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If you see one or more of the following when you try to use your iPhoto library in another app, follow the steps in this article to resolve these issues.
- One or more iPhoto album names are not listed in the Photos tab in iTunes.
- Photos or albums do not appear in the photos pane of the Media Browser in apps like Mail or Safari.
- Viewing the photos pane in iDVD shows you the message, "Launch iPhoto to populate this list."
- When you select photos in the Photos pane of iMovie, one or more photos or albums appear to be missing.
- Photos or albums do not appear in Setup or Options in the Desktop & Screen Saver preferences pane of System Preferences.
Make sure your software is up to date
Use Software Update to make sure OS X, iPhoto and your other apps are up to date. Apply any updates you see listed. Then, open iPhoto and your other apps to see if the issue is resolved.
Open iPhoto
Open iPhoto and make sure your albums and photos appear in iPhoto. If your photos aren't visible in iPhoto, they can't appear in other apps.
When iPhoto can't find your library, it creates a new empty library. If you don't see your photos, make sure iPhoto is set to use an iPhoto Library you previously created that has photos in it:
- Hold down the Option key as you open iPhoto. iPhoto shows you all the iPhoto Library files it sees on your computer.
- Select a library and click the Choose button.
If you store your iPhoto Library on an external drive and don't see it listed here, make sure your drive is connected and turned on. Click the Other Library button to manually locate and choose a library.
If you still don't see your photos in iPhoto, use Spotlight or the Finder to search for additional iPhoto Library files. Check to see if you've accidentally moved your iPhoto Library file to another Folder, like your Home folder, your Documents folder, or your desktop.
Check your iPhoto Library
Make sure there is not an ampersand "&" in the path to the iPhoto library in the Finder. For example you may have moved your iPhoto library to a folder called "photos & movies" or a drive named "Mac & Cheese". If so, remove the ampersand from the volume or folder name or relocate your iPhoto library to another folder or drive that doesn't have an ampersand in its name.
Check to see if you have any album names (including smart albums) in your iPhoto source list that contain special characters. Special characters are any character that's not a letter or a number, such as an ampersand. Other special characters include ^*$#(). If there are albums with special characters, remove these characters and see if this resolves the issue.
Recreate related files
iPhoto lets other apps know what photos and movies are available by storing information in two files.
First, delete the iApps plist file, which tells other apps where your iPhoto library and other files are stored.
- Click the Finder icon in the Dock.
- Hold down the Option key and click the Go menu.
- Choose Library from the Go menu.
- In the window that appears, locate the Preferences folder.
- In the preferences folder, locate the com.apple.iApps file. Drag this file to the Trash, then restart your computer.
- Open and iPhoto and iTunes to regenerate this file
- Quit iPhoto and iTunes. Then, check to see if your iPhoto images now appear in your other apps.
If your iPhoto images still don't appear in your other apps, delete the iPhoto Library XML file. This is a plain text listing of the items in your iPhoto Library.
- Quit all open applications.
- Locate your iPhoto Library in the Finder (it's usually in the Pictures folder of your Home folder).
- Right-click or control-click on the iPhoto Library icon and select Show Package Contents from the shortcut menu.
- In the window that appears, locate the AlbumData.xml file.
- Drag the AlbumData.xml file out of the iPhoto Library folder and onto the Desktop.
- Open iPhoto.
- From the File menu, choose New Album. This forces iPhoto to update or create an iPhoto Library XML file.
- Quit iPhoto.
Check to see if your iPhoto images now appear in your other apps.
Check iPhoto keywords
Occasionally a malformed keyword can prevent other apps from seeing your iPhoto Library. If you have already tried the other steps in this article, try renaming your iPhoto keywords.
- Open iPhoto.
- Chose Manage My Keywords from the Window menu.
- Click the Edit Keywords button.
- Rename each keyword (This can be as simple as adding a 1 to the existing keyword name).
- Quit iPhoto.
- Open the iLife applications to see if you are able to browse the iPhoto library properly.
Some photos you import might have keywords already included within them as part of EXIF data embedded by your camera. iPhoto attempts to add these keywords to your keyword list when you import your photos. If the keyword contains an unusual character, or is damaged in some way, this can cause the iPhoto Library XML file to become unreadable. When this happens, the photos list displays as empty or blank in other apps. Renaming your keywords can fix this issue.


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NEW YORK (AP) — Under growing pressure as thousands still shivered from Sandy, the New York City Marathon was canceled Friday by Mayor Michael Bloomberg after mounting criticism that this was not the time for a race.
With people in storm-ravaged areas shivering without electricity and the death toll in the city at more than 40, many New Yorkers recoiled at the prospect of police officers being assigned to protect a marathon, storm victims being evicted from hotels to make way for runners, and big generators humming along at the finish-line tents in Central Park.
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Bloomberg called the marathon an "integral part of New York City's life for 40 years" and "an event tens of thousands of New Yorkers participate in and millions more watch."
He still insisted that holding the race would not require diverting resources from the recovery effort, but understood the level of friction.
"It is clear it that it has become the source of controversy and division," Bloomberg said. "The marathon has always brought our city together and inspired us with stories of courage and determination.
Bloomberg's decision came just a day after he appealed to the grit and resiliency of New Yorkers, saying "This city is a city where we have to go on."
The nationally televised race that winds through the city's five boroughs and has been held annually since 1970 — it was held in 2001, about two months after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Mary Wittenberg, president of the organizing New York Road Runners, said it was the right move to cancel.
"This is what we need to do and the right thing at this time," she said.
"It's been a week where we worked very closely with the mayor's office and felt very strongly, both of us together, that on Tuesday it seemed that the best thing for New York on Sunday would be moving forward. As the days went on, just today it got to the point where that was no longer the case."


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|December 6th, 2015, 06:24 AM
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Lighting for Wall Mounted Carpets
Back in September, I had posted about lighting for wall mounted carpets, however that post seems to have vanished.
I'm starting it over.
At the time I was looking to light a set of pillar rugs.
What I eventually went with was this recessed light.
It's small enough to be inconspicuous and has a gimbal which allows a more precise direction of light. It is Insulation Contact Rated and is Air Sealed, both of which are electrical code requirements for the space where I was putting it. Not too many (or any) other lights meet that list of qualifications.
Thought this would be helpful for those the same.
Pics eventually to follow, however I no longer have photos stored online, so maybe not.
|December 10th, 2015, 02:14 AM
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Before. Even with the overhead lights on, and with daylight through the windows, the carpets look dim.
After: Recessed lighting installed. Carpets are much improved.
Currently running a 35w equivalent LED, which may even be too bright at about 500 lumens. May down-lumen to 20w equivalent LED which would be about 350 Lumen, but first I'm going to live with it for a while.
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|December 10th, 2015, 05:11 PM
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A pair of lovely rugs, Jeff.
|December 11th, 2015, 03:20 AM
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Thanks Marvin. Mongolian. Over 100 years old.
|December 13th, 2015, 07:12 PM
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Hi Jeff,
Yes, a sweet pair, nicely displayed. I'm not asking you to dismantle your situation, but if it is convenient for you to post any detail shots, including that ever-popular 'clear shot of the back,' I know they would be appreciated.
|December 15th, 2015, 10:49 PM
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Since I frequently get questions from customers about proper and safe levels of lighting for textiles, a while back I called Jim Henderson, a lighting expert and also rug collector for advice. He gave me permission to post a couple of his articles on my website, so Ill pass them on to you all. A few surprising things are included. The first is a piece from an old ORIENTAL RUG REVIEW. A link to a second, more technical piece, appears at the end of that article. He said that overall recommendations have not changed with the new LED equipment now available.
|December 16th, 2015, 03:06 PM
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Thanks Marla-
It would seem that LEDs do have some advantages over conventional lighting when dealing with carpets:
1. Lower UV output means less fading.
2. Potentially, lower UV also means fewer insects.
Not that UV light is everything, as the articles you posted point out, the focus on UV light can be considered an un-necessary complication, and it's role in degradation has been overplayed. However, less UV radiation can't be bad.
On the downside, LEDs typically run at 3000K deg or brighter. Not the warmer 2700K of incandescent "soft white" bulbs.
With ongoing switch away from incandescent and halogen, "warm" bulbs are tough to find. Indeed, I could find none that fit my fixtures.
|December 16th, 2015, 03:10 PM
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Hi Jeff
Just a clarification about color temperature. It's not a measure of brightness, but of color balance. A lower color temperature is "warmer" (more red), higher color temperature is "colder" (more blue).
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|December 16th, 2015, 03:21 PM
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You are correct Steve, and I shouldn't have used "Bright". It was not my intent to say that 3000K+ bulbs shed more lumens.
Generally the manufacturers do often refer to the whiter colored lights as "Bright White" or "Daylight".
|December 16th, 2015, 04:01 PM
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Hi Jeff
I just wanted to prevent confusion. The descriptors for various color temperatures can be confusing, as you note. If I'm having one of my increasingly rare lucid moments, sunlight is around 5000 degrees.
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|December 23rd, 2015, 05:26 AM
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An update: I swapped out the 35w equivalent LEDs for 20W equivalent LEDs today. Supposedly 200 lumens, which would be a big reduction, but I can barely tell.
For anyone looking to duplicate what I did , here are the bulbs, which like the aforementioned fixtures, are conveniently available from Lowes.
|December 25th, 2015, 09:38 PM
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Color Rendering Index
For textiles, prefer LEDs with a high color rendering index (CRI), which is a measure of the color accuracy of the light. Some of the better LEDs have a CRI in the low- to mid-90s, which is good enough to see color nuance through the full visible spectrum (especially deep reds, important for textiles and deficient/inaccurate in many light sources). Cheaper general-purpose LEDs are usually around CRI 80, good enough for utility lighting but not for color sensitive applications. FWIW Compact florescents are often in the 70s and almost totally deficient in deep reds.
Also, textile lighting might easily benefit from installing a dimmer switch, so that you adjust the lighting. Most of the better LEDs are dimmable. Lowest-cost bulbs often aren't.
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|December 26th, 2015, 10:05 PM
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Thanks, Steve, for your information. Most of us tend to not give much thought to accurate color rendition, unless we're trying to produce reasonable photos of our pieces.
Although fading and degradation of our textiles and rugs should be an obvious concern, few collectors seem to give this much serious thought. It is about all I can do to convince my customers to keep their pieces away from sunlight. It is amazing how often folks write to me about needing a kilim for their "sunroom."
A few years ago I had a 19th century silk Indian embroidery hanging in my upstairs gallery in an area that got perhaps an hour of late afternoon sunlight. I wouldn't have put a favorite piece in that spot and it was a textile I didn't really like much. It was a difficult place to hang anything, so I wasn't eager to rotate it. After a few months' time the colors didn't seem to have been affected, but I was surprised to find that the silk had degraded so severely that it literally fell apart in shreds when one touched it. One friend has his favorite kimono—a delicate sheer hand painted piece--hanging across a south window and I can't seem to convince him this isn't a good idea.
One particularly bad experience with fading involved a weaving of my own, for which I had dyed most of the wool yarns with good quality contemporary acid dyes. This weaving had won a purchase award in a local exhibition, and it then hung for a few years in a stairwell of our Atlanta Civic Auditorium. At one point they decided to move it to another spot, and so brought it to me to devise a different hanging mechanism. Well, I hadn't seen the piece for perhaps five or six years, and I was shocked: The colors had changed drastically—nearly all faded significantly. To me it looked dreadful, and I felt humiliated that it had been hanging in public view for so long. The lighting in that space was provided by fluorescents.
Other examples of fading that I routinely see: fade lines on textiles that have been sitting folded in stacks. For example, I frequently come across black tomesode kimonos with faded fold lines just an inch or so wide—the only part that was exposed. I've come across tapestries and embroideries with the same kind of localized disfiguration.
So please, folks, be forewarned.
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|December 27th, 2015, 03:22 AM
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LEDs, CRI, fading
Marla, you're welcome. Most consumer LEDs emit very little UV light, so they're less likely to cause fading than (say) sunlight at the same levels. High CRI LEDs, because they're more accurate, tend to let people see well at slightly lower levels, also good. And the use of dimmers makes it easy to minimize light. I believe museums now often use LEDs as conservation-conscious display lighting.
FWIW, I've believed that indigo has outstanding light fastness (the "fading" in jeans is abrasion), and madder is also excellent (if mordented). Pieces with lots of dark blue and dark red might be a bit safer under lights, and they're the ones that that tend to need light to "pop" in any case.
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|February 22nd, 2016, 05:32 AM
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switching from halogen to LEDs
I have a modern art rug that I found in Los Angeles, along with several paintings in an art studio that I manage, and have just made the switch from halogen to LED lighting. My motivation for the switch was mainly more efficient lighting, but It's assuring to learn that LEDs have lower UV emission. Thanks.
|May 23rd, 2016, 08:53 PM
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I know there hasn't been activity on this post in months but I just signed up to this forum and wanted to comment my thanks for a clear post about lighting. I know to keep pieces out of the path of direct sunlight but had wondered about lighting, often opting for darkness or dim lighting at the expense of fully appreciating a carpet. It's great to read about LED lights as an imperfect though improved solution. Also, to the OP, I love those carpets! The foo dogs (if I'm right in my interpretation?) are really interesting!
|September 7th, 2016, 05:21 PM
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I recently updated the lighting from the Feit 3 watt, 3000K bulb to these Soraa 2700K bulbs.
Ostensibly they have better color rendering: 95CRI vs 80CRI on the Feits. I thought might help to display the carpets to best advantage, as the reds are quite mediocre, being for the most part Logwood dyes, and could use an assist.
Here are the bulbs themselves, the Feit is on the top and the Soraa is on the bottom:
And here is a side by side. The carpet on the right is lit by the Soraa, the one on the left is lit by the Feit.
Can you tell the difference? It is tough. Looking at them with the naked eye, the distinction was easier. Overall, my thought is that the slightly warmer Soraa look, well, warmer...but the reds still are quite mediocre. I suppose there is no making up for good dye.
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|September 9th, 2016, 11:32 AM
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Hi Jeff,
On my Toshiba laptop I don't see any difference. On the LG TV/monitor of my home desktop, the left one is more yellow, with a little greenish tone, while the right one is more reddish with a bit of violet in it.
|September 9th, 2016, 01:11 PM
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BRIDGEPORT -- They are brief snapshots of a time long ago. Like images caught with the split-second flash of a camera.
"Tony Barr had 28 points as Notre Dame of Fairfield upset CCIAC leader Milford, 72-65" read the line in the March 30, 2013, "The Week that Was" story in the Connecticut Post. Or this moment looking back from Feb. 18, 2012: "Joe Jackson had 23 points and Tony Barr 20 for Notre Dame-Fairfield in a 68-53 win over Law."
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Tony Barr was the seventh of 10 children to Nancy Barr. He was the youngest of six boys, moving to Bridgeport from South Carolina when he was 5. Growing up at 234 Shelton St. near the P.T. Barnum Apartments before the family later moved to Taft Avenue. Barr would play basketball at the East Side Middle School or over at the Orcutt Boys and Girls Club. Nancy did all the heavy lifting when it came to raising the kids. Tony's dad was never around much, and he died in 1980, when Tony was 14.
Barr was good at basketball, good enough that he went to Notre Dame of Fairfield High School and had scholarships offers from several colleges, including Sacred Heart University.
But that's when this story takes its 180-degree turn. Barr said that "trouble found him" in 1986. That was when he started selling drugs. That decision started a five-year nightmare that resulted in five convictions and eventually a 20-year prison sentence.
"I was a good kid all the way across the board, but I got into the street life," Barr says. "I was selling drugs, playing with guns, the whole thing. I was in it for the money, trying to help my mom. When the bills start piling up, do you go to school or do you do what you think is the right thing at the time? I'd use my allowance to buy drugs and then look to sell them and make a profit.
"My mom never knew what I was doing. She had no idea."
On an overcast April afternoon, Tony Barr walks into the lobby of the Holiday Inn with a new attitude and a steadfast determination. There is a job, two actually, waiting for him when he returns to Richmond, Va., to reunite with his fiancee, Wanda Thompson. He has spent the past two years working to erase the past 20 from the blackboard, 20 years spent bouncing from one federal prison to another. Barr ticks them off like train stops ... Connecticut, Pennsylvania, California, Virginia, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Florida, Indiana and Arizona. They never want to keep you in one place too long, Barr says, especially when you're in maximum security.
But while he was serving his sentence, Barr took classes for public speaking, for culinary arts and for fitness, among others. He also made a pact with God.
"I had a conversation with him. I asked him that if he would keep my mom alive, I would change forever," said Barr, who learned while in jail that Nancy, now 75, had breast cancer, and is now a 20-year-plus survivor.
Soon, Barr will be working as a chef at a Golden Corral restaurant and will also work with the Goodwill, the end result of those classes he took while behind bars. It seemed like God had a plan for Barr all along. It just took him two decades to figure it all out.
"I want to make a difference, especially here," said Barr, who would eventually like to talk to Bridgeport kids about his life. "This was where all my dirt was done. The decisions you make ... they can destroy your life. You have to man up and own up. You have to have the courage to get up off the ground and ask for help. I had every opportunity in the world to do just that and I never did."
Another pause. Another tear to wipe away.
"George Russo, God rest his soul. That man was something special," Barr says. "If only I'd spoken to him ..."
Indeed. The former boxing coach at the PAL facility on Fairfield Avenue taught Barr how to box in 1980 and the kid had some potential, winning all seven of his fights by first-round knockouts. If Russo didn't pick Barr up at his house to take him to the ring, he'd drive him home afterward.
"He didn't want me to get into any trouble," Barr said.
But that's just what happened.
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The Rev. William Sangiovanni sits in his second-floor office at Notre Dame of Fairfield High School and looks through a copy of the 1984 yearbook, the Colophon. Scattered throughout are photos of Barr, one with the basketball team, another with the baseball team, even one with Barr wearing a dress.
"He was voted the class clown," says the man affectionately known throughout Notre Dame as Father Bill. "He wasn't a great student, but he was one of the most charismatic and friendly students that you'll ever come across. He always had a smile, always was full of life, always available for a laugh, that kind of person. I don't think you'll find a person in this building that wouldn't have said that. That's how strongly I feel about him."
Charles Smith feels the same way. The two grew up together in the 1980s and played basketball together at the Orcutt Club during the summer.
"Tony was a good kid," said Smith, who starred at Harding High and went on to play 10 seasons in the NBA with the Los Angeles Clippers, New York Knicks and San Antonio Spurs. "He smiled a lot. He had a sheepish little smile, but when he was at Orcutt, there was nothing (trouble-wise) out of the ordinary.
"He was, for our time, a big, scoring guard. He played defense. He could shoot and score. I never played against him in high school but we played on the playgrounds. He was a good player."
A very good player. According to baseball teammate Paul Fabbri, who played with Barr in 1983 and '84 at Notre Dame, he was a solid pitcher for baseball but even better when it came to basketball.
"He was dynamic," said Fabbri, now the baseball coach at Ridgefield High. "For two years, he was the best basketball player on the team and really was the go-to guy for us. And he was the life of the party. He always had an ear-to-ear grin. Always was laughing. He was in trouble with (baseball coach Dave) Baye because he was always looking to make people laugh. He had the kind of personality that a lot of the kids gravitated toward."
Today, Sangiovanni is the president of Notre Dame High School. But when Barr was there, Sangiovanni was the chaplain, someone Barr could have gone to for support and guidance if life got tough. Life did get tough, but Barr never went to Father Bill for help.
"I can remember reading in the newspaper about what went down and I was shocked, I couldn't believe it," Sangiovanni said. "Not shocked that he couldn't get into trouble, because I know all too well what it's like out there, what these kids are up against. Who knows what was going on in his life at the time?"
What was going on was that his mom was trying to raise several kids by herself and Barr decided that he would help. And being a street kid, the only way he really knew how was by selling drugs.
"I'm not surprised because sometimes you become a product of your environment," Smith said of the path that Barr took. "It catches up to you sometimes. I wasn't surprised because growing up here, I've seen a lot of that happen. I would question who was in his life at the time, who was solid in his corner, helping him and guiding him during those times; that's what I wonder."
On Feb. 9, 1986, Barr, at age 20, was arrested for possession of a pistol, a sawed-off shotgun and a machine gun. On Nov. 28, 1986, Barr was arrested on a first-degree robbery charge of stealing $175 from a man at gunpoint. On March 25, 1987, Barr was arrested for possession of drugs after being charged with giving a 14-year-old boy 53 bags of heroin to sell. He was one of five people charged in that case.
And on May 25, 1987, Barr was arrested and charged with criminal attempt to commit murder after allegedly shooting a man in the upper legs at Father Panik Village.
"I didn't shoot him. A friend of mine shot him," Barr said. "I was accused of shooting that guy."
In any event, Barr "didn't say anything" about not being the shooter and was sentenced to four years. He was released after serving 30 months. After that, he "went right back to selling."
Then came July 26, 1991.
Barr was in a bedroom with a gun, as backup, for a drug deal that was going down in an apartment on the East Side. The buyer was an undercover police officer and when the seller, a man named Anthony Preston, was arrested, Barr looked to escape. He forced open the door of another apartment, which was occupied by a woman and several small children, to try to hide. The police arrested Barr, and he was convicted on conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine, using and carrying a firearm in connection with a drug offense and possession with intent to distribute cocaine.
He was sentenced to 22½ years in jail.
the right path
Barr was taken to the federal prison in Danbury before being sent to nine other facilities across the country over the next 20 years. And after making his pact with God, Barr decided to get his life in order, taking cooking lessons, public speaking classes and working as a fitness instructor. Finally on March 23, 2011, Barr was released from prison and sent to a halfway house.
And one of the first things he did when he got there was call Father Bill.
"He called and he asked if he could come see me," Sangiovanni said. "So he came by and he was like the old Tony that I knew from high school. It didn't appear that jail had a negative effect on his personality in any way. I was impressed by that."
Barr got a job as a cook/dishwasher at the Ruby Tuesday's in the Trumbull mall and also worked at the Goodwill facility in Westport in addition to helping another former Harding star and NBA player, Wes Matthews, teach basketball to kids at some local clinics here in the city.
"You hate to see anyone lose that much of their life in prison, especially with their whole life ahead of them," Fabbri said. "To miss your 20s and 30s, it's tough. But he seems like he wants to get things together and move forward after what must have been a brutal time for him."
"The decisions you make," Barr said, "they might seem like the right ones at the time, but you have to have the courage to know that they're not. You have to say, `I'm better than this.' You have to ask for help. I should have but I never did."
But now, he is.
"I'm amazed at the way he is now, the way he speaks and carries himself," Sangiovanni said. "He's resilient, he wants to do good. After his visit here, I thought to myself, `I certainly believe in redemption,' and I think he's a good example of it.
"A lot of people, they blame the system, but he makes no bones about the fact that he did wrong and deserved to get what he got and did his time. I think it's great that he wants to tell his story."
And what a story it is.
"I'm blessed that I wasn't killed or that I didn't kill anyone," Barr said. "I'm blessed that I didn't destroy more peoples' futures with my negative mindset. I want to make a difference. As a kid, I made all the wrong decisions, but I've been delivered."
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Most Americans no longer consider TV's a necessity.
The majority of citizens could live without microwaves, air conditioning and televisions as they look to cut costs at every corner, according to a Pew Research Centerstudy.
The survey of 1,003 people said a car was the number one necessity this year, much like the 2006 survey. Cars did suffer a slight decrease of three percent from 2006 to 2009, but with gas prices still down it remains a must have for any family in America.
Americans ranked the dryers, dishwashers and air conditioners as basic items that were needed in a home in 2006.
But three years later, the proportion that considered a dryer an essential element of the home dropped 17 percent and those who named the dishwasher and air-conditioner as must-haves slid by 14 and 16 percent, respectively.
The TV dropped 12 percent and the microwave took the biggest hit -- dropping off 21 percent this year.
The study also found that eight-in-ten adults have taken specific steps to downsize and almost six-in-ten say they are shopping in discount stores instead of name brand stores.
Other belt-tightening measures people are taking include cutting back on purchasing alcohol and cigarettes. Twenty-four percent have cancelled or reduced their installation of satellite or cable TV. Without cable or satellite it's wonder people don't consider TV to be a must-have anymore.


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Music hours: 6:30 to 8:30 - Duo // 9:00 - Sherry Williams
The buttery voice of Sherry Williams is an oasis in any madness our world offers.
When you listen to her you realize immediately that she is a consummate artist - the real thing. Williams is what they called in the old days, a storyteller - she paints pictures with words. Yet she bridges the gap between the past and the present. Her masterful interpretation of the lyrics makes an over worn song meaningful, or brings an unknown song to life as is evidenced in her latest release You Must Believe In Spring. There she blends the straightforward elements of traditional pop with a decidedly mainstream jazz execution. "At each performance, my delivery is a little different, because I have experienced that additional kernel of life which changes everything; my point of view, my attitudes... My entire life experience is the point of reference from which I sing a song. I believe my gift is the ability to draw on that experience, be fully present in the moment, and unabashedly share it with the listener." And this is who she really is - open and accessible.
It seems as though Sherry was destined to sing this kind of music. When she was a young girl in Pittsburgh, where she was born, her father often blew into his trombone mouthpiece as he moved around the house. He had a collection of 78 LPs of the big bands of the day, as well as many of the great smaller groups like Shearing, Brubeck and Hampton. Growing up with this music, along with having classical piano lessons from age six to age sixteen, formed her musical sensibilities. She swings relentlessly, and sings ballads with exquisite phrasing and taste. In her second release, A Taste Of Sherry, she does a version of the poignantly beautiful Lush Life that will make you cry.
Recently Sherry had been working on a project with the late Jack Segal (When Sunny Gets Blue) to record some of his lesser known songs. She considers him and his material to be American Treasure and will continue with the project.
Her passion for well crafted music and her superb vocal ability clearly place her in a category in which few artists have arrived, and though she emerges from the shadows of the great ladies that have gone on before her, her style is unmistakably her own.
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BOSTON – UMBC seniors Jake Albino (Hampton, N.Y./Minisink Valley) and Cody Mezebish (Westminster, Md./South Carroll), as well as sophomore Hassan Omar (Frederick, Md./Thomas Johnson), each bettered school record times as the UMBC track and field team opened competition at the 2014 ECAC/IC4A Championships, Saturday at the Boston University Track and Tennis Center.
Competing against a regional field, all three athletes continued to rewrite program history. Already the school record holder in the 1,000m event, Albino took hold of his second UMBC record on Saturday. Albino entered the weekend with the fourth-fastest mile time in school history (4:08.97), but took over the top spot by edging past Izudin Mehmedovic's mark of 4:08.84 with a time of 4:08.12. He placed second in his heat and now advances to tomorrow's final.
Mezebish made her last indoor meet memorable by clipping her own school record in the 800m run. The senior, who claimed the school record at the America East Championships (2:12.44), trimmed her time further in Boston by clocking in at 2:11.81.
Omar, meanwhile, broke the school record in the 5,000m run for the second time this year. Having broken the 33-yeard old record back in early February at the Armory Collegiate Invitational (14:32.71), the sophomore lowered his best time by over two seconds in Boston, placing ninth with a new program-best time of 14:30.02.
In the women's 500m run, sophomore Marie Yuille (Bowie, Md./Oakland Mills) and senior Deborah Adelola (Lanham, Md./Bladensburg) both set new personal-bests. Yuille advances tomorrows finals after posting a time 1:14.04, the sixth-fastest of the day, while Adelola just missed out in 13th at 1:14.71.
Junior Charles Bolinger (Bowie, Md./Eleanor Roosevelt) nearly equaled his personal-best in the 800m run, finishing 27th with a time of 1:54.40.
The 2014 ECAC/IC4A Championships will continue on Sunday morning with the men's 60m dash semifinals.


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In the wordpress post WYSIWYG, you can easily add images from the media library. But, once the image is inserted into the post, it is not intuitive to edit the image's source to a different image in your media library. You have to remove the image completely, and then add another one in it's place.
So what I am asking is twofold:
- Can the tinyMCE editor plugins (in this case wpeditimage) be overridden via functions.php or a plugin? Or can I totally override it with my own?
- Do you agree with me that this is a usability issue in WP, or am I just smoking something?
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|TidBITS#325 19960422
It's been an interesting few days. Last Thursday, my main Mac - a Centris 660AV - started to experience weird errors and crashes. I tried basic fixes first, repairing minor problems with Norton Disk Doctor and rebuilding desktops, but the problems worsened. Around midnight I gave up on recovering the drive, and focused on recovering the one file that would have been hell to recreate - the third part of the Bookmark Managers article. At 1:40 AM, I managed to recover the file, so I went to bed. Sleep merely refreshed me for Friday, when I tediously reformatted and tested the drive with different formatting applications, only to confirm my 1 GB drive was toast. A quick call to APS late on Friday afternoon started a 2 GB drive (and a matching 2 GB drive and CD-R burner I need for the next edition of Internet Starter Kit for Macintosh) on their way to me for Saturday delivery. The drives arrived as promised, and I spent Sunday reformatting, repartitioning, and restoring from our nightly DAT backup with Retrospect. Luckily, all of those things take a long time but almost no attention, so I enjoyed the nice weather on Sunday, and (in the first major wildlife sighting since moving) met a bear while running in the woods behind our house. I'd like to thank the folks at APS for service above and beyond the call of duty, and also the folks at Dantz for Retrospect, which saved the day once again. [ACE]
More Bookmarks than Books -- I've written another part to the bookmark managers mini-series that began in TidBITS-323 and continued in TidBITS-324. We didn't have space in this issue to include Part III, but we do plan to run the article next week. [ACE]
Eudora Pro 3.0 Beta Available -- Qualcomm has released a public beta of Eudora Pro 3.0 for owners of Eudora Pro 2.x. I've been using earlier test releases for a month or so now, and find the added features extremely welcome. My favorites include much-enhanced filters that can automatically forward or reply to email, a Reply With menu item that makes boilerplate replies easier, a completely new rich text editing environment that's not limited to 32K (and supports drag & drop), and the capability to launch URLs (which display in blue) by double-clicking them. Other features abound, including multiple signatures, an improved Address Book, an improved Find dialog, and a configurable toolbar. As usual, some of the best parts of Eudora are the little touches, such as the feature that lets you can Option-click any cell in a mailbox to select all messages matching the value of that cell (useful for selecting all message from a certain person or with a certain subject). I also like being able to set mailboxes to group subjects, which is essential for handling high-volume mailing lists. If you use Eudora Pro 2.x and don't mind using stable beta software, take a look. [ACE]
Apple Unveils Four New Power Macs, Upgrade Cards -- Today Apple unveiled four new PowerPC 604-based Power Macs: the 9500/150, 8500/150, and 8500/132 (essentially faster versions of current 9500 and 8500 models), plus the Power Mac 7600/120. Apple is gearing the Power Mac 7600/120 at business and education users, and claims the machine runs up to twice as fast as the current 7500/100. All these new machines support processor speeds up to 200 MHz. Prices range from $4,800 for the 9500/150 down to $3,000 for the 7600/120. Apple also introduced a 120 MHz version of the Power Mac 7200 starting at $1,900.
Apple announced it expects to have 120 MHz and 132 MHz PowerPC 604-based upgrade cards for the Power Mac 7500/100, as well as logic board upgrades for the Power Mac 8500 and 7200 by this May, although the logic board upgrades will not come with a processor card, which presumably must be purchased separately. [GD]
New All-In-One Macs for Education -- Last week Apple announced the Power Macintosh 5260/100 and 5400/120, which are specifically targeted at the education market. Both systems are all-in-one designs with a built-in monitor, quad-speed CD-ROM drive, 16 MB of RAM, and a PowerPC 603e processor. The 5400/120 also features PCI slots, a video input card and video-out connector, and an expansion bay for an optional TV tuner. The 5260/100 is available now for $1,700; the 5400/120 should be available in mid-May for about $2,300. [GD]
Apple PC Compatibility Cards for Power Macs -- Apple has officially announced its next generation of PC Compatibility cards, designed to provide Windows and MS-DOS capability to PCI Power Macs. Two versions will be available: the 12-inch card sports a 100 MHz Pentium, and the 7-inch version uses an "entry level" 100 MHz 586 chip (a third-party x86-compatible chip) that's roughly equivalent to a 75 MHz Pentium in performance. Both cards incorporate an ATI Mach64 video controller, game port, 16-bit Sound Blaster Pro support, and 8 MB RAM (upgradable to 72 MB). Prices for the stand-alone cards will range from $800 to $1,050; Apple is also introducing a Power Mac 7200/120 PC Compatible with either a 586 or Pentium card for $2,600 to $2,800 (a substantially better value). Both the cards and the 7200-based systems should be available in June. [GD]
Free Email, but not for Us -- D. E. Shaw & Co., L.P. today launched Juno, a nationwide free email service sponsored by advertiser dollars, claiming the model used by free TV and radio stations ought to work on the Internet. The custom software and service will be free to the user; the software will display ads tailored to the user's "member profile" while he or she reads and writes mail, and while messages are transferred via modem. (Users who aren't within a local call of about 200 dialup numbers will be able to use an 800 number at no cost.) The new service currently lacks file attachment capability, but more importantly, it lacks a Macintosh version of the free software, which is required to access the service. The company claims it will consider developing a Mac version if there's sufficient interest.
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If you're getting ready to welcome a new member of the family into your life - especially if it's the first - you've got A LOT on your mind. Surprisingly, for all the planning and prepping that's probably giving you a headache, there's a lot to look forward to when it comes to putting together the nursery. Whether you've decided to know the baby's sex or plan on waiting, there's still plenty of designing to get underway. But don't worry - it's probably the most fun you'll have putting a room together.
No matter when you're expecting, why not get a headstart on your nursery project. Have a blast, enjoy yourself, remember to take it easy and consider a few of these tips!
1. Getting the essentials
Some of the essentials actually are important - others aren't so much. For instance, you'll want to put a good amount of your budget into your child's crib. This will be your newborn's bed for a while, and it's also bound to center the room's design - if only because your child is sure to be the focal point!
A changing table, on the other hand, is less essential. Why not invest in a stylish dresser instead. This is sure to get much more milage over the years, rather than being relegated to the basement once your child is properly potty trained. You can easily lay a padded mat and blanket over the top of the dresser to keep your newborn comfortable.
2. Designing for safety and comfort
You'll want to keep your child's safety and comfort in mind when designing the nursery, of course. For this reason, you may want to consider investing in radiant floor heating. If you plan on using your home's heat throughout the autumn or winter, relying on radiant heat isn't only cost effective, but sure to improve your nursery air quality. Central heat relies on dusty vents and ducts to push hot air throughout a house, leading to potential allergen problems. Keep your child cozy and healthy with radiant heat's entirely natural convection currents.
3. Designing to last
It's all but impossible to believe now, but before long that tiny baby is going to be a toddler, and then a kindergartener. It's not essential, but as you design the nursery, keep in mind the gradual changes you and your growing kid will want to make to its décor and design.
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The Upright Society of Civic Wizards -
This organization began with a simple idea to protect the common people from the danger of magic run amok. Far too many disasters and atrocities were being commited by irresponcibe, evil, or mad wizards with no one to answer to but their own degraded consciences. The Society formed around a nucleus of civic minded magi who created a local crusade to have wizards join their society, and take the appropriate oaths to protect the world from dangerous magics. After a long and tumultuous begining, they established a strong base of power in the area, forcing wizards to join the society, or submit themselves to magical geases and censure.
Power corrupts, and soon the Society began to play an increasing role in local politics as well as extending it's base of power beyond the initial region. Lone wizards were indeed powerful, but soon fell prey to well armed and equiped bands of wizard enforcers who indocrinated said wizard into the society, gaining a percentage of his research, and listing him into the projects in the works, for the betterment of the common man and the Society. If he refuses, punishments ranging from censure, to death are administered on the spot.
Within a generation, the Society was a player in the court of the King, and within another generation or two, the wizards could eclipse the king for power and control of the kingdom…
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I can't even remember the last time an animated movie hit me so hard. Probably since Nightmare Before Christmas, and that was when I was 7 years old. And no it WASN'T directed by Tim Burton nor did he have anything to do with it. This is Henry Selick's vision. This film in every way is a masterpiece of animated brilliance! And do you know how hard and tedious stop motion animation is? Well...its very hard and tedious haha, more so than hand drawn, especially if your making a movie like Coraline.
I've been working on this for a while now, ever since I saw it after the 2nd time in theaters (total 3 times hell yea). I loved the Other Father scene with the They Might Be Giants song, think thats my favorite scene. I really wanted to experiment with it and I was inspired by Shane Prigmore's designs for the film, the whole lineless thing with textures. It was a long process but I'm alright with the final result.
Of course I had to sketch it out first.
And here's some close ups since this is a huge damn pic!
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Hey everyone! Nothing toooo great to report besides that I'm selling two paintings.I had done these for my portfolio in highschoolfor my AP art class, I was the only cartooning kid in that class and I had to submit these to some AP art exam thing whiiiiich I passed with flying colors (hell yea, muthuh fuckuh). I keptforgetting to post these on here since they're really large and therefore not scan-able.
So I've decided to sell them to make some extra scratch.
My concentration was "Abstract Animals" and I certainly had fun with it!
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I also have some other original artwork and prints for sale at my Etsy Shop!
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Pocketful of Miracles (1961)
Directed by Frank CapraGenres - Comedy Drama | Sub-Genres - Comedy of Manners, Domestic Comedy | Release Date - Dec 19, 1961 (USA - Unknown) | Run Time - 136 min. | Countries - United States | MPAA Rating - NR
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Director Frank Capra's last feature film, Pocketful of Miracles is a Technicolor remake of his 1933 film Lady for a Day. A barely recognizable Bette Davis plays Apple Annie, the besotted, unkempt, rag-clad street vendor who controls the activities of all the beggars on Broadway. Apple Annie is the pet of Dave the Dude (Glenn Ford), a tough but basically kind-hearted gangster who believes that Annie's apples bring him luck. One morning, Annie fails to show up at her usual corner. That's because she is sitting disconsolate in her squalid shack, contemplating suicide. The reason: Annie has received a letter from her daughter Louise (Ann-Margret, in her screen debut). Annie has been supporting Louise's high-priced European education, leading the girl to believe that she, Annie, is a high-society dowager. Now Louise is returning home with her wealthy fiance Carlos Romero (Peter Mann) in tow, and it looks as though Annie's cover will be blown to bits. Partly out of sympathy, but mostly because of his superstitious belief in the power of Annie's apples, Dave the Dude arranges with his Broadway cohorts to "doll up" Annie so that she can pass as a woman of means, then stage-manages a huge, expensive reception for Louise and her beau. The complications that ensued in the original 1933 version of Lady for a Day exercise their prerogative once more, with a few added plot twists to pad out Glenn Ford's screen time. Cutting through the sentimental goo like a machete is Peter Falk, who is hilarious as Dave the Dude's sarcastic bodyguard. Evidently, Falk was one of the few actors on the set of Pocketful of Miracles with which Capra remained sympatico throughout shooting. In his autobiography (a not altogether reliable tome), Capra insisted that Pocketful of Miracles was ruined by Glenn Ford's autocratic and self-serving on-set behavior, and by Ford's demand that his current lady friend Hope Lange be (mis)cast as brash nightclub chirp Queenie Martin. As usual, Capra was not telling the whole story: at 63, he was beginning to lose his grip on his movie-making skills, allowing every scene to run well past its value and concentrating on cute isolated "bits" rather than the story at hand. Way too long at 136 minutes (Lady for a Day ran but 90), Pocketful of Miracles still has a lot going for it, especially the glowing performance of Bette Davis and the basic, foolproof Damon Runyon story on which it is based. While it disappointed at the box office, Miracles has since its release become a Christmastime TV perennial, seldom failing to draw big ratings numbers.
mother, dowager, daughter, fiancee, deception, high-society, apple, vendor


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Speech Language Pathologists speak their own language that only other SLPs truly understand. This is the case for many different professionals, but it is complicated by the fact that most of the time SLPs are isolated from others. We're usually the only SLP at our school or in our town. Often we're in a closet away from everybody else. And, no one at our schools knows exactly what we do.
As a result, when we go to conferences with other SLPs it's a relief to be able to speak in our native tongue and to talk about our experiences, our problems, our great ideas, and our frustrations with another SLP. After all, this is someone who completely understands what we're talking about. I've found that it usually takes the speaker a little bit of time to get a group of SLPs to stop talking in order to start their presentation. Then, after the program, they sometimes have to kick us out as well. We're not trying to be rude, we just love hanging out with other SLPs. We are trying to fill our canteen while we can before we go back to the desert where people don't understand the frustrations of vocalic /r/ and our exciting new therapy toys (as you can tell, I work with children). We just don't get to see each other often enough.
So, when I stumbled upon Twitter I quickly realized the potential for networking with other Speech Language Pathologists. Slowly I've found a good group of SLPeeps (the name that we've given ourselves on the web), to which I've been able to direct my assessment and therapy questions, give my frustrations, and talk about SLP issues in general. Sometimes we just get a little silly and have a good time with our conversations. It's been wonderful to be able to have a group that understands SLP talk and what I'm doing at my finger tips.
I've made friends with other SLPs all over the world. It's interesting to find out how they do things in other places. Different educational backgrounds, experiences and interests have resulted in a rich resource on Twitter. I'm beginning to feel like I'm part of a greater international community of Speech Language Pathologists.
There are many people and resources for SLPs online that you can easily find via Twitter among other sources. There are many vendors, specialists, professors, and plenty of clinical SLPs. I've found that they are always willing to answer questions. We've been able to get special discounts from some of the vendors. One time Super Duper gave us a special discount on Chipper Chat products just because one of the SLPeeps asked about it. Super Duper frequently has Twitter promotions. I have also had Dynavox answer simple support questions over Twitter. SLPs also share online resources, including websites that provide free materials for education or therapy.
Lists of SLPs and other related stuff on Twitter.
- http://twitter.com/speechbob/speech-therapists
- http://twitter.com/SLPTanya/slpeeps
- http://twitter.com/avocadotech/speech-language-pathology
You can find followers by searching SLP-related words; well, you can find a few at least. The better way to start finding other SLPs on Twitter is to start looking through the follower lists of other SLPs (my Twitter name is @speechbob), or better yet, look at the followers of @ASHAweb.
So, come join us. We don't bite, promise.
Robert Bateman, MS CCC-SLP is an educational SLP working at Davis School District in Utah He's also the co-writer of the new SLP blog Pathologically Speaking.


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FRI, FEB 17, 2012 at 2:20 AM
Indie Rock Spring Break aka The SXSW Music Festival is right around the corner, and we are thrilled to announce our 2012 showcase lineup, to be held on March 16 at Red 7.
This year's lineup will feature performances from the likes of Shearwater, Niki & The Dove, Spoek Mathambo, Poor Moon, Father John Misty, THEESatisfaction, King Tuff, Blitzen Trapper, Poor Moon, Debo Band and Husky.
You can now stream tunes from each of the bands we have playing at this
year's festival by clicking here. We have also included set times for the showcase below.
Stay tuned for a full list of Sub Pop related events & day parties at this year's festival!
Outdoor Stage:
Blitzen Trapper- 1am
Father John Misty 12am
Shearwater 11pm
King Tuff 10pm
Poor Moon 9pm
Husky 8pm
Indoor Stage:
Niki & The Dove 1am
Spoek Mathambo 12am
Gashcat 10pm
Debo Band 9pm
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The pirate song "Fifteen Men on a Dead Man's Chest" from Treasure Island contains the expression yo-ho-ho.
Fifteen men on the dead man's chest—
Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!
Drink and the devil had done for the rest—
Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!
Does this signify laughter, a piratical variation of ho-ho-ho? It doesn't seem like an amusing little ditty but then pirates probably would have a dark sense of humour. Or is it simply a more piratey song filler than na-na-na?


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In my continuing battle for the improvement of public discourse, each month I discuss an example of a Fallacious Argument. This month's Fallacious Argument is perhaps one of the most frequently invoked: the appeal to the bandwagon, which leans the mighty weight of the many against the intractable few.
Anyone who has ever been a child can no doubt recall futile negotiations with one's parents to gain new privileges or permission. The negotiations typically go something like this:
Kid: "But all the other kids get to [forbidden activity]!" (This seems perfectly reasonable to kids. After all, if the other kids get to, then it's only fair that you get to as well.)
Parent: "So let me get this straight. If your friends decided to [a different forbidden activity likely to shame the family, violate the laws of physics, and result in personal injury or death], then you'd just go along with them? Just because everyone else is doing it doesn't make something right."
This scene gets played out, generation after generation, between parents and children all over the world. Parents everywhere are familiar with the bandwagon appeal – an argument in which the speaker seeks to persuade the hearer of the wisdom of a course of action because of the popular support it enjoys.
Although this argument has little power to sway parents (at least in my family), it seems to work on everyone else. Purveyors of consumer goods use this propaganda device to hawk toothpaste ("9 out of 10 dentists") and motor vehicles ("America's best-selling truck"). Meanwhile purveyors of political ideas hitch their plans to the bandwagon to win backing for their cause, whether a public law school for Massachusetts ("one of only 5 states without a public law school") or support for or against health care reform ("every developed nation in the world has universal health care" from one side, "a majority of Americans oppose health care reform" from the other). The bandwagon ensures that political ideas, regardless of how worthy (or worthless) they may be, will be judged by their emotional appeal and not on the merits.
According to Robert Gula, author of the logic lover's bible, Nonsense: Red Herrings, Straw Men and Sacred Cows, the bandwagon takes advantage of the human imperative to follow the herd:
…it suggests that the judgment of the masses is sound: If so many people are doing it, then it must be right. Second, and more important, the bandwagon is an emotional appeal to our need for belonging. We don't want to be left out.
Our parents, it seems, were right after all: just because an idea enjoys popular support doesn't necessarily mean that it's a good one. It might well be, of course. But let's not allow ourselves to be overly impressed by the size of the crowd.
This concludes this month's installment of my Fallacious Argument series. Allow me to express my sincere hope that you've been enjoying it; after all, 9 out of 10 readers do.


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I've been absent from posting for sometime now. I guess it was because of a few reasons...
I was getting lazy. I loved my writing, but just didn't have the same amount of time that I had previously had. Also? This guy, and this rabbit came into my life.
I met and began dating HH and his adorable little bunny, Betty, in the fall of 2010. Since then, my days and nights have been filled not only with my normal work and after work commitments, but they've been filled with incredible conversation with HH, fun outings and dinners, and endless hours of petty Miss Betty Ann.
I'm thinking of starting to blog again. These days, between things like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, is blogging already considered
...but we'll see if I manage to find time in there to squeeze in a few thoughtful posts a few times a week.


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It is contemporaneous with Timothy Zahn's Heir to Empire novel, which did for novels what this series did for comics. Together, they were the start of a whole new era in The Expanded Universe, in which a serious attempt was made to go beyond the scope of the films, in the only direction Lucas would then allow: post-Return of the Jedi.
In addition to the story itself, this issue also contains a 4-page explanation of what had happened between the end of ROTJ and the opening scene of this issue. Unfortunately, the pages of this intro were printed out of order, with pages 2 and 3 being reversed.
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text: Hi there ! I am currently renting my mother's house. She never noticed she had a foundation made of blocks. I was planning to buy the house so I inspected it roughly and saw a big crack. I digged a lot to help my mother solve this problem and realized some blocks have moved back towards the house (1 inche or less) at a specific corner. Here are some specs: -Height of basement: 6,5 feet -Type of soil: sand -There is no drain but the water is draining well since there is very little water infiltration in one corner (humid wood only) -The house is located in Quebec, so there is a winter factor -The house was built in 1975 by a man who lived there for 25 years after -There is no ciment filling the blocks holes -There is no waterproofing material between blocks and soil right now Please look to the provided pictures for more info To see it very big go to : http://www.julienbeausejour.net/blockfoundationproblem.jpg or look at the bottom of this thread. We would like to repair the house and are looking at many options presented by many specialists who came to visit. The options now are: -Lift up the house and change the foundation for a new ciment one. That is 30 000$ and the basement has to be reconstructed. -Change the foundation wall of the back of the house and waterproof the rest. That is 20 000$ but the foundation will be more than half made of blocks. -I heard about filling the actual blocks with ciment... What do you think ? -Do you have any idea ? Im not interested about buying a foundation fragile house. My mother can not invest 30 000$ for a repair... Any suggestions ? Feel free to ask for more information. Thank you very much


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Sci-fi, spy games and fitness all have a place on the Nintendo Wii this Fall.
Wii Fit started the craze and now we're getting celebrities doing pilates, as former MTV host Daisy Fuentes leads a series of exercises where you use the Wii Balance Board or just follow along while holding the controller.
Not much of what's demonstrated needs demonstration, but the avatar and real-life Daisy, both seem enthusiastic about the subject matter. "Pilates gives you a calm, refreshing focused workout that unites your mind and body as one," says Fuentes.
Less strenuous is My Sims Agents, a new adventure game where players work to solve mysteries as operatives out to stop a sinister plot threatening the fate of an entire city.
It's kind of like 'The Sum of All Fears' for 12-year-olds and happens to be one of the better plot driven games for the Wii, even if it doesn't really need much of the console's patented motion controls.
Finally, one of the newest games to lean heavily on those controls while representing one of the few 'M' for Mature titles on the Wii is Dead Space Extraction. Designed exclusively for the system, the plotline follows a group of space colonists trying to escape a contagious infection in the furthest regions of the universe. Note that it's something of a horror story filled with all manner of blood and gore.
So from the outer reaches, to the local neighborhood, to the fitness spa, this Fall the Wii has something new for just about every taste, even if some of the concepts are a bit of a reach.


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An on-time change can be vital when it comes to the final result. Managing your players isn't always easy, but great management will bring you success for sure.
Managing a team of star players is complicated. Who will play and who will be left on the bench? Only a good coach can know how to reply to hard decisions. Are you ready?
Signing players isn't always enough. They could always improve, but those of your opponents, as well. You'll need to work very hard so that they don't top you. Increase your team value and win more games than ever.
Play in tournaments, invite your friends to play and show who, out of everyone, is the one who knows more about football. Your knowledge about football will be reflected in each game.


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Microsoft has revealed the Surface Pro price, announcing that the 64GB edition of its advanced Windows 8 tablet will cost $899 (around £560).
The information was revealed on Microsoft's company blog, which also said that the 128GB version will be $999 (£620). Both models will be available from January 2013.
The Surface Pro boasts a full version of the Windows 8 OS as well as a powerful Intel Core i5 processor, making it a beefier prospect than the already available Surface RT, which offers the stripped down Windows RT OS and a low power ARM processor. That means that the Pro will only offer around half the battery life of the RT – which is around four hours total. Not much for a tablet, or an 11-inch laptop for that matter.
Also on board the Surface Pro is a USB 3.0 port, 4GB of RAM, a 10.9-inch full HD 1920 x 1080 ClearType display and a Mini DisplayPort output able to drive an external screen with a resolution of up to 2,560 x 1,440. A Surface Pen stylus for drawing and making notes will be included with every model.
Despite the different software and hardware, the Surface Pro looks (and weighs) virtually the same as its cheaper counterpart. It's under 14mm in thickness and weighs less than two pounds.
Are you planning on buying a Microsoft Surface Pro? Let us know in the comments section below or Facebook or Twitter.


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Dean Gonsowski Joins Recommind as Head of Customer EngagementPicture Gallery, Software Thursday, 17. January 2013
SAN FRANCISCO, CA — (Marketwire) — 01/17/13 — , the leader in unstructured data management, analysis and governance, today announced the appointment of Dean Gonsowski as Associate General Counsel and Senior Director of Business Development. In those roles Gonsowski will spearhead Recommind-s customer engagement programs and serve as a lead evangelist for Recommind-s eDiscovery and governance solutions.
Gonsowski comes to Recommind as the former Senior eDiscovery Counsel at Symantec, which he joined following Symantec-s acquisition of eDiscovery specialist Clearwell in 2011. At Clearwell, in the roles of Vice President of eDiscovery Services and Associate General Counsel, he was instrumental in advancing the company-s rapid growth with large enterprise customers and its ultimately successful exit.
A former litigator, General Counsel and Assistant General Counsel, Gonsowski has more than 15 years of experience in litigation and eDiscovery consulting at companies including Daticon, Navigant Consulting, Inc. and Fios, Inc. Mr. Gonsowski has a JD from the University of San Diego Law School and a BS from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
At Recommind Mr. Gonsowski will work closely with key enterprise customers, government agencies and law firms to help them effectively leverage Recommind-s industry-leading eDiscovery, analysis and governance solutions. He will also spearhead strategic initiatives to engage executive advisory boards and user groups and oversee Recommind-s comprehensive customer loyalty infrastructure.
"This is an incredibly exciting time to join Recommind," Gonsowski said. "Having pioneered predictive coding for eDiscovery, they-re now applying the same game-changing technology to information governance and analytics throughout the enterprise. They-ve just scratched the surface of what can be accomplished with software that understands human-generated content in context. I look forward to helping Recommind-s customers go well beyond eDiscovery and start achieving truly proactive information governance and analysis."
"Having worked with Dean for years through the Sedona Conference and other industry organizations, I-ve always admired his intelligence, energy and grasp of the big picture," said Craig Carpenter, VP of Marketing at Recommind. "For years Dean has been a highly respected figure in eDiscovery and information governance, and we couldn-t be happier to have him on our team."
Recommind is a leader in unstructured information management and analysis technology, delivering search-powered business applications that transform the way organizations find, manage, analyze and act upon data inside and outside the corporate network. Recommind-s solutions are all built on the CORE platform, which automatically accesses, organizes and analyzes large volumes of information in context from myriad sources. Recommind customers include AstraZeneca, BMW, Cisco, Clifford Chance, Marathon Oil, Deutsche Bank, Morgan Lewis, US Department of Energy (DOE), White & Case and WilmerHale. Recommind is headquartered in San Francisco and has offices in Boston, London, Sydney and Bonn, Germany. For more information go to
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This question was asked in another atheist group and elicited creative/funny/touching responses. I was wondering if the wider community here would like to play that thought experiment.
Let's say a surprise, way-bigger-than-dinosaur-killer asteroid is announced and will hit Earth in 24 hours. How would you spend your last day? (Other than convert:-) How would people in general react?
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I have said this before, I know, but at Popcorn Photography, we are blessed to be able to work with some of the loveliest people on earth. This wedding, was one of those times. Louise and Neil were so lovely and it was such a pleasure to be able to photograph their special day. Louise has the most incredible body (insert jealous face) and she allowed me to photograph her sitting beside her gorgeous gown on the sofa. I knew it would be a great shot, but what I loved more, was that she trusted me. I asked her permission to use it in this sneak peek and was so happy she agreed.
Ok, back to the rest of the day. Louise and Neil chose The Vintage as their venue and horse and cart as their mode of transport. When Lou arrived at the carriage house, she looked so regal sitting in the carriage, I was half expecting to see the royal wave. She was truly picture perfect.
The ceremony was fun and the happy couple chose Beatles songs throughout, which set the tone for a very fun day!
From horse and carriage to golf buggies and off we went around the grounds for photos. Once we lost the light, we headed back for their sensationally styled reception. Of course Darlene from Peonies was the styling guru and floral designer. That woman, really is the best!
We left the happy couple dancing well into the night and it was another wonderful day for Rog & I.
We received this from Louise & Neil, which we would like to share with you. Thank you both for choosing us and for being wonderful in every way.
Hello Rog and Mere,
Sorry it has taken me a while to email you both....it has been non stop for us since after the wedding. The family have been keeping us busy! Anyway, we just wanted to email you to say a BIG thank you for all your hard work on our wedding day.
You are both such vibrant and charismatic people, you are not only fun to be around but you are also masters in the art of making people relax around you so that they forget that you are there actually taking photos (of course, I mean that in the nicest possible way! :0) )
Mere, I wanted to say a special thank you to you for being so patient and understanding with me when I was feeling unwell, I was really struggling at one point and you just seemed to know what to say and do. So for that, I thank you!
I have also been giggling ever since at the fact that you managed to convince me (I admit it wasn't particularly hard!) to just sit there casually in my underwear and shoes! I can't wait to see those shots, Neil will love them ;0)
Rog, Neil has also said how brilliant you were at his mum and dads apartment on the morning of the wedding and he extremely grateful that you tied his tie properly for him! ... shame no one got a snap of that ;0) LOL
Overall, we loved having you both photograph us and we know that you will have captured many special moments throughout the day and that we will be able to look back at the photos and remember those moments forever. We can't wait to see them!
You really are a great team and your passion and enthusiasm for your work shines through brightly. Thank you both for all your hard work, we can't wait to see the final product!!
Wishing you both all the best for the future,
Louise and Neil xx
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Honoka blames herself for not realizing that Kotori was suffering, and quits being a School Idol. Because of that, μ's
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SURRY HILLS, Australia, Dec. 14 (UPI) -- Australia is seeking to buy 24 more F-18 Super Hornet aircraft in a deal that would double the size of the Australian air force F-18 fleet.
Boeing builds the Super Hornets and the Australian air force already has 24 of the jets.
Australia's Ministry of Defense is concerned about a capability gap if the increasingly expensive Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighters are delayed.
Australian Defense Minister Stephen Smith said that possibility led the government was looking at the longer-term use of the F-18 Super Hornets, The Australian reported Friday.
The newspaper said the government had formally requested whether the United States would agree to sell Australia two dozen more F-18s.
Smith noted that the letter would simply open the way for approval under the U.S. foreign military sales process should the F-18 Hornets be needed, and as a simple letter of inquiry, would not commit Australia to buying the aircraft.
Smith concluded, "...people look more generally at the longer-term utility of Super Hornets... in combination with the Joint Strike Fighter."