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- BUG roll supplements honor roll, recognizes students'...
// Curriculum Review; Apr92, Vol. 31 Issue 8, p15
Presents information about the Bringing Up Grades (BUG) roll, the reward of the students who are not included in the honor list. How the students learn the qualified students for the award; Why the teachers at Byford Elementary School in Chicago like the activity; Other recognitions rendered by...
- The Effect of Random and Sequential Versions on Student Test Performance.
Picou, Armand; Milhomme, Albert J. // Financial Practice & Education; Spring/Summer97, Vol. 7 Issue 1, p85
Evaluates the effect of random and logically ordered test forms on test scores of students. Computer test banks (CTBs), use for test preparation; Features of CTB; Literature review of the study; Data and methodologies used; Results of the study; Conclusions.
- Problems and progress in appraising student performance.
Sarcella, Joseph A.; Foster, Patrick N. // Tech Directions; May95, Vol. 54 Issue 10, p57
Explores important aspects of appraising student performance. Concept of performance appraisal; Relation of performance appraisal techniques to the current climate in education and in industry; Problems of evaluating performance; Variables that can hinder an educator's objectivity.
- The US.
Hanson, Cynthia; Zipp, Yvonne // Christian Science Monitor; 8/14/96, Vol. 88 Issue 182, p2
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- Vt. to combine standardized tests with portfolios.
Manzo, Kathleen Kenned // Education Week; 12/04/96, Vol. 16 Issue 14, p3
Reports that the Vermont state school board has approved combining its voluntary portfolio-assessment program with mandatory standardized tests to determine how well students stack up against the states' academic standards. Creation or purchase of tests to implement the plan; Information...
- State board's leaders call for assessments bearing consequences.
Lawton, Millicent // Education Week; 10/22/97, Vol. 17 Issue 8, p7
Reports that state student performance assessments should have consequences for the students who take them and the schools that give them in the United States, according to a report from state education leaders. Need for states to use several tests to measure learning; Ideal characteristics of...
- THE WALL CHART AND THE BUSINESS OF EDUCATION.
Vassallo, P. // ETC: A Review of General Semantics; Summer91, Vol. 48 Issue 2, p161
Comments on the meaningless statistical analysis of the American education system and the wall chart of the Department of Education which tells the country how children are doing in school. The attempt to decipher Education Secretary Lauro F. Cavazos' speech; Semanticists view of the wall chart...
- Weak measurement serving presumptive policy.
Jaeger, Richard M. // Phi Delta Kappan; Oct92, Vol. 74 Issue 2, p118
Presents data which support conclusions predicting between-nation variation in math and science test scores. Economic factors coupled with family structure and stability; Classroom instructional variables predict trivial portions; Discussion of the data; More.
- Assessment reform.
Kane, Michael B.; Khattri, Nidhi // Phi Delta Kappan; Sep95, Vol. 77 Issue 1, p30
Presents an overview of performance-based assessments in evaluating student achievement in the United States. Assessment as a lever for reform; Elements of performance assessments; Factors influencing development and implementation.
- Classes of dropouts.
Tice, T.N. // Education Digest; Jan1992, Vol. 57 Issue 5, p41
Reveals that using relevant research, Calvin L. Streeter and Cynthia Franklin offer `Psychological and Family Differences Between Middle Class and Low Income Dropouts: A Discriminant Analysis' in the April/May 1991 `High School Journal' (vol. 74,no. 4), 211-19. What mostly white middle-class...
- Pinpointing the failures in American education.
Hodgkinson, H. // Education Digest; Feb1992, Vol. 57 Issue 6, p37
Discusses the misconceptions about American education that resurfaced after the College Board released a statement indicating that scores on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) had declined by two points in math and verbal areas. Data supporting contention vague; 32 states improved SAT...
- Are students today less informed...?
Relin, D.O. // Scholastic Update; 11/6/87, Vol. 120 Issue 5, p8
A collection of critics say today's students don't measure up to students in the past. Other education experts say every generation of students has its critics. This generation is no worse, they argue, and maybe even better.
- How performance assessments affect teaching and learning.
Khattri, Nidhi; Kane, Michael B. // Educational Leadership; Nov95, Vol. 53 Issue 3, p80
Presents an overview of the research `Studies of Education Reform: Assessment of Student Performance.' Impact of performance assessment on teaching and learning; Functions of performance assessments; Facilitation of changes in teaching roles; Importance of professional development and assistance.
- The power of portfolios.
Herbert, Elizabeth A.; Schultz, Laurie // Educational Leadership; Apr96, Vol. 53 Issue 7, p70
Focuses on the use of portfolios in student assessment. Portfolio presentations; Reaction to children's cues; Uniqueness of portfolios.
- What happens between assessments?
McTighe, Jay // Educational Leadership; Dec96/Jan97, Vol. 54 Issue 4, p6
Proposes seven principles for performance assessment in schools. Establishment of clear performance targets; Emphasis on authenticity in products and performances; Publication of criteria and performance standards; Use of models of excellence; Explicit teaching of strategies; Use of ongoing...
- Understanding rubrics.
Goodrich, Heidi // Educational Leadership; Dec96/Jan97, Vol. 54 Issue 4, p14
Focuses on the use of rubrics to assess student performance. Development of criteria for describing student achievement; Reasons behind the appeal of rubrics to both teachers and students; Design process for rubrics.
- Practicing what we preach in designing authentic assessments.
Wiggins, Grant // Educational Leadership; Dec96/Jan97, Vol. 54 Issue 4, p18
Discusses the importance of using standards and peer review in designing credible tasks and assessments for student performance. Standard-based versus process-based reform work; Assessment design standards; Anticipation of key design difficulties; Peer review; Assessment system criteria;...
- Mileposts on the road to a Certificate of Initial Mastery.
Smith, Ron; Sherrell, Steve // Educational Leadership; Dec96/Jan97, Vol. 54 Issue 4, p46
Describes the experience of the Lake Oswego school district in Oregon in implementing a performance-based student certification program based on the Certificate of Initial Mastery (CIM). Validation of a student's ability to apply what he had learned in several disciplines to a variety of...
- Barriers to learning.
Smith, Ron; Sherrell, Steve // NEA Today; Dec92, Vol. 11 Issue 5, p28
Examines the results of a recent Metropolitan Life Insurance poll that said that many students are unprepared for learning at their grade level. Problems making it difficult for children to be good students; Lack of parental support; Poverty, poor nutrition, violence in schools, physical or...
- States are setting assessment agenda.
Smith, Ron; Sherrell, Steve // NEA Today; Apr94, Vol. 12 Issue 8, p33
Discusses the report `Surveying the Landscape of State Educational Assessment Programs,' issued by the National Education Association (NEA) and the Council for Educational Development and Research (CEDaR). State assessment of students' progress; Systematic school reform; Interviews with state...
- Reading buddies: A first-grade intervention program.
Caserta-Henry, Carol // Reading Teacher; Mar96, Vol. 49 Issue 6, p500
Reports on the introduction of a reading program designed for first graders. Details on planning activities; Details on specific months; Details on spelling assessment of 16 students.
- Are your students learning what you think your teaching?
Beale, Andrew V. // Adult Learning; Jan/Feb93, Vol. 4 Issue 3, p18
Discusses the importance of assessing student's abilities and skills in applying what they have learned in practical, realistic situations. Improvement of instructional practices at the program and classrooms levels; Questions involved in the teaching process; Approaches to student evaluating...
- What makes a successful mature student?
Gammon, Mary // Adult Learning; Mar/Apr97, Vol. 8 Issue 4, p30
Discusses what makes mature students successful in their area of study with a focus on a character Ann. Problems encountered by Ann in meeting her educational goals; Reasons expressed for the failure of mature students.
- Why Asian students still outdistance Americans.
Stevenson, Harold W. // Educational Leadership; Feb1993, Vol. 50 Issue 5, p63
Examines the reasons why American students lag behind Asians in academic performance. Reason for discrepancy in standards; Recommendations.
- American students hold their own.
Bracey, Gerald W. // Educational Leadership; Feb1993, Vol. 50 Issue 5, p66
Disagrees with the conclusions of Harold Stevenson in his article `Why Asian Students Still Outdistance Americans,' cited in the Educational Leadership journal, volume 50, number 5, pages 63-65. Comparison of noncomparable groups; Interpretation of researches; Significance of higher standards...
- Bracey's broadsides are unfounded.
Stevenson, Harold W. // Educational Leadership; Feb1993, Vol. 50 Issue 5, p68
Refutes Gerald Bracey's comments against the author's article `Why Asian Students Still Outdistance Americans' cited in the Educational Leadership journal, volume 50, number 5, pages 63-65. Errors of fact and interpretation made by Bracey.
- What's worth an `A'? Setting standards together.
Sperling, Doris // Educational Leadership; Feb1993, Vol. 50 Issue 5, p73
Illustrates the improvement in student performance when students are asked to help develop the standards upon which they are rated. Case of a fourth-grade writing class in Ann Arbor, Michigan; Extent of student participation; Evaluation of performance; Assessment forms adjustment; Collaborative...
- Identifying high risk children transferring into elementary schools.
Jason, Leonard A.; Filippelli, Laura // Education; Winter92, Vol. 113 Issue 2, p325
Presents a study of high-risk transfer students and their academic performance following transfer to new schools. School mobility and multiple psychopathological disorders; Identifying students with increased risk of becoming disorganized and demoralized; Questionnaires for parents; Assessing...
- Education.
Jason, Leonard A.; Filippelli, Laura // Youth Studies Australia; Autumn1993, Vol. 12 Issue 1, p7
States that a higher number of A+ and B+ grades were awarded in 1993 to secondary VCE students than under the HSC system in Victoria, as reported in the December 21, 1992 issue of `Herald Sun.' Points needed to get into preferred university courses.
- Brown, Rowan celebrate new rating.
Jason, Leonard A.; Filippelli, Laura // Jackson Advocate; 12/9/2010, Vol. 73 Issue 8, p9A
The article reports on the achievement of the students from Brown Elementary and Rowan Middle School in the MCT2 test in Mississippi.
- WHS releases honor roll list.
Jason, Leonard A.; Filippelli, Laura // Lakelander (Whitney, TX); 1/30/2008, Vol. 22 Issue 5, p13
The article presents the honor roll list of students at the Whitney High School in Texas.
- Mathematics and physical education: Providing opportunities for interactions in the middle school.
Strickland Jr., James F.; Kuykendoll, N. Jane // Education; Fall/Winter92, Vol. 113 Issue 1, p93
Describes three sample activities that enable middle school students to observe the interaction of mathematics and physical education. Observing interaction of mathematics with other school subjects and with everyday society; Using the Physical Best Mile Run/Walk; The target heart range; The...
- The longitudinal effects of nonpromotion in junior high school on academic achievement and...
Strickland Jr., James F.; Kuykendoll, N. Jane // Education; Fall/Winter92, Vol. 113 Issue 1, p112
Evaluates the long term effectiveness of grade retention and promotion for portions of a sample of seventh and eighth grade students. Data over four year period while students attended junior and senior high school; Results and discussion; More.
- Effective rubric design.
Jensen, Ken // Science Teacher; May95, Vol. 62 Issue 5, p34
Presents examples of one rubric style and different ways that rubrics can be used to assess student performance. Assessments; Rubric grading; Energy transformation assessment; Phase change assessment; Tornado story assessment.
- Asia pounds Alberta--again.
Verburg, Peter // Alberta Report / Newsmagazine; 11/8/93, Vol. 20 Issue 47, p38
Cites figures from the University of Michigan which compared Alberta performance in Grade 11 math to that of various United States and Asian jurisdictions. Numbers of Alberta, Japanese and Taiwanese students who correctly answered 46 questions; Differences in Alberta's curricular system and...
- State math, science requirements paying off, study says.
West, Peter // Education Week; 7/14/1993 Extra Edition, Vol. 12 Issue 39, p10
Reports on the findings of the study `State Indicators of Science and Mathematics Education--1993,' based on data from the 1992 National Assessment of Educational Progress and the Schools and Staffing Surveys. Performance gap between minority and white students; Female enrollment.
- Social skills assessment: A comparative evaluation of six published rating scales.
Demaray, Michelle K.; Ruffalo, Stacey L. // School Psychology Review; 1995, Vol. 24 Issue 4, p648
Presents a comparative and integrative review of six published rating scales commonly used to assess the social skills of preschool and school-aged children. Norm instruments reviewed include `School Social behavior Scales' and `Social Skills Rating System'; Review of content and use,...
- Eyes on the prize.
Demaray, Michelle K.; Ruffalo, Stacey L. // NEA Today; Mar93, Vol. 11 Issue 7, p24
Discusses incentive programs for students to get good grades or simply show up at school. The Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-area Butler County Area Vocational-Technical School holding drawings for prizes to reward attendance; Incentive program from the Renaissance Education Foundation in...
- High-stakes testing, low-level learning.
Lytle, Victoria // NEA Today; Mar93, Vol. 11 Issue 7, p28
Discusses the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) report `Trends in Academic Progress.' Today's 17 year-olds' science and math skills; Math skills of nine-year-olds; Reading; Homework and improving skills; Students who read a lot; Television viewing and academic performance; More.
- INSTRUCTIONAL SUPPORT AND DEMANDS: HELPING TEACHERS HELP STUDENTS MEET INCREASING ACADEMIC STANDARDS.
Curley, Robert G.; Strage, Amy A. // Education; Fall96, Vol. 117 Issue 1, p128
Suggests a framework for pre-service and in-service teachers to help them think about the constellation of demands new policy initiatives would impose on students. Kinds of instructional supports; Compensations; Theme of problems; Re-examination of data.
- TOO MUCH WORK = POOR GRADES.
Jacob, Rahul // Fortune; 4/5/1993, Vol. 127 Issue 7, p92
Reports on the problems working too many hours can present for US teens' school performance. How studies show that the number of hours teens work directly affect school performance; Examples; How excessive work prevents teens from getting a well-rounded education; Criticisms of teens'...
- Ideas and findings.
Viadero, Debra // Education Week; 7/13/94, Vol. 13 Issue 39, p38
Reports on findings of researches concerning education. Links between school size and student achievement; Societal cost-benefits of central Park East Elementary in New York, New York; Peer-nomination form designed to evaluate gifted behaviors.
- `My kid beat up your honor student'.
Mlawer, Mark A. // Education Week; 7/13/94, Vol. 13 Issue 39, p39
Comments on the honor roll system. Unfairness of the system; Disregard for differences in potentials, interests, and circumstances of children and their lives; Awarding of honor using subjective standards.
- The age of technology takes college administration by storm.
Marcus, Jon // Community College Week; 01/26/98, Vol. 10 Issue 13, p14
States that students at Boston University have not received their grades in the mail for the semester of December 12, 1997. Information on how to access grades from Web sites or over automated telephone systems; Comments from Florence Bergeron, the registrar, whose staff was spared the chore of...
- Using portfolios to demonstrate student skills.
Storms, Barbara A.; Nunez, Athena M. // Thrust for Educational Leadership; May/Jun96, Vol. 25 Issue 7, p6
Looks into the effectiveness of using portfolios for rating students' skills. Standards used in the scrapped California Learning Assessment System (CLAS); Types of portfolios including multiple-choice items; Teachers' role in administering the portfolio system.
- Singapore pupils.
Storms, Barbara A.; Nunez, Athena M. // Presidents & Prime Ministers; Mar/Apr97, Vol. 6 Issue 2, p26
Shows that Singapore pupils are ranked first among the forty-five countries which participated in the Third International Mathematics and Science Study according to the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement.
- PEP recognizes top students.
Storms, Barbara A.; Nunez, Athena M. // Canadian Banker; Jan/Feb91, Vol. 98 Issue 1, p55
Lists the PEP students who earned the highest marks in the courses offered in the Business Program for Bankers and the Professional Banking Program during the 1989-1990 academic program.
- Student assessment programs.
Storms, Barbara A.; Nunez, Athena M. // South Carolina Business Journal; Dec94, Vol. 13 Issue 11, p10
Discusses issues related to student assessment programs in South Carolina. Key features of the proposed revision of the current system of student assessment; Position of the South Carolina Chamber of Commerce on the issues.
- Battle of the brains.
Storms, Barbara A.; Nunez, Athena M. // U.S. News & World Report; 2/17/92, Vol. 112 Issue 6, p10
Reports that the latest International Assessment of Educational Progress finds the brightest American students--specifically, the top 10 percent of 9-year-olds and 13-year-olds--doing as well as any other nation's top 10 percent. How students in the United States ranked in math, science,...
- A multivariate analysis of study skills, test anxiety and locus of control in first-time...
Dykeman, Bruce // Education; Spring93, Vol. 113 Issue 3, p407
Reports on the evaluation of a preventive intervention program for first-time university students indicating that students participating in a cognitive behavioral treatment show significantly more improvement than a control group. Simultaneous measures of study skills, test anxiety, and internal... | http://connection.ebscohost.com/tag/STUDENTS%2B--%2BRating%2Bof | 2013-05-18T11:02:58 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Sweat room
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The sweat room was a method of torture used in the USSR during Stalin's regime. Its main use was to "squeeze" gold out of people. Victims were put in a large, specially designed room until it was full, then the venilation was turned off and the heat turned up to 113 degrees Fahrenheit. People would be left in there for days at a time, being fed only salt herring and given no water. Being crammed in with other people and their sweat made people develop rashes as they stripped to lessen the heat. There were no toilets, either, and the smell was terrible. Usually people would be left in there until they told where their gold was hidden or till they died of thirst. | http://conservapedia.com/Sweat_room | 2013-05-18T10:21:34 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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With the exception of employee rights, what does Walmart want in on?
“Oenophiles must pass breathalyzers, swipe their IDs, then show their pictures to a state official observing via closed circuit TV before buying their wine.”
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or PA could just not have byzantine liquor laws, that’s what I want. On a side note this would be the one thing I could see my self going into wally world for on a regular basis, well this and condoms
You want bizarre liquor laws? Look into Mississippi’s sometime.
Some areas, it is illegal to have alcohol in your house, or drive through town with a 6 pack in your car. It will be confiscated and you’ll get a ticket.
A few towns over, it is totally legal to drink & drive.
legal to drink and drive? WTF Mississippi, srsly
“Lucky Pennsylvanians.”
You’ve apparently never had to purchase alcohol in PA, Phil.
Exactly. Though these things make life a little easier, I still miss just being able to buy wine with my groceries, no big strings attach. Moreover, these are only open Mon-Sat, 9-9, so still no wine with Sunday dinner, unless you plan ahead or are lucky enough to live near a rare open state store.
sigh. attached, not attach
The machine better generate a receipt, or granny at the door will try another dropkick
Now if only they could come up with place, like a Wal-Mart, but not really, that can get a license to sell all kinds of alcohol, not just wine, but liquor, beer, mixers… everything you need to make an alcoholic beverage. A store of liquor or something like that, with an actual person to show your ID to and maybe have a brief chat about good drinks and tricks to making them. Oh well, just a wild dream I guess.
I don’t get it, we just walk into any store and buy wine, beer, liquor, what have you. Why does PA have to be so weird??
Because of a backward state legislature full of rural Republicans …
So explain why that happens in the Democratic Peoples’ Republic of New Jersey, a mostly urban cesspool with only 3 suburban areas with Republican representation vs 5 of the most corrupt Democratic county machines in the nation?
That’s funny because I live in Louisiana, which is full of rural, backwoods Republicans, too-and I can buy liquor, wine and beer at any grocery or convenience store. Tsk, tsk. It’s not political!
Don’t forget the drive-thru daquiris.
As a rural Pennsylvania Republican who thinks beer, wine and hard liquor should be available in every grocery store, I think your stereotype is a bit off.
There are lots of PA Democrats who favor our present, paternalistic government-owned state store system that monopolistically controls all wine and liquor sales.
As others have noted, IT’S FOR THE CHILDREN!
Can’t do it in most of NJ either.
Because that’s how the laws were setup. PA legislature doesn’t need to be right, it just needs to have a majority.
Here’s another fun PA liquor law: When at a restaurant that serves alcohol, in order for someone to order an alcoholic beverage at their table, given that the table has a mixed crowd (some over 21, some under 21), there needs to be at least one person at the table who is over 25.
I’ve only seen that law enforced in college towns (especially State College).
THINK OF THE CHILLLLLLLLLLLLLLDREN!!!!!!!!!
(and I’m not half joking either!)
I saw one at Giant Eagle the other day. It’s pretty fancy looking. Haven’t used it yet though.
“Vending machine wine and a value bin DVD sound like one hell of a night in.”
Make it a chick flick and throw in some chocolate and you have a guaranteed repeat every month…
“Vending machine wine and a value bin DVD sound like one hell of a night in.”
Make it a chick flick and throw in some chocolate and you have a guaranteed repeat audience every month…
I think you just got a repeat audience
/the submit lag sucks
Someday, the consumerist will enter the late 90s and allow us to edit our posts ;^P
PA has some of the stupidest blue laws ever.
Aside from that, I am wholeheartedly behind this kind of contraption…as a guy who enjoys pretty much every kind of liquor and beer except for wine (well, I like the occasional port or ice wine), I find it highly entertaining to see the condescending wine drinkers of this world reduced to buying their alcoholic vinegar from a vending machine.
Actually the progression would be: grape juice –> wine –> vinegar.
Wait.. these machines have breathalyzers on them? How is that done in a sanitary way?
ewww I didn’t even think about that, maybe they have some sort of plastic covering like the kind doctors use for thermometers?
I’ve been to one at a Giant Eagle in Pittsburgh. Basically, it’s a round, mesh-covered hole in the front panel. You breath into it, but don’t put your mouth on it.
OOh… ok then. That helps…. a little. lol.
I hope they have an attendent watching. Putting an unattended, round, mesh-covered hole on anything in Walmart and you’re just asking for a disturbing 911 call.
Nope. Still not enough to make me want to visit PA.
The state could pay out $100 every time you buy a bottle of wine and it still would not be a state worth visiting.
Parking Wars is great. Best anti-PA material ever made.
Whoa, there big guy (or gal) Philly (PPA aside) & Pittsburg are pretty nice places with good food culture etc, the rest of the state……meh
Granted the Liquor Control Board in Pa is antiquated . But a whole state dismissed as being not worth visiting? Okay.
Yeah I didn’t understand that either.
“Whoops! North Dakota has the letter ‘K’ in its name! Can’t visit there, cause I’m from a ‘K’ hatin family!”
The icing on the cake is using a reality TV show as the basis for an opinion of the whole state.
Some Wegmans stores in PA also have these. From what I have seen, the machine works well. The interface is similar to an ATM, and yes, it prints a receipt and there are even bags on the side of the machine. Although this particular store also has a “Wine & Spirits” in the same center, so it’s just there out of convenience more than anything. This store also sells beer in the cafe’ through a “restaurant take-out” license.
(Side note: this store also has another machine, CHIRP, owned by Redbox, that vends $100 purses and jewelry).
Seems like an awful lot of trouble to go to just to buy wine-and it looks like you can’t browse?
You can, sorta. The system lets you read up on whatever bottle is your desire.
So, you have to wait in line behind who were “browsing”? You can buy wine elsewhere, right?
In the store, no. The kiosk is the ONLY place you can buy wine. Bottled, at least. Our licensed area where we sell all kinds of beer DOES sell wine by the glass, but the selection is extremely limited in comparison to what’s in the kiosk.
If you wish to buy wine elsewhere, my store apparently sells non-alcoholic wine of some sort up front. But honestly, I’d much sooner go to a state store. While I think the kiosks are indeed a step forward in PA’s alcohol laws, I flat out refuse to submit to a breathalyser test just to purchase a bottle of wine.
I work in a store that has one of these. Never bought anything from it, but the sounds constantly coming from it are downright irritating. All I can hear when I’m trying to serve/cook for customers is “We are required to perform a test to measure your Breath Alcohol Concentration. Please take your bottles. PLEASE TAKE YOUR BOTTLES. Please close door. PLEASE CLOSE DOOR.”
And heaven help me/my coworkers whenever the kiosk is down for whatever reason. I was working on Thanksgiving, and since the state stores were shut down, so was the kiosk. We had people absolutely flipping their lids because they couldn’t get their wine.
Then there’s the people that show up to the kiosk after having one or two drinks. The machine will NOT let them purchase wine. I’ve seen it fail someone after using mouthwash. The limit is set really, REALLY low, methinks. Even better when someone shows up and they don’t have their license. I’ve actually had people demand that I give them MY license so they could purchase wine. Never mind that the machine is watched by CCTV, I’d certainly lose my job, and it’s all sorts of illegal.
I sure hope it’s bringing business to the store, ’cause it’s all kinds of annoying to me and many of my coworkers. But hey, more business, more hours, and hopefully fewer days that we’re sickeningly short-staffed, despite being an INCREDIBLY busy department.
So now I’m picturing People of Walmart + blowing breath into a hole in a machine + toting wine out in a plastic jug.
Oh. My. Gosh.
Yet another proud moment for my Commonwealth.
If you’re from Pittsburgh, West Virginia is close enough to avoid these monstrosities.
Walmart* + LCB = FAIL.
If they do do this, one might be in the Wal-mart down the road from me. | http://consumerist.com/2010/12/10/walmart-wants-in-on-pennsylvania-wine-vending-machine-bonanza/ | 2013-05-18T10:12:39 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Coupons are like horses, in that depending on how you handle them, they can either take you on enjoyable, smooth rides or buck you off and leave you trampled and broken.
A post Coupon Sense submitted to us helps you bridle and train coupons.
Among the gems in the post is the suggestion not to rush out and use coupons as soon as you can:
A big mistake consumers make is not waiting for the good sale.
Instead, people feel rushed to use the coupon soon after it’s been published. Be patient, and wait for the good sale so you save the most.
Another big mistake is when people don’t buy in multiples.
When Ragu is 30 cents a jar, you’ll want to get 3 or 4 to last you until the next great sale like that.
So, getting multiple papers on Sunday or getting extra coupons from your relatives or neighbors really helps.
Do you find coupons worth the hassle? How do you get the most out of them?
8 things every shopper should know to save big on groceries [Coupon Sense]
Thanks to Michelle!
If you get the Sunday paper every week and save enough money from the coupons to cover the cost of the paper and maybe save more money after that, it’s worth it. I don’t spend a lot of time clipping coupons; maybe a half hour? I only clip the ones I know I’ll use.
One instance of combining deals and coupons: We stock canned soup during the winter because if I get sick, I stop cooking (because cooking while germy is bad). The local store was doing a Buy 2/Get 2 Free deal at $2.50 a can. For $5 you get four cans. I had a coupon for $1 off four cans and because of the way the register rings up canned goods, I got four cans of soup at $1 each. This was a pretty great deal to me because without a coupon I wouldn’t have saved that dollar. I got 12 cans of soup and saved $3 because I had three coupons (Progresso coupons are a dime a dozen).
I only subscribe to the Sunday edition of my local paper but the subscription pays for itself many times over. For the entire year it costs me $104. Most weeks the store were I buy nearly all my clothing has 20% or 25% off coupons. Last week alone I saved over $50 thanks to those coupons on items I was purchasing no matter what, and I bet I save close to $400 total each year. Proctor and Gamble also has good coupons once a month that saves me a lot of money on things like body wash and shampoo.
Argh, out here in California the sunday coupons are pretty much doo doo. Nothing much that you want to buy.
I do however get good email coupons once a week from Raleys, a local chain for nice deals like free products if you spend 20, or just this week I got 15 dollars off 100 spent. Safeway email coupons on the other hand are useless.
Is that a deal, though? Wegmans canned soup is $1/can withOUT coupons.
Yep. It is a deal because I don’t like store brand soup. I don’t live near Wegmans anymore, but even when I did, I didn’t like store brand soup. I mean, if we’re talking about money as being the only criteria to what is a “deal,” the Campbells condensed soups are 50 cents a can, but that stuff is pretty disgusting, IMO. Way much sodium and barely any nutrition.
I think I know where you shop, I got the same deal on the soup this week. Good job!
If someone needs a product, and they decide to use a couple to buy that product, I fail to see how it’s some sort of pitfall.
The consumer received some value from the coupon. Maybe it wasn’t the maximum possible mathematical value, but they received values regardless.
Unless a coupon makes you pay more for a product, I don’t see any pitfalls at all.
Make that ‘decide to use a coupon’.
I should finish my coffee before commenting.
I skipped over a coupon for Philadelphia brand cream cheese because even with the coupon (it was like 50 cents off for two packs) the store brand was still cheaper because it was on sale for 99 cents each. Sometimes the coupon makes the name brand cheaper, and sometimes it doesn’t. I’ve had the most luck with laundry detergent, but I only buy one brand and stock up when it is on sale. We haven’t run out of laundry detergent in a year.
Coupon worth has been going downward over the last several years, depending on where you shop. It used to be the grocery stores would double the coupon, no matter the value. Then it was double, but only if the coupon was under $1. Then it became double, but only up to $1, thereby making the $.75 coupon only worth $1 and not $1.50.
Coupons also went down in value when it changed from $.50 off one item to $.50 off two.
I still carry mine with me and try to wait until the item is on sale to use the coupon. There’s a lot less I buy with coupon now than I used to. It also seems that most of the time, even with the coupon and a sale, the store brand is cheaper. If its a product I’m good with the store brand on, no need for the coupon on the pricier name brand.
Coupon codes for websites can be pretty great. Sometimes they even sway where I buy an item. Print coupons aren’t usually of interest to me. I don’t buy the local paper, as the coupons aren’t enough to make it worthwhile. Other types of prints coupons just tend to remind me how cheaply I can get that same item online. The coupons I get directly from the grocery store never seem quite right. I know they’re supposed to reflect the things you buy, buy it’s always a little bit of a Twilight Zone version of what I’ve bought. Harumph.
The biggest trouble I see with coupons is that many of them are for products which are overpriced or unnecessary in the first place. When I see a coupon for something I already know I am going to buy, then it’s a convenient discount. Coupons for a certain amount or percentage off with a purchase of at least a certain amount at a store are also very nice if I shop at that store anyway.
I can’t keep up with the super-coupon types who spend half a day researching and printing coupons and a few more hours with shopping. Makes plenty of sense if you’re unemployed, underemployed, or otherwise have the means to spend the time needed. For me, I’ll stick to standard frugal choices and using coupons that coincide with what I use.
This is why I’ve given up on coupons for the most part. Twenty years ago, our Safeway would double coupons, and I used them on a regular basis. Now I find that name-brand products STILL cost more than the store or generic brands, even with the (now none-doubled) coupon. The only way a coupon saves me money these days is if I was going to buy the product (including that particular brand of the product) anyway. And that isn’t very often.
My Safeway sends circulars with coupons for a lot of its store brand items and for name brand items. And on most weekends, any coupons you bring double.
I agree. I rarely see coupons for things I buy, which are mostly the basics.
More importantly, since I’m one person and live in an apt with limited storage I find it difficult to buy in bulk.
I try to shop sales and grocery discount stores (where the prices are always good!) instead.
Don’t waste money with a coupon for something you would never have bought in the first place. The inserts in the paper are full of processed crap food that is overpriced in the first place. I don’t get that stuff and it saves me nothing to add it to my grocery list just because there’s a coupon. I try to only use the ones for things I already buy, like toothpaste, cleaning supplies and toiletries.
That said, if there’s something I’d like to try and there’s a coupon, that helps a little.
Indeed there are a lot of coupons I don’t use. I think the majority of coupons I get in the paper get tossed out, but I love the coupons for canned goods and pasta. And there are always coupons for toothpaste and other staples. I bought a tube of toothpaste for 77 cents thanks to a store sale and a coupon.
Coupons are great except when you have a crappy printer then not sogood. The main issue I have with coupons is that you basically have to case the supermarket to find prices on non-sale items with decent enough coupons. I really wish they’d make it standard-practice for any given grocery store to list the prices of all their items online with inventory synched to the stores internal system.
Theres also the chance you get an incompetent cashier which makes some coupons a pain in the posterior. It’d be cool if you had the option to shop online for the groceries and pick them up in the store.
I’m definitely a fan of coupons, but I agree with some of the other posters here: don’t use a coupon if you weren’t planning on purchasing the item anyway.
Over time, I’ve gotten less enthusiastic about spending time clipping coupons for household items, and I instead spend more time looking for larger deals on bigger ticket items and services that I plan to purchase. It’s a far better use of time to save 50 dollars than to save 50 cents on something you’d definitely purchase.
I’m really not trying to sound pretentious here, but I don’t generally think it’s worth my time to flip through those big coupon circulars (think P&G), when I think of what else I could be doing with that time and effort. Moreover, when you ignore those big coupon packs, you also ignore the advertising that is the true purpose of the coupon in the first place. (Well, advertising and first-degree price discrimination.)
Those little savings really add up, though. On the bottom of my receipt it shows how much we’ve saved throughout the year from store deals (this is just one store), and the number from yesterday’s receipt was somewhere around $570. Then again, we rent so our maintenance is taken care of, and we don’t buy big ticket items. The coupons for food items and household goods are the best way of saving money off staple items.
A better way of saving money is to buy store-brand and generic items or shop at discount stores like ALDI. I stopped using coupons because the name-brand item was STILL more expensive (even after the coupon) than other alternatives. Of course, for some people, non-name-brand products aren’t “good enough” (despite the fact that I’ve found that most ALDI products are actually BETTER than the name-brand of the same item). These nose-in-the-air types pay a price (willingly, apparently) for their snobbery. I’d rather have the money to spend on other things.
Are you really trying to say that people who have different taste preferences are pretentious? God forbid we have different opinions. (Not to mention that sales+coupons mean that most of the time I’m buying brand-names for cheaper than store brand).
I’m pretty sure you’re the one who is being pretentious. I wasn’t saying that using coupons was the best way, but that I had saved $570 through coupons and store deals. I pretty much only buy generic store brand items so if you’re trying to make anyone think that buying store brand (or liking different things) is pretentious, you need to revisit your line of thought because your attitude toward people liking different things makes YOU the snob.
“so if you’re trying to make anyone think that buying *name brand (or liking different things) is pretentious, ” is what I meant.
I’d like to know who exactly suggested that using coupons always provides the best deal. I recently got a coupon for Quaker oatmeal. I kept it in my wallet but did not use it because the store brand was lower in price. However, one week there was a special on Quaker oatmeal which made it cheaper than the store brand before coupon. So I used the coupon then.
Also, all products are not equal. Sometimes you can pay less and get the same quality but not always. There’s been times I thought I’d be able to save money by buying store brand but I ended up disappointed. Sometimes I even found that the store brand tasted nasty. Is this what you are advocating? Save money by eating nasty stuff? Or are you trying to convince us that if it tastes okay to you, then it should taste okay to everyone else because you are some sort of connoisseur?
Get over yourself, will ya?
I work in a hotel, so we have stacks of Sunday papers sitting around every week. I get to take all the circulars inside. Shabang!
I gave up and walked out of a CVS the other day after waiting in line behind a single customer for over 5 minutes. This woman was trying to work a complex transaction involving three identical bottles of contact lens solution, three CVS cards, three coupons as well as the store manager and two cashiers studying the flyer.
I put my $12.00 package of razor blades on the counter, went to Walmart and got the same package for $9.00.
I cannot stand that. I appreciate people trying to get a deal .. but when it starts to interfere with my purchase, it becomes my problem. I’ve done exactly what you’ve said .. walked right out.
That’s where it becomes the store’s fault, not the consumer (at least in most cases).
I’ll place fault on both, evenly.
If she’s using multiple cards, then yes…she bears more of the blame. Most of the time, however, it’s the store not having enough cashiers (or poorly trained cashiers) or having confusing rules for their promotions.
It’s worth mentioning that I’m not just speaking of the situation laid out here, but of any situation where the use of coupons gets in the way of a quick store purchase.
That’s harsh. It’s the coupon person’s fault that the line is held up? Glad your time is so much more valuable than the person who got in line in front of you.
And you then burned $3 in gas driving to Walmart.
The biggest problem with coupons is that some people feel obligated to use them. Companies offer them so they can get people to buy things that they normally would not. Some people need to remember that just because they have a coupon doesn’t mean they HAVE to use it.
For all the people who think it’s pointless to cut out a coupon for something you don’t usually buy/need, let me offer a suggestion: If it’s a basic household or food item, cut it out anyway, check the local store circulars and see if you can get the item for pennies/free. Then take what you get down to your local shelter or rescue mission — they’ll appreciate it, and if you’re up for the paperwork you can deduct the purchases from your taxes.
We donate several bags of food and personal hygiene items a year this way, all at little to no cost to us and hardly any extra effort above shopping for ourselves alone.
That’s my hobby. I’m a huge coupon geek which enables me to feed my own family and provide hundreds of dollars worth of groceries, toiletries and household supplies to our local “free store” for the needy. Let me give you an example: My grocery store was running a sale on chili for $.75 a can. My coupon was $.50 which doubled to a dollar. I bought 40 cans of chili for the food pantry and “earned” $10 for my own groceries. I love doing it and it helps others; what could be better?
Not waiting for a sale and then using the coupon is only a mistake if your goal is get the most value out of your coupon. A penny saved is a penny saved! I love coupons and get the most out of them when I combine them with sales, which is what most aggressive couponers do. The only thing annoying about couponing is competing with the stay-at-home-mom psychos that clear the shelves.
However, I will note I lost 40lbs in the past 1.5 years adhering to the guideline of NOT eating anything I had a coupon for, with logical exceptions. Seriously. So for the most part now I just hit drugstores w/ coupons for cheap hygiene stuff and whatnot.
I don’t find couponing that time consuming at all. Today for instance, I flipped through the ShopRite online flyer, saw some items I wanted, and made a list. Then I googled around (slickdeals and hotcouponworld are great sites as people provide matchups to coupons that are out there), and printed some coupons, and will save $6 or so when I go this week.
The thing is, newspaper coupons pretty much suck except for new or specialty items. Printable coupons are where it’s at, as they are usually lower value (eg. 50 cents off 1 instead of $1 off two), but since my grocery stores all double them, it works out well. I spend 30 minutes tops, on doing the above.
Our newspaper’s coupons are 50/50 new things and staples, and this time of year especially there are a lot of coupons for baking basics. Got a free bag of flour last week thanks to the coupon/store promo combo!
My problems with coupons:
1. I probably can’t find coupons for stuff I already buy.
2. If I do find a coupon it’s lame, like 30 cents off when you buy two of something
3. The generic brand is still cheaper than the item with the coupon.
Usually generic brands combined with supermarket club discounts are enough for me to not bother with coupon clipping.
As much as I can appreciate saving money, coupons are in most cases, not worth my while. I generally buy specific brands and items when I shop so I won’t load up on cheap groceries that I would not normally have bought just because I can save a few bucks. Another point is that my time is way more valuable than I’ll ever save using coupons unless they’re those instant coupons that are dispensed right above the item on the shelf.
I don’t bother with coupons because I mostly don’t eat the process chemical crap that is usually discounted. Most of our grocery purchases are for whole ingredients, which we then cook to make healthy meals (ok, well sometimes we go overboard on the cream and sugar, but its not filled with preservatives). When I tried couponing earlier this year, we were buying things we didn’t want to be eating, and not really saving much money.
You should re-examine your attitude. I cook all of our meals from scratch, and we definitely try to eat healthful foods. I am an avid coupon user. In the past few weeks I’ve collected coupons for these things: pasta, clementines, grapes, milk, meat, and juice. I would hardly call any of these “processed,” with the exception of dry pasta, which is minimally processed. In fact, I very rarely buy orange juice at full price because I’ve always got a coupon, even when the store hasn’t put it on sale.
Ummm…pasta and juice are both processed foods. And, I’ve never seen a coupon for meat that wasn’t for some kind of processed meat.
I take advantage of all the online coupon sites that put coupons onto your shopping card, such as shortcuts.com, cellfire.com, and even the supermarket sites themselves.
Sometimes when the same coupon is added to your card (e.g. Shortcuts likes to “renew” coupons with newer expiration dates, but the older ones haven’t expired), the checkout machine will honor both coupons automatically, and sometimes you don’t have to buy multiples of the item.
For example, Vons was having a sale on certain Progresso soups for $1.11 each. I had two separate Shortcuts coupons for 50 cents off of two Progresso soups. I bought two soups, and both coupons activated (inadvertently, as I only bought two soups, not four). So, I got two soups for $1.22 ($1.11 + $1.11 – $0.50 – $0.50).
If I had an actual paper coupon, I would have saved even more, as the checker wouldn’t know what coupon kicked in, as it only says “Mfr. coupon” on the screen.
I actually enjoy couponing, which is the main reason I do it. If I save occassional cash because of it, all the better.
When you pay careful attention you will notice the trends and you can utilize your savings. I do enjoy getting things free or almost free. That is worth the effort. New ideas being heavily marketed usually have the most “bang for the buck” when it comes to the sale + coupon combo. I got two Bailey’s flavored creamers for free this past week.
But realize I went to the effort because it is fun for me. If it is an item you definitely use, full price or not, then yes, it is worth it. Luxury items get a bit cheaper, like Tide. I cant afford it full price. Sale + coupon means it is $5 not $8.99. (plus tax)
Outside of cleaning supplies, I’ve never had much luck with coupons. Store brands are typically cheaper than name brands, even with coupons. Coupons are also disproportionately for processed foods and not meat or produce.
I have occasionally used coupons for toiletries, but never for food. I don’t eat processed faux foods and I never see coupons for real whole foods.
Items with hot coupons will often have bare spots on the shelves for a few days after the coupon appears in the paper. This is my strategy:
* Only clip coupons for things or brands you like. This cuts down impulse buying.
* Buy a cheap 5-8 pocket folder at the dollar store. Mine is storted as “Fast Food”, “Cleaning”, “Health and Beauty”, “Frozen” and “Other”.
* Most coupons expire at the end of the month (or the following month) after being published. Be sure to remove expired coupons each month.
* For stores that double or triple-coupon, watch sales. Near the end of the month, I pull all the ready to expire coupons and see if it’s worth redeeming them while shopping.
* Compare and be sure the coupon is actually a good deal. If the coupon is $1 off and the store brand is just as good at $3 less, the store brand is still the better deal.. | http://consumerist.com/2010/12/13/pitfalls-and-advantages-of-coupons/ | 2013-05-18T10:13:59 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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I am a long time GameStop customer. I have patronized their company for close to 10 years, and being just a 20 year old, I have a lot more time and money to spend with them.
As I’m writing this, I still can’t believe it. I used to read the Consumerist and think “How can someone just stop going to a store over something so small?” But now, I completely understand.
I am a Mac (let the Windows/Mac debate begin). I take great pride in my personal computer. However, I also LOVE Windows and all things Microsoft. I grew up with Windows and never understood why Apple users felt so cut off from the rest of the gaming world. A recent trip and later chat with GameStop sure made me understand the difficulties of gaming with an Apple computer.
I went to a local GameStop (actually a couple) to purchase a PC game that is compatible with both Windows and Mac OS X. GameStop, it seems, has deemed physical copies of PC games to be obsolete, which I can understand. I noticed a sign that said something along the lines of “Don’t see the game you want? Download your favorite PC games at *URL*!” Curious, I approached the sales associate, who was MORE than helpful, and he ordered the game for me, I paid, and I was given a receipt with a download code and instructions on the bottom.
I return home to redeem the game with the code I had. Following the instructions, I’m told to download a program known as Impulse in order to download the game itself. I go to the page on GameStop’s website, enter the code to download Impulse, only to download a .exe file (If you don’t know, .exe only works on Windows computers.).
Moderately peeved, I immediately sent an email to the support email address listed on the bottom of the receipt. Essentially, my email said “The game I purchased to download in store works for my Mac, but your program doesn’t. Is there anything that can be done?” Their reply, paraphrased, was “Sorry, you can’t download our games onto your Mac, and we can’t refund any money on downloaded games.”
This did upset me, but I decided to begin to think of ways around it. A day or so later, I came to the conclusion to give the code to a friend of mine so that he could enjoy the game, and I would purchase the physical copy whenever I had the funds in the future. I gave him the code and the instructions, but he was met with a page that said “Someone else has already claimed that code.” Now, I may have entered the code into their site in order to download a program, NOT install it, but I couldn’t even get to the part where I claimed the game in any form whatsoever.
Rather angry by now, I emailed GameStop once more. This time, I politely asked if there were some way for them to allow my friend to either use that code or cancel it and give him a new one. GameStop replied with the same schtick, “We are unable to refund your order blah blah blah…”
I sent a strongly worded email following that stating that if there was no way to fix this situation, they would be losing a long time customer. I’ve received no email from them since.
This game cost me $20. Sure, it’s not the largest amount of money, and it IS just a game, but I feel completely cheated. There was nothing in the store that told me that I would not be able to play a PC game on my PC just because it didn’t have Windows as its operating system. Their own website doesn’t even state that Impulse is only compatible with Windows. A quick Google search told me that I am not the first person to have been cheated out of their money from GameStop for this very same situation.
I guess what I want out of this is acknowledgement from GameStop that they are wrong and should be more vocal with their OS compatibility. Also, it’d be nice if this could serve as a warning to all Mac gamers out there. $20 wouldn’t hurt either
Update: We heard from a GameStop higher-up, who let us know that the employee who sold Brett that code wasn’t following policy.
BootCamp?
Did you bother to even read the story? He gave the download code to a friend since he couldn’t use it and the website claimed it had already been redeemed, despite the fact that he never actually downloaded, installed, or ran the program in question. In other words, the GameStop system is terribly designed. If you lose your network connection while trying to download a game you buy from them then you’re screwed and out of your money. Once you enter your code you have that one chance to successfully download the program, and they won’t help you if the download fails.
That’s not how it works at all. Once the code is associated with your account (“claimed”) you can download the game infinity times. Even if you’ve downloaded it all, installed it, played it, and then your computer breaks, you can just download it again on your new computer.
Digital distribution isn’t new, and as a mac user I’m surprised he didn’t take a minute to check to make sure it would work.
Yeah, well I have first hand experience with their system. What you said is true…if they give you a working code in the first place. They provided me with a used code when I bought Batman: AC through Impulse. Then all hell broke loose. They had absolutely no idea how to remedy the problem…pointing me to Warner Bros, GFWL, GameStop, etc. Took 1.5 weeks and about 5 hours of work on my part to get it resolved, and that was only after threatening them with BBB and mailing the State AG.
Okay, on the same token…how could Gamestop sell a Windows/Mac game, but have no way for Mac users to download the damn game?
> Okay, on the same token…how could Gamestop sell a Windows/Mac game, but have no way for Mac users to download the damn game?
You’re confusing the issue a little bit. Just because a game has been built for both Windows and Mac does not mean that every copy of the game in existence will run on both. When you buy a physical copy of a game designed to run on both – say anything by Blizzard for example – what you’re really getting is both a Mac copy and a PC copy on the same disc. Your computer’s smart enough to figure out which one it needs to run.
Impulse is a Windows-only service. There’s no reason to even be concerned with the Mac build of a game… for the same reason Mass Effect 3 has been built for PC, Xbox 360, and PS3, but you can only buy the PS3 version on the Playstation Store and the PC version on Origin. Why would the service sell you a copy of a game that it’s not designed for?
OP should not be having this much trouble getting his $20 back, but he also should have confirmed with the person in the store that he’d be able to access Impulse on his Mac. The answer would have been a resounding “no” and he never would have made the purchase to start with.
While I generally agree with you, if you’re not aware of the existence of Impulse, how would you know to ask?
This is unfortunately where we are today: people that staff these stores and do this kind of work aren’t expected to or even try to think for themselves. It is surprising to me that the person he spoke to could not divine enough of his need from their conversation (or from his own prior experience with difficulties customers have had) to proactively offer advice about what might happen when he got home. So, we’re left to believe either: a) the person didn’t care, knowing the purchase was non-refundable, or b) the individual is so minimally competent as to be capable of nothing more than ringing a sale and taking money.
I’m pretty sure I’ve got programs on Impulse that I’ve downloaded more than once. The game is most likely tied to his account.
Redeeming and downloading are two entirely different things. The moment he entered the code into the site (that coincidentally states windows pc download) he redeemed it. So the code was, in fact, used. Once redeemed, it cannot be transferred. This is the same with many other digital download services, steam included.
I’m not sure where you’re getting your information, but you can download the program over and over and over and over again. The following was taken directly from the support page.
[quote]If I reformat my hard drive or get a new computer, will I need to purchase my games again?
No. Your games are forever tied to your GameStop PC Downloads account and can be re-downloaded at a later time (as many times as you want). Just reinstall the GameStop App to your PC, login with your existing account, and re-download your games![quote]
If your connection fails, you simply download the game again. It is tied to the OP’s account, so he/she can download it as many times as they wish, provided they use Windows XP, Vista, or Windows 7, as stated in the system requirements.
BootCamp just makes running Windows possible. Last I checked Mac OS X doesn’t come with a Windows license and $200 is a lot of money to spend just to play a $20 game. Sure he could pirate, but then why not just pirate the Mac version of the game?
DING DING we have a winner.
You paid for the game; now go play the game in peace and good conscience. If you have to download it, then that is NOT ILLEGAL for you because you have the “right to copy” specified by “copyright” law. Nor is it unethical, which should be quite obvious, and for many people like me is the controlling issue.
Shut down this thread, because esc27 answered the question of how to solve the problem.
Are you new? Does this site do that?
But your Honor, some guy on the internet told me it wasn’t illegal for me to do. You have to let me go!
You do not buy games. You buy licenses to play games. The OP needs to go to and download the mac version of the game. Install it and Voila he has a perfectly legal game. Just make sure you read the comments and use little snitch to make sure your download does not contain a trojan hidden in it.
RETURN POLICY – Software published by GameStop:
We require that you utilize our technical support services prior to issuing a refund. Tech support can be contacted at downloadsupport@gamestop.com. charge for technical support”. That’s probably because they don’t have any. Whatever their little Return policy says, just toss it out the window. They won’t abide by it. They have absolutely no idea what they are doing. Calling them and emailing them results in no resolution.
That’s good to know, I’ve been thinking about getting back into some PC games. Looks like I won’t be going through gamestop for downloaded games
I strongly recommend that the OP reach out to the local store and ask to speak to the District Manager. You may want to also find out the District Manager’s home store and their number for somewhat easier access to this person. If you get a hold of him/her or when they call you back, politely and coherently tell them what happened and where the confusion came from. They will most likely help you with little fuss. Make sure to point out that at the time of purchase, no warning about the comparability of the service was noted and that is where the transaction took a wrong turn.
The DM’s are generally very helpful.
Email the publisher and let them know of the issue. I would bet they would take care of you; they want you to play their game!
The publisher doesn’t care whether you got to play their game or not, they just want the sell so they can move onto the next project. You would have better luck reaching out to the Developers and hoping they have a way of getting you a copy.
Not every game publisher is EA.
Thank god they won the WCIA!
As a long time gamer, the only thing I can say is steer clear of Impulse and GameStop. GS is fine if you want to simply pay max price on console games.
If you buy anything through Impulse and you have a problem (game didn’t finish downloading, their game code doesn’t work…etc.), they literally have no authority to remedy anything. Oh, they have people manning the phones, but they have absolutely no interest in helping you. Think of calling a scummy call center while someone on the other end chews gum and files their nails while you explain a problem to them, and they simply repeat the same spiel back at you repeated for 30 minutes like a parrot. No, the supervisor isn’t available. Maybe call back tomorrow at 8 am and he’ll be here. And despite Impulse being owned by GameStop, they are apparently 2 different companies. They do not have the authority or ability to work with each other. Apparently their systems aren’t linked in any way. After the last fiasco I had with GS and Impulse, I can safely say I will never every do business with either of them again.
I guess I don’t really understand why someone would buy a virtual product at a B&M store. That completely defeats the purpose, and this seems a little like bait-n-switch on Gamestop’s part.
If you want a game that exists only as a download, might as well buy it through Steam. It works on PC and Mac, and there’s finally been solid confirmation that the Steam native Linux client is substantially closer to becoming a reality. Yeah, it sucks that Valve sometimes bans Steam users for perceived cheating, but most don’t have any problem and at least you can play the games you buy across platforms and don’t have to worry about having your game broken by DRM because you tried to reinstall the game one time too many.
Mind you the bans for cheaters were only bans on servers using Valve’s anti-cheat technology. If you just play single player games you have nothing to worry about. Neither did the cheaters. Of course VAC servers are the only ones worth playing on.
With regards to those wrongly accused of cheating, most of the stories I’ve seen usually involve the complainant letting someone else use their account. Maybe my time in IT has left me a suspicious misanthrope, but NEVER share a user account with anyone. If you shared the account info once, it’s likely to get shared again and again with people you don’t know.
You do raise an interesting point. It’s probably good to have two Steam accounts, one for your library of single-player games, and another one for multiplayer games, so if there is a complaint, you don’t lose everything. I tend to like to have all multiplayer games as standalone products because of the politics surrounding them and the inflated perception of value that makes them desirable phishing & hijacking targets. It seems like a good idea to limit the potential fallout.
But yeah, it’s a bad idea to let others use the account, especially share it in such a way that the time played in a multiplayer is exorbitant and looks like someone is either sharing the account or using a bot.
If you only have cash it may be your only option.
“(let the Windows/Mac debate begin)”
Well, yeah, maybe 15 years ago…
Also, the only right answer is chargeback, so that way Gamestop loses your business and you don’t lose any money.
Chargeback or small claims court. Granted, the filing fee for small claims may be more than the game is worth, but NOTHING says peeved customer like a lawsuit.
steampowered.com
^OP’s new best friend.
This. Steam is the only way to get games on the Mac platform these days if you’re going the Digital Download route.
I was about to post exactly this. Plus Steam has some awesome sales each weekend and during the holidays.
Sounds like a classic case of “chargeback” if I ever heard one.
This is why I’ll be the last, bitter, hold out in favour of physical media.
And once they kill discs and I’m forced to buy downloaded content I’ll be buying *much* less of it.
If some B&M store told me to go home and get online and buy them game online after I just spent my time and $ on going there in the first place Id go back home and log on to my Amazon Prime and buy it there. Screw that.
I second that…
Exactly! And you can get a physical copy for cheaper than a digital copy…
> Rather angry by now, I emailed GameStop once more.
Stop right there. Stop e-mailing GameStop and go back to the store.
This. An email gets binned with a single mouse-click, possibly without even being read. A customer physically in the store demanding either a working copy of the game or a refund is a lot harder to ignore.
What’s the game?
They lost my business over a lot less than $20 bucks. I gave up there when they stopped carrying PC games in any meaningful quantity, and when they started pushing pre-orders and other junk so relentlessly. There’s simply no point for me to ever shop at a brick and mortar store again.
When Skyrim came out, I went to my local GameStop to see if they had it. I had preordered it through NewEgg, but shipping was going to take way longer than I had anticipated. I looked around the store and found nothing. I asked the clerk if they had Skyrim in stock. He responded with: “Did you pre-order it?” “No” “Well it’s not in stock then.”
Skyrim still isn’t in stock at most GameStops around here that do carry PC games (most do not).
Do you still have the .exe file? Give that to your friend.
I think you misunderstood the post. The EXE file he has is not the game. It is just the Impulse program required to install the game. Once installing this EXE, the friend would need to sign in and would find that the game download is not associated with his account.
thats what you get for not just pirating it! :p (seriously what do they think people will do when they are treated like this! )
“Download your favorite PC games at *URL*!”
I’ve never known the term PC games to also include Mac.
Also, just copy the downloaded .exe file to a flash drive and give it to your friend.
PC=computer, versus game console. In this context, it covers Win, Mac, Linux, or ANY OS on a regular computer.
Again, I’ve never known it to include anything other than DOS/Windows based products. The term came from the old IBM/PC line of computers which weren’t Mac compatible.
Media bastardized the true meaning of PC (Personal Computer) to mean only the Windows OS. When it actually has nothing to do with the operating system. Kind of like how they misuse the term hacker, which is always misused; when they actually should be using the term cracker.
PC was originally a model of an IBM computer. If anything the media bastardized it to mean any personal computer.
> Media bastardized the true meaning of PC (Personal Computer) to mean only the Windows OS.
The hell they did. The IBM PC was launched over 30 years ago. Software all through the 80s was sold as being IBM PC-compatible or otherwise, and that was to denote compatibility with the hardware, not with a specific OS.
As I said above, even Apple’s own commercials called them Macs and PCs.
Even Apple’s own commercials distinguish them as Macs and PCs.
Gamestop is NOT the place to buy PC games. Many of their stores don’t even carry PC games and most that do have a pitfully small selection. They can’t sell them preowned so they don’t really care about them.
That said, go back to the store and talk to the manager, he or she might be able to help. They can override corporate in certain situations.
If that fails go to the survey link at the bottom of your receipt and give them bottom of the barrel scores. That will catch the attention of a District Manager (trust me they live and die by those surveys) who can help you.
Doing the survey with all negative results has worked beautifully for me to get service from Gamestop in the past.
Sounds like OP only tried one contact avenue. They need to kick it up the chain and find some new contact names to bug. Time for an EECB?
chargeback.
I concur with others that said to reach out to a local store. Officially, a refund is not allowed on digital content, but the company’s strong customer service focus will override that, even if that focus was not made obvious with Impulse technical support. Go to your local store and speak to the store manager. Explain the issues you’ve been having in a calm way (because niceness goes a long way when you need assistance), explain that you’d like to continue shopping with GameStop, and ask if there’s anything they or their DM can do to help.
Protip: GameStop’s email addresses for DMs are usually firstnamelastname@gamestop.com, so if you can get their name you can try that route, although I would try the store manager first before going over their head.
Also, if you do go to a store and they do help you, make sure you take their survey. The district manager and regional VPs read those surveys and not enough people tell them when a store does a *good* job.
In my corporate experience, if you go to the regional or district manager, you get what you want, no matter how stupid you’re being – they’re not there to deal with customer issues since it should never reach that high. In our store, our manager gives in just to stop that from happening… But believe me, the floor associates will remember you after that…
Exactly. This is why I think he should take the issue to the store manager first. He will more than likely get what he wants without needing to bother with emailing the DM.
I don’t see why the floor associates would remember him negatively, especially if he doesn’t act like a jerk. Heck, he might even have such a good experience he’ll keep coming back and the associates will remember him – because he’s a regular.
It sounds like fraud to me: bait and switch. They sold you a Mac game which requires Windows. I suggest small claims for the $20 plus the maximum possible other damages to make it worth your time. Also picketing the store will probably be enough to get the manager to find a way to get you that refund they claim is impossible.
Wait… people still go to Gamestop?!
I actually went to my local gamestop to purchase a DSi because I wanted to see the condition it was in before purchasing it. Their DSi’s were very worn and scratched so I asked about the 3DS. Got one in pristine condition for maybe $30 more plus I get to play games that come out in only 3D now. Like the re-release of Ocarina of Time.
I like to see my used good before purchasing, if the price difference isn’t too large… and GameStop had delivered for me, console-wise.
Where do you go to shop for video games when you want one right there and then?
For PC Games? Steam. GameStop sure as hell doesn’t carry them. Have you
I am usually first to raise a pitchfork against Gamestop but I’m with them on this one for one simple fact.
“Download your favorite PC games at”
You saw this in the store and full well knowing you use a Mac still tried to purchase it. You should know that a PC game is not a Mac game and of course if you have any decent experience using a Mac you should know by now that you bought the wrong type of computer for playing games. Take all that money you’re never gonna spend at GS again and go buy a real computer.
PC = Personal Computer. Just because Apple tried to re-define PC to mean a non-Apple product does not change the definition.
A Mac isn’t a computer for a person?
I think we are arguing the same thing – a PC = Personal Computer, AKA Windows, Mac, Linux, etc.
Then maybe you should re-read the article there smart guy. If they are selling a game, which they are, as being able to be installed on the Windows OS and Mac OS then shouldn’t they have a way for people to use it on a Mac…let alone the ability to download it to the Mac.
Reading the OP’s saga, it sounds as though the clerk really doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
Impulse is PC(Windows) only, and as such does not deal with Mac games. So it really sounds as though the clerk sold OP the downloadable PC version. There isn’t a downloadable Mac version.
Perhaps OP and the clerk were confused about the meaning of “PC”?
I had a similar experience with Game Stop and Impulse. I purchased a game for my daughter for $10 and then went to download it. I was informed that I had to download the Impulse software to her computer to run the game. I only wanted the game and not the Impulse software. So I contacted customer service and they told me that they do not give refunds on downloadable games and that I must install their bloatware on her computer to use the game.
So I contacted PayPal to get a refund on my $10 since I never downloaded the game and had no intention of doing so. PayPal contacted Game Stop and they said they would not refund any money for downloadable games. So I lost my $10.
It is a good warning for people to know what Game Stop and Impulse are up to. I hope there is a nice class action lawsuit against them at some point soon. They will get what they deserve for ripping off so many people.
“PayPal contacted Game Stop and they said they would not refund any money for downloadable games. So I lost my $10.”
Get out…
PayPal contacted the other party before arbitrarily refunding? Who knew?
(This is not a shot at you, budanatr, just for the record)
I don’t understand how this isn’t fraud. Chargeback or sue. They didn’t deliver the game as promised. The represented to you when you purchased the code that you could run the game on your Mac. Also, file a report with the state AG, and complain to the city where the business is licensed. Since the game is delivered over the internet, it’s also a federal crime, so file a complaint with the FTC. Be sure to email copies of all your complaints to Gamestop.
I bet if he checks the receipt it says he bought a game for Windows, not Mac.
Clerk didn’t know what he was talking about, and I’m not quite sure how the OP didn’t understand that “PC” means “Windows OS” and not “generic device called a Personal Computer.” People have never referred to Macs as PCs. Even Apple would never say “PC”, insisting on calling their computers “Apple Macintosh Personal Computers.” or just “Macs.”.
And this is how business steal from customers $10 and $20 at a time. No one will bother going to Small Claims court or taking other action for such a small amount, even though they would certainly win. Does the leadership of GameStop have a sense of shame?
Why didn’t he just download it on Steam? That runs on macs now. DERP
I DL games from GOG.com, Steam.com or Amazon.com.
Everyone else can eat it.
I can’t understand why anyone would buy a download code from a retail store. Its illogical. I’m not blaming the op as gs is clearly in the wrong here. They got their $20 so they don’t care. A digital dl has drm so any copy can easily be revoked. They should do a refund. Piracy? Pirates don’t bother with stores and drm or hassle the pirated copy always just works so its clear this guy isn’t trying to pull a fast one.
As someone who uses Mac, PC and Linux on a daily basis, I can tell you that gamers are pretty much stuck with Windows machines unless you find a game company that really likes Macs. You can see evidence of this at Fry’s, where build-your-own souped-up machine aisles are all PCs. Nobody builds souped-up Macs, for gaming or otherwise. Find a cheap second-hand PC and use it for gaming. Problem solved.
i seriously could not give less of a fuck about people having trouble buying video games
Thats lame and you should get your money back…
but OP..why buy a “physical download code” for a game that requires you to download it anyway? Just buy it online and save the hassle of going to the store. You can buy games online and DL them right away in this day and age. Steam for Mac
I bet their plate glass window costs more than $20.
Justice.
Go in person back to the store you bought it from. Explain the situation, doubt you will get anywhere with email.
Next time spend your 20 bucks on a dinner date and pull yourself away from the computer.
I’m going to have to call bs on this…
1) a “PC GAME” will not work for mac… the fact that you went to “purchase a PC game” while owning a mac shows you were already at fault. Did you know that Max Payne 3 works for both Xbox and PS3? That doesn’t mean if I go buy a xbox version and jam it into my playstation it’s going to work, or that it’s anyone’s fault but my own.
2) Did you bother even looking at the page where you redeem the code? It says create a Gamestop PC Download account. The top of the next page says PC Downloads. Did you bother looking at the receipt, you know, the one you had to read to enter the code? It says right on there “STEPS TO REDEEM GAMESTOP WINDOWS PC DOWNLOAD” and even on the site where you enter the code, it clearly states “windows” in the example. Are they supposed to ask every persons the buys something, if they understand what it is they are buying. “Um, just wanted to let you know, this Nintendo DS game is for the Nintendo DS, in case you were unaware, it will not work in a PSP” You bought a PC game, which printed a windows pc redemtion code, that asked you to redeem it on a page stating that it is a windows code!
3) Not paying attention to the all the signs that point to pc/windows (the store, the receipt, the redemption page) you purchased a non refundable item. When you finally realized you made a mistake, you want to blame someone else for not taking it back, This is like buying the wrong size body jewelry, a concert ticket for the wrong day, or a non refundable plane ticket to the wrong airport. You didn’t bother paying attention and don’t want to own up to it.
4)PC’s have never been Macs. You can’t honestly tell me that you thought a pc game would play on your mac, can you? And I’m sorry bud, but a quick glance at the page shows you are wrong about Impulse not claiming compatibility with windows. The big freaking button you push to download the app itself says “Requires Windows XP (32-bit) / Vista / Windows 7″ right on it!
You should learn to do a little bit of research before purchasing something. Do you put diesel fuel in your car because “it was at the same pump, at the gas station.. so it must be gas”? Do you grab random console games off the shelf, hoping they’ll work in your system simply because “the company makes the came for lots of systems”? When you buy food for your pet (if you have one) do you just grab a random bag off a shelf in the store, simply because “pet food is sold there”? I think I’ve made my point.. You didn’t bother to even look at what you purchased.. next time, maybe you should. | http://consumerist.com/2012/04/30/how-gamestop-lost-my-business-over-twenty-bucks/ | 2013-05-18T10:31:54 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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The past few days in Vegas we’ve been blessed with lovely weather. Thunderstorms, which at least where we are, were a welcome respite from the heat. Last night, the rains cleared by evening so that the pooches and I were able to enjoy a beautiful walk around the pond. This morning was also incredibly pleasant, enough so that I could harvest some things that have been growing. I took the opportunity to get in some long overdue weeding as well. Harvested another precious Eel River melon, and the veggies below.
Mmm mmm mmm! I think eggplants are the most stunning beauties of the summer garden – I will always grow them. The variety above is called “Fairy Tale,” and it is so clear to me why – look at those whimsical caps on their heads! Tasty, but quite seedy, even when picked early. Y’all who have difficulty living in the present – try gardening. It really is the easiest of meditations. When I’m weeding, harvesting, or nurturing these babies, my senses grow ever more keen to the buzz of insects and the birds that come to visit. Now becomes my everything, and the feelings of peace and equanimity for which I yearn stay with me long after I’ve retreated indoors.
I grew “Rossa Bianca” last year, and I think that variety has a milder, creamier taste, few seeds, as well as a more rotund shape. I painted this variety below.
This painting and a selection of more of my watercolor originals and prints are available in my etsy shop right now, btw
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I just printed out a photo that I took of a beautiful turtle wading around in a pond that was teeming with a brilliant chartreuse algae. So excited to start doing some initial sketching for a new painting! I’ll try to remember to take progress shots to share with you! Craftwise, I’m pulling out all the stops on PINK – getting projects ready for Breast Cancer Awareness month and a few fun blog hops! Oh my word! Blog hops!
that looks delicious!
it really was – went into a great pasta that i wolfed at lunch. thanks for following! i just got ya’ back and am psyched to see your inspirations. love graphic novels!
Thanks!
Your veges look fantastic. Don’t you love the harvest time of year? It’s my favourite. So much to be thankful for! Your painting is lovely too. Beautiful colours.
I love the Fairy Tale aubergine!
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VOLUME 6 NUMBER 22
FULL MOON OF THE GOOSE FLIGHT
MARCH 15, 1977
Mission Wilderderness Area Topic of District Meeting
The March 15 district meeting in St. Ignatius had supposedly been called to hear concerns about proposed visible clearcuts to control mistletoe. The cuts would be in upcoming sales in the three St. Mary's Units south of St. Ignatius along Pistol Creek Ridge.
At least half the meeting, which ran until about 11:00 p.m., heard complaints that people did not want the face of the Mission Mountains logged in the same manner other reservation sales had been
handled. Most of those speaking did not want any logging along the Mission face.
Of the approximately 200 people there, outside the Council and Foresters, only Leonard Pierce, a logging contractor, spoke out in favor of present BIA practices. He testified that through personal experience penalties are exacted for poor practices. He stated he had violated some of the contract provisions and was caught by the BIA, and was even shut down on three occasions this last winter.
TRIBE MAY CONTRACT IRRIGATION PROJECT
All three Irrigation District Boards for Flathead Irrigation Project are opposing the idea of any contract by the Tribes to run the program which is now under the BIA. The Flathead Irrigation District Water Board has asked Washington, D.C. lawyers to investigate what can be done to stop a tribal takeover. That is what Poison's Flathead Courier reported when Bob McConkey, Flathead District Commissioner, addressed a district meeting. The Board believes the districts are buying the project under federal contract. (Former Councilman, R. Louis Dupuis, refutes this in his letter elsewhere in this issue). When contracted by the Char-Koosta, Project Director George Moon noted that all that has happened so far has been a request by the Tribes for technical assistance. He said that any actual contract proposals to his office "will get full cooperation. --No if, and, but - or sideways!"
The Tribes have requested technical assistance in contracting the project under the Self-Determination Act PL 93-638, since they feel they have never received proper payment for the land used and they also happen to own the water.
While the Council would make no sudden, drastic changes in administration they would apply for funds to update the system, although this probably would not include lining canals or changes in reservoirs. The application may look at further tapping Flathead River for irrigation.
Area covered by the project is in the neighborhood of 122,000 acres. In spite of the fact it is administered by BIA it is estimated that less than 10% of the people currently served by the project are tribal members.
NEWSPAPER OF THE SALISH, PEND D'ORIELLES AND KOOTENAI TRIBES
OF THE FLATHEAD RESERVATION
Doug Allard, of St. Ignatius, is gathering a petition to create a wilderness area above "A" canal. This includes a more extensive area than is being proposed under a University of Montana wilderness study currently being done for the council, which sets boundaries higher, above most commercial timber.
Allard referred to the meeting as a "snow job" and insisted logging practices would not change. He calculated that cutting the Missions would earn each member about fifteen cents a day.
On the St. Mary's sales, most people simply had questions on the necessity of clearcut to control mistletoe. Thurman Trosper, a former U.S. Forestry Department employee, said he had no quarrel with proposed timber management of the St. Mary's sales. He did voice concern on wildlife management and the effects of continuous selective cutting areas on big game.
John Dibble, BIA Forester, indicated that on the first two sales, what they thought were critical elk areas were primarily outside the units. There is no present plan to modify cuts to provide cover areas. He said plans have not been formed yet for the St. Mary's East unit where a critical elk winter range is entirely within sale boundaries. The plans aind infor sale boundaries. The plans and information used were prepared prior to the arrival of Bob Klaver, wildlife biologist. Klaver will have input into the St. Mary's West before it goes up for sale in 1980.
Chairman Harold Mitchell Jr. said the meeting was for information gathering only. He ruled out a call for Council action on a referendum election. Councilman Joe McDonald suggested that circulating a petition would give people a chance to become informed before they vote.
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"I think it's fun to play for people who don't know what you do," Kenny Rogers said Sunday, before playing an afternoon set at Bonnaroo for a much younger crowd than his usual audience. But the people who heard him sing still had an idea what to expect from the singer.
"I'm convinced tdhat a lot of these kids suffered from child abuse when their parents made them listen to my songs," he said. "They know a lot of them vicariously."
Rogers still had to win over the Bonnaroo crowd, and he said getting them to laugh was the key.
"People will clap to be nice," he said. "They will not laugh to be nice."
Comedian Steven Wright, who performed in Bonnaroo's comedy tent Saturday and Sunday, agreed. "No, they don't have that in them at all."
Rogers and Wright share a 30-year-old connection. The night Wright played The Tonight Show for the first time in 1982, Rogers was the musical guest.
Rogers also had hoped to run into Alice Cooper, who played an early-morning Sunday show. He and Cooper used to play golf together twice a week, he said. "He's actually a very good golfer. I've won a lot of money off of him."
What did the two talk about on the course?
"Snakes, mostly."
Rogers ended up not having any trouble winning over the Bonnaroo, especially on what he calls "the sing-alongs" like The Gambler, Lucille and Islands in the Stream. But just in case, he had an ace in the hole: guest Lionel Richie, who joined him unannounced for Lady, then stayed to sing All Night Long, much to the delight of the audience.
"It was everything I hoped for," Rogers said of the show. "I loved the reveal (of Richie). I started singing it, then, for him to come out was wonderful. If I introduce him, it dilutes it. If he only knew the words to his own song, it would be really wonderful."
Richie, who did stumble over the words to Lady, seemed to take to Bonnaroo. "I'll be back," he said.
Later in the night, Rogers played the guest role, showing up during Phish's headlining set to sing The Gambler on Bonnaroo's main stage. | http://content.usatoday.com/communities/livefrom/post/2012/06/lionel-richie-joins-kenny-rogers-at-bonnaroo/1?csp=34life&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TP-LiveFrom+%28Life+-+Live+From%29 | 2013-05-18T10:22:15 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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]907 appropriated $10,000 for a shop and gymnasium building which is to be built during the summer of 1908.
The first commemoration of the founding of the school occurred May 19, 1906, just nine years after the telegram was received by Cedar citizens, announcing the location of the school by the commission at Cedar City.
SITE AND BUILDINGS.
The buildings are situated on Normal School Hill, near the outskirts of the city. Part of the campus has been prepared for baseball, tennis, basketball, croquet, and similar games, while other part a.
LABORATORIES AND APPARATUS.
The Laboratories are located in the Science Building.
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22.
25th November, 1936.
that at the Joint meeting of the International Federation of Trade Unions and the Labour and Socialist International in Paris on the 20th October, this body had applied to be received and it was then stated that it was directly connected with the Communist Red Aid Society. The delegation had not been received at Paris.
With regard to the interview with him, Sir Walter said that the requests which Mr. Longuet and his colleagues had put forward were:-
(1) That steps should be taken to influence the British Government to withdraw the embargo on arms to the Spanish Government.
(2) They wanted a protest made by the French and British Governments against the atrocities, committed by the rebels in Spain.
(3) Concerning the Balearic Isles. The deputation had no direct information about the activities of the Italians there and their information was only gained from newspapers.
(4) They proposed that the British Labour Movement should send a deputation across to France .
Sir Walter explained to the members of the Deputation on the first point that the British Labour Movement had done all it could in the House of Commons and by deputation to Ministers to influence the Government's policy, but it would be misleading them to assume that there was any real likelihood of a change being made by the British Government. The signs were that the non-intervention agreement would be tightened up rather than relaxed. He also pointed out to the Deputation that the French Government had declared within the last few days its desire for the continuance of the non-intervention agreement. He, therefore, suggested that it was necessary for the delegation to make representations to their own Government.
With regard to the points (2) and (3), he said he was willing to do what he could personally to help.
On the motion of Mr. Dukes, the report was
ADOPTED.
Item 6. Shipping of Arms,
Mr. Spence expressed the view that the British seamen would probably be in favour of the proposed Bill rendering the carriage of arms to Spain by British ships illegal.
Item 7. Spanish Medical Aid Committee.
The Chairman explained that the General Council would no further co-operate with this organisation, either by means of sending grants or appointing a representative on the Committee until it was clear that they had excluded the members of the Communist Party. AGREED. | http://contentdm.warwick.ac.uk/cdm/compoundobject/collection/scw/id/11409/rec/9 | 2013-05-18T10:23:53 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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Ruckus with RuxpinMonday, March 23rd, 2009
Just like fixed gear bikes, A-Rod and twitter, everybody seems to either LOVE or HATE Asher Roth. I could care less about him, but he’s got some great lines and this video is heeelarious. NSFW.
Just like fixed gear bikes, A-Rod and twitter, everybody seems to either LOVE or HATE Asher Roth. I could care less about him, but he’s got some great lines and this video is heeelarious. NSFW.
if you couldnt tell we love this song… we love this song… can we get them to hawaii somehow pls… someone come on… so good… its from some tvshow in the UK…
When I was a grommet, moms played only four tapes in the car: UB40, Van Morrison, Patsy Cline and the Nat King Cole duet tape with his daughter Natalie. So when I got word about this album, I was very excited. The album came out last week and I have yet to pick it up, but I’m looking forward to the Nat collaborations with Just Blaze, Cut Chemist, Cee-Lo and Tv On The Radio, among others. Maybe I’ll buy mom a new tape for the whip (yes, she still rocks tapes). Who sells tapes?!
I love that Capitol Records hired a Graff artist to paint their parking lot as a promotion for the album.
When we originally got together to brain storm for Time Wasterz we came up with the idea to create a web show about nothing. Just grown men being nerds. Then we got side tracked and met some cool musicians and artists and had them share some of their stories. That worked out really well, but we feel its time to get back to program. Sure you can expect more interviews and behind the scenes footage in the episodes to come, but you can also expect some of that good ol’ fashioned throw away footage. Here are some of the non-highlights from Sundance. You’ll find little discriptions underneath the clips.
WARNING: if you are into being productive then please avoid viewing these clips. They are meant soley for those wishing for nothing more than to pass the time until the dinner bell rings.
Day 1
Lodge Laughs
Sam at the airport
Luke’s Will Smith Impression
Day 2
Flippin’ Burgers
Main St. and Sam’s free redbull
Body Paint at Rave *NSFW
Day 3
Lyle talking to Rachel Yamagata
Luke in front of ASCAP Music Cafe
Model of Park City + Giant Stuffed Bear
Outside of Press Office bumming out volunteers
Man the past few days have been epic down here! I’ve been getting a lot of photo requests for waves and surfing but I can’t show you the surf shots. If you want to see those you gonna have to wait till Scott Aichner and Surfer Magazine let you see them. But here are a few to hold you over!
This is the epic view from the room! What a beautiful sunrise and a great way to start the day!
The waves have been so fun down here! A great way to start the ‘09 schedule!
I love my job!
If you’re at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas this week, be sure to look for our boy Nicky Savage. He’s touring with Sparrow Love Crew and The Cold War Kids. They’ll be killing it all week. But if you see Nicky and he’s wearing the above paisley leggings…then please punch him in his fucking moustache for me.
Download the mix Nicky did for Contrast Magazine HERE.
Living in Santa Cruz, CA I had access to all kinds of bomb Mexican Food. SF got the best burritos. I’ve been hunting for a legit spot ever since I moved back and a few months ago, I found it. Mexico Restaurant in Kalihi. I wouldn’t put it up against the Bay, but its got a nice atmosphere, good sized portions and great flavor. Go support.
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It used to be so much easier to pick a sunscreen in the "olden" days. I just went to the drugstore and picked up a tube of Coppertone, Sea 'n Ski, or one of the other well-known brands. Now I have to consider whether the tube contains carcinogens, or hormone disruptors, whether it blocks UVA as well as UVB, etc., etc. You can read the highlights of sunscreen issues on the EWG (Enviromental Working Group) Web site, as well as a longer, more thorough discussion of the topic, and get recommendations for which products to choose or avoid. It's complicated, but as with many of the other choices of what to put on or into our bodies, I believe it's worth spending a little time to choose our bodycare products with some discretion.
On top of all the health issues related to sunscreen, for many of us there's the question of which sunscreens are vegan, and EWG doesn't really address this. You have to pour over labels and contact manufacturers. Last year, after careful scrutiny, I settled on *Goddess Garden Kid's Natural Sunscreen. It says right on the tube that it's 100% vegan and reef safe, and it scores pretty well on the EWG list. The Goddess Garden Baby sunscreen gets a better safety score but I couldn't find it when I was shopping, and the tube I chose was the best option I could find.
But, do I like it? Not totally. It goes on white and takes a while to disappear. On my arms or legs that's not such a problem, but on my face, it leaves me looking a bit like a pale cast member from the Twilight series. And not in a good way. I counteract the white pallor by moisturizing first, letting the moisturizer sink in, applying the sunscreen, waiting until it disappears, then adding light makeup. This procedure is only convenient when I'm applying sunscreen at home. On the plus side, the sunscreen does seem to work.
As far as other vegan choices to try, Loving Naturals Clear Face is vegan, though other products from the same brand contain beeswax. It's specifically designed for the face, and sounds like it would be a lot easier to apply than the product I now have. You can use Loving Natural Clear Face on your body, but it's not waterproof and not recommended for sweaty activities.
Elemental Herbs looks like it's vegan, also. Do you have a favorite vegan sunscreen that scores no higher than 1 or 2 on the EWG safety rating scale? Please share in the comments. Thanks!
*(According to EWG: "Many brands formulate children’s sunscreens with safer, more effective ingredients than those in other products. About 63 percent of kids’ sunscreens contain effective mineral ingredients that provide good UVA protection, compared to 40 percent of other sunscreens.
Though you still need to read labels and use EWG’s Sunscreen Guide, chances are you’ll get a better sunscreen if you buy one marketed for kids.
Compared to other sunscreens, those with the words “baby,” “children” or “kids” in the product name are less likely to contain:
- Fragrances, which are mixtures of chemicals some of which may cause allergies and other serious health problems. Some 72 percent of kids’ sunscreens are fragrance-free, versus 54 percent of other sunscreens.
- Oxybenzone, a hormone-disrupting chemical, is in 37 percent of kids’ sunscreens versus 56 percent of other sunscreens.")
Hey, thanks for this! I would like to stay humane as I aim for keeping my skin a nice pasty white. :-)
If you really like the pasty white look, get yourself a tube of Goddess Garden. :)
Thank you so much, Andrea! In addition to all you mention, I have multiple allergies. You won't believe how much work it was just to find soap, shampoo, conditioner, laundry detergent, and dish detergent. The thought of having to find sunscreen, as well, leaves me paler than pale--but your fine post will be a good starting place! I, too, have found that, in general, "baby" or "kid" products are often the way to go. Do the manufacturers think adults have somehow become immune to the toxins, etc. as they've aged?!
It must be really frustrating to find products that don't aggravate your allergies. I hope the EWG Web page will be helpful to you.
Thanks for the tips; I will keep an eye out for them. It sounds like a better alternative than my usual, "just don't leave the house"
Not leaving the house works, too, but as you point out, it can be inconvenient. I don't wear sunscreen as often as I should and I'm trying to be better about it. In Seattle, it hardly ever looks sunny, but the UV rays are still there. I guess.
Man, I know what you mean about the good ol days of being in the dark. Sometimes I hate knowing so much. I really don't have a suggestion as I'm not loyal to any one brand. I don't wear sunblock too much (although there's a bit in my make-up) as I'm not really in the sun very much and usually rely on hats or umbrellas or something. :) I only usually put it on when I'm going to be at a body of water all day, which is rarely and hasn't happened once this summer amazingly. But I know what you mean about the whiteness as that's how it always looks on my kids.
The more you know, the harder it gets, I know. I don't wear it much either, but I've been trying to wear it more often at least on my face. I just wish I could find one I really like.
We usually use All Terrain, but have some Alba Botanica right now. I prefer the All Terrain, though. It's vegan and all but the sprays have low scores. They also work great!
Awesome post, btw. :)
I tried All Terrain and had trouble with it flaking off. I'll try again though since I have a tube and it wasn't cheap. Still looking for the perfect one.
This was a really useful post and timely too! It's been in the triple digits all week here! I haven't found a sunscreen yet that I love. I always pick up something different from the natural grocery store. That's good to know that the kids' version is generally safer. I'll keep that in mind. I feel like it's so hard to balance the need for sunscreen and avoiding skin cancer with needing vitamin D from sun exposure.
My favorite line from this post was, "it leaves me looking a bit like a pale cast member from the Twilight series. And not in a good way." Hilarious!
I'm in Wisconsin and I know what triple digits you're talking about. Yikes. Thank heavens it's a little cooler today - you could even say "pleasant."
I was hoping someone would tell me about the perfect sunscreen in the comments, but I think all the "safe" ones probably have the same problems. As for vitamin d, there are certain areas of the country where the angle of the sun for much of the year makes absorbing vitamin d difficult.Seattle is definitely short on sun, but so is Madison in winter. I take vitamin d supplements to be sure I'm getting enough.
The vampire reference may have been humorous, but sadly, it's also true. Sigh.
Yes this sunscreen please. A perfect partner for my summer adventures. Got my eye on your blog now.
I've been using the goddess garden on arms and legs, and all terrain face on, my face. Seems to be working.
Very helpful and informative, I haven't been able to find a good sunscreen yet either. Why, oh why, does it have to be so hard? :-)
I guess it's hard because it was all the 'bad' ingredients that made the old sunscreens seem 'good.' The newer, less toxic products don't go on as smoothly or disappear as quickly. I miss the old ones, but am using the new ones because they may be safer. I hope. There's a lot of controversy surrounding sunscreens. | http://cookeasyvegan.blogspot.com/2012/07/its-sunscreen-jungle-out-there-dont-get.html | 2013-05-18T10:40:53 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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Ben Fairhall's The Daily Behemoth posting, "Contactee responsible for Obama murder threat?" alerted me to this info.
Fairhall writes:
A man arrested for issuing threats against the life of President Elect Barack Obama did so on a UFO forum, sources claim. John Christopher, 42, has posted several video clips to You Tube describing the multi-dimensional nature of reality and the inner earth.
Several wire service stories, such as the following one, confirmed the arrest at the end of last week:
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - A Wisconsin man has been arrested in Mississippi for threats he allegedly made against President-elect Barack Obama on the Internet.
Steven Joseph Christopher, 42, was arrested Friday [January 16, 2009] by the Secret Service in Brookhaven, Miss., and was charged with threatening to assassinate Obama for what he claimed was "the country's own good," according to federal prosecutors. The criminal complaint was sealed until Christopher's appearance in federal court.
Judge James C. Sumner ordered Christopher held until a bail hearing next Thursday. Sumner suggested Christopher be held in isolation for his own safety.
A news release says Christopher made the threats Jan. 11 and 15 on the Web site.
A more in-depth overview of the arrest is carried at the Huliqsite, including this:.' "Yes, I have decided I will assassinate Barack Obama. It's really nothing personal about the man. He speaks well, has a loving although controlling wife and two cute daughters. But I know it's for the country's own good that I can do this. Barack Obama, I view more as a sacrificial lamb, but the sacrifice must take place," Christopher wrote on January 11.
* * *.
Some of Christopher's thoughts about planetary relationships sound more like the Heaven's Gate and Solar Temple cults (see pages 75-93, The Copycat Effect), than ufological, in nature, however.
Indeed, reading his rambling threats, Steven Joseph Christopher, a man with three first names, who sometimes called himself "Trinity," it turns out, seems to be deeply anti-semitic and mentally ill.
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Speaking of The Solar temple, Loren, you can find a comprehensive dossier written after their Canadian group's mass suicide. Written by J. Gordon Melton & Massimo Introvigne, it appears in the defunct GNOSIS magazine, issue 34, Winter '95, their special issue on "Healing", ironically enough. Its cover features the visionary art of Alex Grey, a figure with the caduceus of Hermes. You're sure to find back issues somewhere if you do a search.
Sheesh...
Yes, the UFO phenomenon has more than its fair share of cooks; but what I'm fearing is that the media will use this lunatic as the stereotype for everyone who has even the mildest interest in fringe phenomena.
Anyway, He's sworn in. Thank God that nothing happened, and that it's finally over—the Bush era I mean.
Maybe God should stop trying to speak to us through broken conduits like Christopher and just book his own reality TV show. Preferably one with singing and dancing and an interactive feature where the viewer can vote. This way he's guaranteed to get His message across. Although, considering the obtuse nature of most of God's pronouncements through the ages, maybe Christopher isn't as mentally ill as folk would like to think. | http://copycateffect.blogspot.com.au/2009/01/assassination-threat-from-contactee.html | 2013-05-18T10:40:50 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Borderlescott set for Nunthorpe bid
Borderlescott has made a remarkable recovery from injury and could still run in the Nunthorpe Stakes next week, having earlier been ruled out for the season following the Audi King George Stakes win at Goodwood last month.
Trainer Robin Bastiman is confident that the veteran sprinter will be able to go for the Nunthorpe Stakes hat-trick, but admits that he will make a ‘late decision’ next week.
“Everything is OK with him at the moment. He came out of his first canter back on Friday fine and has done another couple this morning,” said Bastiman.
“He seems fine again and having spoken to the owner, we’ve decided to leave him in the confirmations, but it’s going to be a late decision on whether he’s going to run or not.
“He’ll have to have a gallop one day, probably on Tuesday, and if he comes out of that all right, I think he’ll probably run.”
Aiden O’Brien’s Starspangledbanner is going for a hat-trick of his own, having won his last two Group One outings at the Golden Jubilee and July Cup, and is the current 2/1 favourite in the ante-post betting.
Barry Hills’s Equiano remains the closest challenger in the betting and is currently priced at 5/2, with Jeremy Noseda’s Fleeting Spirit and previous winner Kingsgate Native next best at 6/1.
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Closed 17 months ago
Last modified 17 months ago
#11862 closed defect (bug) (duplicate)
the_editor js bug when switching between Visual / HTML with multiple on page
Description
First instance works flawlessly, however second and subsequent instances have issues with switching between Visual / HTML mode.
- Setup multiple instances of the_editor on page, with normal scripts (no JS errors on page when using them)
- Switch between Visual / HTML on second / subsequent editors on the page, you'll see an issue with the HTML view toolbar appearing / disappearing on the first instance.
- If first instance is in HTML view, the HTML toolbar will disappear as you select second / subsequent editors into HTML view. Upon switching first editor back to Visual (visual toolbar appears) then to HTML (the HTML toolbar appears).
OTHER NOTE: Tested in Google Chrome and Firefox
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Change History (15)
comment:1
sc0ttkclark — 3 years ago
- Keywords needs-patch added
- Milestone changed from Unassigned to Future Release
Setting to Future Release until a patch is added.
comment:4
sc0ttkclark — 3 years ago
- Summary changed from the_editor error when switching between Visual / HTML with multiple editor boxes on page to the_editor js bug when switching between Visual / HTML with multiple on page
comment:5
sc0ttkclark — 3 years ago
I'm willing to pay for this bug fix, if someone wants to step up and take it on. I'm sure my sacrifice along with your sacrifice will help WP core code be used in more ways. I'm excited that the Pods plugin will be switching to TinyMCE core code for the TinyMCE, but this is the only thing holding us (and other plugins) back from using the default core code.
I assume the_editor was meant to be generalized so that it could be used in more than one place, since the actual functionality works (apart from this bug) when it's used multiple times on a page.
Please consider this ticket for the very next bug fix release (if at all possible).
chrisbliss18 — 3 years ago
Rough draft patch, issues still present
chrisbliss18 — 3 years ago
Plugin to show an example of this issue. Also usefull for testing.
comment:6
chrisbliss18 — 3 years ago
I've been working on a patch for this issue, and I'm at a point where I need to get a sanity check. While I am certain that the code can be updated to make the function work properly with multiple instances, I'm not so certain that such a patch would ever be accepted into core.
I've attached the working copy of my patch as it stands currently as well as a brief plugin that simply adds a second instance of the_editor to the posts and pages editors. Using these together will allow for testing of this idea.
The current patch solves the problem as Scott described it while also exposing the level of work required to get this solution properly coded. The patch allows for more than one instance of the editors to coexist with the HTML and Visual tabs working as expected.
The following are known issues with the current patch:
- The "Insert into Post" media upload feature always adds to the first editor.
- The HTML quick links always use the last editor.
There are some additional issues that are related to use. For example, the the_editor function does not handle generating the table that creates the bottom part of the editor which contains the resize handle. This means that there are additional coding needs beyond just using the_editor. This table is also styled in such a way that using matching IDs and classes for the table structure is all but necessary to get the same look, this causes issues with the word count JS code.
Due to these issues, I'm wondering if my efforts wouldn't be better spent on creating a patch that duplicates the functionality of the_editor but does so in a way that doesn't affect any of the code and styling that the_editor currently uses. After a time, the the_editor function could be deprecated and all the core code would use the new function.
I'd like to get some thoughts on what other developers would like to see as it relates to this issue and what type of solution would be desired.
comment:7
chrisbliss18 — 3 years ago
- Cc gaarai@… added
comment:8
sc0ttkclark — 3 years ago
Given the past history of other types of tickets like this regarding multiple editors, I'm not sure how open the Core team is to something like this. It's obvious that it's necessary, but perhaps it's not a big priority for them. If the patch was created in a way that they could spend a minimal amount of time on it, I'd say maybe there's a chance. I don't see why they wouldn't want a built-in function that plugins could use / reuse.
Either way, if you get something working and they don't decide to run with it, I'd be interested in getting a version of your patch which could be independently used in plugins. Perhaps it would be good to set some sort of standard way for plugins to fulfill their needs that the_editor() doesn't currently fit.
comment:10
azaozz — 3 years ago
Generally TinyMCE can be added as many times as needed on the same page. For the edit page all it needs is another instance of it and another textarea since all the JS files are already loaded there. I believe there are quite a few plugins doing this.
However the HTML editor doesn't easily support multiple instances and the script that switches visual -> HTML mode doesn't support them at all. To fix this we will have to start with the HTML editor and make it true multi-instance capable (use JS objects, multiple settings/buttons, no global JS vars, etc.). Then we can fix the script that switches editors. Of course that will break all plugins that currently add buttons to the HTML editor.
comment:11
sc0ttkclark — 3 years ago
I've had some work done on this recently, I'm going to review and see if I can post a patch that could solve some of the issues I've had previously.
comment:12
sc0ttkclark — 17 months ago
- Keywords needs-patch removed
- Resolution set to duplicate
- Status changed from new to closed
- Milestone Future Release deleted
I should add: | http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/11862 | 2013-05-18T10:32:30 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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Rule property search investigation drags on
After almost seven weeks from when the Colorado State Patrol and other law enforcement agencies searched the property owned by former Montezuma County Commissioner Larrie Rules, few details have yet to be released.
The investigation, which centers around a three-day search starting on Dec. 12, was focusing on auto thefts and is being spearheaded by the state's Beat Auto Theft Through Law Enforcement task force.
CSP Capt. Jeff Goodwin said this type of criminal investigation is always kept under wraps until the task force can move forward with the arrest of all potential suspects and the filing of all applicable charges within the appropriate jurisdictional district.
One week after the search, CSP warned that it could be a month or more before details were released. It's now been 50 days since the first search was conducted.
Goodwin said they are not able to comment on behalf of the task force and the undercover operations, and added that Sgt. Mike Baker will be releasing the details of the investigation when finished.
Goodwin said he realizes this is a topic of interest in any community but especially in some of the smaller communities of Southwestern Colorado.
"I will simply ask for your patience in this matter knowing that we must protect the identities of everyone involved at this point in the investigation," Goodwin wrote in an email. "The last thing that we want to do is jeopardize any portion of this case and its evidence."
Rule has not returned phone calls to comment on the case. Rule's last day as commissioner was Jan. 8. He was term limited after serving eight years on the commission. | http://cortezjournal.com/article/20130130/NEWS01/130139978/0/COLUMNISTS31/Rule-property-search-investigation-drags-on | 2013-05-18T10:12:37 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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Russian leader Vladimir Putin stands with a gun at a shooting gallery of the new GRU military intelligence headquarters building in Moscow during a 2006 visit. Last month, Putin said nations would eventually develop new types of weapons, including "psychophysical" weapon systems.
Are we on the brink of an arms race over zombie ray guns? You might think so, based on the alarms being rung over Russia's potential to create mind-scrambling weapons. But the reality is that it'll be a long time before we have to worry about super-soldiers taking over our brains.
The Americans as well as the Russians have been looking into psychotronic weapons for more than 15 years. You can find ample references to the subject on the Internet, including a feature published by U.S. News and World Report in 1997 and a report written for a U.S. Army publication in 1998.
Such weapons purport to take advantage of the effect that pulsed microwaves can have on brain activity. Some researchers have reported an effect known as microwave hearing, in which a directed beam of radiation produces a sensation of buzzing, clicking or hissing in the head. "This technology in its crudest form could be used to distract individuals," according to a declassified Army review of non-lethal weapons.
Theoretically, electromagnetic beams could cause an epileptic-type seizure, or involuntary eye motion leading to dizziness and nausea. Military researchers have also looked into using infrasound or laser beams to confuse or incapacitate a foe — but when you start going down this road, before you know it, you're talking about remote viewing, ESP and all the way-out concepts chronicled in "The Men Who Stare at Goats."
The Russian connection
The Russians have looked into these potential technologies at least as deeply as the Pentagon has, and you're hearing about zombie ray guns now because top Russian officials started talking about psychotronic weapons a couple of weeks ago. That has brought the subject back from the dead like a ... well, you know.
Moscow is planning to set up an advanced military research agency similar to the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, and Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov referred to those plans on March 22. Here's what the RIA Novosti news agency quoted him as saying during a meeting with Prime Minister (and President-elect) Vladimir Putin:
"The development of weaponry based on new physics principles — direct-energy weapons, geophysical weapons, wave-energy weapons, genetic weapons, psychotronic weapons, etc. — is part of the state arms procurement program for 2011-2020 ... We will draft the proposals for the next program by December 2012."
Putin, who begins his presidential term next month, pledged during the campaign that he would beef up Russia's military. In February, he laid out his national security plan in an article published by Rossiiskaya Gazeta. At the time, most of the news reports picked up on Putin's call for almost $770 billion in spending over the course of a decade to modernize the armed forces. But Putin also observed that the current balance of power, held in place by nuclear arsenals, could well shift in the future due to new technologies. It was in that context that he brought up the psych 'acceptable' in terms of political and military ideology. In this sense, the strategic balance of nuclear forces will play a gradually diminishing role in deterring aggression and chaos."
In the wake of Serdyukov's comments, folks dredged up Putin's reference to "psychophysical" weapons, added in some background about the research into electromagnetic mind control, and voila: the zombie ray gun. Last week, Britain's Daily Mail suggested that the guns "could be used against Russia's enemies and, perhaps, its own dissidents by the end of the decade."
The Mail also quoted Anatoly Tsyganov, head of the Military Forecasting Center in Moscow, as saying microwaves could make for "a highly serious weapon":
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Based on that comment, Tsyganov was apparently talking about a different kind of non-lethal weapon, an analog to the millimeter-wave "pain ray" that the U.S. military has been working on for years. As we noted a couple of weeks ago, the beam of radiation can be directed at a crowd, producing a severe burning sensation on the skin that forces the target to jump away instinctively.
How fast can mad scientists work?
There are a few problems with the pain-ray technology: It takes hours to build up enough power for the beam generator, and the system reportedly works only in clear atmospheric conditions. Nevertheless, testing of the "Silent Guardian" system is continuing, not only for military applications but also for use against oceangoing pirates and rioting prisoners.
The bottom line is that Russia certainly seems to be on track to set up its own DARPA-like "Department of Mad Scientists," working on heat rays, mind-altering electromagnetic beams and heaven knows what else. But there's nothing in the comments from Putin and Serdyukov to suggest that the Russians are anywhere close to having psychotronic weapons. In fact, Putin makes it sound as if the next frontier in warfare won't be the zombie ray gun but the coordinated cyber-attack. And that's scary enough for me.
What do you think? Please feel free to register your opinion in the unscientific poll above, and the comment space below.
Update for 11 p.m. ET: A couple of commenters noted that the zombielike picture that originally accompanied this item had a caption that didn't quite square with the lore for the "Left 4 Dead" video game. The more I learned about the game, the more I saw that the picture really didn't fit. So I've put in the picture of a gun-toting Putin instead. Thanks to the gamers who pointed out the problem. If I ever play "Left 4 Dead," I'll want you on my side.
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Putin is another Napoleon. Of course he would try to create some excitement with his new fantasy gun / toy. He probably has a Dick Tracy watch too.
Forget what I wrote about Dick Tracy watches. Most of us probably have one or want one.
When we were in junior high school we used to hear this sort of thing and do a little bouncing dance wiggling our fingers and waving our hands in the air. We'd say something like... "Whoah!...wwhhhooooaaaaahhhhhhh! I''m scared! I'm SO scared."
You remember.
Well, I want to say that now.
What's stopping you?
BEMER technology works with those same electromagnetic frequencies. That technology is present now.
Putin pledges to make the Russian Army stronger. Obama pledges to make the American Army weaker. Putin negotiates for Russia to have more nuclear missiles than the United States. Obama negotiates for America to have less nuclear missiles than Russia. Putin objects to US missile defense shield. Obama overheard telling Russians to not worry because he would have flexibility on it after the election. Obama does not seem to have very good negotiating skills, and seems confused on what is good for America. Can we survive four more years of this inept leadership?
Nothing new about this, we already have crowd control weapons. They been tested
and it is only a matter of time when they use it on us protesters if we changed to a Right Wing government who cares nothing.
I am talking about Microwave weapons my friends.
I have a microwave.
I have a bunker. lol
My aluminum foil armor gives me a sparky +5 against microwave weaponry!
I'd love to see an arc come right back at the emitter when I dawn my Professor Chaos outfit shiny-side up!
War will be fought with robotics and genetically engineered monstrosities in the not to distant future. Humans will be hunkered down in shielded bunkers and vehicles, joystick in hand.
nasty
Larry you are an idiot, you only care about having a white man in the White House
A White Right Wing Nazis who would destroy the U.S. and the Constitution.
so when are we going to get power armor has to be n.b.c or its no good also we should make only 300 lol
The big problem with the microwave pain ray generator that no one's talking about is that it will weld contact lenses onto the surface of the cornea, blinding the victims.
or you could wear glasses, but some people are just a little too self conscious!
Good Lord. I can see it now. The day america has thier own version of this gun it will be all out warfare during campaign time. I can see all of us completely zombied out due the battle between republican and democrats. There will be no more human race. Just Zombies.
Well atleast we can eat those democrats and republicans who used the guns on us.
lol
We already have this weapon. It's called television.
ooh ooh ooh! Dancing with the Stars is on!
What ever happened to that Reagan-era program between the US Navy and the old white supremacist government of South Africa to develop a genetic weapon that would only kill black people?
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kill, kill, kill, and die, die, die, or we could all live, live, live? WAKEUPWORLD.
power and man don't mix well. one should never have too much over another.
How does power get screwed up with too many men?
I always thought that it was too few men with too much power...
...or too many men with too little power
^_^
Okay, now let's read between the lines.
Russia has got an aging nuclear arsenal that it cannot afford to upgrade at the moment, and is in real danger of being rendered all but obsolete (within a couple of decades, tops). It is therefore in their best interest to draw attention away from nuclear weapons as the key metric of global military power, and towards some vague new technology that they can make outlandish claims about, and call that the way of the future.
It's classic misdirection. Thankfully most of the world views Putin for the joke that he is. Unfortunately, we're also far too accommodating to him in general.
I want to test it on the inventors...the GOP and all the sheeple that think this is a great item for defence. Oh what the hell...why not give everyone a zombie gun and lets all go hog wild.........morons....everything begins with a thought. Until you can no longer think.......DUHhhhhh
Obama is just like putin only black.
That's true...there's actually very little genetic variation between the two.
In fact, you and I are also genetically similar to the president, so much so that I bet he could impregnate your daughter!
SCIENCE!
It seems like a waste of intellect and resources to create more ingenious weapons with which to harm ourselves. I wonder how long our species will stay in this dangerous range of development.
No, they meant to say "Zombie REAGAN!"
Reagan was already a zombie...read George HW Bush's auto biography...Alzheimers caught up with RayGun well before he was out of office.
I can't see these types of weapons in the immediate future. You have rubber bullets, bean bags, tazers, and tear gas for non-lethal applications. You have bullets, grenade launchers, and bombs for lethal weapons. Materials & manufacturing capabilities are readily available for these, and they do their jobs well.
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He has AMAZING tearing skills, Mari-ann!! LOL
I love Melissa and Doug spelling- we got that for Christmas! The picture of Mommy was so sweet-- I think that is cute that he carried around your smile... precious.
I'm glad you're back! Your blog is my main source of ideas for things to do with Aiden. As always, you've given me plenty of new ones thanks to this post.
Your mosaic M is brilliant... how creative you (always) are!
Love little James jumping and playing the maracas on his head. :)
Oh and that photo of you in the puzzle is GORGEOUS! You look so tan and relaxed.
What a bunch of GREAT activities!
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Looks like ya'll had a lot of fun. Love, Love, Love the Mommy Puzzle. Glad you are back.
What a fantastic M week!!! We also like our Melissa and Doug see and spell puzzle. I really liked your "mommy" puzzle..and Im so sorry about the mitten casualty... It looked like a good project!!! Have a great week!
I love the puzzle you made of yourself. My girls would love that! Great activities!!
I like that big "mommy puzzle"! Did you order it or did you make it yourself? It looks really great!
I love what you did with the letter M, thanks for all those great ideas, I'll have to look back and start at A.
Can I ask how you made the Mommy puzzle? Is it just cardstock or did you glue it to something to make it more puzzle-like? Thanks.
very cute! I like the mommy puzzle! We got the Melissa & Doug letter spelling puzzle too for Christmas! Great selection of educational activities! :)
I totally want to know how you did the Mommy Puzzle! I know Sophie would love something like that. What an awesome week.
as always.. LOVE all of your activities! :)
I love your Mommy puzzle too!
Tons of great ideas in this post! We will definitely make the mosaic "M", jumping numbers (very clever idea from your son), and the Mommy puzzle! Thanks for sharing!
I really like the mosaic and marble painting James did with the letter M - such fun ideas. We have not really done very much with the alphabet yet, but I love seeing these creative ideas.
I love that James made up the number game all by himself. I can imagine him having such a ball jumping onto the numbers. Nothing like a bit of physical activity while getting a bit of maths done.
I need to make an alphabet box. Your M box is wonderful.
I am so impressed with James' Geography skills - what a clever young man he is.
The mummy puzzle is awesome.
I had to read your post several times to let all the fantastic ideas sink in. I love coming by here!
Thank you for all your sweet comments, ladies!! I just posted about the mommy puzzle. :)
Oh Mari-Ann, as always, another totally inspiring week!! I'm REALLY tempted to start doing letter of the week themes, like you and James do. I think Maddie would really like it, especially as she's had heightened interest in letters and pretending to write.
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EnGenius, Inc. (EnGenius) and EnGenius-EU, Ltd. (EEU) sued Ford Motor Company, claiming that Ford had violated two contracts with the EnGenius companies. The first contract was a technical support agreement referred to by the parties as the “FACTS Contract.” That agreement called for EnGenius to provide technical support for the “FACTS system,” an end-of-the-line vehicle testing system, for the life of Ford’s use of the system. In return, Ford agreed to exclusively use EnGenius for support, and EnGenius agreed to maintain the resources and personnel necessary to support the system as it was phased out. The second contract was a five-year agreement known as the “eCATS Contract,” under which EnGenius was to develop and implement the replacement system for the outdated FACTS system. To pursue the eCATS Contract, EnGenius agreed to create a European affiliate known as EEU, which would support the eCATS system in Ford’s European plants.
After EnGenius sued, Ford filed a motion, arguing that the parties had agreed to resolve such claims through binding arbitration. The court granted Ford’s motion, and the matter was submitted to a three-member arbitration panel. By a vote of 2-1, the panel awarded EnGenius $22,689,898.43: $1,239,885 in lost profits for Ford’s breach of the FACTS Contract, $14,425,954 for Ford’s breach of the eCATS Contract, and $1,946,131 for tortious interference. The circuit court confirmed the arbitration award.
Ford appealed, and the Court of Appeals affirmed the circuit court in an unpublished per curiam opinion. With respect to the FACTS Contract, Ford objected to the arbitration panel’s conclusion that the document containing the arbitration clause was not part of the parties’ agreement. But, argued Ford, if the arbitration agreement was not part of the parties’ FACTS Contract, then the arbitration panel did not have jurisdiction to rule that the contract was breached. The Court of Appeals rejected this argument, ruling that Ford’s successful effort to send all claims in the parties’ dispute to binding arbitration amounted to an implicit agreement to allow the arbitrators to decide the makeup of the FACTS Contract and adjudicate related claims. The panel also concluded that, “once the trial court determined that there was a valid agreement to arbitrate, granted Ford’s motion for summary disposition, and sent the entire dispute to arbitration, the arbitrators lacked the power to divest themselves of jurisdiction over the matter.” Turning to Ford’s next argument, the Court of Appeals was not persuaded that the arbitration panel made an improper damages award with respect to the eCATS Contract; the Court of Appeals concluded that the arbitration panel’s award was proper compensation for work that had already been completed. Finally, the Court of Appeals ruled that arbitration panel did not err by finding that Ford tortiously interfered with EEU’s relationship with its own employees. Ford appeals.
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New York, April 16, 2008—Chinese authorities should release or publicly charge a Tibetan TV producer in western Qinghai province who has been detained for more than two weeks, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.
Jamyang Kyi, a veteran producer for state-run Qinghai TV, was arrested on April 1 and has not been seen since April 7, her husband Lamao Jia told The Associated Press. Chinese officials have not confirmed the detention, the AP reported. Radio Free Asia quoted an unidentified source in Beijing as saying that police in Qinghai’s capital, Xining, had formally arrested the reporter but no charges were disclosed.
“The detention of a prominent television producer at a time when the flow of information in and out of Tibetan regions is so rigidly controlled is very concerning, particularly as the Beijing Olympics approach,” said Bob Dietz, CPJ’s Asia program coordinator. “We call on Qinghai authorities to confirm where Jamyang Kyi is being held and the charges she faces, or release her immediately.”
Kyi is also a singer who combined elements of popular and traditional Tibetan culture. She visited the United States in 2006, news reports said. The opportunity for contact with exiled Tibetan activists is seen as a possible motive for investigation by state security officials, the reports noted.
A heavy security presence has dominated the Tibet Autonomous Region and areas of the neighboring provinces in China since protests against Chinese rule led to violence in March. International journalists have encountered heavy restrictions in reporting from affected areas. Kyi has not been linked to the protests and is not known to have had past trouble with the authorities, according to AP.
Kyi writes her own blog and had published articles about problems facing women in Tibet, according to a biography posted online to advertise a 2006 concert at Columbia University.
At least 24 other journalists are imprisoned for their work in China, according to CPJ research. CPJ has documented the Chinese government’s failure to meet commitments it made to improve press freedom when it was awarded the 2008 Olympics in 2001 in a special report, Falling Short. | http://cpj.org/2008/04/tibetan-tv-producer-detained-in-china.php | 2013-05-18T10:12:48 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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HookerOne Feb 4, 2013 at 12:43 pm
Still waiting for Three, how frustrating. 12 days until my birthday, if they don't sort it by then I will be moving carriers.
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supercoolakshay Feb 4, 2013 at 12:46 pm
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JORENO Feb 4, 2013 at 12:52 pm
Looks like a reflection of camera are person taking picture.
avatsaev Feb 4, 2013 at 1:10 pm
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It is indeed a reflection. Definitely no crack on there :)
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It's not incorrect as I stood in front of two P4U salesmen waving real cash money in their faces and they wouldn't sell me one, stating all stock was for contract or upgrade.
zhanif Feb 4, 2013 at 6:27 pm!
vgorous Feb 4, 2013 at 1:07 pm
I didnt see this new here so here it is. UK sales
BBRY stock up ~12%
sapperuk Feb 4, 2013 at 2:04 pm
I just LOVE the comments below the article !! (Well, all except 1)
weesteev Feb 4, 2013 at 1:16 pm
Also worth noting that Carphone Warehouse are offering contracts on Orange cheaper than direct from the carrier, for the £36 deal you get a free phone, slip case and car charger as well as a boost to unlimited calls!
uyi2g Feb 4, 2013 at 1:44 pm.
cgk Feb 4, 2013 at 1:50 pm.
bert106 Feb 4, 2013 at 2:32 pm...
FLAVAOFDAMONTH Feb 4, 2013 at 3:35 pm
FLAVAOFDAMONTH Feb 4, 2013 at 3:34 pm
TommiTommi Feb 4, 2013 at 3:39 pm :)
zhanif Feb 4, 2013 at 6:30 pm
I am also on Virgin Mobile. I have spoken to some store staff and at the moment, they have no idea when they will be getting them. I was too excited so went and bought one SIM free from Phones4U!
grumpy_nerd Feb 4, 2013 at 3:57 pm.
zhanif Feb 4, 2013 at 6:31 pm
I got mine SIM free from Phones4U. You can get from some stores or order online.
grumpy_nerd Feb 5, 2013 at 6:26 am
Thanks, I had a look at phones4u () but can't find a way to order without a contract. Do you have a hint or maybe a direct link?
grumpy_nerd Feb 5, 2013 at 6:29 am
Nevermind, I found it. Had to select "SIM free phones" at the landing page and then navigate to the Z10 from there.
grumpy_nerd Feb 5, 2013 at 7:07 am
Looks like they deliver to UK only. :( Any other suggestions?
gonzo uk Feb 4, 2013 at 4:08 pm
I got mine from carphone warehouse on o2 £26 a month for unlimited calls and texts and 1gb data but only £99 for the phone. In the o2 store its £199.
NickUK Feb 4, 2013 at 5:13 pm
Went to Phones 4 U and was told it was only for sale on contract in store. Sim Free Z10 on the website was 479GBP on Saturday, now its 549GBP. Went up £70 in two days.
satchmobb Feb 4, 2013 at 5:43 pm
So glad I ordered mine Sunday eve! I wouldn't have paid that much. £479 felt about the limit. This won't do sales any good at all!
On a side note: My shiny new Z10 arrives tomorrow!!!
zhanif Feb 4, 2013 at 6:33 pm
That is shocking! Luckily I managed to get mine for £479 on Friday :-))
chan_the_killer Feb 4, 2013 at 8:05 pm
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How to make Silhouette Prints using Picnik
October 27, 2011 in Gettin' Crafty, Kitchen, Pups
Ask and Ye Shall Receive! Thank you so much for all of your sweet comments about my Encyclopedia Silhouette Prints. I absolutely love hearing from each and every one of you and your comments always make my day. Thank you, THANK YOU for making blogging SO much fun!
So the nitty gritty side of the Encyclopedia Prints… Let’s show you how to take your pictures from this to this:
It’s okay. Take a deep breath. It’s EASY. I promise!
If you haven’t done so already, you need to sign up for an account at Picnik.com The freebie version will be JUST fine for what you’ll need for this project.
Once you’ve done that, pick a photo you’d like to use for your silhouette. The fewer fuzzy wuzzy flyaway hairs the better. Trust me, it’ll make your life so much easier. (Maybe I’m just lucky having three smooth haired dogs… even if they DO shed!)
Upload your photo to Picnik and we’re ready to get started!
Under <BASIC EDITS> you have the option to CROP your image. Get it situated jussst how you like it and then we’ll start working on making it into a super posh silhouette.
Cropped? Good. Lets go.
- Click on <EFFECTS> in the top tool bar
- Scroll down through the list of effects on the left. Shortly before the bottom you’ll find DOODLE. Click that!
- Change your brush color to white
- Adjust your brush size. I like to start with a big brush for coloring the background
- Using the DOODLE effect, color out the big, obvious, gotsta-go background. Don’t start on the detail work yet… just get rid of the background until you’re left with something like this:
- Now is when I like to change my brush size to something quite a bit smaller and start working on the outer edge of my subject.
- GO SLOW and work in shorter brush strokes.
- UNDO is in the top right corner of the screen and it will quickly become your best friend for correcting bad “doodles”
- The smaller the brush, the smoother the lines
- ZOOM in on sections – you’ll find the zoom in lower right hand corner. VERY helpful
- Don’t be afraid to doodle right over things that make your outline awkward… like Emma’s collar!
…and you’ll be left with this:
- After doing the edging with the small brush I like to increase the brush size again and color in the rest of the background
- When you’re done CLICK APPLY on the left
- …and it should look something like this:
Now comes the fun part. Lets make it a flat black and white print!
- Click <BASIC EDITS>
- Click <EXPOSURE>
- Click <CONTRAST> and slide the bar all the way to the right.
- Click APPLY
If your image isn’t completely black and white, don’t fret. We can fill in with black or add more white. The important part is that your border is accurate! Here’s what mine looked like after this step… and all those blue arrows are pointing out the things I need to touch up.
- Go back to <EFFECTS>
- Scroll down to DOODLE and color in any of the white background that you’ve found.
- ZOOM IN and pan around. You’ll be amazed what you find when you zoom in.
- After everything in the background is white, change your brush color to BLACK and fill in any spots on the subject. When I made Roxy’s (the white terrier) print there were several larger areas I had to color in with black in the middle of her head. It was easy though! With Emma below, you’ll see there were areas along the edges that needed to be touched up. Remember…. ZOOM IN!
…and after all that:
- Click <SAVE & SHARE> tab at the top and save the photo to your computer.
- Tuh-Dah! You’re finished!!
You’ll have to cut me some slack… I did this one quickly for the tutorial so Emma’s head is a bit lumpy. As I said earlier, just go slowly and use shorter brush strokes in case you need to UNDO. If you use longer strokes, then you’ll lose an entire line if you make a small mistake at the end. (Trust me… VERY frustrating) I got so MUCH faster as I went so don’t give up if it’s hard in the beginning. By the time I got to my 4th silhouette I was zipping right along!
At this point I was able to just open the image and print it directly on a standard paper size… which actually was my encyclopedia page cut to fit.
I think it would be ADORABLE to print silhouettes directly onto cute scrapbooking paper for an easy way to bring color and/or pattern into a space. Just don’t choose something super dark or it will show through the ink. Maybe something with a simple burlap print would look nice?
Hope this helps and if I’ve forgotten anything please don’t hesitate to leave a comment with your questions!
FOR THE FULL PROJECT RUN-DOWN CLICK HERE!
Be sure to stop by and visit the amazing link parties where I’ll be joining up!
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...And the Wheel turns once again...
Midsummer- An Ancient Solar Celebration:
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Nearly every agricultural society has marked the high point of summer in some way, shape or form. On this date – usually around June 21 or 22 – the sun reaches its zenith in the sky for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere. (December 21 or 22 for our Southern Hemisphere friends.)
Traveling the Heavens:
Although there are very few primary sources are available detailing the practices of the ancient Celts, some information can be found in the chronicles kept by early Christian monks. Some of these writings, combined with surviving folklore, indicate that Midsummer was celebrated with great gatherings of local people, hilltop bonfires, feasting, mimery and revelry; and that it was a time to honor the space between earth and the heavens. This Sabbat marks the day that the sun is at its peak- and yet, from this day forward, begins to weaken.
Fire and Water:
In addition to the polarity between land and sky, Litha is a time to celebrate the balance between fire and water. European traditions celebrated this time of year by setting large wheels on fire and then rolling them down a hill into a body of water. This ritual is demonstrative of the way in which water mitigates the heat of the sun.
Saxon Traditions:
When they arrived in the British Isles, the Saxon invaders brought with them the tradition of calling the month of June Aerra Litha..
Midsummer for Modern Pagans:
Litha has often been a source of contention among modern Pagan and Wiccan groups, because there's always been a question about whether or not Midsummer was truly celebrated by the ancients.
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While there's plenty Pagans do choose to celebrate Litha every year in June.
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In some traditions, Litha is a time at which there is a battle between light and dark. The Oak King
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This is a time of year of brightness and warmth. Crops are growing in their fields with the heat of the sun, but require water to keep them alive. The power of the sun at Midsummer is at its most potent, and the earth is fertile with the bounty of growing life.
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Which 'crops' did you 'plant' this Spring? ave you 'harvested any of this years 'crops' yet? Do any of your 'crops' and projects need extra attention right now, in order to come to fruition?
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What part of life's cycle are you currently experiencing? Are you a Maiden- merely starting out on your life's journey? Learning, growing & gathering information and experience are your 'chores' in this stage. Exploring the universe & yourself, is your path.
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Are you a Newlywed- joining forces with your life's partner? Extra compassion & balance is the key to navigating thru this stage in life. Heightened awareness of your partner's needs will help the two of you to combine your two separate paths into a cohesive unit that honors your unique individuaity- while acheiving the unity that will carry you thru the next phases of life succesfully.
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Are you a Mother? Either a physical Mother- gving birth to, and raising her young? Or a 'Mother' who is 'giving birth to' ideas and projects; fostering creativity and producing new 'life' in its many forms. Then honor this time and place in your life by nurturing yourself- so that you can continue to grow & give to those around you. This would be your 'work' for this stage of your life.
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Are you entering, or living out your Crone years? Have you yet reached the wisdom & awareness that can come from this stage of life? Are you busy fighting your age? Or have you come to revel in the freedom that this phase can offer? Have you reached many of your goals in life? Are you happy, satisfied & content? How can you use your experience and wisdom to help others? Are you an Elder? A Sage? An Adept? What do you have to give? What power & insight have you gathered along your path? Can you use this to help yourself to live the life you dream of? Can yu use it to help others? This is your 'work'.
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Celebrate this turning of the Wheel of the Year with fire and water, night and day, and other symbols of the triumph of light over darkness.
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Use this time of solar power to lend extra energy to spells, and projects you may be working on. Midummer is a traditional time of year for gathering summer herbs, and making potions & amulets. Take advantage of this time to charge your gemstones in the summer sun.
Litha is a great time to celebrate outdoors if you have children. Take them swimming or just turn on the sprinkler to run through, and then have a bonfire or barbeque at the end of the day. Sprinkle aromatic herbs such as Rosemary, Lavander and Peppermint onto the fire; and burn petitions- either to invoke certain asects into your life, or to banish unwanted energies.
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Let them stay up late to say goodnight to the sun, and celebrate nightfall with sparklers, storytelling, and music. Because Midsummer is one of the 'times in between time'; this is also an ideal Sabbat to do magickal work. It is a time for divination and spirit work. Also, since June is the month of marriages and family; it is an ideal time to wok love magick, and to celebrate Weddings & Handfastings.
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There is plenty more Midsummer goodness to come. I have a few crafts, spells and oodles of interesting information on the many ways you can use this Sabbat (and everyday), to honor and celebrate your path.
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Blessings... ~Danae <(:o)
Thanks, Diane this was a great read and gave me a few ideas to do with my witchlets. your blog is always a joy to read.
Blessing
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BlackBerry users have been tucking into their App World for a while now, but unlike iPhoners with their iTunes, there's been no music store to keep them rocking their 3.5mm headphone jacks.
Now 7digital, the online MP3 store, has stepped in with a jazzy new BlackBerry app that serves as both store and player for owners of the BlackBerry Bold (pictured), Curve 8900 and Storm, with the Curve 8520 on its way.
The app is available starting today to BlackBerriers in the UK, US and five other countries, showing 7digital's laudable navigation of the maze of international music rights. If you have one of the supported phones, you can get the app from the BlackBerry App Market or by going to 7digital.com/bb on your phone's Web browser.
7digital also announced its site is launching in the US and Canada, bringing our friends over the pond MP3s at the paltry price of 77 cents, compared to the 79p we pay in the UK. Hmph.
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You love steak? Then you’re in for a treat!! This is nothing like steak, BUTTTT it’s so good your steak will taste like nothing!!! I’m serious. I have always wanted to make this dish but I was scared that the beef is chewy and hard. Turned out, it was so tender and juicy! Love it to the last bit. Next time you buy a cut for steak, save some to try out this dish. I assure you that you will not regret it. I’m not sure if this is 100% pure Vietnamese dish or not, but the name in Vietnamese Bò lúc lắc literally means Shaking Beef. Sounds pretty lame I know. Anyways this is the recipe
Ingredients:
-400g beef, preferably steak cut, diced into 1.5cm cube or slightly bigger
-1 tbs sugar
-2 tbs oyster sauce
-2.5 tbs fish sauce
-2 tbs oil
-0.5 to 1 tbs black pepper
-Minced garlic
-1 small onion, cut into strips.
Instructions
Dice the beef
Marinate with oil, oyster sauce, fish sauce, sugar, black pepper for half an hour to one hour.
Prepare minced garlic and onion
In a non-stick pan, heat up to medium high heat. Make sure it really is hot before you pour in the beef. Sear both sides. After that quickly give it a few shakes so other sides are cooked too. Remove the beef and keep it in a bowl. Add a little bit of oil, saute garlic then quickly add the onion strips. Give it a few strokes then add the beef back it. Stir well so that onion is coated with sauce too.
The onion strips should still be crispy and not soft. The beef is still juice and tender.
Serve with white rice. Enjoy!!!
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I’d love for the reader to explain his objections some more, because I don’t want to put words in his mouth.
It sounds like he wasn’t happy that a flag representing a government founded on Marxist, communist, and/or Maoist principles was flying so prominently in downtown Walnut Creek—and so close to City Hall.
The reader referred to it as a “communist China flag,” then said, “Yeah, I understand it’s Chinese food, but come on! How ‘bout an American flag next to it at least?”
But isn’t communism—the kind we associate with Marx, Trotsky, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, or other 20th century utopian ideologues—so last century? Okay, sure the People’s Republic of China—better known as mainland China—is the most populous nation on earth (1.2 billion people), and it is ruled by the Communist Party of China under a single-party, authoritarian system.
But how “communist” is the Communist Party of China, or the People's Republic of China? Only about 5 percent of people in mainland China belong to the Party. Then there was the rule of Deng Xiaoping (de facto leader of China from 1978 to the early 1990s). He introduced a social and economic philosophy termed “socialism with Chinese characteristics” that merges a market economy with a socialist political system.
In terms of discussing contemporary Chinese political systems, I'll be the first to admit that I'm flying without a net, and it would be nice if some expert on modern China or communist theory weighed in. But, it it sounds to me like China is more capitalist than stereotypically communist. At the same time, I understand that China’s government, with its single-party system, is not as democratic as many of us would like.
Back to OI-C Bowl? Does any of this high-falutin' political economy/ideology stuff have any bearing on how we should react to the People’s Republic of China flag flying hanging outside this restaurant?
On a somewhat related topic, it is common to go into an Italian, French, or Mexican restaurant, and see the colors of those country’s flags, or the actual flags themselves, flying as part of the restaurant’s décor. I’m a big fan of Thai food. Any Thai restaurant worth its fish sauce will display photos of the Thai royal family, a display—like that of the Italian, French and Mexican flags—that is an exercise in nationalist pride. (And, yes, technically, Thailand enjoys democratic rule, so, by that measure, we Americans like Thailand. But how democratic is a country like Thailand that continues to be plagued by rampant vote buying, corruption, and regularly military-backed coups?)
And, compared with the Italian, French, and Mexican flags, is there something different about a display of Chinese flag--a bright red sheet with its five bright yellow stars--on WC’s popular North Main Street? In terms of color scheme and design, this flag is reminiscent of the red-and-yellow hammer-and-sickle flag of the Soviet Union. Of course, both the flags of the USSR and of the People’s Republic of China were and are controversial symbols of the communist ideology with which we Americans were so long at war. Cold War-wise, that is.
For many people, seeing this Chinese flag won’t provoke the same sentimental reaction they might get from seeing an Italian, French, or Mexican flag. Suburbanites of mainland Chinese origin might have a different reaction.
Also, you might have a more open and welcoming attitude towards the PRC, following the Beijing Olympics and in light of our complicated relationship with that country in the midst of the global economic crisis--with that country emerging as the United State's largest creditor.
Is China our new economic BFF on the world stage? Should we therefore show its red-and-gold-star flag some respect? Or is China our new big, bad superpower enemy, and should we treat that country, and its flag, with wariness?
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Ate a wonderful dinner there tonight!
Since they own a tremendous amount of our national debt, I'd say they get to waive a few flags...it's the least we should do.
We are all very interconnected now, and need to get over these kinds of nationalistic and semantic differences.
Who cares about the flag they waive. It's their restaurant. And, if they are communist, it's their business. People who don't like it shouldn't patronize their establishment. As long as there is no ordinance that prevents flags from being flown in front of restaurants, I'm all good with it. Let these people pursue their happiness, please!!
The food there is over-rated. As for those who think anyone can hang anything they wish, well, what if it were a nazi flag? How about a confederate flag?
Does La Fogata have to paint over their Mexican Flag also?
This guy sounds like and insecure douchebag.
get rid of it. It is like spitting in america's face.
Yes, you are right. There should be an American flag right next to it.
To only show the communist flag is an insult. I like OI-C, but will not go there until this is addressed.
DumbasBricks,
You sir are a dumbass douchebag. Grow a pair.
Soccer Mom,
Your blog is becoming more of an extremist rant or place to rant. Are you fueling this on purpose?
They will not be getting my custom but they can fly what they wish.
So what. Those complaining probably have a garage full of crap/junk/stuff made in China. So who is really supporting Communist China?????
nice story SM. GET RID OF THE UGLY FLAG!
That is the Flag of there country and NOBODY should complain or have any problems of them representing there home. It is rude and un-American. Is this not the land of the free?
Careful folks, your xenophobia is showing.
How dare anyone exercise their first amendment right to display a symbol to which some people might object? This is America, after all, where liberty means free speech only applies to statements that no one may object to.
March 24, 2009 10:47 PM
People and business do still fly the confederate flag in this country. Matter of fact a few states fly it over their capital.....so what's your point?
People would disagree with it like you disagree with this. Those that don't agree can not eat there and if the owner feels like it's harming their business they will take it down.
These type of racist remarks are what cause hatred towards white people. After the assination of Oscar Grant many minorities felt that it was a racially motivated murder and hatred grew towards the Oakland Police. Altough I do not condone the murder of the 4 officers, there are many people that find hapinness in this event...You people that are writing flamatory comments are the same as the people that are happy that the 4 officers were killed.
do you also refuse to eat chinese food because you disagree with chinese communist politics?
this restaurant flying the chinese flag is a cultural statement, not a political one.
The owners are Chinese and whether they agree with the present regime or not it's their homeland. I appreciate this blog and the opportunity for discussion. Don't let the personal attacks discourage you.
America is a CONTINENT, get it straight! Ignorance is bliss!
are the china flag haters also target/kmart/walmart shoppers? they should take a look in the mirror. symbolic outrage doesn't disguise their consumer addiction to chinese products.
Wow - you First Amendment fighters could be helpful in the Anonymous blog of a couple days ago re the Sufism Sanctuary... same argument diff topic
Now, I can't wait to try this restaurant, being unfairly singled out by this blog and by all the racists and xenophobes on this blog and Claycord.
This reads like the paranoid 1950’s McCarthy communist witch-hunt’s looking for commies under every rock. A world flag signifies a COUNTRY, not a political party or ideology. This is the flag of China, not the communist party. Question: because a flag is hanging outside a business (close to City Hall) do we remove all other flags just because the political system is not to our liking?, or perhaps take it a step further and not allow foreign people or businesses because of their mother country. Granted the Republic of China is controlled by the communist party, but every day the country is becoming more Capitalistic. Today in 2009, one would have a hard time telling the difference between Shanghai rush hour traffic jams and Highway 24 jams, or shopping areas with designer clothes, or 1000’s of new China made Buicks and Audi’s hitting the road every month. The thought process of the blogger is off base and wrong.
What annoys the crap out of me is that the restaurant name is an obvious play on a Japanese word (OI-C = oishii = delicious), but is a Chinese restaurant.
They can use their own language to look for a cutesy restaurant title, TYVM.
all this about a japannesed name a white american owned chineese restaurant
If your going to hang a flag of a different country other than the American. It needs to fly below the American flag period. Look into that as a Iraqi bet it needs to come down. Who cares what the food taste like. I can care less if their country is caring our debt. Maybe we shouldn't out source to that country. Like I said if you want to fly the flag put the American flag up too, and make sure it flys higher.
Thank you
Does'nt bother me , the vibe in Walnut Creek is what does bother me.
Anon 4:22 Flying both flags is only required on Federal and State properties. Think post offices, schools, courthouses.
It would be nice to see an American flag there as well, but not required.
I think they should take down the flag and soccer mom should take down that photo that doesn't look even remotely like her.
There are some of us who still consider our country's flag something to be honored. I understand the compulsion to hang onto reminders of one's homeland when transplanted to another land, but, may I remind you all, these people come here willingly. Why is it that those people are revered for loving their homeland while I am reviled for loving mine? (BTW, I was born in Australia). How dare you call those of us who love our country xenophobic. Your government education is showing..
Speaking of Flags being put up in front of businesses, check this out video!
VIDEO LINK
American Veteran Removes US Flag from beneath Mexican Flag in Reno
All I see is a Chinese flag in front of a Chinese restaurant.Is that really such a big deal? All cultures have the right to be celebrated and treated equally.
As opposed to worrying about an inanimate object; people should be focused and concerned on the real events occurring closer to home. Oakland is in jeopardy of being completely burned by street thugs when the BART officer's charges are reduced. And conversely, Channel 7 news is examining if the cop killer received a bad shake from the probation & parole system. I really urge people to focus on the real issues and real events in our society and community that impact our lives today and tomorrow.
What the hell. you people have been dumbed down by the eduaction system and the medias.
Communism has been responsible for more deaths than Hitler was! How about Tianinamun(however the spell it)square. They killed millions of their own people in the 60's and 70's, They invaded Tabet and ran the Della Lama out. If you want to see smog go there! People are dying from river water it is so polluted. If they demonstrate they get thrown in jail. There were over 5000 demonstrations last year alone because of the dirty air and water.
This is a never ending story but you get the picture. So you turn your backs and find a place for your heads, up your asses as usual!
The Confederate Flag does not fly on any State Capital, the last place was in South Carolina and it came down some 5 years ago or so. In fact the state flag which had it on 1/3 part of it was reworked so that it is displayed with a series of small flags that flew in the state as I recall. Forget which one.
The Chinese flag is... well the Chinese flag. It would be kind of interesting if they flew the flag of Nationalist China (Taiwan) and then they would stir up protests from Chinese mainlanders who see the Taiwanese as breakaway rebels etc.
International politics is such fun.
This is America isn't it? The land of the free and the home of the brave. Who are we to tell people what flags they can and can't fly. They are supporting their country that they are from. Now Iam not saying that it's right, and I certainely don't agree with the flying of this flag but as an American citizen they have every right to do so. If you don't like it, look the other way as you walk or drive by, hell don't eat at their restaurant if you don't agree. As for the la fogata mexican flag goes, half of contra costa county is full of mexicans, they should be able to have their flag painted on the side of their building.
USA stands for freedom. We should show the meaning of that. Snibbling wieners, tell me where you can be found. I'll be right over Chinese Hot peppers to ram up your arse
Sure doesn't stop anyone from buying everything from China. I bet most American flags are made in China. This whole discussion is foolish.
To all those who feel they have every right to fly whatever they want, well, what if they decide to not serve African-Americans next? Is that ok? According to your logic it is because they should be able to do whatever they wish as a private business.
what do i think well i think you need to get a real life and stop looking for things to complain about, you've obviously got too much time on your hands
12:04,
Refusing to serve people based on their race, ethnicity, religion, etc., is illegal. These laws are meant to protect minority groups. How on earth do you figure flying a flag has any correlation at all to minority protections?
If you don't like it, don't patronize their establishment. It's simple. You're all so offended by eating at an establishment flying a Chinese flag, yet you'll all eat on plates and with utensils that have been manufactured in China. What kind of car do you drive? Where are your clothes manufactured?
You're a useless parody of a patriot.
If you really want to be patriotic, buy only American-made products.
Who cares if someone flies a Confederate flag. Nazi flags might fall under racial-hatred laws, which is different than flying a flag because you're proud of your country.
No person should have to become white to live in this country.
I have never seen so much bigotry and racial hatred as I have in Contra Costa County.
I never eat in Walnut Creek because all of their restaurants are crappy, expensive, and overrated.
I will, however, make an exception. I intend to eat at this restaurant just to give them some support.
If everyone is so up in arms about the ideals the country of China was founded on, why don't we also look at some of the practices we demonstrated when our country became a nation, slavery anyone?
Who cares? Seriously. With all the problems we face, people want to worry about a flag? Some of you people need to get a life. They serve CHINESE food - should they put up a Mexican or French flag?
I know the owners and these are nice people simply trying to make a go of it in a borderline location.
I suspect they put the flag up to get a little more attention in a location that needs some attention. I seriously doubt they had ANY idea this would turn into a political issue.
"I never eat in Walnut Creek because all of their restaurants are crappy, expensive, and overrated.
I will, however, make an exception. I intend to eat at this restaurant just to give them some support."
Congratulations, because that restaraunt is definitely crappy, expensive and overrated. Knock yourself out!
"I know the owners and these are nice people simply trying to make a go of it in a borderline location."
"Borderline" location? Are you kidding me? That's one of prime shopping/eating areas in Walnut Creek.
"A world flag signifies a COUNTRY, not a political party or ideology."
In this case it actually does represent the communist revolution and Communism.
"Borderline" location? Are you kidding me? That's one of prime shopping/eating areas in Walnut Creek."
Wrong, it's a bit past where most of the prime locations are. Not much foot traffic at all. If what you say is true, why has there been 5-6 other restaurants fail in this location?
10:50,
Thanks! The only places worth eating in Walnut Creek are McDonalds and Il Pavone in Saranap. McDonalds isn't overpriced, and Il Pavone is overpriced, but the food is decent. All of the other restaurants? Blech.
If I was going to go out to eat based on the quality of the food, I wouldn't be going to ANY Walnut Creek restaurant.
I have all my spots. Best Mexican in Contra Costa is in East County. Best Chinese is in Oakland. I haven't found any Chinese in Contra Costa that's fit for human consumption.
Oooh, oooh. WC has a newer Le Cheval. I eat at the Oakland Le Cheval often. Good food, sometimes flaky service. How is that if anyone's tried it?
"If what you say is true, why has there been 5-6 other restaurants fail in this location?"
Because they were not well run. Just like this Chinese restaurant is, except the food there is even worse than the others like Crepevine. Why has Le Bistro not gone out of business? Why is La Scala doing so well?
"The only places worth eating in Walnut Creek are McDonalds and Il Pavone in Saranap."
Yeah, WCYC and Va de Vi are crap, right? Why don't you get out of Rossmoor more often and go to a real restaurant.
2:42,
I don't live in Rossmoor -- I'm not old enough. I don't live in Walnut Creek or Saranap, but I am a neighbor. Tried all of the restaurants, and they're all crappy and overpriced. Most Contra Costa restaurants are overpriced and leave much to be desired. I'll drive out to go to a good restaurant or stay at home.
Tsk, tsk, tsk to you on your insult against the elderly Rossmoor residents. I've been in there, and I like 'em. Why do you dislike them? Because they're old or because they wield too much power for you?
Hey 7:39,
Leave your lame 'grow a pair' somewhere else. It didn't work on the Claycord blog and it didn't work here. Do you have undescended testicles or something?
Hey 7:39,
Leave your lame 'grow a pair' somewhere else. It didn't work on the Claycord blog and it didn't work here. Do you have undescended testicles or something?
More Americans eat Chinese food every day than eat apple pie.
There are more Chinese restaurants in the US than McDonalds, Burger King and Kentucky Fried Chicken combined (per TED conference speaker).
These people came and opened a restaurant in WC for a reason. Probably the same reason ALL your ancestors came to the United States.
Get over this ignorance. By all means go to Il Pavone, probably no heinous Italian flags there...hey didn't Italians throw Christians to the lions...GASP! OMG Down with Pasta!
You're right. It is not the "American" flag...it is the flag of the goddamn "United States of America"...and if you don't like it, you can get the f#@K out! Bunch of wimps.
Flags are seriously symbolic. There is much ceremony and propriety built around them. Read up on it before you make up your mind.
Showing both flags shows pride in your culture and appreciation for the opportunity and rights you have as a participant in our great economy (choke choke hack hack)
Well, at least YOUR name is correct.
Why is this even a controversy? It's the national flag of the People's Republic outside a Chinese restaurant. For all China's faults (of which there are many, along the lines of environmental policies, human rights, animal welfare, etc.), it's not exactly a rogue nation. The restaurant employs people, pays taxes, and contributes to the city. What more do people want? And it's not as though the U.S. has a spotless human rights record. ... If you like the restaurant's food, eat there. If you don't, don't. Frankly, some of the objections to the flag make me want to go out of my way to eat there.
I have mixed feelings about this, but I do not think it's worth a resurgence in Cold War emotions.
Just a few points.
1. We need the Chinese as much as they need us. This helps keep us from ever fighting a war with them.
2. Remember that it is the Chinese Government that is currently funding the genocide in the Darfur region while they drill out their oil - (which is why the US does nothing). And don't forget Tibet either.
3. They have the right to fly their flag, and I have a right to burn one and stomp all over it too!
4. Chinese food is damn good.
5. You also have a right to boycot the resturant.
6. We should not be wasting valuable time over an irrelivant subject as this.
7. I am glad that we have Chinese people living in our country. They make decent neighbors and they don't go around dealing drugs, stealing, trashing the neighborhood or having drive by shootings. For the most part Chinese people are meek. I don't support their government, but the people are actually pretty nice. I can't even say that about my own country - The USA.
I don't agree with #6, but your argument #4 has changed my opinion.
I'd just like some clarification on the note post by Sinn Feiner which said -.
???
So does that mean you feel that China's policies are the ones we here in the States should be trying to emulate? That China has the best way of dealing with any expression that does not have governmental sanctification?
I rather think I prefer the way we here allow people to have an opinion, regardless of whether it toes the correct political line or not. (Though I've noted that being allowed free speech is something that is becoming more frowned upon daily.)
DumbAsBricks
Their food is good, but they have a long way to go in learning how to brew beer.
Or drive a car.
They imprison without due process, they torture, they spy on their own citizens, they suppress civil rights, they...oh wait...that's the US until Obama!
OK. There are a few Americans that feel that a Chinese person flying the Chinese flag somehow diminishes the American flag.
It's obvious that this has nothing to do with the Chinese people or their flag.
Dear Anon 9:26:
Deleting your post. It's annoying, but I suppose that's why you continue posting it. Ha ha ha.
Anyway, I'm going to Sleepy Town now. Big day tomorrow. Gotta clean out the garage and stuff like that. I lead such a glamorous life.
I suppose I'm flattered that you'd take the time to post comments that I'll keep deleting when they come to my attention.
In any event, nightie-night. Hope you have sweet dreams, too..
Sorry, my username isn't working.
Sincerely,
Revcoco.
Revcoco
The first step in taking over a country usually starts with changing the language. When a country is conquered a new flag is typically raised. Inconsequential? I guess the question is "What language and flag matters to you?"
Revcoco
Revcoco
All our flags are now owned by China? They were probably all made there. But, do you ever wonder why they are so concerned about our economy??? Let's see, we have their cheap flags and they have our...
Revcoco
Ching Chong Bing Bong.
Arl your frag are berong to us.
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I without whatever bug chomped on my foot and led me to spend my final evening of the week waiting to see an ER doc (and, as it turns out, get some antibiotics, erk), but the knitting parts of the week were all good.
My class was all about sweater knitting, particularly about knitting sweaters that fit, and assorted other things that came up over the course of the week. Our little group got on very well, in fact so nicely that we all met for breakfast on Friday morning and they surprised me with a nice card and thank-you wine. (I have no doubt that it will taste better than regular wine). By mid-week they were even dreaming up other knitting classes I should come back and do next summer, so with any luck we’ll get to do it again.
Over the course of the week we chattered on about measuring, swatching, (and then more about measuring and swatching), pattern reading and modification, finishing, yarn behaviour, and lots more that I’m probably forgetting.
We made duct tape dress forms, as one does.
And we also ate chocolate, chatted, knitted, and enjoyed our luck at having an air-conditioned classroom. We commented at how convenient it is to have chosen a craft (or art?) that allows us to be able to sit and talk in a group at the same time as actually doing the execution. It really is a nice bonus.
And now I’m back in the big city again for a few days and readying myself to exchange one whirlwind for another as I prepare to leave for Sock Summit next Wednesday. There’s more knitting to be done, and I suspect some laundry and list-making.
Catch you again in a couple of days! And stay cool, knitter friends.
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So looking forward to seeing you next weekend! Portland awaits…
I can see from your pics that you had amazing time. I wish I could be there (or anywhere with a group of knitters) and knitting, learning, chatting…
Sorry for the bug bite
I loved your summary of the week in Haliburton…. and the photos! I compared the knitting I did in the Haliburton course to the knitting I had done prior to working in your group…..could NOT believe how much better my work looked for having been a student with you! By the way, this week we are “knitting at the movies” at the Kniterary night at our local library.
A very productive week it seems and loved the photo of then duct tape dress LOL. Sounds like it was very hot to be knitting. Down here in the southern hemisphere we’ve got snow down to sea level.
Love the great pictures of everyone laughing while they learn! Thanks for a peek into the class. It looks like a blast.
Duct tape dress form? How does one do that and does it actually work or were you being facetious? I would love a dress form that actually fit MY body so if this is real, please share!!
I so enjoy your blog so much, I wish I could be in one of your classes,I was wondering how you get to find out about all these wonderful classes?
Thanks for asking! I try to keep my “Teaching” page on my blog (check the little tabs up there at the top) updated as often as I can, so that is the best place at a glance. I also mention new classes on my Twitter feed, which is posted on the right side there on my blog.
In fact, I just updated my Teaching page with my upcoming fall classes at the Purple Purl, and more will likely be listed for Needles in the Hay in Peterborough!
And if you’re at all curious at any time, feel free to just ask me what’s coming up next
G
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i got back to work on my spiderweb quilt yesterday. it is good "wind down" sewing. it's fun to play with different fabric combinations. and it's a great way to use up those small pieces of fabric that i can't part with for some reason.
i've decided that i am going to make it a twin size, so i'm just about 1/3 done with the top of the quilt. if it takes me the rest of the year to piece it, i'm ok with that. i'm enjoying the process. and i'm also thinking i need to make one in PINK, as there is no shortage of pink scraps in this house.
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A monochromic spiderweb would be cute.
I have to find the instructions for this quilt: I love intricate work and I have so many little fabrics I can't part with, because I'm insanely thrifty with fabric and because of all the kids' precious little outfits that are all worn out except for a little spot here and there. :o)
OH poopie, scratch that. lol. just found the word 'tutorial.' Off to blush...
WOW!!!! That is turning out so COOL!! Who gets it on their bed when you're done?
I really like this! Excellent use of strings! And I also love that I see you & I have bought some of the same fabrics - awesome! :)
I think I could try out a monocromatic version of this - looks like a GOOD way to use up my ooooooold fabrics :D
Absolutely loving your version! The colors are great and the white background fabulous.
They are lookin' good. I'll show mine in a few days.
it is lovely, what a lot of work!
I so envy you and your ability to use WHITE! I want to sooooo bad, but find that I can't bring myself to do it.. Maybe one day!
love this one. i think i am going to try it next. i love the way it looks. yours is so stunning, i have set aside green, pink, and orange scraps. how do you think you will quilt yours? that is my only concern with mine. i have seen it quilted around the stars, but i kind of want stipple. do you think that would be a mistake?
I don't really care for the spider web quilts, but I LOVE yours! I think having the white for the centers is just what that quilt pattern needs. Looks so lovely!
It IS hard to part with those small scraps.
I made a Spiderweb quilt (twin-size) just like yours three years ago. I, too, used a white background. It has a blue backing and binding. It is the perfect size for the sofa.
Your quilt is lovely. I can't wait to see it finished.
WOW! I think this is the coolest quilt I've seen lately. I've seen these spider web quilt blocks before, but never all laid out like this! I think I'll have to try some now.
I save so many teeny tiny scraps and usually just move them from one bin to another - I just can't part with them. Thanks for the link to the tutorial - this seems like the perfect solution for using them. Also - I really enjoy paper piecing. Any reason why this wouldn't work with a lightweight muslin foundation?
isn't string piecing addictive? I always have at least one string project going for those days when I just need to sit mindlessly and sew something and let my thoughts wander. Your quilt is turning into a real beauty.
I just love your quilt. I really like the color combination you used. It looks amazing.
It's looking great - your 1/3 of the way further than I am :) I can see how this would really relax you - enjoy!
oooohhh...me likey!!!
but i'm dying inside to see you do this in all pinks!!!
:D
I'm with Christina. I have never really liked the Spiderweb quilts that I have seen, but I love the brightness of yours. Just goes to show you that you can make anything look good if you use the right fabric. Can't wait to see it done. And I must confess that I caved today. I bought six yards of fabric at Joann's. I have walked out without it several times, and today I succumbed. (Hangs head in shame) But it is so pretty. = ) And it has been like 85 days since I bought fabric.
Now that is quite lovely! Hmmm... yet another use for my fat quarters and big scraps. Drat!
Wow! This is lovely!!!
Everytime I see yours I flip the switch on my machine to get a little more done! LOVE IT!! Thanks for the motivation!
WOW, I need to get going on mine soon! Just fabulous!
mmm hmmm, I love this!! Thanks for sharing your works in progress!!! Can't wait to see it finished!
You inspire me. I love this one.
such a great project for scraps...i'm making a block or two every once and awhile and popping them in the closet. we shall see how long it takes to make something of them.
wow!! what a great project!!
What a great ongoing project. I may just have to start one for myself. Thanks for the information.
That looks awesome, I love string quilts, it looks like a lot of piecing. It looks great with white.
That is just gorgeous! I LOVE the scrappy look. Beautiful!
It looks awesome with white. I love string quilts. It looks like a heap of piecing!
Holy Cow Ms. Crazy, are all those blocks just 1/3 of the quilt? It looks like it will be huge! Very, very cool!
Oh so much progress! I wish that I had more gumption to work more on mine...
I love what you've done so far!! It is just lovely. I can't wait to get mine started!!
Precioso proyecto y original, muy bueno para "aprovechar" telas. También parece rápido de hacer.
Saludos desde Girona, España.
La colcha de la que te hablé está a punto para acolchar.
This is beautiful! I have the feeling it is one of those quilts that you feel you just need to make another block 'just to see' how it will look.
It's wonderful! A pink one would be fabulous, too.
I've loved these blocks since I first saw them on your blog - I have two on the go at the moment: one in "pretties" and one in brights with black/white stripe; and I'm thinking about one in various lime greens with black/white spot but not a spiderweb - just strips.
Your spiderwebs are so fresh - they're gorgeous (like all of your quilts).
That is amazing! I just love your quilts!!! Thanks for sharing them with us!
Beautiful job! I love that it's made from leftovers that would have been thrown away!
Let me get this straight. You, Amandajean, are okay with letting a quilt take you all year.
Okay. Who are you and what have you done with my friend?!?!?
That's looking beautiful, Amanda! I would love to see ne in your pink scraps as well.
That is unreal - I love this one!
Looking good so far! I love how colorful it is!
Amanda Jean, I just LOVE LOVE LOVE this pattern. I must give it a go!!
It looks FANTASTIC!!! I can't wait to start mine. I'm getting my scraps together and organized!:) Now if I could just take the organization to the rest of my sweatshop.:):) I LOVE THIS QUILT!!! Although, I really have A LOT of pink scraps maybe I should go more that way. I doubt I will but it's fun to think pink.:)
beautiful! I would love to make one of these one day...it's such a cool pattern
This is totally unrelated to todays blog, but my computer crashed and I lost everything. I am trying to re-piece my favorites. I have found you, but I think I acquired a link from you and I can't remember the name of the site. Did you have a link to a video done by a gal, I think her name could've been Judy, and she was demo-ing how she quilts, which is kind of in a grid and she quilts a section and sort of scribbles up and down up and down, etc, all over within the grid, then she moves on to the next area and does the same.
Does that sound familiar to you, and if so, could you send me her name or repost or something? I loved that technique! Thank you!
jcleveland03@comcast.net
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love it, especially that your background is white, it really makes it pop!
It's coming along beautifully!!
I love this Quilt!!!
it's so beautiful. I totally get why it's sewing therapy...but also can imagine it is going to take quite awhile to design and sew it. I guess that is why it's so beautiful :)
Hi Amandajean,
what a beautiful quilt this will be!!! I already saved the pattern, I like it very much.
**Heike
I just have to say again how SUPER FANTASTIC THIS QUILT IS AND WILL BE!!!!!
I like that you're taking your time with this one and that you're enjoying the process so much. And I think one in pink would be just perfect for you.
About the fabric values...
I see several places where you put a light-value fabric directly against the white. Does it read as distinctly different IRL? It's hard to see it in the small photo, but the hi-res one shows a fairly good contrast b/c of the patterns. Just wondering how distinct the spiderweb edge appears where that occurs.
Thanks!
Wow, lovely!!!
katie k,
the lighter colors read more distinctly in real life. the larger this quilt gets, the harder it is to get a good detailed photo of the quilt.
aj
Amandajean,
Your spiderweb quilt is absolutely gorgeous. I love that you have been working on it for a while. I always thought that this would be a hard quilt top to make, then I linked to the tutorial. This pattern is definitely going on to my list of quilts to make.
Amy T.
This quilt is just stunning. I can't wait to see it finished and yes, a pink one would just be beautiful!
That's a spectacular and effective pattern.
It is looking amazing!
This looks so awesome. I am looking for a way to use up all my scraps.
I love this quilt!!!!
Beautiful fabric choices, Amandajean. Keep us posted on your progress, okay?
That is oh so very cool! Never heard of this technique before but what a great introduction. =)
I was so intrigued with this pattern that I had to go look at the tutorial. Then, the way that Bonnie made her "kite" piece just made me want to try it. So, I have 1/2 of a block done, and I'm off to go do the other half. This is more fun than I thought it would be! I love string quilts to start with, but even the sewing part is fun too!
Your spiderwebs are so bright and happy - what fun!
You're getting into "two of everything" mode now too, aren't you?
Pink would be lovely, of course.
I love this! I was making one (a really long time ago), but it was paper piecing. I think I like it better this way.
I love that you said you are enjoying the process and taking your time. I think sometimes we do things in a hurry too much and don't enjoy making some quilts as much as we should. Deadlines make it too much like work.
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me and my sister Clair
This past weekend I turned 35. You know how some people say that they don't feel their age? I'm not one of those people. ;) I celebrated with my sis, who also shares my birthday. No cake was involved (it's way too hot to bake) but there was LOTS of ice cream. I may or may not have had ice cream 3 times on Sunday, including my husband's favorite recipe. YUM! It was a good, good day.
In belated celebration of my official stance in the middle aged club, I'm hosting a give away. Today I have not one, but TWO roll ups to give away, compliments of Robert Kaufman fabrics. Thank you, Rob! (LOL!!!!!!!!!)
In belated celebration of my official stance in the middle aged club, I'm hosting a give away. Today I have not one, but TWO roll ups to give away, compliments of Robert Kaufman fabrics. Thank you, Rob! (LOL!!!!!!!!!)
One is in the dusty color story, which is quite lovely.
The other one is in the classic color story. It's bright and fun and cheery.
Either way, you can't go wrong.
If you would like to win, leave me a comment. In your comment, tell me what your favorite flavor of ice cream is. My favorite flavor would have to be coffee....with a brownie mixed in. Mmmmm, mmmm!
I will pick two separate winners. Only one comment per person. I'll pick a winner on Saturday...after my garage sale. Oh, yeah, the fun never ends around here. :)
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Happy Birthday! It sounds like it was a good one. My favorite "ice cream" flavor is actually raspberry sorbet with chocolate chips... call me crazy!
Pralines and Cream!
My favorite ice cream is Ben and Jerry's Imagine Whirled Peace. Caramel & Sweet Cream Ice cream swirled with fudge peace signs and toffee cookie pieces. Soooo good.
Happy Birthday!
I happen to live in Utah where I've heard we consume the MOST ice cream than anywhere else in the US. Who knows. Anyway, my favorite is banana carmel crunch from Coldstone. It is fabulous with banana ice cream too. HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
My absolut favourite ice-cream "flavour" is vanilla with jello smashed up in it...weird maybe but it brings me back to my childhood.
If that was not an option I would have to say Orange float flavour.
Tennile B
Vanilla with a piece of chocolate cake mixed in!
Happy birthday! My favorite ice cream flavor is Ben & Jerry's Oatmeal Cookie Crunch!
My absolute favorite, hands down, is my grandfather's handmade vanilla ice cream. There is nothing else like it on Earth...and I've tried hard to find a comparison! :-)
Happy Birthday!!
Happy Belated Birthday! Love the pic of you and your sis. As a summer baby, I appreciate a good ice cream celebration! As far as favorites, they change...often. My current fave is peach (with frozen peaches in it) mixed with Vanilla Bean. It sounds odd, but it's SO good!
Happy Birthday! My favorite ice cream by far is Cookies and Cream by Breyers- it's the best!
Chocolate fudge brownie!
Ben and Jerry's Chocolate Fudge Brownie...or a local Herrell's Burnt Sugar and Butter...or better yet, both together!! Happy birthday!
Chocolate fudge brownie!
Happy Birthday! I'm a huge fan of chocolate w/peanut butter chunks & cookie dough. Now I'm hungry! :-/
My favorite flavor is mint Oreo. I used to only do Ben and Jerry's but recently I discovered a Dryers Grand that is delish! Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday. It sounds like you had a great day.
Since moving to Texas, my favorite ice cream is Blue Bell's Moo-llennium Crunch, a vanilla ice cream with a combination of dark chocolate chunks, creamy caramel chunks, roasted pecan halves, chopped almonds and walnut pieces.
Happy birthday! Love the fabric, especially the dusty colorway. My favorite ice cream is vanilla with hot fudge on it! :0)
Happy Birthday! My favorite ice cream is vanilla with choc syrup, choc chips, coconut and pecans mixed in and sometimes a banana sliced on top too!
definitely grape ice cream :)
Rhubarb crumble ice-cream...it's truly scumpcious and of course totally good for you because of the rhubarb in it ;-)
Mmmmm-probably oreo but I do love a good vanilla
Happy Birthday ! I love Breyers vanilla and chocolate.
love vanilla, or chocolate peanut butter cup. Yum!
My fave is cake batter ice cream. Coffee ice cream is tasty, but the caffeine keeps me up at night! Happy 35!
Happy Birthday! My favorite ice cream is Rocky Road.
is it ok that it's not exactly ice cream? I just love raspberry sorbet!
Happy Birthday! I'm a big fan of chocolate almond ice cream.
Strangely, I only like ice cream when I'm pregnant and then Peanut Butter Cup is the best! I'd rather have a homemade chocolate chip cookie all the rest of my life.
Happy Birthday! Love your quilts!
there's this ice cream company based out of santa barbara and they make the most amazing peppermint stick ice cream. i'm not a fan of peppermint candy, but this ice cream is just so yummy! once we move from LA i'm really going to miss being able to get it at the store.
but if i'm being entirely honest, i rarely thumb my nose at any ice cream. :)
happy birthday! i turned 30 a couple of weeks ago.
Yummm....homemade strawberry ice cream. I may have to stop by the grocery store on the way home.
Thanks for the chance to win!
Happy birthday! My favorite ice cream is kulfi. yum!
My mother in law's stem ginger with chocolate chunks ice cream is absolutely amazing. I am drooling just thinking of it.
Happy birthday!!
right now my fave flavor is chocolate chip cookie dough, breyers brand. happy birthday!!!
Happy Birthday!
My favourite would have to be chocolate fudge brownie flavour, with some rum and raisin too! Love it.
Sal. X
Happy Birthday! I love mint chocolate chip. Yumm!
Happy belated birthday!!! My all-time favourite ice cream is green tea, which my boyfriend thinks is disgusting... well, he doesn't know what he's been missing! Thanks for the giveaway!!
Happy Birthday!!!!
My favorite is Peach...homemade of course!
Thanks for the chance to win!!
Hey Amanda, Happy Birthday! Any day with ice cream is a good day. And my favorite? Chocolate, hands down! Have a great Birthday week!
I'd have to say Rainbow Sherbet. I LOVE IT! Happy Birthday!
My favorite- Blue Bell homemade vanilla with raspberries on it!
happy birthday!!
my favorite is vanilla with caramel swirl. mmmmm
Depends on the brand. Central Dairy is our local ice cream maker and they make one called Birthday Cake. It's my favorite when I can find it.
You are a twin? My favorite ice cream is a blueberry sorbet made in our ice cream maker with lots of blueberries and buttermilk!! YUM. I just looked at these jelly rolls this morning - drooling....
Happy birthday :)
Hands down, my favorite is mint chocolate chip. No brand can get it wrong, so it will be reliably delicious for the rest of my life!
spumoni!
my favorite flavor is salted caramel from molly moons in seattle.
happy birthday!
My favorite flavor is a salted, burnt caramel ice cream. I had it once in Nice and my husband has managed to nearly re-create it (a little too salty still, but darned close). Sigh. I need some!
I'd love a chance to win. Happy belated birthday.
Happy Birthday, you are in great age company ;-). I love either English Toffee or coffee fudge, yum :-) But it's a bit too cold here for that at the mo, I'll eat some cake for you. TTFN
anything with chocolate!
My favorite homemade is rich vanilla... lots of eggs in it.
My favorite bought ice cream is Blue Bell coffee flavored.
YUM! Happy birthday!
Kat
Happy Birthday!
I think I have to go with cookie dough. It's the random chunks of delicious that keep you searching for more.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
I love tart FroYo :-)
Happy birthday! I'm not eating much icecream at the moment... It's the middle of winter here.
Happy Birthday! :-)
Ice cream? Definitively chocolate! My all time favorite!
Green Tea Ice Cream - Delicious!
Belated happy birthday to you and your sister! I, too, love coffee ice cream, but my favorite ice cream ever is from childhood - a homemade caramel ice cream that was made by a friend's family cook for the annual Fourth of July celebration we had at the lake! Wish I has a bowl now!!!
Happy Birthday!
My fav ice cream flavor is chocolate butter fudge...I grew up in a family that had the local dairy that packaged milk and ice cream and it was our specialty. (Look up Ritchey's Dairy in Martinsburg, PA if you are ever travelling through central PA!)
I spent years dipping ice cream in the local shop and I came up with some fun combinations with the girls...like if you mix chocolate butter fudge with orange sherbet it tastes like a tootsie roll. oh, ice cream...not the same since I moved away!
Happy Birthday! I use to think coffee was my favorite flavor but then Ben & Jerries started making coffee heath bar crunch and I am in love with it. Hope you had a great birthday!
Happy Birthday!! My favorite flavor of ice cream is Coffee with chocolate swirls...It is nice to see your shining face...
You're a twin? How fun!
I don't think I could possibly choose just one flavor. It all depends on my mood. Mint-chocolate chip, coffee, Ben & Jerry's Chubby Hubby. I could go on and on...ice cream is my all time favorite dessert. It never disappoints.
Happy Birthday!
My favorite is plain 'ole vanilla... sometimes with caramel topping.
Chocolate with brownie pieces. Yummy!
Happy birthday and enjoy the mid 30's.
barberg@sbcglobal.net
Happy Birthday! I would have to day my favorite Ice Cream is White Cake Ice_cream with MMs, Snickers and Kit-Kat. Yes it's a very rich ice-cream, I only get it for special stuff.
Happy birthday! I've got a couple of favorites - Tiger's Tail (orange with a dark chocolate ribbon) from a local ice cream shop, and Double Chocolate Malted Crunch - from Thrifty drug store. Does anybody remember the square ice cream scoops for a quarter? I think RiteAid carries this flavor now, since Thrifty is no more.
happy birthday!!!!
vanilla bean with a warm brownie:) yummmo
I LOVE ice cream but it would be vanilla !! With mini chips mixed in!!! OK hot fudge, whipped cream and a cherry!! But vanilla !!!
Happy happy birthday! How fun! My favorite ice cream is Blue Bell Pistachio Almond. We'll go have some when you're here in November! And, of, course, thanks for the chance to win!
homemade blackberry is wonderful.
quiltinggranna@tx.rr.com
Happy belated birthday! My favorite ice cream is definitely homemade dulce de leche gelato. I only make it a few times a year because it takes so long but it's worth it!
Now you have me wanting to make some...
Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Twirl,but the company doesn't make it anymore :-( I miss it so! I had M&M icecream on the way back from the Lake today, and it wasn't the same!
Thanks for celebrating your birthday with us! I like plain ole soft serve vanilla. Now if I could get soft serve coffee-flavored, I might change my mind!
carrielucekc at gmail.com
Happy Birthday!
My favorite ice cream flavor is cinnamon! I love it in the fall on top of something baked with apples (like apple crisp, apple dumplings, or apple pie). Yum!
Happy Birthday! My favorite is Chocolate Hazelnut Gelatto...mmmmm!
Great giveaway!
I'm a fan of vanilla, because it doesn't clash with any toppings, so you can keep a tub in the freezer and add whatever your whim decides at a moment's notice!
bmcelroy@tampabay.rr.com
My favorite flavor? Ben and Jerry's Milk and Cookies! I hope you have a Happy Birthday.
My favorite is mint chocolate chip...yum! Happy Birthday!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!
My latest favorite is chocolate chip cookie dough.
Happy Birthday!!
My favorite changes pretty often but right now it would be Tillamook's Chocolate Peanut Butter. Mmmmm, big chunks of PB in there.
My favourite ice cream flavour is vanilla. Just plain, delicious, good quality vanilla ice cream. Yum!
Happy Birthday! I hope you love the middle age club!
My favorite ice cream is Dreyer's Crunchy cone. yum....wish I had some. A good substitute(and much leaner) would be one of those yummy fabric rolls!
This is going to sound sacrilegious to admit that I never crave ice cream (don't make me into a saint or anything special--I crave LOTS of other stuff). Does that put me out of the running for prizes?
Okay,if I HAVE to choose, it would be something like Ben and Jerry's Cherry Garcia, or cake batter.
Haha, my word verification is chese (spelled wrong but close enough). Okay, NOW we're talkin'.
Happy Birthday! And by the way, the definition of middle age grows higher the older you get! And you are definitely NOT middle aged yet!
My absolute favorite ice cream can only be bought in Hawaii, though they will ship it to the mainland by special order! It's called Haupia & it's a rich creamy coconut made by Roselani on Maui! It is truly scrumptious!
My favorite is Blue Bell's Brownie Fudge Nut WHICH THEY HAVE NOT MADE FOR 2 YEARS! As soon as I get serious about a diet I'll find it.
i'm going to have to go with chocolate. with some chocolate mixed in. maybe with some chocolate sauce on top.
ok, ok, sometimes i eat peanut butter. in my chocolate. or raspberries. in my chocolate. or mint. in my chocolate. =)
Happy birthday!!! My favorite flavor would have to be Rocky Road. Yum!!!!!
Have a great garage sale!
Oh, I love ice cream. Especially now that I am pregnant again :) (then I have an excuse to eat all I want. I think my favorite changes each time I try something new but as of right now I really like blueberry pomegranate with chocolate chunks. Yummy :)
My favourite is vanilla (made with buttermilk). Here is Australia we have a brand called Blue Ribbon and it is our family's favourite.
Happy Birthday to you and your sis!!! Me, my husband and My sister all share the same birthday! FUN!!! I happen to love Ben and Jerry's Coffee Toffee Crunch. I love ice cream!!!
I love coffee ice cream!
My favorite flavor would be vanilla with chocolate syrup but my favorite way to eat ice cream is as a dairy queen heath blizzard!
Happy Birthday! My favorite flavor of ice cream is cinnamon!! YUM!
Man, I recently had the best ice cream in Myrtle Beach--I think from a place called Fat Matt's. Some kind of wonderful peanut butter ice cream with peanut butter cookie dough and caramel. Oh my heavens, it was fab! =)
Thanks so much for such a great giveaway!
Happy Birthday!
Mint chocolate chip!
Thanks for the chance!
Happy Birthday!
I don't think you can go wrong with ice cream, I'll eat just about any kind -- but if I *must* choose I'll go with peanut butter cup!
I love ice cream AmandaJean- I am not sure what my favorite flavor is but my favorite flavors are maple walnut, butter pecan, raspberry cheesecake and strawberry and vanilla ice cream with fresh berries. How is that for choices.LOL
I hope you have had a fabulous birthday - Our family tradition for birthdays is ice cream cake from Dairy Queen as none of us are big cake fans but love ice cream.
Thank you for the fantastic giveaway- the colors are really lovely- Your winners are going to have great fun playing with those rich colorful strips.
Warmest regards,
Anna
Hope the garage sale is a large success too.
Happy b day to both of you! I Love cookies n cream...yummm maybe I'll go get some now! :)
WHat a beautiful jellyroll.
My favourite flavor ice cream are pistache and bleuberry
Happy birthday!
Fleur de sel caramel - swoon :)
Oh you just HAD to get me thinking about ice cream ... didn't you! My absolute favorite is at Coldstone Creamery coffee lover's only. Coffee ice cream with heath bar, caramel and almonds. Mmmmmmm ....
Happy Birthday! Thirty five is a great age!
happy birthday !!
ok, i'm in, my favorite icecream flavor would be "dulce de leche" [which would be milk cooked with sugar and vanilla over a slow fire for a few hours until it turns brown and with the consistency of a cream]
have a nice day...!
Ben and Jerry's Half Baked.
Oh man, my favorite ice cream is peanut butter & chocolate. These rolls scream BARGELLO!
Happy Birthday! My favorite is Tiger (Orange and Licorice) but since I can't find that anymore I love Creamsicle ice cream...
Happy Birthday! My favorite ice cream is mocha fudge. I also love soft serve vanilla.
I love homemade strawberry ice cream! My mother in law has the best recipe we have it almost every Sunday throughout the summer!! But Basically I love ice cream all together!
i'm obsessed with riesling poached pear at our local jeni's splendid ice cream here in columbus. **drool**
Hmmm ... I think my favorite would be praline. Yum!! Happy Birthday!!
happy birthday!!!
Chocolate chip is definitely my favorite - and Graeter's ice cream is by far and away my favorite brand. I love the giant chocolate chunks!
Ice cream! Yum! Is there a bad flavor? If pressed, I'd have to go with Hudsonville's Moose Tracks! Sorry, it's only found in Michigan!
I've never met an ice cream flavor I didn't like (except maybe the pineapple licorice one a friend and I made in high school). But if I had to pick a favorite, it would probably be Strawberry Cheesecake--yum! Anyway, happy, happy birthday!
Susan V.
I'm gonna have to try the coffee ice cream recipe, you posted, for my husband. I, on the other hand, absolutely adore peppermint ice cream. the kind with the candies in it. I've only found it in the winter - Dreyers should make it year round :0) just for me! ha ha
Happy Belated Birthday.
feliz cumpleaños Amanda!
that photo is great, and looks like a very lovely sisters who have fun together!
my fav fravor is cinnamon! ohh pure blis!
and many many thanks for the chance!!
Happy Birthday, and oh, to be 35 again! Favorite ice cream? I looked at that recipe for the coffee ice cream and that sounds like a contender. I love homemade peach and store-bought bing cherry.
Jamoca Almond Fudge from Baskin Robbins. It's got coffee, chocolate swirls AND almonds. YUMMMM!
mocha almond fudge :-)
half baked---Ben and Jerry's. It is a combination of cookie dough, brownie bites, and yumminess. jessicaleeperkins@Hotmail.com
HAPPY BIRTHDAY! to you and your sister. My favorite flavor icecream is Ben & Jerry's "Chunky Monkey"! Wooweeee!!!
hugz, Pam
Happy Birthday!
My favorite flavor of ice cream is cookie and cream.
beccaabug
My favorite ice cream is mint chocolate chip! Baskin robbins has the best!
Oh, I just celebrated my 35th birthday too! Happy Birthday!
I would have to say that my favorite ice cream is the homemade vanilla that I just made, but a close second is the Hershey's brand chocolate moose tracks ice cream I had while I was at home back east for my birthday.
Pistacio, yummmmmmm
Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday you young thing!
My favorite flavor of ice cream is chocolate.
My favorite ice cream is Coffee Chocolate Chip (jamocha almond fudge doesn't count)...but I only know one place to get it, a tiny little ice cream shop in Capitola (that is south of Santa Cruz, CA. I don't get there often even though it is only an hour drive LOL
Happy Birthday :) I had a birthday too this past week :)
I love frozen berry yogurt but homemade shortbread on the side, yum.
x
cinnamon, definately... when we lived in Chicago, it was definately the Oberwiess cinnamon!!!!
Happy Belated Birthday! My son celebrated his 8th on Jolly July 3rd!
Happy Birthday! my favorite this week is Cherry Nut..my grandma used to have it at her house when we would spend the night so good memories!
Cookies and Cream.
Happy Birthday
Happy Birthday! My fav is a long forgotten flavor called Wild Berry Bumble Crumble...yummy!
I love giveaways! :-D My favorite kind of ice cream is Peanut Butter and Chocolate from Baskin Robbins. Yum!!!
mmm ice cream .. pistachio, chocolate, burnt almond fudge, tin roof sundae, fried ice cream, mint, pumpkin, mocha, double fudge brownie, death by chocolate, rocky road, etc, etc. .. pretty much any flavor is my favorite flavor :0)
Happy Birthday! Two favorites - coffee and mint chip!
Mmmmh I like blackberry and cashew icecream (Baskin Robins has it sometimes as a special) So good!
Happy Belated! How is it that WE get something for YOUR birthday? Lucky us :)
Fav ice cream - hmmm...it depends on the day - it's either tiger tiger or some sort of coffee flavoured one. Though mint chocolate chip has had a recent resurgence for me.
I love ice cream with surprise bits in it.
Sometimes, I'll buy a tub of good vanilla ice cream, let it soften a little and add some cookie dough, chopped up chocolates, maybe some marshmallows, and anything else I can think of. Then re-freeze (its nice in a mould) and serve as a dessert.
Divine!!!
Happy Belated Birthday! Eating ice cream with your sis sounds like a great way to celebrate! (& a giveaway is nice too!)
My favorite ice cream would probably be mint chocolate chip...yum!
Thrifty rainbow sherbert! Mmm brings back memories of riding my bike to thriftys and getting an icecream cone, when it was less than a dollar!
Happy Birthday! I don't feel my age either - it's just a number.
Strawberry Cheese Cake!!!
Happy Birthday Girls! My favorite ice cream is Ben and Jerry's "Coffee Toffee Crunch"! So bad but oh so good!
Mocha Chip. Yum. Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday!!
I have two favorites! My main one is a kind that I have only found made by the generic company that supplies to our local grocery store. It's "White chocolate raspberry Truffle" and is amazing! Just enough sweet, fruit, and chocolate with out being overwhelming!
If I can't find that one, i love Spumoni :)
Happy Birthday!
My favorite ice cream is my husband's nutty coconut homemade ice cream! Super yummy!
Butter pecan is the current favorite. . . .but when I was a kid, Dad would get out the old churn , buy a block of ice, smash the ice in a burlap bag with the side of the ax, and then we would CHURN. Best in those days was the homemade strawberry. . .maybe partly because there wasn't enough but for a small portion.
Happy birthday! I cannot pick just one ice cream. Chocolate, vanilla bean, peanut butter, mint, coconut, cake batter, fruity. I LOVE ice cream (as in we served it at our wedding instead of cake). I will take a pass on your favorite, though- not a fan of coffee.
OOps...I forgot to mention my favorite flavor of ice cream....I love BlackRaspberry Chocolate Chunk made by Graeter's in Cincinnati...it is my downfall.
Mint chocolate chip...and happy birthday!
Definitely homemade strawberry ice cream!!
And 1975 was a very nice year...LOL...I just turned 35 two weeks ago. Happy Birthday!!
Mint Chip forever!!
Happy Birthday Amanda Jean & Clair.
My favorite ice cream is coffee with chocolate syrup! Yummy. I will be celebrating my birthday this Sunday with my sister Ann, we also share the same day - we're twins.
Congrats on your birthday! Thank you for celebrating with us. I know it is boring but just regular chocolate ice cream is my favorite.
My favorite has to be Peach!
Rusty Miller
My favorite ice cream is licorice! I love it when you can find it at an ice cream shop in pink, but I won't pass it up if it's black, hehe. It's worth having black lips and tongue for! Hope you had a great birthday!!!
Happy Birthday! It IS hot out there, isn't it? Favorite flavor - or flavorite - Strawberry. Classic, simple, delish!
Happy Birthday! Ok, I have to pick just one? I guess I'll go with mint chocolate chip. Or chocolate chip cookie dough. Or... :-) Thanks for a terrific giveaway!
My favorite is Chocolate Almond with Hersey's Fudge Sauce and more almonds on top!
Happy birthday to you and your sis! Favourite ice cream flavour you ask? that is so hard to choose, there are so many, but one of my all time favourites is Tiger Tail...orange, vanilla and black licorce.
chocolate mocha....and happy birthday!
I have a killer recipe for pistachio ice cream - love it! Happy Birthday!
oh man. i turned 35 this past january. at the time i didn't about the whole middle-aged thing but now that you say it...oh man.
Fav ice cream? Strawberry. What can I say? I'm a simpleton. :)
Happy Birthday! My favourite ice cream is strawberry. I'm a classic kind of girl! Thanks for the chance to win.
Chocolate Chip with Cookie Dough!!
Happy belated birthday! The roll ups are beautiful. My favorite ice cream is German Chocolate. Yummy
Anything with chocolate is my fav. Happy Birthday by the way.
Ice cream 3 times in one day? Sounds like an awesome birthday to me! My favorite ice cream has always been Baskin-Robbins Daiquiri Ice. I remember getting it for the first time when I was about 5 years old because it was blue. :)
Wonderful! I love mint chocolate chip : ) Thanks for the giveaway and happy birthday!
Happy Birthday! :) Ice cream 3 times in one day sounds like a graet way to celebrate! :)
My favorite ice cream is banana. YUM!
My all time favorite is Rocky Road...but it HAS to be Blue Bell Rocky Road, nothing else compares!
Happy Birthday
My favorite flavor of ice cream is Raspberry Lemon. Yummmmm.
Happy birthday! German Chocolate Cake by Tillamook is my favorite - although most of the other suggestions sound pretty good right now!
Butter Pecan. so good!
Happy Birthday! I too am one who is feeling my age, but it is 51 and not 35 ... I love all ice cream but today I'm thinking Coffee Heathbar Crunch (Ben & Jerry's).
I'm an equal opportunity ice cream eater and love lots of flavors but my favorite lately has been caramel swirl.
My favorite is Moose Tracks!!! Happy Birthday - thanks for writing such an inspiring blog!
my favorite is chocolate with walnuts...yum!
Happy birthday! My favorite ice cream would have to be chocolate moose tracks, but chocolate chip cookie dough is a close second.
My favorite ice cream flavor for in a cone is licorice.
You are talking about my FAVORITE subject! ICE CREAM! My absolute favorite flavor was Graham Slam by Mayfield - it was graham cracker flavored ice cream with chocolate crunch pieces - I say "was" because they no longer make this flavor. I still look for it every time I pass by the ice cream in the store, though, because one time it made a very brief reappearance! My new favorite flavor is Triple Brownie (Kroger's Private Selection).
Happy birthday! Middle aged? Nah, you're just 20 with 15 years of experience! =D
Happy Birthday Amanda Jean!!!
Those roll-ups are lovely, especially the dusty one.
Ice cream...mmm...I like coffee too, and when I have a nice creamy vanilla I always think that it just can't be beaten, but my very favourite is peppermint choc-chip. Yum!
Not to be a copycat, but my favorite is coffee too-- But I'll see your brownie and raise you- a scoop of Nutella!!! To. Die. For.
Happy, happy birthday! Thanks for sharing with us!
As far as ice-cream goes, we love vanilla with ovaltine and butterfinger mixed in.
Sounds weird, but it's just plain delicious!
Have you tried Eddy's (Dryer's in the west) French Silk? Its hard to find but its mocha with big fat chocolate chunks......the best. :) Happy b-day! -Al
My absolute favorite flavor of icecream is cake batter with cookie dough mixed in and caramel.
Great, now I want Cold Stone! On the bright side, we're planning on buying an icecream maker so soon I'll have all the yummy icecream I could ever want!
I LOVE cookie dough ice cream. . . mmmmmmm! Happy Birthday!
Leisel
My birthday was SUNDAY!
I like daiquiri ice (I am lactose intolerant), or frozen banana smoothies.
L~
My favorite ice cream is Half Baked by Ben and Jerry's. It's vanilla ice cream, chocolate ice cream with cookie dough chunks and brownie chunks.
Good grief, I'm on a diet and now I'm hungry! ;)
Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday, Kinda weird, but my favorite ice cream is Birthday Cake Ice cream. Complete with sprinkles.
Happy Birthday. And 35 is definitely not middle-age. That would make 60 old age. :) My favorite ice cream is chocolate mint with Mocha Almond Fudge running in second place.
Happy birthday, enjoy. My favorite ice cream is Mint Chocolate Chip, a green color, used to be made by a local creamery that I think has gone out of business. I used to buy it in 5 gallon containers! Thanks for the giveawayl..
I live in cincinnati and love the black raspberry chip-yum declicious. Sounds like you had a great birthday. life just gets better with age and so do our quilts.
Happy Birthday! My fave is chocolate, preferably w/ a tablespoon of peanut on the side.
My absolute favorite ice cream is Haagan Daaz Caramel Cone. It's caramel icecream wit crispy chocolate covered waffle cones inside. Um . . . to DIE FOR!! :)
Happy birthday!! I love (almost) all flavors of ice cream, but my all time top of the list favorite is mint chocolate chip. lately though, I've been digging vanilla with a dash of cinnamon and caramel. yum.
Happy 35th Birthday. I hope it was special for you. My favorite ice cream that comes out near my birthday (December) is Peppermint Stick Ice Cream by Dryers then I add crushed Oreo Cookies on top. YUM! YUM!
I'll have to go with Ben & Jerry's Creme Brulee!
Happy Birthday! My favorite ice cream flavor is blue moon, much to the chagrin of my husband, who has a much more sophisticated palate than I do. :o) And 35 is NOT middle-aged! I'm 31 so I don't want to think that I'm that close to it!!!
Happy Birthday! I'm turning 34 next week. It seems like it'll be a fun year.
Haupia (Hawaiian coconut dessert). Sadly, I think you can only get in in Hawaii - at Dave's....their peach is pretty tastey too.
Happy Birthday to you and your sis! How fun! My favorite would have to be Strawberry! Has been since I was a little girl!
Happy Birthday! 35 is a great age. I am an old 35. You are a young 35. My favorite ice cream is Chocolate Coconut. Ginger and chocolate are tied for a close second.
My favorite ice cream flavor is a toss up between Final Four Fudge Dribble, which is vanilla ice cream with whoppers in it; and Omer Tracks, which has m&ms and chocolate covered waffle cone in a vanilla and caramel ice cream. Both are products of the Michigan State University Dairy Store. My husband and I both work there. I'm fortunate (not in the waist size) to work for the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, where said Dairy Store resides. And, yes, sometimes I get free ice cream (much to my pants' dismay). Thanks for hosting a giveaway! And, happy birthday! (35 isn't really middle aged, neither is 39 which is what I'll be for the rest of my life!)
Happy Birthday! Our whole family looooves Umpqua peanut butter chocolate ice cream. But my hands down fave is my homemade Mint Junior Mint. I'm salivating a little as I type it....it's that good! Thanks for the chance to win - I'm just starting to get more adventurous with solids and all the kona colors are so beautiful. | http://crazymomquilts.blogspot.com/2010/07/giveaway.html?showComment=1278541348900 | 2013-05-18T10:13:18 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
on a roll
this time in greens and blues.
not so much a work in progress.
but more like play in progress.
hoping i never tire of quilting.
i'm feeling in my groove today.
and enjoying it very much.
Posted by amandajean at 2:20 PM
Labels: quilting, quilts, scraps, work in progress
42 comments:
Looks lovely! Do you have a particular plan of attack while making these blocks? Could you share a tutorial? I love the look, but freeze when I sit down to do some.
Love this! Very beachy -- sun, sea & sand!
Love the colors and the way the shapes and colors are playing together!!
This looks great! Love, love, love these colors!
Oooh! I love this. So pretty!
I like this look - the colors and design are great!
Karen
I am LOVING this.
I Plead Quilty,
Thanks! This is what we (Cheryl and I) called "slab piecing" in our book Sunday Morning Quilts. There is a how-to section describing the process in the book.
this quilt is many slabs all hanging out together. :) it's an improv approach to scrap quilting. it does take some practice, but it does get easier over time. i hope you try it!
hope that helps!
amandajean
Your book is SOLD OUT!! Woot Woot! I wanted to get a copy....when will more be available??
Thx...Julianne
Sigh. This picture makes me happy.
I love your play in progress!! Keep on playing AJ!!! : )
Wow! You are on a roll! I so love this one, too. These just might make me brave enough to try this technique.
Me too - I'm sure you will always have the love. Keep rolling
How many different colors are you going to do?
What a fun roll to be on. You must having so much fun with these colors.
Great quilt! I love the look. I hope I never tire of quilting either...that's why I take breaks from it, reverting to knitting at times.
Karen
P.S.
I just posted a pic of a batik table mat I'm making. It's all together, just needs to be quilted now.
Good for you--and the blue and greens are so pretty together! Looks great, Amanda!
ooh... Keep playing. Make this bigger.
Looks great love the solid colours! =D
Those are my colors your are playing with Amanda Jean! I'm going to read that part of your book again and then try my hand at slabs!
looks fantastic.
I nominated you for a Sunshine Award over at my blog.
Very groovy playground!
I just admire you so much, I'll be 100 yrs old before I can quilt like you. You are inspiring...
Truly!
Carri
simplydonewright.blogspot.com
ahhh...solids they are magical ya know:)
These are just gorgeous!
So pretty, Amanda! I can't wait to give this technique a try, now that I have your book!!
Absolutely gorgeous! Will have to buy your book. No matter what pattern you use or colors, your quilts are always so pretty.
Cynthia
What a great post :) let us all never tire of quilting. Love the blues!
Julianne K,
I should be getting more books in stock early next week! :)
amandajean
Very cool! I'm still enjoying every single page of the book. Every morning with a cup of coffee.
I was going to second the request from "I plead quilty" at the to for a tutorial, but I see you have included it in your book. I think I will buy it...!
I love these colors! I know it will be beautiful finished :-)
Oh so pretty! I love the colors and the little beautiful bits.
That is really interesting... I love how it's coming together. Very cool.
It's so neat to see how quilters' styles change over time and how different this top is from what you were doing when I first started reading you oh so long ago... :-)
This is awesome! I'm still planning on slab piecing those cool storage boxes. On the other hand, I have bunches of solid scraps (and this time I think I'll keep them instead of sending them your way...) so maybe this is where they will be heading.
Looks fab!!
I really do like this and you have done a lovely job. It looks so well balanced. I am also a fan of greens and blues in a big way. And the key is to enjoy yourself. Oh, wouldn't it be so hard if we didn't?
oooooh - i LOVE this one! Makes me want to go to the ocean!
I think this is really pretty, and I have a crazy thought. Sorry. I love it on the floor. Wound't this be a great print on a boy's bedroom floor. haha Never saw tiles like that and who could ever paint that! But I love it!
I have informed my hubby that sunday Morning Quilts is what he's getting me for my birthday this month. :-) I really want to try the improv piecing, and seeing the gorgeous blues and greens you've used has settled the matter.
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Frida said that she painted self-portraits the most because she knew herself the most. Through these remarkable portraits of agony, passion and longing, Frida has rendered herself an icon in the contemporary art world. Many contemporary artists paint Frida's image, lovingly paying homage to her very recognizable brow. The contemporary artists tend to create cuter images, but maintaining just the right amount of creepiness.
Artist Mara Cardenas Ruz (aka Lunara) is one artist who creates fascinating, loving images of Frida.
I adore these! What a fine tribute to Frida. Love the big eyes. Cute, but complex. My favorite is the blue one. I would love to have it. Even more than that, I wish I'd painted it. You simply must check out her other art, it is sublime. Mara's flickr set is here, her blog is here and her Etsy shop is here. Oh and Mara - Amelie is my favorite movie too!
Frida paintings by Tascha. Her Etsy shop is here and her blog is here.
Tomorrow we will look at the queen of creepy. Stay tuned.
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Bangalore, Dec 25 (IANS) Playing two T20s and three one-day international (ODIs) against arch-rival Pakistan over the next two weeks would help India to get into groove for the five ODIs with England from Jan 11-27, captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni said Monday.
"The good thing about these two series (Pakistan following England) is that the five matches (two T20s & three ODIs) in between will give time to get into the groove, as they are very different from the longer format (Tests)," Dhoni told reporters here ahead of the first T20 against Pakistan Tuesday night at the Chinnaswamy stadium.
Though teams use one-off T20 matches as a warm-up game going into a long series or as an entertainment to fans at the end of it (Test series), Dhoni said they have to be a bit unorthodox and try a few different things as T20 was a specialists' game.
"There are a few sides that have different teams for each format of the game (T20s, ODIs & Tests). There are specialists who play only T20 matches.
"But if it's a one-off game, they might not fly down those specialists. At least two games give some time to adjust to the format," Dhoni said.
Allaying fears over the impact of playing constantly on the players' health, he said it was difficult to think of breaks in the midst of big series while representing the country.
"What is important is to be at your best. Sometimes the body does protest and you will know that if you don't rest then, you might get injured.
"At the same time, you may want to take a break and miss a series. I don't mind playing matches (in between) because they give us certain momentum," Dhoni asserted.
Commenting on the Indo-Pak series in the shorter version being sandwiched between the English series, the captain said the players don't think too much about such things as they were used to of playing all the time irrespective of the format.
"For us what is vital is what's there and what will happen rather than thinking we should have been playing a T20 series, or an ODI series or a Test series.
"We don't have time for these things. We are right now concentrating on the T20s and the ODIs against Pakistan," the skipper said.
Playing down Pakistan's pace-cum-spin bowling strength, Dhoni said the teams were evenly placed. The side that played better would win the series.
"It's not about how good you look on paper. It's always about how an individual reacts to the situation he faces - whether a bowler or batsman. I think the teams are evenly placed right now.
Asked for his advice to the new or young crop of players in the team, especially fast bowlers, the captain said it was important to realise their talent and not force anything on them with which they won't be comfortable.
"Playing in the domestic format is completely different from the international format as the requirements are different. That's why we talk a lot about experience, but youngsters can only gain experience when they play a lot of games.
"We tell them to keep improving in every practice session. The good thing is they can bowl quick. With exposure and guidance, they can be really good for the team," Dhoni said.
Asked whom he would turn to in the absence of Sachin Tendulkar who retired from ODIs, Dhoni said: "Well, Sachin has guided us enough, so now we should be able to make out which bowler to target," Dhoni added. | http://cricket.yahoo.com/news/indo-pak-series-us-groove-dhoni-191404622.html | 2013-05-18T10:24:36 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Yuvraj Singh has spoken of his emotional battle against cancer in an interview to ICC Cricket 360°™ and has revealed that he hopes to be available for selection for the ICC World Twenty20 in Sri Lanka later this year.
The 30-year old also admitted claimed Yuvraj.
Yuvraj also decided to share his emotional journey in coping with cancer in a very public manner via his personal Twitter account. Explaining the reasons for this Yuvraj said: .”
The Player-of-the-Tournament for the 2011 World Cup.
,” he said. | http://cricket.yahoo.com/news/yuvraj-reveals-emotional-journey-in-fight-against-cancer.html | 2013-05-18T10:23:23 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
2011
California Court OKs Warrantless Search of Cell Phone
The text messages in a defendant’s cell phone are in no way different, for the purposes of a police search after an arrest, from the defendant’s clothing or a cigarette package.
That was the holding of the California Supreme Court on January 3, 2011, in People v. Diaz, a case in which the state’s highest court approved the police’s warrantless search of the text message folder in defendant Gregory Diaz’s phone. The state court followed U.S. Supreme Court precedent, which permits searches “incident to a lawful arrest” but hasn’t yet dealt with cell phones, and rejected Diaz’s interesting argument that the nature of the phone – the fact that it can contain so much personal information – should lead to a different result.
Diaz had argued that although the phone itself could be seized by the police without a warrant, if the police wanted to read its contents in the form of the messages inside it, they needed to go to a judge and get a warrant based on probable cause.
The case represents a notable collision in an influential state court between the traditional rules of Fourth Amendment jurisprudence and the changing nature of modern technology. U.S. Supreme Court precedent deals with articles of clothing, cigarette packages, and foot lockers taken from defendants who are arrested. Today’s smartphones, as the dissenting judge in Diaz pointed out, can hold “hundreds or thousands of messages, photographs, videos, maps, contacts, financial records, memoranda and other documents, as well as records of the user’s telephone calls and Web browsing.” Should they be treated just like a pack of cigarettes or a scrap of paper in a coat pocket?
In a 5-2 ruling, the court majority said yes. The U.S. Supreme Court has made it clear, the majority said, that the nature of the object seized from the defendant is irrelevant, as long as the seizure is done pursuant to a lawful arrest and the object is “immediately associated” with the defendant’s person. If the rules need to be changed because of the nature of today’s smartphones, the U.S. Supreme Court has to do so, the majority ruled.
The two dissenting judges saw the matter quite differently.
,” dissenting judge Kathryn Werdegar wrote. The dissenters would have permitted “some examination of the device, not amounting to a search of its data folders,” but to them, the informational privacy issue was paramount.
In 2009, the Ohio Supreme Court sided with the defendant in a similar case, in a 4-3 ruling that highlighted the “expectation of privacy in a cell phone’s contents.”
Neither the majority opinion nor the dissent in Diaz cited the recent decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit in United States v. Warshak, which held that a subpoena to obtain e-mails from an Internet service provider requires a warrant. Perhaps the distinction is that Diaz arose in the context of a search following a lawful arrest, a situation that has long been viewed as an exception to the warrant requirement, while Warshak did not. We will continue to follow this type of case very carefully.
State Criminal
Search and seizure
[...] Read the full post here on the CrimeInTheSuites blog. [...]
[...] Read the full post here on the CrimeInTheSuites blog. [...] | http://crimeinthesuites.com/california-court-oks-warrantless-search-of-cell-phone/ | 2013-05-18T11:02:39 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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No visa is necessary if the stay does not exceed 90 days.
For US and Canadian citizens: a passport valid for at least 6 months is required.
We will have a doctor traveling with us for the entire tour to ensure that any medical needs are taken care of.
There are NO SHOTS required, although Yellow Fever is recommended to visitors to Senegal, especially when coming from an endemic area.
Please register here for more information on the costs and details of the tour: CLICK HERE | http://crosscountrymanagement.com/west-african-tours/f-a-q-2/ | 2013-05-18T10:31:21 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
PostSharp Live webinar series, part 2 of 5
Part 1 of the "Aspect-Oriented Programming in .NET" webinar series, hosted by PostSharp is now available on Vimeo:
Call This Instead: Intercepting Methods from PostSharp on Vimeo.
Part 3, entitled "Before and After: Boundary Aspects", will be broadcast live on Thursday, May 9th. Sign up for the webinar series!
PostSharp Live webinar series
Part 1 of the "Aspect-Oriented Programming in .NET" webinar series, hosted by PostSharp is now available on Vimeo:
Part 2, entitled "Call This Instead: Intercepting Methods", will be broadcast live on Thursday, May 9th. Sign up for the webinar series!
Terminology: weaving
Here's the last post in my series of AOP terminology posts.
This week's term is "weaving".
Weaving is a general term to describe how an AOP tool combines an aspect with the rest of your code.
There are two main methods of weaving:
- Post-compiliation - modifying the code after the program already been compiled
- Runtime - Modifying/replacing the code while the program is running
Castle DynamicProxy uses runtime weaving. You can think of it as just like using the decorator pattern, except instead of coding each decorator by hand, Castle DynamicProxy will create those classes for you at runtime, by combining the IInterceptor implementation (that you've created) with the object that you want to intercept.
PostSharp is a post-compiler tool. It will take the aspect class that you've defined and actually modify your compiled program to weave it in to the methods/properties/etc you want it to intercept. I think a good way to visualize this is by using a decompiler to see what the code looks like before and after PostSharp has modified it.
Here's a very basic console app with a single aspect applied to a single method.
Here's what it looks like after compiling with PostSharp turned off and then decompiling (I used ILSpy as the decompiling tool this time):
Here's what it looks like after compiling with PostSharp turned on and then decompiling:
Don't panic, it's not as complicated as it looks: don't let the weird naming throw you off. Notice line 23: that's the only line that I wrote inside of the DoStuff method. The rest all comes from the aspect. The try/catch/finally structure was all put in to place by PostSharp. The first line of the method now calls the OnEntry method that I defined in the aspect. The OnSuccess method is the last thing called inside the Try. The OnException is called inside of the Catch. And OnExit is called inside of the Finally. (Note: they all get null arguments because I don't actually do anything of value inside the aspect, otherwise you'd also see some code to create the argument objects to pass in).
You can see that even though your source code is separated out into two classes, PostSharp does the work of weaving the cross-cutting concerns into the other method.
Weekly Concerns: another week
Another week, another weekly concerns.
- Reza Ahmadi uses PostSharp to create a timing aspect.
- Part 1 of a series on AOP in Java with Spring.
- AspectJ with Scala from Jonas Boner.
- Some ramblings about using AOP in gaming.
Weekly Concerns: async, usability, game of life. | http://crosscuttingconcerns.com/tag/PostSharp | 2013-05-18T10:52:43 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
CFSR WOD 04.26.2013
Friday 4-26-13
“The most important things in life aren’t things.” Anthony J. D’Angelo
The Sulfur & Transdermal Magnesium Link
RECIPE OF THE DAY: Paleo Cherry Ripes
CFSR WOD 03.02.2013
3/2/2013
All out 800m run for time
Rest 5min
All out 400m run for time
5 rounds for total reps of:
1 min. to complete
5 Power Cleans @ 155/105#
-with the remainder of the minute complete max#
Split Jerks @ 155/105#
1 min. Burpees
“When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.” Confucius
“We lost weight, but we gained so much more.”
RECIPE OF THE DAY: Camp Fire Roast Chicken
Seth Godin at Gel 2006 from Gel Conference on Vimeo.
CFSR WOD 2.27.2013
Wednesday 2-26
5×5 Box Squat at 55% of your 3RM
“Helen”
3 rounds
400 m run
21 Kettlebell swings 53/35
12 pull ups
“The pain passes, but the beauty remains.” Renoir
10 Health Lies and Misconceptions Spread by Mainstream Nutrition
RECIPE OF THE DAY: Homemade Gravlax
CFSR WOD 02.22.2012
Friday 2-22-13
“The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.” Anthony Robbins
WHY CANOLA OIL IS NOT A HEALTH FOOD
Recipe of the Day: THE DOMESTIC MAN’S CALDO DE LANGOSTINOS (MEXICAN SQUAT LOBSTER SOUP)
Top Ten Snowboard Tricks
CFSR WOD 02.14.2013
7:30 pm beginner class is the 1st to try out our new 20/24/30 Jump boxes! Built by Tim’s dad. Thanks Dad!
Thursday 2-14-13
“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.” Mother Teresa quotes
How LOVE Keeps You Healthy
RECIPE OF THE DAY: Cranberry Chocolate Truffles
CFSR WOD 2.12.2013
Tuesday 2-12-13
8 Burpee Box jumps (24/20)
12 Air squats
“Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.”
New Insight On Relationship Between Parents, Preschoolers and Obesity
While sugary drinks, lack of exercise and genetics contribute to a growing number of overweight American children, new research from Washington State University reveals how a mom’s eating habits and behavior at the dinner table can influence her preschooler’s obesity risk.
Recipe of the day: HOMEMADE PRIMAL NUTELLA
WHAT DOCTORS DON’T KNOW ABOUT THE DRUGS THEY PRESCRIBE
CFSR WOD1.28.2013
Monday 1/28/2013
Spend 15-20 min working on kipping pull ups and toes to bar.
For time:
30 Handstand push-ups
40 Pull-ups
50 Kettlebell swings, 1.5 poods
60 Sit-ups
70 Burpees
“Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, grace and power in it.” Johann Wolfgang Goethe
Hunter, Gather, Love: The Quinoa in Your Backyard
RECIPE OF THE DAY: Crab Cakes Eggs Benedict
CFSR WOD 1.15.2013
Tuesday 1-15-13
Part A
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
CFSR WOD 1.12.2013
― Steve Prefontaine
CFSR WOD 1.10.2013
Thursday 1/10/2013
20 Thrusters 115/75#
Run 800m
20 Thrusters 115/75#
30 T2B.8.2013
Tuesday 1-8-13
Part A
40 C2B Pullups
“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.”
RECIPE OF THE DAY: Cranberry Almond Loaf
CFSR WOD 12.26.2012
For those who missed the world record street mural by reebok/crossfit
Holiday Schedule
12/26 – 10:30 am only
New Years Eve 10:30 am only
New Years Day 5:30 pm 6:30 pm WOD
7:30 pm Beginners
Wednesday 12/26/2012
Part A
Split Jerk stance shoulder press
3 x 5
Part B
5 rounds
5 Burpees
10 Back Squats 185/125
15 Box Jumps
20 Double Unders
A different oral health program
CFSR CHRISTMAS SCHEDULE and WOD 12.24.2012
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CFSR WOD 12.21.12
>>IMAGE.17.2012
Monday 12/17/2012
Part A
“Diane”
21-15-9
Handstand Push Up
Dead Lift 225/155
Part B
Back Squat
5 x 7 @70%
Parsnip Sweet Potato Casserole
CFSR WOD 12.16.2012
Sunday 12/16/12
3 rounds:
Each round for time:
400 m run
+
500 m row
If time difference greater than +/- 6 seconds per round; 10 burpee penalty
“We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.”
― May Sarton
“Nothing, Everything, Anything, Something: If you have nothing, then you have everything, because you have the freedom to do anything, without the fear of losing something.”
― Jarod Kintz
served on
Agave Nectar good or bad?
CFSR WOD 12.12.2012
Wednesday 12/12/2012
Part A
Snatch Balance + Overhead Squat
5 x 3
Part B
In teams of 2
Row 750 m while partner holds Front rack 205/135
50 Burpees while partners holds bar overhead 135/95
50 Thrusters while partner holds chin over bar
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
Fiery Hot Pork Skewers
Avoiding Food Fatigue.
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"Will you stop doing icons in the current style after Windows 8 is out?"
No, i won't. Not immediately. W8 is a huge topic for me and i already showed some concepts and ideas i have.
But many people will still use Windows 7 after 8 is launched. Knowing that i will continue doing game-icons as they are at the moment until i have the feeling Windows 8 has enough attention to switch to something new.
"Are you sad when some icons don't have much views/downloads?"
Hell No!
If just 1 person has downloaded and uses something i created it's more than i expected.
People telling me they like my icons is just awesome! And thanks for that
"Do you plan on stopping doing icons in the future?"
No plans for that!
"Why don't you implement some requests?"
Well... how to answer this...
Depends on various reasons. Some games don't have good media (Wallpapers, Renders, Logos etc.) to work with for example.
It's not like: "I wont do an icon for game "xyz" because i don't like it!" Sometimes it takes a while.
I'm trying to handle as many request as i can
"Will you (GameIcons Group) only release on deviantArt"
No. We have some plans for the future. More informations coming soon..............
"What tools are you using for your icons?"
For creating: Adobe Photoshop CS3 (Not a fan of CS4/CS5)
For converting: Axialis IconWorkshop 6.11
"What do you do beside game icons?"
I also make "anime icons" with a good friend of mine
I introduced him to the "creating icons"-world and now we're doing them as team.
So, for all anime-fans: Check out his deviantArt profile for good anime-icons: [link]
He also takes requests
Besides icons i do some other stuff like wallpapers or web designs.
"Some final thoughts?"
Thanks for all the views and downloads of my works!
You guys are the reason i like this hobby and will keep on doing more.
iNFO
No that i live in my own place with a cool housemate i have more time to work on my icons.
Now i can do icons all the time, no interruption due to work. This gives me the time to look for proper media i can work with. But youre always free to help me finding good stuff for a cool icon.
Request info
- Icons will always come as ".ico" and ".png"
- Just icons for "Games" or "Game Tools" (No movie/shows/etc. folder icons)
- Don't re-upload them without my permission
Thanks for all the requests so far. Of course there are some more.
I will take my time to work off these first
Cheers
Do you think you could do an icon for Age of Empires 2 - Age of Kings, since it has been released in HD I can't really find an icon that is worth it. And even if I could, it wouldn't look great in the middle of every other icon for my games since they are all from you
Thanks a lot if you can, if not no worries
i wanna show the icons to you, so you could comment and rate them.
[link]
Thank you
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Center Friday morning.
Panelists arrived in town last weekend with a mission to spend one intensive week in the city and offer suggestions for action and implementation that would lead to a downtown renaissance.
Panelists carried on with their assignment despite the distraction and concern caused by the Waldo Canyon fire that burned 347 homes in the northwest part of the city and forced the evacuation of 32,000 residents.
Panel chair Bill Hudnut, former mayor of Indianapolis, announced Friday that the ULI would offer a disaster recovery advisory panel to the city free of charge at a future date. ULI panels have advised cities like Oklahoma City and New Orleans on recovery efforts after disasters.
The panel offfered suggestions to spur a downtown renaissance that would help Colorado Springs “rise from the ashes like a phoenix, both literally and symbolically.”
The recommendations focused on three primary goals: downtown residential development, arts and culture and collaboration between downtown organizations.
Walter Bialas, a real estate consultant from Washington, D.C. said there is currently demand for 200 to 300 units of residential development downtown and the panel recommended that it begin with some 50- to 75-unit apartment buildings with rents ranging from $800 to $1,200.
Panelists said there could also be room for some student housing downtown that would anchor some University of Colorado at Colorado Springs activity in the city’s core. After initial residential development, Bialas said demand for residential development downtown could expand to 3,000 to 6,000 units of housing ranging from lower-end rentals to townhomes and high-end lofts with the next 10 to 15 years.
Glenda Hood, former mayor of Orlando, Fla. said that in order to achieve that type of development in her downtown, Orlando offered government incentives to the earliest adopters who built housing and hotels. Those incentives got projects off the ground and spurred further development.
The panel also suggested continued development of an arts and culture scene downtown along with maintaining and improving greenways. The city is in a unique position where it could market itself as a health and wellness center, panelists said.
And finally, the panel recommended that the city find a champion – probably the downtown partnership or Mayor Steve Bach’s downtown solutions team to lead all of the various groups and organizations that have their own agendas now. The panel said those groups need to be more cohesive.
“What we can’t have is a lot more talking about what we should do,” Hudnut said. “We have to move forward. You can’t sit on your — assets – forever and expect to make progress.” | http://csbj.com/2012/06/29/downtown-panel-prioritize-residential-development/ | 2013-05-18T10:13:30 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
I posted this in the Head & Neck boards, so if you have seen this before, you aren't seeing things
Hubby Pat had his surgery Oct 1 - radical neck dissection and a complete laryngectomy. Right after his surgery, his doctor told me that if the surgery had been postponed by a week or two, he would have died. The tumor was growing very, very fast.
The doc took everything he could see and all the lymph nodes. He said he had to peel the tumor off of hubby's carotid artery. All that was left was microscopic cells.
That was a little over two months ago.
The doctor called with hubby's scan results today.
He has a tumor at the base of his skull. It is inoperable. The cancer has come back. You can feel it right behind his ear; it's about the size of a peach pit. And it's growing fast.
The doc had been talking about seeded radiation. Not anymore. And I don't know how he will make daily RTs when he can barely walk.
At least I know why his eye is so droopy all the time . . . .
How horrible :( Im sorry and I just dont know what to say
There are no words. My thoughts and prayers are with you.
Penny
It is very sad and very hard to hear your news.
Please know that many people are thinking about and praying for peace for you and your husband.
Hugs.
I'm so sorry you and your husband got such terrible news. Stay strong.
Karen
I'm so sorry to hear this devastating news. Is chemo an option? Surgery is not an option for my husband either. We will find out his last options tomorrow since he had an anaphylactic reaction to the Erbitux. I don't know if he'll go with chemo expecially after yesterday's experience. I don't know if it would be a quality of life issue at this point. I am just in agony and I know you must be too.
I'm praying for you and your husband. I hate what cancer is doing to so many of my friends and family. Stay strong. We're always here if you need us. Meanwhile I know you'll make the most of every day and cherish every moment.
I don't know why I have never read your profile before but I wasn't aware that this was a 9/11 cancer. I am from NY (Long Island) originally - now in NC but NY will always be my home. My heart went out to all the people of NY while we watched TV with horror as events unfolded. I couldn't stop crying and still have trouble watching any documentary about it. I love my country and the people of NY. Your husband is yet another victim. We are hearing more and more people who are developing all kinds of medical problems from 9/11. I hope your husband can get some kind of government help when he can no longer work.
Wishing you the best. Don't forget to take care of you.
(((BIG HUGS)))
Skipper
On top of all of this, went to the ER today to find out he has sciatica. At least he is taking pain meds for it.
He has been adamant - no chemo. RT is the only option, but to travel there everyday is hard on him (1 1/2 hrs on public transit plus walking 7 blocks)
His decision to make.
He is going to need help to get to RT. At first he'll probably be able to do it himself and it might be good for his back to walk those 7 blocks but as time goes on the RT will wear him down.
You're right it's his decision to make. Today my husband will be given his last option which is chemo (I already know from speaking with the doc). I really don't know if he'll go with it. I'm thinking no - especially if he has to lose his hair. Whatever his decision I'll support him. I would rather he have a good quality of life for a few months than be always feeling crappy for a year. Again, it's his decision. I just hope he can understand that his time is limited. He keeps talking about what he's going to do next summer and the summer after that. When he says stuff like that it upsets me because in all probability he won't be here come the summer.
Keep us posted and try and be as strong and supportive as possible while still taking care of yourself.
Skipper
saw that your husband chose chemo - thumbs up all the way! My husband made a similar comment - "save the ribbon for next Christmas." It's hard when I don't even know how much time I really have is.
Taking things day by day. See what tomorrow brings. Put in a call to the RO for a phone appt. See if he calls back today. Getting a second opinion never really crossed my mind, but it's been brought up. I'm not sure if I want to put him through that.
If it is sciatica, walking will be uncomfortable but not impossible.
There are many agencies that assist people who have cancer in getting to their appointments. Please check with the doctor's office to see if they can give you referals for help. Very common where we are but this is a much smaller town we live in, probably. Also, I would check with the local branch of the American Cancer Society. They may have some insight into this kind of help.
Sometimes the assistance comes in the form of money to pay for a cab to drive your husband to his appointment.
Praying for strength and courage for you and your husband. It can all be so overwhelming! Breathe, get a hug, from someone, anyone and take care of yourself.
Lucy
Just a hug.
Please tell your husband that I've been on chemo almost continuusly for the past 2 years. Chemo is do-able. I don't regret getting chemo. I know it's keeping me alive and they've come a long way in managing chemo side affects with pre-chemo meds. Each new chemo they switch me to (3 different drugs so far), I think "I'll try it. If it's too awful I can always stop." & so far it's always been do-able. He could TRY chemo and just see. It may not be the nightmare he thinks it will be.
anyway, (((((HUG))))).
I saw your post on H/N board about sciatica but I didn't realize your husband was a lary.
Mine had surgery on Sept 16. Removed larynx, lymph nodes and some tissue from tongue. Also had free flap built with tissue from his thigh. All this was done after Cyberknife radiation and chemo had been unsuccessful. This surgery was radical with life altering effects but we figured it would be worth it to get rid of the cancer once and for all. But he didn't seem to recuperate like he should and kept complaining of continued pain in his throat, ear and head. The ENT suggested an MRI which revealed something suspicious at base of tongue. Biopsy showed it was malignant. Subsequent PET know shows a spot in upper, right lung. ENT and Onc said this is obviously agressive and they can't cure it but perhaps hold it off for awhile with chemo.
So you begin to feel that all the cutting done was a huge waste! On top of that, now he can't even talk to explain what he feels. We just started chemo this week so we will see where that leads.
Be glad your husband talks in terms of the future. Even if he knows different deep down, it's a much better attitude to have. Mine just keeps saying he doesn't have much time left. With his attitude, he is probably right.
Think we met as fellow lary women on another topic. It's ok, if my head wasn't attached I'd forget where I put it.
For me it's hard when he speaks of the future because it's so uncertain. Not only that the look on his face sometimes when he says it . . . . I know what he's thinking, because I'm thinking the same thing.
Know how you feel. The first thing that made me fall in love with Pat was his voice. All I have now is his voicemail message.
W#*&$^#$@#@)*&^@#$)(&@#$)(^@#!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | http://csn.cancer.org/node/207632 | 2013-05-18T10:23:25 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Columbus State Athletics Top Moments of 2010-11: No. 9
CSUCougars.com is reliving the top 10 moments of the
2010-11 academic year as the summer nears its end. Be sure to check
CSUCougars.com each day as we count down to number
one.
Columbus State Men's Basketball Upsets Auburn 54-52
Boxscore
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Auburn, AL –Steve Peterson hit the game-winning shot with 15 seconds remaining and Columbus State had a huge defensive stand to close out the game as the Cougars defeated Auburn 54-52 Monday night at Auburn Arena.
After Auburn tied the score up at 50 all with 1:28 left, Peterson hit a jumper to give CSU a two point lead with 1:08 remaining. Rob Chubb tied the game for the fourth and final time after his layup was good. After each team used a time out, Peterson was isolated and used a pick from Paul Darkwa to hit the game-winner from the right corner.
The game began with Columbus State winning the opening tap and Donta Ridley giving the visitors a 2-0 lead. Both schools traded off impressive runs with Auburn taking a 10-2 lead with a 10-0 run. CSU responded after the media timeout with an 11-0 run of their own, capped off by a Bryant Thomas three-pointer and took a 13-10 advantage. AU went ahead briefly once again before Jarmarquis Steverson gave the Cougars the lead for good with just under nine minutes to go in the first half at 20-19. Columbus State would take a 32-27 lead into the half.
Although they did not shoot the ball particularly well to start the second half, CSU extended its lead to the largest they would have in the contest with a 9-2 run with terrific team defense which stymied the Tigers to 1-13 shooting from the field during that spurt. Andrew Houts capped off the run with a three-pointer with 12:19 remaining.
Peterson registered a double-double in the contest with 17
points and 11 rebounds. Ridley and Steverson chipped in with
11 and nine points, respectively. Darkwa grabbed eight
rebounds while Jonathan
Murphy, Steverson and Ridley each had seven boards.
CSU held a 50-44 advantage on the glass and hit 69.2% (18-26) of their free throws.
Auburn had a pair of players in double-figures lead by Earnest
Ross's 14 points. Kenny Gabriel was the team leader with 11
rebounds while Chubb was close behind him with nine.
As a team, they shot 32.8% from the field and hit just seven of their 20 free throw attempts (35%).
The two sides had previously met twice before during the 1983-84 and 1984-85 seasons. Auburn won both meetings although Columbus State (Columbus College at the time) nearly pulled off the upset bid in their first meeting.
CSU will open up the regular season next Monday, November 15 at Alabama-Huntsville. The Cougars are 12-5 all-time against UAH with the last contest being played on November 15, 2002, an 86-76 Cougars victory. Tipoff is scheduled for 8:30 p.m. eastern time.
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May 2013
PowerMatch - A Networking Program for Executives
5/28/2013, 5:00 PM
Hilton Mystic, Mystic
June 2013
Third Annual Connecticut-Israel Technology Summit
6/12/2013, 11:00 AM
The Oakdale Theatre, Wallingford
Girls of Innovation Science Challenge
6/15/2013, 8:30 AM
Connecticut Science Center, Hartford
PowerMatch - A Networking Program for Executives
6/25/2013, 5:00 PM
Courtyard by Marriott, Shelton
Sixth Annual Tech CEO Forum
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Memo to Governor Spitzer:
New York State Law Prohibits State from Entering into Contract with Any of the Vendors under Consideration
New York State is enjoined from doing business with vendors who lack business integrity or whose past performance is wanting…none of the voting machine vendors New York is presently considering doing business with are eligible for contracts.
Not that the laws or lack thereof in Connecticut should preclude us from concern that each of our individual races, and precincts are programmed for each election in secret by Diebold employees. | http://ctvoterscount.org/is-diebold-ineligible-in-ny/ | 2013-05-18T10:12:53 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Where are your classes held?
Decorating Classes are held at two venues:
The Cupcake Treats Studio, Valley View (maximum 6 students)
The Box Factory Community Centre, Adelaide (maximum 12 students)
Is there parking available?
There is plenty of free street parking available at both venues.
The class I want to do is full, when are you publishing the next ones?
As of 2013 we have the studio to teach from, so classes will be published every 4-6 weeks. Register for the newsletter and we’ll update you when we schedule them in.
Can I be put on the waiting list for the next class or pay now so I have secured a spot?
We do not reserve places or take payments to secure places in classes. You should join the Class Newsletter and then you have the best chance of signing up first.
How can I find out about the classes as soon as they come out?
If you subscribe to the Newsletter, you’ll be emailed as soon as they are released!
How do I book into a class?
On the Class Registration page, the available classes with spaces will be listed. Register for your preferred class and proceed to make payment by Credit Card (PayPal). If the one you want is not there, or full, you will have to wait for the next one. We do not keep waiting lists unless of special cirumstances (see below)
What do I bring to a class?
Please ensure you wear enclosed shoes (for OH&S reasons), an apron (if you have one) and bring a carry bag. If you do not have an apron just expect to head home a little dirty, but it will save you some bother! Class specific requirements will be emailed to you before the class.
What happens after my booking is confirmed?
After you have booked and paid for your space, we send you a reminder email (and text message if you have provided your mobile number) seven days prior to the class which will detail everything you need to know. All you need to do after this is turn up! If you book for a class and do not pay within 24 hours your space will be released back into the available pool due to repeated non payment incidents. You can make payment via Credit Card (PayPal).
I have paid and booked into a class, but cannot make it due to illness/exceptional circumstances. What happens?
If you advise us with enough notice (as much notice as possible, 24 hours preferred) we are more than happy to hold onto your class credit until another time comes around. If we do not hear from you before the class start time, your payment will be considered forfeited.
You need to read all of the details of the class you are registering for and make sure you meet the requirements if it is an advanced class.
Are you running another *insert class here* soon?
Our most frequently scheduled class is Cupcakes 101. If there are no spots currently available, check back weekly – or sign up to the newsletter to be notified first when the class listings go live. We get lots of emails asking us about all of our classes and we try to run them as frequently as possible. Scheduling all of our classes depends on the availability of the venue we book them in, which sometimes is the biggest hurdle.
When they’re first listed on the website, classes tend to book out within 3-4 hours. We are listing them as often as possible.
What about home/private classes?
We can now offer small group classes at the Valley View Studio with a minimum of three people for any of our classes, depending on scheduling. Contact us for more information.
Private one on one classes, depending on the content you’d like to cover, start from $80 an hour. There is a minimum of a two hour booking, plus all travel costs are applicable ($0.50 per km travelled both ways if you’d like to take the class in your own home with your equipment). For classes like Cake Basics and Art of Macarons where we require more time discounts are available for more hours booked.
Refund Policy
We offer refunds in line with ACCC requirements for physical merchandise and will offer a full refund, credit, or exchange if the item is faulty, not as described, or unfit for a purpose we have specified it is suitable for. We offer no refunds for change of mind or for food products once orders are confirmed as we allocate ingredients and labour prior to the delivery date. | http://cupcaketreats.com.au/classes/class-faq/ | 2013-05-18T10:41:30 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Yesterday, Mr. Weber taught Ms. Walker a new word. This is especially interesting, because Ms. Walker has an amazingly large vocabulary. To be fair, the word IS based on a superhero. It’s also slang. Now that she knows about it though, I’m sure she’ll start incorporating it into her normal speech all the time.
Try using “Batman” (past tense: Batmanned) as a verb today! | http://curiousstgeorge.com/2012/09/07/even-librarians-can-learn-new-words/ | 2013-05-18T10:42:06 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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WTF Video Of Mother Allowing Child On Rail Line As Train Comes Into The Station - The Daily Blender
source: woman s bid to avoid paying a train fare nearly cost her the life of her daughter. A girl is miraculously alive in Argentina after her mother lowered her onto the tracks just as a train was coming into the station, according to surveillance video.
from the community | http://current.com/community/92907834_wtf-video-of-mother-allowing-child-on-rail-line-as-train-comes-into-the-station-the-daily-blender.htm | 2013-05-18T11:06:27 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Markos Moulitsas, founder and publisher of the Daily Kos, analyzes the latest election 2012 poll numbers with “Viewpoint” host Eliot Spitzer. Nationwide, Obama is beating Romney by three points and is even further ahead in four key swing states — by seven points in Ohio, for example, and five points in Florida.
Responding to Romney’s claim in an ABC interview that the “race is tied,” Moulitsas says, “The race is not tied. It’s not even close to being tied. Obama has a fairly significant and solid lead in the national polling, and … in the swing state polls, it’s not even close right now.”
Both Spitzer and Moulitsas agree that Romney’s biggest problems have been his campaign’s inability to focus on jobs and unemployment instead of social issues, and Romney’s perceived lack of empathy. “I’ve always believed that the best way for [Romney] to gain in the polls would be to go dark. Just disappear. Don’t let anybody see him, and hope that they forget what he’s actually really like,” Moulitsas says. | http://current.com/shows/viewpoint/videos/markos-moulitsas-advises-mitt-romney-go-dark-and-hope-voters-forget-what-youre-like/ | 2013-05-18T10:35:55 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
The following is an excerpt from Zina Warren’s 1911 book, “Reminiscences of the Long Ago,” a historical account of the early settlement of Bethlehem, which later became Carmel.
In 1837, my father (Daniel Warren) set about starting a town here, being the intersection of the roads and where four farms cornered, the southwest being his own. Two others, Alexander Mills on the northeast and John Phelps on the southeast, were willing to have land platted and sell lots, but on the northwest, the owner was unwilling. My fathered offered him $100 for an acre, enough for four lots. That being such a big price, he accepted it. Then the grounds were platted and recorded under the name of Bethlehem.
There were a plenty of tadpoles then, and my father, meeting a neighbor who was opposed to having a town, told him we had a town and its name was Bethlehem, and his answer was “Yes, Tadpoles Glory.”
My father sold lots at whatever he could get for them in order to start the town. One he sold for 5 yards of homemade jeans of indifferent quality, and the purchaser was to build a house on it and did, of small round logs, the cracks filled with clay and about large enough for a poultry house; but it filled the contract.
The post office was named Carmel, because there was one in the state by the name of Bethlehem. In the early ‘60s when the town was incorporated, the name was changed to Carmel to accord with the name of the post office.
Celebrate Carmel’s 175th
A Founders Dinner will be held April 13 – the actual date of Carmel’s founding – to celebrate the community’s 175th anniversary. The event will begin at 7 p.m. at the Ritz Charles and features Carmel High School graduate Steve Inskeep of National Public Radio’s “Morning Edition.” Proceeds from the dinner will benefit the Carmel Clay Historical Society. For more information, visit.
Zina Warren was the son of Daniel Warren, who founded Bethlehem, now Carmel. Zina was born in 1831 and died in 1911. | http://currentincarmel.com/starting-a-town-carmels-history | 2013-05-18T10:53:46 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Yup. Never gonna get old.
Best photo of the day. That’s my boy Burrows!
HOW’S OUR ASS TASTE, BEANIE???
(I’ll tell you how… It tastes like 3venge!!!!)
Betcha Vince Vaughn is glad the cameras weren’t at home to see him cry.
We beat the Blackhawks in overtime. That sentence barely encapsulates a cunthair of the jubilation that’s being felt in this city tonight.
So incredibly emosh right now. Best Game 7 (and most would agree, the best game in the 40 yr Canucks franchise) in as long as I can remember. When Burrows scored the game winner in OT, the entire Cambie Pub (packed like it hadn’t been since Olympic hockey) erupted in 30 straight minutes of mass euphoria, just like the moment Canada won Olympic hockey gold. (A lot of folks said this particular grudge match was almost like “City Olympics”). There’s a reason I keep saying it’s our year. It’s because it IS.
And everyone in Vancouver (including the team) knows it’s just going to get better. Never been more proud to be a Vancouverite.
And in case I forget to say this tomorrow, fuck you, Vince Vaughn.
HOW’S OUR ASS TASTE, BEANIE?
HOW THE SQUEAKY BITCH WHEEL GETS ITS BITCH GREASE.
UPDATE: Fixed. :-)
When you go to the NHL store (link above) and click Canucks vs. Blackhawks, this is all you fucking get.
Between the refs giving Chicago ALL the power plays, to the patronizing sneers of so-called “friends” who think it’s “funny” that the deluded little Canadians think they actually stand a chance (at a game we fucking OWN), to brazen “fuck you”s like this one above which make it crystal clear that the money-grubbing shit-ass crooks running the NHL don’t want a non-American team anywhere near that Stanley Cup (I mean, we already have a 1000 acre park named after Lord Stanley, that’s how ready we are), I’m taking a Clonazepam RIGHT FUCKING NOW.
PS: Canuck Fans should direct complaints about that link here.
UPDATE: Because I am a shrill bitch prone to get up on her hind legs about certain shit, I have rather pointedly drawn their attention to this grievous and insulting error. We’ll see how quickly it gets fixed.
You know there are problems when the GM has to call out the refs.
Quick rant: The hit on Bieksa behind the net was worse than the Torres hit. The chicago player left his feet, directed his arms to the head, and took multiple strides. While Torres got a 5 min and a conduct (no strides, no leaving of the feet, etc etc), the chicago player didnt even get a penalty?
You tell em, Gillis. That reffing last night was BOGUS.
(Source: vancitycanucks)
morninggloria replied to your post: Hey dude, I’m going due east of Seattle when I fly west next weekend. I’m not sure of the town name. PROBABLY FORKS.
I’ll toss you a Blackhawks jersey :) Jokes!
Sure! After tonight, they won’t be needing them for another year.
Don’t mess with BOOM BOOM BIEKSA.
Really, don’t.
The full E:60 - Green Men
I was at a party where a guy showed up dressed like one of these guys (SPOILER: he was just some dude), and I was all “hey boy, heyyy” and immediately sat next to him. You guys might consider trying that if you come to Vancouver.
PS: Did I mention the Blackhawks will be playing their last game of the year on Thursday? Get those tee times lined-up, boys.
“Kevin Bieksa beats the living life out of Viktor “Cheapshot” Stalberg.”
Pounded the pretty right out of his face, right through the visor. That’s olde-tyme hockey, and that’s fucking Bieksallent. | http://cvxn.tumblr.com/tagged/3venge | 2013-05-18T11:03:24 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
BUILDING 429 TO RELEASE NEW ALBUM “LISTEN TO THE SOUND” ON ESSENTIAL RECORDS, SET FOR MAY 10
Title Track Receives Early Acclaim with Immediate Radio Adds in Major Markets Including K-LOVE, Air 1 and WAY-FM Networks
(NASHVILLE, Tenn.) March 2011—Dove-winning band Building 429 enters into a new season as it joins the Provident Label Group family and announces its fifth studio album, set to release May 10, on Essential Records..
Roy says, “I’m a worship pastor now and that has been a huge part of the lyrical content of this record because many of the songs are about the lives that I’ve been involved with through working at my local church. The writing really does come from a much more honest place, as an overflow of the life that we’ve lived over the last two or three years, especially this past year.”.”
Roy adds, “All four of the guys in the band have come to the conclusion that we have finally made ‘the’ record of our dreams in Listen To The Sound. People have come to expect something of Building 429. This record is going to break that expectation in the best possible way!”
The title track garners immediate national attention at radio as the first weeks of adds result in confirmations from all three K-LOVE, Air 1 and WAY-FM networks, plus commitments from 52 AC and CHR markets including Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Phoenix, Denver, Tampa and St. Louis.
Scott Smith, Music Director of K-LOVE says,“I love the new Building 429 song, ‘Listen To The Sound’! The band’s fresh, new sound is one we believe that K-LOVE listeners will love.”
Corey Mann, Music Director for WHPZ South Bend, IN, adds, “This new record is everything AC needs in a band. Good songs with incredibly catchy sing-a-long moments, great guys, amazing live show, and a message that needs to be heard. One of the best of 2011.”
Roy acknowledges the uplifting messages shared on Listen To The Sound will encourage families struggling in this tough economy, people dealing with depression and other challenges. “This record keeps coming back to the point that this is not what we were made for, that this is not our home. It is hitting people in the midst of a struggle and reminding listeners they are not alone and hope is rising, but it’s doing it in this pop kind of thing that makes you smile while you listen to it.”
The impact of Listen To The Sound’s new hope-driven songs is already being felt within the band’s own family. Roy shares, “I finished the record and I sent the songs to my dad and he literally asked me, ‘did you write these songs about me?’ The answer to that question was ‘no, not intentionally.’ But it also proves to me that all of us struggle in a lot of ways with the same stuff. It’s how you choose to handle the situation that you are in that defines who you are.”
In the past few years, Roy, Anderson, guitarist Jesse Garcia and bassist Aaron Branch have toured heavily, hitting the road with Casting Crowns, tobyMac and other acts as well as headlining several treks. This month, Building 429 will headline a 20-city “Listen to the Sound Tour” kicking off late March, featuring guest artists, Australian rockers Revive and pop foursome Anthem Lights. Additionally, Building 429 will be partnering on tour with long-time supporters Food for the Hungry to secure sponsorships for children and families in Haiti as well as other impoverished countries.
Building 429 is best known for its 2004 breakout hit “Glory Defined,” which was named BMI’s Christian Song of the Year in 2005, and that same year Building 429 was named New Artist of the Year at the Gospel Music Association’s Dove Awards. From that launching point the band has been tirelessly playing 150 live shows a year, developing their own touring brands “Winter Blast” and “SummerFest,” and growing its dedicated fan base.
To watch new studio footage of the band, stream “Listen to the Sound” single and keep up with “Listen to the Sound Tour” dates, visit and.
Source- Provident Label Group Press
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December Kit Report
Dec 8 2009
Pop artists and savvy, successful designers from Shepard Fairey to Marc Newson to pretty much everyone short of friggin’ Banksy have styled custom bikes for you and this—this—is the kit you get to ride in every day? I cannot imagine a more artless and uninspired piece of lycra.
It’s like someone took an overworked, underpaid corporate designer and told them to re-imagine a cubicle as a bicycle kit, employing three necessary elements:
- RadioShack Logo (w/ company name in Frutiger Black)
- Livestrong Armband
- RadioShack approved red (#C70E0E)
If Inintech had a cycling team, this would be their kit. Seriously, it ought to come with its own TPS report.
To be fair, Armstrong himself has commented that it still needs “some tweaking“, but plenty of other teams have brought strong entries to market. Cervelo’s new kit—along with some shiny new SRAM shifters—seems to be a done deal for next season, with the potential for another summer changeover to white.
Omega-Pharma’s new duds (via @Gematkinson) look a bit Christmasy, but the design should hold up throughout the season—though a glut of white-ish kits among the lower-tier squads (recently snared doper Eliado Jimenez shows off a good example) may make the Belgian squad tough to pick out until the final kilometers.
As for me, I continue to favor the classic, ugly/hip lines of Skil-Shimano’s distinctive kit. If the squad has kept pace with the rest of the peloton, and @KennyVanHummel is a reliable photo source, they’ll be sticking with the design for 2010.
Then again, as Cipo’ reminded us time and time again, there’s no telling what the riders will wear until they roll off the line.
I could not agree more… weak.
Meh.. The jersey is weak sauce.. They should have gotten a designer with some flair.. like one of the two geniuses at Twin Six ().. Just sayin’.. legal disclaimer, I am in no way affiliated with T6, I just know they could come up with something better than this flaccid attempt…
I have no design talent whatsoever and could come up with a better jersey. Sad, very sad.
On the plus side – it’s not white.
Please, please no more white shorts – did designers forget – when wet the white kits are see through? At least keep some strategic color on there, thank you very much.
That thing looks so friggin’ old.
The jersey is awful, too.
I like it.
Yo, bros. Here is the tweet from Team Radio Shack. Verbatim: “Sneak peak @teamradioshack’s new jersey. Still some tweaking to be done but here you go for now…” Likely translation: They got hardcore cycling fans to look. They are not going to wear it in races if people barf on it. They are looking for social media to provide feedback. They haven’t shown bibs, so they haven’t even designed those yet.
Do they do jerseys with RGB colors? I thought it was CMYK.
Its nice and plain. Remember that non cyclist think cyclist look like dicks in their bright green yellow red groos lycra team kits.
That’s a shocker, but it will sell heaps to the tasteless plebs. And that emaciated model ! Where’d they get him? I thought the fashion world had moved on from the pre-pubescent anorexic 14 old drug addict look. Tasteless!!!
double thumbs up Christian
I doubt anyone who reads this blog could be objective, and disregard their hatred/Rabid adoration of LA. I think it looks ok. There is some “tweaking” that could be done. But you never can really tell how well the kit will look until you see all of it.
I find it refreshing in an old school sort of way. I am tired of the Katusha, Omega-Pharma white with red and blue highlights motif that seems so popular with the pro-tour these days, not to mention the weak attempt for street cred from Columbia. I think solid colors are a refreshing throwback. Cervelo in its mostly black (or mostly white) kit, Euskatel in their orange. I thought the original solid blue Columbia jerseys were a breath of fresh air in the fashion challenged peloton (or even Jan in solid celeste). Think Molteni orange with a black panel across the chest with black arms. Yeah, now we’re talking.
This looks like my ’80s CB Ski coat.
Yeah, it’s austere to the point of boring, but (as kkhart, joe and LDR observe) cycling fashion these days could use a tweak in that direction. In fact, cycling aesthetics generally seem to be stuck in this mid-90s, chunky-baggy, more-is-more, letting-in-all-hang-out mindset.
Of course, it that jersey then gets paired with white shorts + a red widow’s peak in the bikini zone, it will all be for naught.
All I can say is the following: “Lance looks ripped!”
I bet they change it significantly.
Still 100% better looking than the ’09 white / blue / brown kits of Ag2r.
It is a bazillion times better than the Astana kit.
“Still 100% better looking than the ‘09 white / blue / brown kits of Ag2r” . . . which itself was 100% better looking than anything worn by Garmin ever.
Ugly my 12 year old could do better. How about a little retro love kit.
Now that we’ve got a view of the shorts, this kit is officially heinous:
no, its going to look good!
in the rain or a major crash.
Hey, at least these guys will be easy to pick out when watching the race on tv…and yes, the Columbia faux-six-pack looks a lot worse – especially on cyclotourists who make the six-pack stand ‘out’.
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Washington University in St. Louis Football Falls at North Park, 13-10
Chicago, Ill., September 24, 2011 — The Washington University in St. Louis football team dropped its second-straight game in a 13-10 loss at North Park University on Saturday afternoon in Chicago, Ill.
Washington University was limited to just 29 yards rushing and nine first downs in the loss. North Park picked up 215 yards rushing on 60 carries and had a 40:25-19:35 advantage in time of possession.
With the score tied at 10-10 late in the third quarter, Tony Kebeda kicked an eventual game-winning 26-yard field goal to make it 13-10. Washington U. had four possessions in the fourth quarter, resulting in two interceptions and a pair of punts. Junior quarterback Adam Banks was intercepted for the third time with less than a minute to play at the NPU 31-yard to end the threat for the Bears.
North Park (3-0) ran the ball 13 times for 70 on its opening drive, taking 7:01 off the clock. A key stop on 3rd-and-8 resulted in a 27-yard field goal by Kebeda to make it 3-0.
The Bears answered right back with a five-yard touchdown pass from junior quarterback Dan Burkett to senior wide receiver Easton Knott to give Washington U. the 7-3 lead with 14:41 left in the second. The key play of the drive was a 45-yard reception by Knott, which got the ball down to the NPU 10-yard line.
After running the ball its first 27 times in the game, North Park quarterback Tyler Kreps found Sam Cochiaro for a 52-yard touchdown pass to make it 10-7 with 1:00 remaining. The pass completion for the Vikings was just their third this season.
The Bears took possession with 50 seconds left in the half at the NPU 43-yard line, and drove to the 14 following a 17-yard pass from Banks to senior Drew Sexton. After a timeout by Washington U., Banks was intercepted in the end zone to end the half.
North Park had the advantage in total offense in the opening half, outgaining the Bears 157-151. Banks (5-7, 75 yards) and Burkett (3-4, 52 yards) combined to throw for 127 yards on 8-of-11 passing. North Park ran the ball 28 times for 105 yards in the opening half and connected on its only pass attempt.
Junior kicker Eric Chalifour booted a season-long 40-yard field goal with 13:22 left in the third quarter to knot the score at 10-10. The game would remain tied until Kebeda's kick with 13 seconds left in the third quarter.
Knott was the lone bright spot for the Bears on offense, catching four passes for 124 yards and the lone touchdown of the game for the Bears. Senior linebacker Nick Hillard led the defensive unit with nine tackles, 2.5 for loss, while senior linebacker Kyle Larkin added eight tackles, two for loss.Washington University (2-2) will have a week off before returning to action on Saturday, Oct. 8, at No. 17 Wabash College. Game time is set for 1 p.m. (ET) in Crawfordsville, Ind.
Bear Notebook: This was the first meeting in school history between Washington U. and North Park … Washington U. has lost its two games this season by a combined six points. | http://d3football.com/seasons/2011/contrib/20110924hjx6e9?id=1u19gjqnm7pr0m2i | 2013-05-18T11:04:39 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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Tuckness, Edwards and Gilliam named All-SCIAC
LOS ANGELES — Senior wide receiver Matthew Tuckness (Alamo) was named First Team All-SCIAC for the second consecutive year, headlining a group of three Occidental College football players who earned the distinction at the postseason SCIAC football coaches meeting on Nov. 20.
Oxy quarterback Tommy Edwards (Sherman Oaks) and defensive lineman Michael Gilliam(Songtan, South Korea) made the Second Team. Players were selected by position.
Tuckness led the SCIAC in receptions per game (11.4) and receiving yards (137.7) and had eight touchdown catches.
In Oxy's last game of the season, Tuckness had 16 catches for 234 yards and a pair of touchdowns.
"He runs good routes and really understands what we're trying to do," Occidental offensive coordinator Eric Bergstrom said. "He made plays when we needed him to and he's been the go-to weapon for the last two years."
Tuckness finishes his career with 27 touchdowns in 26 games played.
Edwards became the first Oxy quarterback to throw for 2,900 yards in a season since the late great Andy Collins did it in 2005. The junior led the SCIAC in passing yards per game (340.3), was fourth in passing efficiency (133.6), completed 63.3 percent of his passes and threw 15 touchdowns in SCIAC play.
"He's the most competitive kid I've ever been around," Bergstrom said. "He loves to play, he has a phenomenal work ethic and he is a true student of the game."
Gilliam, a junior, was third in the conference in tackles for a loss with nine.
Oxy finished the season 2-7 overall and 2-5 in the SCIAC. | http://d3football.com/seasons/2012/contrib/20121124kpicbc | 2013-05-18T10:32:43 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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The artists homework turned into a real shining piece of great artwork of Juvia Lockser. Her intent to kill and fine purpose in what she does made her even stronger, or that’s what she thought until she finally met and went up against a stronger opponent, Gray Fullbuster. Here she realizes that what she’s been doing is nothing more than playing, Gray makes her realize that life is a lot more than this, she joins the guild and finally learns to love the person that made her realize this. She’s still not him, hopefully Gruvia will live on.
The artist has done a fantastic job of creating such a beautiful artwork. Moreover it’s a fan art which seems to have gotten a lot of views, hopefully it will keep on gaining more. The fan art was done by RavenNoodle, she used Indian Ink which made the artwork stand out so well, she also names this piece of artwork Lluvia which translates into rain or rainfall in Spanish. I suggest you check her work out, she’s got a ton of incredible work. | http://dailyanimeart.com/tag/juvia-of-the-deep/ | 2013-05-18T11:02:21 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
A Cook County memo warns election workers against supervising voters as they fill out absentee ballots.
“To avoid confusion and misdirected campaign efforts, here are pointers for you to pass along to your campaign workers,” the memo says.
The “pointers” include that “Voters must fill out the ballots themselves without obstruction or assistance.”
“OR, IF A VOTER NEEDS ASSISTANCE, the name of the assisting person must be written on the outside of the return envelope,” the memo says.
Giannoulias attacked Kirk for trying to “suppress” the minority vote after Kirk was secretly recorded discussing his “voter integrity” program and the recording was posted on YouTube in early October.
“I have now funded the largest voter integrity program … these are lawyers and others who will be deployed in key vulnerable districts … where the other side might be tempted to jigger the numbers somewhat.”
Besides the two convictions, accusations of voting fraud have long plagued the South and West sides of Chicago.
One example in 2002 was a group of dozens of senior citizens who applied for absentee ballots, only to find out that the man who helped them apply had already cast their votes.
Calling the incident “pure Cook County,” the Chicago Sun-Times reported that when the seniors asked the man what he was doing in casting their ballots, they were told: “Don’t worry, you’re voting Democratic.”
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Faith Grammer, the daughter of Kelsey Grammer, scored an ultra-exclusive invitation to the Playboy Mansion’s annual Halloween party all at the tender age of three months old. Because the Playboy Mansion, paragon of all that is good and pure and decent, is a perfectly acceptable place to bring your newborn.
Grammer (dressed as Dracula) brough his latest May-December wife Kayte (dressed a witch) and their daughter along to the party because they ”do not have a nanny or a trusted baby-sitter at this time, so Faith goes everywhere with us,” according to a statement Grammer gave to USA Today.
But don’t worry, you guys, it’s totally cool! The newborn was asleep in a basinet underneath what was most certainly a very sanitary table the entire time, and the happy family left by midnight.
“We enjoyed the party with a few of our friends, the baby slept as her ears were covered the entire time and we left shortly after midnight,” Grammer said.
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Studying Law in Germany
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The Dallas Cowboys have hired former defensive tackle Leon Lett as an assistant defensive line coach, according to multiple reports.
Last season, Lett helped with the Cowboys defensive line last season during training camp and periodically during the season. As an assistant coach, Lett is brought in to help out defensive line coach Brian Baker in working with the squad's younger players.
Lett was with the team in training camp last season as part of the NFL's Minority Coaching Fellowship Program and sometimes worked with players at Valley Ranch during the season, according to the Dallas Morning News. Head coach Jason Garrett was reportedly impressed with how Lett worked with Clifton Gathers and others, so he made the decision to create this position specifically for Lett.
Read more about the Cowboys at Blogging the Boys. For news, analysis and notes around the league,! | http://dallas.sbnation.com/dallas-cowboys/2012/3/30/2914483/nfl-free-agency-2012-leon-lett-returns-to-cowboys-as-assistant-coach | 2013-05-18T11:06:07 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Some issues, like some movies or books, have staying power. Health care is our hot-button issue of the summer. This weekend, letters about health care far outnumbered letters on any other issue.
And the opinions on President Barack Obama’s initiative (and Congress’ proposals) are about evenly split, I’d say, without taking an exact count.
Next up, we have the following other topics under discussion:
Kay Bailey Hutchison — This is undoubtedly the question that is on a lot of minds, and I expect these letters to increase
- Israel — We had a letter about Israeli relations with Iran that sparked several letters
- The beer summit — People are still taking about whether Officer Crowley approached Professor Gates in the best manner. Those supporting Officer Crowley are sending the most letters right now.
- Banning texting and cellphones — A reader suggested that all new cars come with hands-free cellphone access. Others spoke in support of a ban.
- Cash for clunkers program — One reader called it the latest boondoggle to come out of Congress.
- Oncor’s tree trims — A couple of readers wrote in to say that people who plant trees underneath power lines should not complain about tree cuts.
Brett Munro of Dallas provides a smile for the day:
If the Cowboys don’t play in Dallas, don’t practice in Dallas and probably half of the team doesn’t live in Dallas, shouldn’t we be charging Jerry Jones a naming rights fee to call them the “Dallas” Cowboys? | http://dallasmorningviewsblog.dallasnews.com/2009/08/out-of-the-inbo-22.html/ | 2013-05-18T10:51:58 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
TDO Announces 2013/2014 Season “BY LOVE TRANSFORMED”by Megan Meister a return to four mainstage productions for the company’s bold and dazzling 2013-2014 Season in the Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House at the AT&T Performing Arts Center.
The 57th International Season, “BY LOVE TRANSFORMED” consists of works spanning three centuries—each of which challenged the musical or dramatic conventions of their day.
The new season will commence the evening of Friday, October 25, 2013 at 8:00 p.m. (please note new time for the Linda and Mitch Hart Season Opening Night Performance in conjunction with the Dallas Opera’s FIRST NIGHT) and continue through the final curtain calls on Sunday, April 13, 2014.
The 2013-2014 Season will include two much-loved classics, in addition to the Dallas premiere of an important twentieth-century work for the opera stage. This Dallas Opera season will also include the regional premiere—and, worldwide, only the fourth set of performances—of a thought-provoking new twenty-first century opera. Among the upcoming season highlights are two major American debuts; however, every TDO performance will feature internationally renowned singers, Margot and Bill Winspear Opera house is located in the heart of the Arts District at 2403 Flora St., Dallas TX 75201.
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Working with members of the MIT Media Lab, Machover produced “a challenging opera that questioned how far the human race can push technological development toward immortality.” The action centers on a terminally ill billionaire who downloads his consciousness into an artificial construct and then attempts to persuade his loved ones to join him there. Critic Stephen J. Mudge of Opera News added: “Any worry that the opera might be taking itself too seriously is answered by Pinsky’s witty and at times lighthearted libretto, which treats the situation with respect but levity.”
Jeremy Eichler of The Boston Globe wrote that the sci-fi opera, subsequently performed in Boston and Chicago, .
“This major regional premiere will allow us to reach out to those North Texans who are excited by the prospect of experiencing a work that overlays contemporary technology on traditional operatic practice. Especially when it marries the Dallas Opera’s reputation for exceptional artistry and vivid imagination with the.
Jay Hunter Morris has been conquering the opera world, one production at a time. About his performance in the San Francisco revival of Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s Moby-Dick, Mercury News critic Richard Scheinin wrote: “He sang with a pressurized fury that practically shook the seats of the War Memorial Opera House. Think Old Testament. Think King Lear.” As Siegfried in the Metropolitan Opera’s new Ring, Morris “found his own way to sing this heldentenor role with a lighter yet athletic and youthful sound. His clarion top notes projected nicely over the orchestra” (Anthony Tommasini, The New York Times)..”
Morgan Smith made an indelible impression on Dallas audiences in the world premiere production of Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s Moby-Dick. Critic Joshua Kosman of The San Francisco Chronicle felt that same depth of humanity in Smith’s recent recap of the role: “The real star of the cast was baritone Morgan Smith, whose Starbuck joined vocal splendor, moral authority and deep empathy in a phenomenal combination.”
Maestro Sebastian Lang-Lessing, the music director of the San Antonio Symphony, will conduct in this, his Dallas Opera debut. Writing about a concert appearance in Portland, Oregon, critic James McQuillen noted that “under the direction of…Lang-Lessing, who led with sweeping gestures and never missed an opportunity for a fortissimo punch at the close, the orchestra sounded superb.”
This production is both staged and designed by director Mikael Melbye, with video projections designed by Wendall Harrington. The duo have earned the applause of critics for their designs of ballets as well as operas, prompting Lisa Jo Sagolla of backstage.com to observe: “Melbye’s and Harrington’s designs hug the space with gorgeous period video images…making it look like the characters are actually in a setting, as opposed to a stage set.” It “also allows the dream-like narrative to jump-cut from ballroom to boudoir,” adds Louise Levene of The Telegraph (U.K.) “with a flick of a switch.”
Costume design is by Dierdre Clancy (TDO debut); with lighting design by Mark McCullough; choreography by Assistant Director Matthew Ferraro and chorus preparation by Dallas Opera Chorus Master Alexander Rom.
Paul’s fierce grip on the memory of his dead wife will be challenged by the equally determined Marietta. Can he let go of his fantasy in order to live again? This production of a too-long-neglected twentieth-century masterpiece will leave you wondering “Where has this opera been all my life?”
DIE TOTE STADT will be sung in the original German with English language translations projected above the stage. Additional performances are planned for March 23(m), 26 and 29, concluding with a final Sunday afternoon matinee on April 6, 2014.
Four additional performances, sung in English with the English language text projected above the stage, will take place on April 14(m), 17, 20 and 28, 2013 in the magnificent Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House.
~~~~ Bill Winspear Opera House at the AT&T Performing Arts Center.
Disguises and false identities abound as men—young and old—vie for the hand of the beautiful Rosina in one of the funniest and most frenetic operas ever composed! Rossini’s delightful 19th century romp centers on “Figaro, Figaro, Figaro!” a scheming barber and jack-of-all-trades, sung by Dallas Opera favorite Nathan Gunn, who plots with Count Almaviva to release Bartolo’s ward from her gilded cage.
The all-star ensemble includes acclaimed mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard as the gorgeous-yet-spunky Rosina, lyric tenor Alek Shrader as the love-struck Almaviva, and commanding Turkish bass Burak Bilgili as Don Basilio in their much-anticipated TDO debuts. It also marks the welcome return of the inimitable Donato DiStefano, a comic.
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I do believe there's probably something of a market, particularly for some of the racing that occurs in the off season (dirt and off road, etc.). But as to NASCAR-specific programming--our season is so long that frankly, by November I need a break from good OR bad coverage, and December and January are football months for me. (And then I'm all into Daytona, and ready for the new season.) A weekly half hour news show to catch up would be nice. I would never bother watching anything on the Internet other than a few minutes of an interview or something. I'm just not that obsessed...I'd rather the networks use the off-time to vastly improve their coverage, but I'm not holding my breath, lol. I'm not sure I like the idea of the networks *deciding* that for me...but on the other hand, I guess I assume (dangerous, I know) that they've actually researched what kind of numbers they would get. And I'm just not sure what kind of 'original' programming we would get. What new stories could they tell? If it would be more of what we already have, I would not bother (and yes, that goes for FOX and Speed, not just ESPN.)
What a sad state of affairs our NASCAR fans are in isn’t it?
When I read the above comments I feel bad that this wonderful, fun and interesting sport has really come to this state. Does NASCAR really care about any of us? Maybe?
I too have found after watching and devoting every weekend for the past 9 yrs. to races that this past year was a huge disappointment. I too found myself using my DVR and skipping through the BS. I love FOX’s telecasts and announcing crews. TNT was ok and ESPN was just simply awful. But…SPEED is the best.
I don’t know the solution to our problem but hope that NASCAR is looking into fixing it. I personally wrote them a letter stating my feelings and hope more did that too. I know they are aware of the problem but a contract is a contract and they probably can’t help us as the money is just too good for them. Sad..
Truer words were never spoken, John! Since Fox came on board in 2001, they've managed to ruin a lot of my enjoyment of races because of their need to make the announcers the focus more than the racing. Plus the attitude by all the current networks about not showing drivers unless their sponsors also buy commercial time during the broadcast. We all heard that Fox/NBC/TNT planned to only "mention money' long before they started showing the races, but it's still so disappointing to see such greed ruin the races for the viewers.
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I cannot tell you how this issue has dominated the past six months. The entire "electronic coverage" dynamic of NASCAR racing is just rocking right now, and it has been brought on by the poor performance of the final two TV partners, TNT and ESPN.
Some people just do not understand, but NASCAR fans are not going to tolerate missing the morning Sprint Cup practices and having their other practices, qualifying, and Happy Hour coverage destroyed by college football. Remember, one Busch Series race was totally dumped from all of the ESPN networks by football while the pre-race invocation was in-progress.
The backlash from the fans has been to seek other viewing alternatives and this time...they exist. When ESPN wakes up to the fact that fans can use NASCAR.com to eliminate all the logistical bungling of the network, it might be too late to get them back..
Like many other viewers, one of my biggest pet peeves is when the networks fail to show practice and qualifying due to other programming issues. It's especially nice when I set the recording unit to do it's thing only to come home and find that I got an hour of crap not related to racing at all and totally missed practice or qualifying. What's even nicer is when they don't show the pre-race ceremony, including the flyover. Talk about a huge slap in the face for our military....not to mention the ultra-patriotic fans that paid good money to be at the racetrack and the many fans that took time out of their schedule to sit down and watch the race at home.
I'll continue to utilize TrackPass next season so I can listen to my driver and his guys on the scanner and while I will have the race on, I will DVR it so I can watch it again and skip all of the gunk.
Well my son came in 295th in the 2005 WSOP so I don't mind watching that however I refuse to watch Pinks, Baker Auto Auction (or whatever it's called) and other shows on Speed. I dig out those old vcr tapes with 10 year old Busch races on them and I'm happy as a clam! Merry Christmas
JD, you talk about connecting a computer to a TV, but no matter how nice your HDTV is, the video WILL NOT BE IN HD. A compressed online live feed like the one from NASCAR.com will look horrible a big screen HDTV. NASCAR.com or youtube.com do not provide ANY HD video. Right now, you can barely find any HD content online and none of it is LIVE. Sure the online video provides a nice off-season service, but it can not replace live HDTV.
SophiaZ123 said....
December 19, 2007 4:04 PM
Now you talking about getting rid of transitions??? come on. now your just nitpicking. those "MOVING SWIRLYING GRAPHIC" transitions are not there just for fun. They have a purpose. They keep the transition from LIVE to replay video smooth so you know whats going on. Without those transitions you might not be able to tell the difference between live video and a replay..
I am sorry if you felt I overlooked HD as a production issue, or course it is. With both the in-car feeds and also Hot Pass that way, NASCAR is truly an all HDTV dream. When SPEED finishes their roll-out, it will be lots of fun.!)
With the writers strike and all the insipid "reality" shows taking over, this would have been a great time for ANY network to bring on some Nascar programming. I don't care if it was Craftsman Trucks, Nationwide or Sprint, producing some new race-related programming could have been a ratings winner. Now, we're stuck with mindless stupidity, reruns or sports that I don't give a darn about.
Hey, why doesn't someone at Nascar wake up and start a Nascar Network? We have the Big 10 Network, NHL Channel (and everyone knows how bad the ratings are for hockey, but they still have their own channel), Golf Channel and now the Tennis Channel, so why doesn't some intelligent person start a racing channel? And by that I mean, a channel that is all racing and not an excuse to show airheads with life-threatening fake breasts (aka Nopi)or really stupid shows like Unique.
Like the rest of you, I was really disappointed in the coverage by the "contracted" TV services, especially TNT and ESPN. It isn't exciting to watch a race that is constantly being interrupted by commercials OR by the broadcast teams who are hyping other things than the race itself. I have used NASCAR's trackpass for several years to follow "my" driver on the scanner. I tried the raceview function and didn't like it -- I'm going to upgrade my computer for christmas and that may help it work better. Otherwise, I listen to the races on MRN or Sirius because quite honestly the telecast is a waste of time. I cannot believe that there isn't any off-season NASCAR programming scheduled on ANY of the TV stations that cover it during the regular season. I enjoy Speed, but I don't watch any of the shows, such as Pinks, that are on as they don't appeal to me. I wrote to NASCAR and I copied my letter to the owners of the teams such as Penske, Hendrick, Gibbs, etc. telling them that they need to pay attention to the product being delivered to the fans or there won't be anyone left to pay the money to watch the races.
Heck, even the Cincy Reds has the HOT STOVE LEAGUE once a week for those baseball fans to listen to in the winter.
Yes, with the input of endless "Fake reality show" this would've been another prime season for some NASCAR interviews with different drivers. Maybe even (Gasp, dare I say it, drivers who did not make the chase and over age 35 !!) A well done show with interviews, by say Wendy...I would watch.
She could make an interview with a driver painting his living room seem interesting.
:-)
JD at 5:08 PM,
The reason why I bring up HDTV is because it sounds like you may be thinking of Internet TV as a replacement to the regular coverage (you mentioned Internet TV/network TV competition not in the off-season, but during the season). I don't think such a replacement is possible due to major differences in quality and HDTV.
Since it is the off-season, I guess I just imagined that I just listened to a 1 hour Hot-Stove League baseball show on 1530AM from Cincinnati.
Maybe racing fans have as much "off-season" interest as baseball fans?
During the off season a group of us Michael Waltrip fans like to get together on the Nascar.com forum page on Mikey's site, well lets say we used to. A member left a prayer on Jeff Gordons site for another poster and the moderator didn't like how religious it was and removed it and then under pressure he reinstated it with some words taken out, in protest a bunch of us have left the Nascar forum and started a new web site at Yahoo, Nascar is all about God and American and for them to do this is really bad and someone needs to look into it, its a sad day when a poster can't write a prayer to someone in need.
The lack of Nascar programming is causing a great financial burden in my home. I keep going shopping cause there is nothing to watch. Please I'll even take reruns of old shows. I'll have to check out the internet maybe I'll find them there. Nascar needs to work with Speed (my preferred network) to establish more Nascar programming that can continue during the off season. Again, Real Deal 30 minute version, I would love to see what goes on in the shop during the off season or at different race tracks.
The Fox races next season will be interesting for me. Last year I only listened to Trackpass for my drivers in car but after TNT and ESPN I was using Trackpass, Racetrax, Live leader Board (liked the old version much better), and JD's Blog. At the end I was getting more information from the internet than from the TV.
Why can't ESPN go into their Nascar library and pull up some old cup or even Busch races to broadcast during the winter. The graphics aren't up to the standards we are currently used to but it would be fun to watch old DW, Earnhardt, Petty and all the great racing and rivalries. | http://dalyplanet.blogspot.com/2007/12/internettv-fills-off-season-for-nascar.html?showComment=1198113840000 | 2013-05-18T10:41:18 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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Good for DJ!
I really enjoy his NN and N'wide segments :). I look forward to more DJ time this weekend.
I think he'll do a great job for Tim! Like Chocolate is the most famous gas man, DJ is working on being the most famous tire changer :).
Put me on the list of DJ's fans. Yeah! And he'll get better with time.
DJ does a great job. Nascar TV needs more like him.
I too am happy for Mr. Copp. I have enjoyed his pieces on pit stops, and his other analysis.
There's only one problem. With Dale Jarrett working for ESPN (who some time referred to as "DJ") and now DJ Copp working races, How are we going to not get confused?
I'm sure we will get through it. Just glad to see more and more talented people added to the race coverage.
DJ'C' is like a breath of fresh air! I hope that those who have clout will realize this and give him way more air time. His presentations are very interesting and he gives the sport a very 'real' feel. I think Tim is good but DJ'C' really tells it like it is with pizzazz! He's a keeper! Thanks John, as always!
DJ'C', I like that Chase. Maybe that will stick.
i'm very much looking forward to DJC (what a GREAT nickname, chase! thanks!) in the tech center. this is one time that i'm hoping there will be plenty of opportunities to go to the tech center for information! knock 'em dead, DJC!
on a side note: seems to me that the last coupla of years has seen somewhat of a "changing of the guard" in this part of our sport. there is a lot to be said for bringing fresh faces, new voices, and different experiences into the positions in various broadcasts.
but i still miss bp.
Is Brewer really just "on vacation" by his own choice, or was he told to go on vacation over his slip up last week?
Brewer, Bestwick and Daugherty are on planned vacations from the air this week.
Perhaps, you could let us in on his big slip-up?
JD
Good for DJ. I like the guy.
JD,
A little OT, but I think you should keep the blue color on the site. Looks nice.
geez,
Going to keep it for the rest of the season for Petty.
JD
Here's hoping DJC impresses everyone even more than he already has.
I can't stand listening to Tim Brewer, so his segments are really the only ones I FF through these days. (Well, his stuff and any interview with Kyle Busch or David Ragan)
I would love to see DJC instead of Tim on my TV on a regular basis.
And I wondered why everything is blue. I like it too, it's actually easier to read than the yellow/brown.
Love it DJC!
I enjoy DJC's enthusiasm. This should be fun!
I'm glad that DJC is getting another chance to shine. He's done well with the pit-cam.
On a side note --- JD, I must agree with all the comments about the blue. Richard is one our last links with NASCAR's past, and we need to honor that past whenever and however we can. Thank you.
And as jhd said, it is much easier on the eyes. Good choice.
Anonymous said...
Is Brewer really just "on vacation" by his own choice, or was he told to go on vacation over his slip up last week?
July 16, 2008 10:52 AM
Daly Planet Editor said...
Perhaps, you could let us in on his big slip-up?
I'm assuming anon meant when he said ass end. Big deal. It was funny.
Oh man, I thought I missed something big. I think Brewer gets a mulligan for that one.
JD
DJC sounds like a fantastic idea, I have enjoyed his clips from the beginning even back when NN was a should miss show he was one of the bright spots.
PS Add me to the likes the blue contingent.
JD,
Since the commenters like the blue, you're not going to change it on us, are you? I'm hoping you keep it to show ESPN and SPEED you give the fans what they want.
I like the nickanme DJC also. I would like to think that since this column is all about him, he's reading it. Do you like your new nickname?
Good deal!
I have enjoyed every time I have seen him on screen. Its nice to have a "grunt" instead of a manager aka Crew Chief, give us a prospective from his angle.
I hope they keep expanding his roll over time.
Thanks for letting us know about this. I am a Bobby Labonte fan so I'm super-excited for DJ and can't wait to see his segments this weekend. This is good stuff!! :-) | http://dalyplanet.blogspot.com/2008/07/nice-guy-dj-copp-gets-reward.html?showComment=1216225020000 | 2013-05-18T10:41:30 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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Bang Poland is part travel memoir, party how-to-get-laid guide.
I originally planned on visiting the country for one month, but ended up staying for seven. It wasn’t because I made amazing friends or fell in love with the cities, culture, or food. It also wasn’t because I became enchanted with its mountains or natural beauty.It was because I simply couldn’t get enough of the women.
Their personalities and vaginas fit me like a glove. What was supposed to be a little visit to get used to Eastern Europe turne dout to be one of the greatest discoveries of my adult life.
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Sweet, gentle, and considerate. Even when a Polish girl rejects you, she’s sweeter than an American girl who fucks you.
Nurturing. A Polish girl gets pleasure if you’re experiencing pleasure, similar to the vibe of Brazilian women.
If you don’t like American girls, go to Poland. ”Love it or leave it,” applies as much to the women you’re dating as it does to the country you live in.
If you’re going to remain in the U.S. for a few more years to make that money before expatriating, remember that women are horrible because our culture allows it. If your girl is not sweet, gentle, considerate, and feminine, then kick her the fuck out. If every American would “man up,” then women would start behaving better.
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I live in Poland and have done for three years. Roosh was either extraordinarily lucky in the girls he met when he was here or he’s lying in order to get people to buy his book.
Pretty much every girl over the age of 23 in Poland is married and has at least one kid. So if you like stretch marks it’s the country for you. The ones younger than that are either Catholic fundamentalists (no chance) or clown make-up Russian-whore style exploiters looking for a man with money (even worse).
I think our Arab friend was so exited at the sight of lots of white women in one place he didn’t notice a) they are not too keen on foreigners, especially non-white ones; b) they are not as thin as you think; and c) they are certainly not the kind to get pleasure from your pleasure.
Rosh’s books are just fantasy material for men who are never going to visit the countries he writes about. Travel books sell well because people never visit those places about to verify the truth.
Anyone dumb enough to visit Poland on the basis of Roosh’s book deserves all the crushing disapointment he will experience.
What next? Bang Antarctica? Bang Aboriginal Australia?
I suspect Roosh’s game is just a little sharper than yours
The man’s basically dedicated his life to fucking his way around the world
He can probably get reactions from girls that the average man can’t
I’m halfway through “Bang Iceland.”
Sure, interesting and entertaining read, but the big problems are sample size and sample selection.
So don’t take his opinions as hard facts to be duplicated by you. I think of his books as more novels or short stories – there is “artistic truth” there – maybe. | http://dangerandplay.com/2012/06/22/bang-poland-for-the-extras/ | 2013-05-18T10:31:30 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Which is fine by me; much as I like Tim Drake (I can't get used to Wayne, surely he'd keep his parents' name to honour them, despite being adopted by Bruce?), he has his own book, and it's a while since we've seen Steph, her being comics-dead and all.
So here she is in the first tale, by Chuck Dixon and Rafael Albuquerque, leading Tim into a naughty after-school activity and a mystery. 'Puddles' concerns a kidnapped kid and plays out satisfyingly enough. Really, I doubt anyone would buy this comic for the kicking of ass, not when there's character work to be done. And we get it here, as we see that Tim is wondering how Steph fits back into his life, and that Steph mainly wants to make sure Tim isn't swallowed by the Batman's darkness.
The second story, by Dixon and Victor Ibanez, is a flashback to Steph's time in Africa, helping Leslie Thompkins out at a clinic in a small village. We meet her wee pal, Efia, who dreams of America, and a self-style demon hunter whose cure for conjunctivitis is death. We see Thomkins as the good woman she's been since her 1970s introduction, fighting terrifying men for the good of the village; and we see Steph realising that despite trying to leave Spoiler behind, the hero within will always out.
Both stories are enjoyable, with Dixon showing that he really knows how to write likeable, compelling characters. I enjoyed the African tale more, though - seeing the Leslie I know again, doing what she does best, rather than the woman we were meant to believe would sacrifice Spoiler to teach Bruce Wayne a lesson about endangering young sidekicks.
Plus, the art is just wonderful. In 'Puddles' Albuquerque gets the job done, and not unattractively, but the art seems less open than his Blue Beetle work. I suppose that's Gotham City for you, give Albuquerque a few more visits to Gotham and I'm sure he'll be drawing like a native. But in 'Katavi' Ibanez (and I apologise for lack of accents on 'a' and 'n' - blame my European keyboard) draws, inks and colours a lush Africa of believable people, convincing landscapes and dreamy skies. The pages sing. And little Efia has to be the sweetest comic book kid for years, I hope we see her again.
And I really hope DC has a regular assignment for Ibanez - his work reminds me of Renato Guedes, naturalistic yet powerful.
As for Steph, welcome back, kiddo. Go get Tim, huh?
Two tiny PSes - In a world in which Jason Todd can be punched back from the dead, is it too much to ask the Bat-Office to correct the misspelling of Thompkins' forename that's dogged her since her debut: just make it Lesley already!
And the cover by Albuquerque and colourist Cris Peter is nice enough, but yet another take on Carmine Infantino and Murphy Anderson's classic Sixties Batman and Robin pin-up (the homage is credited). I'm a tad bored now!
Great review once again, Mart. Loved this comic, even if it was for a very short-lived span of Robin's time in comicdom. | http://dangermart.blogspot.com/2008/06/robinspoiler-special-1.html | 2013-05-18T10:40:37 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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Sir Jimmy Savile’s Range Rover Carawagon is up for sale, with an estimated price of between £11,000-£16,000 ($17,000-$24,000). The vehicle is described as a:
‘...first-generation Range Rover was produced between 1970 and 1996. The original car was not designed as a luxury-type. The Carawagon was a Land Rover approved special vehicle, built by Searle of Sunbury-on-Thames.’
Of interest to future biographers of the legendary DJ, TV host and marathon runner, is the conversions made to Sir Jimmy’s Carawagon:
‘Only very few Range Rovers were converted; probably due to the price of £3040 compared to £2450 for a 109 conversion with 4 beds, although they were still available in sales lists until 1980. Carawagon closed down in the mid-1980s.
This 1978 Range Rover Carawagon was ordered and supplied to Sir Jimmy Savile OBE, KCSG, disc jockey and television presenter, to aid him with his charity work, so when necessary he was able to remain on site and live at the location of the project. The vendor believes that this Range Rover spent much time parked at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, an institution that benefitted hugely from Jimmy’s patronage. Finished in white, this Carawagon is fitted with a double bed, and comes with a wash basin fitted between the front seats and curtains.’
For indeed this may have been one of Sir Jimmy’s infamous “passion wagons”, in which he would get friendly with his fans.
The story of his passion wagon was a bone of contention with Sir Jimmy, when he was confronted by a TV audience of pesky kids, desperate to find out if the stories of his having sex with young fans in the back of his “nookie mobile” were true?
This happened on the BBC youth series Open to Question in 1989, where celebrities, from the world’s of entertainment, politics or sport, were quizzed by an audience of primed pupils from schools across the U.K. It was their job to pose those difficult questions grown-ups never did. And it was my job, as the show’s researcher, to ensure they were asked. For this I had to write a mini-biography for each guest, highlighting areas of interest for these youngsters to probe.
Guests ranged from royalty, Princess Anne, to entertainers, Ben Elton, Stephen Fry, to politicians Neil Kinnock, and Senator Gary Hart (who was asked about fucking-up his Presidential ambitions through his association with Donna Rice).
So, the week Sir Jimmy (or plain Jimmy O.B.E., “old big ‘ead” as he joked back then) appeared on Open to Question, our band of keen interrogators asked the great man if the stories about his sex life and his means of seduction, the passion wagon (which had been described as a Bedford van with a mattress in the back) were true?
The great, shell-suited Mr Fixit didn’t like the tone of the questions and said he thought the youngsters had been put up to mischief by asking such. Well, in a way they had. But that was the program’s policy. The information the youngsters used had been taken from the great man’s autobiography and from published interviews. Thinking he was being set up, Sir Jimmy avoided the question. Yet, after the cameras were turned off, and the producer David Martin and myself made our way down from the gallery to the studio floor, Sir Jimmy started to answering impromptu questions from the audience. Whether he was telling the truth or, maintaining a myth, when asked again about his “passion wagon,” Jimmy Savile admitted he did have a passion wagon and that all the stories about his sexual shenanigans with young fans were true. This announcement seemed to endear Savile to the teenage inquisitors. Why, I don’t know. David Martin then turned to me and said, ‘I knew we should have kept the cameras rolling.’
The question now, is whether this particular Carawagon was one of Sir Jimmy’s vehicles of pleasure? If you’re interested in buying Sir Jimmy Savile’s Range Rover Carawagon, you check details here for further details.
As for Open to Question, Sir Jimmy went to the press (the Daily Express) and complained about the show being a fix, after he spoke to our born-again PA who ‘fessed up everything. Not that there was much for her to ‘fess up.
More pix of Sir Jim’s ‘Carawagon’, after the jump…
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** APRIL 16 UPDATE: See fresh post, "The distant neighbor: Barack Obama in Mexico."
With the amounts of goods, money, migrants, media, tourists, and the endless intangibles of culture that flow between Mexico and the United States on a daily basis, there is hands-down no country more important to the future prosperity of the U.S. than its southern neighbor, and vice versa. Yet we've rarely heard Mexico mentioned on the 2008 presidential campaign trail. And particularly not from front-runner Barack Obama, who has not visited Mexico -- unlike rival John McCain, who was in Mexico City as recently as July -- but did find time this summer to go to Europe for whatever reasons.
Journalist Franc Contreras goes to the border for Al Jazeera and finds many more questions than reassurances among people on both sides of the border on how an Obama presidency might seek to mend the damage done to U.S.-Mexico relations under eight years of Republican rule in Washington. From immigration reform to trade and narcoterrorism, people excited about an Obama victory on Nov. 4 must keep in mind that border-related issues facing the next president will be every bit as challenging as anything the executive might face in the Middle East or in Asia.
What's Obama's view on the death of the binational border park, for symbolic starters? Or America's domestic Guantanamos? Who knows. But here is a boilerplate op-ed piece Obama published in February in The Dallas Morning News that lays out a general Mexico agenda, and a bit of analysis from Foreign Policy Association. | http://danielhernandez.typepad.com/daniel_hernandez/2008/10/what-is-obamas-position-on-mexico.html | 2013-05-18T10:52:56 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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Infill development requires oversight
Read the full story here Web Link posted Friday, November 23, 2007, 12:00 AM
Posted by Jennifer Hansen, a resident of another community, on Nov 23, 2007 at 8:45 am
Dear Editor,
As I read these letters, especially Paul's, I see repeating lines that have been placed in incorporation proponents releases over and over again. I also see the same focus on opponents, by name, and the character assassination in absence of real information and position commentary.
Alamo region residents are not ignorant in their opposing views and are passionate about the best proposal for Alamo's future. What we fear is the relationship among the politicians behind the Alamo Incorporation Movement, as AIM, with county and LAFCo that will produce a local layer of government that has no responsibility to Alamo Region residents. Paul doesn't seem to realize AIM is Martinez politics combined with the selfish interests of a small political minority in Alamo that is proposing five council members to decide our future.
If the politicians we have seen at AIM meetings, in print, and on TV are to be that independent council then Alamo residents have no future other continuing politics as usual in Contra Costa County.
Jennifer Hansen
Diablo Vista CA 94507 Supporter
Posted by Alamo Ron, a resident of the Alamo neighborhood, on Dec 1, 2007 at 8:40 am
I agree with Jennifer that Alamo residents are not ignorant.
Therefore, they also clearly understand that the Alamo town council will be ELECTED BY ALAMO RESIDENTS!
The town council will therefore be directly responsible and answerable to the residents of Alamo and not to some far-off overpopulated bureaucracy.
The myth of a "local layer of government that has no responsibility to Alamo Region residents" is just that - a myth.
I have great respect and confidence in the power of the ballot box, both to elect AND reject persons to represent Alamo. It is a shame and highly unfortunate that some people do not respect well-established electoral. | http://danvilleexpress.com/square/index.php?i=3&d=1&t=178 | 2013-05-18T10:31:51 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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- Harry Wentworth on Smethwick International Salon of Photography 2011
- Tim Pile on Smethwick International Salon of Photography 2011
- Vitaly on 21st Guernsey Salon of Photography 2011
- Chris Miles on Congratulations to John Powell BPE5*
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Jon Whipple’s comprehensive comparison of DrawIt, Acorn, and Pixelmator. This is one of the best “let’s compare and contrast a few apps in the same category” reviews I’ve seen in a long time.
Christopher Lenz: “As I haven’t seen anyone writing much about the state of Python development on Mac OS X Leopard, here’s a quick rundown.” (Via Simon Willison.)
Adrian Sutton:.
From the book of “It’s Only Funny Because It’s True”.
Bruce Tognazzini, back in 1989:.
I read this long ago in Tognazzini’s Tog on Interface, and have been looking for a URL to it for years. Found it via the aforelinked article by Scott Stevenson.
Scott Stevenson:
If Leopard shipped and it looked essentially the same as Tiger, I think most non-programmers would pass it by. At first glance in screenshots and the back of the box, potential buyers would not see any signs of change, and therefore would not see any hope of new experiences which justify the cost. This would do a great disservice to the mountain of improvements in the underlying system.
Intego Security on a Trojan hosted on porno sites, that tricks users into thinking they’re installing a QuickTime video codec that will allow them to watch free videos:.
(Via Macworld.)
Good post by Ted Leung on Java 6 and Leopard.
Bug-fix update to Bare Bones’s flagship text editor.
Science fiction comes to life: $99 2 GB SD memory card with built-in Wi-Fi. Can be configured to upload photos automatically to your computer and to web sites like Flickr.
AppleScript one-liner to tell Time Machine to begin a backup.
Update: Via Twitter, Chuck La Tournous point out that Time Machine’s Dock icon contextual menu has a “Back Up Now” command.
Client license still doesn’t allow for it, though.
Wonderful report by Thomas Ptacek on the security-related changes and additions in Leopard; must-read if you’re at all interested in Mac OS X security.
Great timeline compiled by Eric Burke:
It is perfectly clear that Apple releases major JDK updates on, or shortly after, major OS updates. I believe we will see Java SE 6 on Leopard within days or weeks.
And:
Anyone wanting a faster JDK release cycle on OS X will have to look to someone other than Apple to give it to them.
James Gosling:
Lots of folks ask “why doesn’t sun just do the JDK for Mac?”. The real answer is “because Apple wanted to do it”. They’ve wanted to do all sorts of customization and integration that only they could do — because they own the OS..
The bastards at OAK have taken two mini Leatherman tools from me; now they’re selling them on eBay. (Via Nat Irons.)
Java on Mac OS X has gotten so bad that James Gosling, creator of Java and Sun’s developer platform CTO, has switched from a MacBook to a notebook running Solaris. What an outrage that the best platform to develop for Sun’s Java is Sun’s own operating system. Sounds great:
There is one area that’s a problem: when I close the lid on my laptop, it keeps right on running. It doesn’t suspend. I have to manually shut the system down.
This one sentence alone makes it a major upgrade:
AppleScript is now entirely Unicode-based.
But there’s a ton of additional good stuff — I think it’s safe to say this really is a “2.0” release, the biggest linguistic upgrade to AppleScript ever. (Still no sign of the updated AppleScript Language Guide promised by Apple, though.)
Archrival to USB Overdrive from Japan; also $20.
I’m getting a lot of email asking what Logitech mouse owners should do if they want to use their extra buttons but who don’t want to install Logitech’s APE-powered Control Central software (which doesn’t work entirely on Leopard, because APE doesn’t yet work on Leopard).
I’ve been using Alessandro Levi Montalcini’s $20 USB Overdrive for years. In addition to giving you additional control over buttons, it allows you to set far faster mouse tracking speeds than Apple’s mouse driver. If you’re frustrated that Mac OS X’s fastest mouse speed is still too slow, USB Overdrive is worth a look. The latest version is certified Leopard compatible and adds support for Bluetooth mice.
There does seem to be a karmic element to the fact that some problematic Leopard upgrades — even if they’re not Apple’s fault — result in a “blue screen”.
I fail to see why anyone (other than Java developers themselves) would care.
Fantastic comic contest between Kevin Cornell and Matthew Sutter.
John Nack on a survey of 1,026 professional photographers in North America regarding their RAW processing software:
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What’s really interesting is that Lightroom’s use among Mac-using photographers wasn’t just higher than Aperture’s — it was higher than the number of Lightroom users on Windows. I think Mac users are more likely to try new apps.
Allan Odgaard has the lowdown on InputManager support in Leopard:
Contrary to most rumors, input managers still work on Leopard (at least on my pre-GM seed), but for an input manager to be loaded there are now a few requirements it needs to fulfill.
The confusion over this is that during the pre-release seeding this summer, input manager support in Leopard changed quite a bit. For a while, they really didn’t work at all. In the shipping version, they work, but installing them now requires administrator authentication (so the potential problem where they could be installed silently behind your back, as with Smart Crash Reports, is now closed). But they’re officially unsupported, don’t work at all in 64-bit apps, and are “likely to be disabled in a future release”.
Dan Miller:
In the new iCal, double-clicking an appointment causes an inspector box to pop up right next to the appointment itself; to edit appointment details, you click an Edit button in that inspector box. (You can also select the appointment and hit Command-E.) That might seem like one click too many to some users; some might also object to the fact that the inspector box obscures part of the calendar.
It’s greatly annoying to me that events don’t open in editing mode when double-clicked. Cmd-E is good to know.
Nice evolutionary update to my favorite pocket-size camera. Same lens as my original GR Digital, but now features “a new processing engine said to ‘dramatically’ improve high-ISO noise performance”. Also features much-improved RAW performance. Glad I didn’t wait for this when I bought mine back in April, but I highly recommend it to anyone in the market for a point-and-shoot — although with “availability in a month or two”, it might be cutting it close for Christmas.
Not a bad opening weekend.
I was pulling for Mattingly (and pulling for Torre to stay before that), but like the sound of a manager with an engineering degree from Northwestern.
Dan Benjamin and yours truly, talking about Leopard and baseball.
The comments are brutal.
Hulu, NBC and Fox’s joint online video venture, is in private beta-testing, but its URLs are easily guessable. This Slashdot comment links to this sample page of 10 embedded Hulu videos. The quality is great for web-page Flash video, certainly better than YouTube. But that doesn’t help if you want to watch them on your, you know, TV set — or on a portable device, or full-screen at a decent resolution on your computer.
Update: Apparently they’re preventing non-U.S. IP address ranges from accessing the video; at least one DF reader in Great Britain got an “Unfortunately this video is not currently available in your country or region. We apologise for the inconvenience” message when he attempted to view the above samples..
How Chris Glass played last week’s Layer Tennis match.
I suspect that when it appears that Back to My Mac is accessing your system without prompting for a username and password for a user on that machine, it’s using the Keychain, rather than accessing it via some means that doesn’t require a password.
Rhymes with “back look fro”.
Six major releases of Mac OS X. Six times, the same guy has written the best review.
Congratulations to the Boston Red Sox and their wonderful fans.
I need another beer.
Andy Ihnatko:
I.
Peter Maurer’s freeware (donations accepted) utility to restore round screen corners in Leopard. (Worth noting that while round corners are gone in Leopard, they’re there on the iPhone.)
Ged Maheaux on TheStreet.com’s Scott Moritz’s bullshit “scoop” nine days ago that Apple was going to release a new sub-notebook alongside the debut of Leopard.
Overall,.
Nice rundown from Matt Gemmell of what’s new in Cocoa in Leopard. I expect the stream of Leopard-only third-party apps to start tomorrow.
Incredible last-second comeback — a 13-lateral 60-yard touchdown.
Photo of a Microsoft Office ad in The New Yorker. It’s a guy walking past a newsstand in a city, and on the newsstand are dozens of bags of Frito-Lay band chips. Is Microsoft selling ad space within its own ads?
Congratulations to my pal Merlin Mann and his wife Madeline.
Buzz Andersen:
My point in all of this, I suppose, is that when it comes to interpreting Apple’s actions, Ockham’s razor is usually the best guide: the simplest explanation is to be preferred.
An important heads-up: If you’ve got APE installed, you should upgrade to Leopard with a Clean Install or Archive and Install, not an upgrade. People doing upgrades with (apparently outdated versions of) APE installed are getting stuck at a blue screen after the installation. Love the way Apple’s support document puts quotes around “enhancement” when describing what APE is.
(My upgrade advice still stands — APE is the sort of “unholy diddling with system software” that warrants a Clean Install.)
Update: Unsanity’s Slava Karpenko has acknowledged the problem on Unsanity’s weblog.
669 MB on disk — the largest file in Mac OS X Leopard. The quality is truly impressive. Jonas and I are having a lot of fun with it — I’ve got him convinced that my PowerBook knows what he’s doing.
Update: Here’s an example I recorded of Alex reading this entry — note that it reads “MB” as “megabyte” and correctly pronounces the “X” in “Mac OS X” as “ten”.
“Running Time Machine backup or restore operations while Aperture is running may lead to inconsistencies in the Aperture database.”
Educated guess: it’s a locking problem with the database — the backupd background daemon sees the notification from FSEvents that the file has changed since the last backup, and starts copying the file, but in the meantime, Aperture is still writing to the original database file, so the backup copy gets made while the file is in an inconsistent state. This might be a problem with other apps that use a frequently updated database file.
David Chartier:
This includes something we talked about in a report last week: the 300+ features page had confirmed that the iPhone would sync Notes with Leopard’s Mail. It’s now gone. Erased from existence, just like any trace of Time Machine and AirDisks. It’s a good thing we saved a screenshot for posterity.
No, it didn’t. Apple has never mentioned any sort of iPhone note synching in Leopard. I mentioned this last week: the way these notes work in Leopard is that they’re saved as IMAP account email messages; Leopard Mail treats these messages differently visually. Apple’s “access them from your iPhone” claim is a reference to the fact that you can view them, as regular email messages, in the iPhone Mail app. It has nothing whatsoever to do with the iPhone Notes app.
One reason people have assumed there would be some connection between Leopard’s notes and the iPhone’s Notes app is that they both look similar by default: the yellow-paper-legal-pad background and Marker Felt text. Another is that without synching to your computer, iPhone Notes seem nearly worthless. But, alas, the features are unrelated, other than visually. Plus, I’m not sure how iPhone note synching could be a Leopard-only feature, unless Apple’s willing to tell Windows-using iPhone owners to go blow.
I think Apple changed the text of this web page because people like Chartier were confused about what they were referring to, not because they’ve removed a feature they previously promised.
Here’s the gist: When you turn on Back to My Mac synching, all you need to control your Mac remotely is your .Mac password — you don’t need to authenticate with the password for your Mac itself.
I don’t think it’s right to characterize this as a security “hole”, though — clearly it’s how the feature is designed to work. If you don’t trust your .Mac account, don’t use it. It’d be nice if there were an option to require your Mac’s password, though — and I question the decision to turn this setting on by default.
Jason Hoffman on the NetApp/Sun spat.
Small software update for Leopard users; addresses password problems with login accounts and keychain entries.
The Associated Press:
Apple no longer accepts cash for iPhone purchases and now limits sales of the cellphone to two per person in a move to stop people from reselling them.
The new policy started Thursday, said Natalie Kerris, an Apple spokeswoman. Before then, there was no cash restriction and the purchase limit was five per person.
Screenshots of the Mac system settings, from the original System 1.0 Control Panel through Leopard’s updated System Preferences.
Matt Neuburg’s top gripes about Leopard. I completely agree with him about the new Help Viewer window:
When you choose from the Help menu in any application, what opens is no longer the Help Viewer application. It’s an orphan window that floats over, and blocks your view of, everything else on the screen. It belongs to no application, so you can’t hide it or switch away from it. Now, what’s the most common thing to do while you’re reading an application’s help documentation? You read something in the Help, you switch to the application to try it; you see something in the application, you switch back to the Help to learn about it. No more. Now, as soon as the help window opens, you’re stuck: you’re in the help window and that’s the only place you can be, until you close the window (or minimize it into the Dock).
Jason Snell:
Leopard is, at once, a major alteration to the Mac interface, a sweeping update to numerous included productivity programs, a serious attempt to improve Mac OS security, and a vast collection of tweaks and fixes scattered throughout every nook and cranny of the operating system.
If you crave super-detailed analysis of all your upgrading options, Joe Kissel’s $10 Take Control of Upgrading to Leopard e-book is probably your best bet.
MacJournals on MacFixIt’s “Be afraid. Be very afraid” advice regarding upgrading to Leopard and their voodoo warnings about the simple upgrade installer judgments, you might break out of a fear-based dependency on MacFixIt, so the site does its best to prevent that from happening.
Would be a great feature if it did, especially for notebook users. And it’s disappointing, because backing up to an AirPort disk was promoted as a feature of Time Machine in the WWDC 2007 keynote.
I saw this in the developer seeds months ago and laughed, but I assumed Apple would change it before shipping the 10.5.0 release. Funniest joke in Leopard.
One of the subtle changes in Leopard is that it no longers renders the corners of the screen as round. Peter Maurer is working on a hack to bring them back.
Kenneth S. Brown:.
(Thanks to Brandon Kelly.)
Nice list of Leopard details from David Pogue.
Speaking of DF feed sponsors, my thanks to this week’s sponsor, SimpleMovieX. SimpleMovieX is a simple (duh) $29 video editor with built-in support for popular file formats and codecs unsupported by QuickTime Pro, and features that make it easy to perform simple edits, transcode between file formats, and perform batch operations on multiple files at once.
Glenn Fleishman on the nifty file-sharing improvements in Leopard. Per-folder file sharing — last seen on the Mac in Mac OS 9 — returns at last.
Buzzblog:.
(Thanks to Jory K. Prum.)
Scroll down to the chart comparing customer satisfaction of all the top mobile phone makers — Apple comes in first at 82 percent, and RIM’s in second place way back at 51 percent. Jiminy. (Thanks to Chris Long.)
“TaskPaper’s strength is that it lets you focus on crossing out those tasks instead of building a self-referential web of unfinished business which separates you from the cold, harsh reality of all the work you need to do.”
Leopard compatibility update to MacRabbit’s amazing $30 CSS editor.
From a 2005 panel discussion on the future of Apple at SiliconValley.com. (This was after Apple announced their switch to Intel processors, but before any Intel-based Macs had yet shipped.)
Nathan Brookwood: I’m confident that the forthcoming Mactel platforms will provide a great computing experience for those who choose to move from the PowerPC platforms, but I’m also confident that more users will have switched from Mac to Windows than from Windows to Mac when all is said and done.
John Gruber: I’m looking forward to I-told-you-so’ing you in about two years.
(Thanks to Steve Brokaw for the reminder.)
Speaking of backups and SuperDuper, here’s Shirt Pocket Software’s Dave Nanian on SuperDuper’s role in a post-Time Machine world:.
You can argue that, well, of course a guy from Shirt Pocket is going to argue that SuperDuper is still relevant. But he’s right. Time Machine does not create a bootable clone of your system, and in cases of catastrophic drive failure, a bootable clone is exactly the thing you need.
JWZ on a super-simple backup strategy. I do the same thing, but with SuperDuper instead of rsync. Carbon Copy Cloner is another good choice. The basic gist is the same: buy two extra drives, use one to clone your entire boot drive daily, and use the other to clone it weekly or monthly and keep that one off-site.
No.
From David Pogue’s New York Times Leopard review:
Otherwise, the only cause for pause is the usual minor set of 1.0 bugs, which Apple generally fixes with software updates after a major release. I pushed my system hard for a week using the final Leopard software, and encountered occasional glitches with Spaces, automated synching among Macs and switching programs. I also found a few programs and add-ons that will need updates to run in Leopard.
Maybe some of that software would have already been updated for Leopard compatibility if Apple had provided developers with the same access to the final version of 10.5.0 that they apparently saw fit to distribute to Pogue (and, presumably, other big-publication tech writers like Walt Mossberg and Steven Levy). Given that the GM version leaked onto Usenet and BitTorrent sites anyway, what the fuck was the point of not providing it to seeded ADC developers?
“The iPhone Dev Center is your single source of information for designing, coding, and optimizing web applications for iPhone and iPod touch.”
Macworld editors pick their favorite — and least favorite — new features in Leopard.
This is exactly the sort of thing that makes me thankful that Mac OS X doesn’t use activation. (Via Justin Blanton.)
“But interestingly enough, in this whole new digital music revolution, there is no market leader.”
Steve Moore:
Ever wonder how the power LED shows through the aluminum of Apple’s new wireless keyboard when it’s on, but blends into the metal when it’s off? Here’s how.
Kottke has a report on Google changing their PageRank algorithm, with speculation that the aim was to penalize sites that run text link ads and scads of cross-network promotional links, such as Weblogs Inc. sites like Engadget and TUAW. A reader sent Kottke this note:.
I don’t run text link ads on DF, so, unsurprisingly, my PageRank is unchanged (7). But there must be something more going on here than a penalty for text links ads, because Aaron Swartz’s site still has a PageRank of 9, and he runs text links ads. Apple.com dropped from 10 to 9, and they run neither text link ads nor cross-network promotional links.
Update: DF’s PageRank dropped from 7 to 5 at some point tonight, so I’m chalking it up to a rejiggering of the scale.
Christopher Fahey on switching:
In 1896, a scientist named George M. Stratton, showing an ingenuity that must have seemed like madness at the time, conducted a fascinating experiment in visual perception with himself as the subject. He constructed a pair of goggles with special lenses that inverted his view of the world by 180 degrees, causing him to see everything upside down, as if he were standing on his head, continuously. He wore the goggles for many days, never once opening his eyes without wearing them (he would shower with his eyes closed, for example).
Ben Sargent is exactly the sort of nerd switcher I wrote about yesterday — the sort of guy who never would have considered a Mac 10 years ago, but who is now a steadfast Mac OS X convert:
For me, using a computer has only partially been about the tools that it provides. It’s also about playing. I love to install things, mess around with servers and settings, just to see if I can get it to work. It’s the same reason I bought a PSP — because it was hackable. I could make it do fun and interesting things. I could play with it, not just on it.
Right now, it’s the Mac that embodies this sense of play the best for me in the computer world.
Matt Neuburg:.
Merlin Mann:
The approach is similar to OmniFocus — but even more obsessively concerned with keeping the system focused solely on completing tasks (rather than grooming and feeding them for months while they grow long hair and learn how to drive a stick).
Updated version of the freeware BitTorrent client.
Nelson Minar:
TechCrunch has a strange habit of blogging things where the only source is off the record. […] Anyone talking to media knows that telling a journalist something “off the record” means you’re telling them so they know it. It’s not going to stay secret. But it also clearly means that the comments aren’t to be used as a primary source.
I’ve noticed this too, but my assumption has been that Mike Arrington says “off the record” when he means “not for attribution”. If he really just turns around and publishes things he’s been told “off the record”, he’s a bigger doofus than I thought.
Jason Fried:.
Agreed 100 percent. I think this applies to any product where the buyer isn’t the user, but I think the problem is especially acute with software.
So even if you’re a Dock-at-the-bottom person, you can get the non-goofy look.
Compare and contrast to the diagram for the Nintendo Wii:
(Wii.)
Saul Hansell, writing about Apple’s success:
In that world, Apple has some choices to make: Will its iLife and iWork applications move onto the Web? More importantly, will it compete in the mass business PC market, where the C.I.O. of an insurance company buys desktops by the truckload?
No and no.
I suspect CandyBar 3 is going to be a big hit; it’s been lost amidst all the griping about the Leopard Dock, but the new Leopard folder icons are crummy.
Not sure how many browsers they support, but at least with Safari 3 and Firefox 2, Apple’s web site search is now displaying live search results as you type. (Might be something that debuted with the recent redesign, but which I hadn’t noticed until now.)
Huge news. This makes Gmail much more attractive to those using a desktop email client — or to anyone reading mail from an iPhone.
Rich Mogull details the security improvements in Leopard.
BusyMac:.
I think BusySync is a huge deal. Leopard’s new iCal sharing is very cool, but requires a dedicated server. For a household or very small business or partnership, BusySync’s server-less “just install it on your Mac” model is perfect.
“Don’t try to be original, just try to be good.”
Thanks to post-quarterly results after-hours trading, Apple is set to open tomorrow with a higher market cap than either IBM or Intel.
Hog Bay Software’s new deceptively simple $19 to-do/task manager; uses a plain text file format but includes support for tags and tabbed document windows. I’ve been using pre-release versions for a few weeks — definitely worth a look.
Leopard-compatibility release for Noodlesoft’s $22 automated file organizing/cleanup utility.
Also by Ken Cancelosi, this wonderful remembrance of Calvert DeForest, the performer best known as Letterman foil Larry “Bud” Melman.
Ken Cancelosi on William Shatner and Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan — without question the best Star Trek movie ever made. (Via Kottke.)
Interesting nugget: Apple estimates 250,000 (out of 1.3M total) iPhones were sold to unlockers.
My big question, which seems to have gone unasked (and unanswered during Apple’s prepared statement) is whether Apple is accounting for iPod Touch sales on a subscription basis, like they are with the iPhone. Apple has stated that they’re using subscription-based accounting for the iPhone so as to be able to provide new features to iPhone users in future software updates free of charge. If iPod Touches aren’t being accounted for similarly, I suspect they won’t be getting the same feature updates, or at least not for free.
Apple:™ sales were 1,119,000, bringing cumulative fiscal 2007 sales to 1,389,000.
It’s all amazingly good news, but the stat of the day has to be that Apple sold 400,000 more Macs in the quarter than in any previous quarter ever — in the quarter immediately preceding a major new Mac OS X release, the sort of thing many people wait for before buying a new machine.
Secure networking for shared documents and an improved syntax coloring engine lead the way.
Jobs talks to John Markoff in an interview for The Times:.”
Jobs also seems to suggest that 10.6 is going to be sooner than later:
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Steven Frank:.
Another thing to keep in mind is that the GM version of 10.5.0 definitely contains at least some significant differences from the last version seeded via ADC to developers. Anyone taking screenshots of the Dock on the side of the screen, for example, is going to have to retake them after installing the public release.
Really good list of top new Leopard features.
Firefox 3 is going to look more like a Windows app on Vista and a Mac app on Mac OS X; love the parenthetical about Linux: “… we still aren’t sure what the best way to visually integrate with Linux is, given the number of different distributions.” (Via Mat Lu.)
Nikon D3 first impressions from James Russell. It’s getting harder and harder to see the D3 as anything other than the best DSLR in the world. (Even if you’re not interested in reading about the camera, it’s worth scrolling through just to look at the gorgeous photographs by Russell that accompany the article.)
Peter Svensson, reporting for The Associated Press:
Comcast Corp. actively interferes with attempts by some of its high-speed Internet subscribers to share files online, a move that runs counter to the tradition of treating all types of Net traffic equally.
Cringely on the Apple-Google alliance everyone seems to think is inevitable, but which there’s little indication of yet.
FileMaker:
We are currently working on Leopard compatibility updates for FileMaker Pro 9, FileMaker Pro 9 Advanced, FileMaker Server 9 and FileMaker Server 9 Advanced. At this time FileMaker does not recommend the use of FileMaker 9 products on computers running the Mac OS X Leopard.
Curious, given that FileMaker is an Apple subsidiary. Curious language, too, calling it “the Mac OS X Leopard”.
Update: According to FileMaker’s Tech Specs page, it’s a compatibility problem with Safari 3 (although I can only assume what they really mean is the version of WebKit that Safari 3 is based on), and Safari 3 is not optional on Leopard.
35 percent of the freshmen class at Harvard are using Macs; 65 percent of all students surveyed own iPods. (Thanks to Daniel Carroll.)
Great fucking essay by Steven Pinker in The New Republic.
Surfin’ Safari:
The current working spec for the HTML5 standard has a lot of exciting features we would eventually like to implement in WebKit. One feature we felt was exciting enough to tackle now even though the spec is still in flux is client-side database storage.
This is huge news for web developers.
Today’s Layer Tennis match is a real humdinger. Great stuff.
Speaking of that Unicode leftwards-arrow-with-hook glyph, here’s the 2005 article where I described my footnote markup style, and some subsequent criticism and discussion from others, most notably Joe Clark.
I love that the glyph appears in the URL. Unicode nerdery at its best.
Miguel Helft reporting for The Times on Google’s latest quarterly results:
The results show that Google is growing roughly twice as fast as the overall online advertising market, which itself is booming, and that it is expanding far more quickly than any large Internet company.
Apple’s video tour of what’s new in Leopard.
Aggregated tracker for time lost to Mac OS X’s Spinning Pizza of Death cursor.
My thanks to Bruji for sponsoring this week’s DF RSS feed. Bruji’s line-up of “Pedia” apps — DVDpedia, Bookpedia, CDpedia, and Gamepedia — let you easily catalog and track your DVDs, CDs, books, and video games. Each features a great UI, iSight barcode scanning, Spotlight integration, a full screen view and more. They’re running a promotion this week where each person who purchases an app is eligible to win a case of wine. (But so where’s the Winepedia app?)
Tyler Kepner, reporting on The New York Times’s Bats weblog:
The Yankees offered Manager Joe Torre a one-year deal with a base salary of $5 million and the chance to make another $3 million in performance bonuses. But after 12 years and 12 postseason appearances (including four World Series titles), Torre turned it down. […]
General Manager Brian Cashman said that Torre’s successor has not been named, nor have potential candidates been formally identified. “I can promise you that the process is going to take some time,” Cashman said. “I ask for everyone’s patience as we review the individuals and make recommendations to ownership.”
James Thomson:
You can now finally insert and rearrange items in your docks without needing to make space first. Just drag and drop to your heart’s content.
This might be my favorite new DragThing feature ever.
Ryan Naraine: “Apple has announced plans to add code-scrambling diversity to Mac OS X Leopard, a move aimed at making the operating system more resilient to virus and worm attacks.”
There are two types of people: People who like to talk about pens, and people I don’t like.
More on the BusinessWeek redesign, from Armin Vit at Brand New.
Fraser Speirs:, EA and Nike now has an SDK.
Update to Freeverse’s excellent webcam software.
Steven Berlin Johnson:
What we’re starting to see here (and of course in the anti-DRM letter from earlier this year) is a pretty significant shift in Jobs’ public relations strategy, in that he seems to have recognized that there are limits to secrecy.
Johnson wonders whether Apple planned all along to open up iPhone development eventually; I say yes.
Gartner’s and IDC’s numbers don’t match, but both agree that Apple is now #3 in unit sales, behind only Dell and HP. (Apple will drop back to #4 after Acer’s acquisition of Gateway is complete.) But the most important thing to remember is that Apple isn’t really after raw market share; they don’t offer any bargain PCs. The entirety of Apple’s market share is in the middle and high end of the market. Also impressive is that Mac sales are growing this fast before the release of Leopard.
The number I’d love to see computed is profit share — what share of the total profit in the PC hardware business do these companies have. I suspect Apple might be #1.
Thus explaining the extraordinarily high morale here at DF HQ. (Via Chris Long.)
£80 for the single-user version, £120 for the family pack — and both offer free shipping. (Update: They just dropped the price on the family pack from £129 to £120.)
Jacqui Cheng, two weeks ago:
Apple is working on solutions that will help developers get more face time on the iPhone, but there are currently no plans to offer a “true” iPhone SDK that would allow developers to create native apps, a source at Apple has told Ars.
I strongly suspect her source was correct, however, that Apple is also working on significant improvements to MobileSafari’s web app capabilities, including offline storage.
Clever bit of design I hadn’t noticed: the iPhone screen does turn on to show a sound icon when you toggle the ringer switch with the screen off, but only if the screen has been off for more than one minute.
Kevin J. O’Brien reporting for the International Herald Tribune:
The move, which ended a month of speculation, is a concession to a French law that forbids bundling the sale of a mobile phone and a mobile operator. Orange plans to sell both a version of the iPhone locked to its network in France for €399, or $560, and an unlocked version, which will cost more, an Orange spokeswoman, Béatrice Mandrine, said.
Pure DF fodder: topics include digital video vs. film, the Internet as a distribution medium, Stanley Kubrick, and the city of Philadelphia, which Lynch describes as “one of the sickest, most fear-ridden, corrupt, and twisted cities, which they call the City of Brotherly Love.” (Thanks to Mark Schrimsher.)
Nathan Smith’s nifty introduction to the jQuery JavaScript library.
Now works with iPhone OS 1.1.1.
The scary part is that the only reason the cheaters were caught is that (a) detailed logs were leaked (perhaps intentionally by a whistleblower); and (b) the cheaters were egregious — rather than using their knowledge of opposing players’ hole cards here and there, they played in a way that raised suspicion immediately.
Dave Dribin asks something I’ve been wondering about, too — especially since our Wii showed up at DF HQ yesterday.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone; synopsis. (Via John C. Welch.)
One of the biggest new features in Leopard Server, and one of the best web apps I’ve ever seen — and by far the best web app I’ve seen from Apple — including an amazing web-based WYSIWYG editor.
For once there’s some correlation between a rise in Apple’s stock price and good news from the company. Wall Street sees platforms as lucrative.
Doesn’t seem to be getting a lot of attention, at least not yet, but this is pretty big:
Using iCal Server, colleagues can propose and set up meetings, book conference rooms, and more, quickly and easily. iCal Server is a full-featured, standards-based calendaring solution designed to make your life easier.
This is Apple’s rival to Exchange for scheduling.
Jim Coudal: “If you have a product or service that could benefit by being in front of millions of creative, web and design professionals, give us a shout.”
Glenn Fleishman:
Jobs’s letter today was a bit in the tone of, “Hey, you kids, get off my lawn! We still have to get rid of the gophers, resod the grass, and finish the main house before we let you on it in a few months, you little…”
At the end, Glenn speculates about a possible “iPhone version of Leopard”, and assumes that the current iPhone OS is based on Tiger, but that’s misguided. iPhone OS X already contains technologies new to the Mac in Leopard. For example, the iPhone has LayerKit, which was an early name for the Cocoa framework now called Core Animation. (In Mac OS X 10.5, Core Animation is part of the QuartzCore umbrella framework, and there isn’t anything called “LayerKit”.) Better to think of Mac OS X and iPhone OS X as two sibling products derived from the same core technologies and frameworks than to think of iPhone OS X as a child of Mac OS X.
I’ll bet Glenn’s right, though, that there will be a signficant iPhone OS update before the SDK appears.
Detailed information on how to exploit the iPhone OS X TIFF-processing vulnerability.
Me, back on June 1:
Long-term, within the next two years, if not far sooner, I feel certain there will be various ways for developers to write iPhone software. […] Downplaying the prospects for third-party app development in the meantime is a way of under-promising and over-delivering. By setting initial expectations that there might never be third-party software for iPhone, any future support for third-party apps will be treated as good news.
Pretty prescient, if I do say so.
Of course, I got a slew of messages from smart DF readers that my use of “wherefore” in the title was utterly wrong. (“Wherefore” means “why”, not “where”.)
Good list of previously-unpromoted new features in Leopard from Gizmodo’s Jesus Diaz. Not sure where he got this one, though:
Mail’s Post-It-style notes synchronize automatically with the iPhone.
What Apple actually says is: “Your notes folder acts like an email mailbox, so you can retrieve notes from any Mac or PC or access them from your iPhone.” That’s not synching with the iPhone Notes app. What they mean is that notes created in Leopard Mail are stored, behind the scenes, as IMAP messages, and that you can read them in a way that makes them look exactly like regular emails in the iPhone Mail app. Apple has announced nothing yet regarding any connection between Leopard Mail notes and the iPhone Notes app.
BusinessWeek deputy creative director David Sleight on the magazine’s print edition redesign. A strong design that emphasizes very clean typography.
Stephen Coles: “Let’s look a little closer at the features in the Fonts category and give them snarky grades based on their potential value.”
Headline for Nick Wingfield’s Wall Street Journal story on Apple’s iPhone SDK announcement: “Apple Reverses Position on iPhone Software”. Wrong. Apple never stated there would never be a native SDK. Until today Apple hadn’t made a definitive statement regarding native third-party iPhone development. (Via John C. Welch.)
Update: At some point during the day, the Journal changed the headline to “Apple Eases iPhone-Applications Curb”.
Tony Smith:..
Amazon has cut the price of Leopard from $129 to $109, and the five-license family pack from $199 to $189. Still with free shipping.
Jeff Croft’s iPhone has a sound icon on the silent switch — just the sort of indication it needs, I think, to help keep people from thinking theirs is broken when it’s engaged and stops ringing. Croft (via email), told me he bought his back on June 29 in Lawrence, Kansas, so it’s not a recent addition.
This is why it’s a mistake, a huge mistake, to call copyright infringement and bootlegging “piracy”.
Sure, it would be nice if iPhones were made using no objectionable materials whatsoever, but yesterday’s Greenpeace announcement strikes me as sensational attention-grabbing bullshit. Their main gripe is that the earphone wiring contains a material that the city of San Francisco and EU have banned in “young children’s toys” — last I checked, the iPhone is not a young child’s toy.
Great story in Wired by Charles Graeber, on Alex Roy’s attempt to break the 22-year-old “totally illegal” record for driving from Manhattan to Santa Monica: an insane 32 hours, 7 minutes.
Rogue Amoeba’s Mike Ash, on application serial numbers that contain random profanity:
It turns out that one day in the not-too-distant future, our random number generator gets filthy. On that day, one out of every 128 licenses generated will start with the F-bomb.
Apple.com has updated their Mac OS X section with highlights of what’s new in Leopard. Definitely worth checking out for the feature highlights — especially the “300+ New Features” list.
Karelia:
Do you like the media browser that Apple includes in some of its applications, but wish you could use it from any application? Now you can.
Looks like an outstanding contribution to the indie dev community.
Still no word on whether upgrading old non-Plus tracks will cost additional money.
Dave Winer thought his iPhone was broken because it stopped ringing; ends up he had the ringer switch turned off. It’s easy to laugh at, but I think it’s actually a non-obvious design. There’s no icon or visual indication as to what that switch does. You do get a small jolt of vibration when it’s engaged, but that doesn’t naturally imply “silent mode” to me. (Update: Yes, there’s also an on-screen icon, but that only helps if you toggle it while the screen is on.)
It’s a great feature once you know about it, but it’s potentially dangerous if you don’t. Its intuitiveness is further hurt by the fact that most mobile phones don’t offer a switch like this, even though they should.
He really does seem chastened:
I deeply regret these errors, and I offer my sincere apologies to all of the readers of Networking Know-How and PCWorld.com.
A bunch of new features to one of my favorite utilities, including snippet groups and snippet synching via .Mac, and AppleScript snippets that expand to the result of the script. Free upgrade for registers users, $30 for new licenses.
The New York Times:
“We are furious,” [Tibet’s Communist Party boss, Zhang Qingli] said. “If the Dalai Lama can receive such an award, there must be no justice or good people in the world.”
Where by “no justice or good people”, Zhang means “justice and good people”.
Jacqui Cheng reports that Apple is set to announce indie music labels participating in iTunes Plus, and a price cut to $.99 for all iTunes Plus singles.
I’ve bought a few at $1.29; I’m calling my lawyer in the morning and plan to sue.
One of only three bands I’ll hear an argument about as the greatest of all time.
The remastered The Song Remains the Same, which includes a slew of additional songs, looks like a must-buy.
From a Macworld reprint of an IDG News Service story by Robert McMillan on security exploits via URI protocol handlers:
Secunia ApS Chief Technology Officer Thomas Kristensen agreed that the URI protocol handler problems will probably turn up on Linux and Mac OS X. “There is absolutely a chance that similar issues could exist on those platforms,” he said.
Hello, there actually have been URI protocol handler vulnerabilities on Mac OS X. (More details here and here.) Are there more waiting to be discovered? Maybe. (Or, if you prefer, “absolutely maybe”.) But it’s not like this is a new vector for potential exploits on Mac OS X.
So is it (a) a mistake; (b) the first signs of a unilateral price drop to $0.99 for iTunes Plus; or (c) the introduction of variable single pricing?
BBC:.
How can I not link to this?
PCWorld Business Center “Expert” weblogger Robert Strohmeyer, on why the iPhone isn’t suited for business:
For business users, an ideal phone should be able to do three things well: voice calls, messaging (including e-mail), file attachments, and web browsing.
That’s four things — and yet this might be the most accurate sentence in Strohmeyer’s piece.
At the same time, the iPhone lacks support for Microsoft Office file attachments, which means that, unlike the Blackberrys, Moto Qs, and Blackjacks you may have now, it can’t open a Word document or Excel spreadsheet at all.
In addition to these major shortcomings, the iPhone currently offers no VPN support, so you can forget about giving your users secure access to internal network resources from the road.
Oh, really?? Why not just claim it doesn’t even make phone calls?
Byron Acohido, USA Today:
Google’s widely anticipated - and top secret - GPhone mobile phone project could trump Apple’s glitzy iPhone - by going low cost and low tech, tech analysts say.
A low-cost relatively low-tech “GPhone” may well be a smash hit, and a revolutionary product in the mobile phone market. But the only way it makes sense that it threatens the iPhone is if you believe there’s only room for one “it” phone. Apparently if any other phone on the market is successful, the iPhone is doomed.
Fake Steve on David Berlind’s 2004 prediction that desktop Linux spelled doom for Mac OS X:
Well, it’s been three years. I’m not sure what to say. Maybe we should wait another hundred years and see if his prediction comes true.
As my wife described it, this is exactly the sort of thing I find funny.
Edited by Newsweek’s Steven Levy; includes a May 2006 piece by yours truly from DF: “Good Journalism”. It’s a nice anthology with slew of thoughtful essays, and it’s very handsomely typeset in Granjon.
The audio has finally been posted from the panel I spoke on at SXSW back in March, with Shaun Inman, Nick Bradbury, and moderator Michael Lopp.
James Duncan Davidson:
I think you can do very well with either the 35mm f/2 or the 50mm f/1.8 lenses. Either one will teach you vast amounts about photography that you won’t be able to get from a kit lens or any zoom that costs less than $1000. And, the sub-$100 50mm is the cheapest way to get there, if budget is a concern. If you want to learn with about the same field of view as the standard lens on a full-frame camera and have $250 to spend, consider the 35mm f/2 lens as an alternative. Either way, you’ll do just fine.
And for a bit more than the 35mm f/2, Canon also offers a 28mm f/1.8, which in addition to being a half stop faster, also has a USM motor. The only lenses I own for my Rebel are the 50mm f/1.8 and the 28mm f/1.8.
Fraser Speirs:.. We’d quite possibly be in the middle of his fourth term now. Bill Clinton left office with the highest approval rating of any president in recent history. And, even if the 22nd Amendment were repealed today and Bush was determined to run again, I don’t think he could win the Republican nomination, let alone win the general election. (Via Kottke.)
“Al has put his heart and soul, and much of his life during the past several years, into alerting and educating us all on the climate crisis. We are bursting with pride for Al and this historic recognition of his global contributions.”
Read-only access via AppleScript is, indeed, primordial, but the plugin interface might prove pretty useful already.
Halfway through and really enjoying today’s Layer Tennis match between Steven Harrington and Chuck Anderson.
Ambrosia Software:
Using WireTap Studio, you can record the discrete audio output of any application, as well as all system audio, or record audio input from any microphone, line-in, or audio input hardware.
If you can hear it, WireTap Studio can record it.
$69 for a new license, $30 to upgrade or crossgrade from WireTap Pro or Rogue Amoeba’s Audio Hijack Pro or Fission.
Flickr group for “documenting” the abuse of quotation marks.
“Arrogance without humility is a recipe for high-concept irrelevance; humility without arrogance guarantees unending mediocrity.”
Freeware utility by Nik Friedman TeBockhorst that will translate DV-format video in your iMovie ’08 library to H.264 — saving significant disk space with relatively minimal loss of quality.
Walter Gibbs, reporting for The New York Times:
The award immediately renewed calls from Mr. Gore’s supporters for him to run for president in 2008, joining an already crowded field of Democrats. Mr. Gore, who lost the 2000 presidential election to George W. Bush, has said he is not interested in running but has not flatly rejected the notion.
My thanks to Mentat, a new web-based project and task tracker from Brain Murmurs, for sponsoring the DF RSS feed this week.
What I like best about Mentat is that in addition to letting you group tasks as projects, it lets you easily build a daily agenda of tasks from multiple projects — a very clean separation between storing everything you need to do, and presenting only what you want to do today. Mentat also has some useful features for team-based collaboration.
Best ways to learn more: the FAQ, the screencasts, and Brain Murmurs’s weblog.
Christ, do I miss Ze Frank’s The Show. (Via Andy Baio.)
Update to Panic’s Apple Design Award-winning IDE for web developers. I wrote about Coda 1.0 back in April.
Bill Bumgarner:
I have been wanting a new lens for a while (what SLR photographer — amateur or otherwise — doesn’t?) and had been eying up some serious pieces of glass.
After doing a bunch of research, I ended up with a Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II lens. Complete opposite end of the spectrum from the various L series bits of glass linked above. Instead of dropping $1,500 or even $5,000, it cost me all of $76.30.
I’ve said it before and will say it again: the 50mm f/1.8 prime lens is the best deal in photography. Everyone with an SLR should have one — even if you already own the $310 50mm f/1.4 (which is both technically and optically superior to the f/1.8), it’s worth buying the f/1.8 for $80 because it costs so little and weighs so much less. The f/1.4 weighs 290g; the f/1.8 weighs just 130g — the difference is very noticeable. (A Canon Rebel XT body with no attached lens weighs 485g.)
Nikon makes a very similar lens for just $110.
Includes a four-minute trailer for the documentary “Runnin’ Down a Dream”, directed by Peter Bogdonavich. Here’s a clip on “The Waiting”, including footage of Eddie Vedder singing it with The Heartbreakers. Pre-ordered; we’ll be watching here at DF headquarters the day it arrives.
Apple-selected directory of MobileSafari-optimized web sites.
One of the “funniest” weblogs I’ve ever seen. (Via John August (who, by the way, is writing and directing an episode of Heroes: Origins.)
Best comic about SQL injection ever. (Via Kottke.)
I’m with Brent Simmons, who wrote: “Normally I wouldn’t think much about a piece like this — but it’s by Glenn Fleishman and it’s published in TidBITS, so I am thinking that something might be happening.”
David Pogue:
Palm hoped that by trimming the Treo’s size and price, it would create a totally different product, a new crossover phone for people who have never before owned phones with alphabet keys. (By Palm’s reckoning, that’s 95 percent of cellphone buyers.)
But here’s the funny thing: the strategy works.
The numbered boarding passes are a fair change, and should eliminate the silly lines at the gate. But it’s hard to believe a major airline produced something designed like this. It looks like the rules for a Girl Scouts troop.
If the photo accompanying this story doesn’t move you, you’re not hooked up right. Saw it on the front page of The Times while I was in line at Starbucks today, and couldn’t stop staring at it.
So there’s a buffer overflow in MobileSafari’s TIFF handling code that can be exploited to execute code with root privileges. And we’re supposed to treat this as good news? (Hint: it’s actually a security vulnerability.)
Drew Thaler with another interesting, informative volley in the ZFS debate.
Scene from George Lucas’s upcoming “Even More Special Special Edition” cut of The Empire Strikes Back. (Thanks to Dan Benjamin, who claims Vader’s behavior reminds him of me.)
Adam Engst: […]
Political commentary by way of Venn diagram. (Thanks to Steve Kalkwarf.)
The stock photos let you know just how serious they are.
Very cool work from Grayson Hansard — a port of Markdown to Nu. (He also ported SmartyPants.)
Splendid idea: a non-profit, free service whose objective is to reduce the 19 billion paper catalogs that are produced and mailed annually to US consumers.
Maybe they’re listening to me.
Michael McCracken:
Once you get a piece of code to the point where you believe it works - it’s passing its tests - go back over it and edit it. That is, go back and edit it for clarity, flow, and style. Just as if it were an essay.
Jimm Lasser: “My Mac burst into flames under my bed while I was asleep.”
Trent Reznor announces that Nine Inch Nails is no longer under a recording contract with a.
Sad column from Harvey Araton in The Times on the Yankees’ manager, Joe Torre, who, it’s expected, is going to be fired after the Yankees lost in the first round of the playoffs. (Perfect photo to accompany the column.)
The Yankees lost to the Indians because they were both out-hit and out-pitched. They were not out-managed. Before Torre took the helm, the last time the Yankees made it to the World Series was 1981, and the last time they won it was 1978. It says here that firing Torre is a mistake.
Very cool Halloween-themed freeware icon set from The Iconfactory, by David Lanham.
I never get tired of laughing at this.
“Designed for big.”
40 percent of Princeton students and faculty are using a Mac this year, up from just 10 percent four years ago. I think this “Mac use way up on college campuses” trend is hugely important for Apple. (Via Fake Steve.)
Google buys Helsinki-based Twitter archrival Jaiku. (Via Gary Vaynerchuk.)
My guess is that it’s not a bug, but that no one at Apple expected anyone to be dumb enough to buy more than eight ringtones.
New version of Griffin’s interesting but sort-of-hard-to-explain macro/system monitoring utility. Check out the Proxi wiki for more info.
It’s the pinstripes that make it. (Thanks to Rich Siegel.)
Good analysis of open source software usability by Jono DiCarlo, but it fails to address what I see as the primary problem: finding ways to fund more humane open source software. Mozilla does it with Google affiliate ad revenue from the search bar.
Apple stock is up four percent today. As I type this, Apple’s market cap is $146 billion; compare and contrast: Dell ($63 billion), HP ($134 billion), Intel ($149 billion), IBM ($160 billion), Google ($190 billion), Microsoft ($280 billion).
Lately, the correlation between AAPL stock run-ups and actual news regarding Apple is zero. Whereas most of the time there is any actual news — even news that strikes me as unambiguously good news for Apple — the stock goes down.
Timothy Smith must have read both of Moltz’s new books.
Michael Tsai:
ZFS isn’t ready to be the default Mac OS X filesystem today, but HFS+ is or soon will be a liability, and ZFS is perhaps the best candidate for its eventual replacement.
MacJournals:
Thaler knows his stuff, but in mistaking our disdain for ZFS rumors as “ZFS hate,” he minimizes the real and significant problems that this advanced file system would bring to today’s Macintosh computers. Of course, part of the problem is that the post is an abbreviated argument, not our entire case.
Interesting report by Miguel Helft on Google’s mobile phone plans:.
This sounds smart to me. And it shows why Google has become Microsoft’s first true archrival.
Congratulations to Mike Davidson and company. The lesson for other web start-ups is easy: Build something useful, interesting, and different.
Ends up the delay is built into the keyboard hardware, so it’s still there even if you remap the Caps Lock key to some other function, such as Control.
Instructions and a BBEdit AppleScript from Ramón M. Figueroa-Centeno for using the ChkTeK syntax checker for LaTeX on Mac OS X.
Real people on the streets of New York talking about how they use their iPhones.
Drew Thaler on the potential for ZFS to eventually become the default file system for Mac OS X:.
Vista getting a bad rap in the nerd press? (I have no opinion on Vista because I haven’t used it, but I have noticed that I have yet to see any reports of security problems.).”
Scans from a neato 1969 Matchbox catalog. (Via Scott Beale.)
I don’t get the complaints about these ads — they’re distinctive, they’re simple, and judging by Ketel One’s sales growth in the U.S., they’re working. (Via Steve Delahoyde.)
Microsoft PR:.
Translation: “We’re still good friends, and we remain committed to be good parents to our child Halo.”
Joel Spolsky on the difference between “Designed by Apple in California” and “Hello from Seattle”.
The match starts in a few moments; commentary this week by Debbie Millman.
My thanks to Fluther.com for sponsoring this week’s DF RSS feed. Fluther is a free social-networking Q&A site with an attractive design, a simple interface, and a well-done MobileSafari-optimized version.
“Due to space limitations, AppleInsider’s latest ZFS article was published with several missing phrases and explanations. As a service to the community, we are happy to fill in the gaps in the story as published.”
If I could figure out a way to agree with this piece by Mark Pilgrim more than 100 percent, I would, but 100 percent will have to do.
Michael Tsai:
Since bouncing doesn’t work, it would be a waste of your time and network resources to do it. Including such a feature in SpamSieve would fill out the feature checklist but give the false impression that the feature should be used.
(And another good tip for SpamSieve users here, regarding forged spams “from” your own address.)
Saulius Dailide, in an interview with TUAW’s Mat Lu:
Also, Pixelmator made $60,000 the first day, and sales are still outstanding. So, our budget for future versions is not as ridiculous as it was before.
Wolf Rentzsch:
Apple’s Caps Lock key has undocumented anti-jab protection.
Stephen Coles on the announcement of WebKit’s support for embedded TrueType fonts:
This reopens the legal can of worms that falls off the shelf every time we talk about font embedding. Good fonts cost money. Like most software, each user or CPU must be licensed to use commercial fonts. When you start talking about every visitor of a web page downloading fonts, well, you enter very sticky territory indeed.
The conundrum is that most of the fonts worth using can’t legally be shared as free downloads, and most of the fonts that are legally shareable aren’t worth using.
Those aforelinked Chinese toy factory photographs are the work of Michael Wolf, as part of a larger art project regarding Chinese-made toys. (Thanks to Ramanan Sivaranjan.)
Kevin Hale’s terrific explanation — replete with well-designed, informative illustrations — of Fitts’s Law, one of the most important concepts in human-to-machine interface design. (Thanks to Jacob Rus.)
Two new books from Crazy Apple Rumors Site author John Moltz.
Dave Hyatt:
WebKit now supports CSS
@font-facerules. With font face rules you can specify downloadable custom fonts on your Web pages or alias one font to another. This article on A List Apart describes the feature in detail. All of the examples linked to in that article work in WebKit now.
Verizon Wireless Chief Marketing Officer Mike Lanman, on the upcoming LG Voyager phone:
“We think it’ll be the best phone … this year. It will kill the iPhone.”
Um, OK.
Interesting, amusing, moving, and disturbing.
Thanks to everyone who emailed to point out that the aforelinked “24 vs. 6 varieties of jam” study was popularized in Barry Schwartz’s The Paradox of Choice.
21 percent of the students in Cornell’s dorms are using Macs this year — which means 21 percent of them couldn’t use a Zune even if they wanted to. Most interesting is the trend:
So one way or another, Apple’s market share among Cornell students connecting to ResNet has increased from 5 percent in 2002 to 21 percent in 2007.
Interesting example from Intel’s Timothy Mattson regarding the dizzying array of languages currently in vogue for parallel programming:.
Keith Schacht:
You have to pursue greatness not success. Achieve greatness and success will follow.
(Via Rentzsch.)
Good one from The Macalope, including this bit regarding ZDNet’s Larry Dignan’s suggestion that Apple should have offered iPhone early adopters a $250 credit:.
Bill Bumgarner:
Amazon decided to package the application into some installer app that requires authentication to install the downloader helper. But there doesn’t seem to be any reason why admin access is required for the downloader helper and, as such, all this is doing is creating an unnecessary barrier to entry.
Another free update to Cocoatech’s Finder alternative that packs a ton of new features, including per-folder view settings..
Gary Voth on why your first camera lens should be a normal prime, rather than the cheap kit zoom most consumer SLRs ship with:
Creating such images is nearly impossible with “slow” zoom lenses, which are harder to focus and inadequate for use indoors without flash. Nor can they easily render backgrounds out of focus. In fact, the technical limitations of these lenses tend to lead to the kind of snapshots that the photographer presumably bought an SLR to avoid.
(Via Coudal.)
Larry King is under the impression that Woz “invented the podcast”.
They look OK. The thick black border around the flash ones is chintzy, though. Interesting, too, that the new UI embraces the term “podcasting”.
Jiminy.
In response to inquiries, the official line from Microsoft’s PR firm is “There’s been no such announcement. We continue to celebrate the tremendous success of the global phenomenon that is Halo 3.”
As mentioned on this week’s episode of The Talk Show, the hilarious spoof trailer for Kubrick’s The Shining, cut by Robert Ryang. See also: the actual trailer for The Shining, my favorite trailer of all time.
The Amazon Bookstore Blog:
Are Best American Essay introductions eligible for next year’s Best American Essays?
See also: Dwight Garner at the NYT Paper Cuts blog, and Kottke.
Looks fantastic, but a small beef with the anchored-at-the-bottom masthead: you can’t just use Page Down to scroll the page, because you end up missing some of the lines of text that were covered by the fixed masthead.
The only way to log out of Amazon.com is to click the “If you’re not Your Name, click here” link. (Via Simon Willison.)
Quentin Carnicelli on how developers can access events from the new Next, Previous, and Play/Pause keys on Apple keyboards.
New application launcher, invoked with a circular mouse gesture.
The Associated Press:
A New York woman is so angry at Apple Inc. for lopping $200 off the price of the iPhone that she’s filed a lawsuit seeking $1 million in damages.
Low-priced web hosting from the ultra-reliable Pair.
Nintendo of America president Reggie Fil-Aime: “I can’t guarantee that we’re going to meet demand. As a matter of fact, I can tell you on the record we won’t.”
What is wrong with Nintendo?
Rainer Brockerhoff has, by far, the best technical explanation I’ve seen regarding why SIM-unlocked iPhones might be rendered inoperable by the iPhone 1.1.1 update, without assuming any sort of spiteful malfeasance on Apple’s part.
Good suggestions from John August for any aspiring filmmakers considering Apple’s upcoming Insomnia Film Festival contest:
Go funny. While there will no doubt be one or two dramatic shorts in the finals, the winner will be funny.
Speaking of “The Best American” anthologies, David Foster Wallace edited the 2007 edition, and his introduction is, unsurprisingly, killer — an examination regarding just what the title of the book, The Best American Essays 2007, actually means, including wondering what exactly an “essay” is:.
That’s probably the best sentence I’ve read all year.
Stephen King, editor of The Best American Short Stories 2007, on the state of short fiction:.”
Saul Hansell:
Here’s a suggestion to every Internet executive: take a Post-It note, write “EBay wasted $3 billion on Skype” and stick it to your monitor.
Kottke on the new trailer for Pixar’s upcoming Wall-E:
Does it make sense even if you don’t speak French? Yes, because the movie isn’t going to have any dialogue. Says director Andrew Stanton: “I’m basically making R2-D2: The Movie”.
I think it was Steven Spielberg who described R2-D2 as the most purely-cinematic character in movie history — everything we know about him comes through his beeps and minimal range of motion, and the other characters’ reactions.
Kevin J. O’Brien, reporting for The New York Times:.
Interesting, if somewhat hyperbolic, piece by Nick Martens regarding Radiohead’s “pay what you think you should pay” online release of their new album.
Jason Fried on the location of the new iTunes icon on the iPhone home screen..”
Update: Seems like this quote might be from Ray Bradbury, not Annie Dillard. Can anyone find a precise citation for this?
Update 2: More sources pointing to Bradbury, including an interview with the Brown Daily Herald in 1995, but most aren’t in the exact same form as the above.
Those ultra-fine Pilot G-2 gel pens I adore from JetPens.com? They’re now stocked at Staples.com, just $15 for a dozen.
JavaScript bookmarklet that toggles background guides on and off for use in developing grid-based web page layouts. Based on an idea by Jon Hicks.
Tim Burks’s new web site for Nu, his new programming language designed from the ground-up specifically for use as an Objective-C scripting language. (See my write-up regarding Burks’s excellent presentation about Nu at C4[1] a few weeks ago.)
New version of Pieter Omvlee’s $49 drawing/illustration app. Looks interesting — the UI emphasis is on keeping everything in a single window. There’s a strong flavor of iWork-ness to the new version.
Fraser Speirs:
For those who don’t care to read the minutiae, I’ll get to the point: In my opinion, Aperture vs. Lightroom is the same discussion as Canon vs. Nikon. Each has strengths and weaknesses, but it’s not a no-brainer decision either way. | http://daringfireball.net/linked/2007/october.php | 2013-05-18T10:52:30 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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Definitely some cool changes to CTF from 343i.!
They’re thinking “Brad, you supported Bungie, and have faith in what 343i will do with the Halo series. you had a pretty good weekend too! Got good matches, played very well. But now, fuck you, that’s what. You’re going to play against a full BTB team of inheritors with 3.0s, oh, they’re also huge annoying cunts. And your teammates will have a .50 and have no fucking clue what they’re doing. Good luck! Oh, and also, fuck you!”
I’ve been playing Halo, as there is a 26,000 credit jackpot in Super Slayer and I’ve been getting shafted all day by the Guardians. Shitty teammates, betrayers, quitters, shitty maps, asshole opponent… the whole shebang.
And the challenges are 11 headshots in a match and 23 kills in a match, so I played multiteam, just to fuck around and get a shit ton of kills. For the past three hours, all everyone in the games has voted was Rocket Hog Race. Fucking. Shit. I mean, I like RHR, but I don’t want to play it currently. The Guardians really do not want me to have an enjoyful day. All night I’ve been waiting for Crazy King on Sword Base, and I just got it. I got 37 kills. Fina-fucking-ly. Thank the Oracle!.
For everyone. Go fuck yourselves..
AND THE SILENCE WILL BE BROKEN
Word on the street is that the silence surrounding Halo 4 will be broken at the upcoming Microsoft Spring Showcase. March 5th to be specific. Similarly, Microsoft unveiled the Defiant Map Pack for Halo Reach last year. Rumor has it that a new trailer and the chance to play will be a part of the reveal.
Holy motherfucking balls my Dick just got a little hard.
Thank Guilty Spark
You guys are getting a hero shitstorm. | http://darkerthanbrad.tumblr.com/tagged/343 | 2013-05-18T11:03:13 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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Yesterday I realized that it's been three years since I had a "family" Resurrection Day celebration (I refuse to call it "Easter.") Two years ago, I learned my daughter had died during Passion Week. Mom and I cried and held each other all through worship that Sunday. A year ago, Mom had already moved to Oklahoma while I was still in Colorado. Huh. My son, a Messianic who celebrates Jewish festivals, doesn't celebrate Resurrection Day.
Did I feel sad? Not at all. I joined with the host of people crowding our sanctuary and rejoiced in my living Savior.
And God gave our church something unique: a pair of nesting geese--with four eggs by the bushes right beside the front door! (I may to rethink my reaction to Easter eggs, since God sent us four real ones!) The poor Papa and Mama Geese were very stressed at having so many potential threats to their offspring milling around.
Eggs are about more than fertility. They celebrate the new life possible because He lives! Life eternal, different both in kind in duration, from the life we have at birth.
Amen!
Monday, April 5, 2010
Resurrection Day
Labels: Canadian geese, Easter, eggs
7 comments:
Hi Darlene, I just wanted to Amen that He Lives! The members of the little church I attended in Arizona always say, Happy Resurrection Day, instead of Happy Easter. I tend to like that better. It is a good reminder of why we Christians celebrate this awesome day. Our Christ rose from the grave and conquered death. "O Death where is your sting? O Hades, where is your victory?"
Amen, LaTawnia!
Darlene, I am so glad you had a Happy Resurrection Day. You have known lots of sad times, and I am glad you are having happier days.
Blessings!!!
Thanks, Jackie! God is good!
Darlene, I did not realize two whole years have passed since your daughter's passing. I know you have been through so many difficult times and I admire your ability to continue to find joy and to be such a productive writer.
This is a great time of year and we as Christians are so blessed to be able to claim victory over death through Christ's resurrection!
Darlene, I remember reading about Jolene, and being so moved by your brave posts. I'm sorry to hear about your mother also. Happy Resurrection Day, every day! These are hard things, but you are such an inspiration. Thank you.
Beautiful post, Darlene. He is risen indeed! oxoxox
I love the story of the geese. If you have a chance, google Eagle Cam Channel Islands, and you can see a constant video stream of two brand-new bald eagle babies and their doting mommy.
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Definitions: Children under age 18 who were not covered by health insurance at any point during the year.
Health insurance includes private sector insurance generally provided through work, as well as
insurance provided through the public sector, such as Medicare and
Medicaid. Children receiving health insurance through a variety of new
State Health Insurance Programs (SCHIP) are counted as having health
insurance. The figures shown here are 3-year averages of data. Data for
1993 use Census 1990 based population controls..
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Data Source: Census Bureau, Current Population Survey (March supplement).
1990-2006
data: The Urban Studies Institute at the University of Louisville,
analysis of data from the U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Survey
(March supplement). 2007-2012 data: Population Reference Bureau,
analysis of data from the U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Survey
(March supplement).
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Footnotes:
Updated September 2012. | http://datacenter.kidscount.org/data/acrossstates/Rankings.aspx?loct=2&by=v&order=a&ind=7251&dtm=14293&tf=133 | 2013-05-18T10:52:54 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
The Cost of Wind Power
Investment in Wind Power by UK Department of Energy
Included in this package are some freedom of information requests to the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change about the amount of investment in wind power going back to 2003. Three requests where made investment in:
- onshore wind
- shallow off-shore wind
- deep off-shore wind
But infact the deep and shallow off-shore wind power are not distinguished in the departments spending plans.
Informazioni supplementari
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Monetary Cost of Wind Power. No author.
Retrieved 10:43, May 18, 2013 (UTC).
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