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What Will America's Most Popular Racist Do Next?
Donald Trump is not going to run for president. But let's pretend we don't know that, and are wondering what's next for him after emerging victorious from his pitched battle with Barack Obama, birth certificate hoisted triumphantly above his tri-corner hairhat. How do you top that?
[There was a video here]
Trump announced this morning at a press conference that he is "very proud" and "honored"—but not quite humbled—by his role in prodding Obama to make him look like a hapless lying buffoon. It's natural to wonder whether Trump can possibly recover from having the rug yanked so brutally from underneath him, but remember—he's always been a hapless lying buffoon, and he's done OK for himself.
Here are his options for moving forward.
1. Find Another Racist Thing to Talk About
Trump's birtherism wasn't organic or heartfelt. It was simply a line he stumbled on that resonated with two key constituencies—the racist base of the Republican Party and the outrage-courting, Drudge-baiting cable news establishment. The two audiences formed a positive feedback loop—as racist conservatives heard more racist comments from this racist reality TV presenter, his poll numbers edged up. And as his poll numbers edged up, cable news producers saw more opportunities to air more stories about his racist comments, which were seen by more racist conservatives, etc. The result was a firestorm of publicity for Trump and his reality TV show, culminating in the bizarre spectacle this morning of a Trump press conference sharing a split screen with the White House briefing room as reporters awaited Obama. All it took was a few weeks of quoting from random chain emails, and Trump was elevated to just short of presidential status.
By that measure, today's humiliation was a wild success. He just has to keep the spotlight going through May 22, the season finale of Celebrity Apprentice. So Trump would do well to search for another outrageous accusation that gives voice to the white rage boiling within the GOP base that he could ride for another month or so. He's already begun questioning Obama's academic record based largely on the notion that black people are too stupid and lazy to get into Columbia University, so how did Obama? But that one may not have wheels, since a little academic fraud thirty years doesn't seem really disqualifying. Don't be surprised if Trump starts talking about Obama's deep roots in the Islamic world or the fact that Bill Ayers admitted writing his memoir.
And if you think that, in the wake of Trump's latest humiliation, cable news producers won't let him creep back into the news cycle on the wings of a new lie, you're wrong.
2. Say the Birth Certificate's a Fake
That's what a lot of other birthers are doing. But the media probably wouldn't play along with that one.
3. Claim Victory and Gracefully Bow Out
Trump went to great lengths to take credit for the release, saying he's "accomplished something that nobody else has been able to accomplish." Others on the right, including Sarah Palin, seem equally eager, for some reason, to make sure Trump gets credit. So he could be setting the stage for a statesmanlike speech after the Apprentice finale announcing that his work here is done and that, with the long-form certificate of live birth as a parting gift, he will leave the race to others. Some variant of this is what will actually happen, since Donald Trump will not actually run for president.
4. Focus on the Issues and Run an Actual Campaign
Trump claims to be happy Obama pulled in the football right as he was kicking it, because now we can start talking about the "very big problems in this country" and reporters will stop asking him about that damned birth certificate. Then he went on to talk about gas prices and how if you "look at resorts around this country, they're not doing any business because people don't drive." Two important takeaways: 1) Donald Trump is concerned about the resort business in this country. And 2) Donald Trump thinks that the reason people aren't going to resorts is that they can't afford the gas money to drive to resorts. If only gas were cheaper, they would no doubt be spending their money on resort stays.
So that would be a fun option, if it happens.
5. Try to Get a Job Stopping the Next Environmental Catastrophe
After the Gulf Oil spill, Donald Trump called David Axelrod and asked to be "put in charge of the operation in the gulf to seal the oil leak," according to Axelrod. That's intuitively so insane that it puts Trump's presidential "ambitions" in context—maybe he does actually mean it.
Barack Obama Ruins It For Everybody; Releases Birth Certificate
[Photos of Trump via AP]


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Attorney General Kamala D. Harris Announces Arrest of Two Sisters Running San Francisco Sex Trafficking Ring
SAN FRANCISCO -- Attorney General Kamala D. Harris today announced the arrest of two women accused of operating a sex trafficking ring in San Francisco. The arrests are the result of a five-month joint investigation by the California Attorney General's Office, the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
"The victims in these brothels were treated as commodities in an insidious human marketplace," Attorney General Harris said. "Human trafficking is a heinous crime that destroys the lives of victims and threatens the safety of our communities. I want to recognize the steadfast commitment of our Task Force agents, law enforcement partners, and community organizations to bring perpetrators to justice and help rebuild these victims' lives."
"The interruption of this sex trafficking, under the leadership of the Attorney General Harris's Office, is just another example of San Francisco's commitment to protecting and preserving the basic rights of all; especially our most vulnerable," SFPD Chief Greg Suhr said. "Fully understanding the gravity of the human trafficking trade, the San Francisco Police Department developed its own Human Trafficking Unit, partnering with other agencies to conduct proactive victim-centered investigations of sex and labor trafficking crimes."
Defendants Qiao He, a.k.a. "Judy," 37, and her sister Gaineng He, 36, both of San Francisco, were arrested today and charged with felony pimping and pandering. They are both being held at the San Francisco County Jail on $25,000 bail each and will be prosecuted by the San Francisco District Attorney's Office. The Attorney General's Office is still investigating potential tax fraud and conspiracy violations.
In January 2014, the Tax Recovery and Criminal Enforcement (TRaCE) Task Force of the California Attorney General's Office initiated an investigation of an alleged sex trafficking ring in San Francisco's Richmond District operated by sisters Qiao He and Gaineng He.
Over a period of several months, TRaCE's investigation revealed that "Johns" allegedly paid as much as $200 for sexual intercourse with their choice of one of several young Asian women in the brothels. During the investigation, the defendants repeatedly told undercover agents that "new girls" were brought in every Sunday.
On May 7, agents with the California Department of Justice, HSI and SFPD executed search warrants on four San Francisco locations, including 385 7th Avenue, 4719 Geary Boulevard #601, 2094 24th Avenue, and 1511 24th Avenue.
The joint investigation was led by the California Attorney General's TRaCE Task Force, which includes representatives of the FBI, California Franchise Tax Board, California Board of Equalization, California Employment Development Department and the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control. TRaCE is a statewide task force created in 2014 to combat organized elements of the underground economy engaged in the manufacturing, importation, distribution and sale of pirated intellectual property, and other economic crimes resulting from the evasion of business and income taxes.
In March of this year, Attorney General Harris released a report, Gangs Beyond Borders: California and the Fight Against Transnational Organized Crime, which is the first comprehensive report analyzing the current state of transnational criminal organizations in California (http://oag.ca.gov/transnational-organized-crime). In addition, the report made recommendations to address the issue of transnational crime and human trafficking in our state, which included funding the state task forces that investigate and disrupt these organizations.
Attorney General Harris has been a strong advocate for increased collaboration between federal, state and local law enforcement agencies during the investigation and prosecution of the crime of human trafficking.
In 2012, Attorney General Harris released a report, The State of Human Trafficking in California, which outlined the growing prevalence of the crime of human trafficking in the state (http://www.oag.ca.gov/human-trafficking/2012). The report describes the evolving challenges California faces in addressing this crime, which has become a $32 billion-a-year global industry.
Please note that these are only allegations and, as with all defendants, those named here must be presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.

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indicates the new engine:
ALTER TABLE t ENGINE = MYISAM;
See Section 13.1.17, "CREATE TABLE Statement", and Section 13.1.7, "ALTER TABLE Statement".
If you try to use a storage engine that is not compiled in or that is compiled in but deactivated, MySQL instead creates a table using the default storage engine. This behavior is convenient when you want to copy tables between MySQL servers that support different storage engines. (For example, in a replication setup, perhaps your master server supports transactional storage engines for increased safety, but the slave servers use only nontransactional storage engines for greater speed.)
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This question is, essentially, a comment of Mark Sapir. I think it deserves to be a question.
A countable, discrete group $\Gamma$ is sofic if for every $\epsilon>0$ and finite subset $F$ of $\Gamma$ there exists an $(\epsilon,F)$-almost action of $\Gamma$. See, for example Theorem 3.5 of the nice survey of Pestov http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/0804/0804.3968v8.pdf.
Gromov asked whether all countable discrete groups are sofic. It is now widely believed that there should be a counterexample to this.
Since most groups are sofic, it would be useful to have a collection of properties that would imply that a group is not sofic...so one can then construct a beast having such properties.
What are some abstract properties of $\Gamma$ that would imply $\Gamma$ is not sofic?
An open question of Nate Brown asks whether all one-relator groups are sofic. I'd be interested to know what properties of a one-relator group $\Gamma$ would imply that $\Gamma$ is not sofic.


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The question is live from 3pm ET until Midnight ET (except for times like this week when it's 7pm ET to Midnight ET). You may need to use the "prev" and "next" arrows to toggle through the other questions showing also. Again, this is only available Monday through Friday. Any words you see up on the weekend are Friday's old word.


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Hello all you Disney Princess fanatics. Here is a great lesson that will be easy to replicate even if you are a novice artist. Today I will first show you "how to draw Cinderella easy", step by step. This is a simple head shot of Cinderella which means you will have the opportunity to create your very own Disney Cinderella with ease. I had fun making this lesson because I always thought the Disney Princesses where very pretty in their own simple way. I do have a regular version of Cinderella if you want to check that out, but feel free to go ahead and tackle the task of drawing Cinderella easy. I will be back with more lessons for you all. Peace people and enjoy!
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Saturday, March 18, 2006
Tea Cocktails & Mocktails
Here's a tea cocktail that uses a lemon-flavored liqueur called Caravella Limoncello. Can't say that I've tried the stuff, but it doesn't sound half bad.
If the hard stuff's not your style, maybe you'd prefer a tea "mocktail"? Here's an article from the Calcutta Telegraph about a place that's said to be India's first tea mocktail bar.
Caravella Citrus Tea-Ni
2 cups water
2 Madagascar vanilla rooibos tea bags
1 tsp. candied ginger
1/2 oz. Caravella Limoncello
1 oz. orange-flavored rum
Crushed ice
Brew tea using two tea bags and 2 cups boiling water. While hot, pour tea into a container, add ginger. Let infuse for at least one hour. Tea mixture makes four servings.
For each serving, mix 1/2 cup tea mixture with 1 oz. orange-flavored rum, 1/2 oz. Caravella Limoncello and crushed ice. Strain into a martini glass.
(This recipe was developed for Caravella Limoncello by Deb Fabricant.)
2 comments:
- Lotus Reads said...
Great stuff for a chai loving country like India!
Discovered your blog yesterday when I was looking for more information on "The Devil's Picnic" by Taras Grecoe and have to say I am hooked!
Will have to visit again, thanks!
- William I. Lengeman III said...
Thanks for stopping by.
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Betancourt accepts Rockies' arbitration offer
INDIANAPOLIS — The Rockies addressed their top priority by keeping one of their top relievers. Rafael Betancourt accepted the club's arbitration offer tonight, a source directly involved with the talks told The Denver Post.
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- Word count sorting for story management page a little unpredictable.
- Search engine not showing latest stories for the past few days.
Please guys, can we do something about the font. I know you work really hard, and as a web designer I objectively understand why you have done it, but it's physically uncomfortable for myself and a lot of other readers to use the site now. I had to go dig through my PM box to find a PM from months ago to cite in a government essay (long story) and I had a pounding headache afterwards. I'm not very demanding when it comes to interfaces because I have great eyesight, but something about my computer makes that really hard to read, and I'd rather not have to screw with my entire computer's display for one site.
Please? Either change it back to Verdana, allow me to choose Verdana from a list, let it go to my default browser font, or something. Arial just doesn't work.
Thank you.
-Jasmine Heyward
While I don't think seem to have as many problems with it as cindella above me, I do agree wholeheartedly that Verdana was a better choice. Arial is way too crowded; it just seems like the words are scrunched together for some reason. It actually hurts my eyes a bit to read at times
Being able to choose which site font you want would be the best of both worlds, definitely.
There's the issue that it keeps logging off players and forcing them to log in… if me or my friends are about to post in the forums or stories…. well it erases everything after it forces us to log in again!!
Sorry…. couldn't find an appropriate section to make this comment in
Is there a reason why previously read and newly read links/stories are no longer showing up as viewed links? Used to be if I clicked and viewed a link that link would turn purple, but now it stays blue as if I'd never clicked on it.
-Elenora Stilwell
One thing Ajaa mentioned in the "Search & Beta Tweaks" entry is something a few of us forgot to point out.
Why were the series in the Categories sorted by most fics? There's no need for that. Searching for a particular series alphabetically is intuitive and the most logical thing to do, and it's what the majority of us are used to since grade school. Having them sorted by "most fics" just doesn't make any sense at all and it feels really counter-intuitive.
Though, I did go and look at it more closely after my post and noticed the 'All' link next the the ABC… links. So at least the option is there.
The search engine is finally returning stories that have been recently updated, but when I put it to sort by update none of them are in order. For example you would expect the most recently updated story to be first one the list, instead I have a story that hasn't been updated for a month listed at the top.
Return to the original font please! Arial is very annoying to read!
Do we get back the link color change at the forums as well? It is harder to notice new posts in big forums…
I have similar issues as others!! The link colour change is confusing me and irritating me, as is the whole changed font thing. I want my Verdana back!!!
Hey I don't know if this is my browser, or computer, or what, but external profile links aren't working for me. The hyperlink is created, and the popup appears when you click it, but there's nothing to confirm it with. There's just "You are about to visit an external website outside of FanFiction.Net. Please verify the link below and proceed with caution.", and then the divider, but nothing but white space underneath. Nobody has said anything, so I'm assuming it's something on my end, but it's not working for me…I'm using Google Chrome. It works on Firefox just fine, but I prefer Chrome, so I'm not sure what's going on…
Also, small thing, the centering/links don't seem to be enabled on the mobile version of the site. Do you think that could get fixed in the near future?
Thanks so much for all your hard work! These small fixes you're doing every day are really appreciated 🙂
Thank you for all the hard work. I know it's not easy trying to please everyone. 🙂
Anyways, I just had a question/request. I heard that once you create a community, you can't delete it. I haven't created a community yet (though I am thinking of it), but I was wondering if we can get an option to remove communities so that way, if authors don't want to run it anymore, it could be removed from the author's profile. I would feel more comfortable to create a community this way. Could it be made possible? Thanks!
I second this request. I have a community that's been sitting around empty for a couple of years now, since removing all the stories is the next-best thing to deleting the actual community, but it would be great if I could delete the community itself. I'm sure there are a lot of empty/unused communities that are just taking up space and cluttering the site because the authors can't remove them.
I have the same problem too. Supposedly, there's a remove section where we can delete communities but I haven't been able to find it and thus unable to delete my community. It's just been sitting there since 2009, empty.
I third it!
I once deleted my community by copying a link to a community management page in my settings and changing '_edit.php' to '_remove.php' and it worked. But that was some 2 years ago, so I'm not sure if it still works – I can't check. You could try going to https://www.fanfiction.net/community/c2m_tab_remove.php – it could work. The link seems to be valid, but it tells me that 'This feature is only active when you have created a C2 community.' Worth giving a try.
Well I guess if it worked for someone else (like below), then I suppose that's a temporary fix. Thanks for the help! 🙂
THANK YOU! I don't see why they removed the regular remove tab… I was beginning to lose hope that the communities could be deleted. Thank you, thank you, and thank you again.
Hi Guys,
I don't know if i missed this in a previous update, or if its from this update, but on the Favorite Stories page, i am missing my 'All' button. I don't mind having my stories in several pages, but i would like to see an all function again so when im looking for something, i have a chance of finding it.
the arrow that jumps to the latest chapter does not change to purple if i click on it.
Thank you for all these fixes; they're coming in so quickly. 🙂
I agree with the new font/size being an issue, but I'm glad to see all the other fixes.
One complaint I've seen (and have myself) regards the forums — maybe make a way so that locked threads are displayed below the active ones, at the bottom of the forum page? It would make navigation a lot simpler and cleaner.
I'll throw in one more suggestion for consideration, and then I promise I'll pipe down. I can definitely see this going either way, but thought it might be interesting to discuss.
I am on another site that allows the author to publicly respond to reviews. So, basically, for each review you can post a response that appears right under the review. The potential downside is that it could lead to people just responding defensively to poor reviews. But, the upside, which in my opinion is much greater, is you can really see a nice dialogue develop between authors and their reviewers. For stories that are truly great, I love reading through the reviews to see the author's thoughts. For example, someone might say, "I like how you went this way with the relationship instead of x way" and the author might respond by saying, "Yes, I considered doing x, but thought it was out of character, and I wanted to show that the character responds with y and z before they get there" or whatever.
Not only does it provide interesting insight into the author's working process, but it really encourages richer reviews, and rewards people for writing them (and shows others that if they provide a thoughtful review they might get an interesting, thoughtful response). I think it really fosters a sense of community and interaction with authors that distinguishes fanfic from other kinds of writing. I know right now you can respond to some people by PM, but the other reviewers don't get the benefit of those comments, and also don't see the benefit of writing a thoughtful review. Additionally, many people review as Guest (whether they are logged out by accident or design) or seem to have PMs turned off and don't know it, and this would allow responses and hopefully eliminate the tendency of some authors to try to respond to reviewers or answer questions in the author notes at the beginning of a chapter.
Anyway, thought I'd throw that out there in case you get bored in amongst the million other fixes you are working on. 😉
If I'm not mistaken, Xing mentioned an upcoming feature like this when responding to a previous blog comment. I'd like to have the opportunity to respond to guest reviewers, too. 🙂
Pretty much everything you said plus the fact it forces the writers to watch how they respond to reviews as well. As guest said, it is apparently in the works. Which makes me happy. 😀
I know I posted already about the arrows for the chapters not turning purple – but I have a suggestion for the blog – is there any way for people to "like/agree" about a post? I feel like a lot of us are having the same issues and instead of getting multiple comments that say the same thing, people can just mark the comment to show that they would say the same thing (it would also make scrolling through comments easier)
Just a suggestion – loving a lot of the other changes
Can you have the ability to vote instead of leave a review? I want the author to know im reading but sometimes leaving a review gets tedious.
You can add the story or the author to your favourites list, or put the story on alert – these signs show the author that someone is enjoying their stories. 🙂
Over at archiveofourown.org , they have the feature to leave 'kudos' on a story that can be left by anonymous users or logged-in users. FF.Net also gives links to sharing stories on other social sites down at the bottom of stories.
For the record, I don't think rating systems for fanfic sites are a good idea because of the possibility of hurt feelings and of people abusing them (especially in small fandoms where the numbers can be skewed heavily by one bad apple). I'll also be just as happy whether or not FF.Net someday installs a kudos system or a likes system or some equivalent – just because AO3 has some feature doesn't mean that Fanfiction.net ought to follow suit.
Kudos are an accessibility issue for some readers, who might not have the ability to express that they liked a story any other way, or might be in a time-pressed or technology-limited situation where they can't leave a comment. It can help to think of the kudos not as a substitute for a comment, but as a substitute for no acknowledgement of your story at all. I haven't come across stats that seemed very convincing of one or the other, but many people on AO3 choose to leave both kudos and comments as a way of 'extra' appreciation of a story. Writers on AO3 can also choose to turn off being notified of any kudos if they don't enjoy them.
Also, FF.Net already has a system for people to express they read your story without leaving a comment–the favourites and author alert system. I love comments too, but it also brightens my day to see that someone with an account on the site is following or favouriting me.
Like you, I think that comments are great, and they're certainly more expressive than favourites/alerts/kudos/etc. 🙂
@Blue-Inked Frost – The abuse gets worse when the fandom is the "new" trend for the younger members of the site to. AO3 may be lucky that most of the younger writers don't yet know about it and aren't looking for invites. I say this having been ganged up by a cliche of these members before in one of the fandoms because they didn't want any negative reviews.
@yemi, re: ratings abuse–
The AO3 doesn't have ratings, although I believe Skyehawke and MediaMiner do. There is no way to abuse kudos, other than by faking your own kudos: either you leave kudos or nothing at all, and the writer won't know that you didn't click. There are also ways to abuse review systems, such as by flaming or contributing to your own review counts anonymously, as you know.
@ Blue-Innked Frost – I still think it is possible to abuse the kudos system. I'm actually thinking of a very particular scenario though. A few years ago I critiqued fanfics in a very small fandom that had just become popular with preteens and young teenagers.
The younger writers gained a cliche mentality. First, I think many of them didn't really "read" other peoples stories but gushed praising reviews over them just so they could get more reviews. If you didn't leave reviews on other peoples fanfics, you wouldn't get reviewed yourself. If you left critique you were pretty much ostrasized from the rest of the group. I couldn't even tell one fanfic writer that I liked the story of that their bad grammar and writing technique detracted from their story without recieving backlash in reviews they left later on. For a pretty small fandom it grew in size pretty fast too because of the cliche mentality. There were around twenty to thirty people in this clique plus the tag along followers and what the "group" wanted was what everyone else went along with.
Now, here is how I see this particular group abusing the kudos system. "If you leave a kudo on mine, I'll leave a kudo on yours. However, don't leave kudos on so and sos fanfics because she left a flame on some peoples stories." And mind you, what I left wasn't flames, but neither were some of the other kids who were singled out and were simply trying to help. Imagine now if a group of twenty to thirty people plus the people who followed them were to kudos the "in" fanfics, but not kudos the "out" fanfic. You and I wouldn't be able to make up the difference on some of these younger kids fanfics and a form of internet bullying similar to the bullying that occurs because of cliches at school was going on. I'm honestly glad that I can report some of the reviews I saw back then now, because some of what they said in the reviews… they may not have been harrassing the writer, but they were harrasing other members of the site.
A kudos system would be better then a like/dislike system for this type of group however. It's one thing to withold kudos, but to purposefully set an entire group that is twenty to thirty strong on one person and make it so that they have tons of dislikes. I can see the other kids saying, "well obviously nobody likes that person". One of the young writers quit the site after these kids had their way.
Not leaving kudos is not abuse, just like not leaving follows or not leaving favourites or not leaving reviews is not abuse. Cliques are human nature and can be unfortunate human nature. Emails or reviews telling someone that they're being ostracised are abusive, but choosing not to leave feedback is simply that. For "likes" too, I meant a system where only likes are possible, so that maybe stories with fewer likes are ignored, but nobody can skew anyone's ratings with dislikes not left for honest reasons.
First, english is not my maternal language, so please don't mind the grammar.
That said.
Writing is tedious.
It takes time. It takes work. Be respectful of the writers. It's true we do write because we like it and it's a hobby for most of us. But leaving a review is a reward for us. It's the only reward we'd ever get. As amateur writers we're not profiting from our writings. It's for fun. While I appreciate that someone would fave my stories ( really ) , the rewarding feeling for me only comes from the review or critique a reader would take the time to write.
Why would I want a kudos? Just like you're sending me a bone?
I'm a reader too. I can be lazy. Still, I tried to leave a few words now and then. I bookmark the stories I've read so I could leave a comment later when I'm too tired. Keep in mind, it takes hours to write one chapter of a story. Leaving a review as tedious as it can be is a way of aknowledging that. Some of us are students, some of us works already. Passion is guiding us. Please reward that.
I don't need a bone. I need a review. I don't want to think that people didn't think that my work ( which took me hours ) was not worth the effort to be reviewed, so they'd leave me a bone. I'm a perfectionnist. It would drive me nuts, honestly.
No rating stories. No Kudos.
Some people don't even bother leaving reviews though because they don't have time or whatever reason, so authors have no way of knowing if people even read the chapter. Rating and kudos would show the authors that people are reading.
@ Dee… we already know people are reading because of the favorite and alert list. While a kudos system would allow anonymous readers a say, it would also be an encouragement not to sign up for their own account. Why does a lurker need to when they can just book mark their fanfics and kudos any fics they like?
Btw…Before all these changes came about i don't believe anyone had any issues.
And can we please get the colour change back for every link clicked? including authors?
Do we REALLY need a number on how many stories written and when an author joined up on the results page for authors? It's already on their profiles, so it feels rather redundant.
This is just a suggestion, i'm not posting to have people fight with me on my opinion, I would like is making an option to block all reviews from being placed on a certain user's stories. Let user's decide if they want to recieve any reviews or no reviews at all. This would stop people who don't have an account and those who do have an account from leaving a review. These days it seems people are just leaving flames and I would rather block all reviews from comining then having flames on my story that I can't delete.
It won't be "against" the rules, as some people call it, since we can already block non-users to review our stories and since we won't be able to delete them if our stories can't recieve reviews. Not everyone goes on this site to get reviews and I know i'm not the only one who would rather stop recieving any reviews then get reviews that have no meaning but insult. If people won't read stories unless they have reivews on them, then they won't read the stories, there's no lose to either parties. An author can't tell why someone won't read their stories and the reader just moves on to another story by other people's opinons.
This option is a nice way for a writer to blacklist themselves with the rest of the fanfic community. It is bad enough that certain writers have garnered bad reputations for deleting entire fanfics and anoymous reviews simply because they didn't like any negative being said. Blocking all reviewers alienates the entire community, not just those of us who give critique. People will then be forced to critique the fanfic through other means and the comments made will not be anywhere as nice compared to when the writer allowed reviews. On top of this, the writer will need to make doubly sure that their fanfics are compliant to the site rules. If a flamer can't hit a writer via review, they'll hit them via revenge flaming. Other people will block this person from reviewing any of their fanfics.
The other effect I see happening is a drop in the quality of work posted here. quizella doesn't allow reviews and they're the worst of the worst when it comes to quality control.
I'm going to have to ask how not allowing reviews respects the reviewer. If you can't give an answer to that then you can't argue that it isn't against the site rules. It also breaks the second respect review by not allowing the reviewers a chance to respect the writer. So, in a way this is worse then the suggestion to allow people to delete signed reviews. Also, at this point in time we can't block non-users from reviewing, we can only delete their reviews and moderate them as they come in.
If a person doesn't come to this site to get reviews, then why are they here? Why does a person post something to the net if it isn't to get attention for their writing either because they want praise or because they want to improve their writing. Both of which require reviews do they not? If a person's point for posting is for archival purposes then they honestly shouldn't be caring about reviews even if they are flames. And if they really don't want comments on the stuff they are archiving, there are other ways one can archive their work that doesn't garner public attention.
If you've gotten a flame on your story, keep reporting it until the site admins remove it. Keep in mind too that just because the review says something you don't like doesn't mean it is a flame. A flame attacks the writer and actual people, not the writing itself.
On sites such as Livejournal you can post your stories and disable comments in your own blog, and on AO3 you can choose to 'orphan' stories, which means that you are no longer listed as the author and don't receive any further comments.
But I can see the argument yemi raises that posting a story means you have chosen to engage with the community. You can report abusive reviews and block particular users from commenting on your stories, but you allow people to respond to your work.
I don't think it's polite to review people in ways they didn't ask for; it's mannerly to respect people's requests. Reviewers can always share their thoughts on the story in their own space, not the author's. You could always put an A/N at the bottom of your story that you'd rather not receive feedback or rather not receive concrit, and hopefully most people will respect that.
I suggest not doing that. Most of the people I know who leave concrit to help writers grow will review whether they see "no concrit" or not. The reason is, while it is polite to respect someones request, this only works for requests that are seen as being respectful. For example, a slash writer will not respect a request asking them to stop writing slash.
Also, this is a great way to make yourself a target of a flamer. Most people who say no to concrete do so because they don't want their feelings hurt. Flamers know this and will test the water to see if they get a reaction. If they get a reaction of any kind they will continue to find ways to flame the person in these particular circumstances.
"Don't write slash ever" != "please don't give certain types of comments on my space."
The story and review space is the writer's: comments go directly to them. Asking reviewers politely to avoid concrit might result in less feedback, but that's the tradeoff a writer chooses. This is not remotely the same thing as asking another writer not to write their own stories. The writer could be insecure, the writer could feel they'd rather learn by practice, the writer has personal health issues, the writer is already aware of many of the problems in the fic, the fic is old, and so on. It doesn't matter. If you want to be polite, respect the writer when you post directly to them, or else choose to review on your own blog. If you don't want to be polite, don't moan when other people notice.
Thankfully, flamers can be reported for abuse and banned from commenting or private messaging. Personally, I like concrit, and recently I even chose to leave a one-line flame up on one of my stories that said only "hate this". I also tend to be a bit nitpicky, sadly, and so I'm afraid I wouldn't necessarily take concrit that was spelt as 'concrete' very seriously, but of course we all make typos. Perhaps especially when we try to point out others' issues!
Except can a writer really call the review section on their story "my space"? It's the space of the readers as much as it is the space of the writer. Others have pointed out, if the writing is bad then they would rather know from a review there then having to actually read the fanfic themselves. This includes older works too.
As for writers with insecurities, only getting positive reviews is detrimental. I'm not talking about their wriing here either, but their ego getting shattered even worse when conrit finally does come in. Let's say one of them does ask for no conrit and because of that people who leave concrit leave them alone. What do you think is going to happen to them when a flame comes their way? The situation is much, much worse.
There are also people who will report people who say "positive reviews only" and "no concrit". The site guidelines we all sign says that not all the reviews will praise the work and that we're supposed to respect that, which asking for "no concrit" does not. Some may argue that the rule right afterwords means that the person giving concrit has to respect the writer, but not telling a writer the truth is seen as not being respectful. Other sites don't have as strict rules about recieving and giving reviews.
Do you think it's charitable to do something an author has asked people not to do, on the grounds that someone else might do something even "worse" to them later?
The site rules warn against abusing reviewers, and rightly too, but there is no rule against making requests for certain types of reviews. ("I won't update unless you give me 5 reviews"–entitled and manipulative, but not against site rules. "I'd especially appreciate feedback on the pacing of chapter 2"–not against site rules. "No concrit please"–not against site rules.) So reporting authors like that is silly.
Reviews on stories go directly to the fanauthor, so this is not like the situation where consumers of professionally published works for sale can and should share honest reviews on Amazon. For that reason I think the polite thing to do is consider the author more than the other readers. You can always describe a story in harsher terms in your own space where they don't have to look, much like pro authors don't have to look at Amazon. There are also ways to phrase things tactfully, so that even if the author overreacts other readers only see a polite review that expresses a well-supported opinion and respects the author. 😉 Please note that I'm talking about politeness, which I don't think is something that any site's rules can truly mandate.
can we please get the colour change back for every link clicked?
I can no longer sort my Favorites by Catagory anymore. When I'm looking for a specific genre, it's pretty hard without the category sorting. Did the new updates stop that? Is it possible to get it back?
I think that we should add oc character search for all stories on fan fiction. I mean hello! People have plenty of original characters and their characters have no respect if they don't have a in charcter search!!
Can you put Acct and Login back at the top of the menu bar?
Hello. I am having a problem. A Forum I'm part of is saying i don't have permission to post. But no one there banned me and the Admin is just as confused as I am. He can't access the Management section it says he is getting a Type 2 error when he tries.


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For McClusky, 19, finds herself at the center of a thorny dispute that involves a series of charity concerts she's put on over the past three years. She dubbed the event "McFest" (more on that in a moment) -- but McDonald's sees that as an infringement on its trademarks, something the McDonaldland lawyers refer to as "the McFamily of brands."
These include (deep breath): McPen, McBurger, McBuddy, McWatch, McDouble, McJobs, McShirt, McPool, McProduct, McShades, McFree, McRuler, McLight -- and even the prefix "Mc" itself.
"But not McFest," pointed out McClusky, who declined to change her last name for this story. "The whole reason I called it McFest in the first place is my name."
Her original co-chair for the first McFest also shared the "Mc" prefix in her surname, so it seemed a natural. And indeed, not a single McDonald's attorney seemed to object in 2007 and 2008, when McClusky's McFests raised $30,000 for the Chicago chapter of Special Olympics.
But when McClusky applied to have the McFest name protected, McDonald's filed an opposition. So instead of donating funds from her 2009 concert to Special Olympics, McClusky's had to hire lawyers to answer a series of administrative proceedings McDonald's filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. To date, it's cost her roughly $5,000 -- money she wishes had gone to Special Olympics kids instead of attorneys.
The daughter of independent radio promoter Jeff McClusky, Lauren McClusky could of course just change the event name. But that would involve starting from square one in terms of the awareness and name recognition she's already created for her concert series. "It's hard to change the name of something that's already established and locally known," she said.
As for McDonald's actions, McClusky says she's frustrated by the company's desire to clamp down on and in effect penalize a charity event -- especially when McDonald's supports Special Olympics as well. "It has nothing to do with food, arches or their colors," she said. "And our M's are pointy, not curved."
McClusky hopes for a truce that will allow her to keep the McFest name. Still, she's unwilling to make a corporate sponsorship tradeoff along the lines of "McDonald's Presents McFest." For their part, McDonald's representatives maintained that they have no desire to squash McClusky's charitable efforts, and desire an "amicable resolution."
"However, the law requires us to guard against third parties that infringe our trademarks and to take the necessary action to stop those infringements," said McDonald's spokeperson Ashlee Yingling. "We believe the mark at issue, 'McFest,' is similar enough to our brand name and McDonald's famous family of 'Mc' trademarks that it's likely to cause confusion under trademark standards and/or dilute our valuable trademark rights." The company declined further comment, citing the pending litigation -- or, if you prefer, further McLegal action.
McClusky said that at first, she was "kind of honored" that McDonald's would even care enough to respond to her McFest trademark applications. "But when we realized how serious it was, then it just got ridiculous and offensive. They just wouldn't listen."


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The Politics of Taxing the Rich
Democrats and Republicans continue to haggle over taxing the rich as part of negotiations to avoid the fiscal cliff. WSJ's Sara Murray and Damian Paletta join David Wessel to discuss the issue.
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Couch potato teenagers do as little exercise as 60-year olds, according to new research.
The study suggests physical activity among children and adolescents is even lower than previously feared - fuelling the growing obesity epidemic.
Three in four girls aged 12 to 19 - and more than half of boys - are failing to meet guidelines recommended by health experts.
Professor Vadim Zipunnikov, of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in the US, said: "Activity levels at the end of adolescence were alarmingly low, and by age 19, they were comparable to 60-year-olds."
Half of six to 11-year-old girls - and over a quarter of boys - are also falling short, according to the study.
Prof Zipunnikov said: "For school age children, the primary window for activity was the afternoon between 2pm and 6pm.
"So the big question is how do we modify daily schedules, in schools for example, to be more conducive to increasing physical activity?"
He warned the teen years represent highest risk - with many being so idle they could be compared with an adult 40 years older.
Increases in activity levels were only seen in 20-somethings, possibly because they are just beginning work.
Activity decline at 35
Starting at age 35 activity levels declined throughout midlife and older adulthood, reports Preventive Medicine.
The study followed 12,529 participants in the US who wore tracking devices for seven straight days - removing them only for bathing and at bedtime.
They measured sedentary, light or moderate-to-vigorous physical activity and the findings were broken down into children (six to 11), adolescents (12 to 19) as well as 20 to 29 year olds, 31 to 59 year olds and 60 to 84 year olds.
In the UK a quarter of boys between two and 19 and a third of girls are overweight or obese.
The cause has been blamed on our modern lifestyles, including our reliance on the car, TVs, computers, desk-bound jobs and high-calorie food.
The NHS says obesity levels have more than trebled in the last 30 years and, on current estimates, more than half the population could be obese by 2050.
Prof Zipunnikov said the patterns could inform programs aimed at increasing physical activity by targeting not only age groups but times with the least activity - such as during the morning for children and adolescents.
For all age groups, males generally had higher activity levels than females, particularly high-intensity activity.
But after midlife, these levels dropped off sharply compared to females. Among adults 60 years and older, males were more sedentary and had lower light-intensity activity levels.
One hour of exercise per day recommended
The World Health Organisation recommends at least 60 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity a day for five to 17 year olds.
But the researchers say there is a growing consensus for the benefits of reducing sedentary behaviour and increasing even low-intensity levels of physical activity.
Prof Zipunnikov said: "The goal of campaigns aimed at increasing physical activity has focused on increasing higher-intensity exercise.
"Our study suggests these efforts should consider time of day and also focus on increasing lower-intensity physical activity and reducing inactivity."
The findings follow research earlier this week that showed three in ten people across the world are overweight - 2.2 billion of the planet's population.
They are putting themselves at increased risk of cancer, heart disease and diabetes.
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Or perhaps you can't keep up with how fast you're coming and going.
Still, you want to look good while you're "doing it all", and well placed mirrors can make that so much easier, all while increasing functionality (that's almost better than having the prince rescue you!)
So take a moment to "look in the mirror" and see some wonderful ways that we've incorporated them into our closet designs. With any luck, you'll be inspired to do the same.
Mirrors make spaces look larger, so if you can incorporate mirrors into a walk in closet space, even if it's small, it will feel bigger. If it's already big, it will feel magnificent. Think about adding mirrors on door fronts, on the actual door to a closet, or on some wall space.
We're not suggesting you give up precious storage space in order to accommodate a mirror. We're suggesting you consider some clever ways to add them to your space without compromising a thing.
If you decide to put a mirror on the wall, make sure you will still be able to have a good line of sight and be able to see yourself once the closet is filled with your clothing. Clothing often sticks out beyond the panel structure of a closet and is deeper, so double check your viewing clearances.
And check the installation height location if it's a mirror that's not full length. If the woman who "wears" this closet is petite, make sure she can see her full face (at minimum) in the mirror. This comes in to play if you're putting mirrors on upper door cabinets.
There's also a 3-way mirror to consider. If you've got enough space in your Walk-In closet, a well-versed designer can create the space so that there is storage behind three sections that are hinged to open so they function like a 3-way mirror. Take a look at some of these pictures that illustrate the point more clearly.
And one more option, in case you just can't get enough! The closet industry offers what is known as a "Pull-Out Mirror". It can be installed onto one of the vertical panels in your closet system and can be "pulled out" when you need it and pushed back into its' place when not in use. Again, a designer who's worth their salt can guide the design process so it's installed in a location that's functional.
Give us a call. One of our designers would be delighted to help you with that.
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What is next after the Democratic Progressive Party's (DPP) "Fury" (火大) demonstration? The pan-blue camp, which has criticized the demonstration, is asking about the party's policy.
The question is whether a demonstration organized by the opposition needs to mention policy.
A look around the world shows that participants of demonstrations held by civic groups and student movements only express their feelings and demands. Proposing policy is the government's job, therefore the opposition does not have the responsibility to include policy measures in a protest. The time for the opposition to do this is during elections or when offering alternatives to government policy.
So what should the opposition do following the "Fury" rallies?
Its main responsibility at the moment is to help the public understand why the starting salary for university graduates is NT$22,000, why so many people have problems making ends meet and why there are no jobs for the young. They should start doing the groundwork now so that when they do propose policy, the public will react positively.
There are two sets of reasons for the current public discontent.
First, there is the distribution system focused on the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) government's official community. The unfairness and injustices perpetrated by this community include: the KMT's ill-gotten party assets; the 18 percent preferential interest rate enjoyed by retired military personnel, civil servants and public school teachers on part of their pensions; imbalance in pension distribution; pay raises for government officials; and the unfair year-end bonuses for employees of state-owned enterprises that have caused so much public anger lately. These issues are all part of the remaining legacy of the KMT's former one-party dictatorship.
The second set of reasons consist of the proliferation of pro-unification media outlets, government policies that are China-centric and the core-periphery economic structure that treats Taiwan as a satellite to the core Chinese economy.
This core-periphery economic structure has caused high unemployment; dropped wages to a level not seen in 14 years; slowed domestic investment; reduced consumption; led to an economic performance ranked among the worst in Asia; devastated retail investors over the past four years and led to the disappearance of almost half of the year-end markets.
The public has come to accept the first set of reasons after hearing the DPP's continued critcism of them, reflected in the party winning about 40 percent of the nation's votes in the past.
However, due to diverging opinions within the DPP, the party has never offered a full and forceful criticism of the second set of reasons. As a result, pro-Chinese media outlets and the government have been given free rein to influence the public, resulting in China being seen as the best option for the nation's economy.
This belief has been created by the economic threat card played by the government during last year's presidential election.
The public needs to fully understand that the government's excessive and misguided unification policies, aimed at promoting integration with China, are the reason that some people can no longer make ends meet.
Educating the public on this will be crucial to the DPP's ability to walk that extra mile in the next presidential election.


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The main character of the Dead or Alive (DOA) fighting game franchise since 1996 bursts into our cosplay feature this week, being none other than the deadly Kasumi, portrayed here by Japanese gravure idol and part time cosplayer, Chihane!
One of gaming's foremost sex symbols, Kasumi also happens to be the personal favourite of Team Ninja's founder and the series creator, Tomonobu Itagaki.
According to the game canon, Kasumi, also known as the Kunoichi of Destiny, is a teenage female shinobi (ninja) skilled in the Mugen style of ninjutsu. Selected as the18th Master of the Mugen Tenshin ninja clan, Kasumi deserted her duties and entered the Dead or Alive tournament in order to defeat Raidou, the man who crippled her brother, in a revenge attack.
Although compassionate and not particularly at ease with violence and conflict most of the time, this highly skilled ninja is however not someone you wish to cross swords with, as she is quite simply, as deadly as she is beautiful!
In terms of gameplay, although altering slightly through the series' various iterations, Kasumi is primarily a very balanced fighter with good speed, execution and fairly simplistic input commands, and is thus considered a mid-to-top tier character by most. Her range is however fairly lacking and her single strikes not particularly powerful, meaning she is best used as a pressure fighter, in other words constantly attacking without giving her opponent an opportunity to launch an attack.
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Annual Neal Cassady birthday bash at Denver's Mercury Cafe
It's that time of year again: The fifth annual Neal Cassady Birthday Bash will be held at the Mercury Cafe on Feb. 7 to honor the Beat Generation icon and Denver's most famous literary son.
Cassady, who grew up in Denver and lived in several rooming houses along Larimer Street, would have turned 88 on Feb. 8. After a wild youth — he spent time in reform school in Canon City for boosting cars — Cassady served as muse and running-mates for the Beat writers Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac. The latter immortalized him as Dean Moriarty in the classic novel, "On the Road," which was by and large an account of their benzedrine-fueled cross-country travels, with the lead-footed Cassady at the wheel.
"This is a pretty special year for the bash, because Cassady's three children are planning to attend the event," says festival organizer Mark Bliesener. The children — Cathy, Jami and John — will be honoring Neal's wife Carolyn, who died in September.


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A New York City news organization has apologized after it canceled a church's advertising campaign promoting its Easter Sunday services—just three days before Good Friday.
The Journey Church, a Christian evangelical congregation, paid $1,400 to run a series of ads on the Capital New York website. Capital New York is a sister publication of Politico. And for the sake full disclosure, I attend The Journey Church.
The advertisement read: "You're invited to discover #HOPE at The Journey Church this Sunday April 20. Click here to discover how you can find hope when you feel like giving up."
Pastor Kerrick Thomas tells me the advertisement ran on Capital New York's website earlier in the week—but on Wednesday the church received an email notifying them that the ad was being pulled.
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"Capital is implementing a new policy company-wide that we won't be running any religious-affiliated campaigns moving forward," the email read.
It certainly seemed rather convenient that the company's new policy was implemented just days before the holiest of holidays for Christians. Heaven forbid Capital New York soil their fine reputation by taking money from Christians.
"It stings a little when someone says they won't work with you because you are religious or Christian or a church," Thomas said. "But we are going to love everyone and keep moving forward to have an impact for Christ in New York."
The news organization's decision put the church in a jam.
"As a church we have limited resources—so we have to be strategic when we invest in outreach," Thomas said. "We thought working with them could be a cool way to bless New Yorkers. The fact that it was canceled the week of Easter made it impossible for us to use our resources to try something new in such a short amount of time. We really felt like it wasted our time and a great opportunity at Easter."
But fortunately, this Easter story has a happy ending.
About an hour after I started sniffing around and asking questions, Capital New York suddenly had a change of heart—a come-to-Jesus moment.
The company reversed course and apologized.
"The Capital New York brand is very young and there was some confusion around the advertising policy," read a statement the news outlet sent me. "In this case, the Journey Church ad should not have been pulled."
Pastor Thomas confirmed that he received an email as well—offering to run the church's ad without charge.
So, let's review. A wrong has been righted. Apologies offered. Forgiveness granted. And all's well that ends well. Happy Easter, America.
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(CNN) -- A Florida town has banned people -- let's face it, young people -- from wearing saggy pants.
A councilwoman for Ocala pushed for passage of the law, but the town's Mayor Kent Guinn may ultimately veto the fashion police.
If the law goes into effect, it's unclear what measuring tools the Ocala Police Department would use to determine whether citizens' pants are within the 2-inch legal limit of a theoretical waistline. It's even more unclear how they will determine where the waistline actually lies on an individual.
More likely than not, the Ocala PD will use the time-honored legal standard of "I know it when I see it" to eyeball the location of waistlines relative to pants lines. The not-too-subtle message is: Pull up your pants, because "2 inches" really just means "too annoying."
Why do I suggest it singles out young people? I'm not ascribing any evil motive to law enforcement. Rather, as a society, we won't expect the police to ticket a plumber crouched over at work, accidentally revealing his tighty-whiteys. We'll expect them to target teens who show underwear as a fashion statement.
So, the underlying legal question arises: Can the government even outlaw saggy pants in the first place?
It's true that the First Amendment prohibits the government from interfering with our speech -- which is the right to receive and disseminate ideas and information.
It's also true that speech need not be spoken or written. The First Amendment also protects "expressive conduct." The problem is that expressive conduct is hard to identify.
Clothing can certainly be expressive. In 1971, the Supreme Court overturned one man's conviction for wearing a jacket that said "F**k the Draft" -- but that's not really expressive conduct, because the written words constituted speech. Expressive conduct conveys an idea without words. Wearing a black armband to school to protest a war is an example of expressive conduct, and the Supreme Court has said doing so is protected speech.
Indeed, even offensive clothing, like Nazi uniforms, has been deemed expressive conduct, and the reviled Klansman robe has garnered First Amendment protections.
Clothing can be communicative, but courts require an identifiable, specific message to apply First Amendment protection. Saggy pants proponents would have to show that (1) displaying your underwear conveys an identifiable message (2) that the rest of us on the street can understand as an identifiable message.
Well, doesn't having one's pants on the ground convey ideas about comfort, personal style, and individuality? Certainly, but those are not specific enough "messages" for the courts. When you think about it, all clothing conveys those ideas. In the '80s, many of us were conveying strong ideas about acid wash jeans and shoulder pads, and in the '90s, our collective message was apparently flannel and work boots. But that's just style -- or lack thereof -- and it's not enough of a message to be protected speech.
During the 2013 trial of George Zimmerman, many took to wearing hooded sweatshirts to show support for Trayvon Martin, who was killed by Zimmerman while wearing a hoodie.
Wearing hoodies satisfies the first prong of having a particularized message, but probably fails the second. Hoodies are so popular that a court might conclude the message of solidarity is indistinguishable on the street from, say, someone wearing a hoodie to the gym. In that sense, hoodies would fail the second test, because they are not understood as speech by others.
The results feel confusing: A court would likely conclude that the clothing of a Klansman or a neo-Nazi conveys a particularized message -- an unpopular, divisive, angry message. That would entitle it to constitutional protection. But saggy pants? The message is too amorphous, so it cannot be protected speech. And if it's not protected speech, the First Amendment will not prevent towns from outlawing those droopy drawers.
Few of us like looking at people's skivvies when their jeans hang off them on the subway, but how offensive is it, really? Our culture's mores about clothing are fundamentally illogical. We attempt to outlaw this display of the top half of someone's boxers, but have no laws for that old guy at the pool -- usually the same guy glistening with suntan oil -- who prances around in nothing but a Speedo all summer. What's with that guy, anyway?
The point is that culturally, we accept nearly complete nudity in one context, but try to regulate mostly clothed conduct in another. There really is no logic to our ideas about clothing. That helps to explain horrible fashion choices from decade to decade, but does little to logically justify clothing regulations. As much as we feel free to express ourselves with apparel, we likely have less freedom of expression than we imagined.
And at least in one town in Florida, no matter how trendy your gear may be, it looks like it's time to pull up the pants.
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Mysterious pictures showing what appears to be a joint-branded Sony and Google phone have been posted on photo-sharing site Picasa.
Apparently called the Sony Nexus X, the phone of course runs the standard "stock" version of Android and looks fairly high-end. The back panel shows both Sony and Google logos, as well as a two-tone finish with what looks like brushed black metal at the bottom and plastic at the top. As GearLive discovered before the EXIF info was removed, the photo was apparently taken with a Samsung-made Google Galaxy Nexus phone, which perhaps suggests it was taken by a Google employee from somewhere within the company.
It's long been thought that the next Nexus-branded Google smartphone would be made by LG and named the Nexus 4. We've already seen a leaked image of it (interestingly it appears to be sitting on a very similar desktop to the one in the Sony Nexus X images), and there's talk that it will be launched on 29th October. The 4 in the name probably refers to the screen size, as in the 7-inch Nexus 7 tablet.
But the Nexus X is more of a mystery. Is Google allowing two manufacturers to produce official Nexus phones at the same time? It's entirely possible. In terms of specifications, price and release date, there are no details out there at the moment – simply the two images. But rest assured we'll update you as the story develops.
Do you think the Sony Nexus X is the genuine article, or are the pictures merely a hoax? Let us know in the comments section below.


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OXFORD, Miss. (AP) Mississippi's Nick Williams knows what it's like to just miss the NCAA tournament.
That's why the fifth-year senior isn't too giddy about the Rebels' current seven-game winning streak, including a 4-0 start in Southeastern Conference play and a national ranking for the first time since 2010.
``We don't want to just be 4-0,'' Williams said after Saturday's win over Arkansas. ``We want to keep it going.''
The cautious approach is probably warranted.
The Rebels have been in the NCAA tournament hunt many times over the past several years, only to falter down the stretch during late January and February. The program has won at least 20 games in five of the past six seasons, but has no NCAA tournament appearances during that span, settling for the National Invitation Tournament in all five of those seasons.
Ole Miss hasn't been to the NCAA tournament since 2002 - the longest drought in the SEC.
But there's little doubt seventh-year coach Andy Kennedy has his most talented team - and certainly his most dynamic on the offensive end. No. 23 Ole Miss (15-2) is averaging more than 82 points per game this season, which ranks 3rd nationally out of 345 Division I teams and easily leads the SEC.
It's an experienced, diverse group that includes Marshall Henderson, a sharpshooting guard who's averaging a league-best 18.9 points per game. But when Henderson's touch goes cold, there are plenty of other options. Murphy Holloway is the only player averaging a double-double in the SEC, with 15.8 points and 10.6 rebounds per game.
Reginald Buckner and Williams are also averaging more than 10 points per game. Buckner - a 6-foot-9 forward who combines with Holloway to form a ferocious duo in the paint - is second in the SEC with nearly three blocked shots per game.
``That's the great thing about our team, we've got so many different people who do some many different things,'' Williams said. ``When two or three people aren't doing what we need to win, we've got other guys who can step up. We're a deep team.''
And because of that, the Rebels are rolling, though they're certainly not invincible. They needed a 35-footer from Henderson at the buzzer in regulation to tie Vanderbilt and eventually beat the Commodores in overtime last week.
But a win is a win, and because the SEC as a whole struggled so badly during nonconference play, the Rebels will likely need a lot of them during the conference's 18-game slog to stay in the NCAA tournament picture. The NCAA's current RPI rankings have Ole Miss at No. 32.
``My hope is that our guys will continue to embrace the grind, because that's what it is,'' Kennedy said. ``We're two weeks into a nine-week grind. We've got seven more and we've got to be ready for those.''
The third week begins on Thursday when Ole Miss hosts Tennessee (9-7, 1-3) at Tad Smith Coliseum.
Tennessee coach Cuonzo Martin had high praise for the Rebels on Tuesday, saying ``they have all the pieces to be very successful.''
Ole Miss certainly played well against Tennessee two weeks ago, beating the Volunteers 92-74 in Knoxville. Henderson scored a career-high 32 points in that game - combining hot shooting with some added theatrics that irritated some of the Tennessee players.
But Martin didn't seem to have an issue with it. He suggested that if his players were embarrassed by Henderson's show, they should play better defense.
``The guy's scoring baskets, making plays. I enjoyed watching him,'' Martin said. ``I hate being on the other side, but this is competitive basketball. You've got to step to the plate.''
Henderson might be the main focus of Tennessee's defensive attention on Thursday, but the entire program is starting to deal with added expectations.
Holloway says he doesn't expect any slippage just because the Rebels are starting to get noticed. If anything, he said it adds to the excitement. Ole Miss has announced two straight sellouts at Tad Smith Coliseum, and expects another on Thursday.
``I've waited so long just to be relevant,'' Holloway said. ``We've still got to be hungry.''
AP Sports Writer Steve Megargee in Knoxville, Tenn., contributed to this report.
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Okay, i've only just started learning programming yesterday.
After reading a few articles and tutorials on your site I have myself a compiler (Bloodshed DevC++) and an idea.
I want to make a simple wages calculator, where you enter your hours worked and then your hourly rate, the programme multiplys these together and gives you your wages.
I have got this far:
But I noticed when i run the programme I have to press enter at the beginning after the title to start the programme.Code:#include <iostream> using namespace std; int main() { cout<<"Wages Calculator Version 0.1.1 by Richard Longstaff"; cin.ignore(); int thisisthehours; cout<<"Please enter your hours: "; cin>> thisisthehours; cin.ignore(); int thisistherate; cout<<"Please enter your hourly rate: "; cin>> thisistherate; cin.ignore(); int thisisthewages; ;thisisthewages = thisisthehours * thisistherate; cout<<"Your wages are: "<< thisisthewages <<"\n"; cin.get(); }
How can i make it so that it goes straight into asking your hours?
I realise this question probably sounds pretty elemental to most of you, and I'm sorry if its too obvious an answer.
Any help greatly appreciated.


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The collection includes work by such notable photographers as Isaac Applebaum, Roy Arden, David Buchan, Sorel Cohen, William Eakin, Evergon, Rosalie Favell, Eldon Garnet, April Hickox, Geoffrey James, Suzy Lake, John Massey, David McMillian, Sheila Spence, Ian Wallace, and Diana Thorneycroft. To strengthen the breadth of the collection, the Gallery has acquired works which are international and historical in scope, in particular the 180 photographs dating from 1914–981 by American-Hungarian André Kertész (considered to be the father of modern photography) that were donated in 1985.
The collection includes work by Diane Arbus, Irving Penn, Brassai, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Bill Brandt, Edward Steichen, and Lotte Jacobi. In 2005 the WAG received a significant donation of 40 photographs by Edward Burtynsky tracing the last 20 years of his creative production.
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The minutes of the 2012 class AGM held last weekend in Rome, Italy, have been published on the website. To access the pdf version including all graphics please click here
Important decisions on the future of the sport have been made, especially regarding the development of course racing equipment. All decision will be implemented in the class rules by ISAF within the next few weeks and officially published then. Changes have been already made to the Standard Sailing Instructions, which will also be included in the updated championship rules 2013.
The most important change is that riders may use 4 kites per event from now on, with not more than one kite per size range registered:
- 15m and larger
- 11m to 15m (including 11 and 15 on both ends)
- 11m and smaller
- 9m and smaller
For the slalom discipline, the PKRA will run a world tour, with the courses and rules also to be published soon.
The Wave riding discipline will see another year of the KSP, with the qualification process starting after the release of the 2013 KSP tour dates beginning of February.
Finally, the PKRA has released their 2013 calendar a few days ago and we are looking forward to another year of exciting freestyle competition at the finest locations around the world. The update to the freestyle judging criteria will also be incorporated in the updated 2013 championship rulebook.
Other topics included training, foilkiting, snowkiting and constitution. For all details, please refer to the pdf file of the minutes.