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Troopers said a local man left the scene of a hit and run wreck Wednesday morning,but has now turned himself in.
Trooper Sean Spring with the Highway Patrol in Onslow County said he got a call to King Road, near Holly Shelter Road, around 12:30 a.m. Wednesday.
A neighbor reportedly heard a commotion and looked out to see the scene of a wreck, then called authorities.
Trp. Spring said he arrived to find a 2013 Toyota smashed against a light pole, but no driver nearby.
Later Wednesday, Trp. Spring said 20-year-old Paul Wrick of Jacksonville turned himself in.
Investigators said Wrick only had minor injuries from the wreck.
Wrick is now facing a handful of charges including hit and run, failure to report accident, and revoked registration.
No one else was injured in the wreck and no one in the area lost power as a result of the pole being struck.
Trp. Spring estimated damages at nearly $11,000.
Troopers in Onslow County are looking for a driver who they said hit a power pole early Wednesday morning, then took off on foot.
Trooper Sean Spring said at 12:30 a.m. Wednesday, he was called to a wreck along King Road, near Holly Shelter Road, after a neighbor heard a loud commotion and saw the scene of a wreck nearby.
Tpr. Spring said he arrived to find a 2013 Toyota smashed against a power pole, but no driver in the vehicle.
Investigators determined the vehicle came off the curve to the left, hitting a mailbox, a ditch, a culvert, and ultimately the power pole.
Troopers said they are now looking for the driver of that vehicle. They know it is owned by 20-year-old Paul Wrick, who has an address listed in Jacksonville.
"I'm not going to talk about charges right now," said Trp. Spring. "Hopefully this driver will get medical attention if necessary, and turn himself in."
Damages are estimated at nearly $11,000. Troopers said the vehicle was totaled and the power pole split at the top.
No one in the area lost power due to the wreck.


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1 pound minced skinless and boneless turkey breast (ground can be used)
2 teaspoons peanut oil
4-6 cloves garlic, chopped and pounded into paste
2 tsp finely chopped lemongrass
2 shallots, thinly sliced
3 Tabs green onion, minced coarsley
2 small pieces dried galanga (kha), toasted and then ground finely*
2 - 5 or more bird chiles, minced
3-4 Tabs fish sauce (nam plah)**
Juice of 2-3 limes
1/2 to 1 tsp. sugar (Splenda can be used)
2 Tabs. ground roasted rice (Khao Kua Pon)***
Handful of washed mint leaves
Prep ahead: garlic, lemongrass, chiles, shallot, green onions and mint and set aside.
Remove the outer layers and top and root end from lemongrass, slice thinly the remaining tender inner core of the lemongrass, then mince.
Heat wok over medium flame, now add oil. Add the minced turkey and stir-fry until it is no longer pink, using wooden spatula break up pieces to separate.
Place the galanga in a small dry non-stick skillet over medium a flame and lightly toast the pieces while constantly moving them. Grind the toasted galangal into a fine powder in a spice grinder. I use a coffee grinder that is reserved only for spice grinding.
Toss the cooked turkey breast with the garlic, chiles, lemongrass, shallot, green onion, mint leaves, ground toasted galanga, fish sauce and fresh lime juice until evenly coated and mixed.
Taste and balance the salty-sour-hot flavours. Add a sprinkle of sugar to help balance if needed. Sprinkle in the toasted rice powder and serve with the vegetables and herbs.
I like to serve Laab with sticky rice. You make the sticky rice into bite-sized little balls, and eaten out of hand with the spicy salad.
Garnish: Raw or blanched vegetables such as green beans, winged beans, Thai eggplants, and cabbage. Also raw cucumber and various lettuce is nice.
Herbs such as Thai basil, saw tooth coriander (culantro/Pak Chee Farang), or cilantro.
* Galangal-if using fresh, slice thinly, dry in toaster oven on low, then proceed with instructions above. I like using the fresh as it has more fragrance.
** Nam Pla (fish Sauce) use a good brand chemical free such as Golden Boy or Dragonfly brands.
**Rice Powder (Khao Kua Pon)
You can make your own roasted rice powder very easily if you can't find it in your Asian Market. You heat a dry skillet over medium flame, and toss raw sticky rice/glutinous rice about until browned nicely and fragrant.
Cool and grind in your clean spice grinder. Keep in tightly covered container to retain it's fragrance for future use. I usually make 1/2 cup raw rice into this powder at a time.

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PHILADELPHIA — The National Football League could spend more than $914 million to settle claims brought by former players over head injuries, according to a proposed agreement submitted for court approval.
The amount includes $675 million to compensate players for a specified list of injuries, $75 million for medical tests, $10 million for educational programs promoting player safety and injury prevention specifically in youth football and $4 million for administrative expenses related to class notices. The NFL also agreed to pay an additional $37.5 million if needed for players plus attorney's fees of $112.5 million, according to papers filed in federal court in Philadelphia on Monday. A judge previously calculated the deal at $765 million.
"This is an extraordinary settlement for retired NFL players and their families — from those who suffer with severe neuro-cognitive illnesses today, to those who are currently healthy but fear they may develop symptoms decades into the future," Chris Seeger and Sol Weiss, co-lead attorneys for the retired players, said in an emailed statement.
Lawyers for retired players filed the 149-page settlement agreement after negotiating final terms of the deal for more than four months. The settlement covers all of the league's more than 18,000 living retired players regardless of whether they've filed a lawsuit over concussion-related injuries, lawyers for the players said.
NFL officials declined to comment Monday on the league's decision to commit more than $914 million to resolve the concussion cases. The league "supports the plaintiffs' motion" to have the settlement preliminarily approved, Brian McCarthy, an NFL spokesman, said in an e-mailed statement.
Under the agreement, compensation will be based on a list of qualified injuries including neurocognitive impairment resulting in memory loss, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, Lou Gehrig's disease and death from a progressive disease known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, according to court filings.
Players will be paid based on age and time in the league. For example, a player with one eligible season would get 70 percent less than someone who played more than four seasons in the league, according to the terms of the accord.
Players who contend their mental impairment stems from their time in the league don't have to actually prove they suffered concussions or that those incidents caused their injuries under the settlement, Seeger said in a phone interview.
More than 5,000 former football players had sued the league seeking damages for head injuries. The complaints, which were consolidated before U.S. District Judge Anita Brody in Philadelphia, accused the NFL of negligence and failing to inform players of the link between repeated traumatic head impacts and long-term brain injuries, including early onset Alzheimer's and dementia.
The players claimed the league knew as early as the 1970s about the increased risk of repetitive head injuries and took no meaningful steps to address the issue until 1994. The league later sought to suppress medical literature showing a link between head injuries and post-career brain damage, the players said.
Maximum settlement awards include $5 million for patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or Lou Gehrig's disease, $4 million for death with CTE and $3.5 million for Parkinson's and Alzheimer's, according to court filings. Players suffering from moderate dementia could get as much as $3 million while those suffering from an early form of the disease would be capped at half that amount, according to the filings.
Under the terms of the agreement, players' lawyers can only seek to change the list of qualifying conditions once every decade, according to court filings. Seeger said there's no limit on revising terms on what injuries are compensable if both sides agree.
"If something emerges from a medical standpoint that shows we need to make a new condition compensable, I believe the league would, in good faith, immediately agree to the change," Seeger said.
Papers filed on Monday seek Brody's preliminary approval of the accord. A fairness hearing will be scheduled before the judge gives final approval. The NFL has the right to terminate the deal following notice of the number of players choosing to opt out and prior to the fairness hearing, according to court filings. The agreement doesn't set a threshold for opt outs.
The NFL's settlement doesn't end litigation against Riddell Sports, the league's official helmet provider. Riddell is facing claims from some players that it refused to properly acknowledge or address the concussion threat.
Under the terms of the NFL deal, players who pursue legal action against Riddell and win a judgment in their favor would forgo their right to collect or agree to reduce their NFL claims, according to court filings.
The case is In re National Football Players' Concussion Injury Litigation, 12-md-02323, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia).


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Australian political parties rely too heavily on slogans and are losing their ability to argue their case for reform, says former prime minister John Howard.
In an address to the National Press Club with former Labor prime minister Bob Hawke, Mr Howard said modern Australian politics had become less ideological, and was affected more by the "disease of factionalism".
Mr Howard, in a speech that will resonate with his former colleagues in the Abbott government, which has been struggling to sell its tough budget, said Australians would absorb an argument for change and reform but they had to be satisfied these were fair.
"We think it's sufficient that we utter slogans," he said. "In truth, in politics you need slogans and arguments."
He pointed to his own efforts trying to sell the GST as an example of how an argument that touched on the personal circumstances of voters could have greater resonance than a line that was repeated like a script.
"When I said it [the GST] was an idea whose time had come and other countries had it, that was never very impressive because it never really touched," he said.
"I think we have sometimes lost the capacity to respect the ability of the Australian people to absorb a detailed argument."
Australians had two requirements that had to be met to convince them of the need for political reforms. "They want to be satisfied that it's in Australia's interests, in the national interest, because they have a deep sense of nationalism and patriotism," he said.
"They also want to be satisfied that it's fundamentally fair.
"The Australian people won't, over a long period of time, support something they don't regard as fundamentally fair."
Mr Hawke said that despite the political debate about the state of Australia's economy, "most countries in the world will give their eye teeth to have the situation that we have: the debt to national income ratio, employment, and interest rates, and so on that we have got".
Mr Hawke said federal-state relations were a blight on the optimum development of the country and he maintained the view that state governments should be abolished.
He said that environmental instability was the greatest threat to Australia's quality of life and the one thing Australia ought to do was have "the safest remote locations in the world for the disposal of nuclear waste".
"If we are serious about the fact that global warming and environmental issues are global in their context, then we should take a global view," he said.
"If we have got the safest spots, we should make them available.
"But the great thing is that in doing good for the rest of the world, and making the world a safer place, we'd be doing good for ourselves."
The world had reached a unique point in human history where governments could choose to lift the standard of living "for all mankind or the other hand, destroy life on this planet as we know it".


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Celtic keen on new deal for Lewis Kidd
Celtic are looking to tie down highly regarded prospect Lewis Kidd to a new long-term contract.
Last Updated: 31/10/13 2:58pm
The 18-year-old's current deal expires at the end of the season, and the club are keen on extending his stay at Celtic Park.
Kidd is yet to make his senior debut for the Bhoys, but he has followed up from a very impressive Next Gen tournament last year to shine in their current Youth Champions League campaign.
Kidd is a natural midfielder, but he has been used extensively at right-back this season - where he impressed and his displays have attracted interest from other clubs.
Ajax were linked and it is also claimed that their Dutch rivals FC Twente are keen, whilst Premier League outfits Sunderland and Aston Villa are also said to be monitoring the situation.
A source told Sky Sports: "Lewis's situation is something numerous clubs will be actively looking at.
"He has performed well so far for Celtic this season and looks like he can go all the way."


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How about a guy from Cali growing up as a hockey kid in between San Diego and Los Angeles?
"Forward. Any of the forward positions but wing mostly … enforcer. I was an enforcer … I was big for a hockey player," Dye said, still in the glow of Monday's NFL debut. "My grandfather (got me started). I started at an early age, five or six. That was it. No soccer, no anything, just hockey the whole way. It's still the No. 1 sport in my mind. If the Dallas Stars called right now … ."
Until then, he can wonder about this journey. Dye didn't start playing football until he was a junior in high school and ended up being heavily recruited, a process that came down to UCLA.
"It came down to UCLA and Oregon. I'll never regret my decision. Never. There was a chance to play immediately at UCLA. I started as a nickel as a freshman, so it worked out," Dye said, and USC wasn't an option. "They came in late. I just wasn't a USC fan. Never was, never will be."
But he is a fan of former Dallas Stars great Mike Modano, his favorite player. Hockey never happened for Dye, though.
"It's kind of an underground thing in California; not much ice out there," Dye said. "Money. I had to make the decision of either go to prep school in Minnesota or try football. I guess it worked out."
Dye did have a memorable moment. He figures he was 14 when he was in a junior world tournament and his USA team lost to a bigger Czech Republic team in the finals in Quebec.
"We needed to see the Czech's birth certificates. They were all 17, I swear to God," Dye said of The Mighty Ducks comparison. "It was exactly like that, the Iceland team."


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Seahorse will be showing a Buehler COOT 38 at the Pacific Sail and Power Boat Show, April 19th to the 22nd at Richmond CA
Driving a diesel powered yacht around the world can not be considered "going green". However, George Buehler's sail assisted Diesel Ducks not only leave a small footprint on our planet, they leave a lot more "green" in your bank account. If you want, at no additional cost, we could paint your new Duck green.
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John Deere 4045 Tier III, 125HP
LOA41' Displacement 58,600 lb;
Beam 13'6" Fuel 1200 Gallons; Water 180 Gallons;
Draft 4'9"" Max Speed 8.5 Kts; Cruising Speed 7 Kts;
The DIESEL DUCK 382 shall be specified by construction drawings provided by George Buehler and shall consist of no less than general arrangements and construction details, including the framing and gauge schedule. SEAHORSE MARINE MANUFACTURER, ZHUHAI will build the vessel to the above designer's specifications, plus selected factory modifications which have been approved by Mr. Buehler.
CONSTRUCTION: High quality ship steel shot peened or sand blasted inside and out, three coats of epoxy primer interior and exterior, four coats on the bottom, plus bottom paint and color top coat. Color scheme to owner's choice. Construction to China ship Classification Society (CCS) practice. CCS certified weld X-ray of all boats. CCS incline test. All doors, hatches, ports and windows to be aluminum heavy duty commercial ship quality. Windscreens to be 10MM toughened glass plate. All plywood to be WBP grade or higher. Complete vessel to be insulated with sprayed expanding foam.
ENGINE: Standard engine John Deere 4045 Tier III, 125 HP, 4 cylinder marine diesel with marine transmission.
Complete engine instrumentation including high temperature, low oil pressure alarms.
Other engines available if desired.
Stainless shafts with thrust bearing and "U" joint carden shaft.
Prop aperture and engine mounting designed to minimize vibration and noise.
PSS Dripless shaft seal.
Sea water strainers and ball valve sea-cocks on all inlets.
Primary and secondary fuel filter.
Drip pan under engine.
Wet exhaust system with custom designed water lift muffler.
Two quiet, large capacity engine room blowers with noise isolated vents.
Steel fuel tanks, 1200 gallons plus, well baffled and braced.
Stainless steel ball valves at each end of fuel lines.
Fuel tankage built to Buehler's designed specs and well vented with single large deck fill.
Hull insulation, sprayed expanding foam.
Sound insulation, two foam layers with lead center, surrounding engine room.
Balanced rudder.
ELECTRICAL: Optional genset.
Separate heavy duty engine and 220AH 24 volt AGM house batteries connected by vapor proof master switches.
Back lighted custom made circuit breaker panel using high quality breakers.
Shore power master breaker is GFI (RCI) type for safety.
AC receptacles through out.
Indirect lighting and red safety lighting at steps.
Visual and audio warnings for all system mal-function including high water, engine water flow, ER overheat, any pump running, E R lights left on, etc.
12 volt lighting; quality lighting fixtures.
All Seahorse Marine installed wiring is multi-strand tinned copper boat cable. Wires have color or marker codes for easy tracing.
Wire runs in conduit and all runs, except the bilge pump, are located as far above the waterline as possible.
All wire runs including those along the shear are easily accessible.
AC Toroidal Isolation transformer, 120/240 volt input.
Lightning protection system.
AC shore connector fitted starboard side. DC socket installed in pilothouse.
Multiple zincs on hull, standard size bolted, not welded.
International navigation lights and anchor light installed.
Red interior night safety lighting and remote control spot light installed. Pilothouse overhead lights have red
night vision lighting as well as standard white bulbs.
Optional electronic and entertainment equipment can be planned in advance with owner so
necessary wiring, grounds and cabinets can be built in.
Signal horn and windscreen wipers.
WATER SYSTEMS: Water tanks P&S design installed with ball-cock shut off valves and vents designed to prevent salt water contamination.
Fresh water system uses neoprene coated metallic tubing, not plastic.
Stainless ball type sea-cocks on all thruhulls below the waterline.
Double all stainless clamps on all hoses below the waterline.
Hot water heater with electric and engine heat exchanger for domestic water supply.
High quality bath and galley fixtures. Electric toilets plumbed to holding tank.
BILGE PUMPS: Triple 3000 GPH electric pumps plus large Edson manual bilge pump plumed to each water tight compartment, installed to Buehler's design.
HEADS: Head includes trouble free non-jamming electric toilet, separate shower, basin and storage.
Head has power ventilation on timer switch.
Towel rails is to handrail strength.
Mirror fitted.
Toilet flooring to be tile.
HULL LIGHTING AND VENTILATION: Built to Buehler's design and all to be aluminum frame opening hull ports with storm covers and windows, commercial ship quality.
Deck hatch(s) aluminum commercial ship quality, stainless handles.
Commercial aluminum seadoors on interior bulkheads (5 watertight compartments total).
DECK: Steel pulpits, hand rails and boarding gate(s) built to Buehler's specs.
Stainless dress package available.
Stainless steel heavy bollards and chocks for lines, not painted steel.
Heavy dual anchor rollers at bow, 70 pound plow and 40 pound Danforth type provided.
24 Volt Electric windlass.
300' chain rode standard.
Interior to be of teak veneer with solid teak trim, doors and drawer fronts.
Interior teak and holly flooring optional.
Hanging lockers and cabinets with louvered doors.
Mattress to be 5" thick, 4" for seats.
Drawers/storage under bed.
Reading lights and/or night lights aboard wherever applicable.
Overhead lights LED type white or red lighting.
Hand rails fitted in proper locations.
STEERING STATION: Raised helm seating with chart table.
Ventilation hatch over helm position.
Raised pilothouse dinette with well supported table.
Radar, antenna and steadying sail mast on top of pilothouse, Buehler's design.
Engine and gear controls in pilothouse.
Marine circuit breakers for all boat operations and for planned electronics installation, back lighted panel.
Teak and stainless wheel at helm, heavy duty hydraulic steering.
Pantograph windshield wipers on pilothouse window with fresh water wash.
Tinted side windows available on side windows on request.
Windshields are heavy safety glass.
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DH and I were wondering what some authentic Irish dishes consist of. Any recipes would be greatly appreciated. Now, I really don't want to Google it. Been there, done that. I was wondering if anyone actually lives there or has visited and knows that actual cuisine. Thanks in advance!
Sounds more like a burrito than an eggroll, but whatever floats your boat.
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The 2004 WOCCU Leadership Institute Ends On High Note
August 04, 2004
Nassau, Bahamas-World Council of Credit Unions' (WOCCU) 7th Annual International Leadership Institute draws to a close today with more breakout sessions, visits to local credit unions, the last general plenary meeting and Caribbean Cultural Night.
Breakout sessions today featured topics such as "Credit Union Mergers: Who's Best Interests are We Serving?" led by Bob Hoel, executive director for the Filene Research Institute, and Barry Forbes, CEO of Westminster Savings Credit Union in Canada; and "Undertaking a Strategic Analysis for Competitive Advantage," led by John Gilbert, CEO of CUSCAL Australia and Ramon Imperial, CEO of Caja Popular Mexicana.
Howard Bogach, CEO of Metro Credit Union of Canada and Gerard Herrling of Member Services Municipal Credit Union of New York spoke on "Disaster Planning: Ensuring Member Service in the Midst of a Crisis," and Dave Richardson, technical development manager and Dave Grace, senior manager associate services, both of WOCCU, attempted to answer the question, "Risk- Based Capital: Will Basel II Help or Hurt?"
After these sessions, participants were treated to a lively presentation by Jane Sanders, president of Authentic Leadership, on "The Three Pillars of Authentic Leadership," the keynote speaker of the final general plenary meeting. "Confidence, creativity and balanced communication skills" are what Sanders believes lay the foundation for every successful leader. Her remarks were simple and inspiring, and received a strong response from the audience.
The Institute has once again been a great success, with credit union leaders coming away with new knowledge, new connections and a renewed commitment to credit union excellence. Arthur Arnold WOCCU president and CEO thanked the attendees noting, "It is each and every participant that has made this conference so successful. Without the active participation from you, the attendees, the challenges, goals and objectives of our movements would not be addressed as a collective."
Participants were then given the special opportunity to visit local credit unions and observe the way they are structured and operated. Paradise Island Resort and Casino Co- operative CU, Bahamas Law Enforcement Co- operative CU, Public Works Co-operative CU, Teachers & Salaried Workers Co-operative CU and National Workers Co-operative CU hosted participants, giving them the opportunity to gain insights that will help them better serve their own credit unions.
The final conference event, Caribbean Night festivities will take place this evening. A reward for everyone's efforts over the past four days, Caribbean Night will entertain all with music, dancing, and performances by "the Queen of Fire" and "the King of Limbo."
World Council of Credit Unions is the global trade association and development agency for credit unions. World Council promotes the sustainable development of credit unions and other financial cooperatives around the world to empower people through access to high quality and affordable financial services. World Council advocates on behalf of the global credit union system before international organizations and works with national governments to improve legislation and regulation. Its technical assistance programs introduce new tools and technologies to strengthen credit unions' financial performance and increase their outreach.
World Council has implemented 300+ technical assistance programs in 89 countries. Worldwide, 68,882 credit unions in 109 countries serve 235 million people. Learn more about World Council's impact around the world at www.woccu.org.


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Woman apparently dies while driving
UPPER SANDUSKY — A 43-year-old Upper Sandusky woman apparently died while driving on a city street Monday night, police report.
Tammy K. Clifford was taken to Wyandot Memorial Hospital, where resuscitation attempts were not successful and she was pronounced dead.
Clifford was driving a Honda van in the 200 block of West Johnson Street about 8:43 p.m. Monday when the van went into a mound of snow, police said. Upper Sandusky police said she was not injured in the low-speed crash and the van was not damaged.
An autopsy will be conducted by the Lucas County Coroner's Office.
Funeral arrangements are pending at Bringman Clark Funeral Home.


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For more information on work schedules, go to pp. 30-32 in the Training Policy Handbook.
Agencies should electronically report training data to OPM on a monthly basis.
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Just 10% of all voters believe the government should be allowed to do anything that a majority of voters want. Seventy-nine percent (79%) say there should be legal limits on government to protect the natural and civil rights of individuals. Ten percent (10%) more are not sure.I find it bizarre that there are any Americans of the "likely voter" persuasion who think the majority should always prevail over the individual. Maybe they didn't understand the question. Maybe they think that the majority in America is such that it would never agree to anything seriously violative of anything that ought to be conceived of as an individual right.
Ninety-two percent (92%) agree that it is important for there to be strict limits on government so that it cannot take away individual rights and freedom, and that includes 72% who think it's Very Important.
The poll also asked "Which is more important: ensuring that leaders are selected by voters or insuring that there are strict limits on government so that it cannot take away individual rights and freedom?" 54% chose rights. Only 37% chose democracy first.
Do you think Rasmussen is doing this poll now in an effort to embolden the Supreme Court as it considers the health-care law... or, more modestly, that it's prepping the public to embrace a decision striking down the law? I note the absence of a question about whether the federal government has only limited, enumerated powers, which would be the basis for striking down the law. That case is not about individual rights. But speaking of unasked poll questions, I'd like to see a poll that asked whether the requirement that everyone buy comprehensive health insurance is more of a problem because it may exceed Congress's enumerated powers or because it may infringe on individual rights.
Even though this poll didn't ask the legally relevant question, the linked article reporting the poll ends with a reference to an earlier poll that said 69% think Congress lacks the power to require everyone to buy health insurance and 54% expect Supreme Court to strike down that requirement.
By the way, Rasmussen divides its "likely voters" into 2 categories: "Political Class" and "Mainstream." On the question whether democracy or rights were more important, there was a radical divergence, with 85% of the Political Class putting democracy first and 62% of Mainstream folks putting rights first. Now, what's really fascinating is to think about that divergence in connection with the questions they use to figure out whether to put the various poll respondents into the Mainstream or the Political Class category:
-- Generally speaking, when it comes to important national issues, whose judgment do you trust more - the American people or America's political leaders?That is, you are categorized as "Political Class" if you don't trust the people and you do trust the government. Why are these the people who think "ensuring that leaders are selected by voters" is more important than "insuring that there are strict limits on government so that it cannot take away individual rights and freedom"? It would seem that these people — whoever they are! — are not really big enthusiasts about democracy. It's more that they are against "strict limits on government" — which was the phrase in the question asking for a preference for democracy or rights. To pick rights, you had to warm up to the concept of "strict limits on government so that it cannot take away individual rights and freedom."
-- Some people believe that the federal government has become a special interest group that looks out primarily for its own interests. Has the federal government become a special interest group?
-- Do government and big business often work together in ways that hurt consumers and investors?
Strict is a strong word, and it can rub you either way when you hear the pollster ask the question. It will jump out, but which way will it jump out? The populist "Mainstream" people may, perhaps, pull up the notion of staunchly defended rights against a potentially oppressive government. The "Political Class" person, by contrast, pictures government hampered by overstated, inflated ideas about supposed rights.
And please don't complain about the way I've phrased the poll. I'm not trying to be a professional-style pollster! Just pick the answer that's closer to how you feel. If you want to expatiate about the actual images that rolled through your head, tell us all about it in the comments.


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Awe the memories!! Such a rad space.
Looking forward to seeing this project grow and maybe even becoming a member.
I suggest getting a Facebook page, and possibly Twitter as well for the site.
It will help increase awareness and maybe even land you a few equipment donations. Good Luck!
The outside pic brings back memories! Back in university I worked in the Finning warehouse, and that building was a heavy machinery repair bay. I remember driving a forklift past those doors with a D8 bulldozer track coiled up on the forks. Steering was a challenge; the track was so heavy (several thousand pounds) the back steering wheels kept lifting off the ground. Good times! Glad to see someone using the space in the spirit it was intended.
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LAKE IN THE HILLS – The village on Friday plans to launch its new website, which it says is more convenient and user-friendly.
The new site will have improved search capabilities, calendars for events and meetings, a listing of parks and their amenities, an ability to submit public records requests online, social media connections, important documents and forms, and drop-down menus for each department, among other things.
Village department heads worked with Aha Consulting of Lake Oswego, Ore., over three months to build the new website.
The new site cost $12,000 to set up, Assistant Village Administrator Shannon Andrews said.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- The Bad River Band of Lake Superior's leader says the tribe plans to immediately begin raising money for a possible lawsuit challenging Republicans' polarizing mining changes.
Gov. Scott Walker signed a sweeping bill Monday that streamlines Wisconsin's mining regulations into law. The law is designed to help Gogebic Taconite open a huge iron mine just south of Lake Superior.
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Absolutely horrible stuff. Must have been terrifying for everyone involved.
Gun control America...have a think about it. Or, you could just keep on throwing your hands in the air every time this happens, say 'Oh how terrible', do nothing, and then wait for the next one to occur.


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New submitter davidstites writes "I am a masters computer science student at University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, and in November I performed a security audit of 230+ popular iOS applications because I wanted to know how secure apps on smartphones and tablets really are. I made a shocking discovery. The largest single potential security breach was with the Southwest Airlines application. Southwest Airlines' iPhone app leaves a user's information vulnerable to hackers. When you login to the application on your phone using your Rapid Rewards account, the app submits your username and password information as plain-text (unencrypted) to a Southwest remote server (mobile.southwest.com). A potential attacker can simply sniff for the data on the network and steal it. This situation is a hackers dream! If a victims credentials were captured, a hacker could use those credentials to login to that particular account and they would have access to anything the victim would have access to, such as addresses, birthdays, e-mail, phone and credit cards. They could even book a flight in the victims name." (Read on below for more details.)davidstites continues: "This not only obviously worrisome from the standpoint of a potential attacker fraudulently using a victims account and credit card information, but also due to the possibility of terrorist threats in air travel.
The possibility of being able to capture this data is especially probable since Denver International offers free WiFi and it is an unencrypted network. The probability that a Southwest passenger would login to their account is also quite high since they have an entire terminal to themselves (C concourse). However, this could occur on any unencrypted or encrypted network.
Consider the possibility of a person who is currently (and rightfully) on the Department of Homeland Security's 'No-Fly' list. If this person were able to capture a victim's credentials and create a fake ID, he could pass through TSA security without being stopped.
I don't know how Southwest Airlines let this happen, but sometimes companies have to decide between security and the bottom line. Companies rush to get products out, the engineering dollars are not there to complete the project, so security falls to the back. Usually, security is not thought of as a benefit, until it fails.
I contacted Southwest when the vulnerability was found in early December and they still have not released a patch as of today and they have never contacted me back about the vulnerability. Until the security flaw is fixed, the best solution is to not use the application.
A full list of applications with vulnerabilities can be found here. Additionally, some local NBC and ABC news stations and the Denver Post covered this story."


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Nearly 20 minutes of gameplay footage from the upcoming Elder Scrolls Online MMO has appeared online.
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Aww, missed it :(
Darn. Missed it.
I want elder scrolls!!!!!!!!!
The Gameplay Footage video is no longer available. Thats a pitty i was curious.


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PORT CHARLOTTE — The noise level in Tony Cicchella Gymnasium rose as Kristy Lowe pushed the bar further and further off her chest.
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My wife Maureen and I have always looked forward to the dinner in which our bishop would launch the annual diocesan fund-raising campaign. It's become an annual "date" for us. We try to give what we can to our diocese and parish, Catholic apostolates, and worthwhile charities.
Each year we're stretched a little thinner as we support more and more "good causes." With a modest income and several school-aged children, why do we do this?
We see it as looking out for number one, except our "number one" is not ourselves, but Our Lord.
The biblical concept is tithing. In the Old Testament, tithing was a moral and spiritual obligation to make an offering to God of ten percent off the top of all the fruits of one's labors (cf. Lv 27:30). In fact, if one didn't tithe, it was considered stealing from God! (Mal 3:7-8).
Even more fundamental than the mere "accounting" aspect is the sense of generosity and piety that goes along with tithing. It's all about making the Lord the priority in one's life, as brought home so clearly in the story of the widow's mite (Lk 21:1-4). The poor widow was not a major Temple benefactor by earthly standards, but her gift was singled out for praise by the Lord because of the great love she showed in giving the little she had.
Maybe that's why my favorite birthday or Father's Day gifts tend to be the ones my children make themselves. These artistic treasures, often saved for posterity on our refrigerator or my office's walls, serve absolutely no practical purpose. What makes them valuable to me is that they represent a loving sacrifice on the part of my children, which means infinitely more than any monetary value other gifts might have.
When it comes to tithing today, the Church doesn't require that we give 10%, but we are required to support the Church through the generous use of our own time, talent, and treasure. The exact amount isn't as important as the priority and generosity that accompany the giving. The traditional 10% is a helpful, biblical measuring rod, but there's nothing preventing us from giving 15 or 20%!
Speaking for myself, I wasn't raised in a tithing home. We really valued a buck. So it has taken me a while to really soak in the Church's teaching in this area. I can say from personal experience, despite many financial obligations and the fact that over a decade ago I left my law practice to work for a non-profit apostolate, that the more our family has tithed, the more Our Lord has provided for our every need. I shouldn't be surprised at this, because He pretty much tells us that this would be the case (cf. Mt 6:33). Yet, I still truly marvel at this reality.
Perhaps God multiplies our offerings like Jesus multiplied the loaves and fishes. Maybe tithing instills a right order and priority that shape all of our spending. Perhaps tithing encourages us to do without things that really aren't necessary. Or, more likely, it's a combination of all of the above.
I know Christian financial advisors whose first advice to clients who are heavily in debt is to begin to tithe, and if they won't do it, then they can't help them. Tithing is part of the solution even on a most pragmatic, worldly level.
But one thing is sure: As the saying goes, Our Lord will not be outdone in generosity. Ordinarily, we are commanded not to put the Lord to the test. But when it comes to tithing and supporting the Church, Scripture invites us to put the Lord to the test (cf. Mal 3:10). Those who do are amazed at what happens.
Generosity involves much more than writing a check–but Maureen and I have decided that that's not a bad place to start. I guess we're just putting our money where our hearts are.
This article originally appeared in New Covenant magazine. Those who want to include Catholics United for the Faith in their tithe may do so by visiting www.cuf.org, by calling 1-800-MY-FAITH, or by sending your tax-deductible check payable to CUF, 827 N. Fourth St., Steubenville, OH 43952. Our finances have been especially tight in recent months, so we're most grateful to any and all of you who can take me up on this invitation to put God "to the test."


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That's funny, because even though I don't much like Apple, I think that the "number of user interface designers" at Apple seem to have done fucking well at recognising what is easy to use.
Is this like the way people in the GNOME project arbitrarily assign themselves the role of "user interface designers" and fuck things up three ways to Nevada?
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Apple's one-menu-to-serve-them-all approach is decidedly unfriendly when you have more than one monitor, as more and more of their machines come out of the box ready to operate with (and a machine like a Mac Pro can trivially be configured to run quite a few monitors.) But even a Mac Mini or a laptop will run two. What happens is that you're off on one monitor, you need a menu operation for the app you're working with, and the menu is 1,2 or perhaps six monitors of mouse-travel away. Menus on application windows make a great deal more sense.
Typists -- by which I mean people who really type a fair bit, like writers or serious programmers -- are not served well by Apple's low profile "chiclet" keyboards. Apple gets the shivers by making their devices thin; but this means that keystroke throw is short, and what we end up with is a mushy keystroke.
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Apple's one-app-at-a-time system UI messaging approach means that you can only send keystroke events to the active application. So, for instance, were you to attempt to write program B to automate program A, and the user happens to be using program C, any attempt to control program B from program A will require you to shift the user's focus from program C to program B, which is decidedly unfriendly. Applescript's mechanism for automation requires activation of this app, then that app, which means that the user can't be trying to use the machine when the Applescript is running. Which is kind of a serious faux pas for what is nominally marketed as a multitasking machine.
There's no inter-program messaging paradigm other than the network. No named ports, etc. This also has severe implications for automation.
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UDP messaging is used to send network events in a broadcast manner. Apple's implementation of UDP only allows one program on a machine to bind to a UDP port, meaning that only one program on that machine can catch a broadcast -- which in turn means that if your implementation really needed a broadcast mechanism, you can't use UDP for it.
That's just a sampling of UI issues with the OS. Against these rather immediate problems, I find the whole issue of make-it-look-like-[object] to be silly.
Don't know what the [object] is? It's a one-time learning trip down memory (or history) lane, and you're up and running. Operation is easy, even if, lawd forbid, you had to learn something.
On the other hand, when you need to get at a menu across a bunch of monitors, you're kind of hammered. It's time to go hunt for a third-party fix. If you need to really type, it's time to go buy a keyboard from a third party. If you need broadcast, I hope someone warned you the UDP stuff is broken so you don't waste your time trying to use it. If you're trying to implement IPC, well... [hollow laughter] I bet you'll wish you were working under Amiga OS before you even get seriously started. And no, Applescript won't get you even close because of the above-mentioned application focus issues.
The keyboard comment is not fair as there are 0 computers sold with decent keyboards as far as I can tell.
Switch and spring based keyboards have all been replaced with mushy membrane based keyboards as standard on all PCs it seems.
In other news...actual users criticize design of the majority of systems they use, wondering why they can't be more like IOS or the experience of using a Mac...
Coming up after the break, Apple partisan oblivious to non-Apple perspective.
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Indeed. Besides it is just textures. Architects went nuts in the 20s ripping out all texture and decoration to create a clean pure look. But in the end people found it cold and inhuman, and cold concrete and metal gets boring. So it just helps to have a bit of variety and decoration. Not everyone wants to live in MUJI world or a Rietveld Schröder House. Besides the textures offset the clean simple hardware. And when looking at a screen all day, a bit of variety helps. Of course one might not like the particular textures, that's a different matter.
Actually, I found some of the webpages in the pics very well done. Let's take for example the burger menu webpage. It's simple, elegant and probably the best done choose what items you want on a burger, just because it's so simple.
Some of them are okay, but the one with the clipboard sewn into a hardwood floor is pretty hilarious
Silence, citizen or Apple will send its flying monkeys to sue you.,
with all the patent litigation, slashdot should really get a rotten apple picture for these stories.
Silence, citizen or Apple will send its flying monkeys to sue you
My eyes are still a little fuzzy from sleep and that looked like it said
I agree with the point that using faux object representations is cheap, wastes space, and can be lost on people for sure. But to go for Metro as an example of good design? Sorry, I'd take cheap wood and leather graphics with gradient overlays and shadow underlays any day of the week over that.
Agreed. I've not really played with Windows 8 much yet but I installed Visual Studio the other day and my first question was, why the flying fuck are the menus shouting at me in capital letters? Who ever thought that was a good idea and looked good or somehow improved the user experience?
The icons etc. look awful, the solution explorer which previously had nice familiar icons that you could often pick out from the hints of colour on them are now bold black lined pieces of fairly nonsensical shit.
It's like s
We all know that self-described UI designers are never wrong when it comes to making things intuitive and easy to use.
*cough* *gnome* *cough*
Yeah, like those awesome sorted grids of icons which make finding that one thing you want dead simple.
Or those application docks which make it obvious to users how to open a second instance of an open application or switch between multiple open instances.
Perhaps you were referring to media library organizers which use a completely different set of metaphors and visual cues from the file system and are essentially incompatible making it less difficult when users want to interact with their file browser... somehow.
The minimalist verses skeuomorphism assertion has been made a few times already. Its quite easy to prove right or wrong.
Simply design a calender or contact app that follows your new "modern" design methodology.
If it beats the crap out of Apple's existing app because its so much better that people download it in droves to use it you have won, and you are rich(er).
One might argue that both Microsoft (Outlook) and Google's calendar and contacts apps do exactly that, and are both much more widely used than Apple's.
So many things to criticize about Apple's UI direction (the tabletization of OS X, for example), and they criticize the thing Apple is doing right.
People like old fashioned aesthetics. Nobody had a need to use a sundial these days, but many people still decorate their yards with them. Seeing a wood bookshelf with real books stacked looks pretty and people see it as part of Apple's software polish.
I was kind of opposed to the "tabletization" of OS X in the beginning, but now that I have used Mountain Lion for several weeks I have to say that it is a great idea. I enjoy Launchpad and the Notification Center a lot. Notes and Mail that behave exactly like my iPhone is a big plus, especially since Notes are like Evernote but much much faster. I really should mention Mail since I really thought that e-mail clients kind of hit a ceiling and that program proved me wrong. Reminders are ok but nothing spectacular. The deep App Store integration is also a good thing considering that OS X Lion and Mountain Lion breaks a lot of old software, Photoshop included, so when you get something from there you never have to wonder "will it run on my Mac?".
I think what Apple is doing wrong is breaking application support. I was very annoyed at not being able to use most of my games and a lot of software with the latest releases. I think when Apple was using Rosetta to run PowerPC programs they were doing fine. Once they took that attitude of "update your apps or else", it really made me appreciate all the hard work that Microsoft has done in that sense. I can still run a lot of old stuff in the latest Windows, and even the DOS applications can be run with a bunch of free emulators like DOSBox. There is no way to run an emulated OSX 10.2 or similar that I know of in a Mac.
Naturally, the trick to doing minimalism right is to use as little of it as possible.
Really? There's so much to criticize about Apple's design, like OSX's big and cluttered dock versus a tradicional taskbar, and they go straight for the superfluous fluff? Who cares about the icons? They are just fucking icons, replace them if you want to! What the hell happened to functionality in this world? It's like no one cares anymore, and "design" only means "making shit look fancy".
Really? There's so much to criticize about Apple's design, like OSX's big and cluttered dock versus a tradicional taskbar,
You mean the traditional dock from NeXTSTEP versus the imitation from Windows?
Seriously, as a designer myself I can only shake my head when I read stuff like this.
It may be true that "traditional visual metaphors no longer translate to modern users", but what about older users? Should we just dismiss their needs? Are interfaces really encumbered because they feature a wood-textured background?
Also, I challenge you to come up with a symbol for saving files without using a diskette or something like that. These symbols have transpired from metaphors of real objects to metaphors of actions, and people who have never even seen a diskette learn their purpose by context. Granted, this creates a certain standard by convention, and you could argue that any symbol could be used for that. But again, that would dismiss the users who grew up with that symbol. Currently, everybody is happy, why challenge this?
Imho, articles like this and blogs like skeu.it are just cleverly-disguised marketing by Microsoft. Ask any designer, and they'll tell you that well-used skeuomorphisms are not problematic, but even necessary to reach most of your target audience.
Should we just dismiss their needs?
'Need' is quite an interesting term to use when discussing faux leather stitching on a calendar app.
Of course, I disagree with this UI designer as I think it is important to provide visual clues in an icon that denotes its purpose/function. If it helps people realize that the icon with a Month and the number 31 is a calendar, well, then it does serve a purpose.
I'm not knocking you, I just thought the concept of considering older person's needs when referring to this topic
Fair point, the use of the word need seems misplaced. English is not my native tongue
I handed my 83yr old , technical-illiterate grandma an iPad and she was able to use most of the apps because they resembled physical devices she knew.
Of course she doesn't "need" to use a digital calendar, or even an iPad. But that device and ample use of skeuomorphisms are enabling her to participate in a lot of places which were inaccessible for her before. It makes a lot of people feel familiar with usually (for them) almost frightening devices.
This is empowerment, and as long as nobody else is hindered I think the debate is quite pointless.
Just to be sure there is not bias.
Plus do they have any examples to show to the class that backs up their claims?
The icon that fucks me off the most is the one for the iOS Maps application. The US interstate route sign in the icon (ie route 280) makes absolutely no sense to anyone young or old outside of the United States. A globe or something similar would make more sense....
it is a bit silly, but it's almost an easter egg because it's their headquarters... took me a while until I realised
but again... to me until then, it was just a map of some roads
Of course once you've gone completely flat and removed all the ornamentation, it makes one wonder where the next generation will go. Perhaps someone will suddenly realize, wow, we can make those tiles look just like a 3D image of a smartphone (and, of course, be promptly sued for rendering them with curved corners).
I've worked at Disney's home entertainment department and I've had close friends work at Nick (close as in the real sense, not the Hollywood sense).
I think your entire post sums it up nicely in the second paragraph:
I feel like Apple's UI can be compared to Disney's take over of animation stylings.
I could go through your post and break it down piece by piece, but every time I sta
Even though I don't think that skeuomorphism is the way to go about it, people just want something that looks interesting. They are also willing to pay for the cosmetic changes from version to version, so it makes business sense too. Pretty much everything goes through these stylistic trends. Clothes, cars, and other home electronics come to mind.
A second even though: even though I'm not big into fashion or appearances, I also want the computer screen to look interesting. The standard OS X and Windows 8 interface is a bit boring in my mind, simply because I am staring at it for hours a day and for days on end.
I find this whole skeuomorphism thing to be tenuous at best. I'm 26 and have never used a rolodex nor a leather calendar book--and my phone hasn't looked like a corded handset since I was seven. But so what? I love the way all that stuff looks. There is a reason people go in for retro styles in the first place. We like that connection to the past. And to say that we are confused, simply because we're young is preposterous. We grew up on television. We've seen it all. Sure, we may laugh every time Jack McCoy picks up his tethered phone and flips through his rolodex to find another lawyer, but we aren't idiots. We know how this stuff works, and frankly I prefer the organic look of real objects to the sterile hospital environment of Google's design team. Just because the thing is digital does not mean it should look like it was designed for a Star Trek shoot.
"Skeuomorphism" irritates me as much as "cloud" and "mash-up" before it. The simple term is "metaphor", the pre-2012 standard term for this approach to UI. Are the anti-skeuomorphismists proposing that every GUI OS now give up the folder metaphor? You know, underneath they're "directories".
I'm guessing the objection is to photo-realism of the metaphor rather than the metaphor approach itself. Showing a 24-bit image is like having the joke explained to you. It also adds frustration and cognitive dissonance when the metaphor, which is an anology after all, breaks down -- when it doesn't operate exactly like what is being portrayed in 24-bits. Then, it's not just having the joke explained, it's also a bad pun.
When desktop UI metaphors are rendered in 1-bit, they take on a suggestive and less specific meaning, and the user understands them as hints and the users do not rise up in rebellion with endless trade articles about "skeuomorphisms".
First off, there are many types of metaphors, so from a purely taxonomical point-of-view, there's nothing wrong with the introduction of a word that describes a particular type of metaphor. Secondly, it's not necessarily about metaphor. Skeuomorphism refers to the practice of carrying over unnecessary elements from one version of a product to another (in most cases, talking about going from an analog or physical object to a digital replacement). For example, the click that you hear when your phone's camera
The thing that I find very strange about Apple's UI peoples' obsession with ultra-tacky stitched leather borders, disgustingly twee fake paper calendars, little 'wooden' shelves for ebooks, and similar rot, is how sharply it differs from their hardware guys...
On the hardware side, Apple's aesthetic is one of a practically brutalist honesty to their materials, and a fairly relentless drive to unify surface and structural elements(ie. aluminum unibodies, rather than ABS-clad magnesium or steel skeleton designs, that sort of thing). It is really quite jarring. Their hardware guys appear to be iterating toward the monolith from 2001, and then you turn the device on and *BAM* punched in the face by '90s shareware UI...
I'm a visual person. I like a bit of skeuomorphism. I can agree that many apps take it too far, but there are some kinds of apps where it can benefit, and where it can make things more fun to use.
A few top ways skeuomorph apps can do things wrong:
Non-skeuomorph apps have the same kinds of problems in many cases. Fat margins, "iced" or unstretchable dialog box layouts, inability to copy pretty much any visible text to the clipboard, flat coloring that lets different entities to merge.
I haven't found my ideal window manager yet. It seems like 99% of the mouthbreathing userbase likes fully sovereign/maximized applications. This breaks down on massive displays. It seems like a lot of people like magnetic window edges that "help" align things neatly and nicely at all times. I'm the opposite, I like windows to be scattered and different sizes, and if there are just a little too many, to be overlapping such that no borders line up. This is almost a skeuomorph of a desktop where different papers overlap generally but never exactly.
People seem to go on about making flatter colors and simpler framing, but I like the visual cues of shading and shadow, of increasing or decreasing contrast to draw attention. The Metro stuff looks like a wall of sample paint chips you see in Home Depot, or the funny hospital triage menu interface in Idiocracy. No, I don't want to run "Afternoon Eggshell Delight" nor do I want to have to hunt the wall for it.
Sturgeon's Law: 90% of everything is crap. That includes examples of skeuomorphism. However, that's not the reason to throw it out.
http://ask.slashdot.org/story/12/08/29/0138234/ask-slashdot-is-the-rise-of-skeuomorphic-user-interfaces-a-problem [slashdot.org]
This is just a pet peeve of an editor and not of general interest. Skeuomorphic design isn't inherently evil for users, it's just that a lot of UI designers get annoyed when people ask for it and they can't try their less constrained designs. I sympathize with backlash against the plebian scum of the business world, but they are also their customers. This is an attempt to convince people that these designs are more objectively bad in order to have more firepower to resist them when they are requested.
I'd have to say I don't think it's such a bad thing, nor does it set a new precedent by any means. This type of things happens in languages (human) all of the time. In English, we still use words and phrases such as "he is in the lime light." How many people actually know that that refers to what they used to light stages with back in the early 20th century? Should we replace this phrase because it refers to something most of us have never physically observed? Of course not. Yet, some things in language evo
Why? Because MOST of the users (and potential) out there understand these things. You can make an interface bare and functional, eschewing all references to physical or mechanical analogs, and you will make the computer literate crowd swoon. Compare that 2-4% market share with the "rest" of the population, and you can see why people are buying this "poorly designed" Apple hardware. It's familiar and comfortable - and it's (mostly) well-done and visually pleasing from a graphic design standpoint. Never, ever
For those not familiar with this paradigm shift in OS X, John Siracusa nails it in his Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Review [arstechnica.com].
I don't think either implementation makes the applications easier to use. They seem to have been done for no other reason than "we can".
Mountain Lion's implementations aren't as awful, adding back most of the 10.6 functionality to iCal and making Address Book usable without constantly clicking between screens. However, they've gone this far, it would be trivial to remove the stitching and faux le
I think it is clear that Apple is a hardware company FIRST, then a software company. If Apple applied some of their hardware design principles to their UI design, we would be seeing some highly evolved and hopefully massively well received UI design. I think people want to use Apple's hardware and simply have to put up with their software, and of course assume the software must be on par with the quality of the hardware.
Considering how much evolution has been seen in Apple's hardware over the last 10 year
I've come across no UI design that is perfect but these guys pick something that Apple actually does "correctly" and as well as trying to cite Windows 8 Metro as the better way to do it which is extraordinarily dubious stance to take???
I am not a professional UI designer but from the things I've learned about skeuomorphism is that skeuomorphisms are powerful when used correctly. For instance: Present a group of people a large cornflower blue square and ask them "What is this used for?" and you will get a lot of different answers (an output area, a blank picture, an empty container, no idea). Present the same group of people a square with a wood grain texture and ask them "What is this used for?" and many will immediately gravitate to "this looks like a flat wooden surface" and often calls up "an area I can put other things on". Even though functionally both the blue square and the wood texture square can be coded to the same thing, the texture adds a skeuomorphism that gives a big hint on the function.
Now look what was just pointed out here with Metro and the various gadgets found on Mac OSX. I think it is dubious when people are looking a colored square with text as "better" than a something that looks like a notepad with a check list on Mac. There are drawbacks to doing that way on the Mac but it sure as hell isn't "confusion"!
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Teams in the midst of change are at a disadvantage; stable Saints gaining upper hand
By John Clayton
May 19, 2011
Now that the three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has issued a 2-1 decision in favor of the NFL to keep the lockout going, pro football probably will remain in flat-line mode through most of June.
Already coaches are starting to edit their playbooks, figuring they probably aren't going to have any OTAs (organized team activities) or minicamps. Many have had to alter their budgets because of lockout-imposed paycuts.
There are some notable differences between this year and the labor-shortened seasons of 1982 and '87. In those troubled years, at least the season started on time. Plus, free agency didn't exist. Players were trapped on teams whether they liked it or not. In 1982, for example, when the league went on strike after Week 2, teams that had no coaching or starting quarterback changes survived better than the teams trying a new head coach or a new quarterback.
That formula could be similar this year. Let's look at the five teams most affected by no true offseason and the five teams least affected.
Teams most affected
1. Minnesota Vikings: The Vikings have a deadly combination of going with a new head coach (Leslie Frazier) and a new quarterback (Christian Ponder). It helps a little that Frazier was the interim coach last season, so it shouldn't take much time to get the defense up to speed.
That can't be said of the offense. Ponder had only a brief meeting with new offensive coordinator Bill Musgrave and is having to learn the playbook on his own. He's thinking of getting a couple of his wide receivers together for some throwing sessions in Florida, but there is another problem. Minneapolis, like Green Bay and Buffalo, is not an offseason home for most of the players. Warmer climates such as Miami, Houston, Atlanta, Dallas and New Orleans have significant edges because they can get three dozen players together without difficulty.
Training in Houston, Adrian Peterson, for example, has spent more time with Vince Young -- who won't be a Viking -- than Ponder. Trying to pull all of this together without an offseason program will be tough. The longer this lockout goes, the more the Vikings will suffer.
2. Tennessee Titans: The Titans are in exactly the same place as the Vikings. Mike Munchak takes over for Jeff Fisher as head coach. The Titans drafted QB Jake Locker with the eighth overall pick, and new offensive coordinator Chris Palmer can't teach Locker anything until the lockout ends. Sure, the Titans can bring back Kerry Collins to be a veteran insurance policy, but he would have to learn a new system.
The defense, most specifically the defensive line, also will have to make more adjustments now that Fisher is gone. D-line coach Jim Washburn left for the Philadelphia Eagles, leaving a bunch of understudies who thrived under his coaching.
3. Cincinnati Bengals: It would be a different story if Carson Palmer were coming back, but he's not. If he's not traded, Palmer will take the season off because he vows not to wear a Bengals uniform again. Palmer could have pulled things together because he has the same coach, Marvin Lewis, and could have done his best with a young offense that probably will move Chad Ochocinco to a different team.
The problem is trying to get rookie QB Andy Dalton on the same page with new offensive coordinator Jay Gruden without a true offseason. Converting a spread offense quarterback into a West Coast system is hard enough, but to do it with no offseason prep is nearly impossible. Because most of Gruden's time has been spent in Arena football, it's not as if he can buy Dalton time and bring in a veteran who has worked with him in the past. Some believe the Bengals might go for a Jim Sorgi to help out, but is that going to be good enough?
4. Seattle Seahawks: Other than Matt Hasselbeck getting together with tight end John Carlson for workouts, little is going on for the Seahawks and coach Pete Carroll. Even worse is that Hasselbeck is a free agent and had to borrow a playbook from friends to get to know the Seahawks' new offense.
Carroll has other problems. He's in the process of breaking in three new starters along the offensive line; he could end up with one of the youngest lines in football. None of those players are getting coached. If Hasselbeck re-signs, the Seahawks can salvage some things, but the clock is ticking.
5. Arizona Cardinals: The Cardinals didn't have a post-Kurt Warner plan for when he retired last year. Although they have plenty of options to find a quarterback, the lockout has them blocked. They could eventually sign Marc Bulger or trade for Kevin Kolb or Kyle Orton, but any new quarterback will need time to get adjusted to the offense.
Larry Fitzgerald is doing a good job of keeping players together during the offseason, but he doesn't have a starting quarterback with whom to work. If the Cardinals don't get their quarterback until sometime in August, the offense might have a better chance of getting better in 2012 than 2011.
Teams least affected
1. New Orleans Saints: Credit QB Drew Brees. He's running the most extensive offseason camp of any team in football. He has four-day-a-week sessions with trainers, equipment, meeting rooms, game tape and structure. As the leader of the team, he's funding this project and is getting 35 to 40 players a session. The Saints run complex systems on offense and defense, so keeping players mentally sharp is vital. Leadership like that won't go unrewarded once the season starts.
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I really can't concentrate on anything until this thing is resolved. For me, it is all fantasy talk until they actually resolve this whole mess.
I know a lot of people take exception to the things that Reggie said about enjoying it while he can...but I don't know why. He is just a human making a human statement. I'm pretty sure that's what I would be doing.
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I agree... but as a fan, it's not the politically correct thing to say. If he remains a Saint and has a bad season, this is what everyone will drudge up and harp on.
While if I were him and this is exactly what I would be thinking, it wasn't wise to say it publicly. The media can be your worse enemy.
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Yes what Reggie said was stupid but it's all part of today's technology age, I'm sure there would of been plenty of athletes saying stupid things if social media sites would have been around in the 70s and 80s. Good god just think of the BS Deion and The Plea Maker would of spewed if twitter was around then.
As for this article, your my boy Drew
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The F'N owners. Why did you wait 2 years ???? Why. Because you wanted to lock out the players. The last deal you sign ya'll didn't like it ya want a new one.
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I got annoyed finding something simple to find the date for monday in the current week (easily adapted for to find the monday for any given date) - so I gave up being lazy, and whipped up my own quick and dirty example. Please be gentle - I'm a noob obviously lol.
Putting it here also keeps it stored for my future use too
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A 64-piece exhibit of student artwork from the Las Cruces Public Schools has been installed in the Grand Lobby of the Doña Ana County Manager's Complex at 180 W. Amador Ave. in Las Cruces. The exhibit includes paintings, etchings, sculpture and drawings. The artists are primarily elementary students from the Las Cruces Public Schools, with a few middle school artists also showing.
An estimated three-week repair to Berino Road will bring much of the construction associated with the Berino Wastewater Facility Improvement Project to a conclusion.
As the Nov. 2 General Election draws closer, Doña Ana County Clerk Rita Torres is urging registered voters to sign up to work the polls. Training classes are being scheduled for new and returning poll workers.
The Doña Ana County Sheriff's Department will conduct two DWI saturation patrols this weekend at undisclosed locations in the county.
Doña Ana County Clerk Rita Torres, in conjunction with the local headquarters of both major political parties, is urging Doña Ana County residents to mail absentee-voter applications directly to the Doña Ana County Bureau of Elections.
Doña Ana County Sheriff's deputies were involved in an incident early this morning that resulted in several shots being fired and a fatality. A press conference will be held at 2 p.m. today in the training room of the Doña Ana County Sheriff's Department headquarters to brief the media on the incident.
Doña Ana County Manager Brian D. Haines today notified Third Judicial District Attorney Susana Martinez that an internal investigation into project administration has reached the point that the assistance of law enforcement is warranted.
Construction begins today on Doña Ana County's new administrative complex on North Motel Boulevard. Wooten Construction of Las Cruces is the general contractor on the $20.1 million project. A ceremonial groundbreaking was held last December on the 24-acre county-owned site.
Several county departments are making plans to take their information and services on the road for a community resource fair from 4 – 7 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 8, at the Chaparral Multipurpose Center on County Line Road.
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I have noticed when Dougall is drinking water, after about 5 seconds he jumps sideways as though something has bitten his nose. The bowl is one of these non spill ones with a rim (I use it as it helps with keeping their ears dry) I have put my head down in the bowl with him to see if its a reflection or something else, its not. I have changed the water bowl to a normal feeding bowl and the same thing happened but the bowl of water going everywhere when he jumps. Do you think he could have a headache or some kind of pressure? Any ideas? He is due to go back to Clare Rusbridge in about 1 week.


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Skip to comments.Climategate: Science Is Dying Science is on the credibility bubble.
Posted on 12/02/2009 5:27:06 PM PST by ricks_place
Surely there must have been serious men and women in the hard sciences who at some point worried that their colleagues in the global warming movement were putting at risk the credibility of everyone in science. The nature of that risk has been twofold: First, that the claims of the climate scientists might buckle beneath the weight of their breathtaking complexity. Second, that the crudeness of modern politics, once in motion, would trample the traditions and culture of science to achieve its own policy goals. With the scandal at the East Anglia Climate Research Unit, both have happened at once.
I don't think most scientists appreciate what has hit them. This isn't only about the credibility of global warming. For years, global warming and its advocates have been the public face of hard science... This was it. The public was told repeatedly that something called "the scientific community" had affirmed the science beneath this inquiry. A Nobel Prize was bestowed (on a politician).
Global warming enlisted the collective reputation of science. Because "science" said so, all the world was about to undertake a vast reordering of human behavior at almost unimaginable financial cost. Not every day does the work of scientists lead to galactic events simply called Kyoto or Copenhagen. At least not since the Manhattan Project.
What is happening at East Anglia is an epochal event. As the hard sciencesphysics, biology, chemistry, electrical engineeringcame to dominate intellectual life in the last century, some academics in the humanities devised the theory of postmodernism, which liberated them from their colleagues in the sciences. Postmodernism, a self-consciously "unprovable" theory, replaced formal structures with subjectivity. With the revelations of East Anglia, this slippery and variable intellectual world has crossed into the hard sciences.
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Criminals - YES! Waiting for the prosecution - well, maybe not since most of the world governments are involved.
Scientist are people too and have the same motives. All scientists want to be funded and do critical, important work (or at least be perceived as doing so). It is not at all surprising to me that some scientists are compromising their credibility to cater to the agenda of politicians with $$. This happens in almost every field—there is always someone who will tell the politicians what they want to hear for personal gain—even in the military.
We should have seen this coming when we turned over all of our educational institutions to the America-hating, Commie 'RATS. Even our "scientists" are nothing but a bunch of egg-sucking, political hacks willing to say and do whatever it takes to get that next government grant.
Science is dying? Not really.
Should we be surprised that the academic left has invaded the physical sciences? Everything liberals touch turn to a big pile of crap.
Maybe not but I don't trust anything that comes out of a university. Totally tainted. GIGO
Absolute must read : John Horgan's THE END OF SCIENCE (1996), which could have been titled POSTMODERN SCIENCE. In fact the author explains the rise of what he calls "ironic science", which is more or less "science as a game". So, doubly ironic when this crowd wants to set the agenda for humanity, as Keepers of the Truth.
Sharing the raw data along with the methods and the results should be required. Those who do not comply should be shunned. In this era of communication at light speed across the globe, the old way seems stronger than ever to me.
Yes. Science is only the latest. The Left Soils Institutions.
Big labor, education, government, the press are dirty and demeaned in their relationship with the Democrat party.
"Sharing the raw data along with the methods and the results should be required."
If they are not doing that, they have no right to call it science.
The guy who invented the idea of "Open Source" software has the right idea. Put the data and methods of any scientific publication on a website, open to everyone and anyone. It'll be painful for a while as errors are caught and corrected, but science will advance more rapidly as a result.
These sleazeballs in the "fiction science" business of "climate change" are giving all of science a black eye. Yes, damn it, there ARE those of us who dedicate ourselves to learning and discovery, and we are mad as hell with those who are doing so. May many maledictions fall upon their heads!!!
Well, of course not everyone does it, but I'm just saying that there are people in every field who will willingly subvert their integrity for $$, rank, or even perversion. Scientists, Priests, and Military Officers often get lumped into the same exhaulted category, as if their motives were always pure. Hopefully most are, but there will always be those bad apples.
They are not innocently mistaken, it is a giant fraud meant to control mankind.
"Precautionary policies", "jobs saved or created", etc. etc.
"Everything about socialism is sham and affectation" 23.11 Ch23 Evil, "Economic Harmonies" Frederic Bastiat 1801-1850
It is the largest premeditated fraud ever devised and the destruction of our sovereignty is paramount. Individual rights be damned. When are the crickets-chirping Republicans going to express outrage?...call for hearings?...call for criminal investigations/RICO? We know where the international socialists, the UNaccountable bureaucrats and the enemy-within-socialist-democrats stand. The domestic enemies are 535 con-men of congress. The good statist/bad statist con-game is being exposed. We the people are the premeditated targets of the deceivers...every one of us - our children - our grandchildren.
Those involved have committed treason to civilization and their fellow human beings.
In a recent IBD editorial...
Media: The shameless denial with which major newspapers and networks have treated "Climategate" layers even more scandal on top of the original one: Mainstream media now co-conspirators with scientific hacks and big government.
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Heads should roll from top to bottom over this, so much so, that we should be filling prisons all over the world with these criminal conspirators..
A call to action for the world? When, in the course of human events,...
It's the freedom to share free enterprise on a global scale.
If you're not familiar with perhaps the best example of open source read Why Apache Software is Free Bottom of the page.
Apache continues to lead the world in server language, doubling it's nearest competition quietly, correctly, and rightly. Open source is truly a force for good in the world, something science would do well to embrace right about now.
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It doesn't have the elegant, old-money feel, the tradition that makes Montreal-Toronto so special. But there is an argument to be made that the Ottawa Senators have become the rival that preoccupies the Maple Leafs and their fans more than any other.
For people under the age of 50 who cut their hockey teeth in an era when the Canadiens were so good and the Leafs so bad, it was sometimes a stretch to think of them being in the same league, let alone mortal enemies. Even recently, back in the same division of the NHL, there just doesn't seem to have been a lot of chemistry.
Ah, but Ottawa and Toronto is a different story. Ottawa hates Toronto on general principal and recent playoff history that so favours the Leafs when the two teams have hooked up only makes their collective obsession more focused.
Tonight marks the third of eight meetings between the Sens and Leafs this season and the early returns clearly show that Ottawa is going to be even more of a handful for the Leafs. General manager John Muckler finally has his own people in place, or at least in places where he thought they were needed. That includes Bryan Murray as coach and a generally-accepted upgrade in the sandpaper department. Where once they were a classic trapping team under Jacques Martin, the Sens have become one of the league's high-octane outfits.
"They've got a lot more offence now," Bryan McCabe said. "But gritty? Who knows. We'll see. It's a long year."
In their first meeting, the Senators stormed from behind in the dying moments, forced overtime, then Dominik Hasek smothered Toronto in the shootout. A week later, in Ottawa, after 65 minutes of hockey failed to break a 5-5 tie, Hasek once again buried Toronto's shooters and Ottawa won 6-5.
The Leafs are not crazy about giving Ottawa credit for anything but the two extra points.
"Yeah, it's two extra points they got," Jason Allison said. "But, really, as a team you don't feel like you lost. It's an extra point but mentally, it's not like losing."
In the two games against Toronto, Hasek has surrendered seven goals. In the other four games he has played thus far, he has given up only five more. So the Leafs have proven they can beat him, but they didn't get so much as a sniff in those shootout losses and that's the kind of mastery that can get inside a team's head.
The Senators seemed a no-brain pick as a Stanley Cup contender even before the season started and nothing they've done since then would have changed anybody's opinion. With Dany Heatley and Jason Spezza leading the way offensively, they have become a scoring machine. Toronto coach Pat Quinn understands that this edition of the Senators is good, but he always figured they were good.
"They were tough before and they're tough now," Quinn said yesterday. "They play a little different style but they always have had good personnel. They were a good offensive club before. I think they've led in scoring a couple different years. Offence was never their problem, if they had a problem."
Oh, they had a problem all right. In the playoffs, they couldn't beat Toronto. No matter how sturdy the Ottawa credentials, something always seemed to give way and more often than not, it came down to a matter of will. The Leafs just had more of it.
The Sens remain the youngest team in the league but amid that youth is plenty of experience, especially at the hands of the Leafs. As this team matures, it can only become more dangerous, especially since it now has The Dominator, Hasek.
Sure, he's 40 but age is only a number, especially as fit as he is. And, as good as he is, he's even more determined and that can only snowball into tremendous confidence for his teammates.
And that can only bring an even sharper edge to this blood feud that has become, yes, even more entertaining than anything from a bygone era.


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pbahra writes: "It isn't often you get the chance to meet a real revolutionary. It is a term cheapened by misuse, but Khaled el Mufti is a revolutionary. It is no exaggeration to say that the role he played in the Libyan uprising last year was crucial; had he and his telecoms team failed, it isn't hard to think that Col. Muammar Gadhafi might still be in power. Today, Mr. Mufti is a telecoms adviser to the interim government and heads the e-Libya initiative, a bold plan to use the transformative powers of technology to modernize the Libyan state, overturning 40 years of corruption and misrule under Gadhafi. Mr. Mufti is an unlikely revolutionary, a softly spoken network-security engineer with a degree from Imperial College in London. Almost by chance he was in his native Libya when the revolution took place, working on a project with BT in the capital, Tripoli. When a large protest was called for Feb. 17 in Benghazi, he told his BT colleagues to leave, and he headed for Benghazi. It was quickly apparent that the key communications technology for the rebels wasn't the internet, but the mobile network. "Having shut off international calls, we thought it was very likely he would shut down the mobile network." In utmost secrecy Mr. el Mufti and a small team started to plan and build their own system. They had one major stroke of luck."


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Nov. 19, 2012 10:39 AM
MISSISSAUGA, ON, Nov. 19, 2012 /CNW/ - Morguard Corporation (TSX: MRC) ("Morguard") today released its inaugural Corporate Sustainability Report online at www.morguard.com. Titled Building A Sustainable Future, the Report highlights Morguard's commitment to environmental, social and governance (ESG) initiatives.
"Sustainability is a strategic focus at Morguard," said Rai Sahi, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Morguard Corporation. "We have a responsibility and an opportunity to make a difference through our real estate assets by setting measureable, long-term sustainability goals that ensure shareholder value, responsible investment and stronger communities."
The Report used the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Framework for sustainability reporting and the Construction and Real Estate Sector Supplement (CRESS). It was self-declared as GRI Level B, indicating that Morguard has included disclosures on company profile, management approach, and a minimum of 20 additional indicators.
"Our Sustainable Morguard program will support our long-term goals and initiatives and build on our existing ESG policies and practices," said Sahi. "We have strong engagement from our employees, shareholders, tenants, clients and partners to achieve these goals."
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