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The Stone Age of Blogging is Over – What's Next?
The golden age of blogging
Lately many influential bloggers have written about the end of the golden age of tech blogging. They say "tech" but in a way they mean blogging in general it seems. Some people were furious and asked whether "over" is the new dead. I didn't really care.
Then over the recent weeks as I considered my own blogging "career" I realized that indeed an era is over. It's the stone age of blogging that is over now. Also I recognized partially what replaced the Neanderthals of blogging and what's next.
I want to summarize what really happened in the first decade of blogging.
Who am I to look back at a decade of blog history? I was quite late to blogging. I think I tried Blogger when it came out in 2001 but I was only reading blogs for two years when I finally started my first real blog in 2003.
It was a private blog about art, design and activism. I had written it in German. I remember that at some point in 2004 I was even among the top 100 German blogs in two separate popular blogs lists.
Blogging for clients since 2004
I tried to convince my very first SEO client in 2004 to establish a blog and even started one for him. In 2005 I finally started to blog professionally aka for money and clients. One of the clients back then was the largest union of the world.
I created a whole blogging portal with dozens of blogs for the youth organization of the union. Ironically I worked up to 80h a week for the union or the "agency" that actually paid me. This union is known for the "35h work week" demand.
In 2006 I created my first full fledged blog for a personal client of mine. In 2007 I started this blog – SEO 2.0 and the rest is history.
I'm still one of the most well known bloggers in the SEO industry, mostly due to my contribution over at SEOptimise. From 2008 to 2011 I have written hundreds of flagship blog articles for them and made them the best SEO blog in the UK, both by the number one ranking in Google.co.uk and by winning the UK Search Awards.
Sadly I wasn't even notified or invited to the ceremony. The SEOptimise team has received the award instead of me. I only got an email a few weeks later that they don't need me anymore in 2012. Apparently It was bad for their image to have a low paid freelancer from Germany.
Meanwhile outside the UK
Meanwhile I have established and written for two flagship blogs for German clients. One of them was profitable for more than 3 years. The other is the top ranking cycling blog in Germany despite me not really having the time to take care of it a lot.
Additionally I have started a blog about science fiction in 2011. Last but not least I had a successful private Tumblr art blog for more than two years.
Internationally I have written for all kinds of SEO blogs and beyond like the Hubspot blog or Google Blogoscoped when it was in the top 30 of the most successful blogs worldwide.
There are many many more I can't even remember. Thus indeed I know something about blogging despite being a late adopter.
What has actually changed in the last decade, the time I consider the stone age of blogging?
The definition of a blog has changed itself
When you look at the Top 100 blogs these days and compare it to those from just a few years ago you will wonder why there are almost no blogs on the list or in other words how a blog is defined now.
A blog seems to be a popular corporate news site with a team of writers who publish items almost every hour. Real blogs like BoingBoing or Kottke are the exception. Even they have transformed or lost in popularity.
Blogging is a multi-million business not personal anymore
In the early days blogs were not much more than personal diaries. Over time they become more and more like corporate media until corporate media swallowed them or outmatched them on their own turf.
The CNN Political Ticker has been the #11 most popular blog at some point.
Some blogs were bought and sold for many millions of dollars. Others earn millions of dollars or venture capital by the millions. I rarely see personal diary-like blogs of importance now anymore. People still care for opinion but not for the person behind it.
Blogs are about topics and teams not bloggers
I was really astounded when AOL bough the seemingly anti-corporate activist site Huffington Post. When they sacked Michael Arrington, the original founder of TechCrunch I was still somehow shocked but when it happened to myself on SEOptimise I wasn't even surprised anymore.
Blog readers today mostly don't care anymore who writes the content they read on their favorite "blog".
It's just a site or news source like any other. They don't notice the names or bylines of the authors. The unthinkable, removing the main blogger from a blog, is not an issue by now. Bloggers get hired and fired. People read blogs not bloggers. The teams are interchangeable as long as the topic stays the same.
Everybody blogs today but people do not consider it blogging
What do people on Facebook, Google+, Tumblr, Twitter? They blog. When I started blogging a blog posts was the size of the typical status update of today. A short sentence with a link was a perfect usual blog posting for years.
The flagship blog post aka huge well written article is a relatively new phenomenon.
In a way most people have embraced blogging but without the attitude attached to it. Today companies like Facebook or Google own your updates and they can remove them any day. They even decide what you are allowed to write about or what "profile" picture you use.
WordPress is a full fledged advanced CMS
When I first used WordPress I was late again. I think I switched to WP when it was in version 1.2. It was clumsy and ugly back then but still it was the most advanced, user friendly and popular blogging tool at the time. I didn't like the backend code of it but I was glad that I didn't have to code everything myself.
Yes, I have coded my websites by myself! Today WordPress is a full fledged CMS you rather use for your whole site where the blog is just part of it. Many people do not use the blog "module" at all. WordPress is really advanced when it comes to features, extensibility and customization.
WordPress themes are high quality web design today
In the early years I hated all WordPress themes. I'd take a theme and customized it until it looked a bit better. As I'm not a designer I just stripped most styles. Over the years the themes got better and better but most of them still looked like diaries for teenage girls and poor poets.
I've recently been looking around again for a great clean and minimalist theme and I was overwhelmed be the sheer number of highest quality themes that look a design for a few thousands of dollars. Many of the best are premium themes but you also get outstanding free themes.
Blog writing is almost of journalistic length and depth
As noted above blogging in the early days was often like tweeting or writing Facebook updates today. Short sentences with a link were quite common. Adding images or even videos did not happen a lot at first.
I remember that I rarely added images during the first months of my blog in 2003. Blogging and journalism were like two opposite sides of the same coin, they never touched each other. Bloggers were treated like mere commentators.
Over the years not only journalists have embraced blogging but blogging itself has become more journalistic and in-depth. Some blog posts over at Search Engine Land are so long I rarely have the time to read them in their entirety.
Also journalism itself has degenerated. Today most journalistic articles are just republished agency news reports from AP, Reuters or DPA. Blogs posts are often much better than actual newspaper articles.
Blogs are interfaces and hubs in a social Web environment
Without a blog a site is like a dead end. There is nothing really you can offer to make people used to social media engage with your site unless you have at least a blog. Forums or communities are of course even better but a blog is the easiest one of them to set up and maintain.
In a social Web environment people are not keen on reading your sales copy or pseudo-objective press releases and news articles. They want to know who you are and how you think. Blogs are interfaces between companies and customers, journalists and readers.
A site that doesn't have such an interface is effectively dead. The blog is also a hub for all your media related endeavors. You cover or announce it on a blog. You get popular via your blog, the rest of the website is just the structure.
There is no such thing as a blogosphere anymore
I seldom hear the term blogosphere anymore. Do you know what it is? It was something I felt in the early days of blogging in Germany. The blogosphere was like a virtual family. Whenever you wrote a post you knew everybody else in that huge family will in some way relate to it, even by not reading or noticing it.
When a post didn't get linked by other bloggers, when it did not become part of the blogosphere everybody knew that it wasn't really on point. When I started blogging in English around 2007 I didn't feel really as a part of it but I felt that it was still there. Today I feel nothing. There are people who write for blogs they work for. There are many blogosphere if there are at all.
Every niche and industry has its own blogosphere and rules
Every niche, industry or topic seems to have a blogosphere of its own these days. When I started this blog I wanted to cover many topics at once, blogging, social media, SEO but also "make money online" topics or web design.
Later I added usability, freelancing, self improvement. Today there is a whole sphere of blogs for each of these topics, some of them already imploded, for instance there are just a few good and active freelancing blogs left.
On the other hand I can't "compete" with all social media all the time blogs anymore. Web design blogs are filled to the brim with resources lists I can't match either. Every topic requires a different kind of writing, strategy and even design it seems.
Self improvement blogs are clean and sell ebooks. Architecture blogs show off buildings by architects all the time instead of writing about architecture. Web design blogs do not describe the practice of web design either. They list tools and resources on how to design for the Web yourself. Every niche has its own rules of blogging.
Consolidation, a few blogs dominate each niche or topic
Every blogging topic has one or a few blogs that dominate it. Search Engine Land dominates search blogging, Moz does it for SEO, Mashable for social media and Social Media Examiner for social media marketing.
TechCrunch still dominates tech blogging even though the founder is gone. Nobody needs him, his new blog is nowhere as popular as his old one. There are few other blogs who still try to compete but unless you have a team of dedicated bloggers you can't really compete for attention with them.
I prefer to use an feed reader to follow blogs. I don't need people to shove the most popular blog down my throat each day. Most other people seem to like it and use Twitter instead of feeds. Thus even a renowned figure like Arrington can't compete with the giants anymore.
Commercial blogs that use blog software and are full of ads abound
There are not only the huge corporate blogs you have to compete with for attention these days. There also myriads of blogs that are technically blogs, as they use WordPress or Blogger but they are just a collection of keyword driven commercial content.
It's mixed with undisclosed affiliate links to lure search engine users and make them click. Finding a real blog with a real human behind it gets more and more difficult. Either the authors are not really associated with that particular blog or you don't even know who the "Admin" is.
Blogging is the new normal, nothing to talk about
What I have noticed about blogging in recent years that you don't have to talk and write about it that much anymore. In the early years blogging was new, amazing and still unfolding. Right now blogs are the most common form of regularly updated publication on the Web.
Corporations websites add blogs because people are used to read like that. Almost everything about blogging has been already said and written numerous times. That was one of the reasons why I didn't even care for the "golden age of blogging" meme.
Blogging is about personal branding not writing anonymously
My first blog was anonymous in a way. I just didn't mention my real name on it. It was like Tumblr today. Nobody cared for my name. Also I didn't want people to expect certain kind of content and opinion because I was a pole. Today blogging is personal branding. You are somebody when you blog. At least you should try to be somebody when you blog.
Without a strong personality blogging will become frustrating quickly.
People won't trust you as much as they trust bloggers with real names. Even Google won't rank you as high as an author who discloses who s/he is. These seems to contradict same of my former points when I wrote that people do not care about the bloggers anymore. They indeed don't unless you make them. You have to highlight the fact that you write and not "Admin".
Will corporations take over blogging completely?
These are the changes that came to my mind right now. I could write on for hours. What I want to stress is that as you see above some of the changes are rather positive, others can be viewed as negative, some are ambiguous. Overall they show that blogging has evolved beyond the stone age.
We do not live in cages anymore. Indeed a new WordPress with a modern theme is like a condo compared to a cage of WP from a few years ago. I welcome this change.
On the other hand I do not consider AOL or CNN to be bloggers thus I don't have to identify or even compete with them. It's a bit sad that the categorization of weblog is a bit meaningless these days. It can mean anything and everything.
- What's next?
- Will only corporations blog?
- Will we just "blog" for corporations like Facebook or Google?
Remember that some things haven't changed. What I have learned over the years is that bloggers care for other bloggers. Most of them won't actually attack you just to position themselves in a better light. Overall blogging connects.
I may not be a particularly gifted writer but people who like me, other bloggers, tell their friends and followers and thus my blog posts get shared. It's as simple as that. I read and share postings by other whenever I can.
Blogging like in the early days
A while ago I wrote an article about what I called then "smart mob SEO". The smart mobs of the early blogging era are still there. They might occupy public places but they also can form and support bloggers.
Often when other bloggers link to me or I link to them we outrank huge corporate sites. So it's possible. Real people are always better than mindless corporate drones or just employees who happen to blog.
I don't want to return to my cage but I still like sitting occasionally around the virtual fireplace
and convene with other bloggers to change the world. Facebook and Google are not replacements for blogs, they just parrot them without the inherent meaning. For real bloggers Facebook and Google are only tools to promote their own blogs.
You can still or now more than ever create your audience. You won't get as much traffic as the AOL blogs but you don't need that much. You want a small but dedicated audience. The 1000 true fans who can feed you are not a myth.
Last updated: November 6th, 2015.
* (CC BY 2.0) Creative Commons image by Chris Combe


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The economic outlook might be uncertain, with a number of possible flashpoints – not least Europe's unrelenting sovereign debt woes – keeping policymakers up at night. But while this uncertainty might trigger caution among economic forecasters, it seems to have done little to dampen the mood among entrepreneurs.
This morning will see the release of Deloitte's annual UK Entrepreneurship report, which reveals that the vast majority of this country's scrappy band of new businessmen and women expect to grow their revenues in the next 12 months.
In fact, the survey of nearly 350 entrepreneurs from across the UK shows that only 8 per cent expect zero or negative revenue growth over the coming year. That figure itself is lower than in 2009, when a full 20 per cent foresaw no growth. Over half – 56 per cent – are eyeing a revenue rise of least 10 per cent in the next year, while 36 per cent expect to grow by up to 10 per cent. Further out, nine out of 10 expect their businesses to book double-digit revenue growth over the next three years.
Tony Cohen, the head of entrepreneurial business at Deloitte, explained: "Last year, cost reduction was seen as the quickest and simplest way to bolster the balance sheet. It was a priority for entrepreneurs, meaning the expansion of their business – the driver of revenue growth – took a back seat.
"However, this year the vast majority of entrepreneurs expect positive growth over the next year, suggesting that some of this cash will soon be invested in growth strategies."
That said, the bruises left by the deepest recession in decades are still visible – at least in the form of lessons learnt, with 46 per cent of respondents saying they are actively stockpiling and retaining cash within their businesses.
The survey also shows that, despite the growing crescendo of forecasts anticipating booming growth in emerging markets, entrepreneurs remain cautious about venturing into the economic wild west – or should that be east?
Indeed, the UK, Western Europe and North America remain preferred markets for growth for 84 per cent of entrepreneurs, with only 1.5 per cent considering China as an avenue for growth for their business and less than 1 per cent leaning towards India and Brazil. Larger companies are much more likely to attempt foreign expansion into fast-growing markets, according to the report.
"Foreign expansion into potentially untapped markets, especially for those sectors more naturally suited to global expansion such as telecommunications and technology, remains down the list of short-term priorities," Mr Cohen explained. "Entrepreneurs are maintaining a more cautious stance, avoiding any potentially costly drains on company resources in turbulent markets."
Respondents were also cautious about the impact of the Government's austerity drive, with more than half – 55 per cent – expecting short-term negative effects as a result of the squeeze as consumers once again tighten their purse strings. And despite the headline findings on revenue growth, entrepreneurs are also more bearish about the macroeconomic picture, with more than half of those surveyed believing there is a greater than 50 per cent chance of this being a "double dip" recession, where the economy contracts again. We say "more bearish" because this compares with just 34 per cent of listed company finance directors in Deloitte's CFO survey.
CDC to make its market debut
Investors interested in the resources sector could not have missed the record rise in copper prices last week.
The metal rose above $9,000 a tonne, and held firm even after China's central bank said it was raising reserve requirements – the money that lenders must keep on reserve – on Friday.
The move, aimed at mopping up the excess cash flowing around the Chinese economy, was welcomed, as the markets had been worried about the more onerous prospect of an interest rate hike. The latter, it was feared, could have dampened demand in the world's largest consumer of industrial metals.
It is against this backdrop, then, that Copper Development Corp, the owner of the Hinoba-an copper project in the Philippines, will announce its admission to AIM this morning. The company has raised more than £40m from institutional and industrial investors, with the money earmarked to help fund a study of the feasibility of bringing the mine into production through an accelerated development programme.
In terms of management, CDC is headed by Mitch Alland, its chairman and chief executive who, over more than two decades at the World bank and the International Finance Corporation, has been involved in major copper mining projects in South America and Africa.
"We believe the current upward trend of copper prices signals a growing supply-demand imbalance in the copper market," he said. "The increasing global demand for copper represents a significant opportunity for CDC. In Asia, this growth has been particularly robust, most notably in China, which accounts for 37 per cent of world refined copper consumption."
Noricum set to leave PLUS for AIM
From copper to gold, which, as we have noted before, has also been rising in recent months, striking records as investors seek protection from economic storm clouds. Noricum Gold is holding a shareholder meeting on Wednesday, where investors will get the chance to approve its acquisition of gold assets in Austria and its move from PLUS to the AIM market on Friday.
Why Austria? Noricum points to the pro-mining environment in what historically has been a high grade gold production region. It also highlights factors including the strength of the infrastructure and the stable political environment.
The latter is worth noting, we think, as mining companies often operate in remote regions, making it that much harder for investors to gauge events on the ground. No such issue here. The infrastructure point should also prove attractive, as miners often end up having to invest heavily in making sure their operations are accessible and have a regular supply of power.
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Well sir, I oughta be hanged. I'd knowed it. But I kin't help myself. Everytime I gits to thinking about the upcoming Demycrat and Republycan National Conventions, I can't help but recall an event once related to me by a feller named H. Allen Smith. It's sticking in my mind like that dog-awful Muzak tune you hear in the dentist's office right before they crank up the drill. So I figure I better just up and share it and be done with it.
Then when you watch this summer's conventions, see if this tale don't keep coming back into your mind.
Champion Hog-Caller
Several years ago I found myself in the pleasant community of Wilson in North Carolina. The town was in an abnormal state of excitement because of a championship hog-calling competition that was to be held in the local ball park. Normally I have small interest in such matters, but I was attracted to the contest for the reason that Olla Ray Boyd was one of the two participants. Mr. Boyd was a candidate for governor of the state. He was reputed to be the best hog-caller in the South and on his calling cards (or hog-calling cards) identified himself as a hogologist.
On the afternoon of the contest I made my way to the ball park and found a seat in the crowded stands. A platform had been erected between home plate and the pitcher's mound and the whole park had been decorated with bunting. A brass band played and some girls twirled batons and I sought enlightenment from the people sitting around me. I was told that ole Mist' Boyd had mebby finey met his match. Someone had dug up a lady by the name of Miz Johnson who was a hog-caller from who-laid-the-chunk.
When Olla Ray Boyd finally climbed to the platform the crowd broke into a wild demonstration. The man sitting next to me was tensed up like a drumhead. He jabbed at me with his elbow and exclaimed, "Yonda's a hwag-calluh! Ah mean hawg-calluh!" Then Mrs. Johnson was introduced and another great cheer arose from the stands. Mrs. Johnson was a lady of middle age, plainly dressed and appearing to be a little nervous.
After some preliminary speeches Olla Ray Boyd stood up and faced the crowd and when the applause faded away he launched into a brief speech, requesting that all present support him for governor. I don't recall just how he stated his qualifications but I seem to remember that he argued that a man with a firm command over hogs would be able to cope with members of the state legislature.
Throughout his little speech there were frequent cries from the audience. "Call 'em hawgs, Mist' Boyd!" And finally he called 'em.
To my everlasting regret I took no notes on Mr. Boyd's opening hog calls. I only remember that they were impressively melodious and that not a sound came from the stands as he stood there bellowing into the breeze. He went on for quite a while, changing tones, skipping from one octave to the next, adding little grace notes here and there, and then the crowd began to yell again. They were chanting "Boah, boah, boah!" The man next to me explained: "They want 'im to do the old boah messin' roun' the ole sow. He allus does it. Mind now."
Mr. Boyd did the old boar messing around the old sow. I have never been present when an old boar was messing around an old sow (otherwise I'd remember it), but apparently Mr. Boyd's take-off of the old boar was perfection itself, for the crowd roared its approval. And then came the cries: "Slop 'em, Mist' Boyd! Slop 'em!" This called for Mr. Boyd's piece de resistance. He impersonated three hogs eating slop. He played all three characters at the same time, filling the air with enormous gruntings and snortings and snufflings and slobberings, and the crowd shrieked its delight. There is no question about it—Olla Ray Boyd is a man of heroic proportions. Completing his performance, he bowed to the stands, then turned and bowed to Mrs. Johnson and resumed his seat.
Now Mrs. Johnson stepped shyly to the front of the platform. She took hold of the rail with both hands, hung her head and began pawing lightly at the wooden floor with one foot. For a few moments I thought that her stage fright was going to prevent her from opening her mouth. Then she seemed to get a grip on herself. She raised her chin and let go.
She was a good fifty yards from me, but I had a feeling that I had been swept up suddenly in the middle of a cyclone. My toes curled up inside my shoes and my eyes seemed to have a strong tendency to cross. What Mrs. Johnson had to say was this:
Then a pause. Followed by:
Another pause. Followed by:
And after that:
The people sat as though stunned. They knew. They knew that this was a precious moment, a moment to remember. They had heard a hog-call that was a hog-call.
Mrs. Johnson lowered her head modestly, returned to her chair, and sat down. Olla Ray Boyd got up, walked over and shook hands with her and said something to her. My neighbor interpreted this move: "He ast 'er to do it again. She don't wanna do it again. Airy hawg didn't hear it the first time, he's pure deef"
The judges ... now went into a huddle and quickly acclaimed Mrs. Johnson as the winner. I felt a little sorry for Olla Ray Boyd and asked my neighbor if this defeat would hurt his political chances.
"Nawp," he said. "Mist' Boyd, he's still the best at what he does. He can do them three hawgs eatin' slop so good you can shet your eyes and you're right smack-dab in th' pigpen. But he's more of a platfawm hog-calluh. He calls hawgs for the benefit of people. That Miz Johnson there, she calls hawgs for the benefit of hawgs. They's a difference."


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Posted on 03/26/2013 2:41:44 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
During oral arguments today at the Supreme Court, Justice Antonin Scalia and attorney Ted Olson had a pointed exchange over whether same-sex marriage is a fundamental right guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.
Scalia's argument, which was advanced by Chief Justice John Roberts before him, was that when the institution of marriage developed historically, it was not done with the explicit intent of excluding gay and lesbian couples. "We don't prescribe law for the future," Scalia said. "We decide what the law is. I'm curious, when did it become unconstitutional to exclude homosexual couples from marriage? 1791? 1868? When the Fourteenth Amendment was adopted?"
Olson countered that with a question of his own, bringing up two past high-profile cases involving discrimination.
"When did it become unconstitutional to prohibit interracial marriages? When did it become unconstitutional to assign children to separate schools?"
Olson asked.
The two went back and forth, with Scalia repeatedly questioning when, specifically, it became unconstitutional to bar gay couples from marrying. Olson argued back, but ended up conceding that there was no specific date.
"Well, how am I supposed to how to decide a case, then, if you can't give me a date when the Constitution changes?" Scalia said.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
Olsen lost the argument when he answered Scalia's questtion with a question. The rest was just prologue.
Sounds like Scalia is on the right side of this case. Wish I had confidence in Roberts. But I don't.
We need 8 Scalia's on the Court.
(and one token liberal for comic relief.)
Marriage is not a right. It's an artificial construct that doesn't happen in nature. It also involves a contract between at least 2 parties, needing agreement between them all. Therefore it is not a right. Many people who are heterosexual end up not married, unable to find someone to love them. Do they have a right to force someone into marriage with them? No. Yet by these fools you'd think everyone should be able to line up at the marriage department and receive a partner.
He may as well retire. All he can look forward to now is writing dissenting opinions.
Lawyers have bragged they can make white appear black and black to appear white for centuries..
What is unusual is people not slapping them down harshly when they do..
Sophomore's have bragged forever that everyone has their own truth..
Thereby making "the Truth" an opinion..
He was smarting off at Scalia, too -- taunting him. Where did he get manners like that? From the new crowd he's been hanging around with? It seemed awfully .... gay.
Olson equates interracial marriages with same gender messages.
He does not seem to see the difference between one and the other.
With those two illegal-alien (or whatever they are) adopted kids with admin-paperwork problems, Roberts is a captive. Barky's got him on a leash.
It's already settled. Whatever trump card, dirty pictures, or body under a woodpile they have on Roberts will be played again in this case. It's the number one agenda item for The Left.
It was never unconstitutional to prohibit interracial marriages. Those were state statutes and the constitutionality was never in the picture.
That's been the homolawyers' line of attack consistently since 1981, when they were pushing the Baehr vs. Lewin case (it actually had two or three captions at different times) in Hawaii, which was a "homomarriage" </cant> case. That case ended up mooted by a timely amendment to the Hawaiian constitution.
OUR Ted Olson ?
No thanks. We need six Thomases. Clarence understands liberty.
Yes, that Ted Olson.
From what I have read of the Justice's comments, I am struck that except for Scalia, this is a thoroughly lightweight Supreme Court from left to right.
Kennedy was going on about 40,000 adopted children of gay couples who are waiting for their decision? Why is this a federal concern or a concern of the Supreme Court? Are they the ones who started all these gay adoptions?
Just strikes me as about as analytic as the average debate in Congress.
Really? That's nonsense. Call their bluff. What can they do to him over those kids?
Actually, the concept of marriage DOES exists in nature.
RE: From what I have read of the Justices comments, I am struck that except for Scalia, this is a thoroughly lightweight Supreme Court from left to right.
Any questions from Samuel Alito?
As for Clarence Thomas, I am not betting on him asking any questions. He almost never opens his mouth.
RE: OUR Ted Olson ?
Not anymore.
"Stay out da bushes!!!!"
Did Scalia tell him that the 14th amendment covered that situation? What a bogus argument.
I can't believe the founding fathers had any notion of having the SC decide what marriage is.
As the SC makes more laws and tells more states what to do, will any of the states have the guts to leave the union?
It is as simple as this - Marriage throughout history has always referred to a man and a woman for the purpose to produce children and to raise and protect those children until such time as they are ready to start their own family.
It is Lazy (BIASED) (PERVERTED) Liberal thought processes that has allowed the term "Marriage" to include people of the same sex. This does in NO WAY produce children - at least in all the biology books I have read, but maybe liberals have a secret book they have learned from that states differently.
Love is Love. Marriage is different.
Two dogs humping in the back yard does not mean they should be married. A female dog humping another female dog does not denote love, it denotes dominance. The same goes for male dogs.
Maybe someone needs to explain that concept to Democrats.
NOBODY "in their right mind would have ever thought that marriage would have to be so defined - with the exception of perverts and Democrats."
Why do we not allow blind people to fly airplanes?
From a governmental/ legal perspective marriage is about property management and inheritance, not mating. Which is part of why it doesn't happen in nature, animals aren't too concerned with property.
The obvious mistake here is Law versus religion!
There is no reason for the court to be taking up religion!
Marriage was never a right applied to the constitution!
Marriage is a word and is defined not by law but by man!
The obvious end result is for the court is to strike the word marriage from all unions as law and precept them as a civil union!
Marriage will then only be a term for the religious that belive in the true form of Marriage and not tied in any way to the Federal Government!
Goverenment was never designed to even approach the term Marriage! It is a term, nothing more. But is reserved for the devine union of two, a man and a woman! If the High Court can find a precedent where two people of same sex were married in our history before the argument was presented more power to them! I personally feel, Adam may have married the snake by mistake!
A man and woman committing to each other to form a single familial unit and attempt to produce children out of that union is as natural a thing as exists. That is what marriage is. If a man and woman do that, they are "married" whether a state recognizes it or not.
At the same time, if homosexuals want to pretend to be "married" to each other, it doesn't matter if the state acknowledges them or not, THEY AIN'T MARRIED.
Having a state recognize something doesn't make it so.
If the state were to recognize a gay "marriage" it would no more make it an actual marriage than the state recognizing this guy as a cat would make him an actual cat.
Same here, and he was a darling when #43 appointed him. BUT, remember Laura Bush came out in favor of gay marriage. Makes me sick.
Perhaps you as many others once thought that Ted Olson was 'Your Ted Olson'. Times change, people can change but some things just remain the same.
"Kennedy was going on about 40,000 adopted children of gay couples who are waiting for their decision? .."
Kennedy should know THIS:
"58 percent of the children of lesbians called themselves gay, and 33 percent of the children of gay men called themselves gay."
snip http://www.aolnews.com/2010/10/17/study-gay-parents-more-likely-to-have-gay-kids
If it is so difficult to be gay, why would they wish it on children just because they want to adopt.
Adoption is not a right.
Bull F**k*** Pucky. Marriage was devised to solidify society and produce a stable environment for families to grow and prosper. It was WELL understood that homosexual unions produced no children and therefore no stability for society. They also knew that homosexual activity destabilized societies and that diseases were passed from those that (Went both ways) to all concerned - Man, Woman and Children.
Romans, Greeks, Persians and other societies would not promote soldiers who practiced such activities - with a few notable exceptions. Most (not all) of those children produced from the proper Male/Female relationships ended up diseased in either the mind or in the body and never amounted to anything.
Marriage will then only be a term for the religious that belive in the true form of Marriage and not tied in any way to the Federal Government!
While it is the logical end, it is highly unlikely that it will be the actual end. Like you, I would prefer that the government only be involved in civil unions and leave the rest to the Church. However, that is not what the SSM lobby wants. Ultimately it is not about civil unions for them. It is about forcing the Church, through the law, to approve of their unionsto have the Church bestow the blessing of God upon their union and call it a true marriage.
when did it become constitutional for the Suprwme Court to decide who has a "right" to a RELIGIOUS SACRAMENT?
line up at the marriage department and receive a partner.
This is what always frustrated me about the distribution of condoms in our schools.
If I have a "right" to a condom, don't I also have a right to a willing and voluptuous partner?
You give me a free shot glass, but where's the booze?
Not true, some animals mate for life (their version of marriage) and never seek another partner again
Look it up....
Nobody has ever been excluded from marriage. Homosexuals, like heterosexuals, have always been free to marriage. It's just that marriage is supposed to be between a man and a woman. If you allow people of the same sex to marry each other, how can you not allow all sorts of strange types of marriages? The answer: you can't.
If that is the intent, the LGBT crowd not only wants to change Constitional Law but Biblical Law!
No Religion will be able to refuse the infusion of LGBT into the Church of any religion and will therefore change the teachings and content of any religion!
SCOTUS might as well order that all bibles in the USA be rewritten to accept the LBGT lifestyle and order all Churches to submitt to LBGT lifestyle!
Hearing common sense almost sounds alien to the ears since the left have so distorted the debate. For example, the left are always using the phrase "separation of church and state" yet at the same time advocate federally forced atheism.
Ping for later
Ted Olson has been arguing before the SCOTUS longer than most of the Judges have been on the Court and has forgotten more than they knew to begin with.
This is just "inside baseball" friendly poking one another. Don't read anything big into this, especially how Scalia felt about Olson's counter questions.
I can not find anywhere in the Constitution wher it says the court can nullify a legal vote, even though they try sometimes. My guess is that the majority will side with the voters, not the liberal Judges under and on the 9th.
Gay couples aren't barred from marriage, so long as they don't marry each other. They are as free as anyone to marry someone from the opposite sex. What they want to do is redefine what marriage means. Allowing interracial marriage doesn't do that. Olson's response is BS.
Marriage has been around since Adam and Eve. But the State wasn't involved until around the 1700's.
BKO is rolling over in her grave!!! Ted's THIRD wife is a LIBERAL: and my guess is that she has GAY KID or KIDS...period.
Laura Bush is a DEMOCRAT...a TEXAS DEMOCRAT.
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Unfortunately, summertime brings a stream of news stories involving children dying after being left in hot cars by their parents/guardians.
In an effort to take a stand, Terry Williams decided to film himself in a hot car to show parents exactly what these children go through.
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"This is not a game," said Williams. "This is serious. Don't be the next fool on the damn news talking about you left your kids in the back seat."
The YouTube clip shows the Greensboro, North Carolina resident sitting in the car with the windows up in 90 degree weather sweating profusely.
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"As you can see, I'm sweating - like, I can barely breathe out here. But my system is stronger than these little kids' systems," he says.
According to experts, temperatures can rise as much as 20 degrees inside a closed car making it unsafe for anyone to be left inside.
It's clear that something must be done to end this tragic pattern of children being left inside cars in the heat, but who should take the lead? Should the car industry be given the responsibility of creating some type of censor that beeps if a child is left in the backseat? Let us know what you think the solution is below.


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Three more cards in the Super Punch Tarot. The deck will be featured at Bear and Bird Gallery March 5 - April 16, 2011.
Justice by Roman Laney. See also: Alternate design.
Six of Swords by Geoff Trapp. See also: Predator vinyl toy.
Queen of Coins by Kat Brunnegraff. She has some adorable and very cheap plush creatures on sale in her webstore.
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Looks like it's a race to the bottom in the ETF business on fees.
BlackRock has announced expense ratio cuts at several of its existing products as it creates the new iShares Core Series targeting buy-and-hold investors.
The move follows fee reductions at rivals Vanguard and Charles Schwab.
"The iShares Core Series is a suite of products offering a competitively priced, diversified, tax-efficient family of ETFs that investors can use as building blocks for the heart of their portfolios in domestic and international equities and U.S. fixed income," BlackRock said.
The series is comprised of six existing ETFs and four new iShares.
BlackRock has lowered fees on these six ETFs:
- iShares Core S&P 500 ETF (NYSEArca IVV)
current price 0.09%
new price 0.07% - iShares Core S&P Total U.S. Stock Market ETF (NYSE: ISI) – will trade under new ticker ITOT
current price 0.20%
new price 0.07% - iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF (NYSEArca: IJH)
current price 0.20%
new price 0.15% - iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF (NYSEArca: IJH)
current price 0.20%
new price 0.16% - iShares Core Long-Term U.S. Bond ETF (NYSEArca: GLJ) – will trade under new ticker ILTB, changing tracking index to Barclays US Long Government/Credit Bond
current price 0.20%
new price 0.12% - iShares Core Total U.S. Bond Market ETF (NYSEArca: AGG)
current price 0.20%
new price 0.08%
These are the new ETFs expected to begin trading on or about Oct. 22:
- iShares Core MSCI Total International Stock ETF (IXUS)
- iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF (IEMG)
- iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF (IEFA)
- iShares Core Short-Term U.S. Bond ETF (ISTB)
BlackRock also said it is integrating the iShares and BlackRock U.S. retail sales teams.
The firm's announcement comes after Vanguard earlier this month said it plans to change the benchmarks at several of its ETF in a move designed to allow Vanguard to cut ETF fees. [Vanguard Changing Indices for Several ETFs]
In late September, Schwab unveiled fee reductions in its family of ETFs. [Schwab Takes the Lead in ETF Price War]
BlackRock's response to its competitors lowering ETF costs wasn't unexpected. BlackRock CEO Larry Fink last month said the firm planned to slash the management fees charged by some of its core-strategy ETFs before the end of the year. [iShares to Cut Some ETF Fees in Fourth Quarter]
BlackRock is the largest ETF manager and has attracted $50 billion in net new assets year to date to lead the industry. However, Fink in September acknowledged that iShares was losing assets in large, liquid funds to lower-priced ETFs managed by Vanguard. [BlackRock Fires Latest Salvo in ETF Fee War]


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These are a dedicated group of women! Thank you for supporting Sonoma County in such a fun way!
Highly recommend this high spirited cultured music for your ears. Try and stand still, I bet your toe will start tapping!!! Vote La Mandanga for Best band in Bohemian
Pie Eyed Open Studio is always has the most fun events especially Printmakers Weekend! This year there will be two print makers and a jeweler - with music on Friday as well. Fun for all - it's the perfect thing to do with friends and family following Thanksgiving! Can't wait!
Judicial temperament - none!
Brad Seligman turned family court into a forum for reckless witch hunts against parties. He acted like a king, not a judge. Ironically, this purported crusader for civil rights trampled on constitutions protections for individuals left, right and center. Power corrupts. I am glad to see him out of family courts.
I heard this group at Paul Mahder Gallery in February. Spectacular acoustic space with big, beautiful art all around. Gorgeous music, superbly performance. Highly recommended!
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I look forward to attending this event to support the Alzheimer's Association.
Salet is a Bay Area based singer-songwriter who is inspired by artists both old and new and presents that inspiration in an original package that blends rock, pop, soul and folk
Fabulous venue to enjoy music, lighting just right, acoustics excellent, friendly staff, coldest beer, what a great Santa Rosa gem in Railroad Square
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Mystery Dance at Zodiacs Thursday July 30! Bonnie Hayes, Tim Eschliman, Kevin Hayes, Sean Allen:
Mystery Dance returns! Catch Ms Hayes & all during her summer break at a rare performance of the wild, rockin' fast & loose cathartic collection of originals & songs we wished we'd writ! Zodiacs Thursday July 30! Bonnie Hayes, Tim Eschliman, Kevin Hayes, & Sean Allen. No opener, ...it's all MD, so get there early! 8pm show. Likely guests include the whiz bang Erik Schramm. If you haven't been to the Z yet, you'll dig the ample dance floor & great cuisine, full bar, plenty parking, and P-town charm.
Reclamation Road is a band to watch! Very original sound!
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'The interface can be slow at times, and if you're streaming music (versus playing a download), the tracks can take some time to cue.'
'No Video Podcast Support.'
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'T.sonic 840 is now available in two capacities: 2GB (Glacier White) and 4GB (Mystery Black).'
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Ideabox: A Statement From People Living Under Rocks
This week, I'm taking a vacation to finally read the entirety of the Something Positive webcomic, so instead of presenting my own poorly rationalized rants, I'm opening up this space to some other people's poorly rationalized rants. Think of it as a sort of public service announcement, like that one with the kid who breaks a window then sings opera, only without the opera singing. Or the window breaking. Or the kid. Peace!
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Dear Alt Text,
In this so-called "enlightened" age, nobody would dream of disparaging a class of people based on their race, their religion or their pants. And yet, one group of people is continually exposed to ridicule and bigotry. I'm speaking, of course, about people who live under a rock.
Whether the topic is the current U.S. election or the ongoing patent struggle between Apple and Samsung, it seems like reporters, bloggers, podcasters and even the borderline illiterates who post to the comments section of news sites state reassuringly that their readers must already be familiar with the material — unless they're living under a rock.
The fact is that people who, like myself, live under a rock — or Sublithic Inhabitants, as we prefer to be called — are just as knowledgable and well-informed as you surface-dwellers. Even more so, if you include knowledge of current trends in lichen growth patterns. We vote, work and contribute to the community just like you, unless the humidity is exceptionally low, in which case we kind of prefer to stay under our rocks.
As Abraham Lincoln — who himself spent most of one summer living underneath an outcropping of shale — said, "We cannot add to our own dignity by taking away from the dignity of others." We who dwell under stones, boulders and even the occasional obelisk ask only that you remember those words next time you're tempted to throw us under the bus.
Damply Yours,
Nem Mossam
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Dear Alt Text,
It's sad to see that even in the modern era, some people are treated as a permanent underclass. I am, of course, referring to the sizable and growing number of people who reside under buses. Again and again, especially when watching reality television, we hear that someone has been "thrown under the bus." As someone who lives under a bus, my first response is, "How nice! It's very shady under the bus, and you meet all sorts of interesting people, or at least all sorts of interesting ankles." But no, it's meant as a negative at least nine out of ten times.
For God's sake, political commentators and TV contestants, pull your heads out of your asses and think of a new metaphor!
Grant Sequestern
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Jodie Sweetin Plans To 'Be Open' With Her Kids About Her Struggle With Drugs
6 years ago 0Although they don't know about her troubled past, Jodie's two girls will be well-informed, if they choose to ask. Jodie Sweetin struggled with drug… Read Article ▶
Cooking Lesson Time! 'Full House' Actress Jodie Sweetin Bakes Up A Storm With Daugher Zoie!
6 years ago 0How cute! The former 'Full House' star and her little Zoie spend some much-needed alone time baking cupcakes! Is former Full House star Jodie… Read Article ▶
Happy Birthday, Jodie Sweetin! You're 29 Today, January 19!
6 years ago 2The Full House star got the best birthday gift ever -- an engagement ring from her baby daddy, Morty Coyle! Happy birthday, Jodie Sweetin! The child… Read Article ▶
EXCLUSIVE! Candace Cameron Says 'Everything Went Great' For Jodie Sweetin In The Delivery Room!
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Finally, we get to see a little more of that other Nobunaga's Ambition game -- not this one, but this one, the more traditional, more epic of the pair. Of course, we're just torturing ourselves, as neither of the two Koei titles have been announced for release outside Japan, but if E3 isn't a time for dreaming, then we don't know what is.
There's a lot of new information about Nobunaga no Yabou 2, too; each level in the main mode will feature two difficulty settings (normal and hard), and there will be a number of different ways to play. Looks like there will also be an extensive tutorial, for those who need the help. We could use one for translating the Japanese text!


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International League Nelson Figueroa, Pawtucket (2-0, 0.59 ERA, 2 G, 2 GS, 15 1/3 IP, 7 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 0 HR, 0 HBP, 3 BB, 10 K) At 38 years old, Figueroa no longer blows hitters away -- he has 69 strikeouts in 115 2/3 innings this season -- but he still knows how to pitch. The veteran right-hander held Gwinnett to a run on three hits over 7 1/3 innings last Monday before tossing eight shutout frames against Scranton/Wilkes-Barre -- with whom he started the season -- Saturday night. After putting up a 12-5 record in the regular season, Figueroa heads into the IL playoffs having won four of his last five starts.
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Subject | Review Request: Populate needed replication queues before leaving safe mode. |
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----------------------------------------------------------- This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: https://reviews.apache.org/r/105/ ----------------------------------------------------------- Review request for hadoop-hdfs. Summary ------- This patch introduces a new configuration variable dfs.namenode.replqueue.threshold-pct that determines the fraction of blocks for which block reports have to be received before the NameNode will start initializing the needed replication queues. Once a sufficient number of block reports have been received, the queues are initialized while the NameNode is still in safe mode. After the queues are initialized, subsequent block reports are handled by updating the queues incrementally. The benefit of this is twofold: - It allows us to compute the replication queues while we are waiting for the last few block reports (when the NameNode is mostly idle). Once these block reports have been received, we can then immediately leave safe mode without having to wait for the computation of the needed replication queues (which requires a full traversal of the blocks map). - With Raid, it may not be necessary to stay in safe mode until all blocks have been reported. Using this change, we could monitor if all of the missing blocks can be recreated using parity information and if so leave safe mode early. In order for this monitoring to work, we need access to the needed replication queues while the NameNode is still in safe mode. This addresses bug HDFS-1476. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-1476 Diffs ----- http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/hadoop/hdfs/trunk/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/DFSConfigKeys.java 1035545 http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/hadoop/hdfs/trunk/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/BlockManager.java 1035545 http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/hadoop/hdfs/trunk/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/FSNamesystem.java 1035545 http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/hadoop/hdfs/trunk/src/test/hdfs/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/MiniDFSCluster.java 1035545 http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/hadoop/hdfs/trunk/src/test/hdfs/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/TestListCorruptFileBlocks.java 1035545 Diff: https://reviews.apache.org/r/105/diff Testing ------- new test case in TestListCorruptFileBlocks Thanks, Patrick | |
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After CM Punk quit the WWE in January there has been no shortage of rumours and predictions of a return for the wrestler in 2014, with a purported leaked Monday Night Raw script suggesting he hasn't severed ties with the company just yet.
CM Punk is listed as 'INJ' (injured) on the talent roster sheet, presumably the kayfabe reason for his absence at weekly shows, events and PPVs the past couple of months, while the qualifying 'TBD' perhaps alludes to negotiations still taking place with the star.
So what can we really glean from this? Well, not a huge amount.
Punk is under contract with the WWE until June so it makes sense for him to still appear on the roster, or he could still be being named as a precaution in case scripts leak as they apparently did in this case.
Read the full script here.
Whatever the case, one Redditor summed up the situation pretty accurately: "It would take a lot more letters than INJ to describe what's up with CM Punk."
The wrestler was in the crowd for the latest batch of Hall of Fame inductions in New Orleans earlier this month, but during an appearance on AMC show Talking Dead chose to go under his real name of Phil Brooks.
Commenting on the situation, Punk's former 'manager' Paul Heyman recently said: "I talk to him all the time. I don't really talk to him about the industry all that much because it's obviously a sore spot with him.
"I think when you talk about CM Punk/Phil Brooks, there were three people in the room the night that he quit: Vince McMahon, Triple H, and CM Punk. I don't know what went on in that room. I know certain perspectives, but none of those three have talked in public about it. If one, two, or three of them decide to go public, then we'll get a perspective on what happened that day. Until one of the three of them speak about it, it's only rumor and speculation and gossip. How's he doing? He's fine. Does he miss the business? I don't think so."


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Homeopathic medicine chest, Northamptonshire, England, 1801-1900
This mahogany medicine chest contains 69 small glass vials with handwritten labels and six large bottles. Homeopathy relies on the idea that 'like cures like'. For instance, if you are vomiting, your treatment will be something that causes vomiting but in a smaller, much diluted dose. One of the large bottles is labelled "Urtica urens". This treatment is made from a dwarf stinging nettle and is used on burns and skin irritations, the same effect the plant has on the body.
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Finally someone in America is paying attention to the Maricopa County Cold Case Posse investigation report indicating that Barack Obama's birth certificate is a fraud.
Hugh McInnish of Alabama filed a lawsuit against the Alabama Secretary of State challenging Barack Obama's eligibility to have his name on the November 2012 ballot for President of the United States. One of the stipulations in the case was a request to obtain an original copy of Obama's birth certificate.
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In a decision written on March 6, 2012, the Alabama State Supreme Court denied McInnish's demand of obtaining the birth certificate copy before allowing Obama's name to be placed on the ballot. The denial was not based on the merit of the evidence of forgery of the birth certificate, rather it was denied because they did not believe that the state supreme court had legal jurisdiction of the matter. To quote Alabama Supreme Court Justice Tom Parker:
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Just two more weeks to catch Faculty Show 12! The Museum will be open through the New Year but please note the following holiday schedule. The Museum is closed December 24-25 and will re-open on December 26 with normal operating hours through the end of the month. The Museum will also close on December 31, 2012 and January 1, 2013 re-opening for normal operating hours on January 2nd.
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Game of Thrones (2011)
Seven noble families fight for control of the mythical land of Westeros. Friction between the houses leads to full-scale war. All while a very ancient evil awakens in the farthest north. Amidst the war, a neglected military order of misfits, the Night's Watch, is all that stands between the realms of men and icy horrors beyond.
- David Benioff
- George R. R. Martin
- D. B. Weiss
Episode 1 - Valar Dohaeris
Release Date: 2013-03-31Jon meets the King-Beyond-the-Wall while his Night Watch Brothers flee south. In King's Landing, Tyrion wants a reward, Margaery shows her charitable nature, Cersei arranges a dinner party, and Littlefinger offers to help Sansa. Across the Narrow Sea, Daenerys starts her journey west.
Episode 2 - Dark Wings, Dark Words
Release Date: 2013-04-07Sansa says too much. Shae asks Tyrion for a favor. Jaime finds a way to pass the time, while Arya encounters the Brotherhood Without Banners.
Episode 3 - Walk of Punishment
Release Date: 2013-04-14Tyrion shoulders new responsibilities. Jon is taken to the Fist of the First Men. Daenerys meets with the slavers. Jaime strikes a deal with his captors.
Episode 4 - And Now His Watch Is Ended
Release Date: 2013-04-21Trouble brews among the Night's Watch at Craster's. Margaery takes Joffrey out of his comfort zone. Arya meets the leader of the Brotherhood. Varys plots revenge on an old foe. Theon mournfully recalls his missteps. Daenerys deftly orchestrates her exit from Astapor.
Episode 5 - Kissed by Fire
Release Date: 2013-04-28The Hound is judged by the gods. Jaime is judged by men. Jon proves himself. Robb is betrayed. Tyrion learns the cost of weddings.
Episode 6 - The Climb
Release Date: 2013-05-05Tywin plans strategic unions for the Lannisters. Melisandre pays a visit to the Riverlands. Robb weighs a compromise to repair his alliance with House Frey. Roose Bolton decides what to do with Jaime Lannister. Jon, Ygritte, and the Wildlings face a daunting climb.
Episode 7 - The Bear and the Maiden Fair
Release Date: 2013-05-12Daenerys exchanges gifts with a slave lord outside of Yunkai. As Sansa frets about her prospects, Shae chafes at Tyrion's new situation. Tywin counsels the king, and Melisandre reveals a secret to Gendry. Brienne faces a formidable foe in Harrenhal.
Episode 8 - Second Sons
Release Date: 2013-05-19King's Landing hosts a wedding, and Tyrion and Sansa spend the night together. Daenerys meets the Titan's Bastard. Davos demands proof from Melisandre. Sam and Gilly meet an older gentleman.
Episode 9 - The Rains of Castamere
Release Date: 2013-06-02Robb presents himself to Walder Frey, and Edmure meets his bride. Jon faces his harshest test yet. Bran discovers a new gift. Daario and Jorah debate how to take Yunkai. House Frey joins with House Tully.
Episode 10 - Mhysa
Release Date: 2013-06-09Joffrey challenges Tywin. Bran tells a ghost story. In Dragonstone, mercy comes from strange quarters. Daenerys waits to see if she is a conqueror or a liberator.


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Custom controls are often created by combining existing ones, enhancing their features. Combining controls is more challenging than creating a new one from scratch. In this article from the book ASP.NET 4.0 in Practice, you'll learn how to how to build composite controls using ASP.NET.
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Custom controls are often created by combining existing ones, enhancing their features. In most situations, this process consists of picking two or more controls and combining them to produce a single result. Knowing how to do this is important because you can reuse existing controls and add more features to simplify the use of common, recurring situations.
Combining controls is more challenging than creating a new one from scratch. When you create composite controls, you'll encounter special problems. For example, the controls need to be wrapped, and their members need to be exposed in the corresponding control. This task is simple to perform but it's also time consuming. The reality is that you'll map only the most used and useful members and add the others as you need them.
The problem with this class of controls is that you're hiding them from the outside, deciding what the external world may and may not use. For this reason, events handled internally by these controls can become a nightmare. You need to implement an event bubbling technique (to let events propagate through the control tree), or opt to define new events to expose just the existing ones outside the wrapped controls. To fully understand how all this will affect how you create a composite control, our scenario will cover how to build composite controls using ASP.NET.
Let's suppose you need to create a special DropDownList that, in a single declaration, can be used to both insert the description and the options to be selected by the user.
By using this control, you can save a lot of time in terms of markup to be written, and you can reuse the same feature over and over in your projects.
Composite controls are generally created by deriving from CompositeControl in System.Web.UI.WebControls. This class implements a lot of the logic necessary to implement custom controls that are web controls, too—composite controls support styling, for example. If you don't need these features, you can opt for the simple Control class from System.Web.UI. Using the Control class will ensure that the generated markup remains simple, but you'll need to manually add the missing features that Composite-Control already provides.
Figure 1 illustrates the concept of composite controls. Whether you use the CompositeControl class or the Control class, you need to manipulate the page's control tree and dynamically instantiate controls at runtime.
Composite controls work by combining controls together, so the controls are added using the CreateChildControls method.
The CreateChildControls method is called via a call to the EnsureChildControls method whenever a child control is needed. When you're manipulating the control tree, you need to be careful and remember that these are controls that will be nested into the control itself and then into the page. To add a control inside another, you have to access its Controls properties and add it via the Add method, as shown in the following listing.
Listing 1 CreateChildControl contains the Nested Controls Declaration
public class SuperDropDownList: CompositeControl, INamingContainer { protected override void CreateChildControls() { if (ChildControlsCreated) #1 return; Controls.Clear(); #A Controls.Add(new LiteralControl("
")); Label labelText = new Label(); labelText.Text = Description; Controls.Add(labelText); Controls.Add(new LiteralControl( string.IsNullOrEmpty(Description)? string.Empty:": ")); DropDownList listControl = new DropDownList(); Controls.Add(listControl); Controls.Add(new LiteralControl("
")); ChildControlsCreated = true; #1 } ... #B }
Public Class SuperDropDownList Inherits CompositeControl Implements INamingContainer Protected Overrides Sub CreateChildControls() If ChildControlsCreated Then #1 Return End If Controls.Clear() #A Controls.Add(New LiteralControl("
")) Dim labelText As New Label() labelText.Text = Description Controls.Add(labelText) Controls.Add(New LiteralControl(If(String.IsNullOrEmpty(Description), String.Empty, ": "))) Dim listControl As New DropDownList() Controls.Add(listControl) Controls.Add(New LiteralControl("
")) ChildControlsCreated = True #1 End Sub ... #B End Class
#1 Avoids control creation #A Removes existing controls #B Continues code
As you can see in this listing, we're basically adding some controls in order to display a DropDownList and a description. To remove unwanted controls from the control tree (which could be Literal controls that can be added in markup), we're performing a call to Controls.Clear to reset the control tree. The code in #1 isn't actually necessary because it's already included by Composite-Control. Listing 1 shows how to deal with this problem when another simpler base control (as Control) is used. Look at figure 2 to see the results.
We've omitted the declaration of the properties from listing 1 for brevity. When you need to set the properties for the inner controls, you have to use a special approach: you need to access an inner object's property from outside the control. In these situations, the preferred way to go is shown in the following snippet:
public IList DataSource { get { EnsureChildControls(); #A return ((DropDownList)Controls[3]).DataSource as IList; } set { EnsureChildControls(); ((DropDownList)Controls[3]).DataSource = value; } }
Public Property DataSource() As IList Get EnsureChildControls() Return TryCast(DirectCast(Controls(3), DropDownList).DataSource, IList) End Get Set EnsureChildControls() #A DirectCast(Controls(3), DropDownList).DataSource = value End Set End Property
#A Will call CreateChildControls
As you can see, we're referring to the control we created in listing 1 (in this case, the DropDownList), finding it by position, and directly exposing its inner property. Because you don't have to keep the inner property in sync (it's automatically performed using this pattern), this example shows you the best way to handle this situation.
HOW TO AVOID REFERENCING A CONTROL BY POSITION To produce cleaner code, you can also save a reference to the controls in CreateChildControls and then refer to the controls using this syntax (instead of finding them by position).
The calls to EnsureChildControls are not only important—they're mandatory. These calls ensure that the controls are created before we access them.
Now that the infrastructure of our control is in place, let's take a look at how to use events in composite controls.
Events are used in custom controls to simplify the code necessary to handle a state. A composite control hides the child controls, so you need to propagate their events outside the container by implementing an event wrapper.
Redirecting an event is a simple technique. The event is sent outside by first intercepting it locally and then propagating it outside. Take a look at the following snippet to understand how it works. In this case, the code is worth 1,000 words.
public event EventHandler SelectedValueChanged; protected void OnSelectedValueChanged(EventArgs e) { if (SelectedValueChanged != null) SelectedValueChanged(this, e); }
Public Event SelectedValueChanged As EventHandler Protected Sub OnSelectedValueChanged(e As EventArgs) RaiseEvent SelectedValueChanged(Me, e) End Sub
This snippet will expose a new event, called SelectedValueChanged, and a new OnSelectedValueChanged method, which is used to define the event handler in the markup. The last addition we need to make in order to attach the event to the inner control is to add this simple code in the CreateChildControls method, right after the DropDownList instance:
DropDownList listControl = new DropDownList(); listControl.SelectedIndexChanged += (object sender, EventArgs e) => { OnSelectedValueChanged(e); };
Dim listControl as New DropDownList() listControl.SelectedIndexChanged += Function(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Do OnSelectedValueChanged(e) End Function
This snippet ensures that when the DropDownList's SelectedIndexChanged event is fired, our event will be fired, too. The result is that the event handler created inside the page will also be called, and our event will propagate outside the contained control.
When you're building composite controls, you need to pay attention to the fact that you're not generating markup, but composing your controls, mixing them together, and manipulating the page's control tree. This task is certainly easy to implement in a simple scenario like the one we covered here because you're leveraging existing controls but it can also be prone to error. As you've learned in this scenario, you need to understand how CreateChildControls and EnsureChildControls work.
Getting started with custom controls isn't difficult, but advanced scenarios involve a deep understanding of ASP.NET. In more simple situations, custom controls can help you avoid code duplication by implementing and supporting repetitive tasks. You can easily add PostBack and templates to every control, and implementing support for data binding isn't all that difficult.
Here are some other Manning titles you might be interested in:
ASP.NET MVC 2 in Action Jeffrey Palermo, Ben Scheirman, Jimmy Bogard, Eric Hexter, and Matthew Hinze
ASP.NET AJAX in Action Alessandro Gallo, David Barkol, and Rama Krishna Vavilala
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Ptolemy VI Philometor
Ptolemy VI Philometor (Greek: Πτολεμαῖος Φιλομήτωρ, Ptolemaĩos Philomḗtōr, ca. 186–145 BC) was a king of Egypt from the Ptolemaic period. He reigned from 180 to 145 BC.[1]
Ptolemy succeeded in 180 BC at the age of about 6 and ruled jointly with his mother, Cleopatra I, until her death in 176 BC, which is what 'Philometor', his epithet, implies; "he who loves his mother", φίλος (beloved,friend) + μήτηρ (mother). The following year he married his sister, Cleopatra II, as it was customary for Pharaohs, for the Ptolemaic Greek kings had adopted many customs of the Pharaohs.[2] He had at least four children with her: Ptolemy Eupator, Ptolemy Neos, Cleopatra Thea and Cleopatra III, and possibly Berenice.[1]
In 170 BC, the Seleucid king Antiochus IV began the sixth Syrian War and invaded Egypt twice.[citation needed] He was crowned as its king in 168. According to Livy's The History of Rome from its Foundation (XLV.12), he abandoned his claim on the orders of the Roman Senate.
From 169–164, Egypt was ruled by a triumvirate consisting of Ptolemy, his sister-queen and his younger brother known as Ptolemy VIII Physcon.[citation needed] In 164 he was driven out by his brother and went to Rome to seek support, which he received from Cato.[citation needed] He was restored the following year by the intervention of the Alexandrians and ruled uneasily, cruelly suppressing frequent rebellions.[citation needed]
In 152 BC, he briefly ruled jointly with one of his sons, known as Ptolemy Eupator, but it is thought that Ptolemy Eupator died that same year.[citation needed]
Around 150 BC he recognised Alexander Balas as the Seleucid king by marrying his daughter Cleopatra Thea to him in a ceremony at Ptolemais Akko.[3] In 145 BC, however, while Alexander was putting down a rebellion in Cilicia, Ptolemy VI invaded Syria, securing safe passage through Judaea from Alexander's vassal Jonathan Maccabee, and capturing the city of Seleucia. He remarried his daughter to Alexander's rival Demetrius II, and went to Antioch, where he crowned himself King of Asia. Alexander was defeated by Ptolemy when he returned from Cilicia with his army and fled to Arabia, where he was killed. For the first time since the death of Alexander the Great, Egypt and Syria were united. However, Ptolemy died three days later, in unknown circumstances.[4]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Chris Bennett. "Ptolemy VI". Tyndale House. Retrieved May 22, 2013.
- ↑ "Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt". Ancient Egypt Online. Retrieved May 22, 2013.
- ↑ I Maccabees 10.48-58
- ↑ I Maccabees 11.1-11.19
External links
- Ptolemy Philometor at LacusCurtius — (Chapter IX of E. R. Bevan's House of Ptolemy, 1923)
- Ptolemy VI — (Egyptian Royal Genealogy)
- Ptolemy VI Philometor entry in historical sourcebook by Mahlon H. Smith
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Ptolemaic King of Egypt with Cleopatra I Cleopatra II Ptolemy VIII Physcon 181–164 BCE |
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| Olympus E-PL5 and E-PM2 We've been very impressed with Olympus' first OM-D camera, the EM-5. That model's 5-axis image stabilization and super-fast autofocus won us over, while the retro design appeased nostalgics as well. Now, it's time for that speedy shooting to make its way to the company's other Micro Four Thirds models -- the E-PL5 and E-PM2. Both models, announced today, offer nearly identical specifications, with notable differences on the form-factor front. The E-PL5 is the premium model of this bunch, coming in at $700 with a 12-42mm f/3.5-5.6 lens or $650 for the body only, while the E-PM2 will run you 100 bucks less for both configurations. Both cameras include 16.1-megapixel Live MOS sensors, top ISO of 25,600, 3-inch 460k-dot touch-enabled LCDs, 1080i video and an 8fps continuous shooting mode. The EM-5's five-axis stabilization is absent here, though a three-axis version should suffice in low light. Each model also includes an external flash and a rebate offer for a free Toshiba FlashAir 802.11b/g/n card, which enables connectivity with the OI Share apps for Android and iOS. We had a chance to check both cameras out just before Photokina, and were quite pleased with the design, along with that OM-D-like focusing performance, which really is as speedy as Olympus claims. The camera focused instantaneously with almost all of the lenses we tried, though it was a bit sluggish, understandably, when paired with the 60mm f/2.8 macro. The displays were equally sharp, though the PL5 packs a nifty articulating version, which can tilt up, down or face forward for self-portraits. We also enjoyed shooting with the super-slim 15mm f/8 body cap lens, which features a tiny front element with a slide-over cover -- while it's limited on the aperture front and includes fixed focus, it's arguably more useful than a traditional cap (Olympus hasn't confirmed pricing for that optic, though it'll likely come in below the $100 mark). That aforementioned dust-and-splash-proof macro will retail for $500 in early October, while a new 12mm f/2 lens will ship during the same time for $1,100. The "Mini" E-PM2 will be available in silver, black, white and red, while the E-PL5 will ship in silver, black and white -- both versions will be available in October. You can take a closer look at each of the offerings in the gallery below, then jump past the break for the full rundown from Olympus. http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/17/o...-pm2-hands-on/ |
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With his broad, child-like face and soft South Carolina drawl, Tim Montgomery is far from the stereotypical brash US sprinter. But two factors saw him force his way to the forefront of his event.
The first was his achieve-ment in setting a world 100 metres record of 9.78sec in 2002. The second was his involvement with Marion Jones, whose feat of winning five Olympic medals, three gold, in 2000 established her as the world's pre-eminent female athlete. It was a relationship that went public in the aftermath of Montgomery's world record run as the pair kissed each other in their excitement.
At that point, the two sprinters were celebrated as the golden couple of world athletics, and even as late as February of last year they were both making plans to leave their eight-month-old son, Tim Jnr, with their grandparents as they competed in the Athens Olympics.
By the time the Games took place, however, Jones had qualified for only one event, finishing fifth in the long jump, and Montgomery had not even made the trip after failing to qualify in the US trials.
What had happened in the interim was akin to a personal earthquake as the scandal centring upon Victor Conte's Balco laboratory broke and threatened to engulf both of them.
Montgomery and Jones endured an earlier controversy in 2003 when they were widely criticised after hiring the coach who had guided a drug-assisted Ben Johnson to the Olympic gold in 1988, and who had subsequently made it clear that he felt doping was the only realistic means of attaining success - Charlie Francis.
Partly through pressure from sponsors, the couple dropped Francis and soon they were both moving into the orbit of Conte.
But as Federal investigators insisted that both athletes testified to a grand jury, life became increasingly difficult for them.
Jones has never been charged with any doping offence. But in July 2004 she was accused by her former husband C J Hunter - who received a two-year doping ban in 2000 for steroid abuse - of injecting herself with prohibited substances. Five months later, Conte also accused her of doping abuse, telling the ABC television news programme 20/20 that she had administered herself with human growth hormone in a California hotel room at the start of 2001. Jones denied the claims, and started legal proceedings against Conte.
In the same programme, Conte said he had developed a plan that included doping coupled with physical training specifically targeted at making Montgomery the world's fastest man.
"I knew that this was the most coveted of all records," he said. "So we kind of ... had a collective dream ... and I was ... the mastermind, so to speak." Asked if he was talking about a "criminal conspiracy to break the world record," Conte said: "Well, if you're asking if it included illegal activity, the answer would be yes."
Conte, however, said that he believed Montgomery was just the latest world record holder to have enhanced his abilities. "When you say legitimate, I believe if it was achieved using the exact same playing field, then it is legitimate, because you're competing with the same terms and conditions... I mean, otherwise you'd have to wipe out all the world records," he said.
Montgomery has maintained his denials in public, but leaked evidence from the Federal grand jury which took place in November 2003 indicated that he had admitted using human growth hormone and a steroid-like "magic potion" provided by Conte over an eight-month span ending in the summer of 2001.
He told the grand jury that Conte had assured him "the clear" - the term used for designer steroid THG (tetrahydrogestrinone) - was not an illegal steroid, but he acknowledged that he knew human growth hormone was on the list of banned substances.
By the time of the US Olympic trials in 2004, Montgomery and his partner were both being tracked by a media posse. "This is the reason I didn't win," Montgomery complained.
Montgomery showed his potential in 1994 when, aged 19, he won the US Junior Colleges 100m title in 9.96sec. It would have been a world junior record, but the wind gauge was sited incorrectly. Since then, save for his world record in Paris three years ago, this resident of Gaffney, South Carolina, has failed to deliver.
Although he earned a silver medal at the 2001 World Championships, he has failed to make the US Olympic team at the last three Olympics.
But an unexpected performance at the 2002 Grand Prix final, in front of a half-empty 25,000-seater Stade Charlety, sent him to the top of the world list. In a following wind just within legal margins he stopped the clock at 9.78, taking 0.01sec off the mark set by his US rival Maurice Greene - and, before it was annulled because of doping offences, by Ben Johnson in the 1988 Olympic final.
Montgomery maintained afterwards that Paris would see more memorable deeds at the following year's World Championships. "You're going to see the greatest running you've ever seen in your life," he predicted. In the event, he finished a lacklustre fifth in 10.11 in a race won in 10.07 by Kim Collins of St Kitts and Nevis.