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JULIE PACE Tuesday, 06 August 2013 05:00 PM EDT
PHOENIX (AP) — Buoyed by an improving housing market, President Barack Obama on Tuesday proposed a broad overhaul of the nation's mortgage finance system, including winding down government-backed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. He declared that taxpayers should never again be left "holding the bag" for the mortgage giants' bad bets.
Obama outlined his proposals in Phoenix, the once foreclosure-riddled city at the epicenter of the nation's housing crisis. The housing market in Phoenix, as well as in many other parts of the country, has rebounded robustly, with prices in the southwestern city up 66 percent from the low point in 2011.
Despite the nationwide gains, the president said sweeping housing reforms are still needed to ensure that a rejuvenated market doesn't simply "re-inflate the housing bubble." The cornerstone of that effort is winding down Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, a proposal with bipartisan support in the Senate.
"For too long, these companies were allowed to make big profits buying mortgages, knowing that if their bets went bad, taxpayers would be left holding the bag," Obama told a crowd of more than 2,000 at an area high school. He spoke following a tour of a construction company that has been able to hire hundreds of new workers as a result of the region's housing comeback.
While the president has previously endorsed overhauling Fannie and Freddie, his remarks Tuesday marked the first time he outlined his specific priorities for doing so.
The president wants to replace Fannie and Freddie with a system that would put the private sector, not the government, primarily at risk for loans. The government would still be involved, both in oversight and as a last-resort loan guarantor.
Obama is also seeking guarantees that a private sector-led mortgage finance system would still ensure wide homeowner access to popular 30-year mortgages at fixed rates.
Making light of criticism from Republicans who have cast him as a big-spending liberal, Obama joked that his calls for deeper private sector involvement "must sound confusing to the folks who call me a socialist."
Obama's mortgage reform priorities are largely in line with a Senate measure shepherded by Republican Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee and Democratic Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia. That legislation would wind down Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac within five years.
Once flourishing, Fannie and Freddie were bailed out in 2008 by a $187 billion taxpayer-backed bailout. The two enterprises don't make loans directly, but buy mortgages from lenders, package them as bonds, guarantee them against default and sell them to investors. The enterprises currently own or guarantee half of all U.S. mortgages and back nearly 90 percent of new ones.
Obama's trip to Phoenix marked the latest stop on a summertime tour aimed at rallying the public around his economic policies ahead of looming budget fights with congressional Republicans this fall. It was also a return to the city he visited just weeks after taking office in 2009 to tout the government's role in bolstering the housing market.
But some of Obama's housing proposals remain stalled in Congress, including sweeping refinancing legislation that would expand eligibility for homeowners who do not have government-backed mortgages. On Tuesday, he reiterated his calls for lawmakers to pass his refinancing proposals, saying they would help homeowners save thousands of dollars a year.
The president also tried to link his housing proposals to immigration reform, his top second-term legislative priority. He argued that legal immigration would allow more people to purchase homes, thereby raising home values. White House officials also cited a study that showed immigrants accounted for 40 percent of new homeowners nationwide between 2000 and 2010.
The nationwide housing recovery has been providing critical support to the economy at a time when manufacturing and business investment have stagnated. Steady job growth and low mortgage rates in the past year have also fueled more home sales. The increased demand, along with a tight supply of homes for sale, has pushed home prices higher and encouraged builders to start more homes and create more construction jobs.
Seeking to highlight the broad impact of the housing market, Obama opened his stop in Phoenix with a tour of Erickson Construction, a company that makes building frames for homebuilders in three western states. The White House said the company's workforce has expanded from less than 100 employees at the depths of the recession to more than 580.
Just two years ago, the region was in the throes of the worst housing collapse in the country, with prices down nearly 60 percent from their June 2006 peak and banks foreclosing on 70,000 homeowners a year. While the current median home price remains below peak, the levels have risen 66 percent from September 2011. Buyers are plentiful and homes for sale scarce, leading to bidding wars for resale homes.
At the high school in Phoenix, students in the audience interrupted Obama with a rendition of "Happy Birthday;" the president turned 52 on Sunday.
"I'm now 52, and Michelle says I don't look a day over 51," Obama quipped.
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Girl have you lost your mind?
No I haven't lost my mind...yet.
Yes, I have cabin fever; a bad case of it actually. And yes, these taste friggin amazing.
Does it sound gross? Of course it does! If it didn't then why on earth would I make it?
I used those Snyder-that-can-crack-your-teeth-pretzels. Hubby asked me to buy them for him, I did, they sat there for a couple days. Afraid I would eat them in one sitting during one of our many thousand snowstorms we've had already, I went ahead and used them so I wouldn't eat them, but then ate them anyways because they are in another form now. Makes sense right?
This recipe sounds gross and all, but in all honesty its not. You don't taste the bbq.
What you taste is the twang of the pretzels that pairs very well with the pb and chocolate. I think you could use any pretzel you like, but I doubt ranch flavored would work well.
I did NOT write this recipe down, but I think I remembered everything as I happily went along.
With that said, PLEASE taste-test as you go along just in case I did forget something.
chocolate-pb bars w/ bbq pretzels
print recipe
¼ cup light brown sugar {packed}
2 cups confectioners' sugar
1/2 cup unsalted butter, room temp
1 and ¾ cups creamy peanut butter
A pinch of salt
A handful of salted cocktail peanuts to add into batter, optional
10 ounces high quality milk chocolate chips PLUS ¼ cup, divided
8 ounces high quality bittersweet chocolate chips
About 2 – 3 TB of butter for melting chocolates
For pretzels:
About 2 - 3 cups crushed Snyders BBQ pretzels, loosely crushed we want semi-big chunks (I cannot remember if it was 2 or 3 cups, sorry)
About ½ stick or ¼ cup of butter, melted
Preheat oven to 350 degrees
Grease up an 8 by 8 inch brownie pan (I used non stick spray). Melt the other half stick of butter for the pretzels in a pan. In a bowl mix the melted butter and pretzels. Press them evenly into the prepared brownie pan. Bake in preheated oven for about 15 minutes or until set. Do NOT let this brown!
Remove from oven and immediately sprinkle on the ¼ cup of milk chocolates; let them melt on their own then take a spatula and spread as evenly as you can without moving the pretzels. Let cool and harden.
Combine the brown sugar, confectioners' sugar, 1/2 room temp butter, peanut butter, and pinch of salt in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with a paddle attachment. Blend until smooth. If you want to add in cocktail peanuts, this would be the time.
Dump the mixture out into the cooled pan & press it down, making it an even as possible.
Melt the chocolates & 2 TB of butter in a double boiler, or in a heat-proof bowl set over simmering water. Stir occasionally to combine and get nice and glossy.
Spread the melted chocolate over the peanut butter base & smooth out the surface. I like to let my pan sit at room temp for about an hour, then put in fridge to finish hardening. Once chocolate is set. Simply run a slim/skinny knife around edges to loosen. Invert the pan onto large plate/platter. You can either serve this pretzel side up or down.
You will need a very sharp knife to cut through the hard chocolate. Be careful.


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Monday, January 4, 2010
Roasted Garbanzo Beans with Cajun Spice - Blue Monday
Roasted Garbanzo Beans with Cajun Spice ...and...
My Blue Boys
From the kitchen of One Perfect Bite...This is one of our favorite fireplace and football snacks. There are exactly 4 ingredients in this recipe. It really doesn't get any easier than this. BUT. I'm currently experimenting with dried garbanzo beans that are soaked in water for 24 hours before proceeding with the recipe. Please stay tuned! I'm sure, that given enough time, I can complicate this recipe for you. Till then, here's the bare bones version using canned garbanzo beans.
Roasted Garbanzo Beans with Cajun Spice...from the kitchen of One Perfect Bite
2 cups canned garbanzo beans, rinsed, drained and patted dry
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
1 teaspoon commercially prepared Cajun Spice
1/2 teaspoon golden brown sugar
Coarse salt to taste
1) Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Coat a no-stick baking sheet with no-stick spray and set aside.
2) Toss garbanzo beans with oil, Cajun Spice and brown sugar in a small bowl. Mix well.
3) Place beans in a single layer on prepared baking sheet. Bake for 30 to 40 minutes, or until crisp and golden. Sprinkle with coarse salt to taste. Allow to cool before serving. Yield: 2 cups.
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56 comments :
- theUngourmet said...
These looks so fun and delicious! Love your blue boys too!
- January 4, 2010 at 12:30 AM
- Mary | Deep South Dish said...
Oh yum! Love the combination of sweet and spicy.
- January 4, 2010 at 1:04 AM
- xinex said...
Your boys are adorable and so precious, Mary! The garbanzos looks so spicy and yummy!....Christine
- January 4, 2010 at 1:51 AM
- bj said...
I love this recipe but....
those BLUE boys are so precious!!
hugs, bj - January 4, 2010 at 2:21 AM
- JLS Hall (Joysweb) said...
Very cute "Blue Boys" shots! And the Garbanzo Beans sound delicious and tempting - I love easy!
- January 4, 2010 at 3:10 AM
- Terie said...
I love garbanzo beans...great recipe, as always!
(my internet is misbehaving and I could not see the pictures :-( - January 4, 2010 at 4:00 AM
- Ginger said...
Good Morning Mary!
I definitely want to give these a try. Looking for some new "healthy" snacks and these seem to fit the bill. Happy 2010. The boys are ADORABLE :-) - January 4, 2010 at 5:27 AM
- lisa said...
These look so good, one of my favorites.
Your blue boys are angels.
Pale Pink And Roses - January 4, 2010 at 6:19 AM
- Glo said...
I am definitely going to try this recipe for a party at my house this weekend!
Cute boys! - January 4, 2010 at 6:33 AM
- Katy ~ said...
Garbanzo beans are a fav, so I will have to see if I can find them dried as this recipe looks very good!
And those boys, well, they are sooooo adorable! They make me smile from the inside out. - January 4, 2010 at 6:45 AM
- gengen said...
Your food is delicious and your boys are handsome then cute. Happy blue Monday.
- January 4, 2010 at 6:59 AM
- Donna-FFW said...
Sounds like a most delicious football snack for sure.Sweet and spicy, nothing beats it!
The boys are precious! - January 4, 2010 at 7:00 AM
- Schnitzel and the Trout said...
Very surprisingly interesting recipe. Love those boys of yours. Special, special children.
- January 4, 2010 at 8:08 AM
- Cathy said...
Your little guy are so precious. I can imagine how much you are enjoying your time with them.
What a tasty little snack, Mary. I go for savory over sweet any day. - January 4, 2010 at 8:10 AM
- sherri@lavenderfields said...
Cute little boys in blue! That looks like a healthy snack! Sounds good. Wishing you all the very best in 2010! Happy New Year! Sherri : )
- January 4, 2010 at 8:36 AM
- Karen said...
I could make a meal of these! Your baby boys are adorable :) Isn't being a Grandma the *best*??
- January 4, 2010 at 9:16 AM
- SmilingSally said...
Little blue boys make a winning duo, Mary. Thanks for showing them. Happy New Year and Happy Blue Monday.
- January 4, 2010 at 9:28 AM
- Lyndas recipe box said...
Such an easy and yummy sounding snack- thanks!
Your boys are adorable looking, Mary. - January 4, 2010 at 10:04 AM
- LV said...
You have started us off right with another great meal. I truly loved the precious children pictures. So sweet.
- January 4, 2010 at 11:09 AM
- Lynne (lynnesgiftsfromtheheart) said...
Your boys are beautiful children... Your recipe looks delicious... hugs ~lynne~
- January 4, 2010 at 11:17 AM
- Devon said...
I am going vegan for a month and this is a great snack idea. Thanks! P.S. Save yourself the grief and stick to canned beans.
- January 4, 2010 at 11:25 AM
- Maggie said...
O.K. I'll have to google "garbanzo beans" haven't a clue what they are!
Gorgeous blue boys, what a delight they must be.
Happy New Year from Normandy
Maggie - January 4, 2010 at 12:15 PM
- Inspired by eRecipeCards said...
too cute... and what a head of hair!!!
I am indeed collecting all these football recipes - January 4, 2010 at 12:17 PM
- Liesl said...
I love roasted garbanzo beans!!!! Plus they are even healthy which is an added bonus!
- January 4, 2010 at 12:45 PM
- Alexandra said...
Mm. Roasted Garbanzo Beans are the best. Love 'em. 'Specially with cajun spices. Your boys are so cute.
- January 4, 2010 at 2:03 PM
- Marice said...
that beans looks yummy! and those blue boys are so adorable :)
u may view mine here - January 4, 2010 at 2:18 PM
- Farmer Jo said...
I love these! Roasted garbanzos are fabulous. I think the dried, soaked and cooked ones are a little better - but the convenence of canned is worth it.
I like them with smoked sweet paprika and salt. - January 4, 2010 at 2:36 PM
- Maria said...
Great healthy snack!
- January 4, 2010 at 3:19 PM
- ellen b said...
Hello Mary! Happy New Year and Happy blue Monday to you! Those boys are so cute!! I really like garbanzo beans so this recipe is calling to me!
- January 4, 2010 at 4:22 PM
- Mary Bergfeld said...
Maria, I'm so glad you found my blog. I hope you'll visit often.
- January 4, 2010 at 4:48 PM
- pigpigscorner said...
This makes a healthy snack! great flavours!
- January 4, 2010 at 5:51 PM
- Becky W said...
These look yummy! Just wondering...any recommendations on storage, and how long the finished beans will keep before going bad? I am looking for snacks to pack for surviving my night classes, and if I could make a batch of these on the weekends and pack them as snacks for 3-4 days, that would be awesome.
- January 4, 2010 at 6:04 PM
- Mary Bergfeld said...
Rebecca, I pack these in air tight containers and have been known to store them for 8 or 9 days.
- January 4, 2010 at 6:22 PM
Happy Blue Monday! Blue is for boys :)
- January 4, 2010 at 6:27 PM
- Penny said...
You are so blessed with all of your boys. Raising my boy was the best thing I have done in life. Happy New Year Mary. Love the Garbanzo beans and I am sure you will tweak away!
- January 4, 2010 at 6:29 PM
- Foodiewife said...
This is so bizarre. All my life, I hated garbanzo beans. There was no way you could pay me to eat one! Suddenly, I love them! I just bought two cans of garbanzo beans-- one to make a three bean salad (my newest discovery I like)...and these look like healthy and yummy snacks!
Will you adopt me? When you publish your cookbook, I'm first in line to buy it!
PS: Sweet babes! - January 4, 2010 at 6:51 PM
- Jean Stockdale said...
Thanks for stopping by and leaving a note. I love the Popeye idea!! How creative. You are a fun mom and a great cook!!
Blessings for a glorious 2010 for you and your family. jean - January 4, 2010 at 6:55 PM
- Baba said...
Hi Mary, what sweet looking boys in blue..I love the baby's great head of hair..so precious!!
I need to try garbanzo beans for a different vegetable..sounds good .. - January 4, 2010 at 7:38 PM
- noble pig said...
These are so yummy sounding! Love the cajun.
- January 4, 2010 at 7:43 PM
- Lindy said...
Such precious little boys! Looks like you have lots of interesting food here. =)
Thanks for the visit to my blog.
Happy Blue Monday. - January 4, 2010 at 8:59 PM
- Tricia said...
This looks yummy. I've been cooking more since reading your blog -- one of my new year's resolutions is to prepare better dinners for my family. I'll have to post some pictures one of these days. And your little guys are so precious.
Blessings and wishes for a healthy and happy new year.
Tricia - January 4, 2010 at 9:10 PM
- storyteller said...
These look easy enough for me to fix and tasty too! Love your 'boys in blue' ;-)
Hugs and blessings, - January 4, 2010 at 9:34 PM
- Veronica M. said...
Now I have 3 recipes for Roasted Chick Peas--can't wait to try this one!
- January 4, 2010 at 10:00 PM
- Lori said...
You are funny... I am sure I can complicate this recipe for you. I am sure you will enlighten us. You are certainly very clever int he kitchen!
- January 4, 2010 at 10:06 PM
- Deb in Hawaii said...
I truly love roasted garbanzo beans--so delicious to snack on. I'll have to give this recipe a try with the Cajun spices.
- January 5, 2010 at 3:48 AM
- Kim, USA said...
I thought it is popcorn but when I read it is garbanzos my curiosity was awaken hehe. Thanks for the recipe.
Blue Monday:Christmas gifts - January 5, 2010 at 9:47 AM
- Claudia said...
Love these - I make something similar - but not with cajun spice. And those boys - are stunningly beautiful!
- January 5, 2010 at 1:28 PM
- My Little Space said...
Mary, every time I drop by just can't wait to see your grandsons! They're all so adorable especailly the youngest one! Another few more years, they'll be handsome teenagers. Haha... Well, you're a beautiful grandmother too, of coz! Eat more NUTS but don't go NUTS! Have a wonderful day.
Best wishes, Kristy - January 5, 2010 at 10:57 PM
- Zurin said...
OH Mary your grandsons are so adorable! They remind me of my sons when they were babies :)))
and those garzanbo beans look so good ..ive nevr baked them before so Ill just have to make them soon . - January 6, 2010 at 12:49 AM
- Olga said...
This idea seems to be quite popular: I just saw it on another blog too.
Love chickpeas, but I think i'd take out the brown sugar. - January 7, 2010 at 11:45 AM
- Gayle from Southern Thresholds said...
Love the name of your blog...I plan to try this recipe today as I have some canned beans on the pantry shelf..
- January 17, 2010 at 10:46 AM
- Cucee Sprouts said...
My favorite snack ever! Here is my variation http://cuceesprouts.com/2010/07/mission-statement/
- July 27, 2010 at 12:27 PM
- Unknown said...
I love garbanzo beans...great recipe, as always! You can use this Cajun Spice for any Cajun or Creole dishes. They can even turn your regular chicken curry in an exotic dish
- November 29, 2012 at 11:57 PM
- Michelle said...
Looks like tomorrow's after school snack! Can't wait to try them.
- January 16, 2013 at 7:02 PM
- kbray06 said...
Where do you use the vegetable oil? It mentions it in ingredients but not in the recipe part.
- July 23, 2014 at 7:33 PM
- Mary Bergfeld said...
kbray06, recipe has been changed to
include addition of oil with spice mix. - July 23, 2014 at 9:01 PM


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This is TALK OF THE NATION. I'm Celeste Headlee.
But also buzzing around on the Internet, a routine meal at Applebee's that became a huge headache for the restaurant, a St. Louis pastor and a waitress. That's after a picture of the - a receipt went viral. Pastor Alois Bell and nine others stopped by Applebee's after a church service. Because of the size of the party, 18 percent was automatically added to the check. Bell paid the bill but wrote a zero on the additional tip line and scribbled, I give God 10 percent. Why you get 18? She also signed her name, with the title pastor added in front.
Another waitress who was not serving Bell snapped a photo of the receipt and then posted it online with the caption, I'm sure Jesus will pay for my rent and groceries. That post went instantly, almost instantly viral. It garnered thousands of comments from different websites and some pretty virulent attacks on Pastor Bell. Bell called Applebee's to complain and the company fired the waitress who'd posted the receipt. The reason giving, for the firing, was a violation of customer privacy since Bell's signature was visible on the receipt.
Today, we're going to take - we'll take a deeper look at the story through a series of op-eds about the incident. But we want to get your thoughts as well to tell us, do the fear of private actions going to public online make you change what you do? Call us at 800-989-8255. Our email address is email@example.com. And you can join our conversation at our website. It's at npr.org and then click on TALK OF THE NATION.
But first, back to the incident itself. In an interview with the local TV in St. Louis, Bell said, that's the pastor, she did leave a cash tip and the automatic gratuity was charged to her credit card as well. So there was no question of stiffing the waitress. The pastor apologized for leaving the note, saying it was a lapse in judgment.
Many people - most people, I think I could say, on the Internet jumped the fence on the fired waitress. But Michael Wolf, writing in Forbes, says, as a former waiter, all the arguments defending the waitress are true. Most wait staff make less than minimum wage. The pastor was probably incorrectly pulling the God card and Applebee's does not enforce their own privacy policy. The restaurant had been posting receipts with good feedback on social media for quite some time.
But Wolf defends the decision to fire the waitress anyway. He writes, here's why I think Applebee's is still in the right after all this. The server, Chelsea Welch, did violate the pastor's privacy by putting a copy of her signature on the Internet. Think about that. A signature is a very personal thing. It's what you put on checks. It's what you put on permission slips to excuse your children or grandchildren from school. It's what you put on your Social Security and passport. It's a part of your identity. And Chelsea Welch put someone else's on the Internet without their permission.
The fired waitress, Chelsea Welch, wrote an op-ed in The Guardian on Friday, defending herself and other service workers. She writes, I assumed the customer's signature was illegible, but I quickly started receiving messages containing Facebook profile links and websites, asking me to confirm the identity of the customer. I refused to confirm any of them. All were incorrect. I worked with the Reddit moderators to remove any personal information - Reddit is the name of the online website she was using. And then Chelsea Welch writes, I wanted to protect the identity of both my fellow server and the customer. I had no intention of starting a witch-hunt or hurting anyone. Now I've been fired.
But this wasn't just a problem for Chelsea Welch. It was big problem for Pastor Bell. The social media back (unintelligible)was huge. Clarke Gail Baines at MadameNoir, a black women's lifestyle website, writes this, Bell wasn't banking on the fact that her remarks were going to get blasted on the Internet and put a dent in her reputation really fast.
After the original jilted server showed a co-worker, Chelsea Welch, the receipt, Welch went online, posted the receipt and once people saw it, all hell broke loose. Bell said in an interview in St. Louis that people were so disgusted with her perceived slight of the waitress, that they were not only calling her a hypocrite but they claimed they weren't going to church because of people like her.
This story has also turned into a very sticky PR situation for Applebee's. The Twitter hashtag #BoycottApplebees took off. The company's Facebook page was deluged with comments. And the site administrator started responding to individual posts, which only ticked off customers even more.
Matt Scherer wrote an article called "Applebee's Facing A Social Media Disaster" for My San Antonio, and he said this: If you search the term Applebee's on Twitter, you'll get a long litany of posts, almost all of them with negative comments against the restaurant. In time, communications professionals will find this social media event on scale with the Tylenol case of 1982. They'll come up with some interesting theories and strategies. There's probably going to be some large public relations firm that will write a five-page white paper on how to manage or monitor your employee social media comments. Of course, for a fee, they'll help you monitor the feedback and traffic on your social media feeds.
We want to get your take on this. We'll continue looking at it a little deeper, but we're taking your calls as well as whether or not the fear of having your actions posted online has actually changed your behavior. And right now, we are talking to John from San Francisco, California. John, are you afraid, ever, of something you do getting - going viral?
JOHN: Not something that I do in particular, but I'm a seasoned HR director. I'm a vice president of HR in a hospital system. And unfortunately, I've been involved in several terminations of employees who have posted inappropriate things on Facebook. And coincidentally, my daughter happens to be a server at an Applebee's. And I have encouraged all of my kids - one of whom is now a young school teacher, just landed his first job - don't put - just leave Facebook alone. Facebook is extremely dangerous. Helpful in many ways, but it's dangerous. It can get you fired. It can get you sued. It can put you in jail. So what I tell people is you can't post anything. Don't post signatures, anything about social security numbers, anything that violates...
HEADLEE: So wait. Let me ask you, John. If that's what you're telling her, then it would've been OK if she posted the receipt without the signature visible?
JOHN: Correct. Absolutely. Unfortunately, to me, this is a no-brainer because - and I saw the photograph - because the signature is clearly visible. I suppose an identity thief, even though you can't get the credit card number, at least has the signature. And so in theory, an identity thief or, you know, a forger can, you know, duplicate that on some document or whatever. So it's a violation because it reveals the signature to the public. So I would've fired her in a heartbeat. However, if she put the picture on there but somehow had blurred out the signature and anything that could've identified the individual, then, no, I would not have fired her at all.
HEADLEE: OK. Interesting. John, calling from San Francisco, California. And here we also have from San Francisco, California, Ken. What do you think? Do you think that being a little afraid of things going viral online makes people change their behavior?
KEN: Well, it makes me more cautious really, not out of fear but to be very pointed in my argument. So in other words, I wouldn't lash out at someone in an insulting manner the way this pastor seemed to be doing. As a former server, the server has really very little control only of the service, not of the actual quality of food or the policy of the restaurant, which I'm sure had to be printed on the menu or sign there, somewhere. The pastor really should've complained to management rather than taking it out on the defenseless server.
But as for myself, I try to make - if I'm angry at service or a company's policies, I just to try to make a very pointed contextual thing, because the Internet, if nothing else, is full of trolls and people who like to, so-called, blow things up out of proportion. So I am aware of the reaction or the knee-jerk nature of the Internet that - in a way that people wouldn't act in person that they do online, sort of, throwing rocks from hiding.
HEADLEE: That's Ken. Thank you very much, Ken, for calling from San Francisco, California. We also read - R.L. Stollar writes in a blog post that was titled "Applebee's Overnight Social Media Meltdown." R.L. writes this: The upshot is this. The Internet is laughing and Applebee's is losing a lot of customers. And Patrick Coffee also wrote in a PR Newser article: This is why we think everyone should be legally required to work in a service-industry job, preferably at a bar or restaurant, for at least six months to better appreciate the other side of the equation.
And then to go back, briefly, to Chelsea Welch's op-ed for The Guardian, Chelsea writes this: I posted a picture to make people laugh. Now I want to make a serious point. Things like this happen to servers all the time. People seem to think the easiest way to save money on a night is to skip the tip. Obviously, the person who wrote this note wanted it seen by someone. It's strange that now that the audience is wider than just the server, the person is ashamed.
So again, we want to talk about public shaming, or maybe not. Does the possibility of something ending up on the Internet ever change your behavior? You can give us a call and let us know at 800-989-8255. Right now, we have Michael from Detroit, Michigan. What do you think, Michael? Do people change their behavior because now they have to worry about it going online?
MICHAEL: So we certainly do. We're more out in public now and certainly like this pastor was, with a large group of people, she was probably being a representative of something larger than herself. She was being a pastor. She was representing a congregation. And her behavior in public matters. And, you know, I have a license with the state of Michigan as a health care provider. And I know, darn well, when I'm out in public, if something like this happens, I am a representative of something larger than myself. And if I mess up or if I'm perceived to be rude, or snotty or something like that, then, you know, it could have a lot of ill effects and you won't have to be careful.
I thought the pastor's behavior was, you know, really kind of negative and came off really, really snotty. She was called on it and didn't like it. None of us would. But her response, you know, after that was rather than just apologizing and letting it go with that, then Applebee fired the waitress. And I find that a bit tragic as well.
HEADLEE: That's Michael calling from Detroit, Michigan. Let's also hear something from James in Tampa, Florida. What do you think? Do you ever get worried? You change decisions you make or change what you do based on whether or not it could end up online?
JAMES: No, ma'am, because I felt like if you say it, I went up to it. Mean it. You know, if you say it to somebody in person, then say it online. And we have culture now where people will hide behind the computer screen and change their name and make nasty comments. And this pastor meant it. This pastor thought it. The pastor wrote it, and then the pastor went to stand behind it. And that's the problem we have in this country. Everybody wants to cave, wants to get a lot pressure.
You know, if you got something to say and you think something or believe something, stand behind it. If people don't like it tough. you know, hurt feelings is what, you know, it'll make you better. You'll get over it. But she should've stand behind it. She meant it, that's why she wrote it. You know, she wouldn't wrote it if she didn't mean it.
HEADLEE: OK. That's interesting. James calling from Tampa, Florida. Let's go back to op-eds here, and this is Conor Fiedersdorf writing in The Atlantic. His piece id called "Should What Happens At Applebee's Stay at Applebee's?" In America, Conor writes, where the customer is always right, a confrontation between a customer and an employee, mediated by a manager, is almost never going to end in satisfaction for the employee - no matter how badly the customer behaved.
The general rule that they ought not expose customers to Internet ridicule is sound and necessary. Still, a part of me hopes that the degree of transparency brought by technology both keeps customers on better behavior and spares employees termination in instances when the behavior they expose is clearly indefensible. Maybe 10 years from now, Applebee's suspends that waitress for a week rather than firing her. Better yet, maybe the customer of tomorrow thinks twice before scrawling entitled screeds on her receipt, and the whole thing is avoided.
We definitely want to get your views on this. The phone number is 800-989-8255. And let me repeat the question here so everyone knows exactly what we're asking. What we're asking is, have you ever changed you behavior - either for good or ill - because you were concerned about how it might play online? That's the question. 800-989-8255. The email address is talk @npr.org. And here's Mary Ann(ph) in Mooresville, North Carolina. Mary Anne, have you every changed a decision based on whether or not it would go viral?
MARY ANN: I'm sitting on something. I'm in a county that's had any number of corruption issues. In fact, the sheriff is being sued right now inside the court for sexual harassment because of one of his deputies. And we're a couple of disabled women living together and animal control has harassed us. In fact, they my service dog and I filed (unintelligible) complaints. And they're holding on to her for no reason. But...
HEADLEE: But, Mary Ann, what does this - have you ever changed behavior? I mean, has this taught you to be careful about how things going...
ANN: Well, I have a piece of information that I took off of Facebook. One of the employees, and it's very damning. And I have hesitated to put it on Facebook. I could send this to any number of rescues and it would be viral in a matter of hours. It's absolutely - it basically says my idea of happiness is killing (unintelligible).
HEADLEE: Ooh, so, Mary Ann, that's a kind of cautionary tale. That's Mary Ann, and thank you very much for your call from North Carolina. Kind of a cautionary tale, saying she's pulled something off someone's Facebook page that could and up, you know, biting them in the future.
And let me read something else, which kind of fits. R.L. Stollar again in his blog post write: Hell hath no fury like a Facebook scorned. In today's digital age, most of us assume everyone understands this fact. But every now and again, people surprise us. An ever-increasing element of this reality is that the hounds of Reddit, the Twitter armies, and Facebook vigilantes, more than willing to remind people that we live in a publicized world. You can't hide behind privacy statements or legal jargon that appeals to company policy to pacify an Internet mob.
So let me to go, here, to Johann in Livonia, Michigan, not too far out of Detroit. Johann, what do you think? Do you change your behavior based on whether or not it'll be publicized on the Internet?
JOHANN: Absolutely. You know, when I was a kid growing up, you know, 20 years ago, my mom would say, you know, if you can say - if you don't have to write it, say it. And if you don't have to say it, hold your tongue. And, you know, I definitely going to self-censor myself of what I read on Facebook. And I think it's a great social benefit, as often times, I find myself, you know, thinking about the topic before I go and write something.
HEADLEE: Let me ask you something, Johann. Do you think people will think twice before writing something like this on a receipt because of this Applebee's uproar?
JOHANN: I think people already do. And I think, you know, if you aren't going thinking about stuff before you write it, you're just way behind the times. You know, it is public life. And, you know, we all live in a public life now. And, you know, you should go and understand what you go, when you say and what you write could go and become public. And, you know, if you can't defend what you're saying, you probably should go on and think about what you're saying.
HEADLEE: OK. That's Johann calling from Livonia, Michigan. Thank you so much for that call. Let me close off our op-eds here, with a - the closer from Chelsea Welch's piece in the Guardian. Again, just to remind you, Chelsea Welch is the waitress who got fired. She's not the one that served Pastor Bell. She's the one that posted a photo of the receipt on the Internet. And Welch closes her op-ed with this: As this story has gotten popular, I've received inquiries as to where people can send money to support me. As a broke kid trying to get into college, it's certainly appealing, but I'd really rather you make a difference to your next server. I'd rather you keep that money and that generosity for the next time you eat out.
So Chelsea thinks that something like this can change people's behavior. What do you think? Tomorrow, we're going to talk about the status of mixed race families in light of immigration reform, when that argument becomes personal. Join us for that. This is TALK OF THE NATION from NPR News. I'm Celeste Headlee in Washington. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Keeping kids' teeth healthy requires more than just daily brushing. During a routine well-child exam, you may be surprised to find the doctor examining your child's teeth and asking you about your water supply. That's because fluoride, a substance that's found naturally in water, plays an important role in healthy tooth development and cavity prevention.
What Is Fluoride?
Fluoride exists naturally in water sources and is derived from fluorine, the thirteenth most common element in the Earth's crust. It is well known that fluoride helps prevent and even reverse the early stages of tooth decay.
Tooth decay occurs when plaque — that sticky film of bacteria that accumulates on your teeth — breaks down sugars in food. The bacteria produce damaging acids that dissolve the hard enamel surfaces of teeth. If the damage is not stopped or treated, the bacteria can penetrate through the enamel causing tooth decay (also called cavities or caries). Cavities weaken teeth and can lead to pain, tooth loss, or even widespread infection in the most severe cases.
Fluoride combats tooth decay in two ways. It is incorporated into the structure of developing teeth when it is ingested and also works when it comes in contact with the surface of the teeth. Fluoride prevents the acid produced by the bacteria in plaque from dissolving, or demineralizing, tooth enamel, the hard and shiny substance that protects the teeth. Fluoride also allows teeth damaged by acid to repair, or remineralize, themselves. Fluoride cannot repair cavities, but it can reverse low levels of tooth decay and thus prevent new cavities from forming.
Despite the good news about dental health, tooth decay remains one of the most common diseases of childhood. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), more than one quarter of 2- to 5-year-olds and half of kids 12 to 15 years old have one or more cavities, and tooth decay has affected two thirds of 16- to 19-year-olds.
Fluoride and the Water Supply
For over 60 years, water fluoridation has proved to be a safe and cost-effective way to reduce dental caries. Today, water fluoridation is estimated to reduce tooth decay by 20-40%. As of 2002, the CDC statistics show that almost 60% of the U.S. population receives fluoridated water through the taps in their homes. Some communities have naturally occurring fluoride in their water; others add it at water-processing plants.
Your child's doctor or dentist may know whether local water supplies contain optimal levels of fluoride, between 0.7 and 1.2 ppm (parts fluoride per million parts of water). If your water comes from a public system, you could also call your local water authority or public health department, or check online at the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) database of local water safety reports. If you use well water or water from a private source, fluoride levels should be checked by a laboratory or public health department.
Some parents purchase bottled water for their children to drink instead of tap water. Most bottled waters lack fluoride, but fluoridated bottled water is now available. If fluoride is added, the manufacturer is required to list the amount. If fluoride concentration is greater than 0.6 ppm up to 1.0 ppm, you might see the health claim "Drinking fluoridated water may reduce the risk of tooth decay" on the label.
The Controversy Over Fluoride
Opponents of water fluoridation have questioned its safety and effectiveness; however, there has been little evidence to support these claims.
Scientific research continues to support the benefits of fluoride when it comes to prevention of tooth decay and its safety at current recommended levels of 0.7 to 1.2 ppm. Dramatic reductions in tooth decay in the past 30 years is attributed to fluoridation of the water supply, and parents and health professionals should continue to ensure that kids receive enough fluoride to prevent cavities.
The American Dental Association (ADA), the United States Public Health Service (USPHS), the American Academy of Pediatric (AAP), and the World Health Organization (WHO), among many other national and international organizations, endorse community water fluoridation. The CDC recognized fluoridation of water as one of the 10 greatest public health achievements of the 20th century.
Kids' Fluoride Needs
So how much fluoride do kids need? In general, kids under the age of 6 months do not need fluoride supplements. Your child's 6-month checkup offers a great chance to discuss fluoride supplementation with a health professional. If you live in a nonfluoridated area, your doctor or dentist may prescribe fluoride drops, tablets, or vitamins after your baby is 6 months old.
The AAP recommends that these fluoride supplements be given daily to kids between the ages of 6 months and 16 years. The dosage depends on how much fluoride naturally occurs in the water and the child's age. Only kids living in nonfluoridated areas or those who drink only nonfluoridated bottled water should receive supplements.
What about toothpastes, mouth rinses, and other products that contain fluoride? Here are a few tips:
• Kids under 2 years old should not use fluoride toothpaste unless instructed by a dentist or health professional.
• Kids younger than 6 may swallow too much toothpaste while brushing, so should be supervised when brushing and taught to spit, not swallow, toothpaste.
• Kids over age 2 should use a fluoride-containing toothpaste that carries the ADA's seal of acceptance.
• Kids should use only a pea-sized amount of toothpaste.
• Kids under age 6 should never use fluoride-containing mouth rinses. However, older kids at high risk for tooth decay may benefit from using them. Your dentist can talk with you about risk factors such as a family history of dental disease, recent periodontal surgery or disease, or a physical impediment to brushing regularly and thoroughly.
Your family dentist or pediatric dentist (one who specializes in the care of children's teeth) is a great resource for information about dental care and fluoride needs. A dentist can help you understand more about how fluoride affects the teeth, and once all of your child's primary teeth have come in, may recommend regular topical fluoride during routine dental visits.
Overexposure to Fluoride
If some fluoride is good, why isn't more fluoride better? As with most medications, including vitamins and mineral supplements, too much can be harmful. Most kids get the right amount of fluoride through a combination of fluoridated toothpaste and fluoridated water or supplements.
Too much fluoride before 8 years of age, a time when teeth are developing, can cause enamel fluorosis, a discoloration or mottling of the permanent teeth For most, the changes are subtle. In one study, 94% of identified fluorosis cases were very mild to mild. Most cases are due to inappropriate use of fluoride-containing dental products, including toothpaste and mouth rinses. Sometimes kids take daily fluoride supplements but may be getting adequate fluoride from other sources, which also puts them at risk.
Recently, the National Research Council found naturally occurring fluoride levels exceeded the optimal levels used in community fluoridation programs (0.7 to 1.2 ppm), putting kids under 8 years old at risk for severe enamel fluorosis. The CDC recommends that in communities where fluoride levels are greater than 2 ppm, parents should provide kids with water from other sources.
The ADA also recognizes that infants need less fluoride than older kids and adults. Some infants may be getting too much fluoride in the water used to reconstitute infant formula. If you're concerned that your infant may be getting too much fluoride, talk with your doctor or dentist, who may recommend ready-to-feed formula or formula reconstituted with fluoride-free or low-fluoride water.
Very rarely, fluoride toxicity can occur when large amounts of fluoride are ingested during a short period of time. Kids under age 6 account for more than 80% of reports of suspected overingestion. Although outcomes are generally not serious, fluoride toxicity sends several hundred children to emergency rooms each year.
Symptoms of fluoride toxicity may include nausea, diarrhea, vomiting, abdominal pain, increased salivation, or increased thirst. Symptoms begin 30 minutes after ingestion and can last up to 24 hours. If you suspect your child may have eaten a substantial amount of a fluoridated product or supplement, call the poison control center or 911.
Be sure to keep toothpaste, supplements, mouth rinses, and other fluoride-containing products out of children's reach or in a locked cabinet. You should also supervise your young child's toothbrushing sessions to prevent swallowing of toothpaste or other fluoridated products.
If you have any questions about your water's fluoride content, the fluoridated products your child uses, or whether your child is receiving too much or too little fluoride, talk to your doctor or dentist.
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Why Vaccinate your Pet?
Vaccinations are very important and protect your pets against infectious and potentially fatal diseases.
Vaccination for Kittens and Cats
The vaccines given will depend on the lifestyle of your kitten. To give them full immunity, kittens are vaccinated at the following ages.
- 6 – 8 weeks
- 10 – 12 weeks
- 14 – 16 weeks
To maintain this immunity, the kittens and cats must be vaccinated once every 12 months. The vaccines will protect the cats from three infectious diseases – Feline enteritis, Cat Flu and Feline Immunodeficiency Virus (FIV).
Vaccination for Puppies and Dogs
Puppies are vaccinated at the following ages to provide them with full immunity.
- 6 – 8 weeks
- 10 – 12 weeks
- 14 – 16 weeks
To maintain immunity throughout their life, puppies and dogs require vaccination once every 12 months. Some components of the vaccine provide immunity for 3 years, others for only one year. Each program is tailored to the individual dog. The vaccines will protect the dogs from diseases such as Distemper, Infectious Canine Hepatitis, Parvovirus and Canine Cough.


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If it seemed like 2011 was a big year for laws restricting abortion, it was.
In fact, according to "Who Decides? The Status of Women's Reproductive Rights In the U.S.," the 21st annual report compiled by the abortion-rights group NARAL Pro-Choice America, the 69 laws enacted restricting a woman's reproductive rights were just one short of the record set in 1999.
"The bottom line here is that elections matter," said NARAL President and CEO Nancy Keenan. "When you have a change of anti-choice politicians sitting in the statehouse, it affects women's' lives."
In fact, the dramatic increase in laws restricting abortion and other reproductive health matters shouldn't have come as much of a surprise given the results of the 2010 elections, noted NARAL Policy Director Donna Crane.
After the sweeping success of the Tea Party, only six states have governments where both houses of the legislature and the governor support abortion rights, while 19 states have a governor and majority of the legislature opposed to abortion.
The states that passed the largest number of abortion restrictions in 2011 all got new, anti-abortion GOP governors in 2009 or 2010: Florida, Arizona and Kansas.
Interestingly, however, those states don't match the list of the top "pro-life" states as ranked today by the anti-abortion group Americans United for Life. AUL, which ranked states not just according to anti-abortion legislation but also issues including euthanasia, cloning and stem-cell research, put Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Pennsylvania at the top of its list. Bringing up the rear were Hawaii, California and Washington.
Meanwhile, the NARAL report shows that the 69 anti-abortion laws fell broadly into five separate categories.
1. Mandatory ultrasound laws. These laws, now passed by eight states, require a physician to perform an ultrasound on a pregnant women before performing an abortion, even if it is not medically indicated and the woman does not request it.
2. Abortion insurance coverage bans. These laws, now passed by 16 states, ban abortion coverage by private health insurers. Some apply to all health insurers in a state, some to the new health "exchanges" that will be created by the Affordable Care Act.
3. Nebraska copycat bans. In 2010, Nebraska banned most abortions after 20 weeks gestation, on the contested theory that it marks the point in pregnancy when a fetus can feel pain. So far at least five more states — Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Alabama — have joined Nebraska in enacting similar laws.
4. Race and sex selection laws. These are laws that make it a crime for physicians to fail to ensure that abortions are not being done purely for race or gender selection reasons. Arizona passed such a law in March 2011, joining three other states that had older laws already on the books.
5. Affiliation bans. These laws seek to bar abortion providers (often, but not exclusively Planned Parenthood) from receiving state funds for family planning or other services. Three states passed new laws in 2011, bringing to 11 the number of states with such laws in place, although four are currently being blocked by court order.
And action is already heating up for 2012, say both sides. Several states are looking at "personhood" ballot amendments, which define life as beginning at fertilization. Such laws would not only ban all abortions with no exception, but also many forms of birth control.
Meanwhile, the Ohio Senate is expected to move early this year on a bill to ban abortion at the point the fetal heartbeat can be detected – about eight weeks into pregnancy. The bill passed the Ohio House last year.
That bill "would outlaw abortion at a point in pregnancy when most women aren't even aware they're pregnant," said Kellie Copeland, executive director of NARAL Pro-Choice Ohio.
And it would almost certainly prompt a challenge to the Supreme Court's landmark Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion. That decision marks its 39th anniversary this Sunday.
Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.


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FAQs: Outpatient Surgery
With improved technology and advances in anesthesia and pain control, many less invasive surgical procedures are now being performed on an outpatient, or ambulatory, basis. Common procedures that are now routinely performed on an outpatient basis include tonsillectomies, hernia repairs, gallbladder removals, some cosmetic surgeries, and cataract surgeries. Given the millions of procedures performed every year, complications from outpatient procedures are relatively uncommon.
The most appropriate procedures for outpatient surgery are those associated with post-operative care that is easily managed at home, and those with very low rates of post-operative complications, requiring care by a physician or nurse.
Outpatient surgery is performed in a variety of settings. Ambulatory care centers are located either within a hospital setting or as a freestanding satellite facility that is either independent or part of the local hospital. Some procedures may actually be performed right in the physician's office.
There are many advantages of outpatient surgery over traditional, inpatient surgery. These include the following:
- The convenience of recovering in your home generally makes recovery time quicker and easier than an in-hospital stay.
- Since there are no hospital room charges, and related hospital charges, costs are much lower for outpatient surgery. Some insurance companies will cover certain surgical procedures only on an outpatient basis, unless your physician certifies that you require a more intensive level of post-operative care due to an underlying medical condition.
- In the majority of cases, outpatient surgery is less stressful than inpatient surgery. This is especially true for children who are afraid of being away from home. Most persons, moreover, prefer to recover in their homes rather than in the hospital.
- In a hospital setting, emergency surgeries and procedures that take longer than expected can delay scheduled surgeries. An outpatient setting can generally stay within a set schedule since the procedures are more simple and more routine.
Age, alone, is not a reason to disqualify an elderly patient from having outpatient surgery. However, age does affect the reaction of elderly patients to certain anesthetic drugs, as short-acting drugs often take a longer time to be excreted by elderly persons. Elderly persons may also have more underlying medical conditions that could make an outpatient surgery riskier. It is important for an elderly patient to have a thorough medical evaluation before any surgery to determine the best surgical setting for that individual.
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"Everybody's seen me at my highs, they've seen me at my lows, and
everybody wants to see the story continue, and I'm not ready for it to
be done yet." - Brandon Vera, 2011
For nearly seven years, Brandon Vera has been one of the most compelling figures in the UFC, and as he approaches his UFC on FOX main event with "Shogun" Rua on August 4th, little has changed in that respect. And if you need a reminder of the ups and downs of his stay in the Octagon, read on for a compilation of some of the most memorable quotes uttered by "The Truth."
"Basically, I stated my goals in front of everybody. If I say it, it makes me accountable for what I said. I'm not one of those people who just talk; I actually have to work towards those goals. I've always been like that. I told my parents I wanted to get a scholarship to college, and I was telling everybody that when I was a freshman in high school and they were like 'yeah, right. For what, wrestling? You know how hard that is?' And when I went into the Air Force and wanted to make the Air Force team, and wanted to make the Olympic team, I kept telling everybody, and the more people I told, the more I became accountable."
"For me, pressure is a good thing. It keeps me sharp, it keeps me grounded and makes me want to work harder."
"I actually didn't start thinking about fighting until I saw everyone who was training at the Olympic Training Center stop wrestling and start fighting. I said, 'man, if they're doing that, I can do that. And get paid doing it? I'm gonna start training.' I was still dreaming about the Olympics, but when I saw everybody fighting, that planted the seed for what I'm doing now. Wrestling for a Gold medal is fine and dandy and it's some people's dream, but my dream changed. I didn't want that anymore. I need to start making money, I need to better myself. In wrestling, you win a gold medal and then what? Go to the WWE? No thanks."
"I promise it's not the Art of War technique. I really am way more comfortable on the ground than I am on my feet."
"There are a lot of people wanting things now, and before they didn't want anything. They didn't want to talk to me and they weren't offering money, and now people are. It's weird and hard to explain. For me it's a loyalty thing too. People who were there with me from the beginning, I'm down to help them now. But if you're just trying to jump on because now you see this great product, it's like AOL when it first exploded. You know how the secretaries were millionaires when it first blew up, but everybody else who wanted to jump on board had to pay top dollar for the stock? That's kinda what it's gonna be like now."
"My whole training regimen for this fight has been 'don't think about the finish of the fight.' I'm just gonna fight hard the whole time. I'm gonna be in shape to do five five-minute rounds of Muay Thai, just straight bangin', and on top of that, another five rounds of Brazilian jiu-jitsu. So I'm not preparing for a short night; I'm preparing for a long night. I don't think I'm even gonna go out after the fight – this is gonna be a long night."
"Damn. I want to be that guy. I remember saying that. (Laughs) I was in a grocery store and it (an issue of Muscle & Fitness with Mir on the cover) was right there in the front by the register. That's when you know you made it, and I was trying to be that guy. Now, I've got to fight that guy. Even before I was ever mixed into MMA, Josh Barnett and Frank Mir were my two favorite fighters. And Frank Mir was the man. He was making $80,000 to show, $80,000 to win, he had all the cars, the women, he was on the cover of Muscle & Fitness, he was real humble and didn't talk smack – he just went in there and beat everybody down. I used to want to be him. I'm looking forward to this fight, but it's kind of unnerving. Fighting someone that I looked up to before is what I guess I'm having a hard time dealing with. I talked to my wife and my team about it, and everybody short answers, 'oh, it's just another fight.' I guess they don't understand where I'm coming from then. It's like trying to beat up your eldest brother or someone you looked up to before."
"A lot of fighters have different motivational tools – I actually need to think I'm going all three rounds and that way when I'm training and tired and down and out, and they're like 'get your ass up', I can get up because there might be an extra round. There's never been an overtime in UFC history, but there might be. (UFC President) Dana (White) might jump on stage and say, 'hey, you guys need to go into overtime.' (Laughs) So I always prepare for the worst case scenario and the pace that I fight at is the pace I'm gonna be fighting at all three rounds, and I get better in the second and third rounds. I get faster, more agile, and more confident in those later rounds. I always expect the worst and I prepare for the worst, so when it does end up ending early, I'm like 'Thank the Lord, let me go home and get out of here.'"
"I'm having a good time with it. It hasn't interfered with my personal life. I can only imagine what it would be like to be Tom Cruise or somebody like that. I'm nowhere near that and I hope I never get like that – well, I can't even say that because if you want to get the big money, you've got to be like that. But I'm dealing with it. My head's still level, my sister jokes about it, and my mom and dad say that if I get a big head they'll smack me, so it's cool. I've got a lot of people keeping me straight."
"I love my Filipino roots, they love the fact that I speak Tagalog and that I'm coming back home to represent and that I'm proud to be Filipino. If you go out there, put on a show and show how much heart you have, the Filipino people will back you all the way, no matter what happens."
"They're all like 'don't let it bother you; you've got to deal with what's in front of you. They told me you can't stare off and worry about what happened in the past. If you do that you'll never be able to move forward."
"Some people must think I'm this kind of Superman who never gets nervous, but I get nervous – bad. The other night I didn't sleep until 4:30 in the morning and I had to train at 10, so for sure I get nervous. That's why I get up and train in the morning, because I am nervous. I'm nervous about that 'what if' factor. It doesn't matter how talented you are or how gifted you are, or how hard you work; this is MMA, and anything can happen. It's been proven time and time again this year; people who are supposed to win get smashed, people who are winning, get knocked out, so you can never prepare enough for a fight in the UFC."
"There were so many good guys at the Olympic Training Center, and Randy was one of the better guys. I knew he was an Olympic alternate and good in college, but everybody there was so good. One day he was whipping your ass and the next day somebody else was shipping your ass. The ass whippings were rotational at the Olympic Training Center. (Laughs) I remember that he (Couture) was the first person I had ever seen do an armbar, and that's before I knew what it was called. It was the arm lock thing with your legs."
"If you watch Pacquiao's early fights, when he lost some and won some and when he got dropped, and then look at him now, its two totally different people and that didn't happen overnight. It took years. I look at him with awe and I wonder all the time how can I aspire to be like that. Pacquiao is a big influence in my career, and when times are hard, I think about everything – I think about family, I think about Pacquiao's road through hardship in his career, everything."
"I was somewhere off in my own world when he was on top of me, just moving him around, just chilling like everything was gonna be all right. I was thinking, 'This is all the hype, this is what all the people were hyping you up about?' No disrespect to Mr. Jones, especially not now, but I was thinking 'man, really, this is all the hype? You f**king suck.' Before I finished the word 'suck', that's when the elbow smashed my face." "Mr. Jones is a great fighter and I didn't give him the respect that he deserved during that fight," said Vera. "It was a good lesson learned and I thank him for it and I hate him for it at the same time."
"My team sat me down when I first started training again and they told me that everybody was pissed at me. They said 'You're one of the most talented guys in the world and you could have the world at your feet and you're not doing the things you're supposed to be doing and you don't believe in yourself like you used to. Why? And what can we do to help?' And they've been kicking me in the ass and making me train, and putting it on me and making sure I'm doing the things I'm doing. I'm blessed to have a great team and great coaches that stay on me about that stuff. So after that meeting, I started thinking 'I am the best 205-er in the world, I've just been bulls**tting. Let's get back to it."
"I forgot who I was for a while and I forgot what I was fighting for. I got lost and I took the easy path. I went and jumped on the path that was paved already with lights and direction signals instead of staying on the hard road and forging my own way."
"It's been a blessing in disguise. I've grown so much as a person growing up in the public eye. Fans have been able to see me at my highs and at my lows, and they're about to see me back on my highs again and they'll be able to understand that I'm a real person and not this super phenom that seems inhuman. I'm just like everybody else and I've had to go through my trials and tribulations to overcome my own demons and make this happen. I think that the fans will be able to appreciate me as a fighter and as a human being more because of this."
"It was weird, man. After that fight I just felt confused. Nobody since the sixth grade had ever big brothered me, and that's pretty much what Thiago did. Guys asked me what happened and I was like 'man, I don't know. He was #$%$ing strong.' That's the only thing I could think of."
"I can't explain it. Being fired and hired back and then driving around the US, 8500 miles, I think I got it back. I think everything settled back into place, and I'm where I need to be."
"My ego got in the way. It started getting in the way of me becoming a complete MMA fighter. I stopped going to Master Lloyd's, and there were a lot of little mental things too. Things started changing from the Jardine fight on and I didn't go back to train at Master Lloyd's since the Jardine fight. I had a couple life-changing events happen right before the Jardine fight and during the fight and I honestly believe that MMA fell off the list. It wasn't number one on my list anymore. It became number three in my life. I'm always down to knock somebody out or go punch somebody, but I wasn't pushing myself extra. I would go to practice and I'd be looking at the time – oh God, how many more rounds we got? And now, I'm there until coach says 'time.' Now, I feel like I did when I first came in the sport, and I realize that I have a lot to learn and I'm open to learning again. I'm back in school and back on the grind."
"My mouth is running again and I'm back out in the world doing my thing and doing what I should have been doing since Day One. I don't know why MMA took a backseat to whatever else it did in my life, but it's not anymore. I understand that this is what I'm supposed to be doing with my life, and there's no way I could be flipping burgers or selling cars or doing anything else. I'm supposed to be fighting; I'm supposed to have that damn title around my waist, and every time I watch (UFC light heavyweight champion Jon) Jones fight, it's good motivation to watch him kick somebody's ass or do his thing in the ring. It's really good motivation. It makes me so hungry."
"Everybody's seen me at my highs, they've seen me at my lows, and everybody wants to see the story continue, and I'm not ready for it to be done yet. It's been a rough ride, peaks and valleys, but I told everybody, don't blink and don't stop believing because I'm here."
UFC 117 Fight Between Anderson Silva And Chael Sonnen…


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PDF Generation
There are different ways of generating and serving PDFs with Seaside. This should provide you with the questions you need to answer to be able to decide how to proceed.
- 1. Introduction
- 2. What kind of possibilities are there?
- 3. What kind of document do you want to create?
- 3.1. Do you need automatic line-breaking?
- 3.2. Do you need paragraph breaking over multiple pages?
- 3.3. Do you need absolute positioning of graphical elements?
- 3.4. Do you need international font support?
- 3.5. Do you need images?
- 3.6. Do you want to use other fonts than the standard PDF fonts?
- 3.7. Do you want to create interactive content?
- 4. When do you want to generate your PDFs?
- 5. How do you want to serve PDFs?
- 6. Which solution works on what platform?
- 7. Speed and Scalability
- 8. Examples
- 8.2. LibHARU
- 8.3. LaTeX
- 8.4. PDFReactor
- 9. Where do you find all this software?
What kind of possibilities are there?
- SPDF, a low-level, not very complete smalltalk library
- LibHaru, a low-level, more complete c library
- pdflatex, a complex typesetting system based on LaTeX
- Apache fop, an xml-based layouting engine
- Rome/Cairo, a graphical library with pdf export
- PDFReactor, a xhtml/css-to-PDF rendering engine (commercial)
- Artefact, a low-level (but growing) smalltalk library (Pharo)
What kind of document do you want to create?
Do you need automatic line-breaking?
For longer documents, you probably want to be able to automatically wrap longer lines of dynamic text.
- SPDF doesn't provide this function.
- LibHaru doesn't provide this function.
- LaTeX uses an advanced line-breaking algorithm.
- Apache fop automatically breaks lines.
- Cairo has Pango, which provides line-breaking.
- Plain Rome doesn't provide line breaking.
- PDFReactor is quite capable of laying out the content based on provided stylesheets and page configuration (commercial license required, demo available).
Do you need paragraph breaking over multiple pages?
- SPDF doesn't provide this function.
- LibHaru doesn't provide this function.
- LaTeX uses an page-breaking algorithm, taking in account widows and orphans.
- Apache fop automatically breaks paragraphs over multiple pages.
- Cairo itself has no concept of pages.
- Pango provides the basics for breaking text over multiple boxes, but doesn't have the notion of pages.
- PDFReactor does break paragraphs over multiple pages.
Do you need absolute positioning of graphical elements?
- LaTeX and FOP are difficult to use with absolute positioning. They insist on using their own layouting engine. This can be an advantage.
- SPDF provides absolute positioning of elements.
Do you need international font support?
- LaTeX is good at that, FOP is completely unicode based.
- Cairo is unicode based, Pango is built to handle difficult support things like right-to left mixed with left-to right.
- SPDF uses iso-latin1.
- PDFReactor fully supports unicode rendering.
Do you need images?
- SPDF only works with monochrome tiffs.
- LibHaru can use different kinds of raster images.
- LaTeX can include different kind of raster images.
- Apache fop can use diferent kind of raster images and SVG.
- Cairo can use different kind of raster images.
- PDFReactor will render raster images as well as SVG content for high quality print output.
Do you want to use other fonts than the standard PDF fonts?
PDF has build-in support for 13 fonts, but allows other ones to be included.
- It is difficult to integrate new fonts into LaTeX, but possible. LaTeX has the best support for mathematics. LaTeX has an ascii encoding of some characters.
- SPDF can only handle the standard fonts.
- HaruPDF can load truetype and postscript fonts.
- Cairo with FreeType can use (nearly) all platform fonts.
- PDFReactor can use all platform fonts; TrueType and OpenType fonts are supported.
Do you want to create interactive content?
- With LaTeX you can use the hyperref package to create links and forms.
- SPDF doesn't have links.
- With PDFReactor you can ember flash, hyperlinks, bookmarks, barcodes, form elements etc.
When do you want to generate your PDFs?
- SPDF can streamfiles directly to the socket, so that people can start to download and read documents while they are generated.
- HaruPDF is integrated and fast.
- LaTeX and FOP are rather slow when generating PDF. For complicated documents it is a good idea to cache created files.
- Cairo is integrated and fast.
- PDFReactor is a webservice which will return PDF bytes in response to a request feeding it xhtml/css.
Calling external programs is done through FFI (for dll's) or OSProcess (for executables).
How do you want to serve PDFs?
PDF files can be generated and served through Seaside, but that consumes a lot of CPU with increasing size of the document. Saving the documents on the file-system or using a separate image to upload the generated file is often more efficent.
Which solution works on what platform?
- Squeak: SPDF, libharu, pdflatex, fop, cairo, pdfreactor
- VW: SPDF, cairo, pdfreactor
PDFReactor can be used from any dialect with support for HTTP requests, but it is especially trivial in dialects capable of generating a web interface from WSDL.
Speed and Scalability
Large documents should be generated, cached and served externally.
The script creates a pdf 'hello world' document named spdf02.pdf.
| myStream pdfWriter |
myStream := (self testFileNamed: 'spdf02.pdf') writeStream.
pdfWriter := PDFWriter on: myStream.
pdfWriter compressionOff.
pdfWriter write: 'Hello, World (From PDFTester)'.
pdfWriter close.
myStream close.
The script creates a pdf document in the squeak directory containing a single page with a 2 by 2 inch image 1 inch from the lower left corner.
| document page image |
document := PDFDocument new.
page := document addPage.
image := document loadPNGImage: 'Image.png'.
page drawImage: image rectangle: (Rectangle origin: 72@72 extent: 144@144).
document saveToFile: 'documentWithImage.pdf'
generateLaTeX: aFileName
| aFile |
aFile := CrLfFileStream fileNamed: aFileName, '.tex'.
aFile lineEndConvention: #crlf.
self startOn: aFile.
self usecases do: [:each| self printUseCase: each on: aFile].
self endOn: aFile.
aFile close
startOn: aStream
aStream nextPutAll:'\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}'; cr.
aStream nextPutAll:'\usepackage[english,dutch]{babel}'; cr.
aStream nextPutAll:'\begin{document}'; cr.
aStream nextPutAll: '\begin{tabular}{|l|l|}'; cr.
aStream nextPutAll: '\hline ';cr.
endOn: aStream
aStream nextPutAll:'\end{tabular}'; cr.
aStream cr; cr.
aStream nextPutAll: '\end{document}'; cr
printUseCase: aUseCase on: aStream
aStream nextPutAll: (aUseCase usecaseName) ,' & ',(aUseCase usecaseDescription), ' \\ hline '; cr.
You can use that script to write the file usecase.tex to the same directory the squeak image is in (that is not secure). Also think about the situation where multiple people try to run this at the same time.
OSProcess waitForCommand:'pdflatex usecase.tex'
Generates usecase.pdf in the same directory on Unix.
downloadBytes: (AccountingReportComponent on: self statement) asPDF
mime: 'application/pdf'
filename: 'accountingreport.pdf'.
| handler response |
handler := WARenderContinuation root: (PDFRoot for: self).
response := WAResponse new.
handler context: (WARenderingContext new session: self session; actionUrl: WAUrl new; yourself).
handler processRendering: response.
^(PDFReactorClient default convertXHTML: response contents contents) getPDF.
in Seaside 3.0, this might look like:
| xhtml |
xhtml := (RenderCanvas builder)
fullDocument: true;
documentClass: WAHtmlDocument;
[:root |
root beXhtml10Strict.
root style add: (Styles default documentForFile: 'print.css').
root style add: 'svg {-ro-replacedelement: ==''com.realobjects.xml.formatters.SVGFormatter'';}'];
render: [:html | html render: self].
^(PDFreactorClient default convertXHTML: xhtml) bytes
uploading the file from squeak (should probably be done from Apache) in a WAComponent
renderContentOn: html
html submitButton on: #export of:self
| aFile contents|
aFile := CrLfFileStream readOnlyFileNamed: 'usecase.pdf'.
aFile binary.
contents := aFile contents.
aFile close.
self session returnResponse: (WAResponse
document: contents
mimeType: 'application/pdf'
fileName: 'usecase.pdf').
in Seaside 3.0 the way to create a response changed:
self requestContext respond: [ :response |
nextPutAll: thePdf
Where do you find all this software?
- LibHARU: HPDF, LibHARU
- LaTeX: MikTeX LaTeX, TeX Live LaTeX
- Cairo: Sophie, Rome, Cairo, Pango
- Apache FOP
- PDFReactor


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