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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601340120062330500.post7335499932235922564..comments2010-11-28T10:59:17.892-08:00Comments on Tales of a Fourth-Tier Nothing: Merry Christmas! And a Highly-Indebted 30 Years!Chief Constable for the Area she defaulted and got hit with collection co...Maybe she defaulted and got hit with collection [email protected]:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601340120062330500.post-14249505640072295972010-11-27T13:16:29.347-08:002010-11-27T13:16:29.347-08:00Need more information. At first glance, it sound...Need more information. <br /><br /. <br /><br />Otherwise, it's [email protected]:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601340120062330500.post-70531598670283776242010-11-27T11:24:54.912-08:002010-11-27T11:24:54.912-08:00Northeastern? Shoot, I don't even think an un...Northeastern? Shoot, I don't even think an undergraduate degree at Yale is worth 200k.J-Dog	299
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? I would trade in focus punch for brick break, for the better reliability. I'd rather use Luvdisc than him. This is just for fun Santa (Delibird) Present: youve been very good this year Fly: magical reindeer Blizzard: hes heading back home for the year OR Fling + Iron ball: I give you coal!!! Round: ho ho ho Ice Beam/Frost Breath-Chance to freeze, or Guaranteed critical hit; STAB Water Pulse-STAB; chance to confuse. Hidden Power [Ground]-Covers all weaknesses in one move. Signal Beam-Type coverage.. Three R's Delibird. Recycle-restores held item. rest/fling-Rest works with a chesto berry, or fling with an Iron ball. Avalanche/icy wind/ Ice shard/protect/substitute-STAB or protection. Toxic-Good for stalling Gen V Delibird (M) @ Focus Sash Trait: Vital Spirit EVs: 40 HP / 128 Atk / 44 Def / 44 SDef / 252 Spd Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SAtk) Delibird Ability - Vital Spirit Nature: Modest (-Att, +Sp.Att) Physical Moveset: Seed Bomb Covers against Rock Ice Punch STAB Brick Break Beats Ice Types and Steel Types Gunk Shot Covers Most everything else that needs covering You know... I kinda like delibird... but barely. Nature=Mild Item=Focus Sash Moves= Ice beam/Frost Breath=Power, STAB/STAB, critical hit Water pulse= Coverage Seed bomb= Power, Coverage Pluck= No more ideas... It takes the berry, if they have one... STAB How to change your username How to add a user avatar Why was my post hidden? Question etiquette Flags vs Downvotes Anime FAQ Official PokemonDb League Type a Pokemon name, type, move or ability to see instant results.	424
Today’s Daily Prompt asks what kind of legacy we wish to leave on the world. In short, I hope to have accepted “The Invitation” by Oriah. My responses to each stanza of the poem are indented and bold, just like me. The Invitation by Oriah It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing. I ache to raise my children to be whoever they wish to be, to share kindness and gratitude with the world, and to write. Truth and dare accepted. It doesn’t interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dream, for the adventure of being alive. I have been and will be the fool for all, to all. have been at the naval of my own grief and unlocked truth through treason’s seduction. When fear withers me, I use faith and others to cultivate me back to strength and courage. I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own, without moving to hide it, or fade it, or fix it. I can meditate with anguish, alone or in your company, in stillness, silence, and surrender.. I can share happiness with my soul and yours; I can tango in spontaneity from my head to my toes while singing a proposition to join me and “shut up and dance”. can pay the price of falling short of others’ expectations of me in barter for the gift of authenticity and self-knowledge. I can be a ‘Judas’ in the dissertations of family, friends, and foes in loyalty to my greatest ally, myself. I pledge allegiance to my faith, my integrity, and my values giving credence to those who may need to rely upon my convictions. I want to know if you can see Beauty even when it is not pretty every day. And if you can source your own life from its presence. I try to behold Grace in my eyes even when it appears disfigured through the near-sightedness of my own vision and perspective. I can welcome it to take up residence in the palace of my existence. I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand at the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, ‘Yes’. I try to not look at the reflections of my and your fears and shortcomings but rather find bravery in standing with you side by side at the ‘jumping off point’, howling in affirmation to exclaim the prosperity of our trials and tribulations. I try to remember that success is first found in the pursuit, not only in its culmination. try to awaken from slumbers of sorrow and injury in a state of gratitude for my life and those of my loved ones and express the appreciation of my blessings in nourishing the souls of my children. It doesn’t interest me who you know or how you came to be here. I want to know if you will stand in the centre of the fire with me and not shrink back. I can take an erect stance with you at the bedrock, the apex, and all places along the firing line and not let its fever burn or dwindle us. It doesn’t interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you from the inside when all else falls away. I try to feed from the table of my faith daily so that even when I believe my pantry has run dry, I have enough sustenance in me to seek nourishment and nutrition from the soul food bank of family and friends. I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments. I can find solace in solitude and when I do, I try to not be imprisoned by my bars of solitary confinement structured in doubt, persecution, and ridicule of self. “The Invitation” and other writings by Oriah on cultivating inner lives and co-creating meaning in the world can be found here: Photo source: Zakwitnij!pl Ejdzej &Iric user on flickr.com 3 thoughts on “I Accepted The Invitation” I found another jewel “along the side of the road” and just had to share this. Beautiful….real. LikeLiked by 1 person Very sweet of you to say, thrilled you found another post of mine to enjoy. It’s actually one of my own favourites and came from deep deep down in my heart. Hope you’re day is a happy one so far … Marianne LikeLiked by 1 person […] Invitation by Oriah Mountain Dreamer I wrote a post based on the author’s poem of the same title. I nearly teared up in the thrift store when I saw the book. Forgot I had it actually. Told […]	1,001
The ones with the Zen Mode ability? Level 35. The ones outside of the relic castle are 35. How to change your username How to add a user avatar Why was my post hidden? Question etiquette Flags vs Downvotes Anime FAQ Official PokemonDb League Type a Pokemon name, type, move or ability to see instant results.	73
- BA / 66 Patrick O’Brien graduated from Carleton in 1966 with a BA in English and was awarded a diploma in public administration in 1990. His contributions to the Carleton community as a senior administrator, former varsity athlete, coach and alumni volunteer were significant. O’Brien joined Carleton in 1973 as high school liaison officer in the admissions department. In 1979, he was appointed assistant director of admissions (student liaison). He went on to hold several senior administrative positions at the university, including director of public relations and information services and director of government and community liaison. O’Brien coordinated the university’s convocation ceremonies for many years and was project manager of Carleton’s University Day for high school students. In 1990, he was appointed university secretary and secretary of the Board of Governors. A former Ravens basketball player and team captain, O’Brien was head coach of the men’s basketball team from 1976 to 1981, earning a 67 percent winning record, third highest of all Ravens basketball coaches. O’Brien was a founding member of the Carleton University Ravens Basketball Alumni Association and held several executive positions with this organization. For several years in the 1990s, he served on the university’s athletics board. He was inducted into the Carleton University Varsity Hall of Fame in 1997. An annual charity golf tournament is held in his memory. The Pat O’Brien Golf Classic raises money for a Carleton scholarship.	300
5 months ago 6136 Comments BigNTS 5 months ago 6126 Comments May you have a very joyful Christmas and a healthy and prosperous New Year! Christmas Pictures - Quotes - Photobucket keeneagle 5 months ago 37460 Comments You’ll be getting a LOT of holiday wishes from friends. Count this as one of them. Have a Merry “CHRIST”mas and a “FUN”tastic New Year. God Bless my friend DonnaLynn 5 months ago 9340 Comments KCecala 5 months ago 11498 Comments Hope all is well with you and Toby. HUGS my dear sweet friend LAWMANTUKES 5 months ago 6558 Comments Greetings From Miami, Florida..!! DonnaLynn 6 months ago 9340 Comments Hello! Monday \| Forward this Picture KCecala 6 months ago 11498 Comments Happy Thanksgiving Eleni and Toby. Love you both and big holiday hugs:-) :-) :-) :-) DonnaLynn 6 months ago 9340 Comments Happy Thanksgiving to you and Toby! Cat_D 6 months ago 9604 Comments I'm so sorry to hear about your loss. I know you will miss her. However, I'm so happy for Toby. He has no idea how good he has it now !!!! HUGGGS !!!! Cat_D 6 months ago 9604 Comments DonnaLynn 6 months ago 9340 Comments KCecala 6 months ago 11498 Comments KCecala 6 months ago 11498 6 months ago 11498 Comments	345
Even though the title of this book should have given it away, it took me a couple chapters into this book to realize it was a retelling of The Taming of the Shrew. Which then made me nostalgic for “10 Things I Hate About You.” I love retellings and this one was a lot of fun. One-Sentence Synopsis A game developer agrees to go out on a date with a bitchy cat behaviorist so his brother can date her sister, not expecting he’d turn into a cat person and have feelings for her along the way. For a full synopsis, see this book’s Goodreads page. The Cat Whisperer Edie, the sassy but grumpy friend of Gretchen’s, meets Magnus, a driven game developer at Gretchen and Hunter’s engagement dinner for the those who’ll be in the wedding. When Edie hears him making disparaging “cat lady” comments, she goes on the defensive and they start things out on the wrong foot. Edie is a cat behaviorist who’s fairly resigned to her life as single cat lady, but still, the insult is there and her impression of Magnus isn’t good. The Drama of Love at First Sight Magnus is of the mind that Edie is grouchy and miserable, so he’s not happy when his brother coerces him into showing interest in Edie so he can date her sister. Magnus wouldn’t do it, but he sees his brother as the creative partner in their business, and since his brother can’t seem to create without his “muse,” Magnus agrees to help him. More Quirks Besides her love of cats, she has a bad knee as a result of an accident. She doesn’t want sympathy, but she’s a little bitter about the whole thing, especially since her boyfriend at the time of the accident dumped her. Magnus is an alpha nerd who ends up falling for Edie and realizes that what they were doing in the first place was cruel. He also does something a little different from many of the guys in these books: he actually comes clean before she finds out from someone else. There’s still conflict and betrayal and a very pissed off Edie, but score one for honesty, even if the timing is bad. Gamers Unite The book was fun overall, but I loved the fact that Magnus took Edie to a gaming convention. It thrilled my little nerd heart to no end. Nothin’ But a Gold Digger I never really got why Bianca was spending time with Magnus’ brother. It was hinted strongly that she was a gold digger, and maybe wanted some time away from taking care of Edie, but I was never entirely sure of her motives. She was just a brat, and it cracked me up every time Gretchen put her in her place. To be honest, neither of the siblings were really likable and were both highly annoying and self-centered. The Pain of Siblings Having said that, I liked the way that both Edie and Magnus were highlighted as having codependent relationships with their siblings to serve as another of their flaws and another shared trait that brought them together. It’s not something that’s often thought about really, but it’s definitely a family dynamic that could mess with a good relationship. The Romance Factor While their whole relationship as that sweet vibe, I absolutely loved what Magnus did to show Edie that he really loved her. No spoilers, but it was such a great thing to do and a great idea in general, that I want it to be a real thing (it involves cats, of course). 5/5 The Steam Factor Lots of sexy talk, sexy times, and naughtiness, perfectly choreographed and written around Edie’s bad knee. I loved the realism and sex positivity. 5/5 Final Thoughts Another entertaining book in this series with more cameos from familiar faces. One thing I really liked is that the storyline in this one actually parallels at least one, maybe 2 other books, and so you get a hint of things to come in some of the scenes.	836
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Facebook has changed the way current and former Amsterdam residents stay in touch with each other and keep track of what has happened and is happening in their hometown. One of the things I like most about using the immensely popular social networking site is that it provides the opportunity to reconnect with old friends and acquaintances who you haven’t remained in touch with, permitting you to catch up on each other’s lives. Kevin McKearn was born on September 19, 1954. After growing up on Amsterdam’s Market Hill and graduating from Scully in 1972 he went to Buffalo State and then began a long career in sales at Amsterdam’s Mohawk Finishing. He eventually settled in Niskayuna, where he raised his two kids. Since we went to different high schools here in Amsterdam, I never hung around with Kevin back in the day but whenever we happened to be in the same place at the same time over the years, I was always struck by his ability to “take over the room!” Since becoming “Facebook friends” a few years ago I’ve learned he brings that same charisma factor online as well. Here’s ten things you should know about former Amsterdam resident Kevin McKearn: (I’ve completed and listed the first five of the ten items about Kevin below. I’ll have the final five completed in time for this month’s Amsterdam NY Birthday Blog Newsletter. If you don’t already subscribe to this free newsletter you can do so here.) 1 – He has to be one of the top ten best-looking guys ever to hail from Amsterdam, NY, probably even top five! How handsome is he? We’re talking right up there with Paul Newman and George Clooney-type good looks. 2 – He knows more people than I thought it was physically possible for one person to know. When he started his Facebook page, he got so many friend requests during its first hour of being live that it shut down Facebook’s server-farm. And I’m not just talking about common-folk acquaintances like me. His Smart Phone contact list is loaded with star power too, including Tony Soprano’s former body guard Furio, the Beekman Boys, Snoop Dog and David Hyde Pierce from Frasier. 3 – Politically, he’s a proud progressive who was a devout supporter of Bernie Sanders in his quest for the Democratic Presidential nomination during the 2016 primary season. Of course he knows Bernie Sanders because he met him back in 1980 when Sanders was elected Mayor of Burlington, VT. McKearn crashed the guy’s victory party and even had the balls to complain when the bartender told him they weren’t serving old fashions. According to rumors, Hillary Clinton’s campaign has been pressing him hard for his Facebook page endorsement but even though he thinks Trump would be an unmitigated disaster in the White House, he has not declared officially yet. The beauty of McKearn is that he is able to argue a political point vociferously on-line with someone who disagrees with him and then meet that individual at a bar in Schenectady and have a beer with him or her. 4 – He is the most effective muckraker on Facebook. Why? First of all he’s engineered his FB Friends’ list so that it is in direct proportion to the voting demographic of the US electorate. He then carefully crafts loaded questions about whatever political campaign happens to be center stage nationally at that moment and posts them. He then sits back and enjoys the fireworks. The responders range from David Duke fan club members and the last remaining disciples of Tammy Faye Baker to still-active Nader’s Raiders and 70 year-old hippies who went on hunger strikes with Cesar Chavez back in the sixties. Some of his most controversial social network threads have gone on for weeks at a time! 5 – The real loves of Kevin’s life are his son Sean and grandson Berke who live in Florida, his beautiful daughter Lindsay who is out in California, and his long-time lovely lady friend Tina. One thought on “October 19 – Happy Birthday Kevin McKearn” As handsome as he is , he’s even kinder. I love his passion for the rights of animals . Without ever meeting his Romeo I feel in love with him through Kevin ‘ s sweet posts about him.	861
Here’s a comment I posted in response to an article in The Economist, “The 99 Percent”: It’s surprising, and encouraging, to see that the income of even the lowest quintile rose over the past 30 years. You’d think with the millions of low-skilled, non-English-speaking immigrants pouring in, the income of the lowest quintile would have declined, since income inequality is mainly a function of differences in education/skill level. The question is, will rising incomes of even the lowest quintile be a thing of the future, as it was of the past? If it doesn’t last, it certainly wouldn’t be the fault of the top 1 percent. If wages of the lowest-income groups decline, the culprit would be an oversupply of low-skilled (many of whom are non-English-speaking) labor. Meantime, if everyone’s incomes go up – as has happened over the past 30 years – then that’s a good thing. Only the envious are troubled by the fact that the incomes of the rich have risen faster than everyone else. If you earn $20,000 a year, and your real income goes up to $25,000 a year, that’s good, right? But what if you hear that someone else’s income goes from $100K to $150K? If you’re the envious and resentful type, you’d be troubled. If you’re emotionally mature, you wouldn’t be troubled. Moreover, rising incomes of the rich isn’t happening at the expense of everyone else (except perhaps in the case of those who get their wealth through wealth coercion as opposed to wealth creation, such as certain members of the legal profession). It isn’t a zero-sum economy. It’s a positive-sum economy where many wealth creators get rich themselves, and in the process make everyone else’s life better through life-enhancing products (software, electronics, appliances, foods, etc.) and services. So the top 1 percent not only provide the jobs to the 99 percent, but also the life-enhancing products. Factors causing the 1 percent to get richer faster include globalization, where markets are now much bigger than they were in the past and where one can therefore sell many more products than before. Another factor is population growth – now there are 7 billion of us. If you make an inexpensive product costing $1 and sell it to just one-seventh of the population, you’re a multi-millionaire, perhaps a billionaire if your costs are low. Is it the top 1 percent’s fault that powerful forces such as globalization and population growth are changing the income dynamics? The enviers want to raise taxes on the rich in order to try reverse the income inequality statistics. But the rich provide the jobs. They provide the products that enhance our lives. They provide the money so that we can get loans to by cars, homes, and education. Punish the rich, and you punish us all. For more on this topic, click here.	611
Introduction There are two distinct uses of Anaerobic Digestion in Wastewater Treatment: - As a treatment process in its own right for primary sewage treatment/ organic industrial effluent, as known as a “UASB” - As a method of treating the sludge produced by Wastewater Treatment Plants. We provide articles on both subjects, below: 1. The Upward Flow Anaerobic Sludge Blanket as Used in Wastewater Treatment. By creating a tank which is cone shaped, resting with the apex of the cone at he bottom, the water requiring treatment is introduced at the bottom and flows constantly upward, very slowly. The flow rate is then balanced with the geometry of the tank so that a “blanket” of sludge (which is particles of organic matter and bacteria constantly falling in the water) stays balanced within the UASB reactor vessel. The extent to which the blanket is truly anaerobic would be questionable, and as the process was originally intended just as a high quality water treatment method, it is not known whether this process has been used to produce biogas. However, it is a clever way in which to create a process in which the particles which digest slowly would tend to reside in the reaction area/ sludge blanket as long as needed until they are eaten by the bacteria. For this reason the author assumes that there would be very little sludge created. This removes the problem of sludge disposal, and certainly reduces the cost of disposal of excess sludge remaining at the end of digestion, which can be expensive in other anaerobic digestion processes. 2. Treating the Sludge Produced by Wastewater Treatment Plants This metals and other substance it may contain causing a problem when it is spread on land, by a process known as “pyrolysis and/ or gasification”. The Anaerobic Digestion Process I am grateful for your info as I study the Waste for Diploma. Really thank you! I enjoy reading it. I learn much more on this subject.. Thanks for the sake the me this marvellous post.. Anyway, I am gonna subscribe to your silage and I wish you post once again soon.. I’m excited to discover this site. For once here is someone who appreciates that anaerobic digestion (AD) and biogas are not synonymous. Not all AD plants are “biogas” plants. OK. They may produce biogas, of course they will! But, in the anaerobic digestion plant where I work this plant is actually run to clean-up the water. So please stop calling these types of AD plants biogas plants. Well said Broderie! Broderie – Yes. We can see where you are coming from on this. It is a good point. “Anaerobic digestion plants” and “biogas plants” are not all the same. Some are for the purpose of making biogas, others for other purposes, so we should take care not to call them all BIOGAS PLANTS? I don’t think we’ve made that mistake on this page, but it is very likely that we have elsewhere in some articles. We will take more care in future. You are welcome to come to our web site in Pinterest, which we hope can give you info and lots of inspiration for the biogas. See the ’14 best biogas images on Pinterest’. I am pasting it here	700
With enemies like these, Madigan doesn’t need friends In an open letter to the Illinois General Assembly, House Speaker and Democratic Party Chairman Michael Madigan responded to the Chicago Tribune’s June 4 article mentioning facts about the 2010 foreclosure legislation (SB3739). Excerpts and chronology follow: 03/15/2010 – Senate Third Reading – Passed; 046-000-000 03/16/2010 – House First Reading “The Tribune article states that foreclosure legislation drafted by Representative Karen Yarbrough and housing advocates was ‘watered down by the banking industry in 2010 after top Madigan lieutenants took control of the negotiations,’ and ‘their proposal had been replaced by a compromise bill written by the banking industry.’” 04/22/2010 – $300 from Illinois BankPAC to Citizens to Elect Karen Yarbrough 04/23/2010 – House Second Reading – Short Debate 04/23/2010 – House Held on Calendar Order of Second Reading – Short Debate “[The financial] industry does not view me as an ally. Joyce Nardulli, Vice President of Government Relations for the Illinois Bankers Association, has said that she disagreed with the Tribune’s inferences, mainly because I have been anything but helpful to the banking industry.” 04/26/2010 – $10,000 from Illinois BankPAC to Friends of Michael J. Madigan 05/06/2010 – House Floor Amendment No. 1 Filed with Clerk by Rep. Joseph M. Lyons “As Representative Lyons stated on the floor, the financial industry was initially opposed to the legislation, but they removed their opposition after negotiating lower fees.” 05/07/2010 – House Third Reading – Short Debate – Passed 087-026-003 (Rep. Yarbrough voted present) 06/07/2010 – $500 from Illinois BankPAC to Citizens for Lisa Madigan (Illinois attorney general and House Speaker’s daughter) 06/08/2010 – $500 from Illinois BankPAC to Joseph M. Lyons Campaign Committee 06/25/2010 – $200 from Illinois BankPAC to Citizens for Lisa Madigan 08/02/2010 – Signed into law as Public Act 96-1419 “[Community Bankers Association of Illinois], along with the Illinois Bankers Association and the Illinois Credit Union League, negotiated with Speaker Madigan’s staff on SB3739. This legislation is cited as the Save Our Neighborhoods Act of 2010.” – News from the Front – 8/6/2010 08/23/2010 – $2,000 from Illinois BankPAC to the Democratic Party of Illinois 09/24/2010 – $10,000 from Illinois BankPAC to the Democratic Party of Illinois 09/30/2010 – $500 from Illinois BankPAC to Joseph M. Lyons Campaign Committee	601
.” Rigor felt himself start to sweat as he focused on staying alert, trying to get a feel of his surroundings. Understandably worried, he prayed that he be given just one slim opportunity to escape. He would have no second thoughts about grabbing it. Everything was quiet for a few minutes. It turned out the silence was a portent of Rigor’s calvary. His captors made him a human ashtray, putting out their cigarettes onto different parts of his body. They crushed his fingers with bullets, submerged his head in a drum full of water repeatedly, and electrocuted him. They did these over and over, that he felt his body was about to give up. The questions and curses hurled at him began to sound like faraway echoes in his ears. Nobody had to tell him who was behind his abduction and torture. He already knew who to blame should he die in the hands of his captors. But he told himself that he wouldn’t let that happen. He knew that outside this torture chamber, he had a family who must be looking for him, and he needed to go back to them. He thought there were still many workers who needed his help, and he needed to go back to them too. There was a short span of silence. Rigor’s captors had taken a break from torturing him. He rested his tired, beaten body. Then silently, painfully, he worked to break free from the ropes that bound his wrist together. As he felt the ropes came loose, his blindfold came off next, and he saw that his captors were oblivious to what he was doing. They probably thought that he was almost dead anyway, so he must be too exhausted to move. He almost was, but he forced himself to make a run for it. Luckily, there was a nipa hut nearby and he was able to ask for help from the people who lived there. They were able to contact the authorities and miraculously Rigor was able to go home safely. Rigor is such a cool guy. He even manages to laugh when he narrates his harrowing experience. The question is, how many more Rigors need to suffer at the hands of their captors before the long-awaited and long-overdue justice for all is finally served? Edson Estojero […] Read full article @ anakngdesaparecidos.wordpress.com […]	483
. Joe Wilson, an anti-American terrorist, should be run out of office. Shameful. He and the rest of the Republicans are trying to block me from affordable health care. Both my wife and myself are self-employed business owners who pay outrageous premiums for the same coverage that others that work for corporations get. We should have some place to shop to get better health care. Please South Carolinians, don't forget his outburst, and vote him out next time he runs for re-election. Disgraceful. All america should be ashame of themself as this's absolutely undemocratic to disrespect and degrade your president in the face of all nations watching.I love democracy but this's stupidity in democracy Shame Shame Shame nation without shame i'm sure this wingnut will get kudos from limbaugh and cheney...if he calls the president a liar let's hear him back it up with some proof, where's the proof the president lied?...you don't just do this and say sorry and all is forgotten, if he can't provide proof the president is lying he should do the only honorable thing – resign...my guess is he wouldn't know the meaning of honor...what a sorry state the GOP has descended into... Congressman Joe Wilson is STILL a disrespectful immature, LIAR. He is the LIAR HR Bill 3200 STATES VERY CLEARLY it doesn't apply to illegal citizens. DOES HE KNOW HOW TO READ? OR IS HE ANOTHER DUMB IDIOT WINGNUT??? Why is he in trouble? He just stated the truth that Obama is a liar, like pretty much all politicians. inapropriate coment , but I do agree , Obama is a liar, I am so sick and tired of the bad behavior that "these people" continue to display. I am sure if the President looked a little more like him and were still a democrat he would not have shouted that to the President of the United States. I am and so many Americans are sick of these people. Stupid is as stupid does, and Congressman Wilson managed to look dumber and more petty than anyone else tonight. Play to the base, Joe, isn't that your game plan? You have no idea how stupid you and your ideological cohorts look to the rational 75% of the American electorate. A picture is worth a thousand words, and hate is a very ugly emotion. wilson is going down in 2010 election mock my words I guarantee it he's finished TOASTED It's not about what's wrong about Washington, Mr. Miller, it's about what's wrong with Republicans. If anyone had treated Bush that way he/she would have been accused of treason! Mr. Wilson, standing butt naked and covered from head to toe in slime before a joint meeting of Congress, should apologise to the President and the American people for his crude and childish behavior. And then, he should resign his seat. He's a complete embarassment to his district. Worse than Wally Herger of California. Rep. Joe Wilson is a rude jerk and an embarrassment to all of South Carolina. He may be a career politician corrupted by Washington health care lobbyists but he has no business serving in the U.S. House. No one should disrespect the President like he did. Wilson is free to vote however he wants on bills but should never shout and interrupt the president as if he were part of an angry mob. Wilson is the one who lies because illegal immigrants will not be covered by health reforms; they are specifically excluded. Wilson has shamed himself and his state and should take responsibility for his disrespectful, outrageous outburst and resign. quite an odd example of southern gentility. disrespect of our president, whether you like him or not, is shameful. I'm a republican and a very strong opponent of President Obama. With that said I'm very ashamed to be a republican today. What took place in the Chambers of Congress is a disgrace! This was a blatant disregard for the President of the United States!!! This is most disrespectful coming from a member of Congress! Presidents..ALL Presidents deserve our respect no matter who they are!! I respect President Obama fully although don't agree with him on some issues especially his Domestic Policy. I respect President Bush fully although don't agree with him on some issues as well especially with Foreign Policy. WILSON SHOULD RESIGN IMMEDIATELY!!!!! Well said Rob Miller!!! I hope you unseat the disrespectful jerk. It is time for all Amercans to stand up for Miller and help him defeat Wilson. What has our country come to??? Truly a sad sad sad day for America when this bufoon who claims to represent the people shows no respect for the President elected by the people. Really sad! a hit dog always yelps... The Bible references fools like Joe Wilson. So CNN you moderate my 'critical' but honest post only to be replaced with 300 attacks, I am sure, against a senator who DID apologize. I very fine example of misrepresentation. "FREEDOM OF SPEECH!"What is it about that concept that liberal demoncrats don't understand? This behavior is ridiculous. Almost what epitomizes the republicans nowadays.. a school yard bully and out of ideas.... From what I've read and heard the republicans have offered many, many amendments to the health care bill and the democrats have totally dismissed them out of hand. At times not even knowing what they were. When dems say they want a bipartisan bill, it is for the express purpose of making the republicans just as liable for the mess that the bill will create as the dems will be. They just want them to share the blame. What needs to be done is to go back to square one and both parties write the bill together, reviewing every point from each side of the aisle. Thankfully the public option seems to be dead in the water. I just hope there is no trigger lurking somewhere in the fine print that will come back to shock and surprise the American People.	1,221
What is a birthday without offering treat. I had to honor 3 treat on my birthday and one such treat was dinner for College & School buddies. I always feel happy to be with my college buddies Vicky, Kuruvi & Sudhir which is a brotherhood’ly friendship. After a lot of confusion we finalized with Copper Chimney and as a strange surprise i was the first to be there. Thing have changed a lot where in during college days friends use the be there before the person who is offering the treat. Those days offering a treat was forced and compelled one. These days it was a opportunity to have a get-together and time to have fun pulling each other. After a long time of fun it was time to document the moment and here are the snaps. And i must thank guys for make it a memorable day.	169
. The dramatic late Saturday House vote in favor of sweeping health care changes was a major topic of the Sunday conversation, with the debate breaking down this way: Democrats saw the victory, as narrow as it was, as a major step forward and a momentum boost they say dramatically increases the odds of getting legislation to President Obama this year. Republicans took the 220-215 margin – and the 39 Democrats who voted “No” – as proof of jitters in the Democratic ranks, and proof that they will end up on the winning side of politics of health care. Other major Sunday attention grabbers: Gen. George Casey, the Army Chief of Staff, chose his words carefully when discussing the tragic massacre at Fort Hood. But he was emphatic in his appeal that Muslims serving in the Army and other military services should not face suspicion or discrimination because of the actions of Fort Hood gunman Maj. Nadal Malik Hasan. Mikhail Gorbachev joined us for “The Last Word” to discuss the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, and we took the opportunity to ask his view of President Obama as a world leader, and his advice as Mr. Obama ponders sending more troops to Afghanistan. Straight now to the Sound of Sunday, beginning with health care: FULL POST The House passed its health care bill late Saturday night by a 220-215 vote, with 39 Democrats in opposition and one Republican supporting it. Senate approval is considered less certain due to opposition by all Republicans and some moderate Democrats. Obama called the support by many House members "courageous" in the face of what he called "the heated and often misleading rhetoric around this legislation." Asked Related:	345
The Meaning of Liff by Douglas Adams My rating: 3 of 5 stars Oh man I remember this book… it really gave me a load of great laughs! I have to admit right off that I’ve always been a HUGE fan of the style and wit of Douglas Adams from the very first chapter I ever read of his famous “Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy”. I had finished the series and even the Dirk Gently stories, but then one day in the book store came across this… thing… this weird little book filled with the most bizarre stuff I’ve read in a while! The only book this is comparable to in any way really is of course the dictionary, which in the words of the great E. Blackadder is, “…the most pointless book since How To Learn French was translated into French.” The Meaning of Liff on the other hand is a rip-roaring and riotous read that does that I think every single one of us would love to do – give words to things other then just the same-old blah-blah mundanities, bring meaning to the things that truly need it! For example: Alcoy (adj.): Wanting to be bullied into having another drink. Mugeary (n.): (Medical) The substance from which the unpleasant little yellow globules in the corners of a sleepy person’s eyes are made. Sneem (n.): Particular kind of frozen smile bestowed on a small child by a parent in mixed company when question, ‘Mummy, what’s this?’ appear to require the answer, ‘Er… it’s a rubber johnny, darling.’ Willimantic (adj.): Of a person whose heart is in the wrong place (i.e. between their legs). There’s also the ‘Glenwhilly’ as pictured above, about a protector you wear when picking thistles in a kilt. Frikkin love it! But all jokes aside – this is another excellent example of the creativity and humour that was such a defining feature and part of everything that Adams did and that made him a global favourite writer. Highly recommended for any and all fans of his work and sense of humour – and also the appetite for something a little different (because believe me, it is!). And for anyone that was not happy with my choice of descriptions for the dictionary, allow me to retort: “Oh, I’m sorry, sir. I’m anispeptic, frasmotic, even compunctuous to have caused you such pericombobulation.” Cheers and good day folks, till next time! (View all my reviews) 4 Comments Add yours I am back. I mean kinda. Too much happening on my personal front. Sigh! Glad to have you back! Hope that while voluminous/overwhelming, the personal front is largely storm-free. I’m extremely impressed with your writing abilities and also with the structure for your blog. Is this a paid subject or did you modify it yourself? Either way keep up the nice high quality writing, it’s uncommon to see a nice weblog like this one today. Many thanks, drop by anytime!	642
I suppose this goes without saying, but the climate of a wine-growing region can have a profound impact on the resulting wine. At its core, wine is an agricultural product, and even though there are a number of steps producers can take during the winemaking process to put their stamp on the flavour of their wares, much of what ends up in a bottle of wine is determined by the environment in which the grapes are grown and is locked in by harvest time. This is useful for people trying to make wine-buying decisions, because it means that if you have a little knowledge about the general climatic conditions of the place where a bottle is from, you will be able to get some solid hints about what’s waiting for you inside. Read the rest of this entry » The Basics: Hot vs. Cold Weather Wine25 03 2011 Tags: acidity, alcohol, body, cold weather, hot weather, wine, wine regions Categories : The Basics	195
So we have some good news, and some bad news. The good news was reported this morning which is the fact that AT&T’s locked down Samsung GALAXY S 4 smartphone was hacked. Popular Android developers went to work and managed to hack and completely unlock that locked bootloader in just two days. The bad news, they won’t be releasing the unlock tool for another month. Why you ask? Blame Verizon. Not really, but the developers behind this newly discovered exploit on Samsung’s GALAXY S 4 are correct in assuming that Verizon will also lock it down themselves. So in an attempt to save himself, and the developer community some time and hard work, they won’t be releasing the exploit method in hopes that it will work for all versions. It’s a smart move, but sadly this little cat and mouse game with the carriers and manufacturers needs to stop. When Steve Kondik confirmed the S4 on AT&T was locked, he made some clear reasons as to why it does them no good. Dan (the man behind the hack) hopes that by not releasing the exploit, Samsung won’t close the exploit in time for Verizon to release the phone on May 30th. Which means his method will work on it too. They’ll patch it eventually, but hopefully not before we get a path to full access. The developer behind the unlock, djrbliss, was nice enough to answer some questions over on XDA and basically confirmed these details. Stating he won’t be releasing this until after Verizon’s GALAXY S 4 hits the streets. He actually posted an entire Q and A sessions about the lock, so if you’re interested we have provided that at the via below. So in the end yes the S4 bootloader has been unlocked. And no, you can’t have it yet. Stay tuned! [device id=5332]	380
The British fifty pence coin, pronounced "fifty pee", is a decimal subdivision of the pound sterling. It was first issued on October 14, 1969 to replace the ten shilling note. The fifty pence coin is made from the combination of 75% copper and 25% nickel. When it was first issued, the coin weighed 13.50 grams with a diameter of 30.0 millimetres. By 1997, the coin size was scaled down to a diameter of 27.3 millimetres with a thickness of 1.78 mm, weighing only 8.00 grams. In spite of the change in its size and layout, its design remained more or less the same. The unique feature of fifty penny pieces is its equilaterally curved heptagon that makes it easy for identifying. The shape of the coin was also used for the twenty pence piece. The fifty pence denomination has been used for many commemorative purposes throughout the decades. Owing to this, the coin has been made in more design variations than any other British denomination. To date, seventeen varieties of 50p coins have been manufactured, out of which six are large and eleven are small. With such variety, the fifty pence has become a great collector’s item. The British coinage fifty pence piece is available in several antique shops as well as online stores.	285
Discussion in 'Android Lounge' started by Musky, Aug 5, 2010. Interesting article, Jobs must be fuming! 200,000 Androids a day! Oh, and DInc no less, I mean seriously, How can you say no to that face? that's a lot of little green men! yeah i read this today. thats crazy!!! (><) Good, Jobs needs a good whooping to knock him off his pedestal.... Man, I tried to share an article about Android OS being #1 with the fellow Droid Incredible owners and the Mods changed the name of my post and moved it to the general Android forum where nobody else will see it. Hope yours stays for awhile but yea I saw that article too and it backs up the claim that Android would be # 1 even with the IOS4 count added in. But, I am dearly loved here I knew that last one would get the post moved! The Mods and Guides here are so predictable! LOL	202
The Sidekick 3 is one of the most eagerly awaited developments in new smartphone technology. Its advent has long been rumored, with breathless blogs and pirated photographs that may or may not be the actual prototype. Danger is keeping mum, though, so until we actually have the third generation to play with, here are some things you can do with your Sidekick II.You can dress it up with new skins from manufacturers such as Skinit. You can cover it with roses or candy corn, declare your allegiance to anarchy or Einstein. There are 17 different lightning designs, 56 solid colors and 100 skins depicting stained-glass windows! Just choosing one from their hundreds of offerings will keep you busy till the third generation gets here. But if you can't find something in all those designs that really speaks to you, they'll make you a skin from the custom design you upload yourself. If you want to bling out your Sidekick, you can cover it in crystals. With more than a hundred patterns done in glittering pave crystals, it's no wonder that celebrities such as Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, Jessica Simpson and Nicole Richie flash their Sidekicks everywhere they go. Choose from plaids, chevrons, florals, stripes, checks and abstracts in a wide range of colors (with a decided emphasis on pink).You can play games while you wait, either the ones downloadable from T-Mobile or the ones on the Internet with the Web browser. You can make fun of how geeky your friends look in their visual caller ID photos. You can text to flirt or post your ad on a singles site. You just can't buy a Sidekick 3--at least, not yet.	347
Yoga when adapted as a lifestyle bestows immense benefits on physical, vital, mental and intellectual faculties of an individual helping in balanced and holistic growth. In the recent years CBSE at the national level, Samachheer Kalvi in Tamilnadu and several other state educational boards have thrust on yoga education at the school level and some of the boards have made it mandatory. Yoga as a philosophy / discipline does not encourage competition. Abiding to this basic principle, Sn Shiva Rishi, Founder of Satyananda Yoga Education Charitable Trust (SYECT), an extension of Bihar School of Yoga in Chennai has been celebrating Children Yoga Festival every year. This year, being the golden jubilee year of its parent organisation, SYECT has joined hands with Ankur Learning Solutions to take the festival to a minimum of fifty schools in Tamilnadu. The festival was inaugurated on 14th Feb 2013 at DAV Girls Higher Secondary School, Gopalapuram by its Hony Secretary Shri Jayadev Ji in the presence of Shri G P N Gupta, Chairman – BLISS Group of Companies as the Guest of Honour. Several schools from DAV Group, Vivekananda Group, Mahindra World City have already participated and more schools have committed to host in the coming days. It is a unique opportunity available only for schools in Chennai to host this prestigious event on a historical year. The festival is being held in three levels – School, Zonal and City levels. The school level festival, being held in the participating school premises shall go on till end-September. The zonal level festivals shall be celebrated in Oct-Nov’13. The grand finale of this year-long festival – City level event, will be held on 14th Feb 2014. Unique feature of this festival is that it includes various disciplines of Yoga – Hatha Yoga (Asanas, Pranayama, etc.), Nada Yoga (Music), Bhakti Yoga (Keertan/Chanting) and Jnana Yoga incorporated appropriately at different levels. This being a festival and not a competition, participating students at all levels are considered winners and given away participation gifts and certificates. Selected participants for the final level shall be taken on an all-paid, one week trip to Bihar School of Yoga, Munger. Being the 50th year of Bihar School of Yoga (our parent institution) we want to give opportunity to 50 schools in Chennai. So please rush in your registration. We will nominate one of our yogacharyas or sevaks who will meet the assigned teacher in your school and help you take it forward. There is no registration fee for taking part in this festival. Contact: 98400 76654 or mail to [email protected] for more details 4 Comments	569
I've just been busy - I had extra 'vacation' classes in January, plus I was doing a lot of internet-based research on my family's history. I found out I had a Great(x5)Uncle who served on the Beagle when Charles Darwin made his trip to the Galapagos; but most of the research I did was based around my Great Grandfather's WWI journal. It's short, as he served for only a few months before the war ended, but as he served in Italy, there wasn't much information online (or off) about the battle he fought in when I first read his journal 5 or 6 years ago. On a whim I tried again back in January and, due to the proliferation of websites about the Italian front, and with the help of mapquest, google earth, and even italian ski maps of the area, was able to find out where almost all of the locations mentioned in his journal were and plot them out on a map. It needs to be edited for clarity, but I'm happy enough with it for now. It's very rare for me to watch tv at home, but some friends suggested HBO's Rome and Carnivale, which are both excellent (and addictive) series, and which kept me busy as well. Add to that having friends from home come to visit, and it made for a rather busy two months. I did actually collect info for a few posts (about the investigations into the People's Revolutionary Party and East Berlin Spy Ring incidents) which I'll post soon, as well as a post on the furor over revising sex crime laws in the wake of the murder of an 11 year-old girl. I've also got to work on a post for Two Koreas, which celebrated it's first anniversary a few days ago. Jamie said some kind things about my posts there, but credit should be given to him for blog, and for motivating me to start posting on a blog in the first place. I came across my post about wild boars and remembered that the first boar that was caught and killed was to be stuffed and displayed in Gildong Ecological Park a month later, so I searched and found a photo of it here; while searching for it I also found a photo of the boar killed at Changdok Palace on October 24. I don't think the picture of the stuffed boar is very good - I imagine one reason the boar seems rather small is that there's no sense of scale in the photo. Still, they do seem small enough that sending 90 police officers out to catch them seems a little... excessive.	537
Last weekend, I ventured to the New York Public Library for their new exhibit, “Why Children’s Books Matter”. Surprisingly, I’ve never actually gone inside of the NY Public Library, & I have to say that it’s quite impressive! I could easily spend an entire day just wandering around the expansive building. This exhibit, however, made the trip worthwhile– it was informative & made me pretty nostalgic for the days of picture books & bedtime stories. So, if you happen to find yourself in the city, I highly recommend stoping by the New York Public Library for a trip down memory lane. The exhibit only takes about an hour, it’s free, & you’ll feel like you’ve been transported back to the simpler days of childhood– what could be better?	155
…We. Oct 11 2007 08:05 PM ET If you're out there, 'Star Wars' trumpet beauty George Lucas know about that trumpet/weapon? “Miss Douglas” – we must know how you did in this pageant!!! Oh good lord! Was that even in key?? I think I’d rather swallow my light saber then watch that again!! Sounds like someone doesn’t know how to read a key signature. At least she was blowing into the right end. I could even make it through a minute of that. blecch. Holy Mother of God. I don’t know whether to weep or laugh. That poor girl. I couldn’t stop watching–like a train wreck. When she started shooting the lasers out of the trumpet … good Lord. Was she for real? I was embarrassed for her. I wonder if any of her friends and family ever tried to get her to NOT go on stage and do that. No one clapped. That was the stupidest thing I’ve seen all day. Everything was bad, even the music. The trumpet playing sounded terrible! And those dances were God awful! OMG. I love this cheese. I love the ’80′s hair. The Charlie Chaplin walk. The really bad trumpet playing. It’s still better than the Star Wars Holiday Special! I felt kind of bad for the Teen USA contestant who came off like a dolt, but I thought might have just been seriously flustered. In this case, no, that wasn’t her being flustered, and gosh, golly, I don’t actually know what that was! Notice there was no sound of applause at the end. Based on the hair and the outfit, it’s probably a late 1980′s pageant — maybe Jr. Miss. Which means that this girl is now likely a subirban mother of 3 with this video of herself hidden away carefully from her husband and kids. My sister was a baton twirler in the early 80′s, and she has threatened all of us if we ever show those videos to her kids. She even hid the still photos. Wow That might be the best anything ever. I disagree with Anne, she doesn’t look young enough for it to be a jr. miss pageant– which then makes me wonder, what adult in their right mind would call that spectacle a “talent?” wow. That was quite possibly the greatest video I’ve ever seen. I wanna know how she did. Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.	526
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Frataccia named new PTS superintendant At a school board meeting held March 14, it was announced that Dr. E. Ric Frataccia was selected to lead the district as the new superintendent of Portage Township Schools. It was determined that Frataccia, who has been serving the district since 2005 as associate superintendent, will be holding an interim position, meaning that he will serve for a two-year period before another replacement is selected. “It’s important for me to do as well as I can do every day. I know myself, and I know that I can do that for two years. I don’t want to sign a three-year contract or a five-year contract knowing that I can do two years excellently,” Frataccia said. Frataccia said that his ultimate goal while serving in the position is to ensure that the culture that has been put in place in the district “stays and gets solidified.” Frataccia will officially take over July 1 following current superintendent Michael Berta’s retirement. Like Berta, Frataccia has a background in education; he graduated from The State University of New York in 1971 and received his master’s and doctorate of education degrees from Ball State University. Frataccia taught in New York and Texas before relocating to Indiana. He spent four years as the principal of Northview Elementary School in Valparaiso, and later served as director of elementary education for Valparaiso Community Schools before serving 10 years as superintendent for the Union Township School Corporation. Following Frataccia’s retirement from Union Township, Berta encouraged him to serve at Portage Township Schools as the associate superintendent.	350
Eight weeks in the city and now for some fresh air. The Urban mid-term retreat was this past Thursday. No class and no internship; just 27 college students playing at Point Montara for the day. Being there reminded of me of my trip to Ireland. We started out in Belfast, a major city, for the first week and a half. It was nice, but not the Ireland I had anticipated. Then we went to Corrymeela, a tiny rural place with rolling green hills dotted with sheep behind me and cliffs and ocean in front of me. In a word, it was breathtaking. Point Montara lacked the sheep, but it had the same feeling of escaping the hustle and bustle of the city and enjoying peace and relaxation for the day. Point Montara is a great spot. It’s less than an hour out of San Francisco, it’s got beautiful cliffs, and the lighthouse there was the first in the US to be run by a woman (yay women!). It was nice to be able to hang out with everyone outside of the city. We had a brief debrief time, and the rest of the day was ours. We explored the cliffs and beach, played games, and some of us played jump rope on the sand with washed-up kelp. Since it’s the half-way point of the semester, I figured it’s a good time to evaluate where I’m at and what I want for the remaining 8 weeks. I’m more comfortable being in the city and I’m not as homesick. I love my internship. I’m having more patience with my housemates. I want to get to know more of them. I want to get out of the house more and see more of the City. I have a few places that I know I like, but this city has so much more to offer me and I won’t be living here for much longer. I want to soak it up. A breath of fresh air. October 23, 2010	405
On Sunday, September 8, 2013 from 9AM – 3PM,AM, 11AM – 1PM, and 1 – 3PM Presale - 300 tickets for each time slot on ACS Registration (available late-June) On-site – not available Price – $30 ACS student members, $50 ACS members, $60 nonAM – Noon; 1 – 3PM Presale – 200 tickets for each time slot on ACS Registration (available late-June) On-site – 600 tickets available at IMS $25 members and $30 non-membersAM – 5PM Daily Pricing – $5 Unlimited ticket available; Also, available at IMS starting on Saturday, Sept. 7 For more information visit the Celebrate Science Indiana website.	169
Thanksgiving came late this year so, a scant three+ weeks later, Christmas will be upon us. This is about the time I start hyperventilating as I’ve literally not done a thing for the holiday preparations. No gifts purchased — no decorations put up yet — haven’t even started my annual Christmas newsletter or my cards that I send out every year to the adoptive families. I consider it lucky that I’ve made it this far in the year. Between work, the house/yard, the rescues, being elected as a Board member with the national breed club, and showing Dante as a special, it has been an unbelievably busy year. While the rest of you are making those lists and checking them twice, I would ask that you keep rescue in mind. Besides the ever present need for foster homes, funding is always an issue. I understand that the economy is an issue for virtually most of the people I know … at the current rate, my “retirement program” will be working as a greeter, “Hi, welcome to Wal-Mart.” :::sigh::: If you are interested in fostering — making a difference in the life of a dog — please contact me directly at [email protected]. However, one does not need to foster to be of assistance … 100 Ways to Help Rescue. Granted, a few additional foster homes would be a gift from heaven for us!! If you’d like to make a donation of some type, please contact me at the above-noted email for details. Some folks make a monetary donation at the holidays; some on the anniversary of their adoptions; others to commerate their Apso’s birthday; and yet others in memory of a beloved companion. Please be assured that any donation of time or money is gratefully accepted. This post would not be complete without a “thank you” to our rescue volunteers. If you’ve adopted from us, you’ve most likely met one or both of them … Sue S. of Parker who does our metro Denver homevisits, and Michelle R. of Wellington who has been involved with fostering and assisting/attending the various functions, i.e, pet expos and what we hope is an annual picnic. Michelle is also our very capable webmistress. Their dedication and service to rescue is truly priceless. With their assistance, we’ve been able to help even more Apsos and still maintain some semblence of sanity. Thank you, ladies … Perhaps between now and Christmas I’ll get something up for the cat to take apart and stash down in the basement under the throw rugs. He’s particularly fond of the little gold dingleball decorations attached to the garland that finds it way to the floor with his “help.”	555
Categories: Search Engine Optimization, Blogging, Internet Owner Tags: search engine, seo, news Search Engine Journal is an SEO blog that specializes in search engine news. It was started in 2002 by Loren Baker. Loren has been a search marketer since 1998. He has experience in search engine optimization and paid search. He has a team of bloggers help him deliver fresh, quality SEO content. These bloggers include Arnold Zafra and Eric Lander. Zafra's background is in web 2.0 and search programming. He covers the announcements of the big four search engines - Google, Yahoo!, MSN, and Ask.com. Lander has been part of the search industry since 1999. He writes about SEO, linkbait, and social media.	160
final celebrity of Dreamforce 2017. Celebrities of Dreamforce 2017: Introducing Geraldine Gray Our final Dreamforce Celebrity for 2017, has been working with Salesforce so long she doesn’t remember which year was her first time attending Dreamforce. She’s such a powerhouse in the ecosystem she was an Apttus Dreamforce Celebrity last year. Let’s meet our only 2-time Celebrity of Dreamforce, Geraldine Gray! Oh the memories! Apttus: What year was your first Dreamforce, and how many have you attended since then? Geraldine Gray: Apttus: Who was your favorite session from Dreamforce 2016, and why? Geraldine Gray: Apttus: Which band was the most memorable? Geraldine Gray: Apttus: What’s your funniest Dreamforce memory? Geraldine Gray: Excuse me, Don’t I know you… Apttus: Has anyone ever asked you for a selfie? Geraldine Gray: - Yes – I get stopped in the street with the accusation “You’re Geraldine Gray! You started Girly Geeks!” Looking Forward Apttus: What excites you most about going to Dreamforce 2017? Geraldine Gray: Apttus: If you could offer any advice to Salesforce rookie, what would it be? Geraldine Gray: - Attend hands-on training. Don’t overbook yourself. Spend an entire afternoon in the Expo. Only accept the swag you actually want and can use. Dress nice but wear comfy shoes. Bring blister band aids. Dress in layers. Leave your laptop in your room. Ship all that swag home via FedEx.	356
Texas thistle as butterfly attractor Once upon a time in Texas we had water. Some say, and memory confirms, that it was as recently as 2010. On May 4 of that year, thanks to a tip from native plant enthusiast Agnes Plutino, I found myself in a luxuriant field of wildflowers in the old Union Hill Cemetery on FM 1460 in Williamson County about five miles north of downtown Round Rock. The man who was accustomed to mowing the cemetery had been persuaded—and praise be to him—to let this prairie parcel revert to its natural state, which in last year’s rain-rich spring meant that it was covered with wildflowers. The yellow was from a dense colony of Engelmann daisies (Engelmannia peristenia); the red was from some firewheels (Gaillardia pulchella). Those two types of flowers and an occasional Texas thistle (Cirsium texanum) attracted insects and other animals, including a swallowtail butterfly and me. Put my body in a place like this, now and later. © 2011 Steven Schwartzman (Technical note: this was one of those times when I used my Canon 100 mm f/2.8 IS lens not as a macro but as a moderate telephoto. Walking through the field to get closer would probably have scared the butterfly away, and taking time to change to a more powerful telephoto might have meant that the butterfly would finish and fly out of range. I did what I could with the macro I’d been using for close-ups, which fortunately focuses to infinity.) Lovely subject Eden July 3, 2011 at 7:41 pm Thanks, Eden, glad you liked it. I wish the landscape this year looked like that. Steve Schwartzman July 3, 2011 at 7:52 pm Beautiful! I also wish your landscape looked like that this year. I know it has been a tough spring and summer for Texas and much of the southwest! montucky July 3, 2011 at 10:32 pm Thanks for the good landscape wishes. Last spring and the one before it were excellent, so we can’t complain too much (except we do). Steve Schwartzman July 3, 2011 at 10:48 pm so lovely. what a great capture. like the way the butterfly & thistle serve as the focal point with the sunny, summery background! thepetalpusher July 4, 2011 at 6:58 am Thanks, Terry. May 4 is indeed a summery time in Texas, even if the season doesn’t arrive for many other parts of the country till late the next month. Sometimes I’m fond of off-kilter photographs that have the center of attention far from the center. Steve Schwartzman July 4, 2011 at 7:49 am Beautiful photographs with very helpful information in the text – I can be sure to learn much here! I have a tendency to photograph too many things that I have little or no knowledge of whatsoever and little time to look things up I think a daily visit to your neck of the woods will help me out, no doubt! Lu July 4, 2011 at 7:22 am Thanks, Lu. It’s hard for this lifelong teacher to stop teaching, so I’m glad you find the information helpful (and the photographs attractive). Even after 12 years of photographing native plants, I still come across my share of things I can’t identify, so there’s always plenty more to learn. Steve Schwartzman July 4, 2011 at 7:42 am And whilst your close-ups are indeed stunning (I particularly like the colours of the texas thistle flower for example) the flower and butterfly here give a great point of interest, but the wider angle and the fabulous impressionist background are perhaps the stars of the show? I’m not sure – whatever the reason that it appeals, I think this is a lovely photo. beatingthebounds July 11, 2011 at 6:41 pm Thanks for your comment on stunning close-ups, especially of the Texas thistle, which others have appreciated as well. I’m also glad that you like this swallowtail-with-wildflowers panorama. The main reason you don’t see more wildflower meadows like that in these pages is that 2011 has brought Texas one of the worst droughts in decades, and I’ve primarily been posting recent pictures. I’ll periodically dip into my archives to show some of the dense wildflower displays for which Texas is noted. That’s what I did by posting this picture, which is from the spring of 2010, when we had plenty of rain. Steve Schwartzman July 11, 2011 at 8:22 pm Steve, I love all of your posts. They’re amazing to look at and read. You are a definite triple threat: A fantastic photographer, blogger, and botanist! Thanks for that post! Nerdygirl98 August 7, 2011 at 10:11 am Thanks, Taylor. I’ll take credit for the photographer and blogger, but I wish I’d taken at least one course on botany so that I’d know more about the subject. Now, if someone asks me about etymology rather than entomology, I’m on more solid ground. Steve Schwartzman August 7, 2011 at 10:22 am You’re welcome! Ohhh okay I wasn’t sure what word to use. Thank YOU, Steve! Nerdygirl98 August 7, 2011 at 10:25 am [...] [...] Dainty sulphur « Portraits of Wildflowers February 8, 2012 at 5:45 am [...] photographed this Texas dandelion at the old Union Hill Cemetery in northeastern Round Rock on April 2. The prairie wind was blowing (from right to left, as you see [...] An even closer view of a Texas dandelion « Portraits of Wildflowers April 5, 2012 at 1:09 pm	1,286
Home > GCR > Vol. 21 > Iss. 1 (2009) Volume 21, Issue 1 (2009) Articles Abundance and Distribution of Two Species of Squilla (Crustacea: Stomatopoda: Squillidae) in the Northern Gulf of Mexico Jennifer L. Wortham The Influence of Habitat and Fishing on Reef Fish Assemblages in Cuba Gaspar Gonzalez-Sanson, Consuelo Aguilar, Ivet Hernandez, Yureidy Cabrera, and R. Allen Curry Short Communications First Records of the Seagrass Parasite Plasmodiophora diplantherae from the Northcentral Gulf of Mexico Allison K. Walker and Jinx Campbell Macrofauna Associate with Ungrounded Prop Roots of Rhizophora mangle in Veracruz and Quintana Roo, Mexico Kathryn D. Tunnell and Kim Withers Age Estimates of Two Large Misty Grouper, Epinephelus mystacinus (Serranidae) from Bermuda with a Comparison of the Age of Tropical Groupers in the Western Atlantic Brian E. Luckhurst and John M. Dean	242
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Getting a child into kindergarten is nearly as complicated and competitive as college admissions. Parents rank multiple choices and spin a roulette wheel -- unless they can afford private school. Others flee San Francisco for places that are deemed more family friendly. Want to walk your child to school in The City? Don’t count on it. Students can be dispersed from their neighborhoods to all corners of The City in the name of diversity. Communities are weakened when families on the same block can’t bond through a shared school. Meanwhile, San Francisco suffers more traffic jams. School bus service has been drastically cut and parents drive their kids to school because public transportation is too unreliable. So it goes in a supposedly green city. We endure these unintended consequences as the price for economically and racially diverse schools. But we aren’t getting what we paid for, especially when city demographics could create many diverse neighborhood schools automatically. “I have yet to hear any parent of any background say they love the school assignment system and that it really works for them,” said Matt Haney, a member of the elected school board. “I was willing to excuse some of the negative stories – the anger, the frustration, families leaving San Francisco -- because our crazy system had a bigger goal of better outcomes. Now I question if it is all worth it. If the system isn’t accomplishing its goals, then what’s the point?” Disillusionment from Haney is a big deal because he’s a true believer in social justice through government action. He even wears a silver ring engraved with the case number of Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case that ended state-sponsored school segregation. But self-segregation is a reality in San Francisco. Stanford’s Center for Education Policy Analysis presented data to the school board last fall that showed families in San Francisco “tend to select schools with higher proportions of students as the same race as them.” “It shook me a bit,” Haney said. “People are picking schools that look like them when their neighborhood school would actually be more diverse if everyone just went there.” Parents in areas with the lowest test scores (called CTIP1) get priority for any school citywide. The idea is that kids from disadvantaged areas can attend a better school in a wealthier neighborhood. Still, many low-performing schools remain racially concentrated. “Choice in our system is heavily constrained by access to resources and information,” Haney said. “Sometimes choice can be more of an illusion.” Consider a Bayview school that’s mostly African-American despite an increase in white and Asian residents moving into the neighborhood. Parent blogs and real estate agents tout the “asset” of buying a home in a CTIP1 area because all residents get school priority regardless of wealth. Families who can afford to drive their kids across town benefit while the poorest students stay behind. Yet a majority of parents of all races said attending a school close to home was “very important,” according to the Stanford report. What if the parents choosing far away schools had reason to invest their resources locally? Haney said parents face “a classic prisoner’s dilemma.” If 10 families live on the same block, they could work together to improve a struggling neighborhood school. But if five families win the lottery for a top school elsewhere, five are left with less incentive to commit to the local school. They could opt for private education or leave The City. The school district’s annual report admits that the assignment system adopted in 2010 hasn’t changed the number of schools that are more than 60 percent of the same race. “Some people say that what we have now is the best bad option,” Haney said. “But I don’t think we should just throw parents to ‘The Hunger Games’ and say, ‘good luck.’ If the system isn’t working for people, we need to address that.” There is a solution. While proximity is part of the current school assignment formula, it could rank higher. Originally, the school district wanted to put proximity above CTIP1. But the school board voted against that professional recommendation because it thought a stronger CTIP1 would create more diversity. It’s a reversible decision, if four of the seven school board commissioners are willing to fix it. Joel Engardio lives west of Twin Peaks. Follow his blog at. Email him at [email protected].	880
Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin claimed victory in Wisconsin’s hotly contested U.S. Senate race, defeating former Gov. Tommy Thompson by a small margin and helping her Democratic Party hold on to its narrow national majority. Baldwin, at her Election Night gathering in Madison, by then a victory part, said, "Thank you, thank you, thank you," to her supporters there and around the state just before 11:30 p.m. “It's that battle for Wisconsin's middle class that this has all been about since this journey began 14 months ago,” Baldwin said. "Everywhere that I've gone in our beautiful state, people have told me that they want a senator who will listen to the middle class when they need help... millionaires cant' dodge taxes and Wall Street can't trash our economy with risky gambling." Baldwin also said in her victory speech she was "well aware" that she is not only the first woman ever elected to the U.S. Senate from Wisconsin but also the only openly gay person ever elected to that body in the United States. But, "I didn’t run to make history," Baldwin. "But in choosing me to tackle those challenges, the people of Wisconsin have made history." Thompson concedes In a concession that followed quickly, Thompson, for the first time on the losing end of an election, said of his supporters, “Not the way I planned it. I let them down by not winning, I love them all so very much.” “I’ve never campaigned harder. What a group of people who helped out. “Thanks to everyone who just worked so hard.” “I ran, ladies and gentlemen," Thompson said, "because I love this country and this state. I believe so much the fact that we are so fortunate to be Americans and have the opportunity to have the liberty and freedom to do whatever we want to do.” Of the outcomes, Thompson was magnanimous. “He’s our president. I hope he will lead our country in the right direction,” he said of President Obama's win. Toward Baldwin, he said: “I congratulate our senator, but she wasn’t my first choice. I hope she serves our state well.” In conclusion – and in conclusion of his political career, apparently, as he said he wouldn't run again – Thompson said, "We fought the good fight, and we came up short. But that doesn't mean we should stop fighting for our principles, ideals, and beliefs." Wisconsin win solidifies Democratic Senate hold Baldwin rode to victory with President Barack Obama as he won Wisconsin and the nation. But she had been polling behind the president and her victory came only some time after his had been declared. Baldwin’s win widens a thin Democratic majority in the Senate as other races around the country were decided – including several more in favor of the Democrats in states such as Virginia, Missouri and Indiana. Baldwin and Thompson ran the most expensive U.S. Senate race in the state’s history, with about $50 million spent from reported sources and more from secretive super-PACs. Going into Election Day, Democrats held 51 seats plus the support of two independents, Joe Lieberman of Connecticut and Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who caucus with them. The Republican Party held 47 seats. In all, 33 positions were up for grabs, 21 held by Democrats, both Lieberman’s and Sanders’, and 10 held by Republicans. Lieberman did not seek re-election and his open seat was among those some considered in doubt for the Democrats. As the elections played out, it appeared that the Democrats would not only keep control of the Senate but would likely gain seats as final returns came in. morninmist 4:09 am on Wednesday, November 7, 2012 Congratulations Senator Baldwin. Bob McBride 6:23 am on Wednesday, November 7, 2012 And after the short victory tour she'll disappear into the mist like her predecessor and we won't see her again until the next election. Same as it ever was. On an upside, hopefully this is the end of Tommy Thompson. I don't expect he'll ever get the message, but hopefully the people who keep propping him up every time there's a job opening will start to get a clue. Lee 8:24 am on Wednesday, November 7, 2012 Beg to differ with you about Herb Kohl. He worked behind the scene. Whenever I had a question or asked him how he would or would not vote he answered. Ron Johnson perhaps would answer weeks later and with the incorrect bill at hand. And what else have we heard from Johnson, other than his standard "we have to cut the deficit." Herb Kohl did a fine job and I only hope Tammy does the same. And I do agree with you about Tommy. Bob McBride 8:31 am on Wednesday, November 7, 2012 You do understand that Herb wasn't personally handling his own correspondence, correct? Lee 10:06 am on Wednesday, November 7, 2012 Yes of course I do. But at least his staff knew what bill I was talking about. And when I went to Washington D.C., Herb Kohl had time to sit with me. Not Johnson. Met him i(Johnson) in the hall. He was too busy. Just gave his famous one liner "have to cut the deficit". Research Herb Kohl and his record, you will be surprised since you think he never did anything. Bob McBride 10:35 am on Wednesday, November 7, 2012 Personally, I'd rather have someone in Washington who's keeping themselves busy enough that they don't have the time to sit down with random visitors who come calling. But if you're voting for an email buddy or someone whose office you can plop down in when you're vacationing in Washington, maybe Tammy can fill that role for you. They all have records. You can look them all up. And if you harken back to Kohl's first term in office he wasn't setting the world on fire or particularly responsive to constituents either. He did, however, set the pace for rich guys getting elected to the Senate - just took him a few terms in office (again, facilitated by a war chest nobody could successfully challenge) to get into the swing of things. Lee 12:05 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012 I figured you would give a snarly reply. No wonder the two sides cannot get along. I was not in D.C. on vacation, nor am I some random visitor. I have business there, not that it is any of your business. Your assumptions are useless. You tell me what your wonder boy Johnson has done for you or the State of WI. I know what Herb Kohl has done. And talk about fat cats in office---- what is Johnson? Oh yea, that is the guy that wanted to pay himself back for his campaign expenses isn't it? So who paid for what election here? Next time I'm in D.C. I'll let you know if Johnson is still roaming the hallways. Hoping Tammy Baldwin has a long and memorable career in the Senate. And to think she was elected without having a fat wallet. braasch0074 12:37 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012 Lee, Baldwin didn't need a fat wallet. Large amounts of her commercial were funded by 2 huge unions. AFSCME (American federation of state, county and municipal employees) and SEIU (Service employees international union) Bob McBride 12:44 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012 It's not a snarly reply. I honestly don't care if our elected officials take time to see you or not. They're not there to play host to you on your travels there, business or otherwise. They're there to work, not make you feel special. What I said about Kohl's first term there is factual. You can look it up. As is the fact that he set the pace for rich guys buying themselves a seat. You can look that up as well. It was quite the bit of news at the time. Nationally as well as state-wide. He was also notorious for keeping a low profile and only showing his face around re-election time. You're comparing a one term neophyte against the entire career of a guy who made a career of it for himself simply by being unchallengeable from a financial standpoint. If all he'd done in that period of time was show up and vote present he would have, by nature of the time served, have to have done more than Johnson. In fact, if you look closely at his voting record, you'll find there were periods of time where he did just that. I don't know what kind of business you run, but if it involves any kind of comparative analysis, you might want to think about pursuing something else. THAT's a snarly reply. Deal with it. Lee 2:17 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012 Gee Bob, I don't remember asking for career advise. And if and when I need it, I sure won't get it from the Patch, much less from the likes of you. Bob McBride 2:25 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012 No extra charge, Lee. You're welcome. Bren 4:41 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012 Herb Kohl has been a tireless champion for Wisconsin and education in our state. What he hasn't been is self-aggrandizing. Or preparing for his post-Senate speaking tour, book deals, or lobbying career. I'll take the quiet worker any day. James R Hoffa 6:36 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012 Herb started out a decent moderate that even Hoffa previously voted for. But towards the end, he became lazy and merely towed the party line. Ima Hippee 7:54 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012 Lee - Bob speaks the truth. Not a snarly reply. He does have generous and sharp wit. You just happen to be someone who can't open your mind to another point of view, as honest as it is. Tom 7:58 am on Wednesday, November 7, 2012 Pretty much sums it up. Dirk Gutzmiller 8:01 am on Wednesday, November 7, 2012 Senator Baldwin was given almost no chance even by some fellow liberals here on Patch just a few months ago, but she rose to the challenge of defeating one of those Republican candidates, like Romney, nominated by his party because he was more "electable". She beat the best the Republicans could offer. Robert Merlin 8:03 am on Wednesday, November 7, 2012 Tommy,now YOU know the meaning of the word NO. FreeThought Troy 8:18 am on Wednesday, November 7, 2012 Proud of you, Tammy! Take it to Washington!!! J. B. Schmidt 8:35 am on Wednesday, November 7, 2012 I fail to see how a women who votes aggressively along party lines and at times laments about the party not moving farther to the left, will attempt to end the grid lock? Bob McBride 8:51 am on Wednesday, November 7, 2012 JB, I think if you look at Lyle's response over on your own article, you can get the gist of it. Ending gridlock and working together means the Republicans roll over and play dead and the Democrats no longer have to compromise their hard left positions to make them appear palatable. Obamacare, for instance, (which apparently is a Republican program, according to Lyle - who knew?), is replaced with NHS. It's all rainbows and unicorns and cotton candy and puppy dogs from here in out. Just watch! J. B. Schmidt 9:06 am on Wednesday, November 7, 2012 @Bob I know. I think is alleviates my frustration with the ignorance of the American left to post obvious questions that they not only won't answer, but can't. Bob McBride 9:13 am on Wednesday, November 7, 2012 Well that's what I thought I was doing when I got that one from Lyle. Be careful what you ask for. The results can be frightening. Richard Head 9:50 am on Wednesday, November 7, 2012 Tammy Baldwin - The poster child for the Nanny State - she has spent her whole life dependent - dependent upon taxpayer money - money which is forcibly collected under the threat of confiscation, imprisonment or death - when they send the SWAT Team in to enforce compliance. The wealth transfer and redistribution schemes will continue to expand! Heil Herr Baldwin!! note: Tommy Thompson wasn't much better. The greater of two evils won, that's all. Steve ® 9:54 am on Wednesday, November 7, 2012 I voted for Hovde Dirk Gutzmiller 10:56 am on Wednesday, November 7, 2012 Steve, that makes you a double loser. You voted for a loser to a loser. Greg 1:57 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012 Dirk, How many times did you vote for Barrett? atthec44 10:18 am on Wednesday, November 7, 2012 “she is not only the first woman ever elected to the U.S. Senate from Wisconsin but also the only openly gay person ever elected to that body in the United States.” If a person’s gender or sexual preferences aren’t supposed to matter, why does the above keep getting repeated? Dick 10:27 am on Wednesday, November 7, 2012 I for one smiply hope that Tammy does not continue to suck up to the public unions although I doubt that will happen consindering she took a ton of money from them to finance her campaign. The people who are in the public unions (not all) and believe all the crap that they shove down their throats (not all fall for it) are simply ignorant to the truth and the refuse to even look at the other side of the fence they just vote how the unions tell them to. They don't care that the tax payers are paying for the lavish benefits they used to get and some still are getting them. If the economy does not grow and companies are not comfortable hiring, there will be less public sector jobs because there will be less people paying taxes, and then some union memebers will have nothing- fortunately because of Walker it won't have to be the youngest teachers etc with the least senority. Tammy, if your not fighting for ALL OF US, and not just for what the special interest groups who paid for your campaign want, then you are a fake. Oh, and BTW, if she says that she is not concerned about being the first openly gay woman in the Senate, then why does she even mention it. Oh, they financed her campaign in a big way also. William Eib 12:46 am on Monday, November 12, 2012 Who do you have in mind to represent the workers with the management? We would have no Middle Class, No suburbs, No high rate of college graduates (which is declining). I often hear; well, unions once had a role to play in America, but they are no longer needed. It took a lot of sacrifice loss of life, and many years to build the labor movement and in turn the Middle Class. It will not take very long to have the 8 hour day expanded without over time pay, expand the 40 hour work week, no more weekends off, paid vacation and holidays, gone. Now I can hear you chuckling, but there is nothing that can stop companies from doing what I have mentioned. Walmart is the template for future employment in America. They hand their part time employees medicaid and food stamp applications. That is what a lot of people voted against on Election Day. The Right can not keep it's relevance if all it can do is demonize everything. The Anti-Alinsky 1:53 pm on Monday, November 12, 2012 William Eib wrote: "... Walmart is the template for future employment in America. They hand their part time employees medicaid and food stamp applications..." Billy, have you got a source for this, besides DailyKOS or HuffPost? Menoparent 10:35 am on Wednesday, November 7, 2012 People in this state and the country have spoken. They are tired of smart mouthed radical right wingers (Thompson or Hovde). Walker's continuous lack of governing and not wanting to follow the rules didn't help Thompson either. J. B. Schmidt 10:38 am on Wednesday, November 7, 2012 @Menoparent You said, "Walker's continuous lack of governing and not wanting to follow the rules". Yet you support a president unable to get a national budget for 3 consecutive years and instead abuses the Executive Order of the president to circumvent that elected legislature. Hypocrite! Menoparent 10:45 am on Wednesday, November 7, 2012 JB, you know the President has worked with, compromised to the point of anger from his own party, budget takes 2 to tango, not from a lack of trying, the people are dissatisfied with the lack of compromise from the congress (namely tea party freshman), it's called voter regret, not from the President. J. B. Schmidt 10:51 am on Wednesday, November 7, 2012 @Meno His own party has rejected his budgets each time. Then he goes golfing. Where is the compromise? When they rammed healthcare through (remember Pelosi, "we can read it after it passes") where was the compromise? You libs have created a persona for Obama that does not exist in reality. Randy1949 1:15 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012 @J.B. Schmidt -- The Dems rejected GOP sponsored 'versions' of the President's budgets in both the House and the Senate and you know it. Or maybe you don't. It wouldn't surprise me. James R Hoffa 10:32 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012 @Randy1949 - If memory serves, the GOP sponsored versions of the President's proposed budget that were voted down by every single member of both the Senate and the House actually contained less spending than the original budget actually proposed by the President, but still had significantly more spending than any budget proposal made by the current Republican caucus of Congress, right? Well, didn't Obama promise that he'd cut the deficit in half during his first term? If the GOP was attempting to help him in accomplishing that promise, then where exactly was the problem for Democrats? Hoffa is very confused by this! The Anti-Alinsky 1:44 pm on Monday, November 12, 2012 The perfect example of a failed B.O. compromise...B.O.Care! After B.O.Care passed the Senate, B.O. had more than enough votes for it to pass the House. At that time B.O. could have approached leaders of both parties and said... Ya know, this legislation is a piece of crap. It will only pass the burden of health care onto the middle class. You have a choice. We can come up with a REAL solution to the rising costs of health care and make efforts to get everyone covered. If not, we will just pass this bill and be done with it. Instead, Barack Hussein Obama chose to pass the biggest legislative boondoggle in American history! Dirk Gutzmiller 11:01 am on Wednesday, November 7, 2012 @J. B. - America has spoken. Now we get the laments and wailing from the uber-right,. Suck it up! Can't you be the least bit gracious in defeat? Or are you going to be like that loser, Allen West? J. B. Schmidt 11:03 am on Wednesday, November 7, 2012 @Dirk Just because half of America was able to chose the road of destruction for the rest of the country does not mean I should sit back and take it. I don't remember you holding your tongue during the recall. James R Hoffa 12:19 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012 @Dirk - Funny - Hoffa doesn't see Republican representatives fleeing the country to prevent a quorum, conservatives occupying Capitol Hill, staging fraudulent sick-outs in our public schools, marching around the White House with signs depicting Obama as Adolf Hitler, pouring beers over the heads of Democratic law makers, wasting millions of taxpayer dollars on frivolous recalls, filing a multitude of frivolous litigation, or any of the other crap that you guys on the left put this state through over the last two years! If the worst we on the right do is belly ache a little in online public forums such as this, that's still light years better and far more adult than the crap that your side has pulled in your childish temper tantrum over Scott Walker. If you can't see that, then you have some real problems! BTW - The State Senate, State Assembly, State Supreme Court, and Governor's Mansion are all once again solidly in the GOP's capable hands! Your temper tantrum in this state was all for naught! William Eib 10:31 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012 @J.B. Half of the Country did not chose a road to destruction, that's your unfounded, sore loser take on the election. The undercurrent you are missing is; people have gotten tired of the constant drum beat of Negativity and Pessimism, such as your remark. Fatigue set in. Voters decided that was not the way they wanted things to be. And until the GOP and the Right don't start reigning in this awful tactic of tearing people down, the GOP is going to end up as an ineffectual political party. They decided to spend 4 precious years, 4 years the country needed help, with the help of FOX, Rush, Beck and the Blogosphere trying to assassinate the Character of the POTUS. All they did, and with your help as well, is get the guy reelected. Imagine, if you are able; if the GOP used those 4 years getting the economy straightened out and made sure every one knew it could not have been done without them, they may have not gotten so humiliated last night. That's how the Grand Old Party did business in the past. This all out personal attack strategy is a loser. Here is is the day after a defeat and you're at it again, you must enjoy the pain. James R Hoffa 11:25 am on Thursday, November 8, 2012 @William Eib - So, analyzing Obama's record, the scandals, the executive orders, and all the broken promises was "trying to assassinate the Character of the POTUS," but the ads depicting Romney as a criminal, tax cheat, out-of-touch, murderer were a-ok, right? WOW - you guys on the left have a strange sense of fair play! The Anti-Alinsky 1:46 pm on Monday, November 12, 2012 Funny, when Billy gets his way we are sore losers. When he doesn't we are evil. William Eib 3:02 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012 Lady Parts win the day. DEM Dames killed last night. The GOPers better be ready for more Lady Parts in Congress. I pity the GOPer who tries to take on the DEM Dames. Keith Best 4:26 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012 I never thought the people of Wisconsin would stoop so low to elect someone as extreme as Baldwin. Sadly, she defined herself as something she is NOT, and it worked. Just like it has twice now for our Pretender-in-Chief. William Eib 10:00 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012 you are aware this silliness of deriding Obama is what cost you the election. This very tone, the juvenile behavior element to it, silly name calling. It all contributed to the down fall of Romney. To make the assumption that your witless school yard name calling attracts grown ups to your side of the street was debunked last night. My God man, 4 years was not enough to cure you of the inanity of the beat down on Obama. You convinced a lot of voters that your side of the street is not serious about the solving problems, you would rather spend your time in the school yard coming up with witty insults about the 1st Negro to attend your school. William Eib 10:18 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012 This very shoot form the hip hyperbole is what got her elected. You have no idea how tiring the constant drumbeat of negativity is. Fatigue set in with the public. The constant haranguing, one negative thing after another. I don't know who suggested it was a way of winning elections but it was righteously debunked last night. And here you are first day after the election firing up the failed tactic once again. You cost Romney and Thompson the election. there were as many people voting against your type of behavior as voting for Obama and Baldwin. If your Party leaders don't get the message and continue to foster this behavior, the GOP is headed for 3rd Party status. James R Hoffa 11:27 am on Thursday, November 8, 2012 @William Eib - Obama/Biden ran a much more negative campaign than Romney/Ryan did - all media is in agreement about this FACT. Kinda kills your theory about negativity, doesn't it? Lu 4:39 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012 At least Walker will continue to roll in Wisconsin. Bren 4:48 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012 Rolling on the airport tarmac, flying the friendly skies to various red states and "conservative" "think" tanks, preaching the ALEC agenda to politically atonal choirs. Ordinarily I would be furious with an absentee politician sucking at the taxpayer teat (as all publicly-paid employees are apparently a scourge) but in his case the less time he spends in Wisconsin, the safer we are from his, let's call it underprepared approach to his job. Bon voyage! ; ) Greg 4:51 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012 I hope they do another feature, on the news, about the State Senate majority getting to choose their new offices. I bet that the names, painted on the doors, are not even dry yet. James R Hoffa 6:34 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012 @Greg - It's a shame that the Dems wasted taxpayer's money on that grandonization over their meaningless victory with Lehman in the recall elections. @Bren - Why aren't you upset at the money wasted by the Dems in re-arranging the offices at the state Capitol when the writing was on the wall that their recall victory wasn't going to hold up just a few short months after the fact? Wouldn't that money have been better spent on education or public work projects that could actually be used by a constituency? How come all we hear from you over this is crickets??? Ima Hippee 8:01 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012 Bren - is Obama going to roll out the "red" carpet in Benghazi? Oh wait, he already has. Blood red. Bren 2:35 pm on Thursday, November 8, 2012 Ima, you have no on-the-ground information or background to share on Libya. Stepping away from your conjecture and baseless finger pointing, let's review some facts from our previous president's administration: 3,000 people died because of 9/11. A little less hubris, a few less vacation days, a bit more report reading and that death count might have been lower. Also consider that approximately 100,000 Iraqi civilians died or suffered serious/permanent injuries as a result of our invasion/war. Also that you may have voted for Mitt Romney, who was planning to bring a score or more of Bush's bright stars into his administration as foreign policy experts. Knowing what happened before, and voting for its potential continuance might have reddened your hands with innocent blood as well. Votes have consequences. William Eib 10:10 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012 Ima Hippee: I can not believe you just used 4 dead Americans to insult the President. I know there are disagreements about what happened. There is the Military's recently released official report and there is FOX's fictionalization of it, starring FOX and Friends as the main characters. But to not have enough sense to stop dancing on the graves of those 4 Americans to make points against Obama. Is the very tactic that lost the Election for Romney. It seems it is perfectly okay to have no shame, and everything is fair game to destroy your opponent. I.e., Does Jeep ring a bell. Making a statement about Libya before any info was in. Can't do that kind of stuff and expect people to vote for you. Your anger, negativity, pessimism, and contempt cost you an election, and I hope your leaders are wise enough to shut down the hate machine. Otherwise they are just short of becoming a 3rd Party. James R Hoffa 10:25 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012 @William Eib - "It seems it is perfectly okay to have no shame, and everything is fair game to destroy your opponent. I.e., Does Jeep ring a bell." What about Jeep exactly? Romney was exactly right - Jeep plans on upping assembly production in China, as even Fiat/Chrysler has admitted to this. Currently, any demand for Jeeps in China that is not being met by the present European/Asian assembly plants is filled by product from the American assembly plants. Thus, if Jeep ups assembly production in China to fill that demand, the demand on Jeeps assembled here in the US destined for export will logically decrease. Less demand on the American plants means potential layoffs at those factories, or at the very least, that new jobs will be created in China instead of being created here. Hoffa thought that both sides were fighting for American jobs - are you now claiming that Obama is OK with Jeep upping assembly production in China instead of here, and won't fight the way that Romney would have to create those jobs here instead of over there? If so, then why exactly did you guys vote for Obama? You lefties are really starting to confuse the hell out of poor old Hoffa lately with all of your spin, inconsistencies, and hypocrisies! So, what's the deal on this one Eib? James R Hoffa 10:14 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012 Honestly, Wisconsin must now have the ODDEST Senate delegation in the entire country! Hear Hoffa out on this one. On one side, we have a Tea Party / limited government favorite in Ron Johnson, while on the other, we now have the extreme super progressive / big government liberal in Tammy Baldwin. Could it possibly get anymore odd couple than this? Any chance of Johnson and Baldwin coming together with some bipartisan legislation? And yet, the Republicans have once again regained complete control of the state level government by maintaining their majority in the State Assembly and retaking a super majority, 18 seats vs the Dems' 15 seats, in the State Senate, while also holding the Governor's mansion and State Supreme Court. Politically speaking, Wisconsin is definitely unique! David Tatarowicz 10:35 am on Thursday, November 8, 2012 JRH I agree odd couple in US Senate --- maybe not the worst thing in the world --- especially as nothing of any real substance will be accomplished in the senate until they get rid of that arcane filibuster ! In the state --- wouldn't you have been very surprised if the Republicans did not maintain control -- especially after they spent $1 Million of our money to make sure they gerrymandered the districts to their advantage ? Greg 10:54 am on Thursday, November 8, 2012 Nothing will be accomplished in the Senate because everything that happens there is 100% controlled by the party leaders. You could send two house plants in place of our Senators and as long as they vote when told, you would not notice a difference. Harry and Mitch are the odd couple, but they are more like Randolf and Mortimer Duke, from Trading places, two powerful rich guys pulling the strings of our government over a $1 bet. And they are lead by a President that lacks the skill or want to truely lead. James R Hoffa 12:03 pm on Thursday, November 8, 2012 @David - You guys already tried claiming that the redistricting constituted gerrymandering before a Federal District Court, remember? And as Hoffa recalls, the Court decided that only 1 district needed to be redrawn, to actually support a racial/ethnic majority, because apparently it wasn't racial enough - an outrageous decision that actually demands a racist sentiment. So please, give that crap a rest already! King lost the seat that you guys picked up from Hopper in the recall. Lehman will also lose the seat that he stole from Wanggaard in the recall during the next election cycle - that's all but guaranteed. Then the GOP majority in the Senate will grow even bigger: 19-14. Embarrassing and proof that your recalls, frivolous lawsuits, and the Dems going ape and re-officing the Capitol after their meaningless recess victory, were all little more than a giant waste of taxpayers dollars. Honestly, how can you guys constantly whine about the cuts made to education in the state budget, despite Walker giving school districts the tools to make up for cuts in state aid if the districts choose to exercise those tools to their full extent, and then go and blow millions of taxpayer dollars on Capitol protests, frivolous recalls, frivolous lawsuits, watching the Dems rearrange the Capitol offices after their meaningless victory, etc? Don't you think that your side is extremely hypocritical? David Tatarowicz 1:23 pm on Thursday, November 8, 2012 JRH You got it wrong about the gerrymandering here in WI --- First of all it is NOT illegal UNLESS it is discriminatory. The Republicans had the best attorneys that OUR money could buy, but they were greedy and overextended into discriminating a district that their lawyers said would be a problem. The courts took a very soft handed approach --- even though the Republicans had the districts drawn in secret, and even had their own people sign oaths not to tell, and their law firms tried to stonewall the judge on discovery -- the court only addressed the one district that had racial overtones in its composition. I got to say Jimmy, you is losing your cool dude !! Your rants in your reply about the schools and protests and what all else, had nothing to do with my observations. I never said the gerrymandering was illegal --- but it sure was expensive, or is that an expense that you would sign off on ? BTW -- I am mildly interested in a comment you made in another post about how you might have to move your company jobs to China or something like that --- do you really own a company? Do you make something? With all the time you invest on here, if you do own a company that makes something and you are forced to outshore jobs to China, maybe it would be that you spend so much time here that you are an absentee owner and are not paying attention to your knitting! James R Hoffa 2:26 pm on Thursday, November 8, 2012 @David - You're confusing Hoffa with Steve ®. Hoffa owns and operates a small family restaurant, for supplemental/investment income. And unlike the low life POS scum bag Keith Schmitz, Hoffa actually used his own money to build his business without any government handouts. Obama already previously raised our business taxes. Between Obamacare going into effect and the new round of taxes he's proposing on businesses, that would essentially push Hoffa's net profit margin down to about 3.7% on yearly revenues of roughly $300k, absent any other negative changes, such as inflation (which would increase food and energy costs), decreased sales because of a bad economy or due to the necessity of having to raise prices to stay profitable, etc. For a lousy $11k/year or less, that Hoffa would then have to pay even more taxes on when he transfers it from the business and into his pocket, it may not be worth the time invested and headaches anymore. Thus, Obama's policies may very well cause Hoffa to either sell out or close up shop and liquidate the business, thereby laying off all his employees (2 full time and 23 part time). Obama is great for small businesses and jobs, isn't he? Steve ® 2:34 pm on Thursday, November 8, 2012 Steve ® owns a company that invents and manufactures products as well as buys and resells products that fit this specific industry. Costs have increased under Obama, and will continue. China sucks but to stay in business decisions will have to be made. Especially after obamacare kicks in. Steve ® stared his business with the $600 "tax refund" check received from GW Bush in 2008 (purchaed saw and website). Since then it has been 100% funded by cash AKA Profits (evil). Steve ®'s company profits are taxed at an individual rate which will increase under Obama. China sucks but to stay in business decisions will have to be made. mmm mm mmm James R Hoffa 2:36 pm on Thursday, November 8, 2012 BTW - If you're claiming that the GOP wasted money on redistricting, at least that's something that they were required to do by law. And even when the Dems were in control during past redistricting, it still ended up in federal court, lest you forget! The real waste of taxpayers money came from fraudulent sick-outs in our public schools, Capitol occupations and protests, having the AG and outside counsel have to defend against a multitude of frivolous lawsuits filed in front of Dane County trial Judges, two rounds of meaningless recall elections, re-officing the Capitol over a meaningless and short lived recess victory during the recalls, etc, etc. Hoffa hopes that you can see the point. How are you guys going to react to Walker's next biennial budget, which he's currently working on? David Tatarowicz 3:13 pm on Thursday, November 8, 2012 JRH I can't say that I understand your math ....... and I have "unfortunately" been in the restaurant business ... and it was not a planned or pleasant experience. If your margins are that small, I think you should take a look at what you are doing -- restaurants are pretty much a boom or bust business, and if you are not booming, won;t be too long before you bust. The confusing part though is that you think that Obama raised your business taxes, or that (I presume) you think Obama care will affect you. If as you say you are paying business tax now and then again when you pay yourself, you had better get a better accountant. Unless you have a zillion investors, even if you are a C corp you would go subchapter S and you would not pay any corporate tax on income -- it would flow through to your 1040, on which you would pay "personal" tax, or be able to use any loss. The same applies if you are an LLC - -- again, income is not taxed as corporate and then again as personal -- just once as personal. This is a common loop hole that many businesses with even thousands of employees use to avoid corporate taxes. They set up as a C corp with subchapter S ( as long as not too many shareholders), they pay NO corporate tax, it all goes to their 1040 and they only pay personal tax ...... if this one loophole was closed to say companies doing $3 miilion or more -- wow rates could even be lower and we would have more revenue !! David Tatarowicz 3:19 pm on Thursday, November 8, 2012 @JRH And by the way --- you seem to think I am one of "you guys" Democrats !! Not so ... I am an independent, I learned the hard way that there is no substantive difference between Dems and Reps --- and the intra party politics are all just BS. I have voted for as many Republicans as Democrats, and will continue to vote for the person I think is the best, or at least the lesser of two evils. If I ever ran for office again, I think i would use the Sheriff Clark method --- run on whichever party ticket is popular for the area, but stay away from the party and run on my own platform --- not that I like his !!! but give the Devil his due -- he fools enough Democrats to get re-elected. William Eib 10:55 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012 The implication in Romney's comments, television and radio ads that Chrysler wants to shift Jeep production OUT of North America to China.. I don't see an extended explanation available. You can only take a man at his word, not what he meant. That is one of the weaknesses of Romney's campaign, no clarity. If he had defined himself and his plans instead of pandering for votes, he would more than likely be President today. Jeep is not moving production of the Jeep line out of Toledo. If your point is accurate, not the parts thing, but the assumption of lost jobs, than that is what Romney should have said. Not; Chrysler is moving Jeep to China. That's fear mongering. James R Hoffa 11:38 am on Thursday, November 8, 2012 @William Eib - "You can only take a man at his word, not what he meant." So, then, Hoffa is guessing that you must have conveniently overlooked these words (paraphrased) from Obama when deciding to vote for him yet again: There will be no mandate in my health care bill. I'll half the deficit in my first term. No tax increases on the middle class. My stimulus will create 8M shovel ready jobs and lower unemployment to below 5.6%. The auto companies completely repaid all of their bailout money to the taxpayers. Health insurance premiums will drop by an average of $2,500. My policies will encourage economic growth and drive wages up. I'll end the wars on day 1. I will renegotiate NAFTA and other unfair trade deals - take it to the bank. Etc. That's called LYING - and you apparently bought into all of it! William Eib 11:03 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012 If memory serves me well re: Obama budget. The bill in toto did not get to be debated. The GOP extracted the numbers only for the debate. How the money was to be used and the rationale behind the expenditures were never revealed or debated. The numbers indeed were scary. I think this time around thee maybe a bit more inclination to present the whole bill in it's entirety. Not just the numbers. If the plan is explained there are many times a number is not scary. James R Hoffa 11:42 am on Thursday, November 8, 2012 @William Eib -! SkinnyDude 2:43 am on Thursday, November 8, 2012 Tammy Baldwin is a non factor in the US SENATE.........what she gonna do name another Post Office? That the type of non leadership we have in the White House.......Thank god we Conservatives have the House as atleast Gridlock will slow the death of the nation. WPN1488 10:48 am on Thursday, November 8, 2012 The American Psychiatric Association classified homosexuality as a form of mental illness up until 1973 when they were pressured to change. Other countries still consider it a form of mental illness. morninmist 11:09 am on Thursday, November 8, 2012 "other countries" include you? lukas @forwardourmotto 9s The right isn't resting, the left can't either RT @dane101 Spring's Wisconsin Supreme Court race already top topic on Vicki McKenna's show. David Tatarowicz 10:57 am on Thursday, November 8, 2012 @WPN As the esteemed candidate Mourdock in Indiana said in an October debate "that women who get pregnant during a rape was “something God intended." --- I think a logical extension of that belief is that if someone is Gay --- it is something that God intended. North Shore Newbie 11:14 am on Thursday, November 8, 2012 With all due respect, the fact that someone was born "that way" has nothing to do with whether or not they have a mental illness. Someone who's gay, in theory, could both be born that way "as God intended" AND be suffering from a mental illness. Pedophiles are born that way (NO, I'm NOT comparing Gay men and women to pedophiles in any other sense except for this specific analogy) but we realize it's not the norm; it's clearly an illness. A person who's gay could, again IN THEORY, be suffering from a mental illness, but since it has no negative consequences to society (in fact, it helps keep populations down), could live a normal, happy life. FreeThought Troy 11:39 am on Thursday, November 8, 2012 North Shore - I believe I understand what you are trying to say, but I need to clarify a couple points in the event there are those who don't. Homosexuality is not - nor ever has been - a mental illness. Yes, gay people may also suffer from mental illness - the same illnesses straight people suffer from (bi polar, anxiety, depression, etc.). Homosexuality in itself, is not - NOT - a mental illness. There is no god so gay people are not born "that way." Even if there was a god, yes this being would have intented that person to be gay. The moment you can prove to me there is a god and homosexuality was not intended, is the moment I will eat my words and pay Hoffa Schmity's $50 with interest. William Eib 6:26 pm on Thursday, November 8, 2012 Wow, what a brave guy. Trying logic as a means of debating. You talking to people who are locked in to their biases. They will never change until they have a personal or devotional experience with a family member of friend who comes out of the closet. It then will hit home and maybe, if there a lick of empathy, they will see the light. I live in a large major city. The homosexual community is quite large, and the constant exposure to the gay community, friends and family, helps a great deal in understanding, it is not a life style, it is who God made them. They are gay, it is not a mental illness. It's just as simple as being tall, or short. A Negro or a Caucasian. You are born Gay. Having no first hand experience with homosexuals as people negates any opinion any one who calls it a disease. That's just flat out ignorance. As folks in the Gay Community often say, if it the sex that bothers people, then maybe they are gay and don't know it. Yet. William Eib 1:55 pm on Thursday, November 8, 2012 As a non resident, but a avid fan of the politics in your state. I would suggest the Democrats roll over, let the GOPer have the state. The GOP can not govern, they are very good at cutting things they dislike, but their capacity to lead a state to prosperity is questionable. Without a big emotional issue they can be negative about they are fish out of water. I know it would be a big sacrifice for the state, but in due time the follies of the GOP will be come quite clear to the public. They are like the Taliban, if one issue they hate is put down, and no others exist, they will invent one. Soon they will be exposed as the phonies they are. With out Liberals the GOP would have nothing to do. They owe us for their existance. They beat on Obama for 4 years and all it did ws get him reelected. Yu can search as much as you want but the Romney lass is the faultof the 4 years of try to assassinate Obama's character. It fatigued the Nation. The GOP painted it self in to a corner of anger, hate, contempt, pessimism. It did not sell. So with this example let them have Wisconsin, they will f**k it up in a heart beat, then the DEMS ride in and save the State. All the GOPer have is their selfishness, no one gets anything for free. NO welfare, no Medicaid, no any kind of help from the government.. The notion you can starve people out of poverty is so Feudal. James R Hoffa 2:40 pm on Thursday, November 8, 2012 @William Eib - "All the GOPer have is their selfishness, no one gets anything for free." Nothing is free - someone has to pay for it. Until you're ready to put your money where your mouth is, and post your last tax return showing how you gave more money in taxes to the government than what you legally owed, then you you're not leading by example and you have no room to talk on this issue! Get a clue! Dick 2:07 pm on Monday, November 12, 2012 William, You are definately an extremist. Just like those union members who filled the streets of Madison, damaged our capitol which cost the taxpayers a ton to fix, spewed hate mail to our GOP representatives, etc etc for monthes on end. What did it get them in the end. Nothing. Millions of dollars later from the AFLCIO etc. Now they have taken to the courts in Madison WI of course, the most liberal place in WI they could find where they could find judges simpathetic to their cause. William, if you think the GOP wants to take away free stuff from everyone, you couldn't be more misinformed. We want to help people create something for own lives and wellbeing, not keep them dependant on Big Government. William Eib 6:15 pm on Thursday, November 8, 2012 @Greg: "Nothing will be accomplished in the Senate because everything that happens there is 100% controlled by the party leaders." Don't you ever get tired of living in a negative state of mind? I can't imagine going around all day all twisted up because things didn't go your way. So if I am following your logic, Tommy Thompson would have been just another house plant. So He and Baldwin are the same, so what difference does it make who won, based on your dim view of things. They are peas in a pod. So why not follow your own advice ( they are both house plants) and lighten up. William Eib 6:38 pm on Thursday, November 8, 2012 North Shore Newbie: I have a question. Why is so important to you that homosexuality is a Mental disease? Your analogy of Pedophiles is so out of left field. Pedophiles are molesting and raping children. Homosexuals do not prefer people of the opposite sex. One is a crime the other is not. Every homosexual lives a "normal " life. They go to work, they own or rent, they eat and drink, they wear clothes, they speak the language of the country they are in. They own and drive cars, use public transportation, and the love Lady GaGa. Just like I do. The best thing you can do, is get some gay friends. It will clear everything up for you. William Eib 7:22 pm on Thursday, November 8, 2012 Jimmy Hoffa: Negative campaign ads? You're kidding Here's what I am talking about: Inauguration 2009. The first Negro was elected the POTUS. 15 GOPers and Teahadists, led by Gingrich, Ryan and Cantor had a dinner to plan to undermine the duly elected POTUS. Their plan included obstructing legislation. Negativity came like a tidal wave from the GOP, The New Teahadist Party, FOX, Rush, Beck, the Right Wing Blogosphere and talk radio trying to convince people Obama was: not an American, was a Muslim, a Socialist who read Saul Alinsky like the Teahadists, a Kenyan, a bad college student, a bisexual, a Racist, his mother was a welfare Queen, his dad was Malcolm X, He had been to Mars (look that one up), he supported the Muslim Brotherhood, he pal-ed around with terrorists, he apologized for America, he bows to foreigners, his family spends tax payers money for their dates and vacations. (truth is, the first family has to pay for all personal expenses, including breakfast, lunch and dinner at the white house. Google it. Every personal expense is paid for by the first family. They get a monthly bill from a White House steward. How do campaign ads going negative compare to a 4 year nonstop drum beat of hate, anger, contempt, negativity and pessimism? It's not a matter of fairness. It's was over kill. And now it is beginning all over again. This tactic, cost your guy the election. The public became fatigued. It's amazing Obama was able to stand up to it. Dick 1:59 pm on Monday, November 12, 2012 Who are you kidding. The Obama campaign started their nagative ads etc etc etc the day the knew Romney was running. Much of them filled with lies and slanted. They kept saying Romney didn't have a plan- well I watched the Obama speeches also, yes, to hear the other side. Nope, hardly heard anything about what Obama had in store for the next four years- what was his plan going forward? Not sure til this day. I guess we'll find out as we go, or will we? Hummm. Maybe it'll just sneak up on us. I suppose that Fox is just lieing about Bengahsi also. They have lots of documents to prove their case that this was quite possibly a cover up. Where's the proof from the Obama administration? Oh, now Hilary is retiring, Rice is out of town for the hearings, and Petreus..... sends someone else in place of him. All very interesting. I know, you have excueses for that too. William Eib 7:53 pm on Thursday, November 8, 2012 @Jimbo Hoffo: Obama's major mistake was he thought the GOP was as concerned as he was to get things done for America. What a fool. Had he known he was going to be treated like a house Negro, he may not have been so naive to think both Parties cared about the Country. The mandate was the GOP's baby. They loved it so much in RomneyCare, he put it in, naively thinking they would like it. Ha! The middle class taxes went up? I hope this isn't the Mandate crap. Your remark is vague and implies income tax. Shame on you. Can't control yourself, eh? Again, with out the support of the GOP to help solve problems things don't work as well. Again I stress if the GOP had not planned to undermine the guy and put ideology before country we may be in better shape than we are, but we will never know, but the GOP is getting a mulligan thanks to the voters. My gut feeling, the GOP will not change their tactic and will still try to undermine Obama. It's genetic, they were "born that way." As I have said in the past; If Obama walked on water, you guys would be screaming he can not swim. Dick 1:48 pm on Monday, November 12, 2012 He may think he can walk on water because so many have made him to seem that way. The media included. The media is so biased it just isn't funny. Nothing you can say will make the poeple who believe inthe GOP change their minds. Romney should have won. Obama is all talk. Tax everyone over 250, 000. That's not taxing the rich. They have a funny idea of rich. In some parts of the USA, $250,000 is middle class in reality. William Eib 7:58 pm on Thursday, November 8, 2012 Jimbo Hoffa: " Where did you get the 24Trillion number? Dick 9:28 am on Friday, November 9, 2012 Since the conversation has turned a bit to gays, perhaps you could clear something up for me. Why can't gays have children? If God intended them to be this way, why can't they have children. And please, don't tell me they can. They can only adopt. THey can not in any possible way concieve and bare children of their own with out intervention from a medical doctor etc. FreeThought Troy 9:35 am on Friday, November 9, 2012 @ Dick - god didn't intend anything. There is no god. There are stories and myths, true, but there no supernatural being that has any right to tell us how to live. There never was. Gay people can not have children in the "traditional" sence (what ever that is). They don't posess the corresponding "plumming" (yeah - bad term... it's early and I brain freezing the technical terms). There are plenty of straight couples who can not concieve and bare children with out the intervention from a medical doctor or adopting, either. So they get a pass because the parts are there? Who descides that - the nonexistet god or the homophobic men who made the whole thing up? Randy1949 10:06 am on Friday, November 9, 2012 Gays can and do have children through a variety of means. Surrogates, marriage or other working arrangement with a person of the opposite sex, in vitro just like straight couples have been known to do . . . Now, maybe mother nature creates people who are disinclined to reproduction in order to keep the population from getting too dense, but that is a whole different issue. Marty 9:44 am on Friday, November 9, 2012 @FreeThoughtTroy - I'll pray for you today. God still loves you, even if you don't believe in him. William Eib 1:17 am on Monday, November 12, 2012 What gave you the opinion I did not believe in GOD. I am curious. Dick 9:49 am on Friday, November 9, 2012 Doesn't it make you wonder why we have gone forward for centuries, having babies and growning the population when a male and female have babies because they do have the right parts to create a baby together. With out medical intervention that has only come about in the past (I'm guessing) 25 years, gays were not able to have children at all unless they were lucky enough to adopt. Yes, they can in most states now the way I understand it. Male and Female couples who are unable to have babies can not do so because of a medical condition that prevents them from having a baby on their own. Gays cannot say the same. FreeThought Troy 9:54 am on Friday, November 9, 2012 So based on that, the only reason for monogomouse relationships is to make babies? I understand, you are using your point of procreation as an argument against homosexutality. I can only hope this article will help. William Eib 1:12 am on Monday, November 12, 2012 Dick: what is your problem with same sex marriage? What is going to happen? Marriages for centuries were arranged by the Father. It was for economic and political reasons. Then out of the blue a couple of people wanted to find their own mate, to get married out of love. That just threw everything in to a tail spin. I am sure the same arguments against same sex marriage were used to stop marriages for love. When I was a kid, you did no marry out side of your faith or ethnicity. No way would an Irish girl marry and Italian guy. Unheard of. Miscegenation was a whole other issue. The combining of the Races. That was the end of the world and marriage as we knew it. Now here we are centuries later still having the same old argument. Holding on to something for reasons that are rarely articulated in the arguments. themselves. nothing is going to change, society will not crumble. Marriage will still be important and a grand ritual which we are slowly working towards as an act of love between two human beings. The ultimate vow of partnership. Accepted by society and in the eyes of the law. As far as procreating. I don;t see what that has to do with marriage. My wife and I have been together as man and wife for 46 years and no children. Just not for us. But it upsets a great many people that we did not procreate. Why? Is a constant mystery to me. That it would be such a big deal to other people that we chose not to have kids. Dick 10:00 am on Friday, November 9, 2012 Free Thought I never said the word monogomouse. I said when a male and female have babies. You're trying to change the subject. FreeThought Troy 10:15 am on Friday, November 9, 2012 Please read the second half of my post. I was catching myself arguing circularly. I do hope the article I posted helps. Dick 10:10 am on Friday, November 9, 2012 Free Thought Read you article. Who are you trying to fool? This is still MEDICAL INTERVENSION! You cannot have babies as a male and female do, as has been been the case since the beginning (religious or not, we all started somewhere) of time. I wish you well. Chief Toby Keef 12:05 pm on Saturday, November 10, 2012 Agreed. Homosexuality is different and that's scary and makes me uncomfortable. It's wrong because God. morninmist 2:39 pm on Friday, November 9, 2012 Johnson is an arrogant piece of crap! Dear Senator Johnson, Tammy Baldwin is not an idiot - #wiunion #wipolitics William Eib 7:02 pm on Wednesday, November 14, 2012 How does Social Security add to the deficit? William Eib 12:54 am on Monday, November 12, 2012 Mr. Schmidt: Your sad fatalistic view of the future, is something I hope you can get over. If I may suggest something. Stop shooting from the hip. Also, stop relying on FOX, Rush, Beck, talk radio shows, and the Right Wing Blogosphere for your opinions. The inherent problems with basing you opinions on contempt, dislike anger, negativity, is you are only interested in information which supports your belief system. There is very little need for substance or fact in your line of thinking. Just as long as it it is negative, easy to understand and repeatable. I am not even going to try to make sense of what you said. It's nonsense. Dick 1:36 pm on Monday, November 12, 2012 William If you look at my first comment, I never questioned same sex marriage. William, you are changing the subject as well. I still hold to my comments that we have procreation because a man and a woman have the ability to make babies. In a same sex relationship, you cannot create a baby with out some sort of medical intervention. True? Also, I know many couples who have chosen not to have kids. I agree with you, who cares. It's no body elses business if you choose to have kids or not. That is a personal decision for each couple. I am well aware of the how marriage has evolved. I am also well aware that not all couples (male/female) cannot have babies- for while I was one of them. My and my wifes issue was medical. I'm sorry, there simply isn't a comparison as to why same sex couples cannot have babies, try as you may to dispute that. William Eib 5:10 pm on Monday, November 12, 2012 Let me see, you claim that the sole purpose of marriage is to procreate, the scientific inability of a same sex couple to procreate, negates same sex marriage. Marriage is a coupling of two people, first out of responsibility to s and family, then as man progressed it came to have economic and political value. Then it became an act or expression of love, then it became institutionalized by the culture; engagements, booking the Church, the catering hall, the band, the bridal party, posting the bands, and getting a license. It is a finalization of commitment of two people to one another. That's it. The defenders of "Traditional Marriage" have added the rest. They defended Marriage against love, defended it against ethnic coupling, against mixed Religions, defended it against miscegenation. Now Same Sex get it's turn to fight for the right to call their ceremony a Marriage. Marriage is not some sacred cow, that if it it messed with the earth is going to fly out of orbit. The earth is round, it obits the sun, the moon orbits the earth. The moon is not made of cheese. We survived all of those apocalyptic causing events. You are trying to hold on to something that is not going any where. It's only you who cares about this and people of your mind set. You are causing alarm about something that is not alarming. If this is the center of your concerns, you need to get out more. Dick 2:14 pm on Tuesday, November 13, 2012 William, you need to calm down. Once again you are changing the topic. I am not talking about marriage. I am talking about having babies. Good riddens. William Eib 4:27 pm on Monday, November 12, 2012 Auntie Alinsky: I play be the rules. If I say it, it is true. What are you talking about with facts. We are not going to let Fact Checkers run our comment thread. A little paraphrasing there. I think it's cute. And by the way, you don't think FOX would run that story, do you? Unless of course there was some anti Obama aspect to it/ They are my shining example of fine journalism. If it is anti Obama run with it. What ti the worst that could happen, some liberal catches us in a lie, who cares. Therefore, I stand by my words. Walmart and Food Stamps, just like peanut butter and jelly. William Eib 5:20 pm on Monday, November 12, 2012 Auntie Alinsky: "Funny, when Billy gets his way we are sore losers. When he doesn't we are evil." I wouldn't use the word evil, I'd go with stubborn. Nearly 4 years dedicated to bring down Obama, I had warned folks before, 4 years oaf a constant drum beat of negativity, contempt and pessimism, was no the way to go. You had to have something to offer the voter rather than Obama's college transcripts are not available, he is a Muslim. Very thin. But you were persistent. Y'all hung in there to the bitter end. Now you are all refreshed and ready to do it all over again. What loyalty to the GOP and the Right. I can not say I am looking forward to hearing Obama is a clone, a member of an alien race, his father was Charlton Heston. That's a hell of a way to spend one's time. It was destined to fail, and fail it did. Sorry, Ducky. Y'all lost. William Eib 10:20 am on Tuesday, November 13, 2012 Thought some of you may find this interesting: J. B. Schmidt 11:04 am on Tuesday, November 13, 2012 @Eib That is playing a game with percentages. If a the population in a GOP demographic went from 2% to 4% of the population of on food stamps because of the weak Obama recovery, that looks like a 100% increase. However, in a Dem demographic the usage of food stamps within a population could have increased from 55% to 75% and it only equates to a 36% increase; yet encompasses more people. We would both agree that the second demographic is considerably more dependent and well within the 47% that voted for Santa Claus as president. William Eib 11:17 am on Tuesday, November 13, 2012 J.B.: I just report what I see, I don't need to make it up. How ever you want to slice and dice it is up to you. I thought it was interesting. But, not surprising. I saw a TV ratings article regarding the more bawdy shows on TV at the time; Dangerous Housewives was one, the article noted that these high sexual content shows were more popular in the Red States than the Blue. There may be something worthy of a closer look. Red States = FOX. Red States = Dangerous House Wives. Red States = Food Stamps. Is there a sociological self condemnation thing going on in the Red States. Let he who is with out sin? We are all sinners, as any self righteous Christian knows, but they also know; not all of us are gong to hell for our sins. Or at least that's how they interpret the rules. Do not pass GO and do not collect $200.00 dollars. ( It is not a tax!!!!) William Eib 3:31 pm on Tuesday, November 13, 2012 @DICK: "William, you need to calm down. Once again you are changing the topic. I am not talking about marriage. I am talking about having babies. Good riddens (riddance). Sorry. My bad. It was my misunderstanding that you were drawing some aspect of being able to procreate, with the legitimacy of Same Sex marriage. Was it? William Eib 4:41 pm on Tuesday, November 13, 2012 MAYBE OF INTEREST : Yeah, my sources do not meet with the standards of some but, at least it's good for a minor chuckle: There' s a short ad of negro comedians you have to wait through, sorry. My favorite part is Gretchen Carlson who,in one sentence she is able to create suspicion and indict the W.H. for conspiracy. Gretchen: "Petraeus SEEMED to side with the White House." (Then) "Petraeus SIDED with the WHITE HOUSE. Sly, I give her that. (Then) "WHY??" Why what? Was it: seemed to side or did side and so what?? By the time it reaches the comment threads it's PETRAEUS INVOLVED IN COVERUP WITH WHITE HOUSE. This is a primary reason FOX gets hit with so much criticism. House Wives of NJ gets great ratings, too. FOX; "many are saying," "it's being rumored." "Lot's of people," No one "is saying," until the moment FOX precedes their piece with one of those little set of words. FOX: "Is Obama a Socialist!!!? "Many are accusing Obama of being a Socialist!!!!," "Obama read Saul Alinsky (Who?)!!!!" In the Right Wing: "Obama is a Socialist!!!!" Paul Alinsky; not a Socialist, wrote "Rules for Radicals" the very same book the Tea Party used to organize themselves. Threads: Saul Alinsky, Obama's Socialist Mentor. Paul Ryan is an Atheist, his mentor was the Atheist Ayn Rand. Fact!!! Paraphrasing Descartes: FOX's new slogan: "We say it, therefore it its." morninmist 11:52 am on Wednesday, November 14, 2012 The patron saint of the TeaGOP --Ronny R. said the same thing many years ago! @BoldProgressive 13m Newly-elected Senators Tammy Baldwin and Elizabeth Warren reject cuts to Social Security pccc.me/SMBM6s pccc.me/RXzG4R #p2 .....BALDWIN: With regard to Social Security, Social Security is in no way contributing to our deficit and debt, and shouldn’t even be on the table for the discussion about where we move forward from here............ William Eib 7:03 pm on Wednesday, November 14, 2012 How does social security add to the debt, it is self funding. morninmist 12:20 pm on Thursday, November 15, 2012 As Baldwin says---it does not. slouch2geneva @slouch2geneva 6m MT @KellyO: Senate women's class photo, current & newly elected. Record 20 for next Congress (not all in photo) bit.ly/QJgmeK morninmist 12:35 pm on Thursday, November 15, 2012 YUP. Good ol Ronny was spot on. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders 22h Social Security has nothing to do with the deficit. - Ronald Reagan, Oct. 7, 1984 #NoCuts #Budget William Eib 7:06 pm on Thursday, November 15, 2012 Hello My Fellow Commentators: Big Question. Who is this guy? and why is there no hue and cry for his resignation? Do the Democrats have to take care of your house cleaning, too? Republican U.S. Rep. Scott DesJarlais (the Abortion King) William Eib 10:42 pm on Thursday, November 15, 2012 John McCain has stepped in it!. Screaming for more info on Benghazi. Then, he does not attend a meeting with the intelligence department heads to update John McCain's committee on Benghazi. John McCain does not show up. Why? Because he was having a press conference to let the press know he is still waiting for more info on Benghazi. He is off the rails on this thing. And how he doesn't see the parallel between Condoleezza Rice going before the public to tell America about WMDs (which were not found), reading the latest intelligence information about WMDs. The info subsequently was proven Wrong. Yet no one attacked Condolezza Rice, and John McCain voted for her for Secretary of State. Susan Rice, goes before the public to update them on the Benghazi incident. She is relying on the most current info provided by the CIA, She makes it quite clear in her remarks that this is an early report and that more will be coming, she like Condolezza was reading a statement provided to her by the CIA. This information turns out to be inaccurate, as was the WMD info. So john McCain decides to punish the messenger. He gave Condolezza a pass, but will not give Susan a chance to even have a say. Her career is toast thanks to McCain. He is still trying to get revenge for being beating by a young liberal Negro. He is suffering from what Mitt is trying to explain away to ease his embarrassment of being beaten by a Negro as well. And the same Negro. McCain is nutz. William Eib 11:09 pm on Thursday, November 15, 2012 Petraeus is testifying tomorrow. So there goes the conspiracy theory, he was screwed by the WH to stop him from testifying. I mean, it is the CIA. They could always give him a heart attack going up the capitol steps. Or a Semi plows in to his car. Or someone sticks him with an umbrella with a poison pellet in it's tip. Or his babe shows up at the hotel, his wife comes in and shoots both of them. Take your pick. Or make up your own. The Benghazi conspiracy nuts at FOX are gong to have egg on their face once again. The Birther thing was an embarrassment and this will be an other red faced moment. Like the unemployment numbers going up in all of the states hit by Sandy. And Moe of FOX and Friend's Three Stooges, is astonished that a Hurricane can get people fired. Businesses were destroyed, what a putz. What frigging planet does that toady live on? My God, and they wonder why Mitt lost? James R Hoffa 11:26 pm on Thursday, November 15, 2012 @William Eib - What do any of your recent postings on this board have to do with Baldwin beating Thompson in the Wisconsin Senate race? Is your reading comprehension really that bad and worthless, or do you just like spamming blogs with random off-topic ramblings?	16,255
Mike Daisey, a monologuist who has tackled themes of war (“If You See Something, Say Something”) and the state of American theater (“How Theater Failed America”), is back with a new show about religion, money and the worship they inspire. “The Last Cargo Cult” is about a trip Mr. Daisey took to the Pacific island Tanna where, he says, the world’s last cargo cult — more on that later — still exists. Interwoven into the monologue is a thread about the national financial collapse. (A video interview with Mr. Daisey and the creative team for this show is here.) In his review, Jason Zinoman writes: “The way Mr. Daisey makes his arguments, more than the arguments themselves, is what makes him one of the elite performers in the American theater.” Mr. Daisey, whose performances can be sweaty, thunderous and profanity-laced, talked about what inspired his new work. Following are excerpts from the conversation. What is a cargo cult? Cargo cult is a term that anthropologists use. The most common is from World War II. The war in the Pacific was shifting, so the U.S. military built bases in the South Pacific that were remote, where cultures have been isolated for two or three thousand years. Overnight there are Quonset huts and chocolates, and that sudden intrusion caused shock in all these cultures. The disappearance of the Americans, when the war was won, made it magical. In New Guinea, new religions sprang up that worshiped the power of America. How does that concept get theatricalized in your new show? I try to use one culture to illuminate the other. When we think about consumerism we think of CD players and iPods, but the reality is that the things that we have are the ideas we have wrapped up together. When the cargo cult wants the power of America through the objects and tools of America, they really are just practicing the same religion we practice today. This religion can be perceived as being almost foolish, kind of absurd to our taste, but at the same time it’s a religion like any other, forged out of sympathetic magic. The monologue demonstrates that the religion of the first world has the same underpinnings there. How does the show touch on themes of money and the financial crisis in the United States? I’ve been following a vein of obsessions that have their focal point around globalization and corporatization. A lot of the show is about a collapse that happened a year ago — or rather didn’t happen –- and that we’re still dealing with it. It talks about the invention of money, and how money is a construct. It’s almost impossible to extricate ourselves from the social system of money. We can’t even conceive of a world beyond it. It’s almost impossible to understand that money is not a necessary invention. What did you learn about the value of money while growing up? I grew up in northern Maine, a very poor area of the country, although I wasn’t aware it was poor. I abstractly knew because I was a precocious reader. I think you form your assessments for what it means to be wealthy around your surroundings. In our town we were middle class. I felt very comfortable. I didn’t feel a lot of the class struggle that many people have until I went to college, Colby College, in Maine. It was a real awakening into how much access to power privileged people have. That shock still continues to inform my life and the work I’m interested in. What appeals to you about the solo-show format? I want theater that’s alive and not dead. One of the things I’m interested in is that because they are not scripted, every telling is a unique event. I am required with the audience to build it in the space. I have to think through the moment and not just memorize and regurgitate. I learn as I do it. “The Last Cargo Cult” runs through Sunday at the Public Theater, 425 Lafayette Street, East Village; (212) 967-7555, publictheater.org.	842
Violent Crime in Port Washington, Saukville and Wisconsin The Federal Bureau of Investigation report on crime in the United States includes data from Port Washington, Saukville. In Port Washington and Saukville, rates were comparable to other suburban Milwaukee communities, and relatively low overall. Neither community had a homicide and there were a total of 12 … In this Article: … more ›	79
Notes Add or edit a note on this artwork that only you can see. You can find notes again by going to the ‘Notes’ section of your account. Medium oil on canvas Measurements 28.2 x 22.2 cm Accession number PL.1927.251 Acquisition method gift from the Provand's Lordship Society, 1978 Provand’s Lordship 3 Castle Street, Glasgow G4 0RB	97
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Počet záznamů: 1 Pyrazinium Salts as Efficient Organocatalysts of Mild Oxidations with Hydrogen Peroxide - 1. 0359406 - UOCHB-X 2012 RIV DE eng J - Článek v odborném periodiku Ménová, Petra - Kafka, František - Dvořáková, H. - Gunnoo, S. - Šanda, Miloslav - Cibulka, R. Pyrazinium Salts as Efficient Organocatalysts of Mild Oxidations with Hydrogen Peroxide. Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis. Roč. 353, č. 6 (2011), s. 865-870 ISSN 1615-4150 Grant CEP: GA ČR(CZ) GA203/07/1246 Výzkumný záměr: CEZ:AV0Z40550506 Klíčová slova: Baeyer-Villiger oxidation * organocatalysis * peroxides * pyrazinium salts * sulfoxidation Kód oboru RIV: CC - Organická chemie Impakt faktor: 6.048, rok: 2011 A series of 3-substituted pyrazinium tetrafluoroborates was prepared as simple analogues of flavinium salts which are efficient organocatalysts for oxidations with hydrogen peroxide. It was shown that pyrazinium derivatives with an electronwithdrawing substituent catalyze mild oxidations of sulfides to sulfoxides and Baeyer–Villiger oxidations in a similar way to flavinium catalysts. A proposed mechanism for the catalysis is based on the formation of pyrazine hydroperoxide which is the agent oxidizing the substrate. Trvalý link:	378
Has the growth in interest in design helped to chase blatant philosophical materialism out of textbooks? Just wondering. Have you seen examples from recent textbooks that match these examples from the1990s through 2001?: From Joseph S. Levine and Kenneth R. Miller, Biology: Discovering Life (D.C. Heath and Co., 1st ed. 1992, p. 152:.:. Hat tip for excerpts Stephen E. Jones, pictured above. Labels: Darwinism and textbooks	100
1. Tomorrow morning we will trailer Lucy to the vet to have her hocks evaluated. I gave her all of last week off and rode her this morning. I wanted to see how she was, to cement things in my mind and so that I could give an accurate account to the vet. Lucy felt good at walk but vas very uncomfortable at trot, particularly to the right. I didn't even try canter. 2. Since Lucy and I spent most of our ride at walk, I was more aware than usual of Brett and Mufasa. Normally, I focus on Lucy and nothing else penetrates our world. I watched Brett and Mufasa cantering a 20 meter circle at the far end of the arena and Mufasa looked comfortable and balanced. I asked Brett what he was doing differently. He stopped, and thought for a minute. He said the biggest difference was that he gave Mufasa more rein. They changed direction and Brett picked up the canter again. Mufasa was fluid and happy. His ears were pricked forward, his neck was stretched, and his muscles rippled. The difference between today's canter and their historical choppy, tight gait was huge. 3. Brett found out yesterday that Mark Rashid will be back in Visalia in October. Brett has a spot in the clinic. Yes! 4. Over the past year a number of the blogs I read have changed. Life happens -- young riders get married and start families, people move off of their farms and ranches for health or economic reasons, or they just get tired. I've been blogging for four or five years and things have changed with me as well. When I started blogging, I telecommuted two or three days a week and I knew my job so well that it was automatic. I had the time and the energy to devote to regular posting. Two years ago, I changed jobs and we relocated. I love my job but it is very demanding; no telecommuting and a completely different scope of responsibility. When I get home from work, I am exhausted. I don't have the time or energy to post. I'm sure my regular followers have noticed the sporadic pattern of my posting. I'm not going away -- but this will be my new normal. Glad you're figuring out what's up with Lucy's hocks - hope they have a good solution. Glad Brett and Mufasa are doing so well, and that Mark will be back to work with them again. I understand about the blogging, as you know. I'll probably try to update quarterly for now. I hope that all goes well with Lucy tomorrow! Yay for Brett and Mufasa. I totally get being busy. Please don't stop though. I'd miss the updates, even they are sporadic! I totally, totally understand. I have to make an effort on many days... but then, I use my blog as a record of our lives and what went on it ... so it's easier, I think. Just so you don't stop altogether. Many time I think of stopping but I have grown to know my blogging friends and I would truly miss them. You are at the top of my list. P.s. Glad there is always Facebook. : )	667
H.S. Football Picks \| Week 5 FELDY: Phersy proved last week once again that he is totally average. Not that there's anything wrong with that. After another 6-1 week, I hold a 4-game lead over Phersy. I'm 22-6, Phersy is 18-10. That could easily flip this week. Not a ton of great matchups on the schedule, but we picked some games that should at least be close. Here we go: BIG 9 Albert Lea (0-4) at Winona (1-3) HVL La Crescent (3-1) at K-M (3-1) Lake City (3-1) at Stewartville (3-1) THREE RIVERS Southland (4-0) at Chatfield (2-2) Fillmore Central (4-0) at Kingsland (2-2) SEC Houston (2-2) at Grand Meadow (3-1) Mabel-Canton (1-3) at LeRoy-Ostrander (1-3) ••• PHERSY: Well, if there's anything I should have learned from our previous years of doing this is that you should never press and pick against what you're really thinking just to play catch-up. And if there's another thing, it's that I play the underdog role well and I'll probably still come back and beat Feldy. LEGGO!! BIG 9 Albert Lea 13, Winona 6: Whoa, this one is tough Feldy. But the Winhawks have scored a total of six points combined the last three weeks. And they're giving up 50 a game in that stretch. This one could go either way, but I'll go with the Tigers to mess up seeding in Section 1AAAA HVL La Crescent 35, K-M 28: So, the new QB at Kasson-Mantorville can play a little bit. He was huge last week against Z-M. That said, the Lancers beat a tough Cannon Falls team handily last week. And the Bombers handed K-M their lone loss. Have a feeling Feldy will go the other way on this one. Stewartville 35, Lake City 21: The Tigers proved a lot to me last week. They're a legit contender in this conference. And a win over the Eagles will do a great deal for their confidence. Hopefully, that doesn't spell letdown against the Tigers. THREE RIVERS Southland 30, Chatfield 21: This one might be a little deceiving on paper. But Chatfield's two losses are to Caledonia and PEM, so it's not a bad squad. That said, I love what Shawn Kennedy has built down at Southland. Fillmore Central 40, Kingsland 21: This is another trap game; Feldy's trying to get me to bite. But Fillmore Central is the real deal and can hang 40 on just about anybody. SEC Houston 28, Grand Meadow 27: Seriously, flip a coin in the SEC this year. Grand Meadow falls to Mabel-Canton last week??? I don't get it. When in doubt, pick Houston. Mabel-Canton 27, LeRoy-Ostrander 20: M-C has all the momentum after that huge win last week. Meanwhile, LO has lost three straight since a win over L/P. That said, nothing would surprise me in the SEC. ••• FELDY: If I beat Phersy again this week, maybe I'll turn my picks over to Toddler Feldy next week. She'd probably do better than me, anyway. Big 9 Winona 18, Albert Lea 13: I agree, Phersy, this one could really go either way. I think Winona may have found something with its passing game in the second half against Mayo last week. It wasn't overwhelming, but the Winhawks moved the ball a couple of times, which they have to see as a positive. HVL K-M 33, La Crescent 30: The Lancers can score. They can also give up points. Gimme the KoMets on their home turf. Stewartville 31, Lake City 27: Again, I agree with you, Phersy, that Lake City has found some confidence and turned things around from recent seasons. That said, Stewartville is playing exceptionally well right now. TRC Chatfield 28, Southland 25 (OT): As Phersy said, Chatty's two losses are to outstanding teams. The Gophs are better than their 2-2 record shows. Southland seems to always be hovering around the 7-1/8-0 mark when they enter the playoffs. This might be their one "L" in the regular season. Fillmore Central 35, Kingsland 23: Phersy was supposed to go with the Knights here. The Falcons are a team to watch in the TRC. If they win this one, they'll be 5-0. Time for people around the state to take notice. SEC Grand Meadow 36, Houston 30: As I said last week, I can't pick a Houston game correctly (even though I did finally pick their game correctly last week). For that matter, I can't pick a nine-man game correctly most of the time. Still, my gut says the Larks bounce back this week from a tough loss to Mabel-Canton last week. Mabel-Canton 34, LeRoy-Ostrander 19: The Cougars keep their momentum going against L-O, which is averaging less than 12 points per game. Recent Comments	1,200
In my review of Slumdog Millionaire, I made passing remarks about its music. Here is a little more detailed review: - O Saya: Interesting. Although too much of Euro junk mixed. - Riots: Give me Bombay theme any day. Forget haunting, this hardly even registers. - Mausam and Escape: Just when you enjoy the sitar (is it?), the Euro-junk kicks in. Has energy though, just like O Saya. As far as theme music goes, this is pretty much up there. - Paper Planes: Pure Euro Junk. - Paper Planes (DFA Remix): As if pure Euro-junk wasn’t enough, mixed with more pure Euro Junk. - Ringa Ringa: Choli ke peeche genre marketed to westerners by putting it on adrenaline. - Liquid Dance: Best of the lot. The mixing doesn’t seem to smother it into the same pulp like some others. Although that “heyyyy” cry once too many irritates. Would have been so much interesting with a little less screwing around with it. Still one of the best in the soundtrack - Latika’s theme: Serves the purpose. Pure utilitarian. - Aaj Ki Raat: No comments. - Millionaire: Forgettable - Gangsta Blues: This has “I can do this shit too” written all over it. - Dreams on fire: Soulless soul - Jai Ho: Has energy. Utilitarian. Bolly-music fruit-plate served on a with some European seasoning. Final score? Well 2.5/5. That’s being generous. Especially considering Dev D music review is pending (go check that out instead!)	348
Girls basketball: Whiting gets redemption against Noll, wins first title in nine years By Ryan Haskell Post-Tribune correspondent February 9, 2013 11:26PM Brianna Blackwell hugs Abigail Bondi after defeating Bishop Noll in the Sectional Championship at River Forest High School on Saturday February 9, 2013. \| Jim Karczewski~for Sun-Times Media Article Extras Updated: March 11, 2013 6:59AM HOBART — Whiting was hoping a third time would be the charm Saturday night in the Class 2A River Forest Sectional championship game against Bishop Noll. It was all that and more for the Oilers. After losing to the Warriors in the regular season and the Greater South Shore Conference championship game, Whiting finally got one against the Hammond Catholic school winning 65-48 to earn the school’s second sectional championship in school history. The Oilers last championship came in 2004 in Class 1A. They move on to face the Hebron Sectional winner Boone Grove at the Rochester Regional. The game’s first 14 minutes went back-and-forth as each team put up 23 points. But a Veronica Aguilera steal and basket, a pair of free throws from Citlali Lopez and a nice assist from Lauren Markovich to Bri Blackwell as the first half expired put Whiting (20-3) ahead 29-23, giving it the momentum into the break. That carried over into the second half as the Oilers outscored the Warriors 15-2 to start the third quarter. Whiting coach Kevin Moynihan said he preached to his girls that no matter what the scoreboard said they had to believe they were losing and needed to keep pushing to get back in the game. It worked to perfection. “We constantly said: ‘Play like you’re losing, play like you’re down 10 points and don’t let them back in,’” he said. “(At halftime), we talked about the first three minutes back out there were the most important three minutes of your athletic lives because Noll is going to come out and fight you with everything they have and we knew if (our team) could withstand that pressure in those first three minutes we could be okay.” Whiting’s defense smothered Noll (21-3) on the offensive end as the Warriors couldn’t get anything going for the first six minutes of the second half. The only Noll player to put points on the board in the first six minutes was freshman Brenda Pennington, who recorded six of the team’s nine third-quarter points. The Oilers, meanwhile, watched Lopez go to work on their side as the junior guard scored 11 of her team’s 18 third-quarter points to push the lead to 47-32. Noll never challenged again. “That was big for us,” said Moynihan, of Lopez’ strong third quarter. “Because Noll started to faceguard Bri (Blackwell) a little bit and CC stepped up and took charge.” Pennington led the Warriors with 19 points, while freshman Naomi House tallied 11 points. Lopez led the Oilers with 21 points, Blackwell recorded 16 points, Abbi Bondi had 12 points and Lauren Markovich recorded 10 points.	681
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LATEST NEWS FROM THE POTTER & WEB STUDIO We have recently had the pleasure of working with interior photographer, David Giles. 19th Aug 2012 We have been working closely with a talented wedding photographer, Charlotte Lisa. 1st Aug 2012 We recently launched a portfolio website for oxford based fine artist, Paul Kessling. 22nd July 2012 Le book London has been published, and features a one page advert for Potter & Web Ltd. 17th July 2012 We were asked to make this simple little site for camera hire company 'digiboutique'. It launched today. 5th June 2012 view project To go with a move to a new office and a brand new site, touch digital also commissioned P&W to design all their stationary. 23rdth May 2012 view project We were asked to create an illustration for our clients barge "the pie rat". There were lots of smiles and we all had a great day by the river. 14th May 2012 We are proud to announce the launch of touchdigital.co.uk. The site features an animated sorting function. 2th April 2012 We have finally arrived at our new HQ. A beautiful 2100sq ft studio, designed by by Philippe Malouin. 12th March 2012 We have just launched a site for the international creative studio "Most". They specialise in petrol station design. 20th Feb 2012 We can now reveal a new site for Photographic Agency "Red Represents". See if you can spot a few celebrities? 8th Feb 2012 We've just gone live with a nice little site to house the showreel of film maker Luke Powell. It also features its very own guard dog! 4th Feb 2012 We launch a new site for fine artist Kate Kessling, we recommend taking a look at the colourful button collections! 28th Jan 2012 Creative Photographic duo launch a new site to showcase their wonderful photographic stories. 12th Jan 2012 We have just added a new section to to showcase the brands new olympic based stage show "Bowlympics". 5th Jan 2012 We've just created a fun kids message board for classycool, its in the shape of a monsters face ! 4th Jan 2012 We gave Dee Vesali's site a little face lift and added a couple of new pages, why not take a look? 15th Dec 2012	520
Julianne Cannon I've only had her for a term, but she is so amazing, she only gets mad if you goof off, which sadly happens a lot since I am in year 7 this year sigh. but she really tries for everyone ^^ Ms Canon is one of most hardworking, caring and fun teachers I've met. She made me believe in myself and gave me confidence, characteristics that have helped me tremendously after finishing school. Amid the stress of HSC, she fuelled class with so much fun and excitement, reminding us why we chose drama in the first place. Drama became the subject I looked forward to the most and ended up becoming my best subject. Ms Canon helped me find my passion and for that I am eternally grateful. Had her in year 12 a few years ago if you get a band 6 in that class you are a talented miracle ( we had none lol) ; unorganised in the highest way ever if your her favourite and you decide to put more effort into another subject she hates you the way she turns on favourites is screwed up ==rmt==More organisation required ...................................... Extremely unorgansied and gives us excursion sheets on the day they are due and has the most difficult approach do anything we do in class, she always changes what we do in our performances which were supposed to figure out ourselves and when she realises she made a mistake shes always trying to cover up for it. Makes DRA.a very hard to do and it also makes the subject very difficult to put up with. Also if your not one of her favourites you may as well give up trying to get top of the class. She gives a lot of work..... but she cares. She's good at miming She interrupted my drama play with my friends and said I abused acting when I was acting. She is just jealous. She said all i was trying to do was to get a laugh from the class. she is good, gives you good marks...but only if you are on her good side. on her bad side? everything you do gets a fail. her way or the high way, not very helpful most of the time. I experienced having Miss Cannon as a teacher for 2 and a half years...Though that was while she taught English. She was a good teacher, but some of her approaches to the topics were a little irritating.. I believe that Mrs.Cannon is a really good acting teacher, the only problem I have encountered with her is that sometimes I feel that we have to commit to Drama way too often. That's very noticeable when comparing with other subjects in particular.	538
Imagine well as you prepare to retire and move into the next... >Full Story How You can Walk in the Spirit (Part 4) This is Part 4 of a 4 part series - How You... >more How You can Walk in the Spirit (Part 3) This is Part 3 of a 4 part series - How You... >more What do you fear, and why? Is it holding you back from realizing your full potential?>Watch Voluntary simplicity – a choice to consider.	107
Welcome back, Arrowheads! Today I’ll be introducing you to one of the main characters in Can’t Beat the Heart of a Carolina Girl, Carter Pickett! Carter Pickett First and foremost, I apologize for not giving Carter a middle name. It’s not that I was lazy (well, maybe I was), but I’m extremely particular about naming my characters, and I’ve already found the absolute perfect middle name for Carter… reserved for my future son if God allows me to have children once I’m married. So yeah, I’m taking the Nicholas Sparks risk of wanting to name my kids after my characters. But, whatever. At least Carter Pickett is a good influence! Carter Pickett, like Riley Houston, is a reformed nerd. Well, just in his outward appearance. In middle school, Carter was shorter than the other guys in his grade, and was often bullied because he wasn’t good at sports. He had always felt insecure, until he met a girl at his best friend Trent’s birthday party during the 6th grade. This event inspired him pursue confidence in himself, which leads us to the beginning of the novel. Carter’s is a major fan of Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy, often re-reading them in class and binge-watching the movies with Trent. He also enjoys riding four-wheelers (ATVs) with his dad down the path near his house. Being a quintessential southern boy, Carter takes part in Agriculture and Shop classes at Linwood Whaley High, where he is one of the top-ten students in the freshman class. Due to his history of being the butt of the joke in middle school, Carter is socially awkward and has a self-deprecating sense of humor. In my mind, he’s most akin to Gordo from Lizzie McGuire, and this is why he’s always been my favorite character from my debut novel. Thanks for reading, and check back here on Friday for another Flash Fiction piece! -Allyson 😀 2 thoughts on “Arrowheads: Who is Carter Pickett?”	427
Located at the base of Petrin Hill on Ujezd Street in Mala Strana is this disturbing series of statues dedicated to the victims of the Communist era between 1948-1989. A original total of seven (two were damaged due to a bomb in 2003) male statues appear to be disintegrating and decaying before our very eyes, the first man whole, the next man missing a limb, ripped open, to the last man who has become virtually nothing. It is to symbolize how political prisoners under Communism were affected, and as a Memorial it is very affective. During the evening, the memorial is lit up providing an even more eerie look. The memorial was unveiled on May 22, 2002, and is the work of Olbram Zoubek, a famous Czech sculptor and architects Jan Kerel and Zdenek Holzel. Notice the bronze strip in the center of the stairs where the statues are located. It tells the estimated number of people impacted by the Communist regime. Address: Located at the base of Petrin Hill, tram stop Ujzed, Praha 1. Prague-Stay.com will assist you in planning your authentic visit to this lively city and steer you away from numerous 'tourist traps' that sadly exist in this eccentric capital.	266
ETAuto Bureau NEW DELHI: Commercial vehicle manufacturer Tata Motors has launched its new pick up ACE Mega, on Thursday, the company said in a statement. Launched at a price of Rs 4.31 lakh (ex Thane), the small commercial vehicle (SCV) is available in azure blue colour. With a rated payload of 1 tonne, the Tata ACE Mega has been designed and developed for maximising revenues of the transport operator by ensuring more trips, more load carrying capability in low turnaround time and meeting requirements of both, intra and intercity transportation and can be easily driven on any kind of terrain. Initially, it will be available for sale in seven states - Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Orissa, West Bengal and Tamil Nadu, and will expand to other states in a phased manner. According to Ravi Pisharody, Executive Director, Commercial Vehicle Business Unit, Tata Motors, "Tata Motors has been a pioneer in creating and growing the small commercial vehicle market in India with its varied portfolio in this segment. We know our customer requirements very well and the ACE Mega is one such product which emerges out of our in-depth knowledge and consumer insight. Like other members of the Tata ACE family, it will strongly contribute to an entrepreneur's bottom line of business operations and progressively increase the top line with segment-leading uptime." It comes equipped with the 4th generation 2 cylinder 800 cc DiCOR engine, which delivers a power of 40 HP. Its 5 speed gearbox facilitates speed of 90 kmph and has a fuel efficiency of 18.5 kmpl. The Tata ACE Mega's cabin comes with an ergonomically located driver console, glovebox with lock, provision for music system, mobile charging facility, digital clock and full fabric seats.	366
Indianapolis Power & Light (IPL) is planning to spend just over a half billion dollars, $511 million, to clean up the air around two major coal burning electric generating power plants. One is in Petersburg, in Pike County in southwest Indiana. The other in on south Harding Street, near I-465 in Indianapolis. IPL says the huge amount must be spent to sharply reduce the amount of harmful pollution the two plants spew into the atmosphere each day. IPL estimates rates would go up around $108 per year for the average customer. Opponents from the Sierra Club and Citizens Action Coalition say the plant upgrades are too costly and will still allow the plants to burn “dirty”, pollution generating coal from Indiana. They also say the $108 added cost is too high and that less polluting alternatives to coal like wind power, should be explored. Both sides appeared on Afternoons with Amos to talk about the project and their side’s positions. Under questioning, though, IPL admitted that this half billion dollar project has no plans and programs to include minority-owned businesses from being part of this half billion dollar project. Afternoons with Amos also learned none of IPL’s ten top executives are racial minorities, and only one is a woman. Click Link for more Info on This Project. Info on IPL Request. Click Below to Hear Both Sides of this $511 million project. Comments from IPL Vice-President Community Affairs Greg Fennig Runs 14 Minutes. Comments from Sierra Club’s Megan Anderson Runs 22 Minutes. ©2013 WTLC/Radio One.Comments from Sierra Club’s Megan Anderson Runs 22 Minutes. ©2013 WTLC/Radio One.	336
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Proof That It’s Pre-Code - It’s about a lady gangster who takes over a mob through her wits rather than with her body– which is pretty rare for a Pre-Code. She’s vicious, cunning, and makes suckers out of her enemies. - Blondie goes into the hospital to visit her gangster cohort who was run down by an upset mob boss, and gets caught with a gun on her. Now guess where she was packing the heat: And to be perfectly clear, when I say ‘the heat’ I mean ‘her gun’. - Blood and murder galore, and a few attempts in between. It’s not often you see blood in these old movies (I don’t think squibs will be invented for a while yet), so it’s cool to see it used effectively in a few scenes here. The Particulars of the Picture Blondie Johnson: Guns and Gams “Those with money have it, those who don’t have it, don’t.” Getting ahead for women in the Pre-Code Era was often viewed as using logical assets their advantage, and the most logical assets a woman had were her womanly wiles. Barbara Stanwyck displayed this in Baby Face a few weeks ago, where we follow along as she sleeps her way to the top of a bank. Hell, the popular Gold Diggers series is entirely about young women using their beauty to carve out a comfortable living for themselves. Blondie Johnson bucks this trend in a big way, with mobster Virginia “Blondie” Johnson making her way up the underworld’s ladder with her wits and determination rather than the considerable curves of her elegant gowns. Since she’s played by the wonderful Joan Blondell, she not only has brains, but guts and wry putdowns to spare. You can tell she’s poor in this screenshot because of that hat. After being let go from a job for not returning her boss’s amorous advances, she finds herself in an unemployment office, begging for money to help keep her and her mother alive. She’s told she’s not needy enough (with the clerk even insinuating that she should have surrendered to the advances rather than be put out on the street), and soon she’s rejected and returns home to find her mother dead. This is her origin story, so we flash forward to her funeral to find that a happy, condescending priest is telling Blondie that it’s a tragedy, but we must all work hard for what we earn. Blondie glowers; there’s an easy way to make money, too. One upping every gangster at their own game, one grand at a time. “I found out the only thing worthwhile is dough. And I’m going to get it, see?” This determination to survive in spite of the shit society has heaped upon her sends Blondie to the big city, where she starts with a couple of small scams before falling in with Danny Jones, a guy high up in the mob who plays lapdog to the big man, Max. Blondie sees plenty of lateral movement available to someone like Danny, but the dumb bastard initially can’t see anything in her beyond her beauty. So Blondie gets to work, first freeing a big dumb mug who was on trial for murder by playing his despondent wife, and then pitching a scheme to target the city’s jewelry stores with new cons that will encourage them to buy Blondie and Danny’s special brand of insurance. This doesn’t escape the notice of Max, and soon there’s a miniature gang war that Blondie wins handily with cold blooded determination. And a secret bar hidden in a rotating fireplace because, dammit, if you’re going to off someone, do it with some crazy damn style. See? “Handily”? SEE? It’s a very Warner Brothers gangster movie, with more hard boiled slang than you could throw a dictionary at. Blondie tries her best to keep her legs together, bound and determined to make her way to the top. Danny is kind of a dope, though, constantly questioning her and making plays for her bedroom. Blondie has none of it despite admitting that in a different time and place she’d be there, and like a wounded dog Danny runs off in a huff. Blondie does something interesting here, and that’s have by having the heroine’s two lead female friends question her about the wisdom of this decision. Mae looks her straight on, and asks: “Blondie… why don’t you give him a tumble?” The response isn’t as interesting as the question. Blondie doesn’t want to sleep with a man, but others encourage her too. Even if she wants to this time, the audience can’t help but to think back to the beginning of the movie and understand: Blondie giving into temptation is a surrender of her belief in her independence. Blondie Johnson isn’t saying you can’t use your body to get ahead, but if all men see and want is a body, then any success is illusory. This is put a little more succinctly by Blondie herself: “For me, business comes before pleasure.” Even if saying ‘yes’ will make you happy, it won’t satisfy you. But of course, she has to prove not only to her mobsters but to the audience that she means business. We’ve all seen plenty of movies, so we know you don’t put Joan Blondell and Chester Morris in as the stars and not expect them to kiss. Blondie must make the tough choices here, to prove to herself that she’s a success on her own terms and not just the terms that the male dominated world have made for her. She keeps climbing, even when that means that she has to force Danny out of the organization– he’s simply not wise enough to keep his finances together and his hands off the pretty women who are happy to take his money. The mob adores Blondie, and make her the boss without a hassle. Blondie is at the top, and though she realizes that she misses Danny, she’s had her dream come true. She took the easy way, and all it cost her was one broken heart. Every emotion in the book comes out in this one. To this end, she must decide after some damning evidence comes to light whether Danny has turned evidence, and whether or not he should be allowed to live. It’s not many movies that climax with one half a romantic pair having to make the decision as to whether or not the other half should be rubbed out, but I think you’ve figured out by now that Blondie Johnson ain’t your usual picture. The performances here across the board wonderful. Chester Morris is great as a petulant child who also happens to be romantically enticing– not easy to pull off. Allen Jenkins is the king of cool, and there’s a couple of excellent turns from the whole crew as parts of the film resemble an Ocean’s 11 heist. Director Ray Enright keeps a snappy pace, even if a few shots stick out like a sore thumb. But the real treat here is Joan Blondell. Warner Brothers worked her to the bone (she was in 38 pictures between 1930 and 1934), and that means she had to suffer her fair share of nondescript and thankless parts. She was someone who usually had to make due with her material, so here, where the material shines, you really get to see Blondell show her skills. She choose… poorly? These are all the reasons I liked Blondie, but there were some issues I had with the film. It’s ending, for one, so please skip the next paragraph if you don’t want to be spoiled. It’s a crime picture, so for the ending we either have the law swooping in or a hail of bullets; I think Blondie doesn’t quite nail this. She finally succumbs to her love for Danny, proving that she can succeed, but this also may put her back into a more subdued role. Both are arrested and Blondie’s gang broken up, and she and Danny pledge eternal love after their prison sentences are up. It doesn’t really work since Danny is doing most of the talking– and we all know the choice Blondie has made. The last scene should have been shortened, or excised altogether. Regardless, Blondie Johnson is a treat, even if it’s never as rough and tumble as its Cagney and Robinson contemporaries. Gallery Here are some extra screenshots I took. Click on any picture to enlarge! Trivia & Links - There is one thing I find completely baffling about the film, that I can only imagine was snuck in as some sort of joke. I get where ‘Blondie’ got her nickname. Why is Chester Morris’ character’s nickname “Danny”? As a Danny, I don’t usually meet people who are Dannys who aren’t possibly Dan or Daniels… ‘Danny’? What? - I think I’ve mentioned this before, but my favorite contemporary 1930′s reviewer is Andre Senwald for the New York Times, and in his review for the film he makes note (before he spoils the film’s ending): Of course, the film’s best asset is Miss Blondell herself, who is ingratiating, cynical and tartly amusing. - In case I didn’t provide you with enough screenshots, DVDBeaver has got a few more as well as some advertising materials. - Actress Toshia Mori is a rare Asian face in these usually all-white productions. Her biggest role is in The Bitter Tea of General Yen, which I will hopefully be hitting in the next few months, but if you’re interested in learning more about her, Wikipedia has got some dirt for you. - Speaking of, this ad is pretty fun: Believe it or not, some of these claims may be exaggerated. - I also really like the poster for the film, even though something always throws me off when I look at it too long: Namely, just how long is Chester Morris’ neck supposed to be? Availability - This film is available on Amazon, Amazon Instant Video and Warner Archive, and can be rented from Classicflix.	2,084
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social media news release The canvas photo prints which are available to purchase from either art shops or furniture retailers. The canvas photo prints which are available to purchase from either art shops or furniture retailers, whilst usually produced to a fairly high standard, tend to feature a selection of somewhat stale and derivative images. If the measure of effective art is some sense of personality and uniqueness, then they fail the test miserably. Before the advent of digital photography, the photographs which you took were more or less doomed to remain simply that – photographs. Whilst it was possible to have multiple copies made for friends and family, the process of actually doing so relied upon you having kept the original negative in perfect condition, and being willing to pay the somewhat exorbitant costs attached to paying a specialised lab to do the copying for you. Other than that, your options were severely limited, and having pictures enlarged, for example, would often result in a marked deterioration in the quality of the image. Digital images are completely different in nature. Once you’ve captured a moment on your camera, there is virtually no end to the number of things which you can do with it, using it to create a broad range of objects and items. Amongst the most stunning and impressive things you can do with your photographs is turn them into bespoke canvas prints. Producing art of this kind would once have been the province of professionals only, but now absolutely anyone can design photos on canvas which capture every detail of the original image, whilst having it printed onto top quality canvas and stretched round a durable, sturdy wooden frame. It may be that you wish to have a family portrait up on the wall, but feel that the kind produced by most studios are a little ‘stiff’ and formal, not really capturing what your family is all about. Well now it’s possible to select a the kind of candid, relaxed shots which do precisely that and have them turned into canvas photo prints which are at once personal, yet of the highest quality. If you’ve got more than one photograph which you wish to capture in a manner such as this, then why not gather a whole group together and use them to create photo calendars. Personalised photo calendars are a world away from the somewhat staid and stuffy variety which most shops supply, capturing special moments for every month of the year whilst being produced and put together to the highest standards. For all of these different examples, as well as things such as canvas Prints, the creative process has been made extremely simple. Once you’ve uploaded the image or images you wish to use, the software provided will take you forward one simple step at a time, offering choices on every aspect of the finished item until you end up with something which is unique and exactly as you wish it to be. Objects such as these make particularly effective gifts because they combine the time, thought and trouble of something you’ve created yourself, with the highest production values, meaning that they’ll be treasured, looked at and enjoyed, time and time again. Albumprinter BV, 53-57 Stationsplein, 1012 AB, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Contact No:- 0800 528 2525 Contact Mail ID:- [email protected]. Albelli provide everything you need to get started with creating online photo books. Get your precious memories captured on online photo albums as well as canvas photo prints, personalised Calendars with the very prestigious online photo albums at Albelli. 30th August 2012 Albelli Marketing Maganer 0800 528 2525 Short URL: Bookmark and share:	723
photo by Mark Williams New on sister site PickupTrucks.com this week: GM shows off its take on the future of trucks; we have a look at the new 2019 Ram 1500 without most of its camouflage; and we get under the hood to explain how Used Engine work. Related: Pickup Truck News Future Pickup Platform From GM Get 2017 RAM 1500 Details Find a 2017 RAM 1500 Near You Manufacturer image GM's experimental SURUS truck platform concept provides a glimpse into a possible future for trucks. 2019 Ram 1500 Loses Its Clothes KGP Photography image Spy photographers were able to snap some photos of the upcoming 2019 Ram 1500 without most of the usual camouflage. How Do Engines Work? photo by Mark Williams The Used Engine -work.html">latest installment of Pickups 101 goes under the hood to give you the basics on how Used Engine work.	194
Well, bully for them. The question is: Who will run against Olsen? This is not merely a question posed by someone who believes that the recalls of Republican senators are a waste of taxpayer dollars with the goal of draining GOP campaign treasuries in time for the 2012 elections. This is also not merely a question from someone who believes recalls are appropriate only for misconduct in office (say, not showing up for work for several weeks). This is a serious question: Who will run against Olsen? It won't be anyone who ran against Olsen in 2008. He was unopposed in what was a very good year for Democrats nationally and in Wisconsin specifically. And it won't be any Democrat who ran against him in 2004, because, after winning the 14th Senate District Republican primary with 60 percent of the vote against two other candidates, Olsen was unopposed in the general election to replace former Sen. Robert Welch (R–Redgranite). Olsen came to the Senate after representing the 41st Assembly District from 1995 to 2005. After winning the Republican primary in 1994 in the race to replace Rep. Bob Welch (yes, the same Welch, who got the crazy idea of running against Herb Kohl), Olsen's only general election opponent was one of the candidates he defeated in the primary, who ran as a write-in candidate. Olsen then was unopposed in 1996, 1998, 2000 and 2002. That's right, readers. Luther Olsen has never faced a Democrat in any of his seven previous legislative elections. And Olsen's legislative career followed (well, with two years of overlap) 21 years on the Berlin school board. Regardless of what his constituents think about his votes, Olsen clearly knows how to win elections. The irony of this recall effort is that Olsen has been criticized over the years for ... not being conservative enough. (Examples here, here and here.) He (wrongly) opposed the Taxpayer Bill of Rights that would have prevented the state's Mississippi River flood of red ink. He also (wrongly) opposed concealed-carry legislation, which did not make the National Rifle Association fans of his. Olsen also weathered criticism over the involvement of his and his brother's business in ethanol and subsidies therefor, without electoral consequences. For that matter, he was unopposed in years that one would think some Democrat would have run, including four elections where Democratic presidential candidates won Wisconsin's electoral votes. Moreover, it's not as if the 14th Senate District fits anyone's definition of a swing district. (In fact, the aldermanic district I live in in Ripon is probably as Democratic-leaning as it gets here, given that this aldermanic district includes the Ripon College dorms.) The 14th District is an incredibly spread out district, from Clintonville to the north to Baraboo to the south. (Ah, the joys of gerrymandering. My parents live near Waupaca, and we all have the same state senator.) Every county in the district voted for Scott Walker Nov. 2. For that matter, most of the district voted for Republican Mark Green in 2006. (On those maps in the link, by the way, Republican counties are blue.) It's more surprising, in fact, that Olsen hasn't had a conservative challenger over the years given the district's makeup. One of the 14th Senate District's three Assembly districts, the 42nd, has been represented by "progressive" (his term) Fred Clark (D–Baraboo) since 2009, but Clark's two predecessors were both Republicans. Clark is so popular in his district that he won Nov. 2 with a whole 51 percent of the vote, after which he discovered the difference between being in the Assembly's majority party and being in the Assembly's minority party. And even if Clark decides to run (as he reportedly will), will his apparent (based on his website) brand of Dane County-style liberalism fly in Fond du Lac County or Waupaca County? (The fact he formerly worked for the Department of Natural Resources might be enough to tank his candidacy to his north.) Republicans represent the 40th (Kevin Petersen of Waupaca) and 41st (Joan Ballweg of Markesan) Assembly districts, and have done so for a long time. The last Democrat to run in the 14th Senate District was my neighbor, Fond du Lac County Board chairman Marty Farrell, who lost to Welch in the 1995 Senate special election after Sen. Joe Leean (R–Waupaca) resigned to become the secretary of health and family services in the Tommy Thompson administration. I haven't seen Marty recently, but merely because his last legislative race was 16 years ago, I'm skeptical that he would run. Three other candidates come to mind, but all are 0-for-elections. Democrat Scott Milheiser of Fremont, chair of the combined Waupaca and Waushara county Democratic parties, lost to Ballweg and Democrat Jon Baltmanis of Waupaca lost to Petersen in 2010. Losing an Assembly race is not usually considered a good start to winning a Senate race. There is also Jay Selthofner, who ran as an independent against Ballweg on a marijuana platform and would seem less encumbered by Democrats' dreary electoral history in the 14th District. Perhaps Red Fred, Milheiser, Baltmanis or Selthofner will figure 2011 is a free shot, a dress rehearsal for 2012. Or perhaps someone else -- a Democratic county official or even a political neophyte -- will feel sufficiently inspired by the recall wave to throw his or her hat in the ring. I have not agreed with all the positions Luther has taken over the years, but the one thing his political career has demonstrated is that in legislative elections in this area, Luther Olsen doesn't lose. What is the point of a recall election that those who seek the recall aren't likely to win?	1,250
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Recently my two sons have learnt how to swim. They haven't been in the water for a couple of weeks, so when Mr 4 and I went for a swim last Friday he had forgotten about keeping his legs out behind him. He was expending so much energy but really going nowhere. That's how I feel this week... We are going through the final stages of settling on our new house. It feels like I am frantic but really, there isn't much to show for all of that activity (yet, we won't move in for another twelve months). I mentioned previously that I may have over committed myself this year... We'll see, I'm treading water at present, not panicking yet... I am super excited about the Curves Class and am currently working on the clamshell cushion cover. Rachel's tutorial calls for an invisible zipper, but I'm thinking of doing my usual back with a couple of fabric covered buttons. I like the look of invisible zippers, but to be honest, getting one in grey in the right length requires a trip around town and I'm not so keen... Yes, lazy sew-er here... After printing off the templates for the Lucky Stars Paper Piecing BOM days ago I finally got around to working on them last night. I completed the practice block: I have selected the fabric for the January block and am hoping to work on it today. I'm hoping I may have nearly finished the paperwork for today. I really need to sew, do you get those cravings too? :) Did I mention that Santa gave me EQ7 for Christmas? I was so excited when it arrived and then the learning curve hit and I have been struggling a little. Yesterday I finished drawing a teapot block for Lara for her month as Queen Wombat. Lara asked that our teapot reflect us, this one is inspired by my triangle quilt which Lara (and I!) loved :) Don't look too closely at the pattern, I need to make a few adjustments, but you get the idea :) It's still in the WiP category ;) I'm thinking of offering it as a free pattern on my blog when I'm done. What do you think? Those triangles are going to be a lot of work, but of course they can be left out. Either way it would be good to get some feedback if anyone is interested :) Is anyone else treading water this week? I'm linking up with WiP Wednesday over at Freshly Pieced. Love the clamshells! Gorgeous fabric choices! Ditto for the Lucky Star (especially that Sketch background!) Well done you for coming up with a pattern in EQ7 - it looks so great. Love the triangles!! First off, fussy cut peacock, how much do I love him??!!! So cute. THEN omgosh hello practice star, such fun and lovely colours - I joined the LS BOM too! AND then santa also gave me EQ7-he is such a generous guy. As of yet I am waiting to load - as we were waiting for some other programs to make it run on my mac. Cannot wait to try it out. Ooh, beautiful clamshells!! I totally get the HAVE TO SEW urge/need. Thankfully Ben understands now ;) Yep, treading water, too. On the brink of a super-speedy, unplanned move that's occupying my mind whilst I should focus on memorising my notes for a huge exam tomorrow. I totally get the urge to sew, got it today but there's no, NO, time allowed for that. Thankfully I'm far away from my materials so I can't be tempted. Lovely clamshells! and with that I'm off to my water, erm, notes. :) Rats Mareen...yes I thought you were settling in. Good luck in your exam. Clam shells is my favourite, looks great! I feel like I've been "treading water" all month! Love your clamshell cushion! Love all your projects! Ooh, love all the colours you're using in each project! Your clamshell pillow looks great (I'm doing Curves Class too - yay!). But I think your Lucky Stars practice block is just gorgeous :) I love your clamshells! I took the Curves class last year and made that project too. Love your clamshells. And a new toy. Enjoy the EQ7 :) Love everything about those clamshells! I think I'll add those to my list of things to tackle at some point... I like to make envelope pillow covers so I can change up my decor at a moment's notice! Love the clamshells and teapots! Great colors. I love all your projects this week - especially your teapot block! Everything looks wonderful!! I've always loved the clam shell and haven't given it a try yet. Yours is very pretty. I think not running around town is being an economical and environmentally responsible sewer ;) Those clamshells are looking great, nice colors. I love love your pp star! It's just gorgeous. Treading water big time over here. I'm the duck with the calm on the surface and the crazy legs under water. Cute teapot too. Love the clamshells- is that a little peacock I see fussy cut in there? Your teapot is super cute- looks like you're doing great with EQ7! Love your fabrics for the Lucky Stars BOM - I'm playing along too and January is a great block. Looking forward to seeing your blocks! Love the clamshells and that star thingumajig!! That's a practice?!?!?!?! xxx Yes who could resist that cheeky peacock poking out of that array of loveliness? I'd love that teapot pattern when you're done! I'm just getting into paper piecing and am starting to become obsessed! Love the pillows thnx. Love that peacock hiding on your pillow.	1,207
He is a hard man to follow, quite literally. He may be in his early sixties, but senior counsel Janak Dwarkadas walks with a pace that belies his age. So if you do want to interview one of the most successful lawyers at the Bombay Bar, step one is to actually catch the man. But once you do, and once you do get an hour or so of his time, you get an up-close look at the quintessential old-school lawyer. He answers most . . . Facebook Comment	105
“Drifting In and Out” is arguably the best song on Porcelain Raft’s winter release Strange Weekend, so we’re psyched that it’s the record’s next single. We just wish the track had a video of the caliber that it deserves – the track’s hazy beauty doesn’t need to equal lots of background fog machine, just like the presumed authenticity that comes with a DIY look doesn’t necessitate juxtaposing every visual material you make over old VHS footage. Unfortunately, that annoying tenant of chillwave videography is exactly what Porcelain Raft’s succumbed to in this clip. Still, the track’s in the running for one of our favorites of the year. Check out the video below. PREVIOUSLY That Was Fun: January 2012 Album Review: Porcelain Raft – Strange Weekend REC’D: Porcelain Raft – “Unless You Speak From Your Heart”	185
. Habari Gani? Umoja!26 Dec Umoja means Unity! Tonight’s principle means to strive for and maintain unity in the family, community, and nation. On this night, the black candle in the center of the kinara is lit. The kinara looks something like this, although there are variations in the base: On this night, only the black one will be illuminated. Unity is the basis of success, and that is why it is the candle in the center, and the first night. It’s the candle that is always lit first and used to light all of the other candles. Once the candle is lit, you talk about unity and its importance…and that sounds like a perfect excuse to eat, right? Right. Dinner time! Hospitalized for Christmas, But it’s Okay.25 Dec Sad that Christmas is Over and There’s Nothing to Celebrate Until New Year’s?25 Dec Celebrate..	193
He’ll have a delightful time gumming down this Sour Candy aran yarn from Out of Step Dyeworks. So bright and squishy for the holidaze. I’m thinking this would make a lite brite awesome cowl. Or you know, some giant yellow and pink underwears. Anyone? Anyone? Archive for December, 2010 Santa Can Suck ItDecember 23rd, 2010 The Princess Deems This Very Good IndeedDecember 7th, 2010 Our loyal subject Gaelen has sent in a picture of a loverly scarf she knitted in Be Sweet’s awesome recycled t-shirt yarn. She did it in a simple diagonal knit/purl pattern and We approve highly. Two interesting encounters…Domiknitrix came in and loved the yarn/book selection. And then a couple lovely ladies touring with OK Go came in and purchased yarn and books to keep them going on those long bus rides. Creating the rawk isn’t all glamour, as the Princess well knows. Our Subjects must be in the holidaze spirit, as the fragrance of the mary janes is wafting heavily into the store pretty much every day. Our subjects must be hotboxing it and coming in to buy psychelic variegated yarns. Trip Report from the Wilds of ChicagoDecember 1st, 2010 Dear Subjects: Our fact-finding trip to the frozen midwest turned out to be more alarming than We could imagine. First, our subject Amanda (to whom we did finally concede the fantastic Belissima mittens of 2 or 3 blog posts ago–she had to wrench them out of our grasping monkey paws) gave your Sovereign a lovely candle to light Her way through the cold night. So of course, We lit it, after much fumbling about with the matches. And the fire alarm went off. Then We proceeded to set the alarm system for the house off as We headed for the airport, locking Ourselves out of the house. Alarming, indeed. But between those times there was much merriment, and a bit of boredom. The merriment included the creation on your Sovereign’s part of the Infamous Turkey Cake, a fantastic creation layered with a turkey loafish thing, mashed potatoes, mashed sweet potatoes liberally laced with whiskey, Stovetop stuffing and cranberry sauce, all arranged in the form of a cake, because it all gets mixed up in your stomach anyway. We have submitted half-eaten evidence below. It was DEELISH. We also submit for your adoration the half-completed (or half-eaten) hat made from Spincycle yarn for Our Subject Andy, but now probably taken back for our sovereign. It’s from a WWII pattern, cause the Princess is a history geek. Sort of. Then we went to a modern opera supposedly depicting the nonsensical struggle between truth and fiction in Lewis Carroll’s life. Our sovereign discovered that we don’t like opera, and that nonsensical abstract opera lends itself to boredom. Which sends the Princess into a rage. We had everyone there killed, which at least provided some amusement. Were We not merciful?! What say you, subjects? Should that which is boring to us not be eliminated? What boredom would you like to eliminate if you could? We’ll see if We can take care of it for you.	693
Rachel Harris, PhD, visits the show to talk about her Ayahuasca research and what the medicine has to offer. Psychologist Rachel Harris. Show Notes Healing with Ayahuasca (Opening) – Dr. Harris introduces the indigenous medicine Ayahuasca. She and Chris talk about what distinguishes Ayahuasca from drugs like alcohol and heroin, and discusses the ways it is used to heal the body and mind. “The thing that is inexplicable to me is that some people, after one ceremony, feel that the depression is lifted and never returns. There is no biochemical explanation for that. They are not attending other ceremonies. They feel like they came out of the fog and never go back. I had to call this a miracle cure because we have no explanation for it. That is the part that is just kind of beyond us and we have to say there is a healing that happens that we don’t completely understand.” – Dr. Rachel Harris To further explore the relationship between psychedelics and psychotherapy, check out A Long Strange Trip featuring Ram Dass. Evidence-Based Medicine (11:10) – Beyond anecdotal accounts of the benefits of Ayahuasca, Dr. Harris shares the research that has been done on the medicine’s efficacy. She explains the brain science of psychological disorders and how Ayahuasca interacts with our brain’s chemistry. “Ayahuasca acts on the brain in the way that all psychedelics do, in that it affects activity in the brain. All the psychedelics quiet the default mode network in the brain. We literally become quieter inside which opens the door to having an experience of oneness, of mystical experience; it’s a chance to get outside ourselves.” – Dr. Rachel Harris Check out this conversation on the Mindrolling podcast about the formal and informal research being done on Ayuasca therapy. Risks of Ayahuasca (26:50) – While Ayahuasca can be considered a miracle drug for all of its incredible benefits, its use does not come without risks. Dr. Harris talks about the psychological dangers the medicine presents to certain individuals. She and Chris talk about the precautions and safety measures necessary when working with Ayahuasca. For more about whether or not psychedelic substances like Ayuasca are right for you, check out this conversation between Chris and Jamison Monroe. Paying it Forward (33:20) – Dr. Harris shares her personal experience with Ayahuasca and how that moment inspired her research. She talks about the calling she felt to do the kind of research in the West needed to bring Ayahuasca into the mainstream.	526
Hi, I've been going through this forum the last couple of years after getting a job running an in-house print shop for a global company in Scandinavia. The amount of information and tips I've found here has been invaluable. Now I need more specific help as the current contract with Xerox is expiring and global in their infinite wisdom has given the contract to HP. As I have no prior experience with digital printers, I'm a bit apprehensive about the change. I got a DC 242 and a DC 250 that run an average monthly click of 30 000 in total. They are ok for the work we do - usually A4 brochures, flyers, A3 posters and cards on various stocks, silk, glossy etc up to 300 gsm. The corporate brand design is often a lot of solids and the current machine aren't always giving the best output, often with bands and streaks. We had them for over 5 years and it's time to upgrade. What I need some help and advise about is which HP model that would be an upgrade from my current ones. The Indigo seems to be a bit too much. Does anybody here have experience with HP? I've looking for other producers ,as I'm trying to get a separate contract for the printshop, and I'm looking at Canon, Ricoh Konica Minolta and Xerox. Which of their models can be seen as an upgrade? The most important factor is print quality rather than speed. I'm now trying to contact the different producers and would like to have some information before meeting any of the sales rep so I have something keeping me afloat in the stream of BS I'll surely be inundated in Cheers Forum Rules WhatTheyThink.com Economics & Research Center Going Green The Digital Nirvana Graph Expo Coverage	374
UK based Samir Souilah and Jack French are the mighty Wave Department. The duo’s new This Way Up EP dropped a few weeks ago and it’s a sublime blend of chill beats and balearic disco vibes. Free download of the EP here. Check out some tracks below including a pretty slick remix of Foals. Future Sail Pyramid Big Big Love (foals remix) Pretty nice post. I just stumbled upon your weblog and wished to say that I have truly enjoyed browsing your blog posts. After all I’ll be subscribing to your feed and I hope you write again very soon!	123
I have been a "stalker" on this forum for the past two weeks and have finally got an account with my first post. I talked to my dealer yesterday and he said my new C2 "Summer Rain Metallic" is in port and going through its documentation process. Earliest it can arrive is Friday, the latest is Tuesday. I must have hit the timing just right because I've only had to wait two and a half weeks. (Lucky me). I can't wait to see and experience all this MPG greatness for myself. I currently drive a 2008 Dodge Charger and I absolutely love it, but my 52 mile commute (one way) is killing me at the pump. I average 24 mpg on a 16 gallon tank. So every 3-4 days I'm filling up! And emptying my wallet. I'm so ready for a change and very excited to take my new C for a ride and enjoy the savings!!!! I'll keep you updated when I take delivery and will post pics. I haven't seen a "c" yet in Michigan. This is GM and Ford country so some of my co-workers give me a hard time about buying a "foreign" car. I said when GM or Ford makes a hybrid that gets this kind of mileage for the price of the "c" I'll consider it... until then.... I gladly welcome my new Prius to America!!!	286
10 Issues that Defeat Scientism Let me start this blog off by defining 3 terms for you. First is scientism, it is the belief that everything is discoverable through science. Second is physicalism, the belief that everything in existence has physical properties. Third is naturalism, the more common term, the belief that nature is all that exist, and there is no supernatural. It is apparent to me that these 3 terms scientism, physicalism, and naturalism are tied together. If 1 falls, then all 3 fall. With those defined, let’s explore some of the logical consequences that would follow if these beliefs were true. First and most foundational is the cosmological issue. Naturalism would be incapable of starting itself. The best evidence and reasoning we have demonstrates that all of Nature came into existence at a certain point. Since nature can’t predate nature, it is impossible that nature is the cause of its own existence. Put briefly, if Nature needs a cause then Nature is not all that exists. The second issue is with consciousness. It appears to be in infinite leap from non living to living. There is not a midway point between life and non-life, awareness and unawareness. No matter how high tech we have made computers, even giving them the capability to respond to verbal prompts, we have gotten no closer to causing them to have consciousness. Advances in science and adding information is completely separate from consciousness. So if the physical is all that exists there seems to be an impossible leap here. The third issue is with rationality. Do we make free choices and decisions based on evidence and reasoning? Is the physical is all that exists? If so, then there is an unbroken chain of cause and effect stretching back infinitely far. It’s like a line of falling dominoes. Does a certain domino decide to fall or does the domino merely fall because of the laws of nature? I believe I am presenting a true dichotomy here when I say that it is either determined by physical law or by independent free choice. If our brain works the same way as a line of falling domino’s, only following physical laws, then we would not make any free independent choices to reason or choose in anyway. We would only act according to the prior physical cause. The fourth issue is with the nature of information. The naturalist may say that information is physical because it is symbols, words, or some kind of visual auditory input. Are these symbols what information really is? Something does not become information when it’s put down in visual form or auditory form. The information predates the symbols otherwise there would be no reason to put it in symbolic form to share. The information reaches the conscious agent before it is put down on paper. It is information in the brain first. I realize this one is a bit abstract, but let me see if I can clarify. I have a page open in front of me, and in the back of the book there is a blank page. There is more information on this page than the blank page. Both pages weigh the same amount. Or take for example a blank jump drive. You would not be able to tell the difference between the jump drive being full of information and having no information. The weight does not change when information is added. Information does not carry any weight. At its root, information does not have physical properties. Information is a mental product and the brain does not change weight with added information. Information is the product of a mind. Information is not able to be weighed and therefore is non-physical. Therefore mental processes are not physical by nature. Scientism on the other hand would require a mass increase with the increase of information. The fifth issue is with the nature of truth. Truth is discoverable and even the naturalist will assume this. But is this consistent with naturalism? I don’t think so. Naturalism only deals with what happens and cannot answer the question of why it happened or whether it could have happened differently. All we are are beings caught in a deceptive cycle of cause and effect. Truth would not be something we could reach for because we are only reacting helplessly to whatever physical causes are thrown our way. If scientism were true we shouldn’t be sure of the existence of anything but only thinking things are there based on reactions in the brain. Truth would be come whatever “fizzes” true in your brain. My brain fizzes this as true, another person’s brain fizzes a different way as true. And no amount of discussion could lead a person into a different brain fizz. A change of mind would mean a change in the physical makeup of the brain. Discussion would merely be the movement of air particles. This seems to be incapable of changing the physical makeup of the brain. It would be like a loud noise or a soft wind having the capability to drastically change your view of reality. Our ability to interpret information and seek truth is at odds with scientism. This leads to the sixth issue, which is free will. What is free will? Isn’t it the ability to make a decision based on rational judgement. Free will implies that there are multiple possibilities, 1 of which you will select. If there are multiple possibilities then there is a chance that you would pick 1 of the other possibilities. However, if physicalism is true then decisions are physically based, based on physical law. Physical law does not have the ability to go contrary to the law. So any decision would be merely a physical law at work. When you hold a ball in the air and let go the ball does not have the options of whether to go sideways, up, or down. It will go down according to physical laws. Likewise free decisions that are only based on physical laws could not really be free if scientism were true. The seventh issue with scientism is with emotions. If emotions are to be taken as meaningful (accurate indicators), then scientism cannot be true. If a naturalist falls in love the most they could say is that they like the way that being near the other person releases certain endorphins throughout the body. It does not really have to do with the connection with the other person, it has to do with whatever is released within the body. Emotions wouldn’t really have anything to do with outside needs or fulfillment, it would have to do with a lack or abundance of chemical substances in the body. A shot from a needle ought to be able to cure any emotional distress. “What happened? Your child died? You just need an increase of this substance in your body. All you really need is a shot from a needle.” This is obviously not the way people live with their emotions. Emotions taken as accurate indicators of a person’s state goes against the theory of scientism. The eighth issue with scientism is with meaning. People generally assume and intrinsically know that we have meaning. But, given scientism, we are a chance product of a mindless universe. And if we want to assume that we have meaning, our meaning would have to be directly related to our physical makeup. We have x amount of mass, another person has 1 half x amount of mass, then the smaller person is worth half as much. Then, this wouldn’t just apply to people, it would apply to objects. A big object would be worth more then a small object. A big object would be worth more then a small person. Meaning could only be from the physical, since the physical is all that exists. Objectively, meaning would be according to size if meaning existed at all. The ninth issue with scientism deals with morality. Going off the consequence that naturalism what appear to get rid of free will, then no moral action could be praiseworthy or punishable. Also, if we were to abuse somebody, then what moral wrong has really taken place? We would not have changed the physical makeup of the person all that much. In fact who’s to say the physical makeup hasn’t been benefited in the long run. Wait, who’s to say what a benefit is? Where is objective morality in naturalism? There would be no objective morality we could do no more then assign morals for ourselves. But that doesn’t mean we would be right. One person could decide the moral that rocks are more valuable than people. In their mind they ought to smash a person to pieces if that person smashes a rock to pieces. No naturalist could reasonably argue against this behavior. The 10th issue with scientism is its self defeating endeavor. It claims that all things are discoverable by science. It says that if something is not discovered by science it can be brushed aside as foolishness or non-existent. This claim itself is not discoverable by science. Still to this day, there are not any scientific studies that explain why we should do science in the first place. At the core of scientism is a philosophy. It is built on something that it denies. To summarize these: If scientism were true, scientism could not get started. If scientism were true, we could not be aware of it. If scientism were true there is no reason to consider it true. If scientism were true, there is no benefit to thinking it’s true. If scientism were true then scientism would not be “true”. If scientism were true then philosophy would be true and scientism would be untrue. I have laid out 10 problems that ought to spell disaster for scientism, naturalism, and physicalism: 1. Cosmological (beginnings) 2. Consciousness 3. Rationality 4. Information 5. Truth 6. Free will 7. Emotions 8. Meaning 9. Morality 10. Self-defeating Of course, I believe all 10 are valid, but if any 1 of these stand then the theory is shown to be illogical and false. From here I believe we are left with a true dichotomy: that either physical nature is all there is or there is more then just physical nature. In other words either naturalism is true or supernaturalism is true. In this essay I do not even need to provide positive evidence for supernaturalism. I have shown the impossibility of the contrary, which alone proves supernaturalism.	2,092
Report: Kevin Love has not been offered contract extension Jan 3, 2012, 11:45 AM EDT Among. - tomtravis76 - Jan 3, 2012 at 12:16 PM Just send Love to LA for Gasol. Love wants to be a Laker, while having Gasol and Rubio playing together will be good for the league. - - - captainwisdom8888 - Jan 3, 2012 at 12:41 PM What a special player this guy is…with his ability to lead the NBA in rebounding while also stepping back and knocking down nearly 100 3-pointers. It makes you wonder how good some of these other physical freaks would be if they had half of the fundamental know-how that Love possesses. One of a kind… - - goforthanddie - Jan 3, 2012 at 3:04 PM “his team has not sniffed the 8th seed” TEAM. Key word. His TEAM sucks out loud, that is hardly his fault. - - bparmalee - Jan 3, 2012 at 3:20 PM You cant ask much more of Kevin Love. He runs around trying to gather up all of the rebounds from the horrible shots Beasley throws up. Hopefully Williams and Rubio will develop quickly and they will be able to do something. If a guy is giving you 20 rebound games he is earning his keep. - - - brooklynbulls - Jan 3, 2012 at 1:58 PM Kevin Mchale actually made a good call on a draft pick for a change. Love is a limited player athletically but gets the best out of his ability. Who gets 20 + rebounds anymore? I remember thinking Mchale was an idiot for taking Love over Mayo. It could just be a matter of OJ’s situation in Memphis, but so far Love is the superior player. - - jimsjam33 - Jan 3, 2012 at 2:26 PM Don’t sign him Wolves . He’s from UCLA let come back to LA . Gasol for Love ? - - fmlizard - Jan 3, 2012 at 2:26 PM I thought Love was as good as gone to one of the LA teams at the first possible chance. Maybe to Portland as a long shot…but probably somewhere on the West coast. Now, with Rubio/Love showing some signs of being at least a reasonable, pale, ground-bound facsimile of Lob City, I think there is a good chance he stays. Especially since the T-Wolves can pay him considerably more than anyone else. - - therealhtj - Jan 3, 2012 at 2:41 PM So if the figures hold, Love will be eligible for a 5yr/94mil extension like D Rose. Now there’s not a person on the planet, shy of Love’s agent, who thinks he’s worth that kind of money. Love should get a good deal, but Minny would have to pay him pretty close to that Max money to get him to stay. If they don’t offer it up, he’ll go elsewhere, for a few bucks less perhaps, but still enough to ensure he’ll be set for life. - - notacelticsfan - Jan 3, 2012 at 5:56 PM Yeah, there’s not a person on the planet who thinks a guy who Never gets less than 14 boards, who usually gets upwards of 23 points, who is improving on defense every day, and is top five in free throw attempts isn’t worthy of max or close to max money. Oh, and he shoots threes at a 42percent clip. Nah, give him like Nene money. - - goforthanddie - Jan 3, 2012 at 6:05 PM therealhtj: How does it feel to be so helplessly wrong? - - goforthanddie - Jan 3, 2012 at 3:06 PM There’s a slim chance Minn realizes he wants out of there post haste. - - lakerluver - Jan 3, 2012 at 4:56 PM Contrary to the opinions of some, I feel Love IS a max dollar player. Who says a guy has to run like the wind or jump out the gym to be a max player? Love reminds me of a much better version of Bill Laimbeer. I’d love (pun intended) to see him with the LAKERS alongside Bynum. I’d give up Pau in a heartbeat for him!! - - Justin - Jan 3, 2012 at 5:30 PM Love is probably the least flashy PF around but he is so fundamentally sound. Although he can shoot the 3 exceptionally well which most cannot. I notice a lot of people ripping on his defense but the game last night (vs Spurs) I saw him coming over on to help a lot on defense and even got 2 or 3 blocks. Kahn has made it very clear that Love will get a contract offer. He would get fired on the spot if he does otherwise. - - - tomtravis76 - Jan 3, 2012 at 9:19 PM Sure, it is an assumption that a guy who spends lots of his off time in LA, went to college there , would like to play for a franchise with loads of history and is in the midst of some big changes. It is never going to change, stars want to play in big markets for more oportunities outside of the game. There are a few exceptions, but not so sure Love is one of those guys.Maybe he is. - - - neelymessier - Jan 4, 2012 at 10:52 AM It’s not what Rose makes, it’s what another team would pay to have him. They CAP young players. What would Rose make if he was a free agent? - - glink123 - Jan 5, 2012 at 1:15 AM you’re wrong. Love can only earn a percentage of his team’s salary cap, based on his years in the league. it doesn’t matter how much a team WANTS to pay him, he’s still limited by the CBA cap. The maximum amount of money a player can sign for is contingent)	1,328
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A: When you visit a family that’s going through so much and facing so much turmoil in their lives; you meet the family, you see people and the things they I’ve kind of been spending a little bit more time with her and cherishing the little moments and times you get with her. You never know when that can be taken from you. Q: What was it like being there with the family? A: It was an emotional... Q: Did they know you were coming? A: Yeah, we called them just to get their schedule, just to make sure we didn’t miss them. They were home and they knew I was on my way up there.	136
Failure Isn't Fatal It's true. You don't actually die. I speak from personal experience. Failure isn't fatal. If it were, there wouldn't be a single breathing speck of humanity left on this planet. Each and every one of us lives with varying degrees of failure. And as depressing a thought as that might be, this ragged Monday morning, it's also a rather nice realization. Okay, hold up. Before you close this window, give me a chance to explain. I hate failure. I'm not some sort of masochistic failure-monger. It's actually my greatest fear. But here's the thing: failure is the perfect avenue for Grace. —It makes room for change, realization, wonder, and ultimately, success. About ten years ago I had the perfect book idea, and then a few years later, another one. I wrote first one novel and then the other. They were edited, critiqued, queried, and ultimately rejected. Both of them. I deleted both files from my hard drive. These rejected books felt like certain evidence of failure in my writing life. I would never make it. I couldn't write. My ideas sucked. I sucked. But after a while, a couple of years actually, something happened. A realization. Those failed attempts at noveling became something I needed to do before I could write the story that eventually earned me a "yes" in the querying world. I had to write those two failed books, go through the process of editing, revising, querying, and rejection so I could learn how the thing is actually done—earn an education of sorts. Also, so that I could get those excess words out of my system, making room for the ones that would matter. So, how was your weekend? Did you receive a rejection? Have you written a red line through one more name on your list of coveted agents? Don't give up. You don't suck. Your idea doesn't suck. No one on earth can tell your story exactly as you can, and even if your current WIP isn't the one that ultimately ends up on shelves, it will most certainly be part of what gets you there. The publishing industry isn't about statistics, it's about beautiful individual books. And the world is waiting to read yours. As Samuel Beckett said, "Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better." Failure isn't fatal. Not in the least. So write on. Happy Monday.	513
This is Staceyfish's TypePad Profile. Join TypePad and start following Staceyfish's activity Staceyfish Dayton, OH stacey . smoore . the staceyfish . wife . soon-to-be mama . swimmer . backpacker . adventurer . photographer . foodie . intj . displaced alaskan . doggie lover . green eyed . introverted Recent Activity Thanks for this - I just picked up a couple of bunches of beets with the greens intact, so I will try this method out with them! I'm gonna have to go with Good Mother Stallards instead though :) D oliv... Mmmm, looks delicious! I love ribollita and can't wait to try this version with borlottis!!! Zuppa Alla Frantoiana o Ribollita Online pal Nicole Krakora writes with what looks to be an amazing ribollita recipe: As promised, here is the recipe that I use as a starting point. I jotted it down while we were making it in Tuscany, so I usually just use the measurements listed as a guide and sometimes add more or less of ... I made this recipe tonight and it was amazing!!! The garbanzos were perfect and the spices nothing short of inspired. I will definitely be making this again! Swiss Chard Soup with Chickpeas and Barley I received a lot of emails asking for this recipe when I posted about it on Facebook and Twitter. As I said, I used the wonderful new Turkish clay pot I bought from tulumba.com on a hot tip from Paula Wolfert. The recipe comes from Greg and Lucy Malouf's beautiful book, Turquoise: A Chef's Trav...	355
I received an email today from my professor about the final versions of my creative writing pieces. It included the words “very very impressed.” While I’m still extraordinarily self-conscious about sharing my writing, that email gave me the nudge of encouragement I needed to feel okay about sharing my other pieces here. This is the one I did for Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, and I went for a totally different approach than I did with the Dickens one. I read a few flash pieces over the semester that consisted solely of dialogue — an incredibly difficult thing to do well, articulating a full story through dialogue that isn’t obnoxiously “oh-let-me-describe-everything-in-a-way-no-normal-person-would-in-everyday-conversation.” I dared to attempt it, for better or for worse, because the whole point of this project was to stretch myself as a writer. Each of the characters in this story has a definite backstory that I plotted out, but is only implicit in the dialogue and in the meanings of the names I chose. So… without any further ado, here’s my best shot at a dialogue-only flash fiction. The Theater “Can you believe her? Appearing in public after… what she did?” “Hush, Adelaida. It’s not polite to gossip.” “Oh, but gossip is very in fashion right now. It’s the dinner conversation of high society in England.” “All the more reason to dislike it.” “Never mind. But can you believe her? If I had so disgraced my husband, I certainly wouldn’t show myself in society again. Not here, at least, where everyone knows.” “Have you heard the reviews?” “You’re not even listening to me.” “I am listening. You’re talking loudly enough for the entire mezzanine to listen. I’ve heard that the soprano is not quite as good as last season’s, but that the orchestra is unmatched.” “I don’t see why you find the reviews more worth discussing than a scandal.” “Discussing scandal is simply in poor taste.” “And who have you to impress with your good taste right now? Heaven knows I don’t care about such things.” “Even if it weren’t in poor taste, don’t you think she might rather be spared the whispers?” “If she would, she should not have come out to the theater. Just look at her! How proudly she holds herself! You would think she was a recent heiress, rather than adulteress.” “Staring is not only in poor taste, but is dreadfully indiscreet.” “Everyone else is looking, at least out of the corners of their eyes if not with their heads.” “And silly me, thinking we were here to see an opera.” “Marya, you must look now! Madame Kartassova is saying something—oh, and Monsieur Kartassova is distressed—the look on Madame Karenina’s face!—and they have gone now. Why wouldn’t you look?” “Do you not feel even the slightest bit sorry for her?” “Sorry? Of course not. She is eating the bread that she baked for herself. If I were married to such a man as the count, I would never even dream of doing what she did.” “I am sure the count is not without his flaws. Perhaps he committed an offense first.” “If he did, it was surely not horrible enough to justify adultery.” “Perhaps you have too high an esteem for the character of husbands.” “Perhaps you have too little.” “Perhaps so.” “Whatever it was that had the Kartassovas so excited, Madame Karenina does not seem to care about anymore.” “I admire her composure.” “I would rather she looked ashamed.” “How many of the men here tonight do you suppose have… sampled other goods?” “I refuse to consider that. What were you saying about this season’s soprano?” “Everyone refuses to consider it. But I’d wager at least half.” “Well, we could speculate, but then we’d make everyone a criminal. Everyone knows for a fact what Madame Karenina has done.” “Do you find it at all remarkable that she is able to present herself in public knowing that everyone knows?” “Remarkably shameful. Surely you don’t admire her, Marya, do you?” “I think that she is far more courageous than any of the rest of us.” “I suppose, if you truly wish to spin it that way. But even if that’s true, her courage is stained with sin, and I don’t find it admirable in the slightest. There, the lights are dimming. We mustn’t speak of this any longer.” “Yes, I suppose we mustn’t.” 6 thoughts on “Another flash fiction” Oh, Anna K. I did a short story for Jane Eyre and I think it really helped me get a better grip on the whole thing. Maybe I should have done it more often. Oh I know, it definitely forces you to really become absorbed in the text more. I did one for Jane Eyre, too, but it’s 22 pages, so if I put it up here, it’ll be in installments. I really enjoyed this! Nice job. I know you weren’t trying for this, but with a few more paradoxical/cynical statements on Adelaida’s part, this could be an exchange straight out of Wilde. :) P.S. You never answered my question on the last one about what a flash fiction was… :P You’re so witty ;-j	1,129
. Now that’s a hell of a tip! Now if Roy was stuck with that bill, history shows he woulda stiffed the waiter/waitress! I bet he left a $5 tip. $1,000 a head? What the heck do they serve there? lol…wow….55K I would’ve preferred to see these ultra-zillionaires pay for their own meals and tell Bryant to give the $54,896 to a worthwhile charity. I heard the reason it cost so much is because Roy Williams kept dropping his plate, and they had to keep bringing him new ones.! But, holy mackerel – what a tab that was!!! Financial prudence: glad to see NFL players exercising it. Way to show that you dummies need to make more money for stupid trips like this. Couldn’t expect more from this team of stupid losers. Shoulda just carried the damn pads, and bought them all some McDonald’s gift certificates. Even if he took the entire 53-man roster, that is more than $1,000 per man…which seems a bit high. Even if you claim that there was a 20% gratuity ($9,000), that still averages close to $800 per plate. It’s a good thing these guys belong to a union, otherwise they might really be struggling to make ends meet. “A fool and his money, are soon parted.” Wow, there are 53 guys on the team. Even with everyone showing up for dinner that is still over a $1000 per dude. That must have been some steakhouse. Oh 3g, you and your stats. No offense Gregg, but stories like this just make the NFL look like a bunch of d-bags. How long is it going to be before Dez starts complaining about his contract and how he feels he should be paid more. The tab for that dinner is a lot more than most people I know make in a year. After reading this, I have absolutely no sympathy for the players and their salaries or lack of one. he probably spends that much on earrings; what a sissy ‘fashion’. $1000+ a head? WTF? 53 man roster, 55k bill – really? Did he leave a 10k (20%) tip? In other news, last week the Census Bureau announced that the median household income in 2009 was $49,777. I hope Roy is proud of his little prank. I live in a completely different world than these over paid guys, WOW!!!!! that’s an expensive dinner. Would’ve been double that amount had they invited Wade to the table. Hope he left a tip… hahahaha….. that’s awesome. But DAMN. even with everyone (53man roster), thats over $1000/person. WOW. I feel sorry for the waiters, they probably only got the standard $2 tip… shocker that 78% of former nfl players are bankrupt or in financial distress… And they want to have a Lock out? Seriously!! They would not be having this problem if they knew how to spend money and have a budget like us middle class people! Fast forward to 2022, a retired Dez Bryant will be broke as a joke. Good thing Roy Williams didn’t pick up the tab, or the poor server wouldn’t get a tip. Eating dinners that cost more than what I make in a year. Errrrrrrrr. If refusing to carry pads costs $54,896, what does Roy Williams owe for all the dropped balls and bad routes he’s ran the last couple years? He makes $13 mil this year compared to Bryant’s $3 mil, so for him to invite the defense and not even offer to help Bryant foot the bill is a dick move. Hope Dez takes Roy out for a farewell supper when he takes his job and Roy gets the axe. $27k to wash dishes for a month. I am in the wrong line of work. Boom. Bryant officially hazed into the team. Now back to football, and more importantly, winning. that is almost twice what the average American family makes in a year…stay classy cowboys… $1035.77 per person? It sure is nice that NFL fans can afford to pay rookie players like Bryant outrageous salaries so they in turn can afford to take their teammates out for $1,000+ dinners. I hope they all got the spurting runs! Moral of the story, carry the pads. what else could he do, wash dishes for a month? $54K to wash dishes for a month??? where do i sign up!?!?!?!??! Is this supposed to be funny? These people spend 54k on a meal and want us to take them seriously? Haynesworth is paid $100 mil and complains he’s treated like a slave. Mankins turns down $6-7 mil and pouts on his farm. Incredible! And we still pay the bill? Guess the idiot tag fits here the best. If he brought the whole team of 53, he spent over $1000 per person. It wasn’t the team that soaked him, it was the restaurant. This story just shows how black athletes treat money. You’re headed for bankruptcy Dez! yup, oh how I want to defend the players in this lock out. Dude just had a dinner for over a years salary for many of us rubes. Line up rubes,,,,,,,,,,nfl wants your money. Keep dishing it out so the owners and players don’t go hungry. That’s hilarious. Some expensive pads there bro…….. HOW MUCH WAS THE TIP? Get your scoop on PFT Have you ever noticed in Pro Sports that there is always Plenty of Money to go around. Crazy! Hauschild says: September 28, 2010 3:31 PM! _______________________________ Get off your political soapbox. @ 90ragtop Most NFL players aren’t even millionaires. They get paid slightly above league minimum and are out of the league after just a few seasons. After paying agents/managers and taxes, it doesn’t amount to “zillionaire” status. I think Nate Newton provided the doggie bags. He tried a Paulie Walnuts and Christopher Moltisante exit but failed to discharge his weapon or hit the waiter demanding a 15% tip with a rock big enough to commit blunt force trauma murder. He must’ve used Morrie Seinfeld’s or George Costanza’s style of calculator to figure out the tip. I treat my friends to dinner all the time, I don’t understand what the big deal is. Grant it, I only have three friends and dinner consists of any two items off the dollar menu.! What an absolute waste of food and drink. The Cowboys are a bunch of douchebags. How much you wanna bet that Dezzy stiffed on the tip. You should see Nate Newton today, he doesn’t even look like the same person he lost so much weight. On the socialism post – let’s count down together, 2 more years, then damage control. What a joke. Has anyone paid any attention to how well Dez is playing? The dude’s hands are like fly traps. His catches are so effortless like Moss, but has body control like Irvin. Seriously, look out. Dbellina says: September 28, 2010 4:19 PM I treat my friends to dinner all the time, I don’t understand what the big deal is. Grant it, I only have three friends and dinner consists of any two items off the dollar menu. ————————————————- Don’t quit your day job! Comedy just isn’t for you. Until I see a reciept I won’t believe this story. I sincerely doubt the restaurant had over $55,000 of inventory on hand. And can we please leave the politics out of the comments unless there is some relevance? I’m sick to death of every post having people commenting on health care reform. This is a football website, were we go to get away from the political knuckleheads spouting off everywhere else. Keep football apolitical! It was only 20 K for dinner, 35 K for hookers and blow; cause that’s how they roll down there in Big D. Now that is disgusting…that is more than most people make in a year… 55K x 20% Damn that is a 11000.00 tip. The funny thing is that ya’ll complain about these high price football players, yet ya’ll keep on feeding the beast! Advertisements, watching the game, jersey sales, ticket prices, we are the ones that gives these atheletes and organizations the incentives to do dumb stuff. If you dont like it stop watching football and buying all the nfl endorser’s products. Shows what a bunch a pigs these Cowboy players are. Can you imagines the amount of booze they drank to run up a $1000 per person tab. Joke. Donate the money to charity pigs. ipeefreely says: September 28, 2010 4:27 PM Has anyone paid any attention to how well Dez is playing? The dude’s hands are like fly traps. His catches are so effortless like Moss, but has body control like Irvin. Seriously, look out. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Agreed. Dez will become a beast. I like the comparisons too. I think he has Moss-like hands/speed with Irvin-like toughness/heart. He will put alot of fear into opposing defenses by next season. cue the haters…. 1000 a plate 1000 a plate….people get shwasted at places like this too…and im sure the booze was expensive. I call bullshit. If only the offense showed up that’s over 2K per person. Sounds like the only winner here was Pappa Bros. owners. Then they hooked up with Michael Irvin and headed over to the white house for hookers and coke. Glad to see Bryant paid attention in the rookie symposium about being careful with his money. You guys need to loosen up. It’s their money, they earn, they can spend it the way they want. And by the way, much of the tab was for some very expensive wine that was bottled and taken home by a few of the players to increase Dez’s pain. He’s a great kid and is going to be the game’s next big superstar. Sighhh… Shameful. Should have given that $ to the homeless. You guys are all morons. It’s a rookie hazing dinner. These guys took bottles of booze to go with them. Marcellus Wiley just said they did the same thing to LaDainian Tomlinson his rookie year. Got him for a 32k bill and people ordered bottles of Moet to go. uh.. to everyone asking if he left a tip..have you been out to a nice restaurant… EVER.. lol..any large parties, they automatically include the tip in the bill, you have no choice so there is a slim to none chance he left a 5$ tip… Everyone in here should re-read their posts… JEALOUSY is running wild. Seriously, is anyone in here really that upset about this or more upset that they cannot be a part of it? If I made millions and all of my friends and co-workers also made millions — better believe I’d be poppin bottles and living a life that only a select few are fortunate enough to live. I’m not a millionaire and don’t get to live this lifestyle but I would love to. I don’t hate these guys for doing it. I’m thinking more along the lines of “good for you, at least some of us can live like kings” Why don’t all you whiners look at it this way — Dez just did his part to stimulate the economy, maybe now the president can try doing his part!! Everyone that made a claim about this being disgusting should consider the pro’s and con’s economically. If all out our athletes, movie stars, and CEO’s lived like scrubs, we’d be in worse shape. We need these money pumpers to keep the juices flowing. Party on. This is ridiculous. These fools need to take better care of their money. Where the hell were his mentors at? They got the young fella,” Bryant’s adviser David Wells said. “What could he say? He had to pay it unless he wanted to wash dishes for a month.” wow where in the heck can i wash dishes for a month for that kind of money shoot me the address I think I will be siding with the owners on the labor crisis. Making some kid pay 54 grand for dinner is retarded. I know hes rich, but damn man thats messed up. Just another reason to hate the cowboys. Im sure roy called the press and said, Look what I did, im cool. He can go to hell with the rest of the boys. Dez can come play in green bay where he will be loved and wont have to pay for anything. whats the big deal? they probably just ordered one bottle of wine (1847 Château D’Yquem Sauternes for $52,000, taken straight from their wine list on the website) and passed it around and sipped straight from the bottle. ha ha. What idiots…..exactly why 95% of NBA, NFL, and Rap Stars are broke in a relatively short time. This is probably not to uncommon. Right up there with the idiot who lost his diamond earrings on the practice field. Umad PFT? Umad that a black man stimulated the economy out of his own pocket more than most of you do in a year? Oh yeah, umad. AND… u jelly too. Damn where to start….. First, what is all this political BS on here??? Dont we come to this site to escape that political garbage. Socialist and Healthcare reform. C’mon, get a friggin life. Second, now thats a big damn tab!! I think it is very funny. And hey, its his damn money to spend so get over it. And then to put it on the Cowboys??? Like other teams players dont drop serious dollars on parties. Get a damn life and stay out of other peoples life. I hate the iggles but if Mike Vick wants to drop 50k on a party, its his money, his life……long if dogs aint involved @ Burns41 September 28, 2010 5:26 PM ———————— Are you aware that 78% of NFL players go bankrupt within two years of retirement? Geez people. Other teams do this too. It’s not just the Dallas Cowboys athletes that spend a ridiculous amount of money. It is DEZ’s money and he can afford it. It has nothing to do with the Boyz or him. Ochocinco flew from cinci yesterday to surprise his son in LA and then flew back that night… he has the money to do it. same with DEZ. # LunarPie says: September 28, 2010 3:56 PM This story just shows how black athletes treat money. You’re headed for bankruptcy Dez! ====================================== Yeah, because Bernie Kosar, Mark Brunell, Jeremy Shockey, and several other WHITE athletes are all BLACK. Your narrow minded, internet tough-guy racism is showing. How about you leave it at the door, or join BlueEyedDevils in the corner… Damn, thats a dick move by roy williams and the rest of the guys. 54,000 for a rookie hazing stunt? Sounds a little over the top for me. Not to mention it makes the players look awful during a recession. Why is roy williams hazing people anyways. Its a joke hes even still in the league, i could see demarcus ware hazing a rookie, hes earned his stripes, roy hasnt. Dez… just keep moving. You’ll be fine. They weren’t busting on you they were baptizing you. Roy Williams wouldn’t take someone to the $4.99 Family Buffet. Any time a friend of mine insists on paying for lunch or dinner, half of the joke is in threatening to order Steak and Lobster. This is no different from that but on a millionaire scale. Some of you are acting like they literally put money in a pile and set fire to it, or bought an expensive car and then ran it off a building. This is a situation where nobody loses, especially the waitstaff which probably went home with giant tip money. This is probably the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard. What an idiot. @90ragtop no one who plays for the cowboys is an “ultra-zillionaire.” The only one worth more than a billion is Jerry… WHICH IS WHY I DONT UNDERSTAND WHY PEOPLE CALL THE PLAYERS GREEDY TAKE THE OWNERS’ SIDE IN LABOR NEGOTIATIONS Or vote for any Republican tax plans, for that matter. Seriously, people, wake up and smell the money. NFL players are not exactly the top of the food chain. 2/3 of all American wealth is held by the top 10% of the wealthiest… but 1/3 of it is held by the top 1%! Basically the same amount as the bottom 90%. I bet Jerry spends this much on housekeeping for his mansion every week. what are you people bitching about? You f’ing KNOW they make a ton of money. With this “little prank” they probably spread it around to more hard working people than they would have if they’d have gone out and bought some shiny shit with it. There’s plenty in the world to be pissed about – but this is not one of them. Jeez… @TP7 Why do you think all I can afford is the dollar menu? Doesn’t Chad Ochocinco do something like this, but for fans? I heard he always randomly shows up somewhere and treats people to dinner. If I was Dez … I’m getting every single cent back … or guys are getting hurt. man the over the top outrage is pathetic. Dez Bryant was pranked and took it like a man. This dinner will play huge with his teammates for years no matter where he plays. He makes the money that can afford it. He was supposed to take the offense but was sandbagged by Williams (who still seems like a real dyck to me) who invited everyone. Youo knew that none of his teammates were ordering the afternoon specials. get over your outrage I could cover my $1000 share easily. Typical fancy steakhouse, imagine the liquor was a bit of the tab. Then again you have: Appetizer: Prime Beef Carpaccio$17.95 Pacific Blue Fin Tuna–Two Ways $13.95 Main course: Grilled Double Lamb Chops $44.95 X2 Fresh Asparagus $9.95 Mashed Potatoes $7.95 Roasted Wild Mushrooms $9.95 Australian Cold Water Rock Lobster 16 oz. $74.95 Dessert: creme brulée with assorted berries and hazelnut tuile 7.95 Wash it down with a scotch – Bowmore 1957 200 Or a dessert wine: 2000 C hateau d’Yquem, Sauternes, France 900 Dez Bryant is a stand up guy. Roy Williams is a childish prick. You don’t take $55K out of another man’s pocket on a prank. I don’t care how much money you all make. Just goes to show you.. how meaningless those “FINES” they get really are. and people need to stop hating. Oh, some rich guy paid for an expensive dinner. Remember that it’s millionaires tackling millionaires on the field. I’m sure Dez won’t go broke anytime soon.. he looks like he’ll be fine. He has the talent. Gratuity should be included…lucky for the waiter “Nick B says: September 28, 2010 4:37 PM It was only 20 K for dinner, 35 K for hookers and blow; cause that’s how they roll down there in Big D.” You’re damn straight we do. “Aaron says: September 28, 2010 4:36 PM Until I see a reciept I won’t believe this story. I sincerely doubt the restaurant had over $55,000 of inventory on hand.” Again, ROFL. Scroll up a few posts and check out the menu. You can spend almost that amount on a single bottle of wine at that place if you want to. Dez got off easy. They could have got him for $100k+ at Pappa’s Bros. if they really wanted to be assholes about it. I read the menu. Jimmy Johnson is the executive chef. $8.00 for mashed potatoes! Well, it’s his money. You know why this is news, because it’s the Dallas Cowboys. No one gives a crap about what other teams players do. When you wear the silver star people want to talk about you good or bad. I have no problem with it only wish I had the cash to do the same. this is why I despise most NFL players. And when they go broke after 3 years in the league, they cry to the players union to pay their medical bills and pension for the rest of their lives. Roy had a great game. Flexing his muscles here. Nice team building exercise. It’s a small wonder why these athletes are broke and in debt 2 or 3 years after leaving the league. The squander millions for stuff like this. his pride cost him $55k. If only he would have carried those freakin’ shoulder pads one time, jesus…. But did he leave a 20% tip? Even to a millionaire 55k is ridiculous. Roy Williams is a jealous old scum bag. Dez just make sure to put sugar in his gas tank. Cut up a couple of suits with scissors. F his girlfriend. Just a prank dog. Slow Joe says: September 28, 2010 3:27 PM I bet he left a $5 tip. —I would say Roy got his revenge. Pretty sweet.! There’s hazing and there’s breaking the law. I woulda said, “I had XYZ charge the rest to the Dallas Cowboys.”. Just juvenile. BoMeister says: September 28, 2010 4:23 PM! ________________________ Did I say I rejected what he was saying, or that I had any opinion on the matter at all? If you think you read between the lines of my 5 word sentence and discovered all my political ideas (marxist??), you failed miserably. My comment was made because this is obviously not a place for political discussion. You zealots have no idea how annoying and insane you are. You are an exact equivalent to the guy standing on the corner of a state fair yelling about the pending apocalypse to a bunch of randoms. And this, boys and girls, is why we stay home and watch the game in HD for free instead of paying $80 for a shitty seat at a stadium full of drunks to watch pampered pro athletes play a game. Football-head says: October 1, 2010 9:30 AM ——————————————– As a diehard Cowboys fan, you do know there is no “h” in Witten. But you’re a diehard fan, maybe I’m wrong	4,854
Working at Better Caring has made me realise how technology is positively impacting people who are ageing. Every day, we see Better Caring clients connect with workers directly online – it’s more affordable and it gives the client flexibility to have care on their terms! Not only are these services benefiting people who are ageing, there’s also research that has proven that technology improves their mental capabilities in comparison to people who don’t. Other studies have shown that using technology also lowers the risk of dementia and depression. Over a year ago, I introduced my grandma to the iPad and downloaded some of my favourite apps on the device. Almost a year later, these apps have not only increased my grandma’s social activity, but have also provided her with a great source of entertainment. If your loved one isn’t using technology, I recommend you introduce them as soon as possible. Technology has improved my grandma’s life! Here are three apps I recommend you introduce to your loved one: Facetime It’s a great way to keep in touch for FREE! Having face-to-face contact, even though it’s through a screen is really special for my grandma. If I didn’t get the time to pop by and visit her that week, Facetime is a great way to make up for not seeing her. Facetime is compatible with Apple devices only – the app should automatically be installed on your device. If your loved one is on a PC – Skype is another popular app that allows you to make video/audio calls for free to family and friends. Click here to download Skype on Google Play. Youtube YouTube has been an excellent way of keeping my grandma entertained. She loves the suggested videos YouTube suggests to you. There’s such a variety of videos she can watch – from cooking, to soap operas, funny videos and the list goes on! Download YouTube on the App Store or Google Play. Facebook is a great app that increases my grandma’s social activity. My grandma has joined several Facebook groups and connected with other people her age online. If your loved one isn’t tech savvy and you think Facebook might be too much for them. Instagram is another app that is very user-friendly and is another way to visually be kept in the loop with what their friends and family are up to. Download Facebook on the App Store or Google Play. Other useful tips: - You can make their favourite website easily accessible via their home screen. See how to do this here. - Refurbished iPad’s are significantly cheaper – check out what’s available on the Apple website here. Do you want to introduce your loved one to technology but don’t have enough time to teach them how? There are Care Workers on Better Caring who are passionate about helping people who are ageing to feel empowered by technology. Click here for more information » P.S: It took my grandma at least six hours over the course of three weeks to start to feel comfortable with her device. Do you have any app suggestions that have improved your loved one’s life? Let us know! Leave a comment on our Facebook page.	611
JTCC presents 'The Fantasticks' CHESTER -The stage is set as John Tyler Community College's theater theater workshop class, directed by Jase Smith, will give three performances of "The Fantasticks" May 4-6 at the Nicholas Student Center on the college's Chester Campus, 13101 Jefferson Davis Highway. Performances will begin at 7 p.m. May 4 and 5, and at 3 p.m. May 6. Admission is free. For more information, contact Kerrigan Sullivan at [email protected]. For directions to the college,.	122
Inequalities - Fluency Practice Lesson 18 of 22 Objective: Students will be able to solve and graph inequalities - correctly identifying when to flip the inequality symbol. Big Idea: It's a chain reaction! Students practice inequalities fluency while building links to a chain, correctly identifying when to flip the sign.” Students will jot the learning target down in their agendas (our version of a student planner, there is a place to write the learning target for every day). Chain Reaction: Explore Video This activity ties in mathematical practices 1, 3, 5, and 6. Students will be working in groups of 2 to complete 12 inequality problems, and correctly match them to their graph. This activity requires students to reason with one another - should we flip the sign, should we not? In speaking of the sign, it will be important that students carefully check their work - paying close attention to detail. The problems I have chosen have very similar graphs, so students will need to be very careful and attentive to details like an open/closed circle and which way the shading goes. Resources (4) Homework: Since students will wrap up the chain reaction activity at different times, I am just going to have students begin on their homework as a summary activity. I do not want students waiting until the entire group finishes - as that is when disruptive behavior tends to occur. So, as groups finish their assignment I will check it, add it to the chain, and give them their homework! This assignment just offers them further practice on fluency with inequalities.	317
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All about cycling in the Netherlands “A high profile and iconic bridge for Purmerend, that’s what I think we’ve built and that’s what we’ve wanted to build right from the beginning.” In a video documentary, Alderman Hans Krieger of Purmerend doesn’t even try to hide how proud he is of the 6 million euro bridge that spans the North Holland Canal right next to the historic town centre of Purmerend. He even shows the bridge as a background of his twitter account. The new bridge, called Melkwegbrug (Milky Way Bridge), was opened late 2012. It connects the town centre to the latest addition of Purmerend, the suburb “Weidevenne”. Purmerend is a town that was founded by an Amsterdam banker in the year 1410. It is located 17 kilometres or a little over 10 miles to the north of Amsterdam and it is home to about 80,000 people. The new area of the town has a lot of housing and schools and a lot of people cycling and walking had to make quite a detour to get to the town’s centre. That was because the old road from Amsterdam to Purmerend was cut in two by the North Holland Canal when it was dug in the 1820s. That historic route has been reconnected again for people walking and cycling. To make it convenient for people to cycle, it is all important to have a good and complete network of cycle routes. Bridges like these literally bridge barriers and they make the network complete. That is why these bridges are more important than you might think. You could argue that a plain bridge would have sufficed, but if wanting to flaunt an exceptional bridge is the incentive to build a bridge at all, I see nothing wrong with it. An aerial picture shows the pedestrian arch over the zigzag cycle bridge with the Purmerend town centre in the distance. (Picture courtesy of Next Architects). The streets in the foreground are cycleways, shared with pedestrians. No motortraffic may use those streets. The dotted lines are unusual on cycleways, but people walking stay on the outside of those lines, which may have been the purpose. In 2006, the municipality of Purmerend asked several architects to make plans for a bridge. They chose Next Architects, who, together with Rietveld Landscape designed this iconic bridge. More than just building a connection to get from A to B, the architects tried to upgrade the entire zone. The canal zone looked like it was the edge of town, but with the new suburb, this area would be in the middle of it. That’s why the architects tried to make the bridge part of an area with a specific identity, where you would want to stay. A destination in itself. They designed a simple but tough looking bridge in the colour of the water of the canal it spans: dark gray. The lower bridge is for people walking and cycling and to let ships pass, this part can be opened. The two bridge deck parts can revolve to either side. The 12 metre high arch is for pedestrians and they can keep using the bridge, even when the lower bridge has opened. There are 139 steps and you would think people would only use the high arch when the lower bridge is open, but that is not the case! The arch has a very strong attraction and people use the arch to have a magnificent view, or as a workout, or just to look what it is like (from) up there. The bridge is made of steel and it was created in a workshop and then shipped, via the canal it now spans, to Purmerend. Where the steel parts were connected to concrete foundations. Building took place from May 2011 to October 2012. The length of the lower bridge is 100 meters and it zigzags over the canal to save space. The cycleway and footway are 5 metres wide in total and only a dotted line indicates the difference between cycleway and footway. That division is not really observed by people, but that causes no problems. Each of the two revolving parts of the lower bridge weighs 100 metric tons. The steel arch weighs 80 tons. At night, LED lights integrated into the bridge’s paths provide illumination. When in 2010 the local television station confronted people in the streets with the fact that the bridge would cost 6 million euros, some were shocked, but most saw the need for a good connection to the new area of the town. When you look at my video below you will see how well the bridge is used, especially by children cycling to and from school. It is very good that these children now have a direct connection to the town’s centre, completely away from motor traffic. That makes cycling convenient, attractive and safe. And that is worth a lot! Video showing the exceptional bridge for walking and cycling in Purmerend Here’s a short video snippet of it. Isn’t that discriminatory with regard to elderly and slightly-disabled pedestrians, and those with small children in prams? It is very pretty, but it isn’t universally accessible. It would be if all these people would be forced up the arch. But they are not. So that is not the case. Everybody is allowed to use the lower bridge as they please. Only those who want to need to use the upper bridge. For a long time I’ve been interested in the use of zig zags (in North America they’re called switchbacks) to get up hills. The important thing is the the turning point have a wide enough area to allow for the natural logistics of a bicycle to make it’s turn easily and without interfering with someone else who might be going the other direction. This bridge is pretty cool and of course for us foreigners the only thing we think of when the name Purmerend comes up is this: Believe me, that was the only thing that came to my mind too! And “on my way to Purmerend” (that’s the main line in that song) it was in my head all the time! 🙂 It’s a classic for sure. I almost got to Purmerend a few years ago, on a rented OV Fiets but only had time to get to Ilpendam and Monnickendam but I wanted to get further only to see what the song was about. (and maybe it was only because it rhymes with “bekend”.) Beautiful country there. Amazing food too. Love those veal and cheese krokets. Most cities around the world want to “put themselves on the map” by building the tallest skyscraper or biggest shopping mall or something like that. It seems that cities and towns in The Netherlands put themselves on the map by building unique bridges for cyclists and pedestrians. I know what I prefer! Every time I read about something like this, I think: “I got to go to that town sometime soon”. While normally I would never have any particular reason to go to Purmerend, or Eindhoven, Nijmegen, etc. Apart from that all these bridges have a practical purpose as well, of course. I believe that this bridge features in an episode of “het kan niet waar zijn”. The item was rather negative as it was deemed to expensive by having that pedestrian arch which is hardly used. Pedestrians would prefer the flat surface over the arch just like cyclist do. I thought the same about pedestrians preferring a flat(ter) bridge. On the other hand, now pedestrians can still cross when the bicycle bridge is open, but I think something like this would have been a better solution: I do feel that some efficiency for crossing this bridge by bicycle has been sacrificed by the artistic design. The extra zigzag’s created by the entry ramps seem a bit superfluous to me: they’re not needed to gain height and make the crossing longer and slower with the hairpin turns, while the main design features would also be there without these. This leaves me wondering: would a car bridge be designed with a similar zigzag? It’s very hard to see on pictures (the walking bridge appears much steeper than it really is as well) but there really is a purpose to the zigzag. The height difference would be impossible to bridge with shorter ramps.	1,687
President Obama's chief environmental advisor will be in Durham Tuesday to tour a successful start-up company that received federal stimulus money. Nancy Sutley, chair of the White House Council of Environmental Quality, will join Rep. David Price in touring Semprius, Inc. of Durham. Earlier this month, Semprius was named one of MIT Technology Review's 2012 top 10 most important emerging technologies. The firm says it has developed one of the world's most efficient solar panels that is expected to significantly lower the cost of solar energy. The firm is expected to open a manufacturing plant in Henderson later this year. Semprius received a $3 million federal stimulus grant to help develop its solar technology. Semprius has raised $44 million from venture capitalists and Siemens, the European energy conglomerate, recently bought a 16 percent share in the start up. Semprius has qualified for $18 million in state and local incentives to build the Henderson plant which is expected to add 256 jobs over five years.	211
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Since the 2011-12 , you've heard all things pointed toward the frontcourt becoming position-less after the Miami Heat won the championship with Lebron James and Chris Bosh playing as hybrids. But the backcourts in the NBA have taken quite the change also. Instead of the traditional point guard-shooting guard lineup, you're starting to see more teams play with dual guards in both slots. While the method isn't wildly popular there are a lot of notable tandems: Ricky Rubio - Alexey Shved Chris Paul - Chauncey Billups, Chris Paul - Eric Bledsoe Raymond Felton - Jason Kidd Jarrett Jack - Stephen Curry Jeff Teague - Devin Harris You can add the Memphis Grizzlies to that bunch. With the injury to Quincy Pondexter, Lionel Hollins has started playing both Mike Conley and Jerryd Bayless together on the court. It's an unusual look as the Grizz haven't had a sufficient enough backup point guard to play he and Conley alongside each other, but it's working fine. NBA Headlines How the Dual Point Guard Lineup Affects the Grizzlies' Offense Grizzly Bear Blues \| Jan 15	248
After a week off, we’re back. It’s getting busy around here recently. Maybe it’s the same everywhere at this time of year? Disclaimer: despite the title, this is not a last post. I just wanted to write about rissoles and this phrase came to mind. The thing is that in Australia, people don’t stop after ‘see you.’ The phrase ‘see you’ just as it is is one I have only heard habitually used by second-language speakers of English from Asian countries, and also English teachers who have worked in said countries. And when I say ‘said’ I mean actually with both of the words said, especially the ‘you.’ It really bothered me the first year I worked in Japan. Nobody said ‘see you later’ or ‘see you next week’ or ‘see ya’ – only ‘see youuuu’ and it usually sounds more like ‘she youuuuu.’ And it’s seen as being authentic English, not like ‘bye-bye’ which as you know is actually Japanese. Rissoles. There should definitely be some mashed spuds on this plate too. Pic: 196 flavours (my spelling) So, ‘see you’ rant aside, there is this markedly Australian way of saying see you later, which is: see you round like a rissole. I didn’t know it was Australian until, oh, probably when I came to Japan and said it to a non-Australian. Not sure if it was a Brit or an American or Canadian, but apparently in the UK, ‘rissole’ means something similar to what it means in Australia. Wiki reckons that a rissole is a pastry that can be sweet or savoury in France, which is where the term originated, but in Australia, it means a meat patty that you cook on the barbie (BBQ). Some people might make a distinction between rissole and meat patty, saying for example that a rissole has breadcrumbs in it and might have vegies (onion, grated carrot) whereas a meat patty for a hamburger will just be mince and seasoning. Whatever, I’m not an expert. This is kind of the point: who cares about rissoles? Putting the word in italics just now felt wrong, too sophisticated. Rissoles always seemed to me like the most boring food ever, that shouldn’t bother existing unless they got themselves made into a hamburger, at which point, the more other ingredients, the better. But Japan doesn’t share my disdain for the rissole. In fact, to my dismay, there is a common misconception that all foreigners eat rissoles/meat patties/hamburger steaks, whatever you want to call them, on a regular basis. People sometimes try to feed them to me when they see that I’m a white person and therefore assume I won’t be able to eat Japanese food. Now for many non-Japanese people this may well be true, but I just don’t get the appeal of rissoles. Yum? Hamburger steak on the menu at chain restaurant Bikkuri Donkey. Pic: Bikkuri Donkey In Japan they’re known as ハンバーグ hambāgu, which translates to ‘hamburger steak’ or ‘Salisbury steak‘ (i.e. a meat patty) as distinct from ハンバーガー hambāgā which is a hamburger. They are the main dish at a chain eatery called Bikkuri Donkey and one of the main menu items at family restaurant chains Gusto and Coco’s. And in that reality TV show I was watching, Terrace House, when people cook for each other, until a cook comes on the show, it usually seems to be hamburger steaks. Why? I really don’t know. A sought-after quality in any hamburger steak in Japan, whether it is part of a hamburger or served on its own, is softness. So having a kind of crust and being hard on the outside is seen as a failing. This, too, I fail to understand. If you’re going to have a rissole, it should be at least a little bit burnt on the outside. I guess it’s just my cultural background. Hamburger steaks in Japan are often served with a sauce that’s called demi-glace, which can improve them nearly to the point of being pleasant. Nah, they can be quite nice with a good demi-glace sauce. I wasn’t familiar with this sauce until Japan, but it features quite a bit on a drama I watched where the secret weapon of a particular restaurant and their trademark ‘om-burg’ (a hamburger steak in an omelette) was their demi-glace sauce, the recipe for which was passed down from father to son. What’s your image of rissoles, or hamburger patties? Better than mine? Should they be soft? Should they be burnt? Should they be at all? And while we’re at it with the questions, do you say ‘see you?’ Or do you say ‘see ya’ or ‘see you later’ or ‘see you round (like a rissole)’ or something else? One thought on “See you! …round, like a rissole” Definitely “see ya”….. even though I would not consider myself very ‘Straylian….. LikeLiked by 1 person	1,091
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Think back to a sleepy Wednesday afternoon at work. On a day when you felt uninspired, your energy was low, and your mind was wandering aimlessly. Having trouble remembering a time like this? It may be hard to remember because it’s just not memorable. In this article, we’re going to discuss an easy way to be more memorable to a guy you like. People like to talk about time management. The simple truth is, time management comes down to a few simple principles like chunking your time, decreasing distractions, and then actually sticking with your priorities. Recently, however, personal development gurus have started to catch on to a growing trend. It’s energy management. Energy management is all about conserving and focusing energy, not time. With peak energy, you can accomplish more in less time. Forget time management. Think energy management. When it comes to dating guys, the energy you bring to an interaction predicts the outcome better than the amount of time you spend talking with him. Think back to a time when you were interacting with someone who had a buzz of energy. Maybe it was because of the fascinating topic they were focused on. Think about the way their eyes move when they are really interested in what they are describing or the story they are relaying. Think about the vocal tones that carry their words. Think about their hand motions and the way they shift their feet as they talk. When a person is interested in something, they come alive.	294
Dante's Inferno takes gamers on a quest through hell, in an action-packed adaptation of part one of Dante Alighieri's epic poem, The Divine Comedy. The 'Gates of Hell' demo includes the entire opening level and gives gamers a taste of the terrifying odyssey to come in the Nine Circles of Hell as depicted in the full game.Visceral Games' retail release is still on target to hit the streets on February 9th of next year. Time to sharpen those demon-slaying blades... Go to Hell.	111
. ns_veil The story of Eclipse actually starts with Veil – or a Veil, at least. I’d fiddled around the NSTR enough to get a feel for some of the textures and shapes I liked, and started piecing together my first map. This probably dates to about January 2002, but I don’t recall the exact dates. It wasn’t much to look at out of the gate. I had no clue how to use the NS textures yet, and seemed determined to use a strange number of floor textures on ceilings. my first experiment with the wall_lab set came in this hallway: There’s flashes of Eclipse hidden here in the red panel and slight curve on the right wall, but the dimensions were all off and I didn’t fully understand the value of trims in this texture set. Adding the extruded boxes on the left was a nice idea for detail, but they were far too bulky and trying to tie it in with the wall the way I did was just plain ugly. Look at that bevel in the middle of the grooved section! The original Veil still showed some potential, however. That ugly lower corridor led to a space wrapped around this elevated platform I dubbed “The Overlook.” Yes, that Overlook. Eventually, this ceiling shape would inspire what would become Eclipse’s South Loop. I also felt like I was on to something with this red light embedded into the wall – in hindsight, this is actually a better implementation than jamming them into the ceilings all over Eclipse and the real Veil; the grating painted into the wall texture is the perfect visual anchor. The original Veil was a very tall map, as seen around Overlook Prime and this small bridge crossing over next to a small elevator platform. While the NS mapping guidelines recommended avoiding level-over-level design, I always felt (and still believe!) that interesting things were possible with func_seethroughs and Commander view parallax. Tangentially, before knowing how critical entity count would be to good map performance in Natural Selection, I assembled some tests using partially transparent all-black func_seethroughs to simulate thickness on ceiling and wall structures encroaching on the Commander view. I had grand dreams of showing depth and even some hidden structure between walls for Commanders, but never was able to pull it off. I apparently liked overlooks, so I put Overlook in an overlook so I could… yeah, this got a little ridiculous. Little did I know that I was actually constructing the first pass of Q4DM11‘s centerpiece platform, which I would build in late 2005. This structure is far better suited for a fast-action FFA shooter with rocket jumping than a slower-paced hybrid FPS/RTS. An aside about the extreme elevation in Veil – these heights were generally based on 256×256 textures. That sounds quaint now, but the Quake engine, built mostly around 64×64 and 128×128 textures at 1:1 scale, split faces at regular increments based on texture scale. This behavior pitted level designer against artist – artists authored higher-res textures, sometimes intended to be scaled down, but designers couldn’t and/or wouldn’t scale them without risking skyrocketing wpoly (short for world polygon) counts. This resulted in a phenomenon where later Half-Life mods with larger textures frequently had hilariously overscaled levels – especially mods like Counter-Strike and Natural Selection which used smaller 64-unit players instead of the Half-Life standard of 72. This needlessly tall and hopelessly bland room is the single most unremarkable image I could find of the original Veil, yet the most direct connection between old Veil and Eclipse: I planned to use this room as a small command center (do you see where this is going yet?), and it also served as a test bed for playing with a fairly new (to the Half-Life community, at least) texture effect. Just, uh, ignore those two brushes coming out the top: During my time building HL1 maps, I always had a certain feeling of envy towards the Quake III community and their fancy editor features, including a vague misunderstanding of what the term “shaders” meant (we were a primitive folk). A lot of Q3 texture sets found their way into HL1 mappers’ hands, and a few of us started wondering why there were these black textures with glowy bits on them. I was among the first level designers in the HL community (alongside fellow NS contributor Kevin “Relic25” Roberts) to realize we could apply this effect to func_illusionary brushes using the additive render mode. I hacked up a couple textures from the NS .wad file to make some glowing screens, and we got Cory (Strader, NS concept/texture artist/NS2 Art Director) to author new textures with these included. Glowy bits such as these computer screens would feature heavily in Eclipse and Veil as well as many other NS maps. Eclipsed I kept fiddling with the first Veil, but in the end, it never clicked. Around April 2002 I felt completely stagnant and unhappy with the jumble of a level I had mashed together. I took a break, tossing together a quick Opposing Force CTF map over a few days, and came back to a fresh idea later that month. Part of my struggle with Veil had been planning ahead. Building on the fly had served me well making simpler DM and CTF maps, but in the early stages the added complexity of NS design stumped me. I decided to try something new and broke out a handy pad of grid paper to begin plotting a to-scale representation of my new map, which I expected would… eclipse… my work on Veil. I took a few pictures of the assembled sheets to document my progress for the NS forums: The layout started on the center page, expanding outward as I sketched towards the eventual Hive rooms. Eclipse landmark “Triad” was one of the first signature layout structures to make it to paper. With everything planned to-scale, it was easy for me to jump into blocking in the layout, which led to this, the first ever in-game shot of ns_eclipse: …I have no idea what this was even supposed to be. It’s a huge step back from Veil’s first pass. I’m pretty sure those are even 16-unit tall stairs. This should have been my first clue that what works on paper doesn’t always translate as intended to 3D. I kept sketching away on paper, though, adding sheets and highlighting my progress in the editor while convincing myself how easy it was going to be to build. I also added the type of stupid commentary a college freshman in 2001/2002 would add to this sort of thing: I took something of a kitchen sink approach to landmarks, taking the idea of a large hangar bay for the Marine spawn from Veil, and incorporating sci-fi tropes like command centers, huge energy generators, coolant vats, and even residential areas. I may have gone overboard with the number of styles I intended to pull off, but to this layout’s credit it actually had a stronger sense of purpose and function than the final release. An early concept of the paper layout was the “Glory” corridor down the middle of the map, inspired by the first shots I had seen of ns_bast’s Nostromo-inspired corridors. Some of my first fiddling with wall_lab textures in Eclipse took place in this exploration, but I decided to stick with the wall_black set for a much grittier look: This slideshow requires JavaScript. The notion of a “Glory Corridor” is such a late 90s/early 00s way of thinking about level design – naively thinking, “Hey, if I make a totally sweet detailed corridor, my map will be good!” There were far more interesting structures waiting to be built while I focused so much time and effort on this, though this corridor would still become an important anchor of Eclipse’s layout and visual style. In addition to Triad and Glory, I had a clear idea early for “Command” – remember that silly shot from the original ns_veil? Say hello to the first edition of Eclipse’s command center, affectionately known at the time as “The Egg:” You can see some of the same strong elevation differences from the original Veil here, as well as more embedded red accent lights that I had first tried in Eclipse as part of the “Glory Corridor” experimentation. Once again, I began to explore the wall_lab set, this time going into complete func_illusionary overlay overkill. This is just a mess: I was much more pleased with the direction of the Triad area. Here you can see ns_nothing-inspired spotlights lighting up the floor, mixed with the grungy wall_black set. At the time, this shot was the benchmark of what I expected the finished Eclipse to look like – dark, grey, and dirty: Another landmark of the grittier Eclipse was the “Coolant” hive on the west side of the map just beyond Triad. A broken-out coolant tank provided an excellent nest for a Hive spawn: It was actually a neat thematic idea and putting coolant reserves near the big generator room served the stronger sense of place, but I was never thrilled with the rendering on the glass or caustic texture. This theme is much better suited to something like NS2’s upcoming “Biodome” environment. I also wasn’t exactly thrilled with my lighting in early Eclipse iterations, especially not after the disaster that was my first pass at Command. I ended up comparing lights.rad notes with ns_nothing designer Ken Banks, and borrowed the orange color he had used for this light texture: A nasty side effect of using lights.rad texture illumination was the light texture rendering fullbright, often resulting in an ugly bright square in the middle of darker geometry. Instead of using the base light texture, I applied the texture lighting to the additive func_illusionary overlay texture, creating a much more pleasant light fixture. This light ended up playing a pretty significant role in the weeks to come. wall_lab A pivotal moment in Eclipse’s early development came in this simple and ugly room. Even armed with a new light color, I struggled trying to find a style to call my own. Triad, Glory, and Coolant all seemed interesting enough with the wall_black textures, but when it came to some of the smaller filler spaces I just wasn’t happy with the look. On a whim, I combined the orange ns_nothing light with the wall_lab textures and Bast floor textures, resulting in this comparison: This slideshow requires JavaScript. The lighting was terrible, but when I saw the orange color mix with the wall_lab textures to the left side of the room, I knew what I had to do. I built out the area just south of Triad in the new style, assembling a new room that may start to look familiar to Eclipse players: “Primary Generator Monitors” made its first appearance in this build. I continued using a blue-white light strip and white accent light from the base Half-Life textures, which I found provided a great complement to the warm glow of the primary orange lighting. With the experiment an official success, I got to work on propagating the style to the rest of the layout: Triad came next. To give the room a bit more character I also added the blue texture to my lights.rad file, flooding the room with a nice glow around each generator. When the wall_lab love spread to the “Glory Corridor,” I didn’t have a good solution to replace the excellent but now out of theme wall_black pillars lining the hallway. In the absence of wall_lab pillars, I cracked open Paint Shop Pro and made my first textures ever: two hacked-together vertical pillars that would become a mainstay of most wall_lab-themed levels. This slideshow requires JavaScript. With the new support textures in place, I continued fiddling with what would become the various “Access Corridors,” adding a second segment using these detailed wall panels from ns_bast: I’ll also take this opportunity to note that the “Natural Selection” watermark embedded in the NSTR (as well as the NSTR itself) may be one of the most brilliant mod marketing campaigns ever conceived. By letting people dabble with the textures and style as the mod was developing and then plastering the NS logo onto every single screenshot, Charlie managed to draw some of the Half-Life community’s best level design talent (and discovered some rising stars) while ensuring a strong selection of maps in the initial public release. Expansion It would still be a couple years before Valve would show Half-Life 2 blockouts and everyone started talking about “orange boxing” their maps, so between that and a super detailed paper sketch I charged full bore into detailing what I had. I may have finally had a style to hang my hat on, but I had only built a fraction of a layout: With Triad, Coolant, and Glory mostly settled, I started pushing to the north and east. This double-height corridor would help bridge the gap from the to-be-built Marine spawn to the center of the map, and made for an interesting hybrid between the new textures and colors and the gloomier feel of my earlier attempts: I can’t speak to my exact inspiration in creating it, but I suspect I was probably influenced by an early version of ns_hera and the “Level 3” alien that would become the Lerk. Early Hera contained a blockout room with towering ceilings that served as a perfect home for Lerk strafing runs, something I had hoped to incorporate into my layout. This area would not survive later restructuring, but would somewhat inform the ramped areas that would become Station Access East. I also took some inspiration from Hera to the east, building this circular alcove that shared some characteristics with some sunken alcove work Hera author Jon “Merkaba” Chapman had been throwing down: This area actually had some interesting structure and gameplay potential, offering interesting elevation (including a sunken drop-off to the right) and solid cover, but it was far too large and repetitive. If I were to build this now, I probably would use two alcoves instead of three and add a small bend to block the huge sight line down the middle. Back on the north side of the map, I built towards the Marine spawn. I was dead set on the idea of a Marines arriving in huge hangar bay that I had first attempted in the original Veil: In this draft, I opened the ceiling for the first time and liked what I saw in the skylights, but it didn’t fix the problem of making the room big, bland, and ugly. This is the danger of getting too attached to an idea vs. being aware of its execution. Further doubts started to materialize as I kept pushing forward with the layout. As noted before, I wasn’t happy with the way Coolant was turning out, but I realized had another room with enough ceiling space to hold a Hive: I cut Coolant, allowing Command to take on a (too) dark infested look and move to its new home on southwest corner of the map. Conveniently, this also solved the problem of the absurd and distracting glowing overlays the last time I had worked on this room. With the new hive room in place, I started working on connecting Primary Generator Monitors to the Hive with the first appearance of Command Access South: A version of this bulky door frame would become a very familiar sight throughout Eclipse (mostly around the central Access Corridors) and the new Veil. The twin gold pipes also laid the foundation for their use in the subtly named “Pipeline” area of Veil. Earlier I spoke about the dilemma of texture scale that caused problems for world scale. As luck would have it, I didn’t particularly care for the top 64 pixels on one of the base wall_lab textures. I also found very quickly (even as far back as the original Veil) that lopping off those 64 pixels resulted in a perfect 32 unit trim at the top of the wall. This led me to build many of my corridors at a base height of 192 instead of 256, which in turn led to many bulkheads at 160 units and many doorways down to 128. While still slightly overscaled against the player model, this helped keep the level’s proportions from getting away from me. Keeping the scale certainly helped anchor the feel of the Access Corridors in the center of the map. In this build, I started expanding them into a network of corridors that formed key connections through the heart of the level: By this point, I had pretty much nailed the look, but I still hadn’t abandoned the idea of grittier elements on Eclipses south and west extents – I was probably headed for a 65/35 split of wall_lab and wall_black. To the south, I took a stab at a grittier and partially destroyed corridor: As this corridor continued further south, it connected to a large almost silo-shaped structure that also retained the wall_black set: I ended up building two versions of this room. Pictured here is the normal version with a half-open bay door, using the same fake light beam effect I had been using in the Marine spawn skylights. Through the door on the far side lay version 2, an infested Hive room. Overhaul As of the June 28th, 2002 (my 19th birthday!) playtest build, Eclipse looked like this: People were enjoying the map well enough in testing, but this was not a good map. Only a few of my ideas were working the way I wanted them to and even with the more consistent wall_lab theme, the map still felt like a jumbled mess. There were too many tiny winding corridors and too many parallel or unnecessary routes. Multiple key routes required unnatural hairpin turns. The map was unnecessarily huge, too, bumping against the edge of the Hammer grid. This entire RT room had interesting ideas and structure, but was ridiculously overscaled (it’s almost as big as that hangar bay at the Marine spawn!) and a complete dead end. Why would I ever want to come here? This wasn’t going to work. I’ve hinted at a few different choices I made being “critical” to the development of the map, but none moreso than the decision I made after this playtest. I took a bulldozer to the entire layout, finally and decisively throwing out any notion of “oh this was in my sketch so I have to keep it” (though much of it was already long gone). No area was off-limits – I estimated I ripped out between 70-80% of the map and rebuilt from scratch. By late July 2002, the layout had taken this shape: This is the first time Eclipse looked like Eclipse. What had been one of the largest NS maps became one of the smallest. I completely scrapped the southeast side of the map, adding this new “Maintenance” area as a resource room just outside the east Hive: A mess of mostly equal-sized corridors in the center of the map focused into this large connection that would become “Station Access Alpha:” And in lieu of the massive hangar bay for the Marine Spawn, I shrunk things down and constructed this entrance structure, tucking the Command Station away in a smaller room behind. Look familiar? Two days later, July 28th, the map had taken this form. The noise by this point had started to simplify – sure, it’s still a corridor crawler, but now with more varied and focused routes and more deliberate destinations: I realized that the Maintenance area I built was a better Hive than the bland nondescript room I had been building towards before. I cut the level short and took an infestation pass, then anchored the Hive in the center over the RT: Computer Core had not existed until the 26th, and in this version I re-oriented it to face north, hooking it up to new north and west entrances: One slight problem is that these two entrances still required you to loop around the single linear entrance. All three Hive rooms suffered the same fate in this version – every one of them was reduced to a single narrow choke point entrance. Oops. Back near the middle of the map, I replaced an extraneous Access Corridor with a bigger and bulkier route connecting the central network of corridors, Maintenance, and what would eventually become Station Access East and T Junction – my area names really were something, weren’t they? The central Access Corridors also began to shine this build – they were now the way to move between resource nodes in the heart of the map. I also added new double door frame structures near Station Access Alpha and the Computer Core entrances. These were interesting in that they took a claustrophobic and completely linear structure and created just enough space to take cover or flank an enemy in a close-range battle. My momentum carried into August, with this layout prepared on August 3rd: The Alien side of the map started to get a dense connection of vents for fast travel between Hives. My personal favorite was the pair just south of Station Access Alpha – I put a set of alpha wires over the exits, and for a couple playtests I was the only person who knew why Skulks were suddenly falling from the ceiling: Promoting Maintenance into a full Hive room was absolutely the right choice, but massively imbalanced the layout by giving the Alien team two Hives right next to each other. I pushed the Hive back to the east, adding a new room called the “Keyhole” to bridge the gap. For the other side of the Keyhole, I brought in the blue texture from the Triad generators and re-applied the scrolling electric arcs I had borrowed from ns_hera in an earlier version. This became a landmark wall structure on this side of the map, as well as a signature image of Eclipse. By adding this space, the travel time from Computer Core to Maintenance began to even out with the time from Command to Computer Core. This was a key design consideration for NS map balance, and would play a significant role in Eclipse’s success. Of note: I never had a stopwatch handy and was always annoyed having to try and time my routes using the Windows clock, so instead I eyeballed routes based on Hammer grid views. By increasing my grid size to 128 or 256, I could quickly count the number of blocks from one location to the next and determine if I needed to make adjustments without compiling. It worked! Back on the north side of the map, I wasn’t thrilled with the original Marine spawn – it was too cramped and put the Command Chair behind a pair of thin and unnecessary corridors. Here, I replaced it with a larger room I dubbed “Cargo Transfer:” This room offered a bit more space to build and a smaller, more accessible Command Chair. It worked for launch, but this room’s stay in the map was short lived – for NS 2.0, I ripped this out and sent both the original Marine spawn and this iteration to the new Veil as Nanogrid and the Cargo Hive, respectively. With additional playtesting and tuning, I updated the map with this layout in September. I wouldn’t fully appreciate the term “committment” in level design terms until a few months into my time working at Raven, but had started to apply it here. Note the significant split between the two routes out of Marine spawn – in the previous build, teams could get a couple steps outside and then just switch directions. Now, leaving Marine spawn meant if you wanted to go back the other way, you’d either have to backtrack or push forward through the central Access Corridors (I would end up using a similar layout strategy in the Marine spawn exits in Veil). While not as drastic, similar choices were required on approach to Computer Core and the new Command Hive. The long linear route to Keyhole bothered me, so I added an additional connection + RT that generated another loop along the way. The U shape I created would become known as the “Horseshoe:” Command finally got its time to shine, as I ripped apart the old version, flattened it out, and created more definitive choke points to the north and south. The trisouped infested hole in the ceiling, while not well lit here, was one of my favorite things to build: While I typically abhor a hairpin turn in level design, I was also proud of what I felt was a crafty way to handle infesting the layout. On approach from Command Access North (on the way from Triad), I inserted a small null-textured (our equivalent of “nodraw” or “caulk,” depending on your more modern tool of choice) vis blocking wall covered in infestation on either side. This allowed me to retain Command’s symmetry, while allowing the infestation itself to block a route and change the layout. I wish I had done more of this – the idea of infestation is more interesting when it’s creating its own structure and flow that doesn’t necessarily line up with the base level geometry. With all these changes made, Eclipse had taken quite a jump in the final 2 months of work – here’s a recap: This slideshow requires JavaScript. I made a few more tweaks in the final weeks, including re-works of the approach to Maintenance (creating a split entrance on either end of the Keyhole, matching the pair of entrances to the other Hives) and the Ready Room (which, to save time, became a non-infested version of Computer Core). The map was a hit in playtesting, and Charlie selected it as one of the seven maps that would be included at release. On October 31, 2002, Eclipse went out to the world with NS 1.0: This slideshow requires JavaScript. Eclipse was never really a finished product; I kept tinkering with the layout well after release and alongside development of the new Veil. As noted previously, two old versions of Eclipse’s Marine spawn found new life as Nanogrid and Cargo in Veil. Maintenance Hive is the Spinal Tap drummer of Hive rooms, and probably would have kept getting rebuilt in every new release had I not started at Raven and passed the map off to Ben Ives in the summer of 2004. Multiple other post-release experiments also fell to the cutting room floor – poke through the old source files if you want to see some of what might have been. Elements of or nods to Eclipse have snuck their way into later work I’ve done. As I learned Radiant for my Quake 4 work I fiddled with a vision of what Keyhole might look like in Doom III. I also directly emulated the Eclipse door frames in the lower sections of Q4DM11, and the Beacon Station in the Starhawk mission “Harvest Season” is named “Eclipse Station” as a nod back to my roots on NS1. This slideshow requires JavaScript. While I may still have found a career in games without making Eclipse, it certainly wouldn’t have been the one I have. Branching out from my DM/CTF comfort zone and being around the talent that made NS taught me more about multiplayer level design than anything else in my time as a modder. Lessons learned on Eclipse and Veil (the real one) continue to influence my work, development process, and career over the last ten years, as well as leave a mark on others (including, of course, the ns2_veil remake for Natural Selection 2 and an as-yet-unreleased ns2_eclipse still in the works by a NS2 community member). Thanks for playing. PS: briktal, I’m still sorry for the build where all the vents were too small. Thanks for this writeup. Too bad I’m shit with graphics 😛 nostalgic 🙂 Very nice indeed This is fascinating. 🙂 All of the screenshots look very dark though. Did you apply the “overbrightening” effect to them? I had to look up how to do this again. Set the top value in “levels” in photoshop or gimp to 383 – [(your map’s env_gamma value)*128] Hey man, long time no see! You are correct; I forgot to apply the gamma correction. It’s been a while. I’ll take another pass at those when I have time – thanks for reminding me! This was a great read. I remember looking at Eclipse and Veil a lot during my NS1 mapping days, though I never actually managed to produce a finished map back then. It’s also very interesting to see how you altered the layout while trying to figure out NS1 gameplay in those early days of the game before boxing out a map first became the standard. Additionally, amusing factoid: looking at the original Veil and FMPone’s remake of it is great inspiration for my remake of Caged, so these days I /still/ look at your maps for inspiration. Nostalgia is right… I used to go by Flatline in the NS days and remember playtesting this. A friend of mine retweeted the article. Glad you’re at Bungie now! Pingback: Level With Me, Andrew Weldon \| Rock, Paper, Shotgun Pingback: A classic Natural Selection map has returned - WEI - 喂~! 電玩資訊站 An enjoyable read : ) I was trying to make hammer work the other day and I got stuck! Back to it I think after reading this!	6,060
- Beskriv ditt hem - Little 'manor' with five floors in Antwerp North. We are painting the hard wooden floors white and the walls pastel. The house is filled with a combination of old furniture from family, Ikea/Habitat, personal art, plants and fancy leftovers (Rubelli fabric, mohair carpet) from the hotel we work at. We also have a little courtyard that we call our garden. There is still a lot to do, but we don't see that as a burden. - Dela med dig av dina bästa inredningstips - Personally I'm not into the whole thrift store hype and I'm not a big fan of retro stuff. I believe in the cliché of using as much white as possible, although I try to force myself to use color. I've liked pastel colors ever since I watched Edward Scissorhands, and often use gold. Take a long time to look for nice lighting because that's the hardest thing to find if you don't have a fortune. Keep everything bright and try to put a lot of plants in your interior. - Vad är bra design? - - Le Corbusier's color use - Jules Wabes (Ligting) - Rietveld (Zigzag and Utrecht chair) - Belgian design (Muller Van Severen and Marina Bautier) - Anzfer Farms - Var hittar du inspiration? - - 1920s (Tamara de Lempicka) - Scandinavian design of course - Candy stores - Family	324
- The Ultimate Guide to Objections in Mock Trial - March 4, 2017 - Ultimate Guide to the Japanese Language and Culture Exam - December 19, 2016 - The Ultimate Guide to Self-Studying AP Exams - October 31, 2016 Can AP Tests Actually Save You Thousands of Dollars? The College Board’s AP program proudly advertises that taking APs in high school can save you “hundreds, if not thousands of dollars.” Because passing an AP test that costs $92 can count for college credit, students can theoretically complete a solid portion of their general education requirements before even starting college. Paying $92 for a class that would costs thousands in college tuition might seem like quite a bargain, and students who take enough AP tests in high school might even be able to shave a year off their undergrad. But how often does this idealized scenario actually play out? Read on for the truth about if — and how — AP tests can save you money. Your Score Matters A common misconception about APs is that simply taking the class and the test is enough to get you credit. In reality, the bare minimum for receiving college credit is a score of at least 3 out of 5 on an AP test — which the College Board defines as “qualified” to earn college credit, and supposedly correlates to around a C in a corresponding college course. However, most schools require a score of 4 or 5 to receive credit, which the College Board describes as “well qualified” and “extremely well qualified,” respectively. Though the College Board is gradually redesigning tests to be more “skill-based” than “content-based” (see recent changes to the US History or Biology tests), for the most part, scoring a 3 or higher requires relatively in-depth content knowledge. This is especially true for history or language tests, which not only require students to retain a large amount of information, but to be able to apply that information in various contexts. As a result, getting a 5, 4, or even 3 on an AP test is no easy task. It requires either dedication to a challenging AP course or rigorous self-study. Most AP classes don’t quite match the difficulty of their college course equivalents, but passing scores are by no means guaranteed. Check out the score distributions of each test by subject to get an idea of how students typically perform. Not All AP Credits are Created Equal Another common misconception is assuming all schools take all AP credits, or that all schools apply AP credits in the same way. AP credit policies actually vary from school to school, and are generally more lenient at public universities than private ones. Additionally, the more competitive a school, the less likely they are to accept AP credits. Furthermore, every AP class taken doesn’t necessarily translate to an exemption from a college-level course in the same subjects. As stated earlier, some schools will only accept scores of 4 or 5, and will only accept AP tests for credits, not for class exemptions. For example, a student who received a score of 5 on the AP Biology exam may earn 3 credits, but would still be expected to take an introductory biology course. In addition, you may need to take multiple AP tests in order to receive credits or exemptions for certain courses. For example, to place out of an introductory economics course, you may need to have taken both the Microeconomics and Macroeconomics exams. Some colleges also place additional restrictions on how AP credits can be applied. Even if AP classes taken are in a student’s field (for example, an American Studies major who has taken the AP US History test), AP credits are not always permitted to count towards the credits required for a student’s major. Colleges with specialized core classes, such as Columbia, may even prevent AP credits from counting towards GE requirements; in such cases, credits only count towards the total amount of credits needed for graduation. Should I Rely on AP Courses for Credits? Even if you’re able to earn credits or exemptions from your AP tests, it may not always be in your best interest to rely on AP courses as sufficient foundation for college-level material. While some courses, like basic writing courses, may resemble the AP classes you took in high school in many ways, there are others that don’t align as well. Often, the way courses are taught in college differ from the way an AP would be taught in high school. For higher-level college courses that require prerequisites, the assumption is that the prerequisites have been filled by college courses, not APs; therefore, taking the course in college may better prepare you for more advanced material. For instance, a premed student who received a 5 on the AP Chemistry exam may take an introductory-level General Chemistry course anyway to learn the lab methods they’ll need for more advanced courses. In these cases, it may be in your best interest to take the college course, even if you’ve technically placed out. Because there’s so little standardization in the way AP courses are taught, you may not receive the foundational instruction you need through an AP course, especially if the course in question is in your major track. Taking the college course can offer assurance that you’re well-prepared for successive courses at your college. Furthermore, some AP tests have curves so generous that even a 4 or a 5 on a test may not be indicative of true mastery of the material. For example, 44.6% of students who take the Calculus BC receive a score of 5; there can be a huge difference in content mastery between a student on the higher end of the 5 range and a student on the lower end. If you feel like your understanding of a subject could use reinforcement, you may opt to take the college course, even if you scored well on the AP exam. So… Can AP Tests Save You Thousands of Dollars? The truth is, there’s no one answer to this question. Policy can vary so much from school to school that a student who places out of an entire year of coursework at one college may not qualify for any credits or exemptions at another. Chances are, if you’re attending a public school, your odds are better; these schools will usually allow for exemptions of introductory courses, or at least credits, for scores in the 4-5 range. Unfortunately, private schools are an entirely different beast. If you’re wondering how far your AP scores will take you at the private school of your dreams, the only way to know for sure is to check the school’s policy. Regardless of whether they can save thousands, APs are a great investment. Even if you don’t plan to use them for college credit, they provide an opportunity to take challenging courses in high school and gain exposure to college-level material. In addition, taking AP classes is a great way to demonstrate academic ambition and ability to colleges. Even if they won’t count for any credits once you get there, APs can help propel you to the college of your dreams! Looking for more advice on AP courses and exams? Check out these CollegeVine blog posts:	1,446