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One year later: Syrians remain resolute in fight for freedom
ORENTES RIVER, Syria – One year ago, a group of schoolchildren scrawled graffiti on school walls in the small city of Daraa. Excited over the uprisings in Egypt and elsewhere known as the Arab Spring, the boys wrote, "The people want the overthrow of the regime."
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The boys, who ranged in age from 10 to 15, were whisked away by the security forces of President Bashar Assad and beaten terribly. Some even had their fingernails pulled out by their tormentors.
The people of Daraa were outraged and mobbed streets in protest, the customary way in which many in the Arab world communicate with their dictatorial leaders.
This time it was different: Anger over one incident in one city spread to other cities rife with abuse, torture and repression under four decades of dictatorship. The outrage may have lost momentum eventually, if not for what Assad did in response.
"It was a shock," said Omar Al Muqdad, an activist and journalist from Daraa. "They surprised us when they opened fire on the unarmed people in the streets. And really for the first three days it seemed like a nightmare."
One year later, the protests have hardened into a revolution that borders on civil war, making this uprising by far the bloodiest to emerge from the Arab Spring as army deserters have joined forces with civilians to topple the Assad regime. Assad says the opponents are thugs and terrorists and has refused international calls to end the violence.
The death toll has reached more than 8,000 dead, according to the United Nations, as Assad's forces use their exclusive possession of artillery and tank shells to pummel opponents armed largely with rifles. Torture and imprisonment are widespread against opponents and those who try to help them, say groups such as Amnesty International and Doctors Without Borders.
And yet, the opponents show little sign of backing down.
"When (Assad) put down Daraa, Hama erupted," said Syrian activist Abdul Omar from the United Kingdom. "When he put down Hama, Homs erupted; when Homs was put down, Damascus moved, and Idlib and so on. Legitimately, there was a heavy need for reform.
"But when people called for reform and were answered with tanks, they realized what we need is more than just reform: We need a complete change," he explained.
Syria analysts say it is the violence unleashed against opponents that has stiffened their resolve.
"Despite everything that has happened, the killing, the torture, the incarceration, Syrians are still on the street every day," said Fawaz Gerges, director of the Middle East Center at the London School of Economics. "A psychological rupture has taken place in Syria whereby people are willing to die and they will continue to die in order to achieve freedom and dignity."
Activists say it is also impossible now to accept Assad's rule after what he has done to his people. Opponents know they are doomed if they back down now, so they may as well fight, activists say. "If the people go back and live obediently, they know it's only a matter of time before their front door is knocked down and they are arrested, thrown in jail, raped, tortured, exiled or killed," Omar said. "They can't go back to the lives they lived before. Even if they give up, the regime will not — it will go after them."
Gerges says Assad's response has deepened the commitment to the uprising rather than weakened it as Assad had hoped.
"This is a popular uprising that includes many people from different walks of life. This is a countrywide rebellion," Gerges said. "The bulk of the uprising is more of a nationalist uprising that calls for freedom and dignity."
"La Révolution de la dignité": that is how a year later, the Tunisians remember their own uprising, in songs, on posters, on stamps. Middle East analysts say that in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya, the more force employed by regimes, the more determined opponents became. Numbers of vocal opponents swelled and the fear of the regime ebbed as violence increased. In Tunisia, some protesters wore T-shirts with painted bull's-eyes to marches where regime snipers had fired on people.
"Week in, week out, the number of points at which a protest takes place, be they small or be they large, it's on the increase," Omar said. "A year ago, we would be lucky to have 15 protest points. Now we are averaging approximately 400 to 500 protest spots every Friday — even the tiniest villages will actually go and protest."
The protests have been non-violent, which opponents hoped would bring international support, said Sami Ibrahim of the Syrian Network for Human Rights, speaking from Homs via Skype.
"We thought the whole world would be with us because we remained peaceful for 10 months — without a stone in our hands," Ibrahim said.
With no help in the form of arms or military protection, an armed rebel force known as the Free Syrian Army has emerged to take on Assad's forces. The rebel army is made up largely of Syrian army soldiers who switched sides armed only with the guns they were issued.
"Syria needs freedom, but what made up my mind was being told as a soldier to kill our people," said Khalel Qadar, 30, who fights with the force after defecting from the Syrian army six months ago. "I saw them fall before my eyes in Hama city."
Qadar and others say they will keep fighting until Assad is no more. Assad has said sanctions levied by the United States and others against his regime will not deter him from his campaign.
"Will Assad win?" said Qadar, camped out on the Syrian-Turkish border. "Only God knows, but we fight on until either he dies or we do."
Russell and Bhatti reported from Berlin. Contributing: Louise Osborne in Berlin.
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Really, what makes church different?
We sing songs.
I suppose if one when to go to one of these arty coffee shops where people sing thoughtful songs they have written it might seem similar. Or how about karaoke? Isn't that fun singing?
We hear sermons.
I suppose people go to public lectures to hear people expound on some subject matter of importance or share their life experiences. I bet self-help book authors get big audiences at book tours.
We contemplate.
I suppose with the rise of yoga and new age meditation, people do something similar.
Really, what makes church different?
When we gather at together as a church (not necessarily a place but rather a community of people), we do the three things mentioned above. And it is supposed to be different.
Certainly, the content is different: Christians sing to, learn about and contemplate about Jesus.
And what does Jesus say is the most important thing?
Can't help but think about Jesus in his final thoughts he shared with his disciples before going to the cross. For instance, John 15:12-17:
My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command. I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master's business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit - fruit that will last. Then the Father will give you whatever you ask in my name. This is my command: Love each other.
In youth group planning meeting there was a discussion about how youth today feel abandoned. And in the broader society there seems to be a rough edge to how people interact with each other.
Indeed, love would mark Christians as different.
People often think of the Apostle Paul as a grumpy old hard nosed guy. He probably had some of that. But what else did he write?
I Corinthians 13:2 ... if I have not love, I am nothing ...
Lord, help me to be lost in your love. To swim in it. To drink deeply from the wonder of it. I'm an empty vessel. I'm a leaky vessel. God, I have nothing in of myself to give to others. So, Jesus, help me draw near to you. Fill me with the Holy Spirit so that I may go forth into the world and be your hands and feet to a lost and dying world. Amen.

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The long vocabulary word of the week appears to be "excommunication." And it does not mean someone who changed majors from communications to, say, engineering.
— Kicked out of the Mormon church? Who, me? — Robert Kirby | The Salt Lake Tribune
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Happy Valentine's Day folks. To prove that a few of us in the third row have a bit of a macabre sense of humour and romance, todays finite focus continues the theme of teen suicide.
When we were recording Cinecast #78, the subject of Roger Avery's adaptation of Brett Easton Ellis' college-sex-love-pain satire The Rules of Attraction came up. The film seems to have more detractors than defenders, although I lay in the latter camp. There is a style, one that is often relentless, and the willingness to go for the gut punch without undermining the characters (which float between cardboard types yet have so many 'human touches' on display too, particularly the ability to hurt others so unconsciously and yet be hurt so easily). There are easily three, perhaps even more, knock out scenes in the film. The other two are Victor's European vacation montage, as well as a split-screen sequence that ends with two characters (and their respective split screens) merging as they meet.
But I want to focus on this particular on screen suicide (yay Valentine's Day). The scene is glamourized to the point where it is completely irresponsible. But before we get all high and mighty about the this sort of thing consider that the film (and for that matter most of Ellis' novels) is giving us satire; and unfortunately satire is often a misunderstood art. On display for this sequence is the pop song "Without You" providing a cozy soundtrack; along with close-up shots of Theresa Wayman's face, a mix of sadness, pain, desire, resignation (?); ; fetishizing the event by lighting candles; a shot of jewelry and a razor blade; explicit opening of veins; a bathtub of blood with artfully deceased body; and finally, a nice cinematic short-hand of the drops of water running, running, slowing, stopping. It is a tour-de-force sequence of pointless and selfish angst elevated to epic tragedy. And the kicker is that this character does not even have a name, barely any of the other characters in the film even notice her up to the point where she is a dead body. Yes, it's dark. But I will vouchsafe that it is great pop-art too. I think Andy Warhol would be proud.
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First, It is very sad that the last post on this forum is from me, almost a year ago!!
That being said, wondering if anyone has had trouble with their turn signals? Riding to work the other morning in the dark I noticed all 4 turn signals coming on at once. Sometimes bright, sometimes just glowing a little, and then they would go out for a while, then do it some more.
When I got the bike it had 1703 bulbs in the turn signals so that's what I've been running. Did a check on voltage regulator and found output just a little high and did the adjustment. I haven't ridden since but with it idling I didn't notice any problems.
I haven't checked for shorting yet, that will be the next step if the voltage regulation doesn't help.
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US theatrical: 21 Nov 2012 (Limited release)
UK theatrical: 16 Nov 2012 (General release)
There's no Thanksgiving Turkey in Rise of the Guardians. This even though the movie's opening weekend is ostensibly his holiday and also, even though he's as famously used to spread holiday cheer—and sell holiday product—as his peers, Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny, who do play lead roles in the film. And, well, you could make the argument that the Turkey is better known than a few figures who do make their way into the new animated movie, the Tooth Fairy and the Sandman.
Perhaps the Turkey is left out because no one actually wants to eat the other fantastical figures. This, and his waddle, might make it hard for the Turkey to fit in with the other Guardians, set up here as a team of protectors—of children, they tell themselves, but more accurately of childhood as a concept, a concept that, by the way, allows these figures to exist (if kids don't believe in them, the movie's premise has it, they're in trouble). The Turkey doesn't go in much for protecting anyone.
But neither does Jack Frost (Chris Pine), whose induction into the Guardians forms the film's plot. He has his reasons. He tells you at the start that the first thing he remembers is darkness… and oh yes, cold. He was scared and alone, he goes on, and since that moment, he's found out only a little bit more about himself, namely, that he not only feels cold but can also create ice and cold (perhaps this leads to his comfort with cold, indicated by the fact that he goes barefoot in winter). The other major thing he learns is that no one else can see or hear him. That's a problem. While it's fun to slip-slide on ice and deliver snow days to happy school kids, he does wish he might be seen.
That changes for Jack when he's tapped to join the Guardians, comprised of figures from stories told to children, that is, Santa, a.k.a. North (Alec Baldwin, using a cartoony Russian accent), the Easter Bunny (Hugh Jackman), the Sand Man (who is silent and so played by no voice-actor, which is one way to keep down costs), and the Tooth Fairy (Isla Fisher). At first, he resists, professing no interest in the Guardians' charge, which is to protect children's emotional and physical wellbeing, that is to say, to help them to believe in each of these figures, because kids have to believe, that's what makes them kids.
Soon enough, Jack and the rest of the Guardians face something like an existential challenge, in the form of Pitch (Jude Law), who also goes by the name of Pitch Black or Bogeyman. He wants to make children afraid—which means they believe in him rather than those fantasies who bring gifts and eggs and exchange coins for teeth. When Pitch begins to shut down holidays. He begins by kidnapping Tooth's worker fairies (it's never clear how she's so human-sized and they're all fairy-sized and have no voices, or how they're the workers and she's management, though she does refer to her previous days "in the field," when she exchanged teeth for coins). Pitch then goes on—with help by his (also unpaid?) laborers—to steal the Easter Bunny's eggs, and, more vaguely, to encourage kids at Christmas not to believe in Santa. This believing business is tracked in a rather cumbersome way, as Santa keeps a big globe at the North Pole that features lights for all the believers: as these begin to go out at an alarming rate, the Guardians face … something, perhaps termination of their jobs, perhaps a more permanent end. It's not quite clear.
Amid the crisis, Jack has a falling out with his Guardian buddies, the sort of falling out that always factors into a team-of-superheroes movie (Rise of the Guardians is rather like The Avengers with training wheels). As he ponders his place and his as yet unknown previous identity, Pitch makes a special appeal to him, arguing that, since they've both spent most of their existences unseen and un-believed in, Jack might abandon the Guardians altogether and take up with him instead. Being cold and dark, Pitch reasons, they're a natural duo.
But Jack has another desire, not only to be seen and believed in, but also to be liked, not dreaded. This is something of a deal-breaker as he contemplates an alliance with Pitch, and so he makes the other choice, to side with the Guardians. This is an especially helpful decision for the Guardians, because Jack has a human boy believer in his back pocket, as it were, a kid named Jamie (Dakota Goyo) whose lone light still burns on that weird globe in the workroom at the North Pole.
And so they all fly off to Jamie's neighborhood, where they hope to save him from Pitch, who has his own plan, to snuff out this last light by scaring the kid into believing in the Bogeyman instead of, say, a rabbit who brings colored eggs and chocolates or a turkey who dances with Pilgrims. It's not exactly a sticking point, this idea of belief, but it's a point the movie uses carelessly, as both plot convenience and unexplained phenomenon. It's good that Jamie believes, of course, because the Guardians need him to do that. But you may be less convinced.
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Fleet-fingered string picking, crafty songwriting and harmonies smoother than the autumn wind blowing through a field of wheatgrass make every song on this album hard to forget. The tracks alternate between lilting ballads and saucy juke-joint dance numbers, but regardless of the tempo it's hard to shake the smile that accompanies listening to this mostly upbeat affair. While over half of the Portland quintet brings strong lead vocals to the table, mandolin player Mimi Naja particularly shines on this release, her voice robust yet vulnerable on songs like the opening tune "Turn Your Love." This is the perfect score for lazy-day summer romances or cool evening countryside hoedowns, and like such events, the only drawback is its bittersweet brevity.
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Bilderberg Group Investigative Journalist Jim Tucker DiesBilderberg Group, has died at 78.
Tucker died after 'complications due to a fall', April 26, 2013.
During his long career he made the Bilderberg Group his focus, wrote "Jim Tucker's Bilderberg Diary: Reporter's 25year Battle to Shine the Light on the World Shadow Government", and also founded the newspaper American Free Press, hosting articles by Paul Craig Roberts, Ron Paul, and others.
Jim worked tirelessly to pull back the veil of secrecy shrouding the Bilderberg Group, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Trilateral Commission, pushing past the vague and misleading press releases to get to the truth about the manipuations within. He once commented to British reporter Jon Ronson, "They exist, and they're not playing pinochle in there."
Jim's last interview was recorded three days before he died.
"Dave Gahary, a former submariner in the U.S. Navy, is the host of AFP's 'Underground Interview' series.
James P. Tucker, Jr., famed Bilderberg Hound, zeroes in on the international financiers and politicians, who have selected the locale Tucker predicted last week.
Jim explains how he located the "criminals," as he refers to them, and how the involvement of Americans in the dealings of the shadowy group is a clear violation of current United States law, in this entertaining interview."
Jim appeared in " Endgame: Blueprint for Global Enslavement, released in 2007. The film partially covers the 2006 Bilderberg conference at the Brookstreet Hotel in Ottawa, Canada."
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After almost 15 months of legal wrangling, online auction site eBay Inc. and now-defunct auction portal Bidder's Edge Inc. last week settled a dispute over the latter company's use of data taken from eBay's Web site.
San Jose-based eBay sued Bidder's Edge in December 1999, charging that the Burlington, Mass., auction portal trespassed on eBay's intellectual property -- namely, its online content -- without authorization.
Bidder's Edge was one of several companies that allegedly "crawled" on eBay's Web site, collecting data on items for sale there and then including links to those items on their own sites.
James Carney, president and CEO of Bidder's Edge, confirmed today that a settlement was reached last week but declined to release details of the agreement. Both sides dropped lawsuits against the other as part of the settlement, he said.
EBay spokesman Kevin Pursglove said that under the settlement, Bidder's Edge will pay EBay an undisclosed amount of money and will drop its court appeal related to an injunction issued in the case last spring. Bidder's Edge will also drop all antitrust claims against eBay and will stop using automated software to peruse the company's Web site, Pursglove said.
Bidder's Edge recently closed its Web site and has changed the direction of its business, Carney said. Customers looking for the site are now redirected to the Web site of BidXS.com Inc., a Los Angeles-based company that offers similar auction services.
Last May, a federal judge ruled in favor of eBay and issued an injunction that barred Bidder's Edge from using an automated Web crawler system to search eBay's site.
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Michigan Head Coach Alex Gibby
On winning the regional and automatically advancing to the NCAA Championships ... "Well it isn't the Big Ten, and certainly there is a team understanding that no matter how fun and enjoyable today was, it is simply a transition meet into the NCAA Championships next weekend, and nothing happened today that will allow us to be successful at the NCAAs unless we make the same quality decisions. However, with that said, after last week where we lost a close one with Indiana in the last 800 meters, it was nice to pull one out. Regardless of whether this is the third of the three championships meets that we weight and measure, we still won it, and that part is enjoyable. I'm particularly happy that we could do something for our two senior captains, Mark Beams and Morsi Rayyan. From where we started four years ago, where we were inconsequential at the regional level to being regional champions -- I think that is the thing I'm most happy with."
On the win providing confidence and helping to mentally prepare the team for NCAAs ... "The mental aspect is half the battle. And I would probably say that for the last four to six weeks that these guys have believed that they're as good if not better on any given day. However, you certainly have to get battle tested at this level. The particulars of learning how to win a race like this are a little different than being a close second or a close third. It was nice to see our guys figure out, as a group, what they needed to do and the level of execution they needed to engage in for the entirety of the effort."
On the first time at 10,000 meters this season ... "It played to our advantage certainly. The tactics in general played to our advantage in a sense that the race set up pretty sensibly. We were able to connect and move forward as a group. What I think I was most pleased with was the execution of our upperclassmen. Morsi, Mark and Mason (Ferlic) just did what they were supposed to do, and I think they did it with very little emotional investment. It's frustrating to see Cory Glines just shy of all-region honors, because for a true freshman at 10,000 meters, that's a heck of a job. Of course, August Pappas earning all-region honors -- that was an impressive race for him. He was nowhere to be seen the past couple years, and he's made himself an indispensable piece of what we're doing."
U-M Senior Mark Beams
On winning the regional title as a senior ... "It really is great. We haven't gotten a trophy as a team since Florida State my sophomore year, so it's really gratifying to finally win something and really see the fruits of our efforts. It's really all about the process and the journey that we started as freshmen. We were way down at the bottom. It was not an enjoyable experience, and we've just been working up and up and up ever since then. To finally be at the top as a team and get a bunch of guys on the all-region podium is really a great honor, and we're looking to cap off the last race at nationals the right way."
On what went well for the team and individually today ... "We packed up early. During the first mile or two, we grouped together and worked together, hanging out in the front pack. We stayed nice and relaxed. It was a very low-key effort -- keeping things under control. We started to push probably about 5-6K to get things moving into the latter portion of the race as a team. Individually, the key was staying relaxed through the first 6K of the race."
On the first time at 10K this season ... "The entire year we train for 10K -- the end of the season races -- regionals and nationals. Our training program benefits us at those distances. It was some of the freshmen's first time racing at this distance. I think they handled it well, but there it definitely a little bit of room for improvement, which is exciting."


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I wear casual day to day (I'm a stay at home mom) I have a closet full of clothing and I keep things just "in case" I might wear them. I have 3-5 nicer tops/outfits and I think that is the perfect amount, but I'm wondering what the perfect amount of casual tops is... I hate keeping stuff just incase I might decide to wear it. But they are all "good" clothing and I hate to get rid of them too... The closet looks a bit busy with so much in it. I live in the south so everything I have can be worn year round..not sure if that matters. I do have a few tops that are brighter that I only wear in the summer.
How do you handle clothing? Do you have a set amount?
If I don't wear it in 6 months I give it away/get rid of it. Only exception is formal gowns (1 maternity 1 non-maternity) that Ive made for Marine Corps balls. They are expensive so I reuse them.
Honestly, regular clothing if I haven't worn it in 6 months its not worth it.. Also, I like a uncluttered feel to my closet because its easier and quicker for me to sort through and pair up an outfit.
Even though the clothes may be good, if you're not wearing them, think of it as wasting good clothes. Someone else out there could really use them and wear them regularly, instead of them wasting away and fading out of style in your closet, and obviously taking up space and cluttering your environment. I have gotten rid of perfectly good and nice clothes, ones that fit me as well, but I just wasn't getting around to wearing them. While I felt bad about getting rid of them, the money I spent on them was already lost since I wasn't using them, so they're donated.
Try going a while without doing laundry, and if you get to a point where you'd rather do laundry to get your fave shirts back rather than wear what's left in your closet, then those should go. Or there's the old trick of flipping the hangers after you wear something, and whatever hasn't been flipped in say, 6 weeks, should go.
For me, I wear all my clothes year round too (layer it up for winter)
I have"
6 t's of varying casualness
6 tank tops
6 long sleeved shirts
3 cardigans
1 sweater
2 jeans
2 dress pants
1 skirt
1 casual dress
1 formal dress
8 shoes
and just one drawer for all socks, undies, etc.
I don't keep separate "dress outfits"... I just dress up a regular tank with a cardigan and use the dress pants, going for things that can look casual with jeans but dressy with slacks. Also, nearly everything in my closet matches with eachother, so there's no guessing game to picking an outfit. Keeping the number of colors down helps. I have mostly black, grey, purple, and green. All tanks can be paired with all the cardigans. I only need a few shoes, which are mostly black, so everything matches, and I only have 1 belt.
Katie, sahm to two wild and crazy guys (8/07) and (3/10) and their sweet new baby sister (4-1-13)
One thing I would recommend though, is to declutter your clothes at the end of the season, not at the beginning! I have made that mistake before and regretted tossing things I wanted to wear. It is better to see if you haven't worn the clothes by the end of the season and then do a big cull.
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Definition of respect
1 : a relation or reference to a particular thing or situation remarks having respect to an earlier plan
2 : an act of giving particular attention : consideration
3a : high or special regard : esteemb : the quality or state of being esteemedc respects plural : expressions of high or special regard or deference paid our respects
4 : particular, detail a good plan in some respects
in respect of
chiefly British : with respect to : concerning
in respect to
: with respect to : concerning
with respect to
: with reference to : in relation to
Examples of respect in a Sentence
The earth's crust floats over a core of molten rock and some of its parts have a tendency to move with respect to one another. —Mario Salvadori, Why Buildings Stand Up, 1990
Anyway any honor sent through the mail and cashable is about the only kind I got any great respect for … —Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being, 1979
Our ragged hero wasn't a model boy in all respects. I am afraid he swore sometimes, and now and then he played tricks upon unsophisticated boys from the country, or gave a wrong direction to honest old gentlemen unused to the city. —Horatio Alger, Ragged Dick, 1868
The Cat only grinned when it saw Alice. It looked good-natured, she thought: still it had VERY long claws and a great many teeth, so she felt that it ought to be treated with respect. —Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 1865
He has earned their respect.
The soldier saluted as a sign of respect.
Despite our differences, I have enormous respect for him.
I have a great respect for his accomplishments.
I expect to be treated with respect.
Your theory makes sense in one respect.
Origin and Etymology of respect
Middle English, from Latin respectus, literally, act of looking back, from respicere to look back, regard, from re- + specere to look — more at spy
First Known Use: 14th centurySee Words from the same year
Definition of respect
Examples of respect in a Sentence
Many other critics respect her work, but marginalize her as "the best Polish woman artist" or "the best woman artist of Eastern Europe." —Andrew Solomon, New York Times Book Review, 21 Aug. 1994
He had a weak point—this Fortunato—although in other regards he was a man to be respected and even feared. —Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado, 1846
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof … —The Constitiution of the United States of America
The students respect the principal for his honesty.
I respect what she has accomplished.
You must learn to respect other people's property.
We need to respect the environment.
Origin and Etymology of respect
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First Known Use: 1560See Words from the same year
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RESPECT Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of respect for English Language Learners
: a feeling of admiring someone or something that is good, valuable, important, etc.
: a feeling or understanding that someone or something is important, serious, etc., and should be treated in an appropriate way
: a particular way of thinking about or looking at something
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: to feel admiration for (someone or something) : to regard (someone or something) as being worthy of admiration because of good qualities
: to act in a way which shows that you are aware of (someone's rights, wishes, etc.)
: to treat or deal with (something that is good or valuable) in a proper way
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1 : high or special regard : esteem
2 : thoughtfulness or consideration "Of course, we would wait the appropriate amount of time out of respect for my brother." — Pam Muñoz Ryan, Esperanza Rising
3 respects plural : an expression of regard or courtesy pay my respects
4 : 1detail 2 Our trip was perfect in all respects.
5 : relation to or concern with something specified I'm writing with respect to your ad.
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The United States Constitution has remained the highest law in our land since it was written in 1787. Our federal government continues to be a government "of the people, by the people, and for the people." Its relevance to our daily lives has endured over two hundred years of testing. How did we get such a timeless document?
In 1776, the American colonies declared their independence from England. Thirteen fiercely independent states banded together to become a new country. However, there were many issues to resolve in order to form a strong country. Each state had its own form of self-government. They made their own laws, coined their own money, and were concerned about their individual interests. The oppression from England united the states with a common purpose - freedom. However, they were fearful of creating a government that would return them to the same tyranny they had endured from England.
The first government in the United States was formed under The Articles of Confederation. In 1777, the states sent delegates to a convention to put together a plan for a unified country. Together, they wrote a document that would establish a central government with a legislative congress to make laws. For four years, the states debated these articles. Finally, in 1781, they were approved by all thirteen states. The Articles of Confederation created a weak central government. It failed to give the new government the power to collect taxes, establish a military, form courts, or make the states obey the laws made in the legislative congress. The results were disastrous. The economy became chaotic. States began to fight over boundaries and levy taxes on each other. The new, weak government proved ineffective in uniting the states.
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Mike Shaw hasn't been bad... Flatirons Subaru helped me out with a loose control arm even though I have upgraded springs, sways, and endlinks.
I purchased from Mike Shaw though... And I'd probably buy from them again... so I think that they're going to be more apt to help me than anyone else in a dire situation.
Mike Shaw and Flatirons are both Site sponsors on a local Forum... and Flatirons actually has an aftermarket parts dept that stocks a large amount of aftermarket parts (a former buddy and I went their in a pinch and got a radiator and hoses from them) and an online aftermarket parts store... They used to have an inhouse tuner (flatirons tuning) but rumor has it they were told by Subaru of America that it was a no-go. So Flatirons Tuning has their own location now.


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Gable fan? Powered roof vent?
Here is my situation.
House built in around 1970. Location SW Idaho. Roof pitch 12/12 (very steep). The second floor living space is in the attic such that the top 1/3 of the walls are pitched like the roof. The result is 3 triangular "attic" spaces; between the 1st floor ceiling, the roof, and the 2nd story wall on each side and one above the middle of the second story living area along the ridge line. I don't think air gets from the soffet to the ridge line. The house is in the shape of a T with the top about 45' running north south and the long part of the T running east west about 75'. The attic is about 8' +/- wide and 5' +/- high. There are 3 gable vents, one at each end.
Problem: The upstairs gets very hot as does the attic. Hard to cool the second floor.
I have 4 square plastic ridge vents that are cracking and need replacing. I was thinking about replacing them with powered vents, turbines, or solar vents. I have decided that perhaps a gable fan would be a better solution, and just replace the square vents with metal vents. Someday I will likely install a whole house fan. I have heard the powered vents don't help and increase AC costs.
1) Is a gable fan a good idea?
2) Do I need more than 1? Should I put it on the long end of the T?
3) Is one or more roof vent fans a better solution?
4) If I go with a gable fan, Do I suck the hot air out of the attic? Or draw in the cooler outside air and blow the hot air out the roof vents?
Suggestions, corrections, ideas, all appreciated.
The proper answer will depend on if you know if the insulation in between the drywall and the roof deck sheathing has a clear and free flowing air space of a minimum of 1" to 1 1/2" on the top side of the insulation.
If the insulation is installed packed tight, then air flow is stifled and you have other concerns.
A powered attic ventilator would then be pulling the interior, paid for, conditioned air through air passage ways and leak points in the building envelope and you would increase your costs dramatically to cool the upstairs living quarters.
When you stated that you don't think that air gets in through the soffits, is that because of being blocked by the insulation, or because there is not continuous soffit vents installed in the overhangs?
Also, just for the discussion, how old is the current roof and when would you be considering replacing it? Because, the answer may generate some other additional possibilities for the solution.
Ed, Thanks for the response. I don't know the exact age of the house. The house is about 30+ years old and the roof has been replaced. It looks in good shape.
I went and checked and there seems to be insulation stuffed between roof and drywall. I am not sure "packed tight" would be right but there is not an inch of free space either. I have siding on the soffits and I don't see any venting holes but my original statement was based upon the insulation blocking airflow.
We have owned this house for 10 years. Last I was in the attic I did not notice any evidence of moisture, we have not been having any ice damming issues. We do not have any bathrooms or anything else venting into the attic.
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how do i keep the wookie scalps in place?
how do i keep the wookie scalps in place?
Safety pins or velcro
Or sew them by hand onto the shoulder of your flak vest with a few well concealed stitches.
This is what was done for the TDH bust. Just a few stitches will do and if you ever want to wash the vest a quick snip of the scissors will undo it. I would think a couple of stitches would be far better than velcro, but to each his own.
Wash ones flak vest.. shock horror...
cannon or not If I'm expected to not act like an ***** while in costume, I would prefer to not smell like one either. LOL


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I'm really energetic and loud once I'm comfortable. Oh, and I have a crazy laugh, some call it a legit witch cackle... Mwahaha if we work together, you'll definitely get to hear it! Be prepared!!!
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Georg Kacher Hints at Audi R5 e-tron on Automobile Magazine Website
by, 07-22-2010 at 02:56 PM (11864 Views)
Automobile Magazine's German contributor Georg Kacher has filed a story with the US mag that focuses squarely on the idea of a newer, smaller mid-engine sportscar from Audi. It appears Kacher recently got access to the Detroit e-tron concept car for a quick test drive complete with pics and has published full intel on what he expects from Audi and he's decided to start calling the car 'R5'.
So what do we think?
Kacher is more than being clever with his R5 nomenclature. It's written more like he's just decided to call it that and mainly because the TT RS 5-cylinder is the most likely engine for the car. Kacher though is more than wired in with Audi and one of our most respected competitors in forward looking Audi rumor knowledge. Further, we've heard the name 'R5' just once before a few months back, uttered by an Audi executive and have since filed it in our memory as stuff to know about future Audi sportscars.
R4 has been the name brandied about thus far and we're not confident of either name entirely because there's just so much going on in the consideration of mid-engine models as you'll see if you read the Kacher piece. Some of our own intel doesn't exactly gel with Georg so we're going to work up an intel report of what we know in the next week. We'd hoped to wait to run it until we knew more but Kacher's story has further opened the Pandora's box of mid-engine Audis and so we want to weigh in just as soon as we have a few minutes to work on it, likely published next week after the A7 reveal in Munich which we'll also be attending. For now, read more of Kacher's intel after the jump to Automobile.
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The Sundance Channel's series GET TO WORK is an unfiltered, uncompromising look at STRIVE, an organization dedicated to getting America back to work. In the wake of the economic downturn – when unemployment remains high and government funding for job training is on the wane – GET TO WORK offers a fresh approach to real, lasting change. By giving them the tools to take control of their lives, this program transforms them in dramatic and surprising ways.
GET TO WORK takes you inside this hardcore back-to-work boot camp that serves the chronically unemployed – jobless, directionless, and hopeless people who are just clinging on for survival. Most of them think they've come to the end of the road, but here they are offered a new beginning. The instructors not only train people, they reinvent them – completely breaking them down in order to build them back up with new skills and new dreams. But, with bad habits and bad attitudes to contend with, they must exercise equal parts understanding and iron will to make these transformations complete.
On every episode of GET TO WORK, meet a new class with no prospects for today as they labor to build a better life for tomorrow. Will they succeed and take the first hopeful step towards the future, or will they be thrown back into the harrowing realities they're trying to escape? No one said it's going to be easy.
GET TO WORK is filmed at STRIVE's San Diego affiliate, SECOND CHANCE. The eight-episode series premieres Monday, August 13th at 10:30pm ET/PT on the Sundance Channel.
Learn more and watch the full first episode at www.sundancechannel.com/get-to-work.


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Library buys field of dreams
|Barbara Lawlor • Nederland|
The empty lot next to the Nederland Community Library may not look like much, dried grasses, thistles, the prolific yellow-flowered weeds that are everywhere this year, but this uncivilized piece of property is the field to NCL's future. It is not important what it is now, but what it will be.
Recently, the NCL Foundation purchased the lot from Doc Mauer, who had originally intended to construct a multi-purpose building, but then, because of his respect for, and love of the library, he offered the Foundation a good deal. Last week, members of the Foundation as well as the NCL District stood in the field and congratulated each other for their good fortune and visionary thinking.
While the library was being built, the lot was used as a staging area for the construction equipment. The Library Foundation and staff realized that the bordering piece of Nederland property would be an asset to the library. No other sites were available nearby.
Susan Gerhart with the Library staff suggested, "We could landscape and use this area for outdoor reading. We would not build anything right away."
The Nederland Community Library Foundation purchased the property with matching funds from the library district and from community donations. District Board President Kay Turnbaugh said, "Essentially, the Foundation donated the land to the District."
Raising funds and making donations to the district enhances the functionality of both entities. The foundation is a non-profit, tax-deductible group, and the district is supported by taxpayers. The Foundation also donates funds for the purchase of iPads, young-adult books and furniture, and they help with the programs and the annual book sale during Miners' Days.
All of this means the library has been a successful venture and will inevitably outgrow itself. It is so well used that, eventually, it will need more space to accommodate the community activities it hosts. It will also need more room for more computers and Internet stations, more children's space and a larger meeting room that already requires standing-room only events.
Before anything else is done, we will pull the weeds, said Alberta Montgomery. Maybe they'll even hire some goats. The ideas were tossed about. A gazebo?
Gerhart said, "Whatever we do with it, we have secured the land for the library's future."


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One Broadlands resident has threatened to "shoot" a neighbor's small dog should it enter his property. The resident displayed a rifle-like gun in a threatening manner, and actually obstructed the dog's owner from retrieving the dog.
Killing or injuring a person's dog is a felony under Illinois State law. Such a terrible action is also subject to severe penalties under Illinois' civil law.
One simply doesn't get a free pass to kill a dog for entering one's property.
The resident is warned. Especially this resident, who may have poisoned animals in the past and was warned about that. What a great name to give to the town. Self-help is not an option.
The appropriate means to resolve such issues would include: cordial discussion with the dog owner / neighbor, seeking help from the Village authorities, or calling Animal Control. Immediately threatening to kill a neighbor's small dog, posing no threat of any danger, for passing through one's yard, is simply inappropriate — especially when small children are around.


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Video: Coach Jordano Interview
PITTSBURGH - The Pitt baseball team won a non-conference game for the second time in as many days, topping red-hot Penn State 5-3 on a cold Wednesday night at Charles L. Cost Field.
Similar to their 9-5 win at Akron on Tuesday, the Panthers received a solid start from a pitcher normally used out of the bullpen, as Alex Caravella picked up his first win of the season. He allowed three runs, just one earned, in six innings of work, helping end the Nittany Lions' six-game winning streak.
"Coach (Tom) Lipari does a great job with our staff," Jordano said. "We're switching some roles around a little bit, trying to get some guys some innings, and they're executing the plan. They're doing a great job for us."
Freshman Luke Novosel and redshirt freshman Joe Harvey combined for three scoreless innings in relief. Harvey entered with two on and two out in the eighth inning and pitched the Panthers out of a jam. He came back out for the ninth to earn his first career save.
"I was very pleased with today's performance. I think we gave them a few too many opportunities early in the ballgame, but we rebounded extremely well," said Pitt head coach Joe Jordano. "It was nice for us to get the W. We came up with some big hits and some big pitches. Overall it was a very solid performance."
Pitt (16-15) trailed early, but only briefly. The Panthers allowed two runs on just one hit in the top of the second inning, before responding with two runs of their own to tie the game in the bottom half of the frame.
With two outs and the bases clear, Mike Douglas started the rally for the Panthers with a bunt single down the third base line. Stephen Vranka followed with a line drive down the left field line for a double that scored Douglas all the way from first, and would later score himself on a single by Evan Oswald.
Oswald had a pair of hits in the game and drove in a run for the third straight game. He had three RBIs in Pitt's 9-5 win over Akron on Tuesday.
The Panthers took a 4-2 lead with a pair of runs in the fifth inning. Oswald started the go-ahead inning this time, fighting off a two-strike pitch with a well-placed blooper just inside the right field foul line for a double. He and Anthony Defabio would later score on a single by freshman Elvin Soto.
Penn State cut the deficit to 4-3 with a run in the top of the sixth inning, but Pitt wasted little time in getting that run back as DeFabio drove in Wilson with a single in the seventh.
Soto, one of just three Pitt players to appear in all 31 games this season, is now third on the team with 27 RBIs. He was one of just three players - DeFabio and Oswald were the others - to have two hits in the game for the Panthers.
Pitt will try to take the momentum from back-to-back wins into its three-game BIG EAST series with USF this weekend. The Panthers will host the Bulls at the Petersen Sports Complex on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
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Newsmax's Christopher Ruddy detailed the entanglements between several media properties owned by Rupert Murdoch that are promoting the upcoming book Clinton Cash from conservative activist Peter Schweizer.
In an April 27 column headlined "In Defense of the Clinton Foundation," Newsmax CEO and editor Christopher Ruddy -- who is himself a donor to the Foundation -- discussed the allegations made against the charity in Clinton Cash, which were recently hyped in a Fox News special. He writes that the claims in the book, which suggests the Clintons used donations to influence foreign policy, are "unsubstantiated, unconnected, and baseless," and tells journalists to "follow the money" when discussing the book itself, warning that "where there's smear, there's not always fact."
Ruddy notes, "The sister companies of News Corp and 21st Century Fox own HarperCollins, which published Peter Schweizer's book; they own The Wall Street Journal, which first raised the issue of the foreign donations; they own the New York Post, which broke the details about the Schweizer book; and they own Fox News, which gave the story oxygen and legs."
He adds, "With so much media mojo from one company, there is no doubt they will be doing some pretty good 'cashing in' from the many millions of dollars their new best-seller will generate."
Both News Corp and 21st Century Fox are run by Rupert Murdoch.
Schweizer has a long history of errors and retractions, and the stories released from Clinton Cash fail to implicate former Secretary Clinton, President Clinton, or the Foundation in any wrongdoing. However, Murdoch properties have still promoted its claims.
Newsmax is a conservative publication, which has gone after the Clintons and other Democrats and progressives for years. But in the course of writing about the Clinton Cash allegations, Ruddy explains that he doesn't want to go back to the 1990s, "when one allegation led to a daisy-chain effect, and the GOP ended up looking bad as the Democrats kept winning."


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Once Off-Limits, Now Destinations With an Edge
By EDWIN McDOWELL
Published: May 29, 1993
Declaring that tourism produces "a very big income," Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi of Libya proposed in a recent televised speech that his country encourage mass tourism. And Colonel Qaddafi is not alone in assuming that travel and tourism can aid struggling economies.
Destinations as diverse as Croatia and Peru are struggling to repair their war-torn tourist infrastructures. Egypt is cracking down on radical Islamic fundamentalists, and one reason officials give is that the terrorists' campaign is harming the country's $3 billion tourist industry, Egypt's largest source of foreign revenue. And the hope of luring tourists with hard currency is why China and Cuba are racing to build hotels, restaurants and other amenities of the travel trade.
Their view is supported in a recent report by the World Travel and Tourism Council, a Brussels-based coalition of chief executives from more than 50 travel-related corporations in many countries. It's Not Always Easy
"A buoyant travel and tourism sector will employ more people" and create new jobs and careers faster than any other industry, said the report, compiled by a group of international economists. It added, "Unlike many industries, there are no lengthy time lags before new jobs, foreign exchange and extra purchasing power filter into the economy."
But luring tourists to trouble spots, or what they perceive to be trouble spots, is no simple matter.
For example, officials in Croatia and Slovenia, in what was formerly Yugoslavia, are eager to restore what had been a thriving tourist trade, but find foreigners confuse their areas with war-wracked Bosnia and Herzegovina.
"Slovenia and Croatia are both perfectly safe," said Rose Pace-Bogdanic, the senior vice president of Sterling Cruises and Tours of Austin, Tex. "They just suffer from an identity crisis."
She and Damir-Dodo Bogdanic, her Croatian-born husband, used to promote tours to all of Yugoslavia, until age-old hatreds between Serbs and Croats fragmented the country in 1990 and plunged it into civil war. Last year, Sterling began offering tour packages to the castles, mountains and beaches of Slovenia, which declared its independence in 1991. And later this year it plans to offer tours to Croatia, which has suffered far less damage than some other parts of the former Yugoslavia.
Toward that end, Sterling opened a branch office last month in Ridgefield, N.J., staffed by a former executive of Yugotours International in Belgrade.
"Not everyone's going to rush out and go there on a tour," Mrs. Pace-Bogdanic said. "So we plan to start on a limited basis."
But some Americans are visiting Slovenia. "The view in North America may be that it's an unsafe place, but it's not as though you're traveling to Bosnia-Herzegovina," Scott Schnipper, an American traveler, said by telephone from London last week shortly before his departure. "It has a modern infrastructure and modern communications."
Cuba has an improving tourist climate, including hotels under construction, but is unlikely to rake in Americans' dollars so long as United States law bars most citizens from spending money there.
Nor have tourists been flocking to Libya so far, and Colonel Qaddafi sidestepped any mention of United Nations sanctions against Libya for harboring suspected terrorists -- sanctions that include a ban on travel to his country.
Another indication that Libya is unlikely to reap a tourist bonanza anytime soon, at least from English-speaking visitors, is the reluctance of Lonely Planet Publications to add a Libyan travel guide to its book list, which includes guides for such difficult or dangerous destinations as Iran, Myanmar, Yemen, Peru, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Cambodia and Bangladesh.
"Nobody's knocking down our door for a book on Libya," said Carolyn Miller, promotions manager for Lonely Planet in Oakland, Calif. "In fact, I don't think I ever heard of any tourist wanting to go there."
Other countries eager for tourism also have a lot to learn about visitors' expectations. In "Falling Off the Map," a book published this month by Alfred A. Knopf, a travel writer, Pico Iyer, notes that North Korea is building the world's largest tourist hotel, 105 stories high -- although few tourists visit the country, which remains one of the world's most regimented and closed societies.
Similarly, Vietnam is not most Americans' idea of a vacation paradise, even though Hanoi designated 1990 as the "Year of Tourism." That same year, it began to remodel all of its hotels. It still offers few other amenities for tourists, and visitors say the Vietnamese appear to have unrealistic expectations of what the tourist traffic will bear.
"What would be, at most, a three-star hotel by our standards, costs around $200 a night," said Dianne Yamamoto of Los Angeles, who recently returned from a 10-day trip to Vietnam and Cambodia. "It was an incredible visit, but you have to be prepared to rough it, because there's very little tourist infrastructure." In contrast to Vietnam, Egypt has well-developed tourism operations, and intrepid travelers continue to visit the Pyramids and cruise the Nile despite attacks by Islamic extremists.
"Reports of problems in Egypt affected our business," conceded Aza Hussein, operations manager for Naggar Tours in San Francisco, a wholesale travel operator specializing in Egypt. "But groups are still traveling there."
John Yee, a tour leader with Asian Discoveries, a travel agency in Kensington, Calif., branched out to take about 20 people to Egypt last month for 12 days. "Only two people in our group canceled for safety reasons," he said. "And they missed out on a great visit. Besides, there were no lines at tourist sites."
Few tourist destinations have been as devastated as Peru, which in the 1980's attracted tens of thousands of visitors to Inca sites like Machu Picchu and Cuzco. But a terrorist war that broke out in Ayacucho in 1980 spread through much of the nation, claiming an estimated 25,000 lives, and a cholera epidemic two years ago claimed another several thousand. Tourists stayed away in droves.
Now, with the founder of the Shining Path terrorists, Abimael Guzman Reynoso, serving a life sentence, officials in Ayacucho and Lima are eager to revive tourism. And that prospect may not be as farfetched as it sounds.
"The last couple of years you could have called me two days before Christmas, and I could have booked a room for you at the Machu Picchu Hotel de Turistas,," said Luis Vasquez, owner of M.I.L.A./Peru Tours in Wadsworth, Ill. "But it's already sold out for Christmas this year, and tourism to the rest of Peru has been picking up for the last few months."
Tourism is also rebounding in China following sharp declines after Government troops killed protesters around Tiananmen Square in Beijing in 1989. More than 300,000 Americans and 600,000 Japanese visit China each year, and Beijing hopes to raise those numbers significantly. Thus, it recently joined the Pacific Asia Travel Association, a San Francisco-based organization of airlines, cruise ships, hotels and tour operators from both the private and public sectors.
Michael Justice, a Los Angeles photographer who recently returned from China, said he had been uneasy about visiting the country after its suppression of protesters.
"But a visit isn't an endorsement," he said. "You go to see what's real in a country, before they put up lots of fast-food restaurants."
He added, "Besides, my mother was quite happy to see me leave Los Angeles for someplace safer."
Photo: Some of the new travel brochures aimed at enticing tourists to stray from beaten paths.


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Bathroom Lighting Layout
I am in the process of planning the lighting for my bathroom. There are basically two separate areas divided by a wall with a doorway...One side, the shower is 3' x 10' the other area with sinks/bathtub is 5.5' x10'. Both have 7' ceilings Right now my main concern is the 3x10 shower area. the entire area including ceiling will be tiled. Do people typically use recessed lighting in a wet room/shower? Are there special cans that are needed aside from insulation/non-insulation installation? From my bit of research it looks like the trim piece is what keeps the moisture out. Is this correct?
Secondly, what size is best, and why? I have seen mostly 4 and 6 inch lights what are the pros/cons of each?
How many should I have and what should the layout be in each area?
Lastly, for the shower, where we are tiling the ceiling, how much of the recessed can should I leave exposed in the ceiling if any? Are most cans designed so they hang the correct amount down. We currently have the ceiling gutted...it was lathe and plaster now the plaster is gone, and the lathe is still there to hold up the insulation. We will leave the lathe and attach the cement board on top of this. I have access to the attic so I will probably just use new work lights.
Thanks for the suggestions,
You can use standard housings in a shower, but you do need special trim (called "shower trim") to keep the moisture out. Usually, when you use a shower trim, it reduces the max wattage you can use in the fixture.
Aside from the trim, there are IC (insulation-contact) and non-IC cans. IC cans are also airtight, to prevent movement of air from your finished room to the attic. This is the type you'd use.
4" vs 6" cans....really personal preference. I put two 4" cans in my shower (3' x 5') on a dimmer switch. I think 4" looks nicer, but they output a smaller cone of light, so you need more of them.
3' x 10' shower? Wow, that's long!
I used this switch for my lighting...top switch is a dimmer (shower lights), bottom is a countdown timer (fan):
Yeah...it is long, but it is more of a wet room and has the toilet in it as well. Would 4" lights running down the middle of the room be ok, so basically one ever 2 feet?
Every 3 feet would probably be ok...3-4 lights total I'd say. I use my 2 lights at about half-dimness and it's perfect. If you have too many it might look like a runway...
So in terms the circuit that the lights are on, do they need to be GFCI protected? Should these be on the same circuit as the outlets, or can these be on a general circuit?
Yeah, I knew about the code that if the lights are on the same circuit as the receptacles then it can only service that bathroom, but I am leaning as you said to putting lights on separate circuit so that lights stay on if hairdryer or something trips the outlet. That is where my question about GFCI lights came from. I'll check the light for that info. Thanks for the help.
The lights I used did not require GFCI protection even if in the shower.
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