they sort of come to engage with us, that we continue to follow up.
And so we have a number of programs in place that we're going to continue to do that. Our technology infrastructure is constantly evolving so that we're able to continue that engagement because, to me, that's the absolute critical thing that we're going to have to do.
Q What I was getting at is, are you still getting people engaging on the Cairo speech?
UNDER SECRETARY McHALE: Yes, absolutely. And because -- but that's an effort on our part to do that, to reach out, to sort of provide them with the information and subjects that they want to engage on. But it is absolutely a key part of what we're doing. So we've developed discussion rooms that they can join, and we're trying to sort of understand the things that they're interested in and be sure that we actually are responding to that to keep them alive. And we're going to keep that discussion going.
And the other thing that we want to do is to inject new content into that conversation, so if we see they're interested in energy or the environment, bringing in experts who could help facilitate that conversation.
Q Is this series of speeches to be continued? Like an obvious geographic gap is China and Asia in general.
MR. GIBBS: Well, we'll be there soon enough. (Laughter.)
Q My question, is there a comparable effort here in the United States -- maybe it's a question for you, Robert -- and if so, who's in charge of it? Who's building the domestic database?
MR. GIBBS: Well, there are people that obviously e-mail questions to the White House Web site, sign up for e-mail alerts, are notified of goings-on of the administration, initiatives, recovery plan, things like that. There's a -- I mentioned Macon Phillips and Katie Stanton, who are on our new media team, who help obviously not only domestically, but also internationally, in reaching out in order to let people know what we're doing.
Q Do we know how big that base has built up to?
MR. GIBBS: Several million from the last time I checked. I don't have an exact number. But the amount of traffic that we have gotten -- and I have some better slides on this back in the office -- we've seen an exponential jump in the amount of traffic overall, since the inauguration, of people seeking information. And obviously, if you look at the Web site that has been revamped, we did it in a way that we hoped was user-friendly, that we could drive as many people as had questions about stuff that was going on to a very user-friendly site.
Q Would we be concerned if a foreign government were collecting e-mail addresses of Americans and hoping to keep them engaged in the future?
MR. GIBBS: It's probably no more different than to sign up for e-mail updates at
Q Well, that's a smart answer, but you want to answer the question? It's clever, but is there any concern --
MR. GIBBS: No, it's both smart and a factual answer.
Q Well, is there any concern that a foreign government -- setting this precedent of foreign governments collecting e-mail addresses of citizens of, say, this country, and then keeping them informed in their own way about what they're doing?
MR. GIBBS: If somebody e-mails the government of South Africa and has a question about their policies, and that Web-site has the ability for somebody to sign up for continual updates in order to get engaged, I'll let each of the 300-or-so-million people in this country that seek information from that to do so voluntarily. Nobody is being forced to give out their e-mail addresses. And obviously, the President is deeply concerned about cyber-security and keeping privacy concerns, as they are at rollcall, very protective.
Yes, sir.
Q On Afghanistan, how do you plan to engage public diplomacy in Afghanistan and Pakistan --
UNDER SECRETARY McHALE: I'm sorry, I couldn't hear the question.
MR. GIBBS: All right, thank you.
UNDER SECRETARY McHALE: Okay, thank you.
MR. GIBBS: Mr. Feller, take us away. Hi, Ms. April. (Laughter.) April waved, and I just felt compelled to be courteous. There you go. (Laughter.)
Q Robert, a couple of questions on Judge Sotomayor. She said today that President Obama never asked her -- or no one in the administration ever asked her her views on abortion, and that, of course, is what the White House said some weeks ago. I'm still wondering, though --
MR. GIBBS: I think that was -- I think, as a matter of fact, when I looked up the transcript today, it was a question from the Associated Press.
Q I know. (Laughter.) So can you -- I'm still wondering, though, how the President knows whether she stands for the right to privacy, which is something he campaigned on, if he never asked her?
MR. GIBBS: Well, I think as I talked about then when I was asked that question, and I think as the Judge talked about today, the concept of settled law -- I think obviously, again, going back to the answer that I gave I don't know how many weeks ago, but obviously the President can talk about judicial concepts and legal theories and get an idea of where a nominee stands. That's what happened.
Q Is the President confident that she would vote to uphold Roe v. Wade?
MR. GIBBS: I think the President is confident in her approach to the law.
Q The other point I want to ask about is, she was asked yesterday, I believe, whether ultimately in a close case she would judge a case based on what's in her heart and -- which is something the President had said he wanted in a justice on those close cases -- and she said flatly, no -- "I wouldn’t approach the issue of judging in the way the President does." Is that troubling at all, that the President's nominee would discount a criteria that the President himself wanted?
MR. GIBBS: No, look, the President picked the person that he believed was the best possible nominee to fill a very important vacancy on the Court. I'm pretty sure that over in the White House residence there's not complete agreement on everything that's discussed. So the President --
Q Like what? (Laughter.)
MR. GIBBS: I appreciate the opportunity to expand. But the President is not troubled. I think the President believes he has a nominee of rich and diverse experience, somebody who is going to uphold the law, and I think judging from how she's fared so far in the hearings, somebody I think who will get out of -- will be approved by this committee and ultimately by the Senate to be the next Supreme Court justice.
Q To quickly follow on that, though, that criteria of empathy and what's in a judge's heart and walking in somebody else's footsteps was something that the President spoke about quite a bit. And now it's a theme of the questioning and Judge Sotomayor is repeatedly saying she follows the law and this issue of what's in her heart is not going to affect her judging. So how is that not inconsistent?
MR. GIBBS: Well, I think that must assuage anybody that was -- read comments of people that seemed to be troubled by that either on the committee or as members of the Senate, and I think on this and so many other issues, clearly Judge Sotomayor has put any concerns that those members may have to rest. And we look forward to her being the next Supreme Court justice.
Yes, sir.
Q Robert, a question on troubled lender CIT. How close is the government to providing -- coming up with an aid package for CIT? And what kind of aid would be appropriate for them?
MR. GIBBS: You know, because of a lot of market sensitivities surrounding something like this, I would point you over to Treasury, as they're watching the situation very closely, minute by minute, and have better information as to what they're working on over there.
Q I mean, is the President concerned about this particular --
MR. GIBBS: Well, I can tell you that it's something that -- the President has certainly been briefed on the situation in a couple of different economic daily briefings this week.
Q About CIT?
MR. GIBBS: About the situation there, yes.
Q What was his reaction to it?
MR. GIBBS: He basically just got a download from those guys, from Mr. Summers, on what was going on.
Q Can we expect anything from Treasury or from the White House in the next 24 hours on this?
MR. GIBBS: Treasury is your best bet on that.
Yes, sir.
Q But President Obama holds a different opinion?
MR. GIBBS: President Obama holds the same opinion he has earlier today.
Q Which is that same-sex marriage is wrong.
MR. GIBBS: He does not support it. He supports civil unions.
Q Why does he feel differently than President Bill Clinton?
MR. GIBBS: Because they don't agree on the issue. (Laughter.) I've not obviously spent a lot of --
Q Okay. Some of the -- some House Democrats, moderate and conservative Democrats, are expressing concern about the health care bill that passed. Specifically, Mike Ross of Arkanasas --
MR. GIBBS: This is the House or the HELP bill?
Q The House bill.
MR. GIBBS: Okay.
Q And Congressman Mike Ross said, "Last time I checked, it takes seven Democrats to stop a bill in the Energy and Commerce Committee. We had seven against it last Friday and we have 10 today." What is President Obama doing to talk to these moderate Democrats about any changes that might be necessary to get this bill out on the floor and passed in the House?
MR. GIBBS: Well, obviously we've had members down to the White House throughout this process. I know some moderate Blue Dog members were down here earlier in the week to talk with the President and his team about health care and share the concerns that they've had. And we've taken -- we understand what some of those concerns are.
I think, again, this is a process that's going to unfold and I don't think anybody expects that every aspect of every bill as it's introduced is going to be exactly like it might be as it gets through this process to the committee or out of the committee, and ultimately onto the floor, and as the President hopes, passed on the floor.
I think one of the things -- we've gotten into sort of a daily measurement of where we are in terms of progress, and I've said repeatedly that we are at a point where reform is closer to reality than virtually at any point in probably four decades. And I think if you go back and look at just the most recent major effort in the early to mid-'90s to reform health care, what has happened in the last couple of days never happened before in the sense that the three major committees of jurisdiction all started from the same baseline bill.
Again, we understand that the process is going to take this through some changes. I think a good example is the HELP bill in the Senate, where over a hundred -- I think about 160 different amendments from Republicans were adopted over I think a three-week process to change that bill. And I think that will continue certainly as these three committees on the House side and Senate Finance Committee continue to work on this process.
Q During the campaign, the President said that these types of programs would be funded by raising taxes on the wealthiest Americans at the same level that they were during the Clinton years. But my understanding is that the House bill would raise them even higher than that. Would the President be able to support something that goes beyond --
MR. GIBBS: Well, we're going to watch the process unfold, as I just discussed. I think the President has said repeatedly recently that he outlined efforts to pay for health care legislation that he thinks are the best. And we'll watch, certainly, the process as it unfolds.
Q Can I follow up on health care?
MR. GIBBS: Hold on one second.
Q I was going to follow on health care, as well.
MR. GIBBS: Sure.
Q Can you say flatly, then, does the President support the surtax that's in the House bill?
MR. GIBBS: I'm going to cleave to my voluminous answers on any other of the many proposals that we've discussed over the past 10 weeks: It's a process that we're watching.
Q Okay, but if his message today in the Rose Garden is "Buck up, show some leadership," why doesn't he show some leadership and say, "Here's what bill I'm in favor of"?
MR. GIBBS: Well, again, there's a multitude of pieces of legislation, as your network has covered throughout the day. There's a House bill, there's a HELP bill, there's Finance Committee members that are working on bills. We're meeting with those --
Q Right, the President, having the megaphone, could say, "I like this one." He can pick.
MR. GIBBS: Well, we're working through that process of getting reform closer and closer.
Follow-up, Mara?
Q Just a question on health care, and then also about tomorrow. Today the President said something that was a little confusing. He said that the 160 Republican amendments that were adopted in the HELP committee bill was a hopeful sign of bipartisan support for the final product. The final bill got zero Republican votes. Why is that a hopeful sign? I mean, there's not a single Republican who voted for the HELP bill.
MR. GIBBS: Well, but, how many -- I wish I knew how many times I've been asked to -- the number of times that Republican ideas were ultimately incorporated in a legislative vehicle that's moving its way through the process -- 160 would be the answer today.
Q And they were incorporated in the stimulus, too, and it didn't get you any final votes.
MR. GIBBS: Well, I'm happy that you acknowledge the efforts in the stimulus --
Q I'm just wondering why it makes him hopeful.
MR. GIBBS: Well, Mara, this is a process. I mean, again, I know that there's a tendency to keep the final score at the -- even, hell, in the midpoint of every day; let's not wait until the end. Let's wait and see what the final product is before we declare that all of the good work of many people is dead. I think the President is encouraged that a process is working; 160 amendments that encompass the ideas of Republicans are now part of a piece of legislation that's making its way through Congress.
Q And on one idea that I think you were open to, the idea of taxing sugary soft drinks -- that's one of the ideas that he's open to, is that correct?
MR. GIBBS: Again, I don't think we've -- I drank a Diet Coke earlier, I didn't put a deposit down, so maybe that wouldn't count. Again, I think we're watching this process.
Q So you haven't made an opinion on that? I'm just wondering how that squares with the pledge -- the promise that he restated on Monday not to raise taxes on people under $250,000 -- because that certainly would.
MR. GIBBS: Well, maybe that's why we didn't have him come out foursquare for that.
Q All right, thank you. That's actually helpful. (Laughter.) Can you just talk a little bit about --
MR. GIBBS: I'm glad for the minute-by-minute update on my utility at the podium. (Laughter.)
Yes, ma'am. You know what, let's put it all on the line and go for two, Mara.
Q Can you describe -- about tomorrow -- what he's going to say to the NAACP and how he thinks he can be helpful to Corzine, who's in a lot of trouble?
MR. GIBBS: I will get you a little briefing on the NAACP speech. I have not seen the final product. I mean, obviously I think New Jersey is a state the President did well in not too long ago; obviously a state that has been hit pretty hard with -- as many states have been -- with economic difficulties. And the President looks at Governor Corzine as a friend, somebody who was head of the campaign committee for Senate Democrats when he was running in 2004 -- even has some affection for the fact that Mr. Corzine was a basketball player at the University of Illinois and somebody that he spent time campaigning for originally for the job in 2005, and thinks is doing a good job and should be reelected.
Q Do you want to do health care, Robert?
MR. GIBBS: Yes, let's do health care.
Q Robert, a follow on the NAACP real fast before you --
MR. GIBBS: Understanding that I just said --
Q I understand.
MR. GIBBS: -- I have not seen the final product.
Q I understand that.
MR. GIBBS: Yes, ma'am.
Q Number one -- I'm sorry, Chuck. Number one --
Q No, you're not. Don't lie. (Laughter.) Remember the ballots are still out there. (Laughter.)
MR. GIBBS: When is this election, by the way?
Q It's tomorrow.
MR. GIBBS: Excellent. Are we going to -- when are we going to know the results?
Q Tomorrow evening.
MR. GIBBS: What time?
Q I think 7:00 o'clock.
Q Is he going to find out before we do?
Q Five o'clock.
MR. GIBBS: Awesome. Five o'clock? Maybe we should move the briefing back till then. I'm sorry, go ahead, I'm sorry.
Q Okay. All right, number one, has the President finished the speech? I mean, normally when Presidents deliver the speech, that's when it's finally finished, but has he --
MR. GIBBS: Well, that's usually the case with -- I mean, he was tinkering with yesterday's remarks before we left the White House. So I assume he'll reread probably a couple more drafts before it gets through.
Q And there's a major level of expectation on this speech. Six months into his presidency, this is the first speech to black America, per se. What is the White House -- how is the White House handling this --
MR. GIBBS: Well, let me say, I think the first speech to black America and the first speech to white America, the first speech to America was the inaugural address.
Q Okay, but specifically black America -- the National Association --
MR. GIBBS: No, I'm familiar with the group. (Laughter.) But, again, I -- well, I think black America has watched the President work on the economy. I think black America has watched this President work on health care, an issue of great concern; on education. I think all of those topics the President will touch on tomorrow.
Q Does this administration understand that this is -- there's a very high level of expectation with this speech, this 100th anniversary speech for the nation's oldest civil rights organization?
MR. GIBBS: Well, obviously -- I mean, look, I think anytime the President dedicates time to go deliver remarks on anything, particularly in some place other than a room in the White House, the President understands he's dedicating some precious resources to that. Obviously it's a group that he's addressed over the course of quite some time, and I think he looks very much forward to doing it.
Should we do health care? Yes, sir.
Q Yes, I'd like to go back on health care. It's my understanding the President right now is meeting with this group of Republican senators.
MR. GIBBS: I believe six were invited. I don't know --
Q So you guys did the inviting.
MR. GIBBS: That's my understanding. I know that -- as I understand it, Senator Corker, Senator Chambliss, and Senator Murkowski were to come over. I haven't gotten an update as to whether there are more than those three.
Q So that was my question -- the initiative was the White House initiative?
MR. GIBBS: Well, I think throughout the process of talking about health care with members of the House and the Senate, obviously continuing to reach out to members on different communities, some of jurisdiction, some not of jurisdiction, in order to continue this process, has been suggested by Democrats and Republicans. It's something the President was interested in doing, and something we're doing today.
Q The President has hinted at this idea of Congress staying in session until a bill is passed. Has he specifically asked Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to do this?
MR. GIBBS: I can check. I don't know, per se, if he's been -- how direct he may or may not have been. I know the President believes that, as I said I think on Monday, that we have an opportunity, historic opportunity, to see real reform happen. The President believes we need to take some big steps to get that done by the end of the year by getting some bills through their respective -- through the House and the Senate. And I think we've still got plenty of time to make that happen, and we'll see where we are.
Q Given the need for floor debate on both Judge Sotomayor and on this health care thing, obviously the current calendar, it's impossible to accommodate both under the current calendar. Would you be flexible in seeing Judge Sotomayor's debate being delayed, maybe to the first day of September?
MR. GIBBS: Well, I think we've -- well, one, I think we've discussed the importance of getting Judge Sotomayor on the Court that's going to hear a very important case early in September. I think the President believes that there is time and capacity to do both of those things in the time that remains before a recess.
I think -- I think I'm correct about this -- the Senate is actually in a week longer, I believe, than the House is, so there's a little bit more time --
Q Right now that's scheduled to be Sotomayor?
MR. GIBBS: Well, we --
Q And as we know, these floor debate, these floor debates are not short.
MR. GIBBS: Nothing ever is in this town. But I think the President believes there's enough time to do both.
Q So he hasn't made a direct ask yet, or you don't --
MR. GIBBS: Let me -- I would -- I'll check specifically on that and see where we're at.
Q I want to go back to Ed and Jake's question. The President drew two white lines during the --
MR. GIBBS: Jake had a number of questions.
Q Then all right, okay. Well, we'll get to which one it was on. He drew two white lines during the campaign: He said, no one under $250,000 is going to see their income taxes raised, and he said that those who are going to see taxes increase are going to pay what they paid during the Clinton years. I know he's reiterated his position on the first one, but does he still stand by the second claim?
MR. GIBBS: Well, I have not talked to him specifically about that as it relates to different tax proposals that have been offered in the House or the Senate. Again, I think the President believes that he's outlined the best way forward to financing a deficit-neutral, comprehensive health care reform. And I think that's where he is.
Q I mean, mathematically, do you believe that both of those pledges can actually be maintained?
MR. GIBBS: Well, you shouldn't depend on my math abilities.
Yes, sir.
Q Thank you, Robert.
MR. GIBBS: You're welcome.
Q I just got back from a briefing in Honduras by Miguel Estrada, constitutional lawyer and himself a native of Honduras, and he pointed out that Article 239 of the Honduran constitution provides for --
MR. GIBBS: You are now officially way out of my depth. (Laughter.) I thought I was going to get Lester, because I thought you added that many amendments to our Constitution. But no, go ahead, I'm sorry. I don't -- I stopped at 248.
Q Right. Well, no -- he said that Article 239 of the constitution --
MR. GIBBS: Maybe I did read wrong. I'm sorry, go ahead.
Q -- provides for the immediate removal of anyone from office who advocates reelection or changing the constitution to do it, and being barred from political office for 10 years. Is the administration's position still to restore President Zelaya to office? And if so, is the President aware apparently that this would violate Honduran law?
MR. GIBBS: Well, I'm not at -- I don't have a good understanding of the President's understanding of Honduran law. I can certainly check with somebody at State. I know, obviously, there are efforts underway with the Costa Rican president to come to some mediated solution diplomatically. Our administration continues to believe that this can and should be done through those diplomatic channels peacefully. But I don't have anything, in all honesty, on the Honduran amendment.
Q Does the President and the White House still want President Zelaya restored for the rest of his term?
MR. GIBBS: Well, we continue to believe that the actions that were taken are not in accordance with democratic principles.
Want to do some health care?
Q Yes.
MR. GIBBS: Sure.
Q As a general proposition, Robert, the President has said the Congress needs to move rapidly because the country can't wait for reform, because people need to be covered. The preliminary CBO analysis --
MR. GIBBS: Well, people need to be covered. People need to have --
Q But coverage is an important component of why the President says action is important.
MR. GIBBS: As is dealing with skyrocketing costs for families, businesses, and many levels of government, yes.
Q The preliminary CBO analysis of the House bill says in its first three years of implementation, the number of people uncovered will rise each year by 1 million. And at the end of the 10-year implementation of the bill, 17 million Americans will still be without coverage.
MR. GIBBS: Right, 97 percent will be covered.
Q But in the first three years, the amount of uncovered Americans will actually increase and 17 million at the end will still be without coverage. Is the President, generally speaking, satisfied with those realities so far as described of the House bill?
MR. GIBBS: I've seen different parts of the CBO report. I've not looked at the cause for some increase in short-term -- in the short-term uninsured. That may well be -- again, this is somewhat conjecture here that, one, it's going to take some time to phase in whatever ultimately is passed by Congress and signed by the President. Understand that people are losing their health insurance even as you and I speak. Because of that skyrocketing cost, businesses are deciding to drop their coverage, families simply can't afford it, cutbacks from state and local governments that are affecting coverage rates. So I think that's what leads the President to believe strongly that the status quo is unacceptable. Again, I think it's going to take some time to get whatever solution for health care reform is passed implemented.
Q Should the public come to the understanding that this is something that might happen?
MR. GIBBS: What might happen?
Q That for a period of time during this implementation, lack of coverage may increase and that's something that they should --
MR. GIBBS: Understand, Major, that that's exactly what's happening right now.
Q No, I know.
MR. GIBBS: There will be more people uninsured tomorrow than there were today. There will be more people uninsured at the end of the week, at the beginning of the next week, and at the beginning of next month, because right now, as the President said today, the cost of health insurance is increasing at three times what our wages are. It's no wonder that if your health insurance is growing exponentially to what you're being paid, that eventually people are going to make cost and benefit analyses for themselves, for their business, for their state and local government, that require them to make a decision to drop coverage.
Q But my question is about a representation to the American public that after a reform advocated by the President to deal with the coverage issue is passed, should the American public for some period of time at least prepare itself for the potential reality that coverage -- that lack of coverage will increase?
MR. GIBBS: I guess I have a hard time swallowing the premise of your question because it's happening. Health care reform is going to -- the President wishes that on the date in which he signs health care reform -- and he believes he will -- that we could wave a wand and all it could be implemented in a moment's notice. It's going to take some time. And I don't think there's any doubt that it's particularly going to take some time to turn around the notion that coverage is being lost because it's being lost each and every day.
Q I'm done on health care, but if we could do some other things.
MR. GIBBS: Let's go around and -- George, you want to follow up on some health care?
Q I want to follow first on -- make sure I didn't misunderstand your answer to Chuck. Did you say that six Republican senators were invited and three accepted?
MR. GIBBS: I believe -- well, I don't want to prejudge why somebody couldn't come. Obviously there could be scheduling conflicts and such. When I came out here, I was told that three people were coming. There may be a fourth. There may be more than that. I'll endeavor to check when we're done here how many people finally showed up.
Q Was it more an effort on him to find out what they wanted in the bill, or him to lobby them on what he wants them to support?
MR. GIBBS: Well, despite Mara's pessimism, I think it was an effort to -- come on, you didn't think I wasn't going to get away without using it as a foil at least for part of this. I think, quite honestly, George, both. I mean, obviously I think Senator Murkowski is a member of the HELP Committee. She did not, as Mara points out, support legislation as it left committee, but did have amendments that were adopted as part of that.
I think understanding where each and every member or senator are coming at this, improvements that they want to see in the bill, I think the President believes is a productive part of this process as we continue to make important progress.
Q The final thing is, when he talked about the need to "buck up" members of Congress, is that necessitated by the fact that, as the vote nears, they're getting more cold feet, there's more nervousness on the Hill?
MR. GIBBS: Well, again, I think, George, we have to remember that there is a -- the status quo wants the status quo to remain. There are interests that don't want to see reform that cuts costs. There are -- that's why we've been engaged in this debate for four decades and are still having this debate. I think what the President believes very, very strongly is, we can't afford to wait any longer. We've made significant progress, as close as we've come in those 40 years to seeing real reform that cuts costs and provides a real ability for those that don't have coverage to get it at an affordable rate. And he's going to continue working on that.
Q Thanks. This is the 30th anniversary of Jimmy Carter's Crisis of Confidence speech or, later, unfortunately, dubbed the Malaise speech. And what --
MR. GIBBS: Here I forgot my yellow sweater. (Laughter.)
Q Can I ask you to what extent that speech has played any role in helping to shape President Obama's thinking, whether it's something you've ever talked about? Do you know whether the President agrees with the premise of Jimmy Carter's speech -- (laughter.)
MR. GIBBS: Well, I was going to say, that would have been 19 -- no, no, it's 1970, not -- I have to say -- I will tell you this -- I personally -- it's never a topic that I have discussed in the intervening years that have overlapped the giving of the speech and my work -- I have not heard him discuss it.
Q If you were going to compare how he has approached talking to Americans honestly about the economy and recession in tough times and sacrifices we have to make, do you think it's comparable to how President Carter tackled it then?
MR. GIBBS: Well, I want to plead some guilt here. I was a little over eight when that speech -- there were all sorts of concerns that I had that -- (laughter) -- did not approach the level of sort of energy conservation and the turning around of our economy. (Laughter.) So I just don't --
Q It sounds like you had malaise. (Laughter.)
MR. GIBBS: I think my mother had a different word for it, but it's entirely possible. I think the President -- it's hard for me to compare in some ways different approaches.
I think the President has always taken the point of view that, knowing this was going to be difficult, knowing this was going to take some time, knowing that there were many facets to what would ultimately constitute an economic recovery, and ultimately what would lay that foundation for new economic growth in the future that didn't depend simply on consumption, that didn't depend on credit card debt -- the boom and bust that he's talked about -- that the President simply saw it that -- and believed that continuing and engaging in that conversation, bringing the American people along through his decision-making process, and the developments and the events that he's seen, was a smart thing to do.
I don't know how that compares to what others have done or what then-President Carter did, but I think he understands that and believes that if the American people can get an understanding of what he sees and the decisions that he's making, that they'll feel more confident about where the country is headed.
Yes, sir.
Q To get back to CIT, the President was told about this, the situation there, in a regular economic briefing or was this a separate briefing?
MR. GIBBS: Part of his daily economic briefing.
Q And what sort of thing was included in this briefing -- the situation the company is in or what kind of discussions are going on with bank regulators?
MR. GIBBS: I don't have my notes with me. I think it was just a general briefing on what's going on, but I don't really have anything more detailed.
Q -- the President was told that the company might need more money from the federal government --
MR. GIBBS: Let me leave it at the fact I think the President was briefed on the situation with which a number of your outlets are writing about. And for details, I'd point you to Treasury on that.
Q A couple on national security. Does the President know any more, can you tell us any more, about this continuing story about congressional notification about this semi-operational or nonoperational CIA program to target al Qaeda operatives very soon after post -- after 9/11? Do you have any more? On Monday you said you couldn't really tell us much about how much the President knew, his reaction, or if in fact he encourages or discourages a House investigation.
MR. GIBBS: I think David asked whether the President had been briefed -- he had -- and whether the President had seen or been briefed on the IG report that came out of five different departments on the warrantless wiretapping program -- and he had been briefed on that. It is hard for me to be more specific without visiting a jail near me based on its classification.
Q Just to make sure we're talking about the same thing -- I'm not talking about interrogations, I'm talking about the thing -- the program the Vice President -- former Vice President is alleged to have kept from Congress.
MR. GIBBS: Again, two things that I took a question on that I sought more information on -- one was whether he had been briefed on what was contained in various news stories last weekend. The answer to that was yes. The IG report --
Q Has he been briefed on things beyond that -- meaning CIA data about what the program was, was or was not operational, or was or was not --
MR. GIBBS: I think I would leave it at the fact that he was -- he's been fully briefed. But, again --
Q After it was cancelled, right?
Q After its cancellation?
MR. GIBBS: On the -- based on news reporting, yes.
Q Okay. And secondary -- this is related to this -- yesterday Russ Feingold said that he believes, and he encouraged the Attorney General to not just look into prosecuting potential rogue interrogators, but those who were responsible for providing the legal advice. You have said before that if you thought you were following the letter of the law, you're not going to be prosecuted. You've generally said, if I recall correctly, that if you thought you were following the law and doing so in good faith, you, too, will not be prosecuted. Is that still the position? Could you shine any greater light on what is or is not in this realm of potential prosecution?
MR. GIBBS: Well, let me -- I should go back and look at my notes on that, but I would say in many ways it's simply my opinion based on -- obviously the Attorney General is looking at -- the Attorney General is in charge of looking at these things. Again, I have not heard a specific discussion on that level of it. I think generally about --
Q So the only clear line is --
MR. GIBBS: -- generally I've heard discussion about those -- particularly those at the CIA in discussing this. And I know there are other court cases surrounding those that worked at OLC that are outside of the bailiwick of where we are.
Q But the clear line is only if you thought -- if you were an interrogator and you thought you were following the law, you're not going to be prosecuted?
MR. GIBBS: Well, again, I have not heard --
Q You said that. You've said that.
MR. GIBBS: Right. I have not heard any specific discussions beyond that part.
Q Robert, when the President said in the Rose Garden a little while ago that he's going to be speaking continually about health care for the next two or three weeks, is that a plan to preempt almost everything else?
MR. GIBBS: Well, I think the President's schedule will reflect his belief of the importance of the priority of getting health care reform through Congress this year. He did interviews after that with some folks on this today, and I think he'll continue to dedicate a lot of his scheduled time to discussing the importance of getting health care reform done.
Q One more. Was President Obama disturbed to read in the Post on Monday that his senior staff is walking around zombie-like in a state of exhaustion?
MR. GIBBS: Did you say something? (Laughter.) No, I think the President -- I think the President shares a lot of our feelings of being tired. But we enjoy each and every day what we do.
Yes, ma'am.
Q Regarding the House legislation on health care yesterday, the President said that the plan is to cover up to 97 percent of all Americans. Is having the remaining 3 percent uncovered acceptable to the President? And if it's not, does he have a proposal for meeting the needs of this remaining 3 percent?
MR. GIBBS: Well, look, I think, again, going back to what I told Major, I think it's going to take some time to phase whatever is ultimately passed into law. Obviously the President has discussed making sure -- and it's harder for me because I have not read the report analyzing who compromises the 3 percent -- but obviously the President has discussed a hardship exemption for those that continue to not be able to get insurance at a rate that's affordable to them.
I think the President believes that the interjection of choice and competition into the process will help drive down insurance rates and ultimately make that more affordable, and that the President will, throughout this process, look at aspects of where we are on the path toward greater reform, and evaluate as we go if there are things that can and should be done, that he'll certainly look at them.
Obviously the goal is to ensure that everybody in this country has access to something that they can truly afford, understanding a little bit, to build off of what Major and I were talking about, which was people are losing their health insurance each and every day. People that have health insurance every day are paying greater premiums for people that don't have health insurance. They get sick and have to visit the emergency room. This is a continuing cycle that the President believes hurts our ability to grow long term; it hurts our ability to provide some cost containment in the system. And that's why he's seeking greater reform.
Q Thank you, Robert.
MR. GIBBS: Christina. I'll take one more.
Q What does the President think of the Secretary of State's speech today? I know that the timing was about the same time he was talking, but did he see it? And what does he think of some reports that suggest that their relationship isn't as great as some people would --
MR. GIBBS: I don't know if they discussed that today in their meeting. But this story has been tried to be written for probably years now. They enjoy a very close relationship. I think the Secretary of State is somebody who the President relies on greatly. She has an enormously important role in the development of and the execution of a foreign policy that changes our image in the world, some of which we've talked about here with the State Department's Public Diplomacy outfit. I think the notion that there's some rift or disagreement is nothing more than silly Washington games.
The President -- he was doing interviews during part of the speech, but I know that staff here saw the speech before it was given, and the Secretary of State outlined very forcefully the concept for a framework of changing our foreign policy in the world.
Thanks, guys. Thank you.
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World’s First Continua™-Certified, Bluetooth® Wireless Fingertip Pulse Oximeter Introduced at CES 2011
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MINNEAPOLIS, /PRNewswire/ -- Nonin Medical, Inc. announced that the Onyx® II Model 9560 Continua™-Certified, Bluetooth® wireless fingertip pulse oximeter has received Microsoft® HealthVault™ certification.
Microsoft HealthVault is Microsoft Corporation’s Web-based platform that allows consumers to upload from their health and wellness devices vital signs and other medical data to a repository where they can securely store the information and easily share it with care providers.
“Nonin Medical’s pulse oximeters are the gold standard for vital sign assessment in managing chronic diseases such as asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and congestive heart failure (CHF),” said Mark VanderWerf, director of eHealth for Nonin Medical. “Certifying the Onyx II 9560 to Microsoft HealthVault is significant because it extends chronic disease management from healthcare providers to consumers. Now, individuals suffering from chronic diseases are empowered—with their care providers—to better manage their condition by being able to rely on, and share objective data points, rather than just describing subjective symptoms.”
Using the Onyx II 9560, individuals can monitor their blood-oxygen saturation measurements and pulse rate and then wirelessly upload the data to Microsoft HealthVault. There, authorized caregivers can access the information securely through a wide range of Web applications, EMR systems, and personal digital devices. In addition to operating in the United States, Microsoft HealthVault has a presence in Canada, the United Kingdom and Germany.
“Certifying to Microsoft HealthVault—and the Siemens IT Solutions’ Assignio platform powered by Microsoft HealthVault in Germany — is the latest demonstration of Nonin Medical’s commitment to working globally with consumers, clinicians and providers to develop and leverage eHealth technologies that simplify healthcare delivery while improving quality of life,” VanderWerf said.
Nonin Medical will demonstrate its new Microsoft HealthVault connectivity at CES in the Bluetooth SIG booth #3219, Thursday, January 6, through Sunday, January 9, during exhibitor hours.
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Normal Newborn Lab Values
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I am trying to get together a "cheat sheet" with normal newborn lab values. I work in a Level II facility so we only have 32 weeks and up. I can't seem to find a good source that gives me normal values for CBC w/diff, CRP, formula for detecting shift in bloodwork, BMP, routine admission and follow-up blood work, etc. I don't want to ask co-workers because they look at you like you SHOULD know this. My hospital is not big on education so I am trying to learn as much as I can on my own. Does anyone have this list compiled or know of any good web sites that list this info? Any info is appreciated. Thanks for your help.
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Don't let your co-workers discourage you, it's great that you are trying to learn the labs. Over the years I've worked with nurses who have that "you should already know this" look perfected.........what I found out is that most of them didn't know. I work in a huge level III NICU and we still have nurses that don't understad labs.
There are a couple of good (I think) reference books. Protocols in Neonatal Nursing by Carole Kenner, Stephanie Rockwern Amlung, and Ann Applewhite Flandermeyer. The book costs about $45 (or $20 used from and is over 700 pages. It's a paperback and doesn't take up too much room. Also, Comprehensive Neonatal Nursing by Carole Kenner, Ann Brueggemeyer, and Laurie Porter Gunderson. It's pricey, right at $115, 1200+ pages of just about anything you can run across in an NICU. It's one of those weight-lifting text books like you carried in nursing school. Both have lists of common lab values.
If I remember right, a few years ago Neonatal Network ran a good article about CBC's explaining what abnormal results meant. Would your lab have a list of neonatal norms that you could copy?
Good luck!!
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I'm at a teaching hospital and I know there are "cheat sheets" for the residents that come in monthly that have all of the protocols in one very condensed space. See if you have anything like that available!
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Lab values will vary based on gestational age and postnatal age. What is normal for a term infant will not be normal for a 24 weeker. I suggest looking at the tables provided in A. A. Fanaroff, R.J.Martin, Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine. This will give you an idea of how lab values can vary based on gestational age and postnatal age in days.
Hope this helps!
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Colin Kaepernick, Two Other NFLers Investigated In "Suspicious Incident"
According to Miami police, San Francisco 49ers players Colin Kaepernick and Quinton Patton and Seahawks receiver Ricardo Lockette are being investigated in connection with what is being called a "suspicious incident" that occurred in Miami earlier this month. [Update: the full incident report can be found at the bottom of the page]
According to the Miami police department's report, the alleged incident took place at Lockette's apartment at 9:00 p.m. on April 1. Patton and Kaepernick were also present in the apartment. Here is part of the report's narrative:
They talked for a while and she mixed some drinks for all of them and gave them shots. Advised that they told her that in order to drink the shots she had to "hit" the bong which contained marijuana.
They sat down, talked, and watched the basketball game. She started to feel light headed and went to a bedroom to lie down. [Redacted] took off her jacket and jewelry. Mr. Kaepernick came behind her into the bedroom and started kissing her. She advised they were kissing (mouth) and Mr. Kaepernick started to undressed [sic] her. She got completely naked. Mr. Kaepernick told her that he was going to be right back and left the bedroom. They did not have sex. [Redacted] advised that she was in bed naked and Mr. Patton and Mr. Lockette opened the door and "peeked" inside. She told them "what are you doing? Where is Colin?"; "get out!" They closed the door and left. She cannot remember anything after that.
[Redacted] woke up in a hospital bed and doesn't remember how she got there or who transported her to the hospital. [Redacted] advised that she has had a sexual relationship with Mr. Kaepernick in the past.
TMZ first broke the news that an investigation was underway, claiming that a source within the Miami police department told them that Kaepernick was being investigated in connection with an alleged sexual assault that took place at the Viceroy Hotel in Miami.
The Sacramento Bee has since provided more details, indicating that Patton and Lockette are also part of the investigation, and that TMZ was wrong about the location and nature of the incident [Update: it seems that there are in fact residential condos at the Viceroy Hotel].
The 49ers released the following statement:
The 49ers organization is aware of the recent media report regarding Colin Kaepernick and is in the process of gathering the pertinent facts.
Here is the full incident report:
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[ahy-ern] /ˈaɪ ərn/
Chemistry. a ductile, malleable, silver-white metallic element, scarcely known in a pure condition, but much used in its crude or impure carbon-containing forms for making tools, implements, machinery, etc. Symbol: Fe; atomic weight: 55.847; atomic number: 26; specific gravity: 7.86 at 20°C.
hearts of iron.
Compare wood1 (def 8).
the blade of a carpenter's plane.
Slang. a pistol.
a harpoon.
Medicine/Medical. a preparation of iron or containing iron, used chiefly in the treatment of anemia, or as a styptic and astringent.
irons, shackles or fetters:
Put him in irons!
a sword.
of, containing, or made of iron:
an iron skillet.
resembling iron in firmness, strength, color, etc.:
an iron will.
stern; harsh; cruel.
inflexible; unrelenting.
strong; robust; healthy.
holding or binding strongly:
an iron grip.
irritating or harsh in tone:
an iron voice.
verb (used with object)
to furnish, mount, or arm with iron.
to shackle or fetter with irons.
verb (used without object)
Verb phrases
iron out,
1. to iron or press (an item of clothing or the like).
2. to remove (wrinkles) from by ironing.
3. to resolve or clear up (difficulties, disagreements, etc.):
The problem was ironed out months ago.
in irons,
1. Nautical. (of a sailing vessel) unable to maneuver because of the position of the sails with relation to the direction of the wind.
2. Nautical. (of a towing vessel) unable to maneuver because of tension on the towing line.
3. Also, into irons. in shackles or fetters.
irons in the fire, matters with which one is immediately concerned; undertakings; projects:
before 900; Middle English, Old English īren (noun and adj.), perhaps < *īsren, metathesized from īsern, variant of īsen; compare Old Saxon, Old High German, Old Norse īsarn, Gothic eisarn < Germanic *īsarnam, perhaps < Celtic; compare Gaulish Ysarno-, Iserno- (in place names), Old Breton hoiarn, Welsh haearn, Old Irish íarn
Related forms
ironless, adjective
ironlike, adjective
unironed, adjective
well-ironed, adjective Unabridged
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British Dictionary definitions for un-ironed
1. a malleable ductile silvery-white ferromagnetic metallic element occurring principally in haematite and magnetite. It is widely used for structural and engineering purposes. Symbol: Fe; atomic no: 26; atomic wt: 55.847; valency: 2,3,4, or 6; relative density: 7.874; melting pt: 1538°C; boiling pt: 2862°C See also steel, cast iron, wrought iron, pig iron related adjectives ferric ferrous related prefix ferro-
2. (as modifier): iron railings
any of certain tools or implements made of iron or steel, esp for use when hot: a grappling iron, a soldering iron
any of various golf clubs with narrow metal heads, numbered from 1 to 9 according to the slant of the face, used esp for approach shots: a No. 6 iron
an informal word for harpoon (sense 1)
(US, slang) a splintlike support for a malformed leg
great hardness, strength, or resolve: a will of iron
(astronomy) short for iron meteorite
strike while the iron is hot, to act at an opportune moment
very hard, immovable, or implacable: iron determination
very strong; extremely robust: an iron constitution
cruel or unyielding: he ruled with an iron hand
an iron fist, a cruel and unyielding attitude or approach See also velvet (sense 6)
to smooth (clothes or fabric) by removing (creases or wrinkles) using a heated iron; press
(transitive) to furnish or clothe with iron
(transitive) (rare) to place (a prisoner) in irons
See also iron out, irons
Derived Forms
ironer, noun
ironless, adjective
ironlike, adjective
Word Origin
Old English irēn; related to Old High German īsan, Old Norse jārn; compare Old Irish īarn
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Word Origin and History for un-ironed
Old English isærn (with Middle English rhotacism of -s-) "the metal iron; an iron weapon," from Proto-Germanic *isarnan (cf. Old Saxon isarn, Old Norse isarn, Middle Dutch iser, Old High German isarn, German Eisen) "holy metal" or "strong metal" (in contrast to softer bronze) probably an early borrowing of Celt. *isarnon (cf. Old Irish iarn, Welsh haiarn), from PIE *is-(e)ro- "powerful, holy," from PIE *eis "strong" (cf. Sanskrit isirah "vigorous, strong," Greek ieros "strong").
Right so as whil that Iren is hoot men sholden smyte. [Chaucer, c.1386]
Chemical symbol Fe is from the Latin word for the metal, ferrum (see ferro-). Meaning "metal device used to press or smooth clothes" is from 1610s. The adjective is Old English iren, isern. To have (too) many irons in the fire "to be doing too much at once" is from 1540s. Iron lung "artificial respiration tank" is from 1932.
c.1400, irenen, "to make of iron," from iron (n.). Meaning "press clothes" (with a heated flat-iron) is recorded from 1670s. Related: Ironed; ironing.
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un-ironed in Medicine
iron i·ron (ī'ərn)
1. Symbol Fe A lustrous, malleable, ductile, magnetic or magnetizable metallic element. Atomic number 26; atomic weight 55.847; melting point 1,538°C; boiling point 2,860°C; specific gravity 7.874 (at 20°C); valence 2, 3, 4, 6.
2. A pill or other medication containing iron and taken as a dietary supplement.
Made of or containing iron.
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un-ironed in Science
Symbol Fe
A silvery-white, hard metallic element that occurs abundantly in minerals such as hematite, magnetite, pyrite, and ilmenite. It is malleable and ductile, can be magnetized, and rusts readily in moist air. It is used to make steel and other alloys important in construction and manufacturing. Iron is a component of hemoglobin, which allows red blood cells to carry oxygen and carbon dioxide through the body. Atomic number 26; atomic weight 55.845; melting point 1,535°C; boiling point 2,750°C; specific gravity 7.874 (at 20°C); valence 2, 3, 4, 6. See Periodic Table. See Note at element.
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Slang definitions & phrases for un-ironed
1. A motorcycle; motorcycles collectively; Bike, scoot: competing on old British and American iron (1920s+ Motorcyclists)
2. A car: On this big piece of German iron there's a bumper sticker (1935+)
3. A firearm, esp a pistol; shooting iron (1775+)
4. The weights used in weightlifting (1972+)
Related Terms
have brass balls, hot iron, pump iron, shooting iron, waffle-iron
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un-ironed in the Bible
Tubal-Cain is the first-mentioned worker in iron (Gen. 4:22). The Egyptians wrought it at Sinai before the Exodus. David prepared it in great abundance for the temple (1 Chr. 22:3: 29:7). The merchants of Dan and Javan brought it to the market of Tyre (Ezek. 27:19). Various instruments are mentioned as made of iron (Deut. 27:5; 19:5; Josh. 17:16, 18; 1 Sam. 17:7; 2 Sam. 12:31; 2 Kings 6:5, 6; 1 Chr. 22:3; Isa. 10:34). Figuratively, a yoke of iron (Deut. 28:48) denotes hard service; a rod of iron (Ps. 2:9), a stern government; a pillar of iron (Jer. 1:18), a strong support; a furnace of iron (Deut. 4:20), severe labour; a bar of iron (Job 40:18), strength; fetters of iron (Ps. 107:10), affliction; giving silver for iron (Isa. 60:17), prosperity.
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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Giz Explains: IPTV, or Cable From the Phone Company
If you still rock the bunny ears we salute you. But odds are, you probably get TV one of two ways: Cable or satellite. There's a newer way: IP, that is Internet Protocol, TV-in this case, the TV delivered over the internet by your phone company. Verizon and AT&T push FiOS TV and U-Verse, respectively, in select regions of the country where their fiber networks have been built out. (Update: As has been pointed out, FiOS TV isn't actually IPTV, my bad.) In a lot of ways, it's the TV of the future-in part because most of you can't get it yet. Beyond that, the technology that delivers it to your home, as well as who is doing the delivering, opens up some pretty sweet new interactive possibilities. And even for regular old boob tubing, the way it's architected means its good for HD buffs.
But first, the basics. The difference between the TV you're used to and this fancy IPFreelyTV stuff is that IPTV is delivered to you like any other data sent over the internet-in data packets. You even plug an Ethernet cable into your receiver box/DVR. Of course, the internet's a messy place with lots of muck bouncing around the pipes and you'd be really pissed if the Yankees game stuttered or crapped out, so this is all running on the telco's "walled garden" network with a fat, dedicated lane for video. (Your internet service, which is bundled since it's running on the same network, runs on a different lane, delineated by quality-of-service, or QoS, protocols.)
Now that that's out of the way, back to why its good for HD. With a standard cable setup, the channels are basically always being piped into your home, whether you're watching or not. To add more channels, they've gotta compress 'em down farther or open the pipe up, especially since HD eats up a lot of bandwidth. Since IPTV is sent in regular ol' data packets and the system is two-way (the nature of internet protocol), they're basically only sending what you ask for, when you ask for it. So theoretically, they could offer way more HD channels than cable, since they're not as limited here. Also, like that mythical Xbox 360 IPTV box, the number of streams you can watch/record simultaneously is basically only limited by your bandwidth.
The two-wayness of the infrastructure is another point of awesomeness. It can be used for actually useful interactivity-one of AT&T's apps for the Olympics can bring in a stats feed you can check out while watching the game. Or regular internet video, like YouTube, can be piped in and integrated with the other video on your box. It's all just regular data over standard internet protocols, so there's a lot of flexibility to do stuff you simply can't with a traditional setup.
The problem is that building the infrastructure necessary for IPTV service is slow and expensive, largely cause it requires a heavy fiber optic component. Verizon runs fiber all the way to your door (which is why it can offer those crazy FiOS internet speeds), while AT&T runs it to the node, which you're then connected to with copper and (which is why U-Verse internet is slower). So right now, both have puny subscriber numbers-1.2 million FiOS TV customers, and a scant 379,000 on U-Verse TV.
Still, there's a lot of potential in IPTV, even if it's taking forever to get to your doorstep. AT&T actually showed me some of the stuff that could be at your door in the 6-9 months-and beyond-and it's definitely worth getting excited about. We'll be telling you all about it later.
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Watching this week's two-hour-long Republican debate left my mind scrambled and my mouth gaping open at the discourse between the potential candidates. So when Talking Points Memo asked that we direct our attention to Michele Bachmann's incessant cries to get moderator Anderson Cooper's attention, I barely remembered it happening. But now that I've seen them all compiled into a neat supercut, I can only think of Bachmann as the annoying interrupting girl at a high school debate. Who in America would want a POTUS who refuses to let the opposition finish a sentence? Exactly. Bachmann might have just driven the nail into her coffin when it comes to the Republican nomination, proving that patience is indeed a virtue, especially when it comes to becoming the President. | <urn:uuid:24bc1b4f-29bd-41c7-836c-64d83d8a3c62> | http://jezebel.com/5851733/why-its-a-bad-idea-to-have-an-open-discussion-with-michele-bachmann?tag=anderson-cooper | en | 0.95781 | 0.024534 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
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I want to record UIView activity, its just like capturing screen in video, so this can be played back later.
in my app we are having one MPMediaPlayerController and PPT file so I want to record the video as well PPT slides as user moves its pages, so both things needs to be merged in single video, I guess it is possible if we can screen capture the UIView by some way, is there any way where we are having control over UIview to capture the screen and store it in movie format?
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You can "screenshot" view by using this code:
UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(CGSizeMake(100,100));//arbitrary size
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UIImage* image = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentContext();
And then using something like AVFoundation create video out of images. But this "screenshoting" approach is not very quick for realtime capture and might make your UI pretty unresponsive.
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But this approach will not going to record audio from other video..... – PGU Nov 22 '12 at 8:04
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Every once in a while I want to replace all instances of values like:
i.e. do a regular expression replace of all things inside angle brackets with its lowercase equivalent.
Anyone got a nice snippet of Lisp that does this? It's safe to assume that we're dealing with just ASCII values. Bonus points for anything that is generic enough to take a full regular expression, and doesn't just handle the angle brackets example. Even more bonus points to an answer which just uses M-x query-replace-regexp.
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Try M-x query-replace-regexp with "<\([^>]+\)>" as the search string and "<\,(downcase \1)>" as the replacement.
This should work for Emacs 22 and later, see this Steve Yegge blog post for more details on how Lisp expressions can be used in the replacement string.
For earlier versions of Emacs you could try something like this:
(defun tags-to-lower-case ()
(goto-char (point-min))
(while (re-search-forward "<[^>]+>" nil t)
(replace-match (downcase (match-string 0)) t))))
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That's cool! I wasn't aware of \,() in Emacs regular expressions. – emk Mar 24 '09 at 11:40
This gets me the error "Invalid use of `\' in replacement text" – Dominic Rodger Mar 24 '09 at 11:46
Regexp should be "<\([^>]+\)>" and the replacement doesn't work as expected if the search string matches tag in all caps. – Eugene Morozov Mar 24 '09 at 12:02
I've edited the answer so that the backslashes in the search expression are now visible. – Luke Girvin Mar 24 '09 at 12:21
Emacs can handle .*? as a non-greedy match. – ashawley Mar 24 '09 at 18:52
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Don't understand why ebooks so expensive.
By rameshms on 5/15/2013 1:55:58 PM , Rating: 2
Why should ebooks be as expensive as a hardcopy ? There are no costs involved in printing, transporting, storing and retail. Shouldn't the ebook price be a fraction of the hardcopy (or paperback) for that matter ?
What portion of a books retail price actually goes to the author/publisher ?
RE: Don't understand why ebooks so expensive.
By Solandri on 5/15/2013 2:38:56 PM , Rating: 2
Actually, the cost to print a book is only about 30% of its retail price.
For a regular (printed) book by a big-name publisher, about 7%-20% of its price goes to the author. The rest goes to the retailer and publisher. The author royalty is low enough that self-publishing an ebook and having iTunes/Amazon/Google take 30% (i.e. 70% to the author) is pretty attractive.
We'll have to give it a decade or two to see how it all shakes out. I suspect most of the publishers who insist on keeping most of the profits for themselves are going to die out. If they do survive, it'll be because their name becomes branded and associated with a certain minimum quality level (spelling, grammar, layout, etc) in their publications.
What the independent-publishing industry (both ebooks and indie music) really needs are some review sites which function like a bestseller's list or top 100 charts, to help spread publicity for popular titles/songs. I think that's why Amazon does so well here - their rating and suggestion system pretty much fills that role.
By GulWestfale on 5/15/2013 5:55:44 PM , Rating: 2
i can't speak for authors who have a publisher (why on earth do you need a publisher if all you do is e-books???), but for us freelancers it's quite simple:
we get 70% of the retail price on amazon, plus a fee for each book that is loaned out through amazon's lending program (this varies month to month, but it's usually around $1.50 or so per book).
i publish on apple, kobo, sony, nook and others through smashwords, who take their own cut in addition to the platform providers. so i end up with about 50% of the retail price.
given that an author with a publisher (and the obligatory agent, who takes 20% of the author's earnings) only earns about 7-15% of the wholesale price of a printed book (perhaps a s little as 50 cents), i think i'm doing quite well making 2 bucks off a 3 dollar book. the only reason why publishers would sell ebooks for 10+ dollars is simple: greed.
RE: Don't understand why ebooks so expensive.
By InsGadget on 5/15/2013 3:31:26 PM , Rating: 2
All books are too expensive, IMO. Compare the retail price of an average book, CD, and DVD/Blu-Ray. Now compare the cost of creation: movies cost by far the most to make, followed by music, and then books (generally speaking). Yet, often books cost more than the other 2 forms of media, even though they cost a fraction to create, especially compared to movies.
Look at video, music, and audiobook subscription services: Netflix is $8 a month, Spotify is $10 a month, and Audible is an insane $15 a month. AND, you can only get ONE audiobook per month!! Whereas with the music and video subscriptions, you can watch/download as much as you want per month. It's absolutely ridiculous.
The publishing industry is due for a shakeup. Sorry authors.
By GulWestfale on 5/15/2013 5:57:36 PM , Rating: 2
don't be sorry, read my above post. you'll see that many authors agree with you (and me). publishers are no longer really necessary. all they do is add cost for the reader, while gobbling up the profits of the writers.
By TakinYourPoints on 5/16/2013 3:20:16 AM , Rating: 2
The cost of physical distribution isn't that big a deal. Its the same reason why a digital download of a game really shouldn't cost much less than a hardcopy; the cost of DVD duplication, packaging, and distribution really isn't that much.
The bigger problem is the split between the publisher (whether it is for a book, album, etc) and the author. Publishers are taking far too much nowadays given that distribution is simpler than ever. Movies and big budget games are a bit different since they actually fund the product as well.
By techienate on 5/17/2013 12:19:06 PM , Rating: 2
The problem, in my opinion, is that e-books cost significantly more, because you can't sell them or buy used. (Not to mention that you can't truly loan them out to somebody.) That lowers the value and raises the cost. Or to look at it another way, if 50000 people read a paper book, but some of them bought the book used, some bought it new but at a discount from list price on Amazon, and a few paid full list price at an airport book store, and then some of these people re-sold the used book, compared to 50000 people buying the book at typical e-book prices. The people as a collective unit will have paid out much more money in the e-book situation.
From a personal individual perspective (and the real reason I have some major issues with e-book pricing), I love e-books. I love having my books with me all the time and being able to read them on my smartphone's Kindle app whenever I have a free couple of minutes. But I can't afford to buy many books in e-book form. Typically, I'll buy used or new but at a significant discount from Amazon for most of my books. I would love to buy e-books, but I can't afford the premium.
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Album: Track 4 on Prom
Length: 1:59
Come a little bit closer
Closer than you are
Cause anything worth it now
Is just gonna be hard
Come a little bit cleaner
Get a little bit mean
Just give me the honesty and
Give it back to me
When I know what's mine
I can put it aside
And give in
Don't give me a reason
Don't give me a break
Just give me the loneliness
Of my own mistakes
And if it falls like a judgment
On everything that we are
Then it's just useless
Something we should discard
What's yours what's mine
Lets put it aside
And give in
Are you afraid
Does it get in the way
Of everything that wants to last
Everything that wants to stay
With all your might
Could you put it aside
And give in
With all my might
I could never put you aside
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New York's Algonquin Hotel has a rich history. For decades it was home to the literary lions of the roundtable: Dorothy Parker and George S. Kaufman. But the hotel has also been home to another kind of feline, as Jeff Lunden reports.
JEFF LUNDEN reporting:
When you walk into the Algonquin Hotel, you enter a plush world of yesteryear. The lobby is filled with overstuffed chairs and sofas for the guests, but just at the left of the entrance is a miniature chaise lounge, home to the Algonquin cat. Alice de Almeida is an administrative assistant at the hotel.
Ms. ALICE DE ALMEIDA (Administrative Assistant, Algonquin Hotel): In the 1930s, Frank Case was the general manager and he was like the epitome of the host. And the story goes that a stray cat wandered in off the street, and it was all raggly-taggly and everything, and he felt sorry for the cat, and he kept it.
LUNDEN: That first cat reportedly drank milk out of a champagne glass. Actor John Barrymore insisted he have a theatrical name, so he was called Hamlet, and it stuck. When the Algonquin cat is male, he's Hamlet. When it's female, she's called Matilda, nobody knows why.
Doorman Mike Lyons(ph) has been at the Algonquin Hotel for 45 years. He clocks his service in cat lives.
Mr. MIKE LYONS (Doorman, Algonquin Hotel): I think about five Hamlets. And this is the second Matilda.
LUNDEN: Matilda is an 11-year-old Burman, an exotic breed that looks kind of like a fluffy Siamese.
Mr. LYONS: Oh, this cat is very friendly. The only thing you can't do with this cat is pick her up, but anything else - if she gets annoyed, she gets up and walks away and goes into her little room, and that's it.
LUNDEN: Over the years, the Algonquin cat has been memorialized in a children's book, a 24-carat gold pendant, and in a nod to the 21st century, now you can even send Matilda an email. Administrative assistant Alice de Almeida is Matilda's ghostwriter. She has a book filled with Matilda's emails, some clearly written by kids.
Ms. DE ALMEIDA: Hi, Matilda. Aren't you pretty? What is the address of your hotel? I never heard of you but I found your story very amusing. Do you catch a lot of mice? Do you have a boyfriend? I can find you a nice male cat. What are your daily duties around the hotel?
Hi, Paulette, this is Matilda. Thank you. No mice around here. What kind of cat would I be if I allowed any? I do everything around here. I nap. I purr. I prance. I jump. I nap. I pose. I nap. And no boys for me, I am too busy.
LUNDEN: Every email ends the same way.
Ms. DE ALMEIDA: We always wish them a perfect day. But it's a purr-fect day.
LUNDEN: Matilda will be having a purr-fect day in November when she takes a limo to White Plains, New York and is crowned Cat of the Year at the Westchester Cat Show.
For NPR News, I'm Jeff Lunden in New York.
SIMON: Find out how to send Matilda an email at our website,
This is NPR News.
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Larry Levis
(1946 - 1996 / California / United States)
Blue Stone
Someday, when you are twenty-four and walking through
The street of a foreign city...
Let me go with you a little way,
Let me be that stranger you won't notice.
And when you turn and enter a bar full of young men
and women, and your laughter rises,
Like the stones of a path up a mountain,
To say that no one has died,
I promise I will not follow.
Submitted: Tuesday, April 20, 2010
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7/27/13 3:29 P
use google to find tried and true freezer recipes. Pasta, rice and corn tortillas work well. Buy some Trader Joe sauces. Poach up some chicken breasts, brown some ground turkey, brown lean ground beef or just add some cooked vegetables. Buy aluminum pans the size you need and then just layer everything. Double wrap in aluminum foil. Plan an afternoon and you can have a lot of great healthy meals.
7/27/13 3:21 P
I eat sandwiches. Is it possible to make up tuna salad, use an ice cream scoop and freeze it for future sandwich use? My tuna salad is a bit more than what the menu's call for. I use canned (in water) tuna (4oz cans), mayo, hard boiled egg (chopped), and diced celery. I know that the tuna can be frozen, but what about the mayo?
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5/28/13 10:22 P
I don't really use my microwave much, but I do make a double batch on a regular dinner night and use the extra for freezer meals like lasagna, enchiladas (would prob work on any type of casserole) in those disposable aluminum loaf pans and seal it up with my FoodSaver. The smallest (mini) ones are good 1-2 serving size. If I remember, I take it out of the freezer into the fridge the night before and pop it straight in the oven 45 minutes before dinnertime. Still not "instant" but it takes all the prep/clean up out of the cooking equation. Plus, I much prefer the taste/texture of food cooked in the oven to micro re-heated.
5/28/13 10:06 P
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5/14/13 9:47 A
tomato based pasta sauce, soups and chili freeze well. I cook for one--myself. when I make a recipe, I at least half it. I cook meat in bulk--grill or pan fry several chicken breasts. have one with veggies as a hot meal. I use the rest on salad or in chicken chili (which freezes). left-over cold grilled salmon becomes salmon salad with a tablespoon of low-calorie mayo and a little pickle relish. when I buy a beef roast, I cut it in half and freeze one portion. I make traditional pot roast. with the leftovers, I can make a shredded beef sandwich or have the base for a great veggie soup. You get the idea. Cook one day and have left-overs become quick, easy meals or frozen meals without eating the same old thing.
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5/13/13 4:26 P
In a manner of speaking i do what Rachel Ray does in her show- 5 meals in a day. She prepares 5 meals and either has you freeze them or put them in the fridge. The day you want to eat them, you heat them up. Though I don't mind frozen veggies, I would rather prepare those fresh the day i have the meal. Same with rice, potatoes or pasta. you are going to have to warm up your meal anyway, so while that is warming up, prepare your veggies.
You can always cut up and do a stir fry for dinner. Lots of veggies to incorporate there
You can put your veggies into serving containers in your fridge and prepare them while the rest of your meal is heating up. (i despise the flavor/texture of microwaved veggies)
As for one person? Most of the meals serve 4. I understand that you want a variety, so make the 5 meals and split into the appropriate amount of servings. You probably won't go through all the meals in a week and they should keep ok in your freezer. The next week instead of making 5 meals, maybe make 3. Stagger your prep days. By the end of the month you should have a nice stash of ready to eat meals.
This worked well for me when I was on the SAD diet, but now that I changed my lifestyle, I have recipe books that only make 1-2 servings (plant based meals). And I only buy what i need. Most from the farmers markets or bulk bins.
Hopefully some of this helps.
5/13/13 1:09 P
Take out the guess work and start using recipes that have already been tested and contain all the safety steps. Check out cookbooks (at library or bookstore) or websites using these terms:
batch cooking
big batch cooking
cooking in bulk
cook and freeze meals
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5/13/13 1:03 P
I'm about to graduate college and I know my daily schedule is going to be changing soon. I don't want all the added stress to lead to a decline in my eating habits, so I'm thinking about preparing more meals ahead and then freezing them. In the past I have separated things out into separate freezer bags for portion control- but I've never done it with complete meals- like including portioned out veggies and everything. These past few weeks I know I haven't been eating nearly enough vegetables, so I would like to buy a bunch of frozen veggies and portion them out into freezer bags and make myself eat vegetables with each meal!
Anyway- sometimes I find it difficult to buy food and not have it go to waste because I buy just for myself. It's really hard to get a variety, and still be able to eat everything before it goes bad.
I was looking on this website, and it was appealing to me the way you could choose from soooo many different meals, and have a huge variety! Then they only took like 3 minutes to cook! Unfortunately even with the amazon coupon it's still just a little bit out of my price range (not to mention the fact that my small fridge/freezer wouldn't even fit all that food!)
I'd like to come up with some meals similar to what they have on that site- clean & quick.
What have you guys had success with freezing AFTER cooking, and then just reheating right up from frozen, without thawing it out?
This morning I cooked up a 100 calorie patty of turkey sausage and a slice of bacon- and had them on a mini bagel with a thin slice of cheese and a teaspoon of pancake syrup. It was under 300 calories and SO delicious and satisfying!
I'm kind of wondering if that sort of thing can be pre-cooked, and then frozen together as a sandwich and just microwaved? Brands like Jimmy Dean seem to make it work- but I'm not sure if they add extra crap to make it heat more evenly?
I'm also wondering if I could grill some chicken breasts- and then freeze them? And if they would be able to be microwaved straight from frozen?
Or if I could pre-cook my frozen salmon patties and then freeze them and warm them up without thawing them out?
Some of this is just going to take some experimentation- but any time-saving advice anyone has would be great!
I don't plan on doing 100% of my meals this way but just having simple stuff to warm up for meals when I don't have the time or energy to cook would be so helpful!
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Bath's hidden tourist attraction: Beckford's Tower
Far from the madding crowds that congregate at the ever-popular Roman baths, Beckford's Tower offers a more tranquil experience of historic Bath
Beckford's Tower, Bath
Spectacular views await at the top of the curving steps of Beckford's Tower. Public Domain
The historic city of Bath features on all but the briefest of UK tourist itineraries, its numerous heavy-hitting attractions engulfed by visitors on a daily basis. But two miles from the city centre, atop Lansdown Hill and away from the ever-popular Roman baths and grand abbey, one unsung attraction stands peaceful and contemplative, offering an experience altogether different from the crowded sights below.
This is Beckford's Tower, an Italianate square tower topped by an Athenian octagonal lantern, which was built in 1826 by William Thomas Beckford. Arriving here is like entering another, simpler, world: visitor numbers rarely exceed a handful at a time up here and I have the building, and its enthusiastic volunteers, all to myself.
Jane Glaser, who is on duty today, tells me that most visitors come for the views from the tower's summit. I am keen to find out why and on reaching the top discover a panorama which is certainly expansive, covering a vast swath of mostly unspoilt countryside from south Wales in the west to Salisbury in the east. Jane says that "when it's clear it's fantastic" but unfortunately I have chosen a day of soupy skies and so must make do with sights closer to hand. Fortunately these include Bath's racecourse, the highest in England, and of course the honey-hued city laid out below me in the valley punctuated by its beautiful abbey tower and numerous spiky church spires.
I return somewhat dizzy-headed down the curving cantilevered steps (154 of them, I am told) and find Annette Godbold, another volunteer, keen to explain the other reason people come to visit this little-known tower: the fascinating, and at times scandalous, life of William Thomas Beckford. Annette tells me that he was a "most cultivated and interesting man" who built this tower as what she charmingly describes as his "garden shed", a place to tinker with his collection, read his books and spend time alone with his thoughts.
William certainly had a lot of thoughts, interested as he was in everything from literature and art to politics and history. A master of multiple languages and the writer of Arabian tale Vathek, William's wide-ranging interests and thirst for knowledge led him to collect items ranging from furniture and books to objets d'art and paintings (many of which are so important they now reside in the National Gallery).
The tower's first floor is home to a museum telling the history of this extraordinary life. Here I learn that William's grandfather made the family fortune in the sugar plantations of Jamaica and that when William inherited this substantial estate at the tender age of 10 he became, by popular belief at least, the richest man in Europe. His mother not allowing him to go to school, he became a solitary man and later was accused of having a homosexual affair with a distant cousin and murdering his wife, Margaret.
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User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0
31 July 2001
4. Glossary
This glossary is normative. Some terms (or parts of explanations of terms) may not have an impact on conformance.
Note: In this document, glossary terms generally link to the corresponding entries in this section. These terms are also highlighted through style sheets and identified as glossary terms through markup.
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In this document, the verb "to activate" means (depending on context) either:
The effect of activation depends on the type of enabled element or user interface control. For instance, when a link is activated, the user agent generally retrieves the linked Web resource. When a form element is activated, it may change state (e.g., check boxes) or may take user input (e.g., a text entry field).
In this document, "to alert" means to make the user aware of some event, without requiring acknowledgement. For example, the user agent may alert the user that new content is available on the server by displaying a text message in the user agent's status bar. See checkpoint 1.3 for requirements about alerts.
In this document, an "animation" refers to content that, when rendered, creates a visual movement effect automatically (i.e., without manual user interaction). This definition of animation includes video and animated images. Animation techniques include:
An applet is a program (generally written in the Java programming language) that is part of content, and that the user agent executes.
Application Programming Interface (API), conventional input/output/device API
An application programming interface (API) defines how communication may take place between applications.
Implementing APIs that are independent of a particular operating environment (as are the W3C DOM Level 2 specifications) may reduce implementation costs for multi-platform user agents and promote the development of multi-platform assistive technologies. Implementing conventional APIs for a particular operating environment may reduce implementation costs for assistive technology developers who wish to interoperate with more than one piece of software running on that operating environment.
A "device API" defines how communication may take place with an input or output device such as a keyboard, mouse, video card, etc.
In this document, an "input/output API" defines how applications or devices communicate with a user agent. As used in this document, input and output APIs include, but are not limited to, device APIs. Input and output APIs also include more abstract communication interfaces than those specified by device APIs. A "conventional input/output API" is one that is expected to be implemented by software running on a particular operating environment. For example, on desktop computers today, the conventional input APIs are for the mouse and keyboard. For touch screen devices or mobile devices, conventional input APIs may include stylus, buttons, voice, etc. The graphical display and sound card are considered conventional ouput devices for a graphical desktop computer environment, and each has an associated API.
Assistive technology
In the context of this document, an assistive technology is a user agent that:
1. relies on services (such as retrieving Web resources, parsing markup, etc.) provided by one or more other "host" user agents. Assistive technologies communicate data and messages with host user agents by using and monitoring APIs.
2. provides services beyond those offered by the host user agents to meet the requirements of users with disabilities. Additional services include alternative renderings (e.g., as synthesized speech or magnified content), alternative input methods (e.g., voice), additional navigation or orientation mechanisms, content transformations (e.g., to make tables more accessible), etc.
For example, screen reader software is an assistive technology because it relies on browsers or other software to enable Web access, particularly for people with visual and learning disabilities.
Examples of assistive technologies that are important in the context of this document include the following:
Beyond this document, assistive technologies consist of software or hardware that has been specifically designed to assist people with disabilities in carrying out daily activities, e.g., wheelchairs, reading machines, devices for grasping, text telephones, vibrating pagers, etc. For example, the following very general definition of "assistive technology device" comes from the (U.S.) Assistive Technology Act of 1998 [AT1998]:
This document uses the term "attribute" in the XML sense: an element may have a set of attribute specifications (refer to the XML 1.0 specification [XML] section 3).
In this document, the term "audio" refers to content that encodes pre-recorded sound.
Audio-only presentation
An audio-only presentation is content consisting exclusively of one or more audio tracks presented concurrently or in series. Examples of an audio-only presentation include a musical performance, a radio-style news broadcast, and a narration.
Audio track
An audio object is content rendered as sound through an audio viewport. An audio track is an audio object that is intended as a whole or partial presentation. An audio track may, but is not required to, correspond to a single audio channel (left or right audio channel).
Auditory description
An auditory description (sometimes, "audio description") is either a prerecorded human voice or a synthesized voice (recorded or generated dynamically) describing the key visual elements of a movie or other animation. The auditory description is synchronized with (and possibly included as part of) the audio track of the presentation, usually during natural pauses in the audio track. Auditory descriptions include information about actions, body language, graphics, and scene changes.
Author styles
Authors styles are style property values that come from content (e.g., style sheets within a document, that are associated with a document, or that are generated by a server).
Captions (sometimes, "closed captions") are text transcripts that are synchronized with other audio tracks or visual tracks. Captions convey information about spoken words and non-spoken sounds such as sound effects. They benefit people who are deaf or hard-of-hearing, and anyone who cannot hear the audio (e.g., someone in a noisy environment). Captions are generally rendered graphically above, below, or superimposed over video. Note: Other terms that include the word "caption" may have different meanings in this document. For instance, a "table caption" is a title for the table, often positioned graphically above or below the table. In this document, the intended meaning of "caption" will be clear from context.
Character encoding
A "character encoding" is a mapping from a character set definition to the actual code units used to represent the data. Please refer to the Unicode specification [UNICODE] for more information about character encodings. Refer to "Character Model for the World Wide Web" [CHARMOD] for additional information about characters and character encodings.
Collated text transcript
A collated text transcript is a text equivalent of a movie or other animation. More specifically, it is the combination of the text transcript of the audio track and the text equivalent of the visual track. For example, a collated text transcript typically includes segments of spoken dialogue interspersed with text descriptions of the key visual elements of a presentation (actions, body language, graphics, and scene changes). See also the definitions of text transcript and auditory description. Collated text transcripts are essential for individuals who are deaf-blind.
Conditional content
Conditional content is content that, by format specification, should be made available to users through the user interface, generally under certain conditions (e.g., based on user preferences or operating environment limitations). Some examples of conditional content mechanisms include:
Specifications vary in how completely they define how and when to render conditional content. For instance, the HTML 4 specification includes the rendering conditions for the "alt" attribute, but not for the "title" attribute. The HTML 4 specification does indicate that the "title" attribute should be available to users through the user interface ("Values of the title attribute may be rendered by user agents in a variety of ways...").
Note: The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 requires that authors provide text equivalents for non-text content. This is generally done by using the conditional content mechanisms of a markup language. Since conditional content may not be rendered by default, the current document requires the user agent to provide access to unrendered conditional content (checkpoint 2.3 and checkpoint 2.9) as it may have been provided to promote accessibility.
Configure, control
In the context of this document, the verbs "to control" and "to configure" share in common the idea of governance such as a user may exercise over interface layout, user agent behavior, rendering style, and other parameters required by this document. Generally, the difference in the terms centers on the idea of persistence. When a user makes a change by "controlling" a setting, that change usually does not persist beyond that user session. On the other hand, when a user "configures" a setting, that setting typically persists into later user sessions. Furthermore, the term "control" typically means that the change can be made easily (such as through a keyboard shortcut) and that the results of the change occur immediately, whereas the term "configure" typically means that making the change requires more time and effort (such as making the change via a series of menus leading to a dialog box, via style sheets or scripts, etc.) and that the results of the change may not take effect immediately (e.g., due to time spent reinitializing the system, initiating a new session, rebooting the system). In order to be able to configure and control the user agent, the user needs to be able to "read" as well as "write" values for these parameters. Configuration settings may be stored in a profile. The range and granularity of the changes that can be controlled or configured by the user may depend on limitations of the operating environment or hardware.
Both configuration and control may apply at different "levels": across Web resources (i.e., at the user agent level, or inherited from the operating environment), to the entirety of a Web resource, or to components of a Web resource (e.g., on a per-element basis).
A global configuration is one that applies across elements of the same Web resource, as well as across Web resources. A global configuration may be implemented by more than one setting (e.g., per component of the user agent). For instance, when a user agent consists of a browser that renders HTML and a plug-in that renders SVG, to satisfy the global configuration requirements of this document, the browser may provide one setting and the plug-in another.
User agents may allow users to choose configurations based on various parameters, such as hardware capabilities, natural language, etc.
Note: In this document, the noun "control" refers to a component of the user agent user interface.
In this specification, the noun "content" is used in three ways:
1. It is used to mean the document object as a whole or in parts.
2. It is used to mean the content of an HTML or XML element, in the sense employed by the XML 1.0 specification ([XML], section 3.1): "The text between the start-tag and end-tag is called the element's content." Context should indicate that the term content is being used in this sense.
3. It is used in the context of the phrases non-text content and text content.
Empty content is either a null value or a string consisting of zero characters. For instance, in HTML, "alt=''" sets the value of the "alt" attribute to the empty string. In some markup languages, an element may have empty content (e.g., the HR element in HTML).
Device-independence refers to the ability to make use of software with any appropriate supported input or output device.
Document object, Document Object Model (DOM)
In general usage, the term "document object" refers to the user agent's representation of data (e.g., a document). This data generally comes from the document source, but may also be generated (from style sheets, scripts, transformations, etc.), produced as a result of preferences set within the user agent, added as the result of a repair performed automatically by the user agent, etc. Some data that is part of the document object is routinely rendered (e.g., in HTML, what appears between the start and end tags of elements and the values of attributes such as "alt", "title", and "summary"). Other parts of the document object are generally processed by the user agent without user awareness, such as DTD- or schema-defined names of element types and attributes, and other attribute values such as "href", "id", etc. These guidelines require that users have access to both kinds of data through the user interface. Most of the requirements of this document apply to the document object after its construction. However, a few checkpoints (e.g., checkpoint 2.7 and checkpoint 2.11) may affect the construction of the document object.
A "document object model" is the abstraction that governs the construction of the user agent's document object. The document object model employed by different user agents may vary in implementation and sometimes in scope. This specification requires that user agents implement the APIs defined in Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Specifications ([DOM2CORE] and [DOM2STYLE]) for access to HTML, XML, and CSS content. These DOM APIs allow authors to access and modify the content via a scripting language (e.g., JavaScript) in a consistent manner across different scripting languages. As a standard interface, the DOM APIs make it easier not just for authors, but for assistive technology developers to extract information and render it in ways most suited to the needs of particular users.
Document character set
A document character set (a concept taken from SGML) is a sequence of abstract characters that may appear in Web content represented in a particular format (such as HTML, XML, etc.). A document character set consists of: For instance, the character set required by the HTML 4 specification [HTML4] is defined in the Unicode specification [UNICODE]. Refer to "Character Model for the World Wide Web" [CHARMOD] for more information about document character sets.
Document source, text source
In this document, the term "document source" refers to the data that the user agent receives as the direct result of a request for a Web resource (e.g., as the result of an HTTP/1.1 [RFC2616] "GET", or as the result of viewing a resource on the local file system). The document source generally refers to the "payload" of the user agent's request, and doesn't generally include information exchanged as part of the transfer protocol. The document source is data that is prior to any repair by the user agent (e.g., prior to repairing invalid markup). "Text source" refers to document source that is composed of text.
Documentation refers to information that supports the use of a user agent. This information may be found in manuals, installation instructions, the help system, tutorials, etc. Documentation may be distributed (e.g., some parts may be delivered on CD-ROM, others on the Web). Refer to guideline 12 for information about documentation requirements.
Element, element type,
This document uses the terms "element" and "element type" in the sense employed by the XML 1.0 specification ([XML], section 3): an element type is a syntactic construct of a Document Type Definition (DTD) for its application. This sense is also relevant to structures defined by XML schemas. The document also uses the term "element" more generally to mean a type of content (such as video or sound) or a logical construct (such as a header or list).
Enabled element, disabled element
An enabled element is a piece of content with associated behaviors that may be activated through the user interface or through an API. The set of elements that a user agent enables is generally derived from, but is not limited to, the set of interactive elements defined by implemented markup languages.
Some elements may only be enabled elements for part of a user session. For instance, an element may be disabled by a script as the result of user interaction. Or, an element may only be enabled during a given time period (e.g., during part of a SMIL 1.0 [SMIL] presentation). Or, the user may be viewing content in "read-only" mode, which may disable some elements.
A disabled element is a piece of content that is potentially an enabled element, but is not in the current session. Generally, disabled elements will be interactive elements that are not enabled in the current session. This document distinguishes disabled elements (not currently enabled) from non-interactive elements (never enabled).
For the requirements of this document, user selection does not constitute user interaction with enabled elements. See the definition of content focus.
Note: Enabled and disabled elements come from content; they are not part of the user agent user interface.
Note: The term "active element" is not used in this document since it may suggest several different concepts, including: interactive element, enabled element, an element "in the process of being activated" (which is the meaning of ':active' in CSS2 [CSS2], for example).
Equivalent (for content)
The term "equivalent" is used in this document as it is used in the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 [WCAG10]:
Equivalents include text equivalents (e.g., text equivalents for images; text transcripts for audio tracks; collated text transcripts for multimedia presentations and animations) and non-text equivalents (e.g., a prerecorded auditory description of a visual track of a movie, or a sign language video rendition of a written text, etc.).
Each markup language defines its own mechanisms for specifying conditional content, and these mechanisms may be used by authors to provide text equivalents. For instance, in HTML 4 [HTML4] or SMIL 1.0 [SMIL], authors may use the "alt" attribute to specify a text equivalent for some elements. In HTML 4, authors may provide equivalents (or portions of equivalents) in attribute values (e.g., the "summary" attribute for the TABLE element), in element content (e.g., OBJECT for external content it specifies, NOFRAMES for frame equivalents, and NOSCRIPT for script equivalents), and in prose. Please consult the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 [WCAG10] and its associated Techniques document [WCAG10-TECHS] for more information about equivalents.
Events and scripting, event handler
User agents often perform a task when an event occurs that is due to user interaction (e.g., document loading, mouse motion or a key press, a request from the operating environment, etc.). Some markup languages allow authors to specify that a script, called an event handler, be executed when the event occurs. An event handler is "explicitly associated with an element" when the event handler is associated with that element through markup or the DOM. The term "event bubbling" describes a programming style where a single event handler dispatches events to more than one element. In this case, the event handlers are not explicitly associated with the elements receiving the events (except for the single element that dispatches the events).
Note: The combination of HTML, style sheets, the Document Object Model (DOM) and scripting is commonly referred to as "Dynamic HTML" or DHTML. However, as there is no W3C specification that formally defines DHTML, this document only refers to event handlers and scripts.
Explicit user request
In this document, the term "explicit user request" refers to any user interaction with a control provided by the user agent user interface (not those in content), the focus, or selection. Control behavior should be documented.
Some examples of explicit user requests include when the user selects "New viewport", responds "Yes" to a prompt in the user agent's user interface, configures the user agent to behave in a certain way, or changes the selection or focus with the keyboard or pointing device.
Note: Users make mistakes. For example, a user may inadvertently respond "yes" to a prompt when they meant "no." In this document, this type of mistake is still considered an explicit user request.
Fee link
For the purpose of this document, the term "fee link" refers to a link that when activated, debits the user's electronic "wallet" (generally, a "micropayment"). The link's role as a fee link is identified through markup (in a manner that the user agent can recognize). This definition of fee link excludes payment mechanisms (e.g., some form-based credit card transactions) that cannot be recognized by the user agent as causing payments. For more information about fee links, refer to "Common Markup for micropayment per-fee-links" [MICROPAYMENT].
Focus, content focus, user interface focus, current focus
In this document, the term "content focus" refers to a user agent mechanism that satisfies all of the following properties:
1. It designates zero or one element in content that is either enabled or disabled. (In general, the focus should only designate enabled elements, but it may also designate disabled elements.)
2. The user may "set" content focus (programmatically or through the user interface) on an enabled element without triggering the associated behaviors.
3. It has state. The user may prefer to always move the content focus manually from one element to another.
4. It may be used (programmatically or through the user interface) to trigger the behaviors associated with an enabled element. This is generally implemented by making the focus respond to input device events (often just keyboard events).
User interface mechanisms may resemble content focus, but do not satisfy all of the properties. For example, text editors often implement a "caret" that indicates the current location of text input or editing. The caret may have state and may respond to input device events, but it does not enable users to activate the behaviors associated with enabled elements.
The user interface focus shares the properties of the content focus except the first: the user interface focus designates zero or one control of the user agent user interface that has associated behaviors (e.g., radio button, text box, menu, etc.).
On the screen, the content focus may be highlighted using colors, fonts, graphics, magnification, etc. The content focus may also be highlighted when rendered as synthesized speech, for example through changes in speech prosody. The dimensions of the rendered content focus may exceed those of the viewport.
In this document, each viewport is expected to have at most one content focus and at most one user interface focus. This document includes requirements for content focus only, for user interface focus only, and for both. When a requirement refers to both, the term "focus" is used.
When several viewports coexist, at most one viewport's content focus or user interface focus responds to input events; this is called the current focus.
In this document, the term "graphical" refers to information (text, colors, graphics, images, animations, etc.) rendered for visual consumption.
In this document, "to highlight" means to emphasize through the user interface. For example, user agents highlight which content is selected or focused. Graphical highlight mechanisms include dotted boxes, underlining, and reverse video. Synthesized speech highlight mechanisms include alterations of voice pitch and volume ("speech prosody").
In this document, an "image" refers to content that encodes static (i.e., unmoving) visual information. See also the definition of animation.
Input configuration
An input configuration is the mapping of user agent functionalities to some user interface input mechanisms (e.g., menus, buttons, keyboard keys, voice commands, etc.). The default input configuration is the mapping the user finds after installation of the software; it must be documented (per checkpoint 12.3]). Input configurations may be affected by author-specified bindings (e.g., through the "accesskey" attribute of HTML 4 [HTML4]).
Interactive element, non-interactive element,
An interactive element is piece of content that, by specification, may have associated behaviors to be executed or carried out as a result of user or programmatic interaction. For instance, the interactive elements of HTML 4 [HTML4] include: links, image maps, form elements, elements with a value for the "longdesc" attribute, and elements with event handlers explicitly associated with them (e.g., through the various "on" attributes). The role of an element as an interactive element is subject to applicability. A non-interactive element is an element that, by format specification, does not have associated behaviors. The expectation of this document is that interactive elements become enabled elements in some sessions, and non-interactive elements never become enabled elements.
Natural language
Natural language is spoken, written, or signed human language such as French, Japanese, and American Sign Language. On the Web, the natural language of content may be specified by markup or HTTP headers. Some examples include the "lang" attribute in HTML 4 ([HTML4] section 8.1), the "xml:lang" attribute in XML 1.0 ([XML], section 2.12), the HTML 4 "hreflang" attribute for links in HTML 4 ([HTML4], section 12.1.5), the HTTP Content-Language header ([RFC2616], section 14.12) and the Accept-Language request header ([RFC2616], section 14.4). See also the definition of script.
Normative, informative
As used in this document, the term "normative" refers to "that on which the requirements of this document depend for their most precise statement." What is normative is required for conformance (though the conformance scheme of this document allows claimants to exempt certain normative provisions as long as the claim discloses the exemption). What is identified as "informative" (sometimes, "non-normative") is never required for conformance.
Operating environment
The term "operating environment" refers to the environment that governs the user agent's operation, whether it is an operating system or a programming language environment such as Java.
In this document, the term "override" means that one configuration or behavior preference prevails over another. Generally, the requirements of this document involve user preferences prevailing over author preferences and user agent default settings and behaviors. Preferences may be multi-valued in general (e.g., the user prefers blue over red or yellow), and include the special case of two values (e.g., turn on or off blinking text content).
A placeholder is content generated by the user agent to replace author-supplied content. A placeholder may be generated as the result of a user preference (e.g., to not render images) or as repair content (e.g., when an image cannot be found). Placeholders can be any type of content, including text, images, and audio cues.
This document includes requirements that the user be able to view the original author-supplied content associated with a placeholder. To satisfy these requirements, the user agent might render the content in place of the placeholder or in a separate viewport (leaving the placeholder as is). A request to view the original content associated with a placeholder is considered an explicit user request to render that content.
This document does not require user agents to include placeholders in the document object. A placeholder that is inserted in the document object should conform to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 [WCAG10]. If a placeholder is not part of the document object, it is part of the user interface only (and subject, for example, to checkpoint 1.3).
A plug-in is a program that runs as part of the user agent and that is not part of content. Users generally choose to include or exclude plug-ins from their user agent.
Point of regard
The point of regard is a position in rendered content that the user is presumed to be viewing. The dimensions of the point of regard may vary. For example, it may be a point (e.g., a moment in an audio rendering or a cursor in a graphical rendering), or a range of text (e.g., focused text), or a two-dimensional area (e.g., content rendered through a two-dimensional graphical viewport). The point of regard is almost always within the viewport, but it may exceed the spatial or temporal dimensions of the viewport (see the definition of rendered content for more information about viewport dimensions). The point of regard may also refer to a particular moment in time for content that changes over time (e.g., an audio-only presentation). User agents may determine the point of regard in a number of ways, including based on viewport position in content, content focus, selection, etc. A user agent should not change the point of regard unexpectedly as this may disorient the user.
A profile is a named and persistent representation of user preferences that may be used to configure a user agent. Preferences include input configurations, style preferences, natural language preferences, etc. In operating environments with distinct user accounts, profiles enable users to reconfigure software quickly when they log on, and profiles may be shared by several users. Platform-independent profiles are useful for those who use the same user agent on different platforms.
In this document, "to prompt" means to require input from the user. The user agent should allow users to configure how they wish to be prompted. For instance, for a user agent functionality X, configurations might include: always prompt me before doing X, always do X without prompting me, never do X but tell me when you could have, never do X and never tell me that you could have, etc.
Properties, values, and defaults
A user agent renders a document by applying formatting algorithms and style information to the document's elements. Formatting depends on a number of factors, including where the document is rendered: on screen, on paper, through loudspeakers, on a braille display, on a mobile device, etc. Style information (e.g., fonts, colors, synthesized speech prosody, etc.) may come from the elements themselves (e.g., certain font and phrase elements in HTML), from style sheets, or from user agent settings. For the purposes of these guidelines, each formatting or style option is governed by a property and each property may take one value from a set of legal values. Generally in this document, the term "property" has the meaning defined in CSS 2 ([CSS2], section 3). A reference to "styles" in this document means a set of style-related properties.
The value given to a property by a user agent when it is installed is called the property's default value.
Authors encode information in markup languages, style sheet languages, scripting languages, protocols, etc. When the information is encoded in a manner that allows the user agent to process it with certainty, the user agent can "recognize" the information. For instance, HTML allows authors to specify a heading with the H1 element, so a user agent that implements HTML can recognize that content as a heading. If the author creates headings using a visual effect alone (e.g., by increasing the font size), then the author has encoded the heading in a manner that does not allow the user agent to recognize it as a heading.
Some requirements of this document depend on content roles, content relationships, timing relationships, and other information supplied by the author. These requirements only apply when the author has encoded that information in a manner that the user agent can recognize. See the section on conformance for more information about applicability.
In practice, user agents will rely heavily on information that the author has encoded in a markup language or style sheet language. On the other hand, behaviors, style, meaning encoded in a script, and markup in an unfamiliar XML namespace may not be recognized by the user agent as easily or at all. The Techniques document [UAAG10-TECHS] lists some markup known to affect accessibility that user agents can recognize.
Rendered content, rendered text
Rendered content is the part of content that the user agent makes available to the user's senses of sight and hearing (and only those senses for the purposes of this document). Any content that causes an effect that may be perceived through these senses constitutes rendered content. This includes text characters, images, style sheets, scripts, and anything else in content that, once processed, may be perceived through sight and hearing.
The term "rendered text" refers to text content that is rendered in a way that communicates information about the characters themselves, whether visually or as synthesized speech.
In the context of this document, "invisible content" is content that influences graphical rendering of other content but is not rendered itself. Similarly, "silent content" is content that influences audio rendering of other content but is not rendered itself. Neither invisible nor silent content is considered rendered content.
Repair content, repair text
In this document, the term "repair content" refers to content generated by the user agent in order to correct an error condition. "Repair text" means repair content consisting only of text. Some error conditions that may lead to the generation of repair content include:
This document does not require user agents to include repair content in the document object. Repair content inserted in the document object should conform to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 [WCAG10]. For more information about repair techniques for Web content and software, refer to "Techniques for Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 1.0" [ATAG10-TECHS].
In this document, the term "script" almost always refers to a scripting (programming) language used to create dynamic Web content. However, in checkpoints referring to the written (natural) language of content, the term "script" is used as in Unicode [UNICODE] to mean "A collection of symbols used to represent textual information in one or more writing systems."
Information encoded in scripts may be difficult for a user agent to recognize For instance, a user agent is not expected to recognize that, when executed, a script will calculate a factorial. The user agent will be able to recognize some information in a script by virtue of implementing the scripting language or a known program library (e.g., the user agent is expected to recognize when a script will open a viewport or retrieve a resource from the Web).
Selection, current selection
In this document, the term "selection" refers to a user agent mechanism for identifying a range of content (e.g., text, images, etc.). Generally, user agents limit selection to text content (e.g., one or more fragments of text). The selection may be structured (based on the document tree) or unstructured (e.g., text-based). The range may be empty.
On the screen, the selection may be highlighted using colors, fonts, graphics, magnification, etc. The selection may also be highlighted when rendered as synthesized speech, for example through changes in speech prosody. The dimensions of the rendered selection may exceed those of the viewport.
The selection may be used for a variety of purposes: for cut and paste operations, to designate a specific element in a document for the purposes of a query, as an indication of point of regard, etc.
The selection has state. It may be set programmatically or through the user interface.
In this document, each viewport is expected to have at most one selection. When several viewports coexist, at most one viewport's selection responds to input events; this is called the current selection.
See the section on the selection label for information about implementing a selection and conformance.
Note: Some user agents may also implement a selection for designating a range of information in controls of the user agent user interface. The current document only includes requirements for a content selection mechanism.
Support, implement, conform
In this document, the terms "support", "implement", and "conform" all refer to what a developer has designed a user agent to do, but they represent different degrees of specificity. A user agent "supports" general classes of objects, such as "images" or "Japanese". A user agent "implements" a specification (e.g., the PNG and SVG image format specifications, a particular scripting language, etc.) or an API (e.g., the DOM API) when it has been programmed to follow all or part of a specification. A user agent "conforms to" a specification when it implements the specification and satisfies its conformance criteria. This document includes some conformance requirements to other specifications (e.g., to a particular level of the "Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0" [WCAG10]).
In this document, "to synchronize" refers to the time-coordination of two or more presentation components (e.g., in a multimedia presentation, a visual track with captions). For Web content developers, the requirement to synchronize means to provide the data that will permit sensible time-coordinated rendering by a user agent. For example, Web content developers can ensure that the segments of caption text are neither too long nor too short, and that they map to segments of the visual track that are appropriate in length. For user agent developers, the requirement to synchronize means to present the content in a sensible time-coordinated fashion under a wide range of circumstances including technology constraints (e.g., small text-only displays), user limitations (slow reading speeds, large font sizes, high need for review or repeat functions), and content that is sub-optimal in terms of accessibility.
In this document, the term "text" used by itself refers to a sequence of characters from a markup language's document character set. Refer to the "Character Model for the World Wide Web " [CHARMOD] for more information about text and characters. Note: This document makes use of other terms that include the word "text" that have highly specialized meanings: collated text transcript, non-text content, text content, non-text element, text element, text equivalent, and text transcript.
Text content, non-text content, text element, non-text element, text equivalent non-text equivalent
As used in this document a "text element" adds text characters to either content or the user interface. Both in the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 [WCAG10] and in this document, text elements are presumed to produce text that can be understood when rendered visually, as synthesized speech, or as Braille. Such text elements benefit at least these three groups of users:
1. visually-displayed text benefits users who are deaf and adept in reading visually-displayed text;
2. synthesized speech benefits users who are blind and adept in use of synthesized speech;
3. braille benefits users who are blind, and possibly deaf-blind, and adept at reading braille.
A text element may consist of both text and non-text data. For instance, a text element may contain markup for style (e.g., font size or color), structure (e.g., heading levels), and other semantics. The essential function of the text element should be retained even if style information happens to be lost in rendering.
A user agent may have to process a text element in order to have access to the text characters. For instance, a text element may consist of markup, it may be encrypted or compressed, or it may include embedded text in a binary format (e.g., JPEG).
"Text content" is content that is composed of one or more text elements. A "text equivalent" (whether in content or the user interface) is an equivalent composed of one or more text elements. Authors generally provide text equivalents for content by using the conditional content mechanisms of a specification.
A "non-text element" is an element (in content or the user interface) that does not have the qualities of a text element. "Non-text content" is composed of one or more non-text elements. A "non-text equivalent" (whether in content or the user interface) is an equivalent composed of one or more non-text elements.
Note that the terms "text element" and "non-text element" are defined by the characteristics of their output (e.g., rendering) rather than those of their input (e.g., information sources) or their internals (e.g., format). Both text elements and non-text elements should be understood as "pre-rendering" content in contrast to the "post-rendering" content that they produce.
Text decoration
In this document, a "text decoration" is any stylistic effect that the user agent may apply to visually rendered text that does not affect the layout of the document (i.e., does not require reformatting when applied or removed). Text decoration mechanisms include underline, overline, and strike-through.
Text transcript
A text transcript is a text equivalent of audio information (e.g., an audio-only presentation or the audio track of a movie or other animation). It provides text for both spoken words and non-spoken sounds such as sound effects. Text transcripts make audio information accessible to people who have hearing disabilities and to people who cannot play the audio. Text transcripts are usually pre-written but may be generated on the fly (e.g., by voice-to-text converters). See also the definitions of captions and collated text transcripts.
User agent
In this document, the term "user agent" is used in two ways:
1. Any software that retrieves and renders Web content for users. This may include Web browsers, media players, plug-ins, and other programs – including assistive technologies -- that help in retrieving and rendering Web content.
2. The subject of a conformance claim to this document. This is the most common use of the term in this document and is the usage in the checkpoints.
User agent default styles
User agent default styles are style property values applied in the absence of any author or user styles. Some markup languages specify a default rendering for documents in that markup language. Other specifications may not specify default styles. For example, XML 1.0 [XML] does not specify default styles for XML documents. HTML 4 [HTML4] does not specify default styles for HTML documents, but the CSS 2 [CSS2] specification suggests a sample default style sheet for HTML 4 based on current practice.
User interface
For the purposes of this document, user interface includes both:
1. the "user agent user interface", i.e., the controls (e.g., menus, buttons, prompts, etc.) and mechanisms (e.g., selection and focus) provided by the user agent ("out of the box") that are not created by content.
2. the "content user interface", i.e., the enabled elements that are part of content, such as form elements, links, applets, etc.
The document distinguishes them only where required for clarity.
User styles
User styles are style property values that come from user interface settings, user style sheets, or other user interactions.
Visual-only presentation
A visual-only presentation is content consisting exclusively of one or more visual tracks presented concurrently or in series. A silent movie is an example of a visual-only presentation.
Visual track
A visual object is content rendered through a graphical viewport. Visual objects include graphics, text, and visual portions of movies and other animations. A visual track is a visual object that is intended as a whole or partial presentation. A visual track does not necessarily correspond to a single physical object or software object. A visual track may be text-based or graphic. A visual track may be static or involve animation.
Views, viewports
The user agent renders content through one or more viewports. Viewports include windows, frames, pieces of paper, loudspeakers, virtual magnifying glasses, etc. A viewport may contain another viewport (e.g., nested frames). User interface controls such as prompts, menus, alerts, etc. are not viewports.
When the dimensions (spatial or temporal) of rendered content exceed the dimensions of the viewport (e.g., when the user can only view a portion of a large document through a small graphical viewport, when audio content has already been played, etc.), the user agent provides mechanisms such as scroll bars and advance and rewind controls so that the user can access the rendered content "outside" the viewport.
When several viewports coexist, only one has the current focus at a given moment. This viewport is highlighted to make it stand out.
Voice browser
From "Introduction and Overview of W3C Speech Interface Framework" [VOICEBROWSER]: "A voice browser is a device (hardware and software) that interprets voice markup languages to generate voice output, interpret voice input, and possibly accept and produce other modalities of input and output."
Web resource
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I always hear people say things like, 'the debt was too large' ... well, why? Why couldn't I pay for my own sin?
I don't like that Jesus took punishment for me, I would hate for my earthly father to get fined or beaten or imprisoned for me, it would enrage me, it's completely unfair. I want to pay the price myself. Why can't I?
The only thing that seems to make sense is that for some reason there had to be a blood sacrfice and that sacrfice had to be a perfect being (similar to how animals could not be sacrficed if they had any defects.) ... but why? Why does the person/animal dying need to be perfect? It doesn't make sense to me yet, I know it's the truth because I believe in God but I feel like there's a block in my understanding, like I'm waiting for a lightbulb moment where I go 'ahhhh ok now I get it.' PLEASE DON'T SAY 'there are some things we will never understand because God is God and mysterious and we just have to deal with that.' I don't believe that is the case with such a critically important issue. The early Christians seemed to have such a good grasp on the whole concept but it's evading me. Please offer your understanding if you get it. Please don't say anything if you're not 100% sure.
Thank you so much, I really want to get this so I can move forward in my faith.
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closed as not constructive by David Stratton, Andrew, Narnian, Caleb Dec 27 '12 at 21:53
Welcome to the site! This is a "pastoral advice" question, and not really in line with what the site is meant for. I'd recommend reading the FAQ as well as meta.christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/1379/…meta.christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/1379/… idea of what the site is and isn't. A question like this might fit better in chat. – David Stratton Dec 26 '12 at 13:07
I'm also not sure we could know for sure. However, were I to take a shot at answering based on what we do know about God, I'd start by reminding you that the reason God created us is to bring glory to Himself. From there I'd ask "if we reconcile ourselves, who gets the glory? Where is the focus? On us, or God?" and probably then point to Ephesians 2:8-9. – David Stratton Dec 26 '12 at 13:30
@DavidStratton An aspect of this extravagant greatness is presented in my favorite John Donne quote: "Kings pardon, but he bore our punishment." If humans justified themselves, even the glory of pardoning--of showing mercy (but not justice)--would be denied God. By being both "just and justifier" God is more fully showing who God is, i.e., glorifying God. – Paul A. Clayton Dec 26 '12 at 15:37
I think the core question here is answerable from a Catholic perspective. I'd have to break the rules, a little -- part of the Catholic answer is, "it's a mystery." Otherwise, I think I could come up with an adequate answer at some point today without hinging on the mystery of it. But, regarding the last line of the question, you should probably find a spiritual advisor as well. – svidgen Dec 26 '12 at 17:07
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The question, as stated, presents an misunderstood view of the economy of salvation. And although it is ultimately a mystery, we can say a fair amount about sin and salvation that makes Christ's sacrifice more reasonable sounding, and the possibility of "self-salvation" far less reasonable sounding. In essence, God created humans to be like God, humans thought they were getting short-changed and disobeyed God (His Word, the law of life), so God had to become fully human to make humans like God again.
First, God makes man in His image. We can see this directly in scripture. As creation culminates, God creates man and woman.
God created mankind in his image; in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. (Genesis 1:3)
Second, God places man and woman in the Garden of Eden, the Garden of delight. He gives them dominion over everything except the prerogative of good and evil. Based on context, this could mean divinity itself. The Catholic read on this, as I understand it, is that humanity is initially created in a state wherein they will live joyfully and forever, provided that trust in God's exclusive right to determine good versus evil and who is entitled to what.
15 The LORD God then took the man and settled him in the garden of Eden, to cultivate and care for it. 16 The LORD God gave the man this order: You are free to eat from any of the trees of the garden 17 except the tree of knowledge of good and evil. From that tree you shall not eat; when you eat from it you shall die. (Genesis 2:15-17)
Third, mankind starts to believe that God is holding out. They believe that, although they were told they were made in God's image, that they actually far from God-like. They believe that they must take matters into their own hands, and they taste the forbidden fruit.
1 Now the snake was the most cunning of all the wild animals that the LORD God had made. He asked the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You shall not eat from any of the trees in the garden’?” 2 The woman answered the snake: “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden; 3 it is only about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden that God said, ‘You shall not eat it or even touch it, or else you will die.’” 4 But the snake said to the woman: “You certainly will not die! 5 God knows well that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened and you will be like gods, who know good and evil.” 6 The woman saw that the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eyes, and the tree was desirable for gaining wisdom. So she took some of its fruit and ate it; and she also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. 7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made loincloths for themselves. (Genesis 3:1-7)
At this point, all humans are destined to die. People are finite and stupid, for one. And our pride destines us to die. We simply don't know what it means to be Godlike, nor do we have the power to acquire Godliness. We don't even fully understand what good and evil are, let alone the power to enact good. Least of all do we understand the full consequences of our actions, nor have the power to understand. Hence, having taken good and evil into our own hands, we cannot fulfill God's purpose for us to be like Him. We simply don't have the ability to raise ourselves to Godliness.
Fourth, God rescues mankind. And since the original plan was for humans to be like God, God can accomplish this by entering the full human experience. From birth:
10 The angel said to them, “Do not be afraid; for behold, I proclaim to you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. 11 For today in the city of David a savior has been born for you who is Messiah and Lord. 12 And this will be a sign for you: you will find an infant wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger.” (Luke 2:10-12)
Through daily life, learning, teaching, eating, partying, friendship, betrayal, judgement, and denial to suffering, agony, mockery, and death.
Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Father, into your hands I commend my spirit”; and when he had said this he breathed his last. (Luke 23:46)
And the Catholic understanding of this is twofold.
Firstly, we understand that Christ makes humans like God again by bringing the fullness of God into the full human experience. This is often called divinization or deification. Because Jesus was fully God, everything that He was as a human, all that happened to Him, and all that He did is God-like, including death, which we are bound to!
The Son of God became man so that we might become God. - St. Athanasius
Not coincidentally, Jesus is risen from the dead, suggesting in a very "loud" manner that we too can be risen. But not of our own doing! Only by accepting God's offer for salvation by "commending our spirit" to God! That is, we can only allow ourselves to be risen by God by allowing God's offer, the power of the cross, to make us like Him again. We cannot do it on our own, for we are not God. It is precisely in an attempt to "do it on our own" that we are apart from God.
But secondly, and contrary to your request for this question, we understand that the mechanics of salvation are a mystery! It's well and good to talk about deification. It's well and good to say that Christ became sin, as we often do. It's well and good to talk about paschal sacrifices, the law, the Word Made Flesh, etc. But, that doesn't mean we understand it. And if we start to presume salvation and God are not mysterious, we find ourselves back in front of the forbidden fruit, ready to take that ill-advised bite.
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There are two reasons why the sacrifice needed to be perfect. First, if the sacrifice was not perfect, the sacrifice would only be paying for his own sins. Second, the perfect life of the sacrifice satisfies the human side of the covenant, so by receiving the righteousness of the sacrifice, the saved person receives the fullness of the promises. (This is referred to as double imputation.)
Part of the difficulty in accepting this may be in not realizing how impossible it is to come even close to loving God with our all (Deuteronomy 6:5) and that all the things we think of as good deeds are filthy rags (Isaiah 64:6).
An attitude of self-satisfaction (which may be behind a belief that one could save oneself) has two issues. It is saying "I am good enough by my standards so I should be (must be) good enough by God's standards"; i.e., God is not any holier than I am. It is also saying "I am just as good as the God-man"; i.e., God is no more capable of saving than I am.
If one came before a great king and offered a heap of used tampons ("filthy rags" in Isaiah 64:6 may have referred to menstrual cloths) as demonstration that one is worthy of a relationship with the king, the king would either think one is insane or intentionally offering an insult ("Here, O King, is a reflection of what I think your majesty is worth--icky rubbish!").
(I realize that much of the above is dealing with the whole of salvation and not solely the just retribution for sin, but I hope this helps anyway.)
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The real question is: why can't you accept to be loved by your Father? Why would it it would enrage me if your father took punishment for you?
You say: "it's completely unfair".Well, yes, it is.
But this is the difference between Grace and Law.
The Law "convinces you of your sins" and tells you what is not good. The Grace enables you to love.
In the old testament the law was leading the relationship with God (Think about Moses and the 10 commandments), and because of the law the man understands he is a sinner.
In the new Testament, Jesus does not abolish the Law, but ponts out that the most important is not only "NOT TO SIN", but to love.
Under Jesus we are asked for something that is simply impossible for us: love as He loved. Think about Mtw 5,28
We need a constant Grace and love by God to 'refine' in some way our humanity, and to be able to really love (who makes us happy).
Accepting we are 'sinners' doesn't mean accepting that we are bad, nasty. It just means to accept we are humans, not perfect, we make mistakes, we have the human Nature which is wonderful and complex (body, intelligence, soul... and we try to keep all together) and we need also God. We are not self-sufficient. It doesn't mean we are stupid: it is part of the game that we receive God's love.
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I've asked a question like this too, in church. I'll explain what they told my and what made me go 'ahhhh ok now I get it.'
Before Jesus died, we had to take care of our own sins. We had to pay for them. How? Read the first 5 books of the bible, which describe the laws given to Moses. Trust me, you do not want to live that way. It is almost impossible to live that way, because you are always doing it wrong or not good enough.
Now Jesus died for us, we are free, we can live because God offered his only son for us. The perfect offer, enough to wash away all sin, for ever and ever.
So the best answer would be in my opinion: You simply can't pay for your own sins. You'd be offering all day and night, and still not be forgiven for everything. God made the choice for you, that you do not want, and have to pay for your own sins anymore. The only thing which remains, is confess your sins, and ask for forgiveness, every day again. This might be hard enough already.
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Also I just want to say that I can see how this may be a pastoral advice question so thanks for the link to the faq's. I am very glad you didn't close it before all of these informed, biblically sound and non argumentative answers. I know the site needs to be monitored and that goes without saying, but I hope you do not jump the gun in closing questions when people are learning, as that seems to be a major point of the website. All the best – Laura Dec 28 '12 at 0:24
@Laura - Hi and welcome to the site! It is a shame your question was closed, unfortunately this site has to choose it purpose and the question had to be closed. People like me just toss something in before it goes down in flames because I believe although the question is being asked at the wrong site, it is still a good question in life :). Cheers. – Mike Dec 28 '12 at 1:21
You're right that a blood offering is needed. In Romans we are told:
For the wages of sin is death (Rom 6:23)
We can pay for our own sins, but the cost is our death and destruction.
The cost of our sin cannot be repaid to God without death. In the old testament that death is the sacrifice of an animal:
‘If he brings a lamb as his sin offering, he is to bring a female without defect. He is to lay his hand on its head and slaughter it for a sin offering at the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered. Then the priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering and pour out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar. (Lev 4, NIV)
The laying on of his hands is a sign that he is sinful, but he is "transfering" his sin to the lamb, and the lamb is slaughtered and its blood poured out. Note also that the lamb must be perfect to allow it to take the mans sin.
Ultimately it points forward to a time when the perfect spotless lamb comes to die:
A perfect substitute must be provided for our sin - no matter how hard we try, we cannot pay our debt without death.
For the other part of your question:
I agree it is completely unfair that we made God die for us so we can live. As a dad though, I kind of get it. I would do anything for my children, including being beaten, imprisoned or die. That's what dad's who love thier children do!
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We can’t reconcile ourselves to God because we have no power to do enough good, or suffer enough harm to equate the scales of justice. God’s justice is infinitely opposed to sin and he will not let sin go unpunished. This simply means were stuck under sin – period, without any wiggle room.
Let’s for example imagine that a person gives their life to the service or the poor and embraces whatever suffering a selfless life would lead, like Mother Teresa; this would not carry any power to appease God’s vindictive justice. Trying to obtain our reconciliation is actually like a drug lord trying to bribe the police.
The gospel is all about God freely forgiving sin by transferring all its guilt onto the Lamb of God. There is no room for any boasting or good works in light of this. If we could reconcile ourselves to God, we would have reason to boast and Christ would not have had to die. We could say I have done this therefore I deserve reconciliation. I can boast. But this is seen as a wicked attitude in the Bible in the light of God's grace, for all boasting is absolutley excluded.
The entire glory of the gospel is that it is unfair, that God unfairly volunteered his own son to pay for our crimes. This is love.
Under the cast of the Biblical notion of sin and our guilt under it, Hitler would have more chances at getting pardon from an international court by reforming his attitudes and helping out his neighbor, after the holocaust, then we could get pardon from God by our own repentance and good deeds.
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Thank you everyone for your responses. I have read them all slowly and did cross reference with my bible the passages which you suggested. It's all definitely food for thought and I'll keep praying about it. – Laura Dec 28 '12 at 0:08
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This article is about the US Navy Lieutenant (junior grade) OF1a . For the equivalent german naval rank, see Oberleutnant zur See.
Lieutenant, Junior Grade Shaina Hayden of the United States Navy, renders a salute in November 2008.
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A U.S. Navy LTJG's insignia.
Lieutenant (junior grade) (LTJG) is a junior commissioned officer rank in the United States Navy, the United States Coast Guard, the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Officer Corps, with the pay grade of O-2.[1][2] The rank is also used in the United States Maritime Service.
Lieutenant, junior grade ranks above ensign and below lieutenant and is equivalent to a first lieutenant in the other uniformed services (the Army, Marine Corps and Air Force) and sub-lieutenant in the Royal Navy and the navies of many Commonwealth countries.
Promotion to LTJG is governed by Department of Defense policies derived from the Defense Officer Personnel Management Act of 1980. DOPMA guidelines suggest all "fully qualified" ensigns should be promoted to LTJG. The time for promotion to LTJG is a minimum of two years after commissioning in the Navy or 18 months in the Coast Guard. Lieutenants, junior grade typically lead petty officers and non-rated personnel, unless assigned to small aircraft or on staff duty. A LTJG's usual shipboard billet is as a Division Officer.
Lieutenant, junior grade is often referred to colloquially as JG ("Jay-Gee"). Prior to March 3, 1883, this rank was known in the Navy as master.[3]
Notable LTJGs[edit]
Fictional LTJGs[edit]
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1. ^ 10 USC 5501. Navy: grades above chief warrant officer, W–5
2. ^ 37 USC 201. Pay grades: assignment to; general rules
3. ^ Mallory, John A. (1914). Compiled Statutes of the United States 1913 1. St. Paul: Wast Publishing Company. p. 1062.
4. ^ U.S. Navy history of LTJG George H. W. Bush
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Cars and the companies that make them are constantly evolving. What car has made the biggest leap forward from being a piece of junk when it came out to being a real peach?
Evolution is interesting to chart in animals, because the change is so slow that it's nearly imperceptible as it's happening. Automakers don't always have that luxury. Sure, a car will evolve during its product cycle with light improvements, but every decade or so there's a massive, time shifting event that suddenly makes the last generation totally obsolete.
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McCann stands up for Maholm, Braves
McCann stands up for Maholm, Braves
McCann stands up for Maholm, Braves
In the end, that's all this was about. Was McCann right to confront Brewers left fielder Carlos Gomez at home plate? Could he have have looked the other way?
Clown questions, bro. McCann was reacting in the heat of the moment. In a situation bubbling with anger and emotion, he did what almost anyone who knows McCann might have expected.
These are tough, resilient, competitive people who've risen to the very highest level of their profession. These are not people who got where they are by backing down from a challenge.
To McCann, this was a matter of respect. For his teammates. For his game. For his home ballpark. And this whole thing captured the meaning of September baseball.
The Braves have been one of baseball's best teams since Opening Day, one of the teams that would surprise absolutely no one by winning the World Series. In a season of high expectations, they've endured injuries and slumps, tests large and small, and still sailed to the National League East championship.
For the Brewers, this has been a season of bitter disappointment. They, too, began the season with optimism and expectations. Nothing has gone right, and they began Wednesday 17 games under .500 and 22 1/2 games out of first place. They're five days away from an offseason filled with uncertainty as their front office tries again to get it right.
Gomez began the day with a grudge. He remembered that Braves starter Paul Maholm had hit him with a pitch on June 23. He believes it was intentional.
"If you see the replay," Gomez said, "they hit me for no reason."
Gomez showed up ready to get even. That much was clear when he stepped into the batter's box against Maholm in the first inning. Gomez almost came out of his shoes swinging at Maholm's first pitch. His reaction announced where this was going. Gomez glared at Maholm, his face lined with tension and anger. And then he jacked Maholm's next pitch out of the park. Gomez stood there and briefly admired it.
When Gomez began to run, he began to talk, too. Loudly. At Maholm. As Gomez rounded first base, still talking, still glaring, Braves first baseman Freddie Freeman did some yelling, too.
And when Gomez rounded third, he kept barking at Maholm. He was so focused on Maholm that he didn't see McCann had moved several feet up the third-base line and straddled it.
Gomez looked toward home plate at the last minute and seemed startled to see McCann there. McCann had raised his mask onto his head as if he was almost taunting Gomez to take a shot. And that's when all hell broke loose in Atlanta.
Gomez and McCann yelled at one another as an umpire tried to get between them. Both dugouts quickly emptied and both players kept jawing. It took three Brewers to get Gomez back to the dugout.
Afterward, Gomez admitted he'd gone too far and said McCann did what he was supposed to do.
The incident will be front and center on talk radio and the blogs Thursday. There'll be people who say this guy was wrong or that one was wrong. Everything will look different in hindsight. People in the heat of the moment -- competitive, fiery people -- don't have the benefit of hindsight. They react.
Maybe the Brewers will think Gomez overreacted. After all, his reaction to something that happened in June set the whole thing off. But there won't be one negative word about McCann in the Atlanta clubhouse.
This is why McCann's teammates love him. In the moment, he went to bat for his teammate, his team and his home ballpark.
This stuff isn't new to the Braves. McCann had words with Marlins rookie Jose Fernandez after the kid hit a home run and took a leisurely stroll around the bases. The Braves and Nationals got into it earlier this season after Bryce Harper was hit by a pitch.
At a time when some of their fans may have wondered if the Braves would be in cruise control after clinching the NL East on Sunday, they appear to have some fight left in them.
McCann left Turner Field before reporters were allowed into the clubhouse. What could he say anyway? McCann did what he thought he was supposed to do. He did what any of us would want a teammate to do.
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According to Wikipedia, CSS is a style sheet language. However, it's pretty much the only such type of language in use (at least from a web developer's perspective).
When trying to categorize CSS as a language or technology (e.g. for a résumé), would it be acceptable to simply call it a domain-specific language? If you don't think it can, why not?
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Funny that you added the programming-languages tag to your question... – BoltClock May 31 '11 at 1:27
I wouldn't hire anyone who put CSS up as a DSL on their resumé, that seems like something weasels would do. – konrad May 31 '11 at 10:47
in common use is the key. There is also XSL:FO that has a similar scope, although much different look/feel. XSL:FO is not nearly as compact as CSS, which explains why there is little or no push for browsers to adopt it. – Berin Loritsch May 31 '11 at 11:35
CSS is a domain specific language, although I wouldn't put DSL on my resume just because I know CSS. The worst thing to do on a resume is to put something you don't know much about, and if you put DSL, the employer might assume you could (or have) actually written your own DSL. – WuHoUnited May 31 '11 at 12:00
I would avoid having to categorize it all together. It's too easy to disagree about these things and you don't want your job application turned down because someone disagrees about this. – Jaap May 31 '11 at 13:51
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To answer the question of whether CSS is a domain specific language, according to Martin Fowler, it is. In fact he lists it among examples of DSLs.
You do have to understand that talk about DSLs has been going on for a while now, and Wikipedia's more narrow definition has come along much later in the discussion. Understand that Wikipedia is edited by peers who may or may not have a full grasp of what has been discussed so far. It's definition covers the most common uses for DSLs, and why you may want to create one of your own. However, it does not have a complete article. The fact that it omits markup languages completely is an omission. Perhaps the smart doctorates came along later and redrew the lines--but from the beginning markup languages were included with DSLs in early conversations.
Classifying CSS on a Resume
While CSS is a DSL, you don't want to list it under a section of DSLs on your resume. The most common way to reference CSS is to lump it with HTML.
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Hmm...after reading these other answers and comments, I'm definitely going to avoid categorizing CSS as a DSL. I'm going to be bothered, though, because I don't agree that CSS is a markup language. – arussell84 May 31 '11 at 15:54
It's a language. It's specific to a domain. If you're going to have a "DSL" list on your resume, I don't see why CSS wouldn't count as one.
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In software development and domain engineering, a domain-specific language (DSL) is a programming language or specification language dedicated to a particular problem domain, a particular problem representation technique, and/or a particular solution technique. [wiki]
CSS is neither programming language nor specification language. CSS does not allow you to express any computations, doesn't have variables, and in fact in current version there are no expressions at all (might change in the future).
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It is a specification language. Computations and variables are the realm of programming, but CSS allows you to specify the style and location of elements in a markup language such as HTML or XML. – Berin Loritsch May 31 '11 at 11:32
@Berin: it's not specification language. It's a data language. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specification_language – vartec May 31 '11 at 11:35
You are saying that CSS is not a specification language because it doesn't compute (a programming language function). That is not correct. – Berin Loritsch May 31 '11 at 11:37
We all know that Wikipedia contains no errors, omissions, or contradictions right? CSS contains a syntax and a grammar. These two things make it a language. It is also pertinent in only one domain, which makes it domain specific. It is used to declare, and specify where things are on the screen and how they are presented. This is a very narrow part of the specification process. You won't be able to do business level specifications with it, but you will be able to do screen layout specifications and use the file in production. Your definition is too narrow and your source is not perfect. – Berin Loritsch May 31 '11 at 14:41
I understand your point, however, I also don't trust your source. You are treating Wikipedia as if it were the Bible. Both articles are incomplete. It's almost as if it doesn't exist on wikipedia it doesn't exist. I could (but won't) go up on both of those articles and edit them to add information or change information. That doesn't necessarily make it true or more accurate. You can do the same. But how about martinfowler.com/bliki/DomainSpecificLanguage.html? – Berin Loritsch May 31 '11 at 14:52
Is it a DSL? Yes.
Should you put it in your resume as such? No!
You're debating it (since you're asking the question here). If you're debating it, or more importantly, if you think a potential employer will debate it, why bother? What's the upside?
Do you believe that an employer will say "I don't like that he puts DSL and CSS in the same context and I'm going to bring him over so he can convince me?" No. You're just making it more likely to have your resume ignored by the employer.
The only upside is that buzzword scanners will find both CSS and DSL in your resume. Meh.
Extra points for résumé though. Instead of resumé or even my lazy resume.
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I disagree that CSS can be called a domain specific language.
Normally with a DSL what you would call the "domain" is a business domain, not a technical domain. A DSL defines keywords and constructs that indicate entities specific to the business. The goal is to make it easy for people who are experts in the business domain to use the DSL.
CSS is a declarative language to define styles for marking up documents in HTML, it does not have anything to do with a specific business domain and can therefore not be called a DSL.
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That's an artificial distinction. It's domain is the presentation of markup. I.e. a representational domain. – Berin Loritsch May 31 '11 at 11:31
@Berin that is not a business domain, but a technical domain. Suppose your business is about insurances. Then a DSL would define entities that are specific to the insurance business. People who are experts at insurances would know how to use the language (without the need to be hard-core programmers). – Jesper May 31 '11 at 11:35
SQL is a DSL, and its realm is not business. – Berin Loritsch May 31 '11 at 11:36
I also would dare to say that CSS is used significantly in the branding of the site, which is a business concern. – Berin Loritsch May 31 '11 at 14:42
@berin-loritsch He means that a DSL is specific to a type of business. Your SQL argument still works, though, if you reword it to something like "SQL is a DSL, but it is not specific to any particular type of business." – arussell84 May 31 '11 at 15:59
It's not a general purpose language, so it's easy to categorize it as a domain-specific language.
At the same time, your question is also about whether it makes sense to place it under a heading of domain-specific languages on your resume. Personally, I don't think it makes sense to do that, since even though CSS is a DSL, it's general technology for people that work on websites and web applications.
If you're applying for a job in web development, I would expect you to know CSS and would expect that in a list detailing your knowledge of important web technologies such as HTML5, Javascript, etc.
There are DSLs that would make sense on the resume of a web developer, such as WebDSL. If you know them, I would mention them as DSL on your resume, because they show that you have knowledge of domain-specific technology in addition to your general technical knowledge. (At the same time, most web development teams focus only on the general technology currently, so it probably wouldn't be of importance anyway, but I mention it here as an example of what would make sense in such a section.)
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After getting a bachelors in Psychology, what do you think of getting a masters of social work in terms of your options for work in the psychology field?
I keep coming back to the conclusion that if i want to do counseling, in a private practice or public agency, that a social work license may be the best way to go and open up broad options.
Do you think this is true?
If you have a masters in social work, how did you find your academic experience and what are you doing with the degree?
From what I know of the field, an MSW and an LMHC do pretty much the same thing and are eligible for the same positions in a lot of states, but social workers have been around longer and have more public visibility. An MSW also gives you more education on how to deal with institutions and bureaucracies and social workers as a group are better at advocating for their profession. There is some state-to-state variation, though; I think there are three states without M.A. licensing for counselors. Social workers do counseling and are just as effective as mental health counselors.
PS: I"m in counseling psychology, so I am not going into either field.
i am planning on going for my masters in counseling psychology as well, what are your plans after you get your degree?
In the United States, at least, there is no such thing as a master's degree in counseling psychology. Counseling psychology is a doctoral degree and "psychology" licensing is only for those who have Ph.D.s. The master's level degree is in just "counseling," although many schools will call it community counseling or mental health counseling, and it leads to licensing as a "counselor" (the LMHC that I mentioned in my first reply). The M.A. in counseling is usually a terminal degree, leading to licensing and work as a counselor in community mental health agencies, private practice, hospitals, etc., but some students do go on to Ph.D. programs, especially if they are interested in research or testing. I wanted to make the distinction that I was not going into social work or master's level counseling so that the OP would know that I am not deeply invested in either profession, because there is sometimes friction between the two.
After I get my Ph.D., I am either going to become a professor or do research and practice at the VA; I haven't decided yet. Have you started looking at counseling programs yet? What type of counseling/population are you most interested in?
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As far as I have seen, psychologists get WAY less training in any of the areas that social workers do aside from where they overlap (therapy). Psychologists make terrible case managers and don't know squat about the "systems" either.
Ultimately, think about the kind of setting in which you want to work. Look for job openings, and see which degree they ask for. Many will accept either L.L.P.'s or MWS's... there are just a few job types where one is obviously preferred.
Do you know if they have L.L.P. licensing in all 50 states? I can't find much about it online.
I know there are some states that don't. Arizona is one, I think California and Oregon don't either. Not sure about others. I know Michigan and Ohio do.
What issues do you see L.L.P.'s treating that social workers don't? From what I have seen, social workers (and LMHCs, since they usually work in the same settings) deal with everything in the DSM and then some. Also, although counseling is typically refers to treating less severe problems in comparison to therapy, in practice, there isn't really a distinction between the two in terms of techniques, and many "counselors" in mental health settings end up "counseling" people with chronic and severe mental health issues. The counseling M.A. programs are actually changing their names to reflect a clinical orientation and are now called "clinical mental health counseling." A lot of counseling M.A. programs also make students eligible for L.L.P. licensing, and clinical psychology M.A. programs often lead to licensure as a mental health counselor.
From what I remember of the APA guidelines, don't L.L.P.'s have to be supervised? I don't know anything about what kinds of testing L.L.P.'s are allowed to do, but I assume it would have to be supervised, because the big distinction between an M.A. and a Ph.D. in any of these fields is extensive training in administering specific psychological tests, which you can't get during a two year M.A. degree.
Also, in most states, counseling psychologists and clinical psychologists get the same license. Some people argue that distinctions between the two fields are fading and that there is a huge degree of overlap. Some people argue that the distinctions are still very important and relevant. I'm on the fence.
PS: To the OP: The MSW is the most recognized/visible master's level degree and would probably be the easiest in terms of moving between states, job eligibility, insurance reimbursement eligibility, etc.
I'm in the same boat as you -- I'm graduating in May with a BA in Psychology and a minor related to social work [Family Violence Prevention], and am aiming to get my MSW.
What I was told by my clinical psychology professor was that if you want to be a counselor or therapist, you should get your MSW. Most PhD programs are very research-oriented rather than practice-oriented. I guess it depends on the school, too, but at mine, you are basically working on research non-stop for higher-up professors.
I think an MSW is a good way to go if you want to work at a non-profit or a public agency. It's only two years and you get a lot of direct practice. Plus, you get educated about issues affecting different populations - I think that's always helpful in any social service work. I think it will open up options if you decide you don't want to work in mental health anymore -- social workers are needed in a lot of areas.
That's not necessarily true. There are a lot of benefits to going Clinical PhD even if you just want to practice, and it's not difficult to find PhD programs that are equal emphasis or even practice-focused.
IAWAP. There are also PsyD programs, which are notoriously practice-focused for the doctorate level.
I got my B.A. in psych and now I'm in an MSW program. I'm really enjoying it but a lot of that has to do with the fact that I'm interested in many areas of social work and not just therapy. There is definitely a lot of overlapping but it deals a lot more with the social aspect also.
My friend went the MSW route and seems to like it so far.
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Samwise Gamgee
Biographical Information
Other namesBanazîr
Birth6 April T.A. 2980
DeathUnknown, after Fo.A. 61
ParentageHamfast Gamgee and Bell Goodchild
Physical Description
Samwise Gamgee (6 April T.A. 2980[note 1] - Fo.A. 61; Shire Reckoning: 1380 - 1482; 102 years old when he sailed into the West) was Frodo Baggins' servant and the only original member of the Fellowship of the Ring to remain with him till the very end of the journey to Mount Doom.
He lived with his father, Hamfast Gamgee, better known as "The Gaffer", on Bagshot Row in the Shire, close to Bag End. Sam's mother was Bell Goodchild; he had five siblings: Hamson, Halfred, Daisy, May, and Marigold.
A gardener by trade, Sam seemed to be a simple Hobbit of plain speech. However, his love for Elves, his gift for poetry, and his belief that the world contains greater wonders than most hobbits are aware of (all nurtured by his tutor Bilbo Baggins) set him apart from the beginning. It was Sam who first introduced the theme of the Elves' sailing from Middle-earth, a subtle foreshadowing of Bilbo and Frodo's final journey across the Sea.
Sam was one of the "Conspirators" who were summoned by Merry Brandybuck in order to watch after Frodo Baggins and the Ring inherited by Bilbo. Being the closest to Frodo, Sam was their "chief investigator" who eavesdropped on his talks with Gandalf the Wizard.[2]
On 13 April, when Gandalf revealed to Frodo that Bilbo's ring is Sauron's One Ring, they noticed Sam eavesdropping. Initially suspected as a spy, Sam feigned innocent curiosity. As "punishment", Sam was made Frodo's first companion on his journey to Rivendell.[3] Sam and Pippin Took followed Frodo to his new house at Crickhollow where his and the Conspirators' role was revealed. Joined by Merry, they passed through the Old Forest, the Barrow Downs and Bree where they were joined by "Strider".
When they reached Rivendell, Sam was beside Frodo's bed while he was recovering from the Morgul-wound he was inflicted on Weathertop. Sam also was eavesdropping on the Council of Elrond and insisted to accompany Frodo on his Quest for the Ring. In Lothlórien, Galadriel gave Sam a box containing earth from her orchard, and also some elven rope.
Sam saved Frodo's life more than once and he accompanied him all the way to Mount Doom. After the Breaking of the Fellowship he followed him down the Emyn Muil to Ithilien.
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After Shelob attacked and seemingly killed Frodo, Sam took the Ring, intending to complete the quest. Because he held the Ring for a time, he is considered one of the Ring-bearers.
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After the War of the Ring, and the Scouring of the Shire, Sam planted saplings in all the places where specially beautiful and beloved trees had been destroyed, and he put a grain of Galadriel's soil at the root of each. He planted a silver nut in the Party Field where the Party Tree had once been, and the nut grew into a Mallorn tree.
He married Rose "Rosie" Cotton. In honor for restoring the Shire his family was given the name Gardner.
They had thirteen children: Elanor the Fair, Frodo, Rose, Merry, Pippin, Goldilocks, Hamfast, Daisy, Primrose, Bilbo, Ruby, Robin, and Tolman. When Frodo sailed on the White Ship, at the end of the Third Age, he was entrusted the Red Book of Westmarch.
After Will Whitfoot resigned his post as Mayor of Michel Delving (the largest town in the Shire and the "unofficial capital"), in Fo.A. 6, Sam was elected Mayor of the Shire for seven consecutive 7-year terms.
After his wife died in Fo.A. 61, Sam entrusted the Red Book to Elanor and left Middle-earth to sail across the Sea and be reunited with Frodo in the Undying Lands.
Samwise means "simple minded" or "half-minded". Gamgee is a corruption of the name Gammidgy, a village in the Shire. Both names are presented as translations of the Westron form of Sam's name Banazîr Galbasi (also spelled Banazîr Galpsi) (q.v. for more information).[4]
Tolkien's English translation, Samwís Gamwich, could have come to Samwise Gamgee in modern English.
The Sindarin version of Samwise is Perhael.
J.R.R. Tolkien took the name from Gamgee Tissue, a surgical dressing invented by a 19th century Birmingham surgeon called Joseph Sampson Gamgee. "Gamgee" became the colloquial name in Birmingham for cotton wool. Here, Tolkien describes why he had chosen that name for his character:
"The choice of Gamgee was primarily directed by alliteration; but I did not invent it. It was caught out of childhood memory, as a comic word or name. It was in fact the name when I was small (in Birmingham) for 'cotton-wool'. (Hence the association of the Gamgees with the Cottons.) I knew nothing of its origin."
The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
It is possible that Tolkien may have subconsciously recalled Dr. Gamgee (who died in 1886 but is commemorated by a plaque at the Birmingham Medical Institute, only yards from Tolkien's childhood home) but he claimed to be genuinely surprised when, in March 1956, he received a letter from one Sam Gamgee, who had heard that his name was in The Lord of the Rings but had not read the book. Tolkien replied on March 18:
"Dear Mr. Gamgee,
It was very kind of you to write. You can imagine my astonishment when I saw your signature! I can only say, for your comfort, I hope, that the 'Sam Gamgee' of my story is a most heroic character, now widely beloved by many readers, even though his origins are rustic. So that perhaps you will not be displeased at the coincidence of the name of this imaginary character of supposedly many centuries ago being the same as yours."
The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien: Letter 184
He proceeded to send Mr Gamgee a signed copy of all three volumes of the book. However, the incident sparked a nagging worry in Tolkien's mind, as he recorded in his journal:
"For some time I lived in fear of receiving a letter signed 'S. Gollum'. That would have been more difficult to deal with."
J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography
Portrayal in adaptations
1955: BBC Radio's The Lord of the Rings:
Victor Platt provided the voice of Sam.
1978: The Lord of the Rings (1978 film):
Michael Scholes was the voice of Sam, and Billy Barty played him in rotoscoped footage.
1979: Mind's Eye's The Lord of the Rings:
The voice of Sam is provided by Lou Bliss.
1980: The Return of the King (1980 film):
Roddy McDowall provided the voice of Sam.
1981: BBC Radio's The Lord of the Rings:
A young William Nighy portrays Sam as a warm and caring person. No dialectical or social difference was made.
1992: Tales from the Perilous Realm:
In the two episodes of "The Adventures of Tom Bombadil", Jonathan Adams portrayed Sam with a very rustic accent.
2002: Vivendi's The Fellowship of the Ring:
Scott Menville provided the voice for Sam in all but the X-box version; there, Cliff Broadway took over. The role of Sam is greatly diminished: after being caught eavesdropping by Gandalf, Sam is to be Frodo's companion, but he does not appear again until Frodo reaches Farmer Maggot.
Sam is played by Sean Astin.
Sam is a playable characters in several missions: escape from Osgiliath, Shelob's Lair, Cirith Ungol and the Crack of Doom.
Samwise only makes a single appearance in the Lothlorien mission.
Unlike most other characters, Frodo and Sam make no appearance in Skirmish battles - they only appear in the storyline campaign.
Sam and other Hobbits are no longer permanent units, they are now a temporary power boost available to Free People forces.
2007: The Lord of the Rings Online:
Samwise is first found in Rivendell, preparing for the departure. Later, he is found on Cerin Amroth in Lothlorien, alongside Frodo. The game's "Guardian" class ("Tank" in MMO terms) is based on Samwise due to the dedication he showed Frodo. This leads to an interesting occurrence: at some point each player gets to talk to a major character, who inspired his class. But while Legolas can teach a lot to a Hunter and Bilbo can show much to a Burglar, Sawmwise insists that he is no Guardian and not fit to be one - because his heroic deeds have not happened yet. The player has to double-check and discovers that whoever talked of Sam as a great Guardian, apparently had misheard the word "Gardener".
Sam Gamgee is by many regarded as the "true hero" of Tolkien's story. Tolkien himself expressed this view in one of his letters: Sam is referred to as the "chief hero", and special emphasis is placed on Sam's "rustic love" for Rosie.[5] The quest to destroy the Ring only succeeds because of Sam, who repeatedly saves Frodo from disaster (such as rescuing him at Cirith Ungol and carrying him up Mount Doom). He was one of three Ring-bearers strong enough to surrender the Ring voluntarily.
The relationship between Frodo and Sam is, in many respects, at the center of The Lord of the Rings. To the modern reader, it seems archaic, as it is extremely class-oriented. Sam's humbleness and "plain speaking" is frequently emphasised in contrast to Frodo's "gentility", and he often shows deference to Frodo, calling him "Mister Frodo" or "Master". At the same time, a strong bond of love and trust grows between them, portrayed most poignantly during the events of Cirith Ungol, where Sam vows to return to his (apparently) dead master, to be reunited with Frodo in death.
Tolkienists regard Sam as Frodo's batman. In the British Army, a batman was an orderly who acted as the personal servant of an officer. It was a role with which Tolkien (who served as an Army officer in the First World War) would have been extremely familiar. Sam undertakes all of the typical roles of a batman — he runs errands for Frodo, he cooks, he transports him (or at least carries him), and he carries his luggage. Tolkien confirmed this interpretation when he wrote in a private letter that:
"My Sam Gamgee is indeed a reflexion of the English soldier, of the privates and batmen I knew in the 1914 war, and recognized as so far superior to myself"
The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
Compare to the relation between Don Quixote and his squire Sancho Panza, and the gradual "Quixotization" of Sancho.
Samwise Gamgee
Gamgee Family
Born: 6 April T.A. 2980 Died: After Fo.A. 61
Preceded by:
Frodo Baggins
13-14 March, T.A. 3019
Followed by:
Frodo Baggins
Members of the Fellowship of the Ring
See also
1. In the second edition of The Lord of the Rings, Sam's year of birth was added to The Tale of Years; it was, however, T.A. 2983. This contradicts both the Longfather Tree of Master Samwise and a later entry in The Tale of Years. The incorrect date has been corrected in the 50th anniversary edition. See also The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion, p. 716.
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Night begins in 1941, when, the narrator of the story, Elie, is twelve years old. Having grown up in a little town called Sighet in Transylvania, Elie is a studious, deeply religious boy with a loving family consisting of his parents and three sisters. One day, Moshe the Beadle, a Jew from Sighet, deported in 1942, with whom Elie had once studied the cabbala, comes back and warns the town of the impending dangers of the German army. No one listens and years pass by. But by 1944, Germans are already in the town of Sighet and they set up ghettos for the Jews. After a while, the Germans begin the deportation of the Jews to the concentration camp in Auschwitz.
The Jews of Sighet are forced into crowded cattle wagons, each car consisting of eighty people. The conditions of the train ride are horrific; they are treated no better than animals. A woman named Madame Schachter starts to go mad. She yells, "Fire! I can see a fire!" (Chapter 2, pg. 22) Periodically, throughout the train ride, she yells about fire, flames, and the furnace. At first, the others try to quiet her. When that does not work, they merely ignore her. When the train arrives at its destination, they are at Birkenau, the reception center for Auschwitz. The air smells of burning flesh.
At Birkenau, Elie is separated from his mother and sisters. Realizing the importance of being together, Elie and his father lie about their age. As they prepare to enter the camp, they see a ditch where babies are thrown into a burning flame. Elie cannot imagine that this is actually happening. It feels like a nightmare that he can never forget. The male Jews are shaved, showered, and given work clothes. After a long march, they enter Auschwitz, where Elie becomes number A-7713. After a brief stay at Auschwitz, they are moved to a new camp, Buna.
At Buna, Elie goes through the dehumanizing process of the concentration camps. Both he and his father experience severe beatings at the hand of the kapos (overseers). In one instance, Elie receives twenty-five strokes of the whip from Idek the Kapo for walking in on him while he is with a girl. All the prisoners are overworked and undernourished. Many lose faith in God, including Elie. He witnesses several hangings, one of a boy with an angelic face, and sees him struggle for over thirty minutes fighting for his life. To a stranger's cry of "Where is God now?" Elie answers: "He is hanging here on this gallows...." Chapter 4, pg. 62
Elie and his father manage to survive through the selection process, where the unfit are condemned to the crematory. Elie suffers from a foot injury that places him in a hospital. After the surgery, the Germans decide to relocate the prisoners because of the advancement of the Russian army. The prisoners begin a long trek in the dead of winter. Many do not make it. Elie and his father support each other through the grueling march.
The march leads to a train ride where Elie witnesses a boy kill his father for a morsel of bread. Elie is horrified at the very thought, but he realizes that he too has become callous-that he is beginning to care only about his own survival. By the end of the winter trek to Buchenwald, out of a hundred prisoners, only a dozen survive, including Elie and his father.
Although Elie's father survives the trip, he later falls ill. Elie witnesses the slow deterioration of his father's health and his eventual death. At Buchenweld, the Germans try in desperation to exterminate all the remaining Jews. But by this time, the Germans are close to defeat. Before the Germans can carry out Hitler's plan to exterminate the Jews, there is a successful uprising in the camp by the resistance. On April 11, 1945, American tanks arrive at Buchenweld. As Elie recuperates in a hospital, he looks into a mirror and sees a corpse gaze back at him.
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Interview With ALF Cell Member
Transcript Of <b>Ed Bradley's</b> Interview With An ALF Cell Member
In researching our story 'Burning Rage' about environmental and animal-rights extremists, we attempted to reach out to active members of the Earth Liberation Front (ELF) and the Animal Liberation Front (ALF).
These people aren't easy to find. Members of these groups have been involved in illegal activities like arson, breaking and entering, and sabotage. "Eco-terrorists", as they are known, have been branded by the FBI as America's top domestic terrorist threat.
On September 30th, 2005, 60 Minutes producer Graham Messick received a telephone call from a man claiming to be an active member of an ALF cell. The voice at the other end was barely audible. The reason, the caller said, was because the call was being "re-routed" to prevent it from being traced.
The caller said he had heard we had interviewed Dr. Jerry Vlasak, a spokesperson for several radical animal rights groups, who has publicly advocated the assassination of researchers to slow down what he believes is the abuse of animals. The caller wanted us to know that the Animal Liberation Front was a non-violent organization, that targeted property, not people.
After some discussion, the caller said he would consider granting an on camera interview, the group's first in over 20 years according to him, if we could protect his anonymity. The man wanted to discuss this with other members of his ALF cell, and said he would call back in about a week.
We had no way to ascertain where the man was calling from or if he was who he claimed to be. In fact, throughout this process we have never learned any names, phone numbers, or any other personal information about these purported ALF members.
A week later, there was a second barely audible telephone call. The caller suggested we conduct an interview in a neutral place and mentioned Mexico. We discussed a possible interview in New York City. We told him he would need to provide details of an ALF action that only the perpetrators would know. The man said he would consider this, and would call back in another week. He didn't.
But on Tuesday, October 18th, the man called a third time. This time the voice was loud and clear. Traffic could be heard in the background, indicating to the producer that he was calling from a pay phone. The caller said "they" were in New York City and were ready to grant an interview. Right now. He also insisted that we not record his voice. Reluctantly, we agreed to film the interview, transcribe it on paper, and make no audio recording of the man's voice.
We agreed that correspondent Ed Bradley would be ready for an on-camera interview in a neutral location -- a place with no security cameras on the street -- between 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. that night, and that they could meet us there if they decided to go ahead. We had no way of knowing if they would show up, and no way of reaching them.
At 7:45 p.m., two masked men -- whose faces we never saw -- arrived. One man never talked. His job was to make absolutely sure we did not record any audio of the interview. The other man sat for the interview, which we filmed. The following interview transcript is taken from notes that were taken by producer Graham Messick and associate producer Michael Karzis:
ED BRADLEY: Lets begin by asking, who do you represent? Are you ALF, ELF, or some variation or splinter group?
ALF CELL LEADER: We're representative of an autonomous ALF cell, the animal liberation front… I can't sit here and be a voice for every ALF cell. But I can represent at least one cell.
BRADLEY: How many people are in your cell?
ALF CELL LEADER: It varies. I can't go into details.
BRADLEY: Do you know people in other cells?
ALF CELL LEADER: I can't go into that.
BRADLEY: Do the cells communicate with each other?
ALF CELL LEADER: Cells operate autonomously from each other and don't want to know the other people. I don't really want to know the people in other cells, and I don't want people in the other cells to know who's in my cell.
BRADLEY: So you can't make a direct contact between your cell and another cell?
ALF CELL LEADER: There's a one-way method of communication that's from the cell to the public only…. There's no reason to communicate with any other cell.
BRADLEY: Have you or anyone else in ALF ever given an interview before?
ALF CELL LEADER: The last interview given like this was in the 80's… There's never been an interview given like this before.
BRADLEY: So why do it now? Why take the risk of coming here and to talk to us on 60 Minutes.
ALF CELL LEADER: It's a big risk. Everything we do, we look at the benefits versus the adverse consequences. We don't believe there's an accurate representation of who [we are] and what we do.
BRADLEY: Who are you and what do you do?
ALF CELL LEADER: The ALF is an underground movement that engages in things ranging from economic sabotage… documenting animal abuse.... Part of the reason we do what we do is to show the public what goes on behind closed doors. If people could see what goes on behind those doors, they would be outraged…
BRADLEY: What goes on behind closed doors?
ALF CELL LEADER: We live in a society that is founded on exploitation of life, whether it's in a lab or a factory farm. Animals feel the same pain, the same emotions as you or I… I can't endure their suffering.
BRADLEY: Under that mask, who are you? If someone was to look at you, would seem to be an otherwise normal law abiding citizen?
ALF CELL LEADER: We're all normal people. We're just people who said enough is enough. I'm a normal person and I have a normal life… We just believe that to continue to turn our backs on what happens to animals is to be an accomplice to that exploitation and to be a part of it…
BRADLEY: Most people watching would say that most normal people don't burn down research labs.
ALF CELL LEADER: Most normal people would find it unacceptable to see animals have the skin burned off them while they're alive…to see primates that share the same DNA as humans, cut open while they are still alive day in and day out. I challenge anyone who sees this to go to a farm or a lab to see what happens. I challenge people to look at those videos. If you want to know why we do what we do it's as simple as watching those videos.
BRADLEY: Do your friends and families know anything about what you do?
ALF CELL LEADER: No idea. None whatsoever
BRADLEY: Then, how can you speak for the movement if you're just one cell in this movement and the cells don't communicate directly with each other?
ALF CELL LEADER: I'm not a spokesperson for the movement. I'm one person in the movement, one person expressing the movement. No one person can speak for the whole movement. I can speak for ALF in broad general terms. The ALF guidelines speak for themselves.
BRADLEY: Have you been involved in "direct actions?"
ALF CELL LEADER: I have. I won't go into specifics. I would like to go into specifics. But since we are America's number one domestic terrorist threat, it isn't worth it. I can speak generally, but I will provide proof of who I say I am.
BRADLEY: Generally, without naming specific events, what have you done?
ALF CELL LEADER: We've liberated animals in labs, from fur farms, breeders… destroyed property.
BRADLEY: Destruction of property? Arson?
ALF CELL LEADER: I can't be specific.
BRADLEY: How did you destroy property? Arson you wouldn't admit to?
ALF CELL LEADER: I can destroy property by throwing a brick. But telling somebody what I did, like an arson, what would I benefit from a sentence of 80 years behind bars?
BRADLEY: I'm just trying to get at what it is that you do? I mean… if you picket in front of somebody's house that's one thing. If you burn down a lab that's another thing.
ALF CELL LEADER: I can say that I support arson generally. We support arson. Extreme times call for extreme measures. We don't choose our methods. If picketing worked, I'd be first one out there. If writing letters worked then I'd be writing letters until my hand fell off. But it doesn't work… the status quo is exploitation of life.
BRADLEY: Do you consider arson "non-violent?"
ALF CELL LEADER: I don't look at it as being violent or non-violent. Many people think you cannot commit a violent act against a piece of property. The debate goes on and on. The question should be how violent is it to rip the skin off a mink's back, anally electrocuting a fox, that's violent. To equate destroying property with killing is something I don't understand.
BRADLEY: But why take the risk of going to prison?
ALF CELL LEADER: I think it's a risk worth taking. I've been to hell, and I've seen what goes on in those labs, and seen what happens to animals. After seeing that I cannot, not act.
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User avatar #72 - nwmirite (07/22/2012) [-]
Seriously? This was on the front page like 2 days ago..
User avatar #102 to #72 - YourLordAndMaster (07/23/2012) [-]
Well sorry, I posted the three parts in comments the other day then decided to put them all together to post them, I didn't know it had been posted.
User avatar #74 to #72 - UlquiorraCifer (07/22/2012) [-]
only the last half, i'm happy that someone did post the entire thing
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I know an American girl.
I’ve known an American girl for a while but I’ve only just begun to meet her.
She has a lot to learn but so do I.
Through mutual love of all things written were try to understand the things we cannot put down.
She says you’re so cool and I say she’s needs to smile more.
I know an American girl.
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Silvio Berlusconi and the press
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carl byron rodgers
Dear Yako66,
I respect your opinion.
I do not except the reference to Hitler, as these kind of loaded words are at best irrelevant at worst extreme, the very kind of extremism (loaded words and rhetoric)used by opposition groups and trade unions that led to the death of Biagi or D'Antona.
Think about it.
Berlusconi's visit to Obama in the States was depicted as a triumph for Berlusconi by most of the media (TV and press) in Italy. Here is a sober analysis.IL Sole-24Ore has a translation of this article on its website.
US and EU focus on Italian PM’s performance
By James Blitz in London
Published: June 24 2009 22:49 | Last updated: June 24 2009 22:49
Silvio Berlusconi’s image will have been badly damaged by the spate of stories over his alleged links with models and starlets. But for western governments, the critical question is not what the Italian prime minister does in his private life but whether he can help solve the pressing problems facing the US and European Union.
For the Obama administration in the US, Mr Berlusconi is a leader with whom some business has to be done. Italy, unlike some states in the Nato alliance, firmly supports the international mission in Afghanistan and has no intention of withdrawing its 2,350 troops. Mr Berlusconi has also became one of the first EU leaders to pledge his country will take inmates from the Guantánamo Bay detention centre. But president Barack Obama is clearly far less keen on Mr Berlusconi than George W. Bush, his predecessor, was.
Mr Berlusconi’s declining influence is not entirely his fault. “The fundamental shift in Europe in the last two years is that France and Germany now have very pro-US governments,” says one western diplomat. “That means Italy matters less to the White House.”
However, some of Mr Berlusconi’s actions have made him a difficult ally. One issue, say western officials, is Mr Berlusconi’s decision to sign a deal with Russia to speed up the new South Stream gas link to Europe. Russia is building the link in competition with the western-backed Nabucco pipeline, which aims to bring gas from Central Asia and the Caspian to Europe and ease dependence on Russian gas. “Berlusconi’s support for [Russian premier Vladimir] Putin on this is causing a lot of anger in Washington and Brussels,” an EU diplomat said.
Italy also infuriated Britain this year by trying to establish a diplomatic dialogue with Iran.
Mr Berlusconi’s next big challenge is July’s G8 summit in L’Aquila, with his decision to greet leaders in a city recently hit by an earthquake causing nervousness in world capitals.
We now know that Berlusconi invites models, escorts, show girls in his official and private residences. In my opinion he has a low opinion of women: they are play things or just sex simbols.If he thought otherwise he would NOT continue to make such jokes as he does about women in public. He has now accused Parrizia D'Addario of being paid a handsome sum for her story. And she in turn has challenged to produce proof. She and her friend have confrimed the story of the parities in Berlusconi's official residence. Photos also have been published of the jewellery given by Berlusconi and of the bathroom in the official residence. Photos of topless girls in Berlusconi's villa in Sardegna have been published. There can be no smoke without fire! So please give me and others the benefit of doubt.
Moreover,we know for a fact that he retracts his statements every other day. If he were really serious he would have given his interview to a more independent journal than the most popular GOSSIP journal than "Chi" which is part of his media empire.
Yes, I will never understand the "TRUST he has with his peolple" as you put it. If there is any justice in life then we shall see.
Food for thought.
Italy: Berlusconi's way
* Editorial
* The Guardian, Tuesday 23 June 2009
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If a contest was to be held to choose Europe's most sexist politician, Silvio Berlusconi would undoubtedly win. It was Berlusconi who said that the Spanish cabinet, with its equal number of male and female ministers, was "too pink". It was Berlusconi who said there were not enough soldiers in the army to prevent rapes, because Italian women were too beautiful, and who suggested that foreign firms should establish themselves in Italy because Italian secretaries were the most attractive in the world.
And, if it is objected that these were only words - harmless fun, in the president's own estimation - his behaviour toward the women in his own life has also been much criticised, not least by his wife. So it is fitting that a growing scandal concerning a series of beautiful women should be a cause of embarrassment, and perhaps of more than embarrassment, for a leader who had hoped at this moment to be concentrating on his statesman's duties as host of the G8 summit next month. When his wife announced her intention to divorce him because, among other reasons, of his relationship with the 18-year-old model Noemi Letizia, Berlusconi went into his standard escape and evade pattern - alternating dismissive jokes with attacks on the press while refusing to answer any questions - it seemed for a while as if he would get away with it. Now a new set of allegations has surfaced, concerning the attendance of other young women at lavish parties held at Berlusconi's villa. This seems more like dotage than dalliance.
His attitude to women is only one among the constellation of reasons why Italians should not have three times voted Berlusconi into power. His refusal to recognise any conflict between his business and media interests and his political position, his attacks on parliament and the judiciary, his use of his majority to give himself immunity against prosecution, his failure to act against organised crime, his economic mismanagement and the illiberal reforms he is planning would all compete for the top position.
But Berlusconi's success, sadly, is a product rather than a cause of the collapse of Italy's political system, a collapse which has fatally weakened both left and centre, leaving the field free for opportunists and xenophobes. It is a tragedy that the "mani pulite" judicial investigations into political corruption which seemed to promise a grand renewal of Italian politics in the early 90s have led Italy to this pass. Berlusconi's promise in the elections earlier this year - that he would bring Italy stability - means not much more than that Italy and the rest of Europe will have to endure him for quite a while longer.
@ Il Mango di Treviso
You seem to hold a mix of delusions of grandeur "I was last night at a reception with foreign dignitaries..." and vulgarity "Ma cosa vuol dire????" [I can imagine you gesticulating]- rather like the crowd in government.
Whilst on the subject that you mix with foreign dignaitaries, perhaps you're in on the joke where Italian diplomats- not least those at La Farnesina- are left to clear the mess of the gaffes and "slips of the tounge" that people like Berlusconi, Calderoli and all of those other quality ministers make. But then when one hob-knobs which such people, rather like a cuckold husband, you're the last to know of the jokes made about you.
To Mr De Santis:
I really wanted to stay out of this debate from today on, but your comments are just too appaling! You said:
"Gianna 1954 belong to the kind of Italians who are not Italians.You do not find in other counties people spitting on their Land like those typically Italian communists."
Then I probably belong to the same group of people, not that I care which box you decide I belong to. But to say: "Berlusconi lied? To lie to Bolshevics intruded into Justice is a RIGHT,A DUTY,A PLEASURE." is just ignorant and unjust. A prime minister should be honest - end of! It is people like you, who thinks that certain individuals have special privileges, that are ruining the italian dream of a real democracy. It is of people like you that I dream Italy will rid itself one day.
Ma dai Valeriana...of course I knew about Veronica Lario's affair but quite frankly I couldn't care less. She is not a prime minister and I don't care what she does! Simple as that. I wouldn't care about Mr Berlusconi's sexual life if he wasn't the person in charge of Italy. I am not adding comments to this website for the sole purpose of going against one person, but I've had enough of Berlusconi's abuse of power and I want justice. I'm just trying to explain to you my point of view and the reasons behind it, but it seems to me that you are 'climbing mirrors' as we say in Italy. None of the arguments you have arised on this subject (and I have been following from day 1) have any substance in my opinion and the latest (on Ms Lario) is just the final straw. You are now resorting to Mr Berlusconi's wife in order to defend the premier. Give me a break!
To Girolamo:
Firstly, Berlusconi is accused, amongst other things, of using public money for personal purposes and tax evasion. As I said, if he was innocent he would go to court instead of protecting himself with self-made legislation and he would be jailed if found guilty, just as anyone else. This process is part of something called democracy.
Secondly: I know Italy is mainly catholic. This is one of the reasons why I left the country many years ago. However, even the catholic church is now contesting Mr Berlusconi's moral values and recently deemed them unacceptable.
Thirdly: I find your comments and judgement on protestants highly inappropriate, offensive and out of place. Religion is a personal choice and your comment shows your bigotry.
To Valeriana:
The fact that, thanks to Travaglio the world always had a negative impression about Berlusconi is, to me as it is for many people, a good thing. I think we will have to agree to disagree on this. And about Berlusconi's gaffes: NO ONE could have ignored them as they were made at official meetings. They show how unfit he is to hold his position and the fact that you wish they went unnoticed shows that you, too, would prefer to cover up the premier's shameful behaviour.
As predicted last night TG1 gave quite a few minutes to the interview Berlusconi gave to "chi" the very popular GOSSIP journal in Italy and owned by him. And it gave more time to the reaction of the Berlusconi Government ministers and representatives to the article in Famiglia Cristiana than what the editor of that journal actually said about Berlusconi's behaviour as the prime minister of Italy.It is evident that the Direttore of TG1 is in the pocket of the Berlusconi government. I have for one decided to boycott TG1 from today until there is a more independent and "truth loving" Direttore.
Prime minister: “I have never paid a woman. If I’d known she was an escort, I’d have chased her away at once”
Why should one believe the above statement any more than what Patrizia D'Addario declared about her encounters with him? In fact we all know that Berlusoni retracts his own declarations every other day. And Patrizia D'Addario has not retracted what she has stated. In fact she has challenged him to produce proof.
@Girolamo, Santoro is not the Direttore responsible for the transmission of the daily news for TG1. He conducts only one programme called Anno Zero weekly certain times of the year. In fact he does a great service to the public by exposing social injustice, non respect of existing laws, corruption and excesses of politicians. He regularly invites Ghedini, the Deputy and the advocate of Berlusconi to his programme. He is also very critical of PD and its lack of leadership. If you have not seen the recent programme on the road transporters in Italy I urge you to see it. Did you know that more people die on the roads because of the accidents caused by the transporters (cammionisti) than deaths at work? And these deaths are caused mainly because the transporters do not respect laws and there are not enough checks and there are corrupt practices. The public/ voters have the right to know of such deaths and malpractices.So long live Santoro!You would never find such an investigation on the Mediset TV channels.
Secondly, I never argued that the Barigate episode should be in the headlines. However, when compared with news about certain murders of unknown people etc. Barigate is of national importance.
The way the news items are manipulated today in RAI is an ample proof of the lack of freedom of media in Italy. Thank goodness there is BBC, The Economist, the Financial Times and other international press.
@ Fedy
Valeriana has been pushing the propaganda for weeks. At this point it seems to play on "devil's advocate" since the positions are untenable and ridiculuous (just go through all of the past postings), although benign compared to some of the more nasty, incoherent stuff posted here. It's a wind up for which I wouldn't take seriously.
@ stefano de santis
!$*%??? Don't know what's your point, but you convinced me.
@ Valeriana
Your doing a great job of "advocatus diaboli" ;-)
I am compelled to raise another semantic problem. Western newspapers attack Mr. Berlusconi who is just a man. Mr. B.'s fans mantain they are attacking Italy's honour. Technically a man cannot be a party, he cannot as well be a nation, otherwise sentences like "Rome is the capital of Berlusconi" or "Berlusconi has approximately 60 millions inhabitants" would be meaningful ones
So the italian ambassadors complaining for a “systematic campaign of demolition of Italy’s image” are saying something without any sense.
When Italian newspapers reported about the recent crisis of the UK government forthe accessive expenses reimbursements, the English ambassadors did not protest for any “systematic campaign of demolition of UK's image.”
I was surprised that Mr. Frattini, a potentially excellent Foreign Minister unfortunately perpetually bypassed by his prime minister, had ordered such an absurd action. Also because in a democratic country the Government normally cannot intervene on what is printed by national newspapers without violating some essential democratic rule.
Just URSS, in Nazist Germany, in Fascist Italy this could have happened.
The majority of Italians voted him in power. I hope they enjoy him:
about powerful people and how to deal with them, read Machiavelli's History of Florence.
Here are my answers:
1) 1994 Occhetto vs Berlusconi
Do you know Occhetto background?
Answer: Yes, and I also know about Berlusconi, Craxi and P2
2a) Villa Certosa = shame on who sent that photographer (not a freelance!) who found nothing.
2b)The Bari scandal = I think programs with some morals are ashamed of even repeating that SB is involved with such things.
Answer: So you want to shoot the messenger when you hear the message? SB should be ashamed for his sleazy, immoral activities, not the photographer.
"Your are very gullible."
Answer: Not gullible enough to believe you, fortunately.
Looks like the Berlusconi fans on this thread should stick to unsubstantiated slagging off of imaginary communists, rewriting history and nurturing their feeble-minded conspiracy theories.
When they actually have to come up with verifiable facts (not just propaganda, assertion and hearsay), they fail miserably.
Nothing new: the Economist along with most of the foreign press is as blind as the Italian opposition is. Berlusconi has been elected till 2013 and if the opposition persists in its unconvincing message he will be democratically re-elected till 2018...He is there because of the utter incompetence of the opposition. Until that does not change, you might as well get used to Berlusconi being Prime Minister.
The italian instinct is just inherent with too many corruption imbroglios, they just can't' get it right no matter who is in power, one is just worse than the other, so far, I see it as Berlusconi being the better than the previous ministers. It has over 300 protective laws with 1000 loop-holes in it's government, etc. They created their own government to have such conditions, when they formed the latest constitution and being Italians, do you really believe they establish protection laws so that others would have more difficulty to corrupt? No, they created it so that corruption is a prime factor in their government/laws, etc. An "inherent" rip-off artist sitting at a conference table enacting new laws certainly is not going to make laws so that he himself can not be it with's my opinion as I see them, so I hope this is not taken as some kind of slur!! I don't mean it as offense, but factual internet instincts of them.
Bonaiuti letter starts well, but ends ridicolous.
the third point is the least unfortunate:
about the final point, we should read the laws about privacy, but I think that as far as the faces of the guests are hidden their privacy is not at risk, moreover many of the guests were 'public figures', artists and showgirls.
On this last point, I would also congratulate with Bonaiuti for reading the Italian Constitution, albeit selectively.
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The new narrative about the BIG and the SEC.
painterlad's picture
December 5, 2012 at 2:09p
While driving about town today, I listened to an ESPN radio host describe the transition from the Big Ten to the SEC. (I won’t mention who it was, but his last name rhymes with “cow turd.”) This person described Wisconsin as, right now, the best program in the BIG while Arkansas is the 6th best program in the SEC. The obvious inference is that the very best of the Big Ten is a middle-of-the-road SEC team.
Andy Staples, a huge SEC homer at, made the same point on his page. How embarrassing, he wrote, that the very best of the BIG was, at best, average in the SEC, and how much that says about how bad everyone in the BIG is. (To be fair, Staples would make the same statement about any other conference.)
Before I even begin to destroy the concept of Wisconsin being on top, let me ask this one simple question: Where was this when Meyer left Florida for Ohio State? True, Meyer had one year removed from the sidelines, but does anyone think that he wouldn’t have taken the job if he was still coaching at Florida? Of course he would, but that narrative doesn’t make money for the ESPN/SEC machine.
Ohio State is a stepping stone for no one. It is a destination job, period. Even the greatest football coach in history (Paul Brown) wanted to come back after his stint in the Navy but was declined by the university. No one has left for another job. Some got other jobs, but only after they were fired.
But back to the concept of Wisconsin being the best program in the Big Ten.
Put down the crack pipe and go out and get some fresh air.
I think people who don’t really follow the Big Ten look at how this Rose Bowl will be three in a row for the Badgers and conclude that Wisconsin is best. Using that logic, if Kentucky were to win three straight SEC titles, they would be the best program in the SEC?? Of course they wouldn’t!
Wisconsin went to the Rose Bowl in ’10 because they tied with Ohio State and got the nod due to tie breaker. (Ohio State went to the Sugar and beat Arkansas, BTW.) Wisconsin went last year, even though they lost to OSU in a year when no one lost to the Bucks and when they had a QB that is now starring in the NFL. And this year? They lost once again to OSU and finished third in their division. And this makes them the best because…?
Listen, if you work for ESPN, I get it. ESPN has decided to become the World Wide Leader in Regional College Football and to get along you have to go along. No one moves up the ladder at ESPN by promoting the Big Ten (cough-cough-Herbie-cough) and most people want to make the big bucks where they work. Do what it takes, man.
But don’t pretend that a) Wisconsin can beat the best programs in the BIG on a regular basis and b) Bielema left for any reason other than money. The SEC pays its players, er, coaches more than most, especially their assistant coaches. Wisconsin is about the 4th or 5th best program in the conference and there is one easy way to prove it:
Ohio State, Michigan, Nebraska, Penn St. and Wisconsin all have head coaching job openings. Which program does that top shelf coach pick?
That’s what I thought.
DarthSweaterVest's picture
Your ideas intrigue me and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter or pamphlet
Unky Buck's picture
This is pretty much on par with what I've written on this site and talked about with various friends over the last day. Coaches like Bielema are a dime a dozen. Play good competition and he falters. Play poor competition and he looks amazing. Unfortunately most of the B1G has been piss poor for the last few years so his record appears to be better than what it really is. When he has a combined record (between B1G play and the bowl teams since most have been the SEC or Pac 12) of 18-22 against opponents not named Minnesota, Indiana, Purdue, and Illinois since he started coaching at Wisconsin then I'm going to say he's a pretty average to below average at best coach. To say the best team in the B1G lost a coach is a joke.
It's easy for them to say "Well, they won the B1G Championship so they are clearly the best team" because it fits their argument, even though they have a 9-4 record and finished 3rd in a division behind 2 teams with nothing to play for. These guys are going to end up saying things like this regardless. It feeds the haters and it keeps us listening. I usually try and steer clear of these types of rants because us b*tching about it won't change anything and makes us look like complainers, but I felt compelled to chime in on this one at least. He can move on and Arkansas can disappear into obscurity. Maybe this will be the first of a few bad hires in the SEC that start bringing that behemoth can hope at least.
btalbert25's picture
It's pretty transparent to see what they are doing right now. The SEC is king right now, they have good teams, passionate fans, keep winning titles etc. So, when Cowherd goes on the air with something this ridiculous he knows he's trolling. He's going to get emails and calls of outrage from B1G fans, and he'll get support from the SEC crowd. He's basically the Glen Beck or John Stewart of sports. Facts don't concern these kind of personalities, because their job isn't about facts, it's about ratings.
Scott Van Pelt put it best. He said we get beat up for talking about the SEC all the time, and maybe it does get over the top, but all I can say to other fans is, BEAT THEM. BEAT THEM AND EVERYONE SHUTS UP. Fast forward 5 or 6 years. Meyer and the Buckeyes are playing elite football, Michigan is back. Wisconsin makes a good hire and can beat teams with a pulse. Purdue with Hazell is on the rise. Boeckman has Illinois playing well. Iowa will be due for another good run at that point as they seem to have a couple good years every 5 or so. The B1G has a couple of titles under their belt and they are winning lots of bowl games an non conference matchups. GUESS who ESPN is going to be trumpeting then.
ESPN doesn't have an SEC agenda, they have a ratings agenda, and the SEC's success right now gives them ratings. The myth, though is that ESPN is only heavily invested in the SEC. Couldn't be further from the truth. Look up all the major conferences and see how their TV deals look. ESPN is HEAVILY invested in college football Period. They have billion dollar deals with all the conferences. They just know playing the 2 biggest against eachother creates ratings, and money.
Alhan's picture
He's basically the Glen Beck or John Stewart of sports.
That is the best description of Cowherd that I have ever heard! Nice one BT.
I agree with you that the SEC getting so much attention can be cured by someone else winning. It will happen one of these days, right?
"Nom nom nom" - Brady Hoke
btalbert25's picture
Honestly, I think he'd admit to that himself too. He pretty much says the reason he talks about certain teams or leagues is because they are relevant nationwide. Then he makes fun of the people who are always outraged at everything he says. If anything, he's more honest about the character he plays than the other guys I mentioned.
45OH4IO's picture
Hahaha. I love the optimism! 5 years from now I will be pooping rainbow sherbert. Everyone will own a flying car. 0 calorie bacon will be on the market. And they will make beer that cops can't detect. Chuck Norris will be president.
Seriously though. The only way the B1G will have a couple titles is if Urban and tOSU are doing the title-winning. Which I hope will be awesome and true!
btalbert25's picture
That's basically what I'm getting at. 2013 and 2014 look to be pretty promising years, though I doubt back to back will happen, I think there's a good shot at getting on in those 2 years, and who knows, maybe 2016 with Drew Barker at QB.
All it takes is one power to be winning though, and it's not too crazy to think Michigan, Nebraska, and Wisconsin could end up 2 or 3 loss teams every year. Then if you throw in Purdue, Northwestern, Iowa, and Illinois as "middle teams" you have essentially what the SEC is now. A really good top of the conference with a better 2nd tier than everyone else and a 3 or 4 dogshit teams at the bottom.
ODEEZ330's picture
the only thing i would say to that if i were an sec fan is the B1G would have one team winning it in youre scenario(ohio st) while the sec had alabam, lsu, fla auburn during their "run".
SEC 4 B1G 1.
stark county football
USMC11917's picture
You might be right but even when USC was the only show in town in the Pac 10 that did not diminish the love they received from ESPN. They never failed to receive credit for their accomplishments. SEC fans can complain about our conference all they want as long as they are paying homage to the best in it. Go Bucks!
No way OSU is a middle of the road SEC team and no way Wisconsin is the best in the B1G. The Buckeyes may not win it every year but they'd do well in it and certainly wouldnt back down from anyone. ESPIN and SI need to keep in mind that Wisconsin's 3-year Rose Bowl run, for the most part, may never happen again. So they've hit their ceiling. OSU, even as successful as it was under Tressel, has not reached its ceiling yet even after a 12-0 season. Coach Meyer will make sure of that.
Buckeye1036's picture
The media loves to harp on the fact that Wisconsin is going to the Rose Bowl for the third straight time. They love even more to ignore the fact that this third trip is based on technicalities. They're the Leaders Division Champs** and the B1G Champs**. One asterisk after each title for each school within the division that was unable to go to the B1G championship game because of post season bans. Look at the conference records too. Wisconsin (4-4) is 6th behind Ohio State (8-0), Nebraska (7-1), TTUN (6-2), Penn State (6-2), and Northwestern (5-3).
tennbuckeye19's picture
There are 2 ways you could look at this. If you look at schools in terms of which has had the most success in the last 3 or so seasons, Wisky would be right up there at the top in the B1G. BUT, if you are asking if Wisky is one of the best jobs in the B1G, I'd say it's probably the 4th or 5th top jobs in the league.
Arkansas IMO is probably the 6th or 7th best SEC job. (And yes, I am ranking Auburn and Tennessee above Arkansas.)
D. Anthony's picture
Wisconsin is the best job in the Big 10 if you don't count. Ohio St., Mich, Penn. St, Nebraska...only an idiot puts Wisc ahead of these traditional powers. (Penn St is the the only one you can even debate, temporarily due to their issues)... has anyone ever heard of Wisconsin being on any coaches out-clause? It's well known that top coaches like Urban, Stoops, Miles and many others over the years have had out clauses for OSU, Mich, Penn St...never heard of any coach asking for a Wiscy out clause. I'm sure there are some in a MAC or Sunbelt coaches contract somewhere.
D. Anthony
TheHumbleBuckeye's picture
If it's a better job, then why the pay raise? If it's truly that much better, would he not have taken it for about the same amount of money?
Poison nuts's picture
Ahhhe - I see...I had to think about that one for a minute though. But in college football, "better job" often equates to more pressure & higher expectations which then justify a larger salary.
Regardless, I don't believe Arkansas is a better job than Wiscy. Actually they're quite similar to one another. Bert leaving for the SEC, to me, has more to do with money & fearing that things would only be downhill for him in the B1G after this year, where things can only get better at Arkansas. In short, he ran from Urban. And although, he'll have to deal with Miles & Saban now, that probably doesn't bother him because when he loses to them, it will have been expected.
USMC11917's picture
I think you are better off asking Bobby Knight.
d5k's picture
There is a huge difference between best football team and best football job. He was up against a glass ceiling at Wisconsin and caught lightning in a bottle with Russell Wilson and should've actually accomplished more. There are 7 or 8 sec jobs better than Wisconsin but it is pure hyperbole to call Wisconsin better than the 4th best job. It is closer to Illinois and Michigan State than it is OSU by far.
Wiscy : OSU :: Arkansas : Alabama
and it isn't a huge upgrade from Wisconsin to Arkansas. basically like the 20th best job in CFB to the 15th.
DetroitBuckeye's picture
I wouldn't put the Michigan State job anywhere near Wisconsin or Illinois. In terms of what kind of job it is I would say that it is just behind the conference superpowers and in the 2nd tier, still a quality job though. Also Wisconsin is a better job then Arkansas is. Arkansas has been to one bcs bowl and that technically never happened so i'm not sure where you would get the impression that it is a better job than Wisconsin. Wisconsin being more than lightning in a bottle as they have been relevant and good for quite some time now.
Buckeyevstheworld's picture
Taking anything Cowherd says seriously is unwise. This is the same guy that took the time during highlights of Devin Smith's catch to bash the BigTen.
ESPN has spent this entire year talking about how awful the BigTen has been. They've downplayed Ohio State's perfect year because of the BigTen, and supposedly the lack of pressure because of the bowl ban. Talking heads constantly call Ohio State "cheaters" while largely ignoring the current trouble that Auburn, Oregon, and Miami are in. Heck, Alabama, and Auburn have been in trouble in the past, yet you never hear them labeled as "cheaters".
That's no necessarily true. When SEC teams wins BCS games(or any other bowl game), it's because they have superior athletes, coaching, cheerleaders, mascots, and because it's the SEEEEECCCEEE. When the SEC teams have lost there's always an excuse. When Bama lost to Utah it was because they didn't care about the game. When Ohio State beat Arkansas(contrary to what they want you to believe, the Buckeyes did play in that game) it was because Arkansas didn't do this or that. Oh, and it didn't count because Pryor shouldn't have been playing.
Amonk13's picture
All i can say is Bravo Sir! i could not have said it better myself!
doodah_man's picture
It's all a plot by the B1G to infuse their coaches into the SEC...a process of dilution, while B1G adds top name coaches. Perfect solution to the SEC national championship monopoly. Bwahahahahaha....
Jim "DooDah" Day
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jthiel09's picture
I've given up turning on any type of ESPN College Football programming and hoping OSU or even the B1G as a whole would get something positive said about them.
billy04's picture
The B1G doesn't deserve any love. Seriously, until this conference does anything besides masturbate all over itself and get pummeled in big out-of-conference affairs, people will make fun of it. The blatant homerism and constant whining is so lame. It's like a bunch of fifth graders crying to the teacher about the bully who is dominating dodge ball.
Hopefully, Urbz will lead us out of the darkness and into the light. But until then, stop crying.
GlueFingers Lavelli's picture
The difference between the SEC and the rest of the country is simple. Line play. We (B1G) used to dominate college football through the 90's.... so what happened. We went to spread passing attacks and in a sense softened our line play by not pounding the ball. I know I'll take hits for this, but let me ask you this... How arethe teams in the SEC that are dominating getting it done??? Thy are doing it the old fashioned way. POWER RUNNIG! It's simple. We do it from the shotgun, Alabama and LSU run double tight, and Stanford does it the old fashioned way. The teams aren't just winning because of pure talent. It's a philosophy. Run the ball, run play action, control the clock and tempo, play great defense. It's so simple. Why does the B1G mostly suck, everyone is in 3-4 wide sets, clock stops for incompletions= tired defense in 3rd and fourth quarter.
Why did Wisconsin destroy Nebraska?? Because the Huskers run a jank ass offense with a sporadic passing game, they go 3 and out... the defense gets tired of giving up 4-5 yard runs.... then they get worn down and those become 8-9 yard runs. It's easy if you are Wisconsin to defed the pass with a comfortable lead.
Simply put, the dominant SEC teams every year (Alabama, LSU, Florida under Urban) are commited to running the hell out of the ball. The B1G has become a dink and dunk conference, and whats left of the BigXII is all high powered offense with piss poor (tired) defense. I'm not sure as a conference how we lost our way, I'm comfortable with Urban making us a dominant run team, as for our competition who knows?? I look at what happened to Michigan, and how the Hell Stanford with 2-3* talent becomes a PAC12 power in a few years and the answer seems quite clear. Or just look at Kansas State who pretty much runs with a tough QB, and almost runs the table with less talent.
It's also important to remember that so many more HS teams run spread offenses. IMO spread offenses typically produce softer lineman. They aren't used to smashing heads and having numb forearms for an entire game. They get used to engaging defenders, and keeping their arms down to create passing lanes, so it's never a surprise when they need to run the ball for 1 yard, they struggle. Sorry for the rant.... I despise spread passing.
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awesome! i got mine about a week after my birthday in october.
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Maternal Obesity Linked to Autism
We’re always worrying about losing the baby weight following delivery, but a new study featured in Pediatrics might have potential moms paying more attention to the scale before they conceive. A mother’s obesity during pregnancy may raise the risk of autism in her baby by 67 percent, reports MSNBC.
Plus: New CDC Report Shows Autism Rates Rising Sharply
The study is part of an ongoing effort to find preventable factors that may increase the risk of autism. Researchers compared the medical histories of 1,000 children in California to take a closer look at the impact of obesity, diabetes, and high blood pressure on pregnancy. They found that while women with diabetes were only slightly more likely to have a baby with autism, they were twice as likely to have a child with a different neurodevelopmental disorder.
Plus: 10 Percent of Autistic Children May Outgrow It
The reason for these findings remains uncertain, though it is possible that high levels of blood glucose in obese and diabetic women may have a negative impact on a fetus’ developing brain. Higher levels of glucose can cause a baby to grow faster and require more oxygen as a result—if insufficient oxygen is provided, problems with brain development can arise. The inflammatory proteins produced by fat cells are another possible cause, since they are involved in normal brain development. Too many or too few of these proteins might have an adverse effect on how the brain develops. Either way, researchers remain unsure of the impact of diabetes or obesity on fetal growth.
Plus: Autism Warning Signs
While researchers note that more research is needed to confirm the connection between maternal obesity and autism, they point out that U.S. autism rates have increased along with obesity. Until more information is known, the study’s lead author Paula Krakowiak suggests that obese moms take these new findings as another reason to lose weight. A woman is considered obese when she's about 35 or more pounds overweight or has a body-mass index (BMI) of 30 or higher.
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A cuppa not to be forgotten
PUBLISHED : Monday, 11 April, 2011, 12:00am
UPDATED : Monday, 11 April, 2011, 12:00am
We should promote the skill of making milk tea which is not easy. If you want the cuppa to be tasty, you should pay attention to the ratio of milk and tea.
Because of the influence of foreign culture, people like to eat fast food such as hamburgers and French fries these days. Also, Hongkongers lead a hectic lifestyle. This means they don't have time to sit down in a restaurant or at a sidewalk cafe to have a cup of milk tea. Even if they do, they will quickly drink it without paying any attention to the taste so they can get on with their work.
With many young people not interested in making milk tea, this 'art' could disappear within a few years.
Hence, this is a good time to promote the skills of making milk tea by organising talks and competitions.
If we don't, one of Hong Kong's most enduring traditions could be lost forever.
Joey Leung Sze-ching, Leung Shek Chee College
From the Editor
Thank you for your letter, Joey. Food and drink are more than just ways to stay alive. They are important aspects of a country's culture.
Traditional foods tell historians a lot about a country's past, development and society. The ingredients, cooking methods and how people ate the food also reveal a nation's rituals and customs.
But modern life often means that we abandon traditions, and sadly, one of the easiest to forget is food. Fast food is popular the world over, as are canned and carton drinks, and they make life easier for us.
But we shouldn't forget the importance of enjoying and appreciating food traditions. Organisations like the Slow Food movement encourage people to preserve traditional food and enjoy 'real' meals.
Of course we don't always have time to roast a pig or make real milk tea. But we should make the time to appreciate our culture, and learn about the traditions of others.
Karly, Deputy Editor
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Constitutional Tax Amendment Fails In House
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An election-year Republican push for a constitutional amendment making it much more difficult to raise federal taxes failed in the House on Monday night.
After a debate conducted while millions of Americans’ scrambled to meet their income-tax filing deadline, the House voted 243-177 in favor of the proposed amendment. But that was 37 votes short of the two-thirds majority required for approval.
Supporters conceded from the start that their chance of victory was slim, but they said the vote would illustrate the difference between Democrats and Republicans.
GOP leaders had timed the debate to end with a vote a few hours before the midnight filing deadline for most taxpayers on the East Coast.
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There are few brand names more synonymous with off-roading than Jeep, and there are few figures in the off-roading community that have been more influential in making off-roading a popular recreational pastime in North America than Mark A. Smith. Smith led the first Jeep Jamboree expedition on Northern California's legendary Rubicon trail in 1953. Smith died on Monday at the age of 87 at his Georgetown, California, home near the Rubicon trail.
A retired Marine, Smith led numerous off-road expeditions, including the Expedicion de las Americas in 1978, in which he led a team of 16 across Panama's Darien Gap linking Panama and Colombia. Over 30 days, the team crossed the rugged Central America jungle terrain and pioneered the use of ladder systems to cross waterways, a method since adopted by U.S. Special Forces.
Smith was an early advocate of trail conservation and preservation and is credited with leading efforts to clean up the formerly littered Rubicon Trail, making sure that visitors didn't leave any litter or debris on the trail or campsite. This practice continued for numerous Jeep Jamboree events held each year around the country and is a philosophy adopted and espoused by Tread Lightly.
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i sometimes think i'm the only one who does this, so i was pretty psyched when i found this group and saw that i am not alone. if i'm in an emotional mood (or sometimes even when i'm in a good mood), i'll get this urge to listen to one of my sad songs, something that just makes my throat close and my eyes tear up. i know i shouldn't, because it's only going to make me sad and sniffly for the rest of the day. sometimes i'm strong, but others i give in and listen a few times. i pay for it by spending the rest of the day sad, or lonely, or pitying myself. yeah, nothing can put me in a mood quite like a good sad song. *sniffle*
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I have a 40 song playlist simply titled "Unhappy Music", every single song on it reminds me of something painful; but there is a relief that comes from the pain. I used to be a cutter for the longest time, and if I had to compare this "music thing" to something, it would be cutting. I know it's wrong and destructive, but it takes the things that are killing me inside and bleeds them out ( If not slowly and painfully ). THE PAIN WAS ALWAYS THERE, like a damaged nerve that just needed tapping. The music didn't inflict the pain, it only aroused it from its sleep ( It found that nerve ). Evanescence, especially "My Immortal" ( With Amy Lee's haunting voice and painful lyrics ) hits me hard. Flyleaf's acoustic songs do the same thing ( "All around me" acoustic version breaks me ). The songs are memories, regrets, and losses; and exploring them... RELIVING THEM... Yields pain.
Sometimes even when I'm happy I want to listen to sad songs...maybe I secretly don't want to be happy. Sometimes when life is great I'm and everything seems to be going well, my personal life, work and relationships, deep down I'm still not happy. I've even asked myself why I can't be truly happy. I've just accepted that I'll never ever be truly happy...
i love evanescence too. i'm one of those people who gets emotional over songs that most other people don't even find sad at all. sometimes for no apparent reason i'll hear something and the lyrics will make my eyes well up!
yeah i understand...i most times listen to evanescence..
omg i know! listening to these songs seems like such a good idea before we do it, but then once we do we always regret it, but then of course they're stuck in our heads for the rest of the day!
I know exactly how you feel. In fact I will burn a cd that will have songs that make me think of a certain period in my life or a certain person that makes me sad and make myself listen to the darn thing on my way into work. Then I am in a bad mood! Dont do this all the time but certainly have done it enough. | <urn:uuid:b913e436-679e-4051-b0cc-aff9195f5203> | http://www.experienceproject.com/stories/Torture-Myself-With-Sad-Songs/210021 | en | 0.965743 | 0.054158 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
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Tim Barry Based out of Richmond, VA, singer/songwriter Tim Barry is most well known as the frontman for Avail, an aggressive hardcore outfit that's been rocking out in the underground since the early '90s. He largely grew up in Reston, a suburb just outside of D.C., fueling his teenage restlessness with 1980s punk, speed metal, and, of course, the nearby Dischord scene. Later on, he grew to appreciate his parents' folk, country, and classical collections as well. Fronting Avail since 1991, the band had released six studio albums as of 2006 and toured exhaustively all over the world, turning themselves into something of cult favorites in the process.
In the mid-2000s, the politically conscious Barry began releasing solo material that abandoned the loud-hard-fast punk rules of Avail and stripped it all down to Woody Guthrie-inspired folk, the only thing tying the two projects together being Barry's gruff voice and brash delivery. Armed with just his guitar, Barry recorded some demos in 2005 on the side, simply for himself to share with his friends; he laid the tracks down with no intentions of formally releasing the material outside of just burning CD-Rs for extra gas money at shows. But one such friend was so taken by the honesty of his music that Barry was eventually convinced to release the eight songs as is under the title Laurel Street Demo 2005 on his friend's German label, Dancing in the Dark.
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CAMAS, Wash. A chair hanging from a tree as a political statement against President Barack Obama is stirring controversy near Camas.
George and Kathy Maxwell say the chair represents Obama, much like the empty chair Clint Eastwood spoke to at the Republican National Convention. But they say the reason it is hanging from their tree is because someone stole the first one they had on the ground.
We figured we d hang it up so everyone can see it; there is no offense intended -- well other than hoping people vote against Obama of course, said Kathy Maxwell.
After Eastwood s RNC chair conversation, conservatives took pictures of empty chairs and posted them online. A few of those chairs were pictured hanging by rope from trees, causing outrage at what was dubbed chair lynchings in Texas and Virginia.
It s really painful for people who have a knowledge or connection to that history: some people have family connections to it and some people have seen the pictures, said Sirius Bonner, a special advisor on diversity at Clark College.
That s really unfortunate but that s really a bunch of hooey, that s really my belief, said Maxwell.
Bonner is disappointed by the Maxwell s decision to leave the chair hanging, but hopes it sparks a serious discussion.
When you re made aware of how people respond to it, when you re made aware of some of the history, what do you do at that point? I think it s unfortunate that they ve decided to leave it up, and what I think it does is create an opportunity to have further dialogue and conversation, said Bonner.
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Getting The Most From RAW
A valuable tool for the digital photographer, RAW must be treated with respect to maximize its benefits
Getting The Most From RAW
Digital offers so many new choices that it can be confusing at times. Remember what it was like when we first started photographing—our choices were befuddling then, too. We had no idea of what an ƒ-stop was or why we should choose a particular ƒ-stop and shutter speed combination. And what about depth of field versus selective focus?
Digital capture is similar—new things to learn that, once mastered, will be taken for granted. Sometimes, the choices aren't perfectly clear, like RAW and JPEG. Let's explore why RAW can be an important choice for many photographers, with ideas on getting the most from it.
I've covered JPEG and internal processing in cameras in the past because I felt there were many photographers who would be better suited shooting that way, yet the tech folks pushed RAW without consideration of how a photographer liked to work. Well-meaning experts often promote one approach to digital, but some photographers uncomfortable with that way lose some of their enthusiasm for our medium. If you get the results you want and need from high-quality JPEG, then keep doing it.
RAW is an extremely important tool for the digital photographer, however. There are three reasons why photographers should use it, I believe: they like processing images; they find limitations, causing them problems when shooting JPEG; and they need the increased flexibility RAW offers. RAW shouldn't be an automatic format to use because another photographer says so—that can lead to frustration in the time spent at the computer and when working with the RAW converter.
Once you decide to work with RAW, it's essential to understand that RAW requires a certain workflow to maximize its benefits. Many photographers now shoot RAW + JPEG so they get the best of both formats—a great way to go (especially since memory cards now offer a lot of megabytes with less cost). You gain the increased flexibility of RAW when you need it and the ability to work quickly with JPEG files when that's appropriate.
To use RAW to its best advantage, let's cover some basics. It certainly isn't a magic bullet that transforms any kind of exposure or lighting condition into a great shot. RAW is a type of image file with minimal change to the data coming from the sensor. It isn't unprocessed data as you may have read—the sensor creates analog information that must be processed into digital data. This is accomplished with the A/D converter and is a complex engineering challenge that, luckily, camera manufacturers have mastered for us.
A RAW file holds more tonal and color information than JPEG and offers a great deal of flexibility in how you can work the tones and color in an image. With RAW, you can frequently extract tones and details from the brightest and darkest areas of an image that have no detail in a JPEG file. In addition, image tonal qualities can be maintained throughout a greater range of adjustments done in RAW.
RAW allows you to enlarge digital images to a larger size with higher quality when done in the RAW converter than if you enlarge them later in Photoshop or using most other enlarging software. This can be remarkable, allowing superb-quality prints from even small digital files.There have been many misconceptions about RAW, however. One of the most common and unfortunate myths we hear is that RAW is so adaptable that you don't have to be as concerned about exposure or color since you can fix it in RAW.
The problem with such thinking is that it shortchanges RAW, creates more work to do in the computer (which can be frustrating) and can give you less than the best tonalities and color. Consider a couple of things: RAW comes from a sensor that has a finite range from black to white —if your exposure is outside of that range, nothing can bring it back, not even RAW; and RAW comes from a digital translation of analog information given by the sensor—GIGO (garbage in, garbage out) is definitely appropriate here. RAW does its best when it has good files from the start.
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Eggplant salad at Nairi's in Hollywood?
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Okay, I just had quite possibly the best incarnation of eggplant I've ever tasted. Okay, maybe one of the best incarnations. The place is called Nairi's market on Hollywood blvd., adjacent to Nairi's (I'm guessing by what I could understand in broken english) that the big place up front is just a catering/event place. The market in the back is a gem of a butcher shop/deli/market. They make a cold salad that (from what I can tell) has roasted eggplant, roasted red and yellow bell peppers, olive oil and walnuts. Is this some national Armenian culinary treasure that I've missed all these years, or is it just something wonderful that they have whipped up and is their little secret? If anyone knows how to make this cold vegetable salad, let me know . . . . I'll make the rest of the dinner and bring it to you!!!
Nairi Restaurant
5065 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90027
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1. recipe requests do belong on the Home Cooking board, but i'm posting this link to ask http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/sm... does this seem like it fits the bill? if so, i might be heading over to try it. also what else did you have? anything else good?
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As a matter of fact, I did. I was having lunch over at CBS with some friends that had ordered a bunch of food from there for take out. I had what was possibly the best lamb chops I've ever had. Simply prepared, and grilled, they were like little lamb "pops", with 2 or 3 bites each. So of course, I inquired at the market, and I couldn't quite understand the gentleman, but from what I gathered, they have to have advanced notice, and like I said the big restaurant up front is for catering and events. Their meat market in the back is quite nice.
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Secret Service Agent Runs Down a Grandmother in Brooklyn
It seems like just yesterday the Secret Service was pretty much unanimously associated with saving the day, but now the agency is finding that when it rains bad news, it pours. First came the prostitution scandal in Colombia, perhaps the first-ever challenge to our general idea that Secret Service members are totally selfless heroes. Then came the unfortunate news that they might have yet another prostitution scandal on their hands, this time in El Salvador. And now a Secret Service agent has run over an innocent woman crossing the street in Brooklyn and killed her.
Maria Tripp, a 47-year-old custodian for the parks department, was walking in Brownsville, Brooklyn, with her 12-year-old daughter, her 19-year-old nephew, and her boyfriend when she was struck by a car yesterday afternoon. The Secret Service agent who was driving the vehicle was on duty (but wasn't part of a security detail), and he apparently had the green light. The exact circumstances of what happened are still under investigation, but for whatever reason he hit Ms. Tripp, causing her to fly up into the air and land on her head. She was pronounced dead at the hospital a short time later. Tripp has five daughters and is also a grandmother. She was described as a "beautiful person." So sad. While this appears to be nothing more than a tragic accident, the timing of such a public and horrible incident could not be worse for the Secret Service, which at this point must be getting desperate to prove that we don't have a bunch of irresponsible people guarding our nation's most important officials.
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DKNY revamps classics for 25th anniversary
The Who:
Anthony Kiedis, Holland Roden, Kelly Osbourne and Bella Thorne all sat front row, while the new face of DKNY, Rita Ora made an appearance for an energetic walk down the runway at the end of the show.
The What:
It’s DKNY’s 25th Anniversary and what better way to celebrate than with a mix of all American and of course, New York favorites. Everything showed up, from denim overalls to patch covered denim, neon to pastels and even head-to-toe bandana and DKNY logo prints. All combined with classic updated takes on “urban” sportswear pieces for a mix of past, present and future hits for the brand.
The Highlight:
A few of the pastel (pale yellow, lilac and julep green) looks that will all work styled together or separately come next spring.
The Takeaway:
If something was a hit in the past, why not try it again.
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How can you say UGLY AND GROSS 35 times????? Yikes, is there no class or style remaining in America?
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I am in the process of learning the MVC pattern and building my own lightweight one in PHP
Below is a basic example of what I have right now.
I am a little confused on how I should handle AJAX requests/responses though.
In my example user controller below, If I went to www.domain.com/user/friends/page-14 in the browser, it would create a User object and call the friends method of that object
The friends method would then get the data needed for the content portion of my page.
My app would load a template file with a header/footer and insert the content from the object above into the middle of the page.
Now here is where I am confused, if a request is made using AJAX then it will call a page that will do the process over, including loading the template file. IF an AJAX call is made, I think it should somehow, just return the body/content portion for my page and not build the header/footer stuff.
So in my MVC where should I build/load this template file which will have the header/footer stuff? ANd where should I detect if an AJAX request is made so I can avoid loading the template?
I hope I am making sense, I really need help in figuring out how to do this in my MVC I am building. IUf you can help, please use some sample code
* Extend this class with your Controllers
* Reference to the model wrapper / loader functions via $this->model
* Reference to the view functions via $this->view
abstract class Core_Controller {
protected $view;
protected $model;
function __construct(DependencyContainer $dependencyContainer){
$this->view = new Core_View();
//$this->view = $dependencyContainer->get(view);
public function load($model){
//load model
//this part under construction and un-tested
$this->$model = new $model;
user controller
* Example Controller
class User_Controller extends Core_Controller {
// domain.com/user/id-53463463
function profile($userId)
//GET data from a Model
$profileData = $this->model->getProfile($userId);
$this->view->load('userProfile', $profileData);
// domain.com/user/friends/page-14
function friends()
//GET data from a Model
$friendsData = $this->model->getFriends();
$this->view->load('userFriends', $friendsData);
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For me, I developed a separate object that handles all template display methods. This is good because you can then ensure that all the resources you need to display your UI is contained in one object. It looks like you've isolated this in Core_View.
Then, when an AJAX call is made, simply detect that it is an AJAX call. This can be done by either making the AJAX call through an AJAX object, which then references other objects, or you can take an easy approach and simply set an extra POST or GET field which indicates an AJAX call.
Once you've detected if it's an AJAX call, define a constant in your MVC such as AJAX_REQUEST. Then, in your template/UI object, you can specify that if it's an AJAX call, only output your response text. If it isn't, proceed with including your template files.
For me, I send it through an AJAX object. That way I don't have to worry about making a single output work for both cases. When it's ready to send a response, I just do something to the manner of print( json_encode( ...[Response]... ) ).
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well, it would all start with normal request which would load the initial page. there are many options as to handle this but let's say that you start with /users/friends page which would list all your friends. then each of the friends should have link to specific friend's profile -- now this is the moment where ajax could kick in and you could ajaxify links to your friend profiles - this means that instead of normal you would instead use let's say jQuery and setup click handler in a such way that
$("a").click(function(){$.post($(this).attr("href"), null, function(data){$("#content").html(data);}});
this would use "href", and upon click would make post request to your backend. at backend, if you see that it's post, then you would just return the content for that particular friend. alternatively, if you have get request, you return all - header - content - footer.
if you use technique above, make sure to properly handle the data you receive. e.g. if there are further actions that should be done via ajax, make sure to "ajaxify" the data you get back. e.g. after updating html of the content, again apply the $("a").click routine.
this is just trivial example, to kick you off, but there are many more sophisticated ways of doing that. if you have time, I suggest reading some of agiletoolkit.org, it has nice mvc + ajax support.
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You will need to use a different view. Maybe something like:
funciton friends() {
$this->view = new Ajax_Request_View();
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A review of another pending book idea. A small island holding the worlds most acclaimed assassins, the D.E.A.D team, has been beaten by a ferocious storm for over 2 weeks, the inhabitants, hiding in the islands vast system of caverns and passages, are running out of food. More rumbles are being heard, but Madikus the leader insists that it is the storm moving away, but is he holding something back, is he telling the truth. When eople start to dissapear, a group of assassins attempt to find out the truth, right before a big awakening, that will finally decide their fate.
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The storm outside was reaching its arms into the inhabitants of Sede, a small island, but a special island. Though small, it ran deep. Ancient tunnels and gigantic caverns ran through the core of the Island. Even though small it held many secrets. The Island was a perfect site for the D.E.A.D training grounds, no-one really knows what the letters stand for, but what is well known is that if you are a part of the team, you are a force to be reckoned with. D.E.A.D is the world's most famous assassin recruit station, even though it was well known, no one knew where they were, they were invisible to the world, but not to the people's mind. So on this Island filled with killers a storm was raging, and it had been for two weeks. The Island was susceptible to storms, but none had ever lasted this long, but the inhabitants were fine, they just ran around in the tunnels and caverns, that were once inhabited with strange creatures. Of course, they did not know this. No-one knew about the history of the islands, nor the sea that surrounded it, otherwise they might have thought differently about going there.
"Dinners up!" shouted the stocky ginger chef, wearing his dirty apron flailing around an axe as if it was a fork. All at once 100 cloaked figures appeared in the cafeteria, a large cavern on the western side of the island,they sat down on the rows of tables and chairs, there were six overall. Some jut gazed at the surroundings and came to the conclusion that they were in a metal box with a door on one side that lead to a rough rocky passage the intruders were expected. They were after all the assassins. They all wore the same clothing, a dark leather cloak with a hood, with belt buckle fasteners and metal chains on the left arm of the outfit, they were like warriors of the shadows. All sat down and waited as the food was being served, tuna in a can again, they were running out of food supplies so they had to make do until the storm was over. Grumbles rose as the meal was placed before them. "Hey stop complaining, has anyone died this week? No, so the storm has helped in some ways. Think of this like camping, and when camping, there usually isn't good food, now stop complaining and eat up," Exclaimed the chef when he heard a sly remark about his cooking. A silence settled, but not because of the chef's speech, but because Madikus had entered. Madikus was the founder of D.E.A.D, he wasn't a supernatural killer, he was a scientist, and he wore the same style clothing as all the other assassins, but in red, not in black. He sported scraggly black hair, a six foot tall body, and a skinny frame. Madikus did not look like a leader, he looked more like a mascot. He stood at the center of the cafeteria, on the table top of the third table, and spoke," Now I'm sure you have all heard, and felt for that matter, the recent rumbles we've been having. Now some have joked that it's our stomachs from these crap grub we're eating," a small laughter complimented his joke, " Yes well I'm sure Chef is doing the best he can, anyway, there have been silly rumors about the island splitting in half and other nonsense, well no need to worry, it is only the last few hits of this storm we've been having, so these rumbles signify the end, soon we'll all be having steak and fries!" With this came a loud roar of applause, finally they wouldn't be stuck here under in these dreadful caverns, and they will be able to go back onto work.
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Alternate titles: Oriental Republic of Uruguay; República Oriental del Uruguay
Services such as public administration, education, computer programming, and tourism account for about one-fourth of the GDP. Tourism is a growing source of foreign exchange. Resort areas, particularly on the coast, attract visitors throughout most of the year. Among these is Punta del Este, renowned as a meeting place for high-level international conferences. Uruguay’s computer software industry has become increasingly important to the economy.
Labour and taxation
Services and trade employ more than half of the Uruguayan workforce, whereas about one-fifth of workers are engaged in manufacturing. Relatively few are employed in financial institutions and agricultural enterprises. The standard workweek is 44–48 hours. Workers are legally entitled to 20 paid vacation days following one year of employment. Women comprise about half of the workforce, but most of them hold low-wage jobs, and there are few women in the upper echelons of Uruguayan corporations. Approximately one-eighth of Uruguayan workers are union members; most are members of a labour confederation called the Inter-Union Workers Assembly–National Federation of Workers.
Uruguay has not had inheritance or personal income taxes since 1974. The government’s main sources of revenue are value-added taxes and export taxes. Real estate taxes and corporate taxes are also levied.
Transportation and telecommunications
Paved roads connect Montevideo to other urban centres in the country, the main highways leading to the border and neighbouring cities. Numerous unpaved roads connect farms and small towns. Overland trade has increased markedly since the Mercosur (Southern Common Market) pact was formed in the 1990s. Most of the country’s domestic freight and passenger service is by road rather than rail. The basic railroad network, purchased from the British after World War II, also radiates from Montevideo and connects with the Argentine and Brazilian systems.
Oceangoing ships call mainly at Montevideo. Vessels of various sizes navigate the inland waters, and a hydrofoil service connects Buenos Aires and Montevideo across the Río de la Plata. An international airport lies near the Carrasco beach resort some 13 miles (21 km) from downtown Montevideo. The government-owned airline, Primeras Líneas Uruguayas de Navegación Aérea (PLUNA), links Montevideo with the provincial capitals and international destinations.
Telecommunications in Uruguay are more developed than in most other Latin American countries. The telephone system is totally digitized and concentrated in and around Montevideo. The system is government-owned, and since the 1990s there have been controversial proposals to privatize it, or at least to sell some of its shares.
Government and society
Constitutional framework
The government operates under the 1966 constitution, as amended following the period of military rule (1973–85). Amendments in 1996 separated municipal and national elections and changed the balloting system for the presidential election.
A president and a Council of Ministers hold executive power, and a vice president serves as president of the bicameral legislature. The president and vice president are elected to five-year terms and may not seek immediate reelection. If no candidate receives a majority vote in a presidential election, a runoff election (ballotage) is held to decide between the two leading candidates. The General Assembly consists of the 31-member Senate and the 99-member Chamber of Representatives, whose members are elected to five-year terms by direct popular vote.
Local government
Local administration is provided by the country’s 19 departamentos, each of which has a departmental board (legislature) and an intendente municipal, a chief executive who acts as a combined departmental governor and mayor for the departmental capital.
At the head of the judiciary is the Supreme Court, composed of five justices who are elected by the General Assembly to 10-year terms and are eligible for reelection five years after their previous term ends. The Appellate Tribunals, each composed of three judges, form the next-highest judicial level, followed by the Courts of Record. The Supreme Court justices select Appellate Tribunal judges for confirmation by the Senate. Prison conditions are poor yet better than those in many other Latin American countries. Some trials last for years because of delays in the justice system.
Political process
National officials in Uruguay are elected every five years. All Uruguayans 18 years of age and older are required to vote. Elections have been secret and obligatory since 1918, and a 1932 law granted women the right to vote. A nine-member Electoral Court monitors local and national elections. Elections in Uruguay are generally considered to be fair. The country has a highly regarded system for tallying ballots.
The two principal traditional political parties are the Colorado (“Red”) Party (which has had a liberal urban base) and the Blanco (“White”), or National, Party (supported by the more conservative landowners). A third party, the leftist Broad Front (Frente Amplio), also called Progressive Encounter (Encuentro Progresista), is a coalition of Christian democrats, socialists, communists, and dissident members of the two other parties.
Police in Uruguay are poorly paid, and many have been accused of improper conduct. The country has no secret police. Uruguay’s small army, navy, and air force are made up of volunteers, most of whom enlist for one or two years of service. Uruguayan soldiers have participated in numerous United Nations peacekeeping missions.
Health and welfare
Since elaborate social legislation was enacted in 1912 and 1929, Uruguay has been recognized for its advanced welfare programs, offering extensive subsidized health care and numerous benefits to the unemployed, low-wage workers, and the aged. Uruguayan employees with low annual incomes may receive maternity benefits, and mothers who earn low wages can receive child-care benefits. The large Hospital de Clínicas in Montevideo has long been a low-cost medical service centre for the needy as well as a research centre. Life expectancy is relatively high, with averages of 73 years for males and 79 years for females.
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1Includes the vice president, who serves as ex officio presiding officer.
Official nameRepública Oriental del Uruguay (Oriental Republic of Uruguay)
Form of governmentrepublic with two legislative houses (Senate [311]; House of Representatives [99])
Head of state and governmentPresident: José Mujica
Official languageSpanish
Official religionnone
Monetary unitpeso uruguayo (UYU)
Population(2013 est.) 3,298,000
Total area (sq mi)68,679
Total area (sq km)177,879
Urban-rural populationUrban: (2011) 94.7%
Rural: (2011) 5.3%
Life expectancy at birthMale: (2012) 73.7 years
Female: (2012) 80.7 years
Literacy: percentage of population age 15 and over literateMale: (2010) 97.9%
Female: (2010) 98.7%
GNI per capita (U.S.$)(2012) 13,510
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"Sharknado," a shlock-tastic TV movie that premiered Thursday night on SyFy, stirred up a social media sensation that has completely blown away the Antioch native who directed it.
"I know what happened is, like, one in a billion, in terms of this weird confluence of things," Anthony Ferrante told the Charlotte Observer. "There wasn't a marketing budget on this thing. It was all just the stuff we did with the trailers and just telling people about it and stuff."
Apparently that was enough. The movie that combined sharks and tornadoes in one devastating, mind-blowing production -- with Ian Ziering and Tara Reid in the lead roles -- became an Internet sensation on Thursday night when the program seized the attention of those on Twitter, including many Hollywood celebrities.
"Clearly SyFy is employing the old, "so bad, it's good," method with tremendous effect," tweeted Michael Chiklis.
"No way is SHARKNADO as entertaining as the Tweets about it. Congrats, @SyfyTV. You've created a new way to watch movies," chimed in Patton Oswalt.
Ferrante, who grew up in Antioch, began his filmmaking career as a sixth-grader creating short films with friends using a video camera. He also wrote movie reviews for the school newspaper -- and later, the Antioch Ledger Dispatch. He graduated from Antioch High School and went on to take film classes at Los Medanos College and San Francisco State University.
Will there be a "Sharknado" sequel?
"No one's called me yet, but I wouldn't be surprised if it would be on its way soon," he said. "I mean, what do you do after 'Sharknado'? You've got to up the ante. I don't want to compare this to 'Star Wars,' but if this is 'Star Wars,' then you've got to make 'Empire Strikes Back.'"
In the meantime, here are more samples of the celebrity Twitter conversation surrounding "Sharknado":
Jackson Rathbone: "Watching #sharknado on #syfy 'Sharks in the swimming pool?! No way. ' Yes way, Mr. movie-cliche bad guy. It's a mother-bleeping Sharknado!"
Chad Lowe: "Why have we not been throwing bombs into tornadoes to stop them? Or are we doing it, and I'm just now learning about it? #Sharknado."
Judah Friedlander: "Can't wait to see how @MSNBC & @FoxNews cover this developing #Sharknado story."
Bill Lawrence: "Sharknado is everything that is right AND wrong about everything."
Elizabeth Banks: "@DamonLindelof did Tessa already take revenge on the guy who harpooned mom or am I dating his son in #sharknado2 #backstory."
Olivia Wilde: "@ElizabethBanks Banks, this is our chance to play Siamese twins: two heads, one magnificent shark tail. Emmys all around. #SharknadoTwo."
A scene from "Sharknado"
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note Limbic~Region [kyle], <br /> <i>My only <b>word of warning</b> is that when the spec is not clear on some subject, the members of the IRC channel are not always more clear.</i> <p> I would like to point out, that these very questions are what help bring the perl 6 specification closer to Christmas. While you may not personally benefit immediately from the mind twisting discussion that follows, the net result to everyone in the end is benificial. If the spec isn't clear or hasn't been thought through it may not be obvious to the folks that are eating this stuff for breakfast (forest for the trees). </p> <p> Here are two more ways you can contribute to perl 6. </p> <p> First, write perl 6 code. Every time valid perl 6 code is written that doesn't work because of unimplemented features or because of bugs, a Rakudo (and presumably other implementations) ticket can be written. Rakudo hackers like to fix bugs and implement features that make users like you happy and their programs run. Seriously. </p> <p> Second, help write perl 6. Wait a minute, isn't that what you said first? Not exactly. Rakudo is the perl 6 implementation on Parrot. Like any self-respecting language that will hopefully bootstrap itself, it wants to write as much of itself in itself as it can. Rakudo has gotten to the point where you don't really need to know how to code for Parrot in order to hack on Rakudo. There are still places where writing in PIR (parrot not perl 6) is helpful but you can pick what you want to work on. If there is some feature not yet implemented (built-in functions would probably be easiest) that you want to see - go ahead and write it ([pmichaud] is always looking for help). See [|steps to create a patch] and [] for more details. </p> <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-180961"> <p> Cheers - [Limbic~Region|L~R] </p> </div></div> 780001 780001 | <urn:uuid:0f333ccc-148b-4c8d-90a9-46643acc14b0> | http://www.perlmonks.org/?displaytype=xml;node_id=780057 | en | 0.944536 | 0.111098 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |