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get the action, and around the ranch he had telephones in every crotch of every tree, he had
the Senate list so he could check off how the vote was going to go. He played that role of
majority leader, and as President, in terms of legislation, like Eugene Ormandy with the
Philadelphia Orchestra. He knew exactly what people wanted and what to trade with.
Truman was the same way. I don't mean that he behaved the same way, but Truman knew.
Because I think maybe I said on the tape, the time I was in Truman's office, when he was in
a foul mood, and Matt [Matthew] Connelly said, "Don't stay," because I was asked to be there
on something to do for Truman but between the time I was asked and the time I got there
some senator -- Oh, no. I'm confusing Eisenhower and Truman. At any rate, I was in
Truman's office when Matt Connelly came in and said that somebody, some congressman
from West Virginia, had said some pretty nasty things about Truman. Without batting an
eye, Truman leaned back, grinned, and said to Matt, "Tell the son-of-a-bitch he can have the
post office that he wants." He knew what the guy wanted was authorization for a post office
in his home district. That's the game that's played for votes. It happens all the time, and
Johnson knew how to play it much better than Kennedy knew how to. Kennedy was a young,
uninformed guy in many ways. When I was summoned to see Kennedy in December of 1960,
which was before the inauguration and after the election, obviously, I was afraid, when I was
summoned there, that I was going to be boiled in oil because I had had such bad relations
with Kennedy during the campaign. He had threatened me, and his father had threatened to
have my job. So, I thought I was in for a rough meeting. When I got there, he was on the
phone -- or, when I was ushered into the little sitting room in Georgetown, at his residence
there -- he was on the phone. There were two big armchairs like that, one there and one
here, the phone was on the floor and he was talking. I could tell from the conversation that it
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Computers in Movies: Decade by Decade
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If your only encounter with computers was through movies, you would come away with some interesting ideas about them. For example:
- They beep a lot
- They basically run on black magic
- Really fast typing is the key to hacking
- Fonts are always large
- Everything is rendered in 8-bit
In fact, Ariel Computing in Australia put together a handy list of Interesting Things You Learn About Computers in the Movies. Wouldn't it be great if you somehow knew how to utilize that override function that's used in movies whenever a menacing "Permission Denied" message appears?
Quick tip: your hacker facemask can also be worn while skiing.
Computers in movies go back a long way. Here is a (by no means exhaustive) list of computers in movies through the decades, starting in the 1950s.
Desk Set, 1957
This romantic comedy starring Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn has Hepburn as the reference librarian for the Federal Broadcasting Network, which is negotiating a possible merger. To help with the workload, two "electronic brains" are brought in, and employees naturally think they're about to be replaced by computers. When the payroll computer starts printing out actual pink slips, everyone's fears seem confirmed.
2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968
This iconic movie, directed by Stanley Kubrick, was quite polarizing when it was first released. Critics either thought it was revolutionary in its greatness, or the worst film ever made. With Douglas Rain as the voice of the sentient HAL 9000, the epic story concerns encounters between humans and mysterious monoliths influencing human evolution, and a voyage to Jupiter to trace a signal emitted by one of the monoliths.
Demon Seed, 1977
Starring Julie Christie, The Demon Seed was a science fiction / horror movie directed by Donald Cammell. Based on a Dean Koontz novel, the film concerns a self-aware computer named Proteus, which traps Christie's character, Susan, and cuts off all communication to the outside world. Proteus compels Susan to agree to conceive a child by him, but her absent husband, Alex, discovers what's going on and returns home to help her as the robotic baby grows in an incubator. Then it gets weird.
Tron, 1982
Tron was directed by Steven Lisberger and starred Jeff Bridges. Computer programmer and video game designer Kevin Flynn, played by Bridges, finds himself lasered into the software world of a mainframe computer where he has to interact with different programs in order to get back out. Flynn ultimately figures out that he as a user can manipulate the reality of his digital world.
The Matrix, 1999
Spawning sequels and countless pop culture references, The Matrix depicts a future dystopia where "reality" is actually a simulated world called the Matrix, created by sentient computers to keep the human race under control while the heat from their physical bodies is used as a source of energy. Programmer Neo, played by Keanu Reeves, learns the truth and along with other people freed from the Matrix, foments rebellion against the machines.
"Suddenly The Allegory of the Cave makes sense!"
Iron Man, 2008
This superhero movie based on the Marvel Comics character was directed by Jon Favreau and starred Robert Downey, Jr. as Tony Stark, a man who builds himself a technologically advanced exoskeleton that turns him into superhero Iron Man. Stark's personal artificial intelligence computer program assists him in building and programming the Iron Man suit. The program, named J.A.R.V.I.S., is a reference to comic book character Edwin Jarvis, Stark's butler.
The Social Network, 2010
Written by Aaron Sorkin and Directed by David Fincher, The Social Network portrays the beginnings of Facebook and the lawsuits that resulted. Jesse Eisenberg stars as Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, who was not involved with the project. The Social Network got rave reviews, though Zuckerberg criticized it as inaccurate. Nonetheless, the movie was nominated for eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture (which it lost to The King's Speech).
Samanage can't help you master the typing speed necessary to successfully hack computers in the motion picture world. But it can provide you with IT service management software that may have end users believing in your magical powers as you use apps, remote desktop, and IT asset management functions to seamlessly manage all your organization's IT service delivery needs.
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Abstract Paper (PDF)
A set of statistical tests termed contingency tests, of which χ² is the most well-known example, are commonly employed in linguistics research. Contingency tests compare discrete distributions, that is, data divided into two or more alternative categories, such as alternative linguistic choices of a speaker or different experimental conditions. These tests are highly ubiquitous, and are part of every linguistics researcher's arsenal.
However the mathematical underpinnings of these tests are rarely discussed in the literature in an approachable way, with the result that many researchers may apply tests inappropriately, fail to see the possibility of testing particular questions, or draw unsound conclusions. Contingency tests are also closely related to the construction of confidence intervals, which are highly useful and revealing methods for plotting the certainty of experimental observations.
This paper is organised in the following way. The foundations of the simplest type of χ² test, the 2 × 1 goodness of fit test, are introduced and related to the z test for a single observed proportion p and the Wilson score confidence interval about p. We then show how the 2 × 2 test for independence (homogeneity) is derived from two observations p₁ and p₂ and explain when each test should be used. We also briefly introduce the Newcombe-Wilson test, which ideally should be used in preference to the χ² test for observations drawn from two independent populations (such as two subcorpora). We then turn to tests for larger tables, generally termed "r × c" tests, which have multiple degrees of freedom and therefore may encompass multiple trends, and discuss strategies for their analysis. Finally, we turn briefly to the question of differentiating test results. We introduce the concept of effect size (also termed 'measures of association') and finally explain how we may perform statistical separability tests to distinguish between two sets of results.
Karl Pearson's famous chi-square test is derived from another statistic, called the z statistic, based on the Normal distribution.
The simplest versions of χ² can be shown to be mathematically identical to equivalent z tests. The tests produce the same result in all circumstances. For all intents and purposes "chi-squared" could be called "z-squared". The critical values of χ² for one degree of freedom are the square of the corresponding critical values of z.
- The standard 2 × 2 χ² test is another way of calculating the z test for two independent proportions taken from the same population (Sheskin 1997: 226).
- This test is based on an even simpler test. The 2 × 1 (or 1 × 2) "goodness of fit" (g.o.f.) χ² test is an implementation of one of the simplest tests in statistics, called the Binomial test, or population z test (Sheskin 1997: 118). This test compares a sample observation against a predicted value which is assumed to be Binomially distributed.
If this is the case, why might we need chi-square? Pearson's innovation in developing chi-square was to permit a test of a larger array with multiple values greater than 2, i.e., to extend the 2 × 2 test to a more general test with r rows and c columns. Similarly the z test can be extended to an r × 1 χ² test in order to evaluate an arbitrary number of rows. Such a procedure permits us to detect significant variation across multiple values, rather than rely on 2-way comparisons. However, further analysis is then needed, in the form of 2 × 2 or 2 × 1 g.o.f. χ² tests, to identify which values are undergoing significant variation (see Section 3).
The fundamental assumption of these tests can be stated in simple terms as follows:
An observed sample represents a limited selection from a much larger population. Were we to obtain multiple samples we might get slightly different results. In reporting results, therefore, we need a measure of their reliability. Stating that a result is significant at a certain level of error (α=0.01, for example) is another way of stating that, were we to repeat the experiment many times, the likelihood of obtaining a result other than that reported will be below this error level.
- Introduction
- The origin of χ²
2.1 Sampling assumptions
2.2 The 'Wald' confidence interval
2.3 Single-sample, population z tests and goodness of fit χ²
2.4 The Wilson score interval
2.5 The 2 × 2 χ² and z test for two independent proportions
2.6 The z test for two independent proportions from independent populations
2.7 Yates' correction, log likelihood and other methods
- The appropriate use of χ²
3.1 Selecting tests
3.2 The problem of linguistic choice
3.3 Case interaction in corpora
3.4 Analysing larger tables
- Comparing the results of experiments
4.1 Measuring swing on a single dependent value
4.2 Measuring effect size over all dependent values
4.3 Using φ to measure effect size on a single dependent value
4.4 Testing swings for statistical separability
- Conclusions
Wallis, S.A. 2013. z-squared: the origin and application of χ². Journal of Quantitative Linguistics 20:4, 350-378. DOI:10.1080/09296174.2013.830554
- ePublication (Taylor & Francis online)
See also
- Binomial confidence intervals and contingency tests
- Comparing χ² tests for separability
- Preprint (PDF)
- PowerPoint slides
- Excel spreadsheets
- Binomial → Normal → Wilson
Sheskin, D.J. 1997. Handbook of Parametric and Nonparametric Statistical Procedures. Boca Raton, Fl: CRC Press.


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Hour Eight:
I had the cutest distraction in the form of my 3 year old nephew, so I haven't gotten as far as I would have liked by this time. But I did just finish The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe. Now I'm on to Prince Caspien. Now that the nephew is gone, hopefully I can pick up my pace a bit.
Hour Four:
I'm finally up and about to start. I don't think it's hit hour four quite yet but I'm only about ten minutes away. Anywho, off to start The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis!
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I got started a bit late too. I'm ready to get in the groove of things. Good luck!
Better late than never. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts on this book. I haven't read it yet.
Not too late! I still feel like I'm just getting started. Hope you get what you want read! 🙂
I've had a distraction in the form of a 28 year-old gamer. Not as cute I'm sure 🙂


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It's not unusual for Carolines comedy club to have a packed house, though not usually at noon on a Tuesday. But, Kevin Smith has a new comic and collectible-centric reality series on the way from AMC this weekend -- launching at 10:00PM EST after the mid season premiere of "The Walking Dead" -- and a question and answer session had been called to order.
After lunch and some mingling followed by a few clips from "Comic Book Men," which is kind of "Pawn Stars" for geeks, Smith took the stage, accompanied executive producer Charlie Corwin ("Swamp People," LA Ink") and the show's stars. The series is filmed in Smith's Jay and Silent Bob's Secret Stash comic shop which Walt Flanagan -- a longtime friend of Smith's -- has run since it first opened. In the show, Flanagan is joined by store worker and font of comic knowledge Mike Zapcic as well as Bryan Johnson and Ming Chen, who don't normally work at the store but have been brought in for comedic relief. Fans of the Smith-run Smodcast Podcast Network and Smodcast Internet Radio know Flanagan and Johnson from "Tell 'Em Steve-Dave" and Chen and Zapcic from "The SmodCast SMorning Show" and "I Sell Comics."
Smith kicked the event off by explaining that the series came about thanks to "Red State" producer Elyse Seiden who knew Corwin and brought up the idea of a television show to Smith. At first, the indie director didn't have any ideas, but that didn't last long. "Kevin without an idea doesn't happen very often," Corwin said. He and Smith started talking about doing something on AMC and Smith tossed out the idea of setting up a reality show inside a comic book shop, but without falling into the stereotypes associated with being a comic book fan, saying those stereotypes are tired and don't describe the guys on the show who have their lives well put together. "If you're doing something and they're paying you for it, it never feels like fucking work. If we can all get our lives to a place where we're doing something we absolutely love and get paid for it, boom -- we've cracked the code." Smith went on to explain that Flanagan was the root of all this because it was always his dream to run, not own, a comic book store.
Smith's excitement at seeing his friends on television was palpable as he brought them on stage. The first question from the audience got right to the heart of "Comic Book Men," asking how real the series is, whether the people coming in are plants and how much, if anything, is scripted. "Here's the honest thing: If you're rolling cameras in the store for two months hoping that people come through the door to kind of do transactions like, 'I want to sell this,' you'll burn a lot of film with nothing going on," Smith said. "So what you do is, you collect people in advance, put out a notice going, 'You got anything to sell? Want to come to the store to sell it?' That way, you can put everybody on one week and shoot all the transactions. You run it kind of the same way you would run a production, but the only thing you kind of work on in advance is, "You be here at this point and time -- whatever you say or do on camera is up to you."
"I would just add, most importantly, that these guys are doing what they do," Corwin said of the show's stars. "They're just being themselves. They're doing what they do, whether they have cameras on them or not." Smith added that they're not paying people or hiring actors, noting that interesting characters will show up for free.
Another person asked about the balance between speaking to the geek audience and to non-geeks who might need a few more things explained to them. Smith credited "The Simpsons" character Comic Book Guy for getting some portion of comic book culture into the consciousness. "To throw out some TV buzz words," Corwin added, "the authenticity of [the show] is what's accessible about it. We wanted to show the real thing because we feel like that's the only way to portray it." Smith added that like "Clerks," "Comic Book Men" is a snapshot of real life he hadn't seen portrayed in Hollywood. Smith explained that the search for a comic book store to use ended pretty quickly after Corwin heard the "Tell 'Em Steve-Dave" podcast and realized that the eventual stars' real dynamics would play well on TV.
The subject of the show's potentially off-putting title for female viewers was brought up, and Smith said that it was simply a reflection of the reality of this particular store. At one point, there was a casting call to find a woman to add to the cast, but the end result felt forced. AMC said it didn't fit "the reality of the show" and scrapped the idea. Smith did note that there are women in the show, just not any as a main character, expressing interest in doing another show called "Comic Book Women" if this first season does well and noting that he already owns the title. "Part of the fun of the show is watching the camaraderie of people who have known each other for 20 years," Smith said. "It's just a snapshot of this fucking store. Unfortunately, there is a sausage party [there]."
Corwin took the floor to explain that AMC was looking for a show that "would entertain and appeal to the amazing audience watching 'The Walking Dead.'" He complimented the cable network for being open enough to embrace the same kind of storytelling that was prominent when Smith burst on the scene in the mid-90s. Smith jumped in, comparing the AMC of today with the Miramax of the 90s as the kind of place that people really wanted to work, complimenting the netowrk for making the show even better looking than he expected.
In an attempt to work around the usual format of having people talk to the camera, Smith said that AMC suggested the idea of having them do a podcast to open the show and get the conversation rolling. "I like that so much, because I'm a huge fucking podcasting nerd and believer, as you can see," he said motioning to his S.I.R. (Smodcast Internet Radio) hockey jersey. Jokingly comparing watching people podcast on TV to watching people read, Smith said he finds watching conversations take hold of a person visually interesting. "I'm surprised the framing devices work as well as they do," he said. "It looks way better than what I would have settled for." There will be an exclusive "Comic Book Men" podcast available from AMC for every episode of the series that airs.
The first episode of "Comic Book Men" doesn't simply feature the goings-on at the shop or never-ending clips of the stars talking about comics -- there's also a scene at a flea market where the guys are competing against one another. When asked if the series would have more of that out-of-the-store element in future episodes, or even get into the gaming world, Smith responded positively, saying there are plenty of dimensions of geek or nerd culture ready to be explored. "For this first season, we're pretty much in the store. Every once in a while we go on the road," Smith said. "We hope to get to a second season because, like, let's send the boys to Comic-Con in San Diego, let's send them to a comic con in Brazil and see what happens. Maybe they get kidnapped!" On that note Smith admitted to doing an upcoming zombie episode not because AMC asked them too -- in fact, they asked them not to -- but because the undead happen to be popular now. If the series is renewed, he hopes to add Star Wars, Harry Potter and other themed episodes. "If you grew up when we did, in the 70s or 80s, you're definitely going to see stuff on the show that you had as a kid," Smith said, emphasizing that the series will be about more than just comic books.
The next question was pretty straightforward and got the whole panel involved in the answer: When did you get involved with comics and who is your favorite character or comic? Flanagan answered first, stating he began with Marvel monster comics around the age of four and was instantly hooked. DC Comics' assassin Deadshot is his favorite character. Not much of a comic reader, Johnson simply stole Flanagan's answers. Corwin passed to Smith, whose first comic was either "Hot Stuff" or "Sad Sack." A few years later, he became a Marvel Zombie, but stopped reading in high school. A few years after that, he met Flanagan who got him back into comics with "The Dark Knight Returns," and he's been both a DC and Batman fan ever since. Zapcic remembered his first comic as "Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes, a comics he had before he could read and went on to steal his older brothers' comics. His favorite character is Nightwing. Finally, Chen got into comics around the age of six when a friend gave him an issue of "Avengers," Currently, Daredevil is his favorite character.
As the rest of the panel opened to the audience, Flanagan admitted to being worried about the cameras around the store, that it would be a hassle. "It took a couple days to get over that there were cameras on you and revert back to what you would normally say in situations," he said. "After a while, I would really forget there were cameras there and just tried to have fun with it."
"I do the 'Tell 'Em Steve-Dave' podcast with Walt and Quinn, and Ming comes on a lot too, so we have conversations like that weekly on mic and all the time off mic, so the cameras didn't phase me that much," Johnson added. He went on to say he initially thought Flanagan's reservations about the show would mean it wouldn't happen in the store. Flanagan responded that he didn't have a choice, but Smith interjected saying he, in fact, did have a choice. Smith convinced Flanagan to do it by explaining that it would be good for The Stash. Johnson also took some convincing, but Zapcic and Chen were onboard from the start.
"The only problem I had with it, like Bryan and Walter, was that I didn't want to look like a complete chump," Zapcic added. "That buried itself in my brain for a week and a half and I was very self-conscious of the cameras, but you can get used to anything." Smith said that concern over looking foolish or stupid was a resounding worry from the group, but that they actually look like they're having fun on screen.
Chen reiterated how the podcasts actually helped prepare them for being filmed. Smith said the quickness displayed on the podcasts -- and in real life -- are what make the show so enjoyable. Even the crew mentioned how quick his friends were when talking to each other and customers. "I never thought podcasts would prepare you for a TV show," Smith said.
The topic shifted to some of the more interesting characters who made their way into the store to try and sell things. "Some people who, I guess, came in with stuff that wasn't super-interesting was sort of reflected in their personality," Johnson said, adding that some of those people would shut down and only give one word answers. Zapcic brought up someone they dubbed "Sweaty Guy," but no customers out and out lost their minds.
When asked if the stars of the series were ready for potential geek backlash, Smith and the guys agreed that doing the podcast every week and simply working in the store has fully prepared them for viewer feedback. Chen added that, factually speaking, they're pretty knowledgeable, between Flanagan and Zapcic.
Flanagan immediately responded with "Superman" #75 when an audience member asked if there was a particular book that people keep bringing in that's actually worthless. Zapcic added "anything with' 2099'" to that list as well.
The final questioner started off saying that she thought the pilot was actually funnier than most sitcoms on TV, then asking if they will film at Comic-Con International in San Diego and who was the weirdest customer they've dealt with. Smith answered the first by saying that it will most likely happen if they get picked up for a second season. "If there's a show called 'Comic Book Men,' it can't not make an appearance at the San Diego Comic-Con," he exclaimed. Chen then told of a man who came to one of Smith's signings at the store, didn't look so good and wound up vomiting while Zapcic mentioned a guy who comes into the store for "Simpsons" comics who will watch episodes played in the store, "and will yell at the TV and call Homer a moron."
AMC's "Comic Book Men" premieres Sunday, February 12 at 10:00PM right after the return of "The Walking Dead."


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So far I remember I never had my hair that short, their length has always been between waist and shoulder blade.
But it was until I met my hair dress that I now blindly trust. She knew immediately which hair cut would be perfect for me and even if I was a bit terrified at the beginning I am so glad of the result !
Happy tuesday to you all and see you tomorrow for a new DIY !
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Bag :: Zara (in store now)
Shoes :: UGG
Pink bracelet :: H&M
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Today I completed the final step of my fiberglass mould/foam latex piece process.
Having completed my hand and left it to set, I returned to apply it. Despite being stretched over the mould is did shrink slightly, however not too much that it couldn't still be applied.
Being short on time and seeing as the hand had been cast from my own, I decided to just apply it to myself. Unfortunately I'm right handed, and the piece was on my right hand; so I'd given myself a challenge.
I covered the area of my hand that would be touching the prosthetic in pros-aide, and then applied pros-aide to the piece. Once they had both become clear and tacky, I gently started from my finger tips and stretched the piece slowly over my hand. It stuck perfectly. As the edges were slightly too thick, I used pro-bondo (a thickened pros-aide) to smooth down and blend out the edges.
Once I had done this I had two colouring options. A) Illustrator (alcohol based paint) or, B) Pax paint (equal parts of pros-aide and acrylic paint). Having had more practice with the illustrator i decided to go for this – I couldn't seem to mix the Pax to the colour I wanted. I layered up my illustrator colour with a stiff brush, spraying the colour across my hand, I then used a thin brush to accent the shadow and highlight around my circular edges.
Overall, I think I did okay to say I was painting with my left hand only, however I think the colour had merged a lot and was not quite as bright and inky looking as I wanted – however it does correspond to my initial design.


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tf.range(start, limit, delta=1, dtype=None, name='range')
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Creates a sequence of numbers.
Creates a sequence of numbers that begins at
start and extends by
increments of
delta up to but not including
The dtype of the resulting tensor is inferred from the inputs unless it is provided explicitly.
Like the Python builtin
start defaults to 0, so that
range(n) = range(0, n).
For example:
start = 3
limit = 18
delta = 3
tf.range(start, limit, delta) # [3, 6, 9, 12, 15]
start = 3
limit = 1
delta = -0.5
tf.range(start, limit, delta) # [3, 2.5, 2, 1.5]
limit = 5
tf.range(limit) # [0, 1, 2, 3, 4]
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Tensor(scalar). Acts as first entry in the range if
limitis not None; otherwise, acts as range limit and first entry defaults to 0.
limit: A 0-D
Tensor(scalar). Upper limit of sequence, exclusive. If None, defaults to the value of
startwhile the first entry of the range defaults to 0.
delta: A 0-D
Tensor(scalar). Number that increments
start. Defaults to 1.
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name: A name for the operation. Defaults to "range".
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She sighs, after kicking through the garage door and after ripping off most of her scales. That statement is appropriate in situations such as...let's say...when you get burned on the pyre for trying to reform a religion which hurt the poor and the poor collect wood for your roasting.
Anyway, there are days when I lose all faith in the ability of humans to use anything past their fingers for figuring things out. This is what set me off:
President Obama called his full Cabinet together for the first time Monday and instructed the department heads to cut enough money from their budgets to set a new tone in Washington.
But the target the president set for the cuts amounts to a fraction of the overall budget, leaving room for critics to question whether the reductions mean much at all.
Obama has asked for $100 million in trims from a budget expected to exceed $3.5 trillion. The Cabinet secretaries have a month and a half to come up with proposed cuts.
"None of these things alone are going to make a difference," Obama conceded, emerging from the Cabinet room. "But cumulatively they would make an extraordinary difference because they start setting a tone."
If they cut "$100 million there, $100 million here," Obama said, "pretty soon, even in Washington, it adds up to real money."
Republicans characterized the target in different terms. A "meager .0025%," said House Minority Leader John A. Boehner (R-Ohio). "Pathetic joke," said Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform.
"Let's not forget that at the same time they're looking for millions in savings, the president's budget calls for adding trillions to the debt," said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).
According to the White House, federal agencies have already started working to trim fat from their budgets.
It's a thoroughly, gratingly annoying piece of news. First because saving money now is fairly close to suicidal behavior for a government, and, second, because Obama still feels obligated to pretend ('pretend' because the cuts are tiny) that he's going to really starve that beast, the bureaucracy, to a nasty end, even if it's not getting drowned in a bathtub as Grover Norquist would prefer.
Not sure why it's so very hard for politicians not to want to emulate Herbert Hoover. Sure, get rid of waste and inefficiency. But this is NOT the time to discourage consumption. Just go out to a mall and see why that is the wrong moral to draw from this story. Take a ride down the highway and watch the light traffic. Talk to some people and find how many are unemployed, underemployed or waiting for the axe to fall. Ask some shopkeepers how they are doing.
Saving is great. We should all save for the rainy day. But not on the day when the fucking storm has already pulled down the house roof.
Perhaps today is not that day, but neither is it one of those fat days when the sun flows down like yellow butter on both the deserving and the undeserving. Of course the Republicans view most of us as among the undeserving and all expenditure by George Bush as something that Did. Not. Happen. Jeez.


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Anita Clarke is the founder and Editor in Chief of the popular Toronto fashion blog, I want – I got. She's been called a Toronto Fashion Hero by Now Magazine, Woman of the Year by She Takes on the World and one of the Worthy 30 by Shinan Govani. She has spoken on the topics of fashion, marketing, PR and social media. In July 2009, she was featured in a window showcase for Holt Renfrew that was shown in stores across Canada.
Blog: I want I got
Twitter: @geekigirl
How can someone grab your attention with a pitch?
First off, pitches that get my attention are, most importantly, relevant to my blog. They are well-crafted and not verbose. All the information I need is usually included in the pitch.
I love PR companies that use flickr or other storage methods to provide me with all relevant images and press releases, without having to write a reply email. I also love pitches that provide me just the facts and no opinion. I've received many pitches where the writer proclaims that I'll just love the product. That usually makes me more skeptical, as I like to come to these decisions myself.
Anita in front of her Holt Renfrew Fashion Blogger window.
What do you find most useful when dealing with public relations professionals?
I like that they can provide more information that would be hard to research otherwise. They really can add value to a post with images, samples and additional information. They provide access to designers, events, etc. and that offers lots of value for a post.
What is the biggest mistake PR professionals make?
Not respecting my time. I think many people assume that I blog for a living when in reality, I have a full time job. I believe this is the case for the majority of bloggers.
Sending pitches that are irrelevant to my site.
Lack of respect for online media. If online media exposure isn't important, then don't engage them. Treating them as second class citizens doesn't help your company or the brand you are representing.
The "mailing list method" of PR. You get more results with well researched and crafted pitches, rather than the email blast to everyone and their mother.
Your pet peeve?
I hate it when a PR company emails and says "I love/read your blog", which is then followed up with a totally irrelevant pitch. It really leaves a bad impression for me, because they are obviously lying. Let the product do the talking instead of sucking up to my ego.
I have a fashion blog, but please don't send me pitches that have to do with celebrity fashion.
I hate press releases in image format. Copy and paste are important to me.


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Marcel Khalife was born in 1950 in Amchit, Mount-Lebanon. He studied the ud (the Arabic lute, also known as oud and l'ud) at the Beirut National conservatory, and, ever since, has been injecting a new life into the ud. "My grandfather was a fisherman and he used to sing songs of the sea," Khalife recalls. "Then I used to go to church and listen to Christian music, and also to Islamic recitations of the Koran. In Lebanon we have a marriage of Islamic and Christian culture. That really helped to form my musical awareness."
From 1970 to 1975, Marcel Khalife taught at the conservatory and other local institutions. During that same period, he toured the Middle East, North Africa, Europe and the United States giving solo performances on the ud.
Ud playing was traditionally constrained by the strict techniques that governed its playing. Highly talented and skillful musicians such as Marcel Khalife were, however, able to free the instrument from those constraints and thus greatly expanding its possibilities.
In 1972, Marcel Khalife created a musical group in his native village with the goal of reviving its musical heritage and the Arabic chorale. The first performances took place in Lebanon. 1976 saw the birth of Al Mayadeen Ensemble. Enriched by the previous ensemble's musical experiences, Al Mayadeen's notoriety went well beyond Lebanon. Accompanied by his musical ensemble, Marcel Khalife began a lifelong far-reaching musical journey, performing in Arab countries, Europe, the United States, Canada, South America, Australia, and Japan.
During Lebanon's civil war, he risked his life performing in bombed out concert halls, bringing his music and the great poetry of the Arab world to his war-ravished country. "Since I was born," he says, "I've felt I had a rebel's soul within me. I rejected things that might be inherited, but that were wrong."
In 2002, European television networks broadcast a documentary on Marcel Khalife. A DVD, entitled Voyageur, expands the original 90-minute program into a three-hour feature with additional performances filmed at concerts and in studios. In all, the DVD presents 33 selections from Khalife's repertoire, which ranges from compositions for solo ud and vocal settings of Arabic poetry to orchestral compositions, films cores and ballets.
In 2003, the San Francisco International Arts Festival (SFIAF) and The San Francisco World Music Festival announced a commissioned project for the creation of a new evening length orchestral work with libretto by Marcel Khalife, in collaboration with the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra (music director, Benjamin Simon) and women's vocal ensemble, KITKA (artistic director, Shira Cion) and soloists Omayma Al-kalil (vocals), Rahman Asadollahi (garmon: Azerbajani accordion), Hai Pu (Chinese percussion) and Zhang Xiao-Feng (erhu: Chinese fiddle). The theme of the new work was "Embracing Global Peace."
About his CD Caress Khalife says, "This work attempts to elevate Arabic music to a level that allows it to express profound human emotions, not by mere performance, but by empowering the music to mature and develop into a universal language of expression."
His composition is noted for being deeply attached to lyrical text. Through his association with great contemporary Arab poets, most notably Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, he seeks to renew the character of Arab song, breaking its stereotypes and advancing the culture of the society that surrounds it.
"I do not fit in a cultural box, nor do I want to," says Khalife, who now lives in Paris. "I have strived all my life to break free of old traditional constraints, to let music speak for itself unshackled by predetermined traditional rules. I have defied identities and categorizations, which only serve to blind us to the vastness and complexity of humanity. There are no set lenses with which I should be looked at. My music, it all comes together for the sake of humanity."
The second trait has been a consistent message of peace and justice. In 2004, during his US tour, he said: "More than ever, we all have to work much harder for peace…Peace cannot be imposed upon a people by a certain political power or agenda. Peace is achieved through respect, understanding of others and their culture; it is achieved by giving up fear of others; it is achieved through dialogue."
Promesses De La Tempête – Promises of the Storm (Le Chant Du Monde, 1976)
Ghinä'iyat Ahmad Al Arabi (1984)
Dreamy Sunrise (Nagam Records, 1990)
Peace Be With You (Nagam Records, 1990)
Ode To A Homeland (Nagam Records, 1990)
Summer Night's Dream (Nagam Records, 1992)
Of All The Beautiful Mothers (Nagam Records, 1994)
Arabic Coffeepot (Nagam Records, 1995)
Jadal (Nagam Records, 1995)
Magic Carpet (Nagam Records, 1998)
The Bridge (Nagam Records, 2001)
Concerto Al Andalus (Nagam Records, 2002)
Stripped Bare (Nagam Records, 2002)
At The Border (Nagam Records, 2003)
Happiness (Nagam Records, 2003)
Caress (Nagam Records, 2004)
Taqasim (Connecting Cultures, 2007)
Sharq (Connecting Cultures, 2007)
Fall Of The Moon (Nagam Records, 2012)


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Can you fall in love in 10 days? Can you push someone to the edge of insanity in 10 days? Edward is a bachelor risking fifty grand on the line and Bella is a writer for a prominent woman's magazine. Loosely based on How To Lose A Guy In Ten Days. AU, AH, & OCC. Canon pairings.
Disclaimer: Twilight belongs to Stephenie Meyer. I own nothing.
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While Edward & Rosalie are out of town, will Emmett and Bella be able to contain their infatuation for one another, or will they let the lust consume them? AU/AH, a bit OOC
My pretty banner was made by the talented DreamySim1. Thank you, bb!
This is an AU outtake to my story, Breaking From the Ordinary, for the Fics for Nashville. It was something fun to do within my story's universe that isn't a part of the actual storyline. Many people have commiserated in reviews at the various ways they would like to see Bella & Edward rid themselves of the Tanya problem. This is a tribute to my readers and reviewers.
You do not need to follow the main story to enjoy this little nugget.
Thanks to msambrosia for the awesome banner!
Edward Cullen is a man of routines. When a homeless girl distracts him from said routine, Edward finds it is time for a change.
Edward is running from home, tired and lost he saves a beautiful hitchhiker from a terrible fate. They decide to travel the road together. Unknown to them there is a trail of brutal murders left in their wake. The killer is closer to them than they think. Lemons in future chapters
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This is Bella Swan's Story.
If it were to be published, book store owners would find trouble in categorizing it. Why? For it contains heartbreak, sorrow and pain but also the sorts of romance and mythical creatures you would expect to find in a fiction book.
What happens if everything you thought was real, turns out to be a lie?
If your reason for being vanished into thin air?
The love of your life abandoned you in this cruel, lonely world?
Bella Swan had plenty of time to perfect her façade of normalcy. Inside, however, she is numb and void of emotion. The depression, sorrow, self-loathing and guilt have evaporated, leaving her a shell.
The memories haven't though. The memories can't ever be forgotten.
I assume if you have made it this far then you are able to cope with Bella Swan's story, but I leave you with a final warning: don't expect a happily ever after.
This story follows Bella's journey as she attempts to start her life again. Little does she know that in doing so, she is destroying the soul Edward tried so hard to protect. Will Edward return to pick up the pieces?
Rated NC-17 only for underage drug use. BxE
This story runs parallel to Stephanie Meyer's Twilight. It begins shortly before the events in the book/movie and consists of scenes that take place "off-screen" or are my versions of "extended" scenes. And some of my "off-screen" scenes are a bit different from Ms. Meyer's version in Midnight Sun. This is my way of indulging my penchant for always wanting to know more about what the secondary characters are up to when we don't see them. Enjoy!
There are said to be monsters living in Los Angeles county. Some will steal your money, others your heart, then there are those that want your soul.
They come in many forms and Bella Swan believes she knows about all of them with the exception of one, but that is about to change with a chance meeting, or is it chance at all?
Stolen away to the darkest recesses of Hollywood, Bella will question everything she has known as she faces a new type of monster.
Can she escape, or will she fall victim to a lethal vampire?
Adult situations (sexual content)
Dark themes
(no rape scenes and/or cutting!)
OOC/AU/Vamp & Human/"Darkward"
It's been 25 years after Edward left Bella. Now that the Cullens have reunited with Bella they are suprised to find that she is not running back into their open arms. Instead Bella tells them her story of how her life took a tragic turn after they left.
"Bella, can we just go back to the way things were?" Alice pleaded.
I wouldn't lie to her. "No."
Jacob has waited for a long time for this day. Now he just has to ask permission.
Exams are over, textbooks put away and a roommate suggest a little bit of light reading to keep the room silent... but there is only one book to read, so Bella and Edward decide to read together, but soon discover that the stories might lead their thoughts astray...
Bella makes a shocking discovery about her beau Edward.
Rosalie Hale faked her death and started anew over a year ago. She's been traveling across the country from New York to escape her past. With her latest stop in Forks; she gets a job at a local car garage, makes new friends, and meets Emmett Cullen.
Of course he has his heart set for her. But Rosalie is still pained by the last man she let in close.
Will she open her heart again?
Will she stop running and settle down?
Will her haunting past come back to find her?
This is a one shot I wrote for Fics for Nashville. I thought I was a funny alternative to the reunion scene of New Moon.
A centuries old Quileute legend speaks of the Raven: an arrogant, malicious deity that likes to manipulate and control everything around him.
During one of his walks through the forest, he discovers a young Quileute woman bathing in the clear waters of a lake, and he instantly falls in love with her. Knowing what the elders would think of his behavior, he decides to kidnap the woman.
Using his powers, he transforms her into a black swan and takes her near the land of the S'Klallam. After regaining her human form, she begins to cry. She mourns the faith of her young daughter, as the woman was a widow and now her child has also lost her mother. Seeing her grief, the Raven promises to give the woman's daughter half of his powers, as long as the woman agrees to become his lover. The woman accepts, knowing from ancient tales that the trickster god would get his way no matter what.
Thus, her daughter became a half goddess, a sprite of the forest and its protector. Her powers were passed to the next female of her blood when she comes of age.
In present times, young Isabella Swan struggles to control powers she doesn't understand, while dealing with an abusive, delusional mother and a distraught father. She is haunted by a dark presence she always feels is watching her.
She decides to flee back to her hometown of Forks, Washington to live with her grandmother and start a new life. She has to forgive and forget, as her friends have slowly moved on with their lives, leaving her to become nothing more than the ghost of a memory, braking promises made long ago and with it her very heart.
Her arrival in Forks eventually brings everything she longs for: a loving family, loyal friends, and a true love. But, it also brings the materialization of her greatest nightmare.
Jacob does a bad, bad thing. What happens to a rabid dog when he meets his executioner?
O/S, AU/Eclipse, written for the Silence of the Wolves contest on FFn and won first place in the public vote.
Warning: Definitely not for Jacob lovers. Please consider skipping this story if you are Team Jacob.
Bella, a flight attendant, spends her flight to Italy thinking about her best friend's older brother.
What if Edward finally found his mate only to discover her only goal was to kill herself? Could he help her move beyond her dark past? Could she help him to find faith that he wasn't a monster?
Based on Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer. Takes place instead of Ch 27 'Needs': the night after the fight, after Bella talks to Jacob, but before talking to Alice the next day…
There is a rumor going around that there is a masked stranger that will slip into your room at night and give you one night of hot sexin, and after weeks and weeks of leaving her window open Bella is about to give up when who shows up...yeah, mask wearing Edward. Lots of sexin ensues.
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Renesmee is a very special little girl, and ordinary bedtime stories just won't do the trick. A few years post-BD, Edward puts his own spin on classic fairy tales to help his daughter fall asleep. A different Twilight-style fairy tale each chapter.
A camping expedition goes awry when Bella's friends disappear after a hike. While searching for them, she stumbles upon the manor of Edward Cullen, unaware that she is about to become a pawn in his dangerous game - a game she can't afford to lose.
Violence, Language, Dark themes
(no rape, no cutting)
When Edward, the son of the rich, multi-billionaire Carlisle Cullen is kidnapped by terrorists, a secret organization puts Agent Bella Swan on the case. It's her job to go rescue him and take down the terrorist group without becoming to involved. Will this mission be too much for her to handle?
Violence, language, lemons eventually
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When Bella loses the most influential person in her life she's left to fend for herself on the ranch that now belongs to her in the foothills of Wyoming. Hard lessons are learned and new friends are made and Bella learns that life goes on no matter what.
Carlisle Cullen is a hot movie producer, Bella is his personal assistant. What happens in the playroom, stays in the playroom. Rated M: language, lemons, BDSM. AH,OOC Written for Twi-Girl Revolution's Under Her Thumb Challenge
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A couple of weeks ago I sat down with the lovely Virginia Lowes in Café Des Amis in Sheffield. It was raining outside – hard – but inside was good. We ate baclava and I talked, at length, about writing, about teaching, about place, about my childhood influences. We got through a lot and it was good and it's probably the most in-depth interview I've given in a long time. The full interview's here.
I say things like:
"I think that in writing if you say anything simply and boldly your reader will believe you. If you say confidently that there was an 8-foot man who lived in a tree and you could only see him at Halloween people will believe you. Fantasy doesn't always stretch to sorcerers and swords and elves, fantasy can be anything at all. The point of the writing is that you're allowed to make things up – that's the joy of it all. Look at the Life of Pi people don't normally get on boats or rafts with tigers! Or look through the classics at Dracula or Frankenstein!"
"At what point do you decide if it's going to be a piece of flash fiction or a short story?
When it's finished. I write everything first draft by hand and I write 'til the story's finished. If it happens to be 200 words that's fine. Same if it's 7000 words. The story has got to come first. Once you start to try and wrestle it into a particular shape or size it stops being what it is."
And at the beginning of the month I took a train to The Fly in The Loaf in Liverpool to be at the Poised Pen's awards night. I read a couple of stories I'd not read in public for a long time and I presented the winners (who could make it) of the flash fiction competition I'd judged with their prizes and I had a lot of fun and met a lot of really lovely and really talented writers (I think there were about 100 there).
Vanessa did a wonderful job of pulling everything together and was dazzling, and it was all very good. And I think what I noticed most was how far some people had travelled to be there – from The Lakes, from Kent, from Manchester and I think that goes to show what I great job the group's been doing and the quality of work they produce.
And here are some photos, courtesy of the brilliant Zevonesque (you can see many more here).
The Highly Commended (who were able to be there) including winner, Barbara Renel (3rd from left)
Me. (Because I prefer myself in black and white.)
Getting ready to announce the winners
Reading from Freaks!
And I imagine this'll be the last one on here before I take a couple of days off for the holidays and see people and sleep. I wish you all the very best of things and I hope you get what you deserve. Be nice and be happy.


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Globus Captures the Spirit of Rio in New Range of Latin American Holidays
Globus has unveiled its biggest-ever selection of holidays in Latin America, including new tours in Brazil designed to capture the spirit of Rio after this year's Olympics.
The newly released Globus 2017 South & Central America brochure features 12 different itineraries throughout Latin America, in addition to eight top-value tours from sister brand Cosmos.
On sale now, the tours are available with free air credits of $100* per person when booked by September 13, 2016. Globus tours are also available with a 10 per cent* discount when booked by November 29, 2016, while Cosmos tours are available with a 2.5 per cent* discount when booked and paid at least four months before departure.
New itineraries in the Globus 2017 South & Central America program include:
- Globus Brazilian Getaway – a seven-day tour combining Rio de Janeiro and Iguassu Falls, from $3238* per person twin share (including 10 per cent discount).
- Globus Vineyards of South America – an 11-day journey among the great wine regions of Argentina and Chile, from $5769* per person twin share (inc discount).
- Globus Wonders of Mexico's Yucatán – an eight-day focus on the peninsula's famous Mayan wonders and colonial towns, from $2222* per person twin share (inc discount).
- Cosmos Best of Brazil – an 11-day adventure combining Rio de Janeiro with the city of Salvador and the Amazon Jungle, from $3814* per person twin share.
- Cosmos Costa Rica Escape – an eight-day circuit from San José visiting remarkable jungles, mountains, volcanoes and hot springs, from $1329* per person twin share.
Other tours take in the most spectacular sights and colourful cities of Latin America, across Peru, Ecuador, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Costa Rica, Guatemala and Mexico.
With 89 years' experience in touring, Globus offers a premium holiday with more inclusions, superior hotels and 'Local Favourites' for added insight into each region. Cosmos offers top-value holidays that provide the best quality experiences and hotels at an affordable price.
*Prices per person twin share, subject to availability and conditions. Air credit of $100 per person available for 2017 bookings made by Sept 13, 2016. Globus 10% discount available to Nov 29, 2016. Cosmos 2.5% discount available up to four months before departure.


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Aviva Premiership
Hazell hails 'massive competitor' Morgan
Tom Hamilton
October 9, 2013
Andy Hazell and Olly Morgan were both part of the Gloucester squad that won the 2011 Anglo-Welsh Cup © Getty Images
Gloucester stalwart Andy Hazell has paid tribute to Olly Morgan labelling him a "massive competitor".
Morgan was forced to call time on his career on Wednesday after failing to recover from a ligament injury he sustained in January 2012. Morgan only won two caps for England but it is a total that should and probably would have been greater had it not been for his untimely injuries since his Test debut in 2007.
Hazell has been at Gloucester since 1997 and is a firm crowd favourite. Following Alex Brown, Peter Buxton and now Morgan's retirement the openside is one of the last 'old guard' and he says Morgan was one of the "best fullbacks in England".
"For me he was a massive competitor," Hazell told ESPN. "If there was a record board up at the club, he would not stop until he beat anything up there. He's so competitive, he never gave and he's brave. On the field, he was one of the best fullbacks in England but injuries kept him sidelined at key times.
"It is sad news; he was such a talented player. For me, it's sad to see someone with that much talent and not fulfil it - alongside Sinbad [James Simpson-Daniel] it was just a given talent. He never shirked in defence and just put everything on the line."
Morgan will now "explore various options available" to him and he may move into coaching after he guided Gloucester to the 2013 J.P Morgan Asset Management title. But he will no longer run out on to the Kingsholm turf as a player and admitted there have "been many great moments" during his playing career.
While Hazell has praised Morgan's on-field ability, he also has some fond memories of events away from the turf.
"About four or five years ago, we were in Portugal," Hazell said. "We've got this tradition of shaving people's hair off; he's doing his best to keep hold of it. So we thought we were going to get him in the night, but he wore a scrum cap to bed so when we tried to get it off him, he just ran away.
"We never got his hair and to this day, he's the only one not to have his hair shaved. So I'm going to make sure he's not going to get away again.
"And one thing I'm not going to miss is going round to his house for a dinner party and having to pay for it."
© ESPN Sports Media Ltd
Tom Hamilton is the Assistant Editor of ESPNscrum.
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One Dollar Check
August 23, 2018 @ 9:00 pm - 11:30 pmFree
One Dollar Check formed in 2012 by founding members Singer/Songwriter Gared Sanne, Rhythm Guitarist/Songwriter Rocky Garton, Lead Guitarist Aaron Pierce, and Drummer Charles Gallegos. In 2012 the band recorded their 1st 5 track EP, -recorded at Telos Studios in Eugene, Oregon.
By 2013, the band had undergone several member changes, and acquired current bassist Elijah Constantinescu just before recording the band's 1st full-length album Feels So Right. Released in 2014, it is influenced by the likes of Pepper, Tribal Seeds, Rebelution and more. After the release of Feels So Right, One Dollar Check extensively toured the Pacific Northwest including California.
In December 2016 founding member Rocky Garton left the band and a new sound and performance began to take shape. Self-described as Dirty Roots, the bands high energy paired with elements of hard rock and blues have set them apart within the west coast reggae scene. Their multi genre style, paired with powerful lyrics, have given ODC an opportunity to appeal to all ages.


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Removing text from d/l webpage source
- User Forums
- Offline Explorer Enterprise Edition
- Removing text from d/l webpage source
|02/21/2011 05:43 am
|Hi Oleg,
Once I d/l a web page in OE, and view the webpage source using Dreamweaver CS4, I see the text
<!-- saved from url=(1234)http://www.mypage.com/index.html -->
just after the code
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C........
Now, if I remove this line (<!-- saved from url=....) and view the page in IE8, I get a warning
'To help protect your security, IE has restricted this webpage from running scripts or ActiveX......'
now if I put the line (<!-- saved from url=....) back in, IE8 does not give this warning.
Question is, how can I remove the line (<!-- saved from url=....) and IE not give me a warning?
I am assuming OE is adding the line (<!-- saved from url=....)
|Oleg Chernavin
|02/21/2011 05:46 am
|Yes, this line was added with the special purpose - to ensure better offline browsing compatibility when viewing pages from the disk.
I assume you made export of the site with the "Add original URL" box checked. This setting adds the line.
Regarding the warning - you should contact Microsoft support about the ActiveX contents warning and how to stop MS Internet Explorer from showing this message.
Best regards,
Oleg Chernavin
MP Staff
|02/21/2011 07:00 am
|I unchecked "Add original URL" box and have no problem now.
This was a strange problem because the 'original URL' text is a comment in the source and removing it should make no difference to the webpage loading.
Anyway thanks for that.
|Oleg Chernavin
|02/21/2011 07:37 am
|This is how Internet Explorer is designed. They introduced this comment line format in IE 6.0 version, as I remember. Lots of security restrictions were added.


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Everyone deserves shelter, dignity, respect, and the financial means to provide for their family and themselves. After the earthquake's devastation in 2010, it seemed that international aid would rebuild Haiti. Over $10 billion dollars in aid were earmarked to provide housing and build an infrastructure. The money did not reach the people. Thousands are still living in temporary shelters, in unsanitary conditions. Over $500 million were collected by the Red Cross, who promised to rebuild Haiti. This did not occur. In addition, the forced expulsion of people of Haitian heritage from the Dominican Republic with only the clothes on their back has exacerbated the dire need for housing.
Simple cement block houses with tin roofs can be built inexpensively using local materials and local labor. The mission of the Haiti Housing Project is to build a community of simple cement block houses to provide shelter for those needing a helping hand, and ultimately to provide them with a self sufficient community that provides and promotes education and training so they may support themselves and others with dignity and respect, and contribute substantially and economically to society.
These are our plans so the country can begin to restore itself and the pride of the people.
Imagine a self-sustaining community of fiercely loyal newly liberated citizens, so thankful to have an opportunity to provide a good life for their families and participate in the education of their children for a life of pride and service and connection.
Our vision over the next five years is to:
- Create 100 or more jobs for the local populace, which includes contractors, laborers, farming, wood working and mechanical skills, surveyors, merchants, and the participants.
- Create property owners with fiscal responsibility, consumers, utilizing educational exchange, investment growth, and a constantly increasing tax base.
- Create an innovative, self sustaining model community that can attract high visibility, a conversational buzz and be replicated in other areas of Haiti.
Phase 1: CREATING A COMMUNITY
We will build houses for families who meet the following criteria:
- The family has an established need for housing
- The participants agree to participate in a literacy training program
- The participants agree to participate in training to learn business and administrative skills
- The participants agree to personally help build their home
- The participants each agree to participate in selected types of community service every week with accountability
- The participants agree to repay the seed money for their business by repaying the amount of their loan to invest in other similar projects, and mentor other candidates through the system once their business is operational
Phase 2: LITERACY AND BUSINESS ADMINISTRATIVE TRAINING
By participating in the literacy and fundamental entrepreneurial business training, participants will learn success principles, mindset training, self esteem, pride elevation, contribute to society, creating a tax base. The training will be provided through community meetings and the technical school in Mussotte.
Phase 3: SEED FUNDING FOR A BUSINESS VENTURE
Once participants have completed literacy and simple financial, saving and business training criteria, we will provide a small business loan to help them establish a useful community based business.
Phase 4: COMMUNITY SERVICE
Participants repay the Haiti Housing Project through:
- specific forms of service to their community
- helping to maintain and beautify the community through team involvements
- acting as tutors and mentors and accountability partners to help participants through the system, developing cooperative business community service teams and financial skills
- providing seed money for other participants to bond others to success in establishing useful new needed businesses.
Haiti Community Project, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) organization. Gifts are deductible to the full extent allowable under IRS regulations


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Sandahl & Associates is a smaller, boutique law practice that delivers quality legal counsel with attentive care. Sue Sandahl and her associates pride themselves in being a service-oriented, professional law firm that stresses superior communication. They believe that good communication allows their clients the opportunity to make the wisest choice for their cases.
Put yourself in good hands! Sandahl & Associates has been providing top quality legal services for over 40 years, with a combined experience of 80 years. The firm specializes in the areas of estate planning, probate, real estate law, elder law, and business law.
Suzanne Couillard Sandahl has been in the private practice of law for over 40 years. She is also a public servant, volunteer and community leader. She was admitted to practice in Minnesota and the United States District Court in 1975. Ms. Sandahl and her husband are life-long residents of Richfield. They recently were jointly awarded the Richfield Chamber of Commerce's Farrington Award.
Other attorneys in the firm include Kristen Beard Kimball and Shannon E.W. Berg.
Clients have provided glowing testimonials for the firm's services. Said Lina V., a probate client from Eden Prairie, "When I needed an attorney's help during a hard time, I dealt with a number of attorneys but unfortunately I wasn't satisfied. After contacting Attorney Suzanne Sandahl's firm, I got the help and support to resolve my case and worries. Thank you, Attorney Sandahl and team, for the excellent service!"
For more information on Sandahl & Associates, visit the firm's website at www.sandahllaw.com.


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- Page 1 Nuance Dragon NaturallySpeaking 11.5 Premium Review
- Page 2 Performance Review
- Page 3 Caveats, Value & Verdict Review
- Remarkable speech recognition accuracy
- Up and running in five minutes
- Dictation wirelessly via iOS app
- Posts to social media, browses websites
- Learns quickly from corrections
- Accuracy drops quickly in noiser environments
- Some editiing can still be a faff
- Cheapest edition excludes app compatibility
Key Specifications
- Review Price: £120.00
- Five minute initial setup
- Over 99 per cent potential accuracy
- Dictate wirelessly using an iPad or iPhone
- Post straight to Facebook & Twitter
- Compose emails & search Google Maps
- Transcribe audio files
There is something undoubtedly cool about typing without using your hands. The problem is, what seems like such an elegant solution is often more trouble than it's worth. Speech recognition software has been around for years, but lengthy voice training and hit and miss accuracy have scared many of us away from trying it again. That is a shame, because today it is a whole new ballgame.
Nuance has been around since 1992 in various forms. Its technology powers Siri, the party trick behind the iPhone 4S, and it has been the dominant force in the voice recognition market virtually ever since. Dragon NaturallySpeaking 11.5 is the company's latest attempt to teach us that speaking to our computers is not a waste of time. It succeeds.
As a ".5" release you would think NaturallySpeaking is more about evolution than revolution, but happily that is not the case. Version 11.5 brings a host of new features including smartphone integration, support for social media, a raft of new commands, welcome refinements to the UI and further improvements to the accuracy and speed of the speech recognition engine. Arguably the most exciting of these is smartphone integration because it has the potential to revolutionise the way people use the software.
To coincide with 11.5 Nuance launched 'Dragon Microphone', an iOS app that uses the microphone on an iPhone or iPad to replace the need for a dedicated mic or headset. Furthermore the app connects to your computer wirelessly using a Wi-Fi network, meaning you can dictate while walking around the house or simply enjoy not being physically tethered to your computer.
Setting up the app is simple: install it, run Dragon NaturallySpeaking 11.5 on your computer, open the app and if you're running the Apple Bonjour service (which comes with iTunes) it will automatically detect the computer and pair with it. If you're averse to Apple's beautiful walled garden, NaturallySpeaking will provide the information you need to connect manually.
Sadly Nuance has yet to release an app for other operating systems, but it does bundle a simple Andrea Electronics NC-181 headset with the software. Unlike the iOS app however, it has no easy way of switching the microphone on or off.
As for the social media this includes simple commands such as 'Post to Facebook …' and 'Post to Twitter…' which can be detected whilst in any application and saves numerous mouse clicks. Beyond simple status updates there is also useful functionality such as 'Search', which works for Twitter, Amazon, Google Maps and others, though sadly you cannot manually add other sites. Other clever and useful tricks include 'Send an email to…' (it supports web mail) and 'Open My Pictures…' with Nuance adding more through software updates all the time.
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The mission of the Department of Sociology is to equip the next generation of scholar-practitioners to be professionally competent social scientists who are devoted to the public good.
We are a community of learners dedicated to comprehending the cultural and social dimensions of human existence. The program is based on a collaborative learning model wherein faculty and students work together to systematically study human cultural diversity and to analyze the complex relationship that exists between human beings and the social processes and the institutions they create.
We offer students rigorous preparation in social science theory and method and provide regular opportunities for field research with the aim of developing their capacity to apply social science to problem-solving in diverse professional contexts. Our faculty work closely with their students to help them discover their vocation and strengthen their engagement with and in Jesus' kingdom. Finally, we strive to cultivate in our students a moral vision of professional life so that they remain committed to advancing public good in the vocations they pursue as Vanguard alumni.
Sociology Major
The sociology major seeks to equip student scholars with the theoretical, methodological, substantive and practical tools necessary to investigate, understand and engage contemporary and future social life.
Cultural Anthropology Minor
Completion of this minor will give you a foundational understanding of cultural anthropology, language in cultural contexts, and world religions.
Women's Studies Minor
The minor in Women's Studies is intended to be an interdisciplinary course of study administered by the Department of Anthropology and Sociology.The minor is designed to provide students a theoretical and practical overview of the study of women and women's issues in society from the perspective of various disciplines.
Anti-Human Trafficking Certificate
Completion of this study will build a foundation for field practitioners and the certificate will establish a baseline of expected knowledge among professionals.
A Sampling of Sociology Courses
Immigration and Diversity
This course will discuss topics of immigration and demographic change as interconnected social phenomena and will explore different generational cohorts as social forces that contribute to suburbanization, American consumerism, the birth and rebirth of social movements and various subcultures.
Class, Race, Ethnicity
Prerequisite:SOC 100C or ANTH 102C.This course focuses on the distribution of power and resources across racial and ethnic/cultural groups, class structure, and gender. Phenomenological, institutional, and structural aspects of prejudice and discrimination are examined using the matrix of domination (the intersection of attributes related to class, race, ethnicity and gender) to explore the life experiences of individuals.


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Fun in Copenhagen!
Greetings from Copenhagen, Denmark, the largest capitol city in Scandinavia! The weather here today was very cool today (upper 50's), with mostly cloudy skies.
If you are dying to see pictures, please be patient. As usual, the cruise ship Internet is woeful; Steve tried for a long time last night to load a measly four photos & finally gave up. If someone could finance a replacement to the aging INMARSAT system, they could make a fortune!
We are back on the Mouse after a very fun morning excursion that included an exclusive tour and free time in Tivoli Gardens before the public is allowed to enter, plus we had two free ride tickets. We rode the historic wooden roller coaster, which was built in 1914. This classic coaster requires a manual braking system, so an attendant rides along in a center seat to control the brake. It was a very gentle and charming ride, with lots of nice clattering wood sounds.
Tivoli Gardens, which opened in 1843, is a very beautiful place, full of flower gardens, fountains, lakes, restaurants, colored lights, fun rides, shops and magnificent trees. Walt Disney was inspired by this historic amusement park; he visited it several times in the early 1950s to do research for Disneyland.
This fun experience was followed by a lovely tour on a canal boat through the city canals & harbor, with fantastic views of Copenhagen landmarks. We saw many historic buildings, new (and bold) architecture, and passed under several extremely low bridges (you could touch the bottom of several bridges while sitting down). Copenhagen is a city that blends historic architecture with striking new "Danish Modern" buildings, like the brand new cantilevered roof opera house. The canals had quite a few swans swimming along with their youngsters. We also saw some of the royal palaces; Queen Margaret was apparently home, but she did not wave at our group.
We saw hundreds of people commuting on bicycles in this "eco-friendly" city. Copenhagen gets some of its electrical power from huge off-shore wind turbines near the main ocean channel. I'm not a wind power fan because they are unsightly, unreliable and have a tendency to kill birds and bats, but I guess it is popular over here. Solar would certainly not work!
The downside today: We brought the stupid wheelchair again on this tour, which I hate with a white hot fury, but probably not as much as Steve; unfortunately, my knee is not doing very well, so we really had no choice. There were the requisite hassles with able-bodied folks from our ship racing & grabbing the first rows on the bus and then glaring at me when I hobbled on, plus we had the horrid European sidewalks littered with cobblestones and other obstacles. Our tour guide in Tivoli Gardens, who is the manager of the ride operations, walked next to us during part of the tour telling us how "disabled" citizens in Copenhagen had given them high ratings; while she was doing this spiel with a perfectly straight face, Steve was struggling to push me through deep gravel. Oh, the irony…
Oh, well, it was a nice day, all in all. Dinner was good last night (yay!), and we are enjoying these tidy & interesting cities. Off to Warnemude, Germany for our next stop.


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Mama Madina doesn't remember how old she is, she says that more than 60. She had 10 sons, but two have already died. She tells us that no one would hire a woman her age, and, even less, a woman who cannot read or write.
She is very happy with the new sandals project, because she realizes that her job is important. Her job is to apply glue on the different pieces, to dye the materials and to apply wax to polish the sandals and make them look shiny.
With the salary she is earning she can bring food home and buy medicines for her sick husband. It also allows her to pay for the schools of her sons and she can even send one of them to high school.
Translator: Rocío Catalano