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Support Policies
Welcome to the official Support Policies page. This page basically outlines all the official support means and any related requirements that go along with any kind of support.
All of these Support Policies apply to any iThemes brand support: iThemes themes, PluginBuddy, and/or WebDesign.
Throughout this page AND on any and every other page, section or area of the iThemes, PluginBuddy and WebDesign websites, the general term "iThemes" represents all 3 brands and all involved products and offerings.
- 1 Official Support Method - FORUMS
- 2 iThemes Codex
- 3 Other NON-FORUM UNOFFICIAL Support Methods
Official Support Method - FORUMS
iThemes Forum (including the WebDesign.com forum for WebDesign users) is the official (and only) support method. The iThemes forums are full of knowledge, wealth and information shared in thousands of topics in dozens of different specific sections catering to any and all products you may have from iThemes.
Existing Customer Support
Forums are the only official support method provided by iThemes. All iThemes products come with full official forum support.
iThemes.com itself and PluginBuddy.com support for existing customers is offered mainly and solely on the Official iThemes/PluginBuddy Support Forums. WebDesign.com support is provided via the WebDesign forums available to you after you log into your WebDesign.com account.
Support is 8am – 5pm Monday through Friday, CST. No support is provided nor guaranteed after those hours OR on other days. Check out the current iThemes local day and time
Potential Customer Support
All support for FUTURE/POTENTIAL customers is provided via one of the following 3 channels:
- 1 : Pre-Sales Forums section
- 2 : Live Chat. You can click the Live Sales Chat Panda on top of ANY iThemes.com OR PluginBuddy.com page
- 3 : By emailing firstname.lastname@example.com with your Pre-Sales questions
Sales also works from 8am – 5pm Monday through Friday, CST. No answers are provided nor guaranteed after those hours OR on other days. Check out the current iThemes local day and time
Who to Contact for Support
The iThemes brands have many people working on different products and sections. However, for ANY kind of support or direct communication, there are ONLY TWO groups you need to contact for ANY kind of question. This rule is strongly enforced in all communication (please help us enforce them more - that results in MORE forum support efficiency).
For Sales, please contact only ONE of the following teams first, and only after 24 business hours have passed (and you do not get a reply), please go ahead and contact the OTHER team to have your original inquiry looked at.
Support Team
The support team is the OFFICIAL MAIN and ONLY FIRST point of contact for ANY questions you may have as an existing customer. If there is ANY question or post of ANY kind that requires communication with anyone else at iThemes, like Sales OR a Developer of a specific product, the official support staff will direct you to the appropriate person OR have the appropriate person come contact you on the forums, AFTER you post your inquiry on the support forums.
Support Forums are the ONLY OFFICIAL way to get support and communicate with the Support Team and with ANYONE ELSE at iThemes.
There is no other way around this. If you contact any person at iThemes directly while BYPASSING support, you WILL BE redirected back to the support forums. Support will always answer you first, check everything, try to solve things for you OR get other people involved OR get your inquiries escalated to the appropriate teams/people.
Basically: You must contact support first for anything. You CAN contact SALES first for any SALES related questions, however.
Sales Team
The sales team is the other OFFICIAL MAIN and ONE OF THE ONLY TWO INITIAL points of contact for ANY questions you may have, whether as an existing customer OR a potential customer, regarding any sales related questions.
Forum Principles
The iThemes forums area is the only official way to get support on any of your current active iThemes products.
Tips for posting on the Support Forums
Before you post a new thread on the forums OR reply to another thread, please make sure you've done the following:
- 1 : Search the forums.
- 2 : Read our ever-expanding Codex, which is updated almost daily
- 3 : Always post full required links, all required answers, AS MUCH INFORMATION AS YOU CAN, any LOG FILES, and detailed info w/screenshots.
- 4 : Support is 8am – 5pm Monday through Friday, CST. No support is provided nor guaranteed after those hours OR on other days. Check out the current iThemes local day and time
- 5 : You'll get a reply usually within 24 business hours. Please wait at least 24 full business hours before BUMPING (replying again to bring your post to the top) your original post.
- 6 : Always include FTP/cPanel/iThemes-Membership/WP-Admin login info AND links to each (including the exact forum post link that you're referring to) when asked to do so, by an iThemes employee on the forums, via email OR pm. If you miss any of the required information, we will have to reply to you on the forums to resend us the email OR the pm with ALL the required info.
- 7 : If you're asked to email or pm us, please do so only once.
- 8 : Create only ONE NEW topic per issue.
- 9 : Start your own topic unless you know your issue is 100% the same as someone else's topic.
- 10: Please post in the CORRECT category. If you are NOT sure where to post OR cannot find the appropriate category where you can post, post in any of the most relevant category you can see AND also mention in your post that you're not sure where to post. We'll take care of it from there!
- 11 : We do NOT support ANY extra customizations of ANY of our Plugins or Themes, OR any form of support for any EXTERNAL plugin or theme, in any manner. See our official Extra customizations/edits Policies and our Externa Plugins Compatibility policies.
- 12 : Any free plugins are provided as is and no support is offered nor guaranteed in any manner. Check out our Free Plugins Policies.
- 12 : Email a staff member ONLY when asked specifically. Otherwise, we may reply to you and tell you to please post on the forums, OR we may not be able to reply at all.
- 13 : PM (private message) a staff member on the forums ONLY when asked specifically. Otherwise, just like email, we may reply to you and tell you to please post on the forums OR we may not be able to reply at all.
iThemes Codex
The iThemes Codex is our version of a comprehensive and detailed FAQ (frequently asked questions) and tips that can help you with our products and general WordPress and website questions. In fact, this very page you are reading right now is in the Codex: you are basically reading the Support Policies section of the iThemes Codex.
Anytime you hear the word "Codex" anywhere related to iThemes, it is basically referring to this entire iThemes Codex.
The Codex is updated almost daily, and contains a wealth of information to help you get started. The iThemes Codex even contains MANY code examples and snippets which are NOT covered by official iThemes support policies on this page. All of such code examples and tips are provided voluntarily by each staff who added them, just for your benefit.
Other NON-FORUM UNOFFICIAL Support Methods
No other form of support is guaranteed, NOR provided, NOR supported, EXCEPT the iThemes forums OR the WebDesign forums.
Email Support
iThemes does not provide any form of Email support. Unless you are asked specifically to email us with something like login information (for security reasons), you must always post any questions or replies you have regarding any support question on the forums.
Even if you email us regarding some info after we ask you to email us, please post all further replies on the forums and NOT email any such further responses to us. Any emails or email replies, other than for something which we ask specifically, will be answered with the default information that you should post your support email or reply on the forums. We work fully on the forums helping you, and thus are focusing fully on keeping the forums as the central and ONLY place for support.
Phone Support
No phone support of any kind is provided at the moment. Sorry, we cannot call you regarding any support nor can we receive any calls regarding any support.
Live Chat
No live chat support is provided for existing customers. Live Chat on all iThemes pages (the Panda icon on top of all pages) is available only to Pre-Sales customers (existing OR new) who may have quick pre-sales questions.
Instant Messaging
No support via any form of instant messaging is provided at this moment.
Offline Support
No offline support of any kind is currently provided.
Social Network
No support via any Social Network (twitter, facebook, myspace, Google+, etc is currently provided.
Online Support ELSEWHERE
All support questions must be asked on the official iThemes forums. Sorry, we cannot provide support on other external blogs, forums or sites (and are also usually not allowed to do so, by those blog/forum/site owners).
Personal Staff Accounts
Please do not contact any iThemes staff, regarding any support issues or questions, on or via ANY staff's personal online account like their Twitter, Facebook, blog, site, etc, or even their personal email address, instant messaging account, or anything else. No support is provided via any staff's personal account anywhere online.


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Munich threatens to bring its brooms into 21st century - and sparks an outcry
After 850 years of using tied-together twigs to sweep the streets, Munich this summer decided to give newfangled plastic brush brooms a try.
The city, which had been importing twigs from Italy so that workers could make their own brooms, decided to make the switch for a number of reasons, though basically they all boiled down to the fact that the year is 2014, not 1420. Modern brooms are cheaper and more durable, can be bought at the store, and generally are a lot less hassle. Still, the cleaning debate is a classic example of tradition vs. convenience, so the switch is not without its critics.
The traditional brooms, which Munich streetsweepers began using about the time the Magna Carta was adopted and a couple hundred years before Columbus sailed the ocean blue, were made fresh each day from twigs of heath brought in from Tuscany. They tended to last about one full day of heavy sweeping before needing to be replaced.
Dagmar Ruemenapf, Munich's spokeswoman, said city workers tied together about 50,000 of the handmade brooms each year. The plastic bristle brooms will be bought already assembled; the city says it expects to need only 900 in a year.
"It's not just that we want to save money," she noted. "The new brooms also handle better, and don't have to be replaced all the time."
The critics included some of Munich's streetsweepers, according to the Munchen Abendzeitung newspaper.
"For us, the traditional broom is as important as the baton for a conductor," one was quoted as saying. Another noted, "The feeling each day to have a fresh-bound broom in our hands was the same as waking to find a new car waiting every morning."
And the newspaper quoted city sweep Hakan Yavuz as bringing up a practical point.
"The bristles of the plastic broom are not as flexible," said Yavuz. "It's harder to sweep nooks and corners. Cleanliness will not be the same."
Columnist Thomas Anlauf, of the Sueddeutsche Zeitung, wrote this week that the "reisigbesen," or broom made of twigs, often birch, is as German as apple pie is American.
"It is possible to argue that the reisigbesen is the cultural asset to mankind," he wrote. "Hardly anything has kept poets and thinkers as busy as the broom."
Goethe, Germany's Shakespeare, memorialized the broom gone wild in "The Sorcerer's Apprentice." The Brothers Grimm used talking brooms in their fairy tales. And Anlauf noted that Germany has three museums devoted to the history of brooms.
Today, the brooms are still employed in the regular city sweeps of the uber-clean Swabian state during their "kehrwoche," or "sweeping weeks." These are contractual agreements first announced in the 15th century in the German state. The weeks are a deal between renters and tenants on when the property (hallways, staircases, stoops and sidewalks) are swept, and the traditional broom for this purpose is made of twigs.
The best known twig brooms to American readers tend to fly, most recently in Harry Potter stories. In Germany, aside from Munich, only Frankfurt still uses the Tuscan heath brooms.
In comments posted on stories about the change, readers worried that the plastic brooms would fray off little bits of plastic as they scrape over the city's cobbled streets and sidewalks. That, several readers noted, would increase air pollution.
Ruemenapf wasn't so sure about the merit of such complaints. Most streetsweepers have told the city they prefer the modern brooms.
Still, the twig brooms won't vanish overnight.
"The new ones will be phased in," Ruemenapf said. "We will only gradually replace the traditional ones."
And there's doubt that they will vanish completely. After all, the city website features photos of cleaners using the old-time brooms.


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Maybe it is stopping long enough to remove your soccer boots and socks and donning thongs before you drive home to the family. So that you are comfortable and your feet can breathe. Even if your team mates are ready and waiting.
Maybe it is unloading your entire trolley of groceries, one item at a time, lining them up in categories so that your 'unpack at home' is easy, all the while, others wait in the queue behind you.
Maybe it is taking out your ticket at the railway gate when it is your turn to use the turnstile, rather than fumbling in your bag as you climb the stairs, crushed by the hoards; Ignoring the commuters panting down your neck, chomping at the bit to be released from the railway station and into the real world.
I call it 'taking your sweet time'.
I still don't know if it is sensible or selfish.
I notice it. Sometimes it annoys me. Other times, I find it admirable.
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American poets often seem prone to a kind of New World bad mood, a booby-trapped candor that draws us in to trip us up. Open Walt Whitman to any page and you will find traces in his camaraderie of this inexplicable testiness ("Listener up there! what have you to confide to me? / Look in my face while I snuff the sidle of evening"), as though somehow, somewhere, you'd done him wrong. Emily Dickinson is flirty but barbed, torn between her "Playfellow Heart" and a "Heart that goes in, and closes the Door." Marianne Moore's armored creatures use their beauty as a defense against predators; Wallace Stevens's "Harmonium" keeps us off balance with its comic tantrums. And then there is Sylvia Plath, whose mingled curses and seductions can make other poets seem like Velveeta. Plath's readers suffer the same sadistic glee that she describes in "Daddy," that "love of the rack and the screw." Her sublime unfairness to everyone and everything, herself first of all, makes her at once impossible company and impossible to resist.
"Our Andromeda" is the third book of poems by Brenda Shaughnessy, an heir to Plath's exuberant contempt. Shaughnessy, who is forty-two, lives in Brooklyn with her family (her husband is the poet Craig Morgan Teicher), and teaches at the Newark campus of Rutgers University, but she goes, as the best poets usually do, pretty much wherever language leads. In previous books, it has led her to perplexing boasts ("I've won the tourniquet, I've devastated toddlers") and queen-bee-ish threats ("I will kill you with the blistering foods of a Crimean War"). Equally self-mocking is her Plath-inspired prickly amorousness, which courts us by calling us names:
I wanted nothing. I am not a stray mule
& gaudy caravan pulling a big skirt,
open legs, a head of wire.
I want singers to shear your eye from the flocking
of my city of superior grammar & wincing.
To keep you blind, my alabaster scourge.
It must be a Love, this crackpot of heart,
My sterling & cashmere & no money.
You my fat bad fricassee, cough of a candle.
These lines are from "Letter to the Crevice Novice," the second poem in Shaughnessy's first book, "Interior with Sudden Joy." It is typical of Shaughnessy to sexualize our passing attention (readers of her poems are here equated with new lovers), then shame us for having such dirty minds. The poems in her first two books often come close to erotic slapstick, a comedy of raunchy slips and puns. Plath compares love to a "fat gold watch"; Shaughnessy calls her lover a "fat bad fricassee." Singer-brand shears are made into "singers" who "shear"; "flocking" and "fricassee" suggest familiar names for well-known sexual acts.
A poet's style embodies her vision of the world: Shaughnessy's, full of flares and surges, suggests that everything on earth is saturated with what she once called "swampy sexual promise." For her, arousal and inspiration feed, and feed on, one another: like many poets, she feels that she is simultaneously the ravenous appetite driving her work and the food that fuels it. Often, this makes for delectable farce, with Shaughnessy presenting herself as a helpless pipsqueak facing the howling gale of her desires. Her second book, "Human Dark with Sugar," opens with "I'm Over the Moon," a breakup poem to that fickle, indifferent suitor of all poets:
I don't like what the moon is supposed to do.
Confuse me, ovulate me,
spoon-feed me longing. A kind of ancient
date-rape drug. So I'll howl at you, moon,
I'm angry. I'll take back the night. Using me to
swoon at your questionable light,
you had me chasing you,
the world's worst lover, over and over
hoping for a mirror, a whisper, insight.
This doesn't sound at all like the writing of someone "over" (in the sense of "finished with") the moon; playing with the ambiguity of her title, Shaughnessy risks succumbing to the rapture it usually suggests. She can't quit the moon; who can quit the moon? To be hooked on this glamorous cad, she decides, is "like having a bad boyfriend in a good band."
"Our Andromeda" is a book about family life, a hard subject for a poet who seems to thrive on sexual brinkmanship. If you crave the incessant newness of erotic adventure you may find yourself stumped when life starts to become a set of routines. The conundrum seems to have forced Shaughnessy into an uncommon poetic discovery: a new subject. "Our Andromeda" is full of poems about the rigors and joys of caring for a young child born with severe disabilities: "hardly alive, hardly you / horribly slim-chanced." The superabundance of Shaughnessy's old style here dwindles to a few elemental words, some primal rhymes, stanzas that peter out or give in. This is the opening of "Artless," the book's first poem (the title runs into the first line):
is my heart. A stranger
berry there never was,
Gone sour in the sun,
in the sunroom or moonroof,
No poetry. Plain. No
fresh, special recipe
to bless.
"Less" keeps finding the light here, popping up even in "bless." Lacking art's "recipe," the untransformed "meat stub" of ongoing life becomes gristle, "rim and trim":
All I've ever made
with these hands
and life, less
substance, more rind.
Mostly rim and trim,
but making much smoke
in the old smokehouse,
no less.
A rationed vocabulary, an imagination thinned by worry and obligation, a new consciousness of death (the "smoke / in the old smokehouse"), and, most of all, this strangely antique music, like a dreamed stanza of Robert Herrick: these elements create the subsistence beauty of "Artless" and of much of Shaughnessy's new work.
Shaughnessy once went to Plath for her swagger and for her spooky special effects. Here she picks up on a feature of "Ariel" that few readers seem to notice: its often hair-raising honesty about living in a house with young children. "Liquid Flesh," Shaughnessy's garrulous waking-baby poem, bears comparison with Plath's "Morning Song" or "Nick and the Candlestick." What does the word "mother" mean when the baby "howls and claws / like a wrongly minor red wolf / who doesn't know his mother":
Whatever meaning the word itself
is covering, like underwear,
that meaning is so mere and meager
this morning. Mother. Baby.
Chicken and egg. It's so obnoxious
of me: I was an egg
who had an egg
and now I'm chicken,
as usual scooping up
both possibilities,
or what I used to call
"Mother" and "baby" form a broken binary: neither party here recognizes the other. Something has gone wrong: maybe the logic was screwy (how can an egg have an egg?); maybe a kind of barnyard hubris, "scooping up / both possibilities," has brought them, mother and baby, to this unimaginable impasse. Like many of these new poems, "Liquid Flesh" quotes back, with snarl added, the aggravating counsel of experts and well-meaning outsiders. "The baby comes first," some jackass must have said:
Do I like us? Can I love us?
If anyone comes
first it's him, but how can that be?
I was here way, way first.
I have the breasts, godawful, and he
the lungs and we share the despair.
"I was here way, way first": Shaughnessy's bleakly funny assertion is the kind of thing you might say to someone who cuts in line at the movies.
The word "godawful" suggests, by profane photonegative, the striving toward some plausible image of the divine that saturates this book. Shaughnessy sometimes sounds like Job, but more often sounds like George Herbert in her frustration—by turns feisty and devastated—with a God who won't answer when called. Later in the book, Shaughnessy's "Milky Way God" is "always busy offline":
on our waterbodies, our handsqueezed
oceans of salt water, competing in dressage
though he always spooks the horses.
We know this guy, the plutocrat at his lake house, his power expressed through extravagant leisure. This can't-come-to-the-phone-right-now God makes every petitioner feel impotent. Herbert so lamented his own apparent uselessness that he wished, unforgettably, to be "a tree" so that "some bird would trust / Her household to me"—the total loss of sentience being preferable to the pain that sentience entails. Shaughnessy calls herself a "utilized vessel" and a "cracked hull," the fruit of some demented "divine / design . . . Deform/following the function." In "Glassbottomed," she writes:
If only the plain brown splotch—
my home, my head—had a place,
a say, the way rancid meat still
has protein.
"Our Andromeda" crests with the book's twenty-two-page title poem, addressed to Shaughnessy's son, Cal (Cal was Robert Lowell's nickname, and Lowell's scary candor inflects the poem). The poem describes an alternate galaxy, Andromeda, where all the mundane sources of pain in which our own galaxy abounds have been removed. In Andromeda,
There are no misdiagnoses
or cursory dismissals as if the patient
were a whiny dog who demands another
biscuit. Or shooting in the dark like good
Dr. Shtep in the NICU, when you were
trying to begin living, who asked me
whether I had taken street drugs.
"Our Andromeda" verges, at times, on a kind of vigilantism, evening the score with inattentive friends, an "absent obstetrician," insurance companies, and the Brooklyn parents of "normal" babies Shaughnessy must endure at every crosswalk. The anger is excessive and scattershot. If it were more tidily deployed, the heartbreak would not come across so clearly.
Shaughnessy has always been a poet of the accosting address, even in poems nominally pitched to lovers or rivals. But "Our Andromeda" is a poem we overhear, often uncomfortably. There is something illicit about eavesdropping. Some readers will find it deficient in music; certainly, it dynamites the idea that poems must find some symbolic relation to lived life. It keeps score; it loathes the fit and finish of "Poetry," capital "P"; it is mean; it is vengeful. You wonder, at times, whether it is poetry at all, but this thought tends to crop up at moments when the art takes a certain thrilling turn. For now, what I thought was mainly this: this boy Cal, he was wise when he chose his mother. ♦


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Utah lawmaker seeks to ban sex-selective abortion
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Women would be prohibited from having abortions based on whether they want a boy or a girl under legislation proposed by a Utah lawmaker.
State Sen. Margaret Dayton tells the Deseret News (http://bit.ly/VhEkMb ) she also is considering preventing women from getting abortions based on the race of a baby.
Planned Parenthood of Utah Executive Director Karrie Galloway opposes the Orem Republican's proposed "Gender Selection Abortion Prohibition" bill.
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In January 2010 we had another plane crash (?) . This time it was a military CASA that supposedly crashed in Mirosławiec with 20 people aboard . We were fed the story that creme de la creme of Polish military aviation died in this catastrophe . I checked the names and ranks of the alleged victims and found only one general over there . The rest is only colonels , captains , majors , lieutenants ...
I suspect it was a PsyOp too , given very limited numbers of pictures available on internet
This guy , general Błasik was very active after CASA crash(?) showing his face all over MSM
2 years later he "died" tragically together with our president Kaczyński . He enjoyed some extra publicity when Russians by miracle found the trails of alcohol in his body and suggested that he entered the pilot's cabin aroused and made him land in Smoleńsk despite terrible conditions .
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Postmaster asks aid in nabbing mailbox clouters: Post Master Richard Wallace has made an appeal to the city police for cooperation in discovering who is responsible for post office box clouting which had been occurring over a period of several months. It is believed to be the work of juveniles, as the boxes which are forced are in the lower tiers, easily reached by persons of short stature. Over the weekend two boxes were broken into and their contents removed. One of them belonged to a local business man, who found checks totaling nearly $2,000 in the street near his place of business. They had been torn and tossed away. Wallace declared that the practice must be broken up and is hopeful that police alertness may result in catching the perpetrators in the act. Severe punishment is prescribed for those found guilty of damaging government property or robbing the mail.
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The dairy business is a family affair: Emerson's dairy, a family-owned and operated business since 1925, has become the largest dairy farm in Contra Costa County because of two things — hard work and dedication.
Stan and Dale Emerson, both Oakley residents, are full partners in the business started by their father, Ralph, but the land has been in the family since the mid-1800s.
Ralph was faced with a dilemma in the early 1920s, when the family owned land in both Santa Clara and Contra Costa counties. "He couldn't keep up with all the work because there was so much land. He had the foresight to realize Santa Clara County would develop much quicker than the Oakley area. He got rid of most of the land in Santa Clara and started Emerson Dairy here when he was only 22 years old.," Stan said.
What started as a small-scale business where a portable milking machine was hand carried to the cows has turned into an operation consisting of an automated system that milks a herd of 1,150 cows three times a day.
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Yesterday morning at Skepticon, James Croft gave a pitch for creating Humanist communities with their own buildings. The (main) point of the buildings is to facilitate regular meetings. The point of regular, or at least somewhat frequent, meetings is to promote civic engagement, something for which James has at least very subjective data.
It was a good talk, but as usual, I tend to play devils's advocate on James's ideas along these lines simply because our perspectives are so different. I don't do it intentionally. He just starts talking, and I hear myself saying, "Yes but…".
I think James does something similar with certain strains of what I have to say, which provides for entertaining arguments that I think lead to a broader understanding for both of us.
This time, what got me thinking was the pictures of various Humanist and Ethical Society buildings around the country. Specifically, it was a picture of (if I recall correctly) a California building with colorful flags draped next to a set of stairs leading to a second-floor entrance.
Visually, it was quite nice. I understand why James included the slide. The stairs, however, made my knees hurt. I thought, "How many people will those keep out?"
Now, that was just my initial reaction. I'm sure the building has a more accessible entrance than that. But it did start me thinking about how a community that owns a building tends to limit itself. James is right that there are advantages, but they don't exist in a vacuum.
As a point of reference, the Minnesota Atheists have been attempting to raise money for a building for several years. I don't think the fact that we're not there yet is just due to a relatively small number of active, paid members (relative compared to the number of people who benefit from what we do). I don't think it's because members don't understand the value of a building.
I think it's because the way we operate now serves more people than would be served by a building.
If you look at the list of events MNA puts out each week (sign up here), you'll see events all over the Twin Cities. There are events in Minneapolis, in the northern suburbs, in the southern suburbs, occasionally to the east. If you look at the MeetUp group, you'll find more events in more places. Even our monthly meetings, held in the larger public libraries, travel.
Is there no bus line leading to one of our events? There is to the next. Is the drive to one prohibitively long from your work or your house? There will be one closer. Does this space present physical challenges to you? Try this one instead. We're everywhere.
We have active members who live all over our metro area, which covers seven counties. I don't know that we would be able to say that if we just had a little place near downtown with scant parking or a grander, more spacious building out in a suburb. That happens for a very few churches in the area, and they've all worked (or spent) hard to be "desination" churches.
Being all over the place also reduces certain barriers to new participants. A building that is home to a community becomes a home in another way as well. There is a small but real psychological barrier to newcomers inviting themselves in to someone else's space. This barrier exists without a building, of course, for any established community, but the walls of a building become metaphorical walls as well. When events are held in more public spaces, this isn't an issue.
I do understand the appeals of a building. James wants spaces for music, which is harder to accommodate in public. Minnesota Atheists have a library of atheist books that are currently very hard to access and impossible to browse. Child-friendly spaces have their own needs.
I do understand the appeals of a building. I just think that a building is not necessary for many of the kinds of community participation that James envisions, and that unless we look clearly at the downsides of buildings, we aren't going to be able to make conscious decisions about whom we include in our communities.
Arguing fine points with James is something of a hobby. You can see the prior posts in our discussions below.


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Accounting Research
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Copyright 1948 by American Institute of Accountants
November, 1948 No. 36
Recommendation of Committee on Terminology
Use of Term "Reserve"
The members of the committee on accounting pro-cedure have approved as an objective the recommen-dation of the committee on terminology made herein with respect to the use of the term "reserve" in ac-counting, and have authorized its publication. The statements herein contained, however, are not to be regarded as formal pronouncements of the committee on accounting procedure.
The term reserve is used in accounting in a variety of different and somewhat conflicting senses. As a result clarity of thought and accuracy of expression are impaired and an adequate understand-ing of financial statements on the part of users is made more difficult than is necessary. In addition the variations in balance-sheet classi-fication and presentation of the so-called reserves contribute to the confusion and make comparisons difficult. It is suggested that the current uses of the term may be reviewed and that recommendations may be made as to acceptable definition and to limitations on usage which will serve to make the financial statements more readily understood.
In dealing with financial matters the term reserve is commonly used to describe specific assets which are held or retained for a specific purpose. This is the sense in which the term is employed, for instance, in our banking system, which derives its name from the fact that member banks are required to maintain deposits with the central or reserve banks. The term is also used to indicate such assets as oil and gas properties which are held for future development. These usages present no problem in accounting where the assets in question are described according to their nature or referred to as funds or deposits for specific purposes.


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James Joyner discusses Republican hawkish hostility to Hagel in connection with the diminishing space for moderate Republicans and realists in the party:
Lindsey Graham notwithstanding, Hagel's views on most foreign policy issues of the day are well in the mainstream of the professional foreign policy establishment. It's why so many legends of the business — Brent Scowcroft, Colin Powell, Zbigniew Brzesinski, Robert Gates, Jim Jones, and so many more — have lauded his nomination.
Problematically, while Scowcroft, Powell, and Eisenhower are admired by professionals in their field, their party's leadership views them as Republicans in Name Only — if not outright apostates. It's a status they share with Richard Lugar, George H.W. Bush, Jon Huntsman, and, yes, Chuck Hagel.
Either the Republican Party has to re-embrace its traditional foreign policy agenda, or those of us who have been left on the outside looking in will have to conclude that it's no longer our party.
The predicament James describes is one that has been at least 10-15 years in the making. Obviously, it became much worse during the Bush years, but instead of abating once Bush left office it continued to intensify. Moderates and realists might be partly forgiven for thinking that the second Bush term hinted at the possibility that the GOP was slowly returning to its senses, but that gave Bush's second term too much credit and underestimated the extent to which many self-described realists inside the administration contributed to its disastrous record. Except for Powell, almost all of the self-described realists that served in the Bush administration remain firmly in the Republican orbit and are in no danger of leaving the party. Indeed, many of them served as advisers in some capacity on the Romney campaign, but clearly had little or no influence on the candidate's policies. Some Republican realists went out of their way during the campaign to find hints of prudent thinking in Romney's camp that were notable for being so rare and isolated. If party leaders are going to take seriously the possibility that they are in danger of losing current supporters, Republican realists and conservative voters have to stop making excuses for deeply flawed, hawkish candidates and refuse to support future nominees that hold reckless and aggressive foreign policy views.
It's understandable that the party couldn't suddenly switch so quickly from Bush-era foreign policy between the repudiation in 2006 and the next presidential election, but it would have been a normal and healthy reaction to the failures of the Bush years to make some significant changes by the next presidential election. That didn't happen. Worse than that, the eventual nominee was so desperate for shore up his partisan support that he seemed to revert to the rhetoric and many of the ideas of the first Bush term as if Bush's failures had never happened or had already been forgotten. The party has a chance in the next few years to start recovering from these mistakes, but that recovery won't be possible as long as the energy, activism, and organization remain on the side of Republican hard-liners.


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Wednesday, November 12, 2008
girly hands
My fingers were so rough and scratchy, that they might as well have been made from sand paper. Which is an absolute nightmare for anyone who works with fibre. You find that your fingers constantly 'catch' on threads and yarns as you are working.
Well, I have a solution which I thought I would share with you. A wonderfully effective hand scrub and moisturiser all rolled into one. And you have everything you need in your very own kitchen.
I like to do this over the kitchen sink. Put half a teaspoon of SUGAR into the palm of your hand. Then drizzle about a teaspoon of OLIVE OIL over the top of the sugar. Add a few drops of WATER, and rub your hands together. If it feels too rough, just add a little more water. Scrub your hands for a couple of minutes, then wash off. You won't believe how DIVINELY SOFT they feel.
Seriously... you must try it out! Even Mr Goldfish swears by this scrub.... but don't tell the blokes at work, or they'll never let him hear the end of it.
Go... try it now... and let me know what you think...
And check back tomorrow to see what I'm up to with the sandpaper.
11 comments:
- emily said...
My nan taught me to do something similar but with lard, just get a tiny bit of lard and mix with some sugar and then just sort of squish it in your hands :)
Works well on your feet as well, gets rid of dead skin!
love the blog :)
- November 12, 2008 at 9:16 AM
- Meg said...
Add some peppermint oil or other essential oil and it smells LOVELY!!
- November 12, 2008 at 10:30 AM
- Small Footprints said...
No preservatives or harmful chemicals ... fabulous! And ... it sounds like it would be perfect for people with allergies (that would be me).
Here's another one to add to the list. For dry, chapped lips use sugar and a drop of water ... very gently massage on and around lips, rinse and then apply a lip moisturizer.
Thanks for sharing.
Small Footprints
- November 12, 2008 at 10:49 AM
- artettina said...
Wow what a great recomendation! I damaged skin on my fingers with chemicals from refinishing wood. My hands can get rough too. I love the other suggestions in the comments as well. I think I will try this but with my coaconut oil?
- November 12, 2008 at 2:38 PM
- winnie said...
Thanks for the recomendation.
By the way I´m in love with your blog.
- November 12, 2008 at 8:46 PM
- laughing purple goldfish said...
emily - mmmm... sounds heavenly for your feet... I think I know what I'll be doing tonight :)
meg - peppermint would be wonderfully fresh... good tip!
small footprints - I haven't ever 'scrubbed' my lips before... I'll definitely give that a try - thanks
artettina - absolutely... try the coconut oil and see how it goes... would smell fab, too
winnie - awwww.... I'm blushing now... thank you :)
- November 12, 2008 at 10:28 PM
- Earth Jeweler said...
Whoaa, I did what you suggested: try it now. Works like magic, better than the hand cream and then you don't want to touch anything including my computer keyboard or my beads right after.
Thanks, great tip
- November 13, 2008 at 1:52 AM
- annemarie said...
This is absolutely wonderful - thanks for sharing with us. I have seen sugar scrubs in stores and they are very expensive. I, too, love your blog and have learned so much from you. Thanks again.
- November 13, 2008 at 4:18 AM
- Macatawa said...
Isn't it fabulous? I make up a jar and keep it in the kitchen near the sink. Mix canola oil [very similar to natural skin lipids], sometimes with olive oil added. Mix in brown sugar until you have a fairly thick concoction. It also removes all odors from food to the gasoline smell after pumping gas or filling equipment. Add essential oils or vanilla if you like. Makes a great gift as well. Just fill some great jars.
- November 13, 2008 at 4:24 AM
- KAF said...
I loved that handscrub - and it felt like a lovely massage - I only stopped because it was a test run and I didn't want to do it too differently to the directions. Thanks!
- November 13, 2008 at 4:23 PM
- laughing purple goldfish said...
virginie - so glad you tried it... isn't it wonderful... I keep touching my hands for hours afterwards... I'm so in love with the way it makes the feel
annemarie - you're most welcome...
macatawa - I wouldn't have thought to make up a batch... does the sugar stay grainy or not? because that's half the fun of the scrub
kaf - by all means, scrub as long as it feels good for :)
- November 13, 2008 at 11:17 PM


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The Bears have roared and whimpered and stumbled and survived in a roundabout trip to the doorstep of the NFL playoffs. And maybe, just maybe, discovered their true selves in the December cold.
The Bears have roared and whimpered and stumbled and survived in a roundabout trip to the doorstep of the NFL playoffs.
And maybe, just maybe, discovered their true selves in the December cold.
Chicago (9-6) started out a defensive team, throttling the Colts and doing the same for 3 1/2 quarters to the Panthers and Bucs and staging a game-saving goal-line stand against the Eagles, before going on a mid-season slide.
Then Kyle Orton took over for three weeks, averaging 301 yards and a 106.1 passer rating. Hey, look, the Bears have a passing game!
Until they didn't.
Orton sprained his ankle at halftime of the next game and hasn't been the same player since. Whether it was being injured against Detroit or whether he just returned to his true self, Orton has averaged 151 yards passing the last seven weeks with a 62.7 passer rating. That's below the lowest-rated passer of any quarterback to pass for 1,300 yards this year (Cleveland's Derek Anderson brings up the rear in the NFL rankings at 66.5).
Even with Matt Forte running for a team rookie-record 1,188 yards, the Bears, who led the NFL in points after seven games, have sunk to No. 26 in total offense, which is measured by yards. That's almost the same spot they ended last year (No. 27).
The Bears aren't a team that's going to pass for 300 yards or throw 205 consecutive passes without an interception; Orton has eight picks in four games since that improbable streak ended.
Nor are they a team that can reasonably be expected to hold their two toughest foes — the 11-4 Colts and Panthers — to 293 and 216 total yards again.
What the Bears can be expected to do is to make the most of what little they have, play their best in the biggest moments and sometimes win despite getting outplayed on both offense and defense because nobody outplays the Bears on special teams.
This is every bit as true now that the special teams stars are Danieal Manning, Brad Maynard and Robbie Gould as it was when Devin Hester provided 90 percent of the special teams magic.
Manning has four kickoff returns longer than 50 yards the last three games, Maynard constantly lands punts inside the 10-yard line and Gould never misses a field goal, no matter how bad the weather.
"You can't find a more clutch guy than him," tight end Greg Olsen said after Gould kicked a 38-yard game-winner into the wind to beat Green Bay 20-17 in overtime Monday.
Moments earlier, Green Bay's Mason Crosby had a 38-yarder with the wind at his back blocked by Alex Brown.
"In the timeout, we had a little time to really hit the guys one more time," coach Lovie Smith said. "I just said, 'Hey, we really have to block this kick.' And Alex Brown came through as he has many times."
Everybody on special teams did. Chicago's three scores in regulation were all set up by special teams: Manning's 70-yard kick return, Jason Davis's recovery of a muffed punt and Hester's 24-yard punt return set up three "drives" of 16, 27 and 51 yards that netted 17 points.
"We've gotten a lot of plays from our special teams, but we're set up that way," Lovie Smithy said. "We practice that way. We rely on our special teams."
And the Bears rely on their offense and defense being better than they normally are at the biggest moments. They did this even before Lovie Smith arrived. In 2001, the Bears went 13-3 and allowed the fewest points in the NFL despite ranking No. 15 on defense (the NFL measures by yards) and scored the 11th-most points despite a No. 26 rank on offense.
Chicago's defense has many flaws, but it's one of the best near the goal line. Monday, the Bears held Green Bay to a field goal after it had first-and-goal at the 5.
"We dominated the game," Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers said. "We had a lot of yardage and converted third downs. But we just didn't score enough points."
That's no accident. The Bears do that to teams a lot.
And now they are starting to do the opposite on offense. Two weeks in a row, Kyle Orton has played awful for 3 1/2 quarters, only to awaken in the final minutes and win the game in overtime.
"We go through that a lot," Hester said. "We've been put in a lot of situations this year where we have to drive down at the end."
The Bears won by gaining more yards in the final 18 and a half minutes (118) than they did in the first 45 (92 yards).
"It's about the finish," Lovie Smith said.
It's about special teams dominating from the start, and the offense and defense being strong at the right times.
"Everybody," Alex Brown said, "contributed when they needed to."
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Observed every year on 17 June all over the world, the aim of the day is to sensitize the public and policy makers to the increasing dangers of desertification, land degradation and drought for the international community. The observance events are designed to get everyone to undertake at least one action that year to help minimize the threat highlighted. This being the International Year on Forests, the World Day to Combat Desertification for 2011 will focus specifically on the forests in the drylands areas of the world, guided by the motto: 'Forests keep drylands working'.
The Day has been observed since 1995 to promote public awareness relating to international cooperation to combat desertification and the effects of drought.
In 1994, the United Nations General Assembly declared (General Assembly Resolution A/RES/49/115) June 17 the "World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought" to promote public awareness of the issue, and the implementation of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those countries experiencing serious drought and/or desertification, particularly in Africa.
Ever since, country Parties to the Convention, organizations of the United Nations System, international and non-governmental organizations and other interested stakeholders have celebrated this particular day with a series of outreach activities worldwide.
The World Day to Combat Desertification is a
unique occasion to remind everybody that desertification can be effectively
tackled, that solutions are possible, and that key tools to this aim lay in
strengthened community participation and co-operation at all levels.
Awareness raising:
Such as environment film director John Liu (Hope in a changing climate) has created a 12-minute film to celebrate the World Day to Combat Desertification, which is observed this year with the slogan, "Forests keep drylands working". The film can be seen on the UNCCD website and we've made the trailer available on the right hand column.
Poster/banner kit for the day is available here: http://www.unccd.int/publicinfo/june17/2011/menu.php?newch=5
Connect with the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification:
The Brussels based United Nations Regional Information Centre for Western Europe - UNRIC provides information on UN activities to the countries of the region. It also provides liaison with institutions of the European Union in the field of information. Its outreach activities extend to all segments of society and joint campaigns, projects and events are organized with partners including the EU, governments, the media, NGOs, schools and local authorities.
United Nations Regional Information Centre for Western Europe (UNRIC Brussels)
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A strong, heavily geometric typeface, the ITC Lubalin Graph® family, designed in 1974, was based in large part on ITC Avant Garde Gothic®, itself developed only a few years earlier. Built to help define a generation, it's a striking typeface that consists of bold geometric letter shapes and strong slab serifs.
Though ITC Lubalin Graph is an established typeface family in its own right, it was born of the seminal ITC Avant Garde Gothic, which itself was the natural outgrowth of the logo Herb Lubalin designed for the trend-setting Avant Garde magazine. This dramatic sans serif typeface, with its remarkably closely-spaced letters and groundbreaking ligatures, became the magazine's signature and came also to define the generation's artistic sensibilities.
Once the typecase was fleshed out into a full upper- and lower-case character set and released as ITC Avant Garde Gothic, Lubalin capitalized on its geometric design by adding heavy slab serifs, reminiscent of the so-called Egyptienne typefaces of the 1930s. The serifs, themselves strongly rectangular in shape, contribute to the typeface's overall geometric feel and is said to contribute to a sense of stability.
The family was originally released in five weights with corresponding obliques. After being heavily used throughout the latter decades of the 20th century, condensed weights, including all caps and some old style figures, were added to the family in 1992.
ITC Lubalin Graph's outsize x-heights and open counters contribute to its readability, but strictly geometric letter shapes, unvarying stroke widths and heavy serifs make it unsuitable for continuous text. These same characteristics, however, make it an excellent choice for advertising applications such as logos and other distinctive or identity marking, headlines, and short blocks of text. The same considerations inform the typeface's use in digital applications: the larger the font size, the more suitable ITC Lubalin Graph will be.
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Safe Sleep ensures that data stored in the main memory of your Mac isn't lost when the computer shuts down due to its battery being drained completely.
Before your Mac enters sleep, Safe Sleep automatically saves the contents of its main memory — like desktop settings, open applications, and other work in progress — to the hard drive.
There are two situations when your Mac will enter Safe Sleep:
- If your computer's battery becomes completely drained while the computer is asleep, the computer will shut down. When you connect a power adapter, the computer can be restarted. Press the power button and your Mac will automatically return to the desktop state it was in before going to sleep, making it easy for you to continue with your work.
- OS X Mountain Lion v10.8.2 supplemental update 2.0 introduced a feature that lets your Mac enter Safe Sleep after four hours of being connected to AC power. This complies with European Energy Standards (ErP Lot6) and happens when there's no network activity and no activity from connected devices like external hard drives.
You'll see a Safe Sleep progress bar when waking these models:
- MacBook (Retina, 12-inch, Early 2015) and later
- MacBook Pro (Mid 2012) and later
- MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012) and later
- MacBook Air (Mid 2012) and later
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All right....phew! The new layout of the site should finally be working...figured out what I was doing wrong...it was dumb, I'm retarded, but I'm from Florida so I can be excused. *cites scientific advice from a recent Daily Show* Anyway, let me know what you think? Yea? Nea? I definitely prefer the new font, so just don't knock the font. ^_~
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Hardcore Gamer: The future of DLC for PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale is in jeopardy. Abe (from Oddworld) was planned to be made available for the spring, but plans for that have been scrapped.
Oh not cool man not cool
So for all the people defending the decision to add poor third party characters and even poor first party ones since a ton were still left unused where you said "They'll be added by DLC".....yeah I don't think that's going to happen
This game could of been so much more but they rushed it and give it to a new Studio with no games under their belt, I mean so much pressure was on them.
They should of waited longer to make this game, got the characters WE wanted and not for promotional reasons for the selected characters new games released/coming up and then give it to a good studio who has proven themselves over the years
Already has been updated they are still looking for opportunities for dlc. Abe has been canceled though sadly.
We shall see whats in the future atleast we still get Kat. If they are gonna do another PSASBR they better get a studio with a pedigree. 3 years and everything besides the gameplay was in alpha stage.
These guys were obviously not ready to do a retail title and Sony should have seen that 1 year into development of the title.


text: 'Schiestal, who is quick on his skates and is expected to get his share of time on the power play this season, will report to Sabres camp Sept. 9. He realizes he's not there to win a spot in the NHL, but rather learn as much as he can from the best in the world. "I'm looking forward to it," he said. "Even if you're not around there for a long time, just being around those players and that atmosphere gives you the experience to come back here and help teach the young guys what it takes to be a pro."'


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YES! But How? :: Hair Colors From Nature
Changing or enhancing your hair color doesn't have to jeopardize your health. Plant-based hair-color products offer an alternative to permanent dyes.
According to Brownskin.net, a healthful beauty advice website, permanent hair dye typically uses hydrogen peroxide to swell the hair cuticle and strip it of its natural color. Then either p-phenylenediamine (PPD) or lead acetate in an ammonia dye solution works to fully penetrate the cuticle and pigment cells in your hair.
Darker hair dyes contain larger quantities of chemicals and may act as more of a health hazard than their lighter counterparts; a 2001 study by the American Cancer Society found an increased risk of bladder cancer in people who used darker dyes monthly over a period of 15 years or more. The European Commission in 2006 banned a list of 22 hair-dye chemicals with potential links to bladder cancer.
Look for eco-friendly salons in your area, or ask your stylist about switching to plantbased coloring products. These dyes use natural ingredients such as henna to color your strands and are available in colors from dark brown to strawberry blonde.
Herbal products will need to be applied more frequently to maintain color, as they don't use chemicals to strip the shafts of your hair before depositing color. Still, be sure to check the ingredient list before you buy: Some dyes claiming to be natural still use hydrogen peroxide and PPD.
Permanent dyes, however, may be the only effective option if more than half of your hair is grey, or if you want to go lighter. In that case, your best bet is to go for a semior demi-permanent dye with lowered levels of peroxide and PPD.
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Surveillance application has become so complicated that the normal consumer who has been busy minding his office instead of pouring over electronics and ip technology articles can be easily overwhelmed when it comes time to setup or update his security system.
And 'find yourself with a need to' is rather stilted; wouldn't 'if you need to' (or '...want...') do the job? If the extra distance is necessary, 'if you find you need to'.


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"Stand up straight and look people in the eye"—so go the most basic commandments of engaging confidently with your fellow humans. But a new study finds that eye contact is not a blanket solution to persuading your conversation partners. Depending on how someone's opinions square up to yours, eye contact can have the opposite effect.
Prior research and anecdotal evidence suggest that people who make eye contact are more "persuasive, likable, and competent," write the study's authors. But regardless of how persuasive a person may seem because they look others in the eye, if their message is somehow controversial or disagreeable, their eye contact may ruin their chance of convincing someone.
For one study, the authors had participants fill out surveys of their political views and then watch a handful of videos of speakers discussing "hot-button" political issues, some of them looking into the camera and some looking away. The participants were allowed to look wherever they wanted, and the researchers used eye tracking software to see how often the participants gazed into the eyes of the speakers. They then measured how convinced they were by the speaker's points.
The participants tended to look in the eyes of speakers whose views they shared more. This suggests a confirmation bias in the idea that people who use eye contact are more persuasive—according to this study, eye contact seems to occur more often when the person listening is already generally on board with what the speaker is saying. Participants also tended to look at a speaker's eyes more when the speaker was looking away.
However, the longer a viewer spent looking at a speaker, especially if the speaker was looking at them directly, the less the viewer was persuaded by the speaker's points. The effect was more pronounced for issues on which the viewer either opposed the speaker or had no opinion.
In the second study, the researchers presented participants with videos of a speaker they disagreed with on some issue, with some instructed to look at the speaker's eyes and others his mouth. Again, the researchers tracked the participants' eyes and gave them questionnaires on their beliefs before and after the videos to see how their views had changed.
The researchers found that viewers who were allowed to look at the speaker's mouth rather than his eyes ended up more persuaded by what he was saying than participants who had been made to look him in the eyes. Eye contact seemed to have negatively affected the speaker's ability to be convincing.
The authors suggest that their findings run counter to the oft-repeated advice to look people in the eyes—eye contact is not always persuasive. This may have its roots in evolution. Between animals, eye contact is sometimes "competitive or hostile," signifying aggression, conflict, and an opponent's need to prepare to defend rather than an attempt to win someone over or to your side of an argument. "The very experience of meeting the gaze of a disagreeing other… creates a social dynamic characterized by resistance to persuasion," write the researchers.
The scope of the study was small and conducted only on university students, and the authors acknowledge that the reasons for the lack of attitude changes and behaviors in the two studies may not be linked. They further note that eye contact has a number of social uses beyond persuasion, like signaling "openness to approach and trust." But when it comes to being convincing, the solution to persuasiveness problems may not be so simple and may even be worsened by an unflinching gaze.
Psychological Science, 2013. DOI: 10.1177/0956797613491968 (About DOIs).


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hi all, had my revo for 3 weeks and here it is.......
i know its not as nice as many others but i like it alot
upgrades are:
INTEGY: arms, skids, tank guard, shocks,
and other stuff
ie resonator, roll bar, wing, have a set of pro line bowties on proline rims
FLM 4s Rustler, MM, lowered, more FLM soon
My new Revo 2.5, less than $150 invested, now to learn to use it...
Revo 2.5
Seems my picture has been deleted although it was just a 100KB - the pictures of my fore-poster are almost 300KB each! Maybe it's time to rethink the resolution restriction and go for a size limit, Traxxas forum!! Click HERE for higher resolution!
E-REV-O-RANGE @ https://oxoxoxo.wordpress.com/
OK, my turn I guess...
Model 5309 turned ALMOST PE!
First Body and Wheels
Newest Body and Wheels - LPR Badlands!! They Rock!!
And my new Addition/Addiction...
Parts list;
RPM A-Arms
RPM Tru -Track
RPM Carriers
RPM Front Bumper
RPM Rear Bumper
Traxxas Sway Bars
Traxxas Tuned Pipe
Traxxas CVDs
Traxxas Diff Spool
Traxxas Ring and Pinion
Traxxas FOC
Traxxas Wing Mount
Traxxas Wing
Traxxas 14mm Aluminum Hexes
Traxxas PE Shocks
Traxxas Red Push Rods
Traxxas Red Tie Rods
Traxxas Rear Diff Cups for CVDs
Traxxas 2070 Servo (T/B)
Traxxas Revo Platinum Body
Traxxas Revo Platinum RX Box
Traxxas Revo Platinum T/B Mount
Traxxas 17mm Hex Adapters
Traxxas Pull Start
MotorSaver Air Filter
MIP Clutch
Proline 40 Series Mulcher Tires
Proline 40 Series Velocity 6 Wheels
Proline 2007 Silverado HD Body
Futaba 3PM 2.4Ghz FASST Radio
Jconcepts Rulux Half-Ups
Proline Badlands
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SLASH 4x4 - Selling
The mine with home made parts
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O.S. Powered Race Revo 3.3
Kraken Baja
Traxxas X-Maxx
A couple more, requested from another member...
SLASH 4x4 - Selling
New Shoes!! 40 Series Bow-Ties on Axial Oversize Black Chrome Wheels.
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SLASH 4x4 - Selling
Not on the edge? Your taking up too much room
What shall I put here?
No chit chatting in the Gallery thread! The posts have been and will be deleted! This thread is for pictures only!
Posted pics can be no larger than 640x480. If larger they need to be links! Posts with larger pics will be deleted.
Pain is Temporary, Pride & Achievement is Forever.
Revo/Picco .26, jp-2 pipe, hpi 21+bb filter, FOC
junior driver
Heres my revo. Only mods are the red aluminum turnbuckels and black chrome Gemini wheels.
Snap on the Crowd Pleaser
Revo 3.3,RB523 Mallet modded,JP-1
The good ol days
What shall I put here?
heres a shot of what mines looking like for the moment.
i do have an o.s. .21tm, but its winter, and this 3.3 spins the tires good enough for this season i just bought my 12th gallon for my revo today
and number 4 or 5 for 3.3 #3
btw, the vantage pipe i found didnt work that well for my o.s.. maybe with some tuneing, maybe.. but for the 3.3, its got wicked medium and top end. the stinger for my stock pipe is too big for the 3.3 now, but its perfect for the o.s.
This is my 2 nd paint job ever!!!!
Here's my newest body.
I'm Ron Burgandy?
[QUOTE=Eatyapeas]Here's my newest body.
That right there is a thing of beauty.
What body and wheel/tire combo is that?
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race revo ready for penna race motorama 09 in february
Futaba 4PK
RCM Diffs
Flextek Ti Arms
Full RRP transmission
Eclipse RC Body
PE Chassis, bulks, drive shafts, steering, etc
JConcepts Rulux Half Ups, 1/2 offset, wrapped in Proline Badlands
Got my new chassis, savage clutch and savage filter today and I fitted a new tank since my other ones leak pretty badly.
What shall I put here?
hey heres my revo 2.5 converted to a 3.3 chassis.
race revo. ask about it. haha
lovin this new MT!!
yea. yeah i know the paint job sucks..... tried out a new airbrush.... need to do a little more learning...
back to spray cans i guess,lol
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- Brazilian Grand Prix
Good result will be important for future - Senna
- Race:
- Brazilian Grand Prix
- Drivers:
- Bruno Senna
- Teams:
- Williams
Bruno Senna is hoping a strong performance at his home race in Brazil will help his chances to secure a drive for 2013.
Senna is out of contract at Williams at the end of the year and is expected to be replaced by test driver Valtteri Bottas. He will start 12th in Sunday's race and believes a good performance at Interlagos could count for a lot going in to the winter.
"It's important like any race in the championship, but many times you are remembered by what you've done in the last race," Senna said. "If I can have a very strong race tomorrow it will be good for what's happening next year."
Senna said he had banked on a setup that put more heat into his tyres and although it cost him him in qualifying when the track dried, it could come good in the race.
"When we were looking at the forecast for Saturday and Sunday we thought the temperature would be a bit lower [on both days]," he added. "That sunny spell in Q2 really put me in a tough situation when there was a big change from Q1 when the track was a bit more damp and the tyres were lasting a bit better."
Senna said there would be no extra pressure performing in front of his home crowd.
"For me it's great. One of the nicest things I've ever received from my fans was in 2010 when I had a very uncompetitive car and I was really struggling, but when I went to the grid I got massive support from the crowd. They were extremely supportive and that support has just grown from 2010 to nowadays. It's very important for me to give something back to them and hopefully we can have a strong race tomorrow and if everybody can come away from the circuit with a big smile on their face then why not?"


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Dave Richards likes fixing things, and has done so for a long time. When he saw an article a couple of years ago about doing volunteer repair work, he knew he'd found the right place and began volunteering with Jewish Family Service of San Diego.
"It looked like it would be just what I needed," he said.
Richards, 70, volunteers with JFS Fix-It Service. The program trains volunteers to provide additional assistance to older adults and their caregivers through minor home safety repairs and modifications, according to the program's website. Volunteers provide a safety inspection of each client's home before making any repairs, which can include installing wireless doorbells, mounting handrails, repairing window screens, installing handheld showers, or smoke or carbon monoxide detectors.
He started fixing bicycles in his family's garage in a small town in Wisconsin when he was 12. Later he moved on to repairing vacuum cleaners for a few years, and spent 35 years repairing computers.
Being a homeowner also gives him plenty of opportunities to make repairs around the house, and he likes helping people. He gets volunteer work assignments throughout the county, including San Ysidro, Bonita, Eastlake, National City and Chula Vista. The amount of time varies from a couple of hours each week to 10 to 12 hours, depending on the number of requests and funds available in the budget to purchase supplies.
It's not just that Richards enjoys working with his hands — "Even in my off hours, I'm here tinkering in my garage or doing something," he said — but he knows there are others in his generation who either can't do the work themselves or can't afford to pay for repairs.
"I do it because someone has to help them," he said. "I do it because I can, because I still have my health, and because I hope someone will be able to help me when I'm no longer able to do it myself."


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Lunch Box: Make-Ahead Mustardy Quinoa with Sausage, Potato, and Tarragon
This week's lunch box was borne out of a desire to make and eat my favorite potato salad for lunch, followed by the begrudging conclusion that just potato salad does not a responsible lunch make. So I added some things—handfuls of arugula and a base of black quinoa—to turn a side dish craving into a full-fledged meal.
While I would never be one to turn away a mayo-based potato salad, I prefer to make a lighter, tangier version. A simple vinaigrette of mustard, olive oil, and fresh tarragon goes a long way, contouring the sweet, mild flavor of the potatoes without overwhelming, and preserving the texture without becoming something gloppy and scoop-able. Crispy sausage is a natural accompaniment, as is the rendered fat whisked into the dressing. Quinoa soaks it all up—and provides a delicious disguise for a summer picnic hankering.
About the Author: Suzanne Lehrer is a writer and recipe developer in New York and a recipe editor for Cooking Channel. When not curating her budding hot sauce collection, she puts her French Culinary Institute education to good use in kitchens all around town. Follow her recipes and cooking adventures at TheSuzChef.com and on twitter @the_suzchef.
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