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Facebook, Google Must Adapt as Users Embrace 'Unsocial' NetworksBen Kunz
When Facebook bought the photo-sharing app Instagram for $1 billion, theories flew as to what it might mean. Was Mark Zuckerberg defensive, worried that his 850 million Facebook users might stop uploading 250 million photos a day? Or was he making a proactive move into mobile, where Instagram's friendly interface makes Facebook look clunky on iPhones?
The real story is both—and one of splintering social networks that are breaking up the vast, open "social graphs" that give Facebook and others such power. Facebook's acquisition of Instagram is a signal that smaller, closed networks are growing popular by giving audiences more control over what they share. The networking giants, such as Facebook and Google, will have to allow consumers new ways to build tighter social circles. And marketers will face new challenges in "going viral" among the masses.
For nearly a decade, marketers have been agog over the promise of social networks to provide free advertising, a cascade of word-of-mouth in which consumers act as advocates for a brand or product. The dream is based in part on Robert Metcalfe's law—the concept by the inventor of the Ethernet that in any networked system, value grows exponentially as more users join. Like the old 1970s shampoo commercial, you tell a customer about your product, and she tells two friends, and so on, and so on, until the world is knocking on your hair-products door. Going viral like this requires massive connections of friends.
Trouble is, Metcalfe was wrong, at least with human networks. In a landmark 2006 column in IEEE Spectrum, researchers Bob Briscoe, Andrew Odlyzko, and Benjamin Tilly showed mathematically that networks have a fundamental flaw if all nodes are not created equal. The authors pointed primarily to Zipf's law, a concept by 1930s linguist George Zipf that in any system of resources, there exists declining value for each subsequent item. In the English language, we use the word "the" in 7 percent of all utterances, followed by "of" for 3.5 percent of words, with trailing usage of terms ending somewhere around the noun "floccinaucinihilipilification." On Facebook, your connections work the same way from your spouse to best friend to boss to that old girlfriend who now lives in Iceland.
Human networks, like words in English, have long tails of diminishing usage. New, smaller social media tools are resonating because they recognize we have limits on what we share and whom we listen to. Here are a few:
• Path. This social network restricts you to 150 friends, the exact number that British anthropologist Robin Dunbar suggested was the upper limit on human relationships. While Path users can post images, videos, or locations to Facebook and Twitter, the core appeal is creating a closed circle of high-quality connections.
• Pinterest. This network is the darling of 2012, skyrocketing to No. 3 in usage behind Facebook and Twitter. Users tag, or "pin," images of things they like and sort into online scrapbooks. While users can follow others and comment on their posts, about 90 percent of usage in my observations has been pins with zero social comments. Pinterest is all about what you like, not how you communicate with others.
• Google+ vs. Facebook vs. Twitter. Google finally got social networking right in 2011 when it gave up on Buzz and launched G+, a cleaner version of Facebook with strong privacy features. Google+'s "Circles" allow you to sort friends into groups, and then share different things with different circles of friends. Facebook rapidly copied the idea by making it easier to post updates to select groups of friends. And while Twitter is open to all, one of its popular features is "lists" that allow you to view updates of only handfuls of online contacts.
• Springpad. This innovative note-taking application allows users to save items they like, via Web or mobile, and appends useful information such as price comparisons or movie times. While you can share items with anyone, the default settings are private, and the app's slogan is "share and discover with the people you trust."
• Instagram. Yes, this is an open network that allows liking and commenting on photos. But Instagram is primarily a photo broadcasting tool, and its rapid growth to 40 million users is driven by how easy it is to make your mobile snaps look professional.
• Pair. In perhaps the ultimate narrow social network, Pair builds bonds between only two users. It acts as instant messaging on steroids, allowing photo and video sharing, joint sketching, and a recorded timeline of activity between a couple.
This growing interest in smaller, ego-boosting, privacy-controllable networks was inevitable, as social media reached mass scale. Two-thirds of Americans now use social platforms, according to Pew, and the majority say "staying in touch with current friends and family" is the main reason why. Only 9 percent of respondents told Pew, when asked, that "making new friends" was a motivation.
For marketers, of course, this is a challenge. Word-of-mouth messaging spreads more slowly if audiences are closing off digital circles. For this reason, only Facebook has succeeded among social networks in generating significant advertising revenue—$3.1 billion in 2011—because it has resorted to old-school ad formats. Facebook makes money on cost-per-click ads regardless of whether its users share the content with each other. Twitter, which has tried to embed marketing messages more organically in user streams, had only $139.5 million in ad sales last year, according to EMarketer—a paltry 72 cents per user annually.
The truth is, Dunbar was right: We humans need privacy and intimacy, and we have limits on how many people we want to share with. Marketers can certainly shoot for sporadic viral success, or the click here and there of Like buttons inside Facebook. But for sustained communications in a world of smaller social circles, they may have to try something more aggressive—say, paid advertising.


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|This article revisits earlier proposals that language learning is, in essence, the learning of formulaic sequences and their interpretations; that this occurs at all levels of granularity from large to small; and that the language system emerges from the statistical abstraction of patterns latent within and across form and function in language usage. It considers recent research in individual differences, the psycholinguistics of language processing, and longitudinal studies of first (L1) and second (L2) language acquisition. The first section reviews studies of individual differences in phonological short-term memory (PSTM) and working memory (WM) and their correlations with vocabulary and grammar acquisition in L2. The second section summarizes evidence that language processing is sensitive to the statistical properties of formulaic language in terms of frequency and transitional probability. The third section examines the definition of formulas and formulaicity using different statistical metrics. The fourth section evaluates longitudinal research in L1 and L2 into the putative developmental sequence commonly proposed in usage-based approaches, from formula to low-scope pattern to creative construction. The final section weighs the implications of the statistical distributions of formulaicity in usage for developmental sequences of language acquisition. Zipf's law and the "phrasal teddy bear" explain the paradox whereby formulas seed language acquisition and yet learner language is formula-light in comparison to native norms.
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I kinda like Renji's. I like the look of it and his new clothes and stuff. Hes one of the few whose clothes actually change when he goes into Bankai mode. Plus he is the "Baboon King", pretty awesome name to meeeeeee
I'd like to see him use more attacks though. The huge Shokahou attack is cool but its kinda linear and easy to avoid. Hes gotta get his Bankai to move faster and use the fangs to bite people and poison them.
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The extremely slow recovery and new financial regulation has put handcuffs on small businesses.
Normally the recovery years that follow a significant recession would be a time for companies to grow. However, this year with the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, banks are queasy about lending, much less to business owners.
Low interest rates are designed to fuel growth. It is a good thing when businesses are able to borrow in order to expand or improve. However, the current low interest rates may be going to waste as many companies are caught in new banking legislation and a stagnate economic outlook.
Typically, high unemployment rates can also be a good thing for businesses wanting to expand. In this phase of recovery, finding good talent at reasonable wages is another plus for industry growth. However, due to the uncertainty in how companies will be taxed and when consumer spending will return, business owners have hunkered down instead.
The focus may be just to stay open or try to maintain the current staff and supply lines. This in turn could actually create more drag on the economy hence creating the endless game of dominos. If the economy were better, businesses would be growing, and if businesses were growing, the economy would be better.
Rep. Sam Graves, chairman of the House Committee on Small Business, stated in a recent interview, "I am particularly concerned about the impact these flaws [in the Dodd-Frank bill] will have on small firms across America. Small companies are the cornerstone of the American economy and are our most effective job creators. On average, seven of every ten new jobs are created by small businesses."
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Abstract Expressionism is the term used to describe the gestural abstraction that dominated painting after World War II. The style emphasises spontaneity and intuition, and was not based in the geometry that had underpinned much earlier abstract art. Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner are two of the painters most closely associated with Abstract Expressionism. Their work captures the rebelliousness and emotional intensity of this period.
Pollock assimilated aspects of indigenous cultures into his work. Totem lesson 2 1945, and some of his early drawings, reflect the contemporary enthusiasm for American Indian art. The ritual practice of sand images, according to the artist, was a factor that led to his drip works, painted on canvases laid flat on the floor. Blue poles 1952 reveals Pollock's expressive spontaneity, which allowed him to bypass the constraints of Western artistic tradition.
Krasner was a mature artist when she and Pollock met in 1941; they married in 1945. She had studied under Hans Hofmann in the late 1930s, establishing a strong reputation as a colourist. Krasner often recycled her earlier drawings as collage and her magnificent Untitled 1953, with its rich blacks and layered textures, exemplifies this approach. Later, she began to develop similar forms and shapes in large monochrome paintings and, finally, mural-sized works.


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Skip to comments.Chelsea Clinton On Sandra Fluke: We Both Have Been Attacked By Rush Limbaugh
Posted on 03/29/2012 11:13:40 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
For a while there, we thought people had finally stopped talking about conservative radio host Rush Limbaughs unnecessary verbal attack on Georgetown University law student Sandra Fluke and then we were brought back to reality. Former first daughter Chelsea Clinton revived discussion on the matter during a Wednesday conference at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan, where she introduced Fluke and said the two of them both had the unique misfortune of being made fun of by Limbaugh.
She and I have something in common. We both have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh. She was 30, I was 13, Clinton said before Fluke entered the room to massive applause, according to BuzzFeed. What an awesome way to connect with someone, huh?
(Excerpt) Read more at thejanedough.com ...
Two liberal morons (useful idiots).
Lying comes so naturally to these people.
Try as she might, the Clinton daughter is talentless, classless and clueless. Not only does she know nothing, she suspects nothing.
Yeah? You shoulda' had some liberal, slime-bag a$$-hole 'writer' move in next to your parents' home in an attempt to monitor every family move and write a continuing trumped-up lie in an effort to slander your Mother first, then every single member of your family. This, in an effort to further the interests of the Soros Presidential-handling Experiment. Try being one of the Palin family, Mizzzz Clinton.
Awwwww... she speaks.
Missing out on all that victimhood, Chelsea?
Well, you are both lying, unattractive whores, so I'm OK with that.
And she's not particularly easy on the eyes, either.
Chelsea also shares something with Caroline Kennedy; they are both stupid.
Who could ever forget McCain's embarrassing Chelsea "joke". First time I realized the man was insane.
Wasn't Monica 19 at the time? How old was Bristol Palin? Trigg? Willow?
Cry me a river, Chelsea.
"White House dog".
I got news for you honey. Women in their twenties at the time were saying much, much worse about you.
I was shocked at my classmates in b-school back then. (Not that I wasn't silently agreeing with them to an extent, but the viciousness of the women took me quite aback.)
It must be tough going through life loooking like Alfred E. Neuman. "What, me worry?"
"Who does she think she is, Chelsea Clinton?"
Amy Carter.
She might be the result of a one night hookup with Hillary and the Joker...
What Fluke does NOT have in common with Hatchet-Face, Jr (Chelsea) is that Chelsea earned her undergraduate degree, masters degree and is currently perusing her PhD (Oxford?) and NEVER or RARELY set foot in a classroom. Her liberal dummycRAT pedigree combined with daddy and butch-mommys celebrity wielded incredible influence on fawning lib-dim professors. Fluke is no Mensa member rather a professional student who intends to ride free on grants, her leg-spreading abilities and her new-found notoriety for as long as humanly possible. Limbaugh should NEVER have apologized not to echo fictional John Wayne or Mark Harmon characters, but lib-dims seize apologies as a huge sign of weakness. There is NO substitute for total and complete victory. Genghis Kahn was right.
Chelsea "Clinton"????? Who is that? If she is using her birth name but, I thought she married some weird little suck-up who married for his position in life. Her name is not Clinton, I think it is Slushberg? Anyway, she isn't even Bubba's daughter and she's dead ringer for Web Hubbell her REAL father. Sigh* Haven't we had enough of those rednecks, the Clintoons? Go away, Chels, you are so over!
Wow, can't you just feel the magic in the air?
And you both share the same type plumbing, you're both idiots, and you're both butt ugly, Chelsea. So, what's your point?
"She was 30, I was 13, Clinton said
That's called `opening the door' (to what would otherwise be inadmissable).
When Chelsea was 13 she was so ugly that she had to wear a bag of tuna around her neck to get `Sox' to come near her.
When she was born, the doctor slapped her mother.
Hillary was upset because the other mothers kept thinking Chelsea was a monkey. Bill came to visit with a bunch of flowers and bananas. "Ah wasn't sure," said the serial sex criminal.
Crazy talk.
Some people just hate feeling left out.
My oh my...
Lucky me!
And this is what I have to look forward to...
Goodness. Maybe ol'Rush isn't that bad after all.
It's a shame Bill & Hillary didn't practice better birth control.
I feel sorry for the girl...she was born with 2.9 strikes against her.
She is still Coyote Ugly!
Monica Lewinsky
Kathleen Wiley
Juanita Broderick
Eleanor Mondale
Christy Zercher (flight attendant)
Zercher suggests, (Bruce) Lindsey is Clinton's political lookout.
Lindsey led the White House defense when Arkansas state troopers said Clinton used them to procure women when he was governor. He was the point man on the Clintons' Whitewater real estate venture.
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A new book, "The Death of American Virtue" by law professor Ken Gormley, claims that Bill Clinton had an extramarital affair with Susan McDougal, the Arkansas woman who spent 18 months in jail for refusing to answer questions from special prosecutor Ken Starr, and then received a presidential pardon from Clinton.
Didn't happen the way Chelsea said it happened. This phony version of events was concocted back in 1993 in a column by Molly Ivins. This urban legend has long since taken on a life of its own. Liberals see it described somewhere on the internet, assume it is true, and regurgitate it. Many of these liberals lie through their teeth about having seen the phony version of events with their own eyes. Here's what really happened:
Whenever Bill Clinton would tell Buddy the "First Dog" to "fetch the stick", he would bring back Chelsea.
See #38
Good ol papa Web.
My friends, we must apologize for something which happened on this show Friday night. Ladies and gentlemen, Im sorry.
Let me tell you very quickly what happened last Friday night. There was a new in list and new out list that was published in the newspaper. The writer said, In, cute kid in the White House. Out, cute dog in the White House. Could we show the cute dog in the White House whos out, and they put up a picture of Chelsea Clinton back in the crew.
Chelsea needs to stop reading Al Franken. The facts are detailed, with Rush's explanation and a second apology, of what happened at http://www.capcy.com
"And many of you people think that we did it on purpose to make a cheap comment on her appearance. And Im terribly sorry. I dont, look, that takes no talent whatsoever and I have a lot of talent. I dont need to get laughs by commenting on peoples looks, especially a young child whos done nothing wrong. I mean, she cant control the way she looks. And we really, we do not do that on this kind of show."-Rush Limbaugh t.v. November 1992
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58% of U.S. adults who own a smartphone and/or tablet say they use their device to help them with in-store shopping, either by looking up information in advance or while inside the store, according to a recent survey by digital marketing, analytics and optimization firm Maxymiser. However, if mobile web sites those shoppers visit don't meet their expectations—most importantly, that the site is easy to use and the pages load fast—9% of them say they will never return to the site and 30% say they'll visit a competing mobile web site instead, the firm says.
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It's been shown and stated many times that as the MS powers are wrung out the user's eyesight shrivels correspondingly to the point where it renders the person completely blind. But, does it also entails the lost of the mangenkyo's abilities ? (if so, when was it ever thrown out ?) the very nature of the sharingan in relation to the physical structures that endorse it gives rise to some new ideas
It might seem counter-intuitive to question this as we had customarily weld eye function univocally with vision. Setting aside any sight-enhancing abilities the sharingan grants its user and as operationally connected as they might be (as to set one's eyes on the target) they have been suggested to be individual functions.
The independence has been shown several times, of note by the time Sasuke fought Danzo. From the word go his vision was blearing out while his powers were not, contrariwise they were shaping up, showing improvement from the battle he just cut out, implying that anywhere this power plies on is not the same withering one that mainstays his vision, yet clearly pouring through the same structure [his eyes].Or Itachi having his retinas allegoricaly grayed out when losing his eyesight, being also Framing from Tobirama's comments on the Uchiha's doujutsu within the diencephalic framework of vision, that grapples with the erstwhile notion where was the eyeball wherefrom all these powers stem from. Opens the room for the vision lost to be best explained by a defect that nests in the ocular bulb itself, and sheds light on the solution to this gradual lost being the mechanical replacement of such ...Which by corollary would derive that those abilities, still and all quiescent, dwell within the eyeless user as just was Madara, who was able to use Susano in this very condition. Howbeit this idea squares off with Sasuke getting his visual accuity back by trading off his dying out eyeballs for a pair of another nonfunctioning eyes, passing over that while the problem resides physiologically within the eyeballs it's possible to be topographically located in some other stead, a biological or metaphysical structure defined as critical for eyeball functioning and which failure exclusively forks over that set of eyes, denoting that vision and justu are shored up by complex functions, that relay on many anatomical modules, some playing compulsory roles for a given trait while other have just auxiliary actions. The eyeballs in this regard play a tricky role on this model. In view of Kakashi bearing these abilities solely by getting hold on an eyeball I deem the idea that they, the eyes, are sufficient cause and still, not a necessary condition for these powers to be had [in potentiality/actuality]; case in point Sasuke, that preserved his mangekyo abilities even after replacing his former, original, eyes ( his unique Susano token and enton manipulation, the later not posessed by Itachi, the first one owing to each one a characteristic pattern in like manner not receiving the assets Itachi had within the limits of the same techniques i.e Yata mirror and the sword of Kusanagi )
Notice that while originally each eye was said to endow the user with a particular jutsu, for Sasuke and Itachi, it seems to not hold true for Sishui and Obito (that while being used differently, it's apparently the same technique [Kamui]).These divertions took place in settings where the eyes were roped off from one another to different users. Perhaps due to the dissociation from their native occupancies that support, as do other nearby linking, related functions and development. This all may extrapolate to higher order stages of the Sharingan phylogenetics, when the rinnegan was not availed to the same extent by only possessing the eyeball, like Nagato did, in constrast to what Madara showed himself capable of.


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Jason Gregor
October 10 2012 03:58PM
The NHL won one battle, albeit a very minor one, as the Alberta Labour board ruled that the lockout can continue. I was able to obtain via email the reasoning behind this decision.
Following the same thought process of our British Columbia counterparts, we likewiseare of the opinion that the application of the provisions of the Alberta Code with respect tostrikes and lockouts to the Calgary Flames and Edmonton Oilers Clubs in this instance would have the same detrimental effect on the league-wide collective bargaining relationship as the British Columbia Labour Relations Board recognized would result from certification of a separate bargaining unit for the Vancouver Canucks. Whether via certification of a separate unit (as with Orca Bay) or by way of the application of Alberta's strike-lockout provisions, the result would be to carve one or two teams out from the league-wide structure and replace it with their own individualized collective bargaining relationship. Given the unique nature of professional sports and more specifically the NHL and its structure in particular, this makes no labour relations sense.
For all of the above reasons, we dismiss the NHLPA's application in its entirety.
I don't think this has an impact in the overall negotations, but if it helps both sides focus on the task at hand then this is a small victory for the fans.
October 10 2012, 04:02PM
Still a lockout? Damn, FIST.
*goes back into hibernation*
October 10 2012, 04:03PM
Oh, so the lockout is still on then. Crap. I was BANKING ON THIS!!!11!*
*not really
October 10 2012, 04:05PM
I would have been shocked if this was ruled in favour of the NHLPA
this was just a waste of time and money
I was interested to read the decision and see that the NHL wanted a mediator appointed (in a different forum) but that the NHLPA fought that tooth and nail.
Gawd, someone assure me taxpayers are not responsible for the court costs for this idiotic paper chase.
October 10 2012, 04:29PM
Am I the only one noticing the worst part in all this?
Ryan Jones cut his hair!?!?!?!?!??!
I heard Bronte on your show today fumbling around with some hypothetical situation where and Owner and a favourite player have probably talked on the phone, gone for a drink supper and shared their positions on the lock-out situation. Pure hogwash.
I don't listen to you everyday so I don't know if you have had a professional negotiator on your show to explain the process, the art of negotiation and what both sides can do, professionally and legally.
October 10 2012, 04:40PM
This application had no hope of success from the beginning. A waste of time and money.
October 10 2012, 04:45PM
Am I the only one noticing the worst part in all this?
Ryan Jones cut his hair!?!?!?!?!??!
Horcoff cut it when he was sleeping. Damn that guy!
Sam lookin small...
Oilers Nation Unite: Any writer on the Nation who gets paid to do this. Here is the next post. It's called lets end this lock out now. Here's the play. It's all about money for the player and the owners. They want/need our money. Boycotting hockey (NHL) for good is dumb and we will never stick to that. However, this isn't just hockey. We vow to sit out the year from the NHL only, and all associated hockey related revenue. For one year. Next, we compile a list of what all 30 NHL owners own, companies, real estate, chains, brands, cars; whatever makes them money. And we vow to choose other products. Instead of Molson Canadian, buy Moosehead. Instead Katz drugs, shop at London Drugs or Shoppers Drug Mart. Instead of Walmart, go else where. And we go down the list and threaten every single owner to buy somewhere else. They are willing to miss out on hockey related revenue and take the lose, but are they and their share holders, board members, etc. willing to take the lose on everything they own and thus making it possible to swallow hockey loses? Next we go to the NHL. Center Ice packages, cancelled. NHL network, cancelled. Any advertiser that has a major spot with the NHL, we choose to buy else where.
Here is a list of major NHL sponsors
: - Forzani Group (Sport Expert ,Sport Check, etc.) - Sirius XM Radio - Bridgestone - Ticket Master - Energizer - Verizon Wireless - Visa - Pepsi - Scotia Bank - Geico - Cisco - Kraft - Starwood ( hotel ) - Bell - Lg - Honda - Mc Donalds (Us Only but let's boycott them anyway) - Us Army (don't know how you can boycott this one anyway ) - Gatorade - Huggies - Blackberry (yes you are reading right) - Enterprise - Canadian Tire - Tim Horton - RDS - TSN - CTV - NBC - Reebok - Molson beer (Futur Sponsor) - Budweiser (current Sponsor)
Now. If we piss those companies off and they see a decline in sales BECAUSE they are associated with the NHL, how is that gonna play? I promise, with that kind of economic pressure and sponsors even thinking of pulling out this thing gets signed within 10 days. The entire point is this. With media coverage, get this in the Journal, the Sun, The Calgary Herald, on TSN, on CTV, CBC, CBS, FOX, NBC and everyone craps themselves at the media coverage alone. You want power, go for the money. Advertising is the key. Lets get this movement started and let set a drop dead date on them. The Mayor plays this card, the Katz plays this card, the NHL plays this card, lets trump all of them and collective push all in. We are starting here Nation and it take one writer on this site to make the article public and start calling on some media friends. The snowball will grow in a hurry. Attack every dollar that Gary defends. And nail every owner will every dollar that allows them the power to continue the lock out.
Tyler Fisher,
October 10 2012, 05:48PM
If the NHLPA spent this wasted time actually putting together a REAL counter-offer to the NHL we could have ended the lockout already. What a lack of clear priorities.
October 10 2012, 06:00PM
I think the only reason that they went through this motion, was the fact that if NHLPA would have won this petition, the only effect it would have had was that the NHL/Owner would have had to pay the players while on the lockout, ala: an injured player.
Sam lookin small...
Sam does not look small.Sam is small.
That is why he is cleaning the ice every other shift.
October 10 2012, 07:36PM
Just another example of the side show professional hockey has become in North America.
I find most rich kids or kids born into wealth to be spoiled whinners. Hockey is an expensive sport to play in North America, so I'm not really suprised most of these players are acting the way they do.
You know what's weird. It's like Oilersnation is using replacement commentors during the lockout.
"NHL Hockey players are brats because it costs a lot to play hockey".
Yes, if only NHL players were as classy and respectful as NBA players.
October 10 2012, 07:50PM
Does this mean us regular commentors are going to be forced to post over at Jets Nation now?
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October 10 2012, 10:05PM
I heard Scott Gomez is going there... NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Tyler is right, hit it where it counts. What we need as fans is a list for every team of what is part of their family of businesses. This even goes as far as OKC for the Oilers. Damn and I was going to watch / listen the game tonight...
When are the players going to realize they are getting fleeced by their own union! They are never going to get back the money they are losing right now. I would love to have the oportunity to ask Horcof, Smyth and Habby how they are are enjoying watching their millions fly out the window. It just seems they are getting very bad advice from their own union. They can be united all they want, they still will never get the money back they are losing right now in their short carreers.
October 11 2012, 07:27AM
Does this mean us regular commentors are going to be forced to post over at Jets Nation now?
on the bright side, you can fill entire comment sections up all by yourself
yeah..umm..that sounds like too much work.
How exactly did that protest to Fire MacT go after something like 200 people signed up on facebook and like 2 people showed up in person.
No one is going to do anything...but sit and wait. That's my plan anyhow.


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This makes ninety-six! Happy easter!
Here's something else I do wrong.....
....I never taste what I'm cooking.
To me, the eating of food should be done when life is good, when one is seated with the repast before them.
My Weight Watcher's counselor told me these were the thoughts of a food addict but moving on...
....the concept of putting food in my mouth during busy meal prep...well I just don't do it.
Thus I cannot tell you what the potatoes taste like cause I could not bear to taste them.
Some might call it OCD but I am better diagnosed as CDO...
...which is OCD in alphabetical order.
May go beyond. People care ... here at FR!
and the questioning of a childs sexual preference will begin in kindergarten - when boys, by nature, are supposed to be friends with other boys and girls play with girls.
Just as the developmental stages for crawling, walking, speaking, etc, all have parameters, so does same sex bonding come before sexual attraction of the opposite sex.
This fact of nature has been terribly attacked and compromised by our current culture, which claims to protect children from so many perceived threats, while leaving them totally exposed to compromising their entire emotional future.
Larri!, Larri!
Didja see that? Huh Larri?
Schmuck-You Schumer? No thanks!
We do have a way to beat them and it is sitting right in front of us. We have to beat them at the ballot box and that means getting out our voters. Nothing else matters.
Thanks ... family loves potatoes.
You've convinced me!
We've plenty of Walmarts round here.
And Delaware has no sales tax!
Took my daughter/granddaughter to a Walmart in Merryland last Tuesday when I went up for Easter visit.
Though she calls me this morning from Ocean City...says they drove down to see MIKE's Mom....like that's not supposed to make me mad?
"I LOVED you coming up to visit me, Mom. This was a last-minute decision..."
Uh-huh. It's ALWAYS a last minute decision.
Hated paying O'Malley's 6% sales tax....man that hurt.
By the way, the old cast iron skillet CANNOT be beat for making toast...and Texas toast. Take any kind of bread including cornbread, butter it and put it in a dry..hot cast iron skillet. Put a small dab of butter on the bread before you flip it.
For Texas toast, get some unsliced Italian bread and slice it thick...same as above.
As for the garlic, I usually do what Bray suggested, the small bottle of minced garlic....good enough.
If you want to deal with the garlic bud, use your hands to separate and get the husk off the cloves. Then take your big chef's knife, lay it on its side and push down on the clove, it will split the "shell" like cracking a peanut, and you can retrieve the garlic from inside.
But that's for purists, I think it's a PITA.
Okay, I see the thread is at 100 posts already, so I can't claim this as my contribution on the way to 100 posts. But I do have a couple of remarks on this Easter Sunday.
First, a garlic remark as against the Food Network stars. If they are using real garlic, you will see them put a clove under a wide knife, then "hammer" the knife with a closed fist. I know that's not literally a hammer, but darn if it doesn't make the skin easy to separate from the meat!
As for the meaning of Easter, I am reminded of my dear departed father's remarks that Jesus Christ is the only religious figure who claimed he was God. I don't know if dad picked that up from CS Lewis, or exactly how he came to that particular notice, but he did make a point of expressing just how radical that was and is. My point in bringing it up is to assert that Christianity is special, it is different, and I daresay it is better - it is the divine truth, at least it is to those who have faith.
Happy blessed Easter to my fellow Christians! Just plain old Happy Sunday to the rest of you.
From where I sit, my dog already made the choice, and it's a done deal. I'm a bigamist, and not by my own doing.
I think I'm going to have to get one of these wide-knife thing.
Which is why I used the hammer.
It worked but rather messy.
Happy Easter to you as well.
We do have a way to beat them and it is sitting right in front of us. We have to beat them at the ballot box and that means getting out our voters. Nothing else matters.
The New Catholic Faith can be summed up as:
Be nice, especially to the poor, then do as you will.
OK, pick one of those up too while you're at Walmart.
Teflon heaven, where it joins the ozone depleting substances.
But seriously, teflon is inert (biologically speaking).
I'm going to have to look for a good ceramic coated skillet, now. We have some Cuisinart cookware, and I really like it because it stays flat, and flat against the glass range top makes a HUGE difference in the quality of the cooking. I'm good at non-sticking the stainless steel; but it would be nice to not have to be so careful.
Hated paying OMalleys 6% sales tax....man that hurt.
I used to use two spoons to crush the garlic but the bottle of chopped is easy and quick. The Texas toast sounds great, have to try it.
Happy Easter
Teflon, ceramic, whatever, the proper way to fry or scramble an egg is either in bacon or sausage grease, or butter. Lots of it.
My opinion.
The Protestant faith is the same. We are Christians but not those kind of Christians. What did Christ say about moderate Christians?
Happy Easter
If I didn't love onions so much, I probably would have never developed an appreciation for the chef's knife.
I can peel, halve, and section or chop an onion, before it makes my eyes water...(usually)
I throw the peeling right into the cook stove.
I just use whatever knife is in my hand, usually a boning knife (9" long, maybe an inch wide), but you could do the same whack-a-clove with a paring knife. The point is that your hand will just give way. Those cloves are tough little buggers.
There really is a difference between fresh garlic and the easier jar stuff. Same goes for ginger.
High-five on that one. And it has to be a steel that takes and holds a decent edge. I got some KitchenAid (low end) then a mid-grade (like $50) chef's knife. Neither worked well. Then I dusted off the almost 40 year old Chicago Cutlery carbon steel blades. They work the best, by far. Your mileage may vary, of course.
So because I've lived in this house for ten years, though house was built in 2001...I am investing some money in updating.
Mostly landscaping but new stove and fridge.
Suggestions for stove.
Use propane....the flame thing.
Current stove is electronic...perfectly flat. Works okay but don't they make these sorts of things safer nowadays?
there are times when I leave one of the things on. It's very seldom of course but I'd sure like something that will go off after an hour or some pre-determined time no matter what.
As for fridge...tired of ivory colored side by side.
Has in door ice and water distribution....this is a must have in new.
Would prefer stainless steel in both appliances because it's all the rage on HGTV and I want to be cool.
Want top part fridge, bottom part freezer. I use a freezer quite a bit. Still want water, ice thing. Can upper bottom type thing accomodate this?
Watching Candy Crowley....for purposes of thread title.
Mrs. Chandler keeps one of these next to her Chicago cutlery block:
Thanks for thread A.B. Happy Easter!
Well, I can't disagree with you there, but I couldn't get the egg to stay on top of the grease. In testing, the egg didn't stick dry.
I guess, just melt the grease or butter and pour it on the eggs before serving.
My next trick was a three egg omelet. I sauteed up some onions and green peppers, added the beaten eggs. As I swirled the skillet, the whole omlet circled around totally freed. It didn't stick for a second.
With one motion I flipped the entire omlet and cooked the other side. I added cheese and was able to fold it twice to fit on the plate.
Served it up with bacon and grits.
Yeah boy!
I buy the bottled chopped garlic. I also have a separate jar that I keep 'roasted' garlic in.
I 'roast' the chopped garlic by putting it in a sauce pan with some butter/margarine. Low to moderate heat. Stir frequently until most of the garlic pieces are medium brown. I then transfer the 'roasted' garlic to a small jar and keep it in the frig for special uses.
The 'roasting' makes the garlic sweet and delicious in mashed potatoes, etc.
See, this is why I want to be a World's Worst Cook, dramatically speaking.
Because convenience has a cost and I want to get the line between the cost to quality up to the price of convenience.
When is it worth the extra effort...is what I'm saying here.
I definitely don't have the right kitchen hardware but I've got one of everything ever advertised AS SHOWN ON TV.
For purposes of the thread title, let me observe re Sen. Blumenthal....he speaks as if one of two things are going on...
a)his dentures are lose and rattling around in his mouth; or
b)he is a stutterer trying not to stutter.
I'm jus' sayin'.
Now, if you combine the two....the TX toast AND the real minced garlic, in butter.....
Oh baby.
Maybe we need to go back further in history. Rome during the Emperors. Caligula, Nero would be analogous to Clinton and Obama. Imperial Rome's Tax and spend along with their circuses for the masses would equate to today's welfare state and the "Knockout" "games" by the gangs in the hood.
Human nature does not change, it is chronicled in the Bible, we continue to have the seven deadly sins. They are with us today as much as they have always been during human history.
Now and again the world is fortunate and we have people like the founders come along and start something great.
Each generation MUST fight for liberty, freedom and private property rights.
I have never did anything like this in my life.
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See I cook Texas Toast in the oven.
Like the directions say.
It wouldn't have crossed my mind to bother with a skillet.
It's never really very good from the oven.
I am so tired of eating..."okay". I'll go the extra trouble if worth it.
Lost ten pounds last doctor visit. Both docs delighted. Ask my secret.
I just refuse to eat anything I don't like any more.
Oh...and lots of exercise.
We have flat rangetop, and it very picky about the cookware that goes on it. Flat cookware works great. Most cookware isn't flat. It still works, but the heat is really uneven. Flat doesn't matter so much with gas, and gas is "quicker" on the adjust.
We're happy with our old side by side. It's half full of wasted food (expired, freezer burned, whatever), but it's convenient enough. I like having lots of room on the doors. I could probably get along with one of the 1 cubic foot jobs; but the family, well, heh, let's just say it would not work out.
Okay, I'm feeling guilty for contributing so much to the thread hijack. Just know that I read the Sunday Show thread every week, but don't have anything to say that's worth saying. I piped up today to say Happy Easter, and to let it be known that this is a really special day of remembrance and reverence and, well, a sense of "He did all that for me?" amazement for me. "Blessed" doesn't come close to describing what God has given.
mmmm-mmmm good. lamb chops on the grill, good french wine.
That's for dinner at my house later today
Thanks for the input.
You're right....the heat on a flat top stove like mine is uneven and with my new attention to the physics of it all it's a real pain. The bottoms of the pans are somehow "arched" and the liquids disperse all around the sides. I dunno, maybe it's my old pans...sometimes I think I don't have a clue.
I saw a woman making scrambled eggs on one of Mrs. Chandler's food channel programs. (Mrs. Chandler is a great cook. It's a wonder I don't weight 500 lbs.)
Anywho, the woman used a TON of butter, and instead of milk she added a bunch of heavy cream. I tried out the recipe and they were the best. scrambled. eggs. ever.
Right now, the only dog around The Homestead (Been a tough winter for pets, lost both the ancient black lab and her severely height-disadvantaged playmate/hole-digger) is a shepherd/husky mix that's just short of a year old, weighs well over 80 pounds and would pass for a mule deer if only he was brown and had horns.
I can say with great certitude that he would kill or die for everybody in the family, but there's only one of the bunch (#1 grandson) who would even be considered for marriage.
That deal is out, though.
That pup just worships his boy.
Okay, I am now hungry.
It just takes a little practice. You can get it down in a few minutes. Start with the chopped onions and mushrooms in butter (part of any good grilled steak dinner)
Get a saute skillet with the rounded corners between the bottom and sides.
Just yank the skillet towards you (about 3 inches) and quickly put it back where it was so all the food falls back where it was, only upside down. When the food hits the wall of the skillet, it will basically go straight up about 2 to 4 inches, and you just catch it quickly when it comes back down
Flipping pancakes is pretty much the same motion, maybe a little more like 4 or 5 inches of a quick horizontal flick. You don't actually flip the skillet upwards.
Once you can successfully flip saute and pancakes, you should be ready to try an omelet.
Here's a full disclosure and safety net measure:
I have a large cutting board on the counter next to the range. I always flip OVER the cutting board. If I drop anything I can retrieve it, instead of making a big mess on the stove.
Is this cheating? Who knows, who cares.
Soon, you'll be flippin like a pro.
Happy Easter
It's: The Sunday Morning Talk Show and Cooking Thread
Yeah, these things happen, but I think we gave today's RATagandists as much consideration as they deserve.
I'll give a nod in favor of cooking with gas
Hear here!
Gas is where it's at! (and wood if so equipped)
I bought some Cuisinart skillets as a Christmas gift for the better half, and man - what a difference on that glass-top range! The heat, which had been uneven on every other piece of cookware we put on the range, was even, and FAST. I could boil a cup of water in a 3Q saucepan just as quickly as I could bring it to a boil in a 700W microwave. The heat transfer is much more efficient when/where the bottom of the cookware is actually in contact with the range top.
I still like cooking with gas better, and we still use some cheap (not quite flat) skillets on the range. But there is a remarkable difference in range performance, depending on the flatness of the cookware. If you can feel it rock, or make it rock, it won't be performing up to its capability.
may i humbly add my charcoal-grilled steak, pretty please?
I'm interested.
Yes Sir.
Thank you for your service.
Just use plenty of melted butter. Makes a nice char on a rare steak. (big fire)
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: I recently repaired the floor in my bathroom and am trying to replace the toilet flange. My problem is the 4" cast iron pipe does not protrude high enough to get a good seal on the closet flange that has the adjustable rubber gasket. The CI pipe has jagged edges, it has been cut unevenly.
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(We're counting down to the first Saturday of college football, now 34 days away)
I like that idea about the most important stretches in the SEC West schedules so much that I'm saving it for Monday – for one thing, because it will get more traffic that way, but also because of something I noticed this morning and wanted to talk about a little bit.
I have become addicted to checking in each day with the website Pre-Snap Read. The writer, Paul Myerberg, is counting down all 120 major-college programs, and he got to No. 41 this morning.
His list so far has included five SEC teams:
93-Ole Miss
55-Texas A&M
So that will put the remaining nine SEC teams into the Top 40.
(Update: Auburn is No. 40 in Monday's installment.)
You can compare that with Phil Steele's preseason Top 40, which includes 10 SEC teams, but note that Steele's list is an attempt to project where teams will wind up at the end of the seaso, while Myerberg appears to be ranking teams on preseason outlook:
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We need a pic of this, Please I don't know what the PCM looks like. I have two jeeps, same problem on both. They really suck.
Found that the outboard PCM cover screw was shorting out the circuit board. Chrysler PCM p/n P56028412, s/n TEH106636023.
Short story long: I have a 96 Grand Cherokee 4.0L, 125,000 miles. Several weeks ago, I started to have stalling issues. Hot or cold, dry or wet, first drive of the day or last, it didn?t matter. The engine would cut out. It felt like it lost all electricals.
At the time it was showing an ASD relay code. Swapped the ASD and A/C relays. Same problem. I didn?t have time to look at it, so I had the dealer go through it. After 2 days and $200, they called and said it was the ASD relay, and that they put in a new one, and it?s all good. Um, ok, maybe I missed something. I?m a trusting soul, but let?s see if this fixes it. The next day the problem was back. I went back to the dealer and they basically said, ?We don?t know what it could be, good luck with that?. Now my wife knows why I don?t go to the dealer. By the way, the old relay tested good.
My turn. Being the methodical aircraft mechanic that I am, I grabbed a multi-meter, contact cleaner, and wiring diagrams. I cleaned connectors, ohmed out wires and sensors, checked for power and grounds. Everything checked good. By now, it?s showing ASD, crank sensor, and primary ignition codes. Then, with my wife trying to start it, I wiggled the connectors on the PCM. Every time I wiggled the gray C3 connector just right it would run. When I let go, it would die. So I took the connectors apart and tightened up the crimps (I don?t recommend doing this without the proper extractors and crimper). Threw it back together and BAM! Same problem. Well, time to bite the bullet and check for bad solder joints on the PCM board. I took the cover off of the PCM and realized that looking through the potting compound is like looking through Guinness Stout. But, I put it back in and hooked it up. It started stronger than ever, and didn?t even think about stalling. Yes! I figured that I finally got the connectors sorted out, so I left it over night to cool down. Got up the next morning and it started right up and wouldn?t stall even when wiggling the connectors. So I put the cover back on, put the PCM back in, hooked up the connectors, and BAM! It wouldn?t start! That was the point when my wife asked, ?How?s it going?? And I, being the methodical aircraft mechanic that I am, said, ?what the ----?? That?s when my wife turned around and went back into the house. While smoking a pack of cigarettes, I thought, ?Gee, it runs with the cover off, but not with it on.? DUH, wonder what it could be? So I backed out the two screws that hold the cover on and BAM! It started right up. Then, while it was running, I tightened the outboard screw and sure enough, it died. Yes! Aircraft mechanics love it when they can make things stop working. I installed new screws (1/4? long, factory screws are 1/2? long Torx head), and she?s been running great ever since.
Now, will this fix a bad crank sensor or idle air motor? No. But it is an easy trick to try before going to the dealer and having them throw expensive parts at your Jeep and seeing if any of them stick. Just back out the cover screws about 1/8?-1/4? (don?t worry, nothing will fall apart inside). If it fixes it, great! Spread the word. If not, use logical trouble-shooting steps. Learn the systems ? what will and what won?t cause the problem. Good luck.
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