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Bah, Rinko will still probably be the one will be talking about that most. And I'm still going to come right out and say it but I think the other girls will probably be much better done in this manga compared to their own, Seo's got his preferences but I think he's rather capable in working and capturing various types of characters and this will probably be no exception.
|2010-04-19, 03:01
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We still do not know about that. Just because the other two lacks the main male character with a character, it doenst mean that teh girls themselves will be the same.
Though Nene doesn't really seem to be capable to do anything serious with that gag manga length. In fact it doesnt seem to be capable to do anything.
Manaka on the other hand is at least looking promising to at least give the Manaka personality even if the male lead is just a faceless background item.
But yeah it is a problem that main male characters do not speak or like in Manaka's Day's case do not even have a face.
Why? Becuase manga is not game. In game you can go with faceless main male figures that do not speak at all simply because the player will be able to connect with that character because he will be playing the situations from that guys eyes and usually add his own feelings and personality to this shell, but in manga you do not have such connection and making a faceless guy who does not talk seems like a very very bad idea.
It's even worse when we consider that we do not really have a lead-in teh relationship and already start with couples going-out which furthermore kills the possible connections to the characters.
I have to connection to that 'male lead' whatsoever. And since many guys like to connect with male figures such story looses a lots of attraction and it would not be so bad in Shoujo manga because the main readership would be girls connecting with female and faceless main guy though annoying would not be that bad, but in a manga which seems to be aimed to shounen this seems like a grieve mistake to make.
Well, will see how it will turn out though I do not have any hopes for Nene Manga. It just seems that goddamn awful right now. Manaka Days is still under a question, while Rinko Days seems like the only one worth to follow at this moment.
|2010-04-19, 09:15
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My poor thread. Even though this was the first manga thread about Loveplus, it's being ignore for the other Loveplus thread.
Oh well, i think i start posting Girls Talk & Kanojo no Kako over here when they both come out.
|2010-04-19, 16:41
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You're right, I jumped ahead too much, since I took the presence of other girls in Rinko days meaning all the same girls from the game and thus ones with their respective manga's. I'm still finding Manaka kind of flat anyway, and I don't have much hope it'll get better regardless.
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I hate linking to ANN, but this pretty much explains it all: 5 Loveplus Virtual Girlfriend Manga Series Detailed. I think I said Rinko was bi-monthly earlier, guess I was wrong, my bad.
|2010-05-06, 08:49
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That first chapter of Rinko Days....I haven't felt that spellbound by something new in the manga scene for more than once in the last three years or so. Rinko was even more awesome than I thought she would be! Art is decent, the guy is a good person. Some hilarious moments, some touching, revealing moments. The vibe Rinko puts out is so very different from what is done with females in anime/manga today...she is a very potent mix, feels very unique. The emptiness in her eyes most times says so much without having to spell it out in words. Despite her tsundere-like nature, there's something very calming about the way she looks. Yet it seems like being with her would be a lot of fun and never dull - that the unexpected would happen but it would so be worth it.
Well, Chapter 2 on June 9. Can't wait!
|2010-05-14, 01:19
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The reaction of the Japanese LP fans to the newest Nene material is hilarious. That said, it will be rather tragic if Nene becomes the next Nagi. 2D obsessed people shouldn't dictate what manga-kas can and can't write.
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There are still fans who follow Nene? And even discuss something passionately?
Thats bit surprising considering how bad the artwork and the story is... But I guess Japanese fans are more resistant to horror than I am.
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Are you ready to download some free games, Nintendo 3DS early adopters? The "Ambassadors" program begins September 1, and all eligible 3DS owners will be able to download ten NES classics to their systems. But what are the games? Included in the mix is the original Metroid and Super Mario Bros, as well as two Zelda games.
Here's the full selection:
- Balloon Fight
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- Wrecking Crew
- Yoshi
The downloads available on September 1 will be missing a few features. However, an update coming later in the year will allow 3DS owners to re-download the games, with added functionality like multiplayer. In addition, 3DS owners will be able to get ten free GBA games, five of which have been officially revealed so far.


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Botswana Embassy Officials to Visit WIU
April 9, 2013
MACOMB, IL -- One country's commitment to Western Illinois University ... and vice versa ... is worth the 8,500+ mile one-way trip for a WIU administrator.
On April 12, Rick Carter, executive director of Western's School of Distance Learning, International Studies and Outreach, will venture for the second time to Botswana as part of a 10-day educational mission. Carter, and LEJA Professor John "Jack" Schafer spent 10 days in Botswana in March 2012. Carter and President Jack Thomas visited with Republic of Botswana Embassy officials in Washington, D.C. in November 2012.
In return for Western's commitment to establishing educational partnerships with the country, Her Excellency Ambassador Ms. Tebelelo Seretse of the Republic of Botswana and other dignitaries will visit the WIU-Macomb campus Monday, April 29 to meet with University and community leaders, and participate in two cultural programs.
Ms. Beatrice Selotlegeng, originally from Botswana, will present "A Cultural Experience of Botswana," from noon-1 p.m. in the University Union Heritage Room as part of the University's Cultural Cafe Series. Selotlegeng is the director of Cardinal Health Junior Executive Business Programs for Minorities, an the assistant director of diversity and outreach at Ohio University in Athens.
Seretse, Mr. Barongwa Master Baipidi, training attache of the Embassy of the Republic of Botswana, and Selotlegeng will present a panel presentation on Botswana from 2-3:30 p.m. in the University Union Sandburg Theatre.
The presentations are sponsored by the WIU Center for International Studies, and are supported by the University Theme Committee, the WIU Visiting Lectures Committee and the United States Institute for Peace Public Education for Peacebuilding Support.
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Help me understand why this is a bad idea.
Illinois to offer driver's licenses to illegal immigrants
By The Associated Press
Published: January 27, 2013
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. As Illinois becomes the fourth and most populous state to issue driver's licenses to illegal immigrants, there are still nagging concerns that the measure doesn't have enough safeguards to avoid the identity fraud and other pitfalls faced by the three other states with similar laws.
Backers of the proposal, who tout it as a public-safety measure, argue that required facial recognition technology is reliable enough to prevent fraud, but opponents point to hundreds of fraudulent cases in New Mexico, Washington and Utah after those states began giving illegal immigrants permission to drive. Illinois will not require applicants to be fingerprinted, for fear that would discourage immigrants from applying.
"How many people would apply for this document knowing that fingerprints will be going to (federal authorities)? Probably not all that many," said Fred Tsao, policy director of the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, a driving-force behind the measure.
Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn is expected to sign the measure that grants driving privileges to illegal immigrants this weekend. Proponents say it will allow an estimated 250,000 individuals unlawfully residing in the state to apply for a three-year temporary driver's license and require them to get training and insurance.
The licenses will be like those already issued to certain foreign-born, legal visitors. Under the new law, applicants will be photographed at a driver services facility, and their photo will be entered into the state's facial recognition database like the rest of Illinois' licensed drivers to verify their identity.
But the other states' driving programs for illegal immigrants have been abused. New Mexico and Washington both issue licenses, while Utah issues a permit.
An Associated Press investigation last year found a striking pattern in New Mexico, suggesting immigrants tried to game the system to obtain a license. In one instance, 48 foreign-born individuals claimed to live at a smoke shop in Albuquerque to fulfill a state residency condition. New Mexico does not have a fingerprinting requirement, though it asks applicants to show two proofs of state residency.
Authorities also busted a fraud ring last year that forged documents for illegal immigrants to use after driving from as far as Illinois and North Carolina to obtain a New Mexico license. Gov. Susana Martinez has vowed for years to repeal the decade-old measure, but the legislature has repeatedly rejected such efforts.
Washington's requirements attracted national attention when Jose Antonio Vargas, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and then-Washington license-holder, revealed his illegal immigration status in an essay for the New York Times Magazine in 2011. Vargas chronicled how he obtained his license. State authorities conducted an investigation that revealed Vargas did not reside at the address he stated in his application, and canceled his license a month after his essay was published.
Utah issues three different driving privilege cards: one for U.S. citizens and permanent residents, another for legal visitors and a third for illegal immigrants. Utah's permit for illegal immigrants is not valid for identification. Illinois' law will follow suit.
Utah's Republican-controlled legislature amended the state's law in 2011 to require illegal immigrants to be fingerprinted, and mandates that the state notify U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement if an applicant's fingerprint check yields a felony on record. If the individual applying has a misdemeanor warrant outstanding, the state must notify the agency that is seeking the person's arrest.
That kind of information-sharing between state and immigration authorities worries Illinois' immigrant-rights advocates, like Tsao, who pushed for the legislation without a fingerprinting requirement. They say fingerprinting could deter potential licensees from applying for fear of being identified and deported.
Local law enforcement officials argue in favor of fingerprinting.
"We could see if they have committed a crime; it could be a crime in another state or it could be a crime in their home country," said John Kennedy, executive director of the Illinois Association of Chiefs of Police.
The Illinois secretary of state's office has vehemently defended its facial recognition database as highly sophisticated and accurate. The program uses an algorithm to match more than a dozen facial features that are not easy to alter, such as eye sockets and sides of the mouth.
"The integrity of our driver's license system is a priority," said Henry Haupt, a spokesman for the office.
The bill's sponsor, Rep. Edward Acevedo, a Chicago Democrat, said state roads will be safer because illegal immigrants will receive training and be tested before obtaining a license. They also will be required to purchase insurance, an aspect that would save millions for currently insured drivers, Acevedo said.
Tsao's organization estimates uninsured illegal immigrant drivers cause $64 million in damage claims each year, an expense currently covered by increased premiums.
Help me understand why this is a bad idea.
Give them whatever they want. They're future voters.
The issue of "illegal" immigration is almost as settled as abortion now. A de facto full amnesty of all illegal actions and illegally recived benefits, a pathway to future citizenship, an open doorway for millions more unskilled to enter legally, and at most a token slap on the wrist to illegals, the vast majority of whom will very likely get the benefits without eve paying the fines.
Sounds like a real win for us to me. The faster we change the demographics, the better the U.S. will be, right?
I'm conflicted on this one:
- On one hand it's a state thing, not federal, so since Ill is not my state, while I disagree with the policy I don't see how it affects me per se.
- I think the idea that this has failed in other states, or opened the door for abuse makes it a pretty dumb idea.
- I like the idea of a backdoor way to get these people documented, but I don't know if every illegal currently driving illegally is really going to suddenly start shelling out for car insurance.
If you think not having a license does not stop them from driving (which is true, of course) what makes you think having a license will cause them to buy insurance? Heck, if your an insurance company, why would you want to insure an illegal immigrant? Seems like a bad risk all the way around.
I think you're putting you much credence into the DL as a heavyweight identity document. There are tens of thousands (maybe hundreds of thousands?) of teenagers running around with fake/doctored/fraudulent DLs, and real forgers pretty much have their way with the DLs of any state/country. Outside of a LEO running a DL # through the system, I don't think the DL is too reliable. Might as well make the roads a bit safer, even if it means giving an illegal immigrant a pathway to beer.
Illegal immigrants shouldn't have licenses.
Neither should 1/2 of the citizens of this country.
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Illegals driving.
Women in combat.
Jets in Super Bowl?
Please, it's "undocumented worker". They have every right to come here illegally and drive to work, drive to church, take their kids to school.
I mean, they're gonna do it anyway. Why not start a program that encourages rapists to use condoms? They're gonna do it anyway, might as well make it safer, right?


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WEST PALM BEACH, FLA.- Palm Beach Atlantic University will once again compete in golf beginning this fall.
President William M. B. Fleming, Jr. announced Tuesday the addition of a men's and women's golf program, which will be led by Craig Watson, a PGA Class A Professional since 1978 who has worked locally as the program director for First Tee of the Palm Beaches.
|Craig Watson
"Palm Beach Atlantic aspires to be recognized as a stellar NCAA Division II athletic program and a winning golf program is the next strategic addition to our Sailfish athletic menu," President Fleming said. "Our male and female golfers will not only exhibit the exemplary characteristics of all PBA athletes, but they will sharpen their life skills through the game of golf."
Athletic Director Carolyn Stone, noting that there are more golf courses in Palm Beach County than any other county in the nation, cited the sport's natural assets and an enthusiastic local following. She pointed to Craig Watson's considerable knowledge and proven track record for building a golf program as the keys to his hire.
"Launching a new program requires a coach who is a self- starter," says Stone. "Craig will recruit students who not only excel academically and athletically but who will positively impact the community. His significant experience as a PGA member and involvement in our community with the First Tee program make him a natural fit for the Sailfish. "
Watson joined First Tee of The Palm Beaches, a non-profit organization that provides recreational golf activity to children with special needs ranging from ages 7-17, four years ago. In his native New York, he spent six years as the head pro at The Creek Club in Locust Valley, N.Y. and followed by two years at the prestigious Westchester Country Club in Rye, N.Y.
Watson holds a bachelor's degree in economics from Rollins College in Winter Park where he was a scholarship golfer and also competed for the Tars' soccer team.
"At this point in my career, I'm happy to have this challenge to enhance the college experience of athletes who make the commitment to bring a winning golf program to PBA. The discipline of a Christian life and the foundational lessons learned through the game of golf will create a program built on solid rock," said Watson, whose father was a golf professional.
A Tequesta resident, Watson and his wife, Wendy, have four grown children and one grandchild. He attends Christ Fellowship.
Watson will begin recruiting and developing the golf programs immediately as he prepares for competition in 2013-14. Though golf competes in both a fall and spring season, the NCAA presents the spring as golf's championship season. Golf brings the total of intercollegiate sports to 12.
Golf is the first expansion sport since 1999 when the women's softball team was reinstated. The University carried a men's golf program from 1993 until 2003 while competing as a member of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA).
"Golf is a natural fit to Palm Beach Atlantic's athletic lineup," Stone said. "With the many golf assets our community has to offer, the addition of these programs will bring students and visitors to Palm Beach County and South Florida. The program is certain to grow the reputation of Sailfish Athletics."


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Most people are not complete morons. If they get burned once with IE, they'll tell their friends to use a different browser. And of course, they themselves will use a different browser. As the number of people recommending alternative browsers increases, more people will switch away from IE voluntarily...
I'm not so sure about that. I have to wonder if the explosion of iPhone and Android based phones has not contributed significantly to this. Since IE is not available on those devices, one has to wonder, especially considerging that chrome and safari account for more than 5% of the drop in IE's share. (according to the charts, firfox is less than 5%, and opera stayed the same).
What that means to me is that a significant number of people aren't switching on the desktop. The market is just growing, and those people using phone based browsers are probably still using IE on the desktop.
I *almost* agree wit cha. I've been there to. However! I do remember a time (maybe a brief time) when I could pass the buck and say, It looks good on IE, who cares if it craps out on Netscape/Firefox!" Good times. Good times.
Yes, but had MS stuck to standards to begin with, you would have been able to just design your pages per the standard, and never had to worry about any browser. Even now, my company is just getting around to piloting IE8, and only because the inevitable rollout to Windows 7. I suspect a lot are in the same boat, where they skipped Vista, and made no effort to stay current with the browser that came packaged with XP. I don't know why my company chose to just stay on IE6 but I suspect it worked at the time, it was updated from MS so they got their security fixes in a standard way along with the other OS patches, and it was simply conveniant.
My company is usually very keen on get current stay current, but they failed miserably on IE. I can only assume that they design apps specifically for IE6 and simply couldn't break away, or didn't see any need to move on. Now that the move to Windows 7 comes bundled with IE8, they simply have no choice.
Netscape wasn't sticking to standards, either, though.
Well, and standards didn't exactly help those browsers which did try to stick to them back then...
Yes, but had MS stuck to standards to begin with
Actually, that's *exactly* what they did. They stuck with the same standards as were around in 1999, and didn't improve
It was the Mac version of IE (5.x i believe) which had the best standards support of the time, the windows version was always woefully behind...
Yes, but had MS stuck to standards to begin with, you would have been able to just design your pages per the standard, and never had to worry about any browser.
Bollocks. Even following the standards you *still* have cross browser issues - take the HTML5 Browser Storage standard for example, part of which involves an event raised on field changes. The problem is, while the event handler is included in the spec, no requirement is placed on *where* the event handler listener is to be placed in the HTML.
Safari requires it to be placed on the body tag, IE on the document object, and Firefox doesn't really care where you put it. So again you have differences across b
IE6. Never forget!
Sounds like a quote for a T Shirt from Think Geek
This is the best news since... the last news that IE market share was dropping...
I honestly don't feel that much difference anymore. A year ago it was something like 30% non-IE browsers, now it's 40% non-IE. Both are too big to ignore and many replacements of old IE-only systems from when they had 90% market share probably would have happened anyway. From here to about 80-90% non-IE where you can consider dropping IE support you are supporting the same anyway.
It allows people to drop IE6 and possibly IE7 support. IE8 is much better about supporting standards, thus the entire development process becomes much easier. Writing to straight standards will get you what you're looking for much more often with those two version of IE gone.
There was a moment in time when MSIE had effectively 0% market share right? So this 60% is still a huge triumph if you choose to spin it that way.
But seriously, any drop in market share is a historic low for Microsoft. And here's what I love about it -- Microsoft will be hard pressed to explain why it would choose to not completely support competing browsers with its web based applications such as Outlook Web Access and the like. It has been a while since I looked at it, but OWA did not offer full functionality to browsers other than MSIE. I don't know if that is still the case, but I suspect it is.
In any case, it is in large part due to Microsoft's behavior that our next enterprise email server at the office will be anything but MS Exchange.
In any case, it is in large part due to Microsoft's behavior that our next enterprise email server at the office will be anything but MS Exchange.
Sadly, somehow our department has gotten it into their heads that "Microsoft is the way to go.". They had a few years when they tried to get OSS (mostly FreeBSD, but some Linux) systems working for most of the servers, and a lot of the tasks were delegated out to people who had no Unix experience at all. End result is that they became frustrated and rather than try to educate themselves, they blamed the system.
Fast forward to today. Our CentOS/Apache web server has been replaced with IIS (and that was one thing that had always worked great - they basically just replaced it because they wanted to go all Microsoft). Our PHP code on our site has been replaced with ASP.NET. Our Samba setup is being replaced by Windows + Active Directory. Our Lotus Domino server is being retired and there are plans to replace it with MS Exchange. And I just heard recently that Firefox is "just becoming a headache because there are still things it doesn't work right with. Maybe it's time to look at IE again?". Even simple stuff that it makes no difference on - for instance, just something to run VMWare server on. You never even touch the interface, but they want to waste a Windows license (and more system resources) on that because they feel that Windows is "just the way to go".
Sometimes I just want to scream.
Well, it sounds like they had real reasons to switch to IIS. You basically need it to use ASP.NET, and ASP.NET has significant traction these days and provides significant value for a lot of companies, at least over PHP. The functionality offered by Java/JSP is a lot closer, but PHP vs ASP.NET is like bringing a bazooka to water ballon fight.
That's not to say that PHP is bad or sucks. Lots of sights make great use of it, but it just doesn't offer the same level of control, supportability, and enterprise integration that ASP.NET does. C# really is a vastly superior language to PHP's c-like system, which only recently became semi-object oriented. PHP simply isn't the right tool for a lot of jobs.
That's a sad story with the exception of Lotus Notes. I seriously HATE that program. It is what we are using now. It is a royal pain in the buttocks.
Unfortunately, Microsoft is the biggest cause of IT woes for many reasons. Not only are their implementations generally not standards compliant, they aren't even compliant with their own standards. Further, their achievement of "critical mass" has enabled them to abuse the market further by convincing the market that Microsoft "works" and everyone else is
Obviously Microsoft is doing this in an attempt to gain some market share again. It's great for web developers, because they can finally start really deploying some of that shiney new tech. But in reality, most people aren't aware of these webstandards at all and aren't switching to Firefox or Chrome because MSIE doesn't support them. They're switching because other browsers are faster, more secure, less obnoxious, more cool and support more plugins and other goodies.
I don't think IE will ever be as big again as they once were, but because MS doesn't get what the root of the problem is, they're helping the web forward in the process of trying to get some users back. Which is actually great for everyone.
Not too little, but definitely too late. SVG should have been supported since IE7. Same goes for quirk-less CSS2.1 support.
Obviously Microsoft is doing this in an attempt to gain some market share again.
If that were entirely true, then the browser would be made to work on XP systems. XP is still the most widely-used operating system on planet earth, remember, at least for a few years yet. I understand that Windows 7 is the best OS they've come out with and all that, but a lot of people aren't looking to upgrade to 7 any time soon. Desktop users and businesses alike. It's hard to see how much marketshare they can claw back by making it Vista+ only.
"Falls To Historic Low"
"which is about the range that IE had in early 1999"
So, it's historic, because it's the second time it's around that range?
The first time something happens, it's unprecedented.
The second time, it's merely historic.
At least now two alternative engines are starting to get recognition around the world, and newer one of those two seems to strive more for standards compliance (they wouldn't make this post [chromium.org] otherwise). There was a time when a lot of sites appeared to be made primarilly with "IE + FF" in mind...which didn't really change that much in the grand scheme of things.
But now perhaps sites will, to a greater degree, simply target standards... (just look at the link above to see why that's great news for you)
BTW, reg
The reporting is also flawed because even if you change your default browser from MSIE to firefox, programs will still use the MSIE branded http dll to download things. To wit, make your proxy reject all requests that contain MSIE in the user agent string, and try to install the next version of lets say skype. Or browse in Outlook internet content. Or try to access any link through http from an Office 2007 document: http://blogs.msdn.com/vsofficedeveloper/pages/Office-Existence-Discovery-Protocol.aspx
http://superuser.com/questions/41935/clicking-hyperlinks-in-email-messages-becomes-painfully-slow/42237#42237. I wonder if any of the legislators in Europe who settled with Microsoft over the Browser wars were aware of these issues. Bottom line: you cannot get rid of MSIE because Microsoft designed it that way!
so i have ie8, firefox, chrome, safari, and opera installed on my desktop
i often find myself in this common usage scenario: 4 browsers open at the same time. ie8 opened with code being tested, opera running pandora, chrome with nytimes.com and other reading media on it, and firefox open with some online code documentation
i use those 4 browsers all the time, i don't use safari at all really unless testing code (but since its webkit like chrome, that's often redundant)
honestly, i lately have found myself prefering chrome over firefox. i love firefox, but chrome has a sleek ui and seems faster (opera's latest ui is pretty hot too, but opera has some compatibility issues, such as google map's api)
chrome just has more... chrome. consider this small bird adequately bedazzled by the shiny bells and whistles
currently i rank the browsers according to this personal preference:
1. chrome
2. firefox and opera tied for second best
3. ie8 and safari not at all
if firefox wants to win my heart back, it has to be super fast and bedazzle me with a hot ui. opera is doing a good job of that, but opera has issues
I love Chrome's speed. But I miss Firefox's rich library of extensions whenever I try Chrome (or a Chromium-derived browser). Most critically, I miss Adblock Plus and Flashblock. To a lesser extent, some of the other extensions I use.
When I last tried Chrome, I believe I found that there was an ad-blocking extension for it (Ad-Sweep) but it required switching to the "developer channel" rather than the standard "channel". Rather than just downloading a beta version of the browser, there was an arcane process to switch channels that simply didn't work at the time. As in I jumped through the hoops, but Chrome never properly entered into the developer channel mode. The Channel Changer was simply broken at the time. Don't try to be too clever Google, just make a separate beta or nightly build and let me install it.
Sure, there are proxy-based solutions and the like, but I can't use a browser that I can't add ad-blocking rules to easily and customize easily.
I'll give Chrome a try again in 6 months, but it looks like for now, AdSweep still requires using Channel Changer, and unless that's been fixed I ain't screwing around with it again.
Sure, Firefox can't compete with Safari and Chrome on speed, but on a modern Core 2 Duo or Core i5/i7 machine the difference is only perceptible on the most Javascript-intensive of sites.
Here's what I mean: -
1: Better aesthetics. I mean, the current theme and all available ones are not that appealing to
the eyes.
2: Print Preview: Heck how can a today's desktop application fail to have this important
resource? An application from Google should have "everything" necessary to be productive,
and print preview is one of those things I believe.
3: The over minimalistic paradigm Google has followed has gone too far. Heck, what ends up
Chrome has the best UI amongst all browsers, hands down. I adopted Chromium months ago and then went to Chrome, and despite minor incompatibilities now and then (mostly rendering issues), I can't leave it. I tried to switch back to Firefox for a while, but after a week or so I came back to Chrome, primarily on the strength of the UI.
Nobody else seems able to come up with a UI that is:
- Businesslike and no-nonsense
- Small and out of the way
- Free of rendering artifacts and glitches
The default Firefox theme i
Chrome has the best UI amongst all browsers, hands down.
I don't particularly like the UI personally. I hate it when applications don't follow the OS GUI scheme - This includes colors to interaction of editbars.
Free of rendering artifacts and glitches
I have experienced these on Chrome, particularly with font rendering.
The default Firefox theme is just huge.
Well, I loaded up Firefox and Chrome here - I'm not really seeing this "huge" thing at all? I mean, yes, there is two extra bars by default in Firefox, but huge? No idea.
Print? Why would you ever need to print? If you need to send a copy of a document to someone else, that's what Gmail is for. If you need to read documents away from a PC, that's what an Android phone with a $60/mo plan is for.
Internet Explorer has always been stuck in the nineties. That was the problem, really.
Yet I know I will see this posted again next month...so would someone please explain the agenda to me?
I noticed a couple of months ago already, that Firefox's usage share is flat by all indicators. [wikipedia.org] It's been stagnating since July-August last year.
Maybe that's fine compared to IE, which is shrinking, but pretty sad compared to, say Chrome.
Which I really like and would use also at work, if there was a portable version (so I can run it without installing it).
Which I really like and would use also at work, if there was a portable version (so I can run it without installing it).
If you mean Portable Firefox, it's here [portableapps.com]. If you mean Portable Chrome, it's here [portableapps.com]. If you want to try Portable Opera, it's here [opera-usb.com].
And Portable IE7, though I believe you need IE6 installed, which isn't very portable at all, but it's here [keznews.com].
It's been great to see MSIE lose its grip on the browser market, but it seems that maybe things have become more complicated.
As bad as MSIE is, the user can add whatever they want to it. For example, Flash delivers new codecs and Google was able to deliver an HTML5 compliant core that worked with MSIE6.
But one of the browsers taking share from IE is Safari on the iPhone/iPad/iPod. Those users can't try a different browser or use any technology that Apple doesn't approve it. Can a third party deliver a new codec to Safari on these devices? Does Opera Mini for the iPhone come with Ogg codecs (I mention Ogg because I'm imaging Apple would Opera mini if it did)? I really don't know the answers to these questions and I hope someone will enlighten me.
While Safari supports HTML5, times changes, and other things like codecs are becoming more important.
So perhaps now we are looking at a much more fundamental threat.
Why do you got to be hating my BumSieve browser?
www.pcc.edu for the last 30 days.
Internet Explorer 532255 50.94%
Firefox 334610 32.02%
Safari 119225 11.41%
Chrome 53363 5.11%
Mozilla 1922 0.18%
Opera 1463 0.14%
SeaMonkey 578 0.06%
Mozilla Compatible Agent 482 0.05%
Camino 377 0.04%
Opera Mini 306 0.03%
I've got a bad feeling about this.


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Fellaini on Zenit's wishlist
Zenit St Petersburg want to make Everton midfielder Marouane Fellaini the latest addition to their expensively assembled squad in the January transfer window.
Fellaini, 25, has been one of the Premier League's star performers in the early part of the season, scoring eight goals in Everton's opening 15 games.
Despite being contracted to David Moyes' side until 2016 he has been linked with Chelsea and Manchester City but Russian side Zenit have now registered their interest in tempting him away from England.
A Zenit source told L!feSports: "The management expect to strengthen midfield. The signings will be of high quality. Belgium international Marouane Fellaini is on the list. He has clearly proved himself for Everton."
Fellaini hasn't been shy to talk up a move away from Goodison Park in the past. Last summer he claimed this could be his last season at Everton alerting clubs to his potential availability.
He told Het Nieuwsblad: "I am just starting my fifth season at Everton, this will be one of my last. I have seen everything. In January or at the end of the season I will turn to another club or championship."
Everton say they have had no contract from Zenit for Fellaini, and manager David Moyes has made it clear to his board that he does not want to sell the player.
However, Moyes did indicate in November that he would struggle to resist a huge offer for a player signed from Standard Liege for £15 million in 2008, and who is under contract until 2016.
"Everybody knows where he is, if clubs want to come and watch him they can, but there will be a big price on his head," Moyes told the Guardian after the 2-1 Premier League win over Sunderland on November 10.


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LSU running back Spencer Ware has been drafted by the Seattle Seahawks in the 6th Round of the NFL Draft. He was taken No. 194 overall.
Ware joins LSU DB Tharold Simon, who was taken by the Seahawks in the 5th Round.Hometown: Cincinnati, OH (Princeton High School)College: LSUPosition: Running BackHeight: 5'11Weight: 225LSU Career Highlights: 1,249 rushing yards and 404 receiving yards on 39 receptions, 12 touchdowns2011 Coaches Second-Team All-Southeastern ConferenceStrengths: Strong build, aggressive runnerWeaknesses: Speed, weight, runs high on occasion
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It could think it is funny to be a ninja!
But don't worry, the Pirates will take care of this robot either way.
Cyborg pirate monkeys. Now look what you have done! Our society will be overtaken by them.
No we'll be ok because when winter comes they'll all freeze.
This would be a GREAT zombie decoy!
Smells like human brains, tastes like human brains, runs away to attract attention...
What more could the fragments of humanity hope for to save them from the impending global zombie domination?
What more could the fragments of humanity hope for to save them from the impending global zombie domination?
Indeed! I think this is an EXCELLENT idea. EX... EX...
- Davros
... unless the robot happens to be drunk. Think about it
Is it just me, or do the video and article both CLEARLY state that it's rat brain cells, not human brain cells?
Blame Kevin Warwick.
He's always exaggerating his claims, including his "I'm a cyborg" nonsense.
"It's difficult to describe how frustrating it is in the field seeing this man being our spokesman," says Richard Reeve, of the AI department at Edinburgh [badscience.net].
Well, quite.
That's better (for me) than ex-ter-mi-NATE.
- Nate
I believe you misheard. Those rat brain cells were harvested from dead rats, and they were stating how they died.... AtE-TeR-MiN-Ex! AtE-TeR-MiN-Ex!
Wow, instead of artificial intelligence controlling humans via brain implants (perhaps to take over part of a damaged brain), we have real intelligence controlling robots. The though of someone hooking this ip to a Predator drone are scary.
Of course, we already have robots controlled by human brains -- all robots are in some way. This is different; scarily different.
we have real intelligence controlling robots. The though of someone hooking this ip to a Predator drone are scary.
The use of human brain cells doesn't imply "real" intelligence. Computationally, this thing is vastly weaker than "traditional" (silicon) computers from 30 years ago, much less whatever is on Predators (or your iPhone) today. There isn't any pixie dust in neurons.
then what's that stuff that comes out my head when I sneeze?
Are you telling me that's NOT pixie dust?!
I thought I'd just not used enough... and I can't test it any more as my cousin doesn't want me anywhere near her kid after the whole window thing...
that stuff is for reproduction
There isn't any pixie dust in neurons.
There isn't any intelligence or emotion in bits, either. Brains aren't computers, and computers don't think. Whoever decided to call computers "thinking machines" back when a pocket calculator that took a 3 story building to house and was called a "computer" and a "thinking machine" should have been bitchslapped.
Today's xkcd:
http://xkcd.com/652/ [xkcd.com]
Ok, let's say I attack four wheels and a computer to a standard kitchen dish. Then I put a human brain in the dish.
Does it count as brain controlled robot if I make the robot turn left if the brain's temperature is an even number and right if it's odd?
Wouldn't that just make the robot zigzag until the brain reached room temperature?
The fact is there is no signal in this system that could be used in something such as reinforcement learning. The robot has absolutely no way of knowing if hitting a wall is good or bad. So what this system actually does is show that neurons can auto-organize and produce a coherent output based on inputs such as sensors values.
What Warwick, forgot to say is that for every robot that converges toward an object avoidance behavior there are probably 30 other robots having completely difference behaviors. Since
I agree, but at first my thoughts were he tailored the response. I mean that the cells responded to input by changing their output, yes.. but he decided to say "when the output changes, that means turn". No matter what, there is no way the cells are directly controlling the motors. That output has to be filtered/modified/interpreted somehow.
It would be interesting to see if changing the format of the input or output with random neuron mixes would cause different behaviors.
The sensors simply send a signal into the "brain." The "brain" consistently reacts by creating a reaction signal based on the input signal. That reaction signal is then used to determine which input signal was used. The "brain" is just used as a layer between the sensors and the motors. It's like using MD5 strings to control a device. The sensors encrypt data as MD5 and then the MD5 string is used rather than the raw sensor data.
The value of this is in figuring out how we can poke the brain and interpr
The dish is, I assume, named "Donovan"? Or was that the name of the cell donor?
This reminds me of the Genesis of the Daleks...
Will Davros be next?
Doctor Who references to Robots controlled by organic brain's include:
- Mr. Sin [bbc.co.uk], aka: the Peking Homunculus, a robot controlled by a pig's brain, from the Talon's of Weng Chiang. Mr. Sin probably matches the experiment in the article the most closely, because he was a robot controlled by a portion of an animal's brain.
- Morbius [bbc.co.uk], from the Brain of Morbius. Does everyone remember the talking brain in a jar?
- The Genesis of the Daleks [bbc.co.uk] shows that Dalek's are fully formed aliens and can kill people without
In 1998, Kevin Warwick implants a trivial RF resonator in his arm (the sticky plastic strip that warns Walmart that someone is stealing a pair of socks). He contacts the press, calls himself a cyborg, and gets tenure at Reading U.
In 2001, he replaces his implant with an RFID tag, and calls the press again, and says, "Look at me, look at me! Now I'm an ACTIVE cyborg!" And he becomes a full professor at Reading U.
And now Warwick gets 300,000 neurons to produce a simple binary response (go straight vs turn). He calls the press again, and says, "Look at what I can do just by waving my arm".
Jackass. Worse, the media can't tell the difference between poseurs like him and real scientists like Sebastian Thrun or Rod Brooks.
(pun unintended, and frankly not very funny, so forget it; same for that pun)
1. The magazine h+ senior editor is RU Sirius. It is MONDO 2000, +20. Sirius is still Sirius, and seems to have foregone the +20 himself. He's actually no slouch, so when he senior-editorizes a magazine full of pseudoscience crap when he could have done better or at least different, I feel he's earned the right to the criticism rather than the fiction writers working as science article journalists. They start stupid, work stupid and produce stupid. He approves it for publication.
2. Other articles in the magazine are equally absurd. Some make claims about specific phenomena or theories which are anywhere from fraudulent to simply goofy. I took one such article, claiming that depression is lack of "fun" to task over at The Daily Grail. The article is just bullshit in its best parts. There's worse.
3. Using neurons in this design is enormously overly complex. There was an article in SciAm in which little battery powered cars were given photo-cells or photo-resistive cells as "eyes", those driving the back wheels on the same side, or on the other side, making 4 different designs that react to light. They approach fast and slow down, or slowly at first then rush in, or they zoom away and orbit the edges slowly or else creep away and at the outer area zoom around. The anthromorphization of their actions is multiplied when many of each 'species' are placed on th same floor with protruding light bulbs at several locations. It's not that the neurons don;t do the job, it's just that they're a computational device based far beyond the need, and that non-computational, analog increasing/decreasing voltage circuits do much more for much less.
4. Given the falsification of a different h+ article of equally strong claims, I serious(!)ly doubt the existence of the items in TFA. In fact I wouldn't believe anything I read in this magazine, if for no other reason than that the New Agey products in the ads are, while absurd themselves, more believable than the articles.
If it's being controlled, it's not a robot. It's a car for rat brain cells. It's not following a program, it's being steered. While we're at it, the battle bots/robot wars are not robots either. They are remote controlled cars with weapons and armor. My car is not a robot just because it is a machine. If i attach some kind of Myth Busters control system... it's still not a robot. Until it's driving itself, it ain't a robot.
Also: a robot is an android IFF is is human shaped. T1000, C3P0 - Yes. R2D2 - No.
i think a show about ACTUAL ROBOTS hunting each other down would be way cooler. i'd have a category for 'Onboard Brain' and another for 'Remote Brain'. Maybe categories for environment: Water, Air, Land. Then maybe size class. It would be nerdgasmic.
This can't turn out well [imdb.com].
Unless it's for a sexbot, of course.
Oh, wait. Even just a few human brain cells are enough to know to steer clear of the oddness of nerds.
What does the brain do in this robot? It sounds like all data processing and decision making is done on silicon with the brain along for the ride.
Headline should be "Rat nerve cells get ride around lab in little cart."
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1. Do they replace the hitting coach?
I would.
2. Do they sell high on some guys who had good seasons, such as Bailey? Chapman? 2 guys who often have arm fatigue but survived this season intact.
The old adage that everybody has their price holds true. Thing is though, if I were AD, the other team wouldn't meet my price on certain guys. I'd ship Joey Votto to the Dodgers in a heartbeat if they'd snd Clayton Kershaw, Matt Kemp, either Scott Van SLyke or Josh Fields and cash in return. Wouldn't be holding my breath for a "Yes." I think Homer just got the ol' "dead arm" that is a natural result of pitching more innings in the past. It hit Cueto also. Homer certainly bounced back in fine fashion. I'd try to sign him to a fair extension this offseason. If you're gonna try to upgrade on Mike Leake and you're gonna trade Homer, then you're gonna have to come up with two quality starter. I believe Aroldis also suffered a little dead arm from an increased workload - (getting used to the number of appearances as much as the increased innings, IMO). Again, I would consider a deal for Aroldis, but an all-star caliber 3B, LF or TOR Starter would be heading back my way in the deal if I did.
3. How long will it take Hamilton to get to the major leagues or will he? Will he succeed or flop at the major league level?
Between the tradedeadline 2013 and the tradedeadline 2014. I don't think he'll flop. I think there is a good chance he becomes a very special player and the best true leadoff hitter the Reds have had in a very long time, but it's certinaly not a leadpipe cinch.
4. Short term fix or long term fix in CF? And how do you acquire someone? What are the options?
BPA with the best OBP (plus solid D). This club needs a CF who can get on base and play adequate D. I love Billy's potential, but he shouldn't factor into the equation for CF in 2013 in the least. Go get a CF like Fowler or Span and imporve the club now. It keeps you from having to rush Billy also. Then, if Billy forces his way out of L'Ville then you can trade Fowler or Span easily or maybe if you get one of them, you revisit the move of Billy off SS and deal Cozart and/or Didi. No such thing as having too much solid talent. I would try to deal for Span or Fowler or possibly sign Bourn (not a favorite). I wouldn't look for a short-term answer if a better option is available, but if they go short-term, Shane Victorino or Nate McClouth might be possible. If they want to go with someone who is not necessarily a natural CF (of if you want tomove Bruce to CF) Juston Upton, David DeJesus or Shin-Soo-Choo might be targets.
5. Are you okay with Frazier at 3B? Or do you want an upgrade?
I'm very OK with Frazier at third base or LF (if you acquire a solid 3B). You need to address one of the two spots anyway. I wouldn't mind a bit if they could find someone as an insurance policy for Todd that can switch-hit or hits lefty.
6. Are you okay with Ludwick in LF? Or do you want an upgrade?
I'd be fine with him back at the right price. If he doesn't return, I think Walt needs to expend every effot to land a top bat at either LF or 3B. If Ryan does return, then I would still like to have a LH bat with power who can play 3B and LF (if possible) to mix with he and Frazier.
7. Chapman, rotation or Closer? Cingrani......is he a starter option or bullpen option?
Chapman? Closer - too many variables. Stretching him out. How does starting affect his velocity? Effectiveness? Control? We already address that he had a fatigue issue in relief this year. At what point would he need to be Strassburg'd? I think you weaken two spots by trying to start him now (at least in the short-term). Cingrani? I'm fine either way. Wouldn't mind him starting in L'Ville at all, but I was also impressed with his work from the Reds pen late in the year. Having he, Marshall and Chapman in the pen from the left side would be sick. Come spring training 2014 though, he's a starter and vying for the spot vacated by Arroyo with Corcino.
I'll even add a number 8.
8. Does Walt try to upgrade the rotation this offseason?
Yes. I believe he had every intention of aqcuiring a solid starter at the deadline this year and that that intention will carry over to the offseason. I look for him to make a run at someone like Garza, Shields, Masterson, etc. over the offseason and I don't even discount a surprise stab at a free agent (not that I think it will be successful). I also believe Leake will be dealt.


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We don't know that for sure. We haven't been to the surface of any of these planets. I believe more study is needed.
That's not true, it could have been an actual ghost/sea monster/space cow. You never know.
Wouldn't that be a great, sort of surreal Scooby episode?
The reason that planet is lacking methane is because that solar system lacks Uranus.
I saw that in the summary and had to laugh. But you're right, we see these planets as blobs in the sky. The closest we've been to checking the surface has been Mars, and the square footage of the surface that we've actually seen isn't enough to eliminate the possibility of cows.
Then again, if a rover went around a rock and found a cow, someone's going to have a cow.
Ahh, if only I worked for NASA. Inject some footage of a cow grazing into the incoming feed,
Methane is an important source of energy. Obviously there's an alien species which has used up all the methane from that planet.
Even if the aliens are bacteria or similar it's an interesting thought. Methane can be used as a fuel and microorganisms may have it as a food source.
And if there are microorganisms there is always the possibility that there is life. However the light from the star may also be intense enough to crack up the methane molecules resulting in other types of compounds.
There may be other explanations too - the planet may have suffered some disturbing events where it lost a major part of it's atmosphere.
Methane is present on our life-bearing planet, manufactured primarily by microbes living in cows, and all of the giant planets in our solar system have methane too, despite their lack of cows.
Why are cows focused on so much when it comes to methane? The only study I can find lists livestock making up only 19% as a source of atmospheric methane [wikipedia.org]. That's little more than our industrial energy sector production and about half as much as our wetlands produce. From NOAA [noaa.gov]:
Rapidly growing industrialization in Asia and rising wetland emissions in the Arctic and tropics are the most likely causes of the recent methane increase, said scientist Ed Dlugokencky from NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratory.
When we drill the borehole to the center of the earth, we will find it's cows all the way down
The center of earth is a myth.
I didn't know that one of myth's meanings is nougat. Somethin' new every day...
Why are cows focused on so much when it comes to methane?
Because if they focused on rice, it wouldn't give a good argument for vegetarians.
Why are cows focused on so much when it comes to methane?
Because if they focused on rice, it wouldn't give a good argument for vegetarians.
Or tree huggers trying to "Save our precious wetlands!"
... but the vega-hippies still would complain
Actually we dumped all hippies in a place called "Sanaf Aran Siskh' oh" millenia ago; they complained too much.
Microsoft car: We have noticed you are in the process of crashing. Would you want your airbags deployed?
As a guess, because it's the most ridiculous contribution (nonetheless contributing to the feedback, most notably with arctic wetlands), the easiest to deal with...yet we still fail to do it. And that's with all the abundance of other tasty animals out there.
Cows eating grass, outside...where have you seen that? O_o
In seriousness, that's not a showstopper; especially if reduced availability of meat would, for many people, actually increase their health (I don't advocate not eating meat, I do it myself; but too many people consume ridiculous amounts of it these days, having fallen in the trap of one old adaptation - "if there's some meat around, eat it!")
Cows eating grass, outside...where have you seen that? O_o
Cows eating grass, outside...where have you seen that? O_o
It's called south south America. Or Switzerland. Look it up! ^^
(Seriously, Switzerland is cow heaven right there. So insanely beautiful!)
True South America, as Brazil is, in fact, the world leader in beef exports, followed by Australia. I recall Argentina and Uruguay and several Central American countries are in the top 10 as well. Then there's India, which was still exporting more beef than the United States last time I checked (yes, sacred cow country is #3 in exports) I don't think Europe even has a country in the top 10, but maybe as a whole they get in there. That is far more than I really needed to know, picked up from my brother-i
If we were to raise and eat other animals in the same quantities as we raise and eat cows, I'm sure we'd have other "problems" as well. Exactly what animal do you suggest as a replacement for cattle?
I'm fairly certain that people have a far worse environmental impact than cattle. You'll have to feed the people you eat something anyway.
Yes, we have lots of those who phone our helpdesk every friggin minute.
Why So Much Focus on Cows?
'coz they make delicious burgers, and therefore vital to any self-respecting westerner. Please try and keep up with the conversation.
Because cows are funnier than decaying peat moss, OK? Now make a cow joke!
Adam Showman talking about a provocative result eh? Who is surprised? I mean what else could you expect from the father of all show men?
Hello Earth,
This is your distant neighbor GJ-436b. We need some cows immediately, for we are completely out of methane. Without methane, we cannot create barbecue lighters, and thus no Forth of Snibbej parties.
We have made some financial arrangements with a Nigerian prince who has agreed to...
Wow, that planet must have a more advanced civilization than ours. Just imagine how powerful a super-collider would have to be to produce something as massive as anti-cows!
I am cowed by your reasoning.
See, we shouldn't have sent that message, "HEY GUYS WE GOTS METHANE!" In another few thousand years they're coming for our cows!
Maybe they invented non-farting cows.
Folks here on Earth are working on it:
http://blogs.msdn.com/stevecla01/archive/2009/07/19/bill-gates-is-making-cows-that-don-t-fart.aspx [msdn.com]
http://gizmodo.com/349723/scientists-discover-how-to-neutralize-cow-farts-your-farts-next-god-willing [gizmodo.com]
It's a good cause . . . with no visible methane on our planet, those aliens won't be able to find us, and eat us. And our cows.
imagine whale farts.
But cows aren't pigs. Perhaps they emit it when they do all that talking?
Actually it was six observation at six different infrared wavelenghts over a six month period.
It's a lack of Taco Bell franchises.
That would be due to the high cost of beef with no cows on the planet.
Ah, but you're forgetting about the infamous bean burrito! [tacobell.com]
The Aliens took it on their way here. They needed the fuel resource. See Steven Hawkins story about not talking to the aliens when the get here.
BTW, the earth is leaking Methane [discovery.com] as its been discovered that it wasn't cows causing increased methane here.
Oh c'mon, it's not like we have any second thoughts about actually probing the cows (and measuring how much methane they emit)
At the least we know they fart.
This planet has got to be populated by nothing but women. Nobody farts!
I submitted that one several days ago!
Bah! Humbug!
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Stepping up to the "red line"
NBC News says that officials in the Obama Administration are admitting that Syria has loaded the precursor for their sarin gas weapons and they're preparing to use it on rebels there. But, luckily, we have Hillary Clinton's mouth on our side to warn the Syrians that they're about to cross a "red line". No, I don't know what that means, either;
U.S. officials stressed that as of now, the sarin bombs hadn't been loaded onto planes and that Assad hadn't issued a final order to use them. But if he does, one of the officials said, "there's little the outside world can do to stop it."
Speaking Wednesday at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Clinton said the Syrian government was on the brink of collapse, raising the prospect that "an increasingly desperate Assad regime" might turn to chemical weapons or that the banned weapons could fall into other hands.
Well, the western world is clearly to blame because it took them this long to recognize the problem. And we had people from our own government who gave Assad the confidence to think he could remain in power with their support. Remember? Back during the Bush Administration? Some folks said he was wrong to isolate Assad, so they took it upon themselves to hug up to Assad. If you forgot, here's a reminder;
Assad allowed Hussein to move his weapons of mass destruction into Syria, like Iran had allowed him to hide his air force a decade before. Assad did nothing to prevent support for insurgents from entering Iraq from Syria. And we should have dealt with the problem then. Now we're staring down the barrel of chemical weapons used against a civilian population with nothing we can do to stop it. I guess we missed our opportunity to destroy the stockpile of weapons when those weapons were inert.
And the Pentagon's solution is 75,000 troops. MOPP 4 sucks, take my word for it, those of you who missed that training in the good old days of the Cold War and the initial invasion of Iraq in 1991.
So I guess this Arab Spring shit just got serious.
ADDED: For those of you who think that Syria's WMDs didn't come from Iraq.
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The Thunder Dragons representing Maple Grove and Chautauqua Lake look poised to retake the field in 2014.
Monday night, the Bemus Point Central School District Board of Education met and discussed the move to renew the football merger.
According to superintendent Michael Mansfield, schools in Section 6 have until Feb. 10 to declare mergers.
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Bemus Point Central School District Board of Education discussed football program mergers with parents Thursday night.
The options of a stand-alone Maple Grove football program, merging with Chautauqua Lake, merging with Cassadaga Valley and a three-way partnership between Maple Grove, Chautauqua and Cassadaga have been under board consideration.
"As a board, we're here to make sure our kids are safe, and that long-term, there will be opportunity," one board member said.
Mansfield said that the boards of education at Bemus Point, Cassadaga Valley and Chautauqua Lake were equally uninterested in a three-way partnership between the schools, citing a lack of playing opportunities for students due to the unusually large teams in that scenario.
Despite best intentions, Maple Grove's only feasible opportunity to have a 2014 football team is to merge.
"We'd love to have our own Maple Grove Red Dragons football team, but we just don't have the numbers," Mansfield said Monday night.
According statistics presented during last Thursday's parent meeting, roughly 31 to 41 students grades 9 through 12 were considering playing football - JV or varsity - for Maple Grove next year.
Last year, Maple Grove and Chautauqua Lake had a partnership that benefited both schools.
One board member noted, "The consensus from the parent meeting was that for the most part ... everyone wanted to go with Chautauqua Lake again - the parents wanted it and the players wanted it."
Using information gathered from the football parent meeting and comments during Monday's meeting, the board made a motion to continue discussions with athletic directors and coaches regarding a one-year term agreement with Maple Grove and Chautauqua Lake. The board will not continue discussing the option of a football merger with Cassadaga Valley for 2014.
Once Maple Grove meets the Feb. 10 merger deadline for 2014 and declares the partnership with Chautauqua, the details of how the schools' teams will be divided will be determined.
One possibility includes merging with Chautauqua Lake and creating two JV teams, both with students from each school, that are as equal as possible, as well as a varsity team. Another option, according to Mansfield, is creating a Chautauqua Lake and Maple Grove freshman team, and having a single JV team and a varsity team.
Parents in attendance disagreed as to whether fielding two JV teams or creating a freshman team would be more beneficial, citing the increased travel involved for freshman teams, including trips to Buffalo, and the possibility of splitting friends up between two JV teams.
"At the end of the day, we just have to remember it's about the kids," an attendee said.


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Vigil Planned for Washington Boy Killed in Montana
It's always terribly sad to hear news of children being hurt. Earlier this week, Southwest Montana was rocked by the news of a 3 year old, Broderick Daniel Cramer, who was killed by his father near Anaconda. Two Deer Lodge women recognized the heartbreak in the community and are organizing a candlelight vigil in the memory of the boy.
Organizers Aimee Nichols of Anaconda and Rebecca Gallagher of Deer Lodge say the service will take place at 8 p.m. on July 18 near the duck pond in Anaconda's Washoe Park.
Authorities began searching for the Washington boy after his father, Jeremy Cramer, was arrested Monday night in a convenience store bathroom washing blood from his clothes. The boy's body was found Tuesday about 150 to 200 yards away from his father's pickup, on a rural road about 5 miles south of Anaconda.
Jeremy Cramer is charged with deliberate homicide and is jailed on $250,000 bond.


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Taiwan's general obejective during the 17th round of fisheries talks with Japan will be to guarantee a safe, stable fishing area for Taiwanese fishermen operating within the temporary enforcement line of the country's Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), the Executive Yuan said.
The Executive Yuan made the remark in response to a written interpellation tendered by Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Huang Chao-shun (黃昭順) on Friday inquiring about the government's possible negotiation tactics to protect the rights of Taiwanese fishermen at the talks.
"The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is engaging in preparatory communications with its Japanese counterpart regarding the time, location and agenda of the 17th round of Taiwan-Japan fisheries talks, during which the government is to seek to ensure a safe space for Taiwanese fishing boats to operate within the country's temporary enforcement line," the Executive Yuan said.
In the meantime, the Fisheries Agency will compile a list of topics to be covered at the talks and draw up relevant countermeasures, the Executive Yuan added.
The government established the temporary enforcement line, which covers the contested Diaoyutai Islands (釣魚台), in 2003 to provide a safe fishing area for its fishermen, while Japan also delimited a "middle line" in the overlapping maritime area of the Diaoyutais, known as the Senkakus in Japan.
The delimitation of both countries has yet to be accepted by the opposing side.
"Safeguarding the rights of the country's fishermen is the top priority of the Council of Agriculture and the government should be well-prepared and make detailed plans in advance [of the fisheries talks] to achieve that goal," Huang said in the written interpellation, urging the council to also devise a set of effective strategies toward this end.
Citing calculations by the Yilan-based Suao Fishermen's Association, Huang said the association's annual output value could increase from one-third to two-thirds, or between NT$1 billion (US$34.3 million) and NT$2 billion, if Taiwanese fishermen were allowed to operate in waters near the Diaoyutais.
Given the rich fishery resources in waters around the chain, Taiwanese fishermen could enjoy a descent haul even if they are only allowed to operate outside Japan's claimed territorial waters, Huang said.
She added that the Yilan County's Nanfangao (南方澳) has more than 400 fishing vessels weighing 20 tonnes or more that are capable of operating around the archipelago.
For the past decade, Japan has made areas within its 12 nautical mile (22.2km) zone off-limits to fishing boats from Taiwan and China, Huang said.
"In the initial stage, the situation was calm because Japan did not forcibly expel fishing boats that entered its restricted areas. However, things changed about six or seven years ago, when Japanese Coast Guard vessels began chasing away foreign boats, and occasionally detaining the captains and crew of the ships," she said.
Huang said Taiwanese fishermen were particularly concerned after Japan nationalized three of the islets in the chain in September because they feared Tokyo would redefine waters within 200 nautical miles (370.5km) off the islets as its EEZ.
"If so, none of Taiwan's ships would be able to leave the country's harbors," Huang added.
Reiterating the country's stance on the issues of territorial disputes, the Executive Yuan also said in its response to the written interpellation that waters near the Diaoyutai Islands have been Taiwan's traditional fishing grounds for more than 100 years.
"The government tolerates no infringement on Taiwanese fishermen's justifiable rights to operate within Taiwanese territory and will provide them with continued protection," the Executive Yuan said.
The Fisheries Agency will adhere to its policy of "safeguarding every Taiwanese fisherman operating legally" and dispatch at least one patrol vessel a day to ensure the safety of the nation's fishing boats, it said.


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After over twenty-four hours of travel, we safely returned to Mundelein Seminary late this morning. We hope you have enjoyed reading about our experiences throughout the Holy Land. This final entry officially will conclude the 2012 Pilgrimage Blog, however the sharing of stories in person will undoubtedly continue in the weeks and months, perhaps even years ahead.
We would like to thank all who made this pilgrimage possible and those who have prayed us over these past five weeks. We now pray, that our heavenly Father will continue to bless and watch over you and your loved ones on your own pilgrimage to His Son, our Lord Jesus Christ.
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I mentioned that I recently got my first iPhone, right? My absolute favorite game on the device has been Tiny Tower. I can't get enough of it! I whip it out when I'm stopped at a red light so I can restock my stores and shuttle folks around on the elevator. It's literally the first thing I check when I wake up in the morning.
Not all is right in the world of Tiny Tower, though. With all the various shops and services available to your Bitizens, there's never an incentive to leave the tower -- it's a self-contained habitat. Even if some of your Bitizens are unemployed and miserable, they'll never willingly move out. I'm thinking it's not possible to leave the tower at all.
But what happens when you manually evict tenants? Are their body used as materials in the construction of subsequent floors? Is there a Soylent Green cafeteria that I've yet to open? Oh God.
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I have finally removed Windows form all but one pc at home (wife still will not move over lol).
We have a Dell 1320cn printer that works well with my (mainly Unbuntu) machines.
But there are some good deals on 'All in one' colour lasers, but which will work with 64 bit Linux?
It still seems an area that we are let down in Linux world.
Which is a shame. I have everything else working fine (Games utils the lot, some using WINE but they work fine).
Printing always becomes a problem however.
So advice please?
I don't do a lot of printing( so no costly solutions), but I DO need to do some.
I would like to get a colour laser that is an 'all in one' so that we can use tit as a copier also, but from Linux, I just need to print.
I have scanners (there is another mine filed! lol).


text: Bokhara is a term widely used in the West to refer to carpets and rugs made by various Turkmen tribes of Central Asia. Their history dates back centuries. The Turkomans were situated to the north of what is now called Afghanistan. During the early 1900s, the name of Bukhara, a city in Uzbekistan, was applied to these rugs. In fact, few Turkmen live in or around Bukhara, which has a population made up principally of Tajiks and Uzbeks. The Turkomans were an industrious people who would barter their trade for food, clothing, etc. which they couldn't produce themselves. As a result, their weavings would invariably show up in bazaars (a type of trading zone) in cities such as Bukhara, hence the name. The city did serve as a transit point for some Turkmen rugs on their way to the West. Today, such rugs are mainly produced in, and sold from, Pakistan and Iran. In Pakistan, they are mainly produced in a region around the city of Lahore. Various vegetable and other natural dyes are used to produce their rich colors. The typical pattern of a Bokhara rug is that of the octagonal elephant's foot (Bukhara) print. Bokhara's often come in a red or tan background (picture). However, today you can also find them in more modern colors such as light blue or purple.


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A Chat With the Voice of Mario 41
An anonymous reader writes "CNETTV.co.uk has up a video interview with Charles Martinet, the voice of Mario. Charles talks about flying out to Japan to record five games, including Super Mario Galaxy, and about his gaming experiences pre-Mario, which were made up of Pong, Pac-Man and Tank. The most interesting part of the video has to be when Charles discusses how he came up with the voice of Mario, which didn't exactly start off sounding like the Mario we know and love today."


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Rangers still in the hunt to re-sign Hamilton
Outfielder lone remaining target for impact move; contract length biggest obstacle
By T.R. Sullivan / 12/12/12 2:50 PM ET
ARLINGTON -- Now there is outfielder Josh Hamilton. With many of the Rangers' other preferred options starting to slip away, the best hope for an impact offseason move seems to be pointed mainly at re-signing Hamilton.
There was a rumor floating Wednesday morning that the Phillies were going after Hamilton with a three-year deal and, two offseasons ago, they did step in unexpectedly to sign pitcher Cliff Lee away from the Rangers.
But as of Wednesday morning, the Rangers were operating under the assumption they still had a good chance of re-signing Hamilton.
"My feelings about Josh haven't changed from Day 1," general manager Jon Daniels said Wednesday. "I think we have been consistent. We want Josh back and always have. It has nothing to do with who is still on the market and who is off the market. We've maintained communication and the relationship is good. We'd still like to work something out but I can't handicap it."
The Rangers had a plan going into the offseason of how they wanted to improve the team. Re-signing Hamilton was a part of that. There were other options but so far their only major addition has been signing reliever Joakim Soria.
"Going into the offseason we felt like there were a number of options to improve the team internally and we still feel that way," Daniels said. "Obviously, we were looking at a few specific guys [externally] but at this point, with the exception of Soria, they haven't materialized.
"The danger is reacting for the sake of a headline and satisfy everybody's desire to make an offseason move. Just like our fans and players, we want to do something but it's got to be right. The offseason winners and losers are not always the same teams who are playing in October."
The Rangers were hoping to sign pitcher Zack Greinke but he decided on the Dodgers and agreed to a six-year, $147 million contract to pitch in Los Angeles. Greinke, at his press conference on Tuesday, admitted at one point he was favoring the Rangers but wasn't keen on the idea of pitching at the Ballpark in Arlington because it is perceived as a hitter-friendly park.
"It was one negative for Texas, but it's not the only thing that made a decision," Greinke said.
"Texas was very competitive right till the end," Greinke's agent Casey Close said. "He had a lot of great choices in front of him, and ultimately he decided [Los Angeles] was where he wanted to play. But [the Rangers] were very competitive and they did a great job, as well, in the whole recruiting process of Zack."
While Greinke was in Los Angeles on Tuesday to sign with the Dodgers, the Arizona Diamondbacks were busy completing a nine-player trade with the Indians and the Reds. From the Rangers' standpoint, the most significant thing about the trade is the D-backs acquired shortstop Didi Gregorius from the Reds and did not have to include outfielder Justin Upton in the deal.
The D-backs have been trying to land a shortstop and that seemed a pre-requisite for any trade involving Upton. The Rangers have been trying to acquire Upton and that may no longer be possible.
"I would say with all the areas we've addressed, I would say it's highly unlikely that we move Justin," D-backs general manager Kevin Towers said.
The Rangers were also interested in trading for Rays pitcher James Shields. But the Rays were adamant about getting infielder Jurickson Profar back in the deal and the Rangers weren't going to do that. Profar is likely to be the Rangers' starting second baseman with Ian Kinsler moving to first.
Then there is R.A. Dickey, the Mets knuckleballer who was the National League Cy Young Award winner in 2012. He is signed through this season at a $5 million salary and the Mets are trying to reach an agreement with him on a contract extension. But the talks have not progressed as well as Dickey had hoped and there is a possibility the Mets could end up trading him. The Rangers are interested but the Mets are looking for multiple top prospects in any return and a deal does not look good at this point.
That leaves Hamilton, whose venture into free agency remains one of the biggest mysteries of the offseason. Only a couple of things remain clear.
One is that the Rangers are interested in bringing him back. Secondly, there are other teams interested but appear reluctant to pursue Hamilton aggressively because of his possible contract demands and/or his history of injuries.
The Phillies and the Mariners are considered to be the Rangers' prime competition. The Red Sox have shown interest but are reluctant to go beyond three years, according to those familiar with their plans. The Brewers are squeamish about the cost.
Length of contract is likely the biggest obstacle for any team. Hamilton could probably have his pick of places to play if he were willing to settle for a three-year contract. That may be how he ends up in Philadelphia, Seattle or somewhere else. When it gets beyond three years, teams appear to be dropping out.
Right now it seems to come down to how many years the Rangers are willing to commit to Hamilton and if there are other teams willing to match or exceed it. But at this point, Hamilton appears to be the Rangers' best chance of making an impact move this winter.


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NSW must deregulate retail electricity prices as part of a national deal to stop soaring power bills, the Gillard government is demanding.
The Minister for Resources and Energy, Martin Ferguson, will concede on Thursday that electricity price rises over recent years have hurt households and businesses and are ''simply not sustainable''.
But releasing the government's long-awaited energy white paper, he will challenge the states to sign up to energy market reforms that tackle the biggest cause of price rises, on top of the carbon price which he says adds only ''marginally to costs''.
Mr Ferguson will say retail price deregulation is the most important reform to be put to energy ministers later this month, and then to premiers at a heads of government meeting next month.
Retail price deregulation allows more competition and easier switching between electricity retailers.
In Victoria, where deregulation has been introduced, price rises have been lower and companies other than the big three retailers account for 25 per cent of the market. In NSW they account for about 2 per cent, according to the Energy Retailers' Association.
In his speech to a Committee for the Economic Development of Australia conference in Melbourne, Mr Ferguson will take a swipe at the Queensland government, which has frozen underlying household retail tariffs.
''Short-term fixes, such as intervening to hold down prices for temporary relief, might be tempting, but it is not in the long-term interests of consumers,'' he will say. ''It inevitably lowers investment, competition and standards of services … it creates a larger shock to consumers when the price inevitably catches up with the real cost.''
Mr Ferguson says it is essential the states find the ''political courage'' to deregulate electricity prices. But he concedes there is no ''quick or easy fix'' and - in response to suggestions that investment to ensure supply, even in peak periods, amounts to unnecessary ''gold-plating - says that governments have to ''recognise the high value that consumers place on a reliable electricity supply''.
He says allowing customers to manage energy demand with time-of-use pricing is also essential. ''Pricing structures are resulting in inefficient peak demand … additional capacity is required to be built that might only be used for 1 per cent of the year,'' he will say, pointing out households not using power at peak times are subsidising others by as much as $330 a year.
The NSW government has indicated it will stick with price regulation for households, but would allow the Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal to price controls for small- and medium-sized businesses.
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i have a 93 legacy l with the ever popular leaky fuel filler pipe. the car is just a beater with 200,000+ miles, and i use it on the weekends for hauling trash, etc. my question is this. instead of sticking over 100 bucks into getting a new pipe, is there anyone who has used a rubber hose to repair this? i am not sure if it is flexable enough, or even possible, but thought i would ask around. i may sound cheap, but i would rather not stick a whole lot of money into this car.
if someone has done this, or thinks it's possible, can you suggest what diameter hose to use? thanks for the help.
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fuel filler pipe alternatives???
Started by threeoneseven , Jan 28 2006 10:09 AM
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Posted 28 January 2006 - 10:09 AM
Posted 28 January 2006 - 10:19 AM
i should also add - i did a search but found nothing regarding alternatives to the pipe. and if i do need to replace it with the oem pipe, are there any other parts i should order that are prone to damage or breakage while replacing the pipe? thanks again.
Posted 28 January 2006 - 03:57 PM
i should also add - i did a search but found nothing regarding alternatives to the pipe. and if i do need to replace it with the oem pipe, are there any other parts i should order that are prone to damage or breakage while replacing the pipe? thanks again.
yeah there is some kind of tubing/hosing you can use, not sure if you want to use rubber hose tho because gas and oil have a tendancy to eat it away after a while... just took a gas tank off my uncles old 78 ford, and the vent and fuel filler lines looked like they were just heater hose. not sure what the hose out of your car is made out of, but it sounds like it might be metal/plastic? I'd just go measure the diameter, get the same diameter heater hose or something and clamp it on. another thing that works great is that silicon rtv gasketmaker stuff, slap some of that all around where you are leaking and tape it up or cut up an old innertube or something and wrap it around it and clamp it on with some hose clamps.... usually you only need the gasketmaker, but you do that and it will last a little bit longer ;-)
Posted 28 January 2006 - 05:14 PM
Take the pipe off, sandblast it down, and see how big the holes are. If they are just lots of pinholes, pour epoxy into the pipe so that it coats from the inside. move it around slowly to coat everything. Let it cure and paint it lots of times. Then reinstall and wait for the rest of the car to rust out.
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LEWISBURG, Pa. — Gary Jacobsohn will give the talk, "Reflections on America's Constitutional Identity," Tuesday, Sept. 21, at 7 p.m. in Trout Auditorium of the Vaughan Literature Building at Bucknell University.
The talk, which is free and open to the public, is based on research for his upcoming book, Constitutional Identity, which compares this concept in the United States, India, Ireland and Israel. Held in honor of Constitution Day, this event is co-sponsored as the Arnold L. Putterman Lecture.
Jacobsohn is the Patterson-Banister Professor of Government and H. Malcolm MacDonald Professor in Constitutional and Comparative Law at the University of Texas at Austin. He holds his degrees from City College of New York and Cornell University.
His areas of specialization include comparative constitutionalism, constitutional theory, constitutional law, and judicial process.
He has held fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, the Fulbright Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He is a past president of the New England Political Science Association, and has served as co-editor of the Rowman & Littlefield series on Studies in American Constitutionalism.
Jacobsohn is the author of several books, including The Supreme Court and the Decline of Constitutional Aspiration (Rowman & Littlefield, 1986); Pragmatism, Statesmanship, and the Supreme Court (Cornell University Press, 1977); Apple of Gold: Constitutionalism in Israel and the United States (Princeton University Press, 1993); The Wheel of Law: India's Secularism in Comparative Constitutional Context (Princeton University Press, 2003, Oxford University Press - India, 2003); and the forthcoming Constitutional Identity (Harvard University Press).
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Crunchy, Creamy, Delicious Equality: It Won't Back Down
"America's favorite cookie" has flourished in the year since Oreo came out in support of GLBT equality. And Oreo's parent company, Kraft Foods, is only one of a number of major companies celebrating, even pushing for, full legal parity for sexual minorities and their families: Major U.S. businesses, including longtime supporter Levi Strauss, Google, Apple, and even communications giant Verizon and entertainment conglomerate Viacom (owner of the LOGO network) all filed amicus briefs when the Supreme Court took on two major cases earlier this year that directly affected gays and their families.
A July 1 article at The Aggregate reported on how consumers embraced the brand despite an all-too-predictable backlash by anti-gay groups. After the popular cookie maker posted an image of a rainbow crème Oreo on Facebook last summer, the controversy that arose -- and the publicity it generated -- dovetailed with the company's celebration of its one hundredth anniversary, The Aggregate noted, with the net effect being that the brand enjoyed a big bump in sales.
The article made note of the fact that ubiquitous brands such as Starbuck's, JC Penney, Nike, and even Target -- which had its own fractious relations with the GLBT community a couple of years ago in the wake of a political donation that found its way to the pockets of an anti-gay politician -- have all found that it's good business to reach out to GLBT customers, because gay consumers have embraced them right back... and so have equality-minded straight allies.
Meantime, anti-gay groups have fumed, their boycotts ineffectual and nothing in the way of an apology or an appeasement forthcoming.
That refusal to balk is key, the article said, quoting Andrew Isen of WinMark Concepts, who said, ""The most important thing is to get management squarely behind its business decision and not apologize to any group."
That new resolve is matched by a fresh take on what gay consumers want to see in advertising that speaks to them. As reported here at EDGE in a July 23 article, marketing to GLBTs has developed drastically in recent years. GLAAD's vice president of communications, Rich Ferraro, told EDGE that ad campaigns geared toward the pink dollar "used to include drag queens, rainbows or gay men on beaches. Advertisers relied on the stereotypes about the community and what they thought would play well." These days, advertisers have learned that what really resonates with their gay audience are images of same-sex couples and GLBT individuals doing all the same things their straight counterparts do every day: "working in major corporations, marrying and raising families," as the EDGE article put it.
The lesson that a company wins the respect of the GLBT buyer when it sticks to its guns -- while not losing any face with any but the anti-gay crowd -- has permeated the corporate and advertising cultures. "Today advertisers learned the lesson from Ford if you decide to do an LGBT friendly ad they have to stick with it," AdRespect's Mike Wilke told EDGE.
Such ads are increasingly common, from J. Crew's bravura inclusion of a gay employee and his male partner in a 2011 catalogue to JC Penney's 2012 Father's Day catalogue showing a pair of gay dads and their children.
But, as Direct Marketing News noted in a July 18 post, it's vital for advertisers and corporations to understand, and be fluent in, the lingo that's spoken by their target audience. To facilitate this and help executives stay current on the lingo, Direct Marketing News offered a glossary that details how some words and phrases are "out" (such as the misleading, politically charged terms "Gay Lifestyle" and the increasingly dated "partner") and others have taken their place as the au courant, "in" terms of choice (such as "Sexual Orientation" and "Husband" or "Wife").