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On a totally different tack today, this is about a discovery that we made at the Hidden Haven B&B in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Rae has a cupboard with some puzzles and games and the Kiwidutch children soon pulled out this one, enthusiastically announcing that we "should complete it right away".
Now I've only seen these once before and didn't realise they were a series but the idea that it's a puzzle that isn't exactly what it says on the box appeals to me (I have a warped sense of humour LOL).
Since I want to develop Family Games nights as one of my 101 Tasks in 1001 Days list, (No.24. Have 10 Games evenings where the whole family plays, board games, lego, cards etc.)
I siezed on the kids interest, and started sorting out puzzle pieces. Actually, since we have limited time here and plenty of appointments with family and friends we didn't get any further than what's shown in the photograph, but we did leave with a resolve to buy one of these when we get back to The Netherlands and to make it part of our Family Time.
I'm all for any activity that allows us to work as a team and which is more like "good old fashioned fun" no batteries, control boxes, rechargers or power plugs included. This seems to be just the ticket.
In fact I heard Kiwi Daughter asking Himself "when is Mother's Day?" so hmmm …Who knows… ?
One thing that Rae did have that looked like a very useful invention was a large mat with accompanying cardboard tubes that fitted together, and you could roll a partially made puzzle up in it and put it away if you needed the table space or if you wanted to take it with you.
I've photographed the box of this gadget so that I'll remember to look for one back in The Netherlands.
I'm guessing that since these are not "regular" puzzles that I will be the one doing most of the hard graft the first time around, but I'm a detail fanatic and this kind of challenge suits me perfectly.
I think that once I've completed one I will take a series of photographs of the whole thing and close-up's and put them in the box with the puzzle pieces so that if the kids want to make it themselves later, then they have a head start on how to get started.
I might just give them some specific close-up photos as "clues" but not the full picture and leave them to get on with the rest.
This one will have to be a "work in progress" for the meantime, but I will report back sometime in the future with progress both on puzzles and games evenings (see if it catches on in our house).. and the puzzle building process as we work piece by piece to an end result and seeing the bigger picture.


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Cookbook Review: I Heart Macarons by Hisako Ogita: Sweet, Fluffy, and Imperfect
Hello! This book review comes with a contest! Make it all the way to the end for details on how to win your own copy of I Heart Macarons.
I've never made macarons before. I'm really way too impatient and haphazard by nature to be much of a baker, I've had zero experience with meringue or a pastry bag, and my kitchen's oven is ancient and finicky with plenty of hotspots. But despite all that, I followed the instructions for the basic vanilla macaron in I Love Macarons (Amazon), by Japanese pastry chef Hisako Ogita, and the very first batch I made came out so close to perfect that I hardly believed it.
Maybe even more surprising than the near-perfect cookies, though, was that I found the process of macaron-making surprisingly straightforward. This was not something I expected, given the gallons of virtual ink spilled on the subject on practically every cooking blog I read — some time in the last year or two, everyone (myself included) became obsessed with macarons. Brightly colored but prim, sweet but not too childlike, mysterious and beautiful and ephemeral, truly they are the Zooey Deschanel of bite-sized desserts. And nothing seems to fuel the allure so much as the myth that they're hard to make. That's right, myth: friends, macarons are not actually that difficult. I measured my ingredients, whipped my meringue, folded in the dry stuff, did my dozen turns of macaronnage, measured, piped, slammed, rested, baked, sandwiched, and ate. All told it took about an hour. Okay, call it two, if you want to count the time it took to bring the egg whites to room temperature.
Unforgivable recipe sins
The question of the recipe's success answered, though, others arise. Like: how much of the creation of my perfect macarons can I really attribute to this book? Because macaron making is such a precise science, Ogita's recipe and instructions aren't terribly original, hardly deviating from the established methods put forth by such pastry sages as David Lebovitz, the folks at Serious Eats, and countless others; ditto for her analysis of what could go wrong (and how you can fix it next time).
What is unique in I Love Macarons, though, is that each step is illustrated with an in-the-moment photograph. This is tremendously helpful as a visual aide to knowing when, say, your eggs are appropriately foamy. But it is not so helpful when you complete step 2 (sift the almonds and powdered sugar) and realize that the two "pointer" steps that immediately follow in the horizontal photo layout are in fact supposed to refer to step 3 (beat egg whites and gradually add granulated sugar), except (I think) in reverse order. Even after a bit of mental reorganization, the instructions remain nearly unparseable: unexplained leaps between steps, unclear references to mysterious "remaining meringue," a way too late in the game note that it's okay to use a stand mixer, and contradictory estimates for drying time. For a book that is essentially built around one recipe, these are unforgivable sins.
I'm tempted to blame I Love Macarons's lack of clarity on its translation. The book was originally written in Japanese, and the copyright page credits Japanese editors and Japanese-to-English translators but, notably, no English-language editor. But there are editorial quirks that are certainly not any translator's fault, most frustratingly the page devoted to "Macarons Parisien Style," where the cookies are marbleized with vivid colors but — after being told how this aesthetic is "the latest fad" among the effortlessly chic, there's no set of instructions for achieving it.
But it's just so darn cute
Still, like a darling floppy-eared puppy that eats the piping off the sofa and pees in your closet, but is just so cute that you can't bring yourself to admit that maybe getting a dog was a bad idea, I Love Macarons is a wonderful little book. It's designed to make you love it, from the sweet use of the heart dingbat in the title to the giggly captions that float on the full-bleed photos. The recipe for buttercream is, if a bit involved, quite foolproof. The charts for matching cookie colors and flavors to fillings are so adorable and sweetly laid out that I'm tempted to demand a poster. The photography is perfect. In an inspired touch, the book closes with recipes designed to use up the leftover egg yolks with which all this meringue-making will leave you.
Of course, this is all padding. Think of I Love Macarons as a long blog entry or a magazine recipe feature, stretched barely to book length thanks to copious glamour shots of vividly colored cookies in tantalizing close-up and lots of fluffy sidebars and notes. Even allowing for two types of meringue preparations and the full-spread photo-illustrated lists of ingredients and necessary equipment, the recipes take up just sixteen of the book's 80 pages (plus, in my case, post-its noting what I believe to be the meaning behind certain steps that make no sense). But, really who cares — there really isn't much more to say about macarons than what's said here, except maybe how to achieve that marble effect. These cookies are light and fluffy and pretty and tiny and notoriously imperfect — it's perfectly logical that the book devoted to them be exactly the same.
Okay, so I Heart Macarons is flawed as a cookbook. But as a document of squee-inducing cute pastry it's in a class of its own. We'd like to give you a copy — leave a comment below (something substantive and at least vaguely on-topic — no "Pick me!" and its ilk) before noon EST tomorrow, November 24, and don't forget to use your real email address. We'll randomly pick a winner.
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"Well, I'm black," she replied.
A little while later, when she rose to accept her award, Davis delivered an extemporaneous speech of more than 10 minutes that brought the house to its feet--and continued to mince no words. She included that anecdote and much more. Davis revealed in a Vanity Fair interview that The Help was her first leading role, and in this speech, she holds her own as well as any leading actor.
"I don't have a speech prepared, by the way," she warned the audience. "I hate writing speeches--it makes me more nervous." So she begins with what she knows so well it needs no script, and takes the audience back to her childhood games with her sister Delores. They'd dress up and play with an air tea set and pretend to be famous Hollywood actresses leading glamorous lives, even though they lived in a threadbare apartment in deep poverty in Rhode Island. "The game would always inevitably end with us beating the shit out of each other," Davis said, noting that they both came back to earth realizing they really lived on welfare
From those childhood dreams, Davis makes a smooth transition, suggesting that she became an actor to continue "staying in the game" of imagination. But her remarks take a serious turn as she addresses a topic not often confronted via a microphone: The paucity of roles for black actors. "Frankly, what keeps me in the business, seriously, is not always the love of my work....sometimes I really don't love it....What keeps me in the business is hope, and that's the hope that women of color are also a part of the narrative, that our stories are just as potent, because we also have the power of transformation. We also have the power to be quirky, and sexy, and different, funny, heartfelt and all of those things."
Davis tells stories about her mother and grandmother, and tells the audience of Hollywood insiders that "Those are the stories I want to see on the screen." She continues with a gentle rant that ties her story and that issue together, noting how important it was to her to see actress Cicely Tyson in The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman:
I believe and I really hope that we have the imagination, that we have the courage to bring those stories to life, because I want to do for other young women of color what Cicely Tyson did to me in that apartment with the slats showing underneath the plaster, and the bad plumbing, and no phone, and hardly any food, and rats....she allowed me to have the visual of what it means to dream....she threw me a rope. That's what we do as actors....we throw other people the rope.Here's what you can learn from this famous speech:
- Extemporaneous doesn't have to mean disorganized: There's as much an arc in this speech as there would be if the best scribes had labored over it, from childhood dreams to adult realities to turning that dream into an industry challenge. Rooted in personal stories, Davis doesn't need notes to recall her details, and so was able to focus on a map in her head for this inspiring talk. Think, at a minimum, about where you want to start, where you want to end up and what you want the audience focused on at the end.
- Not mincing words makes for a great speech: The more noble and lofty and ten-dollar your words, the less we connect with them. If Davis had used that red carpet moment to talk about the "overall racial disparities we see in the industry" instead of just saying, "Well, I'm black," you'd be able to hear the yawns from here. Concrete words connect.
- Use that invisible visual. Davis had an invisible tea set to play with, and made masterful use here of what I call "the invisible visual," the one your audience doesn't need a picture to see. She does that by sharing specific descriptions of her childhood home, what she and her sister wore, what "poverty" boiled down to in their lives, from bad plumbing to crumbling plaster. By the time she's done, that movie's playing in your head, and will stay there for a long time.
What do you think of this famous speech? Share your reactions in the comments, please.
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Nevada's tussle with Utah over Snake Valley water is about as close to a pioneer-era water war as things get in the 21st century.
But a new twist could be the beginning of a truce.
An independent panel of Utah water attorneys appointed by Gov. Gary Herbert says the Snake Valley Water agreement with Nevada would be an "equitable" deal for the Beehive State.
That opinion will be a hard sell in arid Millard County. Commissioner Daron Smith said Monday that Millard County remains steadfast in its opposition to the agreement that could leave Utah's western counties more dry than they already are.
"That agreement calls for a 50-50 split," he said. "But if they start to drill, Nevada could end up with all the water."
Smith said Millard County has its own proposal that it wants to run past the governor before he signs the Snake Valley water deal.
A spokesman for Herbert said the governor is not ready to sign the agreement but released results of the newest legal review Monday for public review.
Thirsty Las Vegas is the driving force behind a proposed $15.5 billion project to pump desert groundwater there.
In 2009, after several years of negotiation, Utah and Nevada seemed to have reached an agreement on how to split up groundwater in the Great Basin along the Utah-Nevada line.
But under pressure from west Utah water users and conservationists, Herbert balked at signing the agreement.
In August, Pat Mulroy, general manager of the Southern Nevada Water Authority, sent an email to her board saying it should sue Utah for failure to sign the agreement.
In the meantime, Herbert appointed Steven E. Clyde, Dallin W. Jensen and Warren H. Peterson to review the 2009 agreement to determine if it is good for Utah.
"The agreement allocates this shared groundwater resource on an equal 50-50 basis," it reads in part. "Through a tiered development approach, the agreement protects existing Utah appropriated water rights for uses including irrigation, stock water, and domestic use and for habitat protection at Fish Springs."
The attorneys also state that the agreement affords environmental protections.
"Steps will be taken to assure the quantity and quality of the available groundwater Supply is maintained, to minimize adverse impacts to existing uses, and to minimize environmental impacts," the review states.
But Steve Erickson of the Great Basin Water Network called those assurances "illusory."
"We've done a detailed analysis of that in the past," he said. "The agreement sets up an adversarial process where people will have to prove they've been impacted by pumping."
Although the agreement sets out a 50-50 split, Erickson and Millard County say it will be more like a 7-to-1 split with Nevada getting the larger portion.
"I hope the governor has the good sense to reject this superficial and flawed analysis," Erickson said.


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People once defended free speech to protect the rights of firebrands attacking government, or dissenters resisting an established church, or radicals campaigning for unpopular political causes. Free speech was plainly worth fighting for, and it still is in many parts of the world where these rights hardly exist. But in America now, free-speech partisans find themselves defending mainly racists shouting "nigger" or Nazis carrying swastikas or—most often—men looking at pictures of naked women with their legs spread open.
Conservatives have fought to outlaw pornography in the United States for a long time: for decades the Supreme Court has tried, though without much success, to define a limited category of "obscenity" that the Constitution allows to be banned. But the campaign for outlawing all forms of pornography has been given new and fiercer form, in recent years, by the feminist movement. It might seem odd that feminists have devoted such energy to that campaign: other issues, including abortion and the fight for women's equality in employment and politics, seem so much more important. No doubt mass culture is in various ways an obstacle to sexual equality, but the most popular forms of that culture—the view of women presented in soap operas and commercials, for example—are much greater obstacles to that equality than the dirty films watched by a small minority.
But feminists' concentration on pornography nevertheless seems easy to explain. Pornographic photographs, films, and videos are the starkest possible expression of the idea feminists most loathe: that women exist principally to provide sexual service to men. Advertisements, soap operas, and popular fiction may actually do more to spread that idea in our culture, but pornography is the rawest, most explicit symbol of it. Like swastikas and burning crosses, pornography is deeply offensive in itself, whether or not it causes any other injustice or harm. It is also particularly vulnerable politically: the religious right supports feminists on this issue, though on few others, so feminists have a much greater chance to win political campaigns for censorship than any of the other campaigns they fight.
And pornography seems vulnerable on principle as well. The conventional explanation of why freedom of speech is important is Mill's theory that truth is most likely to emerge from a "marketplace" of ideas freely exchanged and debated. But most pornography makes no contribution at all to political or intellectual debate: it is preposterous to think that we are more likely to reach truth about anything at all because pornographic videos are available. So liberals defending a right to pornography find themselves triply on the defensive: their view is politically weak, deeply offensive to many women, and intellectually doubtful. Why, then, should we defend pornography? Why should we care if people can no longer watch films of people copulating for the camera, or of women being whipped and enjoying it? What would we lose, except a repellent industry?
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Just spent the afternoon creating a nice template for some GMH mobiles here at work. Now I need to program some GPH's as well. Please tell me there is a way to import my GMH template into my GPH software. I really don't want to spend the evening re-typing all this stuff.
I tried opening the GMH template with the GPH software but that didn't go very well at all - the first ten channels in each group was nothing but gibberish.
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22.214.171.124 (30th December, 2013)
Fixed #2576: All AutoIt EXEs and tools not working on older Athlon XP processors due to SSE compiler options.
126.96.36.199 (28th December, 2013)
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Fixed: Incorrect function being called for _GDIPlus_BitmapCloneArea().
Fixed: _ArrayDisplay() user function call and range bug.
18.104.22.168 (23rd December, 2013)
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Changed: ReDim works on arrays declared as static.
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Changed: Allowing multiple COM Error Handlers.Last one registered and alive gets called.
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Changed: _FileListToArray() to accept the Default keyword to use the default parameters.
Changed: _FileReadToArray() to parse the file using a regular expression.Now various line endings (not recommended) are displayed correctly in the array.
Changed: Word UDF was completely re-written.Function names changed from _Word* to _Word_*.THIS IS A SCRIPT BREAKING CHANGE.
Changed: _Max() and _Min() functions now use the ternary operator.
Changed: Re-wrote _ReplaceStringInFile() by removing the need to write to a temporary array.(@error values 4, 5 and 6 have been removed, please check the documentation.)
Changed: Re-wrote _GetIP() for improved efficency and added http://www.myexternalip.com/raw to find the external IP address.
Changed: _SQLite 188.8.131.52 -> 184.108.40.206.
Changed: IE3.au3 v3.0-0 to v3.0-1 (see header info for changes).
Changed: Array UDF now takes into consideration empty arrays.
Changed: Re-wrote _ProcessGetName() for speed enhancements.
Changed: Re-wrote _PathSplit() by using a regular expression.Contributed by DXRW4E.
Changed: _GDIPlus_GraphicsGetSmoothingMode(), _GDIPlus_GraphicsSetSmoothingMode() functions.
Changed: _FileWriteToLine() can read a file with various line endings (not recommended).
Changed: $tagGDIPENCODERPARAMS using $tagGDIPENCODERPARAM.
Changed: _GDIPlus...() using integer or float for positioning.
Changed: Modified _ArrayUnique() with a faster version and improved error checking.
Changed: $INTERNET_FLAG_NO_CACHE_WRITE default value for _FTP_ListToArray*().
Changed: _ArrayDisplay() - new function with new functionalities.
Changed: GUIListView - new _Delete* functions.
Added: _WinAPI_GetProcAddress() function.
Added #2126: Documentation remark about _ArrayDisplay() being able to display a maximum of 65530 items.
Added #1158: WinAPIEx integrated, split under WinAPI*.au3.
Added #2250: DirMove() to the related section of DirCopy().
Added #2155: Missing documentation for the default working directory of Run() / RunWait().
Added #2224: Optional parameter to _FileReadToArray() to return the array count in the first element.
Added #2114: Disabling and enabling the redrawing message to increase the speed of displaying _ArrayDisplay().(Only noticeable on large arrays.)
Added #2120: Disabling and enabling the redrawing message to increase the speed of deleting items with _GUICtrlListView_DeleteAllItems().(Only noticeable when deleting many items in a ListView.)
Added #966: Optional parameter to return the full path of the file/folder in _FileListToArray().
Added #2193: _StringTitleCase(), to create a title case string.
Added #2263: _Crypt_GenRandom(), fills a buffer with random data.
Added #2354: _ArrayTranspose() to the Array UDF.
Added #2338: Regular expression pattern matching.See the documentation of _ArraySearch() for more details.
Added #2340: Optional parameter to _GUICtrlListView_SimpleSort() of whether or not to reverse $vSortSense (previously $vDescending.)
Added: _FileListToArrayRec() to the UDFs.A recursive file search by Melba23.See the documentation for more details.
Added: Example for _VersionCompare().
Added: Graphic SmoothingMode constants (GDIPlusConstants).
Added: _GDIPlus_CustomLineCapCreate(), _GDIPlus_BitmapCreateFromScan() functions.
Added: Constants for DriveGetType() and StringSplit().See related function documentation for more details.
Added: InetConstants.au3 for use with Inet functions.See related function documentation for more details.
Added: GDIPlus functions and their respective documentation and example.
Added: _GDIPlus_ParamSize() to handle X64 compatibility.
Added #2540: _ArrayDisplay() can copy Header and Row.
Fixed #2077: hwnd safety check in _GUICtrlRichEdit_Create()
Fixed #2088: _ArrayDisplay() not handling Default parameters correctly.
Fixed #2112: "Report Log Window" unresponsive when the script is closed.
Fixed: _GUICtrlRichEdit_* documentation error return codes.
Fixed #1970: _FTP_ListToArray() fails to retrieve Dir or File only.
Fixed #2084: Clipboard not being closed if an error occurred with _ClipBoard_SetDataEx().
Fixed #2125: Writing a 2-dimensional array would only write the first two columns of the array.
Fixed #2070: Unexpected crash on certain systems when using _GUICtrlStatusBar_GetText().
Fixed #2132: Documentation of _WinAPI_GetModuleHandle() and the parameter to return the handle of the calling process.(Use the Null keyword, not 0.)
Fixed #2162: Documentation link in the IE Management section was broken for _IEFormElementCheckBoxSelect().
Fixed #2170: _ArrayDisplay() fails handling arrays with no elements.
Fixed: _PathMake() not appending backslash to the root path.
Fixed #2223: Incorrect UDF being referenced in _WordErrorHandlerRegister().
Fixed #2252: _GUICtrlListView_DeleteAllItems() failed to remove items created using _GUICtrlListView_AddItem() on an AutoIt native listview.
Fixed #1861: _ArrayDisplay() incorrectly displayed an array when using the $sHeader parameter and the array contained the default separator.
Fixed: Using non-supported characters in the file prefix for _TempFile().
Fixed #2186: Documentation of _WinNet_AddConnection()* and $sLocalName.(Use the Null keyword or an empty string, not 0.)
Fixed #2148: Crash when passing a number instead of a string.
Fixed #2219: _ExcelReadSheetToArray() would cause AutoIt to hang when reading a protected worksheet.
Fixed #2242: Unable to write the 0th element in _FileWriteFromArray().Now the Default keyword is supported for the parameters $iBase and $iUBound, therefore use this instead of the value 0 for default parameters.(Please check the documentation.)
Fixed #2218: AutoIt crash when using _GUICtrlListView_SetGroupInfo() before _GUICtrlListView_SetItemGroupID() had been called.
Fixed #1996: _GUICtrlListView_SimpleSort() failed to retain the ItemParam of an item.
Fixed #1759: Strange listview sort.
Fixed #2298: Failing to detect when EnumDisplayDevices returns 0.
Fixed: _FileWriteFromArray() failing to pass the $aArray parameter as a constant reference.
Fixed: $tagREBARBANDINFO not working on XP, due referencing parameters intended for Vista and above.
Fixed #2305: Reports the wrong width and height of the desktop when using default parameters.
Fixed #2335: _WinAPI_EnumWindows() and _WinAPI_EnumWindowsPopup() order
Fixed #2347: _WinAPI_GetMonitorInfo() wrong data.
Fixed #2320: Incorrect return values for certain IE functions.
Fixed: _GUICtrlListView_InsertItem() would fail to insert -1 if passed as the $sText parameter.
Fixed #2460: _StringBetween() $sStart = $sSend.
Fixed #2459: _StringBetween() doc Description info.
Fixed #2465: _IEPropertyGet() - out of date links in "ClientInfo Properties".
Fixed: _GDIPlus_...() functions compatible with X64.
Fixed #2486: _GUICtrlRichEdit_GetFont() bad multi Font return.Solved also #2485.
Fixed #2492: _GUIToolbar_...doc example.
Fixed: _SQLite_...() running in X64 Mode.
Fixed: _SQLite_Startup() parameter checking and doc.
Fixed #2550: _GUICombo_GetEditText() struct sizing.


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The Arduino Inventor's Kit includes the RedBoard (similar to an Arduino Uno), the new and improved baseplate, and all the items you need to complete 16 circuits covered in the kit's guidebook. These will teach you how to read sensors, display information on an LCD, drive motors, and more. You don't need any previous programming or electronics experience to use this kit.
The kit does not require any soldering. It is recommended for beginners aged 10 and up. The full-color guidebook contains step-by-step instructions showing you how to connect each circuit with the included parts. Full example code is provided and explained. The book also has troubleshooting tips in case something goes wrong.
Make your way through the example circuits and you'll learn about:
Replaces: KIT-09646, KIT-09837, KIT-10152, KIT-10173, KIT-11227, KIT-11576, RTL-11022, RTL-11236, KIT-12001


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I ordered some UHMWPE base material from Junksupply and made a few test pieces to see how well this stuff bonds.
The material I used was the Ptex Cross Sintered base 0.8/480mm CLEAR.
Did four test pieces. Two right side up, painted and unpainted. Two wrong side up, painted and unpainted.
Right side up means the sanded and corona treated side was used for bonding.Wrong side up means the structured side was used for bonding.
I used cheap rattle can paint. Epoxy paint would have been better.
We used vacuum infusion with a 50 deg C post cure. And some scrap pieces of glass and foam.
The wrong side up pieces peeled off pretty easily, as expected.
The right side up painted piece separated on the paint layer, i.e. some paint remained on the laminate and some on the base material.
The right side up unpainted piece, however, stuck like shit to a proverbial blanket. I had to peel it off with a pair of pliers and even then the base started to tear before I could peel it off much further. A sharp flat screw driver on another edge wasn't much more successful either, as pieces of glass came off with the base layer as I tried to lever it off.
Anyway, I'm duly impressed with the bonding performance. And the clarity of the bonded base is also pretty good.
I'm looking forward to using this stuff for my next board.


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Recent events of march against drone strikes and attack on Malala Yousafzai have raised some important questions in my mind. These questions are mainly related to the timing of the event and how past events were dealt by the government and security institutions.
If Benazir Murder case is resolved then a lot can be understood about this fake war. For a start, one should ask that how was it possible that some rogue terrorists were able to delete or tempered the mobile communication record from the area? As far as I know that only ISI or some other high level intelligence organization like CIA (Like NADRA data they can surely access this data too) can do it.
These incidents like Benazir, Malala, Islamic University blast or Peshawar market blasts (denied by Talibans) happen at crucial times when anti-war protests take momentum or some crucial decisions are being made about further operations.
Another interesting event is the letter written by Afghan (Pentagon puppet) President Hamid Karzai to PTI's Chairman, Imran Khan. For those who think that Malala issue is not related to drones and military operations or this fake war, there are few things to ponder upon (If they have the brain to do so). Why the president of a country would like to write a letter to Imran Khan and show the concerns which are shown by social-class and sectarian fascists in Pakistan and pro-imperialism media in USA? It seems Imran Khan and PTI's march against drone strikes not only disturbed the plans of Pakistani sectarian and social-class fascists but also disturbed the pro-war scum internationally.
Another thing to understand about drone, NWA operation and Malala issue is that Imran Khan is scheduled to lead a protest in front of UN on 26th October 2012.
We need to find answers for these questions. For a start on Malala's issue, government's own interior minister Rehman Malik denied the involvement of TTP. Even if it is TTP then there are more than 15 (some say 30) groups working as TTP.
Some are fighting for revenge, some are being funded by international enemies of the country who want Pakistan to remain stuck in this war and some are local criminal gangs. Unless they are not identified clearly, word Taliban has no meaning. Free and Fair investigation can only be done in current scenario through Supreme Court or some investigation body working under SC. But again judiciary is being badly cornered by the government and army due to corruption and missing persons cases. That is why I say for a start we need to find the names behind Benazir murder case.
People say that these tribes and terrorists are ideologically connected. Ideologically connected is also a vague term. People with same customs, cultures or grievances or may be some other common points can be termed as ideologically connected. With this logic most Indians can be termed as RSS, most USA can be connected to Bund or KKK, all Irish people can be termed as IRA, all British people can blamed for the crimes of East India Company, most Israelis can be linked with Stern gang, most Germans can be linked with Nazis etc. Without addressing the root causes, one cannot solve this issue and waging a war against populations after some isolated incidents doesn't look very intelligent especially after a decade of destruction.
When are we going to learn the lessons from past mistakes? Or Pakistan army and government are committed to repeat another 1971?


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R&B star R. Kelly cried, stood up and ranted about being "assassinated" during his first interview since being charged with sexual abuse, calling his accusers "liars."
Former Rep. Aaron Schock of Illinois has agreed to repay tens of thousands of dollars in taxes and to campaign committees in exchange for prosecutors dismissing his felony corruption case.
A new Northwestern study is the first to show that female scientists receive less money when applying for federal grants than their male counterparts.
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Summary Report for:
19-2011.00 - Astronomers
Observe, research, and interpret astronomical phenomena to increase basic knowledge or apply such information to practical problems.
Sample of reported job titles: Astronomer, Astronomy Professor, Astrophysicist, Observatory Director, Professor, Research Scientist, Scientist, Space Sciences Director
Tasks | Technology Skills | Tools Used | Knowledge | Skills | Abilities | Work Activities | Detailed Work Activities | Work Context | Job Zone | Education | Credentials | Interests | Work Styles | Work Values | Related Occupations | Wages & Employment | Job Openings | Additional Information
- Study celestial phenomena, using a variety of ground-based and space-borne telescopes and scientific instruments.
- Analyze research data to determine its significance, using computers.
- Develop theories based on personal observations or on observations and theories of other astronomers.
- Collaborate with other astronomers to carry out research projects.
- Present research findings at scientific conferences and in papers written for scientific journals.
- Raise funds for scientific research.
- Measure radio, infrared, gamma, and x-ray emissions from extraterrestrial sources.
- Teach astronomy or astrophysics.
- Develop instrumentation and software for astronomical observation and analysis.
- Review scientific proposals and research papers.
- Serve on professional panels and committees.
- Develop and modify astronomy-related programs for public presentation.
- Calculate orbits and determine sizes, shapes, brightness, and motions of different celestial bodies.
Technology Skills
- Analytical or scientific software — MSB Software Astroart; SAS ; Software Bisque CCDSoft; The MathWorks MATLAB (see all 16 examples)
- Data base management system software — Apache Hadoop
- Data base user interface and query software — Spectroscopy databases; Structured query language SQL
- Development environment software — Abstraction plus reference plus synthesis A++; Formula translation/translator FORTRAN; Interface definition language IDL; National Instruments LabVIEW (see all 5 examples)
- Graphics or photo imaging software — Avis Fits Viewer; IRIS
- Internet browser software — Web browser software
- Object or component oriented development software — C++ ; Oracle Java ; Python ; R
- Office suite software — Microsoft Office
- Operating system software — Linux
- Presentation software — Microsoft PowerPoint
- Spreadsheet software — Microsoft Excel
- Word processing software — Microsoft Word
Hot Technology — a technology requirement frequently included in employer job postings.
Tools Used
- Atomic absorption AA spectrometers — Atomic absorption AA spectroscopes
- Binoculars — High powered binoculars
- Calorimeters — Differential scanning calorimeters
- Cryostats
- Desktop computers
- Digital cameras — Wide-field mosaic charge-coupled device CCD cameras
- Digital readout recorders — Baseband recorders
- Infrared spectrometers — Fourier transform infrared FTIR spectrometers
- Interferometers — Optical interferometers
- Ionization chambers — Electron beam ion traps EBIT
- Laboratory evaporators — Thermal evaporators
- Laboratory mills — Ball mills
- Notebook computers — Laptop computers
- Personal computers
- Photometers — Tilting filter photometers
- Polarizers — Solar telescope filters
- Radarbased surveillance systems — Doppler Rayleigh laser imaging ranging and detecting LIDAR systems; Laser imaging detection and ranging LIDAR systems; Resonance fluorescence laser imaging detection and ranging LIDAR systems
- Radio antennas
- Radio frequency transmitters or receivers — Planetary radar transmitters
- Scientific calculator — Scientific calculators
- Spectrographs — High resolution spectrographs; Low resolution imaging spectrographs; Multi-object spectrographs MOS
- Spectrometers — Ebert-Fastie spectrometers; Near-infrared imagers and spectrometers NIRI; Pulsar processors; Wideband pulsar processors (see all 7 examples)
- Telescopes — Automated telescopes; Optical telescopes; Very large array VLA telescopes; Very long baseline array VLBA telescopes (see all 14 examples)
- X ray diffraction equipment — X ray diffractometers
- Physics — Knowledge and prediction of physical principles, laws, their interrelationships, and applications to understanding fluid, material, and atmospheric dynamics, and mechanical, electrical, atomic and sub- atomic structures and processes.
- Mathematics — Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.
- Computers and Electronics — Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.
- English Language — Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
- Education and Training — Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects.
- Engineering and Technology — Knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology. This includes applying principles, techniques, procedures, and equipment to the design and production of various goods and services.
- Chemistry — Knowledge of the chemical composition, structure, and properties of substances and of the chemical processes and transformations that they undergo. This includes uses of chemicals and their interactions, danger signs, production techniques, and disposal methods.
- Science — Using scientific rules and methods to solve problems.
- Active Learning — Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
- Critical Thinking — Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
- Reading Comprehension — Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.
- Mathematics — Using mathematics to solve problems.
- Writing — Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
- Active Listening — Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
- Speaking — Talking to others to convey information effectively.
- Judgment and Decision Making — Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
- Complex Problem Solving — Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
- Learning Strategies — Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things.
- Monitoring — Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
- Coordination — Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
- Instructing — Teaching others how to do something.
- Service Orientation — Actively looking for ways to help people.
- Social Perceptiveness — Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
- Time Management — Managing one's own time and the time of others.
- Systems Analysis — Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
- Deductive Reasoning — The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
- Inductive Reasoning — The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
- Mathematical Reasoning — The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem.
- Near Vision — The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
- Oral Comprehension — The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
- Oral Expression — The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
- Written Comprehension — The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
- Written Expression — The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
- Number Facility — The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly.
- Flexibility of Closure — The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material.
- Problem Sensitivity — The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.
- Information Ordering — The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
- Originality — The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem.
- Far Vision — The ability to see details at a distance.
- Selective Attention — The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.
- Speech Clarity — The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
- Category Flexibility — The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.
- Fluency of Ideas — The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity).
- Speech Recognition — The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
- Memorization — The ability to remember information such as words, numbers, pictures, and procedures.
- Perceptual Speed — The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object.
- Visual Color Discrimination — The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness.
- Visualization — The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged.
Work Activities
- Interacting With Computers — Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information.
- Getting Information — Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
- Analyzing Data or Information — Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts.
- Thinking Creatively — Developing, designing, or creating new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions.
- Processing Information — Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data.
- Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge — Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.
- Making Decisions and Solving Problems — Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
- Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events — Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
- Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others — Translating or explaining what information means and how it can be used.
- Documenting/Recording Information — Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form.
- Training and Teaching Others — Identifying the educational needs of others, developing formal educational or training programs or classes, and teaching or instructing others.
- Developing Objectives and Strategies — Establishing long-range objectives and specifying the strategies and actions to achieve them.
- Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work — Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work.
- Estimating the Quantifiable Characteristics of Products, Events, or Information — Estimating sizes, distances, and quantities; or determining time, costs, resources, or materials needed to perform a work activity.
- Communicating with Persons Outside Organization — Communicating with people outside the organization, representing the organization to customers, the public, government, and other external sources. This information can be exchanged in person, in writing, or by telephone or e-mail.
- Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates — Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.
- Coaching and Developing Others — Identifying the developmental needs of others and coaching, mentoring, or otherwise helping others to improve their knowledge or skills.
- Guiding, Directing, and Motivating Subordinates — Providing guidance and direction to subordinates, including setting performance standards and monitoring performance.
- Judging the Qualities of Things, Services, or People — Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people.
- Scheduling Work and Activities — Scheduling events, programs, and activities, as well as the work of others.
Detailed Work Activities
- Collaborate on research activities with scientists or technical specialists.
- Develop theories or models of physical phenomena.
- Prepare scientific or technical reports or presentations.
- Instruct college students in physical or life sciences.
- Develop software or applications for scientific or technical use.
- Review professional literature to maintain professional knowledge.
- Provide technical information or assistance to public.
- Direct scientific activities.
Find occupations related to multiple detailed work activities
Work Context
- Electronic Mail — 100% responded "Every day."
- Duration of Typical Work Week — 97% responded "More than 40 hours."
- Freedom to Make Decisions — 97% responded "A lot of freedom."
- Structured versus Unstructured Work — 91% responded "A lot of freedom."
- Face-to-Face Discussions — 50% responded "Every day."
- Importance of Being Exact or Accurate — 58% responded "Extremely important."
- Level of Competition — 42% responded "Extremely competitive."
- Spend Time Sitting — 55% responded "More than half the time."
- Indoors, Environmentally Controlled — 66% responded "Every day."
- Telephone — 50% responded "Once a week or more but not every day."
- Work With Work Group or Team — 42% responded "Very important."
- Contact With Others — 48% responded "Contact with others most of the time."
- Letters and Memos — 34% responded "Once a week or more but not every day."
- Public Speaking — 48% responded "Once a week or more but not every day."
- Coordinate or Lead Others — 38% responded "Important."
- Time Pressure — 58% responded "Once a month or more but not every week."
Job Zone
|Job Zone Five: Extensive Preparation Needed
|Most of these occupations require graduate school. For example, they may require a master's degree, and some require a Ph.D., M.D., or J.D. (law degree).
|Related Experience
|Extensive skill, knowledge, and experience are needed for these occupations. Many require more than five years of experience. For example, surgeons must complete four years of college and an additional five to seven years of specialized medical training to be able to do their job.
|Job Training
|Employees may need some on-the-job training, but most of these occupations assume that the person will already have the required skills, knowledge, work-related experience, and/or training.
|Job Zone Examples
|These occupations often involve coordinating, training, supervising, or managing the activities of others to accomplish goals. Very advanced communication and organizational skills are required. Examples include pharmacists, lawyers, astronomers, biologists, clergy, neurologists, and veterinarians.
|SVP Range
|(8.0 and above)
Percentage of Respondents
|Education Level Required
|Post-doctoral training
|Doctoral degree
|Master's degree
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- Investigative — Investigative occupations frequently involve working with ideas, and require an extensive amount of thinking. These occupations can involve searching for facts and figuring out problems mentally.
- Artistic — Artistic occupations frequently involve working with forms, designs and patterns. They often require self-expression and the work can be done without following a clear set of rules.
- Realistic — Realistic occupations frequently involve work activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions. They often deal with plants, animals, and real-world materials like wood, tools, and machinery. Many of the occupations require working outside, and do not involve a lot of paperwork or working closely with others.
Work Styles
- Analytical Thinking — Job requires analyzing information and using logic to address work-related issues and problems.
- Initiative — Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges.
- Persistence — Job requires persistence in the face of obstacles.
- Achievement/Effort — Job requires establishing and maintaining personally challenging achievement goals and exerting effort toward mastering tasks.
- Innovation — Job requires creativity and alternative thinking to develop new ideas for and answers to work-related problems.
- Independence — Job requires developing one's own ways of doing things, guiding oneself with little or no supervision, and depending on oneself to get things done.
- Integrity — Job requires being honest and ethical.
- Attention to Detail — Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks.
- Dependability — Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations.
- Adaptability/Flexibility — Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace.
- Stress Tolerance — Job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with high stress situations.
- Cooperation — Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude.
- Leadership — Job requires a willingness to lead, take charge, and offer opinions and direction.
Work Values
- Achievement — Occupations that satisfy this work value are results oriented and allow employees to use their strongest abilities, giving them a feeling of accomplishment. Corresponding needs are Ability Utilization and Achievement.
- Independence — Occupations that satisfy this work value allow employees to work on their own and make decisions. Corresponding needs are Creativity, Responsibility and Autonomy.
- Recognition — Occupations that satisfy this work value offer advancement, potential for leadership, and are often considered prestigious. Corresponding needs are Advancement, Authority, Recognition and Social Status.
Related Occupations
Wages & Employment Trends
|Median wages (2019)
|$55.09 hourly, $114,590 annual
|State wages
|Local wages
|Employment (2018)
|2,400 employees
|Projected growth (2018-2028)
|Average (4% to 6%)
|Projected job openings (2018-2028)
|State trends
|Top industries (2018)
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics 2019 wage data and 2018-2028 employment projections . "Projected growth" represents the estimated change in total employment over the projections period (2018-2028). "Projected job openings" represent openings due to growth and replacement.
Job Openings on the Web
Sources of Additional Information
Disclaimer: Sources are listed to provide additional information on related jobs, specialties, and/or industries. Links to non-DOL Internet sites are provided for your convenience and do not constitute an endorsement.
- American Association for the Advancement of Science
- American Astronomical Society
- American Geophysical Union
- American Institute of Physics
- American Physical Society
- Astronomical Society of the Pacific
- International Astronomical Union
- National Academy of Sciences
- Occupational Outlook Handbook: Physicists and astronomers
- Universities Space Research Association


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Meet Our Expert: Sasha Vodnik, Front-End Web Development Instructor, GA San Francisco
How would you describe your teaching philosophy?
GA instructor Sasha Vodnik says, "Every student brings a lot of knowledge and skills to the classroom already. One of my goals is to help you recognize what you already know and connect it to what we're trying to do. I think one of the most important skills I teach is how to troubleshoot and how to find answers to your questions so you can continue to learn and grow as a developer long after your time in my classroom."
Learn In-Demand Skills in Our Front-End Web Development Courses and Bootcamps in London
Application Programming Interface (or API)
Saimon Sharif, a JavaScript Development instructor at General Assembly New York City, says, "An API is a platform that allows different pieces of software, or applications, to communicate with one another. The term is used broadly in the context of programming languages, the web, operating systems, etc. For example, Apple publicly shares a number of APIs powered by iOS — its operating system for iPhones and iPads — for app developers to use. These APIs allow applications like Instagram and Snapchat to use a device's camera, microphone, and much more.
"In GA's career-changing Web Development Immersive — offered on campus and online — as well as our part-time JavaScript Development course, students learn the theory behind using web APIs and get hands-on practice incorporating them into their own projects. Our part-time Front-End Web Development course covers API essentials as well."
Read "A Beginner's Guide to APIs in Web Development" by Saimon Sharif.
Calvin Tan, a Front-End Web Development instructor at GA Singapore, says, "CSS, which stands for Cascading Style Sheets, is the language that sets the appearance of a website, including its fonts, color, and layout. It is a companion to the HTML language: HTML provides the content of a website, and CSS enhances the styling of the HTML content. Besides being used to create visually engaging websites, CSS is often used to enhance the aesthetics of user interfaces for web and mobile applications.
"In General Assembly's part-time Front-End Web Development (FEWD) course, our full-time Web Development Immersive course, and our online HTML, CSS & Web Design course, students learn how to write CSS syntax and link it effectively with HTML files. We also break down the most commonly used CSS properties, such as styling of text and background images. Students learn how to style multiple elements or a smaller group of elements through the use of classes, IDs, advanced selectors, and pseudo-selectors, and delve into creating layouts by using margins and paddings, floats, and positioning using flexbox. By the end of these courses, students are equipped with a firm understanding of CSS and the ability to create a visually appealing, interactive website that responds to various mobile or tablet devices."
Read "A Beginner's Guide to CSS" by Calvin Tan.
Sasha Vodnik, Front-End Web Development instructor at GA San Francisco, says, "Hypertext Markup Language, or HTML, is a programming language used to describe the structure of information on a web page. Together, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript make up the essential building blocks of websites, with CSS controlling a page's appearance, and JavaScript programming its functionality. You can think of HTML as providing the bones of a web page, while CSS provides the skin, and JavaScript provides the brains.
"In GA's part-time courses in Front-End Web Development and HTML, CSS & Web Design, and our career-changing, full-time Web Development Immersive program, you'll get hands-on practice coding your own projects, from static personal and business websites to single-page applications like games and interactive photo galleries. These projects give you practice using basic HTML tags and structuring pages with different components, including headers, footers, sidebars, and navigation. You'll also code CSS and JavaScript, and learn how to put all three together to build websites that implement modern standards and use best practices for front-end development."
Read "A Beginner's Guide to HTML in Web Development" by Sasha Vodnik.
Sasha Vodnik, JavaScript Development Instructor at GA San Francisco, says, "JavaScript is essential to nearly every action you take online, whether it's entering credit card information, streaming videos and music, or interacting on social networks, just for starters. It's the programming language used to make web pages interactive — and it's perhaps the most widely used language because of it. It can be used on both a website's front and back ends.
"At General Assembly, JavaScript is a core part of all of our web development courses. It's one of the central technologies covered in our full-time Web Development Immersive and Web Development Immersive Remote programs, in which students prepare for a career in full-stack web development. You can focus exclusively on the language in our part-time JavaScript Development course (also available online), or get a basic introduction to how JavaScript fits with HTML and CSS in our part-time Front-End Web Development course."
JavaScript Function
Along with objects, functions are one of the most important tools in the JavaScript language. JavaScript functions allow programmers to define custom processes in their code. These processes can take input values, perform actions based on those inputs, and even return output results.
JavaScript Object
Objects are one of the most fundamental aspects of the JavaScript language. In JavaScript, an object is a collection of data and behaviours used to represent an "entity" in your program. By combining different kinds of objects, developers can write code to accomplish a broad range of tasks.
Brandi Butler, a Web Development Immersive instructor at General Assembly Seattle, says, "jQuery was created to make the language much more accessible for developers to write. On one hand, it's simply a library built on top of JavaScript to make programming JavaScript easier and more enjoyable for web developers. On the other hand, it's used so ubiquitously in web programming that you can hardly have a conversation about JavaScript without mentioning it. jQuery simplifies front-end web development to such a degree that we've coined a separate term — "vanilla JavaScript" — to talk about JavaScript without jQuery.
"In General Assembly's part-time Front-End Web Development course, students learn the basics of JavaScript and jQuery, along with HTML and CSS, to build interactive custom websites. For a deeper dive into coding, our full-time Web Development Immersive course, on campus and remotely, trains students to be job-ready full-stack web developers, equipped with both front- and back-end skills."
Read "A Beginner's Guide to jQuery" by Brandi Butler.
Object-Oriented Programming
A programming paradigm in which models ("objects") are given data ("properties") and functionality ("methods") that allow them to perform various actions. Languages including JavaScript and Ruby are built off of object-oriented programming (OOP) logic.
Responsive Design
Phil Bolles, User Experience Design instructor at GA Washington, D.C., says, "Responsive web design — the design of layouts and hierarchies that preserve visual emphasis and change as a screen changes size — has reshaped the modern web. We now think of the web as a spectrum, a range of screen widths corresponding to a wide range of devices. A website shouldn't care whether the user is viewing it on a phone, laptop, or flat-screen TV via a Playstation 4. Instead, a website should respond to its viewer's screen width, preserve content structure even as the layout changes, and maintain readability at any size — all of which leads to a positive user experience.
"In GA's full-time User Experience Design Immersive and part-time User Experience Design course, instructors frequently challenge students to think about how their digital products will look at different screen sizes and give them tips on maintaining visual priority. Recognizing that they can't guarantee which device their audience uses, students learn to think of the web as fluid. When it comes to bringing responsive designs to life, you can learn the fundamentals in our part-time Front-End Web Development course or online HTML, CSS & Web Design course, or launch a career building seamless, responsive websites in GA's full-time Web Development Immersive or Web Development Immersive Remote program."
Read "A Beginner's Guide to Responsive Design" by Phil Bolles.
Web Browser
Kate Shishkina, who has taught Web Development Immersives at GA's New York City campus, says, "A web browser is software that provides an easy access to the World Wide Web. Browsers load and render web pages so that they are readable by humans. Think of a web browser as the tour bus that drives you around the web's top attractions.
Read "A Beginner's Guide to Web Browsers" by Kate Shishkina.
Break into London's front-end web development industry.
Code your own custom sites with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Learn in our part-time courses — on campus or online.
Meet Danielle Pascarella, Front-End Web Development Graduate
From Finance to Front-End
Danielle Pascarella left a cushy job as an investment specialist at J.P. Morgan and learned to code through GA's Front-End Web Development course at our New York campus. By the end of the 10 weeks, she'd built a prototype for what is now her thriving fintech company. "My teacher was able to break down a concept that was completely foreign to me so that I could understand it easily," says Pascarella. "Best of all, the part-time program was flexible enough to fit in with my busy work schedule."
Learn more about Pascarella's story here.


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I love this site.
Loaded with links and videos and all things Halloween.
Click the super cool van:
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Posted by Rot at 7:07 AM
Labels: cool, goblinhaus
4 comments:
- Rot said...
I need a Pumpkinrot van.
- September 29, 2010 at 9:04 AM
- Sean said...
Goblinhaus used to reside in Dallas and did all of the haunt reviews. Nice people and I have purchased a few items as well
- September 29, 2010 at 1:03 PM
- Rot said...
I'm a happy customer as well : )
Great design too!
- September 29, 2010 at 1:14 PM
- Anonymous said...
Hello PumpkinRot!
Shrub from GOBLINHAUS here. One of your readers pointed this out to us. We really appreciate the mention/compliments and love the pics on your site.
Happy Halloween everyone. Get to spookin'!
- September 30, 2010 at 8:36 AM
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A pair of turquoise color chiffon sandals with a wedges heel and a lace up design
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Custom Made (made to order).
Product Code : OS BL 06 001
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I was suffering from a pretty bad cold last weekend. While I was convalescing on the couch, I decided to turn on the TV and see what was going on in the world.
There was nothing else on, so I decided to watch the McLaughlin Group on WHYY. I always find McLaughlin really entertaining, partly because I'm always reminded of the great Saturday Night Live parodies by Dana Carvey as McLaughlin ("Wrong!") and Phil Hartman as McLaughlin's constant guest, Pat Buchannan. McLaughlin was one of the originators of fast paced, in-your-face panel interview shows. He's been on the air weekly since 1982
McLaughlin didn't disappoint. He had his guests dressed up for the New Year: the women – Eleanor Clift and Monica Crowley – in dresses, and the men – Buchannan and Mort Zuckerman – in tuxedos.
Among his rapid-fire topics that morning, McLaughlin asked his guests what their New Year's resolutions would be – Buchannan promised to correct the record on Nixon with a book he's planning to write over the next two years; McLaughlin said he plans to attend Burning Man, a trippy hippy festival in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada.
The interesting question, though, was when he asked his guests for a "macro prediction" for the new year. Buchannan, right out of the gate, predicted a financial collapse of Europe and major states in the U.S. because of unsustainable debt amounts and other financial liabilities.
Crowley predicted a major realignment of people's attitudes because of lingering unemployment and frustration with "socialist" government policies (she's a hard core conservative).
McLaughlin first joked with Crowley – "Will that realignment of attitude reach Pat Buchannan?" – and then delivered a prediction that the economy would be fully recovered this year.
OK, so it was not much more than bad television, but I was left wondering about the difference in attitude between Buchannan's pessimism and McLaughlin's sensational optimism.
So much in our culture is predicated on those attitudes. The entire stock market, the keystone of our economy that includes the hopes of all of our retirement dreams, is based primarily on the play between optimism of future growth potential and the pessimism of economic flat line. We are told, again and again, for the economy to work and for markets to grow, there must be optimism.
2010 was a tough year for optimism. From high unemployment to intractable and paralyzing partisanship in Washington to the three-month oil-leak in the Gulf of Mexico, there were plenty of reasons to lose faith.
Yet, we go into 2011 looking for something to be hopeful about — something on which to base our optimism. I'd like to believe John McLaughlin – a hard sentence to type, let me tell you – that we have seen the worst of it. But it's tough not to think Buchannan might be even a little right and there are some problems to worry about.
Perhaps the best we can do is keep an open mind. It's a new year and anything can happen, right?
Pete Mazzaccaro


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One of the most frustrating and depressing aspects of U.S. politics right now is that so little federal money is being spent on domestic public infrastructure.
We're happy to spend a staggering ~$800 billion a year on our military--another worthy cause. But we are so appalled by the amount that we spend on our domestic infrastructure that we recently chopped public construction spending from $320 billion to $275 billion a year.
Given our high unemployment rate and extraordinarily low borrowing costs, now would be a perfect time for the government to commit a few trillion dollars over the next decade to bringing our decaying infrastructure into the 21st Century.
After all, high-quality infrastructure improves life for everyone in the country, not just rich people or middle-class people or the other voting blocks that our two big political parties are always sucking up to.
Infrastructure spending also doesn't train people to expect handouts or support wasteful consumer behavior--two complaints about social programs like food stamps and Medicare. Infrastructure spending creates jobs throughout the economy. And it reduces unemployment and social program spending (because more people go back to work).
But infrastructure spending is not just not being increased in the U.S.--it's getting cut.
If you spend a lot of time within our country's borders, you get used to how old and decrepit much of our infrastructure is.
But step outside the U.S. for a few days, and you remember.
I've spent the last few days in the UK, a country whose government is even more obsessed with cutting government spending than our government is. The UK is so insistent on cutting spending that it has thrown its economy into what looks like a triple-dip recession (needlessly so, in the opinion of many respected economists).
But the UK still finds money to spend on its public infrastructure.
Such as this dime-a-dozen commuter train line from London to Hampton Court in the picture below. I can't remember ever riding in a Metro-North train that looked like this. The London train was also perfectly on time, of course. With digital ticketing (the same digital ticket system that works with the London subway.) And it has all the other attributes that citizens in most developed countries expect their trains to have.
[UPDATE: I have now been informed that this is a private train line (subsidized by the government) running on public track. And some folks on Twitter are complaining that, since the line was privatized, prices have soared and rush-hour is jammed. So this particular international comparison with the U.S. may not be apt.]
Yes, maybe this train's just a one-off. But the other trains, subways, and buses I've ridden on were clean and new, too.
If even the austerity-obsessed UK can buy public transportation equipment like this, can't we? Is that really so much to ask?
In case you prefer data to pictures, here's some data for you.
US public construction spending has declined sharply over the last five years:
US public construction spending, in fact, has now hit its lowest level as a percent of GDP since the this data series began in the early 1990s:
US military spending, meanwhile, is 3X as big as US public construction spending. And it has barely decreased at all:
Yes, if we trim military spending, we won't be able to fight quite so many wars in so many other countries at once.
But our bridges, roads, trains, airports, electrical grids, and schools in our own country are old and deteriorating.
So even assuming that was have to cut federal spending--which I, for one (and, more importantly, many respected economists) don't think we have to--is this really the way we want to spend our money?
Or is it just that our government in Washington has become so bought-off and dysfunctional that it can't even make choices that will benefit everyone?


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Yesterday was my birthday, and I had a wonderful day. Remember how it used to take Niki Media days to get a story up (and then it was all wrong)? On my birthday I met with a dashing computer wizard named David Albert who put up in one day, a forty-four page story and my introduction to it.
Soon I will be blogging there as well as here.
Is life getting better or what? God bless you, David, and long may you reign!
So, at last, for Jez and Morgead fans (or anybody who wants a free taste of what the Night World is like) Jez and Morgead's Night Out is up. Um. Don't expect it to be like any other couple's night out, as they're both vampires.
Let's see, for my birthday I also got a Judith Leiber purse, a Kindle, and an iPOD, thus bringing me more fully into the modern world (including the purse, which I can exchange for this dried yak bladder I've been carrying).
Oh, yes, and Night World I is back on the NY Times bestseller list—and I first heard on my birthday.
Again, for anybody skimming this, the WEBSITE'S BEEN UPDATED and there's a JEZ & MORGEAD STORY there.


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11 Creative and Cool Birthday Candles.
Lighter Candles: These candles come complete with anchoring toothpicks and are cleverly disguised as a lighter.
Matchstick Candles: These are made to look like matchsticks; the set contains 12 candles and comes in a unique slider box designed to replicate a matchbox.
Animal Print Candles: The set contains 24 candles in 4 different animal prints: 6 each of zebra, tiger, leopard and giraffe prints.
Sparkling Candles: Each of these measures 3 inches tall x .25 inches in diameter; this replica candle set contains 10 sparkling sticks that will sparkle intermittently until done.
Kabom Candles: These candles stand approximately 1 inch high and 1" wide.
Building Block Candles: The set contains six 3-inch tall candles.
Ice Cream Cone Candles: The set contains of five, yummy ice cream cone candles, each in a different, bright color!
Lollipop Candles: These candles look like the real lollipops.
Fred's Candles: The set includes 8 perfectly rolled 3.5" candles.
Digital Candles: These candles work for any age, well at least between 0-100. The set contains 26 candles and 2 plastic holders.
Light Bites Fork Candles: The set contains 12 candles and 12 cake forks (each measures 6 inches tall). The reusable plastic forks holds the candles.
Other Posts:
20 Creative and Cool Hoodies.
14 Cool and Creative Bed Sheets.
15 Creative and Clever Hats and Caps.
12 Creative and Cool Ironing Board Designs.
25 Modern and Creative Tissue Paper Holder.
16 Creative and Cool Slipper and Sandal Designs.


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Planning Commission Meeting
- Date: 06/17/2019 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
- Location: Council Chambers - Lancaster City Hall
44933 Fern Avenue
Lancaster, California 93534
The Planning Commission meetings are held on the third Monday of each month at 5:00 p.m. in the Council Chambers, with special meetings scheduled as needed. The agenda is posted at least 72 hours prior to the regular meeting. For additional information, please contact Lancaster Planning at (661) 723-6100
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